Tom Danehy: Tom hopes that Israel will once again become a country he can get behind (Tucson Weekly)
For the vast majority of my life, if someone had asked me what my favorite country in the world was (other than the good old USA), my answer would have been quick and decisive: Israel. As a high-school kid, I pored over the novel-length accounts of the Six-Day War in the Los Angeles Times, marveling at how such a small country, surrounded on all sides by bitter enemies, could do such amazing things to survive.
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You know who has what must be one of the hardest jobs in the world? The chair of the Democratic National Committee. […] The first three years of Tom Perez's chairmanship have gone rather well!And, not to jinx it, this fourth year is beginning to look hopeful , too. I'm loving the gracious, constructive way Pete, Amy, Beto, and Mike, among others, have endorsed Joe Biden. And we might finally wrest the gavel from McConnell at the same time. Wouldn't that be something.
Ajax is a brand of household cleaning products made by Colgate-Palmolive. The brand is also licensed by Colgate-Palmolive to Phoenix Brands LLC for laundry detergents in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
The slogan for the original Ajax scrubbing powder was "Stronger than dirt!", a reference to the muscular hero Ajax of Greek mythology. Some Ajax dish soaps now feature the trademarked slogan "Stronger than grease!" Another early slogan was "Ajax... the foaming cleanser!"
The first slogan was used again for Ajax Laundry Detergent when introduced in the beginning of the 1960s, advertised with an armed knight riding a white horse. At the end of the Doors song "Touch Me", Jim Morrison says the slogan "Stronger Than Dirt".
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Dave was first, and correct, with:
Ajax. The Colgate-Palmolive company introduced the Ajax line of cleaning products starting in 1947. Apparently the name of the hero of Greek mythology wasn't enough to overcome the advertisements of the competition, like Mr. Clean, so somebody figured that invoking the imagery of a knight riding his war horse and wielding a long lance would convince people that Ajax cleaned better than a white tornado?
Roy, the Never Trumper in Gohmertstan (Tyler), TX wrote:
That common household cleanser that's supposedly "Stronger Than Dirt" is Ajax. I'd show you a picture of mine, but it turns out, I seem to have switched to Comet a few years ago.
Alan J answered:
Ajax.
mj said:
I can swear
The Doors use that phrase at the end of Touch Me. Ajax laundry detergent
was stronger than dirt.
Stephen F responded:
Ajax
Cal in Vermont replied:
Ajax Laundry Detergent which was purported to wash the prodigious amounts of oil, grease and, yes, dirt out of hubby's white T-shirts. I bet.
David of Moon Valley replied:
a little fuzzy...
…but i dismember it being something like Ajax?…maybe?
Daniel in The City responded:
Ajax
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
The first slogan was used for Ajax Laundry Detergent when introduced in the beginning of the 1960s, advertised with an armed knight riding a white horse
Dave in Tucson said:
Ajax Cleanser.
Deborah wrote:
I know this: Ajax cleaner. I think it's still around, although I don't use it.
The almond orchards are beginning to leaf out, but their lovely scent still lingers. My orange tree's hundreds of buds are swelling - it might be in bloom by next week. Guess I better pick the dozen or so oranges that are left.
Mark. answered:
Ajax cleaning products.
Mac Mac replied:
Ajax
Randall responded:
Ajax
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• Eric Carle, author and illustrator of the children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, loves animals. When he was young, his grandparents kept a few animals in back of their factory, which was located next to their home. One of the animals was a goat that used to visit Eric's grandmother, whom Eric called Oma. The goat climbed up three flights of stairs in her home and then butted her door with his head so she would open the door and give him a treat such as a handful of oats. Eric's grandparents also kept chickens. Eric knew something about chickens, and although he loved his grandmother, he was not above playing a trick on her. He gently took a chicken and put it on its back, holding its body and its head down for 30 seconds. When he released the chicken, it lay there quietly. According to the adult Eric, "Thousands of years ago when chickens still lived in the wild, they 'played dead' in order to fool a fox or weasel about to attack." Eric did this to four chickens in all, and then he rang the bell to his grandmother's room. When she looked out the window, he pretended to be greatly excited and pointed to the chickens, which looked as if they were dead. His grandmother came running, and when she reached the chickens Eric clapped his hands and the startled chickens jumped up and began to act the way live chickens act. His grandmother then took Eric by the ear and marched him to her kitchen - but Eric was not punished. Instead, she made him hot cocoa and fed him a cookie she had made from scratch. Eric says, "You can see why my Oma was special."
• In the late 1970s, the Pail & Shovel Party, which became known for its art projects, aka wacky pranks, led the student body of the University of Wisconsin. In 1979, they made it seem as if the Statue of Liberty were located in the nearby, frozen Lake Mendota by placing on the ice of the lake a replica of the top half of the Statue of Liberty's head and the arm holding the torch. Also in 1979, they planted 1,008 plastic pink flamingoes on the front lawn of Bascom Hill, a campus landmark. Flamingo-planting became and remains a University of Wisconsin campus tradition.
• Sol Hess, the cartoonist of the long-ago comic strip The Nebbs, once returned home late and noticed that a neighbor's window was covered with newspapers - the neighbor had taped them to the window to protect his privacy after sending out the drapes to be cleaned. Mr. Hess telephoned his neighbor and requested that the neighbor turn the pages and retape the newspapers to the window because he had already read the pages that faced the street.
• Comedian Jonathan Winters and his friends will sometimes put on the people around them. In a crowded elevator, he once asked fellow comedian Pat McCormick, "You don't think we tied him up too tight?" And in a crowded hotel lobby, he once told a friend, "We never should have operated in a hotel room. Granted, he's alive but you shouldn't have let the brain fall on the rug. Next time, St. Vincent's [Hospital]."
But the best alternative to Happy Birthday that I've heard?
Alice's Restaurant! You don't need to sing that one twice as you wash.
My pledge--if I come down with covid-19 symptoms, I promise to go to wherever Predator is and plant the wettest, sloppiest kiss humanity has ever known on those disgusting, orange lips.
Predator is telling people to go to work even if they're sick? WTF is WRONG with him & his brain?! People capable of thought know enough to dismiss anything that jackass says, but now his MAGA minions have their marching orders to sicken & kill the rest of us. Nothing like having the syphilitic-brained, fat-fingered vulgarian "lead" us during a pandemic.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Neil deGrasse Tyson, Hannah Einbinder, and Ty Burrell.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, (from 1/29/20) are Kumail Nanjiani, Dan Levy, and Celeste.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For The Bone Collector', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Carrie Underwood, Diego Luna, and Lauv.
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Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel (from 2/27/20) are Mark Wahlberg, Storm Reid, and Goody Grace featuring blink-182.
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Katy Perry announced she is expecting her first child with her fiancé Orlando Bloom by revealing her pregnant stomach in her music video for "Never Worn White." After the video's release, she shared an Instagram Story of herself and explained how she hid her pregnancy these past couple weeks as she began to show more.
Perry wrote on Twitter, post-announcement, "omg so glad I don't have to suck it in anymore" and added "or carry around a big purse lol." The singer was referring to what she's done in paparazzi photos taken of her these past couple weeks. In shots taken of her Tuesday in Adidas sweats, she carried a big bag.
She told viewers on her Instagram Live that she and Bloom are thrilled to be welcoming their first baby together soon. Bloom has a 9-year-old son, Flynn, with his ex-wife Miranda Kerr.
She added that she needed to announce soon because it was getting increasingly hard to hide: "I had to reveal it at some point. It's getting pretty obvious."
The Chicken Lady and Headcrusher are coming back! Amazon Prime Video is set to bring back new episodes of the critically-acclaimed cult sketch series from Canada The Kids In The Hall. This marks the first Canadian Amazon Original Series.
The original "Kids" Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson are all set to return for eight episodes and they will reprise fan-favorite characters from the series which originally ran from 1989 to 1995 on CBC in Canada and stateside on CBS, HBO, and Comedy Central. The series will be executive produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.
"Even after 30 years, The Kids in the Hall has retained its brilliance and originality," said Michaels. "We are happy to be bringing back all of the original 'Kids' for the new series."
Michaels' Broadway Video will produce alongside Canadian production company Project 10.
William Shatner was awarded horse breeding equipment - and even horse semen - in his divorce settlement with ex-wife Elizabeth Shatner, according to court filings and media reports.
The actor's divorce was settled in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday, according to court records. They separated from one another in February 2019, court records show.
The couple divvied up their four horses, according to media reports. William will get Renaissance Man's Medici and Powder River Shirley, while Elizabeth will get Belle Reve's So Photogenic and Pebbles, People reported.
But the former "Star Trek" actor, who is a horse breeder, will get "all horse semen" as a part of the settlement, Entertainment Tonight Canada reported.
It's not the first time Shatner has had a court case involving horse semen and one of his wives. He was sued in 2003 by ex-wife Marcy Lafferty Shatner, who claimed William "broke an agreement in their 1995 divorce settlement that allowed her one breeding privilege per calendar year" with their American saddlebred stallions, the Associated Press reported.
Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that successfully convinced home users to donate some of their free computing time to help with research, and its success spawned a large number of related projects.
While it's on hiatus, users with a fondness for distributed computing might take a look at Folding@home, which is trying to figure out the structures of proteins on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The SETI@home's project page describes the reason for the shutdown simply. Over the years, home users have done so much processing that the team now has a large backlog of processed data to analyze. So, the researchers are de-prioritizing the management of the data distribution and focusing instead on looking at what has already been done in the hope of getting their analysis published in an academic journal. As a result, no more work units will be distributed after the end of March.
Its success launched a variety of other distributed computing projects focused on things ranging from cracking encryption keys to tracing neurons. Additional projects have since gotten people to analyze data by eye, ranging from images of galaxies to old weather reports.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the Trump administration would take "all necessary measures" to shield U.S. military and other personnel from a war crimes investigation by the International Criminal Court.
The international court, based in the Hague, Netherlands, ruled Thursday that its prosecutors could move forward with an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban, Afghan forces and American military and CIA personnel.
"This is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body," Pompeo said at the State Department.
"It is all the more reckless for this ruling to come just days after the United States signed a historic peace deal on Afghanistan, which is the best chance for peace in a generation," he said.
Pompeo did not specify what steps the State Department would take to shield Americans from the International Criminal Court's investigation. He and other members of the Trump administration have long argued that the body threatens U.S. sovereignty and has no jurisdiction over American citizens.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new draft of one of its most controversial plans, somehow taking it from bad to worse.
The new draft revises a rule first proposed by then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in 2018 that would require the agency to only use scientific research based on data that's available to the public to create regulations. The new version of the rule, which the EPA released on Tuesday evening while many of us were glued to election results coverage, would change that restriction slightly, mandating that the agency gives preference to studies in which data is publicly available but not outright limiting it to using such research.
But that doesn't makes the rule better. Gretchen Goldman, research director for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told Earther she sees it not as a relaxation, but as a complication that officials can use to ignore research that contradicts their political goals.
The new rule is also vague, opening the door to it being applied in a variety of ways. Tuesday's supplement would also expand the rule to cover all EPA activities, limiting not only the agency's ability to draft new regulations, but also its ability to share "influential scientific information" from any studies with underlying data that's not confidential.
The rule could help the EPA to consider compromised research when it's politically useful for them to do so. Industry-funded researchers, for instance, could simply make their underlying data public to gain favor from agency officials. In fact, that's exactly why the whole notion of trying to pretend health data the protects privacy is "secret science" was cooked up in the first place.
Some of the earliest animals on Earth may have used social networks to chat with each other, review food - and yes - maybe even sext.
In a study published Thursday (March 5) in the journal Current Biology, researchers looked at hundreds of rangeomorphs - bizarre, fern-like animals that lived in large colonies on the bottom of the ocean from about 571 million to 541 million years ago - fossilized along the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. To the team's surprise, many of the fossil specimens appeared to be connected to each other by long, string-like filaments never seen among animals this old. Individual filaments spanned anywhere from a few inches to 13 feet (4 meters) in length and connected rangeomorphs from seven different species, forming what lead study author Alexander Liu called a primitive "social network" of deep-sea dwellers.
Rangeomorphs are thought to be some of the earliest nonmicroscopic animals on Earth, spreading prolifically during the end of the Ediacaran period (roughly 635 million to 541 million years ago) despite having no noticeable mouths, guts, reproductive organs or means of moving around.
Scientists think the creatures dug into the mud on the ocean floor, passively sucking nutrients out of the water using symmetrical, leaf-like branches. Their methods worked well, apparently, as rangeomorph colonies dominated huge plots of the seafloor for 30 million years. Different species ranged from less than 1 inch (0.02 m) to 6.5 feet (2 m) in length, and some may have physically changed shape to better capitalize on the nutrients available around them. You could reasonably call rangeomorphs the "mighty morphin' flower rangers" of the Ediacaran and annoy only a few scientists in the process.
Deep in the Nubia, a region along the Nile in southern Egypt, a baby crocodile sits on Mamdouh Hassan's shoulder to wow tourists.
The reptiles are a source of income for Egypt's Nubian minority, with visitors paying to marvel at the tamed creatures.
But beyond bringing in tourist dollars, crocodiles play an important role in the culture of the ethnic group with a history dating to Pharaonic times and its own unique language.
The Nubians traditionally lived along the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt with roots extending into northern Sudan.
Crocodiles represent an important physical totem of blessings in Nubian belief.
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