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a career worthy of note. thanks.

the gorgeous kismet. indeed.

No, but I see someone is selling that volume on Amazon for $15. thanks, chuck.

March 25, 2007 Heads Up | Environment Watch Cruise Lines Face More Policing of Waste Disposal By CHARLES Q. CHOI THIS summer, a new kind of passenger might make an appearance on cruise ships in Alaska: rangers whose job is to make sure the vessels are not polluting the state’s waters. The Alaskan state program, which includes plans to have as many as 60 monitors inspect ships’ waste disposal methods, is one of the latest examples of state and federal efforts to keep billions of gallons of cruise ship waste from affecting coastal waters. Industry groups contend that cruise lines have substantially improved their waste disposal practices in recent years, making this program and other proposed laws unnecessary. In 2006, a panel of researchers organized by the nonprofit group Conservation International and the International Council of Cruise Lines, an industry group, said purified wastewater from ships in motion had negligible environmental impact. Still, the growth in the cruise industry worries many experts. The number of passengers has grown to more than 12 million in 2006 from about 500,000 in 1970, according to the cruise lines group. From 2000 to the end of this year, 88 new ships will have been introduced. The vessels have grown larger as well. The Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas entered the fleet last June with the largest passenger capacity yet — 3,634 — double that of large ships a decade ago. All this has raised concerns about the impact ship waste could have on coastal waters. “Imagine how you would feel about 1,000 families tossing garbage onto your front lawn for a week,” a California state senator, Joe Simitian, said. On average, a cruise ship generates 140,000 to 210,000 gallons of sewage and a million gallons of wastewater from sinks, showers and laundries each week, the United States Commission on Ocean Policy reported in 2004. Sewage carries germs that can contaminate shellfish beds and harm other life, while phosphates, nitrates and other wastewater compounds can trigger huge growths of algae that cloud the water, reduce oxygen, smother corals and kill fish. A ship can also produce more than 25,000 gallons of oily bilge water from engines and machinery a week, according to a 2000 Environmental Protection Agency report. Moreover, cruise ships’ fuel often contains sulfur dioxide, and ships sometimes incinerate garbage, releasing dioxins and fine particles that can trigger respiratory ailments, according to Russell Long, founder of the environmental group Bluewater Network. In 2001, the 21 members of the Cruise Lines International Association agreed not to release wastewater within four miles of shore. Still, violations happen. In January, Celebrity Cruises paid $100,000 to Washington State after its ship the Mercury violated an agreement and dumped more than a half-million gallons of untreated wastewater in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 2005, a few miles from commercial shellfish beds. In 2002, the Crystal Harmony released 36,000 gallons of wastewater into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California. Crystal Cruises disclosed it four months afterward. “As a lifelong resident of the Monterey Bay area, I was angered by the actions of Crystal Cruises line when they dumped in our bay,” said Representative Sam Farr, the area’s congressman. A Crystal Cruises spokeswoman, Mimi Weisband, said, “It was a terrible mistake, and contrary to our own policy to never discharge in any marine sanctuary.” She noted that the discharge of the treated wastewater was legal, taking place 14 miles offshore, while maritime law allows the discharge of untreated wastewater 12 miles offshore. The Crystal Cruises incident prompted Mr. Simitian, the state senator, to write what are now laws banning the release of sewage, oily bilge or sewage sludge into California waters and prohibiting cruise ships from incinerating garbage within three miles of the state’s shore. It also spurred Representative Farr, a Democrat, to help write the Clean Cruise Ship Act, which would make it illegal for cruise ships to discharge any wastewater, treated or otherwise, within 12 nautical miles of United States shores, and would apply strict rules for discharging treated wastewater up to 200 nautical miles off shore. The bill was first introduced in 2004, and has been stymied for years. Mr. Farr plans to reintroduce it this spring. The Alaskan ocean ranger program, created by a ballot referendum passed in August, applies to ships with more than 250 passengers. This year, some 30 ships carrying an estimated 950,000 passengers will sail in Alaska waters. The initiative requires that the rangers be marine engineers licensed by the Coast Guard who are also trained in wastewater treatment systems and environmental and public health rules. The program will cost each passenger $4, funds that will also pay for satellite transponders to track the ships’ movements in and out of state waters. The $4 tax is expected to draw in about $3.6 million annually, and the ranger program is projected to cost roughly $5 million a year. A bill introduced in February would have ocean rangers inspect vessels only at port and not ride with them, for a program that would cost less than $1 million annually. A vote is expected next month. In the face of all the outcry, the cruise industry has tried to show a commitment toward the environment. For instance, Celebrity Cruises voluntarily paid $30,000 more than it had to for the Mercury incident. It also plans to spend more than $50 million on improved wastewater purification systems for its nine ships. “It happened because of human error, and we have very publicly taken responsibility for that situation,” a Celebrity Cruises spokesman, Michael Sheehan, said of the Mercury incident. He also noted that Royal Caribbean Cruises, which operates Celebrity Cruises, has donated roughly $10 million in the last 10 years to the Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and other organizations through its Ocean Fund. The International Council of Cruise Lines’ executive vice president, Michael Crye, estimates that, so far, roughly 40 percent of its members’ 130 ships, which make up two-thirds of the world fleet, have installed advanced wastewater systems, with 10 or 15 more added every year. Each system costs $2 million to $10 million a ship and takes 6 to 12 months to install. Mr. Crye said the advent of these new systems made the Clean Cruise Ship Act unnecessary. Cruise lines are also experimenting with technology to reduce the amount of noxious chemicals and ash that smokestacks release. Ships could also plug into shore power stations to reduce air emissions while in port, which is already happening in Alaska, Washington and California, Mr. Crye added. He said it cost up to $2 million to modify a ship this way, besides the costs to the port to build and maintain such installations. Celebrity Cruises has four ships with gas-turbine engines, which release 80 percent to 95 percent less sulfur, fine particles and nitrogen oxides, said Rich Pruitt, Royal Caribbean’s director of environmental programs. Other efforts include the Cruise Lines International Association’s work with Conservation International scientists to develop a global map of coral reefs, shellfish beds and other sensitive areas. The lines would then avoid discharging untreated wastewater within four miles of these places. But some say more can be done. Teri Shore, the Bluewater Network’s clean vessels campaign director, noted that while the advanced wastewater treatment systems are meeting legal criteria for removing germs from ship effluent, they do not treat contaminants like metals or nutrients. To see how well new wastewater treatment systems actually work, the Environmental Protection Agency sampled wastewater from four large cruise ships in 2004 in Alaska. The data showed that they indeed seemed to remove germs, but “there are some questions we have on the nutrients and the metals,” the agency’s assistant administrator for water, Benjamin Grumbles, said. The E.P.A. is now testing the impact of wastewater nutrients and metals on marine life, and said it hoped to propose a ruling by the end of 2007 on whether it needs to set additional standards for waste discharges in Alaska. Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

thanks are those arabesques(?) yet available?"

probably my favorite piece of music in this world. i have a couple really nice versions, one i love by the little know t'se fong. i am sure there are many versions that offer different shadings on this gorgeous work from another time. suggestions, please.

Must say that one of his solo Capitol albums ("The Shearing Piano", reissued in 2001 by Capitol, Capitol Jazz 7243 5 31574 2 5) was real treasure of various approaches to well known jazz standarads. Still, one title from that album "It Never Entered My Mind" caught me as very pleasant one, and intelligent by inclusion of Eric Satie touch in his playing... god, yes. that has been a personal favorite. check out his very brooding 'moritat' from 'grand piano,' more most moving shearing at his absolute finest,

http://www.scaruffi.com/history/jazzp.html http://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/70.html

so sorry to learn this, but you are going to wonderful new opportunities. i am sure you and your dog will savor each precious remaining moment together.

some brubeck trio, octet, quartet, and solo from 1948-1953, including some live 1952 storyville, and 1952 surf club hollywood. looks like interesting reading, including a very nice booklet with big pics of all the groups and notes by dave.

have a couple versions of the lovely ferrier alto rhapsodies, prefer clemens krauss.. love the reiner symphonies that are available, particularly number 1 from about 1960 on rca and the reiner-heifitz, of course.

he can really swing, too. the recently released duo brotz and han recorded in the black forest is some of the purest and most beautiful music i have heard and han didnt even have his drums. Peter Brötzmann/Han Bennink: Schwarzwaldfahrt (1977 [2005], Atavistic, 2CD): A picnic in the Black Forest -- "fahrt" means "trip," not what it sounds like -- with the former's reeds, a little viola and banjo, and whatever percussion the latter could conjure up by attacking nature; interesting as concept and process, for its occasional surprises.

bush, cheney, rove, global warming. that's it.

when did bass players start switching to steel strings. any bass players still have 'guts?'

i learn more from the people that disagree with me than from those that agree.

according to weather.com 29F with winds gusting to 30 MPH. why would anybody in the north pay big bucks to buy tickets for an april baseball game, except on opening day, of course? however on the radio, or in front of the widescreen, it's a beautiful thing. how can baseball be played in these temps. hoping the dugouts are heated. the view of ozzie with his stocking cap over the baseball cap was a magnificent sight.

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a cleveland reporter mentioned today that during the past week, course employees have been pinning premature peach blossoms on trees for the masters in atlanta(for the networks of course) with the piped in bird sounds it should be a classy event. i would love to surreptiously sneak into their bird call library the most lovely 'evan with birds.'

more pet food recalls april 3,4,5 http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html

brotzmann's feeling for the long traditions of jazz is very gratifying. hearing him speak about the beautiful work of art pepper and coleman hawkins and rollins, among others, and hearing him observe that he doesnt listen to his own music, but to more or less traditional music meant a great deal to me. his generations long passion for jazz and music can be heard, if one listens. that being said, the astounding flaherty is an artist most deserving of far greater recognition. what his feeling is for the traditions of jazz, i do not know, but i might suggest that if an artist is powerful enough, this is not essential.

Gordie Jones Eddie Robinson dies, and now we hear the echoes. The echoes that were always there, in the background, as quiet and dignified as the man himself. But the ones we only noticed when we chose to notice. It's like that with great coaches: All they are, and all they do, reverberates with those they touch. And then it is passed along once, twice, a third time. The echoes are heard, a thousand times over. The obituaries tell us that Robinson, who passed away late Tuesday night, at age 88, was a man of strength and resolve, not anger and bitterness. That though he was an African-American man who coached at a historically black college, Grambling, for over half a century -- through Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement and the black-white tensions that continue to this day -- he refused to believe racial barriers were impenetrable. Everyone, he believed, could carve through those walls, and carve out a niche. ''The best way to enjoy life in America is to first be an American, and I don't think you have to be white to do so,'' he once said, according to the New York Times. ''Blacks have had a hard time, but not many Americans haven't.'' Beliefs like that appear to have struck a chord with those he coached. Bill Curry, one of the more thoughtful voices at ESPN, was talking on the radio Wednesday morning about one of Robinson's former players, Willie Davis, the Hall of Fame defensive end on those great Green Bay Packers teams of the 1960s. Curry had never so much as shared a huddle with an African-American player before he was drafted by the Packers in 1965, but Davis -- ''the greatest leader I've ever been associated with,'' he said -- opened his eyes. He did so, Curry said, because of who he was, how he carried himself and what he represented. Curry couldn't help but think that Robinson had something to do with that. As he told the radio audience, Robinson ''insisted all the time his work was in the hearts and minds of his young men. He was using this sport to make a statement: 'We are just as good as everyone else.' And it worked in the long run.'' And though Curry believes there are ''miles to go'' in race relations, he also said that much of the progress that has been made in the sporting realm ''simply wouldn't have happened without Eddie Robinson.'' Robinson started at Grambling in 1941, months before Pearl Harbor. In the early days he would line the field, make sandwiches for his team's road trips through the segregated South, even write game stories for the local newspaper. Corky Simpson wrote Wednesday in the Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen that Robinson also had a solution when one of his players had trouble getting out of bed for class in the morning. More cowbell. Robinson would invade the dorm room of the slumbering slacker and clang the thing in the player's ear. Certainly there were many other things he said and did over the course of his career -- which ran through 1997, and saw him win 408 games -- that echoed a lot longer. ''He never told us life was unfair,'' Doug Williams told the New York Times. Williams is one of the most famous of Robinson's protégés, a Super Bowl-winning quarterback who later succeeded his mentor as coach. ''He always told us this was America,'' Williams told the Times, ''and we could be anything we wanted to be.'' Even an inspiration. Especially that. gordon.jones@mcall.com 610-820-6628 »

it was a 1979 blakey interview that was on the radio yesterday afternoon. i intended to take the post down after the show, but there were a few comments.

3 of the more obscure gorgeous caps are concerto for my love, out of the woods, and blue chiffon. i love his torme duo recordings. efforts like nightingale sang in.......are exceptional. his reverance for art tatum is well known.

thanks. dont think he was nuts when he talked about the eckstein band and 8 dollars a night and trips through the south and betcar, and fats dying at 25 of tb when the people thought he was a drunk. i'm just listening to him talk. he didnt need any questions.

his discussion of fats navarro is just sickening to hear.