I used to love baseball, but stopped watching it the season, many years ago, when they canceled the World Series because of the strike. I haven’t watched an at-bat since. Yea, I can get cranky at times.
Ha! Thanks Mike, even if I be rather less sanguine in this hour — heh. It’s been a rough season of late (like, the last two and a half months!) and while faint glimmers of a return to semi-decent offensive proficiency and a steady competent defense are gathering, my ingrained pessimistic skepticism holds sway. They’re gonna have to show me something in these last five contests I haven’t seen since the All-star break. Fingers most definitely crossed, so to say. After which? Yikes! Detroit? Again!?
I have a Yahoo email account , so I can comment on ” Yahoo News” articles. Of course, my comments are often rejected by their woke censors.
Today there were links to articles about Trump announcing that Intel was telling him he was being targeted by Iran for assassination.
The comments on the article were full on TDS. Part of the people were cheering Iran on and part of the people could not understand why Iran wanted Trump dead. After all ” he worked for Iran ” type comments and such. Full on low information types combined with TDS.
Oh, any hey! Just now saw Manny start a triple-play to clinch the Padre’s post-season! Crazy-town!
I’m not as familiar with that piece, thanks,
wow thats staggeringly ignorant at a level I can’t imagine, probably why I stay away from yahoo news,
+ Bonus (not terribly earthshattering but still rather interesting…)
‘…Former CDC Director Robert Redfield endorses Donald Trump, admits to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he [RFK Jr] “got everything right.” ‘ https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1838756867691954336
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
newsmax unlike newscorps, won’t grovel anymore,
the lawfare corps did try to make an example of Fox and rupert enabled it,
The cheering on comments were more numerous than the he worked for Iran type comments or “Trump is making it up.” Apparently we are to believe Trump was selling secrets to Iran or something. Ignorance.
It is hard to post any good comments on Yahoo without it being rejected. Lot of key words or phrases seem to trigger an automatic rejection.
Baseball is what I miss most living overseas. I attended the very first Mariners Game in 1977. I spent the next 16 years in baseball purgatory. Sadly, no longer up to date on stats and players.
vivaldi will stand the test of time, when much of this other stuff has gone,
One of the few nice things still about living in Chicago is two MLB teams (for now anyway). I’ll be at the White Sox game tomorrow, to be a small piece of history, and at Wrigley the next day. Which is pretty cool.
@miguel cervantes: Vivaldi’s houses are still around, if you ever get to Venice.
Bach and Mozart are great, of course, but I put Vivaldi up there too.
“The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi are sublime.
The Vivaldi link tells me I must sign in to confirm I’m not a bot. Too bad; a Vivaldi cello piece would have been nice.
I tried to send something to a friend, an article from a news source about the US Army starting to use drones. His Emails is Yahoo. Yahoo blocked it because it violated something. Now, that is censorship.
its interesting that three bond films were set in venice, From Russia with Love, Moonraker, and then Casino Royale,
The only useful use of Yahoo was.in a movie I liked a few Years ago, when a character used the acronym to say,”You always have other options. “. Maybe that’s how the term started.
That’s lovely, Miguel, thanks.
Your welcome kate,
I found Vox is good for tv reviews, but not much else,
Kate:
What Vivaldi link? I’m not sure what you’re referring to. You can watch the YouTube video here; you don’t have to even go to YouTube to do it.
neo – same YouTube issues for me with the Vivaldi link, and some others occasionally. Most Open thread videos seem to work tho…
‘2024 Tesla Cybertruck starts at $81,895 and goes up to $101,985 depending on the trim and options.’ I couldn’t afford the insurance on something like that…well, maybe if someone gave it to me, I could just keep the same basic Florida required insurance that I have on my 2005 F150. That’s about $130 every 6-months. Yeah, I could afford $260-300 every 6-months for the F150 and the Cybertruck. Have less than 150,000 miles on the F150 – so don’t drive much and really don’t need the Cybertruck for anything except as a backup transportation mode. How much to charge it. How much is yearly maintenance? Women chasing humble hermit me again!? Yeah, it ain’t worth it for me.
Dubbed the ‘MAGAmobile’ and ‘Deplorean’, it may be the best thing to ever happen to electric vehicles, but not for the reason Elon Musk wants…
Christmas Day last year, while other political leaders were posting messages of peace and prosperity, Donald Trump took to his own Truth Social app to go on a festive rant against all that he thought was wrong with the world. Among those on his list were the “evil and ‘sick’ THUGS” pushing for “electric car lunacy” in the US. “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL,” he wrote. “AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
Less than nine months later, and just two months away from the presidential elections, the Republican candidate is now publicly proclaiming his love for the technology. “I’m for electric cars,” he told supporters at a rally in Georgia last month. “I have to be because Elon [Musk] endorsed me very strongly.”
Trump may be the fastest flip-flopper in political history. Geez…LibreOffice has the worse spell-checker, e.g., it says “flip-flopper” is spelled wrong. Anyway, now that Trump and Musk are friends:
Democrat Tesla buyers fall from 40 per cent in 2023 to just 15 per cent at the beginning of 2024 … In California – a Democratic stronghold and the former home of Musk and Tesla before they both moved to Texas – Tesla registrations fell 12 per cent between January and July…
Despite the rejection among Democrats, the latest figures show that the Tesla Cybertruck is currently outselling all other electric pickup trucks combined throughout the US, with sales shooting up 61 per cent in July – the same month that Musk first publicly endorsed Trump.
I like Elon Musk – can’t afford to buy his Cybertruck, but I do pay $8 a month for an X subscription so am supporting the so-called Right in my own way…
neo – seems it may be a browser issue, i.e., the video works in Firefox, Chrome, and…and the Vivaldi browser. Have 9 browsers for various reasons, anyway, the video doesn’t work in Epic browser (some do some don’t there)…
Michael K (2:47 pm) mused: “Maybe that’s how the term [‘Yahoo’] started.”
Per wikipedia . . .
“The word ‘yahoo’ was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of Gulliver’s Travels and has since entered the English language more broadly.
“Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, ‘a brute in human form,’ resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver.”
yes its a niche product, a personal choice, the only distributor that is making money, most of the others have downgraded their ev department,
Neo, I got the message when I clicked on the big red button in the middle of your posted image this morning. I tried it several times. I just tried again now (3:57 p.m. EDT) and it works!
Somehow Democrats insist that raising Taxes on American Companies will not raise prices but insist that Tariffs on foreign products raise prices. They both raise prices , but one encourages American production and one does not.
I hope the Republican party finally embraces Tariffs over Income Taxes.
sdferr (10:52 am), I’m 100 percent with you. I’ve been a Baltimore Orioles fan for well over half a century now. Even with me having moved twelve years ago to a resort town just north of San Diego, I stubbornly continue to root for the Birds of Ball’mer.
Speaking of San Diego, the Padres are in the other (major) league, and I am happy to root-root-root for the home team, but only as a distant third to the Orioles — (I have no second baseball loyalty). I was watching on tv live last night as the Padres executed a game-ending triple play in the bottom of the ninth inning, so both the Orioles and the Padres clinched their respective post-season berths within mere hours of each other.
A few days ago I mentioned that Ukrainian drones hit a Russian ammunition storage facility causing a big boom. Actually, they hit three of them in Russia and another in occupied Ukraine. All of the booms were quite impressive.
The smoke has finally cleared, and the sites — or what’s left of them — are visible in satellite photographs. This site has before and after satellite photos of the three sites in Russia.
Knew it would be just a matter of time before Trump’s grudge against Ukraine & Zelensky for not giving him the head of Joe Biden on a platter would break out.
Say a group of squatters moved into Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s home…took Melania and had their way with her. Kept Melania confined in their section. Then I came in to settle the issue. ‘Don, let’s make peace. The squatters will keep half of everything, you can have Melania back.’
Make that deal Trump…
I had forgotten how much great Vivaldi is out there.
He was incredibly prolific — over 500 concertos, 90 sonatas, around 50 operas, as well as a large number of sacred choral works and chamber music. He even wrote a concerto for mandolin, one of my favorites:
In the notes he is listed as a contratenor, which is a new one on me.
______________________________________
A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types… Countertenors often have tenor or baritone chest voices, but sing in falsetto or head voice much more often than they do in their chest voice…
In the second half of the 20th century, there was great interest in and renewed popularity of the countertenor voice, partly due to pioneers such as Alfred Deller and Russell Oberlin, as well as the increased popularity of Baroque opera and the need of male singers to replace the castrati roles in such works. Although the voice has been considered largely an early music phenomenon, there is a growing modern repertoire collection for countertenors, especially in contemporary music
@ huxley > “My eye and ear were caught by this guy singing alto, if not mezzo-soprano. If I closed my eyes, I would have been sure he was female.”
My high school choir included a tenor (male) whose voice was well up into the alto range, and an alto (female) who could almost get some of the bass notes.
We did a lot of good classic stuff, but to me our top performance was Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, then only 5 years past its debut.
It featured a lovely counter-tenor solo that our guy was perfect for.
Congrats sdferr,
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/orioles-clinch-playoff-berth-baltimore-secures-postseason-spot-for-second-season-in-a-row/amp/
I’m all-in for your O’s.
I used to love baseball, but stopped watching it the season, many years ago, when they canceled the World Series because of the strike. I haven’t watched an at-bat since. Yea, I can get cranky at times.
Ha! Thanks Mike, even if I be rather less sanguine in this hour — heh. It’s been a rough season of late (like, the last two and a half months!) and while faint glimmers of a return to semi-decent offensive proficiency and a steady competent defense are gathering, my ingrained pessimistic skepticism holds sway. They’re gonna have to show me something in these last five contests I haven’t seen since the All-star break. Fingers most definitely crossed, so to say. After which? Yikes! Detroit? Again!?
I have a Yahoo email account , so I can comment on ” Yahoo News” articles. Of course, my comments are often rejected by their woke censors.
Today there were links to articles about Trump announcing that Intel was telling him he was being targeted by Iran for assassination.
The comments on the article were full on TDS. Part of the people were cheering Iran on and part of the people could not understand why Iran wanted Trump dead. After all ” he worked for Iran ” type comments and such. Full on low information types combined with TDS.
Oh, any hey! Just now saw Manny start a triple-play to clinch the Padre’s post-season! Crazy-town!
I’m not as familiar with that piece, thanks,
wow thats staggeringly ignorant at a level I can’t imagine, probably why I stay away from yahoo news,
Returning to the “Most Free, Most Fair, and Most Transparent Election Ever” File….
“Smartmatic Damages Reduced by $1 Billion Why?”—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/newsmax-smartmatic-damages/2024/09/25/id/1181657/
“Curiouser and curiouser”…?
Alas, no.
“Democrats ignore concerns over non-citizen voting, despite thousands found on voter rolls”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/democrats-downplay-concerns-over-non-citizen-voting-despite-thousands
+ Bonus (not terribly earthshattering but still rather interesting…)
‘…Former CDC Director Robert Redfield endorses Donald Trump, admits to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he [RFK Jr] “got everything right.” ‘
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1838756867691954336
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
newsmax unlike newscorps, won’t grovel anymore,
the lawfare corps did try to make an example of Fox and rupert enabled it,
The cheering on comments were more numerous than the he worked for Iran type comments or “Trump is making it up.” Apparently we are to believe Trump was selling secrets to Iran or something. Ignorance.
It is hard to post any good comments on Yahoo without it being rejected. Lot of key words or phrases seem to trigger an automatic rejection.
Baseball is what I miss most living overseas. I attended the very first Mariners Game in 1977. I spent the next 16 years in baseball purgatory. Sadly, no longer up to date on stats and players.
vivaldi will stand the test of time, when much of this other stuff has gone,
One of the few nice things still about living in Chicago is two MLB teams (for now anyway). I’ll be at the White Sox game tomorrow, to be a small piece of history, and at Wrigley the next day. Which is pretty cool.
@miguel cervantes: Vivaldi’s houses are still around, if you ever get to Venice.
Bach and Mozart are great, of course, but I put Vivaldi up there too.
“The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi are sublime.
The Vivaldi link tells me I must sign in to confirm I’m not a bot. Too bad; a Vivaldi cello piece would have been nice.
I tried to send something to a friend, an article from a news source about the US Army starting to use drones. His Emails is Yahoo. Yahoo blocked it because it violated something. Now, that is censorship.
maybe this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc69fUrQI74
its interesting that three bond films were set in venice, From Russia with Love, Moonraker, and then Casino Royale,
The only useful use of Yahoo was.in a movie I liked a few Years ago, when a character used the acronym to say,”You always have other options. “. Maybe that’s how the term started.
That’s lovely, Miguel, thanks.
Your welcome kate,
I found Vox is good for tv reviews, but not much else,
Kate:
What Vivaldi link? I’m not sure what you’re referring to. You can watch the YouTube video here; you don’t have to even go to YouTube to do it.
neo – same YouTube issues for me with the Vivaldi link, and some others occasionally. Most Open thread videos seem to work tho…
‘2024 Tesla Cybertruck starts at $81,895 and goes up to $101,985 depending on the trim and options.’ I couldn’t afford the insurance on something like that…well, maybe if someone gave it to me, I could just keep the same basic Florida required insurance that I have on my 2005 F150. That’s about $130 every 6-months. Yeah, I could afford $260-300 every 6-months for the F150 and the Cybertruck. Have less than 150,000 miles on the F150 – so don’t drive much and really don’t need the Cybertruck for anything except as a backup transportation mode. How much to charge it. How much is yearly maintenance? Women chasing humble hermit me again!? Yeah, it ain’t worth it for me.
How the Tesla Cybertruck is fuelling Trump’s culture wars
Trump may be the fastest flip-flopper in political history. Geez…LibreOffice has the worse spell-checker, e.g., it says “flip-flopper” is spelled wrong. Anyway, now that Trump and Musk are friends:
I like Elon Musk – can’t afford to buy his Cybertruck, but I do pay $8 a month for an X subscription so am supporting the so-called Right in my own way…
neo – seems it may be a browser issue, i.e., the video works in Firefox, Chrome, and…and the Vivaldi browser. Have 9 browsers for various reasons, anyway, the video doesn’t work in Epic browser (some do some don’t there)…
Michael K (2:47 pm) mused: “Maybe that’s how the term [‘Yahoo’] started.”
Per wikipedia . . .
“The word ‘yahoo’ was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of Gulliver’s Travels and has since entered the English language more broadly.
“Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, ‘a brute in human form,’ resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_(Gulliver%27s_Travels)
yes its a niche product, a personal choice, the only distributor that is making money, most of the others have downgraded their ev department,
Neo, I got the message when I clicked on the big red button in the middle of your posted image this morning. I tried it several times. I just tried again now (3:57 p.m. EDT) and it works!
Somehow Democrats insist that raising Taxes on American Companies will not raise prices but insist that Tariffs on foreign products raise prices. They both raise prices , but one encourages American production and one does not.
I hope the Republican party finally embraces Tariffs over Income Taxes.
sdferr (10:52 am), I’m 100 percent with you. I’ve been a Baltimore Orioles fan for well over half a century now. Even with me having moved twelve years ago to a resort town just north of San Diego, I stubbornly continue to root for the Birds of Ball’mer.
Speaking of San Diego, the Padres are in the other (major) league, and I am happy to root-root-root for the home team, but only as a distant third to the Orioles — (I have no second baseball loyalty). I was watching on tv live last night as the Padres executed a game-ending triple play in the bottom of the ninth inning, so both the Orioles and the Padres clinched their respective post-season berths within mere hours of each other.
A few days ago I mentioned that Ukrainian drones hit a Russian ammunition storage facility causing a big boom. Actually, they hit three of them in Russia and another in occupied Ukraine. All of the booms were quite impressive.
The smoke has finally cleared, and the sites — or what’s left of them — are visible in satellite photographs. This site has before and after satellite photos of the three sites in Russia.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/satellite-images-show-massive-devastation-at-russian-ammo-storage-sites-struck-by-ukrainian-drones
It’s impressive. Check it out.
Good to hear, MJR. The Pads make an intensely interesting story these last days coming. Imma keep a sharp eye on ’em, for certain. Go O’s!
Kate:
Just one of those internet mysteries. Glad it’s working now.
sdferr (4:36 pm), may (all) our guys meet late in October!
Thanks, Neo, and it was a nice piece of music.
https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/19/previously-unknown-mozart-music-discovered-in-german-library
I am so tired of Trump…
Trump accuses Zelensky of refusing to strike a deal on war
Knew it would be just a matter of time before Trump’s grudge against Ukraine & Zelensky for not giving him the head of Joe Biden on a platter would break out.
Say a group of squatters moved into Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s home…took Melania and had their way with her. Kept Melania confined in their section. Then I came in to settle the issue. ‘Don, let’s make peace. The squatters will keep half of everything, you can have Melania back.’
Make that deal Trump…
I had forgotten how much great Vivaldi is out there.
He was incredibly prolific — over 500 concertos, 90 sonatas, around 50 operas, as well as a large number of sacred choral works and chamber music. He even wrote a concerto for mandolin, one of my favorites:
–Vivaldi, “Mandolin Concerto in C Major, RV 425”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHCVWv1uvg
Any other Vivaldi fans and faves?
Usually the Mandolin Concerto is one mandolin soloist with the usual string orchestra accompanying.
Here’s a fascinating live performance with six mandolins, four larger mandolins (alto, tenor?) plus double bass behind the soloist.
–“Avi Avital plays Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in C Major | The 8th Osaka International Mandolin Festival”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OJ0bsyIryc
Avi Avital is obviously a god on the mandolin with fingers as long as Jimi Hendrix’s.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-by-grand-jury-in-historic-federal-probe-sources/
Gentleman Jimmy: https://youtu.be/M-J9u-1hbvs
huxley, when I was in the school chorale, we sang the Vivaldi Magnificat once.
The Gloria is peppy choral stuff: https://youtu.be/4GwdSF32PaQ
huxley, when I was in the school chorale, we sang the Vivaldi Magnificat once.
Philp Sells:
I’ve not heard that before!
Vivaldi, “Magnificat – Jordi Savall”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJYPSSJM7k
Quite lovely. Even magnifying!
My eye and ear were caught by this guy singing alto, if not mezzo-soprano. If I closed my eyes, I would have been sure he was female.
https://youtu.be/kGJYPSSJM7k?t=123
In the notes he is listed as a contratenor, which is a new one on me.
______________________________________
A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types… Countertenors often have tenor or baritone chest voices, but sing in falsetto or head voice much more often than they do in their chest voice…
In the second half of the 20th century, there was great interest in and renewed popularity of the countertenor voice, partly due to pioneers such as Alfred Deller and Russell Oberlin, as well as the increased popularity of Baroque opera and the need of male singers to replace the castrati roles in such works. Although the voice has been considered largely an early music phenomenon, there is a growing modern repertoire collection for countertenors, especially in contemporary music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countertenor
______________________________________
Perhaps more than I wanted to know.
Rock’n’roll won my heart, but I still love classical and I admire the hell out of those who have climbed that mountain.
Oberlin and Bressler, Monteverdi, Zephiro Torna: https://youtu.be/Lr5wzy1NiQ0
@ huxley > “My eye and ear were caught by this guy singing alto, if not mezzo-soprano. If I closed my eyes, I would have been sure he was female.”
My high school choir included a tenor (male) whose voice was well up into the alto range, and an alto (female) who could almost get some of the bass notes.
We did a lot of good classic stuff, but to me our top performance was Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, then only 5 years past its debut.
It featured a lovely counter-tenor solo that our guy was perfect for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8gKSqVAXrg
Concerning Vivaldi: his arias and operas contain delightful moments. Try for instance L’Olympiade, act 2, scene 15, gemo in un punto e fremo…