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It’s another beautiful day with just a little too much heat on the horizon……..let’s get the forecast for Benidorm…

Monday 19 24h-12h		72°F	S 7 mph	5%%	-
Monday 19 12h-24h		91°F	S 7 mph	5%%	10
Tuesday 20 24h-12h		72°F	0	5%%	-
Tuesday 20 12h-24h		91°F	SE 7 mph	5%%	10
Miércoles 21 24h-12h		72°F	SE 11 mph	5%%	-
Miércoles 21 12h-24h		90°F	W 11 mph	5%%	9

The weekend has been very enjoyable but it is necessary to take a siesta in order to cope ev ery now and then. This leads on to the wonder of sleep and its powers of recuperation. You can go to sleep feeling cream crackered and after an hour of good, undisturbed sleep, you wake up feeling so refreshed. The nearest I come to understanding what goes on is when my computer gets hot and bothered and clogged up. How often will I battle on and try to cope before I say to myself I will have to reboot. After leaving the machine to cool down the machinery normally sorts itself out. There is the occasional time it doesn’t and this involves the dreaded visit.

After a battle to get an appointment the expert normally arrives and proceeds to blind you with science and then proceeds to try and baffle your comprehension of what he is doing in order to justify the expense which undoubtedly follows. I must admit how much I regret never having had a computer lesson and how much I regret not being able to totally monitor what will have been done at the end of the visit. I doubt if this area will ever be subject to regulation. However, I must add that every machine is different and each user is inputting different problems and we are asking the expert to sort the machinery out. I’m sure you immediately see the similarity with the medical world.

The Open was open and the winner was lesser known. I admit I get a bit bored with golf on TV all day but then too much of anything gets boring. I got a bit tired of the World Cup eventually even though I love football. There was a nasty crash in the motorbikes if you saw it but otherwise the highlights for me on TV were on the best of ‘An Audience with……Many of the celebrities interviewed expressed amazement for the time Bob Monkhouse did his stand-up during the audience with him. Really? Did these ‘celebrities’ really not know he was an amazing stand-up comic long before he became a game show host!

Flying with filth

If you thought airline food tasted bad before, wait until you read this unappetizing bit of information.

USA Today obtained the FDA inspection reports on 91 kitchens that belong to the three caterers that prepare the food served on nearly every major airline — more than 100 million meals annually.

Federal inspectors found more roaches — living and dead — than they could count at a kitchen operated by LSG Sky Chefs in Denver. They also found ants, flies and the Listeria bacteria… along with employees who were handling this already-filthy food with their bare hands.

And that’s just the beginning.

At an LSG Sky Chefs facility in Minneapolis, the feds found rodents’ nests and rodent poop throughout the joint. That’s in addition to actually seeing a mouse while they were there.

Inspectors at a Gate Gourmet facility in Dulles, Virginia found coliform — poop bacteria — in the rice. They also found shrimp, meats and cheeses being stored at improper temperatures.

That’s not even close to the full list of unsanitary conditions in these kitchens. Twenty-seven of the 46 facilities USA Today obtained records for were cited for food-preparation violations or objectionable practices.

Next time you fly, do yourself a favor and brownbag it — assuming you’re still allowed to do so.

Not joining this mile-high club,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
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Word of the Day
el humo oo’-moh (noun)

smoke, fumes; vapor, steam; airs
EXAMPLES

Cuando el humo de las dos explosiones se disipó, vimos la destrucción final. – When the smoke from the two explosions dissipated, we saw the final destruction.

Se da muchos humos. – She really gives herself airs

IDIOMS

Bajarle a alguien los humos – To take someone down a peg or two

Echar humos – To be fuming mad; To have smoke coming out of one’s ears

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for el humo.
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Grandpa’s Secret

Grandpa was celebrating his 100th birthday and everybody
complimented him on how athletic and well-preserved he
appeared. “Gentlemen, I will tell you the secret of my
success,” he cackled. “I have been in the open air day after
day for some 75 years now.”

The celebrants were impressed and asked how he managed to
keep up his rigorous fitness regime. “Well, you see my wife
and I were married 75 years ago. On our wedding night, we
made a solemn pledge. Whenever we had a fight, the one who
was proved wrong would go outside and take a walk.”

Received from Thomas Ellsworth.
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Music Stuff July 19th
1954, Sun Records released the first Elvis Presley single ‘That’s All Right / Blue Moon Of Kentucky’ which made the local Memphis chart.
1958, the manager of The Drifters sacked the entire group and hired the unknown Ben E King and The Five Crowns as their replacements.
1963, Frank Ifield UK No.1 – ‘Confessin’
1967, The Beatles uk No.1 – ‘All You Need Is Love’
1975, The Bay City Rollers uk No.1 – ‘Give A Little Love’
1975, Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Listen To What The Man Said’
1976, Deep Purple split up at the end of an UK tour. David Coverdale went on to form Whitesnake, Jon Lord and Ian Paice formed a band with Tony Ashton.
1980, Queen UK No.1 album with ‘The Game’, featuring the single ‘Another One Bites The Dust’.
1986, Genesis us No.1 with ‘Invisible Touch’. The bands former lead singer Peter Gabriel was at No.2 with ‘Sledgehammer’.
1986, Patti LaBelle went to No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Winner In You’.
1987, Bruce Springsteen played his first ever show behind the Iron Curtain when he appeared in East Berlin in front of 180,000 people. The show was broadcast on East German TV.
1996, The Spice Girls made their debut on UK TV music show ‘Top Of The Pops’.
1997, Oasis went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘D’You Know What I Mean’.
2001, American soul and gospel singer Judy Clay died.
2005, James Blunt was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘You’re Beautiful’

Birthday Boys and Girls July 19th

1937, George Hamilton IV, US country singer
1946, Allan Gorrie, bass, vocals, Average White Band,
1947, Bernie Leadon, guitar, The Eagles, quit the band in Jan 1976.
1947, Brian May, guitar, Queen,

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Sir Winston Churchill
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a foolish man speaks because he has to say something.” – Unknown

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The weather is fine but going to be just a little too hot today around 34 degrees. Let’s look at the forecast for the Alicante Province……

Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
34° C | 23° C	32° C | 21° C	33° C | 22° C	32° C | 21° C	30° C | 21° C

Johnny Red is over from the UK and we are trying to get some time together and I also hope to be meeting a group of people who want to speak Spanish later in the day.It does seem funny at the moment with no World Cup and no Wimbledon. Something must be happening. Oh yes. It’s the Open. Tiger Woods is in town but he seems to have lost his appeal. The crowds are not hanging on his every movement any more. He accepts its his own fault and is telling the media that his family is the most important thing in his life. At least he’s getting his priorities in life right. Maybe the golf success will return once he is completely happy with his lot.

My internet has gone haywire again. I’m paying for 3 megabytes of broadband but I’ll bet I’m only getting .5. I will contact Telefonica again but I can predict the outcome. “It must be something to do with the house alarm.” “No! I think the system can’t handle more than one or two on the line at the same time!”

According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDKD), insulin resistance is a condition in which the pancreas eventually can’t keep up with the body’s demand for insulin (a hormone that helps the body use glucose for energy). Eventually, an excess of glucose builds up in the bloodstream — and that sets the stage for type 2 diabetes.

New research just presented at the Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting, held in San Diego, shows that natural antioxidants in the diet can be a powerful way to improve insulin resistance — even in people who are obese and suffering from metabolic syndrome. A precursor of diabetes associated with insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions (including high blood pressure, elevated insulin levels, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels) that raise the risk of heart disease and stroke, as well as diabetes. Article

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Sheenagh offers the following…….

Marriage (Part I )
Typical macho man married typical good-looking lady, and after the wedding, he laid down the following rules:

‘I’ll be home when I want, if I want and at what time
I want — and I don’t expect any hassle from you.
I expect a great dinner to be on the table unless
I tell you that I won’t be home for dinner.
I’ll go hunting, fishing, boozing, and card-playing
when I want with my old buddies, and don’t you
give me a hard time about it.
Those are my rules. Any comments?’

His new bride said:
‘No, that’s fine with me. Just understand that there will be sex here at seven o’clock every night…whether you’re here or not.’

(DARN SHE’S GOOD!)
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Marriage (Part II)

Husband and wife had a bitter quarrel on the day of their 40th wedding anniversary!
The husband yells, ‘When you die, I’m getting you a headstone
that reads, ‘Here Lies My Wife — Cold As Ever’!’

‘Yeah?’ she replies. ‘When you die, I’m getting you a headstone
that reads, ‘Here Lies My Husband — Stiff At Last’!’

(HE ASKED FOR IT!)

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Marriage (Part III)

Husband (a doctor) and his wife are having a fight at the breakfast table.

Husband gets up in a rage and says, ‘And you are no
good in bed either,’ and storms out of the house.

After some time he realizes he was nasty and
decides to make amends and rings her up.

She comes to the phone after many rings, and the irritated husband says, ‘What took you so long to answer to the phone?’
She says, ‘I was in bed.’

‘In bed this early, doing what?’

‘Getting a second opinion!’

(YEP, HE HAD THAT COMING, TOO!)

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Marriage (Part IV)

A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement.

He is so proud of himself, that he starts calling his
wife,’ Mother of Six’ in spite of her objections.

One night, they go to a party. The man decides that it is time to go home and wants to find out if his wife is ready to leave as well. He shouts at the top of his voice, ‘Shall we go home Mother of Six?’

His wife, irritated by her husband’s lack of discretion,
shouts right back, ‘Any time you’re ready, Father of Four.’

(RIGHT ON, LADY!)

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THE SILENT TREATMENT

A man and his wife were having some problems at home
and were giving each other the silent treatment.

Suddenly the man realized that the next day he would need his wife
to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.

Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece
of paper, ‘Please wake me at 5:00 AM.’ He left it where he knew she would find it.

The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it
was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight.

Furious, he was about to go to see why his wife hadn’t wakened him when he
noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, ‘It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.’

Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

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God may have created man before woman, but there
is always a rough draft before the masterpiece.

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Just across Germany ‘s northern-most border with Denmark you’ll find an incredible superstore called Fleggaard in Krusaa , Denmark . Fleggaard Holding A/S, through its subsidiaries, markets electronic appliances, specializing in selling televisions and radio sets. There, you can also find everything else you need – cases of wine, tubs of gummii bears, industrial strength dishwashing soap – at prices 30% cheaper than you’ll find in Denmark. It is Denmark ‘s Costco, packaged as a German loophole.

The 100+ women in the ad do stunts in the air while free-falling – holding hands to spell out ads like “Half-off on Dishwasher soap at Fleggaard.” You’d be hard-pressed to find a man in Denmark who hasn’t seen and fallen in love with this commercial. It was geared strictly to men. This TV ad is real!

Here is a link to one of a series of the best advertisements ever made. Honestly. It’s pretty good..

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Music Stuff July 14th
1962 Bobby Vinton US No.1 ‘Roses Are Red, My Love’, No.15 in the UK.
1962, The Beatles played their first ever gig in Wales when they appeared at The Regent Dansette in Rhyl. Tickets cost five shillings
1964, The Rolling Stones – No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘It’s All Over Now’, the group’s first UK No.1.
1971, The Byrds, James Taylor, Steeleye Span, Sandy Denny, Tom Paxton and The Incredible String Band at the UK Lincoln Folk Festival, tickets £2.00.
1973, a drunk driver killed Clarence White of The Byrds while he was loading equipment after a gig in Palmdale, California.
1973, Gary Glitter and the Glitter Men made their live debut at Mecksham, Wiltshire, England.
1973, During a concert at the John Wayne Theatre in Hollywood, California, Phil Everly smashed his guitar and stormed off-stage, Don finished the set by himself and announced that The Everly Brothers had split.
1979, Donna Summer No.1 US single with ‘Bad Girls’ the album of the same name also started a five week run at No.1.
1980, Allen Klein ex manager of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones began serving a two-month prison sentence for falsifying tax returns.
1980, Bryan Ferry collapsed in his hotel room in France and was flown to London suffering from a kidney infection.
1984, Phillippe Wynne lead singer with The Detroit Spinners died of a heart attack while performing at Ivey’s nightclub in Oakland, California, aged 43.
1986, Madonna was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with her second No.1 ‘Papa Don’t Preach’.
1988, Michael Jackson gave himself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for setting a new attendance record, when he played the first of seven nights at Wembley Stadium in London. The shows on his Bad World Tour were attended by a total of 504,000
1997, Walkers Spice Girls Crisps went on sale in the UK, over 16 million bags were sold by the end of the year.
2002, Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates UK No.1- ‘Anyone Of Us.’
2002, Red Hot Chili Peppers No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘By The Way.’
2003, plans for Sting to write an official anthem for Tuscany came under fire by locals who insisted the job should go to an Italian and not a foreigner.
2007, a pair of glasses worn by former Beatle John Lennon sparked a bidding war after being offered for sale online. Anonymous rival bidders had pushed the price as high as £750,000 at online auction house 991.com.
2009, Michael Jackson fans from all over the world congregated at London’s O2 arena, where the star had been due to begin his run of 50 concerts.

Birthday Boys and Girls July 14th:
1912,Woody Guthrie, US folk singer. Major influence on Bob Dylan and American folk music.
1948, Tommy Mattola, music executive, Sony Records. Married Mariah Carey in 1993, separated in 1997.
1952,Chris Cross, bass, synth, Ultravox,
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The more people you can help, the more successful you’ll become

If you think you know everything “your in the wrong business” Open your mind and you open the door to success!!!

Alway’s Smile it keeps people guessing
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Come on Spain…it’s crunch time and you have to beat Chile.The Spanish economy could do with a really good run in the competition and let’s hope Spain wins tonight. Kick-off is 8 pm. Our own weather is a little cloudier but we are still blessed. Here’s the Alicante Province forecast

Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday
28° C | 19° C	28° C | 18° C	29° C | 19° C	28° C | 18° C	29° C | 19° C

Sheenagh offers the following…

Lots of History came from England which is very interesting and sometimes weird……………..?

There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London…
…which used to have gallows adjacent. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung.

The horse drawn dray, carting the prisoner was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ”ONE LAST DRINK”.

If he said YES it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD.
If he declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON.
So there you go…

More history…
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were “Piss Poor”. But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot. They “Didn’t have a pot to Piss in” and were the lowest of the low.

And that’s the truth… Now, whoever said History was boring!

A little known fact….

The first testicular guard, the “Cup”,
Was used in Hockey in 1874 and
The first helmet was used in 1974.
That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
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Word of the Day
inmaduro een-mah-doo’-roh (adjective)

immature (person); unripe (fruit)
EXAMPLES

Estás demasiado inmaduro para manejar un coche. – You are too immature to drive a car.

Me encanta comer mangos casi inmaduros con sal. – I love to eat slightly unripe mangos with salt.

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for inmaduro.
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Music Stuff June 25th
1964, Roy Orbison was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘It’s Over’
1966, The Beatles No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Paperback Writer. Also No.1 UK.
1966, Jackie Wilson was arrested for inciting a riot and refusing to obey a police order at a nightclub in Port Arthur, Texas.
1967, 200 million people saw The Beatles perform ‘All You Need Is Love’, live via satellite as part of the TV global link- up, ‘Our World’, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, Keith Moon and Gary Leeds provided backing vocals.
1969, The Hollies recorded ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’. Elton John played piano on the session.
1977, ‘The Muppet Show’ album UK No.1
1983, The film soundtrack to ‘Flashdance’- No.1 on the US album chart.
1983, The Police scored their fourth UK No.1 album with ‘Synchronicity’
1987, Songwriter Boudleaux Bryant died. Wrote with his wife Felice, The Everly Brothers hits, ‘Bye Bye Love’, ‘All I Have To Do Is Dream’, ‘Wake Up Little Susie’ and ‘Raining In My Heart’ a hit for Buddy Holly. Other acts to record their song include Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Tony Bennett, Simon and Garfunkel, Sarah Vaughan, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, Count Basie, Dean Martin,Cher, R.E.M. and Ray Charles.
1988, Debbie Gibson US No.1- ‘Foolish Beat’, making Debbie (aged 17), the youngest female to write, produce and record a US No.1 single. UK No.9
1988, Van Halen started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘OU812′.

1993, the first of the three day Glastonbury Festival in England featured Suede, Belly, Lemonheads, The Orb, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Crowes, Lenny Kravitz, Verve, Porno For Pyros and Teenage Fan Club. Tickets cost £58 ($98.60) for the three days.

1994, five people attending this years Glastonbury Festival were shot and injured when a lone madman pulled a gun and started shooting.
1995, Pink Floyd No.1 US album – ‘Pulse’ the bands fifth US No.1.

2000, Eminem went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’. Enrique Iglesias was at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Be With You.’
2001, Beck played the first of two nights at London’s Brixton Academy.

2004, Wilco, Nelly Furtado, Elbow, Groove Armada, PJ Harvey, Kings of Leon, Oasis, Scissor Sisters, Starsailor, Black Eyed Peas, Paul McCartney, Joss Stone, Morrissey and Muse all appeared at this years UK Glastonbury Festival.

2006, Television producer and journalist Elkan Allan died aged 83. Allan produced the ground-breaking British pop show Ready Steady Go! during the 60′s.
2006, Turkish-American music producer and arranger Arif Mardin died aged 74 from pancreatic cancer. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, before moving to EMI. The winner of 11 Grammy Awards, he worked with Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Roberta Flack, Wilson Pickett, Average White Band, The Bee Gees, Barbra Streisand and Norah Jones.
2006, Nicole Kidman married her singer boyfriend Keith Urban at ceremony in Sydney, Australia.
2009, Michael Jackson died at the age of 50, after suffering heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills. Jackson is credited for transforming the music video into an art form and a promotional tool, four of his solo albums are among the world’s best-selling records. Guinness World Records list’s him as one of the “Most Successful Entertainer of All Time
2009, A Sgt Pepper souvenir poster bearing the signatures of all four Beatles sold for £31,720 at a pop memorabilia auction in New York City.
Birthday Boys and Girls June 25th
1935, , Eddie Floyd, US soul singer
1939, Harold Melvin, US soul singer and pianist.
1940, Clint Warwick, bass, The Moody Blues
1945, Carly Simon, US singer, songwriter
1954, David Paich, vocals, keyboards, Toto
1963, Georgios Panayiotou (George Michael), UK singer, songwriter, Wham!

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Last night it blew a gale here in La Nucia. The wind is a warm wind but it is really fierce and I feared it would result in structural damage. However, we are blessed with a beautiful day with warmth and sunshine and the world looks better for it. The UK has its ongoing monetary problems, the Prime Minister under constant attack and problems of every ilk around the country. However, the newspapers have their priorities. The Coles are going to split up. Cheryl seems a very nice girl but do us a favour…yawn, yawn, yawn………….I have a Spanish lesson to attend so I will post the podcast later.

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” ~ Tom Krause

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Spanish trade unionists will pour on to the streets to protest against Socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero´s attempts to reform a moribund economy that has left one in five Spaniards out of work.

Marches are due in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia in a show of union muscle designed to head off reforms to both generous labour laws and a state pension programme that critics claim are strangling growth.  Full Story

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We really should know better.

Drinking water was delivered in lead pipes for centuries. Finally, lead pipes were banned in the U.S. in 1986 after scientists realized that lead exposure caused cognitive problems and other health issues.

Interesting side note: The UK banned lead pipes in 1969. Seventeen years before the U.S. Just sayin’.

So here in the 21st century, having learned our lead lesson, you might think we’d be wise about delivering liquids and foods in metal containers.

But no.

Interesting side note: More than 70 years ago, scientists at Canada’s McIntyre Porcupine Gold Mine thought they found a way to prevent silicosis, a deadly lung condition caused by inhaling silica dust in the mines. Research showed that inhaled powdered aluminum prevented damage from silica dust. This turned out to be untrue, but for several decades miners would start their day’s work with a deep inhalation of aluminum. In the 1980s, a Toronto researcher gave cognition tests to more than 640 men who had worked in the mines. She found that ALL the retired miners scored in the “impaired” range.

Other studies have linked aluminum exposure to impaired cognition and (more importantly) Alzheimer’s risk. So it was unsettling to come across this NutraIngredients-USA headline: “Food Packaging to Aid Aluminium’s Global Surge.”

If you’re not in the aluminum industry, and if you ARE concerned about the worldwide explosion of Alzheimer’s cases, an aluminum global surge sounds like a serious threat.

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Aluminum tsunami
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More than two billion people in developing countries will cross the line from poverty to working class over the next few years.

But as billions raise their standard of living, aluminum will come clanking along after. According to an aluminum industry insider: “The capacity to manufacture aluminium beverage containers and other food packaging will struggle to keep pace with demand.”

Of course, food and beverage packaging is just one of MANY ways we’re exposed to aluminum. The average person my absorb anywhere from 10 to 100 mg of aluminum DAILY through aluminum deodorants, cookware, baking powder, antacids, and other sources.

And here’s the worst part: Aluminum is able to cross the blood brain barrier that effectively blocks MOST harmful intruders from entering your brain. Once inside, aluminum sets off free radical formation. Then oxidative stress threatens brain cell membranes and promotes inflammation. Aluminum also contributes to the primary Alzheimer’s culprit – amyloid plaque buildup.

In the July 1998 Members Alert, HSI Panelist, Marty Milner, N.D., explained how he helped discover a way to reduce dangerous levels of aluminum.

Dr. Milner wrote: “In a group of fibromyalgia patients being treated with malic acid, we were amazed to note that the aluminum levels in their tissues – as measured by hair analysis – dropped dramatically. This was an incredibly important development, because aluminum is notoriously difficult to chelate (remove).”

Malic acid is available in most health food stores (magnesium malate is the preferred form). Dr. Milner recommends 500 mg of malic acid three times a day for no more that three weeks at a time. But he adds that aluminum chelation should only be attempted if you have established (through hair analysis) that your aluminum levels are high, and only with the care of a health professional.

And for more ways to prevent excess aluminum buildup, I recommend the article, “Pardon Me – But Your Brain is on Fire!” by my colleague and fellow HealthierTalk.com contributor, Dr. Alan Inglis Source

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El arte

(ar’-teh) (noun) – art; artistry, flair, skill; cunning

• Me encanta el arte abstracto en este museo. – I love the abstract art in this museum.
• Tiene el arte para arreglar flores. – She has a flair for arranging flowers.

• No tener arte ni parte en – To have absolutely nothing to do with
• Por arte de birlibirloque – By extraordinary means
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Japanese Monk is flexible in delivering Buddhism

Kansho Tagaican be seen at the 400-year-old Kyoouji Temple in central Tokyo offering softly chanted prayers throughout the day amid traditional bell chimes and wafts of incense.

However, every now and then Tagai, whose community has dubbed him “Mr Happiness” for his positive outlook, raises the volume and the tempo of these prayers. He raps Buddhist sutra, or teachings, to hip hop beats and in modern Japanese!

Complete story.

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Golden Oldies  from Jackie C in Alfaz….

No one believes oldies . .. . everyone thinks they are senile.

An Elderly couple was celebrating their sixtieth anniversary. The couple had married as childhood sweethearts and had moved back to their old neighborhood after they retired.

Holding hands they walked back to their old school.
It was not locked, so they entered, and found the old desk they’d shared, where Andy had carved “I love you, Sally.”

On their way back home, a bag of money fell out of an armored car, practically landing at their feet Sally quickly picked it up,  but not sure what to do with it, they took it home. There, she counted the money–fifty-thousand dollars.

Andy said, “We’ve got to give it back.”
Sally said, “Finders keepers.” She put the money back in the bag and hid it in their attic.
The next day, two FBI men were canvassing the neighborhood looking for the money, and knocked on the door.

“Pardon me, but did either of you find a bag that fell out of an armored car yesterday?”

Sally said, “No.”
Andy said, “She’s lying. She hid it up in the attic.”
Sally said, “Don’t believe him, he’s getting senile.”

The agents turn to Andy and began to question him.
One says:  “Tell us the story from the beginning”
Andy said, “Well, when Sally and I were walking home from school yesterday . .. “

The first FBI guy turns to his partner and says, “We’re outta here.”

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Music Stuff February 24th

To anyone learning to play the guitar…visit this link and you won´t be disappointed.

1957, Buddy Holly recorded a new version of ‘That’ll Be The Day’
1963, The Rolling Stones started a Sunday night residency at The Station Hotel, Richmond, Surrey.
1969, The Jimi Hendrix Experience played their last ever-British performance .. at the Royal Albert Hall.
1973, Roberta Flack US No.1 with ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song
1976, The Eagles ‘Greatest Hits’ became the first album to be certified platinum by the R.I.A.A. New certification’s represented sales of 1 million copies for albums and two million for singles.
1979, a new UK TV show started on BBC2 called ‘Seven To One’, the title referring to the format of seven teenagers questioning a star guest, the first weeks guest was Sir Bob Geldof.
1982, The Police won best British group at the first annual Brit Awards held in London. Outstanding Contribution went to John Lennon.
1982, winners at the Grammy Awards included John & Yoko Album of the year with ‘Double Fantasy
1990, American singer, songwriter, pianist Johnnie Ray died of liver failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
1990, Manchester band The Happy Mondays had six singles on the UK indie chart.

1997, The Spice Girls won best single with ‘Wannabe’ at this years Brit Awards held in London.
2000, Carlos Santana won eight awards at this year Grammy Awards. Before the ‘Supernatural’ album, the guitarist had not had a Top 10 album since 1981.
2000, Sixties pop star Georgie Fame was banned from driving for a year and fined £350 after being breathalysed the morning after a concert.
2004, Estelle Axton, who helped create the legendary US soul music label Stax, died in hospital in Memphis, aged 85. Stax was home to Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes and Booker T and the MG’s and the Stax studio, ‘Soulsville USA’.
2009, The United States Mint launched a new coin featuring American composer, pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington, making him the first African-American to appear by himself on a US coin.

Birthday Boys and Girls February 24th
1942, Paul Jones, singer, harmonica player, actor, radio presenter, Manfred Mann
1944, Nicky Hopkins, session piano player who worked with The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, The Beatles, John Lennon, The Who and Small Faces.
1947, Rupert Holmes, writer, producer, singer, The Pina Colada Song
1948, Dennis Waterman, singer, actor,
1962, Michelle Shocked,

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The rain´s back and it is a grey day of Cornish haar. However, we´re British and we´re used to the rain. Not too much mind. Have you seen what the Canaries have been suffering this week. They are part of Spain and the islands have been badly hit. This is quite poignant for me as I was over in Tenerife with Rockin Rupert some years ago when the rain hit like this. I was due to appear at the bar next to the Toucan, Miranda´s, in Torviscas Playa. We had been up to the Lorro Park in Las Christianas and were on the way back to do the gig. The rains came slowly at first and then in torrents. By the time we got back to Torviscas the roads had become rivers and had to be seen to be believed.

Let´s check our weather…..

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The weather in Spain is pretty bad today with rain almost everywhere. Last night, however, was pretty good as we attended the inauguration of the La Nucia Guide. It is written in several language and has been produced by Bart, a Dutchman, who gave the presentation from the lecturn at the Auditori. He spoke in five languages and various dignataries were in evidence representing the various communities. Of the 18, 000 residents some 7,000 are not Spanish. The British are the biggest group but were not well represented at the packed forum. I would say we had no more than 20 Brits at the event which was most congenial with food and drinks offered to everyone present. I have put a link to La Nucia´s official website on the index of my website if you´d like an idea of where we live. We have 65 different nationalities living here!

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Of all the crazy Spanish fiestas that take place throughout the year, there is nothing wilder than the Carnival celebrations in late February. The week leading up to Lent is a time for wild partying in some parts of Spain when the country plays host to Europe’s biggest and best Carnival festivals. The most famous destinations for the wildest Carnival festivals are Tenerife, Cadiz and Sitges though there are plenty more places to enjoy the party.   http://www.spanish-fiestas.com

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Airports to begin strip-searching passengers

You might want to take a minute to say goodbye to your personal liberties. They’re flying right out the window — and, as usual, it’s all in the name of “protecting the public.”

You knew this was coming…After the failed terror attempt on Christmas day, the federal Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has decided to step up its security screenings. Their solution? Strip-search every passenger. It’s not by hand, mind you, but it may as well be.

The TSA plans to begin using full-body X-ray scanners that would essentially strip passengers of their clothing — and their dignity. With these new scanners, no details would be left to the imagination — which is just how the feds like it.

Yup, Big Brother is a big perv.

But I’m not sure which is worse: The threat to your privacy or the threat to your health.

Like X-rays, the new machines use radiation to create these indecent exposures. The experts claim that the low dose of radiation is perfectly safe — even for children and pregnant women.

Baloney.

Exposing pregnant women to radiation can lead to grossly disfigured babies or can even cause women to miscarry. It’s no coincidence that five female security guards had miscarriages after working with these supposedly safe machines.

And it’s not much safer for adults. Radiation can damage DNA and cause structural damage to your cells — both of which can lead to cancer. In fact, Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, believes that 50 percent of all cancers are caused by the radiation from medical tests — the same ones meant to “protect” you by detecting cancer early!

Bottom line: If you don’t want to be fried with ionizing radiation every time you fly — and if you’d rather not have airport workers paid to be peeping toms…you won’t stand for this outright invasion of your rights.

When it comes to these full-body X-rays, I don’t care how low the dose is. There is no safe level of ionizing radiation. Period.

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Word of the Day

ventoso vehn-toh’-soh  (adjective)

windy, breezy, gusty; flatulent; vain, inflated

EXAMPLES

No pudimos ir de pesca en la barca porque estaba demasiado ventoso. – We could not go fishing in the boat because it was too windy.

La playa cerca de mi casa siempre está muy ventoso. – The beach by my house is very windy.
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for ventoso.

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CURTAIN RODS — PRICELESS

On the first day, she sadly packed her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases.

On the second day,she had the movers come and collect her things.

On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining-room table, by candle-light; she put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar,and a bottle of spring-water.

When she’d finished, she went into each and every room and deposited a few half-eaten shrimps dipped in caviar into the hollow centre of the curtain rods.

She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.

On the fourth day, the husband came back with his new girlfriend, and at first all was bliss.

Then, slowly, the house began to smell.

They tried everything; cleaning, mopping, and airing-out the place.

Vents were checked for dead rodents, and carpets were steam cleaned.

Air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought in to set off gas canisters, during which time
the two had to move out for afew days, and in the end they even paid to replac e the expensive wool carpeting. Nothing worked!

People stopped coming over to visit.
Repairmen refused to work in the house..
The maid quit.

Finally, they couldn’t take the stench any longer, and decided they had to move, but a month later – even though they’d cut their price in half – they couldn’t find a buyer for such a stinky house.

Word got out, and eventually even the local realtors refused to return their calls.

Finally, unable to wait any longer for a purchaser, they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the bank to purchase a new place.

Then the ex-wife called the man and asked how things were going. He told her the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely and said that she missed her old home terribly and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for having the house.

Knowing she could have no idea how bad the smell really was,he agreed on a price that was only 1/10 th of what the house had been worth … but only if she would sign the papers that very day.

She agreed, and within two hours his lawyers delivered the completed paperwork.

A week later the man and his girlfriend stood smiling as they watched the moving company pack everything to take to their new home …..
… and to spite the ex-wife, they even took the the curtain rods!

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING, DON’T YOU?

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One day, when a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river, her thimble fell into the river. When she cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, ‘My dear child, why are you crying?’ The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the water and that she needed it to help her husband in making a living for their family. The Lord dipped His hand into the water and pulled up a golden thimble set with sapphires.

‘Is this your thimble?’ the Lord asked . The seamstress replied, ‘No.’

The Lord again dipped into the river. He held out a golden thimble studded with rubies.

‘Is this your thimble?’ t he Lord asked. Again, the seamstress replied, ‘No.’

The Lord reached down again and came up with a leather thimble .

‘Is this your thimble ?’ the Lord asked. The seamstress replied, ‘Yes.’ The Lord was pleased with the woman’s honesty and gave her all three thimbles to keep, and the seamstress went home happy.

Some years later, the seamstress was walking with her husband along the riverbank, and her husband fell into the river and disappeared under the water. When she cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked her, ‘Why are you crying?’ ‘Oh Lord, my husband has fallen into the river!’

The Lord went down into the water and came up with George Clooney ‘Is this your husband?’ the Lord asked.

‘Yes,’ cried the seamstress. The Lord was furious. ‘You lied! That is an untruth!’ The seamstress replied, ‘Oh, forgive me, my Lord. It is a misunderstanding. You see, if I had said ‘no’ to George Clooney, you would have come up with Brad Pitt.

Then if I said ‘no’ to him, you would have come up with my husband. Had I then said ‘yes,’ you would have given me all three. Lord, I’m not in the best of health and would not be able to take care of all three husbands, so THAT’S why I said ‘yes’ to George Clooney.

And so the Lord let her keep him.

The moral of this story is: Whenever a woman lies, it’s for a good and honorable reason, and in the best interest of others. That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it.

Signed,

All Us Women

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1965, The Righteous Brothers were at No.1   UK and US singles chart with the Phil Spector song ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.  It was the most played song of the 20th Century.

1967, The Monkees self-titled debut album started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK chart.

1975, American jazz, blues, songwriter and saxophonist Louis Jordon died aged 66. Known as  The King of the Jukebox

.1978, Abba started a seven week run at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘The Album’ their third No.1 LP.

1978, The Bee Gees started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Staying Alive’. From the film soundtrack Saturday Night Fever,  also No.1 in the UK.

1978, ‘Up Town Ranking’ by Althia and Donna was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. It was the Jamaican duo’s only hit making the teenagers One-hit Wonders.

1982, Scottish singer Alex Harvey died of a heart attack while waiting to take a ferry back to shore after performing a concert with his new band, the Electric Cowboys.

1983, Karen Carpenter died aged 32 of a cardiac arrest at her parent’s house at her parents’ home in Downey, California; The coroner’s report gave the cause of death of imbalances associated with anorexia nervosa.

1984, Paul Gardiner bass player with Gary Numan’s Tubeway Army died of a heroin overdose.

1984, Culture Club at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Karma Chameleon’

1984, Eurythmics first UK No.1 album with their second release ‘Touch’,

1995, Celine Dion No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Think Twice’. Ivor Novello Award for the Song of the Year in 1995.

1999, American soul singer Gwen Guthrie died of cancer aged 48. Sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Madonna and wrote songs for Sister Sledge and Roberta Flack. Had the 1986 R&B No.1 Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on But the Rent

.2001, Atomic Kitten No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Whole Again’,written by Andy McCluskey from OMD.

2008, Leona Lewis  No.1 on the Australian album charts with her debut release

February 4th: Born on this day

1941,John Steel, drums, The Animals,

1947, Margie and Mary Ann Ganser,  The Shangri-Las,

1948, Alice Cooper, (Vincent Furnier),

1950, James Dunn, vocals, The Stylistics

1975, Natalie Imbruglia, actress, singer

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I think it´s sensible to be interested in your own health and I have invested time and money in useful knowlege. Sometimes it´s nice to read articles which compound the views you already have. Tonight, for example, I read an article which explained that we should all chew our food thirty times or thereabouts before we swallow. This does make sense. The article claims we probably all feel a little gastric after having eaten our meals and it is because we haven´t chewed sufficiently before we have swallowed. This then puts pressure on our digestive system to have to re hash the job that should have been done in the mouth by the teeth and gastric juices. Another article went on to look at the urban myth of the benefits of drinking 8 glasses of water per day. Now, the article was claiming that we can do ourselves more harm than good by overdosing on water. The author was explaining that the intake of water has to relevant to the size of the glass and the size of our own bodies. It was further explained that by drinking too much it can put a great strain on our systems and by having too little we can dehydrate.

Here´s an article I found pretty interesting…..

Before you open that can of soup or pop the lid on that water bottle, ask yourself this: How much do I really care about my endocrine system?   Your answer is important because even if you’re hazy on exactly what your endocrine system does, I’ve got a feeling you’re a big fan.   It’s all about protecting your hormones.

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Vital messages are being sent throughout your body. Your nervous system does it with electrical impulses. Your endocrine system does it with hormones.

Endocrine glands (such as the thyroid and pancreas) release hormones into the blood stream. From there, hormones go on to help regulate key functions such as metabolism, blood sugar, growth, mood, and reproduction, just to name a few.  In other words: It’s VERY important stuff!

Knowing this, how would you feel about eating or drinking something that contains a compound known as an endocrine disruptor?  Obviously, disrupting the endocrine system is not a good idea at all. And yet every day, millions of people eat food products contaminated with bisphenol A (BPA)–an endocrine disruptor.  About 70 years ago, BPA was found to have estrogenic activity in the body. This prompted one of the earliest attempts to create a hormone replacement medication. That idea went off the rails when BPA was soon found to be too toxic for use in a drug.

Nevertheless, the food industry saw no problem at all in putting BPA to use in food containers. What could possibly go wrong? The answer: decay. Over time, BPA polymer decays and leaches into canned foods and beverages, as well as liquids in plastic bottles. BPA is also used to make plastic eating utensils, plastic bowls, and–the worst!– baby pacifiers.

And THEN came the studies…

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Two years ago, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that high urinary BPA concentrations might be linked to increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and abnormal concentrations of liver enzymes.  New research confirms those risks.

When UK researchers matched BPA content in urine samples with years of health records for nearly 1,500 subjects, aged 18 to 74, they came to this conclusion: “Higher BPA exposure, reflected in higher urinary concentrations of BPA, is consistently associated with reported heart disease in the general adult population of the USA. Studies to clarify the mechanisms of these associations are urgently needed.”

This is where I would tell you that FDA officials have been stonewalling the BPA issue to cowtow to the food industry. And that’s true. But in a recent surprise move, the FDA issued a BPA “update” that recognizes recent research and warns consumers that infant exposure to BPA should be avoided.

Hmmm. Let’s see. Kids are, technically, the same species as you and me, so maybe it’s not too great a leap to assume that adult exposure to BPA should be avoided too.

In a recent article, HSI Panelist Jon Barron cited a Consumer Reports investigation that found significant traces of BPA in every can of food they examined. So the first step in avoiding BPA is pretty obvious: steer clear of canned foods and beverages. One exception: Eden Foods. More than 10 years ago (WAY ahead of the curve), this organic food company went to great lengths to make the switch to BPA-free cans.

And you can easily shop for BPA-free food and beverage containers, including feeding bottles for infants. Just Google “BPA-free” and you’ll enter a world that’s just a little less toxic.       Source
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Word of the Day
quebrar keh-brar’ (transitive verb)

to break, to destroy, to shatter, to snap, to crack; to twist, to bend
EXAMPLES

Quiere quebrar su racha de mala suerte. – He wants to break his bad luck streak.

Para hacer el baile bien, tienes que quebrar la cintura. – To do the dance right, you have to twist at the waist.

IDIOMS

Quebrarse la cabeza – To rack one’s brain

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for quebrar.
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Music 3rd February
1959, 22 year old Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa. Tthe pilot of the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza plane was also killed. Holly hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tourbus. All three were travelling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour.
1960, Anthony Newley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Why’.
1960 – The record label Reprise Records was formed by Frank Sinatra.
1967, producer Joe Meek shot his landlady Violet Shenton and then shot himself at his flat in London, Meek produced The Tornadoes ‘Telstar’ 1968, One hit wonders The Lemon Pipers went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Green Tambourine’ the song was a No.7 hit in the UK.
1968, The Beatles started work on their new single ‘Lady Madonna’ at Abbey Road studios in London.
1973, Elton John started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Crocodile Rock’.
1979, Blondie UK No.1 with ‘Heart Of Glass’
1990, for the first time ever, the UK Top 3 singles featured non-British and non-American acts. Ireland’s Sinead O’Connor, Australia’s Kylie Minogue and Belgium’s Technotronic. Sinead O’Connor had her first No.1 single with Nothing Compares To U’, a song written by Prince.
1999, Tony Hadley singer with Spandau Ballet told a High Court in London of his “desperate” financial situation after his solo career failed.
2003, the exclusive documentary ‘Living With Michael Jackson’ was shown on UK television. Reporter Martin Bashir had spent eight months with the star, the show’s editor said, ‘viewers will not believe what they’re seeing.’
2008, UK singer Adel went to No.1 on the UK album chart with her debut album ‘19’

February 3rd: Born on this day
1928, Frankie Vaughan, UK singer.
1928, Val Doonican, Irish singer
1935, Johnny ‘guitar’ Watson, guitarist, singer
1943, Dennis Edwards, The Temptations
1943, Eric Haydock, bass, The Hollies
1947, Dave Davies, guitarist, The Kinks
1809 – Composer Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn was born.

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. – Jane Addams, 1860-1935

This was the day before, in 1959, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens died in a plane crash. I have put a podcast on my site which has the newsflash that would be broadcast the next day. Meanwhile, on the Costa Blanca we have another really fine day. Details will follow.

Here´s an article written by the rebel doctor. If you think it´s just about America then think again. This will apply to the UK and Spain…………

Surrounded by secret chemicals

They’re not just in the water…chemicals are everywhere, indoors and out.

Some of you sharper minds might think you have an idea of how dangerous these toxins are. Buddy, you don’t know the half of it. Not even most of the so-called experts have a clue. None of us do…because many of these chemicals are trade secrets!

A recent report in the Washington Post shows how laws designed to help the chemical industry remain competitive have actually helped them remain highly secretive…and once again, the rest of us get the short end of this poison wand.

The newspaper told of one nurse who fell ill after treating a worker injured in a chemical spill. When her doctors called the company to find out what she had been exposed her, they wouldn’t say.

Because they didn’t have to.

Nice guys, right?

Chemical manufacturers get to hide behind the misleadingly named Toxic Substances Control Act. Rather than help control toxic substances, the 1976 law actually helps companies keep their chemicals secret.

What’d you expect from our Corporate Congress, where lobbyists get the write the laws?

This particular law requires that companies disclose the ingredients in all their chemicals to the government. But it also protects any chemical that the company thinks is important to its bottom line.

Lately, that’s all of them — in recent years, 95 percent of all notices for new chemicals — some 700 of these are filed each year — have contained secrecy requests, according to the Post.

How can you avoid this garbage? You can’t. It’s in everything, even your clothing and furniture if they’ve been treated to be flame-retardant.

But you can wake up and realize that your government isn’t working for you — it’s working for America’s biggest companies. The solution can be found at the ballot box — if you can find a clean politician.

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Here´s our Spanish word for today—–

firmar feer-mar’  (transitive verb)

to sign; to subscribe

EXAMPLES

Acabo de firmar un contrato con otra compañía. – I just signed a contract with another company.

Puedes firmar una carta informal “con cariño.” – You can sign an informal letter “with care.”

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for firmar.

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Alan Gee spotted the following………………………..

SIGN IN A STORE WINDOW

‘WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH 1000 AL QAEDA TERRORISTS THAN WITH ONE SINGLE BRITISH SOLDIER!’

This sign was prominently displayed in the window of a business in
Glamorgan, South Wales .

You are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory statement.

However, we are a society which holds Freedom of Speech as perhaps our greatest liberty.

After all, it is ONLY A SIGN, you may say.

‘What kind of business would dare to post such a sign?’

Answer:

A FUNERAL PARLOUR.

WHO SAID UNDERTAKERS HAD NO SENSE OF HUMOUR?

YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!!!

God Bless The Welsh

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Here´s a joke from Jackie C…….I´ve cleaned it up a bit!

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Our weather is beautiful today with waqll to wall sunshine and it is a very pleasant temperature. We did have horrendous winds during the night. Let´s check the week ahead for the Alicante province.

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I watched a drama called Material Girl on the BBC last night and the one thing that came over loud and clear is that success in the world of fashion depends on connections as much as talent if the drama was factual. It also showed quite graphically how people shut out talent when they take a dislike to the person involved. Mi9nd you, this was a vicarage tea party where Emmerdale was concerned. In the village they are showing incest, violence and murder….and this is a good week! Never mind, there´s always the peace and tranquility of Eastenders. Cue…Murder…….

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Patrick Wilhelm has advised us of the following….

The Darwin Awards – 2009

Yes, it’s that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.

Here is the glorious winner:

1. When his 38 calibre revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach California , would-be robber James Elliott did something that can only inspire wonder.  He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And now, the honorable mentions:

2.. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself.  He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef’s claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. ‘Understandably’, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare  to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train.. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided.. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer….. $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID to which he replied, “Yes, officer, that’s her. That’s the lady I stole the purse from.”

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle Street , he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had.

In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with friends and family…..unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

*** Remember….. They walk among us!!!***
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A collision between two Ryanair planes at Girona Airport on Thursday is being described as a minor incident with no injuries to passengers, who were all due to be carried on later flights that day to their destinations in Turin and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

It happened as the aircraft were moving to the runway to prepare for takeoff, when one of the planes touched the second’s tail with its left wing.

AENA Spanish Airports described the damage caused to the aircraft as ‘imperceptible’, and it’s understood from Europa Press that both will be inspected by Ryanair technicians before they return to the air.

The passengers were able to disembark the two aircraft in the normal way.

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compartir kohm-par-teer’  (transitive verb)

to share

EXAMPLES

¿Por qué no compartimos el resto del pastel? – Why don’t we share the rest of the cake?

Gracias por compartir este tiempo comigo. – Thank you for sharing this time with me.

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My friend, Angie, sent me the following…

I would never trade my amazing friends, my  wonderful life, my loving family for less grey hair or a flatter belly.   As I’ve aged, I’ve become kinder to myself, and less critical of   myself. I’ve become my own friend. I don’t chide myself for eating   that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that  silly cement gecko that I didn’t need, but  looks so avante garde on  my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they  understood the great freedom that comes with ageing.

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4  AM and sleep until noon?

I will dance with myself to those wonderful  tunes of the 60 &70′s, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over  a lost love … I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that  is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet  set.

They, too, will get old. I know I am sometimes forgetful.  But  there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually  remember the important things.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not   break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even  when somebody’s beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what  give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken  is pristine and sterile and will  never know the joy of being  imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough  to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever  etched into deep grooves on my face.So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair  could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive.  You care less about  what other people think. I don’t question  myself any more. I’ve even earned the right to be wrong.So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like  the person I have become.

I am not going to live forever, but while I  am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or  worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert  every single  day(if I feel like it).Life may not be the party we  hoped for, but while we are here we might  as well dance.

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Here´s another item going around the Internet

How many zeros in a billion?

This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the
Word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending
YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
But one advertising agency did a good job of
Putting that figure into some perspective in
One of its releases.

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago our ancestors were Living in the Stone Age.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

A billion Pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes,
At the rate our government Is spending it.

Building  Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate  Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Income Tax
Unemployment Tax
Fishing License  Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Petrol/Diesel  Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory  Tax
(tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Marriage  License Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate  Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road  Usage Tax
Local  Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales  Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL  THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago…
and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt…
we had the largest middle class in the world…
and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?

My Comment Well, as this is American in origin I think it would help to add in 100 years of population growth, the advent of the motor car and jet planes, the sleaze of politicians, The Wall Street Crash, the greed of bankers and the shenanigans of the stock exchanges around the world. You could also add in World Wars, Vietnam,Iraq, Afghanistan, world policing  and terrorism………….I´m sure you can think of more!

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John: ” Can you tell me if you get the same heart benefits from red grape juice as from red wine?”

John is on the right track with red grapes, which contain flavonoids and resveratrol. Both of these compounds are beneficial to heart health. But some red wines contain more of these compounds than others. The same is true of different grape juices.

Also, you’d need to drink a large amount of wine or grape juice to reap significant heart benefits. Needless to say, downing several glasses of wine every day isn’t a good idea. And gulping the same amount of grape juice isn’t good either – too much sugar content.

In other words, there’s no easy answer to John’s question.

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Another Thanks to Ian K from Villamar for the following……….
Dear Mum Letter…..

A mother passing by her son’s bedroom was astonished to see the bed was nicely made, and everything was picked up. Then, she saw an envelope, propped up prominently on the pillow. It was addressed, ‘Mum’ With the worst premonition, she opened the envelope and read the letter, with trembling hands.

‘Dear, Mum. It is with great regret and sorrow that I’m writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, because I wanted to avoid a scene with Dad and you. I’ve been finding real passion with Stacy, and she is so nice, but I knew you would not approve of her, because of all her piercing’s, tattoos, her tight Motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am. But it’s not only the passion, Mum. She’s pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. We share a dream of having many more children. Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn’t really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves, and trading it with the other people in the commune, for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want. In the meantime, we’ll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS, so Stacy can get better.. She sure deserves it!!

Don’t worry Mum, I’m 15, and I know how to take care of myself. Someday, I’m sure we’ll be back to visit, so you can get to know your many grandchildren. Love, your son, Nicholas.

P.S. Mum, none of the above is true. I’m over at Jason’s house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the school report that’s on my desk.

I love you!

Call when it is safe for me to come home.’

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1958, The Everly Brothers made their debut on British TV appearing on The Perry Como Show.
1967, The Rolling Stones were forced to change the lyrics of ‘Lets Spend The Night Together’ to ‘Lets Spend Some Time Together’ when appearing on the US TV’s The Ed Sullivan Show after the producers objected to the content of the lyrics.
1983, Phil Collins had his first UK No.1 single with his version of ‘You Can’t Hurry Love,’ a hit for The Supremes in 1966.

1893, Born on this day, Ivor Novello, songwriter and actor. Annual British music awards are named after him. Died 6th March 1951.
1947, Born on this day, Pete Waterman, producer, TV presenter and part of the Stock, Aitken & Waterman team. Booked the first ever tour for The Bay City Rollers, signed Musical Youth and Nik Kershaw, during the 70s was promotion consultant for John Travolta. Had 1987 UK No.13 hit with Roadblock; Dominated UK pop in the mid-to-late 1980s. as part of S.A.W. the most successful pop writers & producers of all time producing Bananarama, Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley, Jason Donovan. Judge on UK TVs Pop Stars.

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……………………………………………..Gary is surprised to find himself talking with Prince Charles and Rocky Balboa……………………………

Elvis Presley was born on this day in 1935 and would have been 75.  Is that amazing or what? Can anyone really comprehend how Elviswould have handled such an age? More to the point, it is now easier to see the loss the world of popular music suffered at his passing at the age of 42. I think many of us hadn´t really realised just how young he was and the passing of Michael Jackson puts this into perspective for both of these two superstars. Love them or loathe them each had achieved magnificent things in their lives. Also, do you ever wonder at how various personalities have the same birthdays. Off the top of my head Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee share the same birthday.

On today´s birthday file the wonderful Shirley Bassey has her birthday. Her age is just two years younger than Elvis would have been. Others making the Premier league of showbizz include David Bowie who was born a bit later on this day in 1947. The more I collate such facts the more I see evidence of possibilities in the stars. I am not trying to sell my observations just making them! Next, to the weather.

I really cannot imagine the temperatures being experienced by Britain at this moment in time. We are colder but minus 18, minus 20 and with more to come. The picture is a Winter Wonderland until you need to travel. Personally, I hate snow and although it might look nice on the top of our mountains I have only ever had bad experiences with snow. A crash in North Wales, stuck in a blizzard on the Queensferry by-pass, another crash on Anglesey and a very worrying near miss on the M62.No you can keep your snow as far as I’m concerned! Let’s get our forecast for the Costa Blanca and Alicante Province.

Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday
10° C | 1° C	9° C | 1° C	10° C | 3° C	15° C | 6° C	15° C | 9° C

I’m looking at Friday and Saturday down to 1 degree but climbing through the week again to a high of 15 and a low of 6. These temperatures will be at sea level I would guess.

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“PANTOMANIA” pantomime being held on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th January at Retoretes (PDA Foya Manena, Benidorm 03530) from 7 pm.  Tickets 12 euros for adults (includes pantomime, 2 course roast meal and dessert, and glass of wine) children price 8 euros with meal, or SCROOGE tickets 5 euros only (no food or drink).  Pantomime starts at 8 pm sharp.  Cast includes Marcellana and other Benidorm artists, a fire eater, and members of local drama and dancing childrens clubs.

More information phone 644 118 006 or to order tickets at the door.

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“The next Annual General Meeting of HELP International Benidorm will be held on 4th February at 10.30am in the Jose Llorca Social Centre, Foietes.  All fully paid up members are invited to attend at 10.15am in order to sign in and they are reminded to bring their current membership card with them.”

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Tomorrow 9th January 9-midnight at El Cabaret, Cumbre de Sol, Moraira…..World famous impressionist Paul Melba and the zany Rockin Rupert direct from the 1950s.

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Set Goals That Will Stretch You
A value in giving yourself permission to go after the big dreams is that big dreams require you to grow in order to achieve them. In fact, in the long run, this is the greatest benefit you will receive from pursuing your dreams — not so much the outer trappings of fulfilling the dream (an expensive car, impressive house, loads of money and philanthropic opportunities), but who you become in the process.

As I’ve seen many times over, the outer symbols of success can all be easily lost. Houses burn down, companies go bankrupt, relationships end, cars get old, bodies age and fame wanes, but who you are, what you have learned, and the new skills you have developed never go away. These are the true prizes of success.    Jack Cranfield

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A new study finds that men who were bad when they were young are more likely to be dead or disabled at an early age.British researchers followed 411 boys who were between 8 and 9 years old when the study began in 1961. And they found that one in six of those boys who were antisocial by 10 and convicted of a crime by the age of 18 were seven times more likely to be dead or disabled by 48 than those who kept their noses clean. Serves the little punks right.

The researchers believe the lack of self-control that begins in youth adds up to an adulthood of stress and illness — but even they were surprised by the strength of the connection between sheer badness and early death.

Fate? Divine retribution? I’d be lying if I said that didn’t cross my mind once or twice when I read about this study in the Journal of Public Health. After all, there was no single dominant cause of the early death — they weren’t all druggies or junkies, and they weren’t all stabbed in prison. In fact, they died of a variety of conditions, including heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and cancer. But this is science, not religion, and there’s a far more earthly answer here. Live bad, die young — not because it’s your fate, but because lousy human beings are often lousy to themselves, too.

Most of it’s probably related to diet. I don’t know too many delinquent kids who grow up eating healthy home-cooked balanced meals… heck, I don’t know too many normal kids who grow up eating right anymore. I’m sure most of the delinquents grow up eating the worst of the worst foods… and, if they don’t clean up their act, those habits follow them through adulthood. Their prison terms are probably the healthiest points in their miserable lives. Once out, back to old habits — and a quick trip to death and disability. I’m fine with that — all that means to me is fewer heels taking up space and breathing our honest air.

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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Here´s a virus waqrning. I have no proof of its authenticity but I know the sender of the message…..

New Virus (NO JOKE)

This is legitimate. Please pass this along to your friends.

The newest virus circulating is
The UPS/FedEx/DHL Delivery Failure.

You will receive an email from UPS/Fed Ex Service along with a packet number..
It will say that they were unable to deliver
A package sent to you on such-and-such a date.

It then asks you to print out
The invoice copy attached.

DON’T TRY TO PRINT THIS.
IT LAUNCHES THE VIRUS!

Pass this warning on to all your PC operators
At work and home.

This virus has caused Millions of dollars
In damage in the past few days.

Snopes confirms that it is real.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp

also

http://healyitworks.com/?p=38

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With Spain´s national public broadcaster TVE no longer accepting advertising, the rest of the country’s broadcasters are strategically planning to lift their advertising rates.  In the middle of the current economic crisis, the different TV channels will profit from the new scenario both with a bigger advertising pie and from the mergers of private TV channels Sogecable´s Cuatro-Mediaset´s Telecinco and Grupo Planeta´s Antena 3-Mediapro's la Sexta. Experts say advertising prices will be raised 20% to 25%, particularly in the second half of the year.

Another aspect changing with the new panorama is the negotiation of prices. While last year the negotiations were made on a monthly basis according to what advertisers asked for, that control will likely switch to the broadcasters. Regional TV Channels’ Federation (FORTA) has increased its advertising prices 20% for this month (although these prices remain inferior to those of the private broadcasters). However, this may be seen as a levelling-off of the decreased advertising prices due to the crisis.  Full Story

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On this day in 1957  Bill Haley & His Comets started the first ever ‘rock & roll tour’ of Australia, playing two sold out nights in Sydney.

1958, The Everly Brothers kicked off a 17 date North American tour in Charlotte, North Carolina. Others on the bill included Buddy Holly, Paul Anka and
 Danny &The Juniors.
1963, The Beatles appeared live on Scottish TV’s Round Up, transmitted  from The Theatre Royal, Glasgow. They mimed to ‘Please Please Me.’ The miming was obviously acceptable and in 1966,  they started a six week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Rubber Soul’ . The  US singles chart preferred We Can Work It Out’ which went to No 1.
1969, Mike Jagger and Keith Richards were both barred from an exclusive hotel for wearing “op art” pants and nothing else. This was the Hotel Crillen in Lima, Peru where they refused to change their clothing.

In 1972  The New Seekers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing.  The song started as a Coca Cola TV advert and  originally included the line, ‘I’d like to buy the world a Coke. The lead singer, Lyn Paul, is still singing here on the Costa Blanca.

In 1977  Queen went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Day At The Races.’
1991, Steve Clark guitarist with Def Leppard, was found dead at his Chelsea flat by his girlfriend, after a night of heavy alcohol consumption combined with prescription drugs.

1994, Jamaican duo Chaka Demus and Pliers were at No.1 in the UK with their version of ‘Twist And Shout.’ The song was originally recorded (and produced by Phil Spector) by the Top Notes in 1961 and then covered by The Isley Brothers. It was also covered by The Beatles on their first album Please Please Me. Chaka Demus made a reasonable cover version of this great standard.

1996, There was a good example of the price stars pay for their high earnings. A  Los Angeles court found Robert Hoskins guilty of five counts of stalking, assault and making terrorist threats to Madonna. Hoskins had twice scaled the walls of the singer’s estate and had threatened to slash her throat from ear to ear.

2000, Christina Aguilera started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘What A Girl Wants.’ In the same year it was reported that police foiled a £1 million kidnap plot to snatch Victoria Beckham and her baby son. The plot was uncovered after a tip off to the police.

The Beatles were still in the news as in 2004, the estate of George Harrison started a £5.8 million legal action against Dr Gilbert Lederman of Staten Island University Hospital claiming the doctor coerced Harrison to sign souvenirs. The main allegations of the legal action was that Dr Lederman got an extremely sick Harrison to sign his son’s guitar and autographs for his two daughters.

January 8th: Born on this day 1935, , Elvis Aaron Presley, the King of rock ‘n’ roll. He had his first No.1 in 1956 – He died on August 16th 1977.
1937, Born on this day, Shirley Bassey, singer. First charted in the UK in 1957, 1970 UK No.4 single with cover of The Beatles George Harrison song ‘Something’ also James Bond theme ‘Goldfinger’ and ‘Diamonds are Forever’.

1945, Born on this day, Terry Sylvester, guitar, vocals, Swinging Blue Jeans, The Hollies, (joined in 1969). 1972 US No.2 single ‘Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress’, 1988 UK No.1 single ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’, first released in 1969.

1947, Born on this day, David Jones, (David Bowie). First UK Top 40 single was the 1969 ‘Space Oddity’ which became a UK No.1 in 1975.

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The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing are at the annual stage of fever pitch. I know it´s either Joe or Olly but has Chris Holins put on his sequins and arranged his facial expressions for the last time. I´ve enjoyed both these shows and will enjoy thier finales after the Liverpool game tomorrow. In the meantime it´s an early night for me as I´m up broadcasting in the morning. Let´s keep you posted on the weather for Alicante province.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
15° C | 3° C	11° C | 1° C	10° C | 3° C	17° C | 9° C	19° C | 11° C

I´m off to the Blue Tomato Jazz Fest after my show and I think it won´t be in my three quarters! I can honestly say I feel rain in my bones. You might wish to click here and find the perfect man or woman. My thanks to Professor Michael Addo.

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Here´s Iris´Challenge for today on my radio show…answer at the foot of the blog

(1)    In 1957 these 3 people formed their first band called “The Harmonichords” (also seen as “The Harmony Chords”), a classically styled instrumental harmonica-act.

(2)    As The Harmonichords, they appeared on Hughie Green‘s ‘Opportunity Knocks’ on Radio Luxembourg and on the ‘Ed Sullivan’ TV Show St. Patrick’s Day Special (filmed in Dublin, and broadcast 15 March 1959), where they played “Danny Boy. They also played background music plus featured pieces in a 25 week radio comedy series called ‘Odd Noises’ on Radio Éireann featuring Eamonn Andrews.

(3)    In 1962 they changed their name at the suggestion of Dick Rowe, at Decca Records, who gave them the name they became know as. During this time they had many successful songs in the music charts through out the world. Some of the most successful were “Charmaine” (1963); “Diane”, “I Believe”, “Ramona” and “I Wouldn’t Trade You for The World” (1964

(4)    They made guest appearances on all the current TV shows in the 60’s and appeared in two Royal Variety TV shows. In 1963 they starred in Its All Over Town with Frankie Vaughan and The Springfields. In 1964, they starred alongside Bob Hope in the TV show Sunday Night at the London Palladium, then hosted by Bruce Forsyth; this episode, according to Paul Gambaccini, achieved the largest viewing audience ever for this very popular show.

(5)    They appeared in a film with Billy Fury in 1965 called I’ve Gotta Horse and in 1971 they starred in a situation comedy TV series called Under and Over, where they played 3 Irish navvies working on the London Underground. Six episodes were broadcast on BBC One.

(6)    And one person from this group has been interviewed by our very own Vince Tracy

Longevity Strategies For Your Internal Body

By Mary Treacy

To get the most out of life, it is important to feel well as you age. Your health is the most important asset that you have and, as you age, feeling well is necessary for your morale. So we will start our longevity and anti-age strategies by taking care of our internal body. In order to keep healthy at any age, but especially as you are growing older, you really need to make lifestyle changes and, the earlier you start, the better.

Here are some of the main changes you can make:

* Drink plenty of water, as this will wash toxins from your body, keeping your organs healthy. This will have an influence on your physical.

* Eat a balanced diet, as this will prevent too much weight gain. Obesity can lead to all sorts of problems, putting too much pressure on your articulations, heart and other organs. Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, if possible at least five portions a day, as they are a source of anti-oxidants that can eliminate free radicals that are the compounds that destroy cells and age your body. Don’t skip meals, as your body will think there is a period of famine and start stocking fat. Make life-style changes that encourage healthy eating over the long term, rather than embarking on strict diets that can encourage the yo-yo effect, and not lead to permanent weight loss. We will go into other diet issues later in this web site.

* Get enough sleep to feel well. Sleeping helps your body and mind to rest and regenerate.

* Have regular check ups. Talk with your doctor and see at what ages and with what regularity you need to see him for total check ups – like revising your car on a yearly basis. Make sure that you also see your doctor if you don’t feel well. This way your doctor will be able to check for the early symptoms of possible incubating diseases and take preventative measures. Ask your doctor or gynaecologist if you can have a test to check that your hormones are present in the normal levels.

* Don’t smoke if you want to feel well. Smoking can increase the aging process and speed it up. It can affect the health of your loved ones, who will inhale the smoke as passive smokers, and pollute the environment. What is worse it is well known now that smoking can lead to lung cancer, a very painful and often terminal disease.

* Exercise regularly, varying cardiac exercise that will keep your heart healthy and prevent weight gain, with exercises to strengthen your muscles. The latter is particularly important in preventing bone loss as you age. Also practise stretching exercises or yoga or Pilates to keep your body flexible. An added bonus of exercise is that the endorphins which it releases in your body will make you feel well, alive and full of the joys of spring.

Marie-Therese (Mary) Treacy

Strategies on aging well including healthy nutrition, regular exercise, the prevention of age-related diseases, and ways to maintain an alert mind and brain.

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Word of the Day

El cazador kah-zah-dor’  (noun)

hunter

EXAMPLES

Mi padre es un cazador de caza mayor. – My father is a big game hunter.

Muchos de los cazadores-recolectores son nómadas. – Many hunter-gatherers are nomads.

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for El cazador.

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Bridal Panic

The day after a young couple had returned from their honeymoon, the bride called her mother in a panic.

“What’s the matter, dear? Was the honeymoon dreadful?”

“No, but oh, Mama! As soon as we got home, he started using the most horrible language! Horrible four-letter words!”

“Darling, shh,” said her mother. “Calm down and tell me what he said that was so awful.”

“Oh, Mama, it’s so embarrassing,” cried the still sobbing bride. “He said words like COOK, IRON, WASH, DUST!”

Received from Joe.

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An elderly man in Louisiana had owned a large farm for several years.

He had a large pond in the back.
It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some apple, and peach  trees.

One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn’t been there for a while, and look it over.

He grabbed a five-gallon bucket  to bring back some fruit.

As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee.

As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond.

He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.

One of the women shouted to him, ‘we’re not coming out until you leave!’

The old man frowned, ‘I didn’t come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.’

Holding the bucket up he said,
‘I’m here to feed the alligator…’

Some old men can still think fast.

Iris´Challenge was THE BATCHELORS

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