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Yeah, was hearing a lot about it today/yesterday...but just now had trouble getting to the site, but could surf elsewhere on the web with no problems...

City may begin firing workers who commit fraud By Mariel Garza Staff Writer A discovery that two municipal workers convicted of workers' compensation fraud were still on the city's payroll prompted City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to push two proposals Friday that would allow the city to fire employees who commit fraud. The ordinances are set to be introduced to the City Council next week by West Valley Councilman Dennis Zine. "Employees who commit workers' compensation fraud, I believe, forfeit the privilege of employment with the city of Los Angeles," Delgadillo said in a letter sent to the council. Those two workers have since left the city, but it underscored that there has been no automatic trigger for cutting employees who have found to have filed fraudulent workers' comp claims, officials said. "The policy was, there was no policy," said Delgadillo's spokesman, Matt Szabo. Officials said employee Michael Randolph was working as a gardener/caretaker for the Department of Public Works when he filed a claim that he injured his back in 1996. He was found to have filed a false claim and pleaded guilty in November 2001, but wasn't fired until last month. The other worker, Monique Jacobs, who worked at Los Angeles International Airport, was convicted of fraud in 2002. She quit, also in July, in lieu of being fired, according to Delgadillo. The city's workers' compensation costs have been rising steeply every year, and the city expects to pay more than $142 million to injured employees in the current fiscal years. http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,20...1560447,00.html

Megadeth!(You think I'm Kidding, don't ya? ) Since the subtitle said we all have "one" and no one is saying just one, I will say Bunny, Duke, Mr. Armstrong, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Snake River Conspiracy....

Good God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bach me Amadeus went right thru my head, and then I scrolled down to the very next post, yours!!!!

What are you waiting for? For the players to come down in price? I bet you are a Vinyl guy as well, aren't you?

Chris, have you tried to record anything like a Vhs tape? Or even burning a cd to dvd? Can you change speeds like I read that you could on the back of a blank disc? Why is the sky blue?

I forget the models I have seen at Wal-Mart (Well, one is a Apex, but wouldn't buy one of those ) but I think Panasonic advertises one for $450-500 and the blank dvd-R discs run just a little over $2 these days, in bricks! Oh, and what is up with the recording times on those discs? They say 120 minutes, but they can for longer just like a black tape? How's the quality in the other speeds? I would like to one day transfer stuff that was taped off tv in the 80's 90's onto discs, and quality will not be that big an issue? Thanks!

I'm guessing yes, as these are both included on the Japanese cut-out of HI-FI UPTOWN that I picked up several years ago. Got the cd in the Borders bargain bin I bet.....I hope the cd sounds better than the Japanese and domestic cds sounded...brass sounded tinny, but the drums...oh the drums...

Heard on Espn, even that the older attacker said 30 months was nothing! And he wasn't banned from going to ball games! Gamboa says sentencing sends 'poor message' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press CHICAGO -- A man who along with his son attacked a Kansas City Royals coach during a game last fall was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months of probation. William Ligue Jr. also was ordered to perform community service and remain in a substance abuse program. The judge said probation was an opportunity for Ligue to recover from his substance abuse problems and "become a useful person." In May, Ligue pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated battery for leading his teenage son onto the field at a Chicago White Sox game in September and beating Tom Gamboa, who was coaching at first base. Judge Leo Holt said Wednesday such fan misbehavior is so uncommon that deterrence wasn't an issue in sentencing. Gamboa, in town for a series between the Royals and White Sox, said he was disappointed in the sentence. He said he has a permanent "stuffiness" in his ear as a result of the attack. "I just think it's a poor message to get sent to the public. My fear is should this happen again to another player, coach or manager in any sport, that there's been a precedent set that I think is a bad one," he said. Ligue's son was sentenced to five years' probation and 30 hours of community service but a judge has recommended he be sent to a prison boot camp following a probation violation.

I agree with you for the most part, a Woman's Face and Above Suspicion are worth watching though...Johnny Guitar has always sounded very interesting(Women playing the typical male roles and all) but she looks too weird! Her looks changed drastically, if you see her in the early thirties, she looked like a different woman! Ok, from a 1929 film, but still...

All the leading ladies in the film (Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and others) were afraid of the 'glorious' Technicolor process that MGM was trying to push. The Technicolor system was still in its infancy at the time. The ladies who felt safer with the way they were photographed in black and white won. The MGM executives just threw in that Technicolor fashion show to promote their new system. Interesting talk about the Women and Technicolor....The Women (Recently on DVD with an alternate fashion show sequence, I haven't seen it, just read about it) Can't make up it's mind, early feminist tale, or women are animals, bitches, as Joan Crawford alludes to....but still a lot of fun! Speaking of Joan, she is in the "classic" The Ice Follies of 1939, which has a big Technicolor scene as well....Never really thought about it before, but MGM seemed a bit late on the bandwagon of Color...I think The Wizard of Oz was their first full length Technicolor film.....other studios had full length films earlier(WB with Adventures of Robin Hood in 1938, the beautiful The Garden of Allah from 1936-which seems to be out of print already? )It was very expensive to shoot a film in Color...an interesting site I found on the web with lots o info on color and film in general.... http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/t...echnicolor1.htm

Here is a 2 cd set from 1998 (OOP of course) that I bet you could find on ebay.... http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Ax9em97u0krst

Yes, and they come from Paypal as well! Death penalty for these scammers!!!

only 10-14 hours left for most of these items....always sad when someone dies leaving a huge jazz collection, but someone is going to buy the cds .... http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=630869&ssPageName=L2

Drat indeed! Perhaps I will find a used copy somewheres....

Good films all Brownie, but Cagney made 2 more films after one, two, three. Ragtime in 1981, and Terrible Joe Moran in 1984 (Which was a TV movie, so you could say that Ragtime was his final screen appearance)

Good Points! Stuff still is albino shit, as far as I am concerned(And my concern goes pretty far)

It's Greta Time! August 12 Tuesday TCM 6:00 AM Flesh And The Devil (1926) In this silent film, a femme fatale comes between childhood friends. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson. D: Clarence Brown. BW 113m. 8:00 AM Torrent (1926) In this silent film, a Spanish country girl moves to Paris to become an opera star. Greta Garbo, Ricardo Cortez, Gertrude Olmstead. D: Monta Bell. BW 88m. 9:30 AM Love (1927) In this updated, silent adaptation of Anna Karenina, a married woman sacrifices everything for the love of a military officer. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, George Fawcett. D: Edmund Goulding. BW 83m. 11:00 AM The Mysterious Lady (1928) In this silent film, an Austrian officer unwittingly falls in love with a Russian spy. Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz. D: Fred Niblo. BW 89m. 1:00 PM As You Desire Me (1932) A woman recovering from amnesia must choose between her current lover and the husband she's forgotten. Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim. D: George Fitzmaurice. BW 70m. CC 2:15 PM The Single Standard (1929) In this silent film, a free-spirited debutante tries to prove that women can love as carelessly as men. Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, John Mack Brown. D: John S. Robertson. BW 71m. 3:30 PM Mata Hari (1931) Romantic biography of World War I's notorious lady spy. Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore. D: George Fitzmaurice. BW 89m. CC 5:00 PM Conquest (1937) A Polish countess sacrifices her virtue to Napoleon to save her homeland. Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen. D: Clarence Brown. BW 112m. CC 7:00 PM The Divine Greta Garbo (1990) Glenn Close hosts this documentary featuring film clips and rare behind-the-scenes footage that reveal how Greta Garbo's film career reflected her life. D: Richard Schickel. C 46m. 8:00 PM Grand Hotel (1932) Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through scandal and heartache. Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford. D: Edmund Goulding. BW 113m. CC DVS 10:00 PM Camille (1937) In this classic 19th-century romance, a kept woman runs off with a young admirer in search of love and happiness. Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore. D: George Cukor. BW 109m. CC DVS 12:00 AM Ninotchka (1939) A cold hearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love. Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire. D: Ernst Lubitsch. BW 111m. CC DVS 2:00 AM Queen Christina (1933) Romantic tale of the 17th-century Swedish queen and her romance with a Spanish diplomat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone. D: Rouben Mamoulian. BW 99m. CC 4:00 AM Anna Karenina (1935) Adaptation of Tolstoy's classic tale of a woman who deserts her family for an illicit love. Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone. D: Clarence Brown. BW 94m. CC

Well, guess I am biased towards The Great Race, my Mom has always liked the movie, and Natalie Wood was a babe! It is meant to be tongue in cheek(Tony Curtis' always sparkling smile) and Blake Edwards still had talent back then....Peter Falk and Jack Lemmon made a really great team as bad guys...push the button Max! (makes no sense unless you have seen the film!) I might go along with the Apartment being a bit long, but then what film in the last 10 years hasn't been too long anyway? Fred MacMurray as a heel, the anonymous corporate life of Jack Lemmon's character, and it was it was pretty risqué back in 1960

more about the Reds http://reds.enquirer.com/2003/08/01/badreds01.html

J.L. I do sound like a Reds fan, don't I? I grew up in St. Louis, so most of the time a cards fan. Just hate to see good teams taken apart, for money reasons alone. I thought anyone who bought a team these days had to prove they were worth several hundred million dollars, so that they wouldn't trade players (like the Reds did with the Yankees) for a few million extra. Try explaining that to the fans. They were in their first year in a new park. I don't know their attendance numbers were, but this is nuts. I did read that the prospect they got for Boone is very good, but to hear Sean Casey and others talk about Boone, he not just a good hitter, but a real asset to the club, someone who doesn't come around that often, so a AAA pitcher and 1.5 mill wasn't enough....And the Yankees get younger, and stronger, and didn't have to give the Reds 5 million, just 1.5

I picked Hawk as well....JSngry made a very interesting point, on this, or that other board(Not BB) about how Coleman Hawkins didn't really have a "sensitive" side, which if you think about it(I hadn't til he mentioned it) makes what he did all the more amazing! Why no Bud Freeman on this list? If this was a poll of your fav player right now, he would be my choice....

Well, I guess TIME/warner must have claimed poverty as the reason the Braves didn't get some middle relief....they will find some other soft tosser released by some other team, and limp to the playoffs once again...just so the Giants(I can hope) or the Yankees(Oh God, not that fate again!) can make the Braves pitchers look like BP wannabees....

Yep! Really gonna bring the fans out getting rid of players, the managar, and a creative GM that never got the money to make the big deals he wanted to. They can now cry poor when their attendance rivals the Expos and get more of the Yankee's money(Which isn't too bad a thing I guess ) Or perhaps trying to clear out payroll to sell the team, who knows....

Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Christy, June Vocal Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Shaw, Artie Jazz Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Dorsey, Jimmy Jazz Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - James, Harry Jazz Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Clooney, Rosemary Vocal Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Forrest, Helen Vocal Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Laine, Frankie Vocal Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Thornhill, Claude Jazz Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Howard, Eddy Vocal Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Brown, Les Jazz Original Studio Radio Transcriptions [2003] - Lombardo, Guy Easy Original Studio Radio Transcriptions, V [2003] - Forrest, Helen Vocal This is a list of the cds mentioned at allmusic.com (cannot link from there) and here is a link to barnesandnoble.com for tracks...no audio links though..anyone bought anything of theirs before???? >b&n link<