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The 29 studios in the new facility were all designed around custom furniture from Omnirax. The furniture was designed and built in California and shipped and assembled in NYC. Each studio area for the stations contains two mirror air studios and some also contain two production rooms and a mix studio. The facility also has three commercial production studios, three imaging studios, three voice tracking rooms and a studio for Clear Channel Creative Service Group. The air studios have SAS Rubicon consoles, the production rooms have SAS Rubicon SL consoles and the voice tracking rooms have SAS Rubi-T consoles. The three commercial production studios have Digidesign Command 8 and SL consoles, and the imaging studios have Digidesign D-Command consoles.
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DEAR ABBY: My granddaughter was murdered by her boyfriend. They had an 18-month-old daughter, ōBella.ö All three were living together when he shot her, but we donÆt know what room Bella was in when it happened.
Another family member (IÆll call her Lucy) took Bella into her home, and Bella calls her Mom. Lucy has been taking Bella to the prison to visit her father, but has told her he is her uncle. I told Lucy I thought it would be better to wait until Bella is old enough to understand, THEN tell her what happened and let her decide whether she wants to visit her father.
Bella went into the closet one day and came out holding a T-shirt with her motherÆs picture on it, asking, ōWho is this?ö LucyÆs only response was, ōYou know you arenÆt allowed in my closet. Take that back!ö She never answered the question.
I have a framed photo of BellaÆs mother on my wall. The last time Bella was here, I noticed her looking out of the corner of her eye and scowling at the picture. I was the only one who noticed.
Bella is now 4, and I canÆt accept that Lucy thinks itÆs OK to lie to her. I feel it should be BellaÆs decision whether to visit her dad. Am I wrong? How should this be handled so Bella isnÆt traumatized any more than need be? Because of these incidents, IÆm almost convinced she should have some kind of counseling, but perhaps sheÆs too young. This is why I desperately need advice, in the best interest of the child. Ś BELLAÆS GREAT-GRANDMA
DEAR GREAT-GRANDMA: Is Lucy a member of your family or the murderous boyfriendÆs? I find it hard to comprehend that a family member of the victim would drag a toddler to a prison to visit the lowlife who killed her mother.
I do not think it is healthy to lie to children. This situation will explode when Bella finally learns that the woman she has always called ōMomö isnÆt her mother, and the man in the orange jumpsuit not only isnÆt her uncle but killed her birth mother. That poor girl wonÆt know whom she can believe and could have trust issues that affect her relationships for the rest of her life. Does she need counseling now? No. But will she when she finds out about the deception? You bet!
DEAR ABBY: What is your opinion about females and car maintenance? My mother raised me alone and taught me to be independent. She would not let me drive an automatic car until I had mastered driving a standard (stick shift). I was also not allowed to drive until I was able to perform basic, essential tasks Ś changing a tire, checking the oil and maintaining all fluid levels.
I am thankful and appreciate that I have these skills. However, I know many women today who canÆt perform these tasks and would rather make it a ōmanÆs job.ö I think every woman should have these skills. Where do you stand? Ś INDEPENDENT LADY IN FLORIDA
DEAR INDEPENDENT LADY: I stand beside you. There is no guarantee that a woman will have a man to ōtake careö of her Ś in fact, the opposite is more likely to be true. However, if she canÆt learn the basics of taking care of her car, she should be sure that sheÆs a member of AAA.
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Fish oil from fatty cold water fish like salmon, sardine or herring is a valuable source of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid). These ingredients, long-chain fatty acids called Omega-3s, have positive effects on general health and especially heart health (see http://jaha.ahajournals.org/content/2/6/e000513.long and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24205713). They are known to improve the health of the blood vessels, have a positive effect on blood pressure. They also increase protein synthesis and reduce inflammatory reactions (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19515734), as well as the DNA damage done by smoking cigarettes (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24288948). To increase the health benefits of fish oil, supplements often combine it with CoQ10 (coenzyme Q10), a powerful natural antioxidant. Scientific studies suggest show evidence that CoQ10 may help treat heart failure, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and even diabetes, especially when combined with conventional medications. (see http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/coenzyme-q10). While many studies show clearly positive effects, fish oil and Omega-3 supplements certainly do not heal any heart disease, but as a part of a healthy lifestyle they help keep your hearth and cardiovascular system healthy.
And there is even more fish oil benefits: Although there is no clear causation, there is a correlation between a Omega-3 rich diet and an obviously lower risk of the occurrence of certain types of cancer, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer. Fish oil also seems to have a positive influence on people suffering from certain degenerative mental illnesses, including Parkinson and Alzheimer. Higher doses of DHA additionally seem to lower the risk of depression and some other mental disorders. Please note that studies on these additional benefits are contradicting, there are no reliable statistic proofs, just correlations indicating that there are far more benefits than scientifically proven so far.
Does Omega-3 fish oil have any disadvantages or known side effects?
The main disadvantage is the very strong taste and smell. Many people even recognize it when taking pills or capsules, in the form of "fishy burps". The alternative is Omega-3 oil from calamari, a certain type of squids. It contain a lot of DHA as well, but doesn't come with the unpleasant aftertaste side effect. This so-called calamarine® Omega-3 is mainly used in high quality supplements like Omega 3 Plus from Dr. Sinatra, by the way a product that was sold over 7 million times and the US and is often recommended as one of the best Omega-3 supplements available.
Are there health benefits of fish oil for pregnant women?
In general pregnant or breastfeeding women should avoid any supplements without explicit permission by a doctor. The is no reason to assume that natural ingredients like fish oil are dangerous, but as long as there aren't any specific scientific studies, ask your doctor first.
Does fish oil help me lose weight?
Fish oil itself does will not make you lose weight, but combined with a proper weight-loss regimen it makes it even more effective. In a study with 63 people (see http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/70/5/817.short) it significantly improved the glucose-insulin metabolism and dyslipidemia, showing better results than the individuals in the group who just took fish oil supplements or just followed a weight-loss regimen. So, fish oil doesn't replace a weight-loss diet, but helps getting the best results from it.
Does fish oil have benefits for bodybuilding?
Yes, according to leading industry magazines like Bodybuilding.com (see http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/fish-oil-benefits-tip-the-scales-in-your-favor.html) and Livestrong (see http://www.livestrong.com/article/395289-list-of-the-benefits-of-fish-oil-in-bodybuilding/). Especially the anti-inflammatory effect of EPA and DHA is a real advantage for those who train hard and often, additionally it can help to lower the increase of blood pressure that often comes with an increased protein intake necessary to build muscle mass. Fish oil doesn't seem to be related directly to muscle gain, but it helps stay healthy and more resilient to injuries.
Why not eat fish instead of using a fish oil supplement?
Fatty cold water fish is healthy, go ahead, 3.5 ounces contain about 1 gram Omega-3 fatty acids (http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-993-FISH%20OIL.aspx?activeIngredientId=993&activeIngredientName=FISH%20OIL). The advantage of supplements is that many people don't like fish or at least don't want to eat it on a daily basis. Pills or gel capsules are simply an easy and comfortable alternative to ensure a constant daily intake.
What is the recommended dosage for DHA and EPA?
The upper dosage recommended by experts of the WHO is about 2000 mg/day for the average adult, DHA and EPA combined (see http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/FFA_summary_rec_conclusion.pdf). Most studies are based on about 2000 mg daily as well. The FDA considers 2000 mg/day as the upper limit for supplementation with an overall limit of 3000 mg/day. Higher doses are not recommended due to a probably increased lipid peroxidation. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_peroxidation). This is by far more than the average daily intake in the USA, 100 mg. The consumption of fatty cold water fish has diminished over the years and was replaced by a steadily growing meat consumption, with negative effects on health in the overall population.
Is the quality of all fish oil supplements the same?
No, they aren't. Especially cheap supplements, for example from China, are often not manufactured according to the standard operation procedures (SOPs) recommended in the good manufacturing pratice guideslines (GMPs) or the Federal Drug and Food Administration (FDA). Additional quality assurance and internal product testing increase the overall manufacturing price, but are important. We would always recommend picking a quality product like Omega Q Plus you can trust in. Other popular and similarly reputable brands are Barlean's, Carlson, Finest Natural, Nature Made, Nature's Way, Nordic Naturals, Norwegian Gold, Spring Valley, The Vitamin Shoppe and Walgreens.
Low cost fish oil supplements from dubious sources can contain toxic contaminants, especially found in predatory fish species that aren't from aquaculture, like mercury or even dioxin. So, do yourself and your health a favour and pick a reputable product from the US. Also keep in mind that you may want to verify that the company offering the product cares for consumers and consumer service by being accredited with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and showing a positive BBB score on a scale from A+ to F.
Who is Dr. Sinatra?
As you may have recognized, we mentioned the supplements from Dr. Stepen Sinatra on our website. He is a highly respected cardiologist with over 30 years of experience and is the founder of the New England Heart Center. His reputation and expertise are beyond any doubts, he's a leading expert for integrative cardiology.
The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. A licensed medical professional should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Call 911 for all medical emergencies. Links to other sites are provided for information only, they do not constitute any medical endorsements of those other sites. Calamarine® is a registered trademark of Pharma Marine AS. All content of this Fish Oil Supplements website if subject to copyright and may not be reproduced in any form without written permission.


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Texas will appeal a judge's ruling that the state's school finance system is unconstitutional.
The lawsuit was filed by about two thirds of the state's school districts. The judge scolded the state legislature for failing to pay for an adequate and equal education for all Texas children.
Allen Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Ken Helvey said more money doesn't always mean better education.
"But there comes a point where your adequacy of funding now has met a cap and you can no longer meet, or at least your minimum standards are in jeopardy. Judge [John] Deitz found that clearly violates the constitution," he said.
The case will now go to the Texas Supreme Court, but that may not happen until after the legislative session is over.
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USF Bulls To Sell 500 Standing-Room Tickets For Seminoles Game
Friday at 9am, USF will place 500 standing-room tickets on sale. Tickets will be $50 and will not comewith any attached seating. For those that haven't been to Raymond James, you can watch the game from the end zone (with the pirate ship), it's still a good view of the action and can actually be a fun way to watch a game.


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Deport California's Illegal Immigrant Prisoners
In the classic movie "The Great Escape," a cluster of Hollywood manly men from yesteryear (including my friend Steve McQueen) played Allied POWs who escape from a German camp during World War II.
Today the great escape may be played out by more than 33,000 incarcerated inmates in California who don't escape the state's 33 prisons but are released by a computer error and the U.S. Supreme Court itself.
Many today say prisoners have too many rights and too many creature comforts while doing time and paying the penalties for their crimes. But the Supreme Court recently upheld the ruling of a district court panel that California prisons are sub-par environments for inmates. A 5-4 majority demanded that Golden State officials grant 33,000 of its 143,335 prisoners golden tickets to freedom because severe overcrowding has led to inadequate medical care.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority. "This extensive and ongoing constitutional violation requires a remedy, and a remedy will not be achieved without a reduction in overcrowding," he said.
Really? No remedy is possible without letting prisoners go free? No solution is possible without essentially expunging incarcerated criminals' crimes and penalties and releasing them into society?
It must be great to be an inmate in California, because the U.S. Supreme Court will not only fight for your medical welfare but also essentially pardon you from your crimes!
On the flip side, the court's four conservative justices were concerned that forcing the state to release 33,000 inmates could endanger the public.
You think?
Justice Samuel Alito was correct when he warned that the mass release of inmates would be "gambling with the safety of the people of California. ... I fear that today's decision, like prior prisoner release orders, will lead to a grim roster of victims. I hope that I am wrong. In a few years, we will see." Alito added, "The prisoner release ordered in this case is unprecedented, improvident, and contrary" to federal law.
The fact is that though five U.S. justices fight for the constitutional rights of California inmates, they abandon states' and their own governmental responsibilities, as outlined in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, to protect the lives, liberty and property of U.S. citizens.
Does the high court really believe that California officials can discern 33,000 nonviolent non-repeat offenders? And should we assume that California's liberal judicial system and sanctuary cities won't further coddle these criminals?
Ironically — or, should I say, tragically — just two days after the court's edict to release 33,000 California inmates, the Los Angeles Times reported that a computer glitch had prompted California prison officials to mistakenly release about 450 inmates with "a high risk for violence." To add insult to injury, more than 1,000 additional prisoners who possess a high risk of committing drug crimes, property crimes and other offenses were released. No efforts have been made to return any of these criminals behind bars.
While overcrowding and fiscal shortfalls prompt state lawmakers across the country to compromise harsher laws for criminals, I believe that only strictly enforcing law and order will promote deterrence and reduce crimes (and hence incarceration numbers). America's prisons, like our borders, need more reinforcement, not more laxity — a fact that leads me to pose a possible better solution than the Supreme Court's allowance of inmates being released back into California cities.
Could it be merely coincidental that over the past two decades of California's liberal approach to border control, the state's prison population and economic status have gone down the tubes?
Here are a few statistics that should be entered into this debate:
In 2005, Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security that nearly 25 percent of inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally. If that's true, that number alone exceeds 30,000 illegals in California's prison system.
Moreover, a 2004 report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform concluded that the education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens cost Californians $10.5 billion per year. That's $1,183 annually for every household.
And who can doubt that those figures have increased significantly in the past seven years?
So my question is this: What would the effects be on California's economy and prison population, immediately and in the future, if the illegal immigrants (Mexicans and others) were actually deported? Why can't that "solution" be considered as at least a remedy for the Golden State's economic and incarceration problems?
And if you assume that deportation costs would surpass costs of prisoner release within the state, compare the price of a plethora of one-way bus and plane trips of illegal immigrants with the years of continual costs to human life, property and our courts brought about by 30,000 criminals released on California streets and repeat offenders being re-incarcerated.
To me, it looks as if Californians have a big battle and choice on their hands, which I believe will cross state lines and turn into similar struggles in other states. Do Californians want 33,000 criminals back on their streets or roughly the same number of prisoners who are illegal immigrants deported back to their own countries?
Contact your local representatives and tell them your answer.
To find out more about Chuck Norris and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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GAO Audit - 102,795 criminal illegal aliens in CA's prisons.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 7:51pm.
Chuck Norris' number of 30,000 criminal illegal aliens incarcerated in CA prisons is probably limited to a guess at how many are in California State facilities. I suspect the number is higher. Why?
As reported in the Sacramento Bee on April 21, 2011:
- The number of criminal aliens incarcerated in California rose to 102,795 in 2009, a 17 percent increase since 2003, federal auditors reported Thursday.
How many is that? Picture the Rose Bowl.
The source was from a March, 2001 Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit titled: Criminal Alien Statistics. The 102, 795 count can be found in "Appendix III, SCAAP Criminal Alien Incarcerations in State Prisons and Local Jails," on page 62 of the report, where the number in CA is put at 102,795.
So, this difficult to grasp number of people (would represent an entire medium sized city) is spread out amongst both the state and local facilities. These are labeled as SCAAP (copied from another GAO report).
- Term: SCAAP criminal aliens;
- Definition: A subgroup of criminal aliens: noncitizens illegally in the
- United States at the time of incarceration for whom state and local
- jurisdictions received federal reimbursement through SCAAP; the aliens
- must meet specific legal requirements
The report does note that approximately 70% of the 102,795 are of Mexican origin. Criminal illegal aliens incarcerated in federal facilities is not included in the number.
This is interesting because in the moment, Gov. Brown's administration is looking at a way to simply shift some 33,000 prisoners from State facilities into county jails.
How about into either federal facilities, or even better -- deport them.
How many of the 102,795 are in State facilities vs. County eludes me in the moment. I can tell you this - not a soul at the Los Angeles Times is the least bit interested in informing it's readers of the 102,795 number - there is a tight lid on that; why would they want the taxpayers - the voters to find out about this?
Additionally the report discloses that each of the incarcerated criminal illegal aliens have been convicted of an average of 7 crimes - each.
It is disclosed that according to the report, as reported in the SacBee article:
- GAO auditors estimated California spends $34,000 to incarcerate a criminal alien for one year; in Texas, it's only $12,000.
Other sources have suggested that it costs much more; as high as $44 - 47,000. Whatever, using the federal estimate - 102,795 X's $34,000 ='s $3.5 billion/annually. Hmm. Anybody want to talk about budget issues?
Chuck Norris also mentioned Justice Kennedy's kind words in the recent SCOTUS ruling. Well, here was something else interesting mentioned by Kennedy. The other day in writing about the SC ruling, the "very pleased with the ruling" LA Times editorial board noted in presenting the decision (from a recent LAT's editorial):
- He [Justice Kennedy] cited a former Texas prison director who toured California lockups and described the conditions as "appalling," "inhumane" and unlike any he had seen "in more than 35 years of prison work."
Imagine - It costs 3 times as much to house a criminal in the correctional facilities in CA, as it does in TX, but a Texas Prison authority finds the conditions at CA " prisons to be "appalling" and "inhumane."
Do Californians have to look to Texas to save us?
If our news media would headline this shocking number - 102,795 - it is my view that the voters, even in CA, would stand up and demand that, as Norris suggested, the criminal illegal aliens be deported (following the immediate sealing of the border).
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It's not just the competitors that need to practice the piano every day.The Cliburn jurors also have a practice schedule to use the pianos in Bass Hall's practice rooms."A lot of our jurors are performing pianists so they do like to practice," said Maggie Estes, the Cliburn Foundation's director of marketing.The hall has 4 grand pianos and 3 upright pianos available for practice, she said. Two of the grands are reserved for competitors while the rest are available to jurors and guest artists.On Monday, jurors Arie Vardi and Minoru Nojima spent time during the preliminary round practicing their craft. Almost all of the jurors are taking advantage of the practice rooms, Estes said.
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Selah, WA - All the snow and slush is causing traffic problems on the freeways.
The DOT is requiring all oversized vehicles to chain up before traveling over the passes. Things got a little messy for truckers on I-82 near Selah.
Semi trucks lined the shoulder on the freeway.
"I didn't hear anything until I came around the corner here and it went from rain to snow," says Dan Smith, a trucker.
Traffic was reduced to one lane to make room for all the semis. The slush on the roadways made it dangerous for truckers to chain up.
"They crowd you. They don't give you a lot of room to work on the side of the road," says Smith. He's headed to North Bend tonight.
Smith spent about an hour getting his rig chained up and ready for the passes.
"I try to get at the head of them, so anything that happens, it's back there."
Traffic was bumper to bumper for about an hour, but it started to move along after Smith and all the other truckers started to get back on the road again.
"Gonna be a long day," says Smith, getting ready to driver over the passes.
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NORMAL, Ill. -- On Tuesday, patrol officers from the Normal Police Department responded to a residence in the North Meadow Village Trailer Park on a report of a female being held against her will.
Upon arrival Officers determined that a male had fled on foot and that he was wanted in Cook County for First Degree Homicide.
Normal police officers along with detectives and members of the U.S. Marshall's Service located Joseph L Mathis, 33, at a business in the 1600 block of N. Main.
He was taken into custody without incident. Mathis is being held in the McLean County Jail on the warrant from Cook County and charges of unlawful restraint, obstructing justice, and domestic battery.


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This obscure Flatiron is located about 200 yards south of the Royal Arch. This Flatiron is a satellite to the Amoeboid Flatiron. The east face is 200 feet long and provides an easy scramble if you are in the area. The face does have some moss and lichen, but the majority of it can be avoided. The summit is in hiking territory and abuts to the north side of the Amoeboid.
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Pass the Royal Arch on the west side and follow a faint trail due south. You will run into the Anomaly. A short scramble down a gully will put you at the base.
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Older, heavier women have fewer hot flashes than leaner counterparts
Submitted by Jamie Williamson on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 07:02
Washington, Sept 1: A recent study has revealed that among women aged 60 and above, the heavier a woman is, the fewer the hot flashes she experiences as compared to her leaner counterparts.
The study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) shows that there is an inverse association between body size and hot flashes among older women.
Hundreds of researches conducted on perimenopausal women in the last decade have shown that heavier women tend to have more hot flashes, as a result of which researchers began to clinically observe obesity as a risk factor for hot flashes.
However, according to this new study, after a woman reaches an age where she becomes menopausal and her ovary no longer produces estrogen, it appears that the heavier the woman is, the fewer hot flashes she experiences.
"This study provides a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between body size and hot flashes, emphasizing the important role of age," Rebecca Thurston, the study's lead author said.
"Our findings show that the benefit of higher fat levels for hot flashes is not apparent until a woman is about 60 years old," she stated.
Researchers examined 52 women for this study who had reported hot flashes and were on medication impacting hot flashes.
The study participants had their body fat percentage, waist circumference, BMI measured and were physiologically assessed for hot flashes by use of a monitor that measured skin conductance. Participants also self-reported hot flashes by using a portable electronic diary.
"Our study showed that higher adiposity, BMI and waist circumference were associated with fewer physiologically-assessed hot flashes among older postmenopausal women with hot flashes.
"Moreover, associations were most pronounced among Caucasian women. This study underscores the importance of considering how age and race may modify the relationship between obesity and hot flashes," Thurston added. (ANI)


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NASHVILLE — Cities or counties would have to get a "certificate of public purpose and necessity" before seizing private property to develop an industrial park under a bill moving through the Legislature on Tuesday. The bill is one of several lawmakers have proposed on eminent domain following last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave a Connecticut city the authority to seize property for a private development project.
NASHVILLE — A measure to let Tennessee cities decide whether to ban smoking in restaurants ran into expected opposition in the House Agriculture Committee. Members avoided a vote on the bill sponsored by Rep. Paul Stanley, R-Germantown, by sending it to a summer study committee. State law currently prohibits cities and counties from even voting on a restaurant smoking ban.
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday on whether Shelby County can place term limits on county commissioners. Eighty-one percent of voters approved a two-term limit for county commissioners and the county mayor in 1994. But three commissioners sued last year, saying the term-limits law was unconstitutional, and a state appeals court agreed with them.


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Who makes the best salsa in Albuquerque? Come to Old Town Salsa Fiesta and find out!
Join us at the Old Town Salsa Fiesta on September 13th, to taste the flavors, feel the rhythms, and dance to the sounds of salsa.
Free for the public to attend. Participation in tasting of and voting on the best salsa is $5. This is a rain or shine event.
10th Annual Historic Old Town Salsa Fiesta
Come see New Mexico's fiercest cooks face-off as they battle to have their salsa named the Best Homemade Salsa! Watch as competitors prepare their best salsa completely on-site. Taste the many flavors each salsa has to offer and vote for your favorite. Live entertainment will be provided through the entire event.
Schedule of Event
- 12-2 p.m. - Preparation of salsa on-site
- 2-2:30 p.m. - Sample preparation and booth decoration competition
- 2:30-5 p.m. - Tasting of and voting for the best salsa
- 5:30 p.m. - Winners are announced
- 6-8 p.m. - Headliner: Charanga del Valle Salsa Band
Salsa Recipe Competition
A Salsa Fiesta in New Mexico wouldn't be complete without a salsa recipe competition. This contest showcases the best salsa recipes from non-professional cooks in the region. The best salsa is decided by public vote. Participants can taste and vote for their favorite to win the Best Homemade Salsa Award. First place winners receive $1,000, second place receives $500, and third place receives $250. Download application to compete.
Salsa Music
Dance the day away with live entertainment on the Gazebo featuring headliner Charanga del Valle Salsa Band.
Entertainment Schedule
- 12-12:45 p.m.- Baracutanga
- 1-1:45 p.m.- Havana Son
- 2-2:45 p.m.- Picoso
- 3-3:45 p.m.- Nosotros
- 4-5 p.m.- En-Joy
- 5-5:15 p.m.- Tribute to Danny Romero Sr
- 5:30 p.m.- Awards
- 5:45-7:45 p.m.- Charanga del Valle
Featured Performers
Charanga del Valle Salsa Band
Charanga del Valle has a traditional flavor and flair with a varied repertoire of rhythms including traditional salsa, bolero, cha-cha, and merengue as well as contemporary Cuban timba--wonderful for dancing! Under the direction of Rodolfo Gonzalez, the band features vocalist Annette Aragon, along with violins, flute, and a three piece horn section.
En-Joy combines traditional Son and modern Timba, two Cuban styles of music which, together with strong syncopation, melody, and conscious lyrics, are powerful and well-respected forms of music worldwide. Cuban Timba, a modern variation of Salsa, was created over the last 10 years by newer Cuban artists, combining elements of modern music to traditional Son. A welcome addition to the Albuquerque salsa scene, En-Joy has been performing to large and enthusiastic audiences for the past few years.
Over 150 years of experience from these musical professionals who add a unique flavor of music to any variety of music they play with a Latin blend. For their creativity, talent and contributions to New Mexican style music over the years, the New Mexico Music Hall of Fame Award was presented to Pete Gabaldon in 2007, and to Ray Avila in 2009. To learn more about each musician, click on "about us" in our website. You can also purchase the Picoso "Caliente," or the El Mosaico cd's when you click on "shop."
Havana Son
Listen to Havana Son and you can't stay in your seat. With members hailing from Cuba, New Mexico and New York. The group's repertoire covers the well known Cuban music from the early twentieth century, the rediscovered and revitalized songs of the Buena Vista Social Club and the popular styles of cumbia and reggaeton.
Baracutanga has been lighting up ABQ dance floors for nearly two years, creating lines at the doors of places like Burt's Tiki Lounge, Cosmo Tapas, Hotel Andaluz, Launchpad, The Cell Theatre and Marble Brewery. The consistently crowded dance floors wherever Baracutanga plays is a big reason why it recently won Best New Band from the Albuquerque Alibi. The band's members come from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina, and play a mix of the most soulful and danceable rhythms from South America including samba, reggae, batucada, cumbia colombiana and afro-Peruvian.
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Free kids' activities including face painting and climbing wall.
In addition to the wonderful Old Town restaurants, food trucks will be in attendance.
Old Town shops will have sales and specials all day.
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Former PRIDE FC and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (the only man to hold the distinction) got back on the winning track this past October as he defeated Dave Herman in the second round of their co-main event fight at UFC 153 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Proving to the world, and himself, that his arm, which was broken by Frank Mir at UFC 140, is back in full effect, the Brazilian submission wizard now sets his sights on his next battle inside the Octagon as he takes on fellow countrymen, Fabricio Werdum.
Before the two jiu-jitsu aces go toe-to-toe for the second time in their careers, they will help usher in the new crop of young aspiring fighters as coaches for the second-ever edition of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) Brazil.
Something Nogueira looks forward to doing as he recently expressed at yesterday's (Nov. 8, 2012) TUF 2 Brazil conference call:
"It's gonna be a very good experience. We've got seven coaches from Team Nogueira and we're gonna do the same as in our gym. We'll try to find new good talent and try to help the guys to be on the UFC level. I'm very happy to fight Fabricio Werdum. He proved a lot in his last few fights and I'm pretty sure we're gonna make a very good fight."
This will be Nog's second go-round as coach on the television show. Previously, he coached against the aforementioned Mir in 2008 on TUF, before the two men squared up at UFC 92 in what was the first of their two meetings.
At 36 years of age, Nogueira now has 43 mixed martial arts (MMA) fights under his belt. Despite the many miles on his aging tires, the wily Brazilian says he still has dreams of regaining the UFC's heavyweight title.
As long as he doesn't have to fight his young protege, of course:
"There's no chance I'd fight Junior dos Santos. We've been friends since he started his jiu-jitsu training. I do still want to be champion and I'd love to fight for the belt (if it's not him). This fight is going to be very important for me because with each fight you win or lose is a step forward or a step back."
After showing Dave Herman that Brazilian jiu-jitsu really does work, "Big Nog" reflects on his recent victory after being on the sidelines with a broken limb thanks to the slick submission moves of Mir:
"The fight against Herman for sure was a challenge for me. It was a really big amount of damage to my arm. I broke my arm and had sixteen screws in my arm and I had to prove to myself I could go back into the cage and fight and do it in Brazil. It was a big step and it was very important to me to prove I was back and was one of the best guys in the heavyweight division. I'm back again. It was a very important fight for me."
A win over the resurgent Werdum will go a long way in inching Nogueira towards his championship dreams. A loss, on the other hand, can be very detrimental to those goals and possibly his career as a whole.
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Captiol Correspondent Tim Skubick says a house committee is likely to vote next week on allowing non-profit agenices from placing children in adoptive homes if those homes do not reflect the group's religious beliefs.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others are battilng a GOP lawmaker over his efforts to regulate adoption by allowing the catholic church and other non-profits to deny adoptions to families because of "sincerly held religious beliefs."
The chair dropped language that based the denials on "written religious or moral convictions."
A lobbyist from the ACLU and a lobbyist from the Gay Rights Community oppose the bill and argue the measure is discriminatory.
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The Seven Summits, the highest mountains on the seven continents of the world, are a popular tick-list for mainstream peak-baggers but the Second Seven Summits, the second highest mountains on each continent, are a more worthy goal for serious climbers. All of the Second Seven Summits are separate peaks and not sub-peaks or spurs of the higher Seven Summits.
Second Seven Summits are Tough
While the top Seven Summits are not insignificant peaks, climbing most of them is relatively easy, especially since Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, and Kosciusko are basically walk-ups. The Second Seven Summits, however, are genuine challenges with lots of difficult and rarely-climbed peaks on the list, including K2, Mount Logan, and Mount Kenya.
K2, rarely climbed compared with Mount Everest, is technically difficult and has horrendous weather. Mount Kenya is a rock climb. Mount Logan, similar to Denali, is remote and cold, while Mount Tyree is harder to climb than Mount Vinson. At the bottom of the list, as on the Seven Summits list, are two peaks—Puncak Trikora and Mount Townsend. Which one you climb depends on if you consider Australia or Oceania the seventh continent.
No One has Climbed the Second Seven
The challenging Second Seven Summits are, as of 2010, an unachieved climbing goal. No one has yet climbed all of the Second Seven Summits. So if you're a darn good mountaineer and you've got lots of free time and a big sponsor or huge bank account, then go for the gusto and become the first climber to knock off the Second Seven. Who ever does succeed in climbing the Second Seven is going to be a real climber and not a poser guided to the summits.
The Second Seven Summits
The Second Seven Summits, the highest second peaks on each of the seven continents are from highest to lowest:
- Asia: K2 28,253 feet/8,612 meters (Pakistan/China)
- South America: Ojos del Salado 22,614 feet/6,893 meters (Chile/Argentina)
- North America: Mount Logan 19,551 feet/5,959 meters (Canada)
- Europe: Dykh-Tau 17,076 feet/5,205 meters (Russia)
- Africa: Mount Kenya 17,057 feet/5,199 meters (Kenya)
- Antarctica: Mount Tyree 15,919 feet/4,852 meters
- Australia: Mount Townsend 7,247 feet/2,209 meters (Australia) OR
- Australasia/Oceania: Puncak Trikora 15,518 feet/4,730 meters (Indonesia)


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Says Texas lawmakers last year expanded public education's share of state spending.
Says a portfolio managed by the Texas General Land Office earned 22 percent last year while the state's emergency reserve account experienced a 1 percent gain.
The 2011 Legislature did not cut Texas public school funding.
Says she balanced a $10 billion budget shortfall without raising taxes.
Says he signed legislation leading to 12 Texas abortion clinics being closed.
Says 282 Texas school districts have requested emergency waivers to increase elementary school class sizes because of "unprecedented fiscal challenges."
Says Rick Perry cut taxes.
Says Rick Perry increased spending in Texas by more than 50 percent.
Says that illegal immigrants get a $100,000 break on University of Texas tuition over four years.
Says "Rick Perry doubled spending in a decade."
Says Texas has "the fourth-lowest debt per capita of any state in the nation, and we are the lowest of any of the big states."
Says Texas is the only state that exempts jet fuel from its state motor fuels tax.
Says $6 billion projected to accumulate in the state's rainy day fund is already used.
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Underrated: "He's So F*cking Dope - Go Back & Listen To His Wordplay"
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[Each week, SOHH asks two entertainment personalities to name who they feel is the most underrated emcee in hip-hop. After Kayla Brianna gave Andre 3000 the title earlier this week, Philadelphia rapper Eve crowns The Roots SOHH Underrated.]
I think the Roots are underrated. I think now that they're more mainstream being on Jimmy Fallon's [late night talk] show definitely gets them out there.
They had a time where it was up and down for them. For me, I've loved them since I was 15-years-old [and being] from Philly. I think they have been so underrated. They've come up with so many different and amazing sounds, their stage presence is ridiculous. I would have to say the Roots.
Black Thought is amazing. Black Thought is just so f*cking dope. If you go back and listen to his wordplay, it's so bananas.
Eve Jihan Jeffers is an American recording artist and actress. She made her debut in 1999 with the album "Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady." It was the first album by a female rapper to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200. Since 2002 she has appeared in several motion pictures including, "Barbershop," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "The Cookout" as well as on television programs like, "One on One " and Glee." From 2003 to 2006 she stared in the UPN sitcom "Eve." She has also achieved success in fashion as she started a clothing line titled "Fetish."
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Should Daniel Geale still be wearing the IBF middleweight title belt? Controversial 12th round scoring gave the fight and the title to Darren Barker last night.
Felix Sturm looms as mandatory challenger for Darren Barker, who won the IBF middleweight title last night in Atlantic City.
Darren Barker won the IBF middleweight title tonight in Atlantic City, beating Daniel Geale by split decision in a dramatic battle.
Kiko Martinez was too strong and too determined for Jhonatan Romero on HBO Boxing After Dark, winning his first world title at age 27.
Daniel Geale (29-1, 15 KO) defends the IBF middleweight title tonight against Darren Barker (25-1, 16 KO) in tonight's HBO Boxing After Dark main event.
BLH staffers break down the fight and pick the winner for tomorrow night's Daniel Geale vs Darren Barker battle.
Daniel Geale and Darren Barker made weight this afternoon for the HBO Boxing After Dark main event tomorrow night from Atlantic City.
Daniel Geale is confident that he'll retain his IBF middleweight title tomorrow against Darren Barker, when he makes his U.S. debut on HBO.
Daniel Geale and Darren Barker meet Saturday night for the IBF middleweight title, and give their pre-fight thoughts on the matchup in these fighter blogs.
The busy season kicks off this weekend, with a good handful of significant fights featured on U.S. TV, including four world title fights.
Darren Barker is confident ahead of his August 17 bid for a world title against Daniel Geale in Atlantic City, and says he's matured from his loss to Sergio Martinez.
Daniel Geale is picking Gennady Golovkin to beat Matthew Macklin, but says the fight will teach us a lot about the hyped WBA titlist.
Paul Spadafora has declined an opportunity to appear on HBO Latino on August 17 against Thomas Dulorme, with no reason given for turning down the fight.
HBO has put together a dual network, split site broadcast for August 17, with a Boxing After Dark tripleheader and a live fight on HBO Latino, as well.
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Pretty decent music, and it was nice to have several choices of rooms and music to dance to. However, there were far too few bartenders. The wait to buy an obscenely overpriced drink was at least 25 minutes at every bar location. $15 for a cup of poor quality champagne, which probably cost less than $15 for an entire bottle, is absolutely ridiculous. The announcer or performer who was speaking on the salsa band's stage leading up to midnight to do the countdown seemed drunk, or just stupid.
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Wish I had know this was a couples event, I would have went somewhere else. Very packed and a glass of champaign was $15!!!! Total rip off!
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The Palace Hotel is beautiful and luxurious. I liked how there were multiple rooms with different music so that you're not stuck if the music is not to your liking. My favorite room is the 80s and 90s room. My husband and I got our groove on...continued
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-- Profit up 30% at 22.50 billion rupees; forecast 20.89 billion rupees
-- Strong loan growth, wide margin aid profitability
-- CEO expects net interest margin to improve a tad from 3.07% now
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By Nupur Acharya
MUMBAI--ICICI Bank Ltd. (532174.BY), India's largest non-state lender by assets, Thursday exceeded expectations with a 30% jump in its third-quarter net profit, helped by strong demand for loans.
The bank's net profit excluding contributions from units and affiliates rose to 22.50 billion rupees ($422 million) for the October-December period from 17.28 billion rupees a year earlier.
That comfortably exceeded the average estimates of 20.89 billion rupees in a Dow Jones Newswires poll of six analysts.
Strong demand for loans from retail, or individual, borrowers during India's main festival season boosted the financial performance of most lenders in the past quarter, even as demand for funds from corporate customers remained weak. Many Indians consider the festival period--which started in October this year--auspicious to buy houses and vehicles, helping loan growth for banks and other lenders.
ICICI Bank's total loans business grew 16% from a year earlier to 2.87 trillion rupees as of end December. Retail loans, including mortgage and vehicle loans, grew 17% during the period.
ICICI Bank is known as the main driver of India's retail loan market as it aggressively expanded the business for several years. But it slowed down the business, especially of unsecured credit-card and personal-loan business, since 2008 as the economic crisis led to defaults.
It is again boosting its retail loan business, pushing secured products like mortgages while remaining cautious on unsecured loans.
The bank's net interest margin--broadly the difference between what it earned on loans and the amount paid on deposits--improved to 3.07%, up 0.37 percentage point from a year earlier.
ICICI Bank expects a slight improvement in its margin in the current quarter and end the fiscal year with 20% loan growth, Chief Executive Chanda Kochhar told reporters on a post-earnings conference call.
Strong loan demand and the wide interest margin helped the bank's net interest income--the equivalent of revenue for companies in other sectors--to rise 29% from a year earlier to 34.99 billion rupees.
The bank set aside 3.69 billion rupees for bad loans and other contingencies, compared with 3.41 billion rupees in the year-earlier period and 5.08 billion rupees in the July-September period.
Net bad loans as a percentage of total loans dropped to 0.76% from 0.83% a year earlier, reflecting an improvement in asset quality.
Vaibhav Agrawal, vice president at Mumbai-based Angel Broking, said the bank's performance could improve further since its asset quality is better now. "It can surely do more on that [growth] front," he added.
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Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen
The Abbey of Saint-Etienne, also known as Abbaye aux Hommes ("Men's Abbey"), is a former monastery in the French city of Caen, Normandy. Dedicated to Saint Stephen ("Saint Étienne"), it is considered, along with the neighbouring Abbaye aux Dames ("Ladies' Abbey"), to be one of the most notable Romanesque buildings in Normandy. Like all the major abbeys in Normandy, it was Benedictine. Lanfranc, before being an Archbishop of Canterbury, was abbot of Saint-Etienne.
Built in Caen stone during the 11th century, the two semi-completed churches stood for many decades in competition. An important feature added to both churches in about 1120 was the ribbed vault, used for the first time in France. The two abbey churches are considered forerunners of the Gothic. The original Romanesque apse was replaced in 1166 by an early Gothic chevet, complete with rosette windows and flying buttresses. Nine towers and spires were added in the 13th century. The interior vaulting shows a similar progression, beginning with early sexpartite vaulting (using circular ribs) in the nave and progressing to quadipartite vaults (using pointed ribs) in the sanctuary.
The two monasteries were finally donated by William the Conqueror and his wife, Matilda of Flanders, as penalty for their marriage against the Pope's ruling. William was buried here; Matilda was buried in the Abbaye aux Dames. Unfortunately William's original tombstone of black marble, the same kind as Matilda's in the Abbaye aux Dames, was destroyed by the Calvinist iconoclasts in the 16th century and his bones scattered.
As a consequence of the Wars of Religion, the high lantern tower in the middle of the church collapsed and was never rebuilt.
The Benedictine abbey was suppressed during the French Revolution and the abbey church became a parish church.
From 1804 to 1961, the abbey buildings accommodated a prestigious high school, the Lycée Malherbe. During the Normandy Landings, inhabitants of Caen found refuge in the church; on the rooftop there was a red cross, made with blood on a sheet, to show that it was a hospital (to avoid bombings).
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- David Dimbleby. "Age of Conquest". Seven Ages of Britain. 45:11 minutes in. BBC 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qn322. Retrieved 21 Nov 201.
- History of the abbey church (French)
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- Bouet, Georges, 1868: Analyse architecturale de l'abbaye de Saint-Etienne de Caen. Caen: Le Blanc-Hardel
- Davy, R., 1954: Le grand orgue de L'Abbaye aux Hommes à Caen. Caen: Caron
- Gouhier, P., Fortier, J.A., 1974: L'Abbaye aux Hommes : Saint-Etienne de Caen. Nancy: Cefag
- Hippeau, Célestin, 1855: L'Abbaye de Saint-Étienne de Caen, 1066-1790. Caen: A. Hardel
- Decauville Lachênée, Abel, 1895: Le Lycée et l'Abbaye de St-Étienne de Caen. Caen: Chez tous les libraires
- Sauvage, R.N., 1911: Le Fonds de l'abbaye de Saint-Étienne de Caen aux archives du Calvados. Caen: H. Delesques
Coordinates: 49°10′54″N 0°22′22″W / 49.18167°N 0.37278°W
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- Benedictine monasteries in France
- Christian monasteries established in the 11th century
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- Monasteries destroyed during the French Revolution
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On our way to a party down the block at Mercedes' house last night, Bonnie and I were skipping along the sidewalk, looking and feeling adorable. Bonnie, so moved by her fabulousness, begins to belt out some song. As soon as she starts to scream her rendition, our uptight, humor-less, upstairs neighbors swing around the corner and practically run into us. Now finding us even more crazy and annoying than before, a feat once thought impossible, they hid their looks of horror and ran off down the street. We erupted into hysterics and Bonnie resumed her melody.
I'd normally feel far more embarrassed that our neighbors hate us so much, finding us loud, slutty, drunks. But this morning I awoke to the sounds of them having bad sex directly above me. Debating whether to suffocate myself with a pillow or stab myself in my ears with a handy pen, I was forced out of the warmth of my cozy bed into the frigid halls of 916A, where I turned on the gay radio station in an attempt to drown out disturbing sounds from above.
Sing away, Bon. We've got nothing to be embarrassed about ever again. We might leave the kegs to rot in the backyard. We might play Beyonce at 3am. But we will never commit an act as ungodly and unnatural as that which I heard this morning.


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I get the feeling that we will not convince Yam that the Delaware river has any place he would find acceptable.
I and I am sure most Delaware River boaters, yes power and sail, keep their boats at local marinas for ease of use without long distance travel.
If I lived midway between the Delaware river and the Chesapeake, I would probably keep the boat on the Chesapeake.
My marina, Fox Grove
Fox Grove Marina
is a good base for me;
- 20 mins from NW Philadelphia in light traffic outside rush hour (29 mins this Thursday afternoon including traffic lane reductions on one of the bridges),
- Widest section of the Pennsylvania section of the river for last minute sailing, day sail to the Delaware or Chesapeake Bays.
- Deep water slips, 19ft+ at low tide, no dredging needed.
And did I mention free ice.
1970 Havsfidra 20 by Fisksatra
On the Delaware River at Fox Grove Marina Essington PA
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A Suitland., Md., man has pleaded guilty to his role in the shooting death of a Virginia handyman in 2010.
Forty-six-year-old Tasheik Ashanti Champean pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Alexandria to conspiring with two others to try and rob a Centreville man at his home because they expected him to be carrying large sums of cash.
During the attempted robbery, they ended up confronting a handyman who worked there. Jose Cardona, a legal immigrant from Guatemala, died from a gunshot wound to the head.
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Stephen Cornford takes an obsolete media format for a spin
In MP3: The Meaning of a Format, Jonathan Sterne observes "that it is no accident that so many media technologies are built around spinning mechanisms" while pointing to the grooves of a vinyl record and wound-down rolls of audio tape as examples of 'compression technology'. Cassette tapes were expedient as a medium because they compressed an album's worth of music into a durable, portable format that could be played on stereos, walkmans and in automobiles. What if the tape deck's capacity to function as a playback device was stripped away though, what would remain? This is exactly the question posed by Binatone Galaxy, a 2011 installation by Oxford-based media artist Stephen Cornford where the prerecorded content of audio tapes are replaced with microphones.
On first listen, Binatone Galaxy is a one-liner – a room is populated with a few dozen tape decks that 'play' modified cassette tapes outfitted with lo-fi microphones. The expected audio content of these tapes is missing and each device quite literally plays itself, broadcasting the whirring, rattling and resonant properties of the tape it contains. The net result of a roomful of these players is a self-referential symphony where the listener is immersed in a dense, syncopated sonic environment, awash in the acoustics of the inner-machinations of a format. Each of Cornford's custom audio cassettes includes a motion sensor, so proximity spurs players into action, making this dead media mausoleum an environment that warrants careful attention.
- Shedding Light on Squidsoup – A Conversation with Anthony Rowe For more than a decade, the artist collective Squidsoup have been designing rich interactive experiences. From their early navigable sonic environments, through their playful experiments with computer vision and interest in 'volumetric visualizations', an email exchange between Squidsoup's Anthony Rowe and CAN begat a mammoth interview abound light, sound and many of the collective's […]
- Revolving Realities Interpalazzo, a collective of media artists, Martin Hesselmeier, Andreas Muxel und Carsten Goertz teamed up with composer Marcus Schmickler to create an autoreactive installation; Revolving Realities. The installation plays with our sense of reality by continually causing us to perceive and experience a place and an object in new ways. Its surfaces projected with different images, textures and animations, the object becomes a mirror of changing realities. As a result, a kind of real virtuality arises to confront virtual reality. A modular light installation issuing from the sculptural object reworks the space. Cords of light pass through the 600 m2 of surrounding space, intertwining the surrounding area with the centre. Ideas are seized upon and returned; the space is transformed into a sound box that enters into a reflexive dialogue with the sculpture. The object, the space and the beholder form a communicative unit Curated by Mike Meiré, the installation is the latest instalment in the Dornbracht Edges series featuring projects in which architecture, design and art intersect. See more behind the scenes images here. links: www.meireundmeire.de www.interpalazzo.com www.piethopraxis.de (Marcus Schmickler) Photography: Hartmut Nägele, Uwe Spoerung, Tim […]
- Face It [iPhone] – Preview Zach Gage has just announced a new iPhone application he is working on, Face It (working title). Thanks to the new features of iPhone 3Gs, Face It utilizes device's built in compass to create a musical and spatial experience where the task is to orientate yourself in the direction of incoming sounds. As you rotate, so does the sound around you. The game uses 3D sound so please wear headphones, otherwise the embedded video below won't make any sense. Unfortunately, I am one of those still stuck with iPhone 3G despite the recent efforts with O2 to convince them I am a worthy customer. Zach's Face It is one app alone that may make me take the dive into the $XXXX 3Gs upgrade on O2. Enjoy the video.. The game was created using openFrameworks, a popular C++ library amongst visual artists used with Apple's XCode development tools. See also SynthPond Face It (working title..) from zach on […]
- Onion Skin by AntiVJ – Re-composition of time and space using perspective Created by Olivier Ratsi, an artist on the ANTIVJ visual label, Onion Skin is a new immersive installation comprised of two walls, positioned at right angles and augmented by a projection and a 5.1 sound […]
- Radius Music [Processing] Created by Dave Young aka henderson, Radius Music combines ideas of cartography and graphic scores as a means to produce sound. The device is an autonomous revolving machine that reads a distance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it takes this radial distance and outputs it as a relative sonic frequency and a corresponding visual score. The synthesis techniques used to generate the audio include Frequency Modulation and Additive Synthesis, with phasing effects providing a procedural rhythmic element. The circular rotation of the piece evokes an idea of early sample culture - each device plays a loop of sound approximately 3 seconds long, sampling the position of people and objects in the space. Two devices are situated in the room, documenting sonically and visually the dynamic real-time readings taken from the rotation ultrasonic distance sensors. As people walk in and out of the room that these devices will be placed in, they will alter the readings of distance, and therefore, the sounds too. view sourcecode Built using Arduino, PureData, and Processing. Radius Music Henderson is a new media artist currently based between Dublin, IRL and Den Haag, NL. He works with electronics, sound and architectural ideas in order to create generative and interactive situations. He has finished his final year of study at The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and has completed writing a thesis titled Generative Systems: Authorship, Obsolescence and Production in Brian Eno's 77 Million […]
- Physical Sequencer aka Thump [oF, Sound, iPhone] As a part of Yamaha/RCA's "Making Fun Serious" exhibition at Chappell of Bond Street (a big old music shop), Marek Bereza created this sound sequencer installation which is controlled by reactive nodes spread across a two dimensional mesh. There were 8 steps in the sequence and 7 different sounds. Each cell has a depth sensor with which you can turn the cell on or off. The cells each have a light indicating whether they're active or not and a light indicating the which part of the sequence you're on. The concept belongs to Giuseppe Guerriero and the electronics hardware was done by Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith. The application used for the installation derived from Marek's iPhone application called Thump which has been available in the AppStore for few weeks now. Because Thump was built in openFrameworks, with extra audio IO functionality for iPhone it runs on iPhone, Mac and Windows, Marek built it to be portable, ie be used in different instances and is almost exactly the same code used for the Yamaha/RCA installation as for the iPhone. Simultaneously, as a part of London Digital Week, Marek was also involved during Tent exhibition where created MultiThump, an app for a multitouch table. It ran on a Gesturetek multitouch table. Basically it was the Thump iPhone app, with the synthesis ripped out and replaced by MIDI (which fed a Max patch for sounds). Up to 3 people could use it as there were 3 separate piano rolls (the grid things), controlling drums, bass and synth. On the table there were 2D sliders to control effect parameters. As you approach the table, there's an array of depth sensors wired into an arduino to detect your presence and respond by bringing up a piano roll. This was done freelance for a company called Seeper. Thump for the iPhone is 16 step sequencer application and a pocket groove box. Completely built in openFrameworks it allows you to ceate huge basslines or warped synth sounds with the two polyphonic synthesizers onboard. Modeled on the classics, these synths offer a wide palette of sounds with its subtractive synthesis engine. Choose from 9 studio-quality different drumkits, create your own or share and download more. The sample-accurate sequencing engine ensures your beats are as tight as much as possible. The app also allows you to upload your songs to thump's website so you can share them with your friends. Because it's built using openFrameworks is also runs on a Mac or Windows and you can download the free version of Thump here. Platform: iPhone Version: 1.0 Cost: $3.99 Developer: Marek […]
- GLI.TC/H [Events] GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010. GLI.TC/H seeks: Realtime + time-based performances (audio/video), utilizing broken/bent technologies/strategies. Workshops, sharing knowledge of hardware/software hacking, cracking, breaking, kludging, piracy, & tool building. Artworks and Projects, artware, videos, games, films, tapes, code, interventions, screen-captures, systems, websites & installations. Texts, lectures, essays, code, articles, & hypermedia. DEADLINE: 2010.08.20 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com link to your work, abstract, or other documentation please include a short explanation and your bio. More information http://gli.tc/h/ (this event has been added to CAN events - subscribe with iCal) (via […]
- "The Glitch Moment(um)" by Rosa Menkman / Review by Greg J. Smith One need only look as far as the upstart GLI.TC/H festival and its vibrant constellation of related practitioners to see that the glitch aesthetic is alive and well. Rosa Menkman has been active as an artist, theorist, organizer and agitator within this milieu and at the tail end of last year she published The Glitch Moment(um), which threads together a number of writing and research projects into a rather authoritative overview of engineered disruption as critical media practice. Released under the auspices of the Institute for Network Cultures Network Notebook series, The Glitch Moment(um) provides a really thorough examination of glitch aesthetics in relation to classical communications theory, questions of categorization, the propagation of glitch art as a 'genre' and presents some related research into the community of artists active within this realm. Menkman also tosses in a manifesto for good measure. Despite the numerous moving parts that comprise this text, it really works as a cohesive enterprise – not only in providing an overview of the history of glitch art but as an expert framing of the media theory that underpins the field. So, how do we make sense of practices such as codec corrupting, datamoshing and circuit bending? Menkman describes glitch as a wholesale rejection of utopian dreams of the seamless media experience, a dispelling of the transparency of various mediums: "To study media-specific artifacts is to take interest in the failure of media to disappear... in noise artifacts." In contemplating failure, she breaks down these noise 'artifacts' into three categories: compression, feedback and glitch, and identifies the latter as an indeterminate force, one that is "unaccepted... unwanted... unordered". After ruminating on this undefined space Menkman eases into a consideration of the phenomenology of glitch that is buoyed by careful case studies of key works by Ant Scott, Gijs Gieskes, Jodi and Paul B. Davis. The remarkable thing about The Glitch Moment(um) is the depth of research informing the work; Menkman moves beyond stock discussions of Paul Virilio (catastrophe) and Kim Cascone (the aesthetics of failure) and invokes less overtly relevant media theorists like Alan Liu and Jay David Bolter to great effect. The concluding examinations of 'the commodified glitch' and the glitch scene's crystallization into a genre are really quite savvy and self-aware. Menkman cites McLuhan's adage that "obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning", which perfectly encapsulates the challenge (and promise) of this particular moment for error-driven practices. Given that The Glitch Moment(um) is basically a handbook for embracing noise and obsolescence with open arms, the text is a vital read for anyone interested in critically engaging media. Read/download The Glitch Moment(um) References: GLI.TC/H festival / Rosa Menkman / Network Notebook Jodi, <$BLOGTITLES$>, 2007 Ant Scott, SUQQE, 2002 Glitch Actors Organized – Network map of glitch artist twitter scene (produced with Esther […]
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i like it – but the spinning paradigm is not limited to compressing audio data- it is merely the coiling of linear forms, which extends back in time to analogue reels of frame-by-frame film …and then to much before that, to pre-industrial reels of spun yarn…
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With LSU Sports Plus you can watch Live and on-demand video from the Geaux Zone library and enjoy access to live audio of your favorite LSU Tigers sports.
Get the latest news, scores and schedules for LSU Tigers sports developed specifically for your Android device. The official LSU Athletics app will give you mobile access to all LSU Tigers sports: football, men's and women's basketball, soccer, volleyball, track & field, swimming & diving, tennis, softball, gymnastics, cross country, golf and baseball!
NOTE: To access live audio, a valid Geaux Zone subscription is required. To sign up for Geaux Zone, visit www.lsusports.net.
This app will expire at the end of the 2013/2014 season.
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Great I can keep up with all LSU sports... Perfect
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This is s BS app. It keeps stopping and the sound continually has a bad echo.
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My online info won't work on the app but works perfect on the computer.. Emailed support and nothing but automated responses. Called support and they told me to email them again.. Pathetic
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Nice articles and pretty pictures. Would be nice to have access to download pics to make LSU wallpapers.
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Don't buy or use until you see a fix has been implemented!
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Can here my tigers everywhere
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I wish I wouldn't have purchased this. When it works, it keeps stopping its self and keep having to press the play button.


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Wedge Re: Marte
Some quick quotes: "We want to give him a chance to play two days in a row," Wedge said. "I felt he had some decent swings [on Tuesday] night." Also: "His swings have been better," Wedge said of Marte. "This kid does a great job in [batting practice]. It's just a matter of that translating more consistently in the game. That's tough to do when you only play once a week or once every 10 days."


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Did you feel it?
A 3.1 magnitude earthquake shook the area just after 6 tonight.
The temblor was centered 4 miles south of Mentone and 4 miles southeast of Redlands, according to US Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage or problems as a result of the quake.
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How I Met Your Mother Quote Trivia
Weekly TV Quote Quiz: Who Said That Line?
Have you been keeping up with primetime this week? Flex your memory by seeing if you can match each quote to the TV character who said it this week. Good luck!
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"It's a client meeting, not a Bachelor auction."
Reba, Malibu Country
Harvey, Suits
Dani, Necessary Roughness
Olivia, Scandal
2 of 8
"Careful who you're calling black, little kettle."
Rayna, Nashville
Klaus, The Vampire Diaries
Sherlock, Elementary
Nolan, Revenge
3 of 8
"We did not rehearse that Lisa Loeb song for five hours not to serenade our Valentine's Day dates to it."
Axl, The Middle
Andy, The Office
Anders, Workaholics
Ian, Shameless
4 of 8
"Cray cray gotta go bye-bye, before you get stabbed stabbed."
Britta, Community
Lily, Whitney
Mike, Mike & Molly
Barney, How I Met Your Mother
5 of 8
"That was awkward. Like white-shorts-in-a-rainstorm awkward."
Cozette, Bunheads
Penny, The Big Bang Theory
Jules, Cougar Town
Jeannie, House of Lies
6 of 8
"Did you Vapo-rape my ex-boyfriend?"
Cristina, Grey's Anatomy
Kurt, Glee
Tessa, Suburgatory
Hannah, Girls
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"Love fades away. But things . . . things are forever."
Russell, Rules of Engagement
Larissa, The Carrie Diaries
Tom, Parks and Recreation
Hank, Californication
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"It's like I have a sailor in my mouth."
Phil, Modern Family
Billy, Legit
Max, 2 Broke Girls
Danny, Hawaii Five-0
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Some goalie updates from WTC and DP.
Sexsmith is switching to Worcester from Stockton. Heemskerk, Anderson, White all got mentioned, though it sounds like DW was mostly joking about White. Nitty also says he might not be ready to go on Tuesday, so look for Sexsmith or Hutton to join the team that day.


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Let's state the obvious first …. I failed at Janathon! I made it to Day 9 and then working The Spine event happened and that was all she wrote.
However. There's always a 'however' with me. I've lost 10lbs since Christmas, I've taken the plunge and started working for myself and I've drank a half a bottle of red wine this afternoon after drinking nothing for months. Hic.
I'm getting my butt up for Parkrun in the morning and I hope it's storming a good one as I love running in the rain.
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Country music on air in New York City
NEW YORK (AP) - Even though a cowboy hat sighting on Fifth Avenue is still pretty rare, country music has made an important move into New York City.
Country has its own radio station in the nation's largest market for the first time in 17 years. WNSH-FM, which calls itself "NASH 94.7," began broadcasting in January and its operators say it has established itself more quickly than expected during its first few months on the air.
For country musicians, the news gets a big yee-haw.
"I feel proud for country music," said Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum. "It shows that you cannot deny where country music is in today's overall music world."
While no one considers New York to be Nashville North, it was a curious absence. Country went off the air in 1996 when WYNY switched formats. Before that, the fabled WHN and Lone Star Cafe were the capitals of country in the big city from 1973 to 1987.
Satellite radio filled the void for some fans, but its reach is limited.
There wasn't a bias against country, said Lew Dickey, CEO of the radio chain Cumulus, which bought the religious station WFME and switched the format to country. There's a limited amount of signal space available for radio stations in New York and the ones that exist do so well financially they have little incentive to change formats, he said.
"What really changed in the intervening 17 years is that country has become very much mainstream," Dickey said. "The time was right to give the tri-state area (with New Jersey and Connecticut) a full-serviced country radio station that was really tailored to New York."
Singer Miranda Lambert attended the station's first sponsored concert with husband Blake Shelton and both were surprised to see a packed house of people singing along to their songs.
"How do they hear it if they don't have radio in New York?" she asked. "It's funny to me because I've learned this on the road. There's rednecks everywhere. For every town and every city, you've just all got to find each other and you'll be happier."
The New York station is "going to be like Taylor Swift of the radio stations. It's going to blow up," she said.
The station's initial ratings are about what experts expected- half as much as established stations in Boston and Philadelphia but not bad for a new format, said Sean Ross, vice president of music and programming at Edison Research. Dickey said the launch has exceeded expectations.
The stakes are high for the artists. New York is the nation's largest market for country music, as it is for just about every format given its sheer size. So far this year, 2.8 percent of the 12.6 million country albums sold were bought in the New York area, according to Nielsen Entertainment. It was slightly lower at 2.6 percent of albums sold at this time last year.
Country's wide appeal across different generations made the format switch timely, Ross said. "It would have been hard to deny," he said.
"I don't know why it ever left," said singer Luke Bryan. "Whoever is opening (the new station) is fixing to make a lot of money because I've been to Long Island- I sold out where the Islanders play (Nassau Coliseum) a few weeks ago."
The wide appeal can make for a challenge, too. NASH is hoping that its format can satisfy both young Swift fans and older Hank Williams devotees. Cumulus is using the New York station as a test case, hoping that NASH can establish itself as a go-to brand for a magazine, concerts and other ventures.
The station last month had a concert series at a barbecue joint in Manhattan (yes, they exist!) that brought in The Band Perry and Brad Paisley.
Cumulus owns 85 country radio stations nationally. New York's NASH has its own flavor, but will still play about 80 percent of the same songs as a station in Texas, for example. Texas might play local favorites like the Randy Rogers Band or Casey Donahew Band that wouldn't make it onto the air in New York.
"Not only are we serving the country music fans of New York City, but we're making the format more accessible to a broader audience," Dickey said. "That's going to sell more music."
Associated Press Music Writer Chris Talbott in Nashville, Tenn., contributed to this report.
EDITOR'S NOTE- David Bauder can be reached at dbauder(at)ap.org or on Twitter (at)dbauder. His work can be found at http:bigstory.ap.org/content/david-bauder.
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This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, "the best wine writer in America"—is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious.
For more than a decade, Jay McInerney's vinous essays, now featured in The Wall Street Journal, have been praised by restaurateurs ("Filled with small courses and surprising and exotic flavors, educational and delicious at the same time" —Mario Batali), by esteemed critics ("Brilliant, witty, comical, and often shamelessly candid and provocative" —Robert M. Parker Jr.), and by the media ("His wine judgments are sound, his anecdotes witty, and his literary references impeccable" —The New York Times).
Here McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of wine and the people and places that produce it all the world over, from the historic past to the often confusing present. From such legendary châteaus as Margaux and Latour and Palmer to Australia and New Zealand and South Africa, to new contenders in Santa Rita Hills and Paso Robles, we learn about terroir and biodynamic viticulture, what Champagnes are affordable (or decidedly not), even what to drink over thirty-seven courses at Ferran Adrià's El Bulli—in all, an array of grapes and wine styles that is comprehensive and thirst inducing. And conspicuous throughout is McInerney's trademark flair and expertise, which in 2006 prompted the James Beard Foundation to grant him the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.
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