Joe Bob Briggs: Say That Again, I WILL Kick Your Ass (Taki's Magazine)
I don't mind it when you lie to me with marketing terms or puff me up with overblown predictions-I'm in show business, that's what we do-but stop using these words that are designed to disguise what you're really doing to me.
Helaine Olen: What Betsy DeVos did to the public service debt forgiveness program isn't 'regrettable.' It's wrong. (Washington Post)
"Regrettable" is word that can be used if you spill red wine on a favorite white dress. This is far worse. Americans planned their lives around the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. They stayed in jobs because of the promises and assurances from the government and the student loan industry. And then - poof - it didn't happen. They were betrayed, and then the government used technicalities to get out of what had been promised.
Tom Scocco: Someone Should Do Something (Slate Satire)
Everyone in our democracy-citizens and officials alike, voters and writers, marchers and starers-at-screens-has a role to play, or to consider playing. If I were going to write about this, I would say that it might be time to plan on doing something.
Mark Joseph Stern: The Right's Latest Attack on Academic Freedom Might Actually Work (Slate)
Betsy DeVos' criticism of a Middle East studies program follows a familiar playbook. … And it may well succeed-not because the Trump administration has a strong case but because the consortium might prefer to give in than engage in a lengthy legal battle over its own funding. While the administration purports to defend free speech on campus, it is using the powers of the federal government to engage in flagrant censorship
The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli. Although the systems differ in appearance, all three are unicase, their letters share the same names and alphabetical order, and are written horizontally from left to right. Of the three scripts, Mkhedruli, once the civilian royal script of the Kingdom of Georgia and mostly used for the royal charters, is now the standard script for modern Georgian and its related Kartvelian languages, whereas Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri are used only by the Georgian Orthodox Church, in ceremonial religious texts and iconography.
Georgian scripts are unique in their appearance and their exact origin has never been established; however, in strictly structural terms, their alphabetical order largely corresponds to the Greek alphabet, with the exception of letters denoting uniquely Georgian sounds, which are grouped at the end. Originally consisting of 38 letters, Georgian is presently written in a 33-letter alphabet, as five letters are obsolete in that language. The number of Georgian letters used in other Kartvelian languages varies. Mingrelian uses 36: 33 that are current Georgian letters, one obsolete Georgian letter, and two additional letters specific to Mingrelian and Svan. Laz uses the same 33 current Georgian letters as Mingrelian plus that same obsolete letter and a letter borrowed from Greek for a total of 35. The fourth Kartvelian language, Svan, is not commonly written, but when it is, it uses Georgian letters as utilized in Mingrelian, with an additional obsolete Georgian letter and sometimes supplemented by diacritics for its many vowels.
The origin of the Georgian script is poorly known, and no full agreement exists among Georgian and foreign scholars as to its date of creation, who designed the script, and the main influences on that process.
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Georgia.
Alan J answered:
Georgia
Cal in Vermont said:
Georgia. It can be difficult for the Western ear to understand Alabaman also.
Dave said:
Georgia. Georgian scripts is what Wiki calls them.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
The language is that of Georgia. Not the one Putin invaded with a peach-colored conman, the one he invaded with tanks.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedrul
Deborah responded:
The Republic of Georgia. My daughter spent 8 months there, teaching English as a second language. She lived in a small, poor village, and regularly kept the kids out of school to help with running their farms. She learned to speak and read the language, enough to get around, but never really enjoyed the experience. I for one was glad when she returned. And that's all I know of Georgia.
Mac Mac replied:
Georgian
Micki wrote:
Georgian.
Daniel in The City said:
Georgia
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BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER HEAR ON THE RADIO
Song: "Anywhere the Wind Blows"
Artist: From Big Eagle's WILLOW CREEK Album
Info: "Robyn Miller (formerly of The Peels) does what all the greatest country singers have done: write and sing beautiful songs about death, lust and hopelessness with a grace and dignity unavailable to most human beings. She not only channels Lucinda Williams, though: consciously or not, there's definitely some Chan Marshall and maybe a bit of Joanna Newsom thrown in." - Aquarius Records
"Robyn Miller was a great rock singer with the Peels. Now she's a great folk singer with Big Eagle. 'Anywhere the Wind Goes' is an under-appreciated classic. Favorite track: 'Anywhere the Wind Blows.'" - Bruce
Genre: Country/Folk
Price: The price for this song at Bandcamp is .99, and the price of the album is 7.99
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• Dave Matthews did not name his band the Dave Matthews Band. Instead, shortly after the group formed, a manager of a club needed a name to put on posters advertising the show. Band horns expert Leroi Moore told the manager to simply put "Dave Matthews" on the posters, as that was enough to ensure an audience, but the manager decided to add "Band" at the end. Mr. Matthews himself jokes that he would like to rename the band as "The Band That Used To Be Called The Dave Matthews Band But Isn't Any More Because It Was Wrongly Named To Begin With." Of course, Mr. Matthews is the leader of the band, and band concerts are known not just for the music, but for "Davespeak," which occurs when Mr. Matthews speaks about whatever he wants to, whether it is his favorite TV show or boxer shorts. Speaking of music, the Dave Matthews Band, like the Grateful Dead, encourages tape-trading. Fans are encouraged to tape the shows and swap tapes with other fans. The Dave Matthews Band has even allowed fans to plug their recording equipment directly into the band's soundboard. Early in their career, it was possible to get a spot on the board, but now they are so successful that getting a spot may be impossible. (Tape-trading is distinct from bootlegging; bootlegging is done for profit, while tape-trading is not.) Tape-trading helped the Dave Matthews Band gets fans even in places it had not performed in before. Band violinist Boyd Tinsley remembers, "We'd never been to Alabama before. We'd go to this place, and cars would be lined up down the road, and there'd be all these people going to this big club. We'd be sitting in our red van saying, "Oh, my God!" Tape-trading also helped the Dave Matthews Band get a recording contract with a major record label. An intern brought a tape to his boss at RCA Records, and the boss liked what he heard. The boss telephoned another RCA Records VIP in New York to tell him about the Dave Matthews Band. (Full disclosure: Actually, the VIP in New York, Peter Robinson, was already planning to see the Dave Matthews Band in concert that very night.)
• Rapper Kanye Omari West's mother, Donda, looked through books of African names to find the perfect name for him. Omari is Swahili and means "wise one." Kanyeis Ethiopian and means "the only one." Of course, "K.O." is a boxing term and means knockout. Donda said, "I knew he would be our only child, set apart, and special." Kanye showed originality as a child, painting objects the colors he wanted to paint them. For example, he painted bananas purple. His mother let him paint the way he pleased. She said, "Kanye always had a distinct perspective. He always had his own spin on things." She did punish him when he needed to be punished. When Kanye was a teenager, she caught him watching an X-rated video. She made him research the effect that watching such videos has on teenagers, and she made him a write a paper on his research. Kanye is known for his self-confidence, of course, and his self-confidence kept him from getting a record contract early in his career. Columbia Records executive Michael Mauldin was interested in signing Kanye to a record contract, but Kanye bragged during the meeting with him that he was more talented than rapper Jermaine Dupri. Kanye did not know that Jermaine Dupri was Mr. Mauldin's son; Mr. Mauldin decided not to sign Kanye to a record contract. Kanye has the ability to grow as a person. Early in his career, he discriminated against gays, but when he learned that one of his cousins was gay, he changed his attitude. Kanye said, "It was kind of a turning point when I was like, 'Yo, this is my cousin. I love him and I've been discriminating against gays.'"
• Neil Gaiman named his daughter Holly after a famous transvestite: Holly Woodlawn, an Andy Warhol superstar whom Lou Reed celebrated in his song "Walk on the Wild Side." When Holly was 19 years old, Mr. Gaiman played the song for her. As the song began, she said, "You named me from this song, didn't you?" Mr. Gaiman replied, "Yup." She listened to it carefully, really hearing the words for the first time: "Shaved her legs and then he was a she." She asked, "He?" Mr. Gaiman replied, "That's right. You were named after a drag queen in a Lou Reed song." Holly grinned and said, "Oh, Dad. I do love you."
Weather's changing - supposed to get hot & windy. Ack.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'FBI', then a FRESH'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Whoopi Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Terrence Howard, Allen Leech, and Bryce Vine and Loud Luxury.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us' (runs 8 minutes long), then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Demi Moore, Justin Hartley, and Mark Ronson featuring Yebba.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Gwen Stefani, Bradley Whitford, and Emily Spivey.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Elizabeth McGovern, Allen Leech, and Hugh Bonneville.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'Bless This Mess', then a FRESH'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'Emergence'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, and Morgan Wallen.
The CW offers a FRESH'Pandora', followed by a FRESH'Mysteries Decoded'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Empire'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'60 Days In: Narcoland'.
AMC offers 3 hours of old '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'The Fugitive'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 7-Scientific Method
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 8-Year of Hell, Pt. 1
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 9-Year of Hell, Pt. 2
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 10-Random Thoughts
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - Ep 11- Concerning Flight
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 12-Mortal Coil
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 13-Waking Moments
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 14-Message in a Bottle
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 15-Hunters
[3:00PM] TERMINATOR SALVATION (2009)
[5:30PM] TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003)
[8:00PM] MINORITY REPORT (2002)
[11:15PM] MINORITY REPORT (2002)
[2:30AM] THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 12-The Pegasus (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of Dallas', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Jim Jefferies Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's TBA.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Michael Rappaport, Christina Pazsitsky, and Dulce Sloan.
FX has the movie 'The Equalizer', followed by the movie 'Atomic Blonde', then a FRESH'Mayans MC'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Untouchables
[8:45A] Escape From the Planet of the Apes
[11:00A] Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
[1:00P] Battle for the Planet of the Apes
[3:00P] King Kong
[6:00P] First Blood
[8:00P] Gladiator
[11:30P] First Blood
[1:30A] Rambo: First Blood Part II
[3:45A] Rambo III (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] M*A*S*H
[6:30am] M*A*S*H
[7:00am] M*A*S*H
[7:30am] M*A*S*H
[8:00am] Legends of the Fall
[11:00am] Into the Storm
[1:00pm] Cast Away
[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] Anaconda
[3:00am] Fright Night
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Anna Faris and Gavin Matts.
A group of federal judges aren't sure all that glitters is gold, and they don't seem to be buying that a new trial is necessary in the copyright fight over the Led Zeppelin song, "Stairway to Heaven."
Members of an 11-judge panel at a Monday hearing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco harshly and consistently challenged a plaintiffs' attorney who argued that a new trial is justified and that jurors should be allowed to hear the recorded versions of the songs in the lawsuit that alleged 1971's megahit "Stairway" was stolen from 1968's "Taurus," by Spirit.
The estate of the late Randy Wolfe of Spirit sued and lost at a 2016 trial that included testimony from Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant, but a three-judge 9th Circuit panel earlier this year ordered a new trial and Led Zeppelin appealed to the larger group of judges.
The verdict was thrown out over what that the three judges unanimously said were poor instructions that should have allowed jurors to consider that combinations of simple elements in "Taurus" could be original and protected.
But most of Monday's hearing was spent on plaintiffs' attorney Francis Malofiy's argument that the copyrighted composition of "Taurus" should include the song as performed, not merely as written on paper.
The 71st Emmy Awards drew 6.9 million total viewers last night on Fox, according to Nielsen. It got a 1.6 rating among adults 18-49.
That means the annual special shed roughly one-third of its audience (-33% in the demo and -32% overall) from last year. NBC's turn on a Monday in 2018 established the awards show's prior lows of a 2.4 rating in the key demo and 10.2 million viewers overall.
Sunday's Emmy Awards on Fox drew a 5.8 household rating, a new record low in Nielsen's earliest-available numbers.
The special declined 22% from last year, when the best-of-TV celebration received a 7.4 - that had set the previous all-time low. That number clearly got obliterated (in the wrong direction for Fox and the Television Academy) this year.
Facebook is only 15 years old, yet in that time it has become the world's dominant social media platform, boasting more than 2.4 billion users. It has also become the world's second-largest digital advertising platform, effectively the runner-up in a worldwide duopoly dominated by Google. Now, it is under a baker's dozen of investigations alleging that it rose to the top by using unfair, anticompetitive tactics-and at least one competitor kept records.
Snap, parent company of Snapchat, kept a dossier "for years" detailing Facebook's attempts to thwart it, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The file, dubbed "Project Voldemort" after the just-doesn't-know-when-to-stay-dead villain of Harry Potter fame, "chronicled Facebook's moves that threatened to undermine Snap's business."
According to the WSJ, Snap's legal team recorded instances where Facebook discouraged prominent social media influencers with a presence on multiple platforms from mentioning Snap on their Instagram accounts. Snap executives also suspected Facebook was suppressing content that originated on Snap from trending on Instagram, when such content was shared there.
Facebook twice tried to acquire Snapchat and was twice rejected. In 2013, Snap turned down a $3 billion takeover offer. In 2016, Facebook reportedly once again made overtures to the firm, which instead went forward with an IPO early in 2017.
After the snubs, Facebook started cloning many of Snapchat's most popular features, The Economist reported in 2018. Instagram Stories launched in August 2016, and Facebook Stories followed suit in March 2017.
Last month, the US pulled out of a nuclear treaty with Russia that prohibited the two nations from possessing, producing, or testing thousands of land-based missiles. The US subsequently conducted a missile test that would have been forbidden under the treaty.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a few dos and don'ts that citizens should remember in case a nuclear explosion were to take place. One practice to avoid at all costs is using conditioner in your hair, since conditioner can act like a glue between your hair and radioactive material.
Rinsing with a gentle shampoo, on the other hand, is a critical part of the decontamination process. A few differences between the ingredients in shampoo and conditioner make one a life-saving tool and the other a dangerous agent in the wake of an explosion.
Nuclear explosions afford people little time to seek shelter. Within about a tenth of a second after an explosion, the sky is overtaken by a brilliant flash of light and a giant orange fireball. The blast also emits shockwaves that can topple buildings, along with sweltering temperatures that can burn skin and ignite fires.
Those closest to the bomb face death, while people up to 5 miles away could endure third-degree burns. Even those up to 53 miles away could experience temporary blindness.
Though she speaks little English, Yoana was calm when two officers from the US federal agency tasked with deporting undocumented people such as herself appeared outside her apartment.
Reading from a card that said, "This is to advise any law enforcement officer that I cannot answer any questions," she parried their demands until the agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) left.
"I didn't have fear. I knew what my rights were," said Yoana, 36, a native of Mexico who works on the apple farms of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and spoke to AFP on condition that her full name not be published.
That she knew what to do when approached by ICE was due to the efforts of activists across the United States, who are finding novel ways to thwart President Donald Trump's crackdown on migrants -- ranging from educating undocumented people like Yoana about their rights under US law to filming immigration agents in public.
Amid the crackdown, immigrant rights groups have set up hotlines for people to call if they think ICE may be in their neighborhoods, while dispatching lawyers and camera-wielding activists to record the activities of agents in public.
If you criticize Israeli policy, you will lose your federal funding. That is the message the Department of Education is sending with its threat to withdraw federal support for the Consortium for Middle East Studies, operated jointly by Duke University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, if it does not alter the content of its programming.
Just three months after Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, ordered an investigation into a conference about the politics of the Gaza Strip that the consortium had sponsored - an authoritarian threat, in and of itself - the Department of Education issued a letter demanding that the Duke-UNC consortium remake its curriculum. Or else.
The Department of Education's letter, published last Tuesday, charged that the Duke-UNC program was failing to meet its federal mandate - by focusing too much on cultural studies and topics like "Love and Desire in Modern Iran" and not enough on "advancing the security and economic stability of the United States". In other words, it seems the program was teaching its students about the complex and varied cultures of countries in the Middle East instead of how to dominate them.
The letter did not mention directly the conference on Gaza, during which several well-respected American, Israeli and Palestinian experts spoke. But it didn't have to. The DeVos-ordered investigation is part of the Trump administration's attempt to crack down on campus criticism of Israeli policy - a goal to which the administration made its commitment explicit when it appointed Kenneth L Marcus assistant secretary of civil rights in the Department of Education. That the investigation was followed by the threat of defunding is an indication of just how serious the Trump administration is about this goal.
Marcus's confirmation was opposed by major civil rights organizations, including the NAACP and the Human Rights Campaign, as well as by the National Bar Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Council of Jewish Women. The reasons are manifold - for example, Marcus's opposition to affirmative action, his spotty record on disability rights, and his shaky commitment to LGBTQ equality. A letter signed by the more than 30 groups that opposed Marcus's nomination noted: "Mr Marcus's attitudes and beliefs fail to demonstrate a commitment to protecting students of color from discrimination." It also observed that Marcus had, since leaving the Bush Department of Education, sought to use anti-discrimination law "to chill a particular point of view, rather than address unlawful discrimination".
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, disprove the prevailing theory of how DNA binds itself. It is not, as is generally believed, hydrogen bonds which bind together the two sides of the DNA structure. Instead, water is the key. The discovery opens doors for new understanding in research in medicine and life sciences. The researchers' findings are presented in the journal PNAS.
DNA is constructed of two strands, consisting of sugar molecules and phosphate groups. Between these two strands are nitrogen bases, the compounds which make up organisms' genes, with hydrogen bonds between them. Until now, it was commonly thought that those hydrogen bonds were what held the two strands together.
But now, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology show that the secret to DNA's helical structure may be that the molecules have a hydrophobic interior, in an environment consisting mainly of water. The environment is therefore hydrophilic, while the DNA molecules' nitrogen bases are hydrophobic, pushing away the surrounding water. When hydrophobic units are in a hydrophilic environment, they group together, to minimize their exposure to the water.
The role of the hydrogen bonds, which were previously seen as crucial to holding DNA helixes together, appear to be more to do with sorting the base pairs, so that they link together in the correct sequence.
"Cells want to protect their DNA, and not expose it to hydrophobic environments, which can sometimes contain harmful molecules," says Bobo Feng, one of the researchers behind the study. "But at the same time, the cells' DNA needs to open up in order to be used."
Scientists are racing to read a rapidly melting archive of climate data going back thousands of years - the inside of Austria's Alpine glaciers.
Mountain glaciers are receding the world over as average global temperatures rise - a phenomenon that will be described in detail in a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week.
Glaciers in Austria, on the eastern edge of the Alps, are particularly sensitive to climate change and have been shrinking even more rapidly than most, making it all the more urgent to examine their contents before they disappear, said Andrea Fischer, a scientist conducting the work.
"We are now roughly at 1920. The rest has already been lost - everything from 1920 until now," Fischer, of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research in Innsbruck, said of her work seeking Austria's oldest ice at the top of the Weissseespitze, a peak more than 3,500 meters high.
At the top of this mountain, Fischer and her colleagues have drilled to the bottom of the comparatively undisturbed glacier to extract samples of its ice, which is being analyzed for information on the local climate thousands of years ago.
A single grain of rock lodged in a diamond contains a never-before-found mineral.
And that newfound substance could reveal unusual chemical reactions unfolding in the depths of the mantle, the layer of Earth that lies between the planet's crust and outer core.
Scientists unearthed the mineral from a volcanic site in South Africa known as the Koffiefontein pipe. Shining diamonds speckle the dark, igneous rock that lines the pipe, and the diamonds themselves contain tiny bits of other minerals from hundreds of miles beneath Earth's surface. Within one of these sparkling stones, scientists found a dark green, opaque mineral that they estimated was forged about 105 miles (170 kilometers) underground.
They named the newfound mineral "goldschmidtite" in honor of acclaimed geochemist Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, according to the study, published Sept. 1 in the journal American Mineralogist.
"Goldschmidtite has high concentrations of niobium, potassium and the rare-earth elements lanthanum and cerium, whereas the rest of the mantle is dominated by other elements, such as magnesium and iron," study co-author Nicole Meyer, a doctoral student at the University of Alberta in Canada, said in a statement. Potassium and niobium make up most of the mineral, meaning the relatively rare elements were brought together and concentrated to form the unusual substance, despite other nearby elements being more abundant, she said.
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