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why? Carls jr plus hardees(CKE) 3,160(1260 plus 1900)

this should provoke some discussion, # of US restaurants: White Castle (425), Wendy's (5,800), Burger King (7,200), McDonald's (14,000)

point well taken, dan. thx

not jazz per se, but....... http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/19/vaclav_havel_walks_into_a_nightclub?page=0,0 BY CHARLES HOMANS | DECEMBER 19, 2011 It's a shame that the death of one of the world's most ghastly leaders, North Korea's Kim Jong Il, will overshadow the death of one of its finest: Vaclav Havel, the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, who passed away on Sunday, Dec. 18, of respiratory ailments -- he was a lifelong smoker and lung cancer survivor -- at his country estate in northern Bohemia. I only met Havel once and wouldn't pretend to know him, and my reminiscence accordingly counts for far less than the rest that will be offered. You can read those if you want to understand why Havel matters to history or art; what follows, for what it's worth, is an account of why he matters to me. COMMENTS (1)SHARE:Twitter Reddit Buzz More... It was six-and-a-half years ago in Washington, D.C., and I had somehow persuaded an extremely indulgent editor friend at a music and fashion magazine to let me write a short squib about a Czech band called the Plastic People of the Universe, which was playing at the Black Cat nightclub on 14th Street. I mostly wanted an excuse to meet "the Plastics," a band whose legend far outstripped its recorded catalog, most of which was out of print and hopelessly difficult to find. The group had formed in Prague in 1968, amid the rush of the Prague Spring, with the intention of playing music inspired by the American experimental rock musicians they adored: the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart. It was a modest aim that, after Soviet tanks rolled into Wenceslas Square the following August, suddenly looked revolutionary. The Plastics were not particularly political, but Czechoslovakia's newly disciplinarian communist regime looked askance at their lyrics -- many of them written by the best Czech poets of the era -- which celebrated sexuality, Catholic imagery, and other taboos. In 1976, after years of government harassment, the band's members and associates were finally rounded up and hauled into court on trumped up "disturbing the peace" charges. Among the poets whose work had informed the Plastics' records -- which were pressed in sympathetic Western countries and circulated samizdat-style in Czechoslovakia -- was Vaclav Havel. The band's trial inspired him and other dissidents to draft the landmark Charter 77 human rights declaration the following year, a document that laid the foundation of the 1989 Velvet Revolution. The conviction of the Plastics -- which was finally overturned by the Czech Supreme Court in 2003 -- also prompted some of Havel's finest writing. In his essay "The Trial," Havel described how the court proceedings made the band into "the unintentional personification of those forces in man that compel him to search for himself, to determine his own place in the world freely, and in his own way, not to make deals with his heart and not to cheat his conscience, to call things by their true names." The seven-piece band that was waiting downstairs in the Black Cat's sepulchral green room when I arrived that summer afternoon included only a couple of the members who had founded the Plastics 37 years earlier. One of them, saxophonist Vratislav Brabenec, also happened to be the band's de facto English-language spokesman; after leaving prison, he had spent many years in exile in Canada. Brabenec was 62 and, with his long flowing hair, prodigious beard, and heavy Slavic features, resembled an Orthodox patriarch. Like everyone else in the band, he smoked incessantly as he described the details of the band's visit to Washington. "Oh," he added, leaning back in the cracked pleather chair, "and Vaclav is coming." A couple of hours later, they trooped down the stairs: not just Havel, who happened to be in town for a reading at the Library of Congress, but also former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Czech ambassador. They availed themselves of the cooler full of Heinekens, drinking and smoking with the band and listening while the bassist, Eva Turnova, recounted her run-in with Lenny Kaye, the proto-punk guitarist and her hero, on the band's tour stop in New York. Then the band was called up to the stage, and the rest of us followed, settling in the back of the club around a big black plywood table, sticky with stale beer and etched with the names of dozens of past concertgoers. On the stage, Brabenec let loose an ear-splitting peal of free improvisation, and the rest of the band settled into a heavy, abrasive rhythm. This was not the Fleetwood Mac of Bill Clinton's administration, and I leaned over to ask Albright what she thought of it. "I think it's -- I think it's great," she said after a lengthy pause. "I like it a lot. Now, I can't say I've heard a lot of it -- I've mainly heard about them." Havel, the old avant-gardist, was watching with a smile on his face. He had personally coaxed the Plastics out of retirement in 1997 for a performance at Prague Castle on the 20th anniversary of the Charter 77 signing; a year later, he brought Plastics bassist Milan Hlavsa -- who died in 2001 -- to Washington to perform with the band's hero, the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed, for Havel and Clinton at the White House. I asked him about his relationship with the band, but the music drowned out his soft voice, and I stopped after a couple questions, feeling guilty -- I was keeping him from watching the show. On the dance floor, the Czech ambassador was shimmying to the music with a drink in his hand and a Plastics T-shirt under his sport coat. A slow trickle of admirers approached Havel for his autograph, which he signed with a pair of red and green felt-tip pens: "Havel" in loopy cursive, followed by a heart. Then without warning, Turnova blew Havel's cover, outing the "ex-president" in the back of the club. A couple of hundred fans turned around to face Havel, who stood up and waved sheepishly, his shoulders hunched slightly inside his sport coat. "For Mr. Havel," Brabenec called out, "'Magical Nights!'" The Plastics launched into a song of the same name, one they had performed three decades earlier at a clandestine music festival that Havel hosted at his country house. The lyrics went: We live in Prague, that is the place Where the Spirit itself will show its face. We live in Prague, that is the place. The ex-president smiled again, and I realized I was in the presence of something remarkable. Here was a man who had survived one of the Eastern Bloc's worst regimes and helped overthrow it; who had navigated the confusion of the Iron Curtain's fall and the division of his own country; who had endured the myriad little compromises and disappointments that come with the actual business of governing. Yet he had emerged somehow intact, in a way that the U.S. politicians I had met in Washington, survivors of far less battering public experiences, rarely seemed to be. As I watched him drinking beer with old friends and basking in the sound of a band he had seen play who knows how many times, it was possible to believe that one could plunge into the morass of politics and emerge on the other side a human being. Havel had, true to his own words, determined his own place in the world. It was 1 a.m. by the time the encores wound down and Havel finally got up from his seat. After he had left, I noticed something on the table at the place where he had been sitting. It was just a concertgoer's name, etched through the black paint in loopy cursive, punctuated with a heart.

http://www.sportsbus...orts-Media.aspx sports media john curand The past year in sports media was dominated by industry-changing rights deals. That trend will continue next year, as the BCS, Big East, NFL, MLB and NASCAR look to cut deals. It's not much of a prediction to say that most will see significant increase in the average annual payout — that surely will happen — but here's how I see the year shaking out.NBC picks up new NFL package: The NFL will add up to four additional games to NFL Network starting next season, giving it a total of 12 games. The move will help the league finally close a carriage deal with Time Warner Cable. NFL Network's added games will overlap with an eight-game Thursday-night package that will generate a lot of interest. My bet is that the new package winds up on NBC Sports Network, though Turner could snatch it.MLB leaves Fox: MLB will consolidate its rights with one media company rather than continue with its current structure across three networks: ESPN, Fox and TBS. NBC will make a big push to win the rights. But my guess is that the league opts for ESPN in a deal that will finally include the same TV Everywhere components that other leagues have rolled out. Keeping Turner involved in some form can't be counted out; think of the NBA's deal with ESPN and Turner. I wouldn't be surprised to see some playoff games land on MLB Network, but look for most of the playoffs to be on ESPN (with, maybe, some on TBS) and the World Series to air on ABC.No NASCAR deal gets signed: NASCAR ratings will continue to see an uptick, especially withDanica Patrick appearing in more races, but networks will hold off on renewing their rights deals until 2013. Network executives aren't going to be looking at the overall viewership. Rather, the networks want to see if NASCAR is able to win back the young-male demographic. If those numbers stay low, the sanctioning body will not see an increase in its next television deal.NBC picks up Big East rights: At an industry conference earlier this month, NBC Sports Group's Jon Litner announced to a crowd of college officials: "We are open for business." NBC's first chance to prove that will be with the Big East Conference, which spurned a proposed ESPN extension earlier this year. ESPN will submit a bid, and Fox will kick the tires — but my bet is that NBC lands the Big East rights.ESPN retains the BCS: ESPN's four-year, $495 million deal for the BCS, signed in 2008, changed the industry. That was the moment when rights holders and networks realized that cable channels' dual revenue streams of advertising and affiliate fees are needed to afford these kinds of rights fees. Those rights will be negotiated again in 2012, and I expect Fox to make a strong bid to win them back. The BCS has been a huge success for ESPN, though, and I expect Bristol to break the bank to keep the games. Look for the BCS to agree to a plus-one game during these negotiations, too.Fox keeps the Dodgers' rights: The Los Angeles Dodgers will take their rights to the open market. Time Warner Cable will make a strong bid. It's a long shot, but DirecTV could swoop in and make a bid, too. Still, I see Fox doing whatever it takes to keep the Dodgers' rights. Why Fox? Earlier this month, former Fox Cable President Bob Thompson told a bankruptcy hearing that Prime Ticket's existence would be threatened if it lost the Dodgers. That's a good incentive for Fox to keep the rights.serif; font-size: 14px; ">TWC Sports will struggle for distribution: Time Warner Cable's planned RSNs in Los Angeles will launch on TWC and DirecTV this fall, but the channels will have a hard time finding other distributors unless the channels get the Dodgers (and I don't think they will).Quick hits: Despite the lockout, the NBA will see its viewership rise through the playoffs. … Golf ratings on CBS, NBC and Golf Channel will be up 20 percent in 2012. Thanks, Tiger. … Fox's UFC deal will be a success, bringing a huge number of young viewers to the network, which will average around 7 million viewers for its four fights. … Neither DirecTV nor Dish Network will carry the Pac-12's planned channels. Those are my predictions for 2012. I expect you to hold me to themJohn Ourand can be reached at jourand@sportsbusinessjournal.com. Follow him on Twitter@Ourand_SBJ.

well chosen words and thoughts--thx

thx---i woke up early and scanned the radio dial. radio doesn't exist any more in the u.s.

virtual radio--transcript

tebow sniffs out cocaine ORLANDO, Fla. – The craze for Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow rose to new zoological heights after an Orlando, Fla., airport sniffer dog named after him caught a drug trafficker. A Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI) drug canine named "Tebow" sniffed out a suitcase containing a kilogram of cocaine at Orlando International Airport, leading to the arrest of Weslie Jadier Morales Castro, the Orlando Sentinel reported. MBI agents said that they approached 20-year-old Morales Castro on Dec. 8 after he was spotted checking the tags on each piece of luggage on the carousel, as though he did not know which should be his. Agents confronted him after he snatched a case, and drug-sniffing "Tebow" took a special interest in the bag, alerting authorities to its suspicious contents. A cocaine-stuffed children's toy was found inside. Morales Castro claimed that the suitcase, which was tagged for a Jose Garcia, did not belong to him -- but later admitted that he was paid to take it to people at a nearby fast-food eatery. AirTran Airways officials said that a Jose Garcia checked a suitcase for the Puerto Rico to Orlando flight but never boarded. Morales Castro now faces a federal charge of selling or distributing a controlled substance, according to a criminal complaint filed last week. He was released from jail on $25,000 bond. Tim Tebow-mania already spawned a new word, "Tebowing," which means to mimic the deeply-religious 24 year old's end-of-game kneeling pose. It was recognized Monday as a new contribution to the English language by the Global Language Monitor. Print Email Share Comments <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; ">Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/17/tebow-sniffs-out-cocaine-in-suitcase-at-orlando-airport/#ixzz1gqi07ecO

that was the whole piece-- i didn't post it because i necessarily agree with it.

i just finished 5 hours of drinking in the orgasmic laz lake kenton fest from the other night. i'm going to repeat the exercise, if the booze, my heart, and liver hold out. the solo taborn was to DIE for.

remembering the monstrous stan kenton from the dec. 9 new republic us Stan Kenton David HajduDecember 9, 2011 | 12:00 amIt takes a special awfulness for an artist to be worth remembering not for the value but for the faults of his work. In American music, few well-established figures went quite so wrong as Stan Kenton, the pianist and orchestra leader whose centennial on December 15 will be recognized by concerts at Jazz at Lincoln, the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of North Texas, which houses an archive of Kenton’s papers and scores. The events are well intentioned, I have no doubt, and Kenton, through the musicians he hired—the arrangers Bill Holman and Gerry Mulligan, the saxophonists Art Pepper and Lee Konitz, the singers Anita O’Day, June Christy, and Chris Connor, chief among them—can legitimately be credited with some responsibility for at least a dozen significant contributions to the history of “cool jazz.” The bulk of his output, however, was blighted by ostentation, gimmickry, and bloat. Stan Kenton gave pretentiousness a bad name. Desperate to be taken seriously and ambivalent about the legitimacy of jazz as a style, Kenton conflated originality with novelty and importance with scale. In the early ’50s, he gussied up his big band, incorporating symphony instruments, until he was conducting 39 pieces, including 16 strings, woodwinds, and French horns. He named the ensemble the Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, and he had it play overwrought emulations of the early postwar avant-garde—pieces such as “Opus in Pastels,” “Dance Before the Mirror,” and “Trajectories.” I recommend the music highly to any contemporary artist inclined to monstrosity and susceptible to self-aggrandizement. In fact, I should send a CD to Kanye West. Bitter about being overshadowed by his African-American superiors in the Down Beat magazine critic’s poll, Kenton sent the editors a now-notorious telegram, grousing of his status in “a new minority, white jazz musicians.” He was something less than sensitive— personally as well as professionally, according to his daughter Leslie Kenton, who, in a memoir published last year, detailed what she described as an incestuous relationship with her father. One need not be concerned with that controversy to see the problem with Stan Kenton. Kenton’s music was monstrous enough.

cliff price, tasteful host on wkcr is nw presenting a 3 hour tribute to mr. brookmeyer. wkcr

sports---a lighter side

the cowboys, drugs, hurd, mexico? who could possibly think that? i thought the nfl had a huge security staff. of course, i thought they checked texans for concussions, too. the bears assure us they have a crack security outfit.

i'ma bears fan, as well. it seems fortes will inconguously return sunday, when an injury could ruin any nice contract he might get for the next few years.. were i a fortes, i would shut myself down for the year, especially since the bears are going to participate without a quarterback. 7:45 PM Chicago Bears receiver & alleged drug dealer Sam Hurd has hired attorney David Kenner , who had previously helped rapper Snoop Dogg get acquitted of murder charg

http://www.theredzon...rd/Default.aspx breaking news stories are exciting, and, invariably, mostly wrong factually. here is an example of a breaking item which could have very long tentacles indeed. the spectre of an nfl player having a $700,000 /wk international drug business has very long tentacles indeed. we can only speculate...... bears coach made some incongruoys potentially embarrading remarks at an afternoon press conference. 'sam was always a model citizen. we never suspected.' then coach went on to say, 'i know these guys and absolutely no one on this team is involved. i know these guys.' holiday decorations on the old marsh fleming performs korngold

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/12/15/source-hurd-provided-drugs-to-other-nfl-players/

WKCR presents the annual Bach Festival, featuring music of Johann Sebastian Bach exclusively from 3pm on Thursday 12/22 till midnight on Saturday 12/31. As a supplementary theme accordance with this year's fundraiser, BachFest 2011 will broadcast all Bach-related material from the WKCR archives. By exploring the archives, WKCR Classical can strengthen the quality of BachFest 2011 as well as the online audio gallery (in addition to adding retroactively to the archive festival). As per the specific schedule, BachFest 2011 will heavily feature guest DJs: performers, composers, and musicologists from the NYC area who will plan sets a la the Jazz Department's Musician's Show. BachFest 2011 will also focus on the odds and ends: microtonal Bach, Jazz-meets-Bach, Bach bluegrass, and other potpourri programs to supplement Bach proper. More information about these shows will be posted before the festival. For now... ...you can find specific scheduling information for most of Bach's major pieces below: 12/22 3pm: Bachfest begins 7pm: Brandenburg concertos 12/23 9am: Mass in A major 2pm: Well Tempered Clavier 12/24 9am: St. Matthew Passion 9pm: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Tribute 12/25 10am: Microtonal Bach 2pm: Christmas Oratorio 7pm: Musical offering 12/26 9am: Cello suites 2pm: Glenn Gould Tribute pt. 1 12/27 11am: Magnificat in D 2pm: Rosalyn Tureck Tribute 12/28 9am: Mass in F major 2pm: Art of Fugue 9pm: Brazil meets Bach 12/29 10am: Easter Oratorio 7pm: Glenn Gould Tribute pt. 2 12/30 9am: Mass in B minor 12/31 2pm: St. John Passion 6pm: Jazz Meets Bach 8pm: Ascension Oratorio

clear channel broadcasting will soon announce that repeater station wman will have 2 clones on the fm band--wslr and another station whose name escapes me. robots can indeed have twins. this means that 2 more stations will lose their employees, if there are any left. the thought of right wing talk and marketting spewing on the fm band, even to this republican, is odious. my sympathies and best wishes go to those souls(and their families) losing their positions what's it like ar clear channel? http://ohiomediawatch.wordpress.com/ PROMOTION FOR OMW READER: We've often joked that Clear Channel Akron/Canton operations director Keith Kennedy, who programs hot AC WKDD/98.1 and co-hosts that station's morning show with Jenn Ryan, currently voicetracks middays on AC WHOF/101.7 "My 101.7″, and also oversees programming for Clear Channel's Ashland/Mansfield cluster on top of his local duties, does everything but sweep the snow off the microwave dishes at Freedom Avenue. He's got quite a few more dishes under his programming oversight now. That's because Keith has been named Regional Programming Manager for Clear Channel in Northern Ohio, with a number of markets in his portfolio now: Akron/Canton, Toledo, Youngstown, Ashland/Mansfield, and Defiance. That's nearly every Ohio Clear Channel market north of Columbus, with the obvious exception of the Cleveland market…larger markets are under a different structure in Clear Channel's recent restructuring. So, Keith Kennedy is obviously a long-time OMW reader, and upon finding this news in another trade report, we reached out and asked him about it: "I can confirm I've become the RPM for Northern Ohio. I'm thrilled to work with great stations, strong brands and excellent people." Keith will retain all of his current duties at Freedom Avenue, and won't be coming off the air there at all… not a day goes by

is there any chance of a resurrection?? these old ears might be able to hear the difference.

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the classical pieces sound excellent to these old ears.

uh uh.......... where's my teleprompter?? did you produce sketches from bamboo?

ruth copeland play with fire funkadelic with guitarist eddie hazel http://www.youtube.c...h?v=B3IN5wRkRWk