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i seem to recail that moss took a $6 million pay cut to join a winner. given the lack of loyalty of nfl teams to their players, i hope the decision serves him well.

the met's collapse wasnt oring.

several months ago, several writers, considering the state of the illini facilities, couldnt imagine how they managed to get such an awesome recruiting class. .......scandal just over the horizon? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/stor...&id=3051881

thanks

london jazz composers orchestra was one of my favs, and they were all soloists.

serious serious music. that last hour of piano music was incredible. you apparently only play music of the very highest order. thanks.

has the kazoo been used in any jazz recordings in the last 50 years, other than the AEC recordings? the kazoo adds class and elegance to any setting.

as i recall stanford beat usc with a third string quarterback.

Embrace digital or die, EMI told By Juliette Garside Last Updated: 12:45pm BST 08/10/2007 The new owner of EMI, Britain's largest music group, has warned that the industry will not survive if it continues to rely on CD sales alone. # Radiohead generation believes music is free Guy Hands, the financier whose private equity group, Terra Firma, bought EMI in August, told staff in a confidential e-mail last week that the industry had been too slow to embrace the digital revolution. Hands' letter was in response to the decision by Radiohead, one of the biggest bands nurtured by EMI but now out of contract with the label, to release their latest album via the internet and at a price decided by fans. In the e-mail, sent to staff on Friday, Hands described Radiohead's action as "a wake-up call which we should all welcome and respond to with creativity and energy". "The recorded music industry... has for too long been dependent on how many CDs can be sold," he wrote. "Rather than embracing digitalisation and the opportunities it brings for promotion of product and distribution through multiple channels, the industry has stuck its head in the sand." Many record label bosses believe it is the duty of successful bands to stick with the companies that nurtured them so that their earnings can subsidise new talent. However, bands complain that too much of their money is used to subsidise lavish lifestyles for label bosses. Hands is understood to have been surprised at the size of salaries paid to second-tier executives. On Friday he warned that unless there was a major cultural change, more established bands could follow Radiohead's lead, choosing to cut the label out of the loop and distribute their music directly to consumers. EMI's biggest names include Robbie Williams, Joss Stone and David Bowie, all of whom are established enough to adopt the Radiohead model. With bands' revenues from playing concerts and festivals overtaking their income from CD sales, the decision to break free has become less risky. "Why should they subsidise their label's new talent roster – or for that matter their record company's excessive expenditures and advances?" asks Hands. Radiohead's decision came in the same week that indy -legends The Charlatans decided to give away their new album over the web, also without help from a record label. Tim Burgess, the Charlatans' lead signer, told The Sunday Telegraph: "I want the people to own the music and the artists to own the copyright. Why let a record company get in the way of the music?" Hands suggests moving away from the model of paying large advances – Robbie Williams signed an £80m deal with EMI in 2002 – in exchange for the label's right to keep the majority of the takings from new releases. Instead, labels could simply subsidise the making of an album or the beginning of a tour in exchange for a share in the profits – or losses. Hands is understood to have been impressed by the inventiveness of EMI's music publishing division, which owns the copyright to songs, in making money from new sources. It has licensed lyrics to be printed on jeans and posters and music videos to be played on YouTube. Information appearing on telegraph.co.uk is the copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited and must not be reproduced in any medium without licence. For the full copyright statement see Copyright

stodgy aloc likes the bruno walter stuff, which has an air of authenticity about it. has anyone read walter's biography of mahler?

thanks for the info. the olympics, just what the overloaded airports and hotels need!

{for many years, the lasalle bank has considered this race a PR bonanza. it has really blown up on them. of course, folks who take off to run a marathon at 88 degrees have to respect their own bodies.} chicagotribune.com Man dies in heat-shortened marathon By Josh Noel, Andrew L. Wang and Carlos Sadovi Tribune staff reporters 11:13 PM CDT, October 7, 2007 Click here to find out more! The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon was cut short for the first time in its history Sunday as hundreds of runners laboring across ovenlike streets were treated for heat-related illness. The stoppage happened about 3 ½ hours after the start gun on an abnormally sweltering autumn day, amid complaints of insufficient water for more than 35,000 runners who had come from around the world to compete in one of its preeminent marathons. One runner, a 35-year-old Michigan police officer, died after collapsing in the race's 19th mile, but it was not clear whether the death was heat-related. Chad Schieber, of Midland, Mich., collapsed about 12 p.m. at 1500 S. Ashland Ave., and was pronounced dead on arrival at a West Side hospital at 12:50 p.m., the medical examiner's office said. An autopsy will be performed Monday. Despite the heat, executive race director Carey Pinkowski said race officials never considered canceling the race before it began because they believed the number of people running was manageable and that they could be cared for. "In most cases they have trained for 25 weeks," he said. "Marathon runners are tough people. They train in difficult conditions." Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said about 315 runners were taken from the course by ambulance with what he described as heat-related conditions. He said city and suburban ambulances took 146 people to hospitals, most in good condition, and the rest were taken to hospitals or medical aid stations along the route by private ambulances. Five people remained hospitalized in serious or critical condition Sunday night, Langford said. Runners described chaotic scenes of racers throwing up, passing out or being carted away on stretchers. "There were people falling all over the place," said Rob Smith, 40, of Naperville, who was running his first marathon. Though Schieber's death was not the first fatality in the race's 30-year history—the last was in 2003—it was the first time the event was cut short. Of 35,867 runners who started the race, just 24,933 finished, and by Sunday evening, the marathon's message board, along with Chicago hotels and restaurants, was buzzing with dissatisfaction. "It was poorly done," said Mike Katz, 61, who has run 31 marathons, as he sat in the lounge of the Congress Plaza Hotel. Chicago officials "just didn't have it together," he said. With temperatures heading toward an Oct. 7 record 88 degrees, officials enacted a contingency plan about 11:30 a.m. to end the race early, Pinkowski said. He said there was precedent for such action. In April, officials at the Rotterdam marathon in the Netherlands cut that event short, also because of warm weather. Runners who had not reached the halfway point were diverted back to the start at Grant Park while the rest were told by police and firefighters that they should walk to the finish. Some racers simply went home and others caught rides, but the majority walked on, some with bags of ice on their heads or dousing each other with the contents of their water bottles. A few stubborn competitors kept lumbering along. Some runners chalked up the aborted race to bad luck, but many others seethed about a lack of fluids along the way. "I had no water until Mile 8," said Blayne Rickles, 57, of Denver. The most welcome relief came in the form of spectators buying bottles of water near Mile 13 and handing them to exhausted runners, she said. "The city was fabulous, but the race was horrible," Rickles said. Those complaints were echoed again and again, especially from the slower racers. They also said that on such a hot day, drinks should have been made available every mile along the 26.2-mile route, instead of only at the 15 stations sprinkled in every mile or two. "The water stations were really depleted," said Nestor Benanidez, 40, of Maryland. "As much as they might have planned, it wasn't enough." Erin Johnson, 24, of Kansas City, Mo., said the first several water stations "were out or really low" and that she ran with her wax cup because competition for fluids was so fierce. "You're running thinking, 'Oh my God, I really need this water to get through this,' " she said. Runners also said stations were not ready when runners came through; even if there was water or Gatorade, runners had to serve themselves. "I had to open a bottle and pour my own," said Karen Orner, 42, of Minneapolis. But race officials said they found no such problems. Each of the aid stations was outfitted with 50,000 to 70,000 servings of water and 37,000 servings of Gatorade, said Shawn Platt, a senior vice president of LaSalle Bank. "We checked with all the aid stations and the amount of water was adequate," Platt said. "We had thousands of thousands of gallons of water." He said there might have been distribution problems as runners created a bottleneck at the tables dispensing water and Gatorade, with runners taking two or three cups at a time, faster than volunteers could fill new ones. Many runners learned of the race's stoppage about noon, near Mile 20 at Halsted Street and Cermak Avenue. As firefighters sprayed runners, a paramedic repeated through the speaker in his ambulance, "Attention runners, the marathon has been canceled. You can stop running, now." Most competitors heeded the advice amid streets flowing with water from open hydrants and littered with cups, sponges, bottles and discarded T-shirts. Stephen Blight, 43, of Ware, England, costumed head to toe as the "Star Wars" character Yoda, said he had raised $22,000 for children back home with leukemia. He had also learned the previous night that his father had died of lung cancer. "It's been a very emotional experience," he said. "I'm so very disappointed, but they have to look out for the safety of the runner. That's most important." George Chiampas, the race's medical director, said Schieber was apparently unresponsive after falling. "It sounds like he lost his pulse very fast and died on the racecourse," he said. Schieber's father-in-law, Ken Dodge, said by phone from Midland that Schieber had been a police officer there for about 10 years and was named officer of the year this year. He and his wife, Sarah, had three children and led a marriage ministry in their church, Dodge said. "Just a wonderful man," Dodge said, his voice wavering. "He was more of a friend to me than a son-in-law." Schieber had trained with his wife for six months, following a strict program. Sunday marked his first marathon, which he ran with his wife, brother and sister-in-law. "Shocking is not the word," Dodge said. "I just cannot imagine this." jbnoel@tribune.com alwang@tribune.com csadovi@tribune.com Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/c...479,print.story

thanks for pointing article out. havent seen.

that being said, the mention or thought or sound of mahler does excite many of our souls.

we may not agree on threads, but we sure do on sounds.

you are a piece of work, MG. be well.

aloc's = early belichek aloc only dresses(well) for the symphony, opera, weddings, and funerals.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MISHANDLING_GERMS

me, too. they are going to do it anyway.

So all of the work I've done on my opera-in-progress, Titty Twister: The Further Adventures of Alban Berg's "Lulu", has been for naught? [To Wm. Tell Overture] Tittie bump, tittie bump, Tittie bump bump bump, Tittie bump, tittie bump, tittie bump bump bump, Tittie bump, tittie bump, tittie bump bump bump, Tittie bummmmp, tittie bump bump bump. Just adding a touch of class. presumably, the godivaish heroine will be mounted on a horse or giraffe or elephant or ostrich or something.

she couldnt handle money, either. the crashing ang burning of a human being is a tragedy generally difficult to watch. i wish the media agreed.

a half dozen wendy's jr. bacon cheeseburgers is heaven. may just lay in a few for sunday football.

http://www.alternet.org/story/64214/?page=entire

there's one 'slide' still worth something. had he played the valve, would he have been 'valve' hampton?

remember those books of logs and trig functions and formulas? i misplaced this awesome huge book of functions and formulas. great reading!