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I Can’t Help It If I’m Still In Love With You
Linda Ronstadt sings Hank Williams, with some help from Emmylou Harris, back in 1974:
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Here's the Hank Williams 1951 original, plus a duet with Anita Carter in a slightly annoying video juxtaposing some anodyne modern couple, but worth it for those looks Anita is casting Hank's way. And videos of Hank Williams live are pretty rare.
Not forgetting Patsy Cline.
According to Colin Escott's 2004 book Hank Williams: The Biography, fiddler Jerry Rivers always claimed that Hank wrote the song in the touring Sedan, and when he came up with the opening line, "Today I passed you on the street," and then asked for suggestions, steel guitarist Don Helms replied, "And I smelled your rotten feet." The song was recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 16, 1951 and issued as MGM catalog No. 10961. Williams was backed on the session by members of his Drifting Cowboys band, including Rivers, Helms, Sammy Pruett (electric guitar), Jack Shook (rhythm guitar), Ernie Newton or "Cedric Rainwater", aka Howard Watts (bass), and either Owen Bradley or producer Fred Rose on piano. It was released as the B-side of "Howlin' at the Moon" but on the strength of its simple language and passionate singing, soared to number two on the Billboard country singles chart.
Ronstadt retired in 2011, revealing later that she had Parkinson's Disease and could "no longer sing a note." The diagnosis was subsequently changed to progressive supranuclear palsy.
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Gender identities
“>Polygender: A person whose experiences multiple gender identities either simultaneously or varying between them.
- Trigender: A person who identifies as three genders.
And be sure to read their list of "Words not to use"…Cross-Dresser, Drag Queen, Queer, Sex Change, Transvestite, Transsexual Person. You have been warned.
Once you've learned and internalised all these you can happily join in the buzzing social life of the university, confident that you'll not make some appalling mis-speak and be cancelled. Well, if it wasn't for the pandemic…
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Do You Love Me?
A Happy New Year message from Boston Dynamics:
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Floral baskets
lurgical industry have attained the goals for the 80-day campaign on major indices.
The Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex has over-fulfilled its goals in production of pig iron, steel and rolled steel.
The Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex carried out its pig iron production plan ahead of schedule by organizing an emulation campaign among its workers to reduce the smelting time of the UHP electric arc furnace and increase the output of molten iron.
It has also successfully achieved the goals for steel and rolled steel production.
The Posan Iron Works has increased the production of Juche iron by keeping its revolving furnaces in full-capacity operation.
The Chollima Steel Complex has fulfilled its goals for the campaign by raising the operation rate of furnaces and rolling machines.
Similar successes have been achieved in other industrial establishments including the Musan Mining Complex, the Unryul Mine and the Hungnam Electrode Factory.
And that concludes today's news. Tune in tomorrow for more of the same.
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A toxic antisemitic environment
ld go ahead even if Soas decided to come to a settlement with Lewis regarding his fees.
According to UKLFI, Lewis received the sum of £15,000 from Soas on 24 December. The school’s new director, Adam Habib, who takes up his post in January, is expected to decide whether to implement the appeal panel’s recommendation for a new investigation.
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The case of Nazim Ali
“>Nazim Ali is well known to those in the Jewish community fighting antisemitism. Ali has been a visible face of anti-Zionist, antisemitic activity, fronting the Al-Quds day march for years. But it was his public remarks at the 2017 Al-Quds demo, about ‘fake Jews’, Rabbis, the Board of Deputies and Grenfell, that led to the complaints about him to the General Pharmaceutical Council.
It took three years to organise and in the end, the hearing by the ‘Fitness to Practise’ Committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council was a complete whitewash. The Committee was not interested in witness statements provided by Jews, nor did they pay any attention to the IHRA definition of antisemitism. In the end they dismissed the antisemitism charges because the Committee did not understand what the comments meant and couldn’t be bothered to take the effort to find out. It was an exercise in colonial, supremacist thinking that tried to find the middle ground between the racist and the victims.
After the decision was made public, UKLFI [UK Lawyers for Israel], as early as the 16th November, wrote to the Professional Standards Authority to notify them of ‘serious concerns about Nazim Ali decision’. Others involved such as Jonathan Hoffman also turned to the PSA. On Friday the PSA gave their response. The Committee had ‘erred in its approach’ to antisemitism. They have referred the case to the High Court to quash the judgement – they want a do-over – this time conducting a hearing that deals with antisemitism properly….
