• E.B. White may be most famous for his children’s book Charlotte’s Web, in which a spider named Charlotte befriends a pig named Wilbur and saves his life by writing words in her web. The idea for the book came partly from Mr. White’s discomfort at raising a pig each year at his farm in Maine, only to butcher it when it was fully grown. In addition, one day he noticed a spider building a web in an outhouse, so he brought out a lamp and a long extension cord and watched the spider. From these experiences, and more, came Charlotte’s Web. By the way, sometimes people try to find hidden meanings in Charlotte’s Web, but Mr. White says, “Any attempt to find allegorical meanings is bound to end disastrously, for no meanings are in there. I ought to know.”
• Pioneer life could be difficult. In 1875, Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie, was outside when she thought she saw a storm spring up on the horizon, then move closer. It wasn’t a storm — it was a cloud of grasshoppers. While Laura and her family hid in their house, the grasshoppers ate everything green, including the crops, the garden, the grass, and even the leaves in the trees. After eating everything, the grasshoppers moved west. Because the grasshoppers had destroyed his crops, Laura’s Pa walked 200 miles to eastern Minnesota to find work to support his family.
• John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath, once left a setter puppy named Toby alone for a few hours. Unfortunately, he left Toby alone with a manuscript. By the time Mr. Steinbeck returned to the room, Toby had destroyed half of the only copy of the manuscript — two months’ worth of writing. Nevertheless, Mr. Steinbeck did not become upset, saying later, “I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a manuscript I’m not sure is good at all.” Instead, he sat down and rewrote the manuscript, which was published with this title: Of Mice and Men.
• In New York City, a photographer asked humorist Erma Bombeck to move slightly. She moved where the photographer wanted her to go, then posed — but the photographer had wanted her to move out of the way so he could photograph a dog that was appearing in the movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
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• R.L. Stine, the writer of the Fear Street and Goosebumps children’s book series, started out as a writer of comedy; for a while, he edited Scholastic’s humor magazine, which was titled Bananas. When his first book for children, How to Be Funny, was published, he went to a book signing, at which he wore rabbit ears. During the entire afternoon of the book signing, he autographed exactly one book!
• Being a best-selling author can be hazardous to one’s health. Horror writer Stephen King spoke at a library in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, then he signed hundreds of autographs. Even so, some people were not able to get their books autographed — Mr. King’s hand developed so many blisters that he was forced to stop signing his autograph.
• In 1975, Quentin Crisp’s book The Naked Civil Servant, was published, and this very out and very effeminate gay man became a celebrity. Suddenly, taxi drivers who had driven by him even though their taxi was empty not only stopped for him, but they also began to ask for his autograph, saying, “The wife’s never going to believe this!”
• Saul Bellow and his wife had an argument one day, so she threw several eight-by-ten glossy photographs of him in the garbage. A few days later, a knock sounded on his door. Standing in the doorway was the porter. He was holding one of the glossy photographs, and he asked Mr. Bellow to sign it.
This American actress and singer, known primarily for her distinctive, powerful voice and leading roles in musical theatre introduced many standards including "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Anything Goes", and "There's No Business Like Show Business". What is her name?
The makeup of poker's dead man's hand has varied through the years. Currently, it is described as a two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and black eights. The pair of aces and eights, along with an unknown hole card, were reportedly held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered while playing a game. No contemporaneous source, however, records the exact cards he held when killed. Author Frank Wilstach's 1926 book, Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers, led to the popular modern held conception of the poker hand's contents.
The expression "dead man's hand" appears to have had some currency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although no one connected it to Hickok until the 1920s. The earliest detailed reference to it was 1886, where it was described as a "full house consisting of three jacks and a pair of tens." Jacks and sevens are called the dead man's hand in the 1903 Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences. Edmond Hoyle refers to the hand as Jacks and eights in 1907.
What is currently considered the dead man's hand card combination received its notoriety from a legend that it was the five-card stud or five-card draw hand, held by James Butler Hickok (better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok) when he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall on August 2, 1876, in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon at Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Hickok's final hand purportedly included the aces and eights of both black suits.
According to a book by Western historian Carl W. Breihan, the cards were retrieved from the floor by a man named Neil Christy, who then passed them on to his son. The son, in turn, told Mr. Breihan of the composition of the hand. "Here is an exact identity of these cards as told to me by Christy's son: the ace of diamonds with a heel mark on it; the ace of clubs; the two black eights, clubs and spades, and the queen of hearts with a small drop of Hickok's blood on it," though nothing of the sort was reported at the time immediately following the shooting.
Hickok biographer Joseph Rosa wrote about the make-up of the hand: "The accepted version is that the cards were the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, two black eights, and the queen of clubs as the 'kicker'." Rosa, however, said that no contemporaneous source can be found for this exact hand. The solidification in gamers' parlance of the dead man's hand as two pairs, black aces and eights, did not come about until after the 1926 publication of Wilstach's book 50 years after Hickok's death.
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Billy in Cypress U. $. A. was first, and correct, with:
Two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and black eights
Mark. wrote:
Two-pair poker hand made up of black aces and black eights.
Jacqueline said:
Two black ace's and two black 8's.
Alan J answered:
A pair of Aces and a pair of Eights.
Mac Mac responded:
Pair of Black 8s and pair of black aces. 5th card is unknown
Cal in Vermont replied:
Two pair, black aces over black eights and an unknown hole card. The hand was held by Wild Bill Hickok who was murdered by local ne'er-do-well Jack "Crooked Nose" McCall as he played the hand in a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. The Capital of which is Pierre.
mj said:
As Bob Seeger sings
Who's gonna hold the 8s and aces (pairs), as did Bill Hickcock when he
got shot?
Randall wrote:
Aces and Eights
Hickock's last hand
I live in South Dakota and I've been to Deadwood many times
Been to Hickock's grave up on the hill
Drank a beer in the Old #10 Saloon
Adam answered:
A two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and black eights.
zorch responded:
Two pair, two black aces and two black eights.
Dave replied:
Aces and eights. Specifically a pair of black aces and black eights with an unknown hole card. Legend has it that those were the cards in the hand of Wild Bill Hickok when he was suddenly murdered at the card table with a gunshot to the back of his head.
Photos: James Butler Hickok exploits have been exaggerated over the years, first by Hickok himself and later by mythmakers, but he was by all accounts a formidable opponent in a fight and it is reliably documented that he killed more than one man in gunfights, although far fewer than legend has it. In a well documented 1865 incident, Hickok was probably the first Westerner to face off with an opponent on the main street where both men drew pistols as quick as they could and fired. Hickok’s single shot pierced his opponents heart killing him instantly | Aces and eights | Hickok usually carried a pair of black powder 1851 Colt Navy revolvers rather than the newer Single Action Army Colt revolver
David of Moon Valley wrote:
from my time at the poker table...
…playing for quarters….it was two pair…black Aces and black Eights…
no lightning storms yet but the day is young…i really feel for those in New Orleans and the mid-gulf coast right now…where are those freakin’ climate change deniers now?!? the ignorant asshats….
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Yesterday's answer is talc. Deadman's hand is aces and eights. That was the hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when shot in the back.
Deborah, the Master Gardener answered:
From the all-knowing Wiki: The makeup of poker's dead man's hand has varied through the years. Currently, it is described as a two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and black eights. The pair of aces and eights, along with an unknown hole card, were reportedly held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered while playing a game.
One summer while in high school my brother and I played 500 rummy to 10K, as we were rained out of our work (picking blueberries) frequently. We made up some really cringey puns and had a blast. Poker is not my jam, although I enjoy watching skilled people play.
A stray shower passed over last night, but the predicted lightning strikes didn’t materialize, so the fires haven’t increased and containment is slow, but steady. Air quality is still gross and another day indoors is in store. Damn.
And a shout-out to Dave in Moon Valley, who knows exactly what’s happening in NorCal. Stay safe, Dave!
Dave in Tucson responded:
The "Dead Man's Hand" is Aces & Eights, the cards Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was murdered.
DJ Useo replied:
I enjoy Poker, although it's a tough game to win at. The dead man's hand is the black 8's & the black aces.
Your question reminds me of Bartcop & his many tales of Las Vegas.
Kevin in Washington DC, wrote:
Aces and Eights, all black. Queen of Spades as a kicker optional.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) said:
Aces and eights, personally I've never had 'em.
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Music: "Brazilia" from the album Les Baxter’s JUNGLE JAZZ
Artist: Les Baxter and His Orchestra
Artist Location: Les Baxter’s life dates are 1922-1996.
Info: “Les Baxter (1922-1996) used to be an utterly talented composer and bandleader who was on the go to the max during his active years. His version and as I should say vision of jazz music was a contemporary fresh and colorful sound with an exotic vibe due to the use of many elements of Latin music within a modernized big band sound. We speak of the exotica and space-age era when jazz music became more than just a few musicians on stage in a back-street pub sweating their life out while improvising. He draws inspiration from the various swing orchestras of the late 1920s and combines this lush big band approach with a hot South American groove that shows an affinity for Cuban club music, for mambo and salsa. With rhythmical effects and a few wordless female vocal passages added, he builds this haunting jungle atmosphere on top while leaving out the too obvious animal voices. The Latin jazz and swing elements harmonize fairly well with each other and the melodies Les Baxter and his orchestra create drag you into a different world.”
Captain High Records, music publisher of this album, is located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Price: €7 for 16-track album; individual tracks cannot be purchased separately
Early this morning, heard a funny noise in the kitchen and got there just in time to see the unexpected cat trying to wiggle out of the louvered windows over the sink.
She demonstrated her buzzsaw-like abilities on my left hand, pushed the screen out, and ran into the dark.
Typing is a challenge, so may be cutting things short for a few days.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'Love Island', then LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy'.
CBS begins the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy', followed by a RERUN' NCIS', then a FRESH'Love Island', followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Trey Gowdy, Keanu Reeves, and Alex Winter.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, and James Bay.
NBC starts the night on the East Coast with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy'.
NBC starts the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy', followed by a FRESH' America's Got Talent', then the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 8/11/20) are Orlando Bloom, Cecily Strong, and Trey Anastasio.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 7/28/20) are Cameron Diaz, Billy Porter, and Jason Aldean.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/20/19) are Ginnifer Goodwin and Chase Bernstein.
ABC opens the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'Modern Family', then another a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by 'What Would You Do?', followed by LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy'.
ABC opens the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Fluffing Lumpy', followed by a RERUN'Modern Family', then another RERUN'Modern Family', followed by 'What Would You Do?', then the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host David Spade, are Lauren Lapkus and the Avett Brothers.
The CW offers a FRESH'Dead Pixels', followed by a RERUN'Dead Pixels', then a RERUN'Tell Me A Story'.
Faux has a RERUN'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a RERUN'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then another FRESH'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Unboxing', then another FRESH'Extreme Unboxing'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'The Rock'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - To the Death
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Body Parts
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Broken Link
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Apocalypse Rising
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Ship
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Liaisons
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Interface
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Gambit
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Gambit
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Phantasms
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Dark Page
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Attached
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Force of Nature
[8:00PM] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS
[10:30PM] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Gambit
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Gambit
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Phantasms
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Dark Page
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Attached (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing LA', another 'Million Dollar Listing LA', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing LA', then a FRESH'Backyard Envy'.
Comedy Central has all old 'The Office' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi', followed by the movie 'Scicario: Day Of The Soldato', then the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage'.
History has 'American Book Of Secrets: Special Edition', followed by a FRESH'American Book Of Secrets: Special Edition'.
IFC -
[7:45A] The Expendables 2
[10:00A] Annabelle
[12:15P] Fatal Attraction
[3:00P] Blow
[6:00P] Parks and Recreation
[6:30P] Parks and Recreation
[7:00P] Parks and Recreation
[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] Parks and Recreation
[1:30A] Parks and Recreation
[2:00A] Parks and Recreation
[2:30A] Parks and Recreation
[3:00A] Parks and Recreation
[3:30A] Parks and Recreation
[4:00A] Juno (ALL TIMES ET)
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] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[9:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[10:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To The Ballgame
[11:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To Mexico
[12:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To The Circus
[1:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Very, Very Old Man
[2:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Goes To The Theater
[3:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Sleeping Suspect
[4:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Meets The Playboy
[5:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The 12th Man
[6:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Paperboy
[7:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Three Pies
[8:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The TV Star
[9:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Missing Granny
[10:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Captain's Wife
[11:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Gets Married
[12:00am] columbo - Troubled Waters
[2:15am] columbo - Playback
[4:00am] the andy griffith show
[4:30am] the andy griffith show
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Halloween', followed by the movie 'The Host'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 7/21/20) is Patton Oswalt.
The Broadway future of the acclaimed David Byrne’s American Utopia is unclear, but the date with HBO is certain: Spike Lee’s film adaptation of the theatrical concert is set for Oct. 17, and HBO released a first-look teaser today.
Set to the beat of Byrne’s cover of Janelle Monáe’s fierce “Hell You Talmbout,” which the former Talking Heads frontman performed regularly – with Monáe’s blessing – as part of the American Utopia show, the new teaser offers a good look at the production’s unique and powerful staging.
American Utopia includes old and new Byrne songs, including his greatest Talking Heads and solo hits: “Burning Down the House,” “Life During Wartime,” “This Must Be the Place,” “Road to Nowhere” and “Everybody’s Coming To My House,” as well as selections from his 2018 album that gives the show its title.
Leading a troupe of 11 musicians and singers, Byrne intersperses brief monologues on topics ranging from the personal to the sociopolitical, including police brutality, voter turnout, climate change and immigration. And there’s lots of dancing – choreographer Annie-B Parson taps into Bryne’s career-long devotion to idiosyncratic movement and quirky gestures to create a truly fresh ensemble performance.
In an impassioned defense of his beloved and beleaguered New York City, comedian Jerry Seinfeld has some harsh words for a Manhattan comedy club owner who bolted for Florida and recently claimed the Big Apple is “completely dead” with no hope for a rebound.
“You say New York will not bounce back this time,” Seinfeld writes in a New York Times opinion column posted today, not naming his target but linking to a LinkedIn post written earlier this month by Stand Up N.Y. comedy club co-owner James Altucher. “You will not bounce back. In your enervated, pastel-filled new life in Florida. I hope you have a long, healthy run down there. I can’t think of a more fitting retribution for your fine article.
“This stupid virus will give up eventually. The same way you have.”
Altucher, whom Seinfeld calls a “putz,” wrote in his August 13 post that COVID-19 has led to, among other things, the city’s economic devastation, increased crime, and the loss of restaurants and cultural institutions.
Altucher’s critique was no laughing matter for Seinfeld. “The last thing we need in the thick of so many challenges is some putz on LinkedIn wailing and whimpering, ‘Everyone’s gone! I want 2019 back!'” the Seinfeld star writes. “Oh, shut up. Imagine being in a real war with this guy by your side.”
The Berlin International Film Festival has opted to make its acting awards gender-neutral, meaning the prizes for Best Actor and Best Actress will be condensed into a Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance. and the supporting awards will become a Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance.
“We believe that not separating the awards in the acting field according to gender comprises a signal for a more gender-sensitive awareness in the film industry,” commented the director duo of the Berlinale, Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian.
The festival has also confirmed that the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize, which was suspended this year after Nazi allegations were made against its namesake, the first Berlinale director, will be named the Silver Bear Jury Prize on an ongoing basis. The fest added that a historical evaluation into Bauer will be published later this summer.
For next year, the festival said it was pressing on with plans to stage a physical festival. It is, however, planning the European Film Market (EFM) as a hybrid model of online and offline activities, with an in-person market still held at the MGB as per normal. The org said it will changes plans in accordance with the then-applicable rules and regulations regarding coronavirus. This year’s EFM will be under new stewardship after Matthijs Wouter Knol left to run the European Film Academy.
Elsewhere, the Generation section will only show feature-length films with a running time of at least 60 minutes – and no short films – in its two competition programs Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus from next year.
Anxiety-related Google searches reached a record high amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The infectious outbreak sent much of the world into lockdown. While many continue to mourn victims of COVID-19, others battle the economic consequences of closed borders, shut hospitality and enforced working from home.
Experts warned early on that the pandemic may have a “profound” and “pervasive” impact on people’s mental health for some time.
Scientists from the University of California, San Diego, have since found Google searches for “panic attacks” and “anxiety attacks” in the US were the highest they have been since the data started being collected 16 years ago.
More than 3 million anxiety-related searches were carried out in the US alone during the first 58 days of its outbreak.
Jared Kushner brokered a deal with Russia for 45 ventilators to be brought to the US to help with the coronavirus crisis, but they all turned out to be faulty, a new report says.
Two senior Trump administration officials told The Daily Beast that Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, helped to secure an equipment order that included the ventilators.
They were unloaded from a Russian-marked plane in New York in March, as the COVID-19 outbreak was intensifying in the state.
The delivery arrived but fell short of expectations. Officials in New York and New Jersey told The Daily Beast that the ventilators didn't work.
Other outlets had reported on problems with the ventilators; two US officials told ABC News in May that they could not be used immediately because of voltage issues.
The world's oceans have turned into a veritable sponge for our emissions, and new climate models suggest we've soaked them right through.
Since the 1950s, our planet's vast bodies of water have absorbed roughly 93 percent of the energy entering the climate system, and while most of that heating has been observed near the ocean surface, rising temperatures are now permeating even the deepest parts.
Real-world data on the deep ocean is hard to come by, but a new estimate, based on recent measurements and nearly a dozen climate models, suggests climate change has already impacted up to about half (20 to 55 percent) of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean basins.
What's more, in just six decades, these human-induced changes in temperature and salinity could very well spread to 80 percent of the world's oceans.
Astronomers have welcomed back a mysterious radio burst from space, which repeats in a regular pattern lasting more than 100 days.
Researchers at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Macclesfield spotted the radio burst (FRB 121102), which repeated in a pattern lasting 90 days, followed by a silent period of 67 days.
This month, other telescopes have detected new bursts from the same location – and they’re on schedule, Science Alert reported.
Astronomers have urged observatories to monitor the location to see if it follows its predicted pattern, which would mean the bursts cease later this month or in early September.
Theories of what causes the bursts range from highly-magnetised neutron stars blasted by a nearby supermassive black hole to signatures of technology developed by advanced civilisations.
Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years.
The treasure was discovered on Aug. 18, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Monday, by teenagers volunteering at an excavation in central Israel where a new neighbourhood is planned to be built.
“The person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago must have expected to retrieve it and even secured the vessel with a nail so that it would not move. We can only guess what prevented him from returning to collect this treasure,” said excavation director Liat Nadav-Ziv.
The area it was found in housed workshops at the time the treasure was hidden and the identity of the owner is still a mystery.
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