Here’s a round up of new mashup videos from a handful of the best bootleggers. Notice how everybody goes their own way, style-wise, yet maintains a very appealing experience. Viewing numbers seem well done, who knows why? Covid-related? Perhaps.
• When World War I started, G.K. Chesterton wanted to fight for England, but an injury prevented him from raising an arm very high, thus making it impossible for him to join the infantry. In addition, his imposing weight made it impossible for him to join the cavalry. After taking thought of how he could serve his country in war, he said ruefully, “I might possibly form part of a barricade.”
Illustrations
• Children’s book authors sometimes have odd conversations with the artists who illustrate their books. After looking at Newsweek one day, Joanna Cole, author of The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System, called the book’s illustrator, Bruce Degen, to ask, “Bruce, have you painted Neptune yet?” She then told him that Newsweek had published some photographs that revealed that Neptune had a Great Dark Spot, something that astronomers had not known about before. Mr. Degen had already painted Neptune, but he was able to easily create a Great Dark Spot with a dab of dark grey paint.
• As a young man, Ludwig Bemelmans, author and illustrator of such children’s books as the Madeline series, lived in a sparsely furnished apartment. To brighten up the apartment, he painted scenic views on the window shades and pictures of elegant pieces of furniture on the walls.
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• Drama critic Percy Hammond occasionally did not like certain people, and he showed his dislike. After moving from Chicago to New York City, Mr. Hammond was attending a play when its press agent came up to him and asked, “Are you getting to like New York any better, or are you still lonely for Chicago?” Mr. Hammond replied, “Never so acutely as tonight.” Another time, Mr. Hammond was tired of the hero worship shown to Stuart Sherman, who became literary editor of the Herald after working at the University of Illinois. On hearing that Mr. Sherman was looking for an apartment in New York, Mr. Hammond asked, “Does he want to pay a high rent, or is he content with a walk-up shrine?”
• Unpublished authors sometimes besiege published authors, hoping for free criticisms of their works. A woman brought a play to Samuel Johnson and requested that he read and criticize it. Being already busy with his own work, Dr. Johnson begged off, saying that if she read through it herself with a critical eye, she would find the same mistakes he would. The woman said, “But sir, I have no time — I have already so many irons in the fire.” Dr. Johnson replied, “Then, madam, the best thing I can advise you to do is put your tragedy along with your irons.”
• Author G.K. Chesterton became annoyed by the noise made by a local film studio located near his house because it interfered with his writing. Eventually, he sent his secretary to complain to the head of the studio. She made a strong protest: “The situation is becoming impossible. … Mr. Chesterton can’t write.” The studio head replied, “We were well aware of that.”
• In his autobiography, Ave Atque Vale, writer George Moore criticized one of his former professors. The professor, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, responded, “Moore is one of those folks who think that Atque [Latin for and] was a Roman centurion.”
• Oscar Wilde listened to Frank Harris tell a long story which turned out to be a paraphrase of a story by Anatole France. Afterward, Mr. Wilde said, “What a charming story, Frank. Anatole France would have spoiled it.”
This song about a goddess by a Dutch rock band reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 7 February 1970, and again in 1986 when it was recorded by an English girl group. What is the title of this chart topping song?
A dryad is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology. Drys signifies "oak" in Greek, and dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, but the term has come to be used for tree nymphs in general, or human-tree hybrids in fantasy. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Dryads are female spirits which live in trees, usually oak, but they can also inhabit ash, pine, poplar, apple and laurel trees.
Randall wrote:
oak trees
Jacqueline said:
They usually live in oak trees.
Alan J answered:
Oak Trees.
mj replied:
Dryads abide
In trees. Some trees even provide saddles
Mac Mac responded:
Trees
zorch said:
Dryads live in trees.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Among trees. Hamadryads live with specific trees. When the tree dies, so does the hamadryad. There is a great big and dying pine tree a hundred yards in back of the house. I will do what I can for her...
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
They uniquely exist to watch over & care for the tree they are born with and in rare cases, groves and other creatures
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Dryads live in oak trees. Interesting.
So during the night the wind started howling out of the north, new fires sprang up, PG&E has cut power to thousands here in NorCal, and at 8:30 a.m. the sky is literally ashen-colored. These are strange times, indeed.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
According to my internet research, Dryads live in oak trees.
Since I took the day off yesterday, I missed the "Little Dab'll Do Ya" trivia question. Of course, I'm old enough to remember Brylcreem. I take issue their slogan that I would want to run my fingers though anyone's hair coated with that stuff!
Speaking of running fingers through someone's hair, here's a Brylcreemed-up Elvis singing "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" in 1957.
Dave in Tucson responded:
I don't know. With the sirens?
The sirens sweetly singing...
Daniel in The City said:
Forest or trees.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) wrote:
Ah! Another question for history majors. Dryads live in trees, we all know that. I'm tired, I'm going to bed, I had a busy day.
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He is No. 14 on the Rolling Stone list of 100 Greatest Singers.
Hi Records is the premier Memphis Soul Record Label of the 1970's and home to Al Green, Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson, Otis Clay, Willie Mitchell, and more.
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Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'Love Island', then '48 Hours'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 8/27/20) are Chris Christie and Gregory Porter.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Gabrielle Union and Nick Cave.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by the FRESH'Inspire Change', then a RERUN'Chicago Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kevin Hart, Josh Charles, and Chika.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are John Cleese and Glenn Howerton.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 1/22/20) are Abigail Spencer, Rodrigo Santoro, and Michael Palascak.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN'black-ish', then a RERUN'The Conners', followed by a RERUN'American Housewife', then a RERUN'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN'The Conners'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Brad Paisley, is Rainn Wilson.
The CW offers a FRESH'The 100', followed by a FRESH'Coroner'.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by another RERUN'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'I, Robot', followed by the movie 'Bad Boys II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - HIS WAY
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE RECKONING
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - VALIANT
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - PROFIT AND LACE
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - TIME'S ORPHAN
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE SOUND OF HER VOICE
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - ELEMENTARY, DEAR DATA
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE OUTRAGEOUS OKONA
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - LOUD AS A WHISPER
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE SCHIZOID MAN
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - UNNATURAL SELECTION
[5:00PM] SE7EN
[8:00PM] THE CONJURING
[10:30PM] SE7EN
[1:30AM] THE CONJURING
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - LOUD AS A WHISPER
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE SCHIZOID MAN (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', another 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has all old 'South Park' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle', followed by the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle', again.
IFC -
[6:15am] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Scotch
[6:45am] The Three Stooges - Beer Barrel Polecats
[7:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1206: Ator
[9:00am] Piranha 3D
[11:00am] Christine
[1:30pm] The Mist
[4:15pm] Event Horizon
[6:30pm] Pitch Black
[8:45pm] The Shining
[3:00am] Parks And Recreation
[3:30am] Parks And Recreation
[4:00am] Piranha 3D (ALL TIMES ET)
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] columbo - Murder By The Book
[1:15pm] columbo - Death Lends A Hand
[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] close up with the hollywood reporter - Comedy Showrunners
[4:00am] perry mason
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Inferno', followed by 'WWE NXT', then the movie 'Taken 2'.
One of the hallways in Dickey Betts’ home in Osprey, Florida, displays all the mementoes you’d expect to find associated with a former Allman Brothers guitarist, singer and renegade: awards for best-selling albums, photographs of now-deceased bandmates, a vintage guitar or two. But two framed letters, both from 1975, practically leap off the walls. “I understand that your current tour has been a great success … Please give my best regards to your parents,” reads one. Another, from the following month, goes: “My campaign is going well, thanks to great friends like you.”
The letters were hand-written by Jimmy Carter, who at the time was in the midst of a presidential race; the Allmans, who were from his home state of Georgia, had befriended him and helped raise money for his campaign. The following year, Carter would win the presidency, a one-term affair fraught with accomplishments and disappointments. His principle footprint will remain achievements like the Camp David accord between Egypt and Israel, the championing of human rights and solar power, and his pushback against the Soviet Union and Latin strongmen.
But another of his legacies is undeniable: Before the classic-rock- and jazz-loving Bill Clinton and the hip-hop-friendly Obama, Carter was the first American president with even a remote connection to rock and roll. Although he hadn’t grown up with the music, which didn’t exist during his teen years, the politician understood its impact and reach, as well as the big business it had become by the Seventies. (The topic is explored in director Mary Wharton’s Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, which has its “virtual” premiere on Sept. 9th.) And in a manner that was both sincere and shrewd, he aligned himself with rock in ways no previous candidate or president had. Carter’s term paved the way for Oval Office visits by the likes of Beyoncé and Kid Rock, benefit concerts by indie and pop acts, and, for a fleeting moment, a White House record collection that would earn the begrudging admiration of even the biggest music snob.
Carter’s connection with rock culture wasn’t a given. He was born in 1924, a good three decades before the music arrived; contrasting with rock’s anti-war stance, the future president attended the U.S. Naval Academy and went onto be a naval officer. After, he became a capitalist businessman, by way of a family-run peanut farm, store and warehouse. When Dylan went electric at Newport in 1965, Carter was 41 — the median age of a generation that would have been appalled or simply not remotely interested in that jarring moment in pop history or rock itself. He talked in a hip-pastor drawl and had the air of a shy, reassuring clergyman — in Southern rock terms of the era, less Betts and more Gregg Allman.
But Carter’s interest in civil rights set him apart; in 1964, he and his wife Roslyn were the only whites to cast a vote to admit African-Americans to the Plains Baptist Church. He got hip to Dylan’s early folk period and later talked about how rock artists like Dylan were able to “express a basic philosophy of enlightenment and compassion and sing about the search for peace, the relief of racial discrimination and the worth of the human being.” In a speech many years later, in the Seventies, Carter cited “Maggie’s Farm” as helping him grasp relations between “the landowner and those who worked on the farm.”
Derek Hough has joined “Dancing With the Stars” as a judge for the show’s upcoming season.
Hough, a professional dancer on the show, will replace Len Goodman, who is exiting his longtime judges-table role due to circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. Goodman, is expected to participate in another capacity in the new season of the ABC reality competition, albeit remotely from the United Kingdeom.
Hough, who was a professional dancer on the show from 2007 to 2016, will serve as a judge this season alongside Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli.
The changes at the judges table followed the surprise announcement in July that Tyra Banks would join the show as host for the coming season, taking over from Erin Andrews and original host Tom Bergeron. Last week, the show announced a new cast for the coming season that includes Carole Baskin, Nelly, AJ McLean, Monica Aldama, Jesse Metcalfe, Anne Heche, Johnny Weir, Vernon Davis, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Justina Machado, Charles Oakley, Jeannie Mai, Skai Jackson, Chrishell Stause and Nev Schulman.
In his book released today, Michael Cohen, the former fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump (R-Unfit), ties for the first time the 2016 presidential endorsement of Trump by American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr to Cohen’s own role in helping to keep racy “personal” photographs of the Falwells from becoming public.
As Reuters reported last year, the Falwells enlisted Cohen to keep “a bunch of photographs, personal photographs” from becoming public, Cohen said in a recording, made surreptitiously by comedian Tom Arnold. “I actually have one of the photos,” he said, without going into specifics. “It’s terrible.”
In “Disloyal: The Memoir,” Cohen describes thinking that his involvement in the Falwell photo matter would be a “catch and kill” — the practice of American tabloids to obtain and then suppress unfavorable stories about celebrities — “but in this case it was just going to be kill.”
He later writes: “In good time, I would call in this favor, not for me, but for the Boss, at a crucial moment on his journey to the presidency.”
More than 100 pensioners in Austria have mistakenly been sent coronavirus relief cheques by the US, it has emerged.
Manfred Barnreiter, a 73-year-old living in Linz, told Austria’s ORF national broadcaster of his astonishment when he opened his post to discover a cheque for $1,200 (£920) bearing Donald Trump’s signature.
His bank conducted an audit and found the cheque was genuine. Three days later the full amount was transferred to his account.
Mr Barnreiter believes he may have been sent the cheque because he worked for a short time as a waiter in the US during the sixties.
But he is mystified as to how his wife, who has never even visited the US, also received a cheque for $1,200.
In early August, more than 460,000 motorcycle enthusiasts converged on Sturgis, S.D., for a 10-day celebration where few wore facial coverings or practiced social distancing. A month later, researchers have found that thousands have been sickened across the nation, leading them to brand the Sturgis rally a “superspreader” event.
“The Sturgis Rally was one of the largest in-person gatherings since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States,” said Joseph J. Sabia, one of the study’s authors, a professor of economics and the director of the Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies at San Diego State University. He described the “public health costs” of the rally as “substantial and widespread.” He and his co-authors estimate that dealing with the fallout from the rally will involve more than $12 billion in health care costs.
“The spread of the virus due to the event was large,” the authors write, because it hosted people from all over the country. But the severity of the spread was closely tied to the approaches to the pandemic by Sturgis attendees’ home states. In some places, any spread related to people returning from the rally was blunted by strong mitigation measures, like a face-mask mandate or a prohibition against indoor dining.
The findings come in a new paper, “The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19,” published by IZA — Institute of Labor Economics, a German think tank. Its four authors are all researchers affiliated with American universities.
Record floods in Sudan have threatened sites housing the royal pyramids of Meroe and Nuri, two of the country's most important archaeological areas, an official said on Tuesday.
The royal bath at Meroe, a basin that fills during the annual flooding of the Nile, was at risk from unprecedented water levels, and teams have been working since Monday to protect the site from being swamped, said Hatem al-Nour, director of Sudan's antiquities and museums authority.
Meroe is an ancient city on the east bank of the River Nile about 200 km (125 miles) northeast of the capital Khartoum. It was the capital of the Kush dynasty that ruled from the early 6th century B.C.
At Nuri, about 350 km north of Khartoum, tombs buried 7-10 metres underneath pyramids had been affected by a rise in groundwater, Nour said.
The Nuri pyramids include the tomb of Taharqa, who ruled over lands in modern day Sudan and Egypt in the 7th century B.C. They are an "invaluable historical relic", Nour said.
A hairless, leathery horror found encrusted in Alpine ice is a chamois that died 400 years ago.
The long-dead goat-antelope was discovered in Val Aurina, South Tyrol, Italy by Italian alpinist and champion skier Hermann Oberlechner, who was on a 6-hour hike from civilization when he noticed something strange sticking out of the ice.
"Only half of the animal's body was exposed from the snow," Oberlechner said in a statement. "The skin looked like leather, completely hairless; I had never seen anything like it. I immediately took a photo and sent it to the park ranger, together we then notified the Department of Cultural Heritage."
The discovery is reminiscent of other ice mummies found at high altitudes, including the famous "Iceman" Ötzi, whose 5,300-year-old mummified body was found by hikers in the Italian Alps in 1991. That similarity has scientists excited about the find: They now plan to use the rare chamois mummy to learn how to better preserve ancient DNA for analysis in the lab, hoping to be prepared the next time a human mummy appears out of the ice.
Some 313 million years ago, a large lizard-like creature crawled up a coastal sand dune in what is now the Grand Canyon. Some time later, a light dew wetted the tracks cementing them in place and then a wind-blown sand buried them, preserving the animal's clawed footprints for eons.
The paleontologists who studied the trackway say they are the oldest recorded vertebrate tracks in Grand Canyon National Park. Tetrapods, or four-legged beasts, left this set of tracks, along with another set imprinted a little later in time. The second set of footprints was laid down after some sand had accumulated in the first set, and the researchers said these prints could belong to the same species.
These ancestors of modern reptiles lived in the sand 250 million years before T. rex, and they would have walked using a highly evolved gait.
Allan Krill, a Norwegian geology professor, initially discovered the imprinted tracks in 2016 while leading his students along Bright Angel Trail on an annual field trip to the Grand Canyon. He noticed the fossilized footprints etched into a fallen boulder at the base of a canyon on the trail. Krill took photos of the prints and sent them to Steve Rowland, a geologist who often accompanied the Norwegian group on their trips.
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