Jenn Pelly: Fiona Apple's fifth record is unbound, a wild symphony of the everyday, an unyielding masterpiece. No music has ever sounded quite like it. (Pitchfork)
It happens to most of us at an early age: the realization that life will not follow a straight line on the path towards fulfillment. Instead, life spirals. The game is rigged, power corrupts, and society is, in a word, bullshit. Art can expose the lies. The early music of Fiona Apple was so much about grand betrayals by inadequate men and the patriarchal world. Did it teach you to hate yourself? Did it teach you to bury your pain, to let it calcify, to build a gate around your heart that quiets the reaches of your one and only voice? Fetch the bolt cutters.
Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% by weight of silver and 7.5% by weight of other metals, usually copper. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925.
Fine silver, for example 99.9% pure silver, is relatively soft, so silver is usually alloyed with copper to increase its hardness and strength. Sterling silver is prone to tarnishing, and elements other than copper can be used in alloys to reduce tarnishing, as well as casting porosity and firescale. Such elements include germanium, zinc, platinum, silicon, and boron. Recent examples of alloys using these metals include argentium, sterlium, sterilite and silvadium
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
92.5% silver.
Alan J answered:
92.5%.
Randall wrote:
92.5%
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, said:
No less than 92.5%, Earthling! Why do you ask?
Cal in Vermont replied:
Sterling silver is an alloy of 92.5 percent silver and the rest is copper, nickle, and sometimes zinc to harden it for durabilty.
Mac Mac responded:
92.5
Dave wrote:
92.5%. We have some silver flatware but we don't use it because it's a pain in the ass to clean (can't be put in the dishwasher along with stainless steel flatware), and need occasional polishing.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% by weight of silver and 7.5% by weight of other metals, usually copper.
Jacqueline wrote:
Sterling silver is an alloy made with 92.5% silver and 7.5% of a metal--- mostly copper. 925 should be stamped on the item. A way to tell if it's real sterling is getting a magnet to see if it sticks to it. Sterling silver won't be attracted to it.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
92.5 percent silver
BttbBob answered:
92.5% silver, the rest alloys, usually copper... I have a small hoard of 1oz Silver bullion bars (.999 pure). I add to it when the urge strikes. Some bars are plain, some are commemorative and in sets. I really don't know why I have the hoard other that it makes me feel good in some sort of atavistic barbarian manner... but, it's better than swords and battle-axes, I suppose.
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Memo the DJ Useo: Nobody did 1968 Psychedelic Rock better than Jimi's 'Electric Ladyland', as well as his preceding 'Axis: Bold As Love', released Dec. '67 which carried into the new year... That being settled, I will say that there is one album which I think had a bigger cultural impact throughout the land and became the defining sound of that year's summer - Iron Butterfly's 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'... It's musically iconic in it's own pedestrian way...
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'Flash Forward' Jimi Anecdote - 1972 found me an Army medic working and training in a small hospital at Fort Belvoir, VA, the 'burbs of Washington DC. I became friends with a ROTC made 'Butter Bar', 2nd Looie. A Signal Corps type that ran the hospitals comms system and who was an electronics wizard. He was a little guy that defined the word 'nerd', glasses and all, before that word even came to be... and he also was a Jimi Freak... Seriously... Big Time... Kid (and I always thought of him as one even though he was older than me) had a stereo system in his apartment that I have never seen equaled. He had every Jimi recording that existed, legal and bootlegged, on his reel-to-reels (he had THREE) and the Kid rocked, I'm tellin' ya... It was a sight to behold and a wall of sound truly to be reckoned with...
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• Novelist and stand-up comedian A.L. Kennedy once witnessed a very good example of how to use comedy to defuse a tense situation. At a demonstration at which it seemed a riot could break out, the demonstrating college students made many people laugh by sitting down and singing a song to the tune of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine": "We all live in a terrorist regime."
Alcohol
• Marshall Grant was a member of the group Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two (later, Tennessee Three). Although Mr. Cash abused drugs and alcohol, Mr. Grant never did. In his closet is a suit that he has owned for over 50 years. It was a present from his mother, who said, "Every one of my boys who can make it to 21 without a taste of alcohol, I'll get them a suit of clothes." Mr. Grant made it to 21 without tasting alcohol, and beyond. In 2006, he pointed out, "I'm 78 years old and strong as a bull. I don't know the taste of beer, wine, or whiskey. I've never taken an illegal pill, never smoked a cigarette, and as of this past November [2006], I've been married for 60 years. That's not too bad."
• Dee Dee Ramone could be pretty crazy. When the Ramones first played in London, their record company gave them unlimited room service, and Dee Dee acted the way that he thought a rock star should act and ordered so many bottles of Scotch that in two days his room service bill was $700. The record company representatives were surprised by the size of the bill, and they told Dee Dee, "We just thought you were going to order some cheese sandwiches and Coca-Cola."
Animals
• In 1979, the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado was appointed the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Quickly, musicians learned that Maestro Abbado has exacting standards, and during one rehearsal a musician told him that the London Symphony Orchestra did not always play at its best during rehearsals, but rather played only at 50 percent because the musicians reserved the other 50 percent for performances. Maestro Abbado replied, "Ah, but I need to get you up to the 50 percent in the first place!" By the way, Maestro Abbado is a committed environmentalist. Around his house in Sardinia, he has had planted 9,000 trees, which has led to a remarkable result: "And now the animals - rabbits, hares, deer, wild boar - have come back, spontaneously."
• Early in the 20th century, the Belgian violinist Cesar Thomson played a concert at Oberlin College near Cleveland, Ohio. After the concert, the Oberlin accompanist, W.K. Breckenridge, accompanied him in a two-horse wagon to the train station. The wagon passed by a lonely scene - snow on the ground, a few trees, and a stream - and suddenly Mr. Thomson grabbed Mr. Breckenridge's arm and asked, seriously, "Are there any wolves?" Mr. Breckenridge assured him that there were not.
Art
• In New York City, punk singer Patti Smith and artist Robert Mapplethorpe lived together with very little money. Ms. Smith remembers, "We had no money to get anything to eat, no money for art supplies - we were considerably down." However, the two ran across an abandoned pair of very expensive alligator-skin shoes in the street; these shoes were worth $300 or $400. Ms. Smith looked at Mr. Mapplethorpe and asked, "Clothes or art?" Mr. Mapplethorpe replied, "Both," and then he put on the shoes, using newspaper to make a good fit. A little later, he went home and put the expensive shoes in an art installation he was making. Ms. Smith remembers, "Everything was always Life or Art. It was magical when something could cross over and be both."
For all the MAGA idiots who would rather be "free" (and dead) than sensibly stay home. Saw one fool say she'll die if she can't work--so go to work and die! I'll watch another movie on TCM.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'God Friended Me', then a 'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Little Big Shots', followed by a FRESH'The Wall', then 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 RERUN'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Batwoman', followed by a RERUN'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Duncanville', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then 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'.
A&E has the movie 'The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor', followed by the movie 'Jack Reacher', then the movie 'The Mummy Returns'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ocean's Thirteen', followed by a FRESH'Killing Eve'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Australia's Red Centre
[6:30AM] MADAGASCAR - Island of Marvels
[7:30AM] MADAGASCAR - Lost Worlds
[8:30AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Antarctica: Extended
[9:30AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - Africa: Extended
[10:30AM] UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS
[12:30PM] UNDERWORLD
[3:00PM] UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION
[5:00PM] UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS
[7:00PM] UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS
[9:00PM] KILLING EVE - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 2
[10:00PM] UNDERWORLD
[12:30AM] UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION
[2:30AM] UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS
[4:30AM] KILLING EVE - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 2
[5:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Serengeti (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Family Karma', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'CHiPs', followed by the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', then the movie 'Broken Lizard's Super Troopers'.
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle', followed by the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', then the movie 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle', again.
History has 'American Pickers', followed by 'Marijuana: A Chronic History', then 'The Marijuana Revolution'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Taken
[8:00A] Homefront
[10:15A] Training Day
[1:00P] The Watch
[3:30P] Tropic Thunder
[6:00P] Zoolander
[8:00P] There's Something About Mary
[11:00P] Zoolander
[1:00A] There's Something About Mary
[4:00A] Life of Brian (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] Law & Order
[7:00am] Law & Order
[8:00am] Law & Order
[9:00am] Law & Order
[10:00am] Law & Order
[11:00am] Stir Crazy
[1:00pm] From Russia With Love
[3:30pm] Dr. No
[6:00pm] Goldfinger
[8:30pm] For Your Eyes Only
[11:30pm] The Spy Who Loved Me
[2:30am] A View to a Kill
[4:59am] Liar (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Iron Man', followed by the movie 'Iron Man', again.
New Yorker Robert De Niro is no stranger to conflict with politicians. He has repeatedly called out President Trump - sometimes in very explicit terms.
During an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday, De Niro was blunt in his opinions, but circumspect when it came to naming names.
While De Niro praised New York governor Andrew Cuomo, he was less kind to what he called "the government."
"I wish that people…the government had acted earlier," said De Niro. "They had enough warning. Because we would not be at this stage of this pandemic, I think, if that had happened."
When the New York-based actor was asked to compare the feeling in the city to that after 9/11 he said, "It feels the same, except this is…like something we see in a movie. It happened so fast."
Seth Rogen has opened up about his routine during quarantine, and, unsurprisingly, it involves smoking an "ungodly" amount of weed.
Rogen made this admission to Jimmy Kimmel Live!, while also admitting that, far from struggling with being stuck in his home, he has actually dealt with the situation exceedingly well.
"We are not all in this together because this has not been that bad for me. I have kind of been self-isolating since 2009," said Rogen, before revealing that he has also been doing plenty of pottery and ceramics during this period.
"So many of our friends wanted to do pottery, we got a literal third wheel, me and my wife. We have a kiln, we found a place that will deliver clay in this time of quarantine."
This has kept Rogen plenty busy over the last few weeks, while it seems like, even when the quarantine is finally over, the Pineapple Express actor doesn't really have any plans to spend that much more time with his friends.
Gwyneth Paltrow is auctioning off one of her old Oscars dresses to help provide food assistance to people in need during the coronavirus pandemic. But it's not one of her favorites.
The auction is part of the #AllInChallenge, in which celebrities auction off things like memorabilia or their time, with proceeds going to food organizations like No Kid Hungry and Meals on Wheels. So far, the challenge has raised more than $10 million.
The dress in question is the one Paltrow wore to the 2000 Oscars, the year after she won the Best Actress award for her work in the 1998 film "Shakespeare In Love." The dress is a slinky silver Calvin Klein number - hand-beaded, according to Paltrow.
Paltrow said she would give the dress to the winning bidder herself, inviting the lucky winner over.
The problem? It's the same dress she previously roasted in a 2013 blog posting on her Goop website, calling it an "okay dress but not Oscars material. I chose it because I wanted to disappear that year."
A Brazilian tourist who made a pilgrimage to an abandoned bus made famous by the book and film "Into the Wild" has been rescued from the remote site outside of Denali National Park, the Alaska State Troopers said on Thursday.
The tourist, one of hundreds of visitors who have hiked out to the site where Christopher McCandless died of starvation in 1992, activated an emergency beacon after he ran out of food, the troopers said.
The troopers identified the hiker as 26-year-old Gabriel Dias Da Silva.
Da Silva was picked up by a trooper helicopter on Wednesday from his campsite near the bus, Peters said. He had been able to cross the river on the way to the bus, but conditions had worsened when he tried to return, Peters said.
Dias Da Silva is the latest in a long list of hikers to the "Into the Wild" bus who have required rescue. In February, five Italian tourists, one with frostbitten feet, were rescued after hiking to the site.
An appeals court has dismissed charges under Florida's "stand your ground" law against a man accused of shooting at deputies during an arrest in front of his home.
The Fifth District Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach issued its decision Wednesday ending the prosecution of John DeRossett, 60, on the charge of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer while discharging a firearm, Florida Today reported. DeRossett spent nearly five years at the Brevard County jail before being allowed to leave on bond in March.
DeRossett's attorney, Michael Panella, said the appellate decision is better than a jury acquittal, because an acquittal only means that a defendant is not guilty.
Prosecutors and Brevard County Sheriff's Office investigators said DeRossett opened fire on deputies conducting the arrest of his niece on a prostitution charge in 2015.
Defense attorneys argued that the Port St. John man didn't know he was firing at deputies and was only responding to his niece's screams for help at his front door. The appellate court found that DeRossett was entitled to protect his home against what he thought was a threat.
A deputy was shot in the lower abdomen and later recovered. DeRossett and his niece, Mary Ellis DeRossett, 47, both suffered minor gunshot injuries.
A list of 43 ideas to save coral reefs, many of them desperate long-shots, has been released as Australia faces the loss of one of its most precious assets, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Some trials have already begun in the hope of establishing which ideas can protect individual reefs. Those that succeed will be assessed for their capacity to scale up to defend a global wonder 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) long.
After years of denial of the dangers faced by the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian government announced in 2018 the allocation of $500 million to address the threats. The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP) has considered 160 ideas, of which 43 have now been announced as having sufficient potential to justify further investigation.
Hotter summers are generally considered the greatest threat to Australian corals, leading to three enormous bleaching events in the last five years. Consequently, three of the ideas, including those that have attracted the most attention, involve reducing summer temperatures.
The effectiveness of all of these remains untested. Indeed, RRAP Executive Committee Chair Dr Paul Hardisty told the ABC: "We determined is that nothing is being done anywhere in the world at the scale we're interested in."
So far, Au$150 million (US$95 million) has been allocated by universities and the controversial Greater Barrier Reef Foundation for research over the next five years. Matching funds are being sought from the private sector. The cost of implementation of those ideas that prove viable will run to billions over decades, still cheap compared to the $6.4 billion a year the GBR provides in tourism and fishing alone.
Catholic Church officials in Germany say they are transferring a black priest to another post over concern for his safety, after his house and car were attacked and he received a death threat.
The diocese of Speyer in southwest Germany said Friday that the priest, Patrick Asomugha, will leave his post in the parish of Queidersbach next week.
In a statement, it said that the "concerns for the protection and health of Father Asomugha made this step unavoidable."
The diocese said that Asomugha, who is from Nigeria, has faced hostility in the parish since last year and his rectory was twice broken into. Last fall, his car tires were slashed and in March a death threat was left on his garage door. Two days later somebody smashed bottles against the door of his home. A police investigation is ongoing.
Asomugha said that, under the circumstances, he was unable to do his job in Queidersbach, which is located close to the U.S. Army's Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl.
Researchers with the world's gravitational wave detectors said today they had picked up vibrations from a cosmic collision that harmonized with the opening notes of an Elvis Presley hit. The source was the most exotic merger of two black holes detected yet-a pair in which one weighed more than three times as much as the other. Because of the stark mass imbalance, the collision generated gravitational waves at multiple frequencies, in a harmony Elvis fans would recognize. The chord also confirms a prediction of Einstein's theory of gravity, or general relativity.
Such mismatched mass events could help theorists figure out how pairs of black holes form in the first place. "Anything that seems to be at the edge of our predictions is most interesting," says Chris Belczynski, a gravitational theorist at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, who was not involved in the observation. But the one event is "not quite in the regime where you can tell the different formation [routes] apart."
Physicists first detected gravitational waves in 2015, when the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), a pair of detectors in Washington and Louisiana, spotted two black holes spiraling into each other, generating infinitesimal ripples in spacetime. Two years later, the Virgo detector near Pisa, Italy, joined the hunt, and by August 2017, the detectors had bagged a total of 10 black hole mergers.
All involved pairs of black holes with roughly equal masses, says Maya Fishbach, a physicist and LIGO member at the University of Chicago. But on 12 April 2019, the three detectors detected a black hole merger 2.4 billion light-years away in which one weighed 30 solar masses and the other just eight, says Fishbach, who reported on the event at the American Physical Society's online April meeting. "This is the first event in which we can confidently say the mass-ratio is not one," she says.
In NeMO-NET, players use their iPhone, iPad, or computer to virtually travel into the ocean's depths, identifying and classifying all the corals they encounter. The images are taken from real life ocean expeditions, and playing the game will help scientists create a better map of the world's coral that can help with conservation efforts before reefs get wiped out.
For the past several years, scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley have observed the world's oceans, using new tools that correct for the optical distortion of the water to display a clearer, more detailed look below the ocean's surface. By mounting the new instruments on drones and aircrafts, the scientists have obtained 3D images of corals, algae, and seagrass on the ocean floor over the course of expeditions to Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa. But now, the scientists have to sort through all that data, which is where the game comes in.
In NeMO-Net, you can explore the footage from these expeditions, learning about different types of corals and highlighting where they appear. Along the way, you can earn badges and track your progress. The game has ambient soundtrack and sharp graphics, which is nice in a time where we could all use a little soothing downtime. And it's also useful for conservation: All the data the users generate by playing the game helps train a NASA supercomputer to identify corals on its own.
Though we know that the world's oceans are in danger, we don't have a detailed map of of them. The work being done by NASA could help create one that functions as a baseline for coral health. That could in turn help us understand what parts of the ocean need the most help, both for the sake of biodiversity conservation and the billions of people who live near the coast and depend on the sea.
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