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For the first time in jazz’s brief century there are far more artists who are staying active into their 8th decade. OctoJAZZarians is an on-going series celebrating these living legends, pioneers of the art from who were first hand participants in the evolution of America’s greatest art form.
Our subject this month is pianist and radio personality Marian McPartland.
by arnold jay smith
“I hate all those words that end in -arian.”
Thus spake Marian McPartland whose music indeed has no time frame. She celebrated her 90th birthday at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola. An all star assemblage feted Lady Marian with some of her songs including the title track from her most recent album Twilight World, (Concord), sung by Karrin Allyson. “I’ve sung it many times and even recorded it,” Allyson said later. Marian couldn’t remember the lyricist, so I offered Johnny Mercer. “Oh, more famous than that,” she said. To some of us more famous than Mercer you don’t get.
While cadging together a DVD for a Women In Jazz Festival at NYC’s St. Peter’s Church, at which Marian was honored as a living legend, I came across two videos in which she was featured. The first was made at the Clinton White House. The intense gaze of President Bill while she was speaking of — then playing — a Fats Waller tune is worth the balance of that VH1 broadcast. The second was a lecture and demonstration at a school where she took one tune and played it in the many styles of jazz piano from Scott Joplin forward.
“I did a lot of those things for some time,” Marian said. “I traveled as long as I could show youngsters what this music is about. I had a young trio at the time, almost the age of the students.” She has always said that her favorite trio was bassist Bill Crow and drummer Joe Morello, the Hickory House trio.

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Beyond the Euphrates began for us the land of mirage and danger, the sands where one helplessly sank, and the roads which ended in nothing. The slightest reversal would have resulted in a jolt to our prestige giving rise to all kinds of catastrophe; the problem was not only to conquer but to conquer again and again, perpetually; our forces would be drained off in the attempt. - Emperor Hadrian AD 117-138
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WILL YOUR CANDIDATE SUPPORT BIDETS?
TREE HUGGER - Bidets [are] a key green technology, because they eliminate the use of toilet paper. They also provide important health benefits. These include increased cleanliness, and the therapeutic effect of water on damaged skin (think rashes or hemorrhoids).
We use 36.5 billions rolls of toilet paper in the U.S. each year, this represents at least 15 million trees pulped. This also involves 473,587,500,000 gallons of water to produce the paper and 253,000 tons of chlorine for bleaching purposes. The manufacturing process requires about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually. Also, there is the energy and materials involved in packaging and transporting the toilet paper to households across the country.
Toilet paper also constitutes a significant load on the city sewer systems, and water treatment plants. It is also often responsible for clogged pipes. In septic systems, the elimination of toilet paper would mean the septic tank would need to be emptied much less often.
Basically, the huge industry of producing toilet paper could be eliminated through the use of bidets. Instead of using toilet paper, a bidet cleans your posterior using a jet of water. Some bidets also provide an air-drying mechanism.
In Japan, high-tech bidets called Washlets are now the most popular electronic equipment being sold — 60% of households have them installed. In Venezuela they are found in approximately 90% of households.

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Q102 morning man Chris Booker and girlfriend Alycia Lane walked into Club Mixx at the Borgata in Atlantic City Saturday night - only to be hit by the screams of about 85 friends and family members.
It was a 37th birthday party for Booker, and Lane, the former CBS3 anchor, started cooking up the surprise for more than a month. They have been dating about six months.
After dinner at the hotel’s Ombra restaurant, she told Booker that Borgata chief executive Larry Mullin had wanted him to see a new setup and meet new employees in Mixx. Booker’s actual birthday is May 20.
Among revelers were his parents, Pat and Dean McDougal, who had flown in from Ohio; Lane’s sister Nicole DiBella and husband Rich, in from North Carolina; Q102 showmates Angi Taylor (in from Chicago), Diego Ramos and Blaire Galaton; the Howard Stern show’s Robin Quivers; New York radio exec Tom Chiusano and wife Penelope; restaurateur Dave Magrogan and wife Shannon; stylist Nancy Amoroso and husband Lenny; and a slew of Philly TV and radio people: WMMR’s Matt Cord, Fox29’s Dorothy Krysiuk; WMMR’s Kathy Romano; WIP’s Rhea Hughes and husband Joe; WMGK’s John DeBella; CBS3’s Doug Kammerer and wife Holly; and CBS3/WOGL’s Bob Kelly.
Borgata management gave Booker a regulation-size poker table, which was set up on the main floor of the club and tied in a giant red bow.
After partying for a few hours in Mixx, about 20 revelers spent the rest of the night at Borgata’s mur.mur nightclub.

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A claim by the senior United Nations official in charge of humanitarian relief that up to 300 000 people have died in Darfur, western Sudan, since fighting erupted there in 2003 has reignited controversy over whether mortality figures are being deliberately inflated, or understated, for political reasons.
John Holmes, a former British diplomat who is UN Under-Secretary-General for humanitarian affairs, gave the new estimated figure in a report to the security council last week. The previous UN estimate for deaths from all causes, including disease, malnutrition, reduced life expectancy and direct combat, was 200 000.
The 50% increase in total fatalities has reportedly surprised UN agencies and NGOs in Darfur. The crisis, in which 2,7-million people have been displaced, has turned into the world’s biggest relief operation, involving 14 000 humanitarian workers and an annual cost of $800-million.
Sudan’s Islamic government has strongly objected to Holmes’s total. Its official total of about 10 000 deaths since 2003 is widely dismissed as unrealistic. But Khartoum says it has only counted people killed in fighting. It argues that because of the relief effort and, for example, an absence of epidemics, Darfur’s six-million population is healthier overall than inhabitants of southern Sudan and some sub-Saharan countries.
Holmes later conceded that the 300 000 total “is not a very scientifically based figure”. He said it was a “reasonable extrapolation” from the earlier UN estimate of 200 000. But that figure has also been challenged as too high in some quarters.
In a study of mortality trends in Darfur, published in August last year by the independent New York-based Social Science Research Council, Alex de Waal, a leading Sudan expert and disaster demographer, said the US General Accounting Office (GAO) had reviewed all relevant mortality surveys since 2003.
The GAO concluded that the most reliable was that conducted by the World Health Organisation-affiliated Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (Cred) in Brussels.

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Who says golfers aren’t athletes? Just look at this video of John Daly, shirtless at his new golf course, and you’ll see the definition of athlete (although there’s not much definition).
Ladies, it’s OK to watch twice. JD is a lot to take in.
And fellas, don’t watch this with your afternoon lunch. Seriously.
Daly has come to the Variety of East Tennessee’s charity golf tournament the last two years in Knoxville. The first time, at Fox Den CC in Farragut, he looked the part of a pro golfer — except for his jeans. Then in 2007, he was bare-footed, jeans and shirt untucked at Gettysvue.
I hope this isn’t next.
Posted by on April 28, 2008 at 9:39 PM

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The Port of Tacoma has removed three employees from working on the port’s South Sound Logistics Center project after the agency discovered last week that the staff members sent inappropriate e-mails containing disparaging remarks about the Port of Olympia, a Thurston County citizens group opposed to the logistics center project, and Tacoma port colleagues.
“The message to those who were involved was clear and unequivocal. I felt like we’ve been heard,” Port of Tacoma Executive Director Tim Farrell said Thursday.
No one was suspended or fired.
A wide-reaching public records request related to the logistics center revealed e-mails sent by the Port of Tacoma staff members that noted the possible withholding of public information, insulted the Olympia port and called fellow Tacoma port staffers names.
The Tacoma and Olympia ports partnered in 2006 to develop a potential rail logistics center and industrial park in Thurston County. That was after the Tacoma port bought several hundred acres of property near Maytown in south Thurston County for such a facility.
Of the three staff members reprimanded, Robert Collins, the port’s director of intermodal services, faced the stiffest penalty. Most of the inappropriate e-mails released by the port were sent from Collins’ account.
Collins was managing the logistics center project for the Tacoma port. Port leadership removed Collins from that management position, revoked the additional compensation he was receiving to coordinate the project, and has told him to formally apologize to those whom he offended, according to a memo sent to Collins on Monday from the port’s deputy director, John Wolfe.
Two other staff members, Jay Stewart, a port real estate manager, and Wayne Harner, the rail operations superintendent, were also pulled from working on the project and required to apologize to anyone offended by their remarks, according to memos sent to them Monday by Wolfe.

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here must be something eerily – even horrifyingly – familiar to Ontario Progressive Conservatives in their leader’s behaviour this weekend in London.
In last year’s election, in which he hugely underachieved, there was for the first time a fixed date. For John Tory, there were no surprises. He knew when the buses rolled. His strong suit, by all accounts, was the organization he’d learned in the backrooms and corporate suites. And still his campaign was, by his own acknowledgement, a four-alarm organizational disaster.
Over and over this weekend, Tory insisted he’d learned from that shambles, that preparedness, planning, clarity were his new watchwords. And what happens the first time he gets to prove it?
On Saturday, at the leadership review required after his loss to Premier Dalton McGuinty, Tory won the backing of 66.9 per cent of the 1,308 members who voted.
Astonishingly, when all reasonable expectation was that he would have prepared himself for any outcome and determined in his mind the support he needed to stay, Tory didn’t know what to make of it.
This despite the fact the support he received is the most famous reference point in the history of leadership reviews in Canada, spot on the infamous Joe Clark Threshold.
It was the 66.9 per cent that the former prime minister decided was not good enough to sustain his leadership of the federal party in 1983.
The easy calls are what to do if you get a lot or a little. Tory fell in that teeter-totter zone from which his decision could fairly have gone either way.
Still, one would have thought the first question he and his advisers had asked and answered was what to do if he got the Clark number.
Instead, looking shocked and dispirited, Tory said he needed time to think it over, left the convention hall and appeared headed, so far as his leadership went, for the exit.

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This column is going to have both questions and miscellaneous facts since I’m curious, myself, about this Richard Cole. He appears in Coweta very early (1829) and I am trying to find out whether he is connected to the other Coles who were here … descendants of Robert Cole and Elizabeth Fambrough, or perhaps related to that Robert Cole somehow. Frankly, I have no idea at this point and I’m hoping someone out there can fill in the blanks. From Coweta court records, I know he was married to Susan Vance but I don’t know where the marriage took place.
As I said, Richard appeared in Coweta very early, I believe he came from Oglethorpe County also, as did the other Coles, and purchased land in the First District of Coweta on 24 Dec. 1829. You will remember that some of the other Coles lived in the 10th District of Meriwether before moving over to the Fifth District of Coweta near Newnan. To my knowledge, none of the other Coles lived in the First District of Coweta until the late 1800s or early 1900s. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the land districts in Coweta, the First District is in the southeastern corner and takes in the towns of Haralson, Senoia, Turin and Sharpsburg.
Coweta Deed Book A, pages 337 and 338, shows that Lazarus Tilman of Jones County sold 202.5 acres in Land Lot 157 of the First District to Richard Cole of Meriwether County for $200 on 24 Dec. 1829. It is noted in the deed that Lazarus drew the land in the lottery. The witness was George Elliott. This land is located just slightly northeast of Turin, and it looks like Reese Road runs along the western boundary.
Richard bought more land in 1832, this time in the Fifth District, from Alexander W. Higgenbottom of Glynn County (Deed Book C, page 318). No county of residence is given for Richard in the deed but by this time he had already appeared in the 1830 Coweta census and was probably a resident of Coweta County. Again, the land was drawn in the lottery by the seller, Higgenbottom, and, again, Richard paid $200 for the entire land lot of 202.5 acres. The lot number was 184 and it appears to be about 8 miles north of Newnan. Witness to the transaction was John B. Tilman.

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The winners of the 21st annual Blue Ash/Montgomery Young Artist Competition were announced at the Orchestra’s Holiday Concert in December.
Twenty-three talented young artists vied for prizes this year, playing instruments ranging from violin to tuba, marimba and harp. There were three categories with three divisions each:
3, woodwinds, brass, percussion, guitar and harp plus a category for musicians 13 and under, regardless of the instrument they play.
Violinist Kaori Matsui, 16, was the first-place winner in the strings category while 15-year-old cellist Coleman Itzkoff took second place. Matsui, concertmaster of the Starling Chamber Orchestra, began her study of the violin in Japan at the age of 5. On Jan. 26 she was a featured performer on the NPR show “From the Top.”
Itzkoff plays principal cello for both the Starling Chamber Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, and was also a featured soloist for “From the Top” in June 2007.
In the keyboard category two 16-year-olds took top honors, with Lexington, Ky., native Connie Wu in first place and Mount Healthy resident Aaron Southworth in second. Wu, who was a second-place winner two years ago, won a gold medal in the Young Artist Division of the World Piano Competition in 2005, one of many awards she has garnered in the last few years. Southworth, who is home-schooled, has been studying piano, most recently with John Toedtman, for seven years.

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