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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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Idol update in case you missed it last night a Liberian is hoping to be the next ``American Idol.'' Romeo Diahn was a refugee camp during Liberia's war, and his family managed to leave for America. He earned a ticket to Hollywood during the auditions in Portland, Oregon. The judges also liked the woman who is taking care of her boyfriend after a stroke and the girl who convinced Sara Bareilles (bah-REL'-ihs) to bring her onstage at her concert. They said no to the guy with the baby face and the guy who was sick and shown several times blowing his nose. Forty-five tickets were given out in Portland. Tonight's auditions will be in St. Louis.
I know how much I pay for all my daughter college books and it's a lot! So I'm all for this. Hardbound textbooks may be going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski are challenging schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students' hands within five years. About $8 billion is spent annually in the U.S. on textbooks for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. Digital books are viewed as a way to provide interactive learning, save money and get updated material faster to students. But many schools lack the broadband capacity or the computers or tablets to embrace the technology
A new diabetes awareness program in the New Orleans uses texting to help people learn their risk of developing the disease and how they can avert it.
Federal agencies, the American Diabetes Association and other developers of the txt4health program were holding a one-day health fair in New Orleans on Today to launch it. Texting HEALTH to 300400 gets a series of questions to assess the risk for Type 2 diabetes. Participants then get weekly text messages to help improve and manage their health.
Diabetes association president Vivian Fonseca says this can connect people with pre-diabetes to the resources they need to keep from it from becoming diabetes.
A Louisiana program spokeswoman says txt4health will go statewide next year.
Me and my whole family are very fair skinned and never tan so we got alot of sunburns young and have been affected by Skin Cancer. So this is great medical news for all of us. Regulators have approved a pill that treats the most common type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma. The pill is called Erivedge and is made by Genentech, a unit of Swiss drugmaker Roche. Erivedge is intended to treat locally advanced cancer for patients who are not candidates for surgery or radiation, and for patients whose cancer has spread to other parts of the body. The capsule is taken once per day.
Genentech says Erivedge is the first drug approved to treat advanced basal cell carcinoma. It says the drug will be available within one to two weeks.
The most common side effects of Erivedge included muscle spasms, hair loss, weight loss, diarrhea, fatigue, changes or loss in sense of taste, decreased appetite, constipation, and vomiting
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.
