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Turn it up, turn it up, turn it upside down
Turn it up, turn it up, turn it upside down
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Love to hear it
(Gloria Estefan - Turning the Beat Around)
"Turn the Beat Around" is a disco song written by Gerald Jackson and Peter Jackson and popularized by Vicki Sue Robinson in 1976 (see 1976 in music), originally appearing on her debut album, Never Gonna Let You Go. Released as a single, the song went to #10 on the Billboard pop charts, and Robinson received a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocal. The track, considered a disco classic, is featured on many compilation albums.
Laura Branigan was the first major artist to cover the song, and the version she co-produced appeared on her 1990 album Laura Branigan. Never officially released as a single, several remix versions released to DJs as a promo garnered significant play in Hi-NRG clubs.
In 1994 (see 1994 in music), the song was recorded by Gloria Estefan for the soundtrack to the film The Specialist. Released as a single, it became a hit reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also featured on Estefan's fourth solo album Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me. She also sang the song as her opening performance in VH1's first ever Divas Live. She also took the song to the top spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, making it her first number-one song on that chart in English.
This version appears in the game Karaoke Revolution Party.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=44pYL9-XOW0
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_the_Beat_Around
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This a view of Bomi Lake, Tubmanburg, Liberia. This image is NOT upside down, the reflection is,...... notice the top edge of the pic for clarity!! :)
This lake was actually a iron ore mine being dug deep in the ground, until a sub surface water source was punctured and it got filled and became a lake, at places, it is more than 300 feet deep. A mineral water bottling company is also located here and is a major tourist attraction round the year!
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
(George Washington Carver)
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Someone told me long ago: There's a calm before the storm
I know
and it's been comin' for sometime.
When it's over
so they say
itll rain a sunny day
I know
shinin' down like water.
I want to know: Have you ever seen the rain
I want to know : Have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day? Yeah.
(Boney M - Have you ever seen the rain)
This song has been sung by at least 22 different singers and has been used ias a theme in about 14 movies/TV shows. Originally produced in 1970.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQveu0GF60Q
THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF RAIN IN LIBERIA, THIS IS MY FAV TYPE,.... THE DROPS ARE SO SMALL & LIGHT THAT YOU CAN BARELY FEEL THEM ON YOUR SKIN, YET IT IS SO THICK THAT YOU CAN CAPTURE IT WITH CAMERA,.... ON YOUR FACE IT FEELS LIKE A LIL BABY'S KISS!!!
(...notice, the drops seem to be falling in different directions!)
VIEW LARGE ON BLACK, HBW!!
View On Black
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Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
(William Wordsworth)
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VULCANIZED RUBBER
In 1736 several rolled sheets of rubber were sent to France where it fascinated those who saw it. In 1791, an Englishman named Samuel Peal discovered a means of waterproofing cloth by mixing rubber with turpentine. English inventor and scientist, Joseph Priestly, got his hands on some rubber and realized it could be used to erase pencil marks on sheets of paper.
Charles Goodyear, an American whose name graces the tires under millions of automobiles, is credited with the modern form of rubber. Before 1839, rubber was subject to the conditions of the weather. If the weather was hot and sticky, so was the rubber. In cold weather it became brittle and hard. Goodyear's recipe, a process known as vulcanization, was discovered when a mixture of rubber, lead and sulfur were accidentally dropped onto a hot stove. The result was a substance that wasn't affected by weather, and which would snap back to its original form if stretched. The process was refined and the uses for rubber materials increased as well. This new rubber was resistant to water and chemical interactions and did not conduct electricity, so it was suited for a variety of products. The process of making the rubber product improved as time went by, and now various chemicals are added before the mix is poured into molds, heated and cured under pressure.
An Englishman named Sir Henry Wickham collected about seventy thousand rubber tree seeds in Brazil in 1876 and took them to the East Indies where he started rubber plantations. In 1877 an American named Chapman Mitchell learned to recycle used rubber into new products.
MODERN RUBBER
Today about three quarters of the rubber in production is a synthetic product made from crude oil. World War II cut the United States off from rubber supplies worldwide, and they stepped up production of synthetic rubber for use in the war effort. There are about 20 grades of synthetic rubber and the intended end use determines selection. In general, to make synthetic rubber, byproducts of petroleum refining called butadiene and styrene are combined in a reactor containing soap suds. A milky looking liquid latex results. The latex is coagulated from the liquid and results in rubber "crumbs" that are purchased by manufacturersand melted into numerous products.
There is only one kind of natural rubber. Because the rubber plant only thrives in hot, damp regions near the equator, so 90% of true rubber production today occurs in the Southeast Asian countries of Malaysia and Thailand and in Indonesia. Indonesia's production has dropped in recent years and new plantations were started in Africa to take up the slack.
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" your life is hanging by a thread! " - Quote from the movie "My Name is Nobody"(1973) Cast : Henry Fonda, Terrance Hill
For Henry Fonda, this was his last Western movie, and for the rest of his life, he always said this was his greatest masterpiece. and just like with John Wayne and the Shootist, it was largely overlooked, ... something he was never happy with!
The movie is also famous for its very "Spirit uplifting" soundtrack considered as the greatest Composition from Ennio Morricone ever. With this Song i go in touch with the child in me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHouWALbuiI
This movie one of my favourites from childhood, if anyone wants to watch it on line, heres the link:
www.classiccinemaonline.com/cinema/sp-western/mynameisnob...
Movie stats : spaghettiwesterns.1g.fi/nobody/nobody.htm
The insect is a African Masked Crab Spider,... caught in the act!!!
Crab spiders (family Thomsidae) are usually brightly coloured with colourful patterns. As with crabs, the first two legs are longer than the rest of the legs, hence the common name - crab spiders. Similar to crabs they are able to move forwards, backwards as well as sideways. The Thomisidae is a large family of spiders with 160 genera and about 2000 known species.
In Africa they are represented by 69 genera and about 360 species. Most thomisids species have a very wide distribution throughout the region as they are easily distributed by wind. At the Spider Research Centre of the Agricultural Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa, several research projects on thomisids are undertaken ranging from taxonomic research to their use as biological control agents in agro-ecosystems.
www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2004/november/crabspider.htm
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