• Isaac Newton once studied a very difficult math book by René Descartes. He read a few pages, then had trouble understanding the material, so he started reading the book again from the beginning. This time, he got a few pages further before he had trouble understanding the material, and once again he started reading the book from the beginning. He kept doing this, each time getting a few pages further into the book, then starting again from the beginning, until he finally understood the entire book. Later, after Mr. Newton published his ground-breaking Principia in 1687, one of his students saw him walking and pointed him out to a friend, saying, “There goes the man that writ a book that neither he nor anybody else understands.”
• The responses author Nancy Garden has received to her book Annie on My Mind, which portrays lesbian characters in a positive manner, have been mostly supportive. For example, she once received a letter from a straight teenage girl who had been asked by her mother, a newspaper reporter, to read the book in order to find out an average teenager’s response to the book. At first, the girl didn’t want to read about “those people,” but she enjoyed the book and wrote Ms. Garden, “Those girls are just like any other girls falling in love.” Ms. Garden says, “That was great, because that’s exactly what I wanted to say in the book.”
• Helene Hanff died on April 9, 1997, at age 80. In her charming book 84, Charing Cross Road, she wrote about a friendship that sprang up during a 20-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel, a secondhand book buyer in London. In one of her letters to Mr. Doel, she wrote, “I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to ‘I hate to read new books’ and I hollered ‘Comrade’ to whoever owned it before me.”
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• Sometimes the board of education trusts students more than the principal trusts them. In 1974, Priscilla Marco wrote an article for her New York high school newspaper. The article listed instances of censorship of the school newspaper and pointed out that students had not been given copies of a board of education pamphlet describing their rights. However, the principal refused to let her article be printed. Ms. Marco contacted school authorities about the censorship; she also contacted the American Civil Liberties Union. Eventually, the school chancellor ordered that Ms. Marco’s article be published, but even then the school principal refused to allow it to be published. Therefore, the board of education printed a special edition of the student newspaper which contained discussions of the First Amendment and how it affects young people, as well as both Ms. Marco’s original article and an updated, revised version. On June 23, 1975, protected by security guards, members of the board of education entered Ms. Marco’s school — the Long Island City High School — and passed out copies of the newspaper.
• Ralph Nader’s father, Nathra, was a strong believer in free speech. In the small town where he ran a restaurant, people said that a nickel would buy you 10 minutes of talk about politics in addition to a cup of coffee. Sometimes, people advised Nathra that he could make more money if he didn’t talk about politics and his opinions so much. Nathra, who had immigrated to the United States from Lebanon at age 19, always replied, “When I sailed past the Statue of Liberty, I took it seriously.” Occasionally, a customer might take an “America: Love It or Leave It” approach. Nathra would then ask, “Do you love your country?” The answer would come back, “You’re damn right I do.” Nathra would then say, “Well, why don’t you spend time improving it?” Ralph’s mother, Rose, took the same approach with her children. For example, she would ask, “Ralph, do you love your country?” He would reply that he did. She would then say, “Well, I hope when you grow up, you’ll work hard to make it more lovable.”
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (Esperanto: Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof; 15 December [O.S. 3 December] 1859 – 14 April [O.S. 1 April] 1917) was a Polish ophthalmologist, linguist and the inventor of the international language Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language in the world.
Zamenhof first developed the language in 1873 while still in school. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war. He believed that this could happen with the help of a new international auxiliary language. The language would be a tool to gather people together through neutral, fair, equitable communication.[4] He successfully formed a community that continues today despite the World Wars of the 20th century. Also, it has developed like other languages, through the interaction and creativity of its users.
In light of his achievements, and his support of intercultural dialogue, UNESCO selected Zamenhof as one of its eminent personalities of 2017, on the 100th anniversary of his death.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Esperanto
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
Esperanto
Mark. wrote:
Esperanto.
Alan J answered:
Esperanto.
Dave responded:
A language called Esperanto that I have never heard of. Esperanto is an international auxiliary language. Zamenhof felt that a common language would reduce tensions between ethnic groups. Of course Zamenhof never heard of Donald Trump, who seeks to increase tensions between white people and other ethnic groups as a political tactic, even though we share a common language.
Mac Mac replied:
Esperanto
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The Pole L. L. Zamenhof invented the language Esperanto almost certainly because it is easier to speak than a mouthful of Polish consonant clusters and definitely easier to spell. The country that has the most Esperanto speakers is Brazil. Nowhere is it an officially recognized language nor is it used as a primary language by any but a few.
David of Moon Valley responded:
Really?!...
...he invented Esperanto?!? well then it must be time for…
Adventures in Esperanto
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
international language Esperanto
Dave in Tucson said:
Just a SWAG...contact lenses?
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Esperanto. Another bit of trivia I didn’t know.
We could use that marine layer here, Marty, it’s quite windy and toasty. The air conditioner kicked on before 9 a.m., and the thermostat is set at 78 degrees.
Rosemary in Columbus replied:
Esperanto
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
Well it wasn't bifocals, it was the made up language Esperanto which is nothing like Klingon.I had to look it up to see how to spell it and I may have spelled it wrong anyway. Esperanto not Klingon. I just can't stay up late anymore.
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Not sure if it's true, but a friend shared the attached--Brad was skimming campaign money for his Fla house & car--could it also be connected with the NY Times story re Predator finances? I hope only the worst for all of them.
Disgusting mercenary ghouls!
Well, I was told they were doing this (attached). I hope their fingernails and toenails rot & fall off. I hope their livers explode. I hope their kidneys stop functioning. And I hope parasites eat what passes for brains in their hideous craniums.
Not that it surprises or disgusts me at all.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Young Sheldon', then a FRESH'Love Island', followed by a RERUN'Manhunt: Deadly Games'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Mariah Carey and Rex Orange County.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Jeff Daniels and Summer Walker.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jim Parsons, Shepard Smith, and BTS.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Colin Quinn, Kim Cattrall, and Jeff Rosenstock.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 1/20/20) is Awkwafina.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Emergency Call'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The CW fills the night with a FRESH'iHeartRadio Music Festival: Night 2'.
Faux has a FRESH'LA's Finest', followed by a FRESH'Filthy Rich'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'US Marshals', followed by the movie 'Con Air', then the movie 'I, Robot'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE HOMECOMING
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE CIRCLE
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE SIEGE
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - INVASIVE PROCEDURES
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - CARDASSIANS
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - MELORA
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION -QPID
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE DRUMHEAD
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - HALF A LIFE
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE HOST
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION -THE MIND'S EYE
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - IN THEORY
[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: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE DRUMHEAD
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - HALF A LIFE
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE HOST
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - INVASIVE PROCEDURES
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - CARDASSIANS (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', then another FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has all old 'South Park' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Shift', followed by the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
[8:00am] Event Horizon
[10:15am] Pitch Black
[12:30pm] The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
[3:00pm] American Hustle
[6:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[6:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[7:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[7:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[8:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[8:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[9:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[9:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[10:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[10:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[11:00pm] Two And A Half Men
[11:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[12:00am] Two And A Half Men
[12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] American Hustle
[4:00am] The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[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] the green mile
[5:00pm] christine
[7:00pm] the lost boys
[9:00pm] men in black 3
[11:30pm] the lost boys
[1:30am] men in black 3
[4:00am] the monster squad (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Zombieland', followed by the movie 'Constantine'.
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On a RERUNConan (from 9/18/19) it's a collection of never-before-seen show segments.
After briefly flirting with the idea of a 2020 presidential run himself, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has officially endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, his first time publicly backing a political candidate.
"Now this is something that I've certainly not done in the past, so I'm going to go big," he said in a video posted to Instagram. "You guys know me, if I go, I go big!"
The actor, who said he has "friends in all parties," posted a virtual conversation between himself and the Democratic candidates, in which he complimented Biden's "great compassion, heart, drive and soul" and called Harris "a certified badass."
"As a political independent and centrist for many years, I've voted for Democrats in the past as well as Republican," Johnson captioned the video. "In this critical election, I believe Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the best to lead our country and as my first ever [public] presidential endorsement, I proudly endorse them for the presidential office of our United States."
While Johnson has seemed mostly apolitical in the public eye, he has been outspoken about Trump's response to the civil unrest sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, sharing a lengthy video message in June.
Taylor Swift’s Folklore album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, collecting a seventh nonconsecutive week atop the tally. In doing so, Swift surpasses Whitney Houston’s longstanding record, among women, for the most cumulative weeks at No. 1, across all of her chart-topping albums. Swift’s total weeks at No. 1 now stands at 47, one more than Houston’s tally of 46. Folklore earned 87,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 24 (up 97 percent), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 3-dated chart (where Folklore returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard's website on Sept. 29. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of Folklore’s 87,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Sept. 24, album sales comprise 56,000 (up 339 percent), SEA units comprise 30,000 (down 4 percent) equaling 39.8 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units total 1,000 (up 38 percent).
Folklore’s fortunes perked up in the newest tracking week, as Swift sold more signed CD copies of the album through her official webstore and via independent record stores (as she’s done in previous weeks) and also issued more merchandise/album bundles in her webstore. She additionally profits from the release of a new live version of the album’s single "Betty," as performed on the Academy of Country Music Awards (held on Sept. 16). The live rendition was released to YouTube shortly after the awards, while it reached digital retail and other streaming services on Sept. 18. For tracking purposes, the new version of "Betty" is combined with its original version.
As noted above, Folklore returns to No. 1 for a seventh nonconsecutive week on top. In doing so, Swift’s total weeks at No. 1 -- across all seven of her chart-topping albums -- now stands at 47, a new record among female artists. She surpasses Whitney Houston’s sum of 46 weeks at No. 1. (Houston held the record for the most weeks at No. 1 among women since 1987.)
Two weeks shy of a year after abruptly quitting Fox News Channel with a declaration that “truth will always matter,” Shepard Smith returns to television this week at his unexpected new home.
He begins a general interest nightly newscast Wednesday at 7 p.m. on the financial network CNBC, putting him back in the time slot he loved before Fox moved him to the afternoon seven years ago.
The 56-year-old newsman, a Fox News original who joined that network at its start in 1996, says he’s relishing the fresh start.
“We’re going to come out and do just the news,” he said. “We’re not planning to do any analysis in our news hour. We’re going to have journalists, reporters, sound and video. We’re going to have newsmakers and experts ... but no pundits. We’re going to leave the opinion to others. It’s exactly what I’ve been wanting to do. It’s what I’ve been working at for 30 years.”
He’ll work out of a new studio that’s been built for him at CNBC’s New Jersey headquarters by three crews that kept construction going 24 hours a day over eight weeks.
Going down to South Park, the Denver Broncos are going to have themselves a time.
On Sunday, the Broncos unveiled that the team added all the characters from the town of South Park to the crowd cutouts in Empower Field at Mile High.
In addition to the slew of new character cutouts — all of whom are wearing masks — the Broncos also added a large backdrop of the town from the popular, long-running Comedy Central cartoon. The cost of production of the cutouts will be matched and donated to The Broncos Foundation, according to Comedy Central.
Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are huge Broncos fans as they both grew up in Colorado and met at the University of Colorado, Boulder which is where they brainstormed South Park.
The characters in the show also love the Broncos and the team has gotten shoutouts and player name-drops several times since the 1997 pilot.
A progressive activist group has purchased the internet domain name www.amyconeybarrett.com in an attempt to fight what they say is Donald Trump's takeover of the US judicial system.
The site features a large photo of Amy Coney Barrett, who Mr Trump is expected to name as his choice to replace former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court. Next to the photo is a warning that Ms Barrett must be stopped.
"Amy Coney Barrett would threaten your health care and your reproductive freedom. We have to stop her," the site reads.
At the top of the site, a bold, white header reads "Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg," whose reported final wish was that her position not be filled until after the 2020 US election.
According to the group, Ms Barrett has "repeatedly indicated that she would strike down the Affordable Care Act" and that by doing so the Supreme Court would be "ending protections for people with preexisting conditions."
Nearly 50 years ago, a power company received permission from North Carolina to build a reservoir by damming a creek near the coastal city of Wilmington. It would provide a source of steam to generate electricity and a place to cool hot water from an adjacent coal-fired plant.
Sutton Lake became popular with boaters and anglers, yielding bass, crappie, bluegill and other panfish. But coal ash from the plant fouled the public reservoir with selenium, arsenic and other toxic substances, endangering the fish and people who ate them.
Environmentalists sued Duke Energy, which settled the case by spending $1.25 million protecting nearby wetlands. But now the company — and other U.S. power producers — may have gotten the last laugh.
The Trump administration this year completed a long-debated rewrite of the Clean Water Act that drastically reduces the number of waterways regulated by the federal government. A little-noticed provision for the first time classifies “cooling ponds” as parts of “waste treatment systems” — which are not covered under the law.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the power industry describe it as a clarification with little real-world effect. But environmental groups challenging the Trump rule in court say it opens up reservoirs like Sutton Lake to similar abuse.
A Missouri man faces up to 15 years in prison for assault after a police officer broke his hand when he punched him in the face.
Officer Trevor Spencer was injured as he defended himself in a fight with Matthew Calhoun, according to reports.
Calhoun, a 48-year-old probation offender, is accused of starting a fight with the cop when he tried to arrest him during a stop in Branson, Missouri, in December.
A preliminary court hearing this week heard Calhoun was pulled over in a convenience store car park for speeding, and when the officer pulled his records it showed he was wanted for violating probation in a drugs case.
During the pair’s struggle the officer, who works for the Ozark Police Department, said he had to punch Calhoun “two or three times” in the face, breaking his hand in the process.
Sometime between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, after the last ice age ended, the Sahara Desert transformed. Green vegetation grew atop the sandy dunes and increased rainfall turned arid caverns into lakes. About 3.5 million square miles (9 million square kilometers) of Northern Africa turned green, drawing in animals such as hippos, antelopes, elephants and aurochs (wild ancestors of domesticated cattle), who feasted on its thriving grasses and shrubs. This lush paradise is long gone, but could it ever return?
In short, the answer is yes. The Green Sahara, also known as the African Humid Period, was caused by the Earth's constantly changing orbital rotation around its axis, a pattern that repeats itself every 23,000 years, according to Kathleen Johnson, an associate professor of Earth systems at the University of California Irvine.
However, because of a wildcard — human-caused greenhouse gas emissions that have led to runaway climate change — it's unclear when the Sahara, currently the world's largest hot desert, will turn a new green leaf.
The Sahara's green shift happened because Earth's tilt changed. About 8,000 years ago, the tilt began moving from about 24.1 degrees to the current day 23.5 degrees, Space.com, a Live Science sister site, previously reported. That tilt variation made a big difference; right now, the Northern Hemisphere is closest to the sun during the winter months. (This may sound counterintuitive, but because of the current tilt, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun during the winter season.) During the Green Sahara, however, the Northern Hemisphere was closest to the sun during the summer.
No one has yet managed to travel through time – at least to our knowledge – but the question of whether or not such a feat would be theoretically possible continues to fascinate scientists.
As movies such as The Terminator, Donnie Darko, Back to the Future and many others show, moving around in time creates a lot of problems for the fundamental rules of the Universe: if you go back in time and stop your parents from meeting, for instance, how can you possibly exist in order to go back in time in the first place?
It's a monumental head-scratcher known as the 'grandfather paradox', but now a physics student Germain Tobar, from the University of Queensland in Australia, says he has worked out how to "square the numbers" to make time travel viable without the paradoxes.
What the calculations show is that space-time can potentially adapt itself to avoid paradoxes.
To use a topical example, imagine a time traveller journeying into the past to stop a disease from spreading – if the mission was successful, the time traveller would have no disease to go back in time to defeat.
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