Markay

Steve Nathan knows who Jimmy is also, having played on his later releases recorded in Nashville.

The Mersey's version released in 1966 charted in the UK at number 4 and in Australia in the same year. Probably the best known version until Bowie covered it.

Interesting you mention the Black Plague. A year or so ago we visited the village of Eyam in England. The residents self isolated during the Black Plague to avoid spreading the infection. The road into the village was blocked by a stone wall and a cairn erected at the wall. The villages would leave coins in the cairn overnight and those outside would take the coins and leave food. Excellent novel by Geraldine Brooks "The Wonder Years" describing these times. Not a lot has changed 400 years on.

Omnisphere has high demands on CPU, RAM and SSD. To debug try running Omnisphere with the selected patch or instrument. If that runs OK then the addirional overhead of Gig Perfomer is step too far. If not then apply the load reduction recommendations avaliable on the Omnisphere web site.

Well about a year ago there were rumours about whether Renault would stay in F1. I suspect that a factor in Ricciardo's move is the possibility that Renault will have to cut every expense possible including F1 to survive the pandemic financial hit. McLaren is less likely to be in a similar position.

Watching a now legendary local late night TV programme Rage which goes out from midnight to dawn on Friday and Saturday nights. Usually Friday nights are current music vids and Saturday night with a guest programmer that can feature an eclectic mix from the 60's to now covering every genre. Lately instead of Friday nights going staight into "new" music they have been showing retrospectives on musos from all over the planet that have died in the last week. Not all CV related deaths but the added deaths from CV certainly hammers home the fragility of human life.

This whois link says it all. A novel virus scam. Probably a ransomeware entry point for those who get on the mailing list. Shopify are being spoofed as the host. Now Australia has switched to VOIP as the replacement for analogue phone fake cell numbers are widely available for scamming purposes. Echuca is lovely country town but an unlikely place for a Chinese company to select to house it's international head office. What pisses me off is why musos, who would fall into the lowest income bracket all over the world, are being targetted. Why not those willing to pay $1 million a week to spend their summer holidays in the Hamptons?

Having recently been the subject of an intense attack in my day job on our servers that did some damage but not fatal, cause it cracked on old and long forgotten user admin account we moved from pass Words to pass PHRASES. And while we have common attack ports closed, on ocassion we open them to see what is going on and the deluge starts all over. These can be easily remembered and according to a Kaspersky testing site, if you use it to test, use a similar pattern not your real paas phrase, something like "key board forum is great" Include spaces. Easy to remember and have different one for each site. According to Kaspersky something like this at current computer power would take a billion years to crack.

Make money being GIVEN money each time you fill up, the gas guzzlers last laugh on those with Teslas.

thanks for this, Sue. Actually, we did have a great virtual party for Mark. Had to call it quits after 3 hours. That must have been quite some party! .... I hope your eyes are back in focus soon...... :D It was such a good party that Anne became Sue. Now she is Anne again. Dewars will do that to ya. Haig Dimple is a smoother, more mellow experience and you dont mix up names. Based on some very recent, but not yet peer reviewed tests.

Amazing concert, I wonder if there is some sync mastering going before it is broadcast, zero latency, for example the one with Andrea Bocelli just broadcast here.

3D printers have been repurposed here to make headbands for PPE. Their ability for rapid switch in products manufactured is aleady making a difference.

Some random thoughts on what might be different on other side, provoked a few comments in the financial press. Capital will be in short supply and taxes higher for many years to get deficits back under control. So the death of tech start ups that have always lost money and rely on constant capital injections to survive, like Uber. At the end of the day the it is just an app so easily replicated and replaced by smaller ride share co ops or similar with the app developer getting paid per download or as a subscription service. Read somewhere that after past pandemics the pendalum swings to placing a higher value on labour compared to capital. So wage compression with the top end getting a lower multiple of what the average worker gets. Already happening here with a raft of newly appointed bank CEO's getting less than their predecessors. Reading recently about Rimac, a Croation start up producing EV tech for exotic hyper cars and now Porsche and Hyundai. The founder said that he gets three times the average pay of his employees while in the US it is 287 times the pay of the average worker in the company they run. A lot more folk working from home more often. Which requires employers to have greater trust in their workforce. And you don't have trust without respect. Here banks are being forced to give those affected by the pandemic mortgage payment holidays, lower interest rates, foreclosure is banned and landords cannot evict tenants. Banks have been told to suspend dividend payments. Insurers have voluntarily waived pandemic exclusions. So capital is being forced to bend to social needs. Part of this readjustment may be become the norm on the other side. Low interest rates for a long time to come. The extent of this type of change will vary be country and be influenced by the collective mores. Obviously I am influenced by my local environment but to a greater or lesser extent some or all will occur globally.

From a place where the curve maybe flattening and new daily cases daily are falling, but early days, our Chief Medical Officer is telling us 6 months. And that will be a gradual relaxation with an emphasis on jobs. Pubs, clubs and large gatherings may have to wait for a vaccine to be available before reopening. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, you would each be fined $1,100 if the police found out a band was rehearsing in someone's home.

I was going to post the same thing but held off. 413 tested negative. Of those, 75% (310) were later found to be positive, so of total 1014 patients tested, 310 tested negative and later found to be positive. That"s 31% of all patients tested. Might be worth taking the following into account when considering the relevance of this research today. Study test dates "From January 6 to February 6, 2020," in Wuhan China. There are now many documented cases in the past seven days of test kits sourced from China that have been found to be faulty when tested. 50 % or higher error rate. Health Departments in Spain, Italy and Australia amongst those who have refused to accept delivery. These test kits could have been included in the sample used for this study. Test kits are now being manufactured in a number of places other than China, for example Germany. Plus there is more to the test kit story in some countries. Now there are many research institutions developing their own tests in the US and elsewhere. Another complication is that globally test kits are made to conform to the WHO standard. In the US tests up until recently have had to conform to the CDC standard. So a study on the number of false negatives in China in January 2020 has no relevance to the US experience. Published by Popular Mechanics, link HERE "In Washington, where the CDC's faulty tests stymied the progress of testing, potentially aiding the community spread seen there, the University of Washington Medical Center has developed a COVID-19 test based on WHO recommendations, unlike the CDC" Note the reference to "faulty" above refers to false positives.

Not often you get to deal with a synth guy who is also a pyshic, does he also do tarot readings? Kids are always smarter than their parents, its called evolution. Everyone has a doppelganger - get over it.

On a lighter note the State of Queensland here has closed its borders, but granted an exemption for the Easter Bunny.

Lots of great concerts out there, but for some reason this is the one I keep coming back to. Youtube links work best for me if I copy the addy from the YouTube app. [video:youtube]https://youtu.be/4xL7Ilh1DFI

Thats generous Mark given what happened. Early in my day job career I was involved in evaluating physc testing as staff selection tool. One thing that came out in most tests was that past behaviour is a strong predictor of future behaviour. How we respond under pressure typically doesn't change. This vendor may have organisation or planning deficiencies which gets in the way of providing a timely and efficient service. Under pressure over promises and rationalises that the customer is the problem for them failing to deliver what they promised. Sure we are in exceptional circumstances now but most will handle things the same way we handle lesser issues. The coronavirus pandemic not the issue here, its just the way this guy is.

Happy birthday Dave, surprised you didn't let time stand still and postpone it till this time next year.

That is very misleading. Last week I read that the tests have an accuracy of less than 50%, but spinning that as false negatives is of course more much more alarming. The mainstream media is an ugly thing. The Guardian has a little map with the latest numbers of total cases and deaths reported. Last week they briefly had the numbers of recoveries as well, which really put things in perspective as it was nearly two thirds of the total. For some reason that number is no longer being displayed, why? No mystery or conspiracy. Clearly stated underneath the charts. "Sources: cumulative and daily figures are from Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University data last updated 2020-04-01. Recovered cases removed due to unreliable data."

Well based on your sig I believe you are near a hot spot so best to limit travel, stay safe and also trust our NYC brethren, their familiies and those in other hot spots are also safe and well and see this through to the other side.

Yeah I think some people will go stir crazy with the lockdown. We are down to no more than two people at least 2 metres apart anywhere in a public or private space. Every grocery or take away only now coffee or food shop, that is still open, has a hand sanitiser dispenser at their entrance or on their counter for customer use. Filled the car today and for the first time realised squeezing the nozzle handle is serious touch point. No sanitiser available so washed my hands in the windscreen cleaning tub which has detergent in it. One upside, gas here is back at 1995 prices.

Well our Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Medical Officer of each State and Territory are united in the view that if you reduce the number of infections you will reduce the number of deaths. Hence the lock down and strict enforcement of social distancing. I guess this is no different to global warming and some will argue that "the science is not settled" on the subject. Maybe there isn't a correlation between infection and mortality, time will tell.

Joe, there's no need for this, nobody has said "a few dying is no big deal". Should we not try to have an honest discussion? Isn't that what forums are for? I wasn"t directing that at anyone here. I meant it as a general statement, a paraphrase, and towards those out there who are saying things like that. I wasn"t trying to shut anyone here down. I am concerned that there are discussions in places that are acting like the death rate is all there is to this, and I"ve been making the point that it is not. I am deeply saddened by the discussion around an acceptable level of deaths. Maybe I am conditioned by my environment. Australia wide, as of now, here have been 16 deaths with 3,986 diagnosed as infected. That is death rate of 0.4%. At the time where there were 8 deaths we went into a National level 1 lock down. Since then all but 2 States have closed their borders. Tasmania has evicted all tourists. In the space of week over 1 million people have become unemployed. Lock down may continue for at least 6 months at huge cost to Commonwealth and State finances. Many businesses may never return. But at no point has there been any discussion along the lines of " is it worth this cost if the mortality rate is 0.4%."