• When she was a child, ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq used to look at the painting Sacred and Profane Love and wonder which figure represented Sacred Love: the fully clothed figure, or the nude figure? She was told that the nude figure symbolized virtue. Therefore, she was looking forward to dancing the role of Sacred Love in Sir Frederick Ashton’s ballet Illuminations — to be relatively unclothed is a blessing to a dancer, as too much costuming interferes with the ability to dance. Unfortunately, Sacred Love wore a lot of costuming in the ballet, whereas Profane Love wore much less costuming. In fact, the ballerina dancing the role of Profane Love wore one ballet slipper instead of two. However, this turned out not to be a blessing, as the ballerina frequently forgot which foot was shod and in going up on pointe with the unshod foot, she bruised all five toenails, resulting in some unballerina-like cursing in the wings.
• When trains were new inventions, Impressionist Claude Monet created paintings of them. He became friends with a stationmaster who helped him paint the trains. For example, the stationmaster would reschedule trains to enable Mr. Monet to finish a painting. In addition, the stationmaster would have the train engineers release clouds of white smoke so that Mr. Monet could paint them.
• Movie director Peter Bogdanovich’s father was an artist who would not sign a painting until after it was sold. He once went to the home of a person who had bought a painting and brought a palette so that he could sign it. Half an hour later, the art collector looked in the room where the painting was and discovered the artist busily repainting the work of art.
• Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African-American folk artist who painted after all her other work was done. Often, she painted at night while her husband, Emmanuel, tried to sleep. One night, he told her, “Woman, if you don’t stop painting and get some sleep, you’ll sure go crazy.” She replied, “No, if I don’t get this painting out of my head, I’ll sure go crazy.”
• The most famous painting in the world is perhaps Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. After he died, it became the possession of King Francis I of France. French royalty owned the painting for centuries, although they didn’t always choose to hang it in a place that art lovers would consider appropriate. For a while, the Mona Lisa was displayed in the royal bathroom!
• When Paul Cézanne was 13 years old, he rescued a skinny, near-sighted kid named Émile Zola from bullies. To show his gratitude, the future novelist gave the future painter a basket filled with apples. As an adult, Mr. Cézanne frequently painted apples and once declared, “I wish to conquer Paris with an apple.”
• Impressionist painter Edgar Degas regarded gold frames as garish and in bad taste. At a dinner party, he discovered one of his paintings in a gold frame. He waited until he was alone, then he took his painting out of the frame, rolled up the canvas, put it under his arm, and left the party, carrying away the painting.
• Some great art is painted on ordinary surfaces. In his 1889 work titled Self-Portrait with Halo, Paul Gauguin depicted himself as the Fallen Angel. The work was created at Marie Henry’s inn in Le Pouldu. Mr. Gauguin painted it in the dining room directly on wooden cupboard doors.
• In the first half of the 17th century, Artemisia Gentileschi of Italy was a painter who knew her own worth. Once she sent a painting to a patron, along with this note: “This will show your Lordship what a woman can do.”
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Nadia Elena Comaneci (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976 at the age of 14, Comaneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. At the same Games (1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal), she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Comaneci won two more gold medals and attained two more perfect 10s. During her career, Comaneci won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.
Comaneci is one of the world's best-known gymnasts and is credited with popularizing the sport around the globe. In 2000, she was named as one of the Athletes of the 20th Century by the Laureus World Sports Academy. She has lived in the United States since 1989, when she defected from then-Communist Romania before its revolution in December that year. She later worked with and married American Olympic gold medal gymnast Bart Conner, who set up his own school. In 2001 she became a naturalized United States citizen, and has dual citizenship, also maintaining her Romanian citizenship.
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Nadia Comaneci
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Nadia Comaneci.
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Nadia Comaneci.
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Following on the heels of Olga Korbut
Nadia Comanici helped transform elegant art performed by women to a
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Romanian athlete Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 for her performance on the uneven bars during the Montreal Olympics in1976. She went on to record the perfect 10.0 six more times and became the youngest all-around Olympic gold medallist ever.
Last I heard, she and husband Bart Connor owned a gymnastics academy in Norman, Oklahoma.
Stephen F said:
Nadia Comaneci
Dave wrote:
Nadia Comaneci. 1976 Montreal Summer Games.
Ed K answered:
If Donald Trump claimed it was him, about 40% of this country would believe him. It was actually Betty White.
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Could that be Nadia Comaneci?
Daniel in The City replied:
Nadia Comaneci. Only had to look it up for the spelling.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
Ah, the storied Nadia Comenici scored the first perfect 10 in the ’76 Olympics. I remember watching her performance with my mouth gaped open — I’d never seen anything like that. Dang, I’m old.
Jacqueline said:
Nadia Comaneci
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That was Nadia Comaneci. I saw that on the TV screen.
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Music: “La Danza De Los Mirios” from the album JUNGLE SURFERS
Artist: Gasoliners
Artist Location: The music publisher, Reverb Brasil, is located in Brazil.
Info: “The new album features 12 seductive themes that continue to narrate the wild journey of this group of sound explorers — six originals and six reinterpretations of rarities from the Americas and Africa (LINK WRAY, AUGUSTUS PABLO, BLAKE ALPHONSO HIGGS, LOS MIRLOS, OS YOUNG PEOPLE and a traditional one). Among the musicians involved are ALEXANDRE KANASHIRO (guitar, calimba, scaleta), SAICO PADOVANO (percussion and vocals), RICARDO GRANATA and FABIO BARBOSA (drums), JULIANO CAMARGO, CARLOS RODRIGUES and SERGIO SONNY (bass), BENEDITO RAPÉ and ALEXANDRE SABIÁ (percussion), NELSON RUBBO (Hawaiian guitar), LEONARDO GIMENES (baroque viola) and CRISTIANO RATTI (keyboards). In addition, the launch is produced by ALEXANDRE KANASHIRO and SAICO PADOVANO, has recording and audio engineering by FLAVIO TSUTSUMI (ATIBAIA), LUIS TISSOT (CAFFEINE SOUND STUDIO) and JONAS MORBACH and, in its first press (promotional) , received support from the REVERB BRASIL label, from the bars MANDÍBULA and ALBERTA # 3, and from the artist SAICO PADOVANO. The cover photo is by FERNANDO PASTORELLI (model: ANNA BEATRICE DI BENEDETTO make-up: BIANCA DRACURELLA).” — from Google Translate
Price: $1 (USD) for the track; $5 (USA) for 12-track album
Last Friday the city placed big bins by the curb in preparation for tree-trimming Monday.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a RERUN'All Rise', followed by a RERUN'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Dr. Jon LaPook and Maroon 5.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Rachel Brosnahan and Anderson .Paak.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Titan Games', followed by a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Bryan Cranston, Julia Garner, and Surfaces.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Tracee Ellis Ross and Luke Bryan.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/5/20) are Wendi McLendon-Covey.
ABC fills the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Dua Lipa, is Gwen Stefani.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'9-1-1: Lone Star'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', folliowed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Hoarders', followed by a FRESH'Hoarders', then a FRESH'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Fast & Furious', followed by the movie 'The Rock'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The House of Quark
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Equilibrium
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Second Skin
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Abandoned
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Civil Defense
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Meridian
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - In Theory
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Redemption
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Redemption II
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Darmok
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Ensign Ro
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Silicon Avatar
[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] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Search
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Search
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Equilibrium
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Second Skin
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Abandoned (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', and another 'Below Deck Mediterranean'.
Comedy Central has all old 'The Office' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'Mission: Impossible III', followed by the movie 'Ride Along II'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Sock-a-Bye-Baby
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - I'll Never Heil Again
[6:45A] The Three Stooges - You Natzy Spy!
[7:00A] Fatal Attraction
[9:45A] Blow
[12:45P] White House Down
[3:45P] Get Hard
[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] Fatal Attraction
[3:45A] The Final Destination
[5:45A] The Three Stooges (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] love lust - Love Lust & Sex Symbols
[6:15am] hogan's heroes
[6:45am] hogan's heroes
[7:15am] hogan's heroes
[7:45am] hogan's heroes
[8:15am] hogan's heroes
[8:45am] hogan's heroes
[9:15am] hogan's heroes
[9:45am] hogan's heroes
[10:15am] hogan's heroes
[10:45am] hogan's heroes
[11:15am] hogan's heroes
[11:45am] hogan's heroes
[12:15pm] hogan's heroes
[12:45pm] hogan's heroes
[1:15pm] hogan's heroes
[1:45pm] hogan's heroes
[2:15pm] walking tall
[4:00pm] a few good men
[7:00pm] gladiator
[10:30pm] gladiator
[2:00am] an officer and a gentleman
[5:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[5:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Doctor Strange', followed by the movie 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter', then the movie 'Law-Abiding Citizen'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 7/6/20) is Will Ferrell.
Simon Cowell is recuperating after undergoing back surgery following an electric bike accident.
“He broke his back in a few places,” a spokesperson for Cowell said in a statement to Deadline. “They operated overnight, the surgery went well, and he is in the hospital recovering.”
According to sources quoted by People, the surgery lasted five hours, and the America’s Got Talent judge “has had to have a number of fusions and metal rod put into his back.”
PREVIOUS SATURDAY 8:50 PM: Simon Cowell landed in the hospital Saturday after an accident with his electric bicycle left him with a back injury.
Reps for the America’s Got Talent judge first told People that the accident happened Saturday afternoon as Cowell was testing the vehicle at his Malibu home with family. The TV personality is doing fine, reps told Deadline
Back in June, Dave Chappelle released a surprise stand-up special on YouTube called 8:46 that was filmed at a semi-secret stand-up show in Ohio for a small-ish crowd of about 100 people. Rather than a one-off for Chappelle to get some things off of his chest, though, that special was actually part of a semi-secret, invite-only series of shows that Chappelle has been doing with the permission of Ohio’s governor and a local zoning board that runs temperature checks, enforces social-distancing, and works with the surrounding community to avoid noise complaints. However, one thing that nobody has been keeping an eye out for is disgraced comedians who refuse to fade into obscurity, because one slipped through the cracks and got onstage… after presumably being invited by Chappelle to do so.
We’re talking about Louis CK, naturally, who previously returned back in April when he released a surprise stand-up special on his website. We don’t know what’s been happening at Chappelle’s shows (apparently dubbed “Chappelle’s Summer Camp” on social media), but The Hollywood Reporter says that photographer Mathieu Bitton posted a photo on August 4 featuring CK, Chappelle, and fellow performers Michelle Wolf, Mo Amer, and DJ Trauma. Another photo was posted this weekend featuring CK, Sarah Silverman, Common, Tiffany Haddish, and a few other familiar faces.
THR says it hasn’t heard anything from Chappelle’s representative about CK’s appearances, but we do know that Chappelle supported CK and criticized his accusers in the Netflix special Sticks & Stones (a special that also saw him criticize Michael Jackson’s accusers), so it’s not especially surprising that Chappelle is apparently giving him a platform here—though it is a bit surprising that so many other famous people don’t have a problem sharing a stage with a guy who admitted to cornering women and forcing them to watch him masturbate.
Archdiocese Kicks Out 2 LGBTQ-Friendly Catholic Groups
Detroit
The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit banned two local LGBT Catholic groups from holding mass in church facilities, the Detroit Free Press reported Saturday.
Dignity Detroit and Fortunate Families Detroit are both Catholic community groups in Detroit that support the LGBTQ+ community. For years, both groups held Masses in churches in Detroit with the support of Catholic priests leading the Mass, according to the Detroit Free Press.
On March 9, Auxiliary Bishop Gerard Battersby sent a letter to all priests in Archdiocese, asking them to "refrain from offering Mass" to Dignity Detroit — a 40-year-old chapter of Dignity USA, a nonprofit organization that supports and advocates LGBTQI members who are Catholic — "lest we confuse the faithful by seeming to endorse an alternative and contradictory path to sanctity," according to the Detroit Free Press.
"A Mass for Dignity Detroit members – one which rejects Church teaching on human sexuality – is not possible in any parish church, chapel, or diocesan facility, and is indeed forbidden everywhere in the Archdiocese of Detroit," Battersby wrote.
Fortunate Families Detroit also published on their website that a letter from Battersby dated March 14 forbid them from meeting in the Archdiocese of Detroit's church facilities.
As the new academic year arrives, school systems across the United States are struggling to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Roman Catholic educators have an extra challenge — trying to forestall a relentless wave of closures of their schools that has no end in sight.
Already this year, financial and enrollment problems aggravated by the pandemic have forced the permanent closure of more than 140 Catholic schools nationwide, according to officials who oversee Catholic education in the country.
Three of the nation’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, in a recent joint appeal, said Catholic schools “are presently facing their greatest financial crisis” and warned that hundreds more closures are likely without federal support.
“Because of economic loss and uncertainty, many families are confronting the wrenching decision to pull their children out of Catholic schools,” said New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley and Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Many Catholic schools already have received substantial federal aid from the U.S. Department of Education and from the Paycheck Protection Program, which was designed to pay wages at businesses or nonprofits impacted by the pandemic.
New Zealand marked 100 days without a domestic transmission of the coronavirus on Sunday, but warned against complacency as countries like Vietnam and Australia which once had the virus under control now battle a resurgence in infections.
New Zealand’s successful fight against COVID-19 has made the Pacific island nation of 5 million one of the safest places in the world right now.
New Zealanders have returned to normal life, but authorities are concerned that people were now refusing testing, not using the government contact tracing apps, and even ignoring basic hygiene rules.
New Zealand has 23 active cases in managed isolation facilities, and 1,219 COVID-19 cases in all so far.
Vietnam, which went for three months without detecting any domestic transmission, is now racing to control a new outbreak in Danang.
President Donald Trump (R-Inept)’s recent mispronunciation of Yosemite – in which he referred to the national park as “Yo-semites” – is causing some merriment on social media. And one of the biggest revelations is that a beloved cartoon character bearing the park’s name may actually be a Semite.
The Atlantic editor Yoni Applebaum started the fun when he tweeted out that Trump’s pronunciation was “Me, greeting a crowded room at my synagogue.”
But he then contended to his audience that Warner Bros. cartoon character Yosemite Sam is Jewish.
“It being a strange world, Yosemite Sam is actually Jewish,’ Applebaum tweeted. “He bore more than a passing resemblance to his creator, Isadore Freleng, and his full name is given in one episode as Samuel Rosenbaum.”
Freleng’s daughter, Hope Freleng Shaw, confirmed that Freleng and Yosemite Sam bore a resemblance.
Last year, President Donald Trump (R-Crooked)'s administration tried to pressure intelligence agencies to delete part of a classified report that found Russia was trying to help him win the 2020 election, according to an investigation by The New York Times Magazine.
The report, known as a National Intelligence Estimate, was compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in July 2019 and made several "key judgments" about matters of national security. "Key Judgement 2" in the report concluded that Russia aimed to interfere in the 2020 election to help Trump, unnamed national security sources told Times reporter Robert Draper.
Trump was reportedly unhappy with that finding. He has repeatedly denied the assertion that Russia tried to help his campaign in 2016 despite reports from the FBI, CIA, NSA, Justice Department, and Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee that supported that conclusion. Russian President Vladimir Putin has similarly denied interfering in the 2016 election, but has also said he wanted Trump to win.
When the ODNI was finalizing last year's report, Trump administration staffers requested that it remove language in "Key Judgement 2" that detailed Russia's attempts to help Trump in 2020, former director of national intelligence Dan Coats told the Times.
"I can affirm that one of my staffers who was aware of the controversy requested that I modify that assessment," Coats said. "But I said, 'No, we need to stick to what the analysts have said.'"
In 2019, White House aides reached out to the governor of South Dakota and asked about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore, a Republican official familiar with the conversation told the New York Times.
So, when the president arrived last month for his July fourth festivities, the governor of the state, Kristi Noem, presented Trump with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included his face.
Adding to the already odd ask is the fact that the federal government is in charge of such matters, not the state, and the National Park Service has addressed the subject several times with a hard no, citing instability to the structure making it impossible to make additions.
In a 2018 interview, Noem says that Trump told her that it was a “dream” of his to be carved into the mountain.
Noem told South Dakota’s Argus Leader that during a White House visit, Trump said to her: “‘Kristi, come on over here. Shake my hand.'” The governor continued, “I shook his hand, and I said, ‘Mr. President, you should come to South Dakota sometime. We have Mount Rushmore.’ And he goes, ‘Do you know it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?’ I started laughing. He wasn’t laughing, so he was totally serious.”
Despite the long evolutionary history of our species, humans have only been reading and writing for a few thousand years. New research shows that we may have 'recycled' a key region of the brain to help us start making sense of the written word.
In tests on rhesus macaque monkeys, scientists have demonstrated that a region called the inferior temporal (IT) cortex in the primate's brain is capable of providing the essential information we need to turn strings of letters into something more meaningful.
That neural behaviour suggests that, instead of evolving new areas of the brain specifically for reading, human beings may have repurposed the same brain region while developing the ability to recognise words as they were written down – what's known as orthographic processing.
"This work has opened up a potential linkage between our rapidly developing understanding of the neural mechanisms of visual processing and an important primate behaviour – human reading," says neuroscientist James DiCarlo from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
This idea of brain rewiring to process written words has been suggested before. DiCarlo and his colleagues have previously investigated the IT cortex's role in responding to objects, including faces, using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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