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Unfortunately, I use PowerPoint for my CD artwork. PowerPoint has no feature to center the printing that I know of. ← but you can center your text fields. Make two text fields (right hand and left hand or front and back of the booklet) and align them alongside eachother. Select both textfields and center them vertically by going through the [draw] > [align] menu on the lower left hand side of your screen. Then group them and align horizontally. Your booklet is centered now.

My TOCJ has 9 October 1957 for that session. Anyone know?

1955, Buddy Rich and Harry Edison - Buddy & Sweets (Norgran) 1961, Gil Cuppini - What's New (Meazzi/Right Tempo), ctd the next day

I'd blame Clinton

1945, Mezz Mezzrow and Sidney Bechet record for King Jazz (also the day before) 1965, Eddie Harris records for Atlantic (The In Sound)

yeah man, big time!

16 CDs 16 LPs I don't even like Miles...! at least there is quite some doubling between the CDs and LPs.

not ZDF, but NDR and not much hope for getting a copy from them. They do provide recordings of recent broadcasts, but not of archive material. The good news is that it's a documentary and not concert footage, as they do not provide copies of concerts at all.

Well, Toshiba-EMI seems to have, at least they issued an RVG mini-LP some years ago. A bit steeply priced considering it clocks in at under 30 minutes.

I wonder if we will ever see a domestic re-issue of her New Faces New Sounds material. Isn't there a nice 10" session that can be paired with this one for another one of those fabulous 10" conns? The two Hickory House albums have recently been re-issued as 24bit TOCJ CDs so they should be readily available for okay prices.

The name "Antoine" is seriously lacking from this poll. As is "Vincent" and as is "Jules".

she'd recommend you read a book

birthday? why wasn't I told? have a drink and a good one!

1971, Brötzmann/Van Hove/Bennink plus Albert Mangelsdorff - Elements (FMP), ctd the next day

1977, Emil Viklický - The Folk Inspired Jazz Piano (Supraphon) 1982, Remy Filipovitch - All Day Long (Atlas), ctd the next day

the lab was performing these tests on anonymised samples. If they cannot make the link, that does not mean no link exists. The UCI and WADA can make the link.

"They're Big, But Not As Big As Her...." Teeth!

So if nothing can be done, why test these old samples for a second time, 6 years after the fact? ← They wanted to test their methods and also wanted to get a grip on how widespread the use of this stuff was. EPO has been one of the most used substances that has skewed many sports results in many disciplines. The results of this Tour-test are pretty shocking. This may mean that in future there will be more samples stored, maybe also blood, I don't know. It all may seem silly, but getting away with using shit just because it cannot be detected and it doesn't technically count anymore once it can be, will not help in cleaning up the sport and the athletes. Meanwhile, there is too much money going around in this sport to allow for it to be decided in secretive shadows. An more importantly - and as brownie pointed out - the sport has taken many blows already in the past. It does not need Armstrong to play its hero, not if he turns out to be another wolf in sheep's wool.

It is of course also Armstrong's self-made image of the dope-free crusader for a clean sport. His little speech against all the cynics and the sceptics at the end of this year's tour somehow lost lots of its impact. He told us to believe in the athletes, that there are no secrets, and that it's all just about hard work. Sure Lance... ← Actually, in this country, Armstrong's self-made image is that of the man who beat cancer and won the Tour. The rest of it means little or nothing. ← Yes, but that's only because in your country the Tour means little or nothing more than that it's the ditty that Armstrong won several times over. See, in the eyes of some people over here, the guy has been eating away at a Yurpeen tradition and goes on to polish himself up to be some Saint. Well, he ain't.

It is of course also Armstrong's self-made image of the dope-free crusader for a clean sport. His little speech against all the cynics and the sceptics at the end of this year's tour somehow lost lots of its impact. He told us to believe in the athletes, that there are no secrets, and that it's all just about hard work. Sure Lance...

The developments in the doping business are faster than in the detection business. Armstrong used EPO during the 1999 Tour, the detection of this substance was only possible in 2001, I believe, at least as officially recognised by the cycling union. The results now published are from samples taken at random from stored frozen urin "backup" samples covering multiple years. When an illegal substance is found, there is a second sample or a blood sample, which then also has to be tested positively, before any measures are taken. Of course this is not possible for samples taken 6 years ago: the first sample was tested and nothing was found wrong. Only now they check the second sample with a new detection scheme and do find something wrong. There can be no replication of the test results (first and second sample) and so Armstrong gets away scott free. Just shitty that from the many random samples taken, 6 of those tested positive belong to Armstrong. So although no real backup samples are available to take measures according to the rules, there is still some doubling of results that is "interesting" to say the very least.

This, though, he's been relatively honest about, hasn't he? I think I remeber some American journalist asking whether he thought himself the "greatest cycler ever" and he mentioned exactly this (Something like "I'm not really a cyclist in the sense that people like Delgado or Indurain are. I just do the tour.") --eric ← his honesty doesn't change the fact that he is not deeply rooted in the scene, does it? So it doesn't change a thing about the sentiments and fixations.

I'll spin this disk again to digest the answers and while checking back on my guesses. thanks much for a great ride.

the fixation is likely related to the bad state french cyclism is in and certainly also to the fact that Armstrong is not part of the true tradition of the sport, which lies in the gloomy classics in early february or late september on bumpy roads in little towns where people live that are related less than three degrees away to the folks driving by. Armstrong sought out the most prestigious and went for that and only that. Not necessarily the best way to win the hearts of the European press corps that grew up with the sport and knows it from much more up close than distant Texas and who is by default in favour of the underdog.