The wanderer in Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano, travels a landscape of bleak hopes and frozen tears. Written for tenor but sung by voices of every range, it has long attracted mezzo-sopranos, from Brigitte Fassbaender to Alice Coote. The latest is the American star Joyce DiDonato, who unveiled her […]
Read MoreManchester City v Leeds United: Premier League – live!
Marcelo Bielsa here, carrying his imaginary watermelon into the ground before kick-off. Leeds United’s Argentinian head coach Marcelo Bielsa prior to the Premier League match against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium. Photograph: Rui Vieira/AFP/Getty Images It is only snowing in Manchester. Enough winter already! So there’s a Manchester City midfielder missing from both line-ups: […]
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Links 4/10/2021
Insatiable Shipping Companies Set the Table for the Suez Canal Ship Debacle Labor Notes Crude Greeks decide it’s time to go very large Lloyd’s List Credit Suisse Scandal Toll Goes Ever Higher as Rivals Thrive Bloomberg ‘This crisis is different’: the dramatic rebound in the global economy FT Stabilising the economic outlook Philip R. Lane, […]
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Michael Hudson Asks Our Readers: If Democracy Winds Up Creating Financial Dominance, What Do We Call China?
Yves here. I hope readers will take Michael Hudson’s query to heart. His work has demonstrated how the financial sector tends to gain power and increase inequality if unchecked via debt jubilees or other methods to keep it from acting as a rentier and creating debt peonage. He wonders what would be the most fitting […]
Read MoreInspiration and perseverance define Joplin’s Ledford
Apr. 10—The story goes that she took up track in eighth grade with a little encouragement from her friends. She started out as a thrower and through Disabled Athletes Sports Association was given a racing wheelchair to do sprints. Camryn Ledford has never looked back in an inspiring journey that has never allowed spina bifida […]
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Calhoun County softball: Gattis outduels Patterson as Valley Cubs claim another county crown
Apr. 10—JACKSONVILLE — Alexandria’s Rylee Gattis and Pleasant Valley’s Leah Patterson scored a tour de force for pitching in Friday’s Calhoun County softball finals. In the end, freshman Clancy Bright was the star. Bright’s bases-loaded single gave Alexandria a 1-0, walk-off victory at Jacksonville State’s University Field. The Valley Cubs scored their 10th county championship […]
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Hawkins, Noel named prep athletes of the week
Apr. 10—Webb City track runner Riley Hawkins and Webb City baseball player Shane Noel have been named the Globe’s high school athletes of the week for the week ending April 3. RILEY HAWKINS Hawkins had a tremendous start to her junior track season at Webb City. In the Carthage Invitational on April 2, she won […]
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Young’s walk-off lifts MSSU softball to 4-3 win over NSU
Apr. 10—Sophomore third baseman Leighton Withers put it best when her Missouri Southern softball team convened at the end of its first game on Friday at Pat Lipira Softball Complex. The close games the Lions seemingly fell short in time after time at the beginning of the season? They’re finding ways to win those now. […]
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Shenandoah boots MEC opener
Apr. 10—MIDDLETOWN — The outcome of the pitching duel engaged in Friday evening between Blake Surface of Shenandoah and Zack Todd of Wes-Del hinged on defense, the one aspect of baseball that is largely out of the pitcher’s control. Surface’s defense let him down while Todd’s made nearly all the plays, including one that effectively […]
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Cavaliers capture Thomas Jefferson Invitational title
Apr. 10—The Thomas Jefferson Independent boys tennis team continued its dominant 2021 spring season. The Cavaliers, which have won five straight duals by 9-0 scores, captured their own invitational on Friday afternoon at the TJ courts. Thomas Jefferson claimed titles at No. 1 singles, No. 1 doubles and No. 2 doubles. The Cavaliers took second […]
Read MoreRavneet Gill’s recipes for iced apple buns | The sweet spot
These are a throwback to my school days, where we would stop by Percy Ingle or Greggs on the way home and grab something sweet – an iced bun, an apple slice or mini doughnuts (I’m a sucker for anything glazed). The great thing about these buns is that the apples stay crunchy on top, […]
Read MoreHouse price rises and how long to fix a mortgage: Q&A for first-time buyers
Should I fix my mortgage for more than two years? The rates on two- and five-year fixed-rate mortgages are close – at Royal Bank of Scotland, for example, you can fix for two years at 3.18% and for five at 3.4%, which on a £160,000 mortgage means a difference of about £20 a month. If […]
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Prince Philip salute, GOP campaign party, St. Vincent aid: 5 things to know this weekend
A Donald Trump weekend: GOP presidential race stops in Florida Republicans are throwing an early presidential campaign party this weekend in South Florida, though the featured guest remains the same party representative from the last two campaigns: Donald Trump. The former president and other Republicans said to be considering a 2024 White House bid will be […]
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With new jobs up, so are salaries and perks
With new jobs up, so are salaries and perks – CBS News Watch CBSN Live The labor department announced the U.S. economy added 271,000 jobs last month, the strongest growth so far this year. Unemployment dropped to five percent, the lowest since 2008. Now that salaries are starting to go up, new employee perks are […]
Read MoreAustralia dominates New Zealand with the ball to extend record streak
Australia have powered to a clean sweep the Rose Bowl against New Zealand, defending 149-7 to win by 21 runs in a rain-affected third ODI. Mount Maunganui was soaked by rain on Saturday before umpires gave a surprising go-ahead for a 25-over contest. Sent in by Kiwi skipper Amy Satterthwaite, Australia coasted to 73-0 off […]
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FBI asked to help investigate downed Russian jet
FBI asked to help investigate downed Russian jet – CBS News Watch CBSN Live U.S. intelligence officials say it was “likely a bomb” that brought down the Russian passenger jet over Egypt, but they can’t be entirely sure since they haven’t examined the evidence first-hand. But now that Russia has formally requested the FBI’s help, […]
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11/8/15: Trump, Carson, Gillibrand
11/8/15: Trump, Carson, Gillibrand – CBS News Watch CBSN Live he latest on the presidential campaign trail and news abroad with GOP candidates Ben Carson and Donald Trump, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, and others. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. […]
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Bernie Sanders on Black Lives Matter
Bernie Sanders on Black Lives Matter – CBS News Watch CBSN Live Web extra: The presidential candidate talks to Jim Axelrod about his civil rights record and his run-ins with activists protesting police brutality. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not […]
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Bernie Sanders: “Socialist” is not a dirty word
Bernie Sanders: “Socialist” is not a dirty word – CBS News Watch CBSN Live Web extra: The president candidate running as a Democratic Socialist tells Jim Axelrod that conventional political wisdom is wrong View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now […]
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Bernie Sanders on what Americans really want
Bernie Sanders on what Americans really want – CBS News Watch CBSN Live Web extra: The presidential candidate talks to Jim Axelrod about the issues that will rally American voters. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On
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Bernie Sanders: Obama’s big mistake
Bernie Sanders: Obama’s big mistake – CBS News Watch CBSN Live Web extra: The Junior Senator from Vermont says President Barack Obama was wrong to assume he could compromise with Republicans in Congress. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now […]
Read MoreDetroit Tigers discover new options with Michael Fulmer’s aggressive confidence
There’s a world where right-hander Michael Fulmer is starting for the Detroit Tigers . Manager AJ Hinch is prepared to give him the opportunity in five days if Julio Teheran is unable to take the mound. With the Tigers batting in the top of the first inning Friday, pitching coach Chris Fetter relayed a message […]
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Las Vegas Strip market to offer fare from top stars of Asian street food
LAS VEGAS — A street food market coming to The Strip this summer will put on display dishes made with recipes imported straight from Asia’s bustling culinary scene. Famous Foods Street Eats will open at Resorts World Las Vegas in late June or early July and offer guests a wide selection of authentic cuisines from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and beyond. Inspired by the hawker-style […]
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Trump’s Power Won’t Peak for Another 20 Years
Julian E. Zelizer: How conservatives won the battle over the courts Here’s how this is likely to shake out. Although Trump’s picks are unusually young, with an average age of 48, simply appointing three 48-year-olds to a single circuit would have done little good. In most circuits, that strategy would produce a single chief, during […]
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What will entertainment look like after COVID? Hybrid events for live and streaming crowds, plus more Zoom
Americans are getting COVID-19 vaccinations in record numbers. Music venues and comedy clubs have begun preparations to reopen. With many of us are suffering Zoom fatigue, one day soon we will be able to get off the couch or out of our home office chair, abandon those live stream events and hotfoot it to the clubs. Not […]
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‘Trouble filling our schedules;’ Rural clinics, pharmacies seek to fill open vaccine slots as hesitancy looms
When St. James Parish Hospital in Louisiana began COVID-19 vaccinations this winter, it routinely would administer 500 daily shots and could not keep pace with the long lines of vaccine seekers. But as Louisiana joined a cascading number of states to waive age restrictions and allow all adults to get vaccinated, hospital leaders are finding more appointments going […]
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Thanks but no thanks: States are wary of Joe Biden’s offer to help them expand Medicaid
WASHINGTON – State Rep. Steve Harshman voted again and again against expanding Medicaid eligibility in Wyoming, sure there had to be a better way of getting health care to low-income residents than what the federal government has offered through the 2010 Affordable Care Act. But lacking a viable alternative, and with Washington newly offering an approximately […]
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Women report more side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine than men. Health experts explain why.
Reports of COVID-19 vaccine side effects support what many have anecdotally observed: women shoulder the bigger burden. Among nearly 7,000 reports processed through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from Dec. 14 to Jan. 13, more than 79% of them came from women. The most frequently reported side effects […]
Read MoreSunflowers: a feast for your eyes, and for pollinators | Alys Fowler
The annual sunflower needs no introduction; it is a thing full of cheer, always turning its head to the sun to entice the bees. It is as marvellous in seed as it is in flower and, if left in place, will have songbirds flocking to enjoy its bounty all autumn long. The brilliant yolk-yellow sorts […]
Read More‘It was seen as an elderly white lady thing to do’: meet the new generation of male knitters
The first time Brendan Girak knitted in public, he took a friend for support. “Lara and I went to a big park and that put my mind at ease,” the 28-year-old from Perth, Australia, says. “There weren’t that many people around and Lara’s a very confident person.” Knitting makes him calm. “It keeps my hands […]
Read MoreHow an arcane budget provision could let Democrats advance their agenda
A novel interpretation of an arcane parliamentary procedure has presented congressional Democrats with an unexpected – and tantalizing – new opportunity to advance some of their most ambitious legislative goals despite their slim majorities and fierce Republican opposition. This week, the Senate parliamentarian determined that Democrats can employ a fast-track process known as budget reconciliation […]
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