On This Day
1913 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
The Skandalkonzert (“scandal concert”) was a concert conducted by Arnold Schoenberg, held on 31 March 1913. The concert was held by the Vienna Concert Society in the Great Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. The concert consisted of music by composers of the Second Viennese School.
During the concert, the audience, shocked by the expressionism and experimentalism of the music, began rioting, and the concert ended prematurely. Amid the unrest, concert organizer Erhard Buschbeck was said to have slapped a concertgoer in the face; this would eventually lead to a lawsuit against Buschbeck. The event also led to an alternate name for the Skandalkonzert: Watschenkonzert, from the Austrian German for “slap concert”. Operetta composer Oscar Straus, a witness to the alleged assault, testified that the slap had been the most harmonious sound of the evening.
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33 – According to one historian’s account, Jesus Christ’s Last Supper is held.[1][2]
The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.[2] The Last Supper is commemorated by Christians especially on Maundy Thursday.[3] The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as “Holy Communion” or “The Lord’s Supper”.[4]
The First Epistle to the Corinthians contains the earliest known mention of the Last Supper. The four canonical gospels state that the Last Supper took place in the week of Passover, days after Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and shortly before Jesus was crucified that week.[5][6] During the meal Jesus predicts his betrayal by one of the apostles present, and foretells that before the next morning, Peter will thrice deny knowing him.[5][6]
The three Synoptic Gospels and the First Epistle to the Corinthians include the account of the institution of the Eucharist in which Jesus takes bread, breaks it and gives it to others, saying “This is my body given to you” (the apostles are not explicitly mentioned in the account in First Corinthians).[5][6] The Gospel of John does not include this episode, but tells of Jesus washing the feet of the apostles,[John 13:1–15] giving the new commandment “to love one another as I have loved you”,[John 13:33–35] and has a detailed farewell discourse by Jesus, calling the apostles who follow his teachings “friends and not servants”, as he prepares them for his departure.[John 14–17][7][8]
Scholars have looked to the Last Supper as the source of early Christian Eucharistic traditions.[9][10][11][12][13][14] Others see the account of the Last Supper as derived from 1st-century eucharistic practice[10][15][16][17] as described by Paul in the mid-50s.
Born On This Day
1823 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (d. 1886)
Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller) (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a “vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle.”[1] She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern slaveowner society, but encompassed all classes in her book. She was married to a lawyer who served as a United States senator and Confederate officer. Chesnut worked toward a final form of her book in 1881–1884, based on her extensive diary written during the war years. It was published in 1905, 19 years after her death. New versions were published after her papers were discovered, in 1949 by the novelist Ben Ames Williams, and in 1981 by the historian C. Vann Woodward, whose annotated edition of the diary, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (1981), won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1982. Literary critics have praised Chesnut’s diary—the influential writer Edmund Wilson termed it “a work of art” and a “masterpiece” of the genre[2]—as the most important work by a Confederate author.
1776 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1831)[16]
Marie-Sophie Germain (French: [maʁi sɔfi ʒɛʁmɛ̃]; 1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father’s library, including ones by Leonhard Euler, and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss (under the pseudonym of «Monsieur LeBlanc»). One of the pioneers of elasticity theory, she won the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on the subject. Her work on Fermat’s Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.[1] Because of prejudice against her sex, she was unable to make a career out of mathematics, but she worked independently throughout her life.[2] Before her death, Gauss had recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but that never occurred.[3] On 27 June 1831, she died from breast cancer. At the centenary of her life, a street and a girls’ school were named after her. The Academy of Sciences established the Sophie Germain Prize in her honor.
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The following is information from a friend who has, unfortunately, had a recurrence with Breast Cancer. And, of course, please have a kind thought for all who are battling cancer. If after reading you are interested in more information, just let me know.
Radiation is 5-1/2 5-day weeks of 5-10 min/day zap over the upper right quadrant of my body, frying the top of my lungs, making my rib bones fragile (they won’t break on their own but will have no resilience) and, after about 3 weeks, causing burns to my skin. Like all cancer treatments, it damages the patient to kill the culprit. As sanguine as are my posts, I am well aware of the reality. It is still a crap shoot, they open up the arsenal a la Russia invading Ukraine, with the hope that the patient will survive (unlike the former comparison).
Endocrine therapy is tamoxifen, arimidex, or one of the other systemic drugs that suppresses estrogen (which is needed by just about every system in the body–for men, too).
I am not refusing but am actively resisting until I have a COMPLETE (or as much so as possible) understanding of “odds.” Last time, I ducked the bullet and had NO therapy (did six months of Arimidex but reacted badly to it) and got almost a dozen cancer-free and healthy years with a relatively intact body and fully working systems. The damage done by both treatments is permanent and “overkill” because they still don’t know the parameters.
Treatments are available now that didn’t exist in years past and progress is being made, but it is still largely a crap shoot. The goal, of course, is to kill the cancer without killing the patient.
This entire treatise has been written from MY perspective, and not medically, so you are seeing my hopes and fears and not a clear, cool-headed evaluation of medicine today. Should you find yourself in this position, please be sure to do your own research–improvements and new discoveries ARE occurring constantly. Cancers that were a death sentence ten years ago are now being “cured.”
And, lucky you, your email hit me in a gray mood, to match the skies. Our local weather has been abysmal of late, and my flowering trees (crab apple and magnolia), which had begun their brave showing, have now been thoroughly blighted by several days of 20 degree nights and 30 degree days after days in the 50s to 70s. My roses weren’t as far along and should survive.
Of course putting my thoughts on paper is therapy for me–but if it has just depressed you, my apologies! As you know, I am a survivor–and I haven’t had a chance to get to Alaska yet to see you!
Quoting my husbands old principal, when he was a teacher, “Have a better day!”
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Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion @David Nino Rodriguez joins me on The Shawn Ryan Show to discuss how him being bullied as a child lead him to become a heavyweight boxing champion with an undefeated record of 36-0 with 34 by knockout at his prime. His first round knockout ratio surpassed every heavyweight in history to date and Nino was ranked number 12 in the world by WBA. After being stabbed in the face with a knife he tried to comeback but suffered 2 losses finishing his boxing career with a final record of 39-2.
Nino speaks about his dilemma suffering from social anxiety, leading a life of sobriety, and how he is overcoming PTSD. Rodriguez is now an anti-bullying key note speaker and best selling author of the book “When The Lights Go Out”. https://amzn.to/3iODo4j
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