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12 it is. thanks jb.

This one arrived to my mailbox today, from my last Jazzology order. Haven't heard it yet! trying to choose from condon 12 or the wellstood.

i am certain that all mass market electronics dealers are 'above' reproach. my dealings with abc warehouse and circuitous city have been frequently less than stellar events.

the condon looks swell. do any of those condons have butterfield and hackett?

thank you. was looking for some billy butterfield this morning. recommendations?

any comments or opinions on the jazzology label?

billy butterfield and his orchestra----------they're playing our song

thank you

a friend who drives a beer truck promises to tomorrow bring me a case of great lakes breweries blackout stout. as good as finding another trane-monk tape. FROM BEER ADVOCATE: Beer Mail this user about their beer review and beer ratings of Great Lakes Blackout Stout Sudsdog ( Belgium, Massachusetts ) overall: 4.25 appearance: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | mouthfeel: 4.5 | drinkability: 5 Again, big thanks to jdciflorio for allowing me this Stout evening! Just finished a Bells Expedition - what a follow up! Great beers from a great guy. Black brew! My snifter is again full of absolutely black brew. This one heads up a lighter shade of tan and sticks around just a bit longer with traces of lacing's left inside. Not quite as viscous a fluid but a tad more sticky, hmmm... Aroma favors coffee first a nice cold black cup, bitter hoppy. Roasted dark malts and grains dark chocolate sweet caramel cocoa, some ripe dark plum a hint of cherry anise, zippy alcohol lightly smokey. Kind of light and lightly sweet at first, black coffee with one sugar cube... chocolate roasted malts fruity raisin cherry. Then, a bite of dry cocoa gently spicy smokey just boozy enough, at least after the Bells, a light and airy RIS. Kind of expect something a bit more massive though still very tasty! This one is going fast... Finish is coffee over chocolate dry, yet has a sugary fruity toffee sweetness. Feels great in the mouth, wonderful balance between carbed and creamy. A very friendly and approachable brew this may be the perfect RIS introduction. This is a very easy drinking brew maybe the most drinkable RIS to cross my path, I can see a few of these disappearing in short order. Same style, 2 very different beers, both wonderful in their own way. I find Blackout Stout to be potentially dangerously drinkable, the 9% abv. just sneaks up on ya. Careful with this one... it's a bit tricky! Would have given it a 4.25 on taste though the lighter body for the style forced a 4. [ serving type: bottle ] -- beer review id: 477341 / 03-17-2007 00:36:03

I have a new found love for the Irish Car Bomb--Guinness, Irish whiskey, and Bailey's. Tastes like chocolate milk! guinness and hard cider are swoop, too.

long term planning on the consumer end sucks, too. i try to have my gas bill paid in advance $500/$1000 to buffer it somewhat. thanks! it just sounds like a way for them to gouge, but i am sure you are right.

AP Broadcasters Challenge Streaming Rules Monday March 19, 7:12 pm ET By Seth Sutel, AP Business Writer Radio Stations and Online Broadcasters Challenge Copyright Ruling on Internet Royalties NEW YORK (AP) -- A wide array of broadcasters and online companies on Monday challenged a ruling from a panel of copyright judges that they say could cripple the emerging business of offering music broadcasts over the Internet. Clear Channel Communications Inc., National Public Radio, and groups representing both large and small companies providing music broadcasts online were among those asking the Copyright Royalty Board to reconsider key parts of its March 2 ruling. That ruling, the challenging parties say, would greatly increase the amount of royalties that online music broadcasters would have to pay to record labels and performers as well as put unreasonable demands on them to track how many songs were listened to by exactly how many individuals online. The royalties in question only apply to digital transmissions of music, such as through Web sites, and are paid to the performers of songs and record labels. Webcasters also pay additional royalties to the composers and publishers of music, similar to those also paid by over-the-air broadcasters. Digital performance rights were originally granted to record companies in 1995, in part with the intention of protecting them against the possibility that digital transmissions could erode the sales of CDs. Under a previous arrangement, which expired at the end of 2005, broadcasters and online companies such as Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit could pay royalties based on estimates of how many songs were played over a given period of time, or a "tuning hour," as opposed to counting every single song. Jonathan Potter, the executive director of the Digital Media Association, which represents major online companies affected by the decision, asked that the judges specifically allow a per-tuning-hour approximation measure for paying the royalties. Potter also asked the judges to clarify a $500 annual fee per broadcasting channel, saying that with some online companies offering many thousands of listening options, counting each one as a separate channel could lead to huge fees for online broadcasters. NPR argued in its filing Monday that the new rules would have "crippling effects" on public radio's ability to meet its mandate of serving the public interest, and it also objected to the $500 per-channel minimum fee. A group of commercial broadcasters including San Antonio, Texas-based Clear Channel, the largest radio company in the country, also asked for a reconsideration of key parts of the ruling, saying that the methods used to calculate the fees were faulty. The motions filed Monday covered relatively technical aspects of the ruling and mark the first of what is likely to be other legal challenges to the decision. NPR said in its filing that it also intended, in due course, to appeal the overall decision by the copyright judges to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington. A previous agreement covering small commercial webcasters, which also expired at the end of 2005, allowed those companies to pay a flat rate of 12 percent of annual revenues in lieu of calculating the total number of listener-hours as larger broadcasters and Web companies were required to. The ruling makes no such provision, something that those companies are asking the judges to reconsider. SoundExchange, an entity that collects royalties from digital music broadcasters and distributes them to rights holders, has said the ruling was fair and that the rapid growth in advertising revenues from online music broadcasting would more than allow webcasters to cover the new fees. SoundExchange pointed to research finding that those ad revenues grew from $50 million in 2003 to $500 million last year.

never ever gravy, chunks, or slices here.

all my cats have lived right at 20 years and they, for their dry food, wont touch anything but friskies ocean fish flavor, all national brands. their favorite moist food has been fancy feast, which makes dozens of flavors.

Feds Tests of Suspect Pet Food Kills 7 By ANDREW BRIDGES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven animals died in tests of suspect dog and cat food by the manufacturer after complaints the products were poisoning pets around the country, the government said Monday. A federal investigation is focusing on wheat gluten as the likely source of contamination that sparked a recall last Friday of 60 million cans and pouches of the suspect food, said Stephen F. Sundlof, the Food and Drug Administration's top veterinarian. The ingredient, a protein source, is commonly used as filler. Agency investigators are looking at other ingredients as well. The wet-style pet food was made by Menu Foods, an Ontario, Canada-based company. Menu Foods told the FDA it received the first complaints of kidney failure and deaths among cats and dogs from pet owners on Feb. 20. It began new tests on Feb. 27. During those tests, the company fed its product to 40 to 50 dogs and cats and some seven animals - the mix of species was not immediately known - died, Sundlof said. The contamination appeared more deadly to cats than to dogs, he said. The recall now covers dog food sold throughout North America under 51 brands and cat food sold under 40 brands, including Iams, Nutro and Eukanuba. The food was sold under both store and major brand labels at Wal-Mart, Kroger, Safeway and other large retailers. © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy.

what a honey is Syd!

Best Buy Confirms It Has Secret Website George Gombossy: Consumer Watchdog WATCH DOG March 2 2007 Under pressure from state investigators, Best Buy is now confirming my reporting that its stores have a secret intranet site that has been used to block some consumers from getting cheaper prices advertised on BestBuy.com. Company spokesman Justin Barber, who in early February denied the existence of the internal website that could be accessed only by employees, says his company is "cooperating fully" with the state attorney general's investigation. Barber insists that the company never intended to mislead customers. State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered the investigation into Best Buy's practices on Feb. 9 after my column disclosed the website and showed how employees at two Connecticut stores used it to deny customers a $150 discount on a computer advertised on BestBuy.com. Blumenthal said Wednesday that Best Buy has also confirmed to his office the existence of the intranet site, but has so far failed to give clear answers about its purpose and use. "Their responses seem to raise as many questions as they answer," Blumenthal said in an interview. "Their answers are less than crystal clear." Based on what his office has learned, Blumenthal said, it appears the consumer has the burden of informing Best Buy sales people of the cheaper price listed on its Internet site, which he said "is troubling." What is more troubling to me, and to some Best Buy customers, is that even when one informs a salesperson of the Internet price, customers have been shown the intranet site, which looks identical to the Internet site, but does not always show the lowest price. Blumenthal said that because of the fuzzy responses from Best Buy, he has yet to figure out the real motivation behind the intranet site and whether sales people are encouraged to use it to cheat customers. Although Best Buy also refused to talk with me on specifics of the intranet site or its use, it insisted that its policy is to give customers the best price. "Our intention is to provide the best price to our customers which is why we have a price-match policy in place," the company said in a written statement to me. "As prices and offers may vary between retail and online, our stores will certainly match BestBuy.com pricing as long as it qualifies under the terms and conditions of the price match policy." "As a company, everything we do revolves around our customers' needs and desires. It is never our intent to mislead them as their loyalty is incredibly important to us," the statement said. Then they threw in this interesting line: "Although we have an intra-store web site in place to support store operations (including products and pricing), we are reminding our employees how to access the external BestBuy.com web site to ensure customers are receiving the best possible product price." That last sentence seems to indicate that Best Buy, which is supposed to be staffed by tech-savvy employees, is putting the blame on memory lapses: that employees have somehow forgotten how to access BestBuy.com from the store. Having been to many Best Buy stores where some helpful employees showed me how they access the intranet and Internet, I can assure Best Buy officials that the re-education process will probably not be lengthy. After making sure the computer is turned on, employees should click twice on the Yahoo Internet icon and then type in BestBuy.com. This is not the first time the giant electronic retailer has gotten into trouble misleading customers. The firm, based in Minneapolis, operates more than 1,100 electronic retail stores in the U.S., Canada and China. It has more than 125,000 full-time employees. Attorneys general in New Jersey and Ohio have accused Best Buy of deceptive sales practices, repackaging used merchandise and selling it as new, and failing to pay rebates and refunds. It paid $135,000 in New Jersey three years ago to settle that state's suit, which was based on hundreds of consumer complaints. The Ohio case is ongoing. Copyright 2007, Hartford Courant

i received a communication from my large natural gas supplier yesterday, informing that 1, 2, and 3 year contracts were no longer available and that my gas rates would be set on a month to month basis. of course the rates will be low during the months when i use small quantities. i was much more comfortable with the yearly rates, although they mave have cost me a bit of money. anyone have suggestions or opinions?

.am fresh out.

thanks

"symbiosis" and "bill evans with symphony orchestra"? one of my most favorite recordings. i didnt know ogerman had that kind of sensitivity.

anyone familiar with mike westbrook's 'love songs?' it appears to be an estimable effort.

this wonderful recording received considerable support and parts of it may have appeared on radio 3.

freedom of the city2001/large groups/london improvisors orchestra/strings with & without evan parker

hope its as good as the jeri southern........