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How about that hold on the safety play at the end?

I noticed at the coin toss that the referee referred to the game as "the 2013 Super Bowl". I've never heard the Super Bowl referred to by the calendar year before.

How the people of New Orleans feel about the Commissioner: My server at breakfast displays the local sentiment about the NFL's commissioner. #superbowl47 pic.twitter.com/zGQEkU00 — David William Naylor (@TSNDaveNaylor) February 3, 2013

Now here's an artist of a unique sort! The inventor of the Etch-a-Sketch has passed away. RIP. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-andre-cassagnes-20130203,0,6933080.story

aloc, I think that article is Rick Reilly trying to impose his trip on somebody else. He should butt out.

Happy Birthday 2013 Thom!

My car radio has stopped working, so this morning I went to the car audio shop where I bought it. I wore my 2009 Grey Cup hat (which I bought because the 2009 game was the 100th anniversary of the Grey Cup, and because the hat was on sale for $5.00). While waiting, I saw a young man wearing a CFL watch cap! He was speaking with a salesman, so I didn't interrupt. He disappeared before I had a chance to speak with him. By the way, my salesman told me that my radio was shot and that I needed a new one. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was hoping it only needed a new fuse.

Happy Birthday!

Unconfirmed rumor has it that the league as agreed to give TSN/RDS exclusivity for a few more years to broadcast all of their games. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/tsnrds-to-retain-exclusive-cfl-broadcast-rights/article8104468/ ***** In anticipation of Feb. 15, the Als have released Adrian McPherson, Brian Bratton and Trent Guy. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=415001

Mike Reilly was going to become a free agent on the 15th, so Wally traded him to Edmonton for a second round pick, and Reilly then signed a contract. Along with Nichols, that gives the Eskimos two unproven but very attractive young QBs. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=414907

...that its supplier in England has been including horsemeat in the Whopper meat. http://www.dailymail...ost_read_module

I listened to this one today for the first time in a long time, and I liked it much more than I did the last time.

The expansion Ottawa team has named Marcel Desjardins as its first general manager. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=414823 ***** The Als have interviewed Jim Zorn to replace Marc Trestman. You may recall that Zorn finished up his playing career with the Bombers. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=414805 ***** Romby Bryant was scheduled to become a free agent Feb. 15, so the Stamps have released him two weeks early. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=414820

In the mid-90s I was a homebrewer. In fact, I twice won awards, both in '93 as I recall. My India Pale Ale won first place (a blue ribbon) in the Georgia state competition, and my Irish Stout won third place (a red ribbon) in the Southeast Regionals competition. At that time I lived 20 miles outside Atlanta. Using a countertop water filter, my water was quite good. In '95 I moved another 20 miles further out, and the water wasn't as good for my beers. The beers were still OK, but the thrill was gone. Eventually I gave away my equipment. Recently I have given serious thought to going back to homebrewing. And talk about a stroke of good fortune, this week LivingSocial is having a half-price sale on equipment. $64 gets you $126 worth of equipment including two cases of beer. In addition to that offer, I expect that you would need to purchase a pot and lid for $60, a book for $10, two cases of beer bottles for $24 total, and another $35 or so for items such as a glass carboy and a large funnel if you want to go first class. In addition to all that, I recommend that you spend $100 on a countertop water filter. Here is the link for the LivingSocial deal. I think that it is good for Canada as well as the US, but I'm not sure. If so, the US shipping would be $14 and the shipping to Canada would I'm confident be more. https://www.livingsocial.com/deals/588148?ref=conf-jp&rpi=102964310 As with all LivingSocial deals, when three referrals make a purchase, the original customer gets his purchase free. If you decide to go for the deal, you are welcome to post your own link on this thread. The LivingSocial deal expires in six days. Cheers!

Is anyone here familiar with Winkler? JAZZ SINGER/LYRICIST MARK WINKLER TAKES A CHANCE ON THE SONGS OF 60S POP ICON LAURA NYRO THE LAURA NYRO PROJECT WILL BE RELEASED ON APRIL 16, 2013 Quick Links MARK'S WEBSITE LISTEN TO 'AND WHEN I DIE' FOLLOW MARK ON TWITTER Although his last three CDs have placed high on the Jazz Week charts, and his lyrics have been regularly recorded by over 150 singers (including Dianne Reeves, Cheryl Bentyne, Jackie Ryan and Bob Dorough), for his latest work jazz singer and lyricist Mark Winkler has created a new album dedicated to fresh interpretations of the work of his own favorite singer/songwriter: Laura Nyro. "I love the songs of Laura Nyro", says Winkler. "I am moved by both her music and her words. Her songs create their own worlds, conjuring up cities, cockleshells, exotic lands...and deep passions that touch and inspire me. She mixes Jazz with Broadway and Soul and Folk, and somehow, it all comes out great. I became aware of her brilliance while still a young man living at home with my family. Ever since then, I've had a burning desire to do her music. I decided that, at last, the time is right for me to tackle it...so I set myself the task of finding the "jazz side" of her amazing work. I'm hoping that today's music lovers will discover that her songs are so good that they really deserve a place in the Great American Songbook." The Laura Nyro Project is not Winkler's first exploration into the musical legacy of another songwriter. His 2003 release Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troup received a four-star review from Allmusic.com, while Jazzreview.com raved: "Even the artist himself (Bobby Troup) would be proud..." In his last release, Sweet Spot, Winkler also included interpretations of great songs by other legendary tunesmiths, notably George and Ira Gershwin and Leiber and Stoller. (Sweet Spot was named as the #5 Jazz vocal CD of the year by the Jazz Times critic Christopher Loudon in 2011). Still, an attempt to shed new light on an artist with as devoted a fan base as New York-bred Laura Nyro is a brave move for the Los Angeles-based Winkler. "It has been so interesting-and, at times, frustrating and challenging-to create a Mark Winkler interpretation of Laura Nyro's music", he notes. "The first challenge: Hey, I don't sound anything like her! I am not from the belting, melismatic school-my voice is lighter and more conversational and quite a bit lower. I had to find a way to fit my baritone-ness into her world of soprano side streets and soaring street-corner passions". The task required collaboration with inspired musicians. Winkler tapped the talents of arranger and SNL Music Director Eli Brueggemann ("simply one of the best musicians I have ever worked with") to finesse nearly half of the CD's 11 tracks. "Eli understood Laura's idiosyncrasies and found parallels for them in the world of Jazz and the Great American Songbook", explains Winkler. "One of my favorite arrangements of his is "Time And Love." When I told him I wanted to turn this mid-tempo shuffle into a ballad, the remarkable musical reference book in his head led him to turn for inspiration to Ahmad Jamal's arrangement of "Moonlight In Vermont," transcending genres and decades in a musical micro-second." Many other A-list musicians helped Winkler bring his ideas to fruition...the album is chock full of fine work by the likes of Eric Reed ( who supplied his own arrangement and piano for "Billie's Blues" and then plays killer stride on Winkler's offbeat take on Laura's 60s anti-war anthem "Save The Country"), Anthony Wilson ( who cools it down with his solo on "Emmie"), and the sons of the original Mills Brothers ( who apply their inimitable style to backgrounds on a New Orleans-infused version of "Sweet Blindness"). Saxophonist Bob Sheppard, guitarists Pat Kelly and Larry Koonse and bassist Dan Lutz also made major contributions to this musical adventure. Prior to his work on The Laura Nyro Project, Winkler had released 11 CDs in the US, developing a substantial fan base of his own. The 2011 release, Sweet Spot, led to a feature article on Winkler's work in Jazz Times, which noted that he is "as both vocalist and lyricist, a master weaver of tunes that seem to demand gin, vermouth, a T-Bird convertible and the occasional femme fatale". In that same profile, Winkler's sometime singing partner Cheryl Bentyne (of Manhattan Transfer) says "He's a consummate writer, a wonderful interpreter of these incredible songs, and he does it all with wit, charm and warmth". Winkler and Bentyne have been touring around the country in a jazz show paying homage to the creators of the West Coast Cool sound, a recording of which will be released in the fall of 2013. Besides the writing, singing and touring, there is another aspect of Winkler's career: teaching. He is in his seventh year as a teacher at UCLA Extension, for which he created a course called "Crafting Great Lyrics: A Songwriter's Workshop," which is now one of the most popular courses at the school. Though there is plenty to keep him busy, Winkler plans to devote a lot of time and attention to his Laura Nyro Project. "It's something I've wanted to do for so long, and I was lucky enough to get some of the best people in the business to work with me. I'm proud of this album, and I 'm hoping that Laura's legions of fans will welcome it and feel that I have been faithful to her unique and provocative vision".

Trumpeter Brad Goode's "Chicago Red" To Be Released by Origin Records February 19 With Guitarist Bill Kopper, Keyboardist Jeff Jenkins, Bassist Bijoux Barbosa, Drummer Paa Kow, & Hand Drummer Rony Barrak Appearing with His Quartet 3/8-9 At the Green Mill, Chicago, & Performing a CD Release Show 3/22 At Dazzle, Denver January 29, 2013 For innovative trumpeter Brad Goode, jazz has been a means for him to develop and express his own improvisational voice, without limiting himself to a single sound or style. On his new album, Chicago Red, Goode and a like-minded group of adventurous world-class musicians stretch out on eight Goode compositions -- as well as "St. Louis Blues" and "Vesta La Giubba" from I Pagliacci -- with strikingly original results. The CD, his second for Origin and 13th as a leader, will be released February 19. Goode has been working on what he calls his Polytonal System of Harmony, which involves improvising over streams of simultaneous chord sequences, for the last 20 years.The music thrives on the pleasing dissonance created by, say, the guitarist playing chords at odds with the chords being played by the bassist. "It's almost like two songs operating simultaneously," says Goode. "The lower chords provide the basic progression, but there is also a logic in the way the upper structure chords relate and resolve to each other." Or, in the case of Goode's coolly seductive use of polychords on W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues," create their own sonic mood. "These chords aren't what we've come to expect in jazz," he says, "but after listening a while, the music makes sense, if the right people are playing it." The "right people" is how Goode would describe his ethnically diverse band on Chicago Red: Guitarist Bill Kopper and keyboardist Jeff Jenkins are back from Polytonal Dance Party, the 2008 Origin album on which Goode formally introduced the Polytonal System, to take their first-rate contributions a step further. They are joined by Brazilian bassist Bijoux Barbosa, whose mastery of Latin, jazz, and classical forms is right at home in this music; the remarkable Ghanaian drummer Paa Kow, who Goode says "plays the perfect groove"; and hand drummer Rony Barrak, from Beirut, Lebanon, who has revolutionized the tabla-like Darbouka, introducing the Arabic drum to Latin music as well as jazz, pop, and western classical. "I was never thinking in terms of world music when I put the band together," said the trumpeter. "I was drawn to each of these players because of their phenomenal talent. They nailed each song in one take." In his booklet notes, Goode discusses the "collaborative nature of the improvising" as something that differentiates jazz from most other art forms. "A musician may spend a great deal of time in preparation for the group experience," he writes, " . . . but this work can't anticipate the surprise of the sound and feeling that will happen when a group is assembled. . . . My goal is to approach each performance without an agenda, reacting to the sound and ideas of the band, hoping that my own training will have prepared me to express something that is meaningful and musical within that specific moment." The band on Chicago Red met those challenges -- and then some. Born and raised in Chicago, Brad Goode studied trumpet at the University of Kentucky, returning to Chicago to get his master's degree in string bass from DePaul University and quickly becoming a regular on the club scene. From 1986 to 1997 he led his own group in Chicago, its members including saxophonists Lin Halliday and Ron Blake, pianists Jodie Christian and Ron Perrillo, guitarist Fareed Haque, trombonist Paul McKee, and drummer Dana Hall. The group often was augmented by Von Freeman and Ira Sullivan, and for 11 years appeared weekly at the Green Mill. Goode also toured with the bands of Jack DeJohnette, Curtis Fuller, Eddie Harris, and Ira Sullivan and with the Woody Herman Orchestra. The trumpeter accepted a professorship at the University of Cincinnati in 1997 and moved to Boulder in 2004 to teach at the University of Colorado. In the tradition of his mentor Von Freeman, Goode leads weekly jam sessions for young musicians looking to learn their craft. Denver/Boulder has provided new musical directions and opportunities, from highlife to salsa, contemporary classical to jam bands. His reputation as a virtuoso trumpeter and as an educator keeps him quite active. Today, he is most often heard as a first trumpeter in big bands and symphony orchestras, and small group jazz appearances are rare. He is planning a series of dates in support of Chicago Red, including a CD release show at Dazzle, Denver, 3/22. Goode will also appear with his Quartet at the Green Mill in Chicago, 3/8-9. BRAD GOODE (with Bill Kopper, Jeff Jenkins, Bijoux Barbosa, Paa Kow) performing "Encryption" Web Site: www.bradgoode.com A video was included in the press release, but the board refused to accept it.

Garrett McNamara has done it again! This time the claim is that the wave was 100 ft. high. Same beach in Portugal. Here's the video: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/29/surfer-garrett-mcnamara-100ft-wave

Well, the deadline has arrived. Billy Harper and Woody Shaw are tied for first place with three votes each, so I have decided to go with Billy Harper. Thanks to the seven who voted!

The Blue Jays are planning to install grass at Rogers Centre. This would impose burdens on the Argos such as scheduling. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/argos-left-in-limbo-as-blue-jays-look-to-install-grass-at-rogers-centre/article7903345/ ***** ESPN is reporting that the Patriots have agreed on terms with Bomber Jason Vega. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=414564 http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4739255/some-thoughts-on-cfl-to-pats

Nice story. I remember a long time ago hearing on the Westwood One national radio broadcast of a game Bob Trumpy, the old Bengals end, say that "Kitna is living every high school math teacher's dream."

Here's an informative article about how to spot when a singer is lip-synching. http://magazine.foxnews.com/celebrity/how-tell-when-someone-lip-synching-sorry-beyonce?intcmp=HPBucket

RIP. I saw him play with Kirk at the Cellar Door, and he was great.

Here you go. Their stereo system arm was called North Country Audio. http://cadencebuilding.com/northcountry-audio.html

Cadence Magazine used to sell stereo equipment by mail order. You might use google to see if you can track down the current info.

Well, it was quite sufficient for the amazon.de email. By the way, Amazon gave me an estimated delivery date of February 13. I find that odd, in that that is way past the street date, yet shipped before the street date. I wonder if Amazon was prohibited by Sony from shipping it before the day it did.