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#OTD #July4th 1988

Juice Newton & Exile performed concert sets outdoors before the annual fireworks outside the Coliseum in #RichmondVA. Juice had flown in from Buffalo, where the night before she'd performed before a paid crowd of over 13,000 with Eddie Rabbit at a minor league baseball park where they performed their hit 1985 duet "Both To Each Other (friends & Lovers".

In Richmond, after her free pre-fireworks set at the outdoor 6th Street Marketplace stage, the Times-Dispatch newspaper noted her "versatility and spunk" and said " The #VirginiaBeach native can belt out a ballad, hold a note, and sing with the emotion of our greatest stars".

Touring all over that summer from Alaska to Alabama, 1988 was a big comeback trail year for Newton, who had last placed five top ten singles on country charts in 1986 off the album "Old Flame". In 1988, Newton returned to the top ten of the country charts with "Tell Me True" from her #RCA album "Emotion" and had a popular duet single with Michael Johnson released that fall.

#Nashville based #Exile who opened the Richmond gig, eventually became #JuiceNewton's touring backup band, and in 2015 , they even played together again on July 4th in St. George Utah. Septuagenarian Newton has since retired from touring, and has not performed publicly since 2021.

#Protest in #FortWorth #dfw today, #NoKings. According to organizers the #FBI closed airspace around the event, which might explain why the helicopter was hanging pretty far back. There *was* a quadcopter hanging out closer to the event though. Probably had about a thousand people milling around, give or take a couple hundred.

Saw reps from #CPUSA, #RCA, and #PSL #PartyForSocialismAndLiberation too, as well as #AFLCIO. #socialism #communism #marxism.

"Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" (or simply titled "Because I Love You") is a song written by Warren Allen Brooks and performed by American singer, songwriter, and record producer #StevieB. It was released in September 1990 by #LMR and #RCA from his third album, #LoveAndEmotion (1990). The song peaked at number one on the US #Billboard #Hot100 chart in December 1990 and remained there for four consecutive weeks.
youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1uQI2XmZs

Good morning. 🌫️⛅🌤️

4 February 2024

Do you remember the first color TV on your block? If so, you're not a youngster anymore! I recall my friend's parents buying a color TV when we lived in Spring Valley, California. Naturally, I went over to witness the magic and was absolutely mesmerized. Not long after, we got our own color TV at home. Those early color TVs had roundish screens. I remember a commercial featuring a cartoon man singing, "Wow! I got color TV, RCA Victor color TV." RCA no longer manufactures TVs, and I don't think they're still in business. If you come across a new product branded with RCA, it's because someone else bought their trademark. Hmmm... that took an unexpected turn.

"Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Why does a pair of sunglasses cost more than a 25-inch color television?" - Ron White
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #clouds #birds #landscape #ColorTV #RCA

"Together Forever" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter #RickAstley and released by #RCA and #BMG as the fourth single from his debut album, #WheneverYouNeedSomebody (1987). The song reached number two in the #UnitedKingdom, behind #Neighbours star and fellow #StockAitkenWaterman artist #KylieMinogue's debut single "#IShouldBeSoLucky". The single was a worldwide hit, reaching number one on the #Billboard Hot 100 on 18 June 1988.
youtube.com/watch?v=yPYZpwSpKm

"Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" (or simply titled "Because I Love You") is a song written by Warren Allen Brooks and performed by American singer, songwriter, and record producer #StevieB. It was released in September 1990 by #LMR and #RCA from his third album, #LoveAndEmotion (1990). The song peaked at number one on the US #Billboard #Hot100 chart in December 1990 and remained there for four consecutive weeks.
youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1uQI2XmZ

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Le rapport propose « un certain nombre d'options politiques qui permettraient de réduire le risque de pandémie et d'y faire face. Parmi ces options, on peut citer : […]
• Élaborer et intégrer des évaluations de l'impact sanitaire des risques de pandémie et de maladies émergentes dans les grands projets de développement et d'aménagement du territoire, tout en réformant l'aide financière à l'aménagement du territoire de manière à ce que les avantages et les risques pour la biodiversité et la santé soient reconnus et ciblés de manière explicite.
• Veiller à ce que le coût économique des pandémies soit pris en compte dans les politiques et les budgets de consommation, de production et des gouvernements.
• Permettre des changements pour réduire les types de consommation, l'expansion agricole mondialisée et le commerce qui ont conduit à des pandémies - cela pourrait inclure des taxes ou des prélèvements sur la consommation de viande, la production de bétail et d'autres formes d'activités à haut risque de pandémie ».

Communiqué de presse : unep.org/news-and-stories/pres

UN EnvironmentEscaping the ‘Era of Pandemics’: Experts warn worse crises to come options offered to reduce riskFuture pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there is a transformative change in the global approach to dealing with infectious diseases, warns a major new report on biodiversity and pandemics by 22 leading experts from around the world. 
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C'est en 2020 qu'a eu lieu le premier confinement mondial. Cette année-là, la Plateforme intergouvernementale scientifique et politique sur la biodiversité et les services écosystémiques #IPBES a convoqué « un atelier virtuel urgent sur les liens entre la dégradation de la nature et l'augmentation des risques de pandémie [...] Les expert·es s'accordent à dire qu'il est possible d'échapper à l'ère des pandémies, mais que cela nécessitera un changement radical d'approche, pour passer de la réaction à la prévention. »
Les résultats décrits dans le rapport de l'atelier n'ont été ni discutés ni approuvés par la plénière de l'IPBES. [grr]

Communiqué de presse : unep.org/news-and-stories/pres

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UN EnvironmentEscaping the ‘Era of Pandemics’: Experts warn worse crises to come options offered to reduce riskFuture pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there is a transformative change in the global approach to dealing with infectious diseases, warns a major new report on biodiversity and pandemics by 22 leading experts from around the world. 

La variole a été éradiquée dans les années septante. Les campagnes de vaccination ont alors cessé. Donc, les moins de cinquante ans ne sont pas immunisé·es contre le #mpox.
Des moyens rapides de traitement permettent de passer de 10% à 1% de létalité (propension à faire mourir, probabilité de mourir à l'échelle de la population).

L'extraction minière pour la transition électrique est particulièrement propice à la création et à l'exportation de nouvelles maladies. Une #syndémie peut être définie comme un environnement social et écologique optimal pour générer et propulser des épidémies.

Dr Camille Besombes : "Il y a une épidémie d'épidémies. On est rentré dans une nouvelle ère : il y a une multiplication des émergences infectieuses. […] Il y a eu une émergence d'Ebola dans ce même contexte économique et social, qu'est le Kivu."

radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p 📻🎧

France Culture · Crises sanitaires, Mpox : sortir du traitement d’urgenceDepuis le début de l’année, les cas de “Mpox” se multiplient en Afrique centrale. Si la République Démocratique du Congo est au cœur de la flambée épidémique, la maladie déborde les frontières. De quoi inquiéter l’OMS, qui a décrété mercredi une urgence de santé publique de portée internationale.
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I would like to thank the local non-chain hardware store for still having RCA cables - there's multiple years worth of dust on the packaging, but I don't care, I'm happy 😊

Testing composite video on the Apple IIe tonight!

Note: I love what's written at the bottom of the packaging - "Suffering is caused by endless desire, the desire that creates bad Karma". Probably means cable gnomes will return the missing cables.