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Morning Show
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Does Your Morning Show Host Live In Las Cruces? Yes He Does!!!!!
It’s Don Diego In Southern New Mexico!!!


Celebrity Spotlight

LADY ANTEBELLUM WANTS TO MAKE JEWELRY WITH THEIR GRAMMY. Lady Antebellum found out they won their first Grammy while walking the red carpet. Upon hearing the news, singer Hillary Scott began to cry, hugged her band mates and told the CMT Radio Network they honestly thought any of the other candidates stood a better chance to win than they did. (Cut #4) “Oh my gosh, no. I mean any of them. We had no idea we had a shot. We were up against Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, I mean it’s just, ya know. Everybody is just such great artists and for us to be nominated and our songs thrown into the category is pretty wild when you sit back and think about it. You know we just started. We just had a our second album come out. So this is a big moment for us.” As for where they will put their first Grammy, Hillary Scott had a reasonable answer while Charles Kelley showed off his comedic skills with his reply. (Cut #5) “I don’t know. Right next to my bed on my bedside table. I’m going to make it a chain and throw it around my neck. Flavor Flav. My Grammy chain. Sorry, we are in just complete shock right now.” The trio performed “Need You Now,” during the Grammys. Charles and Hillary started by singing behind sheer curtains and when the curtains were lowered for them to walk to their next spot on the stage, the curtain hit Hillary on her head.


AROUND THE TOWN


Las Cruces Farmers & Crafts Market - including Don Diego’s World Famous Kettle Corn (FREE PRIZE WITH EVERY BAG). Saturday morning from 9 a.m. - 1:30


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Women's Basketball
San Jose State
San Jose, Calif.

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Women's Tennis
Arizona
Tucson, Ariz.

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Men's Tennis
UNLV
Las Vegas, Nev.

Women's Tennis
San Diego
Tucson, Ariz.

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Women's Track & Field
New Mexico Classic
N/A
Albuquerque, N.M.

Men's Tennis
Southern Mississippi
Las Vegas, Nev.

Women's Basketball
Boise State
Las Cruces, N.M.

Men's Basketball
San Jose State
LAS CRUCES

Men's Golf
The New Mexico Collegiate Cup
Truth or Consequences, N.M.



The Whole Enchilada Fiesta Board of Directors and Committee Chairs are in the process of getting a fundraiser going for the people of Haiti.

We are planning a full day of KARAOKE FOR THE KAUSE at Young's Park on FEB. 14th...I know it's Valentine's Day, but take your loved ones for a fun day at the park!

What I need from my friends is to help spread the word!!!! Every dollar counts!! we will be turning in 100% of the donations to the local Red Cross to go to Haiti. I know some of you work in offices, schools, etc... CHALLENGE your co-workers, departments, or ANYONE!! lol..! But we are NOT taking pledges....cash/checks only!

This is going to be Las Cruces' Campaign for Haiti...so....that's ALL OF US!!!! Even if you don't live here....drive down for the day! You will be very surprised at all the talent we have here!!!!

Joel Osteen February 12, 2009 showtime is 7:30 pm Pan American Center
If you are a Non-Profit and have an announcement of an event e-mail me at dondiego@kgrt.com



RIDDLE ME THIS

You do not want to have it,
But when you do have it,
You do not want to lose it?
What is it?

A Lawsuit



HOMETOWN HERO’S

HOMETOWN HERO’S are people who serve other people, their community, and take pride in honoring, restoring, preserving, or celebrating an aspect of American hometown life, be it their work, passion, or pastime.
Thus, the truest meaning of “HOMETOWN HERO ” is people protecting, defending, caring for or serving others.
With that as the background, WHO is a “HOMETOWN HERO ” in your life or the life of others ? Some of the greatest “HOMETOWN HERO’S ” in our lives are unknown to the outside world and garner very little, if any, attention.
Rosie Estrada Is Our Hometown Hero Today
Rosie Estrada is a special education instructional assistant at Sunland Park Elementary School. She has been an educator for 19 years.
She believes that we should always have faith and high expectations of all children, no matter what obstacles they face in life and that they can accomplish anything they set their minds to.
My proudest and happiest moment was when one of my first special education students came back years later to thank me for all the help I gave him and to let me know he was enrolled in college!

Rosie Estrada is Our Hometown Heros Today & We Salute You


This Is Nuts

Today, President Obama will send his proposed budget to Congress. It calls for spending $3.8 trillion, with a record $1.6 trillion deficit. It would attempt to reign in future spending by freezing discretionary spending starting in 2012, but the freeze wouldn't include defense, homeland security, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or other entitlement programs.
• But the janitor at the Department of Education can FORGET about getting that new sponge mop!
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HEALTH MOMENT

The litany of suspected benefits is long: It can soothe infants and adults alike, trigger memories, temper pain, aid sleep and make the heart beat faster or slower. “It,” of course, is music.
A growing body of research has been making such suggestions for years. Just why music seems to have these effects, though, remains elusive.
There’s a lot to learn, said Robert Zatorre, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, where he studies the topic at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Music has been shown to help with such things as pain and memory, he said, but “we don’t know for sure that it does improve our [overall] health.”
And though there are some indications that music can affect both the body and the mind, “whether it translates to health benefits is still being studied,” Zatorre said.
In one study, Zatorre and his colleagues found that people who rated music they listened to as pleasurable were more likely to report emotional arousal than those who didn’t like the music they were listening to. Those findings were published in October in PLoS One.
From the scientists’ standpoint, he explained, “it’s one thing if people say, ‘When I listen to this music, I love it.’ But it doesn’t tell what’s happening with their body.” Researchers need to prove that music not only has an effect, but that the effect translates to health benefits long-term, he said.
One question to be answered is whether emotions that are stirred up by music really affect people physiologically, said Dr. Michael Miller, a professor of medicine and director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
For instance, Miller said he’s found that listening to self-selected joyful music can improve blood flow and perhaps promote vascular health. So, if it calms someone and improves their blood flow, will that translate to fewer heart attacks? “That’s yet to be studied,” he said.
But in a paper published in the November issue of Medical Hypotheses, Miller suggested the way by which emotions — such as those triggered when listening to a favorite tune — might influence the heart.
“Endorphins or endorphin-like compounds are released from the brain in response to pleasurable emotions,” he said. “That directly activates the endorphins to release nitric oxide. It’s a protective chemical, one of the important chemicals produced by the endothelium [the inner lining of the blood vessels]. It’s important in biological and physiological functions — it causes blood vessels to dilate, it reduces inflammation, it prevents platelets from sticking and cholesterol from being taken up into plaque.”
But that might be just part of the story, Miller said. “There are likely to be other effects that have been largely unexplored,” he said.
Stress reduction that results from listening to good music might also explain the health benefits, said Aniruddh Patel, a senior fellow at the Neuroscience Institute in San Diego. “Music is known to reduce people’s stress and actually have physiological effects on the stress hormone cortisol,” he said.



BREAK TIME CHATTER

Police in Lowell, Massachusetts, report that truck driver Eric Gremm lost consciousness and crashed his lumber truck into the foundation of a house. He was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, but didn't remember what happened. Police say he passed out when he choked on a cup of Wendy's chili. He could be charged with eating while driving.
* Usually, Wendy's chili doesn't make trucks crash; it just causes a little backfiring.



And I leave you with this thought.
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."