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“Shall We Gather At The River”
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not the best rendition, but the river views are soothing
here’s what wiki has to say about the song:
“Shall We Gather at the River?” or simply “At the River” are the popular names for the traditional Christian hymn titled “Hanson Place,” written by American poet and gospel music composer Robert Lowry (1826–1899). It was written in 1864 and is now in the public domain. The title “Hanson Place” is a reference to the original Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where Lowry, as a Baptist minister, sometimes served. The original building now houses a different denomination.
The music is in the key of D and uses an 8.7.8.7 R meter. An arrangement was also composed by Charles Ives, and a later arrangement is included in Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs (1952) in addition to being used by American wind band composer David Maslanka in his Symphony No. 9 (2011). The song was sung live at the 1980 funeral of American Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
Great “Blue Moon” last night. It rose deep red and large, and it set lighter red, but beautiful. Sunrise is screaming in red, pink and bright. It is gonna be a hot one. Need to do some chores and then settle into the AC and stream old television shows from years ago.
Once again the lack of choice forces me to use a cable company I care not for. This time dumping the VPN phone made the price almost the same as internet only. I can hardly wait for T-Mobile to get its 5G systems working.
President Trump (Alec Baldwin) and members of his administration share their summer plans.
Forgot the Preakness ran last night. Even living thirty miles south of the track, and doing disaster recovery for Baltimore and Elilcott City flooding down the street from it, it does not resonate too much to me.
Maya Angelou’s poem “On the Pulse of Morning” written for the Clinton innaugural referenced the river in one section. It was so hopeful then, and it seems so sorrowful now in our current political climate
Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song,
Come rest here by my side.
Each of you a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon
My shore, currents of debris upon my breast.
call you to my riverside.
If you will study war no more.
Well… my, Jack’s and Craig’s horse, War of Will, did win a triple crown race… just 2 weeks late.
Flatus… my favorite book by Wouk is one of his lesser known… Don’t Stop The Carnival. Some would probably call it racist nowadays… it was written in 1965. I hate it when people judge books written years ago and try to see it only with today’s values.
behold, a break in the dam… or should that be “damned”? may truth now gush forth from the gopers.
wapo:GOP lawmaker says Trump’s conduct meets ‘threshold for impeachment’
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), a critic of President Trump who has entertained a run against him in 2020, became the first Republican congressman to say the president “engaged in impeachable conduct” based on the Mueller report.
The Michigan lawmaker, often the lone Trump dissenter on his side of the House aisle, shared his conclusions in a lengthy Twitter thread Saturday after reviewing the full report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Amash wrote that after reading the 448-page report, he had concluded that not only did Mueller’s team show Trump attempting to obstruct justice, but that Attorney General William P. Barr had “deliberately misrepresented” the findings. He added that “few members of Congress even read Mueller’s report.”
“Contrary to Barr’s portrayal, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” Amash wrote.
[…]
Amash wrote that it was partisanship keeping Republicans from exercising their obligation to provide checks and balances.
“When loyalty to a political party or to an individual trumps loyalty to the Constitution, the Rule of Law — the foundation of liberty — crumbles,” he tweeted.
Amash, a libertarian, considers himself a strict constitutionalist and in February was the lone Republican to join a Democratic bill to stop Trump from declaring a national emergency to fund his border wall.
“From the time the president was elected, I was urging them to remain independent and to be willing to push back against the president where they thought he was wrong,” Amash told CNN in March. “They’ve decided to stick with the president time and again, even where they disagree with him privately.”
When Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified before a House committee in February, most Republicans dismissed him as a convicted liar. Amash asked Cohen: “What is the truth President Trump is most afraid of people knowing?”
pogo, dadgummit! sure wish i’d watched that. the real race as reported in your link:
Taking one of the most memorable trips in the 149-year history of Pimlico Race Course, Bodexpress followed the leaders without a rider on board and at one point appeared to be a contender in the 13-horse race.
[…]
From the moment the frisky 3-year-old hopped from the gate, ejecting Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez, craziness ensued. Running on his own in the second jewel of the Triple Crown, Bodexpress began his obligatory trip around the track, driven either by instinct or the desire to be part of the crowd.
[…]
An outrider tried to corral Bodexpress at the top of the stretch, but he wasn’t about to let the horseplay come to an end. The colt sped up and passed a few competitors near the finish line and kept going. In fact, he ran the entire track again before finally calling it a day — a veritable victory lap for the social media champion who was still trending on Twitter hours later.
Technically, Bodexpress was ruled a starter in the race, but he received a “did not finish,” and thus, anyone who bet on the horse did not have his or her wagers returned.
query: will the jockey (like the derby jockey) be penalized for not being in control of his horse?
Oh, I doubt it, in a horse race the horse and rider are always engaged in a war of wills (nyuck, nyuck)- this time the horse won. No penalty.
A horse dumping a jockey and then running the race anyways happens. I did catch the race. And at no time did Bodexpress interfere with the other horses. He basically ran to the extreme outside. Luckily, it happened just after the gates opened and the jockey wasn’t injured.
Maybe they should just let the horses run alone.
long article (below are only bits and pieces) just out at the nytimes:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be reported to a federal financial-crimes watchdog.
The transactions, some of which involved Mr. Trump’s now-defunct foundation, set off alerts in a computer system designed to detect illicit activity, according to five current and former bank employees. Compliance staff members who then reviewed the transactions prepared so-called suspicious activity reports that they believed should be sent to a unit of the Treasury Department that polices financial crimes.
But executives at Deutsche Bank, which has lent billions of dollars to the Trump and Kushner companies, rejected their employees’ advice. The reports were never filed with the government.
The nature of the transactions was not clear. At least some of them involved money flowing back and forth with overseas entities or individuals, which bank employees considered suspicious.
Real estate developers like Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner sometimes do large, all-cash deals, including with people outside the United States, any of which can prompt anti-money laundering reviews. The red flags raised by employees do not necessarily mean the transactions were improper. Banks sometimes opt not to file suspicious activity reports if they conclude their employees’ concerns are unwarranted.
But former Deutsche Bank employees said the decision not to report the Trump and Kushner transactions reflected the bank’s generally lax approach to money laundering laws. The employees — most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve their ability to work in the industry — said it was part of a pattern of the bank’s executives rejecting valid reports to protect relationships with lucrative clients.
“You present them with everything, and you give them a recommendation, and nothing happens,” said Tammy McFadden, a former Deutsche Bank anti-money laundering specialist who reviewed some of the transactions. “It’s the D.B. way. They are prone to discounting everything.”
Ms. McFadden said she was terminated last year after she raised concerns about the bank’s practices. Since then, she has filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators about the bank’s anti-money-laundering enforcement.
[…]
In the summer of 2016, Deutsche Bank’s software flagged a series of transactions involving the real estate company of Mr. Kushner, now a senior White House adviser.
Ms. McFadden, a longtime anti-money laundering specialist in Deutsche Bank’s Jacksonville office, said she had reviewed the transactions and found that money had moved from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals. She concluded that the transactions should be reported to the government — in part because federal regulators had ordered Deutsche Bank, which had been caught laundering billions of dollars for Russians, to toughen its scrutiny of potentially illegal transactions.
Ms. McFadden drafted a suspicious activity report and compiled a small bundle of documents to back up her decision.
Typically, such a report would be reviewed by a team of anti-money laundering experts who are independent of the business line in which the transactions originated — in this case, the private-banking division — according to Ms. McFadden and two former Deutsche Bank managers.
That did not happen with this report. It went to managers in New York who were part of the private bank, which caters to the ultrawealthy. They felt Ms. McFadden’s concerns were unfounded and opted not to submit the report to the government, the employees said.
Ms. McFadden and some of her colleagues said they believed the report had been killed to maintain the private-banking division’s strong relationship with Mr. Kushner.
After Mr. Trump became president, transactions involving him and his companies were reviewed by an anti-financial crime team at the bank called the Special Investigations Unit. That team, based in Jacksonville, produced multiple suspicious activity reports involving different entities that Mr. Trump owned or controlled, according to three former Deutsche Bank employees who saw the reports in an internal computer system.
Some of those reports involved Mr. Trump’s limited liability companies. At least one was related to transactions involving the Donald J. Trump Foundation, two employees said.
Deutsche Bank ultimately chose not to file those suspicious activity reports with the Treasury Department, either, according to three former employees. They said it was unusual for the bank to reject a series of reports involving the same high-profile client.
[…]
Two former employees said that they had raised concerns about transactions involving companies linked to prominent Russians, but that managers had told them not to file suspicious activity reports. The employees were under the impression that the bank did not want to upset important clients.
Several employees said they had complained about the bank’s anti-money laundering processes to Joshua Blazer, the head of Deutsche Bank’s financial crimes investigations division in Jacksonville, and had then been criticized for having a negative attitude. One employee said she resigned last summer over concerns about the bank’s ethics.
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“Maybe they should just let the horses run alone.”
kgc, good idea.
in ky, in addition to the derby run for the roses, for the last 47 years prior to derby spalding univ has put on the “running of the rodents”. no riders. no jockeys.
winner of the rat race is draped with a garland of fruit loops
Jamie, some more poetry in river music
When the mountain touches the valley All the clouds are taught to fly As our souls will leave this land most peacefully Though our minds be filled with questions In our hearts we’ll understand When the river meets the sea
Like a flower that has blossomed In the dry & barren sand We are born & born again most gracefully Thus the winds of time will take us With a sure and steady hand When the river meets the sea
Patience, my brother and patience, my son In that sweet and final hour Truth and justice will be done
Like a baby when it is sleeping In its loving mother’s arms What a newborn baby dreams is a mystery But his life will find a purpose And in time he’ll understand When the river meets the sea When the river meets the almighty sea!!
Songwriter: PAUL H. WILLIAMS
Here is one worthy to be placed on Sunday serendipity. Gospel at its best
Whatever you might think of organized religion, the music is wonderful. Now to switch to my great love Broadway: Big River with the lyrics of the great Roger Miller
not the best rendition, but the river views are soothing
here’s what wiki has to say about the song:
“Shall We Gather at the River?” or simply “At the River” are the popular names for the traditional Christian hymn titled “Hanson Place,” written by American poet and gospel music composer Robert Lowry (1826–1899). It was written in 1864 and is now in the public domain. The title “Hanson Place” is a reference to the original Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where Lowry, as a Baptist minister, sometimes served. The original building now houses a different denomination.
The music is in the key of D and uses an 8.7.8.7 R meter. An arrangement was also composed by Charles Ives, and a later arrangement is included in Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs (1952) in addition to being used by American wind band composer David Maslanka in his Symphony No. 9 (2011). The song was sung live at the 1980 funeral of American Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
Great “Blue Moon” last night. It rose deep red and large, and it set lighter red, but beautiful. Sunrise is screaming in red, pink and bright. It is gonna be a hot one. Need to do some chores and then settle into the AC and stream old television shows from years ago.
Once again the lack of choice forces me to use a cable company I care not for. This time dumping the VPN phone made the price almost the same as internet only. I can hardly wait for T-Mobile to get its 5G systems working.
President Trump (Alec Baldwin) and members of his administration share their summer plans.
Forgot the Preakness ran last night. Even living thirty miles south of the track, and doing disaster recovery for Baltimore and Elilcott City flooding down the street from it, it does not resonate too much to me.
Maya Angelou’s poem “On the Pulse of Morning” written for the Clinton innaugural referenced the river in one section. It was so hopeful then, and it seems so sorrowful now in our current political climate
Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song,
Come rest here by my side.
Each of you a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon
My shore, currents of debris upon my breast.
call you to my riverside.
If you will study war no more.
Well… my, Jack’s and Craig’s horse, War of Will, did win a triple crown race… just 2 weeks late.
Flatus… my favorite book by Wouk is one of his lesser known… Don’t Stop The Carnival. Some would probably call it racist nowadays… it was written in 1965. I hate it when people judge books written years ago and try to see it only with today’s values.
behold, a break in the dam… or should that be “damned”? may truth now gush forth from the gopers.
wapo: GOP lawmaker says Trump’s conduct meets ‘threshold for impeachment’
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), a critic of President Trump who has entertained a run against him in 2020, became the first Republican congressman to say the president “engaged in impeachable conduct” based on the Mueller report.
The Michigan lawmaker, often the lone Trump dissenter on his side of the House aisle, shared his conclusions in a lengthy Twitter thread Saturday after reviewing the full report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Amash wrote that after reading the 448-page report, he had concluded that not only did Mueller’s team show Trump attempting to obstruct justice, but that Attorney General William P. Barr had “deliberately misrepresented” the findings. He added that “few members of Congress even read Mueller’s report.”
“Contrary to Barr’s portrayal, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” Amash wrote.
[…]
Amash wrote that it was partisanship keeping Republicans from exercising their obligation to provide checks and balances.
“When loyalty to a political party or to an individual trumps loyalty to the Constitution, the Rule of Law — the foundation of liberty — crumbles,” he tweeted.
Amash, a libertarian, considers himself a strict constitutionalist and in February was the lone Republican to join a Democratic bill to stop Trump from declaring a national emergency to fund his border wall.
“From the time the president was elected, I was urging them to remain independent and to be willing to push back against the president where they thought he was wrong,” Amash told CNN in March. “They’ve decided to stick with the president time and again, even where they disagree with him privately.”
When Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified before a House committee in February, most Republicans dismissed him as a convicted liar. Amash asked Cohen: “What is the truth President Trump is most afraid of people knowing?”
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Well, I didn’t watch the Preakness – I was riding 25 horses over 1.8 acres in East Bumfuck making long grass shorter, but in Baltimore War of Will won, but the biggest news was that Bodexpress threw John Velasquez coming out of the gate and ran the race without his jockey.
pogo, dadgummit! sure wish i’d watched that. the real race as reported in your link:
query: will the jockey (like the derby jockey) be penalized for not being in control of his horse?
Oh, I doubt it, in a horse race the horse and rider are always engaged in a war of wills (nyuck, nyuck)- this time the horse won. No penalty.
A horse dumping a jockey and then running the race anyways happens. I did catch the race. And at no time did Bodexpress interfere with the other horses. He basically ran to the extreme outside. Luckily, it happened just after the gates opened and the jockey wasn’t injured.
Maybe they should just let the horses run alone.
long article (below are only bits and pieces) just out at the nytimes:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be reported to a federal financial-crimes watchdog.
The transactions, some of which involved Mr. Trump’s now-defunct foundation, set off alerts in a computer system designed to detect illicit activity, according to five current and former bank employees. Compliance staff members who then reviewed the transactions prepared so-called suspicious activity reports that they believed should be sent to a unit of the Treasury Department that polices financial crimes.
But executives at Deutsche Bank, which has lent billions of dollars to the Trump and Kushner companies, rejected their employees’ advice. The reports were never filed with the government.
The nature of the transactions was not clear. At least some of them involved money flowing back and forth with overseas entities or individuals, which bank employees considered suspicious.
Real estate developers like Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner sometimes do large, all-cash deals, including with people outside the United States, any of which can prompt anti-money laundering reviews. The red flags raised by employees do not necessarily mean the transactions were improper. Banks sometimes opt not to file suspicious activity reports if they conclude their employees’ concerns are unwarranted.
But former Deutsche Bank employees said the decision not to report the Trump and Kushner transactions reflected the bank’s generally lax approach to money laundering laws. The employees — most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve their ability to work in the industry — said it was part of a pattern of the bank’s executives rejecting valid reports to protect relationships with lucrative clients.
“You present them with everything, and you give them a recommendation, and nothing happens,” said Tammy McFadden, a former Deutsche Bank anti-money laundering specialist who reviewed some of the transactions. “It’s the D.B. way. They are prone to discounting everything.”
Ms. McFadden said she was terminated last year after she raised concerns about the bank’s practices. Since then, she has filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators about the bank’s anti-money-laundering enforcement.
[…]
In the summer of 2016, Deutsche Bank’s software flagged a series of transactions involving the real estate company of Mr. Kushner, now a senior White House adviser.
Ms. McFadden, a longtime anti-money laundering specialist in Deutsche Bank’s Jacksonville office, said she had reviewed the transactions and found that money had moved from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals. She concluded that the transactions should be reported to the government — in part because federal regulators had ordered Deutsche Bank, which had been caught laundering billions of dollars for Russians, to toughen its scrutiny of potentially illegal transactions.
Ms. McFadden drafted a suspicious activity report and compiled a small bundle of documents to back up her decision.
Typically, such a report would be reviewed by a team of anti-money laundering experts who are independent of the business line in which the transactions originated — in this case, the private-banking division — according to Ms. McFadden and two former Deutsche Bank managers.
That did not happen with this report. It went to managers in New York who were part of the private bank, which caters to the ultrawealthy. They felt Ms. McFadden’s concerns were unfounded and opted not to submit the report to the government, the employees said.
Ms. McFadden and some of her colleagues said they believed the report had been killed to maintain the private-banking division’s strong relationship with Mr. Kushner.
After Mr. Trump became president, transactions involving him and his companies were reviewed by an anti-financial crime team at the bank called the Special Investigations Unit. That team, based in Jacksonville, produced multiple suspicious activity reports involving different entities that Mr. Trump owned or controlled, according to three former Deutsche Bank employees who saw the reports in an internal computer system.
Some of those reports involved Mr. Trump’s limited liability companies. At least one was related to transactions involving the Donald J. Trump Foundation, two employees said.
Deutsche Bank ultimately chose not to file those suspicious activity reports with the Treasury Department, either, according to three former employees. They said it was unusual for the bank to reject a series of reports involving the same high-profile client.
[…]
Two former employees said that they had raised concerns about transactions involving companies linked to prominent Russians, but that managers had told them not to file suspicious activity reports. The employees were under the impression that the bank did not want to upset important clients.
Several employees said they had complained about the bank’s anti-money laundering processes to Joshua Blazer, the head of Deutsche Bank’s financial crimes investigations division in Jacksonville, and had then been criticized for having a negative attitude. One employee said she resigned last summer over concerns about the bank’s ethics.
[continues]
“Maybe they should just let the horses run alone.”
kgc, good idea.
in ky, in addition to the derby run for the roses, for the last 47 years prior to derby spalding univ has put on the “running of the rodents”. no riders. no jockeys.
winner of the rat race is draped with a garland of fruit loops
Jamie, some more poetry in river music
When the mountain touches the valley
All the clouds are taught to fly
As our souls will leave this land most peacefully
Though our minds be filled with questions
In our hearts we’ll understand
When the river meets the sea
Like a flower that has blossomed
In the dry & barren sand
We are born & born again most gracefully
Thus the winds of time will take us
With a sure and steady hand
When the river meets the sea
Patience, my brother and patience, my son
In that sweet and final hour
Truth and justice will be done
Like a baby when it is sleeping
In its loving mother’s arms
What a newborn baby dreams is a mystery
But his life will find a purpose
And in time he’ll understand
When the river meets the sea
When the river meets the almighty sea!!
Songwriter: PAUL H. WILLIAMS
Here is one worthy to be placed on Sunday serendipity. Gospel at its best
Whatever you might think of organized religion, the music is wonderful. Now to switch to my great love Broadway: Big River with the lyrics of the great Roger Miller
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