BERIGAN

Yeah, for real! Some cities have been lucky for years, and no city has been luckier for longer.

Juan(Won) Mosaic?

Don't feel yourself then.

I was going to pull up a Sent PM the other day, and I noticed that nothing newer there than April. Are automatic sent Pm's auto deleted, or did I manage to change this all on my own? I don't see a way to change settings for this.

Dream on! It is written that the Braves win every Division race til the year 2055. It is also written that the Braves then will lose in the first or second round every year.

I'm guessing the Florida folks are without power now. Anyone see the footage of Jim Cantore(SP?) on the weather channel? This little ol' category 1 Hurricane packed a hell of a punch where he was (Ft Lauderdale I think) storm came ashore at around 6 PM, but at 7:40, they showed him getting batted around worse than I have seen folks during Hurricanes with winds well over 100 MPH. With winds being so strong for so long explains why 1.4 Million are without power. And the storm is expected to become a bigger hurricane in the Gulf, and head for the Panhandle Oh, and right over Atlanta like every former hurricane.

I don't think I have seen a thread just on this topic. I often see people say like when a Mosaic set comes out,(Woody Herman for example) that they hope there won't be a lot of vocals. Why is this? Do you dislike male and female vocalists equally? Is Billy Eckstine easier for you to take than say Jimmy Scott? Do you dig rock vocals more than Jazz vocals?(No, I don't know why this looks like Larry King asked all these questions)

Hey Dan, not one, but 2 loses to the Royals??? Man, if they somehow lose the division by say, one game, this series will come back to haunt them...

It was nice of Five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain to say "They have been out to get him in France for a number of years" just to help me out, wasn't it? Gee, hard to believe a guy named LeMond would be against Armstrong as well! Double

Dammit! I was sure no one else had thought of this terrible pun, and was ready to post....dammit!

See what I mean. Why won't he just shut the fuck up? ← I'm guessing Frank Robinson is a Democrat! Robinson: Erase stats after failed drug testsAssociated Press WASHINGTON -- Washington Nationals manager Frank Robinson thinks Rafael Palmeiro's statistics should be erased because the Baltimore Orioles slugger was suspended for a failed drug test. Should MLB erase the statistics of players who fail drug tests from official records? Yes No "Where do you go back, stop and say, 'OK, when did he start using steroids?' To eliminate all that, and get the players' attention, you wipe the whole thing out," Robinson told MLB.com in a story posted on the Web site Tuesday night. "Why put the burden on baseball to try and figure out where to go, and maybe put an asterisk? Just wipe the whole thing out." Palmeiro was suspended Aug. 1, less than three weeks after he recorded his 3,000th hit to become one of four players in major league history with that many hits and at least 500 homers. His 569 career homers entering Tuesday rank ninth in history. Robinson, a member of the Hall of Fame, is sixth with 586 homers. He has been reluctant to discuss steroids. Asked by MLB.com if he would wipe out Palmeiro's records, Robinson answered: "I would. He was found to have used steroids, and he served a 10-day suspension." "I was surprised and taken aback that he was using steroids, because I never thought about him being a person that might be a steroids user," Robinson continued. "I always admired him for the way he went about his work, the way he performed on the field and the way he conducted himself off the field."

A good friend of mine recently became our jazz buyer, and I'm trying to keep this from happening more. When she got the job, she asked me for some feedback on our selection and the most negative feedback I gave was that we had too many compilations and smooth jazz CDs, and that this alienated the people who (likely) buy most of the jazz out there. I don't think it would be that hard to have a good mix of new releases and reissues, but we're missing the boat, especially on the reissues. ← I don't know how long you have worked at Best Buy, but back in the early to mid 90's, they had a very good jazz selection. I saw(and bought)many a title there that I saw no where else. I guess I must have been one of the few though, cuz that section just gets smaller, and smaller(The nearest Best Buy to me has the smallest jazz section I have ever seen at a large retailer) Thing is, I stumbled across so many titles at Borders, Best Buy, Towers, Media Play even that I don't think I would ever find online. If you like creaky jazz like me, a lot of times the online listing for the cd doesn't have a scan of the cd, the label name, or how many tracks are on it! Not likely to take a chance on a cd that may just be a 10 track best of of some obscure artist....

France out to get Armstrong for years, says Indurain Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:53 PM ET MORE MADRID (Reuters) - Five-times Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain says the accusations of doping made by sports newspaper L'Equipe against Lance Armstrong are part of a campaign designed to discredit the American rider. "They have been out to get him in France for a number of years," Indurain was quoted as saying on the website todociciclismo.com on Tuesday. "He's the one who knows about it, but it seems wrong that they are starting to dig over tests from years ago. "It's all very strange and I don't know to what extent it is legal to keep specimens like this." L'Equipe, saying it had access to laboratory documents, reported on Tuesday that six of Armstrong's urine samples collected on the 1999 Tour de France showed "indisputable" traces of EPO (erythropoietin). There were no tests to detect EPO, a drug that increases the level of red blood cells and endurance, in 1999. However, samples from the 1999 Tour were kept and have been recently retested by the specialist anti-doping laboratory in Chatenay-Malabry outside Paris. SEVENTH TIME Armstrong, who won the Tour for the seventh time in succession this year, has denied ever taking performance-enhancing drugs. Indurain, who won the Tour five times in succession between 1991 and 1995, raised doubts about the testing procedure. "Anything about Armstrong is news these days, but the question is whether all this is true or not. There are question marks over the reliability of the test (for EPO) and there are a lot of doubts about the whole thing." Germany's Jan Ullrich, the 1997 Tour de France winner, told German television: "I heard about it, but these are speculations so you can't really say anything about it. It's been six years, and, if it's true, I would of course be disappointed. "But I can't say anything on it right now. Lance is the greatest of our time and maybe somebody's trying to put him down. I don't know what it's about, so all of this is very speculative." Swiss Alex Zuelle, who finished second behind Armstrong in the 1999 Tour, told Reuters: "I won't say anything about it because my career as a professional is over. "I'm not Armstrong. All of this is speculation. Sometimes they have proof, then they haven't ... I'm not interested in it anymore. "For me, the Tour is over and done with; it's just too many years back." http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle....INDURAIN-DC.XML

I read that same article overnight. Thing that amazed me the most is that Bradley was claiming he was told in spring training that he(Bradley) was the team leader! I can't imagine they would be so dumb, with his track record. Lets see, he was kicked out of Cleveland, had that anger issue last year...his first with the Dodgers. ESPN doesn't seem to go back as far as it used to for stories..but I did see where Bradley was whining during spring training about how he was going to be the center fielder over J.D. Drew (sounds like a real team leader, eh?) Bradley is 10 years younger than Kent, and has never played more than 141 games in a season(This year has only played 75) Kent is a future Hall of Famer, who has 83 R.B.I.'s this season, next closest on the team is Olmedo Saenz with 55. So, in other words, if Kent thinks you should have scored on a double, listen to him! Yes, Bradley is a asshole. He doesn't seem that damn talented, surely they could find someone else to hit .290 and steal 6 bases....It's not like they are really in the pennant race, anyway.

Yeah, Mike Fitzgerald a few posts back!

(Daily Mirror) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=1...-name_page.html ← It's strange how his being gay is considered important to the story....

seems to be the going rate... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=music

I recall reading somewhere(No, don't remember where, what, when ) that there was some concern that this was bad for the lungs, is that just an old wives tale?

Brock Peters, actor who appeared in `To Kill a Mockingbird,' dies By GARY GENTILE, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Printable Version Email This Article (08-23) 13:03 PDT Los Angeles (AP) -- Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Tuesday at his home after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 78. Peters was diagnosed with the disease in January and had been receiving chemotherapy treatment, according to Marilyn Darby, his longtime companion. His condition became worse in recent weeks. He died peacefully in bed, surrounded by family, she said. Peters was born George Fisher on July 2, 1927 in New York. His long film career began in the 1950s with the landmark productions of "Carmen Jones" in 1954 and "Porgy and Bess" in 1959. In recent years, he played Admiral Cartwright in two of the "Star Trek" feature films. He also appeared in numerous TV shows. His distinctive deep bass voice was often used for animated characters. He was perhaps best known for portraying accused rapist Tom Robinson, defended by Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird." Peters paid tribute to Peck after he died in 2003. "In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love," Peters said. "Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure. To this day the children of 'Mockingbird' ... call him Atticus." Peters recounted how shortly before he was to start filming, he was awakened early on a Sunday morning by a phone call from Peck to welcome him to the production. He was so surprised, he recalled, that he dropped the telephone. "I worked over the years in many, many productions, but no one ever again called me to welcome me aboard, except perhaps the director and the producer, but not my fellow actor-to-be." In May, Peters was on hand as Harper Lee, the reclusive author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," made a rare step into the limelight to be honored by the Los Angeles Public Library. In "Carmen Jones," Peters worked with Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. Otto Preminger's production of "Porgy" starred Sidney Poitier and Dandridge, and featured Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll as well as Peters. Among Peters' other films were "Soylent Green,""The L-Shaped Room" and "The Pawnbroker." In a 1985 story by The Associated Press on blacks in the movies, Peters said there had been a string of recent hits involving blacks, but "I have been here a long time, and I have seen this cycle happen before. I'll wait awhile and see if this flurry of activity leads to anything permanent." His accolades include a National Film Society Award, a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild, and a Tony Award nomination for his performance on Broadway in "Lost in the Stars." Peters was a widow and has one daughter, Lise Jo Peters. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n.../n130343D06.DTL

Sure Brownie, his samples were picked totally at random, they just happened to be the guy who one the last 7 races, an American. If you believe this was mere coincidence, I gotta bridge I'd love to sell you! And of course, these samples have been under armed guard since he peed in the cup, right? It's no black eye for the sport if it is "just" that doped up Amercian(From Texas, oh the shame of one of those people winning the Tour de France!) who is caught. Let's see the samples tested for the 10 ten racers as well, from every year since 1999. Test everyone's samples, show how truly 80% were involved, then there will be some explaining for Armstrong....

Usually, where there's smoke there's fire and all that, BUT if this is all about a sample being retested 5 years later, not the smoking gun.... Armstrong denies doping claims 23/08/2005 10:22 - (SA) Paris - Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong denied ever taking performance-enhancing drugs, in response to a report published on Tuesday by the French daily L'Equipe that he was proven to have taken an endurance-boosting hormone during his first Tour de France triumph in 1999. "Yet again, a European newspaper has reported that I have tested positive for performance enhancing drugs," Armstrong said in a statement on his personal website. "Tomorrows LEquipe, a French sports daily, is reporting that my 1999 samples were positive. Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrows article is nothing short of tabloid journalism." Frozen urine samples With a headline splashing "Armstrong's Lie" on its front page, the newspaper reported that Armstrong's use of the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoeitin) was revealed in tests by a French laboratory of frozen urine samples taken during his first Tour triumph. Armstrong said: "The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendants rights cannot be respected.' "I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs," said the 33-year-old cyclist, who retired in July after his record seventh Tour title. L'Equipe said traces of EPO had been found on six different occasions in Armstrong's 1999 urine samples by the national doping testing laboratory of Chatenay-Malabry near Paris. EPO can boost performance by 30%. The urine samples, taken in 1998 and 1999, were tested in 2004 by the laboratory, which itself fine-tuned the testing system, according to the report. No indication was given in the story for the delay in revealing the results or about any preservation or safeguarding methods regarding the samples.

Mike, I hope for her sake she is lucky like Naomi Judd, who has had hepatitis C since 1991, but then again, she was not a drug user.... I never saw American Pie, I did see her in The slums of Beverly Hills, and could tell she clearly has a lot of acting talent. Not a classic beauty by any stretch, but still an interesting look that makes her attractive, IMO. (Though for an actess, she isn't that photogenic)

Lyonne 'Fighting for Her Life' By WENN ............................................ American Pie star Natasha Lyonne is reportedly fighting for her life in a New York City hospital, after being found with hepatitis C, a heart infection and a collapsed lung. The New York Post reports that the missing actress has been found struggling to survive in the Beth Israel Hospital's intensive care unit. The publication says that as well as the range of health problems she's battling, Lyonne was also found with track marks, and is undergoing methadone treatment, typically used to help heroin users. Her father Aaron Braunstein, who visited the 26-year-old actress a week ago, tells Access Hollywood, "I read the article. I'm crying, actually. It's terrible. That's my little girl. It's a terrible tragedy. But she's gonna get better. We're all praying for her and she's a tough girl. "As we see in the paper, she's probably with the wrong crowd, but the main thing she picked up is [hepatitis C] in Bulgaria [while shooting her 2001 movie The Grey Zone]." And Braunstein is certain The New York Post will face legal action for exposing details of Lyonne's condition, explaining, "There's a confidentiality between patient, doctor and hospital, so all of this is gonna be probably a major lawsuit." Article Copyright World Entertainment News Network All Rights Reserved. http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/2444192

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