• When the Swedish punk/new wave group the Hives recorded "Try It Again," they felt that the chorus of the song was like a cheer. They had seen a football game played by Ole Miss, were impressed by the cheerleaders, and arranged for five or six Ole Miss cheerleaders to sing the chorus. Hives bass player Dr. Matt Destruction was very happy that the cheerleaders came to the studio to record the song. They wore their cheerleading outfits and were enthusiastic and happy, and best of all, they smelled good. Dr. Matt Destruction remembers, "The studio was smelling like beer and farts […] and then they came in and it smelled like strawberries and flowers for an entire day. It was really, really fun. They're cheerleaders, so we were happy, everybody, the whole day."
• Enrico Caruso was not satisfied with the quality of many of his recordings because he felt that they did not offer a faithful reproduction of his singing. One day, he offered to play his newest recordings for a group of friends. After listening to the recordings he played, all of his friends assured him that the recordings were excellent and in fact were the best recordings he had ever made. However, Mr. Caruso then said, "No more - please! It makes me too sad. These are not my records at all. They were made by an unknown tenor who is not even included in the catalogue of the better artists!"
• Willie Nelson is a true original. For one thing, his legal real first name is Willie instead of William. For another, he has produced much, much original country music that has at times baffled record producers and companies. For example, in 1975, Mr. Nelson recorded the concept album Red Headed Stranger for Columbia Records, his first record for them. A producer was baffled: "Did he make this in his living room? It's a piece of sh*t! It sounds like he did this for about two bucks. It's not produced." The album is now considered a classic.
• How many recordings a duo has sometimes depends on how they count. In the summer of 2008, Jennifer Daniels and her husband, Jeff Neal, headed to the studio to make their fourth recording. Or it's their sixth, Jennifer says, if you count their Christmas EP and the "one that we're embarrassed to sell."
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• Jacques Thibaud was both a violinist and a golfer, and he made lots of money at each occupation. One year, he was booked to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, but it quickly became apparent at a rehearsal that he was making many, many more mistakes than he should be making. Conductor Pierre Monteux asked him what was wrong, and Mr. Thibaud replied, "I haven't had time to work this summer - there are so many golf tournaments." Mr. Monteux said, "You'd better watch out. Your golf will ruin your violin technique." To Mr. Monteux's surprise, Mr. Thibaud told him, "I'm only afraid the violin will ruin my golf."
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - a very punctual man - was supposed to rehearse with Leopold Stokowski, but the conductor was busy rehearsing a Tchaikovsky symphony. Mr. Rachmaninoff waited a few minutes, then strode to the piano and hit a loud chord. Of course, everything got very quiet very quickly. Mr. Rachmaninoff said, "The piano is here; I am here; it is 11 o'clock. Let us rehearse." Mr. Stokowski then began to rehearse Mr. Rachmaninoff and let the Tchaikovsky symphony wait.
July is the seventh month of the year (between June and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the fourth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the 10-month calendar.
It is on average the warmest month in most of the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of summer, and the coldest month in much of the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of winter. The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern Hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
July.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
August
Alan J answered:
July.
Randall wrote:
August
mj replied:
I'm going with
August.
Dave responded:
July, especially in 2020. Today in Michigan we just ended a 10 day run of temperatures 90°F or above.
zorch wrote:
July is usually the warmest month.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
August
Adam answered:
July - but Aug always feels hotter around here.
Mac Mac replied:
Mid July to mid August
Jacqueline responded:
I'll guess July. My daughter always says it's August. Maybe we're both wrong.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
I'm going to guess the answer is July.
DJ Useo said:
imho, as a former Michigander, I would say August, although obviously July was hot, too.
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Music: "When We Were Young"
Artist: The Organ Beats
Artist Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Info: "Written for the short film 'The Baseball Card' by Michael Boylan."
"The Organ Beats are from Waltham; formed in 2008. Danny and Noelle are siblings who started making music as preteens and were tour veterans before they were able to buy cigarettes. They are joined by Mikey (bass) and Alex (lead guitar)."
I do so love schadenfreude. Our Republican buddies are getting so good at it. This article by Liz at Wonkette just made me smile:
Donald Trump's going to have to get out his magical weather map Sharpie again. Since coronavirus didn't disappear as promised, the RNC is contemplating shifting its nominating convention to an outdoor venue for safety. The only problem is, it gets kinda hot in Florida in August, and sometimes they have the occasional hurricane. Luckily, Trump controls NOAA, so he can ensure that it's 78 and sunny with a swipe of his pen!
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During last year's season opener on September 8 against the Kansas City Chiefs, 86 people required medical attention due to the heat, with 18 requiring transport to a hospital.
Nothing very funny today...other than the shape of Roger Stone's head. How long before the Flynn pardon?
Heard some talking head on MSNBC make a comment that has been haunting my nightmares--the person said Fred's generation had been all about getting rich; Predator has been all about getting famous, and the next generation (Ivanka, Don Jr.) is all about power. I laugh, but then I hear actual fools talking about running Ivanka in 2024. Or I hear about Idiot Junior going on talk shows to inflame the base or publishing his pitiful excuses for books.
We laughed at the idea of W until he foisted himself on us. So I think about the Princess or Deformed Face possibly infecting the future WH, and I want to hurl. We may (please God) get rid of Predator. Let us be wise enough to his cons never to let his spawn have actual power! They can fleece the base of all the money the sheeple are willing to give them. But PLEASE no dynasty of grifters in our WH! We're barely surviving Predator. No more Trumps!
Linda >^..^<
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CBS starts the night, as ususal, with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Tough As Nails', then a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Cannonball', followed by a RERUN'The Titan Games', then a RERUN'America's Got Talent'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Famiy Feud', then a FRESH'Press Your Luck', followed by a FRESH'Match Game'.
The CW offers a RERUNDC's Stargirl', followed by a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux has a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'Duncanville', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bless The Harts', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'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'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit', followed by the movie 'I Am Number Four', then a FRESH'NOS4A2'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Svalbard
[6:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Great Barrier Reef
[7:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Australia's Red Centre
[7:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Seasonal Seas
[8:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Coral Seas
[9:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Tidal Seas
[10:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - Coasts
[11:30AM] LETHAL WEAPON
[2:00PM] LETHAL WEAPON 2
[4:30PM] LETHAL WEAPON 3
[7:00PM] LETHAL WEAPON 4
[10:00PM] NOS4A2 - The Lake House
[11:06PM] LETHAL WEAPON
[1:36AM] LETHAL WEAPON 2
[4:06AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - It's a Living
[4:40AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - A Book at Bedtime
[5:20AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Grandstand (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Married To Medicine: LA', another 'Married To Medicine: LA', followed by a FRESH'Married To Medicine: LA', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Men In Black III', followed by the movie 'Men In Black'.
FX has the movie "The Fate Of The Furious', followed by the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage'.
History has 'America: Our Defining Hours', followed by a FRESH'America: Our Defining Hours', and another 'Amreica: Our Defining Hours'.
IFC -
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Dizzy Doctors
[6:45A] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[9:15A] Mad Max
[11:15A] Punisher: War Zone
[1:30P] Zombieland
[3:30P] The Expendables
[5:45P] The Expendables 2
[8:00P] John Wick
[10:15P] I Am Legend
[12:30A] John Wick
[2:45A] Point Break
[5:15A] The Three Stooges - Dizzy Doctors
[5:45A] The Three Stooges (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] law & order
[7:00am] law & order
[8:00am] law & order
[9:00am] law & order
[10:00am] law & order
[11:00am] law & order
[12:00pm] batman & robin
[3:00pm] batman returns
[6:00pm] batman
[9:00pm] batman forever
[11:30pm] batman & robin
[2:30am] where eagles dare (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Clash Of The Titans', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Identity'.
For the first time since the February 1997 reissue, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is leading at the box office this weekend after clocking an estimated $175K at 483 locations. Empire should end the weekend with a 3-day take in-between the high $400K and low $500K.
Some of these recent classic reissues, such as Ghostbusters last weekend and Jurassic Park and Jaws over the June 19-21 weekend, have been collecting around a half million dollars lately in a given weekend on less than 500 sites.
Empire Strikes Back, according to Box Office Mojo, held the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for eight weeks following its May 21, 1980 release. There was a 1982 re-release, and then the Lucas-tweaked and revived 1997 edition, which had a two-weekend run at No. 1, grossing $21.97M on its first weekend of Feb. 21-23 and then $13.1M in its second weekend.
The 1997 edition of Empire contributed another $67.6M overall to Episode V's running domestic box office. All of the Star Wars movies, including Rogue One, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and the animated Clone Wars through 12 titles have racked up over $10.3 billion at the global box office.
In fact, Disney can boast the top three spots at the box office this weekend, with 20th Century Studios' Empire at No. 1, Marvel's Black Panther at No. 2 with an estimated $110K at 336 sites yesterday, and Pixar's 2015 Oscar-winner Inside Out with $106K at 316. We'll update you on their 3-day industry figures on Monday.
Weird Al Yankovic is not throwing away his shot to put "The Hamilton Polka" back in the conversation.
The musician released an apparently self-edited music video for his polka medley of songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit Hamilton, consisting entirely of footage from the filmed version currently streaming on Disney+. Yankovic originally released the polka in 2018, as part of the series of bonus Hamilton content known as "Hamildrops."
"Here's a video for 'The Hamilton Polka' that I put together using clips from the new 'Hamilton' movie," Yankovic wrote in the video description. "Huge thanks to Lin-Manuel, [director] Tommy Kail, and the rest of my Ham pals for creating the best thing ever."
The accordion-filled mash-up features covers of most of the show's biggest numbers, including "My Shot," "Wait For It," "The Schuyler Sisters," "The Room Where It Happens," and of course the opening song. The video shows the cast apparently lip-syncing to Yankovic's vocals and often speeds up their dancing to match the ebullient polka music. Quite the impressive and fun way for Yankovic to kill a few days in quarantine.
A sealed, early copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES sold for $114,000 Friday at specialist house Heritage Auctions, setting a new record for the sale price of an individual video game.
The online auction surpassed the old record set by a $100,000 sale of a "sticker-sealed" Super Mario Bros. early last year. At the time, the seller behind that $100,000 edition told Ars that it was "probably the wrong move, long-term, to sell."
For context, the Guinness World Records certified the world's largest video game collection sold at auction for $750,000 in 2014. That collection contained over 11,000 games, including over 8,300 in their original box.
Heritage Auctions video game specialist and consignment director Valarie McLeckie, who helped shepherd this record sale, tells Ars that this "3-code variant" of Super Mario Bros. dates back to mid-1987. That makes it "slightly more attainable to find" than the very earliest test-market editions of the game, from late 1985 and early 1986, which were only sealed with a small circular Nintendo sticker (the earlier $100,000 sale came from that earliest batch). That also means it's not among the very first shrink-wrapped copies of the game, which date back to mid-1986.
Still, the fact that this copy of the game features a cardboard hangtab inside that shrink-wrap, "speaks to a level of vintage" that puts it in a rarefied class. "I would suspect sealed cardboard hangtab copies [still available today] number in the single digits," McLeckie said.
A nearly 250-year-old mission that has was the inspiration for some early movie projects has been extensively damaged in an early morning fire on Saturday.
The Mission San Gabriel, which was founded in 1771 and contained artifacts dating to that era, caught fire for unknown reasons. Its roof was demolished and interior damage was seen in photos No injuries were reported.
Built with stone, brick and mortar, it's considered one of the best preserved Missions in California. However, its founder, Franciscan priest Junipero Serra, has come under criticism for his mistreatment of Native Americans. Statues of him were among those toppled during recent protests for social justice.
A West Virginia postal carrier pled guilty to mail and election fraud after admitting he changed the political affiliation on multiple voter ballots from Democrat to Republican.
Thomas Cooper, 47, admitted to attempted election fraud and injury to the mail Thursday after an affidavit was filed against him in May.
Cooper held a contract with the U.S. Postal Service to pick up mail in three towns in Pendleton County.
In April, per a statement from the Department of Justice, the county clerk found absentee ballot requests from eight voters that were tampered with a black ink pen, five of which had their party affiliation switched to Republican. Three others that had their affiliation already set to Republican were altered, but did not have their political party changed. All ballots were located in Pendleton County.
Bennie Cogar, a West Virginia Attorney General's Office investigator working on behalf of the secretary of state's office, said in the affidavit filed in May that Cooper admitted to having tampered with some of the requests he delivered "as a joke." He did not know any of the voters whose requests he changed.
Despite public statements promoting religious freedom, the Trump administration has failed to provide a lifeline to persecuted Christian refugees and other religious minorities around the world, according to a report by two Christian advocacy groups.
The number of Christian refugees and other religious minorities allowed to enter the U.S. has dropped dramatically under President Donald Trump, according to the report by World Relief, a Christian humanitarian organization, and Open Doors USA, a non-profit that tracks religious freedom.
In 2019, the number of Christians resettled to the U.S. from a list of 50 countries known for persecuting Christians declined 69 percent compared to 2015, according to the report, which was based on State Department refugee figures.
Six months into 2020, fewer than 950 Christians have been resettled from these 50 countries, compared to more than 18,000 in 2015, the report said. If current trends continue, the U.S. will admit roughly 90 percent fewer Christian refugees from these countries this year than in 2015.
The Trump administration has drastically cut back overall refugee admissions to unprecedented levels, but the COVID-19 pandemic has further restricted the flow. Refugee admissions were temporarily halted in March as the administration cited public health concerns. The suspension remains in place.
Donald Trump (R-Dolt) has claimed that until he became US president "nobody ever heard" that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
The US president's improbable claim came during a roundtable discussion on Venezuela at his Doral golf resort in Florida, in which he largely ignored the issue of the South American country and instead praised his administration's handling of a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 Americans.
"The Republican Party has grown incredibly from when it was and we have a whole different group of people in the Republican Party," Mr Trump said on Friday.
"Like people don't remember, nobody ever heard of it until I came along, nobody remembered it for a long time, or they didn't use it at least, I use it all the time: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. You know you say that and people say, 'I didn't know that', but he was Republican, so we're doing a great job."
During the roundtable, Mr Trump also falsely accused rival nominee for president Joe Biden of trying to "impose socialism" on the US, wrongly suggested the Democratic Party wanted to "rip down statues to Jesus", and said cities with Democrat political leaders were "going to hell".
A fish eagle swoops over the water to grab a fish in its talons and then flies to its nest. Nearby are a martial eagle, a black eagle, an Egyptian vulture and hundreds of other birds. With an estimated 400 species of birds on an idyllic spot on Zimbabwe's Lake Chivero, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Harare, the Kuimba Shiri bird sanctuary has been drawing tourists for more than 15 years.
The southern African country's only bird park has survived tumultuous times, including violent land invasions and a devastating economic collapse but the outbreak of coronavirus is proving a stern test.
"I thought I had survived the worst, but this coronavirus is something else," said owner Gary Strafford. "One-third of our visitors are from China. They stopped coming in February ... and when we were shut down in March, that was just unbelievable."
A life-long bird enthusiast, Strafford, 62, established the center for injured, orphaned and abandoned birds in 1992 and tourism has kept the park going.
With Zimbabwe's inflation rising to over 750%, tourism establishments are battling a vicious economic downturn worsened by the new coronavirus travel restrictions.
Just as the Moon tugs at our planet's seas, contributing to oceanic tidal waves, it also pulls at our atmosphere along with the Sun, creating waves in the sky.
A new study now demonstrates how some types of 'sky waves' resonate around Earth, much like how sound waves resonate inside a bell.
In the water, waves are produced by passing energy. Energy moving through our skies - from things like heat-produced pressure to the gravitational pull of celestial bodies - also creates waves.
These atmospheric waves don't slosh around the same way ocean waves do, but they are still recognisable if one knows what to look for: moving pockets of more tightly packed air, thousands of kilometres long.
The ERA5 dataset, released by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), provides hourly estimates of many global atmospheric, land, and ocean climate variables within five days of real time. It also contains masses of re-analysed historical observations of these measurements, extending the dataset all the way back to 1979.
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