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Fundraiser to help pay for livestock feed
Hernando Central Future Farmers of America will host an omelet breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. March 14 at Green World Path, 1665 Donto Way.
Former state Rep. Chuck Smith will cook. The cost is $3 for an omelet and drink.
Funds raised will help pay for livestock feed. Tickets can be purchased in advance through Friday at Green World Path.
Call (352) 799-0200.
Buy balloon, support Relay for Life causes
As part of the "Hope Floats" Relay for Life fundraiser, balloons can now be purchased for a balloon release that will be at 10 a.m. April 18 during the Spring Hill Relay for Life event at Nature Coast Technical High School.
The Shining Stars Relay for Life Team is selling biodegradable balloons for $2.
Each balloon will have a note tag to fill out to be tied to the balloon.
The notes can be in memory of someone who lost the fight with cancer, in honor of a cancer survivor or just for the fight against cancer.
For information, call (352) 686-0407.
Learn more, share love of gardening
The Hernando County Cooperative Extension Service is seeking new applicants for the 2009 Master Gardener's volunteer program.
The program is open to anyone with a strong interest in gardening, the time to volunteer and a desire to share wise gardening practices.
Those interested in becoming master gardeners must attend a free mandatory "get acquainted" session at 9 a.m. Thursday or at 3 p.m. March 12. Registration is requested to attend this informational session. Call (352) 754-4433.
The in-depth 12-week training program will start April 12 and will include topics such as garden pest management, proper pruning, composting, vegetable gardening and citrus.
The cost is $135, which includes all reference books and materials.
Master gardeners must volunteer 75 hours of service their first year and participate in at least 10 hours of continuing education.
After the first year, 35 volunteer hours are required per year.
Tickets available for spring fashion show
Mariner United Methodist Women will present a "Spring Highlights" Fashion Show at noon Saturday at Mariner United Methodist Church, 7079 Mariner Blvd.
Fashions from Belk will be modeled by eight of the women, including casual wear, business wear and clothing for social occasions. Entertainment will be provided by vocalist Carolyn McGuire, accompanied by Ros Jarrett on the piano. Lunch will be served and prizes will be awarded.
Tickets are $12. For tickets, call Linda at (352) 688-3431. For information, call Dottie Basehore at (352) 597-1703.
Charo fans, see her at a dinner show
A dinner show featuring Charo will be March 14 at the Aripeka Elks Lodge, 9135 Denton Ave. Dinner is at 6 p.m. and showtime is at 7:30 p.m.
The entertainer is known for her skills playing the flamenco guitar and her famous phrase ("Cuchi-Cuchi").
Tickets are $28 for prime seating and $26 for regular seating. For reservations, stop by the office or call (727) 868-2994, ext. 14.
Workshop to highlight watering regulations
A comprehensive "Living with Watering Rules" workshop will be offered at 2 p.m. March 13 in the commission chambers at the Hernando County Government Center, 20 N Main St.
The workshop will be presented by the Hernando County's Utilities and Code Enforcement departments, Hernando County Cooperative Extension Service and the Southwest Florida Water Management District, also known as Swiftmud.
In February, Swiftmud extended the current one-day-per-week watering restriction through June 30. The purpose of the workshop is to provide county residents with the necessary information to do their part to conserve water and avoid citations.
Participants will learn more about the watering rules and restrictions, water shortage, enforcement of existing watering restrictions and ways everyone can effectively manage their landscape while under these strict watering restrictions.
For information, call Alys Brockway at (352) 754-4705 or (352) 540-4368, ext. 35121.
Ex-Murrin students to play at concert
The third annual Best of the Best Concert, featuring former students of the late violin teacher Charlotte Murrin, will be from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. April 5 at Chocachatti Elementary School, 4135 California St.
The event will include violinists and cellists who studied the Suzuki method under Murrin. Desserts and refreshments will follow the concert.
The event is sponsored by the Charlotte Murrin Memorial Suzuki Education Foundation. Tickets are $15, and all contributions are tax-deductible.
For information or tickets, call Ken at (352) 688-5808. Tickets will also be available at the door.
Angel Food Ministry accepting orders
Angel Food Ministry orders will be taken at these locations:
• Christian Church in the Wildwood, 10051 Country Road, north of Weeki Wachee, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday; 5 to 7 p.m. March 11; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 13; and 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 15. Distribution of orders will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 28. Online orders can be placed at www.ccwildwood.com. Call (352) 596-1388, ext. 810. All orders must be done in person or online; no phone or fax orders accepted.
• Nature Coast Family Fellowship, 14832 U.S. 19, Hudson, will take orders from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Monday, and March 11, 14 and 16. Cash, money order and food stamps accepted at the church. Online orders using credit or debit cards can be done at any time through 11:59 p.m. March 16 at www.naturecoast familyfellowship.org. Call Art at (352) 650-7773 or Jackie at (727) 271-4662.
• Christ Lutheran Church, 475 North Ave. W, Brooksville, and First Lutheran Church, 30419 Park Ridge Drive, Ridge Manor, also participate in the Angel Food Ministry. Call the hotline at (352) 799-3452 or e-mail email@example.com.
Angel Food is a nonprofit, nondenominational organization that provides grocery relief and financial support. The cost is $30 per unit, which retails for $60-$70. Senior boxes, which include 10 meals, cost $28. Also available are specialty boxes such as steak, chicken and pork, which cost $19 to $22. An allergen-free chicken package is now available for $25.
Learn about Civil War, shipwrecks and more
The Florida Public Archaeology Network and Hernando Past will present Bayport Underwater from 1 to 4 p.m. March 28 at Bayport Park, 4140 Cortez Blvd.
The event will include an afternoon of shipwrecks and maritime archaeology.
During the Civil War, Bayport was the site of two brief engagements between land troops and Union blockading vessels. Several blockade runners were burned, on purpose, by the Confederacy to keep them out of Union hands. The archaeological remains of Civil War era vessels associated with these events are reported to lie in the waters off Bayport.
The March 28 event marks the start of a project to record and preserve the submerged cultural resources around Bayport.
At 1 p.m., there will be a brief overview of the project and a discussion of Bayport's Civil War engagements. There will be a demonstration of shipwreck mapping and recording techniques at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Also, at 2 and 3 p.m. there will be a demonstration of magnetometer survey techniques.
Activities for both children and adults will be offered between demonstrations, and include hands-on shipwreck mapping techniques, build-a-boat exercises and archaeological recording in low visibility.
For information, call (352) 795-0208.


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Notes: Arroyo aware of deadline
Notes: Arroyo aware of deadline
Don't expect a similar scene to unfold with Red Sox right-hander Bronson Arroyo, who has two starts scheduled (Sunday at Chicago and Saturday at home vs. the Twins) before the trade deadline, which occurs a week from Sunday.
"I'm not really worried about getting traded to tell you the truth," said Arroyo. "I haven't even thought about it too much. I think the situation that I'm in and the situation that we're in right now, I don't think I'm going anywhere. Maybe I'm wrong."
Arroyo does understand that it's pure logic for his name to pop up when there is a proposed deal involving the Red Sox.
"I know a lot of the guys on this team, especially the starting pitchers, are in a situation that they really can't be moved," Arroyo said. "I'm probably really the only guy who's movable in the rotation, other than Wade [Miller], if people trust that his shoulder is healthy. I know my name is going to come up here and there."
Why doesn't Arroyo think that the Red Sox will trade him?
"I don't feel like there's anybody out there they're going to go get that's going to make our rotation that much better than it is right now," said Arroyo. "I don't see why you would trade one of your five guys that's been healthy for you the whole time I've been here."
It has been speculated around the rumor mill that, if the Red Sox close a deal for Marlins right-hander A.J. Burnett, Arroyo would be one of the players included in the package. If that trade or any other deal involving Arroyo comes to fruition, don't expect him to chalk it up as business and move on.
Arroyo is frank about the fact that he'd be crushed if he had to leave the organization he's found a home with since 2003.
"I love playing in Boston," said Arroyo. "I've said it plenty of times. I'll sign a lifetime deal here any time they want. I like playing in this uniform, I don't want to play anywhere else. I've played in Pittsburgh where it was a complete contrast. I don't think there's any other place in baseball that brings the kind of excitement that the Red Sox do.
"It seems like every time you put this uniform on every day, it means something. It's fun to pitch in a place where people are going to boo you if you pitch badly and cheer you if you pitch good."
Schilling's optimism: If Curt Schilling's last few outings in the bullpen have shown him anything, it is that he is fully capable of rejoining the Red Sox rotation whenever the team needs him to.
"I think I can go back and start right now," Schilling told The Boston Globe before Friday's game. "If I had a couple starts where I throw only 100 pitches, I think I can do that. I think I'm much closer to being able to do that than I was seven days ago. I want to go back in the rotation as soon as I possibly can. Me going back in the rotation is not solely dependent on me. If I go back next week, I'll be ready."
Red Sox manager Terry Francona said that Schilling will remain as the closer for now. Because of the uncertainty of what the Red Sox will do before the trade deadline and how soon closer Keith Foulke will return from surgery, there's no sense in shifting Schilling's role right now.
"You can't just go week to week, changing roles. That's difficult on your team," said Francona. "The other thing is, I don't know what's going to happen this week. I don't know that anybody does. Rather than start upsetting the whole apple cart, let's at least get through the week and then see where we stand."
But Francona did see it as an encouraging sign that Schilling is already eyeing his return to the rotation.
"I think it means he feels good pitching, which is great," Francona said. "I understand the wanting of us and him to start. I don't think tonight we just, because he feels ready, we can go do that. That doesn't make sense. But I'm glad he's starting to feel like that. That's part of the reason the other night we gave him two innings. We don't want him to be a one inning pitcher for us for the next couple of years. That's not the idea."
Kapler starts with bang: Outfielder Gabe Kapler, eligible to be activated by the Red Sox on July 30, started his rehab stint with Triple-A Pawtucket in strong fashion on Saturday night. Kapler, who received a standing ovation as he strode to the plate in the bottom of the first, singled in his first-bat bat and belted a three-run homer in his second at-bat. He led off and played center field against Ottawa.
Kapler DH'd for two games at Class A (short season) Lowell and took a day off before making his impressive debut for the PawSox, the team he will play for at least through July 29.
Lefties galore: Left-handed hitters entered the night hitting .311 against White Sox starter Orlando Hernandez this season, a fact that did not get lost on Francona. The Boston manager stacked the deck with seven left-handed hitters (including switch-hitters) against El Duque.
The only right-handed hitters in the lineup were Edgar Renteria and Manny Ramirez, who homered in his first at-bat.
John Olerud played first base in place of Kevin Millar, who was on the bench on the one-year anniversary of the night he belted three homers in a game against the Yankees. Left-handed-hitting second baseman Alex Cora got the start at second base with Tony Graffanino getting the night off.
On deck: Arroyo (8-5, 4.05 ERA) closes out this four-game set on Sunday afternoon against Jose Contreras (5-6, 4.34 ERA), a right-hander the Red Sox have feasted on over the years.
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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The Bathurst 1000 is demanding and leading the qualifying was Whincup followed by Winterbottom and Bright as they next take on the Top 10 shootout.
Jason Bright is hoping this is his year but the question still remains: who will beat Jamie Whincup?
Bright is having the best year of his career in years with the small Brad Jones Racing outfit that has always figured at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 but have never finished on the top step.
Three times they have finished second - 1997, 2001 and 2009 - the last time when the late Jason Richards and Cam McConville teamed up for an amazing shot at glory when Richards almost ran down Garth Tander.
"Our race pace will be strong enough, going by the last two days, to be in the top three. It is a matter of keeping out of trouble and having a good car at the end of the day to have a charge in the last 60 laps which it seems to come down to every year," Bright said.
Bright has also been a key part of the resurgent Brad Jones Racing team with both he and teammate Fabian Coulthard enjoying wins in the Championship.
"I am happy where our strengths are and what that will mean for the race. We have a car that will be good in race pack. The car seems to be quick enough in one lap trim as well. We just need to get up there tomorrow and then have a good race.
"We have as good a chance as any other year, if not better. The speed the car has had this year, and tyres I think we can go into the race confident we can head for a podium but it's a long race and anything can happen to any of us."
Whincup yet again stands in everyone's way after qualifying today before the long, tense wait for tomorrow afternoon's ARMOR ALL Top Ten Shootout. He shut out Pepsi Max Crew FPRs Mark Winterbottom and Bright to claim provisional ARMOR ALL Pole Position.
The qualifying session is only a ticket into the shootout and not a guarantee of the elusive pole slot; and nor is starting on the front row and great advantage in one of the world's most epic races. Only 11 times has the pole sitter won the race.
Whincup again set the mark with a lap of 2:08.0054, just ahead of Winterbottom with Bright 0.2s further back.
Holden's James Courtney was fourth ahead of Kiwi Shane van Gisbergen and Whincup's teammate Craig Lowndes.
A key for Sunday's race will be the mandatory seven pit stops, one more than the Ford and Holden cars can manage, but to even up the race for the Nissan and Mercedes E63 AMG entries which have less fuel capacity.
"It's the fairest thing for us all to have the same number of stops," said Winterbottom. "It will make a difference when we work out the stints. There's a minimum 54 laps for the co-driver so that means three of the seven stints. That will mean some different strategies."
The Mercedes E63 AMG of Tim Slade did not make it on to the track today after yesterday's major off but are hopeful of a return tomorrow, while the Ford of Chaz Mostert also missed the qualifying session after an off in the morning practice.
Tomorrow is further practice in the morning ahead of the Top Ten Shootout in the late afternoon.
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Sipping this, I'm really missing Simple Leaf. There were so many other teas from them I wanted to try. Mountain Malt, Black Frost… I think I repeat myself every time I drink this tea. But they shut down so suddenly; you would think they would need to sell off some of their stock first. Where did all of that tea go, I wonder?
Sipping this very hot and savouring it. I have a calculus test to take in a little under two hours. I can never bring myself to worry over these things, and sipping tea only calms me more. I hope I pass.
Dirty, dry malt, raw cocoa, this is such a wonderfully confusing tea. I'm no chocolate fan, but I can understand what people mean by 'raw cocoa'. That dusty, astringent, dirt taste, with hints of very bitter chocolate. I'm so glad I still have a few good scoops left. This is not a tea I want to finish off. We're still getting acquainted.


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Long-legged bunting
|Long-legged bunting
|Hypothetical restoration based on known material and related species
|Scientific classification
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|Emberiza alcoveri
Rando, Lopez, and Segui, 1999
The long-legged bunting (Emberiza alcoveri) is an extinct flightless species of bunting. It was distinguishable by its long legs and short wings, and it inhabited the Canary Islands. It is one of the few flightless passerines known to science, all of which are extinct.
This bunting belongs to the Emberiza genus, and is closest related to the Cabanis's bunting (E. cabanisi) and the yellowhammer (E. citrinella).[1] Emberiza is a genus inside the bunting family, Emberizidae, which is made up of small, seed-eating birds with distinctive bill shapes.[2] The species name, alcoveri, is in honour of J. A. Alcover, who contributed to fossil fauna knowledge and information.[1]
The holotype of the long-legged bunting is a partial skeleton. Seven other associated skeletons were found.[3] The bones are held at the University of La Laguna, in Tenerife, Spain. This species was distinguishable from other buntings as it was larger than existing Emberiza species and had longer legs, shorter wings, and a differently-shaped bill. These features indicate that the long-legged bunting was a ground dweller and likely flightless. This makes it one of the few known flightless Passerines known, the others being Lyall's wren (Xenicus lyalli) and the long-billed wren (Dendroscansor decurvirostris). Both of these wrens are extinct. This bunting was probably omnivorous, like the other species in its genus. It likely ate seeds and invertebrates. However, because of its differently-shaped bill, harder seeds could have been included in its diet.[1]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
The long-legged bunting was a native of the Canary Islands. Bones from this species have only been found in the volcanic cave Cueva del Viento, on the island of Tenerife. Other species that lived alongside this bunting include various birds, mammals, and lizards. This species likely lived in the laurel forest or the transition forest, as food would be plentiful and the herb layer would protect against aerial predators.[1]
The long-legged bunting had lived in the Canary Islands during the Upper Pleistocene and the Holocene. Humans arrived over 2,000 years ago, bringing with them invasive species such as goats, pigs, cats, and sheep. The Europeans impacted the land even more when they arrived, introducing rats to the islands and cultivating the land. The long-legged bunting was driven to extinction because of these invasive species and the destruction of its habitat.[1]
- ^ a b c d e Rando, J. C.; Lopez, M.; Segui, B. (February 1999). "A New Species of Extinct Flightless Passerine" (PDF). The Condor. 101 (1): 1–13. JSTOR 1370440. doi:10.2307/1370440. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- ^ Baptista, Luis F. (1991). Forshaw, Joseph, ed. Encyclopaedia of Animals: Birds. London: Merehurst Press. pp. 210–212. ISBN 1-85391-186-0.
- ^ "Fossil records for the family Finches and Allies". KPN.com. Retrieved 2008-08-01.


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SqlTransaction Class
Represents a Transact-SQL transaction to be made in a SQL Server database. This class cannot be inherited.
Assembly: System.Data (in System.Data.dll)
The application creates a SqlTransaction object by calling BeginTransaction on the SqlConnection object. All subsequent operations associated with the transaction (for example, committing or aborting the transaction), are performed on the SqlTransaction object.
Try/Catch exception handling should always be used when committing or rolling back a SqlTransaction. Both Commit and Rollback generate an InvalidOperationException if the connection is terminated or if the transaction has already been rolled back on the server.
For more information on SQL Server transactions, see "Explicit Transactions" and "Coding Efficient Transactions" in SQL Server 2005 Books Online.
The following example creates a SqlConnection and a SqlTransaction. It also demonstrates how to use the BeginTransaction, Commit, and Rollback methods. The transaction is rolled back on any error. Try/Catch error handling is used to handle any errors when attempting to commit or roll back the transaction.
private static void ExecuteSqlTransaction(string connectionString) { using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString)) { connection.Open(); SqlCommand command = connection.CreateCommand(); SqlTransaction transaction; // Start a local transaction. transaction = connection.BeginTransaction("SampleTransaction"); // Must assign both transaction object and connection // to Command object for a pending local transaction command.Connection = connection; command.Transaction = transaction; try { command.CommandText = "Insert into Region (RegionID, RegionDescription) VALUES (100, 'Description')"; command.ExecuteNonQuery(); command.CommandText = "Insert into Region (RegionID, RegionDescription) VALUES (101, 'Description')"; command.ExecuteNonQuery(); // Attempt to commit the transaction. transaction.Commit(); Console.WriteLine("Both records are written to database."); } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine("Commit Exception Type: {0}", ex.GetType()); Console.WriteLine(" Message: {0}", ex.Message); // Attempt to roll back the transaction. try { transaction.Rollback(); } catch (Exception ex2) { // This catch block will handle any errors that may have occurred // on the server that would cause the rollback to fail, such as // a closed connection. Console.WriteLine("Rollback Exception Type: {0}", ex2.GetType()); Console.WriteLine(" Message: {0}", ex2.Message); } } } }
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By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Published: October 27, 2006
New York University's golf coach said he was forced to resign Oct. 12 after university officials learned that he accompanied players to a strip club while the team was competing in Florida in March.
Jay Donovan, the coach since September 2005, told a student newspaper, The Washington Square News, in an article published Wednesday that he and six of the eight players on the trip went to a strip club they passed when they were lost in the Fort Lauderdale area. The team was competing in a tournament in Weston, about 20 miles to the west.
Donovan told the newspaper that the visit to the strip club was revealed after several players quit the team Oct. 12. The newspaper reported that a player younger than 20 consumed at least one alcoholic beverage.
Donovan said the players acted after John Pharr, the team captain, was criticized by Chris Bledsoe, the athletic director, for skipping a practice two days before. When the players' parents found out they had quit, they called Bledsoe and told him of the visit, Donovan said.
Donovan, 43, said that he only smoked a cigar in the club and that no money of his or the university's was spent. In such a case, no N.C.A.A. rule would appear to have been violated.
On Wednesday, after the article appeared, the university issued a statement that confirmed Donovan's resignation and alluded to the strip-club incident.
The statement said that it was ''the clear expectation of the athletic department that every coach act in a fashion consistent with his or her responsibilities and use the highest standards of good judgment.''
Jeff Bernstein, the assistant athletic director for sports information, said that the university would not comment on the specifics of the incident, and that a search for a new coach had begun.
On Oct. 14-15, the team played its final tournament of the season, the Violet Classic at the Hampshire Country Club in Larchmont, N.Y. The players who Donovan said had quit competed in the event.
Bernstein served as the coach as N.Y.U. beat 10 other teams for its only first-place finish of the season.


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On 1 December 2016 at 15:37, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <po...@debian.org> wrote: > On 01/12/16 17:46, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: >> ...if a binNMU can be done on arch:all. > > Not really. > >> If I try to upgrade my packages to the new libxtables apt wants to remove >> firehol, so I guess the parameters of the transition tracker are not just >> right. > > Do you have an apt log? I would imagine firehol depends on another package > that > depends on libxtables11. But I don't see why we would want to binNMU firehol. > > Maybe this is your problem: > > p firehol Depends firehol-common (= 3.0.2+ds-1) > p firehol-common Depends iproute2 > i iproute2 Recommends libxtables11
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Scott Jagow: The Senate has passed an economic rescue package worth more than $800 billion. The House may vote on it tomorrow.
We continue our coverage of the financial crisis with Congressman Bill Pascrell, a Democrat from New Jersey. Congressman, you were saying you wish there was more regulation in this bill to prevent future problems. Are you going to push for changes to the Senate version?
Congressman Bill Pascrell: I don't believe there will be any changes, because then it would have to go back to the Senate again. I don't think that's going to happen. I'm wishing -- I would like some changes, I'm going to be fighting for some changes in caucus. Now, I know all of this could not have been done in this bill. This is a difficult vote for me to make. I'm up to the task, I'm reading as much as I possibly can. Will America be more at risk if I vote no? Will America be less at risk if I vote yes? That's the thing I'm going to struggle it up at the time that I vote.
Jagow: Are Democrats going to wait until they have the votes to get this passed?
Pascrell: I don't think it'll come up unless they have the votes this time. Mr. Bainer, the leader on the other side who I have a great deal of respect for, wants us to believe that no taxpayer money is at risk here. The way the legislation is written, that is not true. The money that we're going to be spending we think we're going to be getting back because they're going to sell these assets. Who's going to determine the price? Which leads me to my second-nature problem: Who is going to administer this program? I've heard that this will be privatized beyond the Treasury Department. And what are we going to do, put our friends in charge here? Folks are going to have to decide tomorrow in the House of Representatives whether these are improvements or whether this is simply a little more icing on the cake.
Jagow: Right now, what's your sense, what are the odds of getting this through the House tomorrow?
Pascrell: Oh, I think that it will pass.
Jagow: Congressman Bill Pascrell, Democrat from New Jersey. Thanks for joining us.
Pascrell: Thank you!


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Mexican drug cartels are turning to a new and lucrative source of income south of the border.
Smuggling drugs is making up ever smaller percentage of their business.
UTB Professor Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is talking about the latest trend is stealing oil and other petroleum products.
They are diversifying to different activities such as extortion, kidnapping and very profitable business now is to steal oil and its derivatives including natural gas,
The Mexican army released its latest figures on Friday morning regarding its fight to preserve Mexico's oil industry.
Some 538,000 gallons of fuel have been seized since May in the State of Veracruz alone.
According to AAA, the average American uses 550 gallons of gas per year.
The stolen fuel represents enough gasoline to run 978 cars for one year's time.
There's no way that this amount of resources can be stolen if the authorities and the worker there have not known what's been going on, Professor Correa-Cabrera said.
Most of the fuel ends up sold on the black market in Mexico.
The pirate gasoline and diesel is sold in plastic containers are sometimes from giant tanks in the pack of pickup trucks.
The Mexican navy seized such a pickup truck in Matamoros back in March 2011.
In states like Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, pipelines are tapped and tanker trucks are being stolen.
Professor Correa-Cabrera told Action 4 News that some of the stolen fuel ends up sold to oil companies in Texas.
Mexico TMs oil company PEMEX has filed lawsuits against American companies that bought the fuel.
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Haren guides Angels past TigersJul 31, 2011 - 1:29 AM Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Dan Haren tossed his third complete game of the season to lead the Angels past the Tigers, 5-1, in the third portion of a four-game series.
Haren (11-6) allowed one run on six hits and a walk while striking out just one batter.
"The key to success against Texas and all the big lineups is keeping the guys off base in front of their big guys. I did that for the most part," said Haren.
Erick Aybar went 3-for-5 with a double and two runs scored as the Angels won for the eighth time in their last 11 games.
Jacob Turner (0-1) made his major league debut, allowing two runs on three hits and three walks while striking out six through 5 1/3 innings for the loss.
"I definitely had jitters in the first inning, but that's to be expected. Ultimately, it went pretty well," Turner said about his debut. "It was an awesome experience."
Magglio Ordonez knocked in Detroit's lone run as the team fell for the fifth time in the past eight games.
Haren retired the first nine batters he faced, but Andy Dirks led off the fourth inning with a double, advanced to third on a Brennan Boesch groundout and crossed the plate on Ordonez's single into center field, giving the Tigers a one-run advantage.
The Angels answered back in the fifth when Peter Bourjos was hit by a pitch to start the frame, stole second and came home on a Torii Hunter base hit to knot the game at one.
After Howie Kendrick's one-out walk in the sixth, Turner was removed in favor of Phil Coke. Aybar greeted the lefty with a double to left field and Mark Trumbo was intentionally walked to load the bases. Coke then hit Bourjos with a pitch, scoring Kendrick.
Jeff Mathis sent a sacrifice fly to right that brought Aybar home and gave the Angels a 3-1 lead.
LA added to its lead in the eighth. Aybar led off the frame with a single and came around to score on Trumbo's double to center. Bourjos laid down a sacrifice bunt to move Trumbo to third and, two batters later, Maicer Izturis lined an RBI double to left.
The only other time Haren put a runner in scoring position was when Detroit put runners on the corners with no outs in the seventh after back-to-back singles by Ordonez and Miguel Cabrera. Victor Martinez came up next and hit a grounder to first. Trumbo threw to second for the force, and then Aybar tossed the ball home, where catcher Mathis placed the tag on Ordonez at the plate for the double play.
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Detroit acquired pitchers Doug Fister and David Pauley from the Seattle Mariners in exchanged for pitcher Charlie Furbush, third baseman Francisco Martinez, outfielder Casper Wells and a player to be named later Saturday...Turner was recalled from Double-A Erie earlier Saturday...Haren improved to 4-4 lifetime against the Tigers...It was Haren's 14th complete game of his career.
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Depending on your perspective, Miami's Winter Music Conference (WMC) is either the annual gathering of the electronic dance-music industry for a week of high-powered networking and taste-making, or it's simply an excuse for hordes of pasty Europeans and pale Midwesterners to hit South Beach on the corporate tab and get fried, both in and out of the sun. The truth lies somewhere in between, particularly because the electronica revolution (hyped to absurdity three years ago) never came to fruition -- at least not at the cash register. Instead, as the rock and roll milieu finally crashed and burned, the sales bailout that the major-label record companies were desperately searching for came not from a troop of faceless DJs, but from the resurrection of meticulously choreographed teenybopper acts, as well as rock's successor as our societal common tongue: hip-hop.
Still, despite the dream of hitting platinum being more distant than ever, the conference soldiers on -- sometimes surreally so. One joke making the rounds quips that though the WMC's location has shifted from the Fontainebleau to the Radisson Deauville, most participants still are expected to flock to the poolside schmoozefest at the Fontainebleau, contentedly oblivious to the change. While this aside certainly points up the regard with which many hold the WMC's numerous workshops and panels (and considering that stacks of blank ballots for the conference's awards presentation have been spotted all over town, it's a little hard to take that "prestigious" honor too seriously either), it also underscores a larger point. Namely that the WMC has taken on an autonomous life of its own, regardless of what its official organizers have planned; much could be said of the world of electronica itself.
Consequently the real action this week occurs 60 blocks south of the Radisson, where an army of outside promoters and labels from around the globe have rented out South Beach's nightclubs for a veritable smorgasbord of showcases. For music fans it's an unparalleled opportunity to catch some of the most exciting sounds percolating through DJ culture right now, particularly since the bulk of these artists will not be returning to Miami until 2001's WMC. Next week clubland returns to normal with the de rigueur velvet-rope shenanigans and oh-so-tired beats. This week, however, there's an embarrassment of musical riches on hand. Following are some of the highlights.
Saturday, March 25
Last year's craze for all things French is beginning to look a bit stale, a point not-so-subtly driven home by the release of Dimitri from Paris's latest mix CD, A Night at the Playboy Mansion. Dimitri's neococktail lounge overtures and self-consciously kitschy protodisco grooves apparently are just what Hugh Hefner conceives of as the ideal rebranding element for the Playboy empire, or at least the appropriate aural accompaniment for lounging around the house in one's pajamas and ogling nineteen-year-olds. Witness this somewhat creepy collision of Playboy marketing savvy and rave culture firsthand tonight at the Living Room. Authentic Playmates will diligently work the room and smile on cue as Dimitri, Romain, and DJ Deep do their best to re-create the house-focused Parisian Respect nightclub.
Wolfie's Diner remains one of the few holdovers from the South Beach of old, a restaurant still steeped in the vibe of the Jewish deli culture, with waitresses more focused on keeping the tables stocked with fresh rye and pickles than mulling over their next modeling audition. So if you happen to eat at Wolfie's today, rest assured the throngs of teenage ravers clogging up the joint are most decidedly not regulars. They're simply en route to (or decompressing from) the humongous Ultra 2000 shindig being thrown a block east, outside on the beach at 21st Street.
Purists may scoff at trance's ascendancy, with its resultant bleaching of electronic dance culture, but the kids, particularly here in South Florida, couldn't be more thrilled. And if last year's Ultra party is any barometer, expect thousands to slide into their baggiest pair of jeans, strap on their tiniest backpacks, and then converge on this site for a daylong lineup of shiny, happy Euro-style trance (leavened by some Orlando-derived breaks). The roster includes heavy-hitters Paul van Dyk, Sasha and Digweed, Tall Paul, and Rabbit in the Moon. The Rabbit's appeal is as much visual as musical; in the words of one veteran partygoer, given the proper state of mind, watching a sparkling eight-foot android-cum-bunny cavort onstage is just "too much, dude, too much." Concerned parents fearing an epidemic of "Why Johnny Can't Blink," fret not. While one policeman who was assigned to the site last March conceded with a laugh that the half-dozen or so passed-out people who left the event on stretchers "were definitely not suffering from heat exhaustion," he also stressed the crowd as a whole was remarkably well behaved and trouble free. Music begins at noon. Wear sunblock and bring plenty of water.
Whither jungle? For a genre that's, at most, only seven years old, drum and bass has been saddled with an insane amount of expectations, touted as everything from the future of hip-hop to the future of pop music -- period. Since 1997, arguably jungle's creative peak as well as the apex of mainstream fascination with the form, the hype has rapidly crested. The faithful, however, remain no less devoted; they should be out in force tonight at Groove Jet for a bill that includes several pioneering Londoners who attempted to steer their chosen discipline in bold new directions.
LTJ Bukem's first few singles in 1993 and 1994 were dramatic departures from the then-dominant ragga-tinged and hip-hop sample-heavy currents in drum and bass. Instead Bukem stripped his tracks down to crisp, rattling breakbeats and then layered them with ethereal washes of synthesizers and chilly organ arpeggios. A '70s jazz fusion feel proliferated, as if Chick Corea suddenly had decided to bust a move. It was a left-field approach, made even more novel by the steady rolling cadences of MC Conrad, who rapped through the atmospheric holes that seemed to float in and out of Bukem's constructions. Repeat any formula enough, though, and no matter how striking it first appeared, it soon becomes cliché. Such was the case with Bukem, who quickly was reduced to endlessly rehashing himself. Fortunately his long-awaited new full-length album, Journey Inwards, sees the artist setting out on a new (and long overdue) stylistic path. The only question is, will his fans follow? Journey Inwards retains its creator's signature air of champagne-sipping refinement, but to call it a drum and bass record is a bit of stretch. Bukem now seems drawn to the slinky blaxploitation-era soul-jazz that colored so many vintage cops-and-robbers flicks. As "Rhodes to Freedom" hits its stride, with the Rhodes electric piano chords name-checked in the song's title pushing forcefully against an insistent snare drum, it's easy to visualize Dirty Harry jumping from rooftop to rooftop in hot pursuit.
The title of Roni Size's 1997 New Forms album may have been a bit of an overstatement, but it certainly alludes to what Size was attempting: to drag drum and bass from the margins square into the center of popdom, drawing on vintage soul, throwing everything from acoustic guitars to caterwauling divas into the mix. He even had the conceit to enact the whole shebang live, assembling an organic band and touring America with a phalanx of hooded keyboardists and drummers furiously pounding away in real time. "We're a jazz group, we're a sound system, we're hip-hop, we're house, we're Aretha Franklin, we're James Brown!" exclaimed Size in an interview with this writer. "We're just trying to put all the things we love up on the stage. The turntable is as important as the drummer as the keyboardist." Three years on we're still waiting for a New Forms followup; a sneak peek may emerge during Size's DJ set, spinning alongside fellow accomplices from his Reprazent crew: DJ Krust, DJ Die, DJ Suv, and MC Dynamite.
For Miami's own DJ Craze, drum and bass isn't an end in itself. Rather it's simply one more element to be artfully chopped into smile-inducing feats of turntablism. For tonight's tag-team set with DJs A-Track and Z-Trip, expect an ample display of the kind of showboating and behind-the-back scratching that has earned him the DMC title with that competition's bragging rights to the deftest hands in the world.
Blackalicious rounds out the night, and while they have no overt connections to the evening's drum and bass theme, their singular take on hip-hop is all too rare these days. Originally coming up alongside and collaborating with DJ Shadow in the college town of Davis, California (they've since relocated to the Bay Area), the collective has always bowed before the altar of the MC, putting an artful verbal flow and dexterous word-slinging above all else. Add in a taste for '70s funk-infused beats, and you've got a mixture that's notably out of step with today's rap marketplace. Which seems to suit Blackalicious just fine. On their new album, Nia, they practically revel in their outsider status, tossing out pointed barbs at the larger hip-hop scene while gleefully bobbing and lyrically weaving around head-snapping rhythms.
Sunday, March 26
The philosophy most commonly associated with the WMC is unbridled hedonism, so this evening's benefit for War Child (a charity focusing on tykes caught in war-torn nations such as Guatemala and Kosovo) is a welcome change of pace. The $10 soirée unfolds around the pool at the Raleigh Hotel, with music beginning at 6:00 p.m. First up is Chicago's Ron Trent (recently relocated to NYC), who hasn't received the high-profile rep of many of his Chitown peers, but was nonetheless a well-regarded player in that city's early '90s house scene. Thanks to a solid new release on England's Peacefrog label, which collects some of Trent's tracks from that time (as well as his most recent output), he looks set to receive some long-overdue recognition. One could carp over the all-too-familiar irony of it taking British fans to remind Americans of their own homegrown talent, or just concentrate on not falling into the pool as Gilles Peterson and Norman Jay take the helm. The two are famed for their radio and club slots back in England, where they've consistently championed all manner of vintage grooves, from gritty '60s soul stompers to sleek acid jazz. What's in their DJ bags for tonight is anybody's guess (Peterson's stint during the New Times/Planet E wingding last year featured a set of manic Brazilian batucada workouts), but considering the typical Miami Beach definition of old-school is the first Madonna album, whatever they choose should be a treat. Also spinning are French disco deconstructionist Bob Sinclair, Pete Heller, DJ Yellow, and Julius Papp.
Monday, March 27
If you're looking to discover which big-name house DJs have jetted into town for an unannounced gig, there's a much more reliable option than relying on the grapevine. Simply drop by the Beach's Y&T Music and see firsthand which èminence grise is holding court amid the aisles there. That's exactly where New York City's Danny Tenaglia, reigning star of the gay circuit, was spotted early one Friday evening, listening to a stack of new twelve-inches. The records he seemed most enamored of though -- several dubbed-out minimalist techno outings on the German Chain Reaction label -- were a far cry from the steady diet of generic thump Tenaglia spins on his frequent local engagements. So, Danny, ahem, what gives? "I can't play that stuff in Miami," he replies with a sheepish shrug. "The club owners here would never go for it." That's a restriction that thankfully should be absent tonight, when Y&T presents Tenaglia in a thirteen-hour solo set at Club Space, a recently rehabbed cavernous warehouse whose downtown location should help keep clubland's stifling aesthetics at bay. Expect a sonic history lesson: Tenaglia has promised to work his way from vintage '70s Salsoul sides to the tribal-flavor remixes with which he established his name in the mid-90s, and on to whatever his little heart desires. Of course a diverse playlist is almost a given -- he does have thirteen hours to fill, after all. Music begins at 11:00 p.m.; arrive before midnight and admission is free. Best of all Space is fully equipped with a (better sit down for this one) parking lot.
Before we chime in with the rest of the media hosannas singing the praises of Moby, a few notes of perspective. For the past decade, prior to 1999's Play, Moby's oeuvre consisted of cringeworthy stabs at college-radio accessibility, the kind of electronic dance records that appealed chiefly to creaky rock-oriented critics grasping for a handle on this "dance" thang (and perhaps subconsciously identifying with Moby's bald crown). It was music that held little actual interest for the techno fans for which Moby was supposedly a standard-bearer. Furthermore the "breakthrough" heralded by the press on Play -- the melding of sprightly breakbeats with impassioned gospel chants and field hollers sampled from dusty old Folkways albums -- is hardly revolutionary. Chicago's Green Velvet (who spins at Level on Monday, March 27, under the Cajmere moniker) married a frenzied African Orthodox sermon to a driving house loop back on his 1993 "Preacherman" twelve-inch; Detroit's Moodymann did much the same on his 1997 cut, "Sunday Morning."
Setting the historical record straight, however, shouldn't take away from what Moby has done with Play: crafted a sublimely satisfying pop record, a naturalesque fusion wherein Bessie Smith tiptoes out on to the dance floor, throws her head back, and lets loose. For tonight's live set from Moby at crobar, expect full-band reworkings of much of that album, marred only by the kind of goofy frontman moves that make even the Spin Doctors' lead singer look butch by comparison.
With 1999's Programmed Carl Craig confirmed his status as one of electronica's visionaries, drawing on the language of sprawling '70s jazz ensembles, such as the Human Arts Ensemble, in the hopes of crafting an altogether new tongue. While it was a reach that at times exceeded his grasp, when it clicked, with Craig laying down coruscating keyboard vamps amid his live Innerzone Orchestra rhythm section, Programmed hummed with power. Of course it also was the capstone on a decade's worth of musical experimentation, from the android body-popping R&B of 1991's "Jam the Box" to the following year's spring-loaded, protodrum and bass single "Bug in the Bassbin" to the mournful synth peals of 1997's More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art -- each of which would help redefine exactly what "Detroit techno" has come to mean. For his DJ set at Red Square tonight, expect selections that willfully tweak expectations while exposing many of Craig's early influences, from electric-era Miles Davis to the B-52's.
Many of Craig's records have been issued on his own Planet E imprint, which has of late been exposing a younger generation of Detroiters to the world; this evening's event is a celebration of that label, with a little help from some of Craig's friends. Next-generation Planet E signees Recloose and Common Factor both will perform live, no doubt madly banging away at their laptops in an effort to summon their boundary-hopping everything-but-the-kitchen-sink tunes.
Rolando is the newest wunderkind addition to the Underground Resistance, a group of Detroit DJs whose pioneering early '90s techno records were famed as much for their accompanying messages of Afro-Futurism and disturbing war imagery (often etched right into the twelve-inch vinyl itself), as for their stomach-lurching forward motion and teeth-grinding aural feel. Rolando continues with much of that apocalyptic iconography, but favors a much wider sonic palette. As his liner notes to The Aztec Mystic Mix state: "Many Detroit DJs hired to play abroad would modify their sets drastically from what they would play to an urban Detroit audience....The omissions of house, hip-hop, electro, Latin freestyle, and many other inner-city classics made for throngs of 4/4 beat drunk, rhythmically inept, media-controlled audiences that unbelievably have to go to different rooms or venues to hear different rhythms, beats, and tempos." Beyond his own set-list choices, Rolando's commitment to diversity is proven by his recent "Knights of the Jaguar" single. A string-driven scorcher that somehow seems equally at home seguing from Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do" as it does from Jeff Mills's latest paint-peeler, "Knights of the Jaguar" manages to conjure the same past-the-breaking-point tension as one of Sylvester's vintage disco barn-burners, yet maintains a timbre that's utterly of-the-moment. Just how it works is a mystery, but anyone who's witnessed the frenzied dance-floor response it unleashes knows Rolando has a promising future ahead.
Jazz is a word bandied about in electronic circles, not only for its aesthetic connotations exalting the art of the improviser and the cult of the lone auteur, but also for its attendant imagery. Goateed hipsters in sharp suits are a far more preferable sight on TV newscasts than the latest police bust of a posse of scruffy ravers in desperate need of a belt with which to hold up their pants. Still, injecting jazz elements into electronica often has translated simply into watery beats underpinned by saccharine wisps of sax -- more Kenny G than John Coltrane. The German Compost label has neatly sidestepped this issue by celebrating the jazzbos who themselves looked explicitly to the dance floor for inspiration: finger-snappers such as Cannonball Adderly and Freddie Hubbard (whose Night of the Cookers album seems to lay down a template for much of Compost's roster). Tonight at Groove Jet, Compost stalwarts Rainer Truby, Jazzanova, two-thirds of the Truby Trio, and Michael Reinboth (whose work with Beanfield has resulted in some exceedingly infectious deep-house wrigglers), all get to strut their stuff.
Outside on Groove Jet's patio, Viennese mixologists Kruder and Dorfmeister fashion their own spin on somnambular trip-hop, transforming even the menacing sing-song thuggery of Bone, Thugs-N-Harmony into a dreamy lullaby. England's A Guy Called Gerald, famed for his "Voodoo Ray" back in the acid-house days, has reinvented himself with sideways excursions into skittering drum and bass. For his live PA here, he's joined by ex-Deee-Lite singer Lady Miss Kier, who thankfully is giving her own stabs at jungle DJing a rest and returning to her strengths: grabbing the mike and demonstrating the fine art of being fabulous.
Tuesday, March 28
Drum and bass is still regarded primarily as a British phenomenon, with its American practitioners shunted into the role of redheaded stepchild. Tonight at the Mission, the Yanks get a chance to shine, with the lineup standing as a veritable roll call of the domestic jungle scene. Miami's own Marco and Tea Farmer (residents at the weekly Beatcamp party), as well as Fort Lauderdale's Element are holding down the Floridian component of the evening with their abstract take on tech-step's chilly vibe and drill-like attack. Fellow hometown heroes DJ Craze and DJ Infamous should raise more than a few eyebrows as well, with their furious slicing, scratching, and general turntablist mischief -- no doubt chopping up several sacred drum and bass anthems in the process. From Chicago comes Phantom 45, from Philadelphia Karl K and Dieselboy, from San Francisco a good chunk of the Phunckateck crew, and from Houston BMC with MC Gremlin. As American drum and bass struggles to forge its own identity, it should be interesting to see if this assemblage of coast-to-coast talent points out any new trends, beyond the already-perceived eschewing of the Jamaican ragamuffinism of the genre's birth.
Wednesday, March 29
Dance music is too mercurial to ever establish a working canon, but the output of New Yorker Armand Van Helden comes pretty close. His singles just seem to pop up in everybody's sets, from the Chemical Brothers' live shows to the crates of virtually any house DJ within 500 miles of Chicago. Best of all is Van Helden's proud schizophrenia: How else to describe the mind of a producer that can concoct both the inventively raw, aggressively macho jeep beats of "Reservoir Dogs" and then fashion the luscious nouveau-disco of "Flowerz," with its sweeping strings, hair-raising falsetto-crooning, and a vibe so deliciously sleazy you can practically smell the amyl nitrate?
Also spinning on this bill with Van Helden at the Shadow Lounge is fellow New Yorker Todd Terry, who these days is known less for his classic late '80s house twelve-inches (many of which traveled across the Atlantic to become seminal British acid-house anthems) and more for his production work: It was Terry's radical remixing of Everything but the Girl that breathed new life into that duo's career, transforming them from adult-contemporary washouts into the flagship for urbane dinner-party drum and bass.
For this evening's showcase at the Mission, Miami's foremost (okay, its only) leftist collective-cum-experimental electronica record label, Beta Bodega, has scooped up a number of their cutting-edge brethren from around the nation. DJ Assault and DJ Godfather are two Detroit figures who have led that city's "ghetto-tech" explosion, jamming the already hyperkinetic tempos of Miami bass (as well as that music's, ahem, potty mouth) into insanely pitched-up techno grooves. Imagine Derrick May wrestling with the almighty Luke, and you still aren't anywhere near approximating how downright ludicrous this forced union can sound. Annoying? At times. But never boring -- traits apparently first honed after sonic field testing in the Detroit strip clubs where ghetto-tech first found favor as the pole-dancing soundtrack of choice.
Ectomorph operates on the fringes of ghetto-tech, a role befitting his current residence in Ann Arbor, Michigan -- a college town to which avant-garders, from the MC5 in the '60s to the Laughing Hyenas in the '90s, traditionally have fled when the boho life in Detroit proper got a little too malevolent. Like those storied acts, Ectomorph never lets getting out there supersede getting down, though the roots reference point this time around isn't the blues, it's the early '80s electro of Afrika Bambaataa. This isn't a retro move, however. In electro's analog nature and slippery textures, Ectomorph simply sees endless possibilities for turning the beat around.
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Los Angeles's Mannequin Lung creates shuddering rhythms that seem to approximate a dog falling pell-mell down a flight of stairs (complete with what may be computer-processed barks), while Wisconsin's Stewart Walker takes a gentler approach to that same tumble. The songs on his most recent Stabiles album spiral outward in a somewhat gingerly fashion, slowly building in intensity, but the end result is just as discombobulating.
A number of Beta Bodega's own local figures (Hamijama, Patcha Kutek, TPM) should also be spinning, though considering the often-bewildering frequency with which they develop new and multiple alter egos, it's nigh impossible to nail down which ones will be appearing for sure.
The evening's highlight should be the turn at the decks by Detroit's Daniel Bell, easily one of the most underrated of the Motor City's techno roster. Bell himself remains largely out of the media spotlight, forgoing much of the international touring circuit that occupies the time of his peers, instead letting his records rack up the frequent-flier miles for him. Indeed it's hard to imagine a truly soulful set of techno being spun anywhere without at least one of Bell's twelve inches in it; at the very least, Bell's music stands as a rejoinder to those who see techno as being sterile by inherent design. Songs such as "Losing Control" or "Work That Shit" are everything their titles imply: gloriously sloppy churners whose squelching keyboard lines seem to constantly morph in on themselves. The net effect is akin to standing in the surf while the waves crash down all around.


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On Monday, February 16, Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH entered Radio Gdansk studio in Poland to begin work on the follow-up to their highly acclaimed 2007 album, "The Apostasy". Daniel Bergstrand from Sweden's Dugout Productions (MESHUGGAH, IN FLAMES, DARK FUNERAL) has joined the band in the studio to produce the drums on the record.Commented Bergstrand: "The drums from beyond hell are miked up and ready to get whipped. I'm super happy with what we got so far...a lethal Polish bulldozer! I'm sure you guys will dig it! The drums are going to be tracked here in Radio Gdansk during next two weeks and after that I will start mixing them and get them ready for the final mix that will happen somewhere around May. We used 22 channels for the drums. It sounds very organic and natural and at the same time, VERY much in your face with a lot of attack. The room in this studio is amazing so the two ambience microphones that we've got are playing a big role in the over all sound. Prepared to get blown away by the final result!!!" Check out footage from the studio below. BEHEMOTH mainman Adam "Nergal" Darski previously stated about the new material, "I must confess that I'm way more excited about this record than I was for 'The Apostasy'. It's probably the whole label situation that we had to deal back then, Inferno's injury that caused crazy deadlines that completely drained the energy out of my system… I even started treating that album as unwanted child. Weird, because from time perspective, it's a great one. This time though everything was planned much in advanced. I found time to live my life, get some energy back, get inspired and so on… When we met in October it was obvious that all of us were really hungry for making new music. It's definitely 100% BEHEMOTH. I would risk saying that we do have our own style but it's still improving, evolving in different directions every time we approach new project. Most of the songs are the really fast, technical and intense, at the same time there's a lot of diversity. There's even a very slow, massive song that's probably the most epic tracks in BEHEMOTH's history. Everything sounds more serious and…dangerous (I love that word, ha ha). There's probably more sinister vibe in our music this time too." BEHEMOTH will interrupt studio work to play one exclusive show in Belgium at Maximum HXC Metalfest on March 7. "Ezkaton", the latest EP from BEHEMOTH, sold around 1,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD debuted at No. 26 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200. "Ezkaton" features seven tracks, one brand new song titled "Qadosh", a live recording as well as a new studio version of "Chant For Ezkaton 2000 e.v.". Also included are live versions of "From The Pagan Vastlands" and "Decade Ov Therion" plus covers of THE RAMONES' "I'm Not Jesus" and the MASTERS HAMMER track "Jama Pekel". The EP was made available as a limited-edition box set that includes four picture-disc seven inches, a BEHEMOTH pendant and the CD all packaged in a deluxe box.
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The second A350 XWB flight-test aircraft, MSN3, has arrived in Bolivia to perform a series of tests at the high-altitude airfields of Cochabamba and La Paz. Cochabamba lies around 8,300 feet above sea level, and La Paz ranks as one of the world's highest airports at 13,300 feet.
Flight test crews aim to demonstrate and validate the full functionality of engines, systems, materials as well as to assess the overall aircraft behavior under the extreme conditions.
Airbus plans a number of takeoffs with all engines operating and with simulated engine failures at each of the airfields to collect data on engine operating characteristics and validate the aircraft takeoff performance. It also plans to evaluate autopilot behavior during automatic landings and go-arounds.
Separately, Airbus last month performed the ultimate load test of the A350's wing, applying loads up to 1.5 times higher than those the aircraft would ever encounter in its entire in-service life. At ultimate load, the A350 XWB wingtip deflection exceeds five meters (16.4 feet). Airbus performed the test on an A350 static test airframe built specifically to demonstrate structural integrity. Engineers monitor strains induced into the airframe in real time using more than 10,000 measurement channels. They then analyze the data recorded and correlated it to structural computer models used to design the airframe.
Since the A350 XWB's first flight with MSN1 on June 14, crews have logged more than 800 flight test hours during close to 200 flights by both MSN1 and MSN3. Plans call for five A350 XWB test aircraft to accumulate around 2,500 flight hours. Airbus expects to win certification of the A350-900 from the European EASA and U.S. FAA airworthiness authorities by this year's fourth quarter.


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THURSDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Women with higher levels of micronutrients found in many fruits and vegetables may be less likely to develop breast cancer, a new study finds.
Previous research has shown that the nutrients, called carotenoids, can inhibit tumor growth and reduce the spread of breast cancers.
"Carotenoids are found in carrots, spinach, kale, tomatoes, bell peppers, sweet potatoes and other vegetables," noted one expert not connected to the study, Dr. Stephanie Bernik.
"There has been some evidence in the past that these substances are helpful in reducing the risk of cancer," said Bernik, who is chief of surgical oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
In the new study, researchers led by A. Heather Eliassen of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston, analyzed data from thousands of women who took part in eight previous studies on carotenoid levels and breast cancer.
They found a statistically significant association between higher levels of carotenoids and reduced breast cancer risk, especially so-called ER-negative breast cancers -- tumors that aren't reliant on estrogen to fuel their growth. The findings highlight carotenoid levels as one of the first modifiable risk factors to be identified for ER-negative breast cancers, the team said.
While there is some evidence that carotenoids also inhibit the growth of ER-positive breast cancers (cancers that respond to estrogen), it's possible that this benefit is hidden by hormone-related associations that overpower other risk factors, the researchers added.
"A diet high in carotenoid-rich fruits and vegetables offers many health benefits, including a possible reduced risk of breast cancer," they concluded.
Bernik agreed. She said the researchers "have shown that there appears to be a real benefit to higher circulating levels of the micronutrients. The present study has more conclusively shown that there probably is some truth to what we tell patients regarding their diets ... the foods that your mother always told you are good for you, truly are good for you."
The study was published Dec. 6 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The study found a link between carotenoid levels and breast cancer risk, but it did not prove that the nutrients prevent the disease.
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