David Smith: 'He's gonna get us all killed': sense of unease after Trump coronavirus speech" (The Guardian)
The president then made an awful bungle. He said "these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things as we get approval". Such words could trigger global economic panic. Trump was forced to hastily clarify on Twitter: "... very important for all countries & businesses to know that trade will in no way be affected by the 30-day restriction on travel from Europe. The restriction stops people not goods."
Jen Chaney: 23 Years Is Exactly What Harvey WeinsteinDeserves (Vulture)
Guidelines permitted Justice James Burke to go as high as 29 years or as low as five. It would not have been surprising to see Weinstein receive something closer to that minimum. Somehow, anything more seemed like too much to expect, mainly because we've been conditioned to not expect much when it comes to holding bad, wealthy white men accountable for truly heinous behavior. But even with other cases in California still pending, Weinstein, who turns 68 next week, got 23 years, which means that he will most likely die in jail.
The first liquid laundry detergent was widely known for its successful (and annoying) "Ring Around The Collar" campaign introduced in 1968. What is the name of this product?
Wisk was a brand of laundry detergent manufactured in the United States by Unilever (1956 to 2008) and Sun Products (2008 to 2017).
Wisk was introduced in the United States by Lever Brothers Company in 1956 as the first liquid laundry detergent.
The brand was widely known for its successful "Ring Around The Collar" campaign introduced in 1968, spotlighting sometimes-difficult to treat stains that appeared on shirt collars, and the product's ability to help fight them. The campaign received significant criticism decades later for being misogynistic, with the implication that it was the fault of wives that their husbands left home with dirty collars.
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Mark, in Lafayette, IN. was first, and correct, with:
Wisk.
mj wrote:
Named after a hand brush
Whisk ignored the real solution to ring around the collar: wash your neck.
Alan J answered:
Wisk.
Mac Mac said:
Wisk
Cal in Vermont replied:
It was called Wisk. Why can't product developers and ad people spell? I like how their slogan sounded like "Neener neener neee-ner"!
Roy, the Never Trumper in Tyler, TX responded:
Yes, ma'am! That Wisk commercial was annoying on a grand scale. And thanks! Now you've got me singing it on a loop in my head!
Dave wrote:
Wisk. The first liquid laundry detergent was introduced by Lever Brothers in 1956. In 1968 the "Ring Around the Collar" ad campaign started. If you could believe the Wisk ads, after washing with lesser quality detergents than wonderful Wisk, the collars of white shirts would still be stained, and businessmen would be mocked by the sing song cry of "Ring Around the Collar!" So the housewives had better get their shit together and buy Wisk or they would be blamed for their husbands' dirty looking collars (because heaven forbid a man would do laundry or be responsible for his own appearance). After the glory years of the late '60s, competitors started selling liquid laundry detergent and the product changed corporate hands several times. The Wisk brand name was finally retired in favor of Persil in 2016.
Billy in Cypress U$A responded:
Wisk is the answer, but I had to look it up.
Dave in Tucson replied:
Seem to remember the product was Wisk detergent. Could be wrong though.
Michelle in AZ said:
Wisk , I HATED those commercials with a passion
Deborah wrote:
How could I forget? Wisk, it was Wisk, and I didn't use it for years because that song was so annoying.
OTOH, "High Hopes" was my earworm on Wednesday.
Warm and spring-like. Hard not to love it.
Rosemary in Columbus replied:
Wisk
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
Wisk.
All K-12 schools in Michigan will close Monday for 3 weeks.
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Music: "Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 1)" from the album INSTRUMENTALS
Artist: Arthur Russell
Artist Location: New York, New York
Info: American cellist, artist, and composer (born 21 May 1951 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA - died 4 April 1992 in NYC, New York, USA (aged 40). Licensing inquiries: steve (at) audikarecords (dot) com.
Niclas Jensen, a fan, wrote, "Happy, colourful, artful, nice music for happy, colourful, artful, nice people." Favorite track: "Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 5)."
Price: $12 (USD) for 17-track album; tracks cannot be purchased separately.
• The United States certainly gets into a lot of wars. Journalist and cartoonist Ted Rall once spoke with a British reporter who came up with an amusing idea for keeping the U.S. out of wars. The British reporter said, "If the average American cannot identify three cities in a country, the U.S. should not invade it." According to Mr. Rall, "Given that the average American doesn't know their state capital, much less three cities in, say, Canada, this would transform us into a pacifist society overnight." Of course, ignorance abounds, and not just among common American citizens. D-Day took place at Normandy, and the Allied forces brought tons of food for civilians because the Allied forces thought that food would be scarce in Normandy. Actually, Normandy had plenty of food, although other places in France had food shortages - Allied bombs had destroyed train lines that normally would have transported food out of Normandy to the rest of France. Military officials telegraphed Eisenhower: PLENTY OF FOOD. SEND SHOES."
• Quakers tend to be pacifists. In 1854, Eli Jones, who was a Quaker, was appointed Major General of a division of Maine militia as a joke. Mr. Jones responded that if he were to accept the position of Major General, he would "give such orders as I think best. The first would be, 'Ground Arms!' The second would be, 'Right about face! Go, beat your swords into ploughshares and your spears into pruning-hooks, and learn war no more!'"
• When the Nazis were ready to march into Athens, Greece, during World War II, people went shopping for necessities, emptying the food shops quickly because they knew that food would soon be scarce. In addition, writes Maria Callas' mother, who was there, "The beauty shops worked overtime, for when war threatens, most women decide to have their hair washed and curled before the shooting starts."
• British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) once spoke with a cannibal who was aware of the vast number of casualties in World War I. The cannibal asked how the Europeans were able to consume so much human flesh. Told that Europeans did not eat human flesh, the cannibal was horrified and asked how Europeans were able to kill human beings for no reason.
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• Long ago, before Christ, a man traveled to the Han-ku Pass in northwest China. The Keeper of the Pass recognized the man and talked to him. The man was Lao-tzu, aka Old Master, and he planned on journeying into the wilderness and never returning. The Keeper of the Pass begged him to first write down some of his wisdom, and after thinking for a while, Lao-tzu agreed. He wrote a brief condensation of his wisdom on bamboo tablets, and then left, never to return. The bamboo tablets contained the Tao Te Ching, aka Tao Virtue Classic, and it speaks of Tao and its principles, the most important of which is to work with nature, not against it. This book did not remain static, for it has been interpreted and reinterpreted - the result of additional wisdom, as shown by the varying ancient texts that have come down to us. A famous passage from the Tao Te Ching is this: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 2/11/20) are Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Moses Sumney.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 1/28/20) are Cynthia Erivo, Ashton Kutcher, and BTS.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Lincoln Rhymes: Hunt For The Bone Collector', followed by another FRESH'Lincoln Rhymes: Hunt For The Bone Collector', then 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon it's TBA.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 3/3/20) are John Oliver, Elizabeth Debicki, Jenny Offill, and Glen Sobel.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/24/20) are Lana Condor and Sofia Carson.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/3/20) are Ben Affleck, Justina Machado, and Victoria Monét.
The CW offers a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hacksaw Ridge', followed by the movie 'Top Gun', then the movie 'First Blood'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - Two Broken Fingers
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - The House Within The House
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Darmok
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Ensign Ro
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Silicon Avatar
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Disaster
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Game
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Unification (Part 1)
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Unification (Part 2)
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Matter of Time
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - New Ground
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Hero Worship
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Violations
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Masterpiece Society
[8:00PM] ROAD HOUSE (1989)
[10:30PM] THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 (2009)
[1:00AM] ROAD HOUSE (1989)
[3:30AM] THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 (2009) (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Shahs Of Sunset', another 'Shahs Of Sunset', followed by a FRESH'Shahs Of Sunset', then hours & hours of 'Chrisley Knows Best'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park' and 'Daniel Tosh: People Pleaser'.
FX has the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', followed by the movie 'Men In Black III', then a FRESH'The Weekly', and another 'The Weekly'.
IFC -
[8:15A] American Sniper
[11:15A] Full Metal Jacket
[2:00P] That '70s Show
[2:30P] That '70s Show
[3:00P] That '70s Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show
[4:00P] That '70s Show
[4:30P] That '70s Show
[5:00P] That '70s Show
[5:30P] That '70s Show
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] That '70s Show
[1:30A] That '70s Show
[2:00A] That '70s Show
[2:30A] That '70s Show
[3:00A] That '70s Show
[3:31A] Year of the Rabbit
[4:03A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Lost Continent (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Shakiest Gun in the West
[11:00am] The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] The Exorcist
[4:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:45am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Friday The 13th, Part II', followed by the movie 'Friday The 13th', then the movie 'Friday The 13th, Part II'.
CBS' Late Show with Stephen Colbert is joining its NBC late-night counterparts in suspending production. "The Late Show has postponed production on the three original episodes scheduled for next week, which lead into a previously scheduled hiatus," the network said in a statement. "We will continue to monitor the situation closely with plans to return on Monday, March 30."
With state of emergency declared in New York over the coronavirus pandemic, New York-based shows have started to suspend production. That includes NBC's late-night programs The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, and syndicated daytime talker The Wendy Williams Show. All three had previously announced that they would film with no studio audience over coronavirus concerns.
NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will tape an original episode today, March 12, without an audience. Late Night with Seth Meyers will not tape an episode today and an encore episode will air. Instead, a new "Closer Look" will be posted as a digital exclusive.
Beginning tomorrow, The Tonight Show and Late Night will pause production through their previously planned hiatus, which was scheduled for the week of March 23.
The 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony has been postponed amid the global outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), Rolling Stone reports. The event was scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 2 at Cleveland, Ohio's Public Auditorium. The Rock Hall's president Joel Peresman said in a statement, "Our first concern is to the health and safety of our attendees and artists and we are complying to the direction of the local and state authorities and common sense. We look forward to rescheduling the ceremony and will make that announcement at the earliest convenience."
The 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was set to be broadcast on HBO. The acts being inducted this year are: Whitney Houston, the Notorious B.I.G., Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, T. Rex, and the Doobie Brothers.
As of March 11, there are four confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ohio. Events across the country-like SXSW and Coachella-have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak. In addition, numerous bands are canceling shows and tours out of concern for public health and safety. Learn more in Pitchfork's "Updated List of Tours and Festivals Canceled or Postponed Due to COVID-19."
Fans are speculating that The Simpsons "predicted" in 2007 that Tom Hanks would need to self-isolate amid the news that the actor and his wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for coronavirus.
On Wednesday, Hanks announced on social media that he and Wilson had contracted the virus in Australia and would be "tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires".
Following Hanks' post, some viewers of The Simpsons Movie hypothesised that the actor's isolation was foretold by his cameo in the film, when he spoke of being left alone.
In The Simpsons Movie, released in 2007, an animated version of Hanks advertises a "New Grand Canyon" and claims the "US government has lost its credibility so its borrowing some of mine," before stating: "This is Tom Hanks saying if you see me in person, please, leave me be."
Fans also believe the writers of The Simpsons predicted the coronavirus in the 1993 episode Marge In Chains, which sees residents of Springfield infected with a virus called Osaka Flu after ordering kitchen appliances from Japan.
Disneyland announced Thursday it would be shutting its doors starting Saturday through the end of March in the wake of growing concerns in the U.S. and around the world about the coronavirus pandemic.
Another big southern California attraction, Universal Studios Hollywood, is also closing for two weeks.
The Disneyland Resort, the name for the larger complex in Anaheim, Calif., that includes Disneyland, California Adventure theme park, the Downtown Disney dining and shopping complex and hotels, said it is hasn't had any reports of COVID-19, as the coronavirus is also known.
"The hotels of Disneyland Resort will remain open until Monday, March 16, to give guests the ability to make necessary travel arrangements; Downtown Disney will remain open," the statement continued. "We will monitor the ongoing situation and follow the advice and guidance of federal and state officials and health agencies. Disney will continue to pay cast members during this time."
In a similar announcement, Universal Studios Hollywood said it would close from Saturday until March 28 "out of an abundance of caution." The themed dining and shopping area outside the park's entry gates, Universal CityWalk, will remain open.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who has been incarcerated since May for refusing to testify to a grand jury.
U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga ordered Manning's release from jail after prosecutors reported that the grand jury that subpoenaed her has disbanded.
The judge left in place more than $256,000 in fines he imposed for her refusal to testify to the grand jury, which is investigating WikiLeaks. The fines had been accumulating at a rate of $1,000 a day.
A hearing in the case that had been scheduled for Friday has now been canceled. Manning had argued that she had shown through her prolonged stay at the Alexandria jail that she proved she could not be coerced into testifying and therefore should be released.
Manning was held since May for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Wikileaks. She spent an additional two months in jail earlier in 2019 for refusing to testify to a separate grand jury.
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are still questioning whether the coronavirus coverage and response are overblown.
Limbaugh told listeners that "there just is a gigantic cloud of suspicion hanging over all of this, as far as I'm concerned."
"I have to put it in context of everything that I know has happened in the last four years," Limbaugh told his listeners. "Finally something has come along that is accomplishing everything every enemy of Donald Trump, and us, has wanted to accomplish for the last four years."
Limbaugh has compared the coronavirus to the common cold, and he said on his show that it was based on the number of cases. He said, "It's also based on the kind of virus this is. Why do you think this is COVID-19? This is the 19th coronavirus! They're not uncommon. Coronaviruses are respiratory cold and flu viruses. There is nothing about this except where it came from and the itinerant media panic. You can't blame people reacting the way they're reacting if they pay any - even scant - attention to the media."
On his radio show, Hannity cited a comment from an "MIT guy on Twitter" who said that "coronavirus fear-mongering by the deep state will go down in history as one of the biggest frauds to manipulate economies, suppress dissent and push mandated medicines."
Some 12,800 years ago, a site found in modern-day Syria was home to one of the first known human settlements, a momentous place where nomadic people first started to settle down and began cultivating crops. As it turns out, the settlement also bears evidence of another huge moment in Earth's history: a cosmic impact.
Archaeologists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, have found evidence of a cosmic impact by looking at objects found at the ancient Abu Hureyra archaeological site in northern Syria. The site now lays under lake Asaad after it was flooded in 1974 when the Tabqa Dam was closed. However, many of the artifacts collected here during the early 1970s reveal a deeply mysterious story.
The evidence comes in the form of unusual blobs of glass that have been splashed on many of the site's artifacts, including building material and animal bones. To create such material on Earth, temperatures must be upwards of 2,200°C (3,992°F), indicating the settlement was struck by a super-hot, high-energy asteroid impact around 12,800 years ago.
Reporting their findings in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, an analysis of the melted glass revealed it included minerals rich in chromium, iron, nickel, sulfides, titanium, and even platinum- and iridium-rich melted iron, which Kennett said "are commonly found during impact events." The town would have been obliterated in a few moments, sparking instant death for its inhabitants. However, it looks like this tragedy is part of a much larger story.
The dating of 12,800 years ago is significant. This is a time that neatly matches up with the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, a controversial theory that North America, South America, Europe, and western Asia were struck by catastrophic flecks of a disintegrating asteroid or a comet strike about 12,800 years ago
The first exoplanets discovered tended to be gas giants orbiting close to their stars. That's because these are easy to find. Their large size and proximity to the star increase the signal caused by either their gravitational influence on the star or through the amount of starlight obscured by the planet. Over time, however, our ability to image exoplanets has given us a more complete picture of the full catalog of planets outside our Solar System.
As interest in exoplanets has shifted to their atmospheres, however, attention has shifted back to hot gas giants for similar reasons: their atmospheres are large, and therefore the signals they produce are correspondingly large. Now, researchers are reporting details of the atmosphere of a very hot exoplanet with a feature that sounds like something out of science fiction: a rain of liquid iron falling through the night atmosphere.
Which brings us to WASP-76b, which has a mass estimated to be similar to Jupiter's. But it has a radius nearly twice as large, presumably because it's so hot, with an estimated surface temperature of 1,890°C. That heat comes from its proximity to its host star; it completes an orbit in only 1.8 days. Phrased differently, the distance between WASP-76b and its host star is only about 3 percent that of the Earth-Sun distance. So, it's a fantastic candidate for atmospheric imaging.
And a large collaboration of researchers has done just that. The researchers used a fantastic instrument with what is perhaps the worst bacronym I've ever seen: Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations, or ESPRESSO. ESPRESSO can combine light from up to four eight-meter telescopes and was used to image two different orbits in order to get a detailed picture of WASP-76b's atmosphere.
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