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• Methodology to help move a person’s action to motivate others to be successful.

Leaders must build performance in others. Often people are moved into leadership due to their own performance in a non-leader role. Making the switch from player to coach is a hard one. You will leave the session with tactics on how to help yourself and others make this transition.

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According to Harvard Professor John P. Kotter, 70 percent of efforts to improve ultimately fail. Why? Top leaders think there is more urgency than there is. You will leave the session with a simple and free way to gauge the sense of urgency in your organization and discover steps to take if the urgency is not what is needed to achieve the desired outcomes.

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SAENGER THEATRE Through a joint effort with the Technology Department of the City of Pensacola, patrons who attend events at the Saenger Theatre now have access to public Wi-Fi. Many shows at the Saenger require that cell phones be turned off during the performance as a matter of etiquette for the performers and the patrons surrounding them, so it is encouraged that cell phone usage is limited to pre-show and intermission times only.

FRIENDS OF THE ESCAMBIA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER When it was formed in

July 2115, Friends created the Heartworm Treatment Sponsorship Program to help dogs entering the shelter system that were heartworm positive. The goal was to help break down any barriers for adopters interested in adopting heartworm positive dogs by offering assistance through partner vet clinics. This month, Fran became the fiftieth dog the group has assisted with heartworm treatment.

UWF CENTER FOR CYBERSECURITY

The National Security Agency named UWF the National Center Academic of Excellence Cybersecurity Regional Resource Center for the Southeastern region. In this role, the UWF Center for Cybersecurity will serve as the CAE Regional Resource Center for all institutions of higher education in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.

The center will receive a nearly $200,000 grant and will work with the NSA CAE Program Office and other hubs to enhance cybersecurity education and expand the CAE Program across the nation.

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FLORIDA GRAPEFRUIT The U.S. Department of Agriculture's monthly forecast put Florida's citrus industry on pace to fill 8.1 million 90-pound boxes of grapefruit, down 1.5 million from the first forecast for the current season and nearly 3 million below the 2015-2016 output. A month ago, the industry was forecast to fill 8.9 million boxes. Meanwhile, the statewide orange crop is on pace to fill 67 million 90-pound boxes, the same as predicted in March.

During the 1990s, the industry filled more than 200 million boxes of oranges annually.

BIG TOBACCO Pointing to the "intentional" wrongdoing in the past by the tobacco industry, the Second District Court of Appeal ordered Philip Morris USA and Liggett Group, LLC to pay a full $35-million jury award in a case involving a man who had to undergo two double-lung transplants. The three-judge panel overturned a lowercourt decision that would have reduced the payment because of a finding that former smoker Richard Boatright was partially at fault.

OPEN CARRY A divided Florida Supreme

Court will not reconsider a March ruling that upheld a long-standing state ban on people openly carrying firearms in public.

Dale Norman, who challenged the constitutionality of the law after being arrested in 2012 in St. Lucie County for openly carrying a gun in a holster, requested reconsideration of the ruling. But the court, by a 4-2 margin, rejected Norman's request.

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STOP THE BEATINGS In July 2004, Inweekly reported on the rise of domestic violence in the cover story "The Ugly Face of Domestic Violence." Escambia County had eight murders tied to domestic violence, and its rate of domestic violence per 100,000 population, 730.4, ranked 23rd in the state.

In March 2009, we hit the subject hard again with "The Domestic Violence Epidemic." By the end of that year, Escambia County had half as many murders tied to domestic violence, but its rate of domestic violence jumped up to 868.1, moving it to seventh in the state.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement hasn't released its 2016 annual crime report, but Escambia County jumped up to the second spot in 2015 with a rate of 1,028.9 and five murders.

While the state’s average rate has decreased, Escambia County has raced to the top as one of the worse communities in Florida for domestic violence, and the costs to this community continue to mount.

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network has found a link between exposure to domestic violence and poor school performance. Children who grow up with domestic violence may have an impaired ability to concentrate, difficulty in completing school work, and lower scores on measures of verbal, motor, and social skills.

They may learn that it is acceptable

to exert control or relieve stress by using violence, or they may associate violence with expressions of intimacy and affection.

Law enforcement officials have shared they often find a history of domestic violence in the pasts of the young adults and juveniles they arrest, particularly among the most violent ones.

FavorHouse of Northwest Florida tries to be the difference maker by providing shelter, counseling, education, and prevention programs for victims and their families in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. The non-profit operates a 24-hour crisis line and shelter. They pick up women and children from terrible environments and carry them to a secure, safe place.

Their van is ancient. The shelter must expand to handle the 40-percent increase in domestic violence. Both the van and building are worn out. The challenge is FavorHouse depends solely on donations, and that's where you can help.

Its biggest fundraiser, the White Rose Luncheon, occurs on May 18 at 11:30 a.m. at the Corrine Jones Community Center.

Please consider buying tickets or sponsoring a table by contacting Sue Hand at sue@ favorhouse.org or call 434-1177.

The need has never been greater. Escambia County must reverse this horrible trend, and FavorHouse is our best hope to do so. {in} rick@inweekly.net

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THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROBLEM

By Duwayne Escobedo A Milton man killed his wife on the porch with a hatchet in an argument over money on Feb. 22.

A Pensacola woman stabbed her 18-year-old son to death and left her daughter severely injured in the street on Jan. 24.

Despite the best efforts of local social advocates and law enforcement agencies, domestic disputes continue at an alarming rate in the greater Pensacola area, sometimes escalating to horrific murders.

But that doesn't stop FavorHouse from reaching out to educate and change behaviors of both offenders and victims. They work to prevent deadly and serious injuries resulting from domestic crimes.

LEADING THE STATE

It is a difficult task, especially since Escambia County has the highest rolling rates over a three-year period from 2013-2015 in Florida, the latest data from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement UCR data shows. FDLE reported Escambia had 1,042.7 incidents per 100,000 population during that period.

The state of Florida's rate for the same three-year period is almost half that number, 549.3 per 100,000 population.

Over the past decade, the state has made significant progress in reducing domestic violence, but Escambia County has headed in the opposite direction. In 2005, the county's domestic violence rate per 100,000 was 882.7, and the state's rate was 671.9.

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held steady on domestic violence crimes from 2013-2015, dropping 2.3 percent over the period. Unfortunately, the Pensacola Police Department saw its domestic violence rate increase 13.2 percent, jumping from 760.71 per 100,000 in 2013 to 861.32 in 2015.

Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan told Inweekly his office saw some progress in its jurisdiction last year. The total domestic violence crimes decreased 7.9 percent, according to figures compiled by his agency. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has not yet published the 2016 crime report.

"The approach we have taken is easily summed up—aggressive," said Morgan.

"We are in lockstep with Sue Hand, FavorHouse and UWF's Dr. (Kim) McCorkle and Dr. (Richard) Hough. We push evidencebased prosecution."

Meanwhile, Santa Rosa County is up to four murders resulting from domestic disputes in 2017 after dealing with eight the year before, said the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.

BATTLING THE TREND

FavorHouse of Northwest Florida Executive Director Sue Hand said the societal ill seems to get worse, instead of better.

"We haven't had this kind of outbreak in domestic homicides in several years," Hand said. "Domestic violence is really kept at the back door rather than the forefront until some horrible, horrific things happen.

Getting consistent public awareness is the greatest obstacle we have."

Hand doesn't need to look at FDLE crime reports to know domestic violence remains a problem in the two-county area.

She can tell by the packed 12room shelter the non-profit runs to protect victims of violence.

FavorHouse served 447 unduplicated residents, resulting in 10, 471 nights of shelter from July 2015 to June 2016.

Fred Sulzbach has been the Batterers Intervention Program director at FavorHouse for two decades. He works with the Offender Program for abusive men that is a 24-week curriculum where program participants examine how their beliefs, values, and attitudes influence their decision to use violence and then learn healthy alternatives. It is modeled after a successful similar program in Massachusetts.

"Trying to help victims is not addressing the problem, you're just addressing the symptom," Sulzbach said. "You have to deal with men who are victimizing women. They believe a certain amount of violence in the home is OK. Until they accept responsibility, you're not going to fix the problem. Their belief system can be modified."

However, he said referrals from the court system and others to the offender program used to require him to teach four groups in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. Today, Sulzbach reports doing about 1.5 groups total.

"We should be inundated with work," he said.

Another tool that research has shown to work is the Lethality Assessment Program, which was started in Maryland in early 2000. The LAP goal is to prevent domestic violence homicides, serious injury or re-assaults by encouraging victims to seek support and shelter from local domestic violence programs.

A report on LAP for first responders noted that research by The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing over 25 years had found: 1) only 4 percent of domestic violence murder victims nationwide had taken advantage of domestic violence program services; 2) in 50 percent of domestic violence-related homicides, officers had previously responded to a call on the scene; and 3) the re-assault of domestic violence victims in high danger was reduced by 60 percent if they sought shelter.

Kim McCorkle, an associate dean and professor at the University of West Florida who specializes in domestic violence, said the Pensacola Police Department at one time implemented the lethality report, which is an 11-question survey of the victim, to alert prosecutors to cases that were "high danger" ones. It also required officers

to follow up in cases identified as potentially escalating. Questions of the victims included whether the batterer threatened to kill them, had weapons, used drugs, tried to choke them and had a job.

"This can prevent cases from becoming more serious," McCorkle said. "It's having some impact. That's one of the things that I'm most excited about. This is not a law enforcement problem. They didn't create domestic violence. But it helps them respond to it."

McCorkle has advocated for local law enforcement agencies to train officers in lethality assessment to identify which cases are most likely to turn deadly.

HARD TO HANDLE

Escambia County Chief Deputy Chip Simmons admitted domestic violence crimes are hard to handle. The sheriff's office requires its nearly 425 sheriff's deputies to get regular continuing education on the problem.

"It's difficult to police something that happens inside the sanctuary of one's house," Simmons said. "We want to make sure we are one of the departments that is educated on this issue."

He has support from third-term Sheriff Morgan, who has said: "I would put people under the jail if I could for those crimes."

The community, social advocates, law enforcement and prosecutors have focused on strategically getting out the message about the warning signs of abusive relationships in the past.

Research has shown that risk factors for domestic violence include substance abuse, unemployment, education, cohabitation of unwed partners, pregnancy, income, ethnicity, history of violence in the home and a previous criminal record.

Greg Marcille, chief assistant state attorney, agrees that poverty has an effect. He also said local law enforcement agencies emphasize arrests in domestic violence cases. Offenders are referred to local intervention programs.

To improve its handling of domestic violence cases, Marcille reported the State Attorney's Office is assigning three attorneys dedicated to those crimes.

"Often times an arrest is made if probable cause exists," Marcille said. "Unfortunately, we do not always have the level of evidence we need for a successful result in trial."

Hand welcomes any increased attention from law enforcement on domestic violence.

"We need to turn offenders' lives around," Hand said. "We can't wait until they shoot somebody. Then, it's too late. If we don't save the mom, we're not going to save the family." {in} inweekly.net

CRIME, HOMELESS PLAGUE PARK Over the past year, the county has increased lighting and removed picnic tables and benches to make it a less friendly place to loiter. Law enforcement has also increased its patrols of the area. However, many community members said more attention needs to be given to the park and surrounding streets, which they said fill with discarded trash.

"Safety is of the utmost importance," said Rhodes, who ensured the county could do more cleanup. "We want residents to be able to take their kids to the park and play in a comfortable setting."

Residents complained Brentwood Park attracts the homeless because of nearby services offered, such as the St. Vincent de Paul's Alfred-Washburn Center at 31 Murphy Lane near the Florida Department of Children and Families. The Alfred-Washburn Center serves the homeless and poor free of charge. The non-profit facility provides food, showers, laundry facilities, clothing and identification cards for the homeless.

Other area churches also serve the homeless in the area. Some at the town hall meeting suggested moving the Alfred-Washburn Center where the homeless congregate.

But Ron Johnson, the center's director, argued that most of the homeless who go to the Alfred-Washburn Center for brown bag lunches don't head directly to Brentwood Park.

"The majority of homeless are not causing your problem," said Johnson, who nevertheless promised he would speak to the homeless about the community's concerns and steer them away from the nearby park, so the swings and slides can be used by children.

Others attending the meeting rushed to defend the homeless population in the area.

Pat Smith said she and her husband were homeless briefly and ended up staying at a Salvation Army shelter. She remembered eating beans out of a can.

"My husband finally got work, and we finally got a house," she said. "We never had to live like that. It opened my eyes.

I hope I can reach my hand out to help someone else."

Nancy Liccardo, who has lived near Brentwood Park for 40 years, said she has seen homeless people loiter there and urinate in public. It makes the environment "scary," she said.

"Most choose to live the way they live," said Liccardo, whose husband, Pat, heads the neighborhood watch group. "We would like to have the park back for our children and the walking path for our elderly. Now you find needles. You find drugs. There's a fine line between loitering and just enjoying the park."

The Liccardos recalled seeing Commissioner May being approached to buy drugs when he visited Brentwood Park to survey the issues.

Chief Deputy Haines and May both encouraged people living in the community to police the park. They suggested area residents take photographs or video.

May liked the ideas of the county installing cameras in the area to record activity and using volunteer park rangers with the authority to patrol Brentwood Park.

"We have to be creative," May said.

Haines said the sheriff's office does receive "anonymous" tips. However, deputies need the name of the caller and more details, such as a description of people breaking the law and what they are doing.

Haines said only one arrest has been made at the park this year for lewd and lascivious behavior.

"We can't move people because they are vagrants, lazy or don't pay taxes,"

"We know what the neighborhood once was.

We will go back and formulate what we believe is a plan of attack." District 3 Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May

By Duwayne Escobedo You can buy drugs there, hire a prostitute or even catch the homeless sleeping on the children's slide in the playground.

These aren't the streets of New York City. This is Brentwood Park off of North Palafox Street and just south of Brent Lane.

It is across the six-lane road from Brentwood Elementary Magnet School of Communication and Technology and next to the Brentwood Assembly of God. The county park, which takes up nearly an entire block, has plenty of tall trees, basketball courts, walking trails, and relatively new playground equipment. Parents have been reluctant to bring their children to the playground.

Unfortunately, Brentwood Park is also near the exit ramps of Interstate I-110 and several busy intersections where panhandlers beg for loose change on a regular basis.

They often wander over to the park to sleep or hang out.

About 60 Brentwood residents and concerned citizens attended the town hall meeting called by District 3 Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May to brainstorm ideas to clean up and take control of their neighborhood park, which has existed for more than six decades.

Also in attendance were Escambia County Administrator Jack Brown, Parks and Recreation Director Michael Rhodes, other county staff and Escambia County Chief Deputy Eric Haines.

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Haines said. "As long as they don't break laws, there is nothing we can do. But if you tell me there are two people selling drugs, I can do something about that."

Others suggested building one-room houses for the homeless. Reggie White is trying to find county-owned land to build 93-units geared toward those without any place to stay.

"We just need help from the county government to get some red tape out of the way," White said.

Rev. Larry Forney said his church, Faith International Ministries, has about six acres that could easily be used as a gathering place, instead of the park. He offered counseling services as well.

May said the county would employ many of the ideas to allow the community to enjoy its park once again.

"We know what the neighborhood once was," May said. "We will go back and formulate what we believe is a plan of attack." {in} 7

Quint Studer / Courtesy Photo A PLACE FOR CONVERSATIONS Quint

and Rishy Studer announced last week their intent to buy the SunTrust Building at 220 West Garden Street. Their goal is to create a community-oriented space where citizens can gather, share ideas, and solve issues.

"We're all about improving the quality of life for our community like many people are," Quint Studer told Inweekly. "One of the things that we feel has been missing in this community is a place to go to have these conversations, a place to go to have problems solved, learn about things."

In 2015, the Studers proposed to build the UWF Center for Entrepreneurship and conference center at the Community Maritime Park, only to have Mayor Ashton Hayward rejected the lease approved by the CMPA board.

SunTrust Bank vacated the building last fall. The building boasts a large first-floor atrium that could be used as a social area and cafe, as well as a large office suite that could accommodate concerts, lectures, and conference breakout sessions. The outdoor plaza could host community gatherings, musical events and small festivals.

Would a conference fit in the firstfloor area? Studer said, “This footprint at SunTrust is bigger.”

While the deal is expected to close within the next 60 days, Studers plan to seek ideas from the community on how to best use the space.

He said, “We certainly want to get input on space use, what would make sense, how it looks because when we've asked the community for help, we've never been disappointed.”

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GILLIGAN’S ISLAND When asked for

an update on the legislation regarding the distribution of Triumph Gulf Coast Funds, State Sen. Doug Broxson said, "It feels like it's 'Gilligan's Island.' It was just a threehour tour, and now we've been stuck in here for almost six months."

He explained, "What's so sad is that we had a very simple process that was set up for the Triumph Gulf Coast. It simply said, 'As soon as the settlement was completed, the money would be transferred to Triumph.' Now, through a legal procedure, it ended up in the general fund."

Broxson complained that the Florida House is trying to dictate how the Northwest Florida counties most impacted by the 2010 BP oil spill can spend their share of monies from the state's settlement with the British oil giant. The Panhandle is set to receive $300 million once the state legislature and governor can agree on the distribution process.

According to the Republican senator, the Florida Senate's approach has been: "So look, we've got something that should already be in law. It came over to you last year. Why don't we transfer the money?"

He said, "It just continued to warp into this concept that really became very complicated."

The latest wrinkle is allowing the county commissioners to weigh-in on the decisions about which projects get funding.

Each county can present projects totaling five percent of the funds ($15 million each), which will get funded if they meet the criteria set by the Triumph board.

Broxson explained the smallest counties, Franklin, Gulf, and Wakulla, would

probably have difficulty coming up with a regional project.

"Their possibility of them getting a big project was remote," he said. "The idea was to look, if they can present a project to Triumph, Triumph has the money. We will let them choose what project if it qualifies for building the economy. We'll give them a percentage."

What Broxson would like to see is for several counties to pool their percentages into larger projects that benefit more than one county, such as Navy Federal Credit Union.

The approach of House Speaker Richard Corcoran has been to prohibit any of the Triumph dollars going to economic incentives, something that Broxson and Gov. Rick Scott believe are essential for job growth and diversifying the Panhandle's economy.

"Governor Scott is very passionate about the Panhandle," said Broxson. "He's been over here probably 30 times since he's been governor. He knows that we're in fierce competition with the other states, particularly Alabama. He is committed to growing jobs through stimulating companies to come here."

The state senator wants to eliminate any restrictions on the funds and to allow the Triumph board to decide the criteria.

"I think we need to redo this whole thing, reestablish what's right and wrong, and try to get them to do the right thing and push that money over to Triumph," said Broxson. "Let us get started with doing what we're supposed to do."

He said the debate in Tallahassee over economic incentives has hurt the state’s recruitment of businesses to come to Florida.

“The message has been heard around the country,” said Broxson. “All these recruiters of companies are seeing a decline in people interested in Florida because they know they can get a better deal in other states. This has infuriated Rick Scott.”

He said that he was uncertain how Gov. Scott will react if the final bill passed doesn’t allow economic incentives.

Broxson said, “I don't know exactly what the governor's going to do. I think he's very disappointed that this is going to be restricted dollars. He is the governor. We'll see what happens.”

VT MAE UPDATE On April 10, Dave

Penzone, the consultant hired by Mayor Ashton Hayward to oversee the VT MAE project at the Pensacola International Airport, updated the Pensacola City Council

on the progress of the $45-million construction project.

FAA certification has been received for the airport project. There has been no objection to any of the construction activity, except for some changes that needed to be made because of modifications of building’s configuration, with respect to the antennas and the localizers.

The construction schedule is three weeks behind schedule, but Greenhut Construction is optimistic that it can bring the project back on schedule, according to Penzone.

“So at the moment, it's behind, but I think there is a belief, particularly with the pre-engineered metal building programming that we will pick up those three weeks,” he told the council at its agenda review. “Of course, a lot of this is dependent upon weather, or any circumstances that are always in any major construction project like this.”

The construction costs remain with the original budgeted amounts. Any cost increases are being offset by savings in other areas.

Penzone said, “Spending is happening as projected about $3-$4 million a month as the project is moving forward.”

Scott Luth and his team at FloridaWest, the county’s economic development authority, have met with VT MAE officials about workforce development.

Penzone explained their timeline: “July is the recruitment for the Leadership Team.

In August, offers will be extended for the Leadership Team. In November, the Leadership Team will be recruiting about 150 employees to be on the ground and train when the facility opens in 2018. In January of 2018, VT MAE will be commencing training of the staff in Mobile, and the expected opening is the Spring of 2018.”

The consultant said VT MAE has committed to hiring 400 employees at the facility, and the company’s president and its board are excited about the project.

“I think that bodes well for the City of Pensacola, because as you know if this project is successful there's always the opportunity for Phase 2,” said Penzone.

“There's always the opportunity for expanding their footprint here in Pensacola.”

GALVEZ SYMPOSIUM The University of West Florida Historic Trust, in association with the Pensacola Heritage Foundation, is hosting a Symposium on the Governor of Louisiana and Viceroy of New Spain Bernardo de Gálvez to on Friday, April 28,

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from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Museum of Commerce, 201 East Zaragoza St. The Gálvez Symposium, which is free and open to the public, coincides with Pensacola’s efforts to honor the Spanish statesman and general with a monument.

Because of the renewed interest in this American hero who delivered West Florida from the British in 1781, symposia in his honor have become a unique way to recognize his role in American independence.

DUELING VETO OPINIONS At the special meeting on April 10, City Attorney Lysia Bowling told the city council that Mayor Ashton Hayward’s veto of the council action to hire a budget analyst was legal under the charter.

“I looked at that very precise language in the ballot proposition that was posed to the citizens,” said Bowling.

The referendum passed 10,575-9,865 on Nov. 4, 2014. The city attorney said, “Nowhere in it did I find any limitation on the issue of mayoral veto or anything to preclude the mayor from exercising veto authority with regard to what was asked of the voters.”

Mayor Hayward opposed the referendum, but he did not veto the ordinance authorizing the post, its duties and pay range when it was passed last August.

Attorney Ed Fleming reviewed the mayor's veto. He saw the issue as the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches. Fleming determined that the mayor had "no authority to obstruct the City Council's effort to implement the duly enacted ordinance."

On April 10, Bowling tried to minimize the impact of the mayor’s veto. She said, “When the mayor wishes to express disagreement with an action of council, he expresses that disagreement through veto power, but ultimately, City Council, you are the decision makers on every action that you take as a quorum.”

Bowling said, “You are the ultimate authority on your decisions, and you do that through the override process.”

Mayor Hayward discussed his veto on News Radio 1620. His decision was based on his belief that position wasn’t needed, regardless of the citizens’ vote in 2014.

“I was not really for the referendum at all to add more staff, and I think the voters overwhelmingly support a new form of government,” said the mayor. “From the executive standpoint, it's my expression, if I don't agree with something, to veto something.”

Pensacola residents did support the April 20, 2017

“strong mayor” form of government in 2009 with 7,762 votes for a new city charter. However, 2,813 more people voted for the 2014 referendum that authorized the council to hire its own staff.

On the radio, the mayor echoed the city attorney’s opinion, “On the referendum for this council staff, it didn't say the mayor can't veto these things.”

However, Mayor Hayward said that he "completely" supports the council's decision to override his veto of hiring a budget analyst.

“Obviously, this new analyst will work with our team,” he said, “and (we will) do whatever we can do to make sure they get the budget they want, and most importantly, the voters and the citizens get what they want.”

POWER OF SERVICE Gulf Power rec-

ognized Northwest Florida Community Outreach, HYPE, and Currie House–Lutheran Services for their contributions and commitment to the community during the Power of Service Awards on April 11.

Northwest Florida Community Outreach provides educational seminars, basic needs support and social gatherings, such as Drug Awareness and Anti-Bullying seminars, Farm Share food giveaway, providing the homeless with “Care Bags” that include toiletries and food, senior neighbor breakfasts and bingo, and an annual school supply fundraiser.

Helping Youth in Pensacola Endure (HYPE) provides focuses on Pensacola high school students and provides tutoring, mentoring and other enrichment programs including financial planning, resume writing, job interview etiquette, and drug and violence prevention to help them reach their full potential.

The Currie House, organized under Lutheran Services, is a safe place for youth and teens in need of shelter, security, and counseling due to conflict within their household. For the last 26 years, the Currie House has provided services to individuals and families to improve communication skills with the goal of keeping families together.

“These organizations change lives for the better, which ultimately change our entire community for the better,” said Gulf Power Vice President of Customer Service and Sales Wendell Smith.

Since the inception of the award program in 2012 to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service, Gulf Power has recognized 43 organizations in Northwest Florida and awarded more than $107,000. {in}

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Celebrating 10 Years of Record Store Day and 30 Years as the "Record Store Guy" with Eric Jones

By C.S. Satterwhite Celebrating its 10th anniversary this Saturday, Record Store Day (RSD) is now observed on every continent except for Antarctica.

If you’re still a newcomer to the annual music lovers holiday, here's the basics of how it all works. RSD is always celebrated on the third Saturday of April, making it April 22 this year. Since it began in 2007, RSD has worked with artists and labels to offer special re-issues and limited-edition April 20, 2017

releases, mostly on vinyl. Fans line up early, partly to get their hands on those rare releases, but also to support the stores that sell them. Since only stand alone brick and mortar indie record stores can participate in RSD, the day really is just a great excuse to come together and celebrate your local record shop, if you're lucky enough to have one—which Pensacola is.

In anticipation of RSD 2017, I visited Eric Jones of Revolver Records. With the

Pet Shop Boys playing in the background, and a nice spring breeze mixing with the familiar feel of the location (I used to work in the bookstore that resided in the same spot a decade earlier), we spoke of his 30 year anniversary selling records, the struggles of a small business owner and the upcoming big day.

Eric, or “Elvis” as some know him*, is the former proprietor of the East Hill CD Exchange, which operated from 1995 until 2007. After a brief hiatus, he opened Re-

volver Records downtown, but this time his intention was to flip his previous model and focus mostly on vinyl.

When Jones first opened Revolver in 2010, several people asked the question: In an age of digital downloads, why open a record store? Seven years later, he continues to slug it out, because in case you didn’t get the memo, vinyl is far from dead. The success of RSD and shops like Revolver Records prove of that.

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SATTERWHITE: How did you get into selling records?

JONES: When I was a kid, we’d trade records like you would baseball cards. Or sometimes, if they had something to trade, they’d give you a quarter or fifty cents for a Jackson Five record. But officially, getting paid, it was working for the Sound Box. That was a great record store. I mean, it must’ve been, because I went in there all the time and spent a lot of money.

SATTERWHITE: That shop was actually my first introduction to the local scene too.

JONES: It was a great, great record store that a lot of people forgot about. I was in there all the time. I spent a lot of money, and the owners knew me. I had this really crappy corporate job in Tallahassee. I eventually quit, moved back here, and a friend told me they were hiring at the Sound Box. I went in and got hired on the spot. I think the owner knew I knew my shit. They knew I knew a lot about records and that I loved records because I was in there all the time.

It's that simple. They needed someone and I got hired. I loved it. I did it for six or seven years before I struck out on my own. I often wonder whether I'm some alpha male dude, where I have to be the boss. I have to be number one. I'm not really that much of an alpha male type, but I do like doing things my way. Like Sinatra. Like Sid Vicious. I wanted to own my own friggin’ record store after seven years, so I started doing that. [That was the aforementioned East Hill CD Exchange.]

JONES: That’s 10,000 a year. Either way, a few every day adds up.

SATTERWHITE: That’s a lot.

JONES: Yeah, I’m kind of proud that I’ve stuck it out through thick and thin.

SATTERWHITE: What records would people be surprised to know that you’re really into?

JONES: Henry Mancini. The CD playing before this was the soundtrack to the original Pink Panther from 1964. One time I was playing either that or some cheesy jazz, like Cal Tjader, some people look at me and say, “What? This is lounge music.” But stuff like Arthur Lyman or Martin Denny, I’m a big fan of… and Pet Shop Boys or Depeche Mode. When you work in a record store, you’ve got to be diverse. So if it’s Egyptian belly dance music, and it’s good, I don’t care what genre or what era it’s from.

There’s probably a lot of stuff that I like that people are like, “What, you like Steely Dan?” or “Do you really like Phil Collins and Genesis that much?”

SATTERWHITE: Do you really like Phil Collins?

JONES: How can you not like Phil Collins? But somehow people think I’m serious when I jokingly pick on him [on social media], so it just snowballs from there and I run with it.

"I'm not really that much of an alpha male type, but I do like doing things my way. Like Sinatra. Like Sid Vicious."

Eric Jones

SATTERWHITE: So, when was that, that you started working at the Sound Box? JONES: April of 1987 is when I started. I should be hyping that on Instagram—that I’m celebrating 30 years [of selling music] in Pensacola. In fact, an old friend of mine came in and he asked me, “Elvis, how many records have you sold in your lifetime?”

SATTERWHITE: Damn, that was one of my questions!

JONES: Really? You got scooped! That’s a brilliant question. No one has ever asked me that before. That’s what I told my friend too.

So I sat down and calculated, including CDs, tapes, 8-tracks or whatever, I came up with 300,000.

SATTERWHITE: 300,000—jeez! What’s that based on?

SATTERWHITE: So now it’s official: The Phil Collins Fan Club meets here. But before the meeting begins, let’s talk about Record Store Day. What are the plans?

JONES: We’re going to have a couple of live bands. Kent Stanton and Precubed are going to be playing in the parking lot right outside. I’m planning on them starting early, before I open, to prepare the crowd while they’re waiting in line. I stay pretty busy prepping [for Record Store Day]. But I won’t have the giant inflatable wavy man on the roof or the inflatable King Kong gorilla. I’m a one-man operation, so there’s

not going to be free soda pop and hot dogs or barbecue grills or breakdancing contests—although that would be cool.

SATTERWHITE: I could still bust a move.

JONES: Maybe next year.

"Yeah, I’m kind of proud that I've stuck it out through thick and thin." Jones

SATTERWHITE: I’ll hold you to it. Do you have a moment, or any specific moments, where you’ve looked back at the end of the day, locked the doors, and said to yourself, “That’s why I do this. That’s why I sell records.”

JONES: I’d say every now and again. I guess I’m jaded, and old, and like “Whatever, I’ve been doing this so long.” I definitely did that more in my first record store on 12th Avenue. After about a year, a year and a half, when I was able to eat two meals a day instead of just one. I lived in the back when I first opened. People seemed to like me and my rent was dirt cheap there.

I remember thinking, ‘I think I can do this.

I can just keep plugging away.’ There were definitely times when I was driving away, looked over my shoulder and said, “Goodnight, little record store.” It was like it was my precious angel. It was my offspring. It was something that I created out of the fruit of my loins, not just my sweat equity.

SATTERWHITE: I remember looking at all of those articles that came out when you first opened Revolver, and people were asking, why now?

Everyone is digitally downloading everything. But it seems to be working out. Would you say the key to your success is persistence?

JONES: Some people can really make a lot of money because they’re really brilliant businessmen or great marketers, or they have a lot of charisma.

People just love to support their venture, whether it’s a donut shop or a greeting card store or record store. I don’t really have great business skills or great charisma, but I do have bullheadedness. If I had to credit anything for my success, it would be my stupid, stubborn, bullheadedness.I wasn’t smart enough to quit while I was ahead. I just kept barreling ahead like the bull in the china shop.

Eventually, I smashed enough china to make room for a bunch of records. Bad analogy, but this is what I do. This is my identity. In fact, I referred to myself just twenty minutes ago as the "Record Store Guy." But there are other record stores in

this town, and thousands of record stores in the world. I’m just one. I’m just some guy in a retail shop. I use the analogy of Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver. I feel he didn't have an identity until he saved Jodi Foster. He brutally murdered these people, but he was a hero to the parents, his co-workers and the media.

Hopefully, I don't have to kill any pimps to get my identity [laughter], but this is it.

SATTERWHITE: So that’s the secret to your success? Not the killing part, but just sticking around?

JONES: I was just too stupid to not to quit and try something else. That’s it. Just don’t give up. That’s what the Russians did in Stalingrad. I just finished a book on the Battle of Stalingrad. One of the bloodiest, most vicious battles in human kind. They were almost wiped out, but they beat those Nazis.

SATTERWHITE: So you’re the Stalin of record stores?

JONES: Uh, well, [Stalin] was off in Moscow. The main commissar, political nonsoldier commie, was Khrushchev. That's what made his career. That's why he was the premier after Stalin. He was the hero.

The political, if not military, hero of the Battle of Stalingrad was Nikita Khrushchev.

SATTERWHITE: So can I put this down: You’re the Khrushchev of record stores?

JONES: Uh, sure. I’m the Khrushchev of record stores. [laughter]. I mean, I’m a good capitalist. How about “I’ve been beating Nazis since 1987.”

SATTERWHITE: Either one sounds good to me. You should put it on your business cards. Happy Record Store Day! *For those curious, the self-identified "Record Store Guy" was given the name "Elvis" by none other than PNJ’s Troy Moon when the two were in the band Fudgepop, so as not to confuse Eric Jones with Troy’s brother Eric (who was also in the band).

Many moons later (pun intended), the name stuck. {in}

Record Store Day Tips •DO YOUR RESEARCH

Make sure you check out the official list of RSD releases before Saturday and plan your wish list accordingly. Some stores, like Revolver, post teasers on social media of what they're getting in, so make sure you're following along too.

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•WAIT IT OUT

Any RSD regular will tell you the good stuff goes fast. So if you really have your heart set on a particular record, you’re going to want to get there early and get in line with the rest of the diehards. And remember that even that isn’t a guarantee you’ll get it—individual

record stores have no control over what exclusives they get and what they don’t.

•DON’T BE THAT GUY OR GIRL

Don’t try and cut the line, don’t get pushy and don’t buy records just to try and resell them on eBay.

•BUY, LISTEN, REPEAT

RSD is a special day, but record stores are open for business just about every other day of the year too. So if you love having record stores in your town, remember to support them as much as you can year round.

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7" reissue of the group's very first gospel recordings •"Space Jam Music From and Inspired By The Motion Picture" Who doesn't want to own 'I Believe I Can Fly' on vinyl?

•The Notorious B.I.G. "Born Again" Out of print since the early 2000s, it's getting repressed on gold vinyl •Patti Smith 'Hey Joe' Her debut 1974 single, reissued for the first time with its original picture sleeve

A List From The List From singles to soundtracks, this year there are more than 300 RSD releases in the US alone. We know a list that long can seem daunting, so we went ahead and highlighted some to help you start planning.

•Animal Collective "Meeting Of The Waters" A four-track live EP, recorded in the Brazilian rainforest, featuring all new material •The War On Drugs 'Thinking of A Place' A 12" single, marking their first new music since 2014 •Prince 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man' As expected, there are quite a few Prince releases this RSD, but this one is our favorite •The Cure "Greatest Hits" Available on vinyl for the first time since its release in 2001 •André 3000 'All Together Now' A 7" single of André covering The Beatles classic •Miley Cyrus "Bangerz" Don't lie—you liked this album too and kind of want to add it your vinyl collection, especially since it's being released on 150-gram hot pink vinyl •Bruce Springsteen "Hammersmith Odeon, London '75" First vinyl pressing of this live album •Thelonious Monk "Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960" Songs from the film "Les Liasons Dangereuses," released for the first time as a 2LP box set •David Bowie "Cracked Actor" Collection of previously unreleased live recordings from a 1974 performance in LA •Allen Toussaint "The Allen Toussaint Collection" Originally released in 1991, this reissue marks it's first time on vinyl •Ra Ra Riot "Ra Ra Riot" Their self-titled EP, available on vinyl for the first time •Danny Brown 'Ain't It Funny' A limited picture disc •Sharon Jones with the E.L. Fields Gospel Wonders 'Heaven Bound'/'Key to the Kingdom' April 20, 2017

•The Smiths 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side' 7" featuring two unreleased versions of old songs •Sara and Tegan "Under Feet Like Ours" This is their self-released first album from 1999 (and yes, you probably know them as Tegan and Sara now) •Neil Young "Decade" The career-spanning triple album from 1977 is back on vinyl, featuring two photo prints •Spoon 'Hot Thoughts' A 12" single featuring two new tracks— a 'Hot Thoughts' remix and a cover of Elvis Presley's 'Love Letters' •"Like A Drunk In A Midnight Choir: Record Store Day Celebrates The Music Of Leonard Cohen" A tribute on vinyl, featuring artists like Glen Hansard and Avi Buffalo •Sunny Day Real Estate "The Rising Tide" Reissue of the band's 2000 album on double colored vinyl •Vitamin String Quartet "Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Music of Kanye West" From 'Jesus Walks' to 'Famous,' VSQ is covering Kanye's greatest hits, pressed on black 180-gram vinyl •Field Music "Tones of Town" Available on vinyl for the first time in ten years •The Black Lips "Cassette Box Set" Four albums on cassette, in a limited edition Happy Meal style box •Dolly Parton 'Puppy Love' 7" single, featuring one of the earliest recordings ever released by Dolly •Evan Dando "Baby I'm Bored" A 2LP 'bookback' reissue, includes unreleased tracks, singles, b-sides and rarities •Sun Ra "Janus" A compilation of rare material from tapes recorded between 1963-70, on psychedelic swirl colored vinyl •Corey Feldman 'Go 4 It' Yes, that Corey Feldman, is putting out a 7" single, with a cameo by Snoop Dog •Drive-By Truckers "Electric Lady Sessions" Seven live tracks, recorded at Electric Lady Studios, on clear vinyl Remember, these are just a few select highlights. Make sure you visit recordstoreday.com for the complete list.

RECORD STORE DAY 2017 WHEN: Saturday, April 22 DETAILS: recordstoreday.com

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"Waking The World Up"

Interview with Poet Anne Waldman

By C. S. Satterwhite Youth's Thurston Moore for that very project.

Anne Waldman / Courtesy Photo Anne Waldman is by far one of the most renowned poets to come through Pensacola in recent memory.

Associated with the Beat Generation and the New York School of poetry, Waldman's reputation far precedes her. In the late 1960s, Waldman played a key role in the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York City, serving later as its director for several years.

In the mid-1970s, with Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Through her work at Naropa and St. Marks Poetry Project, Waldman mentored and taught generations of poets throughout the world. Ginsberg, her mentor and colleague at Naropa, once described Waldman as his "spiritual wife."

After writing and editing dozens of books, taking part in numerous projects and reading in countless cities, Waldman is making her way to Pensacola, after a major poetic project in Mexico City. Inweekly interviewed her as she was about ready to catch a flight to Mexico City, to meet Sonic April 20, 2017

INWEEKLY: What was the greatest moment of your life?

WALDMAN: The greatest moment? There have been so many. The birth of my child, my collaborator Ambrose Bye. I've heard this said by so many women, with their first child especially, but the wonder of that and the instant synaptic connection with that and the synaptic connection with the universe. I think another epiphany was being at the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965…I heard Charles Olson, and other poets, but Olson primarily, coming unhinged as he was reading. Not that I had been to that many readings, but [prior to Olson] I'd encountered more traditionally conservative poets coming through New York. There was something very shamanic [about Olson's reading], I guess that would be the word. He had some quality that seemed magnetizing… A poet in a public space that seemed unrehearsed and following his or her psychic rhythms through language. So that was a moment where I thought I am drawn to this. I'd already been writing and thinking about poetry, a lot of poetry, but [there] was a community of poets who were there in Berkeley. It was my first time out of New York. Although I'd been out of the country, but I hadn't been in our country. Anyway, [there was] something about the possibilities for experimental American poetry.

INWEEKLY: Did you see this as the birth of your poetic moment?

WALDMAN: I don't know. The epiphanies are so definitive. Or you might see them in retrospect that [they] might seem like momentous moments in your direction. I decided [then that] I wasn't going to go to graduate school. I just wanted to get back to New York and be on the scene. So I guess I don't know if this is a good question for me about the moment as there are so many.

And of course travel. Every time I go to a new place my mind is blown.

INWEEKLY: I know that you're going to be reading in Mexico City soon and New York City, too. Then the next logical stop, in Pensacola.

WALDMAN: Of course!

INWEEKLY: What are you expecting in Pensacola?

WALDMAN: Well, I know Jamey [Jones], and I have great admiration for him and what he seems to be doing there. There's a sense that there's a ground that he's created through his teaching. I'm very much looking forward to seeing him, catching up and meeting some of his community. I'll also be visiting some of the Buddhist community, teaching a workshop. I expect open hearts and minds. Also the climate—we're still fighting the piles of snow here.

INWEEKLY: You won't get that here, I promise you.

WALDMAN: I know. It's also a nice stop with a lot of other things going on. Deadlines, travel and so on. It's nice when you go to a place where you know the people hosting you. I'm curious about what people are thinking and reading. It's a difficult time for the country, with the current political climate. We could say a lot about that.

Where that's all heading—with the cuts to the NEA [National Endowment for the Arts] and the Department of Education. I mean the new Supreme Court justice hearings. It's just, everyday, there's so much to keep track of. It seems very retrograde, dystopic and scary, frankly.

INWEEKLY: How do you think the impending budget cuts will affect the arts, and poetry in particular?

WALDMAN: Well, we've all been very active for a number of years with some help, as there should be, from [the government].

It's nothing you come to expect, and it's so minimal anyway, but we've become attuned to our practice, life in the art, the infrastructure of poetry for generations now so that you're aware of what can make a difference.

So that little bit of money, especially the way it's going, has been spread out so that

it's not just the major cities. Things trickle down, so it can help a little reading series get going, or a publication, or help an individual working in collaboration with others. These can be necessary ways to keep things going.

I was especially thinking of a student from the Kerouac School starting an after-school program in a small town near Seattle. That funding really made all the difference in terms of renting a space, getting poets from outside the area to come to town and teach workshops, doing publications. You can do a lot with a little in that kind of environment. I just hate to see that cut off at the root.

INWEEKLY: While the government is officially trying to downgrade the role of the arts in American society, what is the role of the poet?

WALDMAN: Well there are many roles for many, many different poets. You don't want to assign one role for all poets. That's what's kept me so interested [in poetry]—the variety. The different strands, the different lineages. Some people are not able to comfortably get up and perform their poems.

Some people are much more involved with the look on the page, documentary poetics projects. Then there's the infrastructure business that some poets are really involved with, like creating community, rolling up their sleeves… it's something when you're able to hold a site over time. The [St. Mark's] Poetry Project is now in its 50th year. It's gone through many, many different struggles and versions of itself. But there's a sense of that continuity. People have worked hard to keep it going, by donating their time. So there are infrastructure poetics. There's lots of stuff [involving] identity and gender and issues of the time. A lot [of poetry about] working out a trauma, working out of the sense of the migrant body.

There are a number of migrant organizations spearheaded by the Academy of American Poets—taking migration as a theme of the work they're all going to be doing in the next year. Migration is a theme for the curation of events, but also for writing projects and collaborative projects. You know it's hard.

The role [of the poet], I think, is to wake the world up to itself through your propensity toward adoration of language and all of its potential power.

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INWEEKLY: That's a beautiful way to put it—to think of poetry as a means to wake ourselves up and to put us into that frame of mind so that we can better understand ourselves and better hear ourselves.

WALDMAN: Yes. I think that's the poet's job, in a way. To reflect. And not everyone's going to see it your way, and that's not the idea, but to be able to register with a lot of different synchronicities and people's different kinds of experiences. In such a rich and difficult time, there's also so much suffering. So how do you have that be part of your spiritual path. As an artist, you try to alleviate suffering. You work through that. You try to understand your world. How to wake it up.

How to alleviate the confusion.

INWEEKLY: If you don't mind, I want to bring it back to the St. Mark's Poetry Project. I know you've been with the Poetry Project from the beginning and they're about ready to honor you. Do you have any specific moments that stand out to you and encapsulates this broad period?

WALDMAN: I remember when Ken Kesey [author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest"] came. We had people in the balcony.

I think at one point he had people do some sort of breathing experiment, and we were really afraid the balcony was going to collapse. We were so overpopulated, probably more people than are legally allowed by the fire department. We were doing things like "Dial-a-Poem," and we'd put up a [radio] station at the bell tower at the church. That was not done through the usual means. The FCC came, and they busted us as we were broadcasting outrageous, transgressive poems like Allen Ginsberg's "Please, master. Please." Or Jim Carrol's "Basketball Diaries." A whole number of things that were not supposed to be heard on the airwaves or on the telephone for that matter. The FCC had their big truck parked outside. We had something like a five-mile radius in that brief period putting poems out to the immediate neighborhood.

INWEEKLY: Can you tell me a little about your latest book "Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to be Born" and what influenced it?

WALDMAN: I've always been enamored of the [William] Blake poem "Book of Thell," which is a very simple book. It's a six-page poem. In fact, not a prophetic book exactly,

although I read it that way. You could say anything of Blake's has that edge. The notion of being unborn, as Thell does [in the Blake poem]. Thell, which means the unborn coming to the mouth of the womb, and her conversation with these emblems of Blake's various ideas. A worm, a clod of clay, a cloud, and a lily flower. [She's] then shown her own grave pod, as she's looking out of the womb, and then saying "I don't want to go there.

Why would I want to go there? I live in this great ‘Vales of Har,'" or harmony, as Blake calls it. She's with her virgin sisters, dancing in the Vales of Har. Why would you come into this world which has Aleppo and nuclear degradation and climate crises, etcetera, etcetera. The idea's been with me a long time, being unborn. What does it mean to come into this world? Also from the Buddhist idea of unborn, nothing is really born [but] it's continuous. There are these transitions, of course. In the human form, you're born as a babe, sort of innocent, but not really because you're bringing over some karma.

INWEEKLY: Do you see Thell as being connected to your own experience?

WALDMAN: I wanted to bring Thell into this weave, and have aspects of myself, aspects of others, aspects of this whole paradigm and drag [Thell] into the experience.

So the book has two parts, but it's basically this idea of the experience of innocence and then into the experience. So I'm able to drag her in, and I have her in the end, at the end of her life. The view is that without experience, you live in this state of dementia. You never do experience certain things. At the same time, in terms of the human life span, you can move into dementia. So there's a kind of Thell figure in the end of the book, in the last part of the book, the section called "Solace" where she's actually in a retirement home, moving Alpha Bits [the children's cereal] around very slowly. Actually, there's a close friend of mine who's in that state and does that, passes the time moving Alpha Bits around. So working off the stages of life and death, stages of possibility, and then ideas of what it is to be born and not born…where you've come from and where you could go.

Not that it's particularly resolved.

INWEEKLY: The title is intriguing. Where does that come from?

WALDMAN: The title's actually from both

[French poet Antonin] Artaud and the Bat Kol, which is the Hebrew idea of the voice of God and the female voice, thus that's the idea of the heart yet to be born. Thell being female, the Bat Kol, the voice of God, and the descriptions of what that is. You hear that [voice] as an echo or something that's very low key. It's something in your mind that you're not even sure you're hearing a voice.

Sometimes there's one description coming out of a religious sanctuary and hearing the voice that's outside the official patriarchal place where you might be hearing the voice of God. But out of the Artaud…there's a late piece of fragments where he actually refers to the daughters of the heart yet to be born. There are some different versions of that. Even Anais Nin is in one of the lists [of Artaud fragments]. But I love this phrase because it's the voice's daughter yet to be born.

It turns it around a bit, so in a way, I started with Thell and this title. I was compelled. I [also] went through my own experience with cancer, and I thought the poem was my way of recovering.

INWEEKLY: "Voice's Daughter" feels very introspective, but also retrospective, too. More so than any other book I've read recently, the epigraphs at the beginning of the book are helpful in understanding where you're about to take the reader, too. I'm thinking mostly of [poet] Will Alexander's piece which works very well as a guidepost to read the poem.

WALDMAN: Will's great because he takes you to these other cosmologies, places of mind but really traveling off world.

redemptive quality to poetry in general?

If so, what does it redeem?

WALDMAN: I guess I've found it to be such, and this is outside of a Christian version of [redemption]. Again, it's awareness, as in waking the world up. Awareness. A Buddhist heart. A Buddhist praxis, or view of philosophies. To just wake up. The word Buddha, the root word is "awake." The redemption is that you somehow come out of your sleep, your nightmare, your dream. You start to look at the six realms—from the hell realm to the animal realm, to the human realm, and then to the warring god realm—until you can wake up and see the tendencies, the propensities.

For example, the warring god realm is like the Pentagon. You have to create more weapons so you can have a war. You have to be making war all the time. What is that cycle of meaning? Meaning to do that. So you create weapons to create an enemy in order to do that.

Until you can wake up to that, these patterns that seem to arise out of ignorance, passion or aggression. You're in it, you're still in this cycle of samsara [suffering]. I think that's part of it for me. Redemption is when you can wake up and see the patterns and see the cycles. For me, poetry is always redeeming because it's like another language. You're a poet, and it's so awakening. Something's catching your mind through the image, the sound, the construction of these words and how they're put together through the muse.

You feel really alive. I don't know if you're saved or anything like that, but maybe for a moment. For a moment. {in}

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INWEEKLY: To me, it read like a poetic snapshot of the moments before the big bang.

What existed before the Earth and what exists after.

WALDMAN: Yeah, I like that.

INWEEKLY: It helped so much in my own understanding of this work, especially the early parts. In fact, towards the beginning, early in "Voice's Daughter," you reference the work as a text of redemption.

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WORK ON FLORIDA TRAIL 8 a.m. Regular

meet up of Western Gate Florida Trail Association to work on National Scenic Trail and side trail. Meet at Blackwater River Forestry Center, 11650 Munson Highway. meetup.com/ ftawesterngate VETERANS MEETING 4-6 p.m. Free.

Ever'man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org WINE TASTING AT AWM 5 p.m. Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. 9th Ave. aragonwinemarket.com FLAVORS FROM THE FAMILY TABLE: PESTO PAIRING S 6 p.m. $35. Pensacola Cooks

Kitchen, 3670 Barrancas Ave. pensacolacooks.rezclick.com CHRISTOPHER'S CONCERTS 6-8 p.m. Free.

Reunion Band. St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, 3200 N. 12th Ave.

SELECT LATIN DANCE LESSONS AND PARTY

6:30-9 p.m. $10. Salsa, Cha Cha, Bachata and more. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com BLUE WAHOOS VS. JACKSONVILLE JUMBO SHRIMP 6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351

W. Cedar St. bluewahoos.com

PSC CONCERT CHORALE AND JAZZ CHOIR

7:30 p.m. Free. Pensacola State College, Ashmore Auditorium, 1000 College Blvd. pensacolastate.edu

FRIDAY 4.21

PILATES MAT 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org GALLERY NIGHT 4-8 p.m. After party, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Downtown Pensacola, S. Palafox. Live music, demonstrations. gallerynightpensacola.org PENSACOLA BEACH CRAWFISH FESTIVAL 5-9 p.m. Bamboo Willie's 400 Quietwater Beach Road. bamboowillies.com WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m. Free. City Grocery, 2050 N. 12th Ave. HAPPY HOUR COOK OUTS 5 p.m. Drink specials, free cookout. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN ON THE GULF COAST 6-10 p.m. $89 weekend pass.

Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. pensacolabaycenter.com RESTORATIVE YOGA 6-7 p.m. Free.

Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org DATE NIGHT DANCING 6:30-8 p.m. $15.

Learn the basics of several romantic ballroom and country dance styles in unique group classes that keeps partners together.

DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com

SATURDAY 4.22

EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN ON THE GULF COAST 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $89 weekend pass.

Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. pensacolabaycenter.com SANTA ROSA FARMERS MARKET 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Fresh local produce, honey, baked goods and live music. Pace Presbyterian Church, Woodbine Road, Pace.

CLEAN UP WITH OCEAN HOUR 8:45 a.m.

Pensacola Beach Park East and Park West.

Buckets, grabbers, gloves and trash bags will be supplied. For more information, contact oceanhourfl@gmail.com.

PALAFOX MARKET 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Fresh produce, live plants, baked goods, fine art and antiques.

Items originate directly from participating vendors, including dozens of local farmers, home gardeners and area artists. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com KEEP PENSACOLA BEAUTIFUL SWAP EVENT 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org FREE BEGINNER AND INTERMEDIATE UKULELE CLASS 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Free. Blues Angels

Music, 657 N. Pace Blvd.

EARTH DAY PENSACOLA 10 a.m,-4 p.m.

Free. Bayview Park, 2001 E. Lloyd St. earthdaypensacola.org EARTH DAY EPA OPEN HOUSE 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

EPA Gulf Ecology Division office, 1 Sabine Island Dr., Pensacola Beach.

AFTERLIFE IN MYTH AND FOLKLORE 10:30 a.m.12 p.m. Free lecture presented by Scott Davis.

West Florida Public Library, 239 N. Spring St. PENSACOLA BEACH CRAWFISH FESTIVAL 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bamboo Willie's 400 Quietwater Beach Road. bamboowillies.com PENSACOLA HOT WHEELS FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 19 food trucks, two musical

acts. Plaza de Luna. pensacolahotwheels.org

GRILLIN' IN THE BREEZE 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

$10-$40. Children 10 and under are free.

Shoreline Park, Shoreline Dr. Gulf Breeze. grillininthebreeze.com OPERAZZI BALL 6:30-10:30 p.m. $75-$150.

Skopelos a New World Landing, 600 S. Palafox. pensacolaopera.com TESTIFY: TRIBUTE TO RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 7 p.m. Free. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S.

Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

ACT4MURDER: MURDER WITHOUT A CLUE! 7

p.m. $35-$45. Nichol's Seafood, 3966 Avalon Blvd. act4murder.com

SUNDAY 4.23

OPEN MIC 7-11 p.m. Single Fin Cafe, 380 N.

9th Ave. facebook.com/singlefincafe MAGGIE KOERNER 7 p.m. $10-$15. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

WAKE UP HIKE 7 a.m. Meet at Bay Bluffs Park, Scenic Highway at Summit Ave., for a brisk one to two-hour walk with brunch to follow at an area restaurant.

PENSACOLA BEACH CRAWFISH FESTIVAL 12-6 p.m. Bamboo Willie's 400 Quietwater Beach Road. bamboowillies.com

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BLUE WAHOOS VS. JACKSONVILLE JUMBO SHRIMP 6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351

W. Cedar St. bluewahoos.com

7 p.m. $50. Pensacola Cooks Kitchen, 3670 Barrancas Ave. pensacolacooks.rezclick.com

2-6 p.m. Old Hickory Whiskey Bar, 123 S. Palafox. pensacolahumane.org

CHORAL SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA: HELPING HANDS 2 p.m. Free. Discussion of ASL and 818 1

Maggie Koerner / Photo by Ian Lam translating lyrics. West Florida Public Library, 239 N. Spring St. SOUTHEASTERN TEEN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: SHENANIGANS 4-5 p.m. Free. 1010 N. 12th

Ave. setsco.org/first-city-shakespeare ROCKTOPIA LIVE 7 p.m. $48-$99. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. pensacolasaenger.com

MONDAY 4.24

BIRDING AT DAUPHIN ISLAND WITH FM WESTON AUDUBON SOCIETY 7 a.m. Meet

for carpooling at Publix on the corner of Nine Mile and Pine Forest Roads. Bring sunscreen, bug repellent, drinks and lunch.

FMWAudubon.org PILATES MAT 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org SEVILLE QUARTER MILERS 5:30 p.m. Runners meet in front of Seville Quarter for a run around downtown Pensacola. Free pasta and drink specials after the run at Fast Eddie's. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com CULTURES COOK: GERMAN SPAETZLE 6-8 p.m. $35. Pensacola Cooks Kitchen, 3670 Barrancas Ave. pensacolacooks.rezclick.com HANDS-ON DINNER: SKEWERS AND STREET FOOD 6-8 p.m. $50. SoGourmet, 407-D S.

Palafox. sogourmetpensacola.com

BALLROOM DANCE LESSONS 6:30-8 p.m. $10.

Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, and more. Professional dance instruction for all skill levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com HIP-HOP DANCE LESSONS 8-9 p.m. $10.

Learn hip-hop moves from a professional instructor. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com

TUESDAY 4.25

WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m. SoGourmet, 407-D S. Palafox. sogourmetpensacola.com FUNKY YOGA FLOW 6-7 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org COUNTRY DANCE LESSONS 6:30 p.m. $10.

Country Two Step, East Coast Swing, Competition Choreography and more. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com BANDS ON THE BEACH 7 p.m. Dr. Breeze.

Gulfside Pavilion, Pensacola Beach. visitpensacolabeach.com.

MEDITATION/PRANIC HEALING 7:15-8:30 p.m.

Free. Ever'man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org UWF JAZZ COMBO AND JAZZ ENSEMBLE

7:30 p.m. Free. Tickets required. University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway.

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RESTORATIVE YOGA 6-7 p.m. Free.

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MASSOLINO/SKOPELOS WINE AND DINNER EXPERIENCE 6 p.m. $85 per person. 5-course meal

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paired with wines from 4th-generation Italian winemaker Franco Massolino of Massolino winery. Skopelos, 600 S. Palafox. skopelosatnewworld.com SWING DANCE LESSONS AND PARTY 6:30-10 p.m. $5-$10. Professional west coast swing instruction for all levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com

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LA LA LAND SCREENING AT THE REX THEATRE

7 p.m. $5. The Rex Theatre, 18 N. Palafox. pensacolacinemaart.com MEDITATION 7:15-8:30 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org

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LADIES NIGHT 5

p.m. V. Paul’s Italian Ristorante, 29 S. Palafox. vpauls.com POKER 8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Road. ticketsportsbar.com POOL TOURNAMENT 8 p.m. The

Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9 Mile Road. ticketsportsbar.com COLLEGE NIGHT 10 p.m. Drink specials, beer pong tournament starts at 10 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com Fridays

WINE TASTING 5-7

p.m. Informative wine tasting in Seville Quarter Wine and Gift Shop. No charge for the tasting.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com DRAG BINGO 6-8 p.m. Ages 21 and over. Emerald City’s The Other Side, 406 E. Wright St. emeraldcitypensacola.com April 20, 2017

POOL TOURNAMENT 8 p.m. The

Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Road. ticketsportsbar.com

Saturdays

MEMBERSHIP APPRECIATION NIGHT

8 p.m. Seville Quarter Membership Card Holder Appreciation Night at Phineas Phogg's. 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com Sundays

BAR AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEE (B.A.R.E. NIGHT) 7

p.m. Special prices for B.A.R.E. Card membership holders.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com Mondays

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM FOR FUN AND TRIVIA 7 p.m. The

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com TRIVIA NIGHT 7-9 p.m. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox. wobusa.com/locations/Palafox BAR BINGO 8 p.m.

Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MONDAY NIGHT TRIVIA 9:30-10:30

FREE DANCE LESSONS 8-8:30 p.m. Free beginner west coast swing dance lesson. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com

p.m. Mugs and Jugs, 12080 Scenic Highway. facebook.com/ mugsjugs Tuesdays

TUESDAY TRIVIA 8 p.m. The Bridge Bar and Sunset Lounge, 33 Gulf Breeze Parkway. facebook.com/ thebridgebargb TICKET TEAM TRIVIA 8 p.m. The Ticket

1, 7250 Plantation Road. ticketsportsbar.com POKER 8 p.m. The Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9 Mile Road. ticketsportsbar.com TEAM TRIVIA 9 p.m. Hopjacks. 10 S. Palafox. hopjacks. com Wednesdays

WINE DOWN WEDNESDAYS 11 a.m.

Half- priced bottles of wine every Wednesday. Jackson's Steakhouse, 226 S. Palafox. jacksonsrestaurant. com

WAY BACK WEDNESDAYS 4 p.m. Free

admission for ladies, $1 beers, $5 pizza.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

LADIES NIGHT ON THE DECK 5 p.m. $2

drinks and music.

The Deck Bar, 600 S.

Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com PUB TRIVIA NIGHT

7-9:30 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. facebook.com/ goatlipsdeli

WEDNESDAY QUIZ TRIVIA 8 p.m. The

Cabaret, 101 S. Jefferson St. cabaretpensacola.com

TICKET BAR BINGO

8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Road. ticketsportsbar.com BAR BINGO 10 p.m.

Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. iplaypensacola.com

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Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 8 p.m.

130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com Saturdays

Krazy George 9 p.m.

Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com Sundays

The Sandshaker Lounge, 9 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com Mondays

The Cabaret, 9 p.m.

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THURSDAY 4.20 JOHN RIPLEY 6-9

p.m. Skopelos at New World, 600 S. Palafox NICK ANDREWS 6 p.m.

Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com ANNIKA CHAMBERS 6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com AL MARTIN 6:30 p.m.

Doc’s Courtyard & Cafe, 5198 Willing St. Milton.

CAT DADDY 7 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show.

Seville Quarter, 130

E. Government St. sevillequarter.com THE DEPLORABLES

8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com COLM KELLY 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com PANZACOLA 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley Courtyard, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

FRIDAY 4.21

LIVE JAZZ WITH JOE OCCHIPINTI 12 p.m. The

Drowsy Poet Coffee Co., 655 Pensacola Beach Blvd.

MIKE QUINN 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley Courtyard, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com PEEK 5 p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com FRWY 98 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort

Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com TRUE BLUE BAND 6 p.m.

Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com AL MARTIN 6:30 p.m.

Doc’s Courtyard & Cafe, 5198 Willing St. Milton.

BOBBY VAN DEUSEN 7 p.m. V. Paul’s Italian Ristorante, 29 S. Palafox. vpauls.com JOHN RIPLEY 7-10 p.m. Skopelos at New World, 600 S. Palafox DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com THE BLENDERS 8:30 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com RICH MCDUFF 9 p.m.

McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com DJ MR. LAO 9 p.m.

Phineas Phogg's Seville Quarter, 130 E. Gov-

ernment St. sevillequarter.com JAY WILLIAMS BAND 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com

MARSHA MARSHA MARSHA 9 p.m. Lili Mar-

lene’s. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com BEN LOFTIN BAND 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley Courtyard, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com SHOW ME DRAGON 10 p.m. Apple Annie’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

SATURDAY 4.22

REGGIE STEWART 12-4 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com LECKTRIC MULLET 4 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com PEEK 6 p.m. The Deck,

600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com DAVID DUNN 6 p.m. p.m.

Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com AL MARTIN 6-11 p.m. The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Highway.

TOMATO 6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill. com BOBBY VAN DEUSEN

7 p.m. V. Paul’s Italian Ristorante, 29 S. Palafox. vpauls.com

JOHN HART PROJECT

8 p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com COLM KELLY 9 p.m.

McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com JAY WILLIAMS BAND 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com DJ MR. LAO 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg's Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

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lene’s. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

SCENIC HEIGHTS BAND

9 p.m. End o' The Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com SHOW ME DRAGON 10 p.m. Apple Annie’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

SUNDAY 4.23

LIVE JAZZ WITH JOE OCCHIPINTI 9-10 a.m.

The Drowsy Poet Coffee Co., 655 Pensacola Beach Blvd.

JAZZ BRUNCH 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Apple Annie’s Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com CURT BOL JAZZ QUARTET 11 a.m. Five Sister’s

Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St.

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REGGIE STEWART 12 p.m.

Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com CROSSTOWN 4 p.m.

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com

DAVE JORDAN AND THE NIA 6 p.m. Paradise Bar &

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KARAOKE WITH JIM BOB

8 p.m. Lili Marlene’s.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com JORDAN RICHARDS 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley Courtyard, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com COLM KELLY 9 p.m.

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"Last year we were expecting a couple hundred people and ended up with close to three thousand people coming through WHAT: Pensacola Habitat for Humanity's secbefore we ended at 3 p.m.," Noyes ond annual food truck festival said. "We were ecstatic to have WHEN: 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, April 22 such a positive response from the WHERE: Plaza de Luna local area. Honestly, we were not COST: Admission is free expecting the crowds, and they DETAILS: pensacolahotwheels.org nearly overwhelmed us. That's why we have doubled the size of the festival. We hope with twice

FOOD TRUCK LINEUP

The second annual Pensacola Hot Wheels Food Truck Festival is Saturday, and Pensacola Habitat for Humanity is looking forward to growing the event with more food and more fun this year.

Pensacola Habitat Communications Associate Nick Noyes said that this year's festival is twice as big and long as last year's.

"The event footprint is bigger and extends to the Merrill Lynch office this year," Noyes said. "We have two bands, a longer event time, double last year's food trucks, and we're an expanded tasting competition," Noyes said. "We are selling festival merchandise this year as well."

For the tasting competition, the food trucks will be able to show off their best dishes, both savory and sweet.

"The trucks have been invited to participate in the prestigious ‘Victory Circle Tasting Competition' by submitting a signature

dish into sweet and/or savory categories," Noyes said. "A team of local judges, including Mayor Ashton Hayward, Police Chief David Alexander, local media personalities, Kazoo, and others, will sample the entries to determine the best overall in each category. Judging will be based on the visual appeal of the dish, originality, aroma, taste and the overall appearance of the truck."

The festival will have an even larger variety of food to choose from this year with a total of 19 food trucks participating. Entertainment will include live music by The Wide Open and the opening act performed

by Xaris Waltman and Zena Carpenter.

Cat Country will report live from the event all day. Gulf Coast Brewery will also be on hand at the event.

"The festival saw an increase in nine new trucks," Noyes said. "We have local favorite Barbasian which serves barbeque/

REPURPOSED ART SHOW

Noyes said. "Many of our loyal ReStore shoppers are creative do-it-yourselfers and love finding interesting objects and repurposing them as art or functional items. Also, the nature of the donated merchandise lends itself the reuse, recycle and repurpose boom."

Noyes said that the idea was born when a Pensacola Habitat employee saw a repurposed art display in an airport lobby.

"Since then, we have learned of other Habitat ReStore locations that have held this type of repurposed art event," Noyes said.

The art pieces typically consist of between 50 to 90 percent ReStore merchandise. Noyes said that the artists also

A few weeks after Hot Wheels, Pensacola Habitat for Humanity will be debuting an entirely new and unique event that plays on the idea of repurposing, a concept that's exemplified in the Habitat ReStore.

"Artistically Repurposed," a multimedia art show and auction, is a partnership with the Pensacola State College Art Department where students create pieces of art using materials found at the Habitat ReStore.

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used other fine art supplies to embellish the metal tools," Noyes said. "The PSC stupieces. Each artist received up to 100 dollars dents are remarkably talented and innovato use on ReStore materials and supplies. tive. We are excited to see what else they "Many of the students selected furnihave created for this event." ture, mahogany doors, light fixtures, mosaic tile, fabric, scrap metal pieces, vintage album covers and other unique items that captured their imaginaWHAT: A multimedia art show and auction tions," he said. at Pensacola State College More than 40 students from the WHEN: Exhibition will be on display May PSC Art Department have signed up to 15–25; the auction will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday, participate in the show. PSC faculty will May 25 WHERE: PSC Art Center, 1000 College Blvd. determine how many and which pieces COST: Free qualify.

DETAILS: pensacolahabitat.org/artshow "So far we've seen furniture, light fixtures, tables, wall art and forged

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FRED LEVIN GIFTS $550,000 TO UWF TO ESTABLISH NEW INSTITUTE Attorney and community advocate Fred Levin is investing $550,000 in the University of West Florida to establish the Reubin O’D. Askew Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies. The gift will also help the University purchase land to house the Institute.

The Institute will substantially further UWF’s leadership in STEAM initiatives - combined applications of science, technology, engineering, art and math. Activities within the Institute will include increased visibility of potential STEAM initiatives, partnerships with area schools and businesses, internships and research opportunities.

“This gift can be a game-changer for UWF,” said UWF President Martha Saunders. “It allows us to build on the existing strengths of the University to create one-of-a-kind approaches to teaching and learning. I am grateful for the trust Mr. Levin has placed in us.”

In addition, the Institute has the flexibility of supporting numerous opportunities for integrating humanities and social science disciplines toward solving community problems. It will draw on existing strengths of the University to inspire relevant research.

Reubin O’D. Askew was an American politician who served as the 37th governor of the state of Florida from 1971 to 1979.

In 1974, he became the first governor in Florida history to be elected to a second consecutive four-year term. During his two terms as governor, Askew was primarily involved in tax reform, especially in the increase of homestead exemption and passage of the “Sunshine Amendment,” which called for full financial disclosure by public officials and candidates.

In 1955, David Levin, Fred’s deceased older brother, and Askew founded the law firm of Levin & Askew. In 1961, Fred Levin joined the firm.

“Governor Askew, besides being a friend and a law partner, was one of those rare persons who lived the principles he spoke,” said Levin. “He would not abide a curse word on a tennis court, nor would he abide a false statement in a court of law. As Governor, his only guideline was to ask whether it was good for the people of Florida. If it was not the right thing to do, he would not do it, regardless the political fallout. There is a reason why he was the first Governor in modern Florida history to be re-elected for a second term. Hopefully, the students and faculty who come to know Governor Askew will be inspired to do good for its own sake, and to serve the people with the humility and dedication that he practiced.”

More than 20 years ago, Levin gifted an endowed professorship at UWF in honor of his father, Abe Levin, which is now worth more than $400,000. With the establishment of the Institute, this professorship will be directly associated with the Institute and will be dedicated to arranging visiting scientists, writers and creatives to enhance intellectual capital. The endowed professorship, his recent gift of $100,000 to support UWF Football and the $550,000 contribution to establish the Askew Institute total more than $1 million in giving.

Levin is one of the most successful trial attorneys in the country. He has received more than 25 jury verdicts in excess of $1 million, six of which were in excess of $10 million. He is best known for rewriting Florida’s Medicaid Third-Party Recovery Act to allow the state of Florida to recover billions of dollars from the tobacco industry for smoking-related illnesses. He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, an organization limited to 100 members throughout the country, and he has been listed in every edition of the publication, “Best Lawyers in America.”

Among his accomplishments, Levin was named The Trial Lawyer of the Year by the National Trial Lawyers for 2015. He was also inducted into the Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame in 2009, which is located at Temple Law School in Philadelphia. Other honors include receiving the Perry Nichols Award in 1994, which is the highest honor bestowed by the Florida Justice Association and is given in recognition for a person’s lifetime achievements in the pursuit of justice.

Levin’s tremendous professional success has enabled him to donate generously in support of higher education. In 1999, he donated $10 million to the University of Florida for the renaming of the Fredric G. Levin College of Law. For additional information about the University of West Florida, visit uwf.edu.

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news of the weird TRAINING DAY A June 2016 police raid on David Jessen's Fresno County (California) farmhouse caused a $150,000 mess when sheriff's deputies and Clovis Police Department officers "rescued" it from a trespassing homeless man—with the massive destruction leading to Jessen's lawsuit announced in March. The misdemeanant helped himself to an ice cream bar, some milk and half a tomato, but was otherwise "unarmed"; however, by the time the police standoff ended, the "crime scene" included more than 50 cop cars, a SWAT team (and backups), two helicopters, standby ambulances, a police robot, and a crisis negotiation team. Windows, walls and wrought-iron doors were destroyed; tear gas and a "flash bomb" were employed. (Jessen suspects that the farmhouse's isolation enticed police to decide that it presented an excellent training opportunity.)

COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS "Prochoice" activist Jessica Farrar, a Texas state legislator, introduced a bill in March to create consistency between the state's rigorous regulation of women's reproductive functions and those of men (regulation which, by the way, in either case she calls "invasive" and "unnecessary"). Because Texas's anti-abortion laws highlight "procreation" as a crucial government interest, she believes male use of erectiledysfunction drugs should be regulated as abortion is. Under her bill, individual use of Viagra or similar drugs must be preceded by "counseling" similar to that required by abortion laws, and since male masturbation involves the "wasting" of precious sperm cells, it, too, would require "beforehand" counseling.

•Jason Sexton told KFSM-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas, in April that he alone had been digging the massive hole neighbors noticed, now 34 feet deep and with separate tunnels extending off of the main hole. Police had come to check it out, since it was on another person's private property (and not the city's, which Sexton had assumed). He said he had been digging off and on for three years to get an answer to whether "the Spanish" had been in Fort Smith centuries ago, mining iron, and, if so, the site should therefore be a lucrative tourist destination. Sexton said he felt he had to give his explanation: "Nobody in their right mind," he said, "would dig a hole (this big) for no reason."

CRIME REPORT At a time of growing awareness that some people seem almost addicted to their cellphones and instant 24/7 communication, police in Brookfield, Wisconsin, released surveillance photos of a woman in the act of robbing banks on March 25 and 27— while standing at teller counters and talking on the phone during the entire episodes. Acting on a tip from the photos, police arrested Sarah Kraus, 33, on March 28.

•College activist Pablo Gomez Jr., 22, was arrested in Berkeley, California, in March and charged with the brutal stabbing death

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of an elementary school teacher. Gomez, a senior at University of California, Berkeley, is well-known on campus for insisting on a gender identity for which (as an example) the pronoun "he" is an inappropriate reference.

(Hence, "they" was charged with what is so far the only homicide in Berkeley this year.)

•Paul Perry Jr., 39, sound asleep behind the wheel of his car, with motor running, at 6 a.m. on April 2, was in no position to talk his way out of a DUI ticket, but did offer a gentle challenge to the Youngstown, Ohio, police officer.

Several times, according to the police report, Perry offered to "thumb wrestle" the officer to get out of the ticket. From the report: "Perry was advised officers would not thumb-wrestle him."

WAIT, WHAT? A father, 43, and his son, 22, argued on April 9 about who would walk the dog at their home on Chicago's South Side.

They apparently thought to settle the issue with a gunfight, and police, who recovered the two weapons, said both men received multiple wounds. The son was killed, and the father was in critical condition.

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS The eight elite Ivy League universities are better thought of as "hedge fund(s) with classes," according to a March report by the activist Open The Books, and thus there is little reason for taxpayers to have given them the more than $41 billion in grants and entitlements they received over a recent six-year period. The schools are already legendary for their $119 billion "endowments" (based on donations from alumni and aggressive investment).

Those endowments are enough, according to Open The Books, that (assuming donations continue to arrive at the same pace) schools could provide free tuition to every student in the eight schools—in perpetuity. (Even if no new donations are made, the eight schools could provide such free tuition for 51 years.)

IRONIES Federico Musto was suspected recently by Wired.com of audaciously inventing academic credentials to help land his job as CEO of the company Arduino (a circuitboard manufacturer popular in the computer industry among coders creating, among other things, robots and motion detectors). Arduino's work is "open source"—creating hardware that others, by design, can exploit and modify for their own loftier projects. It might thus be said that Musto's claimed academic "accomplishments" (his so-called MBA from New York University and claimed Ph.D from MIT) are themselves the product of his having "open-sourced" his own, previously modest curriculum vitae. {in}

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