Judge temporarily blocks law that could close all Louisiana abortion clinics

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Iraqi forces claim to have broken ISIS siege of Shiite town | Fox News

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INSIGHT – As Islamic State fighters begin to blend in, defeating them no easy matter

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Xenon and argon banned for athletes

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UK businesses ‘want new EU deal’

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Foreign fighters in east Ukraine

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Foreign fighters in east Ukraine

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The girl with three biological parents

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How Britain and Poland came to be intertwined

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Israel to take over West Bank land

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US senators urge arms for Ukraine

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Practice your scales with the Fred Musical Straws – CNET

Practice your scales with the Fred Musical Straws – CNET.

Y. Savchuk – National Academic Choir of Ukraine ‘Dumka’: Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers Op. 37 (make music part of your life series)

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers Op. 37

  Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Y. Savchuk – National Academic Choir of Ukraine ‘Dumka’

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Vespers Op. 37
Come, let us worship
Bless the Lord, O my soul
Blessed be the Man
O serene light
Now let Thy Servant depart
Rejoice, O Virgin
Glory to God in the Highest
Praise the Name of the Lord
Blessed art Thou, O Lord
Having seen the Resurrection of the Lord
My soul magnifies the Lord
Glory to God in the Higest
Troparia of the Day of Salvation
Christ is risen from the grave
Thanksgiving to the Mother of God

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Lalo / Isaac Stern, 1956: Symphonie Espagnol in D minor, Op. 21 – Complete (Original Vinyl LP): great compositions/performances

Lalo / Isaac Stern, 1956: Symphonie Espagnol in D minor, Op. 21 – Complete (Original Vinyl LP)

   davidhertzbergIsaac Stern is soloist in this 1956 recording of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnol in D minor, Op. 21. Eugene Ormandy leads the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the LP shown above, issued on 1956 on the Columbia Masterworks label.

Movements/Sections	5 movements: Allegro non troppo Scherzando. Allegro molto Intermezzo. Allegro non troppo Andante Rondo
Composition Year	1874

Édouard Lalo entra à l’âge de dix ans au conservatoire de Lille où il apprit le violon et peut-être le violoncelle, sous la direction des professeurs Müller et Baumann puis, à l’âge de seize ans, partit pour Paris afin de continuer ses études musicales, contre la volonté de son père. Il y eut comme professeur de violon Pierre Baillot, puis François-Antoine Habeneck. En 1843 le pianiste Julius Schulhoff l’initia à la composition. Il se perfectionna au contact de J.-E. Crèvecoeur (deuxième grand prix de Rome). Ses premières compositions connues, des chants accompagnés au piano, datent de 1848, année durant laquelle il soumit deux de ses partitions à Hector Berlioz. Il se lia d’amitié avec le violoniste Jules Armingaud, son seul confident, et avec le compositeur Pablo de Sarasate. Au nombre de ses amis on compte aussi le peintre Auguste Delacroix qu’il ne faut pas confondre, comme le voulut Pierre Lalo, avec l’illustre Eugène Delacroix. Lalo n’entra jamais au Conservatoire de Paris, ni comme élève, ni comme professeur. Il y participa seulement à deux jurys de concours en 1876. Bien qu’admirant l’orchestre wagnérien, Lalo s’astreignit à suivre sa propre personnalité. Il bénéficia à plusieurs reprises de l’appui de Charles Gounod qui appréciait ses musiques. Il fut l’alto, puis le second violon du Quatuor Armengaud à partir de la fondation de celui-ci en 1856. Edouard Lalo vécut pauvrement, notamment à Puteaux avec sa première épouse, jusqu’en 1865. Veuf en 1864, il épousa la mezzo-soprano Julie-Marie-Victoire Bernier de Maligny et vécut plus confortablement à Paris. Il faisait salon de musique chez lui chaque vendredi soir et fréquentait les autres salons musicaux privés de la capitale. Lalo était d’un caractère réservé et répugnait à parler de lui. Beaucoup des correspondances qu’il a écrites et reçues ont été détruites. Il composait avec ardeur des mélodies et des symphonies instrumentales qui furent plus appréciées à l’étranger qu’en France.

Andsnes: Grieg Lyric Pieces Op 65, Wedding Day – Leif Ove Andsnes, piano: make music part of your life series

Andsnes: Grieg Lyric Pieces Op 65, Wedding Day

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Lyric Pieces Op 65
VI. Wedding Day At Troldhaugen
Edvard Grieg
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

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Francisco Tarrega – Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Emmanuel Rossfelder): make music part of your life series

Francisco Tarrega – Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Emmanuel Rossfelder)

  kovacsalmosFrancisco Tarrega – Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Emmanuel Rossfelder)

Schumann: Études Symphoniques, Op. 13 (Emil Gilels, piano): great compositions/performances

Schumann: Études Symphoniques Op. 13 [Emil Gilels, piano]

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Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Leonard Bernstein Conducting): great compositions/performances

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Leonard Bernstein Conducting)

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Leonard Bernstein conducts Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – extract from “The Unanswered Question”, Boston Symphony Orchestra

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 8, in C major “Lutzow” in KV 246: make music part of your life series

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, KV 246

  Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Derek Han, piano. Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Freeman.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, KV 246
I. Allegro aperto
II. Andante
III. Tempo di menuetto

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Libyan armed faction takes over U.S. Embassy annex in Tripoli

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Risk of Eating Moldy Bread | LIVESTRONG.COM

“Eating moldy bread could lead to death. Photo Credit bread. slices of bread with seeds image by L. Shat from Fotolia.com”

.Risk of Eating Moldy Bread | LIVESTRONG.COM

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Rogers: Obama’s inertia on Syria-Islamic State part of foreign policy plan empowering rivals | Fox News

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Bahrain journalist’s sentence upheld

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Putin ‘urges talks on east Ukraine’

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this pressed from VOA: Explosion Fells Building Outside Paris, Killing at Least 2

Explosion Fells Building Outside Paris, Killing at Least 2.

The time starts now, poetic thought by George-B (the smudge and other poems)

The time starts now, poetic thought by George-B

A time to learn
And a time to forget,
and a time to remember
That you’ve been forgotten…

A time to reach out
and a time to coil in,
Curled inside your shell,
For a quality time with the universe…

A time to explain
and a time to accept that objection is the only way to make
a difference,
and then to go and take a skinny deep in the nearest Jacuzzi…

A time to address the rest of us
in unerasable communication,
even if no one’s aware,
for a thousand years…

A time to enjoy not having a bucket list,
or any form of other regrets,
or sympathies,
or likes and dislikes that hurt like frost,
or burning coal at the feet…
you will meet your limb again somewhere in time,
in the past, or future:

The time starts now (start whistle here 3,2,1, NOW!)

©Always, by George-B

New heart failure drug ‘will give patients hope’ – Telegraph

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Vine gets new video editing tools | Tech | Toronto Sun

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Obamacare savior Todd Park quits — to be replaced by Google’s Megan Smith? | Computerworld

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Obama ‘Too Cautious’ On ISIS

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House, Senate intel chiefs flag Islamic State risk – Houston Chronicle

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Iraqi forces break through to besieged town of Amerli after US air strikes and aid drop | Mail Online

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Protesters condemn Hong Kong ruling

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‘Praying for death’ in Ukraine

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PM may block return of UK jihadists

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Putin ‘urges talks on east Ukraine’

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Iraqi forces ‘reach besieged Amerli’

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Australia to provide arms in U.S.-led mission against IS

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CBBC Newsround – EU gives Russia one-week deadline over Ukraine

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today’s holiday: Wheat Harvest Festival

Wheat Harvest Festival

The small village of Provins in north-central France celebrates its wheat harvest at the end of the summer. On the last Sunday of August, villagers decorate their homes and shops with wheat and wildflowers. There are also exhibits of antique farming tools and parades featuring harvest floats pulled by tractors. The villagers reenact ancient rituals involving wheat and perform demonstrations of how the grain is separated, ground, and baked to make bread. More… Discuss

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quotation: When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Discuss

today’s birthday: Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (1880)

Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (1880)

The daughter of King William III, Wilhelmina I was queen of the Netherlands for more than 50 years, encompassing the two world wars. After Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, she left with her family for London but made radio broadcasts to boost the morale of the Dutch people, becoming a symbol of Dutch resistance to the German occupation. In 1948, after celebrating the 50th anniversary of her reign, she abdicated in favor of her daughter. What did Wilhelmina title her autobiography? More… Discuss

this day in the yesteryear: Rocky Marciano Dies in a Plane Crash (1969)

Rocky Marciano Dies in a Plane Crash (1969)

After failing to become a professional baseball player, Marciano took up boxing and became one of the greatest boxers of all time. Hard-punching and durable, he was the heavyweight champion from 1952 to 1956—and the only one to have retired without a defeat or draw in his professional career. He died in a plane crash in 1969, on the eve of his 46th birthday, while en route to Des Moines, Iowa, where a surprise birthday party awaited him. Of his 49 professional wins, how many were by knockout? More… Discuss

This is a tribute to The Undefeated 49-0 Brockton Blockbuster, Rocky Marciano

Song – Let It Rock by Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne

Experimental Ebola Drug Shows Promise

Some good Ebola news is being reported on the heels of the World Health Organization’s projections that the current outbreak could spread to another 10 countries and infect over 20,000 people before it is contained: the experimental drug ZMapp was 100% effective in monkey studies. All of the Ebola-infected monkeys treated with ZMapp survived, even when they received the treatment five days after infection—considered late stage in the animals and equivalent to about nine to 11 days in humans. Still, these results do not mean the drug will be as effective in humans, and, in fact, two of the seven human Ebola patients treated with the drug have nevertheless died. More… Discuss

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Oskar Schindler

A Catholic and a member of the Nazi party, Schindler became famous for his efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust. He rescued up to 1,200 Jews by employing them in his munitions factory, which was deemed essential to the war effort—though Schindler purposely produced faulty ammunition. After the Kraków ghetto was destroyed, he created a safe sub-camp at his factory and was later able to rescue some of his workers when they were misrouted to Auschwitz. What happened to him after the war? More… Discuss

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Innocuous 

Definition:	(adjective) Having no adverse effect.
Synonyms:	harmless
Usage:	That mushroom may look innocuous, but it is in fact deadly. Discuss.

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