• Early in her career, while she was still a student at Denishawn, Martha Graham showed talent, but she had not yet made a major impression on Ted Shawn. One day, Mr. Shawn and some of his students were working on “Serenata Morisca,” a solo Moorish gypsy dance, as Mr. Shawn tried to decide who would perform it during the next tour. At one point, he looked at Ms. Graham, who as usual was sitting quietly and observing when she was not dancing, and he said, “It’s too bad Martha doesn’t know this dance. She would look just right in it.” Ms. Graham spoke up, “But I do know it.” Mr. Shawn replied, “That’s impossible — you’ve never danced it!” Ms. Graham then demonstrated the dance, which she had learned from watching the other dancers. She was given the solo to perform during the tour.
• Arthur Mitchell of the Dance Theatre of Harlem used to go to schools for lecture demonstrations and say, “I don’t go much to discothèques anymore, so you’ve got to tell me what the latest dances are. Anybody want to come up and show me?” Once the students were up on stage demonstrating the newest dances, Mr. Mitchell would point out when appropriate, “Now you may call this step the ‘hustle’ or the ‘monkey’ or whatever, but what you were really doing was step, plié, step, plié,” and show the student what he meant. Occasionally, one of the students demonstrating the newest dance steps would have real talent, and Mr. Mitchell would give the student a dance scholarship.
• Dance teacher Carmelita Maracci was gifted. She was technically perfect and would demonstrate a dance move such as an arabesque to her astonished students, then invite them to try it. They were unable to reach her level of perfection, but they did the move better than they ever had before. One day, dancer Anton Dolan visited her classroom, so she stood up and unleased a series of dance moves — entrechats six and entrechats huit — that he had not been able to do since he was 30 years old (and that very few male dancers, and even fewer female dancers, can do), and then she sat down. After Mr. Dolan left, Ms. Maracci said, “It nearly sprung me, but I figured I had to do it. He’d heard I was a technician.”
• Edward Villella worked three hard years to learn how to partner a ballerina — before he learned to partner, he sometimes found it difficult to get ballerinas to dance with him. However, eventually he learned partnering — and learned it well. At Jacob’s Pillow, he partnered the wondrous ballerina Violette Verdy in the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and she got off balance during a series of turns. Fortunately, Mr. Villella was ready to immediately balance her again. At the close of the adagio, when he was holding Ms. Verdy upside down and she was looking up at him, she said, “Thanks!” — in perfect tempo to the music.
• As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life each day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for — for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
• Miss Beth and Miss Lynn, two children’s dance teachers in Georgia, once figured out a way to communicate with each other that they thought their students four years old and younger would not understand — they spelled. So they would make comments about students such as “P-R-E-T-T-Y G-O-O-D,” “B-A-D child,” “S-C-A-R-E-D,” and “S-M-A-R-T A-S-S.” Unfortunately, one four-year-old genius told them, “P-R-E-T-T-Y G-O-O-D spells ‘pretty good,’ B-A-D spells ‘bad,’ S-C-A-R-E-D spells ‘scared,’ S-M-A-R — .” Miss Beth and Miss Lynn stopped spelling.
Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia all share the same official state fish. What freshwater inhabitant is it?
The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus Salvelinus of the salmon family Salmonidae. It is native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada, but has been introduced elsewhere in North America, as well as to Iceland, Europe, and Asia. In parts of its range, it is also known as the eastern brook trout, speckled trout, brook charr, squaretail, or mud trout, among others. A potamodromous population in Lake Superior, as well as an anadromous population in Maine, is known as coaster trout or, simply, as coasters. The brook trout is the state fish of nine U.S. states: Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the Provincial Fish of Nova Scotia in Canada.
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Billy in Cypress was first, and correct, with:
Brook trout
Dave responded:
Brook trout. Classified as a char instead of a trout, Brook trout are native to Michigan, unlike the invasive Rainbow and Brown trout that also can be found in Michigan waters.
Mac Mac replied:
Largemouth bass
zorch said:
The Brook Trout. What state has the Toilet Fish as its official fish?
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The mighty Brook Trout.
Alan J answered:
The Brook Trout.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
brook trout
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Brook Trout
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is brook trout.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
The state fish of New Jersey is the brook trout. Must be popular to be featured as so many states’ fish. I guess that makes it off-fish-al.
Way too warm to be winter. And big wind (30 mph sustained, gusts 40-50 mph) is scheduled to start blowing from the NE, off the high desert, from tonight through Tuesday. That should be especially unpleasant.
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) answered:
It's the brook trout. Being from Michigan it's something we know. Actually it's the first fish I ever caught. I was quite small and my mother and I were visiting my Aunt Bertha and I was kinda getting in the way. so Aunt Bertha fixed me up with a switch with a string tied to it. For a hook she used a safety pin and she put a piece of fat back on the pin for bait. Then I was sent outside by a creek to go "fishing." Son-of-gun if I didn't catch a brook trout, or as a "brookie" as they were called then.
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Two friends sent a BUNCH of Peter Navarro memes of him taking the picture from the WH. But I dislike him so much that I discarded most of them. However, the one with the Slovenian hooker was too good to pass up. Speaking of the gold-digging, racist enabling "c" word, I read that her popularity is rightfully as its lowest point--hope no one buys the book she has coming out where she tries to make money off pictures of our White House's furnishings and art--the book she was too busy finishing a photo shoot of to do anything about the thugs vandalizing our Capitol at the urging of her criminal husband.
Linda >^..^<
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CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by another FRESH'NCIS', then a FRESH'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jason Segel and Black Pumas.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Anthony Mackie, and Machine Gun Kelly.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us', then a FRESH'Nurses'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Dakota Johnson, Yara Shahidi, and Tate McRae.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Rachel Maddow, Billie Piper, and Sarah Thawer.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Craig Robinson.
ABC opens the night with the movie 'Cinderella', followed by a RERUN'Call Your Mother', then a RERUN'The Conners'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Casey Affleck, Rep. Adam Schiff, and Jack Harlow.
The CW offers a RERUN'Two Sentence Horror Story', followed by another RERUN'Two Sentence Horror Story', then a FRESH'Trickster'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', followed by the movie 'Forrest Gump'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT
[8:00AM] ENCHANTED KINGDOM
[10:00AM - 2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES
[3:00PM - 5:00PM] MADAGASCAR
[6:00PM - 3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA
[4:00AM] MADAGASCAR
[5:00AM] MADAGASCAR (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Hidden Figures', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Proof Is Out There', then another FRESH'The Proof Is Out There'.
IFC -
[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Back To The Woods
[6:15am] Pompeii
[8:45am] Escape From New York
[11:00am] Casino Royale
[2:30pm] Quantum Of Solace
[5:00pm] Skyfall
[8:00pm] Casino Royale
[11:30pm] Quantum Of Solace
[2:00am] Skyfall
[5:00am] The Three Stooges - Men In Black
[5:30am] The Three Stooges - Half-Shot Shooters (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 9:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[10:00am - 12:30pm] hogan's heroes
[1:00pm] pet sematary
[3:00pm] pet sematary two
[5:00pm] columbo
[6:45pm] columbo
[8:30pm] columbo
[10:15pm] columbo
[12:30am] columbo
[2:15am] columbo
[4:00am - 5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Robin Hood', followed by the movie 'Law Abiding Citizen'.
The New Radicals will reunite for the first time in over 20 years to perform “You Get What You Give” as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s virtual “Parade Across America” event.
The 1998 hit single resurfaced on the 2020 campaign trail as the handpicked walk-on song for Vice President-elect’s husband Doug Emhoff – the soon-to-be Second Gentleman – during rallies.
“If there’s one thing on Earth that would possibly make us get the band together, if only for a day, it is the hope that our song could be even the tiniest beacon of light in such a dark time,” frontman Gregg Alexander said in a statement.
“America knows in its heart that things will get bright again with a new administration and a real plan for vaccines on the way. That’s the message of the song… this world is gonna pull through.”
The hit also has a deep connection with the Biden family: In Joe Biden’s 2017 autobiography, Promise Me, Dad, he wrote that “You Get What You Give” became the family’s rallying “theme song” for son Beau Biden during his battle with cancer.
President-elect Joe Biden is not throwing away his shot to celebrate his inauguration. While the traditional inaugural balls are not taking place due to the coronavirus pandemic, Biden’s inaugural committee has planned a star-studded primetime special to mark the swearing-in on the evening of Jan. 20. On Sunday, the committee announced additional participants who will appear in the program, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the smash Broadway hit “Hamilton.”
According to the committee, Miranda will “recite a classic work during the program.” Other newly announced participants in the special include NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, chef and philanthropist José Andrés, labor leader Dolores Huerta and Kim Ng, the first woman to serve as general manager of a Major League Baseball team. Tom Hanks was previously announced as host of the “Celebrating America” special along with musical performers including Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, John Legend and the Foo Fighters. Actresses Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington will introduce different segments as they did during the Democratic National Convention last August. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will also make remarks during the broadcast.
Biden’s inauguration will take place just two weeks after supporters of President Trump (R-Lock Him Up) violently attacked the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop lawmakers from certifying Biden’s victory over the incumbent in last year’s election. Five deaths were tied to the violence, and law enforcement has reported continued threats around the country. As a result, the Secret Service has spearheaded an unprecedented lockdown in the District of Columbia for the inauguration. For the past few days, much of downtown Washington has been designated a Red Zone that is closed to the public, including the National Mall and the Capitol, which is the traditional site of the presidential swearing-in.
Despite the elevated threat level, Biden and his team have stressed that they are confident the inauguration will be secure. Biden still plans to be sworn in on the West front of the Capitol building. That ceremony will feature performances by Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez.
Sir Rod Stewart and Sir Elton John are mates again after ending their three-year row about “money-grabbing” shows.
The two music veterans have had a stormy friendship for 50 years, often joking about the ways they have tried to wind each other up, but the insults hit a new level in 2018 when Sir Rod slated Sir Elton during a US TV show appearance for promoting his 300-date farewell tour.
The Maggie May singer called Sir Elton “money-grabbing” and said that his promotion of the tour “stinks of selling tickets”, angering his old friend.
But now, according to The Sun Sir Rod has told The Harry Redknapp Show podcast that they’ve buried the hatchet after their longest-running fall out.
He added “I do love him” as he confirmed that they were mates once more.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who made the famed napalm girl photo during the Vietnam War was attacked in Washington, D.C.
The photographer, Nick Ut, was headed to dinner Thursday night with a friend when someone came up to him and punched him, NBC Washington reports.
“What happened last night, we had trouble,” he said. “I really don’t see that guy tackle me last night, and I hear yelling, but too late for me, and he punched me already.”
Ut, 70, who was born in Vietnam, said he fell to the ground and hit metal fencing surrounding a tree.
"He knocked me down and hurt my ribs, back and left leg. Same leg I have metal in from mortar in Vietnam War," Ut wrote. "Secret Service so fast to come over and help."
Members of President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Associated Press review of records, undercutting claims the event was the brainchild of the president’s grassroots supporters.
A pro-Trump nonprofit group called Women for America First hosted the “Save America Rally” on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse, an oval-shaped, federally owned patch of land near the White House. But an attachment to the National Park Service public gathering permit granted to the group lists more than half a dozen people in staff positions for the event who just weeks earlier had been paid thousands of dollars by Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. Other staff scheduled to be “on site” during the demonstration have close ties to the White House.
The AP’s review found at least three of the Trump campaign aides named on the permit rushed to obscure their connections to the demonstration. They deactivated or locked down their social media profiles and removed tweets that referenced the rally. Three blocked a reporter who asked questions.
The AP reviewed social media posts, voter registrations, court files and other public records for more than 120 people either facing criminal charges related to the Jan. 6 unrest or who, going maskless during the pandemic, were later identified through photographs and videos taken during the melee.
The review found the crowd was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including Republican Party officials, GOP political donors, far-right militants, white supremacists, off-duty police, members of the military and adherents of the QAnon myth that the government is secretly controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile cannibals.
American Thinker, a right-wing opinion website, recently issued a retraction against their stories regarding Dominion Voting Systems’s machines in the 2020 presidential election.
Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher of the website, said in the statement that they received a letter from the Dominion Voting Systems’s lawyers stating that the company was “the victim of defamatory statements” and that a previous article that was published had “false statements.”
According to Mediaite, Dominion was one of the many companies that faced voter fraud accusations from President Donald Trump after the election. American Thinker published stories accusing Dominion of “deleting” millions of votes in favor of Trump and attempted to connect the company with Antifa and Venzuela.
“American Thinker and contributors Andrea Widburg, R.D. Wedge, Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan have published pieces on www.AmericanThinker.com that falsely accuse US Dominion Inc., Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation (collectively ‘Dominion’) of conspiring to steal the November 2020 election from Donald Trump,” the statement read.
The website apologized for the causing harm and misrepresenting Dominion’s role in the presidential election.
An associate of Rudy Giuliani told a former CIA officer a presidential pardon was “going to cost $2m”, the New York Times reported on Sunday in the latest bombshell to break across the last, chaotic days of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The report detailed widespread and in some cases lucrative lobbying involving people seeking a pardon as Trump’s time in office winds down. The 45th president, impeached twice, will leave power on Wednesday with the inauguration of Joe Biden.
The former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who was jailed in 2012 for leaking the identity of an operative involved in torture, told the Times he laughed at the remark from the associate of Giuliani, the former New York mayor who as Trump’s personal attorney is reportedly a possible pardon recipient himself.
“Two million bucks – are you out of your mind?” Kiriakou reportedly said. “Even if I had two million bucks, I wouldn’t spend it to recover a $700,000 pension.”
Meant to reward offenders who show contrition, presidential pardons do not imply innocence. Presidents often use them to reward allies but Trump has taken the practice to extremes.
There is a ray of light for Parisians who, like the rest of the French nation this weekend, begin to observe a tightened coronavirus curfew: The famous Rodin Museum sculpture gardens is reopening to visitors.
Though the rococo museum, showcasing the world’s largest collection of Rodin sculptures, remains closed, visitors are now able to enter the sculpture-filled surrounding gardens that overlooked the gold dome of Les Invalides monument. They had been shuttered since November and reopened Saturday.
Now, the pink viburnum is in bloom, and forsythia buds poke out between the bronze forms.
Some of Rodin’s most famous sculptures like The Thinker, a towering contemplative bronze, can be seen there amid the greenery. Hidden in the thickets amid the strolling public, Orpheus tunes his lyre.
Tickets for the Musee Rodin at 77 rue de Varenne in Paris are six euros (about $7.25).
Egypt’s former antiquities minister and noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass on Sunday revealed details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis south of Cairo.
Hawass told reporters at the Saqqara necropolis that archaeologists unearthed the temple of Queen Neit, wife of King Teti, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty that ruled Egypt from 2323 B.C. till 2150 B.C.
Archaeologists also found a 4-meter (13-foot) long papyrus that includes texts of the Book of the Dead, which is a collection of spells aimed at directing the dead through the underworld in ancient Egypt, he said.
Hawass said archaeologists also unearthed burial wells, coffins and mummies dating back to the New Kingdom that ruled Egypt between about 1570 B.C. and 1069 B.C.
They unveiled at least 22 burial shafts up to 12 meters (40 feet) deep, with more than 50 wooden coffins dating back to the New Kingdom, said Hawass, who is Egypt’s best known archaeologist.
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