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nuff said-------------- http://www.ironictimes.com/ please note the many archives.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle5366154.ece
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Dock Ellis, R.I.P.
alocispepraluger102 replied to Indestructible!'s topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
13 year major league veteran-----------no medical insurance. shame on you--major league baseball. -
http://businessofclassicalmusic.blogspot.c...c-after-cd.html
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http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2008/12/17/mt...st-gm-1217.html
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true class
alocispepraluger102 replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
thanks. i thought it might warm our hands and toes. -
coming up--12 days of roy haynes
alocispepraluger102 replied to alocispepraluger102's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
i only catch him during festivals. cant hack the mornings. -
just announced january 11 through 23. roy haynes. wkcr
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http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/20/stories/2008122052911600.htm OF COURSE, HE IS PASSED HIS PRIME, BUT, FOR OLD TIMR'S SAKE....
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indeed.
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2 hours a day? http://www.economist.com/printedition/disp...ory_ID=12795510 Biologists are addressing one of humanity’s strangest attributes, its all-singing, all-dancing culture “IF MUSIC be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it.” And if not? Well, what exactly is it for? The production and consumption of music is a big part of the economy. The first use to which commercial recording, in the form of Edison’s phonographs, was to bring music to the living rooms and picnic tables of those who could not afford to pay live musicians. Today, people are so surrounded by other people’s music that they take it for granted, but as little as 100 years ago singsongs at home, the choir in the church and fiddlers in the pub were all that most people heard. Other appetites, too, have been sated even to excess by modern business. Food far beyond the simple needs of stomachs, and sex (or at least images of it) far beyond the needs of reproduction, bombard the modern man and woman, and are eagerly consumed. But these excesses are built on obvious appetites. What appetite drives the proliferation of music to the point where the average American teenager spends 1½-2½ hours a day—an eighth of his waking life—listening to it?........
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http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=496 Paradox #9: Moral Complaint Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Jean Kazez A story in the news perfectly captures the next paradox in Saul Smilansky’s book 10 Moral Paradoxes. A woman in Iran was blinded by a “suitor” who threw acid in her face after she rejected him. The man was arrested and convicted, and the woman asked the court to have him blinded. The court sentenced him to blinding by acid. Question: can he complain? (Let’s pause here…The woman says she doesn’t actually want acid thrown in the man’s face–that would be “savage and barbaric”. She just wants his eyes to be gouged out. Human Rights Watch reports that eye-gouging is a proper judicial punishment under Iranian law. But not blinding by acid? Can the court impose that penalty? What about the idea that gouging is more humane than acid-throwing? Er…) OK, never mind everything in the parentheses, interesting though all that may be. Can the man complain if a member of the Iranian department of corrections blinds him with acid? I think the puzzle here is immediately obvious, but let’s sharpen it up with a few principles. Quoting now from Saul’s book, we have: (N) The non-contradiction condition for complaint. Morally, a person cannot complain when others treat him or her in ways similar to those in which the complainer freely treats others. (U) The unconditional nature of some moral standards. Some moral standards apply unconditionally. These standards allow anyone to hold others to them, and to complain if those others do not act in accordance with those standards. (N) and (U) are both intuitively plausible. If you accept them both, you will find yourself oscillating between the thought that the acid-thrower can’t complain if he’s blinded, and that he can. Is there any way out? Previous posts on 10 Moral Paradoxes: Paradox 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-go...0,4033454.story
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...ad-1058031.html
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Internet explorer 7 hacked
alocispepraluger102 replied to The Magnificent Goldberg's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
i have used google chrome for about 3 months and prefer it to firefox. the problems i've had with firefox are mainly that some of the firefox skins REALLY foul up your browser. -
for as long as i can remember, the wkcr clock has been accurately set after many many years. it has unfailing been 2 minutes slow since...... the fact they are trying to be current (and possibly update other things) is as troubling to aloc as the current state of the economy. is nothing sacred? FOR THE SAKE OF MY SANITY, I DEMAND, SET THAT WKCR CLOCK BACK.
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starting at midnight messiaen 24 hour birthday festival http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- starting dec 11 at midnight still kicking it at age 100 on december 11. elliot carter 24 hour birthday broadcast http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/
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Jazz Suppressed: Wagner Promoted
alocispepraluger102 replied to BillF's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
a pompous aloc favorite, especially der meistersinger. -
elevator music bring on the schmaltz. sap for the sappy kostelanetz, stanley black, melachrino, richard hayman, mortie gould, paramore, monty, percy faith, paul weston, ad infinitum. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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I LOVE APPLEBEE'S WINGS MADLY. (Applebee's Accused Of Making Fat Asses http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/st...da-2030f855223e TAMPA, FL -- Restaurants often claim to have low calorie meals or things on their menus with half the fat. But our two month investigation back in May found that some restaurants making those claims aren't always serving up what they advertise. Now, a customer has hired an attorney to put the restaurant and weight loss industry on notice. It's known as your 'neighborhood grill' but Applebee's Restaurant is accused of being not such a good neighbor. Applebee's parent company and Weight Watchers are accused in a 27 page lawsuit of making low fat claims about meals, often loaded with fat and calories. This follows an ABC Action News investigation from May, when we worked with sister stations in seven different cities around the country. We bought and tested seven meals, claiming to be low in fat and calories from Applebees Weight Watchers' menu. And the results were not always what the restaurant claimed they would be. While the calorie difference was slight, the fat was over on every item we tested, doubling and even tripling in three of the meals! That's why a northeast law firm filed a class action suit on behalf of consumers across the country. Lawyer Alison Foster said,"This lawsuit is really about the false advertising, where people bought something that was advertised different than what they thought they were getting." They claim the entrees on Applebee's special Weight Watchers section are listed as 'healthy menus' but often "inaccurately represent the caloric and fat content of the food at issue." "It's sort of a betrayal--it's taking advantage of people who want to pay attention to their health and instead selling them something that's going to hurt them," Foster said. Meanwhile, Weight Watchers says "the company does not comment on current litigation." And an Applebee's spokesperson said, "We take claims about our Weight Watchers menu seriously. We believe variation between listed and actual food nutritional content is inevitable. We are reviewing the claims, but we don't think they have merit." During our investigation six-months ago, ABC Action News purchased low fat, low cal items at some of the most popular restaurant chains and put them to the test. Following our labs instructions, each menu item was placed in a ziploc bag, labeled, packed on ice, shipped, and tested for caloric and fat content at EPA certified AnalyticalLaboratories in Boise, Idaho. Test results showed the cajun lime tilapia meal on the menu at Applebee's, which was supposed to have six grams of fat, instead had 12-grams of fat! Also, the italian chicken and portobello sandwich was supposed to have six-grams of fat, but tested three times that with 18.6 grams! "We want to have an informed consumer," registered dietician Nancy Holder said from University Community Hospital. She analyzed our findings and suggested that viewers think about what they're eating. "What is concerning is that what they're presenting as being healthful meals really have more calories and fat than the individual might think," Holder said. )
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Musical instrument tones that grate on you
alocispepraluger102 replied to Brownian Motion's topic in Artists
electric pianos and keyboards, other than the heavenly hammonds and pipe organs , blow(wreak) even if they are faster.