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Happy Birthday Tom!

Happy Birthday EKE BBB!

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showAr...cleID=201001085 Warner Music To Stream All Its Music Online For Free The partnership allows people using the Imeem community site to create and share playlists, video channels, photo slideshows, and blogs. By K.C. Jones InformationWeek July 12, 2007 02:44 PM Warner Music Group and online community Imeem have partnered to stream ad-supported music and video on Imeem's free social media networking site. The companies announced the move Thursday and said WMG had also dismissed its copyright infringement claims against Imeem. WMG filed a lawsuit against Imeem in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, in May. It claimed Imeem attracted about 16 million users, at least in part by allowing them to share copyrighted music. The companies said their agreement results in the first free, ad-supported online access to all the music and video content from a major label. WMG is expected to get a portion of Imeem's advertising revenue in return. It's the latest in a series of moves by record companies to adapt their sales and distribution to industry changes driven by consumers turning ever more frequently to the Internet for entertainment. "Our strategic partnership with WMG represents a very significant milestone for Imeem," Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO of Imeem, said in a prepared statement. Imeem users can create and share playlists, video channels, photo slideshows, and blogs. The partnership with WMG will allow users to connect with artists and other online fans. "Music is a central part of the social network experience and a core part of the rich user experience for Imeem's rapidly growing community," Alex Zubillaga, executive VP for digital strategy and business development at WMG, said in a prepared statement. "This deal provides an opportunity to unleash the value of music on one of the world's leading social networks by giving fans an environment where they can discover and share new music," Zubillaga said. "It also opens the door for Imeem and WMG to develop new strategies and products that will help introduce a more vibrant media marketplace to the social networking environment."

It had to happen to me some time. I received this email yesterday: Unfortunately, the first item listed in your Music Queue is currently on backorder. We'll do everything we can to fill your order next month, but in the meantime we will ship the next item in your Music Queue. My pick for this month was The Charles Tolliver Big Band - With Love. It generated a lot of excitement here when it came out, and last month it won the JJA Award for best Big Band album. Maybe next month! So I expect to receive #2 on my list, which was Stefon Harris - African Tarantella. I've been listening to a huge amount of vibraharp since the first of the year. What I heard of this album on the radio I liked, so I thought I would give it a go.

The guy who was famous for being better than his stats was Eddie Stanky.

I forgot to mention in post #24 that along with the team stats are the team rosters. Again, when you go to one roster, you can then easily go to all the others. In the past, the websites I have found posting the rosters did a poor job of keeping them up to date. However, it looks like the Globe is going to be serious about it this year. Here's a link to the Ticats roster, which was updated just a few minutes ago: http://stats.globesports.com/cfl/teamstats...1&Submit=Go

I think she's talking about the Starbucks/Concord release we discussed here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;hl=Starbucks So I guess the idea is that by promoting all Ella recordings, UMG/Verve will get its share of the pie. It would be nice if her posts were a little more informative, but they're harmless, and I don't find them aggravating.

I haven't verified all of these yet this season, but to the best of my knowledge these are the websites of the flagship stations of the radio networks of each of the eight teams. In all cases you can listen to the broadcasts of the games. You will need to first download Windows Media Player (it's free) if you haven't already done so. CJAD Montreal http://www.cjad.com/ The Fan 590 Toronto http://www.fan590.com/ CHML Hamilton http://www.900chml.com/ CJOB Winnipeg http://www.cjob.com/ CKRM Regina http://www.620ckrm.com/ CHQR Calgary http://www.am770chqr.com/home/index.cfm CHED Edmonton http://www.630ched.com/ The Team 1040 Vancouver http://www.team1040.ca/ edit to correct the Vancouver station as per B. Clugston's suggestion.

Sounds terrific! Good luck!

Happy Birthday Kat! I remember when I turned 18, I felt like I was old enough to do anything I wanted, but not old enough to be responsible for it. In those days 21 was the age of majority.

Happy Birthday Guy!

I have a friend in Las Vegas who told me that there is often jazz in Las Vegas. This surprised me. Did you notice that any jazz act was there?

The Globe is now posting on its website each team's stats! Here is the link to the Argo stats. From there you can go to each other team. http://stats.globesports.com/cfl/teamstats.asp?team=5615

Here's a new twist. Atlantic Records has agreed to have 16 million copies of a song placed on illegal downloading sites for a fee from Sprint. Sprint's logo will appear on the iPod and computer screens. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082007/busin...eter_lauria.htm

I remember Cavett asking Zappa, "What do you call your daughter Moon Unit?" Zappa said, "Moon". Cavett then said, "Who does Frank Zappa think is weird?"

Saskatchewan Roughriders 49....Calgary Stampeders 8 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4089438.htm I listened to this one too. It featured a match-up between what I consider the two most over-rated players in the league - Kerry Joseph and Henry Burris (I was extremely surprised when the players union voted Burris the best QB in the league last year.) DJ Flick had a good game, catching two TD passes. Considering the way the Ticats have been shellacked both weeks this season, I have to think that Flick is glad to be out of there. The score was 8-7 Stamps after one, but after that it was all Riders. Most notably, the Riders capitalized on, and scored on, just about every mistake the Stamps made. That's a mark of a good team. The Riders have looked very good both games so far, but they play the Lions on Friday, so that will give us a better picture of how good they really are.

Week 2: Winnipeg Blue Bombers 32....Montreal Alouettes 23 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4088823.htm I listened to this one on the internet Thursday night. Charles Roberts scored 4 TDs last week, but he didn't do anything this week. They hardly ever gave him the ball. Last week Milt Stegall tied George Reed's and Mike Pringle's record for career TDs, so everyone in the house expected Stegall to get the ball and break the record in the home opener. The Als double covered Stegall well and shut him down. Unfortunately for the Als, double teaming Stegall left Terrence Edwards, Jamie Stoddard and Chris Brazell open all night. It looks like the Bombers' picking up Terrence Edwards in the off-season as a free agent is going to be a huge plus for them. The Als looked like world beaters in the first quarter, and led 13-0 after one. But they did nothing in the second and third quarters, and settled for field goals in the fourth. I realized late last season that Kevin Glenn is much younger than I realized. He is now 28. This reminds me of Anthony Calvillo, who was a starter for Las Vegas at age 22, and spent years in the league before he developed into the top flight QB he is today. Maybe now after all these years Glenn is just now coming into his own. Troy Westwood didn't play. The Bombers picked up young Rob Pikula from the Lions last week. He both punted and place-kicked, and didn't look very good doing either. At least he didn't miss a convert! British Columbia Lions 29....Edmonton Eskimos 9 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4089090.htm Toronto Argonauts 30....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 5 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4089257.htm Tonight: Calgary at Saskatchewan

I googled Nik Bartsch today and found that he was featured at NPR's website when the album Stoa came out: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5507990 I note that it refers to Bartsch as "Swiss-born", so maybe the band isn't German after all. I assumed it was because he wrote the liner notes in German, which were then translated into English.

I was discussing this sort of thing with a friend just a couple of weeks ago. It is my opinion that quite a number of people are going to go to hell for this. All of my best to you.

Thanks for that Brownian! I had read a little something about that, but hadn't seen anything about the CFL tie-in, so that makes it interesting. I can't say for sure that I remember Charles Gordon. Sort of rings a bell. Does anybody here remember him? My CFL encyclopedia says that he played for Ottawa 1991-93, BC 1994-95 and Montreal 1996-97. Total interceptions 35, for 590 yards and 6 touchdowns. ***** BClugston, I believe that Damon is the first CFL grandfather since Tommy Joe Coffey of the Ticats in the early 70s. Is anybody else here old enough to remember him?

I like New York pizza. My favorite pizza growing up in New Orleans was a small restaurant called The Italian Villa. The Board of Health closed them down. Considering the general incompetence of everything related to the New Orleans government in those days (the 60s, but I've no reason to think life is any different today), the kitchen must have been really filthy! Maybe it was the dirt that made the pizzas so delicious!

I agree, Garth. I really like his tone. But his playing still needs a lot of work.

Dig the eyelashes!

I didn't know that McDuff recorded for Blue Note. I was only aware of his Prestige and Atlantic sides.

This reminds me of Joe Frazier's deal. He was funded by a group of investors called Cloverlay, who for their investment received some of his earnings, and also managed his money so that he was far better off financially than other top boxers (many of whom like Joe Louis were mismanaged and wound up with little).