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Holocaust survivor reunites with family of U.S. soldier who left her life-changing note
Linda Givetash
A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor was finally able to thank the family of an American soldier who gave her hope upon being liberated from a Nazi death camp in World War II, 75 years on.
Lily Ebert was connected with the children of the soldier over a Zoom call coordinated by her great-grandson, Dov Forman, on Sunday.
"It is unbelievable. I never knew something like this could happen. It was a fantastic feeling," Ebert told NBC News by phone from her home in London.
Their meeting was made possible by a tweet Forman sent that went viral.
The 16-year-old said he took it upon himself to start documenting Ebert's stories of the war once coronavirus lockdown restrictions were eased and he could visit.
"My great-grandma obviously isn't going to be around forever and her story will eventually become my whole family's responsibility to carry on," Forman said.
During one of his recent visits, Forman said he noticed a German banknote preserved in one of Ebert's old photo albums.
Ebert explained that a few weeks after being liberated in the German town of Pfaffroda, she met an American soldier. Without anything else to write on, she said the soldier used a banknote to put down his words of encouragement to her.
Yesterday my great Grandma (Lily Ebert - an Auschwitz survivor) showed me this bank note- given to her as a gift by a soldier who liberated her. Inscribed, it says "a start to a new life. Good luck and happiness". Later on, she met up with those who freed her (third photo). pic.twitter.com/LAx2ZGFCnH
— Dov Forman (@DovForman) July 5, 2020
"The start to a new life. Good luck and happiness," he wrote.
While it was a simple gesture, it was life-changing for young Ebert.
"This soldier was the first human being who was kind to us," she said. "It was the first time after this terrible life that somebody was kind and I knew that somebody wants to help."
Touched by the story, Forman decided to share images of the banknote on Twitter. To his surprise, he said it went viral within hours, gaining over a million views.
A Twitter user who saw it sent him a suggestion that the mystery soldier may be American Pvt. Hyman Schulman. Although he died in 2013, Schulman's story of the war was well documented in many letters he sent back to his wife that have since been rediscovered by his family.
Image: Lilly Ebert and Dov Forman (right) hold a Zoom call with Arlene and Jason Schulman, descendants of the American GI that liberated Lilly during the war, along with Lilly's daughter and husband Bilha and Julian Weider. (Dov Forman)
With some research, Forman said he was able to locate Schulman's children in New York and bring the families together digitally.
"It was really special. It felt like we were family, we just clicked," Forman said.
For Ebert, it was also a special moment to speak to people who had a deep understanding of the horrors of the past.
"I know that this soldier told his family, he wrote to his family every day the stories that he saw," she said. "With that, I feel some connection to them."
Image: Lily Ebert, center, with her sisters who were sent to Auschwitz together and endured slave labor and the death march during WWII. (Dov Forman)
Ebert, who was born in Hungary, has always been vocal about her experience, sharing it with not just her family but also speaking to schools, businesses and community groups.
She had been taken to Auschwitz at the age of 14 and separated from her mother, brother and sister who were all killed there. Ebert and her two other younger sisters — one of whom is still alive — were sent to a munitions factory where they endured slave labor for four months.
"They dehumanized us," she said. They were forced to work grueling, long hours, deprived of food and sleep.
It was the responsibility of having to look out for her younger sisters that helped keep her going, she said. And she also made a vow to herself.
"I promised myself that if I survived by some miracle, I would tell the world what happened there," Ebert said. "The next generation and next generations should know the story so that something like that should not be repeated to any human being ever."
And Ebert has been able to keep to her promise.
The families are planning another Zoom call next week, Forman said, and are even discussing an in-person meeting once coronavirus-related travel restrictions are lifted.
"I hope one day that I will meet them personally, I would very much like to have that," Ebert said.
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Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013.
A bank robber in Florida commandeers a car belonging to a woman U.S. marshall, climbs with her into the trunk, while an accomplice drives. So begins a novel about two people who really wish the ride had gone forever. As it is, she escapes to lead a manhunt for him.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : PerfectBound, 2002.
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Foley was a celebrity hard-timer who'd robbed more banks than they'd been in to cash a check.
Karen Sisco, twenty-nine, was a deputy United States marshal, recently transferred from Miami to the West Palm Beach office. She had worked surveillance jobs for her dad while in college, ... and transferred to Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton to take their criminal justice program.
"... I don't mean the place where some of Nixon's people went, Haldeman, some of those guys. That was Lompoc FPC, federal prison camp, the one they used to call Club Fed. No fence, no guys with shanks or razor blades stuck in toothbrush handles. The worst that could happen to you, some guy hits you over the head with a tennis racquet."
She picked up the phone and dialed a number. "Dad? Karen. Will you do me a big favor?" "Do I have to get up? I just made myself a drink."
"... I see this guy wearing sunglasses I'll step on 'em. I might not even take 'em off him first."
"Everybody thought the guy was a genius," Foley said, "till they found out he made it the old-fashioned way, he stole it."
... titles. He told them he'd spot the car a customer wanted and use a slim jim or lemon pop to get in, a slap hammer to yank the ignition, a side kick to extract steering column locks and usually liquid nitrogen to freeze the alarm system. See if that impressed them.
"... he asks if she'll do him a favor? And she says, 'Have I ever denied you anything?'"
"... I'm forty-seven years old and I'm not doing any more time." Karen said, "You're sure about that?" "If I go back I do a full thirty years, no time off. Could you imagine looking at that?" "I don't have to," Karen said, "I don't rob banks." "If it turns out I get shot down like a dog it'll be in the street, not off a goddamn fence."
"Biscuits and redeye gravy?" ... "I don't care for the gravy. What I like to do is crumble up my bacon in the grits."
... the old ladies and a few skinny old guys sitting around the lobby. ... They're outside on the patio, they're in the lobby, they're like birds sitting on a telephone line watching everything that's going on.
"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. Bust out one day and back to work the next."
"You're too late, Jack. You're what you are, clean or dirty. The best either of us can do is look at nice pretty girls and think, well, if we had done it different . . ."
No fence, no gun towers. The only thing to stop anybody from leaving is a sign that says Off Limits.
... a sign above the ring on the other side that said turn up the heat. Another one, the bigger the reward the bigger the sacrifice. Glenn stared at it a few moments thinking it should be turned around, ...
"... Your friends are at the mall, you're home watching the fights." "Well, once in a while I did. And soaps," Karen said. "General Hospital, I almost became a nurse."
"The FBI has warrants right now for over six thousand fugitives. What do they need two more for?"
"I always liked nuns. They're so clean. They never seem to sweat."
She could do rope tricks: cut and restore, threading the needle, the coat-escape using volunteers. She could do handkerchief tricks: Fatima the dancer, the serpentine silk, the dissolving knot. She could do card tricks: the Hindu shuffle, overhand shuffle, the doubt lift, the glide . . . She could do sealed envelopes: the Gypsy mind reader, impossible penetrations . . .
"The engine comes down the line, let's say it's for an automatic. Okay, I take this brace in my left hand— it's hanging from a track— work the hoist button with my right hand, get it in position so the pins in the brace line up with the holes they have to fit into in the transmission, jockey it around . . ."
For a big industrial city like Detroit there were so few people on the streets. Sunday, Buddy said it was because it was Sunday and everybody was home watching the game. Today was Tuesday, there still weren't many people walking around downtown. You could count them, Foley said. Buddy said he didn't know, maybe they built the freeways and everybody left town.
"You wanted to tussle," Karen said, "we tussled."
I asked him how come they don't have fights at Joe Louis Arena. He said they do, it's where the Wings play hockey.
You say 'work' to a con he'll go out the window, not even bothering to see what floor he's on.
"You called me your zoo-zoo." "That's candy, inside, something sweet. You don't hear it much anymore." He smiled and touched her hand. "You were my treat."
"You think I'm too old for you." ... She said, "Or I'm too young for you. Do you think we can work it out?"
Huey P. Newton had said one time, "An Army .45 will stop all jive," ...
It was the little annoying things about him, like saying "ciao" instead of so long or see you later, or the way he called her "lady" and it made her think of Kenny Rogers.
"I doubt anybody's saying novenas for me, but I'm sure as hell not going back there." "You can't be that sure," Buddy said. "Yeah, well, that's the one thing I've made up my mind about." "They put a gun on you you'll go back." "They put a gun on you," Foley said, "you still have a choice, don't you?"
He liked this kind of movie. You could think about it after, when you had nothing to do, try to figure out what the movie was about.
... both real guys who seemed tired of who they were, but couldn't do anything about it. Stuck, putting up with their lives the way people find themselves in jobs they care nothing about, but in time have nowhere else to go.
Karen hadn't been to confession because she seldom felt guilty about anything. If she had doubts, she would talk to her dad about it. Or, she would imagine talking to her dad, which to Karen was much the same thing.
"You told me out on the highway it was too late, you know, to have a regular life. I knew that. I still wanted to know what might've happened if things were different."
... he felt, that these were the final scenes of his life playing out, that pretty soon it would be over and he was resigned to it happening. Here, not against the fence in some penitentiary. It was like if Clyde Barrow, driving along that county road in '34, knew he was going to run into all those Texas Rangers and there was nothing he could do about it. How did you explain that kind of feeling to anybody?
Foley listening to sociopaths offering their credentials, misfits trying not to sound like losers, Foley realizing, shit, here was just a little more of what most of his life had been. He would hear Buddy make quiet comments that were meant to zing but fell flat, the same old same old, that stand-up talk you heard in the yard, but nobody here bothering to listen, busy thinking of what they'd say next. All us tough guys, Foley thought.
Have not seen the film yet but plan to. Judging from the book, should be a fun watch. After a well planned jail break, Elmore took his time to build up the eclectic criminal characters and exploded in the last few chapters into the nth degree mayhem. In between, readers are treated to an unlikely sweet fairy-tale of a romance, a tour of Detroit in the winter, old time auto assembly and its boxing scenes. Not as good as Mr. Majestyk or Rum Punch but what is?
bibliochola May 30, 2015
The movie was better!
Escapes — Fiction.
Brigands and Robbers — Fiction.
Government Investigators — Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) — Fiction.
Detective and Mystery Fiction.

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A recepção funciona todos os dias, das 9h às 18h.
Acesso à piscina disponível das 10h00 às 21h00.
The location was fabulous. The cabin was a converted single white trailer. The kitchen was pretty nice and the deck was pretty nice but the furniture was very old and uncomfortable. Cleanliness was a problem. Plus I was there for a week but linens and towels were never changed. I had to dump my own trash and leave dishes washed and put away. I didn't really mind the dishes part but it would have been nice to have the sheets and towels replaced and the trash collected. The ad promised amenities but none were there.
The cabin we rented was great! It was clean everything worked and the staff was great!
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We had a wonderful stay in a small one bedroom cabin. The staff were very friendly. We will definitely stay there again.


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The guys talk about Legion, and then get into merchandise, sales, and collecting. With Arden, Hopkins, Jarrett, Matt, and Pete.
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The best path ahead is to seek out the affected stakeholders and work with them towards a fair and equitable system. If we can identify and remove bias against people with disabilities from our technologies, we will be taking an important step towards creating a society that respects and upholds the human rights of us all.
Alexa, go buy me some milk.
In the shadow of Amazon's offices in downtown Seattle, people enter a tiny grocery store, take whatever they want, and then walk out. And nobody runs after them screaming. This is what it's like to shop at Amazon Go, the online retail giant's vision for the future of brick-and-mortar stores. There are no checkout clerks, or even checkout stands. Instead, a smartphone app, hundreds of regular and infrared cameras on the ceiling (black on black, so they blend in), computer-vision algorithms, and machine learning work together to figure out what you're picking up and charge you for it on a credit card connected to your Amazon account.
That's a worry I've heard before. Whether you're a job seeker meeting a recruiter, an account manager calling a customer, or a novice getting coffee with an industry veteran, handing off communications to an assistant might give you pause. You might worry that you'll blow the opportunity, come off impersonal or worse, arrogant.
I've been using Amy as my personal assistant to schedule meetings and add things to my calendar for a little over a year now. Amy is an "artificial intelligence powered assistant" that you act with as you would a person. The advantage is that Amy does all of the time-consuming email back-and-forths that come along with scheduling meetings.
There are a number of companies coming out with similar AI powered assistants, but x.ai has been my preference (I do test out others to keep up with things).
I schedule lots of meetings with clients, potential clients, boards, and colleagues (and podcasts), so anything that frees up my time while coming across with the same genuineness and kindness that I normally try to convey via email is a winner.
Over the past year, I've learned a good deal about how to deal with Amy as well as how to introduce or include Amy into an email thread with people who have no clue what AI is or why this personal assistant is not a real human being. I'm sure that will continue, but as a culture we are on an upward slope of awareness about AI (whether that's because of interactions with Alexa and Siri or news stories) and the concept of having a personal assistant that is powered by AI won't be such a novelty in a few short years.
I've not had anyone comment about my pretentiousness of having a personal assistant or tell me that they were annoyed or inconvenienced by the experience of working with Amy. So maybe we're getting over our preconceptions about the role of personal assistants in a post-Siri world.
For now, I'm continually using Amy to power meetings and enjoy the experience of doing so!
But Marsbot is important for other reasons, too. She represents a different kind of bot than the ones you see in Facebook Messenger — one that's proactive rather than passive. She's not a chatbot, but an interruptive bot. Crowley says that most other bots are in the model of Aladdin's lamp: you invoke them and the genie appears. Marsbot is more in the Jiminy Cricket mode, hanging over your shoulder and chiming in when needed.
I've been testing out Marsbot the last few days, and I'm seriously impressed. I've been using the Ozlo bot for my random food suggestions based on location, time, preferences etc… and I've been happy with Ozlo.
However, Marsbot has something unique going on… it's not a bot that waits for you. Rather, it's proactive. If you've seen Her, you know immediately what I'm talking about.
Plus, it's based on Foursquare's accumulated data over the years, which is immense. Plus, it works in your text messaging app (iMessage if on Apple) where you're used to getting personal updates or messages rather than going into another app on your device.
Messaging bots are going to be big and change the way we do computing and think of computers.
Merianna and I were just talking about the implications of artificial intelligence and interactions with personal assistants such as my beloved Amy.
The conversation came about after we decided to "quickly" stop by a Verizon store and upgrade her phone (she went with the iPhone SE btw… tiny but impressive). We ended up waiting for 45 mins in a relatively sparse store before being helped with a process that took all of 5 minutes. With a 7 month old baby, that's not a fun way to spend a lunch hour break.
We were in a part of town that we don't usually visit, so I opened up the Ozlo app on my phone and decided to see what it recommended for lunch. Ozlo is a "friendly AI sidekick" that, for now, recommends meals based on user preferences in a messaging format. It's in a closed beta, but if you're up for experimenting, it's not steered me wrong over the last few weeks of travel and in-town meal spots. It suggested a place that neither one of us had ever heard of, and I was quite frankly skeptical. But with the wait and a grumpy baby, we decided to try it out. Ozlo didn't disappoint. The place was tremendous and we both loved it and promised to return often. Thanks, Ozlo.
Over lunch, we discussed Ozlo and Amy, and how personal AI assistants were going to rapidly replace the tortured experience of having to do something like visit a cell provider store for a device upgrade (of course, we could have just gone to a Best Buy or ordered straight from Apple as I do for my own devices, but most people visit their cell provider's storefront). I said that I couldn't wait to message Amy and tell her to find the best price on the iPhone SE 64 gig Space Grey version, order it, have it delivered next day, and hook it up to my Verizon account. Or message Amy and ask her to take care of my traffic ticket with the bank account she has access to. These are menial tasks that can somewhat be accomplished with "human" powered services like TaskRabbit, Fancy Hands, or the new Scale API. However, I'd like for my assistant to be virtual in nature because I'm an only child and I'm not very good at trusting other people to get things done in the way I want them done (working on that one!). Plus, it "feels" weird for me to hire out something that I "don't really have time to do" even if they are willing and more than ready to accept my money in order to do it.
Ideally, I can see these personal AI assistants interfacing with the human services like Fancy Hands when something requires an actual phone call or physical world interaction that AI simply can't (yet) perform such as picking up dry cleaning.
I don't see this type of work flow or production flow being something just for elites or geeks, either. Slowly but surely with innovations like Siri or Google Now or just voice assisted computing, a large swath of the population (in the U.S.) is becoming familiar and engaging with the training wheels of AI driven personal assistants. It's not unimaginable to think that very soon, my Amy will be interacting with Merianna's Amy to help us figure out a good place and time to meet for lunch (Google Calendar is already quasi doing this, though without the personal assistant portion). Once Amy or Alexa or Siri or Cortana or whatever personality Google Home's device will have is able to tap into services like Amy or Scale, we're going to see some very interesting innovations in "how we get things done." If you have a mobile device (which most adults and growing number of young people do), you will have an AI assistant that helps you get very real things done in ways that you wouldn't think possible now.
"Nah, this is just buzzword futurisms. I'll never do that or have that kind of technology in my life. I don't want it." People said the same thing about buying groceries or couches or coffee on their phones in 2005. We said the same thing about having a mobile phone in 1995. We said the same thing about having a computer in our homes in 1985. We said the same thing about ever using a computer to do anything productive in 1975. We said the same thing about using a pocket calculator in 1965.
That won't put me out of a job, but it will make what I do even more specialized.
Whole sectors of jobs and service related positions will disappear while new jobs that we can't think of yet will be created. If we look at the grand scheme of history, we're just at the very beginning of the "computing revolution" or "internet revolution" and the keyboard / mouse / screen paradigm of interacting with the web and computers themselves are certainly going to change (soon, I hope).


After a shocking investigation of CFTC around the activities of FXCM, the company was forced to leave the American jurisdiction.
The regulator also demanded that the interests of FXCM customers be taken into account during this transitional period. Therefore, the NFA was committed to facilitating the transfer of FXCM's customer base to another US company.
After losing business in the US, FXCM remained working in Europe, where they still have a valid license from FCA (License No. 217689). Therefore, the sanctions imposed by the CFTC affected only the American business of the company.
Then, we should expect increased interest from European regulators, who can get rid of the scandalous company altogether. For today in Europe tightening continues, which pushes regulators to radical measures.
So what happened to FXCM?
The American regulator "caught" FXCM on their public marketing promises to work exclusively within the "agent model", that is, as an intermediary (FXCM connects the client and the liquidity provider directly, for which the company receives a commission). However, the investigation revealed that the liquidity provider was an affiliated FXCM company.
1. FXCM was punished only because it deceived customers in its marketing materials (if he wrote as it is, then there would not have been an investigation).
3. The CFTC did not in any way define the instrument by which the transactions were carried out (that is, whether it was a derivative or a rate).
1. FXCM sold its b-book liquidity (yes – it is possible, unfortunately) to licensed companies against which it played, but underestimated the risks it lost, because of what it had "unforeseen" obligations.
2. Banal money laundering through his pocket vendor, and the "black swan" was just an ideal option for writing off such "losses".
And this means a deliberate deception of their investors, which can lead to suits on their part. In the US, very strict rules for reporting by public companies, which in turn gives reason to flood FXCM with claims.
February 27, 2017 GAIN reported receiving 47,000 accounts with a total assets of about $ 142 million. It should be noted that due to the segregation of funds in the US, client money could not suffer in any way because of the regulator's decision to expel the company.
1. Creation of a microsite for former FXCM clients with information about the process of transferring and learning about products and services of FOREX.com.
2. GAIN conducted the integration of TradingView charts on its FOREX.com platform, which expanded the active program Trader forex.com in MetaTrader4 to (MT4) and NinjaTrader.
We are very pleased with the successful migration of accounts this weekend. In a short period with the help of NFA and CFTC, we have successfully transferred 47,000 accounts to Forex.com. Our focus in this process is aimed at ensuring that all integration operations are painless, and that clients receive the support they need.
After the acquisition of GAIN by the US client base FXCM, the company became the largest player in the Retail Forex in the United States, with more than 70,000 customer accounts. If you summarize the entire business of GAIN Capital including work in other jurisdictions, then 140,000 clients or more than $ 1.5 billion of assets are exiting.
What will happen next with FXCM?
In such situations, it is difficult to be a predictor, since the issue of supervision is decided by the regulator on the basis of subjective factors, since there are no clear standards of work. Therefore, it is difficult to say for sure whether such a result is waiting for the company in Europe, but this does not mean that it is worthwhile to sit on the spot (most rationally, to close the accounts in the company, for new investigations are possible).
The main danger for FXCM now, this is an investigation by the FCA, whose mandate obliges to protect the consumer from fraud and unfair play of financial companies. And since in the US FXCM worked with a "pocket" liquidity provider, it is quite possible that such a scheme was used in other jurisdictions. Even more, FXCM sold liquidity in Europe, which means it could quite act as a pocket vendor. Therefore, do not be surprised if we are waiting for the "second series" with a British accent.
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Saw this a while back and loved the idea. These past few weeks have been pretty difficult at work and I predict the next few will be the same.
So what am I doing to create my own sunshine?
Talked to a few teachers who I know are just happy people. That totally helps.
We have a 1/2 day tomorrow. Usually I would just work. Tomorrow I'm picking up the middle schooler and we are going out to lunch. Then maybe a bakery.
I'm setting up my calendar now for next week. I am creating opportunities of greatness.
In the Corps we used to say the sometimes false moto (motivation) was the only motivation that could be found and it was good enough. I guess a modern day version would be fake it till you make it and that isn't 1/2 bad advice.
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Well, I wonder if I should be inspired by such an honest, sort of blue piece. But I am. I especially like your line about getting your calendar set up to allow you to "create opportunities of greatness." So you are working actively to make good things happen. I agree with your false moto and fake it… advice. One piece of advice I use when I feel this way is 90% is showing up. So we show up!
I think you and your middle schooler will really enjoy your time together and get something good at the bakery!
I am inspired by your drive to make some sunshinee. It's important to find the positive people and hang out with them, when you can! Enjoy your 1/2 day!
My best friend and I decided last year around April that we would "fake it til we make it" in the realm of happiness. I've got to say, it is the best decision I ever made. We create our own happiness, sunshine, and energy and we do our best to emit it upon everyone we come in contact with. Oddly enough, even if your faking that smile…it will bring a genuine smile to someone else in need. Glad your creating your own sunshine and you have strategies to do so!


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January 26, 2023 (23-011)
Library of Congress Appoints Hannah Sommers New Associate Librarian for Researcher and Collections Services The Library of Congress announced today the appointment of Hannah Sommers as the new Associate Librarian for Researcher and Collections Services in the Library Collections and Services Group. In this role, Sommers will lead the future of the Library's collections and the services it delivers to researchers and users. She will be central to realizing the Library's aspiration to be not only the world's...
Live at the Library to Celebrate Black History Month, Presidents Day in February Dive deep into the Library's collections in celebration of Black History Month with displays and a performance from the Library's American Folklife Center during Live at the Library in February. Plus, step back in time with an intimate look at the presidency of Calvin Coolidge in honor of Presidents Day.On Thursday evenings, the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions are open for extended...
January 25, 2023 (23-A01)
Jefferson Building Access Changes, Jan. 26 On Thursday, Jan. 26, the Thomas Jefferson Building will close to the public at 3 p.m. to prepare for a special event. This will affect the Great Hall, all exhibitions and the Library Shop.Researchers may access Jefferson Building reading rooms until 5 p.m. The Main Reading Room, usually open until 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, will close early, at 6 p.m. The West Basement (Carriage)...
Library of Congress Announces Spring 2023 Concert Series The Library of Congress will present a series of concerts and more this spring, with chamber music, jazz, dance and film events. Conversations with artists and composers, curated displays, and educational projects will enhance the season's offerings and provide opportunities for encounters with the Library's unparalleled music collections.Contemporary music is in the spotlight, with appearances by Austria's distinguished Klangforum Wien, the 12-voice Ars Nova...
Meg Medina Named New National Ambassador for Young People's Literature The Library of Congress and Every Child a Reader today announced the appointment of Meg Medina as the eighth National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2023-2024.Medina, a Cuban-American, is the first Latina to serve as National Ambassador in the program's history. She succeeds Jason Reynolds, who served as the National Ambassador from 2020 through 2022.Medina's books examine how culture and identity intersect through...
Library of Congress Awards Second Round of More than $500,000 to Support Contemporary Cultural Field Research within Diverse Communities The Library of Congress' American Folklife Center is pleased to announce the second recipient cohort of the Community Collections Grant program. Launched by the Library's Of the People: Widening the Path initiative, this series of grants is awarded to individuals and organizations working to document cultures and traditions of Black, Indigenous and communities of color historically underrepresented in the United States and in the...
Library of Congress Celebrates Historic Aramont Library The Library of Congress will celebrate the Aramont Library with a series of events on Jan. 19 that includes a scholarly symposium, a display of first editions and illustrated books by world-renowned artists from the 19thand 20th centuries and a roundtable discussion about the making of the modern book.In private hands for over 40 years, the Aramont Library was donated to the Library of...
Joni Mitchell to Receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Media Contacts: Brett Zongker, bzongker@loc.govLameka Lucas, WETA, llucas@weta.org Video and Media Assets: newsroom.loc.gov Joni Mitchell to Receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular SongPBS to Premiere Concert Special Honoring Joni Mitchell on March 31 Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced that Joni Mitchell, an icon among music makers, will be the next recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for...
Library of Congress Opens Applications for the 2023 Literacy Awards Applications are being accepted for the 2023 Library of Congress Literacy Awards from Jan. 11 to March 1. The awards are made possible through the generosity of philanthropist David M. Rubenstein.The Literacy Awards — established by the Library of Congress and Rubenstein — were first conferred in 2013 to honor and support organizations working to promote literacy both in the United States and abroad....
January 6, 2023 (23-001)
Live at the Library to Feature Rare Book Collection, New Exhibition in January Visitors will have the chance to dive deep into the Library of Congress' newest exhibition "Join In: Voluntary Associations in America" during Live at the Library in January. Plus, a special display and roundtable will take visitors behind the scenes of a rare modernist book and art collection.On Thursday evenings, the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions are open for extended hours from...
December 16, 2022 (PR-121)
Library of Congress Announces New General Counsel Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that Margaret Williams will become General Counsel of the Library of Congress effective New Year's Day. Williams has been at the Library for 35 years, serving most recently as Deputy General Counsel. She succeeds Elizabeth Pugh who will retire on December 31, after a distinguished 44-year career with the federal government including 22 years at the Library."Elizabeth...
December 14, 2022 (22-120)
25 Eclectic Films Chosen for National Film Registry Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today the annual selection of 25 influential motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Selected for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation's film heritage, the newest selections include a vibrant diversity of American filmmakers, as well as landmark works in key genres and numerous documentaries.The 2022...
Library Announces 2022 Music Commissions from Koussevitzky Foundation The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress has awarded commissions for new musical works to seven composers. The commissions are granted jointly by the foundation and the performing organizations that will present the world premiere of each work.Winning composers for 2022 and the groups co-sponsoring their commissions are Marcos Balter and the New York New Music Ensemble; Oscar Bettison and loadbang,...
December 8, 2022 (22-A04)
Holiday Schedule Dec. 2022-Jan. 2023 The following is the holiday operation schedule, including building closures, for the Library of Congress for December 2022 and early January 2023:Saturday, Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve)The Thomas Jefferson Building will be open to visitors with timed-entry passes from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. The Madison and Adams buildings and all Library of Congress reading rooms will be CLOSED.Sunday, Dec. 25 (Christmas Day)All Library buildings...
December 6, 2022 (22-109)
Join In: New Library of Congress Exhibition Features History of Voluntary Associations in America The newest exhibition at the Library of Congress, "Join In: Voluntary Associations in America," explores America's history as a "nation of joiners" and our long tradition of volunteering for a wide range of groups and causes. The exhibition opens to the public Dec. 16 and will be on view through Dec. 31, 2023.Americans have a longstanding impulse to join together for common purposes, such...
Library to Celebrate Jason Reynolds' Three Years as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature The Library of Congress and Every Child a Reader will celebrate the end of Jason Reynolds' unprecedented three-year term as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature with local students in the Washington, D.C., area on Dec. 13."Jason Reynolds' tenure as National Ambassador has been nothing short of magic," said Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. "For three years, Jason toured the country, empowering students to...
November 28, 2022 (22-106)
Library of Congress Hosts Virtual Panel on Future of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment The Library of Congress will host its annual Cancer Moonshot panel discussion on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 10:30 a.m. ET. Led by the Health Services Division at the Library, the virtual event will bring together leading scientists and a White House representative to discuss advances in cancer prevention, detection and treatment.What: Virtual Cancer Moonshot PanelWhen: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 10:30 a.m. – noon ETWhere: Online....
Library of Congress Appoints Natalie Merchant, Martha González and Ricardo L. Punzalan to American Folklife Center's Board of Trustees The Library of Congress today announced the appointment of prominent musicians and scholars to the American Folklife Center's board of trustees, who will provide crucial advice and policy direction for the center over a six-year term. Platinum-selling recording artist Natalie Merchant, musician and Macarthur Fellow Martha González and community archiving scholar Ricardo L. Punzalan have been appointed to the American Folklife Center Board of...
Library of Congress to Host Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa The Library of Congress will host Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa on Saturday, Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium to discuss her upcoming book, "How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for the Future."In one of Ressa's few appearances in the United States for her memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning journalist will be in conversation with Roswell Encina,...
Live at the Library to Feature Special Preview of New Exhibit, Bobbitt Prize Honorees in December Visitors will have the chance to preview the Library's newest exhibition, "Join In: Voluntary Associations in America" and are invited to celebrate the holidays with the Library during Live at the Library in December. Winners of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove and Heid E. Erdrich, will also be honored during a special reading.On Thursday evenings, the Library's...
Library of Congress Awards Bobbitt Poetry Prizes to Rita Dove and Heid E. Erdrich The Library of Congress will award the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove for lifetime achievement and to Heid E. Erdrich for her poetry collection "Little Big Bully."The poets will receive their honors and read selections from their work on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. The reading is...
Library of Congress Opens Award Nominations for Outstanding Federal Libraries, Librarians and Library Technicians To honor the innovations and successes of federal libraries, librarians and library technicians in meeting the information demands of government, businesses, scholarly communities and the public, the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) in the Library of Congress has opened nominations for its national awards for federal librarianship in fiscal year 2022.For nomination materials, visit the "awards" section of the FEDLINK website or email...
Library of Congress Celebrates Successful Literacy Practices with 2022 Literacy Award Winners In celebration of the 2022 Literacy Awards winners and honorees, the Library of Congress will present a five-part webinar series to begin next month. A video and Story Map that are now available explore the impact of this year's winners and honorees on individuals around the world through their successful literacy programs.The free, live webinar series will begin on Dec. 15, 2022, with a...
2023 Innovator in Residence Rebuilds and Revisits Lost Communities The Library of Congress has appointed Rhode Island artist, educator and community-focused researcher Jeffrey Yoo Warren as 2023 Innovator in Residence. With his project, Seeing Lost Enclaves: Relational Reconstructions of Erased Historic Neighborhoods of Color, Yoo Warren will use photographs, maps, film and audio recordings from Library collections to build an immersive digital 3D model of historic Chinatowns in Providence, Rhode Island and another...
November 9, 2022 (22-100)
Library Explores the Role of GIS in Addressing Humanitarian Disasters The Library of Congress will highlight the role that geospatial data and GIS technologies can play in creating positive change in the face of global humanitarian challenges to mark GIS Day on Nov. 16. Geography enthusiasts, teachers, students and professionals celebrate GIS Day across the globe with community events to highlight the benefits of geospatial science and technology in addressing the world's challenges. This...
Library Seeks Applicants for 2023 Junior Fellows Program The Library of Congress is seeking applicants for its Junior Fellows Program, a summer internship held from May 22, 2023, to July 28, 2023. This 10-week, full-time paid internship is open to undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning and conducting research using the resources of the world's largest library. Remote and onsite project opportunities are available. The deadline to apply is Monday, Nov....
Kislak Family Foundation Gives $10M to Create New Gallery Exploring History of Early Americas at Library of Congress The Kislak Family Foundation is donating $10 million to create a new exhibition at the Library of Congress that will share a fuller history of the early Americas, featuring the acclaimed Jay I. Kislak Collection of artifacts, paintings, maps, rare books and documents, the Library announced today. The new Kislak Gallery will be part of a reimagined visitor experience at the national library in...
October 27, 2022 (20-094)
Library of Congress Acquires Rare Codex from Central Mexico The Library of Congress has acquired the San Salvador Huejotzingo Codex, which documents legal proceedings from 1571 in which Indigenous Nahuatl officials in central Mexico accused their village's Spanish canon, or administrator, of mistreatment, harassment and underpayment.The codex contains new details about the earliest legal structures in Mexico after Spanish colonization and the way Indigenous people used Spanish laws to defend their rights. The...
Library of Congress Acquires Historical Airfare Collection The Library of Congress has acquired 1,588 volumes of airline tariffs, rules and routes from the Airline Tariff Publishing Company, ensuring that future generations will see how flights were sold, ticketed and distributed from the 1940s through the dawn of the internet age.Since 1965, the company has collected and distributed the world's fare and fare-related data to the global ecosystem so travel agents, airlines,...
Live at the Library to Mark 125th Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson Building, Veterans Day in November The new Thursday evening series Live at the Library is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Library of Congress' Thomas Jefferson Building with a rare open house and concert. Later in November for Veterans Day, the Library will honor veteran stories with a special music and narrative performance.On Thursday evenings, the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions are open for...
Scholar at the Library of Congress Identifies the First Motion Picture Ever Copyrighted Claudy Op den Kamp, a film scholar at the Library of Congress' John W. Kluge Center, has solved a longstanding mystery by identifying the first U.S. motion picture ever copyrighted – "The Blacksmith Shop" by Thomas Edison.For decades, scholars have mined copyright records at the Library — home to the U.S. Copyright Office — to piece together the story of early cinema. It has...
Library to Host Halloween Family Day with Authors R.L. Stine and Mary Pope Osborne The Library of Congress will host a day of family-friendly activities on Saturday, Oct. 22, in the Thomas Jefferson Building. The day will feature a special program at 2 p.m. in the Coolidge Auditorium with beloved authors R.L. Stine, author of the "Goosebumps" series, and Mary Pope Osborne, author of the "Magic Tree House" series.Free timed-entry passes are required to enter the Thomas Jefferson...
September 22, 2022 (22-083)
Live at the Library to Feature Giant Bible of Mainz in October The new Thursday evening series Live at the Library will feature a rare viewing of one of the Library's treasures, the Giant Bible of Mainz, in celebration of National German-American Friendship Day.On Thursday evenings, the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions are open for extended hours from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and snacks available for...
Library of Congress Launches Effort to Transform Collections Management and Access The Library of Congress has awarded a major contract to further develop and implement a new, open-source IT platform that will revolutionize how the Library's vast physical and digital collections are managed and made accessible for the public, Congress, Library employees and other institutions.The new Library Collections Access Platform software application will serve as the heart of the Library's collections management operations, connecting several...
Library Welcomes Teachers to Advance Accessibility of Primary Sources for Educators The Library of Congress kicked off the 2022-2023 school year by welcoming two teachers to its Capitol Hill campus. Jacqueline Katz and Caneisha Mills will work closely with staff in the Library's Center for Learning, Literacy and Engagement to make primary sources from the Library's collections more accessible for teachers, students and families throughout the United States.Jacqueline Katz, a high school science teacher from...
Chronicling America Reaches 50 States Chronicling America, the searchable online database of historic American newspapers, will soon include digitized newspapers from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and housed and maintained online at the Library of Congress, Chronicling America offers free online access to 19.9 million pages of newspapers published in the United...
Library of Congress Announces Fall 2022 Concert Series Concerts from the Library of Congress will return to the historic Coolidge Auditorium for the 2022-2023 season. The fall series begins Oct. 14 with multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Magda Giannikou and her global pop ensemble Banda Magda. The following day, the Apollon Musagète Quartet performs the Shostakovich piano quintet with pianist Garrick Ohlsson.All events are presented live in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium, free of...
September 8, 2022 (22-076)
Library of Congress Announces Winners of 2022 Literacy Awards on International Literacy Day Three organizations working to expand literacy and promote reading will be awarded the 2022 Library of Congress Literacy Awards, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. Top prizes are being awarded to Street Child, Make Way for Books and Young African Refugees for Integral Development.The Literacy Awards Program, originated by philanthropist David M. Rubenstein in 2013, honors organizations that provide exemplary, innovative and replicable...
Library of Congress Appoints New Director of the John W. Kluge Center Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Kevin Butterfield as director of the John W. Kluge Center. A noted historian, Butterfield brings two decades of experience teaching, writing and directing major research centers."We're thrilled to have Kevin Butterfield joining our team at the Library of Congress," Hayden said. "His award-winning record of leadership in the field of early U.S. history speaks...
August 30, 2022 (22-073)
A Festival for Families: National Book Festival Offers Activities for Children, Families Children, teens and families will find a full schedule of free activities at the 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival on Saturday, Sept. 3.The schedule is online and can be sorted by stage and by area of interest. This year's festival offers three stages for young readers: Please Read Me a Story, KidLit and Young Adult. The schedule also includes book signings, hands-on...
Library to Host Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum on Sept. 21 The Library of Congress will hold a free virtual forum on Wednesday, Sept. 21 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. EDT to discuss Congress.gov, the authoritative source for federal legislative information, and to receive public feedback about the site. Registration is open to all. The Library encourages everyone interested in legislative data, from experienced Congress.gov users to those who may be new to tracking federal...
Join the 'Team That Reads' for Library of Congress Night at Nationals Park on Aug. 30 Book and baseball lovers are invited to join Library of Congress Night at Nationals Park on Tuesday, Aug. 30, when the Washington Nationals take on the Oakland Athletics at 7:05 p.m. The evening will highlight the 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival on Saturday, Sept. 3. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will throw out the first pitch of the game.The 2022 Library of...
Live at the Library to Feature Actor Frances McDormand, Poet Laureate Ada Limón in September The new Thursday evening series Live at the Library will feature special events with actor Frances McDormand in conversation with radio and podcast producers the Kitchen Sisters, the inaugural reading of U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and more in September.On Thursday evenings, the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions are open for extended hours from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Visitors are invited to...
Library of Congress National Book Festival Partners With PBS Books to Feature Literary Voices from the Festival Book lovers across the nation can enjoy an early literary taste of the 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival on PBS Books, which will host a series of virtual interviews with some of the festival's featured authors beginning Aug. 15.This marks the seventh collaboration between the Library of Congress National Book Festival and PBS Books, a national programming initiative produced by Detroit Public...
August 4, 2022 (22-064)
Library Acquires Original Artwork by Children's Author Vera B. Williams The Library of Congress has acquired the original watercolor illustrations created by Vera B. Williams for her children's books, "A Chair for Always" (2009) and "Cherries and Cherry Pits" (1986). The collection was acquired from Williams' children on behalf of the Vera B. Williams Trust.Award-winning author and illustrator Vera B. Williams (1927-2015) brought to life the voices and imaginations of working-class children in loving...
Copyright Online Recordation System Opens for Public Use Culminating over two years of software development and extensive user-experience testing, the Library of Congress and the United States Copyright Office have opened the new Copyright Recordation System of the Enterprise Copyright System, a new technology platform, for use by the general public."The Copyright Office is extremely pleased to open the new online recordation system to the public today," said Denise Wofford, assistant register...
July 29, 2022 (22-067)
August Film Screenings at the Packard Campus Theater A sampling of various film genres named to the National Film Registry for posterity will be showcased in August at the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia.The series will offer a film every Friday at 7:30 p.m., a matinee on Saturdays at 2 p.m. followed by a 7:30 p.m. screening. Programs are free and the matinee shows will be family friendly....
Library of Congress Appoints Leaders to Advance Digital-Forward Strategy for Discovery and Preservation of Collections The Library of Congress today announced the appointment of two digital transformation leaders to direct acquisition, discovery, use and preservation of the Library's collections.Kate Zwaard has been appointed associate librarian for Discovery and Preservation Services. A strategic leader with 20 years of experience in government and libraries, Zwaard will lead more than 600 employees responsible for acquisitions, cataloging, preservation and discovery of Library collections....
Explore Library Collections, Reading Rooms During Live at the Library The new Thursday evening series Live at the Library will offer a special opportunity for visitors to explore the Library of Congress' reading rooms, collections and exhibitions in August. Visitors are also invited to a special celebration of audiobooks and the Library's recorded sound collections.Free timed-entry passes are required to enter the Thomas Jefferson Building. Visit loc.gov/visit to reserve your pass for Live at...
Librarian of Congress Names New Chief Copyright Royalty Judge Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced her selection of Judge David P. Shaw as the new chief copyright royalty judge and head of the Copyright Royalty Board. Shaw will be replacing Chief Judge Suzanne Barnett who returned from retirement on Nov. 8, 2021, to serve as interim chief copyright royalty judge."It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Judge Shaw and...
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Cops are trying to track down a plant-obsessed perp who stole flowers from a Court Street bodega on July 14.
The crook approached the shop between Congress and Amity streets at around midnight, grabbed flora sitting outside the storefront, and fled in the direction of Atlantic Avenue.
A store worker told police the bodega had already been victimized by a flower thief in a previous incident.
Investigators are still working the case — but a police source shared a possible motive.
"It's not a large quantity of flowers, but I guess he has a girlfriend or something," he said.
A chubby teenager punched a woman in the head in a botched July 19 mugging, according to police.
The 24-year-old victim told investigators she was at the corner of Huntington and Columbia streets at 5:55 pm when a young, Rubenesque assailant slugged her in the back of the head with a closed fist.
The victim managed to hold onto her iPhone and the perp fled.
Cops arrested two teenaged girls for trying to steal Gatorade, soda, candy, and marshmallows from a Smith Street pharmacy on July 23.
The suspects — both 16 years old — hid a bottle of Sprite, two sports drinks, a pack of Sour Patch Kids, and some marshmallows in a purse at around 12:45 pm and tried to walk out of the Rite Aid at Warren Street, according to police.
The total value of the failed heist amounted to a little more than $12.
A scammer tried to spend five fake travelers checks at Urban Outfitter on Atlantic Avenue — but cashiers turned the crook away on July 23.
The crook tried to pass off the bogus checks — each worth $100 — at around 2 pm, but when workers couldn't verify the notes, the thief fled from the hipster shop between Clinton and Court streets empty-handed.
A robber stole a woman's wallet in a July 23 mugging at the corner of Van Brunt and King streets.
The perp grabbed the 23-year-old woman's arm and yanked the wallet from her grasp at around 9:40 pm, then fled with an accomplice and escaped with her debit card and drivers license.
A thief stole a fancy Italian bicycle near the corner of Smith and Fourth streets on July 20.
The 27-year-old victim locked up her Pelizzoli Leggenda bike — valued at $1,500 — at around 1 pm. When she returned at 2:30 pm, the chain had been cut and the two-wheeler had vanished.
Cops cuffed a 15-year-old girl accused of attempting to break into a Hick Street apartment from a fire escape on July 16.
Residents of the building near Rapelye Street told cops they spotted the teen climbing on the fire escape between 9:15 pm and 9:30 pm and attempting to enter a residence through a window.


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using System.Collections;
using System.Windows.Forms;

using Autodesk.Revit.DB;

namespace RevitLookup.Snoop.Data
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Snoop.Data class to hold and format an ElementSet value.
	/// </summary>

	public class ParameterSet : Data
	{
	    protected Autodesk.Revit.DB.ParameterSet	m_val;
	    protected Element        m_elem;

		public
		ParameterSet(string label, Element elem, Autodesk.Revit.DB.ParameterSet val)
		:   base(label)
		{
		    m_val = val;
		    m_elem = elem;
		}

        public override string
        StrValue()
        {
			return Snoop.Utils.ObjToTypeStr(m_val);
        }

        public override bool
        HasDrillDown
        {
            get {
                if ((m_val == null) || (m_val.IsEmpty))
                    return false;
                else
                    return true;
            }
        }

        public override void
        DrillDown()
        {
			if ((m_val != null) && (m_val.IsEmpty == false)) {
				Snoop.Forms.Parameters form = new Snoop.Forms.Parameters(m_elem, m_val);
				form.ShowDialog();
			}
        }
	}
}

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We began this journey with our website Whale Communicators and in late 2012 and early 2013 my life was turned inside out and upside down with satanics, demonics and black magic. I would come for find that Mary Getten and Anne Gordon along with many other players on my team were behind these dark attack which killed my cat and almost killed me that year. Thus Heart Communicators was born to talk about this BS in our world and the people who engage it. Be sure to check out Whale Communicators.
This is the girl (orca pictured below) that I began my journey into mental telepathy with in 2010. My whole world changed once I met Granny and began communicating with her daily. It began back in 2009 after I had lost 7 people I loved in a 14 month period to death. I believe my grief gave me permission to stop and smell the roses as I was grieving incredibly. Life changed forever for me once she began to fill me in on my history and the true history of our world. Her name is Granny (pictured below) and she is the matriarch of J Pod of the Resident Orcas who summer in Puget Sound in Washington state.
I work with her daily doing land and water blessings for our Earth and our Universe for over 4 years now full time. She is amazing and has so much information to share with anyone who connects with her. She has wisdom for each of us . . . she is one of many keepers of the akashic records.
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Communicate directly with her or learn how to in our elearning DVD. Or make an appointment with me and let's start this whole process with a healing directly with God, an akashic clearing. And then learn the skill set of mental telepathy and then write your own ticket to salvation on our Planet. The time is now people!
See the video attached to the above picture; a whaley incredible video clip given to us by Schoko Katzh. Click here to watch video.
Only you can save yourself at this time. You cannot save the world. You cannot save the world without clearing out your internal planet first. By doing this, you allow all other pathways out into the Universe to clear and reset themsleves.
When you do this work on yourself or do healing work with our Planet , , , with our Mother Earth, you in deed are doing the most Godly work on our Planet at this time.
Click here for some wonderful videos of the whales and dolphins that I posted on our Whale Communicators web page.
Click here for some great conversations with the whales and dolphins.
This is truly about the magic upon the web of life. Stop this video in a few spots. You can follow the magic of the sacred geometry (healing) energies emanating from this pilot whale to these 2 men. Often times this energy is hitting them in their heads when you freeze the video frames.
This video just gives me goose bumps in the best way possible.
This is about love, this is about healing being who have killed your kind for centuries. This is about a love that his shared freely and heals so deeply. This is how to do it Pod Mates. It takes a pilot whale to give many of us this lesson.
"Thank you for giving me this venue to speak with humans who are seeking a better way. Seeking is part of coming alive and so the seed is stirring . . . now there are so many things you can do to continue this nurturing and growth of your Spirit. Not the Spirit of the man-made religions of Planet Earth but the Spirit that houses your connection to the Divine and ALL that IS (seeing the Web of Life and all the connections). We are your brothers and sisters in time and space. Many don't recognize this yet within yourselves.
We LOVE you and we want to help you move to the next level. Please come to us and communicate with us. Hear from us the answers to the things that angst your heart or that help you house your JOY. Let us assist you to be the true essence of who you were meant to be energetically on this Planet. We have only your best and Divine interest in mind. We won't help unless asked but will gladly assist you in healing, renewing, communicating, spreading messages to the world. But you have to ask us, please remember this.
"I had a friend ask me on Friday, "What are you going to do this weekend to really love yourself?" What an excellent question I told her – I love this question and will be asking this much more of myself in the future. It sure got me motivated to do some extraordinary things for myself both Saturday and Sunday :o). And I tell you this cutting back on FB – what a wonderful thing this has been.
I told her I was going to get out in nature for over 3 hours – just me and the forest. It was at about the 2 hour and 45 minute mark that I found this obscure trail deeper into the woods. It wasn't well traveled.
As I sat in this one particular spot I began to commune with God and the benevolent spirits of this forest and the Whales (the cetaceans love to visit in the forest). I asked this question of the land ambassador/guardian of this particular forest to join us and I asked, "What do you think about people just pulling up plants and killing them in order to make new trails in your forest"?
Her response was, "As long as it is repurposed for the growth of other plants, we are okay with this".
And in pops Granny, who is my constant companion on my walks. She is an Orca I work with daily doing land and water blessings. She still lives in body in Puget sound and matriarch of a large pod dubbed J Pod by researchers up there.
Granny said to me, "It is just like killing a whale, if it repurposes a human heart we are good with this".
Granny appearing for me in a mist of orbs in a forest in Monroe, WA in 2011. The chevron going up the middle was mind blowing. I was doubting a lot of the communications and messages I was getting those first few years due to fully resolved issues within me that had not been completely healed from childhood.. She would appear for me in a couple of profound instances that just blew me away and helped me heal my troubled heart so I could learn to truly love again.
When we doubt what we are getting with a mental telepathy connection, it is the equivalent of hanging up the phone. You dissconnect the energy with your doubts. If you just stay in a neutral place of just BEing and you open to new things. Your imagination can kick start this for you in this lifetime and life as you know it will never be the same. You will be opening a door to your own brilliance and have the opportunity to share your unique vibration and BEing with our world. We need all humans in this place now upon our Earth.
And let's change our world from the inside out.
Be sure to check out our website specifically bringing the messages of the whales and dolphins to the human race. Brilliant Beautiful BEings. Click on the graphic below to be redirected to Whale Communicators website.


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Film producer buys Seacole bust for 101 times the estimate
A terracotta sculpture of Mary Seacole (1805-81) sparked fierce competition at Dominic Winter.
Bust of British-Jamaican Crimean War heroine Mary Seacole sells for £101,000 at auction and heads to Nightingale Museum
A terracotta sculpture of Mary Seacole (1805-81), who nursed dying and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, will go on display in the Florence Nightingale Museum after it was sold at auction last week.
Winter auction goes supersize
South Cerney sale of nearly 900 lots mirrors the huge offerings held in Germany
Georgian card table at Chorley's stands out from the pack
Such has been the fall in prices of Georgian card tables that it has become the norm for auctioneers to estimate most at well below £1000.
Here's the real Samuel Palmer…
Samuel Palmer (1805-81) prints are not unusual on the market but one of two that were offered as a single lot at Chorley's (22.5% buyer's premium) in Cheltenham carried an interesting inscription by the artist's son, AH Palmer.
'I felt more like a YouTuber than an auctioneer'
There were two in the room when British Bespoke Auctions held a four-and-a half hour sale last week. On the rostrum on April 1, in an office rather than the saleroom (which is closed), was Nicholas Granger. Behind him was Bella, a blue-and-gold macaw who has been by his side for 20 years.
British Bespoke Auctions hosts online-only sale with help from a... parrot
British Bespoke Auctions in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire is the latest to proceed with an online-only auction.
Drawing on expertise of Fitzwilliam director
Two Italian Mannerist chalk drawings emerged as the top sellers in a section of Old Master drawings and prints at Cirencester saleroom Dominic Winter.
Bank on early financial works
Rare works in South Cerney sale document the formative years of the Bank of England
Portraits of mystery young women catch the eye in auctions
Two alluring early-20th century British school portraits of attractive young women caught the eye in recent regional sales. Both modestly estimated, they brought similar four-figure sums.
Badges: the big attraction at Stroud Auctions
Interest from bidders in more than 40 countries competed for what Stroud Auctions (18% buyer's premium plus VAT) called a "world-class private collection of over 4000 military badges".
Goddess of love tempts bidders and sells for £60,000 at Dominic Winter
This finely modelled Hellenistic white marble figure of Aphrodite sold for £60,000 (plus 24% buyer's premium) at Dominic Winter in South Cerney on March 5. Bidding opened at £30,000, twice the low estimate, before bids were exchanged between the internet and the phones.
Pick of the week: House clearance chairs are £16,500 Voysey Arts & Crafts originals
Arts & Crafts enthusiasts who hoped to buy a pair of Voysey chairs at something close to their £20-40 estimate at an auction in the Cotswolds were to be disappointed.
Modest but marvellous Mouseman
This set of table and chairs by the ever-popular Mouseman had been bought from the Kilburn workshops in the 1970s by the vendor's parents.
Malthouse hunt for militaria
Last year we featured the launch of the Malthouse Collective in Stroud, Gloucestershire. This offers 60 dealers and designers selling traditional antiques as well as interiors pieces and art from a listed former Victorian malthouse.
Sybil Atteck labourer works well to sell
This portrait study is by Sybil Atteck (1911-75), a pioneering artist in Trinidad and Tobago of Chinese descent known for her work in watercolour.
Second chance for works from Spetchley Park offered at Chorley's
Second-dibs sales at regional salerooms – those that follow after a major London auctioneer has cherry-picked the contents of a stately country house – can sometimes acquire the slighting epithet of 'crumbs from a rich man's table'.
More mellow side of John Martin at Gloucestershire exhibition
Though best known for his epic depictions of fiery disaster, English Romantic painter John Martin (1789-1853) also produced a series of smaller, quieter works.
Map buyer goes with the flow
Early-17th century Lithuanian plan sold alongside companion Dnieper river details
Hellenistic marble figure of Aphrodite makes appearance at Cirencester sale
Dominic Winter in South Cerney, Cirencester is anticipating a bidding battle next week for a finely modelled Hellenistic white marble figure of Aphrodite.
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Beck – Odelay: Deluxe Edition
90s slack hop opus, remastered and extended with remixes, B-sides and two unreleased tracks
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In the summer of 1994 following the death of Kurt Cobain, an enterprising exec might have put together a compilation LP celebrating the rise and fall of post-grunge alternative rock. All the 120 Minutes one-hit whiners could be there: Temple of the Dog, L7, Gin Blossoms, Soul Asylum, 4 Non-Blondes, Blind Melon, maybe that limey band that did "Creep", and to top it all off with just the right twist of Gen-X irony, "Loser" by Beck. Ker-ching!, as they said back then.
At the time it was easy to see "Loser" as a delta-blues breakbeat update of Rod McKuen's 1959 Beatsploitaton number "The Beat Generation" ("some people say I'm lazy, and my life's a wreck / but that stuff don't phase me, I get unemployment cheques"). But who could have predicted this boho bozo would wind up creating one of the definitive albums of the decade?
A 90s cultural landmark, now newly remastered and extended with b-sides, doodles and novelty goof-offs, Odelay could have easily turned out a very different record. A dismal experience on the 95 Lollapollooza tour and, in particular, the deaths of friends and family (including his grandfather and cut-and-paste inspiration, Al Hansen), had all sent Beck into a deep funk. Initial recordings in 1995 with Bong Load producers Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf had tended to sweetly despondent Neil Young-style laments.
Maybe it was his horror of cliché, the sheer predictability of making a record – let's call it The Bends – about the sudden rush to celebrity and showbiz torpor, that made him think twice, but only "Ramshackle" would survive from these sessions to the final record (two more, the stunning elegy "Brother" and "Feather In Your Cap" now appear on the additional disc). Instead Beck hooked up with the Dust Brothers – Mike Simpson and John King, visionary architects of The Beastie Boys' magnificent flop Paul's Boutique – and set about making Odelay.
From its title on down (a studio corruption of "Orale", the chicano equivalent of "Hell yeah!") the trio conspired to make a defiantly, dementedly affirmative party record, something to send the Lollapaloozers wild. If the debut Mellow Gold had been, in Beck's words, "a satanic K-Tel record found in a dumpster", then Odelay was some acid-fried Folkways sampler, a set of American field recordings, as sampled by stoned enthnomusicollagists with a sick sense of humour. Harry Smith would surely have applauded.
Beck liked to claim that sessions had been recorded in a studio between The Muppets and Black Sabbath – and the America the album dreams up is bordered by idiot glee and dread. "Devil's Haircut" kicks it off, powered by a souped-up fuzz-riff thieved from Them's "I Can Only Give You Everything", with some arcane old bluesman "coming to town with the briefcase blues". A devil's haircut, you could interpret as a sweetly succinct symbol for post-Cobain pop, the world of grunge couture, where rage and despair have become just another fashion accessory. You could see the following record, then, as a desparate escape from that rotting oasis, a Huck Finnish lighting out for the territories, a roadtrip on a Novacane Express, down the Alamo lanes, through the flypaper towns, to find out where, if anywhere, it's really at.
"Hotwax" is what you might hear on your jalopy's shortwave on the way, a roadrunner soundtrack as you drive by "karaoke weekends at the suicide shack", the "Western Unions of the country westerns" and, best of all, the "Silver foxes, looking for romance, in their chainsmoke Kansas flashdance ass-pants" (Beck's freakfolk freestyle yields some solid gold nuggets amongst the jive). The chicano chorus translates as "I'm a broken record with bubblegum in my brain" – a neat enough summation of Odelay's modus operandi.
But the gonzo gusto is haunted by the ghost of the record Beck almost made, and some of the sweetest cuts track the lonesome wanderings of this post modern boho: the rippled weariness of "Jack-Ass", the Tom Waits gamelan of "Derelict", and the closing "Ramshackle".
Of course nothing seems quite so out-of-date as the fashions of about 12 years ago, not yet ripe for nostalgia, but not fresh in the memory. Listening to some of the bonus tracks compiled on the extra disc – specifically the Aphex offcut "Richard's Haircut" or the 12-minute blunted-beat remix courtesy of trip-hop conceptualists UNKLE – not everything has aged so well. And maybe it's taken a decade and for Gomez to slide away, to hear just what a remarkable record Odelay really was.
But I wonder if what really makes Odelay sound so strange (and strong) today isn't its optimism, "Where It's At'"s faith in the "destination, a little up the road past the destinations and the towns we know" – a vision of some stoned soul picnic where the record's myriad ingredients bubble up and mingle freely. Which is to say that Odelay now sounds like a time capsule telegram from the high noon of Clintonian possibility – when, for a moment or two, the mythic promise of America didn't seem like such a busted flush. By the end of the year, we'll find out whether that spirit is gone for good.
STEPHEN TROUSSÉ


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