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Stephanie Rearick's new CD, Up The Wall can now be streamed at last.fm with the title track available as a free download. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Up the Wall

The full album will be available Sept 20 as physical cds and high quality digital.

Enjoy music!

Corrida, a tradition of cruelty! Arena in celebration of music and color, pierced by the "spades" and the "flag" by the sword and the knife the bull, still lives in his slow agony.
Beside him the horse dies, his belly ripped open under the quilt.
The "Matador", heroic and victorious, he bows to the crowd applauds.
And 'the ending of the last act of a bullfight in Spain that some continue to define the expression of art, culture, folklore.Yet the bull is an animal fighting, is a herbivorous animal, bred in the pastures until the age of 4 years, then abruptly transferred into the arena.
Torture and kill the bull does not mean - as a pseudo-states - "win" the evil and hostile forces of nature "but just about sadism, ignorance, violence, barbarity.
82% of Spaniards, according to the latest Gallup poll, is opposed to bullfights are kept alive only by a thousand persons defined by the animals Spanish MAFIE Taurine.
This mob has no scruples in exploiting the suffering of animals and the delicate psychology of young people for purely economic. To force them to Spain, Europe and the world of these barbaric events Mafie taurine, seizing the media presents the bullfighting as an art, folklore, myth, ritual, symbol, obtaining the consent of "official culture", of the Spanish government, opening SCHOOLS Bullfighting for organizing and encouraging young comedy-Taurine where dwarves, monkeys, chimpanzees tortured to death calves in order to "entertain" the children by making them so cruel and indifferent to the blood and suffering.
In this "climate", which aims to create future bullfighters in Spain and future spectators, even some Catholic priests as a bullfighter tries his hand at bullfighting or make propaganda to build or restore churches and for purposes of "charity". Much more recently a nun entered the arena.
The managers of these horrible events to boost the market in danger also attempt to export bullfighting in Europe, France, Poland, Italy, Russia and (more recently) in Argentina. While in Italy, Russia and Argentina in the attempts were thwarted by the intervention of the animals in Poland in the summer of 1991 were made 3 bullfighting stadium in Szczecin, Poznan and Gorzow with little success and with strong opposition from animal rights. Even the horses, often old and sick, wounded, with the vocal cords cut, blindfolded, are victims of bullfighting.
Sometimes gutted and quickly stitched up, are reported in the arena and end up dying and nobody cares for them when they are unusable.And then there are the festivals bloody Spanish
Are more than 3,000 throughout the year.
Banned in 1963 are now encouraged by the authorities both civil and religious, and some - in terms of international tourist interest - are officially supported.
The animals used are cattle, sheep, donkeys, dogs, cats, rabbits, donkeys, chickens, geese ....
Most of these festivals sadistic-village, organized in honor of Jesus, Mary and Saints, are tortured in bullfights cattle have been taken out and playing, and then help farmers and traders bulls to recycle waste. "


Some of the 3000 holidays:
A MANGANENSES (Zamora) - in February - is launched from a goat alive.

A Tordesillas and in many other places "heroic knights" torn or cut off the heads of live roosters hung by their feet.

Feast donkey
takes place in Villanueva de la Vera (Cáceres) Extremadura every year on the last day of Carnival.
A little old colt, ridden and savagely beaten, is dragged from the crowd when it falls is forced to get up with clubs, while the children fill him with blows, kicks and punches for hours until the animal dying.

Embolada Festa del Toro (Bull with horns of fire)
More than 50 provinces of Valencia, Castellan and elsewhere in Spain.
Are screwed to the horns of the bull tools with small balls of cotton, oil and tar that is on fire.
As the animal goes mad for tar burning that burns the nose and eyes, is chased, persecuted and beaten by the crowd.

Festa del Toro de la Vega (September)
A population of adults and children armed with long balls up a3 meter, wait for the bull to torture and passing in all directions. The winner of a golden lance, offered by the Municipality, who was the first to cut the genitals of the bull is still alive.

Festival of the Bull of Coria (June, Extremadura)
12 bulls are tortured and lynched by an angry mob, 2 per day for 6 days in honor of St. John.

The animal abuse "institutionalized", that is accepted, promoted and organized by local governments, the Government and the European Community may aggravvare tendency to aggressive behavior toward animals and even men.
The case of bullfights and festivals is emblematic.
The French philosopher Alfred Fouillec again in 1903 in his "psychological sketch of the European peoples" writes "their (the Spaniards) insensitivity - of which the Indians have won the test - often arrives cold cruelty and ferocity .... and today their hardness is fueled by education that they receive with bullfights. "
The issue has been exposed by the biologist and anthropologist Georges Heus, author of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the animal (submitted to UNESCO in Paris in 1978). Prof. Heus says that public authorities are wrong in imposing the Spanish bullfight for tourism, and economic populist, ignoring the relationship between crimes against people and against those animals. "In fact bullfighting MUST be considered an indicator of underdevelopment and backwardness." "Making a child to attend a bullfight is something hateful that lehhe should punish as a crime against that child at risk of developing cruel and violent inclinations to be fatal in his mental health."
Probably now the Spaniards have changed the world seem to increase the ferocity and barbarity of torture, war, violence of human against human and nonhuman, even if the animal rights and ecology issues are very salient a large number of people.
Animal rights groups and environmentalists gathered in the movement for the abolition of bullfights and festivals of bloodshed.
With their demonstrations, protests and political pressure have managed to be heard by the Parliament.
The European Parliament and the European Commission have turned many requests for the abolition of bullfights and festivals bloody. Motions for resolutions and recommendations were presented by many MEPs Cottrell, Pearce, Munting, Weggen Schmld, Bombard, Langer, Amendola, Bettini, always find opposition from the lobby taurine. Antonio Navarro, Spanish MEP and cattle of 2nd class in 1991 founded the Intergroup Bullfighting who managed to block October 10 '91 Report of the Portuguese Socialist MEP Antonio Coimbra Martins and Italian Green MEP Virginio Bettini.
Supporters of bullfighting are trying to spread the culture of the bull "with proposals for regulation of torture.Many say that before the matador bulls are debilitated with punches to the kidneys and with weights attached to the neck for weeks. The "Foundation Brigitte Bardot" describes that "most of the time the animals arrive in the arena because they have been blinded in the dark for 48 hours before" and that "people hit them with violence and long on the head with bags of sand to deprive the bull of the senses.
It is also normal that the horns, which help to orient the torus (like the whiskers of cats) to be "shaved" and cut off a few inches and then making the bull uncoordinated.

In a typical event, the bull enters the arena where two people do run in circles. Then when the bull is exasperated and exhausted, they enter the "picadors" on blindfolded horses who planted the spear in the muscles of the back and neck to make sure that the bull loses the most blood possible to prevent this that the bull may raise her head. Then enter the "banderilleros" tormenting the bull and planting more spears until they do not stop chasing it.

Finally, comes the "Matador" leading to the latest posts from the animal now exhausted before groped to kill him with the sword.
More often fails to kill him.
Then is called a "murderer" to cut the cord, the bull's back, sometimes he fails to leave the bull alive but paralyzed. The last agony is when the bull is dragged with the help of a chain, pulled out of the arena by the horns. If performance by the "matador" was appreciated by the audience, tail and ears chopped off the bull is given a reward.

The bulls are not the only victims of this "sport". The horses are drugged, blindfolded and are often gored. Usually their ears are filled with wet newspapers to prevent them from feeling, and sets their vocal cords cut because the audience is not distracted by the cries of the horses.

Among the main supporters of bullfighting, there are tourists who participate as spectators to this cruelty.

BOICOTTS!!


WHAT CAN I DO?
If you go to a country where bullfighting is practiced, you can tell your travel agent that you are against the abuse of animals and some tourist resorts built the arenas just as attractive: boicottale your agent and explain why you do it.
You can choose to go to places that have explicitly banned bullfighting, for example in Spain - Torello, Barcelona, Tossa de Mar, and La Vilamacolum Vajol, in Mexico the city of

Every year, the Canadian government allows sealers to beat, skin, and kill hundreds of thousands of baby seals for their fur. Many of these pups have their heads bashed in or are shot before they even get a chance to eat their first solid meal or learn how to swim. So what is an easy step that we can all take to help stop the Canadian seal slaughter?

You can help end Canada's annual war on seals by boycotting a product that is vital to the country's economy: maple syrup. Canada produces approximately 85 percent of the world's maple syrup, with the U.S. as its largest consumer, and by buying this Canadian product, you are supporting Canadian cruelty. By pledging to boycott Canadian maple syrup, you'll be speaking up for baby seals in Canada, and telling Canada that you won't support its product until you can support its practices.

Go here to sing a petition.



Cada año el gobierno canadiense permite a los pescadores golpear, desollar y matar cientos de miles de focas bebés para obtener su piel. Las cabezas de muchos de los cachorros son aplastadas o les disparan aún antes de que puedan probar su primera comida sólida o aprender a nadar. Así que ¿cuál es un paso fácil que podemos tomar para detener la matanza de focas en Canadá?

Tú puedes ayudar boicoteando un producto que es vital para la economía de ese país: jarabe de maple. Canadá produce aproximadamente 85% del jarabe de maple del mundo, siendo Estados Unidos su principal consumidor, y comprando ese producto canadiense estás apoyando la crueldad. Con tu petición para boicotear el jarabe de maple canadiense estarás alzando la voz por las focas bebés en Canadá y le dirás a ese país que no apoyas su producto hasta que puedas apoyar sus prácticas.

Ve aquí para firmar tu petición.

Find the number of listeners for your top 25 artists.

Cold - 234,232 listeners
Papa Roach - 759,775 listeners
Marilyn Manson - 899,946 listeners
Pain - 151,082 listeners
Exilia - 50,857 listeners
Ünloco - 82,891 listeners
Nickelback - 945,355 listeners
Dope - 234,532 listeners
Soilwork - 205,563 listeners
Слот - 19,463 listeners
Revelation Theory - 34,860 listeners
Crossfade - 249,004 listeners
SOiL - 222,526 listeners
Saliva - 308,246 listeners
Charon - 90,517 listeners
Entwine - 93,321 listeners
Delain - 50,162 listeners
Atreyu - 359,388 listeners
Scorpions - 580,892 listeners
Theory of a Deadman - 164,378 listeners
In This Moment - 37,708 listeners
Ill Niño - 280,917 listeners
Breaking Benjamin - 551,551 listeners
Zeromancer - 64,486 listeners
Guano Apes - 472,026 listeners


Total: 7,143,578

Divide by 25.

Average: 285743.12

Divide by the number of Coldplay listeners. (2,197,746 )

= 0,130016444

Multiply by 100 and round, if necessary.

13% Mainstream

Podsumowanie roku 2008, zespoły:

1Pink Floyd 610
2 Jelonek 311
3 Joe Satriani 277
4 Led Zeppelin 271
5 Opeth 201
6 Iron Maiden 200
7 Metallica129
8 Procol Harum 122
9 Black Sabbath 109
10 Pain of Salvation 108
11 Jethro Tull 106
11 Marcus Miller 106
11 Pantera106
14 Deep Purple 95
15 Paradise Lost 78
16 David Gilmour 74
17 Camel 69
18 Blue Öyster Cult 67
19 Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains 66
20 Jakub Borowski 56
21 The Who 52
21 InDespair 52
23 Tool51
24 Uriah Heep 46
24 Krzak 46
26 Blotted Science 43
27 Katatonia42
28 Yes 40
28 Primus 40
30 Buckethead 39
31 John Scofield 37
32 Jimi Hendrix 36
32 Motörhead 36
32 Lynyrd Skynyrd 36
35 The Dillinger Escape Plan 33
36 Dire Straits 31
37 AC/DC 30
37 Clint Mansell 30
39 Rage Against the Machine 29
39 Queensrÿche 29
39 King Crimson 29
42 Meshuggah 28
42 Nevermore 28
44 Riverside 26
45 Anathema 24
46 Megadeth2 3
46 The Doors 23
48 Rainbow 22
49 Liquid Tension Experiment 21
49 Queen21

Nowości w 50 (18): Jelonek, Procol Harum, Marcus Miller, Paradise Lost, Camel, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Jakub Borowski, InDespair, Krzak, Blotted Science, Katatonia, Primus, John Scofield, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Clint Mansell,Rage Against the Machine, Queensrÿche, Meshuggah.

Albumy:

1 Jelonek 311
2 The Dark Side of the Moon 197
3 Fear Of The Dark 123
4 Dark Side of the Moon111
5 Crystal Planet 106
6 A Whiter Shade of Pale [Bonus Tracks] 103
7 Aqualung 88
8 Presence 79
9 The Extremist 72
10 Kill 'Em All 71
11 Power: the Essential 66
11 The Big Eyeball In The Sky 66
13 The Snow Goose 64
13 Entropia 64
15 Led Zeppelin IV 59
16 Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple 51
17 Orchid 49
18 In Requiem 47
19 My Arms, Your Hearse 45
20 The Machinations Of Dementia 43
20 Brainchild 43
22 The Division Bell 41
22 Ænima 41
22 Surfing With The Alien 41
25 Blackwater Park 39
26 Easy Livin' The Ultimate Collection 38
26 Tales 38
28 Paranoid3 7

28 Led Zeppelin 37
30 Led Zeppelin II 35
30 No Escape (EP) 35
30 Wish You Were Here 35
33 The Final Cut 33
33 Remasters 33
35 The X Factor 32
35 Ire Works 32
35 Far Beyond Driven 32
38 Meddle31
39 Requiem for a Dream 30
39 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 30
39 A Momentary Lapse Of Reason 30
39 On An Island -UK Only 30
39 Iron Maiden 30
44 Led Zeppelin III 28
44 The Wall [Disc 2] 28
44 Master of Puppets 28
44 Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 28
48 Piece Of Mind 27
48 Master of Reality 27
50 The Wall Disc 1 26
50 The Wall Disc 2 26
50 A Saucerful of Secrets 26

W sumie:
9 – Pink Floyd
6 – Led Zeppelin
5 – Iron Maiden
3 – Joe Satriani
2 – Metallica, Marcus Miller
1 – Jelonek, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Camel, Pain of Salvation

Utwory:
1 Achilles Last Stand 56
2 Time42
3 Lorr 31
4 Lux Aeterna 30
5 B.East 29
6 The Great Gig in the Sky 28
7 Money 27
7 BaRock27
9 Epilogue26
10 Beech Forest 25
10 War in the Kids Room 25
10 A Funeral of a Provincial Vampire 25
10 When Acting As A Wave 25
14 On the Run 24
15 Any Colour You Like 23
15 Misere Mei Deus 23
17 Speak to Me/Breathe 22
17 Buckethead22
19 Requiem21
19 Us and Them 21
19 Vendome 1212 21
19 Baba O'Riley 21
23 Mosquito Flight 20
23 The BIg Eyeball in the Sky 20
23 Comfortably Numb 20
23 Eclipse20
23 Aqualung20
23 MachineHat20
29 Akka19
29 Elephant's Ballet 19
31 Steppe18
31 Frankenstein18
31 Immigrant Song 18
31 The Court of the Crimson King 18
31 Repent Walpurgis 18
36 Junior 17
36 Free Bird 17
36 Brain Damage 17
39 Hey You 16
39 Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 16
41 Be Quick Or Be Dead 15
41 Hats Off 15
41 Prelude To Descent 15
44 Red Sky At Night 14
44 Crystal Planet 14
44 On The Rebound 14
44 Revolution Calling 14
44 War14
44 Silhouette14
50 Nie widział nikt 13
50 Benighted13
50 Friends13
50 Wish You Were Here 13
50 All Along The Watchtower 13
50 A Christmas Camel 13
50 Homburg13
50 Lady In Black 13
50Siberian Khatru 13
50 The Truth 13
50 Up In The Sky 13

W sumie:
13 – Pink Floyd, Jelonek
4 – Led Zeppelin, Opeth, Joe Satriani
3 – Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains, Procol Harum
2 – Uriah Heep
1 – Clint Mansell, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Who, Jethro Tull, Marcus Miller, King Crimson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Iron Maiden, Primus, Paradise Lost, David Gilmour, Queensrÿche, InDespair, Jimi Hendrix, Yes, Bleeding Through

Many Italian kennels are in terrible conditions. Dogs are locked up in broken-down buildings and live in crammed stalls where they have protection neither from the cold nor from the hot. The dogs die of starvation, and they tear each other to pieces. Leptospirosis and other illnesses cause their death because they aren’ t vaccinated. Only few volunteers, who don’t receive any economic help from the government institutions, are taking care of them.

In Mirabello Sannitico (Molise ) 500 dogs are dying of starvation, they eat twice a week, they survive in awful hygienic conditions. The problem is that for such a huge number of animals there are only two people who can take care of them. They need everything: food, urgent treatments, medicines, dog’s beds, especially volunteers and love of a good family.

You can help the dogs of Mirabello by signing a petition that will be addressed to the politicians of Molise.



Watch the video:

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nv-_yvDA7A&feature=related



Sign the petition:

http://www.firmiamo.it/aiutiamoicanidimirabellosannitico



Thank you from Italy!

Check out these 3 lovely ladies all dressed up for Halloween! Kathy Griffin, Bette Midler and Gloria Estefan at :
Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project (NYRP) honors renowned chef, Alice Waters, at her Hulaween Gala 2008, held at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

Bette Midler founded the nonprofit New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in 1995 in the belief that clean, green neighborhoods are fundamental to the quality of life, and that every community in New York City deserves an oasis of natural beauty. Seeing many parks and open spaces in dire need of cleanup and restoration, Ms. Midler created NYRP to be the “conservancy of forgotten places,” particularly in New York City’s underserved communities. - Courtesy of NYRP.org

Gloria Estefan

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has created a $5 casino chip with Gloria Estefan's picture on it. This special edition collectible, the first in a musical series the hotel plans to promote, debuted to players and fans on Monday and is limited to a 2,500 run.

The chip is available at the casino cash cage and is valid for all table games (such as blackjack and Pai Gow poker, but not regular poker) at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, only.

The casino chip launch coincides with the five-time Grammy Award-winner’s charitable concert 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at Hard Rock Live. A portion of the proceeds from that show will benefit the education funds of Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Indian River County public schools. Tickets are available via ticketmaster.com

The rest of the Hard Rock release:

“Without a doubt, the Gloria Estefan chip will be an in-demand cross-over collectible,” said Gene Trimble, noted gaming chip collector, author and historian. “Between the chip collectors and Gloria’s fans, it is certain to be a scarce chip.”

Gloria Estefan’s career has spanned almost 3 decades with over 90 million albums sold worldwide. Her live concert tours have taken the performer around the globe with millions of fans cheering her on.

The former Gloria Fajardo, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, enjoyed her childhood and adolescence in Miami, where she still resides. At 18, she was invited to sing at a wedding with a local band called Miami Latin Boys. The gathering, in which she would meet the group’s young leader and future husband, Emilio Estefan, would mark the beginning of a radical change in her life. The singer would become an integral part of the band, later renaming itself Miami Sound Machine, and enjoy a string of hits known around the world.

Their first album in English, Eyes of Innocence, spawned the famous single “Dr. Beat,” a hit in Europe that took Miami Sound Machine to number one in the United Kingdom. The hits arrived continuously with the release of the album Primitive Love which sold more than 3 million units in the United States, alone, and produced the hit singles “Bad Boy,” “Words Get in the Way” and “Conga” - the song with which the band would become most identified. The song also has the distinction of being the only track in the history of music to appear simultaneously in Billboard’s Pop, Latin, Soul and Dance charts. The next two albums, Let It Loose (1987) and Cuts Both Ways (1989), were worldwide sensations. This period was dominated by audience favorites such as “Anything for You,” “Can’t Stay Away From You,” “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You,” “1-2-3,” “Don’t Wanna Lose You,” “Oye Mi Canto” and “Get on Your Feet.” Around this time also, Gloria Estefan’s name had taken center stage, still being backed by her infamous band Miami Sound Machine.

With success and awards in pocket, Estefan’s fortune took a severe turn in 1990. While sleeping, her tour bus, was involved in a horrible accident, leaving Estefan partially paralyzed. Against all odds, she surprised the world when she appeared on the American Music Awards just one year later singing an emotionally personal new composition, “Coming Out of the Dark.” That #1 song was followed by the album Into the Light and by a huge 17-country tour attended by more than 10 million people.

Following a Greatest Hits release in 1992, she released Mi Tierra (My Homeland), her first in Spanish in a decade. A critical and commercial success, Mi Tierra earned Estefan her first Grammy award.

In 1995, she returned once again to her Latin roots with Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors), another Grammy and another #1 hit with “Más Allá’ (Beyond)”. Estefan became the first pop music star to sing to a pope when she performed that song for John Paul II.

The ‘90s were a decade of great achievements for Estefan with “Reach,” the official song of the 1996 Summer Olympics; from the album Destiny; a collection of dance tracks launched in 1998 to the name of Gloria!, and which featured “Don’t Let This Moment End” and “Heaven’s What I Feel” which she also performed at the Original Divas Live concert series for the VH1 network. The composer and musician also delved into acting working alongside Meryl Streep in Music Of The Heart, receiving accolades as well as an Oscar nomination for her theme song of the movie recorded with Justin Timberlake’s band *NSYNC.

In 2000, the Spanish-language album Alma Caribeña (Caribbean Soul) brought her another Grammy and several radio hits including a duet with Cuban music legend Celia Cruz. This was followed by one of her most personal and intimate records, Unwrapped in which she collaborated with music icons, Stevie Wonder and Chrissie Hynde.

An exemplary role model and artist, Estefan has received innumerable awards and distinctions including the American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement, BMI Song-Writer of the Year, induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and a host of MTV, VMA and Cable ACE awards. She was also given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and received the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor in 1993. This award constitutes the highest honor that can be bestowed on a naturalized U.S. citizen. She has even penned two New York Times best-selling children’s books. She is currently working on a script based on the life and career of ‘60s pop music icon, Connie Francis

The CD 90 Millas is Gloria’s Estefan’s latest and features musicians Arturo Sandoval, Andy Garcia, Chocolate, India, Cachao, Papo Lucca, Johnny Pacheco and Generoso. It includes the hit single “No Llores.”

Gloria Estefan