alocispepraluger102

...e.g. historical fiction made for tv, or a certain npr producer's history of jazz

delius idyll. barbirolli/halle. probably the only recording/a personal fav

after the brutality of last night the nhl website's lead story is about players wielding pink sticks for cancer research. nothing about this: Rangers 2, Islanders 1 Rangers Take a Big Hit, Then Deliver a Bigger Blow By LYNN ZINSER UNIONDALE, N.Y., March 8 — Ryan Hollweg, the Rangers’ agitator, stood in the locker room sporting the most visible mark of his team’s hard-fought 2-1 victory over the Islanders on Thursday night — a bloody gash on his chin that soaked part of his scruffy beard. Islanders forward Chris Simon had slammed Hollweg in the face with his stick late in the third period, but Hollweg wore the injury with pride when Petr Prucha scored the winning goal on the ensuing five-minute power play. “I just finished a check and I turned around and the next thing I knew, the stick was across my head,” Hollweg said. “I’m glad we scored on the power play and got the 2 points.” The victory pushed the Rangers (33-27-7) into a tie with Carolina and Toronto for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with 73 points, a huge accomplishment for a team that has spent weeks desperately scrambling to get back into the race. The Rangers are only 3 points behind the seventh-place Islanders (33-24-10), who had beaten them in the first four meetings of the season, several times by embarrassing margins. After Hollweg shoved Simon into the glass in the Rangers’ end with 6 minutes 31 seconds remaining, Simon turned and headed toward Hollweg at the blue line. With his hands on his stick, Simon bludgeoned Hollweg in the face. Hollweg dropped to the ice and lay motionless for a few minutes while his teammates rushed to hit Simon. Simon was given a match penalty for intent to injure. Afterward, Simon was visibly upset, but he said he would not discuss the incident until he spoke with the league. National Hockey League officials will probably suspend him for the brutality of the hit. Exactly three years ago, Todd Bertuzzi, then with the Canucks, punched Colorado’s Steve Moore from behind, drove him into the ice and tried to fight him, which led to a lengthy suspension. “I’ve always been known as a clean guy and I just feel bad for letting my team down,” Simon said. “I just don’t really want to say anything about the incident right now because I have to talk with the league first.” Hollweg did not express anger at Simon. “I’m a little surprised,” Hollweg said. “As far as I knew we respected each other as hockey players and that’s it. I just play my game. And playing my game helped us win, so that’s good.” The Rangers capitalized when the diminutive Prucha camped in front of the net and poked at a rebound of a Michael Nylander shot with 5:14 left, sending the puck trickling past goaltender Rick DiPietro. “I didn’t even see which way the puck went,” Prucha said. “I just heard people and saw guys cheering and it was in.” But this game would not end so simply. The Islanders thought they had scored the tying goal with 20.4 seconds left, when Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist lost the puck in a crowd in front of the goal and swiped it off the goal line with his stick. The referees ruled it no goal, and after a long look replay officials confirmed it. “At first I thought it was a save and then I looked at one replay and it looked like a goal,” Lundqvist said. “I think we deserved this after a lot of games this year that have gone the other way. We finally got that extra luck that we need in this game after such small things being the difference.” The Islanders were the ones to absorb the bad luck this time and the loss could end up even worse if forward Ryan Smyth, who skated off the ice at the end of the game dragging his right foot, is injured. Smyth was acquired from Edmonton in a trading-deadline move to galvanize the Islanders’ playoff push. Islanders Coach Ted Nolan said after the game that he had no information on Smyth, but Smyth later left the arena walking normally. Until Thursday, the injury woes had all belonged to the Rangers. They lost forward Marcel Hossa in Monday’s game to a knee injury that will keep him out up to four weeks. That is on top of the extended absence of forward Brendan Shanahan, who has a concussion, and defenseman Fedor Tyutin, also rehabbing from a knee injury. But the Rangers had been playing with a newfound fire since falling behind St. Louis last Saturday in a home game they came back to win in a shootout. They won a thrilling shootout against the Islanders on Monday night at Madison Square Garden, pouring 57 shots on DiPietro. “We just knew we had to,” forward Sean Avery said. “We went out and battled and Prucha gets a big goal. He’s 150 pounds and he’s getting beat on in front and stays with it and scores. That’s what we need. That’s what we need every night.” The newly gritty Rangers have a new poster boy and Hollweg wore his gash with pride. SLAP SHOTS Islanders captain Alexei Yashin returned to the lineup after missing 16 games with a knee injury. ... The Rangers prospect Brandon Dubinsky played his first N.H.L. game after being called up to replace the injured Marcel Hossa. ... The Rangers face fifth-place Pittsburgh on Saturday and Carolina, one of the teams tied for the eighth playoff spot, on Sunday. check the new york times or espn for pics, not the nhl site. there's nothing quite like a shot to the neck with a hockey stick.

NHL's Player Association Director Hit With Possible Email Scandal March 9, 2007 7:06 a.m. EST Todd Sikorski - All Headline News Sports Reporter Toronto, Canada (AHN) - The hockey world was hit with a rather bizarre public relations problem on Thursday. Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with the whole Penguins-city of Pittsburgh dilemma or the recent controversial violent play that has sent various NHLers to hospitals. Instead, NHL's union head Ted Saskin has been accused of tapping into players' email accounts in order to find out about people who opposed his hiring in 2005. The allegations are so severe that insiders say if they are proven true, NHL players might discuss firing Saskin very soon. The whole incident was first reported in the Toronto Star this week. The newspaper said the Toronto Police Service was investigating claims that Saskin and other members of his office were accessing NHL players' email accounts without their permission. Saskin responded to the allegations in a statement on this past Monday in which he said "there have been no illegal activities at the NHLPA." Saskin became head of the player's association back in 2005 when he replaced Bob Goodenow. At the time, his hiring was heavily criticized by such respected NHL players as Chris Chelios and Trent Klatt. His two-year tenure at the position has not been the most trouble-free either. Along with questions as to how he was hired which happened after hockey's lockout, Saskin's salary has been heavily criticized. In a sport struggling to survive financially, he is making over $2.13 million a year which is more than double the amount that baseball's Donald Fehr is making at a comparable position. NHL players are just starting to react to Saskin's allegations. A conference call for players is expected to take place this weekend in which player reps will confer over what to do next. Saskin is not rumored to be part of the call which leads many to believe a big majority of hockey players have lost their faith in their union's top director and he might be forced out soon. For that to happen, more than half of the 30 team player representatives in the NHL would have to vote for his firing.

beautifully stated. thanks.

Sure it can be transferred but can you "read it". Migration of the data to a viable format that can be read is always going to be the big question as we move forward. fine point well stated.

of course

More and more I spend a large part of my work day wrestling with this very subject. Electronic data is a blessing and a curse. my trusty vinyls, many more than 50 years old, will probably outlast my modern cd-r's. they probably should. the music is better. as we are a plastic plugged in species, will we leave any signs at all that we were here? i am in no way implying that we/our data are worth preserving.

JOHN DVORAK'S SECOND OPINION The end of information? Commentary: Smart investors know storage technology will never go away By John C. Dvorak Last Update: 5:47 PM ET Mar 7, 2007 BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- According to experts, the world generated 161 exabytes of information last year that needed to be stored. What does that mean? I sure didn't know off the top of my head what an exabyte was, but I knew it was big. Technically, it is (you're going to love this) 1 quintillion bytes of information. Great; I'm not sure how many zeros are in a quintillion, either. And apparently we are talking about 161 quintillion. I had to look it up. A kilobyte has three zeros -- it's 1,000 bytes. A megabyte is a million. A gigabyte is 1,000 million or a U.S. billion (nine zeros). A terabyte is a trillion bytes (12 zeros). Then comes the petabyte, which has 15 zeros. Finally, the quintillion-ish exabyte with 18 zeros! That's a lot of zeros. FYI: Next comes the zettabyte with 21 zeros, and then the yottabyte with 24 zeros, which eventually will become a disk drive for sale at Costco for $150. After that, perhaps the yotta-yottabyte.My advice to investors: Storage technology is never going away. So how did we find a crisis in our midst regarding the need for all this storage? The Associated Press reports that a study done at the University of California at Berkeley found we were humming along in 2003, creating the need for 3 exabytes per year worldwide, and then the rate jumped to 161 exabytes. Surely the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act can't be the only reason for this. This situation concerning the long-term reliability of stored data is the biggest joke in high technology. The need arises from the emergence of digital storage for videos; larger formats of digital images; the requirement to archive entire corporate databases for years on end; the storage of trillions of e-mails here and there; multiple stores of the entire Internet (or as much as can be found); digitization of film archives and digital distribution of new films. It just goes on and on. When you start to look into this, it's not the actual storage of all this data and all the backups that's alarming, but the integrity of any of it. (The AP article concludes the same thing.) This is what nobody really wants to discuss. This situation concerning the long-term reliability of stored data is the biggest joke in high technology. Does anyone really think the 4.7 gigabytes that you moved to a DVD-R disc will be readable 100 years from now? Or 20 years from now, for that matter? I have CD-ROMs that are a decade old and failing. For example, it's a well-known fact that there are only a few working 2-inch tape, 4-head Ampex video machines still in operation. These are the monsters that were the workhorses of network television in the 1960s and were phased out in favor of newer technologies. What few are left get stripped for parts to keep a few others working, in a futile effort to transfer old master tapes to new formats. Time is running out as the defunct technology falls apart. Because of never-ending changes in technology, all sorts of things will be lost -- from entire movies, photos and electronic publications to corporate records and entire digitized libraries (the ones that threw out the books). Of course, this loss always has been a problem with media since the first great library burnt down. The difference is that the mean time to failure (a great tech phrase) is not in the hundreds of years anymore. Now it's just a few years. The irony is that digital information can be easily moved from here to there intact, unlike analog media that cannot be copied perfectly and degrades over time from copying itself. But once you cannot read the data, you're out of luck. Usually nothing is salvageable. The implications and consequences of this inevitable loss of information needs to be studied sooner rather than later. End of Story TRUSTe: Click to Verify Copyright © 2007 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (updated 4/3/03 http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/smar...p;dist=printTop

http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/reviews...1,2188206.story Jazz greats put the show in Showcase benefit By Howard Reich Tribune arts critic March 2 2007, 11:30 AM CST It isn't often that jazz stars such as Danilo Perez, Freddie Cole, Eric Alexander, Benny Green, Jon Faddis and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble converge on a single stage. Yet these great artists, and others, convened at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on Thursday night for a marathon of musicmaking. The occasion was a fundraiser for the venerable Jazz Showcase, which last December lost its lease in River North and will need hard cash to move into a new site (not yet selected). It's a measure of how much the jazz world reveres this club that so many major names donated their time for the cause. Even apart from its noble purpose, the "Jazz Showcase Relocation Benefit All-Star Concert" offered some heady listening. By far the most thrilling performance belonged to pianist Perez, who partnered with frequent collaborator Jack DeJohnette on drums and Chicagoan Larry Gray on bass to play music of often astonishing originality and creative freedom. As soon as Perez put his hands on the keyboard, in fact, this concert reached an artistic level that had not yet been broached. Defying conventional song structures, dispensing with familiar chord progressions and unreeling unusual yet thoroughly attractive fragments of melody, Perez reminded listeners why he ranks among the most visionary pianists in the world today. There was a questing quality to his solos, an attempt to search out new forms of voicing and rhythmic improvisation that instantly brought the audience to a hush. Backed aggressively by DeJohnette and Gray, Perez said more in 10 minutes than many pianists do in a lifetime of revisiting well-worn ideas. Chicago saxophonist Eric Schneider isn't nearly as famous as he should be, yet he has been playing more eloquently than ever during the past few seasons. Taking up the alto saxophone on this night, he swung relentlessly in partnership with the elegant Chicago trumpeter Bobby Lewis. Though the evening understandably emphasized the gutsy sound of Chicago jazz, it also embraced the sweetly seductive music of South America when singer-guitarist Paulinho Garcia and tenor saxophonist Greg Fishman played their Two for Brazil repertoire. Garcia's nearly whispered vocals and fleet guitar work were answered by Fishman's easy-breezy tenor lines, the duo bringing delicacy and restraint to music that requires it. And there was so much more to come. Singer-pianist Cole duetted poetically with saxophonist Harry Allen on "I Remember You"; Judy Roberts dispensed with singing to play some of the most hard-charging pianism listeners have heard from her; Willie Pickens gave collaborator Alexander a lesson in gritty blues expression; and trumpeter Faddis, singer Bobbi Wilsyn and the magisterial Chicago Jazz Ensemble turned the pulpy tune "Who Can I Turn To" into a searing blues lament. hreich@tribune.com Copyright 2007 Metromix.com

expecting a great game tonight between george mason and vcu.

WNUR Raises Record Funds For Equipment In Annual Phoneathon Emily Glazer By Emily Glazer The Daily Northwestern With microphones malfunctioning and record needles snapping in the WNUR recording studio, the on-campus radio station's Phoneathon couldn't have come at a better time. The station raised a record $41,034 in its annual Phoneathon, exceeding its goal of $34,000. The event ended Feb. 15, but the station had reached its target amount by Feb 13. "I was totally stoked - I couldn't believe (we reached it so soon)," said Medill senior Anthony G. Walters, WNUR's general manager. The money will go toward equipment-related expenses, like new speakers and a server. WNUR also receives about $40,000 annually from Northwestern. The Phoneathon has been around since the early 1980s, and Walters said it raises more money each year. Last year WNUR raised about $37,500 - about $4,000 more than the 2006 goal. "We beat the pants off of the year before, which always feels good," Walters said. More than 200 WNUR participants took 3- to 4-hour phone shifts during this year's events. Members said this is a particularly important year for the fundraiser. "This is a key year because we're in the process of moving to a new location in Louis Hall," said Chris Wade, Phoneathon's co-director and a Communication sophomore. "Everything that we find to buy, we must buy out of our budget." WNUR is moving to John J. Louis Hall next month because its current home, Annie May Swift Hall, is under construction. To advertise the Phoneathon, WNUR faxed and mailed hundreds of press releases and reminded their listeners hourly, Walters said. A total of 608 callers phoned in, including listeners from Canada, Australia, Japan and France, he said. WNUR also offered incentives such as T-shirts, CDs and theater tickets to donors this year from sponsors such as record labels and publication houses. Theron Humiston, a Music graduate student and producer of WNUR's show "Classical and Beyond," wrote an original composition for a supporter who donated $100 to WNUR during the classical radio show. WNUR also gave away the chance to host "Airplay Show," a show on WNUR that includes live performances. The donor will get to watch the performance in the studio, talk to the band and choose different music sets to play, said Mike Corsa, Weinberg '06 and WNUR's general manager last year. Walters said he thinks WNUR is underrecognized because it plays alternative artists rather than mainstream music, but a combination of creative giveaways and loyal listeners led to this year's record-breaking profit. "It really speaks to the mentality of the radio listeners - the fact that we made $41,000 - people are sick of hearing the same thing every day," Walters said. "We like to think of ourselves as the alternative to the alternative."

bagby must have been a renaissance man. thanks.

The Day the Music Died By Mark Fleischmann February 13th, 2007 Don McLean’s “American Pie” is being used in a Chevy commercial. Again. Another thing I see on my New York late-night TV screen is an ad for “Fresh 102.7,” the latest programming gambit on an FM frequency that used to entertain me for hours every day. The two of them together make me ache. Why? When I first heard “American Pie,” 102.7 FM was the NYC-area home of WNEW-FM. Owned by Metromedia, WNEW-FM was one of the pioneering freeform radio stations of the late 1960s and ’70s. Unfettered by playlists, the DJs played whatever they wanted, exposing me to an incredible variety of rock, pop, and soul. On Friday afternoons I’d be tuned in to Scott Muni, playing the latest releases from the U.K. Alison Steele, whose late-night shift opened with a spooky flutter of flute, gave airtime to progressive rock. I’ll never forget the day when velvet-voiced early-evening guy Jonathan Schwartz declared that he loved Frank Sinatra as much as he did the Rolling Stones and proved it. Along with my older sisters—who got me hooked on the Beatles—WNEW-FM formed my identity as a music lover. My apartment is still stuffed with the vinyl I bought as a kid including Jeff Beck, the Bonzo Dog Band, David Bowie, the Byrds, Cream, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, the Doors, Nick Drake, ELP (still a guilty pleasure), Brian Eno, Fairport Convention—and that’s just a partial list of what’s on the A-F shelf. Today a lot of it would be called classic rock. But comparing the golden age of freeform rock radio to the buttoned-down classic-rock format of today is like comparing fresh vegetables to canned mush. By the time I got to college in the mid-’70s, the end was in sight. WNEW-FM’s management forced their first playlists down the throats of the DJs and my boyhood heroes began drifting away from 102.7. The station adopted a bland AOR (album oriented radio) format that was a mere ghost of the freeform goodness I loved. I stopped listening to it and burrowed deeper into my ever-expanding music library. Following various changes in format, including an ill-fated foray into talk radio, the station is now operated by CBS and has recently changed its historic call letters to WWFS. On the Fresh 102.7 website a few weeks ago was this quiz: “Which Fresh artist is your pick for record of the year?” The choices were James Blunt, Mary J. Blige, Gnarls Barkley, the Dixie Chicks, and Corrine Bailey Rae. Some fine musicians there, but the sum total of them is not for me. The new logo festooning the station’s website and TV ads looks like something you’d see on a box of laundry detergent. How Listening Has Changed Don’t you just hate clueless old people who say their generation’s music is the best and close their ears to anything new? I don’t want to become one of them, but from where I sit, in my cranky old man’s armchair, it’s easy spot the ways in which the music industry makes it harder to love rock today. It goes beyond the destruction of commercial freeform radio. Here’s a partial list: The transition from analog to digital has degraded the listening experience. And the transition from digital to compressed digital has only made it worse. Lack of exposure to good gear impoverishes listeners. Though the audio industry and some musicians have banded together to rebel. Good music requires an involved listener to appreciate it. Technologically and demographically driven changes in listening habits have driven down the quality and intensity of listening. And good old music industry greed continues to drive talent out of the music business. Celebrate the musicians who have made it, or at least made it onto the Internet, but weep for the ones you’ll never get a chance to hear. The Latest Threat to Musicians and Listeners Guess what? There’s a new struggle for the soul of music. And guess what else? The good guys are losing. The issue is the loudness war. I’m not talking about the volume buttons on your iPod or the state of your hearing. (Go easy, though—your ears are your greatest asset as a listener. They can never be replaced!) Though labeled as loudness, the issue is really dynamic range. The problem is that the ratio of soft to loud sounds is inexorably shrinking as the music industry competes to get its product noticed in various low-fi distribution channels. Excessive compression not only deprives any kind of music (definitely including rock) of its emotional power. It also gives our ears less time to rest between blasts, making listening to music more physically fatiguing. To get a handle on the issue, read this British newspaper report, then check out this video on YouTube. More details here and here. What you learn will horrify you. There is good compression and bad compression. “Riding gain” is part of a recording engineer’s job. He needs to keep the signal above the noise floor and below the point where the recording medium distorts. In classical music and other audiophile recordings, this is done as little as possible. In well-recorded rock, compression is used a little bit more, and that’s OK—it keeps you from having to adjust volume repeatedly. Even the freeform radio stations of yore compressed their LP- and 45-generated analog signals a little bit to boost soft sounds above the everpresent hiss of FM noise. But today’s digital mixing and mastering tools are being used as meat grinders to squash dynamics almost completely, literally turning music into noise. This stuff takes more out of you than it gives back. Is it any wonder that you drift away, as I drifted away from my teenage radio roost, and go play a DVD or a video game? Musicians are not at the root of the problem. And neither are producers and engineers, though the blood is on their hands, and the better ones feel bad about it. It’s the music industry executives who have forced the people who record and master music to kill dynamics. It is they who are driving the loudness war. How much longer will the music-industry mandarins go on butchering their own product, and watching sales wither, before they wise up? What will it take to make them realize that good sound is crucial in the bond of listeners to the music we love? Mark Fleischmann is the author of Practical Home Theater, audio editor of Home Theater Magazine, and tastemaster of happypig100.com. Copyright © 2007 Digital Trends http://www.digitaltrends.com

listening to frishberg's 'dodger blue' in memory of clem labine.

steve shwartz played some very nice numbers with eddie davis and doc bagby. i loved the way bagby played and would love to hear more of his music and know more about him.

and you listened to him?

the threadman is serenading me, at the moment. great beerdrinking music. sincere thanks, congratulations, and we're just getting started. the jenkins was of the HIGHEST order. would not hear this anywhere else!

gonna check it out after i finish this bouble bock at 4pm

sam adams double bock--------not bad----sweet and heavy and bitter. getting an early start.

Dude, it's already going on in the dance underground. Has been. Of course, it's not "all natural" anymore, but oh well. club djs tell me they are so sick of that 70's stuff resampled........

can we agree that music as a standalone product is nearly extinct? one hoping to create or ride any new popularity waves must concoct an ingenious array of media to the lowest possible denominators to deliver their product and seduce the masses. as we hear more and more music, individual works of music(artists) are becoming unimportant. ... music will be drowned by other media just as music has drowned the silence.

I really doubt it. I think that mass market-driven musical trends are about played out. very interesting thought. thanks.

Former Sox Pitcher Worth Billions? Land White Bought Is Rock Quarry Combined Wire Services March 1 2007 Matt White, a journeyman pitcher trying to make the Dodgers, could become a billionaire, and it has nothing to do with his arm. He owns a rock quarry in western Massachusetts. White, a former Rule 5 pick of the Red Sox who has appeared in seven games, paid $50,000 three years ago to buy 50 acres of land from an elderly aunt who needed the money to pay for a nursing home. While clearing out a couple acres to build a home, he discovered stone ledges in the ground. A geologist estimated there were 24 million tons of the stone, which is being sold for upward of $100 a ton, meaning there's well over $2 billion worth of material. "It sounds bogus even saying those numbers," White said. "I'm just a small-town guy trying to get to the big leagues. It's beyond comprehension." Dr. Peter Pannish, an adjunct professor in the department of geosciences at UMass, said he believes the stone was formed about 400 million years ago. "It's basically a slabby rock that can be used for sidewalks, building faces and stone walls," Pannish said. "There are some sidewalks here on campus that are made of that same rock." Pannish said he believes White could sell his property for several million dollars, or more. "As far as hundreds of millions, I doubt if that's possible because of all the expenses that would have to be considered," Pannish said. "But it could be quite a bit of money." The Red Sox took White, 29, from the Indians in the 2003 Rule 5 draft. He allowed 11 runs in 32/3 innings with the Sox, including six runs in two-thirds of an inning in his debut at Yankee Stadium. He was traded a month later to the Mariners and allowed three runs in three innings. He pitched once for the Nationals in 2005 and hasn't appeared in the majors since. Shoulder issue for Jenks: Bobby Jenks threw nine pitches in the White Sox's opener Wednesday before being taken out because of right shoulder tightness. Jenks said he is OK. "There is no pain at all, no sharp pain, just one pitch where it caught right away," Jenks said. "There is nothing wrong with it. It is just tight." Jenks, who had 41 saves last year, faced three batters in a 12-4 loss to Colorado before being taken out. He hit his first batter, walked the second and fell behind 2-and-0 to Joe Koshansky before being removed. ... White Sox lefty Mark Buehrle allowed four runs and six hits in the first two innings, while righthander Jon Garland gave up seven runs - six earned - and eight hits in the next two innings. ... Rockies righthander Aaron Cook allowed one hit in two scoreless innings. Outfielder Brad Hawpe had three hits: a two-run double off Buehrle, and a double and a single against Garland. Outfielder Matt Holliday went 2-for-3 with a single and a two-run homer, while third baseman Garrett Atkins and catcher Javy Lopez had two hits each. Wainwright solid: Cardinals righthander Adam Wainwright opened his bid for a starting job with three hitless innings in a 6-3 victory over the Marlins. He walked one batter and fell behind several others, but needed only 30 pitches - 15 strikes - to get through the first three innings, facing 10 batters. Former Cardinals starter Rick Ankiel, trying to win a spot as an outfielder, went 2-for-2 with a two-run single, but was thrown out at the plate twice. Marlins' Johnson won't be ready: Marlins righthander Josh Johnson, 23, has yet to throw from a mound because of a sore arm, and manager Fredi Gonzalez said it is unlikely he will be ready for Opening Day. A source told MLB.com the injury could keep Johnson out for a good part of the season. Johnson, 23, went 12-7 with a 3.10 ERA in 157 innings last year in his rookie season. He missed the last three weeks of the season with a similar injury. Sergio Mitre and Yusmeiro Petit, who was acquired from the Mets in the Carlos Delgado trade, could replace him in the rotation. Bonds received death threats: Barry Bonds, who is 22 home runs from passing Hank Aaron's career record of 755, told a San Francisco radio station that he has been receiving threats, but refused to talk about it at Giants camp Wednesday. Bonds has been closely guarded by a Major League Baseball security official throughout spring training for the second straight year. Kielty out 3-6 weeks: A's outfielder Bobby Kielty needs arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and will be out three-to-six weeks. Kielty was injured during a rundown drill Sunday. If he'd been hurt closer to Opening Day, Kielty said he would have opted against the scope. Manager Bob Geren said the injury won't affect Kielty's role with the team. Kielty, expected to be a bench outfielder, hit .325 against lefties, including seven of his eight homers. ... A's center fielder Mark Kotsay had an MRI on his stiff back. Milton Bradley will start in his place for Oakland's first two games, beginning today against the Brewers. ... The Giants and righthander Matt Cain are close to a four-year contract with an option. Cain, 22, led all rookies with 13 wins and 179 strikeouts last year, going 13-12 with a 4.15 ERA in 1902/3 innings. ... The Angels are telling righthander Jered Weaver, 24, not to rush his recovery from biceps tendinitis just to make it by Opening Day. ... Former Rockies third baseman Vinny Castilla will manage Mexico at the Pan American Games July 11-19 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Copyright 2007, Hartford Courant

all the boys need is to be seen in a hip hot movie or guest on a bigtime tv show with the wind blowing right. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- someday there's going to be a hit movie about the aacm, scored by wynton and michelle legrand, of course, starring harry connick as muhal. that might catch on. my point is that if 'jazz' ever resurfaces in popular culture, it will be so bastardized you and i wont recognize it.