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littlemissmartypants's JournalIn Real Life: A Hidden War, Scripps News
From Gaza to the West Bank, this In Real Life documentary shows how a war in response to terror has reignited a conflict over claiming and clearing land.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/documentaries/in-real-life/in-real-life-a-hidden-war
By: Sebastian Walker
Posted at 8:07 PM, Apr 28, 2024
Editor's Note: This project is in partnership with Bellingcat. Read Bellingcats full companion article here.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/29/weve-become-addicted-to-explosions-the-idf-unit-responsible-for-demolishing-homes-across-gaza/
A war following the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 continues to take its toll on civilians*. Israels stated aim in this conflict was to remove Hamas and bring hostages home. But in this documentary for In Real Life, on-the-ground reporting and open-source intelligence show how the conflict has expanded, growing into a campaign of clearing and claiming land from Gaza to the West Bank.
Hamas fighters first breached the border with Israel at the Erez border crossing. The crossing was a closed military zone from Oct. 7, 2023 until it reopened April 5 to allow more aid into Gaza. When the In Real Life crew filmed there in March, a group of Israeli settlers were trying to push their way through the crossing, aiming to take over areas of Gaza that had been evacuated by Palestinians.
A few yards from the scuffles at the crossing, you can still see damage from when Erez was stormed by Hamas fighters. A facility here was the security terminal for people coming in and out of Gaza. The signs of the attack cover this terminal.
Hamas fighters filmed celebratory videos of the destruction, and around 1,200 Israelis were killed in the violence that would ensue hundreds were taken hostage including women and children as young as 9 months old.
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https://www.scrippsnews.com/documentaries/in-real-life/in-real-life-a-hidden-war
*PDF file
If you would like to watch the In Real Life report by Scripps News you need to follow this link to their website. No current YouTube link exists. The total run time for the video is 43'41" which is accompanied by the written report which is essentially a transcript of the video with some minor changes.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/documentaries/in-real-life/in-real-life-a-hidden-war
Sebastian Walker is an Emmy, Peabody, and DuPont-winning journalist with more than 20 years experience covering the world's biggest stories. An editorial leader, investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker, and TV correspondent, Walker specializes in immersive, kinetic long form storytelling from challenging environments and in fast-moving situations.
Walker was one of the first international journalists to arrive in Kabul following the Taliban's takeover, producing an hour-long documentary special for VICE on Showtime that aired just weeks later and won the Emmy for best long form storytelling. Walker's work from the front lines of the fight against ISIS in Iraq won an Emmy for outstanding continuing coverage of the offensive in Mosul, and he won another for documenting the final battle to end the ISIS caliphate in Syria.
Before joining VICE, Walker was host of the Emmy award-winning documentary show Fault Lines on Al Jazeera, covering protests in Ferguson, the CIA torture program, the Arab Spring uprisings, famine in East Africa, the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, and multiple U.S. presidential elections. Previous to that, Walker was Al Jazeera's Haiti correspondent, arriving in Port-au-Prince less than 24 hours after the January 2010 earthquake and staying more than a year to document its aftermath - he broke the story of UN peacekeepers bringing a cholera epidemic to Haiti.
Walker has won acclaim for his work from Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Somalia, Haiti, Libya, El Salvador, Iran and the Sahel among many others. He currently lives in Washington DC and enjoys spending time with his 8-year-old son.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/sebastian-walker
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So High School, Taylor Swift
So High School Lyrics
[Intro]
I feel so high school every time I look at you
I wanna find you in a crowd just to hide from you
[Chorus]
And in a blink of a crinklin' eye
I'm sinkin', our fingers entwined
Cheeks pink in the twinklin' lights
Tell me 'bout the first time you saw me
I'll drink what you think and I'm high
From smokin' your jokes all damn night
The brink of a wrinkle in time
Bittersweet sixteen suddenly
[Post-Chorus]
I'm watchin' American Pie with you on a Saturday night
Your friends are around, so be quiet
I'm tryin' to stifle my sighs
'Cause I feel so high school every time I look at you
But look at you
[Interlude]
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah
[Verse 1]
Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me? (Kill me)
It's just a game, but really (Really)
I'm bettin' on all three (All three) for us two
Get my car door, isn't that sweet? (That sweet)
Then pull me to thе backseat (The backseat)
No onе's ever had me (Had me), not like you
[Bridge]
Truth, dare, spin bottles
You know how to ball, I know Aristotle
Brand-new, full throttle
Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto
It's true, swear, scout's honor
You knew what you wanted and, boy, you got her
Brand-new, full throttle
You already know, babe
[Verse 2]
I feel like laughin' in the middle of practice
Do that impression you did of your dad again
I'm hearing voices like a madman
[Chorus]
And in a blink of a crinklin' eye
I'm sinkin', our fingers entwined
Cheeks pink in the twinklin' lights
Tell me 'bout the first time you saw me
I'll drink what you think, and I'm high
From smokin' your jokes all damn night
The brink of a wrinkle in time
Bittersweet sixteen suddenly
[Post-Chorus]
I'm watchin' American Pie with you on a Saturday night
Your friends are around, so be quiet
I'm tryin' to stifle my sighs
'Cause I feel so high school (Feel so high school) every time I look at you
But look at you
[Outro]
Truth, dare, spin bottles
You know how to ball, I know Aristotle
Brand-new, full throttle
Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto
It's true, swear, scout's honor (Yeah)
You knew what you wanted and, boy, you got her
Brand-new, full throttle (Yeah)
You already know, babe
You already know, babe
Written by Taylor Swift & Aaron Dessner.
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So High School is rumored to be about Swifts' most recent relationship, Travis Kelce, who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs an American Football Team.
Most notably, the track refers to a few lyrics that can be related back to Kelce.
Are you gonna marry, kiss or kill me? (Kill me)
May be a reference to a resurfaced interview from 2016, in which Travis Kelce chose to kiss Taylor in a game of Kiss, Marry, Kill.
You knew what you wanted and, boy, you got her
May be referencing how Kelce revealed in an interview that he made Swift a friendship bracelet with his number on it and attending one of her Eras Tour Concerts.
You know how to ball, I know Aristotle
May refer to the fact that Kelce is a player on the popular American Football Team The Kansas City Chiefs
It is a bonus track from Swifts 11th studio album, and as such is rumored to be one of the later produced tracks in the timeline as its contents refers to recent events.
https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-so-high-school-lyrics
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The visually impaired might visit the site. Then posters who are mindful of the visually impaired, knowing in this day and age of advances like the ability to have articles read to you and other advanced capabilities available to the visually impaired and us all, could be used.
But only if the posters are mindful and provide a written description of the visual information being presented. If that special detail had been incorporated into this post of having taken the time to provide a description then many of us who can not enjoy the content because of the original owner deleting it would be "in on the joke." As it stands the joke's on us.
We have revealed our weakness in not being an inclusive community and consequently we exclude ourselves.
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American Foundation for the Blind
~Assistive Technology Products
In this section, you will find a comprehensive listing of assistive technology products used by people who are blind or visually impaired organized by category. Snip...
https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/assistive-technology-products
~Using Technology for Reading: Solutions for People with Visual Impairments and Blindness
If you lose vision gradually, you may go from reading glasses to prescription lenses, from large print books to hand-held magnifying glasses. Eventually, however, many reach the point where not even a strong magnifying glass will make text large enough to read. And if your blindness is sudden you may go from reading perfectly fine to not reading at all without the intervening steps.
Whether you lose your sight gradually or all of a sudden, you will be shocked by how much your daily life can be impacted by the inability to read. From scanning the morning mail to kicking back with the latest best-selling thriller, its true what they say: Reading is fundamental.
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https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/using-technology-reading-solutions-people-visual
~Cell Phones, Tablets, and Other Mobile Technology for Users with Visual Impairments
The Mobile Revolution
by Bill Holton, AccessWorld Correspondent
If you've ever watched an episode of Star Trek, you will doubtless recall how the crew of the Starship Enterprise was able to keep in touch with each other by means of a small device, called a communicator, attached to their uniforms, and to access data and a galaxy of other information via hand-held tricorders. In the 60s, 70s, and 80s, this was far-in-the-future, pipedream, science-fiction stuff. But in the early 90s, science fiction started becoming reality with the introduction of mobile phones. By the early 2000s, we regularly communicated on the go using Short Message Service (SMS) text messages, and soon e-mail and Web browsing capabilities were added to our cell phones, which we dubbed "smartphones."
Over the past several years the number of smartphone users has exploded. The capabilities of these devices have doubled and redoubled, so that today we can carry a device in our pocket that has more processing power and memory storage than that possessed by the world's fastest supercomputers of just a few decades ago. Today you can check your e-mail, the weather forecast, or a stock quote on your mobile device. Want to know which movie won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1973? Speak to your smartphone and ask the question, from anywhere, and in a second or so you'll have the answer: The Sting, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Want to watch it? Use your smartphone to log onto Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, or another online video streaming service and you can watch it right on your phone. You could also choose to view The Sting on a touch tablet like the iPad, which includes most of the capabilities and features of a smartphone with a larger display.
If you've used a smartphone these past several years, you already know that a great deal of voice command capabilities come built in to most current models, so you can verbally instruct your smartphone to "Call my wife," or "Read my last text message." In addition, the three major smartphone platformsApple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Windows Phoneall include built-in screen readers similar to those that allow you to use your PC or Mac computer with little or even no vision. So, now you can read a webpage, compose an e-mail, or use your phone's GPS function to help you find the nearest coffee shop.
Most smartphones have replaced a majority of their physical buttons and other controls with visual icons that appear on a smooth glass touchscreen. You use a finger to select and activate these icons, and to enter phone numbers, messages, and other text via visual representations of keyboards and number pads. At first glance, so to speak, a touchscreen would appear to present insurmountable difficulties for those with visual impairments. You may be saying to yourself, "On my home phone I can still feel my way across, up, and down the keypad to dial a number. How can I find the right number on a flat piece of glass?"
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https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/cell-phones-tablets-mobile
More from the American Foundation for the Blind can be found here...
https://www.afb.org/
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Anyhow, Tedeschi Trucks Band (Live in Studio)
Running from a bitter taste
Took a rest from all the chase
Feeling something anchored in my soul
Played the game by all the rules
Learning lessons no one gets to choose
Everywhere I turn, here I am, ah
So walk away with me (walk away)
I'll show you that
Ho, I would go anywhere, anytime
(Anywhere, anytime)
Ho, I would do anything, anyway
Anyway
Anyhow
Woke up feeling all adrift
Pieced together what I missed
Realized that you pushed me out to sea
Followed from a lost place
Dealing with the wreckage in my soul
Everywhere I turn, there you are
You are
So walk away with me (walk away)
I'll show you that
Ho, I would go anywhere, anytime
(Anywhere, anytime)
Ho, I would do anything, anyway
Anyhow
Ho, hi-ha
No one cares to loan a dime
Sorry, if it cost you time
What'd you expect a desperate man to do?
Cain and Abel lit the flame
We can never go that way again
Everywhere I turn, here we are
We are
So walk away with me (walk away)
I'll show you that
Ho, I would go anywhere, anytime
(Anywhere, anytime)
Ho, I would do anything, anyway (anyway)
Ho, I would go anywhere, anytime
(Anywhere, anytime)
Ho, I would do anything, anyway (anyway)
Anyhow
Oh I would go
Oh anywhere
I would do
Almost anything
Anyway
I would do
Most anything
Oh, anyway
Anyhow
(Anytime)
(Anytime)
(Anytime)
(Anytime)
(Anytime)
(Anytime)
Written by: Orlandus Wilson, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlandus_Wilson
And Clyde Riddick
As the Golden Gate Quartet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Quartet
Label: Okeh Records
May 25, 1941
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
Label: Columbia
May 25, 1941
Golden Gate Quartet
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Album: Let Me Get By (Deluxe Edition)
Released: 2016
Lyrics provided by Musixmatch
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When Smokey Sings, ABC
Good morning, DUers! ❤️
With saxophone solo
Without saxophone solo, with lyrics
"When Smokey Sings" is a song by English pop band ABC, released as the first single from their fourth studio album, Alphabet City (1987). The lyrics and title of the song are a tribute to R&B and soul singer Smokey Robinson. In the United States, Robinson himself was on the Billboard 100 pop chart with his single "One Heartbeat" at the same time as this tribute song; for the week ending 3 October 1987, both songs were in the Billboard top 10 simultaneously.[3]
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Background
"When Smokey Sings" and its B-side, "Chicago", also topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. The song reached No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart and became their second US top-10 hit, peaking at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. There is a slight difference in the lyrics between the album and single version in the bridge of the song. Pitchfork were favourable for the Miami Mix.[4]
In the album version, references are made to "Luther," "Sly," "James," and "Marvin" (most likely referring to Luther Vandross, Sly Stone, James Brown, and Marvin Gaye, respectively). In the single version, this is replaced by alternative lyrics, followed by a short saxophone solo.
The bassline of the song is a homage to Robinson's 1970 composition, "The Tears of a Clown."[5] Smokey Robinson himself praised the song, saying, "Well, of course, that's a form of flattery, and I really appreciate it."[6]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Smokey_Sings
When Smokey Sings
(Ooh ooh)
(Ooh ooh)
(Ooh ooh)
Ooh-ooh (Ooh ooh)
Debonair lullabies
In melodies revealed
In deep despair on lonely nights
He knows just how you feel
The slyest rhymes, the sharpest suits
In miracles made real
Like a bird in flight on a hot sweet night
You know you're right just to hold her tight
He soothes it right, makes it out of sight
And everything's good in the world tonight
When Smokey sings, I hear violins
When Smokey sings, I forget everything
As she's packing her things
As she's spreading her wings
The front door might slam
But the back door it rings
And Smokey sings, he sings
Elegance in eloquence
For sale or rent or hire
Should I say yes and match his best?
Then I would be a liar
Symphonies that soothe the rage
When lovers' hearts catch fire
Like a bird in flight on a hot sweet night
You know you're right just to hold her tight
He soothes it right, makes it out of sight
And everything's good in the world tonight
When Smokey sings, I hear violins
When Smokey sings, I forget everything yeah
As she's packing her things
As she's spreading her wings
Smashing the hell
With the heaven she brings
Then Smokey sings, he sings
(Would it be true to say?)
Luther croons
Sly's the original originator
James screams (uh-uh)
Marvin was the only innovator
(Innovator)
But nothing can compare
Nothing can compare
When Smokey sings
(Sings)
When Smokey sings, I hear violins
When Smokey sings, I forget everything
As she's packing her things
(Ooh ooh)
As she's spreading her wings
(Ooh ooh)
She threw back the ring
(Ooh ooh)
When Smokey sings
Smokey sings
(Smokey sings)
Smokey sings
(Smokey sings)
Written by: Mark Andrew White, Martin David Fry
Album: Alphabet City
Released: 1987
Lyrics provided by Musixmatch
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/ABC/When-Smokey-Sings
Have a great day!
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Milk vs. Dark vs. Semi-sweet vs. Bitter-sweet chocolate?
Milk chocolate is unique in that it contains a significant quantity milk, either in the powdered, liquid, or condensed form.
Dark chocolate is a category of chocolate that includes semisweet and bittersweet chocolate. The US FDA actually does classify dark chocolate as anything containing 35% or more cacao (liquor or butter). In practice, semisweet chocolate is typically much sweeter, and contains about 50% sugar. Bittersweet chocolate, on the other hand, typically contains about 33% sugar. Some dark chocolates may contain small amounts of milk, but not enough to be called milk chocolate.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate
I would have to die if I couldn't get chocolate. I have it almost every day in some form or another. Mostly as cocoa powder (unsweetened) in a blended drink.
There's also some evidence that it's a pain killer.
Chocolate and Chronic Pain
THOMAS COHN, MD
New research presented at the Experimental Biology 2018 annual meeting found that chocolate may have some benefits for chronic pain sufferers.
According to the findings, dark chocolate (minimally 70% cacao, 30% organic cane sugar) can positively affect some factors that contribute to or that make chronic pain worse. Researchers say that dark chocolate has been associated with:
●Decreased stress levels
●Decreased inflammation
●Improved mood
●Improved memory
●Increased bacterial immunity
For years, we have looked at the influence of dark chocolate on neurological functions from the standpoint of sugar content the more sugar, the happier we are, said principal investigation Lee S. Berk, DrPH. This is the first time that we have looked at the impact of large amounts of cacao in doses as small as a regular-sized chocolate bar in humans over short or long periods of time, and are encouraged by the findings. These studies show us that the higher the concentration of cacao, the more positive the impact on cognition, memory, mood, immunity and other beneficial effects.
https://mnphysicalmedicine.com/2018/04/30/chocolate-and-chronic-pain/
Short video on the health benefits
https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/PQT9zFJW
More...
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270272#risks_and_precautions-
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I really love this!
One of my areas of study before I buckled down and declared a major was linguistics. Even after I graduated and worked in my primary chosen career I continued my interest in language and did research that helped establish the foundations for early speech synthesis and the speech generated by AI today.
My work centered on writing languages that provide individuals who are unable to speak augmented speech by way of speech generating devices, like Stephen Hawking. The same computer languages we have today that let us have our emails spoken to us and that through AI lead to this wonderful thing you've shared here.
I am an award winning, published author in the field and am so excited to see how far we've come in this arena.
Thanks so much for sharing this, Judi Lynn. I helps to remind me that I'm not old and useless because I did many things in the past that were useful and helpful and continue to be relevant even so many years later.
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Alice In Chains - The Rooster
Alice In Chains - The Rooster
Rooster is the 5th song of the album ''Dirt''
Lyrics:
Ain't found a way to kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging sweat
Seems every path leads me to nowhere
Wife and kids, household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere
Yeah they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no, you know he ain't gonna die
Here they come to snuff the rooster
Ah yeah, yeah
Yeah, here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no, you know he ain't gonna die
Yeah they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no, you know he ain't gonna die
Walkin' tall machine gun man
They spit on me in my home land
Gloria sent me pictures of my boy
Got my pills 'gainst mosquito death
My buddy's breathin' his dyin' breath
Oh god please won't you help me make it through
Yeah they come to snuff the rooster, ah yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, you know he ain't gonna die
My Dark Brandon meme...Thanks for the idea, calimary. ❤️
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