• Dr. Barry Herman, a school principal in New Haven, Connecticut, once bought candy for an ill teacher, then presented it to her, saying, “Something sweet for a sweet person.” Unfortunately, he had bought the candy at random, not bothering to read the label, which said, “Sour balls.”
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• Meredith Mendelson went to sea with Ocean Classroom when she was in high school. She worked hard both mentally and physically — going to sleep was no problem because she was so tired. One of the highlights of the trip was seeing a pod of humpback whales circling their ship. Unfortunately, this peaceful, quiet scene was ruined when several whale-watching boats came out from shore carrying tourists who wanted to see the whales. Their oohs, aahs, and other noises drove the whales away, as did their motors and diesel fuel. The tourists ruined the intimacy of the encounter with the whales for the sailors of Ocean Classroom. By the way, sometimes whales become entangled in nets and flotation devices left behind by fishermen, leading to death. In 2005 in Gordon’s Bag, South Africa, police diver Eben Lourens cut away most of the ropes entangling a southern right whale. National Sea Rescue Institute Gordon’s Bay Station Commander Stuart Burgess said, “We slowly approached [the whale] until we were about 30m away and then cut the engines. The whale swam up and gently bumped our rescue boat. At that point we got good visuals of the problem.” He added, “We could see the ropes and buoys entangled around the tail and the pieces trailing behind her.” Mr. Lourens was deployed ahead of the whale, and as the whale swam past him, he grabbed onto the fishing net and started cutting the ropes. He cut away most of the ropes and all of the flotation devices. Mr. Stuart said, “Although there is still some rope attached to the whale, we were unable to do more and we suspect that the remaining rope will fall free as it untangles.” Mr. Lourens said, “It’s not something I’d done before, so the adrenalin was pumping through me. But it was very satisfying afterwards.” After the rescue, the whale was swimming much more easily. Mr. Burgess said that commercial crayfishers often left their nets behind: “We find them all the time. In one afternoon recently we found four of them.” The nets are hazardous not only for whales, he said, but also for boats — especially at night. Freeing a whale can be very dangerous — even deadly — work. Nan Rice of the Save the Whales Campaign said, “It is very dangerous to attempt such a thing without the proper equipment and tools. The public must take note and not try and do this by themselves. You cannot swim up to a whale and try to cut it loose. It is extremely dangerous.” In New Zealand, a diver was killed during an attempted whale rescue, she said: “The whale slammed its tail down on top of him, and he was gone. I feel that human lives are just as valuable as those of animals, and I don’t think it is right to risk one for the other.”
• Civilians suffer during war, including the American Civil War. A hungry Virginian woman appeared at the Union camp of General Newton M. Curtis, asking for help. However, she was required to take an oath of allegiance to the Union cause before receiving food or other help. This she declined to do because both her husband and her son were fighting for the Confederate cause. Rather than letting her depart without help, General Curtis gave her money from his own pocket so she could buy food and other necessities.
• In July 1863, a 16-year-old Confederate woman named Cornelia Barrett did a remarkable good deed for a dying Yankee soldier. He requested that she write a letter for him to his fiancée. He also requested that she send his fiancée a lock of his hair and his gold ring. She did as he asked, and a few months later she received a letter from the soldier’s sweetheart, thanking her for her kindness.
Performed by an animated band, this song spent four weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was also the number-one single of 1969. What is the name of this sweet AM-radio hit?
Written by Paul Simon and released in 1968, this song segues into "Bookends", on both the album and the B-side of the "Mrs. Robinson" single. What is the title of this song with the refrain "How terribly strange, To be seventy ..."?
"Old Friends" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their fourth studio album, Bookends (1968). On the album, “Old Friends" segues into the following song Bookends Theme (Reprise) with a single high, sustained note on the strings. "Old Friends" and "Bookends" were placed on the B-side of the "Mrs. Robinson" single, issued on April 5, 1968 by Columbia Records.
"Old Friends" was recorded after production assistant John Simon's departure from Columbia, and was among the last tracks recorded for Bookends, completed alongside the final "Bookends Theme" on March 8, 1968.
"Old Friends" paints a portrait of two old men reminiscing on the years of their youth. The two men sit "on a park bench like bookends," and ponder how strange it feels to be nearing the end of their lifetime. In "Old Friends," the title generally conveys the introduction or ending of sections, and the song builds upon a "rather loose formal structure" that at first includes an acoustic guitar and soft mood. An additional element is introduced midway through the track: an orchestral arrangement conducted by Jimmie Haskell, dominated by strings and glockenspiel notes. Horns and other instruments are added when the duo cease singing, creating a turbulence that builds to a single high, sustained note on the strings. The song then segues into the final song of side one, the Bookends Theme (Reprise).
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Can you imagine us
Years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventySource
Dave replied:
Old Friends. I had to look it up, then found it on YouTube. I don’t remember hearing it before. The version I heard of from the 1980 Concert in Central Park (a decade after their first breakup). The duo’s reunion was short circuited by Paul Simon’s simmering resentment because he thought people gave Art Garfunkel entirely too much credit for singing the songs that Simon wrote. So, except for a few isolated reunions, Simon carried on alone with his own fine singing voice.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
I don’t know and am guessing it’s “Old Friends.” It makes sense to me.
Warm and dry, again, with big winds predicted today until tomorrow. Wish it was rain instead.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Old Friends
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Old Friends
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Old Friends
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
Thanks for using my trivia question today! The answer is "Old Friends."
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“Dorothy-Jane tackles the confusion, fear and shame of sexual abuse and hopes to empower victims to speak out.
“She writes from personal experience, in this instance from the perspective of being the witness to her husband’s sexual abuse of a young child. She says, ‘It was a shocking discovery as the child was a frequent visitor in our household. I was also shocked to find out after that this was not the first time the child had been in the grasp of my husband’s behaviour.’
“Although this happened in 2016 and Dorothy-Jane’s now ex-husband is in prison, she is only now beginning to understand the level of control offenders have over their victims and the complex layers of these abusive relationships. She explains, ‘Initially I wondered why the child hadn’t told me or her parents that this was happening. Later I found out that my husband had told her that people see it as wrong and if they found out he would go to jail!’”
Dorothy-Jane (vocal, harmonica)
Ali Penney (keys)
Ben Hoare (guitars)
Matt Nightingale (bass)
Jack Barnard (drums)
Guest musicians: John Mackey (saxophone).
Chorus of voices: Johnny Huckle, Reidar Jorgensen, Krista Kamprad Grunreich, Finn Kamprad, Alison Penney, Rachel Thorne
Must be summer already - the ice cream trucks are rolling - this year we're being treated to 'Turkey In The Straw' and 'La Cucaracha'.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 3/12/21) is Dr. Anthony Fauci.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 1/25/21) are Halsey, and Penn & Teller.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Young Rock', followed by a FRESH'Kenan', then a RERUN'This Is Us', followed by a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 3/3/21) are Leslie Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, and Nicky Jam & Romeo Santos.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/24/21) are Ice T, Tracey Wigfield, and Raghav Mehrotra.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/10/21) is Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Pooch Perfect', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'Soul Of A Nation'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Bob Odenkirk, Nicole Byer, and Tate McRae.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Resident', followed by a RERUN'The Masked Singer'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
[12:00AM] THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
[4:00AM] THE OUTSIDERS (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Chrisley Knows Best', another 'Chrisley Knows Best', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', and way too much 'Chrisley Knows Best'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', 'Hall Of Flame: Top 100 Comedy Central Roast Moments' (part 1), followed by the FRESH'Hall Of Flame: Top 100 Comedy Central Roast Moments' (part 2).
The Daily Show is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout', followed by the movie 'Deadpool 2', then a FRESH'Mayans MC'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'Assembly Required'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[8:15am] The Devil's Rejects
[10:45am] Scream 4
[1:15pm] Battle: Los Angeles
[3:45pm] Escape From L.A.
[6:00pm] Transporter 2
[8:00pm] Cliffhanger
[10:30pm] Transporter 2
[1:00am] Ghostbusters II
[3:30am] Ghostbusters
[5:45am] I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 9:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[10:00am] a few good men
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order: criminal intent
[2:00am] columbo
[3:45am] columbo
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds', followed by the movie 'Salt', then the movie 'I, Robot'.
For the first time in over 80 years of surveys on the subject, new Gallup data analysis released March 29 found that just 47% of American adults said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque in 2020—the first time that less than half of respondents reported membership at such houses of worship.
Gallup has documented a decline for decades, with particularly steep drops apparent in recent years. When the analytics company first asked about church, synagogue or mosque membership in 1937, 73% of respondents said they belonged to one. (Gallup’s question does not explicitly include other faith centers, such as Buddhist, Sikh or Hindu temples or meeting houses.)
That percentage stayed around the same until the turn of the century; in 1999, 70% of U.S. adults still said they belonged to one of the three. But, based on annual aggregated data from two surveys Gallup asks each year, by the mid-2000s it had dropped to around 60% and by 2018 it was 50%.
Gallup found that the decline in membership is “primarily a function of the increasing number of Americans who express no religious preference.” Between 1998 and 2000, an average of 8% of Americans say they did not identify with any religion, per the company’s biannual surveys of U.S. religious attitudes and practices, according to a three-year aggregate of Gallup’s survey data. Just twenty years later, between 2018 and 2020, that figure had risen to 21%.
But Gallup has also seen a decline in house of worship attendance among Americans who do identify with having a religious preference. Between 1998 and 2000, an average of 73% of Americans who identified as religious said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque. Between 2018 and 2020, an average of just 60% of religious Americans said the same.
In the latest news of consolidation in the literary world, Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate)’s News Corp. announced Monday it’s buying Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s book-publishing division, which includes such blockbuster releases as J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and George Orwell’s “1984.”
News Corp. owns HarperCollins, one of the industry’s largest book publishers, which will operate the division, called HMH Books & Media, the company said Monday. The announced purchase price was $349 million.
A HarperCollins spokesperson declined Monday to say whether the company planned layoffs, saying it was focused on “closing the deal” and that “no decisions have been made.”
In November, Penguin Random House announced it was acquiring rival Simon & Schuster for $2.2 billion, shrinking the so-called Big Five of American publishing — which also includes HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group and Macmillan — to four.
Houghton Mifflin, which says it serves 90% of U.S. schools, said the sale will allow it to focus on its K-12 education business, and it will put more emphasis on digital sales. The company has struggled financially for years and will use some of the sale’s proceeds to pay down debt.
In response to widespread backlash about a requirement that nominees for the 93rd Oscars participate in the ceremony in person or not at all, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is planning to offer nominees new accommodations.
In recent weeks, many nominees based outside of the United States have been apoplectic about missing out on Oscar night altogether as COVID-19 surges in Europe and other parts of the world sparked renewed health concerns and travel restrictions. In some places, travel must now be "business essential" to obtain a travel visa, and in other places visa offices themselves have closed down.
Additionally, both nominees and the distributors of their films have expressed concerns about the quarantine requirements on both sides of travel, which would come with significant financial burdens for one party or the other.
The Academy has apparently heard these worries, as all nominees have been directly contacted and invited to participate in a Tuesday morning Zoom "conversation with show producers" Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins, during which they will be given "updates about the show," including options to participate remotely, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Tribeca Festival will return as an in-person event, a hopeful sign that coronavirus may be loosening its grip on cultural life in America. The announcement comes as vaccination levels are rising and New York City is moving, however haltingly, back toward a pre-pandemic sense of normality.
“As New York emerges from the shadow of COVID-19, it seems just right to bring people together again in-person for our 20th anniversary festival,” said Robert De Niro, the festival’s co-founder, in a statement.
There will still be concessions to the public health crisis that caused Tribeca organizers to scrap their initial plans for a festival last year and rejigger it as a digital event. In 2021, the 12-day festival will be an outdoor celebration of movies and media. Tribeca said it will work with the New York State Department of Health to ensure all public gatherings comply with COVID-19 safety protocols.
The events will take place from June 9-20, roughly two months after they are usually held, and the festival will unfold across more than just the small strip of lower Manhattan that lends Tribeca its name. The festival organizers say that screenings and talks will be held across New York’s five boroughs, including at Brookfield Place New York, the Pier 57 Rooftop, The Battery, Hudson Yards, Empire Outlets in Staten Island and The MetroTech Commons in Brooklyn.
A group that opposes former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) is dialing up the pressure on GOP lawmakers who objected to the certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
The Republican Accountability Project is spending $1 million on a new round of TV and digital ads criticizing six GOP members of Congress the group says “encouraged a deadly attack” on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as Electoral College votes were being counted.
The ads target Reps. Kevin McCarthy, R-Creep., who is the House GOP leader, Marjorie Traitor Greene, R-Ga., Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Louie Gohmert, R-Tex., Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., and Mo Brooks, R-Ala., who is running for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat.
“We remember how Kevin McCarthy lied about the 2020 election results,” the narrator of the ad that focuses on the California Republican says. “We remember that he voted to overturn the will of American voters.”
“He hopes we’ll forget. We won’t,” the narrator continues. “If Kevin McCarthy won’t support democracy, we won’t support him.”
Garret Miller (R-Sucker) didn't speak to the law enforcement officers who arrested him on charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol in January, but the T-shirt he was wearing at his Dallas home that day sent a clear and possibly incriminating message.
Miller's shirt had a photograph of former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up), and it said “Take America Back” and “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021,” federal prosecutors noted in a court filing Monday.
Prosecutors are urging a judge to keep Miller jailed while he awaits trial on charges stemming from the Jan. 6 riots in the nation's capital.
After Miller posted a selfie showing himself inside the Capitol building, another Facebook user wrote, “bro you got in?! Nice!" Miller replied, “just wanted to incriminate myself a little lol,” prosecutors said.
Miller joined the mob that breached the Capitol building and later threatened to kill New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a Capitol police officer, authorities said.
Chicago police have moved to prevent officers from continuing to stop a man who sued the department last week, alleging that he’d been detained more than 60 times in the last 15 years by cops who mistook him for man with the same name and birth date named in an arrest warrant downstate.
After Darren Cole sued the city Thursday, Chicago police officials contacted Marion County authorities, who withdrew the warrant, according to Marion Moore, a lawyer for the city, who spoke at an online federal court hearing Monday. The department also sent a message to all officers indicating that Cole, 50, should not be stopped on that warrant, lawyers said at the hearing. Those messages were also to be read out at roll calls for several days, Moore said.
U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland said, “Mr. Cole, I hope that this gives you some relief. I am sorry to you for the last several years ... and I hope you get relief and you’re able to venture freely out into the world.”
The Tribune reported last week on the the lawsuit alleging that Chicago police — during stops that started in 2006 — had punched Cole in the face, pointed guns at him and slammed him against the hood of a vehicle. While the stops did not lead to charges, Cole has “frequently been held upwards of four to six hours,” the lawsuit states.
The stops appear to have resulted from another Darren Cole being named in a warrant in Marion County for failure to appear in court after driving on a suspended license, according to court documents and the lawsuit.
Customs officials in Ecuador discovered 185 baby tortoises packed inside a suitcase that was being sent from the Galápagos Islands to the mainland on Sunday.
The reptiles had been wrapped in plastic and were found during a routine inspection at the main airport on the island of Baltra.
Ten of them had died, officials said.
One of the biggest threats to Galápagos tortoises is illegal trading for animal collectors and exotic pet markets.
Officials combatting wildlife trafficking say hatchling-sized juveniles can fetch sums of more than $5,000 (£3,600) per animal.
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