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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_%28band%29 Bad Company - I Can't Get Enough . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocking_Blue RIP Mariska Veres ( 1947-2006). Love Buzz. Acka Raga.

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Thank you PP.......I did and I'm glad you did too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procol_Harum A Whiter Shade Of Pale. Homburg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Blondel Landscape. The Minstrel's Song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZF2dVcFsK0 Shepherd's Song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1f9K7yhBsg

Festa Sul Monte (Celebration On The Mountain). In these 2 tracks the emphasis is on Toni's Percussionistic ability performed using also ordinary everyday tools ( cutlery, bottles etc.) Danza Dei Bottoni ( Button Dance). Il Venditore Di Elastici ( Elastic Band Vendor).

Band specialized in performing very old music and songs of the Naples tradition dating back to 1600 / 1700/ 1800 / 1900. 'O cunto 'e Masaniello Tammurriata Alli uno... alli uno Lo Guarracino. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3p6mZshXFE The Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare from Naples, Italy was formed in 1970 with the aim of promoting the traditions of the people of Campania (the Southern Italian region of which Naples is the capital).The extraordinary success encountered at the Spoleto Festival in 1972 and 1974 marks their launch onto the international stage. Since then the NCCP frequently participated in all the most important festivals both within and outside Europe. The group has alternated its musical activities with theatre productions, promoting and participating in several shows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Esposito_%28musician%29 Mercato Di Stracci ( Rags Market). Fiaba Moresca ( Moorish Fable). Bancarella (Market Stall).

Di Sole E D'Azzurro ( Sun & Blue). Thank you my Friend. . Merry Christmas to you and yours. Ciao. Quando Una Stella Muore ( When a star dies). Come Saprei Translation I WOULD KNOW HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE MAN YOU ARE I WOULD KNOW HOW TO DISCOVER THEN THE FANTASIES THAT YOU WANT I WOULD REACH THERE DEEP INSIDE OF YOU IN YOUR SILENCES EXCITING EVER MORE I WOULD KNOW HOW TO ASTOUND THE MAN YOU ARE WHEN YOU ARE THERE AND YOU DON`T KNOW WHICH PATH TO TAKE I WOULD KNOW HOW TO ATTRACT YOUR EYES STICKING THEM WITH MINE EXCITING EVER MORE IN THE WORLD THAT GIVES US SOLITUDE WHY DON`T YOU STAY A WHILE WITH ME I WOULD KNOW HOW TO LOVE YOU IN A WAY NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW I WOULD KNOW HOW TO BE THE ONE TO SUCCEED YOU DON`T KNOW YET I WILL GIVE MY WHOLE SOUL YOU ARE MY LIFE TO LIVE NOW I WOULD KNOW HOW I WISH THAT OUR CONNECTION WAS ALREADY AS SKIN I WISH SPARKS WERE THERE EVERYTIME WITH YOU I WOULD KNOW HOW TO LOVE YOU IN A WAY NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW I WOULD KNOW HOW TO BE THE ONE TO SUCCEED YOU DON`T KNOW YET I WILL GIVE MY WHOLE SOUL YOU ARE MY LIFE TO LIVE NOW I WOULD KNOW HOW HOW MUCH LOVE THERE IS READY TO EXPLODE IN ME YOU ARE MY LIFE TO LIVE NOW YES NOW I WOULD KNOW HOW http://lyricstranslate.com http://lyricstranslate.com Di Sole E D'Azzurro Translation I want to speak to your heart Gentle like the snow Even the silences, you know Have words After the rain and the cold Beyond the stars and the sky I see the good of us, flower The sun and the sky blue above the snowfields I would like to illuminate your soul In the blue of your most fragile days, I will be there Like music Like a sunday of sun and of sky blue I want to speak to your heart Like fresh summer water To re-flower that good of us,even if you,you don't know it I would like to illuminate your soul In the blue of your most fragile days, I will be there Like music Like a sunday of sun and of sky blue I would like to free your soul How I would, in the blue of your days, and pretend that I am there like the music (come la musica - are correct lyrics here) like a sunday (come domenica - the same goes here) of sun and of sky blue I want to speak to your heart I want to live for you, of sun and of sky blue Quando Una Stella Muore Translation The sky changes The music of the soul also changes But you stay here with me Here Between my stomach and my most invisible thoughts You won't move The life changes the ideas and the intentions And nobody ever knows how is it possible That when a star dies It burns but it doesn't want to A kiss fades away And the universe will realize it When a star dies, it hurts, it hurts On many nights, I had bruises around my eyes I've learned it on my own way To lick my most invisible wounds away Because that's how it's supposed to happen But life changes its ideas and its intentions And nobody ever knows how is it possible When a star dies It burns but it doesn't want to A kiss fades away And the universe will realize When a star dies, it hurts, it hurts Halfway between my fate and my house The certainty that it was not my fault will come It is not my fault A kiss fades away And the universe will realize it That when a star dies It hurts http://lyricstranslate.com http://lyricstranslate.com E Adesso Tu ( And Now You). Translation You stay still Here in front of me In my eyes the reflex of the things [made] together Just think that it seemed easy But if you lie to yourself then you leave nothing All that you don't know Sooner or later will happen Let this tear fall And now you Who don't know yet That who's the fault does not matter And now you What will you choose Among the one who loses himself and the one who never stays back I have never seen you So frail In your eyes The illusion of who has no peace Just think that It seemed so easy But if you don't believe In yourself then nothing matters I can see who you will be What sooner or later you will become Let this tear fall And now you You don't know yet that who's the blame does not matter And now you What will you choose Among the one who loses himself and the one who never stays back (We are alone) (We are alone) Over the hesitations' wall Over the indecisions Over your today and yesterday's thoughts Tell me that you are here You stay still Here in front of me In my eyes The reflex of the things [made] together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_%28singer%29

Wow..... Merry Christmas jams19... I wish you the best and hope this issue will be solved.

RIP Joe Zawinul ( 1932-2007) , extraordinary Composer and Keyboardist.

"Man in the Green Shirt" – 6:29 "Lusitanos" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:25 "Between the Thighs" – 9:33 "Badia" – 5:21 "Freezing Fire" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:29 "Five Short Stories" – 6:56 http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Tale+Spinnin/6192370 Josef Zawinul - Rhodes piano, acoustic piano, melodica, TONTO synthesizer, ARP 2600 synthesizer, organ, steel drums, oud, mzuthra, West African talking drum, xylophone, cymbals, vocals Wayne Shorter - Soprano and tenor saxophones Alphonso Johnson - Electric bass Leon "Ndugu" Chancler - Drums, tympani, marching cymbals Alyrio Lima - Percussion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Report

"Vulcan Worlds" (Clarke) – 7:51 "Where Have I Loved You Before" (Corea) – 1:02 "The Shadow of Lo" (White) – 7:32 "Where Have I Danced with You Before" (Corea) – 1:14 "Beyond the Seventh Galaxy" (Corea) – 3:13 "Earth Juice" (Corea, Clarke, White, Di Meola) – 3:46 "Where Have I Known You Before" (Corea) – 2:20 "Song to the Pharoah Kings" (Corea) – 14:21 http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Where+Have+I+Known+You+Before/1214994 Chick Corea – Electric piano, Acoustic piano, Yamaha organ, Synthesizers, percussion Stanley Clarke – Electric bass, Yamaha organ, Bell tree, Chimes Lenny White – Drums, Percussion, congas & bongos Al Di Meola – Electric guitar, Acoustic twelve-string guitar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Forever

NSA whistleblower records message from Russia, filmed by Laura Poitras, warning of the dangers of a loss of privacy Peter Walker theguardian.com, Tuesday 24 December 2013 16.00 GMT Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who prompted a worldwide debate when he leaked a cache of top secret documents about US and UK spying, has recorded a Christmas Day television message in which he calls for an end to the mass surveillance revealed by his disclosures. The short film was recorded for Channel 4, which has 20-year history of providing unusual but relevant figures as an alternative to the Queen's Christmas message shown by other UK broadcasters. It will be Snowden's first television appearance since arriving in Moscow. The address, broadcast at 4.15pm on Christmas Day, was filmed in Russia – where Snowden is living after being granted temporary asylum – by Laura Poitras, a film-maker who has closely collaborated with him on the NSA stories. Snowden said George Orwell "warned us of the danger of this kind of information" in his dystopian novel, 1984. Snowden said: "The types of collection in the book – microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us – are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person. "A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be." Snowden notes the political changes that have taken place since his leaked the cache documents to newspapers including the Guardian. He highlights a review of the NSA's power that recommended it be no longer permitted to collect phone records in bulk or undermine internet security, findings endorsed in part by Barack Obama, and a federal judge's ruling that bulk phone record collection is likely to violate the US constitution. Snowden says: "The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying." The latter comment echoes a sentiment expressed by Snowden during a series of interviews in Moscow with the Washington Post, another paper that has carried revelations based on documents leaked by him. In this, Snowden said the effect of his actions had meant that "the mission's already accomplished". In the newspaper interview, he added: "I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. "All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed." The alternative Christmas message, a counterpoint to the traditional festive broadcast by the Queen, began in 1993 with a broadcast from the writer and *** activist Quentin Crisp. Other notable participants include Iran's then-president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in 2008, and a team of midwives two years later. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/24/edward-snowden-channel-4-christmas-day-message

Africans living there say India's 'hippie paradise' is turning into an apartheid By Dean Nelson, Goa 4:00PM GMT 25 Dec 2013 In a secluded farmhouse surrounded by palm trees, a group of frightened young Africans peek nervously from behind the curtains, wondering where the next attack will come from. In the past few weeks, they have suffered drive-by beatings by men armed with iron rods and machetes, been denounced as drug dealers and a “cancer” by government ministers and taunted in the street as “black monkeys”. It could be a scene from apartheid South Africa, but it is Goa, India’s laid-back “hippy paradise”, and their tormentors are Indian politicians and police officers colluding in a brutal, racist campaign to drive them out, they told The Daily Telegraph. That campaign has intensified since one of their compatriots, 36-year-old Obodo Uzoma Simeon, was hacked to death on Oct 30 outside an African restaurant in Parra, a smart village of whitewashed Portuguese colonial churches and shrines a few miles from the popular Baga and Anjuna beach resorts. Police believe Mr Simeon was killed in a turf war between Nigerian drug traffickers and local Goan mafia, fighting for control of a lucrative trade in the state where 250,000 British and Russian tourists visit every winter – the dark side of this hippy haven turned low-cost destination. Detectives told The Daily Telegraph that Nigerians operated as an organised gang and had “trod on a lot of toes” by selling drugs in resorts controlled by local Goan, Russian and Israeli mafias. But friends of Mr Simeon’s, hiding in Parra, say he was killed because he was black and to intimidate Goa’s Nigerians into leaving. “Most Indians are racists. We have not been welcome here at all. They think foreigners come here to take their place. I came for business but I’ll be going back soon. When you go out they look at you as if you are an alien. They beat up African guys for talking to their girls. They call you khampri [*****], kali [darkie] or 'black monkey’,” said Joy Madu, a 24-year-old imitation jewellery exporter. Local scooter rental firms now refuse to rent to Nigerians. “They don’t like the colour black,” she added. Joshua Samuel, an imposing semi-professional footballer who came to Goa for trials with local clubs, said black people were banned from nightclubs. “If you are black, or American black, or [you have] black skin, you won’t get in. If you’re at the gate, they hit you. This is what we are facing. We can’t go anywhere or enjoy [anything]. We just stay at home, we don’t do anything. We cook our own food,” he said. It is thought that as many as 75 of Goa’s estimated 140 Nigerians had been attacked in the past two years and Mr Simeon’s murder had been the last straw, he said. On the day after his killing, more than 50 Nigerians blocked the highway in Porvorim, stopped the hearse and dragged his body on to the road to highlight their suspicions that his brutal murder would be covered up. Their protest instead led to the authorities cracking down on Nigerians staying illegally and a surge of anti-Nigerian feeling in the state. More than 50 Nigerians were arrested and have been homeless since their release earlier this month. In Parra, the village panchayat, or council, denounced Nigerians as drug traffickers and ordered landlords to evict them. Banners were hoisted over roads urging locals to “Say No To Nigerian, Say No to Drugs”. At least 15 Nigerians now sleep on the beach. Nigeria’s high commissioner said the arrests had “rubbed salt in the wounds” of a grieving community and one official said there would be “repercussions” for the 800,000 Indians living in Nigeria. The Indian government has assured Nigeria it will protect its nationals and a spokesman said it was anxious to safeguard a long, “irritant-free relationship”. But in Goa, fear still hangs in the air. Mr Simeon’s body was found close to the home of Michael Lobo, the local member of the legislative assembly whose wife led a campaign for Nigerians to be evicted from the village. There was no suggestion that they had any involvement in the death. Detectives said he had died from 29 stab wounds, from several knives. They have identified eight Goan suspects, believed to be members of the “Chapora Mafia” which controls restaurants around Anjuna, and two have been arrested. Manohar Parrikar, Goa’s chief minister, has denied racism was a factor. “It is not racism. If you see earlier history, you will see that more Nigerians are involved in drugs,” he said. In November, a Goa minister, Dayanand Mandrekar, apologised after calling Nigerians a “cancer”. In Parra, Sam Ezeh, 28, and a friend of Mr Simeon, offered to demonstrate Goa’s racism by visiting one of its popular clubs with a Daily Telegraph reporter. At Baga’s Cape Town club there was not a single black reveller inside. As Mr Ezeh tried to enter, two bouncers said he could not come in because he was Nigerian and the order had come from the police. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10537682/Trouble-in-Goan-paradise-as-Africans-beaten-and-harassed.html

One of Australia’s most prized novelists, British-born Alex Miller, has denounced his adopted country over its treatment of refugees, saying that his original experience of Australians as welcoming and generous “doesn’t seem to be true any more” By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney 4:18PM GMT 25 Dec 2013 Sixty years after he left his home and family in London, aged 16, to work on a cattle station in outback Australia — discovering a breed of people with whom he felt “free and at home” – Miller has decried his adopted nation as cruel, intolerant and mean-spirited. In a scathing essay for a new book in Australia, he says his concerns about what he regards as the inhumanity of his fellow citizens “are forcing me to reconsider what it means to be an Australian”. Likening Australia’s “cruel and inhumane” treatment of asylum seekers to Britain’s treatment of the Jews fleeing the Nazis for British-ruled Palestine, Miller said his fellow countrymen belonged to a nation of migrants and should feel ashamed of their hypocrisy. “Sadly, among many refugees and migrants and their children there is an attitude of, 'We’re in! You can shut the door now,’ ” Miller writes. “We enjoy the riches of being one of the world’s most successful multicultural societies. So why don’t we feel betrayed and shamed as Australians and as human beings by the cruel and inhuman treatment our government is meting out to refugees?” His bitter assessment was spurred by Australia’s adoption of some of the world’s toughest measures against asylum seekers. In a bid to stem the flow of people arriving in unseaworthy boats from Indonesia, Australia began deporting them this year to detention centres on two remote Pacific islands, and barred any from settling in Australia. But the move has triggered a divisive national debate and prompted Miller and a group of prominent Australian writers to contribute to a new book, A Country Too Far, about the “storm of venom and cliché” around refugees. The government’s tough policies have been largely popular and follow growing fears about the rising number of people arriving in boats. There were 25,173 arrivals last year, more than the total arrivals during the preceding decade. There have also been more than 1,000 deaths at sea. The prime minister, Tony Abbott, who was elected in September with a promise to “stop the boats”, says the vast majority of the arrivals are economic migrants from “horrible countries”. He has insisted Australia’s immigration intake should not be in the hands of people smugglers. Greg Sheridan, a conservative commentator, said the “compassion advocates” fail to accept the consequences of a lax approach to border protection and the signal it sends to potential refugees to try to make the dangerous sea voyage. “Australians will welcome refugees… provided they come in an orderly manner and are chosen by Australian officials and are genuine refugees, not just determined illegal immigrants wanting to live on Centrelink [welfare],” he wrote in The Australian. Critics such as Miller say the measures mark a deeper change in recent years in Australia’s character and outlook. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph from his home in the state of Victoria, Miller, 76, lamented a nastiness he believes has warped the nation and explained why he spoke out against a country he still loves. A courteous patriot who remains enchanted by his adopted country’s history and landscape, Miller blames the hardened attitudes on Australia’s swift rise in wealth, which led to the emergence of an affluent, self-interested class that he calls the “barbecue aristocracy”. “It is not the Australia I came to,” Miller said. “The big toys people who buy the big boats and have places in the country — the barbecue aristocracy – did not exist then. “The Anglo-Australians and the post-war migrants have become a lot wealthier and more careful about giving anything away. They are much less generous – and much less open.” Born to a mother of Irish descent and a Glaswegian father, Miller was brought up in the knowledge that his great-grandfather was an illiterate Scottish shepherd and ghillie who used a thumbprint as a signature on his son’s birth certificate. A century later, Miller went to university in Melbourne, moved to a farm so he could write full time and eventually became one of Australia’s few multiple winners of its top literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. He has picked up countless prizes for his 11 novels, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his novel The Ancestor Game in 1993, which deals with the struggle to make a home in a foreign land. He recalled the welcome he received in Queensland when he first arrived. “I never had to explain myself or describe who I was. The Scots and the Irish had already made a very nice place where the sense of humour was much like my own. “In England, I had been very aware of being a member of the underclass. It was a huge freedom to arrive here.” But, he said, the reception for foreigners had changed. “Australia is much less open to inviting the stranger in than it was when I came here,” he said. “People guard themselves and their property and are less prepared to open up and share.” Miller’s observations come as Australia enjoyed its 22nd year of uninterrupted economic growth – a world record. Average annual full-time earnings are £45,000, up from £17,000 two decades ago. Over the same period, the country has adopted stricter refugee policies as people sought to enter via Indonesia from countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Sri Lanka. Earlier this year, Australia began transferring boat people to detention centres on the islands of Nauru and Manus, where the camp has been labelled inhumane, unsafe and unlawful by the United Nations. Then came a decision to ban entry to all boat people and relocate detainees to Papua New Guinea. Mr Abbott has deployed the navy to try to turn boats back to Indonesian waters. The government insists its measures are aimed at deterring people-smugglers and preventing deaths at sea. Miller said modern Australia was founded on the arrival of convicts and other migrants, but that its recent actions indicated the nation’s politicians “seem to have learnt nothing from history”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10537693/Australias-treatment-of-refugees-is-cruel-and-mean-spirited.html

As wars rage around the world, Pope Francis says everyone should strive to be peacemakers By Andrea Vogt, Rome 11:47AM GMT 25 Dec 2013 Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for “a homemade peace” that could spread across the world on Wednesday, using his first Christmas speech as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church to appeal for harmony in the Middle East, Syria and several war-torn African countries. After wishing the crowd of 60,000 a Merry Christmas from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Pope Francis delivered his first “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) Christmas message, calling on Christians to unite with non-believers to create a better world. “Peace is a daily commitment. It is a homemade peace,” he said, adding that people of other religions were also praying for peace. “I invite even non-believers to desire peace. (Join us) with your desire, a desire that widens the heart. Let us all unite, either with prayer or with desire, but everyone, for peace,” he said, drawing sustained applause from the crowd. Everyone could be his or her own personal “artisan” peacemaker, said Pope Francis, who was elected in March to lead the 1.2 billion-member Church. He called for access to humanitarian aid in Syria, where “hate and revenge is being fomented daily” and pleaded for “social harmony” in South Sudan, where the peaceful coexistence in the young state is at risk. He asked that “hearts filled with violence” be converted and convinced lay down their arms and instead follow the path of dialogue. He also pleaded for divine intervention to rescue child soldiers “robbed of their childhood” and for dialogue and an end to conflicts in Syria, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq, as well as a positive outcome for the peace between Israelis and Palestinians. “War breaks apart and hurts so many lives,” Pope Francis said, his voice and hands trembling with emphasis as he paused to look out over the rapt crowd packed into St. Peter’s Square. Children, elderly, battered women and the sick are among wars most vulnerable victims, he added. He also appealed that the environment be rescued from “human greed” and asked for prayers for the victims of natural catastrophes, such as the people of Phillipines whose lives were destroyed by the typhoon. He appealed for a stop to human trafficking, calling at a “crime against humanity” and said migrants deserve a more dignified life. “We pray that tragedies like what we saw, with the numerous deaths in Lampedusa, do not happen anymore.” He underlined the importance of allowing oneself to be “warmed by the tenderness of God.” “God is peace: let us ask him to help us to be peacemakers each day, in our life, in our families, in our cities and nations, in the whole world,” he said. “Let us not be afraid that our heart be moved. We need that our hearts be moved.” Pilgrims came from all over the world to celebrate Christmas in Rome and the Vatican reported a record number of requests from faithful wanting to take part in the traditional Christmas vigil Mass on Tuesday evening in St. Peter’s Basilica. On Monday he paid a Christmas visit to his predecessor, 86-year-old Pope Benedict XVI, who retired last February saying he no longer had the physical and spiritual strength to lead the church. He was the first pope in 600 years to step down. Pope Francis, from Argentina, was elected in the papal conclave March 13. He is the first Jesuit pope and the first non-European Pope since since Pope Gregory II, 1272 years prior. His popularity has surged as a result of his open, approachable style and frank approach to the Church’s thorny issues. On Tuesday, Vatican footage of the two popes praying and chatting together at Christmastime was broadcast around the world. Vatican observers commented that his first Christmas homily on Tuesday night was notable for its brevity, at just over 700 words. It opened with a description of the burst of light on a dark Christmas night, and said the contrast of light and dark is part of the spiritual life. “If we love God and our brothers and sisters, we walk in the light,” the pope said. “If our heart is closed, if we are dominated by pride, deceit, self-seeking, then darkness falls within us and around us,” he said. Describing the traditional Christmas story of the birth of Christ in a manger, he recalled how the shepherds heard the news first. “They were the first,” he said, “because they were among the last, the marginalized, the outcast.” Toward the end of the homily, he also repeated that the Lord is merciful, repeating what has become one of his more common phrases, “God always forgives.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/10537543/Popes-Christmas-wish-hope-for-a-better-world.html

Video totally unrelated to music ( It's Vienna, Austria) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Masekela

Mornin'. Raging Waters. Mas Que Nada.

Mammagamma. I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeqFqAi-CE

While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Hey Jude. Yesterday. Michelle.

Eye In The Sky.