Lucy Mangan: "Why men should make a point of watching Little Women" (Stylist)
After Oscars and Golden Globes snubs, Lucy is fed up with women's stories being over looked as a 'subset' by men. "Greta Gerwig's sublime movie with the acting talents of Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh? Didn't really fancy it. Wasn't their kind of thing."
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778-1842) was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Spanish and Irish ancestry. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817-1823), he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder of this title to head a fully independent Chilean state.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Chile.
Alan J answered:
Chile.
Roy in Tyler, TX wrote:
As a seriously devoted Never Trumper, I've been referred to as a Libtard, a Snowflake, and today I am proud to have been dubbed Human Scum, by his Eminence, Sir Donald of Trump. So, being the lazy slug that I am, I did a little digging and found out that Bernard O'Higgins was the founding father of Chile back in the early 1800s, which, with that name, just kinda makes perfect sense.
Mac Mac said:
Chile
Cal in Vermont replied:
Chile. He worked hard to successfully free his country from the hated Espaniards. He next turned his attention to changing the name of Chile to Warm, an effort which went unrewarded. Chile is now hard at work attempting to change the name of the planet Uranus to Urectum.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, responded:
Chile.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Bernardo O'Higgins was a Chilean military and political leader, known as one of the founding fathers of the Chilean nation
Deborah said:
Chile. Search engines FTW; I'd not have known that fact otherwise.
Clear to the east, rain to the west…my umbrella's handy.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame responded:
The answer is Chile.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Chile
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Chile... O'Higgins is featured in 'Blue at the MIzzen', the 12th and final novel of the Aubrey-Maturin series by the acclaimed Patrick O'Brian... That series was the inspiration for the Russell Crowe film, 'Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World'...
I've read the series and I will tell you that for historical (and nautical) accuracy O'Brian is unmatched. That, and his command of writing in the British vernacular of that age. makes him the master of that genre... The series takes place all over the globe. From the English Channel to Australia, the islands of the Pacific and SE Asia, all thru the Mediterranean, the coasts and deserts of North Africa and of course the Americas (they were prisoners of the US Navy in New England for a time during the War of 1812). O'Brian certainly well relates the cultures and peoples they meet and I learned much about them... And, get this, Dr. Maturin, Captain Aubrey's 'particular friend', is the James Bond of the Napoleonic Wars: Physician, Scholar, Ship's Surgeon, he is also an agent for Royal Navy Intelligence. Yeah, they did that stuff back then. Oh, and he grew fond of chewing coca leaves during his spy activities fleeing from the Spaniards across the Andes... Seriously... Plus, the series also features a strong, liberated British lady 200 years ahead of her time (and often scandalized, not that she cared)... I have to say that, all things considered, O'Brian makes C.S. Forester's 'Hornblower' series read like Dick and Jane Go to Sea... Try the series... I think you'll like it...
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• In Bikini Kill's early songs, vocalist Kathleen Hanna tends to repeat lines many times. She had a reason for doing this. The sound equipment Bikini Kill played live with was very bad, and she worried that no one would understand the words, and so she repeated them over and over so that the audience would hear them. Some of the lyrics deserve to be heard over and over - for example, she repeated these lines from the song "Resist Psychic Death" over and over: "I resist with every inch and every breath / I resist this psychic death." By the way, near the end of his life, the heart of Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco grew weaker, and his cardiologist, Dr. Ignacio Chávez, recommended that he stop the strenuous work of painting huge murals and instead concentrate on the less strenuous work of creating easel paintings. However, Mr. Orozco refused to take this advice. Instead, he remarked to his wife, "I'm not going to do as the doctor says and abandon mural painting. I prefer physical death to the moral death that would be the equivalent of giving up mural painting." So how does one resist psychic death? Some ways include practicing an art, doing good deeds, paying attention to your soul as well as your body, staying angry at the things that should anger us, and being aware of the fabulous realities that surround us despite the presence of evil in the world.
Activism and Activists
• In 2007, while standing in line in Victoria station in London, a man named Gareth Edwards, who describes himself as a "big, stocky bloke with a shaven head," noticed a well-dressed businessman cutting in line behind him. (Apparently, Mr. Edwards is so big that the businessman did not want to cut in line ahead of him.) Some people politely remonstrated with the businessman, but the businessman ignored the protests. So Mr. Edwards asked the elderly woman who was behind the businessman line-cutter-in, "Do you want to go in front of me?" She did, and Mr. Edwards then asked the new person standing behind the businessman line-cutter-in, "Do you want to go in front of me?" Mr. Edwards did this 60 or 70 times, so he and the businessman kept moving further back in line. Finally, just as the bus pulled up, the elderly woman whom he had first allowed to go ahead in line, yelled back to him, "Young man! Do you want to go in front of me?"
• In November of 2010, tens of thousands of students protested in England over cuts in funding for education and higher fees for tuition that could keep them from getting a university education. Some students in London even attacked a police van, but a group of schoolgirls stopped the attack by surrounding the van and linking hands. Guardianjournalist Jonathan Jones wrote, "Some who were at the student protests this weekaccuse police of deliberately leaving a solitary van in the middle of the 'kettled' crowd to invite trouble and provide incriminating media images of an out-of-control mob attacking it." (According to wikidictionary, kettling is "The practice of police surrounding a hostile mob (usually of protesters) and not letting them disperse.") By stopping the violent students from attacking the police van, the schoolgirls helped prevent negative publicity about the student protests.
• In 1977, future punk critic Steven Wells and some other punks wanted to go to a Mekons concert. However, the student rugby player who was at the door did not like the way that the punks were dressed and so refused to let them inside. The punks formed a picket line and informed everyone who came by what had happened and asked them not to cross the picket line. No one did. Twenty minutes went by, and the person who had organized the show came outside to find out why no one was going inside. The punks explained to him what had happened. The organizer then fired the rugby player and the punks enjoyed a good concert. (Rugby in England is class conscious. In the South, Rugby Union is played by the posh. In the North, Rugby League is played by the working class. The Mekons concert happened in the South.)
Today is dear old Dad's 95th birthday - thought I'd be back in PA for the occasion, but it didn't happen. Sigh.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a FRESH'Undercover Boss', followed by a RERUN'Bull'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 1/8/20) are Larry David and Pedro Gonzalez.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Sting and Caitriona Balfe.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent: The Champions', followed by a FRESH'Manifest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Michael Strahan, Matt Bomer, and Nick Thune.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Colin Quinn, Julia Garner, a performance by the Broadway cast of "Jagged Little Pill", and Chris Coleman.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/28/19) is Snoop Dogg.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'The Good Doctor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kathy Bates, Cynthia Erivo, and Kelsea Ballerini.
The CW offers a FRESH'All American', followed by a FRESH'Black Lightning'.
Faux has a FRESH'9-1-1: Lone Star', followed by a FRESH'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Live PD: Police Patrol', another 'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', then another FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Intern', followed by the movie 'Titanic'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Alternate
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Armageddon Game
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Whispers
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Paradise
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Shadowplay
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Playing God
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Profit and Loss
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Blood Oath
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Maquis, Part 1
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Maquis, Part 2
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Wire
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Crossover
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Collaborator
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Tribunal
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Jem'Hadar (Aka "The Dominion")
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Search, Part 1
[10:00P] MSTAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Search, Part 2
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The House of Quark
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Profit and Loss
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Blood Oath
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Maquis, Part 1
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Maquis, Part 2
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Wire
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Crossover (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then another FRESH'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Spy Games', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
FX has the movie 'Minions', followed by the movie 'Despicable Me 3'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Rudy
[8:30A] The Poseidon Adventure
[11:00A] Saving Private Ryan
[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
[3:30A] Rudy (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[6:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[7:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[7:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[8:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[8:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[9:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[9:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[10:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[10:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[12:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[12:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:30pm] The Professional
[5:00pm] Dirty Harry
[7:15pm] Magnum Force
[9:45pm] The Enforcer
[11:45pm] Sudden Impact
[2:00am] The Dead Pool
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:45am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage', followed by the movie 'Star Trek'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan is Keegan-Michael Key.
Seth MacFarlane is doing his part to help Australia recover from the devastating bushfires.
The Family Guy creator donated $1 million to the Irwin family's Australia Zoo Wildlife hospital to help with the facility's relief and treatment efforts.
Bindi Irwin thanked MacFarlane for his contribution on Twitter, writing, "On behalf of all the wildlife, thank you so much for your support @SethMacFarlane. You are an extraordinary Wildlife Warrior."
The actor's donation will be put towards the zoo's new Koala Intensive Care Ward.
Several other celebrities have also donated and raised awareness about the crisis, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen DeGeneres, Bethenny Frankel and Celeste Barber.
Half of registered voters and a majority of independents think the Senate should convict President Donald Trump (R-Grifter) in his impeachment trial and remove him from office, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday.
Trump was impeached in the House last month on articles of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress stemming from allegations that he leveraged military aid to pressure Ukraine into opening investigations for his own political benefit. Trump has denied acting improperly, and his legal team has accused Democrats of trying to subvert the will of the voters.
Fifty percent told Fox News that Trump should be convicted and removed, and 44% said he should not. Registered voters' impeachment opinions largely fell along party lines, with 81% of Democrats favoring the president's removal and 84% of Republicans opposing it. Independents said Trump should be removed by a nearly 20-point margin, with 53% in favor of conviction and 34% opposed.
The poll was conducted Jan. 19-22, which was after the Senate trial technically had begun but before the House impeachment managers and the president's legal team were able to make their cases.
The results of the impeachment question are little changed from other Fox News polls released since the Ukraine allegations surfaced in September. A survey from the cable news network Dec. 8-11, which was before the House voted to impeach Trump, found 50% thought he should be removed and 46% did not.
1917 director Sam Mendes better start clearing some shelf space in his house, both because he won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Theatrical Feature Film award at last night's Directors Guild Awards (and that award is absolutely massive), and because the winner of that particular award almost always wins the Best Director trophy at the Academy Awards. As noted by Deadline, there have only been seven times since the DGA award was established in 1949 that its winner did not go on to win the directing Oscar, so it seems pretty likely that the Academy will end up being similarly impressed by 1917's faux single-take gimmick.
The DGA's other film-related winners include Alma Har'el, who won Outstanding Directorial Achievement Of A First-Time Feature Film Director for Shia LaBeouf's Honey Boy, and Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, who won the documentary award for American Factory. HBO cleaned up on the TV side, with Bill Hader winning Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Comedy Series for the "ronny/lily" episode of Barry, Johan Renck won the TV movie/limited series award for Chernobyl, Nicole Kassell won the dramatic TV award for Watchmen's "It's Summer And We're Running Out Of Ice," and Amy Schatz won the children's programming award for Song Of Parkland.
There are some awe-inspiring secrets hiding under the ocean, and scientists diving off the coast of the Philippines have just found a new one. Below the waves, 60 metres (200 feet) down, the ocean floor is bubbling like champagne… with vast amounts of carbon dioxide.
For once, humans aren't the cause of these emissions. The region - named Soda Springs - acquires its fizz from a geological source. It's also really close to a thriving coral reef system, which means the site could be helpful for studying how marine ecosystems adapt to climate change.
The site is located in a stretch of water called the Verde Island Passage, between the islands of Luzon and Mindoro. It's rich with marine biodiversity, and an important conservation target. Many animals make their homes amid the coral reefs.
It's not a cause for climate concern, since the area has likely been bubbling for a very long time, maybe even thousands of years; but Soda Springs could be the highest concentration of carbon dioxide ever found in nature.
Measurements revealed concentrations between 60,000 and 95,000 parts per million, the higher end of which is up to 200 times higher than atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. That level quickly falls away as the gas is diluted in the surrounding waters, but even so, the concentrations remain higher than average.
Emerson Hernandez and his daughter Maddie have withstood hunger and thirst.
They've been dumped in a threatening border city in Mexico, a foreign country with nowhere to shelter. And, for seven months, they've been locked up at what critics call a "baby jail".
The father and daughter have weathered all of this just for a chance at asylum in the United States after they fled a home in Guatemala that's now overrun with crime.
Maddie has been detained the longest of any child currently held in family immigration detention across the country, her attorneys say. On 17 January, she turned seven years old at Berks county residential center, a controversial detention facility in Pennsylvania where she has spent roughly 8% of her life.
Despite her lawyers exhausting the legal avenues that could get her out, the government won't release her and Emerson together.
His eyes brimming with tears, a Uighur student in Saudi Arabia holds out his Chinese passport -- long past its expiry date and condemning him to an uncertain fate as the kingdom grows closer to Beijing.
The Chinese mission in Saudi Arabia stopped renewing passports for the ethnic Muslim minority more than two years ago, in what campaigners call a pressure tactic exercised in many countries to force the Uighur diaspora to return home.
Half a dozen Uighur families in Saudi Arabia who showed AFP their passports -- a few already expired and some approaching the date -- said they dread going back to China, where over a million Uighurs are believed to be held in internment camps.
"Even animals in other countries are allowed to have passports," said the 30-year-old religious student in the Muslim holy city of Medina, whose passport expired in 2018.
The community, now offered a one-way travel document suitable only for a trip to China, faces an impossible choice: return home at the risk of detention or remain illegally in the kingdom under constant fear of deportation.
Police in northern India on Sunday bid goodbye to the historic British-era bolt-action rifles after using them for one last salute during the annual Republic Day parade.
The Lee-Enfield .303 rifle was the main firearm of British colonial military forces and, despite being designated "obsolete" around 25 years ago, it has been the main weapon used by police in Uttar Pradesh state over seven decades.
The rifle -- used by the British during the two World Wars -- fires one shot at a time, after which the barrel needs to be reloaded by pulling the bolt.
"They have been in use since independence (from the British in 1947) and now they'll be replaced by INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) and SLRs (Self-Loading Rifles)," said police superintendent Amit Verma.
As many as 45,000 of the rifles were being used by the state police, Verma said, and the model was a favourite among constables due to accuracy and sturdiness.
Twenty-five years ago this month, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, America's first national park and an ecosystem dangerously out of whack owing to the extirpation of its top predator.
This monumental undertaking marked the first deliberate attempt to return a top-level carnivore to a large ecosystem. Now scientists are celebrating the gray wolves' successful return from the brink of extinction as one of the greatest rewilding stories the world has ever seen.
"The pressure was huge with this project," said Doug Smith, the senior wildlife biologist of the Yellowstone Wolf Project who was hired by the National Park Service (NPS) to head the reintroduction in the 1990s. "If we couldn't do this here, on our own turf in one of the most famous parks in the world, as one of the richest nations in the world, then who could? This was an example to the globe in restoring nature."
Wolves once roamed from the Arctic to Mexico, but they were hunted to eradication across the country from the 1870s onward. By 1926, the last wolf pack had been killed in Yellowstone by park employees as part of the policy of the time to eliminate all predators.
They were mythologized as a danger to humans, a menace to the ranchers settling the west and competition for big-game hunters. That mythology still persists to this day, although wolves very rarely attack people, especially compared with cougars and bears. Wolves kill 0.2% to 0.3% of available livestock.
"Boys" trumped "Gentlemen" in movie theaters over the weekend as Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's "Bad Boys for Life" easily remained the top ticket seller over newcomer "The Gentlemen."
The third "Bad Boys" film, coming 17 years after "Bad Boys II," sold $34 million in tickets in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The R-rated action comedy from Sony Pictures, which cost about $90 million to make, has grossed $120.6 million in two weeks domestically.
The weekend's top new release was Guy Ritchie's star-studded gangster film "The Gentlemen." The STXfilms release came in on the high side of expectations with $11 million in ticket sales. The film, a return to the criminal underworld for Ritchie ("Aladdin," "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"), stars Matthew McConaughey as a American expat with a London marijuana empire under threat. Reviews were fairly strong for "The Gentlemen" (72% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) though many critics saw traces of racism in the film's depictions.
The Universal horror film "The Turning," a modern adaptation of Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" that drew terrible reviews, collected $7.3 million in its debut weekend.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore.
1. "Bad Boys for Life," $34 million.
2. "1917," $15.8 million.
3. "Dolittle," $12.5 million.
4. "The Gentlemen," $11 million.
5. "Jumanji: The Next Level," $7.9 million.
6. "The Turning," $7.3 million.
7. "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," $5.2 million.
8. "Little Women," $4.7 million.
9. "Just Mercy," $4.1 million.
10. "Knives Out," $3.7 million.
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