It wasn't so much his doodling a picture
of female genitalia that brings him down
as it will be the "Cover-Up"
where forces that attempted
to hide Nixon's corruption
spilled over into a vast
array of illegal activities
to keep legal and judicial
opening of plots - crimes
out into the public
acknowledgment.
npr.org/ trump-epstein-
files-politics-maga
Southern Berrien County
St. Joseph River area near Fort Street
in vicinity of Niles, Michigan outskirts
city limits
The "Discover Archaeology in Action"
days this summer will be August 2 & 3
from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free to the public.
The Archaeologist open house will also
include re-enactors of the colonial French
era (details in Press coverage at ABC TV
local affiliate) =
abc57.com/discover-archaeology-in-action-at-fort-st-joseph
Resurgence: Expanding
Trade in New France
posted at TV web platform 4 a.m. Wed. ahead
of first Saturday of August through Aug. 3, 2025
faithfor2008.blogspot.com "Seeking Faith and Understanding"
Visitors to the WEBsite / GOOGLE Blog
July 1, 2025 4,682 visits / views
July 2 1684
July 3 2906 visits/views
Independence Day 625
July 5 3,443
July 6 4,564
July 7 2,424
July 8 1,402
July 9 750
July 10 941
July 11 488
July 12 463
July 13 424
July 14 414
July 15 577
July 16 245
July 17 331
July 18 455
July 19 643
July 20 430
July 21 2,123
July 22 1,969
July 23 2,081
July 24 4175
Total for the Month of JULY 2025 (1st - 31st) -- 38,246 visits
thus far in the mid-year Summer Month
Thursday July 24, 2025 before Trump leaves for tour
of 2 family Golf Courses near birthplace of Mother
MaryAnn McLeod of Scotland (emigrated 1940 to
U.S. seeking husband). . .
DISTRICT of COLUMBIA
Jerome Powell
denies and debates the
VERACITY of figures being spouted by
Trump as they both wear hard hats for
walking tour of
FEDERAL RESERVE improvements /
construction
nytimes.com/live/2025/07/24/us/trump-federal-reserve-powell
Israel and U.S. leave from Cease-fire
negotiations: HAMAS is alone with mediators
(Arab neighbors of both W. Bank and Gaza Strip)
No movement toward a
Cease-fire &
Release of remaining 50
hostages still held in
Gaza -- see further
Reuters.com/ July 7, 2025
The Israeli delegation didn't have a sufficient
mandate to reach an agreement with remaining
HAMAS leaders / conferees.
[ Netanyahu and Trump-Vance will meet for
Oval Office "under the stage lights" meeting
now that world's attention remains on POTUS
Trump 2.0 who is announcing his Commerce -
Treasury punishments for trade partner countries
who fail to meet next-stage compromises / "Deals"
favoring U.S. domination.
EPSTEIN Files are now the immediate urgent
MUST FIND -- entire departments searching them
from earliest to just before Maxwell's trial and 20-yr.-convictions
nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-files-trump-bondi-justice-department-fbi.html
The two-time Grammy award winner died at
home Tues. July 22, 2025 at Rochester, NY
OBITUARY at AP NEWS article/
chuck-mangione-dies. . . He had retired in
2015 and reached the age of 84, having
released 30 jazz instrumental albums.
the hill.com/policy/defense-5416554/army-military-parade-250th-anniversary/?tbref=hp
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Interview with POLITICO.com
with Senator Roger Wicker (Mississippi)
Thursday June 4, 2025
after learning from Army Secy. Dan Driscoll
in a budget meeting that the June 14 upcoming
Birthday Parade - Army turns
250 while POTUS Trump turns 79
will cost taxpayers
$25 - $40 million and possibly cause
$15 million damages to bridges and streets
in the District of Columbia
I would have recommended against the
parade; . . .we'll see
GOP-senators-question-cost-of-armys-parade-spectacle
BREAKING NEWS (Thurs. July 24, 2025)
Protesters block entrance to Chords Bridge
entrance to city of Jerusalem : display sign
of defiance = Enlistment - Genocide /
DEATH before Conscription
jpost.com/israel-news/article-862021
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Jerusalem Post (Israel media platform)
reports that
54,000 "ultra"-Orthodox
Jews eligible for military service
will be called up for actual service
by July 2026
jpost.com/israel-news/article-860157
This group contains 16.5 year-olds to
those in their 20s, ending up at 26-yr.-olds.
To catch draft dodgers, IDF and border
authorities will use airport check-ins,
checkpoints, and other spontaneous checks
in areas where draft dodgers will be traveling
without officials searching through civilian areas.
9 a.m. July 27, 2025
at Berrien Springs, Michigan
Family Walk / Fun Run at 10:30 a.m.
run.signup.com/
Includes food, music, Fun Fest
Today (Thursday 24th July) -- WashingtonPost
coverage indicates that No ONE is safe from
Trump throwing you "under the bus" and assaulting
your nest-egg or vital business resources/savings
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POTUS 47 lawsuit against
Rupert Murdoch, owner
of the Wall Street Journal
will be heard by southern Florida
federal judge
Darrin Gayles.
see :
politico.com/news/2025/07/21/wall-street-lawsuit-judge-donald-trump-00465363
Monday July 21, 2025
August 1 : 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Eastern
Bridgman (Michigan) Public Library Friends
used Book Sale Friday
4460 Lake Street, Bridgman, IL (plenty of parking)
Second day includes $5 bag sale
Saturday August 2, 2025 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
all proceeds benefit the Bridgman Public Library
hardback and paperback, gently used
269 - 465 - 3663
bridgmanlibrary.com/calendar
Berrien County, MI USA
FEMA (under Kristi Noem and Dept.Homeland Security)
will NOT be helping the state of Maryland following
recent floods.
Its governor is Wes Moore (a Democratic political
party new governor in 1st term).
See further
washingtonpost.com/
July 23 - 24, 2025
TODAY July 24
Todd Blanche, right-hand D of J prosecutor
and assistant for Pamela Jo Bondi, Trump's
Attorney (General) has released to the
WASHINGTON POST that their meeting
with Ghislaine Maxwell was "Productive"
Details will be forthcoming
ABC News is reporting that the
Dept. of Justice
is meeting with the
convicted sex trafficker
in her prison setting
THURSDAY, July 24, 2025
abcnews.go.com
Representing Pamela Jo Bondi
is her deputy,
Todd Blanche.
| Niles Burn Run 2025 (Annual) | |
| Event Date/Time | Friday 7/25 Saturday, July 26 & Sunday 7/27/2025 |
| Host | Niles Burn Run Inc |
| Event Type | Benefit - Charity |
| Event Description | The Niles Burn run is a 3-day event to benefit the Great Lakes Burn Camp Saturday: Car / Bike Show Friday: Live Music featuring PT & the Cruisers, & Saturday live music by Katmandu (Bob Seger tribute band) Sunday: Escorted Ride, kick stands up at noon - 50-mile course |
| Location | Riverfront Park - Niles, Michigan |
| Address | |
| City | Niles |
| State | MICHIGAN |
| Zip | 49120 |
CNN.com/2025/07/23/us/texas-flood-state-inquiry-begins
What is relevant and germane are topics such as:
flood warning systems,
emergency communications,
relief funding for victims
what is NOT relevant is
redistricting the TEXAS
congressional districts
so as to eliminate "Blue"
areas of the MAGA - focused
state into an entirely
"RED" / Trump-Vance voting
gerrymandered part of the
50-states + voting regions
CNN reporting of how a
Kerr County Emergency management
coordinator
W.B. "Dub" Thomas
was asleep before the
early a.m. LETHAL
flash flood event killed
at least 136 people
in hill country of TEXAS.
cnn.com/2025/07/23/us/texas-flood-state-inquiry-begins
posted 10 p.m. July 23, 2025
CNN Online
Non-American celebrities
that Trump muses about honoring
and including in "his" Statue
Garden of _AMERICAN_ Heroes:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ingrid Bergman
Christopher Columbus
Alfred Hitchcock
his images are under strict licensing -- LLC -- see alfredhitchcock.com/licensing
Nikola Tesla
Alex Trebek (Ontario, Canada)
Hannah Arendt (France)
Albert Einstein (Germany)
Junipero Serra
Marquis de LaFayette
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UPDATE: July 9 Washington
POST online article:
likely not ready / open until
2029 -- Trump-Vance Omnibus
Bill pushed forward $40 million
funding after Biden-era Nat.
Endowment for Humanities grants
were essentially zeroed by POTUS
Trump 2.0
newsweek.com/donald-trump-national-garden-american-heroes-
independence-day-4th-july-big-beautiful-bill-2094645
coverage (Wed. July 23, 2025) by
NY TIMES Sharon Otterman
nyregion/columbia-trump-funding-deal.html
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UPDATE (Friday July 18)
NYTimes.com/2025/07/17/nyregion/
Columbia-trump-near-deal.html
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Administrators at a major Ivy League
school, New York City, will settle/ negotiate a
fine payoff of $200 million
the Executive Branch that is holding their
grants and federal aid (FAFSA) and more
under threat and red-tape tie-up.
Columbia University.
When: Saturday July 26, 2025
Theme of the 16th Annual Dixie Day is
Popeye and Olive Oyl so
wear your favorite costume
for prizes.
This race is professionally
timed and prizes will be given
Pre-registration until 7/25 is $25
Day of $30.
Cut-off for online registration is
Saturday July 19, 2025.
Registration and bib pick-up is
6:45 day of at North Webster IN
Community Center.
Race starts at 8 a.m. EASTERN
details --
ABCnews.go.com/international/WireStory/
trumps-trip-scotland-highlights-complex-relationship-
mothers-homeland-124023618
posted 12:25 a.m. Thursday
July 24, 2025 at ABC platform from
"Wire Story" written by Jill Lawless
of Associated Press
January 2005
Les Moonves and wife Julie Chen;
Bill & Hillary Clinton (then-senator from NY)
Barbara Walters
Mark Burnett & wife Roma Downey (actress)
Rudy Giuliani & then-wife Judy Nathan
Katie Couric
George H. Ross
Don King
Carolyn Kepcher and husband George
Simon Cowell
Heidi Klum
Billy Joel and then-wife Katie Lee Joel
Russell Simmons & Kimora Lee Simmons
Star Jones and husband Al Reynolds
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
Paul Anka
Tony Bennett
Kathie Lee Gifford & husband Frank Gifford
Shaquille O'Neal
Bob Wright (NBC Prez) and wife Suzanne
Senator Al D'Amato & wife
Conrad Black (Newsp. owner) and wife
Marty Richards
4 Palm Beach town council members & wives
. . .Mohamed al-Fayed
Mort Zuckerman and Kathleen Friery
Deborah Norville and Karl Wellner
Gayle King
Tina Brown and husband Harold Evans
Chris Matthews (MSNBC)
Vic Damone and Rena Damone
Donna Summer
Mickey Arison
Jeannine Pirro
others expected were Anna Wintour, Oprah
Winfrey, Elton John, Joe Torre, Liza Minelli,
Robert Kraft,
Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. . .
palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2025/07/23/epstein-trump-marla-maples-wedding-melania-florida
After the Executive Branch (FBI, CIA, D of J)
released the MLK Surveillance files over five+
decades, his surviving daughter Rev.
Bernice King has called for the
Trump Executive Branch to
release the Epstein files.
The descendants of MLK had
begged the FBI not to release such
surveillance material but she as a
designated spokesperson for the
activists and religious-leadership
parts of the family asks Trump-Vance
to be equally forthright with the
Epstein files (Grand Jury, before his
death in a jail cell, 2019).
July 23, 2025
Breaking News
July 23, 2025
Yes, it is undisputed that
TRUMP-Vance Dept. Defense Hegseth
shared material which was classified "SECRET" on
Signal
washingtonpost.com/ July 23, 2025
UPDATE: April 15 m-o-r-e on Signal Chat
all of the ChatGPT group on Signal
a commercial APP messages from/to
CIA chief John Ratcliffe have been deleted;
this despite the order from Judge James Boasberg
of Federal District Court to preserve such records
of communications.
________________________________________
The Pentagon's chief Counsel / Inspector
will investigate the use by Pete Hegseth
of the messaging APP "Signal" and consider
whether he has used the group chat to discuss
details of an air strikes against Houthi rebels
in Yemen last month. The watchdog opened
the probe after request from leaders of the
Senate Armed Services committee.
Senators Roger Wicker, Jack Reed
July 23, 2025 (during Congressional recesses)
Dr. George Tidmarsh (previously cancer & pediatric
patients) will follow through on commitments made
by MAKARY (FDA Head) and RFK, Jr. (HHS Secy.)
AP News.com/article/fda-drugs-trump-makary-george-
tidmarsh- . . . 2025 July 23
__________________________________________
Martin Makary -- his chief Counsel appointed by
Trump on Tuesday March 11 resigned abruptly
Thursday March 13, 2025 -- this was heralded as
necessary by anti-Mifespristone Senator from
Missouri - Josh Hawley . . .
the hill dot-com (Friday March 14) -- Counsel was
Hilary Perkins, formerly of
Biden-Harris administration at
Food & Drug (FDA)
she worked the opposite side of
a Supr. Court case against Erin
Hawley (Josh Hawley spouse).
She told NY Times his accusations
against her are false.
AP NEWS com
details how Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins
University surgeon and researcher rose to
national attention by skewering the medical
establishment in books and papers -- now he
will become ascendant in the RFK, Jr. HHS
system of federal investigations and regulations
and system updates.
apnews.com/article/fda-trump-makary-vaccines-
ultraprocessed-foods-safety . . .
Michael Wolff's All or Nothing: How Trump recaptured America
since March 2025 has sold
11,000 copies / / / /
contrasting it to Bob Woodward's
Trump 1.0 term book
Rage which sold
1.1 million copies in all formats
in 2020.
Senate will have to vote first in committee
then before entire 100-member body
__________________________________
wild night / Tuesday 22nd July 2025
evening as Pam Bondi, Trump's A.G. has fired
Desiree Leigh Grace
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AP News New Jersey US - Attorney
office -- she is a goner -- new Prosecutor
named is DESIREE LEIGH GRACE
- - Habba can go back to representing
the litigant - defendant in his many lawsuits
(POTUS 47 Trump 2.0)
__________________________________
update on U.S. Attorney (NJ) office
decline in morale and left many
prosecutors seeking a way out
NYTimes.com/2025/07/20/nyregion/alina-habba-us-attorney-new-jersey.html
______________________________________________________
Alina Habba,
a loyal law school graduate
who has carried out the wish
of Trump 2.0 to use the Federal
JUSTICE Dept. to target his
enemies -- to a podcast, Ms.
Habba said, "We could turn
New Jersey red. . ." Her charges
against the mayor of Newark,
arrested outside an immigrant
detention facility were dropped
and she faced a rare admonition
from a federal magistrate judge:
"Your job is NOT to secure
convictions at all costs, NOR
to satisfy public clamor, NOR
to advance political agendas".
Before 2025 she had overseen
a small civil litigation firm.
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her term as an acting U.S. attorney
may end Tuesday 7/22/2025
if the state's district Court judges
rule or do not rule to grant an extension
Poem by William Butler Yeats
second stanza:
Then nowise worship dusty deeds,
Nor seek, for this is also sooth,
To hunger fiercely after truths,
Lest all thy toiling only breeds
New dreams, new dreams: there
is no truth
Saving in thine own heart. Seek, then,
No learning from the starry men,
Who follow with the optic glass
The whirring ways of stars that pass -
Seek, then, for this is also sooth,
No word of theirs - the cold star-bane
has cloven and rent their hearts in twain
And dead is all their human truth.
quoted in part in The Theory of Everything (2014) feature film
by the character Jane at the "Cambridge May Ball" at an outdoors
fireworks celebratory scene . . .
from Hollywood: The Oral History (2022)
Director John Schlesinger :
Some executive reading scripts
suggested Elvis Presley would
be good for Midnight Cowboy
if it was turned into a musical.
And someone at United Artists,
for whom I did the picture,
seriously said, "Make Ratzo
Sammy Davis, Jr. and you have
a hit." (page 532 top)
From Hollywood: The Oral History (2022)
If somebody hits with
a certain type of film,
then everyone wants to
make one on the not
unlikely assumption that
"oh, I guess a lot of people
out there are interested in
seeing this. . ."
So everybody will make them.
And the public will go to see it,
until the public stops going
to see it. But one thing that
doesn't change is that the
top ten films at any one time
do half of the available business
and all the rest are fighting for
the other half.
That is always true.
The public gravitates toward
the hits. The hits are like
magnets.
There was a period in which some
studio movies were made that were
supposed to be about Black people.
Hurry Sundown! I adore Otto
Preminger, the director, as a social
human being. He has a great sense
of humor, and he's a fantastic host. . .
if you go to his home to have dinner,
you're going to have a great time. . .
Those films -- Carmen Jones
Porgy and Bess
Hurry Sundown. . .
when I was in Carmen Jones, they
gathered together an array of Black
stars, Belafonte, Dandridge, Brock
Peters. . .We all wanted to be in moving
pictures, so we made it. We found out
things hadn't changed a great deal for us.
Then Porgy and Bess and we all came out
and made fools of ourselves again. . .I
don't even know what to say about Hurry
Sundown what I know is that there's
been a long, long time in Hollywood
where equity hasn't happened. Maybe
it will. Maybe.
[ from Hollywood: The Oral History (2022) ]
Hollywood: The Oral History (2022)
From 1952, I found myself living
in England as a result of the
Hollywood blacklist, and I got
by in one way or another and I
was always looking, since I was
surveying and so forth, and writing
under assumed names, or whatever, to
avoid the blacklist. Because the
Blacklist followed people everywhere,
I felt inhibited about writing something
original. That was one of the penalties
of being blacklisted. . .Every blacklisted
Hollywood writer went through a severe
period, a period when he or she could
not write. Now some recovered from it,
and some never did recover from it. Once
I was working on a screenplay and it was
just no good. I had a conference with this
producer, very nice guy, very sympathetic,
and he said in a very terribly well-meaning
way "Look, why don't you forget all this
stuff? Why don't you make peace with those
people over there? Do what they want you
to do. Name a few names. Get yourself off
the blacklist, and get that weight off your
shoulder."
WHAT HE DIDN'T KNOW WAS. . .about
6 months before, they had pulled my passport.
And I wasn't telling that to anybody because
there was no point in spreading this around.
It was bad enough to have them (the State Dept.
in D.C.) do that, and I was suffering the
consequences of that, which meant that I
couldn't travel. When we parted that night and
I went upstairs to bed, I literally didn't sleep
all night long. I was awake constantly,
and I was scared. I knew fear, real fear.
And I hadn't written a good scripts, either.
I had to make a (screen) test cold of
Katharine Hepburn when she replaced
Claudette Colbert in The State of the Union.
A very charming, delightful person. Just
wonderful. During the time I'm making
the test, she said, "Now make me fat.
Make me Fat!"
She didn't want to be gaunt and thin, she
wanted to be nice and round and fat, And
I said, "Miss Hepburn, I've been trying
to make myself fat for years."
She said, "Don't give a damn about you,
just make me fat!" Talked like a rubber
band at you. What a charming, delightful,
wonderful person she is. And, of course, she
was an excellent person to photograph as
long as you, as she says, "Don't show my
chicken neck!"
FROM Hollywood: The Oral History (2022)
from Hollywood: The Oral History (2022)
fellow actor : Maximillian Schell (interviewed)
Spencer Tracy, was, for me, the
most professional actor I ever
met and the most human and
the best. It's just that simple.
Although he had his tricks, too.
He had his cliche's, too, but they
were just so good and not yet used
by others that he could use them
over and over again. He was aware
of them and he always had a certain
vanity, like every actor, but he was
so simple. His whole life he conducted
so beautfully and so dignified; he was
just a great human being. I think
the film camera captures the
personality of a human being and a
film actor much more than the theater.
. . . Katharine Hepburn gave up
years of her life just to be with him, and
he was just a great human being.
from HOLLYWOOD: THE ORAL HISTORY (2022)
"Film is a funny thing. You can take
a series of five scenes, and there are
perhaps 25 ways you can put them
together. But there's probably only one
way that makes any sense, and you've
got to find that one way. It's almost
like music. If you put the notes of
a piece of music together, you get
something wonderful, but if you take
those same notes and alter them a little
bit, you get dreck. It's the same way
with scenes. You get a chance to
compose in the cutting room. A film
is made both on the set and in the
cutting room. But if I didn't want
a shot I made on the set in the film,
I wouldn't have let that shot get into
the cutting room. You can improve a film
in the cutting room, but you can't find
a great, great film on the table, because
you're only working with what you
brought in. Never bring in anything
someone else could use to ruin your
picture!
July 2025
Iran's leaders turn to a new birth of
a fusion of Shi'ite identity and Irani
nationalism
NYTimes.com/2025/07/22/world/middleeast/
iran-nationalism-israel-us-attacks.html
Tuesday July 22 (online article - NY TIMES)
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UPDATE: July 18
Iran's Fordo Nuclear site was badly
damaged and potentially destroyed by
the 12 bunker-buster bombs the U.S.
military dropped on it June 2025 --
details in article (David Sanger, Julian
Barnes, Eric Schmitt)
NYTimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/iran-nuclear-sites.html
_________July 12, 2025__
Iran's foreign minister
Abbas Araghchi
said that his country would accept a resumption
of the nuclear talks as long as the U.S. agreed
it would not again use B-2 Stealth bombers with
megabombs and Cruise Missiles on nuclear
and missile sites.
See FURTHER: apnews.com/article/iran-us-nuclear-talks-
araghchi- . . .
Tehran, Iran 10:45 a.m. US. EASTERN time zone.
Sunday july 20th - he discussed his health
and troubles from balance on a famous podcast.
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Pray for the singer - songwriter who has canceled his
Tour (May 24, 2025) and will seek treatment for
normal pressure
hydrocephalus
which has led him to problems
with hearing, vision, & balance.
He is 76 and a mainstream music
mainstay since the 1970s.
Who is a Hollywood producer? What do they do?
from Hollywood: the oral history (2022) p. 209
I think producers can do
their job in three general
ways. There is the producer
who is a logistician, who deals
with the logistics of film, and
whose expertise has to do with
scheduled and the mechanics of
making a picture. This, never
doubt it, is vital! Then there
are producers who are promoters.
Arthur Jacobs was one of those.
So was Sam Bronston. There are
many such. Sam Spiegel is such
a producer, really!
Then there are producers whose
primary instincts are for some
of the creative aspects of film-
making. Perhaps script, perhaps
cutting. I would say Hal Wallis
was an example of that, a man
who knows a great deal about
editing and who feels that his
prime creative contribution is
in the editing stage. There are
producers who, like David O.
Selznick, said the producer is the
conductor of the orchestra and the
director is merely the first
violinist!
On a studio head she liked and who liked her:
anecdote in
Hollywood: The Oral History (2022)
Louis B. Mayer happened to
like me and I liked him. We
were friends. When you went
to Mr. Mayer you got an answer
. . . and you didn't have to go
to five thousand people to do
it either. They are all a bunch
of nincompoops today compared
to him! (PAGE 142).
transcribed by Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson
Hollywood: The Oral History (HarperCollins, 2022)
You can learn a lot from
watching Chaplin. He
once made a short film
titled The Pilgrim. The
opening shot was the
outside of a prison gate.
A guard comes out and
pastes up a "WANTED"
notice with a picture of
Chaplin in prison stripes.
NEXT, cut to a very tall,
thin man, coming out of
a river, having had a
swim, and he finds that
his clothes are missing;
all he can pick up is a
convict's uniform. Next,
cut to a railroad station,
and walking toward the
camera is Charlie Chaplin
dressed as a parson; his
pants are too long. Three
pieces of film, and look
at the amount of story they
told!
from Leonard Mlodinow's memoir of
friendship and co-authoring popular works
on Science with
PHYSICIST Stephen Hawking :
Both black holes and the
early universe fascinated
Stephen, and he made the
physics of those systems
his main area of research.
His later discoveries regarding
the interplay between Einstein's
theory of general relativity
and quantum theory helped
launch the field now called
quantum gravity (pages 8 - 9).
a septuagenarian born in Chicago, IL
a CalTech physicist (Pasadena, CA)
he has transitioned from teaching Physics
now writes for the general public
sometimes has co-authored books with
noted physicist Stephen Hawking [The Grand Design]
also a screenwriter for sci-fi TV series [Star Trek: Next Generation]
American humorist / best-selling author
It is better to keep your
mouth closed and let
people think you are a fool
than to open it
and remove all doubt!
July 18, 2025 -- Earthsky dot-org reports that the
LVK Collaboration found the merger of massive
black holes each 100 - 140 times the sign of our
solar system's sun has created a
225-solar-mass black hole;
this phenomenon presents
a real challenge to our
understanding of black
hole formation.
earthsky.org/space/biggest-black-hole-merger-breaks-the-universes-rules
posted July 2025
the merger is 225 times the size of our sun.
FURTHER UPDATE -- July 21 -- Judge Burroughs in
her courtroom will hear from Harvard's lawyers that
the Trump team of lawyers is attempting to curb
the +388-year-old American institution's
rights to free speech.
NY TIMES.com/ 2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html
Pamela Bondi, Trump's A.G. at the D.ofJ. argues that
the Trump-Vance administration has the clear authority
to halt research across the entire university departments.
After today's arguments, it is not clear when she will issue
her ruling.
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UPDATE: June 20 -- Yes, Judge Burroughs
rules in favor of Harvard's continuance to
admit international students.
NYTimes.com online BREAKING NEWS 4 p.m.
Friday June 20
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Update: June 16, 2025
NPR is reporting that the Judge will delay until
Monday the 23rd of June.
NPR.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5432750/harvard-lawsuit-international-students-hearing
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Judge Allison Burroughs (Fed. District) -- insisted that
the Status Quo remain in place. . .
details on Kristi Noem revocation -- see ABC News.go.com
"Breaking News"
Thursday May 29, 2025
Harvard University attorneys will make their first in-person
arguments before a Boston, Mass. federal courtroom
Its strategy is to use the POTUS Trump's statements
as evidence that the government is on a political
crusade against the school.
At stake is the 70-year-old Harvard
tradition of admitting top students
from around the globe; a visa ban
would affect 7,000 students currently
enrolled and other incoming students
who had expected to enroll in summer
and fall.
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On the Trump-Vance side,
Lawyers on the Dept. of Justice have not
yet submitted any written arguments on
the case.
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Revoking a university's right to host
international students is an extraordinary
measure. In court papers, Harvard has
maintained that the Trump-Vance lawyers/
legal complainants bypassed detailed
procedures that might lead to a revocation.
At the center of two HEGSETH-unusual controversies
will be pushed out of the Pentagon - Hegseth D o D (Dept.
of Defense) - Cabinet Dept. of the Trump-Vance administration
Fulcher is the 6th top
aide of the former FOX NEWS
Weekend anchor, Pete Hegseth,
to be summarily forced out of
a job in the Pentagon/Trump
White House in the first 6 months
(since Inauguration 20/Jan./2025).
see WASHINGTON POST dot-com.
POLITICO today
Sunday July 20, 2025
updates other Americans about the
other state Legislatures struggles with
the need to protect lawmakers from
those who might
Assassinate or Kidnap
political figures (like
Speaker of the Minn.
House Hortman or
Michigan Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer).
politico.com/2025/07/19/minnesota-assassination-
spurs-wave-of-state-bills-to-protected-officials-
00463300
July 24, 2025 Wall Street Journal adds the names from the
EPSTEIN Birthday scrapbook are:
William Jefferson Clinton
Leon Black (Wall Street billionaire)
pbs.org/News hour/politics/trump-mired-in-epstein-controversy-as-
wall-street-journal-reports-on-2003-letter
Thursday's disclosure - coupled with Trump-allies on Capitol
Hill - pushed POTUS 47 Trump 2.0 to reverse course and
direct his Cabinet official / A.G. at his Dept. of Justice
to make documents in the Epstein Grand jury court "file"
public.
Friday July 18, 2025
Jurassic World: Rebirth
opens July 2, 2025 (a Wednesday before Indep. Day USA)
$91.5 million opening on July 4-6, 2025; as of 7/11 $184.6 million
as of July 19 $259.3 million
Superman (2025) - DC comics
opens July 11, 2025 (Friday)
$122 million opening 48 hours (12:01 a.m. Friday
and all day Saturday sales in theaters)
on JULY 20, 2025 -- reported total box office in U.S. is $236 million
domestic and $406 million globally
Mission : Impossible - Final Reckoning
$122 million from May 23 - June 1, 2025
June 4: $125.1 million total reported to BOX OFFICE MOJO
Total up to $192.2 million by July 4, 2025
by July 13 $193.9 million; by July 19 $195.1
Thunderbolts
$189.8 million from May 2 - July 1, 2025
June 4: total reported to BOX OFFICE MOJO = $182.3 million
as of July 19 -- $189.9 million in box office
Lilo & Stitch
$ 183 million from May 23 - 25, 2025
$ 63 million more for weekend of May 30 - June 1, 2025
$ +38 million for week June 2 , 3 , 4 plus another $32 million June 7-8
totaling $417 million since release; globally $772 million
Karate Kid : Legends
$21 million initial release
June 4: $21.6 million reported (BOX OFFICE MOJO)
up to $52.5 million by July 19
A Minecraft Movie
$418 million from April 4 - 30, May 1-22, 2025
$423.9 million by July 19, 2025
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How to Train Your Dragon
opening weekend June 15 - 16 sold $83.7 million
total gross
$160.4 million by June 22, 2025
$186.3 million total by June 29 (Sunday reported #)
$215.8 million July 4 reported statistic
weekend from July 4 - 6 was additional $11 million
July 11 $239.8 million
Director Elia Kazan's film (1957)
about a manipulator who gets his
comeuppance : actor Andy Griffith
plays a pompous entertainer whose
appeal to plain folks garners him
tremendous power, for a while. . .
see Maureen Dowd -- July 20 column
MAGA's New Target is . . . Donald John Trump
nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/trump-maga-epstein-deep-state.html
"Inside the Long Friendship between TRUMP &
EPSTEIN : for nearly 15 years the two men socialized
in Manhattan and Palm Beach, FL,
before a falling out that preceded
Epstein's first arrest for sex crimes
COVERAGE by Alan Feuer & Matthew
Goldstein
nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html
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July 24, 2025
Executors of Jeffrey Epstein estate = his longtime lawyer and
former personal accountant have the
BIRTHDAY greetings album with words & drawing from
his Palm Beach,FL friend
Donald John Trump.
By posing as a Minnesota Law Enforcement
Police officer,
the Assassin of the Hortman family
exploited the trust our uniforms are meant
to represent, said Commissioner Bob Jacobson.
That betrayal was deeply
disturbing to those of us
who wear the badge with
honor and respectability.
see further
nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/police-impersonation.html
Rest in Strength
former House Speaker
Melissa Hortman
Mark Hortman (spouse)
Those leading the service were:
Brass Quintet : Minnesota Orchestra
Native American Drum Circle
Unison singing of "Amazing Grace"
Earlier Wed. 18 June 2025
U. of Minnesota President Rebecca
Cunningham spoke at a separate
outdoor memorial service;
the Hortmans were themselves alumna
and alumnus of the Big Ten
University.
Periods of religious zealotry,
unsettled professional careers
stops and starts in Food Service
and Funeral Home errand-running
[ his "hit list" included Democratic pol.
party officials, also health care staff,
public servants, all told 40 individuals ]
TEAM Coverage by
Dan Berry, Ernesto Londonyo,
and Ruth Graham (Religion writer)
2025/07/19/us/Minnesota/ _assassin First Name, Surname_
Do NOT remember the name of this Assassin
of Green Isle, [ who was apprehended there in the largest
Minnesota man-hunt ever the June evening / sunset
that ended Father's Day]
MN nor blame the children he and
his wife home-schooled
[ the night of his lethal rampage, he sent a message to them
via social media : "Dad went to war last night" ]
but instead memorialize the public servants he killed and
injured : John Hoffman and spouse;
Melissa Hortman, a gifted
and outgoing public servant
and her spouse.
The assassin's wife maintains
in her email response to such
journalistic background requests:
the bloodshed was a "betrayal."
His spray of automatic rifle
gunfire also injured some and
led to lethal injuries for the
Hortman's golden retriever.
[ in court room comments and in exchanges with
the press / media, he has never confirmed nor denied
that he is responsible for his actions - plotting - gunfire ]
Details at findarace.com/us/events/first-bank-of-berne-swiss-days-race
For 2025 the
First Bank of Berne
Swiss Days 5k Race
will be
July 26, 2025
as part of a three-day "Willkommen"
event that is part of a 50-year
celebration of Swiss Heritage.
Food Crafts Authentic Swiss costumes
8:15 a.m. Eastern
choose between 5k and 1-mile
(those age 11 and under)
$22.20
2020 Book of famed journalist
Bob Woodward of the
Washington Post
is not part of case law
where what Trump (then
POTUS 45) said in phone
conversations would be
claimable to his part of
19 interviews granted to
Mr. Woodward.
Rage is the 2020 book
which concerned the
year of COVID-19 and
the scramble for the
White House that led
to the attempted insurrection
January 6 -- attack on Capitol
where the Election results were
being cast and finalized.
the Hill dot-com/ July 18, 2025
trumps-long-stalled-suit-against-
woodward-dismissed
ABC NEWS online
reports that the Vatican
received a phone call from the
Prime Minister of Israel,
Benjamin Netanyahu, currently
on trial at Tel Aviv on Corruption Charges,
confirming that he had bombed a church,
killing a church janitor as well as 84-yr.-old
and 71-yr.-old senior citizens in the vicinity.
The readout / report from the call to the
American/Peruvian Papal offices (now on
Summer vacation) omitted whether
the secular leader also promised an offer
to treat the injured Parish Priest of Holy
Family Church (R. Catholic) Gabriel
Romanelli or other injured Roman Catholic
parishioners. The ABC coverage also
didn't contain whether Leo threatened to
be harsher next time if the local Priest or
other church officials were hurt in more
severe injuries.
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J Post dot-com is reporting that Netanyahu
is out for food poisoning -- three days
recovery needed while he rests at home.
jpost.com/ Sunday July 20, 2025
$1.3 billion in frozen fund
for Federal after-school programming
was thawed today July 18 (Friday), 2025.
Twenty-four states had objected in a lawsuit
for the Trump-Vance withholding of already
appropriated budgeted funds for such
after-school and other services in educational
institutions.
The funds were authorized by vote of Congress
in March but frozen by Trump-Vance as of June 1.
THEORY: because they fear anything they
say or do could end up being mocked online
-or-
they fear being "cringe" a term used to
describe other older generations that came before them. . .
DUE to: being online and constantly using
social media platforms / staring at their phones . . .
nbcnews.com/
pop-culture/pop-culture-news/gen-z-stare-explainer-
rcna219262
NODE
Niles, Michigan 49120 -- 2nd Street at Main
downtown area for bands / outdoor gathering/socializing
Music acts Thursday July 17 2025
DREW STOLZ & Priscilla Sab
Friday July 18th :
The Erly
6 - 9p.m.
Saturday line-up :
Urban Co. Market 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Hank Nelson 5 - 6:15 PM.
Touch of Texas 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.
Hey Annie (local band) starts
8 p.m. Eastern - - Sat. 19th July
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July 11 - 13, 2025 at
Riverfront Park, 1st and Front Streets
Niles MI 49120 nilesjesusfest.com
Niles Jesus Fest dot-com
PROGRAM includes
PScott & the Prairie Dogs
David Wall Band
Apostle Dre Love and the I Care Band
DJ John Bon Jovia
The Hillsiders (Gospel music)
Char Villa
Backwater Revival
Bowker Vow Renewal
Ain't No Blues
Fresh Cut Bluegrass (Bluegrass music)
Billy Shelton and the Golden Tones
(Sunday night 6 - 8 p.m. Closing of entire
four-day JESUS FEST).
Textual witnesses vary and as a result Renaissance-Reformation
era translations and modern revision of such (NKJV) include the
entire version of Paul's sentence in the Greek language (glossed):
We are members of His Body
and of His Flesh and of His Bones
Without corroborating evidence,
Trump in a moment of utter fiction
claims to reporters that his uncle, an MIT
professor of electrical engineering [ who had 1
Ph.D. ] taught the Unabomber.
Unfortunately for fans of Trump and his
"stable genius" characterization,
Ted Kaczynski never attended MIT.
He was a math prodigy who earned
degrees at Harvard & U. of Michigan
before becoming a recluse and
who went uncaptured for 17 years.
see further
abcnews.go.com
TODAY (July 19, Saturday)
Ross Douthat : Julie K. Brown interview "What remains
to be revealed about Epstein's 2nd arrest in 2019 for sex
crimes, about what the govt. COULD release but hasn't,
and how the story is bigger than Epstein.
NYTimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html
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Ross Douthat focused on Faith / Religion / Conservative Politics /
Philosophy / Political movements & 21st Century / History
NY TIMES columnist / acclaimed author
OPINION PAGE:
. . .I think of Trump as, persistently,
a kind of pagan or heathen figure,
much more than he is a Christian
figure. Not withstanding the attempts
to claim him as a kind of King David
or Emperor Constantine. . . The
bargain for religious conservatives
with Trump is for protection and support.
A transactional bargain. . .Particular
steps Trump-Vance administration has
taken are anti-Christian. . .the way in
which the foreign aid programs were
reshuffled and cut off was a failure of
Christian duty. . .
April 25 column / op-ed / 2025
HIS Next talk show is 11:35 p.m. Eastern time
MONDAY 7/21/2025
Surprise announcement
Thursday July 17, 2025
11:35 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
details:
nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/stephen-colbert-late-show-ending.html
afterthought -- Trump as quoted in the WASHINGTON POST dot-com
says : I absolutely love that Colbert got fired
Friday evening 18 July 2025
Trump has "in common" with Epstein
rolling stone.com/politics/politics/news/Trump-denies-birthday-letter-drawing-1235388615
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Louis DeJoy
the former Logistics / Transportation magnate
who served the Trump-Pence administration
appointed June 20, 2020 (height of COVID-19)
and then continued in office during Biden-Harris
four years has announced his resignation
March 24, 2025.
The Post Office will soon be subject to lay-offs
and firings as well as budget cuts and program
cessation.
Farewell POSTMASTER #75 since before
1776 and the independent founding of the
Constitutional republic that is the USA.
(First postmaster in 1775 was Ben Franklin
of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania).
07/17/us/politics/epstein-files-house-republicans-vote.html
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AXIOS is reporting that the Jeffrey Epstein inquest documents
July 7 (after federal holiday 2025 - Monday at month's start)
now "pushed" by Kash Patel (currently FBI Director) and Dan
Bongino (podcaster but now Deputy Director of FBI)
declare that no one
will be charged in the Epstein sex activity/crimes and his
death in a Manhattan, NY Prison.
Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year-prison term
for child-sex-trafficking and related offenses.
Investigators and those pushing for a full investigation
(such as DoJ Pam Bondi, attorney general of the U.S.)
found no "client list" and no evidence that could
predicate further charges against uncharged third parties.
axios.com/ July 7, 2025
jeffrey-epstein-suicide-client-list-trump-administration
Yes -- here's a
Jerusalem Post feature
about two typical
women finding their
place in a fighting unit:
jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-860602
POLITICO.com
"Israel apologizes for Deadly Attack"
that killed 3 including church janitor
July 17, 2025
reporting is Seb Starcevic
6 p.m. Eastern USA Time
July 17, 2025
Three killed in Israeli missile strike
on Roman Catholic church,
Holy Family, Thursday July 17,
2025: Janitor Saad Salameh; 84-yr.-old
woman Fumayya Ayyad.
Also confirmed dead was 71-yr.old
Najwa Aba Daoud.
The Vatican confirmed to media that:
Local priest and several others
injured in strike by IDF.
ABC .com posted photography of him
receiving treatment for leg injuries;
the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV
prays for the consolation of those
fatally injured and renews his call
for an immediate cease-fire.
What is the House Committee
on Education & the Workforce?
it demands that colleges & universities
testify before them at hearings --
grilling administrators on how
antisemitism flares on progressive
campus culture across the USA
Chair is a Michigan GOP longtime
representative from the Jackson, MI
area:
Tim Walberg
details at
NY Times dot-com/ 2025 /07/17/
what is the house committee that is questioning
college leaders.html
UPDATE: Doug Burglum (former North Dakota Gov.
and billionaire) now Trump's Secy. of Interior
was on a tour to explore how to transform the
historic prison - island in San Francisco bay
into a detention site following Trump's social
media musings.
NYTimes/com/2025/07/17/us/Alcatraz-prison-trump-bondi-burgum-visit.html
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Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi
Trump's Dept. of Justice liaison
will visit
July 17, 2025
see reports from ABC News dot-go dot-com
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Border czar Tom Homan
has no idea
what it would cost to re-open
Alcatraz. At D.C.
press conference
5/5/2025
July 31 - August 3, 2025
Four days of free live music
Riverfront Park, Front street, Niles, MI Downtown near main streets
uncoverniles.com/
Free Admission :
Carnival and booths are open Thursday 4 p.m. Eastern
until Sunday Aug. 3 at 3:30 p.m.
Arts & Crafts
From the Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 season
line-up of ABC dramas, the nautical soap opera
Doctor Odyssey
that starred Joshua Jackson &
Don Johnson
has sunk. It will not return for
a 2nd season as the cast's contracts
expired
June 30, 2025
without the network starting
to pay the cast or crew July 1
forward. It was a Ryan Murphy
"procedural" featuring medical
surgeries / interventions weekly.
see THE HILL
coverage of the more than 8 hour pause on the floor of the
House of Representatives
apparently needed to clear procedural hurdle
at last getting
217 - 212 victory for House Republican MAGA forces
as instructed by White House whips and legislative liaisons
thehill.com/homenews/house/5404233-house-gop-crypto-bills-rule/
Wed. July 17, 2025
another History-making day for the Legislative Branch of our
Constitutional government (see Article I of U.S. Constitution,
dating back to 1789).
CNN Reports (Friday July 18, 2025)
that Israel and Syria have agreed to a Cease-Fire
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BBC continues this story
Syrian Leader al-Sharaa vows to protect Druze
after sectarian violence prompts Israeli strikes. . .
BBC.com/news/article/cg5z3jqe73o
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Thursday July 17 Middle East Time Zone
reported in NBC NEWS Platform 4:35 a.m.
Eastern U.S. Time
Ahmed al-Sharaa, interim President
of Syria after his dissident / armed
group overthrew the vicious Russia-
backed Bashar al-Assad dynasty-regime
earlier this year said that
he promised to protect the rights and freedom of Syria's
Druze community -- and avoid an open war with Israel
middle-east/syria-sharaa-vows-protect-druze-israeli-strikes-sectarian-violence
Women GOP hold-out votes (2) were the only
defections for the Senate Majority leadership
jamming through the Rescission bill depriving
NPR - PBS of its already appropriated earlier
$1.1 billion of funds promised to CPB
as well as Foreign Aid of $8 billion.
The last such RESCISSION bill was in 1999,
during the Clinton-Gore second term.
In order to gain near unanimity, the leadership
(John Thune of South Dakota) agreed to
strip out a line item of $400 million for
PEPFAR (a Bush-Cheney era program to stop
Global AIDS spread) -- it is unclear for how many
Republican U.S. Senators this mattered.
Also shielded were massive funding for Jordan
and Egypt, allies of Israel, another major concern
of the Trump-Vance administration, in these days
of bombing strikes that returned to Damascus, Syria
as well as early summer massive devastation to
Teheran, Iran and other Iranian military and nuclear
sites.
IN FURTHER UPDATES: members of both
parties must meet a Sept. 30, 2025 shutdown
deadline or else the entire government will
lack funds for basic services such as the National
Parks and civilian workers in Federal branch
offices both in D.C. and in satellite locations.
This is the first "Shutdown" test that the
bipartisan appropriations funding will face
since the Capitol Rotunda inauguration swearing-in
of Donald John Trump and VP JD Vance on
Jan. 20, 2025.
MPR News dot-org
special-election-for-melissa-hortmans-seat
July 11, 2025
see mprnews.org/ for ongoing updates
Potential candidates could have initially filed
July 15 and that will close July 22 -- results
as far as Primary / Run-offs will be determined
at end of FILING Period.
NETANYAHU, "Bibi"
to nominate a FOX News interviewer for
their Philadelphia, PA
private boarding High School's "Wall of Fame"
Cheltenham (near Philly)
The Fox News Staff/on-air celebrity is
Mark Levin
________________________________
On Trial for
corruption charges;
present was Ambassador Mike Huckabee
see
axios.com/2025/07/16/netanyahu-trial-trump-mike-huckabee
Wed. July 16, 2025
at federal courtroom
in
Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tuesday July 15, 2025
Assassin appears before judge
in Minnesota courtroom (Minnesota Public Radio)
mprnews.org/story/2025/07/16/man-charged-with-killing-
minnesota-lawmaker-plans-to-plead-not-guilty
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Wed. June 18, 2025
news from NPR affiliate
Minnesota News Public Radio
Law enforcement vehicles
formed a procession to
honor and memorialize
lawmaker Melissa Hortman
and her husband who were
assassinated by far-right
conspiracy-theory shooter
who had stalked other
public figures and health
care staff. He will have court
appearances in the days and
weeks to come (for now: charges
of 2nd degree murder).
mprnews.org/story/2025/06/17/
formal-procession-for-rep-melissa-
hortman-and-husband-mark
August 14, 2025
a collection of never-released songs
and spoken word interludes will be
published :
Woody at Home, volume I
and Volume II
The American folk artist/
singer-songwriter wrote
lyrics for more than 3,000
songs. The 2025 release
comes from Woodie Guthrie
publications in Mt. Kisco, NY.
nytimes.com/2025/07/14/arts/music/woody-guthrie-
tapes-woody-at-home.html
the recordings include the sounds of children, cars,
notebook pages being turned, and guitar parts still
being roughed out.
McCall's magazine in 1970
honored as a woman not an actress. . .
Their tribute mentioned her appeal. . .
we should have more like her.
In TORONTO FILM SOCIETY
review of 1942 George Stevens'
directed Academy Award winning
Woman of the Year
the reviewer concludes:
"once again, the confusion
between actors and their
roles is complete."
torontofilmsociety.com/film-notes/woman-of-the-year-1942/
She was not only cast in roles but she developed concepts /
stories into full-blown Screenplays as well as major
Productions !
July 16 posted at Jerusalem POST online platform
Israeli Researchers develop world's
first M RNA vaccine against
BACTERIUM
specifically Yersinia Pestis
Tel Aviv University and Israeli Institute for
Biological Research. The vaccine focuses on
the pneumonic plague variant.
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Bubonic Plague has been found as cause of death
for a
Flagstaff, AZ man
Friday July 12, 2025;
authorities have not identified
and released his hometown but
he came to the Flagstaff E.R. and
no cause of the plague transmission
is yet known.
PHOENIX, AZ Fox TV affiliate reporting
fox10phoenix.com (details forthcoming)
First recorded death from pneumonic
plague since 2007.
"It's easier to fool people,
than to convince them that they've been fooled"
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure
that just ain't so !"
Rescission measure
passed Tuesday night - Wed. overnight
Not all GOP Senators approved
this action by Senate leadership but
VP Vance cast the vote to break the
50 - 50 tie result.
Historic day
July 16, 2025
Last air raid of World War II over Japan
August 14 - 15, 1945
Kumagaya & Isesaki
cities bombed after Hiroshima - Nagasaki
A-bomb drops
details on 80th anniversary
of the B-29 bombing runs (90 planes)
/ death - destruction of homes, 75% in ruins
CNN.com/travel/last-us-fire-raid-kumagaya-japan-world-war-ii-intl-hnk.ml
INFORMATION for travellers who
are visitors to the cities (major and minor)
devastated at 80 years ago violent end of Pacific War
period of hostilities (1941 - 1945)
July 23 (4th Wednesday) -- mid-summer schedule
ahead of "Archaeology Days" at Ft. St. Joseph
Colonial era fort held by French & English then U.S.
held at Niles District Library
620 E. Main
Niles, MI 49120
phone 269-683-8545
Free to all ages: no library card required
7 - 8:30 p.m.
lead-in academic lectures before
Ft. St. Joseph annual "Archaeology Days"
Niles, Michigan -- site of 400-yr.-old French
then Colonial Fort.
Last evening lecture July 23, 2025
Archaeological Evidence for Fur Trading in Ft. St. Joseph
Prof. Mark Schurr, Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
see nileslibrary.com WEBSITE
also on ZOOM
from DICTIONARY OF Paul
and his Letters (Second Edition : 2023)
Article by N.K. Gupta Page 1054 :
Because I Thessalonians was longer
by words/size, not necessarily number
of chapters, the canonical ordering and
grouping is by pairing of the letters of
the same church together.
Argument in favor of placing 2 Thess.
as the earlier letter are:
mention of past persecution in First
Thess. could fit with the "present
persecution" mentioned in 2 Thess.
1:4 - 7.
problem of idle troublemaking is
explained in more detail in 2 Thess.
3:11 - 15 but almost taken for
granted in First Thess 4: 10 - 12.
The mention of Apostle Paul's
authenticating signature in all his
letters 2 Thess. 3:17 makes sense
as a future warning, with First Thess.
coming later.
when Paul mentions that the Thessalonians
need no further teaching (I Thess. 5:1),
this could be taken as a reference to his
instruction in 2 Thess. 2:1 - 12.
the teachings in I Thess. 4:9,13 and 5:1
("now about. . .") could be interpreted
as a reference to earlier instructions given
in 2 Thessalonians.
Ancient city in Macedonia.
Macedonian general and later King
Cassander named this port city after
his wife. . .It held importance as a city
stop along the Via Egnatia a roadway
that ran east to west connecting the
Adriatic and Aegean Seas. By the
time Apostle Paul visited Roman
Thessalonica it was a prosperous,
cosmopolitan, "the mother of all
Macedonia" (Antipate of Thessalonica,
Palatine Anthology IV. 228).
His trip Saturday July 12, 2025
[in blue jeans, white straw planters hat, cowboy boots]
to Kerr County, Texas (site of the flash flooding disaster)
was neither announced nor promoted beyond
five govt. photos on
social media
POLITICO.com/2025/07/15/FEMA-chief-texas-public-appearance-00452293
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POLITICO dot-com Thursday 10 July 2025
Since his appointment May 8 -- a no-show
POLITICO.com/2025/07/10/fema-leader-texas-flooding
He told staff at the Federal Emergency
Management Agency in comments
Monday June 2, 2025 that he was previously
unaware the United States has a hurricane
season (it had begun Sunday June 1).
Before his appointment as "acting"
administrator, Richardson has no experience
managing natural disasters. REUTERS
press agency / platform reported the comments
shared at Monday staff check-in.
He is a Kristi Noem, DHS Secretary appointee
a Marine Combat veteran and martial arts
instructor, after she fired the first acting FEMA
chief of the Trump 2.0 administration (after
Jan. 20, 2025).
DHS has installed more than a half-dozen of its
officials into key roles at FEMA to
effectively run the agency. Most of them,
like Richardson have no or very little experience
handling regional and state disasters. The updated
disaster plan for 2025 is a default one from 2024
but with a dramatically smaller workforce. Estimates
are that 10% of staff have left since last season
and by the end of 2025, 30% will be retired or
transferred. CNN.com reporting
