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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 @ 1:50PM
"Where is my new voter registration card?"
Back in October, I wrote to inform constituents and Texas voters of the changes ahead due to the passage of SB14 that if enacted, will require a voter to present one of seven state-approved forms of photo identification to election officials to cast a ballot.
While SB14 did in fact pass into law, it has yet to take effect due to pre-clearance requirements under the federal Voting Rights Act which says that any statutory changes that could potentially impact the ability of minority citizens to vote in Texas must first gain the approval of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
To date, that approval has not been granted as this and other matters tied to the hot-button topic of redistricting have found their ways to courtrooms in both Washington and Texas.
Since we are now two months into the 2012 election season, and since these issues will help determine the course for what is to come, I have decided to provide periodic updates on this and other topics under the serial heading of "ARE YOU READY TO VOTE?"
A familiar adage reminds that all politics are local and here at the home base, my offices have begun to field calls inquiring, "When will I receive my voter registration card?" Glad you've asked.
One of SB14's mandates would add information regarding new photo identification requirements to the actual voter registration certificate. But since the new law has yet to pass DOJ muster, that cannot take place. Even more problematic is that the information provided as part of your voter registration card which instructs voters on the precinct where they are eligible to vote can also not yet be determined because it is tied to current court and DOJ redistricting cases.
Redistricting you'll recall, requires that following each decennial census, for the boundaries that determine voting districts for all levels of government – from the U.S. House of Representatives, down to local city and school districts – to be redrawn to reflect changes in population. Currently under dispute in the courts, are the maps that would determine the legal boundaries of U.S. House, state senate and state house districts.
So to answer the question, "When will I get my voter registration card?" the best answer now available is that no one knows yet. With the various districts currently undefined, county election officials cannot add that information to voter registration cards. Neither can they draw voting precinct lines.
What I can tell you is that according to the Texas Secretary of State, if you are currently a registered voter, you are still a registered voter. Secondly, voter registration cards will be printed after these matters are resolved by the courts, allowing also the time required for county precinct lines to be drawn. Testimony suggests this could take six to eight weeks after new maps are approved. New voters or those whose residency has changed are encouraged to move forward in applying for registration.
Due to the court cases, the Spring primary elections normally held in March in Texas have already been pushed back, first to April 3 and now to at least May 29 and even that date is not certain. Whenever the election date, Texas law will still allow registration up to 30 days before an election. Bank on having your new voter registration card in hand and guidelines on how it will be used to be determined by then.
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VIENNA (AP) — Austrian painter Otto Muehl, whose radical notions of art were only exceeded by the excesses in his lifestyle, has died. He was 87.
Muehl died Sunday in Portugal, according to Daniele Roussel, the head of his archived works. In his statement Monday, Roussel did not provide the cause of death.
Muehl was a co-founder of the Vienna Actionism, a controversial art movement in the 1960s, and his works shocked audiences with their use of blood, excrement and the human body as materials.
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MANCHESTER — Bail was set at $2,000 cash/surety Thursday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division for Jefferson Adcock, 35, of 242 Bridge St. Adcock is accused of forging a check for $1,950, payable to him, and submitting it at Citizens Bank, 875 Elm St., Wednesday.
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Brown was arraigned on charges of stalking, for allegedly being with his girlfriend, and arguing, in a vehicle on South Willow Street Wednesday night; criminal mischief, for allegedly punching the windshield of the vehicle, cracking it, and receiving stolen property, for having in his possession his girlfriend's cell phone, which she had earlier reported as stolen to a police officer.
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Can you believe another year has passed and we are once again preparing for the MTT-S International Microwave Symposium? Avez-vous été en pratiquant votre français à Montréal, Canada? * This is a fantastic city with great food, culture, interesting sites and in the very near future - an influx of a few thousand microwave professionals. Celebrating the MTT-S's 60th anniversary with a symposium held for the first time outside the U.S. may be unfamiliar territory, but our upcoming May issue promises to make everyone feel right at home.
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Since we're not comfortable resting on our laurels, each year's IMS show issue challenges the editorial staff at Microwave Journal to outdo our previous effort. This year is no exception as we introduce some new features and bring back elements of our show coverage that were best received by our readers and advertisers. Understanding the microwave history of the IMS host city puts the regional contribution to RF technology in context and helps attendees appreciate their visit all the more. And so in addition to the standard show coverage with messages from the conference chairs and MicroApps, our cover feature this month retraces the rise and fall of the former crown jewel of Canada's telecommunication industry, Nortel. The corporate entities that formed Nortel (Canada Bell, BNR, and Northern Electric) were responsible for many technical innovations, leading to its phenomenal growth back at the turn of the century. The company's eventual collapse represents one of the biggest corporate failures in modern times. Our graphic novel - MTT-Stories returns for a second year and the product showcase has been carefully redesigned to provide the most useful guide for attendees scouring the exhibition floor for new products. The May issue is a truly impressive publication thanks to your continued support and contributions. We look forward to setting that bar a little higher once again.
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Security experts have been warning about the potential risks of geotags for a couple years now. For instance, a photo taken by a U.S. soldier on his or her smart phone could potentially reveal location information and endanger the mission. While this feature does occasionally catch a criminal, the risk to military and government personnel working abroad, or anyone whose location could be considered confidential, is too great to ignore.
The arrest of fugitive John McAfee and the revelation that his location had been given up by the geotagging feature on a smart phone might get users wondering if this feature is tagging things they do on their own phones. And, unless they've changed any settings, the answer is likely to be "yes."
"So, how do I turn this feature off?" you ask. Good question. Here are the steps to disable geotagging for the four major mobile operating systems. Note that manufacturer websites are largely silent on this issue; these tips are pulled from user experience, community blogs and how-to websites.
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In older versions, the option may be called "Store Location," but is it essentially the same process.
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RIM suggests through the online documentation that disabling geotagging be done on BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which would work from an admin's point of view if an agency uses BES. If not, to turn the setting off on an individual BlackBerry phone:
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I have an iPhone 4s, I have previously used only Android phones and while I am familiar with disabling this feature on that platform I am new to iOS. Is there a way to disable the geotag feature in iOS without turning off all location services?
Simply turn off the Location (GPS device) on your phone.
Pixelgarde, is nice, but I found another android app - "GPS Privacy", that removes the GPS coordinates automatically. You just define your "Privacy areas", and your pictures won't have GPS tags when taken in these areas. Very useful if you have the pictures uploaded automatically online.
use free app called pixelgarde. it can remove gps, and you can edit geotags to other locations. this control shold be in your phone, but android and iOS figure it out, I'd go their website and download it.
Is there an easy method to manually insert a false set of coordinates into the geotag such that the photo shall appear to be a location far different than where it actually is?
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Next week, the Senate will vote on the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade climate control bill. The proposed statute is a nightmare that would devastate our economy. The Wall Street Journal calls it "the most extensive government reorganization of the American economy since the 1930s."
The EPA estimates that by 2030 it will reduce GDP by 0.9% to 3.8%, and that is based on assumptions that appear hopelessly optimistic. Even the EPA's assumptions contemplate an additional increase of 44% in the cost of electricity over what would occur without Lieberman-Warner.
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NPR listener Alice Benner says her Italian grandmother made ravioli that was "indescribably delicious."
Benner told us that she's tried to re-create the recipe many times. "The dough — the consistency — is totally wrong, usually too thick," she writes.
Benner's grandmother used Romano cheese in the filling — probably from an Italian deli in Chicago — but Benner says when she makes the ravioli, "the Romano cheese I've used never has the same punch. I've all but given up trying to make them."
Unfortunately, Benner didn't have her grandmother's recipe, only a memory of the dish, so she asked All Things Considered's Lost Recipes project for help.
We reached out to Oldways, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving traditional cooking, and they suggested we contact an expert on Italian food, Julia della Croce.
Della Croce was intrigued by two ingredients in the filling: the rice and the Romano cheese. And she used her knowledge of regional Italian cooking to unravel the ravioli.
She asked Benner in an email: "Did her grandmother use olive oil or butter? Answer: olive oil. Did she cook with tomato sauce? Answer: Yes. So the olive oil and the tomato sauce put her either in the central or southern part of Italy. But then again, there was the rice, which put her in the northern part of Italy."
Della Croce was getting warmer. Turns out, Benner's family came from Tuscany, and they were shepherds. So della Croce delved into her collection of cookbooks from the Tuscany and Liguria regions and found a historical recipe for spinach and rice ravioli that was nearly identical to the one Benner had described.
But there was still one ingredient to puzzle over: the Romano cheese, or pecorino Romano. "It's a very sharp, very salty, aged sheep's cheese. And I knew that would overpower the other ingredients," says della Croce.
It also wouldn't melt during cooking to help bind the filling together. "It would have to be a younger cheese, which would give it a melting quality, but have a more mellow flavor," she notes.
Della Croce suggested Benner try a Tuscan sheep's cheese, or pecorino Toscano, for the filling, since that's her family's home region. Sure enough — Alice Benner had her spinach and rice ravioli, the way Nonna used to make it.
You can find the recipe della Croce adapted for Benner here.
Time now for our Lost Recipes project, where we try to fix old recipes that just don't quite work out the way they should. Today, we're going Italian.
With a recipe for Spinach and Rice Ravioli. Listener Alice Benner of Praire du Sac, Wisconsin, told us about this dish her grandmother used to make. Benner writes that it was indescribably delicious. But the recipe was never written down. Benner has tried to recreate it herself with no luck. And the Romano cheese never adds the right punch. She laments, I've all but given up trying to make them.
CORNISH: Well, our first reaction was, Alice, no, don't give up. Our second reaction - since we didn't know much about making ravioli from scratch - was to contact Oldways, a Boston-based organization dedicated to traditional foods and cooking. They introduced us to an expert on Italian food, Julia della Croce. And she was the perfect kitchen detective to reveal the secrets of this ravioli.
JULIA DELLA CROCE: First of all the description, indescribably delicious, really hooked me. I really wanted to make them come out right.
CORNISH: Now Julia, I don't understand how you could figure out this recipe just by hearing, you know, grandmother from Italy, and spinach and rice and ravioli. I mean, what are the clues in that sentence that helped you figure out what could have been in this recipe to recreate it?
CROCE: One of the major clues was the rice. For the most part, rice figures in a lot of cooking in northern Italy in particular. So I asked her a number of questions. I asked her did her grandmother use olive oil or butter. Answer: Olive oil. Did she cook with tomato sauce? Answer: Yes. So the olive oil, the tomato sauce put her either in the central or southern part of Italy. But then again, there was the rice, which put her in the northern part of Italy. Sure enough, she did say that her family was from Tuscany, and they were shepherds, shepherds and farmers.
I researched historical recipes from the Tuscany Liguria area where they would've typically used sheep's cheese, and I came up with a recipe that was almost identical with the one that she was describing that is made in the valley in the Apennines called the High Trebbia Valley near the Tuscan border. And so I figured if her great grandparents were shepherds they probably lived in the mountains or in a valley, in, you know, that type of area. And there it was. I had the recipe.
CORNISH: Now, you've told us about the ingredients. What about the method? Ravioli isn't easy in any way. I mean, back then or now, so what exactly about the technique did you divine from this?
CROCE: Well, making ravioli isn't difficult, you know, once you learn how to make the dough. The ingredients are pretty simple. You know, you're sauteing sausage, you're cooking the rice in milk, that's how it's done in a historic recipe I found. You're using either spinach or some other green of the season. And in this case, also mushrooms. And then you're putting it together and you're adding the cheese, which, you know, in a way binds it. Oh, it also has an egg yolk in it which binds the filling, too. So it stays nice and compact, you know, when you cut the ravioli open.
CORNISH: So Julia, I heard you mention there the cheese. And it sounds like that might have been the missing link for this recipe in terms of taste?
CROCE: I think it was the missing link. She told me she was using pecorino Romano, which is a very sharp, very salty, aged sheep's cheese. And I knew that that would just overpower the other ingredients. And also, because it's aged, and therefore it's dry, it wouldn't have a melting quality. I knew that she would probably want a sheep's cheese, but not that particular one. It would have to be a younger cheese, which would give it a melting quality, and it would have to have a more mellow flavor.
Still a sheep's cheese, which is very tangy, gives good flavor to the filling, but not pecorino Romano. So I suggested that she go and locate a Tuscan sheep's cheese since her family came from Tuscany, and try it with that. And she said that the recipe wound up tasting just like she remembered it.
CORNISH: Well, Julia, thank you.
CROCE: You're so welcome.
CORNISH: Julia Della Crocce is the author of a number of cookbooks, including her latest, "Italian Home Cooking." You can find her recreated recipe for Spinach and Rice Ravioli at our food blog, the Salt at npr.org.
BLOCK: And some of you might be wondering about those original New York full sour pickles we talked about last month. They're the pickles at...
JOANIE VICK: Tickles Your Tongue. There's an acid taste that absolutely hits the tip of your tongue the first time you bite into a pickle.
CORNISH: That's listener Joanie Vick of Nashua, New Hampshire. And she's been pickling since mid-July, using a recipe another kitchen detective gave her to help reproduce Grandma Minnie's full sours. Vick has emailed us to say, the perfect pickle requires patience, and time is on my side. Yes, it is.
We'll get the skinny in our next installment of Lost Recipes.
THE ROLLING STONES: (Singing) But you'll come running back. Said you would baby. You'll come running back. I told you so many times before. You'll come running back to me.
BLOCK: Yes it is. ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Hot Cowboys Fan of September: Selma Alameri
Remember the days when I posted photos of attractive Cowboys fans and they'd get 10 times the pageviews of my film study and stat analysis? Yeah, I'm going to try that again.
Now, you can imagine all the ladies that come knocking on my virtual door when they hear I'm a blogger. Chicks dig the long ball, but they enjoy an in-depth statistical breakdown of Josh Freeman's pressure passing even more, right? Right!?
Anyway, I'm pretty much kicking off September with the best of the best. . .a smokeshow that will be on the next season of The Bachelor.
Name: Selma Alameri
Age: 28
Heritage/ethnicity: Iraqi and Lebanese
Location: San Diego
Profession: Owner and CEO of Brio Ventures LLC (Real Estate)
Likes: Music, dancing, working out, traveling, shopping (so typical, I know), cooking, baking and most importantly, laughing!
Favorite physical feature on a guy: Mouth and teeth
Top three qualities in a man: Personality, personality and personality!
Best way for a guy to approach you: With confidence
Best place to meet guys: Hopeless places
Favorite TV Show: Million Dollar Room on HGTV
Favorite Movie: The Notebook
Favorite Book: Kite Runner (cried my eyes out)
Favorite Food: Sushi
Favorite Music: Country
Best Feature: Dark Hair
Years as a Cowboys Fan: 5 years
Thoughts on Tony Romo: HOT!!!
Thoughts on Jason Garrett: HOTTER!!! (Editor's Note: What the hell!?)
Favorite current Cowboys player: They're all my favorite.
Favorite all-time Cowboys player: I'm gonna be cliche and say Tony Romo. He's been there since the start of my love for the Cowboys.


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Jamie has been one of my biggest influences and I'm honored that we worked on some collaborative images for the show. The new images deal with mutual interests of Jamie and I, addressing the timeless problems of corruption and wealth inequality, but tie into the very current themes of Occupy Wall Street and the dead end of fossil fuel consumption. – Shepard Fairey, 2012
Subliminal Projects and Paul Stolper are pleased to announce a print edition collaboration between Jamie Reid and Shepard Fairey. The editions were created to commemorate Reid's Ragged Kingdom exhibition and will make their debut at the Opening Reception on Friday, March 16th.
The collaboration is comprised of 4 Large Format Screen Print Editions and a series of unique, hand-collaged, Fine Art Editions (HPMs). Each edition will be signed by both Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid. Details for the large format prints are provided below and images are attached to this email. Please contact Subliminal Projects for further information.
"Shoplifters Welcome"
(2 Color Variations)
26 x 34 1/2 inches
Each color variation is an Edition of 50
Signed by Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid
Retail Value: $700
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30 x 30 inches
Each color variation is an Edition of 50
Signed by Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid
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The Large Format Editions are available to purchase in person beginning 8 PM on Friday, March 16th at the Ragged Kingdom opening reception. Official public release (available in person or by phone) is Saturday, March 17th at Subliminal Projects (during gallery hours only). Please note, the large format editions will not be available to ship until April. Any purchases made before April are considered a pre-order, and the purchase will be shipped at a later date. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
OBEYGIANT.com will also be releasing an additional, small format print (18 x 24 inch) that is a Shepard only signed version of the collaboration images. These are priced at $75 each and are an Edition of 450. A limited quantity will be available, IN PERSON ONLY, at the Ragged Kingdom Opening starting at 8pm. After the reception on March 16th, these small format prints will ONLY be available for purchase online through OBEYGIANT.com beginning Tuesday, March 20th. Please visit OBEYGIANT.com for more information on the release.
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"Thank you for the use of the hall."
— Jimmy Breslin, the last line of his last regular column, Newsday
SHELDON, IOWA — "Owwwoooo!"
That's Michael Annis' cell phone.
He's the publisher of Howling Dog Press in Denver.
My computer quit a few days ago, but it's kind of working now, so I'll try to send something out, just to wrap this up.
I just want to thank all those who helped me out with this tour that began in Tulsa a month ago and ended in Denver and Fort Collins two days ago.
And thanks to those of you who were gracious enough to let me send these updates.
If you have read every one of them, you qualify for two tickets to see Head East at the Casino Pocatello. Call Dave Namanny at the Mitchell [IA] County Press-News, 641-732-3721 to claim your prize.
I think I quit writing at Seattle, so I'll add a little about the last few dates here.
Seattle, Revolution Books, April 2nd
I spent the day in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, walking up and down Broadway, had coffee at Tully's, watched a high school baseball game in the park. I couldn't stand to watch long though. The coach was terrible. Didn't seem to care about the kids at all. I think he was Cuban, not that there's anything wrong with it.
Better have your Mutt Mitts on if you're going to walk your dog in Seattle.
Lots of Ani DeFranco posters on the lamp poles.
A wo-man served me coffee at Noah's New York bagles. I'm not sure what I think about that transgender stuff. No. Really, I do. It's weird. I was buying coffee anyway just to use the restroom. I set the empty cup down and left.
We had a great talk at Revolution Books, with Terri and C.C., Emma and Charlie. Emma and Charlie are young. C.C., Terri and me, not so. Did you know they had a big protest at Berkeley, "The Battle of Berkeley" they are calling it.
And there were lots more protests in Washington, Oregon, along the coast, to mark the anniversary of the start of this war.
But we don't hear about it.
When the Berrigans poured blood and burned draft files in 1968, was it national news? If so, why isn't this Berkeley thing, where high school students went to the streets to fight the military recruiters next door, on the "Nightly News"?e
Emma says that because high school students are oppressed they are more likely to want to fight, whereas college students are learning to be part of the system and aren't really interested in fighting.
And these just in ...
Coeur d'Alene & Spirit Lake, Idaho
Where I find out I don't know my elbow from my Bilderberger.
At Spirit Lake Books in Spirit Lake, a man coming to my reading introduced himself as retired Army, "kind of in the mode of Charleton Heston," regarding taking the gun out of his cold, dead hands.
The store is owned by a young couple who came to Idaho from New York City after 911.
Okay, then, let's get started with my anti-war, immigrant-hugger talk.
This is the heart of militia country. Or not. Northern Idaho has militia connotations. I spoke to about thirty people one night, then about six the next day at the bookstore.
They were nice. One guy gave me $100 for a twenty-dollar book, and a big hug, and told his wife to hug me too.
I stayed with Don Harkins and Ingri Cassel. They operate the Idaho Observer from their cabin-like home with wood stove and computers and homemade sauna out back. http://www.proliberty.com
I get to sign their guest wall of fame. Pretty cool.
I learn about Gonzaga University next door in Spo-can. The Zags. A Jesuit university. They tamed the Coeur d'Alene Indians I guess, and all live happily ever after, is how it was told to me.
I learn that vaccines are evil as well as my good ol' diet Pepsi aspartame. And I promise to listen to what they have to say.
I'll tell you this.
These folks are free, open thinkers.
They are not to be found walking down the middle of the mall gabbing about American Idol. They are actively seeking the men in the shadows who are running our country. I thank them for that.
They are fighters.
Although ... the Army guy at the bookstore? After my talk he tells me I need to read more, learn more, understand better, regarding the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral something and the Bilderbergerers.
Likely true.
But ... well, I have this thing ... at my talks, I talk, and then I listen. I don't argue, because I am profoundly grateful for anyone taking the time to come to a stinking book reading for one thing, and for another, I have already had my chance.
But, for some guy who says he is so anti-government, what's this about spending your whole life as part of the government?
And, dude, I went to prison to fight this government. You carry around a copy of the constitution in your chest pocket and talk.
I would submit there's a difference.
Oh, well, thank you for coming.
Yes, these potato producers are to be found reading, discussing, caring, and preaching about the evils of fluoride — as I slowly, oh-so cleverly hide my toothpaste behind my back.
You can take my Pepsodent ... when you pry it from my cold, dead ...
South to Salt Lake City
Lots of mountains, snow-tipped scenic views.
From northern Idaho you go into Montana to get south to Salt Lake City, Utah.
You just do.
You go through Missoula and Butte in order to reach Pocatello and Ogden.
Get me the eff out of here.
I am so sick of mountain driving, especially at night, straight up, then straight down, with battallions of mule deer waiting in ambush.
Anyway, got to SLC in plenty of time to pull in backwards, as required, into my parking spot, then locate Cup of Joe coffee shop, on West South Street.
Not to be confused with West West Street or South Eastern Blvd.
Then I walk around a mall and walk back, past the homeless on the street, past the uber-folk of SLC at the outdoor mall, all mixed together like some eclectic bowl of Jello at a Mormon wedding.
At C of J I meet with Eileen and Deanna and Raphael and Tim. I do my reading while shouting at them from three feet away as some guys shout at each other over their chess game three feet behind me.
We talk about "Big Love" and Rocky Anderson and their having been arrested at the bomb test site near Las Vegas.
I realize that, well, here are some more folks fighting the good fight. They really are everywhere.
People howling at the moon, acting crazy to keep from going insane in this open-air asylum called The United States of America.
After our discussion I hang around to read at the Friday night Cup of Joe's poetry slam, a first for me.
Lots of young people caring enough to write a poem and get up in front of people to perform, while dishes clatter and doors slam and cars zoom past outside, and people talk, and still they do it — kind of like the folks fighting for peace all around — putting your whole self into something, not knowing if anyone will care or notice, and most often they do not — but still doing it.
And then into the Salt Lake City night.
Denver & Fort Collins, Colorado
And up the mountain and mule deer toward Wyoming — Evanston, that is.
Then you sleep fast then drive in a hurry to get to Cheyenne, turn right, down to Denver. And by this time you have mastered peeing in a cup going eighty.
I drive down 22nd Street just as people are going into Coors Field for the Rockies game. I've never seen Coors Field.
Then I find California and 21st Street, The Mercury Cafe.
Eileen from Salt Lake said this is a famous place.
I go inside and am warmly greeted by Michael Annis, Daphne Webb, Ken Greenley and Nick Vangel. They are smiling, shaking my hand, all that.
Very cool.
Daphne is the MC, Ken reads his great poetry, and Nick plays his harmonica while Michael reads an epic poem, "WAR," a section from his longer interstitial composition, "Brave New World Order."
I stay with Michael and Allison and Brennan that night. Michael Annis published my book, Looking For Bigfoot.
He is also the publisher of Cost of Freedom.
We have never met before this.
I get to see his workshop where he produces these beautiful books. I get to hear stories about Bukowski and Ginsberg and Kerouac.
Michael is 59, so he did not get in on the Beat era, but he knows all about it, and he published most of them, including Burroughs and Corso.
He is a street-fighter poet, an artist, a guy who gives a shit.
Something as rare as diet Pepsi at a militia soup supper.
I just can't get over this.
Someone with a family who produces books, who gets excited about the work of others, the lives of others, in this world of TV and malls and sports teams, where almost nobody reads or learns or knows anything or gives a shit about anything.
And here is someone who has devoted his life to art, to caring, and it's clear that he won't stop.
Fucking amazing.
The next day in Fort Collins we get skunked, nobody shows up, so Daphne and Michael and I exchange hugs and handshakes and hallelujahs and I hit the road, headed for Salt Lake City.
I get turned around and go towards ...
Pine Ridge, South Dakota
I pass the sign saying I have entered Nebraska: Bridges May Be Icy, People May Be Stupid.
I should know.
Kimball. Scottsbluff. Chadron. Rushville.
I find Robin Long Soldier's apartment on Main Street. I visit with Robin and her children. These people are anything but stupid.
They get it.
We are talking about Bigfoot. Robin tells me about her experience one night while working at a treatment center in Kyle. I tell them about my experience over near Spearfish in the '80s.
Robin takes me over to see her friend, Tammy, who has photos that Bigfoot left in her backyard, but Tammy is not home, or the dogs are barking too loud for her to hear us.
I thank Robin and head off toward Pine Ridge. I then go to Porcupine and park. I walk around in the pines. There have been several sightings on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the past couple of years. http://www.cryptomundo.com
I don't see anything except three horse skulls in one pasture.
But I do see that the reservation is a vast wilderness that could, possibly ... well, you just never know.
About six hours later I pull into our driveway.
The snow is gone, the grass is starting to turn green.
I can't believe I'm here.
— Mike
* This year's tour was an extension of last year's tour.
All in all, the two tours, "The American Dream Tour," and the "Cost of Freedom" tour, made these stops.
[Again, thank you goes out from the tour staff to all those who made this year-long tour possible. The only place we haven't gone yet is The South. Look for plans for that tour next spring.]
Drinking Liberally, Kansas City, Missouri; Faith & Life Books, Newton, Kansas; Lawrence [KS] Public Library; Crossroads Infoshop, Kansas City, Missouri; A Novel Idea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska.; Soul Desires Books, Omaha; The Reading Grounds Books, Omaha; Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska.; Zandbroz Books, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Hill Avenue Books, Spirit Lake, Iowa; Southeast Minnesota Peacemakers, Rochester, Minnesota; Ritual Cafe, Des Moines, Iowa; Magers & Quinn Books, Minneapolis; Magus Books, Minneapolis; College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota; Duluth Catholic Worker House; Mondragon Books, Winnipeg, Canada, canceled, denied entrance to Canada because of prison record; Rainbow Books, Madison, Wisconsin; Cream City Collective, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; New World Resource Center, Chicago; Barbara's Books, Chicago; Revolution Books, Chicago; Unitarian Church, Park Forest, Illinois; Volume One Books, Hillsdale, Michigan; Drinking Liberally, Indianapolis, Indiana; 303 Collective, Saginaw, Michigan; The Planet Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Drinking Liberally, Detroit, Michigan; Drinking Liberally, Cleveland, Ohio; Boxcar Books, Bloomington, Indiana; Drinking Liberally, Pittsburgh, Pennsylania; Talking Leaves Books, Buffalo, New York; Literary Cafe, Buffalo, New York; Drinking Liberally, Rochester, New York; Bluestockings Books, New York City; ETG Cafe & Books, Staten Island, New York; The Book Cellar, Brattleboro, Vermont; Lucy Parson's Center, Boston.
Tulsa, Oklahoma peace group; Dallas-Ft. Worth 911 Truth; Brave New Books, Austin, Texas; Unitarian Church/Peace Farm, Amarillo; Peace House, Taos, New Mexico; Women in Black, Bisbee, Arizona; 911 Truth/Peace group, Tucson, Arizona; Las Vegas Drinking Liberally; Track 16 Art Center, Los Angeles; Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, San Francisco; Peace & Justice Center, Santa Cruz, California; Public Library/Cheshire Books, Fort Bragg, California; Chico State University, Chico, California; 100 Fires Books, Eureka, California; The Book Barn, Bend, Oregon; Veterans For Peace, Corvallis, Oregon; Laughing Horse Books, Portland, Oregon; Revolution Books, Seattle, Washington; Idaho Observer event, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Spirit Lake Books, Spirit Lake, Idaho; Cup of Joe, Salt Lake City, Utah; The Mercury Cafe, Denver; Abo's Cafe & Restaurant, Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Cost of Freedom talk outline
Introduce two books, Cost of Freedom, Iowa Terror.
Talk about "terror in a small town," how we are watching everyone but those we should be watching.
Talk about Homeland Security is a joke. Christian nation keeping poor people from having a chance.
READ: Pinche Puta Store Detective, IT
READ: And I Laugh, from "The Truth," COF
READ: From "Looking For Bigfoot," COF
Two large tasks we face:
Knowing what is really going on.
Deciding what to do about it, if anything.
They say 911 changed the world, but really it changed in 1963 when JFK was murdered. And it continues to this day, same players. We even have a photo of George W. Bush Sr. outside the Texas School Book Depository that day, even though he says he was not there.
That is when our country was stolen from us, then ... RFK, MLK.
Then 911 - and now we may be about to attack Iran.
An intelligent populace would be able to look at news reports and decipher them, read between the lines, much as the Soviet people would have looked at any pronouncement coming from Tass or Pravda.
All we really have to trust is our gut, our heart.
We else are we going to trust?
The Dallas Police Department? The Los Angeles Police Department? The Memphis Police Department?
The Warren Commission?
The 911 Commission?
The CIA?
The FBI?
The Democratic Party?
Can we trust the President?
The Congress?
Our churches?
Our press?
Can our children even trust us?
READ: How to explain the war to your children, by Antler, Wisconsin, Cost of Freedom. [pg 38]
Are there any clues to help us understand what is happening in our country?
1) Me - arrested in 1980s at Offutt AFB, ban and bar: Peace is Our Profession
Arrested 1999 after Clinton bombing Yugoslavia, ban and bar letter: Global Power For America.
2) 1989, me out of jail last time, Council Bluffs, six months.
Tienenman Square, Berlin Wall, Clinton elected - time of hope - peace dividend?
No - did not happen. Not seen as opportunity, but problem to be solved. Money must still be made on weapons.
Gives us another clue about the kind of country we live in.
Plans made for empire.
Project For a New American Century.
Elections Stolen.
New Pearl Harbor.
Iraq and Afghanistan invasions.
All according to plan.
Me - election 2000, Dem. candidate.
Thought of throwing brick to protest stolen elections. Asked friends to join. No.
Held brick and paper out in hands, judging the weight of each.
Decided not to throw.
My books are my bricks — through my neighbor's window for mowing his lawn the day we bombed Iraq, through the neighborhood church's window for saying nothing about thou shall not kill, through the recruiter's window for teaching our beautiful children to kill, to slit throats, to shoot through the heart, to torture.
How would we act - the American populace - if we knew the truth? Good question.
Some say we are just stupid, apathetic, too comfortable.
But, at least part of it is that we are brainwashed, manipulated by those who devote their lives to that manipulation, while we remain focused on one job, two jobs, tomorrow's To-Do list, paying for health insurance, unable to focus on anything out of cell phone range.
READ: David Ray, COF [pg 17]
Many, many people, everywhere are fighting Bush, fighting for our freedom. It is they who we owe our freedoms to, not the soldiers, that is a lie.
Ex: Doug Wight, recently arrested in Northampton, Mass., for burning American flags.
Ex: Dorothy Day Catholic Worker/Jonah House Holy Week retreat at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church, NW D.C.
Read my tax protest letter.
... But, still ... no matter what we seem to do, it goes on and on and on.
People die. Every day. We kill people. Every day.
American values.
Some say there will be no election, that propaganda and false terror will win out, that the pieces are all in place for that to happen.
Or maybe the next election is also rigged.
Or the people "they" want are already in place. Dennis Kucinich and the like impolitely elbowed out of the way.
We don't know ... but we can feel.
What sort of country we live in, that we are leaving to our kids.
The good news, the great news ... is that, despite all evidence to the contrary — it is still up to us to determine.
[Personal aside]
Encourage peace movement to adopt 911 Truth - that is the why - that is the root - that gets us to the truth about our country - fights the lies in our high school history books - leads down the road to finding out.
Otherwise, they will just keep doing the same thing ... again and again and again - as has been happening up to now.
*Also - voting for Obama is not nearly enough. He is not talking about prosecuting Bush for war crimes, for finding out about stolen elections, about truth about 911 - without that, it's just not good enough.
READ: Other People's Kids, by Mary Walworth, New Jersey [pg. 19]
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If someone asks you to lend them money, think before you act. As much as you may want to help out a friend or family member in need, there are several rules you should follow before you hand over any cash.
Financial expert Suze Orman lays out her 10 rules for lending money — rules she says must never be altered. They will help you determine if you are in a position to lend or give money, and if so, how to go about doing it.
"Live by [these] rules and one day you will be happy that you did," she said.
Read ahead to see Suze's must-follow rules for lending or giving money.
By Michelle Fox
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SIBERIA, Russia, March 4 (UPI) -- A 30,000-year-old virus was released from the permafrost in Siberia and came back to life.
The virus became infectious again once it thawed but poses no danger to humans. At 1.5 micrometers long, the virus is the largest ever found and is comparable to the size of a small bacterium. The new species of giant virus, which can be seen under a microscope, was named Pithovirus sibericum by Professor Jean-Michele Claverie and his wife, who discovered it.
Despite the fact that more viruses could be found in the ice, scientists say "the risk of a virus pathogenic to humans being released is very small."


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October 2011
October 28, 2011. Other than oxygen, the most vital element for the continuation of life on earth is water. Yet the EPA is pushing electrification of the vehicle fleet as an answer to the twin "problems" of climate change and oil use. For skeptics of anthropogenic global warming, like the Editor, this rush to electricity has major pitfalls. One of which is that it uses far more water and greatly increases CO2 output compared to current fuels. On a lighter note, Al Vinikour gets a pain in the neck, and takes a drive in a four-cylinder Mercedes near the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Plus, Mini's German arm creates a Union Jack sneaker fit for Austin Powers.
October 21, 2011. We have a packed issue this week. Al Vinikour takes a drive out Oregon way, and brings back his report on Hyundai's Veloster. The Editor, meanwhile, stays near home and drives the Scion iQ around the streets of Detroit. Al and the Editor speak their minds about where designers get their inspiration. And, on a more serious note, Sawyer asks if there might be more to the Subaru BRZ/Scion FR-S sports car than meets the eye.
Our Apologies to all those who tried, and failed, to post a comment to our opinion piece on Racing's New Realities. There was a glitch, but hard work by our Web Development Director and the fine folks at Squarespace has fixed the problem. In light of the tragic accident that took the life of Indy Car's Dan Wheldon, Chris Sawyer has posted his thoughts in the comment section. Please feel free to add your own.
October 14, 2011. Even though he didn't always listen to him when they were growing up, the Editor takes stock of his brother's look at the problems facing racing, and asks if there isn't a better way. (Leave a comment if you wish — a first for us — but be civil.) Kia launches a new Rio 5-door in Texas. Is it another boring penalty box, a game changer or something in-between? We examine this new B-segment competitor, and find ourselves both applauding and scratching our head. Speaking of scratching your head over questionable decisions, Al asks why some power windows go down with just a touch, but don't come back up the same way.
October 7, 2011. Former CART Marketing Director William Sawyer takes a stroll down memory lane and a look at the future, and wonders if racing has a future. Chris drives the Lincoln MKX, and asks if this Lincoln is too close to the Edge. Jeremy Clarkson and the folks from Forza Motorsport produce a game trailer that should be the rallying cry of everyone who likes to drive. We review a book about lost U.S. fighter concepts, and Al comes to the rescue of mutts everywhere.


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Commissioner of Education David Hespe announced today that a task force comprised of Department of Education officials will be sent into the Camden School District to review the actions of the Board of Education and the operations of the district. The department will be monitoring the districts compliance with law and code and will also be offering technical assistance.
The "Special Assistance Task Force" will be entering the district under the authority provided to the Commissioner of Education under the Comprehensive Educational Improvement and Financing Act (CEIFA). The school funding law permits the department to take certain actions in school districts where students are not meeting the states new academic standards. These actions could include the restructuring of curriculum and conducting a comprehensive budget evaluation.
"The test scores in Camden have been too low for too long," said Commissioner of Education David Hespe. "It is my hope that our team will be able to get a clear picture of the districts operations and provide helpful suggestions to the district on how to raise student achievement."
"Camden has already failed monitoring and therefore is in what is known as a level two designation," said Assistant Commissioner of Education John Sherry. "This means that the district has developed a corrective action plan which was approved by the state. Despite these measures, the district is still failing.
"It is incumbent on the state to ensure that the tremendous resources being provided to the Camden School District are being used effectively and efficiently on behalf of the districts children."
"Based upon the State Supreme Courts most recent decision in the Abbott v. Burke school funding case, the Commissioner of Education has been given a great deal of responsibility in ensuring that whole school reform is implemented in Abbott districts," said Sherry. "In fact, Camden has been one of the most cooperative districts in the state in implementing whole school reform, with 12 of Camdens schools participating in the first cohort of the program in the current school year."
The department will be sending in a 20-30-member team into the school district. The team will be headed by Dr. Vito Gagliardi, who is a special assistant to Commissioner David Hespe. Dr. Gagliardi is a career educator and a former superintendent of schools in Union County. Last year, Dr. Gagliardi led a similar task force in Asbury Park.
"We plan to work closely with the acting superintendent of the district and the board," said Sherry. "We will be providing technical assistance in the hope of providing the district with the tools to turn itself around so that the children of Camden can receive a high quality education."


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Hey guys,
It's that time of the year again, DQ's brithday!
I'm likely repeating myself, but every time I do these posts it feels like it hasn't really been a whole year. More like our 10th anniversary was just a few months ago. And I usually say something along the lines that I'm surprised that there's still some small activity here after all these years. I'm especially happy to see people who share their creations in the forums. Anyways, hats off to you all for still sticking around. As long as you do so will I!
Some news regarding Castle IV is probably in order as well - As you might have noticed my activity in the blog is a bit lacking lately. I'll go ahead and be honest when I say I have been prioritizing other parts of my life lately over DQ and Castle. I still do work on Castle almost every day, but an hour here and there is a pretty ineffective way of really getting things done. I'm very happy with my results thus far, and the project is progressing though. I am more than encouraged to eventually get it done, it just takes a lot of time, more than I wish for but I guess that's life and I have to accept it.
In other news I have also decided to actually add more run-time and story to Part A than was first intended, which has taken additional planning. I came to realize that with the wait spanning for six years plus now, It'd be disappointing to not give away some key element of the story line, me and original co-writer Fabian have planned to add that element into Part A.
I have also re-worked the design of the characters a slight bit which I plan to showcase in the blog soon. And to get a bit technical, I have now completely scrapped my custom rig in favor of 3Ds Max's built in CAT solution. I've burnt countless hours on trying to perfect my custom rig, only to realize I could probably go on and do it forever and still not be fully satisfied. From now on I will try to avoid time devouring black holes such as this and more carry on and focus on what actually shows on the screen in the end. But it's easier said than done to get carried away in technicalities.
With this being said I believe it's quite obvious news to inform that I won't be able to release Part A this year. I'd wish to be able to give a precise new release date but I'll have to be vague and say whenever it's done, probably second half of next year.
Some positive news though is that the character bios page has been give a lot of attention especially driven by our dear member Ecfor. Various other members have contributed as well and it's been proof-read by both myself and Fabian. Tawl is working on polishing on it as well, so stay tuned to have a bit more in depth read about the characters and back story when that is done!
That's all for now folks, take care!
- Oscar


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Most people serving high school suspensions use the extra time to ponder the consequences of their actions. Chance the Rapper used it to launch a music career.
The young MC, born Chancelor Bennett 19 years ago, started work on his debut mixtape "10 Day" after getting busted smoking pot at Jones College Prep. In the months since the album's April release, Chance's fortunes have improved considerably. The rapper has already toured alongside Childish Gambino and rising locals Kids These Days, and this week he headlines his first show at Metro. In addition, he recently wrapped up work on his sophomore mixtape, "Acid Rap," which he expects to release early in 2013.
In a recent phone interview, the West Chatham native opened up about life on the South Side, the inspiration behind his latest mixtape and his growing big screen ambitions.
You started work on "10 Day" after getting busted with weed. Does the title of "Acid Rap" mean you've moved on to other mind-altering substances?
It's not really just about mind-altering chemicals. It's about mind-expansion, period. Acid can open your mind and put you in a different place and make you ask a lot of questions, and the "Acid Rap" tape does the same thing. It's me experimenting with a lot of different sounds ... and just trying new things.
How severely did your parents punish you after you got suspended?
I was in mad trouble. When I got suspended for smoking I didn't just get suspended--I got arrested. It was right around the time of finals, so I failed half of my second semester classes and had to go to summer school. So there was a bunch of [bleep] going on. But I definitely got punished by my parents. Every day I was on suspension I had to go to my pop's job and just post up there all day helping him out with email or whatever.
You grew up down the street from where Derrick Rose went to high school. How many points do you think you could drop on him in a game of 21?
Probably 21. Naw, I can't say I'd beat Derrick Rose in a game of basketball. D. Rose is tough. I don't want to say this in a lame way, but D. Rose is one of my heroes. His whole story and background and what he's done for communities in Chicago is super inspiring.
Obviously a lot has been written about the epidemic of violence on the South Side. Is that something that has touched your life in any way?
Oh, for sure. I'm a young black kid in Chicago, and it's something every black teenager knows something about. I have friends that were killed, or even friends of family that passed away specifically from gun violence.
Yet your music is generally upbeat.
I just don't talk about it [in my music]. I've mentioned it when it was something close to my life. One of my good friends growing up passed away last August. Me and a few of the guys were up north and got into some [bleep] and somebody stabbed my mans and killed him. I wrote "Missing You" specifically for him. That's about as deep as I got into it.
On the track "Nostalgia" you mention a fourth-grade talent show. What was your talent?
No one has ever asked me that before. When I was in grade school they used to do these talent shows, and in third grade I did a Michael Jackson impersonation where for four minutes I was break-dancing onstage. I didn't win--probably because of some political bull[bleep]--but then in fourth grade I came back and won it.
Did you know Donald Glover first as Troy (from the NBC show "Community") or as Childish Gambino?
I was a huge fan of "Community" and I didn't even realize [Donald Glover] was Childish Gambino. When I got hit up [to open] his show I was like, "Childish Gambino? Cool, but I don't know who that is." When he came on I was like, "Oh, this is the dude from 'Community!'" It was dope.
Did you push him for a walk-on part on the TV show?
[Laughs] Let me do that right now in the interview. Can I just give him a shout-out and tell him to put me on?
Do you have any interest in acting?
I love theater and I've always been a huge movie buff. The music thing is what I'm focused on now, but in a few years? Definitely you'll see me in a movie.
Would you be better suited to comedy or drama?
Me? I'm more of a dramedy fan. I can do both [laughs].
Chance the Rapper, 7 p.m. Fri. Nov. 23 at Metro. $9-$12.
Chance the Rapper personality test
What's the last album you bought? "'Channel Orange' by Frank Ocean."
Song you've listened to on repeat recently? "'Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst' by Kendrick Lamar."
Song you never want to hear again? "Man, I hope Lupe won't read this, which he won't because he doesn't care, but that 'Bitch Bad' song sucks. I know what he as trying to do, and I appreciate it, but it sucked."
Best concert you've seen in the last year? "I'm not really a concertgoer in all honesty, but the last thing I saw that was really good was Little Dragon at Lollapalooza."
New band you don't know personally that deserves to be big? "Francis and the Lights deserves to be way bigger. They're so dope."
Chicago's best music venue? "Reggie's."


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The town of Monterey, California, has reinvented itself several times. It was once a capital city when California was Spanish territory, and even when Mexico became independent. It was an important fishing town, as chronicled in the novels of John Steinbeck. And these days, tourism helps drive the local economy, with attractions like a world-famous aquarium, world-class golf clubs nearby like Pebble Beach, and the world's oldest continuously-running jazz festival.
I've been roaming the Monterey County Fairgrounds for the 54th annual Monterey Jazz Festival all weekend. So from the shadow of the Jimmy Lyons Stage, I spoke with Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Things Considered, about four of the shows I've been checking out.
An Afternoon In Treme
If you've seen any of HBO's Treme, you know that just about every other scene features prominent New Orleans musicians. So it was only a matter of time before we saw a traveling Treme-themed revue. A Night In Treme — An Afternoon In Treme, as it played out on Saturday — is essentially a diplomatic mission for New Orleans culture, with the city's musical canon featured prominently by a rotating cast of brass bands and guest soloists. Indeed, the city has no shortage of natural showmen who enjoy playing ambassador; the Saturday lineup featured Soul Rebels Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins, Terence Blanchard and Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk. And New Orleans native Wendell Pierce, who plays trombonist Antoine Batiste on Treme, was the ideal emcee to exhort the Arena crowd of several thousand to its feet.
Geri Allen And Timeline
Speaking of jazz and dancing, the piano player Geri Allen has an engaging take on the connection therein. She's got a newish band called Timeline: a jazz piano trio, plus a tap dancer who effectively acts as a second percussionist. Allen grew up in the Detroit area, and she says she remembers artists who combined live jazz and dance when she was growing up. So she brought it back with this band. Timeline put out a live album last year, so the Monterey Jazz Festival not only invited her to play the Arena stage in 2011: It commissioned a new piece, a tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr. "The Dazzler" premiered on Saturday night to encouraging cheers, especially for hoofer Maurice Chestnut.
Sarah Wilson Quintet
Any time you have a jazz festival anywhere, it's fun to explore the side stages and check out some bands you haven't heard of. For some at the Coffee House Gallery — the most intimate room at Monterey — trumpeter Sarah Wilson was a positive new discovery. Her tunes seem to leave room for her band to be creative and maybe even a little messy, even when they're not soloing. She sings, too, with a curious voice — it's not at all typical of jazz singers. It's somewhat plain, and doesn't sound trained, which you can take or leave in itself. I liked that it gave her a singer-songwriter, almost country-rock dimension in her composing.
John Santos Sextet Feat. Rico Pabón
Being a California event, the Monterey Jazz Festival makes a special effort to feature musicians from the Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Area. Indeed, the aforementioned Sarah Wilson now lives in the East Bay — where hand percussionist John Santos has long been an anchor of the Latin jazz scene. For his sextet's Monterey show, Santos invited Puerto Rican rapper Rico Pabón to join in, reprising and expanding on his role on Santos' new Filosofía Caribeña, Vol. 1. Pabón grew up in a family of salsa musicians, so he found his way in here with rhythmic understanding and aggression. Sometimes these hip-hop-meets-jazz things are in general less than inspiring, but when they get it right, it gives literal voice to the social commentary that's often embedded within instrumental jazz.
RAZ: Time now for our regular music feature. and today, we're going to Monterey, California, the site of one of the biggest, longest-running and most respected jazz festivals in the country.
RAZ: It's the 54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival. It's happening right now, and you're listening to the Scott Colley Trio, just one of the 500 acts that have played the festival this weekend. NPR music's jazz blogger Patrick Jarenwattananon is there. And, Patrick, I love this track, by the way. Talk to me about some of the other music you've been hearing there this weekend.
PATRICK JARENWATTANANON: Well, you know, yesterday afternoon, I saw this show which filled the arena with 5,000 or so people and most of them were on their feet dancing. So if you've been following the HBO series "Treme," you know, that it uses a lot of actual New Orleans musicians there.
RAZ: Right. Right.
JARENWATTANANON: And so, you know, some folks had the smart idea to bring that show on tour.
RAZ: Oh, wow.
JARENWATTANANON: Yeah, yeah. So they gathered up a brass band and, you know, some feature New Orleans soloists, you know, some people who have been in the show, and they've been crisscrossing the country off and on for the last few months. Here's a little taste of it.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) Let's get the party (unintelligible). Me got fire, can't put it out now. Make fire water's gonna make me shout. I'm goin' down an-a get my squaw. Me might buy a brand new car. Me whole tribe be havin' fun gonn' get down till the morning come.
RAZ: I'm sure you had a great time. Were you - I hope you were dancing too man.
JARENWATTANANON: Well, my reaction was perhaps a little bit muted, hanging out in the back, but I did enjoy watching, you know, this whole crowd bake in the sun and sort of bliss out. You know, this "Treme" tour is kind of a diplomatic mission for New Orleans' culture. And, you know, the New Orleans Canon is a large part of the set list. That's actually a song associated with Professor Longhair, "Big Chief."
So you're hearing the trumpeter Kermit Ruffins somewhere in the mix here. There's also a whole bunch of other folks, whoever could make this particular gig. The Soul Rebels Brass Band is the core of this group, also Ivan Neville's group Dumpstaphunk. They all made it on stage together, and they actually called up Terence Blanchard to be a last-minute sub when somebody else couldn't make it.
And of course, the introduction you hear is from Wendell Pierce. He is the guy who plays Antoine Batiste on "Treme," the kind of broke, salty trombonist, which makes him kind of the perfect emcee for all this.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Go, big chief. Go, big chief. (Unintelligible).
RAZ: Music from the New Orleans review billed "An Afternoon in Treme" from the Monterey Jazz Festival. That's a live recording. Patrick, what else have you been checking out there?
JARENWATTANANON: Last night, I caught a little bit of the piano player Geri Allen's performance. So she's got this kind of new band. It's called Timeline. It's a jazz piano trio. That's, you know, piano, bass and drums, and she also adds a tap dancer as essentially a second percussionist.
RAZ: Wow.
JARENWATTANANON: So here's a taste of a piece they played. It's an ode to the drummer Philly Joe Jones.
RAZ: That's a pretty efficient use of percussion. Just bring a tap dancer on stage, right?
JARENWATTANANON: Yeah. You know, that actually goes back a ways. It hasn't actually really been prominent terribly recently. But Geri Allen, in an interview, said that she grew up in the Detroit area and she remembers back then there were people who mixed jazz and dance when she was growing up, so she decided to bring it back here. And the crowd, of course, loved, you know, being able to see that spectacle, experience, you know, especially when the drummer, his name is Kassa Overall, had a few exchanges with the tap dancer Maurice Chestnut.
RAZ: That's part of Geri Allen's performance at the Monterey Jazz Festival last night. I wish I could've seen that, Patrick. It sounds amazing. I'm speaking with NPR music's jazz blogger Patrick Jarenwattananon. He is there at the festival writing for A Blog Supreme. You can find that at our website, nprmusic.org. And he's also recording a few of the concerts there.
Patrick, give me a sense of perspective. How many - you're talking about 5,000 people watching one show. How big is the whole festival? I mean, what are we talking here?
JARENWATTANANON: Around 40,000 people come through the entire weekend. And that's actually overall eight stages and all three days, you know? So a lot of them do end up sticking to the main arena just to see the headliners, you know, like Huey Lewis and the News played yesterday and, you know, any time you have a...
RAZ: Wait. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Huey Lewis? "Power of Love" Huey Lewis?
JARENWATTANANON: Yeah. The "Power of Love" Huey Lewis, you know.
RAZ: Isn't that a little weird?
JARENWATTANANON: Yeah. I mean, oftentimes these days, they'll book musicians who aren't necessarily jazz to fill in those time spots. I guess it's kind of hip to be square these days.
RAZ: Ah-hah. Mm-hmm.
JARENWATTANANON: Anyway, as I was saying, any time you have a jazz festival anywhere, I think it's fun to explore the side stages and check out some of the bands that you haven't heard. So most of the people who I talked to who were at the Sarah Wilson show, she's a trumpeter, were pleasantly surprised.
RAZ: There's a lot going on here, Patrick. It's almost has that sort of Balkan tempo but you've got the violin, that squiggly guitar, the bass.
JARENWATTANANON: Yeah. I mean, I quite like the way she writes tunes. She kind of leaves a lot of room for her band to play around what's written. And it's maybe even a little bit messy, even when they're not soloing, but I kind of like that vibe. This one's a tune called "Go," and it's dedicated to her trumpet teacher of many years. She's a woman named Laurie Frink.
She actually sings, too, and she's got this kind of a curious voice. It's not at all a typical jazz singer's voice. You know, it's kind of plain, and it's not particularly well-trained. But, you know, you can take it or leave it for what it is, but I kind of like that. It gives her a kind of a singer/songwriter vibe, especially, you know, in her writing. You know, it kind of has a country-rock tilt to some of those songs too.
SARAH WILSON: (Singing) I can see quite clearly that my (unintelligible) is kind of blurry. To really view the picture now, rebuild the cracks somehow.
RAZ: That's the Sarah Wilson Quintet performing yesterday at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Patrick Jarenwattananon is there. Patrick, I wonder since this is a Central or Northern California event, is there a lot of music from local bands?
JARENWATTANANON: There is, in fact. The festival makes a special effort to book those artists, especially because, you know, a lot of the jazz business in the U.S. is centered along the East Coast and specifically New York City. The Oakland-based John Santos played on Friday.
RICO PABON: All of my people so freak-o, don't know many (unintelligible). That's why we blend in, (unintelligible) everybody shout wapa(ph) and we don't know what it means. It's what (unintelligible) scream (unintelligible) island and Queens, nah.
RAZ: I love this. Is John Santos the rapper or the percussionist?
JARENWATTANANON: John Santos is the percussionist. He actually invited the spoken word artist emcee Rico Pabon to join his sextet at Monterey. So Rico Pabon is this rapper who actually grew up in a family of salsa musicians, so he can really find his way in here.
You know, sometimes these hip-hop meets jazz things are kind of less than inspiring but, you know, when they get it right, I think it really does give, kind of a literal voice to the, I don't know, social commentary that's often imbedded within instrumental jazz. And this particular performance had a lot to do with, you know, Puerto Rican and Latino pride in their heritage. And I think it actually worked and sounded good too.
RAZ: John Santos performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival. NPR music's jazz blogger Patrick Jarenwattananon is at the festival. He's covering it at A Blog Supreme. That's npr.org/blogsupreme. And later this week, you can find some of those performances posted at our website, nprmusic.org. Patrick, thanks so much.
JARENWATTANANON: Always a pleasure, Guy.
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The widespread criticism and controversy leveled at global coffee chain Starbucks over the amount of tax the company has paid in the U.K. has been exaggerated, Chief Executive Howard Schultz told CNBC-TV18 in India.
"I was surprised to see the headlines come out because I think they're somewhat sensationalized," Schultz said during an interview in Mumbai, where the chain has just opened its first store.
"Being accused of not paying income taxes, it has to be related to whether or not you have made a profit … we haven't paid corporate income tax because we haven't made a profit," Schultz told CNBC on Monday.
The Seattle-based firm paid a mere 8.5 million pounds ($13.7 million) in corporation tax in the U.K. since 1998, even while it racked up 3 billion pounds ($4.8 billion) in sales in the U.K., Reuters revealed in a report last week.
The announcement caused a backlash among politicians and the public, with some critics arguing that U.K. tax rules were too lenient and that Starbucks was bending the rules by reporting losses to authorities to lower its taxes while reporting successes in earnings to shareholders.
Starbucks reported a 34 million pounds loss for 2010 and a record loss of 52 million pounds in 2009 for the year to Sept. 27, Reuters reported.
But Schultz defended Starbucks' tax record.
"Let me try and explain the situation, over the last three years, Starbucks has paid over 160 million pounds in taxes, in VAT (value added tax), in insurance, in real estate taxes, so that's one piece of the puzzle," he said. "The accusation that we have not paid any taxes should be skewed to the fact that we haven't paid income taxes and the reason is we are not a profitable business in the U.K. and we haven't been profitable for a while because of the significant investments that we've made in that market."