The pianist was received with reasonably warm applause, but it didn’t last long enough to draw an encore – which ought to get his attention. He’s a pianist of prodigious gifts, and he’s too good not to do better, to move beyond the music’s challenges and into the realm of its soul.
via Sparks but no flame: Pianist Dejan Lazic at Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater.
Whose truth is right: the composer’s or the critic’s? And more critically, who gets to decide?
A tax break for owners of sports franchises would let the ex-Microsoft CEO claim about $1 billion of the team’s purchase price from the taxable income he makes over the next 15 years, said the report, published Sunday in the London newspaper (paywall, registration required).
The effect is the bidding for the 2022 Winter Games, which is now down to just two cities. The final vote comes next summer.
There’s Beijing, China, which doesn’t actually sit within 120 miles of a usable ski mountain, and there’s Almaty, Kazakhstan, which in its bid touted itself as “the world’s largest landlocked nation.”
via Why no one wants to host the 2022 Olympics – Yahoo Sports.
Essentially the only places interested in hosting the 2022 games are countries where actual citizens aren’t allowed a real say in things – communist China and Kazakhstan, a presidential republic that coincidentally has only had one president since it split from the old USSR in 1989.
Essentially the entire world has told the IOC it’s a corrupt joke.
Stock prices for Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman set all-time record highs last week as it became increasingly clear that President Obama was committed to a massive, sustained air war in Iraq and Syria.
via Defense Contractors Are Making a Killing – The Intercept.
