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Стаття присвячена історичному розвитку старовинного козацького міста Пирятин у Приудайському краї на Полтавщині (нині районний центр).

Руські і козацькі часи

Пирятин вперше згадується у Лаврентіївському літописі під 1154 роком. Це було руське укріплене місто, що належало Переяславському князівству. Воно знаходилося на високому березі річки Удай, правої притоки річки Сула. За Пирятин йшла боротьба між Мстиславом Ізяславичем, князем переяславським і волинським, та Глібом Юрійовичем, претедентом на преяславський стіл.

Ймовірно, у 1239 році Пирятин був зруйнований військами монголів, які знищили усі руські фортеці і поселення в районі Сули. Проте місто незабаром відновилося. Воно згадується під 1261 роком як великий населений пункт у складі об'єднаної Сарайської єпархії, під контролем Золотої Орди.

Після битви на Синіх Водах у 1362 році між литовським князям Ольгердом Гедиміновичем, якого підтримувала руська знать, із подільськими князями Золототої Орди, землі Південної Русі перейшли під контроль Великого князівства Литовського. Припускають, що саме в цей час район Посулля (разом із Пирятином) став складовою об'єднаної русько-литовської держави.

З кінця 14 до початку 16 століття роками значна територія Лівобережжя, включно з Пирятином, належала до володінь княжого роду Глинських, нащадків золотоординського темника Мамая Кіята, які прийняли православ'я. Вони обороняли кордони Великого князівства Литовського від нападів кримських татар і московитів. Саме за урядування Глинських на території Полтавщини, а значить і у Пирятині, з'являються козаки, представники руського незаможного боярства та вихрещених татар. Водночас, зменшується розміри Пирятина та його стратегічне значення — він, зокрема, не згадується у «Списку городів руських, дальніх і ближніх».

Після укладання у 1568 році Люблінської унії між Великим князівством Литовським і Короною Польською, Полтавщина, яка з 1471 року входила до Київського воєводства, перейшла під контроль польського короля. Рід Глинських занепав, а Пирятин був переданий Стефаном Баторієм у 1578 році Михайлу Грибуновичу-Байбузі, шляхтичу русько-татарького походження, на прохання старости канівського і черкаського Михайла Вишневецького.

Проте після смерті Вишневецького, його син Олександр силою привласнив землі Гриборовича-Байбузи у 1582 році, що стало причиною позову останнього до короля. В результаті, у 1589 році Сигізмунд III виділив скаржнику інші землі, а через рік затвердив Посулля за Олександром.

9 лютого 1592 року король видав привілей Вишневецькому для впровадження магдебурзького права «на урочишу Пирятине, а тепре названом Михайлове». Назва Михайлів була дана Пирятину на честь батька Олександра Вишневецького, але не прижилася.

На місці давньоруського городища Олександр Вишневецький звів замок (у ході перепланування міста укріплення перестало існувати наприкінці XVIII століття) і розбудовував місто. Пирятин отримав власний герб — стрілу з натянутим луком, і міську печатку. У королівській грамоті, якою дарувалося магдебурзьке право, говорилося, що король відміняє всі інші права, які б суперечили дарованому праву. Пирятин звільнявся від судів і влади воєвод, панів, старост, суддів і підсудків, намісників і інших урядників. Міщани не були зобов'язані відповідати перед ними у будь-чому, хто б на них не скаржився. У місті встановлювався свій власний суд. Жителі міста звільнялися від військової повинності і були зобов'язані були поставляти лише обоз для війська. Також Пирятин отримав право володіти земельною власністю, тоді як раніше цим правом користувалося лише шляхетство. У такому юридичному статусі місто перейшоло у першій половині 17 століття у володіння сина Олександра — Яреми Вишневецького.

У 2-й чверті XVII століття на карті французького інженера Г. Л. Боплана Пирятин значиться як населений пункт, а у «Книге Большому Чертежу» (1627) згадується як місто.

У 1640 році за даними реєстру володінь І. Вишневецького у Пирятині налічувалось 1 749 господарств.

З 1648—58 роках Пирятин — сотенне місто Кропивненського полку. Містечко мало 2 сотні — Пирятинську 1-у і Пирятинську 2-у.

1658 року сотенне містечко Пирятин віднесено до Лубенського полку.

Як свідчать переписні книги 1666 року у Пирятині налічувалось близько 3 400 чоловік, жителі переважно займалися ремеслами і торгівлею.

Навесні 1683 року пожежа знищила значну частину міста. Тоді в місті було 2 церкви — Спаська і Пречистинська (у XVIII столітті в Пирятині діяло вже 4 храми).

У листопаді 1708 року козаки під керівництвом старшини Леонтія Свічки відзначилися в боротьбі проти шведсько-українських військ і не здали міста. За виявлену стійкість і хоробрійсть цар Петро І пожалував пирятинцям грамоту.

У травні 1765 року після запровадження пошти на Лівобережній Україні через Пирятин пролягало 5 поштових трактів: на Київ, Лубни, Золотоношу, Прилуки, Лохвицю.

Пирятин у Російській імперії (кінець XVIII — XIX століття)

Згідно з указом Катерини ІІ Пирятин став повітовим містом Київського намісництва.

У 1781 році в Пирятині у чині капітана російської армії служив М. І. Кутузов.
У місті на кошти полкового осавула Андрія Ільченка зведено мурований Собор Різдва Пресвятої Богородиці.

1782 року затверджено герб Пирятина — на червоному щиті туго натягнутий лук зі стрілою, що існував до 1917 року, і був відновлений 7 квітня 2004 року; у тому ж (1782) складено перший план забудови Пирятина.

1796 року Пирятин з повітом віднесено до Малоросійської губернії,

У 1802 році Пирятин, як повітове місто, увійшов до складу новоствореної Полтавської губернії. У цьому ж (1802) році губернською креслярнею під керівництвом М. Амвросимова розроблено і затверджено план міста.

У 1805 році в Пирятині мурованих житлових і громадських (крім Різдвяно-Богородичного храму) не було, населення становило 2 627 чоловік, у тому числі 1 309 чоловіків і 1 318 жінок. Щопонеділка і щоп'ятниці відбувалися торги (базари), влаштовувалося 4 ярмарки на рік.

1810 року до складу 2-верстової міської дистанції навколо Пирятина включено село Заріччя, що належало поміщиці Марії Ограновичевій, та хутір Гуленків колезького реєстратора Андрія Гуленка. Пирятин складався з 2 кварталів — передмістя Слобідка і Броварки. Налічувалось 560 будинків, 1 820 чоловіків і 1 900 жінок, 28 водяних та вітряних млинів, олійниць та просорушок, 5 питейних будинків, 2 трактири, 90 виставок для продажу вина на ярмарках.

На Святвечір 1843 року до Пирятина вперше завітав Тарас Шевченко, який відвідав матір конференц-секретаря Петербурзької Академії мистецтв В. І. Григоровича, вдруге у місті поет побував у 1845 році, а у червні 1859 року відвідав Пирятин двічі, написавши у цей візит ліричного вірша «Ой, маю, маю я оченята».

Станом на 1859 рік у Пирятині налічувалось 576 домоволодінь, 4 355 жителів, з них — 2 180 чоловіків і 1 275 жінок, у місті діяли 5 церков, повітове училище (засноване у 1814 році), поштова станція, повітові адміністративні установи.

У січні 1861 року в книзі Т. Г. Шевченка для недільних і народних шкіл «Букварь южнорусскій» вміщено «Думу про пирятинського поповича Олексія».

У 1864 році засновано Пирятинське земство, виконавчим органом якого була повітова управа (ліквідовано у лютому 1918 року). 1868 року Пирятинське земство відкрило поштову контору з відділеннями при волосних управах, випустило в обіг поштову марку номіналом 3 копійки.

Пирятинська виборна Дума з виконавчим органом — міською управою почала діяти у Пирятині в 1874 році (її також було ліквідовано у лютому 1918 року).

У 1878 році в Пирятині було 2 заводи з переробки сільгоспсировини. У 1885 році в Пирятині створено поштово-телеграфну контору. 1894 року через Пирятин пролягала гілка Києво-Воронезької залізниці. Станом на 1895 рік у місті налічувалось 19 дрібних фабрик і заводів (по повіту в цілому 43).

За даними першого всеросійського перепису населення (1897) у Пирятині мешкало 8 022 жителя, з них — 3 988 чоловіків і 4 084 жінки. Відсоток письменних становив 34,1, а в повіті — 13,9.

Пирятин на початку ХХ століття: Російська імперія, визвольні змагання, влада рад

У 1900 році в Пирятині було 57 забудованих кварталів, 914 будинків, з них 6 двоповерхових мурованих, 75 одноповерхових мурованих, решта — глинобитні та дерев'яні під солом'яною стріхою, базарний і ярмарковий майдан. Соціальний склад населення: міщани — 62%, козаки — 16%, селяни — 12%, привілейовані — 10%.

У 1903 році повітове земство в Пирятині організувало сільську ремісничу майстерню для підготовки робітників по виготовленню й ремонту сільгоспінвентаря, меблів, виробів з дерева і металу.

1906 року засновано Пирятинську організацію РСДРП.

1 вересня 1907 року в Пирятині була відкрита жіноча гімназія (нині приміщення школи №4 по вулиці Європейській, 2-а ).

1 липня 1912 року була відкрито пирятинська чоловіча гімназія (нині одне з приміщень філії бізнес-коледжу Європейського університету, по вулиці Європейська, 2).

У 1913 році в Пирятині освячено мурований новий собор (закритий 1937 року, тепер тут районний будинок культури).

1914 року в Пирятині відкрито вище початкове училище (нині приміщення буд. №4 по вулиці Соборній).

У 1917 році були засновані осередки «Просвіти» в Харківцях, Дейманівці, Березовій Рудці, Теплівці, Грабарівці та інших селах повіту.

У березні 1917 року була утворена Пирятинська Рада робітничих депутатів.

У липні 1917 року зрганізована Пирятинська повітова Рада робітничих, селянських і солдатських депутатів. Невдовзі вона на своєму пленарному засіданні підтримала III Універсал Центральної Ради.

Тоді ж (липень 1917 року) почала виходити газета «Известия Пирятинського Совета робочих и солдатских депутатов», яка існувала до 1922 року.

У січні 1918 року В Пирятині і повіті вперше встановлено радянську владу.

4—5 лютого 1918 року в Пирятині відбувся 1-й повітовий з'їзд Рад робітничих, селянських і солдатських депутатів.

У березні 1918 року Пирятинський повіт окупували австро–німецькі війська. З їхнім уходом до влади повернулися більшовики, жорстокі методи наведення ладу яких призвели до антирадянського повстання караульної роти в Пирятині у березні 1919 року.

У травні 1919 року відбулася перша конференція комуністів повіту.

У серпні 1919 року Пирятин захопили денікінські війська. 5 грудня 1919 року місто і повіт звільнено від деніківців. На Пирятинщині знову (цього разу уже остаточно) відновлено радянську владу. Однак, і у 1920 році в Пирятині діяв підпільний комітет з підготовки збройного виступу проти радянської влади, робота якого була жорстоко придушена. Тоді ж, у 1920 році місто відвідав голова ВУЦВК Г. І. Петровський.

У радянський час

Пирятин у довоєнний час

У 1922 році у Пирятині стала до ладу перша електростанція потужністю 16 кінських сил.

7 березня 1923 року утворено Пирятинський, а також Березоворудський та Харківецький райони, що входили до складу Прилуцької округи.

Станом на 1925 рік у Пирятині працювало 12 заводів, фабрик і промартілей, 17 пунктів лікбезу, 6 трудових шкіл, трирічні педагогічні курси, школа фабрично-заводського навчання, 2 бібліотеки, робітничий клуб, театр, 2 дитячих будинки. У 1922—30 роки в місті виходила газета «Незаможник». У 1925 році в Пирятині було відкрито педагогічний технікум.

1926 року утворено Пирятинську міську раду.

У листопаді 1929 року в Пирятині організовано дворічні педагогічні курси по підготовці вчителів початкових класів, невдовзі переведені до міста Хорола.

У 1929—31 роках на Пирятинщині здійснюється суцільна колективізація сільського господарства.

1930 року Пирятинський район віднесено до Лубенської округи Харківської області.

На початку 1930-х років у Пирятині стали до ладу сироварний завод, меблева фабрика, працювали електростанція і автоколона, у липні 1931 року засновано Пирятинську МТС. Від 1930 до листопада 1941 року виходила районна газета «Колективізоване село». До ІІ Світової війни у місті було 8 загальноосвітніх шкіл, 2 бібліотеки, кінотеатр, міський радіовузол, районна лікарня, поліклініка, дитяча консультація.

У 1932—33 роках — Голодомор на Пирятинщині, 1937 рік — початок політичних репресій у районі.

Серед жертв сталінського терору в Пирятині:
 Павелко Марина Григорівна, 1990 (1899) р.н., м. Пирятин Полтавської обл., українка, із робітників, освіта початкова. Проживала у м. Пирятин. Кравчиня. Заарештована 15 жовтня 1929 р. Засуджена Судовою трійкою при Колегії ДПУ УСРР 24 січня 1930 р. за ст.ст. 54-3, 54-10, 54-11 КК УСРР до 3 років позбавлення волі. Реабілітована Військовим трибуналом КВО 19 вересня 1958 р.
 Павелко Олександр Григорович, 1892 р. н., м. Пирятин Полтавської обл., українець, із селян, освіта початкова. Проживав у м. Пирятин. Бухгалтер артілі "Коопторф". Заарештований 1 липня 1938 р. Засуджений Полтавським обласним судом 23 жовтня 1939 р. за ст. 54-10 ч. 1 КК УРСР до 3 років позбавлення волі з поразкою в правах на 2 роки. Реабілітований Верховним Судом УРСР 12 серпня 1960 р.
 Павленко Ольга Степанівна, 1906 р. н., м. Ніжин Чернігівської обл., українка, із селян, малописьменна. Проживала у м. Пирятин Полтавської обл. Без певного місця роботи. Заарештована 13 листопада 1937 р. Засуджена Особливою нарадою при НКВС СРСР 24 червня 1938 р. за ст. 56-6 КК УРСР до 5 років заслання у Казахстан. Реабілітована Полтавською обласною прокуратурою 21 квітня 1989 р.
 Павлов Микола Миколайович, 1888 р. н., м. Пирятин Полтавської обл., українець, із селян, малописьменний. Проживав у м. Пирятин. Селянин-одноосібник. Заарештований 5 листопада 1930 р. Засуджений Особливою нарадою при Колегії ДПУ УСРР 28 грудня 1930 р. за ст. 54-10 ч. 1 КК УСРР до 3 років заслання у Північний край. Реабілітований Полтавською обласною прокуратурою 29 квітня 1990 р.

У 1937 році Пирятинський район увійшов до складу новоствореної Полтавської області.

Станом на 1939 рік у Пирятині проживало 13 918 чоловік.

Друга світова війна, повоєнні відбудова і розвиток Пирятина

18 вересня 1941 року німці окупували Пирятин і район.

З кінця 1941 року по серпень 1943 року під час німецької окупації у Пирятині виходила газета «Рідна нива» Пирятинської округи Київського генералбецирку.

6 квітня і 18 травня 1942 року у Пироговій Леваді під Тарасівкою відбувався масовий розстріл гітлерівцями мирних жителів Пирятинського і сусідніх районів.

18 вересня 1943 року в заудайські села Пирятинського району ввійшли радянські війська, до 23-ї години радянські війська штурмом оволоділи Пирятином. Вже наступного дня (19 вересня) було відновлено більшовицьку владу в решті населених пунктів району.

19 вересня 1943 року 309-й і 237-й стрілецьким дивізіям Червоної Армії генерал-майора Д. Ф. Дрьоміна і полковника П. М. Мароля, які відзначилися при «визволенні Пирятина від німецьких загарбників», наказом Верховного Головнокомандуючого СРСР присвоєно почесне найменування «Пирятинських».

У 1944 році Пирятинський аеродром став одним з кінцевих пунктів операції «Френтік».

У 1946 році свою роботу відновили практично всі підприємства Пирятина, що працювали до війни.

У 1946—47 роках, як і в багатьох інших місцях Лівобережжя України, на Пирятинщині лютував голодомор.

У 1948 році район освоїв довоєнні посівні площі основних зернових і технічних культур.

1950 року з метою концентрації сільськогосподарського виробництва проведено укрупнення колгоспів району.

У 1952 році на автостанції «Пирятин» збудовано водонапірну башту оригінальної конструкції, яка уславилась завдяки зйомкам тут у 1963 році Київською кіностудією радянської комедії «Королева бензоколонки».

1962 року Пирятинський район укрупнено до розмірів Пирятинського територіально-виробничого колгоспно-радгоспного управління за рахунок населених пунктів Гребінківського та Куріньківської, Луговиківської і Пісківської сільських рад Чорнухинського районів.

У 1965 році Пирятин став побратимом болгарського міста Єлена.

У 1966 році Пирятинський район відновлено у сучасних межах.

4 листопада 1967 року В Пирятині відкрито новобудову — районний будинок культури.

1970 року завершено електрифікацію району.

У 1971 році почалась газифікація Пирятина.

4 листопада 1974 року у місті відкрито пам'ятник В. І. Леніну.

17 листопада 1978 року на братських могилах у міському сквері, поблизу собору Різдва, вікрито меморіал Вічної Слави полеглим учасникам революційних подій на Пирятинщині у 1918–1922 рр. та радянським воїнам, які загинули під час оборони і визволення Пирятина від німецько-фашистських загарбників (1941 і 1943 рр.).

У 1982 році на майдані, поблизу міської школи № 4, відкрито погруддя В. М. Ремеслу — двічі Герою Соціалістичної Праці, лауреатові Ленінської і Державної премій СРСР, дійсному члену Академії наук УРСР і СРСР.

1988 року у харківському видавництві «Прапор» вийшов друком путівник «Пирятин».

За незалежності України

У серпні-вересні 1991 року у Пирятині і ряді сіл району відбулися мітинги і збори на підтримку Акту проголошення Незалежності України.

4 вересня 1991 року почала виходити районна газета «Пирятинські вісті».

13 жовтня 1991 року на зібранні інтелігенції району утворено блок демократичних сил на підтримку Акту проголошення незалежності України.

19 листопада 1991 року сесія Пирятинської районної Ради народних депутатів прийняла рішення про схвалення Акту проголошення незалежності України. Над адміністративним будинком піднято синьо-жовтий прапор.

1 грудня 1991 року на Всеукраїнському референдумі і виборах Президента України 95,7% виборців району сказали «Так» незалежності України, у районі понад 75% голосів виборців набрав Л. М. Кравчук, котрий став першим Президентом незалежної України.

У березні 1992 року засновано районне телебачення (з 2000 року — редакція районного телебачення і радіомовлення).

У квітні 1992 року у зв'язку з введенням в Україні президентської форми правління в районі введено посаду Представника Президента України, засновано районну державну адміністрацію.

У 1993 році під час реформування земельних відносин на селі колгоспи району реорганізовано у колективні сільськогосподарські підприємства.

9 вересня 1993 року у Пирятині, на міському цвинтарі, освячено пам'ятний знак з нагоди 60-річчя Голодомору в Україні.

18 вересня 1993 року відбулося урочисте відкриття пам'ятника Т. Г. Шевченку у Пирятині.

25 червня 1994 року в Пирятині, на майдані поблизу районного будинку культури, відбулася зустріч з Президентом України Л. М. Кравчуком.

У 1995 році в Пирятині на базі міської середньої школи №2 відкрито Пирятинський ліцей.

Рік вступу до Асоціації міст України (АМУ) — 1996.

У 2000 році з поглибленням земельної реформи почався перехід від державної та колективної власності на землю і майно — до приватної.

У 2000 і 2003 роках, відповідно, вийшли друком 2 книги «Їм крила дала Пирятинщина» — про славетних земляків-пирятинців.

2003 року На околиці Пирятина на автомагістралі Київ-Харків через залізницю здано в експлуатацію шляхопровід з транспортною розв'язкою.

У вересні 2004 року відбулися урочисті, святково-мистецькі дійства і спортивні змагання з нагоди 850-річного ювілею Пирятина.

Примітки

Джерела та посилання
 Пирятин //  — с. 658—660
 Хронологія важливих подій (Пирятина)  на Сайт міста Пирятин
 Історія міст і сіл УССР. Полтавська область. — Київ, 1964 — 1966.
 Полтавщина. Історичний нарис. — Полтава: «Дивосвіт», 2005.

Пирятин


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Pepperell pair join PanMass Challenge as Pedal…
Pepperell pair join PanMass Challenge as Pedal Partners
By Nashoba Publishing |
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 11, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.
PEPPERELL — Trent Kelley, 7, and Connie Marinilli, 9, both of Pepperell, have been named Pedal Partner of the 31st annual Pan-Massachusetts Challenge.
As a PMC Pedal Partner, Trent and Connie will inspire more than 5,000 cyclists to ride up to 190-miles across Massachusetts and raise money for adult and pediatric cancer care and research through Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund.
Trent was diagnosed with T-cell Lymphoma in June 2008 and Connie was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in September 2004. They are being treated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's pediatric oncology center, the Jimmy Fund Clinic. The PMC Pedal Partner program matches Jimmy Fund Clinic patients with PMC cyclists who will ride in their honor. PMC Pedal Partners range in age from infants to teenagers.
The Pedal Partner program offers an inspiring opportunity for PMC cyclists to connect with pediatric cancer patients being treated in the Jimmy Fund Clinic. For the children, being a designated a Pedal Partner is an exciting experience that takes their minds off their cancer treatments. More often than not, PMC cyclists and Pedal Partner families form long-lasting friendships that extend beyond the PMC.
On Saturday, May 15, Pedal Partners, their families, and the cyclists riding for them will meet for the first time at the Pedal Partner Party at Fenway Park. They get to talk, share jokes, play games, make crafts, and eat brunch.
During PMC weekend, Aug. 7 and 8, photographs of the Pedal Partners will line the bike routes, motivating riders to keep cycling. On Saturday, Aug. 7, many Pedal Partners will meet their cycling teams in Lakeville at a water stop along the PMC route. Pedal Partners and their families connect with their teams and hear stories from the road. For riders, meeting up with the children while riding in the PMC is emotional and meaningful.
"Pedal Partners inspire and motivate PMC riders to train, raise money, and complete the vigorous cycling challenge," says Billy Starr, PMC founder and executive director. "The Pedal Partner program is a special way for us to extend our ride to the children and families who are fighting the battle against cancer and for individuals and teams who want to share their PMC experience with them."
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Back in 2003, ADOT completed the Arizona Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan to address safety concerns throughout the state and to promote biking and walking as a viable transportation option.
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In The Devil's Chessboard, David Talbot explained how the JFK assassination plot was born in the anti-Castro movement, and among those who were directly involved in trying to assassinate Castro. Someone must have gotten the idea, "If we kill Kennedy, then we can pin it on Castro, and then we can go in and get him the old-fashioned way, with guns ablazing. We won't have to bother with trying to poison him, or turn his inner circle against him, or send in mistresses to kill him in his sleep."
And, the ones having that conversation were Bill Harvey, David Sanchez Morales, and David Atlee Phillips, according to Talbot.
Then, they took the idea to Allen Dulles, and what did he do? Well, Dulles was a smart guy, so he did the logical thing: he took it to Lyndon Johnson. There was no point in killing Kennedy unless you had his successor on board. If his successor was NOT on board, then he could order an honest investigation, and then you go to the electric chair. Not wanting to go to the electric chair, Dulles recruited Johnson.
And Johnson didn't require much recruiting. He was in so much trouble with the Bobby Baker scandal and his other scandals, that he was dancing on the threshold of prison.
Now, you have to remember: Johnson was going to become the most powerful man in the world. And therefore, as time passed, the closer it got to the assassination, the more Johnson gained power- even among the conspirators. And I suspect it was Johnson who told them, "Forget about invading Cuba. That ain't goina happen. We're just killing Kennedy. And that's it."
So, the plot went from Oswald being an agent of Castro, justifying an invasion of Cuba to Oswald being a lone-nut, with no involvement or foreknowledge of anyone else- just him.
There is no doubt that the assassination plot made that pendulum swing. There is no doubt that they originally intended to implicate Castro. How do I know that? Because of the phony trip to Mexico City. What did they need that for if Oswald was going to be a lone nut? How was it worth to go to all that trouble to feign a trip to Mexico City by Oswald, replete with phony bus rides, phony hotel registrations, phony dinners at diners, phony attendance at bull fights, a phony torrid affair between him and Sylvia Duran, etc.? You realize that the official story became that Oswald was just sitting in the domino room eating lunch and then flipping through the newspaper when he saw Kennedy's motorcade route and decided to kill him, and that was two days before the assassination. Prior to that, he never gave any thought to killing Kennedy (according to their script) And why should he have? Don't people have to have an opportunity before they contemplate doing something? Why would he give any thought to killing Kennedy if he had no opportunity to do so? He wouldn't. He couldn't. He didn't. It was only when he saw the motorcade route that he had his first thought about killing Kennedy- and that is the official story.
So, what did they get out of the phony trip to Mexico City? Establishing that Oswald was seeking to return to Russia or go to Cuba? But, that was worth nothing. Absolutely nothing. There is no connection between that and the assassination. They didn't need that to establish that he was a gung-ho communist. Was it really worth to go to all that trouble just for that?
No, it wasn't worth it. Originally, the idea was going to be that Oswald colluded with the Cubans to kill Kennedy. But, Johnson said no. He said leave the Cubans out of it. So, then it became lone nuttery. But, they had already launched the phony trip to Mexico City campaign, and it was too late to call it back. So, they just made it that he just went there to see about traveling to those places, and that's it.
There's no reason to doubt it. Oswald, when asked, immediately said that he never went to Mexico City. After he was dead, they finagled the narrative that he reversed himself at the final interrogation- but you'd have to be complete idiot to believe it.
OSWALD WAS BEING ACCUSED OF KILLING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND A POLICE OFFICER, SO WHY, IN THE NAME OF THE BLESSED, HOLY, AND IMMACULATE VIRGIN MARY, WOULD HE LIE ABOUT MAKING A HARMLESS TRIP TO MEXICO?????? He wouldn't. He couldn't. He didn't. And if you can't see that, then you just stay the Hell away from me, because I am no mood for your stupidity.
So, there was a pendulum swing. First, Oswald was going to be an instrument of Castro. But then, by order of Johnson, it became that Oswald was a lone nut who neither colluded with nor informed anyone.
So, what was Oswald's motive, supposedly? This was always a very weak spot in the script. He never, in his life, spoke a negative or critical word about John F. Kennedy. Marina said that he stood up for and defended Kennedy to her Russian relatives. It was reported that Oswald read James Bond novels because Kennedy liked them. And Oswald checked out Kennedy's Profiles in Courage from the library. There is absolutely nothing in the evidence pile to support the claim that Oswald had anything against Kennedy.
Vincent Bugliosi got around that by claiming that Oswald hated America. But anybody can say anything. Where's the evidence? As late as August 1963, Oswald was on the radio, and he criticized U.S. policy towards Cuba, but he never expressed, directly or indirectly, anything that could be construed as a hatred of America.
A more popular motive given to Oswald is that he felt that he was a dismal failure in life and that killing Kennedy was going to give him a way to make a mark on the world; to change history; and to become famous and recognized for something.
Well first of all, the world is full of dismal failures: is it not? And the vast majority of them don't go anywhere near the idea of killing anybody to remedy their status as a dismal failure. But, what are we really talking about? It's true that Oswald had a very shabby job for very low pay, and at the age of 24, he wasn't exactly going places. However, success and failure in life doesn't revolve entirely around money and job success. He had a beautiful wife and two beautiful children. They weren't living with him at the moment, but he was working on that. The very night before the assassination, he implored Marina to move back in with him. She said no, that she wasn't ready yet, but she didn't say never. And when he visited her, he stayed over and slept with her. So, she was still his wife. It's not as though there was any other man in her life. And if Oswald was really suffering from self-loathing from being a failure, it's far more likely that he would hurt himself than anyone else.
But, I don't accept the idea that Oswald had a low opinion of himself. First , he was bright guy, and I think he knew that he was bright- brighter than a lot of other people. Listen to his debate on the radio. Listen to how well he expressed himself. This was a guy with a 8th grade education, and I would tell you that there are plenty of college graduates today that could not speak so eloquently and spontaneously as he did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_mg5-KCjRU
This idea that Oswald killed Kennedy because he was bitter about being a failure is completely and totally unfounded, and there is not one speck of evidence for it.
And finally, the motive that is often given to explain Oswald's killing Kennedy is that he was simply a pathological killer, that he was deranged, psychotic, and homicidally psychotic. And the evidence for that, supposedly, is that he tried to kill Walker (he didn't, and there is not a speck of evidence) and he was going to kill Nixon, (who wasn't even in town) save for Marina locking him in the bathroom (except that when someone pointed out to her that one can't lock someone in a bathroom because they can undo the lock manually from the inside, she changed it to her keeping the door closed manually with her brute strength.)
It's all so farcical. And it is going to collapse. The story, the lie, and all the pretenses, it's all going to collapse in a revelation of truth that is going to leave a lot of people scrambling. What's the government going to say? What is the media going to say? After more than half a century of lies? JFK truth is going to shake up everything- the foundations. And, I say: the sooner it happens the better.
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I have started reading Othello by Shakespeare. We will see how far I can get in the book before school starts back up. I have to hand it to Shakespeare for the clever and drawn out explanation of ideas.
Played Risk: 2210 A.D. with the typical group of gaming buddies. I attempted a new strategy of nuclear Holocaust (go for all the nuclear cards and then pull out the Armageddon card). I could have won with the strategy, but I stopped attacking 1 country short (and I had plenty of guys to continue attacking). Right before I played Armageddon, I did a mod reduction. After, my friend played like 5 nuke cards, then I played all my 10 nuke cards. I took out almost the majority of Asia, killing one player off. I completely finished off South America (because it was closed off due to the opening 8 nuked countries, yes we play with more nukes :D). The strategy works if you have a secure location to build troops, and collect cards. Playing defense until the end of the seconded to last turn allows a build up of troops, cut down the amount of troops on the board drastically of other players, then sweep through the board on the final year.
Changing topics: Thanksgiving was yesterday. Fun times, intense ping-pong, and finished with a spectacular showing of Iron Man in our amazing "theater" setup. I have a bucket for free popcorn at Celebration cinema, and since my sister loves movie popcorn, I went up to get her a bucket. Usually they don't check tickets before getting to the concession stand. However, this time there were, and I was like..."crap". I ended up going up and asking the person checking tickets if I could go get my popcorn, and they said yes! Thus my sister got to enjoy some movie popcorn. Got to love your big sisters, or else!


RALEIGH � Back in early August when preseason football practice was barely a week old, Southwest�s veteran coach Phil Padgett sat down with me to talk about the upcoming season for our 2012 Pigskin Preview.
What Padgett said surprised me.
Padgett is usually the most guarded of coaches, Onslow County�s version of Lou Holtz, who could make you, me and the house cat sound like impending Super Bowl champions and his team, which could have gone undefeated for a decade, as being lucky to win a game.
Asked if the 2012 Stallions had a chance to go all the way, Padgett didn�t duck and weave or, more appropriately, take his surf board and paddle out to the deepest part of the ocean. And he didn�t seek refuge in coach-speak.
Talented, yes. But were the Stallions willing to work and willing to sacrifice to get where their coach thought they could be at the start of December?
And so here we are five days away from Southwest (13-1) taking on defending state champion Swain County (15-0) for the NCHSAA 1-AA championship at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh in a battle of teams that have been here and done it.
The Maroon Devils, who have the best nickname of any of the 16 state finalists, have won eight state titles. Southwest, which can counter by saying it plays its home games at The Corral, has three state championships.
On Monday, Padgett and his counterpart from Swain County, Neil Blankenship, made the always welcome trip to Raleigh for the NCHSAA news conference featuring all the teams who�ll play for a state title at three venues Friday and Saturday.
I asked Padgett about his comments made some four months back.
Padgett said he knew then the Stallions had �enough players that had great skill� that could carry a team over a long season. That was why he said what he did, along with having a �solid� offensive line as well as a defense �we thought was going to hit you,� especially at linebacker, an area that had been wanting in recent years.
After our Pigskin Preview appeared, I heard from some coaches and others who were a bit surprised at Padgett�s comments. Not that he felt that way, only that he had actually said it. Did Padgett hear a similar refrain?
�Yeah, a little bit,� he said. �But I was being honest. It was just a team that I just felt like it had the pieces. A lot of times we had to have this, this and this for it to all come together. But we knew most of the pieces were there.
Were his comments a calculated ploy to get his team to believe in itself as much as its coach and his staff did?
Not exactly, but not far off, either.
But it was a �fine balance.� Padgett wanted his team to believe, but he also didn�t want them to look too far ahead and �forget to do the things� necessary to get there.
Padgett said it was a �hard season for several reasons,� not least of all because he missed one game after having surgery for an undisclosed medical condition. There were also the normal ups and downs of every football season, which included one point in which Padgett wondered if his preseason confidence had been misplaced.
�At one time I wasn�t sure we�d get past the second round of the playoffs because that�s what things felt like during the season for awhile. Then I thought, �Well, maybe the team is going to buy into what it takes to get there,�� he said.
The coaches, he said, knew what it took to get the state finals.
�We just didn�t know if the kids were going to buy into what it took. But they did and now they realize, �Hey, maybe those guys know what they were talking about,�� he said.
On Aug. 24, Southwest lost at 3-A Jacksonville 21-14 to fall to 1-1, which Padgett said was probably the low point of the season for his players. For him, however, a nonconference loss is no reason to panic, not that he wants to lose to anyone.
Until practice two days later.
�We came out in Monday�s practice and four or five guys were hurt or something and four or five were not there,� he recalled, �All of sudden I�m thinking this team doesn�t have what it takes to get there because you�ve got to fight through those kind of things and be there ready to go.
So what happened? How did the 53-year-old Padgett and his veteran staff make sure the Stallions did what it took?
�We weren�t going to change what we were doing. The kids wanted us to change what we were doing. A lot of times kids want you want to back off, and we decided we aren�t going to back off here. We decided you�re either going to join us or you won�t be there with us at the end, wherever we end up,� he said.


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Lighten up: A Conversation with Light Helmet's CEO Nick Esayian
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Light Helmets, first established in 2018 as SG Helmets, was the brainchild of former racecar driver Bill Simpson, who also founded Simpson Racing and Impact. After meeting Simpson, current Light Helmets CEO Nick Esayian and a group of partners and investors—including pro athletes, retired Navy SEALs, and a range of business execs—purchased the assets of SG Helmets and rebranded it as Light Helmets. The charter has always been to transition the best technologies from the military, aviation and pro auto racing industries into the sports helmet space.
Toward this end, Light Helmets opened a state-of the-art facility in Carlsbad, CA, where it uses advanced materials and technologies to engineer its helmets and headgear. It took about a year to start rolling out new products and then the pandemic hit, which slowed the sales velocity. Despite the setback, the company introduced three new helmets that earned Virginia Tech's highest Five-Star rating, and the school also ranked the soft-shell SS-1 headgear No. 1 for flag football and soccer protection. Here, CEO Nick Esayian discusses Light Helmets' growth strategy and the factors that are setting its products apart from the competition.
Nick Esayian, Light Helmets CEO.
Team Insight Extra: What differentiates your products in the marketplace?
Nick Esayian: We saw an opportunity in the football space to really have two or three competitors [the same with baseball and hockey]. These vertical markets had never really been challenged and new materials hadn't been brought to bear. There's been evolutionary change but no revolutionary change. Our goal is to bring these advanced materials and put them on the sports field. In doing so, one of the big benefits is the reduction in helmet weight, which reduces kinetic energy and many impacts. We're the first company that's really addressed athletic performance [by making helmets lighter yet ultra-strong and protective]. In some cases, we're taking two to two-and-a-half pounds off of absolutely the worst place you can carry it. There are also some real economic gains for our products. Our football helmets are resizable when they're refurbished and nobody else does that.
What is your distribution strategy?
We have three pillars in terms of how we are marketing and selling. The direct channel is growing and as a new company it allows us to get our messaging out and build the brand, which supports our dealers because people will know who we are and will know more about our products. The dealer channel, which we've relied on since our first sales in 2018, is a critical component and the largest for us. Dealers have had relationships in place with teams, leagues and communities that it would take us years to reach and develop. We're a member of Sports Inc., we support dealers across the U.S., and we also have one dealer each in Europe and Japan. The third pillar is a small, direct team in-house that handles inquiries from teams and leagues from areas of the country that may not have a dealer in that location.
How is Light Helmets breaking into a market in which there are very few manufacturers?
One of the first things we did was to put together a medical advisory board that helped us not only in the development of our products, but also in our communications and messaging with leagues, athletic trainers, equipment managers, athletic directors and coaches. We tied that together with our spokesperson, Drew Brees. We want to provide helmets and gear that [comprise] a ladder system [in which players can graduate into various models of our helmets as they advance in age and ability]. We hope to also do that in sports such as lacrosse and hockey, as well as in other ancillary commercial markets.
How do you convince team dealers to take a chance on such a new company and product line?
Our goal is to provide a product that nobody else is offering, primarily by bringing in advanced materials. We offer a composite shell, we have a unique liner [influenced by] military and auto racing helmets, and the facemask weighs half of what a traditional helmet's steel facemask weighs, but is as strong if not stronger. All of this and more go into a three-pound helmet package that carries a Virginia Tech Five-Star rating. Our helmets are lighter and they outperform many of the helmets and wares that have already existed for years and years. Our helmets are also designed so that the sizes can easily be changed during refurbishment, and there's an economic advantage to that.
What are team dealers telling you that they need, and how are you responding?
The dealers are hungry for information and want to be assured that our company will be around in the future. Our answer is that this company has existed since 2011 (initially in the form of SG Helmets), and we're well funded. John Sarkisian, the former founder and CEO of SKLZ [maker of sporting goods and athletic training equipment] is also an investor and is on our advisory board. We're opening new retail sales channels and dealers, and our momentum is in the right direction.
What is your inventory situation, when will Fall 2022 products be delivered?
We're delivering right now. A custom order takes two to three weeks. We're taking team orders from college all the way down to [DTC] individual orders. Everybody knows that there is a supply issue in the helmet space, and some of that has been bourn through the pandemic and some through international relations between the U.S. and China. Dealers want to know if we have inventory, and we do. The majority of our components are manufactured here in the U.S., and the components that are coming from overseas are lightweight enough that they can be shipped via airfreight and it's not cost-prohibitive to us. We've got the ability to scale manufacturing and assembly for our products much more dynamically than some of our competitors. We're open for business and ready to go.
Is Light Helmets facing any reconditioning challenges?
Right now we're doing all of the reconditioning here in Carlsbad, and we turn refurbished helmets around in roughly three weeks. We're also talking to two or three reconditioners that are excited to work with us.
As a major player in the flag football market, how are you approaching the category and what is its potential?
Flag football is one of the fastest-growing markets in the U.S. Women's flag football is growing rapidly and is even being considered as an Olympic sport in 2028. When we developed our SS-1 soft headgear we knew it would perform well. We focus as much on making sure that the wearer is protected as we do in assuring that the headgear won't injure another player. For dealers, the beauty is that there's no customization. Unlike other nylon materials that won't work with stickers, you can put full sticker kits on our soft headgear. You can have team decals as well as sponsor decals, which allows the league to monetize that space and create a stream of revenue. And the stickers can be switched from year to year.
What are the next phases of growth for Light Helmets? Are there plans to expand into other categories beyond football?
Our plan now as we grow organically is to continue in the [tackle] football space with our helmets, and also in flag football and soccer with our soft headgear. We're in the process of developing a hockey helmet and a lacrosse helmet, and we are eventually going to move into the snow space, skate and ebike markets. Optimally, we would like to get into the construction helmet business as well—a global market that is about 25 million helmets annually.
What is your approach to advertising and marketing?
We hired a digital marketing firm called STAK which helped us put together all of the foundational elements in our digital marketing campaign that we're in the process of ramping up now. We're doing a media push, and a wide range of videos—including with physicians that were involved with our helmets' design—that will get pushed out on social media, and we're doing deals with college players that are on very visible teams. We check all three boxes of informing people of the safety, athletic performance and economics of our helmets, and we hope that the dealers use those tools to get our products on field.
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cj Sez: Lovers and star gazers take note . . . Get ready for one enormous, astronomical show!
Tomorrow, November 14, 2016, you'll be treated to the biggest supermoon in almost 70 years!
According to scientists, tomorrow's supermoon will be the biggest so far of the 21st century, and we won't see another one like this until November 25th, 2034.
Supermoon status occurs when the lunar orb will be near or at its closest elliptical-orbit point to the Earth…its perigee. High tides are a little higher, male deer begin to grow velvety antler nubs ("Full Buck Moon" is what the Native Americans called a July supermoon), and, according to some, lunatics run loose on the streets and werewolves howl their loudest.
Wikipedia says the most prominent werewolf in the Harry Potter novels is Remus Lupin, who's portrayed as struggling with his curse and terrified of infecting someone. The series also includes a werewolf villain, Fenrir Greyback, who fits more with the older image of werewolves. The Potter books, while showing the intense threat the humans transformed to bloodthirsty monsters pose to the population, essentially use werewolves as a metaphor for marginalized groups who have been discriminated against in modern society.
The myth of full moons and werewolves became so popular that, in 1985, a team of scientists did a study on the concept that a full moon (full harvest moon or full wolf moon, or full snow moon, or full buck moon, et. al) could affect human behavior as it does the tides. You can rest easy. No evidence of such an effect was forthcoming.
In 2005, scientist Dr. Colm Kelleher and reporter George Knapp published a book detailing a scientific investigation of a ranch in Northeastern Utah where paranormal activity was taking place (Hunt for the Skinwalker). Despite not finding enough hard evidence for "scientific" publication, among the more than 100 incidents they described were large animals with piercing red eyes that they say were not injured when struck by bullets.
Other researchers tie the wolf creatures to ancient Navajo witchcraft practices. Many of the Navajo call these tribal witches Skinwalkers. Sightings of these creatures persist throughout the Navajo Nation, although few are willing to talk about it.
So why do we blame the full moon for strange happenings? Probably because we're expecting the correlation, and we can point to that full moon for confirmation. All you have to do is take one look at the sky on November 14th, and you'll understand what all the fuss is about.
Okay, now that's settled, You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I'll try to do the same. By the way, you can sleep tight. Werewolves don't exist…do they?


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one of the most successful dressage and show-jumping stables in Austria.
His students range from pleasure riders to Olympic contenders.
more slowly, and accomplished more with them faster.
Why I hope to get you "Thinking Horse"!
traditional "corrects", and most of them congregated under the natural horsemanship banner.
are right, or why they work.
makes them effective or not.
concepts, such as anger, punishment, or naughtiness, just don't have any meaning for a horse.
Others, such as leadership, are much bigger and broader for horses than the human equivalent.
someone angrily punishing a horse for being "naughty"?
I started to ride in 1983. For many years I took lessons in riding schools and went trail riding in Austria and Hungary. In 1993 I had a bad fall from a horse and 6 years of chronic back pain was the result.
From then on I had many questions: How do I stop horses from spooking? How do I stop horses from bucking? How can I stop being scared after falling off a horse?
I met Richard Thompson in 1998. I was amazed by all the answers he gave me about how horses think and learn, and how to apply the principles of natural horsemanship to everyday life and work with horses.
For me, Natural horsemanship is not only a way of communicating with horses, it's a way of life. It changed my life so much that I started teaching people to train horses as a day job years ago and it's the best thing that could have happened to me.
Understanding horses is one side of the coin and learning how to ride and teach riding in a better way is the other side. Centered Riding® opened up a whole new world for me. You learn to use pictures in your mind to help your body be more in balance by using your center. Your horse will notice the change. I qualified as a Level 2 Centered Riding® Instructor in 2009.
Communication always goes two ways. If you are willing to listen to your horse, your horse will listen to you and together you will accomplish things that you have only dreamed of up until now.
Remember: The journey is the reward! Start your journey with your horse today!
Believe me it's an exciting and rewarding one.
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The gay flag flew over a U.S. military base in Afghanistan this week.
But the Obama Administration banned the Christian cross from the worship tent. It was too offensive.
The Pentagon forced an Army post in Afghanistan to remove a cross on its worship tent in December. It was offensive to liberal atheists.


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Latest On Tomoyuki Sugano – MLB Trade Rumors (www.baseball-reference.com)
Japanese free agent
has until Thursday to sign with a Major League team if he wants to make the jump to the states, but he's in a strong negotiating position. Sugano has a four-year offer from the Yomiuri Giants that includes three opt-outs, per the Athletic's Ken Rosenthal (via Twitter). With that kind of offer in-hand, the highly-decorated NPB superstar need only make his move to MLB for an offer that checks all his boxes. MLBTR readers foresee the Mets winning the Sugano sweepstakes. Only 9.57% of readers thus far predict a return to Japan for Sugano. The right-hander must make a decision before 5 pm on Thursday when his posting period expires.
Optimists eager to see Sugano take on MLB hitters might see signs pointing to a stateside commitment, however. The contracts being offered Sugano by MLB teams surpass the offer from the Yomiyuri Giants, at least in total dollar amount, and he's deep into negotiations with a couple of clubs, writes Joel Sherman of the New York Post. The presumption is that Sugano will only cross the pond to join a large market team. MLBTR readers may be on the right track by predicting the Mets as his next team, but the Giants, Red Sox, and Blue Jays also qualify, and all three clubs appear to have interest.
Sugano's standing offer from his long-time employer in Japan provides him with a good deal of personal agency. Those opt-outs mean that Sugano could replay this saga after each consecutive season, should he so choose. As one of the biggest stars in Japan, Sugano may be itching for a new challenge. He owns a 2.34 career ERA after eight seasons with the Giants, two of which ended with Sugano taking home the top honor for starting pitchers in the NPB, Sherman notes.
Though Sugano has until Thursday's deadline to decide, it's likely that he makes his decision sooner, notes both Rosenthal and Sherman. The 31-year-old could bet that owners will dole out more lucrative offers a year from now, presumably after a season that will include partial fan attendance. At that point he'd be entering his age-32 season, which may also be a consideration for the legendary hurler.
Hank Aaron Remembered At Funeral By Bill Clinton, Bud Selig, Others (www.espn.com)
ATLANTA — The Hammer made one last trip to the spot where he hit No. 715. After a nearly three-hour funeral service Wednesday that featured two former presidents, a long-time baseball commissioner and a civil rights icon, the hearse carrying Hank Aaron's body detoured off the road bearing his name to swing through the former […]


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Tuesday January 27, 2015 NEW Releases
The Punch Brothers: Phosphorescent Blues
the fourth album from the Bluegrass band featuring Chris Thile (mandolin), Gabe Witcher (fiddle/violin), Noam Pikelny (banjo), Chris Eldridge (guitar), and Paul Kowert (bass). THE PHOSPHORESCENT BLUES was produced by T Bone Burnett. The band chose Burnett after working with him numerous times. most recently on the soundtrack for the Joel and Ethan Coen film INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and the related Town Hall/Showtime concert ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER TIME.
The Lone Bellow: Then Came The Morning
the second album by the Southern-born, Brooklyn-based indie-folk trio, The Lone Bellow, opens with a crest of churchly piano, a patter of drums, and a fanfare of voices harmonizing like a sunrise. It's a powerful introduction, enormous and overwhelming, as Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, and Kanene Pipkin testify mightily to life's great struggles and joys, heralding the morning that dispels the dark night: "Then came the morning! It was bright, like the light that you kept from your smile!" Working with producer Aaron Dressner of the National, the Lone Bellow has created a sound that mixes folk sincerity, gospel fervor, even heavy metal thunder, but the heart of the band is harmony: three voices united in a lone bellow.
Gov't Mule & John Scofield : Sco-Mule
Fans of both artists and their respective genres will finally be able to get their hands and ears on a very special release: the long-awaited SCO-MULE album. In late September of 1999, John Scofield teamed with Gov't Mule, then featuring original bass player the late Allen Woody, along with keyboardist Dr. Dan Matrazzo, in Georgia for two legendary shows of mind-bending live prowess, featuring material ranging from Mule and Scofield original compositions, to James Brown covers and songs made legendary by John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter. No audience or soundboard bootleg recordings of these shows exist. But now, for the first time, fans can experience the Sco-Mule mystique first- hand in album form, newly mixed and mastered. This 2.5 hour all-instrumental release is a jazz romp laced with rock, soul & funk
Bettye Lavette: Worthy
Bettye LaVette is a true legend with a musical career spanning over 50 years, she is now rightly recognized as one of the finest vocalists and one of the great interpreters of song. In Bettye's amazing career she has performed for Barack Obama at his 2009 Presidential inauguration, (duetting with Jon Bon Jovi) and sang a moving interpretation of ""Love Reign O'er Me"" at the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to The Who (which brought Pete Townshend to tears and stunned Roger Daltrey). Her discography spans five decades, but it is within the past decade that she has finally been recognized as one of America's finest vocal talents. In 2005 she recorded the album ""I've Got My Own Hell to Raise"", which was produced by Grammy nominated producer Joe Henry, (hailed as one of the best albums of the year by many critics). Joe Henry now reflects; ""I've Got My Own Hell To Raise confirmed Bettye's standing as a soul and blues singer nearly without peer, and evidenced for many what had for so long been hidden in plain sight. Two more fine albums followed, both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards: ""The Scene Of The Crime"" in 2007 and ""Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook""in 2010. Now, after almost a decade, the legend that is Bettye LaVette has teamed up with producer Joe Henry once again and the result is a stunning new album, ""Worthy"", featuring 11 songs composed by writers such as Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Mickey Newbury, Beth Nielsen Chapman & Mary Gauthier(who wrote the album title track) and Joe Henry among others. As Joe Henry states; ""With every song on ""Worthy"", Bettye finds the thread that first will unravel it. Then she stitches it all back together until it fits her taut frame and fierce stride, until it bends to meet her; until each song's story is somehow, miraculously, telling her own"". ""Worthy"" is a supreme achievement from a uniquely gifted performer.
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors: Medicine
For Nashville based, Memphis born Drew Holcomb, "music is medicine" and it seems only fitting that along with his band The Neighbors – wife Ellie (vocals, guitar), Nathan Dugger (guitar, keys) and Rick Brinsfield (bass) – the group celebrates a decade long career with the release of their 2014 full-length studio album MEDICINE via his own imprint Magnolia Music. Recorded over eight days at Joe Pisapia's Middletree Studios in East Nashville, the twelve song album was co-produced by Pisapia (Ben Folds, KD Lang, Guster, Josh Rouse) and the band and tackles issues of everyday life including loyalty, hardship, marriage, friendship, alienation and faith.
Papa Roach : F.E.A.R.
Papa Roach has sold over 20 million albums internationally, is celebrating 20 years as a band and 15 years since their Multi-platinum release, INFEST. Years later the band keeps delivering hits, as their previous album THE CONNECTION (2012) delivered three massive active rock radio singles. The band has had four number one Rock Hits, one number one Alternative hit, and twelve top ten Rock Hits.
THE NEW RELEASE HOUR ON KRCB: HOT OFF THE PRESSES!
We don't just sell records at the Last Record Store—we also talk about them, obsessively, all day long.
That discussion moves into radio land: Tuesday mornings at 11am (repeated Wednesdays at 7pm) when KRCB-FM pairs the Last Record Store's (and Mid-Day KRCB program host) Doug Jayne with longtime Morning DJ Brian Griffith for The New Release Hour. A full hour of commercial-free new releases each week, played and evaluated by two pros who know the music best!
KRCB is at 90.9 and 91.1-FM!
Your second chance to listen in on the discussion comes with Needle Droppings, a weekly new-release segment with our very own Doug Jayne and a rotating panel of music junkies, usually including Michelle Marques of KSRO and KRCB, Petaluma Vice Mayor Gabe Kearney, Gabe Meline from KQED, Blair Hardman from Zone Recording and more!
Needle Droppings airs Fridays as part of The Drive With Steve Jaxon at 4:20pm on KSRO, at 1350-AM, 103.5-FM, and online at ksro.com. Tune in!
The sun hits the back of my neck
Through a crack in the window shade
I blow it off
'cause I keep outside
In the eyes and ears
Of friends I've never met
I blow it offThere's nothin' to say
That couldn't just as well be sent
I've got an American share
Of 21st century stress
~the Punch Brothers
See you on the Avenue!


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ClimaGuard Blue is also known as ClimaGuard Blue 1.1 LM which follows the naming convention used to CE mark this product; with coatings on both sides of the glass.
Self-Cleaning - Definition & How it works once installed?
Self-Cleaning or low maintenance performance is provided by an advanced surface one coating (outer glazed surface). The durable coating requires ultra violet (UV) rays from the sun to activate, once activated the photocatalytic performance of the glass breaks down organic dirt which settles on its surface, whilst the hydrophilic action of the coating sweeps the dirt away from the glass when it rains.
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Earth Rising
For thousands of years Earthlings have been staring up at the Moon but it was only 50 years ago on Xmas Eve 2018 that we got to look at ourselves from the Moon with the first colour picture of Earth taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts who were orbiting the Moon in a preparatory mission for the actual landing to follow on July 20th 1969. With the 50th anniversary of that Moon landing (mankind's highest ever signature achievement) a return to the Moon is now under way for 2019. Already the Chinese have landed on the "dark side" (the side we never see from earth because the moon orbit follows ours) with a new lunar lander and the U.S. is also planning to do the same later in the year after having just landed the InSight spacecraft on Mars.
Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway
But it's human landings on the lunar surface and other places that really matter to the folks back home and the folks at NASA are looking at the Moon now with fresh eyes. The plan is to develop an infrastructure that will orbit the Moon and support landings on its surface along with missions to Mars and beyond. Called the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway it will function much like the International Space Station does with astronauts coming and going from Earth along with deliveries of food and other essentials and taking back the fruits of any lunar mining activities.
The International Space Station, which orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 400 km was launched into orbit in 1998 and since 2000 has been inhabited by astronauts from Europe, Japan, Russia, the U.S. and Canada. While on board they have conducted a wide variety of tests on everything from weightlessness to growing food not to mention practicing their docking skills, all of which will stand them in good stead when the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway goes into operation. The only difference of course being that instead of being 400 km from Earth the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway will be 384,000 km away. Mars, by comparison is between 50 and 400 million km away from Earth depending on where the two planets are on their respective orbits.
Space X Falcon 9 Rocket Launch
Servicing these various space stations and orbital platforms is of course the most tricky part of the enterprise and where the private sector has come to play such a key role. By developing re-usable rocket technology, companies like Space X (owned by Elon Musk of Tesla fame) have dramatically cut the costs of rocket launches and become the new principal providers of supply services to the International Space Station.
Space X Dragon 2
After being the first private company to deliver cargo to the International Space Station in 2012 Space X is scheduled to bring astronauts to the Space Station this June aboard the first crewed version of the Dragon spaceship. As another partner in NASA's Commercial Crew & Cargo Program, Boeing is also scheduled to follow suit later in August using its Starliner spacecraft.
Boeing Starliner
While flying through outer space at the wheel of a Tesla may not be the most practical method of space travel, the launch of Starman into interplanetary orbit last year was great publicity for the space tourism industry and highlights the partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew & Cargo Program which has the specific goal of "achieving safe, reliable, cost effective access to low-Earth orbit and create a market environment in which commercial space transportation services are available to Government and private sector customers." In other words space tourism is on with the blessing of the government.
Starman and the Tesla Roadster
In addition to supplying the Dragon spaceship for the International Space Station, Space X plans to build a 100 passenger version called Starship to fly people to Mars. Already they have announced their first passenger, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa who will take passengers around the Moon in the Starship starting in the 2020's. Not to be outdone by Space X, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic VSS Unity Spaceliner made its first successful flight into outer space which is defined as an altitude of 50 miles or 80 km above Earth. Tickets for a ride on the VSS Unity are now being sold for $250,000.00 each and already over 700 people have made their downpayment.
Space X Starship
Virgin Galactic VSS Unity
While interest in the Moon, Mars and outer space has waned over the years it's clearly back in the forefront now that technology is starting to catch up with people's imaginations. With all the bad news on Earth a getaway into outer space seems like a very refreshing idea. A $250,000.00 space fare is peanuts compared to the $35 million Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque du Soleil spent for a visit to the International Space Station in 2009 but hopefully it will come down a lot more so the average person can afford a space flight. After first landing there 50 years ago 2019 looks to be a landmark year for people wanting to think about flying themselves to the Moon.
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