There are two traditional terms used to describe a person involved in falconry: a falconer, who flies a falcon and an austringer (German origin) who flies what kind of bird(s)?
Jellyfish, jellies or sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles, although a few are not mobile, being anchored to the seabed by stalks. The bell can pulsate to provide propulsion and highly efficient locomotion. The tentacles are armed with stinging cells and may be used to capture prey and defend against predators. Jellyfish have a complex life cycle; the medusa is normally the sexual phase, the planula larva can disperse widely and is followed by a sedentary polyp phase.
Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to the deep sea. Scyphozoans (the "true jellyfish") are exclusively marine, but some hydrozoans with a similar appearance live in freshwater. Large, often colorful, jellyfish are common in coastal zones worldwide. The medusae of most species are fast growing, mature within a few months and die soon after breeding, but the polyp stage, attached to the seabed, may be much more long-lived. Jellyfish have been in existence for at least 500 million years, and possibly 700 million years or more, making them the oldest multi-organ animal group.
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Dave said:
Jellyfish. Getting caught in a group of jellyfish is a very unpleasant experience for people swimming or wading in the ocean, and is a much more common experience that being bitten by a shark. But if you happen to be stung by a mindless jellyfish, don't believe the old wives tale that urine is an antidote for Jellyfish venom. It doesn't help at all and just makes you look ridiculous when your friends are peeing on you.
Cal in Vermont replied:
The terms in question refer to a group of jellyfish. Also a "confusing abundance". Spongebob: "Oh, look, Patrick! A fluther of jellyfish!" Patrick: (smacks forehead*) "I'm confused, Spongebob! There is such an abundance!"
*fivehead in Denmark
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
jellyfish
Deborah (who is celebrating another revolution around the sun) wrote:
I found that "fluther" refers to a group of jellyfish. As for "smack," aside from the usual references to heroin and physically striking with an open hand, I found smack to be defined as a small amount, as in "I put a smack of garlic in the soup."
A busy Saturday for me - guess I better be like a pistachio and get crackin'.
Billy in Cypress responded:
"Fluther" and "Smack" are collective nouns for JELLYFISH! I made a quick search on Google since I had never heard of the word "Fluther" and "Smack" only in other contexts, slap and heroin. Jellyfish now remind me of CpPDJT-ID since everything they touch is damaged or killed in the process of becoming fodder for the BLOB menacing our nation.
Kevin K., in Washington, DC, replied:
When swimming, you don't to run into a smack (or fluther) of jellyfish.
DJ Useo said:
Issa jellyfish, innit? I been stung by them more than once.
Joe S wrote:
That would be jellyfish.
Years ago when Russia was part of The Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union was communist, and communism rode under a red banner, like the Fascists do now, Rudolph and Lena decided to take a vacation trip to Moscow. The were no allowed to just wander about on their own, but had to travel with a sanctioned tour. The tour was conducted by a Communist Party member and they were shuttled around town in an old bus.
Just as the tour started on the first day the weather turned very cold and it started to snow. Rudolph became a bit worried about how the old bus was going to hold up in the cold and snow, and he questioned the Communist about the safety of the bus in a snow storm. "No," said the tour leader, "Is not snowing, is rain." Rudolf got a little hot under the collar and argued a bit, but the tour guide told him it was raining and to sit down and be quiet. This upset Rudolph greatly and he turned to Lena and complained about the guide. Lena saw the Communist guide watching them closely and wanted to settle Rudolph down before they got into trouble, so she turned to her husband a said, "Rudolph, the Red knows rain dear."
I got a million of 'em.
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• As pioneers traveled from east to west across North America in covered wagons, often they had very little change in their diets. One pioneer woman with a sense of humor wrote that about the only change in the diet of her and her family consisted of eating bacon and bread instead of bread and bacon.
• Poet Nikki Giovanni, author of "Ego-Tripping," believes in family, and she also believes in being prepared. She feels that grandmothers ought to know how to bake cookies and other goodies for children, and when she realized that she would soon be a grandmother, she learned how to bake.
• When members of the Native American tribe of the Ojibway (also known as Chippewa) gather wild rice, their sacred food, they take only as much as they need. They know that the rest of the rice will be used. Birds will eat it, and it will provide the seed for next year's crop of wild rice.
• At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, located at the South Pole, food is kept in a walk-in refrigerator. Unlike ordinary refrigerators, however, the South Pole refrigerator is kept heated so that the food doesn't freeze.
• Allison, an eight-year-old girl being homeschooled in Minnesota, likes to eat "ants on a log." To make this treat is easy: Put some peanut butter on a stick of celery, then put some raisins on the peanut butter. (Yummy.)
• Eight-year-old Nicole liked to eat spaghetti, but she liked to slurp her spaghetti - eating spaghetti in a polite way is no fun. That's why she stopped ordering spaghetti in restaurants.
• Some of the work that Debbi Fields of Mrs. Fields' gourmet cookies does sound interesting. In a single day, she once tasted 800 brownies in an attempt to find the perfect brownie recipe.
I heard a great pun this past week on 'Late Night w/ Stephen Colbert'
and loved it. He said that Canada has now changed it's national anthem to "Oh,
Cannabis"! LOL! I just had to go do a search and actually found 2 YouTube! videos
where the folks had re-written their anthem, before Canada had even legalized
recreational marijuana.
So, I'm sending links to both, even though I'm a day late
and a dollar short for the 'pun' thing...enjoy!:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'God Friended Me', then a FRESH'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a FRESH'Madam Secretary'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars Jr.', then a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by a FRESH'The Alec Baldwin Show'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Supergirl', followed by a FRESH'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESHRel'.
MY recycles an old 'Cops', followed by another old 'Cops', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Space Rabbit
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-Fans of Wet Circles
[8:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-Two Broken Fingers
[9:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 11-Revelations
[10:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 12-War of the Coprophages
[11:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 13-Syzygy
[12:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 14-Grotesque
[1:00PM] RED DRAGON (2002)
[3:30PM] BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1982)
[6:00PM] UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (2012)
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 3-Rosa
[9:10PM] UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (2012)
[11:10PM] UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (2012)
[1:10AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 3-Rosa
[2:20AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
[3:40AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE SNOWMEN
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 6-The Bells of Saint John (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Married To Medicine', followed by a FRESH'Married To Medicine', another 'Married To Medicine', 'Get A Room With Carson & Thom', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'The Watch', followed by the movie 'Talledega Nights: The Ballad Of Bobby Ricky'.
FX has the movie 'Independence Day: Resurgence', followed by the movie 'Jurassic World', then the movie 'Jurassic World', again.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges-A Pain in the Pullman
[6:30A] The Three Stooges-Woman Haters
[7:00A] Night Flight-Movie Star President and Shock Rock
[7:15A] Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
[9:30A] Deep Impact
[12:15P] The Chronicles of Riddick
[2:45P] Transporter 3
[5:00P] Braveheart
[9:00P] Hancock
[11:00P] Hancock
[1:00A] Braveheart
[5:00A] Night Flight-Dr. Ruth Good Sex Special
[5:30A] The Three Stooges-A Pain in the Pullman (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] law & order
[7:00am] law & order
[8:00am] law & order
[9:00am] law & order
[10:00am] law & order
[11:00am] law & order
[12:00pm] law & order
[1:00pm] good morning, vietnam
[3:30pm] three amigos!
[6:00pm] airplane!
[8:00pm] caddyshack
[10:00pm] airplane!
[12:00am] three amigos!
[2:30am] good morning, vietnam
[5:00am] m*a*s*h
[5:30am] m*a*s*h (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince'.
Amy Schumer is staging her own kind of NFL protest. Considering the comedian doesn't suit up on Sundays with the option of kneeling during the national anthem, she wants to hit the National Football League one way she knows how.
"I personally told my reps I wouldn't do a Super Bowl commercial this year," Schumer wrote on Instagram Friday. "I know it must sound like a privilege-ass sacrifice, but it's all I got. Hitting the NFL with the advertisers is the only way to really hurt them."
The I Feel Pretty star began her lengthy social media statement by pondering "why more white players aren't kneeling."
"Once you witness the truly deep inequality and endless racism people of color face in our country, not to mention the police brutality and murders. Why not kneel next to your brothers? Otherwise how are you not complicit?" the 37-year-old funnywoman wrote.
Schumer went on to say "it would be cool" if rumored Super Bowl halftime performer Maroon 5 backed out of the show. Her remark comes amid reports that Rihanna turned down an offer to perform in support of Colin Kaepernick.
The actress shared on Instagram Saturday that she was diagnosed with the immune disease in August. The 46-year-old was inspired to share her health update by the kindness of costumer Allisa Swanson on the Netflix show they're currently working on, Another Life. Blair wrote that Swanson "carefully gets my legs in my pants, pulls my tops over my head, buttons my coats and offers her shoulder to steady myself," Blair wrote. "I am disabled. I fall sometimes. I drop things. My memory is foggy. And my left side is asking for directions from a broken gps. But we are doing it."
Blair, who said she was encouraged by fellow actress Elizabeth Berkley to see her brother, Jason Berkley, MD, apparently had MS symptoms for years and says she probably "had this incurable disease for 15 years at least."
After finding lesions, which are typically found on the spinal cord or in the brain, she's "been in the thick of it." However, Blair says she hopes "to give some hope to others. And even to myself. … I want to play with my son again. I want to walk down the street and ride my horse."
Blair said that she's "OK" but added that "if you see me dropping crap all over the street, feel free to help me pick it up. It takes a whole day for me alone. Thank you and may we all know good days amongst the challenges."
Philadelphia songwriter Daniel Marino, who filed a lawsuit over Usher's "Bad Girl," has been awarded $44.35 million following a court battle over the track.
According to the Associated Press, a jury ordered Marino's former co-writer William Guice to pay $6.75 million in compensatory damages, along with $20.25 million in punitive damages last week at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Destro Music Productions, which is owned by co-defendant Dante Barton, will also pay Marino $17.35 million, which brings the lawsuit's total to $44.35 million. The Philadelphia Inquirer also reported that Marino now owns a third of the song's ownership rights.
The plaintiff alleged that, in 2001 and 2002, he worked on a song "Club Girl," creating the majority of the song including the "guitar hook, tempo and chord progression." The track, eventually renamed "Bad Girl," appeared on Usher's 2004 album Confessions, but didn't credit Marino for his work on the song. However, Usher, wasn't named in Marino's suit.
The lawsuit initially started in 2011 against Usher and 20 other defendants for "breach of contract, fraud, and other accusations." All of the cases were dismissed except for Marino's lawsuit.
"For seven years, against all odds, we believed in our client and his claims," Marino's attorney Francis Malofiy told the Inquirer. Malofiy previously co-starred in Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement trial as the lawyer for Randy Wolfe's estate, and will appear in the lawsuit's sequel.
Matthew Broderick has been cast as Peter, a new love interest for Laurie Metcalf's character, on "The Conners," an ABC spokesperson told TheWrap on Friday. The actor will be making his debut on the "Roseanne" spinoff during the Halloween episode, which airs Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. on ABC.
But before Broderick comes to Lanford, another big guest star will be stopping by, and he's bringing by a romantic partner too. Yes, Tuesday's episode, titled "Tangled Up in Blue," will see the previously-announced return of Johnny Galecki, Darlene's (Sara Gilbert's) ex David, who is coming back with new girlfriend Blue (Juliette Lewis).
Justin Long will also recur as Darlene's new beau, so, drama, drama, drama afoot for the whole Conners family. And they just (kinda) got over Roseanne's death!
The ABC comedy serves as a spinoff to "Roseanne," which was canceled after series creator Roseanne Barr sent out a tweet suggesting that former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett is a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the "Planet of the Apes." The star's tweet caused an immediate backlash on Twitter and ultimately led to ABC's decision to cancel the series.
Conservative street artist Sabo hijacked a Hollywood billboard to swap out the head of the fictional serial killer Michael Myers with that of California congressperson Maxine Waters. The massive billboard on Pico Boulevard in West Hollywood was originally put in place to advertise the 2018 Halloween movie, which debuted on October 19. Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the billboard features a knife-wielding Waters with the hashtag "uncivil democrats."
The Halloween movie is a sequel to the original 1978 film directed by John Carpenter. The billboard originally featured a mask-clad Myers in his signature jumpsuit raising a large knife. Now, the billboard remains intact, but instead of Myers, the body is topped with the head of Maxine Waters.
Waters has taken criticism for her fiery comments at political rallies.
"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. You push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere," Waters said at one rally.
Waters' opponent in the mid-term elections, Omar Navarro (R-Who?), used the billboard as a rallying call for his followers.
Life expectancy in 2040 is set to rise at least a little in all nations but the rankings will change dramatically, with Spain taking the top spot while China and the United States trade places, researchers said Wednesday.
With a projected average lifespan of nearly 85.8 years, Spain -- formerly in 4th place -- will dethrone Japan, which sits atop the rankings today with a lifespan of 83.7 years, and will drop to 2nd place in 2040.
In a shift that will be seen by some to reflect a superpower changing-of-the-guard, the world's two largest economies effectively swap positions compared to 2016: in 2040 the US drops from 43rd to 64th (79.8 years), while China rises from 68th to 39th (81.9 years).
The researchers found other nations set to lose ground in the race towards longevity include Canada (from 17th to 27th), Norway (12th to 20th), Australia (5th to 10th), Mexico (69th to 87th), Taiwan (35th to 42nd) and North Korea 125th to 153rd).
Moving up the ranking are Indonesia (117th to 100th), Nigeria (157th to 123rd), Portugal (23rd to 5th), Poland (48th to 34th), Turkey (40th to 26th), Saudi Arabia (61st to 43rd).
The herpes virus could be linked to at least half of all Alzheimer's disease cases, a scientist has claimed.
Professor Ruth Itzhaki, who has spent more than 25 years at the University of Manchester investigating a potential link between the two, said studies carried out in Taiwan suggested that the risk of dementia was much greater in those infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV).
Prof Itzhaki said: "The striking results include evidence that the risk of senile dementia is much greater in those who are infected with HSV, and that anti-herpes antiviral treatment causes a dramatic decrease in number of those subjects severely affected by HSV1 who later develop dementia.
Prof Itzhaki used Taiwan for the research as 99.9% of the population is enrolled in a National Health Insurance Research Database, which is being mined for information on microbial infections and disease.
But Prof Itzhaki said: "It should be stressed that the results of these Taiwanese studies apply only to severe HSV1 (or VZV) infections, which are rare.
Ancient organs rarely fossilize, so paleontologists were stunned to find the incredibly well-preserved remains of a lung that belonged to bird from the dinosaur age.
Initially, scientists were excited to describe the specimen of Archaeorhynchus spathula, a bird that lived about 120 million years ago, because its fossil had exquisitely preserved feathers, including a unique pintail that isn't seen in any other Cretaceous bird, but is common in birds nowadays.
A closer inspection, however, revealed that the bird's lungs had also fossilized, meaning the paleontologists had discovered the oldest "informative" fossilized lung on record (more on that later) and the oldest fossilized lung ever seen in a bird fossil, said study co-lead researcher Jingmai O'Connor, a professor with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The fossil itself is from the early Cretaceous Jehol Lagersta¨tte formation in northeastern China, but O'Connor and her colleagues found it at the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, in Pingyi, where an avid fossil collector houses the thousands of bird fossils he's purchased over the decades.
This is the fifth described A. spathula specimen - a toothless, pigeon-size bird - but it's by far the best preserved, O'Connor said. That's especially because of the speckled, white material in its chest cavity that appears to be a fossilized lung.
For thousands of years, humans have looked up at the stars and ordered them into constellations: the Hulk ... the TARDIS ... Schrödinger's cat.
Not familiar with these? That's probably because you can't see them without a gamma-ray telescope - and also, NASA just invented them.
To highlight the first decade of discoveries recorded by NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, U.S. astronomers have connected the dots on the universe's invisible sources of gamma-ray energy. This allowed the researchers to map 21 brand-new constellations onto the celestial sphere. You won't see these shapes in the night sky; despite being the universe's most powerful sources of light, gamma-rays are invisible to human eyes. But you can see the shapes all on a new interactive website crafted by NASA scientists and artist Aurore Simonnet, of Sonoma State University in California.
"Developing these unofficial constellations was a fun way to highlight a decade of Fermi's accomplishments," Julie McEnery, a Fermi project scientist and an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. "One way or another, all of the gamma-ray constellations have a tie-in to Fermi science."
Since it was deployed in 2008, the Fermi telescope has been scouring the cosmos for sources of gamma-rays. These high-powered rays are invisible to us but hurtle constantly across space. They shine out of exploding stars, strobe off of spinning pulsars and radiate from the edges of unfathomably powerful black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. (According to NASA, about half of the universe's known gamma-ray sources fit into that last category.)
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