• Gay author Michael Thomas Ford had an uncle named David who was also gay and whose lover was named George. David and George lived together for many years in a committed relationship, but after they died together in a car accident, they were buried hundreds of miles apart. Mr. Ford was sad because no one could tell by their grave sites that these two people had ever had a loving relationship, so he was happy when he learned that David’s sister had placed a headstone for George near David’s grave and had buried some of George’s ashes there as well. Now, people walking in the cemetery may see the two headstones next to each other, notice that the dates of death are the same, and guess that the two men had a relationship.
• One very cold night, children’s book author Gary Paulsen was in a sled being pulled by his dogs when they suddenly stopped and began to growl. He got out of the shed and walked up to his lead dog, then saw in the light of his head lamp a perfectly still doe standing upright and seeming to look at them. This was eerie because no doe will knowingly allow dogs and a human being to come that near to her and no dog would be afraid of a doe — instead, the dog would chase her. Mr. Paulsen walked up to the doe so close that he could touch her, and he saw that she was dead — she had frozen on her feet in an upright position with her head up.
• When she was a young woman, Edna St. Vincent Millay started swimming in the ocean toward what she thought was a small island. The “island” was further away than she had thought, but she persisted in swimming toward it. Unfortunately, when she arrived, exhausted, at the “island,” she discovered that it was merely a mass of seaweed. Fortunately, she managed to swim back to land, although she feared that she would drown. This experience may have influenced the images of death and rebirth that appear in such poems of hers as “Renascence.”
• Anne McCaffrey, author of the Pern novels about telepathic dragons, was working as a dessert chef when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage. The two chefs who ran the restaurant looked at each other, and then they turned off all the burners in the kitchen before telling the customers that out of respect for President Roosevelt, the restaurant was closing. No one argued with the chefs. Everyone was too busy crying.
• In 1973, William Goldman published a humorous fantasy titled The Princess Bride about true love. In it, a farm boy named Westley pursued his true beloved, named Buttercup, even coming back from the dead in order to rescue her from the bad guys. One of the great moments in Mr. Goldman’s life was seeing a young couple obviously in love wearing matching T-shirts that bore the legend “WESTLEY NEVER DIES.”
• Jack Gantos is the author of the Newbery Honor book Joey Pigza Loses Control. On Jack’s tenth birthday, fellow writer Ernest Hemingway committed suicide. Previously, because it was a fishing story, Jack’s father had read Mr. Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea to young Jack. After reading about Mr. Hemingway’s suicide in the newspaper, Jack’s father said, “I’d have shot myself, too, if it took me that long to catch a fish.”
• After humorist Art Buchwald’s kidneys failed, he decided to enter Hospice and to decline dialysis. He also, however, decided to write a book about dying titled Too Soon to Say Goodbye and was able to continue joking while dying. When his lawyer, Bob Barnett, visited him, Mr. Buchwald told him, “If you can get me seven million dollars for my book like you got for Hillary Clinton, I’ll start dialysis.”
Aleuromancy is the use of flour for divination. The word comes from the Greek aleuron, meaning flour, and manteia, meaning divination.
Divination with flour is attested in cuneiform tablets from the 2nd millennium BCE. Flour was poured out in small heaps and the interpretation was based on the observation of their shapes and orientation.
In its original form, slips of paper containing philosophical writings would be baked inside of cakes or cookies, which would then be distributed to those wishing their fortunes to be told. Similarly, the Greeks would bake slips of paper with sentences on them inside of balls of flour, mix the balls nine times, and distribute them. Modern fortune cookies are a variant on these forms of divination.
Another form of aleuromancy consisted of interpreting patterns of flour left in a bowl after a flour and water slurry had been mixed in it and poured away.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Flour.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
Flour
Alan J answered:
Flour.
Randall wrote:
Aleuromancy is divination through use of flour
Roy, still socially isolated in Tyler, TX replied:
Aleuromancy was an ancient kind of divination practiced with flour. Sentences were written on slips of paper, each of which was rolled up in a little ball of flour. These were thoroughly mixed up nine times and divided among the curious who were waiting to learn their fate.
Dave responded:
Flour. As with other useless innovations, aleuromancy was an ancient Greek invention.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Aleuromancy is divination using flour. We humans are a strange lot, expecting something like flour to tell our futures.
Blew Sunday’s TQ; I actually saw “With Six You Get Eggroll” in the theater, one of the first times my parents let me go to the movies by myself.
I wonder what kind of year we’ll have this week?
zorch said:
Aleuromancy uses flour.
Adam answered:
A method of divination by meal or flour
Micki replied:
Flour.
Leo in Boise responded:
It uses flour.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
The answer is flour.
I took the day off yesterday, but I wanted to share an additional bit of trivia about the question regarding the movie "With Six You Get Eggroll." The graduation scene about 33 minutes into the movie was filmed at my high school (Ulysses S. Grant High School in the San Fernando Valley) when I was a student there. The production company filmed it on a weekend and I remember reading about it in the school paper. A screenshot from the movie on YouTube is attached.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Aleuromancy is the use of flour for divination.
Daniel in The City answered:
Flour
Jacqueline responded:
Flour
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
Flour? I hope Google didn't let me down with this one.
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“Childbirth is Julia Shapiro (guitar, vocals), Bree McKenna (bass, vocals), and Stacy Peck (drums, cool mom). They are a supergroup.”
“Childbirth is a ‘supergroup’ in the sense its members are all in other hit bands (Julia Shapiro of Chastity Belt, Bree Mckenna of Tacocat, Stacy Peck of Pony Time) and also that they do good for the world while in costume.”
“Childbirth's […] album, WOMEN’S RIGHTS, is piss-your-pants funny — subject matter includes a trashy friend bringing coke to a baby shower (‘Baby Bump’) characteristics that warrant an instant ‘swipe left’ on Tinder (‘Siri, Open Tinder’) and dating vapid IT douches (‘Tech Bro.’). Lyrics on WOMEN'S RIGHTS are highly quotable — from ‘Tech Bro’: ‘I'’l let you explain feminism to me / If I can use your HD TV.’”
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $8 (USD) for 13-track album
Understand & agree re TCM--they're making improvements that are awful--no start times on movies on their TV channel--when you're watching, it says a movies is "next" or "later" but you have no idea when it starts! Go to the web site to try to get the time & the schedule display is messed up. I'm a Backlot member & have complained via that sit. If things aren't fixed soon. I'll resign from the fanclub.
A friend sent a link to a Guardian story that said:
Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University's Emergency Medicine division, and a COVID-19 consultant specializing on how to reopen safely, said that the design of the presidential vehicle, specifically modified to protect the passengers from attacks, made the drive even more dangerous.
It ALSO said that the Fucker has been spreading his germs & visiting soldiers hospitalized at Walter Reed!!!!!! What fucking part of Quarantine does that asshole not get?
Superspreader event
Predator went out of his way to have flags draped along the walkway to the Rose Garden for the superspreader event of his nomination of that Handmaiden Woman--flags draped along that walkway in EXACTLY the same way they were when Bill Clinton nominated RBG to SCOTUS. Did it to rub his nomination in our daces & disrespect RBG. I loathe him.
For the Supreme Court announcement today, the Rose Garden is being transformed to look similar to June 14, 1993 — the day then-President Bill Clinton announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s nomination to the high court.
A White House aide who is involved in making the preparations today sent a photo to CNN showing the flags. It is designed to replicate the look of Ginsburg’s announcement.
President Trump and his advisers specifically asked for the Rose Garden to be adorned in hanging flags after they recently saw the Clinton-Ginsburg announcement replaying on television.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'The FBI: Declassified'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jerry Seinfeld and Ella Mai.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Whoopi Goldberg and Bishop Briggs.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Weakest Link', followed by a FRESH'Ellen's Game Of Games', then a FRESH'Transplant'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Lin-Manuel Miranda, Luis Miranda, Ruby Rose, and the Highwomen.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Timothy Olyphant, Bob Woodward, and BENEE.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/25/19) are Thomas Middleditch, Martin Starr, Zach Woods, and Amanda Crew.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NBA Playoffs', followed by a FRESH'Jimmy Kimmel Live', then pads the left coast with local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Armie Hammer, Marlon Wayans, and Jaden Smith.
The CW offers a FRESH'Swamp Thing', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.
Faux has a FRESH'Cosmos: Possible Worlds', followed by a FRESH'NeXt'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
A&E has the movie 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit', followed by the movie 'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back', and an old 'Court Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ghost Ship', followed by the movie 'Carrie', then the movie 'The Last House On The Left'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE HOUSE OF QUARK
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - EQUILIBRIUM
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - SECOND SKIN
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE ABANDONED
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - CIVIL DEFENSE
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - MERIDIAN
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - I, BORG
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE NEXT PHASE
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE INNER LIGHT
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIME'S ARROW, PART II
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIME'S ARROW, PART II
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - REALM OF FEAR
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - MAN OF THE PEOPLE
[7:00PM] PACIFIC RIM
[10:00PM] THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND - BRAVE
[11:15PM] PACIFIC RIM
[2:15AM] TOTAL RECALL
[4:44AM] DOCTOR WHO - THE NEXT DOCTOR (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 3 hours of old 'Don't Be Tardy ...', followed by a FRESH'Don't Be Tardy ...', then another FRESH'Don't Be Tardy ...', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', followed by an hour of old 'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'Bad Moms', followed by the movie 'Pitch Perfect 2', then the movie 'Pitch Perfect 3'.
History has 'Americas Book Of Secrets: Special Edition', followed by a FRESH'American Book Of Secrets: Special Edition'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Parks And Recreation
[6:30am] Parks And Recreation
[7:00am] Parks And Recreation
[7:30am] Parks And Recreation
[8:00am] Rear Window
[10:30am] The Birds
[1:30pm] Road To Perdition
[4:00pm] Braveheart
[8:00pm] Gladiator
[11:30pm] Gladiator
[3:00am] The Birds (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 Falls In Love
[11:00am] monk - Mr. Monk's 100th Case
[12:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized
[1:00pm] monk - Mr Monk And The Miracle
[2:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Other Brother
[3:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk On Wheels
[4:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Lady Next Door
[5:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Makes The Playoffs
[6:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Bully
[7:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Magician
[8:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk Fights City Hall
[9:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk's Favorite Show
[10:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The Foreign Man
[11:00pm] monk - Mr. Monk And The UFO
[12:00am] columbo - A Stitch In Crime
[1:45am] columbo - Fade In To Murder
[3:30am] the andy griffith show
[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 'Boo! A Madea Halloween', followed by the movie 'Wrong Turn 2: Dead End', then the movie 'Wrong Turn 4: Blood Beginnings'.
He’s one of the first syndicated Latino cartoonists in the United States and has collaborated on the award-winning film "Coco," but Lalo Alcaraz is on a different and very personal quest these days.
The Los Angeles-based political cartoonist said he “never ever” thought he would work with Republicans on “anything,” but 2020 is different.
Alcaraz, 56, recently teamed up with The Lincoln Project, the political action committee formed in 2019 and comprised of Republican strategists who have endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden and are spending millions on campaign ads supporting Biden and other Democrats in congressional races. Alcaraz’s cartoons, which run on the group’s social media sites, include a particularly prescient “Viruses for Trump” illustration depicting the president holding a rally with the virus in several battleground states.
“You know what they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend," said Alcaraz, who describes himself as the "perennial anti-Republican Chicano cartoonist."
"I’ll work with anyone I agree with," he said. "And I agree that we need to defeat Trump in November.”
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the long-running copyright battle over Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” leaving in place a ruling that rejected infringement allegations over the 1971 song.
The justices denied a petition aimed at reviving the case, ending six years of litigation over claims that the song’s writers, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, plagiarized the song’s iconic intro from the 1968 song “Taurus” by the group Spirit.
The ruling follows a March victory for the group in which the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict finding the song did not infringe on “Taurus.”
The 9th Circuit ruling was also a significant win for the music industry, which has felt itself fighting a losing battle against frivolous copyright suits since the “Blurred Lines” trial in 2015. The appeals court overturned the so-called “inverse ratio rule,” a precedent that has governed copyright cases in the 9th Circuit for the last 43 years.
To prove copyright infringement, a plaintiff must show that the alleged infringer had access to the plaintiff’s work, and that the two works are “substantially similar.” The inverse ratio rule — which had not been adopted in other circuits — held that the more access was shown, the less similarity was required to establish infringement. The rule has been a thorn in the side of defendants — including record labels and major artists — for decades.
“Cops” has resumed production months after the show was dropped by the Paramount Network, police in Washington state announced last week.
In June, the controversial police procedural reality show was cancelled ahead of its 33rd season amid protests over the death of George Floyd and calls for police reform.
Production is again underway for the show in Spokane, Washington, where two “Cops” film crews have already ridden with Spokane County Sheriff’s Office and Spokane Valley Deputies, said the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office in a press release on Wednesday.
The county has hosted the show previously and has "a longstanding relationship" with Langley Productions, the production company behind the show, the sheriff’s office said.
Although production has resumed in the United States, a spokesperson for Langley Productions told The Hollywood Reporter that the new episodes will only air in international territories to fulfill preexisting commitments. Langley Productions did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
Hello, Clarice. The Pennsylvania home featured in the award-winning 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs is on sale for just under $300,000, lotion not included.
The three-story Princess Anne Victorian served as the home of insane serial killer Buffalo Bill in the film. The Silence of the Lambs won seven Academy Awards in 1992, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Anthony Hopkins, Best Actress for Jodie Foster, and Best Director for Johnathan Demme.
The house is located in Perryopolis, an hour outside of Pittsburgh. A film crew spent three days shooting at the location. The home’s exterior is fairly unchanged since the film, except for some minor landscaping and painting.
The film concerns FBI trainee Clarice Starling, who seeks to apprehend serial killer Buffalo Bill. She enlists the help of the imprisoned cannibal and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter to draw a psychological profile of her quarry.
The four-bedroom house is listed for $298,500. It is situated on 1.76 acres of land that lies along the Youghiogheny River.
President Donald Trump (R-Shameless)’s advice today – “Don’t be afraid of Covid” – didn’t go down well with some in the Hollywood community, including actor Zach Braff, whose friend, Broadway actor Nick Cordero, died last July of complications from the coronavirus.
“You don’t have covid for the weekend,” Braff tweeted today. “He either has it and doesn’t give a f*ck who gets it from him, or he never had it.” The former Scrubs star also warned against overconfidence from negative test results.
With the U.S. Covid death toll at well above the 200,000 mark, Braff and other stars responded angrily to today’s Trump tweet in which the ailing president said, “I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”
Captain America actor Chris Evans tweeted, “Don’t be afraid of Covid?! You’ve been under round-the-clock care by the best doctors using the best drugs. Do you really think everyone has access to that?! Sadly, I’m sure you’re aware of that disparity, you just don’t care. This is reckless to a shocking degree, even for you.”
Actress and producer Ava DuVernay wrote, “Don’t be afraid of Covid he dares say to those of us who have lost loved ones to Covid. This man is evil.”
From the poles to the tropics, the oceans to our cities, we've mapped the fluctuations in temperature that are leading to a climate crisis.
But strangely, little attention has been paid to the world's circadian landscapes of night and day. And a new study shows our nocturnal environment is actually warming at a faster rate than our daytime surrounds - and it could prove too much for many species.
After analysing more than three decades of daily temperature data from all over the world, researchers from the University of Exeter have concluded there's an asymmetry in our planet's warming as it rotates on its axis.
In some spots, the days warmed considerably while night time temperatures barely budged. There were even times of considerable cooling for some environments.
But the bigger picture was surprising. Across more than half of the planet's land surface, the average annual temperature rise at night was a quarter of a degree Celsius more than that of the day's.
Americans really are drinking more during the COVID-19 pandemic. New research suggests that alcohol consumption in the United States rose 14% during pandemic shutdowns.
The most dramatic increase was in heavy drinking episodes in women, defined as four or more drinks within two hours. Women reported a 41% increase in episodes of heavy drinking in the spring of 2020 compared with their drinking level in the spring of 2019.
"We've had anecdotal information about people buying and consuming more alcohol, but this is some of the first survey-based information that shows how much alcohol consumption has increased during the pandemic," Michael Pollard, lead author of the study and a sociologist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization, said in a statement. Pollard and his colleagues reported their findings Sept. 29 in the journal JAMA Network Open.
The data came from a nationally representative survey of 1,540 Americans in the long-running RAND American Life Survey who were queried between May and June about their drinking habits. The responses were then compared to survey data collected from the same people at the same time last year.
The comparison showed that the frequency of alcohol consumption increased from an average of 5.48 drinking days per month in 2019 to an average of 6.22 drinking days per month in 2020. The increase was greatest for women, whose number of days of alcohol consumption went up 17%, from 4.58 days, on average, to 5.36 days. Overall, about 3 out of 4 Americans increased their drinking days by one day each month.
Tasmanian devils have been released into the wild on Australia's mainland 3,000 years after the feisty marsupials went extinct there, in what conservationists described Monday as a "historic" step.
Aussie Ark, along with a coalition of other conservation groups, revealed Monday that they had released 26 of the carnivorous mammals into a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) sanctuary at Barrington Tops, about 3.5 hours north of Sydney.
Tim Faulkner, president of Aussie Ark, said the "historic" releases in July and September were the first steps in a project akin to the successful move to return wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the United States in the 1990s.
After 16 years of work, including the establishment of mainland Australia's largest Tasmanian devil breeding programme, Faulkner said it was "incredible and surreal" to have reached the goal.
The Tasmanian devil is one of seven cornerstone species critical to Australia's ecosystem that Aussie Ark plans to reintroduce to the wild sanctuary in the coming years, along with quolls, bandicoots and rock wallabies.
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