Currently Africa's oldest continuous democracy, and one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, this nation was formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland. By what name is this country known today?
For many cultured pearl dealers and wholesalers, the preferred weight measure used for loose pearls and pearl strands is the momme. Momme is a weight measure used by the Japanese for centuries. Today, momme weight is still the standard unit of measure used by most pearl dealers to communicate with pearl producers and wholesalers. One momme corresponds to 1/1000 kan. Reluctant to give up tradition, the Japanese government formalized the kan measure in 1891 as being exactly 3.75 kilograms or 8.28 pounds. Hence, 1 momme = 3.75 grams or 3750 milligrams.
In the United States, during the 19th and 20th centuries, through trade with Japan in silk cloth the momme became a unit indicating the quality of silk cloth.
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Momme weight is a way of measuring things developed by the Japanese. Momme weight is a standard way of measuring the weight of natural silk as well as a common way to measure pearls. Momme is pronounced much like the word "mummy."
For silk bed sheets a momme weight of 12-19 is considered good quality with silk sheets in the range of 16-19 being very high quality. Anything lower than 12 will result in silk sheets that are not as durable as they should be which means they will be more prone to damage and tearing.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Momme.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Momme
Alan J answered:
The Momme.
Randall wrote:
mommes?
Dave responded:
Momme. So says Wiki. An old Japanese measurement.
Cal in Vermont replied:
Silk and pearls, which I am sure are closely related in the minds of some, are measured in mommes (singular momme) which is an ancient Japanese measure of weight.
Kevin in Washington DC (Still dodging COVID, visiting LaFayette Square, and seeing if anyone is paying attention.), wrote:
Could be grams, but that's boring. They are also both weighed in mommes. As in "Your momme is so fat, she weighs 1000 pearls and 10 cords of silk". Pearl Jam, however, is measured in cubic centimeters (cc), a standard load being 10 cc. Oddly, most people never weigh their pearl necklaces.
DJ Useo replied:
Momme. I'd never heard of it that I remembered. The Missus told me what the answer is.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, responded:
Momme (pronounced "moe-mee") is the preferred weight of silk and pearls. I don't know how that compares to other measures, but that's what the mighty duckduckgo.com linked up. Thank dog it doesn't track my searches; my browser would be chock-a-block with ads for all kinds of things if I used the google.
Late to the game; we joined a few friends for an early bike ride. Stayed home long enough to eat lunch (a 40 mile ride at 17 mph on a tandem bike will make you very hungry), then off for a Costco/local gourmet grocery store run. Home by 2 pm; now to relax and enjoy a Hoptomist double IPA. We may hit 80* today - what a treat!
Jacqueline said:
Cultured Pearl's are measured by carats. Natural Pearl's are measured by grains.
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This is new information to me. It helps explain why the 5-grafted apple tree in my childhood backyard rarely had perfect apples on it. The sickly smell of decaying apples may never leave my memory.
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An episode of sitcom "Fawlty Towers" removed from a streaming site for containing "racial slurs" is to be reinstated. John Cleese had attacked the decision to remove the episode as "stupid," as well as taking a swipe at those who take a revisionist view of history in the context of the Black Lives Matter debate.
Early on Friday, BBC-owned TV network UKTV announced on Twitter that it had temporarily removed the episode titled "The Germans" from its Gold download service as it contained "racial slurs." The service said it wished to "review" the episode, and "consider our options." It said some shows "carry warnings and others are edited."
It is believed the "racial slurs" are contained in a scene in which the character known as the Major uses the N-word when referring to Caribbean sportsmen.
Later on Friday, UKTV said the episode would be reinstated "in the coming days" with the addition of "extra guidance." "We already offer guidance to viewers across some of our classic comedy titles, but we recognize that more contextual information can be required on our archive comedy, so we will be adding extra guidance and warnings to the front of programs to highlight potentially offensive content and language. We will reinstate 'Fawlty Towers' once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days."
Speaking to Australian newspaper The Age, Cleese had said: "The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them. If they can't see that, if people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?"
Nickelodeon's sent the internet into a frenzy on Saturday when it tweeted about LGBTQ pride month, prompting "SPONGEBOB GAY" to trend on Twitter throughout the day.
"Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month," said the tweet, which showed three characters in rainbow dress. June is internationally recognized as Pride month, though this year coronavirus forced organizers to cancel most annual queer pride parades nationwide.
One of the characters featured, Avatar Korra from the animated "The Legend of Korra" series, is definitely bisexual. The creators of the show, who also made "Avatar: The Last Airbender," Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, confirmed Korra's sexual identity in a series of comic books they authored that take place after the four-series run.
The second character featured is from the kids show "Henry Danger" - Swoz Schwartz, played by Canadian actor Michael D. Cohen, who came out as transgender in a May 2019 interview with Time Magazine. Schwartz's character in "Harvey Danger" eventually is revealed to be transgender as well.
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On Thursday, Hillary Scott, Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley of the Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum released a statement announcing that, "after much personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest Black friends and colleagues," they were dropping "Antebellum" from their band name due to "associations that weigh down this word referring to the period of history before the Civil War, which includes slavery." Instead, the group would now be known by its more benign nickname, Lady A.
While this gesture may have been well intentioned, unfortunately, it turns out that the band's new moniker is also problematic. The stage name "Lady A" already belongs to a 61-year-old black woman who has released several albums over the past two decades. The Seattle blues singer's most recent release is Doin' Fine, from 2018, and she has a new record, Lady A: Live in New Orleans, set to come out on July 18.
The original Lady A, whose real name is Anita White, blasted the country group in an Instagram post this Friday, saying: "How can you say Black Lives Matter and put your knee on the neck of another Black artist? I'm not mad…I am however not giving up my name, my brand I worked hard for. #GodWillFightMyBattle #TheRealLadyA #LadyABluesSoulFunkGospelArtist #TheTruthIsLoud"
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, White revealed that Lady Antebellum didn't contact her before announcing their name change, which took her completely by surprise. She also noted the irony that the band's virtue-signaling attempt - as they claimed in their statement - to "practice antiracism" had actually resulted in damaging a veteran black recording artist's career.
"This is my life. Lady A is my brand, I've used it for over 20 years, and I'm proud of what I've done," White told Rolling Stone. "This is too much right now. They're using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time. If it mattered, it would have mattered to them before. It shouldn't have taken George Floyd to die for them to realize that their name had a slave reference to it. It's an opportunity for them to pretend they're not racist or pretend this means something to them. If it did, they would've done some research. And I'm not happy about that. You found me on Spotify easily - why couldn't they?"
A Seattle man who was dubbed "the miracle child" when he recovered from the coronavirus after being the longest-hospitalised patient has now received a $1.1m bill for his lengthy stay.
Michael Flor, 70, almost died from the novel virus, but he joked his hospital bill also almost killed him after his 62-day stay rounded up to $1.1m in fees.
"I opened it and said, 'Holy (expletive)!," the Washington resident told the Seattle Times.
The 181-page hospital bill listed all the treatments and fees Mr Flor racked up while staying at Swedish Medical Centre in Issaquah, and the official amount owed stands at $1,122,501.04.
When breaking down the bill, $408,912 was charged for the 42 days Mr Flor was in an intensive care room equipped with a special isolation chamber. Then an additional $82,215 was charged for the ventilator he used for 29 days.
Building ramparts of secrecy around a $600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program for small businesses, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (R-Grifter) has moved from delay to denial in refusing outright to disclose the recipients of taxpayer-funded loans.
Mnuchin told Congress at a hearing this week that the names of loan recipients and the amounts are "proprietary information." While he claimed the information is confidential, ethics advocates and some lawmakers see the move as an attempt to dodge accountability for how the money is spent.
Businesses struggled to obtain loans in the early weeks of the program, and several hundred publicly traded companies received loans despite their likely ability to get the money from private financial sources. Publicly shamed, a number of big corporations said they would return their loans.
"We believe that that's proprietary information, and in many cases, for sole proprietors and small businesses, is confidential information," Mnuchin said during the hearing by the Senate Small Business Committee.
He said the emergency lending program is unlike SBA's main traditional lending program, known as 7(a), for which the agency has regularly released information on businesses that have borrowed money.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Friday unveiled what he called a "blueprint" for enabling energy extraction, mining, grazing and logging in federal forests by speeding up environmental reviews and permitting.
In a memorandum to U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen, Perdue said more was needed to relieve burdensome regulations on industries and make federal forests and grasslands more productive.
The vision laid out in the letter is in line with the Trump administration's broad effort to allow more energy extraction and infrastructure development on federal lands and waters.
Perdue directed the USFS to streamline processes and identify new opportunities for mineral extraction, expedite broadband development, and speed up permitting for grazing and logging. He also said the agency should increase recreation opportunities and open public access to more forest lands.
Video of an indigenous chief's violent arrest has shocked Canada, turning a spotlight on systemic racism in the country's police force.
The footage shows Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam being floored and repeatedly punched by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer.
The confrontation took place in Fort McMurray, Alberta, on 10 March.
Although RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki initially said she "can't say for sure" whether systemic racism is a problem with the police, on Friday afternoon she released a statement saying "systemic racism is part of every institution, the RCMP included".
Before the public release of the footage on Thursday night, the local RCMP division said they had reviewed it and found the officer's actions "reasonable".
Deforestation continued to surge in the Brazilian Amazon last month, according to official figures released Friday, showing it was the worst May and worst first five months of the year on record.
Environmentalists warn 2020 is on track to be the most destructive year ever for the world's biggest rainforest, with even more losses than in devastating fires that triggered global outcry last year.
A total of 829 square kilometers (320 square miles) in the Brazilian Amazon, 14 times the area of Manhattan, was lost to deforestation in May, according to satellite data from Brazil's National Space Research Institute (INPE).
That was a 12-percent increase from last year, and the worst May since record keeping began in August 2015.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is now at more than 2,000 square kilometers so far this year, up 34 percent from the same period last year.
The New Zealand city of Hamilton on Friday removed a bronze statue of the British naval officer for whom it is named - a man who is accused of killing indigenous Maori people in the 1860s.
The removal by city authorities came a day after a Maori tribe asked for the statue be taken down and one Maori elder threatened to tear it down himself.
The city was originally called Kirikiriroa by Maori. In the 1860s, it was renamed after Captain John Hamilton, a British officer who was killed in the infamous Gate Pa battle in the city of Tauranga.
City authorities said it was clear the statue was going to be vandalized, after Maori elder Taitimu Maipi this week told news organization Stuff that he planned to tear it down himself. He said Hamilton was being represented as a hero when he was "murderous" and a "monster."
Hamilton is the nation's fourth-largest city with 160,000 people, about one-quarter of whom are Maori.
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