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Gov. Rick Perry today named Secretary of State Hope Andrade the census ambassador for Texas in an effort to stoke participation. Census forms will start arriving at homes next week. Participation helps determine the number of congressional seats a state...

KVIA-TV Channel 7, KFOX-TV Channel 14 and KINT-TV Channel 26 did well at this year's Texas Associated Press Broadcasters awards. Here's a rundown of the local winners: BEST NEWSCAST •First place: KVIA's 10 p.m., Jonathan Eaves and Ozzie Carrillo producers....

It wasn't quite Darrengate, but the good people at KTSM-TV Channel 9/KDBC-TV Channel 4 had their own running with the El Paso Police Department last week. Hollis Grizzard, the manager for both stations, was on his way home on Thurday...

Promoção de Ensaio Sensual ou de Moda para o Dia Internacional da Mulher

O estúdio Ricardo Carreon Fotografia em homenagem ao Dia Internacional da Mulher 2010 está sorteando um ensaio sensual durante o mês de Março.  Para participar desta promoção as interessadas devem cadastrar corretamente seus dados e incluir o comentário "Desejo participar no Sorteio do Ensaio" no site site www.ricardocarreon.com clickando no Link "Contact".

 Você pode cadastrar você, suas amigas ou pessoas especiais. O cadastro pode ser feito no Mês Internacional da Mulher até o dia 31 de Março de 2010.  A data do sorteio é 1º de Abril de 2010.
 

Características do Ensaio:

- O ensaio vai ser marcado no mês de Abril de 2010 com a ganhadora.

- O ensaio será realizado na Grande São Paulo.  Participantes de fora da Grande São Paulo têm a opção de fazer a viagem a São Paulo cobrindo as suas despesas ou cobrir as despesas de viagem do fotógrafo, juntamente com o equipamento fotográfico e de iluminação.

- O processo consiste em uma reunião prévia de aproximadamente uma hora com a equipe de produção para estabelecer a temática do ensaio, figurino e locação.  A sessão fotográfica pode ser um ensaio sensual ou um ensaio de moda.

- Para o ensaio está incluso maquiagem, cabelo e seleção de figurino. A duração da sessão é de aproximadamente 5 horas.

- Depois da sessão a ganhadora fará a seleção final das fotos junto com a equipe de produção. As fotos selecionadas serão tratadas profissionalmente com Photoshop e impressas em um foto book de alta qualidade.  O foto book é o produto final do ensaio.

Cadastre-se e ganhe um ensaio sensual ou de moda para você ou para alguma mulher especial.  Link para o formulario de cadastro.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/poor-female-murdered-march-for-mexicos-forgotten-victims-20100305-poq0.html

Article by Helen Pitt

Bearing the names of the slain, the Sydney Action for Juarez group planned March.

Photo by: Kate Geraghty/The Sydney Morning Herald

March 8 is observed around the world as International Women's Day.

This month, several artists' organizations in Los Angeles, California, are staging events related to the Juarez women's murders. (Details are forthcoming.)

The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women, the first investigative book about the Juarez murders by a U.S. journalist.

The Texas Department of Public Safety today proposed new rules for easing the burden on low-income people who are fined under the state's Driver Responsibility Program. Under the proposed rules, drivers who are fined and live at or below 125...

Two publications released assessments today that showed Former Houston Mayor Bill White as a stronger challenger than he was considered several months ago in a matchup with Gov. Rick Perry. The two will meet in the general election this November....

If you're an Oso Orgulloso de la Bowie or a Proud Austin Panther, you're in luck. KVIA-TV Channel 7 announced today that it will broadcast both schools' regional tournament games on its Stormtrack 24-7 channel. That's Channel 7.3 on digital...

Voters decided Tuesday that Republican Dee Margo will face Democratic State Rep. Joe Moody in a rematch for the House District 78 seat. Margo beat newcomer Jay Kleberg, who raised nearly $137,000 in his bid for the office. Margo, who...

Nope. You were not seeing double last night during the 10 p.m. news. Both KTSM-TV Channel 9 and KDBC-TV Channel 4 showed the same newscast in the evening that of course focused on election results from Tuesday's primaries. Although both...

A few days ago I ran into a tweet from one of the persons in my network saying "Twitter killed my blog".  This probably seems like an obvious observation judging by the huge sucess twitter has as a service.  However, I must say that my experience has been a completely different one.  I think that tweets or tweeter posts by themselves are as ephemeral as they can get.  Of course, there are tweets that go a long way, especially those that become a meme, a trending topic, or get a large number of RTs (the twitter term for re-tweet, what happens when somebody's tweet is re-published by somebody else).  However, for most tweeter users, even those with relatively large networks, the tweets attract a relatively low number of clicks.

Take for instance this blog.  This blog had lots of activity between 2006-2008 and then it became pretty much dormant in 2009, as a reflection of my other professional activity changes.  I have started to retake it again in 2010, together with my activity on twitter, Facebook and flickr. Well, despite the blog neglect in 2009, many of its posts still attract an audience.  This is mostly because those posts are positioned well in Google and other search engines.  Those posts attract dozens of visits every day.  In contrast a popular tweet might attract a good number of hits in one or two days, maximum.  After that it simply gets lots in the long stream of tweets.  Even people who visit my personal tweeter page directly hardly click past the last 4-5 tweets. 

In another words, I do not buy into the argument that twitter is killing blogs.  Twitter is a great service and has allowed me to stay in touch with my network in a very efficient way.  However, as a way to publish information it still has its challenges.  I have had dome of my articles RT'd by many good friends and still the traffic ouf of those RTs is pretty low.  All of this might change as tweets get incorporated into search engines more preeminently, but for now the tweets are cool, but short lived. 

Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion form Coldplay, a British alternative rock band that was formed in London in 1997. Being one of the world´s most popular bands, it is interesting to know that Coldplay’s lead vocalist, Chris Martin has very strong feelings for Mexico, which inspired the band in their last album’s name and led the group to close their Viva la Vida tour in Mexico.

Coldplay’s last album, Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends, is named after one of Frida Kahlo’s most famous paintings, and this was not by chance. Chris Martin was inspired by this painting in Coldplay’s last visit to Mexico, in early 2007, when they toured Latin America with their X & Y show. In this tour, they visited countries like Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Not only is the name of the album inspired by Latin America, but also their music, as Chris Martin himself said, “…this album will likely reflect Hispanic influence.”

Coldplay has visited Mexico previously on two occasions. The first time they came here was in September 2003, with their A Rush of Blood to the Head tour, and the second time was in March 2007, when Martin also celebrated his 30th birthday and they were promoting their X & Y album. During their last stay in Mexico, one of their stops was Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s museum. In this museum, is where Chris Martin saw Frida Kahlo’s 20th century painting Viva la Vida, which is a painting of some watermelons with these words on it.

Viva la Vida translates into English as “Long live Life” or “Love the Life,” in any Spanish speaking country, but the local Mexican meaning of “Viva…” is to exclaim and celebrate. When asked about the album’s name Chris Martin referred to Frida Kahlo’s strength, she endured polio, a broken spine, and a decade of chronic pain., “She went through a lot of [things], of course, and then she started a big painting in her house that said ‘Viva la Vida,’ I just loved the boldness of it,” he said.

Their third visit to our country will be this March, with four concerts, closing their Viva la Vida tour. Coldplay will be performing on March 6th and 7th in the “Palacio de los Deportes” in Mexico City, March 9th in the “Tres de Marzo” Stadium in Guadalajara, and March 11th in the “Estadio Universitario” in Monterrey. Chris Martin will once again celebrate his birthday in Mexico, it is Mexico’s turn to exclaim and celebrate with him. “Viva Coldplay, Viva México, Viva la Vida!”

I just launched this week a new web site for my new studio.  My new studio is focused on fine art sensual photography for common persons and models.  The website presents my portfolio of my best fashion and sensual photography.  The new studio is being built in a partnership with photographer Eder Bruscagin.  The studio is located in the Moema neigborhood (Zona Sul) of São Paulo.  Contact information for the studio can be found in the web site.  We are participating in several events with our partners and I will be writing the stories about those events here on this blog.

Here is the link for ricardocarreon.com.

President John F. Kennedy had Frank Sinatra. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Farouk Shami has J. Xavier. Shami's campaign released an official rap song in support of the candidate the day before the election. Here is a taste of the Auto-Tuned campaign...

Nokia está regalando convivencias con los integrantes de ColdPlay, son 10 para Monterrey y 10 para Guadalajara.
Solo tienes que entrar a este link http://www.nokia.com.mx/coldplay y contestar una trivia acerca del grupo lo más rápido posible.

¡Mucha Suerte!

En marzo de 1985 fué registrado el primer dominio .com y desde ahí una serie de revoluciones a lo largo de estos 25 años, para tener el internet que hoy disfrutamos.
El proveedor y encargado de esta infraestructura de red llamada internet es VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN).
Y con motivo de esta gran celebración, VeriSign divulgó las 75 principales empresas y personas que revolucionaron internet y la impactaron de forma considerable, donde con un jurado ilustre, elegirán “Los 25 .com” en un evento de gala que se celebrará el 26 de mayo en San Francisco.
Las 75 empresas y personas las pueden ver aquí. ¿Cuáles son sus 25 favoritos para ganar?
También pueden votar aquí: http://25yearsof.com/thedotcom25/index.php

Para seguir de cerca esta celebración, también pueden checar:
- Sitio web 25yearsof.com
- Twitter en @25yearsofdotcom
- Facebook en http://www.facebook.com/25yearsofdotcom

¡¡¡Hay que celebraaaaaaaar!!! Es un aniversario que todo geek y no geek que le emociona internet, no se debe perder =D

Resulta que mi novio y yo somos de distintas religiones -pero no somos fanáticos- por lo tanto acordamos que no habrá ceremonia religiosa por ninguna de las dos iglesias.
Y la verdad, ninguno de los dos queremos ya gastar en fiesta grande. Si bien no nos falta el dinero, tampoco nos sobra.
Como nos casaremos sólo por el civil, sólo haremos un brindis familiar, compraremos mi vestido de novia y haremos nuestra sesión de fotos (eso sí, ¡las fotos que no falten! jeje). ¡Y además estoy muy contenta!, porque quien se hará cargo de mis fotos es el mismísimo Carlos Bravo (¡Muchísimas gracias Carlos, no sabes lo contenta que me pusiste!) y claro, publicaré sus creaciones aquí para compartirlas.

Aún y que será sólo un brindis, tuve que ver precios de todo lo que conlleva: mi arreglo personal, mi vestido, el registro civil, el traje del novio, el lugar para el brindis, anillos, el video,… y así se va haciendo la listilla (y eso que es evento pequeño jaja).
Y en cada lugar que iba, con solo mencionar la palabra mágica “Boda”, los precios se multiplicaban!!! Es una locura absurda como manejan toda la mercadotecnia alrededor de este tipo de eventos.

Así que, me voy a evitar el quedar mal con alguien y la gran gastadera, al fin y al cabo yo se que las personas que realmente me estiman, estarán muy contentos de que yo esté feliz y sabrán que en mi nuevo hogar siempre serán bienvenidos.
Quizá esta sea de las decisiones más inteligentes a las que me he apegado con mi novio jaja

I received various calls asking me about reports I left a gathering intended to form a new Republican outreach organization.

The new group had been intended to reach out to El Pasoans and persuade them to join the conservative cause in El Paso and join the Republican Party. Initial meetings had yielded an agreement the group would be called the Abraham Lincoln Forum. It would be an independent organization that could affiliate with national organizations as it deemed in its interest.

One such organization made a presentation to the group - the Latino National Republican Organization or LNRC. Previously, there had been a moderately active chapter of the National Hispanic Republican Assembly.

A few current candidates and the new party chairman agreed that the Republican Party needed a political education arm to reach out to El Pasoans.

An interim chair was designated to set up the original meeting. That meeting was presented as a candidate forum and presented as the founding meeting for the new group.

The gathering was well-attended by Party activists and candidates.

The interim chair held close reins on the proceedings which was allowed by all because of the general consensus existing to that point about the need to work together.

At the point of electing officers, a disagreement ensued. The nominee addressed the groups about Republican outreach to Latinos, Chicanos and Hispanics.

The reference to a racialist organizing principle caught my attention. I began to speak to the importance of adopting a different organizing principle based on common conservative policies when the interim chair attempted to limit my speech.

This angered me.

I attempted to complete my comments in reference to the agreement the group would organize around Abraham Lincoln rather than a racialist definition "Latino".

The interim chair, at that point, made clear the group was the LATINO NATIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE. I do not know who is behind this group, what it stands for and I disagree with a racialist organizing principle.

I was now very angry because of what I perceived as two policies with which I vehemently disagreed: limiting my right (and that of any other member to speak) and violating the agreement to organize as the Abraham Lincoln Forum.

At that point, it was clear there had been a hidden agenda to impose a racialist divide on the group. I, therefore, chose to withdraw my membership, withdraw support for the group and leave.

I will continue to work for the Abraham Lincoln Forum initiative and its goal of promoting fiscal conservatism and the Republican Party.

A conservative political action committee that donated $1,586 in advertising to Dee Margo during the last filing period has posted a YouTube video and a blog on its Website criticizing his opponent in the Republican race for House District 78....

As surprising as it may seem, chewing gum or chicle is a worldwide popular product that resulted from the friendship of former Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and the American scientist and inventor, Thomas Adams.

Santa Anna was a Mexican political leader, general and was President on eleven non-consecutive occasions, who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government. He lived in exile in the USA and other countries.

It was during the time he lived in the USA that he met Thomas Adams, who later became his assistant. During this time, Santa Anna brought in the first shipment of chicle into the USA aiming to replace rubber in carriage tires, which was tried by Adams without success.

Later on, while Adams attempted to make toys, masks, rain boots, and bicycle tires out of chicle without any luck, he was struck by the idea that perhaps chicle could be used for the production of chewing gum as he had frequently seen his friend Santa Anna do.

This was not a surprise since chicle was well known to ancient Mexicans -such as the Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs and the Mayan- for its subtle flavor and high sugar content. Chicle is the natural gum from Manilkara chicle, which is a tropical evergreen tree native to Mexico and Central America. The tapping of the gum is similar to the tapping of latex from the rubber tree.

Mr. Adams then experimented with chicle and transformed the chewing gum made of paraffin wax into one made of pure chicle gum without any flavor. It was made in little penny sticks and wrapped in various colored tissue papers. He added sugar to the chicle creating the forerunner gum known as chewing gum, so shush, which is still popular today.

The ancient word is still used in the Americas, chicle being a common name for chewing gum in Spanish.

Chicle is a gift to the World and a result of Mexican and American friendship and collaboration, as well as the wonderful things we can create together. What wonderful things do we want to create this time?