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the peaceful side--billy strayhorn

just listened to 'walt'. bravo! i should throw you a few random topics. bet you could tear them up. aloc

have owned the awesome 'thesaurus' for over 4o years. it is a treasure.

those early morning cats, and jonas, and mike, are incredible, and we love every one of them.

http://jazz.wnur.org/schedule/

give the grant to zorn for his awesome painkiller stuff......... regina, for what she is ? certainly NOT for anything she's done.

unbelievable

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz.html

love the duo outing with hemingway on knitting factory.................;ovely stuff love the ecm.....with gary/paul would love to hear marilyn with gratkowski...........

Baseball minor-league affiliates scout new homes Wednesday, September 20, 2006 By Russell Adams, The Wall Street Journal Go just about anywhere in the former coal-mining towns of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in eastern Pennsylvania, and someone will be talking about it. A priest referenced it at a morning Mass on Sunday, and a judge stopped the county commissioner in the street to ask for an update. After 18 seasons, the Philadelphia Phillies and their top minor-league baseball club, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, are severing ties. But what has everybody here talking is the hot pursuit of a new tenant for Lackawanna County Stadium. The county is talking with the New York Mets and the New York Yankees, both of whom passed through town Tuesday. The sales pitch by Lackawanna County officials includes a tour of the stadium's new $3.2. million clubhouse, an offer to replace the artificial turf with real grass and a promise to bring in a new group to manage the franchise. A decision is expected this week. What's unfolding in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is part of a bigger shake-up in baseball. Five major-league teams -- the Phillies, Mets, Yankees, Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals -- are scouting new homes for their Triple-A clubs. While there is some degree of reshuffling in minor-league baseball every couple of years, the current round of remapping is part of a broader shift in the relationship between the major and minor leagues. Minor-league baseball has been one of the feel-good stories of sports in recent years. Attendance has taken off, thanks to affordable ticket prices, more intimate stadiums and a carnival atmosphere at the games. Minor-league baseball also has been a big moneymaker for team owners, whose growing success has allowed them to gain more independence from the major-league clubs. At this point, the big-league teams supply only the players and coaches -- the minor-league owners take care of the rest, from marketing to maintenance. Now, a number of major-league teams are hoping to consolidate their baseball operations -- including their handful of minor-league teams -- in closer proximity to the city where the major-league team is based. The idea is that that will it easier both to move players up and down between the majors and minors, and that it will help build fans' interest by exposing them to players earlier in their careers. "A lot of teams have gone in that direction," says Jeff Luhnow, vice president of player procurement for the St. Louis Cardinals. Mr. Luhnow says "clustering" minor-league affiliates is not only "a good way to build up the regional fan base," but also allows major-league executives to spend more time with their player prospects. Other factors have also helped to weaken the ties that used to bind minor and major leagues. They include a minor-league-stadium building boom that has caused major-league clubs to pay more attention to the quality of the facilities. Since Sept. 16, when teams were free to negotiate new affiliate agreements, many of these minor-league towns have begun aggressively wooing potential major-league partners. The Phillies will be moving their Triple-A team to Allentown, Pa. (after a two-year stop in Ottawa, Canada), which is not only closer to Philadelphia but also has offered to build the team a new stadium. The Yankees' decision to scout other possible places for their Triple-A team effectively puts Columbus, Ohio, where the team has been based for 28 years, back in play -- which is why the Mets, whose Triple-A team has been based in Norfolk, Va., is reportedly looking at Columbus as well as Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The Orioles and Nationals, meanwhile, are in talks with Norfolk, which is in those teams TV markets. And if the Nationals switch their affiliation closer to home, that will leave New Orleans looking for a major-league organization. As major-league clubs have come to rely more on team-owned television networks and the revenue they generate, they've also realized it pays to have their minor-league clubs within the areas those networks reach. That's another big reason why the Orioles and Nationals are aggressively pursuing Norfolk, the Mets and Yankees are considering Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and the Phillies will relocate their Triple-A operation to Allentown. The relationship between Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and the Phillies crumbled because of everything from the county's delay in modernizing the baseball facilities to a feeling by the local fans that they've been snubbed by the big-league team. County officials make no secret of their preference for the Yankees, which they view as a vehicle to tell the world they've graduated from coal-scarred town to a miniature big city with a thriving service-based economy and a blossoming cultural scene.(THE YANKEES') The Yankees'"association will get us one step closer to letting the rest of the world know," says Robert Cordaro, a member of the board of commissioners in Lackawanna County, which owns and operates the Red Barons. As a whole, minor-league baseball continues to draw large crowds, bringing in a record 41.7 million fans this past season. But interest has waned in a number of cities, as fans have become disenchanted with teams. The Ottawa Lynx, the Baltimore Orioles affiliate, which broke International League attendance records in 1993, this year finished last in the league in attendance. Attendance for the Columbus Clippers, the Yankees' Triple-A team, has been on the decline recently as fans have grown increasingly frustrated with the team's poor performance. In Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, where the Red Barons at one time drew 12,000 people to a stadium with fewer than 11,000 seats, the club drew only about 3,000 fans a game for two recent playoff games. Minor-league and major-league teams are bound together by so-called player-development contracts, which typically run in two-year cycles. So every couple of years, teams are free to change affiliations. Sometimes the major-league club initiates the switch, while other times the minor-league team takes the lead. All the minor-league teams -- not just Triple A but other levels as well -- have a contract with the league that guarantees the owners the right to have a team. The cities hosting the team are at the mercy of the minor-league owners, who may decide to move or sell a team. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and the Phillies were once a perfect match. Fans packed the stadium and developed a kinship with former Phillies stars like Darren Daulton, who passed through before leading the team to a World Series appearance in 1993. But the team came to be a financial drain on county coffers, accumulating some $10 million in losses (including bond payments on the stadium) over the last six or seven years, according to Mr. Cordaro. Meantime, the Phillies became increasingly dissatisfied with the county's inability to upgrade the facilities, while fans grew tired of watching a losing team.

Tower trouble -- a 70 year old man will climb to the top of the transmitter tomorrow to see what up.

will be illegal.................

Only if you know the current market price for a bushel of corn and the amount of US government subsidies used to generate this bushel/price. could you find us an article about this for us noniowans?

New Ethanol Process Offers Lower Costs, Environmental Benefits Filed under: General— Eideard @ 12:30 pm A Purdue University team led by professor Li-fu Chen and research assistant Qin Xu, both from the Purdue food science department, discovered a new method to create ethanol from corn. The method also produces biodegradable byproducts that could be safely eaten. “Our process, which we are calling the Chen-Xu Method, not only makes ethanol, but products that are fit for human consumption,” Chen said. “This process also produces corn oil, corn fiber, gluten and zein, which is a protein that can be used in the manufacture of plastics so that the containers are good for the environment because they are biodegradable and easily decompose. The Chen-Xu Method produces about 2.85 gallons of ethanol for every bushel of corn processed. That output is slightly higher than current methods, but the same process that creates the ethanol also creates other marketable products. Chen said the method also meets federal Clean Air Act standards, eliminating costs that other methods incur in meeting environmental regulations. “One of the common methods of manufacturing ethanol, called dry milling, is often the cause of air pollutants by drying and storage of DDG, a byproduct of the process,” Chen said. “Another method - wet milling - produces an odor because it requires the input of sulfur dioxide. The Chen-Xu Method eliminates both issues, and the only odor comes from the smell of the corn and yeast fermentation.” Using a machine originally designed to make plastics, the Chen-Xu Method grinds corn kernels and liquefies starch with high temperatures. The water input required by wet milling is reduced by 90 percent, Chen said. Wastewater output is cut by 95 percent, and electricity use is reduced by 47 percent. “The total operating cost of a Chen-Xu Method ethanol plant should be much less than that of a wet-milling plant, and total equipment investment is less than half,” Chen said. “And with proper planning and management, total equipment investment should be less than that of a dry-milling plant.” Should we send a copy of this to the Saudi oil minister?

great news! thanks!

college football officials suspended: http://www.forbes.com/business/commerce/fe.../ap3025953.html

Very nice Aloc. If you don't win the Mega, try playing Teddy Edwards' "Blue saxophone". MG

just opened a bottle of afterglow(viz. sassy jap) .........goes down good................ would that there was an afterglow cocktail lounge, darker than night, with lovely lovely dark ladies smoking small cigars providing quiet conversation........nothing brighter than a fleugel, nothing louder than a whisper, where the drunkest drunks brood quietly, and an eloquent ghostly voice wafts about the room keeping the ambience just right. if aloc wins the mega..............

Yes T.D. The Hawes date is excellent. I do not know if I would pay ebay prices, either, but it is a very good session. there was an apology to hawes on the haden duets album for not including his effort.

I bought that sucker the minute it was issued. Loved the show, loved the show. Ah, silly youth. and the whole series. vinyls still close at hand

i feel the same way about nancy the way i did about torme. she overstayed her welcome. sheila and helen are always welcome!

he has a duets album with ornette, alice(on harp), keith, motian. the effort with alice is not to be missed. .....is performing somewhere in michigan this weeked with ravi and alice. there is an early zeitlin trio recording(my shining hour) on columbia with haden which remains one of the most subdued and thoughtful recordings i own. among the many selections is a beautiful 'lonely woman.' something is missing in steal away which i cant identify. all the parts are there and it is splendid. it just doesnt crack. i feel the the same about the gil evans, steve lacy paris duo.

the first bley i heard was open to love in 73 and i had never heard anything like it. then i heard a 25 minute version of mr. joy, and i am still discovering dozens and dozens of his works 33 years later, and i am sure i have missed many. are there some vital recordings i need to check out?

anyone read it yet?

bell's expedition stout(last bottle dammit). switching shortly to sam adams cream stout(passable)