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your frivolity was sorely missed.

Severino Dias de Oliveira RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Severino Dias de Oliveira, the white-maned accordionist and composer known as Sivuca, died Thursday. He was 76. Sivuca died of throat cancer, hospital officials said. Rooted in the accordion-driven "forro" style of Brazil's northeast, Sivuca played with a wide range of musicians around the world, including jazz star Toots Thielmans and South African singer Miriam Makeba. He was widely credited with arranging her most famous recording, "Pata Pata." Sivuca was born to a farm family in Itabaiana. An albino who had to avoid the sun, he was allowed to spend less time on farm chores and more working on his music. He began playing accordion at fairs and parties at age 9, and at 15 he began playing on the radio in the northeastern city of Recife. He recorded his first record in 1950, which included the hit "Adeus Maria Fulo." Sivuca later moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he worked in radio and television, and lived in Lisbon and Paris for a number of years before moving in 1964 to New York City, where he played with Makeba, playing guitar, until 1969. He also worked with Thielmans, Airto Moreira and Hermeto Pascoal and later played with several Scandinavian jazz musicians.

thanks! does tonight then include brother roach? might melt your transmitter.

that 2nd dvd is trancscendental!

are there here somewhere similar recommendations on the brahms symphonies, and my delius, and mendelsohn?

the reiner?

the reiner chicago, if you can find it.

his vivaldi is ok.

the james levine 25th anniversary dvd's are among my very fav alltimers. are recordings (or videos)of all 8 hours available?

too busy! been away. recommend a few of your latest. you know what i like.

1. the disposable american-louis uchitelle 2. confessions of a wall street analyst-dan reingold Outrage Deferred CONFESSIONS OF A WALL STREET ANALYST A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market By Dan Reingold with Jennifer Reingold Collins; 348pp; $25.95 Telecom's spectacular multitrillion-dollar boom and bust seem like ancient history. Once almighty WorldCom, its remnants snapped up by Verizon Communications (VZ ) and its founder headed to jail, is no more. Ditto for scores of upstart 1990s carriers. As for the Wall Street analysts who egged on the telecom train wreck, the ones who haven't been downsized or permanently barred from the industry don't have much left to analyze. And yet six years later, the excesses of that time retain enough pungency for a Wall Street tell-all. Dan Reingold, a former top-ranked telecom analyst who left Credit Suisse First Boston (CSR ) LLC in 2003, delivers just that in Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market. As he explains in his prologue: "Many of the worst transgressions...went unpunished and uncorrected. Hence this book." The cover promises: "What Eliot Spitzer Never Told You." But while Reingold, co-writing with his niece, Fast Company writer and BusinessWeek alum Jennifer Reingold, tramples over his Street confidentiality agreements to share sordid, often appalling anecdotes from the telco bacchanal, Confessions sadly arrives far too late to qualify as meaningful whistle-blowing. In 1989, Reingold was recruited to genteel Morgan Stanley (MS ) from his investor-relations job at scrappy MCI. Although at MCI he was immersed in the art of finessing earnings guidance, with all the winking and body language that entailed, he says he made the leap to Wall Street intending simply to "write reports from the quiet of an office overlooking Midtown Manhattan as competently as any telecom analyst out there." Future über-analyst Jack Grubman, then a rising telecom researcher at Paine Webber (UBS ), predicted to a colleague that Reingold wouldn't make it. The two would become archrivals over the following decade. The booming 1990s -- the decade of privatization, deregulation, and the explosive growth of the Internet -- made it nearly impossible for a telecom analyst to avoid the limelight. With billions of dollars in banking fees at play, a guy like Reingold became a hot commodity worthy of headhunting and huge pay packages, first at Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER ) and then at CSFB. The ensuing workaholism inevitably took its toll. In 1997, while at the hospital where his mother was having surgery on a brain tumor, Reingold scrambled to file reports from a bank of pay phones when news broke that WorldCom was buying MCI. "Yes, my priorities were out of order," he writes, "but that was what Wall Street was all about, wasn't it?" But Reingold claims he kept his sense of outrage about the increasingly unabashed conflicts of interest between investment banking and research, the kind that Grubman (and his $25 million pay package at Salomon Smith Barney (C )) openly espoused. As evidence, Reingold points to his refusal to let Merrill bankers pressure him to sign off on lucrative IPOs of carriers with suspect business models. At CSFB, he turned down an incentive arrangement wherein he would have answered directly to the bankers. On the other hand, Reingold argues, Grubman tailored his research calls to the demands of the underwriting calendar. Most infamously, he went bullish on AT&T (T ) ahead of the carrier's record $10.6 billion wireless initial public offering in April, 2000 (partly as a quid pro quo for his children's nursery school admission). Reingold also contends that Grubman was using his privileged connection to management and bankers to leak impending merger information to clients. "Grubman's research is a sham," Reingold warned an executive. "In effect, he's a whore and everyone knows it." Grubman did not return phone calls. And yet Reingold kept the Street's code of silence. "All I could do was sit back and watch," he writes of Grubman's unethical rise to the top. In fact, had Reingold had the courage of his convictions, he would have quit his job and blown the whistle when doing so would have mattered. Instead, he waited until April, 2003, to finally step down from his multimillion-dollar post at CSFB. Confessions correctly argues that half-baked regulation has not put an end to rampant insider trading and compromised Wall Street research, indignantly noting that the biggest hucksters from the telecom bubble returned only a fraction of their ill-gotten gains. Still, coming in 2006, its value lies mainly in a colorful portrayal of egos, salary negotiations, and the daily dispensing of B.S. Had it been published six years ago, the book would have offered so much more.

pfw is on the web, most of the time.

with the incredible tom cole

on sunday mornings from 9 to noon is a splendid show featuring all kinds of stringed instruments. everything from charlie byrd to some very avant tracks plus string music from all over the world. the host is most eloquent and understated. this is a splendid program

vaughan williams a london symphony(1913 version) is beautifully and stirringly performed by the london symphony orchestra conducted by richard hickox on chandos is one of the very most moving recordings i have heard in years.

hope you can find it. organissimo occasionally often plays their pub.

BV is good. I don't know if that company still exists though. Not a big fan of Shiner. I don't dig the single bocks. I want the dark, heavy stuff. Sammy Smiths Oatmeal Stout, baby!! try to get get some bell's expedition stout, makes oatsy seem like junior high! http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bells-expedition-stout/3214/

this bud 24 oz. can isnt too bad.

http://www.dvorak.org/home.htm this all text page gives lots and lots of quality links, drudge excepted, especially weather. i put in my program files and use it as a home page. there is then less time loading my homepage.

That made me think of Dominick Farinacci (trumpet) who plays on Krivda's CJR & CIMP CDs & has his own series of CDs only released in Japan. ...not to mention the incredible chops of trumpeter jack shantz, director of the cleveland jazz orchestra.

nature's diversification far exceeds mans wildest imaginings.

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON (AP) -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined. At one site, nearly 2 miles deep in the Atlantic, shrimp were living around a vent that was releasing water heated to 765 degrees Fahrenheit. Water surrounding the site was a chilly 36 degrees. An underwater peak in the Coral Sea was home to a type of shrimp thought to have gone extinct 50 million years ago. More than 3 miles beneath the Sargasso Sea, in the Atlantic, researchers collected a dozen new species eating each other or living on organic material that drifts down from above. "Animals seem to have found a way to make a living just about everywhere," said Jesse Ausubel of the Sloan Foundation, discussing the findings of year six of the census of marine life. Added Ron O'Dor, a senior scientist with the census: "We can't find anyplace where we can't find anything new." This year's update, released Sunday, is part of a study of life in the oceans that is scheduled for final publication in 2010. The census is an international effort supported by governments, divisions of the United Nations and private conservation organizations. About 2,000 researchers from 80 countries are participating. Ausubel said there are nearly 16,000 known species of marine fish and 70,000 kinds of marine mammals. A couple of thousand have been discovered during the census. The researchers conducted 19 ocean expeditions this year; a 20th continues in the Antarctic. In addition, they operated 128 nearshore sampling sites and, using satellites, followed more than 20 tagged species including sharks, squid, sea lions and albatross. Highlights of the 2006 research included: -Shrimp, clams and mussels living near the super-hot thermal vent in the Atlantic, where they face pulses of water that is near-boiling despite shooting into the frigid sea. -In the sea surrounding the Antarctic, a community of marine life shrouded in darkness beneath more than 1,600 feet of ice. Sampling of this remote ocean yielded more new species than familiar ones. -Off the coast of New Jersey, 20 million fish swarming in a school the size of Manhattan. -Finding alive and well, in the Coral Sea, the type of shrimp called Neoglyphea neocaledonica, thought to have disappeared millions of years ago. Researchers nicknamed it the Jurassic shrimp. -Satellite tracking of tagged sooty shearwaters, small birds, that mapped the birds' 43,500-mile search for food in a giant figure eight over the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand via Polynesia to foraging grounds in Japan, Alaska and California and then back. The birds averaged a surprising 217 miles daily. In some cases, a breeding pair made the entire journey together. -A new find, a 4-pound rock lobster discovered off Madagascar. -A single-cell creature big enough to see, in the Nazare Canyon off Portugal. The fragile new species was found 14,000 feet deep. It is enclosed within a plate-like shell, four-tenths of an inch in diameter, composed of mineral grains. -A new type of crab with a furry appearance, near Easter Island. It was so unusual it warranted a whole new family designation, Kiwaidae, named for Kiwa, the Polynesian goddess of shellfish. Its furry appearance justified its species name, hirsuta, meaning hairy. --- Associated Press writer John Heilprin contributed to this report. --- On the Net: Census of Marine Life: http://www.coml.org © 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy.

will dig out my old old vinyl and see if i can discern anything.

anyone mention eyges' trio session with paul bley? probably on steeplechase. he cant quite hang with paul, but an awesome recording. by the way, cant find my copy. only have the jewel box.

went back to my altec lansing 2100's. no gimmicks. so damn clean!