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Comprendre les finances locales
Comprendre les finances locales - Petit precis pour les non financiers: ab 26.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Les finances locales senegalaises
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L'exercice des competences locales entre rationalisation et creativite
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Sparkle Plenty
"A back road ride straight to Heartbreak Hotel, ,SPARKLE PLENTY ,has more perspectives on the heart than an episode of 'House.' The opening riff of 'No Reason At All' has an indie feel but makes a hard right into contemporary country.  ,The chords and melodies take twists and turns in all of her songs, but it's the instrumentation that stands out.  ,Very well produced, Linton covers a lot of ground stylistically, flying effortlessly from folk to blues and even classical. Linton sounds confident in what she wants to say, if not heart-weary, but never leaves you in the dumps. This is a mature record, touching on motherhood, long looks back down the path of experience and, yes, lost loves and opportunities.  ,But often out of sorrow rises hope, and it has a name: beauty. , Does it sparkle?  ,Plenty." - Jeff Reid, The Beat Magazine Everyone has heard a song that reaches a certain place inside and helps them make sense of the world. Brenda Linton writes that kind of song. "There are a lot of secrets that people hold, both good and bad," explains Linton. "If you dare to reveal your own secrets, then the listener finds it easier to identify with your song and with you as an artist." As the daughter of rural Southern parents reared in poverty, Brenda Linton became aware at a young age of her mother's dreams for her - that she would have red hair and would sing and dance like Shirley Temple. Today, although the petite redhead has some great moves on the dance floor, she is best known for a voice so pure and melodic that fans have dubbed her the "Carolina Nightingale." Born in Washington, North Carolina, Linton says she was nurtured as a child by "a passel of kind-hearted women, including my mother, grandmother, maternal aunts, and housekeepers who treated me as their own." Her mother overcame childhood polio to train as a registered nurse and began working at the county hospital when Linton was still an infant. Raised in a Baptist orphanage, her father was a major source of strength and understanding in later life. But in her early years, his work as a master plasterer frequently took him away from home, even to the island of Bermuda. "Part of my dad's compensation was a month in paradise for my mom and me," says Linton of the experience, "and I guess my love of the road began there." Although Linton remembers hearing lots of music during her early childhood, her formal education began at the age of eight when her parents bought her a Wurlitzer spinet and a set of classical piano books. She demonstrated a quick aptitude for music and, encouraged by her teachers, took top honors in juried piano competitions at the nearby university, and won singing parts in school musicals. By adolescence, Linton had developed a list of favorite singers (Perry Como, Paul McCartney, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell) whose influence would later emerge in her unique vocal style. In high school, she taught herself to play guitar and formed a duo with a girlfriend that expanded into a folk trio called the New Horizon Singers. By her mid-teens, Linton was performing regularly in college coffee houses. After graduation, she joined an established folk-rock group called Warm. Linton's voice as well as the innovative harmonies and original songs provided by the other three members set the band apart from most local acts in eastern North Carolina. During her two years with Warm, she performed throughout the southeast at music clubs, rock festivals, and college venues, and opened concerts for recording artists such as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Rare Earth. When Warm broke up, Linton decided to pursue her childhood dream of living in Europe. She traveled in Switzerland, Italy, and France before settling in London. She established a musical relationship with another songwriter and recorded demos that were nibbled at by a British record label but the deal eventually fell through. Meanwhile, she supported herself by working in pubs, Carnaby Street clothes shops, and betting establishments. While in London, Linton also tried some new directions which were short-lived, including singing with a heavy metal band. Homesick and lonely, she turned to songwriting. "During that period, I wrote songs to try to understand myself better," Linton recalls, "and I wrote songs about stories I heard from the people I met." One such story from an Irish friend about a supernatural encounter would later become the title song for her 2005 debut album, THE SECRET. Recorded and co-produced by John Plymale at Overdub Lane in Durham, NC, THE SECRET contains six original tracks that demonstrate Linton's skill at penning lyrics and music that stir both the heart and mind. 'Bargain Love' and 'The Good Life' provide opposite views of the same phenomenon - how living a borrowed life only alienates us from ourselves and others. The jazzy 'Quiet Love' testifies to the wisdom of finding our own answers rather than relying on popular culture. "Warriors" and "Still in This World" are perhaps the most personal songs on the album and movingly express the depth of Linton's sorrow at losing her mother to breast cancer in 2004 as well as the belief that there is still much to recommend the world - a belief made more poignant by her own triumph over the same disease. The tune for "Warriors" was written by Thomas Walsh, a gifted composer and multi-instrumentalist living outside Dublin. "I happened upon his lovely melody, 'Innisheer,' and knew it would be the perfect complement for my lyrics," says Linton. "When I called him to get permission to use the tune, he was at home with the flu, but he was very gracious and we found we had a lot in common. Music often allows perfect strangers to quickly get down to the important stuff." Since the singer-songwriter returned to the United States, she has performed and recorded with a variety of musicians and producers in several locales, including Nashville. For over a decade, she was a member of the Angelettes, a three-woman vocal group whose harmonies brought much delight to listeners as well as the singers themselves. One of her biggest thrills has been finding opportunities to collaborate with her brother and younger son, talented musicians in their own right. In 2009, Linton began a collaboration with musicians in North Carolina's Triangle area to record a new album of mostly original songs called SPARKLE PLENTY. In the interim between her first and second albums, Linton has honed her narrative songwriting skills, and she takes the listener on a journey of diverse moods and locales ranging from an 18th century rice plantation to a late-night bar where regret hangs in the air like smoke. Co-produced by Rick Lassiter, SPARKLE PLENTY also showcases a traditional ballad from Newfoundland and a poignant song by Laura Silvestri about a young woman's search for the grandmother she never met. The album's first track, 'No Reason at All,' is the account of two people who learn the depths of their capacity to love through the trial and error of long-term relationship. This universal story has been turned into a music video by independent film maker, Michael Babbitt, and can be viewed via YouTube and Linton's website. Linton is grateful for the friends, fans, and talented fellow musicians who continue to support her, and feels lucky to have been given the resources to write, record, and perform music that she believes in. "My records are really about people I know or have read about in newspapers or historical accounts," she says. "All of us have experiences that are very private and only surface indirectly. And it's that mysterious territory that I love to explore.- Shop: odax
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The Walking Dead: The Complete Fifth Season
The previous season of The Walking Dead ended with Rick and the group outgunned, outnumbered, and trapped in a train car awaiting a grim fate. What follows is a story that weaves the true motives of the people of Terminus with the hopeful prospect of a cure in Washington, D.C., the fate of the group's lost comrades, as well as new locales, new conflicts, and new obstacles in keeping the group together and staying alive. Stories will break apart and intersect. The characters will find love and hate. Peace and conflict. Contentment and terror. And, in the quest to find a permanent, safe place to call home, one question will haunt them. After all they've seen, all they've done, all they've sacrificed, lost, and held on to no matter what the cost. Who do they become?- Shop: odax
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Bangkok Dangerous
The second film from Hong Kong-born twin directors Danny and Oxide Pang to earn a U.S. remake (after 2002's THE EYE), BANGKOK DANGEROUS differs in that, this time around, the brothers are doing the remaking themselves. Swapping Pawalit Mongkolpisit's mute Thai hit man from the original 1999 film for Nicolas Cage's brooding (but talking) American assassin, this version is less moody and stylized. Still, fans of Cage, and action aficionados who favor exotic locales, should find much to chew on in this unique thriller. Following an assignment in Prague, lonely hitman Joe (Cage) arrives in Bangkok under contract to a mobsters who have hired him to kill four people, including a trafficker of young girls and a politician. After seeing young street criminal Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm) in action, Joe hires him to be his liaison to his employers. Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Star: Nicolas Cage, Chakrit Yamnarm, Charlie Young, Panward Hemmanee, Special Features: 2-Disc Set Keep Case Disc One: Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital EX - English Subtitles - Spanish Additional Release Material: Trailer - Original Theatrical Trailer Additional Release Material: Alternate Ending Features - 1. BANGKOK DANGEROUS: The Execution of the Film 2. from Hong Kong to Bangkok a Cinematic Movement Trailer - Original Theatrical Trailer Running Time: 100 minutes.- Shop: odax
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Caravan
Composer Tim Story follows up his critically-acclaimed collaboration 'Lunz' with a soundtrack from another part of the world. From the production company of award-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, Caravan is a feature-length documentary set in Nepal and north Africa. A unique glimpse into two seldom-seen cultures, the film traces the compelling journeys of two adolescent boys: Pemba in Nepal, and Rabdoulah in Niger. Each will embark on an adventure that few of us Westerners will ever experience -the centuries-old salt caravans. For followers of Tim Story's elegantly introspective 'ambient chamber' music, Story might seem an unconventional choice to score a film set in such exotic locales. Steadfastly evolving his own unique palette of Western classical instruments and subtle electronics, Story was never seduced by the 'world music' flourishes that have become so commonplace. But as Caravan's music supervisor Alán Cantos enthused, 'I saw a thousand adventures, dunes, sky, stars, and empty spaces... and I was only two-thirds into {Tim's} first CD!' Discovered one day on a Madrid radio station, Story's music had stayed with Cantos, prompting him to share it with Caravan's director Gerardo Olivares during one of the film crew's shoots in Niger. It became a kind of soundtrack for their long days and nights in the desert. When the time came for the filmmakers to commission a composer to score the film, the choice was already becoming clear. There are the occasional geographic cues in Story's music for Caravan: the tongue drums deftly played by Louie Simon, the oriental flute in one piece, or the chants of Tibetan Buddhist monks in another, all of which conjure for the listener a vivid sense of time and place. But this soundtrack is no world music travelogue. Caravan is a film about people, and Story's music searches for the nuances and truths of human nature. Always a particular strength of Story's solo work, moments of sheer beauty and unsettling dangers intermingle in this music, deepening the film's tone with uncommon delicacy. Beautifully articulated by Kim Bryden's oboe and Martha Reikow's cello, Story's spare yet rich themes map for us the emotional terrain of Pemba and Rabdoulah's journeys, and in doing so, give us a recording that is strikingly haunting and surprisingly cohesive - even when removed from the context of the film itself. Remixed, re-sequenced and in some instances even re-composed for this CD release by Story himself, Caravan shows clearly why the Grammy-nominated composer has been called 'a master of electronic chamber music' (CD Review, USA), and 'a true artist in the electronic medium' (Victory Review, USA).- Shop: odax
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Liquid Sky
This way-out cult classic from Russian director Slava Tsukerman mixes 1980s punk subculture, Greenwich Village locales, elements of sci-fi, and trippy visuals. A frisbee-sized UFO lands on the roof of a New York City apartment building, and inside it's occupants are jonesing for heroin. The aliens soon discover that the chemicals produced by the human brain during orgasm make a suitable replacement, and the creepy lovers of a bisexual model (Anne Carlisle) become their targets. Co-stars Paul E. Sheppard. 112 min. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1, behind-the-scenes footage, alternate opening, audio commentary, interviews, "making of" documentary, isolated music score, outtakes, photo gallery, theatrical trailers. Two-disc set.- Shop: odax
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series
All four seasons (105 episodes) on 41 discs - Rarely seen color pilot episode, "Solo" - U.N.C.L.E. theatrical feature One Spy Too Many - Actors: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll / For a lot of years, from the 1980's until around 2007, the TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968) had a frustrating history on home video. The program, which kicked off a wave of breezily-paced spy series (I Spy etc.), was available on a limited basis on VHS tape in the 1980's, and - restricted to a narrow sliver of mostly poorly chosen episodes - on laserdiscs in the 1990's. It was originally supposed to appear on DVD in 2005, but then a dispute broke out between the owners of the series, Warner Home Video, and a production company claiming that it had the DVD rights to the series. By that time, series star Robert Vaughn had even done some work for the alleged rights holder, in terms of interviews, and the whole mess ended up in court, where it was sorted out in 2007. And now we have this set - originally available only through Time Warner - 41 DVDs containing the complete run of the series, appended with a pair of contemporary feature film adaptations of the show, plus a ton of bonus features. It's enough to keep even those with lots of time on their hands busy for months. The film-to-video transfers are generally first-rate, although surprisingly, the oldest programs - the black-and-white first season episodes - are far more consistent and satisfying than the three seasons (well, two-and-a-half seasons) of color episodes that follow. It's difficult to say for certain, without having been at the transfer sessions, but the clarity of the full-screen (1.33-to-1) transfers seems to show up some of less satisfying elements of the color photography on the later episodes (except where color scheme was an essential component of a shot or scene). In one second season episode, the second unit footage of Swiss and Italian locales looks superb here, whereas the actual scene photography seems flat and dullish by comparison. In fairness, one must concede that color television shooting was relatively new in the years 1965-66, and even beyond - it was also horrendously expensive by the standards of the time, which often resulted in corners (or attention to detail) being cut in some instances, even on hit series. And it should also be said, in regard to the photographers involved, that no one in 1965 could ever have conceived of the notion that anyone would be examining their work on this series on this level, in digital video, in 2009, at the time, they probably figured that if the stuff was rerun for as few as a half-dozen times, that would be pushing their useful shelf life.- Shop: odax
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Prime Evil / Lurkers
Two sleaze packed horror films from the queen of exploitation cinema, Roberta Findlay! PRIME EVIL: Nestled in a Manhattan monastery, evil is lurking. A group of devil worshipping monks are stalking the city, looking for victims to sacrifice to the dark lord in the hope of bringing satanic rule to the world! A stylishly photographed neo-gothic horror, PRIME EVIL packs in gore, nudity, and loads of 80s NYC locales. LURKERS: When Cathy was a girl, she saw her deranged mother murder her father and only narrowly escaped with her life. Haunted by memories of her macabre childhood, her nightmares turn into a terrifying reality when she's lured back to her childhood home, only to be transformed into a 'lurker,' members of the vengeful dead who seek to terrorize those who wronged them. Findlay's suspenseful ghost story explores trauma and grief between moments of shocking violence.- Shop: odax
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