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by B. N. Sullivan
Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the historic, successful ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. Now retired, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who was in command of that Airbus A320 on January 15, 2009, reflects on what he calls the "experience of a lifetime."
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5 Kasım 2012 Pazartesi
Explosion rocks Moscow's Domodedovo Airport
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A large explosion rocked the international arrivals hall at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport (DME) earlier today, January 24, 2011. Local officials say that the blast, which was caused by a suicide bomber, killed at least 35 people and left more than 100 injured.
Amateur video and photos shot on site showed a grisly scene, with bodies and body parts strewn about, and heavy smoke hanging in the air. ProducerMatthew.com has posted links to several photos from inside the Domodedovo Terminal.
Air traffic at DME was disrupted immediately after the bombing. Some flights were diverted to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, or to St. Petersburg. Other en route flights returned to their departure cities.
Here is a news video about the incident, posted on YouTube by Russia Today:
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A large explosion rocked the international arrivals hall at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport (DME) earlier today, January 24, 2011. Local officials say that the blast, which was caused by a suicide bomber, killed at least 35 people and left more than 100 injured.Amateur video and photos shot on site showed a grisly scene, with bodies and body parts strewn about, and heavy smoke hanging in the air. ProducerMatthew.com has posted links to several photos from inside the Domodedovo Terminal.
Air traffic at DME was disrupted immediately after the bombing. Some flights were diverted to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, or to St. Petersburg. Other en route flights returned to their departure cities.
Here is a news video about the incident, posted on YouTube by Russia Today:
If the video does not play or display properly above, click here to view it on YouTube.
America's Best Value Inn Allentown, hotels in allentown, hotel
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America's Best Value Inn Allentown, hotels in allentown, hotel
Just off I-78 highway, this hotel is next to the Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport. It serves breakfast every morning and features an indoor pool and free Wi-Fi access.
A microwave and a refrigerator are included in all rooms at America’s Best Value Inn Allentown. The rooms also have cable TV and are furnished with a work desk.
The front desk at the Allentown America’s Best Value Inn is staffed 24 hours a day. There are on site laundry facilities and a business center that offers fax and copy services.
The Museum of Indian Culture is 1.2 miles from the hotel. The Allentown Art Museum is 3.3 miles away.
Hotel Rooms: 37, Hotel Chain: America's Best Value Inn.
Just off I-78 highway, this hotel is next to the Allentown Queen City Municipal Airport. It serves breakfast every morning and features an indoor pool and free Wi-Fi access.
A microwave and a refrigerator are included in all rooms at America’s Best Value Inn Allentown. The rooms also have cable TV and are furnished with a work desk.
The front desk at the Allentown America’s Best Value Inn is staffed 24 hours a day. There are on site laundry facilities and a business center that offers fax and copy services.
The Museum of Indian Culture is 1.2 miles from the hotel. The Allentown Art Museum is 3.3 miles away.
Hotel Rooms: 37, Hotel Chain: America's Best Value Inn.
hotels in anchorage, america's best value inn executive suite airport anchorage
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Located 10 minutes from historic downtown Anchorage, Alaska, this hotel offers 24-hour shuttle service to Anchorage International Airport. It features a continental breakfast, laundry facilities, and suites with kitchenettes.
The Airport Anchorage Executive Suite America's Best Value Inn provides spacious accommodations equipped with cable TV, free Wi-Fi, and a private entrance. A refrigerator and microwave are provided.
Scheduled summer railroad shuttle service is available at this Anchorage hotel. The front desk is open 24 hours a day and free parking is available.
Alaska Pacific University and the Alaska Zoo are 15 minutes from America's Best Value Inn Executive Suite Airport Anchorage. Fort Richardson is 25 minutes from the hotel.
Hotel Rooms: 102, Hotel Chain: America's Best Value Inn.
Located 10 minutes from historic downtown Anchorage, Alaska, this hotel offers 24-hour shuttle service to Anchorage International Airport. It features a continental breakfast, laundry facilities, and suites with kitchenettes.
The Airport Anchorage Executive Suite America's Best Value Inn provides spacious accommodations equipped with cable TV, free Wi-Fi, and a private entrance. A refrigerator and microwave are provided.
Scheduled summer railroad shuttle service is available at this Anchorage hotel. The front desk is open 24 hours a day and free parking is available.
Alaska Pacific University and the Alaska Zoo are 15 minutes from America's Best Value Inn Executive Suite Airport Anchorage. Fort Richardson is 25 minutes from the hotel.
Hotel Rooms: 102, Hotel Chain: America's Best Value Inn.
Johann Sebastian Bach's music in America
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The earliest evidence of Johann Sebastian Bach's music in America can be found in the Moravian Archives. In 1823, a Bethlehem musician made copies of one of Bach’s cantatas. It took another Moravian musician to make Bach’s music a part of the musical tradition of Bethlehem, PA. Dr. J. Fred Wolle was visiting Munich in the spring of 1885 and took the opportunity to hear a production of Bach’s St. John Passion. Wolle returned to Bethlehem, determined to bring Bach’s music to life in America. Under his supervision, the Bethlehem Choral Union sang the St. John Passion, on June 5, 1888. It was the first complete rendition of the work in this country. Wolle conducted the first complete performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, at the Central Moravian Church in 1900. Due to the historical importance of these accomplishments, the Central Moravian Church earned recognition as a National Landmark of Music.
The Bach Festival moved to the Packer Memorial Church of Lehigh University in 1912. A review in Outlook Magazine of the 1918 Bach Festival described the event. “Mr. Wolle leads without a baton, and his nervous arms and fingers seemed not only to be charged with electricity, but to electrify the whole body of people there, those in the choir seats and those in the pews alike. He made those people not only sing, but think the words as they sang them.”
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31, 1685, in Eisenach, Germany. He lived his entire life in Germany. He was born as the youngest and eighth child of Johan Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lammerhirt. Johann Sebastian came from a long line of musicians and composers. He lost both his parents, within the same year, at the age of nine. Johann Sebastian and his brother Johann Jacob went to live with their eldest brother, Johann Christoph, who was organist in Ohrdruf.
At age eighteen, Bach was appointed organist of the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt. His first known compositions were written during the early 1700s. At that time he was courting his second cousin and future wife, Maria Barbara Bach. A new job as organist of the Blasiuskirche in Mühlhausen and a small inheritance allowed them to marry in 1707. In Mühlhausen, Bach began to write cantatas. The cantatas that survived from this period are regarded as masterpieces. The Blasiuskirche suffered a great fire and Bach sought employment 40 miles north in the city of Weimar as organist in the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst.
While in Weimar, he continued to write cantatas along with compositions for the organ, harpsichord, choral preludes and fugues. Duke Wilhelm Ernst was in a contentious power struggle with another Duke in Weimar, Ernst August. Ignoring politics, Bach wrote compositions for both Dukes, which angered his employer. Duke Wilhelm Ernst had Bach jailed for a month.
Upon leaving jail in 1717, Bach moved his family to Köthen and began his new job as Kapellmeister (director of music) to Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen. During his stay in Köthen, Bach wrote the six Brandenburg Concertos, violin concertos in A Minor, E Major, and the double concert in D Minor, Invention, the French Suites and the English Suites. Bach’s wife, Maria Barbara, died in 1720 after a short illness. Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken, a talented soprano, in 1721.
In 1723, Bach became Kapellmeister in the St Thomas School in Leipzig. Beginning in March 1729, Bach assumed the direction of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Bach was always looking for ways to increase his income. He sold books, music and Silbermann fortepianos. Bach finished his great B Minor Mass in 1749. Bach was practically blind due to cataracts at the end of his life. In 1750, he suffered a stroke. He died on July 28, 1750, probably from diabetes mellitus. During his lifetime, Bach was famous for his organ and harpsichord playing. The high regard for his compositions didn’t occur the 19th century.
During the first two weekends of May, thousands of Bach lovers from across the country arrive in Bethlehem, PA to hear the Bach Choir and Bach Festival Orchestra.
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The Bach Festival moved to the Packer Memorial Church of Lehigh University in 1912. A review in Outlook Magazine of the 1918 Bach Festival described the event. “Mr. Wolle leads without a baton, and his nervous arms and fingers seemed not only to be charged with electricity, but to electrify the whole body of people there, those in the choir seats and those in the pews alike. He made those people not only sing, but think the words as they sang them.”
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31, 1685, in Eisenach, Germany. He lived his entire life in Germany. He was born as the youngest and eighth child of Johan Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lammerhirt. Johann Sebastian came from a long line of musicians and composers. He lost both his parents, within the same year, at the age of nine. Johann Sebastian and his brother Johann Jacob went to live with their eldest brother, Johann Christoph, who was organist in Ohrdruf.
At age eighteen, Bach was appointed organist of the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt. His first known compositions were written during the early 1700s. At that time he was courting his second cousin and future wife, Maria Barbara Bach. A new job as organist of the Blasiuskirche in Mühlhausen and a small inheritance allowed them to marry in 1707. In Mühlhausen, Bach began to write cantatas. The cantatas that survived from this period are regarded as masterpieces. The Blasiuskirche suffered a great fire and Bach sought employment 40 miles north in the city of Weimar as organist in the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst.
While in Weimar, he continued to write cantatas along with compositions for the organ, harpsichord, choral preludes and fugues. Duke Wilhelm Ernst was in a contentious power struggle with another Duke in Weimar, Ernst August. Ignoring politics, Bach wrote compositions for both Dukes, which angered his employer. Duke Wilhelm Ernst had Bach jailed for a month.
Upon leaving jail in 1717, Bach moved his family to Köthen and began his new job as Kapellmeister (director of music) to Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen. During his stay in Köthen, Bach wrote the six Brandenburg Concertos, violin concertos in A Minor, E Major, and the double concert in D Minor, Invention, the French Suites and the English Suites. Bach’s wife, Maria Barbara, died in 1720 after a short illness. Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken, a talented soprano, in 1721.
In 1723, Bach became Kapellmeister in the St Thomas School in Leipzig. Beginning in March 1729, Bach assumed the direction of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Bach was always looking for ways to increase his income. He sold books, music and Silbermann fortepianos. Bach finished his great B Minor Mass in 1749. Bach was practically blind due to cataracts at the end of his life. In 1750, he suffered a stroke. He died on July 28, 1750, probably from diabetes mellitus. During his lifetime, Bach was famous for his organ and harpsichord playing. The high regard for his compositions didn’t occur the 19th century.
During the first two weekends of May, thousands of Bach lovers from across the country arrive in Bethlehem, PA to hear the Bach Choir and Bach Festival Orchestra.
4 Kasım 2012 Pazar
Allentown's Referendum History
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In 1998, the Neighborhood Community Groups, under the leadership of Tom Burke, organized the first referendum under the new City Charter of 1996. The ballot question asked the voters in the following 1999 May primary if they supported a rental licensing law, rejected that previous fall by City Council. This coming May, voters for the second time in our charter history may be asked a question. The new referendum effort is being headed by citizen activist Dan Poresky, and is designed to stop Pawlowski's effort to privatize the water system. As reported in The Morning Call on November 26, 1998.
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This blogger was part of the landlord group opposed to the rental inspection law in 1998
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The petitions were collected by more than 80 volunteers beginning in earnest at Allentown polling stations on Election Day. Burke said 10 or 15 of the volunteers still have not turned in their petition forms, so the actual number of signatures collected might be even greater than the 2,700 names turned over to City Clerk Michael C. Hanlon.While Burke and the neighborhood groups were organizing to put the issue directly to the voters, property managers were also organizing against the licensing law, and conducted a large meeting, with over 150 landlords.
Among those who received an invitation and attended the meeting was Edward Pawlowski, executive director of the Alliance for Building Communities, a nonprofit organization that works to return apartment buildings to single-family, owner-occupied homes."The thing that impressed me most was how many people turned out," said Pawlowski. "It was a packed house."In 1998, Tom Burke said that he wasn't heading a special interest group with money, and that they had to speak directly to the voters. Likewise, in 2012, Dan Poresky is facing the well financed private water industry, and wants the homeowners to decide the fate of their water system.
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molovinsky on allentown has learned that the Pawlowski Administration is trying to put obstacles and roadblocks in the way of the Water Lease Referendum group. Julio Guridy requested an opinion from City Solicitor Jerry Snyder, concerning who can collect signatures for the referendum. In what is a convoluted stretch of the City Charter, Snyder concludes that all petition circulators must be pre-registered at City Hall, with City Clerk Mike Hanlon, just like the Committee members of the referendum. In reality, there was a precedent, the Rental Inspection Referendum of 1999. As documented in the previous post, over 80 circulators were involved in that previous petition, without pre-certification by Hanlon. It appears as if citizen rights under the charter are being repressed.
molovinsky on allentown has learned that the Pawlowski Administration is trying to put obstacles and roadblocks in the way of the Water Lease Referendum group. Julio Guridy requested an opinion from City Solicitor Jerry Snyder, concerning who can collect signatures for the referendum. In what is a convoluted stretch of the City Charter, Snyder concludes that all petition circulators must be pre-registered at City Hall, with City Clerk Mike Hanlon, just like the Committee members of the referendum. In reality, there was a precedent, the Rental Inspection Referendum of 1999. As documented in the previous post, over 80 circulators were involved in that previous petition, without pre-certification by Hanlon. It appears as if citizen rights under the charter are being repressed.
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