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ARE THE METS UNSTOPPABLE DESPITE BUCK SHOWALTER?
CAN THE YANKEES OVERCOME AARON BOONE’S TERRIBLE PITCHING MANAGEMENT?
THE BRAND NEW BALL GAME:
WHAT THE NEW RULES ARE.
CAN THE PITCHERS ADJUST? HOW WILL THE NO- SHIFT RULES BE PLAYED? WILL PITCHERS DOCTOR THE BALL?
WILL THE GAMES BE FASTER?
CAN HITTERS SWING AT STRIKES?
CAN THEY HIT ‘EM WHERE THEY AIN’T
AMERICA’S NATIONAL PASTIME IS BACK!
OPENING DAY MARCH 31.
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WPCNR ALBANY ROUNDS, From State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. February 15, 2023:
| “Today, the Senate Majority will once again rise to our leadership responsibilities and end the ongoing distraction of the Justice Hector LaSalle nomination. We maintain that the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote on Justice LaSalle’s nomination was a faithful execution of the judicial nomination procedure. The Senate acted constitutionally by following our own set of rules, which as a separate branch of government, we are empowered to create and follow under the State Constitution. Despite being in accordance with our State laws, the outcome of that Judiciary hearing has not been accepted by all members of government. The recent court case brought by Republican Senators proves that prolonging the LaSalle nomination – which never had the requisite votes to pass – is merely a wedge issue to distract us from other pressing matters at hand. We have a state to run. The 2023-2024 $227 billion dollar budget is due in six weeks. Our highest court has no appointed Chief Judge, and we need the court system to function. This court case, if allowed to continue, would’ve dragged on for months and stymied our judicial system. It’s time to put this matter to rest.” (Editor’s Note: Previously the Senate Majority leader lead the Senate to vote to add three Democratic Senators not in favor of Judge LaSalle, (Chief Judge of the Appellate Court of Appeals) as Court of Appeals Chief Justice who would have been approved by the Republicans on the 16-member Judiciary Committee, had not State Senate Majority Leader added three more judges to the committee. The Committee vote not to approve Judge LaSalle, was 10-9, with the three Democratic Senators added all voting to reject Judge LaSalle. Politco quoted Governor Kathy Hochul on the circumstances of the rejection of Judge LaSalle in the State Senate Judiciary Committee: “While this was a thorough hearing, it was not a fair one, because the outcome was predetermined. Several senators stated how they were going to vote before the hearing even began — including those who were recently given seats on the newly expanded Judiciary Committee. While the Committee plays a role, we believe the Constitution requires action by the full Senate.”) |
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Valentine’s Day is today.
. In order to get in the mood for love, dispel the myths and fiction notions about love, I have compiled a list of songs written over the years from ragtime to swing to the rock and roll era.
Those who have never been in love yet can use as guidelines to judge whether they have a real love going, and not merely the mock.
What is so true though is a vast majority of the songs are sad, remembering a love of the past and an when the breakup it happens, the feeling they convey is so true to the lyrics. I have included some lyrics that each song, other than instrumentals, to stir your memory.
Those of you not still in love or who miss it, and play these songs for memories and faith in the future that another will come along because they miss it. I have probably forgotten yours. Feel free to write me and suggest other songs I have left out.
The best observers — authorities on what love feels like are the songwriters–poets with melody. They write the feelings their minds and bodies and yes, their heart, as
“down and down they go like a leaf that’s caught in the tide. That Old Black Magic you weave so well”
John Bailey’s 100 Love Songs of All Time
(Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane)
(I didn’t Want to Do it)
(I was your Pretty, You were My Baby)
(I Remember)
(I Found My Thrill)
(Pretending You’re Still Around)
(That’s When I Miss You Most of All)
(Though not a single word was spoken, I could tell you knew
That unfelt clasp of hands told me so well that you knew
I never lived at all until the thrill of that moment When my heart stood still.)
You Go to My Head
(With a smile that makes my temperature rise
Like a summer with a thousand Julys You intoxicate my soul with your eyes)
Red River Valley
(They Say You Are Going)
I want to be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart
(I Want to Rope and Ride Across the Great Divide)
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin’
(Wait Along, Wait Along)
Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
(Far Over the Sea)
Kiss and Say Goodbye
(I wanna remember you just like this…)
Begin the Beguine
(It Brings Back a Night of Tropical Splendor)
Come Dance With Me
(Come on Cutes, Put on Your Dancing Boots and Dance with Me)
Dancing in the Dark
(We Can Face the Music Together)
(Without it you’re in awful fix.
Once you’ve had it you never want to quit)
(Down by the sea)
( Always Lived in the Twilight..)
(Don’t Kiss Me Once, Kiss Me Twice)
(You are the one)
(I Suddenly Turn and See…Your Fabulous Face)
(Set em up, Joe)
(You’re the Coliseum, You’re the Louvre Museum)
(Now)
(Nothing Thrills Me Half as Much as Dancing Cheek to Cheek)
(It’s a Phenomenon!)
(You haven’t changed a bit Lovely as ever, I must admit)
(Deep in the Heart of Me)
(I felt a thrill when you caught my eye, my heart stood still)
(Feel so good now you’re home)
( to set my soul on fire)
(The sweet used-to-be That was once you and me
Keeps coming back like an old melody)
(I’ll be loving you always)
(I’ve Tried forgetting you..)
(Everybody’s somebody’s plaything)
(Where can you be?)
(I will love you til I die)
(All because my heart can’t forget)
(Save me the first dance in your dreams)
(You with the Stars in Your Eyes)
(I’m a Lover, Everybody Loves Me)
( He’s gonna me mine, Sooner or Later, I hope it’s not later)
(Trying to Waltz to a Rock and Roll Song)
(Can I come along? Carry your books and hold your arm?)
(Why Not Take?)
(Till I Overtake the Moon and You)
(My Baby is so Fine, Sends Those Chills Up and Down My Spine)
(Your chances are very Good)
(And Too Much in Love)
( Of faults that you forgave, rainbows on a wave…Thank you so Much)
(A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day
Just like the strain Of a haunting refrain)
(Love’s a Hand-Me-Down Brew)
( When I saw you there on that ski trail)
(When I Lost my Baby)
(I was dancing with my darlin’…)
65. Laura
(The laugh that floats on a summer night)
(Seen a lot, I mean LOT, But now I’m like sweet seventeen a LOT
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I)
(Where did we go?)
(Honest you do)
(Someday Julie, I’ll Be the Apple of Your Eye)
( I Need You So)
(In All the Familiar Places)
(Without You)
(Stay with me, Diana)
(All my Dreams Fulfilled)
(Because I’m crazy ’bout, mad about, wild about
Your fine brown frame)
(He didn’t come Monday), He showed up Saturday,
I said Bye Bye Baby)
(Met a New Girl in the Neighborhood)
(You may see a Stranger Across a Crowded Room)
(And still have danced Some More)
(Oh, the Towering Feeling)
(You set my soul on fire, and I’ve Really Had my Fun)
Just for a Thrill
(You're still the only one Cause you made my heart stand still)
Stardust
(Of love’s sweet refrain)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
(When a lovely flame dies)
Blues In the Night
(A two-face, a worrisome thing
Who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night)
Love Letters In the Sand
(You laughed when I cried when the tide
would take our Love Letters from the Sand)
88. Born To Be With You
(By your Side)
89. I Can’t Stop Loving You
(I’ve made up my mind to Live in Memory)
90. First Name Initial
(It Makes it Official)
91. When A Man Loves A Woman
(Can’t Keep His Mind on Anything Else)
92. Ci Ci Rider
(The Moon Is Shining Bright
If I Could Just Walk with You
Everything would Be All right)
93. Eddie My Love
(Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long-Ong-Ong)
94 .Wonderland By Night
95. In the Mood
96. Moonlight Serenade
97. Young Blood
(I Can’t Get You off of My Mind)
98. Memories Are made of This
99. Once Upon A Time
(A Girl with Moonlight in Her Eyes Told Me
She Loved Me So, But that Was Once Upon a Time Very Long Ago)
100. VAYA CON DIOS
(My Love, May God Be With You til we meet again) The list of the greatest love songs continues. I know some of the Love Hits of all time are from my era, some from the 40s 30s and the 20s. Some by the great songwriters, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Lieber & Stroller, Paul Anka, Glenn Miller. Hoagy Carmichael, but love songs are how we first learn about love is, how it feels to be in love. No matter how much we might scoff at love, when it hits you and when love walks in and sweeps you off your feet, and takes you for a spin, you know thanks to these songs. What are some of the songs I have forgotten? What are your favorites? Drop me a line at wpcnr@aol.com with yours. Have a Happy Valentines Day. Don't forget the dozen red roses and to look into your Valentine's eyes.
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MEANWHILE MID-HUDSON REGION, LONG ISLAND, 5 NYC BOROUGHS HAVE 1/3 AND HIGHER HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS BEING ADMITTED FOR COVID.
WPCNR CORONA VIRUS SURVEILLANCE. Statistics from Governor Kathy Hochul Press Office. Friday Report. February 12, 2023:
The New York State Acting Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald officially ended the requirement to wear masks in hospitals and health care facilities Friday across the state, Friday The New York Times reported this morning quoting the Acting Commissioner as saying: “The pandemic is not over, yet we are moving to a transition.”
The relaxing of mask requirements now leaves the decision to the health facilities if they wish staff and public to wear masks visiting or working in the facility.
In New York City its Public Hospitals would continue to require masks to be worn on their premises The Times reported would still require New York City Friday reported of its 904 patients hospitalized 356 (39%z0 of its 904 hospitlized were being treated due to covid or complications of covid.
In the Mid-Hudson region, consisting of Westchester, Orange, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster and Sullivan Counties hospitals report of 241 current admissions Friday, 93 were admitted for Covid or covid complications (39%)
Nassau and Suffolk Counties 158 admissions for treat of covid and complications are running 53% of Long Island 300 total admissions.
The Times reporter Lola Fadulu wrote this morning advocacy groups for persons with disabilities are urging Governor Hochul to reverse the dropping of masking requirements in nursing homes, homes for the disabled and homes for older people. A letter from the group urged, The Times quoting the letter , said the state decision “put disabled people, older people, and everyone else at greater risk from this often-deadly disease.”
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WORLD FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENTERTAINMENT INSPIRATION ENLIGHTENMENT HUMANITY FOR ETERNITY AWARDS BEST PICTURE.
WPCNR CINEMARAMA. Movie Review by John F. Bailey. February 11, 2023:
It’s the week when the entertainment world is abuzz and movie fans of the stars and the directors and the filmmakers are talking Oscars and Best Pictures and Directors and Writers.
But there is no contest.
No motion picture among those nominated for Best Picture comes close to the Iliad, the Odyssey of cinema artistry I saw with Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon last night in Mr. Hearst’s personal theatre in Mr. Hearst’s Castle on the Coast
I am pleased to announce the WPCNR WORLD FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENTERTAINMENT INSPIRATION, ENLIGHTENMENT FOR HUMANITY FOR ETERNITY HAS AWARDED
The envelope please….
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER BEST PICTURE,
The distinguished panel of the WPCNR Foundation awards, and the winner for BEST PICTURE IS…
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER “THE BAILEY” FOR BEST PICTURE AND JAMES CAMERON BEST DIRECTOR .
This is more than a movie, it’s not a movie, it a cinematic Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey that gives you what Mr. Cameron’s Titanic gave you years ago — only better!
It is an upclose intensely realistic, (set in another world), superbly written with meaningful dialogue, reasoned arguments between characters bringing to light aspects of human relationships that relate and interpret so well to the reasons as old as time that make different groups hate another because of the way others look and act. The movie is an action adventure movie that is not a cartoon, (common recent slang in the dialogue excluded, using the world “bro” for example to pander to the younger generation no matter what Generation Letter you are).
Mr. Cameron’s actors in their relationships to their families and the colonizing army from Earth attempting to take over Pandora for its resources is an allegorical parallel and the actors who are all equals in delivering an ensemble filled with interactive character development of the challenges they face from a ruthless Earth Army with no respect for human life, are so real,relevant compared to the suffering happening in real life in Russia’s new Holodomor in Ukraine.
Cameron’s The Way of Water delivers a message—a verdict on the manifest destiny era that took land from the American Indian; slavery culture , Civil War; the Spanish American War, exploitation of the Middle East for oil for a century by promoting oil corporation interests, and the costly loss of committed American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, who still deplore our withdrawal from that country that left them to the mercy of the Taliban.
Mr. Cameron’s unflinching cinematic fluency and fascinating script displays the legacy of greed that so many wars inflict across time in this profound action epic depicting the ruthlessness of conquest.
Mr. Cameron builds how trust is won from people who are different than you when a Pandora fugitive from the colonizing army from Earth, Jack Scully is banished to a community The Metkayinay living in the ocean region of Pandora. The Na’Vi first reject him and his wife and kids, but eventually accepts them in a series of quiet interactions and successes at winning the new community friendship and respect. It is so sweetly and beautifully acted and perfect-pitch this transformation from outcasts to community members for all members of the family especially the children.
The special effects depicting the ocean creatures are beautiful,so good that you think you’re watching them in Marineland.
The WPCNR Foundation also awards “The Bailey” as The Best Actor to PAYKAN —the Rin-Tin-Tin of the sea who rescues one of Jack’s sons and spoiler alert—no I won’t surprise you. We are constructing a special tank for a private presentation to this giant Tulkan of the screen world.
There is violence in this movie lots of it. But they are the best sequences I have seen since Cameron’s first Avatar movie
But the distinguished guests at the Foundation screening of all ages were transfixed for three shortesthours I have ever experienced watching a movie. You cared about these characters. You are watching bluehued people reacting real and changing attitudes in realistic dialogue not comic strip balloon dialogue. The writers on this film all deserve The Bailey for Best Screen Writing Team.
This sequence in the middle of this epic may appear tedious but it lays the premise of the movie, if people care about others they will fight for the community rights and freedom and survival more than any other reason against incredible odds. When the Earth Army captures a young descendent of Jack’s original community it is a link that brings the Earth Army into the Way of Water Tribe whose villages the burn—a shocking reminder of massacres of the past and present.. This sets up the suspensful 45 minute final battle sequence reminiscent of the Titanic special effects.
This is what Best Movies are: Unboring, instantly interesting. They involve you right away. Characters are developed (even though they are blue and do not look like you and me) with the way they act and show emotion in their faces, and the way the ensemble reacts in this movie is what keeps you on the edge of your seat and caring about them for three hours.
This is what a Best Movie is: more than what it appears to be. Grappling with the mysteries of human behavior: greed, anger, hatred, love, compassion, caring, loving and heroism in the face of danger, grief, loss, responsibility, and of course being able to stand up to right and wrong with guts. All the conflict that is the nature of the human condition, and most of all the ability to grow and change.
Homer would have loved it.
Best Picture.
No contest.
It is an epic.
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Washington, DC — Ahead of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee’s hearing on “Strengthening Airlines Operations and Consumer Protections,” John Samuelsen, International President of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) issued this statement:
“As the Senate Commerce Committee today examines the series of events that led to the worst operational meltdown in the history of Southwest Airlines, the Transport Workers Union of America encourages lawmakers to focus their attention on what we know to be the cause of this catastrophe – corporate neglect and an undying lust for profits by Southwest Airlines executives.
“While the Southwest meltdown was initially triggered by a severe weather event and further sustained by outdated, overwhelmed technology, Southwest’s leadership must accept blame and take full responsibility for a national crisis that left tens of thousands of passengers stranded for days on end, jeopardized the health and safety of thousands of employees, and caused an untold number of passengers tremendous mental anguish and financial distress.
“Southwest is the largest commercial air carrier in the United States, but it continues to rely on antiquated phone systems, eccentric computer programs, and IT processing capabilities that date back to the 1990s.
Instead of taking steps to upgrade these systems, executives chose to spend $5.6 billion on corporate buybacks in the three years leading up to this crisis.
All of this, in spite of the fact that TWU-represented Southwest Airlines workers, including flight attendants at TWU Local 556, fleet service workers at TWU Local 555, and flight dispatchers and meteorologists at TWU Local 550, have been sounding the alarm for years about the impacts of running a world-class airline on outdated, insufficient technology.
“What’s more, the vast majority of work groups at Southwest, who for years have made this carrier profitable and sustained it during the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, are still without secured, fair contracts.
“Southwest Airlines wants its passengers and employees to feel the LUV, but LUV flew out the window at Southwest the day Gary Kelly arrived, and the moment corporate executives chose profits over people.”
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RICHARD CIRULLI, MOVIE PRODUCER, PLAYWRIGHT, AUTHOR FOUNDER OF THE WHITE PLAINS DEMITASSE PLAYERS
ON
WHAT IT’S LIKE WRITING, SHOOTING A MOVIE,PUTTING THE FINISH TOGETHER
HIS NEWEST MOVIE IN THE CAN “THE CLOTHES LINE” IN PRODUCTION
HIS NEWEST DEMITASSE PLAYERS PRODUCTION COMING THIS YEAR
CAN EXISTENTIAL MOVIES, PLAYS ENTERTAIN, ENLIGHTEN WITH TOOLS FOR LIVING?
YES!
JOHN BAILEY INTERVIEWS MR. CIRULLI (ON LOCATION) ON HIS CREATIVE LIFE
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WPCNR LABOR RAMPARTS Special to WPCNR. February 8, 2023:
The Service Employees International Union 32BJ 50 workers who lost their jobs a week ago when Pepsico hired a non-union security firm that told the SEIUBJ workers they would not be rehired, are back on the job.
SEIU has begun negotiations with the new security firm and the employees are guaranteed at least 90 days further employment.
The change of heart came after SEIU filed a lawsuit accusing the new security form of violation of National Labor Relations Board practices.
Pepico issued this statement to SEIU yesterday announcing that the new security firm had agreed to enter negotiations:
“AGB has informed us that they have communicated to SEIU that they recognize them as the representative of security workers at PepsiCo’s Purchase and Valhalla facilities and have asked the union to engage in good faith bargaining with them. We are hopeful that the two parties will soon reach a resolution.”
SEIU acknowledged the announcement:
“We are happy to hear AGB has decided to recognize 32BJ SEIU as the bargaining representative of the security guards at the Purchase and Valhalla facilities and look forward to bargaining with them in good faith. These workers deserve a contract that maintains workers’ employer-paid comprehensive healthcare, quality wages, other benefits, and which upholds area industry standards.” – 32BJ SEIU Executive Vice President and Director of the Hudson Valley District Shirley Aldebol
A spokesperson for SEIU today told WPCNR that the union was hopeful of securing a satisfactory contract with AGB before the 90 days employment guaranteed the workers by NLRB law expires. Paid healthcare benefits which the union workers now enjoy is a vital issue. The benefits remain in effect while negotiations are underway.
The SEIU spokesman the National Labor Relations Board that had initiated an inquiry into the violation of standard labor laws, (advance notice of terminating employees, and the opportunity to negotiate a new contract) had not moved ahead to his knowledge at the present time.
The union had planned a rally for Thursday to protest the AGB policy but has called the rally off with the announcement of AGB willingness to negotiate a new contract acceptable to the SEIU workers.