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"Just the other day, one Republican senator [Sen Jim DeMint] said -- and I'm quoting him -- 'If you're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him,'" the president recounted at an event at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington. "Think about that. This isn't about me. This isn't about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking up American families, breaking America's businesses and breaking America's economy."Ouch. I've said it before, we "socialize" (in one way or another) schools, police and fire protection, highways, parks, the military, social security, and some utilities (water and sewer). I don't know why so many freak out when we think about adding health care to that list.
Talking Health Care
63 comments:
- Daniella said...
*starting the slow clap*
I was in San Antonio this week, and had the wonderful opportunity to observe a real-live protest to "Obamacare." People were dressed in the American Flag from head to toe, as if somehow supporting a change in the way medical care is organized is unpatriotic. They shouted "No socialism for America!" And I heard one man explaining how the downfall of the American Economy, stockmarket, and morality would all be tied back to this one issue.
I tipped my sunglasses down to the edge of my nose, thought about taking a picture, and headed to the riverwalk to drink my sorrows away. - 5:37 PM
If we socialize our health care, where will Canadians go to get theirs? I don't want some fat minority union desk rat telling me when and where to go when I need health care. It's all about Uncle Sammy Obammy. Why is trying to shove this down our throats before August when we've had a chance to read the entire bill? It's because the longer time goes by and we understand it, there will be a backlash just like there was when Bush tried to shove illegal amnesty down our throats.
Moderate Democrats may sink this one...
Obammy's teleprompter misspoke. It meant to say, "This is about a healthcare system that WILL break up American families, break America's businesses and WILL break America's economy."
I have no problem with the concept,and yes I am conservative. However, having dealt with medicaid and medicare I have no confidence in the government to manage such a system. I have seen the systems around the world and with populations as large as ours his concepts have not proven effective. While President Obama has tried to make adjustments the basis of what he is trying to do has not worked.
- M-M said...
I do think it is about him, it's all about what He can and will do. Power.
After what he has done in six months and what Bush did in his eight years, he wants to blame our current health care system on breaking America's businesses and the economy? You've got to be kidding me. What a joke. - 6:23 PM
Very good comments Barry!
Those who can AFFORD to pay their premiums to insurance companies (both Dems and Repugs) are OUT OF TOUCH with the rest of Americans who cannot afford to do so.
"Out of touch" is denial in the worst form.
These folks should be forced to go sit in an emergency room and see what really goes on.
Why do so many Canadian lawyers come across the border to get medical care in the U.S.? Why take the best medical system in the world and let some Kenyan tell us why we need to abandon it and turn it over to the government?
I have an honest question for you, Barry, and I truly do not know the answer. A couple of times over the past year or so, I seem to recall you having dental emergencies-and I believe you got in to see you dentist quickly. Do you (or anyone else here) know what would have happened had you been Canadian (and in Canada)? Or British?
- mzchief said...
I grew up in the U.K. and the reason the elderly in the U.K. are healthy is because the weak and sick die prior to getting old.
The U.S. does not need public healthcare. The U.S. does need healthcare insurance reform. One thing the U.S. desperately needs is for much of the past legislation written with the help of the insurance lobby to be overturned and declared price fixing and price gouging. Hospitals and doctors should not be allowed to mark up by 500+% the cost of an injection to patients who are self-pay.
The U.S. needs to close the borders and REFUSE to provide non-emergent healthcare for the nearly 20 million illegal aliens, currently living in the U.S.
As for stopping Obama. I hope to Heaven something stops Obama and his spedaholic democrat buddies. - 6:41 PM
Are you saying people that can afford to pay their premiums never have to go to the emergency room?
I keep hearing the conservatives saying something along the lines of, "Do you really want a bureaucrat managing your health care?"
If my choices are a bureaucrat or a private health insurance company that is profit driven (meaning the more care they provide, the less they make) then I will take the bureaucrat every time. People don't seem to understand that these insurance companies are FOR-PROFIT. They DO NOT have your best interests in mind. All they care about is making their quarterly bonuses bigger. - 6:53 PM
Hey 5:42, I have insurance and I already have someone telling me when I do and don't need medical care, giving me a small choice of people to provide it, and then telling me which medications I can take or the ones I CANNOT afford to take. I'm one of the lucky ones. Both my kids have lost their jobs and cannot afford COBRA so they are uninsured. Something beats nothing. And I'm in one of those "high" tax brackets that ought to be screaming.
I think we ought to have nationalized health care for everyone 18 and under or 22 and under if enrolled in a four year college then anyone over 65 and under insured!
Let the system alone for the rest of us. - 7:18 PM
I can't afford a good Lawyer, but maybe the system will give me a real winner.LOL Do you Barry want your Mom and Dad treated at a socialized (Govt ran) medical facility? "Back in line you old folks, you'll get treated tomorrow morning, when we reopen"
to 6:31: So, because some receive their healthcare that way, your solution is to mandate that everyone does it that way? You join those that resort to demeaning name-calling of those who disagree w/ you, and betray your envy. You are "out of touch" with the lessons history teaches us, and apparently believe that the reason govt-run healthcare has been unsuccessful all over the world is because the right people haven't tried it yet. Why do you think Congress has excluded themselves from the plan?
to 5:42: You make some very good points, ones that the proponents of govt-run healthcare have no answers for, and therefore simply ignore. Too bad you hand them the ammunition they desperately need to respond to you by including the demeaning characterization of the President and the govt worker. It allows them to continue to avoid discussing the otherwise valid issues you raise by simply discounting you as an idiot, and therefore unworthy of engaging in debate.
Daniella: Do you believe that advocating capitalism, and opposing ever-increasing socialism is a dumb thing to do, or just the WAY those you saw were doing it?
Barry: The fact that we socialize some things in our society, doesn't mean we should socialize healthcare, or any thing else in particular. - 7:24 PM
One more thing: "I don't know why so many freak out when we think about adding health care to that list."
Barry, many reasons have been given for opposition, some of them presented very rationally, without anyone freaking out at all, and I have not read your repudiation of a single one of them. - 7:30 PM
- Silicone Alley said...
f@*k Obama!!
Health care is a scarce resource. Just like any other scarce resource, there must be a system to dole out that scarce resource.
It is also a growth industry, at least now, and in the past. Researchers and doctors come up with new drugs and treatments, believing they may get a reward for it. IF that reward is limited, then there is no reason to come up with medical advances.
This is one of the major reasons for the rising costs of health care. There are more treatments available now, than in the past.
Capatilism is the best way known to man to dole out scarce resources. The free market. Sadly, the health care system does not use capatalism to dole out health care.
If everyone paid cash for their health care, there would be no worries. People would get value for their dollar, with almost no administrative costs. As of now, there are too many middle men.
Obama wants to carry it further to the left, and create a much worse system, where some committee determines not only what health care you can have, but whether you can have any at all.
Old people especially should be concerned, because that will naturally be a major point in whether you "deserve" treatment.
In short, this is going to be a train wreck. Medicare and medicaid already only provide 60% of the actual costs of those programs. The insured pay the rest.
Barry, once again you have confused socialism with society. Problems should be solved in the natural order, according to efficiency: Individual, family, city, state, THEN federal government.
Schools, police and fire protection, utilities (water and sewer) are best, and most efficiently delivered on a local basis. Everyone pays the same. That is not socialism. Highways, parks on a state basis. Everyone pays the same. That is not socialism. The military, protecting the entire country, on a federal basis. If the tax rate is "progressive", that is socialism.
Taking money, or scarce resources, from one group, and giving it to another group, is socialism.
Things like health care, monetary security, etc, should be handled on a personal, or family basis. The freaking federal government should have NO hand in it. It is a recipe for disaster, as it has become in other countries that have tried it.
CA and MA are quickly finding out what a mess it can be on a state basis.
If all of Obama's socialist programs go through, the US economy will be over 47% through the federal government. That is higher than most European countries.
That is NOT how this country became the greatest economy in the world, and our ranking will surely fall in short order. It has already begun.
Finally, we do NOT have the doctors and nurses and facilities, at this time, to take on 50 million uninsured. At least not the same QUALITY of service as the currently insured, or cash paying patients, enjoy. Therefore, if everyone is on the same level, health care MUST be rationed.
Further, if medicine is socialized, there will be NO further research, drug development, treatment development, etc. There will be no value in it. The US has been the only country to make ANY significant advances in health care for a long time.
Do not let anyone lie to you, and tell you otherwise. It is obvious.
Jonas Salk - 8:43 PM
Yea, lets nationalize the legal system and let the government assign lawyers and fees!!!
- Knarf said...
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." -- P.J. O'Rouke
"the reason the elderly in the U.K. are healthy is because the weak and sick die prior to getting old."
MZCHEESY this is the dumbest thing you've ever said, and you say a lot of dumb stuff. Besides the fact that the statement is incorrect, the statement itself does not even make sense. How can a person be elderly if they "die prior to getting old"?????
US Life Expectancy: 74.37 male, 80.05 female.
England Life Exectancy: 77 male, 82 female. - 9:04 PM
- Silicone Alley said...
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- wordkyle said...
Don't private schools vastly outperform public schools academically? Where did Barack Obama place his children? Do politiicans rave at the success of the Social Security and Medicare programs?
Members of Congress have voted themselves a very generous private retirement plan unavailable to the rest of us. (They also have their own private police force.) When Washington politicians subject themselves to the same programs that they propose for the rest of us, their arguments for new federal programs -- such as universal healthcare -- will carry more credibility. - 9:16 PM
To 6:53: Do you really think a bureaucrat will have your best interest at heart and they will rubber stamp all treatments. I am sure you have dealt with other government entities and have found them less than caring. I would like everyone in favor a government run health care system to go on Medicaid or Medicare for 12 months to evaluate such a system. One of the main reasons insurance companies have so much power is because in the 60s and 70s insurance fraud committed by patients and doctors alike was rampant. They fought for and were given the ability to prevent what was happening and have since started abusing those powers and unfortunately our politicians and appointed judges enjoy the benefits of continuing to support the policies.
- Jarhead said...
If you want a sneak peek at Obama's nationalized heath care, go visit a VA hospital and get back to me with your findings.
That's what you're going to get with Obama's plan. It's bad enough that our vets get the shittiest medical care on the planet... Hooray for substandard medical care for all Americans!
To listen to everone on this blog piss and moan about WRMC or whatever it's called now...and now you think taking an alredy crippled industry [that's what it is, after all.. a business, and a poorly run one at that] and putting in the goverment's hands is a "fix"?
A refresher: government = bad. Liberty = good.
Best of luck with that. - 9:39 PM
The Canadians that come for health care in the USA are the ones that have the money to do so. The rest stay in Canada with only national Healthcare, or just die wanting to go to America.
Well said Silicone Alley.
Those examples you give just how well are they working? Police - are we Crime free, Parks they are so overrun who wants to go there. Fire departments are hireing grant writters to get every tax doller they can get. Yeah hows that working.
Socialized medicine. Let's ask the Indians (Native Americans) how well it has worked for them. If you can't find one to ask, then ask the Veteran's how well it has worked out for them. If the government can't fix it for them, they WHY do you people think it will work for all of America???? It won't.
- RPM said...
I have actually had government run healthcare and private healthcare.
When I was in the Coast Guard I broke my thumb and was treated at the USPHS Hospital. It was nothing fancy, no flatscreen TV's or concierge menu, but it was quality treatment administered by the government.
Years later when my wife was pregnant she developed a large ovarian cyst that had to be removed. My job offered no health insurance. The Decatur Hospital demanded cash payment in full before they would do the surgery. They would not budge an inch.
I have no problems with a national healthcare program where every man, woman and child has coverage. - 10:39 PM
American's can do anything better than anybody else! Why so little faith they cannot make some form of healthcare work? If we did not have good government in spite of the government haters, we would be Iraq with Saddam, Libya with Momarwhaterver, Iran with Itolyqso, 30's germany heil and so forth. Some Americans seem to not have any faith in what can be achieved by Americans. Just because it is not working in other countries, does not mean Americans cannot make it work. The Vet thing? Obama has barely been president, maybe it can be corrected. Did not happen with him. Or Him as some of you refer.
You got soft on Sillycones.
Wordkyle "Don't private schools vastly outperform public schools academically? "
This is a really ignorant statement. Why wouldn't private schools outperform public schools as a whole? Private schools are private and paid for by people who can afford to send their child to PRIVATE school. This group tends to be better educated and more stable anyway. Public schools HAVE to teach every child. They don't get a choice in who they teach.
There probably is even a study that students in private schools have fewer cavities and are healthier. That is because their parents can better afford insurance.
Private is the word that capitalists like to throw around as their mantra that means any way they can make money without accountability. The bottom line is money. Make money, not good. If good happens and we make money, woopee! If we just make money, woopee! That is what has happened to health care. It is more about the money than it is about the care. Throw out the money changers! Care for people! - 10:51 PM
my insurance is so high so some deadbeat or illegal can take their
children to the emergency room with just a runny nose. - 11:34 PM
Many of the people bitching about no insurance are the one's who won't enroll their children in the chips program and those premiums start at $15/month. Many won't pay for insurance but insist on driving a newer car or live in a house that prevents them from affording health insurance. Why do some employees decline employer sponsored plans? The same reason many have been with the same partner for years and have several kids but refuse to get married. If you check the correct box, you are able to manipulate the system. Why pay even a small amount for insurance and deductibles if you can work the system, go to the emergency room, and be treated for free? I know a guy that has 3 kids, nice house, nice cars and a $45000 ski boat that insists he can't afford coverage. It is true, you just can't fix stupid.
Don't home schooling vastly out perform public and private schools? Maybe all schools private and public schools should be done away with and only home schooled be the norm. Look at all the tax money saved on building schools and those high dollar athelic programs as well as that high dollar tution for private schools! Wasn't your daughter home schooled by the smarterst person on the planet?
10:51 - Your last comment says it all. Personally, if we could get to the bottom of fraud in government, we'd have the money to provide national healthcare.
For instance Medicare. When my dear mother was aging, everytime she had a health issue, here came a barrage of testing, most of it unnecessary. This was twenty years ago. Fast forward to now with advanced technology. Every body part almost has a "machine" now to test it. A family member who is diabetic was put in a hyperbaric chamber (supposed to speed healing) for weeks at two thousand dollars a treatment. Two other physicians later expressed that they felt this was a ridiculous procedure. So why was it done? It doesn't take a financial expert to figure that one out. And many doctors order these expensive tests because they are scared to death of lawsuits.
Yes, our healthcare system needs restructuring. I don't know what the answer is, but know what the problem is: GREED.
And a bunch of folks we are supposed to trust are involved in it. - 6:45 AM
Good points 12:30. Though this subject is about healthcare, I've always wondered why homeschool parents have to pay school taxes?
Oh, I know. Because most of these folks are wealthy enough to stay home and the public schools need their money for athletic programs and artificial turf.
- wordkyle said...
anon 1051 - You really failed to demonstrate how my comment about private schools was "ignorant." Your rant about money, disjointed as it was, illustrates a naivete that would be charming if it weren't so destructive. Do you honestly think political decisions regarding schools have anything to do with education?
Spend some time today or this week contacting Blue Dog Democrats in the House before this "back door deal" is pushed through the house. Tell the Blue Dogs to vote no to Obama Care that will give public free health care to ten million illegals and bancrupt the middle class.
This deal is to reward health care union workers and broaden the base of illegals for future elections.
It is not health care reform or will any measure create health care savings to pay to ad the illegals. Both houses in Arizona have passed legislation to decline Obama care. Arizona would be over run by more illegals coming across the border for free health care.
The trillion dollar price tag that fines those who earn more than 4 times the poverty level but not enough to buy health care insurance will ration care mainly to the elderly.
If Obama doesn't get this pushed through before the 2010 elections, the house will change and Obamacare will be history!
Heath care reform is needed but not a back door deal for political pay back!
Texas should withdraw from Obama care just like the Congressmen who withdrew from the plan! If they don't want it, we know there is something really wrong with it.
Contact the Blue Dogs to stop this now. Just don't complain, do something. Tell them NO Obamacare, NO back door deals. - 8:17 AM
soooo......, hows that socialized school working out? or the police,(more interested in revenue than protect and serve)? or socialize security? how many yrs left on that bottomless pit? etc. etc.
yea these are the folks i want in charge of my prostate exame.
God help us. - 8:30 AM
Health care is different than any other public service because the medical provider provides the service. To control costs, either the provider receives lower reimbursements or rations care. Or admisinstrative costs have to be reduced by going to a single payer system. Patients will over use the system and some medical providers will provide services not needed just to make more money.
Unlike other public services such as fire protection, schools, etc.., a person's medical needs are different depending on accute illness, age, etc.. Any health care system that dictates to the medical provider the number of treatments, procedures, medicine will not provide the quaility of health care most Americans expect.
And to offer public health care that competes with private care will not work.
Adding more uninsured to public health care will overwhelm medical providers who are now are not being reimbursed by Medicare costing families an average $1700 a year increase in health care prmiums.
Government does not do a better job of management. So why would we want our health care under big government? - 8:32 AM
"those who would trade liberty for security, deserve niether"
ben franklin - 8:35 AM
The elite private schools - as in college prep schools - do perform better than public schools. Their clientele are quite different from the public schools'.
Nothing wrong with people wanting to spend their money on an elite education for their kids - they can afford it & that's up to them.
Silly question about why those people pay school taxes. You could say the same thing about people with no children. Whether or not you are using the service personally has nothing to do with whether you pay the tax.
It is better for our society as a whole to have an educated society, something that has only become necessary in the last decades as careers become more complex.
I have never had a fire in 30 years of home ownership (knock on wood) but I gladly pay taxes for fire protection because we all benefit from fire control. - 8:51 AM
Private school students do not take TAKS.
Sometimes students that cannot pass the TAKS enroll in a private school at the end of their high school career so that they can get a diploma without having to pass TAKS.
The quality of private schools vary HUGELY. - 9:08 AM
- President Clark said...
The reason we freak out is because the military, fire/police protection, highways are public goods. That means they are non-excludable. If I pay taxes that goes to pay for military protection, they can't just protect me and others that pay taxes. They protect everyone including those that do not pay taxes. Similiar to roads and such. Health benefits are not the same. I pay for my own benefits and utilize them as I need them. My doctor can exclude someone who does not pay for their benefits.
8:51 - I disagree with you about it being "silly" for home schooled parents to pay taxes/ and people with no children, though I appreciate your reasoning about education being needed.
Finally, those sixty five and older have theirs "frozen" after somebody woke up and realized folks this age are on a FIXED income.
School taxes need reforming too. People with NO children should NOT have to pay as much as those with children.
That is just fair.
If you want to pay some extra taxes, give me your name and I will send you my tax bill. I'd be dang GLAD for you to pay mine.
Actually, there is a mindset out there right now about funding health care that comes close to your viewpoint.
Everybody just "adopt" one family and pay for their healthcare in addition to their own.
Problem solved.
I guess. - 9:56 AM
Well said, 9:23. You get what you pay for, and I can pay for insurance to "insure" I get good quality medical care. I have no problem with those that don't have jobs to get insurance being relegated to sitting and waiting for mediocre care in a JPS-type waiting room. Don't work hard, to "insure" yourself, should have the time to sit in a waiting room and see a doc-in-a-box.
Those against a public health care option complain that this would put the private insurance out of business. I find this hilarious...when the same group feels private school vouchers provides "choice" for public schools students. If private insurance can't survive against a so called inferior public option then so be it. Maybe my private insurance will actually have to agree to pay to allow my sick kids to receive care. I have paid $10,000 a year over the last 10 years for private insurance and fought HARD each time I needed to use it (3 times) During a crisis I have spent time begging a private company to allow my kid to receivce care...one was 2 weeks old and very ill. Why are you guys scared if you think the public option will be so awful.....your private insurance should thrive and dominate....because you say it is superior....just as you say private schools are superior. Our local private hospital just paid in cash $222 million for a new addition. Don't kid yourself, we are getting ripped off by the insurance companies and hospitals and I am confused why that doesn't irritate a true conservative!
Heard an old man on CSPAN this morning with an interesting view.
Right now, Medicare pays 80 percent and private insurance makes up the difference for those on Medicare.
His solution: Private Insurance should pay eighty percent and the government take up the rest.
That guy should run for President. - 10:42 AM
- wordkyle said...
1016 - First of all, I sympathize with your efforts to get treatment for your kids. Do you feel it would be easier if you were dealing with a government-run insurance company? (Conservatives have consistently railed at the high cost of everything due to onerous and unnecessary government interference in the private sector.)
Your initial statement and ensuing comparison to school vouchers don't hold water. The concern is that because the government won't have to worry about profitability, it will come in at a much lower cost. As a result, employer-provided medical insurance will rush to that option strictly to save costs, regardless of quality of care. This will drive private insurance out of the market. Individual choice (as in private schools) gives each person the option of selecting quality over lower cost. A more valid voucher comparison would be for the government to give each American x number of dollars in a healthcare voucher, which they could spend on their healthcare as they saw fit. (I'm not endorsing such a plan, merely comparing apples to apples.) - 10:43 AM
10:16: If you think you've had problems in the health care system as it stands now, just wait for nationalized care! People all over the globe in countries having this type of government-sponsored care wait for MONTHS to just get a simple x-ray. Potential cancer patients have had delays stretch so long that they have died awaiting treatment. This is why the ones who can afford it come to the US for care from places like Canada. You may need surgery and wait 6 months just for and MRI, or have heart problems and be put off for weeks, leading to death. I have researched this type of system extensively and can give you references to case after case in which care was delayed so long that the outcome was must worse than it would have been in this country with quick treatment. People here have it pretty damned good; you can go to any ED in the country and at least get care, which is more than you will get with nationalized health care. You won't get a choice of physicians, and the good ones will quit, because the reimbursement will be too low. You get what you pay for...remember that.
10:16 hit the nail on the head. Insurance companies and hospitals are making billions. Consumers and doctors are getting screwed. The new system will screw them even harder.
Yes 10:02 - and many people take a lower paying job that has better health benefits just FOR those.
Health care reform is very important to many people - more folks than we know! - 11:49 AM
If hospitals are "making billions", then why are so many closing their doors, genius?
How did you morons get off on education? Stick to the subject people!
Joe Barton was on CSPAN this morning. Now remember, this man from Texas is a Republican. Guess what? The GOVERNMENT pays for a pretty good chunk of part of his healthcare plan and private insurance pays the rest.
So much for these idiot Republicans that criticize Democrats for government assistance.
Hypocrites! - 2:09 PM
The point is, yes, healthcare needs reform. The problem is, universal healthcare that we foot the bill for the dead beats is NOT a good answer to the problem. That punishes us all, as that type of 'socialized' system is no improvement, just a different set of problems.
Ok 2:19 - maybe the answer is this:
Reform healthcare and put in a provision that the dead beats (who are classified as such) go to the churches for help.
With a church on every corner (with more being built every day)..why not?
Give them more tax breaks than they already have. - 3:24 PM
Yes hospitals in large and small communities are making millions. Even your Wise County Hospital is doing pretty damn good. Many claim to be not for profit (St. Mary's which paid $222 million is a good example, how can you be not for profit yet have that much cash in reserve). Have you seen the billboards, the TV ads the radio ads to come to this place to birth...that place to have heart surgery. How do they have tha much cash to advertise. Each needs a new addition for birthing, heart, cancer.. The real debate is we are idiots to think everytime we have a pain a surgery is the cure. Coronary Heart Bypass which cost close to $30,000 per patient was the "thing" and still is but in late 1990's a scientific blinded study done proved patients that take meds and diet not only do as well but better than those having surgery (except for 85% blockage in one area of hear where surgery is better). How many kids get tonsillectomies now. How many women have hysterectomies, how many kids get tubes in their ears...we believe doing surgery or something is better than nothing and most of these things are no longer in fashion and have been proven afterwards to be ineffective. Remember Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? We spend more and have a shorter life span than many industrilized nations with national systems, and that is why. And get off Canada and look at several places where dual systems work...Swiss and French. Perhaps we pay more because we lost sight of reasonable care and do no harm, but instead want to be the Jetson's and have everything right now. I actually had to ask a doctor NOT to do a spinal tap on my son when the day prior a child died of meningitis and the doctor was concerned he had it(also covering his a**). I felt he was over reacting and asked for an X-ray first...he had pneumonia, but had I ben a Jetson I would have gone along with a painful more expensive procedure....And yes as a high paying insurance person I and all can get wonderful ER care, which America Ranks #1, but I also have to wait 6 months or longer to see orthopedic, dermatologist, and other specialist. My parents wait several hours to see Tibbles in Decatur....don't all of you wait to see someone when you are sick. Are all of you walking into the DR office and being seen right away? That's amazing if true. - 3:48 PM
Those who lead our country have Federal Insurance Plans. Our Texas politicians have State Insurance plans. Why can't we have the same insurance they do?
And the dear frugal Republicans in congress automatically go on MEDICARE when they reach 65.
If they don't like the government paying for their health care when they get old, they shouldn't take it. - 8:53 AM
- wordkyle said...
And now it looks like Democrat opposition to government-funded abortion is going to derail Obama's socialized healthcare plan.
Who'd a thunk it? - 9:57 AM


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A "fork-spoon" is NOT a spork. It's not a hybrid-it's the real thing, one spoon, one fork, stuck together with scotch tape. The creation of my little man, Frankie, and already being ordered by Victor and Becca because of its very efficient mission. Use the spoon for your rice, turn it around and pick up your chicken with the fork. Very, very, smart!
These inventive creations are the everyday things that make kids in the Autism spectrum very interesting human beings. There is an upside to being "different" and seeing the world in a unique way - it's called creativity. Frankie can be rigid at times and struggle with complying with society rules but his very weakness represents his most valuable strength. The invention of the "fork-spoon" by Frankie came about as a response to not wanting to comply. Here I am, asking him at dinner if he wanted to have a spoon or a fork for eating his dinner and what's his response? I want both. Of course, I said he couldn't have both - why???? Just chose one or the other! He just couldn't understand why he couldn't have both and to be honest, now that I look back, I don't see why either! Once he stayed on this course, I went along with the idea and the result was the "fork-spoon" you see in this picture. Very handy....I must say it actually takes skill to wrap up those two together but mostly to alternate them while you are eating. It's priceless to watch.
I figured after so many dark blog entries lately, I should get back to the root of why I started to write about our family's journey into the Autism spectrum; the desire to highlight the positive and not the negative. I take little pieces of our days and freeze them in time on this blog, usually so I can remember what is so special about our little guy and why we are fighting so hard to help him get as far as he wants to go - the sky is the limit.
The "fork-spoon" is only one of the many gadgets he goes around the house creating to make life interesting and different. We are so lucky to be part of his unique world.
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Tax Freedom Day® arrives today – April 18 – the 108th day of 2013, according to the Tax Foundation's annual calculation. Americans will work well over three months of the year before they have earned enough money to pay this year's tax obligations at the federal, state, and local levels. Both higher federal taxes and rebounding incomes contribute to this year's date, which is five days later than in 2012.
In the new Tax Foundation study",Tax Freedom Day 2013", economists William McBride, Ph.D., Elizabeth Malm, and Kyle Pomerleau also calculate how long Americans would have to work in order to close the federal budget deficit. In order to pay for all spending in the current year, the government would need to raise an additional $833 billion in taxes, pushing Tax Freedom Day to May 9.
"This year, Americans will work five days later than in 2012 to pay all of their taxes. The total tax bill at all levels comes to approximately $4.2 trillion, or 29.4 percent of their total income", said McBride. "That means Americans will pay more in taxes in 2013 than they will spend on food, clothing, and housing combined."
The total tax burden borne by residents of different states varies considerably, not only due to differing state tax policies, but also because of the progressivity of the federal tax system. This means higher-income states celebrate Tax Freedom Day later: residents of Connecticut (May 13), New York (May 6), and New Jersey (May 4) face a significantly higher federal tax burden than lower-income states. Residents of Mississippi and Louisiana will bear the lowest average tax burden in 2013, with Tax Freedom Day having arrived for them on March 29. Also early is Tennessee, where Tax Freedom Day arrives today, April 2.
Historically, the date for Tax Freedom Day has fluctuated significantly. The latest-ever nationwide Tax Freedom Day was May 1, 2000 – meaning that Americans paid 33.0 percent of their total income in taxes. A century earlier, in 1900, Americans paid only 5.9 percent of their income in taxes, meaning Tax Freedom Day came on January 22.
Five major categories of taxes dominate the tax burden. Individual income taxes – including federal, state, and local – require forty days of work. Payroll taxes take another twenty-four days of work. Sales and excise taxes, mostly state and local, take fifteen days to pay off. Property taxes take twelve days, and corporate income taxes take another nine.
For more information, go to http://www.taxfreedomday.org.
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In their long, night-time heart-to- hearts, Carax dwells upon her lovely face well past the point at which the viewer's wonder gives way to embarrassment. There are times when she hardly knows where to look for shame, and her eyes become misted. Her acting here had an openness which owed more to life than performance, and brought to mind Godard's use of his wife, Anna Karina, staring her down with the camera until discomfort became an emotional truth.
Binoche had made seven French movies before that, but it was Philip Kaufman's film of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) that presented her to a larger world. Everyone remembers the lady in the bowler hat. But it was Binoche who represented the awakening of political and emotional maturity of the Czech middle classes in that film. She was the frumpy little barmaid who conceives a passion for Daniel Day- Lewis, a womanising brain surgeon.
He is examining her for a cold, and when he asks her to open wide, she fastens her gaping mouth on to his and jumps him with all the awkward fervour of a convent girl finally letting loose. She is happy with the existence of his bowler- hatted mistress, with whom she shares a talent for photography, but the naked photo session that gets going between them is the sexier for Binoche's reticence.
Now all of that is about to change. No more Miss Nice Girl. In Leos Carax's latest film, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, she is seen dashing along a shore line, towing Denis Lavant through the surf by a sensitive organ. And it isn't his nose. It is a moment of great Dionysiac release after the general squalor of their lives back in Paris. One just hopes for his sake it didn't need 25 takes.
They are a pair of down and outs who doss down on the Pont-Neuf each night. She, a middle-class painter, is already blind in one eye, with the other eye fading fast. The determination with which she keeps on painting shows us a new, tough side to Binoche.
The production notoriously ran into money problems. They had acquired permission to close the Pont-Neuf for August, when Paris is traditionally empty. But Lavant injured his wrist, and the delay meant that the bridge had to be recreated near Montpellier. Then a second lot of producers stepped in. 'It was very painful to have to keep stopping. It almost felt like three different films,' Binoche says. 'It just wasn't fair. But when you believe in something in your heart, you know you will finish it.' Fighting talk from this gauche girl who has a habit of blowing her fringe off her forehead when she thinks you aren't looking.
All of Carax's films alternate between good scenes of bravura action or strong emotion and stretches of appalling pretension which tire your patience. But there is one scene in the film which everyone will remember long after the embarrassments are forgotten. It is Bastille Day, when the French go mad with fireworks. Lavant steals a motor boat and tows Binoche down the Seine on waterskis, with the fireworks dancing on the water beside her. It is a breathtaking jeu d'esprit, not least because instead of mocking something up in the studio, he filmed it in situ, in one take, without a stuntwoman. A lot could have gone wrong, and all of it dangerous. 'I learnt to waterski especially in Florida. But that was nice and warm,' Binoche says. 'This time it was November and seven degrees below zero. The Seine was too narrow for any slaloming, so I was right in the boat's wash. And wearing the eye-patch, it was very hard to keep your balance.'
She was born in 1964 to a father who is a theatre director and sculptor, and a mother who was an actress. When they divorced she was sent to boarding schools around France, which taught her independence and the proper realisation that Paris is not the centre of the world. She first aspired to being a painter, preferring the privacy of that art to the public display of acting. The movies may have claimed her, but she keeps up the painting; she did the movie's attractive poster with brush and chinese ink.
She is speaking the kind of perfect English which only foreigners seem to achieve these days. She can even manage the dental 'th' which usually defeats ze French. This is just as well, because she has recently completed Wuthering Heights, playing Cathy opposite Ralph Fiennes's Heathcliff. She is also in Louis Malle's forthcoming Damage, taken from Josephine Hart's novel about a politician (Jeremy Irons) who conceives an obsessive passion for his son's girlfriend.
However these turn out, I will always treasure her for that vision of a spirited girl, roaring down the Seine through gaudy cataracts of fire.
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Sanders took the majority of votes from young women in the Iowa caucus, which Clinton ultimately won last week by a small margin.
Albright discussed the importance of electing the first female President while she introduced Clinton, the Times reported.
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Integer Quotients
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Objective: SWBAT use multiplication and division fact families to determine the signs of integer quotients
Big Idea: Students use their previous knowledge of signed products and fact families to discover the sign of quotients.
In the introduction I will emphasize the essential question. In short, we will use what we already know about multiplication and multiplication of signed values to determine the signs for integer quotients.
The problems on this page should be a review for the majority of students. The problems require students to make multiplication and division fact families. I want to make sure students can make fact families with familiar values so that they can be successful in the problem solving section of the lesson. It may not be necessary to complete every problem on the page. I may start by asking students to complete problem one in 15-20 seconds. If this is achieved with ease, I may ask them to try problem 4 which includes a decimal. The same goes for problems 5-8. I may only need to ask students to do problem number 5 and see how successful they are. If the majority have an easy time with the fact family I will ask them to do problem 8.
Problems 9-12 provide more practice with fact families. If time is short, I may not ask students to solve these problems at all.
At the end of the introduction we review the signs of products. This review will serve as a reminder of the conclusion from the previous day's lesson. It will also help lead into the next section of this lesson.
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Problem Solving
Students work with partners to write multiplication and division fact families for three problems given one of the multiplication facts. These problems are designed so that students see every combination of positive and negative in a division problem. Students then answer questions about their findings. While students are working, it will be very important for me to walk around to make sure that they are creating correct fact families. Students often forget or neglect to include the negative sign for negative values. Otherwise, I have purposely chosen simple single digit factors to help make it easier to get to the essential question.
At the start of this section, I will set a timer for about 5-6 minutes to create a sense of urgency. Also, I know that I can extend this part of the lesson for 2-3 more minutes.
When nearly everyone has completed the page we will discuss the answers. I will cold call students based on observations that I have made from their work. I will initially call on either an incorrect answer or an answer that is somewhat vague. Taking question for example, a student may answer "They are the same sign". I would then ask either that student or another student to refine the answer by asking "what do you mean by they". This is to lead students to have an answer with more detail like "The division problems with positive products have a dividend and a divisor that are either both positive or both negative." (MP3, MP6)
At the end of this part of the lesson, we summarize a general rule for dividing integers. We will see that it is the same as the rule for multiplication. (MP7, MP8).
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The first 4 problems of independent practice are problems that should be evaluated only for the sign of the quotient but no calculations are required. Students put to practice the "discovered" rules of integer quotients.
Problems 5-12 do require evaluation. Problems 11 and 12 include the division of 3 values. I expect some students may forget that division should be evaluated from left to right.
Problems 13-16 required students to evaluate algebraic expressions.
Problem 17 is to get students to see that the planes change in altitude and can be seen as -1200 feet over an average of 4 minutes, resulting in an average of -300 feet per minute.
Problems 18-20 have students apply the mean to integers. This provides a nice review of integer addition while having students make a real-world use of integer division.
The extension has 8 one-step equations to be solved. Students are asked to write the equation using fact families and then solve using one of the facts. These instructions are to help students who reach the extension but are not confident solvers of one-step equations - especially now that negative values are included. That being said, I will accept any method that a student uses - mental math, inverse operations, guess and check - as long as the student can explain their process.
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The exit ticket has two open ended short questions that allow students to make up their own problem that result in a positive quotient and a negative quotient. The third question gives a multiplication fact of positive values and then asks students to determine values that make quotients. One thing I like about question 3 is that the two blanks for the quotient of -x can be solved in two different ways: -z / y or z / -y
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- LESSON 1: Fractions as Quotients - Using Long Division to Convert a Fraction to a Decimal
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Some worry Washington actions may create a new bear market. But Dick Bove, financial strategist at Rochdale Securities, fears the worst: He warns that America's government may instigate a full-fledged market crash. Bove offered CNBC his insights — and named bank stocks that are still strong investments.
"We all agree the market is driven by money. If the money supply increases, the money gets into the market and stock prices go up," Bove noted.
"But last week, what we saw was a shot at both of the areas where money creation occurs in the United States."
"On the one hand, we were talking about getting rid of Mr. [Fed Chairman Ben] Bernanke. Mr. Bernanke represents an easy monetary policy."
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." – Fall Of The Republic – Buy the DVD here
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"Saturday Night Live" has set a dream team for its Dec. 21 broadcast, as "SNL" alum Jimmy Fallon returns to host for the second time since exiting the show in 2004, with musical guest Justin Timberlake.
Paul Rudd is also scheduled to host the Peacock's venerable latenight comedy show on Dec. 7, before the premiere of "Anchorman 2." One Direction will serve as musical guest.
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Time to head back to Panajachel for our shuttle to Antigua. It's a long, winding road up to the Pan American highway. And, we will be making this trip many more times before we finally say goodbye to Guatemala.
Its about a 2 hour trip to Antigua. But, we are delivered to our Tour hotel and get checked without any problems.
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Just before and during your period, progesterone and estrogen levels decrease. In some women, these hormone changes may worsen asthma. The relationship between hormones and asthma is complex, varies between individuals and isn't fully understood.
Other things besides women's menstrual cycles that cause changes in hormone levels also may worsen or improve asthma symptoms. These include:
If you have bothersome asthma symptoms during your period, your doctor may recommend that you increase your asthma control medication or take a different medication before your period starts.
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Paul Joseph Watson talks to activist Silkie Carlo about how to shift the group-think public psyche, the demonization of whistleblowers, as well as ways of reducing people's cognitive dissonance and "system justification" psychology.
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I've tried the Espresso Coffee Kit Kat, Tiramisu Kit Kat, Cafe Latte Kit Kat and now comes the Milk Coffee Kit Kat. That makes four. Four! I have tried four coffee flavored Kit Kats in the nine months I have been buying and blogging Kit Kats. It must be hard to keep up the pace they do releasing new flavors all the time so they aren't opposed to tweaking existing flavors and re-releasing them. But as long as they stick with the more delicious ones and don't decide to extend the Rose Kit Kat into a longer campaign of various flower flavors then I guess I won't complain. Because the truth is I like coffee and I like coffee-flavored Kit Kats.
The Milk Coffee Kit Kat comes in a box of two that proclaims that soon the cherry blossoms will bloom. Er...in about three months maybe. Right now it's time for long underwear and pocket warmers, but talking about sakura around New Year's is something of a tradition here in Japan. No weirder than talking about groundhogs in February I guess. Although I'm still not sure what Milk Coffee and cherry blossoms blooming have anything to do with each other...
Anyway, each bar is 100 calories. They are white chocolate with just the slightest hint of brown. They smell faintly of coffee, but nothing like the overpowering smell of the Cafe Latte Kit Kat minis. The taste is milder as well. The chocolate has a milk taste to it while the coffee flavor is concentrated in the creme. It's definitely delicious but it's doesn't scream COFFEE!!! like the Cafe Latte Kit Kat did. The problem with releasing so many varieties of what is essentially the same flavor is that I become more critical because I have something to compare it with. The Milk Coffee Kit Kat is a great snack and goes nicely with a cup of coffee but it doesn't stack up to the Cafe Latte Kit Kat, which is still easily one of my favorites.
Then again I don't drink my coffee with milk. I like it strong and sweet so if you like your coffee white then you might prefer this coffee variety over the Cafe Latte.
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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly Pasig aparthotel in Ortigas Center with restaurant
Located in Ortigas Center, this family-friendly Pasig aparthotel is within a 15-minute walk of SM Megamall, Metrowalk, and University of Asia and the Pacific. Greenhills Shopping Center and Medical City are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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This aparthotel features a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a fitness center. Other amenities include a coffee shop/café, a meeting room, and a children's pool.
Room Amenities
All 127 apartments feature kitchens with refrigerators and microwaves, plus free WiFi and cable TV. Guests will also find room service, free newspapers, and free bottled water.
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Property Amenities
Dining options at the aparthotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. In addition to an outdoor pool, The Malayan Plaza provides a fitness center and a children's pool. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. This family-friendly aparthotel also offers dry cleaning/laundry services, room service (during limited hours), and ATM/banking services.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 40
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Restaurant
- Total number of rooms - 127
- One meeting room
- Luggage storage
- Year Built 2005
- Children's pool
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchen
- Playground on site
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free bottled water
- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Kitchen
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Microwave
- Partially open bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Shower only
- Slippers
- Turndown service
- Room service (limited hours)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
The Executive Lounge - This restaurant serves breakfast and lunch.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Playground on site
Property Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for PHP 1300.00.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available.
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
No pets or service animals allowed
- Deposit: PHP 1000 per night
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: PHP 399 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: PHP 1800 per vehicle (one way)
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for an additional fee
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
Property Name
- Malayan Plaza
- Malayan Plaza Apartment
- Malayan Plaza Apartment Pasig
- Malayan Plaza Pasig
- Malayan Plaza Hotel Manila
- Malayan Plaza Manila
- The Malayan Plaza Hotel Manila
- The Malayan Plaza Metro Manila/Pasig, Philippines
- Malayan Plaza Aparthotel Pasig
- Malayan Plaza Aparthotel
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No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Students Failing Because of Twitter, Texting
Little or no grammar teaching, cellphone texting, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, all are being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write properly. Details from this Canadian Press news story.
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27 March 2015
Super Audio CT
Symphonies 1 and 4
"Es ist dem Dirigenten offenkundig daran gelegen, das überschäumende Temperament der Musik sowie deren harmonisch zukunftsweisende Qualitäten in den Vordergrund zu stellen."
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14 December 2014
Berlingske – ÅRETS BEDSTE 2014
"Den runde lyd og internationale atmosfære klæder nu også musikken godt."
03 December 2014
Orchestral Choice BBC Music Magazine
"Gilbert interprets flexibly and sympathetically, and is again rewarded by wholehearted playing."
02 December 2014
MusicWeb International
"There's a good deal to admire in these performances and Dacapo's superbly defined SACD sound is most impressive."
29 November 2014
Classical CD Choice
"The playing of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra again shows that they are still one of the world's great orchestras."
14 November 2014
"Der er ingen berøringsangst i Gilberts tilgang til denne musik, og måske netop derfor lykkes det ham og New York Filharmonikerne af løfte Carl Nielsens Symfoni nr. 1 ud af en dansk kontekst og ind i en international liga."
07 November 2014
"The playing of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra…shows that they are still one of the world's great orchestras. Strings possess a glowing richness and warmth, woodwinds are characterful with every solo beautifully phrased, while the burnished lower brass and fabulous horn section thrill with every entry."
05 November 2014
The New York Times
"Rustic colors, folksy elements, advanced chromatic harmonic writing, mystical strangeness and spurts of wildness, all conveyed in Mr. Gilbert's vivid readings."
03 November 2014
Classical Music Sentinel
"As in their previous release […] conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic musicians once again deliver a walloping "live" account of these scores, with an even balance of power, detail, clarity, and above all a musical pulse and narrative that pulls you in from start to finish, all well captured by the Dacapo recording engineers."
29 October 2014
Audiophile Audition
"Fine reading of these important, somewhat rare masterpieces […] I have always loved nearly all the music of the dynamic and very unique Danish composer Carl Nielsen."
26 October 2014
Classical Source
"The New York Philharmonic is in top form, responding to its music director with playing at once committed, powerful and sensitive… An impressive and recommendable release."
23 October 2014
NPR Music
"With off-kilter rhythms and compact, often spiky melodies, they still sound extraordinarily fresh."
13 October 2014
"The orchestra demonstrates its best playing throughout, with clear separation of colors and a wide dynamic range, so the super audio showcase is fully warranted."
09 October 2014
Sinfini Music
"The New York Philharmonic's playing is mostly magnificent, its horns especially impressive in third movements and its first clarinettist as subtle as can be very early on in both symphonies."
29 September 2014
"The engineers have captured the impression of a live performance, caught on the wing, and the audience is mercifully quiet. This is a very impressive release."
19 September 2014
Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
"Alan Gilbert's Fourth is a triumph. There is strongly defined part writing that Gilbert realizes vividly, and a dramatic push on the edge of the ecstatic that this version captures beautifully."
Format: SACD
Catalogue Number: 6.220624
Barcode: 747313162468
Release month: Sep 2014
Two years ago, Dacapo released what was a announced as a significant new Nielsen symphony cycle featuring the New York Philharmonic and their director Alan Gilbert. The historic return to Nielsen's music with this orchestra was also marked in that review of the 2012 release of the second and third symphonies as they had not been done there since Leonard Bernstein programmed them in the 1960s/1970s. The present release is also pulled from live concert performances this time recorded more recently (March 2014). Paavo Berglund and Herbert Blomstedt are both noted interpreters on disc of Nielsen's symphonic work. Gilbert's approach tends to create a bit more space for outer movements while being fairly close in his slower movements in terms of general time. Some may find these slightly more expansive interpretations interesting as the emotional punch is certainly heightened by the edginess and attention that occurs in a concert setting versus the studio.Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is still a bit of an acquired taste. He wrote six symphonies (1894-1924). His first symphony (Op. 7) is a bit more traditional sharing a Nordic sensibility found in the early symphonies of Sibelius, or the work of Grieg as one would suspect. However, this is not a traditional symphony but instead one that reinvents concepts of themes presented in shorter segments often with powerfully-scored emphasis. Nielsen was also trying to free himself of more academic formal concerns which some feel weaken this early essay. Though beginning in g minor, the whole piece finds itself winding around to a different key by its conclusion. Some of this harmonic tension is what makes this a fascinating work. More recently, his compositional approach is linked to the swirling motifs of the Danish Art Noveau. While there may be folklike influences, these too are vaguer than one might expect in a piece of its time. One might find explorations of the landscapes of Northern Europe in this music. Nonetheless, it is a work that can be quite odd for some hearing it for the first time.One might say the same of the composer's fourth symphony which bears the subtitle 'The Inextinguishable". Though cast in four movements, the conception is of one long, continuous and interconnected series of sections. The first movement starts with a burst of energy before moving into sweeping lyrical thematic presentation that will later prove to be a core motif that will hold things together. Sometimes the gestures are almost Beethoven-esque in their victorious climaxes but with a definite modern, and perhaps Nordic, twist. Towards its center there seems to be a growing intensity and tension, a sort of battle between forces (perhaps belying the stormy middle of WWI). Things become a bit more innocuous in the allegretto second movement; mostly a lighter setting focusing on winds and lending a sense of an innocent everyday carefree life. This gives over to a more intense despairing third movement with more sinuous lines for strings. A bit of hope begins to show through with an almost religious like feel at times. The final movement is a rather fascinating affair with a showdown of sorts between timpani as the music swirls and grows to an ecstatic conclusion.In what seems to be a modern sequencing choice, the two symphonies are presented out of historical order. It may make it harder for those new to the pieces to appreciate them on their own terms. The fourth is an accessible modern symphonic work with the first having one foot in each century. The performances here are really quite amazing and are superbly captured in great sound here. There are moments when one forgets we are listening to an American orchestra as the ensemble has managed to gain a real understanding of the style and aesthetic of this music under Gilbert's leadership. It will continue to be interesting to watch what future projects will continue to remind the world of the world-class symphony residing in NYC. This is easily recommendable for those looking for a more recent survey of the first four Nielsen symphonies and we can hope the remainder are not far behind.


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Herbert von Karajan, Maestro for the Screen
Meet with the legendary conductor's video team
The conductor in portrait and his early passion for the video.
Herbert von Karajan was the decisive conductor, who created film and later video productions on his own responsibility. "I am actually born too early," he said, well knowing that the video possibilities were still in their very beginnings.
In this programme, movie director Georg Wuebbolt made interviews with Karajan's team: his director of photography, his cutter, his secretary, his producer and musicians of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This documentary features outstanding performance material including unreleased digitally remastered excerpts from legendary archives.
Movie director : Georg Wübbolt
Playlist : The Legends of the 20th century
Duration : 52 min
Production date : 2008
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Obama fever comes to Belfast ahead of G8
17 June 2013 Last updated at 22:43 BST
The G8 summit marks the first trip to Northern Ireland for President Obama and he used the trip to praise the peace process saying "it gave the world hope".
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When Columbia Records released the first, self-titled album by Bob Dylan in 1962 it went largely unnoticed by the general public. Only about 5,000 copies were sold at the time.
But Columbia music producer John Hammond, who signed Dylan to the label, had faith in the young folk singer.
He ignored the jibes of other music executives who dubbed Dylan "Hammond's Folly" and, in eight sessions strung out over the next twelve months, he recorded a second album with Dylan for Columbia.
That album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, was released on May 27, 1963, three days after Dylan's 22nd birthday.
It's now considered one of the greatest and most influential albums in American music history.
The Freewheelin' LP includes what remain some of Dylan's best-known songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind," "Girl from the North Country," "Masters of War," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."
"Blowin' In The Wind" became the most famous song from the album. But the one that stuck in my mind even more when I first listened to the album in 1963 was "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."
The song's foreboding title, from a phrase in the chorus, was memorable in itself and has since been widely cited and repurposed.
I believe it struck a special chord with kids from the Baby Boom generation, like me.
We grew up at a time when a nuclear war between the US and the USSR seemed inevitable.
In elementary school, we practiced "duck and cover" drills and watched public service films like the one at right, in which a narrator and "Bert the Turtle" helpfully explain what to do when the A-bombs start falling.
Bert told us: "The flash of an atomic bomb can come at any time, no matter where you may be...When there is a flash, duck and cover, and do it fast!"
It seems a bit humorous now. But back then, during the height of the Cold War years, the possibility of an atomic Armageddon was a serious and constant fear.
Movies, TV shows, books, magazine stories and politically-oriented songs of the era helped stoke that fear by portraying what a nuclear holocaust and the hellish aftermath would be like.
That frightening scenario is also conjured up by "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."
Many of the lyrics are early examples of the elliptical, dreamlike language Dylan became better known for later. But the title phrase seemed to be a clear metaphor for falling atomic bombs and nuclear fallout.
This appears to be confirmed by the original liner notes for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, written by journalist, historian and music critic Nat Hentoff.Hentoff said the song "was written during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 when those who allowed themselves to think of the impossible results of the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation were chilled by the imminence of oblivion."
Dylan is then quoted as saying: "Every line in it is actually the start of a whole song. But when I wrote it, I thought I wouldn't have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one."
Fortunately, Bob and the world survived. On May 24, 2014, he turned 73.
I'm not many years from that age myself.
Today, I can listen to "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" from a less paranoid perspective. But it still gives me the chills.
In case you haven't read the lyrics, I'm reprinting them below. And, by clicking this link, you can listen to some of the many interesting cover versions that have been recorded by other musicians and groups over the years.
Here's to you, Bob. Hope you had a great birthday! Glad you've been wrong about that hard rain so far.
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" by Bob Dylan
(Copyright © 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music)
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded with hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
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Yesterday with my fellas I drove down the Healesville to visit one of my stockists Morris Brown. Owners Louise and Jenny have a lovely shop full of craft and design goodness including my paper flowers which look pretty in their space. It was a good chance to unwind after what has been a hectic working week.
Beck had told me that we would love Healesville and its surrounds and she was right! It was only half way there I remembered the anniversary of the Black Saturday fires this weekend. It felt particularly poignant as the heavens opened up mid morning, cooling everything after a three day heat wave.
My family is planning a treechange one day. Maybe we'll move into the new exhibition building! (HML regional headquarters).
Take a drive to the country soon. Have lunch, buys some produce (or in our case aged porterhouse, tea towels, pickled garlic and a lovely breakfast of fresh eggs and toast soldiers!) inject a little cash into these beautiful little towns.
We saw the road signs to Kinglake and Marysville further on. It was a quiet drive home in the rain.


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