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Lead, follow or get left behind because you are doing nothing.
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Spain is winning everything at the moment with the Tour de France, the Moto GP and the Formula 1 to add to the list of credits this year. Meanwhile, the king was in the cathedral at Compostello praying for the state of the nation to improve and emerge the other side of recession. All in all this was a great week for Spain. Incidentally, it would seem there’s a vote in the Catalan parliament on Wednesday to ban bullfighting. The country is definitely vibrant with fitness on the beaches in Finestrat and films on the beaches at night………let’s get the weather for the Alicante province…………….
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Word of the Day
nadar nah-dar’ (intransitive verb)
to swim; to float; to have in abundance
EXAMPLES
El agua estaba tan fría que no pudimos nadar en ella. – The water was so cold that we couldn’t swim in it.
Después de ganar la lotería, nadaban en dinero. – After winning the lottery, they were rolling in money.
IDIOMS
Nadar entre dos aguas – To be on the fence
Nadar en la abundancia – To be living in the lap of luxury
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for nadar.
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Feds cut salt levels… again
The war on salt is getting out of hand.
The nanny-state feds are slashing the recommended allowance of this essential mineral yet again, this time by a third to 1,500 mg per day. Eventually, they’ll ban it outright so you’ll have to buy your seasonings on the black market.
If you think we’re unhealthy now, wait until you see what happens then — because you need your salt, no matter what they say.
And here’s what they’re saying now: Americans need to cut back on sodium because 70 percent of us have heart disease, diabetes, obesity or some other risk factor such as high blood pressure.
But what they won’t tell you is that cutting back on sodium won’t make a single person thinner, less diabetic or less prone to heart disease. And no matter what you’ve heard or read, sodium is rarely responsible for anyone’s blood pressure problems, either.
Nod if this is familiar: You walk into your doctor’s office and he tells you to cut back on salt to lower your blood pressure. So you spend a month or two eating bland, tasteless foods and live in fear of even the lightest sprinkle of the white stuff.
Then, when you return to the doctor’s office, your blood pressure is higher than ever.
You can stop nodding now.
Believe me, you’re not alone — because for most people, salt will help regulate your blood pressure, not raise it.
The only time you’ll run into problems with salt is when you start getting the great big piles of it that come in prepackaged foods. But if you stop eating all that junk, you won’t have to waste a moment worrying about how much sodium is in your diet.
I’ve got the full scoop on salt — including the one and only kind you should be using on your foods — in the July issue of the Douglass Report.
Subscribe now, and you’ll never be afraid of your saltshaker again.
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
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Second Grade Math
I was the substitute teacher for a second-grade math class
that was learning about groups. In one exercise, pupils were
asked to label a group of items according to their common
characteristics. Pictured were onion rings, doughnuts, a
bundt cake, and ring cookies. The correct answer would have
been that all the items have holes in the center.
But one health-conscious boy’s response was, “All of those
things contain too much cholesterol.”
Received from Thomas Ellsworth.
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Bits and Pieces
1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1694 The Bank of England was founded.
1900 The H.J.Heinz Company, maker of ketchup with 57 varieties of tomatoes, was incorporated.
1962 Martin Luther King was arrested in Albany, Alabama, for holding a prayer meeting on the steps of the city hall .
1976 Silent movie star Gloria Swanson appeared at a court hearing as a character witness for John Lennon who was fighting UD deportation.
1977 A Led Zeppelin’s US tour had to be cancelled when Robert Plant’s young son died and he rushed home.
1967 Britain’s pirate radio stations were declared illegal, and BBC Radio One was launched.
1993 The St Thomas Wildlife Park in Somerset announced that a pink pigeon which was one of only 200 in the world and related to the extinct dodo had been hatched.
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Music Stuff July 26th
1962, Frank Ifield was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘I Remember You’. The singers first of four UK No.1′s.
1962, The Beatles appeared at Cambridge Hall, Southport, Lancashire supporting of Joe Brown & the Bruvvers.
1964, The Who appeared at the White Hart Hotel, Acton, London, England.
1968, The Jackson Five signed a one-year contract with Motown Records.
1970, Jimi Hendrix played in his home town of Seattle for the last time when he appeared at Sicks Stadium.
1974, graffiti artists were hired to spray paint sites in London to promote the UK release of The Rolling Stones new single ‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll’.
1975, Van McCoy and the Soul City went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘The Hustle’- it made No.3 in the UK. McCoy died on 6th July 1979.
1977, Elvis Costello was arrested as he performed outside a CBS Records sales conference at The London Hilton Hotel and was fined £5.
1977, Led Zeppelin cut short their 11th North American tour after Robert Plant’s five-year-old-son Karac died unexpectedly of a virus at their home in England, UK.
1980, US disco group Odyssey were at No.1 in the UK with the single ‘Use It Up And Wear It Out’, their only UK No.1.
1980, Rainbow, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Saxon, April Wine and Riot all appeared at the Monsters Of Rock festival, Donington Park, England, tickets £7.50.
1986, Peter Gabriel No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Sledgehammer’, a No.4 hit in the UK.
1992, American singer and Motown artist, Mary Wells, referred to as The First Lady of Motown and who had a 1964 US No. 1 and UK No. 5 single ‘My Guy’, dies aged 49 of laryngeal cancer. Forced to give up her career and with no health insurance, forced to sell her home, Wells’ old Motown friends including Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, The Temptations and Martha Reeves, along with Dionne Warwick, Rod Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin and Bonnie Raitt, personally pledged donations in support.
1997, it was reported that eight people who had attended this years Glastonbury Festival had been admitted to hospital after contracting the E-Coll bug which had claimed the lives of 22 people in Scotland earlier in the year.
2000, Oasis were booed of stage during a show at the Paleo Festival in Switzerland after singer Liam Gallagher had insulted the 35,000 strong audience.
2001, Sir Paul McCartney announced his engagement to Heather Mills, the anti-landmine campaigner and former model. The couple split-up in 2006.
2001, Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews was admitted to a rehabiliation centre, after collapsing with exhaustion.
2006, the guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney learned his first chords sold for £330,000 at an auction at London’s Abbey Road Studios.
2006, the final edition of Top of the Pops was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Just under 200 members of the public were in the audience for the show which was co-hosted by veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile, its very first presenter. Classic performances from the Spice Girls, Wham, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles and Robbie Williams will feature in the show alongside the Rolling Stones – who were the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops on New Year’s Day in 1964.
Birthday Boys and Girls July 26th
1941, Bobby Hebb, US singer,
1941, Neil Landon, The Flowerpot Men, (1967 UK No.4 single ‘Let’s Go To San Francisco’), The Ivy League, (1965 UK No.3 single ‘Tossing and Turning’).
1941, Darlene Love, The Crystals, (1962 US No.1 single ‘He’s A Rebel’, 1963 UK No.2 single ‘Then He Kissed Me’).
1942, Dobie Gray, US singer, (1965 US No.13 and UK No.25 single ‘The In Crowd’, 1973 US No.5 single ‘Drift Away’).
1943, Mick Jagger, vocals, The Rolling Stones
1949, Roger Taylor, drums, vocals, Queen,
1961, Andy Connell, Swing Out Sister, (1986 UK No.4 single ‘Breakout’).
1962, Miranda Joyce, vocals, The Belle Stars, (1983 UK No.3 single ‘Sign Of The Times’).
