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Rhapsody in Blue, White and Green: Turnbull Canyon-Audio (Nightfall In) The Far Dunes – Tim Fachen (moods) 2:23 min

Blue, White and Green: Turnbull Canyon-Audio (Nightfall In) The Far Dunes – Tim Fachen (moods) 2:23 min

  George Bost

I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor) Filmed with Android: LG OPTIMUS ELITE
White clouds, blue skies, all seen through the green branches of the trees, with a background of running breeze through the fresh, green leavage…If we are lucky enough we can just let it fill us with the miracle of nature we take for granted every moment because:
There is nothing to replace it, nothing to act as its surrogate, nothing in waiting, after all this natural creation is destroyed.
Respect and preserve nature, find its meaning keep it clean, as you would your garden…It is your garden!

This insignificant video was taken under a tree along the trail at Turnbull Canyon, yesterday. Enjoy!
This is my personal video: As such it cannot be used by any for profit organization, including any TV station in the USA, or Abroad (this selection does not appear anywhere in the long list…) Without MY Written Approval…It is Copyright, you see!

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Soyoung Yoon plays at 14th International Wieniawski Violin Competition (Stage 3): make music part of your life series

Soyoung Yoon plays at 14th International Wieniawski Violin Competition (Stage 3)

FROM:

  Henryk Wieniawski

14th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, Poznań 2011
Stage 3 (17 October 2011)

Soyoung Yoon (South Korea) – 1st Prize Winner
Violin: J. B. Guadagnini ex Bückeburg (1773)

Program:
W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto in G Major KV 216 (first movement)
W. A. Mozart: first movement of Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major KV 364/320d
Lech Bałaban – viola

Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra Amadeus conducted by Agnieszka Duczmal

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Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society
http://www.wieniawski.com

Towarzystwo Muzyczne im. Henryka Wieniawskiego
http://www.wieniawski.pl

 

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(Analysis of the military situation: NATO sees Ukraine as already loser)

Excerpts from article:  “Kiev / Moscow – NATO has changed its military assessment of the situation in eastern Ukraine fundamentally. A week ago, the strategists of the Alliance assumed that Russia has strengthened the separatists with covert troops only because the pro-Russian rebels had to retreat under pressure of the Ukrainian army.

When the generals of the alliance but then late last week to a crisis meeting on the situation of the army of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko came together, they painted a grim picture. “Militarily, the conflict for Kiev is already lost,” stated a senior NATO general. Poroshenko, the judgment, were “really only talks to withdraw his men alive from the pliers of the Russians“.

The location descriptions behind closed doors were far more dramatic than the few images that NATO published mid-week. On large maps were marked with thick arrows Russian units, which now from the north, the west and the south on the border of eastern Ukraine are at least 20 Battalions  with a minimum of 500 men and heavy guns are the scouts of NATO.”
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The Israeli West Bank settlement of Efrat on September 1, 2014The Israeli West Bank settlement of Efrat on September 1, 2014

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Mendelssohn / String Symphony No. 2 in D major: make music part of your life series

Mendelssohn / String Symphony No. 2 in D major

  scrymgeour34

String Symphony No. 2 in D major (1821) Movements:

00:00 – Allegro
04:04 – Andante
08:13 – Allegro vivace

(Performed by the Northern Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Nicholas Ward.)

“Mendelssohn wrote his twelve String Symphonies between 1821 and 1823. The first seven were all composed in 1821, with the eighth a year later, dated 27th November 1822, and the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, completed in March, May, July and September 1823 respectively. A thirteenth symphony, started in December that year, was replaced by a fully orchestrated work, to become his Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 11. The string symphonies were written when Mendelssohn was a pupil of Zelter and reflect the inclinations of the teacher and Mendelssohn’s own clear debt to earlier classical models, with an increasing interest in the contrapuntal practices of Bach and Handel. This last is evident in the minor key Andante of the String Symphony No. 2 in D major, with its exploration of contrasting string textures, with a more classical use of imitative counterpoint in the final Allegro vivace.” – Keith Anderson

Drawing: Boy Copying the Head of a Roman Emperor, Michael Sweerts

 

 

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Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98

I. Allegro non troppo (00:00)
II. Andante moderato (13:33)
III. Allegro giocoso (27:19)
IV. Allegro energico e passionato (33:47)

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Saint of the Day for Monday, September 1st, 2014: St. Giles, Abbot

Saint of the Day for Monday, September 1st, 2014

Tomb of Saint Beatrice of Silva Menezes in Toledo, Spain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

St. Giles, Abbot

St. Giles, Abbot (Patron of Physically Disabled) Feast day – September 1 St. Giles is said to have been a seventh century Athenian of noble birth. His piety and learning made him so conspicuous … continue reading

More Saints of the Day

St. Giles, Abbot St. Agia St. Ammon St. Anna the Prophetess St. Beatrice da Silva Meneses St. Beatrix da Silva St. Constantius St. Fiacre St. Lupus of Sens St. Lythan

Bl. Michael Ghebre St. Nivard St. Regulus St. Simeon the Stylite St. Terentian St. Verena St. Verena St. Victorious St. Vincent & Laetus

today’s holiday: Labor Day

Labor Day

The first Labor Day observance in 1882 was confined to New York City. Oregon, in 1887, was the first state to make it a legal holiday, and, in 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill making it a national holiday. The holiday’s association with trade unions has declined, but it remains important as the end of the summer season for schoolchildren and as an opportunity for friends and families to get together for picnics and sporting events. Labor Day is observed on the first Monday in September throughout the US, in Canada, and in Puerto Rico. More… Discuss

this pressed from Newsweek: Egyptian Islamic Authority Issues Fatwas Against Selfies and Chatting Online

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LABOR DAY (from Wikipedia)

LABOR DAY

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Labor Day in the United States is a holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It is a celebration of the American labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of their country.

Labor Day was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, who organized the first parade in New York City. After the Haymarket Massacre, which occurred in Chicago on May 4, 1886, U.S. President Grover Cleveland feared that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the affair. Thus, in 1887, it was established as an official holiday in September to support the Labor Day that the Knights favored.^[1]

The equivalent holiday in Canada, Labour Day, is also celebrated on the first Monday of September. In many other countries (more than 80 worldwide), “Labour Day” is synonymous with, or linked with, International Workers’ Day, which occurs on May 1.

History

In 1882, Matthew Maguire, a machinist, first proposed the holiday while serving as secretary of the CLU (Central Labor Union) of New York.^[2] Others argue that it was first proposed by Peter J. McGuire of the American Federation of Labor in May 1882,^[3] after witnessing the annual labour festival held in Toronto, Canada.^[4] Oregon was the first state to make it a holiday on February 21, 1887. By the time it became a federal holiday in 1894, thirty states officially celebrated Labor Day.^[3]

Following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, the United States Congress unanimously voted to approve rush legislation that made Labor Day a national holiday; President Grover Cleveland signed it into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.^[5] The September date originally chosen by the CLU of New York and observed by many of the nation’s trade unions for the past several years was selected rather than the more widespread International Workers’ Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would be associated with the nascent Communist, Syndicalist and Anarchist movements that, though distinct from one another, had rallied to commemorate the Haymarket Affair in International Workers’ Day.^[6] All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories have made it a statutory holiday.

Labor Day
Labor Day Parade, Union Square, New York, 1882
Observed by	United States
Type	Federal Holiday (federal government, DC and U.S. Territories); and State Holiday (in all 50 U.S. States)
Celebrations	Parades, barbecues
Date	First Monday in September
2013 date	September 2
2014 date	September 1
2015 date	September 7
2016 date	September 5
Frequency	annual
Related to	Labour Day

quotation: W. Somerset Maugham: “In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city…”

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Discuss

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today’s birthday: Gloria Estefan (1957)

Gloria Estefan (1957)

Estefan is a seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter. Born in Cuba and raised in Florida, she began performing with the Miami Sound Machine in the 1970s. The group had a string of hit songs and albums, but Estefan was clearly the star, and by the early 1990s she was being billed as a solo artist. With over 100 million albums sold worldwide, she is the most successful crossover performer in Latin music history. What nearly ended Estefan’s career just as it was beginning to take off? More… Discuss

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this day in the yesteryear: Last Passenger Pigeon Dies in Captivity (1914)

Last Passenger Pigeon Dies in Captivity (1914)

Billions of passenger pigeons inhabited eastern North America in the early 19th century, migrating in enormous flocks that darkened the skies for days at a time. They soon fell victim to habitat loss caused by mass deforestation, along with excessive hunting on an industrial scale. The bird‘s rapid extinction was largely responsible for ending the marketing of game birds and gave major impetus to the conservation movement. Where did the last known passenger pigeon die in 1914? More… Discuss

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health: Parents of Overweight Kids Failing to Recognize Problem

Parents of Overweight Kids Failing to Recognize Problem

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article: Pocahontas

Pocahontas

The daughter of Powhatan, a Native American chief who controlled almost all of tidewater Virginia, Pocahontas helped maintain peace with the English colonists by befriending the settlers at Jamestown. According to the famous story, she saved colonial leader John Smith from execution after he had been taken prisoner by her father’s men. She later furthered efforts toward peace by marrying colonist John Rolfe. “Pocahontas” was actually a childhood nickname. What was her real name? More… Discuss

word: vilify

vilify 

Definition:	(verb) To make vicious and defamatory statements about.
Synonyms:	revile, vituperate, rail
Usage:	The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews. Discuss.

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