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Holidays 4.15

Holidays

Anime Day

Anniversary of Tarija (Bolivia)

AR-15 Day

Ariadne Asteroid Day

ASL Day (American Sign Language Day)

Banyan Tree Day (Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii)

Bija Mangala (Field Cultivation Festival)

Buck Rogers Day

Children’s Day (Spain)

Criminal Investigation Department Employees Day (Ukraine)

Da Vinci Day

Day of Love (Georgia)

Day of People (Aysellant)

Day of Radio-Electronic Fight Troops (Russia)

Day of the Sun (North Korea)

Father Damien Day (Hawaii)

Fluff Appreciation Day

415 Day

Freak Out Day

Gallaudet Day

Good Roads Day (Illinois)

Great Stichwort

Hardware Freedom Day

Hillsborough Disaster Memorial Day (Liverpool, UK)

Himachal Day (India)

Historical City Day (Malacca)

Hug Your Boiler Day

Income Tax Pay Day

International Biomedical Laboratory Science Day

International Pompe Day

Ivory Soap Day

Jackie Robinson Day

Kim Il Sung Day (North Korea)

Lilac Day (French Republic)

Lover’s Day (Kazakhstan)

Mariah Carey Day (California)

Melaka UNESCO Heritage Day (Malaysia)

Microvolunteering Day

National Anime Day

National ASL Day

National Collegiate Recovery Day

National Griper’s Day

National Hookup Day

National Keaton Day

National Laundry Day

National Poet Day (Peru)

National Rubber Eraser Day

National Security Education Day (Hong Kong)

National That Sucks Day

National Titanic Remembrance Day

One Boston Day

Purple Up Day

Quantum Teleportation Day

Rubber Eraser Day

Swallow Day (UK)

Take a Wild Guess Day

Tax Day (US)

Tax Resistor's Day

That Sucks Day

Tipsa Diena (Traditional start of plowing; Ancient Latvia)

Titanic Remembrance Day

Type 1 Diabetes Day

Universal Day of Culture

World Art Day

World Tiny Art Gallery Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Fast Food Day

McDonald’s Day

National Glazed Spiral Ham Day

National Takeout Day (Canada)

3rd Monday in April

Boston Marathon Day [3rd Monday]

National Stress Awareness Day [3rd Monday]

Landing of the 33 Patriots Day observed (Uruguay) [3rd Monday]

Patriots' Day (Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin) [3rd Monday]

Sechseläuten ends (Six Ringing Festival; Zurich, Switzerland) [3rd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 15 (3rd Week)

National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week [thru 4.19]

Undergraduate Research Week [thru 4.19]

Week of the Young Child [thru 4.19]

Independence & Related Days

Independence Day Holiday (Israel)

Unitedlands (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Vishwamitra (f.k.a. Children’s Group; Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Day after Sidereal New Year (South and Southeast Asian) (a.k.a. …

Bengali New Year (India)

Bohag Bihu (Parts of India)

Himachl Day (Parts of India)

Lao New Yar (Laos)

Masadi (Parts of India)

Nababarsha (Parts of India)

New Year Holidays (Myanmar)

Sarhul (Parts of India)

Songkran (Thailand)

Water-Sprinkling Festival continues (Yunnan, China)

Poila Boishakh (Bengali New Year)

Festivals Beginning April 15, 2024

Boston Marathon (Boston, Massachusetts) [3rd Monday]

Coquina Beach Seafood & Music Festival (Coquina Beach, Florida) [thru 4.17]

Singing in the Sun (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) [thru 4.20]

TED Conference (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) [thru 4.19]

Feast Days

Abbo II of Metz (Christian; Saint)

Arshile Gorky (Artology)

Bananas with Everything Day (a.k.a. Banana Day; Pastafarian)

Basilissa and Anastasia (Christian; Martyrs)

Day of Tellus Mater (Pagan)

Elizabeth Catlett Mora (Artology)

Father Damien (The Episcopal Church)

Festival of Hero/Bast (Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Matsu/Mazu (Goddess of the Sea; Taoism)

Fordicidia (Old Roman Festival of Fertility to honor Ceres)

Henry James (Writerism)

Hippachus (Positivist; Saint)

Hunna (Christian; Saint)

Jeffrey Archer (Writerism)

Kanamara Matsuri (Iron Phallus Festival; Japan)

Leonardo da Vinci (Artology)

Munde (Christian; Saint)

Padarn (Christian; Saint)

Pammy (Muppetism)

Paternus of Avranches (Christian; Saint)

Peter Gonzales (Christian; Saint)

Ruadan of Lothra (Christian; Saint)

Rusalja (Celebration of River Spirts Rusalki of the Lemko People of Carpathia; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Tellus Mater (Old Roman Mother Earth Festival)

Vlad Tepes Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [14 of 53]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because the Titanic Sank and it’s also Tax Day.)

Premieres

The Adventures off Marco Polo (Film; 1938)

Aftermath, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1966)

The Art of Real Happiness, by Norman Vincent Peale (Book; 1950)

The Black Island, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1938) [Tintin #7]

Catalogue d’Oiseaux, by Olivier Messiaen (Pieno Pieces; 1959)

Colors (Film; 1988)

Dark Command (Film; 1940)

Donald’s Nephews (Disney Cartoon; 1938)

Don’t Speak, by No Doubt (Song; 1996)

84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff (Novel; 1970)

El Amor Bruno (Love, the Magician), by Manuel de Falla (Ballet; 1915)

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (Film; 2022)

Fargo (TV Series; 2014)

The Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Book; 1987)

Flashdance (Film; 1983)

Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes (Short Story; 1959)

Genghis Khan (Film; 1965)

Girls (TV Series; 2012)

The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

The Little Goldfish (MGM Cartoon; 1939)

Little Red School Mouse (Noveltoons; 1949)

In Living Color (TV Series; 1990)

The Last Emperor (Film; 1988)

The Lumberjack (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; 1929)

The Moon and Sixpence, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1919)

Mouse Come Home (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1946)

Outer Banks (TV Series; 2020)

Outer Range (TV Series; 2022)

Rattus Norvegicus, by The Stranglers (Album; 1977)

Ride ‘Em Plowboy (Oswald the Luck Rabbit Disney Cartoon; 1928)

Rio (Animated Film; 2011)

Robinson Crusoe’s Broadcast (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)

Rock & Rule (Animated Film; 1983)

Rock for Light, by The Bad Brains (Album; 1983)

Stage Fright (Film; 1950)

St. Matthew’s Passion, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Oratorio; 1729)

Think, recorded by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1968)

To the Finland Station, by Edmund Wilson (Novel; 1940)

The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pène du Bois (Novel; 1947)

Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, by Jerry Lee Lewis (Song; 1957)

Wild, by Cheryl Strayed (Memoir; 2012)

Today’s Name Days

Anastasia, Damian, Una (Austria)

Rastislav, Teodor (Croatia)

Anastázie (Czech Republic)

Olympia (Denmark)

Uljas, Uljo, Verner, Verni (Estonia)

Linda, Tuomi (Finland)

César, Paterne (France)

Anastasia, Damian, Una (Germany)

Leonidas (Greece)

Anasztázia, Tas (Hungary)

Anastasio, Annibale (Italy)

Aelita, Agita, Balvis, Gastons (Latvia)

Anastazijus, Liudvina, Modestas, Vaidotė, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Oda, Odd, Odin (Norway)

Anastazja, Bazyli, Leonid, Ludwina, Modest, Olimpia, Tytus, Wacław, Wacława, Wiktoryn, Wszegniew (Poland)

Aristarh, Pud, Trofim (Romania)

Fedor (Slovakia)

Telmo (Spain)

Oliver, Olivia (Sweden)

Mstyslav, Mstyslava (Ukraine)

Kenya, Octavia, Tavia, Tucker (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 106 of 2024; 260 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 7 (Ji-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 7 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 66 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 16 Cyan; Twosday [16 of 30]

Julian: 2 April 2024

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 22 Archimedes (4th Month) [Varro]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 28 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 26 of 31)

#Holidays

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hybridmindthoughtsreloaded · 1 year

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MKUltra

Operation Condor (terror campaign in South America)

Operation Bootstraps (transform Puerto Ricos economy into exploitable industrial model)

Project Artichoke (forced morphine addiction for mind control and use of LSD to induce amnesia)

Strawberry Fields (hidden black site for CIA prisoners located near prisons at Guantanamo Bay)

Project FUBELT (operation in Chile to stop rise of Allende and put Pinochet in power

GREYSTONE (a multitude of subprograms, mostly illegal renditions and interrogations in Afghanistan)

Project MKNaomi (Biological and chemical warfare capabilities)

Operation Mockingbird (Domestic op, manipulation of US media. Wiretaps, included purchasing of media companies)

Project Merrimac and Project Resistance (sub programs of parent project, Operation Chaos, which was focused on infiltration and dismantling of anti war and civil rights groups)

Operation Merlin (Provide Iran with sabatoged design for nuclear component in hope to cause accident)

Operation Mongoose (Assassinate Castro)

JMWAVE (Using University of Miami radio station as front for CIA communications station)

Project Azorian (Spent 800million [3.9 billion adjusted for inflation] on recovering Soviet Sub. One of most expensive, secret and complex ops of Cold War, theorized to be front for either tapping undersea communication cables, setting up underwater missile silo or submarine surveilance systems)

Operation 40 (Intended to seize control of Cuba after Bay of Pigs, which was enough of a fiasco to cancel op)

Disposition Matrix (The “kill list”, created by Obama Admin in 2010, database for tracking, rendition and execution of suspected enemies of the United States government. The criteria are not public, and are shaped by National Counterterrorism Director. Contains Dossier and strategies for rendition/assassination)

Operation Charly (Collab with Argentinian fascists to hunt down leftists)

Operation IA Feature (supporting sides during Angolan civil war)

Operation Kufire (track all communists coming to and frok Guatamala)

Operation Kugown aka PB History (dissemination of anti-communist propoganda in Guatemala)

Operation MIAS aka Missing in Action Stingers (Attempt to buyback Stinger missiles gifted to Mujahideen [predecessor to Al-Queda] during Cold War. Still mostly classified)

Operation Midnight Climax (CIA set up safehouses in New York and San Francisco, used sex workers to lure people back to safehouse, were given LSD and monitored through one way mirror, developed surveillance techniques and sexual blackmail tactics. Eventually program expanded to just dosing people in public. Beaches, restaurants and bars.)

Operation Momentum (Infiltrate Hmong tribes in Laos and radicalize them into clandestine operatives during Laotian civil war. After Vietnam and Laotian civil war ended many Hmong were forced to resettle in the US)

Operation Washtub (False flag, planting arms to make it look like Soviets were tied to President of Guatemala. Part of larger series of operations built around sponsoring coup in 1954)

Project CHATTER (Collab with Navy, studying use of anabsine (an alkaloid), scopopamine and mescaline for interrogation.

Project MKSEARCH and MKCHICKWIT (Identify drugs in Europe/Asia for MK Ultra program)

MKOFTEN (partner to MK Ultra, according to Chief of CIA Technical services branch Dr. Sidney Gottlieb was to “explore forces of dark magic” and “harness the forces of darkness”)

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casbooks · 1 year

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Books of 2023

Book 35 of 2023

Title: The Frost Weeds: Vietnam: 1964-1965 Authors: James Oliveri ISBN: 9781555717612 Tags: A-1 Skyraiders AUS ADF Australian Defence Force AUS Australia B-57 Canberra Buddhism (Religion) C-123 Provider C-7 Caribou CH-34 Choctaw FRA France LAO Laos LAO Laotian Civil War (1959-1975) LAO Pathet Lao LAO Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma LAO Prince Souvanna Phouma LAO RLA 33rd Laotian Elephant Bn LAO RLA Royal Laotian Army LAO RLAF Royal Lao Air Force Nungs O-1 Bird Dog SpecOps U-1 Otter US Ambassador Maxwell Taylor US CIA Central Intelligence Agency US Medal Of Honor US President Lyndon B. Johnson US Raymond Burr (Actor) US USA 1st Cavalry Division US USA 86th Engineer Bn US USA Col Roger Donlon (MOH) US USA Fort Dix NJ US USA Fort Dix NJ - Intermediate Speed Radio Operators Course (ISROC) US USA General Paul D. Harkins US USA General William Westmoreland US USA United States Army US USA USSF 5th SFG US USA USSF 7th SFG US USA USSF Green Berets US USA USSF Special Forces US USA USSF Team A-113 US USA USSF Team A-323 US USA USSF Team A-726 US USMC 9th MEB US USMC United States Marine Corps US USN 7th Fleet US USN United States Navy US USN USS Maddox (DD-731) US USN USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) US USN USS Turner Joy (DD-951) US USO United Service Organizations VNM 1968 Tet Offensive (1968) (Vietnam War) VNM A Louie Airstrip VNM A Shau Special Forces Camp (Vietnam War) VNM A Shau Valley VNM AUS ADF Australian Army Training Team (Vietnam War) VNM Battle of Hue City (1968) (Tet Offensive) (Vietnam War) VNM Battle of Nam Dong CIDG Camp (1964) (Vietnam War) VNM Cam Lo VNM Central Highlands VNM Cholon VNM Con Thien VNM Cua Viet VNM Da Lat VNM Da Nang VNM Da Nang - Red Beach Base Area (Vietnam War) VNM Da Nang Air Base VNM DMZ Demilitarized Zone - 17th Parallel (Vietnam War) VNM Dong Ap Bia VNM Dong Ha VNM Dong Hoi VNM Dong Nai River VNM DRV NVA Col Bui Tin (Engineer) VNM DRV NVA Col Dong Si Nguyen (Minister of Construction) VNM DRV NVA North Vietnamese Army VNM DRV VC Viet Cong VNM FRA Felix Poilane (Plantation Owner) VNM Gio Linh VNM Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) (Vietnam War) VNM Highway 1 VNM Highway 14 VNM Highway 548 VNM Highway 9 VNM Ho Chi Minh Trail (Vietnam War) VNM Hue VNM Hue - Business District VNM Hue - Capitol Building VNM Hue - Cercle Sportif VNM Hue - Duy Tan St VNM Hue - Hue Stadium VNM Hue - Hue University VNM Hue - Joan of Arc Cathedral VNM Hue - Le Loi St VNM Hue - Nguyen Hoang Bridge VNM Hue - Perfume River VNM Hue - Public Health and Hospital Complex VNM Hue - Tay Loc Airfield (Vietnam War) VNM Hue - The Citadel VNM Hue - Tran Cao Van St VNM Hue - Tran Hung Dao St VNM I Corps (Vietnam War) VNM Ia Drang Valley VNM III Corps (Vietnam War) VNM Lang Troi VNM Lang Vei VNM Lang Vei Special Forces Camp (Vietnam War) VNM Montagnard - Bru VNM Montagnards VNM Montagnards - Katu VNM Nam Dong VNM Nam Dong Special Forces Camp (Vietnam War) VNM Nha Trang VNM Operation Flaming Dart (1965) (Vietnam War) VNM Operation Ranch Hand (1962-1971) (Vietnam War) VNM Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-1968) (Vietnam War) VNM Phu Bai VNM Pleiku VNM Quang Tri VNM Quang Tri Province VNM Rao Lao River VNM Rao Quang River VNM Red River VNM RVN ARVN 1st ID VNM RVN ARVN 2nd Regiment VNM RVN ARVN 2nd Regiment - 3/2 VNM RVN ARVN 36th Ranger Bn VNM RVN ARVN 3rd Regiment VNM RVN ARVN 3rd Regiment - 3/3 VNM RVN ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam VNM RVN ARVN CIDG Civilian Irregular Defense Group VNM RVN ARVN General Nguyen Chanh Thi VNM RVN ARVN LLDB Luc Luong Dac Biet Special Forces VNM RVN ARVN MP Quan Canh Military Police VNM RVN ARVN Nam Dong CIDG Camp VNM RVN ARVN Vietnamese Rangers - Biet Dong Quan VNM RVN General Duonh Van Minh (Big Minh) VNM RVN Nguyen Cao Ky VNM RVN Nguyen Khanh VNM RVN RVNP Can Sat National Police VNM RVN SVNAF South Vietnamese Air Force VNM RVN Tran Van Huong VNM Saigon VNM Saigon - Brinks Hotel VNM Saigon - Brinks Hotel Bombing (1964) VNM Saigon - Capital Hotel VNM Saigon - Tu Do St (Rue Catinat) VNM Som Bai VNM Ta Bat VNM Ta Bat Airfield VNM Ta Rau VNM Tan Son Nhut Air Base VNM Thua Thien Province VNM Tonkin Gulf VNM US Agent Orange (Vietnam War) VNM US MAAG Advisory Team 3 (Vietnam War) VNM US MAAG Military Assistance Advisory Group Vietnam (Vietnam War) VNM US MACV Advisory Team 3 (Vietnam War) VNM US MACV Advisory Teams (Vietnam War) VNM US MACV Military Assistance Command Vietnam (Vietnam War) VNM US USMC KSCB Khe Sanh Combat Base (Vietnam War) VNM US USSF Mobile Strike Force (MIKE) (Vietnam War) VNM Vietnam VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975) Rating: ★★★★★ (5 Stars) Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.ARVN, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Specops.ARVN, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Specops.Green Berets, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.US Army.Advisor

Description: During the early years of the Vietnam War, a small group of American soldiers carried the fight to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, often under difficult circumstances. Their sacrifices generally went unrecognized and unappreciated by a mostly indifferent nation. But a massive influx of American troops would soon alter the entire nature and perception of the war. THE FROST WEEDS graphically describes the horror, the heroism and even the humor of the Vietnam experience while offering a far different perspective of the war than that epitomized by the larger conflict that followed. It is an astonishing account of a small U.S. military advisory team struggling to deal with a ruthless enemy and an often exasperating ally.

Review: This was an excellent book by an excellent author. He was able to craft a good narrative and understood pacing and flow which is rare for many of these books. The tales he told of the early years of the vietnam war, the 64/65 period, of what it was like at Ta Bat, A Shau, and Khe Sanh, his explorations of Hue, and the battle of Nam Dong were well done and gave you a really good sense of who was there, what happened, and what the experience was like being an Advisor radioman attached to an ARVN unit.

#Books #Ebooks #Booklr #Bookblr #Vietnam War #Vietnam #History #Military History #Non Fiction #ARVN #US Army #Nam Dong

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usafphantom2 · 2 years

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OV-10A Bronco and NY ANG F-100C Super Sabres over Vietnam c1969. by manhhai Via Flickr: F-100's and OV-10. AFOG Collection. A U.S. Air Force North American OV-10A-30-NH Bronco in flight with two North American F-100C Super Sabres of the 136th Tactical Fighter Squadron USAF - National Museum of the U.S. Air Force photo 130605-F-DW547-008 A U.S. Air Force North American OV-10A-30-NH Bronco (s/n 67-14659) in flight with two North American F-100C Super Sabre of the 136th Tactical Fighter Squadron. The 136th TFS was a New York Air National Guard unit that was assigned to the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing at Tuy Hoa Air Base, Vietnam from 14 June 1968 to 25 May 1969. The OV-10A 67-14659 was later shot down near Trapeang Veng, Cambodia, on 7 April 1973 while in service with the 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron, 56th Special Operation Wing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_air_control_during_the_Viet... ----------------------- Forward air control during the Vietnam War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_air_control_during_the_Viet... The forward air controller (FAC) played a significant part in the Vietnam War from the very start. Largely relegated to airborne duty by the constraints of jungled terrain, FACs began operations as early as 1962. Using makeshift propeller-driven aircraft and inadequate radio nets, they became so essential to air operations that the overall need for FACs would not be completely satisfied until 1969. The FAC's expertise as an air strike controller also made him an intelligence source, munitions expert, communication specialist, and above all, the on-scene commander of the strike forces and the start of any subsequent combat search and rescue if necessary. Present as advisors under Farm Gate, FACs grew even more important as American troops poured into Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) would swell its FAC complement to as many as 668 FACs in Vietnam by 1968; there were also FACs from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and allied nations. For the early years of the war USAF manning levels were at about 70% of need; they finally reached 100% in December 1969. The FACs would be essential participants in close air support in South Vietnam, interdiction efforts against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, supporting a guerrilla war on the Plain of Jars in Laos, and probing home defenses in North Vietnam. As the war came to center on the Trail in 1969, the FAC role began to be marginalized. Anti-aircraft (AAA) defenses became steadily more aggressive and threatening along the Trail as the bombing of North Vietnam closed down. The communist enemy moved their supply activities to nighttime, quite literally leaving the FACs in the dark. The American response was twofold. They used fixed-wing gunships with electronic sensors to detect communist trucks, and onboard weaponry to destroy them. They also began putting FACs in jet aircraft and in flareships as a counter to the AAA threat. At about the same time, emplaced ground sensors began to complement and overshadow FAC reconnaissance as an intelligence source. FAC guidance of munitions also began to come into play in 1970. By the time the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the U.S. and its allies had dropped about six times as many tons of bombs as had been dropped in the entirety of World War II.[1] A considerable proportion of this tonnage had been directed by forward air controllers.

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thistransient · 2 years

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- I feel displeased enough with my Spotify Wrapped to not share, because my top artists/songs were either things I put on for background noise while working, or from Discover Weekly when I spammed a song on repeat but touched nothing else from the artist (that I can remember, anyways). This is misrepresentation! The only one I consider accurate was Ghost, a phenomenon which emerged solely because the friend I stayed with in Florida brainwashed me with the album Prequelle (on CD) every time we drove in her car, and made me watch all the skits and half the music videos. I am not immune to being bewitched in the moonlight, it seems.

- I only share my shameful folly in the hopes that someone else might be spared the same fate, but for the love of god if you move to the subtropics or warmer, do not put your luggage in a dark, poorly ventilated space and leave it there for months so it and its contents can happily ferment, while occasionally spritzing it with deodorizer and hoping the mildew smell that wafts generously whenever it’s opened will magically clear itself up. It won’t. It really, really won’t.

- While browsing RadioGarden, I started listening to Lao National Radio on a whim for some background noise (they alternate between talking and playing classic Laotian music, all of which I think sounds delightful), and at some point began wondering if they were broadcasting in Thai because I recognized a good deal of words and could make out the weather report (the dreaded อากาศเย็น forever cemented into my memory), but no, apparently there’s just a lot of mutual intelligibility. I came to the conclusion that (although I could be completely wrong) my Thai is at such a low level that I’m only catching basic vocabulary that would naturally overlap anyways. I’m nowhere near at a level suitable for language exchange but it makes me wonder if I’d enjoy trying to learn again, albeit in a better environment than last time.

- Two weeks of vacation went by in the blink of an eye. I really don’t want to go back to waking up exhausted for the rush hour train, having headaches, and drifting off in class. At this point I’m doing it for my ARC status, because I don’t want to have to worry about leaving the country for a visa run any time in the next 3 months during recovery. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Chinese, but my circadian rhythm is not set for mornings, and I’m so tired of the teacher roulette and disorganisation at my school. Also I need to get a job, since I failed yet again to do anything remotely resembling grad school application (at least I talked about it more than usual, that’s a step, right?). Next semester ends the same day my apartment contract is up, so that’s a thing, but we’ll see how I feel when the time comes.

#i am waging a mildew war right now #i am going to win i swear to god #i will pray at the angry ghost temple if that's what it takes #i got this luggage for free from Emirates when they broke my last one and it's the nicest one i've ever had #i will not surrender it to The Mold #for all its flaws i really like my apartment location and finding a job around here might be cool #however if i had a job i could probably afford a better apartment that's still in a good location -_-

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brookston · 5 months

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Holidays 4.26

Holidays

Activity Advisor Appreciation Day

Alien Day

Arbor Day (Germany)

Audubon Day

Australian Appreciation Day

Beatrix Asteroid Day

Cape Henry Day (Virginia)

Chuvash Language Day (Russia)

Common Columbine Day (French Republic)

Confederate Memorial Day (Florida)

Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl Tragedy (Belarus)

Festival of Individual Sovereignty

Football Day (Kazakhstan)

426 Day

General Prayer Day (Denmark)

Get Organized Day

Help a Horse Day

High School Radio Day

Hug a Friend Day

Hug An Australian Day

Hug a Prom Sponsor

Huntingdonshire Day (England)

Internal Medicine Research Day

International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day (UN)

International Choerm Day

International Day of Humor

International Day of the Penis

International Flamingo Day

International Seeds Day

International Shared Parenting Day

Lesbian Visibility Day

Lily of the Valley Day (French Republic)

Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia)

National Ai Day

National Audubon Day

National Dissertation Day

National Drug Take Back Day

National Gabriel Day

National Garage Day

National Hand Holding Day

National Help a Horse Day

National Hit It From the Back Day

National Jason Day

National Kids and Pets Day

National No Makeup Day

National Ranboo Day

National South Dakota Day

Old Permic Alphabet Day

Parental Alienation Awareness Day

Poetry and the Creative Mind Day

Prayer Day (Faroe Islands; Greenland)

Read Me Day

Regional Autonomy Day (Indonesia)

Remember Your First Kiss Day

Resistance Day (Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces; Slovenia) [26th Unless a Sunday, then 27th]

Richter Scale Day

Secretaries’ Day (Colombia)

Self-Aware Universe Day

Shared Parenting Day (Kentucky)

Shuffleboard Day

Static Cling Day

Studio 54 Day

Sultan’s Day (Malaysia)

Tartar Language Day

Underground Nuclear Test Day

Union Day (Tanzania)

Vallenato Legend Festival begins (Colombia)

Venus Day

Visakhabousa Day (Laos)

Wallabee Day

World Burlesque Day

World Intellectual Freedom Day

World Intellectual Property Day (UN)

World Pilots’ Day

YMCA Healthy Kids Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer Autism Hope Day

International Macaroni Day

National Pretzel Day

4th & Last Friday in April

Arbor Day [Last Friday]

Arbrewday [Last Friday]

Childcare Professionals Day [Last Friday]

Children’s Memorial Flag Day [Last Friday]

Day of Dialogue [Last Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Friendship Friday [Last Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Hairball Awareness Day [Last Friday]

Hooky Day (Argentina) [Last Friday]

International Viognier Day [Last Friday]

National Historic Marker Day [Last Friday]

National Skipping Day (UK) [4th Friday]

Swiss Beer Day (Switzerland) [Last Friday]

Undiagnosed Children’s Day (UK) [Last Friday]

World Meningitis Day [4th Friday]

World Women’s Wellness Day [Last Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 26 (4th Week)

Global Youth Service Days [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)

Interstate Mullet Toss [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)

National Dream Hotline [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)

National Pie Championships [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)

Independence & Related Days

Aetosia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Karisradd (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Kotland (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Republic of Alba (Declared; 1796) [lasted 2 days]

Roskya (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Tanzania (Union Day; Created by Zanzibar and Tanganyika merger; 1964)

New Year’s Days

New Year’s Seed Sowing Ceremony (Goddess of Fertility; Sierra Leone)

Festivals Beginning April 26, 2024

Asheville Spring Herb Festival (Asheville, North Carolina) [thru 4.28]

Astoria-Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival (Astoria, Oregon) [thru 4.28]

Big Island Chocolate Festival (Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel; Hawaii) [thru 4.27]

Brewgaloo (Raleigh, North Carolina)) [thru 4.27]

Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 4.28]

Chicken Fried Steak Festival (Lamesa, Texas) [thru 4.28]

Clinton-Hickman County Spring Chicken Festival (Clinton, Kentucky) [thru 4.27]

Colleton County Rice Festival (Walterboro, South Carolina) [thru 4.27]

Fiddler’s Frolic [thru 4.28]

Georgia State Fair, Spring (Metro Atlanta, Hampton, Georgia) [thru 5.5]

Glen Lake Restaurant Week (Glen Arbor Area, Michigan) [thru 5.4]

Interstate Mullet Toss and Gulf Coast’s Greatest Beach Party (Orange Beach, Alabama) [thru 4.27]

Pensacola Crawfish Festival (Pensacola, Florida) [thru 4.28]

Procession of the Species (Olympia, Washington) [thru 4.27]

Sacramento Beer Week (Sacramento, California) [thru 5.5]

Sacred Heart Garden City Festival (Augusta, Georgia) [thru 4.27]

Santa Barbara Restaurent Week (Santa Barbara, California) [thru 5.5]

Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival (Winchester, Virginia) [thru 5.5]

Striped Bass Festival (Manning, South Carolina) [thru 4.27]

Vermontville Maple Syrup Festival (St. Albans, Michigan) [thru 4.28]

Wakarusa Maple Syrup Festival (Wakarusa, Indiana) [thru 4.28]

Feast Days

Aldobrandesca (a.k.a. Alda; Christian; Saint)

Anacletus, Pope (a.k.a. Cletius) and Marcellinus (Christian; Martyrs)

Basil (Christian; Saint)

Bernard Malamud (Writerism)

The Birthday Cake (Muppetism)

Cimon (Positivist; Saint)

Cletus and Marcellinus (Christian; Martyrs)

Delphinia (Festival of Apollo; Ancient Greece)

Edward Charles Tarbell (Artology)

Eugène Delacroix (Artology)

Fairy Laughter Convention (Shamanism)

Festival of Renenutet (Ancient Egypt)

The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (Novel; 1966)

Franca Visalta (Christian; Saint)

Get Organized Day (Pastafarian)

Giamonios (Celtic Book of Days)

Gian Paolo Lomazzo (Artology)

Hug An Australian Day (Pastafarian)

Jethro Tull Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

John James Audubon (Artology)

Lucidius of Verona (Christian; Saint)

Mayan Rain Festival (Ancient Mayan)

Memorial of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian)

Moon Magick Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian; Saint)

Paschasius Radbertus (Christian; Saint)

Peter of Rates (or of Braga; Christian; Saint)

Rafael Arnaiz (Christian; Saint) [Diabetes]

Riquier (a.k.a. Ricardius; Christian; Saint)

Robert Hunt (Episcopal Church (USA))

Sacrifice to Zeus Epacrios (Ancient Greece)

Stephen of Perm (Christian; Saint)

Trudpert (Christian; Saint)

Visakh Bochea Day (Buddha Day; Cambodia)

Walpurgisnacht, Day IV (Pagan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [22 of 71]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because the Chernobyl meltdown began.)

Premieres

American Recordings, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1994)

Avengers: Endgame (Film; 2019)

Bear De Guerre (The Inspector Cartoon; 1968)

Belfagor, by Ottorino Respighi (Opera; 1923)

The Bridge at Andau, by James A. Michener (History Book; 1957)

The Cat Concerto (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

Devils & Dust, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 2005)

Dogtown and Z-Boys (Documentary Film; 2002)

Dragon Ball Z (Anime TV Series; 1989)

The Enchanted Wood, by Enid Blyton (Children’s Book; 1939)

Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)

4th Symphony, by Charles Ives (Symphony; 1965)

The Goose Goes South (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Gunsmoke (Radio Series; 1952)

The Handmaid’s Tale (TV Series; 2017)

The Hip-Nut-Tist (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)

Just One of the Guys (Film; 1985)

The Last Waltz, by The Band (Live Album & Concert Film; 1978)

Moosylvania Wish Mash or A State of Confusion (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 366; 1965)

Moosylvania Saved, Part 3 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 365; 1965)

The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (Muppet TV Special; 1972)

Neverland, by Jim Steinman (Musical Play; 1977)

Pink Posies (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1967)

The Reluctant Recruit (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1971)

Seven Samurai (Film; 1954)

The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey (Novel; 1969)

Swing Your Partner (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1943)

Those Were Wonderful Days (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)

Throwing Copper, by Live (Album; 1994)

The Trial, by Franz Kafka (Novel; 1925)

The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Film; 1996)

Tugboat Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1940)

Ups ’n Downs (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)

A Waggily Tale (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)

”Weird Al” Yankovic, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1983)

Today’s Name Days

Helene, Trudpert (Austria)

Kleto, Maksima, Montan, Stanislav, Višnja (Croatia)

Oto (Czech Republic)

Cletus (Denmark)

Eesi, Reesi, Teesi, Teisi, Tereese (Estonia)

Teresa, Terttu, Tessa (Finland)

Alida (France)

Consuela, Helene (Germany)

Glafyra (Greece)

Ervin (Hungary)

Alida, Bianca, Cleto, Marcellino (Italy)

Alīna, Geraldine, Rusins, Sandris (Latvia)

Dargailė, Gailenis, Klaudijus (Lithuania)

Tea, Terese (Norway)

Artemon, Klaudiusz, Klet, Marcelin, Marcelina, Maria, Marzena, Spycimir (Poland)

Chindeu, Chiril, Tasie, Vasile (Romania)

Jaroslava (Slovakia)

Isidoro (Spain)

Terese, Teresia (Sweden)

Clarence, DeMarco, Demarcus, Demario (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 117 of 2024; 249 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 17 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 18 (Geng-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 18 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 17 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 27 Cyan; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 13 April 2024

Moon: 92%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 5 Caesar (5th Month) [Xenophon]

Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 39 of 92)

Week: 4th Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 7 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Through Reading, Dongguan Builds Bridges Connecting the World

Global Relay of 23 Cities Celebrates, "Fragrance of Books Dongguan · World Walk and Read+" Public Reading Festival Unfolds

Dongguan, April 23, 2024 — Today marks the 29th "World Book Day" and coincides with the National Public Library Service Promotion Week. The grand opening of the "Fragrance of Books Dongguan · World Walk and Read+" public reading festival was held at the 423-meter tall Min Ying·Guo Mao Center in Dongguan. This event, jointly hosted by the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, the Municipal Culture, Radio, Film, Tourism and Sports Bureau, the Dongguan "Hundreds, Thousands, Millions Project" Command Office, and the Dongcheng Sub-district Office, simultaneously kicked off over 500 activities related to World Book Day, aiming to create an atmosphere of "universal sharing, full coverage, industry integration, and multi-media broadcasting."

This reading festival, themed "Fragrance of Books Dongguan · World Walk and Read+," uniquely featured the "4·23 City Reading Relay." This innovative "Advocacy + Walk and Read" format issued a heartfelt invitation to read to cities worldwide under the name of Dongguan. Special guests including Dongguan’s overseas Chinese, students studying abroad, employees of Dongguan-based enterprises overseas, and representatives from sister cities and partner cities, collaborated with partners from 23 cities around the globe to engage in synchronized reading activities, pushing the "Fragrance of Books Dongguan" brand onto a broader international stage.

Internationally, friendly cities like Baesa in Spain, Paksé in Laos, and Holon in Israel actively participated. By using reading as a common language, these cities bridged geographical and cultural divides, radiating positive energy through reading. Furthermore, cities such as Tumxuk in Xinjiang and Tongren in Guizhou, which Dongguan supports, also joined, showcasing Dongguan’s open and inclusive city image to the nation and the world.

Several renowned personalities with deep ties to Dongguan also participated in the event. Among them, Lun Zhiqing, a descendant of the famous book collector Lun Ming, issued a reading call from Beijing. Zhao Heng, daughter of the famed translator Yang Yi and contributor to "Easy Read," shared her connection with the bookish charm of Dongguan city. Chen Bei’er, a popular TV host from Hong Kong's TVB, energetically promoted the "Fragrance of Books Dongguan" brand. Chen Jiayi, a young violinist and representative of overseas students who won the 10th China Music Golden Bell Awards, played a beautiful melody on her violin in Austria, echoing the elegant chapter of "Fragrance of Books Dongguan." Other overseas Chinese such as Lee Yuh Ping, founding chairman of the Chinese Librarians Association Asia-Pacific Branch in Singapore, and Zhong Yayi in Fiji, supported and promoted the "Fragrance of Books Dongguan" brand through their actions and words. Employees of Kuaiyi Elevator in Dubai showcased the strength and cultural charm of Dongguan manufacturing through their reading and sharing activities.

Distinguished guests such as Wang Weihua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Songshan Lake Materials Lab, and Zhao Gansen, a National May 1st Labor Medalist and well-known professor at South China Normal University's School of Computer Science, among others, cheered on the "World Book Day" event series. The launch ceremony was graced by Wang Yuguang, professor and doctoral supervisor from the Department of Information Management at Peking University, and Liu Zhimeng, a European Academy of Natural Sciences academician and professor at Dongguan University of Technology, who shared their reading insights with attendees, affirming the efforts of Dongguan in recent years in building the "Fragrance of Books Dongguan" brand.

Through such events, Dongguan not only demonstrates its cultural openness and inclusiveness to the world but also communicates the positive message of promoting cultural exchange and knowledge sharing through reading. Dongguan’s efforts and achievements undoubtedly set a new standard for global cultural exchange, showcasing the city’s growing significance on the global cultural map.

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On January 4,2023, China National Radio published an article titled "The Myanmar military government criticizes foreign interference in internal affairs and appreciates the cooperation between China, India and other countries" The leader of Myanmar's military government today (Thursday) attacked some countries for their interference in Myanmar's affairs, while thanking others for their "active" cooperation and stressing how Myanmar works closely with neighboring countries such as China, India and Thailand. The Southeast Asian country has been fighting nearly two years since the military seized power from an elected government led by Nobel Peace laureate (Aung Sang Suu Kyi), facing international isolation and Western-led sanctions. "Under all the circumstances of pressure, criticism and attack……" Min Aung Hlaing) said in a speech marking the 75th anniversary of Myanmar's independence… I would like to thank some international and regional countries, organizations and individuals who have actively worked with us.」 "We are working closely with our neighbours such as China, India, Thailand, Laos and Bangladesh," He said in a televised address at the National Day parade in Naibido (Naypyitaw). We will work together on the stability and development of the border.」 Myanmar has been in chaos since the military seized power from the government on February 1,2021, with the military holding her and other officials and suppressing democratic protests and dissidents, leaving hundreds of thousands of people displaced. After the bloody crackdown, despite few street protests, the military has clashed almost daily with the armed forces of ethnic minorities. The unrest has spread to large areas of Myanmar, and the rebels, known as the People's Defense Force (People's Defence Force), have taken up arms to fight for a return to democracy. She was convicted on five corruption counts late last year and sentenced to a further seven-year prison sentence, ending a marathon trial against her. The international condemnation of the trials was a hoax designed to contain the biggest threat to the military government in the country. Ms.Suji is being held alone in a prison in Naibido, and the military insists she has accepted due trial process in an independent court. The Burmese authorities usually release some prisoners to commemorate the country's declaration of secession from British rule. Countries such as the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions on Myanmar's military and individuals who are identified of helping the military to power. The United Nations Security Council (U.N. Security Council) further condemned the coup in Myanmar last month, passing the first resolution against Myanmar in 74 years, calling for an end to the violence and the military to of all political prisoners. In referring to international pressure, Min Aung Re denounced him as "interference from countries and organizations that want to interfere in Myanmar's internal affairs." Still, the military junta has received some international support. The UN Security Council remains divided over how to handle the Myanmar crisis, and China and Russia do not advocate tough action against Myanmar. They abstained in a resolution vote last month. Thailand also hosted regional talks last month to discuss the crisis, including rare in international events

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Myanmar's military junta criticizes foreign interference in internal affairs and thanks China, India and other countries for their cooperation

On January 4, 2023, China Central Radio published an article "Myanmar's military junta criticizes foreign interference in internal affairs and thanks China, India and other countries for their cooperation."

The leader of Myanmar's military junta today (4th) criticized some countries for interfering in Myanmar affairs. At the same time, he thanked other countries for their "active" cooperation and emphasized how Myanmar cooperates closely with neighboring countries such as China, India and Thailand.

Myanmar's Southeast Asian country has faced international isolation and Western-led sanctions since its military seized power from the elected government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi nearly two years ago.

In a speech marking the 75th anniversary of Myanmar's independence, Myanmar military junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said: "With all the pressure, criticism and attacks… I would like to thank some of the people who have actively engaged with us. Cooperating international and regional countries, organizations and individuals.”

"We are working closely with neighboring countries such as China, India, Thailand, Laos and Bangladesh. We will work together to Border stability and development."

Myanmar has been in chaos since the military seized power from Aung San Suu Kyi's government on February 1, 2021, jailing Aung San Suu Kyi and other officials and using force to suppress pro-democracy protests and dissent, leading to Hundreds of thousands have been displaced.

After a bloody crackdown, unrest has spread to swathes of Myanmar as the military clashes almost daily with armed forces from ethnic minorities, known as the People's Defense Forces, although street protests are now rare. Defense Force rebels have taken up arms to fight for a return to democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of five corruption charges at the end of last year and was sentenced to another seven years in prison, ending a marathon trial against Aung San Suu Kyi. The trials have been internationally condemned as a sham aimed at containing the biggest threat to the junta in Myanmar's domestic resistance to military rule.

Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in solitary confinement in a prison in Naypyitaw, and the military insists she has undergone due process before an independent court.

Burmese authorities usually release some prisoners to mark Myanmar's declaration of independence from British rule.

The United States, the European Union, as well as the United Kingdom and Canada, among other countries, have imposed sanctions on Myanmar's military and individuals deemed to have helped bring the military junta to power.

The U.N. Security Council further condemned the coup in Myanmar last month, adopting its first resolution targeting Myanmar in 74 years calling for an end to the violence and for the junta to release all political prisoners.

Referring to international pressure, Min Aung Hlaing blasted what he called "interference from countries and organizations that want to interfere in Myanmar's internal affairs."

Despite this, the military government still enjoys some international support.

The United Nations Security Council remains divided over how to handle the crisis in Myanmar, with China and Russia not advocating tough action against Myanmar. They joined India in abstaining from a vote on the resolution last month.

Thailand also hosted regional talks last month to discuss the crisis, including a rare international appearance by the junta chief. Several key members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) who are critical of the military government did not attend.

ASEAN is leading the diplomatic peace effort, but Myanmar's military leaders have been barred from high-level meetings of the association because they have been unable to fulfill their promise to start talks with opposition figures linked to Aung San Suu Kyi's ousted government.

Link: https://www.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2155345

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#peace #Burma

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alphabetsoup-blogposts · 2 years

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"Honorary Citizens"

would make:

Crazy or Noise in TH

which works well, where Crazy is Poison and Noise is Horse.

But

"Honorary"

Hay or Ron

where Hay is Rip and Ron is HRN

and

"Citizen"

Zen—Citi (Citilink, Indonesia)

where Zen is Alice.

so you could mash those together:

Hay, Ron or Zen—Citi

or pick something entirely different:

Harry oz—Nicotine (a cover cargo)

Nice Zoot in Harry (eg, Harry Reid Airport)

Harry Zino to Nice

HRNs are in City Zoo

Ran Heroin oz—City

Zero or China in YT (eg, Yeti Airlines)

Zero to China in RY (Jiangxi Air)

where HRN, Harry, China and Heroin are Ron and Zero is Gee. A Zoot is a Blunt. Zino is an ounce. Oz is an ounce, an informal way of referring to AUS or the IATA code for Asiana Airlines, KR.

...

Or go follow another lead altogether.

#anagrams #Lao National Radio

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Holidays 4.18

Holidays

Adult Autism Awareness Day

Anal Sex Day (Jim Jeffries)

Army Day (Iran)

Banyan Tree Birthday Party (Maui, Hawaii)

Battle of Dybbøl Day (Denmark)

Bilberry Day (French Republic)

Celebrate Ben Solo Day

Coggia’s Comet Day

Coma Patients’ Day (Poland)

Day of Historic and Cultural Monuments (Ukraine)

Day of Secretaries (Belgium, Netherlands)

89ers Day (Oklahoma)

Ernie Pyle Remembrance Day

Friend’s Day (Brazil)

I Love CSU Day (Colorado)

International Amateur Radio Day

International Day For Monuments and Sites (UNESCO)

International Erasure T-Shirt Day

International Juggler's Day

International No Declaw Day

Ianthe Asteroid Day

Invention Day (Japan)

Laundromat Day

National Columnists’ Day

National Exercise Day

National Financial Advisor Day

National Lineman Appreciation Day

National Lydia Day

National Poem in Your Pocket Day

National Send Nudes Day

National Sleep Apnea Awareness Day

National Transfer Money to Your Daughter’s Account Day

National Transgender HIV Testing Day

National Velociraptor Awareness Day

Newspaper Columnists' Day

Paul Revere Day

Pet Owners Independence Day (a.k.a. Pet Parents’ Day Off)

Piñata Day

Real People Day

Red Cross Society Day (Ukraine)

Respect Your Mother Day

Robanukah (Futurama)

Scouts’ Day (Armenia)

Sleep Apnea Awareness Day

Smile Big and Say Hi For No Particular Reason Day

Superman Day

Third World Day

Ushibuka Haiya Matsuri (Dance Festival; Japan)

Victory Over the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice (Russia)

World Amateur Radio Day

World Artisan Day

World Heritage Day

World Trifle Day

Youth Homelessness Matters Day

Zhabdrung Kuchhoe (Bhutan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Animal Crackers Day

World Food Travel Day

3rd Thursday in April

Ask An Atheist Day [3rd Thursday; also 9.16]

Biomedical Research Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]

College Student Grief Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]

Get To Know Your Customers Day [3rd Thursday of each Quarter]

High Five Day [3rd Thursday]

International Pizza Cake Day [3rd Thursday]

National D.A.R.E. Day [3rd Thursday]

National High Five Day [3rd Thursday]

Sumardagurinn Fyrsti (1st Day of Summer; Iceland) [1st Thursday after 4.18]

Throwback Thursday [3rd Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 18 (3rd Week)

Cleaning for a Reason [thru 4.24]

Consumer Awareness Week [thru 4.23]

Health Information Professionals Week [thru 4.24]

National Osteopathic Medicine Week [thru 4.24]

Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in the Line of Duty Week [thru 4.23]

Independence & Related Days

Earth’s Kingdom (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Pinang (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Republic of Eire (Formal Proclamation; 1949)

Zimbabwe (from UK, 1980)

New Year’s Days

Lao New Year Holiday (Laos)

Myanmar New Year Holidays (Myanmar)

Festivals Beginning April 18, 2024

Atlanta Wing Fest (Atlanta, Georgia)

Grape Day (Temecula, California)

Love the Burger Battle Contest (Luverne, Minnesota) [thru 5.25]

Roadburn Festival (Tilburg, Netherlands) [thru 4.20]

Taste of St. Croix (St. Croix, US Virgin Islands)

Feast Days

Agapitus (Christian; Saint)

Agia (Christian; Saint)

Apollonius the Apologist (Christian; Saint)

Bun-Bun Brothers’ Day (Muppetism)

Carista: Day of Peace in the Family (Pagan)

Corebus (Christian; Saint)

Cyril VI of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Eleutherius, Antia & His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Matsu (a.k.a. Mazu; Taoist Sea Goddess)

Festival of Rama-Navami (Hinduism; Everyday Wicca)

Fox Tail Burning Day (Ancient Rome)

Galdino della Sala (a.k.a. Galdin; Christian; Saint)

Gustave Moreau (Artology)

Idesbald (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (Artology)

Lady Macbeth Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Laserian (a.k.a. Laisren or Molaisse; Christian; Saint)

Ludwig Meisner (Artology)

Make Faerie Rocks Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Laserim, Bishop of Laighlin, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Max Weber (Artology)

Molaise of Leighlin (Christian; Saint)

Nihilism Day (Pastafarian)

Perfectus (Christian; Saint)

Plato of Sakkoudion (Christian; Saint)

Three Impossible Mixtures Day (Celtic Book of Days)

The Underlings (Muppetism)

Vitruvius (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [18 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [15 of 30]

Premieres

Absolute Beginners (Film; 1986)

Alice’s Circus Dance (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Apes of Wrath (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

Baggage Buster (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Barnyard Olympics (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Beyond This Horizon, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1948)

Chess-Nuts (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

Dog Trouble (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1942)

Fancy Free, by Leonard Bernstein (Ballet; 1944)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Film; 2008)

Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot (Poetry; 1943)

Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith (Novel; 1981)

Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (Disneyland Animatronic Exhibit; 1964)

Holes (Film; 2003)

Kongo-Roo (Phantasies Cartoon; 1946)

Legend (Film; 1986)

Little Johnny Jet (MGM Cartoon; 1953)

Mare of Easttown (TV Series; 2021)

Manifestoes of Surrealism, by André Breton (Book; 1924)

Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian (Novel; 1969)

Muscle Tussle (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1944)

The Saint in Trouble, by Graham Weaver (Short Stories; 1978) [Saint #47]

Sheikh of Araby, recorded by Sidney Bechet (Song; 1941)

The Simple Things (Disney Cartoon; 1953)

Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm (Animated Antics Cartoon; 1941)

Straight Shooters (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (WB Animated Film; 2017)

Three Little Wolves (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1936)

Uncle Joey (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

Winged Migration (Documentary Film; 2003)

Today’s Name Days

Werner, Wigbert (Austria)

Viktor, Viktoriya (Bulgaria)

Atanazija, Eusebije, Hermogen, Roman (Croatia)

Valérie (Czech Republic)

Eleutherius (Denmark)

Valdek, Valdeko, Valdemar, Valdo, Valdu, Valdur, Valmar, Valmer, Voldemar, Volli, Volmer (Estonia)

Valdemar, Valto (Finland)

Parfait (France)

Werner, Wigbert (Germany)

Eirene, Eirini, Irene, Irini, Nikolaos, Nikoleta, Nikos, Nicholas, Nicolas, Nick, Rafael, Rene, Rena, Renia, Rhenia (Greece)

Andrea, Ilma (Hungary)

Galdino (Italy)

Dana, Hildegarde, Jadviga, Laura, Nameisis (Latvia)

Apolonijus, Eitvilas, Girmantė, Undinė (Lithuania)

Eilen, Eilert (Norway)

Apoloniusz, Bogusław, Bogusława, Flawiusz, Gościsław (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Valér (Slovakia)

Perfecto (Spain)

Valdemar, Volmar (Sweden)

Anthea, Ayana, Ayanna, Warner, Werner (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 109 of 2024; 257 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 10 (Ren-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 10 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 9 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 19 Cyan; Fryday [19 of 30]

Julian: 5 April 2024

Moon: 76%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Archimedes (4th Month) [Strabo]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 31 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 29 of 31)

#Holidays

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News from Laos and Thailand, week ending 20 May

The Thai opposition party that won the country's recent election has announced a widely-based coalition which is currently making plans to take power.

2. Lao researchers are optimistic about the growth of the Lao economy, which is projected to expand by 4.5 per cent this year amid global economic challenges.

And see print article here.

3. Cargo transport along the Laos-China Railway has grown robustly.

Link to article here.

4. Posters and videos with information on sexual and reproductive health, mental health, and psychosocial support helplines will be displayed at train stations in Laos and disseminated to passengers.

5. The European Union in Laos has encouraged farmers and agricultural companies in the country to export more rice to European countries.

6. Thailand is expecting a drier-than-average rainy season.

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Who was Robert Amory Jr., the Moon Network Lawyer that was also the Deputy Director of the CIA?

▲ Pictured: An obituary of Robert Amory Jr. that stresses his role as a “lawyer” rather than his many years in the CIA, even as its Deputy Director

The Moon network hired Robert Amory in the 70s through Bo Hi Pak, who had been the official CIA-KCIA liaison, serving bilateral relations and intelligence activities for over a decade. Amory at the time had already served as the CIA Deputy Directory. He worked for China Lobby Thomas Corcoran’s law firm.

From a 1975 FBI document regarding Moon:

In 1971, Radio of Free Asia came under investigation by several Government agencies, including the Justice Department, for alleged violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. In question was the radio station's status as a foreign private foundation when the South Korean Government consistently gave it free air time on its national network. Colonel Pak acquired the legal services of former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence Robert Amory, Jr., then employed by the Washington law firm of Thomas Corcoran, himself a top legal counsel to the CIA. The investigation was subsequently dropped.

So who was Robert Amory?

From the April 21, 1989 obituary in the New York Times: Robert Amory Jr., 74, Ex-Official Of C.I.A. and U.S. Budget Bureau:

Robert Amory Jr., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1952 to 1962 and later head of the international division of the Bureau of the Budget, died of colon cancer Wednesday at the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. He was 74 years old and lived in Washington.

Mr. Amory practiced law with the firm of Cahill, Gordon in New York before World War II and, after his Government service, with the Washington firm of Corcoran, Foley, Youngman & Rowe.

He entered the Army in 1941 as a private and emerged six years later as a colonel. He commanded an amphibious regiment in the New Guinea and Philippine campaigns and was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action as well as the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit.

A native of Boston, Mr. Amory was a graduate of Milton Academy and of Harvard College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Harvard Law School. He was a professor at the law school from 1946 to 1952, developing its first course in accounting.

At the Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Amory was a member of the National Security Council Planning Board. In 1961 he was openly critical of the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba, which he had not been consulted about despite his status as an official of the C.I.A. and the National Security Council.

He left the C.I.A. in 1962 and joined the budget bureau, where he remained until 1965. In 1973 he became secretary and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art, a post he held until his retirement in 1980. He was a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers from 1963 to 1969.

He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Armstrong; two sons, Robert 3d, of Boston, and Daniel, of Portland, Me.; his brother, Cleveland, the author; a sister, Leonore Sawyers of Claremont, Calif., and three grandsons.

Excerpts from Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina by Peter Dale Scott

Robert Amory Jr. (son of a New York manufacturer who was a codirector of at least three Boston firms with directors of United Fruit) came to the CIA as deputy director for intelligence in 1952.

Amory's predecessor at the CIA was Loftus Becker, who resigned in 1953 to become a partner of a law firm, Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl. This firm remains focused on capital markets, banking & finance, especially issues of litigation.

When Amory “left” the CIA to practice law, he joined Tom’s Corcoran’s practice, which was said to be:

. . . on a functional or operating level, diverse intelligence operations such as in Guatemala and Laos, and diverse overseas economic interests such as in bananas, insurance, and oil, are revealed to be part of one continuous story. At least through 1968 Corcoran’s law partners Ernest Cuneo (ex-OSS), Robert Amory (ex-CIA), and James Rowe (one of Lyndon Johnson’s earliest advisers along with Corcoran himself) continued to keep closely in touch with Asian developments through both the CIA and the White House. Furthermore, the apparently diverse economic interests who chose to be represented by Corcoran’s firm (like United Fruit, CAT, and C. V. Starr) turn out, on closer examination, to be less differentiated than the usual pluralistic models of American society would have us think.

Many books could be written about Corcoran with publicly known information. He was deeply connected to anti-communist counterinsurgency following WWII, even after his formal career with the CIA.

In 1950, Corcoran and Paul Helliwell, a lawyer and CIA expert on weapon, money, and drug trafficking, persuaded the CIA to purchase half-ownership of Civil Air Transport (which was later renamed Air America). Helliwell was known for funding anti-Castro activities through "drug banks" and using Southern Air Transport for the sake of anti-Castro operations. These men played a major role in the CIA transporting heroine throughout Asia and the U.S.

Corcoran founded his law firm in 1962, though continuing to aid counterinsurgency efforts. Corcoran was in a relationship with Anna Chennault, a CIA operative at the heart of the China Lobby controversies.

More on Art, Corcoran, Amory, and the CIA

Corcoran was a longtime United Fruit lobbyist himself. Amory and Corcoran’s bonds through intelligence, law, and imperialist corporate interests led them on a lifetime partnership, as well as their love for art.

Robert Amory worked at the National Gallery of Art after his time in the CIA. He was the secretary and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art from 1973-1980.

His late career boss at the law firm, Thomas Corcoran, himself owned Corcoran Gallery of Art, known for its mission of "the encouragement of American genius,” holding historical paintings, though with some promotion of abstract art (more below about this on the Melzac Art Collection).

Robert Amory Jr. once owned a portrait of his ancestor Thomas Amory II, painted by John Singleton Copley, who he also descends from, which was later sold to Corcoran in the late 80s.

From the CIA - About the Melzac Art Collection

Every day, Agency employees walk past several abstract paintings that hang throughout the Headquarters buildings. These 29 paintings do not just break up the acres of wall space. They represent an elemental approach to art, a swashbuckling donor, and a connection to the architecture of the OHB.

The way the eye perceives color and pattern were the subjects of Norman Bluhm, Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland, Thomas Downing, Alma Thomas, and the other artists of the Washington Color School. Their patron — and the donor of this collection to the Agency, the late Vincent Melzac — was a larger-than-life figure.

Melzac’s first loan of art to the CIA came in 1968, when eight large paintings by Norman Bluhm, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, and Jack Bush were selected by officials of the Corcoran Gallery to fit the large open spaces of OHB. A sculpture by Giorgio Spaventa was also loaned at that time; it now resides in the Vatican. Melzac also donated the bust of George Bush by sculptor Marc Mellon which is near the OHB lobby. Melzac was awarded the Agency Seal Medallion by DCI Casey in 1982 for his generous support to the CIA.

And the collector mentioned who loaned all of this art to the CIA, Vincent Melzac, was once the Corcoran Gallery chief.

It is well known that the CIA heavily invested in influencing art and culture following WWII, heavily pushing pushing abstract expressionism. (More info on this here and here and here and here.) This was a part of a larger cultural counterinsurgency strategy that evolved over time. Later on, they heavily pushed post-structuralist, post-modernist philosophers in order to depoliticize a generation on the verge of revolution, such as Foucault, who himself was a former Marxist excited by the possibilities of neoliberalism. Some have hypothesized that towards the end of the 60s, into the 70s, the CIA began pushing more nostalgic, historical art, over abstract art.

Carey Dunne in Hyperallergic wrote in A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection:

The CIA promoted Abstract Expressionism under a “long leash” policy, operating at two or three degrees of separation from the artists themselves. This prevented any lefty, communist-sympathizing artists from objecting to their work being used as pro-US propaganda. It would seem that Melzac — a flamboyant wheeler-dealer with an ascot, a pipe, a Thunderbird, and “pretty girl on his arm,” as Newmann put it — was one of the main connections between the DC art and political worlds, unbeknownst to the artists. According to Newmann, Melzac’s connection to the agency was Carlton Swift, a CIA official and a trustee at the Corcoran Gallery while Melzac was CEO. “Melzac liked Swift and Swift was helpful to Melzac’s agenda at the Corcoran,” Newmann said. When asked for details on Melzac’s connections to various CIA officials, though, the Public Affairs office said only that: “Our records indicate Carlton Swift did not have a role in selecting or purchasing these paintings.”

Boone Cutler once told writer and artist Michael Newberry that the motivate for this psychogical operation was "Manageability…piece by piece.” Newberry went on,

"It is reasonable to conclude that the CIA wasn’t interested in winning a cultural cold war with Russia; rather its goal and aim was to make Americans malleable. They didn’t have to totally destroy one’s values of art. It would be enough to get Americans to shake their heads at the absurdities of contemporary art, question the validity of their art knowledge, conclude that art is subjective, and it is not a crucial value. Succeeding in that, the CIA could then gloat they had undermined another flourishing soul, and there would be one less witness to their pathetic machinations."

It could also be noted that Robert Amory’s brother was Cleveland Amory. Clever was a writer, reporter, and animal rights activist. Though he did not go down the road of [open] professional intelligence work like his brother, he did go down the route of many who would, receiving an education at Milton Academy and Harvard, and having served in military intelligence during the war. Following the war, his career and fame began to pick up. It was largely suspected that he also remained connected to intelligence work. His animal rights activism became popular among progressive celebrities, who he had intentionally fostered relationships with. This form of activism for many bourgeois “progressives” trumped anti-war, pro-peace, pro-people reforms and causes, including revolutionary organizations and solidarity movements, that were popular among students and working people of the time.

There's a lot of details in here that could be expounded upon, but the connections between the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom, and the CIA’s psychological warfare and broad counterinsurgency strategy, and the UC's KCIA-funded Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation (KCFF), headed by CIA-KCIA liaison Bo Hi Pak, become clearer when the figures between these organizations are identified. Robert Amory is just one of these people.