#bob hilliard

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♫ Our Day Will Come ♫ (Redux)

Well yeah, I played this one once already, but it was more than three years ago, so it’s time for a redux, and frankly it’s just what I’m in the mood for tonight.  Rather like some days when nothing hits the spot quite like that peanut-butter and banana sandwich, y’know?  (Sorry, Clive … I know, too schmaltzy for you) If a song’s staying power can be judged by the number of covers, then this one…

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Sentry by Bat Hilliard

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Peggy Hilliard Nabors, 88, died peacefully in her sleep on July 10, 2023.

Peggy was born to Price and Annie Lou Hilliard in Raleigh, North Carolina. Upon graduating from Bob Jones University, she began teaching high school in Portsmouth, Virginia. One Sunday morning a tall, handsome visitor walked into church carrying a Bible. Peggy and her roommate invited this young Tennessean to their apartment for a home cooked meal. That lunch must have been good, because Peggy cooked for David for the next 49 years.

After moving to Chattanooga as a newlywed, Peggy taught at Lakeside Elementary until she retired from teaching to be a stay-at-home mother. When David retired, together they traveled and lived in Eastern Europe to share the good news of Jesus with teachers through the International School Project. Following David's death, Peggy stayed active spending time with family, friends and neighbors. She was involved at her church, North Shore Fellowship, mentoring young moms. Her Thursday morning Ladies' Bible Study was the highlight of her week…studying God's word with precious friends.

Peggy was preceded in death by her parents, her husband David Nabors, and sister Virginia Sue Jones. She is survived by her children: Robbin Henon (Kirk), Stephen Nabors (Billenda), and Joseph Nabors (Marti). Grandchildren: Teal Nabors Gibson (Zane), Dr. Macall Nabors Wirz (Jacob), Kai Nabors, Blake Sparks, Patrick Sparks (Mariana), Amber Barnes (Josh), Audra Guerrero (Keith Franzen), and Andrew Guerrero. Great grandchildren: Hutch Gibson, Ivan Sparks, Patrick Sparks, Addie Sparks, Emma Sparks, Jensen Barnes, Hazel Barnes and Lotus Guerrero. Sisters-in-law Aprille Quinn, Jo Pelham, and a bevy of nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be at 11:00 am on Saturday, July 22, 2023 in the funeral home chapel of Hamilton Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm on Friday, July 21, 2023 and from 9:30 am until time of service Saturday at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Mary Ellen Locher Foundation (melfoundation.org) or North Shore Fellowship (nsfellowship.org)

The family thanks Everlan of Hixson, Dominion Senior Living, and Hearth Hospice for the excellent, loving care you gave to Peggy.

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Create a Playlist of 10 songs for your desired muse and tag people to keep it going!

All In the Golden Afternoon - Kathryn Beaumont, The Disney Studio Chorus, Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard

Strange Love - Karen O

Waltz No. 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich

Tip Toe Thru' the Tulips With Me - Annette Hanshaw

Ramalama (Bang Bang) - Róisín Murphy

Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer

Can't Say Goodbye To Yesterday - Carla White

Its A Fine Day - Jane

Rains Is On Its Way - Curse in The Woods

Livin' in The Sunlight Love in The Moonlight - Alfredo And His Band, Les Allen & Al Bowlly

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Tagging: @seacrestseacon, @whereseekersfeartotread, @ambulance-mom, @totalownage42, @viciousbite, aaaaand yoooou! 🫵

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Descriptions & Propaganda

Alice In Wonderland

Composed by Sammy Fain, with lyrics by Bob Hilliard

Notable versions: Bill Evans Trio (x), Oscar Peterson Trio (x), Dave Brubeck (x)

Propaganda: I've always been a fan of the jazz arrangements that originated as songs in Disney movies, probably because I really like jazz waltz and a lot of them are in 3/4, but this one is probably my favorite of all of those, I really like its "dreamy" atmosphere.

They Can't Take That Away From Me

Composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin

Notable versions: Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald (x), Billie Holiday (x), Charlier Parker (x)

Propaganda: None submitted.

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Evander Berry Wall was a famous sociality and fashionista in the late 19th and early 20th century, dubbed The King of the Dudes. Via wikipedia:

"Wall was a clotheshorse. He generally wore a "very extraordinary costume" such as the one pictured on the right: "a dust coat of a reddish havana brown, a suit made of a large grey shepherd plaid check; extremely wide trousers tapered at the ankle, and turned up several inches to display white spats and highly varnished shoes; a 'startling' striped shirt in red and sky blue, with very high false collar of a pattern different from the shirts, a striped vest and a widely spread stock-cravat." He was popularly credited with the possession of over 500 trousers and 5,000 neckties." ...

Wall was first proclaimed "King of the Dudes" at the resort town of Long Branch, New Jersey in the summer of 1883.

Wall was again proclaimed "King of the Dudes" in 1888 by the New York American newspaper. A journalist named Blakely Hall judged that Wall had won the "Battle of the Dudes" against Robert "Bob" Hilliard, another sartorial dude when, during the March Blizzard of 1888, he strode into a bar clad in gleaming boots of patent leather that went to his hips. Nevertheless, some historians still consider it was Hilliard who won that dude battle.

Wall won another fashion contest in August 1888, in Saratoga Springs, New York. To win a bet against John "Bet a Million" Gates, Wall changed clothes 40 times between breakfast and dinner. He appeared on the race track "in one flashy ensemble after the other until, exhausted but victorious he at last entered the ballroom of the United States Hotel in faultless evening attire."

Ever the fashion-leader, Wall is credited for having been the first person in the United States to wear a dinner jacket (tuxedo) to a ball. The white ensemble had been sent to him by the London Savile Row tailor Henry Poole & Co "to be worn for a quiet dinner at home or at an evening's entertainment at a summer resort." This was a time when tailcoat was still the rule, and Wall was immediately ordered off the floor.

Wall's financial life was not as successful as his fashion life. An ill-conceived stock-broking career and additional failures as a stable owner ended in an 1899 bankruptcy. Wall finally declared that "New York had become fit only for businessmen" and left for Paris in 1912. ... They lived in a suite in the Hotel Meurice, with a consecutive string of chow dogs named Chi-Chi or Toi-Toi. This was located conveniently near the bespoke shirtmaker Charvet, where Wall had his signature "spread eagle" collar shirts and cravats custom-made for himself and his dog. Wall always dined at the Ritz with his dog, whose collars and ties were made by Charvet in the same style and fabric as his master's.

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HONORING THE ANCESTORS~☥

WE POUR LIBATION for our parents (if they have made their transition) and grandparents, who walked this Earth with pride and dignity. It is they who made a way when there seemed to be no way.

WE POUR LIBATION for the Twa, Ethiopians, Egyptians/Kemetians, Ashanti, Dagon, Ibo, Yoruba, Swazi, and, the Zulu, to name a few. We pour libation for those Ancestors who were lost and killed during the voyage of the Middle Passage. We pour libation for those who suffered the cruelty of the horrible institution of slavery, racism, segregation, and oppression in North America, South America, The Caribbean Island, the Middle East, and throughout the World.

WE POUR LIBATION for our great African Revolutionary Leaders like Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, and Kwame Nkrumah. We pour libation for our giant visionaries like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, W.E.B. DuBois, and Sojourner Truth. We pour libation for our leader Marcus Garvey, who worked for African Liberation.

WE POUR. LIBATION for our strong Sisters like Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer, who taught us that we who believe in FREEDOM cannot REST.

WE POUR LIBATION for our intellectual giants like Drs. Cheikh Anta Diop, Frances Cress Welsing, Ben Jochannan, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard III, Ivan Van Sertima, Jacob H. Carruthers, Amos Wilson, others.

WE POUR LIBATION for our warrior, and brilliant intellect of brother, Malcolm X, who told us never to place any restrictions on what we will do to achieve full LIBERATION. We pour libation for our courageous brother Martin Luther King Jr., who taught us his noble values of selflessness and love.

WE POUR LIBATION to those Sentient Beings who touched the soul of our people through the vibration of their sounds/music. Just to name a few, Illuminating giants like John Coltrane, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Gil Scott Heron, Tupac Shakur, and others.

Ancestors, we praise and honor you, and may your spirits be filled with LIGHT and PROGRESS; and may that LIGHT eternally guide us through the FEAR and IGNORANCE of our time, for it is you who we pour LIBATION.

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A Thousand Skies - Network Seven - October 9 - 23, 1985

Biographical Drama (6 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

John Walton as Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

Andrew Clarke as Charles Ulm

Joss McWilliam as Keith Anderson

Celine Griffin as as Mary Powell-Kingsford Smith

Helen Jones as Bon Hilliard

Jane Menelaus as Thelma McKenna

Geoff Parry as Bob Hitchcock

Phyllis Burford as Kate Kingsford Smith

Richard Hutson as William Kingsford Smith

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Brooklyn state Sen. Kevin Parker has been accused of raping a woman in 2004, early in his tenure as a state legislator, according to a new lawsuit filed against him last week.

The lawsuit was filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Friday by Olga Jean-Baptiste, who says Parker raped her at her apartment after discussing relief efforts for Haiti following devastating flooding in the Caribbean nation in 2004.

In her suit, Jean-Baptiste — who was 31 years old at the time of the alleged incident — says she coordinated with Parker’s office to deliver aid to Haiti following the floods, which killed some 3,000 people in the country that year. Parker, a Democrat, was in the middle of his first term in the state Senate representing the Flatbush area, which has a considerable population hailing from Haiti and other parts of the Caribbean.

After she returned from a trip to Haiti to deliver supplies, Parker suggested meeting Jean-Baptiste at her apartment to pick up photos and discuss the work she undertook, according to the lawsuit. They reviewed the trip for a few minutes in her living room and exchanged photos — but when Jean-Baptiste says she rose to say goodbye, she found herself paralyzed with fear when Parker allegedly grabbed hold of both of her wrists.

Jean-Baptiste then alleges Parker took her down the hallway of her apartment to her bedroom, where he made a sexual remark and laid her face-down on her bed. At that point, Jean-Baptiste claims Parker raped her.

The plaintiff says she never consented to any of the sexual acts which she alleges Parker forced upon her.

“Ms. Jean-Baptiste survived unspeakable sexual abuse perpetrated by Sen. Parker — and continues to suffer from the trauma that only survivors of unwanted sexual assaults can fully understand,” said Jean-Baptiste’s attorney, Bob Hilliard, in a statement. “The allegations are set out within Ms. Jean-Baptiste’s lawsuit. A jury will hear firsthand the full details and horribleness of what happened.”

A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins called the allegations “extremely disturbing.”

“These allegations are extremely disturbing and we take them very seriously,” said the spokesperson, Mike Murphy. “And we will continue to monitor this situation and we will take appropriate action as more information is learned.”

Jean-Baptiste filed her suit against Parker under the state’s Adult Survivors Act, which lifted the statute of limitations for one year to allow adult victims of sexual abuse to sue their abusers in civil court, for actions committed at any point in the past. The one-year window is set to expire this week, and state courts are seeing a flood of new suits to beat the deadline.

The Adult Survivors Act was modeled after the Child Victims Act, which opened a similar “look-back window” for victims of child sexual abuse and resulted in a flood of suits. The most notable defendant in those suits was the Roman Catholic Church: six of the state’s eight Catholic dioceses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy since the law’s onset.

In contrast, suits have been filed under the Adult Survivors Act against numerous high-profile individuals. Former President Donald Trump, rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, and comedians Bill Cosby and Russell Brand are defendants in some of the more than 2,500 cases that have been filed under the statute over the past year.

Adult Survivors Act cases have also targeted institutions like universities, hospitals, and the state prison system alleging they facilitated systematic abuse by bad actors.

Hundreds of patients have claimed they were sexually abused by Robert Hadden, an OB-GYN at Columbia University, while under his care, while a similarly massive number of survivors say they were sexually abused by Darius Paduch, a urologist at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Hadden was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in July, while Paduch is currently under a federal indictment for sexual abuse.

Parker voted in favor of the Adult Survivors Act last year, along with every other member of Albany’s upper chamber.

A checkered history

Parker is no stranger to legal troubles, finding himself embattled with the law at various points in his twenty-year career in Albany. In 2005, Parker was arrested and charged with assault for punching a traffic agent attempting to ticket him for double parking. The charges were dropped after he agreed to take anger management classes.

In 2009, Parker again was hit with assault charges for attacking a New York Post photographer taking pictures of him outside his house in Flatbush. The pol would be found guilty by a jury of misdemeanor criminal mischief, and was sentenced to three years probation plus further anger management classes.

After that flap, Parker was stripped of his committee assignments, and chamber leaders attempted to claw back a $22,000 stipend he pocketed as Majority Whip and chair of the Energy Committee. “I don’t think I have an anger issue,” Parker told reporters at the time.

Having been reelected to his seat multiple times in the aftermath, Parker has gained back his committee seats and currently chairs the Energy and Telecommunications Committee.

Parker’s spats have not always resulted in legal trouble. In 2009, while facing his assault charge, Parker referred to then-Governor David Paterson as a “coke-snorting, staff-banging governor,” remarks for which he apologized. The following year, he reportedly called fellow Sen. Diane Savino a “b-tch” during heated sessions over whether to expel another member accused of assault, Hiram Monserrate of Queens, and nearly came to fisticuffs with her boyfriend, Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein — who himself was later accused of sexual assault by a staffer.

In 2018, when a Senate GOP staffer tweeted about a car blocking a bike lane with a Parker-issued parking placard on the dash, Parker responded by telling the staffer, Candice Giove, to “kill yourself!” He later apologized.

Parker ran for city comptroller in 2021 but finished sixth in the Democratic primary.

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Our Day Will Come - Amy Winehouse

Written by Bob Hilliard & Mort Garson

Produced by Salaam Remi

Released 2011, Lioness: Hidden Treasures

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Gilbert Edward Noble (February 22, 1932 - April 5, 2012) was a pianist, producer, professor, news anchor, television host, and documentarian. Born in Harlem to Iris Villiers Noble, a teacher, and Gilbert Robert Noble, an auto-mechanic shop owner.

He served as a medic in the Army during the Korean War and worked at a New York City public library while attending City College of New York. He modeled while employed at Union Carbide. He married Norma Jean Johnston (1959-2012), a nurse. They had 5 children.

He joined Manhattan Chase bank and organized the Gil Noble Trio. He did radio and TV voiceovers while taking speech lessons at Weist-Barron School from the Dwight Weist, “the man of 1,000 voices.” WLIB-1190-AM hired him as a news reporter.

He became a WABC-TV correspondent. Promoted to weekend co-anchor, he co-hosted Like It Is. He hosted Like it Is alone for 43 years as it became the second longest-running US Black public affairs program. His periodic co-hosts included Melba Tolliver, Carol Jenkins, Geraldo Rivera, and Felipe Luciano. He began producing with Susan Robeson, the historical research of Sunni Khalid, Paul Lee, and pan-Africanist Elombe Brath.

He established the National Black Archives of Film and Broadcasting. Hagan Africana Studies Center holds nearly 850 Like it Is interviews with prominent figures such as Pura Belpré, Fannie Lou Hamer, Angela Davis, Bahiyah Betty Shabazz, Sarah Vaughan, Les Payne, Herb Boyd, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard, Leonard Jeffries, Ivan Van Sertima, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Robert A. Hill, Louis Farrakhan, Bob Marley, Michael Manley, Maurice Bishop, Kwame Touré, Sékou Touré, Nelson Mandela, Thomas Sankara, Julius Nyerere, and Robert Mugabe.

He taught media classes at Saint Peter’s, Seton Hall, Ramapo, and New Jersey City University. A Jazz Foundation of America board member, he won seven Emmy Awards, a John Russwurm Award, and a National Association of Black Journalists, “Journalist of the Year” Award and was posthumously inducted into its Hall of Fame. Malcolm X, Mercy, Seton Hall, Medgar Evers, Hofstra, and New Jersey City University bestowed honorary doctorates on Noble. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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By Janet Maslin

Sept. 17, 1993

No audience in the world will believe that Will Parker, the starving, desperate ex-con who is at the center of "Morning Glory," could have the robust physical well-being of Christopher Reeve. Nor could any audience seriously believe Deborah Raffin (who wrote the film with Charles Jarrott) as Elly Dinsmore, a pregnant widow leading a threadbare existence on a dusty, neglected farm.

Ms. Raffin, her cheeks rosy and her blond hair gleaming, is meant to be suffering such dire adversity that she has placed a "husband wanted" ad in the local newspaper, an ad that Mr. Reeve's Will duly answers. Nowhere this side of Madison County could a lonely woman in a farmhouse (albeit one wearing fashionably waiflike frocks and ankle-high work boots) expect to find so eligible a stranger. "All I'm lookin' for is a dry bed and a full plate," Will says.

Will is shy at first (there are a lot of "Ma'ams" and "reckons" in the screenplay), but it is not surprising to watch him warm to Elly and her two young children. But there is a complication. It turns out that Will has done time for killing a prostitute in a whorehouse. (The competition is stiff, but this, by far, is the film's most unbelievable detail.) And now that he has become attached to Elly, the local tramp, Lula Peaks (Helen Shaver), has set her cap for him, thereby touching off memories of Will's unfortunate past. The characters' names offer some indication of what the material is like.

So do the resumes of all concerned. Mr. Jarrott, the co-screenwriter, has credits including "Anne of a Thousand Days." The director, Steven Hilliard Stern, also directed "The Devil and Max Devlin" with Bill Cosby in 1981. Lavyrle Spencer, from whose 1989 novel the film was adapted, has written many best-selling romances, and her work has been condensed in Reader's Digest and Good Housekeeping. Anyone interested in gritty authenticity had better look elsewhere.

"Morning Glory," which is set during the Depression and has a glowy visual style ill suited to the period, plays less like theatrical fare than like the kind of television movie that inspires channel-surfing. Its storytelling is calm, genteel and thoroughly unsurprising. The behavior of the performers could never be confused with that of real people. Among the actors, including Nina Foch as a nice small-town librarian and Lloyd Bochner as the lawyer defending Will during the expected courtroom scenes, only J. T. Walsh strikes some sparks as the local sheriff. No one else seems to be fully awake.

"Morning Glory" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes brief nudity and sexual situations. Morning Glory Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern; written by Charles Jarrott and Deborah Raffin; director of photography, Laszlo George; edited by Richard Benwick; music by Jonathan Elias; produced by Michael Viner; released by Academy Entertainment. Running time: 90 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.

Will Parker . . . Christopher Reeve

Elly Dinsmore . . . Deborah Raffin

Bob Collins . . . Lloyd Bochner

Miss Beasley . . . Nina Foch

Lula Peaks . . . Helen Shaver

Sheriff Reese Goodloe . . . J. T. Walsh

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Unicorn Overlord Impressions, Show Update | All Things Nintendo

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Unicorn Overlord Impressions, Show Update | All Things Nintendo

This week on All Things Nintendo, Brian starts the show by giving an update about the podcast’s future. Then, he’s joined by Marcus Stewart to run down the news, including paying tribute to the late Akira Toriyama. Finally, Matt Miller joins the episode to give his impressions of Unicorn Overlord, the latest game from Vanillaware.

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If you’d like to follow Brian on social media, you can do so on his Instagram/Threads @BrianPShea or Twitter @BrianPShea. You can follow Marcus on Twitter: @MarcusStewart7. You can follow Matt on Twitter: @MatthewRMiller.

The All Things Nintendo podcast is a weekly show where we celebrate, discuss, and break down all the latest games, news, and announcements from the industry’s most recognizable name. Each week, Brian is joined by different guests to talk about what’s happening in the world of Nintendo. Along the way, they’ll share personal stories, uncover hidden gems in the eShop, and even look back on the classics we all grew up with. A new episode hits every Friday!

Be sure to subscribe to All Things Nintendo on your favorite podcast platform. The show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and YouTube.

00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:33 – Update on All Things Nintendo 00:08:52 – News Intro 00:12:56 – Akira Toriyama Passes Away 00:26:15 – TMNT: Mutants Unleashed Announced 00:32:46 – Mario Day Predictions/Rumors 00:40:32 – Princess Peach: Showtime Demo Available 00:48:32 – Warner Bros. Executive Doubles Down on Live-Service 00:59:25 – Tropic Haze Settles with Nintendo Over Emulators 01:06:00 – Temtem’s Final Updates 01:10:37 – Toys for Bob Going Independent 01:14:50 – Unicorn Overlord Impressions  

If you’d like to get in touch with the All Things Nintendo podcast, you can email AllThingsNintendo@GameInformer.com, message Brian on Instagram (@BrianPShea), or join the official Game Informer Discord server. You can do that by linking your Discord account to your Twitch account and subscribing to the Game Informer Twitch channel. From there, find the All Things Nintendo channel under “Community Spaces.”

For Game Informer’s other podcast, be sure to check out The Game Informer Show with hosts Alex Van Aken, Marcus Stewart, and Kyle Hilliard, which covers the weekly happenings of the video game industry!

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Dearie 1950 Vintage Sheet Music by Bob Hilliard & Dave Mann Copacabana Show.