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Notes From Home
A short tour of non-English-language music for sale in Baltimore
Ask the man on the street how many music stores there are in Baltimore, and he may be able to name a few of the bigger places--Sound Garden, for example. A minority of passionate music-hunters might name funkier holes-in-the-wall selling mostly used stuff. But the truth is that there are dozens of places with new sounds on offer. The trick is that most of the music isn't in English. The majority of these places locally are targeted to immigrant groups, people whose music is utterly underrepresented in the U.S. media, or even on the web.
The need for music from the motherland is something that has been consistent among each wave of immigrants to the United States for as long as the country has existed. The Prussian, Slavic, Anglo, and Scandinavian newcomers of the 18th and 19th centuries carried their songs with them in their memories and performed them for one another, often keeping traditions alive in the New World long after they'd faded away in their native lands. The African diaspora has retained essential aspects of the music of the lost homeland. And, as we all know, the styles commingled and transmogrified into "American" music--jazz, gospel, blues, country, rock, hip-hop.
The process of holding on to the songs of the Old World changed when recording came along in the first decades of the 20th century. Starting in the 1910s and '20s, records were marketed to all of the major immigrant groups: German, Irish, Italian, Bulgarian, Serb, Pole, Arab, Jew, Armenian, Greek, Japanese, Philippine, you name it, the record companies were already going after a share of their earnings by selling immigrants something irresistible--a song from home. For a variety of reasons, including the restructuring of the record business caused by the Depression, the advent of radio, the intermarriage of ethnic groups, and the desire to become capital-A American, by the mid-20th century much of that wave's imported music remained niche "ethnic" material, kept alive in enclaves or simply abandoned by the immigrants' descendants.
Over the past 50 years, waves of immigrants from Asia, South and Central America, and Africa have traveled a path to cultural citizenship cleared by earlier immigrants consisting of long hours of work, demands from the predominant culture to adapt linguistically, and marginal representation in the main cultural venues. Latinos may produce hip-hop (Beatnuts) and Armenians may play rock (System of a Down), but they conform to the existing standards of the style, otherwise they remain marginal and "ethnic." Mainstream America might patronize a Vietnamese restaurant for a taste of the exotic, but no American radio station plays Vietnamese music.
There's really no reason it should be this way, though. Among every cultural subgroup in the United States, there are beloved sad songs; there are amazing peacock-like displays of virtuosity; there are nostalgic stories about the Old Days; there are special songs for important days of the year or moments in life. These are consistencies among us all, despite any differences in language or sound. Why should it be hard to ask the next guy, "What is this song? What does it say? Who is this singing?" The answers could lead to interesting places--maybe to your new favorite music.
Listening to the music of our neighbors is how many of our greatest cultural achievements have been made. Immigrants do it all the time, and if the descendants of immigrants did it half as much, the country would be richer for it. One place to start is immigrants' shops.
On the door of the colorfully painted Koko Market (6020 Eastern Ave.), east of Johns Hopkins Bayview campus, there's a sign announcing a $100 reward for a lost cat. "Child grieving," it explains. Inside, above the counter of the crowded shop, there are a score of similar signs; one, hand-written in magic marker in both Arabic and English, pleads for a kidney donor. To one side of the door is a flip-rack of Latino CDs. To the other side is a wooden shelf jammed with hundreds of CDs and cassettes, possibly the only serious Arabic music selection in the city--recordings of prayers, Egyptian electro-pop icons, Moroccan instrumentalists, and decades-old classics of Arabic classical and film music.
Mona El Met and her husband Ashraf Gharib, who run the shop, and their curly-headed 7-year-old Shady, are the image of the ideal immigrant family, full of good humor, generosity, and a work ethic that baffles the imagination. Mona, a smiling and gentle person who chooses her words carefully, is sheltered from the cold in a long, black coat. Ashraf, who drove a cab in Baltimore from 1995 until 2005, looks and sounds the part of a cab driver--gregarious and flowing in his speech and layered in flannel work shirts. Their family business not only sells music and food but also acts as a community hub, hence the signs.
"We try to serve our community and all they need," Gharib says with subdued pride. "If somebody needs help, if he needs a lawyer [we help]. . . . We don't collect anything."
Natives of the Suez Canal region of Egypt, they moved to Baltimore in 1995 and bought the store in 2006 from another Egyptian who returned home. Gharib's opinion of the city is unmitigatedly positive. Beaming, he says, "I lllove it," as if the words themselves taste good in his mouth. "Some black, some white--it's a mixed city, and everyone enjoys [it.]"
Musically, though, Baltimore doesn't represent much for the Arab world. There is no music in Arabic and very little Arab presence on radio or television. The Gharib and El Met are pleased by the recent trend of hookah bars opening in the city--they represent a rare point of contact between Arab culture and the predominant American culture. "Young people are interested in other cultures," Gharib points out, and he's pleased that they are beginning to see broader images of Arabs. "Arabs can have fun, [they] can dance--not just pray."
Only a very small minority of the city's population speaks Arabic, though. Egypt's great music is deeply rooted in an inexorable relationship of the word with its sound, with its meaning, tone, and pronunciation. How can a Westerner even begin to appreciate it? But a song, Gharib says is not just the words: "It's how it makes [you] feel--it's what the music is doing in you."
Mediterraneans are famously cosmopolitan in their tastes, and Gharib says that the music he listened to in Egypt not only included Abdel Halim Hafez, Om Kalsoum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, and Fairuz (a list of names which, given American equivalencies, is roughly like Elvis, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Aretha Franklin), but also songs in Italian, French, and English. "Most of the great love songs are French songs," he says, "but you never hear them [here]."
Shady has held his tongue as long as possible and has to express his interests, too--a raccoon they saw in their yard and Batman. Prompted, he names Tamer Hosny, Hamaki, and Nancy Ajram, all modern electronic-backed stars, as Arabic singers he likes.
A sampling of cassettes bought at Koko Market are all of mid-century masters. "These are old," Gharib warns. Two are by Om Kalsoum (also spelled Umm Kulthum, among other variants), a singer whose power and significance is hard to overstate. Simply the single most important voice of the entire Arab world in the 20th century, she recorded hundreds of epic and often enraptured performances beginning shortly after her debut in Cairo in the early '20s as a teenager nearly until her death in the mid-'70s. Starting out as the daughter of a humble imam in a tiny northern Egyptian village, by the 1950s she had become the most famous and powerful woman in the Arab world, courted by royalty and admired by the European elite. Her peak performances of a half-century ago drive people into euphoria. So, that was five bucks well spent.
Another tape with a '60s-era photo of a middle-aged gentleman in a three-piece suit turns out to feature the music of Mohammed Abdel Mottaleb. (Gharib translates the artist's name from the Arabic text on the tape's insert.) After several minutes of exacting orchestral flourishes as overture, his voice enters in its lowest register singing one word, "Habib, habib . . ." ("Honey, honey . . .") purposefully introducing the tones of the song for several minutes in preparation for the vocal acrobatics and permutating rhythmic frames which follow uninterrupted over the side of the tape. Biographical data isn't forthcoming through the supposed mega-mind of the internet, so more serious investigation will be required.
Hands down, the oldest record store in Baltimore is Kentrikon (4704 Eastern Ave.), opened the summer of 1954 by John Morekas. His cousin, Nitsa Morekas, who describes herself as "sixtysomething," began working at the shop while in high school and has run it continuously since 1960. "We sold 78s! [What other local store] can say that?" she asks.
The only vinyl records left in the shop are a few hundred stashed behind the counter--relics of the radio show that John and Nitsa hosted on WBMD-AM for a half-century until 2006, when the station closed. The collection include LPs of demotika, the rural folk music of Greece; home-cut acetates and small-press 45s of Baltimorean Greek groups from the '50s and '60s; zeimbekikos, the contemplative solo dance of Greek men, inherited from the warrior class of the Ottoman Empire and perhaps the Doric period before that; hymns of the Greek Orthodox church; laika, the mid-century urban popular music; performances on lyra, the Cretean fiddle--a veritable trove of Hellenic pride.
The store is festooned in copies of classical sculpture, flowery Greek-language greeting cards for weddings, birthdays, christenings, and sympathy, little white dresses for girls' confirmations, religious icons, and about 500 CDs spanning five decades of Greek music.
Kentrikon is Greek for "center," a word which neatly summarizes both the origin of the store and Nitsa Morekas' understanding of its purpose in the Greek community. It began as an extension of John Morekas' radio show to fill a need in the community, a point of contact for new arrivals from Greece. "It was a little hub. The immigrants didn't know where to go," she says. "We did it for the community. It wasn't a money thing." Since the '60s, Kentrikon's income has been dependant as much on travel booking, shipping services, and tchotchkes as it is on Morekas' extroversion and community activism as a leader in the Greektown business alliance and organizer of Greek music concerts.
Nitsa Morekas arrived in the United States with her family in 1951 from Kalamata, located in southern Greece. Her father, a bankrupt merchant, brought his family to Baltimore to join his brothers and raise money for the dowries of his two daughters. By the end of the '50s, Nitsa had fallen "in love," as she puts it, with the great bouzouki players, and she glows as she describes the memory of a concert by the speed-demon virtuoso Manolis Chiotis, the first concert she ever attended at the Baltimore Civic Center: "He was the king! I was trembling when I interviewed him [for the radio show]." Chiotis was at once a blazing, showy performer and an innovator who set a new standard for his instrument--the bouzouki's Eddie Van Halen, sort of.
The thriving local Greek musical community of the '50s also included a club called the Acropolis on South Broadway in Fells Point, then such a rough neighborhood that Morekas' cousin wouldn't allow her out of the car when he went to collect the club's advertisements for the radio show. When she was old enough to get in, she remembers it as "very empty, a few sailors." The situation changed in 1960 with the release of the film Never on Sunday, which popularized Greek culture in the United States. After that, she says, the club was so crowded that "for years, you couldn't get in."
Touring Greek musicians, including the great composer and bouzouki player Yiannis Papaioannou, played there. Part of a generation of urban folk musicians whose style developed in the underground hash dens of Athens and Piraeus and heavily influenced by the music of Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Smyrna (Izmir in Turkish) to the east, Papaioannou and his peers were censored by the mid-20th century Greek dictatorship to leave behind the seedier references in their songs. Funny then, that he wound up playing on the seedy waterfront of Baltimore.
Anomalously, amidst the clean and healthy faces of pop stars in Kentrikon's CD racks stares the face of the greatest of the Greek dope-devotee songwriters, Markos Vamvakaris. He was what is called in Greek slang a mangas, which roughly translates as "badass," or a mortis, a term which the music researcher Charles Howard has written, "refers to a person who is both tough and elegant, the cool bearer of knife and suit." Vamvakaris' gruffly sung descriptions of heartbreak, drugs, and prison defined the underworld of urban Greece in the '30s, and like Robert Johnson in the United States at the same time, once heard and understood, it's the kind of thing people run to get a tattoo about. Playing his music for someone's Greek grandmother, however, would elicit reactions something like playing Ludacris in church. It's not "nice" music, but it is wide and strident with real, heroic truth-telling poetry within it--the voice of a brilliant, virtuosic, and hardened social outcast.
In Fells Point and Highlandtown, the influx of Latino immigrants and their culture has all but taken over certain blocks. The music shops catering to immigrants from South and Central America, Azteca Music and Ritmo Azteca on Eastern Avenue and Acapulco Musica and Video and Don Pedro's Musica Latina on South Broadway, are likewise utterly overwhelming. The walls are covered in ostentatious cowboy boots and soccer jerseys, floorspace is filled with blankets and luggage. Spinning tower racks are full of Spanish language DVDs. Phone cards dangle from racks by the counters. And most of all, the CD bins are overflowing with a numbing variety of musics: half-naked ladies in outrageous poses gaze from half-lidded eyes on the covers of discs of Argentinian cumbias while Che Guevara's icon gazes from within the psychedelic graffiti surrounding it on Mexican cumbia discs; Mexican hip-hoppers curl their lips amidst backgrounds of gothic decay; sharply-dressed Tejano singers grin below their cowboy hats; elvin Ecuadorian faces sprout from embroidered collars and fringy vests. Each shop's inventory threatens to rival that of Sound Garden's. For any Anglophone with an abiding passion for music, visiting these shops is like counting the stars. It's enough to make you feel like a little, tiny ant. And it is sadly inevitable that these places can only be given short shrift here.
We turn our attention instead to Ebenezer (301 S. Broadway), the sturdy and humble shop run by Mary Mejia since July 2000. A gentle, plainspoken middle-aged woman, she sits behind a glass display case filled with religious tracts and usher's pins inscribed in Spanish. A native of the village of Cuyamel near the port of Cortes in Honduras, Mejia met her husband, a sailor who had been based out of Baltimore since the mid-'70s, at a high-school graduation party in the town of San Pedro. In 1981, she emigrated to Baltimore to join him and worked various of jobs, cooking, and cleaning. In the late '90s, her son was diagnosed with cancer. "I was washing dishes one morning, and I looked out the window, and I said, 'Lord, what can I do?'"
The answer to her question was to sell music and books. The pastor of her Pentecostal church granted her shelf space in the church to sell her wares. Breathlessly and vividly, she recalls that a traveling salesman passing though town stopped at her church to see if there was a Spanish-language store for Christian music and books. Her pastor, noting that this was not simply by happenstance but by providence, directed the traveler to her house. "It was my first big buy [of inventory]," she says, revealing that like any good owner of a mom-and-pop store, she has a head for numbers, continuing, "I can still remember how much I spent. I can tell you it was not that much."
Two years later, her pastor, who she credits with "vision," suggested that the storefront up for sale at the corner of Broadway and Gough would be the right location for her. It is here that for the past eight years, she has worked among Bibles, leather Bible jackets, tambourines (big ones for adults, little ones for children), key chains, certificates for confirmation and marriage, and about 1,000 CDs of music from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Puerto Rico, and South America.
"People who serve the Lord, we listen to music," she says by way of explanation. Some of the discs she sells are like the music sung in her church--earnest, sweepingly melodic songs which walk the blurry line between hymn and power ballad--by singers like Danny Barrios, Daniel Calveti, Doris Machin, and Roberto Orellana.
In one corner, there are 10 or so discs by an unsmiling and startlingly beautiful Guatemalan woman named Maria Tecun. Mejia says that she had never heard of Tecun, who sings in native Guatemalan dialect, until her shop opened, but began to sell her discs because of demand for them. Tecun's singing on "Nada Ni Nadie" brings to mind at times Sara Carter's fragile, declamatory singing on the Carter Family's "Poor Orphan Child," with moments of huskier full-throated earnestness and pleading speech. Her voice is tastefully and demurely clothed at mid-tempo by syncopated piano, understated percussion, melodic brass flourishes, and nasal synthesizer. It's easy to imagine her as the soundtrack for a moment looking out the window, over the dishes, and asking "What do I do?" Tecun has the reassuring and grounded gracefulness one would want then. At Ebenezer, a handwritten sign on florescent cardstock below her discs reads, maria tecun: un talento para dios.
There are three grocery stores catering to West Africans between the 4700 and 6500 blocks of Harford Road, each offering a selection of CDs along with groaning masses of yam flour, spices, toiletries, and nearly every fish, fowl, or beast imaginable in smoked and/or dried form. Global Food Market (4707 Harford Road) has a room to one side as crowded with the detritus of small schoolchildren--crayon drawings, a nap-time mattress, books--as it is with Nigerian family dramas, supernatural thrillers, and action movies on video CDs (a format popular in Asia and Africa which stores MPEG video of similar resolution to VHS but is semi-compatible with DVD players). A few half-forgotten racks and one lonely bastard plastic tub are jammed with CDs of Christian praise singers. Hanging from alligator clips across one wall are more discs of the bubbling Nigerian high-life performers of the recent past like Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe and the Oriental Brothers alongside the odd disc by performers better known to Western listeners like Sunny Adé, Fela, and Madonna. Just outside the playpen/media department is the butchering area, where two skinned goat carcasses are stacked, one on top of the other.
All in One International Food Market (6521 Harford Road) is a bit tidier. The Ghanian woman behind the counter is too busy with customers to chat, but when asked recommends a disc by Ofori Amponsah, aka Mr. All 4Real. The cover looks a little like an R. Kelly record, but the music turns out to be a natural extension of the ebullient high life of '70s West Africa, mixed with a bits of reggae and Lionel Richie and backed by the programmed electronics that provide the majority of the instrumental accompaniment on recordings everywhere on earth over the past decade. Amponsah has a lovely, elastic voice and positive thumbs-up vibe, singing his loving devotion to his lady. When he sings, "Ooh, I want to marry you / oh, I'm ser-i-ous!" it's blushing and swooning time.
Behind the counter of the nearby Olympic International Food Market (6315 Harford Road) is Alice Mochu of Nairobi, Kenya, who has only been in the United States for six months, staying with her brother, a nursing student. Asked where to hear Kenyan music, she points not to the rack of CDs behind her but to YouTube, recommending Christian singers: Ben Githae, Loise Kim, Ruth Wamuyu, John Dematthew, and Salim Junior. Upon investigation, it is the last of these who stands out immediately, partly for the accompaniment of a real drummer (rather than electronics) whose kick-drum pounds out a driving four-on-the-floor even as he splashes over the snare in amazingly complex rat-a-tat fills. Even more astounding is Salim Junior's flat-picked acoustic guitar playing, which brings to mind the past generation of guitarists like S.E. Rogie of Sierra Leone, whose style seems all but lost on recordings available in the West. Salim Junior is part of a veritable scene of Kenyan guitarists, most of whom perform graphically sexual material for clubgoers. He, however, restricts himself to Christian-compatible material, although he sometimes corrupts a well-known hymn for satire's sake. Anyway, hearing him alone made the trip through North Baltimore's African shops worthwhile.
Emerging from the back of the shop is Gilbert Akanno, "President & CEO" of Olympic according to his business card. Akanno, an ethnic Igbo from Nigeria, moved to Baltimore 20 years ago to study accounting at Morgan State University and is busy practicing his vocation in the shop's basement office as tax time looms. A serious man, he is not prone to expansiveness or philosophizing. The purpose of the shop, he says, is "something to bring cash. This is something on the side." He admits readily to two sides to his musical taste, one which bespeaks his 20 years in Baltimore: Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, James Brown, and Barry White. The other side relates to his faith and his community in the Church--Nigerian gospel, praise songs of the same kind found piled at the Global Food Market. Asked for recommendations of personal favorites, he is careful to choose English-language discs from the selection behind the counter.
One of them is called Total Prayer by Evangelist Sister Juliana Okah. It consists of two long tracks, 20 minutes each, beginning with a two-minute song before launching into 15 minutes of prayer, a litany of thanks to God, rebuking of enemies in the form of Satan, witches, wizards, negative inherited legacies, etc., and asking for protection for each person in her life and each aspect of her work life. It is, in fact, an extraordinarily all-encompassing view of life, plainly laid bare on a shiny, little disc.
It is possible that Akanno understood that he was passing along a piece of his deepest-held beliefs and most precious wishes, but he could not have known if it would be understood by the listener he sold it to. This is the power of recorded music, to remember and re-speak those things we hold dear--the rarely articulated truths of life's trials, poetry praising the world's beauty, wishes and prayers for deliverance to a better world, memories of love found and homes lost.
In these waning years of physical media, it is worth retaining the potential for sharing music, not just as a blizzard of data and not simply through the consolidated sources of the ready-made media, but through the multitude of stories and songs carried within the people around us. Recordings are more than commodities or fetish objects, they are conduits carrying some of the best parts of us, musician and listener alike.
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Quinn: Leaders are 'very, very close' on pension reform
BY DAVE MCKINNEY AND ANDREW MALONEY Staff Reporters June 1, 2012 1:04PM
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SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn said he and the four legislative leaders Friday are "very, very close" to resolving the key sticking point behind this week's collapse of a major pension-reform package that had been one of his top two priorities this spring at the Statehouse.
"I believe we can thread this needle and do it quickly," Quinn told reporters during a news conference during which he pledged to jumpstart the stalled pension issue by sitting down with the leaders during the next week.
Illinois lawmakers concluded their spring session Thursday unable to pass a sprawling reform package aimed at rescuing the state's five underwater pension funds, which have liabilities of $83 billion and rank as the worst-funded pension systems in the country.
A deal unraveled when House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) and House Minority Leader Tom Cross (R-Oswego) couldn't agree on how — or whether — to force suburban and Downstate school districts to begin shouldering part of the $800 million funding load from the state for teacher and administrative pensions.
Without offering details about how to break that impasse or laying blame on either Madigan or Cross, Quinn emphasized that he believes that state taxpayers shouldn't have the full responsibility of paying for pensions for educators whose salaries are set by school boards and for which the state has no say.
"It's important we try to get a decision as quickly as possible on the core issue of resolving the pension liability. I believe in the principle of accountability, that every unit of government that negotiates a contract should have a stake in that contract, should have skin in that game," the governor said.
Quinn warned that without prompt action, state borrowing costs could soar because of potential credit downgrades from bond-rating houses that were expecting the state to address its unfunded pension liabilities.
"We're racing the clock. We have little time to spare. Time is of the essence. This is not something that we can meander on," the governor said. "We must focus on pension reform like never before, and if we do, I think we can accomplish something that will last in Illinois for generations."

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Precision metal manufacturing is a growing field in Minnesota, with plenty of job openings expected in the coming years. Machine operator Altheha DrePaul talks about her job and why she values a career in manufacturing.
Along with the housing industry, kitchen cabinet manufacturing in central Minnesota is simmering again. Jobs in the 13-county region jumped 27.4 percent from 2010 to 2012, which was more than five times as fast as the state as a whole, which gained 4.8 percent.


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Toyota reaches $1.1 billion settlement in class-action suit over unintended acceleration
Owners of 16M cars to get reimbursed
Toyota Motors agreed to pay $1.1 billion to install new safety features and reimburse owners of up to 16 million cars to settle a class-action suit filed by drivers who had problems with unintended acceleration in its cars in 2009-2010.
This is one of the largest lawsuits of its kind, according to Steve Berman, one of the lead plaintiff lawyers.
The company said that the settlement will lead to a one-time, $1.1 billion pre-tax charge against fourth quarter earnings to cover the costs.
Under the agreement, Toyota will install a brake-override system in cars where floor mats got stuck, leading them to accelerate unintentionally. The company will also set up a fund of $250 million to be paid to former Toyota owners who sold their cars between Sept. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2010, to compensate the owners for the reduced value of the cars from the negative publicity.
A separate fund of $250 million will be established to compensate current owners whose vehicles are not eligible for a brake-override system.
All 16 million current owners will be eligible for a customer care plan, that will provide a warranty on certain parts tied to unintended acceleration for between three and 10 years.
Until these issues, Toyota held the top reputation for vehicle quality and safety. But it has been dogged by significant recall problems over the last three years. It has already announced recalls of more than 10 million vehicles worldwide for various problems so far this year.
Earlier this month, the car company agreed to pay a record $17.4 million to the National Highway Traffic Safetey Administration for problems related to a 2012 recall in one of its Lexus models. That's the largest fine allowed by law for a single investigation.
And in November, it recalled 7.43 million cars due to a power window problem that poses a fire risk.
Toyota's settlement over accelerator pedals that are sticking coincided with the ABC News and 10News investigations concerning sudden acceleration problems in certain Toyota models.
A tragic 2009 crash in Santee off the 125 started the investigation into sudden acceleration. A passenger in the car called 911 saying, "Our accelerator is stuck. We're in trouble. We can't ... there's no brakes."
San Diegan Mark Saylor, an off duty California Highway Patrol officer and his family died after their loaner Lexus ES 350 sped out of control and crashed.
After the Santee crash, Toyota issued a recall of 4.2 million cars, saying the floor mats were improperly installed, likely causing the accelerators to get stuck.
Then in December 2009, four Texans drowned after their Toyota Avalon allegedly suddenly accelerated, causing the vehicle to drive through a metal fence, into a pond near Dallas. The Avalon's floor mats were in the car's trunk, indicating they couldn't have been the cause of the acceleration.
"It's a huge problem that must get solved soon," said auto safety expert Sean Kane who reported seeing 56 incidents of runaway Toyota and Lexus vehicles since the floor mat recall.
"It seemed like the more I hit the brake, the more it wanted to accelerate," explained Kevin Haggerty, a New Jersey man who experienced sudden acceleration in his 2007 Toyota Avalon. He shifted into neutral and drove to his Toyota dealership.
"They replaced the throttle body and the accelerator pedal assembly," said Haggerty whose experience showing the Avalon to Toyota dealership staff was the first known sudden acceleration incident to be witnessed by Toyota representatives.
In a statement on the acceleration issue in 2012, Toyota spokesman Brian Lyons said:
"Toyota takes the issue of unwanted acceleration very seriously, as underscored by our ongoing recall. As part of our commitment to the safety of our customers and the public, Toyota constantly monitors product reports and customer complaints and works to identify any defect trends. We are confident that we're doing the right thing for our customers, and we will continue to do so. We will remain vigilant in thoroughly investigating incidents of unwanted acceleration, including those cited by ABC, and taking appropriate measures to address any defect trends that are identified."


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Articles about olive oil adulteration
Executive Arrested in Taiwan Cooking Oil Scandal
Investigators say a Taiwan company blended pork lard and kitchen waste in its cooking oils sold to schools and, most likely, export markets.
Italian Farmers' Organization Backs Olive Oil Quality Register
Coldiretti Molise has backed new legislation aimed at preventing olive oil adulteration and fraud.
Kangadis Files for Bankruptcy Following Class Action Suits
The company made headlines when the North American Olive Oil Association filed a class action lawsuit claiming "unlawful, misleading and deceptive misbranding."
An 'Interactive' Lesson in Olive Oil Fraud
Oversimplification of complicated topics for short attention spans can disguise what is, all too often, just more misinformation.
EU Offers €5m to Fight Olive Oil Fraud
Research on better detection of olive oil fraud could receive about €5 million ($6.7m) under the European Commission's new program.
Taiwan Rejects Olive Pomace Oil Imports
Taiwan has refused imports of olive pomace oil and crude grapeseed oil from Europe claiming they have been adulterated.
Olive Oil Tops E.U. List of Foods at Most Risk of Fraud
Olive oil, fish and organic foods are the products most prone to food fraud, according to a draft report of a European Parliament committee which also calls for tougher penalties.
Madrid Workshop Defines International Study on Olive Oil Fraud Detection
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At age 31, John Kelly (JK) McKnight is far beyond his years when it comes to large-scale music production.
11 years ago, JK pulled together a handful of bands, one of which was his own, to play a cozy park next to his parents house in Louisville, Kentucky. That's how Forecastle, the largest music festival in the Bluegrass State, got its start.
Back then, and up until recently, McKnight ran the entire show. Press releases, vending logistics, port-o-placement, setting up arts and activism programs and oh yea, booking the bands...he was in on it all. Now with the ten-year anniversary of Forecastle bearing down on the planners, now many in number, McKnight has added the role of delegator to his resume.
He also owns a unique perspective from the participating artists side of things. As former frontman of The Vixen Red, an indie band from Louisville, he understands the rigors of the modern-day musician.
With that experience in pocket, the hands-on approach that got him to his current status and the willingness to relinquish complete control for the greater good of the project, it could be said that JK McKnight is the future of festival organization. This is a fact not lost on Knoxville-based entertainment juggernaut AC Entertainment, which hired McKnight in 2011 and are now producing partners of The Forecastle Festival.
BLANK recently caught up with McKnight and asked him about the humble beginnings of Forecastle, what fans can expect in 2012, the impact of the Louisville arts on the festival and much more.
BLANK: Where did the name for Forecastle come from?
JKM: I came up with it when I was about 19 or 20. It refers to the crew's quarters of a ship. I had just gotten back from Ireland and had toured all kinds of castles, so I kinda had that word in my head. So I was looking for a nautical, spare-time theme for the name for the festival. I looked at a ship as a metaphor for art and music and the forecastle is where people always come together after a hard day of work.
B: Describe the First Forecastle.
JKM: The first one was really embryonic. It was really more of a concert. It was about six bands at a small park called Tyler Park. Louisville has a really famous park system designed by Frederick Olmsted, who designed Central Park in New York City, The US Capitol Grounds, The Biltmore in Asheville, NC…he's probably the most famous park architect that ever lived. He did 18 or 19 parks here in Louisville and Tyler Park was the smallest of them. It seemed like a great place to do something and my parents lived adjacent to it. I had just moved back from Charleston, South Carolina and I was looking for a fun way to get all my friends together and reconnect with the people that I hadn't seen in a year or two and that was really it. I remember using my parent's house to load gear in and take it down to the park. There were six bands and I probably played in two of them. It was really small.
B: How did that turn into a large-scale music festival?
JKM: Through many years of incremental hard work. There were big keys that definitely helped. I think in the second year, 2003, the Arts and Activism components and making them all three equal was pretty big. We drew three times the people in 2003 with really the same budget and lineup. People were coming for different elements and I think that's when we realized we really had something here. Once we had that format, the focus went to growing each component.
It's hard to think about this now, because every festival has a greening aspect to it, but back then they really didn't and the ones that did have a sustainability system didn't market it, so we were really the first ones to ever put all that on an equal playing field. That really got a lot of people's attention and helped us for years to come.
In 2004, we went from the smallest park to the biggest park in Louisville, which is called Cherokee Park. We did the first festival in over a decade there and there were 5,000 people and it was all free. That year, Patagonia came on board with us along with Red Bull. They realized we were doing something a little bit different.
In 2006, we expanded to a 2-day event and moved from a non-profit to a for-profit. We brought in Sleator-Kinney on their final tour and some other national acts. Which was really cool for us. After that we moved to the Riverfront, which was always our goal. We spent three years on a beautiful property called the Riverfront Belvedere. And it took us three years before we outgrew that space and moved next door to Waterfront Park, an 85-acre, top 15 urban-designed park in the country.
We've had other partnerships come into play as well. AC Entertainment coming on board in 2011 was a big boost for us.
B: That is a ton of growth and movement. It sounds like the city of Louisville has been very accommodating to you.
JKM: Yes, It has. It's been a really good relationship. They understand what we are trying to accomplish and the waterfront development is actually privately owned and that company couldn't have been any nicer to deal with. They've told us before that we utilize the space better than anyone that has ever used it. We always wanted to find ways to compliment Olmsted's design. From day one that was one of our goals.
B: How did AC Entertainment get involved?
JKM: Ashley Capps and I got introduced a couple of years ago through a mutual friend named Bobby Burke. Bobby would e-mail Ashley and try to get him to Forecastle. I think the stars kind of aligned at the end of 2010. We had reached out to Ashley again and he invited me down to Knoxville and we realized pretty quickly that there was a shared vision in how we like to present events. I was in the right company, it just felt right and it was a really cool experience.
B: Was there ever any hesitation to partner up and thus maybe relinquish some control of an event that you created from scratch?
JKM: No, not at all. Knowing what they've accomplished and what they've done, that really provided a sense of security for me. They've faced the same things that I've faced and I can look at their message and see that they have the same philosophy and the same approach on how they go about things.
It was a relief. For years, I had been managing almost every single component of the festival by myself, so to have a company that understood these things better than me in some departments, it was actually a big relief.
B: How did My Morning Jacket become the curators of Forecastle 2012 and what does that actually mean?
JKM: What it means is that they are involved with us as partners in really trying to make the best festival possible. A lot of it has to do with the city of Louisville. With this being the tenth anniversary of the event, we wanted this to be a celebration of the city and what better band to help us do that than My Morning Jacket. It involves the music of course, it involves a lot of the charitable components and it has even come into the design of the festival, like the after-parties and some other things. We've been able to leverage each other and get the best out of each other.
B: When I hear of musicians curating festivals, I always wonder if they bring any outlandish ideas to the table. When you bring in a new element to your normal production team, does that ever bring any funny ideas in to the mix?
JKM: There are all kinds of crazy ideas that have floated around. We have meetings out of my house about once a month with them and of course, there are things that come out that are very interesting. There are moments like that, sure, but their time is pretty slim too, so we are pretty much cutting to the chase with most of it.
B: What sort of special plans does My Morning Jacket have for this festival?
JKM: A lot of the special stuff revolves around Louisville and things that we're going to be doing that we haven't done on this scale before. A big focus for a while was the Louisville part of the festival and how that is going to come about. A lot of that stuff is still getting figured out.
B: What exactly do you mean by Louisville part of the festival?
JKM: We're going to be building a Louisville Village area, which is something that MMJ does at their shows, but we're ramping it up a notch, adding a lot of experiential areas and treasure areas that we want people from out of town to experience.
B: Being from Louisville, have you been able to follow and enjoy the climb for My Morning Jacket?
JKM: Yea, I remember the first time I heard of them I was in high school in my Philosophy class and our teacher was a big fan. I was 17 or 18 and I remember people talking about this band from Louisville that was really big in Europe. I had been friends with Jim (James)' family for years before that and became really good friends with Patrick (Hallahan)'s family after that. It's been interesting to watch them grow. They're incredible ambassadors for this city.
B: How has the festival layout changed for 2012?
JKM: We have Jim Tobin on board this year, one of the most legendary people in our industry in the country. He's helping us create a more efficient site plan. We're opening up new areas and we're also closing off some others. Overall, we're utilizing the space a lot better than we have in previous years. We're using a whole new section of Waterfront Park that we used for Halfway to Forecastle as well.
B: Any new stages or tents this year?
JKM: Yes, there will be a new stage with a heavy Louisville presence. We're working on a lot of new activities that we haven't done before as well, which will be announced in a couple of weeks. It'll be music, it'll be art, and it'll be activism…there's a lot of cool stuff that's going to turn heads.
B: Forecastle has won a lot of awards. What separates Forecastle from the myriad of other festivals in the country?
JKM: I think our format is the first thing that sticks out to people. The Arts and Activism are just as big of a part of the festival as the music. We try to stay cutting edge in that way. I feel like we pay a greater attention to detail than a lot of festivals. And really I think we are fortunate to be in premier venues. Olmsted parks are an internationally recognized system of parks and it makes for a really incredible setting for what we are trying to accomplish. When you add really great programming behind that people start to pay attention and really enjoy what you're doing.
B: How many people came in year one and how many people do you expect this year and what would a sell out be as far as numbers?
JKM: There were probably 100 people there in the first year, and this year we're expecting about 35,000. The whole park is 85 acres and we're only using maybe 1/6 of that. We have the opportunity to expand into that if need be…we could use the Belvedere property as well if we needed to, so that's a hard question. That's definitely one of the items that will be discussed in future years. Can we expand on our footprint and grow into other venues there and ever into downtown?
B: Can you talk about Forecastle Foundation?
JKM: I first came up with this idea when I was 14 or so. I was reading a National Geographic and there was an article on 'hot spots' in Brazil and some other areas in the Amazon that were being threatened. So I wondered, can a private citizen in the United States purchase the land where these things are occurring or do you have to go through the government or what. So I started writing letters to the White House because I didn't really know what else to do and about six months later I started to get some back from Al Gore's office. The letters suggested that I contact the US Ambassador to Brazil, so I started writing him letters and a few months later I got some letters back from him and he told me how to do it.
So I had achieved half of my goal, I knew what to do, I just didn't have any money to do anything about it. So the idea kinda got shelved for a bit but it never left the back of my brain. Fifteen years later we added the big component of the activism to the festival and that's how the Forecastle Foundation came to be. So we're working with companies and festival goers and everyone to see how we can preserve these vital areas that we all depend on.
B: What are the goals for 2012 in particular as pertains to the Forecastle Foundation?
JKM: This year we're really just trying to get ourselves off the ground. We've already had over 20 members join the board. We won a pretty big award and got a big grant last year. This year's festival will really be our coming out party.
B: You're very young to be this seasoned in the festival circuit. How old are you and have there been times when people didn't take you seriously at first because of your age?
JKM: I'm 31. And yea, you have to adopt a certain attitude to it. I realized my only solution (to that) was to out-perfect everyone out there. I figured that if I can be better than what the bigger guys are doing, whether that be from our website to press releases or anything, I just wanted to be a lot more detailed and a step above everyone else because I realized that in order for us to gain ground we had to put ourselves up on a certain level and that's the attitude I kept from day one. And I still have it today.
B: Do you know where the late night shows will be held this year?
JKM: We'll be doing two nights on the Belle of Louisville, which is what we've done the past few years. We'll be announcing those in April, and we're looking at other venues in downtown Louisville as well.
B: Are there any other additions that taking a year off allowed you to complete?
JKM: All the stuff with the Foundation. We have taken the time to do that right and that's exciting. I'm very glad that we took the extra time to get it incorporated and put ourselves out there the way we want to be presented.
B: How proud are you of the 2012 lineup?
JKM: I'm really happy with the lineup. I think it's very Louisville-centric but it also has a lot of appeal to a wide audience. People have bought tickets from California to Ney York and beyond.
B: What kind of artist additions can we expect?
JKM: There will be more to come. The new additions will solidify the desires that people have from previous years. We're still working on the final offers so it's hard to tell what bigger pieces will be added. There will definitely be more artists announced.


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