• As a freshman in high school, Chris Crutcher, who is now an author of books for young adults, played a mean trick on the most unpopular girl in his class — he made her the freshman candidate for the Cascade High School Carnival Queen. Normally, of course, honors such as this go to the most popular girls at school, but Chris had a friend nominate the unpopular girl for Carnival Queen and he got all his friends to vote for her, and so she was the freshman candidate for Carnival Queen. Of course, the freshman class advisor realized what had happened, and he did not want the unpopular girl to be hurt by not having a date to the Carnival Dance and by being ignored at the Carnival Dance, so he called a meeting of all the freshman boys and told them exactly what they were to do at the dance. First, each of the boys had to draw a number, and whichever boy drew the number 1 had to invite the unpopular girl to the dance. In addition, each boy had to dance three times with the unpopular girl, and he made it clear to each boy that any boy who danced only twice with her would regret it. (This was in the days when teachers were respected, when parents did not sue schools, and when corporal punishment was not only allowed but encouraged by everyone except the students.) At the dance, the boys did each dance three dances with the unpopular girl, and during one of the times that Chris was dancing with her, she told him, “I know this was a joke — but this is still the best night of my life.” At the time, Chris realized only how cruel his joke had been. Much later, he felt admiration for this teenage girl who had had a cruel joke played on her but had still managed to turn it into something good.
• When he was very small, children’s book author and artist Tomie dePaola desperately wanted to learn to read. In fact, he almost decided not to attend kindergarten when he learned that he wouldn’t be taught to read until the first grade — he attended kindergarten only after being told that he had to in order to be admitted to the first grade. Unfortunately, his first-grade book wasn’t very exciting. It was filled with sentences such as these: “See Dick run. Run, Dick, run. Run, run, run.” The kind of book that young Tomie wanted to learn to read began with sentences such as this: “Once upon a time, in a deep dark wood stood the cottage of the woodcutter.” But he needed to learn to read because only then could he get a library card, and so he took the book home that Friday without permission. Because he had “stolen” the book, his mother made him confess his misdeed and apologize to the teacher the following Monday. But then a wonderful thing happened. Tomie had learned to read the book over the weekend, and he read it to his teacher. She was so impressed that she gave him a library card, and Tomie was on his way to reading books that began with sentences such as this: “Once upon a time, in a deep dark wood stood the cottage of the woodcutter.”
• You don’t have to be a Ph.D. to be a “professor.” When African-American (and world-class) artist Jacob Lawrence was growing up in Harlem in the first half of the 20th century — a time when white educators mostly ignored African-American history, African-American biography, and African-American heroes — he became interested in his heritage. People told him to go to the lectures of Professor Seyfert. Mr. Seyfert, an African-American, earned his education through reading books, not through attending college lectures, and he earned his money through working as a carpenter. Eager to share his knowledge, he gave exciting lectures about African-American accomplishments wherever he could: the YMCA, the public library on 135th Street, etc. Later, Mr. Lawrence created many works of art about such African-American heroes as Harriet Tubman and General Toussaint L’Ouverture.
Debuting in 1958, this American animated anthropomorphic virtual band produced two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, won five Grammy Awards, scored three certified platinum albums and also had one of the best-selling singles of all time with 5 million physical copies sold. What is the name of this group invented by novelist William Saroyan's first cousin?
Plutus is the Greek god of wealth. He is either the son of Demeter and Iasion, with whom she lay in a thrice-ploughed field; or the child of Hades and Persephone, or the son of the fortune goddess Tyche.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Pluto is the Greek god of abundance or wealth.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
Plutus is the Greek god of WEALTH, not to be confused with Trumpus Minimus, the gop-er golden-statue/god of shit.
Roy, my favorite libtard snowflake friend in E. Texas wrote:
Plutus is worshipped by folks like Bezos, Gates, and Scrooge McDuck, for his holiness is the Greek God of Wealth.
Alan J answered:
Abundance or Wealth.
Mac Mac responded:
Greek god of wealth
Randall replied:
WEALTH
mj wrote:
As those who would rule based on his purview are known to us
As plutocrats, it's obvious he's the god of wealth.
Cal in Vermont said:
Wealth. Which is where the word "plutocrat" comes from.
Jacqueline wrote:
A God I've never met...the God of wealth.
Deborah, the Master Gardener said:
Plutus was the Greek god of wealth. I’d forgotten about him from high school Greek studies.
Pleasantly seasonal. Spring may well be my favorite NorCal season after all.
Daniel in The City answered:
Wealth
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Plutus is the Greek god of wealth.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Wealth
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Another day in the life/death of america; another guy; another gun; another field of bodies; another press conference with little or no facts/answers, only platitudes, deflections, non-answers; another day of hearing “STAY AWAY”, “IT IS DANGEROUS”, “WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU -- FROM ‘INFORMATION’ THAT WE DO NOT GIVE YOU”, “WE DO NOT WANT ANY NEW WITNESSES”, “NO CAMERAS”, “WE WILL CONTROL THE STORY, BUT NOT THE CRIME”, “WE HAVE GATHERED ALL THESE EXPERTS TO BE SURE THAT YOU WILL ONLY HEAR OUR MESSAGE”; tomorrow will be ANOTHER DAY.
NOTE: I tuned in to the live news reports, as the first police press briefing was starting. Almost immediately, I was captured by the information that was being given, i.e. almost none, better information was provided by YouTube and eyewitness interviews than the officials in the “PRESS BRIEFING”. It reminded me of the old, black man who was trying to vote in the south, before the civil rights act was passed and then discarded by the SCOTUS, “I can not read the words in the the document you gave me to read, but I can hear the words you are saying between those lines: “You will never get to vote here!’
In later news commentary, the reporters said similar things. This “PRESS BRIEFING” was a well-rehearsed exercise in saying nothing, but it was good practice for any future “PRESS BRIEFING”.
Hadn't heard the defective rooster in a few days, but he was back and in fine voice all night.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Dana Carvey and Imagine Dragons.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Bear Grylls and Middle Kids.
NBC starts the night wtih a FRESH'Young Rock', followed by a FRESH'Kenan', then a FRESH'This Is Us', followed by a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Chelsea Handler, Russell Brand, and Mary Beth Barone.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Sebastian Stan, Baratunde Thurston, and Ash Soan.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Ayesha Curry.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'To Tell The Truth', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a RERUN'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'Soul Of A Nation'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/17/21) are Anthony Mackie, Edgar Ramírez, and Tune-Yards.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'Superman & Lois'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'Holmes Family Effect'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Police Academy', followed by the movie 'Back To The Future', then the movie 'Back To The Future Part II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] HOOSIERS
[10:30PM] THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
[1:30AM] HOOSIERS
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has a FRESH'Below Deck Sailing Yacht', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has an hour of old 'The Office', followed by 2 hours of old 'Drunk History', and another hour of old 'The Office'.
RERUNThe Daily Show.
FX has the movie 'Guardians Of The Galaxy', followed by the movie 'Thor', then a FRESH'Mayans MC'.
History has a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', then a FRESH'Assembly Required'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Monty Python And The Holy Grail
[8:00am] Men At Work
[10:15am] The Bad News Bears
[12:45pm] Blues Brothers 2000
[3:30pm] Ferris Bueller's Day Off
[6:00pm] Back To School
[8:00pm] Fast Times At Ridgemont High
[10:00pm] The Outsiders
[12:00am] Back To School
[2:00am] Fast Times At Ridgemont High
[4:00am] The Outsiders (ALL TIMES ET)
Legendary singer Linda Ronstadt has sold her recorded music assets to Irving Azoff’s new venture, Iconic Artists Group. According to the announcement, Iconic will partner with Ronstadt and her team (specifically longtime manager John Boylan and personal assistant Janet Stark) to market her catalog.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, beyond a rep noting that the deal encompasses the masters Ronstadt owns and the royalties from the ones she does not — it was not immediately clear which masters from the singer’s 50-plus-year career she owns — and that although Ronstadt’s name and likeness are not included in the deal, Iconic may use them to promote the catalog.
Publishing is not included in the deal; the overwhelming majority of Ronstadt’s hits, including Roy Orbison’s “Blue Bayou,” Eagles’ “Desperado,” and The Everly Brothers’ “When Will I Be Loved,” are covers.
Ronstadt, 74, becomes the most recent artist to sell off her intellectual property and the latest deal for Azoff’s company, which jumped into the booming catalog-acquisition business relatively late but has struck deals in recent weeks with the Beach Boys and David Crosby. Along with Ronstadt, those musicians are long familiar to Azoff, an artist manager and executive who made his name on the Southern California rock of the early 1970s with the Eagles and others.
Ronstadt enjoyed her first hit in 1967 as lead singer of the Stone Poneys with “Different Drum,” a song written by Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, although her solo career did not truly catch fire until the mid-1970s. She ended up becoming one of the most iconic singers of that decade, due in no small part to her ability to spot suitable songs and musicians — the original lineup of the Eagles first united as her backing band in 1971. She also showed significant savvy throughout her career in other ways, redefining her career by recording Spanish-language, big-band and children’s albums long before they became common for mainstream artists; earlier this month, she won her 11th Grammy Award for Best Music Film for her documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.”
William Shatner is celebrating his 90th birthday in a way that would impress even Captain Kirk.
On Monday, StoryFile — an upcoming interactive storytelling app — announced that the iconic actor/writer/director is joining the company as a brand ambassador. Shatner who's also marking a big birthday milestone Monday, is the first person to work with StoryFile Life to create an AI-powered interactive conversational video that his family and friends can interact with for years to come, available beginning May 2021.
"This is for all my children and all my children's children and all my children's loved ones and all the loved ones of the loved ones," said Shatner. "That's my gift to you down through time."
Storyfile is set to launch in June 2021. The technology used to to deliver interactive storytelling includes the patented "Artificially Intelligent Interactive Memories System" on Conversa, which uses natural language processing and other innovative technologies.
Attending Elton John’s long-running Oscar-night party has always been one of the hardest tickets to get. Now you can go — if you have $20.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation is inviting everyone to an hourlong, virtual pre-show Oscar party special hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and with a performance by Dua Lipa.
Tickets for the April 25 event are $19.99 and are available via Ticketmaster. Proceeds will go to young people at risk and living with HIV all over the world.
The foundation is one of the leading independent AIDS organizations in the world. One of its fundraising highlights is the star-studded Oscar viewing show, with a dinner and an auction. This time, a pre-show will be available to ticket buyers.
The special will be hosted four times in four different time zones and each will accommodate 100,000 viewers, meaning a total of 400,000 ticket buyers are allowed access.
David Hasselhoff is going meta in Ze Network, a new German TV series in which he will star as Hollywood actor David Hasselhoff.
The plot of the dark comedy sees the Hoff cast in a theater play in Germany only to be caught up in an international conspiracy of former Cold War assassins.
Ze Network will be the first project under CBS Studios' new first-look international TV agreement with Berlin production company Syrreal Entertainment. Ze Network will premiere on TV Now, the German subscription video on demand platform run by RTL Group.
RTL has a long history with Hasselhoff. His 1980s action series Knight Rider was a huge hit for the network and became an iconic show in Germany. Hasselhoff later capitalized on that success to launch an unlikely pop music career in Germany-speaking Europe. After the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, Hasselhoff's song "Looking for Freedom," based on an old German hit parade tune, became an anthem for the newly reunited country.
Syrreal, headed by Christian Alvart and Sigi Kamml are best known internationally for their German crime series Dogs of Berlin on Netflix.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Sock Puppet) incited widespread outrage when he said recently that he would have been more afraid of the rioters who rampaged the Capitol on Jan. 6 had they been members of Black Lives Matter and antifa.
But his revealing and incendiary comment, which quickly prompted accusations of racism, came as no surprise to those who have followed Johnson’s career in Washington or back home in Wisconsin. He has become the Republican Party’s foremost amplifier of conspiracy theories and disinformation now that Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) is banned from social media and largely avoiding appearances on cable television.
In recent months, Johnson has sown doubts about President Joe Biden’s victory, argued that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an armed insurrection, promoted discredited COVID-19 treatments, said he saw no need to get the coronavirus vaccine himself, and claimed that the United States could have ended the pandemic a year ago with the development of a generic drug if the government had wanted that to happen.
Johnson has also become the leading Republican proponent of a revisionist effort to deny the motives and violence of the mob that breached the Capitol. At a Senate hearing to examine the events of that day, Johnson read into the record an account from a far-right website attributing the violence to “agents-provocateurs” and “fake Trump protesters.” On Saturday, he told a conference of conservative political organizers in Wisconsin that “there was no violence on the Senate side, in terms of the chamber.” In fact, Trump supporters stormed the chamber shortly after senators were evacuated.
His continuing assault on the truth, often under the guise of simply “asking questions” about established facts, is helping to diminish confidence in U.S. institutions at a perilous moment, when the health and economic well-being of the nation relies heavily on mass vaccinations, and when faith in democracy is shaken by right-wing falsehoods about voting.
A top intelligence official under former President Donald Trump said on Friday that the government plans to release a report declassifying numerous UFO sightings.
"There are a lot more sightings than have been made public," former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
"Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain," he continued. "Movements that are hard to replicate that we don't have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom."
Ratcliffe's remarks come months after the Pentagon released three videos of "unidentified aerial phenomena" - more commonly referred to as UFOs - after years of speculation about them.
People whose ancestry comes from Southeast Asia's eastern islands carry extensive evidence of interbreeding with Denisovans. There are, however, no such traces of three other members of the human family known to have lived in this area: Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, and the recently discovered Homo luzonensis. Nevertheless, the presence of these other human species probably left an important legacy in certain large animals' survival.
The discovery that most modern humans inherited some genes from Neanderthals sent shock waves through anthropology. This was followed by evidence of more localized inheritance from Denisovans, a branch of early humanity known only from a handful of bones and DNA preserved in cave sediments. The obvious question was whether any other ancestral branches of the human family live on in us. Some evidence of this has been found, but we know almost nothing about who they were or what occurred.
One of the most promising places to seek such a contribution to the human genome is in the islands that now form eastern Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Guinea. Two human species, H. floresiensis (nicknamed "hobbits") and H. luzonensis are only known from the islands that give them their name, and probably survived long enough to encounter the first modern human arrivals. Widely traveled H. erectus was once called Java man after its initial discovery site.
The fact no surviving DNA has been recovered from any of these species' fossils presents an obstacle to detecting their legacy within us. However, Dr João Teixeira of the University of Adelaide compared the genomes of people of Australian and various island heritages with those from the Asian mainland. These were analyzed in search of sequences with traits indicating they might be from a branch of the human family that diverged from modern humans much earlier than the Denisovans, before interbreeding brought it back.
In Nature Ecology and Evolution, Teixeira and co-authors announce this method revealed no signs of what they call “super-archaic” hominin DNA, no hobbit-DNA in the inhabitants of Flores, for example. On the other hand, the study confirmed previous reports the world's highest proportion of Denisovan genetics is among Indigenous Australians and New Guinea natives, with nearby islands not far behind.
Changes are coming to the iconic board game Monopoly: For the first time in more than 85 years, 16 of the game's cards will be replaced, Hasbro announced last week. Monopoly will let consumers vote on its new Community Chest Cards, so that the cards better reflect what community means to people in 2021.
"Covering topics like beauty contests, holiday funds, and life insurance, there is no denying the Monopoly game's Community Chest Cards are long overdue for a refresh," Hasbro said in a press release. "And, coming out of the tumultuous year of 2020, the term 'community' has taken on a whole new meaning."
So, the "Second place in a beauty contest" card could switch to "shop local." Other options for the new cards include "Rescue a puppy" and "Help your neighbors clean up their yard after a storm."
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