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U2 – " All That You Can't Leave Behind " 20th Anniversary Box Set
Posted: September 10, 2020 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: Adam Clayton, All That You Can't Leave Behind, Bono, Boston, Live From The Fleet Center, The Edge, U2
U2 will celebrate the 20th anniversary of All That You Can't Leave Behind on October 20th with the release of a super deluxe edition of the album. It will be available both as single disc remaster of the original LP and a 51-track Super Deluxe box set packed with B-sides, outtakes, remixes and a complete show taped at a Boston stop on the 2001 Elevation tour.
All That You Can't Leave Behind brought U2 back to the center of the music universe after their 1997 LP Pop underwhelmed at record stores. (They faced large sections of empty seats during some shows on the American leg of the PopMart tour.) It was the album that put the band back on the charts and heralded something of a return to form after some experimental excursions in the mid-to-late '90s. The Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno-produced album won seven Grammy Awards including Best Rock Album, Song of the Year ("Beautiful Day") and, for the only time in history, two consecutive Record of the Year nods ("Beautiful Day" in 2001 and "Walk On" in 2002). "Beautiful, Day," "Elevation," "Stuck in a Moment That You Can't Get Out Of" and "Walk On" all became sizable worldwide hits, all reaching the Top 5 in the U.K. (with the first three going straight to No. 1 in their native Ireland), and All That You Can't Leave Behind remains one of their biggest-selling albums.
Hit singles like "Beautiful Day," "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" and "Elevation" helped All That You Can't Leave Behind sell by the millions and rack up seven Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year. "This is our night," Bono said at the ceremony. "It is a very unusual emotion I am feeling. I think it is called humility."
The Super Deluxe edition of the album will come with a 32-page hardback book, previously unseen photos by Anton Corbijn, B-sides like "Summer Rain" and "Always," 11 remixes, 19 songs taped at their 2001 Boston concert and outtakes from the sessions, including "Levitate," "Love You Like Mad" and "Flower Child" along with "Stateless" from the soundtrack to the Million Dollar Hotel. There's also an acoustic version of "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," which they're promoting with a new lyric video.
U2 wrapped up the international leg of their Joshua Tree tour on December 19th, 2019 with a show at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai, India. Since then, they have focused a lot of their energy on the new SiriusXM station U2 X-Radio. They are also working on their followup to 2018's Songs of Experience.
The set also includes a disc of B-sides and session material, and a further disc of hard-to-find or unreleased remixes. Among these bonus tracks are "Levitate," Flower Child," and "Love You Like Mad," three tracks that make their wide-release physical media debut here. Prior to this set, they were only available on an iTunes-exclusive bonus album or a fan club-only CD pressing of that collections. The new 20th Anniversary box set will also feature the soundtrack stray cut "Stateless," and a wealth of non-album tracks, including the Johnny Cash cover "Don't Take Your Guns To Town."
The 11-LP super deluxe set contains all the material from the 5-CD, presented in eight sleeves: one for the remastered album, another for the B-Sides and Demos disc, and a further one for the 19-track Boston set. The remixes will be spread across 5 discs, each in its own sleeve.
"We did some recording last year that got us some really great starting points and complete songs," bassist Adam Clayton told Rolling Stone in July. "There's an album ready to go, we're just not quite sure when we want to press that button. When I say ready to go, I mean ready to be completed. Let's put it that way."
As we've come to expect from U2, the design of the box promises to be impressive.
U2 – " The October Tour – The Ritz New York 18th March 1982 "
Posted: October 19, 2019 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: New York, The Ritz, U2
U2's second album, "October", was released in October 1981. The October Tour ran from August 1981 to August 1982 split across five legs encompassing Europe and North America. This stunning performance broadcast from The Ritz, New York took place on 18th March 1982.
This deluxe vinyl edition is limited to 1000 copies only and is presented with a permanent heavy weight glass clear vinyl cover to provide permanent protection for your priceless album. The deluxe limited edition also includes a unique code that unlocks an amazing suite of digital companions to enhance your enjoyment of the music on the CD. Included here, a free 120 page e-book featuring the definitive guide to the lives and music of U2 – We Will Follow, containing QR codes which accesses a series of companion video podcasts to complement and enhance your enjoyment of the music on the album.
01. Gloria 0:00:00 02. Another Time, Another Place 0:04:50 03. I Threw A Brick Through A Window 0:09:03 04. A Day Without Me 0:13:06 05. An Cat Dubh / Into The Heart 0:16:29 06. Rejoice 0:24:08 07. Happy Birthday Adam / The Cry / The Electric Co. 0:27:50 08. I Fall Down 0:34:26 09. October 0:37:54 10. Tomorrow 0:40:13 11. I Will Follow 0:46:46 12. Twilight 0:50:51 13. Out Of Control 0:55:14 14. Fire 1:00:51 15. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock / Give Peace A Chance 1:04:28 16. The Ocean 1:10:22 17. Southern Man 1:14:49 18. A Celebration 1:20:11
U2 – " Pop , All That You Can't Leave Behind , Wide Awake In America EP " Vinyl Reissues
Posted: March 3, 2018 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: All That You Can't Leave Behind, Pop, U2, Universal Music/Island Records, Wide Awake In America EP
Universal Music/Island Records will reissue remastered vinyl versions of U2's Pop and All That You Can't Leave Behind albums next month, alongside a vinyl reissue of the 1985 Wide Awake In America EP.
"Pop" was the band's ninth studio album and was originally issued in 1997, reaching number one in over 30 countries around the world, including the UK and America. It continued U2's 'reinvention' – which started in the early nineties with Achtung Baby and Zooropa – and was produced by Flood with Howie B and Steve Osbourne. Pop delivered four top ten singles in the UK, but despite this success the band were apparently not totally satisfied with the final product, and post release they constantly fiddled with tracks, re-recording and remixing many of the songs for various single and compilation releases.
The new reissue is remastered and pressed on double black 180g vinyl. It comes in a gatefold sleeve and has as download card.
All That You Can't Leave Behind was the first U2 album of the new millennium, issued three and a half years after Pop. Their 10th studio album pulled back from all the experimentation and returned to a more traditional sound. It was no coincidence that the album was produced by old muckers Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. The album benefitted from the enormous success of the first single Beautiful Day which was a massive hit virtually everywhere (except in the USA, interestingly).
Like Pop, the vinyl reissue is newly remastered and pressed on 180g black vinyl. It comes with a 16-page booklet and a download card.
The Wide Awake In America EP was only ever issued in America and Japan, in 1985, although it was reissued internationally on CD in the late eighties. Two tracks (A Sort Of Homecoming and Bad) are live recordings from the The Unforgettable Fire tour in late '84 while the other two (The Three Sunrises and Love Comes Tumbling) are studio recordings issued as B-sides on the 12-inch of The Unforgettable Fire single. The vinyl reissue uses the 2009 remasters created for the The Unforgettable Fire reissue of that same year. Again, 180g black vinyl and a download card.
All three vinyl reissues will be released on 13th April 2018. Pop is rather pricey in the UK at the moment, but that's likely to come down fairly quickly (with Amazon's pre-order price guarantee you'll only pay the cheapest price between ordering and shipping, of course).
U2 – " You're the Best Thing About Me "
Posted: December 9, 2017 in MUSIC
Tags: Bono, Songs of Experience, The Edge, U2
Even as U2 were summoning their own illustrious past on The Joshua Tree 2017 Tour, which only completed its continent crossover in October, they were looking ready to release the next recording adventure. From the opening shows onwards, the rock giants were offering a preview of it by performing the appealing new song 'The Little Things That Give You Away.'
When that adventure reached fruition with the 1st December release of "Songs Of Experience", Q Magazine has already described it as a "classic," while for Mojo, it's "U2's strongest album this century."
Songs Of Experience may be titled as the complementary bookend of its 2014 predecessor Songs Of Innocence, but what's really on display is the collective experience of a rock institution with more than 40 years of friendship on the clock. As the pleasing symmetry extends from the studio to the road, the new companion album will be made flesh by 2018's Experience + Innocence tour, due to start in Tulsa in May 2018. It will do so fuelled by the weighty 14th studio entry in the U2 canon.
Early listens to Songs Of Experience reveal a band still so nimble that they can draw on the weight of their achievements, not be dragged down by them. In the process, they've created a deftly updated version of themselves. New textures and fresh filters abound, for what is still one of the world's most cohesive and visceral rock outfits. There are contributions from Kendrick Lamar, Lady GaGa and Haim may convey this work to a younger audience, but not at the expense of the essence of U2.
Some listeners have sensed an enforced optimism about the album's lyrical demeanour, but when Bono introduces the opening 'Love Is All We Have Left' with the words "Nothing to stop this being the best day ever/Nothing to keep us from where we should be," it's with a sense of informed realism and his an entirely believable, undimmed positivity.
The dreamy, almost celestial hue of that opener quickly blends into the infectious, ragged rock shuffle of 'Lights Of Home.' Like much of the album, it's live enough to retain a demo-like energy, yet as it progresses, big enough to have stadiums singing along to it. And there goes Bono again: "I believe my best days are ahead, I can see the lights in front of me."
Thus they proceed on an odyssey that, on the album's deluxe edition with its various mixes and alternative versions, embraces no fewer than 17 tracks and 67 minutes, created in London, Dublin and Los Angeles. Production, by Jacknife Lee and Ryan Tedder, with Steve Lillywhite, Andy Barlow and Jolyon Thomas, is ever-imaginative, focused on innovation without smothering the spirit of the song in its presentation. The Edge's guitar leads are as admirably nuanced as ever and the Clayton/Mullen rhythm section has the kind of intuitive depth that can only come from this quartet's unbuyable symbiosis.
The album also exudes sharp-eyed lyrical observation, from the zeitgeist phraseology of 'You're The Best Thing About Me' and 'Get Out Of Your Own Way' to some moments of poignant observation, such as the moment in 'Red Flag Day' when Bono notes how inured we have become to shocking world events such as the global immigration crisis. "Not even news today, so many lost in the sea last night," he sings. "One word that the sea can't say is no, no, no."
Moods undulate from the stripped back, acoustic guitar and tambourine set-up of 'The Showman (Little More Better)' to the laid-back 'Landlady' and on again to another potential anthem in 'Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way.' To quote themselves, U2 have got out of their own way and added a significant new chapter to their epic story.
THIS WEEKS ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES Friday 1st December 2017
Posted: December 1, 2017 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: Big Country, Hater, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, The Lovely Eggs, The Rolling Stones, The Skids, U2, Van Morrison, Wilco
The Rolling Stones – On Air
On Air is a collection of rarely heard radio recordings from The Rolling Stones formative years. The songs, including eight the band have never recorded or released commercially, were originally broadcast on bygone UK BBC shows such as Saturday Club, Top Gear, Rhythm and Blues and The Joe Loss Pop Show between 1963 and 1965. These flashbacks offer an insight into the band as a vital and constantly surprising live unit. Such was the frequency with which they visited BBC studios in the 60's, the group constantly set out to offer listeners something different. As well as songs that never appeared on singles or albums, there are seven tracks that were debuted over the airwaves before featuring on albums or EPs.
The group's take on familiar R&B staples like Roll Over Beethoven, Memphis, Tennessee and Beautiful Delilah (all originated by Chuck Berry) illustrate the verve and energy the Stones regularly brought to their live shows. The BBC would urge them to perform their current singles, and while happy to do so they also relished the opportunity to showcase a fuller picture of their prowess as Britain's foremost blues outfit, packing clubs and ballrooms night after night.
Among the tracks, first heard ringing out of transistor radios over a period of just under two years, is Come On, the group's debut single and also the first number laid down for the iconic Saturday Club, hosted by the late, legendary Brian Matthew. Other highlights include the strutting Fannie Mae(originally recorded by bluesman Buster Brown in 1959), Tommy Tucker's Hi Heel Sneakers, and Bo Diddley's Cops And Robbers. Nestling among the illustrious and well-chosen cover versions, are raw and vibrant renditions of Stones Jagger / Richards originals, such as (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, The Last Time and The Spider And The Fly in a form closer to the thrilling immediacy of the band's live shows than on vinyl. These recordings bring the listener as near as possible to the excitement of the era without actually being there in person. If last year's collection of new recordings of past masters Blue and Lonesome presented the Stones returning to their roots after more than 50 years, On Air is the perfect "sister" compendium, a lovingly curated and restored treasure trove that puts the listener front and centre in the eye of the original storm. To help recapture the spirit of the songs when they were first performed, the tapes have gone through a process called "audio source separation", which involved de-mixing the transcripts and allowing engineers at Abbey Road access to the original instrumentation and voices within each track, so that they could be rebuilt, rebalanced and remixed to achieve a fuller, more substantial sound. The end result is the Stones at their most passionate and intense, transporting listeners back to the band's lean and hungry years when their standing as household names was already assured, and global domination was just 12 bars away.
The variety of radio shows from which the material is compiled is testament to the special relationship the Stones had with the BBC from the very beginning of their recording career. The music speaks for itself, but 'On Air' also serves as an important historical artefact, and an essential of the group's impressively evergreen canon. On Air offer a unique insight into the formative days of The Rolling Stones a few years before 'The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World' became a reality this was a band playing the music they loved so much – Blues, R&B, Soul and even the odd country song. Performing these songs night after night in clubs and dancehalls meant they are all honed to perfection and performed with the genuine love and affection that The Stones have for their musical heritage.
The Rolling Stones' On Air marks the first wide release of any of the band's live BBC sessions, recorded during the beginning of their storied career. An audio companion to the recently published book of the same name, On Air features a bevy of tracks recorded between 1963, when the group appeared on Saturday Club just months after the release of their debut single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On," and 1965, when the band returned to the show armed not only with more great blues and soul covers but a new original, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Available in 1CD and 2CD formats, as well as a 2LP vinyl edition (which replicates the contents of the 1CD version).
Muddy Waters – Electric Mud
Third Man Records reissue of Muddy Waters' fifth studio album Electric Mud, which comes as a continuation of Third Man's partnership with Universal Music Group and the Estate of Muddy Waters. The album, which Chess originally released in 1968 has not seen a legitimate domestic vinyl release since 2002, despite its enormous influence on generations of blues rockers. It features members of Rotary Connection as Muddy's backing band and was very controversial upon its release for its fusion of electric blues with psychedelic elements. The album is now recognized as a forward-thinking classic, sampled extensively by artists like The Black Keys and Gorillaz.
Van Morrison – Versatile
Van the man releases his 38th studio album Versatile, which arrives less than three months after the singer released his 37th studio album Roll With the Punches. While Roll With the Punches, found Morrison reinterpreting the work of blues and soul legends like Sam Cooke, Bo Diddley and Little Walter, Versatile sees the Irish crooner shifting to jazz standards like George and Ira Gershwin's A Foggy Day and They Can't Take That Away From Me, Cole Porter's I Get a Kick Out of You and Unchained Melody, popularized by the Righteous Brothers. Like Roll With the Punches, the covers are interspersed with Morrison originals; the singer penned seven new songs for Versatile, including an arrangement of the traditional Skye Boat Song.
For his second studio album of the year, Van Morrison has turned to the classics. Versatile features six Morrison compositions alongside jazz vocal standards and other legends of the Great American Songbook. Of the six Morrison-penned songs, three are originals and three have been previously recorded: "I Forgot That Love Existed," "Only a Dream," and "Start All Over Again" – on Poetic Champions Compose (1987), Down the Road (2002), and Enlightenment (1990), respectively. Flautist Sir James Galway appears on the new Morrison song "Affirmation."
Neil Young and Promise of the Real – The Visitor
In addition to new single Already Great, the 10-track album The Visitor also includes Young's patriotic Children of Destiny, which the rock legend surprise-released on July 4th. Young recorded that song at Hollywood, California's famed Capitol Studios alongside Promise of the Real – led by Willie Nelson's son Lukas – and a 56-piece orchestra; in total, 62 musicians played on the track. The Visitor, also arrives less than a year after Young released his solo Peace Trail in December 2016; earlier that year, Young and Promise of the Real unleashed their double-disc live LP Earth.
Neil Young with the band Promise of the Real for his latest studio album on the same day that he opens his online archives for business. Songs like "Already Great," "Fly by Night Deal," and "When Bad Got Good" show Young as fiercely political and fiery as ever.
U2 – Songs of Experience
U2 return with their hotly anticipated new studio album Songs of Experience. Recorded in Dublin, New York and Los Angeles, Songs of Experience was completed earlier this year with its subject matter influenced by Brendan Kennelly's* advice to Bono, to "…write as if you're dead". The result is a collection of songs in the form of intimate letters to places and people close to the singer's heart: family, friends, fans and indeed himself. Songs Of Experience is the companion release to 2014's Songs Of Innocence, the two titles drawing inspiration from a collection of poems, Songs of Innocence and Experience, by the 18th century English mystic and poet William Blake. Produced by Jacknife Lee and Ryan Tedder, with Steve Lillywhite, Andy Barlow and Jolyon Thomas, the album features a cover image by Anton Corbijn of band-members' teenage children Eli Hewson and Sian Evans.
U2 is garnering acclaim for this newest studio album, a follow-up to 2014's Songs of Innocence.
Wilco, A.M. / Being There
Wilco revisits its first two albums this week. A.M., the band's 1995 debut, is expanded on 1 CD or 2 LPs with eight previously unreleased bonus tracks, including "When You Find Trouble," the last track recorded by Jeff Tweedy's previous band, Uncle Tupelo. The band's sophomore double album, Being There, morphs into a 5-CD or 4-LP box set by pairing the original album with a disc of 15 unreleased outtakes and alternates plus a clutch of live material recorded in Los Angeles just after the release of the original album. (The vinyl includes a radio set for KCRW-FM, while the CD box has that, plus a lengthy show recorded at The Troubadour a day before that appearance, on November 12th, 1996.)
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols: 40th Anniversary Edition
UMG revisits the long out-of-print 2012 Super Deluxe Edition of The Sex Pistols' album in a smaller format still boasting 3 CDs which include the original studio album with 1977 B-sides, a disc of outtakes, and one disc of live material. A DVD has 1977 footage of the band playing live from the infamous boat party held on the River Thames, London, the Winter Gardens, Penzance in Cornwall and the Happy House, Stockholm, Sweden. A 48-page booklet rounds out the set. Available today in the U.K., and next Friday in the U.S.
The Skids – Scared to Dance
Deluxe Expanded Edition of the debut album by The Skids. Originally released in March 1979 the album spent ten weeks in the UK National Charts, eventually peaking at No.19. The hit singles Sweet Suburbia (No.70), The Saints Are Coming (No.48) and Into The Valley (No.10) are all featured. This three CD edition contains the original album expanded with nine bonus tracks, a second disc with 12 previously unreleased 1978 studio demos (long sought after by collectors of the band) and a third disc with the complete show from a late `78 show at the legendary London Marquee from which the B-side T.V. Stars (Albert Tatlock!) was taken. Each disc comes in its own cardboard wallet and is housed in a clam shell box featuring original album artwork. A 20-page booklet contains lyrics to the album, pictures of all relevant singles and detailed liner notes.
Hater – Red Blinders
Rough Trade Shops top tip.You can imagine John Peel's hurriedly inaccurate summation of a cold and unforgiving Swedish winter as he juxtaposes the big-jumper-like welcoming warmth of Hater. Their lush and tempered guitars are an almost Marr-approved Smiths-like foil for Caroline Landahl's beautifully accented and accentuated vocal – it's a heartwarming brew. Hater are new to the game. Last year's well-received debut album, You Tried earned comparisons to Alvvays, The Pretenders and even Jefferson Airplane, eclectic for sure, but that's just incidental. Their new EP distinguishes their very own super polished and intricate guitar-led dreamy pop. Featuring their first single for Fire, the wonderfully forlorn and truly lovesick Blushing (we've all been there) and Rest with its haunting monosyllabic guitar break, a super-clean chiming motif that seems like a closing salvo before it regains momentum and brings proceedings to a suitable climax, welcoming back Landahl for one last chorus. The echoey eeriness of Red Blinders could have come right out of the bubble blowing indie pop hey days of the early '80s, while Penthouse is a chunkier c86 groove with a wind blowing through its motorik rhythm.
The Lovely Eggs – Cob Dominos
Repressed on their own Lovely Eggs imprint. Described as unhinged, strange, bizarre, cuckoo and howling mad; but with a growing army of fans including Radio One's Huw Stephens and Art Brut's Eddie Argos you'd be crazy not to fall in love with their underground grunge-pop sound. Inspired by everyday life, coupled with a fierce ethos that music should be about magic and art and feeling and fun, the Lancashire duo have more in common with writer Richard Brautigan and artist David Shrigley than they do with their musical peers.
Big Country, – We're Not In Kansas (The Live Bootleg Box Set 1993-1998)
One of the Scottish alt-rock group's lesser-known periods is examined in this band-approved 5CD set of recordings of live shows across the U.S. and Europe during their second decade.
Other Re-Issues Releases This Week on Vinyl and CD
Suicide – The First Rehearsal Tapes – Superior Viaduct
Olafur Arnalds – Eulogy For Evolution – Erased Tapes
Bob Dylan & The Band – The Basement Tapes – We Are Vinyl
Bob Dylan & The Band – Before The Flood – We Are Vinyl
The Specials – The Specials – Chrysalis
Special AKA – In The Studio – Chrysalis
Tom Waits – Glitter & Doom Live – Anti
Morbid Angel – Kingdoms Disdained – Silver Lining
Andy Human & The Reptoids – Kill The Comma 7″ – Emotional Response
Protomartyr – Under Color Of Official Right – Hardly Art
U2 – " Songs of Experience "
Posted: November 2, 2017 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: Bono, Songs of Experience, U2
After nearly a year of waiting, details on U2's Songs of Experience, album release which is confirmed for a December. 1st release, with a tour to follow beginning in May of 2018.
In addition, the band has released a third song from the album, "Get Out Of Your Own Way." the full Songs of Experience track listing below, including bonus tracks that will appear on the deluxe edition. Like any great rock 'n' roll anthem, the song builds and builds from start to end, and features a chorus that anyone, even the rest of the band, can sing along to. The track is laced with words of encouragement—"Fight back / Don't take it lying down / You got to bite back"—and, as if it wasn't already powerful enough, culminates in a spoken-word outro from Kendrick Lamar, The album's title, along with its 2014 companion Songs of Innocence, draws inspiration from Songs of Innocence and Experience by 18th-century English poet William Blake. Lyrically, it serves as a collection of intimate letters to places and people near and dear to Bono's heart after he received advice to "write as if you're dead."
U2 had already released two songs from Experience, "The Blackout" and "You're the Best Thing About Me," and performed a third, "The Little Things That Give You Away," live on tour. "Get Out of Your Own Way," "The Blackout" and "Get Out Of Your Own Way" will all be immediately available for streaming with advance orders. The album has been produced by Jacknife Lee and Ryan Tedder, with Steve Lillywhite, Andy Barlow and Jolyon Thomas. The cover image (by Anton Corbijn) features band-members' teenage children Eli Hewson and Sian Evans.
The band will kick off their U2 eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour in May 15 dates have been announced, concluding June 29 in Newark, New Jersey.
Details of the album match the previously reported rumors. The record is a companion to 2014's Songs of Innocence. It was close to completion prior to America's most recent Presidential election, but the band chose to pause work on it while focusing on their 30th anniversary Joshua Tree tour and reconsidering the ramifications of the vote. It was also impacted by an unspecified health scare for Bono, the band recently said.
U2, Songs of Experience Track Listing
1. "Love Is All We Have Left"
2. "Lights of Home"
3. "You're the Best Thing About Me"
4. "Get Out of Your Own Way"
5. "American Soul"
6. "Summer of Love"
7. "Red Flag Day"
8. "The Showman (Little More Better)"
9. "The Little Things That Give You Away"
12. "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way"
13. "13 (There Is a Light)"
Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:
16. "Lights of Home (St Peter's String Version)"
17. "You're The Best Thing About Me (U2 vs Kygo)"
The release date coincides with World AIDS Day, in conjunction with Product RED, an organization co-founded by Bono that raises funds and awareness to help eliminate AIDS in African countries.
U2 – " Red Hill Mining Town " Record Store Day Release 2017
Posted: April 20, 2017 in MUSIC
Tags: Bono, Record Store Day Release 2017, The Joshua Tree, U2
U2 have previewed their 2017 version of their track "Red Hill Mining Town" which is to be released as a picture disc for this year's Record Store Day on April 22nd .
The remix version which will also appear on the about to be reissued 30th Anniversary edition of "The Joshua Tree" was mixed by Steve Lillywhite and features all-new vocals by Bono , along with greater focus on brass instrumentation by the Arklow Shipping Silver Band.
"Red Hill Mining Town" was devised as a literal illustration of the controversial and divisive British miners' strike of 1984-85, placed within the terms of a marriage that's breaking down under the stresses of the times. Bono admitted that some people would "beat me with a stick" for his take on a classic American protest song.
But he added: "What I'm interested in is seeing that another thousand people have lost their jobs. What you don't read about is that those people go home, and they have families and they're trying to bring up children." In another interview he said: "A cold statistic about a pit closure and redundancies that follow is drastic enough – but it never tells the full human story. I wanted to follow the miner home and write about that situation."
U2 reported in an announcement that "Red Hill Mining Town,' originally inspired by Bono's reading of Red Hill: A Mining Community by Tony Parker, 'Red Hill Mining Town' is famously "the single that never was", originally discussed as the second single from The Joshua Tree but then put to one side at the last minute in favour of 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of U2's iconic album, The Joshua Tree, Island Records will release a 2017 mix of 'Red Hill Mining Town' on limited edition 12″ picture disc .
U2 – " Red Hill Mining Town 2017 Mix " Record Store Day Release 2017
Posted: March 23, 2017 in MUSIC
Tags: Island Records, The Joshua Tree, U2
To coincide with the 30th anniversary of U2's iconic album, The Joshua Tree, Island Records will release a 2017 mix of 'Red Hill Mining Town' on limited edition 12" picture disc, featuring the classic photography of Anton Corbijn in colour. The previously unreleased mix is by Steve Lillywhite, who produced the band's critically acclaimed debut, 'Boy'. 'Red Hill Mining Town' is famously "the single that never was", originally discussed as the second single from The Joshua Tree but then put to one side at the last minute in favour of 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. The Joshua Tree went to number1 in the U.K, U.S., Ireland and around the world, selling in excess of 25 million albums, and catapulted Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr "… from heroes to superstars"
U2 has shared a preview video of the vinyl being cut alongside the updated version of the track.
U2 – " The Joshua Tree " Box Set 4CD and 7LP SUPER DELUXE EDITION BOX SETS ~ 25 Previously Unreleased Tracks
Tags: The Joshua Tree, The Joshua Tree Live at Madison Square Garden 1987, U2
U2 will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1987 album The Joshua Tree this June, with three new editions of the album, including a four-CD super deluxe edition box set.
The plot of U2's 'THE JOSHUA TREE' (released on March 9th, 1987) is essentially an immigrant's tale: Four guys from Ireland set off to find America, & what they discovered left them both invigorated & outraged. While the lyrics to U2's 1987 opus give voice to their ever-expanding social conscience, the roots of 'The Joshua Tree' are planted firmly in blues, gospel & folk – with an outsider's edge. Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen Jr. were strangers in a strange land, & this sense of otherness is prevalent throughout the album…
The super deluxe edition box set (which is also available as a 7LP vinyl set) includes a remastered version of the album, 17 tracks performed "Live at Madison Square Garden" in 1987 (featuring most of the album), a disc of new remixes and a B-sides and outtakes CD. That final disc repeats most of the tracks on the bonus CD included in the 20th anniversary reissue (the SDE of which was a 2CD+DVD set), although it omits the single edit of Where the Streets Have No Name and adds an unreleased alternate mix of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (called the 'Lillywhite Alternative Mix '87') and a new 2017 mix of "One Tree Hill" (called One Tree Hill Reprise) courtesy of Brian Eno.
In total 25 audio tracks are previously unreleased (including the live material) and the CDs will come housed in a large format 12-inch double gatefold folio. This is packaged with The Joshua Tree – Photographs by The Edge, an 84-page hardcover book of never-before seen photography by The Edge, taken during the original Mojave Desert Joshua Tree shoot in 1986. Additionally this super deluxe set comes with a folio of eight 12-inch Anton Corbijn colour prints. The outer box features a "textured embossed gold foiled Joshua tree icon".
The 7LP vinyl version of this super deluxe edition box features exactly the same audio and exactly the same books and prints as the four-CD set. The only difference is that the audio is across 14 sides of vinyl! .
Additionally, there will be a two-CD edition of the 30th anniversary which will feature a colour version of the famous cover shot set on a white background. The bonus disc in this set will be the The Joshua Tree Live at Madison Square Garden 1987. There will be single CD and standard double vinyl, editions available as well.
All 30th anniversary editions of The Joshua Tree will be released on 2 June 2017.
U2 – " The Joshua Tour " 30 Years On Tour 2017
Posted: January 10, 2017 in MUSIC
Tags: Bono, The Edge, The Joshua Tree, U2
As reported U2 are to play their 1987 huge selling album The Joshua Tree this year. The band have announced a six-week tour of North American football stadiums, including a stop at the Bonnarroo Music + Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., with a three weeks worth of dates in Europe to follow.
The European portion will begin May 8th in London and conclude August. 1st in Brussels, including a stop at Croke Park in their hometown of Dublin on July 22nd.
U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 will mark the group's first time playing a classic album in concert. They picked one packed with hits, including "Where The Streets Have No Name," "With or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." For hardcore fans, the tour is an opportunity to hear rarely played deep cuts like "Exit," "Trip Through Your Wires" and "In God's Country." It will also feature the first live performance of "Red Hill Mining Town."
U2 guitarist The Edge says they're still figuring out how to structure the show. "The show might not necessarily start with Track 1, Side 1 'Where The Streets Have No Name' because we feel like maybe we need to build up to that moment," he says. "So we're still in the middle of figuring out exactly how the running order will go."
"Recently I listened back to The Joshua Tree for the first time in nearly 30 years," Bono quoted "It's quite an opera. A lot of emotions which feel strangely current, love, loss, broken dreams, seeking oblivion, polarisation… all the greats… I've sung some of these songs a lot… but never all of them. I'm up for it, if our audience is as excited as we are… it's gonna be a great night. Especially when we play at home. Croke Park… it's where the album was born, 30 years ago."
The Edge said that the election of Donald Trump influenced the decision to play The Joshua Tree. "That record was written in the mid-'80s, during the Reagan-Thatcher era of British and U.S. politics," he said. "It was a period when there was a lot of unrest. Thatcher was in the throes of trying to put down the miners' strike; there was all kinds of shenanigans going on in Central America. It feels like we're right back there in a way."
Perhaps recalling the lyric in "God Part II" where Bono sang, "You glorify the past when the future dries up," the Edge was quick to note that this new tour isn't about nostalgia. "There's an element of nostalgia that we can't avoid, but it's not motivated by a desire to look backwards. It's almost like this album has come full circle and we're back there again. It's kind of got a relevance again that we're certainly aware of."
U2's record company didn't like the title, According to Bono, 'The Joshua Tree''s title – coined on a trip to the Mojave Desert – didn't have the ring of a masterpiece to it. "You get record-industry people saying, 'As big as the Beatles — what's the name of the album?' 'The Joshua Tree.' 'Oh, yeah, oh, right.' It's not exactly 'Born in the Joshua Tree', or 'Dark Side of the Joshua Tree'," It sounds like it would sell about three copies."
Kirsty MacColl helped decide the track list, The late singer volunteered to pick 'The Joshua Tree''s running order while the album was being mixed. The only specifics were for 'Where the Streets Have No Name' to open, with 'Mothers of the Disappeared' closing. The rest was up to her. It's fair to say she did a pretty great job.
At the time, U2 felt 'Sweetest Thing' didn't fit with the rootsy, grand-scoped feel of 'The Joshua Tree'. As such, they used it as the B-side to 'Where the Streets Have No Name'. But due to its legacy as a fan favourite, the song was re-recorded and re-released as part of the band's 'The Best of 1980-1990' compilation.
The death of the band's roadie inspired one of the album's best songs, 'One Tree Hill' was written in memory of Greg Carroll, a roadie who went on to become one of Bono's close friends. A tragic motorcycle accident in Dublin killed Carroll, and the song was written shortly after, building from a jam session between Bono and Brian Eno. The frontman recorded his vocals in one go, too overwhelmed by emotion to attempt another take.
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National Energy Board grants Imperial Oil more time to build Mackenzie Gas Project
Ian Bickis CP
CALGARY — The National Energy Board is giving Imperial Oil until the end of 2022 to start building the long-delayed Mackenzie Gas Project, a pipeline that would ship natural gas from the Northwest Territories to northern Alberta.
The board originally approved the project in December 2010 and the federal cabinet of then-prime minister Stephen Harper sanctioned it the next year.
But one of the conditions was that construction had to start by the end of 2015.
Last year, Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) asked the board for a seven-year extension deadline because low gas prices.
The NEB said it recognizes the project isn't currently economic and would give the proponents more time to allow markets to recover.
In granting approval of the extension Thursday the board said that the project doesn't require new public proceedings and is still in the public interest.
The decision now goes to the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for final approval.
A spokesman for Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said cabinet would make a decision before the end of September, when the current project certificate expires.
The natural gas market has been transformed since proponents first filed for regulatory approval more than a decade ago, with shale formations in Canada and the United States providing a closer, cheaper and more abundant source of natural gas.
Premier Bob McLeod of the Northwest Territories has been a supporter of the project, saying it would bring prosperity to the North, but some groups have opposed it on environmental grounds.
Ben McDonald of advocacy group Alternatives North, who opposed granting the extension in public submissions, said views on the environment have changed since the project was first approved.
"It just seems very risky for us to believe that what was in the public interest five years ago is still going to be in the public interest seven years from now, especially in the context of the changing world view on climate change," said McDonald.
The proposed $16.1-billion pipeline would run 1,200 kilometres from gas fields near the coast of the Beaufort Sea to the northern Alberta boundary, where it would link up with existing gas pipelines.
Imperial's partners in the project include ConocoPhillips Canada, Shell Canada Ltd., ExxonMobil Canada and the Aboriginal Pipeline Group.
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How the Elector of Saxony Created Osama bin Laden. Or Something.
So it's all-Corner all the time here today. Next up is the never-knowingly-undersold Mark Steyn:
The Islamic "reformation" is, in a sense, the opposite of Christianity's. The Saudis have used their vast oil enrichment to promote themselves as a kind of Holy See for Muslims, and the Wahhabization of previously low-key syncretic localized Islams in almost every corner of the planet is testament to their success. I look at the gazillions of dollars tossed into the great sucking maw of US "intelligence" agencies and I wonder why somewhere in the budget we couldn't put something aside to promote a bit of covert ideological rollback in Chechnya or Bosnia or Pakistan. But we're not that savvy, and God knows what unintended consequences would blow up in our faces.
And at one level the Islamist "reformation" makes perfect sense. After all, they look at Christianity's reformation and see that everywhere but the United States it led to the ebbing of faith and its banishment to the fringes of life. The jihadist reformation is, as they see it, a rational response to the Christian one.
You what? The Reformation led to the "banishment" of religion "to the fringes of life"? Crikey. This would have been news to Calvin, Knox, Zwingli et al. but perhaps Steyn really does mean that if we were all still Roman Catholics we'd all still be good, observant believers?
I suppose you could make a case that absent the Reformation, the Enlightenment might have been rather different but does it really need to be said that if Protestantism (and religious schism and war) "led to the ebbing of faith" this was a tide that slipped away extremely slowly? As in, taking 400 years to ebb. And frankly if you want to find a reason for the decline of religious fervour in western Europe I'd suggest that the trenches of the Western Front have more to do with it than Martin Luther.
Still, Steyn is right that, for sure, there are radical Islamists who don't like the idea of reform. In other news, Pope Still Catholic.
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This seems like a good place to put in a plug for Kinglsey Amis' "The Alteration", which depicts Europe as it might have been if the Church had headed off the Reformation by making Marin Luther the Pope. The results are very funny, and surprisingly plausible.
Posted by: Jim | December 03, 2007 at 06:27 PM
"I'd suggest that the trenches of the Western Front have more to do with it than Martin Luther."
You may well, but I think you are wrong. Overt religiosity - Sunday observance, etc. - was at its greatest in the fifties. No, I think the collapse came with the subversion of all forms of 'authority' that began in the fifties, with theatre, and spread out into all other areas in the sixties and seventies.
It was the victory of Antonio Gramsci's 'Long March through the Institutions'.
Posted by: Recusant | December 04, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Death by Moron While I'm at it, here's more deranged idiocy from The Corner. A fellow named Peter Wehner, who until March 2007 apparently served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives, has this to say about The New Republic and the gruesome Scott Beauchamp affair: What The New Republic didn't understand, and still seems unable to grasp, is that they and others saw this for what it was: an effort to use Beauchamp's story to paint an ugly portrait of those serving in Iraq. The magazine had turned against the war, and this piece would help turn people against those serving in the war. What has happened instead is that the situation in Iraq is turning around — and the TNR piece has utterly collapsed. This is almost, but not quite, beneath contempt. As always, I should say that I've written for TNR and count several TNR writers and editors as friends. This gives an unfair advantage over Mr Wehner in as much as it is possible that I might be able to write something about this brouhaha without making a complete ass of myself. The idea that TNR whistled up this story as part of a wider...


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8 Things You Need to Know About the Immaculate Conception
By Vincent | May 27, 2019
Here are 8 things you need to know about the teaching and the way we celebrate it.
1. Who does the Immaculate Conception refer to?
There's a popular idea that it refers to Jesus' conception by the Virgin Mary.
Instead, it refers to the special way in which the Virgin Mary herself was conceived.
This conception was not virginal. (That is, she had a human father as well as a human mother.) But it was special and unique in another way. . . .
2. What is the Immaculate Conception?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains it this way:
490 To become the mother of the Saviour, Mary "was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role." The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as "full of grace". In fact, in order for Mary to be able to give the free assent of her faith to the announcement of her vocation, it was necessary that she be wholly borne by God's grace.
491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:
The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.
3. Does this mean Mary never sinned?
Yes. Because of the way redemption was applied to Mary at the moment of her conception, she not only was protected from contracting original sin but also personal sin. The Catechism explains:
493 The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God "the All-Holy" (Panagia), and celebrate her as "free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature". By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long. "Let it be done to me according to your word. . ."
4. Does this mean Mary didn't need Jesus to die on the Cross for her?
No. What we've already quoted states that Mary was immaculately conceived as part of her being "full of grace" and thus "redeemed from the moment of her conception" by "a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race."
The Catechism goes on to state:
492 The "splendour of an entirely unique holiness" by which Mary is "enriched from the first instant of her conception" comes wholly from Christ: she is "redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son". The Father blessed Mary more than any other created person "in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places" and chose her "in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him in love".
508 From among the descendants of Eve, God chose the Virgin Mary to be the mother of his Son. "Full of grace", Mary is "the most excellent fruit of redemption" (SC 103): from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original sin and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life.
5. How does this make Mary a parallel of Eve?
Adam and Eve were both created immaculate–without original sin or its stain. They fell from grace, and through them mankind was bound to sin.
Christ and Mary were also conceived immaculate. They remained faithful, and through them mankind was redeemed from sin.
Christ is thus the New Adam, and Mary the New Eve.
The Catechism notes:
494 . . . As St. Irenaeus says, "Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race." Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert. . .: "The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith." Comparing her with Eve, they call Mary "the Mother of the living" and frequently claim: "Death through Eve, life through Mary."
6. How does this make Mary an icon of our own destiny?
Those who die in God's friendship and thus go to heaven will be freed from all sin and stain of sin. We will thus all be rendered "immaculate" (Latin, immaculatus = "stainless") if we remain faithful to God.
Even in this life, God purifies us and trains us in holiness and, if we die in his friendship but imperfectly purified, he will purify us in purgatory and render us immaculate.
By giving Mary this grace from the first moment of her conception, God showed us an image of our own destiny. He shows us that this is possible for humans by his grace.
John Paul II noted:
In contemplating this mystery in a Marian perspective, we can say that "Mary, at the side of her Son, is the most perfect image of freedom and of the liberation of humanity and of the universe. It is to her as Mother and Model that the Church must look in order to understand in its completeness the meaning of her own mission" (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Libertatis conscientia, 22 March, 1986, n. 97; cf. Redemptoris Mater, n. 37).
Let us fix our gaze, then, on Mary, the icon of the pilgrim Church in the wilderness of history but on her way to the glorious destination of the heavenly Jerusalem, where she [the Church] will shine as the Bride of the Lamb, Christ the Lord
7. Was it necessary for God to make Mary immaculate at her conception so that she could be Jesus' mother?
No. The Church only speaks of the Immaculate Conception as something that was "fitting," something that made Mary a "fit habitation" (i.e., suitable dwelling) for the Son of God, not something that was necessary. Thus in preparing to define the dogma, Pope Pius IX stated:
And hence they [the Church Fathers] affirmed that the Blessed Virgin was, through grace, entirely free from every stain of sin, and from all corruption of body, soul and mind; that she was always united with God and joined to him by an eternal covenant; that she was never in darkness but always in light; and that, therefore, she was entirely a fit habitation for Christ, not because of the state of her body, but because of her original grace. . . .
For it was certainly not fitting that this vessel of election should be wounded by the common injuries, since she, differing so much from the others, had only nature in common with them, not sin. In fact, it was quite fitting that, as the Only-Begotten has a Father in heaven, whom the Seraphim extol as thrice holy, so he should have a Mother on earth who would never be without the splendor of holiness
8. How do we celebrate the Immaculate Conception today?
In the Latin rite of the Catholic Church, December 8th is the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. In the United States and in a number of other countries, it is a holy day of obligation.
When December 8th falls on Saturday, the precept of attending Mass is still observed in the United States, even though it will mean going to Mass two days in a row (since every Sunday is also a holy day of obligation)
Mary The New Eve- The book of Revelation Reveals
By Vincent | October 9, 2018
Mary and the Angel Gabriel during her visitation
Glory to Jesus, Honour To Mary and Joseph
The Fall of Man
God created man and put them in the most beautiful garden faction by Himself (God). Man was giving the authority to take care and tender it. Man had the nature of God; to think and act like God. God saw that man (Adam) was alone with no companion. Hence, God made Eve.
The coming of Eve brought the unexpected fall to man. When man fell, God started another plan for the redemption of man. The submission of Eve to the Snake caused the fall man. Eve Ate and gave Adam who failed to inquire from God before eating and so Man fell from the very nature God gave us
When man fell, he lost all his entitlement to the garden as well as the gardener to the most beautiful garden in the world. Fear, Lies and unfaithfulness entered the live of a man
The Redemption of Man
God knew the only way to redeem man back to that formal position will require a woman's seed. So, God created a woman that will that seed that will redeem man back to the very nature of God. The woman's name was Mary. To defeat darkness, the seed must be free from Sin. Hence, the woman was born immaculate to bring forth her seed immaculate- the only way. The Book of Rev 12. reveals a woman, whose dress was the Sun and who had the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head, was soon to give birth.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Mary conceived and born a child whose name according the Prophet Isaiah was Prince of Peace, Emmanuel (God with us) etc. After the Birth of Jesus, Joseph took Mary and the Child away from King Herod who sort after the Child to Kill. This was the manifestation of Rev 12. about the dragon waiting to kill the Baby after birth.
Mary as the New Eve crushing the head of the serpent and The Old Eve being deceived by Satan
Comparison between Eve and Mary as the new Eve
Eve failed to complement Adam in the tendering of the garden and help him dominate the earth and fill it with her seed. Her seed was corrupted before his manifestation. Mary, in the other hand, succeeded in the God given plan to have her seed born without sin
Mary as the new Eve submitted to the plan of God when she said, "Let it be done unto me according your will", to the Angel who visited her with the greetings,"Hail Mary, full of Grace,the LORD is with You..". The old Eve failed to help man dominate rather become the instrument for the fall of man.
Through Eve, Curse and death came into the world and Through Mary, Life and resurrection was restored into the Word
Mary brought forth Jesus, the Saviour of the world while Eve brought down the Man, who is the father of the World
How old was Mary when she gave birth to baby Jesus?
Luke 1 : 26-35
…..the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary.
And coming to her, he said, "Hail, favoured one! The Lord is with you."
But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."
But Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?" And the angel said to her in reply, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God….
Mt.1,18 "Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the holy Spirit."
Her age:
It is very clear that Mary was betrothed to Joseph and marriage was imminent. The usual age for marriage under Jewish law is 13 for boys, 12 for girls. Considering the circumstances described in the Gospel and giving enough weight to Jewish practices 2000 years back Mary was 13 when angel Gabriel appeared before her. Please also note that Mary was not subjected to a physical relation with God. According to our best knowledge she was 14 at the time of giving birth to Jesus.
The premise is that "God would never have asked anyone younger than 20 to bear such a burden, because that is the age that he holds young adults accountable for their actions." First of all, according to the rules of deductive reasoning, the premise is faulty from start to finish. The age of accountability could be at any age, depending upon an individuals level of maturity and the ability to understand the difference between right and wrong. Historically, and culturally, the 1st century Jewish culture married women off at ages as young as 12 or 13.
The reasons were the life expectancy factor, infant mortality rates, the importance of perpetuation of the family name, and the level of maturity. Women were married, per arrangement, to older men because they were monetarily able to provide for them, and men were more likely to be provided with a child to carry on the family legacy with a young wife. Based upon cultural realities, Mary was no doubt much younger than 20. That Joseph was well into his waning years is covertly obvious.
According to Jewish tradition in those days, consummation of marriage usually happened as soon as the girl entered puberty and started menstruating. Even though Mary conceived Jesus miraculously, I'm sure God stuck to the normal timeline for these things. So Mary could have been anywhere between 10 to 14 years old when she conceived and then gave birth nine months later. Personally, I think she was probably around 12 or 13.
"The Bible says absolutely nothing about the age of either Mary or Joseph when Jesus was born"
The great Jesuit, Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), who is considered the father of systematic Mariology, provides a survey of the Church Fathers and theologians on this issue in his 1592 treatise, "On the Mysteries of the Life of Christ." Suárez reports the consensus to be that Mary was around 14 when she conceived Jesus.
Why is the rosary so important? Let's Explore
One of the most important prayer that is so dear to the hearts of every Catholics is the Rosary. It is a powerful prayer of intercession to the Blessed Mother. Praying the rosary is promoted as a means of strengthening one's faith, resisting evil, growing spiritually, and generally benefiting society
History of the Rosary
The word rosary comes from Latin and means a garland of roses, the rose being one of the flowers used to symbolize the Virgin Mary. If you were to ask what object is most emblematic of Catholics, people would probably say, "The rosary." Catholics ask the Blessed Mother to bring their prayers to Her Divine Son and plead for His aid. Catholics bring Rosary intentions to Mary with the hope that their request will be answered
The Rosary as a Prayer
The rosary is a devotion in honor of the Virgin Mary. It consists of a set number of specific prayers. First are the introductory prayers: one Apostles' Creed (Credo), one Our Father (the Pater Noster or the Lord's Prayer), three Hail Mary's (Ave's) and one Glory Be (Glori Patri).
The first prayer in the Rosary is the Apostles' Creed. It is called the Apostles' Creed not because it was composed by the apostles themselves, but because it expresses their teachings. The original form of the creed came into use around A.D. 125, and the present form dates from the 400s. It reads:
"I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. From thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen."
Protestants, when they say the prayer, refer to the (lower-cased) "holy catholic church," using "catholic" to refer to the universal church, not implying any connection with the (upper-case) Catholic Church, which is based in Rome. This is despite the fact that the term "catholic" was already used to refer to a particular, visible Church by the second century and has already lost its broader meaning of "universal. Despite these differences, Protestants embrace the Apostles' Creed without reluctance, seeing it as embodying basic Christian truths as they understand them.
The next prayer in the rosary is Our Father or the Pater Noster (from its opening words in Latin). This is also known as the Lord's Prayer. This prayer is even more acceptable to Protestants because Jesus Himself taught it to His disciples. It is given in the Bible in two slightly difference versions, the first referenced in Matthew 6:9-13 and the second referenced in Luke 11:2-4. The one given in Matthew is the one commonly said.
The following prayer in the Rosary is the Hail Mary which is really at the center of the devotion. It is a prayer to Mary. While many Protestants assume it's unbiblical, it does have roots in Scripture. The prayer begins, "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee." This is the same greeting the angel Gabriel gave Mary in Luke 1:28. The next part reads:
"Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of the womb, Jesus." This was what Mary's cousin Elizabeth said to her in Luke 1:42. The only thing that has been added to these two verses is the names "Jesus" and "Mary." The second part of the Hail Mary is not taken straight from Scripture, but it is biblical in the thoughts it expresses. It reads: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of death. Amen."
The forth prayer in the rosary is the Glory Be, sometimes called the Gloria or Gloria Patri. This reads:
"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As is it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen." The Gloria is a brief of praise in which all Christians can join.
Finally, the rosary ends with the closing prayer. This is called the Hail Queen (Salve Regina), sometimes called the Hail Holy Queen. It is the most commonly recited prayer in the praise of Mary, after the Hail Mary itself. It generally reads:
"Hall holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
The Rosary is the whole story of Jesus about coming into the world through a young woman, whose name is Mary as Isaiah prophesied. It started with the Annunciation by Angel Gabriel in Luke 1:28 down to death and Resurrection even up to his Ascension. Its a powerful meditation tool for our life.


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The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) was adopted in June 2014, at the Committee on Fisheries meeting. There have been numerous efforts undertaken towards implementation of the SSF Guidelines over the past few years. This website is part of joint effort by World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), World Forum of Fish Harvestors and Fish Workers (WFF), Centro Internazionale Crocevia, and International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), as part of the efforts to disseminate information on implementation of the Guidelines, especially through capacity building and awareness-raising workshops in different parts of the world.
One of the key aspects is to raise awareness amongst organizations of small-scale fishery workers and their communities through actions at local, national and sub-regional levels; and build capacity for implementing the SSF Guidelines in pilot countries.
As part of the IFAD project for capacity building for the implementation of SSF Guidelines, there are 8 national workshops organized in different parts of the world, and three regional workshops. This website provides information on different workshops and the material prepared for each of these workshops.
The national workshops are to be organized in Myanmar, Brazil, India, Ecuador, Algeria, Angola and Mozambique, Tanzania and Pakistan. The regional workshops are to be organized in Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam); Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Belize, Honduras) and Africa (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda).
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If you've been wondering how Kim Kardashian is faring after Kanye West was hospitalized for exhaustion, Kendall Jenner says Kim Kardashian is doing "good," despite all of the difficulties she's experienced in only two months. While chatting with E! News Wednesday backstage at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Paris, France, Jenner said about her big sister, "She's good. She's good." The 21-year-old model's update is brief, but it's a positive one and it's also good to know that Kardashian seems to be well.
On Nov. 21, West entered the hospital after canceling the remainder of his Saint Pablo tour. He continues to be hospitalized. At the time of his hospitalization, Bustle reached out to West's rep for comment, but did not receive an immediate response. Although, on the same day news broke of his hospitalization, West's rep anonymously told The New York Times that the rapper's doctor made the call to police alerting them of West's condition and that he was taken to the UCLA Medical Center for evaluation willingly.
Not much is known about West's current condition or when he will be released, but Kris Jenner did comment on her son-in-law's status to Extra on Nov. 21 and said, "He's exhausted. He's just really tired. He's had a grueling tour and it's been a grind, so he just needs to rest."
As for Kardashian, she certainly has had two very hard months, starting in October with the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star being robbed at gunpoint in Paris. The 35-year-old has even been avoiding the spotlight and rightfully so. At this time, she wants to focus on herself and her family. Now, with West in the hospital, her husband and their two kids are probably even more important to the reality star.
To say Kardashian's family has been put through the wringer is an understatement, so to hear Jenner say that her sister is doing "good" is a great thing.


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LONDON, 1909: The British Empire seems invulnerable. But Captain Vernon Kell, head of counter-intelligence at the War Office, knows better. In Russia, revolution; in Germany, an arms race; in London, the streets are alive with foreign terrorists.
Kell wants to set up a Secret Service, but to convince his political masters he needs proof of a threat – and to find that, he needs an agent he can trust.
Kell needs Wiggins. Trained as a child by Kell's old friend Sherlock Holmes – he led a gang of urchin investigators known as the Baker Street Irregulars – Wiggins is an ex-soldier with an expert line in deduction and the cunning of a born street fighter.
Wiggins turns down the job – he "don't do official". But when his best friend is killed by Russian anarchists, Wiggins sees that the role of secret agent could take him toward his sworn revenge.


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Some of these fascinating new stories include Nadia Bolz-Weber, a heavily tattooed Lutheran pastor, and Eric Spruth's Sacred Transformations in Chicago, a studio "where women who have been physically damaged — burned, shot, demeaningly tattooed, for example — in gangs or prison or abusive relationships go as part of a victim services program. It culminates in a tattoo (sometimes a cover-up) confirming their transition to a healthier lifestyle," Mifflin explains.
The third edition of Bodies of Subversion, which was released earlier this month, is available through powerHOUSE Books; click through below for a slideshow of images from the book.
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In my stash I have a couple of the Red Roo conversions for the RAAF Mirage, both the single and dual seat aircraft. Up till now I have only had the Red Roo publication on the modeling the Mirage in RAAF Service to assist in this conversion. The Red Roo book is a good tool to help, but with this new publication from Darren Mottram and Paul Mason the information now available to the Modeller and general Mirage buff has increased greatly! The words quantam leap could be thrown in there somewhere as well.
I have read the limited edition publications, signed by the main players in the production of the book, from cover to cover. This book is a soft cover publication of A4 size and containing 312 pages. There is a reasonable amount of writing in this book, but the rest of the pages are a huge amount of photos of the Mirage, around 800 aparantly. These photos comprise all colour photos of the Mirage during it's service in Australia interspersed with colour profiles and line drawings by Juanita Franzi, with only around two Black and White photos included in the whole book.
a. Page 5 - 6 is a forward by Dave Halloran, a pilot who has had 3121.8 hours flying the Mirage.
b. Pages 9 - 19, an introduction to the Mirage including the acquisition and manufacturing of the aircraft.
c. Pages 20 to 35 covers the Naked (French) Ladies - the natural metal era.
d. Pages 36 to 54, Protective measures - The silver scheme (allover silver paint).
e. Pages 55 to 72, Lizards - The wraparound camouflage scheme.
f. Pages 73 to 105, Standard fare - The three tone camouflage scheme.
g. Pages 106 to 124, Ageing gracefully - The standard Grey scheme.
h. Pages 125 to 210, Fancy dress - Non standard colour schemes. This covers the ARDU, Jubilee and unusual grey schemes and is broken down by tail number and it's colours.
i. Pages 211 to 223, Body paint - Identification markings and temporary camouflage.
j. Pages 224 to 247, Temporary tattoos - zaps and unusual markings.
k. Pages 248 to 290, Walk around. This is broken down into various areas including the armament for the aircraft. This is something that you don't often see modeled on Mirages. I was most impressed by the bomb racks on the side of the fuel tanks, I might have to add that to one of the models that I intend to build in the future.
l. Pages 291 to 305, By the Numbers. This is an unusual feature of the book, it's a section that covers every Mirage tail number with a photo of each aircraft during it's service and where it ended up eg. A3-2 Delivered 22 Apr 64, retired Feb 89. Sold to Pakistan 1990.
m. Pages 306 to 312 are a series of line drawings in 1/72 for the different versions of the aircraft including the different nose profiles.
b. a breakdown of the markings for the aircraft including maintenance and data stencils, Squadron markings etc.
e. Then there is a plethora of photos to illustrate the scheme and any variations to it.
The colours and their approximations are accomplished by not only photographic evidence but also by somehow acquiring a look at original pieces of the aircraft and comparing them to known colour standards where possible. Not all colours are achieved in this manner but I for one am impressed by the fact that the authors have gone to this extent to find the correct colour for the aircraft.
The authors have gone to a great deal of investigation into the Mirage and it shows by the extent of the stories they have uncovered and the photos that they have bought to light in their investigations. I especially like the story of Air Vice Marshall "Hannibal Crunge" and his demise in an Exercise in 1985. You will have to buy the book to read about it, but I found it quite funny!
In summary I feel that this book is required purchasing if you are a Mirage buff and a comprehensive reference for anyone making a model of the aircraft. It shows the vast array of discrepancies to the official policies and covers them with photos to back up any conclusions drawn. I doubt that anyone will manage to out do this book in coverage of the Australian Mirage in the future. My review cannot do justice to the obvious hard work that has gone into the investigation and preparation that has gone into this book - all I can say is BUY IT!!!!!!


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Q: constructing a maze At first I thought It was easy but when I started doing it I don't know how to continue anymore. My idea was to use panels, then draw thick lines, but then what's the proper way to draw the walls and make my character not move beyond those walls? I just can't imagine how I can possibly do that. Here's a sketch of a maze to illustrate How I will be doing it:

I just started with a Frame and still trying to grasp the idea of doing it.

A: First, you need a data-structure that represents your maze.  Then you can worry about drawing it.
I would suggest a class like this:
class Maze {
    public enum Tile { Start, End, Empty, Blocked };
    private final Tile[] cells;
    private final int width;
    private final int height;

    public Maze(int width, int height) {
         this.width = width;
         this.height = height;
         this.cells = new Tile[width * height];
         Arrays.fill(this.cells, Tile.Empty);
    }

    public int height() {
        return height;
    }

    public int width() {
        return width;
    }

    public Tile get(int x, int y) {
        return cells[index(x, y)];
    }

    public void set(int x, int y, Tile tile) {
         Cells[index(x, y)] = tile;
    }

    private int index(int x, int y) {
        return y * width + x;
    }
}

Then I would draw this maze with blocks (squares), rather than lines.  A dark block for blocked tiles, and a clear one for empty tiles.
To paint, do something like this.
public void paintTheMaze(graphics g) {
    final int tileWidth = 32;
    final int tileHeight = 32;
    g.setColor(Color.BLACK);

    for (int x = 0; x < maze.width(); ++x) {
        for (int y = 0;  y < maze.height(); ++y) {
            if (maze.get(x, y).equals(Tile.Blocked)) (
                 g.fillRect(x*tileWidth, y*tileHeight, tileWidth, tileHeight);
            }
        }
    )

}

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Q: Should the Locators have awaits and is that causing flaky tests? We're testing JS apps with protractor and sometimes we get some randomly unstable tests. Sometimes the errors are Failed: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
Just a hunch but sometimes developers write the code like this
await element(await by.css('.pager-next')).click();

And sometimes like this
await element(by.css('.pager-next')).click();

Is either of these "more" correct? Is there any need for the inner await or does it make no difference? Could this be causing  stale element reference errors?

A: await is only useful for functions that return a Promise. Of the three functions in your snippet, only one of them returns a Promise. (You can check what each of them returns in the Protractor api).
ElementFinder.click() returns a Promise.
element() returns an ElementFinder.
by.css() returns a ProtractorLocator.
Therefore, the only call that should have await on it is click(), which you have done correctly in your second snippet.

StaleElementReferenceException is typically caused when you keep a reference to an object that has been removed from the page, e.g. using ElementFinder.getWebElement(). This removal can be subtle sometimes. For example, Angular will sometimes invisibly remove an element from the DOM and quickly replace it with an identical-looking one. It's hard to tell that anything even changed, but from Webdriver's perspective, the element it had a reference to has disappeared.

A: I think a better practice would be not to be write locators like that. I'd leave awaits for functions involving the element.
I would have a locator written like this:
const myElement = element(by.css('.pager-next'));

And then using async/await  in a function:
let clickMyElement = async function(){
   await myElement.click();
};


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Cool employers and how to look beyond a job title
Episode 13 • 28th July 2021 • Careers & Coffee • Corridor Careers
In this chat, Dan and Liz discuss what makes a company a great place to work. Sometimes the very structure of the company lends itself to becoming a potential great place to work. Next they talk about how job titles are often just creative suggestions and the real job is in the description -using skill and industry matching can often lead to a better fit.
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Dan Holterhaus: 00:00:00
All right. Good morning, Liz, guys and girls,
Eastern Iowa, how we doing another episode of careers and
coffee.
Liz Kennedy: 00:00:09
It's a great day in Cedar Rapids.
Another great day, summer day, it's hot. My
plants are dying in my yard. So I got to get some we need some
water. We need some rain. Hopefully it comes soon. But,
you know, it's summertime. What can I expect? Yeah. Well,
today, let's just go ahead and dive right into it. Let's talk
about what makes an employer a great place to work. Yeah. And,
and I know I've worked at, I think I'm on my seventh or so
employers since college. But, Liz, I want to know from you
what you think makes an employer a great place to work?
Yeah, I can't even count how many places...Okay, so
good places and bad places. I think the bad ones are easy to
pick out right? Like, trust, there's no trust. And there was
a great our leadership CEO sent around a training yesterday,
that was great from Simon Sinek about trust and how important
that is, in a workplace. If you don't, if you don't trust that
your employees are going to do their jobs, or vice versa. More
importantly, the employees don't trust that the managers are
going to follow through or feel like they're being watched, you
know, If there's just no trust between leadership and the
general workforce that a look at a company that is definitely
going to be a downer place to work. And one of the examples he
shared was like the same employee working two jobs. So he
was working at a coffee shop.
And was just like, the greatest employee at the coffee shop, was
super engaging, was great at his job and just was a joy to be
around. And then he said, you know, do you like your job, and
he's like, I love my job. And here's why. And then he told him
about his other job that he had, where he didn't love that job.
And it was like, he felt like the managers were always
watching him to make sure I always tried to catch him doing
something wrong, and just was not a positive work environment.
So trust. And that's difficult in the job interview, I think to
figure out what do you how do you think you would know that
you could trust an employer when you're interviewing with them?
Yeah, I mean, for me, that's a really good
question. I think I go back to it was probably much easier to
kind of get to know somebody and get to see their body language
before all this, you know, zoom, and everything when you could go
in and you can see the physical work location, you know, maybe
meet some other people that were in the office as well. But yeah,
I think, I think for me, it just comes back to do you, could you
see yourself getting along with those people? Like, Are those
your people? And do you feel some sort of like energy? When
you go to that location? Or when you're talking with those, you
know, somebody who's interviewing you, you're your
future boss, potentially? Are you inspired? Can you see
yourself maybe moving into their role someday? Do you like what
that company does? So I think, yeah, some of it comes back to
your own goal setting too, right. And we got some resources
for, you know, finding your skill set, which I know you want
to touch on. But I think kind of having a good idea of what you
want, beforehand is huge in determining like, if you're
going to enjoy that workplace, and if that employer is going to
be a good fit for you.
Yeah. Um, like, I think maybe one of those pointed
questions you could ask during the interview, like when they
say, you know, do you have any more questions, at the end, a
good question, maybe to ask, like, what's the expectation for
employees work? You know, how do you know, how do you hold
employees accountable? And a question like that could kind of
illustrate their management style, or like the company
management style of how they monitor work? That might be
helpful and understanding just like the process of, you know,
how do you know? How will I know I'm doing a good job, and how
will you know that I'm doing a good job? Because those are
gonna be questions you have that first day when you walk in. And
you're like, Ha, new job. What, what is expected of me? And
those other kind of good questions to ask in that
interview, especially if it's kind of a second round interview
and you feel like okay, I feel comfortable with these people.
Yeah. And then obviously, like, stay away from the obvious,
like, if they make wild claims, like you see around town right
now, like the signs like make $10,000 in two weeks, you know,
like, that is not legit.
A little bit of a red flag, if that's Call this
number and make $10,000 this week,
Right? Any red flags that you get - you should
pay attention to those red flags, because they're there for
a reason, and talk it over with another person say like, Hey,
what do you think about this? If you don't know what the location
is of the employer, that's a big one. Sure. Even if you're
working from home, you know, even if it's a remote position,
and probably especially if it's a remote position, you need to
know where is that company located? And where's their
corporate corporate office located? Is it legitimately a
company you can google company locations to see, you know, Is
this legit. And occasionally, we've gotten some posting on
Corridor Careers, which we've turned down because we're like,
because we check and see like, this is not a familiar company
to us. And it doesn't sound right. Anything that sounds even
anything that gives off like, just the feeling of like, I'm
not sure about this, we'd rather not post that job to our board.
Because job seekers are vulnerable. I mean, they're
looking for some kind of solution to their next career
path step. And sometimes, if it's too good to be true, it
probably is.
Yeah, there's, you should definitely be able to
find a little bit of company information, whether it's on
Google, you can see reviews on there, or on Facebook, I know,
I've done that, I think I was getting some flooring, or
carpeting put down in my old place that I lived in. I hadn't
really heard of this company before they were, you know, in,
in our area. And so they didn't have a website. So I got on
Facebook and look them up on there. I was like, okay, they
had some reviews on there. And they showed a few pictures. So I
was like, okay, like, you know, legit company. So there's a lot
of different ways to be research. Kind of circling back,
Liz, I want you, I know, you want to touch on a great
resource. And we've mentioned it before on the podcast. And
that's the owner resource for kind of figuring out your skills
and perhaps kind of what your tendencies are in the workplace,
and what might be a good fit. What do you have
a couple resources? Um, well, we'll link to this in
the show notes. But like, there's, if you're like, not
really finding a job title that appeals to you, I would suggest
that I had a conversation with a job seeker last Friday, where it
was like, really, a light bulb went off in my head of like,
Hey, this is hard. You know, like, I understand that. I don't
pay attention to job titles so much, I pay more attention to
categories. And the reason I do that is because there's so much
finagling that happens at the HR level of like, job titles will
change over time, or maybe they get souped up by somebody in the
managers team that thinks, Oh, well, we should call it this.
And sometimes your job title is changed. so that it can justify
a we can justify a different salary level or, or a different
a different work skill set, as companies change over time. And
so I, I wouldn't pay too much attention to the job title,
especially if it's funky. And it doesn't really make sense to
you, but pay attention to the category it's in. And there's a
career of resource called the emci assessment. And you can
take it either as a six question questionnaire that just give you
kind of like a brief overview of like, here's where you might,
these are the industries, you might be most suited to, what
you're going to also take the same assessment with a 60
question questionnaire, which is going to be much more in depth
and much more matched to your kind of preferences and skill
sets. And what it spits out at the end is kind of like a list
of here's some industries and maybe some job titles that you
should consider. And then you can take that information and
like, Okay, well, I'm really good at customer service. I
don't necessarily want to be on the phone every day, but I might
want to use those customer service skills because I'm
strong, they're strong, I have strong skills in Customer Care.
And so you might think about, okay, well, how else could I use
customer service, and admin and clerical jobs, always use that
skill set as well. Any kind of teamwork is definitely going to
use those kind of same communication skills. So you can
kind of just kind of move around using job titles or, or I mean,
categories, job categories, and industries to kind of understand
where you might make a good fit.
Yeah, I agree. And I think that's a super good
point about you know, finding that Job industry that kind of
makes sense to you. And I mean, even, you know, I've read some
books in the past that basically said, you know, especially if
you're just getting started in your career, get in to the
industry or like with the company, if you can, even if
it's at a very ground level, right, and you can work your way
into the job. I mean, most people don't have their dream
jobs, you know, fresh out of school. And sometimes not many,
many years after that either, right? But if you can get into
an industry and something that you're interested in, and grow
into, you know, that role that that you may want long term.
That's really, that's really a good way to go about it, I
think,
Yeah, I'm just kind of piggyback to like, what makes
a good company, you know, like a great place to work. Obviously,
benefits are going to be something that you care about,
you know, what, what kind of benefits does company offer
because it kind of clues you into what they find is
important. But the structure of the company is also important.
And I'm biased because I work in an ESOP, which is an employee
stock ownership plan, like an employee owned company. So I see
the value of what an ESOP has to offer. And there are more and
more companies that are transitioning to ESOP or some
level of shared employee ownership because they see that
value of sharing profits with their employees. And it's just a
little bit kind of a different style of company. And then, you
know, just a regular corporate or publicly owned company,
they're just going to have different priorities. So ESOP's
are something to look for, generally, a company that is an
ESOP will brag about it to no end. So it's not going to be a
mystery that their employee-owned, they're going to
tell you. Um, there's other companies called B Corp, which
like New Pi, New Pioneer Coop, I think, is on the road to
becoming a B Corp. And there's some really stringent policies
to become a B Corp has everything to do with, you know,
how they treat their employees to sustainability. And so
there's some kind of like ecological ties with B corps and
things like that. It's a very interesting type of company to
work for as well. And then sometimes, it's helpful just to
kind of understand that you kind of read into a company a little
bit, sometimes in their job descriptions, when they talk
about what it's like to work at their company. It will clue you
in as to whether or not might be a good place to work. Most of
the companies that I would say all the companies that post to
Corridor Careers have a leg up because they're, you know,
they're really interested in hiring local employees. And
that's why they're posting to our job board. So I think all
the employees, employers that post on our board are worth
looking at.
Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, they're,
they're obviously looking to hire for a reason, right? They
have more business. They're good companies, right? Like, that's a
lot of the reasons why our local businesses here need need good
employees, because they're good businesses themselves. So any
parting words,
I would just say look beyond the job description.
So you know, if, like, for instance, there are some jobs on
our board that might be like, there was one that was like a
friend's 'Friends Ambassador' or some kind of a little bit
different type of job title, not quite sure what that means. So
be curious about some of those jobs that are a little bit
different. Read into the job description, and you'll just
scan through, you'll get a sense in the first paragraph. Okay,
this might be for me, that particular job was all about
coordinating a travel group, you know, and so you wouldn't think
ambassador and friends would be, you know, I would title that job
probably differently if it was me, but look beyond some of
those job titles because you might find a really cool job
that's going to match your skillset and be really
rewarding.
Cool, all right. Good stuff was all right that's
gonna do it for us. careers and coffee.
We'll see you next time, guys. Thank you.
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