String Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 1, by Joseph Haydn
Whskyjack — Haydn was a contemporary of Mozart in Vienna, with Mozart being a pupil of Haydn for a time.
From notes that accompany the video:
Joseph Haydn earned the label “the father of the string quartet” thanks to his masterful development of this musical form over his entirety of his career, writing more than sixty quartets. Haydn spent most of his life working for the nobility, and initially experimented with this ensemble to provide background music for parties. Gradually he elevated the form, texture, and substance of the string quartet so that it could emerge from the background to center stage, commanding the attention of the audience with its symphonic scope.
The Opus 76 quartets were written toward the end of Haydn’s life, after he had achieved great success and fame, and are hailed as some of his greatest quartet masterworks. The first quartet of the set claims the listener’s attention from its very opening, with three declamatory chords in the Allegro con spirito. Haydn keeps the surprises coming: the cello and viola are in the forefront with solos, building to duos, until finally all four instruments join together. The Adagio sostenuto is an ode to Haydn’s vocal compositions of the same period, as the melody sings in a hymn-like texture, eventually leading to the energetic Menuet: Presto. He saves one final surprise for the Finale: Allegro ma non troppo by beginning the movement in G minor and building tension, only to return to the original key and end as he began: with the same three triumphant chords that opened the quartet.
Enjoy, Jack
Jack, lovely… just the thing to go with the morning coffee
hayden schmaden
Feb 11, 2026
Cartoons – Hippie From Mississippi
String Quartet Cover
Violin 1 – Gildred Phyu
Violin 2 – Thablay Wah Min
Viola – Eh Ahh Nay
Cello – David P Htoo
Guitar – Thomas P Htoo
Cajon – Blute Law La
String Arranged by – Hay Shar Yar Htaw
Directed By Solomon Morriz
wiki on background of the above, the music that is:
The first appearance of “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain” in print was in Carl Sandburg’s The American Songbag in 1927. Sandburg reports that the Negro spiritual “When the Chariot Comes”, which was sung to the same melody, was adapted by railroad workers in the Midwestern United States during the 1890s. It is often heard today with responses that add on to the previous verse.
The original song was published in Old Plantation Hymns in 1899. It ostensibly refers to the Second Coming of Christ and subsequent Rapture, with the she referring to the chariot that the returning Christ is depicted as driving.
The secularized version that developed among railroad work gangs in the late 19th century has become a standard over the years, appearing in printed collections of children’s music while also being performed by both children and adults in sing-alongs, particularly as a campfire song. Since the mid-1920s, “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain” has been recorded by numerous musicians, ranging from Tommy Tucker and Bing Crosby to Pete Seeger and Neil Young.
in major G strings
stringing you along
Comedy String Quartet will leave you with a smile on your face; 16 strings, 8 dancing feet & 4 voices. A talented quartet, they are a male & female group performing modern & classical music with a unique style & mischievous wit.
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more silliness
MozART group site https://www.mozartgroup.net/
In 1995 the MozART group began to travel the world.
Now, after more than 20 years, 50 countries, 4 continents, 2.000 flights, over 300 incredibly
complicated issues to get the cello with a valid (!) ticket on board of an aicraft, 1 million driven
miles, surprisingly just a few lost bags but countless hours spent on airports of this planet,
there is a good number of stories the quartet would like to share withthe audience.
on the more serious side of things from this morning’s The Guardian:
Appeals court rejects Trump bid to curb mail-in voting in 23 states
Judge rejects administration’s request to lift injunction secured by several Democratic-led states on 25 June
and
How Trump could undermine the midterms
The president really has no power over elections – but that hasn’t stopped Trump from laying the groundwork to challenge results in November
one more for the road
Genius ran out of missiles…
Trump orders US military to hold off on strikes on Iran
Trump has ordered the US military to hold off on strikes on Iran after 13 days of fighting, amid concerns a wider war could deplete the country’s air defence missile stockpiles..
The New York Times and Axios are reporting that the US president has decided to set aside plans to attack Iran, after 13 consecutive days of strikes.
The Times, citing Trump administration officials, said the president’s decision came amid concern that ratcheting up the war could “dangerously drain the Pentagon’s already diminished stockpile of Patriot antimissile interceptors and other air defense munitions in the Middle East”.
Another ICE smear debunked
Substance found in work van of Mexican man killed by ICE tested negative for drugs, prosecutor says – CBS News
Jack & Patd
Thank you for the beauty and the fun. That is shur some purty fiddle playing.
Twain Destroys Washington Politicians: Hal Holbrook does Twain’s take on the election season’s “ancestral parade of ignoramuses”.
We field a commenter calling us “hillbilly redneck peasants”.
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It’s here!!! Under 100 days to BEAT THE CHEAT.
Will Roges just demanded equal time!
Look who’s leaking now…
Vice President JD Vance and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine both raised concerns about escalating the war in Iran as President Donald Trump weighed the possibility during a White House meeting on Friday, a source familiar with the matter and a US official told CNN.
TRUMP SURRENDERS?
Covering the Coverage: We Ran Out Of Missiles
Narrative Framing & The Absurdist Spin: The media ecosystem is scrambling to frame a jarring geopolitical pivot: a sudden halt to U.S. bombing in Iran. The core narrative tension pits a “strategic pause for diplomacy” against a darker logistical reality—the U.S. is simply running out of high-end missiles. The absurdist element here is palpable: the world’s preeminent military superpower pausing a conflict not out of strategic chess, but because the supply closet is reportedly bare after shooting $4 million Patriot interceptors at cheap drones. Mainstream outlets try to balance the diplomatic spin against urgent warnings from military leadership, while defense analysts focus on the grim production math. Meanwhile, international coverage highlights the internal dissonance between the Pentagon’s public bravado and the Vice President’s private panic.
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Happy to learn Haydn is “the father of the string quartet”, one of my favorite genres — thanks Joe (and Jack).
And kudus to Curtis Institute of Music for not slapping a copyright block on this one—we can listen to it in our livestream today.
1919 Nov: The ordinary statesman or military man is generally obsessed by bygone ideas and methods. He always prepares for the last war (Robert Blatchford)
Ask about drones in the Department of Defense offices, I say. The idiot in charge is constantly fighting for image, not the last war, or the current war in Ukraine, nothing about the future. He is clearing out any people with ideas, or non-white skin color, or who do not want to be shot up and overdosed with testosterone.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV, and Unmanned Ground Vehicle, UGV, are the current state of warfare. The U.S. military has been using UAV for years. But, nothing like what is happening in Ukraine. Some in Defense offices know what is needed, you do see the U.S. buying technology from Ukraine. But, the U.S. still relies on old munitions to blast countryside. Drones could be used to stop Iran cheaper and faster.
Portland Press Herald..
ICE’s cooperation with other agencies, both federal and local, has shifted drastically under the second Trump administration.
Historically, outside federal agencies have investigated alongside local authorities when a federal agent has used deadly force, said Katherine Hawkins, a senior legal analyst with the nonprofit watchdog organization Project on Government Oversight. Those investigations often resulted in disciplinary action or criminal charges.
But that collaboration and admittedly thin sense of accountability has largely evaporated over the last two years, Hawkins said.
The FBI, which has historically investigated federal use of force incidents, has reportedly been told to stand down on ICE investigations. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, will now investigate itself, NBC News reported.
After two American citizens were killed by ICE agents in Minnesota in January, federal officials portrayed them as domestic terrorists trying to attack immigration officers. When local law enforcement began investigating the shootings, they said the Department of Homeland Security withheld key evidence until this month.
“What happened in Minnesota, it was an agency that wasn’t even going through the motions of a professional investigation in the early days,” Hawkins said. “The officers weren’t even put on administrative leave.”
Just made this chart for today’s diner chat…
they’ll happily have more made with your money
but no public education or social safety nets
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the troll called you “peasants” because there is a ruling class and an under class now, and so many people warned of that, Bernie among them
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/heritage-foundation-executive-arrest-senate-b3021616.html
white supremacists like to party
but you need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps
I asked Google AI “Are U.S. Navy warships being built in foreign countries?”
U.S. Navy warships are not currently being built in foreign countries. Existing federal law strictly mandates that major combat vessels must be built domestically.
While the Pentagon’s 2027 shipbuilding plan proposes exploring partnerships with South Korea and Japan to address domestic shipyard backlogs, Congress is actively passing legislation to limit or block the overseas construction of combat warships.
Source: Navy Times
https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-biosolids-toxic-sewer-sludge-public-health-farmers
Trump Administration Declares Toxic Sewer Sludge Not a Threat to Public Health
Environmental Protection Agency is tossing out a major body of research that formed the basis for regulations which would have effectively limited the amount of sewage byproduct we’re allowed to spray into the environment.
The research, published not even two years ago, was conducted in order to study the consequences of toxic PFAS “forever chemical” compounds in treated sewer sludge — called “biosolids” in the wastewater treatment industry. The findings showed that any amount of PFAS above 1 part per billion in sewer sludge used as fertilizer represents an increased cancer risk for farmers, as well as consumers.
That’s a problem, because previous EPA tests have found PFAS levels as high as 9.4 parts per billion in sludge used for agricultural purposes.
The Trump administration, however, says that’s not a problem, because it’s not like we’re spraying biosolids on everything — and so what if a few farm workers get cancer?
Today in the Diner…
Trump Sleeps, Whitmer Sells Out & The DNC South Carolina Fix
Gretchen Whitmer backs Haley Stevens, Trump halts Iran strikes, and Jim Clyburn pushes South Carolina in the DNC. We break down the latest chaos.
The establishment Democrats are at it again, proving that when they get power, they’d rather wander around aimlessly than fight. We’re watching Gretchen Whitmer and Jim Clyburn throw their weight behind Haley Stevens in Michigan, completely sidelining Abdul El-Sayed in what looks like another coordinated effort to crush progressive momentum. Meanwhile, out in Texas, James Talarico is catching heat from his own base while Ken Paxton skates by, proving that Elissa Slotkin was right—the real divide in the party is fight versus flight. If they actually want to save Democracy, they might want to start throwing punches instead of playing it safe.
Over on the Republican side, Donald Trump is halting strikes on Iran and randomly talking about a gay dictator, while Mike Rogers tries to play the center in Michigan despite his hardcore voting record. Add in Marjorie Taylor Greene peeling off MAGA voters over AIPAC funding, and the DNC officially pushing South Carolina to the front of the 2028 primary to protect their favored candidates—and doom Pete Buttigieg—and you have a political landscape running entirely on fumes. Grab a seat at the diner, it’s going to be a long ride.
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00:00 Intro
01:30 Trump Halts Strikes on Iran
05:50 Trump Sleeps Through Event
09:20 Elissa Slotkin on Democrat Divide
18:45 James Talarico Battles Ken Paxton
23:00 Whitmer Endorses Haley Stevens
37:40 AIPAC and Marjorie Taylor Greene
46:00 Dominion Voting Systems Buyout
47:15 DNC Pushes South Carolina First
1:01:00 Joseph Haydn String Quartet
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Total betrayal.
The House of Representatives passed the NDAA 216-212.
7 Republicans voted NO.
6 Democrats voted YES.
This $1.1 trillion dollar military budget contains Sec 219 that ties our military intelligence and military industrial base to Israel.
Now it goes to the Senate.
*Isn’t it just so very interesting that there is always just enough help from across the aisle to help out the EPSTEIN pedos/Israel. Corporate/AIPAC Dems gotta go. Hopefully, enough MAGAts will be fed up with Israel that they will stay home, or realize funding social safety nets with our tax dollars like the white folks in Scandinavian countries do is a good thing.
(Military intelligence portion is actually in a a Senate bill, section 622.)
I like using AI. It is a useful tool, but it needs to be regulated.
At the present time AI is vulnerable to manipulation by greedy and ruthless corporations that support a right wing agenda. The CEOs of all the “Big Tech” corporations support Trump.
There is also the problem of “AI Slop.”
This is the tendency of all AI systems, over time, to gradually become increasingly unreliable due the programs’ acceptance all “information” on the internet as correct, even though more and more of it comes from unreliable sources like Reddit, and from other AI programs, leading to a self-destructive cycle where bad information eventually overwhelms the good.
The second problem is one that AI companies are trying to solve but so far, they cannot because of the way AI operates. There is no foolproof way to get a computer program “evaluate” the reliability of information as even the most respected information sources now use AI to generate at least part of their content.
In March, Israeli F-35s struck three sites in central Syria that Turkish planners had quietly earmarked for a future airbase. No Turkish soldier had set foot there yet — Ankara had not finished the paperwork. But the message needed no translation: Israel would rather bomb a location pre-emptively than let Turkish forces operate from it. Ankara absorbed the hit and abandoned the deployment. It did not retaliate. That single, barely-reported decision — swallowing a strike on territory it did not yet occupy, from a state its own president now routinely accuses of genocide — reveals more about the odds of a Turkish-Israeli war than any speech Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or an Israeli minister has given this year. Two of the region’s most capable militaries are close enough to a shooting war that one is bombing the other’s future infrastructure in advance. Neither has pulled the trigger on anything more.
TRUMP: TALARICO HATES SEX.
From today’s Digital Diner menu.
regime critical
29:38 for epstein comments
Trump halted the Iran War because the Pentagon ran out of bullets. We are shooting $28M interceptors at budget-bin targets and bankrupting our arsenal. Our other enemies are taking notes:
oh, one nugget from that swan interview I told you about is he corroborated that other people have access to Trump’s truth social account and post with it, I forget who they (he and haberman) said used it also
the most recent young female mistress type after halligan
it’s very important because if somebody who is not the president can impersonate the president that creates obvious vulnerabilities
Natalie Harp, his diaper caddy?
Here is my change of channel today. I use bread making machines, I am unable to do a lot because what is left of my hands does not do kneading of anything. At home I have been using a Zojirushi one pound machine. It has been in use since twenty-nineteen. An average of fifty loaves a year. I have replaced parts that wear out and it keeps on going. It is the basic unit and wonderful.
Then around twenty-twenty two, I went large, the Zojirushi Virtuoso, a two pound loaf machine. Wonderful machine. Works great, it has been making about fifteen plus loaves each year. What I like with it is being able to program for breads such as sour dough.
Well, I wanted to make one pound loaves of sour dough, remember I cannot do things like knead, squeeze or even flip bread dough. I broke down and bought a Zojirushi Maestro, a programmable one pound machine. This will be fun, and this is the picture of the first loaf baked. Basic white. tomorrow will be rye with caraway seed.
apparently yes (good job 😀), from a googling her name:
“ Internal Tensions
Because of their close relationship, Harp has a direct line to the President that bypasses standard chain-of-command channels. She has been entrusted with operating his Truth Social account, which has sometimes caused friction among other White House officials and communications staff when unvetted or controversial content has been posted.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fountain/
Historic fountain ‘severely damaged’ as Trump rushes DC makeover: report
Contractors working at the National Mall have “severely damaged” a major fountain that sits between several key monuments, Newsweek reported on Thursday.
The German-American Friendship Fountain now has “large sections of stonework displaced around the circular fountain feature, leaving a substantial hole at its center,” Newsweek reported.
It was already renovated in 2019 in a public-private partnership between the National Park Service, the German Embassy, and Volkswagen, Newsweek reported.
President Donald Trump has spent much of his time back in office doing everything he can to update monuments in D.C. in his image and according to his grand design, Newsweek noted.
“concubine” i guess is probably the best term for that position
hallogan
harp
habba
at least 3 more…
https://www.alternet.org/trump-natalie-harp-age/
The book — by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan — claims Harp even leaves deeply personal letters for the aging president to discover in his private spaces. In one, she reportedly wrote, “You are all that matters to me.”
Trump, say the authors, has responded with his own declaration of loyalty, reportedly telling others that Harp, unlike his other aides, “will never leave me.”
The Star reports Harp proclaimed her loyalty to Trump supporter in 2019 when she gave a speech at her alma mater, at the highly right-wing Liberty University.
“She became ever-present,” Haberman said in a recent interview. “She would join him on the golf course when he was golfing, you know, in the interregnum period even before the campaign, literally sometimes running on foot behind his golf cart.”
BB – That looks wonderfu! When I was in High School, I made two loaves of bread or a bunch of cinnamon or sticky pecan rolls. Now, I just make focaccia; the quick & dirty recipe doesn’t require kneading and only one rise.
Why do kids in foster care not get as much good attention as Punch, the monkey?
IS THE CENTER DEAD?
🍽️ From today’s Digital Diner menu
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare on Friday said federal investigators have not shared evidence with his office, including the name of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston earlier this month.
“My office has reached out to DHS (the Department of Homeland Security) on a number of occasions after this shooting, and not only have we not been told no, we haven’t gotten anything back. We haven’t gotten a response to anything,” Teare said, referring to the federal government agency that oversees ICE. “In the 20 years that I’ve been in law enforcement, I’ve never seen behavior like this.”
*You’ve gotta go back to 1930s, Nazi Germany.
“We can now confirm that the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado’s van was not a narcotic or any other illicit substance,” Garcia said on social media, without revealing the source of the information.
“As his family has said all along, this was an electrolyte powder to stay hydrated working outside in the hot Texas summer. The attempt to cast a shadow over Lorenzo Salgado’s name has failed.”
*The F.B.Lie.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/us-accuses-american-allegedly-wiping-175330841.html
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports…federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
The case, which had its first hearing on Monday, centers on a little-known US federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized.
Experts said it may be the first time the law has been aimed at the operating system, which works on Google Pixel phones, and expressed concerns about a technology created for privacy and security being used to criminalize protesters.
“It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,” said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert.
looks like i know what phone to get next
the property is the phone not the data
will say a good lawyer
prosecutors are abusing the intent of that statute
https://apnews.com/article/ben-jerrys-foundation-corporate-dispute-social-values-2066784e6277b672ed74c56a19a5f6de
The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation says it will shut down at the end of the year after its corporate parent cut off funding and evicted its three staffers Wednesday. The move leaves $600,000 a year in grants to Vermont organizations, and 40 years of the ice cream brand’s progressive mission, hanging on a judge’s future ruling.
“This is the other foot dropping in terms of the way Magnum is trying to destroy the social values of Ben & Jerry’s,” said Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, in an interview Wednesday.
The Vermont-based iconic ice cream brand has been in a legal fight with its parent company, The Magnum Ice Cream Co. — an ice-cream spinoff of the larger corporation Unilever — since November 2024. Ben & Jerry’s alleges that the corporation overreached its control, pushing out the CEO and interfering with the brand’s political views. The question before a judge is whether the corporate parent had the authority to reshape governance and withhold funding from the foundation.
looks like I know what ice cream not to get next
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What I like is I can make a pizza dough in minutes by tossng water, flour, oil, yeast and salt into the tub, set it for dough and tah dah, pizza dough to put in frig until needed.
there are so many satellites in the night sky now I don’t know that I’d be able to tell which is which
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I bought some lavender blossoms to make simple syrup for tea, and I’m looking for an easy ice cream recipe that doesn’t require an ice cream maker. Lavender ice cream.
That sky compass thingie on the ISS tracker is cool. shows where to look for it
there are a bunch of no-machine ice cream techniques, search it up
you can make an ice cream machine with a coffee can if coffee cans still exist, which I was wondering if they still do recently
Had many uses
you can poke a hole in the lid, run a hand mixer blade through the hole and then either spin it between your palms while your best buddy dumped salt on the ice or you could make a bow like you would to start a fire with sticks
rube goldberg ice cream machine 😀
if your hand mixer operates with just one of the blades attached, I don’t see why you couldn’t do that with a sauce jar also
whskyjack: you have excellent taste in music.
Yeah, I’ve seen recipes where you just use ziplock bags to mix the ice cream & that sounds risky.
oh, like a bag inside a bag? OK that’s pretty smart
jar in a bag
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