Oliver Burkeman: Most people will return a lost wallet. But are they still selfish at heart? (The Guardian)
You probably saw the story about the lost wallets, which shone briefly and hopefully last month through the fog of our depressing moment in history. To recap, researchers left 17,000 wallets in 355 cities around the world, some containing large or small amounts of money - and contrary to expectations, people proved more likely to contact the owner when cash was involved.
Welcome To The Equifax Data Breach Settlement Website
In September of 2017, Equifax announced it experienced a data breach, which impacted the personal information of approximately 147 million people. A federal court is considering a proposed class action settlement submitted on July 22, 2019, that, if approved by the Court, would resolve lawsuits brought by consumers after the data breach. Equifax denies any wrongdoing, and no judgment or finding of wrongdoing has been made.
"Oben am jungen Rhein" ("High on the young Rhine") has been the national anthem of Liechtenstein since 1920. What other nation shares the same melody for its national anthem?
"Oben am jungen Rhein" ("High on the young Rhine") has been the national anthem of Liechtenstein since 1920. It shares the same melody as the United Kingdom's national anthem, "God Save the Queen", and Norway's royal anthem, "Kongesangen", the only difference being an additional refrain at the end of the song.
The original lyrics were written in 1850 by Swiss pastor Jakob Josef Jauch (1802-1859), at a time when the Principality of Liechtenstein, which is considered the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, was a member of the German Confederation. About a decade earlier, French claims to the left bank of the Rhine (Rhine Crisis of 1840) had triggered a series of German "Rhine songs". "Oben am jungen Rhein" was a number of early national anthems with the same tune as "God Save the Queen", but the only one that continues to use the tune. In 1963, it was shortened (including explicitly Christian passages), and references to Germany were removed.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
"Oben am jungen Rhein" has the same melody as "God Save the Queen," the
national anthem of the United Kingdom.
Randall wrote:
United Kingdom
Alan J answered:
The UK.
Dave said:
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "God Save the King/Queen" has been borrowed by several other nations besides Liechtenstein for their national anthems.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
"High on the young Rhine") is national anthem of Liechtenstein.Written in the 1850s, it is set to the melody of the British anthem, "God Save the King/Queen
Deborah replied:
Our daughter was an au pair for 15 months in Karlsruhe, Germany, and when we visited I learned the answer to today's trivia question: England's national anthem, "God Save the Queen," is the same tune as Germany's.
We went to a dog show yesterday near Monterey. Driving down wasn't bad, but driving home was the worst…Gilroy was holding its annual BFD Garlic Festival, and the traffic was incredible. What was an under 2 hr. drive down took 2.5 hours to drive home, just 130 miles. Oy.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The United Kingdom. Also we borrowed the same melody for My Country 'Tis Of Thee. There is a shaggy dog story about the Tis Bottle. Maybe it can be found on the Google machine...
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• Ruggero Leoncavallo, composer of Pagliacci, once was asked by Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany to compose an opera. He composed Der Roland von Berlin, and he went to the German court to deliver the score. Because the Kaiser was busy, Mr. Leoncavallo was asked to wait with a number of other people, all of whom were wearing full-dress military uniforms, while he was wearing his usual somber black clothing. Of course, he stood out, and many chamberlains who saw him and thought that he did not belong in the company of those officers asked if he was supposed to be there. Mr. Leoncavallo said, "I found in the end that it saved time to keep my invitation card constantly in my hand, as no sooner had I put it back in than I had to take it out again to satisfy some other bespangled official that the right place for me was not the servants' hall." Of course, this was annoying, but soon Mr. Leoncavallo got satisfaction. The Kaiser arrived, complimented his score, and invited him to lunch. Mr. Leoncavallo says about the officials, "As soon as the Kaiser had gone, they all crowded around me smiling, smirking, scraping, bowing, as if I had suddenly become a second God the Father Almighty."
• When the Metropolitan Opera moved to Lincoln Center, Leontyne Price starred in a Franco Zeffirelli production of Antony and Cleopatra that was plagued by mishaps. This cooled her relationship with the Met, and she devoted her gifts to the San Francisco Opera and other venues. However, when Schuyler Chapin became the Met's general manager, he wanted Ms. Price to sing at the Met, so he set up a luncheon with her at La Cote Basque, a fancy New York restaurant. Ms. Price wore elegant black pants and a mink coat, but when the manager of the La Cote Basque, Madame Henriette, saw her, she told Mr. Chapin to tell Ms. Price that women in pants could not eat there. Mr. Chapin pleaded, "Madame, if you deny Leontyne Price, I'll never be able to persuade her to return to the Metropolitan Opera. She asked to lunch at your restaurant. Please! We need her back on the Met stage. New York misses her. Help me!" Madame Henriette relented, saying, "Never let it be said that La Cote Basque has denied our city a great artist. I say rules can be bent!"
• While singing for the troops in her native Australia during World War II (despite having contracted polio), opera soprano Marjorie Lawrence always wore lovely gowns. Keeping them pressed was not as much of a problem as it would seem because there was always a soldier or nurse who was willing to iron them. Once, a nurse took a gown to press it, but with the beginning of the concert approaching, the gown had not been returned, so Ms. Lawrence sent her husband after it. He found the nurse wearing it - and a half-dozen other nurses waiting for a chance to try it on. The nurse explained, "We've been out here in the wilderness nearly two years, and this is the first lovely dress we've seen since leaving home. I simply had to put it on."
• During World War II, British civilians were trained to be members of the Home Guard. Soprano Joan Hammond was out for a walk one evening when a well-dressed man wearing a bowler hat and carrying an umbrella pointed his umbrella at her and said, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Ms. Hammond thought that he was harmless, so she said, "I'm dead." The well-dressed man raised his bowler hat and said politely, "I beg your pardon, Madam, but there is a Home Guard exercise here this evening, and I thought you were one of the enemy." Ms. Hammond writes, "I was delighted with this bit of whimsy as there was an air raid in progress at the time, and here we were preparing for the invasion of Eaton Square, bowler hats and all."
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Love Island', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Idris Elba, Maude Apatow, and Perry Farrell.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Jeff Goldblum, Andie MacDowell, and Bishop Briggs.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Rachel Brosnahan, Carla Gugino, and Ty Dolla $ign.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are John Oliver, CC Sabathia, Mini Mansions, and Jeff Quay.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/17/19 [sic]) are Rhys Darby, Drab Majesty, and Rhett & Link.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH'Grand Hotel'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Melissa McCarthy, Michael Peña, and Mac DeMarco.
The CW offers a FRESH'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', followed by a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway'.
Faux has a FRESH'Beat Shazam', followed by a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 2 hours of 'Live PD: Police Patrol', and 'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'Moneyball', followed by the movie 'American Sniper'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 11-Parallels
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 12-The Pegasus
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 13-Repentance
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 14-Prophecy
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 15-The Void
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 16-Workforce, Pt. 1
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 17-Workforce, Pt. 2
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 18-Human Error
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 19-Q2
[3:00PM] THE TERMINATOR (1984)
[5:30PM] TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003)
[8:00PM] ESCAPE PLAN (2013)
[10:30PM] ESCAPE PLAN (2013)
[1:00AM] THE TERMINATOR (1984)
[3:30AM] TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003) (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has all old 'The Office' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Angela Bassett.
Scheduled on a FRESHDavid Spade are Neal Brennan, Erik Griffin, and Whitney Cummings.
FX has the movie 'Logan', followed by a FRESH'Legion'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
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[6:00A] Night Flight-Vocal Vanguards
[6:15A] Mama
[8:30A] Diary of the Dead
[10:30A] Dark Skies
[12:30P] Colombiana
[3:00P] That '70s Show-15:15
[3:30P] That '70s Show-Sparks
[4:00P] That '70s Show-My Wife
[4:30P] That '70s Show-Going Mobile
[5:00P] That '70s Show-The Seeker
[5:30P] That '70s Show-Who's Been Sleeping Here
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men-My Tongue Is Meat
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men-Ergo, the Booty Call
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men-The Unfortunate Little Schnauser
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men-The Spit-Covered Cobbler
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men-Golly Moses, She's a Muffin
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men-Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Burro
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men-And the Plot Moistens
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men-Just Once With Aunt Sophie
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men-Arguments for the Quickie
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men-That Pistol-Packin' Hermaphrodite
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men-Working for Caligula
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men-Who's Vod Kanockers?
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men-Family, Bublé, Deep-Fried Turkey
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men-Bouncy, Bouncy, Bouncy, Lyndsey
[1:00A] That '70s Show-15:15
[1:30A] That '70s Show-Sparks
[2:00A] That '70s Show-My Wife
[2:30A] That '70s Show-Going Mobile
[3:00A] That '70s Show-The Seeker
[3:30A] That '70s Show-Who's Been Sleeping Here
[4:00A] Rodan (ALL TIMES EDT)
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[6:00am] M*A*S*H
[6:30am] M*A*S*H
[7:00am] M*A*S*H
[7:30am] M*A*S*H
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[12:00pm] M*A*S*H
[12:30pm] M*A*S*H
[1:00pm] M*A*S*H
[1:30pm] M*A*S*H
[2:00pm] Summer Rental
[4:00pm] Ghostbusters II
[6:30pm] Home Alone
[9:00pm] Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
[11:30pm] Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
[2:00am] Ghostbusters II
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Fast & The Furious', followed by the movie '2 Fast 2 Furious'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 6/6/19) is Dana Carvey.
Sian Gonzales found out he would no longer be receiving the almost $5,000 he has been awarded annually from the Alaska Performance Scholarship (APS) on July 9 - a month and a half shy of the first day of classes for his junior year at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
Gonzales, 21, didn't lose the scholarship money because his grades slipped or because he violated any school rules; instead, Gonzales and 2,500 other students in Alaska lost the scholarship because the state is no longer funding it.
"I'm scared," Gonzales, a nursing student, told NBC News. Raised in Juneau, Gonzales decided to stay in Alaska for college in large part because of the APS, and even worked toward earning the scholarship during high school.
The APS began awarding students money in 2012 to encourage bright high school seniors to stay in their home state for higher education and prevent a brain drain. The program has specific qualifications for students to be eligible, and some students, like Gonzales, spend their high school years taking certain classes, maintaining a high GPA, and studying to get good SAT or ACT scores in order to qualify. Gonzales is in Level 1, which means he gets $4,755 per year from the APS. The state also offered two other levels of the scholarship worth either $3,566 and $2,378 per year.
Now, that's gone, and he's left wondering how to fill the significant financial gap in such a short amount of time.
Federal authorities for months suspected a humanitarian group of harboring immigrants, eventually resulting in felony charges against a volunteer who says he was simply being a good Samaritan, according to recently released court documents.
A jury in June was unable to reach a verdict against Scott Warren on charges of conspiracy and harboring and transporting immigrants. Federal prosecutors plan to retry Warren, of Ajo, Arizona, on two counts of harboring in November.
Warren says he was fulfilling his humanitarian duty by helping two injured migrant men at a facility known as "The Barn," where members of the humanitarian group No More Deaths are based. Prosecutors say he was helping them evade authorities.
Documents unsealed in the case show the timeline for the investigation that led to Warren's arrest while also revealing how locals and officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked closely with Border Patrol agents.
The relationship between No More Deaths members and federal officials, who view them as a nuisance for leaving water jugs on federal land and who had increasingly taken action against them, was already strained.
Almost overnight, a small town nestled in the heart of the Southern Bible Belt has become a battleground for America's deeply divisive debate over women's reproductive rights.
There are no abortion clinics in Waskom, located near the Louisiana border, but last month an all-male city council passed an ordinance largely written by an anti-abortion group declaring it a "sanctuary city for the unborn".
Officials insisted it was a preventive measure, designed to allay the council's fears that the signing of strict abortion bans in the neighbouring state could prompt clinics to move across the border and into their town of about 2,200 residents.
Responding to the proclamation, abortion rights activists from Austin, around 300 miles away, erected two billboards on the edge of town that asserted "abortion is freedom" and directed women needing care to a website with information on local services.
That small act of external resistance has galvanised many of the of men and women who live in the town.
Good news for everyone who likes those sci-fi dystopias where everything is controlled by one or two corporations: We already live in one of those! And we have been living in it for many years! Woohoo! Now, this enthusiasm may seem slightly sarcastic, but please do not mistake our joy for some kind of ill-conceived snark. We obviously love all corporations and would never do anything to risk being condemned to a life of hard labor in Disney's spice mines on Mars.
But hey, speaking of The House Of Mouse, that great company (which we love unconditionally) has something to celebrate today. As reported by Variety, Disney has broken the global box office record for a single studio in one year as of this weekend-and it's only July. Thanks to the positive receipts from Aladdin and that whole Avengers: Endgame scheme, Disney has crossed $7.67 billion in ticket sales for 2019, topping the previous record of $7.61 that was set in 2016 by some pathetic loser company called, uh… Disney. See, it's stuff like this that makes people worry about these enormous corporations stamping down all of culture and smoothing it over into some kind of homogeneous paste. Not us, though! We love this! (And we're so, so bad at mining for spices on Mars. We would really just slow the whole operation down.)
Variety points out that Disney's box office success here is "especially significant" because it still has some big movies coming out before the end of 2019, specifically Frozen 2, Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil, and Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, all of which are pretty much guaranteed to make a ton of money. Variety also points out that Disney now owns 40 percent of the domestic film market, thanks to its new ownership of Fox's film assets, with its closest competitors (Warner Bros. and Universal) only owning about 13 percent each. But hey, at least those Marvel movies are fun.
Soldiers are monitoring migrants at a detention centre in Texas, in what one congressman fears comes close to a breach of the Posse Comitatus Act, a cornerstone of US society.
Under the 1878 federal law members of the army are prohibited from acting as a domestic police force.
Active-duty troops are only allowed to help police officers under limited exceptions to the act, including when expressly authorised by law or by the constitution.
But troops are currently keeping watch over detainees at a facility in Donna, Texas, according to NBC News.
The soldiers are unarmed, meant to be present for welfare checks and are not supposed to interact with the detainees, instead referring any issues directly to Border Patrol officers.
An unprecedented outbreak of wildfires in the Arctic has sent smoke across Eurasia and released more carbon dioxide in two months than the Czech Republic or Belgium does in a year.
As 44C heatwaves struck Europe, scientists observed more than 100 long-lasting, intense fires in the Arctic in June, the hottest month on record, and are seeing even more in July, according to Mark Parrington of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
Mostly in Alaska and Russia, the infernos have collectively released more than 120 million tonnes of CO2, more than the annual output of most countries. It is the most carbon emitted since satellite monitoring began in the early 2000s.
This will further exacerbate climate change and has sent smoke pouring toward more populated parts of the world. Pollutants can persist more than a month in the atmosphere and spread thousands of kilometres.
While some have estimated that up to half a million kilometres have burned worldwide this year, Russia has been especially hard hit. Already, dangerous levels of smoke pollution have been reported this week in the cities of Chelyabinsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk, where a curtain of smog turned the daytime sun a deep red. The number of patients in some cardiac wards have reportedly doubled.
Climate change has thrown our beautifully balanced planet into chaos. As oceans and forests transform and ecosystems go into shock, perhaps a million species teeter on the edge of extinction. But there may still be hope for these organisms. Some will change their behaviors in response to soaring global temperatures; they might, say, reproduce earlier in the year, when it's cooler. Others may even evolve to cope-perhaps by shrinking, because smaller frames lose heat more quickly.
For the moment, though, scientists have little idea how these adaptations may be playing out. A new paper in Nature Communications, coauthored by more than 60 researchers, aims to bring a measure of clarity. By sifting through 10,000 previous studies, the researchers found that the climatic chaos we've sowed may just be too intense [Editor's note: The researchers scanned 10,000 abstracts, but their analysis is based on data from 58 studies]. Some species seem to be adapting, yes, but they aren't doing so fast enough. That spells, in a word, doom.
To determine how a species is adjusting to a climate gone mad, you typically look at two things: morphology and phenology. Morphology refers to physiological changes, like the aforementioned shrinking effect; phenology has to do with the timing of life events such as breeding and migration. The bulk of the existing research concerns phenology.
The species in the new study skew avian, in large part because birds are relatively easy to observe. Researchers can set up nesting boxes, for instance, which allow them to log when adults lay eggs, when chicks hatch, how big the chicks are, and so on. And they can map how this is all changing as the climate warms.
By looking at these kinds of studies together, the authors of the Nature Communications paper found that the 17 bird species they examined seem to be shifting their phenology. "Birds in the Northern Hemisphere do show adaptive responses on average, though these adaptive responses are not sufficient in order for populations to persist in the long term," says lead author Viktoriia Radchuk of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research.
Thanks to a chance observation during a woodland ramble, scientists have found evidence that trees can keep each other alive by sharing water and other resources - forming a type of 'superorganism' that works together to keep individuals alive.
In this way, a tree stump has been able to survive and cycle water, even without foliage of its own.
Ecologists Sebastian Leuzinger and Martin Bader spotted the apparently dead kauri pine tree stump (Agathis australis) in one of New Zealand's North Island forests, but it showed something that dead trees don't have: sap running through it.
By measuring water flow in the stump and the surrounding trees, the researchers found they closely matched, suggesting the kauri pine's nearest neighbours are keeping it on life support. That opens up another question - why?
Leuzinger and his colleagues think the tree stump's roots have been grafted together with roots from other trees, something that is known to happen when trees sense they can share resources with the trees around them. These grafts allow trees to form a type of 'superorganism' in a forest, and help groups of trees improve their collective stability.
"The Lion King" rode its circle of life into a second weekend atop the box office and "Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood," while not quite doing fairytale numbers, gave director Quentin Tarantino his biggest opening ever.
Disney's photorealistic remake of the Hamlet-themed tale of Mufasa, Simba and Nala, featuring the voices of Donald Glover and Beyoncé, brought in $75 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Its domestic total of $350 million makes it the year's fourth highest-grossing film after just 10 days of release.
"Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood" finished a distant second with $40 million in its opening weekend for Sony, but it bested the 2009 opening of Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" by $2 some million and made a strong showing for an R-rated, nearly-three-hour film that was not a sequel or remake and was aimed solely at adults.
The rest of the box office top 10 remained essentially unchanged from a week earlier. Sony's "Spider-Man: Far From Home" was third with $12.2 million in its fourth weekend and has earned a cumulative $344 million, "Toy Story 4" was fourth with $9.8 million, and "Crawl" fifth with $4 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Lion King," $75.5 million ($142.8 million international).
2. "Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood," $40.3 million.
3. "Spider-Man: Far From Home," $12.2 million ($21 million international).
4. "Toy Story 4," $9.8 million ($19.4 million international).
5. "Crawl," $4 million ($3.4 million international).
6. "Yesterday," $3 million ($3.6 million international).
7. "Aladdin," $2.8 million ($7.2 million international).
8. "Stuber," $1.7 million ($1.6 million international).
9. "Annabelle Comes Home," $1.56 million ($3.7 million international).
10. "The Farewell," $1.55 million.
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