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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:55 pm

Belle wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:47 pm
they're all hugely intelligent and speaking out.
If they were, they wouldn’t.

That's a very dichotomous statement. Should they not speak out because they might be pilloried or is there another reason?

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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...

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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...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:05 pm

You know the cult capture is complete when a world leader cannot tell you what a woman is.

But they should be able to tell us what a female is - there is a scientific and medical definition.

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The thoughts of female swimmers who had no choice but to share a changing room with Lia Thomas sums it all up.

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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'...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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.

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Phenomenal technique but I'm not sure that the musicality is there.

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.....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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Lucas Jussen also plays solo, not sure about Arthur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFjOcOv868

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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) ...

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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 '...

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Belle wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:53 am
Yes, Holden, but these students cannot be controlled!!

Understood fully, I mean, which sane government wants a highly educated, thinking population? This would mean that the Covid fraud could never be perpetuated again!

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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: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,...

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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...

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@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...

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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...

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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...

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You beat me to that one Belle.

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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...

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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 ...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:15 am

Holden Fourth wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:06 am
I'm not a Gen Zer but I'm also disillusioned with politicians
I’m not a politician, so I am enamored of GenZers.

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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.

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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...

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I'm not a Gen Zer but I'm also disillusioned with politicians

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lennygoran wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:37 am
Brian 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

Wow - so much hate and bitterness in one sentence.

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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 ...

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After a couple of millennia of persecution via pogroms and other means, Israel (or the Jewish nation) will use any means to defend itself and considering their history you can see why. They are a nation surrounded by enemies and have developed ways and means of making sure they stay as a sovereign s...

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Most of his solo work from the 1960 Chopin Competition.

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

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Two Cds of his that I do treasure. The first is mentioned by Lance, the Chopin Etudes Opp10 and 25 are quite different from the recording he made for DGG a decade later. I also really like his recording of the last five LvB sonatas. While there are better performances of individual sonatas (think He...

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That was very interesting to read thank you and confirms for me that those with the most to lose financially (could we call them the middle class?) were the ones who strongly supported the ideas espoused by the National Socialists. Germany at this time, like the rest of the world had an economy that...

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Weak title and even weaker writing. What everyone seems to forget is that the world was in the middle of a major economic depression in 1933 yet I've seen very few authors attribute the effect of that on the rise of National Socialism. The effect on the human psyche alone would have been enormous an...

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