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Born and raised in New Orleans, I went to school at St. Edwards in Metairie, Rummel High and on to LSU. I have been living "On The Air" in New Orleans for 20 years.
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Where: Baton Rouge River Center, 275 S. River Road
Admission: $44.50 to $86.45
What to expect: Bryan Adams will bring his highly successful solo-acoustic concert, Bare Bones Tour, to Baton Rouge, while letting fans see Adams as they've not seen him before.
The Grammy-winning artist has had several top pop hits spanning the '70s, '80s and '90s with "Cuts Like a Knife," "Summer of '69," "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" and more.
Not sure I like this but Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find. Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook, compared with a snapshot of you today found on Facebook's traditional profile page. Once activated, Timeline replaces the current profile. According to the Associated Press,lawmakers and advocacy groups have made increased efforts to protects users' privacy online. Although some people have already voluntarily switched to Timeline, Facebook hadn't made that mandatory. Beginning Tuesday, Facebook is telling some users that they have seven days to clean up their profiles before Timeline gets automatically activated. Facebook is rolling out the requirement to others over the next few weeks. At some point, even those who haven't logged on to Facebook in a while will be automatically switched.Timeline doesn't expose anything that wasn't available for sharing in the past. Many of those older posts had always been available. People could get to them by continually hitting "Older Posts," although most wouldn't have bothered. Timeline allows people to jump to the older material more quickly. Timeline also doesn't necessarily reflect the fact that your circle of friends has likely expanded in recent years. A party photo you posted in 2008 to a small group of friends would be more visible to relatives, bosses and others you may have added as friends since then. You'll have a week to curate the Timeline by moving stuff around, hiding photos or featuring them more prominently on your page.
Some things to consider:
You can change privacy settings on individual items to control who has access. You might want to narrow embarrassing photos to your closest friends or delete some posts completely, or at least hide them so only you can see them.
You can change the date on a post. For example, if you took a few months to post photos from a trip to Portugal, you can move them to appear with other posts from the time you took that trip. You can also add where you were, retroactively using a location feature that Facebook hadn't offered until recently.
For major events in your life, you can click on a star to feature them more prominently. You can hide the posts you'd rather not showcase.
Besides your traditional profile photo your headshot you can add what Facebook calls a cover photo. It's the image that will splash across the top and can be a dog, a hobby or anything else that reflects who you are. Keep in mind the dimensions are more like a movie screen than a traditional photo, so a close-up portrait of your face won't work well, but one of you lying horizontally will. But you don't even have to be in it.
You can add things before you joined Facebook, back to when you were born. Life events can include when you broke your arm and whom you were with then, or when you spoke your first word or got a tattoo. You can add photos from childhood or high school as well.
If you feel overwhelmed with so many posts to go through, start with your older ones. Those are the ones you'd need to be most careful about because you had reason to believe only a few friends would see them.
Click on Activity Log to see all of your posts at a glance and make changes to them one by one. Open Facebook in a new browser tab first, though. That way, you can have one tab for the log and the other for the main Timeline.
So first it was hard to call the Superdome the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and now we might have to call the New Orleans Arena The Louisiana Seafood Zatarain's Arena? The Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board might use some of the $30 million it got from BP PLC to buy naming rights for the New Orleans Arena. The name change would be only a small part of a campaign to bolster Gulf of Mexico seafood in the aftermath of the 2010 oil spill. There are also negotiation with the Hornets and NBA officials about vendors' booths for Louisiana seafood in other NBA arenas around the country. They declined to comment on what the board might spend for naming rights. The New Orleans Arena opened in 1999 and the Hornets relocated there from Charlotte, N.C. in 2002. Zatarain's Brands Inc., which makes New Orleans-style seasonings and food mixes, also is discussing naming rights for the arena and might be paired up with seafood in the name. The seafood board is waiting on information from the Hornets, and could decide in 30 to 90 days. Under the Hornets' current lease, which expires in 2014, the team gets most of the money from naming rights. A new long-term lease is being negotiated in conjunction with the ownership search. However, the naming rights portion is not expected to change _ it's a standard part of the package at both stadiums for helping the teams maximize stadium revenues while putting more of the onus on the team, rather than the state, to sell the rights. NBA commissioner David Stern has said he hopes to sell the team in the first half of this year. "There are only so many NBA arenas in the country,'' To be on that platform is an incredible way for us to position the brand of Louisiana seafood, especially given its position right next to the Mercedez-Benz Superdome.'' Generally, naming rights are easier to sell for basketball arenas than football stadiums because they host many more events, such as concerts and circuses.
Here is my Blog today. I couldn't help think that if the 49er's would have had those 2 fumbles in the Saints game like they had against the Giants we would be playing in the Superbowl against the New England Patriots. That would have meant the Giants would have played us in the Dome yesterday and you know what the outcome would have been. I know Woulda, Shoulda Coulda. But thats what Blogs are for so I say it and now well move on to the offseason and count down to minicamp and playing in the Superbowl next year right here in our own city at the Superdome.
Another warm winter weekend coming up. Might as well take advantage of the weather and do more outdoors than you would normally do in COLD weather here in the middle of winter.
Despite a slow economic recovery pinching consumers' wallets, gamblers were just as fond of Louisiana casinos in 2011 as in 2010. According to state figures, Louisiana's state-licensed casinos took in $2.37 billion last year _ virtually flat from the 2010 total. December's tally totaled $201.9 million _ down 1.2 percent from $204.3 million in December 2010.
State police say the 13 riverboat casinos in December won $138.6 million, Harrah's downtown New Orleans casino took in $32.1 million and the four race track casinos won $31.2 million.
In November, Louisiana state-licensed casinos won $175.3 million. That take was down 2.9 percent from November 2010.
Well if you don't like the COLD you must be loving this winter. Yesterday it was in the 70's today we get a quick winter blast with temps in the 50;s but back up near 70 tomorrow and in the mid 70's by this weekend. That's been the trend. No long periods of cold weather. So what's up? s
"The whole lower 48 and much of southern Canada is feeling the effects of what I call 'Marchuary,'" said Paul Douglas, meteorologist and founder of Weather Nation. "It really is on the verge of being unprecedented meteorologically to be this warm for this long, this deep into winter."Whether you are rejoicing the lack of cold or lamenting the lack of snow, you may be wondering: What's behind the weirdly warm weather? Several forces are at work, experts say. To begin with, La Niña conditions have pushed warm water toward Australia in the western Pacific, leaving ocean waters off the American West coast about 5 degrees F colder than usual. As a result, moisture levels are currently low in the atmosphere from California to Washington State. To understand why, you can think of a La Niña-dominated Pacific like a cold bathtub, said Jeff Weber, a climatologist at the University Corp for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Compared to a hotter and steamier vat, water is less likely to evaporate from a chilly ocean. And since weather patterns generally move west to east, very little rain or snow is falling from the jet stream right now. La Niña also pushes the jet stream northward, so that it flows near the border between Canada and But last winter was a La Niña year, too, and conditions couldn't have been more different -- with massive and relentless snow storms pounding much of the West and Midwest. It turns out that, even though La Niña and El Niño get all the press, they are not the only drivers of seasonal weather patterns. There are two forces that have made the difference between last year's relentless series of snowmaggedons and this year's January blooms. They are the Arctic Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation, and they work together like gears to alter jet stream patterns across the U.S.Last year, both the AO and NAO were in their negative phases, with low pressure near Iceland and high pressure off the coasts of Portugal and Spain. That "blocked" the Atlantic, Weber said, preventing weather systems from moving smoothly from west to east. Instead, kinks developed in the jet stream, causing weather patterns to meander. And that led to all sorts of extreme weather conditions, including moist air in the north, cold air in the south and lots of hurricanes. This year, on the other hand, the AO and NAO are positive, a situation that favors a strong and uninterrupted flow of air from west to east over the northern half of the country. And since the air is predominantly dry as a result of La Niña, precipitation is simply not falling across states in the north and west. That trend, Douglas said, may end soon."The strongly positive AO and NAO is finally showing signs of breaking down," he said, "meaning a return to more seasonable temperatures by the third week of January."And come spring, La Niña is expected to weaken, at which point moisture could return. For spring skiing, Weber said, Washington State, Montana and Idaho will likely be your best bets. So far, ski resorts in New Mexico and Arizona have received a fair amount of snow, while Colorado and Utah remain dry. In typical La Niña years, the south and east get the most precipitation. On the other hand, Douglas said, this unprecedented warm spell adds to what has been the most severe stretch of weather in American history since record keeping began in the early 1800s. There were 99 federal weather disasters in 2011, he said, a number exceeded only by 2010. And then along comes a bizarre winter like this."The last 18 months have been utterly amazing from the standpoint of meteorology," Douglas said. "It's going to be a wild ride."
I grew up with the MTV Video Jocks and now they are all getting together to write a book. Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn will put together an "uncensored'' oral history of the music channel launched in 1981. The book is currently untitled and no release date had been set. A fifth veejay, J.J. Jackson, died in 2004.
According to Atria, the veejays will talk about everything from partying with Van Halen to a disastrous ``Paint the Mutha Pink'' contest with ``Pink Houses'' singer John Cougar Mellencamp. The veejays also participated in an MTV oral history published last fall, but Atria spokesman Paul Olsewski said Thursday that they have saved their ``best stories'' for their own book.
I grew up with the MTV Video Jocks and now they are all getting together to write a book. Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn will put together an "uncensored'' oral history of the music channel launched in 1981. The book is currently untitled and no release date had been set. A fifth veejay, J.J. Jackson, died in 2004.
According to Atria, the veejays will talk about everything from partying with Van Halen to a disastrous ``Paint the Mutha Pink'' contest with ``Pink Houses'' singer John Cougar Mellencamp. The veejays also participated in an MTV oral history published last fall, but Atria spokesman Paul Olsewski said Thursday that they have saved their ``best stories'' for their own book.
Listen for this today and Friday bewteen 9-5p and the 10th caller at 260-1019 wins a pair of Tickets to be in the Superdome Saturday for the Saints Lions Playoff game.
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Welcome Virginia Tech and Michigan fans to town for the Sugar Bowl in the Superdome tonight. Then we count down to the Saints playoff game in the Dome Saturday night against the Detroit Lions then we get ready for the BCS colllege fooball championship with LSU and Ala Monday night back in the Superdome.
