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Toronto Argonauts 19.....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 5 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/argo...article1231088/ http://stats.sports.theglobeandmail.com/cf...gamecode=873633 The teams in the league have become more cohesive over the course of the first four weeks of the season, but Stefan LeFors's performance has not progressed. After three quarters, the Bombers had 2 first downs. Richie Williams came in to play in the fourth quarter. At this rate, it wouldn't surprise me if they let him start in the near future, even though LeFors is a favorite of Mike Kelly. ***** Calgary Stampeders 48....British Columbia Lions 10 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1231160/ The Stampeders started flat, but then scored 17 in the second quarter and never looked back. Jarious Jackson again came off the bench for the Lions, but he couldn't do anything this week.

It looks like Arland Bruce is through with the Argos. They have put him on the trading block, and his agent expects him to be traded or released within a week. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Tor...250756-sun.html http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Tor...246611-sun.html

Happy Birthday tatifan!

Happy Birthday, and keep boppin' Bichos!

Montreal Alouettes 21....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 8 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1229449/ Anthony Calvillo passed for over 400 yards, and moved into second place on the league's career TD passes list, now ahead of Ron Lancaster and behind Damon Allen.

David Naylor's Week 4 preview http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/week-4/article1227951/ ***** Arland Bruce is not relating well to new coach Bart Andrus, so he has been left off the roster for this week's Argo game. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/bruc...article1227906/

I am offering my Mosaic boxes to good homes. I'm confident that those of you who are speculators will be satisfied with the conditions of the boxes, which have always been kept in a box of their own. The majority of the discs have been played only once, to burn a copy for the car. US - FREE SHIPPING International - Add $15.00 per box for shipping and insurance Paypal only. PM me if you are interested. Those who order more than one set will be given priority. MD3-111....Candid Charles Mingus....$190. MD3-113....PJ Live Chet Baker/Russ Freeman....$190. MD4-117....Verve Buddy DeFranco/Sonny Clark....$250. MD3-118....Blue Note Herbie Nichols....$190. MD2-121....Blue Note 45 Sessions of Ike Quebec....$130. MD3-122....PJ Studio Chet Baker/Russ Freeman....$190. MD4-125....Atlantic/EMI Shorty Rogers....$250..........................................................SOLD (This has the famous Art Pepper solo on Over the Rainbow.) MD4-136....Stan Kenton: The Holman and Russo Charts....$250. MD5-157....Capitol Live George Shearing....$310. MD3-166....Blue Note/UA Curtis Fuller....$190. MD5-180....PJ Bud Shank Studio....$310. MD4-185.....Kenton Presents Bob Cooper, Bill Holman & Frank Rosolino....$250. Thanks for looking! 9/16 edit: correct Shorty Rogers listing

Warren Moon has a new autobiography out called Never Give Up on Your Dream. I met him twice, at the '78 and '79 Grey Cup games. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Edm...218956-sun.html http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Edm...218961-sun.html

Considering that this is a new device/concept/invention/whatever, I imagine that there are many people who would prefer to buy what they have held in their hands in a store rather than mail order an unknown from Amazon or anyone else. Clave, I see that the Plastic Logic is the size of notebook paper, which I guess is similar to the Kindle DX. I think that that would appeal to me more than the Kindle 2 or the txtr, which seem small. I saw the other day a photo of a Kindle 2 side by side with a DX. The screen of the 2 seemed to be smaller than a page of an old mass market paperback book, i.e., the Pocket Books or Bantam series. I don't think I would enjoy turning the page every long paragraph and a half. Clave, has the screen of your Kindle seemed small to you?

"Gordon", as in Peter & Gordon, died Friday. I was just thinking about him/them and the 1964 British Invasion groups this morning. Here's his LA Times obituary: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,4904989.story Gordon Waller dies at 64; half of the '60s British singing duo Peter & Gordon Associated Press In this July 28, 1964, file photo, British pop singers Peter Asher, left, and Gordon Waller leap in the air upon their return to London after a successful U.S. tour. Waller died Friday, July 17, 2009. He was 64. The harmonizing acoustic-guitar-playing duo, dubbed 'the Everly Brothers of the British Invasion,' reached No. 1 in 1964 with 'A World Without Love.' By Dennis McLellan July 21, 2009 Gordon Waller, half of the popular 1960s British singing duo of Peter & Gordon, who shot to the top of the charts in 1964 with "A World Without Love," has died. He was 64. Waller, who lived in Ledyard, Conn., died early Friday morning at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., a hospital spokesman said. Photos: Gordon Waller | 1945-2009 He had gone into cardiac arrest before being taken to the emergency room, according to the official Peter & Gordon website, www.peterandgordon.net. "Gordon played such a significant role in my life that losing him is hard to comprehend -- let alone to tolerate," Peter Asher, Waller's singing partner, said in a statement. Dubbed "the Everly Brothers of the British Invasion," the harmonizing, acoustic guitar-playing Peter & Gordon had a transatlantic No. 1 hit with their 1964 debut single, The song was written by Paul McCartney, who was dating Asher's sister, Jane, at the time. Two more McCartney-penned hits, credited to Lennon-McCartney, followed: "Nobody I Know" and "I Don't Want to See You Again." Another hit song, "Woman," was written by McCartney under the pseudonym Bernard Webb to see how one of his songs would fare without the Lennon-McCartney credit. (It peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard chart in 1966.) As part of the British Invasion, Peter & Gordon appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show," "Shindig" and "Hullabaloo." Among their other hits were "I Go to Pieces," "True Love Ways," "Lady Godiva" and "Knight in Rusty Armour." After nine Top 20 records (three of them gold), the duo broke up in 1968. "Peter & Gordon were the essential U.K. duo of the British invasion," said Howard Kramer, curatorial director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. "They were cool, their records were great, and the songs were memorable." Waller, he added, "was a lovely man; a very sweet, gentle guy." After Peter & Gordon broke up, Asher became head of artists and repertoire for the Beatles' record company, Apple Records; he later founded Peter Asher Management. Waller, who continued to pursue a solo career, played the Pharaoh in the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the Edinburgh Festival in 1971. He also appeared in the play in London. He later launched his own music publishing company. Waller was born June 4, 1945, in Braemar, Scotland. He met London-born Asher at Westminster School in London. "Our voices are quite different, Gordon's and mine, but we tried singing together experimentally and we found that we could achieve this very nice harmony," Asher told the Sacramento Bee in 2006. When they began playing in pubs and small clubs, they initially were known as Gordon and Peter. They were playing an engagement at the Pickwick Club in London when Norman Newell of EMI records heard them. They were quickly signed to the label. In 2005, Peter & Gordon reunited to perform at a benefit for a hospitalized Mike Smith of the Dave Clark Five, and they continued to perform occasionally together. They had a number of engagements lined up over the next several months at the time of Waller's death. "Gordon remains one of my very favorite singers of all time, and I am still so proud of the work that we did together," Asher said in his statement. "I am just a harmony guy, and Gordon was the heart and soul of our duo." On his website, Waller described his time with Peter & Gordon, which included touring with the Beatles, his website as "some of the happiest moments of my life."

Happy Birthday BeBop, wherever you are! Normally, when I say "wherever you are", I am referring to the fact that the birthday boy hasn't been seen around these parts in a while. But in your case as a travelling man, I really mean it!

Happy Birthday fasstrack!

TTK, I have read that Simon, Theodore and Alvin were the first names of the three owners of Liberty Records.

Absolutely not. You didn't get it from them. (Though I should add that the device's logs can be "seen" by techs there, if they decide to pull them during a synch - so I guess it *might* be possible, though likely very illegal!) Thanks for your informative response, clave. I want to point out a couple of things, however. 1) One idea that I picked up from my reading is that AZW is a DRM program. In the case of the Kindle, I've been using the two terms interchangeably. Am I wrong? 2) I gather that you think that Amazon wouldn't do it even if they could because it would be "very illegal". But that's my point. I bet there are a lot of lawyers who think that what they did in deleting the two Orwell titles was very illegal, and they're going to file lawsuits about it, I expect. The whole issue now, it seems to me, is that Amazon cannot be trusted by its customers. So I would like to know what they have the physical ability to do. I read on another board that in order to buy an eBook from Amazon, one must use the wireless function on one's Kindle. So if some goober at Amazon doesn't like what's on your Kindle, he can see it and delete it. So then one must backup everything onto a hard drive before every trip to the Amazon eBook store. Am I wrong? By the way, I am under the impression that the Sony folks could do the same thing, but I am not so confident about that.

RC, I don't have a clue as to how the Kindle works! But I have to believe (wild speculation here) that there were many people who did not know that Amazon had the physical ability to delete what was on their Kindle, let alone actually do it without warning and approval. Suppose I download a public domain book from Project Gutenberg. Would Amazon have the physical ability to delete that as well?

As I understand it, Amazon would not have the ability to remove books from Kindles on a massive scale if it were not for the DRM. True? Yet as long as there is this wireless set up, I don't think that anything can physically stop them from deleting material from Kindles one by one. True? So the more I think about it, it seems to me that the way to go with the wireless set up is book rental, kind of like DVD rentals. I mentioned the other day that one might rent a book for a month for a dollar. I don't realistically think that Amazon would price a book not in the public domain that low. But maybe two dollars per month would work. Three dollars for a best seller. Many non-fiction best sellers are ephemeral, like those by political pundits like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly. You can read them in a weekend without much effort, and pretty much never go back to them again. And I think that there are a lot of people who would pay a quick three dollars for that sort of thing rather than plunk down the $18 best sellers are often discounted at, or wait for weeks for your turn to come up for the library's copy. So as long as the eBook readers have blue tooth and other wireless capability, I see rentals as the way to go. Personally, I would prefer to own a reader without wireless capability, but I haven't found such a book in my internet search yet.

Montreal Alouettes 43...Saskatchewan Roughriders 10 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1223678/ The Roughriders made a game of it for a half. Anthony Calvillo tied Ron Lancaster for career TDs thrown. Lancaster held the record for about 30 years until Damon Allen broke it a few years ago. After three weeks, the Als appear to be the class of the league. ***** Hamilton Tiger-Cats 25....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 13 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1223744/ Good defensive game. I guess when two bad teams play, somebody's got to win. Kevin Glenn played the second half and was good. After three weeks, it looks like Toronto, Winnipeg, Hamilton and Edmonton need a lot of work. ***** The Roughriders have signed Graham Harrell, who received the ESPY Award as college football's best player in 2008 with Texas Tech. He also won the Johnny Unitas Award as the best senior quarterback. He was fourth in the Heisman voting. http://www.leaderpost.com/sports/NCAA+quar...4594/story.html http://www.leaderpost.com/sports/Roughride...8233/story.html

Here's what PCWorld says about it today: http://www.pcworld.com/article/168654/amaz..._ownership.html The link to The Consumerist which Moose provided now has a number of comments which are worth reading. One states the agreement which the Kindle customer must accept in order to download the eBook: Upon your payment of the applicable fees set by Amazon, Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times... So not only does Amazon's removing the books from the Kindles without the owners' knowledge offend the sensibilities, it also violates their own contract provisions! I see a lawsuit coming. I wonder if Amazon would have been physically able to do this if the eBooks were kept on an SD card like other readers have. I think that their ability to do it was based upon the Kindle's wireless capability. Perhaps if the reader had no wireless connection, and had to be hooked up to the computer's USB port, then the eBooks would be safe from confiscation. You computer mavens would understand all this better than I do.

Calgary Stampeders 44....Toronto Argonauts 9 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1223327/ The score was 13-9 at halftime. But the Argos lost three non-import receivers in the first half, and they couldn't do much right after that. In the second half, the Stamps' defense scored three TDs. This week is Retro Week in the CFL, with the teams wearing 1960s uniforms. Throughout the game in Calgary tonight, between plays the stadium played 60s oldies.

Happy Birthday 2009 Kenny!

British Columbia Lions 40....Edmonton Eskimos 22 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1221719/

I still remember this without looking it up. Everybody knows in the second life we all come back sooner or later As anything from a pussy cat to a man-eating alligator. Well, you all may think my story is more fiction that it's fact. But believe it or not my mother dear decided to come back As a car. She's my very own guiding star. She's a 1928 Porter. That's my mother dear. She helps me through everything I do And I'm so glad she's here. My Mother The Car. My Mother The Car. And I guess everyone this side of China knows the lyrics to Secret Agent Man. Here's one more I remember off the top of my head. (Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, as I recall.) Obviously I need a little help here, but no fair looking it up! Who is the tall dark stranger there? Maverick is the name. 3rd line 4th line Smooth as a handle on a gun. Maverick is the name. Wild as a wind in Oregon Blowin' up a canyon. Easier to tame. Riverboat ring your bell. Fare thee well Annabelle. Luck is the lady that he loves the best. Natchez to New Orleans, Living on jacks and queens, Maverick is a legend of the West. Maverick is a legend of the West.

Happy Birthday JL! Treat yourself to a barbershop shave!

David Naylor Week 3 preview http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/fina...article1219892/

Al, I know the feeling! I think that part of it is that I haven't been really excited by much of the new stuff that has come out in the past five years. Another part of it is that there was only a finite amount of good jazz recorded during the 50s and 60s (my favorite period), and a great deal of what interests me has already been reissued. And finally there is the issue of my collection. I try to listen to all of my CDs at least once a year. Most years I come close, and last year I did it. Anyway, when you only hear a CD once or twice a year, it is almost like listening to a new CD. So I don't need a lot more CDs to be satisfied. Put it all together, and I don't enjoy buying CDs like I did ten years ago.