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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Mstislav Rostropovich and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performing Franz Joseph Haydn‘s Concerto for Cello N° 1, II, & III, in C Major (24:27).

“I don’t know whether the world is full of smart
men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.”
— Morrie Brickman

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

30 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. So what’s the difference between a cello and a double bass? Well for one thing a double base burns longer…
    Hayden remains one of my favorites. Thanks Vit.

  6. Hamilton is considering burning it’s waste to make more room in it’s landfill. Thought blue boxing was suppose to reduce that significantly by now?
    Any way, amazing that no melting ice caps and rising sea levels were mentioned where normally I’d expect them.
    http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/754144
    Just this tiny-weenie bit at the end…“Hamilton’s last garbage incinerator closed in 2002 after years of complaints about pollution. Today’s incinerators are much more environmentally friendly.”

  7. Ah, play Misty for me!
    I so love Rostropovich – the stories – he practising cello with an apple suspended in front of him to bite when he was hungry
    I love also his interpretation of Shoskakovitch
    His Rococco Variations sustained me through adolescent angst very well

  9. Sunday, April 18, Toronto Star. Link:
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/796692–crtc-facesa-new-reality
    The federal government wants to lower foreign ownership restrictions in the telecoms sector, but the Star points out (with justification) that convergence means that foreign investment in that sector will spill over into culture. Unfortunately, the editorial pulls out the usual drivel in support of continued regulation.
    “The Conservatives seem strangely oblivious to the long-term threat to Canada’s cultural industries, a pillar of the country’s existence. Now it has fallen to Canada’s communications regulator to weigh in with a warning of his own that deserves to be heeded.”
    Our literal existence is at stake? Canada and its people won’t be wiped off the map if some of our cultural companies are owned by foreigners. The kind of “culture” provided under regulation has included ridiculous paintings of the Queen riding a moose.
    And CRTC chief Konrad von Finckenstein’s warning is just a thinly-veiled attempt to make sure his staffers continue to have work to do.
    “But [the telecom giants’] own corporate interests, and any foreign interests, are not congruent with Canada’s national interest and its cultural imperatives. That’s precisely why Canadians still need a watchdog – and a legislative framework – to safeguard Canadian interests.”
    The problem is that Canada does’t have a “national interest” or “cultural imperatives”. Neither the Star nor anyone else in the field has ever defined either term, and they’re certainly not the same as the whims of the culture minister of the day. These empty anti-concepts are further excuses to keep large numbers of unproductive bureaucrats in the CRTC and other regulatory bodies to sponge off actual producers of goods and services consumers judge to be valuable.
    Every individual has his or her own cultural likes and dislikes. My taste in music and television (both Canadian and foreign) is not the same as anyone else’s. It should not be up to government to interfere in the free cultural market — that is censorship. Any attempt to even define “Canada’s national interest” in this regard is a form of censorship.
    Apparently the author of the editorial failed to read William Watson’s sensible column in the National Post the other day.

  16. PET Cemetery Report: Liberals “betrayed”.
    Iffy Liberals branded with skunk spray of multiculturalism.
    SmelLiberals: hoist with their own skunky petard.
    …-
    “Nor did they apologize to Hayer and Dosanjh, despite requests from Premier Gordon Campbell and federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff that they do so.
    Campbell and the members of his government boycotted the event.
    Ignatieff said in a statement Saturday it was “unfortunate that such an important community celebration has been tarnished by these threats of violence,” adding, “we must unequivocally condemn all threats of violence and extremism in Canadian communities.”
    Surrey-Newton Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal was on the official parade stage Saturday with organizers, including Inderjit Singh Bains, the man who made the anti-Hayer and Dosanjh statements.
    But Dhaliwal said Sunday he was not condoning the comments by his actions. “I said that this statement is unacceptable, but you can’t ignore those hundred thousand people who were on the streets yesterday.”
    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Watts+says+feels+betrayed+organizers/2923750/story.html
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/04/18/wrong-question-period-mr-z/#comment-80072

  17. The following quote tells you everything you will ever need to know the wonderous European Union,
    “It’s embarrassing, and a European mess,” said Giovanni Bisignani, chief executive of the International Air Transport Association. “It took five days to organize a conference call with the ministers of transport and we are losing $200 million per day (and) 750,000 passengers are stranded all over. Does it make sense?”
    Five days to organize a PHONE CALL??
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/04/19/13634866-ap.html

  18. This just up @ CTV.ca
    “Ignatieff say’s: Liberals must vote against Tory Gun-Law”
    ctv.ca apr.19/10
    *The Liberal leader says he will require his caucas to oppose the next vote to scrap the gun registry….

  21. ‘Nother report from the PET Cemetery.
    Showdown at Iffy’s KO Corral.
    Go here to peer review Iffy’s I-Eye Brows/Nose Hairs/Pursed Lips, etc.
    …-
    “Ignatieff says Liberal MPs must vote against Tory gun law”
    “Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says he’ll require his caucus to oppose the next vote to scrap the controversial long-gun registry.
    The move aims to save the registry and avoid a split in the Liberal ranks after some opposition MPs voted for the government legislation last time around.
    To make it more palatable to his MPs – especially those from rural areas – Ignatieff says he’ll propose changes to the registry, including decriminalizing the failure to register long guns.
    He says a new Liberal government would also eliminate fees for new licences, renewals and upgrades.”
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/ignatieff-says-liberal-mps-must-vote-against-tory-gun-law-91511269.html
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/04/18/wrong-question-period-mr-z/#comment-80083
    (H/T bryanr)

  22. Snip from Al’s Weather (AGW): Big story?
    “It looks they made 2.6bn euros before the agencies caught on to them.”
    …-
    “RajKapoor (08:20:17) :
    See below email exchange on Iceland volcano links to money and climate change. Seems like something is rotten in the state of Iceland!!!
    —– Forwarded message ———-
    From: Halldor Eggertsson
    Date: Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:11 PM
    Subject: Fw: Latest from Iceland
    To: rjedwood@dailymail.co.uk
    Dear Ron,
    The embargo is Midnight GMT 20th April. Please DO NOT publish prior! This is the biggest story our little paper is ever likely to break unless Bjork dies choking on her herrings!!!
    Yeah, this is big story. Lot of people sweating here. I dont know how far this goes but lots of angles.
    When this breaks its going to go crazy here so lets catch up when the dust settles (no pun intended heh!). We think there may be more to the climate change angle. The team is busy following up on that. It looks they made 2.6bn euros before the agencies caught on to them.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/19/ash-cloud-models-overrated-a-word-on-post-normal-science-by-dr-jerome-ravetz/#comment-372173

  23. Att: Tim Naumetz. FYI.
    …-
    “Ash cloud models – overrated? A word on Post Normal Science by Dr …
    19 Apr 2010 … GEOTHERMAL COMPANY LINKED TO ERUPTION GROUNDING FLIGHTS. By Gunnar Skoleskar in Reykjavik and additional reporting from Hanfluss Janesbaer …
    wattsupwiththat.com/…/ash-cloud-models-overrated-a-word-on-post-normal-science-by-dr-jerome-ravetz/

  25. Here’s how Obama reacts to the ash cloud: he cancelled his trip to Poland for the state funeral. Instead he played yet another round of golf.
    “One would have thought that President Obama might have used the time he would have spent in Poland paying his respects to the Polish fallen. For example he could have visited the recently erected Victims of Communism memorial in Washington, or at the very least have signed the condolence book at the Polish Embassy. But what did he choose to do instead? Play yet another round of golf…
    It is hard to think of anything more insulting to the Polish people on the day they mourned the loss not only of their president but much of their political and military leadership, for the president of the United States to be enjoying a round of golf after canceling plans to attend the funeral. It is yet another disgraceful example of crass insensitivity to a close American ally, which has become the hallmark of the Obama administration’s amateurish foreign policy.” (Nile Gardener).
    [ Please provide a link. ~Vitruvius ]

  26. CO2,Al. It’s CO2. CO2, Al.
    CO2 = carbon dioxide, Al.
    It’s not A, Al. Not anthropogenic, Al.
    This CO2 is not born of man/woman.
    It’s au naturel, Al: “experts” say.
    “anthropogenic
    1889, from anthropogeny (1839), from Gk. *anthropogeneia, from anthropogenes “born of man,” from anthropo- + genes (see genus).”
    (dict.com)
    …-
    “Volcano emitting 150-300,000 tonnes of CO2 daily: experts(But the same experts say no big deal)
    Iceland’s Eyjafjoell volcano is emitting between 150,000 and 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per day, a figure placing it in the same emissions league as a small-to-medium European economy, experts said on Monday. Assuming the composition of gas to be the same as in an earlier eruption on an adjacent volcano, “the CO2 flux of Eyjafjoell would be 150,000 tonnes per day,” Colin Macpherson, an Earth scientist at Britain’s University of Durham, said in an email.
    Patrick Allard of the Paris Institute for Global Physics (IPGP) gave what he described as a “top-range” estimate of 300,000 tonnes per day.
    Both insisted that these were only approximate estimates.
    Extrapolated over a year, the emissions would place the volcano 47th to 75th in the world table of emitters on a country-by-country basis, according to a database at the World Resources Institute (WRI), which tracks environment and sustainable development.
    A 47th ranking would place it above Austria, Belarus, Portugal, Ireland, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland, according to this list, which relates to 2005.
    Experts stressed that the volcano contributed just a tiny amount — less than a third of one percentage point — of global emissions of greenhouse gases.
    (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2496283/posts

  28. Thanks for the link, ET. A tilde only means not in logic. It has many other meanings, plus (I think): it’s typographically nice to use as a separator / as one might do with slashes / in other contexts. I don’t think it is a good idea to get carried away with typographic overload; on the other hand I do like to enjoy a degree of freedom in terms of my deployment (but not disregardment) of punctuation.

  29. Tomorrow, 20 of April, is the 62º anniversary of Israel’s declared independence. I’ll expect something in the “normal” news regarding the catastrophe.

  30. News from the left-liberals’ Ordure of Canada.
    …-
    “Frank Chauvin resigns from Order of Canada
    Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean has accepted Frank Chauvin’s resignation from the Order of Canada.
    Chauvin, a retired Windsor, Ont., police detective who received the award in 1987, said he had to resign in protest because abortion activist Dr. Henry Morgentaler had been named to the order two years ago.
    Morgentaler was arrested in 1970 for performing illegal abortions, but that didn’t stop him. He was later acquitted, but the Quebec Court of Appeal overturned the decision.
    He served a total of 10 months in prison.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/04/19/13642891-qmi.html

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