Blue Train

What's funny (especially if the hosts were not on it) is that's a variation on a long standing April Fool's thing....and those listening to it believing it. Jay Leno has even read a variations of it on his show.

USADA can't prosecute Armstrong, but the Feds seem uninterested despite what looks like a criminal conspiracy. It would be piling on if Armstrong would ever 'fess up. A quick summary of Armstrong's position: 1) I'm telling the truth and everyone else is lying 2) The(seemingly) only non-doper won 7 TDF, but the dopers kept doping What's mindboggling is his supporters somehow believe the miracle that in a sport in which the vast majority of everyone if not everyone was on something....he won 7 TDF and was clean. Oh yeah, if that wasn't enough of a miracle....he also did that after stage 3 testicular cancer, which had spread to his lungs, abdomen and brain. He went from having a 40% chance of even living to winning 7 TDF while being clean....and everyone else probably was doping....and hadn't gone through Cancer...let alone one that metastasized to their lungs (you think that might be important in a sport when you're going 21 days and over 2000 miles?), abdomen and brain. Even George Hincapie his domestique and closet ally (his version of Greg Anderson....without willing to spend years in jail (without being paid for it...wink, wink.) rather than just taking the stand.) and the only biker to be with him for all 7 finally came out against him.

Lance Armstrong faces prospect of court battle over Tour de France bonus http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/11/lance-armstrong-tour-de-france?newsfeed=true

The full report. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/460432-10lede-usada-armstrong.html

I see you and raise you Fritz Lang's Indian Epic in a nutshell....at least yours is supposed to be a comedy and campy with Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, and Jim Backus...come on now!

Excellent Producers reference. haha Some more that have to be seen to be believed. The X From Outer Space Hausu Jigoku Fritz Lang's The Indian Epic Wicked, Wicked Homicidal

Most likely if you add in all the songs based on changes, but according to this it's only #73. http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions/index.htm

Which reminds me of Basic Instinct.

The most recorded Jazz standard of all time was first recorded on October 9, 1930. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixNwG18WIQ8 Outside of the usual subjects, which are your favorite covers?

Anything by Ed Wood. At this point most of Nicholas Cage's films. The Island Of Dr. Moreau with Brando and Kilmer. Catwoman Reefer Madness Howard the Duck Showgirls Battlefield Earth The Terror of Tiny Town Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Mommie Dearest Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Santa Clause conquers the Martians.

Now that it's official. I was fortunate to see him perform twice. He was involved in so many incredible recordings....in some cases historic recordings. How many people have played with both John Coltrane and John Lennon? Thank you for all the enjoyable music. Be well, Mr. Tchicai.

While I am going to have to take your word about that. Once again. Don't you think it's proper and respectful to all those involved (like his family at the very least) to wait until it's officially announced....instead of just starting a thread like this is TMZ...and you have to beat everyone else to the story?

I just want to point out there hasn't been anything officially released saying he died. Not even on his official homepage. This thread is literally the only place you can find that says he died at this point. He might have actually died.....but maybe it's me, but shouldn't people at least wait until something like this is officially announced before starting one of these?

How about John McCabe's Decca set? It also adds in some compositions beside the sonatas. The only two examples on youtube I can find. http://www.amazon.com/Haydn-The-Complete-Piano-Sonatas/dp/B0000041KC

Some of those that come to mind. Some are so obvious it's actually embarrassing when you consider half of those that won and they haven't. Sonny Rollins Roscoe Mitchel Wayne Shorter Mcoy Tyner Lee Konitz Andrew Cyrille Hamid Drake Dave Holland Herbie Hankcock (yeah, he least of all needs the money and really hasn't been relevant with regards to Jazz in a long time, but still.) Randy Weston Charles Tolliver Muhal Richard Abrams Joe Lovano Dave Douglas Dee Dee Bridgewater

A full list of all the winners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program

Those who I know who have won. Some of them make no sense when you consider whom they could have been chosen instead. Max Roach 1988 Ran Blake 1988 Gunther Schuller 1991 Cecil Taylor 1991 Stanley Crouch 1993 (No comment.) Ornette Coleman 1994 Anthony Braxton 1994 Ken Vandermark 1999 George E. Lewis 2002 Regina Carter 2006 John Zorn 2006 Jason Moran 2010 Dafnis Prieto 2011

No offense, but Hitler is probably the last person in the history of the world who could be taken at his word. His hatred for the Jews was so visceral and all encompassing that the idea of letting them just pick up and leave is absurd. This argument sounds apppealing, but it's wrong. The Nazis formulated plans before the Holocaust for mass deportation without extermination, eg to Madagascar. None of which is to deny the evils of Nazism, just pointing out that history is always weirder and more nuanced than "they were the bad guys and always had a secret master plan to do bad stuff." Forgot about Madagascar. The planning started in 1938 a few months before Évian.

I think 1941 is generous. Kristallnacht took place in November of 1938, three months after the Evian Conference. Quite a number of Jews were killed during the two nights of rioting and some 30,000 were arrested and hauled off to Dachau. If not 1938, then 1939 at the latest with the ghettoization of Polish Jews. While that may not be a death camp in the true sense of that disgusting term, for all intents and purposes, that's exactly what it was. Sorry for not being clear. I meant large-scale killing of thousands and than hundred of thousands, which started around the time it was no longer legal for them to leave in 1941. Even then the Évian Conference happened 4 months before even Kristallnacht.

If you haven't tried them. Brooklyn Brewery has some great beers. http://brooklynbrewery.com/brooklyn-beers Planning tonight on a If you find a bottle of their Black Ops or Black Chocolate Stout! Will be going back to check what hasn't been mentioned already.

No offense, but Hitler is probably the last person in the history of the world who could be taken at his word. His hatred for the Jews was so visceral and all encompassing that the idea of letting them just pick up and leave is absurd. No offense taken. Sorry they only stopped allowing them to leave in Oct. 1941. The killing didn't first start until pogroms and such in 1941. Even after the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935 they were allowed to leave. He hated them and wanted them gone. No one is disputing that. Hundreds of thousands emigrated and he didn't do anything to stop it from the time it started until it became illegal for them in Oct. 1941. Of course, all those hundreds of thousands lead to the Évian Conference which happened in 1938. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005468

They're not really taking care of their own since some of them will be unemployed. There isn't any word on what amount or percentage can be fired. Like I said before they basically could have had this deal a long time ago but rolled over when they had the NFL by the jugular after this weekends games and especially MNF game. It really makes no sense from a "union" point of view. The NFL looked bad (but you no one will remember it by the end of the year, if not in a few years.) but really won....just like they did against the players.

I don't think you realize in in the long term the NFL actually won with being able to get rid of the bad referees, which was really the main sticking point for the refs...and can put new refs on a 401(k) instead of the excellent package they current ones have....and the "union" rolled over for a bit more money and those who already are refs can keep their current benefits. Those in the future won't get anything close to the same now. What NFL will have to pay more in salary they more than make up on the future benefits of new refs. The "Union" could have really given it to the NFL....especially since none of them were really unemployed, or hurting. They had the NFL by the jugular after the Monday Night Game....they rolled over on some current refs and the future refs. I still have to laugh at people calling them "Union Workers" or uses "Scabs" to the others over people who are now going to average $173,000 for their second job as if they're coal miners and real "Union Workers". It's somewhat along the lines of being able to fire incompetent tenured teachers...and you don't have to give the new teachers the same benefits. Yeah, the "Union" won this.

There is the rusty/not in shape ref excuse.

At one point Hitler would have been happy to just have everyone who was "considered" Jewish to leave. Is Wagner to blame for the Évian Conference? "I can only hope and expect that the other world, which has such deep sympathy for these criminals [Jews], will at least be generous enough to convert this sympathy into practical aid. We, on our part, are ready to put all these criminals at the disposal of these countries, for all I care, even on luxury ships." - Hitler They even waited almost four years later for the Wannsee Conference to make a "final decision".