• Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African-American folk artist who sold her paintings to buy some of the necessities (and some of the luxuries) of life such as a stove, refrigerator, freezer, mobile home, secondhand car, radio, and television. Because of a lack of money, she sometimes thinned her paint with turpentine, and she often painted on pieces of board and on plastic milk jugs. Eventually, she became well known as an artist, and celebrity seekers started trying to visit her. She didn’t especially enjoy meeting strangers, and when a car of celebrity seekers came by, she would tell them, “Clementine Hunter? She lives just on down the road a piece.” After her death, one of her works of art — a window shade she had painted — sold for $60,000.
• Because Winslow Homer was a famous artist, lots of people wished to visit him in his studio. However, because Mr. Homer was a hard-working artist, he wished to be alone in his studio so he could paint. Therefore, to ward off unwelcome visitors, on the door of his studio he painted these words: “Coal Bin.” Of course, his friends were welcome to visit him. These friends used a code knock to gain entrance to his studio. When they knocked three times, Mr. Homer opened the door. A different number of knocks, and Mr. Homer kept the door closed. Of course, Mr. Homer couldn’t avoid all unwelcome visitors. When he could, he ran away and hid; when he couldn’t run and hide, he pretended to be not himself, but his servant.
• The very wealthy merchant Su once brought a large and valuable pearl to a skilled jeweler named Czu and asked him to drill a hole in it so that it could be made part of a necklace. However, Czu examined the pearl and said, “This pearl is much too valuable for me to risk ruining it.” Therefore, Su took the pearl to another skilled jeweler, Li-jo, and asked him to drill a hole in it. Li-jo examined the pearl, realized its great value, and called an apprentice over and told him to drill a hole in the pearl. The apprentice did so quickly and perfectly. Su asked Li-jo why he had entrusted such a valuable pearl to a mere apprentice. Li-jo replied, “He does not know how valuable the pearl is, and so his hands didn’t shake when he drilled a hole in it.”
• Sculptor Louise Nevelson once created a retrospective exhibition at New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Because it was a retrospective exhibition, it included some of her early work — including work she was no longer proud of. One piece that she especially disliked was a sculpture titled Earth Figure. A friend of hers was helping to move the works of art around the gallery, and as he was moving Earth Figure, she suddenly yelled, “Drop it!” Startled, he did drop it, and the sculpture shattered on the floor. Later, the friend — her biographer Arnold Glimcher — wrote, “She was now satisfied with the exhibition; she had edited out the weakest piece.”
• Late in life, after Leonardo da Vinci had become very famous and was working at the Vatican, uninvited visitors often interrupted his work. To get rid of unwanted visitors, he turned his pet lizard into a monster by gluing a horn to its head and bat-like wings to its back. He also created glittering spots on its back, perhaps by using fish scales. Leonardo asked unwanted visitors if they would like to see a curiosity, and when they replied yes, Leonardo let the lizard out of a box. The lizard scurried to the visitors, and the visitors scurried to the nearest exit.
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and others (the glossy-skinned varieties), nectarines.
The U.S. state of Georgia is known as the "Peach State" due to its significant production of peaches as early as 1571, with exports to other states occurring around 1858. In 2014, Georgia was third in US peach production behind California and South Carolina.
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Dave responded:
California. That was my guess because California is a lot bigger than Georgia and most of California has mild winters. Native to China, peaches were brought to the New World by the Spanish. Peaches are only cultivated in a narrow range of climate. Peaches need a certain number of hours of chilling before bearing fruit, so peaches are not grown in the tropics. Also the peach, after budding, can’t tolerate freezing temperatures or that year’s crop will be lost. To mature the fruit, relatively high summer temperatures are required. Peaches are grown as far north as Michigan, but early warm temperatures combined with late frosts often cause the harvest to be reduced, and very severe polar vortexes can kill the trees in the winter.
Jacqueline replied:
California. Georgia must be the 2nd.
Stephen F said:
California
Cal in Vermont wrote:
California, the Land Of Fruits And Nuts. Then South Cackylacky, Georgia, and New Jersey.
zorch answered:
California.
Mac Mac responded:
California
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
Of course it’s California. In past summers when we’d go back to Texas to visit my in-laws it seemed as though the HEB stores had the hugest CA peaches and I wondered why we didn’t see peaches that big in CA. Never did find out.
The old dog is still sick, and we’re looking at 110* today. Toasty!
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
California
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
In 2017, California supplied nearly 56 percent of the United States fresh peach crop and more than 96 percent of processed peaches
Daniel in The City answered:
California (of course)
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
The answer is California.
Dave in Tucson responded:
This seems too simple to be correct which means I'm probably wrong, but
I'm saying Georgia anyway.
Micki wrote:
California, not Georgia, the “Peach State.”
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The TV is warning of rolling blackouts. 20/20 just keeps getting better & better...
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a RERUN'SEAL Team', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Stanley Cup Stuff', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN (from 11/16/19) with Harry Styles.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Shark Tank', then a RERUN'The Good Doctor'.
The CW offers some local crap and some old '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the movie 'The Godfather: Part II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] ATTENBOROUGH AND THE GIANT ELEPHANT
[7:00AM] MISSION GALÁPAGOS - Cauldron of Life
[8:00AM] MISSION GALÁPAGOS - Secrets of the Deep
[9:00AM] MISSION GALÁPAGOS - Future Frontiers
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Challenges of Life
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Reptiles and Amphibians
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Mammals
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Fish
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Birds
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Insects
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Hunters and Hunted
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Creatures of the Deep
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Plants
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Primates
[8:00PM] EARTHFLIGHT - Europe (Extended)
[9:10PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Challenges of Life
[10:10PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Reptiles and Amphibians
[11:10PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Mammals
[12:10AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Fish
[1:10AM] EARTHFLIGHT - Europe (Extended)
[2:20AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Birds
[3:30AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Insects
[4:30AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Hunters and Hunted
[5:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Okavango (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part 2', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part 1'.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', another 'South Park', followed by the movie 'Megamind', then hours & hours of old 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'The Amazing Spider-Man', followed by the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', then the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', again.
History has 'The UnXplained', another 'The UnXplained', followed by a FRESH'The UnXplained', then a FRESH'Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation'.
IFC -
[6:15A] Saved by the Bell
[6:45A] Saved by the Bell
[7:15A] Saved by the Bell
[7:45A] Saved by the Bell
[8:15A] Saved by the Bell
[8:45A] Saved by the Bell
[9:15A] Saved by the Bell
[9:45A] Saved by the Bell
[10:15A] Saved by the Bell
[10:45A] Saved by the Bell
[11:15A] Zookeeper
[1:30P] The Expendables
[3:45P] The Expendables 2
[6:00P] White House Down
[9:00P] John Wick
[11:15P] I Am Legend
[1:30A] White House Down
[4:30A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Time Chasers (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[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
[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] hogan's heroes
[3:30pm] hogan's heroes
[4:00pm] hogan's heroes
[4:30pm] hogan's heroes
[5:00pm] hogan's heroes
[5:30pm] hogan's heroes
[6:00pm] crocodile dundee ii
[8:30pm] ghostbusters
[11:00pm] ghostbusters ii
[1:30am] airplane!
[3:30am] airplane ii: the sequel
[5:30am] columbo - Any Old Port In A Storm (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Rush Hour 2', followed by the movie 'Rush Hour 3'.
HBO Max has added yet another informative introduction to one of its titles. When Blazing Saddles hit the network’s new platform on July 28, the Mel Brooks film kicks off not with its opening sequence, but rather an introduction by University of Chicago professor and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart.
The intro, in which the Silent Sunday Nights host provides social context to the 1974 Cleavon Little-Gene Wilder comedy, is similar to the disclaimer in front of Gone with the Wind.
“This movie is an overt and audacious spoof on classic Westerns,” Stewart says in the newly added intro. “It’s as provocative today as it was when it premiered back in 1974.”
The TCM notice not only provides context to some of Brooks’ characters but also informs audiences about the director’s spoofing ways. Stewart highlights the director’s later genre satires, including Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety and Spaceballs. She continues the prelude saying that the race-centered comedy features “racist language and attitudes” throughout.
“Those attitudes are espoused by characters who are explicitly portrayed here as narrow-minded, ignorant bigots,” Stewart adds. “The film’s real and much more enlightened perspective is represented by the two main characters.”
The Simpsons got out a response to a Trump adviser’s swipe at Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s new running mate.
Jenna Ellis (R-Vapid), senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, tweeted on Wednesday, “Kamala sounds like Marge Simpson.” Harris had been making her first appearance with Biden since he selected her as running mate.
In the new post by the show, Marge Simpson says, “I usually don’t get into politics, but the president’s senior adviser Jenna Ellis just said Kamala Harris sounds like me? Lisa said she doesn’t mean it as a compliment. If that is so, as an ordinary suburban housewife, I am starting to feel a little disrespected. I teach my children not to name call, Jenna. I was going to say I am pissed off, but I am afraid they would bleep it.”
The Simpsons famously predicted Trump’s ascension to the presidency, when in 2000 the show featured an episode called “Bart to the Future,” a flash-forward in which it is mentioned that Lisa Simpson had succeeded Trump in the White House.
“We have inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump,” Lisa says, before shouting that the “country is broke.”
Do you have celebration plans for Wookiee Life Day? According to Disney, it's the galaxy's "most cheerful and magical holiday," so on November 17, the company will celebrate the event on Disney+ with a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special. Set immediately after The Rise of Skywalker, Rey and BB-8 go on a journey through the nine-film timeline that promises to give screen time to goodies and baddies current and past. Except it's all done in Lego, so painted tongues will be firmly in plastic cheeks.
I've been a huge fan of the more irreverent take that Lego brings to the Star Wars universe since the cut scenes in Lego Star Wars II—whose heart wouldn't melt when Darth Vader whips out a Polaroid to prove to Luke that he's really his dad? And the more recent Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures stands head and shoulders above Star Wars Resistance, at least to this middle-aged nerd.
All of this gives me faith that this new special won't suck. The original Star Wars Holiday Special is widely reviled by fans as the single worst thing to have come from that far, far away galaxy. It was a TV special aired in 1978, long before George Lucas' swashbuckling in space had become the cultural behemoth we know today. The plot involves Han and Chewie visiting Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, where apparently they meet his dad (called Itchy) and his son (called Lumpy). I say "apparently" because it never aired in the UK where I grew up, so I was mercifully spared as a child and I've never quite had a big enough masochistic streak to track down a copy in the decades that have followed.
Obviously, none of it is canon, but then neither are the Lego Star Wars adventures, so continuity be damned.
The Pentagon has announced the establishment of a task force to review "unexplained aerial phenomena," or UFOs, that have been observed by the U.S. military, according to a Pentagon statement.
The move continues an effort begun in recent years to investigate incidents in which the U.S. military has encountered such phenomena, including those captured on Navy fighter videos that the Pentagon declassified in April.
The new Defense Department task force will investigate incidents of unexplained aerial phenomena encountered by the U.S. military, whether it be by pilots or other means.
"On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF)," said the Pentagon statement.
In April, the Defense Department declassified three previously leaked videos recorded by Navy fighter aircraft in 2004 and 2015 that showed "unexplained aerial phenomena" flying at high speed off the coast of California.
President Trump (R-Nero) on Thursday said he is withholding approval for a coronavirus relief package because Democrats want to include funds for mail-in voting.
The president said Democrats want $25 billion for the U.S. Postal Service, $3.5 billion of which would be used to shore up infrastructure amid logistical challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is predicted to keep some voters from going to the polls in November.
“They want $3.5 billion for something that will turn out to be fraudulent, that’s election money basically,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. “They want $25 billion, billion, for the post office. Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. Now, in the meantime, they aren’t getting there. By the way, those are just two items. But if they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting.”
Trump himself has voted absentee by mail from the White House, as have a number of his staffers.
Greenland's ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.
Scientists studied data on 234 glaciers across the Arctic territory spanning 34 years through 2018 and found that annual snowfall was no longer enough to replenish glaciers of the snow and ice being lost to summertime melting.
That melting is already causing global seas to rise about a millimeter on average per year. If all of Greenland's ice goes, the water released would push sea levels up by an average of 6 meters -- enough to swamp many coastal cities around the world. This process, however, would take decades.
"Greenland is going to be the canary in the coal mine, and the canary is already pretty much dead at this point," said glaciologist Ian Howat at Ohio State University. He and his colleagues published the study Thursday in the Nature Communications Earth & Environment journal.
The Arctic has been warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the world for the last 30 years, an observation referred to as Arctic amplification. The polar sea ice hit its lowest extent for July in 40 years.
In the battle for air supremacy, a bald eagle just proved that technology is no match for brute strength. The giant bird recently attacked a drone, destroying it and sending it to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
A bald eagle in Michigan's Upper Peninsula "launched an airborne attack" on a drone operated by the state's Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) late last month, the department said Thursday. During the squabble, the eagle tore off the drone's propeller, making the device plummet 162 feet through the air and into the lake.
The "brazen" eagle versus EGLE clash took place while environmental quality analyst and drone pilot Hunter King was mapping erosion along the shoreline. The data is being used to help communities cope with rising water levels.
When King faced poor satellite reception, he pressed the "Go Home" button, recalling the drone back to him. But as it made its way home, it began "twirling furiously" during its tussle with the eagle.
"It was like a really bad rollercoaster ride," said King.
When he looked up to find the drone in the sky, it was gone, and the eagle was already flying away, victorious. A nearby couple confirmed to King that they saw an eagle attack something in the sky.
Five taste sensations and just three types of taste cells make up the world of flavours - or so we thought. A new discovery indicates there could be more complexity to this equation than we first imagined.
Researchers working with rodents have identified a new population of taste cells, and they appear to have a greater appreciation of flavour than previously thought possible. Instead of being selective like other taste cells, this 'broadly responsive' cell can respond to every known taste except salt.
Taste cells are receptors that group together to form taste buds, shaped like tiny garlic bulbs, on the tongue. Some taste buds can also be found on the soft palate (the roof of a person's mouth), and at the back of the throat.
Taste cells can be ruthless, with good reason. If they sense some objectionable or potentially toxic taste, our taste buds tell us to reject and eject a mouthful of food. But taste something sweet, and they'll have us asking for more.
These newly found cells are also sensitive to sour, but lack their usual knack for detecting salt. In its place, these broadly responsive type III cells use a unique signalling pathway to also detect bitter, umami, and sweet flavours.
Muja has lived through multiple bombing campaigns and several countries -- all while never leaving a tiny pool in Belgrade's zoo for 83 years, making him the world's oldest captive alligator.
While zookeepers don't know his exact hatch day, the reptile arrived in Belgrade this week in August of 1937 from a German zoo.
"He's an older gentleman and we respect his age," Jozef Edvedj, the zoo's veterinarian, told AFP with a smile after handlers helped guide a dead rat to the jaws of the slow-moving reptile.
According to news reports from 1937, Muja was two years old when arrived in Belgrade, a year after the zoo opened.
But in photos from the reports he appears older, leading zookeepers to believe is over 90 now.
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