The Chameleon

When I'm not playing int he Chameleon Project or doing any other kind of seesion work, I have a day job as a licensing coordinator for the Canadian Musical Rights and Reproduction Association. Basically that means I make sure artists/writers get paid royalties for thier music when it is sold. I also do music supervision (choosing music for films) and sample clearance (legally paying for samples music uses). That's my bag(s)...

Besides what they should have won etc... Why is it that I hear the same needs every year, yet no matter who we get it never fills the void?

Since when didi Atlanta become decent. I must be out of the loop. Either way it only gets tougher from hear on in.

I also read int he T.O. star today that the Raptors are first in the legue in missed shots.... This would explain our loss the Warriors and the Hawks.... We need to be winning these games, these are the easy teams! I really hope things come together for his new squad, 'cause right now it seems like the same old, smae old. We need a big man who can box out (don't know why ours can't?), we need a real perimeter shoorter who can take the D off BOsh. Man I've been hearing that for years! Why can't we fill that bill? We always get new player but they never fill those voids, why?

Davis' 22 Helps Warriors Beat Raptors The Associated Press By GREG BEACHAM November 14, 2006 Baron Davis had 22 points and 12 assists while seizing control of the fourth quarter in the Golden State Warriors' 110-99 comeback victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night. Davis scored 11 points in the fourth, spurring the Warriors to a decisive 18-3 rally in their third straight victory to open a seven-game homestand. Monta Ellis added 10 of his 14 points in the final period as Golden State rolled past the Raptors after one of the Canadian club's better efforts of the season. Davis put Golden State in front with seven points in 2 minutes midway through the fourth, including a three-point play and one of the Warriors' 11 3-pointers. Mike Dunleavy scored 22 points and Andris Biedrins added 14 points and 12 rebounds in Golden State's third straight win over Toronto. Chris Bosh had 23 points and matched his career high with 22 rebounds for the Raptors, who set a franchise record with a 41-point second quarter. But Toronto went 5 1/2 minutes without a field goal down the stretch, losing its second straight to start a five-game West Coast road trip with 13-of-43 shooting in the second half. Toronto trailed 92-90 on Bosh's layup with 6:37 to play, but didn't get another field goal until T.J. Ford's layup with 1:06 left. Jorge Garbajosa provided a career-high 10 points in a reserve role, and Ford had 16 points, seven rebounds and six assists. Toronto coach Sam Mitchell altered his starting lineup for the first time this season, inserting Fred Jones at guard. Jones scored 11 points in place of slumping Morris Peterson, who hit a long jumper shortly after he entered the game late in the first quarter, but managed just five points. Golden State played without starting forward Troy Murphy, who sat out with soreness in his left heel. Mickael Pietrus started in his spot, contributing nine points _ including a key 3-pointer in the final minutes _ and nine rebounds. After falling behind by 10 points on the first basket of the second quarter, Toronto erupted for its 41-point quarter with 16-for-24 shooting and five 3-pointers. The Raptors went ahead on Garbajosa's 3-pointer, and Bosh finished the first half with 13 points and 13 rebounds. Notes:@ Warriors C Adonal Foyle, who's making more than $8 million this season, got into his second game of the year as a reserve. He had two points and one rebound in 4 1/2 minutes. ... The Raptors' franchise record for points in a quarter is 48 in the first quarter against New Jersey on Jan. 11, 1997. ... Bosh went 11-of-12 from the free throw line.

Let's hope Thomas is totally washed up and that we don't end up paying him a fortune on a promise.

Good for them! That's boss!

Very clever. Dark Genius.

The people have spoken.... and hey what's wrong with smooth!!? I love Michael McDonald.

Man isn't getting away with murder egnough for this guy.

Turner warned a month ago about his blogging Updated Wed. Oct. 18 2006 11:43 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff While maverick MP Garth Turner says he has no idea why the Conservative caucus kicked him out, CTV News has learned he was warned a month ago to stop playing reporter on his blog. "Garth Turner is trying to wrap himself in the veil of innocence," Robert Fife, CTV's Ottawa bureau chief, said Wednesday. "But he knows why he got kicked out." "Why now? What actually happened today or yesterday to precipitate this?" Turner told a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday. Fife said the party had been warning Turner since the summer to stop with the injudicious blogging. Before MPs returned to Parliament, the Conservatives held a special caucus meeting to lay down the law with Turner, he said. On Sept. 15, Turner wrote: "In case you are wondering, I am still in caucus! Wonders never cease." As to suggestions he broke caucus confidentiality through injudicious postings on his widely-read blog, Turner said, "go and read it, and make up your own mind." Fife said the final straw for many Tories was using the blog to say kind things about Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. The Conservatives' Clean Air Act is to be tabled on Thursday. Rahim Jaffer, the national caucus chair, said the maverick MP from Halton, Ont. was kicked out on a unanimous recommendation by the Ontario caucus. The MPs felt "the theme of confidentiality was not being respected" and that Turner was too critical of his colleagues, said Jaffer, speaking to reporters after the weekly Conservative caucus meeting. He said the suspension was due in part to Turner's blog, which he often uses as a soapbox to make his opinions known. "This is not something that one person has felt. There were attacks that were made on individuals, including the prime minister, on his blog at different times," Jaffer said. Jaffer said Turner's indiscretions were hurting the caucus' ability to function behind closed doors. Turner said he suspected his views on the government's green plan, the next budget and the need for tolerance in politics may have been bigger factors. He also suggested that reporters talk to Doug Finley, director of political operations for the Conservative Party. "I know Doug Finley was in the room this morning, and that happens extremely rarely," Turner said. "In fact, I've never seen it before. So that may give a clue as to whether there was something else to this." If he had more information, "we'd all know a little more clearly what my crime was, and whether the punishment fits it." Turner has already been moved to the other side of the house. Sen. Marjory LeBreton told CTV Newsnet's Mike Duffy Live that caucus members felt they couldn't discuss things "without having it appear on his blog and therefore in the media." Turner responded to his removal on his blog, in an entry headlined "Holy smokes!" "I have said here many times, and consistently since I was elected this last time, that I work for the voters -- the people, the taxpayers," Turner wrote. "After that I heed my party and the political establishment. All are important, of course, but the people come first." While Turner professes his independence, LeBreton said, "how can a political party or a government or an opposition party function that way?" The PMO has made it clear Turner's suspension was not Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision, and he was just as surprised as anyone else, Fife said. Don Martin, a Calgary Herald political columnist, said on Mike Duffy Live that technical workers were unplugging Turner's computer equipment moments after the vote was completed. An important decision like kicking out a caucus member was unlikely to be taken without the prime minister knowing about it, he said. Martin referred to Finley as Harper's "hatchet man." Harper's office has denied having anything to do with Turner's suspension. Turner is a small-C conservative who was disappointed to have been left out of Harper's cabinet earlier this year. Turner's departure leaves the standings in the Commons: 124 Conservatives, 101 Liberals, 50 Bloc Quebecois, 29 NDP, 2 independents. There are two vacant seats. With reports from CTV's Craig Oliver and Robert Fife

[color:red]Lets all hope this is more than just symbolic, cause this dude is responsible for more death than Saddam and Osama combined... U.S. activists file suit against Rumsfeld for alleged war crimes Last Updated: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 | 10:28 AM ET CBC News U.S. civil rights activists filed a suit in Germany on Tuesday asking prosecutors in that country to investigate outgoing U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials for alleged war crimes against military prisoners. In a 220-page document, the activists ask German prosecutors to set up an investigation under a German law that allows prosecution of war crimes regardless of where they are committed. The suit, filed by American and German lawyers, alleges that Rumsfeld and others ordered and condoned the torture of prisoners at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. In addition to Rumsfeld, the suit names Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet, former commander of all U.S. forces in Iraq Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez and eight others. It alleges they all had a hand in ordering, aiding or failing to prevent war crimes. Janis Karpiniski, a former U.S. commander of all military prisons in Iraq, has agreed to be a witness should the lawsuit proceed, saying she has first-hand knowledge that senior officers condoned the torture of prisoners. -------------------------------- "The commander of all coalition forces in Iraq in 2003 put his signature on an eight-page memorandum authorizing literally a laundry list of interrogation techniques. He never shared that memorandum with me," she said. "In fact, when he testified before the U.S. Senate armed services committee, he denied having any knowledge until he was presented with the document with his signature." Michael Ratner, president of New York's Center for Constitutional Rights, which launched the suit, said the group is trying to send a message that torture is not acceptable. "One of the goals has been to say a torturer is someone who cannot be given a safe haven," Ratner said. 12 alleged victims The suit was filed on behalf of 12 alleged victims of torture, 11 Iraqis and one Saudi. The Iraqis were held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, while the Saudi was held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. The Saudi, identified in the suit as Muhammad al-Qahtani, is said to have been a militant with links to those involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Qahtani was arrested in December 2001 near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He would not confess to anything when subjected to questioning. But according to testimony given to Congress in 2005, Rumsfeld agreed that U.S. authorities could use other methods. After the FBI expressed concerns, U.S. military investigators reviewed al-Qahtani's case and confirmed that he was forced to put on a bra, dance with another man, appear naked in front of women and act like a dog. But according to the Pentagon, "no torture occurred" in his case. German prosecutors decided not to investigate when asked to do so in a similar but more limited suit in 2004, but lawyers involved in this suit said they think it may work this time because of the testimony given to Congress and Rumsfeld's resignation last week. Rumsfeld has announced that he will step down as defence secretary when the Senate confirms his replacement. Ratner said the group could not file a case with the International Criminal Court because the U.S. does not belong and it cannot appeal to the UN because the U.S., as a member of UN Security Council, would have the ability to veto investigation of such a case. With files from the Associated Press CBC story link

Good for Guelph! They have already had to allow Wallmart in but, hopefully this will steam the tide of sprawl.

I wouldn't pay $29 for him. I would wait to see him on a festival bill with other headliners you really want to see. His one man band thing is interesting for a second but it grows tired for me really quick. My 2 cents...

You certainly don't deserve the flak Shain. It was a well written review. However the problem (as I see it) is that Panic! at the disco cannot even be remotely construed as a jamband. They are not even in the singer songwriter /folk/country bracket that jamband fans accept. No they are EMO rock of the mainstream ilk. So I think what you are hearing is that many int he scenen feel the EMO/indie rock thing is being force fed to them by the inclusion of these non-improvising bands in festivals and publications. Last years Bonnaroo (while great) really solidified this by having Radiohead headline and Death Cabfor Cutie on the bill. Fine bands for sure, but I see no connection to the scene. I think this is the problem, that some see. I don't think the fact that it's new that is the problem, it's the fact that it's new, mainstream and not improvised at all.

I saw Los Lobos on Friday and they played "Cinnamon Girl" and dedicated it to Neil. Happy B-Day to a Canadian Icon.

I gave them some input for sure!

Great show! The bass player is retardly good. Really tight sound from note 1. A good mix of "Dub Side" and "Radio Dread" tracks. I will say though in all I think the Pink Floyd amterial works better for the reggae feel. Thumbs up!

He's gonna blow his career with this type of behaviour.......... What a child... Kanye west Meltdown

Indeed we do. I hope there is more dancing too. this is my 12 Los Lobos show an everyone of them have been hot!

Lets make sure we keep Howard Dean away fromt he Red Bull at all costs.

Either way. Canada's refusal to ratify a plan we helped draft at the hands of the harper gov't is embarassing and hurts us in the world view. Furthermore, even if industry leaves and they go somewhere else. So Fuking What! I for one would be happy to take the hit, becuase we would be taking a stand and sending a message that pollution they create is not acceptable in Canada. It would send a message. Sure they may go to other less developed nations, but then it is thier choiice to accept or reject and thier choice to do thier part to protect thier piece of the earth. If they choose not to do so, it's thier call. We cannot worry about what other nations may or may not do, we need to woory about what Canada can and must do. We need to set an example by action as one of the bigger producers of Greenhouse gases.

Very true... ....As Wooderson said in Dazed & Confused... Wooderson: That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age. I think this applies to cougars too.

Is anyone other than me hitting this up? It's gonna be mucho calliente!

I don't know what you're talking about *cough* *cough* but I did find these Macho hairy magnum pic.... ...Selleck gives Burt a run for his money..