• Apparently, the Orange Bowl Marathon in Miami, Florida, is a very romantic race to run. In 1980, Ken Gomberg and Debra Faillace were running together when Mr. Gomberg proposed to her at the 25-mile mark. In 1981, Bob Godwin and Ann Conlin were running together when Mr. Godwin proposed to her at the 18-mile mark. Both couples ended up crossing the finish line while holding hands.
• The parents of choreographer Agnes George de Mille were Anna George and William de Mille. When Anna was 11 years old, and William was 12 years old, Anna asked him to marry her. He declined. But by the time Anna was 20 and William was 21, he had reconsidered his decision and proposed to her.
• When Walter Prude proposed to Agnes de Mille, choreographer of Oklahoma! and Rodeo: The Courting at Burnt Ranch, she started crying. He asked, “In God’s name, what’s the matter? Surely this is not the first time someone’s asked you?” Still crying, she replied, “No, but it’s the first time I’ve said yes.”
Public Speaking
• Conductor Walter Damrosch became a radio celebrity when he hosted a program that brought classical music to youngsters. One day, he spoke at a children’s school assembly. He was not introduced ahead of his address to the children, but as soon as he began speaking, the children recognized his voice and shouted, “It’s Papa Damrosch! It’s Papa Damrosch!”
• Of course, President Lyndon B. Johnson was often introduced with many compliments and rhetorical flourishes. On occasions when the flattery was really poured on thick, he would say, “I wish my mother and father might have been here to hear that introduction. My father would have enjoyed it, and my mother would have believed it.”
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• Emily Yoffe wrote the “Dear Prudence” advice column for the online magazine Slate. One of her columns that was more controversial than she had thought it would be gave advice to a young woman who was getting married and who wanted to remain childless. At the end of that column, Ms. Yoffe wrote that perhaps the young woman might want to rethink her decision to remain childless. In response to the criticisms that came pouring in, Ms. Yoffe pointed out that having a child around can be a source of very great pleasure even if it means missing out on such things as seeing new movies in the theater or having sex in the living room. For example, when her daughter was two years old and was being put to bed, she hugged Ms. Yoffe and said, “Mommy, you’re a wonderful husband.” According to Ms. Yoffe, “That was better than any of the movies I hadn’t been to since she was born.” (As for the sex, she and her husband do have sex — but not in the living room.)
• Lefty Gomez was a great pitcher, but as happens to all pitchers who live long enough, his arm eventually went dead on him, and he began working for Wilson Sporting Goods. Once he was watching a Dodger workout, and after Carl Erskine had thrown batting practice, they began to compare notes on their families, with Lefty mentioning that his baby had just turned six months old. Sportswriter Jack Lang overheard this news, and he asked, “Lefty, did I hear you say you have a baby six months old at your age?” Lefty replied, “That was my armthat went dead.”
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• Edna St. Vincent Millay, often called by the name of Vincent, was the oldest of three daughters. While growing up, they helped their working mother by doing the housekeeping, which they made into a game, singing such songs as the Vincent-written “I’m the Queen of the Dishpans” while washing dishes. They also worked efficiently. For example, when they had to clean a room, Vincent would shout “Corner,” then each sister would run to a corner and start cleaning as quickly as possible, working toward the middle of the room. Then all three sisters would work together to clean the fourth corner.
Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students, what is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world, and the first university in the sense of a higher-learning and degree-awarding institute, as the word universitas was coined at its foundation?
Pringles is an American brand of stackable potato-based chips. Originally sold by Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1968 and marketed as "Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips", the brand was sold in 2012 to the current owners, Kellogg's.
As of 2011, Pringles were sold in more than 140 countries. In 2012, Pringles were the fourth most popular snack brand after Lay's, Doritos and Cheetos (all manufactured by Frito-Lay), with 2.2% market share globally.
In 1956, Procter & Gamble assigned a task to chemist Fredric J. Baur (1918-2008): to develop a new kind of potato chips to address consumer complaints about broken, greasy, and stale chips, as well as air in the bags. Baur spent 2 years developing saddle-shaped chips from fried dough, and selected the tubular can as the chips' container. However, he could not figure out how to make the chips taste good, and was pulled off the task to work on another brand. In the mid-1960s another P&G researcher, Alexander Liepa of Montgomery, Ohio, restarted Baur's work and succeeded in improving the taste. Although Baur was the true inventor of the Pringles chip, Liepa's name is on the patent. Gene Wolfe, a mechanical engineer and author known for science fiction and fantasy novels, helped develop the machine that cooks them.
The consistent saddle shape is mathematically known as a hyperbolic paraboloid. Their designers reportedly used supercomputers to ensure that the chips' aerodynamics would keep them in place during packaging and that they would not break when being stacked on top of each other.
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Pringles, the New Fangled Potato Chip.
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Pringles. Fake potato chips that are just about at bad as you would imagine.
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Wait, are you referring to Pringles? They were called “newfangled” when they were introduced. I’m not a fan so that’s all I know about that.
Aside from the wind that arises in the afternoon, this has been a pretty spectacular spring week. We’ve planted the spring garden except for the lemon cucumbers, and the orange tree is in full bloom. Once again the back yard is my favorite place to be.
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CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'The Equalizer', then a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', followed by another RERUN'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', then a FRESH'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist', followed by a FRESH'Good Girls'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bless The Harts', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'The Great North', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Wolverine', followed by a FRESH'Fear The Walking Dead', then another FRESH'Fear The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'Gangs Of London', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] LIFE STORY
[12:00PM] AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
[3:00PM] PULP FICTION
[6:00PM] SKYFALL
[9:00PM] THE EE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS 2021
[11:00PM] SKYFALL
[2:00AM] PULP FICTION
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Married To Medicine', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live', followed by a FRESH'Bravo's Chat Room'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Grown Ups 2', followed by the movie 'Just Go With It'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction'.
History has 'The Food That Built America', another 'The Food That Built America', followed by a FRESH'The Food That Built America', then a FRESH'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 11:30am] Three's Company
[12:00pm] American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love
[2:00pm] American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile
[4:00pm] American Pie Presents: Band Camp
[6:00pm] American Pie
[8:00pm] American Pie 2
[10:00pm] American Pie
[12:00am] American Pie 2
[2:00am] American Pie Presents: Band Camp
[4:00am] American Pie Presents: Beta House (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Marathon Man
[7:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation
[8:00am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Earthquake
[9:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Meets The Red-Headed Stranger
[10:00am] monk - Mr. Monk And The Airplane
[11:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Goes Back To School
[12:00pm] bad boys
[2:30pm] bad boys ii
[5:30pm] ferris bueller's day off
[8:00pm] smokey and the bandit
[10:15pm] smokey and the bandit ii
[12:45am] smokey and the bandit part 3
[2:45am] conan the destroyer
[5:15am] hogan's heroes
[5:45am] love lust - Love Lust & Make-Up (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron', followed by the movie 'Ant-Man'.
On Saturday, Bill Hader appeared virtually at the USC Comedy Festival, to accept the 2021 Oakie Masters of Comedy Award.
Named after Jack and Victoria Horne Oakie, the award recognized the actor and comedian for his exceptional achievements in film and television comedy.
“The coolest thing about this award is, when I first came [to L.A.], my friend and I would drive to the USC campus, just to look at it. Like, ‘This is where it all went down,'” Hader said. “We were just massive film nerds, and it was kind of the mecca, so this means a lot to me.”
Prior to accepting the award, Hader appeared for an in-depth conversation with Wayne Federman, the comedian, actor, writer and producer, who also serves as an adjunct professor at USC.
Past recipients of the Oakie Award include Lisa Kudrow, Kenya Barris, James L. Brooks, Judd Apatow, Mel Brooks, James Burrows, Steve Carell, Paul Feig, Phil Rosenthal, and Tim Story.
The DGA has made history. Nomadland director Chloé Zhao has won the marquee prize for Nomadland, marking the second time the DGA has given the guild’s top prize to a female director after Kathryn Bigelow for 2008’s The Hurt Locker.
Zhao, along with fellow DGA nominees David Fincher for Mank, Lee Isaac Chung for Minari and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman, also are nominated in the Best Directing Oscar category.
The DGA has largely been a perfect bellwether in regards to who wins Best Director at the Oscars, veering only eight times in its 73-year history. In fact, last year was a miss for the DGA in regards to correlating to the Oscars: While Sam Mendes won the DGA’s top award for 1917 last year, it was Bong Joon Ho who won Best Director at the Academy Awards for Parasite. Previous years when the DGA didn’t line up with the Oscars include 1968 (DGA chose Anthony Harvey for Lion in Winter, Oscars chose Carol Reed for Oliver!), 1972 (DGA – Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather, Oscars – Bob Fosse for Cabaret), 1985 (DGAs – Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple, Oscars – Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa), 1995 (DGAs- Ron Howard, Apollo 13: Oscars – Mel Gibson, Braveheart), 2000 (DGAs – Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Oscars- Steven Soderbergh for Traffic), 2002 (DGAs- Rob Marshall, Chicago, Oscars – Roman Polanski, The Pianist) and 2012 (DGAs- Ben Affleck, Argo, Oscars – Ang Lee, Life of Pi). As far as Affleck for Argo, Spielberg for The Color Purple and Howard for Apollo 13; AMPAS failed to nominate those filmmakers during their respective years of competition for those movies.
On the television side, Susanna Fogel took the Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series nod for The Flight Attendant, Lesli Linka Glatter took the drama series nod for Homeland and Scott Frank won for TV Movie/Limited Series for The Queen’s Gambit.
One of Eddie Van Halen’s iconic “Frankenstrat” guitar — which the rocker gifted to late Mountain guitarist Leslie West — is set to hit the auction block Sunday.
The “Kramer Striker/Ripley Rosewood Fingerboard Frankenstrat Solid Body Electric Guitar” — one of an arsenal of custom-made guitars that Eddie Van Halen designed and “spray-painted and striped by hand, presumably by hand,” Heritage Auctions said — was made for the guitarist in 1984, and was believed to be Van Halen’s backup guitar on both the tours in support of 1984 and 5150.
In the late-Eighties, Van Halen gave the instrument to one of his guitar heroes, Mountain’s Leslie West, who in turn gifted in 1990 to his bodyguard, who on Sunday will sell the guitar to the highest bidder.
The guitar — which has a Rosewood neck, as opposed to Van Halen’s usual maple necks —comes with a notarized letter of authenticity as well as “various nicks and metal coating wear are known to be from Eddie Van Halen,” Heritage Auctions adds.
Other notable instruments at Heritage Auctions’ guitar-filled sale Sunday include another of Van Halen’s Frankenstrats (this one from 2017), the ESP 400 that Kirk Hammett played in Metallica’s “One” video, one of Prince’s white “Cloud” guitars and Michael Jackson’s Flying V guitar from his “Scream” video.
“The Oscars need to change their name to the Debbies — as in Debbie Downer. Because judging by this year’s Best Picture nominees, you couldn’t have a worse time at the movies if there was an active shooter in the theater,” fumed Bill Maher Friday.
HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher hit all the week’s hot spots, from the trial of George Floyd’s murder, to immigration, voter repression and embattled Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, but he bookended the show with two major California rants — at the recall of Gov. Gavin Newson and what he called the literally sad state of Hollywood movies.
But the longest single bit was in New Rules where Maher dissected the nominees for Best Picture one by one and begged for some happier entertainment. Americans “don’t have to go to church. If they want to feel guilty, dirty and bad they can watch Nomadland. That’s the one where the woman winds up living in her van after her husband dies of cancer.”
In Judas and the Black Messiah, the leader of the Black Panthers is betrayed by an informant and killed by police. In Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan’s character gets revenge on a rapist but then he kills her. The Sound Of Metal shows a musician going deaf, The Father, an octogenarian descending into dementia. Minari “is the story of dirt poor Korean immigrants in Arkansas who put all their food in a barn but then grandma has a stroke and burns it down. Now enjoy the show.”
“The 2021 Oscars, brought to you by razor blades, Kleenex and rope. And please welcome our host, the Sad Emoji.”
From a secure room in the Capitol on Jan. 6, as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, Vice President Mike Pence tried to assert control. In an urgent phone call to the acting defense secretary, he issued a startling demand. “Clear the Capitol,” Pence said.
Elsewhere in the building, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were making a similarly dire appeal to military leaders, asking the Army to deploy the National Guard.
“We need help,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said in desperation, more than an hour after the Senate chamber had been breached.
At the Pentagon, officials were discussing media reports that the mayhem was not confined to Washington and that other state capitals were facing similar violence in what had the makings of a national insurrection.
These new details about the deadly riot are contained in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use that was obtained by The Associated Press and vetted by current and former government officials.
The number of political appointees who sought permanent positions in the final year of former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s term outpaced the number who did so under his predecessor during the same time frame, according to documents obtained by NBC News.
Fifty-eight Trump administration appointees sought conversion from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan 20, 2021, according to the Office of Personnel Management documents. Of those, 31 conversions were approved, six were denied, 15 were returned or withdrawn, and six remained pending. During the corresponding period under former President Barack Obama — Jan. 1, 2016 to Jan. 20, 2017 — 46 appointees sought conversion, with 36 approved, six denied and four returned or withdrawn.
All but one of the 13 Trump administration political appointees who sought permanent civil service jobs in the weeks between President Joe Biden’s election and inauguration were not approved, according to the OPM reports obtained by NBC News for the last quarter of 2020 and the first 20 days of January. Five requests were withdrawn or returned and six remained pending and under review by the OPM. By comparison, nine of the 11 Obama administration political appointees who requested approval for conversion to civil service jobs from Election Day 2016 through Trump’s inauguration were approved.
At least one of those attempted conversions during that period under Trump was denied by the OPM because the agency said it couldn’t conclude the attempted appointment was free of “political influence,” according to the documents.
The OPM tracks such conversion requests on a quarterly basis and subsequently provides the information to members of Congress. NBC News previously reported on the Trump administration’s conversions through the first three quarters of 2020.
Sidney Powell is evidently hoping she's got a friend in the court system.
The attorney who served on former President Donald Trump's legal team in its failed efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election is back in court, as Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) is motioning for sanctions in response to "meritless" election lawsuits, according to Business Insider.
Powell's team in a new filing argued the motion is "without jurisdiction and is untimely." And as BuzzFeed News' Zoe Tillman reported, they also decided to cite clearly the greatest legal mind of our time: Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear.
"Defendant would have this Court make new law, create an exception for a baseless and untimely motion, which — with no precedent in the case law or any rule — could extend the time for filing a sanctions motion 'to infinity and beyond' to harass a plaintiff in what amounts to nothing more than political grandstanding," the filing reads.
Why the "infinity and beyond" quote was even necessary to make that point is anyone's guess, but perhaps the team simply enjoyed the novelty of seeing a footnote in a legal filing actually read, "Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story (Pixar 1995)." Don't be surprised if Evers seizes the opportunity to shoot back with a Buzz quote of his own: "There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere."
Four dead gray whales have washed ashore San Francisco Bay Area beaches in the last nine days, with experts saying Friday one was struck by a ship. They were trying to determine how the other three died.
“It’s alarming to respond to four dead gray whales in just over a week because it really puts into perspective the current challenges faced by this species,” says Dr. Pádraig Duignan, Director of Pathology at The Marine Mammal Center.
The carcass of a 41-foot adult female gray whale landed at San Francisco’s Crissy Field on March 31. A second adult female was found last Saturday in Moss Beach in San Mateo County. A third was found Wednesday floating near the Berkeley Marina and the following day one washed up in Marin County's Muir Beach.
The whales migrate 10,000 miles to winter off Mexico's waters, where they mate and birth calves near the coast of Baja California. They head back north and stay off the coast of California in spring and summer to feed on anchovies, sardines and krill before continuing on their northerly migration to cool, food-rich Arctic waters.
In 2019, at least 13 dead whales washed ashore in the Bay Area and scientists said they feared it was because the animals were starving and couldn’t complete their annual migration from Mexico to Alaska. Biologists have observed gray whales in poor body condition during their annual migration since 2019, when an “unusual mortality event” was declared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
We've known for a while that Earth is under a constant rain of space dust, and that it's copious. Given its microscopic size, however, it's been very hard to obtain an accurate estimate of the quantity.
Such micrometeorites are no bigger than a fraction of a millimeter, shed like space dander from passing comets and asteroids.
After two decades of collecting the stuff in Antarctica, an international team of scientists now has a number: around 5,200 tons of micrometeorites smaller than 700 micrometers (0.7 millimeters), every year.
This, they said, makes micrometeorites the biggest source of extraterrestrial material delivered to Earth's surface.
It's actually quite an achievement. Earth's atmosphere is filled with dust, of all kinds. A study last year found that around 17 million metric tonnes of coarse dust is blowing around in the atmosphere at any given time.
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