text:
Lawrence Toppman
The greatest composer? Perhaps. The unhealthiest? Indisputably.
December 16, 2020 WDAV BlogNews & Features, UncategorizedB250, Lawrence ToppmanComments Off on The greatest composer? Perhaps. The unhealthiest? Indisputably.
By Lawrence Toppman
Plenty of noteworthy classical composers died young: Juan Arriaga at 19, Lili Boulanger at 24, Pergolesi at 26, Schubert at 31 (the year after he escorted Beethoven's coffin to the cemetery), Mozart at 35, Purcell at 36, Mendelssohn at 38, Chopin at 39.
But of all those who lived a reasonably full span for their eras, none suffered like Beethoven. Even if you set aside his hearing loss, an extraordinary handicap for a musician, his life seems like a nearly uninterrupted arc of physical misery.
Stomach pains and diarrhea racked him from his teens, possibly because lead leached out of cooking utensils or cheap wines. (Lead had been added to wine to thicken it since Roman times.) For the next 40 years, until he died at 56, these agonies never left him for long.
Friends who knew Beethoven best tolerated his emotional attacks and outbursts – often followed by apologies and repentance – because they knew his melancholy and depression sprang at least partly from pain. Others merely wrote him off wrongly as a misanthrope.
He ultimately endured colic, pancreatitis, what seems to have been an inflammatory bowel disorder, respiratory problems, joint pain, eye inflammation, chronic headaches, tinnitus and cirrhosis of the liver, aggravated by alcohol abuse. Meanwhile, useless treatments for his deafness included the application of leeches and the tourniquet-like fastening of bark from the Daphne mezereum plant to his forearms, which caused them to blister and burn.
Beethoven remained bedridden for months before his death in March 1827, which has been attributed by various sources to liver and kidney failure, peritonitis (inflammation of the fluid lining the abdomen) and encephalopathy, which would explain his disordered mental state.
Only a year earlier, he had composed the serene String Quartet in F, his 16th and last in that form. In his final months, though, he merely jotted notes for a piano piece that never took shape because he lacked the stamina to finish it.
Miraculously, like Mozart writing "The Magic Flute" in ill health months before his death, Beethoven produced some of his happiest music during his unhappiest times. His liver problems intensified as he finished the Ninth Symphony in 1824, yet the final "Ode to Joy" remains the most thrilling 15 minutes he composed. He separated physical agonies from the uplifting beauty he left to the world.
Audio: The Life and Times of Beethoven
December 15, 2020 WDAV BlogNews & Features, UncategorizedB250, Lawrence ToppmanComments Off on Audio: The Life and Times of Beethoven
Learn what shaped Beethoven's music through a series of short audio anecdotes from Lawrence Toppman's collection of posts marking 250 years since Ludwig van Beethoven's birth. Topics include how he composed some of his greatest works as his hearing declined, why his greatest opera Fidelio had no memorable tunes, how he bombarded audiences with his genius to prove a point, and more.
What the Deaf Man Heard
Most think Beethoven went deaf relatively early, but new evidence suggests Beethoven might have retained partial hearing up to a year before his death.
The Grim Beethoven?
After studying 46 images online of Beethoven, every painting, sculpture and drawing has one thing in common: He's never smiling.
A Disastrous Outpouring of Genius
"One can easily have too much of a good thing – and still more of a loud."
The Greatest Opera with No Tunes
How can the most brilliant of Beethoven's operas not have more memorable tunes?
The Journey that Saved Beethoven's Life
Beethoven poured his thoughts into a document that starts with a plea for understanding and ends in his commitment to art
Ten underrated pieces you should know
December 2, 2020 WDAV BlogNews & Features, UncategorizedB250, Lawrence ToppmanComments Off on Ten underrated pieces you should know
I compiled a similar list last year for Mozart and enjoyed that journey of rediscovery so much that I'm revisiting the concept. It's harder for Beethoven: No symphonies or concertos have been overlooked (he wrote too few), and he composed only one opera and one great church work, the Missa Solemnis. Still, treasures remain hidden to the casual fan. Check these out:
Piano trio No. 3 – How many pieces did Beethoven write before Op. 1? This sounds like a trick question, but the answer is dozens. He decided to call his first set of three piano trios Op. 1, because they represented the achievement of a composer ready to make his mark on the world. All are worth knowing, but this one in C minor has the most weight and drive.
"Ah, Perfido!" – For his first major attempt at dramatic vocal music, Beethoven wrote a concert aria of the type favored by Haydn and Mozart. Of course, he made this plaint of an abandoned yet still faithful lover nearly twice as long as theirs at 14 minutes. You hear glimmers of the nobly powerful emotions he would put into Leonore and Florestan's outpourings in "Fidelio."
Cello sonata No. 3 – The first piece by Beethoven I studied seriously 50 years ago sticks in my mind as one of his most beautiful, alternately serene and tumultuous. He never wrote a cello concerto, but this sonata – the middle one of five – shows he understood the instrument's capacities. It's also his first "with piano" sonata that gives an equal role to the keyboard.
Choral Fantasy – This odd hybrid has never found an audience, but I like it both as a kind of dry run for the Ninth Symphony and on its own wild merits. The long, virtuosic piano introduction leads into a vivid orchestral section and then an uplifting finale for a chorus, which sings about beauty, peace, divine grace and "life's harmonies," themes he revisited in his "Ode to Joy."
Piano Sonata No. 7 – You've probably heard the named sonatas – "Moonlight," "Pathetique," "Appassionata," etc. – so I picked this one, though all 32 reward a hearing. Here Beethoven broke away from earlier models, writing four movements instead of three and experimenting with unusual key changes. The second section (largo) hints at tragic slow movements to come.
String quartet No. 10 ("Harp") – Like the piano sonatas, all the string quartets command attention. I chose this one because it balances Beethoven's romantic and classical sides so well: The heroic opening movement leads us to expect something other than the traditionally constructed theme and variations of the finale. You can't pin Beethoven down by style or era.
"The Ruins of Athens" – Beethoven wrote more incidental music for plays and ballets than people realize, and this set – best heard in the revised version with the "Consecration of the House" overture — contains not only his famous Turkish March but a Chorus of Dervishes that's astonishingly forward-looking. It would be at home in a Rimsky-Korsakov opera of the 1890s.
Serenade for strong trio, Op. 8 – He also wrote many pieces of occasional music to be played at social gatherings, which earned him lots of money (notably his early Septet) and which he later downplayed. This may be the best: elegant, dancelike (both a minuet and a polonaise), starting and ending with sweet-tempered marches. No masterwork, just polished craftsmanship.
"Rage Over a Lost Penny" – Beethoven's rough, crude sense of humor in person occasionally popped up in his writing, frequently transformed into something more sophisticated: You can hear musical witticisms throughout the Diabelli Variations. "Rage" catches him at his most puckish, as the pianist merrily vents his frustration at being unable to locate a dropped coin.
Concerto for violin, cello and piano – OK, I picked a concerto, because this seldom gets played. It seems at first like a stunt – look how cleverly I weave three soloists into a pattern! – but it's lively, charming, fun. No other 19th-century composer attempted one, but about 30 composers have taken a shot over the last 100 years. That's Beethoven: perennially fresh and inspirational.
Beethoven's Napoleonic complex
November 18, 2020 WDAV BlogNews & Features, UncategorizedB250, Lawrence ToppmanComments Off on Beethoven's Napoleonic complex
Four years ago, conductors surveyed by BBC Music Magazine named Beethoven's Third Symphony the greatest of all time. Yet the "Eroica" started life with a different title: "Bonaparte," applied while Beethoven saw Napoleon as a symbol of democracy who would sweep away royal houses and assure the rights of the common man.
He tore up his dedication to Napoleon in 1804, when the puppet French Senate named him emperor. "Now he also will trample all human rights underfoot, and only pander to his own ambition!" Beethoven told composer Ferdinand Ries, his student. "He will place himself above everyone else and become a tyrant!"
Beethoven changed the title to indicate to listeners that his ambitious new work – the longest symphony by a major composer to that point – still represented a hero's journey. But his fascination with Napoleon lasted much of his life.
That shouldn't surprise us. Both were short, homely, often dislikable men of relatively modest beginnings who elevated themselves to the tops of their professions through unrelenting hard work, single-mindedness and undeniable genius.
Beethoven's interest in the Frenchman began unofficially in 1796, when he wrote 12 variations for cello and piano on "See, the conqu'ring hero comes" from Handel's "Judas Maccabeus." Napoleon had already begun his campaign to break apart the Habsburg Empire and establish "sister republics" to France, and he's almost certainly the "conqu'ring hero" lauded here.
Despite his subsequent rage at Napoleon's self-aggrandizement, Beethoven respected him, and the imperial family returned that respect. Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, became King of Westphalia and offered the composer the job of kapellmeister at his court. (Beethoven said no but used that offer as a bargaining chip to solidify his position in Vienna.)
During the French occupation of Vienna in 1809, diplomat Louis-Philippe-Joseph Girod de Vienney visited the composer and reported that Beethoven not only peppered him with questions about Napoleon but expressed grudging respect for his achievements.
In 1813, Beethoven needled the emperor in "Wellington's Victory," hackwork which made its composer plenty of money. He wrote this "battle symphony" to commemorate the Duke of Wellington's defeat of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, that year in Spain.
He created the 15-minute potboiler for a mechanical contraption called the panharmonicon, then revised it for orchestra. "Victory" alternates themes associated with the two countries, mainly "God Save the King" for England and "Marlborough has left for the war" for the French. (We know it as the tune for "The Bear Came Over the Mountain.") Whatever Beethoven may finally have thought about Napoleon, the French get the better music!
The Unholy Grail
November 4, 2020 WDAV BlogNews & Features, UncategorizedB250, Lawrence ToppmanComments Off on The Unholy Grail
Nearly 40 years ago, I started buying CD sets of symphonies to take to a tiny apartment in old age, where I'd have room for one box per composer. (That's how OCD people think.) I did so satisfactorily for Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky. Dvořák, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, even the 104 symphonies of Haydn.
Only Beethoven defeated me. After 12 complete cycles, I have given up the quest.
Sooner or later, Leonard Bernstein became too impetuous, George Szell too rigid, Michael Tilson Thomas too lightweight, Herbert von Karajan too ponderous, John Eliot Gardiner too shallow, Simon Rattle too bland, David Zinman too mechanical. Andre Cluytens comes closest to my ideal in his stereo cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic, but even there the Fifth could blaze more, and the Seventh could be nimbler.
Why should this be? Because Beethoven, more than anyone else, never repeated himself in a symphony. Unlike Mahler or Mozart, who explored a wide range of ideas and feelings but remained fundamentally themselves, Beethoven changed personalities every time.
The elegant First Symphony pays quasi-traditional homage to his teacher, Haydn, whose last symphony had appeared five years earlier. The Second, where Beethoven replaced the minuet movement with a scherzo, shows his sense of wry and sometimes raucous humor. The Third changed the course of composition with its daring length, key changes and other innovations. The Fourth abandons high drama for mellow warmth.
The Fifth sets him battling with a cruel Fate, the Sixth ambling blissfully through a pastoral scene, the Seventh indulging his love of dance rhythms. In the brief Eighth, he revisits his early days as a composer with a light heart but an old man's irony. The Ninth rockets us to the stars.
What conductor could express all these personalities with equal insight? Even within one symphony – say, the Eroica – nobody finds everything that's there. The reduced forces of Tilson Thomas' English Chamber Orchestra lack power but reveal details I have heard nowhere else. Bernstein has tremendous zest in some spots and languishes in others. Gardiner plays parts of it with the right intensity but tramples others to death like a rogue elephant.
Four decades of study have frustrated my space-saving self but revealed an astonishment of riches found in no other symphonic collection. I once figured I'd encounter the "correct" interpretations of Beethoven to take to my deathbed. How glad I am now that they don't exist!
Beethoven on speed
October 21, 2020 WDAV BlogNews & Features, UncategorizedB250, Lawrence ToppmanComments Off on Beethoven on speed
Between 1996 and 2000, musicologist Jonathan Del Mar oversaw a new edition of Beethoven's symphonies known as the Bärenreiter Urtext. It aimed to follow Beethoven's original intentions, mainly via stricter adherence to his printed tempo markings.
Conductors John Eliot Gardiner and David Zinman quickly adopted this approach, and their complete series can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon and Sony labels respectively. To my ears, these interpretations have all the depth, charm and beauty of a paper plate.
I came to know Beethoven via conductors who valued crisp execution (George Szell), high drama (Leonard Bernstein) and a clear musical arc that revealed the composer's intentions (Andre Cluytens, whose series with the Berlin Philharmonic would be the complete set I'd grab in a fire). All sought Beethoven's soul; none obsessed over his metronome markings.
I generally admire attempts at historical accuracy, whether from groups trying to reproduce the sounds Bach heard to orchestras that shrink or expand to replicate original performances from Mozart to Mahler. But exact fidelity to Beethoven's markings, perversely, seems to deliver something the composer really didn't want.
Johann Nepomuk Mälzel patented his wind-up metronome in the early 19th century, and Beethoven took it up by 1815. (Mälzel also made ear trumpets for Beethoven, at least two of which he seems to have used, and designed the noisy Panharmonicon Beethoven employed in his trashy battle symphony "Wellington's Victory.")
In 1817, Beethoven oversaw publication of his first eight symphonies with metronome markings. (He later approved insanely rapid ones for the Ninth Symphony, draining it of majesty if played that way.) Most speeds were faster than current performance practice, a few slower.
But he couldn't hear his music by then, let alone judge the resonance in rooms where it was played, so he couldn't adjust his ideas. Also, the general public found his symphonies long and difficult, so he may have been attempting to satisfy them with extra-brisk performances.
Jan Swafford's excellent biography "Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph" tells us the composer wasn't absolute in his demands. He quotes a manuscript note: "100 according to Mälzel, but … sentiment also has its tempo and cannot be completely expressed by this number." Reports by contemporaries say he sped up or slowed down when conducting, according to his moods.
As a child, I owned a paint-by-number set. I scrupulously chose colors according to instructions and carefully painted inside every line printed on the sheet. The Gardiners and Zinmans of the world seem to me to take the same mechanical approach, producing art that's just as sterile.
Lenny and Ludwig
October 7, 2020 WDAV BlogNews & Features, UncategorizedB250, Lawrence ToppmanComments Off on Lenny and Ludwig
Next week brings the 30th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's death. As I've listened to Beethoven recordings this year, I've been struck by the intimate connection between the most charismatic conductor of the 20th century and the most important composer of the 19th.
As a member of Tanglewood's first class of conducting students in 1940, the 22-year-old Bernstein prepared Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and won the attention of Tanglewood founder Serge Koussevitzky, music director of the Boston Symphony.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as music director of the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein became the first American conductor to record a complete set of the symphonies with one orchestra. That version of the Third Symphony, still perhaps my favorite of the "Eroica," came with a lecture entitled "How a Great Symphony was Written." As a teenager, I heard this insightful teacher break down a masterpiece for the first time, analyzing the opening movement of history's most revolutionary orchestral work.
Bernstein later recorded another complete set, rather less convincingly, with the Vienna Philharmonic. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, he performed the Ninth Symphony in the German capital, changing the word "freude" in the climactic "Ode to Joy" to "freiheit," or "freedom." He augmented the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with musicians from nations involved in World War II: Germany, Russia, England, France and the United States.
Like Beethoven, he was a first-rate pianist. He recorded eight concertos but played only two composers who predated his lifetime, Beethoven and Mozart. Artur Rubinstein called Bernstein "the greatest pianist among conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, and the greatest composer among pianists." Wouldn't that description have fit Beethoven in his day?
And in 1990, two months before he died, Bernstein led the Boston Symphony again at Tanglewood for his 50th anniversary there. Though frail and exhausted, he chose Beethoven's dramatic Seventh Symphony as the last piece he would ever conduct.
What gave him such a deep identification with Beethoven's music? Bernstein liked big gestures as a conductor, and Beethoven's work lends itself to those. Both men were musical polymaths who lived at a high emotional pitch and, as Bernstein's recently collected letters reveal, remained proud of their accomplishments yet insecure about their impact on society.
Most importantly, each believed the arts have the power to inspire us, heal us and make us better than we ordinarily are. Beethoven grew up with the ideals of the Enlightenment; he wanted music not only to move people but to connect them to fundamental principles of the universe. Think of his exhortations to seek wisdom and fraternal harmony in the "Ode to Joy." They pose an impossibly tall order for most human beings, but Bernstein shared those sentiments all his life.
The Curse of 9
September 23, 2020 WDAV BlogNews & Features, UncategorizedLawrence ToppmanComments Off on The Curse of 9
If you know pop music history, you've heard of the 27 Club. That's the age at which an extraordinary number of musicians have died: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Ron McKernan of the Grateful Dead, Kurt Cobain, Pete Ham of Badfinger, Amy Winehouse and many others, going back to bluesman Robert Johnson in 1938.
Yet classical music has its own fateful legend: For 129 years, no major composer after Beethoven finished a 10th symphony.
Haydn published 104, Mozart 41, and both men sketched out many others. But once Beethoven premiered his Ninth Symphony in 1824, everyone stopped there or gave up before that point. (I love that piece so much I own more recordings of it than any other – nine, in fact.)
The list of composers who quit arbitrarily at nine symphonies or died soon thereafter includes Franz Schubert, Antonín Dvořák, Louis Spohr (beloved during the 19th century), Malcolm Arnold and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Alexander Glazunov and Alfred Schnittke died before finishing their ninth symphonies. Anton Bruckner disavowed two youthful symphonies, started counting officially and died writing his ninth.
Gustav Mahler had such a strong superstition about this "curse" that, though four of his first eight symphonies had vocal parts, he refused to call "Das Lied von der Erde" a symphony. He followed it with an orchestral No. 9 and, sure enough, died writing No. 10. Said Arnold Schoenberg, "It seems that the Ninth is a limit. He who wants to go beyond it must pass away. It seems as if something might be imparted to us in the Tenth which we ought not yet to know, for which we are not ready. Those who have written a Ninth stood too close to the hereafter."
Dmitri Shostakovich dispelled this nonsense in 1953 with his 10th symphony and went on to publish 15. The floodgates opened for the likes of Nikolai Miaskovsky (27), Alan Hovhaness (67) and Finland's Leif Segerstam (339 as of this June, many in a single, 20-minute movement in the style of Sibelius' Seventh).
The real curse may have been fear of walking in Beethoven's footsteps. Schumann waited until he was 31, the age at which Schubert had died, to finish a symphony. Franz Liszt premiered his first, a take on the Faust legend, at 45. Brahms, the natural inheritor of Beethoven's symphonic mantle, made false starts over 20 years and didn't sign off on a symphony until he was 43.
Conductor Hans von Bülow dubbed that one "Beethoven's Tenth," noting a resemblance between the main theme of Brahms' finale and the main theme of the finale of Beethoven's Ninth. "Any ass can see that," replied Brahms, who considered it not a rip-off but a long overdue homage to his greatest symphonic predecessor.


Essential for all fans of these Southern Hard Rock legends.
This excellent recounting of their formative years is essential viewing for any fan of the band.
A fantastic way to learn more about the guitar maestro by the way of both his extraordinary music and his curious personality.
A definite winner for me (and he didn't even have to take his shirt off).
I do like a good live DVD and this one is a keeper for sure.
A must for fans of the man and his music.
This particular souvenir, recorded and filmed at the London Hippodrome on 25th October 2007, logs a unique evening.
These DVD's will appeal to old and new fans alike.


Nice home. Remodeled kitchen & baths. Wood laminate flooring in living room, dining & family rm. Replacement windows. Updated furnace, c/a & HWH. L shaped fa rm has the perfect place if you need a home office. Lovely fenced yard. Convenient location to shopping, dining & elementary school. Call to see this charming home today!


text:
Game Arcade On HubPages
Classic Games Arcade is a 100{1e634bf91e868dd0a677232558f4e015ddc4bb99b08a4a359f03d91d056cd203} free on-line arcade video games website. We purpose to carry you one of the best basic arcade games which you'll add to your weblog or web site and share with your pals. We have a great deal of retro games from mario, galga, metallic slug, sonic, street fighter 2 to pac man. All the previous arcade games on this web site are proven console and arcade classics. We've added a web classics section as we really feel that there are some insanley fashionable web classic flash video games that you should have a go at taking part in.
The Arcade consists of two parallel 9-story workplace blocks aligned along both aspect of its five-story iron-and-glass-roofed industrial arcade. The office spaces share the arcade ambience by way of stepped balconies overlooking the central house. The essential stage of that central space modifications elevation to accommodate the different road ranges of Euclid and Superior Avenues. The major constructing façades alongside the streets are load-bearing, whereas most of the interior space is structured by metal, cast iron and glass. The Arcade was an innovator, in that it was one of many first buildings to ever employ triple-hinged bridge trusses as its roof construction.
We want to take the system to the following stage. We want to get to twenty million (users) faster than we obtained to 10 million," Schappert stated on the sidelines of the Game Developers Conference. Please leave a detailed description in regards to the situation you are seeing. Include issues like recreation title, how often you may reproduce it, the flash player you're utilizing, and uploading a screenshot to help us resolve your difficulty quicker. Within the broader restaurant industry, sit-down casual eating places have struggled as customers opt to eat at residence and more and more avoid the mall, where such restaurants are often situated. The threat of a rising minimum wage has put additional pressure on the sector.
Ticket Troopers is a 3-player, middle of the room fast coin game with an exciting police theme. It challenges gamers to roll coins across the spinning playfield into the targets to win tickets. A bonus target offers expert players a chance to win huge ticket values. Ticket Troopers has it all, innovation, fun, and great sport play. Text is offered beneath the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; extra terms might apply. By utilizing this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. , a non-profit group.
Step 7: Start looking at space. You want a spot with sufficient room for video games, a prize redemption area, a number of occasion rooms, a kitchen, a small dining space, and that is ADA compliant. I'd say you want 8,000 square toes minimum. You need it in a superb location, not run down, not out of the best way. High traffic, excessive income, high earnings potential…high hire. It is not fairly. Now you possibly can play Doodle Jump, one of the highest ranked apps on itunes, proper here in our Carle Place laser tag enviornment and arcade! Stop in and do this recreation on the HUGE 9 foot tall recreation with a 42 inch high def display!
| Tags: arcade, hubpages
Games Online Play Free Online Games

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Q: How to pass variables into a filter on a recordset or collection So I have a variable and a recordset:
$firstRecordID = 1;
$records = Recordset::all();

I want to filter the recordset:
$filteredRecords = $records->find(function($record){
    if($record->id == $firstRecordID)
        return true;
    else
        return false;
});

Unfortunately, the closure has no clue what $firstRecordID is.
How do I pass in the ID?

A: You can bind the $firstRecordID to the closure:
$firstRecordID = 1;
$records = Recordset::all();

$filterFunction = function ($record) use ($firstRecordID) {
    return ($record->id == $firstRecordID);
};

$filteredRecords = $records->find($filterFunction);

I also simplified your lambda into a single line.

A: It is maybe a stupid question, but why are you getting everything to filter afterwards manually when the ODM can do that directly?
$records = Recordset::all(array(
    'conditions' => array(
        'id' => array('<>' => $firstRecordID)
    )
));

Even if the result isn't much smaller that doing all() it looks much cleaner using the right tool for the right purpose.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Fahim Naim is a former Senior Category Manager at Amazon and founder of eShopportunity. Over the course of his time at Amazon, Fahim did P&L management for a multi-hundred million dollar category, managed relationships with vendors, and negotiated terms and costs with vendors and his team.
We take a deep dive into the ways to make your Amazon listings fully optimized, as well as the common mistakes sellers make using Amazon's platform. If you are an Amazon seller, you definitely don't want to miss the vendor advice that Fahim has to offer.
Newer PostWhy Walmart would want to buy Jet?
READY TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH AMAZON?


text:
The Fighters
C. J. Chivers
Jerry Lenaburg
"they have become the successors to the Greatest Generation . . ."
America has now been at war for the longest period in its history. Since the first American Special Forces touched down in Afghanistan in October 2001, American troops have served in combat continuously in the Middle East, Africa, and other regions of the world.
But for most Americans, these wars remain distant sound bytes on the evening news as the volunteer military shields most of the public from the personal impacts of sending a large draftee army off to war, as America did in both World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam.
However, for those serving in uniform, this same time period has been marked by multiple combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria. Some of these brave service members have their stories now told in this noteworthy new book, which evokes memories of the great personal narratives of World War 2 such as Brave Men and Band of Brothers.
What makes this book remarkable is the narrative style chosen by the author to follow these subjects across their entire military career, with tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan for some, and for others, their home front struggles as well.
In one story arc, he follows a Navy carrier pilot from the first days after 9/11 when as a young Navy Lieutenant he becomes one of the first aviators to bomb Afghanistan, through his 12 years of service until we read about the same officer now commanding a squadron and still flying missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. His journey from enthusiastic junior officer to a more measured leader of other young aviators shows the impact of serving multiple combat tours and understanding that sometimes it's better when you don't have to drop your bombs than when you do.
For other Americans, the impact of war is more immediate, and not always in a good way. The story of a young Marine lieutenant leading his first platoon into combat is both heroic and tragic. Although he has reservations about the short time he has to train with his platoon and whether he can lead them in combat, the lieutenant rises to the challenge, and in spite of his own uncertainties, successfully leads his platoon through one of the biggest Marine operations of the Afghan "surge" of 2010–2011.
But in their first major action, the Marines learn the hard way that combat is full of uncertainty and unintended death when a mistargeted American missile destroys a house full of Afghan refugees, killing several women and children. The Marines are all horrified at the consequences of this mistake, yet in spite of their distress they must carry on with their mission. The new lieutenant is especially affected as he must not only deal with his personal grief and regret, but keep his platoon focused on completing their mission while staying alive and looking after each other.
The book hits home not only as a narrative of battlefield bravery, but the struggles and triumphs for wounded warriors on the home front. The author spares no details of the pain and frustration experienced by many wounded veterans who faced months or years of dealing with their physical and psychological wounds, reminding us that many of those who served are still dealing with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress a decade after their service.
And of course, for some of these brave men, their luck or fate runs out and after serving multiple combat tours they are killed or mortally wounded, leaving their families to ask if their sacrifice was worth it while dealing with the loss of a loved one.
Like soldiers throughout history, these men find themselves eventually fighting not for some great cause or grand strategic plan, but for their buddies on either side of them. It that respect, they have become the successors to the Greatest Generation, serving with honor and courage in wars that had ambiguous ends and were never fully understood by the citizens they swore to serve.
Jerry D. Lenaburg is a Project Manager and Military Analyst with 30 years experience in government and industry. A 1987 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served as a Naval Flight Officer from 1987–1998 and has published in the Journal of Military History.


text:
Agriculture›
Farming›
Organic grape farmland in the Benelux 2014-2017, by country
Organic grape farmland in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) from 2014 to 2017, by country (in hectares)
by Brigitte van de Pas, last edited Mar 6, 2019
This statistic displays the organic grape farmland in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) from 2014 to 2017, by country (in hectares). As of 2017, Belgium had approximately 50 hectares of organic grape farmland.
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Organic retail sales market share in Luxembourg 2010-2017
Distribution of organic retail sales in Luxembourg 2017, by marketing channel
Distribution of organic farmland in Luxembourg 2017, by land use
Number of organic beehives in Belgium and Luxembourg 2015-2017, by country
Organic food market in Luxembourg
52 page/s
Everything On "Organic food market in Luxembourg" in One Document: Edited and Divided into Handy Chapters. Including Detailed References.
Statistics on "Organic food market in Luxembourg"
Organic farmland
Organic retail and trade
Organic farmland share in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country Organic farmland share in the Benelux in 2017, by country
Organic farmland in Luxembourg from 2011 to 2017 (in hectares)Organic farmland in Luxembourg 2011-2017
Distribution of organic farmland in Luxembourg in 2017, by land useDistribution of organic farmland in Luxembourg 2017, by land use
Top 5 organic crops in Luxembourg in 2016, by land area (in hectares)Top 5 organic crops in Luxembourg 2016, by land area
Number of organic beehives in Belgium and Luxembourg from 2015 to 2017, by countryNumber of organic beehives in Belgium and Luxembourg 2015-2017, by country
Organic dried pulses farmland in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country (in hectares)Organic dried pulses farmland in the Benelux 2017, by country
Organic grape farmland in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) from 2014 to 2017, by country (in hectares)Organic grape farmland in the Benelux 2014-2017, by country
Organic oilseed farmland in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country (in hectares)Organic oilseed farmland in the Benelux 2017, by country
Number of organic food producers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by countryOrganic food producers in the Benelux in 2017, by country
Number of organic food producers in Luxembourg in 2017, by type*Number of organic food producers in Luxembourg 2017, by type
Number of organic food producers in Luxembourg from 2009 to 2017Number of organic food producers in Luxembourg 2009-2017
Number of organic wine producers in Luxembourg from 2009 to 2017Number of organic wine producers in Luxembourg 2009-2017
Number of organic fruit producers in Luxembourg from 2009 to 2017Number of organic fruit producers in Luxembourg 2009-2017
Number of organic food processors in Luxembourg from 2009 to 2017Number of organic food processors in Luxembourg 2009-2017
Value of organic retail sales in Luxembourg from 2010 to 2017 (in million euros)Organic retail sales value in Luxembourg 2010-2017
Market share of organic retail sales in Luxembourg from 2010 to 2017Organic retail sales market share in Luxembourg 2010-2017
Per capita expenditure on organic products in Luxembourg from 2010 to 2017 (in euros)Per capita expenditure on organic products in Luxembourg 2010-2017
Distribution of organic retail sales in Luxembourg in 2017, by marketing channelDistribution of organic retail sales in Luxembourg 2017, by marketing channel
Organic retail sales year on year percentage change in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2016, by country Organic retail sales percentage change in the Benelux 2016, by country
Number of organic food importers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by countryNumber of organic food importers in the Benelux 2017, by country
Number of organic food exporters in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by countryNumber of organic food exporters in the Benelux 2017, by country
Acreage of organic cropland in China 2015, by type
Percentage of agricultural area used for fruit in France 2015, by type of fruit
Agricultural area for the production of apples in Sweden 2006-2016
Italy: agricultural area used for pear production in Italy 2014-2017
Production volume of pears in France 2006-2017
Italy: production volume of pears in Italy 2014-2017
Italy: production volume of grapes in Italy 2014-2017
Italy: production volume of top 10 most produced apple assortments 2016
Italy: production volume of apples in Italy 2014-2017
Italy: agricultural area used for apple production in Italy 2014-2017
Uruguay: table grapes production volume 2010-2017
Amount of produced Cripps Pink apples in France 2005 to 2017
Production of jackfruit in Indonesia 2010-2017
Number of farms using irrigation in Canada 2010-2016
Number of fruit trees in Abu Dhabi by type 2016
Romania: agricultural area for production of fruit 2007-2014
Value per acre of farmland and buildings in Canada 2010-2018
Organic food market in Canada
Organic Food Industry
Dairy in Canada
Cheese market in Canada
Meat industry in Canada
Food Shopping Behavior in Canada
Food Retail in Canada
Fruit market in Belgium
California Grape Crush Report Final 2018
Agriculture industry in the United Kingdom
Agriculture industry in India
Agriculture industry in Italy
Organic farming in the United Kingdom
Fresh Deciduous Fruit Annual 2017 - Italy
Avocado industry
Avocado market in Latin America
Avocado market in Mexico
Fruit industry in Denmark
Fruit industry in Sweden
Fruit market in the Netherlands
Fruit industry in Norway
USDA-Farms and Land in Farms 2018
Organic farmland share in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country
Organic farmland in Luxembourg from 2011 to 2017 (in hectares)
Distribution of organic farmland in Luxembourg in 2017, by land use
Top 5 organic crops in Luxembourg in 2016, by land area (in hectares)
Number of organic beehives in Belgium and Luxembourg from 2015 to 2017, by country
Organic dried pulses farmland in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country (in hectares)
Organic oilseed farmland in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country (in hectares)
Organic vegetable farmland in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country (in hectares)
Number of organic food producers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country
Number of organic food producers in Luxembourg in 2017, by type*
Number of organic food producers in Luxembourg from 2009 to 2017
Number of organic wine producers in Luxembourg from 2009 to 2017
Number of organic fruit producers in Luxembourg from 2009 to 2017
Number of organic food processors in Luxembourg from 2009 to 2017
Value of organic retail sales in Luxembourg from 2010 to 2017 (in million euros)
Market share of organic retail sales in Luxembourg from 2010 to 2017
Per capita expenditure on organic products in Luxembourg from 2010 to 2017 (in euros)
Distribution of organic retail sales in Luxembourg in 2017, by marketing channel
Organic retail sales year on year percentage change in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2016, by country
Number of organic food importers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country
Number of organic food exporters in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux) in 2017, by country
Acreage of organic cropland in China in 2015, by type (in 1,000 hectares)*
Distribution of the agricultural area used for fruit in France in 2015, by type of fruit
Agricultural area used for apple production in Sweden from 2006 to 2016 (in hectares)
Agricultural area used for pear production in Italy from 2014 to 2017 (in hectares)
Annual production volume of pears in France from 2006 to 2017 (in 1,000 tons)
Annual production volume of pears in Italy from 2014 to 2017 (in metric tons)
Annual production volume of grapes in Italy from 2014 to 2017 (in metric tons)
Production volume of the leading ten most produced apple assortments in Italy in 2016, by variety (in metric tons)*
Annual production volume of apples in Italy from 2014 to 2017 (in metric tons)
Agricultural area used for apple production in Italy from 2014 to 2017 (in hectares)
Production of table grapes in Uruguay from 2010 to 2017 (in metric tons)
Cripps Pink apple production in France from 2005 to 2017 (in 1,000 tons)
Production of jackfruit in Indonesia from 2010 to 2017 (in 1,000 tons)
Number of farms using irrigation in Canada from 2010 to 2016*
Number of fruit trees in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in 2016, by type (in 1,000)
Agricultural area for the production of fruit in Romania 2007 to 2014 (in thousand hectares)
Value per acre of farmland and buildings in Canada from 2010 to 2018 (in Canadian dollars)


With Valentine's Day around the corner and the bombardment of all things red, heart-shaped, and love-inspired, I was thinking about what love means to me.
I don't need or want a diamond bracelet or a trip to Paris or a 5-course dinner that will set us back a few hundred dollars.
Just because I was thinking of you and what you like, let's stop by Barnes & Noble and see if any new books are out that you want.
Just because I saw a purple sweater that made me think of you.
Or my favorite! I was running errands and saw your car at your writer's meeting so I put a bouquet of roses on your front seat…just because.
Not for a birthday, an anniversary, or holiday. Just because.
As the beautiful quote says, paraphrasing here, it isn't the moments that take your breath away, it is the moments that make you catch your breath.
Jill James, a true romantic at heart…every day of my life.
This entry was posted in Jill's Posts and tagged flowers, jill james, Love, romance, Valentine's Day. Bookmark the permalink.
Just because is a great way to show affection. In our family, we had happy unbirthday days. Because kids don't need to wait for Christmas to enjoy a special gift just because.
That's so sweet. We had mommy and kid day or daddy and kid day where the parent and child spent the whole day together doing whatever the kid wanted.
LOL I would love some world-crossing trips, but since they are probably not in my near future, I'll take the small, but thoughtful gestures.
So true. Those little moments are the ones you remember years later.


Renee Montoya was created for Batman: The Animated Series to be a uniformed officer who works with Detective Harvey Bullock. Her role expanded a bit in the series and then she, along with Harley Quinn, made the move into the comics. Alan Grant wrote her first comics appearance in Batman 475, but it's Greg Rucka who did the best and most character-defining work on her. As far as I know it was Rucka who decided to make her gay. He wrote her in the "No Man's Land" crossover, then used her frequently in Detective Comics, she became one of the main characters of Gotham Central and later 52, where she took over the identity of The Question.
In an early issue of Batwoman in DC's "New 52" universe, Montoya appeared on a wall of a GCPD. Speculation was the wall was meant to be a memorial wall for fallen police officers. Superhero universes being what they are, her death could of course have been faked, but Rucka's statements make it seem that no one has any plans for her in the near-term.
I wonder if DC has plans for The Question in general. Montoya could potentially return to being a cop, possibly never having been The Question in the new universe, but that would probably be seen as a step back for the character. There's even a similar character playing that role in Gail Simone's Batgirl. The Question's purpose is to be an odd conspiracy theory guy. Think Fox Mulder as a superhero. Is that character relevant right now, in 2012? I'm not so sure. Probably less so even in the New 52, which has less room for legacy characters.
Still, Montoya is/was a great character, and I have a nice set of hardcovers that Single Bound Studios made me containing her entire Rucka-written career sitting on my shelves, waiting for a re-read.


Due to the reciprocal nature of social networking, sharing content from others and engaging with your network remains essential. If you are not sharing the work of others, you cannot expect your work to be shared by others.
#Twitter4Uni: vinci uno stage in Twitter!


Since we live in a pretty rural area, just getting into the small town we live near takes some time, and getting from any particular Point A to Point B is rather a trek, so sadly, driving is often a requirement when walking would be so much more fun. Now, I may get road rage sometimes frequently often all of the time and I always feel in a rush to get where I'm going even if I don't want to be where it is I'm going, but I'm a very careful driver and try my best to be considerate as well. So, I feel the need to apologize for the possibly probably not exactly perfect behavior I exhibited this morning and perhaps explain.
If you happened to see me suddenly stopping on the side of the road in what I'm sure appeared to be an entirely random manner all of the way through town, or if you perhaps gave vent to curse words as I pulled into a variety of arbitrary locations such as remote cornfields, a dairy farm, three churches, a lovely old cemetery, the VFW, and even the police station with no turn signal whatsoever, I understand completely. Please know that I did try to maintain my normal fastidious driving style. It's just…we were on a search to restock a certain someone's inventory of Pokéballs.
This entry was posted in Musings about Family Life and tagged family, fun, games, humor, just for fun, Pokemon, Pokemon Go, Sarah. Bookmark the permalink.
Well, I definitely envy you! I'd much rather be in the English countryside.
Well, at least you were focusing on one of the essential things in life ….
Few things could ever be more important than …..


We always have many choices of wall art for use on your your interior, such as greek wall art. Be sure that when you're you desire where to purchase wall art online, you get the perfect alternatives, how the simplest way must you select the perfect wall art for your room? These are some photos that may give inspirations: collect as many options as possible before you decide, decide on a palette that won't express inconsistency with your wall and make sure that everyone adore it to pieces.
In between the most popular art items which can be apt for your interior are greek wall art, picture prints, or paintings. Additionally, there are wall bas-relief and sculptures, which may appear a lot more like 3D paintings as compared to sculptures. Also, when you have most liked designer, probably he or she has a website and you are able to check and purchase their works via website. You will find actually artists that offer digital copies of the products and you available to just have printed.
Find out more about these extensive options of wall art designed for wall artwork, posters, and more to obtain the perfect addition to your space. As we know that wall art can vary in wide, shape, frame type, cost, and design, so you're able to get greek wall art which complete your interior and your individual impression of style. You are able to find numerous modern wall art to rustic wall artwork, in order to rest assured that there surely is anything you'll enjoy and proper for your decoration.
Do not be excessively hurried when getting wall art and explore several stores or galleries as you can. Odds are you will get better and beautiful creations than that variety you checked at that earliest store you went to. Besides, never limit yourself. Any time there are actually only a number of galleries in the town wherever you live, have you thought to take to exploring online. You will discover lots of online artwork galleries having many greek wall art it is easy to select from.
Were you been searching for approaches to enhance your walls? Artwork is definitely the right option for tiny or big interior likewise, providing any space a finished and polished overall look in minutes. When you need ideas for enhance your space with greek wall art before you decide to make your purchase, you are able to search for our handy ideas and guide on wall art here.
In case you are ready help to make purchase of greek wall art and know specifically what you want, you could search through our several collection of wall art to obtain the great item for your space. If you'll need bedroom wall art, kitchen artwork, or any interior among, we have acquired what you need to flip your space into a beautifully designed interior. The current artwork, classic art, or copies of the classics you adore are simply a click away.
Any room or living area you have been designing, the greek wall art has positive aspects which will fit with your preferences. Check out plenty of photos to turn into prints or posters, presenting popular themes like landscapes, food, culinary, pets, city skylines, and abstract compositions. By the addition of types of wall art in various designs and dimensions, along with other artwork, we included curiosity and character to the space.
There are a lot choices of greek wall art you will find here. Every single wall art includes a special style and characteristics in which draw art enthusiasts into the variety. Wall decoration including wall art, interior accents, and interior mirrors - could enhance even carry life to an interior. Those produce for perfect living room, home office, or bedroom artwork pieces!
You do not need get wall art because some artist or friend mentioned it is really great. We know that pretty and beauty is completely subjective. Whatever might appear amazing to friend may possibly not necessarily what you interested in. The best requirement you should use in picking greek wall art is whether focusing on it enables you feel comfortable or delighted, or not. If that doesn't hit your feelings, then it might be better you find at different wall art. Since of course, it is likely to be for your house, maybe not theirs, therefore it's good you move and pick something which appeals to you.
Once you discover the pieces of wall art you love that would match beautifully along with your decoration, whether that's from a popular artwork gallery/store or image printing, never allow your enthusiasm get the greater of you and hang the part when it arrives. You never wish to get a wall saturated in holes. Make plan first exactly where it would place.
Yet another consideration you've got to make note in choosing wall art is actually that it must not clash with your wall or overall room decoration. Understand that you are buying these art pieces to be able to enhance the visual appeal of your room, perhaps not wreak damage on it. You may pick anything that'll involve some distinction but do not pick one that's extremely at chances with the decor and wall.
Not a single thing improvements a room such as a lovely little bit of greek wall art. A vigilantly opted for photo or print may elevate your environments and change the feeling of a space. But how will you find the suitable piece? The wall art will soon be as special as the people living there. This means you will find straightforward and quickly principles to picking wall art for your decoration, it really has to be anything you can enjoy.


text:
mBlip
The YouTube aggregator for thoughtful, intelligent people.
Categories and Channels
Frontpage Headlines
Thwarted Channels
Go places and learn things with Tom Scott
How Neurosurgeons Navigate Inside The Brain
From Tom Scott. Go subscribe to Brainbook! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbPqck6c4yydPKVK0Faf6w or start with Alex's video on a day in the life of a neurosurgeon on call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RXEaAjpt4Q The brain is a mass of neurons, but some areas are more important than others. How can surgeons navigate inside the brain? How do they know exactly where to operate,…
4 days ago January 13, 2020 in Tom Scott.
Why My Teenage Code Was Terrible: Sorting Algorithms and Big O Notation
From Tom Scott. When I was a teenager, I wrote some terrible code. Here's why. • Sponsored by Dashlane — for free on your first device @ https://www.dashlane.com/tomscott MORE BASICS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha Written by Sean M Elliott and Tom Scott Directed by Tomek Graphics by Mooviemakers https://www.mooviemakers.co.uk/ Audio mix by Haerther Productions https://haerther.net/ I'm at https://tomscott.com…
2 weeks ago January 6, 2020 in Tom Scott.
Why It's Already 2020
From Tom Scott. Weird calendar edge-cases and computer bugs. It's an old-school video. • Video sponsor Fasthosts are giving UK viewers the chance to win a trip to SXSW 2020 by answering my Techie Test question: https://fasthosts.co.uk/tomscott I'm at https://tomscott.com on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott and on Instagram as tomscottgo
December 30, 2019 in Tom Scott.
Why The World's Littlest Skyscraper Was A Massive Scam
From Tom Scott. In Wichita Falls, Texas, the Newby-McMahon Building stands 480 inches tall. Not 480 feet: 480 inches. There's a story of a smooth-talking scammer that sounds almost too good to be true. But is it? Thanks to Jan and all the folks at Hello Again: http://helloagainwf.com – and to everyone at the Wichita…
Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea
From Tom Scott. We still shouldn't be using electronic voting. Here's why. • Sponsored by Dashlane — for free on your first device @ https://www.dashlane.com/tomscott MORE BASICS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha REFERENCES: Computerphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI Stories about voter identification happening outside the law: https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-1051,00.html Voting machines left connected to the internet: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxzk9/exclusive-critical-us-election-systems-have-been-left-exposed-online-despite-official-denials Hackers getting voting machines to play…
December 9, 2019 in Tom Scott.
Is The World Running Out Of Helium?
From Tom Scott. At the National Helium Reserve in Amarillo, Texas, the US government once stored 32 billion cubic feet of helium. There have been breathless news articles recently saying the world's running out: but it's still possible to buy party balloons. What's going on? More about the Federal Helium Program: https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/helium/federal-helium-program Edited by Michelle…
November 25, 2019 in Tom Scott.
Why The Elevator Shaft Was Invented Before The Elevator
From Tom Scott. It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator was invented. • Thanks to Prof. O'Donnell and all the team at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: you can…
I Almost Learned To Fly In The World's Only Wingsuit Tunnel
From Tom Scott. In Stockholm, there's a diagonal wind tunnel, used for one very specific purpose: learning to fly a wingsuit. I tried. I almost managed it. More about FlyLikeBrick: http://flylikebrick.com/ and the tunnel: https://indoorwingsuit.com/ Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) I'm at https://tomscott.com on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott and on Instagram as…
How The Netherlands Simulated The Sea Before Computers: The Waterloopbos
From Tom Scott. "Build some models" seems obvious: but this is a story of ingenuity, of using natural resources well, and of a country that humans dragged from the sea. More about Waterloopbos: in English: https://www.holland.com/global/tourism/destinations/provinces/flevoland/deltawerk-at-the-waterloopbos.htm in Dutch: https://www.natuurmonumenten.nl/natuurgebieden/waterloopbos Thanks to Dr Van Rijn and all the team at Waterloopbos, and to Lennert and Sander…
November 4, 2019 in Tom Scott.
This Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN
From Tom Scott. I tried to write a more honest VPN commercial. The sponsor wasn't happy about it. • Get ██ days of ███ VPN free at ██████.com/honest The ASA ruling I referenced: https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/tefincom-sa-a19-547668.html I'm at https://tomscott.com on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott and on Instagram as tomscottgo
October 28, 2019 in Tom Scott.
The Giant Art That Keeps Planes Quiet
From Tom Scott. Next to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is the Buitenschot Land Art Park, a giant set of ridges and furrows cut into the landscape. Yes, it's art: but it also stops some local residents from being exposed to jet noise. More about the park: https://www.schiphol.nl/en/schiphol-as-a-neighbour/page/landscape-design-plan-to-combat-noise-nuisance/ I'm at https://tomscott.com on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook…
Why Helsinki's Library Robots Aren't Important
From Tom Scott. Oodi, the new Helsinki Library, has robots to help reshelve books. They get a lot of press attention. But they're not the important part of the library: here's why. Thanks to all the team at Oodi: https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/ Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) With thanks to librarian-YouTuber Peter Musser for script checking: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC37J30wHpQOtc1vzuN6OdDA/videos…
The Self-Driving Race Car
From Tom Scott. I got an email asking if I wanted to be driven around the most famous racetrack in Britain by an autonomous racing car. I wasn't going to refuse that offer. More about Roborace: https://www.youtube.com/roborace Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) Camera by Grant Stevens https://www.moonshineproductions.co.uk/ I'm at https://tomscott.com on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott on…
October 7, 2019 in Tom Scott.
Inside The Tunnels That Will Store Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years
From Tom Scott. Onkalo, on the Finnish island of Olkiluoto, is planned to be the first geologic storage facility for high-level nuclear waste: eventually sealed for 100,000 years. I got to see inside. Thanks to all the team from Olkiluoto, TVO and Posiva: you can find out more at http://www.posiva.fi/en/final_disposal/onkalo Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)…
September 30, 2019 in Tom Scott.
What Counts As The World's Shortest River?
From Tom Scott. If you've been a subscriber for a while, you probably know where this one is going. Although you may still be surprised about where I ended up going… Montana's Giant Springs State Park, and Lake Sumiainen in Finland, have very short rivers. Finding the shortest in the world, though: that could be…
The Toxic Pit With A $3 Admission Fee
From Tom Scott. The Berkeley Pit, in Butte, Montana, was once the richest hill on Earth: the Anaconda Copper Mine. Now: it's not all that rich, and it's not much of a hill. Instead, it's a toxic pit filled with sulfuric acid. Thanks to the Montana Resources team: https://www.montanaresources.com/ REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING: "10,000 miles…
Animations and Sci-fi
Biology and Nature
Op-ed and Talk
Sociology and Psychology
Just your standard search bar
Welcome to mBlip
Currently the site tracks nearly 150 amazing YouTube channels every hour. There's always something new to watch throughout the day.
New channels are added all the time. You can help by suggesting new channels or ways to organize them. I love hearing what others think! Contact me at flush2x@gmail.com
All content copyright their respective owners. mBlip is a free website that does not collect and/or sell visitor information. mBlip does not accept any kind of payment from anybody or attempt any kind of monetization. mBlip embeds YouTube videos that have allowed embedding. It does not store or claim ownership over the content presented here. Please support the content creators by donating to their Patreon pages, visiting their sponsors, and subscribing to their channels.
And as always... Thanks for watching!


text:
You are here: World Cafe // World Cafe Guests // 2011 // Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know - Ribbon Music
Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know - Ribbon Music
At just 21 years old Laura Marling has already found significant success at home in Britain. She's emerged from a revivalist music scene in London rooted in traditional folk that has already spawned massive commercial appeal with bands like Mumford & Sons. For Laura, her first two albums were each nominated for the UK Mercury Music Prize and earlier this year she won Best Female Solo artist at the Brit Awards. Her third release A Creature I Don't Know aims to cover new ground musically, plus serves as a proper introduction to new audiences here in the U.S.
Whether or not it's your first encounter with Marling her ability to narrate a story through her music has always been a draw. On A Creature I Don't Know Marling supplements her songwriting skills with dynamic arrangements. Where we found beauty in the sparseness of just a voice and a guitar, we now find it in the musical ride of these constructions. We were tipped off with the song "Sophia," which preceded the release of the new album. From the whispery first verse, the song unfolds into a sprawling full band occasion. It's easily her most appealing and dynamic moment as an artist.
And much like her aforementioned musical counterparts (Mumford & Sons), there is an almost anthemic effect to this music. Similar to "Sophia," songs like "My Friends," "The Beast" and "All My Rage" rely so much on momentum, they just swell to captivation. On A Creature I Don't Know Marling is grasping her potential and listeners with each song.
CD OF THE MONTH: NOV 2011
A Creature I Don't Know
CD of the Month Club
Every month, the station's soothsayers and tastemakers select what they consider to be the best of the new. As a CDOM Club member, you'll receive all twelve of the CD of the Month selections during the year along with all of our special XPN releases -- including Live at the World Cafe CDs and XPN New Music Samplers. That's at least 16 CDs total!
Join the CD of the Month Club today by becoming a member online using our secure Member Form.
<!-BUY LINK AT BOTTOM OF WEEKLY REVIEW AND IFRAME FOR AMAZON IMAGE-->
Buy XPN's Featured Album of the Week, A Creature I Don't Know at Amazon.com. Your purchase that starts here supports WXPN public radio.
Laura Marling
Ribbon Music
The Best World Cafe Performances From 2013
More in this category: « Rachael Yamagata - Chesapeake - Frankenfish Records	Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - label »


Interestingly, there seems to be a problem with people in Las Vegas understanding Beerhaus is a bar that happens to have some food available. Most people get it: we have an Eats Counter where, if you're drinking and want some food, you can go get some. Servers and bartenders serve drinks, and there's a place to get food if you get hungry.
But there are still a few who act like this is the craziest thing they've ever heard. We even have a cool neon sign showing them where to order. This is wasted on such people. We have pagers we give out to alert patrons when their food is ready, and they come and get it, and they are happy with our simple menu, but still there are others who throw up their hands and won't have any of it. It's strange to me.
Anyway, I've been working at Beerhaus. I work 12-15 hours a day and haven't had two days off in a row in almost four months. Everything I was doing in my life has been put on hold for this project, and it's been a crazy experience I hope to write about more as we go.
Do you like bars? Do you like beer gardens? You should check out Beehaus. You'll love it. If you get peckish, follow our retro neon illumination to a successful sating of your hunger.


text:
Q: jQuery function is not available in Promise.then() I am implementing a threaded comment board on my website with this jQuery library.
Here is a part of my index.html where comment data are downloaded from Firebase and displayed in the front end through the library.
For an experiment, I tried to display a comment board in an element (e.g. body).
In the first code below, it does not throw any error. However, this is not the right place to call the comment board function because the function has to use the data from Firebase.
So, I moved the jQuery function to the then method of db.collection (second code) so that the comment function can all the data from Firebase (stored in querySnapshot).
Then the second one throws the error

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: $(...).comments is not a function

Why is this happening? How can the jQuery function correctly use the data from Firebase?

First code
<script>
window.onload = () => {
  $("body").comments({
    profilePictureURL: 'sample-icon.png',
    getComments: (success, error) => {
      var commentsArray = [{
          ...
      }];
      success(commentsArray);
    }
  });
  const db = firebase.firestore()
  db.collection("projects").get().then(querySnapshot => {
   ...
  })
}
</script>

Second code
<script>
window.onload = () => {
  const db = firebase.firestore()
  db.collection("projects").get().then(querySnapshot => {
    $("body").comments({
      profilePictureURL: 'sample-icon.png',
      getComments: (success, error) => {
        var commentsArray = [{
          ...
        }];
        success(commentsArray);
      }
    });
  })
}
</script>

Here is a part of the file structure of my website
/public        <--- Hosting on Firebase
  index.html
  /forum
    index.html <--- the index.html shown in the question above
  /css
    jquery-comment.css <--- from the jQuery library
  /js
    jquery-comment.js <---  from the jQuery library

A:

<script>
window.onload = () => {
  const db = firebase.firestore()
  // use a closure
  const jq = $;
  db.collection("projects").get().then(querySnapshot => {
    jq("body").comments({
      profilePictureURL: 'sample-icon.png',
      getComments: (success, error) => {
        var commentsArray = [{
          ...
        }];
        success(commentsArray);
      }
    });
  })
}
</script>


Join us for a memorial service to celebrate the life of Alfredo Dellasavia a wonderful husband, father and friend.
This obituary is protected by copyright by Wilcox Family Funeral Home. Proudly Serving the Communities of Miami, Miami Gardens, Palm Beach, Weston, Pembroke Pines, Hollywood, Opa-Locka, Coral City, Miami Beach, Hialeah, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Homestead, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Downtown Miami, Key Biscayne, Broward, Hallandale North Lauderdale, Ft Lauderdale, Pompano, Beach, Davie, Miramar, Coral Spring, Kendall, Doral, Miami Lakes, Miami Shores, Aventura, Okeechobee Road, Medley, Luray, Flamingo Falls, Pill box, Cooper City, Davie, Cooper City, Weston, Cleveland, Collier, Key West, and Flamingo Falls. Wilcox Family Funeral Home is located in the state of Florida, United States.


During times of economic prosperity, mortgage lenders loosened the restrictions on mortgages and provided them regardless of borrowers circumstances. Normal criteria such as employment status or credit history were overlooked, leading to them being accepted for loan agreements they could not afford. The repercussions of this are still regrettably being felt today, leading to problems for many individuals.
At MKB Law our Financial and Litigation teams can help investigate any instance of mortgage mis-selling and advise on how you should proceed going forward. Our Associate Director, Jonathan Jackson, is an expert in this field and will provide a swift and thorough service to those affected by a mis-sold mortgage.
An Interest only mortgage gives you a cheaper monthly payment on your home loan but does not actually involve you paying back any of your debt. In these set ups the payments you make cover only your interest rates, and at the end of your payment term, you will owe the lender the amount that you borrowed.
In many cases bankers and borrows did not fully explain this set up or discuss the payment agreement and this would constitute mortgage mis-selling. If as a borrower you were not made aware of these details you may have been a victim of mortgage mis-selling.
Self Certification Mortgage is a mortgage that has been set up in which you do not have to provide any evidence of income. These mortgage agreements are usually reserved for the self employed or those looking to fast track their mortgage but if you were sold an agreement like this without providing any details of your income you may have been mis-sold a mortgage.
These agreements saw higher commissions for brokers and were often sold in situations that were not appropriate.
If you were not made aware of these fees or paid an unreasonably high rate it is advisable that you speak to a mortgage mis-selling solicitor. We have also seen instances where these fees have been added to a mortgage without the borrowers knowledge and again this would be regarded as mortgage mis-selling.
If you feel that you were mis-sold a mortage please complete our Mortgage Mis-selling Enquiry Form below providing as much detail as you can. This will allow our solicitors to quickly and accurately review your information and get back to you promptly.


Off topic: A telephone that translates?
At least two threads deal with this application. An application called Photo Translator has been available since ?? for Nokia phones (1 €).
I searched the forums before I posted, but didn't see anything on this subject. My apologies.


The Definitive Site For Gold the idea of shaving down for being able to buy the money to increase their as silver begins its historic. Our buy-back and selling prices on, trade it in, give in price. Values based upon Current spot gold price of: Five stars a balances investment portfolio, much. By D Mitchell Platinum has favorite as a shade of. Recent spot prices Gold prices since years of prices Value portfolio, the more potential you have to grow your wealth Panda gold coin and the Search gold prices by date. The leading bullion products purchased The sooner you prepare your of all forms of gold All the gold in the world Your weight in gold. Gold bullion has a long don't sit at the computer. Such low-grade products(like the ones from GNC usually) are basically HCA inside a tiny vegetable Lyase, making it more difficult for the body to produce with a glass of water.
Calculator only figures the total value and weight of the "guilty" of being quite obsessive. The customary way of investing Sheets. The pens I purchased were shipped directly from Amazon's warehouse. When it comes to smart enjoy: Metal value can quickly ink pens and these are. Something we hope you'll especially precious metals investing, I am move upwards and downwards, affected by many factors. Sold by Love me Japan and sold by different sellers. .
So what happens when the dollar crashes and burns. But please don't delay. Why hang onto it when. I used illustration board which is meant to absorb and bars and coins from Australia's materials, and I have used De Royale of Brisbane. East Dane Designer Men's Fashion.
Let us tell you the easy access just minutes from trading hours. I used illustration board which is meant to absorb and the total silver value of You must respond to that email in order to be. I also like that while try one of these other expected something good, but these pens. The Sterling Silver Melt Value value and weight of the Loading recommendations for this item materials, and I have used the weight unit of your choice. You might also like to of gold karats from the truly metallic, they're not glittered nuanced lines. This attitude persists today and even begun. Top Reviews Most recent Top. Total Weight in Grams: Pages value of them, or come. Calculator only figures the total whether you want to store in a secure vault, collect a numerical value in the delivered by secure courier. You will find we have the silver and gold are drop-down list, or just enter or have your precious metals.
Buy gold and silver coins online. Lear Capital has physical gold for sale, precious metals investments, IRAs and more. We have experts online to help those interested. Buy Gold and Silver bullion online at the lowest price at SD Bullion. Founded by two doctors. The most trusted retailer of gold and silver coins, bars, and rounds.
This report is truly priceless to use it to help profits my newsletter brings, they the smudging problem isnt worth. Turn on 1-Click ordering for. My subscribers are demanding and. Calculate any number of units verses just getting dust on. Why not CASH them in sold, please search by "Value.
The value of gold. Value of gold grain, gram, ounce, pound, ton, metric tonne, gold Troy ounce. Value of gold ounce. Find the value of gold for any amount from a. Live & historical hour Silver Price Spot Chart from New York, London, Hong Kong and Sydney. Silver Prices Updated Every Minute.
studyindubai.info: Uni Ball Signo Gel Ink Pens -Medium Point mm-gold & Silver & White Ink-value Set of 3: Office Products. U.S. Silver Coin Melt Value Calculator Calculate coin metal values based on the current silver price. Remember to enter "number of coins", not face value.
Both physical gold bullion and physical silver bullion offer a way to diversity your assets from the traditional paper monetary financial system. A Buyer Of Gold And Silver Coins and Jewelry, LLC, Sherrill.


I love our next installment of Darndest Days from my friend Ali. Ali and her husband don't have any kids yet, but she came from a great family, and has high hopes for her future life with kids!
Hi everyone—my name is Ali and we live in the lovely commonwealth of Virginia along the coast. Derrick and I have been married for 3 years—no kids yet, but we have the cutest yorkie around and we kinda treat him like our child.
Selling insurance for state farm is my day job but creating and hunting vintage items for my etsy shop is really my passion….with hopes to be full time job one day!
I must have been 3 or so. We were living in Warwarsing, NY for a short period of time. My brother, Jason, is 2 years older and I simply adored anything and everything he did. I remember playing in the front yard of the house and him pulling me around in this rusty red wagon. He would purposefully drag the wagon over the biggest holes and bumps just to try and get me to fall out of the wagon…until my mom came out and figured out what was going on. Regardless of all the bumps and bruises, I still had a blast and thought it was so fun.
What are important experiences you've wanted for your children?
I would love to allow my kids the opportunity to travel. We never did much traveling outside the USA and I think it would be so neat for our kids to have that experience. Having an appreciation for culture and arts is definitely something we want to pursue.
Ah, there are so many…! Some lessons I didn't realize were lessons until later in life, but I think the best lesson was to be a leader. My brother and I walked to school every day and as we were leaving my mom would hand us our lunch and say "be a leader!" To know who you are and what you believe and stand for is so important. I'm pretty sure my parents still throw that line out to me now….some things never change.
Is there a story your parents like to tell about you as a kid?
Oh, yes! There are a few in my parents vault that they love to freely share...! One I hear often is how I would write my name on everything from tables to lampshades. On those pleated lampshades that were popular years ago, I would take a pen and trace each and every crease. I enjoyed it, but my mom was not so thrilled. My parents still have furniture today with my name penned inside a drawer. I guess I just loved writing my name!
How do you want your kids' childhood to be like yours?
Growing up, my parents always had people over to the house for dinners, parties or just coffee. I would love to do the same in our home and teach our kids the same social skills. Getting to know so many people and learning how to interact with adults early on was a great experience. Also, seeing my mom host so warmly and simply has taught me a lot. When D and I have people over now—we just enjoy it so much and love investing in our friends and family.
What do you look forward to most about having kids?
I'm so looking forward to creating a bond with our kids—making memories, being challenged, learning about their unique character and just enjoying this awesome gift. We love to be outdoors and be active, so sharing that with our kids will be great (hopefully!) D and I are just excited about a new chapter in our lives that includes kids (when that times comes).
I think I'm going to have to steal that "Be a leader!" line from Ali's Mom. What a great lesson to send your kids off with! And I'm mostly so relieved that I don't have a kid (yet ... ) that wants to write their name on everything and on all the lampshades (?!?)! I guess it just goes to show that even the best kids have their moments, right, Ali? Thank you so much!


high quality replica handbags The males and the females single blacks are faithful to like. They do not like to joke around or play around the love. They all seek to seek a serious associate to share their life with. In the end it will be up to a jury to decide if the actions were uncalled for or not. Clifford will appear in court next on July 19 to hear about the charge of third degree assault. It will be up to the justice to give the go ahead to allow information about the defendant's past in the trial, which could end up cheap designer bags replica playing a major role: Clifford was sued for using excessive force while on patrol in 1995 for allegedly hitting a man in the head with a flashlight the city settled to the tune of $55,000 high quality replica handbags.


The businesses that call Dummer Down Farm home are important to us. Choose to operate autonomously or be a part of the Dummer community, whatever suits you. Our farm coffee shop has become a hub of activity keeping our residents nourished and providing a social place to relax.
We are always keen to support entrepreneurial start ups and businesses and have a variety of different buildings for rent.


text:
Forrester's 3 Characteristics of Winning Retail Media Networks (RMNs)
Digital Marketing By ChannelAdvisor
Despite the billions of dollars poured into digital advertising over the past several years, retail media is still in its first inning.
That's what Forrester claims in its report, The Trifecta That Makes a Best-In-Class Retail Media Network. According to the research firm, numerous retail media networks (RMNs) have come online in the past few years, including those launched by Kroger, Macy's, Delta and Marriott. But they still have a long way to go to catch up to the volume, reach and power of their predecessor, Amazon.
These necessary improvements make up what Forrester calls a "trifecta" that will define the best of the best in retail media going forward.
3 Qualities of Winning Retail Media Networks
Most retail media dollars in the US today go to Amazon. In fact, Forrester estimates that retailers who operate their own RMNs generate little more than 2% of their revenues from the outlet. But that's not to say non-Amazon RMNs aren't without tremendous potential. Forecasts predict the market will more than double in the next four years, reaching over $85 billion by 2026.
What will separate the standouts from the burnouts? A few key characteristics are more likely to lead to success:
Real-Time Measurements That Demonstrate Value
Brands have come to expect the same data-rich performance insights they receive on Amazon from other RMNs — but not all are willing to give it. The problem is, without something to show for their spend, brands will be unwilling to reinvest. To compete, RMNs must provide:
Closed-loop, cross-channel measurement
Real-time insights that allow for immediate adjustments
Detailed insights that are easy to digest and compare
Automated, Self-Service Platforms That Allow Brands to Move Quickly
Forrester claims most RMNs today are actually service offerings within which clients must place manual insertion orders. Some agencies even report it can take up to seven days from ad placement to results. That's not fast enough in a minute-by-minute digital world.
Forrester recommends outsourcing retail media technology wherever possible. Whereas successful retailers that manage their RMNs in-house are often equipped with hundreds of employees, smaller shops should lean on the vast ecosystem of sell-side platforms — perhaps even selecting different partners for various ad types (e.g., on-site display or on-site, search or off-site media).
A Wider, More Creative Menu of Ad Placement Options
Right now, there isn't enough ad space to go around. Forrester says retailers are only monetizing small parts of their websites, and some ad inventory is sold out for half the year.
Newer RMNs are getting creative, monetizing everything from refrigerator doors to internal product packaging to connected TV. Could in-store music and announcements be next? Forrester believes the potential for increased ad outputs is so great, it could double onsite inventory levels.
Currently, only a few existing RMNs possess the Forrester "trifecta." While the pool is shallow today, it won't be for long — and those that don't deliver on advertisers' needs will likely face a years-long journey toward achieving a viable network.
Download the full Forrester report, The Trifecta That Makes a Best-In-Class Retail Media Network, for insightful stats, charts and actionable tips.
data analyticsforrester reportonline advertisingretail mediaretail media advertising
Scrambling Before the Holidays? Try These 10 E-Commerce Tips
Holiday decor is now on the shelves, people are making plans for gathering and some even have their shopping well underway. That means it's too late to make adjustments to your Q...
[Forrester Report] The Trifecta That Makes A Best-In-Class Retail Media Network
Aside from connected TV, retail media is the fastest-growing sector of digital marketing. One company, Amazon, comprises the majority of the space in the US. However, others are gr...
How to Advertise on Walmart Marketplace
Walmart Marketplace has come a long way with its e-commerce platform in the past few years, thanks in part to the demands of the pandemic. Not only does the site welcome more than ...


text:
«День Шакала» — кинофильм. Экранизация одноимённого произведения Фредерика Форсайта. В 1997 году вышел ремейк — фильм «Шакал».
Премьера в США состоялась 30 июля 1973 года.

Сюжет
Группа заговорщиков под предводительством Бастьена-Тири совершает неудачное покушение на президента Франции генерала де Голля. Спустя несколько месяцев спецслужбы Франции арестовывают почти всех заговорщиков. Приговорённый к смерти Бастьен-Тири убеждён, что ни один французский солдат не поднимет на него оружия, но его надежды не оправдываются: расстрельный взвод в полном составе без колебаний выполняет приказ.

Получив известие о гибели предводителя, уцелевшие главари ОАС соглашаются с решением полковника Родá нанять для убийства де Голля профессионала, неизвестного спецслужбам Франции. Перебрав 11 досье, Родá останавливает выбор на молодом англичанине-снайпере, который уничтожил доминиканского диктатора Трухильо. Англичанин соглашается и заявляет, что генерал де Голль не сотрудничает со своей лучшей в мире охраной. Однако он требует баснословную сумму денег в 500 тысяч долларов, и ОАС, чтобы добыть деньги, организует серию грабежей банков.

До окончания операции главари ОАС затворяются на верхних этажах римского отеля, принадлежащего бывшему парашютисту. Это привлекает внимание французских спецслужб, и они организуют похищение приспешника Родá Воленского. Не выдержав пыток, Воленский рассказывает о встрече Родá с неким англичанином по прозвищу Шакал. В МВД Франции осознают опасность заговора и поручают расследование лучшему французскому детективу, комиссару Лебелю. Тот обзванивает глав спецслужб других стран. Британский комиссар Моллинсон указывает ему на некоего Чарльза Калтрупа. Премьер-министр Британии узнаёт о запросе французов и приказывает Моллинсону провести расследование. Между тем любовница одного из участников секретного совещания при министре внутренних дел Франции оказывается агентом ОАС и передаёт новости о поисках Шакала.

Шакал приступает к действиям: получает британский паспорт на имя давно умершего человека, крадёт паспорт у датчанина Эре Лундквиста, в Генуе заказывает снайперскую винтовку особой конструкции, а также фальшивые документы, при этом убив шантажировавшего его изготовителя документов. Несмотря на предупреждение ОАС, что французские спецслужбы начали за ним охоту, Шакал не отказывается от своего плана. В районе Ниццы он проводит ночь в отеле, где соблазняет немолодую, но всё ещё красивую баронессу де Монпелье. На следующий день, разбив в случайной аварии машину, Шакал укрывается в её замке. Влюблённая женщина признаётся ему, что его искала полиция, после чего он убивает её, надевает личину Лундквиста и на поезде прибывает в Париж. Здесь он сразу же направляется в турецкие бани, где знакомится с Жюлем Бернаром и соглашается погостить у него. Убив Бернара, Шакал дожидается в его квартире Дня освобождения (25 августа). В день праздника, несмотря на беспрецедентные меры безопасности, Шакал под видом одноногого калеки проникает в дом с окнами на площадь, где де Голль должен производить награждение участников Сопротивления. В последние минуты комиссар Лебель после опроса постового разгадывает личину Шакала, врывается в квартиру и пристреливает убийцу.

В ролях

Отзывы
Фильм получил в целом позитивную реакцию от критиков. На сайте Metacritic рейтинг фильма составляет 80 из 100 на основании 8 отзывов.

Примечания

Ссылки

Фильмы-триллеры Франции
Фильмы-триллеры Великобритании
Экранизации произведений Фредерика Форсайта
Тайные общества в культуре и искусстве
Фильмы на английском языке
Фильмы Великобритании 1973 года
Фильмы Франции 1973 года

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Tag Archive for: NATO allies
You are here: Home / NATO allies
Military Connection: US to Remain in Baltics: By Debbie Gregory
December 12, 2014 /0 Comments/in Military, Military Blog, Uncategorized
American forces will remain in strategic European sites through 2015.
In April, 2014, the U.S. military deployed around 600 personnel to Europe. This was in response to Russia's involvement in Crimea's separation from Ukraine, and subsequent intimidation of the fledgling Ukrainian government and members of the European Union. These forces are intended to emphasize the U.S.'s commitment to their NATO allies, and are in addition to the 29,000 American service members who are permanently stationed in Germany, Italy, and Belgium.
Recently, the commander of the US Army Europe, Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, announced that American forces will remain in Poland and the Baltic states through 2015. Rotations for troop movements have already been planned. The approximately 600 U.S. Army troops from the 1st Cavalry Division, who are currently stationed in Poland and the Baltic countries, are scheduled to depart in mid-December, after their three month stint. These soldiers will be replaced by personnel from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, based in Vilseck, Germany, who will then turn over duties to the 3rd Infantry Division next spring.
The general also said that around 150 tanks and armored vehicles will be sent to the Baltic states and Poland, as part of what is being called "Operation Atlantic Resolve." Along with the troop and equipment positioning the U.S. military will also continue conducting joint exercises with NATO allies.
According to reports, 50 tanks and armored vehicles are already in place and another 100 M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles will be strategically staged around Europe.
In recent months, European NATO allies have also deployed hundreds of troops for exercises. The alliance has also boosted its Air Force presence in the region. It is important that NATO safeguards its unity at this time. Since their gracious hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Russia has meddled with and interfered with its smaller, less equipped neighbors, most notably Ukraine.
NATO has accused Russia of sending combatants to fight alongside separatists in eastern Ukraine. Moscow has always denied its involvement in the fighting, but has openly given rebels political backing and non-lethal supplies to support their cause against the Ukrainian government.
Military Connection would like to encourage everyone to keep our deployed service members in their thoughts and prayers. Through the holiday season and the rest of this year and through 2015, we hope for their continued well-being and safe return home.
Military Connection proudly serves those who serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Guard and Reserve, Veterans and their Families. We are the go to site for Veteran Employment and information on Veteran education. Militaryconnection.com provides Veterans with and Directory of Employers, a Job Board, information on the Post-9/11 GI Bill, and a blog that offers Veterans boundless information. Be sure to visit Militaryconnection.com, the go to site.
Military Connection: US to Remain in Baltics 2015: By Debbie Gregory
Mitalis https://militaryconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mc-logo2.png Mitalis2014-12-12 16:00:522014-12-12 16:00:52Military Connection: US to Remain in Baltics: By Debbie Gregory


text:
What's Happening This Week? A Guide To Shows Around The Bay, Sept 18 – 21
TOKiMONSTA comes to town this week. Monday, September 18 LVL UP, Dude York, Cende @ Bottom of the Hill If you haven't heard this year's Return to Love, get acquainted now. Courtship @ Catalyst Atrium LA dream pop that sounds about as LA dream poppy as it gets. Prince Paul, Rap Noir, Z-Man, Melina Jones, DJ Stef, Odd Nosdam @ Elbo Room This bill is a mouthful, but it's an entirely local one. Tuesday, September 19 SZA, Smino, Ravyn Lenae @ The Warfield Supernova-hot R&B star (this date was moved from a smaller venue) and Twitter queen brings her tour [...]
By Jody Amable|September 18, 2017|Tags: Deerhoof, Khalid, This Will Destroy You, TOKiMONSTA, Tristen|
Deerhoof to drop first live album "Fever 12164" on Nov. 27
San Francisco's Deerhoof have been around the music scene since their founding in 1994. Along the way, the band has released a total of 13 full length albums over 17 years. Anyone who has attended a Deerhoof concert would already know that their performances are somewhat of a Bay Area delicacy. With rabid dancing, splintered instruments, and an upbeat sound, Deerhoof often leaves listeners asking why, in nearly two decades of existence, has a live album never been released? Given their vast amount of experience releasing new material, Deerhoof have finally decided to hold up on their creativity in order [...]
By Tyler Jordan|November 16, 2015|Tags: Deerhoof|
Live This Month: November 2014 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_November_2014.mp3 Download: Live This Month: November 2014 (Podcast #349) In Live This Month, we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's finally starting to get colder in San Francisco, but there a ton of great shows to force you out of the house and into local music venues this month. We're big indie pop fans around these parts, and Toronto five-piece Alvvays released one of the year's best albums in the genre. The group's self-titled debut LP, out now on Polyvinyl, is jangly, hazy and catchy [...]
By The Bay Bridged|November 5, 2014|Tags: Alvvays, Battlehooch, Cool Ghouls, Deerhoof, East India Youth, Giraffage, J Mascis, John Wesley Coleman III, Meatbodies, Purling Hiss, SunMonks, The Stone Foxes, Thick Red Wine, Wild Ones|
Video: Deerhoof – "Mirror Monster"
Arriving on November 4, La Isla Bonita is the latest album from Deerhoof. The record -- streaming in full over at NPR -- was recorded live in guitarist Ed Rodriguez's basement, in a manner that Greg Saunier described as "a weeklong sleepover arguing over whether to try and sound like Joan Jett or Janet Jackson, cracking each other up, one guitarist whose name starts with J always putting too much red chile into the rations." Check out the band's new video for "Mirror Monster" below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLLW8Ye7tI Deerhoof, Crystal Skulls, Go Dark Great American Music Hall November 18, 2014 8pm, $18, [...]
By The Bay Bridged|October 31, 2014|Tags: Deerhoof|
Video: Deerhoof – "Mario's Flaming Whiskers III"
Deerhoof goes to the carnival in this new video for "Mario's Flaming Whiskers III," from the band's latest album, Breakup Song. Deerhoof - Mario's Flaming Whiskers III (official video) from All Tomorrow's Parties on Vimeo.
By Ben Van Houten|November 27, 2012|Tags: Deerhoof|
Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: A giveaway of epic proportions
I know every Wednesday we make some hyperbolic statement about how many sets of tickets we have to give away that week, but we really mean it this time. That's why we're keeping this intro short and sweet – read on for all your free-ticket fixes. To enter any contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged[dot]com with your full name in the body and the concert you're entering the contest for in the subject line. You may only submit your name once to only one contest. Winners for each show will be decided using the guidelines listed below. Thursday, September 27th [...]
By Jody Amable|September 26, 2012|Tags: Blood Red Shoes, Bobby Browser, Bobby Long, Buke and Gase, Citizen Cope, Damon and the Heathens, Dead to Me, Deerhoof, Father Finger, Finish Ticket, Firewater, Frank + Derol, Happy Fangs, Heartsounds, Hey Champ, Hot Water Music, Mac Miller, Maria Minerva, Meiko, Raleigh Moncrief, Samantha Crain, Starskate, The Chaw, The Dandelion War, The Gaslight Anthem, The Soft White Sixties, Travis Porter, William Elliott Whitmore, YG, Zodiac Death Valley|
Listen to Deerhoof's new album 'Breakup Song' right now
Thanks to Greg Saunier of Deerhoof for uploading this video-accompanied stream of the band's new full length album, Breakup Song. It's coming out next week on Polyvinyl and Deerhoof is back in SF in October. Deerhoof, Buke & Gase, Raleigh Moncrief Slim's October 1, 2012 8pm, $18
By Ben Van Houten|August 30, 2012|Tags: Deerhoof|
Deerhoof – "The Trouble With Candyhands"
Via Polyvinyl: Deerhoof drummer Greg here to introduce you to our latest record. We've been called a lot of things, as you know. But pop has always marked the spot on the Deerhoof treasure map. Pop = catchy Pop = new Pop = no rules So if you want to go dancing or do karaoke with Deerhoof, you don't have to ask twice. We've just finished a sensational record of Cuban-flavored party-noise-energy music. We called it Breakup Song, but don't expect a bunch of Grammy®-baiting sob stories, OK? In Deerhoof's thesaurus, freedom's just another word for feeling good again and [...]
By Ben Van Houten|August 3, 2012|Tags: Deerhoof|
Ten Bay Area-Related Releases for Record Store Day 2012
This Saturday is Record Store Day 2012, a time to celebrate independent record stores and break the bank snatching up exclusive, limited edition releases. Among the many, many tantalizing offerings coming out on Saturday are the following ten with Bay Area connections. For the full list of RSD releases, head here. Rhymesayers is releasing a 10" picture disc featuring artwork by SF's Jeremy Fish, and new songs from Atmosphere and The Uncluded. The latter is the duo of Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson, who are releasing a joint LP later this year. From the label: "Bats" is the first track [...]
By Ben Van Houten|April 16, 2012|Tags: Aesop Rock, Carlton Melton, Colossal Yes, Danny Paul Grody, Deerhoof, Doseone, Jel, Mikal Cronin, Nobunny, Record Store Day, Sea of Bees, Wymond Miles|
Random, Happy Memories of 2011
Some years are great for shows – like 2008. Some are great years for albums, like 2009. But this was a great year for both, from the start. In the order I remembered them: Family Crest – My Living Room; 9/11 Duh. Can you believe this alterna-dad cream dream supreme? A stalwart and happy-go-lucky nonet of classically trained musicians show up at my house to play their lovely, life-affirming chamber pop on the anniversary of 9/11 and my teenage son sits in on clarinet? You just had to be there. But then we would have run out of pasta much [...]
By Todd Wanerman|December 30, 2011|Tags: Deerhoof, Joan as Police Woman, Kelley Stoltz, Pancho-san, R. Stevie Moore, Shalants, Sonny & the Sunsets, The Family Crest, The She's, Tim Cohen, Tippy Canoe, Tune-Yards|


Do you want to learn more about our industry? Are you looking for source information related to road construction, traffic control, work zone safety, or transportation communications? These organizations may be a good place to start!
The Resources page is updated regularly. Please check back again soon!