David's Blog http://davidortuno.es/blog Flamenco stories, personal journal, and much more... Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:48:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Whitney Houston (1963-2012) – USA Anthem http://davidortuno.es/blog/2012/02/whitney-houston-1963-2012-usa-anthem/ http://davidortuno.es/blog/2012/02/whitney-houston-1963-2012-usa-anthem/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:45:49 +0000 David http://davidortuno.es/blog/?p=1051 I’ve been remembering this very emotional video and performance by Whitney Houston in the Superbowl back in 1991. Every time I hear it, I’m amazed and find myself enjoying such a wonderful voice.

I also have another version. After the attacks in 2001, I posted this page to honor America from whatever place I was working at. It looks old, but it’s still really good.

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It somehow feels surreal, I will surely miss her!

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Flamenco Básico 2: Bulerías

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I’m also listening to:

Moralito (La Gota Fría) (Spanglish)

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I’m watching:

Battle: Los Angeles

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I’m reading: (required Literature)

Cumbres Borrascosas (Spanish Edition)

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And celebrating its 400th Anniversary, I’m also re-reading:

Don Quijote de la Mancha (Spanish Edition)

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Statistics released at by Vinexpo and International Wine and Spirit Research (ISWR) showed the United States consumed the equivalent of 3.7 billion bottles of wine in 2011. Americans surpassed the traditional wine-guzzling nations: France, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Germany. China, which is one of the fastest growing markets, knocked England out of fifth place.

According to the New York Daily News, the ISWR predicts that over the next four years, the U.S. will increase its wine consumption by 10 percent. The wine industry is also keeping a close eye on China and Hong Kong. It is forecast that their combined consumption growth over that same period will reach 54 percent. But despite China’s population, the U.S. will remain the main market.

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A wire that is just four atoms wide and one atom tall, yet works just as well as the ordinary copper wires running behind your wall, was recently created by an international team of scientists.

The breakthrough brings closer to reality a future where computers smaller than a pinhead are faster and more powerful than some of today’s supercomputers, according to the researchers.

Such so-called quantum computers will require wires to get information in and out of the quantum bits, or qubits, that perform calculations, explained Gerhard Klimeck, an electrical and chemical engineer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

“These wires are our approach to how we might drive quantum computing bits”

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