Memorial Day 🇺🇸

🇺🇸  5 Ways to Celebrate Memorial Day 🇺🇸

It’s Memorial Day Weekend, and people all over the country are celebrating in remembrance of our fallen soldiers. With so many events (and sales) going on over the entire weekend, it’s hard to know where to start.

There’s plenty of ways for you and your family to honor our troops while enjoying the nice late-Spring weather this weekend. We’ve boiled them down to five great choices.

1. Honor our Fallen Soldiers

The most somber celebrations are likely the most impactful. On Memorial Day, military cemeteries will often hold a remembrance ceremony, with speeches from current or former soldiers honoring those who have fallen in the line of duty.

Many military museums and landmarks are holding similar events for Memorial Day. Military museums are a family-friendly way to learn more about our military and honor our veterans.

2. Attend Memorial-Day Themed Celebrations

Two of the most notable Memorial Day traditions are local parades and baseball games. Many towns host parades to honor fallen heroes on Memorial Day Weekend. These parades will often feature service units as well as local charity organizations. It’s a relaxing and fun way to show your support.

Any baseball fan knows that Memorial Day is an important day for the sport. As “America’s Past-time” baseball stadiums across the country will take time to honor the troops with a flag ceremony and other events during the game. Many stadiums will even have a Blue Angels flight demonstration flyover. For fans, Memorial Day baseball games are an opportunity to support your team and honor fallen heroes at the same time.

3. Support Our Troops Overseas

The most direct way to support our troops is to send a care package. A great way to honor the memory of our fallen heroes is by showing support for their fellow soldiers. Typically, these care packages will include snacks, hygiene items, books, and even video games.

There are a number of organizations that allow you to organize care packages and even “adopt” a soldier to send him letters and cards. Center State Bank has some great information:

https://www.centerstatebank.com/how-to-donatesend-military-care-packages

4. Host Your Own Party Outdoors

Hosting a barbecue or picnic is a common tradition. Fire up the grill, and invite over some family and friends for a Memorial Day party.

You can make it a potluck, so guests can bring whatever type of food they like. Consider even hosting your party on the beach, so everyone can enjoy the waves and the warm sand. Just make sure everyone cleans up afterwards!

5. Have A Fun Adventure Outside

Memorial Day weekend is the perfect time to go out and have an adventure with your family and friends.

As Spring starts to give way to Summer, one thing is consistent: Memorial Day is a great weekend to do activities outside. Whether it’s a weekend spent camping, adventuring out on the water, or even just a hike, the late-spring weather means it’s not-too-hot and not-too-cold.

If you’re not as much of the adventuring type, there are likely plenty of Memorial Day Weekend festivals in your area, including food & beverage festivals, music festivals, car shows, and local fairs.

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Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

 

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1. Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1  - "Che gelida manina"
2. Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 / Act 2  - "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée"
3. Flotow: Martha / Act 3  - "Ach, so fromm"
4. Puccini: Tosca / Act 3  - "E lucevan le stelle"
5. Verdi: Don Carlo / Act 1  - "Io l'ho perduta... Io la vidi, a suo sorriso"
6. Weber: Der Freischütz, J.277 / Act 1  - "Nein, länger trag' ich nicht die Quälen... Durch die...
7. Verdi: La traviata / Act 2  - "Lunge da lei... De miei bollenti spiriti... O mio rimorso"
8. Massenet: Manon / Act 3  - "Je suis seul... Ah, fuyez, douce image"
9. Verdi: Rigoletto / Act 2  - "Ella mi fu rapita... Parmi veder le lagrime"
10. Gounod: Faust / Act 3  - "Quel trouble inconnu... Salut! Demeure chaste et pure"
11. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96 / Act 3  - "Morgenlich leuchtend"
12. Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 / Part 4  - Invocation à la Nature. "Nature immense"
13. Massenet: Werther / Act 3  - "Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps?"

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Santa Barbara History 🏡 "American Riviera"

A History of Santa Barbara

"American Riviera"

May 22, 2022

The city on California's southern coast would evolve dramatically over the course of four centuries, from the home of Chumash people to a Spanish settlement and mission, to an oceanfront jewel whose architecture and lifestyle have become the epitome of the California Dream. 

Jane Pauley takes a walk through the history of the "American Riviera."

Santa Barbara and the Sea
https://youtu.be/7XWMZgyifVk
Bellosguardo

A Reclusive Heiress' Fabled Historic Home

Built in the 1930s, high above the Santa Barbara coast, the mansion known as Bellosguardo was the summer home of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who instructed her staff to never change a thing – and they didn't. Jane Pauley pays a visit to a fabled home constructed from a Gilded Age fortune (made famous from the bestseller "Empty Mansions"), which will open its doors to public tours for the first time later this year. 

https://youtu.be/AXE-uslzXyQ

Montecito's El Fureidis

A Gilded Age treasure in Santa Barbara

Built in 1906 in the Montecito Hills above Santa Barbara, Calif., El Fureidis, the Mediterranean-inspired home of real estate tycoon James Waldron Gillespie, is an oasis of tranquility and class, in a lush 10-acre property. Jane Pauley takes us inside.

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Santa Barbara Downtown

California Walking Tour [4K]

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How to Deal With Movies 🔉Too Quiet to 🔊Too Loud

How to Deal With Movies

That Bounce From

🔉  Too Quiet to Too Loud 🔊

There’s no need to have your finger constantly hovering over the volume buttons.
Popular Science   Whitson Gordon

    

I love big movie explosions as much as anyone, but I have a bone  to pick with movie studios: It feels like every time I watch an action  movie, I have to turn the volume way up just to hear the characters  speak, then quickly turn it down every time something explodes. And when  I’m not quick enough on the draw, my sleeping wife gets very angry.   

 

Why do movies do this?
It all has to do with dynamic range - undtrack. The wider the range, the  larger the dramatic impact, explains Scott Wilkinson, audiovisual  technology journalist and consultant (and the “Home Theater Geek”  on TWiT.tv). In other words, they mix it that way so when that explosion finally happens, it kicks you in the gut and rocks your world.  

The problem is, sometimes you don’t want your world rocked.  Sometimes you just want to relax while watching superheroes punch each  other in the face, without waking the neighbors through your paper-thin  walls - and that dynamic range becomes a lot less desirable.     
“This is generally not a problem in commercial cinemas, which  have high-quality sound systems and good acoustics,” Wilkinson says. “So  you can hear and understand quiet dialogue in one scene without  lessening the impact of loud explosions in another scene.” Even if these  movies get remastered for home viewing, most people are using weak TV  speakers in a less-than-ideal room with the air conditioner running in  the background. It’s a recipe for unintelligible dialogue and constant  volume tweaking.     
If you don’t have the cash to improve the acoustics of your room  and create your own soundproof home theater (what am I, made of  money?), you have other options. 

Turn on “night mode”
You might not realize it, but there may already be a setting  built into your TV, sound system, or streaming box designed to deal with  this: it’s called “night mode,” and it does exactly what it sounds  like.     
“This compresses the dynamic range, reducing the difference  between the loudest and softest parts of the soundtrack,” says  Wilkinson. “Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find this setting in  the device’s menu system, though some devices have a dedicated ‘night  mode’ button on their remote.” Dig through the settings of your TV,  speaker system (if you have one), and streaming box - this useful mode may  also be called “dynamic compression” or something similar. 

Use a good sound bar or set of speakers
Even with night mode on, you may find that your TV speakers are  not up to the task of making dialogue intelligible at low volumes. You  may not have the room to build a huge, powerful surround sound system,  but even small upgrades can go a long way.   

Wilkinson recommends an outboard sound system, such as a sound bar or AV receiver with multiple speakers. Ideally, you’d have a sound bar or set of speakers with at least 3.1 channels - one left, one right, and one center (with a subwoofer for good bass). Most of the dialogue will come out of the center channel, and having a separate speaker dedicated to the task can make it easier to understand. So when you shop, keep an eye out for that “3.1” label - 5.1 if you’re going for surround sound. I think Vizio’s 3.1 sound bar is a great place to start, if you’re low on space.

 

Turn up your center channel
A speaker system with a center channel will be a big step up  from your TV speakers, but you can further decrease the dynamic range  with in-menu volume adjustments. On many sound bars and receivers, you  can increase the volume of the dialogue-focused center channel alone,  without increasing the level of the other channels, Wilkinson says. This  isn’t usually an option for two-channel systems, but it never hurts to  look in your sound bar or receiver’s settings. Once you find the center  channel volume level, crank it up a few notches and see where that gets  you. (You may have to do a little experimentation to find the right  balance - I always use The Matrix as a test case, as it’s a great example of a movie with high dynamic range. 

 

When all else fails, use headphones
But if you just can’t avoid waking your sleeping kids  downstairs - and I know this isn’t the solution you want to hear - you may  have to resort to using headphones. “By isolating yourself from any  ambient noise and acoustic defects in the room, you can listen at lower  volume and still understand the dialogue without being blown out by loud  sounds,” says Wilkinson.

You probably already have headphones that’ll do the trick, but I’d recommend against using Bluetooth, since there’s an inherent delay that’ll cause sound to be out of sync with the screen. Instead, connect your headphones to the TV or sound bar with a long 3.5-millimeter extension cable, or use a pair of radio frequency (RF)-based wireless home theater headphones like the Sennheiser RS 175. Some streaming boxes, like the Roku, may even allow you to plug your headphones into the remote - or your phone, using the remote app - to listen to music “wirelessly.” It may not be ideal, but at least you’ll get your superhero-punching fix without disturbing the neighborhood.   

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Tracking Your Health Data 📲Through Wearable Devices

 Tracking Your ⚕️ Health Data 

📲 Through Wearable Devices 📳

May 22, 2022

 

Tracking your health data through wearable devices Experts say devices like smartwatches that continually monitor your health data can also give you early warnings about medical problems before a doctor might. 

Correspondent David Pogue looks at how self-tracking data may one day help detect conditions like infectious diseases, type II diabetes, heart conditions or even cancer.

https://youtu.be/RyV7a60p52o

⚕️Comments 👀

1. 🗣️  The Apple Watch has been a lifesaver for many people, particularly those with heart conditions. Being able to share with the Dr what the heart is doing is a true blessing.
2. 🗣️  Snyder at 5:30 has lost touch with reality! $50?!? What smart watch that does everything they say is $50? My Apple Watch was $400, I run and use it for music so I can rationalize it. Most Americans won’t use half of what it can do and definitely cannot afford $400+, Michael get a clue sir! 
3. 🗣️   In March I was feeling not so great, but nothing was wrong. Next day I wake to my Apple watch telling me I had arterial fibrillation over night and my pulse was still elevated. Called 911, Seattle FD medics confirmed this and off to the ER. After some time in ICU, and a shock, I was stabilized. Thank you Apple engineers and future thinking medical researchers. 
4. 🗣️  Many doctors have created YT videos explaining that Apple Watch’ ECG and AFIB monitoring is useless, while other metrics are more relevant. Doctors also fear that people may rely on their watch to avoid going to the doctor for monitoring because the watch provides false reassurances. 
5. 🗣️  Best real-time health-monitoring apps: 24-hour-a-day checkup Healthy living starts with the right tools. The latest in tech makes staying healthy, reaching your goals and taking control of your wellness easier than ever. Here's where you'll find our best health advice and recommendations. 

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National Tap Dance 💃 🕺 Day

National  🕺 Tap Dance Day 💃
May 25th 

 

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A Night 🎼 NYC Met Opera

A Night at The

New York Metropolitan Opera

60 Minutes Archive

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🎼From 2013, Bob Simon reports on the New York Metropolitan Opera and how its general manager, Peter Gelb, has reinvigorated the centuries-old art form by making it more accessible and modernized.