• In 1948, a year when a scandal could ruin an actor’s career, Robert Mitchum was arrested for possession of marijuana. When he was asked what his career was, he replied, “Former actor.” Newspaper articles about the arrest included the joke, and instead of having his career ruined, Mr. Mitchum found it enhanced. It also helped when articles included his answer to reporters who asked what life on a prison farm was like after spending 60 days there: “Just like Palm Springs — without the riffraff, of course.” (Mr. Mitchum continued to gain such publicity throughout his career. At Cannes, a young lady he was with took off the top of her bikini in front of photographers. Being a perfect gentleman, Mr. Mitchum preserved her modesty by covering her breasts — with his hands.)
• When move producer Darryl F. Zanuck purchased the film rights of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, some people felt that he was buying the rights to prevent a movie ever being made of the book, which criticized banks and big farm interests. However, Mr. Zanuck did make a movie based on the book — the movie, starring Henry Fonda, is a classic. Because so many powerful people opposed the making of a movie based on The Grapes of Wrath, the making of the movie was kept secret. Whenever anyone asked which movie they were filming, they gave the title of another movie. In addition, Mr. Zanuck hired extra stagehands — that is, bodyguards — for the making of this particular film.
• Anyone who has ever seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail knows that in the movie King Arthur and his knights do not ride horses; instead, they are followed by people using coconuts to make horse-riding noises. During the making of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the budget was quite low and filming had to be completed in only five and a half weeks. In fact, the comedy troupe couldn’t afford to use horses, which would have lengthened the time it took to make the movie. However, they managed to turn a weakness into a strength by substituting the use of coconuts for the horses.
• In the film The Seven Samurai, some samurai are given a test. They are invited into a building where a man is hiding with a stick. The first samurai crosses the threshold, and the man hidden inside hits him with the stick. This samurai fails the test. Later, the second samurai crosses the threshold, dodges the blow, and hits the man who has the stick. This samurai also fails the test. Still later, the third samurai pauses at the threshold, studies the footprints in the dirt, and realizes that a man is hiding inside. This samurai passes the test.
• Jack Palence excellently played a bad guy in the 1953 movie classic Shane. However, he was a bad horseman. After several tries, he made a perfect dismount, so director George Stevens used that shot in the movie every time Mr. Palence dismounted — and, by running the film backward, every time Mr. Palence mounted. In addition, in one scene Mr. Palence was supposed to gallop into town. But Mr. Palence was such a poor horseman, he finally was told to walk the horse into town. (This scene works very well in the movie.)
• Mike Nichols directed the controversial film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Of course, the people behind the film worried that it would be censored by the Catholic Church’s League of Decency, but Mr. Nichols came up with a plan to have the League approve it. He arranged for Jackie Kennedy to watch the movie while sitting beside the monsignor who headed the League and for Jackie to turn to the monsignor after the film ended and say, “How Jack would have loved it!” The plan worked; the League approved the film.
Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some, like Darjeeling and Chinese greens, have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have vastly different profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral, or grassy notes. Tea has a stimulating effect in humans primarily due to its caffeine content.
Tea is the most popular manufactured drink consumed in the world, equaling all others – including coffee, soft drinks, and alcohol – combined. Most tea consumed outside East Asia is produced on large plantations in the hilly regions of India and Sri Lanka and is destined to be sold to large businesses. Opposite this large-scale industrial production are many small "gardens," sometimes minuscule plantations, that produce highly sought-after teas prized by gourmets. These teas are both rare and expensive and can be compared to some of the most expensive wines in this respect.
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Billy in Cypress U.S.A. was first, and correct, with:
Tea with coffee and beer as runners-up.
Mark. said:
Tea.
Alan J answered:
Tea.
mj wrote:
Another guess
I'm going with tea. Beer would be my second guess.
Mac Mac responded:
Tea
Randall replied:
TEA
Dave wrote:
Tea? I figured it was either tea or coffee, but I heard that the Chinese are big tea drinkers and there are a lot of Chinese. I just read that coffee is #3. Tea and coffee were actually health drinks back when people were exposed to contaminated drinking water. Boiling the water to prepare both kills bad pathogens. Today a lot of Texas and Mississippi are under boil water advisories because the incompetent Republicans let the pipes freeze.
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
Well, I was going with beer, then wine, then coffee, but decided it must be tea. We drank instant coffee in Korea, but the teas we drank were elevated and treated with much more reverence. Experience a traditional Japanese tea (mine was in a huge bamboo grove); after that I get that tea is king.
Leo in Boise said:
Tea
Ed K wrote:
Jim Jones™ Religious Kool-Aid, apparently.
Daniel in The City answered:
Tea
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is tea.
Dave in Tucson responded:
Beer?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Tea
After water, tea is the most popular drink in the world.
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NOUN: a somewhat NICER word for a person who is boorish, loud, disruptive, e.g. (but not limited to): Rethuglicans, rapacious $rich people$ (i.e., All money belongs to the rich; all workers/slaves belong to the rich; non-rich, non-workers, non-slaves not producing more slaves need to die and decrease the surplus population), murderous maga mobs, killer Qanon crazies, mass-murderous Nazi’s, KKK cross burners/lynchers, intimidating/threatening militias. “trump” worshippers, “the fictional king of Siam, etc, etc, etc…”
2. Texas Plan
TEXAS, “0 days without being a national embarrassment”
That is what happens every day with government officials (neanderthals) who only govern for themselves and not the citizens. “The eyes of Texas (government)” are on the money (personal gain), their re-election, enriching the wealthy inside/outside the state, and finding new lies to tell and thereby hide and ignore any-and-all truths.
3. Texas result:
STINKY-FINGERS, a new meme for phony politicians who do not care about their constituents:
TEXAS had an old slogan: “Don’t mess with Texas" which tried to reduce roadside litter, but was then expanded to prevent anything connected to the federal government, except military bases, weapons contracts, funding for the aftermath of disasters, other free money, etc, etc, etc.
Now TEXAS has a new slogan: “Don’t mess with Texas --- because only Texas has the right to f**k and kill itself AND its citizens”. Then, those politicians can brag about the killing, while pointing their “STINKY-FINGERS” at everyone except themselves and those others who have the stinky-fingers/stinky-raised-fists to take away your rights/”stinky-thumbs-up-your-...”/stinky-greedy-palms grabbing your money/stinky-vacations-in-Cancun (just blame the children), etc, etc, etc…”
Never vote for or support “STINKY-FINGERS”! If they do not have toilet paper or soap-and-water to clean their hands after their dirty deeds, they deserve the smell and consequences. (NOTE: Neither TP nor soap and water will ever remove the stink/stank/stunk from real “STINKY-FINGERS". “STINKY-FINGERS" contaminate/infect/infest everything they touch, “their bible”, your hands, your family, your friends; and, their words are just another way to contaminate your mind and infect your body. When you meet a politician or public official with “STINKY- FINGERS" be polite and ask “I know you are proud of the work you have done. Please, show me the “STINKY-FINGER" you used to press the buttons that caused the statewide power outage (minimumn extra energy costs to Texas will be $16 BILLION and probably double that to correct the inherent problems in that system), broke water pipes/supply lines, contaminated water supplies, caused cold-related deaths, facilitated COVID19 spread and deaths, etc, etc., etc, ... Do not be surprised if that finger is a single “STINKY-middle-finger” pointed in your face either literally or figuratively or both and if they are ambidextrous, you may get two from both their left and right hands or bodyguards to toss you out, because in their world “free speech is only allowed and protected for the rich who do not ask such difficult questions that can/will not be answered by neanderthals.”
New stray cat has wandered into the yard - she hasn't picked any fights and seems fairly well-mannered, but she has no trust in humans at this point.
She's all black except for a dime-size white dot on her throat - calling her 'Spot' for now.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a RERUN'Bull', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Voice', followed by a RERUN'Debris', then an old 'SNL' (from 03/05/11) with Miley Cyrus hosting, music by The Strokes.
'SNL' is a RERUN (from 12/19/20) with Kristen Wiig hosting, music by Dua Lipa.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by a RERUN'American Idol'.
The CW offers a coupla old 'Friends', then a coupla old '2½ Men'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'Name That Tune'.
MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
A&E has the movie 'Jack Reacher', followed by the movie 'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back'.
AMC offers the movie 'Back To The Future', followed by the movie 'Back To The Future Part II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] ATTENBOROUGH AND THE GIANT ELEPHANT
[7:00AM - 9:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME
[10:00AM] WILD ALASKA
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES
[1:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET
[2:00PM - 7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET
[8:00PM] SNOW ANIMALS
[9:10PM - 2:50AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET
[3:50AM] SNOW ANIMALS
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', followed by the movie 'Mr & Mrs Smith'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Grown Ups', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups 2', then the movie 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse'.
IFC -
[7:00am - 12:30pm] Saved By The Bell
[1:00pm] The World's End
[3:30pm] Battle: Los Angeles
[6:00pm] Transporter 2
[8:00pm] The Bourne Identity
[10:30pm] The Bourne Supremacy
[1:00am] The Bourne Ultimatum
[3:30am] Battle: Los Angeles (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am - 4:30pm] hogan's heroes
[5:00pm] hoodlum
[8:00pm] 48 hrs.
[10:00pm] another 48 hrs.
[12:00am] inside man
[3:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Is Underwater
[4:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Falls In Love
[5:00am] monk - Mr. Monk's 100th Case (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'John Wick: Chapter 2', followed by the movie 'The Fifth Element', then the movie 'Colombiana'.
Judges at the Berlin Film Festival announced Friday that the satirical movie ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ by Romanian director Radu Jude has been awarded this year’s top prize, saying it has the “rare and essential quality of a lasting art work.”
The film about a teacher facing scrutiny over a sex tape “captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time,” the Berlinale jury said as it awarded the film its Golden Bear.
The Silver Bear for best leading performance went to German actress Maren Eggert who plays a scientist exploring life and longing with a handsome humanoid robot in ‘I’m Your Man.’
It is the first time that the Berlin Film Festival has awarded a single award for best acting regardless of gender.
Denes Nagy of Hungary received the award for best director for his debut ‘Natural Light,’ following a Hungarian unit hunting partisans in the Soviet Union during World War II.
A New York-based copyright holder that sued the late artist Robert Indiana a day before his death has reached a settlement with his estate and the foundation set up to transform the artist’s home into museum.
The settlement agreement brings the legal wrangling over the estate of the artist known for his iconic “LOVE” series closer to an end.
Details were not released, but the agreement “should fully resolve all claims” stemming from Morgan Art Foundation’s lawsuit that accused Indiana and his caretaker of violating a licensing agreement, according to a letter that was filed Wednesday in federal the court in New York City. The agreement would become effective in May upon settling of “one condition” that must be completed, wrote Luke Nikas, Morgan’s attorney.
The lawsuit by the Morgan Art Foundation was filed in New York the day before Indiana’s death on May 19, 2018, at age 89 on Vinalhaven Island, 15 miles (25 kilometers) off Rockland, Maine.
Millions of dollars have been spent on legal fees since Indiana’s death, and the state attorney general’s office is demanding an accounting of the estate’s spending.
Queen Elizabeth II has acquired two new corgi puppies after the last of her succession of the dogs died several years ago, The Sun reported on Friday.
The tabloid said the lively pups -- the latest in a long line of dogs to keep the 94-year-old company -- were bringing joy as the royal family battles a series of crises.
Her 99-year-old husband, Prince Philip, has just had a heart operation, while her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have given a tell-all interview to US television after moving to California.
The dogs have reportedly been living with the queen for several weeks at Windsor Castle, west of London, where she has been self-isolating from the coronavirus pandemic for nearly a year.
"The Queen is delighted," The Sun quoted an unnamed palace "insider" as saying.
A Texas school district has pulled an assignment on chivalry that prompted widespread outrage after images of the lesson circulated online.
Some parents complained about the English assignment, which included rules on how female students at Shallowater High School outside Lubbock should conduct themselves around their male classmates.
"Hear Ye, Hear Ye Ladies," the lesson began. "The ladies ... will demonstrate to the school how the code of chivalry and standards set in the medieval concept of courtly love carries over to the modern day."
The lesson called for them to dress in "a feminine manner to please the men" and to "address all men respectfully by title, with a lowered head and curtsy." It instructed them to "never criticize a male," "initiate a conversation" or "whine." It directed them to "walk behind men or walk daintily, as if their feet were bound." And they were told to cook, clean and "obey any reasonable request of a male. If not sure if it is considered reasonable, ladies can check with their teachers.”
“Outside the classroom, ladies cannot show intellectual superiority if it would offend the men around them."
Two firefighters loaned to Washington for the day were the only medics on the Capitol steps Jan. 6, trying to triage injured officers as they watched the angry mob swell and attack police working to protect Congress.
Law enforcement agents were “being pulled into the crowd and trampled, assaulted with scaffolding materials, and/or bear maced by protesters,” wrote Arlington County firefighter Taylor Blunt in an after-action memo. Some couldn’t walk, and had to be dragged to safety.
Even the attackers sought medical help, and Blunt and his colleague Nathan Waterfall treated those who were passing out or had been hit. But some “feigned illness to remain behind police lines,” Blunt wrote.
The memo is one of hundreds of emails, texts, photos and documents obtained by The Associated Press. Taken together, the materials shed new light on the sprawling patchwork of law enforcement agencies that tried to stop the siege and the lack of coordination and inadequate planning that stymied their efforts.
Five people died in the attack, including a police officer. Two other officers killed themselves after. There were hundreds of injuries and more than 300 people, including members of extremist groups Proud Boys and Oathkeepers, have been charged with federal crimes. Federal agents are still investigating and hundreds more suspects are at large. Justice Department officials have said they may charge some with sedition.
A popular notion that there was a mass exodus from California last year is wrong, according to research from a nonpartisan think tank.
Most moves during 2020 happened within the state, the California Policy Lab said Thursday.
Departures from the state were consistent with historical patterns, but the biggest statewide change was that fewer people moved into California, the group said in a statement.
The lab's researchers used a dataset of quarterly credit bureau information called the University of California Consumer Credit Panel to analyze where people from each California county moved after the coronavirus pandemic struck a year ago.
Net exits from San Francisco between the end of last March and the end of 2020 increased 649%, compared to the same period in 2019. But about two-thirds of the city's departing residents remained within the 11-county San Francisco Bay Area economic region, and 80% stayed in California.
This week, the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab began work on the sixth of seven primary mirror segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). On March 1st, the lab started heating its one-of-a-kind glass furnace to a temperature of 1,165 degrees Celsius. That in itself was a major milestone in a manufacturing process known as spin-casting. It took about four months to make the mold and another nine hours to cover it in nearly 90 tons of rare borosilicate glass.
On Friday, the furnace started to spin at about five revolutions per minute. The combination of heat and motion will force the glass up the mold's sides as it melts, causing it to form a curved surface. Once the 8.4-meter mirror is cast over the weekend, it will enter a month-long "annealing" process that will see the furnace slowly come to a stop while the glass cools. That's done so that the mirror cools uniformly, making the final product tough and free of as many imperfections as possible. It will take another month-and-a-half for it to cool to room temperature. It's at that point that the lengthy process of polishing it can begin.
Manufacturing a single glass segment takes about four years to complete. In 2019, the university finished work on GMT's second mirror. That one is now in storage, waiting to be transported to Chile. While the project broke ground in 2015, it won't be complete until later in the decade. But once it is done, the GMT will be able to capture images that are 10 times clearer than those produced by the Hubble Space Telescope.
New research suggests that woolly mammoths and humans may have lived alongside one another in what is now modern-day New England. As reported in the journal Boreas, scientists have used carbon-dating to work out how old the famous Mount Holly mammoth fossil actually is. It turns out, it was roaming Northeast America 12,800 years ago, roughly around the time that humans arrived in the region.
The fossils were discovered in 1848, in a peat bog near Mount Holly in Vermont as railroad lines were being constructed. Two tusks, a molar, and many bones were found and then shared among different collections. A rib fragment became part of the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire and this is what the researchers used to learn more about this sample of America's lost megafauna.
"It has long been thought that megafauna and humans in New England did not overlap in time and space and that it was probably ultimately environmental change that led to the extinction of these animals in the region but our research provides some of the first evidence that they may have actually co-existed," co-author Dr Nathaniel Kitchel from Dartmouth College said in a statement.
The researchers extracted about 1 gram of material from the rib and analyzed it to estimate isotopic concentration. Each chemical element come in different isotopes. They have the same chemical properties but have a different number of neutrons in their cores. A lot of these isotopes are slightly radioactive, and over time decay, turning into stable isotopes, which are not.
By comparing the ratios of these isotopes scientists can learn a lot, including how long ago something died based on its concentration of carbon-14 and its stage of decay (hence carbon dating). They can also get hints about diet using nitrogen. While the carbon result is certainly vital to understand when the mammoth died, the nitrogen is also very valuable, potentially helping us understand why these animals died out.
Wisdom the albatross, the world's oldest known wild bird, has had a chick at the age of at least 70.
The Laysan albatross hatched the chick on 1 February in a wildlife refuge in the North Pacific Ocean, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has said.
Laysan albatrosses usually only live for 12-40 years. But Wisdom was first identified by researchers in 1956.
The father is Wisdom's partner, Akeakamai, who she has been with since 2012, US wildlife officials said.
Albatrosses usually mate for life, but it is believed Wisdom had other partners in the past that she outlived.
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