• A couple of mishaps occurred when Betsy Byars accepted the Newbery Medal for her book The Summer of the Swans. Her favorite dessert, blueberry cheesecake, was served at the ceremony, but before she gave her speech she was so nervous that she couldn’t eat any of it. Near the end of her speech, she started to think about the cheesecake and she started to read her speech more quickly. Unfortunately, when she was finished with her speech and she went to the dessert table, all of her favorite dessert was gone. In addition, a couple of teenage boys wearing pageboy costumes and carrying banners led the VIPs to their seats of honor at the beginning of the ceremony. This pleased Ms. Byars, but she heard one of the teenage boys say to the other teenage boy, “I could just kill my mom for making me do this.”
• When children’s book author Lois Lowry won the Newbery Medal (which is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished American book published that year in children’s literature) for her book The Giver, she was on a ship traveling in Antarctica and had no one with whom to share the good news. (Ms. Lowry likes to travel alone.) Therefore, she turned to a total stranger and said, “You’ve probably never heard of this, but I just won the Newbery Medal.” Actually, the stranger had heard of the Newbery Medal, which is very famous among librarians: “My goodness,” the stranger said. “I’m the former president of the American Library Association.”
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• Mark Twain retained his sense of humor in his old age. When his wife, Livy, worried that his spending lots of time in bed reading and writing might sap his strength, she had their daughter Clara read him a biographical passage about the poet William Cullen Bryant, who at age 80 was still taking vigorous and invigorating early-morning walks. Mr. Twain said, “Mr. Bryant was wonderful to do those early risings, and all that at eighty. If ever I get to be eighty, I mean to do them, too.” When he was even older, and a widower, he built and lived in a house he called Stormfield. Quickly, burglars stole the silverware from the house. Also quickly, Mr. Twain posted this note on the front door of the house: “To the next burglar. There is nothing but plated ware in this house, now and henceforth. You will find it in that brass thing in the dining-room over in the corner by the basket of kittens. If you want the basket, put the kittens in the brass thing.” Before he died, he felt ill. Of course, he was widely loved by the reading public, and many fans sent him home remedies in hopes that they would make him feel better. He replied, using this letter: “Dear Sir (or Madam). I try every remedy sent to me. I am now on no. 67. Yours is 2,653. I am looking forward to its beneficial results.” In his old age, Mr. Twain was still capable of savage satire: He advocated the passing of a law that would forbid white people from lynching black people on Christmas.
• Lewis Carroll’s title character in his books about Alice — Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass — was based in part on Alice Liddell. Unfortunately, after she grew up, they had a falling out. One possible explanation is that Mr. Carroll, whose real name was Charles Ludwidge Dodgson, fell in love with her and she declined to marry him. Whatever happened, he no longer wanted anything to do with her. Late in her life, after she had become a widow, she fell on hard times, and she had only one thing of value — the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland, which Mr. Dodgson had originally titled Alice’s Adventures Underground. Even though Mr. Dodgson had grown to dislike her, the manuscript provided for her in her old age, for she sold the manuscript for $74,259.
Cape Agulhas (Portuguese: Cabo das Agulhas, "Cape of the Needles") is a rocky headland in Western Cape, South Africa.
It is the geographic southern tip of the African continent and the beginning of the dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans according to the International Hydrographic Organization.
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I'm trying something different with the trivia answer today. I haven't seen the trivia question yet,
so I'm only guessing. My answer is the color "blue".
Jacqueline said:
Africa
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
That would be Africa Marty, and I'm going to bed before the ball game's over. I'm really tired. Packers are gonna win anyway.
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3 sets of xmas tunes that you probably won't hear on the radio every day between now and the 25th. The anti xmas mixx has lots of naughty and inappropriate words so you won't be hearing these versions at least.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Neighborhood', followed by a FRESH'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a FRESH'All Rise', followed by a FRESH'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Barack Obama, Vol. 2.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 11/12/20) are Sen. Cory Booker and Jack Harlow.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Weakest Link'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Nick Kroll, Lily Collins, and Matt Berninger.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 10/8/20) are Jim Parsons, Amber Ruffin, and Yaa Gyasi.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/13/20) are Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher.
ABC starts the night with the FRESH infomercial 'The Di$ney Holiday Singalong', followed by the FRESH'CMA Country Christmas', then a FRESH'The Good Doctor'.
Jimmy Kimmel are Natalie Portman and Russell Dickerson.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Penn & Teller: FU'.
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 'The Intern', followed by the movie 'Four Christmases', then the movie 'Fred Claus'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE MAQUIS
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE MAQUIS
[8:00AM] TAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE WIRE
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - CROSSOVER
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE COLLABORATOR
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - TRIBUNAL
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - DISASTER
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE GAME
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - UNIFICATION I
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - UNIFICATION II
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A MATTER OF TIME
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - NEW GROUND
[6:00PM - 12:00AM] LAW & ORDER
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - DISASTER
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE GAME
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - UNIFICATION I
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - UNIFICATION II
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A MATTER OF TIME (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Halloween', followed by the movie 'A Quiet Place'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 9:30am] Parks And Recreation
[10:00am - 1:30pm] Community
[2:00pm - 5:30pm] Three's Company
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 3:30am] Community
[4:00am - 5:30am] Parks And Recreation (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] the outsiders
[2:30pm] bad boys
[5:00pm] bad boys ii
[8:00pm] hancock
[10:00pm] hancock
[12:00am] underworld
[2:30am] underworld: evolution
[4:30am - 5:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c. (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Ant-Man', followed by the movie 'Escape Plan'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 10/26/20) is Heidi Gardner.
Drake might have started from the bottom, but he's headed for the White House. Well, only fictionally. Barack Obama recently appeared on an episode of Complex News’s 360 with Speedy Mormon. When asked if he'd support Drake portraying him in a movie, Obama gave a surprisingly candid reply.
"I will say this—Drake seems to be able to do anything he wants," he said. "I mean, that is a talented, talented brother. If the time comes and he’s ready ... Drake has, more importantly, my household’s stamp of approval. I suspect Malia and Sasha would be just fine with it."
In 2012, Drake admitted he wants to play Obama in a movie.
"I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama’s life soon because I could play him. That’s the goal. I watch all the addresses. Any time I seen him on TV, I don’t change the channel. I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m pretty good at impressions."
‘The Croods: A New Age’ Dawns With $21M Offshore; ‘Tenet’ Tops $300M; ‘Demon Slayer’ Still Rising In Japan – International
DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Croods: A New Age led the weekend in China with a $19.2M debut, outpacing local titles One Second and Caught In Time as it got a huge Saturday boost. This is the third best bow for a studio movie in the Middle Kingdom during the pandemic era (behind Tenet and Mulan). In total, the Croods sequel opened in seven offshore markets for a combined $20.8M at the international box office. There were also No. 1 starts in Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and the UAE. The worldwide opening estimate including domestic is $35M.
This is a solid start for the animated film that comes seven years after the original. Directed by Joel Crawford, it has strong word of mouth in China (9.1 on Maoyan and Taopiaopiao and 8.2 on Douban). Play increased by 191% from Friday to Saturday when it took in more than one-third of the market’s box office. Sunday saw just a 15% decrease from the previous day.
The weekend is three times the original movie’s 2013 launch. That film was a bonafide hit, going on to gross $63.3M in China at the time (before its extended run was cut short). The second prehistoric toon could get up to that neighborhood when looking at a few factors. Namely, there are a number of movies that have done a three multiple since cinemas reopened in the Middle Kingdom, and the social scores and word of mouth are there for A New Age. It is currently dominating midweek pre-sales, however, there is expected to be competition for screens in the coming frames.
Elsewhere, Warner Bros’ Tenet has crossed $300M at the international box office with a $300.4M total through Sunday. Offshore has been the key driver of the Christopher Nolan time-twister, with 84% of the gross from international markets. The worldwide cume is $357.8M. This is still with 15 markets yet to release, including Argentina, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Atlanta resident Sterling Davis was on a break from a rap tour when he applied for a job at the county shelter scooping kitty litter. He just wanted to stay busy and make a little money. Plus, he’s always loved animals, like his cat at the time, Rick James.
“I did horrible in the interview because they had cats in the room and I was playing with all the cats, kissing all the cats,” he told TODAY.
Even though he didn’t really answer any of the questions because he was distracted by the friendly felines, he got the job because, as the person who hired him said, “We’re not seeing people like you with cats.”
Davis, 40, started helping shelter employees with trap-neuter-return cases. The team would trap community cats (formerly called “feral”), bring them to the shelter to be vaccinated and spayed or neutered, and then return them to their outdoor realm.
“At the county shelter, there were no men and no Black people that worked in the cat department,” he said. “When I would go out and do TNR with all my friends, it would be all women — that’s who trained me. I finally asked the difficult question: ‘Where are all the guys and where are all the Black people?’’
Every year, millions of children (and some adults) send letters to Santa Claus asking for Christmas presents. But what actually happens to letters addressed to Santa in the North Pole?
There are two ways that the United States Postal Service responds to these letters.
In 2017, Operation Santa went digital in seven cities, but is going nationwide for the first time in 2020. Aspiring Santas anywhere in the US can now browse people's letters online, select one they want to respond to with a note or a gift, and bring their response to a post office for delivery at a participating post office.
If you know a child who is sending a letter to Santa, you can write a response as Santa yourself and have the USPS deliver it as if it came from the North Pole, complete with a special North Pole postmark.
President Trump (R-Deluded) on Sunday gave his first interview since losing the Nov. 3 election. As he has done for almost four weeks, Trump continued to angrily deny that reality, this time adding a new claim: His own Department of Justice and the FBI are falling down on the job of investigating his allegations of fraud.
“We won the election easily,” the president falsely said on Fox News's “Sunday Morning Futures.”
At one point during the interview, Trump even speculated that his own administration's law enforcement entities could be complicit in the alleged conspiracies, which spanned across mail-in and in-person voting.
“This is total fraud. And how the FBI, and Department of Justice — I don't know, maybe they're involved — but how people are allowed to get away with this is stuff is unbelievable. This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” Trump said.
The Department of Justice, he said, in response to a leading question by Bartiromo, is “missing in action.”
As the 2020 campaign wound down, President Donald Trump (R-Loser) held rallies across the country to fire up his supporters and get them out to vote. Many saw the rallies as a sign of big enthusiasm for Trump, but the data suggest the visits did not produce the desired impact for the president.
Comparing Trump campaign stops over the last two weeks of the race to election results shows that in the overwhelming majority of cases, Trump underperformed his 2016 margins in the counties he visited, in some cases by large amounts.
There were 30 Trump campaign stops in that period, according to an NBC News tally, in states from Arizona to Nebraska to Pennsylvania. In five counties that Trump visited he saw better results than he did in 2016, but in the remaining 25 his margins of victory got smaller, his margin of defeat grew or the county flipped Democratic.
In Michigan, Trump held five events in the last two weeks of the campaign and in every one of those counties, his 2020 margins were worse than they were in 2016. Some notable examples are below.
The pattern was similar in Pennsylvania. Trump held seven events in the state in the last two weeks of the campaign and in every county Trump visited he did slightly worse than he did in 2016.
The South Dakota Department of Health on Saturday reported 54 new COVID-19 deaths since Friday, the highest single-day increase in deaths of all time in the state as cases of the virus surge statewide.
The previous record, 53, was set earlier this month on November 14, the Rapid City Journal reported. As the outlet noted, there have been 942 deaths in the state from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus since the pandemic began, with more than half of those — 517 — occurring in the month of November. There were more than 800 new cases diagnosed in the state Saturday.
But hours earlier, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, encouraged state residents to go shopping to support local businesses.
Earlier in the week, Noem, who has been in office since 2019, celebrated the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's restrictions that imposed limits on capacity at religious services to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
In addition to refusing to issue a statewide mask mandate, Noem has also defended individuals who neglect to wear masks despite repeated recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and health experts who have pleaded that widespread adoption of mask-wearing would curb the spread of the disease.
Almost half of LGBTQ adults in the United States are religious, according to a recent report from the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute.
Of nearly 16,000 respondents polled in the Gallup Daily Tracking Survey, 47 percent were either moderately or highly religious. Those who were older, Black or lived in the South were the most likely to be religious, researchers found.
To determine religiosity, respondents were asked about service attendance and the importance of religion in their daily lives.
Respondents who said religion was not an important part of their daily life and they never or seldom attended services were categorized as “not religious.” Those who indicated religion was important — even if they attended services less than once a month — were classified as “moderately religious,” as were those who attended services weekly, even if they said religion was not important in their lives.
Respondents who said religion was an important facet of their daily life and they attended regular services were categorized as “highly religious.”
The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance as an organising principle in chemistry – all budding chemists become familiar with it from the earliest stages of their education.
Given the table's importance, one might be forgiven for thinking that the ordering of the elements were no longer subject to debate. However, two scientists in Moscow, Russia, have recently published a proposal for a new order.
Importantly, Mendeleev's periodic table had been derived empirically based on the observed chemical similarities of certain elements. It would not be until the early 20th century, after the structure of the atom had been established and following the development of quantum theory, that a theoretical understanding of its structure would emerge.
Elements were now ordered by atomic number (the number of positively charged particles called protons in the atomic nucleus), rather than by atomic mass, but still also by chemical similarities.
The precise placement of certain elements depends on which particular properties we wish to highlight. Thus, a periodic table which gives primacy to the electronic structure of atoms will differ from tables for which the principal criteria are certain chemical or physical properties.
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