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“La contemplación a menudo hace la vida miserable. Deberíamos actuar más, pensar menos, y dejar de mirarnos vivir.”
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Threats of a general strike in Spain intensified this weekend following Friday’s decision by the credit agency Fitch Ratings to downgrade the country’s debt from AAA to AA+.
The latest blow to Europe´s fourth-biggest economy comes just days after a series of austerity measures scraped through the Spanish parliament by a margin of a single vote. Designed to rein in a deficit behind Ireland and Greece in the eurozone, the measures to passed thanks only to a series of abstentions. Full Story
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Three weeks into the new coalition Government in Britain and another cabinet minister is caught up in the expenses scandal. What I cannot understand is how members in Westminster seems to think it is acceptable to be caught fiddling your expenses as long as you have an alternative alibi to explain you were not...."maximising profits". Who are you kidding? You've been caught doing what you ought not be doing and the only good thing is you have resigned. How stupid to be in a real chance of government and blowing it so quickly? Surely the best policy would have been to come clean before the election and then we'd realise how genuine you really are. I'll bet there'll be others to fall before too long.
It's a wonderful day in Benidorm with clear blue skies and mountain to sea sunshine but let's see how long it will last.........
to damage, to harm, to hurt (a person); to be bad for
El agua ha dañado todas las alfombras en el sótano. - Water has damaged all the carpets in the basement.
Fumar daña la salud. - Smoking is bad for your health.
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for dañar.
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Chocolate formula made just for tots
People are shocked to learn this, but chocolate milk wasn't invented to prevent the human race from dying out. No kid in human history has ever dropped dead from a lack of chocolate milk.
Yet parents are giving this junk to their kids earlier than ever, and now a new product aims to bring this poison to babies as young as 10 months old.
It's a chocolate or vanilla flavored toddler formula called "Enfagrow Premium," and if you give this to your kid, he'll grow all right... in all the wrong places.
The drink contains 19 grams of sugar -- that's almost five teaspoons, or enough to send him on his way to a life of disease that will be anything but sweet. Give it to your baby with each so-called meal, and that's 15 teaspoons of sugar a day before the child ever has a chance to learn what real food is supposed to taste like.
This is a crime against children... but already parents are praising it.
"My baby won't eat real food," is the typical whine. "He throws his carrots, spits out beef puree and squishes blueberries in his hands."
Yes -- THAT'S WHAT TODDLERS DO!
But today's clueless parents surrender at the slightest sign of resistance and whip out the chocolate-flavored sugar mainline. After all, they say, the child needs to eat "something."
That's child abuse, and it's every bit as damaging as a slap across the face. If you'd never consider smacking your baby, then don't consider chocolate formula, either -- because the sting from this smack will never fade.
Sugar is like crack for little kids, and the only way they ever acquire a taste for it is when YOU give it to them. And once you do, there's no turning back -- your kid is an addict, and thanks to Enfagrow Premium, it can happen before his first birthday.
Congratulations.
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Music Stuff May 30th
1964, The Beatles went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Love Me Do', the group's fourth US No.1 in five months. 1965, The Rolling Stones played the final night of a US tour at the New York Academy of Music. During the afternoon the band recorded six songs for the Clay Pole TV show.
1966, US country singer, songwriter Dolly Parton married Carl Dean in Catoosa County, Georgia.
1966, The Who appeared at Sincil Bank Football Ground, Lincoln, England.
1968, The Beatles began recording what became known as the White Album. The double-LP whose official title was simply ‘The Beatles’ became the first Beatles album released with the Apple label.
1970, Ray Stevens went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Everything Is Beautiful'.
1972, Slade with Status Quo as support appeared at The Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Tickets priced at 65p.
1974, Bernadette Whelan a 14 year-old David Cassidy fan died of heart failure four days after attending a concert of his. Over 1,000 other fans had to be given first aid during the White City Stadium show.
980, Carl Radle bass player with Derek and the Dominoes died of kidney failure aged 38. Also worked with George Harrison, Joe Cocker, Dave Mason & Delaney and Bonnie.
1982, Level 42 appeared at London's Hammersmith Palais, tickets £3.75.
1987, David Bowie kicked off his 87-date Glass Spider world tour at the Feynoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland.
1988, Leonard Cohen played the first of three sold out nights at London's Royal Albert Hall.
2002, Diana Ross voluntarily entered a Malibu drug and alcohol rehabilitation center called Promises to "clear up some personal issues" before setting out on a summer concert tour.
2003, Mickie Most died aged 64. Member of The Most Brothers during late 50's, and Mickie Most and the Playboys, produced hits for The Animals, Hermans Hermits, Donovan, Kim Wilde, Lulu and Jeff Beck. Ran his own record label RAK in the 1970's
2004, Madonna was forced to pay out £250,000 in a lawsuit after copying ideas by the late French erotic photographer Guy Burton.
2005, Coldplay's new album was illegally put on the internet a week before its UK and US release.
2007, a coroner told the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector that US actress Lana Clarkson's death was a homicide.
2007, Britney Spears said she "truly hit rock bottom" when she went to rehab earlier this year. I
2008, Music mogul Simon Fuller married his long-term girlfriend Natalie Swanston at a ceremony in California's Napa Valley. Guests at the wedding included Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Annie Lennox. Earlier this year Billboard magazine named him the "most successful British music manager of all time", with an estimated fortune of £229m.
2009, Mick Jagger offered to buy an ice cream van but was turned down by its owner - who'd promised his daughter he would drive her to her wedding in it. Guiseppe Della Camera, had spent ten years restoring the rusting van to perfection after he spotted it on a farm - being used as a chicken shed.
2009, An oil painting depicting Madonna in the nude with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie failed to meet the reserve price of £15,000 at auction in Glasgow. Scottish artist Peter Howson had produced several portraits of the pop icon in a state of undress.
2009, Ozzy Osbourne was suing the band's guitarist Tony Iommi over royalty payments.
Birthday Boys and Girls May 30th
1944,Lenny Davidson, Dave Clark Five
1960, Stephen Duffy, early Duran Duran
.Latest Podcast Latest Show
Music Source 1 music source 2 music source 3 music source 4
...There´s a new blog and a new podcast. I hope you find them interesting.
“La contemplación a menudo hace la vida miserable. Deberíamos actuar más, pensar menos, y dejar de mirarnos vivir.”
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
------------------------------------------------------
Threats of a general strike in Spain intensified this weekend following Friday’s decision by the credit agency Fitch Ratings to downgrade the country’s debt from AAA to AA+.
The latest blow to Europe´s fourth-biggest economy comes just days after a series of austerity measures scraped through the Spanish parliament by a margin of a single vote. Designed to rein in a deficit behind Ireland and Greece in the eurozone, the measures to passed thanks only to a series of abstentions. Full Story
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Three weeks into the new coalition Government in Britain and another cabinet minister is caught up in the expenses scandal. What I cannot understand is how members in Westminster seems to think it is acceptable to be caught fiddling your expenses as long as you have an alternative alibi to explain you were not...."maximising profits". Who are you kidding? You've been caught doing what you ought not be doing and the only good thing is you have resigned. How stupid to be in a real chance of government and blowing it so quickly? Surely the best policy would have been to come clean before the election and then we'd realise how genuine you really are. I'll bet there'll be others to fall before too long.
It's a wonderful day in Benidorm with clear blue skies and mountain to sea sunshine but let's see how long it will last.........
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
 27° C | 17° C | 29° C | 18° C | 29° C | 18° C |  26° C | 16° C |  26° C | 16° C |
| Clear | Clear | Clear | Partly Cloudy | Scattered Clouds |
Word of the Day
dañar dah-nyar' (transitive verb)
to damage, to harm, to hurt (a person); to be bad for
EXAMPLES
El agua ha dañado todas las alfombras en el sótano. - Water has damaged all the carpets in the basement.
Fumar daña la salud. - Smoking is bad for your health.
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for dañar.
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Chocolate formula made just for tots
People are shocked to learn this, but chocolate milk wasn't invented to prevent the human race from dying out. No kid in human history has ever dropped dead from a lack of chocolate milk.
Yet parents are giving this junk to their kids earlier than ever, and now a new product aims to bring this poison to babies as young as 10 months old.
It's a chocolate or vanilla flavored toddler formula called "Enfagrow Premium," and if you give this to your kid, he'll grow all right... in all the wrong places.
The drink contains 19 grams of sugar -- that's almost five teaspoons, or enough to send him on his way to a life of disease that will be anything but sweet. Give it to your baby with each so-called meal, and that's 15 teaspoons of sugar a day before the child ever has a chance to learn what real food is supposed to taste like.
This is a crime against children... but already parents are praising it.
"My baby won't eat real food," is the typical whine. "He throws his carrots, spits out beef puree and squishes blueberries in his hands."
Yes -- THAT'S WHAT TODDLERS DO!
But today's clueless parents surrender at the slightest sign of resistance and whip out the chocolate-flavored sugar mainline. After all, they say, the child needs to eat "something."
That's child abuse, and it's every bit as damaging as a slap across the face. If you'd never consider smacking your baby, then don't consider chocolate formula, either -- because the sting from this smack will never fade.
Sugar is like crack for little kids, and the only way they ever acquire a taste for it is when YOU give it to them. And once you do, there's no turning back -- your kid is an addict, and thanks to Enfagrow Premium, it can happen before his first birthday.
Congratulations.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music Stuff May 30th
1964, The Beatles went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Love Me Do', the group's fourth US No.1 in five months. 1965, The Rolling Stones played the final night of a US tour at the New York Academy of Music. During the afternoon the band recorded six songs for the Clay Pole TV show.
1966, US country singer, songwriter Dolly Parton married Carl Dean in Catoosa County, Georgia.
1966, The Who appeared at Sincil Bank Football Ground, Lincoln, England.
1968, The Beatles began recording what became known as the White Album. The double-LP whose official title was simply ‘The Beatles’ became the first Beatles album released with the Apple label.
1970, Ray Stevens went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Everything Is Beautiful'.
1972, Slade with Status Quo as support appeared at The Free Trade Hall, Manchester. Tickets priced at 65p.
1974, Bernadette Whelan a 14 year-old David Cassidy fan died of heart failure four days after attending a concert of his. Over 1,000 other fans had to be given first aid during the White City Stadium show.
980, Carl Radle bass player with Derek and the Dominoes died of kidney failure aged 38. Also worked with George Harrison, Joe Cocker, Dave Mason & Delaney and Bonnie.
1982, Level 42 appeared at London's Hammersmith Palais, tickets £3.75.
1987, David Bowie kicked off his 87-date Glass Spider world tour at the Feynoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland.
1988, Leonard Cohen played the first of three sold out nights at London's Royal Albert Hall.
2002, Diana Ross voluntarily entered a Malibu drug and alcohol rehabilitation center called Promises to "clear up some personal issues" before setting out on a summer concert tour.
2003, Mickie Most died aged 64. Member of The Most Brothers during late 50's, and Mickie Most and the Playboys, produced hits for The Animals, Hermans Hermits, Donovan, Kim Wilde, Lulu and Jeff Beck. Ran his own record label RAK in the 1970's
2004, Madonna was forced to pay out £250,000 in a lawsuit after copying ideas by the late French erotic photographer Guy Burton.
2005, Coldplay's new album was illegally put on the internet a week before its UK and US release.
2007, a coroner told the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector that US actress Lana Clarkson's death was a homicide.
2007, Britney Spears said she "truly hit rock bottom" when she went to rehab earlier this year. I
2008, Music mogul Simon Fuller married his long-term girlfriend Natalie Swanston at a ceremony in California's Napa Valley. Guests at the wedding included Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Annie Lennox. Earlier this year Billboard magazine named him the "most successful British music manager of all time", with an estimated fortune of £229m.
2009, Mick Jagger offered to buy an ice cream van but was turned down by its owner - who'd promised his daughter he would drive her to her wedding in it. Guiseppe Della Camera, had spent ten years restoring the rusting van to perfection after he spotted it on a farm - being used as a chicken shed.
2009, An oil painting depicting Madonna in the nude with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie failed to meet the reserve price of £15,000 at auction in Glasgow. Scottish artist Peter Howson had produced several portraits of the pop icon in a state of undress.
2009, Ozzy Osbourne was suing the band's guitarist Tony Iommi over royalty payments.
Birthday Boys and Girls May 30th
1944,Lenny Davidson, Dave Clark Five
1960, Stephen Duffy, early Duran Duran
.Latest Podcast Latest Show
Music Source 1 music source 2 music source 3 music source 4
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