• In 2005, British pop singer Natasha Bedingfield became famous as a result of her Top 40 songs "Unwritten" and "These Words (I Love You, I Love You)." But when did she know that she was really famous? Actually, in 2008. She needed to get into a building in New York that had very tight security. She had forgotten her passport, but she did have a copy of Rolling Stone. She says, "I just opened up my Rolling Stone and said, 'See the person in white? That's me!' And they let me in."
• Leo Slezak spent a short time in the Austrian army, then went on to fame and fortune as an operatic tenor. He gave his former commanding officer a photograph of himself as Othello, and inscribed it, "In remembrance of the recruit of the 17th Rifle Battalion, who rose to the command of the Venetian fleet."
• Run-DMC's first hit was "It's Like That." At the time, both Run and DMC were college students at different schools. Run was walking on campus at LaGuardia College when "It's Like That" began playing on the radio. Excited, he caused a scene by shouting, over and over, "That's my song! That's my song!"
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• Classical pianist Christopher O'Riley sometimes plays music other than classical during his concerts and during From the Top, his weekly National Public Radio program. For example, at concerts he will play works by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and British experimental rock group Radiohead and by French composer Claude Debussy and English singer-songwriter Nick Drake. When he plays Radiohead on his NPR program, he sometimes gets interesting telephone calls. Mr. O'Riley says, "I would play 'True Love Waits' or 'Karma Police' and announce that it was by Radiohead," says O'Riley. "People would call in and ask, 'Who is Mr. Head, and where can I find more of his music?' They assumed it was classical music because I was playing it. We also heard from Radiohead fans who became Mozart fans. They would say, 'Mozart, I always wanted to check him out."
• The B-52s recorded "Love Shack" on their 1989 album Cosmic Thing and sure enough, 19 years later, in 2008, they recorded the album Funplex. Singer Fred Schneider admits, "We're not exactly the most prolific group." (In 1992, they recorded the studio album Good Stuff.) Despite not producing a lot of new music, the B-52's retain their old fans and they have acquired new fans, thanks in large part to YouTube. "I'm happy doing the new stuff, and the response to the new stuff, because of YouTube, they already know it," Mr. Schneider says. "In the past, they used to clap politely, and then you'd play an older song and they'd go wild." The B-52's started making music over 30 years ago in Athens, Georgia. Mr. Schneider jokes, "I'm just lucky. I haven't got a skill, so as long as I can sing and stuff, I'm OK."
• One problem with modern celebrity is that going out in public can be dangerous. Tegan Quin of Sara and Tegan fame remembers being able to sign autographs for hours with no problems, but then things changed with greater fame. Tegan says, "That's the one thing I regret. The bigger you get, the less you can connect with people." Still, at times Tegan can act like a normal person. In 2008, she got on a public bus and was recognized by a few girls who asked her, "Why are you on the bus?" Tegan had the perfect answer: "I don't drive!"
Born Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio, this American singer, actor, and television host made his mark in Westerns. By what name is he more famously known?
The chickadees are a group of North American birds in the tit family included in the genus Poecile. Species found in North America are referred to as chickadees, while other species in the genus are called tits. They are small-sized birds overall, usually having the crown of the head and throat patch distinctly darker than the body. They are at least 6 to 14 centimeters (2.4 to 5.5 inches) in size.
Their name reputedly comes from the fact that their calls make a distinctive "chick-a-dee-dee-dee", though their normal call is actually fee-bee, and the famous chick-a-dee-dee-dee is an alarm call. The number of "dees" depends on the predator.
The Chickadee (specifically the black-capped chickadee Poecile atricapillus, formerly Parus atricapillus) is the official bird for the state of Massachusetts. Maine has named the chickadee as the official state bird as well.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Chicadee
Mark. said:
Chickadee.
Alan J answered:
The Black Capped Chickadee.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The black-capped chickadee.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Chickadee
Mac Mac responded:
Chickadee
Roy, still social distancing in Tyler, TX wrote:
The official state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts is the black-capped chickadee. This little guy is a member of the titmouse family (also known as the titmouse, tomtit, and the dickybird). A common backyard bird, black-capped chickadees inhabit the northern two thirds of the United States and much of Canada .
Dave responded:
Black Capped Chickadee. A small bird common to the northern half of the United States, they are also found throughout most of Canada and parts of Alaska. When refilling the bird feeder, a Chickadee will likely be the last bird to leave at my approach, doesn't retreat very far, and usually is the first bird to return to the feeder when I walk a few feet away.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Black-capped Chickadee
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
Maybe the black-capped chickadee?
We preserved 9 pints of strawberry jam (adding some balsamic vinegar; it accentuates the strawberry flavor and delivers a robust taste overall, and you can't taste it) and 6 half-pints of cherry preserves. That stuff is so good on crepes. Local produce is so good.
Jacqueline said:
Black Capped Chickadee.
DJ Useo answered:
I used to enjoy regular bird-watching, so I actually know it's the "Chickadee".
I still have a pair of binocs that I watch birds with off our second story back patio.
Saw a pair of red cardinals only feet away last week. Neat-o.
Daniel in The City replied:
Chickadee
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I'm not normally a Sherman fan, but the attached seems appropriate.
In response to this--Trump calls Jared Kushner 'my star' after Kushner announces he's working with law enforcement to 'fix' policing--Aviel Roshwald said "There is no problem under the sun this gifted young genius cannot flail around in the vicinity of."
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We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Chris Wallace.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, is Josh Groban.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'World Of Dance'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Jonathan Van Ness, Christian Slater, and Sia.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers is Brad Paisley.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 4/7/20) are Adam Rodriguez and Kelsey Cook.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'The Conners', followed by another RERUN'The Conners', then a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by another RERUN'Modern Family', then a FRESH'The Genetic Detective'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel is Josh Gad.
The CW offers a FRESH'DC's Stargirl', followed by the FRESH'Jim Gaffigan: Noble Ape'.
Faux has a RERUN'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a RERUN'Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers 'NOS4A2', followed by the movie 'Beetlejuice', then the movie 'The Karate Kid'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Through the Looking Glass
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Die Is Cast
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Explorers
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Family Business
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Shakaar
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Facets
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Adversary
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Way of the Warrior
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Way of the Warrior
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Hippocratic Oath
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Visitor
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Indiscretion
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rejoined
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Starship Down
[8:00PM] GLADIATOR
[11:30PM] GLADIATOR
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Adversary
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE TVPG - The Way of the Warrior
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Way of the Warrior (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', another 'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Wolf Of Wall Street', followed by the movie 'The Wolf Of Wall Street', again.
History has 'Lost Gold Or World War II', another 'Lost Gold Of World War II', followed by a FRESH'Lost Gold Of World War II', and 'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Pop Goes the Easel
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - Sock-a-Bye-Baby
[7:00A] Dark Shadows
[9:30A] Kick-Ass 2
[12:00P] That '70s Show
[12:30P] That '70s Show
[1:00P] That '70s Show
[1:30P] That '70s Show
[2:00P] That '70s Show
[2:30P] That '70s Show
[3:00P] Parks and Recreation
[3:30P] Parks and Recreation
[4:00P] Parks and Recreation
[4:30P] Parks and Recreation
[5:00P] Parks and Recreation
[5:30P] Parks and Recreation
[6:00P] Parks and Recreation
[6:30P] Parks and Recreation
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[7:30P] Parks and Recreation
[8:00P] Parks and Recreation
[8:30P] Parks and Recreation
[9:00P] Parks and Recreation
[9:30P] Parks and Recreation
[10:00P] Parks and Recreation
[10:30P] Parks and Recreation
[11:00P] Parks and Recreation
[11:30P] Parks and Recreation
[12:00A] Parks and Recreation
[12:30A] Parks and Recreation
[1:00A] Spider-Man 3
[4:00A] Dark Shadows (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[6:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[7:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[7:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[8:00am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[8:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[9:00am] jonestown: terror in the jungle - Making Of A Madman
[10:00am] jonestown: terror in the jungle - On The Run
[11:00am] jonestown: terror in the jungle - Under Siege
[12:00pm] jonestown: terror in the jungle - Death In The Promised Land
[1:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Meets The Candidate
[2:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Meets The Candidate
[3:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Psychic
[4:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Meets Dale The Whale
[5:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To The Carnival
[6:00pm] monk - Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk
[7:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And Sharona
[8:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Dog
[9:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes Camping
[10:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Is The Best Man
[11:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Badge
[12:00am] monk - Mr. Monk And The End, Part I
[1:00am] monk - Mr. Monk And The End, Part II
[2:00am] the split - Episode 5
[3:20am] the split - Episode 6
[4:40am] the andy griffith show
[5:15am] the andy griffith show
[5:50am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Edge Of Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'The Fifth Element'.
The real Space Force may be going down in flames against the fictional Space Force: According to the Hollywood Reporter, the newly founded military branch appears to be losing a trademark battle with the Netflix comedy show of the same name.
Netflix "has outmaneuvered the U.S. government to secure trademark rights to 'Space Force' in Europe, Australia, Mexico and elsewhere," according to the Reporter, while the Air Force-under which the Space Force is organized-simply has a pending application stateside. This mostly has ramifications for merch. Consumers won't have trouble discerning between the military branch and Space Force when it comes to which one stars Steve Carrell, but they might not be able who is selling a line of Space Force shirts.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office relies on a "first-to-use" system when assigning rights, and Netflix has been submitting trademark applications for the Space Force across the globe since the start of 2019. On the other hand, the Air Force filed a trademark application on the basis of intent to use in March 2019, per Law & Crime, and the Space Force didn't become an actual organization until December 2019. If it comes down to a legal battle, that means Netflix may be able to easily demonstrate it was actually using the Space Force branding first. (Even if Netflix lost the case, it would have a First Amendment right to continue selling Space Force merch on the grounds of satire and parody.)
According to Law & Crime, this wouldn't be an unprecedented legal fight. Since 2007, when a Defense Department directive forming a new copyright and trademark went into effect, the U.S. Marine Corps used its trademark to order sites like Zazzle, CafePress, and Etsy to either stop selling merchandise with USMC branding or only under certain rules. Foreign Policy wrote in 2013 that the increased focus on branding had allowed service branches to start rolling in royalties or even launch clothing lines in partnership with retailers.
Beyond the usual travel essentials, any keepsakes, charms and totems we take with us on our journeys say a lot about our inner worlds. The faithful may carry a crucifix, a rosary or the Qur'an; superstitious sailors still carry amulets to ensure a "smooth voyage"; soldiers treasure pictures of their sweethearts. Before photography they would carry a lock of their loved one's hair.
When the two crew members of the SpaceX Falcon 9 set off on their historic space journey last week, their totem was a toy dinosaur, taken on the behest of their sons. During the Apollo missions to the moon, the personal items astronauts could take were restricted: each had just a small "personal allowance pouch".
When Apollo 11's Eagle lunar module landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, devout Christian Buzz Aldrin had with him a miniature chalice, wine and bread. Shortly before Neil Armstrong stepped out on to the lunar landscape - and unreported by Nasa - Aldrin requested a moment's silence and read from the book of John. The first time liquid was poured on the moon was in an act of communion.
Most surprising, perhaps, is a tiny ceramic "wafer" (2cm by 1.3cm) containing six pieces of art transported illicitly on Apollo 12's lunar module. The work, called Moon Museum, was created by a New York artist, Forrest Myers, who bribed an engineer friend to secrete the item inside one of the lunar module's legs. It included work by himself and five others - including Andy Warhol, whose image was a neatly doodled penis. As the module remained on the surface, so too does the moon's first art gallery.
At the top of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver addressed the George Floyd protests and Donald Trump's bible photo opp and the excessive force police officers use - specifically against the black community. That said, he spent the entire episode unpacking the problematic police system.
Oliver points out that the violence we have seen is the tip of a very large iceberg. "It didn't start this week or with this president," he said. "It always disproportionately falls on black communities."
He threw out some stats that we need to our attention. For one, Minneapolis police use force against black people at seven times the rate of white people and that black Americans are two and a half times as likely as white Americans to be killed by police. On top of that, one in every 1000 black men can expect to be killed by police. "If you are black in America, I can't even imagine how scared, angry and exhausted you must feel," he admits. "The police are just one part of a larger system of racial inequality."
He points out that in pop culture police are seen as heroes - especially on film and TV. "America loves nothing more than a renegade cop that doesn't play by the rules," he said, adding that the reality of policing has always been different and that it has been entangled in white supremacy.
President Trump (R-Manbaby)'s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was vandalized once again Sunday as an estimated 50,000 people protesting police brutality and the killing of George Floyd filled the streets of Los Angeles's entertainment mecca.
The oft-targeted symbol of the Trump presidency was entirely blanketed by black spray paint, surrounded by Black Lives Matter messages - and for emphasis, topped with a small green plastic bag that apparently contained dog excrement.
Trump's star has been regularly targeted by vandals and activists in the years since he launched his political career.
In July 2016, street artist Plastic Jesus constructed a miniature wall around the star in response to the presidential candidate's pledge to erect a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump's name was crossed out and replaced by graffiti three months later.
In perhaps the most infamous incident, a man took a sledgehammer to the star after the release of behind-the-scenes audio from Access Hollywood in which Trump is heard boasting to then-host Billy Bush about grabbing women "by the p***y." That man, James Otis, was arrested and sentenced to three years' probation. He agreed to pay $4,400 for the damage.
Republicans are recruiting an estimated 50,000 volunteers to act as "poll watchers" in November, part of a multimillion-dollar effort to police who votes and how.
That effort, coordinated by the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump (R-Grifter)'s re-election campaign, includes a $20 million fund for legal battles as well as the GOP's first national poll-patrol operation in nearly 40 years.
While poll watching is an ordinary part of elections - both parties do it - voting rights advocates worry that such a moneyed, large-scale offensive by the Republicans will intimidate and target minority voters who tend to vote Democratic and chill turnout in a pivotal contest already upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
Some states allow poll monitors to challenge a voter's eligibility, requiring that person's ballot undergo additional vetting to be counted. In Michigan, for example, a challenged voter will be removed from line and questioned about their citizenship, age, residency and date of voter registration if, according to election rules, a vote challenger has "good reason" to believe they are not eligible. They are required to take an oath attesting that their answers are true and are given a special ballot.
Trump, who lost the popular vote in 2016 by nearly 3 million votes, also said mail-in voting - a system election officials say and research has shown increases participation in elections - posed an existential threat to the GOP itself.
The fate of Earth's forests remains uncertain. In the past few years, humans have removed more than 40 football fields of tree cover every single minute; altogether, it's an annual chunk of greenery roughly the size of the United Kingdom.
Even when these sprawls of land are replanted, something essential is lost. The more old growth we remove, the more unrecognisable these forests become.
Over the last century, a new global analysis reveals the average tree size has grown dramatically smaller with deforestation. And that's already having a profound impact on forest dynamics, global warming, and life as we know it.
Since the turn of the century, satellite images and deforestation studies reveal a dramatic decrease in the age and stature of forests, with a substantial increase in the amount of younger forest areas (which stand under 140 years old).
In fact, the authors say today's global vegetation biomass is only 50 percent of what it used to be because of land use changes alone.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have transfixed astronomers for over a decade, but their origin remains unclear. A newly concluded survey identifies an unexpected and unusually long 157-day cycle for a known repeating FRB, in a discovery that's redefining what we know about these mysterious intergalactic pulses.
Something-we don't know what-is shooting short, high-energy radio pulses into the depths of space, and it's doing so in a regular pattern, according to new research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The source of these bursts, designated FRB 121102, is located in a dwarf galaxy some 3 billion light-years from Earth. The newly detected pattern lasts for 157 days, in which FRB 121102 is active for 90 days, then completely silent for 67 days. Lather, rinse, and repeat.
This pattern was detected by astronomers at the University of Manchester, who used the Lovell Telescope to monitor the FRB for the past four years. This survey captured 32 distinct bursts, which, when combined with previous data collected for the FRB, revealed the pattern. FRB 121102 is the first of only two known repeating FRBs, the other being FRB 180916.J10158+56, but the 157-day pattern was not known until now. The new research was led by astrophysicist Kaustubh Rajwade from the University of Manchester.
A new study suggests there's nothing soft about pink, as it was revealed that the pinkest flamingos are the toughest. Published in the journal Ethology, the study from the University of Exeter and WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre, both in the UK, found that a pink flush of feathers was a good indicator of how aggressive a bird was likely to be when feeding, as well as a sign of good health or that the bird was ready to breed.
For the study, researchers observed the behavior of Slimbridge's captive lesser flamingos in different feeding situations ranging from small indoor spaces to large outdoor spaces, with or without a pool. They found the flamingos with lots of space by the outdoor pool spent twice as much time foraging and half as much time displaying aggressive behaviors compared to birds who were indoors competing to feed from a bowl. Interestingly, their observations also revealed that when the race for food turned sour, the birds most likely to resort to fisticuffs were the pinkest flamingos, irrespective of whether they were male or female.
The findings form a strong argument for ensuring captive birds are fed over a wide space where possible, as cramped conditions are more likely to result in fights. Flamingos live in large groups with complex social structures (they even have cliques), and the research indicates that small changes to how zoos and sanctuaries feed their flamingos can keep them content and colorful.
"Colour plays an important role in this, said Dr Paul Rose, from the University of Exeter, in a statement. "The colour comes from carotenoids in their food, which for lesser flamingos is mostly algae that they filter from the water.
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