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Happy Birthday 2015 u_c!

Happy Birthday 2015 romualdo!

mid-season Hamilton analysis http://3downnation.com/2015/09/02/the-ticats-mid-season-mops/#comments ***** Mark Fulton studies the rosters, and concludes that the number of men on the six-game injured list is a strong indicator of failure. http://3downnation.com/2015/09/02/age-experience-injuries-cfl-rosters-august-31st-2015/#comments ***** Former Stampeder DE Shawn Lemon was cut by San Francisco two days ago, and has signed with the Redblacks. http://www.tsn.ca/de-lemon-signs-with-redblacks-1.354880 ***** Dan Ralph Week 11 picks http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/week-11-cfl-picks-labour-day-rivalries-carrying-extra-weight-this-year/article26201603/

The Eskimos have traded Matt Nichols to the Bombers. http://3downnation.com/2015/09/02/eskimos-deal-matt-nichols-to-blue-bombers/#comments http://cfl.ca/article/bound-for-bomberland-esks-trade-nichols-for-pick http://www.tsn.ca/esks-deal-qb-nichols-to-blue-bombers-1.354637 ***** Tanner Marsh will start for the Als this week against the Lions. http://cfl.ca/article/marsh-to-get-the-start-when-alouettes-host-lions http://www.tsn.ca/als-to-start-qb-marsh-vs-lions-1.354653 ***** 9/2 Checking Down http://cfl.ca/article/checking-down-week-11-news-from-across-the-league ***** Scott Cullen 9/2 power rankings http://www.tsn.ca/stampeders-return-to-top-of-cfl-rankings-1.354522 ***** Chris Schultz Week 11 picks http://www.tsn.ca/talent/week-11-picks-bring-on-the-labour-day-rivalries-1.354610 ***** Jamie Nye Week 11 picks http://cfl.ca/article/weekly-predictor-winners-on-marks-labour-day-weekend ***** The next game on ESPN2 will not be until Oct. 18. Of course, all games are shown on ESPN3.com. http://cfl.ca/page/us-broadcast-schedule-20150213084657

The Riders have released Tino Sunseri. I think that he is getting a raw deal. http://www.tsn.ca/roughriders-release-qb-sunseri-1.354394 ***** The Ticats have placed Eric Norwood, Johnny Sears, Mike Daly and Byron Archambault on the six-game injured list. http://cfl.ca/article/injury-bug-bites-ticats-as-norwood-placed-on-six-game http://3downnation.com/2015/09/01/with-key-labour-day-game-on-the-horizon-ticats-decimated-by-injuries/#comments ***** mid-year Calgary analysis http://3downnation.com/2015/09/01/time-to-hand-out-some-mid-season-stampeders-awards/#comments ***** mid-year Edmonton analysis http://3downnation.com/2015/09/01/eskimos-midseason-analysis-positives-and-negatives/#comments ***** mid-year Saskatchewan analysis http://3downnation.com/2015/09/01/recapping-the-2015-riders-under-corey-chamblin/#comments

RARE NOISE RECORDS PROUDLY PRESENTS Machine Language THE LAST ALBUM BY Bob Belden's Animation FEATURING Bill Laswell on electric bass & Kurt Elling on spoken word AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2015AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM AS CD DIGIPACK, DOUBLE VINYL 180 GRAMS AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS. Bob BeldenSax / FlutePeter ClagettTrumpetRoberto VerasteguiKeyboardsBill LaswellElectric BassMatt YoungDrumsKurt EllingNarrator ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/ producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre. For further information and to listen please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com. New York, September 1, 2015 - Recorded over three days in the autumn of 2014 at Bill Laswell's Orange Studios in New Jersey, mixed by James Dellatacoma and mastered by Mike Fossenkemper, Machine Language is the last and possibly most ambitious work by American composer, orchestrator, arranger, saxophonist and all-round conceptualizer Bob Belden with his historical group Animation. Belden died on May 20th this year. Machine Language is a cyberpunk "opera," an attempt to answer the question: "Can a machine have an imagination?" In order to realize his vision, Bob Belden enlisted Bill Laswell on electric bass and renowned jazz singer Kurt Elling, who acts as narrator. As for the previous album by Animation, Transparent Heart, also released on RareNoiseRecords in 2012, the lineup also comprises Peter Clagett on electrified trumpet, Roberto Verastegui on keyboards and Matt Young on drums. Machine Languagedraws inspiration from multiple literary sources (e.g. Philip K. Dick, Iain M. Banks), visual sources (Kubrick's "2001 Space Odyssey") and musical sources (Miles Davis' "Get Up With It," "Big Fun" and "In A Silent Way"). Belden's work translates them into a musical weave - electric Jazz, ambient sound, drum'n bass grooves, accompanied with a text addressing the evolution and relationship between the human mind ("The Human Machine") and the emergent artificial mind ("The Pure Machine"). The arc of the album is developed over 12 compositions, beginning with "Child's Dream" and ending with "Machine's Dream." The dialectic remains unresolved; in Belden's world, the only constant is the universal power of imagination, which transcends all distinctions. TRACKS 1. A Child's Dream 2. Machine Language 3. Eternality 4. Consistent Imperfection 5. Soul Of A Machine 6. Genesis Code 7. Evolved Virtual Entity 8. DisappearAnnihilation 9. The Evolution Of Machine Culture 10. Dark Matter 11. TechnoMelancolia 12. A Machine's Dream Bob Belden's Animation performed in Tehran, Iran, this year as the first U.S. band since 1979. Among other distinguished publications, the CHICAGO TRIBUNE and NEW YORK TIMES reported extensively. R.I.P. Bob Belden.

Goodnight, Irene by Gordon Jenkins and The Weavers And the #1 movie was All About Eve.

Malcolm Kelly 9/1 power rankings http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-10-1.3211246 ***** cfl.ca 9/1 power rankings http://cfl.ca/article/nissan-titan-power-rankings-changes-at-the-top ***** The Bombers have signed Chevon Walker. http://www.tsn.ca/blue-bombers-rb-walker-agree-to-deal-1.354074 ***** Mark Cohon is now the Chairman of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/ex-cfl-commissioner-cohon-lands-music-industry-job/ ***** cfl.ca lists its mid-season all-star team. http://cfl.ca/article/2015-cflca-mid-season-all-star-team

Breaking News! The Riders have fired both Brendan Taman and Corey Chamblin. http://3downnation.com/2015/08/31/riders-fire-chamblin-and-taman/#comments http://cfl.ca/article/shakeup-in-riderville-club-parts-ways-with-taman-chamblin http://www.tsn.ca/roughriders-fire-head-coach-chamblin-gm-taman-1.353853 http://www.thesnap.ca/twitter-reacts-to-roughrider-gm-head-coach-changes/

Edmonton 38....Toronto 15 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/game/toronto-argonauts-edmonton-eskimos-20150828/Stats http://www.cfl.ca/article/franklin-eskimos-power-past-argos-in-fourth http://3downnation.com/2015/08/29/sweet-redemption-eskimos-bounce-back-to-sink-the-argonauts/#comments James Franklin looked good in his first start since the 2014 Cotton Bowl. After three the score was 17-15. ***** Calgary 36....Winnipeg 8 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/game/calgary-stampeders-winnipeg-blue-bombers-20150829/Stats http://www.cfl.ca/article/dominant-stampeders-defence-tramples-blue-bombers http://3downnation.com/2015/08/29/statement-made-in-winnipeg-as-stamps-ride-high-in-labour-day-classic/#comments http://www.tsn.ca/mitchell-strong-as-stamps-rout-bombers-1.352913 At the half the Stamps led 8-3; but the second half was all Calgary's. ***** Ottawa 35....Sask 13 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/game/saskatchewan-roughriders-ottawa-redblacks-20150830/Stats http://cfl.ca/article/johnsons-three-tds-run-redblacks-over-riders http://3downnation.com/2015/08/30/johnson-runs-wild-as-the-redblacks-sack-saskatchewan/#comments http://www.tsn.ca/redblacks-keep-roughriders-winless-1.353290 Ottawa's D had ten sacks. Jeremiah Johnson rushed for three touchdowns. In the second quarter Brett Smith threw an interception, and Chamblin pulled him for the rest of the game, playing Tino Sunseri. A very controversial move! http://3downnation.com/2015/08/31/chamblins-coaching-can-no-longer-be-defended/#comments ***** Montreal has confirmed that Cato has a hip injury. http://www.tsn.ca/alouettes-qb-cato-nursing-hip-injury-1.353167 ***** Week 10 review http://cfl.ca/article/cfl-replay-looking-back-at-week-10 ***** Week 10 Plays of the Week http://cfl.ca/video/index/id/115435/autostart/true ***** Mark Fulton 8/30 power rankings http://3downnation.com/2015/08/30/week-10-by-the-numbers-power-rankings-projections/#comments ***** We have now reached the mid-point of the season. Here are the standings. It is still possible that an Eastern team will cross over to the Western playoffs. http://cfl.ca/standings/2015/reg

Saxophonist/Composer John Wojciechowski's"Focus" Due for September 18 Releaseby Origin Records Quartet Date with Ryan Cohan, Dennis Carroll, & Dana HallIs Wojciechowski's Second as a Leader &First for Origin CD Release Shows in Chicago:9/26 Hyde Park Jazz Festival10/28 St. Charles North High School10/30-31 Green Mill August 31, 2015 Tenor, alto, and soprano saxophonist John Wojciechowski has been a mainstay of Chicago's world-class jazz scene since his arrival from Detroit in 2002, forging close alliances with first-call musicians such as pianist Ryan Cohan, bassist Dennis Carroll, and drummer Dana Hall. Those players happen to be the members of his tightly-knit working quartet, who appear on his outstanding new CD Focus. Origin Records will release the disc,Wojciechowski's first for the label, on September 18. Boasting seven strong original compositions, each one reflecting a different aspect of the saxophonist's style and personality, Focus is one of those supremely enjoyable albums that treats the mainstream not as a comfort zone but a central place from which to push stylistic boundaries and assert original ideas. Repertoire ranges from the earthy intensity of "Summon the Elders," a spell-casting modal piece reminiscent of John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, to the bottom-up inventions of the title cut to the dancing 3/4 patterns of "Twirl," on which Wojciechowski (woy-cha-KOW-ski) shows off his lyrical tenor saxophone sound. "After the tenor became my 'voice,'" he told CD annotator Neil Tesser, "I think I started to run away from the alto [his first instrument]. So I really wanted to get back to it on this recording." His alto work is featured on the two standards, Thelonious Monk's "Evidence" and Dave Brubeck's "In Your Own Sweet Way": "I like to play alto on those songs; I've been playing them forever." In the studio during the recording of "Focus": Dennis Carroll, Dana Hall, John Wojciechowski, Ryan Cohan. The two covers on Focus reveal the leader's compositional gift as well. He remakes "Evidence" with the clave-informed Latin arrangement and reharmonizing touches he showed off at the 1996 Thelonious Monk Competition (he placed third behind Jon Gordon and Jimmy Greene). And showing off his love of Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson, he treats "In Your Own Sweet Way" to a coiled, melodically expansive alto trio reading. "Divided Man," whose two separate sections reflect Wojciechowski's dual existence as a music teacher (at St. Charles North High School, in the historic river city of St. Charles, Illinois) and urban jazz musician, displays the deep-seated unity of this band. "Elegy," a beautiful piece written for his father, who died two years ago, captures both the gentleness of the man and the hard times he underwent dealing with illness. "I don't usually do programmatic pieces," says Wojciechowski, "but this was really a composition that wrote itself. It's based in my reflection that life is short and I still had a lot to say as an artist. And it brought up a lot of memories about my father." John Wojciechowski, 41, was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, 24 miles northwest of Detroit. His father was a sheet metal worker by day and a jazz organist by night in the manner of such B-3 favorites as Don Patterson, Jimmy McGriff, and Richard "Groove" Holmes. Young John started playing music at age 8, and, recognizing his son's aptitude, his father asked him what instrument he wanted to play. "I chose the saxophone," he says, "because I was drawn to its sound" -- particularly that of alto great Sonny Stitt, who made such a stellar contribution to countless organ groups of that era. The elder Wojciechowski went to extra lengths to find his son a good teacher and came up with a winner in Gerry Gravelle. "He knew all the vocabulary," says Wojciechowski, who by the time he was in middle school was playing alto saxophone, plus clarinet and flute, and was conversant with the Great American Songbook. He earned his music education degree (at Western Michigan University) at the urging of his jazz elders, and after a brief stint in New York moved back to Detroit, where he took up teaching, performed locally, and worked on his tenor saxophone playing. "Wojo," as he is known, made the move to Chicago in 2002 and before long found himself in such impressive settings as the Chicago Jazz Orchestra. In 2004 he began teaching at St. Charles, and in 2009 he made his recording debut with Lexicon, featuring Dana Hall and Dennis Carroll as well as guitarist Dave Miller and pianist Ron Perrillo. Wojciechowski has also performed in pianist/arranger Laurence Hobgood's first post-Kurt Elling band and with such notable young artists as pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Jeff Campbell, and trombonist Joel Adams. Whether leading his own group or furthering his already distinguished career as a sideman, John Wojciechowski brings to bear a consummate understanding of where past meets present, where Detroit meets Chicago, where learning meets teaching, and where dedication meets execution. The John Wojciechowski Quartet with Ryan Cohan, Dennis Carroll, and Dana Hall will be performing the following CD release shows for Focus: Sat. 9/26 Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Chicago (6pm, Wagner Midway Stage); Wed. 10/28 St. Charles North High School, St. Charles, IL (7:30pm); Fri. 10/30 Green Mill, Chicago (9pm); Sat. 10/31 Green Mill (8pm). Web Site: jwojojazz.comFollow: Like: View:

Bloomberg reports today that ESPN lost 3,000,000 subscribers last year, and the viewers of live sports programming has plateaued. The TV people for years have liked live sports because the fans will watch the commercials. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-31/live-sports-no-longer-tv-s-holy-grail-in-u-s-as-ratings-peak

That's a GREAT collection of albums, but twice that price on my Amazon page. BF, take a look below the Amazon price box...It says, "35 New from $11.77."

Joe Farrell - OAC - $11.77 + $3.99 http://www.amazon.com/Original-Album-Classics-JOE-FARRELL/dp/B00RVD8DBM

I see that this one is now up on Spotify.

I'll hope to catch up tonight. For now, I want to point out that today's Riders-Redblacks game will be on ESPN2, starting at 4:00 pm eastern.

Today only: The Man from UNCLE (complete) - $59.99 http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MWD1ZMK?ref_=gbrc_tit_r-1_5082_31d773d7&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Tonight's Argos-Eskimos game will be on ESPN2, starting at 9:00 pm eastern. ***** The Redblacks have released Chevon Walker. http://3downnation.com/2015/08/28/chevon-walker-out-in-the-nations-capital/#comments http://www.tsn.ca/redblacks-release-rb-walker-look-to-rb-johnson-1.352300 http://cfl.ca/article/redblacks-release-rb-chevon-walker ***** Mark Fulton has studied the stats to come to conclusions regarding the season so far. http://3downnation.com/2015/08/27/what-has-been-working-in-the-cfl-first-eight-games-2015-cfl-regular-season/#comments ***** Here Mark Fulton discusses his use of stats regarding his power rankings. http://3downnation.com/2015/08/19/a-practical-guide-for-power-rankings/#comments

Happy Birthday 2015 kh, born in 1958!

Happy Birthday 2015 Joe!

John Hodge Week 10 picks http://3downnation.com/2015/08/27/week-10-cfl-picks/#comments ***** Mike Beamish 8/27 power rankings http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/power+rankings+week/11320685/story.html ***** This weekend marks the halfway point of the season.

The other thing I remember about Dawkins was the necklaces. And the backboards shattering. I think that that was what the fans came to see!

Montreal 26....Hamilton 23 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/game/montreal-alouettes-hamilton-tiger-cats-20150827/Stats http://cfl.ca/article/als-hang-on-for-big-win-at-tim-hortons-field http://www.tsn.ca/als-hand-ticats-first-loss-at-tim-hortons-field-1.352050 http://3downnation.com/2015/08/27/the-streak-is-over-ticats-fall-26-23-to-als/#comments Great game! The Als looked the best they have all season, especially their defense. Cato hurt something, maybe his right hip, in the second quarter; and Tanner Marsh came in and finished the game without showing much rust. Boris Bede missed only his second FG of the year. During the halftime, Angelo Mosca's number was retired. He mentioned the Ticats to whom he owed a lot, and I realized that I have met every one of them - Jake Gaudaur, Ralph Sazio, Joe Zuger, Rooster Fleming and Bob Young. Bernie Faloney is the only other Ticat to have his number retired. http://cfl.ca/article/tiger-cats-officially-retire-angelo-moscas-no-68 http://3downnation.com/2015/08/27/milton-mosca-will-always-be-the-face-of-hamilton/#comments http://3downnation.com/2015/08/25/milton-mosca-still-looms-larger-than-life/#comments

Tonight's Als-Ticats game is on ESPN2 at 7:30 pm eastern. ***** Week 10 game notes http://cfl.ca/article/cflca-game-notes-a-look-at-week-10 ***** Teams are not converting third and one as often as usual. http://cfl.ca/article/landry-teams-struggling-on-third-and-short-situations ***** Chris Getzlaf hurt himself in practice, and will not play this week. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/video/getzlaf-leaves-riders-practice-on-crutches~689567 ***** Another trick shot from Argos long snapper Jake Reinhart. http://www.tsn.ca/tnf-trick-shots-the-roof-top-shot-1.351809 ***** Justin Dunk Week 10 picks http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/week-10-cfl-picks-riders-may-finally-get-in-win-column/ ***** Dan Ralph Week 10 picks http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/calgary-stampeders-find-themselves-back-atop-west/article26117043/

My recollection of Dawkins is that he was one of the first to skip college. RIP.