• Before World War II, Lucy Carrington Wertheimer ran an art gallery that championed the work of then-modern artists. Many famous people visited the gallery and signed the guestbook. One day, Ms. Wertheimer looked at the guestbook and told her employee, “I see you have had Mr. Shaw in, Biddy.” A nearby visitor looked at the guestbook and saw that George Bernard Shaw had signed it. Amazed, he said, “Yes, and you’re jolly lucky to have his autograph. How did you manage to get it?” Biddy, an Irish lass, replied, “Oi just said to him, ‘Put your name in the visitors’ book, Mr. Shaw,’ and he put it in.” Ms. Wertheimer suspects that when Biddy said this to Mr. Shaw, “Biddy’s tone was so authoritative that Mr. Shaw did not dare say her nay.”
• George Bernard Shaw once saw a book of his own plays in a second-hand bookshop. Looking at it, he noticed an inscription in his own handwriting — “With the compliments of George Bernard Shaw” — and recognized the book as a gift from him to a friend. Mr. Shaw purchased the book, wrote this inscription — “With renewed compliments. G.B.S.” — then sent it again to his friend.
• After J.K. Rowling published the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, in the United Kingdom, she went to a bookstore in Edinburgh, Scotland, to see copies of the book displayed. She was tempted to sign the copies, but she decided not to in case she got in trouble with the bookseller.
• In 1988, African-American author Maya Angelou was arrested while participating in an anti-apartheid rally in Berkeley, California. The police officer who arrested her was an African-American woman. After fingerprinting Ms. Angelou, the police officer requested her autograph.
Awards
• When Daniel Keyes’ “Flowers for Algernon” won the Hugo Award for the Best Story of 1959, award presenter Isaac Asimov praised the story enthusiastically, then asked Mr. Keyes how he had been able to write it. Mr. Keyes replied, “Listen, when you find out how I did it, let me know, will you? I want to do it again.”
• In 1986, Elie Wiesel, author of the Holocaust memoir Night, won the Nobel Peace Prize. His father, mother, and youngest sister all died in the Holocaust, but to show that the Jewish people survive despite such oppression, when giving his acceptance speech, he asked his 14-year-son to come to the podium with him.
Bathrooms
• Technology columnist and author Annalee Newitz thinks that all single-toilet bathrooms in the workplace ought to be gender-free; after all, why should someone have to walk down the hall or to another floor to go to the bathroom when a nearby single-toilet bathroom is unoccupied? She used to print a “Carbon-based lifeforms only” sign and use it to cover up the gender sign on a single-toilet bathroom near her office at work. Her co-workers thought the sign was funny.
• When he was a child growing up in Australia in the days before indoor plumbing, critic Clive James enjoyed reading, and he sometimes read in the outdoor lavatory with the door open to admit light. Unfortunately, a neighbor girl saw him with his pants around his ankles, and she told everybody, including far-distant pen pals, about what she had seen. Many years later, and many miles away, a grown-up Mr. James met a stranger at a party who knew all there was to know about the mishap.
• Author Peg Bracken knows a friend who was bothered by someone who enjoyed snooping in other people’s bathroom cabinets. Therefore, before this particular person came to snoop — er, visit — she placed this sign in her bathroom cabinet: “What is it that you’re looking for? Just let me know, and I’ll be glad to help you find it.”
Huckleberry is a name used in North America for several plants in the family Ericaceae, in two closely related genera: Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. The huckleberry is the state fruit of Idaho.
The name 'huckleberry' is a North American variation of the English dialectal name variously called 'hurtleberry' or 'whortleberry' for the bilberry. In North America the name was applied to numerous plant variations all bearing small berries with colors that may be red, blue or black. It is the common name for various Gaylussacia species, and some Vaccinium species, such as Vaccinium parvifolium, the red huckleberry, and is also applied to other Vaccinium species which may also be called blueberries depending upon local custom, as in New England and parts of Appalachia.
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Huckleberry.
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Huckleberry
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the Huckleberry
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The Huckleberry.
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Huckleberry
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Huckleberry
Dave wrote:
Huckleberry. Unlike some state fruits, the huckleberry is actually native to Idaho. Although many huckleberries are blue when ripe, they are not the same as the blueberry, which is fruit from a different plant. In American culture the huckleberry is most familiar because of the fictional characters Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Hound and for Doc Holiday saying, “I’m your huckleberry” in the film Tombstone.
zorch responded:
The huckleberry is Idaho’s state fruit
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
the Huckleberry
DJ Useo wrote:
That'd be the succulent Black Huckleberries. De-lish!
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Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is the huckleberry.
Deborah, the Master Gardener resplied:
I didn’t know Idaho had a state fruit, let alone what fruit is is, so imagine my delight when I found it’s the huckleberry. That’s just a fun word to say.
We hit the nursery and bought some winter vegetables, a few seasonal flowers, and worm castings and chicken manure. The thousands of acres of walnut orchards up here use chicken manure, spread in January, usually, to be rained into the soil. It stinks. Riding bikes in the vicinity stinks, too. And now my front yard stinks as well. The joys of suburban gardening.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
The official state fruit of Idaho is the huckleberry. I didn't know that , I "researched" it. I knew yesterday's quiz because my daughter-inlaw is Greek, so I know things like that. But yesterday I was just too tired to play, I went to bed early. I'm going to bed early tonight too. I'm whipped.
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CBS starts the night, as ususal, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Love Island', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by the FRESH'Sellebrity: The Go-To Girls - A Special Edition Of 20/20', then a RERUN'Card Sharks'.
The CW fills the night with FRESH'iHeartRadio Music: Festival Night 1'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bless The Harts', then a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'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'.
A&E has the movie 'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back', followed by the movie 'American Sniper'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', and the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'.
BBC -
[12:10AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - EUROPE: EXTENDED
[1:10AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - ANTARCTICA: EXTENDED
[2:10AM] ANIMAL BABIES - MOUNTAIN BABIES (EXTENDED)
[3:20AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - OCEAN OF ISLANDS
[4:30AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - CASTAWAYS
[5:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - GALAPAGOS
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - FRAGILE PARADISE
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - ENDLESS BLUE
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - OCEAN OF VOLCANOES
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - STRANGE ISLANDS
[10:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - SERENGETI
[10:15AM] TOP GEAR
[11:45AM] FIRST BLOOD
[1:45PM] RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II
[3:45PM] RAMBO III
[6:00PM] FIRST BLOOD
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR
[9:31PM] RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II
[11:31PM] RAMBO III
[1:46AM] X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
[4:15AM] TOP GEAR
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - FULL FRONTAL NUDITY (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', another 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Potomac', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
IFC -
[6:45am] The Mist
[9:30am] Event Horizon
[11:45am] Pitch Black
[2:00pm] Jurassic Park III
[4:00pm] The Lost World: Jurassic Park
[7:00pm] The Dark Knight Rises
[11:00pm] The Dark Knight Rises
[3:00am] The Mist
[5:45am] The Three Stooges - Boobs In Arms (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:30am] columbo - Dagger Of The Mind
[8:45am] columbo - Any Old Port In A Storm
[11:00am] cujo
[1:00pm] silver bullet
[3:00pm] pet sematary
[5:00pm] the shining
[8:30pm] christine
[10:30pm] the green mile
[2:30am] fargo
[4:30am] hogan's heroes
[5:00am] hogan's heroes
[5:30am] hogan's heroes (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron', followed by the movie 'Zombieland'.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus announced a Veep virtual cast reunion today as a fundraiser for the Democratic party of Wisconsin’s efforts to support the Biden-Harris presidential campaign.
“All roads to the White House go through the great state of Wisconsin,” the former Seinfeld actress says in a video tweet (see it below), adding, “The future of democracy is on the line, people!”
The upcoming reunion will feature Veep cast members Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumskey, Reid Scott, Sam Richardson, Tony Hale, Tim Simons, Clea DuVall, and Matt Walsh, with showrunner David Mandel as moderator. Additional special guests are expected.
The event will be livestreamed only once, at 6 pm CT on Sunday, Oct. 4. Donations of any amount are being accepted, with all contributions benefitting the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
The lawyers representing Bill Murray’s golf apparel company sent a humorous response to the Doobie Brothers after the band issued a similarly comedic letter that accused Murray of using their “Listen to the Music” in ads without compensation.
On Wednesday, the Doobie Brothers’ lawyers publicly sent a quirky legal warning to the William Murray Golf company about the commercials. “It’s a fine song. I know you agree because you keep using it in ads for your Zero Hucks Given golf shirts,” attorney Peter Paterno wrote. “However, given that you haven’t paid to use it, maybe you should change the company name to ‘Zero Bucks Given.'”
The firm representing Murray’s golf company, Yoffe & Cooper, responded to the Doobies’ legal notice Friday night with a clever letter of their own.
“First, I would like to compliment you on finding levity in the law at a time when the world and this country certainly could use a laugh. Your client’s demand was able to cut through the noise of the news cycle and remind us how much we all miss live music these days,” attorney Alexander Yoffe wrote.
“We would also like to confirm that both our firm, and the good folks at William Murray Golf, are indeed fans of the Doobie Brothers’ music, which is why we appreciate your firm’s choice of ‘Takin’ It to the Streets,’ rather than to the courts, which are already overburdened ‘Minute by Minute’ with real problems.”
Sir David Attenborough has claimed the record for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram, breaking a record previously held by Jennifer Aniston, Guinness World Records confirmed on Thursday.
The 94-year-old naturalist and TV host racked up the impressive numbers just hours after joining the social media platform with a video warning about the effects of climate change.
The video, which currently has more than 12 million views, was posted at 2 AM local time and his account reached one million followers just over four hours later at 6:44 AM, according to Guinness World Records.
After introducing himself in the Instagram video, Attenborough revealed that he is "making this move and exploring this new way of communication" in an effort to educate viewers that "the world is in trouble."
Jeremy Scott's solution to putting on a pandemic-proof show for Moschino during Milan Fashion Week was clever, playful and very on-brand.
In lieu of a traditional runway, with models cramming backstage and guests sitting elbow-to-elbow in the front row, the designer shrunk Moschino's Spring 2021 collection and hosted a string puppet show, complete with marionette models — and a marionette front row — made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. In a short film, the dolls strutted on strings through a gold-accented rooms wearing the brand's shrunken-down new line in an intimate salon-style fashion show, as "Anna Wintour," "Edward Enninful" and other industry leaders watched.
Scott was, naturally, inspired by the way 2020 exposed "the apparatuses of what we know" when designing Spring 2021, according to the show notes. As such, the inner-workings of clothes are brought to the forefront — edges, seams, corsetry boning, panels, darts and trims all on full display. There's an inverted zipper halter dress, unfinished pockets on pants and jacquard trim that's sewn on backwards. Even tulle — which traditionally remains hidden to add volume and shape — extends beyond the hem of skirts and dresses
Done in a soft color palette — think toned-down golds and fairytale blues — the range is rather subtle and more wearable for.a house that has, in the past, sent a TV dinner kimono and a Picasso-style abstract guitar dress down the runway. Still, that signature Moschino sensibility is present: There's a youthful princess feel to the clothes, like the pieces we gravitated to in our first grade dress-up boxes, but perhaps that's what happens when you make miniature outfits and stick them on dolls.
Officials in countries across the world are puzzled about how the United States has been so badly afflicted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The US has recorded over 7 million COVID-19 cases with over 203,000 deaths, the highest of any country — and with no end to the pandemic in sight.
The Pew Research Center's Summer 2020 Global attitudes survey, which looked into how favorable 13 countries viewed the US on a variety of topics, reported that the US's image has "plummeted" internationally since President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt) took office, but the country's image is especially low due to the handling of the pandemic.
Across 13 countries, including Canada, Australia, and Spain, the US has been viewed in the most negative light over the past year, compared to years past. They are especially critical of the US's handling of the pandemic according to Pew.
The Times reported that the negative views go beyond just the pandemic, and apply to Trump and his administration, who several foreign politicians and analysts said appear to have left democratic values behind. Many are concerned about the ongoing protests for racial justice and comments made by Trump to not accept the election results.
Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said Friday, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region.
Rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking people have been incarcerated in camps across the northwestern territory, with residents pressured to give up traditional and religious activities.
Around 16,000 mosques had been destroyed or damaged, according to an Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report based on satellite imagery documenting hundreds of sacred sites and statistical modelling.
Most of the destruction had taken place in the last three years and an estimated 8,500 mosques had been completely destroyed, the report said, with more damage outside the urban centres of Urumqi and Kashgar.
The US military is making increasing use in Syria of a gruesome and secretive non-explosive drone missile that deploys flying blades to kill its targets.
Described as less likely to kill non-combatants, the so-called ninja bomb – whose development was first disclosed last year – has been used a number of times in the last year to kill militants in Syria, including those linked to aal-Qaida, most recently earlier this month.
Officially designated as the Hellfire AGM-114R9X – usually shortened to R9X and sometimes know as the “Flying Ginsu” – the weapon has been increasingly deployed in targeted assassinations by the US Joint Special Operations Command.
The missile, believed to have been first used in 2017 to kill al-Qaida’s then No 2 leader, Abu Khayr al Masri, in Idlib province, first came to wider attention when its existence was disclosed by an article in the Wall Street Journal last year.
The weapon uses a combination of the force of 100lb of dense material flying at high speed and six attached blades which deploy before impact to crush and slice its victims.
A sample of mold that first led to the discovery of penicillin in the 1920s has been revived. The newly awakened fungus could provide hints about how to conquer drug-resistant superbugs, CNN reported.
Dr. Alexander Fleming, a professor of bacteriology in London, accidentally discovered the antibiotic penicillin in 1928, when some of his petri dishes became contaminated with a mold, Penicillium notatum, Live Science previously reported. He extracted the active ingredient "penicillin" from the mold and found that it killed many kinds of harmful bacteria; scientists later purified penicillin for use as a treatment for bacterial infections.
After the serendipitous discovery of penicillin, its mother mold was frozen and kept in storage for future study. Scientists have occasionally defrosted and regrown mold from the original strain, according to CNN, but never before have researchers analyzed all the DNA contained within the fungus.
Until now.
"We realized, to our surprise, that no one had sequenced the genome of this original Penicillium, despite its historical significance to the field," Tim Barraclough, a professor at the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London and the Department of Zoology at Oxford University, told CNN. The team reexamined the DNA inside the mold, and published their findings Sep. 24 in the journal Scientific Reports.
In the cold, dense medium of a helium-3 superfluid, scientists recently made an unexpected discovery. A foreign object travelling through the medium could exceed a critical speed limit without breaking the fragile superfluid itself.
As this contradicts our understanding of superfluidity, it presented quite a puzzle - but now, by recreating and studying the phenomenon, physicists have figured out how it happens. Particles in the superfluid stick to the object, shielding it from interacting with the bulk superfluid, thus preventing the superfluid's breakdown.
Superfluids are a type of fluid that has zero viscosity and zero friction, and therefore flows without losing kinetic energy. They can be made relatively easily from bosons of the helium-4 isotope, which, when cooled to just above absolute zero, slow down enough to overlap and form a high-density cluster of atoms that act as one 'super-atom'.
These 'super-atoms' form just one type of superfluid, though. Another is based on the boson's sibling, the fermion. Fermions are particles that include atomic building blocks like electrons and quarks.
When cooled below a certain temperature, fermions become bound together in what are called Cooper pairs, each made up of two fermions that together form a composite boson. These Cooper pairs behave exactly like bosons, and can thus form a superfluid.
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