#al jorgensen

[thisisnotmyhomeplanet]

Ministry - In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up (full show)

[hooked-on-elvis]

Elvis' perfectionism 📀

Author's note: Okay, I'm beyond excited with this post, so please take your time reading it. You won't regret a bit.

So, things just got more interesting for me.

If you read my content for a while now, you must be familiar with the fact that I'm a huge fan of "Elvis On Tour" documentary. There's this scene in the middle of the movie where they play instrumental of "Don't Be Cruel" while some 50s pictures of Elvis are "randomly" shown onscreen... well, not as random as one may think.

"Elvis On Tour" is mainly a live concert documentary but it tells Elvis' history as well. His history as a musician is delivered through his own accounts (Elvis talking about his music preferences, his love for gospel music, etc) and by family members' accounts too, such as an interview with Vernon Presley, his father, that is also featured on the film, when Mr. Presley talks about how Elvis' tours in the 50s were wild with all the fans going extremely hysterical over his son.

One of the pictures in particular, displayed during the "throwback scene" in the movie, is immensely significant to the story that documentary meant to tell the viewers. This one right here:

July 3, 1956: On The Train back to Memphis, Tennessee. Photograph by Alfred Wertheimer. Below, other pictures from the same moment. Note the little record player on Elvis' lap, it is important.

The day before those pictures on the train were taken, Elvis had cut some new songs, soon to be released, "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" are among them, but also "Any Way You Want Me".

Elvis during Studio Sessions for RCA July 2, 1956, at RCA Studios in New York. Photograph by Alfred Wertheimer.

About that recording session, on the precise moment EP was recording "Hound Dog", below is an excerpt from "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music" by Ernst Jorgensen and Peter Guralnick:

This was the session where Elvis’s perfectionist streak first became apparent. From [Steve] Sholes’s point of view several of the earlier takes would have been just fine, and he tried to get the singer to listen to the playbacks, but it was obvious that the singer was marching to his own beat; he wouldn’t rest until he had recorded the song to his own — not anyone else’s — satisfaction. Finally, with thirty-one, Elvis declared himself satisfied, and the room breathed a sigh of relief.

Side note: Before recording the song on studio, Elvis performed "Hound Dog" on the Steve Allen Show, on July 1, 1956. They were all worried about how to turn the live performance into a record, and Elvis was the one who was intensely dedicated to make it work. That's why he took 31 takes to finish working on particular track. It really paid off in the end.

Back to the train pictures on July 3, 1956, the photographer, Alfred Wertheimer, shared his accounts on the moment. He said:

"Elvis in on the train. He had just recorded these three songs but two of them became his third and fourth gold records: "(You Ain't Nothing But A) Hound Dog" was the third and "Don't Be Cruel" was the forth. Here he's listening to it over and over again on the way down to his home [Memphis, Tennessee], and he's listening it on this inexpensive little record player and here, I mean, while the other musicians are horsing around, while Colonel Parker is somewhere else, Elvis keeps listening and listening and listening. He's a serious guy! I asked him 'Why are you listening to it on this tiny little machine with a terrible speaker and you just heard it yesterday on a fourteen inch speaker in a studio, beautiful reproduction?' He says: 'Al...'

"'...This is the way my fans listen to my music. That's the way I wanna hear it.'"

— Elvis Presley, July 1956

On more train picture (Elvis going to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1956):

On that photograph, Alfred Wertheimer said on 'Elvis '56' book:

"Listening to the previous day's work one more time before going to sleep, his teddy bear keeping him company. The record player is sitting on a ledge to the right of his berth."

ABOVE: "Elvis On Tour" (1972) snippet with "Throwback scene". Instrumental of "Don't Be Cruel" is playing on the background while pictures from Elvis' early tours are displayed onscreen. The first picture, that one from July 3, 1956, that Mr. Wertheimer shared his memories about.

The footage on that scene from the documentary is from September 9, 1956 on The Ed Sullivan Show. If you'd like to watch the full performance, here it is:

Well, I don't know about you but I will never see the throwback scene the same way.

I mean, if I'm being honest here, I used to often skip that scene just because I've seen the pictures over and over again and the footage from Ed Sullivan Show as well, so when I watch the film I used to be much more interested on the 1972 live performances, the backstage scenes and so on, but now I know the story of that picture, the scene is a lot more meaningful. That 1972 documentary, friends, is not only about Elvis' performances or the lasting love and adoration from his fans. It has a lot more to do with who Elvis Presley was, specially how he felt about music and how he gave all of him to please us. The film shows Elvis talking about how, in the 70s, after many, many years of experience onstage he still felt anxious before performing... and that picture from the 50s that is shown on the film tell us his dedication to his music was to the extent of listening his records on home record players just to make sure it would sound as flawless as it could be... all for us. After hearing the picture story from Mr. Wertheimer, I just fell in love with that 1972 documentary, and with El, even more. ♥

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: SEGM

Published: Jun 11, 2023

A new peer-reviewed article, “Transition Regret and Detransition: Meaning and Uncertainties,” published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, reviews clinical and research issues related to transition regret and detransition. The article emphasizes that “although recent data have shed light on a complex range of experiences that lead people to detransition, research remains very much in its infancy,” and there is currently “no guidance on best practices for clinicians involved in their care.”   

The author, Dr. Jorgensen, notes that the term “detransition” can hold a wide array of possible meanings for transgender-identifying people, detransitioners, and researchers, leading to inconsistencies in its usage. Although regret and detransition overlap in many people, not everyone who regrets their transition takes steps to detransition and conversely, not all of those who detransition regret their transition. Proponents of the “gender-affirming care” model typically focus on the latter group who are driven to detransition by external forces such as discrimination, lack of support from family and friends, or difficulty accessing health care. Euphemisms such as “gender-identity journey” and “dynamic desires for gender-affirming medical interventions” have been used to describe this process.

But the author highlights studies and personal testimonies of detransitioners who do deeply regret their transition, mourn the physical changes made to their bodies, and feel betrayed by the clinicians and medical institutions that offered hormones and surgery as antidotes to their gender confusion and distress. For this group of young people, internal factors such as “worsening mental health or the realization that gender dysphoria was a maladaptive response to trauma, misogyny, internalized homophobia, or pressure from social media and online communities,” were the primary drivers of their decision to detransition.

As the author highlights, a consistent theme in studies and personal testimonies of detransitioners is that there are major gaps in the quality and accessibility of medical and mental healthcare: “Many detransitioners reported not feeling properly informed about health implications of treatments before undergoing them (Gribble et al., 2023; Littman, 2021; Pullen Sansfaçon et al., 2023; Vandenbussche, 2022). Likewise, many felt that they did not receive sufficient exploration of preexisting psychological and emotional problems and continued to struggle post-transition when they realized gender transition was not a panacea (Littman, 2021; Pullen Sansfaçon et al., 2023; Respaut et al., 2022; Sanders et al., 2023; Vandenbussche, 2022). Despite ongoing medical needs, most patients did not maintain contact with their gender clinic during their detransition.” Detransitioners report wanting more information about how to safely stop hormonal therapies and surgical reversal or restorative options, but few clinicians are sufficiently knowledgeable about these issues to manage their care.

The author notes that our ability to predict who will be helped by transition-related medical interventions and who will be harmed by them is limited and we currently have no idea how many of the young people transitioning today will eventually come to regret their decision: “no one is systematically tracking how many young people regret transition or, for that matter, how many are helped by it.” However, the increasing number of detransitioners publicly sharing their experiences suggest that historical studies citing low rates of regret are no longer applicable. Moreover, these studies suffered serious methodological flaws that would tend to underestimate the true rates of regret including high rates of attrition and narrow definitions of regret.

More recent studies that have included the current case mix of predominantly adolescent-onset gender dysphoria suggest that up to 30% of those who undergo medical transition may discontinue it within only a few years (Roberts et al., 2022). It is likely that a number of them will experience significant regret over lost opportunities and permanent physical changes.

So how did we get here?

The author suggests that less restrictive eligibility criteria for accessing transition-related medical interventions under the gender-affirmation and informed consent models, coupled with the rapid rise of adolescents and young adults presenting to gender clinics, many of whom suffer from complex mental health problems and neurodiversity, has important implications for the incidence of transition regret and detransition. Under these models of care, standard processes of differential diagnosis and clinical assessment are seen as “burdensome, intrusive, and impinging on patient autonomy.”  Moreover, the author points out that hormonal therapies and surgery are now conceptualized as a “means of realizing fundamental aspects of personal identity or ‘embodiment goals,’ in contrast to conventional medical care, which is pursued with the objective of treating an underlying illness or injury to restore health and functioning.” 

Furthermore, adolescents and young adults might not be mature enough to appreciate the long-term consequences of their decisions about the irreversible medical interventions used to achieve “embodiment goals,” and/or their capacity to give informed consent may be limited by comorbid mental health problems or neurodevelopmental challenges. Additionally, “feelings of profound grief about lost opportunities and negative repercussions of transition might not be fully captured by framing the emotional experience in terms of regret” because “regret is an emotion that is unique in its relation to personal agency (Zeelenberg & Pieters, 2007), but the exercise of personal agency in the transition process might have been limited for people who began transition as minors, whose decision-making capacity was compromised by mental illness, or who were not fully informed of known and potential adverse health implications.” 

The author offers some suggestions for how detransition may be prevented and inappropriate transitions avoided:

Improving the process of informed consent.

Prioritizing treatment of co-occurring social, developmental and psychological problems.

Using precise language about medical interventions.

Helping young people expand their understanding of what it means to be a man or woman.

Being transparent about the quality of evidence supporting medical interventions and the uncertainty about long-term harms.

The author ends by emphasizing that when clinical cases are complicated by a lack of knowledge about the natural trajectory of the condition and a paucity of evidence supporting treatment options, “minimizing iatrogenic harm requires application of cautious, thoughtful clinical judgement, meticulous examination of the data that are available, as well as a willingness to change practice in the face of new evidence.”

Jorgensen calls on the gender medicine community to “commit to conducting robust research, challenging fundamental assumptions, scrutinizing their practice patterns, and embracing debate.”

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Read more about the phenomenon of detransition:

Boyd I, Hackett T, Bewley S. Care of Transgender Patients: A General Practice Quality Improvement Approach. Healthcare. 2022; 10(1):121. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10010121

D’Angelo, R. (2020). The man I am trying to be is not me. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 101(5), 951–970. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2020.1810049

Entwistle, K. (2020). Debate: Reality check – Detransitioner’s testimonies require us to rethink gender dysphoria. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, camh.12380. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12380

Expósito-Campos, P. (2021). A Typology of Gender Detransition and Its Implications for Healthcare Providers. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0092623X.2020.1869126

Hall, R., Mitchell, L., & Sachdeva, J. (2021). Access to care and frequency of detransition among a cohort discharged by a UK national adult gender identity clinic: Retrospective case-note review. BJPsych Open, 7(6), e184. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.1022

Littman, L. (2021). Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02163-w

Marchiano, L. (2021). Gender detransition: A case study. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 66(4), 813–832. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12711

Roberts, C. M., Klein, D. A., Adirim, T. A., Schvey, N. A., & Hisle-Gorman, E. (2022). Continuation of Gender-affirming Hormones Among Transgender Adolescents and Adults. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 107(9), e3937–e3943. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgac251

Vandenbussche, E. (2021). Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey. Journal of Homosexuality, 20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479

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Genderists often say things like "detransition/regret is rare" and "detransition is only due to discrimination." These run in the opposite direction to genderist assertions, as this means "detransition/regret due to discrimination is rare."

Most of the numbers they cite are either poorly sourced as mentioned above, or worse, from the days of "watchful waiting," where transition only came at the end of a comprehensive care process; a completely different model.

Not only is it dishonest, given they regard watchful waiting, or anything else as "harmful" and "gatekeeping," but the low regret rate actually supports that more cautious, thoughtful process.

And besides, claiming to know the success rate under the "affirming"/"informed consent" models is itself dishonest too. Detransitioners are not going to rush back to the same doctors who facilitated their mistake. Especially in a climate where they'll be blamed or vilified.

[romdocitizen]

2023 wrapped

first tattoo

got over a crush in less than a year (a new record!)

first shroom and acid trips (all great) and first time trying other substances other than weed (mostly all great)

learned how to enjoy weed finally

tried henny for the first time

had not one but two long term romantic partnerships end for the first time since pre-transition (still good friends eith both tho)

reconciled and reconnected with a former partner I thought would never speak to me again and we're friends now

first all queer orgies

had a comet partner up from ga to visit for the first time

bestie started making me regular playlists and I've discovered more great new to music over the past year than I have in ages (also I'm a ministry/al jorgensen girlie fr now)

had my first non-family birthday party since I was in high school with friends and partners

became a type moon head after years of resistance and got big into visual novels generally

got a ps5 on the 4th of july

finally hacked my vita

got my legal name change

been switching to an extent for another hot butch other than my main squeeze gf and actually enjoying it lol

met a lot of rly cool new ppl both here and irl

all told it's been a p good year of trying new things, here's to the next one 🙏🏻

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Despite what the song says, a kiss isn’t always just a kiss.

A kiss can be political, because it’s the first of its kind or because it’s between two heads of state.

A kiss can also become iconic when it’s captured on film, even if the kiss itself was invasive and unwanted.

With that in mind, here’s a list of some of the most memorable kisses in history.

Scholars debate whether kissing began as a trend that spread around the globe, or sprung up organically in different regions.

Whatever the case, the earliest known written mentions of it are in Vedic Sanskrit scriptures circa 1500 B.C., according to research by Vaughn Bryant, an anthropology professor at Texas A&M University.

These scriptures, known as the Vedas, were foundational to the religion of Hinduism.

After that, kissing continued to appear in ancient Indian and Hindu literature.

The Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic compiled by the 4th century A.D., has a line in which someone “set her mouth to my mouth and made a noise that produced pleasure in me.”

The Kama Sutra, an ancient Sanskrit text on eroticism and love, also has a chapter on kissing that identifies different methods of kissing and types of kisses.

Kissing isn’t just a romantic act. It can also be a sign of friendship or betrayal.

In the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, written circa the 1st century, Judas betrays Jesus by identifying him with a kiss so that armed men can take him away and eventually kill him.

Judas’ kiss has since become a popular storytelling allusion.

It may have inspired the “kiss of death” that appears in mafia literature and film (but was probably never an actual mafia practice).

Perhaps the most famous example is in The Godfather Part II, when Al Pacino’s character gives his brother Fredo the kiss of death for betraying him.

The first people to smooch on film were May Irwin and John C. Rice, who appeared in a short film known variously as May Irwin kiss, Kiss, or The Kiss.

In 1896, the two performers went to Thomas Edison’s studio in New Jersey and reenacted their final kiss scene from a play they were putting on in New York City.

On stage, no one thought the kiss was that sensational. But many felt the close-up footage of them kissing was too risqué.

In 1898, black performers Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown starred in a short film titled ''Something Good-Negro Kiss,'' the first film to show Black Americans kissing.

In 2017, film historians rediscovered the footage, which was filmed by a white man named William Selig in Chicago.

“There’s a performance there because they’re dancing with one another, but their kissing has an unmistakable sense of naturalness, pleasure and amusement as well,” Allyson Nadia Field, a professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago who helped identify the film, said in a university press release.

“It is really striking to me, as a historian who works on race and cinema, to think that this kind of artifact could have existed in 1898.”

On the morning of 14 August 1945, patients burst into Greta Zimmer’s Manhattan office claiming the war in Japan was over.

The Austrian immigrant wasn’t sure what to think, so on her lunch break, she went to Times Square in her white dental assistant’s uniform to see what the news ticker said.

The atmosphere there was celebratory. The ticker confirmed that it was indeed V-J Day, and World War II was over.

As Zimmer looked away from the ticker, a Navy sailor named George Mendonsan — who’d started drinking early and mistook Zimmer for a nurse — ran up and aggressively kissed her, leaving his girlfriend behind.

Zimmer struggled to push the stranger off, and they parted ways.

But unbeknownst to both of them, photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt and Victor Jorgensen had each captured the moment, as recounted in The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind The Photo That Ended World War II.

Eisenstaedt’s photo became one of the most iconic WWII images in U.S. history, in part because viewers mistook it for a picture of a Naval officer and nurse celebrating together.

The photo has also stirred controversy, as many people have claimed over the years to be the couple in the image, while others point out that it depicts a nonconsensual moment.

Zimmer said in an interview with the Library of Congress in 2005:

“It wasn’t my choice to be kissed...the guy just came over and kissed or grabbed!”

When William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols kissed on a 1968 episode of Star Trek, it was not technically the first interracial kiss on U.S. television.

But it was the one that seemed to have the most cultural impact.

In the episode, titled “Plato’s Stepchildren,” Captain James Kirk and Officer Nyota Uhura encounter aliens who force them to kiss each other through telekinesis.

In Nichols’ book Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories, she recalls that NBC was worried how white Americans would react to the scene, so they asked the actors to film two scenes: one with a kiss and one without a kiss.

However, Nichols and Shatner purposefully messed up all of the kissless takes in order to ensure that NBC aired the kissing scene.

During the Cold War, leaders of communist states often greeted each other with what’s called the “socialist fraternal kiss.”

This could be on the cheek or the mouth, but the most famous example is French photographer Régis Bossu’s 1979 picture of the Soviet Union’s Leonid Brezhnev and East Germany’s Erich Honecker kissing on the mouth.

The kiss occurred when Brezhnev visited East Berlin to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic (i.e., East Germany).

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the Soviet artist Dmitri Vrubel recreated the image in a mural on the wall’s east side.

He captioned it: “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love.”

[musicaintesta]

David Bowie, Chris Taylor, Brian May, Roger Taylor, la principessa Diana, il principe Carlo e Bob Geldof al Wembley Stadium, 1985. Fotografia di Nils Jorgensen

[realmadridnews]

Transfer rumours

Transfers in:

Goalkeepers: Onuralp Cevikkan (Trabzonspor Kulubu), Marcin Bulka (OGC Nice), Fran Gonzalez (promotion), David Soria (Getafe CF), Joan Garcia (RCD Espanyol), Kepa Arrizabalaga (Chelsea London), Filip Jorgensen (Villarreal CF)

Defenders: Rafa Marin (staying), Leny Yoro (LOSC Lille), Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munchen), Miguel Gutierrez (Girona FC), Trent Alexander-Arnold (FC Liverpool), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munchen), Alexandre Penetra (AZ Alkmaar), Mario Gila (S.S. Lazio), Theo Hernandez (AC Milan), Diogo Leite (Union Berlin), William Saliba (Arsenal London), Odilon Kossounou (Bayer Leverkusen), Adrian Liso (Real Zaragoza), Malick Thiaw (AC Milan), Achraf Hakimi (PSG), Reece James (Chelsea London), Riccardo Calafiori (Bologna FC), Vitor Reis (SE Palmeiras), Aymeric Laporte (Al-Nassr FC)

Midfielders: Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen), Mario Martin (promotion), Franco Mastantuono (CA River Plate), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Archie Gray (Leeds United), Adrien Rabiot (Juventus Turin/free transfers), Kephrem Thuram (OGC Nice), Tijjani Reijnders (AC Milan)

Forwards: Joselu Mato (RCD Espanyol), Kylian Mbappe (PSG/free transfer), Julian Alvarez (Manchester City)

Transfers out:

Eder Militao: Saudi league

Nacho Fernandez (end of contract): San Diego FC, Inter Milan, Inter Miami, Al-Nassr FC, Al-Ittihad Club, Al-Qadsiah FC

Vinicius Junior: PSG, Al-Ahli Saudi FC

Toni Kroos (end of contract): Manchester City, career end

Luka Modric (end of contract): San Diego FC, Saudi league, Dinamo Zagreb

Rodrygo Goes: Manchester City, FC Liverpool

Andriy Lunin: Atletico Madrid, Manchester United, Arsenal London, PSG, Chelsea London

Joselu Mato (loan end/definite transfer): RCD Espanyol, Al-Gharafa SC

Lucas Vazquez (end of contract): Saudi League

Daniel Ceballos: Atletico Madrid, Newcastle United, Real Betis, AS Monaco

Fran Garcia (loan/buy back option): A.F.C Bournemouth

Brahim Diaz: Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen

Antonio Rudiger: Al-Nassr FC

Ferland Mendy: Al-Nassr FC

Arda Guler (loan): Fenerbahce SK, Getafe CF, Real Sociedad, FC Sevilla, UD Las Palmas, RCD Mallorca, AC Milan, RB Leipzig

Kepa Arrizabalaga (loan end): Chelsea London

Reinier Jesus (loan/definitive transfer): Norwich City

Jesus Vallejo (loan/definitive transfer):

Rafa Marin (loan/buy back option): Bayer Leverkusen, SSC Napoli

Peter Gonzalez (loan/buy back option): Getafe CF

Juanmi Latasa (loan/buy back option/definitive transfer): Getafe CF, Real Valladolid

Marvin Park (loan/buy back option/definitive transfer): UD Las Palmas

Alvaro Rodriguez (loan/buy back option): Getafe CF, VfL Wolfsburg, Rayo Vallecano, Eintracht Frankfurt, Deportivo Alaves

Rafael Obrador (loan/buy back option/definitive transfer): Real Zaragoza, S.S. Lazio, UD Las Palmas, Deportivo La Coruna

Nico Paz (loan/buy back option): UD Leganes, Como 1907

Lucas Canizares (buy back option): Rayo Vallecano, Granada CF, Racing Ferrol, CD Eldense, Albacete Balompie, FC Cartagena, SC Farense

Pablo Ramon (loan/buy back option): Real Betis, RCD Espanyol

Mario Martin (loan/buy back option): Real Valladolid

Theo Zidane (end of contract): Cordoba CF

Javi Villar (buy back option): Albacete Balompie

[aidanwsu]

The annual 17th of May Parade is being held in Ballard, WA celebrating Norway’s independence from Sweden in 1905. The parade hosts local businesses, sports teams, and Scandanivan-themed floats that travel through the main street. 

The parade will begin at the corner of NW 62nd Street in Ballard, WA. The event runs from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. However, the float parade runs from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free and free parking will be provided for all attendees. You may want to bring cash because there are booths as well as local restaurant bars surrounding the perimeter of the parade. The 17th of May parade was founded in 1974 in Ballard, WA this has led to a tradition that has lasted 49 years and has become a staple of this community. Many attendees have been participating in this event since its origins. 

Dentist, and local resident of Edmonds, John Tobin, has been attending the 17th of May parade since 1974 and has also participated in the parade as well. John’s former place of business ran a Viking longship float in the parade for 10 years but stopped during the Covid pandemic. Tobin’s father began taking him when he was just a boy and has continued the family tradition ever since. Tobin described how this event united the community. 

“Norwegians from all over Washington love the 17th of May because it unites all of us together…. There’s no better way to celebrate Syttende Mai,” said Tobin. 

Grandmother and resident of Ballard, Ellie Jorgensen, shared her experience growing up and being a part of the May 17th tradition. Jorgensen began attending the parade when she moved from Bergen, Norway to Ballard, Washington in 1980. Shortly after she had two boys and began involving them in the parade. Through the years the Jorgensen family has attended every 17th of May. Jorgensen’s two sons have continued the family tradition into their adulthood and have brought their children to this year's parade. 

“17th of May has been such a heartwarming tradition because it includes the whole family coming together to celebrate. Close friends and family make this celebration special. It has become a great tradition for many families,” said Jorgensen. 

The 17th of May parade features primarily Norwegian music, dances, and culture and is accompanied by many Norwegian flags. The sidewalks of the parade are packed with ecstatic attendees all waving flags and cheering for the parade. There are many Scandanvian-styled bars surrounding the main street, including many Nordic beers, mead, and ales. Along with the refreshments are hot dogs and scone stands.

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to June Allyson, Mary Badham, Amiri Baraka, film composer Marco Beltrami, Toni Braxton, Pastor Paul Boxmeyer, Lewis Capaldi, the Broadway run of CATS! (1982 and went for 18 years), Simon Cowell, conductor Charles Dutiot, Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL (1955), Kevin Godley, Taylor Hicks, activist-songwriter Joe Hill, Dave Hope (Kansas), drummer Jo Jones, musician/engineer Sven Jorgensen (thank you for the amazing mixes you did on my YELLOW HOUSE album), Bernard Lavilliers, Yo-Yo Ma, Al Martino, John Mellencamp, Tim Minchin, musician-entertainer Rick Moher, Vaughan Monroe, Nathaniel Raitleff, The Rolling Stones version of “I Wanna Be Your Man” (1963), Judee Sill, Michael W. Smith, composer William Still, Tico Torres, Desmond Tutu, Tata Vega, Thom Yorke, and singer-songwriter, guitarist extraordinaire, and journalist for Guitar Player magazine Jimmy Leslie. When he’s not doing his “freaky freehand” fretwork as guest guitarist for Shana Morrison and other acts, he’s with his band Spirit Hustler doing his cosmic rock that, on an interplanetary jukebox, would play between The Allman Brothers, David Bowie, Funkadelic, and Pink Floyd. I’m grateful for the studio sessions and live shows we’ve been able to do together…check out Jimmy’s page: https://www.facebook.com/Jimmy-Leslie-Music-244868758879482/  + here’s a recording we did together w/singer-songwriter Scott Newiger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=043pMjcgNZo ...and HB JL. Thank you for your years of twanging out joy.

#jimmyleslie #birthday #guitarplayer #johnnyjblair #sanfrancisco #oakland #singersongwriter #shanamorrison

[elarea]

El primero (1920)

La selección española en los JJ.OO. de Amberes en 1920 (Marca).

Hoy se cumplen 104 años del primer partido oficial de la selección española. Los dirigidos por Paco Bru derrotaron 1-0 a Dinamarca en partido válido por los Juegos Olímpicos celebrados en Bélgica.

España sorprendió al mundo con una victoria contra todo pronóstico, el gol de Patricio Arabolaza, jugador del Real Unión de Irún, bastó para eliminar a uno de los principales candidatos al título.

Dinamarca: Hansen; Middelboe, Blicher; Grothan, Lykke, Aaby; Dannin, Rohde, Viggo Jorgensen, Olsen, Andersen (Entrenador: Carr) España: Zamora; Otero, Arrate; Samitier, Belauste, Eguiazábal; Pagaza, Sesúmaga, Patricio, Pichichi, Acedo (Entrenador: Francisco Bru) Árbitro: Wilhelm Eymers, holandés. Anuló un gol a Patricio por fuera de juego.

[camisetasball]

El Chelsea anuncia oficialmente el fichaje de Joao Félix

Recientemente, el Chelsea anunció oficialmente el fichaje del delantero portugués Joao Félix. Las dos partes firmaron un contrato de larga duración por 7 años.

Después de dos cesiones, camisetas Chelsea Joao Félix sintió que era hora de establecerse en algún lugar y no había mejor lugar que el Chelsea. Joao Félix comenzó su carrera en el Benfica y luego se unió al Atlético de Madrid por una transferencia récord, pero no logró encontrar una posición adecuada en el sistema táctico de Simeone, lo que lo llevó a ser cedido al Chelsea y al Barcelona. Félix es capaz de jugar en múltiples posiciones en la zona de ataque, incluido el delantero centro, el extremo y el mediocampista ofensivo. Su flexibilidad y capacidad técnica lo hacen muy importante en primera línea. En la nueva temporada, el Chelsea también realizó una serie de fichajes importantes en la ventana de transferencias de verano, incluidos Pedro Neto, Filip Jorgensen, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall y Tosin Adarabio About et al. ¡Los fanáticos que visten camisetas de fútbol esperan ver al equipo avanzar y lograr mejores resultados en la nueva temporada!

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🇺🇲Lance Armstrong advierte a 🇸🇮Tadej Pogacar de que va por el mal camino: "Está cometiendo el mayor error de toda su carrera"

🔥La victoria de Tadej Pogacar en 🏔️Isola 2000 ha causado revuelo. Lance Armstrong incluso criticó al próximo ganador del Tour de Francia en su podcast The Move:

🎙️"Lo que vimos aquí es el mayor error de toda su carrera. Te lo prometo", asegura Armstrong. "A los otros equipos no les gusta esto... Puedes decir que a la gente de Eslovenia le gusta, sí, pero también estás corriendo contra Remco Evenepoel y contra Jonas Vingegaard, de Bélgica y Dinamarca. Dos grandes países del ciclismo. Usted está corriendo en Francia, con los medios de comunicación franceses. Es un gran error por su parte".

"Luego oigo las reacciones: es una carrera. Sí, es cierto, pero también es una campaña política. No des a la gente una razón para odiarte. Y me gusta repetirlo: no les des una razón para odiarte. ¿Y si eso es demasiado? Entonces no les des una razón para que no les gustes. Y aún más importante: No les des una razón para dudar de ti. No les des la oportunidad de cuestionar tu grandeza. Y él lo hizo, ese fue su mayor error".

"Soy un gran admirador de Tadej Pogacar. Como aficionado y simpatizante le dije: no hagas esto, no hagas esto. Quería lo mejor para él. Podría haber alcanzado a Jorgensen y haberse llevado una etapa. He vivido muchas de estas situaciones. En el Mont Ventoux dejé que Marco Pantani ganara la etapa, pero él no estaba contento. Fue como un golpe adicional para él. Tampoco me sentí bien. Pero Pogacar tiene que mirar al podio final de Niza. Esa es la verdadera victoria". #TDF2024

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"Heart of Rome" (1970/1971)

Written by Geoff Stephens, Alan Blaikley and Ken Howard, recorded by Elvis Presley on June 6, 1970 at the RCA’s Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, "Heart of Rome" was released on the album "Love Letters from Elvis" on June 16, 1971.

MUSICIANS FOR THE TRACK Guitar: James Burton, Chip Young, Elvis Presley. Bass: Norbert Putnam. Drums: Jerry Carrigan. Piano: David Briggs. Organ & Harmonica: Charlie McCoy. OVERDUBS, Guitar: James Burton. Organ: David Briggs. Percussion: Jerry Carrigan. Percussion & Vibes: Farrell Morris. Steel Guitar: Weldon Myrick. Trumpet: Charlie McCoy, George Tidwell, Don Sheffield, Glenn Baxter. Saxophone: Wayne Butler, Norman Ray. Flute, Saxophone & Clarinet: Skip Lane. Trombone: Gene Mullins. Flute & Trombone: William Puett. Vocals: Elvis Presley, Mary Holladay, Mary (Jeannie) Green, Dolores Edgin, Ginger Holladay, Millie Kirkham, June Page, Temple Riser, Sonja Montgomery, Joe Babcock, The Jordanaires, The Imperials.

THE RECORDING SESSION

Studio Sessions for RCA on June 6, 1970: RCA’s Studio B, Nashville The last entry of the evening, “Heart Of Rome,” was an up-tempo dramatic ballad in the operatic vein of “It’s Now Or Never” or “Surrender”; it may have had a little more irony going for it than the earlier cuts, but by the end it had Elvis straining for the high notes — and the band struggling to keep awake. Excerpt: "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music" by Ernst Jorgensen. Foreword by Peter Guralnick (1998)

The song was recorded on the same day as the hits "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and "Just Pretend", as well as "I Didn't Make It On Playing Guitar", "It Ain't No Big Thing ( But It's Growing)", "This is Our Dance" and "Life".

It was past midnight when they were working on "Heart of Rome", the last song recorded that night. Elvis, the recording team and musicians spent about ten hours working at the RCA's studio during the Nashville sessions from June 4 to 8, 1970, reporting each evening at 6pm and working until the wee hours, wrapping up the sessions around 4:30 am. Elvis and his band recorded 35 masters over the five-days 1970 recording sessions in Nashville.

June 1970, at RCA's Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee.

Top (left to right) David Briggs (piano), Norbert Putnam (bass), Elvis (vocals and guitar), Al Pachucki (engineer), Jerry Carrigan (drums/percussion); bottom Felton Jarvis (producer), Chip Young (guitar), Charlie McCoy (organ & harmonica/trumpet), James Burton (guitar).

ADDITIONAL INFO

Elvis on June 4, 1970 in Nashville, stepping out of a car at RCA's studio B parking lot on his way to the studio's back entrance. Photography source: elvis-collectors.com.

During that first recording session in Nashville in June 1970, Elvis would record the songs "Twenty Days And Twenty Nights", "I've Lost You", "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago", "Little Cabin On The Hill", "The Fool", "The Sound Of Your Cry", "A Hundred Years From Now" and "Cindy, Cindy".

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By: SEGM

Published: Jun 21, 2023

In a new peer-reviewed commentary published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, author, Dr. Sarah Jorgensen, argues that the medical community has a professional responsibility to recognize detransitioners as survivors of iatrogenic harm and provide them with the comprehensive medical and supportive care that they deserve.

Jorgensen notes that proponents of gender-affirming medical interventions have attempted to downplay regret and detransition as vanishingly rare based on outdated studies that are not applicable to cohorts of adolescent trans identifying females presenting to gender clinics today. They refuse to admit that the gender-affirming model is failing some patients and have instead tried to reframe detransition as neutral or even positive outcome, proposing euphemisms such as “gender journey,” “identity exploration,” or “dynamic desires for gender-affirming medical interventions,” to replace the term “detransition."

“Rather than acknowledging the severity of the problem or that the medical community bears responsibility for the harm done to these young people, the message is that there have been no mistakes - the situation is dynamic.”

Instead of asking what went wrong, what was missed, and what could have been done differently to prevent inappropriate medical transitions, proponents of gender-affirming care repeatedly make appeals to authority, “every major medical association in the United States supports gender-affirming care for minors,” seemingly oblivious to the move away from American-style affirmation-on-demand in many European countries:

“A growing number of health authorities in countries that were once proponents of youth medical transition are now changing practice and prioritizing psychotherapy and treatment of co-occurring developmental, psychosocial, and mental health problems after their own systematic reviews found the evidence supporting gender-affirming medical interventions to be weak and uncertain.”

Many detransitioners report that they find it challenging to access clinicians who can advise them on what to expect when discontinuing hormones or who have the knowledge and training to manage enduring adverse effects of hormonal therapies and surgical complications. Jorgensen notes that there is currently no guidance on best practices for clinicians involved in the care of detransitioners:

“The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) recently published its eighth Standards of Care document and chose not to include a chapter on detransition (Coleman et al., 2022). Likewise, the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Gender-Dysphoria/Gender-Incongruence offers no advice on how to safely stop hormonal therapies (Hembree et al., 2017). The American Academy of Pediatrics failed to acknowledge the possibility of regret and detransition in their policy statement on care for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria (Rafferty et al., 2018).”

Jorgensen highlights multiple areas of uncertainty that will require open discussion and a commitment to clinical collaboration and research to resolve.

“We do not know what is driving the sharp rise in the number of young people being diagnosed or self-diagnosing with gender dysphoria (Cass, 2022; Kaltiala-Heino, Bergman, Tyolajarvi, & Frisen, 2018; Zucker, 2019). Likewise, we do not know why the case mix has rapidly shifted from predominantly young boys and middle-aged men to primarily adolescent females with complex mental health problems and neurodiversity (Aitken et al., 2015; Kaltiala-Heino et al., 2015; Zucker, 2019). The natural trajectory of transgender identification in this novel cohort is uncertain and we cannot predict who will be helped by gender-affirming medical interventions or who will be harmed. The long-term safety and effectiveness of these interventions is yet unknown (Hembree et al., 2017; Ludvigsson et al., 2023; NICE, 2020a, 2020b).” 

Importantly, Jorgensen emphasizes that “we miss out on urgently needed data that could improve the outcomes of future patients by ignoring detransitioners.”  

SEGM's Thoughts

The rate of medical detransition in the Western countries currently stands at 10-30% and is expected to grow. A number of the detransitioned patients will have permanent unwanted changes to the bodies and adverse long-term impacts on their physical and psychological health.

There is an urgent need to recognize detransition as a new phenomenon, and to structure the healthcare system in order to support this vulnerable patient population. However, due to the novelty of the detransition phenomenon, no diagnostic or procedure codes currently exist that either accurately capture the detransitioned patients' condition, or ensure provider reimbursement for the medical and mental health services that patients will need. 

For this reason, it is urgent that the medical community initiate a conversation about what types of diagnostic and procedure codes are necessary to ensure the provision of high quality care to the individuals who detransition.

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Jenna, if you have anything to say, you should say it now because I think that I will not maintain you at your positions. It doesn't mean that we have to end our relationships but I don't know how we can be together if we have directly opposite points of view at everything.

Al Jorgensen built very useful and correct branches some of which remained in imaginary plane: this is exactly what I appreciate because 100% longterm predictions are impossible and all people who rely on them are inevitably dying just as first Putin and first Musk.

Overall TSLA was just unbelievably wrong bet. I said that it has to hit 0, you instead started to grow it, saying that I am just one of managers who was selected by somebody else: and now as I know you better, and harm was slightly reduced by all other measures, I don't feel like necessary to explain to you anything because you are operating with absurd and wrong claims, and it means that any attempt to argue with you is meaningless

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Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, The Unsung CollectiveLaden Sie die besten Noten aus unserer Bibliothek herunter.Max Richter

Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, The Unsung Collective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZ6c4ZLxUY Conducted by Dr. Tyrone Clinton, The Unsung Collective performs in St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Harlem NY Violin soloist Michael Jorgensen Spring 1 0:00 Spring 2 2:34 Spring 3 6:11 Summer 1 9:31 Summer 2 14:06 Summer 3 18:24 Autumn 22:08 Autumn 2 28:24 Autumn 3 31:54 Winter 1 33:50 Winter 2 37:00 Winter 3 40:12

Max Richter

Max Richter (* 22. März 1966 in Hameln, Deutschland) ist ein in Deutschland geborener britischer Komponist. Er komponierte unter anderem die Musik für den Animationsdokumentarfilm Waltz with Bashir von Ari Folman und für den Science-Fiction-Film Ad Astra – Zu den Sternen von Regisseur James Gray. Richter zeichnet ein Kompositionsstil der Verbindung von Ambient-Samples mit kammermusikalischer Instrumentierung aus. Seit seiner Arbeit mit den Techno- und Ambient-Pionieren The Future Sound of London versteht er Musik als ein Zusammenspiel aus Farben, Klängen und Gefühlen, die er in seine Kompositionen einzubringen versucht. Read the full article