Eagle Radio Studio Remolding Project News

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Eagle Extra Studio proud to present a remodeling contractor from Austin.

They are leading house, kitchen & bath remodeling contractors across the greater Austin area.

Whether you are trying to renovate or remodel an office building, apartment complex, or your own home, Rodriguez Remodeling can help you with all of your construction needs.

Our extensive history in renovations and business construction can help transform your dream into a reality!

We provide kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, hardwood floors, decking as well as business and commercial space enhancements, helping you transform your location into the one that you have always imagined.

All Types of Home Improvements

Rodriguez Remodeling is a customer-oriented all-purpose restoration company designed to meet the remodeling needs of residential and commercial clients in the Austin region. Interior or exterior, we can do it.

After a fire, we could respond immediately, and arrive together with equipment needed to start recovering your property to its previous state.

With our years as a prominent Austin rebuilding and renovation firm, we have staff of experienced and committed staff concentrated on restoring your property as fast as can be expected under the circumstances. We will coordinate with your insurance agency if needed.

Austin’s Experienced Commercial Contractor

We have been helping apartment and commercial houses throughout the country create their perfect spaces since 1995. Our services comprise:

Our On-Site Manager will maintain direct communication with your Property Manager. We minimize our presence on your property and your tenants. We keep you informed of activities and clean up as soon as the job is done.

Rodriguez Remodeling uses highly qualified experienced craftsmen. We make the task run smoothly by providing quality work at a reasonable price. We pinpoint possible problems that might arise in any particular job, allowing us to prepare our staff to make the task run more efficiently.

Meeting your needs is our primary concern. We stay in communicating with our team throughout your project with cell phones and two-way radios at each job site, so Owners, Decorators and Architects can contact us to make sure any changes are passed on the work crews quickly.

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Our extensive knowledge and expertise in every facet of construction enables us follow all manufacturer’s recommendations, specifications and instructions constantly. Rodriguez Remodeling takes pride in utilizing top-of-the-line products and professionally trained teams. You’re assured the highest quality standards are adhered to on every task.…

By Mary Bangs

With a Bang, Not a Whimper – Rage Against the Machine – Renegades

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When Zack De La Rocha quit the band in October 2000, it effectively ended Rage Against The Machine as we know it, but at least Zack left this one last gem of a covers album in his wake. What a way to say goodbye

This compilation of 12 cover songs reminds me a lot of Guns ‘N Roses 1993 album The Spaghetti Incident in terms of conception. Both are albums of covers that just happened to be the last statement of the first incarnations of both bands.

But that’s where the similarities end. Whereas Spaghetti Incident was just a half-assed side project for GNR taken on during the recording of the Use Your Illusion albums, Renegades was well planned out by RATM. Lack of execution made Spaghetti Incident flop, but Renegades will not meet the same fate.

Renegades is a surprisingly diverse album from Rage. A good case could be made that the previous three RATM albums were too similar. The band took a good thing and overdid it, but not here.

This album is a cross-section of the band’s influences, from hip-hop to punk to speed metal to classic rock to new wave to campfire folk ballads. The band managed to take all these songs and make them distinctly its own. The album is a textbook study of how to do cover songs right.

Renegades was an exercise in song reconstruction. The band just took the lyrics of the tune and totally rewrote the instrumental accompaniment in most cases. The punk and metal songs, MC5’s “Kick Out The Jams,” “In Your Eyes” by Minor Threat and “Down On The Street” by Iggy Pop’s The Stooges were pretty much left in tact, but the others were changed radically.

The most striking change may be what RATM did to Devo’s “Beautiful World.” The 80s new wave beat was discarded, and the tune was turned into a slow, eerie, ballad in which De La Rocha actually tries singing instead of the typical angry whisper or scream. It’s totally unlike anything Rage ever did before.

I really like what they did to the classic rock songs, probably because I have a point of reference in the originals. The Rolling Stones “Street Fighting Man” is given a techno edge. Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm” is “Rageified” in the band’s trademark loud, slow style, where the anger just seethes out of every pore until the piece becomes a six and a half minute long jam with an extended instrumental coda. Tom Morello is a technical genius with all the sounds he can get out of an electric guitar, and I don’t use that term lightly.

Elsewhere, Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” a long-time Rage concert staple, is finally given a studio treatment by the band. It is transformed from a wistful folk ballad, and made into a rocker.

Not surprisingly, De La Rocha shines most on the rap tracks, which include Cypress Hill’s “How I Could Just Kill A Man,” EPMD’s “I’m Housin’,” Eric B. & Rakim’s “Microphone Fiend” Volume 10’s “Pistol Grip Pump,” and the best one, “Renegades of Funk” by early hip-hop artist Afrika Bambaataa. The outpouring of passion and rocking instrumental backgrounds of these tracks make them compelling even to someone who dislikes the hip-hop genre.

The original pressing of the album includes two bonus live tracks, versions of “Kick Out The Jams” and “How I Could Just Kill A Man.” On the latter, Rage pays homage to Cypress Hill, who were among the earliest supporters of the band, by inviting Cypress’s Sen Dog and B-Real onstage for the song. This

By Mary Bangs

4 Interesting Ways Music Makes You Healthier

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Your favorite pop song can cheer you up. Your favorite ballad can make you cry. There’s no denying music impacts our emotions.

But music’s effect doesn’t stop with feelings. Your favorite tunes actually can improve your health. Science says so!

Music reduces pain and anxiety

Studies suggest music you enjoy triggers the release of feel-good chemicals from your brain — a natural high. And that feeling helps block pain and anxiety.

Surgery patients who were treated to music reported less pain and anxiety, according to a Medical News Today report, and they were less likely to need pain medication after their procedures.

You probably don’t have a surgery scheduled, but think about how music might help with other aches. When your back is stiff or your head hurts, listening to something you enjoy can help take the edge off.

Music jogs your memory

You might not be able to remember entire semesters of high school, but you definitely remember the lyrics to your favorite childhood songs.

That’s because songs are easier for the brain to remember. And scientists believe that music-memory connection can be used to bolster your brain.

A group of adults with early-stage dementia showed better mood, episodic memory and overall well-being after 10 weeks of singing coaching or music-listening coaching. Episodic memory is a person’s unique memory of a specific event.

Music relieves stress

Like music, your body has its own tempo. Heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure all ebb and flow depending on how you’re feeling, how active you are and other factors. In a way, you’re a song.

And when your song meets another song, something amazing happens. A high-tempo tune can boost your tempo. And a calming beat can slow your tempo down.

In addition, music you enjoy can lower the stress hormone cortisol in your system.

Calming music you love can combine those two factors to relieve stress and soothe your nerves. Try it!

Music helps your brain heal

When a stroke occurs, the brain is deprived of blood. And the damage often is severe. Paralysis, loss of speech, vision problems, memory loss and behavior changes are common.

Although music can’t counter all the devastating effects of a stroke, research suggests it might help with verbal memory and attention. A study in Finland reported stroke patients who listened to at least two hours of music per day showed improvement in both areas. And those patients reported a better mood than patients who did not listen to music for two hours.…

By Mary Bangs

If HD Radio is in trouble, how about XM-Sirius?

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If you haven’t been following stock prices – and you have to have a pretty strong stomach to do so – XM-Sirius stock is now trading at $0.54 and that was a 6% boost from Monday’s closing.

If that isn’t enough to keep CEO Mel Karmazin awake nights, how about this – the company has $1.1 billion in debt to be refinanced next year, and Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen wrote on Sept. 29 that the real fear around Sirius is that it won’t get the three debt deals done.

With what’s happening in the economy, you think?

And if this wasn’t enough, the company is having cash flow problems due to the fact that it has been forced (as a condition of FCC apprval of the merger) to offer ala carte programming starting at $6.99 a month, plus its subscriber base has not been increasing per projections.

Karamazin saved much of his ire for competitors such as HD radio and Clear Channel Communications’ mammoth terrestrial radio network. He was also seriously irked by the idea that car makers might be forced to add HD radio to satellite radios.

In other words, HD Radio isn’t the only form of radio experiencing problems.…

By Mary Bangs

Welcome to Eagle Extra

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Welcome To Eagle Extra

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Schools Colleges

We have a range of Broadcasting Courses designed for schools and colleges to create weekly radio shows on Eagle Extra.  We are now taking bookings for the Autumn term 2012 with workshops starting in September.

Drama Theatre Groups

We run bespoke Arts Awards bringing Radio Drama and storytelling to the airwaves.  We have two courses planned for August and October 2012.

Students Eagle Extra can help students proficient in media skills gain further experience in the exciting world of radio. We run 2/3 day Radio Rockz courses throughout the year for young people to make content and learn the ropes of making radio shows.

Public Sector

Eagle Extra can help deliver strategic corporate communications by creating bespoke branded content delivered by young people, families and communities.

Businesses

Eagle Extra can help businesses penetrate communities in a very local way by offering the creation of local radio shows with branded content and product placement.

Community Groups

Eagle Extra will broadcast specialist community programmes from across our Broadcast Area highlighting and promoting the various goings-on within communities.

By Mary Bangs

Keto Diet for Weight Loss For Beginners (For Us Radio Hosts)

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Where to start on Low-carb and Ketogenic diet | keto for beginners!

OK so here you are, on the brink of going low carb but don’t really know how to start or what keto supplements (such as Peofect Keto) to take (do you even need it?)

First you could watch “Fed Up!“, it is a great crash course into the problematic situation almost every nation is facing at the moment because of the food corporations’ control over the food we must consume.

Some of the craziest stats I got from that movie:

  • Between 1977 and 2000, sugar consumption doubled.
  • World Health Organization advises to divide our sugar consumption by 2. The US threaten to remove their subsidy if they publish their actual results.
  • 80% of school cafeterias in the US have deals with Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
  • By 2050 (35 years from now), 1/3rd of all Americans will have diabetes [Side Note: If you’ve never experience the sting from an insulin meter, do it (most pharmacies will do it for you I think) and imagine doing that 5 times a day –> That is a nightmarish situation in my mind – I’m a wuss I know!].
  • Oh and if you have kids beware of what they watch: kids consume 45% more snacks when there are food commercials during their cartoons (and I’m sure it’s also true for adults). Let me tell you the main food issue in the world we live in.

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Added sugars are everywhere. Sugars will raise your insulin levels. And high insulin tells your body to store fat.
Because of dubious studies from the start of the XXth century (and because it seems logical), everyone started believing that a calorie is a calorie and if your metabolic rate + activity < consumption, you will get fat. [Law of thermodynamics]

That makes no sense in a world where noone (almost) calorie counts and a lot of people can keep a steady weight despite huge variations in what they eat. And now many studies have proven that the laws of thermodynamics do not apply in the diet of humans.

Fat storage and energy consumption are ruled by many things, such as:

  • hormones (insulin and many others)
  • your macrobiome (gut flora)
  • energy expanded from each type of nutrients (thermic effects of nutrients is approximately 2–3 % for lipids, 6–8 % for carbohydrates, and 25–30% for proteins)

Check out these tables:

By consuming the same amount of calories but with different nutrient ratios, the body gets 60 fewer calories a day (which could mean 2.4 kg – 5.3 lbs – of fat loss over the course of one year : 60*365=21900 calories/9 [9cal/g of fat] = 2400g)
With no calorie restriction!
If you’re good at maths, that’s when you tell me “Fine, I’m just going to eat protein then as even more heat will be wasted”
Well :
1. Good luck eating only protein shakes, ham and chicken fillets.
2. You need fat to actually assimilate protein.
3. Your cells runs on glucose (coming from carbs or fat); not protein. Protein only maintains your muscle tissue.

Let’s say you go for 200g – 0.45 lbs – of protein a day (yeah, 1kg of meat :-p – 2.2 lbs -).
All the …

By Mary Bangs