alocispepraluger102

Hasan is a beautiful alto player whom i have heard several times. he respects the tradition and has studied the masters and is full of fire. There are two opportunities this weekend to catch The Rejuvenation Trio as they kick off their summer tour throughout the Midwest. The Rejuvenation Trio is: Hasan Abdur-Razzaq- alto saxophone, cello Tom Abbs- bass, cello Ryan Jewell- drums, singing bowls, bike wheels and more. This is Hasan's first ever tour, and we'd all love to see it get off with a bang, so please come out and support! Check out what AllAboutJazz.com critic Mark Corroto had to say about Hasan: "truly, his inspired playing invokes the living spirit of Albert Ayler." Go Hasan go!! - So the first show is Friday at Milo Elektric, a cd release party for Hasan's recording of the same name - Rejuvenation, that features the trio plus guests Jenna Barvitski on violin and yours truly on piano for a couple of tracks. Show starts 8:30 with an opener featuring Sheryl Banks-Smith (former dancer and vocalist for Sun Ra), with Brett Allen ( Billy Bang)- guitar, Stephen Smith- percussion, and Steve Perakis- bass. Admission will be on a sliding scale, 5 to 10 bucks. Then Saturday night, the guys will be playing at Cafe Bourbon Street on a bill with touring act Mothguts (grindcore meets free jazz), and also with Starlight Fleecing, a Ryan Jewell/Larry Marotta/David Reed project. The order of the bill is as yet determined but 10 pm would probably be a good time to show up. So please come out and support if you can. Exciting, impassioned, cathartic music is promised! Best, G

lots of acoustic meat at the start, and well into the work. the electronics start quite later. all the really creative cats want to do their own stuff. bet georgy lewis could get into it.

http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.php

but be careful how far you throw it: ----------------------------------------------------------- Kenny G Pays Girl's Bills after Throwing Incident Crooner Kenny G has paid a girl's medical bill after she was wounded from objects thrown out of his holiday villa. Nine-year-old Brooke Porter was at a beach in Los Angeles when she was struck by two energy bars thrown from the musician's compound. She was hospitalized and needed four stitches. Two teenagers on the property -- who are not related to Kenny -- are believed to have thrown the objects, according to county sheriff officials. Kenny's attorney, Lee Blackman says, "I have been informed a Power Bar hit the girl accidentally on the head. It was just an accident." He also added that the musician's wife, Lyndie, paid the girl's medical bill. However, Porter's parents claim their daughter and her 12-year-old brother were targeted because the boy suffers from Down's syndrome and autism

espn's(and fox's) high caffeine sports reporting has been on aloc's do not watch list for some years. he also wishes their live events had a dump button where one could get rid of all the inane graphics. he would pay for that. when aloc wants graphics, he plays a computer game

the piece aloc confused many with , including himelf, was the magnificent 1950's varese composition, 'deserts,' which would make a great hourlong concert jazz piece.

thanks and apologies. this piece began with substantial percussion and then had a flute solo with orchestral backing, leading to a heavily orchestrated with significant brass section. i am busy at the moment but will check the recording in about an hour.

edgar varese' ionisation would seem to be a lovely vehicle for a small or large improvising group. has any group taken a swing at it? the percussive beginning and the flute solo, and the layers would seem more than perfect to tear into, or is it new music that is too ancient?

now arent these criteria b.s.? quoted from the article: Back in 2003 Tanaka spent more than $3,000 and more than three months gathering letters of support in order to obtain an O-1 visa, commonly referred to as an artist’s visa. He was denied. In its letter of denial and on its Web site, the INS mentions a Grammy Award as suitable proof of artistic merit; the Web site also lists, “key roles in prior major productions; significant recognition in the field by critics, etc.; major roles in productions with distinguished reputation; major commercial success; significant recognition from governmental organizations or other recognized experts, record of high salary in relation to others in the field." Of course, even the greatest jazz musicians rarely bring in a “high salary," let alone young talents who are still developing a distinctive voice. It’s hardly news that folks who determine artistic merit are bureaucrats with little to no knowledge of the arts. In order to stay, Tanaka enrolled at Northern Illinois University, where he earned a master’s degree in “percussion pedagogy” in May of 2006. He then pursued an “optional practical training” program over the last year. Now he’s at the end of the road, and without the resources to reapply for the O-1 again he’s leaving the country. Tanaka hopes to return at some point in the near future; gaining employment through a Japanese firm is a slight possibility for him, but nothing is certain. I just saw Tanaka play a superb duet with saxophonist Greg Ward on Wednesday at the Hideout, and it only reinforced what a loss this is for the city. Aside from the above-mentioned groups, he's also worked with the Howling Hex, the Cairo Gang, and groups led by Josh Berman, Keefe Jackson, and Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten. He’s leaving the day after his gig at Rodan, where he'll perform with A Cushicle, a trio with bassist Jason Ajemian and guitarist Jeff Parker, and video artist Selina Trepp, who's held a steady residency at the bar for years now. As usual, I’m sure he’ll play his ass off.

just heard the stride right. fatha on organ and piano. fine music.

PAUL B. FARRELL Goldman Sachs guru warns of war-debt failure Is America becoming a global credit risk? How to get back on track By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch Last Update: 7:02 PM ET Jul 23, 2007 ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Subprimes downgraded. Will Moody's downgrade America's debt next? Actually, that's already happening; our credit rating is collapsing with the dollar. Foreign banks are dumping dollar reserves, while we gorge on cheap toys and bad pet food. Actually, our biggest "terrorist" threat is internal: Distorted values are downgrading our nation's "creditworthiness." We're like out-of-control kids with stolen credit cards, spending our future with no plans to repay. Recently Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs (International), appeared before the U.S. House Budget Committee to "discuss an issue of great economic, financial and national security importance to our country -- the growing dependence of the United States on foreign capital." Currently we import $1 trillion new debt annually, with no repayment plans. That's a historic break from over two centuries of American policy. Hormats was in Washington with warnings from his brilliant new book, "The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars." He traces the history of American wartime financing from the Revolution through the War of 1812, the Civil War, the two World Wars and the Cold War to the present. Conclusion: "One central, constant theme emerges: sound national finances have proved to be indispensable to the country's military strength" and long-term national security. 1776 to Iraq, national security demands fiscal responsibility America's long tradition of war financing began with Alexander Hamilton: "In January 1790, Hamilton, by then the country's Treasury secretary, confronted the American people with a stark fact: the nation had run up a huge debt fighting the Revolutionary War. This debt, he wrote, was the 'price of liberty,' and the new government had to repay it. The future creditworthiness of the United States, and ultimately the security and ability to finance future wars, would depend on how successfully and faithfully this was done." Hamilton's principles have kept America's credit strong through every war since the Revolution ... until the Iraq War. Since then, "although U.S. leaders have warned that the war against terrorism could last for decades, the country lacks a multidecade financial strategy to address the challenge." Iraq tossed the lessons of history out the window. Hormats says that despite the oft-repeated remark that 9/11 "changed everything, in the area of fiscal policy, however, it changed nothing. The country is pursuing a pre-9/11 fiscal policy in a post-9/11 world." That assessment comes from someone who worked inside Washington for over a decade before joining Goldman Sachs in the 1980s. Unsustainable debt is weakening national security America's new faith-based guns-and-butter policy is hurting both guns and butter. The war is costing us $12 billion a month. Hormats examined the Congressional Budget Office's projections for domestic costs: "In 2006, spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on the federal debt amounted to just under 60% of government revenues" and "if they continue on their current path, they will account for two-thirds by 2015." * Social security from $550 billion to $960 billion * Medicare from $372 billion to over $900 billion * Medicaid from $181 billion to $390 billion Worse yet, these commitments will continue skyrocketing in later decades. The CBO projects the federal debt rising from 40% of GDP to 100% in the next 25 years: "Continuing on this unsustainable path will gradually erode, if not suddenly damage, our economy, our standard of living, and ultimately our national security." Hormats warns of the risks of this gross departure from Hamilton's principles: "Of late, the precedents and experiences of past generations have been cast aside. The 9/11 attacks were seen by many legislators as a license to spend more money on nonsecurity programs, and Americans have not been called to make sacrifices. Tax cuts and spending increased on politically popular security-irrelevant domestic programs have been enacted as if there were no expensive defense programs to be funded." Turning point in Iraq, where 'deficits don't matter' In my opinion, the turning point occurred in late 2002. Remember, the Afghan War was hot. America was in recession and a bear market. The surpluses of the 1990s rapidly disappeared. Corporate scandals were damaging our global standing. Washington was pushing a second round of tax cuts. And the Iraq invasion was imminent. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, true to Hamiltonian principles, warned the White House of a coming fiscal crisis. The vice president retorted: "Reagan proved deficits don't matter." (Hormats tells me Reagan never said that.) Soon after, Cheney "fired" O'Neill ... and Hamilton's principles of sound war financing were dead. Unfortunately, Washington's radical new faith-based financing is sabotaging national security. America's unsustainable deficits are making us extremely vulnerable to terrorists whose goal is to "attack the United States, perhaps with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons capable of killing enormous numbers of people and seriously disrupting the American economy," targeting a "major port or transportation center." Hormats says America is now "relying on faith over experience, hoping that sustained growth will erase deficits and that the ballooning costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will be manageable in the coming decades without difficult reforms." Yet economists now estimate these entitlements can only be "reformed" by either a cut in benefits or an increase in taxes greater that 40%. In short, today's faith-based economics is failing us. The current Treasury secretary also appears to be supporting this new approach: Henry Paulson, former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, recently told Fortune that "this is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime." Well, that sure sounds to me like yet another rejection of Hamiltonian principles in favor of the new faith-based policy, which assumes that global economies will always be strong and, therefore, foreign capital will indefinitely bankroll America's war machine at a low cost. The danger is, it also assumes that American taxpayers will be able to indefinitely pay the interest costs of our burgeoning foreign debt ... on top of exploding unfunded domestic entitlements in Social Security and Medicare. Time to rediscover 'Hamilton's gift' of war financing Hormats was being much too diplomatic in summing up his warning to the House Budget Committee: "If government debt continues to pile up, deficits rise to stratospheric levels and heavy dependence on foreign capital grows, borrowing the money will be very costly. If America remains on its dangerous financial course Hamilton's gift to the nation -- the blessing of sound financing -- will be squandered." The truth is, America's leaders have already squandered "Hamilton's gift," and along with it, more than two centuries of experience, replacing it with a new "faith-based" policy: "Deficits don't matter." No wonder Main Street Americans have a "gut instinct" that we're a disaster waiting to happen. Not only are we "transferring an inordinate burden to future generations," says Hormats, Washington's undisciplined spending and total lack of a financial repayment plan is undercutting our national security and exposing America to the worst-case scenario: Another domestic terrorist attack that would trigger a "massive disruption of our economy" and a meltdown of America's credit rating throughout the world. The truth is, America desperately needs a new "Hamilton" who understands that in calculating "the price of liberty," not only do deficits matter, Americans must have a plan to repay our debts ... if we want a strong credit rating that insures our national security for future generations. End of Story

the rabbit would be 100 tomorrow. do yourself a big favor and give the great alto master johnny hodges a listen soon.

the doctors cited not drinking enough water, especially while exercising, which thickened the blood, as the probable cause for aloc's recent stroke(was drinking 1 or 2 glasses a week, maybe) and gallons of diet pepsi, and gallons of beer, as well. for your good health d.p., please find some water you can get down, and several glasses a day, at least. there are many fine filtering systems available.

Daily soft drinks - even diet - linked to higher heart disease risk: study By Sheryl Ubelacker TORONTO (CP) - For those who drink diet pops in the belief that sugar-free beverages are healthier than regular soft drinks, new research suggests they should think again. A huge U.S. study of middle-aged adults has found that drinking more than one soft drink a day - even a sugar-free diet brand - may be associated with an elevated risk for metabolic syndrome, a cluster of factors that boosts the chance of having a heart attack or stroke and developing diabetes. "We found that one or more sodas per day increases your risk of new-onset metabolic syndrome by about 45 per cent, and it did not seem to matter if it was regular or diet," Dr. Ramachandran Vasan, senior investigator for the Framingham Heart Study, said Monday from Boston. "That for me is striking." Metabolic syndrome is associated with five specific health indicators: excess abdominal fat; high blood sugar; high triglycerides; low levels of the good cholesterol HDL; and high blood pressure. "And other than high blood pressure, the other four . . . all were associated with drinking one or more sodas per day," said Vasan, a professor of medicine at Boston University. Having metabolic syndrome is known to double the risk of heart attack and stroke, as well as boosting the risk of diabetes. The study included nearly 9,000 observations of middle-aged men and women over four years at three different times. The study looked at how many 355-millilitre cans of cola or other soft drinks a participant consumed each day. The researchers found that compared to those who drank less than one can per day, subjects who downed one or more soft drinks daily had a: -31 per cent greater risk of becoming obese (with a body mass index of 30 or more). -30 per cent increased risk of adding on belly fat. -25 per cent higher risk of developing high blood triglycerides or high blood sugar. -32 per cent higher risk of having low HDL levels. But Vasan and his colleagues, whose study was published Monday in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, are unsure what it is about soft drinks that ratchets up the risk of metabolic syndrome. "We really don't know," he said. "This soda consumption may be a marker for a particular dietary pattern or lifestyle. Individuals who drink one or more sodas per day tend to be people who have greater caloric intake. They tend to have more of saturated fats and trans fats in their diet, they tend to be more sedentary, they seem to have lower consumption of fibre." "And we tried to adjust for all of these in our analysis . . . but it's very difficult to completely adjust away lifestyle." Dr. David Jenkins, director of the Risk Factor Modification Centre at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, said previous studies have suggested that diet pops did not have the same effects on weight and health as do naturally sweetened soft drinks. "The unusual thing that needs comment is they (the study authors) say that the diet colas are the same as the calorically sweetened colas," said Jenkins. "So I think that is the piece that they've put into this puzzle . . . I think we need a lot more scrutiny of that." Jenkins said he believes that high consumption of soft drinks likely goes along with eating a high-calorie diet. "I think the disappointing thing is if you thought you were doing (yourself) a major service - which you always used to think - by taking diet drinks, this is not helping you," he said. "Before we were saying take the diet (drink) and you're OK. Now were saying: 'Watch it."' The study also begs the question whether there is some ingredient in soft drinks - regular or diet - that may encourage metabolic syndrome. But Dr. Arya Sharma, chair of cardiovascular obesity research at McMaster University, said there is nothing suggested by the authors of the study that would lead to that conclusion. "One thing that they say and other people have said before is if you drink a lot of sweet things, then you are sort of conditioning yourself for that sweet taste," Sharma said Monday from Hamilton. "So people who drink diet pop may be eating other sweets, whether that comes in the form of dessert or other things, I don't know." "It may be that people who are drinking diet pop - and we have this effect often with people who go on diets or when people go running or whatever - that you do a little bit of something that you think is good, and then you overcompensate by doing more of something that is bad." "The idea could be because I'm drinking diet pap, I can afford to splurge on dessert." Vasan said he cannot out-and-out recommend that people stop drinking soft drinks based on this study, because the findings are based on association, not clear cause and effect. "The simple message is eat healthy, exercise regularly and everything should be done in moderation," he said. "If you're a regular soda drinker you should be aware that this study adds to the evidence that regular soda may be associated with metabolic consequences." "If you're a diet soda drinker, stay tuned for additional research to confirm or refute these findings." Copyright © 2007 Canadian Press Copyright © 2007 Yahoo! Canada Co. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service Need help? Want to send feedback?

aloc wouldnt bet a nickel on donaghy being alive this time next year. here's thinking maybe some more refs and a player or 2 are involved.

impossible!

aloc can relate to that.....great to hear.

New York Times coverage tiptoes around owner - NYT editor Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:09PM EDT NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - The public editor at the New York Times on Sunday castigated the newspaper for not writing enough about its owner -- the Ochs-Sulzberger family -- and whether it will succumb to the same pressure that forced The Wall Street Journal into the grasp of Rupert Murdoch. Public editor Clark Hoyt wrote in the paper's Sunday edition that The New York Times is missing a good story in its own backyard. Part of Hoyt's job is to be the readers' representative at the paper. Hoyt said today's New York Times is caught in unprecedented changes in an industry where readers are flocking to the Internet and advertising revenue is tumbling for print editions across the country. The Bancroft family, owners of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research), likely will sell to Murdoch, even though some members think he'll bring his tabloid heart to the pages of the financial news icon. Hoyt said the Times has covered the Bancroft-Murdoch saga aggressively. "There has been a comparative silence in the paper about its own owners, their challenges and their strategy," Hoyt wrote. The headline to his article read, "Tiptoeing Around the Family Business." Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times and chairman of its parent company, told Hoyt his company's ownership is much different than the fractured structure that governs the shares of the Bancroft family. Voting control of The New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is held in a single trust administered by eight family members and six of them must approve major decisions. The single trust helps keep a close family united, Sulzberger said. Hoyt said when London-based Morgan Stanley portfolio manager Hassan Elmasry urged a protest against New York Times Co. management, he said The Wall Street Journal did a better job of covering the story than The New York Times. "The Times published its own dutiful 1,500-word look at the Elmasry-led uprising," Hoyt wrote. "The article touched the proper bases without the flair, drama and probing quality of the Journal piece." Landon Thomas Jr., the Times reporter assigned to write about his own company, acknowledged writing about your boss isn't easy. "I wouldn't hold that story as one of the best I've ever written," Hoyt quotes Thomas as saying. "It's not." © Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. Reuters journalists are subject to the Reuters Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.

nice surprise to know you dig bluegrass and some country! aloc, too.

The recipe for Rogue Chocolate Stout was created several years ago for export to Japan. The exported twelve ounce Chocolate Bear Beer bottle label is in Kanji and features a teddy bear with a pink heart on his belly. Chocolate Stout was released for Valentine's Day in 2001 in a twenty-two ounce bottle for the US market. The label features a Roguester (Sebbie Buhler) on the label. The bottled of Chocolate Stout is available on a very limited basis in the US, so get it while you can! Hedonistic! Ebony in color with a rich creamy head. The mellow flavor of oats, chocolate malts, and real chocolate are balanced perfectly with the right amount of hops for a bittersweet finish. Chocolate Stout is brewed with 10 ingredients: Northwest Harrington and Klages, Crystal 135-165 and Beeston Chocolate Malts, Cascade Hops, Rolled Oats and Roasted Barley, Natural Chocolate Flavor, Free Range Coastal Waters and PacMan Yeast. Chocolate Stout is available year-round only in the classic 22-ounce bottle and on draft. Measurements: 15 degrees Plato, IBU 69, Apparent Attenuation 77, Lovibond 135 degrees. No Chemicals, Additives, or Preservatives

she didnt mention her magnificent pension) Top cellist, 59, becomes paramedic By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press WriterSat Jul 21, 2:59 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) — A blaring ambulance siren and a mellow-toned cello: They hardly make perfect harmony. But they're the main themes in the life of Nancy Donaruma, who is retiring from the New York Philharmonic to take on another job she loves — as a full-time paramedic. After 31 years in the top-tier orchestra, playing with conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta and Lorin Maazel, the 59-year-old cellist will go from a hefty six-figure annual income to a "low five-figure" salary. That's the price she's willing to pay to fulfill her lifetime fascination with medicine "I've always had an interest in how the human body works — and doesn't," she said. "And I do like taking care of people." Donaruma says her physical skill as a cellist — manual dexterity and quick, supple fingers — "is good for starting IVs and feeling pulses." Other overlapping qualities are the ability "to be very focused and do something in an immediate fashion — and not to make any mistakes. Donaruma has even practiced her medical skills at the Philharmonic. In one case, a string player fainted onstage during a concert; Donaruma helped get the man off the stage and assessed his vital signs while a doctor was called. She also helped another musician who fell while walking off the stage. She'll play her last official concert with America's oldest orchestra Sept. 14 under conductor John Williams. The divorced mother of two grown children will still be a very busy person. She'll keep playing in chamber music groups and solo recitals, performing favorite composers like Beethoven and Brahms. And she'll play for free for her paramedic friends at Alamo EMS, close to her home in upstate Poughkeepsie. She has one word for her new job: "Exciting." Playing with other musicians and being a paramedic both involve "a lot of teamwork and creativity," she says. "You have to be very creative in figuring out how to move a patient. You work with a partner, plus police and firefighters. Everyone has a job to do." For the past several years, she juggled Philharmonic duties with paramedic courses at Dutchess Community College, while working several EMT shifts a month. Once, as a student, she was watching a surgeon perform a hernia procedure, with music piped into the operating room — a Philharmonic recording. "So in my peepy little student voice, I said, 'Oh, I'm on that record.' And the surgeon said, 'What are you doing in here?'" Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_...my_faye_messner

I know a $1,000 isn't anything to sneeze at, but, you might want to check pawn shops. Sometimes you can get deals on jewelry there. We have a couple in the area that specializes in jewelry; one in preowned stuff that you can get quality stuff at very reasonable prices. This shop happens to be pretty honest and straight forward with customers, is upfront with what they paid for items even. I sold an engagement ring to them, they told me they'd give me half of what they would sell it for; really upfront, I can respect that. BTW, your avatar creeps me out. time for a facelift?

thanks. yuk.

i've heard a couple of his shows and they were a bit lame.