Sunday Serendipity

Friday, our temperature was in the 70’s and I had just finished a 2 mile walk first on a walking trail and then a path in the woods along a creek. It was a beautiful spring day. As I was driving back to the house todays selection was playing on the radio. It fit the day perfect.

Today listen to one of the Bach boys, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Flute Concerto in D minor,

Enjoy, Jack

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  3. the hill:

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine will be receiving more Starlink satellite internet stations for “destroyed cities” after he spoke with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
    “Talked to @elonmusk. I’m grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds. Next week we will receive another batch of Starlink systems for destroyed cities,” Zelensky tweeted Saturday.
    “Discussed possible space projects . But I’ll talk about this after the war,” he added. 
    This comes after Musk last week said SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service had been activated in Ukraine amid reports of internet outages in parts of the country.
    A Ukrainian official tweeted at Musk asking for stations after the Russian invasion began.
    “@elonmusk, while you try to colonize Mars — Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space — Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand,” Ukraine’s vice prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, said in a Twitter post. Federov is also the country’s minister of digital transformation.
    “Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route,” Musk tweeted in response. 

  5. wapo:

    ODESSA, Ukraine — Russian forces are preparing to bomb Odessa, which is a critical port and Ukraine’s third-largest city with about 1 million people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday in an emotional video.
    “Russians always traveled to Odessa, always felt only warmth in Odessa,” Zelensky said. “And now what? Bombs against Odessa, artillery against Odessa, rockets against Odessa… This will be a war crime.”
    Odessa is the most economically strategic port of Ukraine’s southern cities, making it a clear target for Russian troops who have already laid siege to shipping hubs across the Black Sea coastline. The city’s beach — normally full of sunbathing tourists — is now littered with mines. Sand has been shoveled into sacks for roadblocks. Russian warships have been visible from the shore for days.
    The threat on Odessa builds after a rocket blast tore through homes south of Kyiv, the capital, as Russia targets residential areas across several cities in a push to “break Ukrainian morale,” Britain’s Defense Ministry said.
    Areas that bustled with normal life 12 days ago — dining, shopping, afternoon strolls — are now lacking electricity, heat and running water. More than 1.5 million people have fled the country, and thousands of others are rushing to evacuate during a cease-fire planned for Sunday. But uncertainty looms over the escape effort: Russian shelling broke another temporary truce less than 24 hours earlier.

  6. Did ya see where Rubio and three others just couldn’t wait to tweet out a picture of the zoom call with Zelensky even after being instructed in no uncertain terms to NOT put anything on social media as it could put the Ukrainian president in grave danger of assassination?

  8. Also nice was Zelensky telling Rick Scott, noted Skeletor impersonator and remarkably un-noted senator, “Will you shut up, Man?”

  10. Sturg – That’s a great graphic.  Where did you find it?  LP can use it.  “Show me the (Russian) money.”   So, technically, we are sanctioning Yertle, etc.  

  11. Is there any way Russian communications can be jammed by some anonymous hacker?  How much of their military equipment uses new tech that can be jammed or is it old, Soviet mechanical stuff?   Is there any way to get the truth to troops and Russian civilians?

  15. The Bach boys were quite good.

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

    C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father’s Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it. His dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered style then in vogue.

    To distinguish him from his brother Johann Christian, the “London Bach”, who at this time was music master to the Queen of Great Britain, C. P. E. Bach was known as the “Berlin Bach” during his residence in that city, and later as the “Hamburg Bach” when he succeeded Telemann as Kapellmeister there. 

  17. BB – Glad to hear it.
    Sturg – Klobuchar did the same thing, re: speaking with Z yesterday.    Loose lips, people. 

  18. NBC news last night also showed the senators with picture of them and their unauthorized tweets of zelensky

  19. Jack – A lively number.  It’s got a got beat and you can dance to it.  I love the flute.
     
    Yesterday was weird.  The Kandinsky exhibit at the Guggenheim was amazing.  That was followed by a war protest/peace rally in T Sq, and then a Broadway show. I forget that the world is collapsing and then I turn in the news or see folks with signs walking to or away from somewhere; so much blue and yellow and so many sunflowers.

  21. Where is China in all of this? Do they care if there is a nuclear war in Europe?  Could Xi talk Vlad off of the ledge.

  22. PUTIN’S UKRAINIAN HUNGER GAMES by Alan Kaufman – ART DOWNTOWN (wordpress.com)

    […]
    It is Friday. I am uninspired. What passion I can muster I’ve poured into three essays on my Times of Israel blog, calling on America and her allies to send troops and planes to Ukraine, to help that brave nation to repel Vladimir Putin’s invading forces.
    But despite an outpouring of supportive emojis, postings of sunflowers and of the blue and gold Ukrainian flag, declarations of love by ladies fawning over Ukraine’s courageous and handsome prime minister, Zelensky, only four of my 4,041 Facebook friends supports sending American armed forces to the rescue.
    […]
    We’re conjoined in our outrage at America’s categorical refusal to put American combat boots on Ukrainian soil in defiance of Putin’s assault.
    Here is a well-intended democratic nation–Ukraine– lead by a decent and charismatic Jewish former popular comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, and being crushed before our eyes by Vladimir Putin, a Russian leader with the ethical values of Attila the Hun, and America will not directly interfere.
    […]
    As I write these words, children in the schoolyard across the street are hard at play. The sun has emerged from an overcast morning and the children’s delighted cries bring to mind the shrieking terror of Ukrainian children huddled in makeshift bomb shelters as guided missiles turn their fragile defenses into fiery pits of scorched body parts and debris.
    Meanwhile, Americans and Europeans continue to post blue and gold flags on social media, along with sunflowers under blue skies, and calendar girl-like pics of gorgeous young Ukrainian Women soldiers in combat camos and shouldering sexy Kalashnikov assault rifles.
    However, it is now the ninth day of the invasion and on social media the pro-Ukrainian postings are less frequent, there are fewer sunflowers or flags, and far more postings about the delectable souffle, the newly acquired puppy, the camping trip, the hot date, the NFL draft, the art show opening, the beauty pageant.
    Here and there, Zelensky in battle vest still appears, though looking tired amid the chocolate chip cookie recipes and dry New Yorker cartoons.

  24. A tweet:
    My Ukrainian-American mom explaining why people underestimated Ukrainian military effectiveness: “If you put two Ukrainians in a room they’ll form three political parties. But if you threaten them they become one family.”

  25. Following BBC, I did see these encouraging stories, (Sorry no links) The US is working out a deal with Poland where they get US made Jets and they send their soviet era planes to Ukraine. Of course for this to work Western Ukraine needs to be made safe. to give a base for these planes to fly out of. The other thing was about Ukraine’s strategic plans basically were 2 pronged one defend the major cities and 2 harass the Russians out in the country., most specifically avoid the tanks and go after soft targets like big slow burnable truck tankers full of fuel. As I remember the point made was a tank out of fuel was no longer a tank but a road block.
     
    Jack

  28. manchin: “Zelensky was very clear. He says, ‘We don’t need you to fight our fight. We don’t need you to fly our planes or fly your planes into our war zone. We need the planes that we can fly ourselves and we have them on the border.'”

  29. Great, Manchin will give Ukrainians an NFZ but not jobs and infrastructure to Americans🙄

  30. Russian forces attack Ukrainian airfields as Zelensky pleads for fighter jets – The Washington Post

    MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Russia targeted a military air base and a commercial airport in central Ukraine on Sunday, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials, in attacks that could deny Ukraine usable airstrips as Kyiv presses Western allies to send fighter planes to combat Moscow’s invasion.
    And for the second day in a row, Russia was accused of violating cease-fire agreements intended to evacuate civilians from besieged cities. In one of the hardest-hit cities, Mariupol, the city council said evacuations were not possible because “Russians began to regroup their forces and to shell the city heavily.” A temporary truce to allow people to leave there and other places broke down less than 24 hours earlier.
    Civilians were also killed Sunday while trying to evacuate near a battered bridge in Irpin, a town outside the capital, Kyiv, visuals verified by The Washington Post showed.
    […]
    A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that the military had struck and disabled Ukraine’s Starokostiantyniv military air base, about 150 miles southwest of Kyiv, early Sunday, using long-range, high precision weapons. The airport was among dozens of targets, including a Russian-made air defense system owned by Ukraine, the spokesman said.
    Later Sunday, in a video message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a missile strike on Vinnystia, about 70 miles southeast of the air base, had “completely destroyed the airport.”
    Zelensky repeated his appeal for allied nations to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. “We repeat every day: Close the sky over Ukraine. Close it for all Russian rockets. For all Russian military aviation. For all these terrorists. Make a humanitarian airspace. Without rockets, without bombs from the air. We are people and this is your humanitarian obligation to protect us.”
    Failing that, supply “airplanes so that we can protect ourselves,” he added.

    [continues]

  32. Random tweetment:
    Every time I read or hear religious people use the phrase “We’re doing God’s work” I think ‘Why can’t this god do his or her own work?’

  34. Sturgeone

    I’m the same way about “God’s Will”.  What pissed him off so much he picked on one person and let others slide?

     

  35. So are we talking the God of Jesus or the God of Moses? Cause the God of Moses is a crazy sumbitch, imo. He doesn’t get past the front gate let alone in the house. Now if you believe that they are both the same God, then your God is one schizoid bastard. Also not somebody I want to let past the front gate. 
    It is why Mrs Jack was sorta able to converted me to secular Buddhism A good philosophy as long as you don’t get into the reincarnation stuff. I’ve been through this life once i’m not interested in repeating it.
    I think that insults about 90% of the religious folks out there, time to quit while I’m ahead.
    Jack

  37. So, the reviews of the “convoy” on the Beltway are not mixed.  The fools did not impress any of us who use the Beltway.  I read a couple of tweets of people in the midst of the idiots who did not know they were until they saw the sfb flags and listened to the traffic report. One of the “leaders” said they would be back.  Yeah,sure. The Beltway is unforgiving. It will suck you dry. It will empty the soul of those without knowledge of current conditions.

  38. amen, brothers & sisters

     

    p.s. jack, but the littlest bits of you ARE reincarnated.  everything is still here just in different forms.  what makes up the cells never goes away.  who knows, part of the current you maybe a smattering of shakespeare, an elephant, a dandelion, piece of dirt, space dust and so on all wrapped up together for now.  

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