♥ (Heart) is the fourth EP by Norwegian electronic dance music producer Aleksander Vinter, and his third under the alias "Savant". It was released on 13 March 2013. Its total length of 30:44 comprises 5 tracks.
Heart is an American rock band that first found success in Canada and later in the United States and worldwide. Over the group's four-decade history it has had three primary lineups, with the constant center of the group since 1974 being sisters Ann Wilson (lead singer) and Nancy Wilson (guitarist). Heart rose to fame in the mid-1970s with music influenced by hard rock and heavy metal as well as folk music. Their popularity declined in the early 1980s, but the band enjoyed a comeback starting in 1985 and experienced even greater success with album oriented rock (AOR) hits and hard rock ballads into the 1990s. With Jupiter's Darling (2004), Red Velvet Car (2010), and Fanatic (2012), Heart made a return to its hard rock and acoustic folk roots.
To date, Heart has sold over 35 million records worldwide, including over 22.5 million in album sales in the U.S. The group was ranked number 57 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". With Top 10 albums on the Billboard Album Chart in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s, Heart is among the most commercially enduring hard rock bands in history. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
Season two of Supernatural, an American paranormal drama television series created by Eric Kripke, premiered on September 28, 2006, and concluded on May 17, 2007, airing 22 episodes. The season focuses on protagonists Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) as they track down Azazel, the demon responsible for the deaths of their mother Mary and father John. They attempt to discover the demon's plan for Sam and other psychic children—young adults who were visited by Azazel as infants and given abilities, and whose mothers often then died in a fire. During their travels, they use their father's journal to help them carry on the family business—saving people and hunting supernatural creatures.
The season aired on Thursdays at 9:00 pm ET in the United States, and was the first season to air on The CW television network, a joint venture of The WB and UPN. The previous season was broadcast on The WB. It averaged only about 3.14 million American viewers, and was in danger of not being renewed. The cast and crew garnered many award nominations, but the episodes received mixed reviews from critics. While both the brotherly chemistry between the lead actors and the decision to finish the main storyline were praised, the formulaic structure of the episodes was criticized.
Pure is a compilation album by pop band The Lightning Seeds, released in 1996 and reaching #27 in the UK Albums Chart.
The first of what would turn out to be five compilations Ian Broudie released from 1996 to 2006, Pure, The Lightning Seeds' first release by Virgin, is almost a reissue rather than a compilation, since it consists of all but three of the songs released by Epic on the first two albums, Cloudcuckooland from 1990 and Sense from 1992; the only songs missing are one song from the first album ("Control the Flame") and two from Sense: ("Where Flowers Fade" and "Marooned").
All songs written and composed by Ian Broudie; except where indicated.
Pure is the first internationally published album by Christchurch, New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra. Her previous albums were released only in New Zealand and nearby Australia. This album also received professional consultation from the legendary Sir George Martin who helped to create its "unique appeal". In 2004, it was the highest selling New Zealand Album and so it privileged Hayley with an award from the New Zealand Music Awards of 2004. It was published by the Decca Music Group label in 2003. It was distributed in the United States by Universal Classics in 2004. During its first week of sales it sold 19,068 copies. As of 2007, Pure is the best selling classical album for the 21st century in the UK.
Pure gives a new freshness to well known classical repertoire, as well as exploring the world of pop and traditional Maori choral singing, including renditions of "Who Painted the Moon Black?", "Hine e Hine" (a song of the Māori, the natives of New Zealand), "In Trutina", from Orff's Carmina Burana, "Wuthering Heights" (a cover of the Kate Bush hit), and the perennial spiritual classic "Amazing Grace". Sir George Martin co-wrote the track "Beat of Your Heart" just for the album. Also on the album is "Pokarekare Ana", a New Zealand love song which has enduring popularity, and has become Hayley's signature song.
Pure is a studio album from saxophonist Chris Potter released 1994 for Concord Records. Appearing on the album is frequent collaborator John Hart on guitar, in addition to pianist and organist Larry Goldings. According to Neil Tesser, Goldings plays with "virtually none of the traditional organ-jazz fare" on this album.
Loss is the debut album of Scottish indie pop band Mull Historical Society. It includes the singles "Barcode Bypass", "I Tried", "Animal Cannabus" and "Watching Xanadu". The album reached number 43 in the UK album chart. It was inspired by the sudden death of his father in 1999 and his upbringing on the Isle of Mull. It contains samples from a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry and the waves on Calgary Bay in Mull. "Barcode Bypass" is about a small shopkeeper threatened by the supermarkets, and "Watching Xanadu" is about watching the film Xanadu.
All songs written and composed by Colin MacIntyre.
The CD version of the album was released as an enhanced CD-ROM containing footage of Colin MacIntyre performing live acoustic versions of the songs "Barcode Bypass" and "I Tried".
Craig Smith
Matthew 5:8
Over and over I hear it again
That the Father desires pure heart
Not to seek earthly treasure or the favor of man
But to be found with pureness of heart
Chorus
Pure heart is what the Father desires
Holy heart purified by God's holy fire
Broken heart, proven to be faithful and true
Fashion in me a heart that's thirsting for You
Search ever chamber, expose them to me
Create motives of honor and simplicity
May you find faithfulness, integrity
A heart which is worthy for Your eyes to see
Chorus
My only ambition is to stand before You
And find I was pleasing in Your sight
And obedient child of God, faithful and true
Found with pureness of heart
Chorus
The pure heart is free of mixed motives. It is one emptied of self, and
filled with total devotion to the Lord.--Craig Smith
In the natural realm, when we speak of the heart, we are referring to
the chief physical organ in the human body. Though failure of other
human organs can result in death, no other part plays a more important
life sustaining role than that of the heart.
This is also true in the spiritual realm. Throughout Biblical history,
the heart has represented the man himself. The very center of his
every emotion and appetite. It is no wonder then, that the Lord requires
we love Him with all our heart. A heart wholly devoted to the Lord is a
heart which is pure, it has no admixture. It is not divided, polluted, or
contaminated by foreign substances.
The Psalmist tells us (Ps 51:16,17) God is not pleased with sacrifices and
burnt offerings. In fact, He told the Israelites, the very ones He set
up the sacrificial system through, that He no longer took pleasure in
their burnt offerings, and that the offerings had even become
"worthless." (Is 1:11-13) The problem was not in His system, but was
instead in the hearts of His people. He knew their hearts, and their
hearts were void of the necessary total devotion and love for Him. They
were merely going through a heartless motion of meaningless religious
ceremony. The result, "When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will
hide my eyes from you, yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not
listen." (Is 1:15) He then appeals to them to repent of their sins and by
doing so, even though their "sins are a scarlet, they will be washed
white as snow..." I cannot help but mention the close parallel in
Israel's situation then, with the present situation in our western
culture today. According to various polling systems, the majority of
people living in the United States have a belief in God. However, for a
majority, we do not seem to have a great effect on our society. Could it
be that a great many of those polled are jus going through "meaningless
religious ceremony"? We would all do well to compare our present
relationships with Christ with the early churches relationships to
Christ.
Once again, what pleases the Father is the whole heart devoted to Him.
The acceptable sacrifices to the Lord are no longer "burnt offerings"
but instead "...a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart..." The word
"broken" in these passages refers to a crushing into the form of powder.
If you were to take a small stone and toss it into a swift stream of
water, the stone would resist the flow and quickly sink to the bottom.
However, you could recover the same small stone, pound it into a fine
powder, and then pour it from your hand into the stream and even though
it is the same mineral substance, it no longer resists the stream's flow,
but instead floats wherever the stream carries it.
In many ways we are like the small stone. With selfish, unsubmissive
hearts, we resist God's flow or direction and find ourselves sinking.
However, if we are wise, we will approach the Lord and ask Him to reveal
any and hurtful object in our hearts. Reveal anything that divides us
from a right relationship with Him and restore us to the joy of our
salvation. May our prayers be that He will crush us into submissive,
totally devoted hearts. Suddenly we will realize we are flowing with
Him and being totally fulfilled by our relationship with Him, instead of
living in the strife of resistance. We will never know total
fulfillment, until He has from us a total heart, a whole heart, a pure