#pete monsanto

[analogagitation]

A man of many hats, but today he’s the DJ. @Petemonsanto 

Double exposure. RB67 x Tri-x 400 at box speed. Self Dev

[greater-than-the-sword]

for the love of Pete get your friends and relatives to stop buying Roundup, stop supporting Monsanto and giving yourself cancer. the only general herbicide you as a consumer will ever need is a mix of salt, vinegar and Dawn dish soap

[falloutboylyricss]

Fall Out Boy and Names

note: this post includes only specific names of people or groups of people (such as band names), both real and fictional

Evening Out With Your Girlfriend

"I can be your John Cusack" - Honorable Mention

"Obscured by the stand-up arcade and the sound of the Descendants" - Switchblades and Infidelity

"And listen to the Misfits 'Where Eagles Dare' to swallow whole" - Growing Up

"And we're all in the back singing 'Roxanne'" - The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys In A Broken Down Van)

"A simple contradiction could shake my whole foundation, Parker Lewis can't lose" - Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gonna Give It My Best Shot)

Take This to Your Grave

Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today (title only)

"Pete and I attacked the laws of Astoria with promise and precision" - Saturday

"Me and Pete in the wake of Saturday" - Saturday

"Hey, Chris, you were our only friend" - Saturday

From Under The Cork Tree

7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen) (title only)

I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me (title only)

Infinity On High

none

Folie à Deux

She's My Winona (title only)

What A Catch, Donnie (title only)

"Miss Flack said, 'I still want you back'" - What A Catch, Donnie

Tiffany Blews (title only)

Save Rock And Roll

"We're all fighting growing old in the hopes of a few minutes more to get, get on St. Peter's list" - Rat A Tat

PAX AM Days

none

American Beauty/American Psycho

"She wants to dance like Uma Thurman" - Uma Thurman

"I got those jet pack blues, just like Judy" - Jet Pack Blues

"Do you remember when we drove, we drove, drove through the night and we danced, we danced to Rancid" - Favorite Record

"I can't remember just how to forget, forget the way that we danced, we danced to Danzig" - Favorite Record

MANIA

"I'm 'bout to go Tonya Harding on the whole world's knee" - Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea

Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) (title only)

"And if death is the last appointment, then we're all just sitting in the waiting room (Mr. Stump?)" - Church

"I think that God is gonna have to kill me twice, kill me twice like my name was Nikki Sixx" - Young And Menace

So Much (For) Stardust

"We were a hammer to the Statue of David" - Love From The Other Side

"I can't stop, can't stop 'til we catch all your ears, though, somewhere between Mike Tyson and Van Gogh" - Flu Game

"It breaks your heart, but four of the Ramones are dead" - The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years)

Misc.

"Yeah, streets are full of seasons, saw what they did to Jesus" - Dear Future Self (Hands Up)

"'Cause everyone loves Bob Dylan, I just want you to love me like that, yeah / Would you bury me next to Johnny Cash? I'm obsessed" - Bob Dylan

"Captain Planet, Arab Spring, L.A. riots, Rodney King" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon / Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto, GMOs / Harry Potter, Twilight, Michael Jackson dies" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Kim Jong Un, Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Obama, Spielberg, explosion, Lebanon / Unabomber, Bobbitt, John, bombing, Boston Marathon" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Trump gets impeached twice, polar bears got no ice / Fyre Fest, Black Parade, Michael Phelps, Y2K / Boris Johnson, Brexit, Kanye West and Taylor Swift" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Sandy Hook, Columbine, Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice / ISIS, LeBron James, Shinzo Abe blown away / Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid / Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena / Michael Jordan, 23, Youtube killed MTV / SpongeBob, Golden State Killer got caught / Michael Jordan, 45, Woodstock '99 / Keaton Batman, Bush v. Gore, I can't take it anymore" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"Elon Musk, Kaepernick, Texas failed electric grid / Jeff Bezos, climate change, white rhino goes extinct / Great Pacific garbage patch, Tom DeLonge and aliens" - We Didn't Start The Fire

"SSRIs, Prince and The Queen die" - We Didn't Start The Fire

[void-tiger]

I still wonder about whether Jiro's death tied into Lance's end-of-series depression, considering how hard Lance cried immediately afterward and then how we see his expression turn sad when Shiro makes his "evil clone" remark. I know we don't see anyone mourn Jiro, but those two moments we get from Lance does make me wonder if he mourned Jiro and then HAD to "move on." I dunno, maybe this is applying more compassion into the series than there actually was, but it's a cold comfort

I’ve wondered the same thing.

I don’t blame Takashi for his anger at Jiro. Not at all. He deserves to be hurt and angry for being both left inside the astral plane and replaced with nobody realizing it (including Keith and Pidge, who arguably knew him the best because of his relationships with them before the Kerberos Mission), and it is one of the few times he’s even allowed to express himself (or have lines) at all.

But, I can’t forget Lance’s tears when he sees Jiro’s unconcious body. His words could be directed to both Takashi and Jiro...but I think they were intended more for Jiro. He’s speaking to Jiro’s body, not the BlackLion still sheltering Takashi’s soul. And I definitely can’t forget Lance’s growing distress and shame during Takashi’s one (1) tirade at Jiro’s expense (while venomously speaking out about the “evil clone” out of said clone’s lips).

Lance frantically apologized to Jiro’s body, but moved aside when Allura directed him to. Jiro died as a result.

Except he didn’t, as we learn literally an episode later.

And what place does Lance even have to even contradict Shiro when his instinct to keep Shiro’s Warning between him and Jiro, and Jiro finally finally confessing that something’s Not Right (because Lance respects “Shiro” too much to betray that trust; Shiro often forgets things when trauma’s involved) ...only resulted in Jiro getting mindcontroled and turned against the Team, then harvested like Lotor had done (only to a single person verses an entire surviving ethnic group).

Lance’s inaction because he was thinking like a Leg—an emotional support—contributed to this mess. So what right does he have to even protest. But not speaking up—yet again—makes things worse.

-

Granted, all of this is literally because of how Mir animated these scenes, with a side of Josh’s voice acting. I dunno how much we can credit Jeremy, since those lines unless you’re intentionally working from a There Are Two headcanon (which Josh held from the start and let it influence his voice acting) ...are ambiguous on their own. The writers and monsantos certainly never acknowledged Takashi and Jiro as their own persons, and therefore saw nothing wrong with harvesting a living body for another’s soul—and even using a minority who just learned her people were harvested to death to do it!

Everything about Jiro’s Death and using Allura to do it is beyond tonedeaf and absolutely senseless.

Which. So is even “killing” Shiro by destroying his body, but BlackLion cradled his soul...but he’s no longer the Black Paladin now...because...???

For pete’s sake. Transporter Shenanigans are quite literally a Scifi Staple, especially in Startrek. And last I checked the BlackLion is a teleporting Lion, and even holding Shiro’s soul is the quintessinal expression of their Bond. And what do you MEAN “the Bond is severed” (in interviews only, not canon) when by the end of s7 we see the remaining Paladins literally using the Lions as Remote Control Planes with their souls and Bonds alone, going so far as for the Lions to even transmit their voices despite the Paladins not being physically present inside them!

[ammcgee-author]

110. White Phosphorus Acid Sticks to Youth (Protest Song)

We shoot the sick, the young, the lame; we do our best to kill and maim -

No one’s counting, anyway -

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Nothing we do really counts, because we don’t keep body-counts -

There’s just a few more weeks till we pull out -

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Muslim farmers praying under the olive trees, Knock ‘em down with an F-14 —

Fill ‘em up with WP

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Muslims in the Mosque, trying to pray; but I can hear their Imam say,

"There'll be no Salah today, "

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Drone pilots doing what they please, flying low and feeling mean;

Dropping frags on refugees

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Show ‘em your the “Chosen Race,” teach ‘em how to steal and rape;

You’ll turn brown, if you hesitate -

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

It made us feel so good inside, when the strong men wept and the women cried,

But what we really liked, is when the children fried

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

See that family over there; Watch me get them with a pair,

Blood and guts just everywhere,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

White Phosphorus Acid, son, is lots of fun; it lights up the air like the light of the sun,

It gets the Arabs when on the run,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Drop some White Phosphorus on a town, hit them when the sun goes down;

It’ll just melt their bodies down,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

CIA with guns for hire, Monsanto Chiefs around a fire;

Willie Pete makes the fire, higher -

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

I've been told it's not so neat, to watch Arabs burning in the street;

But burning flesh, smells mighty sweet,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Children sucking on a mother's tit, wounded Arabs down in a .50 pit,

Raytheon doesn't give a shit,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Drone operators don't care a bit, Just as long as the pieces fit,

When you shove the bodies in a pit,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Eighteen kids in a No Fire Zone, Books under their arms and walking home,

Last in line goes home alone,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Don’t need the Swiss to tell us what to do; we never break, just bend the rules;

Just as long as we do what what we’re being told to do -

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Now, I’ve heard that war’s a drag

But The Pentagon, and the Mossad; they’re not so bad

They let us kill children, with a frag -

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Those Palestinians won’t know what hit ‘em — We’ll burn their flesh, fry, and mutilate them;

Just as long as they’ve got women and children with ‘em

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Shooting Muslims is lots of fun, try shooting one that’s pregnant, son —

You’ll get two, for the price of one.

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

Shoot civilians where they sit; Take some pictures as you split,

All your life you'll remember it -

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

U.S. Marines are all hardcore; “rape and pillage” never is a bore,

Throw those PSYOPS out the door,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth

Attack some kids when you go downtown; try throwing candy on the ground,

Then grease 'em when they gather 'round,

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth -

A squad of Towel-Heads in the grass, But all the fighting's long since past;

Crispy critters in a mass

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth

Tractors rollin' down the road; civilians with a heavy load

They're all just Terrorists when the bombs explode

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth.

Loaches out to have a blast, Drop some peon, kids en masse;

Send the remains to the Chief of Staff

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth.

I know you’re shocked; but don’t be naive, there’s no way that you can live or breathe

Without seeing these images -

White Phosphorus Acid sticks to youth.

Ain’t it the truth.

— By Soldiers of The —th Infantry, The Covered Wagon Musicians, and A.M. McGee

[systlin]

So I've gotta ask, why all the hate for Pete? Yeah, he jumped the gun, but I'm honestly a bit surprised that my entire feed is dunking on him all of a sudden. I guess I kinda figured he had made it through the worst of the attacks now that the debates are over, and like. He's maybe got one state. I saw people say they straight-up wouldn't vote if he got the nomination, isn't that defeating the point? And it hasn't even gotten that far? Sorry, this'll be my first election, I'm Very Confused

Because he’s happily sold out to wall street and has a lot of shady history working for companies like Monsanto and having some...poor history on race.

[blackkudos]

Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years, appearing in film, television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood.

Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963 and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than 300 performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92.

Early life

Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She was reportedly descended from the John C. Calhoun family, and both sides of her family were through a mixture of African, Native American, and European descent and belonged to the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated people. Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. (1893–1970), a numbers kingpin in the gambling trade, left the family when she was three and moved to an upper-middle-class African American community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron (1894–1976), was a granddaughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron; she was an actress with a black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was a Senegalese slave. Horne was raised mainly by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne.

When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia. For several years, she traveled with her mother. From 1927 to 1929, she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne, dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute (now part of Fort Valley State University) in Fort Valley, Georgia, who later served as an adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From Fort Valley, southwest of Macon, Horne briefly moved to Atlanta with her mother; they returned to New York when Horne was 12 years old. She then attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn that has since become Boys and Girls High School; she dropped out without earning a diploma. Aged 18, she moved to her father's home in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others.

Career

Road to Hollywood

In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade starring Adelaide Hall, who took Lena under her wing. Horne made her first screen appearance as a dancer in the musical short Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935). A few years later, Horne joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra, with which she toured and with whom she made her first records, issued by Decca. After she separated from her first husband, Horne toured with bandleader Charlie Barnet in 1940–41, but disliked the travel and left the band to work at the Cafe Society in New York. She replaced Dinah Shore as the featured vocalist on NBC's popular jazz series The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. The show's resident maestros, Henry Levine and Paul Laval, recorded with Horne in June 1941 for RCA Victor. Horne left the show after only six months when she was hired by former Cafe Trocadero (Los Angeles) manager Felix Young to perform in a Cotton Club-style revue on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.

Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a 1938 musical feature called The Duke is Tops (later reissued with Horne's name above the title as The Bronze Venus); and a 1941 two-reel short subject, Boogie Woogie Dream, featuring pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. Horne's songs from Boogie Woogie Dream were later released individually as soundies. Horne made her Hollywood nightclub debut at Felix Young's Little Troc on the Sunset Strip in January 1942. A few weeks later, she was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In November 1944, she was featured in an episode of the popular radio series Suspense, as a fictional nightclub singer, with a large speaking role along with her singing. In 1945 and 1946, she sang with Billy Eckstine's Orchestra.

She made her debut at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panama Hattie (1942) and performed the title song of Stormy Weather based loosely on the life of Adelaide Hall, (1943), at 20th Century Fox, while on loan from MGM. She appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky (1943), but was never featured in a leading role because of her race and the fact that her films had to be re-edited for showing in cities where theaters would not show films with black performers. As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were stand-alone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline. A notable exception was the all-black musical Cabin in the Sky, although one number from that film was cut before release because it was considered too suggestive by the censors: Horne singing "Ain't It the Truth" while taking a bubble bath. This scene and song are featured in the film That's Entertainment! III (1994) which also featured commentary from Horne on why the scene was deleted prior to the film's release. Lena Horne was the first African-American elected to serve on the Screen Actors Guild board of directors.

In Ziegfeld Follies (1946), she performed "Love" by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. Horne lobbied for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's 1951 version of Show Boat (having already played the role when a segment of Show Boat was performed in Till the Clouds Roll By, 1946) but lost the part to Ava Gardner, a personal friend in real life. Horne claimed this was due to the Production Code's ban on interracial relationships in films, but MGM sources state she was never considered for the role in the first place. In the documentary That's Entertainment! III, Horne stated that MGM executives required Gardner to practice her singing using Horne's recordings, which offended both actresses. Ultimately, Gardner's voice was overdubbed by actress Annette Warren (Smith) for the theatrical release.

Changes of direction

By the mid-1950s, Horne was disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She made only two major appearances for MGM during the 1950s: Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's final film); and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. She was blacklisted during the 1950s for her affiliations in the 1940s with communist-backed groups. She would subsequently disavow communism. She returned to the screen three more times, playing chanteuse Claire Quintana in the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, Glinda in The Wiz (1978), which was directed by her then son-in-law Sidney Lumet, and co-hosting the MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III (1994), in which she was candid about her unkind treatment by the studio.

After leaving Hollywood, Horne established herself as one of the premier nightclub performers of the post-war era. She headlined at clubs and hotels throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. In 1957, a live album entitled, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria, became the biggest-selling record by a female artist in the history of the RCA Victor label at that time. In 1958, Horne became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical" (for her part in the "Calypso" musical Jamaica) which, at Lena's request featured her longtime friend Adelaide Hall.

From the late 1950s through to the 1960s, Horne was a staple of TV variety shows, appearing multiple times on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, and The Bell Telephone Hour. Other programs she appeared on included The Judy Garland Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Andy Williams Show. Besides two television specials for the BBC (later syndicated in the U.S.), Horne starred in her own U.S. television special in 1969, Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne. During this decade, the artist Pete Hawley painted her portrait for RCA Victor, capturing the mood of her performance style.

In 1970, she co-starred with Harry Belafonte in the hour-long Harry & Lena special for ABC; in 1973, she co-starred with Tony Bennett in Tony and Lena. Horne and Bennett subsequently toured the U.S. and U.K. in a show together. In the 1976 program America Salutes Richard Rodgers, she sang a lengthy medley of Rodgers songs with Peggy Lee and Vic Damone. Horne also made several appearances on The Flip Wilson Show. Additionally, Horne played herself on television programs such as The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Sanford and Son in the 1970s, as well as a 1985 performance on The Cosby Show and a 1993 appearance on A Different World. In the summer of 1980, Horne, 63 years old and intent on retiring from show business, embarked on a two-month series of benefit concerts sponsored by the sorority Delta Sigma Theta. These concerts were represented as Horne's farewell tour, yet her retirement lasted less than a year.

On April 13, 1980, Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, and host Gene Kelly were all scheduled to appear at a Gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House to salute the NY City Center's Joffrey Ballet Company. However, Pavarotti's plane was diverted over the Atlantic and he was unable to appear. James Nederlander was an invited Honored Guest and noted that only three people at the sold-out Metropolitan Opera House asked for their money back. He asked to be introduced to Lena following her performance. In May 1981, The Nederlander Organization, Michael Frazier, and Fred Walker went on to book Horne for a four-week engagement at the newly named Nederlander Theatre on West 41st Street in New York City. The show was an instant success and was extended to a full year run, garnering Horne a special Tony award, and two Grammy Awards for the cast recording of her show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. The 333-performance Broadway run closed on Horne's 65th birthday, June 30, 1982. Later that same week, she performed the entire show again to record it for television broadcast and home video release. Horne began a tour a few days later at Tanglewood (Massachusetts) during the weekend of July 4, 1982. The Lady and Her Music toured 41 cities in the U.S. and Canada until June 17, 1984. It played in London for a month in August and ended its run in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14, 1984. In 1981, she received a Special Tony Award for the show, which also played to acclaim at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1984. Despite the show's considerable success (Horne still holds the record for the longest-running solo performance in Broadway history), she did not capitalize on the renewed interest in her career by undertaking many new musical projects. A proposed 1983 joint recording project between Horne and Frank Sinatra (to be produced by Quincy Jones) was ultimately abandoned, and her sole studio recording of the decade was 1988's The Men in My Life, featuring duets with Sammy Davis Jr. and Joe Williams. In 1989, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1995, a "live" album capturing Horne's Supper Club performance was released (subsequently winning a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album). In 1998, Horne released another studio album, entitled Being Myself. Thereafter, Horne retired from performing and largely retreated from public view, though she did return to the recording studio in 2000 to contribute vocal tracks on Simon Rattle's Classic Ellington album.

Civil rights activism

Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights Movement. In 1941, she sang at Cafe Society and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of black servicemen", according to her Kennedy Center biography. Because the U.S. Army refused to allow integrated audiences, she staged her show for a mixed audience of black U.S. soldiers and white German POWs. Seeing the black soldiers had been forced to sit in the back seats, she walked off the stage to the first row where the black troops were seated and performed with the Germans behind her. After quitting the USO in 1945 because of the organization's policy of segregating audiences, Horne financed tours of military camps herself.

She was at an NAACP rally with Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, the weekend before Evers was assassinated. She also met President John F. Kennedy at the White House two days before he was assassinated. She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, SNCC, and the National Council of Negro Women. She also worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws. Tom Lehrer mentions her in his song "National Brotherhood Week" in the line "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek" referring (wryly) to her and to Sheriff Jim Clark, of Selma, Alabama, who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965. In 1983, the NAACP awarded her the Spingarn Medal.

Horne was a registered Democrat and on November 20, 1963, she, along with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman John Bailey, Carol Lawrence, Richard Adler, Sidney Salomon, Vice-Chairwoman of the DNC Margaret B. Price, and Secretary of the DNC Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, visited John F. Kennedy at The White House, two days prior to his assassination.

Personal life

Horne married Louis Jordan Jones, a political operative, in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer) was born. They had a son, Edwin Jones (February 7, 1940 – September 12, 1970) who died of kidney disease. Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944. Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, who was music director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947 in Paris. They separated in the early 1960s, but never divorced; he died in 1971. In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial couple. She later admitted in an interview in Ebony (May 1980) that she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the "color-line" in show business.

Horne had affairs with Artie Shaw, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, and the boxer Joe Louis.

Horne also had a long and close relationship with Billy Strayhorn, whom she said she would have married if he had been heterosexual. He was also an important professional mentor to her. Screenwriter Jenny Lumet, known for her award-winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married, is Horne's granddaughter, the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Horne's daughter Gail. Her other grandchildren include Gail's other daughter, Amy Lumet, and her son's four children, Thomas, William, Samadhi, and Lena. Her great-grandchildren include Jake Cannavale.

From 1946 to 1962, Horne resided in a St. Albans, Queens, New York, enclave of prosperous African Americans, where she counted among her neighbors Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and other jazz luminaries.

Death

Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010. Her funeral took place at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York. Thousands gathered and attendees included Leontyne Price, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Lauren Bacall, Robert Osborne, Audra McDonald, and Vanessa Williams. Her remains were cremated.

Legacy

In 2003, ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biographical film. In the weeks following Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne had demanded Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives resisted Horne's demand", according to the Associated Press report, "but Jackson representatives told the trade newspaper that she left willingly after Horne and her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, asked that she not take part." Oprah Winfrey stated to Alicia Keys during a 2005 interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she might possibly consider producing the biopic herself, casting Keys as Horne.

In January 2005, Blue Note Records, her label for more than a decade, announced that "the finishing touches have been put on a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by the legendary Horne made during her time on Blue Note." Remixed by her longtime producer Rodney Jones, the recordings featured Horne with a remarkably secure voice for a woman of her years, and include versions of such signature songs as "Something to Live For", "Chelsea Bridge", and "Stormy Weather". The album, originally titled Soul but renamed Seasons of a Life, was released on January 24, 2006. In 2007, Horne was portrayed by Leslie Uggams as the older Lena and Nikki Crawford as the younger Lena in the stage musical Stormy Weather staged at the Pasadena Playhouse in California (January to March 2009). In 2011, Horne was also portrayed by actress Ryan Jillian in a one-woman show titled Notes from A Horne staged at the Susan Batson studio in New York City, from November 2011 to February 2012. The 83rd Academy Awards presented a tribute to Horne by actress Halle Berry at the ceremony held February 27, 2011.

In 2018, a forever stamp depicting Horne began to be issued; this made Horne the 41st honoree in the Black Heritage stamp series.

[captawesomesauce]

Thoughts at 10am...

I knew Biden would flame out... he only really has support of those who didn’t know him other than by meme’s and as Obama’s vp.

When you get to know him, you know why he really had no support, no “base,” and no energy. 

It’s interesting to see how much support Amy and Pete are getting.. didn’t expect that. I’m really sad to see Warren’s campaign flagging. I really really want her to do better, to be strong in this primary. I don’t think she’s perfect, but I do think she is special and can do a lot of good for a lot of people. 

I think there’s a lot of confusion over why the DNC doesn’t like Bernie, and his history with the party. Let me try and sum it up:

Political parties are about power. Power comes from controlling the Senate, the House, the Governors, the Mayors, the Judges, and even who is on the city councils. 

Look at Trump and Trumpism... that is power, and the RNC and conservative radio eat that shit up... because power. (aka corruption)

So what does this have to with Bernie? Bernie isn’t part of the DNC power system. He’s always been a part of his own causes, his own beliefs, his own leftist ideas. He’s strong headed, and doesn’t always play well with others. 

The DNC see him as a threat, they don’t see him as helping them retake the senate, they don’t see him as helping them make more states blue, or flip this or that. They see him as a threat because he doesn’t play well with their agenda. 

Remember, the DNC plays nicely with Wall St too, Obama hired a lot of Monsanto people, and is all about that corruption.. ahem... power.... 

But America has a 2 party system.... but America has been given a choice this time... Far Left, Center, Far Right... and we’ll see what it chooses. Bernie is definitely going to be the far left choice, but if the primary shows Pete or Amy winning, then it’ll be a Center choice vs Far Right. 

We’ll see which way America tacks. 

But the DNC, they need Bernie to lose, they need to attack him every way they can. They will rig the primaries, they will mess with the media, they will flood social media and spin stories, they will do everything possible, because he is an attack on their power. 

He’s not perfect, he is probably not even the best candidate, he’s probably not even the one you or I like... but just remember that when you see the stories out there, they’re there because he’s Jewish and because he’s not part of the ‘club’ and both things make him very, very unwelcome to a lot of people. 

Personally, I’m concerned more about his health and the fact that I think his ideas are amazing but I don’t see him being able to implement a lot of them, but then I thought Trump wouldn’t be able to either... but he wrote a new book on that didn’t he? Maybe there is something about this new “cult of personality” in today’s politics.

I’m going to miss Yang the most. I really hope he ends up with a high level cabinet spot.

When all is said and done, I don’t want Warren to walk out of this with nothing. I want her to have power and a big fucking stick. I don’t want her to be the next John Kerry. We don’t hear about him anymore. Do you hear about him? Where the fuck was John fucking Kerry during the impeachment trial? Where the fuck has his name been the last 4 years of Trump? Remember his run against Bush? He was supposed to be this great fucking guy.... and then faded the fuck away... He’s still a god damn Senator... but... quiet as a nobody. Way to go.  Warren... I want her to still be in the news every week making trouble, and pissing off the rich and making them cry! 

[jonathanalumbaugh]

Weekly Digest

January 7th, 2018, 6th issue.

A roundup of stuff I consumed this week. Published weekly. All reading is excerpted from the main article unless otherwise noted.

Read

Teen birth rates hit a new low in 2016, Boston has joined other cities in banning single-use plastic bags, Tesla restored electricity to a children's hospital in Puerto Rico after it was hit by hurricanes in September, the FDA cleared an earpiece that may help block symptoms of opioid withdrawal, 13 states saw record-lows of unemployment this year, Support for allowing same-sex marriage is at its highest point in 20 years, Vice President Mike Pence said in October that the U.S. "will return...to the moon not only to leave behind footprints and flags but to build the foundation we need to send Americans to Mars and beyond," a man in North Carolina has started the non-profit ChemoCars, a service that provides cancer patients with free rides to and from their chemo treatments, Uber partnered with the charity Whizz-Kidz to give those who use wheelchairs in the UK free rides to polling places this summer.

— 9 things America is getting right

This is not some “lite” version of Civ stripped down for touchscreen, mobile implementation. It’s the whole game.

— Civilization 6 on iPad is a marvel

First comment in thread: I keep seeing this referred to over and over, even TV Guide is calling the bad Cooper by the name BOB! In my opinion, this is something that people have been confusing for 25 years.

— Clarification: Cooper is not possessed by BOB

I got married two weeks ago. And like most people, I asked some of the older and wiser folks around me for a couple quick words of advice from their own marriage... Almost 1,500 people replied, many of whom sent in responses measured in pages, not paragraphs. It took almost two weeks to comb through them all, but I did. And what I found stunned me…

They were incredibly repetitive.

— Every successful relationship is successful for the same exact reasons

Explaining #Meltdown to non-technical spouse. “You know how we finish each other’s...” “Sandwiches?” “No, sentences. But you guessed ‘sandwiches’ and it was in your mind for an instant. And it was a password. And someone stole it while it was there, fleeting.” “Oh, that IS bad.”

— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman)

January 5, 2018

— Explaining Meltdown with parallel worlds, libraries, and a bank heist

TED Video: How to make stress your friend

— How to make stress your friend

A user visits a website, registers an account, and saves the data in the password manager. The tracking script runs on third-party sites. When a user visits the site, login forms are injected in the site invisibly. The browser’s password manager will fill out the data if a matching site is found in the password manager. The script detects the username, hashes it, and sends it to third-party servers to track the user.

— How web trackers exploit password managers

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was negligent in connection with one of the biggest bank failures of the financial crisis, a federal judge has ruled, opening up the Big Four accounting firm to the potential of hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

— Judge Says PricewaterhouseCoopers Was Negligent In Colonial Bank Failure

Whether we see an LTE version of the Nokia 3310 in the US is still a major question, as is the release date of this phone — not the mention the battery life, which took a major hit when it added 3G support.

— An LTE version of Nokia’s 3310 may be coming

The Big Five... has produced results that can be shown to remain largely consistent across a person’s lifespan and that can be used to predict at least some part of a person’s likely academic achievement, dating choices and even future parenting behavior. It has also been validated cross-culturally to some extent, Soto told me.

— Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. I Found One That Isn’t.

"Neither [Iraq] nor while I was in the military did I actually hear anyone ask whether we should be doing some of the research we were doing. You know, some of it was a little scary -- I don't know that it was necessarily unethical -- but nobody ever asked the question." -General Robert H. Latiff

— Nobody's Ready for the Killer Robot

If you are a low-wage worker who cuts your expenses to the bone in order to sock away $500 a year, on which you earn 8%, you will still not go more than a year in retirement without starving to death.

— Oh Damn, 401(k)s Aren't Magic

Ever stood at an intersection and prodded at, leaned on, elbowed and otherwise palm-slapped the ever-living hell out of a crosswalk button and wondered to yourself if the thing actually does anything at all, really? Well – chances are, it doesn't.

— Placebo buttons do absolutely nothing, and they are everywhere

Meanwhile, Pete is convinced the Log Lady stole his truck. But wait! It wasn’t the Log Lady. It was Windom Earle, says Cooper. How does he know? Well, look at the map up there. Duh. Try and keep up, people.

— Revisiting ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 2 Finale: An Appointment at the End of the World

In an interview with radio host John Catsimatidis in New York, Cohen said that it was clear that President Trump — like former President Obama — did not want to approve a plan to provide the new arms to Ukraine, but decided to do so in an attempt to shirk allegations that he has acted as a "Putin puppet."

— Russia expert: US decision to supply arms to Ukraine a 'mistake'

Scopophilia or scoptophilia (from Greek σκοπέω skopeō, "look to, examine" and φιλία philia, "tendency toward"), is deriving pleasure from looking.

— Scopophilia

The fatal swatting case started Thursday when a man called the 911 center in Wichita, Kansas, and said he'd shot his father and was holding his mother, sister and brother hostage inside a house, authorities said.

— Swatting case poses legal challenges for police, prosecutors

The IRS lets you claim investment-related losses on your tax return as long as you sell the money-losing investment at some point during the year. You can then use the resulting capital losses to offset any capital gains on other investments that you might have.

— Tax Loss Harvesting: Don't Wait Until Year-End to Save Thousands

Tesla was on the cover of Time magazine in 1931 but died a poor man in 1943 after years devoted to projects that did not receive adequate financing. Yet his most significant inventions resonate today.

— Tesla the Car Is a Household Name. Long Ago, So Was Nikola Tesla.

More than a century ago, in New York City, Paul Strand began creating some of the earliest candid street photography. His goal was to capture people as they act in public, unaware of the observing eye.

— Theater of the Streets, Shot On Google Glass

In 2016, psychologist Danielle Gunraj tested how people perceived one-sentence text messages that used a period at the end of the sentence. Participants thought these text messages were more insincere than those that didn’t have a period. But when the researchers then tested the same messages in handwritten notes, they found that the use of a period didn’t influence how the messages were perceived.

— There’s a reason using a period in a text message makes you sound angry

My beach wedding in Diani, Kenya, was supposed to begin at 4 p.m. It started two hours later. The reason: The photographer was late. He shrugged it off, blaming traffic. "I am here now and that is what matters," he said. Grrr, "Kenyan time."

That is what they call it in my homeland.

— Under 'Kenyan Time,' You're Expected To Arrive ... Oh, Whenever

The year 2017 was really successful for Vue.js. Even though the goals are partly fulfilled, I think that most of the goals are somehow achieved or getting more traction. Vue.js is spreading and a lot more companies are using it now, including: Behance, Adobe, Chess.com, GitLab, HERE Technologies, Car2Go, IBM, and many chinese companies like alibaba, ele.me

— Vue.js review of 2017

In 2007, Warren Buffett entered a million-dollar bet with the fund manager Protégé Partners that the S&P 500 would beat a basket of hedge funds over the next decade.

— Warren Buffett has won his $1 million bet against the hedge fund industry

Earlier today, Twitter published a five paragraph answer to the loudly, repeatedly-shouted question: “Why won’t you ban Donald Trump, a man who has actively used your platform to threaten nuclear annihilation against an entire country?”

— What Twitter's New Statement About Not Banning Trump Really Means

In South Carolina, for example, people hoping to buy a Siberian tiger to celebrate the new year are likely to be disappointed: As of Jan. 1, it is illegal in the state for typical residents — that is, if you're not a zoo — to buy or own exotic animals for pets.

— What's New In 2018? Here's A Brief Tour Of State Laws Now In Effect

Why people believe what they believe is a wide topic that many psychology professors investigate. And while Peterson’s lectures certainly do tend to focus on the idea of “pushing back,” the contents of them raise questions about whether the bad ideologies are the ones he’s rejecting or the ones he espouses.

— Why Is Monsanto Inviting This Alt-Right Hero to a Fireside Chat on Farming?

The danger is that such detailed, sensationalized coverage of suicide can prompt copycat behavior — a phenomenon called suicide contagion. “Suicide contagion is real, which is why I’m concerned about it.”

— YouTuber Logan Paul's video of a dead body put his own audience at risk

Then there’s the matter of how Uber treats its drivers. You know it’s not great, but it’s not as though competing services are much better. Before Uber, taxi companies were notoriously terrible employers. Lyft, like Uber, hires its drivers as independent contractors—they don’t get benefits or minimum-wage protection—and has cut their pay to make fares cheaper for riders.

— Are you a bad person if you still take Uber?

Forecasters are warning people to be wary of hypothermia and frostbite from the arctic blast that’s gripping a large swath from the Midwest to the Northeast.

— http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/30/niagara-falls-freezes-sharks-freezing-death-atlantic-7192401/?ito=cbshare

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  (http://www.MaritimeCyprus.com) On 16 April 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, the freighter GRANDCAMP, with a cargo of ammonium nitrate, small arms ammunition, machinery, and sisal twine, caught fire. The fire quickly spread to the nearby freighter HIGH FLYER, loaded with ammonium nitrate and sulphur. When the two ships exploded, it largely flattened the harbour area. It is estimated that over 600 people died in the explosion and fires (exact numbers were unattainable due to the extent of damage).

The US Coast Guard investigation of the casualty determined that the fire was initiated by unauthorized smoking in the cargo hold of the GRANDCAMP. It recommended, among other things, that regulations for carriage of dangerous goods be revised. Litigation ensuing from this tragedy ultimately resulted in enactment of the US Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA).

The First Explosion:

The fire on the S.S. Grandcamp produced a dense, brilliantly colored smoke that could be seen all over town. Fires around the docks were a fairly common occurrence in Texas City; it was not unusual for residents to travel down to the docks to watch the fires and the firemen working, which may explain why there were so many bystanders present — and subsequently so many casualties — at explosion of the S.S. Grandcamp.

The ammonium nitrate onboard the Grandcamp detonated at 9:12 a.m., rupturing the ship and sending the cargo of peanuts, tobacco, twine, bunker oil and the remaining bags of ammonium nitrate 2,000 to 3,000 feet into the air. Fireballs streaked across the sky and could be seen for miles across Galveston Bay as molten ship fragments erupted out of the pier. The blast caused a fifteen-foot tidal wave that crashed onto the dock and flooded the surrounding area. Windows were shattered in Houston, 40 miles to the north, and people in Louisiana felt the shock 250 miles away. Most of the buildings closest to the blast were flattened, and there were many more that had doors and roofs blown off. The Monsanto plant, only three hundred feet away, was destroyed by the blast.

Most of the Texas City Terminal Railways’ warehouses along the docks were a complete loss. Hundreds of employees, pedestrians and bystanders were killed. At the time of the Grandcamp’s explosion, only two additional vessels were docked in port: the S.S. High Flyer and the Wilson B. Keene, both American C-2 cargo ships similar to the Grandcamp.

The intensity of the blast sent shrapnel tearing into the surrounding area. Flaming debris ignited giant tanks full of oil and chemicals stored at the refineries, causing a set of secondary fires and smaller explosions. The Longhorn II, a barge anchored in port, was lifted out of the water by the sheer force of the explosion and landed 100 feet away on the shore. Buildings blazed long after the initial explosion, provoking large-scale emergency relief efforts throughout the day, that night, and into the following day.

The blast registered on a seismograph as far away as Denver, Colorado. Dockworker Pete Suderman remembers flying thirty feet as the blast carried him and several of the dock’s three-inch wooden planks across the pier. Nattie Morrow was in her home with her two children and sister-in-law Sadie. She watched the billowing smoke near the Monsanto plant from her back porch just prior to the blast. “Suddenly a thundering boom sounded, and seconds later the door ripped off its facing, skidded across the kitchen floor, and slammed down onto the table where I sat with the baby. The house toppled to one side and sat off its piers at a crazy angle. Broken glass filled the air, and we didn’t know what was happening.”

The chief and 27 firefighters from the Texas City Fire Department were killed in the initial blast. At the time of the explosion, phone services in Texas City were not working because of a telephone operators’ strike. When the operators learned of the accident, they quickly went back to work, but the strike caused an initial delay in coordinating rescue efforts.

Once operators began calling for help, rescue workers from all over the area began responding immediately. The U.S. Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Reserve and the Texas National Guard all sent personnel, including doctors, nurses and ambulances. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston sent doctors, nurses, and medical students. Firefighters from Galveston, Houston, Fort Crockett, Ellington Field, and surrounding towns arrived to help.

The cities of Galveston, Houston and San Antonio sent policemen to assist the Texas City Police Department in maintaining order after the explosion. The U.S. Army flew in blood plasma, gas masks, food, and other supplies, provided bull-dozers to begin clearing the wreckage, and set up temporary housing for the survivors at Camp Wallace in Hitchcock. The Red Cross, Salvation Army and the Boy and Girl Scouts of America sent a flood of volunteers who provided first aid, food, water and comfort to city residents. Volunteers from other local organizations — and others who were not part of any organization — felt compelled to offer what help they could.

There was no operational hospital in Texas City at the time of the disaster, so volunteers converted city hall and the chamber of commerce buildings into makeshift infirmaries. Many wounded were evacuated to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, the hospital at Fort Crockett, and hospitals in Houston.

  Flashback in maritime history: M/V GRANDCAMP explosion and Texas City disaster, 16 April 1947 (www.MaritimeCyprus.com) On 16 April 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, the freighter GRANDCAMP, with a cargo of ammonium nitrate, small arms ammunition, machinery, and sisal twine, caught fire.

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01.10.19 EUROPA Kiko Is Hot & MC Poça - Pink Monday - Lgbti

Info/Music@ facebook.com/KikoisHot youtube.com/user/KikoisHot facebook.com/clubeuropa

02.10.19 EUROPA Freaky Fiction - Generations Kinectiv Elektrik Boy  Gazul Psycokille

Próxima QUARTA 2 vamos ter mais um inicio de Outubro nas vossas Freaky Fiction @ Europa. Como LIVE ACT vamos contar com o Kinective, o qual vem festejar o seu aniversário connosco, trazendo todas as novidades que sairam do seu estúdio durante o Verão. Para continuar a noite vamos ter um dos tugas que mais tem dado cartas por todo o lado - Elektrik Boy - o qual nos vai levar por uma viagem que promete ser no mínimo inesquecível...para o Warm Up vamos ainda assistir pela primeira vez ao versus entre o Gazul e o Psycokiller.

03.10.19 FUSE RECORDS Fuse Records: Bairro Metropolitan (Entrada Livre / Free Entry)

O início de outubro traz água no bico. Entre os dias 3 e 6, o Terminal de Cruzeiros de Santa Apolónia é o palco de um novo conceito cultural diferente e atípico. A Fuse Records alia-se ao projeto e fica encarregue de encerrar cada noite no Fuse Garden. A não perder, com os artistas Fuse no Bairro Metropolitan. A entrada é livre. The beginning of October brings water in the nozzle. Between the 3rd and 6th, the Santa Apolónia Cruise Terminal is the stage for a different and atypical new cultural concept. Fuse Records allies with the project and is in charge of closing each night at Fuse Garden. Not to be missed with our Fuse artists in Bairro Metropolitan. The entry is free. - Entrada Livre / Free Entry Info: fb.com/bairrometropolitan/ #stepinside #fuserecords #bairrometropolitan

Quinta-feira, 3 de Outubro de 201923:59 – 03:00 (durante a noite)Quinta, Nox & Ramboiage

Sexta-feira, 4 de Outubro de 201923:59 – 03:00 (durante a noite)Sexta, Analodjica & GilvaiaSábado,

5 de Outubro de 2019 23:59 – 03:00 (durante a noite)Sábado, The Slum Vagabunds (All Night Long)

Domingo, 6 de Outubro de 201918:00 – 21:00Domingo, Fuse Showcase (Closing Sunset)

03.10.19 EUROPA Amuse-Bouche at Europa by LX Music Boltzman ✚ Unkn Form

soundcloud.com/boltzmanofficial facebook.com/BoltzmanMusic/ facebook.com/unknform/ facebook.com/lxmusic lxmusic.org facebook.com/clubeuropa

03.210.19 LUX FRÁGIL OUT3Somewhen x Phase Fatale x Dexter

O techno inovador de Phase Fatale e Somewhen na nossa Disco, com o Dexter.

04.10.19 LX Music Open Air 2019 - Season Closing Planetary Assault Systems (LIVE) Mote-Evolver / Ostgut Ton - UK La Fleur  Power Plant - SWE Setaoc Mass Sk_eleven / Figure - UK John-E LX Music  Himan LX Music Trigger LX Music Francisca Urbano

October 4th, at Sesimbra Natura Park, we invite you to close the summer season with the LX MUSIC OPEN AIR 2019 - 'Season Closing'

04.10.19 5A CLUB Kaesar 

04.10.19 LUX FRÁGIL Citizen Lux: Âme DJ x Rui Vargas

É fácil ser DJ, mas não é fácil ser um bom DJ. Quem é o diz é Kristian Beyer, a metade-DJ da dupla Âme e a metade que nos visitará desta vez. A afirmação é forte, mas tem sustento lógico: afinal, não é só ter bons discos mas sim o que se faz com eles. E na hora da verdade, Kristian sabe do que fala. E nós sabemos do que ele é capaz. Sim, ele é dos Bons. Segunda noite #CitizenLux com Âme DJ como anfitrião. 

04.10.19 KREMLIN REBELS Pres. MARCO FARAONE EAT  DUST

DetalhesMarco Faraone lidera os destinos da REBELS a 4 de Outubro, sexta-feira. O italiano, DJ e produtor, tem-se distinguido pela sua versatilidade e entrega oscilando entre o house e o techno. Nesta noite, Faraone vai dobrar o contínuo espácio-temporal para nos levar aos confins da galáxia com um set especial, mais longo do que o habitual. EAT DUST completa o alinhamento numa noite em que a pista do KREMLIN faz ainda mais justiça ao mote “the place to be”.

#Kremlin #PlastikGalaxy #Rebels #Lisboa #Underground #Techno #MarcoFaraone #EatDust

04.10.19 MINISTERIUM CLUB LIVE X Years / 10º Aniversário ANIMAL PICNIC PEDRO WALTER MODERN TALKER JACK BELLY

Sexta-feira, dia 4 de Outubro, festejamos o nosso 10º aniversário, convidamos alguns dos nossos artistas favoritos e queremos estar rodeados dos nossos verdadeiros amigos e seguidores, para vos agradecer todo o vosso apoio ao longo destes fantásticos 10 anos.

04.10.19 LX Music Open Air 2019 - Season Closing  Sesimbra Natura ParkEstrada Nacional 378, Km 13,9, 2970 Sesimbra

La Fleur Power Plant - SWE Setaoc Mass Sk_eleven / Figure - UK John-E LX Music  Himan LX Music Trigger LX Music

Francisca Urbano

[ALINHAMENTO PALCO LXM DJ  ACADEMY / LXM DJ ACADEMY LINEUP]:

Bernas Lost on Earth Ornella RED-B Pete Naz Zazu UNKN Form

05.10.19 5A CLUB Pohl + Gonçalo 

05.10.19 LUX FRÁGIL Leon Vynehall x Zé Pedro Moura x Inês Duarte

No último álbum, "Nothing Is Still", Leon Vynehall imaginou a banda sonora para uma história que escreveu, centrada na emigração dos seus avós de Inglaterra para Nova Iorque, na década de 1960. Mas na cabine a história é a sua, ou antes, ele vai adicionando pontos na sua narrativa enquanto DJ. Desde "Music For The Uninvited" em 2014, na verdade desde "Gold Language" em 2012, Leon tem explorado o ponto de encontro entre a tradição UK Garage, com linhas de baixo bem vivas, e o que se pode chamar de construção House em progresso, a eterna remodelação deste género basilar na música de dança dos últimos 30 anos, informado pelo Funk, Soul e Hip Hop que ouvia a caminho da escola.

Isso ajuda a explicar a riqueza harmónica da sua música, o modo como tende a encher o espaço em que é escutada.

Ele chega a 2019 em ascensão, uma carreira de pouco mais de meia década mas assente em pontos luminosos da cena editorial contemporânea: 3024, Running Back, Clone, Ninja Tune, por exemplo. Depois, quando mistura uma faixa de piano e batida seca com "I, Zimbra" dos Talking Heads e sai para Disco, aí acabou-se. É o maior.

Texto: José Moura

05.10.19 KREMLIN MHMD, Eat Dust & Dexx

Dia de Implantação da República, noite de tech house e minimal no KREMLIN. O convidado especial do sábado, 5 de Outubro, é MHMD, o DJ suíço-marroquino que começou a sua carreira musical em Beirute, no Líbano e, desde então, tem trilhado um caminho original e distintivo na cena underground, mantendo uma residência no D Club de Lausanne, na Suíça. A noite não se completa sem EAT DUST e Dexx, que trarão a sua selecção musical e mestria na mistura.

06.10.19  Flow presents Magit Cacoon, KMLN, Kasey Taylor

Estamos de volta mais uma vez para celebrar o fim da temporada de verão. Como sempre gostamos de inovar e trazemos mais dois nomes inéditos em Portugal e que andam a dar cartas por esse mundo fora. Já os seguimos há muito tempo e sabemos que mais uma vez iremos sair com um sorriso na cara. O espaço já conhecemos, o idílico Montes Claros-Lisbon Secret Spot em Monsanto, com um maravilhoso jardim como pano de fundo. A primeira convidada é a israelita Magit Cacoon, parte da equipa e tour Diynamic liderada por Solomun e que igualmente conta com varias edições na Crosstown Rebels, de Damien Lazarus, fazendo parte activa da sua tour Get Lost . Estamos mesmo bastante contentes com a sua estreia em terras lusas. O segundo nome que já tivemos o prazer de ouvir várias vezes fora de Portugal são os maravilhosos KMLN (lê-se Kameleon), o casal italo canadiano com actual residência em Berlin, que funde deep house, tribal, etno nomadic misturado com percussão ao vivo. Uma agenda mundial super preenchida, edições na Sol Selectas, Bar25, Crosstown Rebels, etc, com a fortissima capacidade e fazer magia na pista, não irão deixar ninguém indiferente. E, de volta, o nosso australiano favorito, Kasey Taylor que voltou à carga e vem preparado para aquecer a pista A acompanhar a prata da casa Pena e Kokeshi. Contamos com todos vocês para mais uma grande festa. Lembramos que estes eventos acontecem apenas 2x por ano. Venham cedo que acaba cedo (after party para quem tem pulseira do evento em local a anunciar brevemente)

[jaydoubl]

Tune In: Will Packer Launches New Interactive Live Stream Series About Twitter, On Twitter Source: Pete Monsanto / Courtesy of Estabrook Group In two weeks, Will Packer Media will launch a new half-hour live

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Georgia Fowler by Pete Monsanto | New York Fashion Week

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I just watched the first two new Mickey Mouse shorts on Disney+ and it’s great to see Disney bringing back the Mickey Mouse series with a new title(The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse)and a new home on Disney+,it’s been a year since Disney halted the series for a while for several months due to the sudden death of Russi Taylor(1946-2019),the voice of Minnie Mouse. Makes also since the final short on Disney Channel,”Carried Away” was her last performance as Minnie and she did her very best singing here. Now with a new actress from Minnie,Katilyn Robrock(Voice of Felicity from Amphibia and Retsko’s Mom in Aggretsko),Disney has brought back the new shorts on Disney+,Anyway let’s look at the first two shorts and count the references I spotted

The first short,Cheese Wranglers was very nice seeing Mickey and The Gang being put in a wild-west setting wrangling wheels of cheese and saving them from Pete and his minions.

I loved how Disney’s obscure character,Humphrey The Bear showed up during Mickey’s “The Code” song.

I really liked Pete’s minions are weasels,based off the ones from Disney’s”Mr.Toad” and the Toon Patrol From Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Also,the town Mickey and The Gang take the cattle to is modeled after Frontierland with a bit of Mark Twain in it.

Mostly,my favorite scene is seeing the closeup realistic shots of Mickey,Donald,and Goofy’s faces. My favorite one was this

The second short,”House of Tommorrow” was kinda inspired by Donald Duck’s Modern Inventions(1937) and Tex Avery’s own House of Tommorrow(1949) with Mickey,Donald,and Goofy back at Ludwig Von Drake’s Hall of Science once again,only this time, they check out his newest invention,The house of the future based off Disneyland’s Monsanto sponsored attraction,The Monsanto House of the future. My favorite scene is when Mickey sings A Great Big Beautiful Tommorrow before he finishes reading Bambi,as he reads Bambi,the house’s A.I. tells him that his mother dies and Mickey slams the book and looks at the monitor in annoyance. Fun Fact is that the A.I.’s voice is none other than Alan Tudyk(the voice of King Candy,Duke Weaselton,River Butterfly,and Ludo).

Also,I spotted a portrait of a costumed Mickey Mouse-Esque Minnie from the 1930’s when A.I. took advantage of Mickey’s relationship with Minnie by making him write letters and did disturbing portraits of her. I really find A.I to be similar to AUTO from Pixar’s Wall-E. I really enjoyed these shorts, proving that Disney’s new Mickey Mouse toons still hold up after 7 years.. and as for Mickey,Happy 92nd Birthday,Mickey Mouse!

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Mark Lynas’ Inaccurate, Deceptive Promotions for Cornell Alliance for Science

Mark Lynas is a former journalist turned promotional advocate for genetically engineered foods and pesticides who makes inaccurate claims about those products from his perch at the Gates Foundation-funded Cornell Alliance for Science. Housed at Cornell University since 2014, the Cornell Alliance for Science is a public relations campaign that trains spokespeople and creates networks of influence, particularly in African countries, to promote acceptance of GMOs and agrichemicals.

Scientists, food experts say Lynas is wrong on science

Scientists and food policy experts have criticized Lynas for making inaccurate and unscientific statements in his efforts to promote agribusiness interests. As one example, academics panned a July 2020 article Lynas wrote for Cornell Alliance for Science claiming agroecology “risks harming the poor.” Critics described Lynas’ article as a “demagogic and non-scientific interpretation of a scientific paper” and a “really flawed analysis” that “erroneously conflates conservation ag with agroecology and then makes wild conclusions.” The agronomist Marc Corbeels, whose paper Lynas purported to describe in the article, said Lynas made “sweeping generalizations.” Marcus Taylor, a political ecologist at Queen’s University, called for a retraction; “the right thing to do would be to withdraw your very flawed piece that confuses basic elements of agricultural strategies,” Taylor tweeted to Lynas. He described the article as “pure ideology” and “an embarrassment for someone who wants to claim to be ‘scientific’.” More critiques from scientists and policy experts about Lynas’ work (emphases ours):

“I can unequivocally state that there is no scientific consensus about GMO safety and that most of (Lynas’) statements are false,” wrote David Schubert, PhD, Head, Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory & Professor at The Salk Institute, in a letter to the San Diego Union Tribune.

“Here are some of the incorrect or misleading points that Lynas makes about the science or development of GE,” wrote Doug Gurian-Sherman, PhD, former senior scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists. “Instead of debating or discussing the actual science, Lynas casts aspersions and resorts to relying on authority rather than data or research.”

Lynas’ claims about the certainty of GMO safety are “unscientific, illogical and absurd,” according to Belinda Martineau, PhD, a genetic engineer who helped develop the first GMO food (see letter to NYT and Biotech Salon).

In a review of Lynas’ book Seeds of Science, the anthropologist Glenn Davis Stone described the book as an “amateurish rehash of common industry talking points.” 

“The laundry list of what Mark Lynas got wrong about both GMOs and science is extensive, and has been refuted point by point by some of the world’s leading agroecologists and biologists,” wrote Eric Holt-Giménez, PhD, former director Food First, in the Huffington Post.

Mark Lynas has “made a career out of … demonization,” wrote Timothy A. Wise, former director of research at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.

“Lynas’ narrative is demonstrably false,” according to a 2018 press release from the African Centre for Biodiversity, a South-Africa based group.

“Mark Lynas’ claims display deep scientific ignorance, or an active effort to manufacture doubt. You should ignore him,” tweeted Pete Myers, PhD, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, publisher of EHN.org.

‘Manipulative, misleading and unethical’ tactics

Africa-based groups say Lynas has repeatedly misrepresented facts to promote a political agenda. According to a December 2018 report by the African Center for Biodiversity, Lynas and the Cornell Alliance for Science used the images of African farmers without their knowledge and consent, exploiting the images in misleading ways to claim farmers need GMOs.

Lynas used this image of a Tanzanian farmer, Mrs. R, out of context and without her permission.

As one example, Lynas posted this image of a Tanzanian farmer, Mrs. R, without permission and out of context, suggesting she is a victim of “global injustice.” Mrs. R is in fact a successful farmer who champions agroecological practices and makes a good living, according to the ACBio report. She asked Lynas to remove her image, but it remains on his twitter feed. ACBio said in its report that Lynas’ tactics “crossed an ethical red line and must cease.” The food sovereignty group also said in a press release that Lynas has a “history of mischief-making in Tanzania” for the agricultural biotech industry lobby. “His visits to the country are well organized by the lobby, using platforms such as the regular meetings of the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB), where the media are in attendance to report on his talks. His attacks have principally been directed at the country’s biosafety regulations, particularly its precautionary approach and strict liability provisions.” The Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA), a coalition representing 35 farmer and consumer groups across Africa, has also accused Lynas of promoting “false promises, misrepresentation, and alternative facts.” In a 2018 article, they described Lynas as a “fly-in pundit” whose “contempt for African people, custom and tradition is unmistakable.”

Pesticide messaging based on industry talking points, not science

Another example of inaccurate reporting by Lynas is his 2017 article for the Cornell Alliance for Science attacking the World Health Organization’s cancer agency for reporting glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen. Lynas claimed the expert panel report was a “witch hunt” and an “obvious perversion of both science and natural justice,” orchestrated by people overcome with “hysteria and emotion.” He claimed glyphosate is the “most benign chemical in world farming.” A fact check by U.S. Right to Know found that Lynas made the same misleading and erroneous arguments and relied on the same two flawed sources as a blog posted a month earlier by the American Council on Science and Health, a group Monsanto was paying to help defend glyphosate and other agrichemical products. In pushing his case that “activist groups abused science and sidelined evidence-based policy in the glyphosate saga,” Lynas not only relied on industry arguments and sources, but also ignored substantial evidence, widely reported in the media, that Monsanto manipulated the science and regulatory reviews on glyphosate for decades using covert tactics including ghostwriting studies and articles, killing studies, pushing dubious science, attacking scientists and strong-arming regulatory agencies in order to protect its profits from glyphosate-based products.

Promoted by, tied to pesticide industry propaganda network

Agrichemical companies and their public relations operatives frequently promote Mark Lynas and his work. See for example Monsanto’s website, many promotional tweets by pesticide industry trade groups, lobby groups, pro-industry academics and writers, and various Monsanto employees, and the dozens of Lynas’ articles promoted by Genetic Literacy Project, a propaganda group that partners with Monsanto. Lynas and Cornell Alliance for Science also collaborate with other key players in the agrichemical industry’s lobbying and propaganda network.

Advises Monsanto partner group Sense About Science

A confidential Monsanto PR plan dated February 2015 suggested Sense About Science as a group that could help lead the industry’s response in the media to discredit the WHO cancer report about glyphosate. Lynas serves on the advisory council of Sense About Science. The Intercept has reported in 2016 that “Sense About Science does not always disclose when its sources on controversial matters are scientists with ties to the industries under examination,” and “is known to take positions that buck scientific consensus or dismiss emerging evidence of harm.” Sense About Science partners with the Cornell Alliance for Science to offer “statistical consultation for journalists” via the group’s director Trevor Butterworth, who has been described by journalists as a “chemical industry public relations writer.” Related: Monsanto relied on these “partners” to attack top cancer scientists

Aligned with climate science skeptic to launch pro-fracking, pro-nuke, GMO “movement”

Lynas calls himself a co-founder of the “movement” of “ecomodernism,” a corporate-aligned strain of “environmentalism” that the British writer George Monbiot describes as “take no political action to protect the natural world.” The eco-modernists promote fracking, nuclear power and agrichemical products as ecological solutions. According to eco-modernist leaders Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute, energy technologies favored by the oil billionaire Koch brothers “are doing far more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than the ones favored by the climate-apocalyptic Left.” At a failed launch event for ecomodernism in September 2015, Lynas aligned himself with Owen Paterson, a prominent climate science denialist in the UK who slashed funding for efforts to prepare the country for global warming when he was the environment secretary. The same month, Paterson spoke at Cornell Alliance for Science, where he promoted GMOs in a hyperbolic speech filled with unsupportable claims, and accused environmentalists of allowing children to die in Africa. “Billion dollar green campaigns kill poor children,” touted a headline reporting on Paterson’s Cornell speech from the  American Council on Science and Health, a front group Monsanto was paying to defend its products.

Mark Lynas background

Lynas authored several books on climate change (one of which was recognized by the Royal Society) before he attracted worldwide attention with his “conversion” from an anti-GMO activist to a promoter of the technology with a widely-promoted 2013 speech at Oxford that critics have described as misleading. Later that year Lynas became a fellow at Cornell University Office of International Programs at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and began working for the Cornell Alliance for Science, a communications campaign developed in 2014 to promote GMOs with funding from the Gates Foundation. See: Why is Cornell University hosting a GMO propaganda campaign? Lynas identified himself as the “political director” for Cornell Alliance for Science in a 2015 New York Times op-ed. The Cornell Alliance for Science does not explain what its political agenda is, but the group’s messaging and goals closely track the agrichemical industry’s commercial agenda: to increase acceptance of genetically engineered crops and pesticides around the world, particularly in Africa.

Mysterious Lynas PR push, and leaked EuropaBio memo

The massive media coverage of Lynas’ pro-GMO conversion in 2013 raised suspicions that an industry PR campaign was helping to elevate him behind the scenes. A leaked 2011 memo from an industry PR firm – describing plans to recruit high profile “ambassadors” to lobby for GMO acceptance – heightened suspicions of industry backing because the document specifically named Lynas. He has said the group never approached him. According to a Guardian report, EuropaBio, a trade group whose members include Monsanto and Bayer, planned to recruit PR ambassadors to help decision makers “rethink Europe’s position on GM crops.” The ambassadors would not be paid directly but would receive travel expenses and “dedicated communications support” from industry funding. The PR firm’s operative rep claimed to “have interest from” Lynas, among others, in the ambassador role. Lynas denied having any contact with them. “I have not been asked to be an ambassador, nor would I accept such a request if asked,” he told the Guardian.

Gates Foundation, GMOs & Monsanto

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the principal funder for the Cornell Alliance for Science with $12 million in grants, has been criticized for its agricultural development funding strategies that favor corporate agribusiness agendas. A 2014 analysis from the research group GRAIN found that the Gates Foundation spent most of its agricultural development funds “to feed the poor in Africa” — nearly $3 billion spent over a decade — to fund scientists and researchers in wealthy nations. The money also helps buy political influence across Africa, GRAIN reported. A 2016 report by the advocacy group Global Justice Now concluded that the Gates Foundation’s agricultural development strategies are “exacerbating global inequality and entrenching corporate power globally.” The Gates Foundation massively expanded its funding for agricultural projects about a decade ago when Rob Horsch, Monsanto’s former head of international development joined the foundation’s agricultural development leadership team. Lynas’ new book “Seeds of Science” spends a chapter (“The True History of Monsanto”) trying to explain some of the corporation’s past sins and lauding Rob Horsch at length. It spends another chapter (“Africa: Let Them Eat Organic Baby Corn”) arguing that Africans need agrichemical industry products to feed themselves.

Criticisms of the Gates Foundation’s colonialist approach to Africa

Seeds of Neo-Colonialism: Why the GMO Promoters Get it So Wrong About Africa, statement by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, 5/7/2018

Are Gates and Rockefeller using their influence to set agenda in poor states?“Study identifies Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller foundations among rich donors that are close to government and may be skewing priorities,” by John Vidal, The Guardian, 1/15/2016

Philanthropic Power and Development. Who shapes the agenda? by Jens Martens and Karolin Seitz, 2015 report (page 48).

Philanthrocapitalism: The Gates Foundation’s African programmes are not charity, by Philip L Bereano, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, Third World Resurgence, 2017

How Bill Gates is Helping KFC Take Over Africa, by Alex Park, Mother Jones, 1/10/2014

Gates Foundation’s Seed Agenda in Africa ‘Another Form of Colonialism,’ Warns Protesters, by Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, 3/23/2015

Gates Foundation is spearheading neoliberal plunder of African agriculture, by Colin Todhunter, The Ecologist, 1/21/2016

How does the Gates Foundation spend its money to feed the world?GRAIN report, 2014

Bill Gates is on a mission to sell GMOs to Africa, but he’s not telling the whole truth, by Stacy Malkan, Alternet, 3/24/2016

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