Remember: You Don't Control What Happens, You Control How You Respond (dailystoic.com)
What you can control, as always, is how you respond. What matters is not what other people are doing or have done, but what you do. That means: Keeping up to date with the latest advice from the World Health Organization (and then actually following it!). Wash your hands often, cover your nose when you sneeze, avoid large public gatherings, cancel unnecessary travel and work meetings. Don't be stupid. Don't think you're the exception. Don't do things that benefit you, at the expense of others. If you feel sick, stay at home. Stay at home even if you don't feel sick. Do your part.
The Police won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for this single released in September 1980. What is the title of this prescient social-distancing song?
"Don't Stand So Close to Me" is a hit song by the British rock band the Police, released in September 1980 as the lead single from their third album Zenyatta Mondatta. It concerns a schoolgirl's crush on her teacher which leads to an affair, which in turn is discovered.
The band's third No.1 on the UK Singles Chart, it was also the best selling single of 1980 in the UK. The song also charted in the top ten in Australia, Canada and the US. The Police won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for this song.
The music and lyrics of the song were written by the lead singer of The Police, Sting. The song deals with the mixed feelings of lust, fear and guilt that a female student has for a school teacher and vice versa, and inappropriateness leading to confrontation which is unravelled later on in the song. The line Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov alludes to Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, which covers somewhat similar issues. After being criticised for rhyming shake and cough with Nabokov, Sting replied, "I've used that terrible, terrible rhyme technique a few times. Technically, it's called a feminine rhyme - where it's so appalling it's almost humorous. You don't normally get those type of rhymes in pop music and I'm glad!"
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Dave replied:
Don't Stand So Close to Me. One of the leading bands of the 'second British invasion,' The Police were considered 'new wave' (influenced by punk rock). The critically acclaimed power trio had tremendous commercial success selling 75 million albums (mostly during their initial 7 year run), with high charting hit singles on both sides of the Atlantic. Every Breath You Take captured the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1983.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Every Breath You Take
Micki said:
Don't Stand So Close to Me.
David of Moon Valley wrote:
hmmmm.....
well…that's weird…my wikibuddy says it was 19 and 82 for the Police to win for Don't Stand…Don't Stand So…..Don't Stand So Close to Me….but that's OK…it's all a bit weird-D'Oh lately....amirite? amirite? (i almost guessed Every Breath You Take…which probably would have been just as relevant these days, too, huh?)
John I from Hawai`i says,
Every Move You Make
Daniel in The City answered:
Don't Stand So Close to Me
Deborah replied:
After blowing yesterday's TQ, I'm here to tell you that I know this one: "Don't Stand So Close to Me." There, I feel redeemed.
Got caught in the rain on an otherwise great hike on Monday afternoon. Since then there's been a parade of cumulus clouds marching west-to-east over verdant hills, the backdrop of blue skies shining horizon to horizon. Typical gorgeous, spring weather. Glad we can get out in it.
Michelle in AZ responded:
"Don't Stand so Close to Me"
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
"Don't Stand So Close To Me", but you can kiss tRump if he grabs you by the pussy.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is "Don't Stand So Close to Me."
Jacqueline answered:
WAG, was it "Dont Stand So Close To Me"? But my first guess was 'De Doo Doo Doo Da Da Da Da'...my apology for prob butchering the title.
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• In 1948 - back in the Jim Crow days - Gene Norman hired an assistant to promote a concert by the great African-American jazz singer Billie Holiday. The assistant received a telephone call by the entertainment editor of a newspaper, who asked, "What color is Billie Holiday? I can't tell for sure from this mat you sent me, and you know, we don't run pictures of colored people." The assistant was stunned, and she let Mr. Norman handle the call. Mr. Norman told the entertainment editor, "The last time I saw Miss Holiday, sir, she was a lovely shade of soft purple with the most exquisite orange polka dots I've ever seen," then he hung up the telephone.
• When African-American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson decided to move into a white suburb, she discovered that no one wanted to sell their home to her, so she asked a real estate agent for help. The real estate agent advertised that the Queen of Gospel wanted to buy a home, and a white dentist stepped forward and said, "I'll be proud to sell my home to Mahalia." She bought the home and moved in, but her white neighbors were unhappy and harassed her, although a Catholic priest went door to door, imploring them to show tolerance. Soon, the whites moved out, and the suburb became an upper middle-class African-American neighborhood.
• Singer Nat King Cole was black, and some white people didn't like it when he moved into their neighborhood. They held a meeting with him and explained that they didn't want "undesirables" in the neighborhood. Mr. Cole replied, "Neither do I, and if I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain." Some of the white people complained to the real estate agent who had sold Mr. Cole the house and asked, "Don't you check out the people you sell to?" She replied, "I sure do. As soon as they walk in the door, I ask them, 'Have you got the down payment?'"
• During his career, African-American actor/singer Paul Robeson spoke out for equality and justice. Because of Mr. Robeson's outspokenness, the United States government persecuted him by making him testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and by revoking his passport. Near the end of Mr. Robeson's life, another African-American actor/singer, Harry Belafonte, asked him if the fight for freedom had been worth the cost. Mr. Robeson replied, "Make no mistake - there is no aspect of what I have done that wasn't worth it."
• Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" was an anti-lynching song - the "strange fruit" of the title was a reference to corpses of lynched African-Americans hanging from trees. Some people, including her mother, worried that the song would stir up trouble for her, but Billie said, "Listen, I'm proud to be singing an anti-lynching song. Someday there'll be a better world for our people." Her mother said, "Perhaps, but you won't be alive to see it." Billie replied, "Maybe not, but when it happens I'm going to be dancing in my grave."
• At one time in England, professional musicians attended musical parties at which they performed but at which a cord was strung across the room. The purpose of the cord, of course, was to separate the musicians from the guests. At one party, operatic bass Luigi Lablache was speaking with someone on the other side of the cord when suddenly and quietly he untied the cord and let it drop to the floor. Thereafter, no more cords were used at musical parties in London.
• During the Jim Crow days of legalized segregation, jazz singer Billie Holiday frequently had difficulty finding lodging while touring in the South. During a tour with the Artie Shaw Orchestra - Mr. Shaw and many of his musicians were white - Ms. Holiday got into one segregated hotel after having a red dot painted on her forehead. The hotel management thought she was from India and allowed her to stay.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'Man With A Plan', then a RERUN'Mom', followed by a FRESH'Broke', then a FRESH'Tommy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Jon Meacham.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 3/11/20) are Emily Blunt, Sam Heughan, and Niall Horan.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH'Indebted', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Mike D & Ad-Rock, Anna Kendrick, and Dan White.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jane Fonda and Yamiche Alcindor.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Abby Elliott and Adam Pally.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Station 19', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'How To Get Away With Murder'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Don Cheadle, Regina Hall, and Phoebe Bridgers.
The CW offers a RERUN'Arrow', followed by a RERUN'DC's Legends Of Tomorrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'Last Man Standing', then a RERUN'Mental Samurai'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Live PD: Wanted', followed by a FRESH'60 Days In'.
AMC offers the movie 'Star Trek', followed by the movie 'Top Gun', then the movie 'Under Siege'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - The Hardest Challenge
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Arctic
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Jungles
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Oceans
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Plains
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Coasts
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - The Hardest Challenge
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Arctic
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Jungles
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Oceans
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Plains
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Coasts
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Challenges of Life
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Reptiles and Amphibians
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Mammals
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Fish
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Birds
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Challenges of Life
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Reptiles and Amphibians
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Mammals
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Fish
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Birds
[4:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - Spring
[5:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - Summer (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then a FRESH'Top Chef', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by a FRESH'Better Thing', and 'Breeders'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', and another 'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Life of Brian
[8:00A] A League of Their Own
[11:00A] Mission: Impossible III
[2:00P] Tropic Thunder
[4:30P] Jumanji
[7:00P] Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
[9:00P] Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
[11:00P] Jumanji
[1:30A] Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
[3:30A] Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
[5:30A] Brockmire - Comeback Player of the Year (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] Juno
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Mystic Pizza
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage', followed by the movie 'Edge Of Tomorrow'.
Bob Dylan's latest single "Murder Most Foul," his first original song in eight years, is also now the folk-rock icon's first No. 1 hit on a Billboard chart.
"Murder Most Foul" is a sweeping 17-minute ballad about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and according to Billboard, the song debuted at No. 1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales survey.
Billboard reports that the song hit 10,000 downloads in its first week and was streamed 1.8 million times in the U.S., which landed it at #5 on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart. The track also has 2.7 million views on YouTube since debuting on March 26.
Dylan has placed on a Billboard chart before. His iconic "Like a Rolling Stone" hit No. 2 on the genre-encompassing Billboard Hot 100 back in September 1965, as did "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" in May 1966. But he's never reached No. 1 on any individual genre chart until now.
Known for his satirical songs and their unreliable narrators, Randy Newman has released what may be his least untrustworthy, most reliably narrated number ever: "Stay Away," a short tune he put on social media at the behest of a radio station that had asked him to weigh in on life during the coronavirus crisis.
"I've been asked by KPCC [a public radio talk station in Pasadena] to say some words about social distancing, because of my scientific background," he says at the start of the clip, adding that "apparently there's some disease that's going around. Stay six feet away from people, wash your hands religiously and often, and don't touch your face."
And then Newman sets those sentiments to song - a love song, of sorts - that looks forward to all the things that can happen after the pandemic eases up (automobile purchases, for wanton cruising down Imperial Highway, presumably) while reiterating the things that can't happen now (skin contact, even among intimates). An unseen dog offers quiet support from near the piano, human/canine contact being a safer bet.
It is not the most tightly or classically structured song Newman has ever put out in his five-decade-plus career, but it will strike a chord among shut-in listeners. And although he is probably in no danger of joining the ranks of exclusively confessional songwriters, the reference to having been with a "Venus in sweatpants" for "30 years together" (the length of time Newman has been wed) does seem to reaffirm that he is writing out of character here. Newman even offers a PSA of sorts as an addendum.
Police in Crowley, La., had to apologize after using the siren from the horror franchise "The Purge" to signal a curfew during the city's quarantine.
In order to stop the spread of coronavirus, the city has implemented a 9 p.m. curfew for residents, but many found the noise chosen for the siren eerily familiar.
Crowley police drove around the city's Acadia Parish playing the noise to alert people to the nightly curfew, which lasts until 6 a.m.
Jimmy Broussard, the city's police chief, told KATC that he didn't know the noise was from "The Purge" movies, and doesn't plan to use any other type of siren in the future.
All "The Purge" horror movies feature a 12-hour window of time where all crime, no matter how violent, is made legal in the U.S. The siren is used to signal the beginning of the Purge. It can be heard in most of the franchise's trailers, including the most recent movie, "The First Purge."
Russia's defense minister called on law enforcement officials Wednesday to consider filing criminal charges against representatives of other countries where World War II memorials commemorating the actions of the Soviet Union are demolished.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made the appeal to the head of the Investigative Committee, Russia's top criminal investigation body.
Russia takes offense at any criticism of the Soviet role in the war. The Soviet Union had the most casualties, but its occupation of territory resulted in decades of Moscow-backed Communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
The issue is especially sensitive this year as Russia prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9.
In his communique to Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigative Committee, Shoigu cited last week's dismantling of a statue of Soviet general Ivan Konev in Prague.
A curious confluence of atmospheric events has produced the largest ozone hole ever measured over the Arctic.
A powerful polar vortex has trapped especially frigid air in the atmosphere above the North Pole, allowing high-altitude clouds to form in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer also sits. Within those clouds, chlorofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons already high in the atmosphere - gases used as refrigerants - react with ultraviolet rays from the sun to release chlorine and bromine atoms, which in turn react with and deplete the ozone.
Such conditions are more often seen over Antarctica, leading to a more frequent and much larger ozone hole in the Southern Hemisphere (SN: 12/14/16).
The ozone layer sits in the stratosphere, an atmospheric layer between about 10 and 50 kilometers above the ground, where it protects life on Earth from UV radiation from the sun. During the Southern Hemisphere's spring, as much as 70 percent of the ozone can disappear; in some places, the ozone concentration drops to zero.
During the Northern Hemisphere's spring, the Arctic ozone layer also tends to thin. But the Arctic's average winter temperatures are typically warmer than Antarctica's, so it's unusual for cold masses of air to be trapped around the pole for a month or longer and give the gases time to chip away at the ozone.
Former acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly's controversial trip to Guam over the weekend where he ridiculed the commander of a coronavirus-stricken U.S. aircraft carrier cost taxpayers at least $243,000, officials said on Wednesday.
Modly resigned on Tuesday after mounting criticism for firing and ridiculing Captain Brett Crozier of the Theodore Roosevelt who pleaded for help to contain a coronavirus outbreak onboard.
Modly quit only after mounting pressure from Congress and a backlash from the crew, and followed U.S. President Donald Trump (R-Draft Dodger)'s own suggestion on Monday that he might get involved in the matter.
Two U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Modly flew for about 35 hours on a C-37B, the military version of a Gulfstream jet.
The officials said that based on the flying time, the cost was $243,151.65.
When people in New Guinea started tending crops like yam and fruits around 8,000 years ago, they transformed nearly everything about life on the island. By around 5,000 years ago, people had begun settling in houses supported by wooden posts. The farmers developed new kinds of cutting tools, and they carved stone pestles to prepare yams, fruits, and nuts. They also wove brightly colored fabrics with dyed fibers, elaborate carved stone figures of birds, and traded across 800km of ocean for obsidian.
The details of daily life were uniquely New Guinea. But the big picture-more people, settled village life, new types of stone tools, and a sudden flourishing of symbolic art-might have been familiar to people from other early agricultural societies around the world. Together, those things are a bundle of cultural trends that archaeologists call Neolithic.
Until recently, archaeologists didn't think New Guinea had developed its own Neolithic culture. Instead, many researchers thought all the trappings of Neolithic village life had arrived around 3,200 years ago with the Lapita, a group of seafaring farmers who came to the island from Southeast Asia. That's because the few Neolithic artifacts that could be properly dated all seemed to come from after the Lapita arrived. But the people of the small highland village of Waim recently rewrote that narrative with a chance discovery during a local construction project.
While cutting into a hillside for construction, local workers unearthed stone woodworking tools and stone carvings: a human head with a bird perched on top and a fragment of a face. Archaeological excavations at the site yielded a snapshot of ancient New Guinean life.
Microscopic traces of food-starches from yams, bananas, palm tree nuts, and sugar cane-still clung to the surfaces of stone pestles. Ochre still filled the groove worn into a stone where ancient crafters had once pulled string through the ochre to dye it; modern people living near Waim recognized the tool at once, because they still use something quite similar to dye the string for colorful woven bags called bilums.
An image of a tardigrade with a psychedelic light show in its guts took home a top prize in an international photo competition. Inside the microscopic and endearingly tubby "water bear," tiny internal and external structures are illuminated in brilliant fluorescent colors that glow like a disco dance floor.
The photo was captured by Tagide deCarvalho, manager of the Keith Porter Imaging Facility (KPIF) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and it was a regional winner in the 2019 Olympus Image of the Year Award, contest representatives said in a statement.
Every year, the competition awards "the best in life science imaging worldwide," celebrating images that combine visual impact and artistic beauty while also demonstrating the photographer's proficiency with microscopy, according to the statement.
Other winning images of the year portray: a wasp's ovary and eggs; crystals in a beetle's wing case; fluorescent flower buds; and a magnified view of a green opal that resembles an aerial perspective of ocean waves crashing on a rocky coastline.
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