Marc Dion: Treating Veterans Like Dogs (Creators Syndicate)
Canines have had an up-and-down kind of month. Pres. Donald Trump noted some similarities between the death of a terrorist and the way a dog dies. That's an insult to every red-blooded American pit bull who ever went down snarling in an illegal dogfight sponsored by a professional athlete. That's why Trump gets booed at ball games.
Ted Rall: "The Killing of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi: Illegal, Disgusting and Degenerate" (Creators Syndicate)
As a society degenerates, life cheapens. The rhetoric that follows death coarsens. Respect paid to fallen rivals is replaced by triumphalism. Historians observed this trend in ancient Rome. As republic turned to empire and domain expanded - and so also arrogance and hubris - vanquished chieftains who previously might have been allowed to keep their thrones as the head of a vassal state were gruesomely executed at public triumphs. Early Christians got tossed to the lions. Gladiatorial combat became all the rage.
Marc Dion: Storming Ashore on the Carpet (Creators Syndicate)
"Clad in shaggy custom-made bear skins, blood-smeared howling Republicans stormed into a heavily fortified room, wading through the moat, tossing alligators aside like used plastic straws. Bursting into the room, they beheaded their legislative enemies with battle-axes, holding their dripping heads up to the god Ra-Trump, and howling his name while, outside the window, unclean birds struggled to burst through the glass and feast on the bodies of the slain, and the Chick-fil-A."
Lenore Skenazy: The Other Halloween Myth That Won't Die (Creators Syndicate)
Three people on the sex offense registry in Georgia are suing the Butts County Sheriff's Office for having deputies come to their homes and plant signs reading, "No trick-or-treat at this address! A community safety message from Butts County Sheriff Gary Long," on their lawns. This was not only trespassing, say the plaintiffs, but also a form of compelled speech. The signs also amount to fearmongering sanctioned - and spread - by the sheriff's office.
Froma Harrop: Betting Billions on Bizarre Entrepreneurs (Creators Syndicate)
This story happens again and again. Elizabeth Holmes raised hundreds of millions from investors for Theranos without ever having issued an audited financial report. Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at New York University who coined the term "yoga babble," cited the Peloton fitness bicycle phenomenon. Peloton called itself "an innovation company transforming the lives of people around the world." "No," said Galloway in response, "You sell exercise equipment."
Froma Harrop: Is Klobuchar the Heartland Moderate Democrats Need? (Creators Syndicate)
[Amy] Klobuchar instead wants to offer a public option - a government-run health plan that Americans could choose to join. It could take several forms. Emanuel suggests giving private citizens access to the same insurance now enjoyed by federal employees. Klobuchar would also let uninsured Americans 55 or older buy into Medicare (the qualifying age is now 65). This would appeal to the vote-rich demographic of early retirees.
Susan Estrich: Fame, Fortune and Fire (Creators Syndicate)
[Recently], Lakers superstar LeBron James and his family evacuated his Brentwood mansion, as did former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and countless rich people whose faces you might recognize. And even richer people who aren't used to packing up in front of cameras. Not everyone in Brentwood is rich, just like not everyone who lives on Fifth Avenue is rich. But "posh" and "tony" were the words reporters kept using yesterday. Fires burning out of control don't care whether the houses they destroy are posh and tony. Pack your Oscars, friend. It almost felt like gawking.
When astronaut Alan Shepard walked on the moon in 1971, he also hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, using a golf head attached to a lunar sample scoop handle. What size golf head did he use?
A wine bottle is a bottle, generally made of glass, that is used for holding wine. Some wines are fermented in the bottle, others are bottled only after fermentation. Recently the bottle has become a standard unit of volume to describe sales in the wine industry, measuring 750 millilitres (26.40 imp fl oz; 25.36 US fl oz). Wine bottles are produced, however, in a variety of volumes and shapes.
A punt, also known as a kick-up, is the dimple at the bottom of a wine bottle. There is no consensus explanation for its purpose.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Punt.
Alan J answered:
A Punt.
Randall wrote:
the punt
mj said:
Great thing for the waitperson to grab while pouring
And when you've kicked the bottle you can pick it up using the punt to
drop it in the rcycling bin.
Mac Mac replied:
Punt
Dave responded:
Punt. The most common explanation for the presence of a punt is that when bottles were hand blown, a flat bottom bottle with a slight imperfection would tend to topple over when full, but the punt makes the bottle more stable because only the edges touch the table. A deep punt can also make the bottle appear to hold more wine as a marketing advantage.
"I did not know that." Our 4 year old granddaughter, Emma, has taken to saying that a lot, even when she did know that.
Photos: Wine bottles with a punt | Jim Thorpe preparing to punt a football. On October 11, 1911, during a game between Carlisle and the University of Pittsburgh, Thorpe punted the ball, raced 50 yards down the field to recover his own punt and took it into the end zone for a Carlisle TD (Carlisle won the game 17-0). This was possible because the college rules in 1911 stated that longer than 20 yard punts were live balls. Thorpe's punt may have been of the quick kick variety, where the ball was unexpectedly punted on second down (3 downs to get a first down in 1911). Trump probably quick kicked it just behind the line of scrimmage and used his blazing speed to race past the Pitt players, scoop up the ball and score. Quick kicks are still legal but rarely employed since most teams have specialized punters. Jim Thorpe could do it all.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, said:
I dunno, so I'm gonna punt.
Deborah wrote:
That's called a punt. It's supposed to ensure that sediment from the wine sinks to the bottom ring of the bottle, where it is then difficult to pour out when one pours the wine. It's not 100% effective.
Really enjoyable seasonal weather lately, with no winds, finally!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The glass of the dimple or 'punt' part of the bottle is very thick and the shape helps provide structural strength to the bottom of the bottle.
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
Punt
Cal in Vermont said:
Punt. No, really. If things are not going well, punt and try again.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is a punt.
Joe S replied:
Not gonna look it up. I'm not all positive, but I'm pretty sure, it's a punt. I could be wrong, it is possible, it could happen, It doesn't happen often but it could happen. Anyway that's my answer and I'm stickin' to it.
Anyway I've got clocks to change. I live on my own but I have 9 clocks to change. I actually have 15 clocks but I don't have to change 5 of them. Four on my electronic devices change themselves and the one on my car is an hour behind right now but it will be fine in the morning. I don't know why the one on my kitchen range won't change itself.
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BANDCAMP MUSIC THAT YOU PROBABLY WON'T HEAR ON THE RADIO
Song: "Because I'm Awesome" from the album BECAUSE I'M AWESOME
Artist: The Dollyrots
Artist Location: Los Angeles, California
Artist Info: The Dollyrots are a female-fronted rock n' roll band from California.
Their second studio album: Released March 13, 2007
Written by Kelly Ogden and Luis Cabezas
Kelly Ogden: bass, vocals
Luis Cabezas: guitar, vocals
Some Lyrics:
I've got the new style, uh huh
And I'm walking right down your street
I'm on your speed dial, you know
The one everyone wants to meet
I always tell you how great you dress
It's cause I'm fashionably socialized
You're smarter, better, no, the best
Just look at me
I'm a leader, I'm a winner, And I'm cleaner
Cause I'm awesome
I don't need you cause I'm neato and I beat you
Cause I'm awesome
That's right
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• Early in his career, French artist Honoré Daumier had difficulty paying the rent. He told his landlord, "The time will come when people will visit this miserable hole and say that Daumier, the artist, once painted here." Unmoved, the landlord replied, "If you don't pay your rent now, they'll be able to say it tomorrow."
• The possessions of painter Andrea di Cione were once legally seized to pay off his debts; however, Mr. di Cione got revenge. In a painting of Hell, he placed the faces and figures of the judge and court notary who took his possessions away from him.
• Art will not be suppressed, and a lack of mega-bucks, or even a lack of many bucks, will not stop it. In 1997, Carla Speed McNeil wrote and illustrated a mini-comic titled Mystery Date! What was its print run? Only 30 copies.
Mothers and Fathers
• As everyone knows, mothers are important: 1) When William Steig was a young illustrator, he submitted his first cover to The New Yorker, and the powers-that-be told him, "We like the idea but not your rendition." They then asked, "Can we buy the idea from you?" Mr. Steig replied, "Let me think it over." He went home and told his mother that The New Yorker wanted to buy his idea but not his illustration, and she advised him, "Don't do that! Don't sell them the idea! They'll always expect you to sell 'em the idea." So Mr. Steig went back to The New Yorker and said, "My mother told me not to sell you the idea." The powers-that-be replied, "OK, we'll take the cover as it is." Of course, Mr. Steig became an important New Yorker illustrator. 2) The mother of Rosemary Wells, an author and illustrator of books for children, used to go through her artwork each Friday when Rosemary was very young and choose the best drawings to thumbtack to the mantle until the following Friday. Ms. Wells says, "My mother would say, 'These are wonderful!' - and just ignore the rest. That is how I learned what was good." 3) Charlotte Zolotow, an author of books for children, used read Heidiover and over when she was young and cry while reading the sad parts. One day, she cried so much that her mother asked Charlotte's older sister, "What kind of book is the child reading?" Also, of course, as everyone knows, fathers are important. The father of Tana Hoban, who uses photographs in her books for children, used to keep a glass of nickels by him during meals so that whenever one of his children made a funny, witty, or intelligent remark he could reward the child with a nickel. For example, Tana once used the French phrase "n'est-ce pas?" Her sister asked what the phrase meant, and Tana joked, "An old French general." Her father gave her a nickel.
• The mother and stepfather of children's book illustrator and author Margot Zemach worked in the theater. Sometimes, she would look at her stepfather while he was eating a salad at home at the dinner table and wonder to herself whether this was really the same man who had been dancing the role of a soldier or a camel or a demon on stage the previous night. While backstage one day, young Margot was poked and prodded by someone who seemed to be a cackling witch. She worried - until she recognized in the cackling the sound of her mother.
• Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, was a sickly child. His father once told him that he might see an angel outside his window, and if he did see an angel, then his illness would be over quickly. However, his father also said that angels were quick and therefore were hard to see: "If you blink, you'll miss it." After his father left the room, young Maurice looked out the window. Then he started shouting, "I saw it! I saw it! I saw the angel!" Mr. Sendak says about his father, "He was as thrilled as I was."
• When writer/performance artist Keith Antar Mason was young, sometimes his father would punish him by grounding him for a while. His father knew that young Keith liked art and art museums, so before grounding Keith he would take him to the St. Louis Art Museum and say, "Go ahead and browse because you're not going to see it for a long time." Whenever his father took him to the art museum, Keith knew that he was in serious trouble.
Decades is saluting Carl Reiner's 97th birthday with 97 episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show - goes until 11pm (est) / 8pm (pst) Monday.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'God Friended Me', then a FRESH'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a FRESH'Madam Secretary'.
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 FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Kids Say The Darndest Things', then a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by a FRESH'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bless The Harts', 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'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] CHIMP SANCTUARY
[7:00AM] GREAT BEAR STAKEOUT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1
[8:00AM] GREAT BEAR STAKEOUT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2
[9:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-The Great Feast
[10:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Great Melt
[11:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-The Great Migration
[12:00PM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-The Great Tide
[1:00PM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-The Great Flood
[2:00PM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-The Great Salmon Run
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Ocean of Islands
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Castaways
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Endless Blue
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Ocean of Volcanoes
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Strange Islands
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Winter
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Summer
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Autumn
[11:00PM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6-The Great Feast
[12:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Great Melt
[1:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-The Great Migration
[2:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-The Great Tide
[3:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-The Great Flood
[4:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-The Great Salmon Run
[5:00AM] CHIMP SANCTUARY - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Chimp Sanctuary (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Married To Medicine', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has the movei 'Blended', followed by the movie '50 First Dates'.
FX has the movie 'Terminator Genisys', followed by the movie 'Thor', then a FRESH'The Weekly', and another 'The Weekly'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', and another 'The Curse Of Oak Island'.
IFC -
[6:30A] Halloween
[9:00A] Halloween II
[11:15A] The Mist
[2:00P] Dark Skies
[4:00P] Lake Placid
[5:45P] Tommy Boy
[8:00P] The Dukes of Hazzard
[10:15P] The Dukes of Hazzard
[12:30A] Tommy Boy
[2:45A] Blazing Saddles
[4:45A] Baroness von Sketch Show - Humanity is in an Awkward Stage
[5:15A] Baroness von Sketch Show - There's A Special Place in Hell
[5:45A] Night Flight - The Heartbreakers (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:30am] Law & Order
[7:30am] Law & Order
[8:30am] Law & Order
[9:30am] Law & Order
[10:30am] Law & Order
[11:30am] K-9
[2:00pm] Summer Rental
[4:00pm] 48 HRS.
[6:00pm] Vegas Vacation
[8:00pm] The Karate Kid
[11:00pm] The Karate Kid Part II
[1:30am] The Karate Kid Part III
[4:00am] Planes, Trains and Automobiles (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra', followed by the movie 'GI Joe: Retaliation'.
Rapper Snoop Dogg joined city officials Saturday in celebrating the reopening of rail service between downtown Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Formerly known as the Blue Line, the newly improved Metro route was rechristened the A Line.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority spent $350 million to upgrade the 22-mile line, which originally opened in 1990 and is the oldest light-rail line in Los Angeles County.
Snoop Dogg, a Long Beach native, took part in an 11 a.m. news conference and celebration in downtown L.A. at the Bloc shopping center adjacent to the 7th St/Metro Center station in the 700 block of Flower Street. Similar celebrations were held at the 103rd Street/Watts Towers Station, at Graham Avenue and 103rd Street, and in Long Beach at Promenade Square.
As part of the reopening, Metro is offering free rides on the A line Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Grammy-winning producer Dr. Dre is set to be honored at the Recording Academy's 13th annual Producers & Engineers Wing during 2020 Grammys Week.
The kick-off event for Grammys Week, which is set to take place Jan. 22nd, will be held at the Village studios in West Los Angeles and "will pay tribute to the artistic achievements and innovations of Dre," the Grammys announced.
Deborah Dugan, President/CEO of the Recording Academy described Dr. Dre as "an influential force in music." "Dre breaks boundaries and inspires music creators across every genre. His evolution as a producer solidifies him as a leader of the pack within our industry, and we watch in amazement as he continues to shape the future of music," she said in a statement.
Throughout Dre's career, he's worked with Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Tupac Shakur. In recent years, he's worked with Kendrick Lamar and Anderson .Paak.
During 2019 Grammy Week, eight-time Grammy winner Willie Nelson received the same honor as Dre. The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards will take place Sunday Jan. 26, 2020 and will air live on CBS at 8 p.m. EST/PST.
Fashion designer Zac Posen is shutting down his namesake label. House of Z and Z Spoke, which own his company, announced Friday that the company is ceasing all business operations.
The New York designer is known for his glamorous red carpet gowns, which have graced Hollywood stars for nearly 20 years. The company called the decision "difficult."
"The Board of Managers is disappointed with this outcome but can no longer continue operations and believe an orderly disposition at this stage is the best course of action, under the circumstances," according to a press release.
"I've been personally trying to find the right partner for some time," Posen told Vogue. "But time ran out, and the difficult climate out there… it's not an easy time in our industry."
Posen said his company has unsuccessfully tried to navigate the changing fashion industry, which has as a whole struggled as fast fashion and online shopping have exponentially grown. Barneys New York, a stockist of Posen's, was sold Friday.
A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building featured candy, paper airplanes and - concerning for some attendees - a station where children were encouraged to help "Build the Wall" with their own personalized bricks.
The party, which took place inside the office building used by White House staff, included the families of executive-branch employees and VIP guests inside and outside government. Even though many of the attendees were members of President Trump's administration, not everyone thought the Halloween game was a treat.
"Horrified. We were horrified," said a person who was there and requested anonymity to avoid professional retaliation.
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building stands across from the White House and houses a large portion of the West Wing support staff and is home to the vice president's ceremonial office. The "Build the Wall" mural was on the first floor, outside the speechwriter's office and next to the office of digital strategy and featured red paper bricks, each bearing the name of a child.
Large letters on the display spelled out "Build the Wall." Kids dressed as superheroes and ninjas were given brick-colored paper cards and told to write their name with a marker and tape them to the wall. Alongside the paper wall were signs including one that read "America First," a slogan often used by President Trump that had been criticized because it was previously employed by the Ku Klux Klan.
October was the first full month in at least 18 years in which the United States did not admit any refugees.
On Tuesday, the State Department notified refugee resettlement agencies for the third time last month that all flights for refugees who have been approved to travel to the U.S. would be postponed. The delays have ground the resettlement program to a halt, leaving hundreds of refugees, including unaccompanied children who already completed a lengthy vetting process, in limbo in some of the world's most dangerous locations.
Refugee arrivals are typically put on hold during the first week of October while the various federal, international and nongovernmental components of the refugee system adjust to implementing a new plan for U.S. admissions, which is set by the president each fiscal year through an official determination, which is usually signed sometime before the end of September.
"We've never seen a moratorium last this long," said Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigrant Refugee Services, one of the country's largest refugee resettlement agencies.
"By law, no refugees may be admitted in any given fiscal year until the President signs and issues the Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions," a State Department spokesperson said in a statement to Yahoo News earlier this week, confirming the latest extension of the ongoing moratorium on refugee arrivals. "We have now extended it through November 5."
The Trump administration on Friday proposed a rule that would allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to continue getting taxpayer funding even if they exclude LGBT families and others from their services based on religious beliefs.
The announcement generated a sharp backlash from some Democratic lawmakers and LGBT advocacy groups. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the Trump administration was working overtime to "implement cruel and discriminatory policies, and wasting taxpayer dollars in its obsessive pursuit."
Donald Trump (R-Pussy Grabber) has made addressing the concerns of evangelical voters a priority of his presidency.
The White House says the rule from the Department of Health and Human Services is needed to remove barriers that prevent some nonprofits from helping vulnerable people in their communities. It would apply to a broad range of organizations that receive federal support, such as those that get federal funding to help the homeless or prevent HIV. But the focus from supporters and detractors Friday was on foster care and adoption services.
"It is outrageous that the Trump administration would mark the start of National Adoption Month by announcing a rule to further limit the pool of loving homes available to America's 440,000 foster children," said Julie Kruse, director of federal policy at Family Equality. "The American public overwhelmingly opposes allowing taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agencies to turn away qualified parents simply because they are in a same-sex relationship."
The words from California's former governor could barely have been more stark.
"I said it was the new normal a few years ago,'' said Jerry Brown. "This is serious, but this is only the beginning. This is only a taste of the horror and the terror that will occur in decades."
As firefighters in California continued to confront a three-week spate of blazes that have reached across the state, attention has also turned to why this year's wildfires have been so severe. The reason, according to scientists, is climate change.
As Donald Trump (R-Inept) continues to refuse to acknowledge the existence of man-made climate change, and as Jay Inslee, the only Democrat running for president on a ticket to address climate change, dropped out of the race this autumn, residents of California and other western states are trying to figure out how to confront the challenge, not just this year but in the years and decades ahead.
"Since the early 1970s, California's annual wildfire extent increased fivefold, punctuated by extremely large and destructive wildfires in 2017 and 2018," Mr Park and his colleagues wrote in a paper published this summer in Earth's Future. "This trend was mainly due to an eightfold increase in summertime forest-fire area and was very likely driven by drying of fuels promoted by human-induced warming."
A Niagara Falls tourist attraction is about 50 metres closer to toppling over the Horseshoe Falls in the wake of Halloween's howling windstorm.
The wrecked iron scow that's been securely lodged about 700 metres from the edge of the falls for the past 101 years appears to have "flipped on its side and spun around" thanks to Thursday night's winds, according to Jim Hill, the Senior Manager of Heritage for Niagara Parks.
The severe windstorm that swept through southern Ontario on Halloween night is being blamed for the sudden shift. Winds in the Niagara region peaked at 94 km/h around midnight Thursday, and the Buffalo Niagara Airport reported about 35 mm of rain associated with the storm.
The wreck celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018. In August 1918, the scow broke away from its towing tug and began to slip toward the edge of the falls. Two unfortunate Niagara Falls Power Company employees were rescued from the scow after it lodged itself on a shoal in the rapids.
Subjected to the constant flow of the Niagara River -- which can reach more than 65 km/h where the scow is, in the Upper Rapids -- much of the ship has rusted and disintegrated in the 101 years since it became stuck in the river.
Millions of years ago, Yukon was home to rhinoceroses, turtles and tortoises, suggesting the climate was far different in that era than it is now, according to a co-author of a study released Thursday.
"It was probably much more like parts of the southern United States, where you have swamps throughout the whole year that probably didn't freeze over," said Grant Zazula, a paleontologist for the Yukon government.
It was still significantly darker during the winter, "so that presents a really interesting situation for these animals, as well."
The study was published in the journal American Museum Novitates. The discovery behind it was made in part by a woman from Saskatchewan who stumbled across several fossils in Whitehorse in 1973.
Joan Hodgins, a then-22-year-old teacher at an organization for young offenders, took her students on a hike.
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