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We did Mort a few weeks back. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...57&hl=mort+fega I grew up in Nyack NY, and I used to listen to Mort when I was in high school. Since his show didn't begin until midnight, I was never able to catch more than 20 or 30 minutes of him before I'd fall asleep; unfortunately, he wasn't around on the weekends when I could have listened until signoff at 3. Still, Mort's taste in jazz was impeccable and he taught by example. He was a good egg.

And of course Bunny made a recording of "The Wearin' of the Green".

Red Allen Bill Coleman Frank Newton Bobby Stark Joe Smith Buck Clayton Harry Edison Joe Newman Bobby Hackett Hot Lips Page Charlie Shavers Art Farmer

It's exciting to read that Robin D.G. Kelley is writing a biography of Monk. He's a brilliant academic.

Perhaps the last survivor of the generation of physicists who fled fascist Europe in the 1930s and then during WWII contributed their expertise to the development of the atomic bomb. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/science/08bethe.html

Up with some new old stuff.

Wynton's "Cherokee" solo with the MJQ ranks up there too. And Joe Wilder made a nice recording of it.

I think it's our total amazement that an item to which we may attach very little value may be highly prized by someone else. It's like found money.

I thought it was a snooze. Bought it around 1960. Spose everyone should have the option, but...................... I think Gerry Weinkopf's flute work is pretty special.

http://workingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jh...d=-1&t=strategy Bidders lie in the grass, waiting till the last minute or even the last few seconds before bidding. They do this to keep the price as low as possible. Well Duh, Harvard, you could have just asked.

Best wishes for your birthday!

European Windows by John Lewis. An great third stream album by a major jazz figure.

That's no knife; that's some poor devil's penis.

I love that picture. Mock grisly.

Yum. Do fresh oregano & parsley do anything for that recipe, or is dried better? I like dried, but only because that's what I have on hand. You can do it with fresh clams, too, but then that adds a lot more work to the dinner.

Clam Spaghetti. Serves 4. Dice a bulb of garlic, and saute it in 3 tablespoons of olive oil or butter or some combination of the two. When the garlic is just starting to brown add the juice from 4 cans of Doxsee chopped clams. Add a tablespoon of dried parsley, a tablespoon of dried oregano, and a tablespoon of black pepper. Bring to a boil, simmer a couple of minutes, and turn off the heat. Let sit for an hour or two. Chop half a can of black olives, squeeze the juice of one or two lemons. When you're ready to eat bring the sauce almost to a boil, add the clams, cook for a bare minute, add the olives and lemon juice, and serve over a lb of your favorite pasta. Add parmesan cheese if you want. Yum. I sprinkle shredded mozarella on the leftovers and heat them in the microwave.

I prefer pie, but I can't have my pie and eat it too, so make mine cake.

Go Johnny Go!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Al.

The folks who work for the big companies have a lot of autonomy, know a few ways to try to shake down the customer, and can become slightly menacing if they don't get their way. I wouldn't trust them with anything I really valued. My experience is that the small mover is more trustworthy, especially the ones based in small towns, but they bang up the furniture.

Peter Benenson, Founder of Amnesty Group, Dies at 83 By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Published: February 28, 2005 Peter Benenson, a British lawyer whose outrage over the imprisonment of two Portuguese students for drinking a toast to liberty spawned the human rights organization Amnesty International in 1961, died Friday in a hospital in Oxford, England. He was 83. The cause was pneumonia, said Brendan Paddy, a spokesman for the London-based organization. What Mr. Benenson first envisioned as a one-year letter-writing campaign on behalf of "prisoners of conscience," who were being persecuted for their beliefs, eventually grew into the world's largest human rights organization, with 1.8 million members, chapters in 64 countries and a perennially powerful voice against torture, unjust imprisonment and the death penalty. Amnesty International, which won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for "defending human dignity against violence and subjugation," has campaigned for decades against violations of the rights of women, children, political prisoners, minorities, religious groups, workers and disabled people, among others. Today, it is fighting the execution of child offenders in Iran, warning of human rights violations by Nepal and demanding the release of prisoners at the United States detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. "Peter Benenson's life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world," the organization's secretary general, Irene Khan, said in a statement. "He brought light into the darkness of prisons, the horror of torture chambers and the tragedy of death camps around the world." Educated at Eton and Oxford, Mr. Benenson was a passionate advocate for human rights in fascist Spain, British-ruled Cyprus and repressive South Africa. He was almost 40, a bowler-topped barrister on the London Underground in 1961, when he read a news item about two Lisbon students sentenced to seven years in prison for toasting freedom in Portugal, then under the dictatorship of António Salazar. In what he called "The Forgotten Prisoners" and "An Appeal for Amnesty," which appeared on the front page of The Observer, a British newspaper, he wrote about the two students and four other people who had been jailed in other nations because of their beliefs. "Open your newspaper any day of the week, and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government," he wrote. "The reader feels a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelings of disgust all over the world could be united into common action, something effective could be done." He called for a one-year campaign of letter-writing to repressive authorities, demanding enforcement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 but was widely ignored. The result was an outpouring of letters, telegrams and publicity that swelled into a permanent campaign and the formation of Amnesty International. In its early years, Mr. Benenson ran the organization, provided most of the money, traveled widely to investigate cases and promoted its causes in journals and newspapers. He stepped down as the leader in 1966 after an independent investigation did not support his claim that the group was being infiltrated by British intelligence. But he continued to have an active interest in the organization's affairs, helped to found and support similar groups and observed Amnesty International's 25th anniversary by lighting a symbolic candle outside St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the church off Trafalgar Square where he had first envisioned the organization. Its logo is a candle wrapped in barbed wire. Peter Benenson was born in London on July 31, 1921, the son of a British army colonel. He was tutored privately by the poet W. H. Auden and began his first campaign at Eton - for better food. At 16 he organized fund-raising for orphans of the Spanish Civil War, and later raised money to get two Jews out of Nazi Germany. After service with the Ministry of Information in World War II, he became a lawyer, was an official observer at the trials of trade unionists in Franco's Spain, advised lawyers for defendants accused of resistance to British rule in Cyprus and prodded London to send observers to Hungary during the 1956 uprising and to racially divided South Africa during a treason trial. For his role in founding Amnesty International, he was recommended for a knighthood by various prime ministers, but always demurred, responding with a litany of human rights violations that, he said, needed more urgent attention. In the 1980's, he became chairman of Association of Christians Against Torture, and in the 1990's he organized aid for Romanian orphans. He also founded a group to aid victims of celiac disease - a faulty absorption of gluten in the intestines - which he had. Mr. Benenson's family issued no statement. Amnesty International, which announced his death, listed his survivors as his wife, Susan; a son, Joe; a daughter, Manya Scarffe; and two daughters by a previous marriage, Natasha Benenson and Jill Ackroyd.

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