From the New York Times:

In case anyone knows anyone in Florida, or, is just in awe of this natural phenomenon.

As of 8 PM Friday, 10-7, and projected path.

Here’s a graphic and I am also attaching a file.

English is fast becoming the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue.
John McWhorter
Linguist
Linguist John McWhorter thinks about language in relation to race, politics and our shared cultural history.

In his inimitable style, Walter Lanyon urges the reader to obey the command from the Source to “Thrust in the Sickle.” He says, “suddenly the harvest … But the laborers are few. What a command to contemplate for a moment, for an hour, or until you have a brief encounter with the Father.”

This book is filled with similar images and challenges.  (amazon.com)

“My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

Reality isn’t something you perceive; it’s something you create in your mind. Isaac Lidsky learned this profound lesson firsthand, when unexpected life circumstances yielded valuable insights. In this introspective, personal talk, he challenges us to let go of excuses, assumptions and fears, and accept the awesome responsibility of being the creators of our own reality.
Isaac Lidsky
Author, entrepreneur
Isaac Lidsky has a very eclectic resume.

A music video to video from the Andy Griffith Show.
Album: Teaches Of Peaches.

Merrill Beth Nisker, better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms, and for their use of sexually explicit lyrics. Wikipedia

Ghost (to Hamlet): Virtue, as it never will be moved,
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
So lust, though to a radiant angel link’d,
Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
And prey on garbage.

The story of the Penn Jilllette’s weight loss is, as you might expect from a Las Vegas entertainer, quite extreme. In fact it was the radical nature of his diet that made the prospect of losing weight so attractive. After consulting with his doctor, who wanted to surgically remove a portion of Penn’s stomach, a moderate diet was no longer an option.

With skyrocketing blood pressure and a veritable chest of pills he was swallowing each day, it became apparent that he might not live long enough to see his children pass into adulthood. And so as he puts it, he realized that his children were more important than chocolate cake.

A balanced diet and steady regime of exercise was not in the cards for Penn, who admires individuals who take extreme steps to reach extreme ends. Moderates? Penn just doesn’t get along with them. And so he chose the so-called mono-diet, selecting the potato as his mono-food.

For two weeks, he ate nothing but, baked or boiled, and lost 14 pounds as a result. After these initial weeks, he allowed himself to eat bean stew, salad, and other plant-based meals, but seldom animal products and never meat, he says. By his own admission, Penn had become habituated to salt, sugar, and fat, and how his extreme privations would break him of his unhealthy routines.

You may be thinking that this diet is for you. Well, you should consult a medical professional before making dietary changes. Or as Penn says: “If you take medical advice from a Las Vegas magician, you are an idiot who deserves to die.”

Penn is currently 17 months into his weight-loss adventure — indeed he has seen it as an adventure and a challenge in order to motivate himself — and once he reaches 2 years, he will consider it a major milestone in his own life and the lives of his children. Penn insists that he today he eats whatever he wants, but that what he wants has profoundly changed.

Penn Jillette’s most recent book is Presto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales.

“Most comedy is a search for justice.”

–comedian Jimmy Dore paraphrasing comedian George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic and author. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Wikipedia

James Patrick “Jimmy” Dore (born July 26, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and political commentator. Wikipedia

Novelist Parvulesco played by Jean-Pierre Melville in Jean-Luc Godard’s movie Breathless (1960)

Patricia Franchini:  “What is your greatest ambition in life?”

Parvulesco:  “To become immortal… and then die.”

“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park