• For several months, Albert E. Kahn photographed Soviet ballerina Galina Ulanova, but he is aware that his photographs record only a small part of her career — a career that has not been much recorded in photographs. He asked a Soviet photographer why more photographs were not taken of her, and the Soviet replied, “You know how it is when you are very close to something beautiful, so close that you can reach out and touch it with your hand? You sometimes tend to take that beauty for granted, as if it will always be there.”
• MAD occasionally uses photographs in its satires. Originally, the photographers — creators for MAD — used professional models, but the models were unable to pose satirically. This led the MAD creators to grimace and make funny faces to illustrate what they wanted the models to do. Eventually, someone figured out that they could get better photographs and save money by using MAD people, including MAD publisher William M. Gaines, in the photographs instead of professional models.
• At the 1998 American Choreography Awards show, Rose Eichenbaum went up to choreographer Daniel Ezralow and told him, “I am a talented photographer and would very much like to photograph you. Do you think that would be possible?” He told her, “I’m sure you are, and I’ll be happy to work with you.” He also gave her his private telephone number. The photo shoot went well, and they became friends. He later told her that he had to take her seriously because of how bold she had been.
• Christina Lessa is a renowned photographer of gymnasts. As such, she must be very persuasive and very creative. For example, her 1997 book, Gymnastics Balancing Acts, includes photographs of a barefoot Shannon Miller standing on top of a horse during a cold winter day, Dominique Dawes balancing near the edge of the top of a Times Square skyscraper, and Trent Dimas jumping near a steep incline by the Statue of Liberty.
• Ron Protas is renowned for his photographs of famous dancers and choreographers, including a silhouette photograph of Martha Graham in her old age sitting on a stool. He was always unfailingly polite. Whenever he was asked to leave a performance because he was taking photographs, he would chuckle, then leave by a door — and re-enter by another door so he could take more photographs.
• Portrait painting has at least one advantage over portrait photography. Queen Victoria once asked court painter Alfred Chalfont, whether photography would replace painting. The Frenchman replied, “Ah, non, Madame! Photographie can’t flattère.”
• Berenice Abbot wanted to go to the Bowery to take a few photographs, but a supervisor tried to stop her from going by telling her that nice girls did not go to the Bowery. She replied that she was a photographer — not a nice girl.
Portraits
• Wandering artists in the American frontier days used to make money by painting portraits with no faces. The portraits might be of one person, a married couple, or even an entire family, and the people in the portraits wore fancy, expensive clothing. The artist then traveled around, showing settlers the portraits. If a settler liked one, the artist would then paint in the face of the settler, or of the settler and his wife, or even the settler’s entire family, depending on which portrait the settler bought. Thus, many settlers owned portraits showing them wearing clothing they had never worn.
• Paul Cézanne was an Impressionist perfectionist. He made Ambroise Vollard sit 115 times while creating his portrait. When the portrait was finished, Mr. Cézanne declared that its only satisfactory part was the front of Mr. Vollard’s shirt.
Winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, it was written for Audrey Hepburn, but became Andy Williams' theme song. What is the title of this Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer classic?
Caraway fruits, commonly (erroneously) called seeds, are found in seeded rye or Jewish rye bread. Producing about 28% of the world's output, what country supplies the most caraway?
Caraway, also known as meridian fennel and Persian cumin (Carum carvi), is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to western Asia, Europe, and North Africa.
The plant is similar in appearance to other members of the carrot family, with finely divided, feathery leaves with thread-like divisions, growing on 20–30 cm (7.9–11.8 in) stems. The main flower stem is 40–60 cm (16–24 in) tall, with small white or pink flowers in umbels. Caraway fruits, commonly (erroneously) called seeds, are crescent-shaped achenes, around 2 mm (0.08 in) long, with five pale ridges.
In the United States, the most common use of caraway is whole as an addition to rye bread – often called seeded rye or Jewish rye bread. Caraway fruits are frequently used in Irish soda bread, along with raisins and currants.
Finland supplies about 28% (2011) of the world's caraway production from some 1500 farms, the high output occurring possibly from its favorable climate and latitudes, which ensure long summer hours of sunlight.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Finland.
Alan J answered:
Finland.
Jacqueline said:
Finland.
zorch wrote:
Egypt produces more.
Dave replied:
Finland. I guess when the industrious Finns aren’t raking the forests to prevent fires, they are raising caraway on their farms? Although Finland has long winters, Finns are rated among the happiest people on earth with high incomes, saunas and universal healthcare.
David of Moon Valley responded:
after a copious amount of morning research, and soem cinnamon-laced covfefe, i’m gonna have to go with Finland although other sources said Canada…who knows, maybe both are correct…it certainly ain’t the US of A, that’s for damn sure….
and Thanks for yesterday’s question that got Bad TTB Bob outta semi-retirement…always enjoy his informative responses and stories...
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Finland produces 28% of the world’s caraway, which is not what I would have expected. I make a Swedish Rye Bread with caraway and fennel, and orange peel, and it’s very light and fragrant. That’s my favorite way to use caraway. And Master Gardener designation or not, I did not know that caraway is a fruit, not a seed, and is kin to carrots.
My old (13.5 yrs.) dog started feeling poorly yesterday, and our local vet was booked, so back up to UC Davis Emergency clinic we went. They had a wait-time of 3-4 hours just to get him seen, let alone treated, so we came home, since he wasn’t acute. Local vet is still booked today, but she’ll call later and we’ll talk about what I can do to make him more comfortable. He won’t eat any of his dog food, but he sure liked the chicken my husband cooked and hand-fed him. Hmmm…
This year will probably get a whole lot worse for us before it gets better.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Finland supplies about 28% (2011) of the world's caraway production from some 1500 farms
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
Finland. Finland? Finland. Well.
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Music: "Concrete Jungle" from the album HENRY STONE'S MIAMI SOUL — THE RECORD MAN'S FINEST 45s
Artist: Little Beaver
Artist Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Info: This is a collection of 20 tracks by various artists whom Henry Stone recorded.
“Henry Stone was the ultimate Record Man.
“When Henry held a new release in his hand from one of his recording artists or a new record he distributed, you were going to hear about it. If you were in Henry’s path, no matter if you were in the music business, a cab driver, or the waiter in a restaurant, Henry was going to tell you about the latest and greatest record he had.
“The thing was when he did it, it never sounded like bragging; he just wanted the world to know about his next hit, and we are all very lucky he was behind some of the greatest music ever recorded.
“Henry and I were talking about promotion one day during what would be the last few months of his amazing life. We were getting into a conversation about how the industry had changed. Music distribution had changed, manufacturing of recorded music had changed. Reaching the music-buying customer, changed. Then we got to promotion and that one music industry word we all love — ‘Hype’. Henry Stone looked at me, paused, and said, ‘Well, that’s the one thing in our business that will never change — Hype.’”
"The United States needs a lot of things right now, including a comprehensive coronavirus testing strategy and 160,000 Americans to no longer be dead. We could also use a new president and fewer Republicans in Congress. We don't need college football. This isn't just a coastal elite dismissal of something “real Americans" enjoy. We don't need theater or movies, either. We want them. We'd desperately like to have them again. They are an important part of our lives, but the people who complain the most about our current lack of a “normal life" have done nothing to alleviate the situation. They've arguably made it worse, refusing to wear masks or social distance. Actions have consequences. Conservatives might think this unpleasant fact only applies to the poor, but they're wrong. And now they have no college football."
Worth repeating--memorize and say this every time your right-wing relatives or friends whine again:
the people who complain the most about our current lack of a “normal life" have done nothing to alleviate the situation. They've arguably made it worse, refusing to wear masks or social distance.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'Tough As Nails', then a RERUN'SEAL Team'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jason Sudeikis and April Ryan.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Brian Cox, Tim Minchin, and Sara Bareilles.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'World Of Dance', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paula Pell, and Jessie Reyez.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jeff Goldblum, Annie Murphy, and Sam Jay.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 4/6/20) are Adam Rippon and Iliza Shlesinger.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'United We Fall', followed by a RERUN'The Goldbergs', then a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel , with guest host Rob Lowe, is Danny DeVito.
The CW offers a FRESH'The 100', followed by a FRESH'Coroner'.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by another RERUN'Master Chef'.
MY recycles an old recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rambo: First Blood Part II', followed by the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Past Tense
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Past Tense
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Life Support
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Destiny
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Prophet Motive
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Visionary
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Hero Worship
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Violations
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Masterpiece Society
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Conundrum
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Power Play
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Ethics
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Outcast
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Cause and Effect
[8:00PM] ROAD HOUSE
[10:30PM] ESCAPE PLAN
[1:00AM] ROAD HOUSE
[3:30AM] ESCAPE PLAN (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 3½ hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'Corporate'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'Baywatch', followed by the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage', then the movie 'Straight Outta Compton'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Wee Wee Monsieur
[6:45A] Annabelle
[9:00A] Halloween
[11:30A] Cujo
[1:30P] Final Destination 3
[3:30P] Final Destination 2
[5:30P] Final Destination
[7:45P] Tremors
[9:45P] Tremors II: Aftershocks
[12:00A] Parks and Recreation
[12:30A] Parks and Recreation
[1:00A] Parks and Recreation
[1:30A] Parks and Recreation
[2:00A] Parks and Recreation
[2:30A] Parks and Recreation
[3:00A] Parks and Recreation
[3:30A] Parks and Recreation
[4:00A] Cujo (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
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[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 - A Stitch In Crime
[1:15pm] columbo - The Most Dangerous Match
[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
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[2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am] close up with the hollywood reporter - Comedy Actresses
[4:00am] perry mason
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SyFy has the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds', followed by the movie 'Beetlejuice'.
In the CBS' late-night hosts' first in-studio appearances since March, viewers were offered tours of their new filming arrangements, including Corden's redesigned Television City stage and a replica of Colbert's studio office in the Ed Sullivan Theater building.
After months away, James Corden and Stephen Colbert both detailed their studio comebacks Monday in short bits offering viewers an inside look at the new normal of late night.
Corden featured the redesigned Late Late Show studio at Television City in Los Angeles in a two-minute skit that saw him facing off with multiple new protocols while gearing up for showtime. Corden is seen doggedly navigating staff in masks, using hand sanitizing stations and maintaining a six-foot distance between himself and his house band. However, the skit's biggest bit was the invisible barriers Corden now faces, with the host walking directly into several germ shields on his way to the set.
Colbert's opening monologue featured significantly less action as the late-night host detailed his new filming arrangement. Last week, CBS had declined to share the whereabouts of Colbert's filming location, but in the three-minute opening, viewers finally see Colbert's new digs. While The Late Show host is back in the Ed Sullivan Theater building, he's not on stage.
Instead, he's upstairs in a replica of his studio office located four floors below his real one. Colbert notes that his desk, bookshelves, framed photos, hometown map, Captain America shield and a desk calendar featuring the date of his last in-studio appearance in March are all present.
Dwayne Johnson is the highest-paid actor in Hollywood for the second year in a row. Forbes released its annual list on Tuesday, which featured usual suspects like Johnson, Mark Wahlberg and Vin Diesel. And it’s interesting to note that six of the top 10 actors had one interesting thing common: Netflix.
Ryan Reynolds, Wahlberg, Ben Affleck and Diesel round out the top 5 thanks to Netflix, while Adam Sandler benefited the most from the streaming giant. Sandler, who came in at No. 9, was paid $31 million — 75 percent of what he made all year, according to Forbes — as part of his four-film, $250 million deal signed in 2014. It’s why he has popped up the list in recent years. Although some may not think of Sanders as the box office draw he was a decade ago, his Netflix film Murder Mystery is one of the company’s most-popular original films of all time.
Johnson, one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars, even got a boost from Netflix. Forbes estimates the actor earned $87.5 million in 2020, with $23.5 million being paid out by Netflix for the upcoming film Red Notice. The company spent more than any individual studio on Hollywood’s leading men, according to Forbes, and Netflix really invested in Reynolds.
Reynolds, who appears alongside Johnson in Red Notice, starred in this year’s Six Underground and he reportedly raked in more than $20 million a piece for both films. Netflix announced they are teaming up with the Deadpool star for a third film.
Forbes — which will release its list of highest-paid female actors next month — takes into account more than just acting gigs, as all of the leading men have business ventures that help catapult them to the top. Here’s a breakdown:
On Monday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Bryan Cranston, best known for his roles as Walter White on the critically acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad and as Hal Wilkerson on the early 2000's sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, addressed a very popular fan theory that Breaking Bad is a prequel to Malcolm in the Middle.
According to some fans, Walter White (spoiler alert) survived the series finale and assumed a new identity as Malcolm in the Middle patriarch Hal Wilkerson. So what does Cranston think of this fan-favorite theory?
On The Tonight Show, Cranston told Fallon jokingly, "I'm not at liberty to disclose that kind of information without security clearances."
Cranston then got serious as he put the theory to rest, stating, "I think it's fun but, you know, it's fun. I don't know. No, Walter White is definitely dead. He's dead, he's dead, he's dead. He's dead."
Although, whether or not we can believe Cranston remains to be uncertain — the last time the actor was on the late-night talk show, he totally lied about there being a Breaking Bad sequel in the works, which was later revealed as last year's Netflix original film, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
Micky Dolenz has been singing songs written by his fellow Monkee Michael “Nez” Nesmith since his earliest days in the group — when producers pegged tunes like “Mary Mary” for inclusion on their TV show and studio albums. And, later this year, Dolenz is taking his love for Nez’s songs to a new level when he records a new solo album devoted entirely to his bandmate’s music.
“I’ve always been a huge fan of his songs,” Dolenz tells Rolling Stone. “He’s just so prolific.” For the past five decades, Nez-penned songs like “Listen to the Band” and “Papa Gene’s Blues” have been at the center of the Monkees’ live show.
“I think I first mentioned this idea to Nez years ago when we first got together for a tour with Peter [Tork] after Davy [Jones] passed,” Dolenz says. “I don’t know where the idea came from, maybe from my friend Harry Nilsson and his [1970 Randy Newman tribute LP] Nilsson Sings Newman. I thought to myself, ‘Wow, Dolenz Sings Nesmith.'”
Recording has yet to begin and they haven’t even picked out the exact songs yet, but the record will be produced by Nez’s son Christian Nesmith with Monkee manager/historian Andrew Sandoval tackling A&R duties. The British label 7a, which specializes in Monkee-related albums, is releasing it. “They made me an offer I couldn’t refuse,” Dolenz says, slipping into a Marlon Brando accent. “They’re a nice, little company that really do good work. They do their homework and do these real nice packages.”
The team plans on combing through Nesmith’s entire catalog to find material for the LP, beginning with songs Nez wrote in his pre-fame days under the name Michael Blessing, through his stint in the Monkees when he generated classic tunes like “You Told Me” and “Tapioca Tundra,” to his groundbreaking country-rock work with the First National Band and the solo albums that followed.
For years, the state of Pennsylvania has had strict rules about who can stand in polling stations and challenge the eligibility of voters. The restrictions are meant to limit the use of “poll monitors” long sent by both parties to look out for voting mishaps but at times used to intimidate voters.
In June, the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign sued to ease those rules, saying they imposed arbitrary limits on the party's ability to keep tabs on the voting process no matter where it occurs.
The Pennsylvania lawsuit over an obscure slice of election law is just one piece of the party’s sweeping plan to expand poll monitoring this election year. Thanks to a federal court ruling that freed the party from restrictions, the GOP is mounting a broad effort to keep a close watch on who casts ballots.
The GOP is recruiting 50,000 monitors, typically party activists and specially appointed volunteers, across 15 battleground states. Meanwhile, the party has filed, or intervened in, lawsuits challenging election rules across the country, including cases in battleground states like Nevada, Wisconsin and Florida over laws related to absentee ballots and voting by mail.
Republicans say they are focused on preventing the fraud they have long maintained, without evidence, is rampant in U.S. elections. Democrats and voting rights groups fear the planned influx of poll watchers under the imprimatur of the RNC is a veiled effort to suppress Democratic turnout, particularly in minority communities.
If Donald Trump (R- were to square off with US founding father George Washington in an election, the current president would have had a leg up — so says Mr Trump.
“I don’t know if you’ve seen, the polls have been going up like a rocket ship. George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in, before the China plague. And then, you know, like every other nation, like other countries, when you get hit, it affects you, and we went down a little bit,” Mr Trump said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
The president has blamed several factors for his decline in the polls this summer against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who has led him by a nearly double-digit margin at times during the pandemic.
For his slide in the polls, Mr Trump has blamed China for allowing the coronavirus to spread around the world by covering up the seriousness of the initial outbreak. He has blamed Democrats, alleging they advocated lockdowns to cripple the Trump economy. And he has blamed a compliant media for going too easy on Mr Biden while being overly critical of the Trump administration.
In fact, more voters think Mr Trump is mentally unable to perform the office of the presidency than Mr Biden, poll data from July reveals.
A new analysis of the genomes of the most famous of ancient humans - Neanderthals and Denisovans - has revealed an as-yet-unidentified ancestor for our species – a branch of our distant family tree without any known label to put to it.
The study also finds further evidence of interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals, but places it much earlier than we previously knew - some 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. This interbreeding would therefore add new insight into the increasingly complicated history of our emergence as a species, and of our migration out of Africa.
There is the possibility that the unknown ancestor is actually Homo erectus, an archaic human ancestor thought to have died out more than 100,000 years ago – but as no H. erectus DNA has ever been found, we don't know for sure.
"What I think is exciting about this work is that it demonstrates what you can learn about deep human history by jointly reconstructing the full evolutionary history of a collection of sequences from both modern humans and archaic hominins," says computational biologist Adam Siepel, from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
As we've seen in other recent studies, the team used a Bayesian algorithm to dig deep into patterns in the genomes – in this case in DNA from two ancient Neanderthals, one ancient Denisovan, and two modern-day African humans. The model can then match the intermingling of DNA with certain periods of time.
Before streaming services, there was Blockbuster. Remember the excitement of the trip to the local store, wandering the aisles and looking for the perfect Friday night movie? If you were lucky, maybe your parents even let you pick out a candy from the display near the checkout line.
You can live out the Blockbuster experience one last time. For the first time, the world’s last store is now on Airbnb.
Bend, Oregon, store Manager Sandi Harding listed the iconic establishment for an end of summer sleepover as an appreciation for all that the local community has done to support the store during these difficult times, according to Airbnb. The three, one-night stays will give guests an opportunity to experience a '90s themed sleepover and relive the bygone Friday night tradition.
On Aug. 17 at 1 p.m. PT, movie lovers from the area are invited to request one of the nights -- either Sept. 18, 19 or 20 -- for up to four people.
Sleeping arrangements are communal and complete with a pull-out couch, bean bags and pillows to cozy up with “new releases” from the ‘90s.
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