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I have seen many advertisements for an internet retailer called Brad's. Most of the ads promise athletic shoes for 80% off. However, when I go to the website, they will not let me enter and take a look at the merchandise until I first give them my personal information. I don't want to do that without seeing something first. Has anyone shopped at Brad's, or know someone who has? Do you recommend it? Thanks!

What should have been Disc Two of a 3-CD box. Disc Two

April 1 Alberta Hunter - 1895 Eddy Duchin - 1909 Harry Carney - 1910 Art Lund - 1915 Duke Jordan - 1922 Amos Milburn - 1927 Alan Blakley - 1942 John Barbata - 1945 Ronnie Lane - 1946 Jeff Porcaro - 1954 Susan Boyle - 1961 ***** Rusty Staub - 1944

Thanks, Dan!

Was there a problem with this tweet about Will Clark?

A man has been told he has inoperable cancer and is lying in bed in his home , knowing he is on his deathbed. He’s thinking about his life with his loving wife and family, when a breeze blows through his room carrying the wonderful smell of fresh chocolate chip cookies from the kitchen. A tear comes to his eye because his wife knows how much he loves chocolate chip cookies and he realizes she has baked them for him. He gathers his strength and decides to take one final trip down the stairs. He slowly goes down the stairs and when he gets to the kitchen, he sees a big plate of chocolate chip cookies on the counter. He has beautiful memories running through his mind, and with a shaky hand reaches for a cookie. His wife comes up behind him, hits his hand with a spatula, and says, “Leave those cookies alone, they’re for the funeral!”

Pulp fiction. Only a little better than average.

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I hope he is in good health. I remember when Fred Gwynn and Al Jarreau announced their retirements, they both died a week later.

You may recall that after the season, the union gave each team a report card, and the Stampeders players complained about the food. Today the Stamps announced their plan to improve things. https://3downnation.com/2025/03/25/calgary-stampeders-partner-with-flames-to-upgrade-food-service-after-player-complaints/ ***** Yesterday the union officially objected to Ed Hervey's comment of last week that there are no superstars in the league. I enjoyed a friendly back-and-forth with Rick Zamperin on Twitter/X about it. https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/cflpa-sends-letter-to-league-edmonton-elks-regarding-comments-from-elks-gm-ed-hervey-1.2276359 ***** Combine news https://www.cfl.ca/2025/03/25/10-cfl-prospects-who-stood-out-at-the-cfl-combine/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/03/25/3-players-that-translated-cfl-combine-results-to-the-field/ ***** Sask draft analysis https://pifflespodcast.com/blog/combine-szn-canadian-draft-needs-for-roughriders-defense/

My first thought is that the stones would be unhygenic. Maybe they soak them in alcohol first to disinfect them. Maybe the liquor would kill the germs too. I get the idea, but I'm not aware of any trend to use pebbles instead of ice. Why not?

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RIP George Foreman! I remember January 22, 1973, very well. Three things happened that day. 1) The US Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision. 2) LBJ died. 3) Foreman beat Frazier.

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Saxophonist Joe Lovano and the Marcin Wasilewski Trio Are in an Especially Adventurous Spirit on Homage, Their Second Album for ECM Building on the Lyrical Strengths that Inhabited the Group’s Previous Recording (Arctic Riff, 2020), on Homage the Quartet Investigates the Type of Free-Flowing Interplay and Expansive Passages of Improvisation Featuring Pianist Marcin Wasilewski, Bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Drummer Michal Miskiewicz Available April 24, 2025 via ECM "The music throughout the week was unfolding every night in a very special way. So when we went into the studio, we were able to capture an exceptional, concentrated five-hour moment." — Joe Lovano Joe Lovano and his Polish conspirators from the Marcin Wasilewski trio are in an especially adventurous spirit on their second joint endeavour for ECM. Building on the lyrical strengths that inhabited the group’s previous recording (Arctic Riff, 2020), on Homage the quartet moreover investigates the type of free-flowing interplay and expansive passages of improvisation that have become a staple in Lovano’s ventures with his trio tapestry group and elsewhere. The album was recorded at a studio session in the midst of the group’s Village Vanguard residency in late Autumn 2023, revealing fluent structures as they’re being developed. A rare sense of expressivity and spiritual affinity grace the session. Clocking in at over ten minutes each, two long-form compositions and the title track “Homage” – all Lovano originals – make up the bedrock of the album and find the players at their most exploratory, with Joe frequently swapping out his tenor and tárogató for a variety of percussion instruments - “Just a handful of gongs and some light percussion sounds,” notes Lovano. “It’s so nice to communicate with Michael [Miskiewicz] on drums – in the studio it felt like we were one!” Reigniting the spark in the studio was no difficult task for the quartet, as they’d toured extensively since their first album. “We connected with Joe right from the start,” the trio recalls. “It was natural. He’s the kind of musician who jumps into the moment and plays along with whatever he hears, which matches how we approach music. Touring together over the years only made this connection stronger, both on and off stage. His openness and spontaneity allowed real musical dialogue to happen.” Joe originally wrote “Homage”, the title track, for the 2023 ECM celebration at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, celebrating Manfred Eicher’s 80th birthday alongside A-listers Dave Holland, Anouar Brahem, Ralph Towner, Norma Winstone and many more. There, Lovano performed the composition in quartet with Avishai Cohen, Tigran Hamasyan and Nasheet Waits. “The piece is dedicated to Manfred and the label’s history. I grew up listening to ECM recordings, because those were the cats that I wanted to play with, and it turned out to be the music that gave me a lot of direction.” In putting the score together, Lovano “used no notes – just feelings written in a sequence of events”. Not strictly tonal, Lovano and Marcin’s trio shift between different keys throughout the song, alternating pulse and rhythm in the process and revealing Lovano’s deep connection with the music of conductor and composer Gunther Schuller, and by extension of Jimmy Giuffre and George Russell. “Golden Horn”, one of the two lengthier pieces, is a modal meditation that finds the tides shifting smoothly between the players. Miskiewicz’s pulse is elegantly uncompromising, as he and Slawomir Kurkiewicz on bass keep a steady backdrop against Wasilewski and Lovano’s dauntless explorations through the bars. The interaction is reminiscent of what the trio used to sound like accompanying the great late Tomasz Stanko on the trumpeters ECM recordings in the early 2000s (the archival live recording from 2004, September Night was just released in 2024). Even more spontaneity and freedom grace the twelve-minute cut “This Side – Catville”, as the quartet embarks on a freewheeling blowout through swinging bars and again modal harmonic shifts – exemplary of each players heightened intuition for responsive interplay. Wasilewski’s keyboard flights move like ripples in the water, his soft-spoken action shaping an effective contrast against Lovano’s sharply overblown and melodically intricate jabs. “We really love to follow Joe’s spontaneous free approach in playing,” says Marcin, also speaking for his bandmates. “But it’s always rooted in the tradition at the same time. Combining these two elements in our own sense of music became more expressive recently.” The group’s pass at “Love In The Garden”, a composition by the Polish violinist Zbigniew Seifert, embellishes the evocative ballad with fluid harmonies, wrapped in a rubato pulse. Marcin: “It was a spontaneous choice – no discussion about how or what to play. We just went for it, and the music unfolded naturally.” It’s a surprising and tasteful take on the rather electric original from the 70s, but, as Joe notes, “the thing is to not play something the way it looks but to try and create it as you play, you know. And playing ballads, that’s the heart and soul, really, of the music.” Improvised miniatures complete a programme that proves Wasilewski and his trio cohorts to be the ideal match for Lovano’s singular musings and the group’s flawless chemistry is more apparent than ever on Homage. Recorded at the Van Gelder studio in New Jersey and mixed at Bavaria Musikstudios in Munich, the album was produced by Manfred Eicher. Joe Lovano · Homage ECM · Release Date: April 25, 2025 For more information on ECM, please visit: ECMRecords.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter # # #

Anyone know why Eliska81 and 123meklozed would be common?