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Happy Birthday 2012 RJ!

The CFL Awards were given out tonight. The winners were: Owens Sherritt Cornish Williams Matthews Olafioye http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4545213

Calgary fans today re-enacted 1948 by riding a horse through the lobby of the Royal York Hotel! http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=410061

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope that everyone's day is peaceful and a good time for reflection.

Amazon currently has Coltrane's 6 CD Fearless Leader box for $27.98, which is the lowest they've had it since late 2009. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H30CBM/ref=ox_ya_os_product

Happy Birthday 2012 Doug!

Happy Birthday 2012 Don!

aloc, Noj already has Calgary and 80. Do you want to make it the next highest available?

My notes say that the following are available: Calgary - everything under 25 and over 75. Toronto - everything under 30 and over 70.

Got this in the mail today: The Milton Suggs Quartet @ Smalls Jazz Club The Milton Suggs Quartet will be making its debut New York performance at Smalls Jazz Club on Wednesday November 28, 2012 with two sets of music from 9:00pm to 12am. If you won't be in the New York area, the show is available for live viewing at SmallsLive.com for $3.00. Featuring: Milton Suggs - Vocals Willerm Delisfort - Piano Jonathan Michel - Bass Kenneth Salters - Drums Download News Release Stay up to date on performances of all of our artists at SkiptoneMusic.com!!

John, no doubt the Argos are playing their best ball of the year at the right time. But as I pointed out Oct. 23 in post #1344, Ted Michaels agreed with me in his power rankings that the Argos were (less than a month ago!) the third worst team in the league. ***** Greg Xenakes Grey Cup pick http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4544960 ***** Here's a good sportsnetwork.com preview of the game. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4544951

The Ticats announced today that they will play next year at U of Guelph (17 minutes from Hamilton) while their new stadium is being built. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=409896 ***** This will be the third time the Argos have faced the Stampeders in the Grey Cup. Here's an article about the previous two games. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=409847 TSN had a show which called the '71 Argos the greatest team to never win the Grey Cup (because the Stamps beat them). If the Argos win on Sunday, they should call this team the worst team to ever win it!

Amazon now has the Dave Brubeck Original Album Classics 5 CD box with the unusual time signatures for $10.99. http://www.amazon.com/Original-Album-Classics-TIME-CD/dp/B003924NZ4?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camels-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B003924NZ4

This looks great! I hope I will be sent a copy. For Immediate Release Please Jam # 1 McCoy Tyner Jam # 2 Eddie Palmieri Jam # 3 Roy Haynes Jam # 4 Jack DeJohnette FOURS ON HALF NOTE AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE NOW! NEW YORK, November 19, 2012 - Universally regarded as the best tap dancer on Earth (though only 39 years old, at this writing), Tony Award-winner SAVION GLOVER showcases his musical side by jamming with jazz royalty. Over the course of an hour-long DVD featuring interview footage and 4 separate jams - one each with McCOY TYNER, EDDIE PALMIERI, ROY HAYNES AND JACK DEJOHNETTE - Savion spars tirelessly, treating viewers to a clinic on rhythmic improvisation. It is a remarkably athletic performance in which he shifts from soloist to accompanist and back, challenging and reacting to his mentors with a searching, spiritual demeanor emblematic of jazz's greatest instrumentalists. The DVD is an eyeful. He illuminates the sheer joy of dance while reaffirming his own quest for creative sublimity. Savion invited four Mt. Rushmore figures to an evening jam; he proves himself one of them. CAPTURED LIVE AT THE BLUE NOTE PATIENCE HIGGINS - SAXOPHONE MARCUS STRICKLAND - SAXOPHONE KURT FAUSSETTE - PIANO ANDY McCLOUD - BASS BRIAN GRICE - DRUMS

Ed, I heard Brown Eyed Girl emanating from a bar near my home Saturday night, and it occurred to me then that it might be the most played song on 60s oldies stations. It was a hit when I was in high school, but nothing like what a youngster today would think.

I suppose I should have provided the link for the contest!

Amazon now has Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer - The Complete Series (with Darren McGavin) for $26.99. http://www.amazon.com/Mickey-Spillanes-Mike-Hammer-Complete/dp/B004QC6HGY?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camels-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B004QC6HGY

Amazon now has Secret Agent/Danger Man at what I believe is its lowest price ever - $30.49. I believe I paid $49.99 for it, and I still think that that was a bargain. http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agent-AKA-Danger-Man/dp/B003JQZY8A?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camels-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B003JQZY8A

If my notes are correct, available for ...Toronto - everything below 40 and above 60 ...Calgary - everything below 35 and above 65 except 75.

Here's something I didn't know, tweeted by Hall of Famer Matt Dunigan: TOR 2-0 vs CGY this season, have won 5 straight vs CGY dating back to 2010. ***** brownie, I already have Calgary and 50, so you'll have to pick them with a different tiebreaker!

Tom, Marc-Olivier Brouillette suffered a concussion, but is otherwise doing well. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=409785

LOL! vajerzy, I remember last year that paul secor won by picking my team with a tiebreaker 5 points above mine; and there were a number of comments that that would be the plan next time. So congrats! If that plan works, you'll be the winner!

And now I see that amazon.de has reduced its price one euro to 21,99 euros. Hans, may I assume that amazon.de's policy on pre-orders is the same as amazon.com's - that you will be charged the lowest price offered between the date you ordered and the shipping date?

John, "Informed prediction" or not, I hope that you will again play the Grey Cup contest this year!

It's that time of year again! It's time for the annual Grey Cup contest. (Past winners have included Noj (twice), indestructible, Bright Moments, brownie and paul secor.) Here are the rules: 1) Pick the winning team. 2) Pick the number of total points scored by both teams (aka the tiebreaker). Since approximately half of us will pick the winning team, picking the total points is necessary to win the contest. Your total points prediction must be a number which is a multiple of five (5). The winning tiebreaker will be the one closest to the correct answer. If two are equally close, the winner will be the lower pick. If two people pick the same thing, the first to make the pick will be the winner. THE PRIZE: A $17.00 Mosaic Records Gift Certificate, good for both Mosaic and True Blue records. The $17.00 represents one CD of a Mosaic box set. Deadline: kickoff, Sunday Nov. 25, 6:00 pm eastern. ***** The Grey Cup game: The Grey Cup is awarded to the world champion of what I think is the greatest game in the world, Canadian rules football. That is to say, the champion of the Canadian Football League. The Grey Cup was first awarded in 1909. They have played for it every year since then except three years during World War One. Therefore, this year's will be the 100th Grey Cup game. Fans from throughout Canada will attend the game. The game sold out within 48 hours of tickets going on sale back in June. Therefore, neither team is expected to have an obvious majority of the fans rooting for them. This year's game will see the Eastern champion Toronto Argonauts host the Western champion Calgary Stampeders. This is a surprise because both teams finished second during the regular season, and had to defeat the first place team on the road to win their conference championships. The location of the game is chosen years in advance. This year's game will be played in Toronto because the league felt that Canada's largest city should host the festivities for the hundredth Grey Cup game. Calgary's starting quarterback was injured fairly early in the season. He was replaced by back-up Kevin Glenn, who has spent much of his career as a starter. The Stampeders had a good year. The Argos had a mediocre year because both their offensive and defensive lines are suspect. Their quarterback is Ricky Ray, who twice won the Grey Cup with the Edmonton Eskimos. Ray is a future Hall of Famer who came to the Argos in a major trade last winter. The game will be carried live on the NBC sports cable TV channel. The halftime show will feature Canadians Gordon Lightfoot and Justin Bieber. You can listen to the game here: http://tunein.com/radio/Team-1410-s31148/ http://tunein.com/radio/AM-770-s31172/ (To listen to the game, you will need Windows Media Player which you can download for free. So you might want to plan ahead if you don't already have it.) You can study articles analyzing the upcoming game as well as articles about the season as it unfolded in the CFL thread, which I will be updating during the course of this week. Good luck everyone! Here's my pick: (My heart says Argos, but my head says Stampeders.) Calgary - 50 points PS - It looks like CJOB will not carry the Grey Cup game this year, so I have substituted the URLs of the Vancouver and Calgary stations above.