Crumplstock 2020 will bring you live set after live set by skilled DJ's from around the world, all for your convenience broadcast over the net directly to you in your home. The only "problem" expected is listeners generally indulge themselves into oblivion. Lol. For those who practice moderation, they'll encounter many styles of sets, ranging from crumplbangers ( novelty mashups ) to techno, to everything else.
Blue Öyster Cult's highest chart success, this song was memorialized in the April 2000 Saturday Night Live comedy sketch "More Cowbell". What is the title of this song?
The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) is an English and imperial unit of mass now equal to 14 pounds (6.35029318 kg).
England and other Germanic-speaking countries of northern Europe formerly used various standardised "stones" for trade, with their values ranging from about 5 to 40 local pounds (roughly 3 to 15 kg) depending on the location and objects weighed. The United Kingdom's imperial system adopted the wool stone of 14 pounds in 1835. With the advent of metrication, Europe's various "stones" were superseded by or adapted to the kilogram from the mid-19th century on. The stone continues in customary use in Britain and Ireland for body weight, but was prohibited for commercial use in the United Kingdom by the Weights and Measures Act of 1985.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
14 pound per stone.
Randall wrote:
14 pounds
Mac Mac said:
14
Alan J answered:
14 pounds.
Cal in Vermont replied:
14 pounds avoirdupois, which is a French word widely used in English-speaking countries. Stone, not so much. What a world.
zorch responded:
A stone is 14 pounds.
mj wrote:
I think Twiggy was about 6 stone
It's equivalent to 14 lbs or about 6 kg.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
14 pounds to a stone
Daniel in The City replied:
14
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
One Stone equals 14 pounds.
Thank you for the Birthday greetings, Marty! We had a small, but nice celebration at home with my husband and my son. Other than that, there were some cards, presents, phone calls and lots of good wishes on social media. We have been Zooming with groups we usually see in person and Skyping with geographically distant family members. Thankful for the technology that keeps us connected in new ways. Stay safe and healthy everybody!
Saskplanner said:
I know this because I send part of the year (or did) in the UK..... 14 pounds!
Jacqueline answered:
14 lbs =1 stone. I've noticed they use that alot in the UK. It sounds like medieval times.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
There are 14 pounds in a stone, but no one knows how many stones are in the head of tRump.
Deborah responded:
A stone is equal to 14 U.S. pounds. Interesting that the Brits weigh in stone and pay in pounds.
So far no virus in either family or friends. This is our 3rd week of Shelter at Home, and we're managing better than I thought. I get out for the occasion girlfriend hike or bike ride and appreciate the few hours I'm away.
DJ Useo wrote:
Hmm, judging from Keith's pic, I would say 14. ( Me Lol )
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• Gustave Charpentier, French composer of the opera Julien, was invited to attend a performance of the opera at the Metropolitan Opera. Mr. Charpentier wanted to go, so in preparation for the sea voyage, he sailed in a boat for 15 minutes on the Seine. This short boat ride made him ill, and he declined the invitation to go to New York, having resolved to spend the rest of his life on land.
• Gustav Holst wrote At the Boar's Head (1925) while recuperating from a head injury. He was reading Shakespeare's Henry IV plays and studying English folk music, when he noticed that the melody of one of the folk songs fit a passage from one of the Henry IV plays. Because of that happy accident, he wrote an opera using folk songs and passages from the Henry IV plays.
Instruments
• Should junior high and high school musicians regularly clean their instruments? Trey Reely, the band director of Paragould High School in Paragould, Arkansas, thinks so. To persuade his students to do this, he tells a story that a repair technician told about a student who brought him a trombone that would not produce a sound no matter how hard he blew into it. The technician disassembled the trombone and discovered, clogging the bottom of the slide, three mice.
• Mstislav Rostropovitch owns a Stradivari cello with a long scratch on a lower bout. Why hasn't he had the scratch repaired? Because the scratch was made by a very important person. Napoleon Bonaparte had asked a previous owner for permission to play the cello, and as he was sitting down, one of his spurs made the scratch.
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• Who drummer Keith Moon did not take criticism kindly. He once stayed at the Hyatt House on Sunset Strip in LA. Walking through the lobby, he loudly played a tape recording of a Who rehearsal. People complained to the manager, who told him, "Turn that noise off." Mr. Moon went up to his room, where he had stashed away several detonator caps that were intended to be used at a Who concert. He affixed the detonator caps to the door of his room, and then he called the manager and said he needed to talk to him immediately. The manager came to his room, knocked on his door - and Mr. Moon set off the detonator caps, exploding the door into pieces. He pointed to the pieces of the door and told the manager, "That was noise." Then he pointed to his tape recording of the Who rehearsal and said, "This is The Who."
• When he was a very young man in Barcelona, cellist Pablo Casals performed in a production of Carmen. During intermission, a double bass player asked him what was the most beautiful part of Carmen. Mr. Casals mentioned both the prelude to the third act and the flower song, but the double bass player said that the most beautiful part occurred when the tenor sang, "Vous pouvez m'arrêter. C'est moi qui qui l'ai tuée." Mr. Casals replied that yes, that was beautiful, but then the double bass player added, "Listen to me, Pau. That is beautiful, because when I hear that I know that I will be going home in a few minutes." Mr. Casals said many decades later to Plácido Domingo, "Do you know, after more than eighty years, I cannot forgive that man for what he said that evening."
I recently created a ukulele resource that helps users find songs with "N" chords. And I was wondering if it's the type of tool that would interest your own guitar/ukulele readers (especially the ones who are also on lockdown).
Any constructive feedback would really help. I'd like to make this guide as useful as possible for beginners.
Spring must be here - the seasonal wandering skunk has made his presence known.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a RERUN'SEAL Team', then a RERUN'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Ryan Reynolds.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 2/11/20) are Anna Faris, Michael Peña, and Lou Sanders.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Joe Biden, Lady Gaga, and Marcus Mumford.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers is Martha Stewart.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Terry Crews.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a FRESH'Schooled', then a FRESH'Modern Family', followed by a FRESH'American Housewife', then a FRESH'David Blaine: The Magic Way'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Jessie Reyez.
The CW offers a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', followed by another RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'The Masked Singer'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'Home Alone', followed by the movie 'Jumanji'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Heart of Glory
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Child
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Where Silence Has Lease
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Elementary, Dear Data
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Outrageous Okona
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Loud as a Whisper
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Schizoid Man
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Unnatural Selection
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Matter of Honor
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Measure of a Man
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Dauphin
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Contagion
[6:00PM] MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN
[8:00PM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[10:00PM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[12:00AM] MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Loud as a Whisper
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Schizoid Man
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Unnatural Selection
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Matter of Honor (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Summer House', followed by a FRESH'Summer House', then another FRESH'Summer House', 'Very Cavallari', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Peter Rabbit', followed by the movie 'Peter Rabbit', again.
History has 'Forged In Fire', 'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', then a FRESH'Eating History', followed by another FRESH'Eating History'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Light Entertainment War
[6:45A] Mission: Impossible III
[9:45A] Bad News Bears
[12:45P] Up in Smoke
[2:45P] Old School
[4:45P] There's Something About Mary
[7:45P] Hot Tub Time Machine
[10:00P] Brockmire - Low and Away
[10:29P] Hot Tub Time Machine
[12:45A] There's Something About Mary
[3:46A] Brockmire - Low and Away
[4:15A] The Three Stooges
[4:30A] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[12:00pm] The Andy Griffith Show
[12:30pm] Escape From L.A.
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] Urban Cowboy (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift', followed by the movie 'The Goonies', then a FRESH'The Magicians'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan is Jesse Eisenberg.
One of the casualties of coronavirus-related social distancing measures has been public libraries, which are shut down in many communities around the world. This week, the Internet Archive, an online library best known for running the Internet's Wayback Machine, announced a new initiative to expand access to digital books during the pandemic.
For almost a decade, an Internet Archive program called the Open Library has offered people the ability to "check out" digital scans of physical books held in storage by the Internet Archive. Readers can view a scanned book in a browser or download it to an e-reader. Users can only check out a limited number of books at once and are required to "return" them after a limited period of time.
Until this week, the Open Library only allowed people to "check out" as many copies as the library owned. If you wanted to read a book but all copies were already checked out by other patrons, you had to join a waiting list for that book-just like you would at a physical library.
Of course, such restrictions are artificial when you're distributing digital files. Earlier this week, with libraries closing around the world, the Internet Archive announced a major change: it is temporarily getting rid of these waiting lists.
For almost a decade, the Internet Archive, an online library best known for its Internet Wayback Machine, has let users "borrow" scanned digital copies of books held in its warehouse. Until recently, users could only check out as many copies as the organization had physical copies. But last week, The Internet Archive announced it was eliminating that restriction, allowing an unlimited number of users to check out a book simultaneously. The Internet Archive calls this the National Emergency Library.
Initial media coverage of the service was strongly positive. The New Yorker declared it a "gift to readers everywhere." But as word of the new service spread, it triggered a backlash from authors and publishers.
"As a reminder, there is no author bailout, booksellers bailout, or publisher bailout," author Alexander Chee tweeted on Friday. "The Internet Archive's 'emergency' copyrights grab endangers many already in terrible danger."
The Authors Guild, a leading authors' organization, wrote Friday that it was "appalled" by the Internet Archive's move. "We are shocked that the Internet Archive would use the COVID-19 epidemic as an excuse to push copyright law further out to the edges, and in doing so, harm authors, many of whom are already struggling," the group wrote.
In a Monday blog post, the director of the emergency library project, Chris Freeland, wrote that the emergency library concept was inspired by the closure of libraries across the United States and around the world.
Former US president Barack Obama took a veiled swipe Tuesday at his successor Donald Trump (R-Grifter), chastising those who have "denied warnings" of a deadly coronavirus pandemic and cautioning against ignoring the consequences of climate change.
The popular two-term Democrat took to social media as the Trump administration finalized a controversial rollback of Obama-era vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards that were aimed at slowing global warming.
"We've seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic," Obama posted on Twitter.
"We can't afford any more consequences of climate denial. All of us, especially young people, have to demand better of our government at every level and vote this fall."
This January, East Antarctica - an area that previously seemed to be spared from climate warming - experienced its first recorded heat wave.
The heat wave was recorded at the Casey Research Station between Jan. 23 and 26, marking the area's highest temperature ever at 48.6 degrees Fahrenheit, while minimum temperatures stayed above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, according to research in Global Change Biology.
A rarity in Antarctica, heat waves are known as "three consecutive days with both extreme maximum and minimum temperatures," according to the research.
Meanwhile, Denman Glacier - a large glacier in East Antarctica - appears to be rapidly retreating. Its position above the world's deepest known canyon may be causing it to melt faster than it can recover, according to a letter in Geophysical Research Letters, Live Science reports.
Russia is sending the United States medical equipment to help fight the coronavirus outbreak, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
President Vladimir Putin made the proposal in a phone conversation with President Donald Trump on Monday, when they discussed the coronavirus and oil markets, directing their energy ministers to speak.
"Trump gratefully accepted this humanitarian aid," Interfax quoted Peskov as saying. A Russian plane with medical and protective equipment may leave for the United States on Tuesday, he added.
"It is important to note that when offering assistance to the U.S. colleagues, the president (Putin) assumes that when U.S. manufacturers of medical equipment and materials gain momentum, they will also be able to reciprocate if necessary," he added.
The grand jury records from the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia cannot be released despite their great historical significance, a federal appeals court said.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled 8-4 that federal judges don't have authority to disclose grand jury records for reasons other than those provided for in the rules governing grand jury secrecy.
Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey were riding in a car on a rural road in July 1946 when a white mob stopped it at Moore's Ford Bridge, overlooking the Apalachee River. The mob dragged the young black sharecroppers to the river's edge and shot them to death.
The slayings shocked the nation, and the FBI descended upon the rural community in Walton County, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Atlanta. Following a monthslong investigation, more than 100 people reportedly testified before a federal grand jury in December 1946, but no one was indicted.
Historian Anthony Pitch wrote about the killings - "The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town" - and continued his research after the book's 2016 publication. He learned transcripts of the grand jury proceedings, once thought to have been destroyed, were stored by the National Archives.
With humans sheltering indoors to escape the new coronavirus, mountain goats are taking advantage of the peace and space to roam in frisky clumps through the streets of Llandudno, a town in North Wales.
Andrew Stuart, a video producer for the Manchester Evening News, has been posting videos of the furry adventurers on his Twitter feed and they are racking up hundreds of thousands of views.
He said the goats normally keep largely to themselves, in a country park that butts up against Llandudno. But now emboldened by the lack of people and cars, the long-horned animals are venturing deeper into the seaside town. The U.K. has been in lockdown for the past week to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
His videos show the goats munching on people's neatly trimmed hedges and trees in front yards and loitering casually on empty streets as if they own the place.
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