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Veteran defensive back Charles Woodson is slated to meet with the Raiders on Tuesday, and Raiders coach Dennis Allen said he is hopeful of bringing back the player that once starred in a silver and black uniform.
"I want to do anything we can to help this team get better," Allen said Monday. "So, we'll see how that process goes."
The Raiders reportedly already made an initial offer to Woodson, 36. The 49ers and Denver Broncos are the only two teams that Woodson has met with since he was released by the Green Bay Packers.
Woodson told the Maize and Blue News that he is open to finishing his career with the team that selected him with the fourth pick of the 1998 NFL draft out of Michigan.
"It would be a really big thing to go back to Oakland being that I played there really most of my career," Woodson said.
Woodson spent his first eight seasons with the Raiders. He signed with the Green Bay Packers in 2006 and spent the past seven seasons there.
"I spent most of my career in Oakland and I still have a lot of friends there," Woodson said. "I still know people in the organization. It would be a homecoming of sorts if it were to happen. So, we'll see."
The Raiders are in need of a replacement for released free safety Michael Huff. For now, Brandian Ross and Usama Young are the leading candidates to take over for Huff.
Signing Woodson would give the Raiders a proven player to pair up with veteran strong safety Tyvon Branch on the back end of their retooled defense.
Woodson earlier this offseason said he wanted to sign with a legitimate Super Bowl contender. He since has backed off that hard-line stance as a result of a dearth of offers.
Last week, Woodson left Denver without receiving a contract offer. As of now, he said he isn't sure how things are going to play out.
"I don't have any idea, really," Woodson said. "I plan on playing. I have a visit set up this week with the Oakland Raiders, so I'll go out there and sit down with the coaching staff, GM and all of that, and we'll figure it out from there."
Raiders quarterback Matt Flynn spent four seasons with Woodson in Green Bay. He said he's eager to see how things play out in terms of the pursuit of Woodson.
"Everybody knows he's a great player, but he's also a great man, a great teammate, great leader," Flynn said. "The front office, Reggie (McKenzie, general manager) and them, are going to make the right decision (about) what they think is going to be best for us going forward."


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Cat that spent a week in Mass. tree found
Published: Friday, January 4, 2013 at 7:08 a.m.
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MARION, Mass. (AP) — A stray cat that spent at least a week stuck in a Massachusetts tree before plunging 80 feet to the ground and fleeing has been found, and all things considered, appears to be in good health.
A Marion Animal Hospital veterinarian said Wednesday it's "unbelievable" that the cat dubbed Fortunate has just a couple of pulled muscles and a possible parasitic infection.
The cat was spotted in a Rochester, Mass., tree on Christmas Eve. Several rescue attempts failed before firefighters cut the branch it was perched on Sunday. Cat shelter founder Pam Robinson finally trapped the skittish feline on Tuesday.
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I'm looking for some guidance from experienced long distance endurance athletes on fueling during a long race.
I just ran the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon and was very disappointed that I missed my PR because my hamstrings cramped with only .6 left! I was feeling great the whole race, on pace to break 3:10, and with that short distance to go I could not run off the cramp and had to walk/hobble to the finish line.
I sweat a lot so I use a lot of fuel, but the fact that I'm still cramping late in these races tells me that I still have some adjustments to make.
Here is what I typically take in during a marathon:
I carry a 20 ounce bottle filled with Hammer Perpetuem (270 calories plus many other electrolytes)
2-3 Hammer Endurloyte pills per hour as suggested on the bottle
6 E Gels (Made by cranksports.com. I choose them because they pack more calories, sodium, and potassium than anyone else I've researched)
Water at every aide station to either refill my bottle or just drink out of the cup.
I've tried the "less is more" idea as well and still cramped around mile 22.
Whatever suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance,
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
-Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
"Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
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Try honey packets (natural, unrefined and easily converted to energy) or Honey Stinger if you prefer the gels. Also, by-pass some of the aid stations because you really do not know what you are getting, so preparing your own fuel belt is a less risky. Look at your overall diet (increase your iron intake maybe) and the combination of things that you are currently using..something may be interferring with your digestive system and performance. (So, the pills, the gels, the Hammer, and the unknown water sources may not all be mixing well, for example).
You mentioned trying the less is best idea, but try the honey instead of gels and then eliminate either the Hammer pills or drink to see if that makes a difference.
Wishing you all the best.
Might be more with your training, sounds like you should have had plenty?
I get dehydrated absurdly quickly as a result of a few experiences with heat exhaustion in the military. As a result, I've had to get a laser focus on my sports nutrition strategies. I have a strategy for hydration and one for calorie replacement. For hydration, I stick with the stuff focusing on hydration: Gatorade/Nuun/all the hydration tabs from various manufacturers (Gu, Hammer, etc). For calorie replacement, I focus on stuff promising just calorie replacement (Clif Shot is a good one for that). That way you lessen the variables you're messing with which allows you to know where to make tweaks.
What's your diet like outside of your training nutrition?
"He is best; who is trained in the severest school."
- General Thucydides, 424BC
Sorry I haven't responded... I was not ignoring your responses. I have taken all of them into consideration and have been trying new things during training.
To answer your question usnavy233, I eat a very healthy diet with a splurge if I'm going out to eat with friends. Here is a typical day for me:
Breakfast: Plain oatmeal with raisins and blueberries mixed in and a banana on the side.
* If I'm doing a long training session or a long race I will also have a piece of toast with peanut butter.
Lunch: Turkey sandwich on whole grain bread with avocado, tomato, cucumber, romaine lettuce, and mustard. Also carrots and a granola bar of some sort.
Dinner: Lean meat such as chicken, fish or chicken/turkey sausage, whole grain pasta or rice, and mixed vegetables.
* Red meat proably once a week.
I also snack every hour or 2 with an orange, apple, bagel with peanut butter or nutella, yogurt or greek yogurt, trail mix, clif bar, peanut butter and jelly sandwich...
I drink lots of water all day with a sports drink, usually diluted, at some point during the day as well.
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
-Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
"Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
-John Wooden
Based on your regular diet I would say you're getting plenty of nutrition pre-run. It almost seems to me that you're overdoing it with 6 E-gels (I'm a fan of cranksports to) plus Endurloyte every hour plus Perpetuem off the start. That just seems like a lot more potassium and sodium than your body can use. I could be wrong on that, but that's just my first impression. But for now...
What's was your training plan leading up the marathon? How many miles per week, what was your long runs and how many did you get in, etc? Maybe the culprit isn't nutrition overload.
"He is best; who is trained in the severest school."
- General Thucydides, 424BC
I know it's more than what my other racing friends take in, but "less is more" didn't work too well for me either. I don't think being undertrained is the issue...
Run: 4 runs per week consisting of 8-10 mile tempo, 10 miles in the hills, 4 mile recovery, and then a 16-22 mile long would get me between 40-50 miles a week. I get 3 20+ milers in before race day.
Swim: 8000-10000 meters in the pool IM drills, build drills, and short and long distance sets.
Bike: 60-100 miles per week depending on work.
Lift: 2-3 times per week. Full body, medium weight and high reps, lots of core, cross fit mentality with little rest time.
Taper: Reduced workout intensity 2 weeks before the race.
"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
-Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
"Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
-John Wooden
A few general comments.
- You don't say what your training paces are.
- More miles, less cross-training. I would think more like 60 - 70 mpw.
- Inadequate taper. 3 week taper, decrease volume substantially across the 3 weeks (70%/50%/30%), and minimize, if not eliminate the cross-training.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Escalating an aerial dogfight between leading Internet companies, Google said Thursday that it has been working on a secret project to build unmanned flying drones, which could one day deliver packages to consumers or supplies to people in remote areas.
The project was unveiled Thursday by Google's X division, a unit of the giant Internet company that is also working on so-called "moonshot" projects like self-driving cars and contact lenses that can monitor a wearer's glucose levels.
"Self-flying vehicles could open up entirely new approaches to moving things around -- including options that are faster, cheaper, less wasteful, and more environmentally sensitive than the way we do things today," Google said in a statement.
Amazon has been conducting indoor tests of delivery drones, and it recently asked U.S. officials for permission to perform more testing outdoors. Google, which launched its project two years ago, said it conducted outdoor tests in Australia this month.
Facebook also has an interest in drones. This spring, both Google and Facebook bought smaller companies that build unmanned flying vehicles, saying they hoped to use them to beam Internet radio signals to remote parts of the world.
But Google said its Project Wing is aimed at transporting physical goods. In the Australian tests, Google said it delivered candy bars, dog treats and other supplies by attaching them to a remotely piloted drone, which flew to a nearby cattle field and lowered the items on the end of a cable to farmers on the ground.
Google and Amazon are competing fiercely in the business of Internet retail and delivery. Each company wants consumers to use its online sites for shopping, and each is building rapid ground-delivery services in major U.S. cities.
But while Amazon says it hopes to provide drone deliveries next year, Google is being more cautious.
"It's going to be a few years before we have a system ready -- this has much more in common with the self-driving car than with the remote-controlled planes you might see in the park on the weekend," a spokeswoman said. Google said its engineers need to work on safety protocols, precise navigation and noise reduction.
Legal and privacy issues are also far from resolved. But some experts say unmanned aircraft could see wide use in the future. "They could do everything from water your house plants to watering your cattle," Gartner tech analyst Jeff Vining said earlier this year.
Google touted the potential for deliveries Thursday. "Think of the mom stuck at home with two sick kids, the hiker who's met a poisonous snake, or the farmer out in the field with a sick animal," the company said. It added that drone deliveries "could also open up new models for sharing goods rather than owning them. Who needs a power drill for more than eight minutes a year?"
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Bear hunting drop could mean more cubs in spring
Published: Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 7:47 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 7:47 a.m.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Fewer bears were killed in North Carolina's hunting season, meaning that there could be a bumper crop of cubs born in the coming spring.
A spike in bear numbers could further strain bear-human relations in the mountains, where wildlife experts say the bruin population is already at about the peak of what most residents are willing to tolerate.
Bear biologist Mike Carraway says the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission already gets hundreds of bear nuisance complaints a year.
Carraway says cubs typically are born in January and emerge from dens with their mothers in the spring.
Preliminary numbers show that 698 bears were killed in the bear hunting season that ended Tuesday. That's a 28 percent drop compared to 2011.
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Strongyloidiasis is a parasitic disease. It is found in tropical and subtropical areas but also can be found in temperate regions, including the southern United States. The disease usually occurs in rural areas, institutional settings, and among lower socioeconomic groups. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the global prevalence of Strongyloides is unknown, but experts estimate that there are between 3 to 100 million infected people worldwide.
Strongyloidiasis is caused by a parasitic roundworm called Strongyloides stercoralis, that mainly infects humans. This roundworm has different types of life cycles. At times, the larvae (immature stage) of the parasite may develop rapidly into the infective stage in the intestine where they penetrate the intestinal lining instead of passing out of the body in the feces, as occurs normally. This modification of the life cycle, called internal autoinfection, explains persistent strongyloidiasis, which can last as long as 40 years in people who have moved to areas where the infection is not generally found
Autoinfection may produce heavy infections and severe disease, especially in people with reduced immunity such as those receiving corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive medicines, or those with acquired immune deficiency due to retroviruses such as human T cell lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1).
People become infected when they come in contact with soil containing the roundworms. After a short feeding period and development in the soil, the larvae penetrate human skin, enter the blood stream, and pass through the right side of the heart to the lungs. From the lungs, the parasites go up the windpipe into the mouth, are swallowed, and reach the upper part of the small intestine where they develop into mature worms.
Many Strongyloides infections are mild and go unnoticed. Moderate infections may cause a burning pain in your abdomen. You may have nausea and vomiting and alternating diarrhea and constipation. Severe infections result in anemia, weight loss, and chronic diarrhea. Strongyloidiasis in severely immunocompromised people can cause a variety of symptoms, including an ARDS-like pneumonia (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome).
Your healthcare provider can use blood tests to help diagnose strongyloidiasis, but those tests are prone to error. You may need to also have repeated stool examinations.
Ivermectin, given in a single dose for one or two days, has become the medicine of choice. Albendazole, given twice daily for seven days, is also effective. Disease that has spread through the body often requires longer treatment.
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Taking it from the Top: Day 1 Starts at Lafite
Post by Chuck Hayward | April 5th, 2011
On Monday Team JJB dove head first into in EP 2010. Racing up and down the D2, the main drag which runs the length of the Left Bank, gravel flew as our caravan tore in and out of parking lots. Like a Brooks Brothers-clad A-Team, we jumped out of vans, sprinted across impeccably manicured lawns, took steps two at a time in our suits and ties to make our appointments.
With a radically different itinerary from last year, our first intensive look at the vintage was through the prism of the Premier Grand Crus, the
First Growths of the upper Medoc. The "Big Five", as they are often referred to, generally attract the most attention each year and it's not often one gets the chance to taste these wines, either from the barrel or from the bottle. So smoothing hair and straightening jackets, we entered the quiet salon at our first stop, Chateau Lafite. Then we dashed over the hill and south to Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, followed by Chateau Latour, and on to Chateau Margaux. Visits to Cos d'Estournel, Palmer, and Leoville-Las Cases were also on the packed Day One itinerary, as well as a tasting of 2007 and 2008 Bordeaux at the warehouse of a top negoce. Before the sun hit the horizon, it was already a full day.
As might be expected, conversation among the team revolved around the favorites of the four Big Chateaux visited that day (Haut Brion would come on Tuesday). Our conversation turned to debate as pros and cons were analyzed. What was surprising is that while the JJB staff had broad agreement on the best of the 2009's from these properties, there was less uniform opinion about the most preferred '10s. While it was only one taste, (a more complete assessment with our notes will come following additional tastings of these wines), most of us put the pure, powerful and concentrated Latour at the top of the heap, followed by an intense and elegant Margaux. Mouton caused much debate but the overall impression was positive while the Lafite had more detractors than proponents.
What we all agreed upon, however, was that many wines from 2010 are at different points in their evolution. Some wines are complete and ready to go. Others are disjointed thanks to a later harvest, and many had just finished malolactic fermentation, making it difficult to render an accurate assessment. A number of winemakers we spoke with wished en primeurs would be held a few months down the road, in the belief the wines would show better.
To really make any statement about the 2010's at this point, the wines need be tasted again. And again. We'll revisit these and as many wines as possible this week, ensuring notes for our forthcoming 2010 Bordeaux Report are spot on. Cheers!
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How Much Are Super Bowl Tickets? TiqIQ Looks to Leverage Sports Trivia
No one loves granular statistics more than sports fans. Except for maybe big-data junkies.
TiqIQ, a New York City start-up, is leveraging these obsession to build a portal that connects fanatics with real-time trivia and deals on sporting event tickets.
The company was founded by Jesse Lawrence, a journalist-turned-Internet-marketer, whose factoids and trivia have found a rabid audience in the last week as the collective attention of the nation focuses on the annual American rite of Super Bowl hype.
Did you know that (according to TiqIQ, as of the afternoon before the big game) …
The most expensive ticket left is $10,621, in the ninth row coaches club section?
Ticket Prices are up 19% in the last 24 hours and quantity is down 30%?
At current prices, the cheapest ticket will be second highest in last six years?
Ticket prices for the three biggest Broadway shows this weekend are down 20% compared to other weekends?
TiqIQ aggregates onto its site ticket deals from both primary and secondary market suppliers. Lawrence crunches numbers about the primary and secondary ticket markets for a host of media sites to help promote TiqIQ.com, and ticket deals offered there.
Lawrence employees fifteen writers who generate content relevant to individual media partners. For example, when Don Mattingly made his return to Yankee Stadium–as coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers– TiqIQ supplied to Yankee fan blog "River Ave. Blues" an article comparing ticket prices from Mattingly's days as a player.
For national media partners like Forbes, Business Insider and Grantland, Lawrence himself writes the articles.
It generates revenue on ticket sales it facilitates.
In addition, the company licenses its data to clients including the New York Yankees, the Los Angeles Kings and the University of Oregon who use the information to better understand pricing promotions of their secondary market competitors. Bloomberg recently signed TiqIQ to provide real-time Super Bowl market data.
Lawrence is not attending the big game this Sunday at MetLife Stadium. "God no," he said, adding, "only if the Jets were playing."


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Located at the heart of Sidmouth's seafront means many rooms boast breathtaking panoramic views across Lyme Bay. With the beach just in front, the town right behind and attractive gardens all around, there is much to do within easy reach of The Bedford.
All forty bedrooms are individually furnished, have flat screen televisions and en suite facilities. The hotel is centrally heated throughout and there is lift access to all floors. Accommodation is tailored to meet your needs not our convenience; single, double, twin and family rooms are available.
As you would expect, the hotel also has comfortable lounges and offers a wide selection of good food and wine in a choice of attractive surroundings. Limited car parking is available at the rear of and around the hotel. A large public car park is conveniently opposite the hotel.
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House fire in Penrose takes life
Published: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 9:01 p.m.
One person is dead after an early morning house fire in Penrose yesterday.
Firefighters were dispatched to 16 Falling Snow Lane around 2:58 a.m. Sunday, according to Transylvania County dispatch. The stick-built residence was located just off Talley Road.
"It was fully involved when the first truck got there," said First Assistant Chief Jason Merrill of the Little River Volunteer Fire Department.
Merrill said firefighters were informed by dispatch there was the possibility that someone was inside the burning home.
"As we started to extinguish the fire, we found him," Merrill said. The man, described as being in his early 30s, was recovered from the living room of the small dwelling.
Flames were coming from the roof of the home when the first trucks arrived, said John Bailey, second assistant chief of Little River VFD, who arrived on the scene as a paid member of Etowah-Horse Shoe Fire and Rescue. He said it took firefighters about 20-30 minutes to extinguish the blaze.
Bailey said the scene was secured by the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office and is still under investigation by the county fire marshal.
Little River VFD sent two engines and two tankers to the scene, Bailey said. North Transylvania Volunteer Fire Department, Cedar Mountain Volunteer Fire and Rescue, Brevard Fire Department and Transylvania Rescue Squad also responded.
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A Profile of Gary Nuñez of
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John Child spoke to Plena Libre's leader, bassist, composer, arranger and producer, Gary Nuñez, after the band's high energy UK debut gig at London's Jazz Café in March. John found Gary to be an impressive advocate of the promotion and development of Puerto Rican musical traditions, a cause he has dedicated himself to for the last 28 years.
Plena Libre were coming to the end of their first European tour to promote their RykoLatino releases
Juntos y Revueltos
Plena Libre
when I met the band's founder Gary Nuñez. How had the tour been going? "We've been very pleased with the response we've been getting," he enthuses. "Surprised and very pleased bearing in mind we are playing plena and not the traditional Latin music audiences are accustomed to. We were apprehensive every time we went on stage, but audiences have been so beautiful. We've really been enjoying the tour."
The idea for Plena Libre emerged from popular jam sessions involving a set of Gary's friends in clubs. The first six months of the band's history was packed with over 90 dates and the recording of their debut album
Juntos y Revueltos
(1994 on A&F; reissued on RykoLatino in 1999).
Juntos y Revueltos
was issued in the run-up to Christmas 1994 and quickly entered the CD chart of leading Puerto Rican music magazine
, selling over 20,000 copies on the island alone. The album spawned the hit single "El Party," the first plena to chart in Puerto Rico in over 15 years. Their 1995 follow-up
!Cógelo Que Ahí Te Vá!
on SJ Music included the hit "El Celular." In 1996 and 1997 they were nominated for a
award in the Best Plena Group category. In 1998 their fourth album,
De Parranda
(1997) on Peer, was nominated for a
award in the Best Plena Album category. "This was my first Christmas album," explains Gary, "which we did for ourselves in Puerto Rico. It was very well received. We sold a lot of records and one of the critics described it as a classic Christmas album." The following year the band's debut on RykoLatino,
Plena Libre
(1998), garnered a
award for Best Plena Album Of The Year.
Gary was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1952. He lived his early childhood in Cataño, a small town across the bay from the island's capital, San Juan, and was then raised in the metropolitan area of Río Piedras. He began studying piano at four years of age with a teacher in Santurce. "She used to give me piano lessons with cookies," remembers Gary. "So my love of music started very early." He attended two private colleges in Río Piedras. "I was fired from the first one," he comments and then laughs. "From there I went to the University of Puerto Rico, where I studied psychology major with minors in music and politics. That's where I got my first harmony and music history classes. Then I did two years at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Some years later I also graduated from Puerto Rico's Conservatory of Music."
I asked about the instruments he played and how he came to switch from piano to bass. "Around 13 I started drum lessons. Then I went into guitar, which I learnt on my own. Then I played some vibraphone and Latin percussion, experimenting until I found my real voice on the bass instrument. I had four or five bass teachers, but mostly I'm a self taught musician." What band was he playing with at that stage? "I started leading a band of close friends when I was 14. We used to do a mix of Latin music with rock."
At the early age of 20 Gary had a definitive vision of his intended career path. "In 1972 my spirit was already mature and I made a clear decision that I was going to devote my professional career as a musician to the development of Puerto Rican music." He started digging into his musical roots and in 1975 he organised and began directing Moliendo Vidrio (meaning: Grinding Glass) for the next 18 years. "They became one of the most important groups in the new song movement. These were songs with a social content. It became a very big movement within which Moliendo Vidrio helped rediscover one of Puerto Rico's most important instruments: the cuatro. A 10-string short guitar with a sound close to the 12-string guitar but a bit higher in pitch. Now today we have so many fine cuatro players." Gary played cuatro as well as bass and vibraphone on Moliendo Vidrio's first album. After playing the instrument again on two cuts of the band's second album, he handed the cuatro over to another performer so he could concentrate on the bass.
Moliendo Vidrio's dedication to promoting Puerto Rican music was inextricably connected to the struggle for independence from US political and cultural domination of the island. In 1979 they performed at a rally to welcome the return of four Puerto Rican "independence fighters" who had been released from jail in the US after 29 years imprisonment. A brief excerpt of their performance was included in Jeremy Marre's influential TV film
, commissioned for ITV's arts series
The South Bank Show
. The film, which featured Charlie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Willie Colón, Rubén Blades and others, represented a milestone in creating interest in authentic Latin music in the UK.
was subsequently rebroadcast on Channel 4 in 1985 as part of Marre's series of world music films,
Beats Of The Heart
, and released on video in the US by Shanachie (
Salsa: Latin Pop Music Scene
I was curious how the salsa boom raging in New York and Puerto Rico during the 1970s impacted on Moliendo Vidrio. "The way I related to that was according to my position as a musician and as a Puerto Rican. I took the very strong influences of salsa music that was happening around the world and used it to develop a new approach to Puerto Rican music. For example, Moliendo Vidrio got a bigger sound. In the beginning it was cuatro and some flutes, and then it became bigger and bigger until it was really a full brass section with a combination of two trumpets, trombone, tenor sax and flute and a full rhythm section. But I showcased the cuatro instrument in the orchestra and I played the bomba and plena rhythms. Moliendo Vidrio became like a symbol of how my musical knowledge and interests were growing. So what happened was that even though I was being influenced and I admire all these guys like Eddie Palmieri, who is one of my favourites, and Puente, and arrangers like René Hernández. What I was doing was taking these influences and developing a richer Puerto Rican sound and not a New York sound or a Cuban sound."
Gary made five albums with Moliendo Vidrio, including two with the major Alhambra International label whose roster included Julio Iglesias at the time. "The first two albums were very experimental," he explains. "Especially the second one, which had strong jazz and descarga influences. On the third album,
La Fiesta
, I explored the possibilities of the cuatro. I used cuatros like a brass section with harmonies for three or four cuatros and counterpoint. It featured some tunes by Tite Curet Alonso. For the next album,
El Hosco
, we used young composers to convert short stories by Abelardo Díaz Alfaro into songs. After that we did an album based on one of the most important composers of Latin music, the Puerto Rican Rafael Hernández (El Jibarito)."
His falling-out with Alhambra International turned out to be a blessing in disguise. "I asked for my release," explains Gary, "and they held out for about two years and a half. From then on necessity opened a new door for me. I became one of the first young independent producers in Puerto Rico. And the rest of the Moliendo Vidrio albums were produced independently by myself. This then became a very important trend in Puerto Rico. Actually the first recording we did with Plena Libre in 1994 was an independently produced record. Plena Libre has produced three of its seven records alone."
He took a couple of years off after deciding to end the Moliendo Vidrio project in around 1992. "I took a break from leading because the director thing is a very demanding job when you're not only directing but also arranging, composing and working in all sides of the business." During his respite he participated in a couple of Puerto Rican oriented jazz projects. "I also directed Ismael Rivera Jr.'s band somewhere around '92, '93. I started as a sideman and then I got into directing the band and doing some arranging. Ismael is a very close friend of mine. I really love him. At that point he was not recording, but he was doing gigs. So he was kind enough to invite me into his band." So this close friendship gives him a link with the tradition that came through Cortijo and Rivera? "Yes, yes. Besides my admiration for those guys, it was a real pleasure playing with Maelito. I got a chance to play Javier Vázquez's original arrangements for Ismael Rivera Sr., which are great! Javier did that perfect combination of trumpet, alto sax and trombone to accompany Ismael's singing. I have never heard such a nice sound and swing. I think it's great. Rafy Cortijo was also playing in that band. They are very close friends. I love them very much."
I ask whether plena exponent Mon Rivera's use of the all trombone sound on his legendary 1963 Alegre album
Que Gente Averigua
and mid-'60s trio of albums on Ansonia had been a factor in his choice of a trombone frontline when he organised Plena Libre in 1994. "Mon Rivera is closer to us because of his collaboration with Willie Colón in the '70s (the album
There Goes The Neighborhood/ Se Chavó El Vecindario
'75 on Vaya)," responds Gary. "Picking up on Mon when his career had died down is one of the greatest contributions Willie Colón ever made to Latin music. Mon also has to be credited for having the first Latin band with a brass section made up of trombones. However my decision was based not so much on the style but on getting a strong sound behind a strong rhythm section. See, we have congas, three panderos, a timbal, a güiro and bells and all that type of stuff. So I needed a strong brass section which was not that many people. Then I decided, let's do this with trombones, which is a big round sound that can carry the load of so much percussion in front. Actually it was an experiment for me because I've never done arrangements for only trombones. Also the trombone is a very peculiar instrument: it can be loud and noisy and it can also make a beautiful melody when you require it. So it became a really good discovery for me. I just followed my instinct on that one."
Gary introduces me to Rafy Torres, one of Puerto Rico's leading trombonists currently playing in Plena Libre's three-piece 'bone section: "He's one of the beautiful things we have on this tour." "I used to play with Eddie and Charlie Palmieri," says Rafy. "Now I play plena, the folkloric music of Puerto Rico, and that is very important for me."
Did he regret leaving the cuatro behind for the time being? "No. I think it was like Moliendo Vidrio, it had a time, it had a purpose, and the objective was achieved. So then it was time for me to move on and find some other goals to work for and some inspiration in other types of work. At this point in Puerto Rico there are so many young cuatro players who are really very good. So 25 years later - even after 15 years of Moliendo Vidrio in Puerto Rico - young cuatro players were really going into the instrument and studying. The instrument was getting the exposure and respect that I, as a Puerto Rican, think it deserved. So it wasn't a priority anymore.'
Where had he drawn Plena Libre's musicians from and what were their backgrounds? For instance, I tell Gary that I remember seeing singer and percussionist Giovanni Lugo credited as a co-lead vocalist on Bobby Valentín's albums
Como Nunca
(1990) and
25 Aniversario del Rey del Bajo
(1991) on Bronco. He talks with pride about the band's stability and mixture of seasoned and raw personnel: "From the nine-piece band Plena Libre were at the beginning, we've still got five original members six years later, which is quite an accomplishment in the way this business works. What I've got in this band is a combination of fresh talent with experienced musicians. It's a round-up of new blood, bringing their influences, being guided and directed a little bit by us, the older folks. Some of the new musicians coming on this tour have been playing with us for up to four months. For example, Rubén Román, one of the singers tonight, comes after recording the album
Café Con Leche y Dos de Azucar
(1996 on RMM) with Luis "Perico" Ortiz. The other singer, the young kid, Gabriel, is only 20 years old and he is learning the trade right now from the other cats. The third singer, Victor Múñiz, has been with us for almost four years. Victor has a big tradition in the plena thing. He's one of guys young kids look up to as a plena singer. He sang with many plena groups in Puerto Rico before joining us, and was doing almost nothing at the time I called him. As a leader I want my singers to feature in certain specific ways, ranging from the sonero side provided by Rubén, to traditional plena which Victor brings, to the young guy, which is Gabriel at this point.'
How does he relate to contemporary salsa, the Victor Manuelle's and Frankie Negrón's of this world? Gary begins with a throaty laugh: "In most cases I respect their talent. This is not strictly a Latin phenomenon, it's a big company phenomenon. It also happens with Plena Libre. Big companies have such big budgets and have to make such big compromises in order to keep filling up with money. Actually, it's very hard for them to try new formulas. Sergio George created a sound and then everybody is going that way. It's selling records but musically speaking there is very little identity. You've got to wait for someone to open their mouth and then you know who's singing. Whether it's Victor Manuelle, DLG or Marc Anthony. It all sounds the same. Most of the time it's the same musicians and same arrangers. There's no personality there at all. That's what I miss as a musician: the personality thing. But then again, maybe I'm just getting too old. Maybe Eddie Palmieri has to do another
Sun Of Latin Music
or something like that.'
"You mention Sergio George, who obviously is a key figure in all this. This reminds me of the bomba and plena album
Mi Encuentro
(1997 on WEA Latina) he did with Yolandita Monge. What was your view of that?" "Yolandita is a big star in many countries. I don't think she's a world star, but she's a Puerto Rican big star. She didn't need to do that type of album at all, and I give her my full respect for that. She just didn't need it. She was doing it because she wanted to do something with Puerto Rican music. That deserves respect and acknowledgement, and I am very glad she was brave enough to do it and take it to the world. Not only record the album, but saying: "Here I am doing this stuff." So it took her a lot of courage. And it actually took its cost doing that. On the other hand, from my humble perspective, the album lacked orientation and focus. Those who know Yolandita for her soft tunes, ballads and great pop hits, didn't want to hear her doing bomba. Plus I don't think the arrangements worked well. Sergio George is a great arranger, and I respect him a lot, but in Puerto Rico there are cats that could really do that job, and get the real feel of what bomba and plena are all about. I think this lack of focus is why the album didn't really make it. Maybe if she had taken another direction the album could have made it, which was really my desire. It was my hope that Yolandita's album would do well in terms of my pride as a Puerto Rican - my music. Because then we would have had a big star doing this stuff. Plena Libre is a very important group in the development of this thing. People were forgetting this stuff and we took it out front. And now Jerry Rivera has done a plena on his next album. I'm hoping Roberto Roena does one of the tunes I gave him. In the end I know, by ourselves alone, we are not going to make it. Not that it's not going to happen, but it's going to be harder for us to do it just by ourselves."
Although it wasn't a great success, does he feel that Yolandita's album created openings for Plena Libre? "Actually we did the opening for her," insists Gary. "Plena Libre shined light onto the plena which was not there. It wasn't dead because plena is part of our nationality. It is part of what we are as Puerto Ricans. It has always been there for the last century. So we shone light onto it that was not there since Cortijo and Ismael. That created a little opening and I think Yolandita saw that. Other guys were doing it, but she was in the forefront and said: "I'm going to do that now." So we hope the memory of Yolandita's failure with her album has faded and other artists will try it."
What does the future hold for Plena Libre? "We were very lucky. We had offers from other companies to record, but we decided to sign with RykoLatino because we felt they understood what we are trying to do. And it's happening. Although we've been to the States before, we've already done a real tour there. We did a little thing in Mexico and now we are in Europe. And in Puerto Rico everything is going fine. We are hoping this alliance will carry on. We are going back to Puerto Rico and we should start recording sometime before the 15th of April, which will be our eighth album and our third recording with RykoLatino. Our hope is that this next album will ensure that a space for our work is established. This is the album that is going to decide whether we stay or whether we disappear. And I think the chances are pretty good that we will stay."
Though plena is clearly the band's raison d'être, will the next album continue to be a 100% diet of plena? "When we decided to do the Plena Libre thing, we didn't want to do straight traditional plena, because that wasn't getting to the new generations. It was very important from my standpoint that the work we do incorporate contemporary influences from what is happening in the popular music scene. We also incorporate other influences like some jazzy phrases on the trombones, Cuban rhythms, styles like rap - we've done some plena with rap. We've done some plenas in a ballad style. We've even done some plena with a disco style. I believe folklore is not a static thing. It has to move in accordance with the times. When you hear plenas by Canario (Manuel Jiménez), and then you hear Mon Rivera, and then you hear César Concepción, and then Cortijo, and you hear the other guys. What happened was that each one of them took the plena rhythm and made it his own. This is the way I'm gonna do it. It goes along with the musical influences that are happening all around. So in terms of the style of Plena Libre, it has to be
plena libre
: it's a free style. I don't care what it takes. If it works, it works. The important thing is that we keep the root present during the whole show. So I can do the first half of a tune as a guaguancó, because I'm going to sing a romantic lyric, and I want this type of rhythm to support it. But when the chorus comes, it is plena because this is the way I feel it should be. So as long as we keep the rhythm clear, whatever we put on top of that is my instinct and from the heart."
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(1994 on A&F; reissued on RykoLatino in 1999),
!Cógelo Que Ahí Te Vá!
(1995 on SJ Music),
Plena Pa' Ti
(1997 on SJ Music),
De Parranda
(1997 on Peer),
Plena Libre Mix
Plena Libre
(1998 on RykoLatino).
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EDWARDS - Dogs and craft beer are quintessential Colorado. Crazy Mountain Brewery is throwing a tapping party Sunday to release its late summer seasonal beer: "Drink A Peach" IPA. This brew was crafted with 150 pounds of free-stone Palisade peaches from the Ripe Produce Stand in Edwards. The tapping will be from noon to 5 p.m. and features $2 pints of the Drink A Peach IPA, named after an Allman Brothers album.
The party is a fundraiser benefiting the Megan Councilman Fund, a non-profit run by the Humane Society that provides financial assistance for pets requiring emergency veterinary care. Most pet owners do not set aside a budget in their checking accounts for pet emergencies. After-hours and weekend veterinary care can be quite expensive, and pets will not be treated unless payment is immediately received for services rendered.
"My chocolate lab, Doobie, deeply cut his pad on some metal schrapnel on a Saturday and the bill ended up being about $900 for emergency stitches and treatment," said Crazy Mountain's owner, Kevin Selvy. "I definitely didn't have funds set aside for something unexpected like this. The Megan Councilman Fund will help a lot of pet owners who otherwise couldn't afford emergency treatment and would have to let their animal suffer. This is a non-profit the brewery feels strongly about contributing toward,"
Megan Councilman was a local dog who was hit by a car and her owners could not afford emergency medical care, so she passed away. Crazy Mountain Brewery will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from Sunday's tapping party to the fund. Dr. Charlie Meynier of Vail Valley Animal Hospital will also be at Crazy Mountain Brewery to answer any pet related questions you may have.
"Bring your dogs and enjoy a $2 pint of the Peach IPA in the sun on Sunday afternoon," Selvy said.
For more information, call Crazy Mountain Brewery at 970-926-3009.


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The Discover 600 Mini Dome Camera (ADCD600-D0001) is a vandal resistant, true Day/Night analog dome offering a high resolution 540 TVL video image under many diverse lighting conditions. The camera has built-in Infrared Illumination which detects the light levels of the current environment and upon reaching a certain light level, switches from color to black-and-white to capture the low-light images. The camera utilizes a removable IR cut filter to filter the IR light during the day so as not to distort the colors of the images.
The camera also features an Advanced Pivoting Axis to enable you to position the camera in any angle you need, along with Auto iris and Automatic White Balance to provide you with the clearest image quality possible. Like all other American Dynamics fixed cameras, the Discover 600 offers Back Light Compensation (BLC) and Automatic Gain Control (AGC).
The Discover 600 Mini Dome Camera as well as all other American Dynamics fixed cameras are compatible with the full line of American Dynamics DVRs, TVRs and Hybrid DVRs available at BulkCCTVStore.com. BulkCCTVStore.com also carries a wide range of mounts compatible with the Discover 600.


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The Angry Snowboarder on Tom Sims
Open publication – Free publishing – More brighton As the season charges ahead full steam, so do the remembrances of Tom and his contributions to the snowboarding world. The latest is in Arkade Magazine. Check out what the Angry Snowboarder had to say about Tom's legendary impact.


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The Incredible Edible Egg
This post is written by Shelley Hendrix, Autism Speaks' Director of State Advocacy Relations. She currently resides in Baton Rouge, La. with her two children, Liam and Mairin. Liam was diagnosed with autism age the age of two in 1998. She began advocating on behalf of her son and other children with autism almost from day one.
Autism Speaks' approach to advocacy in both our Federal and State-based legislative initiatives uses a specific formula – our "cookie recipe." My last blog focused on flour, representing our grassroots effort, as one of the most fundamental ingredients for any cookie recipe. While flour creates a foundation for the cookie, other essential ingredients are required to make the final tasty treat. Each state's "cookie," its autism insurance reform initiative, is shaped, flavored and decorated differently but when we follow this tried and true recipe, we celebrate with a big, batch of cookies.
In our recipe, eggs represent the unity and focus in our community. Just one egg has 13 essential nutrients and while the cost of other foods skyrocket in today's economy, the simple egg remains one of nature's best bargains with regard to high-quality protein foods. Eggs consist of two basic parts held together by a fragile shell. Outward appearances indicate that the fragile egg is contained and unified. Once you crack that shell, you can see those separate distinct parts – each part of the egg serving a different, but important, purpose for the egg as a whole.
When baking, we know that to move forward and make a great cookie, the egg must be whisked to unify its distinct parts so that it can do what it was meant to do for the cookie overall – serve as a bonding ingredient – unifying the flour, sugar, butter and pinch of salt.
The "egg" in our recipe represents the autism community's unity and focus on the legislative initiatives we work on to improve our children's lives. Before we take a crack at these initiatives, we are held together with our fragile shell that unifies us – our children who have autism. As we move through the process of working on these projects, we crack that egg to find different parts inside – parts of our community that all serve essential purposes. Parts which, when working separately, would not have the same effect as when they are whisked together in unison and focused.
Every time our family bakes anything, Liam and Mairin argue over who gets to crack and whisk the eggs. To them it is more fun than measuring out the other ingredients. It is for me, too. Over the last three years, I have enjoyed nothing more than working with a variety of different people in the autism community who hail from different philosophies on how their children developed autism, how autism should be treated not to mention the different socio-economic statuses, educational levels and backgrounds. I love working to whisk them all together and make that "cookie's" ingredients blend successfully. I have witnessed firsthand what a unified community can accomplish when they refuse to be divided.
Unity for the autism community is a fragile egg indeed. But it is a low-cost, big -bargain, high-protein source that should fuel us, bond us and make us better, and more incredible, than we would ever be without it.
To learn more about Autism Votes, take action today on autism insurance reform legislation in your state, or find out about Autism Speaks' federal legislative advocacy agenda, please visit www.autismvotes.org
August 18, 2010 at 5:23 am
Great analogy! So true.
August 18, 2010 at 6:25 pm
I would like to add a bit of information to this good report. Eggs are more than incredible, they are the miracle food because they contain more nutrients for good brain health than any other food. If those with autism would review the USDA report for Choline 02, they will find that many of the phospholipids needed for good brain health are provided by the eggs or egg yolks. In my recent study of 500 autistic children I found 43% fed no eggs and 93.8% fed only two or three per week. I recommend two to three per day to eliminate the deficiencies found in autistic children.
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GV-R797OC-3GD: GIGABYTE Ultra Durable VGA Series
- Powered by AMD Radeon HD 7970 GPU
- Integrated with the first 3072MB GDDR5 memory and 384-bit memory interface
- Features Dual-link DVI-I / HDMI / Mini DisplayPort*2
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- Support CrossFireX™ , Avivo™HD, AMD Eyefinity2.0 and EyeSpeed
- System power supply requirement: 550W
The GV-R797OC-3GD is built with the highly anticipated AMD Radeon HD 7970 GPU, which utilizes the 4.3-billon transistors on 28 nm fabrication process and GDDR5 memory. AMD Radeon HD 7970 GPU supports dual advanced programmable tessellation engines, Microsoft DirectX 11, AMD Eyefinity 2.0 technology, AMD PowerTune technology, AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology, and AMD HD3D technology. With these features, AMD Radeon HD 7970 series is proved to provide gamers an impressive experience with non-compromise performance and flawless graphics quality. Furthermore, GV-R797OC-3GD is equipped with Gigabyte's patent-pending "Triangle Cool" technology plus the exclusive WINDFORCE 3X Cooling technology. GV-R797OC-3GD is designed especially for gamers to achieve an unbeatable gaming performance and to meet a higher standard more easily.
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Avivo™could provide vibrant high fidelity, flawlessly smooth next-generation video playback. Avivo™ technology easily allows your PCs to become digital home media center by its compelling video pipeline design that comprises the latest high definition video hardware acceleration, including H.264 and WMV9.
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PhRMA Statement on Bloomberg Article
PhRMA Statement on Bloomberg Article
Washington, D.C. (September 19, 2012) — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Senior Vice President Matthew Bennett issued the following statement today:
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $49.5 billion in 2011 in discovering and developing new medicines.
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Customer & Industry Expert Podcasts highlight WebLogic and Coherence 12.1.2 Releases
By Ruma Sanyal-Oracle on Jan 15, 2014
With the new year, we bring you something exciting!
Two podcasts, one from our customer Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) which higlights WebLogic 12.1.2 benefits such as Coherence
Integration and Maven Support. Matt Rosen, Director of Application Development at OOCL, discusses the HotCache feature allowing database
changes to be propagated to objects in the Coherence cache, Maven support for
developer productivity, and increased operational efficiency with unified
installation, configuration, and patching. Listen to Matt for further details.
In our other podcast, industry experts Simon Haslam and Frank Munz review Oracle's WebLogic
and Coherence 12.1.2 release. Frank Munz is the author of several books on middleware and cloud computing and is excited about
Cloud features such Dynamic Clustering and JMS management while Simon Haslam,
an Oracle Fusion Middleware specialist and ACE Director, highlights WebLogic
Database integration and native cloud management. Listen to Simon and Frank here.


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Fletcher emphasizes teamwork at annual gala
Published: Friday, November 2, 2012 at 11:12 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 2, 2012 at 11:12 a.m.
If legendary former LSU basketball coach Dale Brown is an expert in anything, it's teamwork.
Brown was the keynote speaker Thursday night at the second annual Gala and Silent Auction to benefit the Fletcher Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports Fletcher Technical Community College. Jim Henderson, LSU's radio announcer, emceed the event.
Stephen Smith, the foundation's chair, said sports are the first thing that springs to mind when the word "teamwork" is mentioned. But he said the recent explosion of growth at Fletcher is evidence that teamwork is important in something like higher education too.
"The team might be bigger than the one Coach Brown had, but the concept's the same," Smith said. "This school is what it is because of the efforts of the community, which, if you think about it, is basically one big team."
In virtually every major stride the college has made over the past few years, teamwork is evident. The school's 29,000 square-foot campus that opened this fall was paid for with a patchwork of state grants, student money and donations from local companies and supporters.
An expansion to the campus is already in the works, in the form of a $4 million petroleum technology lab paid for by oil giant BP.
School officials also announced Thursday that Fletcher's machine-tool department would be getting a Moriseki NT3100, a state-of-the-art new five-axis, computer-operated lathe used to sculpt mechanical parts.
"This is not something we could have paid for by ourselves," Fletcher Chancellor Travis Lavigne said. "Had K&B Machine not set this up for us, we simply would not have had it."
Kenny Wood, founder and CEO of the local industrial giant, said the company negotiated a donation from its supplier because its employees believe they have to do their part to help Fletcher grow.
"This area is way behind the rest of the world in technical training. The whole state is," Wood said. "We have to be building that training up. Every industry that needs technical workers should be contributing."
Without contributions like K&B's, Lavigne said Fletcher would be struggling.
"It seems like I say this every day, but the word community is very important to me," he said. "Without the community, we wouldn't be where we are today.
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at email@example.com.
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