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Modern technology is one of the best things to happen to television and films, and also one of the worst. On the one hand, CGI means a series like Game of Thronescan create a world that never existed, complete with unnervingly convincing dragons. Not so long ago, this would have been way beyond the reach of television. On the other, the ubiquity of the internet and the smartphone means countless movies made before the 1990s couldn't be made the same way today. The plots would be unusable.
The 21-gun salute is reserved for heads of state, with fewer rounds used to salute lower-ranking officials. How many rounds do the Vice President and military officers with five-star rank receive?
The custom of firing cannon salutes originated in the Royal Navy. When a cannon was fired, it partially disarmed the ship, so needlessly firing a cannon showed respect and trust. As a matter of courtesy a warship would fire her guns harmlessly out to sea, to show that she had no hostile intent. At first, ships were required to fire seven guns, and forts, with their more numerous guns and a larger supply of gunpowder, to fire 21 times. Later, as the quality of gunpowder improved, the British increased the number of shots required from ships to match the forts.
The system of odd numbered rounds originated from Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Navy in the Restoration, as a way of economising on the use of powder, the rule until that time having been that all guns had to be fired. Odd numbers were chosen, as even numbers indicated a death.
As naval customs evolved, the 21-gun salute came to be reserved for heads of state, with fewer rounds used to salute lower-ranking officials. Today, In the US Armed Forces, heads of government and cabinet ministers (e.g., the Vice President, U.S. cabinet members, and service secretaries), and military officers with five-star rank receive 19 rounds; four-stars receive 17 rounds; three-stars receive 15; two-stars receive 13; and a one-star general or admiral receives 11. These same standards are currently adhered to by ground-based saluting batteries.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
19-gun salute.
Randall wrote:
19
Dave said:
19. In 2019, there are no living Fleet Admirals or Generals of the Army (5 star rank), but in the complicated protocol of gun salutes 19 rounds are also due such officials as the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS, the Speaker of the House, and foreign Prime Ministers. So while Queen Elizabeth II (the figurehead monarch) is due the full 21 guns, the clownish wannabe dictator Boris Johnson (the actual head of the UK government) is only entitled to 19.
Alan J answered:
Nineteen.
Mac Mac replied:
19
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
19
zorch said:
19. Vice presidents, governors and such get a 19 gun salute.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, wrote:
VPs and 5 Stars get 19 gun salutes.
Adam answered:
19-gun salute, though I wouldn't waste the ammo on any of the current command.
Dave in Tucson replied:
I'm guessing 14. When my dad, a retired AF colonel, passed away he was
buried in Arlington National Cemetery where the he got a seven gun
salute fired three times. So VPs & five star officers probably get
somewhere in between 21 & 7.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
19 gun salute
Cal in Vermont wrote:
19 guns. If it was up to me, they would also get a 19 F4 Phantom in full afterburner flyover because they are really loud.
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• The young Leonard Bernstein studied how to be a conductor under Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Sam, gave him $40 a month to pay expenses - this was not enough money. Fortunately, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos did the very good deed of sending Leonard a check for $225. Leonard did study hard, and Maestro Reiner respected him, but Leonard once made a mistake and called Maestro Reiner "Fritz" in class. Maestro Reiner responded - frostily - "Yes, Mr. Bernstein?" Maestro Reiner was known for having a temper. About him it was said, "Any day on which he failed to lose his temper was a day in which he was actually too sick to conduct." By the way, Leonard often missed classes while he was a student at Harvard, where he went to school before attending Curtis. On the top of a page of class notes, he once wrote, "hollow empty stupid dull uninteresting."
• One of opera singer Clara Doria's teachers when she was young was Ignaz Moscheles, who had some definite ideas about playing the piano. Whenever a student had a finger improperly placed, he would catch the finger as if he were catching a fly. He also disliked the wearing of rings while playing the piano. Whenever a student wore a ring during a lesson, he would remove the ring and deliver a lecture on why piano players ought not to wear rings. The result, of course, was that his young students would borrow as many rings as they could so that they could wear them during lessons. Another very human trait he had was that he liked his own compositions. He once told his students, "Why do you spend your time in studying this meretricious modern stuff? You should confine yourselves to Bach, Haendel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Me."
• One of the things that David Amram learned from fellow musician Miles Davis is that jazz has no wrong notes. Mr. Ashram explains, "By that he did not mean to play anything - he had the most beautiful selection of notes imaginable. But he meant anything that you have can move to something else if you have a right path." For example, early in Mr. Amram's career he was playing French horn with Charlie Mingus, and the cash register went off while he was playing and it bothered him. Mr. Mingus said, "Next time that happens, play off the cash register. Use that as part of the music. If you're playing, the piano player is going blockity-block, the drum is going buckita-bucka-ding. Put that into the music and answer it. Go bita-boo-boo-bum and answer the cash register. Make that part of the whole experience."
• While still in school, Elvis Presley was occasionally bullied, although he did have friends. When he was in the 8th gradewhile living in Tupelo, Mississippi, some bullies cut the strings of his guitar. However, his friends pooled their money and bought him new guitar strings. He and his family moved to Tennessee, where he attended Humes High School. He wore his hair long, which was unusual for males at the time, and when he tried out for the football team, some conforming bullies ganged up on him in the locker room, held him down, and were going to cut his hair. He was rescued by football star Red West, who became a lifelong friend. (A few days later, the football coach kicked Elvis off the team because Elvis declined to cut his hair.)
• World-renowned concert pianist Byron Janis is also a teacher of music. He once had a gifted student, but she lacked artistry, and he needed to find a way to free her. By chance, one day he asked her if she always walked the same way when she went home after a lesson. She replied, "Yes." Mr. Janis then advised her to try different routes when she walked home: "You'll make new discoveries. It will be fun." The results were excellent. Mr. Janis says, "Within a month, I heard signs of the artist emerging. That simple suggestion seemed to touch the right nerve and her playing started showing signs of freedom. I was amazed. Strange - teachers never can predict what works."
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Lip Sync To The Rescue', followed by the infomercial 'CBS Fall Preview', then a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Condoleezza Rice, Bill Skarsgård, and BANKS.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Sean Hayes, Kate Bosworth, and Charlotte Day Wilson.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Ashton Kutcher, Billie Lourd, and Sheryl Crow featuring Jason Isbell.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Kelly Clarkson, Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle, CJ Hauser, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 11/1/18) are Shemar Moore, Odetta Hartman, and Anthony Ramos.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelor In Paradise', followed by a FRESH'Grand Hotel'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Chelsea Handler, JD Pardo, and Trisha Yearwood.
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 fills the night with 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 'Live PD: Police Patrol', another 'Live PD: Police Patrol', still another 'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', then a FRESH'Live Rescue: Emergency Response', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue: Emergency Response', and a couple more 'Live PD: Police Patrol'.
AMC offers the movie 'Twister', followed by a FRESH'The Terror', then a FRESH'Lodge 49'.
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[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 22-Shades of Gray
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 1-Evolution
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 2-The Ensigns of Command
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 3-The Survivors
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 4-Who Watches the Watchers
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 5-The Bonding
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 6-Booby Trap
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 7-Sacred Ground
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 8-Future's End, Pt.1
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 9-Future's End, Pt. 2
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10-Warlord
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 11-The Q and the Grey
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 12-Macrocosm
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 13-Fair Trade
[8:00PM] PLANET OF THE APES (2001)
[10:30PM] ZOMBIELAND (2009)
[12:30AM] PLANET OF THE APES (2001)
[3:00AM] ZOMBIELAND (2009)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 14-A Matter of Perspective (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'.
FX has the movie 'Bad Moms', followed by the movie 'Rough Night'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', and another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Out West
[6:25A] The Three Stooges - A Pain in the Pullman
[6:55A] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Clutch
[7:20A] The Three Stooges - Punch Drunks
[7:45A] Rush
[10:30A] Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
[12:30P] Behind Enemy Lines
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Water Tower
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Punk Chick
[4:00P] That '70s Show - Grandma's Dead
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Hyde Moves In
[5:00P] That '70s Show - The Good Son
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Garage Sale
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - The Price of Healthy Gums Is Eternal Vigilance
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - A Kosher Slaughterhouse Out in Fontana
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - Frankenstein and the Horny Villagers
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Yes, Monsignor
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - The Salmon Under My Sweater
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Last Chance to See Those Tattoos
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - A Lungful of Alan
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Zejdz Zmoich Wlosow (Get Off My Hair)
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Those Big Pink Things With Coconuts
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - Smell the Umbrella Stand
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - Woo-Hoo, A Hernia-Exam!
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - Sips, Sonnets and Sodomy
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - Not in My Mouth!
[1:00A] That '70s Show - Water Tower
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Punk Chick
[2:00A] That '70s Show - Grandma's Dead
[2:30A] Sherman's Showcase - White Music
[3:00A] Rush
[5:45A] The Three Stooges - Three Little Pigskins (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] M*A*S*H
[6:30am] M*A*S*H
[7:00am] M*A*S*H
[7:30am] M*A*S*H
[8:00am] M*A*S*H
[8:30am] M*A*S*H
[9:00am] M*A*S*H
[9:30am] M*A*S*H
[10:00am] M*A*S*H
[10:30am] M*A*S*H
[11:00am] M*A*S*H
[11:30am] M*A*S*H
[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] M*A*S*H
[2:30pm] M*A*S*H
[3:00pm] Planes, Trains and Automobiles
[5:00pm] National Lampoon's Vacation
[7:00pm] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[9:00pm] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[11:15pm] Vegas Vacation
[1:15am] Planes, Trains and Automobiles
[3:15am] Real Genius featured
[5:45am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Ghost In The Shell', followed by the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 7/10/19) is Adam Scott.
Alec Baldwin is often the one making the jokes when he plays President Trump (R-Buffoon) on Saturday Night Live, but he was the butt of them on Sept. 7, as a panel of celebrities, including daughter Ireland Baldwin and actor Robert De Niro, burned him at the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin.
Will & Grace star Sean Hayes hosted the event, which was taped for broadcast next week, at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, Calif. Guests arrived to find a box of refreshments, including "Chocolate Schweddy Balls," a nod to one of Baldwin's most famous SNL sketches, in their seats.
The panel of roasters included: Caitlyn Jenner, whose daughters attended school with Ireland; Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Redd; NBA player and Kendall Jenner ex Blake Griffin; actress and comedian Caroline Rhea; comedian Nikki Glaser; professional roaster Jeff Ross; comedian Adam Carolla; and actor Ken Jeong, from The Hangover and Dr. Ken. (Lady Gaga also made an appearance via a video message thanking Baldwin and Comedy Central for donating $1 million on the occasion to Exploring the Arts, a nonprofit funded by Tony Bennett and Susan Benedetto.)
Some of the best lines of the night were about more than just Baldwin, although he took burn after burn. The jokes about him mostly centered on his relationship with his daughter - that infamous "thoughtless little pig" voicemail - and the time he was removed from a flight for refusing to turn off his phone.
As the night's host, Hayes was the first to take a shot at Baldwin. "Don't worry, Alec," he began. "Nothing said here tonight will be meaner than what you said on your daughter's voicemail."
Comedian and media mogul Byron Allen wants TV viewers to watch the channels his company produces - from one that runs "Judge Judy"-like shows all day to those dedicated to comedy, cars, food and pets. But while many distributors carry Allen's channels, two cable giants have refused.
Allen says the reason is that he's black, and so he's sued for racial discrimination. An appeals court has let his lawsuits go forward, but now the Supreme Court will weigh in and could deliver a setback.
The justices will hear arguments Nov. 13 in a $20 billion lawsuit that Allen filed against Comcast, with the outcome also affecting a $10 billion case he has filed against Charter Communications.
If Allen prevails, black-owned businesses will have an easier time winning suits that allege discrimination in contracting. If Comcast wins, the bar will be high to bring and succeed with similar suits.
The question for the justices is whether Allen needs to show that race was just a factor in Comcast's decision not to offer him a contract or whether it was the sole factor.
While rumors that Idris Elba could be the first black man to play James Bond have yet to pan out, the iconic secret agent could be getting a different sort of update. British actress Lashana Lynch's casting in 2020's No Time to Die - Daniel Craig's last stint as 007 - has set off whispers that she may become the first female Bond. Pierce Brosnan, for one, is here for it.
"Yes!" the former 007 told The Hollywood Reporter said of having a woman take on the Bond role. "I think we've watched the guys do it for the last 40 years. Get out of the way, guys, and put a woman up there. I think it would be exhilarating, it would be exciting."
Exciting, but perhaps not realistic, he added, noting that the film franchise's current producers, Barbara Broccoli and half-brother Michael G. Wilson, may resist such change.
"I don't think that's going to happen with the Broccolis," Brosnan added. "I don't think that is going to happen under their watch."
Despite any push-back and potential backlash, the next James Bond film will at the very least have a more feminist influence. Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been tapped to beef up the No Time to Die script and make Bond more respectful of women in light of the #MeToo movement.
The Mayor of Rio de Janeiro ordered an Avengers comic book to be removed from a book festival because it featured two men kissing.
Brazilian politician Marcelo Crivella claimed the book should be confiscated from the Rio International Book Biennial to "protect our children" because it contained "content that is unsuitable for minors".
In a video posted on Twitter, the evangelical bishop said it was not right for children "to have early access to subjects that do not agree with their ages".
Mr Crivella, who once claimed homosexual people were "victims of a terrible evil", later added that the decision to round up the books had only one goal: to comply with the law and defend the family".
Mr Crivella's comments were prompted by a scene in the 2010 comic Avengers: The Children's Crusade, which shows superheroes Hulkling and Wiccan, who are boyfriends, kissing.
In one Alaska village, officials are barging in jugs of water and shutting off the public water supply 12 hours each day. In another, automatic flush toilets have been switched to manual flushing, and restaurants are serving meals on paper plates.
Alaska's hot, dry summer has led to extreme measures for severe drought conditions in the Native communities of Nanwalek and Seldovia in the Kenai Peninsula, prompting regional officials to issue a disaster declaration.
The arid conditions are more widespread in the vast state - exacerbated by wildfires still burning. Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, is still fielding smoke drifting from a major wildfire in the Kenai Peninsula this late in the season.
The city is considered to be in extreme drought, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System, while the Kenai Peninsula communities are placed in the lesser severe drought category.
But Anchorage has plenty of water in its system, unlike a handful of small communities that rely on snow melt and rain like Nanwalek and Seldovia to fill their reserves. Their water shortages are acutely felt.
The city of San Francisco has offered to buy PG&E Corp's power lines and other electrical system infrastructure serving the city for $2.5 billion, according to the utility, which sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January.
PG&E is expected to file a reorganization plan in a U.S. bankruptcy court in San Francisco this week that addresses its estimated $30 billion in liabilities from wildfires in California in 2017 and 2018, including November's Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire of the state's modern history.
"We all agree on the importance of continuing to serve the citizens of San Francisco with safe, clean, affordable and reliable energy," PG&E said in a statement provided by spokeswoman Karly Hernandez on Sunday.
"PG&E has been a part of San Francisco since the company's founding more than a century ago, and while we don't believe municipalization is in the best interests of our customers and stakeholders, we are committed to working with the City and will remain open to communication on this issue," the statement added.
The purchase would be funded through a municipal power bond passed by voters last year and would be paid off through customers' electric bills, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which also noted the deal would create California's third-largest government-owned electric utility, after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
When it comes to knowing what kinds of minerals we might find inside the Moon, we've literally just scraped the surface. For one small team of Earth scientists from the US and Canada, that's enough to suggest there's treasure hiding deep below.
Mining for riches is the last thing that's on the researchers' minds, though. By knowing more about lunar chemistry, they might be able to resolve a conflict over an apparent shortfall in precious elements thought to make up the Moon's mantle.
While we've been staring up at half of the Moon's face since forever, we only received our first real clues on what lies beneath its surface when astronauts brought back several hundred kilograms of lunar material about half a century ago.
"We have a grand total of 400 kilograms of sample that was brought back by the Apollo and lunar missions… it's a pretty small amount of material," says Earth scientist James Brenan from Dalhousie University in Canada.
"So, in order to find out anything about the interior of the Moon we have to kind of reverse engineer the composition of the lavas that come onto the surface."
Powerful storms have erupted on Jupiter, and they're screwing up the planet's beautiful belts of white and brown.
The storms, which resemble the anvils of cumulonimbus thunderheads on Earth, are blurring the neat lines separating Jupiter's different atmospheric bands. In a similar process to how anvil-shaped thunderstorms form on Earth,towers of ammonia and water vapor rise through Jupiter's outer layer of clouds before spreading out and condensing as white plumes that stand out against the cloud surface. Along the way, they create swirls at the borders of different bands, disturbing them and mixing up their browns and whites into swirls.
"If these plumes are vigorous and continue to have convective events, they may disturb one of these entire bands over time, though it may take a few months," Imke de Pater, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer, said in a statement. (Convection is a process where warmer, less dense fluid rises through colder fluid.)
De Pater was lead author of a paper accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, describing observations of these disturbances using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Under normal circumstances, the researchers explained, ammonia ice clouds make up the thin top layer of brown and white clouds visible as the planet's bands we are used to seeing in space images. But that ammonia doesn't rise higher or penetrate much deeper into the mostly hydrogen and helium atmosphere of the planet. It also makes observing the innards of the planet difficult, making it hard to figure out what's causing these storms.
A robust audience turned out to catch "It: Chapter Two" in movie theaters this weekend, but not quite as big as the first.
Warner Bros. says Sunday that "It: Chapter Two," the only major new release, earned an estimated $91 million from North American ticket sales in its first weekend from 4,570 screens.
The rest of the top 10 was populated by holdovers: "Angel Has Fallen" took a distant second with $6 million and "Good Boys" placed third with $5.4 million. In limited release, the documentary "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice" performed well in its first weekend, grossing $115,500 from seven locations.
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. "It: Chapter Two," $91 million ($94 million international).
2. "Angel Has Fallen," $6 million ($7.6 million international).
3. "Good Boys," $5.4 million ($2.3 million international).
4. "The Lion King," $4.2 million ($13.4 million international).
5. "Overcomer," $3.8 million.
6. "Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw," $3.7 million ($15.7 million international).
7. "The Peanut Butter Falcon," $2.3 million.
8. "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," $2.3 million ($701,000 international).
9. "Ready or Not," $2.2 million ($2.3 million international).
10. "Dora and the Lost City of Gold," $2.2 million ($2.3 million international).
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