Today's Tids Issue 3,192
Opening Stuff:
One of the great
things about the Internet is that it lets innovators, often muffled in the past,
escape from the clutches of the self anointed controllers of culture.
Too often writers are
compared to other writers, when it would be best for the reading public if
they were to be accepted for what they are themselves.
The NHL* Season
is starting this week. Don’t worry if you miss a few openers because they don’t
start playing for real until May. Yikes! *That’s Hockey.
The Social Security
admin came out over the weekend saying that “the retirement financial woes
are vastly overstated” This is easily believed since the initiators of the hysteria
seem to be those trying to sell financial packages to retirees and savers for retirement.
Lack of savings isn’t the biggest problem for the retirement system; it’s the mistakes
and risk taking by over-zealous wizards of Wall Street that kill savings in portfolios.
Just in case you are
interested, Ben Bernanke was just refused mortgage refinancing by his bank.
He guesses that perhaps his new credit restrictions were a little too harsh.
The Question:
I’m finding that many people I know have fond memories of
learning to play instruments as kids like the trumpet or clarinet. Name the ten
all-time masters of those two instruments.
The Headlines:
--Texas Ebola Case Deteriorating; Authorities Have Close Eye
On People Who Were In Contact.
--Netanyahu Praises “O” For Airstrikes; Says US Prez Is Dead
Wrong About Settlements.
--Hong Kong Prodemocracy Protests Dwindling.
--Germany Factory Production Down 5.7%.
--US VP Apologizes To Saudi Prince For Confusing Bidenisms.
--South Korea Sees Positive Step In Surprise Visit From
Small Group From NK.
--Pro Latvia Group Holds Power Over Pro Putin Forces.
--Three US Airmen Washed Out To See In Japan Typhoon.
--Jaguar Introduces New Car To Go Directly At BMW 3 Series Market.
--Hewlett-Packard To Split Into two Companies; PC/Printer
Business Will be One; Corporate Hardware And Services to be Second Entity.
--Hitmen Say they Killed 16 Of 23 Missing Mexican students;
28 Mutilated Corpse Found In Shallow, Mass Grave..
--In Alacante Spain US Volvo Racing Boat Avimedica Under
Guidance Of Local Sailor Charles Enright Wins First In-Port Race Prior to Race
Around The World Start Next Week.
The Doc told me I
needed an operation. But, I couldn’t afford it so I told him to Photoshop the
XRays.
The Market went up
over 200 points on Friday after the jobs additions and dropped unemployment
numbers report. You have to wonder if they’re holding in reserve to support a
profit taking sell-off today the associated report about the 315K rise in people
dropping out of the job seeking markets which equaled the drop in unemployment.
Rhode Island is the
perfect Thanksgiving state. We grow the largest Pumpkins in the country,
and have the most turkeys in the general assembly -- gobbling up tax payer dollars
for the benefit of cronies and relatives.
I think that many
football reporters are looking for the downfall of Bill Belichick. Mainly
it those who think the game is about them, while the most successful NE coach
thinks it’s more about team. So when he doesn’t answer their Questions nicely,
they pound him. But when you think about it, any knowledge that gives another
team an edge, ever so slight, is bad knowledge to put out in the press.
NE Pats wake up
Sunday night.
Let’s see, we
have ISIS, Ebola, Putin, Wall Street Bears, Hong Kong protests, Baseball playoffs,
savage murders in Mexico, senseless US crime in the streets, Beheadings --- and
I’m having trouble thinking of something to say. Maybe it’s news saturation
sogging my brain.
The Answer:
For Trumpeters, I looked ast several lists and those on all
of them were Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Maurice Andre, and Miles Davis.
Chet Baker and Wynton Marsalis were on a couple as were Phil Smith and Maynard
Ferguson. Some other top ten were Adolph Herseth, Harry James, Rafael Mendez,
Herbert Clarke, Clifford Brown, Wayne Bergeron and Paolo Fresu. The standouts
in clarinet are Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Artie Shaw. One of the hot new
players is Julian Bloiss who studied under another acknowledged star Sabine
Meyer. Kenny G is also popular. Other noted greats are Richard Stoltzman, Eddie
Daniels and Bernard Izen.
A good friend put me
on to the old recoding below of Sugar Blues by trumpet player Clyde McCoy.
Clyde came in somewhere around 50 on the All Time list, but htis recording was
a favorite of mine and many in the mid 40’s. Get the old toes tapping for the
week an=head.
Ebola sounds like
the name of a small country in a movie starring Peter Sellers.
I think my mind
went into hibernations over the weekend with the bears and the raccoons.
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