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Russia: in Syria, the US is Looting Syrian Oil and Supporting Terrorists
Date: 18 August 2019Author: lecridespeuples 0 Comments
Briefing for the media by the Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi, on July 29, 2019.
Source: eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12243385@egNews
Edition: resistancenewsunfiltered.blogspot.com
The defeat of large terrorist formations allowed in December 2017 to complete active hostilities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
On the territory of Russia were withdrawn equipment and weapons that are not part of our bases in Hmeymim and Tartous.
The Russian grouping of troops has been reduced and brought up to the established state of bases sufficient to perform the tasks.
The Russian Hmeymim Air Base and the Tartous Navy service support centre function on a daily basis. The Russian Aerospace Forces grouping in Syria conducts operational and combat training activities, is in readiness to perform tasks to counter terrorism.
Aviation flights have been reduced to a minimum number as part of combat training and additional reconnaissance.
In the conditions of stabilization of the situation in Syria, a large-scale program continues to establish a peaceful life and the return of refugees. Industrial production and agriculture are being revived, schools, hospitals and other social infrastructure are being restored, residential areas are being rebuilt.
In order to assist the Syrian people and coordinate this work, joint coordination committee were created in Russia and Syria. In cooperation with the United Nations, they resolve issues of returning the refugees and providing them with everything they need.
Over the past yeah, 329,610 refugees have returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from Jordan and Lebanon.
Against the background of the process of restoring a peaceful life in the provinces under the control of the Syrian authorities, from June there has been an aggravation of the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone.
In the framework of the Memorandum on the stabilization of the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone of September 17, 2018, in close cooperation with Turkish colleagues, work is under way to normalize it.
The Russian side ensures the functioning of Turkish observation posts inside the de-escalation zone, patrolling and posting convoys.
At the same time, the militants of Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group do not stop shelling settlements and positions of government forces. They make regular attempts to attack the front edge of the defence of the Syrian units.
Let me remind you that Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham grouping is Jabhat al-Nusra international terrorist organization that has changed its name, which is the al-Qaeda Syrian branch.
Over the past four months, 110 Syrian servicemen and 65 civilians have fallen victim to attacks, mortars and artillery shelling of terrorists from the territory of the Idlib de-escalation zone. More than 240 Syrian servicemen and 100 civilians were injured.
In addition, the terrorists do not stop trying to attack the Hmeymim Air Base. To do this, they use MLRS and unmanned aerial vehicles in their attacks. The 17 and 21 July, militants attempted to fire rockets on Russian targets from de-escalation area of Idlib. Russian air base air defence means repelled these attacks.
Attacks at government forces positions have increased.
Yesterday at 5:40 and 6:10 terrorists launched two massive attacks on the Syrian army positions in the areas of Kafer Yahud and Jalama. In each of the directions, groups of up to 300 militants acted with the support of up to 5 tanks, up to 10 armored vehicles and up to 20 pickups.
These attacks were repelled by Syrian government forces with the support of aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
Since June 12, 2019, terrorists have made 324 shelling and attempted to attack positions 17 times, using tanks and artillery.
At present, reconnaissance assets are recorded by the covert movement and concentration of militants in the south-western part of the de-escalation zone. At least 500 terrorists from Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham have been redeployed from the northern parts of Idlib province. Preparations for offensive are being made.
In addition, gangs benefited from an increase of the number of their means of fire destruction of foreign production, including burst fire jet systems.
In cooperation with our Turkish colleagues, we are taking steps to identify and destroy the terrorists' missiles, their equipment, their weapons and ammunition depots.
On the screen, you can see an example of destroying a position of terrorist gang preparing to hit a village in the northern province of Hama. These targets are monitored and destroyed first. We duly inform the Turkish part of our strikes.
Over the past month and a half, 11 tanks, 17 infantry fighting vehicles, 12 multiple launch rocket systems, 29 pickups with large-caliber machine guns, as well as 3 depots with more than 40 unmanned aerial vehicles, were destroyed by dotted strikes in the south-western part of the Idlib de-escalation zone.
I want to emphasize that only previously reconnoitered targets are taken to the defeat by Russian aviation, whose position is repeatedly checked through no less than three independent channels. All strikes are aimed and targeted.
Recently, a disinformation campaign to discredit Russia's actions in the Idlib de-escalation zone has been unleashed by terrorists and organizations supporting their activities. It is claimed that Russian aviation allegedly strikes at civilians and socially significant objects.
All such allegations are based on lies of so called rescuers such as White Helmets, were repeatedly caught in provocations, making fakes and working with terrorists. With staged shots, they spread fake messages about strikes allegedly inflicted by Russian aircraft on civilian targets.
On July 22, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing the so-called White Helmets, reported on the attacks of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the al-Khal market and adjacent residential areas in the town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province. As a result, dozens of civilians were allegedly killed.
Unfortunately, these accusations were cited by individual European media and even representatives of the leadership of Western countries and certain international humanitarian organizations.
The market is easy to find on the map of the Maaret al-Numan city. It is also indicated on the geo-maps of the corresponding Internet services.
Once again I want to emphasize that Russian aviation was not used in this area on July 22 and did not fly there.
On July 24 and 26, Russian unmanned aerial vehicles twice conducted reconnaissance of the site and the surrounding area to check reports of the destruction of the market in Maaret al-Numan.
On the images obtained by means of control, there are completely no signs of destruction.
This is confirmed by the photographs of the Russian spacecraft taken on July 25, 2019, as well as the video taken directly on the al-Khal market in Maaret al-Numan, which we received the day before yesterday.
As can be seen in the frames, the allegedly destroyed market is completely intact and functions as usual.
It is unfortunate that representatives of structures and authoritative international organizations are again victims of the lies of the terrorists, easily verifiable by relaying the simulacra and unverified information they prepared to make their unfounded accusations.
I will separately dwell on the situation in the Rukban and al-Hol refugee camps located in Syria, illegally occupied by the United States of America.
To date, thanks to the joint efforts of the Russian Centre for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and the Syrian government, 17,458 people have been withdrawn from the Rukban camp in the al-Tanf zone, most of them women and children. Much of the refugees have already returned to their places of permanent residence in the provinces of Damascus, Homs and Deir ez-Zor. The rest are located in specially deployed temporary accommodation camps in the Damascus area, where they have all the necessary living conditions and high-quality medical care.
At present, the Russian Centre for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides, together with the relevant structures of the United Nations and the Syrian Red Crescent, are working to organize the return of the remaining refugees from Rukban to their homes.
Unfortunately, not everyone will be able to return. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people will forever remain in the graves, hastily dug right behind the fence of this tent city.
The main blame for these deaths of civilians lies with the United States, who for a long time refused to do anything to resolve the gravest humanitarian crisis in Rukban.
However, the United States does not recognize its responsibility for the plight of refugees in the occupied al-Tanf zone.
According to our information, in the area of the 55-kilometer al-Tanf zone, US instructors are training a large armed formation and a number of small militant groups. The total number of militants reaches 2,700.
Part of the militants trained in al-Tanf is being transferred by US Air Force helicopters over Euphrates.
The most prepared saboteurs are sent to the territories controlled by the government forces to destabilize the situation and prevent the strengthening of the positions of the Syrian government there. Their tasks are sabotage, destruction of oil and gas infrastructure and the commission of terrorist attacks against government forces. Their presence was noted in the areas of settlements of al-Suwayda, Palmyra and Abu Kamal.
In the northeast of Syria, in Al-Hasakah province, the United States of America created a similar to Rukban camp al-Hol, which contains 75,000 people. There are mostly women and children.
Contrary to all calls by the international community, the United States does not even try to solve the problems of people's survival in this practically unfit for living camps.
The region controlled by the United States is in devastation, populated areas lie in ruins, there is no electricity and water supply, medical aid is not available for residents, and social institutions are not functioning.
Traditional economic ties of the population of both banks of the Euphrates are severed, hundreds of thousands of people are on the verge of survival.
From June 1 to July 29 this year, over 300 terrorist acts were recorded in the territories over Euphrates river controlled by the United States and the coalition they lead to, which killed 205 and injured 154 servicemen of the Syrian Democratic Forces allied to Washington, killed 20 and injured 16 civilians.
In addition to training militants, the American structures in Syria are busy looting the oil facilities and deposits over Euphrates river, belonging to the Syrian government.
Recently, these facilities have been actively increasing the number of employees of US private military companies.
Today in Syria, the number of mercenaries of PMCs exceeds 3,500 people. They arranged for the extraction and sale of Syrian oil from Konako, al-Omar and Tanak fields located on the eastern bank of the Euphrates.
There is a criminal scheme for the cross-border supply of Syrian oil. It is simply a looting of the national wealth of Syria.
A significant part of the proceeds from the smuggling of hydrocarbons is spent on the maintenance of illegal armed groups, bribing the sheikhs of Arab tribal unions and fomenting anti-government sentiments.
All these activities of American PMCs are carried out under the guise of the aviation of the international antiterrorist coalition. In fact, it represents a smuggling business taken by the Americans from ISIS.
The continued supply of arms and military equipment by the United States also causes considerable concern.
In exchange for assistance in smuggling oil, the United States is pumping up both Kurdish and Arab forces with weapons, which then use it against each other.
All this only worsens the situation in the region already torn by war.
This raises an understandable discontent of the Syrian population. On the eastern bank of the Euphrates, demonstrations against the US occupation take place almost daily.
The current situation forced the leaders of all local communities to gather on June 20 of this year in Aleppo city for an emergency meeting of the Congress of the Peoples over Euphrates river.
At this event, demands were put forward in support of the restoration of the territorial integrity of Syria, the withdrawal of foreign military contingents illegally present on its territory and the immediate adoption of measures to restore the country's united economy.
Under these conditions, we believe that it is advisable for our American colleagues to abandon the sanctions regime and really promote a political settlement within the framework of a single Syrian state.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation closely monitors the situation throughout Syria and intends to regularly inform the Russian and foreign public about the events taking place there.
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In this talk, I will describe a unified program synthesis framework that can be applied broadly to automating tasks across different application domains. This framework is also efficient and achieves orders of magnitude improvement in terms of synthesis speed compared to existing techniques. In particular, I have used this framework to build synthesizers for three different application domains and achieved up to 450x speed-up compared to state-of-the-art synthesis techniques.
Xinyu Wang is a PhD candidate at UT Austin advised by Isil Dillig. He works at the intersection of programming languages, software engineering and formal methods. He is interested in developing foundational program synthesis techniques that are applicable to automating real-world programming tasks.


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Our site upgrade and re-theme is going well, and I wanted to outline some of the major changes and current issues. If you're encountering any lingering issues, please drop a comment; rather than replying, I'll update the main article.
The new theme is largely successful and is fully implemented. We've seen some issues with the pop-up login/register dialog for some users; you can always visit /profile if you need a non-pop-up login experience.
The new user profile and directory system is online. This includes a Member Directory, and a Verified Profile Program. Please read about the program very carefully if you intend to participate. We've unfortunately seen a lot of profiles missing photos, including photos of someone's dog, or using unacceptable Display Names. Not being in the Program does not impact your ability to use the rest of the site, but if you want to be in the Member Directory, you'll need to comply with the rules.
The new user profile system also, by default, was sending clear-text passwords for new registrations and password changes. That is demonstrably a bad idea, and I've finally figured out how to fix it. The problem was an interaction between about nine plugins and the core WordPress code, which took a hot minute (whilst dodging justifiably angry emails) to unravel.
If you are requesting a password reset and not getting the email, your spam filters are blocking it. Sorry. Emails of that type are commonly sent as phishing attempts, and so that's why they get blocked. You're welcome to create a new account, if you wish.
Forums notifications were known to be not-working and are now verified to be working. If you're not getting them, check the spam filters.
The specialized forums views, including things like "Topics with No Replies," are borked. That's on my list.
From the authentication front, we do not yet support 2FA. We're speaking with the user manager module developer about adding that, as whatever we do needs to be compatible with that module. We'll aim for Authy/Authenticator first, and then move on to working on physical tokens like yubikey. It is too early to place requests for Your Favorite 2FA to be supported.
UPDATE: Also in the authentication front, I've been looking into re-adding social logins (Twitter, etc) to the site. At this time I'm pausing that effort. While I grok the convenience, there are some serious downsides, like a total inability to influence whatever the social services decide to impose in terms of rules from moment to moment. Removing one of those services, once you rely on it, is damn near impossible, and I'm not necessarily keen to give companies like Facebook any more hooks into people's lives. We're instead going to try and focus deeply on enabling 2FA within the site, to provide a more secure login experience right here. Seeing how Facebook has been using people's mobile phone numbers (provided to FB only to enable 2FA) for ad targeting, I'm just even more distrustful of what they're doing with their login services. The general feeling in the InfoSec community is "don't do social logins to your websites" and that's kind of where I'm at right now.
We've added support for Ranks & Badges on the site, which display in your profile and are attached to site activity. Open to suggestions on how to expand that program, and know that the current badge graphs are drafts until we have some proper ones made by someone talented. Volunteers welcome.
I think that's it. If I'm missing anything, ask in the Comments, and I'll update above.
I really like the Ranks and Badges aspect.
Open to feedback on what should be points-earning, too! And badge-worthy! We're using the MyCred plugin, if you're interested in reading up on it.


Discussing legal developments affecting and occurring in Nevada and beyond. Presented by Sheri Ann Forbes, Esq.
connections in Nevada." The Court reasoned that "a plaintiff cannot be the only link between the defendant and the forum." The Ninth Circuit held that personal jurisdiction in Nevada was proper because the defendant's allegedly tortious actions in Atlanta, Georgia affected persons with a "significant connection" to Nevada.
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George Zimmerman, Back In the News: Are We Really Surprised?
It isn't as if George Zimmerman has shown the best judgment throughout his notariety. If he made good choices, he wouldn't have found himself in the situation that resulted in Trayvon Martin's death. If he made good choices, Zimmerman wouldn't have been trying to deceive the trial court with his clandestine phone calls with wife Shellie regarding "Peter Pan."
It was bad enough that after his acquittal, Zimmerman visited the factory that manufactured guns like the one he killed Trayvon with and had himself photographed smiling in the factory. But are we now really surprised that a 911 call made by Shellie Zimmerman claimed Zimmerman threatened to pull his gun on his estranged wife and her father? It is only a matter of time before Zimmerman makes another poor choice that either lands him in jail or results in his death or the unnecessary death of another person.
Many were shocked when it was announced that a jury of six women found George Zimmerman not guilty of all charges associated with the death of Trayvon Martin. However, it must be remembered that the jury had to follow the letter of the law in deciding Zimmerman's fate. At least one juror has come out publicly and stated that although she believed Zimmerman "got away with murder," that because she had to follow what the law stated, she was duty bound to find Zimmerman not guilty.
To say that Zimmerman "got away with murder" but was not guilty is a confusing statement to make. So what exactly was Zimmerman charged with, and how could the jury find him not guilty? First, the actual letter of the law in Florida, in pertinent parts, is laid out here, so the exact standards by which Zimmerman was being prosecuted can be undersood.
From the very beginning, Zimmerman admitted killing Trayvon. But Zimmerman claims the killing was in self-defense, or in legal terms was "excusable" or "justified." These terms are legal terms of art that mean that a perpetrator will not be punished for an act that on its face is a crime if there is a good legal reason for its commission, such as self-defense or reasonable mistake. Essentially, a homicide is not a crime if it is justified or excused. Zimmerman's defense team ultimately declined to invoke the controversial stand your ground Florida law and thus did not seek to gain immunity from prosecution and civil suit. (Fla. Stat. 776.032).
The DA charged Zimmerman with second degree murder and the lesser included charge of manslaughter. At the close of evidence, the prosecution asked the judge to allow the jurors to consider third degree murder on the basis of child abuse.
The crux of the proof necessary for the charge of second degree murder (punishable up to life in prison), boils down to the commission of an "imminently dangerous" act "evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life." Premeditation is not necessary. Under Florida law, in order to prove that Zimmerman had a "depraved mind" the prosecution had to present evidence that he acted with "ill will, hatred, spite or evil intent." See Leasure v. State, 105 So. 2d 5 (Fla. App. 2012).
In order to prove manslaughter (punishable up to 15 years in prison), the prosecution had to present evidence that Zimmerman committed an intentional act that caused Trayvon's death. See Haygood v. State, 109 So. 2d. 735 (Fla. 2013). But if there is evidence for a legally sufficient excuse or justification, no crime was committed. Loosely speaking, the crux here is whether Zimmerman honestly and reasonably feared for his life at the time he pulled the trigger; in other words, whether Zimmerman's actions were reasonable given the circumstances. In deliberating, the jurors have to engage in Monday night quarterbacking.
The evidence that was presented in this case makes it a close call. There was certainly enough evidence to put Zimmerman on trial for the death of Trayvon, but the jury had a tough job. In my opinion, the most important result of this case is opening the national dialogue about the assumptions that are routinely and all too often unjustifiably made about young black men in general.
At the end of the day, whether Zimmerman committed a crime under Florida law was a close call. Perhaps the prosecutors didn't present their case well enough, perhaps the police did not gather enough evidence, or perhaps the jurors were not well-instructed on the law. I do believe it was a mistake for the prosecution to argue Zimmerman was a vigilante, purposefully acting as judge, juror and executioner. Either way, whether the evidence was enough to convict was ultimately up to the jury.
OJ Simpson's bid to get a new trial in his Nevada convictions for 19 various felony counts ranging from kidnapping, assault, robbery and the use of a deadly weapon, resulted in a five-day evidentiary hearing from May 13 to May 17, 2013, last week. Simpson's Petition was filed with the Clark County District Court over a year ago on May 12, 2012. Various witnesses testified, including Simpson himself, a first in any of his criminal prosecutions, and Simpson's trial attorney, Yale Galanter, whom Simpson claims was ineffective at trial, entitling Simpson to a new trial. At the evidentiary hearing, Galanter passionately denied any error or omission on his part during Simpson's trial.
Simpson's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is not uncommon when convicted criminal defendants have exhausted all their appeals as of right. The claim is filed in the form of a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus and is based on an allegation that the petitioner's Sixth Amendement Constitutional right to assistance of counsel was violated and thus unvalidates the petitioner's conviction. The petition must first be filed in the trial court. The standard for showing ineffective assistance of counsel rising to a level that violates a defendant's constitutional rights to such a degree that would require a defendant to obtain a new trial is set forth in the 1984 United States Supreme Court decision of Strickland v. Washington, as adopted by the Nevada Supreme Court.in the case entitled Warden v. Lyons.
Under the Strickland standard, in order to establish a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel sufficient to invalidate a judgement of conviciton, Simpson is required to denonstrate (1) that his counsel's performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and (2) that his counsel's errors were so severe that they rendered the jury's verdict unreliable. The Nevada Supreme Court has held that the severity of the errors must have prejudiced the defendant to such a degree that but for the errors, the verdict would probably have been differenct. According to Nevada case law, in deciding the petition the trial court need not address both components of the inquiry if Simpson makes an insufficient showing on either one.
The Strickland test is a high bar for a convicted defendant to overcome, and in Nevada, defendants' petitions have been denied even in cases where trial counsel admitted to embezzling large amounts of their clients' money, and in cases where a juror subsequently provided an affidavit indicating he witnessed the defendant's trial counsel sleeping during the trial. Statistically speaking, it is not likely that Simpson's petition will be granted, so we may see an appeal before the Nevada Supreme Court in the future.
The Attorney General of Massacusets has issued a media release warning the public to be wary of solicitations for donations to help the victims of the Boston marathon bombing.
To read the AG's letter, click here.
Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal heard oral argument regarding the constitutionality of a voting law unique to Nevada. Nevada voters may choose to cast their ballot for "none of these candidates" in elections, though the choice cannot "win" the election.
The law has been on the books since the 1970's and was challenged last year by the Republican party as being unconstitutional. The Ninth Circuit blocked a ruling by United States District Court judge Hon. Robert Jones siding with the Republican party, allowing the ballot choice to go forward for the 2012 national election. Oral agrument took place this morning before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit.
Lawsuit Alleges George Zimmerman's Planned "Escape"
On December 21, 2012, a civil lawsuit was initiated by CMR Associates, Inc., against George and Shellie Zimmerman alleging breach of contract.
The Orland Sentinel reports that the lawsuit is seeking payment in the amount of $27,000 for protection services allegedly rendered. According to the Orange Sentinel, the lawsuit also alleges an elaborate plan, cloak and dagger style, to whisk away and hide George Zimmerman from the public, including changing vehicles and clothes, and checking for GPS devices to throw off any surveillance by paparazzi or the public.
Like so many of you this week, my heart is broken. The news of the terrible events from Friday that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut have hit me hard. I cannot watch the news without openly crying, and I have yet to hug my own kids as they are away from me this weekend. There are simply no words to describe how any of us feel right now, except perhaps, incredulity as to the reason why this happened.
Ever since CNN set the standard during Desert Storm, the media gold standard has been to report the news as it is occurring. As you are all painfully aware, every media organization is on location reporting the details as they become known. This is the second most violent act of its kind, second only to the Virginia Tech mass shooting in April 2007. One question resonates regardless of which news team or which witness is being interviewed: Why? The shooter's actions, life, friends and family are being scrutinized to find the answer to that question on all our minds.
But, really, does it matter what the answer is? Does it matter why he did this? Is there any reason that could be uncovered that would make this tragedy any more bearable or less painful or any easier for our nation or the rest of the world watching to understand? No, there is not. It wouldn't matter if he was bullied as a child, or if his mother was a monster, or if he was mentally ill. So why bother ask the question?
It is human nature to try to understand, and it is what we do in the wake of a crisis like this one. So of course we ask the question and seek as much information and details as we can. But the shooter does not DESERVE our inquiry. He does not deserve our consideration that he had any reason, no matter how twisted, to commit this horendous act. He does not even deserve his NAME being mentioned or his face being shown, not by any of us, and not by the media.
My plea today, my request to the media is this: Make a conscious choice not to highlight who the people are who choose these evil acts. Report the details, but choose not to report the name, or show the face of anyone who chooses these acts. I can't help but believe that these shooters who do these horrible things do so not only knowing they will not come out of it alive, but also believing they will live on in infamy. Granted, I am no psychologist, but I believe the publicity only encourages the next nut job to carry out his insane fantasies. Let's make the choice as a society to stop giving them this immortality through infamy. Frankly, as much as I want to know the answer to "why," it is not worth giving the shooter what he sought.
ABC, CBS. CNN. NBC, FOX, and all other media outlets, PLEASE stop mentioning these people's names and showing their faces.
Apparently irritated at the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court today summarily reversed the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision incorrectly ruling that an arbitrator, rather than the court, must decide whether an arbitration clause in an employment contract was valid. See this blog's report of the United States Supreme Court's prior decision on this issue here.
I am a Senior Deputy Attorney General with the Nevada Attorney General's Office, in the Bureau of Consumer Protection unit. The opinions expressed in this blog are my own and in no way reflect the opinions of the Nevada Attorney General, or his/her office or staff. In private practice, I focused on business litigation and appellate law in such areas as fraudulent loan practices, complex construction law, UCC Article 9, ERISA law, class action certification, domestication of foreign judgments, and procedural law issues. I am licensed to practice in Nevada, California (inactive status), United States District Court District of Nevada, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court.
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Fareva, a French company that makes products for other companies, now adds Henrico to its global roster of manufacturing facilities.
After Pfizer announced it would close its consumer products manufacturing plant in the eastern part of Henrico County, Fareva stepped in. The facility is now back in full production and continues to produce every Chapstick sold around the world, plus other products like Advil and Robitussin. This news – thanks in part to the hard work of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership – saved the county 500 local high-paying jobs.
In addition, Fareva announced that it will invest about $40 million in the plant and create 90 additional jobs over a few years. It continues to make Pfizer's products at the Henrico plant and this fall will start making cosmetics for a yet-to-be-named company using new technology.
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Hello my fantastic first grade families!
My name is Brooke Steiner & I am SO excited to be your child's first grade teacher this year! This is my sixth year teaching first grade at Seven Hills Preparatory Academy. I love what I do & am so lucky to do it!
I grew up in Maple Grove & graduated from the Osseo School District. I LOVED school as a child & have always tried to pass my passion for learning onto my students. It is my upmost priority that my students have fun in what we do! I attended & graduated from the University of St. Thomas in December 2007. I went on to substitute for 4 years in the Wayzata School District, until I was lucky enough to be hired here at Seven Hills.
I married my best friend Matt in July 2013. We met each other working at a movie theatre in high school & have always had an affinity for movies ever since. We try to get in movie date nights whenever possible. We are the lucky & proud parents of an 18 month old little girl named Violet, born in July 2014. We are loving our new role in life as parents!
A few facts about me: I love shopping, coffee, salty foods & family time! My favorite coffee to start my day is Caribou's Dark Chocolate Campfire Cooler - YUM! I am not a fan of candy, insects, getting dirty or cleaning! I am a very optimistic "glass half-full" kind of person & always open to trying new things. I love to read & someday would love to write my own book! I enjoy traveling with my husband to new places. It is our dream to someday make it to Italy & Australia.
I believe strongly in an "open door" policy. Please do not ever hesitate to contact me with any questions, comments or concerns. Being a mom, I completely understand the trust you put into me by leaving your child's welfare & education in my hands each and every day. I do not take this lightly! I am happy to address anything you would like to discuss.
Every Monday, the students will receive math homework that is due the following Monday. One side will be a checklist of activities to complete & be signed off by a parent/guardian. The opposite will be more traditional homework. Please keep in mind the homework is meant as independent practice, not as a way to challenge your child. The skills practiced in your child's packets are things we have already worked on in class. Being a rigorous school, your child receives daily challenges in the classroom.
The most important skill for a first grade child is reading, or being read to, every day! Please listen to your child read as much as possible & ask them questions throughout the book as a means of assessing their understanding. Students should read at least 5 minutes nightly in September, at least 10 minutes nightly October-December, at least 15 minutes nightly January-March and at least 20 minutes nightly April-June.
Our school utilizes a spelling & phonics program called Words Their Way. Your teacher will send home a detailed handout with information & instructions at the onset of the year. You students will receive spelling homework weekly in the form of word/picture cards that need to be cut out & sorted into similar phonemic patterned groups. They will also bring home a weekly homework sheet on which there will be a variety of activities to choose from in order to practice sorting the cards. Students should choose 4 activities each week & get signed off by a parent/guardian.
Each student will have a take-home folder to use as a way to bring all paper items to and from school. Please empty the folders every night and return to school every day. Please use these folders to bring notes and return forms and homework. Please review your child's planner each night as it is a great way to review the day.
We are happy to celebrate your child's special day in school. I will email you approximately a week before your child's birthday (or half-birthday for summer children) to ask of your plans. Due to allergies & dietary restrictions, I ask that you not send your child with edible birthday treats to hand out. Instead, I will email you a list of fun alteratives about a week before we celebrate. Please remember that unless ALL boys and girls are invited from the class, we ask that you do not have your student hand out invitations at school.
First grade lunch is from 11:45-12:10. Please be sure to mark the days your child receives hot lunch. The teachers do not have your lunch menus in the classrooms, and the school does not have extra lunches for those who forget. First grade will have a snack time each afternoon. Please send ONE, healthy snack with your child each day. Teachers will not provide snacks for those students who do not have one. As always, be sure the snack is from the approved nut-free snack list.
Weekly newsletters will be attached to the weekly Monday email each week. Please read it over thoroughly as it contains a lot of important information. Please be sure we have your correct email address! If you aren't receiving emails from your teacher, please let us know right away.
Please review your student handbook for uniform policy. It will be strictly adhered to. TENNIS SHOES MUST BE PLAIN WHITE, BLACK, GRAY, BROWN OR NAVY IF THEY ARE GOING TO BE WORE DURING THE SCHOOL DAY. If your child has not mastered the skill of tying their shoes, please continuing working on that skill at home and send Velcro shoes in the mean time.


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My Favorite Songs of 2021
A Year Of #NewMusicMondays
Last Year, I began a monthly feature called #NewMusicMonday. This post is a culmination of 12 months of searching, sifting, and sorting new music every month across the Internet. YouTube Playlists have a built-in limitation of 200 songs when embedded into a web page like Monday Monday Music™. This 200 song limit can be a blessing and curse. I basically had to revisit over a 1000 handpicked songs and whittle that down to 200 of my favorite favs, including any new songs from December.
Last week, I did the same for my Fifty Years of Music series with the same process for songs from 1971. That was a much easier task for the many songs that were already part of my rock 'n' roll DNA. Here, this was a bit more work of current listening. In 2021, there are fewer great rock 'n' roll songs being written and recorded, but at the same time the 'Americana genre' continues to evolve often blending Rock 'n' Roll, Folk, Indie, Bluegrass, Country, and Blues.
Genre bending and blending is basically what music has been, is, and will be. For me, I'm a 'folkie' at heart... with a rock 'n' roll soul.
Rickenbacker 360 Fireglo
That bent leads to what some (me included) would call, 'jingle-jangle' rock 'n' roll with the blending of acoustic and electric guitars. I'm going to start with The Beatles as my personal reference point in time, and John's early use of his black Rickenbacker 6 string electric guitar, and then in 1964, adding George's use of his Rickenbacker 360 Fireglo twelve string electric guitar shown here.
In 1965, Roger McGuinn of the Byrds quickly follows George's lead and uses his Rickenbacker 360 'Mapleglow' 12 string on all their hit songs, including Mr. Tamborine Man and Turn, Turn, Turn.
This tradition continues through the years most notably with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, The Bangles, and The Jayhawks to name a few.
By jingle-jangle, I'm basically identifying the signature sound of bands with typically two guitar players playing off each other in complement rhythm and riff of each other, like The Beatles' George and John, or The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and Brian Jones (and later Ronnie Wood). These bands do not have an identified lead guitar god à la Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page to drive that rock sound. I love that sound too, but it often comes at limiting a song's lyrics with a melody and vocal harmonies to produce a more balanced sound. That last sentence, kind of defines the root elements of folk and I guess my bent to artists and bands and that sound.
In 2021, I found both older and newer artists and bands all over the world that satisfy my folk and rock 'n' roll DNA with their new music releases. Here are the artists, bands and albums that grabbed me this year (in somewhat of a slipshod rated order):
Joy Oladokun (Nashville, TN), in defense of my own happiness
Joy Oladokun gets the top slot in that she taps into the heart of our times of 2020-2021. I found her lyrics compelling matched with a pure rich voice to carry her message, and one worth listening to.
I've paddled upstream where the river ran
I've turned sticks and stones to an olive branch
I've made a full house from a shitty hand
Yet, here I am, still gotta be bigger than the bigger man
– Bigger Man, by Joy Oladokun and Maren Morris
The War On Drugs (Philadelphia, PA), I Don't Live Here Anymore
I said a couple of posts ago that Adam Granduciel the leader of The War On Drugs had me when he pulls out his Rickenbacker 330 Fireglo to go with this outstanding 2021 rock 'n' roll album.
Madison Cunningham (Los Angeles, CA)
Madison Cunningham did not release an album in 2021, but she and many other artists took to Youtube and social media to record a plethora of songs on the Internet. In 2020-2021, the f*%#ing pandemic may have stopped live music in its tracks, but recorded music actually found a way to reach us (even in lock-down) and saved many souls. I found Madison on Youtube in 2021, and words can not express how I love this young singer-songwriter's work.
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (Denver Colorado), The Future
I'll be honest, Nathaniel Rateliff at first pass was interesting, liked him some, but was not a fan. The Future album changed all that. I just love his new songs to go with the passion and the horn section!
Watchhouse (formally known as Mandolin Orange) (Chapel Hill, NC), Watchhouse
The name Mandolin Orange has always been one of my favorite band names ever. So why change your band brand after a decade of hard work to get exposure as a folk duo? Anyway, the new album is fantastic, so well crafted and a complete standout in the Americana pack.
Teenage Fanclub (Scotland), Endless Arcade
These guys have been around since 1989, who knew? I'm a slow learner and still catching up to all the great UK jingle-jangle bands out there. Endless Arcade is endless fun!
Lord Huron (Los Angeles, CA), Long Lost
If you're a fan of David Lynch's Twin Peaks music, you'll be right at home in the Red Room.
Guided By Voices (Dayton OH), Earth Man Blues
This album simply rocks! The riffs on this thing takes me back to the day.
Dori Freeman, (Galax, VA), Ten Thousand Roses
This woman simply stands out with her songs. I hope she will get her due down the road as she is miles ahead of many young artists with much bigger names and smaller songs.
Crowded House (Australia), Dreamers Are Waiting
I love Crowded House, I love this album and part of the 80's-90's bands revival of 2021.
Big Red Machine (Ohio, Wisconsin), How Long Do You Think It's Going To Last?
An Indie Folk supergroup? With Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon at the helm, and with drop-in's like Taylor Swift, this album is a standout.
Shannon Lay (Los Angeles, CA), Geist
I had never heard of Shannon Lay until I heard a song from Geist on a streaming service. Then, that gets me interested and I listen to the whole album, and I'm picking songs right and left for the monthly playlist and then, songs left and right for this final playlist. Yeah, I like Shannon Lay a lot.
Gary Louris (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Jump For Joy
Gary Louris is the founding member of one of my favorite bands, The Jayhawks. Of course I'm going to love this solo album of folk and jingle-jangle rock 'n' roll!
Bleachers (New York, NY), Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night
Kings of Leon (Nashville, TN), When You See Yourself
Jackson Browne (Los Angeles, CA) Downhill From Everywhere
Jackson is simply one of the best still at the top of his game. I'm enjoying his ongoing collaboration with Val McCallum on electric guitar and vocals.
Dylan LeBlanc (Shreveport, LA), Pastimes
An EP of some of the best covers I've ever heard.
Elise LeGrow (Canada), Grateful
Great soulful sound and nobody's heard of her? Grateful is so much better than Adele's 30, but that's just my little opinion.
The Wallflowers (Los Angeles, CA), Exit Wounds
Not bad for a band who haven't played together in nine years. The very wonderful Shelby Lynne provides backup vocals on several tracks.
Natalie Hemby (Nashville, TN) Pens and Needles
One of Nashville's best songwriter to the stars, gets to shine here on her second solo album.
Allison Russell (Canada), Outside Child
The Killers (Las Vegas, NV), Pressure Machine
Death Cab For Cutie (Bellingham, WA), The Georgia E.P.
The Fratellis (Scotland), Half Drunk Under A Full Moon
David Crosby (Santa Ynez, CA), For Free
The Black Keys (Akron, OH), Delta Kream
Flyte (England), This Is Really Going to Hurt
Real Estate (Brooklyn, NY), Half a Human
Hearty Har (Los Angeles, CA), Radio Astro
Toad The Wet Sprocket, (Santa Barbara, CA), Starting Now
Kings Of Convenience, (Norway), Peace or Love
Okay, I'm going to stop here at 31, I got to get to the finish line.
Now before I send you to this great 2021 playlist below, I have to give myself a little squeak of the wheel and pat on the ol' back.
In January, I made a promise to myself (and Paul Hobbs) that I would write a Monday Monday Music every Monday for the entire 2021 year. Well boys and girls it's week 52 and this is my 52nd post for 2021! Heck, I could have done it with 48 in 2019, and 50 in 2020 if I had been paying attention and kept my eye on the ball. But now that I've done it, I have decided to pull the plug on the blog, and learn how to play piano...
Just kidding. I hope I didn't make Paul's heart skip a beat. Yes, I'll be back next Monday, January 3 to start a new year of music posts. I actually do want to learn to play piano and work on my house a bit, so I'll just take it a week at a time, and a transition to...
Thank you dear followers for reading my post every week and making the time to dive into the playlist, most weeks. There's a lot of great music being made every day and remember pilgrims, Music Saves!
Now for starting the playlist this week the first video I picked back in January was Katy Perry's, Firework for Joe Biden's Presidential Inauguration. Her performance made me cry tears of happiness for the fact that the orange fat fascist was actually NOT the President anymore. I follow that with Joy Oladokun's, i see america, and then complete my little trilogy of American life with Harry Styles', Treat People With Kindness. After that, the songs in the playlist are in a random order and are not ranked, including a bunch of songs not mentioned in the albums listing.
Enjoy these 200 songs my friends, and Happy New Year!
Posted by Doug McIntosh at December 27, 2021 1 comment:
Labels: #NewMusicMonday, My Favorite Songs
Music is playing inside my head
Over and over and over again
My friend, there's no end to the music
Ah, summer is over
But the music keeps playing
And won't let the cold get me down
Pictures are forming inside my brain
Soon with the colours they'll rain together and grow
Then don't you know, don't you know there'll be music
Ah, it's not always easy
And won't let the world get me down
–Carole King, Music
This blog is a twelve month culmination of my ongoing series Fifty Years of Music where I feature a month and year fifty years ago.
In 1971, I was a sixteen year old sophomore and then in the fall started my junior year of high school. Here's a look back at the historical, film, and musical events of that year. (The following selected dates are from Wikipedia in italics: 1971, 1971 in Film, and 1971 in Music. I have also added my own little commentary in regular text on some of the date entries.)
January 2 – A ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States. I think my mom banned my dad from smoking in the house around the same time.
January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom All in the Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. Brilliant script writing, so funny and serious to expose the underbelly of prejudice and belief systems through the eyes and mouth of a lovable bigot.
January 25 - In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and 3 female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders. The word, "psychopath" is integrated into my vocabulary.
February - Carole King releases her second solo album, Tapestry. The album was certified 13× Platinum by RIAA and it is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies worldwide. It received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year. The lead singles from the album—"It's Too Late" and "I Feel the Earth Move"—spent five weeks at number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts. In 2020, Tapestry was ranked number 25 on Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. And if that isn't enough for 1971, she releases her third solo album, Music in December.
February - Yes releases its third album, The Yes Album, and turns around and releases Fragile in November.
February 3 – Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees. Davy, Peter and now Michael this last week (12/10/21). Rest in peace dear lads.
February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
February 9 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Social justice happens very very slowly in America.
February 13 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. Maybe LBJ wasn't so bad after all, sure could use him now dealing with Joe Manchin.
February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California. Knievel was the race car crash everybody was waiting for, just on a motorcycle.
March - Elton John releases the soundtrack album to the movie, Friends. Then, turns around and in November releases, Madman Across the Water. Creativity is simply on fire in 1971.
March 1 - A bomb explodes in the men's room at the United States Capitol; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
March 8 - "Fight of the Century": Boxer Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in a 15-round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden. I was bummed, always rooting for Ali.
March 11 – THX 1138, George Lucas' first full-length film, premieres in theaters. I saw it several years later in a community college film class.
March 12 - The movie, The Andromeda Strain is released. I just love 'the last person' scenario in Sci-Fi.
March 12–13 – The Allman Brothers Band plays their legendary concert at the Fillmore East. Friend Gary Hill is all in with this band.
March 28 – The Ed Sullivan Show airs its final episode. End of an era. We saw all the pop and rock 'n' roll bands first on Ed Sullivan. What a fantastic format of entertainment and music right in our living room. Topo Gigio forever!
March 29 - U.S. Army lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders during the My Lai Massacre and is sentenced to life in prison (he is later pardoned). For me, this was one of those 'end of the innocence' moments.
March 30 – Starbucks coffee shop is founded in the U.S. state of Washington. At Pikes Place Market in Seattle you can go to the original Starbucks and see the original mermaid logo on the storefront window complete with her breasts not covered by her long flowing hair.
April 24 - An estimated 200,000 people in Washington, D.C. and a further 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest against the Vietnam War. At 16, I naively thought there would never be another proxy war like Vietnam with America sending its teenagers to fight and die in another country's war.
May - Paul McCartney releases Ram, an album I played to death in my bedroom. Then in December, Paul releases Wildlife with his new band Wings. On this one, Paul seems to be wandering in the wilderness, looking for his dear friend.
May 1- Amtrak begins intercity rail passenger service in the United States.
June movies released - McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Klute, Carnal Knowledge, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
June 13 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. The antiwar movement is picking up steam.
June 17 - President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs. Nixon just liked war... and oh, how did all those drug wars work out?
June 27 – Promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York City with a final concert featuring The Allman Brothers Band, The Beach Boys and Mountain. Patrons are given commemorative posters at the door and find red roses on their seats.
July 3 – Jim Morrison is found dead in a bath tub in Paris, France, aged 27. Alain Ronay would claim, years later, that he assisted Morrison's lover, Pamela Courson, in covering up the circumstances. Courson surely wouldn't be the last to help a famous person OD.
July 4 – The Fillmore West is closed in San Francisco with a final show featuring Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Grateful Dead. I was just young enough to miss all this cool hippie stuff that was starting to fade away...
July 5 – Right to vote: The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowers the voting age from 21 to 18. In 2021 looking back- How does a Republican President, no less Richard Nixon pass voting rights legislation??? Nothing like that would ever happen today with a Republican President.
July 7 - The movie 'Two-Lane Blacktop' is released starring songwriter James Taylor, the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird. James Taylor has said he has never seen this movie! I loved this movie and thought James was great!
July 9 – Grand Funk Railroad becomes only the second band (after The Beatles) to perform a sold-out concert at Shea Stadium breaking The Beatles record of selling out the venue. Listen, young people make mistakes. You were once young and stupid yourself. How does this entry even make Wikipedia?
July 23 - Alison Krauss, American country singer is born. She's a baby and her future musical collaborator, Robert Plant (23 years old at the time) is having another monster year in Led Zeppelin.
July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, a day after landing on the Moon. Americans are starting to take this for granted.
August 1 - The Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, New York, starring George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan and Leon Russell; also featuring Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Jesse Ed Davis and Badfinger. George was on a roll.
August 1971 - The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour premieres on CBS. From Ed Sullivan to now Sonny & Cher on Sunday nights, was the fall of western civilization far behind?
August 14 – The Who release their fifth studio album Who's Next, reaching Number One in both the UK and the US. I wore this album out! Like Tapestry, this album is a greatest hits album all by itself. The one thing that always stood out for me even at 16, was Keith Moon's drumming on this album, simply the best I've ever heard over one album. What a birthday present this must have been for someone?
August 31 – John Lennon leaves Britain for New York City and will never return. Now the shit that John got from Tricky Dick and his government FBI thugs trying to deport him didn't work and he eventually won permanent residency status in 1976.
September 6 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer (The Cranberries) is born. Don't you just love bands named after bugs and fruit.
September 8 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. Nothing like watching the Kennedy Center Honors or any other arts honors ceremony when Trump isn't in the White House.
October movies released - The French Connection, Play Misty for Me, The Last Picture Show.
October 1 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida. My wife and I went there several years ago and were not impressed. Nothing beats the OG.
October 29 - Duane Allman, American rock guitarist, co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band is killed in a motorcycle accident. He was only 24 and one can only imagine if he would have been around longer, same for Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix and Gram Parsons.
November movie releases- Fiddler On The Roof, Duel (TV), and Brian's Song (TV).
November 8 – Led Zeppelin release officially untitled fourth studio album, which would become the biggest-selling album of the year (1972), the band's biggest-selling album, and the fourth best-selling album of all time. I wasn't a huge hard rock fan but no one could deny their presence and power in the 70's. They came along at such a critical time reminding the world what great Tier 1 Rock really sounded like- as so many crappy Tier 2 and 3 rock bands emerged in the 70's to fill the airwaves with just hot air.
December movies releases - Mary, Queen of Scots, Sometimes A Great Notion, A Clockwork Orange, Harold and Maude, Dirty Harry, Straw Dogs, and Diamonds are Forever.
December 4 - The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert (the event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water"). Now Deep Purple, that's a Tier 1 Rock band. I remember teaching in the early 90's and my young assistant who loved to talk music didn't know Deep Purple or the song Smoke on the Water, I was perplexed?
1971 is often called by music critics as the "Best" year of rock 'n' roll. I can't deny that this week's playlist of 200 could have easily taken on many more songs but for the fact that YouTube stops embedded playlists at 200.
I know I lose marketing hits to the blog by using the term, "Favorites" but so be it, people want to be told what are the "Best" songs to listen to.
Here's my Favorite 'Top 40' albums of 2021. I did rate them, blending my 16 year-old self with my 66 year-old self. The majority of the 200 great songs in the playlist this week come from these 40 albums. I did not rate the songs themselves but simply created my standard handmade random-feel mix.
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This mix got me thinking about the first cassette mix tapes I started making in the 70's and playing in my car. In 1979, Sony created the Walkman® and revolutionized taking your personal music with you on a walk or run. When the Apple iPod came out in 2001, it continued making personal music portable and lighter, but also freed songs from being in a linear order with the digital 'Shuffle' feature. For me, Shuffle has been a concept I have fully embraced for twenty years now for listing to playlists, or when listening to all your songs on a device or service. My YouTube playlists are almost always designed to create a handmade random-feel of the Shuffle button I use on my smartphone music app.
But putting all order aside, this is an endearing if not enduring group of albums and songs from just one year in rock 'n' roll. Long live 1971!
Who's Next, The Who
John Prine, John Prine
Nilsson Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson
Tapestry, Carole King
Madman Across The Water, Elton John
American Pie, Don McClean
Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
Teaser And The Firecat, Cat Stevens
Ram On, Paul McCartney
Mudslide Slim And The Blue Horizon, James Taylor
Year Of Sunday, Seals and Crofts
If I Could Only Remember My Name, David Crosby
Imagine, John Lennon
America, America
Stephen Stills 2, Stephen Stills
Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin
A nod is as good as a wink... to a blind horse, Faces
Straight Up, Badfinger
Aqualung, Jethro Tull
The Yes Album, Fragile, Yes
Live At The Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers
Crazy Horse, Crazy Horse
Bryter Layter, Nick Drake
Friends, Elton John
Music, Carole King
The Low Spark Of The High-Heeled Boys, Traffic
Mudlark, Leo Kottke
What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
Every Picture Tells A Story, Rod Stewart
Tupelo Honey, Van Morrison
Anticipation, Carly Simon
Thirds, James Gang
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, Howlin' Wolf
Liv, Livingston Taylor
If You Saw Thro' My Eyes, Iain Matthews
Dave Mason & Cass Elliot, Dave Mason & Cass Elliot
every good boy deserves Favour, The Moody Blues
Mirror, Emitt Rhodes
The Point, Harry Nilsson
Grin featuring Nils Lofgren, Grin
Enjoy my Friends and Happy Festivus... for the rest of us!
Labels: My Favorite Songs
#BestSongIHeardToday • Volume IX
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The #BestSongIHeardToday series is often centered around hearing great songs while exercising. These posts will tend to drift into health related topics but will always come back to the music that brought you here. This particular series is probably more about a self journal to help me stay on the path of healthy living that includes, listening to old and new tunes. If you're looking for a great mix playlist of 25-30 songs, just click on one of my Volumes above.
This is part of a text thread I recently had with an old friend of mine. Personally, I think
RollingStone magazine lost its way in the 1990's trying to be all things to all music listeners.
First issue cover, 11/9/67
Rolling Stone started in 1967 when rock 'n' roll songs dominated the Billboard 100 popular music charts. It quickly became the gold standard for rock journalism and nurtured a dedicated following of readers. You knew you were in a rock fan's house if you saw Rolling Stone mags on the coffee table, if not in the bathroom.
Today, Rolling Stone still covers popular music it's just that now rock 'n' roll is not center stage. The magazine's name sake, the Muddy Water's Blues song Rollin' Stone is now a distant memory from the current magazine's musical focus.
Is rock 'n' roll dead? NO, it's very much alive and even kicking along with– Folk/Americana, Blues and R&B new music releases coming out every month. The difference now is that you actually have to look, even dig a little deeper on the Internet to find it.
Rolling Stone still covers all the genres that sprang from the Blues to keep that older reader, but current pop music is a completely different animal in the 21st century, and thus my friend's text comment to me.
February, 2021 issue cover
So with that in mind, I thought it would be fun to see if Rolling Stone's The 50 Best Songs of 2021 is anywhere close to YOUR personal tastes in music. I've often said, "Best" is a strong opinion when talking music and you'll see that I use the word, "Favorite" in making my lists. I would encourage you, younger or older, to click on their link above and check it out. Personally, I found only three songs that I have featured this year on my new release playlists - #29 Bleachers, Stop Making This Hurt; #23 Kacey Musgraves, Breadwinner; and #5 Lucy Darcus, VBS (Vacation Bible School).
Next week, I'm going to present my Favorite Songs of 1971 to wrap up a year's worth of my Fifty Years of Music series.
In two weeks, I'm going to present my Favorite Songs of 2021 to wrap up a year's worth of my #NewMusicMonday series.
Now Rolling Stone as a brand is a powerhouse, but I think you'll find my Monday Monday Music™ 'the little rock 'n' roll engine' alternative if you're feeling neglected as a rock 'n' roller or folkie.
For this week, I'm going to wrap up my #BestSongIHeardToday series for 2021 with a variety of songs that grabbed my listening ears recently that are indicative of my taste in music and hopefully yours too! Thanks for your support this year, and hey I'm only two weeks away from writing a blog with a playlist for every single Monday of 2021!
Enjoy my friends & Happy Festivus...
for the rest of us!
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Christmas Mix 2021
When I started to Photoshop the original photograph above into my own visually-sampled graphic, I thought of the lyrics to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. However, I screwed up the second line and wrote in caps, "May your days be bright." Here's the first verse-
Let your heart be light
Our troubles will be out of sight
Christmas time is a mixed bag, it can be full of bright days and dark days. I'm not here to tell anyone how to feel, to put on a smile and be of "good cheer." I do hope that this season finds you in a good place as I wish all my readers bright days ahead. I've taken my little screw up to heart by embracing it as is.
Now the Christmas Mix this year is typical of my past mixes, mostly positive songs mixed with a few 'dark days' songs just to keep it real. My favorite two in this vein are Burn Down This Town by Rosanne Cash and Something Good Coming by Tom Petty.
My wife's favorite, Carol Of The Bells by John Williams from Home Alone is tucked in its traditional second track spot for this seventh edition. Beatles songs are always sprinkled and clustered about. I've also included some interesting video clips to help round out the spirit of my little yin-yang thing. I will say, Europe makes the best Christmas commercials these days.
Kelly Clarkson wins best break-up song of the year with her, Christmas Isn't Canceled (Just You) (in a year of notable breakup themed albums including, Kacey Musgraves and Adele).
Here are a couple of my favorite things that struck me about this new Christmas song.
First off, I found Clarkson's 'Official Lyric Video' of the song on Youtube and busted a gut for a completely different reason than Kelly's breakup response with her husband. Look at the graphic below from the video - Who does the young smug cad in a top hat remind you of?
The young Donald playing the part?
Is it just me... or is this a spitting (and I mean spitting) image of the young ass, Donald Trump!
The graphic with his expressionless dour face complete with the little yellow duck-tail over his collar is perfect. Not only is the graphic perfect, but then juxtapose it with Kelly's lyrics, and what a great new song this becomes. I can't believe this video is an accident, jeez I can't be the only one who sees this? This video is funny as hell to me.
Second, Christmas Isn't Canceled (Just You) also touched a chord within my heart regarding the shallowness of most Christmas music over the decades, and the fact that many of these songs are dependent on being with a husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend. Mariah Carey's 1994, All I Want For Christmas Is You comes to mind and has become a Christmas standard that carries the torch as a traditional classic. Sorry, I'm just the guy at Thanksgiving that's sick of turkey after six decades and just wants a little variety in my holiday meals and music. For me, Christmas Isn't Canceled (Just You) becomes a fresh 21st century contrast, a bright new day for women not needing to be dependent on a man for their happiness.
Okay, the last thing about this song that is absolutely self-empowering and hilarious at the same time is these two verses setting up this last line -
Lost at first
Thinking that I might (I might)
Be cursed
Winter wonderlands weren't made for one
So we've all been told since we were young
Ooh oh oh
But I'm not feelin' incomplete (feelin' incomplete)
Turns out I don't need a thing underneath my tree
Oh my, you go girl!
Now if you've only experienced my Youtube playlists on your phone, this time around you may want to watch it on your tablet or computer or better yet, use theYouTube app on your smart TV device. I have included a lot of videos in this mix. Here's my YouTube Channel if you would like to Subscribe.
Happy Festivus from Mary Kit & Doug
Photo Source (Santa running on the beach)
The original lyrics to 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' weren't very merry at all (Classic FM.com)
All I Want For Christmas Is You (Wikipedia)
Ebenezer Scrooge?
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From the summary of results in Table, it can be seen clearly that the hedging approach is the most risky while the conservative approach is the least risky. The trade stands midway; less risky than the hedging approach but more risky than the conservation approach. The measure of risk is the level of NWC. From the point of view of profit (reflected in the level of total cost of financing plan) a similar kind of relationship is found the trade off plan lying between the other two approaches. The preceding analysis, thus, established the trade off between profitability and risk. In this connection two generalization and warranted: (i) the lower the NWC the higher is the risk present, and (ii) the higher the insolvency, the higher is the expected profits.


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Q: javafx serialize wrapper with color EDIT:
I am attempting to serialize a class with these data fields:
    private int radius;
    private int strokeWidth;
    private String colorName;
    private CannonBallDrawModeEnum cannonBallDrawModeEnum;

There are some methods that convert colorName to a Color. Right before I serialize I call a method to convert colorName back to a String to make sure there are no issues. Once I serialize I notice the tag <color/> in my text file. When I remove the tag I can deserialize the class with no issue. How do I stop this tag from being serialized?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<serializeWrapper>
    <cannonBallData>
        <cannonBallDrawModeEnum>CIRCLE</cannonBallDrawModeEnum>
        </color>                     //<--------------This line does not belong.
        <colorName>RED</colorName>
        <radius>40</radius>
        <strokeWidth>1</strokeWidth>
    </cannonBallData>
    <pyramidData>
        <height>4</height>
        <name>MyPyramid_1</name>
        <stackingOrder>LeftJustified</stackingOrder>
    </pyramidData>
</serializeWrapper>

A: Since you're using JAXB you should be using an XmlAdapter to map the Color into, for instance, a String and vice versa. Here's an example:
Main.java:
import java.io.File;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXB;

public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    File file = new File("entity.xml").getAbsoluteFile();
    System.out.println("XML FILE       : " + file);

    Entity entity = new Entity();
    entity.setRadius(24);
    entity.setStrokeWidth(2);
    entity.setColor(Color.RED);

    System.out.println("BEFORE MARSHAL : " + entity);
    JAXB.marshal(entity, file);
    System.out.println("AFTER UNMARSHAL: " + JAXB.unmarshal(file, Entity.class));
  }
}

Entity.java:
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlJavaTypeAdapter;

@XmlRootElement
public class Entity {

  private Color color;
  private int radius;
  private int strokeWidth;

  @XmlElement
  @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(ColorXmlAdapter.class) // apply adapter
  public Color getColor() {
    return color;
  }

  public void setColor(Color color) {
    this.color = color;
  }

  @XmlElement
  public int getRadius() {
    return radius;
  }

  public void setRadius(int radius) {
    this.radius = radius;
  }

  @XmlElement
  public int getStrokeWidth() {
    return strokeWidth;
  }

  public void setStrokeWidth(int strokeWidth) {
    this.strokeWidth = strokeWidth;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return "Entity{radius=" + radius + ", strokeWidth=" + strokeWidth + ", color=" + color + "}";
  }
}

ColorXmlAdapter.java:
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;

public class ColorXmlAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, Color> {

  @Override
  public Color unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
    return Color.valueOf(v); // capable of parsing hex color strings
  }

  @Override
  public String marshal(Color v) throws Exception {
    int red = toInt(v.getRed()) << 24;
    int green = toInt(v.getGreen()) << 16;
    int blue = toInt(v.getBlue()) << 8;
    int alpha = toInt(v.getOpacity());

    // Convert to hex color string
    int rgba = red + green + blue + alpha;
    return String.format("#%08X", rgba);
  }

  private static int toInt(double rgbaComponent) {
    return (int) Math.round(255 * rgbaComponent);
  }
}

The above will output the following XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<entity>
    <color>#FF0000FF</color>
    <radius>24</radius>
    <strokeWidth>2</strokeWidth>
</entity>

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This is a sponsored post with Mums the Word Network and Doctor on Demand. All opinions are my own.
Oh winter...the season of fun in the snow, snuggling up with a warm blanket, and sickness! It seems as though every time we turn around there is yet another bug going around. Colds, flus, coughs and rashes...it can be never ending...especially with a little one at school!
As parents, it seems to be second nature to worry about our little one, and when they are sick, we want answers! Still, dragging them out in the cold to see a doctor for every little thing seems a little over the top doesn't it? First of all, we have to drag a sick kiddo out into the frigid cold air- not fun for anyone...and then there's the actual doctor's office. There are often wait times, bored kids and yes, sometimes even more germs to be passed around than they already had! Wouldn't it be great if doctors still made house calls?
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The Doctor on Demand app is free to download and free to register. AND even better, use the code fairytale15 and your first call will be free! You can enter your code at registration, store in your account and use at a later date when needed. Download iOS App. Download on Google Play. How could YOU benefit from the Doctor on Demand app? Already using it? I'd love to hear your experiences!
This is a very interesting concept. I wonder how the medical community at large feels about it though? I feel it would be best for small issues that arise off-hours or out-of-town but that we shouldn't move any further from having one primary physician. Seeing the same doctor all the time helps build a relationship that holds immense value.


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African migrants tortured, auctioned off as slaves by human traffickers in Libya
By Pamela Geller - on January 22, 2018
Slavery is sanctioned in Islam. The word for a black person in Arabic is abid, or slave. Makes you scratch your head, doesn't it? Consider how many African Americans convert to Islam. Or worse yet, Arabic is now mandatory in a Harlem public school. More proof of the epic failure of African American leadership.
This speaks to the power of disinformation and propaganda, and the effects of the brutal enforcement of the blasphemy laws under Islam (do not criticize Islam, under penalty of death). The truth remains hidden. Unfathomable human rights abuses and shocking war crimes remain largely unknown to the masses — not to the millions of victims, but they have been silenced.
Note also where this is happening. Obama rushed to remove a secular ruler who was working with us, but more importantly, containing the jihad threat. Of course he wasn't the kind of ruler we would have liked to see in Libya or anywhere else. But what has come afterward has been much more. Since he was removed, Libya has descended into jihad chaos, and ISIS has developed a stronghold there.
Obama had America stand down while our Ambassador and American attaches were slaughtered in cold blood. And now jihad is sweeping across Libya like the plague, bringing in its wake the scourge of slavery and so many other evils.
"WATCH: African migrants tortured, auctioned by human traffickers in Libya," by Mohamed al-Araby, Al Arabiya.net, January 21, 2018:
A video showing migrants being tortured by human traffickers in Libya went viral on social media following a report by CNN showing footage of migrants being sold as slaves there.
The last two scenes of the video shows migrants being subjected to unprecedented torture and brutality.
A migrant who was completely stripped of his clothes cries out in pain as the trafficker burns a plastic bottle and drips hot plastic on his body. The migrants body shows several scars and burns. Another stands on his head using insulting language telling him to look up at the camera.
The second video shows an armed man asking a number of half-naked migrants to show their faces to the camera after they were obviously beaten as the scars and bruises show on their bodies. Some are not moving at all and appear to be dead.
The time and exact place where this happened is still unknown. However, the armed man wearing winter clothes and his accent give an idea.
Thousands of migrants pass through Libya hoping to reach Europe, but they are caught by traffickers and put up for sale as slaves in auctions. Most have sold their life savings to go on this journey….
Ban Islam on Londoner Rashidul Islam who made multiple bomb threats to easyJet passenger flight gets 16 months in jail


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Brasilien

 Caravelas (flygplats), Bahia,
 Caravelas (kommun), Bahia,

Portugal

 Caravelas (freguesia), Bragança, Mirandela,

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About T.O.P. office
Design by Research
Realized Work
Temporary Architecture
Architecture Competitions
Proposals for Interventions
Exhibition Layout
Books and editions
T.O.P. office disposes of an extensive experience in the field of research by design, be it initially by ventilating Proposals, but also in the "Scale & Perspective" projects and even in the container installations. Always striving for architecture with a low impact on the land reserves on earth, our expertise on research by design gradually widened and deepened, in particular since 1994 by focussing on the development of urbanistic projects with emphasis on a small footprint.
Usiebenpole 1994-95
A city extension for 150.000 (version 1) to 120.000 (version 2) inhabitants along a new public transport line on the 'Donau Insel' in Vienna. This already elaborated project was the beginning of a long period that started from studies on infrastructural potentials. Housing here is provisionally foreseen in 150 or 120 "unités d'habitation". Core of the project is a new, "the seventh", metro line (missing link between Vienna and the airport). A monorail is suspended from a triple-deck bridge connected to the "rues intérieures" of the "unités". The public space (or even forum) is distributed over several decks. Cars drive under a plinth in a tunnel-street with adjacent amenities. The search for information on the amenities needed to feed such a new public spine and the way of distributing those amenities was the trigger to start 'The Unadapted City'.
Wien, Usiebenpole, Unités d'habitation with penthouses
The Unadapted City 1995-2004
This major research and design study started on possible urban amenities based on a certain amount of inhabitants.
First an atlas of urban facilities was made, composed of ten plates:
Social facilities
Sports, recreation and special facilities
Universal and commercial services
Culture and entertainment.
D.O.S. '95 - The Unadapted City, Installation at Netherlands Architecture Institute
Finally the data were put in a convenient spreadsheet application, TOPDOS, conceived as an instrument for concrete applications that calculates the amenities through the input of a number of inhabitants. Next, in order to master the complexity of the data, they were further translated in a standard graphic design, the so-called "flags", showing the mutual proportion between different surfaces. Later their use was tested in designs for new districts for Cato Manor, Durban (South Africa), Wevelgem (Belgium) and for the urban remodelling of Meulestede, Ghent (Belgium).
The subsequent synthetic concept-designs under the generic title The Unadapted City are the very architectonic translation of the obtained data for amenities. With different models T.O.P. office developed an aleatory design method for such a complex program. The first model was Bing Bong (1996), an abstract, formal transformation of the Usiebenpole scheme, in fact a model of a model. Housing here is organized in an extruded, bent and folded, cut and pasted profile of the "Cité Radieuse". The project was abandoned but the second, Brikabrak (1998, scale 1:333), took formal advantage of Bing Bong. It is a rough spatial study of a linear quarter for 9.500 inhabitants along a hovering forum to which all housing is linked, as in Usiebenpole. This elevated public space with a wide range of amenities distributed over several decks combined with a public transport system (monorail) forms the 2,65 km long backbone of the quarter. The car-oriented functions (situated as a rule in the periphery) are distributed along the car tunnel and other large amenities are on ground level. The various facilities are clustered into handy design units to compose a function arrangement score. The close link with public space equipped with a mass transport system generates a critical social mass for a lively night and day urban life, and is the result of the quest for a high level of urban living comfort.
Brikabrak
The next model, Dinkytown (1998-99, scale 1:333), in fact Brikabrak improved, was also for 9.500 inhabitants still living in a bent, folded and fragmented profile of "Cité Radieuse", but now for the first time public space was based on a masterplan set down in 3 different arrangement scores for the bridge, ground and car-tunnel level, each with different formal strategies. So the spine length could be shortened to 2 km.
Dinkytown
With Octopus for 38.000 inhabitants (1999, scale 1:2000), linearity was broken and 4 spines were now interlaced. Although the model, on a smaller scale than the two earlier models, is less detailed, the study further evolved towards a mere spatial choreography. Next to 19.000 inhabitants living in the legs Brikabrak and Dinkytown, again housing is organized in a Cité Radieuse profile, here specifically in the form of a defragmented pentagram, suggesting a kind of center in-between the 8 legs.
Vipcity (1999-2004),counting 76.000 inhabitants comprising Octopus, reached the size of a small regional town. Here however, housing for the additional 38.000 inhabitants is organized deadpan in freestanding villas on 15.140 individual lots, located around Octopus in a warped rectangle with divine proportion. The new urban facilities needed are linked to office buildings distributed over a 7,5 km long public spine, also with a private and a mass transport system. The merely aleatoric arrangement score, though more and more elaborated, results in a strong, articulated architectural setting.
Vipcity
The whole projective study generated a final model, called 'The Nautical Mile' (2004, scale 1:100), of a 1,852 km long section of the new spine.
To a certain extent The Nautical Mile is for now the final result of an urban research by design that started in 1972 with the iconic Proposals, over Scale & Perspective and different infrastructural projects. The model is set up as a structural frame, with no fixed program but with an elaborate, complex, long lasting, sculptural, and guiding structure that will direct the future programmatic development.
Vipcity, The Nautical Mile
Orban Space, (2006-)
For this still developing study Luc Deleu even undertook a sailing world tour from Palermo (2007) to Richard's Bay (2010) on board of sailing yacht La Malu II.
The intention of this theory through praxis is first of all to situate public space in the universal world, including the virtual and material public space, but focussing primarily on the physical and built environment. The aim is to develop a kind of scaleless concepts and projects for public space in varying magnitude.
An analytical phase develops a profound study of infrastructure leading from the most outward to the forum and presents a kind of classification of public spaces - ranging from planetary to street, from wilderness to the most domesticated and sophisticated, from public to nearly private.
Moreover, all relevant notions are assembled in a image/text document called "Terminology", a comprehensive glossary assembling a wide range of subjects.
Node X (2010-2012) is a first imagineering attempt for such a series of architectonic-urbanistic, scaleless models.
Orban Space
In the meantime RESEARCH BY DESIGN was applied for a study for the Brussels Royal Music Academy (2008-2011).


Could you qualify for Irish citizenship?
With so much focus on British nationality and ancestry rights, it seems that Irish ancestry has stayed under the radar. But our research shows there are many people who aren't aware that they may qualify for Irish citizenship through their grandparents.
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