• Studs Terkel knows his history, and he uses it in arguments. Because he lives in Chicago, he never learned how to drive; after all, buses go everywhere he needs to go in Chicago. At the bus stop one day, he sees a middle-class couple. She is beautiful, wears Neiman-Marcus clothing, and carries Vanity Fair. He wears Gucci shoes and has a copy of The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Terkel talks to all kinds of people, and he speaks to this couple. He says to them, "Tomorrow is Labor Day: the holiday to 'honor the unions.'" This couple's attitude toward what he says shows that they don't like unions. Mr. Terkel asks, "How many hours do you work a day?" The man replies that he works eight hours per day. Mr. Terkel asks, "How come you don't work 18 hours a day, like your great-grandparents?" The man doesn't know history, so he can't answer the questions. Mr. Terkel does know history, and he answers his own question: "Because four men got hanged for you." Mr. Terkel tells the man that he is referring to the 1886 Haymarket Affair, in which four men ended up being hung. Mr. Terkel then asks, "'How many days a week do you work?" The man's answer is five days a week. Mr. Terkel says, "Five-oh, really? How come you don't work six and a half?" The man doesn't know history, so he can't answer the questions. Mr. Terkel does know history, and he answers his own question: "'Because of the Memorial Day Massacre. These battles were fought, all for you." He then informs the man about the 1937 massacre of workers in Chicago. The bus comes then, and the history lesson ends-much to the couple's relief.
• Artist John Buscema worked for a while creating comic books, but he began to work in advertising after comic books came under attack in the mid- and late 1950s as a result of a psychologist named Fredric Wertham, who published a book titled Seduction of the Innocent after noticing that the juvenile delinquents he worked with read comic books. (So did the author of this blog post, and so probably did the reader of this blog post.) A problem with Mr. Buscema's advertising job was that he had to commute a long distance and work long hours, with the result that he seldom saw his son awake during his son's first year of life. Mr. Buscema says that "I would get home, and he'd be asleep. I would leave, and he'd be asleep. The weekends would come around, and I could go home, but I'd be working. It was a real cutthroat business." In 1966, his old boss at Marvel Comics, Stan Lee, called him with a job offer. Because Mr. Buscema could work at home and could see his son while his son was awake, he accepted the job offer and started working on such comics as The Fantastic 4, Spider-Man, The Silver Surfer, Conan the Barbarian, The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, and The Avengers. As a result, he earned a nickname: The Michelangelo of Comics.
• Comedian Jimmy Durante started out in show business as a piano player. Singer and comedian Eddie Cantor was the first person to urge Jimmy to get up on stage and away from the piano: "Piano playing is going to get you nothing. You'll be a piano player till you're a hundred years. You gotta look further than that. People like you a whole lot. So why don't you get up on the floor and say something to the people?" Eventually, of course, Mr. Durante took Mr. Cantor's advice. However, his immediate reaction was, "Gee, Eddie, I wouldn't do that. I'd be afraid that people would laugh at me."
• Lon Chaney, Sr., aka the Man with a Thousand Faces, worked hard in his early days in movies. He sat in a room (called the bullpen) with many other bit-part actors. At times during the day, a director would come along and say something like "I need a college boy. Can anybody here play a college boy?" or "I need a Chinese man. Can anybody here play a Chinese man?" Whatever the director asked for, Mr. Chaney would say, "Yeah, I can play that." In this way, he made appearances in three or four movies each working day.
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular "domino" tiles. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips, nips, or dobs) or is blank. The backs of the dominoes in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design. The domino gaming pieces make up a domino set, sometimes called a deck or pack. The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes, featuring all combinations of spot counts between zero and six. A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set.
Domino tiles (also known as "bones"), are normally twice as long as they are wide, which makes it easier to re-stack pieces after use. Tiles usually feature a line in the middle to divide them visually into two squares. The value of either side is the number of spots or pips. In the most common variant (double-six), the values range from six pips down to none or blank. The sum of the two values, i.e. the total number of pips, may be referred to as the rank or weight of a tile; a tile may be described as "heavier" than a "lighter" one that has fewer (or no) pips.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
28.
Mark. said:
28.
Randall wrote:
28
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28 dominoes in a set.
Cal in Vermont replied:
28.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes, featuring all combinations of spot counts between zero and six.
Dave wrote:
28. A game I've never played. Am I missing anything? More interesting is the French actress Claudine Auger who was the main Bond Girl, Domino, in the 1965 film Thunderball.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
28: A standard double-six set of dominoes contains 28 tiles with a total of 168 pips/spots/dots.
DJ Useo responded:
28 be the correct total. My great grandmother only had lincoln logs & dominoes for us kids to play with,
& nobody ever told us you could play a game with them. Lol.
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As a card-carrying wino a mere 49.4 miles from my favorite winery, and as a Master Gardener, I have a vested interest in this working.
Aside from tilling releasing carbon, it also breaks down the soil components into smaller pieces, thus allowing for more erosion, as well as decreased friability.
Walnut and almond orchards here in my small corner of NorCal are more and more allowing the weeds to grow between the rows of trees and renting sheep and/or goats to graze down the greenery. They're very efficient, provide free fertilizer, and are entertaining to watch, especially the babies. Other orchards are just mowing the greenery. Fewer nut rancers are tilling, even shallowly, than ten years ago. That's progress.
In New Zealand we visited some wineries that had raised their vines so the bottom trellis wire is 6" above the ground. This allows minature sheep to graze among the vineyards, and the vines are protected. I wonder how long before that practice is adopted here?
AMC offers the movie 'Ocean's Twelve', follwoed by the movie 'Ocean's Thirteen'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] ATTENBOROUGH AND THE GIANT ELEPHANT
[7:00AM] CHIMP SANCTUARY
[8:00AM] CHIMPS OF THE LOST GORGE
[9:00AM] LIFE STORY
[10:00AM] LIFE STORY
[11:00AM] LIFE STORY
[12:00PM] LIFE STORY
[1:00PM] LIFE STORY
[2:00PM] LIFE STORY
[3:00PM] MADAGASCAR - Island of Marvels
[4:00PM] MADAGASCAR - Lost Worlds
[5:00PM] MADAGASCAR - Land of Heat and Dust
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ice Worlds
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Great Plains
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Jungles
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Shallow Seas
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Seasonal Forests
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ocean Deep
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ice Worlds
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Great Plains
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Jungles
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Shallow Seas
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Seasonal Forests
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ocean Deep (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Home Again', followed by the movie 'Sweet Home Alabama'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Men In Black III', followed by the movie 'Men In Black'.
FX has the movie 'Daddy's Home', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Scotch
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Slippery Silks
[6:25A] The Three Stooges - Brideless Groom
[6:50A] The Three Stooges - Disorder in the Court
[7:15A] Dark Shadows
[9:45A] Coneheads
[11:45A] Beverly Hills Cop III
[2:00P] Beverly Hills Cop II
[4:30P] Zoolander
[6:30P] The Longest Yard
[9:00P] Old School
[11:00P] Varsity Blues
[1:30A] Zoolander
[3:30A] Sherman's Showcase - Black History Month Spectacular
[4:30A] Dark Shadows (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
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[10:30am] the andy griffith show
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[11:30am] hogan's heroes
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[12:30pm] hogan's heroes
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[4:00pm] hogan's heroes
[4:30pm] hogan's heroes
[5:00pm] a few good men
[8:00pm] the shawshank redemption
[11:00pm] the shawshank redemption
[2:00am] a few good men
[5:00am] law & order (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Speed', followed by the movie 'John Wick'.
Three bullets to the head were supposed to stop her.
But education advocate Malala Yousafzai not only survived the attack, she went on to win global acclaim and, on Friday, graduate from one of the world's top universities.
Eight years after being shot by the Pakistani Taliban, the advocate for female education and the world's youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner shared a photo of herself smothered in cake as she celebrated her Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree from Britain's Oxford University.
Yousafzai's story captured the world when she was gunned down on her way home from school in 2012, aged just 15, in Pakistan's Swat Valley area. She had come to the militants' attention for speaking out in support of girls' education, and was targeted on the bus home, which also saw two of her classmates severely injured.
Yousafzai, 22, whose father was a teacher, became a global icon for girl's education and has continued to champion the cause, traveling around the world from the White House to refugee camps, and campaigning for the right of girls to improve their minds and lives.
George Clooney had words for President Donald Trump (R-Fabulist), and sarcasm was the order of the day.
"Thank you President Trump for 'making Juneteenth famous' ", Clooney said in a statement. "Much like when Bull Conner made 'Civil Rights' famous. My family will be donating 500 thousand dollars to the Equal Justice Initiative in honor of your heroic efforts."
Clooney's message, and donation, came at a moment when the official end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865 is being widely celebrated Friday. And as Trump has issued Twitter warnings against potential protesters showing up for his planned weekend rally in Oklahoma, which he heralded as the kickoff for his reelection campaign. Trump advised protesters to expect harder treatment than in recent Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers who've been charged with murder after that appalling and shocking video was seen around the world. There were more incidents during those peaceful protests to go around.
A never-before-heard solo version of the late Aretha Franklin's riveting and powerful collaboration with Mary J. Blige about faith and race, 2006's "Never Gonna Break My Faith," has arrived on Juneteenth.
Sony's RCA Records, RCA Inspiration and Legacy Recordings released the song Friday, aligning with the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage.
"Never Gonna Break My Faith" resonates today, featuring lyrics like: "You can lie to a child with a smiling face/Tell me that color ain't about a race."
"Never Gonna Break My Faith" won best gospel performance at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008, marking Franklin's 18th and final Grammy win. She died in 2018 at age 76.
The song was originally featured in the film "Bobby," about U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination, and features background vocals from The Boys Choir of Harlem.
Longtime Los Angeles DJ "Big Boy" will be part of the Class of 2021 for the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as well as a trio of stars who were part of Marvel's "Avengers" universe.
Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch and Josh Brolin are just three of the 35 celebrities who will be given the honor in the coming year.
Other stars from the motion picture category who will see their stars unveiled include Morris Chestnut, Zac Efron, Giancarlo Giannini, Shia La Beuof, Jimmy Smits, Naomi Watts, plus a joint star for "Love Story" stars, Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neal.
From the television category: Nick Cannon, Courteney Cox, Marla Gibbs, Jenifer Lewis, Laura Linney, Judge Greg Mathis, Sarah Paulson, Peter Roth and Christian Slater.
The recording category is represented by the 'Chi-Lites,' Kelly Clarkson, Missy Elliott, Ana Gabriel, Jefferson Airplane, the Judds, Don McLean, Salt-N-Pepa, Trisha Yearwood, and Charlie Parker, posthumously.
Martin Gugino, the protester shoved to the ground by Buffalo police officers during the George Floyd protests, is recuperating in a secret location due to threats he's received.
Mr Gugino's attorney said on Thursday that his client had received "concerning and threatening messages and one letter" since he was assaulted by police officers in Buffalo.
The 75-year activist was seen in a viral video being shoved by a police officer. After hitting the ground, Mr Gugino lay unmoving, blood seeping from his ear. The officers marched by and ignored him, even after becoming aware of the blood. At one point, one officer actively prevents another officer from stopping to help.
Days after the video began circulating online, President Donald Trump (R-Pantywaist) tweeted out a conspiracy theory that Mr Gugino could have been an "antifa provocateur" who was trying to "scan police communications in order to black out the equipment."
The president's tweet - as well as other conspiracy theories alleging that Mr Gugino, a Catholic peace activist, was a plant or he was faking his injuries - has made the elderly activist a target of the far right.
Scientists say that Siberia's unusually warm weather through winter and spring is "an alarming sign" - illustrating some of the most notable effects of global climate change as the world warms. In May, surface temperatures "were up to 10 degrees Celsius above average in parts of Siberia," according to research by a climate agency affiliated with the European Commission.
"It is undoubtedly an alarming sign, but not only May was unusually warm in this region," says Freja Vamborg, Senior Scientist at the Copernicus Climate Change Service in a statement on Wednesday. "The whole of winter and spring had repeated periods of higher-than-average surface air temperatures."
The program reported just days earlier that May 2020 was "globally the warmest May on record," with the most "above-average temperatures (…) recorded over parts of Siberia." Marina Makarova, the chief meteorologist at Russia's Rosgidromet weather service said, "This winter was the hottest in Siberia since records began 130 years ago" and that "average temperatures were up to 6 degrees Celsius higher than the seasonal norms," The Guardian reported.
Vamborg points out that while the entire world is getting warmer, some regions - like Western Siberia - stand out for just how much hotter the area is getting. It's not unheard of for regions to experience "large temperature anomalies" like this, she notes. "However, what is unusual in this case is how long the warmer-than-average anomalies have persisted for," Vamborg says.
The largest labor group in the Seattle area has expelled the city's police union, saying the guild representing officers failed to address racism within its ranks.
The vote Wednesday night by the King County Labor Council to exclude the Seattle Police Officers Guild comes after weeks of protests in the city over police brutality and racism following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
It's also significant as the labor council is politically influential. Local elected leaders are reluctant to go against the umbrella group of more than 150 unions and 100,000 workers.
"Any union that is part of our labor council needs to be actively working to dismantle racism in their institution and society at large," the labor council said on Twitter after the vote. The police union "has failed to do that work" and is no longer part of the council, the labor alliance said.
The Seattle Times reports that the delegate vote was 45,435 to expel, with 36,760 voting to keep the police union within the council.
A bus abandoned in the Alaskan wilderness and made famous by the book and film Into The Wild has been removed for public safety after tourists repeatedly had to be rescued while trying to reach it, the state's National Guard said.
A US Army helicopter airlifted the 1940s-era vehicle from its spot west of the Teklanika River on Thursday.
The bus was made famous by 24-year-old adventurer Chris McCandless, who lived in it during the summer of 1992 and died of starvation after 114 days in the wilderness.
His story was told by author Jon Krakauer in the 1996 book Into The Wild, which was adapted into a 2007 film directed by Sean Penn, starring Emile Hirsch as McCandless.
The National Guard said the bus was a public safety issue because it was luring fans of McCandless to venture out into the dangerous Alaskan wild. There were 15 bus-related search and rescue operations by the state between 2009 and 2017, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
It's hardly the stuff of little green men, but a mysterious balloon-like object seen floating across the skies of northern Japan has captured national attention, even prompting questions to the government.
The unidentified flying object was first spotted on Wednesday morning when residents in northern Sendai city took to social media to post pictures and debate what they were seeing.
"This white thing isn't moving at all. What is it? Can anyone tell me?" wrote one user, with others chiming in using the hashtag "unidentified flying object" in Japanese.
Authorities said they were baffled by the object, which close-up images taken by local residents and media suggest is composed of a balloon-like object attached to crossed sticks with propellers.
The mystery may remain unresolved -- the object has now reportedly floated out to the Pacific, where authorities have lost track of it.
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