The Africa Centers for Disease Control announced today that the randomized control study of the Hepatitis B vaccine by the two “researchers” in Guinea-Bissau has been cancelled on the basis that vaccines known to prevent disease were going to be withheld from children in an area with a known high incidence of the disease.
Every little bit of good news is like a balm, Mr. Truscott. And we thank you for scouring our world and bringing it to us.
I am SO sincere in saying I depend on the kind of people I “encounter” in places like this forum to help me keep the thought that our world can get through this, because good people are in it.
So true, Pat, there had to be people in Nazi Germany that hated everything that 3 was going on around them but who dare not even give hint of their feeling or some informer would turn them over to the Gestapo. Some even risked their lives to shelter Jewish neighbors. Thankfully we are not at that point yet but state and city officials are on the verge of being prosecuted for nothing more than defending the rights i of citizens against the brutal tactics of ICE. Meantime Trump has pardoned 44 white collar criminals, not to mention the January 6 thugs. Some criminals he pardoned had been convicted but had not yet started to serve their sentence
Think of all the taxpayer dollars and valuable time the prosecutor's spent securing these convictions, all for nothing. I'm sure some prosecutors would be very hestatnt to bring charges against anyone who might have even a remote connection to Trump. As would be all for naught.
Yes, Robert Evans, and not to forget Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras and drug overlord, pardoned because he paid off he who cannot be named (because of the gag reflex).
here's what I do when I'm feeling down about all of it, turn off the lights and listen to Joni Mitchell for an hour or two with only the lights from the stereo. it's very therapeutic.
I just came in from my car after listening to Bruce Springsteen on Sirius for an hour or so for my evening tonic. I gotta get a new radio/ cd player again so I can listen in the house we rented after the fire. LPs, CDs and every music anything gone in the fire. I had a lot.
I truly am so sorry and feel for you. I am a physical media collector too and have an eclectic collection. I don't think I could recreate it. I do have some of.my faves ripped on my computer. Many items hard to find now I assume. Did you just sit in the car with it off listening to Bruce? Love listening to music in a.car..
Comfortable seats and Boze sound system. I finally bought an EV last December because the US 101 and I-5 had finally gotten a reasonable charging network besides Testicula. Planning to put in the home hook up and the fire hit before my electrician could get there. LIsting the old hi fi stuff will bring you to tears. Being artists, we had all the first NYC art scene LPs and thousands of everything else worth having. Time to do without and just DO.
The reason I asked is my sister keeps a car in NYC and sometimes she just gets in, and drives with Sirius blasting. Glad at least you had the car and a good sound system. There is nothing more devastating than fire. Thankfully you are okay and no one was hurt, but I feel your pain. I can't even imagine what you lost, including art. 😥 First you cry.. I've been robbed of irreplaceable items. So painful, but I'm at the point in my life where things have become a burden, so I understand your last line implicitly. "Time to do without and just DO.". Powerful. 🙏
oh man that sucks! I have a digital jukebox called a Brennan, it holds like 4000 cd’s and also streams. it has its own amp too. we gave away all our vinyl like 15 years back. and we gave all the cds to my grandkids along with a small player, they don’t listen to them a lot though. but they are both still young so hopefully in the future.
The art Lps are not on digital and there is a richness and ambience on vinyl, that digital sampling rate will never equal. If you grow up on digital and mever go to live music you will never know the real sound. Working in NY back in the early 70s I would hit Basil's, the Gate and the Bluenote on way to wherever I was staying almost every night. There is nothing close to the richness of the room except on tape and vinyl.
Beautiful, that's the Joni I don't listen to. I only own C&S. 'm more into.San Fracisco groups like Airplane and classic rock. My first fave at 12 or 13 (had an older sister with great taste) and still 50+ years later is Laura Nyro. Lifelong fan.. This Joni is more accessible.to me. Love to listen with headphones and darkened lights..Does that make sense? More.rock/jazzy than.the others..She is wonderful. I Heard her several years ago for the first.time in many years, and she had a deep, smokey voice. I didn't realkze it was her until I looked at the TV.
Another lovely oboe piece, Telemann's Oboe Concerto in E Minor. Recommend the most elegiac interpretation of the first movement I know of, by I Solisti Di Zagreb, on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp7xbaaNlho&t=743s.
I find the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 is a real boost - those first few notes that encompass all the sorrow in the world - and then the fight and determination in the phrases that follow. The hope - and a final joyous acclamation of all that is good and worth fighting for in the world. Even when i'm on my own, I find myself standing up at the end and clapping. It's a terrifically uplifting piece.
Not enough people listen to classic music nowadays - if you haven't heard it, give it a try. But - be warned! It's liable to make you want to go out and punch an ICE agent on the nose!
Good news about the cancellation of the study. But I have a feeling that the judge's order vis-a-vis the ICE is going to be dealt with the same way others have been: in large part, ignored.
Oh my goodness, BAM, here’s a development we did NOT see coming - and the reasoning is such TRUTH, viable, and a component all along, until this significant cancellation, is clearly the outlook of human beings as disposable…! Fie on them, as my brother used to declare!
Wow! Thank you, Lucian, for posting this marvelous update! Will watch to see if the story pops up elsewhere.
I thought of the Tuskegee syphilis "experiment" when you mentioned the Hep B so-called "trial" in Africa in your last column. That this administration thinks people living on the African continent are "less than" white Americans (and white South Africans) is no secret.
Thanks for sharing this piece of good news re: cancellation! As you show every day, people can make a difference with their voice and concerted action. We can, with courage, turn the tide and stop the slide. 👍👍👍
Every little bit of good news is like a balm, Mr. Truscott. And we thank you for scouring our world and bringing it to us.
I am SO sincere in saying I depend on the kind of people I “encounter” in places like this forum to help me keep the thought that our world can get through this, because good people are in it.
So true, Pat, there had to be people in Nazi Germany that hated everything that 3 was going on around them but who dare not even give hint of their feeling or some informer would turn them over to the Gestapo. Some even risked their lives to shelter Jewish neighbors. Thankfully we are not at that point yet but state and city officials are on the verge of being prosecuted for nothing more than defending the rights i of citizens against the brutal tactics of ICE. Meantime Trump has pardoned 44 white collar criminals, not to mention the January 6 thugs. Some criminals he pardoned had been convicted but had not yet started to serve their sentence
Think of all the taxpayer dollars and valuable time the prosecutor's spent securing these convictions, all for nothing. I'm sure some prosecutors would be very hestatnt to bring charges against anyone who might have even a remote connection to Trump. As would be all for naught.
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Yes, Robert Evans, and not to forget Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras and drug overlord, pardoned because he paid off he who cannot be named (because of the gag reflex).
And it's exciting to know there are judges out there who still have a backbone and act according to the law. Loving it!
Yes, good people indeed. Thankfully, there are more good than not.
"There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin sick soul".
To make the wounded whole …
Keep on keeping on …
As am I, Pat.
At last: a bit of good news!
here's what I do when I'm feeling down about all of it, turn off the lights and listen to Joni Mitchell for an hour or two with only the lights from the stereo. it's very therapeutic.
I just came in from my car after listening to Bruce Springsteen on Sirius for an hour or so for my evening tonic. I gotta get a new radio/ cd player again so I can listen in the house we rented after the fire. LPs, CDs and every music anything gone in the fire. I had a lot.
I understand just what you mean.
I truly am so sorry and feel for you. I am a physical media collector too and have an eclectic collection. I don't think I could recreate it. I do have some of.my faves ripped on my computer. Many items hard to find now I assume. Did you just sit in the car with it off listening to Bruce? Love listening to music in a.car..
Comfortable seats and Boze sound system. I finally bought an EV last December because the US 101 and I-5 had finally gotten a reasonable charging network besides Testicula. Planning to put in the home hook up and the fire hit before my electrician could get there. LIsting the old hi fi stuff will bring you to tears. Being artists, we had all the first NYC art scene LPs and thousands of everything else worth having. Time to do without and just DO.
Testicula…
I know. So funny 😂.
The reason I asked is my sister keeps a car in NYC and sometimes she just gets in, and drives with Sirius blasting. Glad at least you had the car and a good sound system. There is nothing more devastating than fire. Thankfully you are okay and no one was hurt, but I feel your pain. I can't even imagine what you lost, including art. 😥 First you cry.. I've been robbed of irreplaceable items. So painful, but I'm at the point in my life where things have become a burden, so I understand your last line implicitly. "Time to do without and just DO.". Powerful. 🙏
oh man that sucks! I have a digital jukebox called a Brennan, it holds like 4000 cd’s and also streams. it has its own amp too. we gave away all our vinyl like 15 years back. and we gave all the cds to my grandkids along with a small player, they don’t listen to them a lot though. but they are both still young so hopefully in the future.
The art Lps are not on digital and there is a richness and ambience on vinyl, that digital sampling rate will never equal. If you grow up on digital and mever go to live music you will never know the real sound. Working in NY back in the early 70s I would hit Basil's, the Gate and the Bluenote on way to wherever I was staying almost every night. There is nothing close to the richness of the room except on tape and vinyl.
That is so very true but at my age sadly I can no longer hear the difference.
Yeah, that's a great station.
Court & Spark?
also Blue and The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Beautiful, that's the Joni I don't listen to. I only own C&S. 'm more into.San Fracisco groups like Airplane and classic rock. My first fave at 12 or 13 (had an older sister with great taste) and still 50+ years later is Laura Nyro. Lifelong fan.. This Joni is more accessible.to me. Love to listen with headphones and darkened lights..Does that make sense? More.rock/jazzy than.the others..She is wonderful. I Heard her several years ago for the first.time in many years, and she had a deep, smokey voice. I didn't realkze it was her until I looked at the TV.
Laura Nyro is one of the greats for sure.
Jan Dismas Zelenka (brilliant, mostly overlooked, Czech baroque composer) Trio Sonatas with Heinz Holliger on oboe also do the trick.
I will have to explore that! I love the oboe...
Another lovely oboe piece, Telemann's Oboe Concerto in E Minor. Recommend the most elegiac interpretation of the first movement I know of, by I Solisti Di Zagreb, on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp7xbaaNlho&t=743s.
I find the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 is a real boost - those first few notes that encompass all the sorrow in the world - and then the fight and determination in the phrases that follow. The hope - and a final joyous acclamation of all that is good and worth fighting for in the world. Even when i'm on my own, I find myself standing up at the end and clapping. It's a terrifically uplifting piece.
Not enough people listen to classic music nowadays - if you haven't heard it, give it a try. But - be warned! It's liable to make you want to go out and punch an ICE agent on the nose!
https://youtu.be/KDJ6Wbzgy3E?si=cGnm3NUGdtYJupJb
It makes me wonder how long it takes for something to be genius certified?
For instance, how long will it take for the Moody Blues (To Our Children’s Children’s Children) to be not just Classic, but Classical.
Or not.
THAT brought a smile! I wonder how many young people know who Joni Mitchell is! I hope they find out, they'll love her!
Whew! Too close for comfort.
Thank you for the update!
Such good news! When I saw what RFKjr was trying to do I immediately thought of Tuskegee. The worth of each life is lost on this regime.
Good news about the cancellation of the study. But I have a feeling that the judge's order vis-a-vis the ICE is going to be dealt with the same way others have been: in large part, ignored.
Who is going to enforce the judges ruling?
Oh my goodness, BAM, here’s a development we did NOT see coming - and the reasoning is such TRUTH, viable, and a component all along, until this significant cancellation, is clearly the outlook of human beings as disposable…! Fie on them, as my brother used to declare!
Wow! Thank you, Lucian, for posting this marvelous update! Will watch to see if the story pops up elsewhere.
Thank you for the great news!!!
I thought of the Tuskegee syphilis "experiment" when you mentioned the Hep B so-called "trial" in Africa in your last column. That this administration thinks people living on the African continent are "less than" white Americans (and white South Africans) is no secret.
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Hang in there, brother. We have so much that we’re going to go through, and we need your straight talk. You’re carrying a lot of our load out here.
Meanwhile, I’m putting signs at the front of our house that say “WOKE“ and “We Are Minneapolis”.
The Tuskegee study was on poor, uneducated BLACK men. Even worse.
Thanks for the good news update, Lucian. I think I’ll be able to sleep better tonight. I hope you will, too.
Thank you for this moment of clarity. Moments of hope in such darkness do exist….
Thanks for sharing this piece of good news re: cancellation! As you show every day, people can make a difference with their voice and concerted action. We can, with courage, turn the tide and stop the slide. 👍👍👍
The cloud won’t disappear until at least November 3. Everybody better get out there and register to vote.
Unless God strikes both Trump and Vance down