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NBC NEWS: The attending physician of the U.S. Congress & Supreme Court, Dr. Brian Monahan, briefed Senate Staff [recently] in a closed-door meeting that he expects anywhere from 70 up to 150 million people in the U.S. to contract coronavirus, per two sources.
Paul Krugman: It's a MAGA MicrobeMeltdown (NY Times Column)
Democrats, by contrast, have proposed a package that would actually address the needs of the moment: free coronavirus testing, paid sick leave, expanded unemployment benefits and an increase in federal matching funds for Medicaid programs, which would both help states meet the demands of the crisis and sustain overall spending by relieving the pressure on state budgets.
Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state, country, and microstate on the French Riviera in Western Europe. France borders the country on three sides while the other side borders the Mediterranean Sea. Monaco is about 15 km (9.3 mi) from the state border with Italy.
Monaco has an area of 2.02 km2 (0.78 sq mi), making it the second-smallest country in the world after the Vatican. Its population as of 2018 is 38,682. With 19,009 inhabitants per square kilometre (49,230/sq mi), it is the most densely-populated sovereign state in the world. Monaco has a land border of 5.47 km (3.40 mi), the world's shortest coastline of approximately 3.83 km (2.38 mi) (regardless of the coastline paradox), and a width that varies between 1,700 and 349 m (5,577 and 1,145 ft). The highest point in the country is a narrow pathway named Chemin des Révoires on the slopes of Mont Agel, in the Les Révoires Ward, which is 161 metres (528 feet) above sea level. Monaco's most populous Quartier is Monte Carlo and the most populous Ward is Larvotto/Bas Moulins. Through land reclamation, Monaco's land mass has expanded by 20 percent. In 2005, it had an area of only 1.974 km2 (0.762 sq mi). Monaco is known to be the most expensive and the wealthiest place in the world due to its tax laws. In 2014, it was noted that about 30% of the population was made up of millionaires.
Citizens of Monaco, whether born in the country or naturalised, are called Monégasque. Monaco has the world's highest life expectancy at nearly 90 years.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Monaco
Mark. said:
Monaco.
Alan J answered:
Monaco.
mj wrote:
It's capitol
While oozing wealth and luxury, isn't terribly attractive once one gets
away from the palace. Monte Carlo is the capital city of Monaco, and
it's building more land for hotel development. Interestingly enough,
most people who work there can't afford to live there.
Mac Mac replied:
Monaco
Cal in Vermont responded:
Monaco. If someone came to me and said "We will make you and your family immersive citizens of any one place free of any cares or worries, where will you go?" Monaco in a heartbeat!
zorch said:
Monaco, a casino with a country.
Dave wrote:
Monaco. Basically Monaco is a city in France that by some sort of circumstances pretends to be a sovereign country. At 0.78 square miles Monaco is the smallest country in the world except for fellow fake country the Vatican. Monaco is a popular address for Europeans who want to avoid paying their taxes, like rich Formula 1 drivers and film stars. Monaco hosts an annual Formula 1 championship race on its streets the last weekend in May.
Photos: The Monaco Grand Prix is considered one of the most prestigious auto races in the world, and is included in the unofficial Triple Crown of Motorsports, along with the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500. To date, former World Driving Champion Graham Hill is the only person to have won all 3 major races.
In total, Graham Hill won the Monaco GP 5 times during the 1960s.
Your Snowflake, Libtard pal, Roy in Tyler, TX responded:
The Monégasque are the people of that beautiful coastal strip on the Mediterranean we know as Monaco. Been there, loved it!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Monaco
Deborah wrote:
I'm guessing Monaco.
We're affected by the COVID-19 outbreak here in NorCal: my Master Gardener training is cancelled for the rest of the month, my husband's business travel to Italy is cancelled, two live classes I was going to take next week have been switched to virtual platforms, and now bike races and some charity events are cancelled/postponed. We were in Costco yesterday, NOT to buy toilet paper, and there were no toilet paper, paper towels, or SPAM to be had. SPAM? WT actual F? These are strange times.
David of Moon Valley said:
the net tubes came back wth the answer of Monaco…..
Micki answered:
Monaco.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Monaco
Daniel in The City responded:
Monaco
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
My guess was Monaco and Wiki confirmed it.
DJ Useo wrote:
A good question there, M. I can only guess, but the name suggests "Monaco" to me.
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Info: "100% Instrumental Surf Music by Los Grainders … based in Southern Mexico City and deeply inspired by the 'California Culture' of the mid-sixties and the magnificent 'Surf Sound' developed using 'Fender' electric instruments the band presents this new EP that contains three original surf instrumentals and one classic tune by "The Pyramids" (USA). Recorded at Yeti Records (CDMX) edited and mixed by Donovan Patiño & Los Grainders (CDMX) and master by Dave Klein (LA). (Sep-Oct, 2018)."
"All songs by 'Los Grainders' (Montesinos/Jiménez/Patiño/Coronel/Loyola) except 'Pressure' by 'The Pyramids' (Hodge/Wilson)."
Price: $5 (USD) for four-track album; tracks cannot be purchased separately
• A flood came and forced a man to climb out on his roof. A boat came to rescue him, but the man said, "I have faith that God will save me," so the boat went away. The water continued to climb until it reached the man's waist. Another boat came to rescue him, but the man said, "I have faith that God will save me," so the second boat went away. The water continued to climb until it reached the man's neck. A helicopter came to rescue him, but the man said, "I have faith that God will save me," so the helicopter went away. The water continued to rise, and the man drowned and went to Heaven. In Heaven, he told God, "I had faith that You would save me from drowning. I am surprised that I drowned." God replied, "I am also surprised that you drowned. After all, I sent two boats and a helicopter to save you."
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• At a time when it was easy to find a job as a busboy, Taoist teacher Luke Chan got a job as a busboy. He wasn't making a lot of money, but he was able to afford to buy what he calls "a third-rate automobile." Often, he would pick up hitchhikers because he felt sorry for them because they could not afford a car. But one day a hitchhiker asked him for a dollar, and he thought a moment and realized that the only difference between him and the hitchhiker was that he was not lazy and that he worked. Thereafter, he picked up no more hitchhikers. According to Mr. Chan, "Laziness is a major cause of poverty in developed countries." Mr. Chan also tells this story: A rich man's son and a poor man's son had to choose careers. The poor man's son chose making furniture, but the rich man's son chose slaying dragons. Soon, the poor man's son was rich because many people needed furniture made, and the rich man's son was poor because no one needed a dragon slain. By the way, Mr. Chan says that modern universities have lots of classes about how to slay dragons. He then asks, "But if you had a choice, wouldn't you rather learn something practical rather than something that's merely theoretical?"
• From her Paris teacher, Cécile Gilly, soprano Marjorie Lawrence learned that when asked if she knew a certain opera, she should always say that she knew it. That way, she would get more jobs; after all, she could always learn the opera after getting the job. Therefore, early in her career, when Ms. Lawrence was asked if she knew the Tétralogie, she replied that she did, although she had never heard of it. Later, when she met Ms. Gilly, she asked what the Tétralogie was, explaining that she had said that she knew it. Ms. Gilly laughed, then explained, "Do you realize, young woman, you told the man you knew the whole of Wagner's Ring? Here we call it the Tétralogie." Ms. Lawrence was kept quite busy learning the Tétralogie.
• Gioacchino Rossini used to boast about his procrastinating abilities, which caused music managers to tear their hair as they waited for him to finish composing a piece of music. In a letter, Mr. Rossini boasted, "In Italy, in my time, all the managers were bald at thirty." For example, Mr. Rossini composed the overture to Otello only after being locked in a room with a little food while a manager waited for the music. While composing the overture to La Gazza Ladra, Mr. Rossini was watched by four men. These men took each page of the overture as it was written, then threw it to the copyists, who were waiting in a downstairs room. According to Mr. Rossini, the four men had orders to throw him downstairs if he failed to deliver the overture.
No date announced for a TCM day or night of films as a tribute to Max von Sydow, but I bet it will be announced in a few days, Meanwhile below is Max's bio from the TCM web site. The link will take you to the page where you can also see the 1 minute 11 second "TCM Remembers" for Max:
Stressed by the news? Take a break with some of the livestream cameras around this area--the National Zoo (Pandas!), the Washington Monument, the National Arboretum Bald Eagle cam, Ocean City surf, Virginia Beach oceanfront--enjoy & relax!
Comedy Central has the movie 'Mr. Deeds', followed by the movie 'Dumb & Dumber', then the movie 'Blended'.
FX has the movie 'Men In Black III', followed by the movie 'Furious 7'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', another 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', then a FRESH'The UnXplained'.
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[6:19A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Crawling Eye
[8:30A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - How to Recognize Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away
[9:15A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Owl-Stretching Time
[9:55A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
[10:10A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - It's the Arts
[10:45A] Redemption
[1:00P] Mission: Impossible
[3:30P] X-Men
[5:45P] X-Men 2
[8:30P] X-Men: The Last Stand
[11:00P] Watchmen
[2:30A] X-Men 2
[5:15A] X-Men (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[11:30am] Hogan's Heroes
[12:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[12:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[1:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:00pm] Hogan's Heroes
[2:30pm] Hogan's Heroes
[3:00pm] First Blood
[5:00pm] Rambo: First Blood Part II
[7:00pm] First Blood
[9:00pm] Rambo: First Blood Part II
[11:00pm] Rambo III
[1:30am] Anaconda
[3:30am] Law & Order
[4:30am] Law & Order
[5:30am] Law & Order (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire'.
Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Lights Out with David Spade will cease production due to the coronavirus outbreak, the cable network said Friday. The tentative plan is to return at month's end.
The duo join the rest of TV's late-night shows that have stopped shooting as the coronavirus outbreak spreads in the U.S. On Friday, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live joined a list of halted shows that includes CBS' Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden, and NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers.
For a list of all TV shows that have been halted, click here.
TBS' Full Frontal with Samantha Bee taped Wednesday night's episode without a studio audience, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher will do so tonight. HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Bravo's Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen will begin taping without an audience Sunday.
Who loves washing their hands? We love washing our hands! While one would hope hand-washing was a common practice in P.C. (pre-coronavirus) culture, it's become all the rage since our president did absolutely nothing to help stem a global pandemic. Anyways, after the CDC recommended washing one's hands for at least 20 seconds-the time it takes to sing "Happy Birthday To You" twice-the music-loving populace began offering up other 20-second choruses to scrub to, thus giving way to a hand-washing PSA generator that can sync with just about any song you like. Hey, it's about as much fun as one can have as we teeter on the precipice of chaos.
Joining in on the fun? Legendary vocalists Mariah Carey and Gloria Gaynor, who both took to TikTok with hand-washing videos that find them soaping up to their own hits. Carey (and her little ones) timed it to Ol' Dirty Bastard's guest vocals on "Fantasy (Remix)."
Gaynor, meanwhile, lip-synced along with "I Will Survive" (her version, not Cake's cover, though that would also be cool).
In Pete Buttigieg's guest hosting stint before an audience-less Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, he gave sometimes awkward and mostly amusing monologue, performed in a humorous skit and then looked surprisingly relaxed behind the late-night host's desk interviewing his guests.
The show, which tapes in Hollywood, canceled its studio audience because of fears of the spread of the coronavirus, something that Buttigieg addressed in his opening remarks.
"Running for president was an amazing experience," he said. "The support my campaign got was unbelievable and I really thought we had a shot.
"Turns out I was about 40 years too young and 38 years too gay."
Warner Bros. Television Group has become the latest TV studio to confirm that they are shutting down or postponing production on some current series and pilots. The company is not revealing titles, but I hear the list of current series whose filming has been halted include CBS' Young Sheldon, All Rise and God Friended Me, the CW's Supergirl and Batwoman, TNT's Claws, OWN's Queen Sugar, Epix's Pennyworth and HBO Max's The Flight Attendant, along with the already known Riverdale, The Flash and Lucifer.
On the alternative side, impacted is ABC's The Bachelorette. Pilot-wise, Disney TV Studios earlier this morning confirmed that filming on Warner Bros. TV drama The Brides, a co-production with ABC Studios, is being postponed for at least three weeks.
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred last month about what might happen if the new coronavirus gained a foothold in the United States. How many people might die? How many would be infected and need hospitalization?
One of the agency's top disease modelers, Matthew Biggerstaff, presented the group on the phone call with four possible scenarios - A, B, C and D - based on characteristics of the virus, including estimates of how transmissible it is and the severity of the illness it can cause. The assumptions, reviewed by The New York Times, were shared with about 50 expert teams to model how the virus could tear through the population - and what might stop it.
The CDC's scenarios were depicted in terms of percentages of the population. Translated into absolute numbers by independent experts using simple models of how viruses spread, the worst-case figures would be staggering if no actions were taken to slow transmission.
Between 160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.
And, the calculations based on the CDC's scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the U.S. could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation's medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.
President Donald Trump (R-Inept) on Friday criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for being ill-prepared to test for the coronavirus and he blamed former President Barack Obama for the situation.
"For decades the @CDCgov looked at, and studied, its testing system, but did nothing about it. It would always be inadequate and slow for a large scale pandemic, but a pandemic would never happen, they hoped. President Obama made changes that only complicated things further," he wrote.
In a follow-up tweet, Trump continued his broadside: "Their response to H1N1 Swine flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now. The changes have been made and testing will soon happen on a very large scale basis. All Red Tape has been cut, ready to go!"
During the announcement on Friday afternoon that he would be declaring a national emergency, Trump again assigned blame to others.
"No, I don't take responsibility at all," he said about the delays. "Because we were given a set of circumstances."
ABC just announced that late-night's Jimmy Kimmel Live and daytime soap General Hospital will suspend production beginning Monday, March 16 due to concerns over the spreading coronavirus.
In a statement, ABC said "Jimmy Kimmel Live has determined it is in the best interest of the staff and crew to suspend production on the show beginning Monday, March 16. We will continue to monitor this and hope to be back on the air with new shows Monday, March 30.
General Hospital will suspend production beginning Monday, March 16 through Friday, April 10. The network says it does not anticipate any interruption in the broadcast of original episodes.
Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s, a pair of studies in the journal Nature show.
According to the international team of climatologists behind the research, the unprecedented rate of melt has already contributed 0.7 inches (1.78 centimeters) to global sea level rise in the last three decades, putting the planet on track for the worst-case climate warming scenario laid out in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report. The dreaded scenario, which predicts a total sea level rise of 23.6 inches (60 cm) by the year 2100, would put hundreds of millions of people living in coastal communities at risk of losing their homes - or their lives - to flooding.
For the new studies, a team of 89 scientists assessed ice loss data from 11 satellites that have been monitoring Antarctica and Greenland since the early 1990s. The data created a detailed picture of how much mass each region's glaciers have lost over the last 30 years, and showed how quickly the remaining ice is flowing into the sea.
The team found that Greenland and Antarctica have lost a combined 7 trillion tons of ice (6.4 trillion metric tons) from 1992 to 2017. Almost all of the lost ice in Antarctica and about half of the lost ice in Greenland is due to warming ocean waters melting the edges of glaciers, causing each region's ice sheets to flow more quickly toward the sea. The rest of Greenland's ice loss is due to warming air temperatures, which melt the ice sheets at their surfaces, the researchers said.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of March, 11th, 2020 :
1. Elton John; $3,932,998; $135.68.
2. Andrea Bocelli; $2,642,269; $185.73.
3. Cher; $1,662,071; $127.63.
4. Tool; $1,367,135; $113.36.
5. Shawn Mendes; $1,286,725; $68.99.
6. Jonas Brothers; $1,281,756; $91.71.
7. Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $1,094,382; $65.68.
8. Blake Shelton; $974,506; $84.81.
9. André Rieu; $882,088; $91.28.
10. The Lumineers; $771,553; $57.75.
11. Bryan Adams; $698,453; $73.59.
12. Jerry Seinfeld; $542,656; $116.52.
13. The World of Hans Zimmer; $502,594; $60.86.
14. Pentatonix; $502,371; $73.53.
15. Five Finger Death Punch; $462,597; $61.30.
16. Deadmau5; $426,783; $51.15.
17. Gabriel Iglesias; $426,440; $57.83.
18. The Kelly Family; $420,056; $59.52.
19. Jack Whitehall; $365,192; $55.77.
20. Jo Koy; $358,055; $58.50.
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