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'Gross Violation of Logic and Sense': Open Letter From Nearly 140 Scholars Implores SF School Board Not to Destroy Historic Mural
"Let's stand up for the integrity of art as well as for historical interpretation, and for a shared analysis of the political reality of the United States in the past and the present."
Jake Johnson, staff writer
The San Francisco Board of Education voted to paint over the mural, located in George Washington High School in San Francisco. (Photo: Tammy Aramian/George Washington High School Alumni Association)
After the San Francisco Board of Education unanimously voted to paint over a Depression-era mural cycle depicting George Washington as a slaveholder and perpetrator of genocide against Native Americans, 139 academics, artists, and activists signed an open letter this week decrying the board's decision as a "display of contempt for history" and urging it to reverse course.
"In a recent vote, the board of the San Francisco Unified School District voted unanimously to destroy the murals," reads the letter, which is expected to be delivered Friday to the San Francisco school board. "To repeat: they voted to destroy a significant monument of anti-racism. This is a gross violation of logic and sense."
"The undersigned oppose the school board's decision and the wrong-headed approach to art and to history that lie behind that decision. We urge the school board to reverse its decision and take all reasonable steps to preserve the mural and to teach it as a work of art and as a representation of our history."
Located in San Francisco's George Washington High School, the 1,600-square foot mural was painted by Russian-born immigrant and communist Victor Arnautoff in 1937 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration.
As the Associated Press described the mural, "The first president's rise to power is shown across 13 frescoes, including one that depicts slaves working on Washington's property and white men stepping past the body of a slain Native American."
The work has been a source of heated controversy for decades, with some students and activists characterizing it as an offensive and racist portrayal of Native and African Americans. Others have said the mural has historical value and should be preserved, but is not appropriate for a public high school.
The San Francisco school board said it plans to archive the mural in digital form.
"No one has the right to tell us as native people—or our young people who walk those halls everyday—how they feel," Paloma Flores, the San Francisco school district's Native American education program coordinator, said during a hearing on the mural last month. "You're not in those shoes."
But the George Washington High School Alumni Association expressed opposition to destruction of the paintings in a statement earlier this year, saying the murals "should be preserved for their artistic, historical, and educational value."
"There are many New Deal murals depicting the founding of our country; very few even acknowledge slavery or the Native genocide," the association said. "Whitewashing them will simply result in another 'whitewash' of the full truth about American history."
Speaking to the AP on the controversy, Richard Walker, a professor emeritus of geography and director of the "Living New Deal" project at the University of California, Berkeley, explained that Arnautoff's mural was specifically conceived and painted to show the "uncomfortable facts" about Washington's life and legacy.
Though not a signatory to the open letter, Walker also opposes the mural's destruction.
"We on the left ought to welcome the honest portrayal," he told AP, adding that destroying a piece of art "is the worst way we can deal with historic malfeasance, historic evils."
In their open letter, the scholars and activists deploring the school board's decision argue that the "meaning and commitments" of Arnautoff's work "are not in dispute."
"It exposes and denounces in pictorial form the U.S. history of racism and colonialism," the letter reads. "The only viewers who should feel unsafe before this mural are racists."
"Let's set aside the question of the voices calling for the murals' destruction and their authority to speak for the communities they claim as their own," the letter continues. "What remains is a mistake in the way we react to historical works of art—ignoring their meaning in favor of our feelings about them—and a mistake in the way we treat historical works of art—using them as tools for managing feelings, rather than as objects of interpretation."
"Let's stand up for the integrity of art as well as for historical interpretation," the letter adds, "and for a shared analysis of the political reality of the United States in the past and the present."
Read the full open letter, originally posted to Nonsite.org, below:
Open Letter on the Proposed Destruction of a Mural Cycle
A Federal Art Project mural cycle of thirteen panels devised and painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936 in a San Francisco high school portrays George Washington as a slave owner and as the author of Native-American genocide. It is an important work of art, produced for all Americans under the auspices of a federal government seeking to ensure the survival of art during the Great Depression. Its meaning and commitments are not in dispute. It exposes and denounces in pictorial form the U.S. history of racism and colonialism. The only viewers who should feel unsafe before this mural are racists.
Now, however, activists including a number of students are seeking the destruction—not the concealment or contextualization—of the mural. The reasons they give—in public comment, in interviews, in the board's statements—are various, but they all depend on rejecting the objective analysis of historical exploitation and colonial violence the mural offers and replacing it with activists' valorization of their experiences of discomfort with the imagery and the authorship of the murals. On this account, a Russian immigrant cannot denounce historical wrongs by depicting them critically. On this account, only members of the affected communities can speak to such issues and only representations of history that affirm values they approve are suitable for their communities. On this account, representing historical misdeeds is degrading to some members of today's student body. In a recent vote, the board of the San Francisco Unified School District voted unanimously to destroy the murals. To repeat: they voted to destroy a significant monument of anti-racism. This is a gross violation of logic and sense.
Let's set aside the question of the voices calling for the murals' destruction and their authority to speak for the communities they claim as their own. What remains is a mistake in the way we react to historical works of art—ignoring their meaning in favor of our feelings about them—and a mistake in the way we treat historical works of art—using them as tools for managing feelings, rather than as objects of interpretation. Let's stand up for the integrity of art as well as for historical interpretation, and for a shared analysis of the political reality of the United States in the past and the present.
The undersigned oppose the school board's decision and the wrong-headed approach to art and to history that lie behind that decision. We urge the school board to reverse its decision and take all reasonable steps to preserve the mural and to teach it as a work of art and as a representation of our history. We oppose this display of contempt for history.
To hear public comment preceding the board's vote, follow this link. (Discussion of the mural begins about ten minutes into the recording.)
At the end of the week, we will send this letter and list of signatories to the board members of the SFUSD. To add your signature, e-mail your name and institutional affiliation (if desired) to SanFranciscoMuralOutrage@yahoo.com
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Bridget Alsdorf, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Jennifer Ashton, English Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jerry August, Los Angeles Unified School District
Leslie Bary, University of Louisiana
Barbara Bernstein, New Deal Art Registry
Jennifer Bethke, Department of Art and Art History, Sonoma State University
Elizabeth Bishop, Université d'Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed
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Cale Brooks, NYC Democratic Socialists of America Medicare for All campaign
Nicholas Brown, Departments of English and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Stephen Campbell, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Cavadias, actor, writer, NYC-DSA Citywide Leadership Committee
Sarah Cate, Department of Political Science, Saint Louis University
Bi-Ling Chen, University of Central Arkansas
Robert W. Cherny, emeritus, San Francisco State University
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Todd Cronan, Art History Department, Emory University
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Sarah Gleeson-White, Department of English, University of Sydney
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Marie Gottschalk, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
Steven Hahn, New York University
John Halle, composer and pianist
Theodore Hamm, St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Jonathan Harwitz, Low Income Investment Fund
David Harvey, Graduate Center, CUNY
Charles Hatfield, University of Texas at Dallas
Andrew Hemingway, emeritus, Department of the History of Art, University College London
Andrew Hsiao, Verso Books
Forrest Hylton, Ciencia Política, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellín
William Issel, San Francisco State University
Anton Jäger, Cambridge University
Cedric G. Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert Flynn Johnson, emeritus, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ramsey Kanaan, publisher, PM Press
Cindi Katz, Graduate Center, CUNY
Christina Kiaer, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
Phil King, artist and editor
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Anna Kornbluh, University of Illinois at Chicago
Steven Kovacs, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University and George Washington High School alumnus
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Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon
Roger N. Lancaster, George Mason University
Denis Lavinski, artist, Los Angeles
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Robert Lehman, English Department, Boston College
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Seth Kahn, Professor of English, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Carl G. Martin, Norwich University
Anna McKittrick, Emory University
Christopher Mead, University of Utah
Elizabeth Mead, Department of Art and Art History, College of William & Mary
William J. Mello, Indiana University
Walter Benn Michaels, English Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Crispin Miller, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Daniel Moak, African American Studies, Ohio University
Balaji Narasimhan, Los Altos, Calif.
Zoika Naskova
Deborah Nelson, University of Chicago
Anne Norton, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
James Oakes, Graduate Center, CUNY
Charles Palermo, Department of Art and Art History and Film and Media Studies Program, College of William & Mary
Christian Parenti, Department of Economics, John Jay College, CUNY
Michael Pierce, Department of History, University of Arkansas
Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University
Paul Prescod, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
Adam Proctor, Dead Pundits Society
Joseph G. Ramsey, Departments of English and American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Courtney Rawlings, Emory University
Orlando Reade, English Department, Princeton University
Adolph Reed, Jr., emeritus, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
Touré Reed, Department of History, Illinois State University
Laurie Jo Reynolds, Art Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Rosen, University of Texas at Dallas
James H. Rubin, Department of Art, Stony Brook University
David Schaafsma, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jesse Schaefer, former George Washington High School student
Michael Schreyach, Department of Art and Art History, Trinity University
Julie Seville, History Department, University of Chicago
Joseph Shieber, Lafayette College
Korey Simeone, Los Angeles
Lisa Siraganian, Southern Methodist University
Jedidiah Sloboda, Philadelphia School District
John Curtis Smith, Wake Technical Community College
Preston H. Smith II, Mount Holyoke College
Rogers M. Smith, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
Davis Smith-Brecheisen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Daniel Spaulding, Getty Research Institute
Michael Spear, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Joni Spigler, artist and art historian
Amy Dru Stanley, Department of History and the Law School, University of Chicago
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Department of History, Rutgers University—Newark
Steve Striffler, Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Ted Swedenburg, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas
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Lisa Thompson, The Living New Deal
Joe Tompkins, Department of Communication Arts and Theatre, Allegheny College
James A. van Dyke, University of Missouri
Robert Vitalis, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
Christian Viveros-Fauné, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida
Kenneth Warren, Department of English, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago
Shilyh Warren, University of Texas at Dallas
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George Wright, emeritus, California State University, Chico
Joanna Wuest, Princeton University
Marnin Young, Art History Department, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University
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News Live 365: January 12th, 2022
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Q: Apache showing empty "index of /", after dist upgrade I'm working on a Debian 7 server which I did a dist upgrade on so it is Debian 8 now.
The only thing I am having trouble with is the apache2 which got updated from 2.2 to 2.4. the problem that is that now it shows me an empty "Index of /" although there are a lot of files in the specified folders.
vHost Conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
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</VirtualHost>

How can I get it working again?

A: mixing 2.2 and 2.4 access directives is not recommended.  Look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/upgrading.html.  You will see that they never mix Order allow,deny with Require all granted.  So remove your Order line.

Mixing old and new directives
Mixing old directives like Order, Allow or Deny with new ones like
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  created to support configurations containing only old directives to
  facilitate the 2.4 upgrade. Please check the examples below to get a
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Also, you do not specify a DocumentIndex file so Apache does not know which file it should return a client when he asks for http://some.server/.
Let's assume the default page is index.html, add this in your VirtualHost:
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Note 1: ServerAlias has the same value as ServerName, and is therefore not required.
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C&IT this week sampled Chelsea FC's new hospitality menu, and attended the 8th Switzerland Meeting Trophy. We also have pictures from Altitude London's Great British Summer Party.
The week's pictures are here. Our Swiss Trophy gallery is here.


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Virginia school apologizes for 'insensitive' Underground Railroad activity
Brett Molina
A school in Virginia has apologized for a "culturally insensitive" activity about the Underground Railroad held during a physical education class.
Students in third, fourth and fifth grades at Madison's Trust Elementary School in Ashburn, Va., pretended to be slaves while participating in an obstacle course representing the Underground Railroad, according to the Loudoun Times-Mirror.
Michelle Thomas, president of the Loudoun County chapter of the NAACP, told the Times-Mirror that an African-American child in the class was designated a slave during the activity. Thomas told the paper she heard about the activity after hearing complaints from parents.
"Obviously, he's the only one that's black, he's the only one that could have ever been related to someone who used to be a slave, and imagine him carrying that stigma all through school," Thomas told the Times-Mirror.
The school's principal, David Stewart, sent a letter to students on Feb. 12 apologizing for the activity, calling it "culturally insensitive."
"This is contradictory to our overall goals of empathy, affirmation, and creating a culturally responsive learning environment for all," said Stewart, according to a copy of the letter obtained by USA TODAY.
In the letter, Stewart said the Underground Railroad lesson will be retaught "with an appropriate and respectful context."
The lesson was meant to be a cooperative exercise where students worked together to move through six stations representing parts of the Underground Railroad, said Wayde Byard, public information officer with Loudoun County Public Schools.
Byard told USA TODAY that the school is working with the local NAACP to ensure their curriculum is more "culturally attuned."
"We still have some work to do," he said.
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The Kraken Project: A Novel
Written By: Douglas Preston
Narrated By: Scott Sowers
Wyman Ford is back again in The Kraken Project, the thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston
NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. To this end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed 'Dorothy,' a powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the internet.
Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to track down the rogue AI. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. And they're not the only ones looking for the wayward software: the AI is also being pursued by a pair of Wall Street traders, who want to capture her code and turn her into a high-speed trading bot. Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy has an extraordinary revelation-and devises a plan. As the pursuit of Dorothy converges on a deserted house on the coast of Northern California, Ford must face the ultimate question: is rescuing Dorothy the right thing? Is the AI bent on saving the world... or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind?
Nope. I forced my way through the first disc and gave up. Bad. Although this was not the entire problem, let it be a reminder that men can not write female main characters. Just don't.
I love Douglas Preston and his adventuresome stories, but this one just goes too far. While the concept of A.I. is fascinating to explore, this whole story gets too far fetched too quickly and finally you just give up trying to make it sensible.
Kraken Project: A Novel
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Aurora Venturini (La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 20 de desembre de 1921 - 24 de novembre de 2015) va ser una novel·lista, contista, poeta, traductora i assagista argentina.

Es va graduar en filosofia i ciències de l'educació a la Universitat Nacional de la Plata. Va ser assessora a l'Institut de Psicologia i Reeducació del Menor, on va conèixer Eva Perón, de qui va ser amiga íntima i amb qui va treballar.

El 1948, va rebre de mans de Jorge Luis Borges el Premi Iniciación, per El solitario. Va formar part de les Ediciones del Bosque de la Plata, al costat de María Dhialma Tiberti i uns altres grans escriptors d'aquesta ciutat.

Va estudiar psicologia a la Universitat de París, ciutat en la qual s'autoexilià durant 25 anys després de la Revolució Alliberadora. A París, va viure en companyia de Violette Leduc i va travar amistat amb Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco i Juliette Gréco; a Sicília va freqüentar l'amistat de Salvatore Quasimodo. Va estar casada amb l'historiador Fermín Chávez. Va ser professora de filosofia a l'Escola Normal Antonio Mentruyt de Banfield.

Ha traduït i escrit treballs crítics sobre poetes com Isidore Ducasse, comte de Lautréamont, François Villon i Arthur Rimbaud, traduccions per les quals va rebre la condecoració de la Creu de Ferro atorgada pel govern francès.

Premis i reconeixements
El 1948 va rebre el Premi Iniciación, per El solitario, el seu primer llibre de poemes, de mans de Jorge Luis Borges. L'any 1969 va rebre el Premi Domani i el Premi Pirandello de Oro per Nosotros, los Caserta El 2007, va rebre el Premi Nueva Novela, atorgat per Página/12, pel seu llibre Las Primas. Al desembre de 2010, l'edició espanyola d'aquesta obra (Ed. Caballo de Troya) va ser votada com el millor llibre en espanyol editat a Espanya durant 2009, i rebé el II Premi Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos.

Obres

 1942. Versos al recuerdo
 1948. El anticuario
 1948. Adiós desde la muerte
 1951. El solitario
 1953. Peregrino del aliento
 1955. Lamentación mayor
 1959. El ángel del espejo
 1959. Laúd
 1962. La trova
 1962. Panorama de afuera con gorriones
 1963. La pica de la Susona; leyenda andaluza
 1963. François Villon, raíx de iracunida; vida y pasión del juglar de Francia
 1964. Carta a Zoraida; relatos para las tías viejas
 1969. Pogrom del cabecita negra
 1974. Jovita la osa
 1974. La Plata mon amour
 1981. Antología personal, 1940-1976
 1988. Zingarella
 1991. Las Marías de Los Toldos
 1992. Nosotros, los Caserta
 1994. Estos locos bajitos por los senderos de su educación
 1994. Poesía gauchipolítica federal
 1997. Hadas, brujas y señoritas
 1997. 45 poemas paleoperonistas
 1997. Evita, mester de amor, en col·laboració amb Fermín Chávez.
 1998. Me moriré en París, con aguacero
 1999. Lieder
 2001. Alma y Sebastián
 2001. Venid amada alma
 2004. Racconto
 2005. John W. Cooke
 2006. Bruna Maura Maura Bruna
 2008. Las primas
 2012. El marido de mi madrastra
 2013. Los rieles
 2014. Eva. Alfa y Omega
 2015. Cuentos secretos
 2020. Las amigas

Referències

Vegeu també
 Las primas (primeres pàgines). Babelia, 26 de juliol de 1921, «La novela que reveló a una autora de 85 años». El País

Persones de La Plata
Escriptors argentins en castellà
Novel·listes argentins
Poetes argentins en castellà
Contistes argentins
Assagistes argentins
Traductors argentins
Alumnes de la Universitat Nacional de La Plata
Morts a l'Argentina
Naixements del 1921
Morts el 2015
Escriptors argentins del segle XX
Escriptors argentins del segle XXI
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The Senate is currently comprised of thirteen appointed Members, while the President of the Senate is either elected from among the appointed Members or from outside of the Senate. The thirteen Senators are appointed by the Governor General; six Senators are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister; three are appointed on the advice of the Leader of the Opposition; one is appointed on the advice of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and the Belize Business Bureau; one is appointed on the advice of the Belize Council of Churches and the Evangelical Association of Churches; one is appointed on the advice of the Belize National Trade Union Congress and the Civil Society Steering Committee; and one is appointed on the advice of the Non Governmental Organizations.
The Senate, besides discussing and debating Bills coming from the House of Representatives, has specific functions. These functions include approving any Bill to alter any provision of Part II of the Belize Constitution, in accordance with subsection (5A) of section 69 of the Constitution; authorizing the ratification (including adhesion or accession) of any treaty by the Government of Belize, including any treaty for the settlement of the territorial dispute between Belize and the Republic of Guatemala; approving the establishment in Belize of any military base of operations for any foreign military forces; approving the appointment of the Contractor General, the Ombudsman, a member of the Elections and Boundaries Commission, and a member of the Integrity Commission; instituting and conducting enquiries and investigations on any matter of the public interest or importance, including inquiries into mismanagement or corruption by persons in the central government or public statutory bodies; receiving, reviewing and reporting on annual reports and other reports of the Auditor General, the Contractor General and the Ombudsman and instituting and conducting inquiries, investigations and hearings in relation thereto; requiring the attendance before it of the Auditor General, the Contractor General or the Ombudsman generally, in relation to the discharge of their duties and the execution of their functions; requiring the attendance before it of any Chief Executive Officer in a Government Ministry in respect of any matter of which he has knowledge by virtue of his office, or in respect of anything related to his office and the due execution of his duties; and requiring the attendance before any Committee of the Senate, of any Minister of Government.
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Bertha Foerster-Lauterer (* 11. Januar 1869 in Prag; † 9. April 1936 in Prag) war eine österreichische Sängerin (Sopran).

Bertha Lauterer war seit 1887 am Prager Nationaltheater als Opernsolistin tätig. 1888 heiratete sie den Komponisten Josef Bohuslav Foerster. 1893 engagierte Gustav Mahler sie an die Hamburger Oper.

Foerster-Lauterer muss um die Jahrhundertwende auch an der heutigen Wiener Staatsoper engagiert gewesen sein, denn im Text-Buch der bis Juli [1904] erschienenen Konzert-Platten (Hrsg. Arthur Blumenthal, Breslau 1904) wird Bertha Förster=Lauterer [sic!] als "Kgl. Hofopernsängerin, Wien" betitelt.

Literatur

Weblinks
 Berta Foerster-Lauterer Tonaufnahme aus dem Archiv der Österreichischen Mediathek: ("Arie der Mignon" aus Mignon)

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Opernsänger
Sopran
Person (Prag)
Person (Cisleithanien)
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Gestorben 1936
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Confederate statues law may stop Montgomery from naming street for Fred Gray
Brad Harper
Fred Gray grew up on a Montgomery street named for Confederate President Jefferson Davis, saw the injustices around him, and went on to become an attorney for Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., winning court victories that would help topple segregation and reshape the nation.
Steven Reed, who became the Montgomery's first Black mayor when he was elected last year, has proposed changing Jeff Davis Avenue to Fred D. Gray Avenue to honor him. But that proposal could be blocked by a 2017 state law enacted amid a fear that cities would move or destroy Confederate monuments.
The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act has been at the center of well-publicized legal fights over Confederate statues and memorials across the state over the past three years, and it has triggered discussion over schools here that are named for Confederate figures. Fewer people know that it also protects streets over 40 years old that "have been constructed for, or named or dedicated in honor of, an event, a person, a group, a movement, or military service."
Violating the law to rename Jeff Davis Avenue for Fred Gray could put the city on the hook for a $25,000 fine.
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Reed said Monday that he didn't know it could be in conflict with the act when he asked the City Council last week to begin the renaming process, while commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Still, Reed said he will move forward with the plan to rename the street.
"We'll deal with that," he said. "I don't think that will impact our decision."
A spokesman for Attorney General Steve Marshall declined to comment about the plan, saying the office usually steers clear of "possible violations of the monuments law before they occur."
"In most cases, the law is clear and speaks for itself," Communications Director Mike Lewis said.
Over the past two decades, seven former Confederate states have passed laws limiting or preventing local governments from removing monuments. Four of those states, including Alabama, have enacted or strengthened those laws in the past five years.
Alabama's law was unanimously upheld by the state's Supreme Court last year. The court overruled a Jefferson County Circuit Court decision that said the law was too ambiguous and violated municipalities' free speech.
Some Alabama leaders have chosen to remove their local monuments anyway. Birmingham agreed to pay the $25,000 fine in June to allow the removal of a monument to Confederate sailors and soldiers from a city park. The Lowndes County Commission voted June 29 to remove a Confederate memorial from the front of its courthouse.
More:When the textbooks lied, Black Alabamians turned to each other for history
Marshall filed a lawsuit last month after Madison County moved a Confederate monument from a courthouse to a Confederate cemetery.
Marshall said in a video posted Nov. 23 that local leaders who violate the act are lawbreakers who could choose to break future laws, and warned that "… any elected official who disregards the duties of his office in this manner has done so not out of courage, but has done so out of fear. This should not be celebrated, for disregarding the law subverts our democratic system."
Reed proposed the street renaming at the Dec. 1 meeting of the Montgomery City Council. The process would require getting the approval of the property owners, the planning commission and, ultimately, the City Council. Gray told the Montgomery Advertiser the next day that he was honored by the proposal.
"I hope what I have done has helped to change things," Gray said at the time.
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Brad Harper at bharper1@gannett.com.


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i've been trying out some scary things lately. earlier this year, i got offered a sweet little job doing tv interviews with bands and stuff for a local cable show. i was pretty pumped about it, because i love talking music and i love shows and i love free shows and i love jian ghomeshi...but at the very, very last minute, i literally sent the guy an email that said, "i'm inadequate for this. you should probably get someone else. sorry for being a flake."
and i felt sad about it. i almost sent a retraction email, saying, "i'll be bad at first, but i can learn! i'm flaking on my flake!" i didn't, though. that would've been silly. but i did decide that the next time someone offered me an opportunity like that, i'd jump at it. and i'd stick to it until they told me i couldn't do it. because it's ridiculous how often i shut myself down, how often i get into the boxing ring with someone else and then punch my own self in the face.
the point is that not even a week later, i got an email from an entertainment promotion and events hosting organization that's expanding in the city. they hook bands up with gigs and write up reviews for them and organize events in the arts community. pretty cool. they asked for kind of the same thing as the cable people--interviews, show reviews, etc--except in writing. i thought, "IDEAL," and i said, "YES."
anyway. i'm not telling you all this because i expect you'll actually care about all the ins and outs of what i do in my free time; i'm telling you this because yesterday was my first interview and i feel a little like i look in that picture above. i mean, just as i expected, i got all nervous and said a lot of stupid things and asked some really. dumb. questions. but then it was over and i wasn't flat on my back and i knew the things that i could change for next time and thought of some better ways i could have worded stuff, and i'm excited for my next one. practise makes better, at least. you can read it here if you want.
anyway. i guess another The Point is that we all need to stop expecting that we'll be perfect at stuff on our first go. unless we're brain surgeons. there is a little more pressure there.
and who knows? maybe someday the cable people will call again. and i'll sit on my hands and say, "YES."


San Antonio, TX — The unedited video depicting police officers gunning down an unarmed man holding his hands up in the air was released on Monday after the sheriff's department identified the names of the deputies and the man that they killed.
Although the police claim that the man had a knife and attacked the deputies, the video clearly shows the man was unarmed and submitting to the officers when they opened fire. Another witness has come forward with a separate video of the shooting from a different angle, but the footage from the second camera has not been released to the public.
According to the Sheriff's Office, Vasquez and Sanchez found 41-year-old Gilbert Flores holding what appeared to be a knife. The deputies attempted to take Flores down by using nonlethal force, but Flores allegedly fought back and resisted arrest. After unsuccessfully trying to subdue Flores with nonlethal weapons, deputies resorted to their firearms and shot him to death.
But according to witnesses and at least one cell phone video, the deputies never attempted to deploy nonlethal tactics and apparently gunned down the unarmed man while his empty hands were in the air. A witness who wishes to be identified only as "Leo" told Telemundo that he saw two officers approach the man with their guns drawn and ordered the man to get on the ground. When he refused to comply, the deputies immediately opened fire.
On Friday evening, a cell phone video of the shooting emerged after a witness named Michael Thomas shared the footage with local news station KSAT12. The video shows a man standing on the front lawn of a house when deputies Vasquez and Sanchez approach him. Pacing back and forth, the man places his hands in the air multiple times and does not appear to be holding a knife or any other weapon.
KSAT12's editorial team initially chose to freeze the video at the moment before the deputies gunned down Flores. But after the sheriff's department released the names of the deputies and the victim on Monday, KSAT12 decided to show the rest of Thomas' video. The unedited version clearly shows Flores holding his empty hands in the air when Vasquez and Sanchez killed him. The video does not show the deputies attempting to use nonlethal force, and Flores does not make physical contact with the deputies until they handcuff his seemingly lifeless body.
Vasquez and Sanchez have been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into the shooting. Both deputies have served in the sheriff's department for over 10 years.


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Trump Is Preparing to Squander His al-Baghdadi Victory
Summary: Trump's public rollout, his overt partisanship, and the absence of a post-Baghdadi strategy to deal with the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Syria may well rob the administration of any lasting political and strategic gain from a well-deserved accomplishment.
The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a tremendous victory for US counterterrorism policy and a demonstration of the skill and capacity of US intelligence agencies and special operators.
For an embattled president, it also offers a rare moment to act as an effective commander-in-chief and to counter the steady drip, drip of White House scandal and dysfunction revealed by the impeachment inquiry.
But in Trumpland, nothing is entirely untethered from the president's personal politics, massive ego and consistent inconsistencies.
Beyond his bombast in Sunday's announcement of Baghdadi's death, here are some of the more complicated takeaways.
Baghdadi may be dead, but ISIS and other jihadis aren't
Baghdadi's death represents a significant blow to ISIS and a major victory in the US campaign against the terrorist group. But it does not end the threat from ISIS or from other global jihadis.
Baghdadi may been effective at inspiring his followers, but the territorial caliphate he headed, which once controlled territory the size of Great Britain and had 8 million adherents, is dead and not likely to come roaring back; indeed, its demise significantly diminished Baghdadi's influence and opened the way to further scatter his already decentralized organization.
The ability of ISIS to recruit foot soldiers for its insurgency rests on a toxic combination of religious and millenarian ideology, poor governance and ethnic and sectarian strife. As long as these conditions persist, it will not be possible to bring about the enduring defeat of ISIS in the way that the United States and allied powers crushed the will to fight of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II.
ISIS has survived previous losses among its leadership and will doubtless regroup and seek to use what they will message as his martyrdom to keep the insurgency alive. In short, Baghdadi was important -- but not irreplaceable. Al-Qaeda survived Osama bin Laden's death and has continued to operate. And so will ISIS.
Trump's victory ironically was made possible by the very forces he decries
It's instructive and ironic that President Trump has consistently railed against the forces that made the Baghdadi operation such a success.
First, there is the US intelligence community, without which the operation could never have succeeded.
In answering questions Sunday at a press conference announcing Baghdadi's death, Trump never mentioned CIA Director Gina Haspel; he praised "great intelligence professionals" in a general way but took shots at others, particularly when it came to investigating Russian interference in US elections. "When we use our intelligence correctly, what we can do is incredible," Trump said on Sunday. "When we waste our time with intelligence that hurts our country, because we had poor leadership at the top, that's not good."
Second, despite Trump's criticism of deploying US forces in endless wars, it was the limited deployment of US special forces, supported by intelligence collection by the Kurds, that provided the granular information on the location of Baghdadi's compound.
Indeed, the US worked with the Kurds to identify and confirm Baghdadi's whereabouts. Trump, who had never been all that enamored of America's relations with the Kurds, downplayed any significant Kurdish role, saying merely that Kurdish forces in Syria had supplied "information that turned out to be helpful."
Using the Baghdadi victory for all it's worth
For an embattled president beset by an impeachment inquiry, it was all but inevitable that Trump would try to turn the Baghdadi raid to his political advantage. Former President Barack Obama claimed credit for bringing Bin Laden to justice, too.
But Trump's manipulation of the Baghdadi raid went well beyond claiming credit. From teasing the world with a tweet the night before ("Something very big has just happened!"), to scheduling a statement on the raid to coincide with the Sunday talk shows, Trump was determined to dominate the narrative.
Indeed, Trump's prepared statement was only eight minutes long. But he stayed for an additional 45 minutes, ostensibly to answer questions but really to take a victory lap -- and to establish in the public's mind that the Baghdadi operation had been his decision and his personal victory.
The Baghdadi operation likely won't divert attention for long from Trump's political travails, though it might shore up support from Republicans angry over his abandonment of the Kurds and withdrawal from Syria -- it will provide a compelling accomplishment to tout in the general election next year.
Trump's Syria policy: Relying on states -- not on non-state actors
Trump has made no secret that he has little use for the Kurds. His new Syria policy, as he made clear at Sunday's press conference, will rely primarily on Russia, Turkey and Syria to contain and diminish ISIS and to deal with the mess in Syria. What stood out Sunday was Trump's heavy reliance on these state actors and on their authoritarian governments, including Syria, which he thanked twice.
Gone are any illusions that the US has the capacity to remove Assad from power, to steer Syria toward a democratic path, to stabilize and reconstruct the battered country, to kick the Iranians out of Syria and to prevent Russia from emerging as the key external power in Syria. Indeed, in deferring to Vladimir Putin, Trump has implicitly assented to Russia's desire to help the Assad regime consolidate its control over Syria.
In his curious obsession with Syrian oil fields the Kurds now control, Trump suggested the US would be key in keeping oil out of ISIS control, including a plan to get a US oil company to develop the Syrian oil fields -- or simply to seize the oil fields for US interests.
Both of these solutions are untethered from reality.
No American company would agree to enter such a fraught arena. And the idea that Washington could simply take Syrian oil poses major legal, logistical and political problems. The oil fields that ISIS had used to enrich itself are in a different part of Syria altogether from the fields that the Kurds now control -- and in any event are in no condition for development.
A partisan president in a bipartisan moment
Trump's announcement and briefing on the Baghdadi raid, not surprisingly, employed hot and boastful rhetoric that other presidents would not have used and struck a decidedly partisan tone. Trump made it clear that he didn't trust Democrats and feared they would compromise the mission; as a result, he broke with established precedent and only briefed select members of his own party ahead of the Baghdadi operation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it was inappropriate that the Russians had learned of the operation before Congress, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he learned of Baghdadi's death from watching television.
Compare Trump's tone to Obama's when he announced the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. Obama took no questions, was calm and measured and referred to the importance of overcoming terrorism by adhering to American values.
By contrast, Trump referred proudly to his administration's ban on travelers from certain Muslim-majority countries. "We have a very effective ban, and it's very hard for people to come to our country," Trump said. And, in another act of politics and partisanship, he arranged to have Sen. Lindsey Graham go to the White House briefing room to deliver the administration's talking points.
Baghdadi's death is not, as Graham claimed in the briefing room, a "game-changer."
Still, it's a significant accomplishment for an embattled president. Trump's public rollout, his overt partisanship and the absence of a post Baghdadi strategy to deal with ISIS in Syria, however, may well rob the administration of any lasting political and strategic gain from a well-deserved accomplishment.
ISIS will reemerge in both Iraq and Syria once it becomes clear that the Democratic Party is once again in charge of US foreign policy in the Middle East. Another Obama-like tilt toward Iran will again galvanize disenfranchised Sunni support across the northern Levant. Sanction relief in favor of Iran is exactly what the Democratic Party candidates are now promising. Add to this; both an anti-Turkey and an anti-Saudi bent, and you have a foreign policy geared essentially against Sunni Arab and Turkish interests. At least Trump has a relationship with Ankara and Riyadh, the same cannot be said for Warren and Sanders. ISIS had a very large component of Sunni Iraqi personnel left-over from the Saddam regime. These people are simply not going to go away, especially now when it has become clear that Iran's penetration of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon has come under severe domestic push-back. The worst thing the US could do would be to normalize economic relations with Iran through a return to the highly flawed JCPOA. America needs a wholly new policy toward the Middle East that recognizes the absolute necessity for pluralistic change through democracy with economic opportunity. Sectarianism has failed in the Middle East. Iranian hegemony cannot be allowed to be refinanced through fear of nuclear breakout. Washington needs a policy that can engage both Russia and China but is also a strict deterrent against Iranian nuclearization. At the same time Tehran must be offered an alternative to the JCPOA. Trump wants better relations with Russia, the US Democratic Party (in conjunction with the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies) do not. But the last thing the world needs now is another bifurcated cold war. In fact, geopolitics must conform to the dire ecological and economic necessity of international cooperation. This political reality has now become a scientific requirement. Iran must be forced to normalize, as Shiite power centers in Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut must no longer be assured of support from Tehran. But Moscow and Beijing need to be on board. Is Trump the man to handle such a nuanced and complicated policy? I doubt it. But the left-wing of the US Democratic Party is now so partisan that it doesn't appear to have a clue as to how to juxtapose a "Green New Deal" with an cooperative foreign policy. Instead it only has its traditional left-wing boogiemen -- Israel, Turkey and the Saudis. Talk about confusion. Let's hope Biden presents a real alternative.


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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the U.S. has stabilized. Can it last?
The overall rate of metabolic syndrome in the United States has stabilized, according to a new report. The leveling off of obesity rates was probably a factor, researchers say.
(Rolf Bruderer/Getty Images/Blend Images)
By Karen KaplanScience and Medicine Editor
As U.S. obesity rates have leveled off in recent years, one side benefit appears to be that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome has stabilized as well.
About 35% of American adults had metabolic syndrome in 2011-12, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. That was essentially the same as the 36% prevalence in 2007-08, though still higher than the 33% rate seen in 2003-04, according to a report published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
An earlier version of this story said HDL was the "bad" kind of cholesterol.
Metabolic syndrome is a condition that increases a patient's risk for coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes -- all chronic illnesses that may cause premature death. A diagnosis is made if a person has at least three attributes from a list that includes a large waist circumference, high levels of triglycerides, low levels of HDL cholesterol (the "good" kind), high blood pressure and high fasting blood sugar. (For more details about the items on this list, check this page from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.) Several of these items have a large overlap with obesity.
As of 2011-12, metabolic syndrome was more common in women (37% of them had it) than men (whose prevalence was 33%). It was also more common among Latinos (39%), non-Latino whites (37%) and African Americans (36%) than among "other" racial and ethnic groups (23%).
Age was an even bigger factor. About 18% of Americans between the ages of 20 and 39 had metabolic syndrome, compared with 47% of people who were at least 60 years old, according to the study.
Two groups of Americans had the dubious distinction of having a prevalence of more than 50% -- women who were at least 60 years old and Latinos who were in that same age group.
Perhaps the most encouraging sign was that the incidence of metabolic syndrome actually fell among women between 2007-08 (when it was 39%) and 2011-12 (when it was 37%).
However, the overall prevalence of metabolic syndrome could soon resume its upward march, since the risk appears to rise along with age, the researchers noted. This is "a concerning observation given the aging U.S. population," they wrote.
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In family law, We always try mediation (refers to mediation) as the first way to resolve the conflict.
We can not prosecute a family the first Exchange conflict. Our family is the engine and we must ensure that you people who are separated or divorced, not do so from the rest of the family. I get to see these situations, Despite the difficulties involved, as a change of life and another way to grow, not as a failure.
In this line we operate as a first rule of action. Starting from there, If our customers are not the solution, We handle them the corresponding judicial procedures such as separation, Divorce, Modification of measures... and all the derivatives of the above, as executions, claims of debts arising from the same.
Administrative law permeates all aspects of our life, from a grant to a fine traffic, at all times, you have to know how to channel performance that is appropriate for the best solution of the matter in the best way. On the other hand, the variety of administrations (State, Autonomic, local, corporate) and procedures makes administrative issues are intractable without the help of a few qualified professionals, as those who integrate the team of SANZA.
In Sanza we have large civil and offer to our customers, individuals and companies, a complete service.
From a rental to a contract of sale contract, before the formalities necessary to its realization as it is access to property records and commercial.
Those themes hereditary also are ones Affairs in which first try it mediation to correct the. We are again playing to the family and we must try not to break it, and mediation is the best way to resolve economic disputes of wills that always carry rigged quarrels caused by feelings that have to go out, in order to achieve economic agreements.
We regularly collaborate with a notary, so this area we have covered by great professionals and connoisseurs of the same.
We present before the courts claims amount from a small claims procedure up to a regular process, going through all kinds of executions, mortgage, titles not judicial and foreign exchange. In Sanza advisors, It has taken many years banks and companies of name for what these procedures have a great experience.
Immigration issues require a special dedication and study, Apart from a proper coordination between the various departments involved in the procedures. Since its inception, the legal team of Sanza has been involved in processes of immigration at all levels, especially in the international aspect with countless communications with the Spanish Administration abroad (Embassies and consulates).


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Renee Reacts . taylor swift
Lover 8.23 🦋 Step into the Daylight and Let It Go
This album is very much a celebration of love, in all its complexity, coziness, and chaos. It's the first album of mine that I've ever owned, and I couldn't be more proud. - Taylor Swift
So...the Lover album is out and I am in cotton candy heaven. All the feels, the butterflies, the blues, the chills, the heartbeats, the joy, the radiance, I mean everything this album screams - I felt it in my soul. And so, to properly address those feelings, I'm doing the one thing I know how to do to express all my inhibitions - writing a blog.
I woke up at 8:30 this morning - 30 minutes late for the release of this album. Even when my eyes were still half-closed, I was giddy with excitement to finally get to listen to Taylor's new songs. I powered my trusty laptop on and went directly to Spotify. I was so excited that even though I wanted to do a reaction video, I didn't because I just really wanted to dive into the album.
I'm presently sipping my hot coffee and listening to London Boy as I am typing this. Can I just say that this song is giving my heart all the good squeezes it needs? But let's talk about that later. Now, I'm going to go back to track one and just type away all my thoughts about each song in this album. Here goes...
I Forgot That You Existed
This first song blew me away. The beat, the lyrics, the melody, the message. I feel that this is the best way to transition from the reputation era to the Lover era. I mean, come on, just from the first stanza: "How many days did I spend thinking 'Bout how you did me wrong, wrong, wrong? Lived in the shade you were throwing 'Til all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone". I felt that she was just reminiscing about the past and telling us that she's over everything that's in the past. That yes, it's okay to still feel hurt from it, but the important thing is that she grew and became stronger because of it. I cannot stop listening to this track but okay, on to track two! 😁
Favorite lyric: 🎶I forgot that you existed, And I thought that it would kill me but it didn't. It isn't love, it isn't hate, it's just indifference.🎶
Okay, this song title has been teased since the You Need To Calm Down video came out and I didn't know what to expect from it. The beat reminds me of Getaway Car but the overall feel of the song is a whole other universe. I mean, did you listen to her growl when she screamed, "He looks up grinning like a devil"? OUT OF THIS WORLD. I am so proud of you, queen. 💙
Favorite lyric: 🎶I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you🎶
Ahhhhh, Lover. The ever romantic, full-of-butterflies title track that I live for. When I first heard this one, I melted. Taylor has gone back to her country roots and made this heart-melting number. It reminded me of her old songs - Call It What You Want, New Year's Eve, Crazier, Enchanted, and Forever & Always balled up into one. It's a song with a mellow tune that left me feeling happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time. 😉
I stayed up late last night to catch the premiere of the Lover Music Video and it was amazing. I cried. I want to have that - a lover. Someone who will love me unconditionally and who will fight to be with me despite all the hardships that we'll encounter. Such a beautiful song, I get it now why the title of this Album is Lover. 💜
Favorite lyric: 🎶I've loved you three summers now, honey, but I want them all... All's well that ends well to end up with you.🎶
This song is literally MIC DROP. Come on, "Every conquest I had made would make me more of a boss to you", "They say I hustled, put in the work. They wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve", "If I was out flashing my dollars I'd be a bitch, not a baller. They pick me out to be bad. So, it's okay that I'm mad". 'CAUSE IF I WAS A MAN, THEN I'D BE THE MAN. periodt.
Favorite lyric: 🎶I'd be a fearless leader. I'd be an alpha type. 'Cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man.🎶
Okay, now to track five. Honestly, when I first heard this song, I didn't dig the "Combat, I'm ready for combat" line. BUT, when Taylor sang "Easy they come, easy they go, I jump from the train, I ride off alone", "They see right through me, I see right through me" then "All the king's horses, all the king's men, Couldn't put me together again. 'Cause all of my enemies started out friends, Help me hold on to you.", I felt the vulnerability of this song. Not my favorite song on the album but The Archer has definitely left a mark.
Favorite lyric: 🎶'Cause all of my enemies started out friends Help me hold on to you...🎶
I Think He Knows
I love this track!!! Very BOP and it just got me dancing on my feet. 😁 It reminds me of her Stay, Stay, Stay - which is definitely not a SKIP, fight me! 💃 I feel Taylor's giddiness when she sings "I ain't gotta tell him, I think he knows" and I just can't help but smile when I listen to this song. Ahhhhh, 2 minutes and 53 seconds of goodness.
Favorite lyric: 🎶He got my heartbeat Skipping down sixteenth avenue... Like, I want you, bless my soul. I ain't gotta tell him, I think he knows🎶
Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince
The storyteller in Taylor Swift was unleashed in this song. It's very reminiscent of her Love Story, Mary's Song (Oh My My My), Dear John, The Story of Us, and You Belong With Me. The more I listen to it, the more I like it. That's what this song is about. ❤
Favorite lyric: 🎶And I don't want you to (Go), I don't really wanna (Fight) 'Cause nobody's gonna (Win), I just think you should know And I'll never let you (Go), 'cause I know this is a (Fight) And someday we're gonna (Win)🎶
Paper Rings
This is one of my favorite tracks on this album! The pre-chorus is just the cutest! I felt like it's very Avril-Lavigne-like and it's just amazing. I'm running out of adjectives here so please bear with me. 😂 I want to memorize all the lyrics in this song even if it has so much. I can just imagine how fun this song would be at her concert! 🎤 I am soooo happy for her, her happiness with her beau shines in this song especially when she sings "I like shiny things, but I'd marry you with paper rings, Uh huh, that's right Darling, you're the one I want". MY HEART
Favorite lyric: 🎶I want to drive away with you, I want your complications too, I want your dreary Mondays, Wrap your arms around me, baby boy... I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this 🎶
Cornelia Street
This track made me so emotional because I can relate to it on so many levels. I felt every single lyric Taylor was singing because it felt like she was speaking out my thoughts a year ago when I was in a very dark place. But as hers was only speaking of fears, mine was a reality. I will never be the same way I was when I think of that place I left a year ago.
The production in this track reminds me of a moment in Wildest Dreams, the part where she sang "Say you'll remember me, Standing in a nice dress, Staring at the sunset, babe". Or I don't know, maybe that's just me...💁♀
Favorite lyric: 🎶 I hope I never lose you, hope it never ends I'd never walk Cornelia Street again. That's the kinda heartbreak time could never mend 🎶
Death By A Thousand Cuts
I died by a thousand cuts when she sang "My heart, my hips, my body, my love, Tryna find a part of me that you didn't touch. Gave up on me like I was a bad drug". 😭 TAYLOR, ARE YOU READING MY THOUGHTS??? ARE YOU WATCHING MY LIFE?! 💔😭 But when I learned that this song was inspired by the movie Someone Great, I understood. I get the Someone Great references. Because I heavily related to that movie. 😭
Favorite lyric: 🎶 You said it was a great love, one for the ages. But if the story's over, why am I still writing pages? Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts 🎶
London Boy
BOY, I FANCY YOU! Ahhhhhhhh, so much kilig in this song! It's just so cute to hear how head over heels in love Taylor is with Joe. I ship them so hard now. 😭❤ Wishing you both the best, lovers. ❤🦋
Favorite lyric: 🎶 But something happened, I heard him laughing I saw the dimples first and then I heard the accent They say home is where the heart is, but that's not where mine lives 🎶
Soon You'll Get Better (feat. Dixie Chicks)
This is me while listening to the entire song - 😭😭😭 especially when she sang "What am I supposed to do If there's no you?" ... I will be praying for Mama Swift, too. 🙏 I cannot imagine seeing your mother fighting a bitch like cancer and just being strong for her when all you want is cry and be afraid, thinking about all the worst possible outcomes. But God is faithful, I know He will take care of Mama Swift. All the love, Taylor. Stay strong. 💛
Favorite lyric: 🎶 Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too. And I say to you Ooh-ah You'll get better soon 'Cause you have to 🎶
False God
This is the song I would play when I just want to have a chill mood. Like when sitting, sipping a cocktail, and just having a conversation with someone you're really attracted to. I'd have it in a playlist with Dress and So It Goes. Cheers 🥂
Favorite lyric: 🎶 They all warned us about times like this They say the road gets hard and you get lost When you're led by blind faith, blind faith 🎶
You Need To Calm Down
A crowd favorite, YES. I always do my fancy dance when this song plays, and when I say fancy, I mean funny. 💃💃💃 'CAUSE SHADE NEVER MADE ANYBODY LESS GAY SO O-OH, O-OH, O-OH! I am not calm!
Favorite lyric: 🎶 And I ain't tryna mess with your self-expression But I've learned a lesson that stressin' and obsessin' 'bout somebody else is no fun 🎶
I felt how Taylor still overthinks in this song just like how she was in her song Delicate. She's still testing the waters even after all this time, she's still having second thoughts if her lover would still be there for her after finding out that she has a crazy side. "Why'd I have to break what I love so much? It's on your face, and I'm to blame". I understand Tay, I understand. 😔
Favorite lyric: 🎶 Tell me that you're still mine, Tell me that we'll be just fine. Even when I lose my mind, I need to say. Hey, it's on me, In my head, I'm the one that burned us. Damn, but it's not what I meant, sorry that I hurt you 🎶
Me! (feat. Brendon Urie)
The single that started all the commotion. Do I need to say more for this song? I don't think so. 🦋🐱💜💙💚💛❤💖💋
Favorite lyric: 🎶 Baby doll when it comes to a lover, I promise that you'll never find another like Me! 🎶
It's Nice To Have A Friend
I thought I was going to be transported to be with Mulan in China when I heard the intro of this track. But on a serious note, this feathery, light song is just perfect to be the second last song of this album. After the emotional roller coaster that is Lover, Taylor is taking us to the finale softly and slowly...
Favorite lyric: 🎶 Church-bells ring, Carry me home, Rice on the ground, Looks like snow, Call my bluff, Call you babe 🎶
The PERFECT song to end this magnificent album. When Taylor released the song titles a week ago, I was drawn to Daylight the most. And now that I have listened to it, IT WAS EVERYTHING I IMAGINED. After the darkness, she could finally see daylight. I just love the feeling that this song radiates. I am working out to make myself better to achieve this feeling, 'cause after the darkness, I also want to see the daylight, and I'm getting there. 💖 Taylor, you are the daylight. Thank you for making this album. Thank you for writing your music. Thank you for being you. 💛
"You are what you love."
Favorite lyric: 🎶 I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you. I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you...I once believed life would be (Burning red), but it's golden (Golden). Like daylight. 🎶