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I think the box set includes an additional DVD that houses all of the "documentaries" that are on the individual discs. If that's the case, it's a unique item to the stereo box set, which you won't get if you buy the titles individually. The documentaries are only about 3 minutes each though, so they don't appear to be of much significance.

I think if you get the Mono box, then all you need are the Abbey Road and Let It Be stereo cds, and you'll have all of their official "canon" studio recordings. Except for Yellow Submarine, but as mentioned the remaining Beatles tracks from YS are on the Mono Masters set anyway. The rest of YS is George Martin's orchestral music that the Beatles don't perform on. If you want a "complete" collection, you might want to pick up the two Capitol Album box sets (i.e. the U.S. editions), the Yellow Submarine Songtrack (different than the above Yellow Submarine), Love, Let it Be Naked, the Live at the BBC set, and the 3 Anthology releases. Plus maybe the Hamburg studio recordings (out on numerous releases in different configurations), though that predates their first official Beatles release. I think that's it. At least I think that would be complete as far as CD releases - there are also things that haven't been released on CD, like the Hollywood Bowl live album.

One of the local Walmarts has them out early. Picked up Abbey Road and Let It Be this afternoon. Gonna see if I can stumble onto a Mono Box somewhere and get the rest in one fell swoop.

EXCELLENT! I knew you'd be all over that one, Ron! New titles: Freddie Hubbard - Without a Song Count Basie - Basie Land Gato Barbieri - Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Virgo Red Oscar Peterson - Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook Quincy Jones - Explores the Music of Henry Mancini

I think the Pats would rather trade a player with some years left than hold on to them until they decline. The pick the Pats got from the Raiders may turn out to be a good one, as long as the Raiders continue to stink for two more seasons. Good point - they sure picked a good trading partner. Seymour is getting older, and probably doesn't have much left in the tank - Conn probably knows better than I do about that. But getting a first-rounder out of the Raiders is gold.

Great Miami/Florida State game tonight! Almost a great TD on the very last play by FSU to win it, but no dice.

Texas Hill Country: A tree that grew over/around a large rock:

Thanks for starting this, Free! That BYU upset was a shocker for sure. I don't know how well Oklahoma will do over the next couple of games without Sam Bradford - if they don't lose anymore, and he returns at full strength, they've got a chance to get back into the national title picture, assuming the other contenders falter at some point. The Austin paper was growsing that this hurts Texas' national championship hopes, mainly on strength of schedule, if Oklahoma doesn't bounce back strong. My Aggies won handily against New Mexico, which was nice for me to see, given that they lost their season open to Arkansas State (ARKANSAS FRIGGIN' STATE!!) last year. They've got a tough conference schedule, and are playing a ton of freshmen and younger players, so a bowl game this year is very iffy, but I think they're headed in the right direction finally, after years of Dennis "Pay me and I'll tell you team secrets" Franchione.

Kinda surprised to see the Patriots trade Richard Seymour to the Raiders. Apparently Seymour is upset and may not report. I thought the Pats would have shown a little more loyalty to Seymour after his long career there. Pat's defense has lost Seymour, Teddy Bruschi, Mike Vrabel, Rodney Harrison, and Junior Seau this offseason. That's alot of football right there.

Been off the grid for a few days, but wanted to wish you a late Happy Birthday!

Why not add this comment to one of your other spam radion station threads, like: Jazz Radio Stations Online - February 23 '09 or Jazz Radio Stations Online - May 16 '09 ...instead of creating yet more spam.

Actually he kinda sucked during his prime. We had him in Philly for a year and he was not the player that he would develop into during his 30's. He really didn't blossom until he went to the Spurs. That's a good point actually - I think of his early Spur years as his prime, but he was around for a while before then, also playing for the Heat and the Celtics. To me his prime was the first half of his time with San Antonio, I guess.

Bruce Bowen retired today from the NBA. Despite his reputation (some earned, some not so much, IMO) as a dirty player, he was a lockdown defender. 8-time all NBA defensive team. He was also a very good 3 point shooter. I liked the guy, and I'd venture to guess that every other team in the league would have been glad to have him back in his prime.

From Merriam Webster: And from Jewish World Review: I don't see why that would be confusing. Scouting uses the term during camps and so forth as well. And while I'm in the south, our Cracker Barrel seems to cater to as many Hispanics as it does to Whites.

Allen - please don't start up with the Hitler stuff yet again.

Organissi-bone! Good stuff!

Think you're good at those mahjongg tile games? Try this one. It's 3d and you can rotate it for different angles. Three levels, and a time limit. I actually got through all three levels, once. I won't talk about the other 250 attempts.

I hope it works out that way - otherwise that's an awful high draft pick to spend on somebody who may or may not ever play for the team, and may or may not develop how they want him to.

The first time some player gets injured as a result of having to do a do-over, or the outcome of a game potentially changes, that ruling is going to modified very quickly. I think it was a stupid ruling. Why not make them raise the video screen and be done with it? I agree it's a distracting thing as a viewer too.

What kind of car is that? Any idea?

Love your last set of pics, Bev! Especially the one of the ruins in the mist. One of the others looks like a mini-Mont St. Michel. Very cool bobcat, Noj! A couple of pictures my 11 year old took when we were in Manhattan last week:

Isn't Bob Jewish? Or did he officially convert to Christianity? Interesting when people who wouldn't normally celebrate Christmas release Christmas albums, like Kenny G. Not that I care either way, Christmas albums seem to reek more of money grabs than artistic statements.

Happy Birthday!

51 straight days of 96F or higher here. Plus we're in a major drought. We don't get much rain annually here anyway, but by this time of the year we've had about 19-20" on the average. This year we've had 4" of rain. Total.