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10 cd set Selected Classical Music 1953-1956 6 unopened.If interested make offer.Or trade
Johnny Griffin Quartet Live in Copenhagen Jazzhus Vol1 $6
Joe Henderson Iner Urge $5
Harry Allen I grow too old to dream New import $8
Harry Allen Here's To Zoot New Import $8
Thanks
I am interested in the Johnny Griffin CD and the 2 Harry Allen discs. PM coming.
Kevin
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Cecil was a great guy. I saw him several times and made sure I got a chance to talk to him between sets.
RIP Cecil. The be-bop generation is almost gone.
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The latest Hoffman snafu was when he recently said, "I just wish people would remember that Monk played that way because he was literally going insane, not for any musical pioneering reason (at least at the end)".
What a kooky thing to think. Shows a true lack of understanding. Even his gorts seemed unable to step in and stop the negative posts against this dumb remark. It shows Hoffman's lack of Jazz listening experiences. BTW, he partly bases his opinion on the movie "Straight No Chaser". He also bases his opinions on Charlie Parker from the movie "Bird".
BTW, I find it interesting that many of the latest RTI LP pressing defects are from inattention to the test pressings. Clearly Hoffman is no Jazz fan. He's not even listening to the final product. No wonder obvious tape warbles make it through to the final product.
I was thinking about picking up the upcoming 45 rpm version of "Soul Station", but I think I'll save myself the aggravation.
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If you are outraged about this story of one man killing one cat, this story making the rounds about Puerto Rico's botched animal control efforts must make you want to fly down there and bash some heads.
Do we send any money to Puerto Rico? If we do, let's stop until this is cleared up.
From http://apnews.excite.com/article/20071114/D8STNQ080.html
TRUJILLO ALTO, Puerto Rico - Back roads, gorges and garbage dumps on this tropical island are littered with the decaying carcasses of dogs and cats. An Associated Press investigation reveals why: possibly thousands of unwanted animals have been tossed off bridges, buried alive and otherwise inhumanely disposed of by taxpayer-financed animal control programs.
Witnesses who spoke with the AP said that, despite pledges to deliver adoptable strays to shelters and humanely euthanize the rest, the island's leading private animal control companies generally did neither.
News that live animals had been thrown to their deaths from a bridge reached the public last month when Animal Control Solutions, a government contractor, was accused of inhumanely killing some 80 dogs and cats seized from three housing projects in the town of Barceloneta. A half dozen survived the fall of at least 50 feet.
The AP probe, which included visits to two sites where animals were slaughtered, found the inhumane killings were far more extensive than that one incident. The AP saw and was told about a scale and brutality far beyond even what animal welfare activists suspected, stretching over the last eight years.
A $22.5 million lawsuit against Animal Control Solutions and city officials — including those who helped round up the animals — was filed on behalf of 16 Barceloneta families whose dogs or cats were seized under rules prohibiting pets at the city projects. The animals' deaths show "a cold and depraved heart and has stirred public outrage around the whole world," the lawsuit says.
Julio Diaz, owner of Animal Control Solutions and a co-founder of another company, Pet Delivery, declined AP requests for an interview but told reporters there is no proof his company was responsible for the Barceloneta pet massacre. "We have never thrown animals off any place," he said.
A police investigation into the Barceloneta killings has not led to charges, but police Sgt. Wilbert Miranda, who heads the probe, said the information gathered so far indicates Animal Control Solutions was responsible. He declined to give details.
Maria Kortright, a lawyer involved in the suit, said it's clear the pets Animal Control Solutions removed from Barceloneta were the same ones hurled off the bridge because the survivors have been identified by their owners.
"Last Tuesday, I saw one of the survivors back at its home," Kortright said.
Animal welfare activists have complained to government agencies for years about allegations of improper disposal of animals, but say officials didn't act. Preventive action also is almost nonexistent: Puerto Rico has at least 100,000 stray dogs and cats — and no island-wide spaying or neutering programs.
Activist Alfredo Figueroa said the animal disposal companies acted with impunity because government agencies ignored allegations of cruelty, rather than investigate the companies or address the overpopulation of strays.
"There is apathy," Figueroa said. "No one wants to take responsibility."
A former employee of one of Diaz's companies told the AP that the firms rounded up thousands of animals over the years, brutally killed many of them and discarded the corpses wherever it was convenient. One of the former employees led the AP to two different killing fields and he and another former employee described a third.
"Not a single animal was turned over to a shelter," a former dogcatcher for Animal Control Solutions told the AP. Both he and an ex-employee of Pet Delivery, who was interviewed separately, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Both said they left the animal disposal jobs voluntarily.
The AP contacted all eight animal shelters and sanctuaries across Puerto Rico, and they confirmed that none had received animals for potential adoption from Diaz's companies.
Diaz co-founded Pet Delivery in 1999 and created Animal Control Solutions in 2002. Pet Delivery appears to be defunct, having reported no earnings since 2004. Facing little competition, the companies had 85 contracts with municipalities and other clients worth $1.1 million in the past eight years, according to the Puerto Rican comptroller's office.
The AP could find no sign that any of the municipalities checked to make sure the companies dealt with the strays humanely.
"It wasn't our responsibility," said Edwin Arroyo, special assistant to the mayor of Barceloneta, which paid Animal Control Solutions up to $20,000 per year and in October hired the company to remove banned pets from housing projects — allegedly the ones that wound up at the bottom of the bridge.
The pet disposal scandal adds to Puerto Rico's poor reputation for treatment of animals. Cockfighting is legal, with matches shown on television. One of the island's beaches is known as Dead Dog Beach — a place where teenagers drive over live puppies sealed in bags or cruelly kill them with machetes and arrows, according to animal welfare groups that photographed the atrocities.
Figueroa says he met Diaz in 1999 and introduced him to city officials in Fajardo. The city then awarded Pet Delivery a contract to remove strays. But Figueroa said he later learned that Diaz's company also was removing pets with collars and ID tags, and dumping their bodies in a field.
"Crying children, old people, a sick woman were all calling us, thinking we were involved," Figueroa said.
A former Animal Control Solutions employee told the AP that he witnessed another worker in 2005 dragging 12 to 15 small dogs out of a van along a road outside San Juan. Normally, workers injected animals with a euthanasia drug but on this day there was none. The animals were instead given an overdose of a sedative and flung 50 feet into a trash-filled gully. Some of the dogs were alive as they crashed on top of junked beds, bottles and other garbage.
"I could hear some of the dogs whimpering as they hit the tree branches and then the ground," the former employee said as he stood with AP journalists in the muck at the site, which still holds the stench of death.
Not all the dogs died, however. A dog that was not a stray, but a sickly pet whose owner wanted it euthanized, managed to limp home. The angry owner telephoned the company and demanded it retrieve the dog and do the job right, the former employee recalled.
The former employee also showed AP reporters a highway rest stop near a gorge outside the town of Cayey where, he said, workers would inject dogs. At the edge of the gorge lay the skeletal remains of more than a dozen dogs amid matted fur and two dog collars with no tags.
Asked if the number of dogs and cats killed by Animal Control Solutions was in the hundreds, the former employee shook his head.
"It is in the thousands," he said. "On a good month, we would pick up 900."
One dog, stuffed in a sack, was found recently at the Cayey site among other bagged carcasses. It apparently survived the fall and managed to poke its head out of the bag before dying, said Carmen Cintron, who runs an animal shelter.
"I am having nightmares when I think about what that poor dog went through before it died," Cintron said.
Until 2003, Pet Delivery ran a shelter where workers injected strays, often not knowing what the drugs were or their proper doses, the former employee of that company told the AP.
Some animals were adopted from the shelter, but others — including puppies and kittens — were euthanized, the ex-employee said. Euthanizing animals that cannot be adopted is standard practice in pet shelters, but the former employee said animals at Pet Delivery's shelter were inhumanely killed.
"Any available employee at that moment would use the drug that was available and they were thrown half dead into a hole, and that's why there were some live dogs among them," he said. "What he (Diaz) had us do was to throw dirt on top of the live dogs along with the dead ones, so they all would die."
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is that lindsey laying on the ground???
Nah - she's got panties on. Can't be Lindsey.
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My oldest is in college now, but back when she was around Zora's age, she had a knack for breaking bones. She jumped off the changing table at 9 moths and broke her collar bone. She bounced off her grandmother's bed and broke her arm. She played around with an exercise machine and crushed her finger.
But she's fine now. You would never know she had those broken bones. It breaks your heart to see them hurt, especially when they start crying at the hospital, but it is reassuring to know that kids heal fast.
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Another thing - if you send that info to that person and they are the seller, they could conceivably forward that to eBay as "evidence" that you are still awaiting the item and that your CC charge back is an unpaid bidder strike.
I'd get my money from the CC charge back, drop this and run away fast.
Also, make sure to put that seller's eBay ID on your blocked bidder list in case they get reinstated and they try to get back at you.
Kevin
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No way I'd send that info. If the person is no longer registered, they are outside of eBay and you have no protection then. I suspect this account has been hijacked and this person is trying to get your personal info.
I'd contact eBay. Try calling them at (800) 322-9266. Sometimes I get better results from a phone call. At a minimum, you should let them know what's going on.
Did your CC company give you a charge back yet? If they did, given that this seller has been booted from eBay, you don't have to worry about anything. EBay won't even give you any grief because the seller's been kicked out of their system. You're free and clear.
Kevin
OK, now I just got this message in my e-mail. Hmm... now I'm really confused. This is a guy who said he sent my item out two months ago, claims he bought insurance yet didn't have a tracking number when I told him abut the non-receipt, then said he was sending out another one and subsequently dissapeared for a whole month until now. Is his account hacked or what?---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please email me with your mailing address so I can make sure it matches with my shipping log the item is at post and scheduled to arrive to you within the next 10-12 business days.
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In the past, when "good sellers" suddenly and quickly become bad sellers without any correspondences, I always expect that it's a hijacked account. Especially given the lack of contact. Most good sellers will at least contact you if they're having trouble getting your item out. Crooks will not.
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Uh oh - that account was probably hijacked. Some seller fell for a phishing E-mail and gave some scammers his eBay password. I hope your credit card chargeback went through. There's no way you'd get your money back from Paypal in a situation like this.
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The worst was when eBay than let the seller zing me with a negative for following their own (PayPal is owned by eBay) formal process.
Well, to be fair, that's the way the feedback process works. Both sides get their say, and unfortunately, it doesn't matter how much bullshit is involved. While there are a few limits on what you can say, "truth" is not on the list of qualifiers...
Oh really. So tell me what I did wrong to deserve a negative. I bid on the item. I won the auction. I paid immediately by PayPal. I did everything I needed to do. My end of the deal was done. What did I do wrong?
Now, on the seller's side of this, he listed a CD as "CD and artwork near mint" and sent me a CD with a booklet that appeared to have been stuffed in the case numerous times at the wrong angle to the point where the whole cover was about to fall off *and* there was a large tear in it. I asked him for a refund and he told me "all sales are final". I had to file a claim with PayPal, who ruled in my favor and I got my refund. He filed a "Non paying bidder strike" which was rescinded by eBay. He went to his local police station, who I called to explain the situation and they told me if he came in again, they would let me know so that I could consider filing a harassment charge.
So who was wrong here? Should this seller be able to put a black mark on my record? For what?
I do not deserve a negative for returning that item for a refund and PayPal agreed. However, eBay said, "We never remove unwarranted feedback". They claim that there would be legal ramifications if they did. No, their sellers would be pissed is why.
EBay protects the sellers. It's all about the money.
Later,
Kevin
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If I ever have another PayPal dispute, I'm going the credit card charge back route. If they pull my PayPal account, so be it. Their dispute process is excruciating and requires multiple telephone calls & e-mails. Every time they rule in your favor, the seller simply has to contest their ruling and they re-open the process. I had a fraudulent seller re-open a complaint 3 times before I finally got PayPal to refund my money. It took well over 60 days to go through the process. It's like the try to wear you down.
The worst was when eBay than let the seller zing me with a negative for following their own (PayPal is owned by eBay) formal process. Next time, I'm going with a CC credit.
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Can anyone direct me to some specific threads?
http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php is not really that funny unless you've interacted with some of the Hoffman forum members. A lot of them are a bit eccentric, including the man himself.
Some of the guys they're skewering, like Dave The Night Gort, LeeS and Grant, are being parodied perfectly. Dave The Night Gort was (I always wished I'd seen how he left) a particularly loony poster, with ears of gold that heard things that did not exist who then swore that Steve once told him he had great ears.
I love the poster whose avatar is Steve Hoffman standing next to those holographic coat racks that he endorses.
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B) I think I'd start a blog about Hoffman and his Gestapo tactics, and make sure my site stayed near the top of search engines.
http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php
Lots of really hateful, juvenile stuff here, but also some funny (and warranted) bitching, mostly about the moderators and some of the more zealous sycophants. And no, I don't post there. Personally, I like Steve and his work, but some of his followers are a bit wacky.
Oh man, thanks so much for this! Some of the people they are picking on over there... they are nailing them perfectly.
And here I thought I was the only one who thought Barry Diament has a screw loose.
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The A-Team for the Hamp set:
Disc transfers: Mark Wilder and Andreas Meyer
Mastered using 24-bit technology by Malcolm Addey
Well, at least the Andorran pirates will have good mastering to steal from.
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I have used JewelSleeves in the past. They one of the better ones out there with the only negative being that the backer artwork sticks out beyond the CD (because it's bigger, not because of the JewelSleeve) and it can bend a little being stuck out like that.
Kevin
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The Jazz Connection has been closed for seven or eight years. I saw Marchel there, playing with Joey DeFrancesco.
I had originally written that the show I saw at the Jazz Connection had Joey D on organ but I figured my memory was going. Thanks for confirming my sanity. It was a great show. Nice club. The sitting area had a couple of couches you sit on. I was sitting there in a couch listening to Marcel and I remember thinking, "Why have I never heard of this guy"? I was glad when he offered CDs for sale. Until then, I figured I was seeing some local legend that I'd never be able to hear again. Those Leaning House Jazz CDs are very nice. It's too bad the label went under.
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During my traveling days, I often found myself in the DFW area. I always looked to see where Marchel was playing and I was happy to support the guy by buying a couple of CDs from him. I'll never forget that night at the Jazz Connection when there was about 7 people in the house to see him. 7! He still played his ass off for us. I was not surprised when the Jazz Connection was closed during one of my last trips.
I also vividly remember him playing at that club in Addison with the airport runway behind the stage... what was the name of that place... Sambuca's maybe? Anyway, there's Marchel wailing away during a solo and suddenly there's a plane heading straight at us! Freaked me out the first time it happened.
RIP Marchel.
Kevin
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I would bet a bundle that this disc will be max'ed out, with NO dynamic range at all. CD mastering has reached an all time low for the big labels. Just watch. It will be brick-walled.
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During the last few days, I've had to log in repeatedly, even though I check "Remember me". Is there something I can do on my end?
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I think the remasters are a boom-fest, with flabby, over-pronounced bass all over the place. I can't even play them in my car because the bass is so loud it distorts the small speakers.
Give me the original CDs any day.
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I think Rowling's announcement was made after the book came out so that her sales wouldn't be hurt. She knows that if she included a direct homosexual reference in the books, there is no way it would have sold as well. Not a chance. The right wing would have been foaming at the mouth. She'd probably have death threats... she may have some now. Rather cowardly of her to do it this way.
As an avid reader of fantasy novels, it seems to me that lately it's a requirement to have a few gay men in every story. Funny thing is, it's almost always a female author and the gay characters are always men. Weird but true.
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I wonder if the "bright blue reflection under a strong light" is a reliable way to id all cd-rs?
No. Some CD-Rs use a clear dye. The Taiyo-Yuden and Mitsui blanks I use have clear dye.
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I've tried for two jobs in Ireland. Both times the job never materialized, but I was ready to go. For some reason, Ireland's always intrigued me as a place to live.
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I thought I was going to love this when I got it. Unfortunately, RVG recorded it and added some horrendous reverb. It sounds like the horns are being played in an empty warehouse. Great tunes and great playing but I just can't get over the lousy sound here.