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- Fri May 03, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 129
Re: Bird-flu ? What me worry ?
From WAPO May 3 in part: "...Of course, just because milk remains safe to drink doesn’t mean avian flu isn’t a potential threat to human health. I was honored to learn historian John M. Barry, author of the seminal book on the 1918 influenza pandemic, is a Checkup reader. He emailed me to express h...
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 118
Re: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
Comedy is alive and well in places not accessible to those who would police our thoughts. My local watering hole for instance is a good example. You can regularly hear laughter amongst the patrons as someone recounts an anecdote or tells a joke that they've heard. It's also alive in the workplace fo...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The human voice: still the most "individual" instrument of all!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 120
Re: The human voice: still the most "individual" instrument of all!
I don't listen to that many vocalists but of those I do I would instantly recognise Te Kanawa, Leontyne Price, Boris Christoff, Pavarotti, Bjorling, Fischer-Dieskau, maybe some others.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 264
Re: I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Food for thought from an earlier time - I always loved that program and its predecessor - Yes Minister.Rach3 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:48 pmDeja vu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLg9zQH3vU ( Yes,Prime Minister )
I wonder what will transpire if Jewish students end up being killed as part of these protests.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Hogs in Alice Springs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 80
Re: Hogs in Alice Springs
The MC problem became so bad in Qld that the state government enacted a couple of simple laws - gang patches were outlawed and any gathering larger than three people who were known 'bikers' (motor cyclists with previous affiliation and convicted of criminal offences)was deemed as illegal. It worked ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:21 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
- Replies: 7
- Views: 235
Re: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
That's a very dichotomous statement. Should they not speak out because they might be pilloried or is there another reason?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:18 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Covid Response Fallout Continues
- Replies: 3
- Views: 129
The Covid Response Fallout Continues
It appears that it's not just Australia that would like government policies regarding Covid measures examined. The sad thing is it goes way beyond Fauci as the responses of individual states also needs to be examined but that's another story. What does suprise me is the number of Republicans on this...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Live: Mravinsky Conducts Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 With the Leningrad Philharmonic 1960 (BBC)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 177
Re: Live: Mravinsky Conducts Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 With the Leningrad Philharmonic 1960 (BBC)
Absolutely, a wonderful performance. What Shostakovich asks of his brass players in the third movement borders on the impossible unless you take a moderate tempo which Mravinsky doesn't - it's one the fastest third movements on record and you can hear the little mistakes in intonation these brass pl...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
- Replies: 5
- Views: 267
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 238
Re: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
The thoughts of female swimmers who had no choice but to share a changing room with Lia Thomas sums it all up.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
- Replies: 5
- Views: 267
Re: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
As you know I work with children and at the moment we have two students 'transitioning' between genders. One of the students I know well and she/he (please excuse the maybe inappropriate pronouns) has had a determination to make this transition from quite a young age. In this case I can see that it'...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’
- Replies: 5
- Views: 212
Re: In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’
This has happened a couple of times now. Driving across the Nullarbor Plain (Nullarbor means no trees) I've seen a rather large animal crossing the road in the distance between the a size of a terrier and a labrador and have been astonished to see that it's a feral cat. This is a huge size for a cat...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1375
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
The non - profit hospital tax scam: https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/14/nonprofit-hospitals-turn-profit-charity-care-tax-exempt-status/?utm_campaign=daily_recap&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jDHbC2-cNZ-Ij4JVAlNMVbLzHHCpQhRfGbN5ltGdgBze3oRYlpihmgXXJQEGPb4QzBXwc_vSsgsl_AE_FlKmx9FVyvg&_hsmi=3027569...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1375
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
I have two questions. I am a US citizen and I have no health insurance. If I suddenly fall ill and have to be taken to hospital, will this cost me financially? Will I owe thousands of dollars? Alternatively (my second question) will some form of social welfare system cover me? I'm not asking these q...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: At Least 6 Dead in Mall Stabbing That Horrifies Australians
- Replies: 5
- Views: 247
Re: At Least 6 Dead in Mall Stabbing That Horrifies Australians
More victims of a failing and overburdened mental health system? The police officer was very brave. To be able to unholster and prepare her Glock to fire would have taken time which she had very little of with a man running at her with a knife. My understanding is that police are trained to run away...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1375
Re: Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
When we debrief, residents tell me how much they struggle with the moral dissonance of working in a system in which the best medicine they can provide often falls short. They’re right about how much it hurts, so I don’t know exactly what to say to them. Perhaps I never will. It beggars belief that ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:26 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Great Pianists (Philips) vs. Great Conductors (EMI)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 275
Re: Great Pianists (Philips) vs. Great Conductors (EMI)
GPOTTC introduced me to a number of pianists I was barely aware of and like you Lance, I cherry picked what I bought rather than get the whole set.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yuja Wang in Vienna - a preview
- Replies: 5
- Views: 246
Re: Yuja Wang in Vienna - a preview
Phenomenal technique but I'm not sure that the musicality is there.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Switzerland found guilty of harming the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz by not acting on climate change
- Replies: 3
- Views: 326
Re: Switzerland found guilty of harming the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz by not acting on climate change
.....and the Swiss will simply turn around and say "Stick it where the sun don't shine!" These global courts are basically powerless and this applies to Switzerland who are not part of the EU so applying any form of pressure would be hard.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: When you buy a recording, is it for the music or the artist performing?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 633
Re: When you buy a recording, is it for the music or the artist performing?
I am also in both camps. As far as artists go, if Trifonov, Grosvenor, Sudbin or others put out a new recording I want to hear it and like Brian I use streaming media to sample it first. If I really want that recording I tend to look initially at digital downloads. Also, if a previous undiscovered r...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Blue states welcome fed’s summer dollars to feed hungry kids; GOP govs. check the gift horse’s mouth
- Replies: 2
- Views: 278
Re: Blue states welcome fed’s summer dollars to feed hungry kids; GOP govs. check the gift horse’s mouth
The skeptics would ask "Would this federal initiative have been done if it wasn't an election year?" Regardless of that, the real winners are the people who most need this aid.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Uchida and Biss illuminate Schubert four-hand rarities
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1155
Re: Uchida and Biss illuminate Schubert four-hand rarities
I love Schubert and his ability to bring melody in all it's emotional guises to his works. I'll look up these four works on YT - Belle has given me a start here. Having had the joy of hearing Karl-Ulrich Schnabel live I'll also head there if I can find it - thanks Donald.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 374
Re: Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill.
Well, there may be something we can do to avoid sickness, avoid death for as long as possible, do as many of the right things we are supposed to do (abstain alcohol, fats, sugars, smoking, drugs, etc., in other words, don't eat what you want or like) - and this is: DON'T EVER GET OLD! It really rip...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:22 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Jussen Brothers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 553
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2242
Re: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
Techniticene Hunted high and low for this but couldn't find a source for it anywhere via dictionaries, thesauri or media quotes. Are we inventing our own words now? If it’s possible to misspell a word I coined, I did it—it should have read “we are ensconced in the Technethocene ”, in other words, t...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 374
Re: Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill.
Hard not to view these tactics as mob type shakedowns.And drives some doctors out of business or into hands of VC firms as story notes. What a great Country: housing, college, cars, medical care unaffordable. Yes, when I make comparisons with my own country we are certainly much better off. However...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2242
Re: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
That seems long ago now that we are ensconced in the Techniticene and asked to view reality as just so many data points: So you are happy to not have the data? Suits me.......now I have this wonderful bridge in Brooklyn that I would like to sell you for a great price. It's been in the family for ge...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2242
Re: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
From my persepctive (and mine alone) the response to Covid didn't match the data at the time and I'll come back to that as it's important if we are to use the gift of hindsight to make sure we never make these mistakes again. The response to Covid was ill conceived (panicked would be a better word) ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
- Replies: 19
- Views: 873
Re: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
Yes, exactly. I'm wondering how your new knees are going? Exceptionally well thank you. I was up and mobile the day after the operation and permanently shed the crutches the day I got home. The physio staff were frankly astonished at my progress (and said so to me) and looking around at my fellow '...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
- Replies: 19
- Views: 873
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Fury of Europe's farmers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 299
Re: The Fury of Europe's farmers
Woah! Didn't see this coming... https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/01/the-fury-of-europes-farmers/ A couple of observations: 1. I can see why the British people were so keen to leave Brexit (and I had this expressed to me when I was there in 2019). Farming, especially smaller farms. are making a...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
- Replies: 19
- Views: 873
Re: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
This is what resonated with me Later, at Sydney University, and especially at Oxford, I had teachers who valued their students’ ability to assimilate the authorities and to create strong arguments for a distinctive position, rather that regurgitate lecture notes and conform to some orthodoxy. Indeed...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How is Warner doing in comparison to the old EMI?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 397
Re: How is Warner doing in comparison to the old EMI?
That's a blast from the past, World Record Club!! I wonder if it was only for antipodeans? Belle, I believe that it was started in Britain and spread out into the Commonwealth. Australia had it's own LP pressing plants for the major companies so that would have made it easy to set up. I think of al...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
- Replies: 19
- Views: 873
Re: Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession
I have taught in both the public and private sectors and know which I prefer. One thing I discovered early in my career was in my first promotion. That was when I discovered the power of passive resistance and it was rightly directed against me. I could do nothing about it as the staff working as pa...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Muslim migrants from Africa have transformed this Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 160
Re: Muslim migrants from Africa have transformed this Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn
Hopefully there is an intermingling of both the white and African members of this neighbourhood. Of course that often means mixing in some sort of social context. This is one way to break down those racial barriers that simply stem from misunderstanding of cultures.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How is Warner doing in comparison to the old EMI?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 397
Re: How is Warner doing in comparison to the old EMI?
I started my record collecting in my early teens with the wonderful World Record Club. I remember my first purchase. I had been given the Kempff (mono) LP of LvB 8, 14, 23 for my birthday and as a pianist I wanted to further explore the Beethoven sonatas. So my first purchase, oddly enough was Op2/1...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: William Walton: Symphony No. 1: Previn (1970 proms)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 339
Re: William Walton: Symphony No. 1: Previn (1970 video)
:oops: Shamefully, I report I have only one CD recording of Walton's Symphony No. 1, that with Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting [EMI Icon set 63412, 18 CDs]. It's been eons since I've heard it. And if I told you I acquired that set just FOR the Walton, would you believe me? Of course you would! Well,...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
- Replies: 4
- Views: 157
Re: Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
At our school if the family wants to take a vacation outside of the usual vacation time that's OK but schoolwork will not be provided as that puts an extra onus on the teaching staff. You also have to look at the origin of modern public schools. They were set up in the industrial revolution to allow...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Happy-Go-Lucky Australia Is Feeling Neither Happy, Nor Lucky
- Replies: 8
- Views: 281
Re: Happy-Go-Lucky Australia Is Feeling Neither Happy, Nor Lucky
@Holden; I disagree with your view about supermarkets and price-gouging. You compare Australia to the UK supermarkets - a country with a far greater population. I can tell you groceries were no cheaper in Austria when we lived there. Meat prices were absolutely through the roof and we both wondered...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite finales?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9140
Re: Favorite finales?
Tchaikovsky 4 Pines of Rome Symphonie Fantastique Yes, Tchaikovsky 4 and the most thrilling version of it that I've heard is Szell/LSO from 1962. The speed and power of that movement is phenomenal. The raw power of that first chord made me jump in my seat when I first heard it. There is an apocryph...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Happy-Go-Lucky Australia Is Feeling Neither Happy, Nor Lucky
- Replies: 8
- Views: 281
Re: Happy-Go-Lucky Australia Is Feeling Neither Happy, Nor Lucky
While a lot of the article is factually correct it doesn't just apply to Australia, the whole cost of living rise extends well past our borders. However, it has cruelly exposed a couple of major rorts that have been going on for years and while we've been well off we've not really bothered to questi...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Key Bridge collapses into Patapsco River in Baltimore after vessel hits support column; state of emergency declared
- Replies: 8
- Views: 225
Re: Key Bridge collapses into Patapsco River in Baltimore after vessel hits support column; state of emergency declared
You beat me to that one Belle.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite finales?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9140
Re: Favorite finales?
The coda of Schumann's Fantasy, Op. 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkG0aqH5YPQ I'm exhausted. Yes, it's like that!! One really important name missing from that list and the pianist who I believe owns this work - Sergio Fiorentino. And yes, he did record it live, in Germany in 1993 as well as N...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Thanks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 320
Re: Thanks
My doctor recently noted that my PSA is high, and I've now had the PET scan, so I may soon join the prostate cancer club. But I trust if they catch it now, they'll be able to treat it. I'm 70. If the cancer is still confined to your prostate it is 100% treatable. The only variable is the treatment ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Gen Zers — anxious about their futures, disillusioned with politicians
- Replies: 5
- Views: 636
Re: Gen Zers — anxious about their futures, disillusioned with politicians
jserraglio wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:15 amI’m not a politician, so I am enamored of GenZers.Holden Fourth wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:06 amI'm not a Gen Zer but I'm also disillusioned with politicians
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Favorite finales?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9140
Re: Favorite finales?
Last movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony where the whole orchestra storms the heights. Everyone gets a go, strings, woodwind brass particularly and even percussion.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Thanks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 320
Re: Thanks
I beat the prostate cancer hoodoo simply by having regular PSA tests and also a good GP. When he became concerned about whether I had prostate cancer or not my PSA levels had not reached the alarm stage and I also had no symptoms. However, what he saw in the tests concerned him so he sent me for a P...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:06 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Gen Zers — anxious about their futures, disillusioned with politicians
- Replies: 5
- Views: 636
Re: Gen Zers — anxious about their futures, disillusioned with politicians
I'm not a Gen Zer but I'm also disillusioned with politicians
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: If Trump Is Not an Insurrectionist, What Is He?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 720
Re: If Trump Is Not an Insurrectionist, What Is He?
Wow - so much hate and bitterness in one sentence.lennygoran wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:37 amBrian he's an insurrectionist and worse-a liar, a fascist [maybe a nazi], a rapist, maybe one of the worst human beings ever, a mob boss [his lawyer expects Kavanaugh to deliver big time] etc, etc, etc Regards, Len
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Maurizio Pollini, pianist who reveled in demanding music, dies at 82
- Replies: 19
- Views: 460
Re: Maurizio Pollini, pianist who reveled in demanding music, dies at 82
The Pollini who won the Chopin was very expressive and open in his playing but soon after this he took a step back to do further study to make his playing even better. This lead hin to working with Michelangeli and when he returned to the concert platform his playing was far less emotional and many ...