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The Duke lacrosse players who were not indicted in the rape charge case will file suit tomorrow against Duke and the City of Durham. Our local paper The News & Observer should have good coverage of it. I'll post again when I have more details, like what their legal theory is. This will be a civil suit, probably to be settled out of court. Duke has plenty of money, so the settlement will be plenty more than enough to cover legal fees. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331568,00.html

In the AHL tonight: It's OT. Delayed penalty, so Chicago pulls its goaltender to put an extra attacker on the ice. They're in front of the Manitoba (that's Winnipeg to you) net, and the Chicago guy passes back to his teammate, who doesn't get it. The puck goes all the way back into the Chicago net! So Manitoba wins the game, and the Manitoba goalie gets credit for the winning goal! http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home

Happy Birthday Mike! In celebration, I'll put on some Cal Tjader.

Dang! Too cloudy here. Can't find the moon in the sky.

What would you do? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331536,00.html <h1 class="head">Man Arrested After N.Y. Bank Lets Him Withdraw Millions</h1> Wednesday, February 20, 2008 NEW YORK — A man was charged with withdrawing $2 million from an account after a bank confused him with a man who has the same name. Benjamin Lovell was arraigned Tuesday on grand larceny charges. The 48-year-old salesman said he tried to tell officials at Commerce Bank in December that he did not have a $5 million account. He says he was told it was his and he could withdraw the money. Prosecutors said the bank — which advertises itself as America's Most Convenient Bank — confused Lovell with a Benjamin Lovell who works for a property management company. The lesser-funded Lovell gave away some of the withdrawn money and blew some of it on gifts, but lost much of it on bad investments, prosecutors said. The district attorney's office did not immediately have information on his lawyer. Calls left with Commerce Bank on Wednesday were not immediately returned.

I agree 100%, Soul Stream. I put this on again last night. Never get tired of it. I was into listening to the radio and going to record stores less than a year when this was out in the summer of '64, and I remember it being displayed prominently in the stores. The Girl from Ipanema was a hit on the radio, so everyone knew what to expect from the album. Although Stan Getz was one of the few artists whose albums could be found in the stores' miniscule jazz sections, this album was presented in the stores as adult music rather than modern jazz music. Accessible. One artist who comes to mind about whom that could be said today is Michael Franks. (Not that Franks' contemporary jazz is in the same vein as mainstream jazz, but rather that his albums can be found in the jazz sections near Getz's, but [like Getz/Gilberto] when displayed are not presented as something only the cogniscenti would appreciate.) Of course, I guess that could also be said about Kenny G's records displayed in the stores, but that is a big part of the controversy about the record companies' classifying smooth jazz as jazz. Anyway, I think that jazz would be more popular if there were more jazz records based upon Soul Stream's recipe of Simplicity, Beauty and Melody.

Here's an article from Reuters that says that the moon will turn red tonight at 10:00 pm eastern if the atmospheric conditions are right. An article in our local paper Monday said that the midpoint of the eclipse will be at 10:26 pm eastern. http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews...028499420080220

Well, this is all over my head, but if I understand it correctly this article from the Times of London says that an iTunes customer can take the song and instead of moving it to his iPod, he can move it to a phone which uses non-Apple software. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...icle3403705.ece

Berigan, my local library has plenty of videotapes. I suggest you try yours first, and give them the opportunity to turn you down.

Bob Howsam has died. His obit remembers him primarily for his work with the Reds, but I remember him as a Denver guy who founded the Broncos, and who had the Denver franchise in Branch Rickey's proposed Continental League (which evaporated when the National granted a franchise to the Mets). Here's his LA Times obituary: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...1,3443703.story Bob Howsam, 89; executive assembled baseball's 'Big Red Machine' From Times Staff and Wire Reports February 20, 2008 Bob Howsam, a baseball and football executive who assembled the "Big Red Machine" in Cincinnati, helped put the St. Louis Cardinals in a World Series and co-founded the Denver Broncos, died Tuesday at his winter home in Sun City, Ariz. He was 89. Howsam, who also lived in Glenwood Springs, Colo., had heart problems, said his son, Robert Howsam of Colorado Springs. In 1967 Howsam became general manager of the Reds and is credited with building one of the most dominating teams in baseball history by hiring Sparky Anderson as field manager and orchestrating important trades -- such as the separate deals that brought Joe Morgan and George Foster to the Reds in 1971. Led by future Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Tony Perez and Morgan and spurred by Pete Rose, the Big Red Machine won successive World Series in 1975-76. They also captured four National League pennants and won six division titles in the 1970s. "He put together an organization that became the model for all of baseball," said Bob Castellini, the Reds' president and chief executive. "From what I've seen, I think the Big Red Machine could have been the greatest ballclub ever," Howsam said in 2004. "I know the Yankees compared in the 1920s. We had such great balance." Howsam remained with the Reds until 1978, then returned in the GM role from 1983 to '84, bringing Rose back to the team as player/manager. He left the Reds for good after Marge Schott bought the franchise. Before joining the Reds, Howsam became general manager of baseball's Cardinals in 1964, the year they beat the New York Yankees in the World Series. Howsam started his sports career in 1947 as owner of the Denver Bears of the Class A Western League, later taking the baseball team to triple-A as a Yankees affiliate, his son said. Howsam spearheaded the construction of Bears Stadium, which would later be expanded to become Mile High Stadium, the Broncos' first permanent home. Howsam helped found the American Football League in 1959 and was principal owner of the Broncos. His co-owners included his brother Lee. "Without Bob Howsam, the Broncos would not exist; that's all there is to it," Broncos spokesman Jim Saccomano said. The Howsams sold the team in 1961. Howsam later was a member of the Colorado Baseball Commission, which helped bring the Rockies and major league baseball to Denver. He also served as a consultant to the Rockies. Born in Denver in 1918, Howsam attended the University of Colorado, where he met his wife, Janet. They married in 1939 and had two sons, Robert and Edwin.

The Eskimos have cut Pat Woodcock. I think he's done. He was never the same after he left the Als. The Ticats have re-signed their MVP Zeke Moreno, and their backup QB Richie Williams. Williams looked terrific when he got the chance to play this year, and I think he has a real future in the league. The Als cut Mike Strickland, and said that Steve Charbonneau has retired. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Happy Birthday O keeper of the AotW flame!

I figure that comes to about 1.5 Mosaic CDs per week for four years! Do you have time to listen to anything else?

Reggie Hunt has signed with the Als. This article from Dan Ralphs says that both JoJuan Armour and Dario Romero turned down more money from the Als to sign with Calgary and Edmonton, respectively. It looks to me like I'm not the only one who is skeptical of the Als' hiring as a head coach somebody with zero CFL experience. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Mon...4860421-cp.html

It looks like it will be announced tomorrow. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...portsOther/home edit to add subtitle

Happy Birthday Sandy! Hope you got a Mosaic or something else good!

John, I'm jealous that you have the Mosaic! Quite some time ago there was a thread which asked, Which Mosaic do you most regret not buying before it went out of print? At the time, I answered the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis. But today it would be the Maynard Ferguson.

Apple has lowered the price of a 1G iPod Shuffle to $49, and the 2G Shuffle to $69. I think it was jazzshrink who said that he enjoys using his as a spare to his Nano. The 1G holds 240 songs, which I guess is about 16 hours. http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/ipod-sh...ice-cut-now-49/ edit for typo

JoJuan Armour has signed with Calgary. The Bombers have re-signed Matt Sheridan, so they were able to keep all three of their top free agents. Where they found the money, I don't know. I guess it will be Grey Cup or bust for Winnipeg this year. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Chas, you're making me laugh!

I got the games on dial up just fine until the middle of the 2006 season, when all of the stations except the Saskatchewan Roughriders' station apparently upgraded their websites, and caused me problems. Most of the stations are owned by the same company, Corus. Fortunately for me, the Roughriders won the Grey Cup this year, so I was able to listen to the important games with no difficulty. But I did miss a few I wanted to hear. I had problems with my telephone connection, static caused by a nearby electric fence, starting in September, and I upgraded to a satellite ISP. The service is much better now. My problem with dial up speed wasn't with most radio stations. It was that I couldn't watch YouTube.

Interesting that you should say that, Chas. Just yesterday I read the text of a speech given by a journalist from England who said that the staffs of today's newspapers are only one-third what they were ten years ago. The result is that the people don't have the time to investigate and write on everything they are assigned to cover. The result of that is that press releases are often passed along as news articles. He said this is also true for 24 hour television news channels. edit for typo

In regard to the indoor plumbing wisecrack ...I went camping a few years ago and used an outhouse. All things considered, it was a more pleasant experience than using these federally mandated johns that don't flush! Chas, I don't watch the CFL games. I listen to them on the internet. All of them are broadcast free. Early on in last year's CFL thread, I posted the links to each of the eight radio stations' websites. Don't tell the CFL, but if I had to I would pay the yearly fee that other leagues charge for their internet broadcasts.

Here's an article that says that Toshiba will announce tomorrow that it will discontinue both hardware and media production of HD DVD next month. http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/toshiba...rrow-stop-sale/