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thanks very much!

johnny richards-but the music was beautiful

something from OUT OF THE AFTERNOON? helen merritts an entire show?

i ADORE your stuff, which is classy like a rolls, but it is prepared. laz wings it......................

he could be doing a 20's show or an european avant jazz show or his beloved lucky, and they would all be done with his genuine love and respect.........

http://www.cleveland.oh.us/wmv_news/jazz74.htm

on the bley, iai (label), quiet song, is some of the most beautiful thoughtful playing i have heard. there is a a short solo tenor interlude that is beautiful beyond belief................

how this man maintains such an incredibly high, varied level of work, hour after hour, night after night, year after year, boggles the mind. with great respect to all the beautiful jazz dj's, and we love them all, this guy is in a league by himself. thank you so much, laz. aloc

with all the music i try to absorb, afterglow somehow is easy to forget, but is always an enjoyable experience. keep reminding us(me).

I found a CD of this not long ago in a used bin. I wasn't aware of it, or the movie, but I'm glad I found it. As you might imagine, there's 7 or 8 blues tracks among 12 in all, all with nice brassy Riddle arrangements. classic Riddle

just heard a gorgeous version of miles' flamenco sketches by vocalist eve cornelious, a stunning artist with incredible range. i would like to know more about her work.

By E&P Staff Published: June 30, 2006 11:55 PM ET NEW YORK Capping a week of controversy and angry words, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times -- often considered national news rivals -- took the extraordinary step Saturday of publishing a joint op-ed piece written by their top editors, Dean Baquet and Bill Keller, respectively. The New York paper, and then the L.A. Times, published revealing articles about the secret banking records surveillance program last week, and have been hammered by Republicans in Washington, D.C. (from the president on down) and other conservatives ever since. The Wall Street Journal published a similar story but today it's editorial page chose to attack The New York Times for refusing to heed the administraton's request to kill its article. But Baquet and Keller, in their op-ed, stuck to their guns. Both papers headlined the piece: "When do we publish a secret?" The L.A. Times' deck reads, "How the press balances national security with its mission to report the news." The column repeats much of what Baquet and Keller had written in their papers or on their Web sites earlier this week, but also holds new points. One paragraph that jumps out is this one: "Government officials, understandably, want it both ways. They want us to protect their secrets, and they want us to trumpet their successes. A few days ago, Treasury Secretary John Snow said he was scandalized by our decision to report on the bank-monitoring program. But in September 2003 the same Secretary Snow invited a group of reporters from our papers, The Wall Street Journal and others to travel with him and his aides on a military aircraft for a six-day tour to show off the department's efforts to track terrorist financing. The secretary's team discussed many sensitive details of their monitoring efforts, hoping they would appear in print and demonstrate the administration's relentlessness against the terrorist threat." The column closes on this note: "It is not always a matter of publishing an article or killing it. Sometimes we deal with the security concerns by editing out gratuitous detail that lends little to public understanding but might be useful to the targets of surveillance. The Washington Post, at the administration's request, agreed not to name the specific countries that had secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons, deeming that information not essential for American readers. The New York Times, in its article on National Security Agency eavesdropping, left out some technical details. "Even the banking articles, which the president and vice president have condemned, did not dwell on the operational or technical aspects of the program, but on its sweep, the questions about its legal basis and the issues of oversight. "We understand that honorable people may disagree with any of these choices — to publish or not to publish. But making those decisions is the responsibility that falls to editors, a corollary to the great gift of our independence. It is not a responsibility we take lightly. And it is not one we can surrender to the government." The full text is available at both www.nytimes.com and www.latimes.com.

thank you

has anyone heard the BOLA SETE AT GRACE CATHEDRAL. looks like something to grab.........

Both/all. Dust off your green leather suit... COPPING SOME LICKS FROM COLUMBIA.......? STARTING A GREAT TRAD, WE HOPE.............

EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST DONT USE TOO MUCH FROM THE REVENANT. AYLER, OR AYLER TRIBUTES? SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT DAY TO LAY OFF WORK AND DO A BOTTLE OF JACK DANIEL SINGLE BARREL. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a WNUR jazz dj yesterday noted that july 13 from 5am-9pm was going to be ab all-ayler day.n i dont see anything official...........

just a word about jay. i remember jay as a morning radio host on sporting news radio. i thought him to be very thoughtful, measured, and literate. he was on the air, as i recall the morning of 9-11-01. i respect him. a few years later, i came across jay on one of those abominable sports shows on espn where people's jobs are to yell at each other. the old jay was replaced by loudness and bombast. i presumed that jay was just doing what he had to do to make a living, and this may still be the case. i miss very much the old jay. as for ozzie, whom i also like, only a miracle can save him.........

Source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Posted: June 21, 2006 Seismic Shock Absorbers For Woodframe Houses As part of a major international project to design more earthquake-resistant woodframe buildings, an engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be testing a damping system designed to act as a seismic shock absorber. The dampers, which have never been tested before in wood construction, will be installed inside the walls of a full-scale, 1,800-square-foot townhouse -- the world's largest wooden structure to undergo seismic testing on a shake table. The unprecedented testing is part of a $1.24 million international project called NEESWood, funded by the National Science Foundation through its George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program. The goal of NEESWood is to safely increase the height of woodframe buildings in active seismic zones through the development of a design approach that considers a wide range of performance levels -- from completely undamaged to almost collapsing. The height of woodframe buildings traditionally has been limited to about four stories, mainly due to a lack of understanding of how taller structures might respond to earthquakes and other natural disasters. "We don't have accurate physical data to fully define how wood structures behave in earthquakes," said Michael Symans, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rensselaer. "We have some models, but their accuracy has not been verified with full-scale test data. This experiment will help us to further evaluate and refine those models." Symans will be supervising the damping tests at the University at Buffalo's Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL), which is home to two adjacent three-dimensional shake tables where the test structure is anchored. On July 6, a demonstration of the damper test will be open to the media, as well as broadcast live on the Web at http://nees.buffalo.edu/projects/NEESWood/video.asp. One approach to limiting the damage in woodframe structures is to look at the problem from an energy point of view, according to Symans. In an earthquake, the shaking ground imparts a certain amount of energy into the structure -- energy that must eventually be dissipated. During the earthquake, some of the energy is transformed to kinetic energy -- moving a building from side to side -- or to strain energy, in which the structural framing system becomes so deformed that it can be permanently damaged or even collapse. The goal of the dampers is to absorb a large portion of the earthquake energy, much like shock absorbers in a car absorb bumps in the road. The damping system is essentially made up of fluid-filled shock absorbers installed horizontally throughout the walls of the house. "If we can channel some of the energy into the dampers, we can reduce the strain energy demand and thus reduce damage to the structure," Symans said. The damping technology has been applied to steel and concrete buildings, but never before to wood structures. For the NEESWood experiment, the fluid dampers are being donated by Taylor Devices Inc., of North Tonawanda, N.Y. "For the longest time, building codes have been prescriptive -- the designer is told what to do to meet certain specifications, without explicit consideration given to the expected performance," Symans said. But lately there has been a shift in thinking as more large earthquakes have hit high-population areas. About half of the approximately $40 billion in loss caused by the 1994 Northridge earthquake in the Los Angeles region was associated with wood structures, Symans notes, and this was much more damage than the general public expected. "The perception among building owners and the general public is that if a structure is built according to code, it will perform well during an earthquake," he said. "This is true of snow, rain, and other typical severe weather conditions, but not necessarily for hurricanes and earthquakes." Previous large-scale shake table tests have been performed on simple, box-like structures, but the NEESWood Project involves testing of a much more realistic building, Symans said. The townhouse in this experiment has balconies, an atrium, and other defining features that are more likely to be in the floor plan of a real woodframe residential building. As the testing progresses, the team will be adding finish materials to the building, culminating in November with the violent shaking of the furnished, three-bedroom, two-bathroom townhouse -- mimicking what an earthquake that occurs only once every 2,500 years would generate, according to Symans. Phase 1 will be a benchmark test of the "bare bones" structure. Phase 2 will test the dampers on this benchmark building, and then finish materials will be added for each additional phase to test how these affect the response of the structure. Each phase will be run at increasingly higher levels of shaking, designed to simulate the increasing intensities that were recorded during the Northridge earthquake. NEESWood is a consortium of researchers led by John W. van de Lindt, associate professor of civil engineering at Colorado State University; co-principal investigators are Symans at Rensselaer; Rachel Davidson, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University; Andre Filiatrault, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo; and David V. Rosowsky, professor and head of the department of civil engineering at Texas A&M University. Three other Rensselaer researchers are involved with the project: Damon Reigles, a post-doctoral research associate; Jayesh Shinde, a doctoral student in civil engineering; and James Lucas, a senior in civil engineering.

if kalamabells just did 40's........

any Painkiller fans here? came across a recent 'live' and am 'hooked'........

feel so bad for monty and all of them.....................

By Ken Klavon, USGA Mamaroneck, N.Y. – Should Phil Mickelson grab his first U.S. Open title Sunday, his swing coach has a prediction. "I guarantee if he wins this one," said Rick Smith after his protégé shot one of the only two sub-par rounds on Saturday, "we’ll be on a plane to the British Open." Smith laughed, yet he wasn’t joking. The convergence between Smith, putting instructor Dave Pelz and Mickelson could be called a masterful trio. A few years ago, prior to his 2004 Masters victory, ‘The Plan’ was implemented, mostly because Mickelson was tired of his dopey go-for-broke reputation. That’s when he made the timely transition, at 33, to shed the dopey go-for-it Phil to a committed artisan. Phil Mickelson posted one of two sub-par rounds in Saturday's third round at the U.S. Open. (John Mummert/USGA) The transformation was assiduous, like learning how to drive a stick shift for the first time. But now the results are starting to pay dividends. After the second round, Pelz downplayed his role, saying Mickelson’s the one who has to execute. Smith saw this execution Saturday and struggled for the right words to describe the renovation. "Jack Nicklaus was always very consistent from tee to green," he said, adding that Mickelson has always carried the same traits. Smith went on to describe Arnold Palmer’s uncanny ability to scramble, which had been missing in Mickelson’s game before. "Don’t get me wrong, Palmer hit great shots too, like Jack," he said. "That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is, it’s like having Palmer and Nicklaus in the same body. [Phil] has the ability to recover." He did so out of the gate, on the 453-yard, par-4 second hole. He stood in the deep rough 30 yards right of the hole and made a miraculous chip to a foot to save par. He played much of the front side out of the thick stuff because he couldn’t find a fairway even if he could hand-place the ball. In fact, he hit just two of his first 12 fairways. And he implausibly shot just one over during that stretch. Upon further review, it’s really not that implausible. Believe it or not, it’s all part of ‘The Plan.’ The old Phil would have missed fairways and left himself in thorny positions. When he missed Saturday, he missed conservatively, in places that still gave him a chance to make par. But it also helps to have talent, as he demonstrated on ‘The Pulpit,’ Winged Foot’s signature 10th hole that deceives with its false front. Mickelson’s ball kissed the green but bounded down the hill, on the short-side of the flagstick. Another paranormal shot, this time a dazzling flop, came to rest a couple feet next to the hole. After tapping it for par, longtime caddie Jim "Bones" Mackay strolled by and light-heartedly uttered, "Gotta keep it below the hole." On the sixth hole, Smith saw the first balanced swing of the round. It continued through nine, when everything finally clicked. Mickelson didn’t miss a fairway over his final eight holes, absorbing two birdies in the process. It’s a key statistic because players in contention under U.S. Open pressure must save as many strokes as possible. "To me, he’s such a good iron player," said Smith. "It makes it easier to control the round." It does when you know what you’re up against. It might be said that Mickelson is revolutionizing the way players prepare for majors or any other important tournaments. Before last year’s Open, he arrived early at Pinehurst to study nuances of the course. He did the same for the British Open at St. Andrews and for the PGA Championship at Baltusrol, which he won. He arrived at Winged Foot piecemeal starting in April, going so far to get in practice time during the morning of the final round of last week’s Barclays Classic. Smith said the preparation was analogous to a member who might have played the course 100 or more times. There’s always something new to learn. "This golf course has a lot of nuances, a lot of idiosyncrasies, and what I’ve been doing is trying to find out ways to makes pars from the rough because I’m not going to hit every fairway," said Mickelson. Of course, it helps to make some putts too. Even difficult ones like at 16, which presented a harsh back-right hole location. The 8-footer continued through a downhill break and somehow disappeared for a birdie. The putt caught Mike Davis, USGA Senior Director of Rules and Competitions, by surprise. He’s the one who set up the course, calling No. 16 "a par and half." By the time he made it off the course, Mickelson wrestled Winged Foot to an impressive 69 that left him tied with Kenneth Ferrie at 2-over 212. Now a final faceoff awaits Sunday when he’ll get one more chance. This time he’ll go off last, tied with the unheralded Englishman Ferrie. It’s the first time he’s been tied for a U.S. Open lead entering the final round. "I’d love to actually have a lead rather than be tied, but it’s certainly better than trailing," said Mickelson. "I don’t know either way, which way is best. But I know being in the last group can be difficult at times if you fall back, or it can be very beneficial knowing what other guys are doing and being patient." Now Mickelson will find out whether his astuteness was worth the effort. The Phil of old probably would have buckled under the pressure. Now he cherishes it, calling it "fun." Smith saw it another way. "It’s about his belief system. He believes," said Smith. "This is what his life is about." Or, all about executing ‘The Plan.’ Ken Klavon is the USGA’s Web Editor. E-mail him with questions or comments at kklavon@usga.org.

just a thought from the pensacola news journal: Published - June, 18, 2006 Viewpoint: Motorcycle helmets can do more harm than good Zeno Weir The tragic automobile incident of an at-fault driver violating the right of way of motorcyclist and football star Ben Roethlisberger has invited comment by the Safetycrats. Their specious reasoning is that if Roethlisberger had been wearing a helmet he would have been spared injuries. Ironically, the leading cause of death in motorcycle crash incidents is chest trauma. Helmets often do more harm than good, yet the Safetycrats advocate mandatory usage rather than jail time for idiots and drunks in cars who slaughter innocent motorcyclists. If Roethlisberger had been wearing a helmet, it could very well have induced a basalar skull fracture, killing him. After 28 years of riding a Harley-Davidson all over the good ole U.S. of A, I have developed a hate of itchy, hot, heavy, sight- and hearing-restricting helmets. Helmets are as likely to kill a rider as save the rider's skull as long as the impact exceeds 15 miles per hour, since that's all any helmet is rated for. The danger of helmet usage in a crash incident is that the weight of the helmet is multiplied many times and induces basalar skull fracture. NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt, Kenny Irwin and Adam Petty all suffered basalar skull fractures. Today's NASCAR drivers have their head gear restrained to prevent this fatal injury. This is not possible on motorcycles. On March 27, 2003, at about 6:30 p.m. I was riding my Harley on Gulf Beach Highway when I was rear-ended by a distracted "soccer mommy" who fled the incident scene. Always watching my "six" under the "all cars are guilty until proven innocent" Zeno rule, I saw that the automobile was not even going to hit its brakes, and I accelerated and banked away. Flying through the air, I endeavored to "slide into second base" and suffered a separated shoulder, torn rotator cuff and, eventually, had a hip replacement. My helmet was of no factor in this incident, but it did nearly break my neck. It still hurts and is stiff to this day. As I was lying there, trying not to move to prevent paralysis, I wondered if my neck were broken, and then had to threaten to shoot the volunteer fireman who insisted upon removing my helmet before I was properly boarded and head-restrained by the well-trained EMT team. The LifeFlight ride was really nice. I would like to thank Trooper Matthew Freeman of the Florida Highway Patrol, whose diligence brought "soccer mommy" to jail. I would also like to thank Assistant State Attorney Lee Robertson for demanding and getting jail time for "soccer mommy," and a big thanks to Gulf Coast Orthopedics. Bikers all hate to see another person hurt or killed, at any time. We can learn from the tragic deaths of the NASCAR heroes that helmets can be deadly. Occasionally, they do prevent injuries. I have had rocks bounce off of mine. Perhaps, as more and more real medical information is shown to the public, they will begin to see that helmets don't always save lives, but can kill or inflict serious injury. Mandatory helmet laws do nothing to prevent accidents or make motorcyclists safer. If the Safetycrats want to pass laws, try increased penalties for the motorists who maim or kill bikers and who are at fault in the vast majority of motorcycle-automobile incidents. If the State of Pennsylvania would jail the at-fault driver who maimed Roethlisberger, that would coerce some drivers to "Look Twice for Motorcycles and Save a Life." Zeno Weir is a Realtor, a resident of Pensacola and a longtime motorcycle rider.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have completed a prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area. Commercial versions of the technology could be used to stymie unwanted use of video or still cameras. The prototype device, produced by a team in the Interactive and Intelligent Computing division of the Georgia Tech College of Computing (COC), uses off-the-shelf equipment – camera-mounted sensors, lighting equipment, a projector and a computer — to scan for, find and neutralize digital cameras. The system works by looking for the reflectivity and shape of the image-producing sensors used in digital cameras. “We’re at a point right now where the prototype we have developed could lead to products for markets that have a small, critical area to protect,” Abowd said. “Then we’re also looking to do additional research that could increase the protected area for one of our more interesting clients, the motion picture industry.” Abowd said the small-area product could prevent espionage photography in government buildings, industrial settings or trade shows. It could also be used in business settings — for instance, to stop amateur photography where shopping-mall-Santa pictures are being taken.