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Gite | 2 bedrooms | sleeps 4
The Chant du Verdier estate lies on one of the mountain plateaus in the lovely region of Les Causses du Quercy, in the basin of the river Lot. An ideal base to explore this wonderful region of the Lot and Célé valley. The authenticity of the villages, the kindness of its inhabitants and its history is all around you: Pech Merle, St Cirq Lapopie, Rocamadour, Figeac, the numerous chateaus. Also an area for those who love the honest french kitchen: magrait de canard, foie gras, cabécou cheese and of course the (small) private vineyards to taste its wonderful regional wines. For the sportive holiday maker this region has lots to offer you too: mountain biking, waterskiing, horse riding, beautiful walks on and around the Gr65, (sky)diving, climbing, all is possible here at and around Le Chant du Verdier!
|Size||Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms|
|Nearest Amenities||4 km|
|Nearest travel links||Nearest airport: Rodez 50 km, Nearest railway: Figeac or Villefranche de Rouergue 20 km|
|Family friendly||Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility|
|Notes||No pets allowed, Yes, smoking allowed|
Features and Facilities
|General||TV, Wi-Fi available|
|Standard||Toaster, Hair dryer|
|Utilities||Dishwasher, Microwave, Fridge|
|Rooms||2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 Shower rooms|
|Furniture||Single beds (4), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 5|
|Other||Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair|
|Outdoors||Balcony or terrace, Shared garden, BBQ, Swing set, Trampoline|
|Further details indoors|
The Chant du Verdier estate has two fully equipped gîtes one of which is Les Lilas. This gîte is fully tiled on the basefloor and wood on the second floor. On the ground floor there is a well equipped kitchen with fridge, Senseo and microwave/oven, a large bathroom with separate shower, bath and two sinks, a separate toilet, a living room with opening doors on the private terrace with garden furniture and Weber BBQ. Upstairs are two bedrooms and a small bathroom with shower, sink and toilet. There is a television and DVD player in the living room and in one bedroom, electric heating and the hot water supply is heated by solar energy. It has standard linen and towels for kitchen, bathroom and bedroom and the final cleaning of the gîte is included in the rent. The private swimming pool (10 x 5m), shared jointly with the other gîte and us, has a spacious sun terrace and easy chairs is at our guests disposal all day long.
The property is surrounded by a carefully tended garden in which lavender, olive trees, rosemary, lilac, fig and fruit trees, rose and butterfly bushes give off all the colours under the sun. There is an enclosed private swimming pool in the garden with sun terrace and deck chairs and a large "Jeu de Boules"-field. A large children's playing area lies behind the swimming pool with playground equipment and toys. There is also a small farm in the wood with chickens (Silky's). We also have more animals to welcome you: three medium sized dogs and three cats all living in harmony together and very friendly to our guests of course!
Should you wish fresh rolls and croissants for breakfast, you can have them delivered at your door from 8h30 o'clock in the morning. There is also the opportunity to have a delicious four course meal with regional products on the estate served with great pleasure by Thera and Gerben, your hosts, by prior arrangement. Naturally the young ones are catered for with a children's menu. If you'd like to know more about other prices and possibilities to make your stay as pleasant as possible, may we refer you to our site at the prices and extra services pages.
|Further details outdoors|
The scenery around the estate is absolutely breathtaking whatever the season However, throughout the year every evening you'll hear the owls as you gaze up, overwhelmed by the wonderful night sky. It is hardly surprising that the region in which Le Chant de Verdier lies is also known as the Triangle Noir (the Black Triangle). With a total absence of any light pollution, there is the joy of gazing up at the most beautiful star-lit skies.
The Chant du Verdier estate is located in the department of Lot on a hill in the beautiful region of Les Causses du Quercy in the small hamlet of Le Verdier. The landscape in the south easterly part of the Lot is very typical. The hilly plateaus of chalk (Les Causses) typify the region along with their splendid views from all points of the compass. The ground is sometimes rugged and meadows and oak woods abound. Lovely old stone walls form the division between fields and woods put there by the locals hundreds of years ago. You'll also come across round stone dwellings, called Caselles, where shepherds and goatherds sheltered from the weather or spent their nights there. The small town of Carjac is but four kilometres away and has all the usual facilities and amenities. There are supermarkets, bakers, butchers, restaurants serving delicious regional dishes, pavement cafés, a chemist's, a doctor's surgery, a tourist office and two markets where you can buy all the local produce you need. There is also the Centre d'Art Contemporain Georges Pompidou gallery which is not only affiliated to the Centre Pompidou in Paris but was also founded by the French president, Pompidou. The exhibitions of contemporary art, held from spring until autumn, are well worth a visit. In the old center there are two more art galleries to visit. Furthermore we invite you to taste the wonderful wines of Laurent at Aux Fils des Saisons!
Booking and deposit / payment
If you wish to make a booking you should notify us by telephone or e-mail. As soon as
possible you will receive a booking form either by mail or should you request it, in
duplicate, by post. All our prices are in Euros, including VAT and tourist tax.
The correctly completed booking form should be returned to us within two weeks. At the
same time, a 50% deposit should be paid via your bank or Giro account. As soon as we
have received both the booking form and your deposit we will send you a booking
conformation. Then the agreement is valid.
The Midi-Pyrenees region
In the south-west, Midi-Pyrénées, which lies between Aquitaine to the west and Languedoc-Roussillon to the east, is a large région with a size almost equivalent to that of Switzerland and Luxemburg put together. It has eight départements, each with its own strong character. Magnificent mountain scenery can be found both to the north and south of the region. The north east encompasses part of the Causses which is high plateau country. This is a land of plains dotted with hillocks, sandy stretches, moors and pine woods, desolate plateaux, and little valleys covered with impenetrable forests. The birds and small animals feed on the thyme and juniper growing wild in the chalky soil and as a result are hunted for their delicious and individual flavour.
Lot is a département that has become very popular with foreign buyers, particularly the British,, because it neighbours the long popular Dordorgne. Character property, particularly in the beautiful bastides (fortified villages), is less expensive here. The Lot is noticeably hotter and drier than the Dordogne. Here the serpentine River Lot and its many tributaries have cut dramatic gorges into the dry limestone plateau. Aside form our estate we also run an independant real estate agency so if you are looking to buy a house in this region (Lot, Aveyron, Tarn-et-Garonne and Tarn) we are at your service! www.qpsfrance.com
Picturesque towns in the vicinity
15 minutes driving north from Cajarc brings you to the charming town of Figeac, known for the writers that lived there. The town also boats a few excellent restaurants and an attractive market on a Saturday morning. To the south of Cajarc, some twenty minutes driving away, lies the town of Villefranche de Rouergue with its beautiful cathedral and typical French market on a Thursday morning with a wide choice of regional specialities. The medieval town of Cahors is also certainly worth a visit with its art galleries, shops and restaurants, not forgetting the famous place of pilgrimage, Rocamadour, with its black Madonna.
The region around Lot is a paradise for those who really enjoy life to its fullest! The area is renowned for its wine (Cahors and Gaillac), goats' cheeses (Rocamadour and Cabécou), foie grâs, maigret de canard, saffron, truffles and the (liqueur and oil from) walnuts. It seems that every season is a celebration of regional delights: the saffron festival in Cajarc in September, the wine harvest festival in October, the truffle market in Lalbengue in January, seeing the newborn goats and lambs frolicking in the meadows and sampling fresh cheeses in spring.
Sports and activities
For a quick glance at the type of sports' activities that you can take part in during your stay at Le Chant du Verdier we invite you to look at our site.
Places of interest
A random selection of the numerous places of interest that really make staying at the Chant du Verdier estate an unforgettable holiday experience are: Cahors, Figeac, Villefranche de Rouergue, St Cirq Lapopie, Rocamadour, Sarlat, Albi.


Like a blazing comet roaring through the football universe; its fast, furious and only comes around every so many years. Yep, it's the battle of the bay with the San Francisco 49ers crossing the mote to take on the Oakland Raiders.
For this game the experts can throw away all their statistics, history and current standings of these two teams. The game is not a game; its a battle. And as battles go, their outcomes are determined only by the blood and sweat left on the battlefield that day.
This Sunday, Dec. 7th, football fans in the bay won't be reminiscing on the hell that was the Pearl Harbor attack of 1941, they'll be busy watching, and possibly participating in, a battle as real to them as a struggle for world military supremacy. The worse place anybody can be caught this weekend is in the middle; the mote. Because come this Sunday you're either with the Niners Empire or the Raider Nation; the middle will be full of battle wounded and casualties. Time to grab your weapon and choose you're true allegiance mate. arrghh!


August 22, 2008 – Hundreds of local school council members will gather Saturday for an LSC Summit, culminating a series of legislative hearings on increasing support for local school governance.
Clarice Berry, president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association , will give a keynote address. Organizers say Berry is a strong supporter of LSCs — and that her participation reflects widespread support among many principals who have positive relationships with LSCs and value parent involvement.
The event is sponsored by school reform and community groups along with the Elementary and Secondary Education Committee of the Illinois House. State Rep. Esther Golar, chair of the committee and a former LSC member, sponsored three hearings in recent months where LSC members called for increased resources for LSCs, including improved professional development, as well as defense of local school governance, which Chicago Public Schools is eliminating at many new schools.
Many also called for an elected school board.
The summit comes at the start of the 20th year of school reform in Chicago. “The strategy of involving parents and the community in local school management has been an amazing success,” said Julie Woestehoff ofParents United for Responsible Education . While local school councils “don’t get a lot of credit from the Mayor and his team,” they are recognized nationally as a model — and while business and foundation support has turned toward privatization, “community support is still very strong,” she said.
The hearings represent “an acknowledgement on the part of legislators that LSCs need a lot more help than they’re getting,” she said. Recommendations from the hearings are expected to form the basis for legislative proposals.
The LSC Summit takes place Saturday, August 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at UIC’s Illinois Room, 750 S. Halsted.
Blocks Together : An LSC at Orr
Blocks Together, one of several community groups participating in the hearings and summit, is fighting for an elected LSC “that has real powers” at Orr High School, said Irene Juaniza. This year Orr was designated a “turnaround school” to be administered as a teacher training academy by the Academy for Urban School Leadership , with an appointed advisory council.
“With Renaissance 2010, CPS has a strategy of taking away powers from LSCs,” Juaniza said. “We are looking for LSCs that have full power and authority in all schools including charter, contract, and small schools.”
“We believe real parent and community involvement can only help improve the quality of education in our schools,” she said.
Blocks Together is concerned about the connection between school closings and gentrification, as well as the diminishing number of neighborhood schools, Juaniza said. “We feel like the West Side is under attack,” she said. “The number of schools that are open to our children is smaller and smaller.”
The group has leaders and members with long histories of involvement in local schools at many levels; having seen what became of previous CPS plans — particularly at Orr — they tend to be skeptical of new ones, Juaniza said. “There are so many discrepancies,” she said.
Orr’s new managers “have not been transparent,” she said. “Only after we started pushing have they been more transparent.”
“If they’re trying to work in partnership, why is there so much secrecy? Why are they alienating teachers and staff?” she asked.
Most recently the group heard of Orr students being told they were now outside the schools boundaries — despite earlier promises that no one would be turned away. “We asked the [new] principal about the boundaries, and he said he didn’t know — he said we should ask CPS,” said Juaniza. The school has now said any student who was at Orr last year can return, she said.
Participating in the LSC Summit has helped Blocks Together “get a perspective on what’s happening citywide” and develop relationships with other groups, Juaniza said. “We’ve made some great allies,” she said.
(You can read other neighborhood stories like this one at the Community Media Workshop Web site.)


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Illustrating the Hebrew Bible
Song of Songs
The Song of Songs
Illustrated by Ze’ev Raban
Berlin: Hasefer [S. D. Saltzmann], 1923
The Song of Songs, also named The Song of Solomon is one of the five scrolls in the Hebrew Bible. It is composed of a series of lyric love songs. Tradition prefers to interpret the book as an allegory in which the love of God for His people is expressed. Due to the poetic descriptions of nature and spring it is customarily recited during the holiday of Passover, and in some communities also every Friday, welcoming the Sabbath as a beloved bride.
Ze’ev Raban 1890 – 1970
Painter, sculptor and graphic artist. Raban was born in Poland and studied sculpture and decorative arts in Munich, Brussels and Paris. He came to Palestine in 1912 and joined the Bezal’el School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem as a teacher and a designer. Raban was one of the artists that shaped and defined what came to be known as the Bezal’el style.

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by Robert Rollin
Under talented conductor Susan Davenny Wyner, the Warren Philharmonic presented a vibrant, imaginative family concert called Stories, Dances, Tricks and Treats at Christ Episcopal Church in Warren last Sunday, November 1. The opening half more than justified this title and contained a delightful mélange of programmatic compositions. Manuel De Falla’s El Sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), Ballet Suite No. 1 and Alexander Borodin’s Polovetsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor, the most substantial pieces, received particularly fine performances and enlivened the afternoon.
De Falla’s four-movement ballet tells the story of an old, but intelligent miller, his beautiful and loving young wife, and the corregidor, or town governor, who becomes infatuated with the miller’s wife while wearing his three-sided hat, the symbol of his office. The first movement, Introduction – Afternoon, exposes the narrative and the protagonists. The colorful orchestration includes an elaborate timpani part, a charming solo clarinet accompaniment figure, attractive flute and French horn solos, and a bassoon solo accompanied by pizzicato strings to represent the corregidor.
The second movement, Dance of the Miller’s Wife, is a Fandango, an attractive and energetic Spanish dance in three-four time. The two oboe solos — the second in the darker, low range — were lovely, and the piccolo solo sparkled. The Corregidor, the third movement, interrupts her dance with a pompously serious bassoon portrait. In the fourth movement, The Grapes, the miller’s wife pretends to offer him the fruit, but suddenly dances out of reach before he can kiss her. The performance was lovely and the tutti sections included plentiful use of xylophone, cymbals, and timpani.
The Polovetsian Dances came into Alexander Borodin’s opera as a series of entertainments for the Russian Prince Igor while held captive in the Great Khan’s court. These wonderfully orchestrated dances were source material for the musical Kismet by Robert Wright and George Forrest.
The opening includes entrancing horn, oboe, and flute solos, and imaginative contrapuntal treatment. The haunting melody, later turned into the popular song Strangers in Paradise, appears first in the principal oboe, and later in the English horn. A fine clarinet solo led to the full passage supported by multiple percussion. There was another appearance of the haunting oboe tune, followed by more tutti passages, and a strident crescendo leading to the powerful crash of hand cymbals at the close. The orchestra played the piece with poise, energy, and grace.
A visiting troupe of circus comedians attempting to attract an audience for their evening entertainment presented the Dance of the Comedians in Czech composer Bedřich Smetana’s opera, The Bartered Bride. A host of coloristic percussion, including snare drum, bass drum, triangle, and cymbals, supported the short movement’s vigorous texture. Trumpet and piccolo solos provided periodic relief.
Two short but interesting pieces represented American music of different eras. Leroy Anderson composed The Syncopated Clock in 1945 for Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra while on a short furlough from his activities in American Army Intelligence. It contrasted the constant regular ticking of a wind-up alarm clock, represented by the use of a wood block, with intriguingly simple-yet-subtle orchestral syncopations. The performance was excellent.
Rapper, hip-hop artist, singer, and composer Pharrell Williams’s hugely popular song “Happy” was part of the 2013 soundtrack for the film Despicable Me II. Though one might argue that the orchestrated version lacked some of the vitality of the original, it made solid use of the brass and percussion section. At the end, the hand clapping by the musicians and audience was engaging.
The second half of the concert segued to vocal music, including Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 and John Rutter’s setting of When the Saints Go Marching In. The same music of the Gloria appears as three sections in Bach’s Mass in b. The movements follow the tripartite pattern of Chorus-Duet-Chorus. Soloists Marian Vogel, soprano, and Eric Bower, tenor, stood in front of the orchestra and sang very effectively in the more thinly scored middle movement. The chorus stood behind the orchestra and up against the rear wall. Unfortunately, a hexagonal ceiling directly above the chorus muffled the group’s sound and made it impossible to hear the contrapuntal voices clearly in the two full choral movements. The music was certainly well prepared, but the lack of a reflective shell behind the chorus hurt the performance.
John Rutter’s When the Saints Go Marching In offered nice orchestral syncopation in the accompaniment that supported the chorus well. Also notable were the lively clarinet and trombone obbligatos, eerie tremolos in the cellos to tone paint the word “moon,” nice variety in alternating the women’s and men’s sections and then rejoining them later, and interesting tempo changes. However, the totality seemed to lose continuity in the wake of its variety. One longed for the simpler yet statelier New Orleans funeral marching band version.
Published on ClevelandClassical.com November 3, 2015.
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Author to discuss book about a sister dealing with the loss of her brother
By Karen Billing
A young author has given a unique voice to her first novel, “Slipping Reality,” a book about a sister dealing with the death of her older brother from cancer. Author Emily Beaver offers heartbreaking insight as she dealt with watching her brother Matthew battle the disease and struggled with grief after he passed away in 2009 at the age of 17.
Writing the book was a way to honor her sibling forever, as he was one of her biggest supporters.
Emily will hold a book signing event on Monday, April 23, at 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble in Del Mar Highlands Town Center. She recently took part in a book signing at the Mira Mesa Barnes and Noble and was happy to sell 50 books.
“I’ve gotten a very positive response,” said Emily, a high school senior. “For the most part the reviews have been really wonderful and it’s truly an honor. It was my first attempt so I still have a lot to learn.”
Emily started writing when she was 8 years old. Her third grade teacher assigned students to write a fable.
“We were only expected to write a paragraph or a half a page, I turned in 10 pages,” said Emily. “I had so much fun and knowing that I could create my own world and characters, I haven’t stopped since.”
Her first published work was in “Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book.” As Emily had always enjoyed reading the “Chicken Soup” books, her mother told her they were looking for submissions for their cancer-themed book. Emily sat down and wrote something in 15 minutes, not really even thinking that it would be selected.
She found out her submission would be a part of the book just hours before her brother died.
Emily said she was honored to be chosen to be a part of the book and was also excited that if something she wrote in 15 minutes could be published, the possibilities could be even greater if she really put her mind to a writing project.
In her book “Slipping Reality,” Katelyn is a freshman in high school attempting to make sense of her brother’s deteriorating health.
“When it becomes too hard for her to deal with, her mind snaps,” said Emily of Katelyn’s imaginary world of two different people, a whole other world. “She loses sight of what’s important by running away from her problems.”
Part of her book is sending a message not to run away from your problems, but it’s also about being strong.
“Not just being strong for others but being strong for yourself,” Emily said. “ In life, some will have a lot of pain and suffering but you don’t have to chose to suffer in silence. Bad things can happen but you can learn to be happy and live beyond it.”
Emily said she is doing “pretty well” in her grief over the loss of her brother, who attended San Diego Jewish Academy.
“I have some days when I just can’t handle it, some dark times,” said Emily.
Although there are hard days, every day is different and sometimes she remembers the things that made Matthew unique and funny and she can’t help but laugh and celebrate him.
“I know how unhappy he’d be if I chose to live a life of sadness,” said Emily. “Grief is so unpredictable and you get through it the best you can. Writing definitely saved my life in many ways and ‘Slipping Realty’ was a big factor in that. I’m so grateful for that book.”
To learn more about “Slipping Reality” visit emilysreality.com. Order the book at amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. Barnes and Noble at the Del Mar Highlands Town Center is located at 12835 El Camino Real.

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- Bat The Father, Rabbit The Son Written and performed by Donal O’Kelly
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- Paint like Picasso! Shoreditch
Classical Spectacular returns to Royal Albert Hall
The UK’s most popular classical show returns to the Royal Albert Hall celebrating 30 years with a very special season of concerts this March.
From the very best classical music and state of the art technology to electrifying multicoloured laser displays and our famous thundering finale to the music of the 1812 Overture, the March 2019 season promises to be bigger and more thrilling than ever.
Classical Spectacular returns to Royal Albert Hall with start on Thursday 21st of March 2019, Classical Spectacular ends on Sunday 24th of March 2019.
Music | Classical Spectacular


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Today we chat with Steve Sobalvarro, Teaching Artist for ArtsMatter at The LA Promise Fund.
I am a Media Artist and Teaching Artist who was born and raised in Los Angeles. I have worked for several companies, schools and non-profits throughout LA County during my career and I am incredibly passionate about serving my Los Angeles community through the power of Media Arts and Creativity.
Why do you do this work? What do you love about it? As a Second-Generation American youth growing up in the outskirts of Downtown LA, I lacked opportunity, support and mentorship relating to the Arts and Careers in the Arts. I had my first official Art class at the age of 16…I was heavily impacted by the experience and by the Teaching Artists. I hope I can impact my community in a similar manner- providing opportunities for self-discovery and joy through Creativity.
What's one of your favorite memories during your work for the LA Promise Fund? I am a new member of the LA Promise Fund (ArtsMatter) team…I am excited to contribute to the organizations mission and create memories serving our community!
When you were a teenager, what did you want to do in life? When I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an Artist…but was encouraged in my household not to pursue this path. Fortunately, I was able to receive guidance and encouragement through my Art Teachers at Plaza De La Raza and the LA County High School for the Arts.
If you could give your teenage self some advice, what would it be? I would advise my teenage self to tell my middle school self that everything will be fine.
What are three fun facts about you?
I love iced coffee.
I love Anime and Video Games.
I collect Designer Art Toys and hope to create/produce my own one day with my 3D printer.
What artist(s) inspires you and why? I am inspired by SO many artists…I tend to be drawn to people that push boundaries in their content and chosen medium - ultimately contributing to the human spirit.
What is the one thing you are sure to do when we are on the other side of this Pandemic? I am looking forward to watching a movie in a theatre with my cousins, teaching and collaborating with my community in-person and traveling.


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There’s a tricky and potentially-troubling situation going on when it comes to individuals who are studying counseling in college, but who happen to oppose homosexuality. Jennifer Keeton, a Christian, learned this the hard way after she was expelled from the graduate program at Georgia’s Augusta State University in 2010 for expressing her disagreement with the same-sex lifestyle. Now, two years later, she has lost a subsequent court case defending herself against the school’s decision.
Here’s how the situation unfolded. The university‘s program apparently stressed that students couldn’t discriminate against others based on any indicators, including sexual orientation. But Keeton, citing her religious views, refused to alter her engagement with gay students and clients (clearly, these views impacted her relations with these individuals). It’s not clear exactly what Keeting said inside or outside of the classroom that created such a stir, but this is certainly an interest First Amendment case to continue watching.

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Tuxedo, the project of Mayer Hawthorne and Jake One, are gearing up for the holidays. Today, the pair share a cover version of Paul McCartney’s, “Wonderful Christmastime.”
The two Grammy-nominated artists have teamed up to release their debut album Tuxedo out March 3, 2015 on Stones Throw Records. You can now pre-order Tuxedo on iTunes and receive an instant download of their first single “Do It,” HERE. Tuxedo recently unveiled their debut video for “Do It,” watch it below.
Mayer Hawthorne (Aquarius) and Jake One (Taurus) are descendants of the one- word moniker family of funk, where you will find groups such as Chic, Shalamar, Plush & Zapp.
The Tuxedo collaboration began with an exchange of mixtapes back in 2006. The fruits of a long-standing kinship were three tracks that mysteriously showed up on Internet doorsteps nearly two years ago. In between personal projects, these three tracks became a full album’s worth of Tuxedo. The album was mixed by original disco don dada John Morales at his home studio in South Plainfield, New Jersey. “I flew out there,” Mayer says. “His wife made me spaghetti and everything.”
The duo are excited to release their upcoming debut album Tuxedo on Stones Throw Records, which also marks Mayer’s return to the label since his debut release of A Strange Arrangement in 2009. Until then, stay classy.


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‘With regard to speaking on college campuses, conservatives are thoroughly well positioned with their contention that there is both passive and active discrimination against them …’
A court-certified expert on extremism who once worked as an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center before becoming a criminology professor has a powerful message for academia: If it really supports diversity, let conservative students and speakers have their say on campus.
“We can’t just give lip service to diversity of ideas,” Professor Brian Levin said in a recent telephone interview with The College Fix. “The academia has to realize that there are people of goodwill on both sides, and they have an obligation to respect the entire spectrum of viewpoints.”
The comments come in an era of hypersensitivity, when political correctness often reigns supreme on college campuses.
Levin, director of Cal State University of San Bernardino’s nonpartisan Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, passionately diverges with much of academia, which enforces campus speech codes and similar policies and programs that limit speech some find offensive.
“As the son of a Nazi-era POW and grandson of immigrants from totalitarian regimes, I have the same appreciation that most Americans share for the special gift that our system of civil, yet uncensored, discourse has given to the world,” Levin explains on the center’s website.
It should be noted, Levin isn’t all talk and no action.
In February, Levin used his own body to shield a KKK protester at a rally when counter-protesters arrived to attack them. In describing the experience on the Huffington Post, Levin said he asked the man he saved from a brutal assault “how it felt to have his life possibly saved by a Jew.”
“[H]e thanked me, although I’m sure by his other horrible comments that his heart is as resolute in its hatred as before. Still, I would do it all over again if that situation arose,” Levin wrote.
To Levin, he said he holds to the maxim that he may not agree with what someone has to say, but he will vigorously defend their right to say it.
To that end, the academe’s open hostility toward conservative viewpoints must end, he said.
Citing examples such as conservative speakers being disinvited from campuses, Levin said he believes “it’s a disgrace that we don’t have more conservative voices of goodwill on college campuses. The academia has been far too dismissive of conservative viewpoints.”
Registered as an Independent his entire life, Levin said in his own classroom he welcomes students from both sides of the aisle to speak up and never discourages debate. He said efforts to silence conservative students not only runs afoul of their First Amendment rights, but also stands against the ideals of higher education.
“With regard to speaking on college campuses, conservatives are thoroughly well positioned with their contention that there is both passive and active discrimination against them, and that has no place in the academia,” Levin said.
His defense of free speech extends to all speakers, noting their right to be provocative, “even if it’s hateful.”
“Socially, we should condemn people who protest by doing things like burning the American flag, but I certainly defend their right to freedom of expression,” he said.
Courses that Levin teaches at CSU San Bernardino include criminal law, hate crime law and policy and terrorism in the 21st Century.
Asked about the recent mass shooting in Orlando, Levin did not mince words in calling it terror-related.
“The attack was both a hate crime as well as a terrorist attack that appears to be motivated by a combination of personal instability, homophobia, idiosyncratic reasons and violent salafist extremism,” he said.

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How Words Get Good
From Shelf: Bookish Elsewhats
A behind-the-scenes tour for booklovers everywhere.
'A masterpiece' - Daily Mail 'A fascinating and funny look at what really goes into the making of a book' Sunday Times 'Inject this straight into my veins!' Lucy Mangan 'Engaging, informative, and fascinating!' David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Once upon a time, a writer had an idea. They wrote it down. But what happened next? Join Rebecca Lee, professional word-improver, as she embarks on the fascinating journey to find out how a book gets from author's brain to finished copy. She'll learn the dark arts of ghostwriters, uncover the hidden beauty of typesetting and find out which words end up in books (and why). And along the way, her quest will be punctuated by a litany of little-known considerations that make a big impact: ellipses, indexes, hyphens, esoteric grammar and juicy errata slips. Whoops. From foot-and-note disease to the town of Index, Missouri - turn the page to discover how books get made and words get good. Or, at least, better.


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- Apr 11 2020
- 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- $20/FREE for members
The Jazz Gallery Online Lockdown Sessions: Shai Maestro, Theo Bleckmann, Joel Ross, Tivon Pennicott
THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS – Every Saturday at 5pm – First one free for members! Hear music pre-recorded this week by Joel Ross, Shai Maestro, Theo Bleckmann, & Tivon Pennicott in their respective lockdown stations, and join us for for the culminating concert where each musician will be present to answer any questions & chat (this will be a slightly different format to our Happy Hour Hangs).
Reservations are required at $20 per session (to offer the artist a small honorarium)/ first Lockdown Session Free for Members with Reservations. We will send you a Zoom link with instructions 30 minutes before the Lockdown Session.
In most online concerts, we’ve noticed that unfortunately the music does not come through as well as anyone would desire; we do not want to create a situation where our artists are not presented at their best so we’ve come up with a solution whereby each musician will pre-record their 15min set and we’ll screen them together at the Lockdown Session. The musicians will be on the session also, to answer any audience questions and will chat with each other as well.
Each Lockdown Session will be recorded on the day, so anyone who purchases a ticket will have access post-concert.
5pm EDT via ZOOM (link will be sent 30 minutes before event)


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Ancient trees surround this gothic church in Suffolk, which was masterfully converted into a family home by a furniture maker.
The Grade II-listed structure dates from the late 12th century when Henry III assumed the throne in England and the gothic style was emerging across art and architecture. Known as St Margaret of Antioch – the patron saint of women in childbirth and the dying – the former church is a generational patchwork that was expanded in the 13th and 14th centuries and later renovated in the Victorian era with the addition of new buttresses and windows.
In the 1980s, the Rishangles building – located between the bustling market town of Eye and Debenham – was deconsecrated and transformed into a four-bedroom family home that retains its ecclesiastical sense of wonder.
On the outside, it’s wrapped in medieval flint work, with red brick flourishes and stone tracery windows. Step inside, and the old nave is now a wood-panelled entry home that welcomes guests – instead of Crusaders heading to the Holy Lands. Exposed beams, awe-inspiring height and brightly coloured stained glass are just some of the hallmarks of its past.
Inigo is listing the Suffolk property for £985,000. The chancel is now the main living room, with towering stained glass and chandeliers hanging from its roof and a brick fireplace fitted with a wood-burning stove, heating the space. The old tower, meanwhile, has been restored and turned into a library with a terrace overlooking the church grounds.
Meanwhile, bedrooms can be round beneath the church’s sloping roof, with local timbers and bespoke joinery sympathetically facilitating its domestic use.

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No firearms expert has been able to fully explain or reproduce the “freak accident” that Gerald Stanley claims caused his gun to fire unexpectedly into the head of Colten Boushie.
The result is what David Tanovich, co-editor of Canadian Bar Review, said was a case of a “magical gun.”
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Stanley’s acquittal hinged on a claim of hangfire, an extremely rare scenario in which a cartridge discharges several seconds after it is struck by the firing pin.
Even then, Boushie should still have survived if not for a second extremely specific malfunction that could not be replicated by experts testing Stanley’s gun.
Boushie was killed with a Tokarev TT33, a semi-automatic pistol originally manufactured for the Soviet Red Army.
After a confrontation with an SUV filled with trespassers on his Saskatchewan farm, Stanley testified that he retrieved the Tokarev from a shed, loaded it with three cartridges and then stepped outside to fire into the air. He said he pulled the trigger three or four times.


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Q. Two year old female cat.Gets attacked by kitten of 3months(female).Took to Vet-says is bitten.Bite marks are bad, hair falling out. How do I help her?
LINDSEY EDWARDS MVB, BSC, IVCA
A. You first need to treat the wounds and follow directions as given by your vet with regards to wound care and treatments. It is important also to socialize the two cats to prevent this from happening, there are pheromone products and food supplements containing b vitamins and tryptophan which may help. Provide plenty of quiet places for the cats to spend time away from each other and two sets of food and water bowls in separate rooms so that neither cat can defend access from the other cat.

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The company’s equipment has a reputation for reliability which is why four of its jib cranes were requisitioned for duty at a new threading plant in the UAE
Four Donati industrial jib cranes have been delivered to Superior Tubular Solutions (STS)’ Dubai-based threading plant through Cranes-UK.
STS, a supplier to the oil and gas industry, is part of the Soconord Group – a globally established, Belgian-based business. The cranes will be used to assist in the production of equipment for the oil regions of the Middle East and Africa, a Cranes-UK statement said.
“STS is equipped with state-of-the-art machinery which will now include our four Donati jib cranes which will provide flexibility for both high- and low-volume production of tubular sections in a variety of sizes from 2.7/8 to 20” OD,” it said.
Located in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, STS Dubai is set to work with a capacity of 100 tonnes of casing and tubing per year and aims to offer the largest variety of premium range goods of its type in the UAE.
Each of the four jib cranes have capacity of 125 kg and a radius of 3 m.
The specifications are:
4 x Donati free standing 125 kg capacity jib cranes (column and arm)
4 x Donati electric chain hoists. Dual speed. 125 kg capacity with push travel trolleys, general wiring and fixings.
The consignment was packed in individual ISPM15 heat treated pallet boxes custom fabricated to accommodate each component.
Cranes-UK are part of the Kingsway Corporation group which also incorporates Crane Handling, Fellows Stringer and Lifting Equipment Store. It has been operating in the lifting and handling industry for over 30 years.


With demographic realities making Republican wins at the polls less and less likely, their electoral strategy has been a two-pronged one: 1) voter suppression tactics to keep as many Democratic voters from the polls as possible, and 2) gerrymandering congressional districts to isolate Democratic voters and create safe Republican seats. The first part didn’t work out all that well in 2012, but the gerrymandering has been a huge success, as Sam Wang of the Princeton Election Consortium documents.
Through artful drawing of district boundaries, it is possible to put large groups of voters on the losing side of every election. The Republican State Leadership Committee, a Washington-based political group dedicated to electing state officeholders, recently issued a progress report on Redmap, its multiyear plan to influence redistricting. The $30 million strategy consists of two steps for tilting the playing field: take over state legislatures before the decennial Census, then redraw state and Congressional districts to lock in partisan advantages. The plan was highly successful…
We can calculate each state’s appropriate seat breakdown — in other words, how a Congressional delegation would be constituted if its districts were not contorted to protect a political party or an incumbent. We do this by randomly picking combinations of districts from around the United States that add up to the same statewide vote total. Like a fantasy baseball team, a delegation put together this way is not constrained by the limits of geography. On a computer, it is possible to create millions of such unbiased delegations in short order. In this way, we can ask what would happen if a state had districts that were typical of the rest of the nation.
In North Carolina, where the two-party House vote was 51 percent Democratic, 49 percent Republican, the average simulated delegation was seven Democrats and six Republicans. The actual outcome? Four Democrats, nine Republicans — a split that occurred in less than 1 percent of simulations. If districts were drawn fairly, this lopsided discrepancy would hardly ever occur…
Gerrymandering is not hard. The core technique is to jam voters likely to favor your opponents into a few throwaway districts where the other side will win lopsided victories, a strategy known as “packing.” Arrange other boundaries to win close victories, “cracking” opposition groups into many districts. Professionals use proprietary software to draw districts, but free software like Dave’s Redistricting App lets you do it from your couch.
So how well does this strategy work to make the outcome of congressional elections not fit with the overall popular vote? Incredibly well.
We can quantify this effect using three different methods. First, Democrats would have had to win the popular vote by 7 percentage points to take control of the House the way that districts are now (assuming that votes shifted by a similar percentage across all districts). That’s an 8-point increase over what they would have had to do in 2010, and a margin that happens in only about one-third of Congressional elections.
Second, if we replace the eight partisan gerrymanders with the mock delegations from my simulations, this would lead to a seat count of 215 Democrats, 220 Republicans, give or take a few.
Third, gerrymandering is a major form of disenfranchisement. In the seven states where Republicans redrew the districts, 16.7 million votes were cast for Republicans and 16.4 million votes were cast for Democrats. This elected 73 Republicans and 34 Democrats. Given the average percentage of the vote it takes to elect representatives elsewhere in the country, that combination would normally require only 14.7 million Democratic votes. Or put another way, 1.7 million votes (16.4 minus 14.7) were effectively packed into Democratic districts and wasted.
Yes, Democrats have done it too, but not nearly as often and not nearly as effectively. This is why the drawing of congressional districts should be out of the hands of elected officials and political parties.


In this activity, students learn what the threats to temperate plants are and how they can help. It features a video for students to find out their challenge is to design either a table-top or digital game to increase awareness of different threats to temperate plants.
Organization: Royal Botanic Gardens
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a botanic garden in southwest London that was founded in 1840. They seek to understand and protect plants and fungi for the wellbeing of people and the future of all life on Earth (Source).


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|Application number||US 08/265,129|
|Publication date||Jul 18, 1995|
|Filing date||Jun 24, 1994|
|Priority date||Jun 24, 1994|
|Also published as||WO1996000372A1|
|Publication number||08265129, 265129, US 5433028 A, US 5433028A, US-A-5433028, US5433028 A, US5433028A|
|Inventors||Vicente N. Novak, Amir H. F. Fard|
|Original Assignee||Novak; Vicente N., Fard; Amir H. F.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (17), Classifications (5), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
U.S. Pat. No. 2,979,845 4/1961 Christiansen
U.S. Pat. No. 3,978,604 9/1976 Smith
U.S. Pat. No. 4,067,132 1/1978 Smith
U.S. Pat. No. 4,110,928 9/1978 Smith
U.S. Pat. No. 4,154,014 5/1979 Smith
1. Field of the Invention
Each year people are shot by unauthorized firearm users. Our main concerns are children playing with firearms and law enforcement officers being disarmed and shot with their own guns. In an effort to prevent the undesired firing of a firearm we have designed this safety device. It relates to a mechanical trigger locking apparatus and a magnetic unlocking key. Our invention will prevent anyone other than the owner from operating a firearm.
2. Description of the Prior Art
There are some safety devices for firearms patented in the U.S. They are very sophisticated and or easy to deactivate due to parts of the mechanism which are not concealed. These parts can be moved by the use of a pin-like hairpin. Our invention is simple, only three pieces within the trigger guard and a magnet from without the gun are the components. This design is inviolable due to the firearm looks no different than a regular gun. The locking mechanism is concealed within the trigger guard and it is out of reach.
Our invention is a device that selectively locks the trigger of guns. In order to unlock the trigger, a magnet is required. Our design is composed of a hollow pin that fits into a cavity located at the bottom of the trigger; a flat steel bar welded to the hollow pin; a horizontally situated pin where the flat steel bar pivots; a spring located inside the hollow pin that pushes this pin upwards; a magnet form without the gun that unlocks the trigger by pulling the locking mechanism down.
FIG. 1 shows the trigger (#1) locked by the hollow pin (#2). This hollow pin is welded to the flat steel bar (#4), but this two pieces can be made from one piece of steel upon the preference of the designed. The flat steel bar and the hollow pin are pushed upwards by the spring (#3), locking the trigger (#1). The flat steel bar (#4) pivots at the front end of the trigger guard (#5) by a transversely mounted horizontal pin (#6).
FIG. 2 depicts the unlocking of the trigger (#1) by the action of the magnet (#7) that pulling the flat steel bar (#4) and the hollow pin (#2), releases the trigger (#1).
This figure shows the flat steel bar (#4) pivoting into the horizontal pin (#6), in this drawing it is located at the rear end of the horizontal part of the trigger guard (#5).
This drawings shows the trigger locking mechanism adapted to a sliding kind of trigger.
The Gun's Trigger Locking Mechanism is a safety device designed to prevent the unauthorized use of a firearm. The locking apparatus fits inside of a non-magnetizable hollow trigger guard 5 and consists of a hollow pin 2, a spring 3, a flat steel bar 4 and a transversely horizontal pin 6.
In the locked position the hollow pin 2 protrudes through the horizontal part of the trigger guard 5 to fit into a cavity at the bottom of the trigger 1. By doing so this hollow pin 2 prevents the backwards movement of the trigger 1, preventing the firing of the weapon. The forward motion of the trigger 1 is permitted because there are chamfers at the top-rear border of the hollow pin 2 and at the bottom-front border of the trigger 1. The trigger 1 pushes the hollow pin 2 down in its forward movement, and the spring 3 pushed the hollow pin 2 back up to lock the trigger 1.
The hollow pin 2 and the flat steel bar 4 can be two separate pieces that should be welded together or can be made from one piece of steel. To unlock the trigger 1 a flat magnet 7 with a magnetization parallel to its thickness should be held directly under the trigger guard 5. This position of the magnet 7 is achieved by mounting it on a finder ring or sewing it to the middle finger of a glove. The user of the gun has to wear either a ring or a glove with the magnet 7 to operate the gun. In both cases the magnet 7 is to rest on the exterior border on the second phalanx of the middle finger of the triggering hand. In doing so the magnet 7 attracts the flat steel bar 4 down, this in turn pulls the hollow pin 2 down, out of the cavity at the bottom of the trigger 1, thereby unlocking the gun.
The flat steel bar 4 pivots at a transversely horizontal pin 6 which can be located at the front or at the rear ends of the horizontal part of the trigger guard 5 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 respectively.
Our invention is simple in construction and reliable in operation. It reduces the risk of accidental or intentional injuries in circumstances like unsupervised children playing with firearms and law enforcement officers whose guns are removed from them. This safety device proves useful as it is concealed within the gun and cannot be unlocked by any other means exempt by the use of a strong magnet. Another advantage is that the magnet to unlock the gun is not built into the gun.
This safety mechanism can be adapted to pistols, rifles, shotguns and most kind of firearm.
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|U.S. Classification||42/70.06, 42/70.11|
|Feb 9, 1999||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
|Jul 19, 1999||FPAY||Fee payment|
Year of fee payment: 4
|Jul 19, 1999||SULP||Surcharge for late payment|
|Jul 18, 2003||LAPS||Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees|
|Sep 16, 2003||FP||Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee|
Effective date: 20030718


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A Lauderhill barber shop was left with quit a cleanup job after a car slammed into the front of the store Monday.
It's believed the female driver in her 30's mistook the gas from the brake, and ran right into the Barber and Beauty Salon at 4128 N.W. 21 Street.
NO one was injured, but the car left a gaping hole in the front of the shop, piles of glass and a mangled metal frame.
A witness says he believes the driver got confused. "I guess the lady was trying to park," said Shemar Brown. "Instead of hitting the brakes she hit the gas and ran into the barber shop."
Brown said a passenger in the car may have prevented the crash from being even worse, by pulling the emergency brake.
"There was a little kid sitting right here but he ran out of the way just in time," Brown said. "If he didn't run, he'd probably be dead right now".
By late Monday evening, crews began boarding up the business, and employees say they will take it all in stride.
"We had the wall knocked down a couple of years ago 'cause of the hurricane," Said barber Markius Freeman. "That ain't going to stop us. That's just motivation."


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Acidity is a major land degradation issue that threatens sustainability and productivity in North East soils, a project officer says ahead of a free industry conference.
North East Catchment Management Authority project officer Sam Gitahi said about half of the four to five million hectares across Victoria affected by strongly acidic topsoil were located in this region.
Mr Gitahi said a further two to three million hectares in north east Victoria had moderately acidic topsoil.
"There is therefore a need to promote awareness among land managers and the wider community about the importance of soil acidity and its management, support behaviour change to improve soil management practice and ensure that research, development and the extension system are meeting their needs," he said.
IN OTHER NEWS:
The North East Regional Soil Health Conference 2021 in Beechworth on Friday aims to build knowledge and understanding of practices that will reduce soil acidification.
Topics include the importance of soil pH in agriculture production, soil sampling and testing and current research.
Supported by North East Catchment Management Authority through National Landcare Program funding, it is part of a four-year soil health project.
Registrations available through Eventbrite.
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This Week In 1988: January 24, 1988
Originally posted as 25 Years Ago This Week in 2013. Updated in 2018.
There we were, a full month after Christmas 1987 and the majority of the week's new entries on the Australian top 50 were songs that had been kicking around since early- to mid-December.
These days, most songs have a much quicker trajectory into the upper portion of the top 100, but it was normal in 1988 for a single to make a steady climb before bursting into the printed top 50. This week that year, there was one exception: a track which only made its top 100 debut in January, and, not surprisingly, would end up as the biggest hit out of this week's seven new entries.
Speaking of big hits, Rick Astley finally surrendered his seven-week stranglehold of the number 1 position, making way for George Michael, who leapfrogged a patiently waiting George Harrison to spend a week at the top with "Faith".
Off The Chart
Number 100 "Miracle" by Willy DeVille
Peak: number 100
Continuing on from their collaboration on The Princess Bride soundtrack, this title track of the Mink DeVille frontman's official solo debut was produced by and featured guitar from Mark Knopfler.
Peak: number 99
The first top 100 solo appearance for The Saints co-founder was taken from second album Rooms Of The Magnificent. Ed Kuepper wouldn't be back on the singles chart until 1994.
Number 98 "Amazing World" by Venetians
Peak: number 77
A bit rockier than the synthpop stylings of "So Much For Love", but another great single for an under-rated Australian band and the title track of their third album.
Number 95 "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" by Aerosmith
Peak: number 95
Following their Run-DMC collaboration, the Aerosmith renaissance was in full flight - in the US, at least - with this lead single from Permanent Vacation. Australia would get on board with the band's next album.
Peak: number 79
After two top 50 hits from Blow Your Cool!, Hoodoo Gurus faced the inevitable drop-off with this stomping third single, which was about evangelical preachers.
Number 50 "Don't Shed A Tear" by Paul Carrack
Peak: number 33
The problem with having a wildly successful (at least in Australia) cover version is that often your original material won't be as big - and so it was for Paul, who'd taken "When You Walk In The Room" into the top 10 in 1987, but lucked out with this follow-up, which I preferred. In the States, it was quite a different story, with "Don't Shed A Tear" (which charted first there) reaching number 9 while "When You Walk..." struggled to number 90. In his home of the UK, neither were hits.
Peak: number 2
It had been released in the US back in September 1987, and, finally, Australia got in on the act with this slice of pop perfection, which would zoom all the way up to number 2, before spending many weeks stuck at numbers 2 and 3 behind "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" and "I Should Be So Lucky". Although her debut solo album, Belinda, had only resulted in one hit, 1986's "Mad About You", this was the first of a trio of big worldwide singles. Australia pretty much lost interest after "Heaven Is A Place On Earth", however, and it wasn't until the Runaway Horses album in 1989-1990 that the Go-Go's frontwoman maintained a more consistent strike rate.
Number 46 "Put Down That Weapon" by Midnight Oil
Peak: number 32
"Beds Are Burning" had been Midnight Oil's biggest single - both locally and around the world - so following it up was always going to be tough. Add to that the fact Oils fans had already snapped up the LP, Diesel And Dust, sending it to number 1 and keeping Michael Jackson's Bad from the top, and it's little surprise "Put Down That Weapon" peaked where it did. I haven't listened to it in years and actually quite like the verses, but the song loses me in the chorus, especially the way Peter Garrett sings the song's title.
Number 41 "Tunnel Of Love" by Bruce Springsteen
Peak: number 41
The second single and title track from the Boss' 1987 album peaked at this very position, a big drop from the number 17 peak of "Brilliant Disguise". The performance of both songs fell somewhat short of that achieved by the singles from his previous studio album, Born In The USA, which included Australia's biggest single of 1984, "Dancing In The Dark" (a track which, interestingly, never got higher than number 5). I don't know if it's just because I'm a lot older now, but I don't dislike this song as much as I would have back in 1988.
Number 38 "Say You Will" by Mick Jagger
Peak: number 21
Given how enormously successful The Rolling Stones were, it's always interested me how unsuccessful their singer's solo career has been. Unlike many singers, who strike while the iron is hot and launch a solo album when their band is at its peak, Mick waited until 1985 to release his first LP on his own. It was a long time after the band's '60s and '70s heyday, and four years since their last massive hit, 1981's "Start Me Up". 1987's Primitive Cool had already delivered one minor hit in "Let's Work" and although this song did slightly better, it's not a song that's stood the test of time. In fact, I couldn't even remember how it went until I watched the clip below. My verdict: besides the music in the chorus sounding a little bit like Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days", it's largely forgettable. Besides, there was another song called "Say You Will" to get more excited about that week...
Number 35 "Say You Will" by Foreigner
Peak: number 6
Three places higher than Mick was a US band who'd struck platinum on their previous album with globe-conquering power-ballad "I Want To Know What Love Is". "Say You Will" was the lead single from Inside Information, which also followed singer Lou Gramm's first successful foray into a solo career (see, striking while the iron was hot!) with "Midnight Blue". Foreigner's "Say You Will" performed much better than Mick Jagger's, hitting the top 10 in Australia. I've always been quite partial to a bit of Foreigner and this was one of my favourites of the time as well.
Number 34 "Rip It Up" by James Reyne
Peak: number 34
Here's another former frontman for a rock band who launched a solo career a lot closer to his group's period of greatest success. And, up until this point, James Reyne had been rewarded with two big singles: "Fall Of Rome" and "Hammerhead". With "Rip It Up" making the highest debut of the week, things looked promising, but this was actually as high as the song got and by the end of February, it had disappeared from the top 50.
"Rip It Up" is another song I haven't listened to in years - in fact, I completely forgot it existed. I can see why it faltered, since it's nowhere near as good as James's previous hits. Fourth single "Heaven On A Stick" might well have been a better choice - but by the time that came out, it couldn't even crack the top 50. It wasn't over for the ex-Australian Crawl singer, however. He'd return later in the year with one of his biggest solo hits, "Motor's Too Fast".
Listen to this week's new entries on my Spotify playlist of all the top 50 hits from 1988:
Next week, there's only a handful of new entries so I'll also flip the chart over and take a look at what was happening on the albums side of things.


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Today Beadsaholic brings the news of Trollbeads Nostalgia Release!
Trollbeads Winter Collection Nostalgia is now available online and in store. This collection has perfect timing with the holidays right around the corner, Nostalgia is what I feel when looking at this collection as it brings back memories of my childhood with beautiful colors of Christmas past. I have taken a few up-close Photos of this collection to give you an idea of the details of each piece. I will be sharing winter and Christmas themed reviews soon.
Trollbeads LE Winter Forest Kit is truly an adorable set of beads that is perfect for Christmas.
Winter Forest Kit (TGLBE-00146) retails $276 /€252 / £240
Trollbeads Christmas Flower – Winter Forest Kit $46 / €42 / £40 (Note: not all stores are splitting and selling this kit individually.)
Trollbeads Christmas Heart – Winter Forest Kit $46 / €42 / £40 (Note: not all stores are splitting and selling this kit individually.)
Trollbeads Reindeer – Winter Forest Kit $46 / €42 / £40 (Note: not all stores are splitting and selling this kit individually.)
Trollbeads Snowflake – Winter Forest Kit $46 / €42 / £40 (Note: not all stores are splitting and selling this kit individually.)
Trollbeads Owl – Winter Forest Kit $46 / €42 / £40 (Note: not all stores are splitting and selling this kit individually.)
Trollbeads Winter Greens Christmas Tree – Winter Forest Kit $46 / €42 / £40 (Note: not all stores are splitting and selling this kit individually.)
Trollbeads Christmas Glitter Unique Kits each vary, but keep within the same theme of glitter, white and black. If you picked up last year’s LE Winter Wonderland kit, these will match perfectly! These kits retail for $230 / €210 / £210
Trollbeads Colorful Christmas Unique Kits also varies, but keeps within the same Christmas colorful theme. These kits will match perfectly with the Winter Forest Kit. These kits retail for $230 / €210 / £210
Trollbeads Momentum is all about movement and flowing forward. This bead has a unique abstract design. I really love it on the Fantasy Chain with the Wish! Pendant. This bead retails for $63 /€58 /£55.
Trollbeads Guiding Star is the perfect companion for the Wishful Sky starter set. I adore wearing these together! Guiding Star retails for $31/ €28 / £30
Trollbeads Inside Love is a lovely open works heart and looks fantastic on the Gold Twisted Bangle. This bead retails for $31/ €28 / £30
Trollbeads Abundance is covered in beautiful flowers from what looks like a winter rose and daisies. This bead retails for $56 / €51 / £50
Trollbeads Curious Critter reminds me so much of Trollbeads past creations. This bead has an old school feel to it. As the bead turns you can see several little critters in this bead, one of which looks like a hedgehog! Curious Critter retails for $46 / €42 / £40
Trollbeads Endless Impact is another free-flowing abstract design. Endless impact retails for $31/ €28 / £30
Trollbeads Nut Spacer is perfect to add to your spacer collection! This is one you will want in pairs. Nut Spacer retails for $46 / €42 / £40
Trollbeads Grateful Turkey is such a beautiful Turkey and will be perfect for Thanksgiving. The tail feathers sit up next to a glass or stone bead perfectly! Really cool looking next to Trollbeads Unique (Dragon Scales) Grateful Turkey retails for $46 / €42 / £40
Trollbeads Generous Pig is just too adorable with his little tail and heart shape feet. This spacer retails for $46 / €42 / £40
Look how cute the curled tail is!!
Trollbeads Twisted Gold Plated Bangle is a must have for gold lovers. This piece is timeless and elegant! Twisted Gold -Plated Bangle retails for $210 / € / £200
Trollbeads LE Wishful Sky has truly been the star of this release. The set features a beautifully sparkly faceted blue glass, a small star, star lock and a foxtail bracelet. With a great saving you get the entire set for $109 / €99 / £99
Trollbeads Wish! Pendant as seen here with the Wishful Sky set, Guiding Star, Nut Spacer and Momentum. Wish! Pendent retails for $70 / €63 /£60
Trollbeads Snow Bubble Ring & Delicate Pearl Ring are the perfect stacking rings. I love that Snow Bubble Ring as it looks so much like a snow globe. Both rings retail for $91 / €83 / £80
Over all, this is a fantastic collection and has a little something for everyone! I really think many of you will find this collection appealing and I look forward to seeing everyone’s combinations across social media!
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Although The Price of Trollbeads Christmas kits is not very customer friendly (it is worth those money,definitely,but it is a lot to spend at once)… and this is theonly reason why I buy single beads, not the kits… the Forest set is so great I ordered mine from Perlen already in preorders… Now so looking forward :):):)
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It's been a surreal fortnight here in Brisbane. In the area where we live, there has been no flooding between the inner suburb of Rosalie to the south that was deluged and the northern suburbs of Strathpine/Petrie which were cut off by floodwaters from the rest of Brisbane. It's been a bit like watching another city flood except it all looked so familiar - the river that I walk over from my office to do research at the State Library, the shops at Rosalie where we used to live, Queensland Uni where I did my degree - all a gigantic mess of endless brown water. I have no flood photos to post, as I saw no flood waters. I was tempted to go and see the power of the river but knew it was more sensible to stay home with my girls and out of the way.
On the Tuesday before the flood hit Brisbane, the girls and I were having a "no TV/no computer day" and went off to see the movie "Tangled". When we emerged from the cinema at 1.30pm, the world seemed to have changed. The giant shopping centre that we call "Chermie" was closing down, people were gathered around a big TV listening to the Prime Minister addressing the nation and an announcement said that public transport would stop running in half an hour. (It didn't). My husband was sent home from work in the CBD like thousands of other workers and had left messages for me that he was waiting at Northgate Station because the Caboolture Trainline might be cut. So....the TV went back on and I watched in amazement as the flood dramas unfolded. As the expected peak of the flooding drew closer, the electricity supply to the CBD was turned off and the city centre shut down except for the emergency personel at the State and Council headquarters. Scott and I stayed home from work. It felt like a holiday but no-one wanted to enjoy it. Life in our sunny dry suburb went on as normal.
We were so lucky to be unaffected and I felt guilty for not helping, but there was no one near us to help. I could not get through the traffic snarls on Friday to help at Rosalie and could only offer our spare bed for emergency accommodation if it was needed. (Apparently not). So we just watched it unfold on TV and cried for the families who literally lost parents and children washed away by the force of the water.
Now the massive cleanup is underway and everyone is talking talking talking about how it could have happened and why did Council let people build on the floodplains and why did they let Wivenhoe dam stay so full during the wet season so that it couldn't contain the floodwaters and had to release gargantuan volumes of water at the worst possible time. I am so thankful that all we had to put up with was a leaking kitchen ceiling from weeks and weeks of rain.
So....here are a few photos from my garden from a few months ago when Brisbane was its normal, sunny self and we were gearing up for Christmas and the school holidays.

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Todd Bridges is distraught over the death of former co-star Gary Coleman
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. “We’re not angry,” she added. “We’re just concerned. Did our son fall down the stairs? Did he fall in the bathtub?” Coleman and his parents have been estranged since he sued them in 1989 for reportedly spending his fortune.


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About Lamman Rucker
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Lamman Rucker (born October 6, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in Tyler Perry's films Why Did I Get Married?, Why Did I Get Married Too?, and Meet the Browns, and its television adaptation. Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas As the World Turns and All My Children before his film career. In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf. As of 2022, he stars in BET+ drama The Black Hamptons.

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