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cycling is not a real sport, like auto racing! :rsmile: Kidding, kidding! He really is amazing!

Wow, I guess this must mean Chuck is a Multi-Millionaire!

This is what I found on the web about her health.... The Vail Daily News reported last week that the young woman sought a doctor's care this spring for serious emotional problems that resulted from the death of a friend, and a breakup in a relationship. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/sports/233...555/detail.html

Chuck, if it isn't something of a testy legal nature, can you tell us what is up with the Erroll Garner estate??? They don't like money, or want too much???

I don't know Chris, time will tell, but from the glowing things said about her by her friends, Honor student and all, makes me think at this time a spoiled, pampered athlete who never has had to hear the word no, would take no as just playing hard to get....

No, sadly I did not....just a little before my time as well....one of the very few porn stars I would date...which gives me an idea for a thread!

Thanks for the info!(Used to get 33% off, but that was 4 years ago-now any discount is a good discount!) I also like that the coupon says...cash value 1 cent, not redeemable for cash Damn, I was just about to become a millionaire!

I guess it would be unkind to mention your handle during this thread, eh?

Will do, I hear ya!

Bad Axe??? You added that one, right???? I have had problems off and on the last few days, just assumed it was happening to me! Oh well, good right now!

Good movies, lots of plot.... I dated her for a while, but she was too conservative for my tastes...

Cuban Salsa Queen Celia Cruz Dies at 77 By CHAKA FERGUSON Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born singer who went from singing in Havana nightclubs to become the "Queen of Salsa," died Wednesday, her publicist said. Cruz, who was 77, died of a brain tumor. She had surgery for the ailment in December but her health faltered. She died at her home in Fort Lee, N.J., according to her publicist, Blanca Lasalle. In the 1950s, Cruz became famous with the legendary Afro-Cuban group La Sonora Matancera. She left Cuba for the United States in 1960, and was credited with bringing salsa music to a broad audience. Cruz, who recorded more than 70 albums and had more than a dozen Grammy nominations, won best salsa album for "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" at the 2002 Latin Grammy Awrds. Among her other best-known recordings are "Yerberito Moreno" and "Que le Den Candela." Called the "Queen of Salsa" and the "diva of Latin song," Cruz remained energetic late into her career. At last year's Latin Grammys, she showed up wearing a frothy blue-and-white headpiece and a tight red dress and gave a hip-shaking performance. Advertisement Obituaries in the News Cuban Salsa Queen Celia Cruz Dies at 77 Ex-Cowboys President Schramm Dies at 83 Siskel& Ebert Visionary Eliot Wald Dies Pioneer of Early Indian Cinema Dies Chilean Writer Roberto Bolano Dies at 50 Latest Music News Cuban Salsa Queen Celia Cruz Dies at 77 NY Philharmonic Stands by Merger Decision White Stripes Cancel Series of Gigs Springsteen Opens 10-Concert Run in N.J. Pretenders Singer Protests at Paris KFC Madonna to Star in Gap Ad Campaign Cubans Mourn Segundo in Funeral March Andrews Says Making Videos Is Hard Work Judge OKs Diana Ross Breath Test Results Musicians Learning to Prevent Injuries Cruz's alliance with fellow salsa star Tito Puente garnered her some of the biggest success in her career. In 1987, she was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and several years later, the city of Miami gave Calle Ocho, the main street of its Cuban community, the honorary name of Celia Cruz Way. Cruz also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian Institution and in 1994, President Clinton honored her with an award from the National Endowment of the Arts.

Impoverished Chad begins pumps oil through pipeline >link< Colombian Rebel Deny They Losing War >link< Opinion journal pointed these out, and they still haven't been corrected!

You have had that Avatar for some time...put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Fossil of 'Nessie monster' trips up pensioner By Tom Peterkin (Filed: 16/07/2003) The fossilised remains of a long-necked, carnivorous sea reptile, which existed 150 million years ago, have been found in Loch Ness. The discovery of four perfectly preserved vertebrae of a plesiosaur - the prehistoric creature most commonly associated with modern "Nessie" sightings - has led to claims that the fossil represents the first evidence of an original Loch Ness Monster. The fossil, which is set in grey limestone, complete with spinal chord and blood vessels, was found in shallow water by Gerald McSorley, 67, a retired scrap merchant from Stirling. Mr McSorley said: "I literally tripped over the fossil in the water. When I put my hands down to steady myself I saw something unusual and picked it up. "Once I had cleaned off about an inch of green algae, and I could see the texture of the bone, it became clear I had an important fossil." Scientists at the National Museum in Scotland confirmed yesterday that the fossil - the first of its kind to be found at Loch Ness - proved that a 35ft "monster" once lived in the area. Lyall Anderson, a curator at the National Museum of Scotland, said: "Professional palaeontologists go out looking for things like this and usually find nothing. Mr McSorley is to be congratulated on a very good find." Many of the contemporary photographs, reconstructions and sightings of Nessie have been reminiscent of the long neck, broad body and giant paddles of the plesiosaur. Dr Anderson said: "The plesiosaur is the image people have of the Loch Ness Monster." The find has excited Nessie hunters, who believe that it supports their belief that a similar beast still lurks within the loch, even though the remains date from the Jurassic and Cretaceous period. 25 October 2002: Amateur discovers species of prehistoric reptile 13 July 2002: Wreck of record boat found in Loch Ness http://news.telegraph.co.uk/core/main.jhtm..._requestid=7525

I think for the first time since I was 8, I completely forgot about the game being on tonight! So, of course it was a high scoring(for an Allstar game) affair....drat.... So, I hear this game mattered, is that true?

Scientists attempt to clone woolly mammoth By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor 16 July 2003 Scientists hoping to clone prehistoric woolly mammoths are preparing their first frozen DNA samples in a bid to revive the species. The specimens of bone marrow, muscle and skin were unearthed last August in the Siberian tundra where they had been preserved in ice for thousands of years. Researchers at the Gifu Science and Technology Centre and Kinki University want to use the genetic material in the cells to clone a woolly mammoth, according to Akira Irytani, a scientist at Kinki University in western Japan. First they must determine whether the five specimens airlifted from Russia are really from mammoths. If so, they must decide whether the DNA locked inside is well enough preserved to self-replicate. After that, it could take several years to actually produce an animal. "There are many different problems to overcome," the Gifu Centre's Hideyoshi Ichibashi said. "I think we can move ahead only one step at a time." The idea of cloning mammoths from specimens discovered in permafrost holds a perennial fascination for scientists since cloning of adult mammals was shown to be feasible with Dolly the sheep in 1996. But in 1999 Alexei Tikhonov, chairman of the Mammoth Committee of the Russian Academy of Science, who took part in an expedition that uncovered one of the animals buried in the permafrost, said he and his colleagues on the scientific committee were not preparing to clone the mammal. "You have to have a living cell for cloning, and not a single cell can survive in the permafrost," he said then. Dr Irytani said the idea was to develop the cloning technology on extinct animals to aid in the preservation of endangered species. So far, six mammoths have been discovered and partially or completely unearthed from the permafrost, which is as hard as concrete and has to be broken up with jackhammers. Kinki University scientists, with veterinary experts from Kagoshima University in southern Japan, have searched for mammoth DNA samples since 1997 in Siberia. The techniques used include ground-penetrating radar, which can detect the size and shape of buried objects. So far, no cells bearing cloning-quality DNA have been found. The initial plan called for finding mammoth sperm cells, which could be used to inseminate a modern day elephant and create a mammoth-elephant hybrid. But no sperm cells have been found, and other samples retrieved during previous excavations, including legs buried under permafrost, have turned out to be left unusable by time and climate changes. Dr Irytani was more hopeful about their samples, estimated at 20,000 years old, saying they had been well preserved in the ground at about -20C (-4F). Mammoths died out about 13,000 years ago because humans hunted them to extinction. One plan to revive mammoths would not use cloning, but the more straightforward technique of artificial insemination of any intact sperm into African elephants, the mammoths' closest living relative http://news.independent.co.uk/world/scienc...sp?story=424757

Hilary Clinton...."Of course I am running for President in 2004, that's why I became a senator!"

Man, I didn't even hear about this! I will forever kick myself that I didn't say to hell with missing a few days more of work several years ago and stay to see Benny play in LA.....can't say he didn't have a hell of a recording legacy though!!! Even his cds from the 90's sound like a guy in his prime..... Thanks for everything Mr. Carter!

Alexander to connoisseur, "See you at church!" Chris A, "Mac is just junk, plain and simple, gonna get a pc, a real computer...and Bessie is overrated to boot!" :rsmile:

It's not just Burt!

Son's message in a bottle arrives--5 years after death July 11, 2003 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--Almost five years to the day after Roger Clay died in a motorcycle accident, his parents got one last message from him--a sun-scorched note he had stuffed into a bottle as a child and set adrift in 1984. A man found the bottle in a St. Petersburg canal on the Fourth of July and returned it this week to Clay's mother. "I dread this time of year every year. It's the worst," Lisa Ferguson told the St. Petersburg Times for Thursday's editions. ''But now I have something wonderful to think about." Clay died July 10, 1998, nine days after his 21st birthday. He had been 7 years old and on vacation when he tossed the tape-sealed Pepsi bottle into the Gulf of Mexico from a pier in Clearwater, just north of St. Petersburg. ''To whoever finds this letter please write me a letter and let me know,'' the note said in shaky pencil. The note included his address in Fairfield, Ohio, and the date: Dec. 27, 1984. When the bottle turned up behind Don Smith's home on Tampa Bay, on the opposite side of the Pinellas County peninsula, Smith set out to find the boy. With the Times' help, he learned of Clay's death. Smith said he was determined to find the parents. ''Imagine what that message would mean to them,'' he said. Ferguson was tracked down on vacation in Seminole, a St. Petersburg suburb. ''Here I am, trying to escape Roger's death, and he reaches out and gives me this message, this gift,'' she said. Clay's father, Roger K. Clay, said he had forgotten all about the bottle. ''It's kind of hard to put into words, all the emotions that brings back,'' he said. ''I told Lisa, it was like he was trying to remind us he was still with us.'' http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nw...nws-mess11.html

Alexander, you are right...on this point at least, and just the first part! Back in the day,Hollywood had to be creative to get around not showing hot sweaty, sexy folk nekked. Dialog, implying action that will happen later is more often than not sexier than just throwing two unclothed people into bed...The way Garbo and John Gilbert kiss, caress, and look at each other in Flesh and the Devil is just amazing, them being nude on top of that would have added nothing IMO....Implied violence/gore works the same way. A film like The Body Snatcher from 1945 with Boris Karloff as a grave robber, is so creepy, just from his discriptions! Alexander, perhaps you are not so far off with your second point, if only hollywood as an exercise would try to make a few films with the same rules of post 1934 Films, it would be interesting to see how writers/directors of today would find ways to make watchable films....

What about Mr. Breen?

Glad to see that there are some classic film fans on this here board! Y'all might want to check out the book, Hollywood's Golden Year, 1939...By Ted Sennett. It came out in 1989, but they still have some used copies at Amazon. isbn 0312033613.... Some of the films that IMO are worth checking out(Or seeing again) if you haven't already are Love Affair(the Original) Midnight with Claudette Colbert, 2 very good Cagney films, the Roaring Twenties, and Each Dawn I Die..the First 2 Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films Adventures of Sherlock, and the Hounds of the Baskervilles, 2 Garson Kanin films, The Great Man Votes(With John Barrymore) and the very funny Bachelor Mother with Ginger Rogers and David Niven..The all female cast film The Women (It's not just for gay folks! ) Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, etc, etc, etc! I'm sure the list is not to everyone's taste, but that year was just crazy. Bette Davis starred in Dark Victory and Old Maid, and I know there have been other pretty darn good films from that year that I have come across that are not mentioned in this book, nor that I remember at this time....