BERIGAN

Yeah, they were supposed to go belly up a few months back, then made up some B.S. about sellers wanting to get back to school sales, so that is why they are up till October. Sold a vhs that had been up for about a 1 1/2 years. Ebay is supposed to have something just like Half.com but I don't list with ebay, I use an outside company, I hate having anything to do with ebay's way of listing....come on Steve Jobs, or even...God forbid, Bill Gates, come up with real competition to Ebay!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0818042nroyalton1.html

Saw the the other jazz board, thought should mention here as well. Great looking stuff! http://www.storyvilledvd.com/ have this one on tape, and it is wonderful, the Mike Bryan sextet was really a surprise. Jazz Festival, Volume 2 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, The Bobby Hackett Sextet, The Mike Bryan Sextet (DVD) 11.98 List Our Price 6.99

Well, does anyone think anyteam can beat the Cards in the National league? Hell, in the majors even? They made the Braves, just about the hottest team in baseball look like they did in the first part of the season....a sub .500 team. The Cards have 3 legit MVP candidates,(Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen, and Jim Edmonds) there pitching may not be perfect, but then again, whose has?

Ditto...and you know...as much as no one ever wants to part with their jazz, someday down the road one might really need the money, and a large investment would be essentially worthless if you cut up the paperwork....

Hope he can overcome it! He hasn't looked all that well the last few years....

Well, I checked my highly detailed database, and fully 100% of the jazz musicians in my collection are dead!

Well, they were talking about Hugo on Fox with a guy from the weather channel, and it was the storm that hit SC, not Florida! Man, I'm getting old, it was Andrew that did so much damage to South Florida.....looks like it is just nicking Fort Meyers, and is going to come inland further north...

Now the storm seems to be going more due north!

I lived in Jacksonville for 10 years, we missed getting Hurricanes luckily enough. (cul-de-sac shape of Florida/Georgia border seems to keep storms away)But watched closely any storm nearby of course. When storms get this strong, real damage can/will occur. I think Hugo had sustained winds of 140 with gusts above 160, and you all remember the damage that caused. Orlando may suffer some major problems as well, since the storm will still have some real strength. I forget which hurricane came inland in SC in the early 90's and hit Charlotte with 100+ winds, which no one expected. All their radio stations were knocked off the air, and Jacksonville stations were broadcasting info for them...Hopefully this storm will weaken a bit before coming ashore!!!!

Rex Stewart!

Man, did she ever live a life!!! Ate lots of red meat too! TV Cooking Show Host Julia Child Dies Email this Story Aug 13, 12:30 PM (ET) By PAUL CHAVEZ LOS ANGELES (AP) - Julia Child, whose warbling, encouraging voice and able hands brought the intricacies of French cuisine to American home cooks through her television series and books, has died. She was 91. "America has lost a true national treasure," Nicholas Latimer, director of publicity for the famed chef's publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, said in a statement Friday. "She will be missed terribly." Child died at 2:50 a.m. Friday at her home in an assisted living center in Montecito, a coastal town about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles, said her niece, Philadelphia Cousins. A statement released earlier by Latimer said Child died Thursday. "She passed away in her sleep," Cousins said. "She was with family and friends and her kitten, Minou. She had cookbooks and many paintings by her husband Paul around the house." Child, who died two days before her 92nd birthday, had been suffering from kidney failure, Cousins said. A memorial service for family members was planned, but Child asked that no funeral be held, Cousins said. A 6-foot-2 American folk hero, "The French Chef" was known to her public as Julia, and preached a delight not only in good food but in sharing it, ending her landmark public television lessons at a set table and with the wish, "Bon appetit." "Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal," she said in the introduction to her seventh book, "The Way to Cook.""In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal." Chipper and unpretentious, she beckoned everyone to give good food a try. She wasn't always tidy in the kitchen, and just like the rest of us, she sometimes dropped things or had trouble getting a cake out of its mold. In an A-line skirt and blouse, and an apron with a dish towel tucked into the waist, Julia Child grew familiar enough to be parodied by Dan Aykroyd on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and the subject of Jean Stapleton's musical revue, "Bon Appetit." She was on the cover of Time magazine in 1966. Active and a frequent traveler in her 80s, Child credited good genes and a habit begun in her 40s of eating everything in moderation. Susy Davidson, a consultant who worked with Child on "Good Morning America," called Child's friendship a great gift. "She's helped me redefine age, No. 1," Davidson once said. "She is the standard by which I judge all professionals. She's always eager to learn something, to try something new. She just has this generosity of spirit." She was foremost a teacher and never lost sight of the goal set out in volume one of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking": "Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere, with the right instruction. Our hope is that this book will be helpful in giving that instruction." Like her friend James Beard, Child was influenced but not battered by the popularity of fast food, low-fat food, health food. She aimed "The Way to Cook" at a new generation and while it offered plenty of recipes using butter and cream, it left room for experimentation and variation in its blend of classic French and free-style American techniques. It was a hit, with nearly 400,000 copies in print just four months after publication. She worried, however, that the health craze was overdone. "What's dangerous and discouraging about this era is that people really are afraid of their food," she told The Associated Press in 1989. "Sitting down to dinner is a trap, not something to enjoy. People should take their food more seriously. Learn what you can eat and enjoy it thoroughly." Child did not take a cooking lesson until she was in her 30s. And she was in her 50s when her first television series began in 1963. Born in Pasadena, Calif., Child once said she was raised on so-so cooking by hired cooks. She graduated from Smith College in 1934 with a history degree and aspirations to be a novelist or a writer for the New Yorker magazine. Instead, she ended up in the publicity department of a New York City furniture and rug chain. When World War II began, she joined the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. She was sent off to do clerical chores in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where she met Paul Child, a career diplomat who later became a photographer and painter, on the porch of a tea planter's bungalow in 1943. They married in 1946 and two years later were sent to Paris. Child enrolled in the famed Cordon Bleu cooking school, motivated at least in part by a desire to cook for her epicure husband. She was considered a bit odd by her friends, who all had hired help in the kitchen. "I'd been looking for my life's work all along," she told the AP. "And when I got into cooking I found it. I was inspired by the tremendous seriousness with which they took it." In France, she also met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, with whom she collaborated on "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," which was nine years in the making and became mandatory for anyone who took cooking seriously. It was published in 1961 and was followed by "The French Chef Cookbook"; "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. II," with Beck; "From Julia Child's Kitchen"; "Julia Child & Company"; "Julia Child & More Company"; and "The Way to Cook," in October 1989. She was 51 when she made her television debut as "The French Chef." The series began in 1963 and continued for 206 episodes. Child won a Peabody award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966, and went on to star in several more series for Boston's WGBH-TV. Russell Morash, Child's director from the beginning, recalled her as "spontaneous from the outset, a natural television talent - very relaxed but very professional." "I happened to be the right woman at the right time," she said, noting that John F. Kennedy had a French chef at the White House and more Americans were traveling abroad. Since the 1980s, she devoted attention to promoting the serious study of food and cooking. She co-founded the American Institute of Wine and Food in San Francisco in 1981 and co-founded the James Beard Foundation in New York City in 1986. More recently, she teamed with fellow television chef Jacques Pepin for the 1994 PBS special, "Julia Child & Jacques Pepin: Cooking in Concert" and a 1996 sequel, "More Cooking in Concert." Paul Child died in 1994, and in late 2001, Julia Child, a longtime resident of Cambridge, Mass., moved to Santa Barbara. The couple had no children. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040813/D84EEP880.html

Man, that thing got strong fast! Hope everyone on the board in Florida is safe! Looks like it is going to hit right around Fort Meyers.

Oh well...I just couldn't remember enough (Ok, anything) to do a search...so much fun getting old....

I forget! Edit. Web address, ran out of room!

I've read that Cab Calloway paid more than Duke did, so it can't just be money, and they toured all the damn time , a real physical and mental grind....I also think there was more discipline than one might think there was,(Didn't he have a "ray" like Goodman did?) but the guys still had some freedom.... he didn't like to fire people, that will keep folks around too....

BEIJING, Aug.12 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian scientists said they have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion in Siberia almost a hundred years ago, China Daily reported today, citing the Interfax news agency as the source. [AFP] The scientists, who belong to the Tunguska space phenomenon public state fund, said they found the remains of an extra-terrestrial device that allegedly crashed near the Tunguska river in Siberia in 1908. Their findings also include a 50-kilogram (110-pound) rock which they have sent to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for analysis. The Tunguska blast, in a desolate part of Siberia, remains one of the 20th century's biggest scientific mysteries. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometers above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometers (miles) away and devastated over 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest. Enditem http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-08/...ent_1766126.htm

Don't salt them dude!

Turns out, she really is black.

That's interesting! I think everyone has had their bloodpressure read much higher than usual...they want to slap you on meds so fast...

I keep waiting for a 2 disc set...like Casablanca...they got my money for the first 1 disc Casablanca, they won't get me to buy Maltese Falcon twice!

Is there anything left of the Voice?

Can You Name All 53 States? Mon Aug 9, 2004 07:58 AM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A chain of private California schools that taught immigrants there are 53 U.S. states and four branches of the U.S. government was ordered to stop handing out phony diplomas this week, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Friday. Authorities seized the assets of California Alternative High School and asked a judge to stop the company's 30 schools statewide from handing out "high school diplomas" to students dreaming of a better life through education, Lockyer said. The company charged its mainly Latino students $450 to $1,450 for a 10-week course based on a 54-page book that was riddled with errors, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. Students learned that Congress had two houses -- the Senate for Democrats and the House for Republicans; that the U.S. flag had not been updated to reflect the addition of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico to the "original" 50 states; that the federal "administrative" branch oversees the Treasury Department; and that World War II occurred from 1938 to 1942. There are 50 U.S. states, including Alaska and Hawaii, who are represented on the U.S. flag. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, not a state. There is no "administrative" branch of the U.S. government. The three branches are judicial, executive and legislative. World War II was fought between 1939 and 1945, although the United States did not enter the war until 1941. The workbook also refers to the play, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," not Arthur Miller's classic "Death of a Salesman." The company claimed to have 78 locations nationwide and said it was actively expanding operations despite court orders in two other states that sought to block it from claiming the diplomas were "official," Lockyer said. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=...storyID=5910937

best handle ever!

You are nuts...She has a mental illness...who gives a flying fuck what her father did, unless he was charged with molesting children? People like yourself believe anything and everything is political. I guess I she try to find out if Scott Peterson's parents voted for Democrats, that would explain everything!