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The John Carroll School and Our Lady of Good Counsel H.S. The charismatic educator who founded the interscholastic rugby club at my school and later became principal at JCS and then president at OLGC is Dr. Paul Barker. Mens sana in corpore sano.

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WAPO —> SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to 1. The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the past year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolve...

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When I was teaching in Maryland, someone from outside the school was trying to start a rugby club. It did not fly within the school, probably because rugby has little in the way of protective equipment. We played intramural flag football. Best practice was to shred the flags into thin strips and ti...

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I'm confused. Who else could Cohen rat out for campaign finance violations? It couldn't possibly be the Donald, could it? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-co ... 018-08-21/

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Prehistoric NCAA football coaches are killing players By Sally Jenkins Columnist August 21 Heatstroke didn’t kill Jordan McNair, the berserk excesses of coach DJ Durkin and his staff did . . . . https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/prehistoric-college-football-coaches-are-killing-players-...

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Ricordanza wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:54 am
This is one hour long. Can you give us highlights?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... seems.html

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Here is the full text of Francis's papal letter to Catholics world-wide:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social- ... -1.3601877

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NYT —> News Analysis SYDNEY, Australia — Mile after mile of the Great Barrier Reef is dying amid rising ocean temperatures. Hundreds of bush fires are blazing across Australia’s center, in winter, partly because of a record-breaking drought. The global scientific consensus is clear: Australia is esp...

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Michael Gielen conducting Enescu's Oedipe (Vienna, 1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mproKNVlh7w

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At the end of canto 15 of the Inferno, the sodomite Brunetto Latini identifies some of his fellow sinners and in so doing reveals to Dante that the Servant of Servants [Pope Boniface VIII] had done no more to discipline a rogue bishop [Andea de' Mozzi] than to transfer him from Florence (on the Arno...

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WAPO — “We realize that Rodriguez Aguilera is an unusual candidate.” So conceded a Miami Herald editorial endorsing a candidate who once claimed that majestic, blond extraterrestrial beings kidnapped her when she was 7. Years before Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera announced her bid to replace one of the ...

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumda ... -day-2018/

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CSPAN - Covering the White House - Maggie Haberman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... g4IqrIpuQU

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Spike Lee Does Battle with “BlacKkKlansman”
Review by Anthony Lane

Set in the seventies, Lee’s blistering film abounds with topical hints about our present era, drunk as it is on its own craziness.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018 ... kkklansman

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Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.edwardsboys.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nashe.jpg Toscanini Marathon TT: 20'32" Begun this morning . . . Toscanini-NBC - 14 Concert Jukebox AT 1938 01 01 - Schubert 9, LvB SQ Op 135, Strauss D & T AT 1938 01 08 - Mozart Flute, LvB 6, Saint-Saens Macabr...

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Rhorer-CdH - Mozart Clemenza di Tito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnJuppBUWi0

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A moving, eloquent personal history

The New Yorker
August 20, 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018 ... ps-america

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WAPO — Tameika Lovell was retrieving luggage at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport when Customs and Border Protection officers detained her for a random search. It was Nov. 27, 2016, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and the school counselor from Long Island had just returned from a short...

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Thanks, I didn't know about this Met commission but I like the original Hitchcock film.

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The music is by one of my favorite composers, Bernard Herrmann and it is from the soundtrack of one of my favorite flicks. North by Northwest . I believe Herrmann himself led the MGM studio orchestra in the 1959 film, and in his hommage , Scorsese simply used snippets from that ST. Hermann's stunnin...

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Check out the Scorsese/Hitchcock short that heavily influenced it. The Key to Reserva, a 2007 film short by Martin Scorsese (based on fragments of a film Alfred Hitchcock never made) https://v637g.app.goo.gl/4AMtvYXJzMNYq9fj9 or https://www.youtube.com/embed/dGDbTcmh4nQ?start=179&end=460&version=3 d...

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"If you want drama, go to the opera." -- Mission Impossible V: Rogue Nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU2TU--E6OE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6MBgOs1jU

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Another "offender" in this regard is the Nobel Prize winning Toni Morrison, whom I once heard interviewed in a context where she spent at least five minutes talking about how she would expect to be one of the first people deported if the US were like Nazi Germany (not that we are not approaching th...

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Georg_Neumann_Ku_100_Dummy_Head.jpg?download Neumann KU100 microphone used to record binaural sound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_head_recording ___________________________________ Here's the ...

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When John Boehner was Speaker of the House, I made the incredibly stupid mistake of asking an Academic Bowl question and pronouncing it Boner. My left-leaning spouse has pronounced it BONER for many years now, with an added dollop of contempt. But that started long before supersize genitals qualifi...

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Rod Rosen-steen or Rosen-stine?
Robert Mule-ler or Muh-ler?

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NYT —> WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday canceled plans for a military parade this fall in Washington, blaming local officials for inflating the estimated costs, saying they “know a windfall when they see it.” Mr. Trump said he would instead attend another parade planned at Joint Base Andrews t...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eq4fbp/play/p06drb3s Listen with headphones. This rare performance of the theatre score (authorised concert version) features a cast joined by an ensemble of students from London theatre schools. Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Concert performance Mikaela Bennett, Mari...

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A specialty of Christoph von Dohnanyi: Cleveland Orchestra - Henze Bassarids [Silja] 1990. I've heard this broadcast several times and think it's a masterwork. I'm also a fan of the Euripides original. An FM broadcast of Henze's Die Bassariden , or more appropriately, since this concert performance ...

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NYT When Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s internal security service, told me during an early August 2016 phone call that Russia wasn’t interfering in our presidential election, I knew he was lying. Over the previous several years I had grown weary of Mr. Bortnikov’s denials of Russia’s per...

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Dan Levin New York Times Why the grand Jury report is unlikely to lead to criminal charges Get a nightly, bite-size rundown of the day's top stories. Sign up for the Evening Briefing newsletter. The searing grand jury report issued Tuesday in Pennsylvania that accuses bishops and other Roman Cathol...

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To some extent the Church thought it could alleviate the problem of priestly licentiousness by excluding psychologically healthy homosexually oriented men from ordination. That was IMO based on a faulty understanding of both moral theology and human sexuality, also on scapegoating and the need for a...

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Lebrecht
August 14

http://slippedisc.com/2018/08/was-georg ... described/

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NYT —> Penn grand jury believes that Church hierarchy followed unwritten playbook to conceal abuses. by Scott Dodd Avoid scandal. Use euphemisms. Ask inadequate questions. Lock complaints away in a “secret archive.” Above all, don’t tell the police. Those are some of the tactics that leaders of the...

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Allowing priests to marry, IMO, would solve 90% of the problem if not more. The church has also, and I know this from experience, attempted psychological examination to exclude preferential homosexuals, to no avail. That the Catholic Church's attempt to exclude homosexual men from the priesthood ha...

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Controlled experiments on the meaningful impact of music on animals are being done. I cited one. The results of that study may be valid, or they may not. But an idea is not rendered 'idiotic' just b/c somebody who has decided the matter in advance issues a declaration to that effect.

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A simple Google search will bring up info about scientific inquiries that explore he meaningful effect of music on animal species other than humans. The two pieces I posted being only the tip of the iceberg. The impact may not yet be provable but it is not, as you claim, an idiotic notion.

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the idiotic notion that music has a meaningful effect on any organism but humans. Alworth & Buerkle: The effects of music on animal physiology, behavior and welfare College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23340788 Abstract: Physiological and psychol...

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Classic Andre Previn
54 CDs

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07D51864Y/

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Putting Conductors In Their Place: Sexual Harassment and the Death of the “Maestro Myth” by David Hurwitz CLASSICS TODAY August 2, 2018 https://www.classicstoday.com/putting-conductors-in-their-place-sexual-harassment-and-the-death-of-the-maestro-myth/ In the wake of an excellent article by Anne Mi...

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Actually, music does have charms to soothe at least one wild if not exactly savage beast. In the TV series "unlikely animal friends," a raccoon is shown in what looks like deep contentment with earbud headphones in its ears, and the narration says it's listening to classical music. We've had raccoo...

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 13, 2018 7:53 pm

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:09 pm

jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:21 pm
"It is a truth universally acknowledged" is a quotation from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Q.E.D.
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Which means "quod est demonstrandum," meaning roughly "I have made my point."

Ibid. But you missed the Oscar Wilde allusions.

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:21 pm
"It is a truth universally acknowledged" is a quotation from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Q.E.D.
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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:29 am
It is "music hath charms to soothe the savage breast," not beast. It is the opening line of William Congreve's The Mourning Bride.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, even in the present Age of Surfaces, that whosoever pursues trivial knowledge, foregoes that which is worth doing.

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I tried to order the Szell set through Target and since I have one of their credit cards (that doesn't get used very often), I could have saved an additional 5%. Unfortunately, they are not shipping it right now. Actually, even the retail price is not that extraordinary for such a plush edition! Ac...

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jbuck919 wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 12, 2018 2:35 pm
Right now, as usual at this time of year, I'm dealing with be fruitfly, and multiple.

Enforce the one-egg per fruit fly rule.

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NYT —> BEIJING — For decades, China harshly restricted the number of babies that women could have. Now it is encouraging them to have more. It is not going well. Almost three years after easing its “one child” policy and allowing couples to have two children, the government has begun to acknowledge ...

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Sony promo for the Szell box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAlPoQCyiU UTAlPoQCyiU _________________________________________ PLAYLISTS Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Remastered) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41b0Jh8xRhk&list=PLvvc-yN8k1tgxxiRDLLhWfgbs_rYaxO9I Bohemian Carnival (Remastered) https://ww...

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my opinion, base[d] on earlier movies and interviews, that he [Lee] is a reverse racist, or, in plain English, that he hates white people. http://filmthreat.com/interviews/i-like-spike-a-spike-lee-interview/ There’s the perception that you “hate white people.” I’ve been following your career from t...

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