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Digital Love Letters for fathers who are incarcerated

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Digital Love Letters for fathers who are incarcerated ABOUT ZENFONE - Digital Love Letters for fathers who are incarcerated, This past Mothers Day, we shared #LoveLetters, a partnership among nonprofits to give the children of incarcerated parents a chance to have their voices heard. Today, in celebration of Father�s Day, you can watch Love Letters for incarcerated fathers. This work is part of our continued commitment to raising awareness about racial injustice, and to bearing witness to the human costs of mass incarceration. The costs of mass incarceration have disproportionately affected the lives of Black men. From 1980 to 2007, about one in three of the 25.4 million adults arrested for drugs was African-American. And if that current trend continues, one in three Black boys born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime. All in all, we�re now at a point where there are more African-American men incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations of India, ...

Be who you are Love who you love prideforeveryone

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Be who you are Love who you love prideforeveryone ABOUT ZENFONE - Be who you are. Love who you love. #prideforeveryone, Everyone has the fundamental right to express who they are, yet all too often we bear witness to hatred and violence directed at people who peacefully and lovingly pursue happiness. The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, earlier this month is a horrifying example. Google�s mission has always been to make information universally accessible. And within that mission lies the belief that the more knowledge we have, the more tolerant, inclusive and respectful the world ultimately will be. Pride is a time when those who have access to vibrant LGBTQ communities take to the streets to celebrate the freedom to live and love. Yet there are still multitudes of lesbian, gay, bi, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in the U.S. and around the world who are lonely and ostracized�who cannot participate in Pride due to strict anti-LGBTQ laws or social stigma. To bridge this gap, weve...

Flea market gems from Hungary with love

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Flea market gems from Hungary with love The King is naked! Gyorgy Ranki? Yes! His composing skill reminds me some movies soundtrack with a tad of Respighi and Bernard Hermann... lets not forget the like of another Hungarian composer, Miklos Rozsa, wrote for Hollywood truly remarkable OSTs. Lovely disc and music, with a recording of seldom heard quality: on side one there are some great passages were unison bassoons, tuba and double-basses shake the building! Hungaroton really knew its business! download file now

Studietto a love affaire

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Studietto a love affaire I feel so happy after downsizing my system, folks... too much gears is so... distracting . Happy... download file now

Episode 14 John Hates What You Love A Nightmare Before Christmas

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Episode 14 John Hates What You Love A Nightmare Before Christmas Episode 14: John Hates What You Love, The Nightmare Before Christmas Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston Produced by Hobos in the Back Row Scripting by Frank Shaw and John Belliston Edited by: Frank Shaw Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw Even when he likes a movie John is happy to ruin it for everybody else. John and I discuss the film A Nightmare Before Christmas: We talk about what kind of film it actually is (Christmas or Halloween), what some problems of the movie are, and some crazy fan theories. Hopefully itll make you rethink the way you watch this movie. Not a lot of notes this episode: Heres a link to an article discussing Harry Selick firmly stating his opinion about what sort of film the movie is. Heres a Mental Floss list detailing things you might not know about the film, unless youve read a lot of stuff about it online, watched the commentary to the...

I love double bass!

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I love double bass! Bottesini rules, folks! Listening to a 140 years old double-bass played by a true master, maestro Gergely J�rd�nyi - who studied with great, late Ludwig Streicher - is such a blissful joy! ... and re-listening to the actual concert recording from Sound Devices 722, captured with Neumann USM69 in Blumlein-pattern is... well... audio zenith. Thanking Tom for 722 and maestro Gergely J�rd�nyi for his music and kindness. download file now

Episode 25 John Hates What You Love Stranger Things and Nostalgia pt 1

Episode 25 John Hates What You Love Stranger Things and Nostalgia pt 1 Episode 25: John Hates What You Love: Stranger Things and Nostalgia pt. 1 Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston Produced by Hobos in the Back Row Scripting by Frank Shaw Edited by: Frank Shaw Graphic Design by: Nathan Newell Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw Some rather involved notes this time. Partly to touch on a few things that we meant to discuss but neglected to, partly to clarify our position on the show. First, in case its not clear from the episode, John and I do like the series. Quite a lot actually. But we have, and the podcast illustrates this, some major complaints and criticisms about the series. Mostly how it seeks to completely create nostalgia whole-cloth by emulating intellectual properties from the 80s. This may work for some (a lot) of viewers. The next podcast explores nostalgia a bit more, and its a subject that well come back to,  bu...