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"One" is a song written by Harry Nilsson and made famous by Three Dog Night whose recording reached number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1969 and number four in Canada. The song is known for its opening line "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do". Nilsson wrote the song after calling someone and getting a busy signal. He stayed on the line listening to the "beep, beep, beep, beep..." tone, writing the song. The busy signal became the opening notes of the song.
Three Dog Night played "One" in the key of F minor, and it was released as the second single from Three Dog Night's eponymous first album. It became their first of seven gold records over the next five years.
The song reached number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at number two on the Cash Box Top 100. It also reached number four in Canada.
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Dave responded:
One. The song's title is also "One." Neither Three Dog Night or Nilsson have ever been finalists for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Three Dog Night I understand, given the RRHF's bias against artists who don't compose their own songs and weren't considered outstanding musicians, but Nilsson was a very successful composer, was well respected in the industry, and was considered perhaps the top male vocalist at one time. And then I see them inducting non-rockers like Whitney Houston and rapper Biggie Smalls?
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
1 is the loneliest number
Daniel in The City said:
One is the loneliest number
Deborah wrote:
One. One is the loneliest number.
The wind has abated and I'm headed outside for some dog-walking and bike riding. Luckily work can wait until later today.
John I from Hawai`i says,
One
DJ Useo answered:
The loneliest number is "one". Sadly, despite it being a Nilsson-written song, I've never liked it.
S'funny, I REALLY like "Louie, Louie", & that's not a very well written song at all.
Cal in Vermont replied:
One.
Leo in Boise responded:
One
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
One is the loneliest number
Dave in Tucson answered:
"ONE is the loneliest number that you'll ever do". ONE of the few TDN
tunes I liked.
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Song: "Bunny Freak" from the album THE BUNNY TRACKS (EP)
Artist: Ellen Moseley
Artist Location: St. Augustine, Florida
Info: "If you've never hadda rabbit, you might not understand … if you have, you'll wave your big ol' bunny flag!"
"I'm one of those leftty players that turns right-handed instruments up-side-down and plays 'em that way. All these songs are homegrown/home recorded … no artificial colorings or flavors added! Everything you hear is me (lyrics, vocals, guitar, harmonica, banjo, ukulele, keys, and sound engineering) except the lead guitar on Rabbit Blues … that was Nate Nakadate. Hope you enjoy a coupla listens!"
elinaringa (a fan) wrote, "l love your bunny songs! Thank you very much for your music!"
Price: $1 (USD) for song; $4 (USD) for four-song album.
In the spirit of President Trump, Conan is giving the Presidential Medal Of Freedom to literally everyone in his audience. Even the raccoon in the rafters.
• Daigan, a Zen monk, was studying when a thief walked into his apartment and robbed him. As the thief was leaving, Daigan asked him to shut the door to keep the thieves out.
Critics
• Sir Neville Cardus, a critic, once complained in print that Sir Thomas Beecham had conducted at a much too rapid tempo the final act of Siegfried, thus marring an otherwise fine performance. Sir Thomas, of course, had an explanation. He told Sir Neville that the orchestra had been in the pit since 5:30 p.m., the pubs closed at 11 p.m., the audience had homes to get to, and so, after looking at his watch just before the final act and discovering that it was already after 10 p.m., he had decided to conduct the final act quickly and let everyone go about their business.
• Austrian Emperor Joseph II once said about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, "Too beautiful for our ears and a great many notes, my dear Mozart." Mozart replied, "Exactly as many as are necessary, Your Majesty."
• German composer Max Reger did not take criticism lightly. He once wrote a critic who had savaged his work: "I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."
• Pianist Moriz Rosenthal disliked much modern music. He once listened to three piano students rehearsing three different pieces of music at a school for pianists, then said, "Ah, modern music."
Death
• Sometimes people die of hunger; sometimes this happens because of pride. In Vilna in the 19thcentury, a rich man became poor. Because of his pride he kept up appearances, and he did not ask for help, and so he died because of lack of food. The townspeople were ashamed that anyone could die in their midst in this way, but Rabbi Israel Salanter (1810-1883) told them, "That man did not die of starvation, but of excessive pride. Had he been willing to ask others for help and admit to his situation, he would not have died of hunger."
• Elimelekh of Lyzhansk (d. 1786), a Hasidic Rebbe, felt that when he died, he would be asked several questions in the Heavenly court of justice: Had he been as just as he could have? Had he been as charitable as he could have? Had he studied as much as he could have? Had he prayed as much as he could have? To each of these questions, he would have to answer, "No." However, he also believed that "the Supreme Judge will smile and say, 'Elimelekh, you spoke the truth. For this alone you will have a share in the world to come.'"
• According to the Midrash, when you die, you will have three friends. Your first friend - money - will not go with you when you die. Your second friend - your family and neighbors - will go with you only as far as your grave. Your third friend - your good deeds - is the only friend who will accompany you to the next World and defend you before the Judge.
• Tenor Enrico Tamberlik was able to read his own highly complimentary obituary notices after a rumor started in 1882 that he had died. He pasted the notices in an album and enjoyed reading them until his death seven years later.
• When Mulla Nasrudin realized that he was dying, he decided to play one final joke. He ordered that his tomb have a huge, locked door to keep intruders out, but he also ordered that his tomb not have any walls.
Sunny, and while not as cold, still brisk (for these parts).
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'The Unicorn', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'Carol's Second Act', then a FRESH'Tommy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Pete Buttigieg and Patton Oswalt.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 11/12/19) are Laurie Metcalf, Jenny Slate, and Billy Lockett.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', followed by another FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'Will & Grace', followed by a FRESH'Indebted', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are RuPaul and Meghan Trainor.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Elijah Wood, Ben Schwartz, Paul Yoon, and Ilan Rubin.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Stephanie Beatriz.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Station 19', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then FRESH'A Million Little Things'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Billy Crystal, the Tenderloins, and Kelsea Ballerini.
The CW offers a FRESH'Katy Keene', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Outmatched', then a FRESH'Deputy'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Alaska PD', followed by a FRESH'60 Days In'.
AMC offers the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'Elysium', then the movie 'A Walk Among The Tombstones'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BEAR GRYLLS: ESCAPE FROM HELL - Jungle
[7:00AM] BEAR GRYLLS: ESCAPE FROM HELL - Desert
[8:00AM] BEAR GRYLLS: ESCAPE FROM HELL - Canyons
[9:00AM] BEAR GRYLLS: ESCAPE FROM HELL - Mountains
[10:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Hidden World
[11:00AM] WILD SINGAPORE - Urban Wild
[12:00PM] WILD SINGAPORE - Islands
[1:00PM] WILD SINGAPORE - Forest Life
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: ENCHANTED KINGDOM
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Congo
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Cape
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Sahara
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Kalahari
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Savannah
[9:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - South America
[10:29PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Congo
[11:30PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Cape
[12:30AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - South America
[1:59AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Kalahari
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - Savannah
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - The Future
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE MAKING OF AFRICA (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', 'Project Runway', followed by a FRESH'Project Runway', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', then a FRESH'Alone: The Beast'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Back to the Woods
[6:30A] Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
[8:30A] Drillbit Taylor
[11:00A] Rudy
[1:30P] Home Alone
[4:00P] Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
[6:45P] Ghostbusters
[9:00P] Ghostbusters II
[11:30P] Ghostbusters
[1:45A] Ghostbusters II
[4:15A] Toast of London - Hamm on Toast
[4:46A] Toast of London - Bob a Job
[5:17A] The Three Stooges - Back to the Woods
[5:47A] The Three Stooges - Heavenly Daze (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] Tootsie
[11:00am] Stir Crazy
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[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] Law & Order
[2:00am] Tootsie
[4:30am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[5:05am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[5:40am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire'.
Yeardley Smith, the actress who voices Lisa on "The Simpsons," slammed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday after he tweeted an image of the character ripping up an essay - an apparent jibe at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who tore up a copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech.
Pompeo tweeted a still from the 1991 episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" that shows Lisa, an idealistic young liberal, tearfully destroying an essay about American greatness that she wrote for a children's contest in Washington, D.C.
"I might just add f--- you @mikepompeo for co-opting my character to troll @SpeakerPelosi," Smith tweeted Wednesday morning. "Be a leader and fight you own fight! Oh, wait I forgot, you're a follower."
Smith criticized Pompeo in response to a tweet from Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-NJ. He was one of several Twitter users who pointed out that Lisa only rips up the essay because she overheard a crooked congressman taking a bribe from a lobbyist, souring her on Washington.
"In this episode Lisa loses her faith in democracy after seeing a corrupt politician selling out American values and liberty. Like your boss," Pascrell tweeted, directing his ire at Pompeo. "Nice self-own though."
Katy Perry received an honor in the U.K. on Tuesday night, presented to her by His Royal Highness Prince Charles. While there was a lot of planning and pomp and circumstance surrounding the honor, it came as a shock to many. Perry was named ambassador for the British Asian Trust - despite being neither British nor Asian.
On its Twitter account, the British Asian Trust said the organization would work closely with Perry to shine a light on efforts to fight human trafficking and give children a safer future.
The choice of Perry for the role sparked a barrage of disapproving comments. "So [were] all the British Asians unavailable for the job? Pretty disappointing this one won't lie," one Twitter user wrote.
"Probably the most confusing thing ever no offense to Katy but as it's British Asian trust should it not be someone who represents that? She's not British either and there are many people in the industry who could have taken this role too," another Tweeted.
IMDb TV, the free, ad-supported streaming service owned by Amazon, has acquired rights to more than 20 scripted TV titles controlled by Disney's Direct-to-Consumer & International division.
The roster of shows whose free streaming rights are going to IMDb includes Desperate Housewives, My So-Called Life, White Collar and The Glades, among many others. In the coming months, Lost, Malcolm in the Middle and Ally McBeal will start streaming on IMDb, with Lost and Malcolm having the Amazon platform as their exclusive free streaming home.
In conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Lost finale on ABC, all 121 episodes of Lost will start streaming on May 1. All 112 episodes of Ally McBeal will be available on April 1 and all 151 episodes of Malcolm in the Middle will hit the platform on June 1.
The other titles heading to IMDb TV in the deal are Army Wives, Boston Legal, Graceland, L.A. Law, Legends, Lie to Me, Private Practice, Revenge, Roswell, St. Elsewhere, Terra Nova, Ugly Betty, The Unit and Witches of East End.
IMDb TV, which is available across a range of connected devices and platforms, is one of the leading ad-supported video on demand [AVOD] services in the U.S. It says its commercial load is about half that of linear television. AVOD is a surging part of the overall streaming landscape, with NBCUniversal planning an AVOD tier of Peacock, which launches in April, and ViacomCBS continuing to expand Pluto TV, which it acquired last year. Other players include Tubi TV and Crackle.
Robert Pattinson has been proclaimed the most beautiful man in the world, at least according to cosmetic surgeon Dr. Julian De Silva. As British tabloid the Daily Mail revealed, De Silva came to the conclusion through the "science" of the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi, which measures physical perfection taken from the "golden ratio" which artists and architects employed during the European Renaissance.
"Robert Pattinson was the clear winner when all elements of the face were measured for physical perfection," De Silva said. "These brand new computer mapping techniques allow us to solve some of the mysteries of what it is that makes someone physically beautiful and the technology is useful when planning patients' surgery."
The "golden ratio" was first created to aid artists in the creation of their work, and the mathematical formula behind it has since been adapted to help explain beauty. Close attention is paid to the symmetry and proportion of the face when working out the average.
The former Twilight star, who has since gone on to give terrific performances in films like Good Time and The Lighthouse, was found to be 92.15 percent "accurate" to the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi. His facial features were measured up with other male celebrities, with Henry Cavill, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney close behind at 91.64, 91.08, 90.51, and 89.91 percent respectively.
"He was in the top five for nearly all the categories because he has such classically shaped features and a wonderful chiselled jaw," said De Silva of Pattinson. "His only score below average was for his lips." So there it is. According to science, Pattinson will be the most beautiful Batman to date, apparently.
At least 138 people deported to El Salvador from the U.S. in recent years were subsequently killed, Human Rights Watch says in a new report that comes as the Trump administration makes it harder for Central Americans to seek refuge here.
A majority of the deaths documented by Human Rights Watch in the report being released Wednesday occurred less than a year after the deportees returned to El Salvador, and some within days. The organization also confirmed at least 70 cases of sexual assault or other violence following their arrival in the country.
The violence underscores the risk faced by people forced to return by U.S. law that mandates deportation of non-citizens convicted of a range of crimes and Trump administration policies that discourage asylum seekers, said Alison Leal Parker, the group's U.S. managing director.
The. U.N. reported last year that killings in El Salvador, a majority of them linked to gang conflict, have declined from a peak of more than 6,000 in 2015. But the country still has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
Meanwhile, the number of Salvadorans seeking asylum in the United States grew by nearly 1,000 percent between 2012 and 2017, many citing threats from gangs. Only about 18 percent are granted asylum.
Arctic permafrost can thaw so quickly that it triggers landslides, drowns forests and opens gaping sinkholes. This rapid melt, described in a new study, can dramatically reshape the Arctic landscape in just a few months.
Fast-melting permafrost is also more widespread than once thought. About 20% of the Arctic's permafrost - a blend of frozen sand, soil and rocks - also has a high volume of ground ice, making it vulnerable to rapid thawing. When the ice that binds the rocky material melts away, it leaves behind a marshy, eroded land surface known as thermokarst.
Previous climate models overlooked this kind of surface in estimating Arctic permafrost loss, researchers reported. That oversight likely skewed predictions of how much sequestered carbon could be released by melting permafrost, and new estimates suggest that permafrost could pump twice as much carbon into the atmosphere as scientists formerly estimated, the study found.
Frozen water takes up more space than liquid water, so when ice-rich permafrost thaws rapidly - "due to climate change or wildfire or other disturbance" - it transforms a formerly frozen Arctic ecosystem into a flooded, "soupy mess," prone to floods and soil collapse, said lead study author Merritt Turetsky, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Across the Arctic, long-frozen permafrost is melting as climate change drives global temperatures higher. Permafrost represents about 15% of Earth's soil, but it holds about 60% of the planet's soil-stored carbon: approximately 1.5 trillion tons (1.4 trillion metric tons) of carbon, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
From the bubbling hot springs of Yellowstone to the ultra-sterile rooms used to build spacecraft, there's scarcely a place on Earth where life hasn't, somehow, managed to survive and even thrive. "Life, uh, finds a way," a wise man once said. Even the walls of a fallen nuclear reactor, still beaming with radiation, are crawling with an unusual gang of fungi.
In fact, a number of fungi species are known to inhabit the extremely radioactive environment that emerged out of the infamous Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. All in all, scientists have documented around 200 species of 98 genera of fungi - some tougher than others - living around the ruins of the former nuclear power plant.
Not only do some of these fungi manage to grin and bear the high levels of radiation, a few actually eat the radiation itself. Known as "'black fungi" or radiotrophic fungi, these select few species are armed with melanin - the same pigment in human skin that helps protect from ultraviolet radiation - that allows them to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy for growth. It's also thought to help shield themselves from the harmful radiation.
"In many commercial nuclear reactors, the radioactive water becomes contaminated with melanotic organisms [with black pigmentation]. Nobody really knows what the hell they are doing there," microbiologist Arturo Casadevall of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City told Scientific American in 2007.
Research by Casadevall and his team found that radiation-munching fungi found at Chernobyl - such as Cladosporium sphaerospermum, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Wangiella dermatitis - are able to withstand ionizing radiation approximately 500 times higher than background levels. Furthermore, they actually appear to grow faster in the radiation's presence. Other studies have noted how the fungi point their spores and hyphae towards the source of radiation as if reaching out for food.
Most healthy people experience little variation in their heart rates at rest, but a new study shows that normal resting heart rates can differ between individuals by an astonishing 70 beats per minute.
The findings challenge the conventional approach to taking this simple vital sign - doctors typically check resting heart rate at every visit, but only to make sure it falls in a "normal" range. Instead, the new results suggest that monitoring how an individual's resting heart rate fluctuates over time may tell physicians more about his or her health than comparing a snapshot of his or her heart rate to that of the general population.
"What is normal for you may be unusual for someone else and suggest an illness," said study co-author Giorgio Quer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, California. Viewing a person's heart rate data over the long term "may prove to be a rich source of information" for evaluating their health, Quer said.
For example, some studies have suggested that increases in a person's resting heart rate could be an early sign that the individual has an infection. However, the current study did not examine whether changes in heart rate were linked with changes in health, which should be the subject of future research. "It is worth considering that a rising [resting heart rate] may serve as an early warning sign of a physiologic change," the authors wrote in the study, published today (Feb. 5) in the journal PLOS One.
Resting heart rate is perhaps the most fundamental vital sign. It is also among the most temperamental. While 70 beats per minute (bpm) is considered normal in healthy adults, athletes often have resting heart rates far below that, and pregnant women typically have resting heart rates a good deal above the average. Meanwhile, resting heart rates below 65 bpm and above 90 bpm have both been linked to higher risk of cardiovascular disease, according to previous research.
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