Deborah Orr: "The world is aghast over Trayvon Martin. The US needs to look at itself" (Guardian)
What kind of self-defence is this, when you decide that someone is trouble, and that you're going to stalk him, safe in the knowledge that if things get out of hand … well, you're armed? Yet a jury decided that going out armed, looking for a particular person to defend yourself against, is still self-defence, and on 13 July Zimmerman was acquitted of murder.
Connie Schultz: From My Perch of White Privilege (Creators Syndicate)
"Tell the boys," he said to me over and over. "Tell the boys this comes from me: If the police stop you, don't ever run. Take your hands out of your pockets. Immediately. Put your hands over your head. Immediately. Stand perfectly still, and keep your opinions to yourself."
Lenore Skenazy: I Can Handle the Tooth (Creators Syndicate)
[The Tooth Fairy] exists not as an anorexic Barbie with hair extensions and an enamel addiction. She's the person you kind of think could be your mom (or dad) but you kind of think is something else. My son, 15, just told me he'd thought "she" was a sparkly light. His friend says he thought the fairy was a guy. Yeah, a guy with wings.
Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier. Kojak's Greek American heritage, shared by actor Savalas, was prominently featured in the series.
The series was set in the New York City Police Department's Eleventh Precinct (the building shown was actually Ninth Precinct), Manhattan South Patrol Borough. The show revolved around the efforts of the tough and incorruptible Lieutenant Theodore ("Theo") Kojak (Telly Savalas), a bald, dapper, New York City policeman, who was fond of Tootsie Roll Pops and using the catchphrase, "Who loves ya, baby?"
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mj was first, and correct, with:
A man of many trade mars
Lolly pops, shaved head, stylish overcoat (nicely fitted), taking care of his brother, would be Kojak (Telly Savalas) Sunday night fixture on CBS.
Alan J said:
Kojak
Maurice wrote:
Kojak
Charlie responded:
Kojak (too easy).
DanD replied:
Finally, I've taken time to bite! From nose-hoser (no, not hoosier)
jokes to treat-sucker revelations, sounds alot like my life when I was
younger ... wait-a-minute, IT WAS a part of my life when I was younger
(was I ever really younger?)! The things we can so easily remember
without even trying. Back then it was three basic stations, and
nowadays, I've available several hundred (but only when I visit a
friend's house) ... mostly with grander versions of the same insipid
(mumble, grumble, stumble, how'd I wind up on this side of the bed?)
pseudo-law enforcement characters.
Isn't this QotD about an old (at least he looked old when I was
younger ~) bald-headed cop-actor guy thematically mouth-melting hard
candy? T.S. as Kojack I think.
Adam answered:
Kojak
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Kojak
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Theo Kojak." Although I never watched the program.
Sally said:
"Kojak" (Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas) was known for the catchphrase, "Who loves ya, baby."
"Yo Telly" (you used to be so cool...)
PS: Heat has, 'let up' but not a whole lot...
I thought of sleeping on my patio last night, but the mosquito's are fierce out there - not to mention the resident fox... (I've seen his red eyes at night...)
Randall responded:
that Tootsie-pop suckin bald guy:
Kojak
Telly Savalas
Marian is on an adventure.
Dale of Hot Diamond Springs, Norcali, took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Lt. Theo Kojak played by Telly Savalas.
BttbBob replied:
Telly Savalas as "Lt. Kojak"... Who, frankly, I thought was creepy and I didn't view the program gladly. See, I saw "The Dirty Dozen" (when I was 15) before "Kojak" came to be and I could never get past his portrayal in that film of the psychopathic, bible-thumping, women-hating, rapist/murderer "Archer Maggott" ...
Yeah, he kills her with that bayonet... after he terrorizes her for a while...
... just for the fun of it. So, every time I heard Kojak's signature line of "Who loves ya, Baby" (which was not very often, never by choice), my mind flashed to the above scene. What makes it all the more creepier is that Savalas held a psychology degree from Columbia. Maybe he used that in his sadistic characters (e.g. also "Feto Gomez" in "The Birdman of Alcatraz"). I am aware that Savalas was considered by those that knew him closely as a kind and generous man. But... He creeped me out.
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Link Comment - The 'Ten Heaviest Helicopters in History' sure brought back a vivid CG memory involving #8, the twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook...
Summer of '86, I think it was, my CG lighthouse team camped out at Middle Island Lighthouse in northern Lake Huron...
... and removed, by hand, 2 - 1000 gallon diesel fuel tanks that were buried near the upper building (the generator house). Dug those bad-boys up and hoisted them out of the ground by block and tackles rigged to tripods we built (they were almost empty). We rolled them over near the beach between the keeper's house and the generator house. We next rigged bridles for hoisting them off. Two Pennsylvania Air National Guard CH-47s flew in to pick them up and fly them to the mainland. They flew in and hovered about 8 feet above the ground and guess who got to dash in under them and slam the bridle ring onto to the center hook? Oh, yeah... Right underneath 24k pounds of hovering chopper in a hurricane down-blast. Not once, but twice...
But, hey... "Badtothebone", and all, ya know what I mean?
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CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', then another RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a FRESH'Under The Dome'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Cate Blanchett, Aisha Tyler, and Franz Ferdinand.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Tim Meadows and Sara Bareilles.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by a FRESH'Get Out Alive With Bear Grylls', then a FRESH'Siberia'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Gillian Anderson, Jim Rash & Nat Faxon, and Kenny Chesney.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Howie Mandel, Eliot Spitzer, Kings of Leon, and Ronald Isley.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 1/31/13) are Dominic Monaghan and Regina Spektor.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH'Mistresses'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/9/13) are Kevin Bacon, Diane Kruger, and the Bacon Brothers.
The CW offers a RERUN'Hart of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Pointe'.
Faux has a RERUN'Raising Hope', followed by another RERUN'Raising Hope', then a RERUN'New Girl', followed by a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Duck Dynasty', another 'Duck Dynasty', still another 'Duck Dynasty', yet another 'Duck Dynasty', 'The Glades', and 'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'Gothika', followed by the movie 'The Mummy', then the movie 'The Mummy Returns'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 5
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 6
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 17 - Birthright, Part 2
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 18 - Starship Mine
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 19 - Lessons
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Glass House
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Fenwick Arms
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 5
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 6
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 6
[7:30PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 2
[8:30PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 3 NEW
[10:00PM] DANGERMAN: THE INCREDIBLE MR. GOODWIN - Season 1 - Episode 3 NEW
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 3
[12:30AM] DANGERMAN: THE INCREDIBLE MR. GOODWIN - Season 1 - Episode 3
[1:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 2
[2:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 3
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 3
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Below Deck'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', then 'Keye & Peele', 'Futurama', 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat ... I'm Fluffy', and 'Aziz Ansari: Dangerously Delicious'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart John Oliver is Louis C.K.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Kjerstin Gruys.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 2', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man 3'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'God, Guns & Automobiles', followed by another FRESH'God, Guns & Automobiles'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Stop-Loss
[8:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Aziz Ansari Wears a Charcoal Blazer
[9:00AM] Escape From Alcatraz
[11:30AM] Miracle at St. Anna
[3:00PM] Scarface
[5:30PM] Jarhead
[8:00PM] Mystic River
[11:00PM] The Pledge
[1:45AM] Mystic River
[4:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt and Glasses
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Aziz Ansari Wears a Charcoal Blazer (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Top of the Lake-Episode 1
[7:00AM] Gods and Monsters
[9:00AM] All the President's Men
[11:30AM] Thelma & Louise
[1:45PM] A'mare
[2:00PM] Manic
[3:45PM] Gods and Monsters
[5:45PM] Thelma & Louise
[8:00PM] Wonder Boys
[10:00PM] Push Girls-Love Me or Leave Me
[10:30PM] Push Girls-Episode 10
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-Hermanos
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Bug
[1:00AM] Push Girls-Love Me or Leave Me
[1:30AM] Push Girls-Episode 10
[2:00AM] Wonder Boys
[4:00AM] Uncertainty (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Saw VI', 'Fear Factor', and another 'Fear Factor'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Bill Hader, Lake Bell, and Jimmy Eat World.
Tina Turner is celebrating her wedding to Erwin Bach with a party at her Swiss lakeside estate near Zurich.
Swiss media are reporting that pop stars David Bowie, Sade and talk show impresario Oprah Winfrey are among the more than 120 guests invited to Sunday's Buddhist-inspired event.
Zurich police spokeswoman Esther Surber says authorities are temporarily barring boats on Lake Zurich from nearing Turner's Chateau Algonquin estate in the Kuesnacht municipality to prevent onlookers from causing accidents on the waterway.
About a month ago, the 73-year-old American pop star tied the knot with Bach, a 57-year-old German music executive and her longtime beau, at the town hall in the wealthy community.
From left, actors Craig Ferguson and Vera Farmiga at "The BATES MOTEL Party" presented by A&E and the Hollywood Reporter at 2013 Comic-Con International on Saturday, July 20, 2013 in San Diego.
Photo by Todd Williamson
The "Modern Family" star wed longtime love Justin Mikita in New York City on Saturday, according to Us Weekly.
The ceremony was officiated by playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner.
Among the more than 200 guests at the ceremony were "Modern Family" stars Eric Stonestreet, Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen, along with Padma Lakshmi, Zachary Quinto, "So You Think You Can Dance" judge and producer Nigel Lythgoe, Jerry O'Connell and wife Rebecca Romijn, the mag reported.
Long before Ernest Hemingway first wrote a story, his mother was busy writing about him.
Grace Hall Hemingway started a series of scrapbooks documenting the childhood of the future Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner by describing how the sun shone and robins sang on the day in July 1899 when he was born.
Starting Sunday, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston will make the content of five Hemingway scrapbooks available online for the first time, giving fans and scholars the chance to follow the life of one of the 20th century's literary greats from diapers to high school degree.
Hemingway Collection curator Susan Wrynn said much of the content hasn't been made available to the public before and only a few researchers have seen it in its entirety. The fragile leather-bound volumes have been kept in a dark vault for about four decades to keep them from falling apart.
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen seen at the 20th Century Fox Presentation at 2013 Comic-Con, on Saturday, July, 20, 2013 in San Diego, Calif.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
During the height of the civil rights movement, a gentle book about a black boy in a red snowsuit crunch-crunch-crunching through the snow broke down racial barriers and now is the subject of an upcoming exhibit.
Ezra Jack Keats' beloved 1962 book, "The Snowy Day," is credited as the first mass-market children's storybook to feature a black protagonist - a preschooler named Peter joyfully exploring the snow-covered sidewalks in his New York City neighborhood.
The National Museum of American Jewish History is presenting a retrospective, "The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats," from July 19 to Oct. 20. The exhibit includes more than 70 original works, ranging from preliminary sketches to final paintings and collages.
The son of white Jewish immigrants from Poland, Keats was born Jacob Ezra Katz in New York City's Brooklyn borough in 1916 and grew up in poverty. Artistically gifted but unable to attend art school, he started out working as a sign painter, comic book background illustrator and Works Progress Administration muralist before creating children's books.
The Coast Guard says singer Kelly Rowland was among the passengers on a private boat escorted back to Cape Cod after the captain became disoriented.
Lt. Ruairi White tells the Cape Cod Times that the boat's captain was following a commercial whale-watching vessel Friday, lost sight of the boat and became disoriented north of Provincetown.
The Coast Guard directed a commercial towboat operator to escort the private vessel back to Provincetown.
Rowland is a founding member of Destiny's Child, where Beyonce got her start. The group briefly reunited this year when Rowland and Michelle Williams joined Beyonce for a Super Bowl performance.
Cast member Alex Borstein attends the FOX "Family Guy" panel on Day 2 of Comic-Con International, on Saturday, July 20, 2013 in San Diego, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta
After decades of scrambling on the underside of California bridges to pluck endangered peregrine falcon chicks from ill-placed nests, inseminating female birds and releasing captive-raised fledglings, wildlife biologists have been so successful in bringing back the powerful raptors that they now threaten Southern California's endangered shorebird breeding sites.
As a result, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will no longer permit peregrine chick rescues from Bay Area bridges, a move that they concede will likely lead to fluffy chicks tumbling into the water below and drowning next spring.
"It's a paradox," said Marie Strassburger, chief of the federal agency's division of migratory birds and habitat in Sacramento. "Yes, chicks are cute. I won't deny that for a second."
"We see the loss of a chick by natural causes as an educational moment as this happens in nature all the time," said Strassburger. "The peregrine falcons on the bridges in the Bay Area just happen to be in a very visible spot so the public is more aware of it."
Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in the 1950's TV series, "The Adventures of Superman, attends the "Superman" 75th Anniversary panel on Day 4 of the Comic-Con International on Saturday, July 20, 2013 in San Diego.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Georgia is famous as a major producer of the peach, the fuzzy succulent orange fruit whose image appears on state license plates, "welcome to Georgia" billboards and on road signs. When driving in the capital city of Atlanta, you can pass the corner of Peachtree Street and Peachtree Center Avenue, just one block from West Peachtree Street.
There's just one problem: Blueberries are Georgia's most lucrative fruit crop, by far.
In a little-noticed development, the value of blueberry production in Georgia beat the peach crop in 2005 - and the gap has grown even bigger since then, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture surveys.
Blueberries generated an estimated $94 million for Georgia growers in 2012, meaning the blueberry crop was more than three times as valuable as the nearly $30 million peach crop.
Zoe Saldana arrives at the "Guardians of the Galaxy" panel on Day 4 of Comic-Con International, Saturday, July 20, 2013, in San Diego.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
A drummer from Toronto has broken the world record for fastest drumming, according to the organizers of the World's Fastest Drummer competition in Nashville, TN. Tom Grosset demonstrates his speed tapping skills in a video from the "extreme sport drumming" competition, breathing heavily in concentration as he maintains the steady rat-tat-tat on the drum.
When the meter exceeds 1,203 strokes in under a minute, listed by the organization as the previous record, spectators burst into cheer. The description says Grosset reached 1,208 strokes before the minute was over.
While drumming might not seem to warrant a place in the category of extreme sports, since its motions are almost imperceptible at times, a study in 2008 found drummers playing rock concerts needed endurance comparable to a professional soccer player.
If you're still not sold on the suspense of counting drum beats, but you prefer your extreme sports with an element of sitting down, consider becoming a fan of chess boxing. Athletes alternate between rattling each others brains with boxing gloves and using those brains to compete at chess.
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson attends the FOX "Cosmos" panel on Day 4 of Comic-Con International on Saturday, July 20, 2013 in San Diego, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta
Moviegoers were ready for a fright this weekend, sending "The Conjuring" into first place at the box office.
The Warner Bros. haunted-house horror - based on a true story - debuted with $41.5 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Starring Vera Farmiga, Lili Taylor, Patrick Wilson and Ron Livingston, "The Conjuring" unseated three-week box-office champ, "Despicable Me 2," which dropped to second place with $25 million.
"The Conjuring" was among four new releases tempting moviegoers this weekend. The newest animated offering, Fox's "Turbo," opened with $21.5 million, good for third place. Fox's head of domestic distribution, Chris Aronson, characterized the opening as "a very promising start," noting that the film won't open in Europe until the fall.
But Universal's big-budget crime caper "R.I.P.D." opened with a disappointing $12.76 million. The film reportedly cost more than $130 million to make.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. "The Conjuring," $41.5 million.
2. "Despicable Me 2," $25 million ($35.4 million international).
3. "Turbo," $21.5 million ($22.6 million international).
4. "Grown Ups 2," $20 million.
5. "Red 2," $18.5 million ($7.6 million international).
6. "Pacific Rim," $15.95 million ($34.8 million international).
7. "R.I.P.D.," $12.76 million ($6.8 million).
8. "The Heat," $9.3 million.
9. "World War Z," $5.2 million ($12 million international).
10. "Monsters University," $5 million ($20.7 million international).
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