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click image to enlarge photo by @acp Long time ago I made a friend: Mr Les Goodson, an amazing sax player and a kool kat of the most pure essence! Mr Les Goodson had invited me a few times to come to the jazz joint that he plays in Harlem, and one particular evening, when they were having a Tribute to Coltrane, I decided to go and check out the music and the venue. Paris Blues is the namesake of the 1961 movie "Paris Blues," featuring Sidney Poitier, Diane Carroll and Paul Newman. Owner, Samuel J. Hargress Jr.'s love of Paris led him to open Paris Blues over 40 years ago. Paris Blues is a small and charming dive-bar, with cheap beer and no cover for the excellent music they play there. On the evening that Les Goodson was having the Coltrane Tribute the jam session was full of incredible jazz ol'timers playing jazz as it should be played. With the SOUL. Today I received an invitation for a new JAM organized by my friend and I think this will be another g...

Usually I think of myself as a good driver. I have driven a lot, on tough roads, long distances and crazy weather. I started driving at an early age and one of my first road experiences was when mom let me take the wheel while driving between São Paulo and the Amazon. Well, only for a few minutes since I was only 14 years old. We were on a small patch of dirt road and we were driving a Ford Caravan. I felt so powerful. I loved being in command of that machine that could take us places! I will tell you, those few minutes were enough to spark a passion for driving and for road trips. From that moment on I was hooked. I would always be the designated driver on many long trips through North and South of Brazil. I was convinced that I was the best driver of all of my friends so I would gladly take the wheel, sometimes for 18 hours straight. I loved everything about it. The whole body and machine integration was a definite high for me. This went on from when I was 18 (mini...

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 Dear Shameless makers:  I love your TV show! I don't follow many TV programs but I don't miss one episode of Shameless. I would like to however make a comment about the end of episode 3 where you have a brief scene of the character Steve in Brazil. I am a Brazilian woman and I am very proud of my beautiful country and it's beautiful and warm Brazilian people. I very much resent the fact that you showed Steve getting a blowjob by a Brazilian woman with Rio's backdrop. That is a stupid and demeaning way of depicting a country and it's values. It's very disappointing that your writers would chose to stereotype my country in such poor way. Brazil, the land of easy and slutty women. Really guys? By the way, your backdrop could not look more fake. That whole scene is just a disaster. Remember, you live in a GLOBAL community now. You should be more careful on how you portrait people's cultures and countries. They could be watching you!

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging  because things may get better.  To the confident it is inspiring  because the challenge exists  to make things better. King Whitney Jr.

Check out this AMAZING film by Jarbas Agnelli and Keith Loutit click link to watch it on vimeo http://vimeo.com/agnelli/thecityofsamba

David Carpenter, MD, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany and publisher of a major study in the journal Science on contamination in fish, gives us the scoop: The problem:  Nature didn't intend for salmon to be crammed into pens and fed soy, poultry litter, and hydrolyzed chicken feathers. As a result, farmed salmon is lower in vitamin D and higher in contaminants, including carcinogens, PCBs, brominated flame retardants, and pesticides such as dioxin and DDT. According to Carpenter, the most contaminated fish come from Northern Europe, which can be found on American menus. "You could eat one of these salmon dinners every 5 months without increasing your risk of cancer," says Carpenter, whose 2004 fish contamination study got broad media attention. "It's that bad." Preliminary science has also linked DDT to diabetes and obesity, but some nutritionists believe the benefits of omega-3s outweigh the risks....