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Happy New Yeah Baby
Older readers will know that I like a pint of Guinness with a slug of champagne in of a New Year's Eve: it is the only time of year I drink this, but it is a tradition, and I stand by it. How fortunate then that the youngest daughter won a bottle of Moët on the tombola at the primary school Christmas Fair in late November, and not the box of rose-scented soaps right next to it. We have been keeping it safe ever since. I will have to get in there quick before Mrs H makes a dent in it, but this is a practice in which I am well-versed.
Some of you will be attending glittering social gatherings tonight, I have no doubt; others will muster in the local boozer. Young Drew is having a rockabilly night. It's a shame he doesn't live next door.
Will you be first footing? Or will someone first foot you? I can't really remember how this works, to be honest, but I know there's something involving lumps of coal.
Our occasional series of extended disco classics builds into a spectacular collection your whole family will enjoy.
One last time.
I shall require several beverages and a take away curry.
Happy New Year x
The Jacksons - 'Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)' (12") (1978)
A Post Not Containing My Best Records Of 2010
There's nothing worse than a Christmas song after Christmas, is there? Well, there are a few things obviously: famine, disease, serious injury, that sort of thing. But you get my point.
Hawley needs to come off the top.
Instead I would really like to post something from an album I discovered late this year, thanks to Colin, that I *heart* very much, but that's exactly the sort of thing likely to attract the unwanted attention of the copyright police. So let me just say (again) Warpaint - 'The Fool' - top record, if you like Tanya Donelly-esque woozy riffage, slightly opaque lyrics, that sort of thing.
I liked the School Of Seven Bells one too: more than their first, in fact.
And thank you Simon for the Rose Elinor Dougall tip, though I don't at the moment think there's anything else on the album quite as good as this...
I'm afraid I'll have to go now because I have a busy kitten on my desk who has just written rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and then wswswswwwwwssssssss by standing on the keyboard.
See you back here tomorrow for a Last Post of the year.
Christmas PS...
I always planned to post this on Christmas Eve, but Lee beat me to it with his vid of the lovely live version.
Then today I thought nah - I should post it anyway.
Because you've been nice, not naughty.
Sleep tight.
Richard Hawley - 'Silent Night' (2009)
Is this on TV somewhere over Christmas? It should be.
There comes a point, doesn't there, when even if you haven't got 'everything' your capacity for looking for it and/or your capacity to afford it just bloody runs out, and that is how it should be and that is fine.
I told them perishin' kids they'd catch a cold out there in the snow in inappropriate clothing and now we've all got the sniffles; the mother-in-law's due tomorrow and the place is a mess; we're going to be sleeping on that blow-up bed in the back room and I'm not convinced the pump's working neither.
None of this matters in the least, of course.
I can't believe we've almost come to the close of another blogging year. This has remained one of the happiest places in my world, thanks to you, the best commenters and nicest people on (must we call it?) the 'blogosphere'.
So I wish you all you wish yourselves for Christmas - and we're all old enough now to know that it's not about the material things.
Hug the ones you love and who love you forever and celebrate all that you have.
And well, OK, one material thing - always keep a cold one in the fridge x
A snowbound Lake Wobegon story for you for Christmas.
Just 13 minutes long.
But if you have an unhardened heart you may want some tissues handy.
Garrison Keillor - 'Hansel' (from Leaving Home) (1987)
Sweet Little New Thing
Here's a sweet little new thing that last I heard was a contender for Radcliffe & Maconie's record of the week; on sale right now via iTunes and so not the sort of thing I would usually post, but since it's also on a festive CD free with this month's Mojo I figure what the hey.
Hannah Peel has a penchant for re-making 80s synth pop quirky-folk style with a music box. Here for example she rather pluckily takes on the Cocteau Twins 'Sugar Hiccup'... Good luck to her, eh?
I am having to trudge one last time into town today but am thereafter officially on my Christmas hols, all satsumas, Quality Street and the double issue Radio Times.
Hannah Peel & Tunng - 'Hey Santa!' (2010)
Then I played this and realised that it too features an (off-kilter, lo-fi) organ.
It's another re-post I'm afraid, but maybe you can more charitably think of it as an emerging tradition, this being my 5th bloggy Christmas and all?
Altogether now -
On our way from Stockholm
It started to snow....
Low - 'Just Like Christmas' (1999)
With Mistletoe & Candle Green
That churchiness in the Nick Cave is down to the organ I suppose, which is why it always reminds me of this, one of my very, very favourite things.
Cave's an Aussie rebel raised an Anglican and John Cale famously a son of the Welsh valleys where the Chapel cast thick shadows; ye amateur psychologists make of that what you will (Cale lyric: 'Nothing frightens me more/Than religion at my door'), I think I'll just (re)post this bloody lovely song, which as I have written here before seems to have nothing to do with the Dylan Thomas story, except for its title.
Always my first song of the Season.
John Cale - 'A Child's Christmas In Wales' (1973)
I'm playing Nick Cave's Boatman's Call a lot at the moment; its dark, churchy love songs seem so right for these short, pre-solstice days, and driving back from the Aged Ps last week I confess a few made me well up, a bit. The ice lacing the trees between Newbury and Swindon on the way down had cleared coming back to dull scrub again and it all whirred through my head, all of the things you'd expect, and a load of random nonsense besides.
I do not know a better opening line to a Track 1, Side 1 than 'I don't believe/In an interventionist God' and the words to this one, too, are - well, just perfect.
Up those stone steps I climb
Hail this joyful day's return
Into its great shadowed vault I go
Hail the Pentecostal morn
The reading is from Luke 24
Where Christ returns to his loved ones
I look at the stone apostles
Think that it's alright for some
And I wish that I was made of stone
So that I would not have to see
A beauty impossible to define
A beauty impossible to believe
A beauty impossible to endure
The blood imparted in little steps
The smell of you still on my hands
As I bring the cup up to my lips
And no God up in the sky
And no Devil beneath the sea
Could do the job that you did baby
Of bringing me to my knees
Outside I sit on the stone steps
With nothing much to do
Forlorn and exhausted, baby
By the absence of you.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 'Brompton Oratory' (1997)
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The Track Of My Year
Hands down, no contest.
Well, unless it's 'On Coming From A Broken Home' - Parts 1 & 2 - from the same LP.
No Potato Roasting Music today - we're off to the panto (oh yes we are) - with a family pizza first.
He's Behind You.
The Smiling Hour
Yeah baby, back in the metropolis after two days in Devon with the Aged Ps, tapped out after nights of sleep interrupted by their nocturnal loo visits, the central heating on full blast and the like. I will bore you with the details and/or my melancholy thoughts on same another time.
For it is Friday.
And I shall require a beverage.
Jon Hendricks - 'Flat Foot Floogie' (1975)
Thanks to Darce for setting me off on a JH trail in the autumn x
I can't leave those spuds up here all Monday, it feels wrong.
Here's a little something that resulted from a cupboard rummage just the other day; a six minute long, trancey reinvention of a song from Republic by Dutch DJ/producer Paul Van Dyk - which I rather like.
New Order - 'Spooky (Out Of Order mix)' (1998)
Potato Roasting Music # 3
In our exciting new series we post music that sounds good on a Sunday whilst a person is roasting potatoes.*
This week...
Richard Harris - 'A Tramp Shining' (1968)
[*those are too smooth; you need to fluff them up a bit with a fork after parboiling]
Honky Tonk Blues
'You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly' - Hank Williams.
Hank Williams - 'Honky Tonk Blues' (1952)
Snowed Under
Actual picture taken by me of actual snow
I'm sorry. I've been too busy Tweeting about #uksnow to write a blog post - it's pathetic, it really is. And in other news I've had to computerise the mother-in-law's LP of The Very Best Of Manuel And His Music Of The Mountains since she no longer owns a record player. And Mrs H wants to get kittens. So as you can see, there have been many demands on my time.
I've gone on about all of my favourite snow records (Bon Iver, Aretha) here before, and I really do think it's still a bit early to post Low's 'Just Like Christmas' (even though it's not really a 'Christmas' record).
Can I offer you this as a sort of flip to Ms Ally's ?
The Durutti Column - 'Sketch For Winter' (1980)
I don't think words are necessary here x
Shake!
Otis ain't messin' around.
And me? I shall require a beverage.
Otis Redding - 'Shake' (1965)
Oh Mersey
Having built up to it nicely with a weekend of listening to Echo & The Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, China Crisis and, er, Gerry & The Pacemakers, I have just ordered Paul Du Noyer's book about Liverpool music from Amazon Marketplace.
So we best have this.
Wondrous indeed.
And not just the quiff.
Billy Fury - 'Wondrous Place' (1960)
POW!
And if you hear faint crackles, you are hearing a hundred dodgy styluses in a hundred dodgy halls where I played this in my youth and they never failed to dance.
Arthur Conley - 'Sweet Soul Music' (1967)
I shall require a beverage.
Sweet Irma
It's all about the Soul this week.
This song and Bettye Swann's 'Tell It Like It Is' are always connected in my mind since I first heard both on a Stateside compilation I know I've mentioned here before.
Sweet Irma. Still going strong and 70 years young in Feb.
Irma Thomas - 'Wish Someone Would Care' (1964)
Bettye Blue
Blue blue blue.
This came on tonight and was just right.
I work hard all day
Stay home every night
Lord knows I try to do the thing that's right
So tell , tell me baby
What is my life coming to?
It'd be unexceptional sung by almost anybody else but Bettye's definitely one of my top five favourite singers, and don't ask me who the others are, but Frank and Marvin'd be in there for sure.
Bettye Swann - 'What Is My Life Coming To?' (1967)
In this exciting new series, we post music that sounds good on Sunday whilst a person is roasting potatoes*.
This week -
Davy Graham - 'Anji' (1964)
[*If you ask me, there's too much salt on those]
Slight Reprieve
Well, it's been a strange week, but one that seems at least for now to have ended a bit less grimly than it began.
We have kept that wolf from the door one more time - but we know he's still prowling out there, hungry, and the winter could be hard.
We best light a fire with the coal we have, eh?
I'm afraid I've been a soft old Hector these last few days, flattened by some bug but working, worried about money and Mum, and only my faithful old musical friends Frank, Nat and Tom have fit my mood.
So this ain't no glitzy disco nor bassy funk (can I be excused?) ; but it is kinda Friday, if you think about it.
Leave the porch light on for me x
Tom Waits - 'I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)' (1976)
Unforeseen Circumstances
Back before too long I hope.
In this exciting new series, we post music that sounds good on a Sunday whilst a person is roasting potatoes*
John Martyn - 'Just Now' (1971)
* I like mine with a dash of rosemary and a garlic clove centre-dish, for flavour. I always parboil first, but not for too long.
I've definitely posted this before, but I'm blowed if I can find when.
Searching For The Young Ska Rebels
A bunch of white Brummies singing in cod Jamaican accents notched up a number 25 hit with this Gus 'Space Oddity' Dudgeon-produced blue-eyed ska tune in 1968.
There's a rocking rhythm, pumping Hammond and brio in the brass.
All of which I rather like.
The Locomotive - 'Rudi's In Love' (1968)
'I Was Counting On You Being An Insubordinate Bastard, Palmer'
Lovely mini-series over at Drew's on songs that sound like they're from soundtracks to 60s spy films. This really is, of course. It's a great one for playing in your head as you step suited and booted from the train arriving at Platform 17, in my experience.
John Barry - 'The Ipcress File' (1965)
You Get What You Give
Right, so. This lot have been lurking in comments, and on me iPo, for the best part of a week. And back in the day, the lead singer was lurking in Miss Ally's supermarket, apparently. Tchh. It wouldn't happen in Waitrose.
Anyway, let's let it all out, eh?
Which is your favourite?
I'm torn between The Orb's and the second part of the Two Parts, chiefly on account of Wobble.
Primal Scream - 'Higher Than The Sun' (American Spring Mix) (1991)
Primal Scream - 'Higher Than The Sun' (Higher Than The Orb) (1991)
Primal Scream - 'Higher Than The Sun (A Dub Symphony In Two Parts)' (1991)
It's all being re-released and re-toured*, blah, you knew that.
*which probably means I'll have to pull this in two days' time.
" 'Ere! You kids! Gedaadovitt!"
Siouxsie & The Banshees - 'Halloween' (Peel Session) (1981)
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the big bass sound of Dennis Bovell, in dub.
If I blow just one person's speakers with this, it'll all have been worthwhile.
Linton Kwesi Johnson - 'Insohreckshan Dub' (1983)
Well it had to be a (UK) reggae Session from me, and not only that but one I heard and taped at the time, upstairs in the 70s house with a Westerly dashing rain against the window (transmission date 4th November, it was always raining in Devon in November).
There's a happy blog connection with this one too since many, many years on from having no version of this but my crappy mono cassette recording, a complete, clean copy found its way to me in comments here courtesy 'marc from newsgroups' (shout out Marc!). So I suppose posting this is a bit of my story and a bit of this blog's too, as well as a fragment of JP's.
Everyone has their classic period Peel, their time of listening most intensely and connecting most passionately, and mine ran from about 1980 to 1983. Peel himself was then a year or two younger than I am now; it was a peak time for the show, though there would be many more to come.
Laurel & Hardy (aka Paul Dawkins and Anthony Robinson) had one novelty hit with 'Clunk Click' then pretty much disappeared. Meanwhile when I 'scrobble' 'Tell Her Sey Me Sorry' to Last FM I get a picture of Stan and Ollie. But I am still playing it, thanks John.
Laurel & Hardy - 'Peel Session' (1982)
[The tracks are: 'Speeding', 'Tell Her Sey Me Sorry', 'Toast One Quick', 'You're Nicked'. The musicians are Laurel (v), Hardy (v) John Kpyaie (g) Spy (b) Angus Gaye(d) Reg Graham (k) Annie Whitehead (brs), Chris Layne (v)]
Something For The Weakened
Boom Monday
This is the track after my favourite track (which is very favourite, and has already appeared here) on Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite and it isn't one I often play; but yesterday, as I pulled the LP from its lovely thick gatefold sleeve, fancying a bit of a listen as the Sunday potatoes roasted, this happened, for a change, to be the track I chose.
And boy that bubbling bass boomed at me good.
On a late-period Ellington recording that contrastingly looks back, right back, at the Old Jazz, the place it came from and some of the people who made it, who are commemorated in musical 'portraits', this piece is a tribute to one of Ellington's own; his bassist throughout the 1920s and 30s whose 'vigorous melodic bass playing, alternately plucking, slapping, and bowing, was an important feature of the early Ellington Orchestra sound'.
Braud died in 1966. Joe Benjamin, the bass player here, would himself be gone four years after this recording - and so would Duke.
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - 'Portrait Of Wellman Braud' (1970)
Deep Joy.
Play loud.
*An Aswad track was here*
[ *sigh* Box.net has responded to a copyright infringement notice and removed this file; I've removed the link. First in 17 Friday Reggae posts over nearly 4 years that this has happened with. Tune's on YouTube mind].
Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.
Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.
Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.
Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.
(Carol Ann Duffy)
Saint Etienne - 'Finisterre' (2002)
(Thanks to Lee for inspiration with this - and to Greer for reminding me that we haven't had a 'perm' here for a while).
Easy Skanking
I was mighty pleased to grab a newly computerised Peel show tape of '79 vintage this week from the Wiki and delighted too to hear this on it, for the first time in an age: it made me want to upload my original old 7" from back in the day - so I have; and it's here and it's Friday and the sun is shining and it's been 23 degrees in London today, yeah baby.
The Beat - 'Ranking Full Stop' (1979)
It's four years to the day since I started up this blog (it was raining then too).
Can't imagine my life without it now.
Companeros, thanks so much for sticking around.
Like I always say, it'd be stupidly lonely here without you x
R. Dean Taylor - 'There's A Ghost In My House' (1966)
'If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice' - Stan Getz.
Stan Getz - 'Tis Autumn' (1952)
A Tango Of Love
Frankie Laine is my Mum's favourite singer and one of only two recording artists in my experience who have the power to thoroughly transport her emotionally, the other being Glenn Miller (I once came home from school to find her dancing with a squeezy mop to 'Moonlight Serenade').
I always thought of Frankie as a cowboy because of how he looked on this album cover and because he sang songs about riding through the desert in search of water and High Noon and, famously, the TV themes to 'Champion The Wonder Horse' and 'Rawhide', but he was in truth a Chicago-born Italian-American whose real name was Francesco Lovecchio.
The Italian (Sicilian) ancestry might account for the operatic feel Frankie brought to his singing. He had a truly remarkable voice. I loved it, and I loved the dramatic arrangements - the brass and the tango tempo shifts in 'Jealousy' - the overblown passion of it all. I've been wanting to get some of his stuff for years but it's a nightmare trying to find the original recordings in a sea of cheap compilations since in later life, like many singers of his generation, Laine re-recorded his big hits and the new versions are unlistenably awash with synthesised strings and drum machines - just awful.
This budget Hallmark LP was the one I grew up with - I expect Mum bought it in Woolies. I've seen it a few times in charity shops, but always in terrible nick. Today I found a near mint copy - for a quid.
Saddle up and show 'em how it's done, Frankie.
Frankie Laine - 'Jealousy' (1951)
Frankie Laine - 'Cool Water' (1955)
Lightfooted
I didn't even know this existed until the other day when I found it on the YouTube.
It's from, of all things, a Valentines Day CD sold in Starbucks last year.
And since at the moment it couldn't get much gloomier here weather-wise, it'll do more than nicely.
Richard Hawley - 'Early Morning Rain' (2009)
Ah, look at what the cat dragged in; I was wondering where you'd got to. Here, I kept you a seat. Still raining outside is it? Nice weather for ducks eh? That's the summer well and truly over then.
What can I get you?
Drop of the usual?
US3 - 'Cantaloupe (Flip Fantasia)' (1993)
New Music Monday
They're fine young fellows from Oxfordshire! They sing songs about conkers shining on the ground! One of them plays the trumpet! Hurrah!
Song was here*
*I've had a copyright infringement notice on this one via Box Net, and a revert to draft via Blogger too, so the file's removed (5th Oct). Sorry folks.
Nina Simone - 'Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter' (1974)
And that's funky as in 'pungent', we should say.
I Would Be In Love Anyway
I have more Frank Sinatra records than anyone I know, but I didn't have this until Monday - even though it's been months since Her Allyness posted one of these songs (and longer still since she first mentioned the LP). It came up on the iPo in a quiet moment the other day when Mrs H was sitting listening and she said 'I've never heard that before. That's lovely' - which reminded me that indeed it was, and sent me, finally, off up the Amazon, and here we are.
The album's narrated by a smalltown guy whose wife has left him and their two boys (Michael & Peter) and taken off on a train for the big city - we're not told why; there's a suggestion he may be to blame. The songs, by Jake Holmes and Bob 'Four Seasons' Gaudio, are a 'series of brief lyrical snapshots that read like letters or soliloquies' (AllMusic); it is the ordinariness of the subject matter that really breaks your heart.
There's an academic interpretation of the album as an allegory for Sinatra's relationship with his recording audience - that by 1969 he was seen as a tired old Vegas-based Greatest Hits machine, out of touch with the Woodstock times, that they had left him and he wondered if he'd ever get them back again. Well, that's interesting, but I'm not sure I buy it: Sinatra was still a huge recording star at the end of the 60s - '69 had been the year of 'My Way', after all.
No. Me, I'm hearing it as an extension of 'A Man Alone' and a reference right back to what the other side of the ring-a-ding-ding Frank had always been doing - singing songs for and of the lonely, baby.
Belated thanks A x
Frank Sinatra - 'Michael & Peter' (1970)
Frank Sinatra - 'What A Funny Girl (You Used To Be)' (1970)
Summer's bitten the big one and it's dull as all heckfire out there; I'm stone cold broke into the bargain and there ain't no payday coming soon.
But Friday is Friday companeros - and like the lady once said, this here's funkier'n a mosquito's tweeter.
Break!
Gene Harris & The Three Sounds - 'Your Love Is Just Too Much' (1971)
In celebration of our inter-connectedness, yeah baby.
Donny Hathaway - 'Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)' (1970)
We could run a competition on how best to describe the bassline on this one; I'm going for 'urgent and pulsing'. It's sure cutting through the gloom today.
James Carr - 'That's What I Want To Know' (1967)
Cracking!
Punching car radio buttons in despair as we hit the last few miles of our mega-trek home from hols last Sunday it was a surprise and delight to happen upon a Bank Holiday Northern Soul Special on, of all things, the usually unlistenable Smooth FM.
I was reminded of just how brilliant this is; it's our heartstarter for the week.
Roy Hamilton - 'Crackin' Up Over You' (1966)
"We feel sorry for people that don't drink; when they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're gonna feel all day" - Frank Sinatra.
Dean Martin - 'Ain't That A Kick In The Head' (1960)
Here Again (Traditional)
David Sylvian - 'September' (1987)
Memo To Self
Rouse yourself davyh, rouse yourself: you've a load of work to do this week and a charity cycle ride on Sunday and with a brain like stinky soft French cheese and a waistline impacted by same, plus all that Bergerac Rosé, you've much to do to get 'match fit'.
You can start by posting that Midlake song that sounded so good as you swept up the autoroute and make sure you don't fall by the blog wayside as so many around you appear to have done of late: was it all those threats from The Man or did they just get bored? Keep on keepin' on my boy, for autumn's coming and splendid things shall lie ahead if you just believe it, yeah baby.
Midlake - 'Head Home' (2008)
Mais oui et alors mes amis, the Famille H are off on their hols to South West France and hoping that the 40% chance of rain forecast for next week is an erreur; for heading South will be sweeter if to a warmer, sunnier place. Either way we are banking on groovy cheeses and groovier wine, fresh baked bread and some cheap gin from the hypermarket - and we've loved doing the London things this summer, but we also need to breathe some green, you know?
It's an early start and a long drive tomorrow, all frites by the autoroute and petit cafes to keep me awake, so don't make me stay up late tonight gassing away with you.
There's half a melon in the fridge if you want to use it up.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - 'Davy's On The Road Again' (1978)
Busking It
Our internets have been broken all day and Busby's only just fixed them. I should think all of Mrs H's crops in Farmville have died, and you can forget all about that erudite morning post I planned (I know I have).
We best busk it, eh Ted?
Ted Hawkins - 'He Will Break Your Heart' (1985)
Jerry Butler!
Caught Up In This Big Rhythm
It's been rain/sun/rain/sun/rain here all week: off with the girlies, on the 'sun' days we did the Albert Memorial, red pavilion and Princess Di playground in Kensington Gardens, a parched Wimbledon Common/Cannizaro Park and light refreshments at The Hand In Hand, and squeezed in a pub lunch by the river today - low tide, drizzle-pitted Thames, herons and cormorants.
Tinseltown Is In The Rain.
I found this LP in the charity shop in the spring - already had the music, bought it anyway, it was such a nice thing. It has, on reflection, been a good year so far for vinyl finds in places whiffing of mothballs.
Chin Chin my lovelies.
The Blue Nile - 'Tinseltown In The Rain' (1984)
Sitting reading last night and listening to the Blackpool Mecca comp, I was struck by just how terrific this is. It sounds so mid 70s Philly (and was a hit in '75), but it was recorded in 1971.
It's the kind of thing that's playing on those hot summer nights by the beach in the perfect August of my imagination.
The Trammps - 'Hold Back The Night' (1972)
It's Disco! With Guitars!
Your vote is well-hung.
Last For Long
So as I mentioned the other day to Simon, right after him posting about this feller and long, long since various people whose musical opinions I dig first blethered on at me about this record, I found it in my local charity shop for a quid, and bought it.
Would those of you who know it describe it as a grower?
I mean, it's dark and moody and complicated and sometimes a bit unexpected isn't it?
My first reaction is some of the tracks are walking dark funky paths in search of a tune, a bit.
I will stick with it, because I like unobviousness.
This (track one!) I think is superb. I'm sort of obsessed with it at the moment.
Lewis Taylor - 'Lucky' (1996)
'I Was Counting On You Being An Insubordinate Bast...


Hospitality is one of the pillars of Stewardship. As disciples of Christ, we are called to live and preach the Gospel message in our lives, in the way we act, think and speak. There are many wonderful scriptures that teach us to be hospitable to one another.
When we come together as the Body of Christ, how do we greet one another? A hand shake, a smile, knuckles, or a warm embrace, someone calling out your name and greeting you with the sense of family and friendship. Our human nature, the way God made us, requires love. To love and to be loved is a fundamental need as human beings. In a hospitable parish, parishioners and newcomers alike feel that they belong and are part of the parish family. This sense of ownership and belonging helps us to connect with one another, and strengthens and grows Stewardship as a way of life.
"Where everybody knows your name." Name that TV show. Cheers! People want to belong and connect with others. Knowing and learning each other's names is important. It is a fundamental step in getting to know one another. Knowing each other by name is one of the most dynamic ways of establishing hospitality and welcome and growing in Stewardship as a way of life. This is why we do Name Tag Sundays the first weekend of every month. In Growing an Engaged Church, it also speaks to Engagement Item #4: "In the last month, I have received recognition or praise from someone in my parish."
In today's day and age, we are all busy. Sometimes too busy to look up from our electronic devices to notice the people around us. Hospitality can be difficult in a fast paced world. However, God calls us to be hospitable to one another. So keep your brothers and sisters in Christ in your prayers. God will lead you in your life in how to be more welcoming. Imitate the positive example of those people who have welcomed you into their lives.


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After aiding in the rescue of cheerleader Sandy from the brainwashed mad scientist Fred Edison, mild mannered geek Bernard Bernouli thought he had seen the last of the Maniac Mansion. He was wrong. Horribly wrong...
Some years after the kidnapping incident, Bernard gets a message from his friend Green Tentacle. After gaining limbs and superior intelligence from drinking sevage produced by the good Doctor's obligatory toxic-waste-producing-machine, Purple Tentacle started to plan world domination, Prompting Fred to imprisson the two Tentacles in his basement. Bernard immediately, although reluctantly, prepares a rescue mission, taking with him his two college roommates: Hoagie the rock-n-roll roadie, and lawerne the unbalanced med-student.
But when Bernard accidentaly frees Purple Tentacle in the process, the rescue mission quickly devolves into a desperate attempt to prevent him from conquering the world. Using the Doctor's malfunctioning time-machine the trio is scattered through time. Now the gang must find a way to return to the present before it's too late!!! (Or early, however you look at it).
Released in 1993, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle is an independent and hilarious sequel to Lucasart's first smash-hit adventure considered by many equal, if not superior, to the original. Containing the trademark Lucasarts Humour at it's greatest, It is guaranteed to keep you laughing your face off from beginning to the end.
DOTT was the last game to use the word-select interface that had been used in every LA adventure game before, with the exception of Loom. But in the years between the original and the sequel the number of commands awailable to the player had shrunk to a mere nine: Give, OPEN, CLOSE, PICK UP, LOOK AT, TALK TO, USE, PUSH and PULL. Instead of harming gameplay, however, this reduction might have actually enhanced gameplay by removing unnecesary commands.
Being a sequel to Maniac Mansion, DOTT brought back the concept of simultaneously having control over many characters, although this time you unfortunately can't select which characters you use. The idea of putting each character in a seperate time plays out wonderfully, with the player able to "flush" most items through time to another character, while finding a way to get "incompatible" items to a different time is a subject to more than one puzzle. The player can switch between characters at any time, provided that he/she has activated them (getting control over Hoagie and Lawerne requires the Player to complete a puzzle)
Visually the game is great, if a bit pixelated. The characters are done in a hilarious caricature style while the environment is beautifully drawn in a surreal and cartoony manner. The Sound is also great, with a lively musical score that is memorable but not intrusive, wild cartoony sound effects and good voice acting fitting the characters perfectly. The game is not difficult, although in no way a pushover, and will keep you entertained and engaged without driving you nuts or desperate for a walkthrough. Therefore this game is ideal for newcommers to the adventure-game genre as well as the veterans (the few of them who haven't allready played it).
If there is one gripe I have with this game, it's lack of replayability. Unlike the original Maniac Mansion, DOTT only features one ending and doesn't offer any alternate solutions. Once you finished the game once, thats it. But that is not to say you won't be playing it again. With it's great humour and wacky and clever story, DOTT becomes sort of like a great movie; once you've seen it once, you know how it ends. But it won't stop you from enjoying it again. At least it hasn't stopped me at all.
NOTE: This is the CD Version of the game, including a full voice pack.
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Senate Confirms 2 for Fed Board
By John H. Cushman Jr.
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed two nominees chosen by President Obama for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, overcoming Republican objections and bringing the seven-member board to full strength for the first time since 2006, before the economic crisis.
The Harvard economist Jeremy C. Stein and the investment banker and lawyer Jerome H. Powell were confirmed easily after a morning of debate. The vote for Mr. Stein was 70 to 24, and for Mr. Powell, 74 to 21.
Neither has widely known views on the central policy questions facing the Fed: whether to take more action to reduce unemployment or whether the economy is already at risk of a dangerous acceleration of inflation.
For months, Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican and a member of the Banking Committee, held up the nominations, saying the two men would be "rubber stamps" for the policies of the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, and, by implication, the Obama administration. Mr. Bernanke has already done more to increase economic growth and reduce unemployment than many of his conservative critics favor, while other critics — predominantly liberal — argue that he has not done enough.
After JPMorgan Chase's recently acknowledged trading losses, which raised questions about whether the Fed and other agencies had a tight enough hand on the regulatory reins, Senate Democratic leaders found enough votes to surmount objections from Mr. Vitter and others. Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, explicitly linked the vote to the JPMorgan Chase matter, saying the bank had been behaving as if its business were a game of craps.
In addition to setting interest rates based on the economy's condition, the Fed also is one of the main regulators of financial businesses.
Both of the new governors are experienced in financial regulation, Mr. Powell as a senior Treasury Department official under President George H. W. Bush, and Mr. Stein as an adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner.
Some Fed watchers have expressed concern that the institution has been operating below full capacity for so long. Mr. Obama had been slow to fill all of the vacancies, and Republicans had blocked some of his nominees.
In 2010, Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, put a hold on the nomination of Peter A. Diamond, a Nobel laureate in economics, causing Mr. Diamond to withdraw last June. On Thursday, some senators expressed hope that the vote would lead to broader comity. For too long, said Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican of Tennessee, being in the Senate had felt like "being invited to join the Grand Ole Opry and not being allowed to sing."
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said, "We hope it can set the tone for agreements well into the future, this year and in 2013 as well,"
A White House statement expressed gratitude that "both parties have come together" for the votes on Mr. Stein and Mr. Powell. "Today's broad bipartisan vote in the Senate reflects their deep knowledge of economic and monetary policy, as well as their distinguished backgrounds and unique experience," it said.
Opening the debate on the Senate floor, Mr. Vitter made clear that he opposed the candidates, and that he opposed the Fed's monetary policy of low interest rates. "This Federal Reserve has set essentially a zero interest rate policy, an extremely easy policy for an extended period of time," he said, calling it a "very dangerous policy."
On the regulatory front, Mr. Vitter said, approving the two new members would make it easier for the board to enact rules carrying out the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law and pushing "those regulations to the left, if you will."
The two nominees were confirmed by a voice vote of the Senate Banking Committee on March 29, and neither is controversial in his own right. But Senate Republicans have blocked many of Mr. Obama's nominees, out of a broader opposition to his policies.
Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, said he would vote to confirm the nominees, saying they were qualified even though he believed they were not as "hawkish" on inflation as he would like.
Mr. Corker expressed hope that, if Mitt Romney won the presidential election, Democrats would not stand in the way when he nominated the next Fed chairman and vice chairman.


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Cybersecurity Asset Management
Auditors want to know if CISA programs for the communications sector work
Derek B. Johnson November 29, 2021
A satellite ground station that functions as a hub connecting a satellite network with a terrestrial telecommunications network. Federal auditors want CISA to develop metrics to determine whether their programs to help protect satellites and other communications infrastructure are effective. (Vsatinet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency lacks the ability to assess whether cybersecurity programs for the communications sector are effective and should update its plans to account for threats to the supply chain and GPS network, according to government auditors.
The communications sector spans everything from broadcast media networks, satellite systems, cable, and wireline, and helps underpin much of the infrastructure relied on by telecommunications and internet services. The agency has already scoped out a range of potential threat vectors, both from malicious actors and hacking groups, as well as insider threats and human error. It also stood up a task force focused on supply chain risk management in the information and communications technology sectors in 2018, rolled out a number of programs to protect 5G telecommunications infrastructure and push back against disinformation online.
But an audit this month from the Government Accountability Office found that while the agency has built up a variety of programs and resources to support the sector's cybersecurity needs, it has little insight into whether they're actually having an impact.
"Specifically, CISA has not assessed the effectiveness of its programs and activities used by sector owners and operators, including developing metrics and analyzing feedback received from owners and operators," the GAO found.
They also pressed the agency to better incorporate feedback from stakeholders in the communications sector to better flesh out their needs and where their resources and support services might have the greatest impact.
"For example, CISA has not determined which types of infrastructure owners and operators (e.g., large or small telecommunications service providers) may benefit most from CISA's cybersecurity programs and services or may be underrepresented participants in its information-sharing activities and services," auditors noted.
In interviews with auditors, CISA officials cited a number of challenges to developing such metrics, including difficulties getting owners and operators in the communications sector to voluntarily report information to the government. The work to develop new metrics is being undertaken by the agency's Stakeholder Engagement Division as part of a larger refresh of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan for all 16 sectors.
In a reply attached to the report, DHS liaison Jim Crumpacker said CISA will "incorporate Communications Sector performance metrics and data collection and reporting processes and timelines, including approaches for collecting sector stakeholder feedback, in an updated Communications Sector-Specific Plan" by Sept. 30, 2022. The plan was last updated in 2013.
Auditors are also concerned that CISA hasn't completed a capability assessment for its role as the federal government's emergency coordinator for the communications sector, something officials attributed to challenges related to the agency's recent reorganization. Crumpacker said the agency expects to do so by June 2022.
The three-year-old agency (as well as its predecessor, the National Protection and Programs Directorate) has built much of its core cybersecurity mission around protecting critical infrastructure and preventing the kind of debilitating, widespread and cross-sectoral impacts of cyber attacks.
But the surface area is massive, composed of thousands of companies across 16 major industrial sectors, and policymakers in the federal government and Congress have steadily worked to find ways to winnow that list down to the companies and organizations that are most in need.
CISA created a National Risk Management Center and a list of more than 100 national critical functions that could have cascading effects on American society if disrupted through a cyberattack to guide larger cybersecurity operations across critical infrastructure.
Additionally, Rep. John Katko, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, has sponsored legislation that would empower the agency to identify "systemically important" critical infrastructure entities and prioritize them for technical assistance and voluntary continuous monitoring programs. It would also speed up their security clearance processing and give them "prioritized representation" on the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.
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Harry Potter - Complete Collection
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But Professor Dolores Umbridge's Ministry-approved course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the dark forces threatening them and the entire wizarding community, so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron, Harry takes matters into his own hands. Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves "Dumbledore's Army," Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts, preparing the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that lies ahead.
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The Green Organic Dutchman Announces $25 Million Special Warrant Bought Deal Financing
The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd.
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TORONTO, June 5, 2018 /CNW/ - The Green Organic Dutchman Ltd. (the "Company" or "TGOD") (TSX:TGOD) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an engagement letter with Canaccord Genuity Corp., acting as co-lead underwriter and sole bookrunner, on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters including PI Financial Corp. as co-lead underwriter, and Mackie Research Capital Corporation (collectively, the "Underwriters") pursuant to which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase 3,910,000 special warrants of the Company (the "Special Warrants"), on an bought deal basis, at a price per Special Warrant of $6.40 for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $25 million (the "Offering"). Closing of the Offering is expected to occur on June 26, 2018.
Each Special Warrant not previously exercised will be automatically exercised, without payment of additional consideration, on the earlier of: (i) the Qualification Deadline (as defined below); and (ii) the third business day after the Prospectus Qualification (as defined below). The holders of Special Warrants will receive, upon such deemed exercise and for no additional consideration, one unit of the Company (the "Units") for each Special Warrant held. Each Unit will be comprised of one common share of the Company (the "Common Shares") and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Common Share at an exercise price of $9.50 for a period of 36 months from the date of closing of the Offering.
The Company will file and obtain a receipt for a preliminary prospectus, qualifying the Units issuable pursuant to the exercise of the Special Warrants (the "Prospectus") in all of the provinces of Canada (the "Qualifying Jurisdictions") within 10 business days from the Closing. The Company will diligently pursue all approvals and take all commercially reasonable steps to obtain a final receipt for the Prospectus in the Qualifying Jurisdictions. In the event that a receipt for a preliminary Prospectus has not occurred prior to 10 days after the Closing Date, each unexercised Special Warrant will, at the Time of Expiry, entitle the holder thereof to receive upon the exercise thereof, at no additional cost, 1.05 Units per Special Warrant.
In consideration for their services, the Underwriters will receive a cash commission equal to 6% of the gross proceeds of the Offering and will issue such number of underwriters' warrants equal to 6% of the number of Special Warrants sold in the Offering. Each underwriters' warrant will be exercisable into a common share of the Company at the Offering Price for a period of three years from the closing date.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering to fund strategic investments and international expansion opportunities.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in the United States. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors,
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman
ABOUT THE GREEN ORGANIC DUTCHMAN HOLDINGS LTD.
The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd. is a research & development company licensed under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations ("ACMPR") to cultivate medical cannabis. The Company carries out its principal activities producing cannabis from its facilities in Ancaster, Ont., pursuant to the provisions of the ACMPR and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada) and its regulations.
The Company grows high quality, organic cannabis with sustainable, all-natural principles. TGOD's products are laboratory tested to ensure patients have access to a standardized, safe and consistent product. TGOD has a funded capacity of 116,000 kg and is building 970,000 sq. ft. of cultivation facilities in Ontario and Quebec.
The Company has developed a strategic partnership with Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB) whereby Aurora has invested approximately $78.1 million for an approximate 17.5% stake in TGOD. In addition, the Company has raised approximately $290 million dollars and has over 5,000 shareholders.
TGOD's Common Shares and warrants issued under the indenture dated November 1, 2017 trade on the TSX under the symbol "TGOD" and "TGOD.WT", respectively.
Forward-Looking Information Cautionary Statement
This news release includes statements containing certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law ("forward-looking statements"). Forward looking statements in this release includes, but is not limited to, statements about the future legalization of recreational cannabis and cannabis-infused products in Canada, statements about the offering of any particular products by the Company and statements regarding the future performance of the Company. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "continue", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. These statements are only predictions. Various assumptions were used in drawing the conclusions or making the projections contained in the forward-looking statements throughout this news release. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. The Company is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law. Neither TSX nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of Toronto Stock Exchange) accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
SOURCE The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd.
For further information: Investor Relations, Email: [email protected], Phone: 1 (416) 900-7621, www.tgod.ca
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Whatcom County Public Works Maintenance and Operations is responsible for the regular maintenance of drainage facilities in county road rights-of-way. Whatcom County's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit establishes additional stormwater facility inspection and maintenance requirements for the Birch Bay Urban Growth Area (UGA). BBWARM works to assist Whatcom County in these maintenance programs and enhance their level of service when possible. Maintenance of privately owned stormwater facilities are the responsibility of the property owner(s).
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05/06/2020 Portada Inglés , Nature , News 0 comments
Gran Canaria opens windows over the universe
The astronomic viewpoints in Gran Canaria help you really make the most of the Island's excellent star-gazing conditions.
Frank was born in a place in Gran Canaria where the firmament is just another extension of life and forms part of the culture, the history and the language because you can really speak to the heavens here. Born in San Mateo, he grew up around Cueva Grande (Big Cave), at the island's peak, where human beings and the infinite seem to go hand in hand. "I have been aware of looking at the sky since I was very little, four or five years old," recalls this astronomy-mad teacher whose memory is a sort of planetary system around which family celebrations and lunar eclipses orbit and coexist.
27/02/2020 Portada Inglés , Culture , News 0 comments
Santa Catalina hotel, the legend goes on
Restoration of the emblematic Santa Catalina hotel in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is writing a new page in its history.
Gregory Peck took refuge there after playing Captain Ahab, shooting scenes from 'Moby Dick' on the Las Canteras beach, under the watchful eye of director John Huston. The hundred-year-old memories in its rooms also conjure up smoke from Winston Churchill's cigars, echoes of the voice of the soprano Maria Callas, the smouldering gaze of Ava Gardner and the dreamy although somewhat distracted look of Agatha Christie, probably because a mystery novel was always brewing in her head, even while she relaxed by the Atlantic in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
10/12/2019 Portada Inglés , News 0 comments
Nativity Scenes in Gran Canaria
In Gran Canaria there is a large part of belenes (nativity scenes) with its own craftsman label. They are made by specialists who put their soul in the design of this art.
Gran Canaria opens a passageway to the past
The Interpretation Centre of Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape highlights the values of this World Heritage site.
There was a time when the aborigines of Gran Canaria were able to create a bond between Heaven and Earth. It happened on the island's highlands. Those people created a unique world with their own hands, involving the starts in the process. The most spectacular example of this dialogue between humans, the Sun and the Moon, happened eight centuries ago, in a cavity located at 1200 m of altitude, excavated in volcanic rock. The sunlight and the silver halo of the full moon magically came through the rectangular skylight designed for the purpose, giving light, in turns, to each one of the figures engraved on the walls of Risco Caído cave number six. But there was nothing magical about it, only observation, technique and belief.
Gran Canaria, an Ocean of Crafts
The Crafts Fairs held next to Faro de Maspalomas (Maspalomas Lighthouse) in Spring and Summer show the depth of the Island's Traditions.
The waves, the breeze and the sea currents draw spirals and all kinds of whimsical meandering shapes next to the dike and breakwater at the foot of Faro de Maspalomas (Maspalomas Lighthouse). Gran Canaria's Nature has been and still is a constant source of inspiration for the creation of beauty, like a guiding light. Like the Lighthouse has been doing for over a century. For this reason, and as naturally as the waves break on the shore, it is hard to imagine a most suitable space for two must-go dates for all looking for in-depth knowledge of the Island's traditions. These dates are Faro de Maspalomas (Maspalomas Lighthouse) Summer Crafts Fair and Faro de Maspalomas (Maspalomas Lighthouse) Southern Spring Crafts Fair. In both cases, the Atlantic Ocean is the best background to the displayed crafts.
26/07/2019 Portada Inglés , Culture , Family , News 0 comments
Casas-Museo of Cabildo Gran Canaria: the jewels are free
Entrance to the museums dedicated to Galdós, the poet Tomás Morales, the painter Antonio Padrón and the León y Castillo brothers is now free.
How much is a jewel worth? How much would you pay to dive in a bottomless sea of wonders, to discover the artistic and historical treasures of an island? What if it were for free? That is the case in the four Casas-Museo (Museum-Houses) of Cabildo de Gran Canaria, dedicated to the novelist Benito Pérez Galdós, the modernist poet Tomás Morales, the painter Antonio Padrón, and the brothers Fernando and Juan de León y Castillo, politician and engineer, both relevant to the island's recent history.
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The grand opening of 'The Market Puerto Rico' offers the perfect combination of luxury shopping and quality healthy food.
The flavours that take us far away are always those closer to us. The true luxury is time, when hours and minutes cease to exist. And there is no better feeling than the sense that there is a surprise around the corner. This and other ingredients mix to create 'The Market Puerto Rico', in the coast of the municipality of Mogán, a hot new shopping space in the Southern Gran Canaria, rooted in concepts such as sustainability, local produce and the permanent desire to create unique moments for every visitor.
02/05/2019 Portada Inglés , Beaches , Family , News 0 comments
Gran Canaria Blue, the ocean in your hands
The new Gran Canaria Blue website enables visitors to learn about and make bookings on the fascinating range of nautical activities on the island.
There they go. Someone on board points to the spot where a mysterious shape slinks around under the water, moving ever nearer to the surface. The contained excitement lasts barely a few instants, in the a few short seconds the dolphins take to emerge and once again transform the waters of Gran Canaria into a blue canvass with their manoeuvres, jumps and somersaults. In this way, with the same precision with which the pod of dolphins moves forward, another dream has been fulfilled on an island in whose waters a third of all known cetaceans have been spotted.
The most human Cirque du Soleil comes to Gran Canaria
The TOTEM spectacle is inspired by the origins and evolution of mankind, and is to premiere in July 2019 in Gran Canaria.
This could be a test. Is it real or is it a dream? Our sight and the rest of our senses face the challenge of solving a dilemma which, at the end of the day, belongs to the realms of emotion. Here there are artists who contort themselves as they challenge the laws of physics while the set design and projections interact in real time with their movements. The audience contemplates the waves, splashes and reflections in the water of a primeval pond, flames, the source of a river, an ocean, a volcanic island, molecules, planets, a starlit sky and a rocket that sets off on course for infinity. We repeat the question once more… dream or reality? Both answers are valid when it is the Cirque du Soleil and their TOTEM show we are talking about, which will premiere on 5th July 2019 in Gran Canaria.
The inner light of Maspalomas Lighthouse
The general public are now allowed into the Maspalomas Lighthouse, the most emblematic of its kind in Gran Canaria, following its refurbishment and reopening.
Maspalomas Lighthouse illuminates the past, present and future, following its refurbishment and reopening to the general public. From 10.30 to 17.00 anyone can now gain free entry into the heart of this emblematic maritime landmark, which opened for the first time back in 1890, a time when it guided sailors safely around the waters to the south of Gran Canaria.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the nomad city
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has developed into a top European destination for digital nomads, as it brings together the vast majority of attractions they are looking for.
María Sirotkina was born on the banks of the river Sura, in the Russian city of Penza, where the temperature from November to March rarely creeps up over a chilly zero degrees. María has swapped this frozen beauty spot for the more warming climate of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The future is spinning round in Gran Canaria
The coast of Gran Canaria is the venue for Spain's first marine wind turbine, equipped with all the latest modern day technology.
The new daughter of the wind resides along the east coast of Gran Canaria and is called Elisa, the name given to the ambitious project underway on the island in the form of the first ever marine wind turbine to be installed in Spain, and also the first in the south of Europe to be a permanent fixture. This prototype model is also a pioneer on a world scale as it uses cutting edge technology which has enabled its moving, building and installation in deep water without the need for large boats or marine cranes, thus reducing costs and opening up a whole new world of renewable energy possibilities.
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Empowerment as a Mechanism for Social Transformation
UN Commission for Social Development 51st session
Baha'i International Community's contribution to the 51st Session of the Commission for Social Development
https://www.bic.org/statements/empowerment-mechanism-social-transformat…
The concept of 'empowerment' has become integral to development thought. Though it has often been associated primarily with gender equality, advances in global development will require a re-examination of the concept and its application to many aspects of human life. The following reflections on the goals, protagonists, and prerequisites for empowerment seek to assist the Commission for Social Development in its consideration of this important issue.
A Conception of Empowerment
The term empowerment means many things to many people. Concepts of choice, freedom, agency, capacity, participation, autonomy, and increased resources, however, are common to virtually all definitions. Consensus can therefore be found around the idea of empowerment as a means of improving quality of life and expanding the basis of human well-being. In short, empowerment can serve as a mechanism for effecting deep and broad-based social transformation.
The process of social transformation can be explored at both the personal and structural levels. At one end of the spectrum, social change is seen as an outcome of the development of individuals, achieved through education, training, access to material resources, and the like. According to this view, structural change is assumed to be an automatic result of personal change. Unfortunately, this rarely bears out in practice, as even those who benefit from such resources find themselves participating in oppressive social structures. At the other end of the spectrum, the human being is viewed entirely as a product of society, and change is considered impossible unless social structures—mainly those related to political power—are changed first. Yet, too often, this approach has supported the idea that ends justify the means and has resulted in conditions of injustice and oppression.
Increasing the capacity of individuals and communities to build more just and equitable social structures requires a conception of social development that avoids these extremes. Individual and structural transformation are intimately related: the individual's inner life shapes his or her social environment, and that environment, in turn, exerts a profound influence on one's spiritual and psychological well-being.
The metaphor of the body politic, likening all of humanity to a single social organism, provides a useful framework for exploring empowerment as means to pursue the transformation of individuals and society. Implicit in such a conception are characteristics such as the interdependence of the parts and the whole, the indispensability of collaboration, reciprocity and mutual aid, the need to differentiate but also harmonize roles, the need for institutional arrangements that enable rather than oppress, and the existence of a collective purpose above that of any constituent element. Viewed in this way, empowerment both depends on and contributes to a system in which diverse actors are provided the resources needed for each to make a unique contribution to the whole.
Drawing on the above ideas, individual and collective empowerment can be conceived as the expansion of vision, capacity, and volition necessary for people to act as effective agents of human well-being and prosperity.
The Protagonists of Social Transformation
Who are the primary actors in the processes of social transformation? Experience suggests that three are critically important: the individual, the institutions of society, and the community. In this light, empowerment can be said to involve assisting individuals to manifest constructive capacities in creative and disciplined ways, institutions to exercise authority in a manner that leads to the progress and upliftment of all, and communities to provide an environment in which culture is enriched and individual wills and capacities combine in collective action.
Raising capacity among these protagonists will require a thorough reexamination of assumptions about human nature. Notions of "us" and "them" deserve particular attention. Discourse in development circles, for example, is often rooted in notions of the "empowered" members of society assisting the "disadvantaged" or "marginalized." The impulse to rectify social inequalities is unquestionably noble, but us/them dichotomies only perpetuate and reinforce existing divisions. Careful thought needs to be given to ways in which empowerment can be approached as a universal and shared enterprise and not something the "haves" bestow on the "have nots."
Closely related is the question of who is empowered and who is not. Historical processes have created inequalities that must be addressed. But the development framework should be one in which every individual and group is presumed to have room for advancement. In this light, the marginalized are not without capacity, and the privileged are not all-powerful. All have capacity to develop and all have a responsibility to advance the welfare of the whole.
Finally, though empowerment denotes someone or something being invested with power, the social dynamics of power seem to have been largely ignored in discussions on development at the United Nations. That an examination of the dynamics of power has proven difficult to integrate into these discussions suggests the need for new and alternative approaches. How can power be conceptualized as something other than a zero-sum commodity? How can its associations with control and domination be replaced by ones of capacity and ability? How can it be approached as an integral part of all social relationships and institutions, rather than a resource to be acquired or lost? Exploration along these lines, we believe, will provide much insight into the means and ends of empowerment.
Prerequisites for Social Transformation
Because those without a seat at the table have little voice in decisions affecting their lives, participation in the systems and structures of society is an essential prerequisite for social transformation. To be anything more than window-dressing though, participation must be substantive and creative. It is not enough for people to be mere beneficiaries of projects, even if they have a voice in certain decisions. They must be far more involved in decision-making processes: identifying problems, devising solutions and approaches, enjoying benefits, and determining criteria for evaluation.
Participation, however, cannot be equated with empowerment—taking part in flawed systems merely perpetuates existing patterns of injustice. In order to advance the common good, individuals must possess both the capacity to assess the strengths and weaknesses of existing social structures and the freedom to choose between participating in those structures, working to reform them, or endeavoring to build new ones.
Building the capacity of the world's peoples and social institutions to create a prosperous and just society will require a vast increase in access to knowledge. This will entail approaches that facilitate the generation, application, and diffusion of knowledge at the local level. Rather than unquestioningly adopting "solutions" developed elsewhere, an emphasis on strengthening local capacity to generate, apply, and diffuse knowledge can help to put into place an ongoing process of action and reflection, one which encourages respect of the existing knowledge base of a community, raises the community's confidence in its ability to devise, implement and assess solutions, and helps to systematize and expand local knowledge. The result is a systematic and coherent process of learning that can gradually encompass a wider range of community endeavors.
Finally, the ability to identify the root causes of injustice will be crucial to the empowerment of populations to become agents of social transformation. Regardless of the advantages a population might enjoy, if it is unable to discern the drivers of social injustice and inequity, it will remain unable to rectify them. If empowerment is to lead to social transformation, it must involve the ability to recognize the forces shaping one's social reality, to identify the possibilities and challenges presented by that reality, and to devise initiatives for the betterment of society.
Many questions remain to be answered. How can we measure empowerment? How do we conceive of empowerment at the level of the individual, the community, and social institutions? How can we ensure that efforts to assist people and communities to become protagonists of their own development do not reinforce the notions of "us" and "them" or the "developed" and the "developing"? How can such efforts serve to strengthen vision, capabilities, and volition rather than creating dependencies? How can social transformation be approached as a universal and shared enterprise and not something driven by the "haves" for the benefit of the "have nots"? How can we give expression to the power that comes from love, knowledge, solidarity, truthfulness, and wisdom? How can we strive for mutual empowerment in human relations at all levels of society?


If you forget to pay attention to the time while comfortably hiking, feel free to come inside and stay for a night, before it gets dark. We offer sleeping camps and comfort rooms, all designed in our Tirolean style.
Our double and shared rooms are cozy and equipped with furniture in the rustic Tirolean style. Partly with shared shower, located on the floor or own shower in the room.Please note: weekends are the busiest days of the week, we are fully booked fast. Our recommendation: Plan your trip during the week and we will do everything to enable an unforgettable stay.


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Plenty of myths circulate around the SAT and you've probably have heard a few as you're preparing for your test date. Believing these myths can actually be detrimental to your final SAT score as well as your college applications. Here are just three you may have heard during high school.
Many students believe the PSAT is the "practice SAT," but this actually isn't what it means. The P stands for "Preliminary." It's absolutely an exam you can take in your sophomore and junior years to help you prepare for the upcoming SAT, but there is definitely more to it.
The highest scorers on the PSAT who are in their junior year of high school can go on to earn scholarships. The National Merit Scholarship Program, who hosts the test, recognize those students with awards. However, this competition is extremely tough, so you need to score extremely high to be a finalist. To give yourself the best chance of winning, study as though you were studying for the SAT.
And in the end, even if you don't earn the scholarship, it was a great learning experience for the upcoming SAT.
Students often hear that if you don't know an answer to a question, you should leave it blank. But the SAT has changed. Answering a question incorrectly will no longer deduct points from your final score, so it is actually beneficial to make an educated guess.
To take advantage of this, skip questions you don't know and answer the ones you do. Once you've finished the section, flip back to take a closer look at those more difficult questions. If, upon second glance, you still don't 100% know the answer, it's time to make an educated guess. Cross out the answers you know are incorrect and then pick one from the remaining choices. If you're right, you get points towards your final score. If you're wrong, there's no penalty.
One of the other changes to the SAT that was made was making the essay portion optional. Due to this, students skip it thinking it's unnecessary or just extra work. However, it could harm you.
During college applications, many schools will actually appreciate the extra effort that you showed by taking to essay. It gives them a better picture of who you are as a student. Some colleges and universities actually require the essay section to be taken. So if you decide to apply to one of these schools and you didn't do the essay portion, you might find yourself having to retake the SAT along with the essay.
The SAT is an important aspect of applying for colleges and many schools will require that you take the SAT or ACT in order to be accepted. Understanding the myths and facts that surround the SAT though can help you approach the studying and exam correctly.
Check out how your SAT scores affect your acceptance odds with College Raptor's free match tool!


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Norman Taber (né le  - mort le ) est un ancien athlète américain spécialiste du demi-fond.

Carrière

Palmarès

Jeux olympiques d'été

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Coureur de demi-fond américain
Coureur de 1 500 mètres
Champion olympique d'athlétisme
Champion olympique américain
Athlète (homme) aux Jeux olympiques de 1912
Étudiant de St John's College (Oxford)
Naissance en septembre 1891
Naissance à Providence (Rhode Island)
Décès en juillet 1952
Décès dans le comté d'Essex (New Jersey)
Décès à 60 ans

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Our teacher, dr Shivani, said once that Ayurveda is like an ocean.
We can chose the way we want to use its wealth. We could walk on a beach with bare feet being close to earth and nature. We might wade in the shallow water, benefitting from the cooling and refreshment that the water gives us. We can swim in the safe distance from the shore, letting the waves rock us and letting go of the burden of everyday life. Dive underneath the surface with diving mask and snorkel, discovering the magic and colors of the underwater world. Dive with the tank deep into the world of more mysteries and much stronger element.
It's similar with Panchakarma. We can benefit from it in many ways.
Basically, there are two types of therapies. First one, called Sanshamana in Sanskrit, aim at balancing, reducing the dosha that lost the balance. We focus on symptoms and attempt to alleviate them. We also introduce the prophylaxis in order not to create any new symptoms of imbalance. It takes place during a consultation, we set up a diet and discuss the lifestyle with the client.
Second group, called Sansodhana in Sanskrit, the cleansing therapies. Panchakarma is one of them. It is a radical treatment that can heal serious disorders and diseases. Here we focus on eliminating the vitiated doshas from the body. We try to restore what is the essence of health for a person and to get close as much as possible to the ideal health state called Prakriti in Ayurveda.
Each of them has its purpose and once we know it we can meet real expectations.
1 – Panchakarma, that helps you maintain the balance and good health. Who is it for? For fit people leading a healthy lifestyle and caring for themselves that want to boost their body once in a while.
2 – Panchakarma, that reduces the symptoms of imbalance. Who is it for? For those who are generally healthy, but suffer from some small afflictions, minor aches and pains. Nothing serious, diagnosed by the doctor with heavy chemicals prescribed. Actually, the doctor doesn't know what to say at all so says it is stress, suggests to rest more and quit smoking.
3 – Panchakarma, aiming to pacify the dosha that lost control and causes problems. Who is it for? For those, that suffer even though they are on a diet ( or at least they try to be) and try ( try…) to have a healthy lifestyle. They suffer from bloating, constipation, heartburn, headaches, fatigue…Something is wrong and the way they try to fix it does not bring relief.
4 – Panchakarma, that is supposed to cure from a serious sickness. Who is it for? For those who can name their ailment, as with all its symptoms it received a name such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, cancer… Their condition is advanced and it requires advanced treatment. In order to achieve visible and lasting results, we need more time, discipline and expert knowledge.
I heard many times that Panchakarma treatments differ.
Some decide to go to beautifully situated Kerala, as Kerala is a home of Ayurveda. Actually, not a home but rather a good God Mother. India has chosen that state, not so long ago, to be a place where Ayurveda can be favored and cultivated. The government of India allowed for much more favorable legal and financial conditions there for developing activities related to Ayurveda than in any other part of India.
Panchakarma is practiced slightly different in Kerala. It even has its name: Abhyanga Panchakarma. The main goal is to rejuvenate, regenerate and relax. It does not focus on cleansing and so there is practically no treatment related to insides of the body. What is it then? Massage with use of large amounts of oil and sauna are basic treatments. There is Shirodhara and other forms of pouring oil onto the body, there are massages with use of herbal bolus and powder massages. The diet is more varied, prepared to balance dosha. Hence the stories of tables groaning with the aromatic food.
Panchakarma, that we perform is a classic form of Panchakarma consisting of five therapies that cleanse the organism from the inside. We come up with an individual plan of Panchakarma for every client. We follow the principle "Primo non nocere". We take into account all the indications, contraindications, our skills and the possibilities of action.
Panchakarma is the most important healing method offered by Ayurveda.
Its greatest and most valued treasure. It is not an easy procedure. This is why so few people in Poland deal with it. In addition to the specialist knowledge, the relationship established between the patient and therapist is also very important. With this relationship it is possible to talk about subtleties related to emotions, the way we experience the world, what has shaped us and still affects us daily.
Next time I will tell you why Panchakarma is so difficut and why it is worth to do it.
If you have any questions, comments or you want to find out more about something you are welcome to contact me.


Pete Lau, OnePlus CEO, announced plans for a 5G smartphone back in the summer. At the Hong Kong 4G/5G summit, hosted by Qualcomm, his co-founder Carl Pei said the company is on schedule for an early 2019 launch and we expected that the phone might be the OnePlus 7 (or whatever the OnePlus 6T successor is named).
Apparently this isnt the case, as reported by as a OnePlus spokesperson announced the 5G device will not be a successor of the OnePlus 6T and will most likely arrive in a different category with a higher price tag.
According to the report, OnePlus 6T will have a successor, but it wont be 5G-enabled in order to keep a relatively lower price, compared with other smartphones with similar specs. This means we might see two OnePlus phones launched together, something the company hasnt done yet.
Name-wise, the spokesperson did not confirm if we might see names as OnePlus 7 or OnePlus 7T. There is also quite early to know if the company will be ready to announce the 5G device at MWC in February or we should wait for a separate event.


Worry-free transfer from Naples airport or train station to your hotel.
" There is a commuter train from Naples to Sorrento, but it takes ages. Limo transfer was much better an option."
Naples is one of the most important Italian transportation hub with international airport, busy train station with fast Eurostar connections to Rome, Florence, Milan and Venice and ferry pier for connections to Capri and Ischia islands.
The drive from Naples to Sorrento lasts about one hour and the scenic route takes you along the Bay of Naples towards the cliffis of Sorrento.


What was the most popular band the year of the first-ever Super Bowl? What about the biggest movie from 1991, the year the Giants beat the Bills by a single point?
Take a look back at the popular songs, TV shows and movies from some of the biggest Super Bowl game years -- including ones in which New York teams played.
Big TV shows: "Sunday Night Football," "American Idol," "Dancing with the Stars"
No. 1 Movie: "Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert"
Big TV shows: "Survivor," "ER," "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
No. 1 movie: "The Wedding Planner"
Big TV shows: "60 Minutes," "Roseanne," "Murphy Brown"
Big TV shows: "The Cosby Show," above, "A Different World," "Cheers"
No. 1 movie: "Critical Condition"
No. 1 movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Big TV shows: "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza"
Big TV shows: "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Lucy Show," "Gomer Pyle, USMC"
No. 1 movie: "The Sand Pebbles"