31st march (’23): World Backup Day

World Backup Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually by the backup industry and tech industry all over the world. It highlights the importance of protecting data and keeping systems and computers secure.

World Backup Day started with a post on Reddit where a user wrote about losing their hard drive and wishing someone had reminded them about how important it is to backup data. The campaign started by Ismail Jadun in 2011 and every year news outlets write articles about the importance of backing up data on World Backup Day.

Every year on March 31, companies tweet and have podcasts about the importance of backing up data to prevent data loss. On the website WorldBackupDay.com people can make a pledge in ten languages on various social media channels about the importance of backing up their data. The World Backup Day is recognized as National Calendar Day on two national holiday websites.

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♬ Laura Pausini – Un buon inizio

LYRIC

Tu lo sai dove va
La vita senza il coraggio
Rimane vera a metà
Come una statua di ghiaccio
Scomparirà pian piano quello che ho passato
Come dediche a mano sopra un libro usato
Bisogna dare il giusto peso ad uno sbaglio
Le cicatrici servono a volare meglio
Quando ci metto l’anima
E poi mi perdo d’animo
È il mondo che crolla
Ma la mia testa dura no
Cade il sorriso dalle labbra
Come un bicchiere che si rompe sul pavimento
Ci son parole come bombe che brucian dentro
Ma non le ascolterò
Non lascio vincere la rabbia
E cresce come una foresta il mio cambiamento
Scambio quello che temevo per ciò che sento
E non è molto
Ma almeno è un buon inizio
In mezzo a questo rumore
E tra un milione di strade
Cerco un futuro migliore
Mi fermo e provo a brillare
E chi mi guarda mentre ballo sola un lento
Non sa mai com’è bello darsi il proprio tempo
È il brivido che provo sopra il precipizio
La fine di una gara prima del giudizio
Quando ci metto l’anima
E poi mi perdo d’animo
È il mondo che crolla
Ma la mia testa dura no
Cade il sorriso dalle labbra
Come un bicchiere che si rompe sul pavimento
Ci son parole come bombe che brucian dentro
Ma non le ascolterò
Non lascio vincere la rabbia
E cresce come una foresta il mio cambiamento
Scambio quello che temevo per ciò che sento
E non è molto
Ma almeno è un buon inizio
Cosa si è rotto in me?
Cosa mi ha fatto tremare forte?
È la paura che trasforma a volte
L’insicurezza in libertà
Bastasse un treno per scappare, scappare via
Bastasse un trucco per coprire tutta l’apatia
Bastasse un buon inizio per la mia malinconia
Cade il sorriso dalle labbra
Come un bicchiere che si rompe sul pavimento
Ci son parole come bombe che brucian dentro
Ma non le ascolterò (ma non le ascolterò)
Non lascio vincere la rabbia
E cresce come una foresta il mio cambiamento
Scambio quello che temevo per ciò che sento
E non è molto
Ma almeno è un buon inizio

♬ Ed Sheeran – Eyes Closed

as always Ed sheeran plays amazing songs: this is the new single that came out on march 23rd

LYRIC

I know it’s a bad idea
But how can I help myself?
Been inside for most this year
And I thought a few drinks, they might help

It’s been a while, my dear
Dealing with the cards life dealt
I’m still holding back these tears
While my friends are somewhere else

I pictured this year a little bit different
When it hit February
I step in the bar, it hit me so hard
Oh, how can it be this heavy?
Every song reminds me you’re gone
And I feel the lump form in my throat
‘Cause I’m here alone

Just dancing with my eyes closed
‘Cause everywhere I look I still see you
And time is moving so slow
And I don’t know what else that I can do
So I’ll keep dancing with my

Eye-eye-eye-eyes
Eye-eye-eye-eyes closed
Eye-eye-eye-eyes
So I’ll keep dancing with my

Delusion is here again
And I think you’ll come home soon
A word brings me right back in
Then it’s only me that’s in this room

I guess I could just pretend
The colours are more than blue
But I lost more than my friend
I can’t help but missing you

I pictured this month a little bit different
No one is ever ready
And when it unfolds, you get in a hole
Oh, how can it be this heavy?
Everything changes, nothing’s the same
Except the truth is now you’re gone
And life just goes on

So I’m dancing with my eyes closed
‘Cause everywhere I look I still see you
And time is moving so slow
And I don’t know what else that I can do
So I’ll keep dancing with my

Eye-eye-eye-eyes
Eye-eye-eye-eyes closed
Eye-eye-eye-eyes
So I’ll keep dancing with my

Eye-eye-eye-eyes
Eye-eye-eye-eyes closed
Eye-eye-eye-eyes
Oh, I keep dancing with my

They’re shutting the bar
They’re cleaning the floor
And everyone is already home
But I’m on my own

Still dancing with my eyes closed
‘Cause everywhere I look I still see you
Time is moving so slow
And I don’t know what else that I can do
So I’ll keep dancing with my

Eye-eye-eye-eyes
Eye-eye-eye-eyes closed
Eye-eye-eye-eyes
Oh, I keep dancing with my

Eye-eye-eye-eyes
Eye-eye-eye-eyes closed
Eye-eye-eye-eyes
Oh, I keep dancing with my

22th February (’23): World Thinking Day

World Thinking Day, formerly Thinking Day, is celebrated annually on 22 February by all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It is also celebrated by Scout and Guide organizations around the world. It is a day when they think about their “sisters” (and “brothers”) in all the countries of the world, the meaning of Guiding, and its global impact.

Most recently, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has selected an important international issue as the theme for each year’s World Thinking Day, and selected a focus country from each of their five world regions. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts use these as an opportunity to study and appreciate other countries and cultures, and equally increase awareness and sensitivity on global concerns. Donations are collected for the Thinking Day Fund which supports projects to help Girl Guides and Scouts around the world.

22 February was chosen as it was the birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell and of Lady Olave Baden-Powell, his wife and World Chief Guide. Other Scouts celebrate it as B.-P. Day or Founders’ Day.


In 1926, at the Fourth Girl Scout International Conference, held at Girl Scouts of the United States’s Camp Edith Macy (presently the Edith Macy Conference Center), the conference delegates highlighted the need for a special international day when Girl Guides and Girl Scouts would think about the worldwide spread of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting, and of all the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world, giving them, their “sisters,” thanks and appreciation.

It was decided by the delegates that this day would be 22 February, the birthday of both Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, and Lady Olave Baden-Powell, his wife and the World Chief Guide.

In 1999, at the 30th World Conference, held in Ireland, the name was changed from “Thinking Day” to “World Thinking Day”, to emphasize the global aspect of this special day.

20th February (’23):World Day of Social Justice

World Day of Social Justice (Social Justice Equality Day) is an international day recognizing the need to promote social justice, which includes efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion, gender inequality, unemployment, human rights, and social protections. Many organizations, including the UN, American Library Association (ALA), and the International Labour Organization, make statements on the importance of social and present plans for greater social justice by tackling poverty, social and economic exclusion and unemployment. The United Nations General Assembly has decided to observe 20 February annually, approved on 26 November 2007 and starting in 2009, as the World Day of Social Justice. The Declaration focuses on guaranteeing fair outcomes for all through employment, social protection, social dialogue, and fundamental principles and rights. Teaching Social Justice DayIdeal topics for teaching students about the need for social justice include (but are not limited to) childhood poverty, global citizenship, human rights, and sustainable development. A series of lessons are available by country with the United Nations and other programs. Oxfam’s food for thought power point which shows students the global food system that then has the opportunity for students to share their thoughts and experiences. The lesson plans and collections available are for students of all ages.

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♬ Taylor Swift – Lavender Haze

LYRIC

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Meet me at midnight
Ooh ooh ooh whoa

Staring at the ceiling with you
Oh, you don’t ever say too much
And you don’t really read into
My melancholia
I’ve been under scrutiny (Yeah, oh yeah)
You handle it beautifully (Yeah, oh yeah)
All this shit is new to me (Yeah, oh yeah)

I feel the lavender haze creeping up on me
Surreal
I’m damned if I do give a damn what people say
No deal
The 1950s’ shit they want from me
I just wanna stay in that lavender haze
Ooh ooh ooh whoa

All they keep asking me
(All they keep asking me)
Is if I’m gonna be your bride
The only kinda girl they see
(Only kinda girl they see)
Is a one-night or a wife
I find it dizzying (Yeah, oh yeah)
They’re bringing up my history (Yeah, oh yeah)
But you weren’t even listening (Yeah, oh yeah)

I feel the lavender haze creeping up on me
Surreal
I’m damned if I do give a damn what people say
No deal
The 1950s’ shit they want from me
I just wanna stay in that lavender haze
That lavender haze

Talk your talk and go viral
I just need this love spiral
Get it off your chest
Get it off my desk
(Get it off my desk)

Talk your talk and go viral
I just need this love spiral
Get it off your chest
Get it off my desk

I feel (I feel) the lavender haze creeping up on me
Surreal
I’m damned if I do give a damn what people say
No deal (No deal)
The 1950s’ shit they want from me
I just wanna stay in that lavender haze

Ooh ooh ooh whoa
Get it off your chest
Get it off my desk
That lavender haze
I just wanna stay
I just wanna stay in that lavender haze

10th February (’23): National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (ITALY)

Remembrance Day is an Italian national civil solemnity, celebrated on February 10 each year, which commemorates the massacres of the sinkholes and the Julian Dalmatian exodus. Established with the law of 30 March 2004 n. 92, wants to “preserve and renew the memory of the tragedy of the Italians and of all the victims of the sinkholes, of the exodus from their lands of the Istrians, Fiume and Dalmatians after the Second World War and of the more complex story of the eastern border”

The Remembrance Day is associated with the release of a commemorative medal intended for relatives of suppressed and infoibate persons in Istria, in Fiume, in Dalmatia or in the provinces of the current eastern border between 8 September 1943, the date of the announcement of entry force of the armistice of Cassibile, and on February 10, 1947, the day of the signing of the peace treaties of Paris. Those who have been killed while voluntarily forming part of formations not in the service of Italy are excluded from recognition.

The chosen date is the day on which, in 1947, the Treaty of Paris was signed, which assigned Istria, Quarnaro, the city of Zara with its province and most of Venezia Giulia, previously part of Yugoslavia of Italy.

Some bills (all unsuccessful) were presented respectively in 1995, 1996 and 2000.

A new bill was presented to the Chamber of Deputies on 6 February 2003. It bore the signatures of a large group of deputies from various parliamentary groups (mainly from the National Alliance and Forza Italia, as well as from the UDC and Margherita). The first signatories were Roberto Menia and Ignazio La Russa, both in the past militants of the neo-fascist inspired party Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). On February 10, 2004, Senator of the Margherita Willer Bordon - former militant of the Italian Communist Party - presented a bill with very similar content. The first bill to be discussed was the one presented to the Chamber: Bordon's proposal was consequently absorbed into it during the parliamentary passage through the Senate. The parliamentary process of the measure ended on 16 March 2004. Regularly promulgated by the President of the Republic, the law of 30 March 2004, n. 92, was published in the "Official Gazette" n. 86 of 13 April 2004.

4th February (’23): World Cancer Day

World Cancer Day is celebrated on February 4, promoted by the UICC – Union for International Cancer Control – and supported by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Now in its twenty-third edition, the day represents an important call to reflect on what institutions and individuals can do together to fight cancer.

‘Close the Care Gap – Everyone deserves access to cancer care’ is the theme of the 2022-2024 campaign. The slogan calls attention to the importance of understanding and recognizing inequalities in cancer care around the world.

“Cancer is a preventable and curable pathology. We are preparing initiatives to enhance the promotion of cancer screening and at the same time encourage correct lifestyles to reduce risk factors. Prevention is essential and for this reason we want to spread a strong message of promotion of health to the entire population and in particular to young people, starting from elementary schools” declared the Italian Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci.

♬ Miley Cyrus – Flowers

In January 2023 Miley Cyrus returns two years with a new single, Flowers, an excerpt from the new album “Endless Vacation Summer” which will be released on March 10th.

The Meaning of Flowers
Flowers is a song that was born with the aim of claiming an emotional independence achieved over time by the artist, after breaking up with her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth. It talks about a beautiful relationship that ended, recounting a serenity conquered after having reached the awareness of being able to do it alone, not necessarily needing a partner to feel good.

LYRIC

We were good, we were gold
Kind of dream that can’t be sold
We were right ’til we weren’t
Built a home and watched it burn

Mmm, I didn’t wanna leave you, I didn’t wanna lie
Started to cry, but then remembered I

I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in the sand
Talk to myself for hours
Say things you don’t understand
I can take myself dancing
And I can hold my own hand
Yeah, I can love me better than you can

Can love me better, I can love me better, baby
Can love me better, I can love me better, baby

Paint my nails cherry-red
Match the roses that you left
No remorse, no regret
I forget every word you said

Ooh, I didn’t wanna leave, baby, I didn’t wanna fight
Started to cry, but then remembered I

I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in sand
Talk to myself for hours, yeah
Say things you don’t understand
I can take myself dancing, yeah
I can hold my own hand
Yeah, I can love me better than you can

Can love me better, I can love me better, baby
Can love me better, I can love me better, baby
Can love me better, I can love me better, baby
Can love me better, ooh, I

I didn’t wanna leave you, I didn’t wanna fight
Started to cry, but then remembered I

I can buy myself flowers (Uh-huh)
Write my name in the sand (Ooh, mmm)
Talk to myself for hours (Yeah)
Say things you don’t understand (Better than you)
I can take myself dancing (Yeah)
I can hold my own hand
Yeah, I can love me better than
Yeah, I can love me better than you can

Can love me better, I can love me better, baby (Uh)
Can love me better, I can love me better, baby (Than you can)
Can love me better, I can love me better, baby
Can love me better, I

♬ LIZZO – Special: the new single comes out today, January 12, 2023

This is the new single by the singer Lizzo and it is the name of the album from which it is extracted, which instead was released on July 15, 2022.

This is the new single by singer Lizzo and it is the name of the album from which it is extracted, which was released on July 15, 2022. As always, Lizzo’s songs, although we do not have a markedly rock style, still have own strength dynamic and disruptive that differs from other pop songs.

LYRIC

Woke up this morning to somebody in a video
Talking about something I posted in a video
If it wasn’t me then would you even get offended? Or
Is it just because I’m Black and heavy? Y’all don’t hear me though
I’ve been the same since I’ve been driving slow on Bissonnet
Call up anybody I know and they would tell you that
Fame is pretty new but I’ve been used to people judging me
That’s why I move the way I move and why I’m so in love with me

I’m used to feeling alone, oh
So I thought that I’d let you know

In case nobody told you today
You’re special (special)
In case nobody made you believe
You’re special (special)
Well, I will always love you the same
You’re special
I’m so glad that you’re still with us
Broken, but damn, you’re still perfect (perfect)
(Special)

Could you imagine a world
Where everybody’s the same?
And you can cancel a girl
‘Cause she just wanted to change
How could you throw fuckin’ stones
If you ain’t been through her pain?
That’s why we feel so alone
That’s why we feel so ashamed, hmm

I’m used to feeling alone, oh
So I thought that I’d let you know (oh)

In case nobody told you today
You’re special (special)
In case nobody made you believe
You’re special (special)
Well, I will always love you the same
You’re special
I’m so glad that you’re still with us
Broken, but damn, you’re still perfect (perfect)

I know that I’m not alone, oh
So I thought that I’d let you know (oh)
Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah, yeah)

In case nobody told you today
You’re special (special)
In case nobody made you believe
You’re special (yeah)
Well, I will always love you the same
You’re special (special)
I’m so glad that you’re still with us (I’m so glad)
Broken, but damn, you’re still perfect (so glad, so glad, so glad)

Special
You are, you are, you are so special
Mmm-mmm
Hey