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Finding meaning in situations, especially bad ones, also helps enhance our immune system. With all the tragedy of the coronavirus, is there anything meaningful that comes from it? First, for those of us who work too much, being at home and being told not to go to work or to travel gives everyone a valid rationale to spend more time with our friends and family, both in-person with those you live with and also virtually with others. No FOMO if everything is canceled. You don't have to give an excuse at work to stay home. Also, having a common enemy can help heal some of the wounds that divide our country. These are profoundly human issues that affect everyone in all states, both red and blue.
In Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf", each character is represented by a corresponding instrument in the orchestra. What instrument represents the duck?
Peter and the Wolf Op. 67, a 'symphonic fairy tale for children', is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a children's story, while the orchestra illustrates it. It is Prokofiev's most frequently performed work, and one of the most frequently performed works in the entire classical repertoire. It has been recorded many times.
Each character of this tale is represented by a corresponding instrument in the orchestra: the bird by a flute, the duck by an oboe, the cat by a clarinet playing staccato in a low register, the grandfather by a bassoon, the wolf by three horns, Peter by the string quartet, the shooting of the hunters by the kettle drums and bass drum. Before an orchestral performance it is desirable to show these instruments to the children and to play on them the corresponding leitmotivs. Thereby, the children learn to distinguish the sounds of the instruments during the performance of this tale.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
The oboe.
Randall wrote:
the duck is represented by the oboe
Mac Mac said:
mac mac
Alan J answered:
The Oboe.
PDT, a man of many names and several talents (& to whom I owe some mail) replied:
Oboe
Dave responded:
Oboe.
zorch said:
The oboe is the duck.
Roy, Self Isolating in Tyler, TX wrote:
In "Peter and the Wolf," the duck is portrayed by the oboe, although my first thought about ducks would have been the Kazoo!
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Deborah responded:
I think I know this: the duck is represented by the oboe. We played a lot of classical music to our kids; I remember "Peter & the Wolf" with great fondness.
Who knew quarantining at home could be so packed full of things to do that don't include dinner out or wine tasting? OTOH, we're catching up on a lot of work we've put off for months.
Happy weekend, people.
David of Moon Valley replied:
…that'd be the oboe…
back in the early 70s i lived in a house with an oboe player…it was special to hear her practice…she now has a chair in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and i would bet what little money i have she has played this piece on way more than one occasion….
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Cal in Vermont wrote:
An oboe.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Duck Oboe
Michelle in AZ answered:
Oboe
DJ Useo responded:
I used to play in professional symphonies, so I'm pretty sure the answer is "Oboe".
Well, everyone I know is getting a bit "buggy" over the isolating.
Also, I was expecting a very needed food delivery, but got none of the food I expected. Grr.
Also X2, I ordered 2 sets of new eye glasses, & 2wice they sent me incorrect prescriptions. Sigh...
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Thanks to "Duck Duck Go" and Wiki, the answer is an OBOE.
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• Adelina Patti insisted on being admired. She once sang with the bass singer Luigi Lablache, who scored a huge success and was given much applause and many wreaths. Angry that her own effort was not more admired, Ms. Patti seized one of Mr. Lablache's wreaths, and then told the astonished audience, "I have well deserved it myself!"
• Before performances, jazz singer Billie Holiday often used a curling iron on her hair. Unfortunately, she made a mistake one day and burned some of it, so she wore a big white gardenia to cover the burned place. She liked the look so much that she continued to wear white gardenias in her hair long after it had grown back.
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• Author Peg Bracken knows a woman who prepared a luncheon for the conductor of her city's symphony orchestra. The luncheon was truly marvelous, and in the middle of the table were two large silver containers: one filled with fruit salad, and the other filled with a curry mayonnaise. The hostess lifted the lid of the container filled with the curry mayonnaise, and a mouse jumped out onto the conductor's plate. Ms. Bracken says, "My friend is all right. When I saw her last week, she was sitting up, and we think she'll be taking a little nourishment any day now."
• During a feud between Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, many opera fans took sides, and they became known as Tebaldiani and Callasiani, according to whom they supported. At least one fan took the feud much too seriously. In the summer of 1959, a woman friend of writer Victor Seroff dined at a restaurant near La Scala, and she discovered a nail in her spaghetti. She showed the nail to her waiter, who explained, "They must have taken you for Madame Callas."
• Things do not always go well at musical performances, even when they are conducted by Arturo Toscanini. After a poor performance at La Scala, he returned home in a foul mood. As usual, a late supper had been prepared for the Toscanini family, but Maestro Toscanini barred the way to the dining room, saying, "What! You can eatafter such a performance! Shame on you! Shame!" That night, everybody in the Toscanini household went to bed hungry.
• Ludwig van Beethoven once walked into the Swan, his favorite restaurant, sat at a table, and began to jot down some musical ideas in a notebook he carried. Because he was so busy writing, the waiters left him in peace, knowing that he wanted it that way. After a long time had passed, Beethoven looked up from his notebook, and then asked a waiter to bring him his bill. The waiter was forced to explain to Beethoven that he hadn't ordered yet.
• Blues singer Bessie Smith fell in love with police officer Jackie Gee, and after he was shot in the line of duty, she was determined to take care of him. After he was discharged from the hospital, she cooked pork chops, black-eyed peas, cornmeal, collard greens, and everything that goes with them. Mr. Gee ate more than his fill, and the next day he was back in the hospital - he had eaten so much that his stitches had burst.
• Ballet is an enchanting art; however, sometimes the audience is unaware of what occurs on stage. While touring with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the dancers would occasionally whisper among themselves during the last act of The Nutcracker or other ballet. While the audience listened to the music and watched the dancing in wonderment, the dancers would be discussing where to eat after the curtain fell.
• Early in his career, Louis Armstrong worked as a jazz musician on a riverboat. He watched as a fellow musician almost starved himself in order to get money to invest in cotton. The man went hungry, saved his money, invested it in a cotton crop - and lost all his money when the crop failed because of boll weevils. Mr. Armstrong decided then and there that he would never be rich - but he would be fat.
Happy birthday to one of my favorite Face-friends, the always delightful Doug Gauss.
And, happy birthday to my old college roommate, Barbara (of Peppy Tech fame).
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'God Friended Me', then a FRESH'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'The Wall', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then a FRESH'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist', followed by a FRESH'Good Girls'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'American Idol'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'Outmatched', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Duncanville', then a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has the movie 'Transporter 3', followed by the movie 'White House Down'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Seasonal Seas
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Coral Seas
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Tidal Seas
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Coasts
[10:00AM] KNOWING
[1:00PM] FIRST BLOOD
[3:00PM] RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II
[5:00PM] RAMBO III
[7:15PM] FIRST BLOOD
[9:15PM] RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II
[11:15PM] RAMBO III
[1:30AM]nbsp; KNOWING
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Woman Who Fell to Earth (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Family Karma', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Wedding Crashers', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups', then the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Legend Of Ricky Bobby'.
FX has the movie 'Pitch Perfect 2', followed by the movie 'Pitch Perfect 3'.
IFC -
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - Beer Barrel Polecats
[7:00A] The Three Stooges - A Pain in the Pullman
[7:30A] The Three Stooges - Woman Haters
[7:45A] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[10:00A] Grease
[12:30P] There's Something About Mary
[3:30P] Dante's Peak
[6:00P] Captain Phillips
[9:00P] Training Day
[11:45P] The Taking of Pelham 123
[2:15A] Captain Phillips
[5:15A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Beauty Makeovers
[5:45A] The Three Stooges - Three Little Pigskins (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] Law & Order
[7:00am] Law & Order
[8:00am] Law & Order
[9:00am] Law & Order
[10:00am] Law & Order
[11:00am] The Core
[2:00pm] Captain Phillips
[5:00pm] Titanic
[9:30pm] Titanic
[2:00am] Focus
[4:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[5:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[5:30am] Hogan's Heroes (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire'.
In his version of "Jaws," where the threat isn't a shark but rather the coronavirus and the deadly illness it causes, Jim Carrey has already figured out who'd make the perfect Mayor Larry Vaughn.
In Carrey's latest political cartoon, shared on Thursday, President Donald Trump (R-Delusional) is depicted wearing the seersucker suit of the "Jaws" mayor and asking two beachgoers, "Why aren't you going in the water?!" as a bloody limb can be seen on the sandy shore.
"Trump is willing to risk countless lives to save his economic record," Carrey wrote. "He has fully become the mayor from Jaws."
In the film, Mayor Larry Vaughn of Amity Island (played by Murray Hamilton) refuses to comply with local officials, who request that he close the beaches after a young woman is killed by a shark. Instead, the mayor says he wants to keep the beaches open - especially on the Fourth of July - for the sake of the economy.
"We will be open for business. It's going to be one of the best summers we've had," the mayor says in the film.
Here at The A.V. Club Newswire desk, we consider ourselves connoisseurs of the finer things in life. Expensive wines. Fancy cheeses. The writers of Jeopardy! forcing host Alex Trebek to recite the lyrics of popular pop and hip-hop songs in front of a national audience.
We can now add Lizzo to the list of artists covered by Canada's most talented rapper (you heard us, Aubrey), with last night's installment of the long-running quiz show seeing Trebek bust out a verse from 2017's "Truth Hurts." And sincerely: God bless whichever of the show's writers decided it was extremely important to the context of the clue for Trebek to have to do the "Bom bom bi dom" parts, because it really makes the whole thing go down that much more smoothly
Jeopardy!, like pretty much all TV production, is currently shut down at the moment, but these episodes were recorded a few weeks back; we can now only wait and wonder at what lingering treasure troves of lyrical weirdness the series might still have in store for us. (Just no nerdcore, please; we don't want Alex dunking on anybody too hard during this time of national crisis.)
Even during the coronavirus pandemic, the Osbournes are finding their own way of spending quality family time together.
Kelly Osbourne shared a touching photo on her Instagram this week practicing social distancing protocol with her parents, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. In the photo, all three family members are seen wearing masks and gloves while they sit at opposite ends of their backyard pool.
"Today was the first time I got to see my parents in almost 3 weeks!!!" she captioned the photo. "Even though i did not get to hug them.... at this point I will take what I can get. They are doing well and are save and sound for now. Thank you so much for your continued well wishes love and support. We will get through this together. I love you all ?? stay safe."
Earlier in the week, Osbourne jumped on the social media trend of sharing who you're staying home for using the hashtag #StayHomeFor. The former "Fashion Police" correspondent shared that she was staying home for her father, who is high-risk, writing, "#StayHomeForOzzy."
The iconic Beverly Hills restaurant Nate 'N Al's is closing, possibly forever, tomorrow, according to a report.
The restaurant was reportedly on the ropes in 2018 before it was bought by a consortium led by Irving Azoff and his wife, Shelli, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, and other Los Angeles celebrities.
The restaurant was going to move to another location after its current building was sold, but that never happened. It originally opened in 1945 and was owned by friends Al Mendelson and Nate Rimer.
The restaurant has been one of the most famous in Los Angeles, and many major stars were regulars in its booths. It was also featured in the 1957 film Pal Joey and in an episode of HBO's Entourage.
Early on, the dozen federal officials charged with defending America against the coronavirus gathered day after day in the White House Situation Room, consumed by crises. They grappled with how to evacuate the U.S. consulate in Wuhan, China, ban Chinese travelers and extract Americans from the Diamond Princess and other cruise ships.
The members of the coronavirus task force typically devoted only five or 10 minutes, often at the end of contentious meetings, to talk about testing, several participants recalled. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, its leaders assured the others, had developed a diagnostic model that would be rolled out quickly as a first step.
But as the deadly virus from China spread with ferocity across the U.S. between late January and early March, large-scale testing of people who might have been infected did not happen - because of technical flaws, regulatory hurdles, business-as-usual bureaucracies and lack of leadership at multiple levels, according to interviews with more than 50 current and former public health officials, administration officials, senior scientists and company executives.
The result was a lost month, when the world's richest country - armed with some of the most highly trained scientists and infectious disease specialists - squandered its best chance of containing the virus' spread. Instead, Americans were left largely blind to the scale of a looming public health catastrophe.
The absence of robust screening until it was "far too late" revealed failures across government, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, a former CDC director. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, said the Trump administration had "incredibly limited" views of the pathogen's potential impact. Dr. Margaret Hamburg, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said the lapse enabled "exponential growth of cases."
The tragic effects of our battle with the novel coronavirus are seemingly endless. But arguably the most mind-blowing is this: the very pandemic that threatens to infect and kill millions is simultaneously causing many to also lose their health coverage at their gravest time of need.
Here's how: the virus has caused a public health crisis so severe that people have been forced to stay home, causing businesses to shutter and lay off workers. And with roughly half of Americans getting their health insurance from their employer, these layoffs mean not only losing their income but also their medical coverage. In other words, just as our need for medical care skyrockets in the face of a global pandemic, fewer will have health insurance or be able to afford it. According to one recent report, the cost of treatment for Covid-19 can run around $35,000. As the patient in the report exclaimed: "I was pretty sticker-shocked. I personally don't know anybody who has that kind of money."
So, how did we get to such a dire place? Many will sadly lose their jobs over the coming weeks - with one estimate projecting as many as 30%. And as they do, Americans are about to learn something horrifying: how irrational and irresponsible it is for so many to be dependent on employers for health insurance. Take it from me. I'm a former health insurance executive who once profited from this system. It's time for it to stop.
America needs to finally get out of the business of linking health coverage to job status. Even in better times, this arrangement was a bad idea from a health perspective. Most Americans whose families depend on their employers for coverage are just a layoff away from being uninsured. And now, when many businesses are shutting down and considering layoffs, it's a public health disaster. Across the country we're seeing reports of layoffs in almost all industries. As we approach a global recession, some analysts suggest that a million or more US workers will lose their jobs in April alone. Consider what this means for health care in this country.
Hedge funds have lost billions of dollars as coronavirus has stalled the economy and sent Wall Street into a tailspin. But the financial institutions favored by the world's richest investors are plotting a recovery by betting on the markets' slump.
US-based hedge funds are aiming to persuade clients that the current economic crisis and the uncertainties in fact present a unique investment opportunity, according to letters sent to clients viewed by AFP.
In their discussions with current investors and potential new clients, some of these funds are emphasizing that stocks, corporate bonds and commodities have not been as cheap since the 2008 global financial crisis, according to sources close to the institutions.
"We only take new capital when we see opportunity on the markets," a source at The Baupost Group hedge fund said in an interview, speaking on condition of anonymity.
For the first time since 2011, Baupost is asking clients for more money to buy aggressively, and recently put $1.5 billion into depressed assets.
Across the United States, prized chickens are laying life-saving eggs at secret farms. Few people know where the chickens are kept -- their locations are undisclosed as a matter of national security.
Each day, hundreds of thousands of their eggs are trucked to storage facilities, where they are protected by guards and multimillion-dollar, government-funded security systems.
For the past 80 years, much of the world has relied on chicken eggs for the production of influenza vaccines.
But now the world faces a new crisis: the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 423,000 people globally and killed more than 19,000 since the virus emerged last December, according to Johns Hopkins University.
There is no vaccine yet for the virus; and because it's different than the influenza virus, traditional methods like using eggs won't work. As scientists race to find a cure, the huge US stockpile of eggs won't be of any help.
Seismometers around the world are recording the decreased seismic activity resulting from people staying home amid covid-19 social distancing orders.
These detectors measure seismic waves through Earth's crust, but they also pick up humans moving around, industry, and traffic in the form of higher-frequency noise patterns. Amid stay-at-home orders, Royal Observatory of Belgium geologist and seismologist Thomas Lecocq decided to look at the Royal Observatory's seismometer and noticed that its noise levels in Brussels looked closer to winter vacation than a work day. Other seismologists have found similar noise reduction in their local seismometers.
The surface station at the Royal Observatory of Belgium was once in a suburb, Lecocq told Gizmodo. But the city has expanded, and the seismometers' readings now reflect the bustling human activity in the city. "When it snows, it's quiet, and when there's a marathon, we can see people running," he said.
Lecocq studies subtle changes in seismic noise. There aren't a lot of earthquakes in Belgium, but by characterizing the noise, they can figure out how to remove it in order to see weaker or more distant events. Additionally, humans aren't the only ones generating seismic noise; the wind and the ocean do as well, and seismologists can use this noise to monitor and image Earth's crust. So it only made sense for him to look at the impact of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The Royal Observatory of Belgium posted the graph demonstrating the decreased seismic noise on social media.
Other seismologists have run analyses on seismometers elsewhere. The United Kingdom recorded a decrease in noise from a station along a highway, while stations in France and New Zealand have also detected the quieter seismic environment as people stay home. Lecocq wrote a tutorial for those interested in looking at other seismic stations.
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