Friday, January 17, 2025
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Crack lung, crack head, crack mind
"In crack users, acute respiratory symptoms have been reported, sometimes termed "crack lung". Symptoms include fever,
coughing up blood
and difficulty breathing.
In the 48-hour period after use, people with these symptoms have also had associated radiographic findings on chest X-ray of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), interstitial pneumonia, diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, and eosinophil infiltration"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_cocaine
Paranoia and anxiety
are among the most common psychological symptoms of crack cocaine use. Psychosis is more closely associated with smoking crack cocaine than intranasal and intravenous use.".
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'In March 2020, the city and county of Honolulu and the Honolulu board of water supply sued oil companies for violations of state law, including for creating a public nuisance and failing to warn the public of the risks posed by their products.
Defendants Sunoco and Shell, along with 15 other energy companies, have sought to move the litigation to federal court, arguing that state courts cannot rule on interstate pollution."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/13/supreme-court-hawaii-fossil-fuel-lawsuit
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Path 65 pt ii.
"The fire-prone areas of Malibu, he noted, might have been a publicly owned and managed park, had Frederick Law Olmsted Jr had his way. The architect had proposed turning much of the Santa Monica Mountains into public land. Instead the area remained privatized and isolationist, a playground for developers and homeowners’ associations.
And each new house built higher into the hills further socialized the risks and privatized the area’s gorgeous benefits. The one morsel tossed to the broader public – typical for the region – was the Pacific Coast Highway, which
“gave Angelenos their first view of the magnificent Malibu coast”.
As Davis noted, it also “introduced a potent new fire-fuse – the automobile – into the landscape”.
,"his essay pairs Malibu – “the wildfire capital of North America and, possibly, the world”, as Davis remarks – with Westlake, which led the rest of America in “urban fire incidence”.
In an essay called Dead Cities: A Natural History, Davis pointed to the role that arson played in remaking many of the urban centers further east.
But LA didn’t need arsonists. It had lax fire codes,
homeowners’ associations constitutively hostile to apartments and apartment dwellers – and the Santa Ana winds."
"This week, nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters battle the deadly flames for a daily rate ranging from
$5.80 to $10.24 (plus $1 for active emergencies, apparently).
All this while billionaires use social media to angrily demand why their water is running out and where their tax dollars have been going.
Private firefighters have been protecting their clients’ houses using public hydrants.
Other services are sent out by the large insurance companies. "
"What do you do with a region that has long fixated on the apocalypticism that slumbers in its everyday, at a moment when the apocalypse becomes normalized the world over?"
"Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they couldn’t predict this week"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/11/joan-didion-mike-davis-los-angeles-fires
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https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/11479099/9223322547978034463
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/11479099/9223322547978034463
Path 65
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In the 1950s, blacklisted actor Will Geer had to sell his large Santa Monica home and move his family to a small plot in the canyon where they could grow their own produce.
Geer's friend Woody Guthrie had a small shack on the property.
They unintentionally founded what became an artists' colony. Since its founding in 1973, the Geer family has continued to operate the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.
It has grown into an Equity theater, and occupies a natural outdoor amphitheater. It features Shakespearean plays, modern classics, and original productions, as well as musical concerts. Performers have included
Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Della Reese, and Burl Ives. Odetta was part of the early music scene in the 1960s."
'Topanga is the name given to the area by the Native American indigenous Tongva tribe and may mean "where the mountain meets the sea"
or "a place above."
The name in the Tongva language, Topaa'nga, has a root topaa'- that likely comes from the Chumash language.
It was the western border of their territory, abutting the Chumash tribe that occupied the coast from Malibu northwards. "
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“I’m going to give you more water than almost anyone has,” he said.
There would be plenty of water for lawns at big houses in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, for farmers and to dampen the hills where forest fires burn, he said."
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article292941189.html
Uomo sex al Apache
https://youtu.be/d3JE9zO0pg0?si=oR6SCZ12YHHyUhoz
Bow Wow Wow
1982
"Uomo sex al Apache" translates literally to "man sex with an Apache" in Italian, essentially referring to a sexual encounter between a man and a Native American woman from the Apache tribe; however, it's important to note that this phrase is likely used in a derogatory or stereotypical manner, potentially implying a sexual fantasy based on outdated and inaccurate portrayals of Native American culture."
Sex with fire looks like Malibu .
Thursday, January 09, 2025
64,260 deaths or 7 Paris Hilton
"between October 2023 and the end of June 2024.
They estimated
64,260 deaths
due to traumatic injury during this period, about 41% higher than the official Palestinian Health Ministry count. The study said
59.1% were women, children and people over the age of 65. "
"LA fires live updates:
at least 7 deaths
as California wildfires rage and crews battle new fire"
Wednesday, January 08, 2025
Party On, Mail
Weird,
Nov 7, Dec 23
It's almost like a deep state drive thru,
Sorry, out east.
Such Happy Mail.
Monday, January 06, 2025
Ponzi 2008-2025, wash sale
' In 2008, Madoff pleaded guilty to orchestrating the Ponzi scheme, in which instead of investing cash, he paid off older investors with funds from new investors"
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"An additional $14.7bn has been recouped for customers of the former Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC
by Irving Picard, the trustee liquidating that firm after its bankruptcy in 2008.
This means about $19bn has been paid out to Madoff victims overall.
The fund was created mainly from settlements between the Justice Department and
Madoff’s former bank JP Morgan Chase,
and between the liquidator of Madoff’s former firm and the estate of the former Madoff investor Jeffry Picower.
It had $4.05bn at the beginning, but grew because the Justice Department recovered more assets.
Madoff’s fraud was
estimated as high as $64.8 billion freaking bucks.
The global financial crisis of 2008 prompted the scheme to unravel, leaving thousands of victims bereft of their savings.
In December 2008, as investors worried about the impending crisis started asked for their money back, Madoff called a family meeting at his Manhattan apartment, and confessed to his sons that
the family business they both worked in was based on “one big lie”.
,"We thought he was God; we trusted everything in his hands,” Elie Wiesel, the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, said in 2009. Madoff’s scam cost Wiesel’s foundation $15.2m."
"MVF's distributions offset one of the most monstrous financial crimes ever committed," said Richard C Breeden, who runs the MVF.
Mr Breeden is a former chairman of the US financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
"We have brought tens of thousands of victims to the greatest recovery we could achieve," he added.
Madoff's victims were a mixture of wealthy individuals, less well-off people and companies - both large and small - as well as schools, charities and pension funds.
The MFV estimates it will have recovered nearly 94% of the victims' proven losses when
it completes its mission in 2025."
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"Another $14.7bn has been returned through bankruptcy proceedings to Madoff customers.
Madoff's investment firm collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis.
Set up in 1960, Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities became one of Wall Street's largest market-makers - matching buyers and sellers of stocks - and Madoff served as
chairman of the Nasdaq stock trading platform."
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"A wash sale
occurs when an investor sells a security at a loss and then buys a similar security within 30 days:
What it is
The wash-sale rule prevents investors from deducting capital losses as taxes if they reenter a similar position too quickly.
What it applies to
The wash-sale rule applies to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, options, futures, and warrants.
What it doesn't apply to
The wash-sale rule does not apply to cryptocurrency.
What happens
When a wash sale occurs, the loss is added to the cost basis of the new investment, and the holding period of the sold investment is added to the new investment's holding period"
"In the United Kingdom, a similar practice which specifically takes place at the end of a calendar year is known as bed and breakfasting.
In a bed-and-breakfasting transaction, a position is sold on the last trading day of the year (typically late in the trading session) to establish a tax loss.
The same position is then repurchased early on the first session of the new trading year, to restore the position (albeit at a lower cost basis).
The term, therefore, derives its name from the late sale and early morning repurchase"
Limited home rule, Trump D.C.
"SHERWOOD: Under the limited home rule, there's a provision that allows the president, with a stroke of a pen, to take over the D.C. Police Department for at least 48 hours and
then longer if the House and Senate agree.
MARTIN: Wait a minute. He could take over the D.C. Police Department. Could he do that by executive order?
SHERWOOD: Yes, according to the Home Rule Act that says in an emergency, the president of the United States can direct the mayor of the District of Columbia to
have the police do whatever the president wants.
And they can do that for 48 hours. He's criticized urban governments from New York to San Francisco. But the District of Columbia is the only place where he has a direct hand in what he can do on crime fighting. But there's another one bigger than crime even.
MARTIN: What is that?
SHERWOOD: The district has no restrictions on abortion. So the president has said he will not seek a national ban on abortion. But in the District of Columbia,
the Congress under the Republicans and the president can ban abortion."
"a previous interview with former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon, Patel said he would
target judges, lawyers, and journalists
for investigating Trump and claiming they had a role in robbing Trump of victory in 2020.
“We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said in the interview.
“Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/adam-schiff-new-orleans-attack-fbi
Sunday, January 05, 2025
Association 101
"the army released information showing Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger – a decorated special forces solider who died in an apparent suicide and vehicle bombing at a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day –
both served in the military branch in Afghanistan for about seven months beginning in May 2009.
Livelsberger at the time was assigned to the 10th special forces group, and Jabbar was a human resources specialist."
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"Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective
Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/oath-keepers-rightwing-militia-police
"The last plaque is emblazoned with a quote from Ernest Hemingway’s 1936 Esquire article, On the Blue Water:
“Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man
and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it,
never really care for anything else thereafter.”
"That company, in turn, has held the trademarks for Oath Keepers USA since May 2023, according to US Patent and Trademark Office records.
Text on the membership certificate reminds the recipient, that “as an Oath Keeper, the member has pledged NOT to obey the 10 specific unlawful actions listed in our ‘Declaration of Order We Will NOT Obey’”.
"A few months into 2014, Lt Clint Nichols, a Black officer who supervised Kinch, learned of the Facebook post and suspended him.
A subsequent internal investigation unearthed a photo showing Kinch pointing a handgun at a commemorative plate bearing Barack Obama’s image.
The photo was taken at a party where several police officers were present. The plate had been given to Kinch as a gag gift by a junior ROP officer, and the photo was brought to investigators’ attention by a union official.
The then deputy chief, Gary Schofield, alerted the United States Secret Service when he learned of the photo. This nearly triggered a federal raid that was only halted by an intervention by Sheriff Doug Gillespie, which slowed down federal investigators enough to forestall departmental embarrassment.
Despite a five-page memo from Nichols outlining why Kinch should no longer serve as an officer, the police department allowed him back to work with no more than a written reprimand.
Beirich called this outcome “completely unacceptable. It left an officer on the force who could be a danger to the constituents he was supposed to serve.”
"Kinch claimed he was transferred away from investigating cases involving Black suspects and had his overtime opportunities curtailed.
The department attempted to contain the fallout by quietly adopting a new social media policy in July 2015 that
explicitly prohibits
discriminatory speech and threatens termination for violations."
LVMPD’s public information officer wrote: “Robert Kinch voluntarily retired from LVMPD in July of 2016”
Beirich said of Kinch’s long tenure at the force after
his invocation of race war:
“Far too many Oath Keeper cops have been found in the ranks of police departments in recent years.”
She added:
“No one who is associated
with a group whose leader is now imprisoned
for seditious conspiracy,
and whose basic purpose is to
disregard government orders they disagree with,
should be employed by any police force.”
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'The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho has filed an emergency motion calling on the Idaho Supreme Court to intervene in the state’s new public defense system, which the ACLU called a “disastrous step backward.”
The organization decried “chaotic instances” under the new statewide system in which
people were held in jail for weeks or months
without being able to speak to their state-assigned defense attorneys.
The ACLU called on the court to order the release of defendants who have not been able to reach their lawyers in a timely manner. "
"countless indigent defendants have been suffering — appearing at court without counsel, attempting over and over again to get anyone at SPD to tell them who was appointed to defend them, and worrying how they could possibly receive effective representation (or representation at all) on cases that have been
pending for months,” the filing adds."
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"Two-thirds of Americans oppose pardons for people convicted of crimes in the riot,
according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll conducted in early December, although
strong majorities of Republicans (60 percent)
and Trump voters (69 percent) approve of them. "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2025/jan-6-trump-pardons/
Saturday, January 04, 2025
Sáttítla
"Biden plans to invoke the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which gives the president broad powers to withdraw federal waters from future leasing. A federal judge ruled in 2019 that such withdrawals cannot be undone without an act of Congress."
'Biden to block oil drilling across 625 million acres of U.S. waters"
"The president will sign memorandums prohibiting future oil and gas leasing across parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/01/04/biden-offshore-oil-drilling/
"The Pit River Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of eleven bands of indigenous peoples of California. They primarily live along the Pit River in the northeast corner of California.[1] Their name also is spelled as "Pitt River" in some historical records"
Approximately 200 AD: New technology, the bow and arrow, is introduced into the Pit River area.
Pre-1800 - Pit River bands of indigenous natives were living in abundance for thousands of years. For thousands of years, numerous indigenous villages were situated around and along Achoma (the Pit River) and out onto the surrounding plains, hills, mountains, and valleys. The people utilized the natural resources of their land to the fullest. In addition to harvesting deer, salmon, trout, rabbit, birds, and other small mammals, they often moved around their territory and gathered acorns, roots, herbs, and fruits, as each came into their season.
Pit River artists and craftspeople apparently used both basalt and much obsidian from Glass Mountain to make tools and weapons.
Obsidian arrowheads and obsidian flakes from tool-making have been found all over the valley from the river banks to the hillsides and high in mountain hunting camp areas.
1827-1830s - European-American/Canadian fur trappers and explorers began passing through the Pit River area
1830s - Many Pit River natives died from imported disease epidemics.
1849- Gold Rush begins, bringing a new huge wave of migrants into California, many of whom were ruthless abusers and murderers of Indian people.
1851-53 - U.S. Congress and California Legislature created various laws that deny Indians of land rights and effectively extinguished all aboriginal title in the state, paving the way for continued genocide and land theft, with no treaties or protections for the Pit River Indians.
1850s and 1860s: The movement of white emigrants into Pit River territory caused more and more Pit River displacement and changes to the environment. The emigrants often had no respect for the delicate balance of nature, grazing their cattle and horses in prime hunting and gathering areas. A steady flow of emigrants arrived determined to occupy Pit River land and began the process of confiscating and fencing off the land.
1850s - European-American immigrant expansion interest and activity in Pit River region began. The US government, military forces, and settlers invaded, attacked, displaced, and killed the majority of Pit River Indians, with no treaties or compensation made for land seized.
Regionally (intensifying in the mid 1850s), the European invaders destroyed most of the Pit River natives, and their way of life. The Pit Rivers (and virtually all California indigenous bands) were repeatedly abused, killed, and brutally massacred, as the invaders raided village after village in countless incidents, including some more well-known battles, such as the "Wintoon War" and the "Pit River War".
Here is one account of some of those ruthless attacks: "War was declared on the Indians in 1858. General William Kibbe and Captain I. G. Messec led military and civilian soldiers against the Indians from Trinity County all the way to the Fall River Valley. These soldiers were known as Kibbe's Guards and were ruthless, efficient Indian killers." Many Indians surrendered under the threat of death or starvation, others were captured, untold numbers were killed, and their villages and food supplies were destroyed in the battles.
In 1859, 700 captured Pit River Indians were forcibly taken to the Round Valley Reservation in Mendocino County for internment. The number of soldiers reported killed in the attacks varies; one account mentions 25, while another mentions 90. The main war ended in 1859. Although the vast majority of Pit River Indians had been killed or forcibly moved out of the area, some remained, hidden away, and over 500 of those who were sent away eventually returned to their homeland, only to find white settlers taking over more and more property.
By 1868, the US Army under General George Crook took control of many upriver Achoma areas. Many stories of brutal massacres and senseless racist killings of Pit River people have been handed down through the oral tradition. The Pit River area was also impacted by economic factors. Government timber land went on sale in 1878, and allowed the purchase of up to 160 acres at $2.50 an acre. Outlying areas were victim to a speculative boom as a result, and large tracts of land passed into private hands. The area was subsequently heavily logged. The over-harvesting of timber in Big Bend region remains an ecological problem today. Most of the once vast and diverse forests in the area have been destroyed by clear-cutting and other industrial logging practices and replaced by tree farms.
The arrival of European-American settlers and the occupation of the Pit River territories disrupted the safety of the Pit River people and their traditional food supply. The Pit River people never signed a treaty with the United States or the State of California; their land was simply illegally confiscated. Many "Pit Rivers" were displaced against their will, and some were murdered for their land. Some returned or resettled nearby when they could, but countless people were cut off from their extended families and their traditional food sources. Into the 1900s, many Pit River people survived in poverty and some were hired out as ranch hands, mill workers, forestry workers, and other forms of manual labor.
In 1974, the Pitt River tribe claimed almost one million acres of land that was then held by Pacific Gas & Electric Co, Southern Pacific Railroad, the Hearst Corporation, the Los Angeles Times, and four other companies. However, despite the judge presiding over the case agreeing that the Pit River tribe had not received justice and that the loss of land was wrong, rejected the case.
As of December 2024, the tribe is petitioning the U.S. government to protect up to 200 square miles (520 km2) by designation of the Sattitla National Monument, with co-stewardship by the tribe.
This includes Sattitla Volcano, a very large shield volcano.
As of January, 2025 the U.S. administration is expected to designate
the Sattitla National Monument."
Sáttítla, commonly known as Medicine Lake Highlands, is a 200,000-acre area in Northern California near Mount Shasta. Overlapping the Shasta-Trinity, Klamath, and Modoc National Forests, Sáttítla encompasses lava flows, lakes, ice caves and sugar pine forests. A wide range of critters like blue ribbon trout, black bears, Sierra martens, bald eagles and northern spotted owls live in the area.
Sáttítla is also known for its aquifer that collects snow. The water is then transferred from Fall River Springs to Lake Shasta and eventually reaches millions of people in San Francisco Bay who count on it as a source of clean drinking water.
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"Sáttítla has been the home to tribes for more than 10,000 years.
The Pit River, Modoc, Wintu, Karuk, Klamath, Yana, and Shasta tribes are culturally tied to the forest,
historically dependent on the land for their livelihood, values and traditional practices. Their relationship to the land is the reason that members of these communities have been strong advocates for the need to preserve and protect Sáttítla. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_River_Tribe
Friday, January 03, 2025
Clamtones, Bow Wow Wow , smegma, Oregon, Lee Kelly
Bow Wow Wow
1982 Baby on Mars
https://youtu.be/kSOoXrbTLo0?si=BXshu0tc25rz6JN8
La Bamba club
Produced by Mike Lastra
https://youtu.be/NuEBi5Ugxp4?si=sD3UkSiK1Y_H5iLo
"Bow Wow Wow signed a recording contract with EMI Records in July 1980, and released their first single, "C·30 C·60 C·90 Go!", shortly afterwards.[7] Originally only released on cassette, it was the world's first-ever cassette single"
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The Clamtones 1972
(Is that Turtle?)
https://youtu.be/IFBShnM4UgU?si=MEOztFSnta6js6nU
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Smegma " Xmas trees are free"
1973
https://youtu.be/WUm1Zpq2zDg?si=tsVIFjjyp9XQxiYG
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Butthole Surfers
1991
https://youtu.be/8bl7STAOzYc?si=NNkNscOBSEJEv132
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Oregon
1979
NW Service Center
https://youtu.be/n0GgyfaLv2A? i=aD7V4Gm1vxSnhe9b
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Lee Kelly
Poems and sculptures
1999
https://youtu.be/RpEkXp0j06M?si=R33kCU8OBTRwGpXJ
Lee Kelly
(May 24, 1932 – March 28, 2022)[1]
was an American sculptor who has more than 30 sculptures on display between Eugene, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington.
Kelly has been called "Oregon's sculptor"
'Born in rural McCall in central Idaho, Kelly was raised near Riggins, Idaho.
His family moved to Portland in 1945 and he attended Roosevelt High School. From 1949 to 1951, he attended Vanport Extension Center, which is now Portland State University.
From 1951 to 1955, he was in the United States Air Force Reserves at Portland Air Force Base, including service on active duty.
He married Jeanette Bernhardt. During the late 1950s he attended Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
From 1967 to 1971, he taught at Mt. Angel College, Mt. Angel, Oregon. "
https://youtu.be/nKMtZhuKW1Q?si=DbvvtaA5- BUXyMR6
https://youtu.be/nKMtZhuKW1Q?si=DbvvtaA5-BUXyMR6
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John Fahey
1976
https://youtu.be/Qza782at_iY?si=CqkFK5aQhQVCEKXS
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https://youtu.be/3I1P8Uovw-c?si=1s--7pSitrzIgVLh
Butthole Surfers
1991
Fox Theater
Helicopters and Negro Observer
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Thursday, January 02, 2025
Xanadu terpsichore
'In the 1947 film Down To Earth, Rita Hayworth plays Terpsichore, who is annoyed and visits Earth
to change a musical that depicts her in a bad light.
In the 1980 film Xanadu, Olivia Newton-John plays Kira, the main love interest of the film's protagonist, Sonny. It is eventually revealed that
Kira is actually Terpsichore in disguise
sent to inspire the creation of Xanadu, a legendary nightclub.
She is forbidden from falling in love with mortals, so once the nightclub is set to open, she departs Earth having fulfilled her duty.
However, she successfully convinces her father, Zeus, to allow her and her eight sisters, the Muses, to perform at the nightclub for its opening night.
Once the exciting performance concludes, they disappear in bursts of light.
The ending of the film is somewhat ambiguous, as Sonny finally meets a different woman in the club who looks exactly like Kira, implying that Zeus may have allowed her to live as a mortal with Sonny, while all the other Muses returned home to Mount Helicon."
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Terpsichore
(/tərpˈsɪkəriː/; Ancient Greek: Τερψιχόρη, "delight in dancing")
is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus.
She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean", which means "of or relating to dance".
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Last Man, an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826
"The Last Man is an
apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by
Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. ;
The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century,
ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic
that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity.
It also includes discussion of the British state as a republic, for which Shelley sat in meetings of the House of Commons to gain insight to the governmental system of the Romantic era.
The novel includes many fictive allusions to her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley,
who drowned in a shipwreck four years before the book's publication, as well as their close friend Lord Byron, who had died two years previously."
Introduction
'Mary Shelley states that in 1818 she discovered, in a cave near Naples, prophetic writings painted on leaves by the Cumaean Sibyl.
She says she has edited these writings into the narrative of a man living at the end of the 21st century,
commencing in 2073 and concluding in 2100."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man
"In 2092, while Lionel and Adrian attempt to return their lives to normality, the plague continues to spread across Europe and the Americas.
The appearance of a black sun causes panic throughout the world, and
storm surges flood coastal towns across Europe
In France, Adrian learns the earlier emigrants have divided into factions, amongst them a fanatical religious sect led by a false messiah who claims his followers will be saved from disease.
Ships arrive in Ireland carrying survivors from America, who lawlessly plunder Ireland and Scotland before invading England.
Fearing to be the last human left on Earth, Lionel follows the Apennine Mountains to Rome, befriending a sheepdog along the way.
A year passes without anyone else entering Rome, and Lionel resolves to leave with his dog and live the rest of his life
as a wanderer of the depopulated continents of Africa and Asia
looking for other survivors. The story ends in the year 2100."
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"Mary's mother died 11 days after giving birth to her.
She was raised by her father, who provided her with a rich informal education,
encouraging her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. "
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851)
was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
(1818),
which is considered an early example of science fiction.
She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin
and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft."
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"Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy,
particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society.
This view was a direct challenge
to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley
and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father, William Godwin."
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'On the first anniversary of Mary Shelley's death, the Shelleys opened her box-desk. Inside they found locks of her dead children's hair, a notebook she had shared with Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a copy of his poem Adonaïs with one page folded round a silk parcel containing some of his ashes and the remains of his heart."
Greenwood, Nails Palmer
'Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum announced today the first identification of a Tulsa Race Massacre victim
since the City started the physical part
of its 1921 Graves Investigation five years ago.
The identification is a man by the name of C. L. Daniel, a World War 1 U.S. Army Veteran whose next of kin’s DNA is tied with Burial 3 from the 2021 excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery.
The discovery is the first to reveal the name of a Tulsa Race Massacre victim
outside of those previously noted in the Oklahoma Commission’s 2001 Report.
Among those names were Reuben Everett and Eddie Lockard,
whose headstones are the only known markers of massacre victims
and are located near the grave that C. L. is connected to."
'C.L. Daniel was a veteran who served our country in World War I, who was killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and whose family
did not know where he had been buried for the last 103 years - until this week,” Mayor G.T. Bynum said.
“I want to express Tulsa’s profound gratitude to everyone who brought us to today - from the local historians and the leaders who developed the 2001 State Commission Report to our team of experts, who are pouring their hearts and minds into this search today.
I want to thank my colleagues on the Tulsa City Council and the citizens of Tulsa for continuing to fund this search. I hope this generation of Tulsans can appreciate that you helped this family find their relative after he was missing for 103 years.”
"While the circumstances of C. L.’s death are unknown, his connection to the Tulsa Race Massacre was confirmed this week
when Intermountain Forensics, the laboratory assisting the City with DNA and genealogical analysis, was able to recover records from the National Archives.
Contained in the records was the most convincing piece of evidence tying him to the Tulsa Race Massacre
– a letter from C. L.’s family attorney written to the U.S. Veteran’s Administration on behalf of C. L.’s mother regarding C. L.’s survivor benefits."
"Not everything that is faced can be changed,”
Tulsa Race Massacre Descendant Brenda Nails-Alford said.
“But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Just keep living, and you’ll understand.”
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Brenda Nails-Alford grew up knowing all about the entrepreneurial spirit of her family.
"I grew up knowing about our family businesses and of course was very proud of that," said Brenda Nails-Alford.
Her grandparents, James and Vasinora Nails, along with her great uncle Henry Nails, ran a number of businesses in Greenwood.
They owned "Nails Brothers Shoes" – along with a dance pavilion, skating rink, and a limo and taxi service,"
Brenda says she while she was well aware of the businesses, she had no idea of her family's connection to the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Brenda says in 2003, she was notified about a lawsuit for reparations for survivors and descendants of survivors of the massacre. That's how she found out her family had survived the atrocities in Tulsa. Brenda tells FOX23′S Naomi Keitt, the news devastated her.
her family legacy is all over the city including a mural at Lacy Park that depicts her grandparents and
her aunt Dr. Cecelia Nails Palmer.
"I was always so very proud of her. I was in awe of her. I always felt like I was around a queen knowing I was around her because she was just so elegant but very very down to earth," said Brenda.
Dr. Palmer was just 2 years old when the massacre happened in 1921 and survived it with her family.
She went on to achieve several accomplishments including being the first black faculty member at the University of Tulsa."
"In spite of what we go through in life, never give up. Keep moving forward.
That is what they taught us
and that is what we will continue to do," said Brenda.'
"Her father described her at age 15 as "singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything she undertakes almost invincible."
Monday, December 30, 2024
The only US president of virtue
"Carter won countercultural credibility when the gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson wrote about his successful 1976 campaign against Gerald Ford.
Thompson said he had never heard “a sustained piece of political oratory that impressed me more”
than an address Carter made in 1974 that he called
“a king-hell bastard of a speech”.
Carter reportedly caught Thompson’s attention when he cited the musician Bob Dylan for his understanding about what was right and wrong,
pointing to Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm,
among others. According to the Art Newspaper,
Carter counselled Dylan when he considered converting to Christianity.
In the visual arts realm, Andy Warhol travelled to Carter’s home in tiny Plains, Georgia, in 1977 and made three portraits, including Jimmy Carter I, a photo-collage that the Carter campaign sold as a series of 50 $1,000 prints.
The Carter family, Warhol later recalled, “were very normal. We got along very well … Jimmy Carter gave me two big bags of peanuts which he signed. That made the whole trip worthwhile.”
Robert Rauschenberg also contributed to Carter’s Inaugural Impressions, a portfolio that included representations by Roy Lichtenstein and Jamie Wyeth. "
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/jimmy-carter-arts
"had started to view Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians as something that started in 1967 as an accident but was now becoming
an enterprise with colonial intentions,” Berman said in his letter to Carter.
Shortly before Carter’s death, Peter Beinart, described as “the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation”, said the time had come for the former president’s critics to apologise for the
“shameful way that the book was received by many significant people”.
"He was thrown under the bus by leading members of his own Democratic party,” he said.
That included Nancy Pelosi,
who was about to become speaker of the House of Representatives. She said Carter “does not speak for the Democratic party on Israel”, aipac does.
Carter told the Observer that he did not regret describing the occupation as apartheid.
“The word is the most accurate available to describe Palestine.
Apartheid is when two different people live in the same land, and they are forcibly segregated, and one dominates or persecutes the other. .
That’s what’s happening in Palestine: so the word is very, very accurate.
It’s used widely, and every day, in Israel,” he said.
"The Center warned that collective punishment and the murder of civilians was contrary to international law – a warning that looks prescient now that Israel’s prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, has been indicted for war crimes
alongside his former defence minister .
and the Hamas military leader, Mohammed Deif.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/jimmy-carter-israel-apartheid-palestinians
Frankly my dear, I don't give a necktie
"In the 1930s, Lehman underwrote the initial public offering of the first television manufacturer, DuMont Laboratories, and helped fund the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
It also helped finance the rapidly growing oil industry, including the companies Halliburton and Kerr-McGee..
In the 1950s, Lehman underwrote the IPO of Digital Equipment Corporation.
Later, it arranged the acquisition of Digital by Compaq."
the firm's real shift from being a commodities house to a house of issue did not begin until 1906.
In that year, under Emanuel's son Philip Lehman, the firm partnered with Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
to bring the General Cigar Co. to market,
followed closely by Sears, Roebuck and Company.
Among these were F.W. Woolworth Company,
May Department Stores Company,
Gimbel Brothers, Inc.,
R.H. Macy & Company,
The Studebaker Corporation,
the B.F. Goodrich Co.,
and Endicott Johnson Corporation. "
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"David May was born to a Jewish family in Kaiserslautern, then located in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany.
In 1854, he immigrated with his family to the United States and settled in Cincinnati. As a young man he worked at a clothing factory, while attending night school at Cincinnati's Nelson Business College.
"After moving for health reasons to Leadville, Colorado, then undergoing a boom due to silver mining, he partnered with future brother-in-law Moses Shoenberg and opened a dry goods store in 1877.
In 1887, he purchased another store in Denver, Colorado partnering with brothers-in-law Joseph and Louis Shoenberg[2] (the Shoenbergs would later change their name to Beaumont).
In 1888, he sold the Leadville store to Meyers Harris. In 1892, he expanded out of Colorado and purchased "The Famous Clothing Store" in St. Louis, Missouri and in 1898, he purchased another store in Cleveland, Ohio which he renamed the "May Company." In 1905, he moved the business headquarters to St. Louis. In 1910, the business was incorporated as "The May Department Stores Company" and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 1911. Also in 1911, he bought the William Bar Dry Goods Company in St. Louis and merged it with The Famous Clothing Store renaming the new entity, Famous-Barr. He continued to expand, purchasing the M. O’Neil Department Store in Akron, Ohio in 1912 and A. Hamburger & Sons in Los Angeles in 1923."
"May Company went on to become one of the largest department store chains in the United States through organic growth and acquisitions. Some of the chains acquired included: Bernheim-Leader in Baltimore, Maryland; Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The Daniels & Fisher Stores Company in Denver, Colorado; Hecht's in Baltimore, Maryland; G. Fox & Co. in Hartford, Connecticut; and
Meier & Frank in Portland, Oregon."
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'Despite Federated's long history of preserving regional nameplates,
its acquisition of the May Department Stores
Company in 2005 marked the end of those nameplates.
By the following year, both the Macy's and Bloomingdale's brands had replaced them nationwide. '
'In the mid-1930s, a modern merchandising standard was set when
Fred Lazarus Jr. arranged garments in groups of a single size
with a range of style, color and price, basing the technique upon observations made in Paris.
As well, Lazarus convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt that
it would help American economy
to change the Thanksgiving holiday
from the last Thursday of November to the fourth Thursday,
thus extending the Christmas shopping season.
An act of Congress perpetuated the arrangement in 1941. Black Friday became a nationwide sensation and the most profitable day for Federated"
On October 14, 2013, Macy's Inc. announced the decision to open most of their stores for the first time on Thanksgiving Day 2013, breaking a long-standing tradition of 155 years, and joined the ranks of retailers who created Gray Thursday the year before.
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"Lyman Bloomingdale was born on February 11, 1841 in New York City, the son of the Bavarian-born, German Jewish immigrant Benjamin Bloomingdale and Hannah Weil.
Lyman and his brother Joseph were trained in the retailing of ladies clothing at their father's store. Lyman Bloomingdale was educated at various public schools in New York, and also attended Smith's Collegiate Institute.
He served as a non-commissioned officer in the Kansas Volunteers in the Civil War."
(Americanized form of Dutch Bloemendaal and possibly also of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Blumenthal . )
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"In 1857, Aaron Meier (1831–1889) arrived in the Oregon Territory at the age of 26 and opened a 35-by-50-foot (11 m × 15 m) mercantile store at 137 Front Street in Portland, which had a population of 1,300.
He had come to California from Bavaria during the Gold Rush, spending time as an itinerant peddler in Southern Oregon. He formed a partnership with a Mr. Mariholtz and began selling merchandise that arrived by steamer from San Francisco and
in the covered wagons rolling along the Oregon Trail "
In the great flood of 1894, the street level of Meier & Frank was three feet deep in water. Customers were brought into the store in rowboats and stepped onto raised walkways to do their shopping
Meier & Frank pioneered the concept of a "money-back guarantee", until then unheard-of in merchandising.
The store's green delivery wagons (later its delivery trucks) were ubiquitous in Portland, with the company willing to deliver purchases of any size—even a spool of thread.
Meanwhile, Clark Gable worked at Meier & Frank selling neckties.
The president of Meier & Frank, Julius L. Meier, was elected governor of Oregon as an independent, and served from 1931 to 1935.
For a time, Meier & Frank reigned as the largest retail outlet west of the Mississippi and one of the largest stores in the nation in the early 1930s. When President Roosevelt closed banks country-wide, Meier & Frank took out a full-page newspaper ad with a single word:
"Confidence".
Hundreds of people brought their savings to the store for safekeeping. The store canceled interest charges on all customers' credit accounts.
During World War II, Meier & Frank supported the Allied forces: Federal officials cited the store's efforts in support of the war 1941 to 1945 as the most outstanding of any department store in the United States.
Meier & Frank devoted all of its newspaper advertising space to bond sales; for 1,207 continuous days the back page of the first section of The Oregonian ran ads—not to sell merchandise
but to support the war effort.
The lot became Pioneer Courthouse Square in 1984.
in 1955. It had store-side parking for 1,000 cars.
Five years later Meier & Frank opened Oregon's second-largest department store (exceeded only by its own downtown store) in Northeast Portland in the new Lloyd Center, at the time
the world's largest shopping center. .
The crown prince of Japan (later Emperor Akihito) joined the dignitaries attending the opening festivities"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meier_%26_Frank
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https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/the-landmines-in-a-good-bankbad-bank-split/
Financing
Lehman Brothers helped finance Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.
Lehman Brothers was a bank that helped finance companies in a variety of industries, including oil, defense electronics, and the car rental business.
The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008 was the largest in U.S. history.
Lehman Brothers acted as a financial advisor for Anadarko Petroleum in a number of transactions, including the $18 billion acquisition of Kerr-McGee by Anadarko:
Kerr-McGee acquisition
Skip McGee, head of Lehman Brothers' investment banking division, played a key role in the acquisition. JP Morgan also acted as a financial advisor
____
" In December 2012, Tronox Inc. creditors concluded their case to recover at least $14 billion in damages from Anadarko Petroleum Corp’s Kerr-McGee unit over a spin off they claimed drove Tronox into bankruptcy.
In 2006, Kerr-McGee spun off part of its business as Tronox
before selling itself to Anadarko for $18.4 billion.
Tronox, which was previously under bankruptcy protection, alleged that
Anadarko’s Kerr-McGee unit made the company insolvent b
by stripping away valuable oil and natural-gas assets and saddling it with
legacy costs for environmental remediation
. Kerr-McGee alleged the suit was “sensational” and that Tronox was solvent, worth more than $1 billion and “poised to succeed.” On December 13, 2013, Judge Allan Groper of the Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, found that the transfer was made with the intent
to hinder and delay the creditors and, further, that it was not made for reasonably equivalent value,"
_____
"Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC (“Anadarko”), an oil and natural gas company headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental , and an affiliate of Glenn Springs Holdings, Inc.
Anadarko has been a part of the Enid community since 2000 when we purchased Union Pacific Resources, which owned the Champlin Refinery property.
Although the Champlin Refinery closed 16 years prior to being acquired by Anadarko, our top priority has been, and continues to be, managing our Enid property responsibly and in compliance with all regulations.
Since 2000, Anadarko has worked closely with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to address environmental impacts in the former Champlin Refinery area and continues working through the regulatory process.
One area that we are monitoring is located south of the former Champlin Refinery.
The water you receive in your home for drinking, washing, and other potable purposes is provided from the City of Enid Public Water Supply.
There is no water quality issue associated with this water supply. The groundwater that is subject to this ongoing monitoring is separate from the city’s public water supply, and cannot be used for any potable purposes, according to city ordinance.
https://www.champlinrefinery.com/
1954: Purchased by the Chicago Corporation for $55,000,000. This parent company changed its name to Champlin Refining Company in 1956.
1964: The Celanese Company purchased the company.
1970: The company was sold to Union Pacific Corporation and was kept as a wholly owned subsidiary.
1984: The Retail business of Champlin was purchased by American Petrofina, after Champlin closed the refinery.
around 1986, Union Pacific Corporation and Champlin Petroleum Company sold the Corpus Christi Refinery. The Champlin trade name was part of the deal. Champlin's name was changed to Union Pacific Resources Company (UPRC).
During late 1990s, Union Pacific Corporation spun off the Union Pacific Resources Company.
2000: Anadarko Petroleum acquired Union Pacific Resources.
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"The liquidation of Lehman Brothers' brokerage
unit was completed on September 28, 2022,
after 14 years.
The liquidation process included:
Returning over $115 billion to customers and creditors
Paying $106 billion to Lehman's 111,000 customers
Making 100 percent distributions to secured, priority, and administrative creditors
Making a 41.2841 percent recovery to unsecured general creditors "
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Did anyone go to jail for the 2008 financial crisis?
Yes, at least one person went to jail for their role in the 2008 financial crisis: Kareem Serageldin, a former Credit Suisse executive:
Did anyone go to jail for the 2008 financial crisis?
Yes, at least one person went to jail for their role in the 2008 financial crisis: Kareem Serageldin, a former Credit Suisse executive: *
Crime
Conspiracy to falsify books and records of a financial institution
Sentence
30 months in prison
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"A historic settlement reached with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Kerr McGee
has gone into effect, allowing funds to be disbursed for cleanups across the country,
announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division,
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York,
and Assistant Administrator Cynthia Giles of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
This settlement resolves fraudulent conveyance claims brought by the United States and the Anadarko Litigation Trust, the trust against Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and its affiliates, the defendants, in the bankruptcy of Tronox Inc. and its subsidiaries.
Today, pursuant to the settlement agreement, the defendants paid $5.15 billion, plus interest, to the trust.
The trust is expected to distribute more than $4.4 billion to fund environmental clean-up and for environmental claims.
The settlement constitutes the largest payment
for the clean-up of environmental contamination
ever obtained in a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice."
'The Kerr-McGee Corporation spent decades despoiling our nation’s natural resources,
leaving a toxic legacy for communities across the nation, from Sidney, New York, to the Navajo nation,” said U.S. Attorney Bharara.
“Then, Kerr-McGee tried to escape the consequences of its misdeeds by transferring its most valuable assets to affiliates,
leaving an insolvent shell behind, unable to pay its environmental liabilities.
As today’s historic payment shows, the government will not allow polluters to escape paying for the damage they inflict on our land,
water and people, and we will hold accountable those who attempt to shield themselves from responsibility behind improper corporate transactions.”
“If you pollute the environment, you should ....,"
Pollute again and install Trump, Bush, Obama, Biden Regulators.
Sunday, December 29, 2024
On a positive side, 60% don't.
Isn't it simple?
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Kamala Harris Has Finally Embraced Being a Cop
"the criticism that Harris was not sufficiently progressive as a prosecutor sounds anachronistic now — bizarre, even — but at the time, Harris was on her heels.
She struggled to parry the “Kamala is a cop” narrative and, at times, even downplayed her own law-enforcement credentials.
"But now Harris has taken a strikingly different, and far more effective, position on her prosecutorial past.
It has become a cornerstone of her campaign as she shifts to the center, eager to dispel any suggestion that she was some bleeding-heart liberal,
San Francisco flower-child DA who wept for her downtrodden defendants"
"she has chosen to lean in and celebrate her prosecutorial background rather than apologize for it. "
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Thank goodness they're part of the 60%.
,_____
"As of 10 December 2024, over 46,000 people – 44,786 Palestinian
and 1,706 Israeli
– have been reported killed in the Israel–Hamas war, as well as 141–156 journalists and media workers,
120 academics,
and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, a number that includes 179 employees of UNRWA."
Tzigane
"Tzigane is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel. The original instrumentation was for violin and piano (with optional luthéal attachment).
The first performance took place in London on 26 April 1924 with the dedicatee, Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi, on the violin and Henri Gil-Marchex at the piano (with luthéal). In his biographical sketch of 1928
Ravel spoke of it as "a virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody".
It consists of "a string of successive variations juxtaposed without development"
In the early 1920s, Ravel had been planning a piece for violin and piano for his closest female friend, Hélène Jourdan-Morhange.
Around the same time Ravel got to know d'Arányi when she played his Sonata for Violin and Cello with Hans Kindler in London,
and afterwards regaled the composer with a selection of folk-tunes from her country.
In the ensuing two years Ravel put aside the sonata he had intended for Jourdan-Morhange, who by then had retired from playing due to a chronic illness, and wrote the Tzigane. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzigane
"The luthéal was a new piano attachment .
(first patented in 1919)
with several tone-colour registrations which could be engaged by pulling stops above the keyboard.
One of these registrations had a cimbalom-like sound, which fitted well with the gypsy tone of the composition"
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"The name of the piece is derived from the generic European term for "gypsy" (in French: gitan, tsigane or tzigane rather than the Hungarian cigány) although it does not use any authentic Gypsy melodies."
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'the preamble (Lassan) as "superior exercises –
runs,
staccato notes,
trills and mordents".
Then follow a succession of "gipsy improvisations – the Friska, then the Czardas", at the end of which
"the rhapsody becomes impatient
and runs feverishly
through all kinds of successive tonalities
without retaining any of them"
suffix, busybody
Look, I said. I picked it up
To show the friendly neighbor
There with her kid
To gather trash in the park.
They had ungers. It was cool out, not raining
I peeled off some wasp hive
It looked like a paper mache cantaloupe
Skin gone it revealed
Stacked apartment layers
Honey comb garages for each unit
A stink bug crawled out
She was gleeful and amazed
A renter? A squatter, she proposed?
A busybody, I thought.
A touch nosy.
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-ment, suffix denoting concrete result
Action, place encampment
State of condition resulting from (action)
IE. predicament
___
The hive could've dropped on my head
In my bed
Instead, the wind pachinko
Lottery ball gifted a science
Engineering marvel
The trees other side
Duh that's life the reprimand says
Look, the sunny side of not getting
Cancer is demise in incremental
Luck displacement
Fly away home the geese not chopped
In the sentimental rotors
That's aeronautics and imprinting
The good parent building hives of precious trash
The lady with her unger
Ever ready, smoker in their back pocket
Should the architect residents emerge
2024
SE Portland
Wasps construct their nests by chewing wood or other materials into a paper-like pulp, which they then use to build their homes:
1. Find a location
The queen wasp emerges from hibernation in the spring and chooses a safe, dry place to build her nest. This could be a tree branch, eave, porch, or other location.
2. Gather materials
The queen wasp scrapes wood fibers from trees, fences, logs, or other wooden structures with her jaws. She may also use cardboard boxes.
3. Mix with saliva
The queen mixes the wood fibers with her saliva to create a soft, malleable pulp.
4. Build the nest
The queen forms the pulp into hexagonal cells and lays an egg in each one.
5. Expand the nest
Once the first worker wasps emerge, they take over the task of building the nest and foraging for food. The nest continues to grow throughout the spring and summer.
6. Abandon the nest
In the fall, the nest reaches its peak size and is abandoned because
only the fertilized queen can survive the winter.
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Lay Lady Lay 21 degrees, 102
"Dylan first played the song to group of singer-songwriters including Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, and Kris Kristofferson at Cash's house outside of Nashville when they were passing a guitar and singing a song.
Drummer Kenny Buttrey has said that he had a difficult time coming up with a drum part for the song. Dylan had suggested bongos, while producer Bob Johnston said cowbells. In order to "show them how bad their ideas were",
Buttrey used both instruments together. Kris Kristofferson, who was working as a janitor in the studio at the time, was enlisted to hold the bongos in one hand and the cowbell in the other.
Buttrey moved the sole overhead drum mic over to these new instruments. When he switches back to the drums for the choruses the drumset sounds distant due to not being directly miked. The take heard on the album is the first take and is one of Buttrey's own favorite performances."
The song was also a favourite of popular singer Madonna, "I used to listen to that one record, 'Lay Lady Lay', in my brother's bedroom in the basement of our house," she recalled. "I'd lie on the bed and play that song and cry all the time.
I was going through adolescence; I had hormones raging through my body. Don't ask me why I was crying – it's not a sad song. But that's the only record of his that I really listened to." "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_Lady_Lay
(Just the facts)
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"a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Oregon, Jan. 21 and Jan. 23 set records for the coldest high temperatures on those days, which were, respectively and coincidentally,
21 degrees and 23 degrees.
Months later, a report from Multnomah County suggested
the response to extreme weather should be stronger. "
"The snow and ice storm was brutal. It knocked out power for days. People died from the cold, from fires and from downed power lines."
(Freezing. That's a word.)
'July 2024 was Portland’s warmest July on record, according to Bryant.
July 5-9, Portland set new daily records every day, he said.
Portland roasted during a string of days with temperatures around 100 degrees, and at least 17 people died."
Warm? Hot as fucked climate.
'On Sept. 5, the airport reached 102 degrees, setting a record for the day.It was also only the third time since the early 1940s when records started being kept at the Portland International Airport that Portland hit
100 degrees in September." .
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The writing was bad. It was really, really, really bad.
It got worse. On a good note, it ended. Really.
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"456 people experiencing homelessness died in Multnomah County in 2023, up 45% from 2022"
"409 more people than died in 2011,
the first year records were kept."
'A total of 282 deaths, or 62%, were due to overdoses, according to the report. The vast majority of overdose deaths were caused by fentanyl, meth, or a combination of the two"
"Of the non-overdose deaths, 26 people died by suicide, 18 died of either cancer or heart disease and 14 died by homicide, according to the report.
There were no deaths caused by extreme heat and only one death due to cold weather.
Twenty-two people died in traffic accidents,
far higher than the rate of traffic deaths in the general population."
"We wish we could have helped him more, but he wore a shield that said, ‘I’m good, I can do this, I don’t want to be a burden,’” Shelbie, whose last name was not included, told Dean."
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"In 17 years, Oregon sees 91% spike
in homelessness, report says
the data also said that of families with children who are homeless, about 56% are unsheltered. That is the highest in the nation.
Oregon also has 1,315 unsheltered youth, the third highest in the country. "
https://katu.com/news/local/in-17-years-oregon-sees-91-spike-in-homelessness-report-says
*.
Who's been running Oregon for 17 years?
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