Emily Yoffe: "College Women: Don't Depend on "Bystanders" to Rescue You from Assault. Rescue Yourselves" (Slate)
The bystander programs are an excellent idea. But let's not just shrug and agree that "drinking to excess can't be stopped." (Think where we'd be in the war on tobacco if we just assumed smoking couldn't be stopped.) I worry about an unintended consequence of bystander education: It is dangerous to give young people-particularly women-the false sense that there will always be someone around looking out for them, someone more intent on guarding their safety than they are themselves.
Jenny Drakin: "Lyndon Johnson: The President Who Marked His Territory" (Neatorama)
When people told stories about John F. Kennedy's great female conquests (and they often did), it made Johnson furious. He'd pound his fists on the desk and scream, "Why, I had more women on accident than he ever had on purpose!" And that may very well have been true.
Peter Bradshaw: Her - review (Guardian)
In Spike Jonze's postmodern pastoral about a man who dates his operating system, digital affairs are as sensual - and heartbreaking - as the real thing.
Hans Klok 5 minute Illusion Challenge (YouTube)
For a Dutch TV-show Hans Klok and the diva's of magic were challenged to do as many illusions as he could in 5 minutes. Enjoy & no exposure please.
Worms Worms Worms (YouTube)
How to compost vegetable scraps in your kitchen with a worm bucket. This is a video made around 1990 when my experience with worms was about 13 years deep. The same system still works in 2013 in my kitchen and has worked consistently throughout the interval without any problems or difficulties.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly her stands on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold press conferences, write a syndicated newspaper column, and speak at a national convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husband's policies. She launched an experimental community at Arthurdale, West Virginia, for the families of unemployed miners, later widely regarded as a failure. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Eleanor Roosevelt..also the first to speak at a national convention.
Charlie said:
Easy to guess.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Alan J wrote:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lois Of Oregon took the day off.
Sandra responded:
eleanor roosevelt
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Adam answered:
Eleanor Roosevelt.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Eleanor Roosevelt."
Sally said:
Eleanor Roosevelt was the first presidential spouse to hold press conferences and write a syndicated newspaper column.
She was so popular when I was growing up. You either loved her, or hated her - just like politics today...
PS: Made it through these past storms and kept power (and patio roof, so far)! After the hurricane Sandy, many of the power lines and transformer boxes were replaced, I think that has helped.
More snow in the morning, and then I think Spring will be coming in...
Dale of Diamondy Too Warm Springs, Norcali, replied:
Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor disliked sex. She once told her daughter Anna that it was an "ordeal to be borne" even though she pumped out six kids. Her Social Secretary Lucy Mercer was boinking FDR and their marriage went platonic after that. He continued with his many affairs. She turned to a life of public and world service. She was one of the 20th century's greatest humanitarians and public-spirited women. She wasn't ugly in her youth and she even hung out with FS at some point during his Mob days.
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''My Day,'' which was published for nearly three decades.
BttbBob answered:
Hmmm... I think it was Eleanor Roosevelt... Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was.
A rather remarkable woman, Ol' Eleanor was. I'd like to think she'd smile at me callin' her, "Ol' Eleanor", too. Particularly cuz I'd say it with my ever popular quirky little grin... Works every time.
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That's how ya make yer own private "Brave New World" is what I'm sayin'... Right? Huh? Eh?... "Keep it positive", I always say.
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Eleanor also had a New York state issued (c.1957) 'License to Carry a Pistol' in her wallet. Interesting... From the looks of the automobile in the back ground and her apparent age, she had been rather accomplished with one for some time... Nice form... (I'd trust Ol' Eleanor with carryin' a pistol in her purse)
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Ol' Eleanor is the only 'First Lady' I can think of that ever visited the troops in an active war zone...
Seen here on Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific wearing her Red Cross uniform... (She's standin' straighter than that trooper she's talkin' to. I notice such things... force of habit)
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(82) I love this look on Claire's face...
(62) Lookin' good, Jane... Lookin' good
Born this day:
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) He defied the evil 'Inquisition' with his "heliocentrism" and lived to tell about it. The father of modern science, observational astronomy and physics. One of the greatest humans that ever lived, and that's a fact...
(1820-1906) She was a force to be reckoned with... Oh, yeah...
And, Joe S said:
It says here that Eleanor Roosevelt was the first presidential spouse to hold a press conference and write a syndicated newspaper column.
Yes, everyone knows that.
Um, but did you know Abraham Lincoln was a Vampire Hunter?
Happy Valentines Day
AMC offers the movie 'Face/Off', followed by the movie 'Snakes On A Plane', then the movie 'I Am Legend'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 8 - La Gondola
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Revisited: Mojito's, The Junction, Bazzini
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 5 - Hot Potato Cafe
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Oceana
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 2
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 3
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 21 - Episode 1
[1:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 10 - Vincent and The Doctor
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 12 - The Pandorica Opens
[3:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 13 - The Big Bang
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO: A CHRISTMAS CAROL
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 17 - Night Terrors
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 18 - Identity Crisis
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 19 - The Nth Degree
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 20 - Qpid
[9:00PM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 13 NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 17 NEW
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 20 - Qpid
[12:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 13
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 17
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 17 - Night Terrors
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 18 - Identity Crisis
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 19 - The Nth Degree
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 20 - Qpid (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Coyote Ugly'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Matador
[8:00AM] Johnson Family Vacation
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-Yes, We Have No Bonanza
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-The Yoke's on Me
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges-Ants in the Pantry
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-Back From the Front
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Brideless Groom
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-Crime on Their Hands
[12:30PM] The Spoils of Babylon-The War Within
[1:00PM] The Spoils of Babylon-Kicking the Habit
[1:30PM] Maximum Overdrive
[3:30PM] Johnson Family Vacation
[5:30PM] The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
[8:00PM] Batman Begins
[11:00PM] Batman Begins
[2:00AM] Eraser
[4:30AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-Lust for Glory
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Sundance Shorts
[6:15AM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[6:45AM] The Pelican Brief
[9:45AM] The Wackness
[12:00PM] A Few Good Men
[3:00PM] Law & Order-Rage
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Performance
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Seed
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Wannabe
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Act of God
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Privileged
[9:00PM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[11:15PM] The Exorcist
[2:00AM] Body Heat
[4:30AM] Revealing-Celebutante
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-New Girl (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End', followed by the movie 'The Last Airbender', then the movie 'X2'.
The United States did not live up to the promise of the First Amendment last year, "far from it," sinking to 46th in global press freedom rankings, a respected international nonprofit group said Wednesday.
The group, known by its French initials, RSF, also cited the Department of Justice's seizure of Associated Press telephone records and a court's pressure on New York Times reporter James Risen to testify against a CIA staffer accused of leaking classified information.
"The whistle-blower is clearly the enemy in the U.S.," Delphine Halgand, who heads the RSF outpost in Washington, told Yahoo News. "Eight whistle-blowers have been charged under the Obama administration, the highest number of any administration, of all other administrations combined."
Here, in order of rank, starting with No. 1 Finland: Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, Sweden, Estonia, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Jamaica, Canada, Poland, Slovakia, Costa Rica, Namibia, Belgium, Cape Verde, Cyprus, Uruguay, Ghana, Australia, Belize, Portugal, Suriname, Lithuania, Britain, Slovenia, Spain, Antigua and Barbuda, Latvia, El Salvador, France, Samoa, Botswana, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Papua New Guinea and Romania.
Jane Fonda, left, and Dylan McDermott attend One Billion Rising for Justice on Friday, Feb, 14, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif.
Photo by Richard Shotwell
The White House Correspondents' Association says Joel McHale will host its annual dinner on May 3 in the nation's capital. The group said Friday that the star of NBC's "Community" and E!'s pop-culture show "The Soup" will provide entertainment for the centennial White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The president and first lady typically attend the starry celebration that gathers the White House press corps and celebrity guests.
Busted guitars, mangled cellos, broken banjos, lost lutes - musicians who rely on airlines to get them to performances have seen it all.
Two years ago, Congress stepped in to help, directing the Department of Transportation to write rules to make sure instruments don't get damaged or lost. The rules were due Friday, but the department hasn't even started writing them, citing a lack of money.
The department, which regulates airlines on matters that affect consumers, asked for money in this year's budget for four more staff members to write new agency regulations but was turned down by Congress.
The rules are supposed to implement a law requiring airlines to store instruments in closets and in overhead bins where they fit. Travelers would be allowed to buy seats for larger instruments weighing less than 165 pounds.
Musicians have long complained that airlines frequently require that instruments be checked as baggage, with the result that they are often damaged or lost.
Peter Fonda and Margaret Devogelaere seen at Netflix 'House of Cards' Los Angeles Season 2 Special Screening, on Thursday, Feb, 13, 2014 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
Fox Networks Group today announced its first ever cross-network global premiere event - for Seth MacFarlane's passion project, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, on Sunday, March 9, 9-10 PM ET/PT. In addition to premiering on the 10 U.S. networks simulcasting the premiere episode - Fox Broadcasting Company, National Geographic Channel, FX, FXX, FXM, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports 2, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Mundo and FOX Life - and on the Fox International Channels and National Geographic Channels International, as previously announced, Cosmos will premiere on all 90 National Geographic Channels in 180 countries, as well as 120 Fox-branded channels in 125 countries, making this the largest global launch ever for a television series. Rolling out immediately after the U.S. premiere, international markets will begin airing the premiere episode day and date on both Fox-branded and National Geographic Channels, concluding within one week of the domestic premiere event. The additional 12 episodes will air exclusively on National Geographic Channels outside the U.S.
This first multi-network launch event for Fox Networks Group, along with the series debut on Fox International Channels and National Geographic Channels International, will make Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey available on 220 channels in 181 countries, with an overall footprint of more than half a billion homes.
In today's announcement, Fox Networks Group chairman and CEO Peter Rice called it "one of the most incredible experiences ever imagined for television."
Websites for casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. remained down for a fourth day on Friday, while company, state and U.S. investigators trace the origin and effect of a hacking intrusion.
The Internet sites of Sands properties including the flagship Venetian and Palazzo in Las Vegas and its Pennsylvania, Singapore and Macau resorts remained inoperative, and company spokesman Ron Reese said officials were assessing which systems had been affected.
Sands took down websites for its properties on Tuesday morning, leaving a website-maintenance message and a checkerboard photo display of resort names and phone numbers for bookings and reservations.
Officials said the culprits remained unknown, and the U.S. Secret Service, FBI and Nevada casino regulators were among agencies investigating. The Secret Service is charged with safeguarding the country's financial systems.
Nevada State Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett said Friday there was no new information to make public. He has said it wasn't clear if patron data including credit-card information had been compromised.
Traditional dancers from Sri Lanka performs at Navam Perahera, a Buddhist pageant of elephants, dancers and drummers, in Colombo February 14, 2014. Over 50 elephants are participating in a street parade for Gangaramaya temple's annual Perahera festival, along with a nightly procession of traditional dancers, fire twirlers and traditional musicians.
Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte
British detectives have questioned CNN television host Piers Morgan as part of their investigation into phone hacking, the star and police said on Friday.
Morgan, 48, was interviewed under caution in December by officers probing claims of the illegal interception of voicemails at Mirror Group newspapers.
He was editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper from 1995 to 2004 and before that was editor of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which closed amid the hacking scandal in 2011.
Morgan was sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror in 2004 for publishing fake photos of British soldiers purportedly abusing Iraqis in Basra, but has reinvented himself as an outspoken television interviewer in the United States.
Visitors and Tibetan monks look on as a giant thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying the Buddha portrait, is unveiled amid snowfalls at Langmu Lamasery in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province February 12, 2014.
Compared with their less spiritual peers, people who identified as very religious were more likely to have a perceived Internet pornography addiction, no matter how much porn they actually consumed, according to a new study.
"We were surprised that the amount of viewing did not impact the perception of addiction, but strong moral beliefs did," the study's lead author Joshua Grubbs, a doctoral student in psychology at Case Western Reserve University, said in a statement.
The rise of pornography on the Internet has been followed by hot debates about what all this widely available explicit material is doing to the hordes people who look at it. Is it encouraging hostility toward women or can it empower them? Does it provide a healthy outlet or is it creating addicts?
Some researchers have proposed that compulsive viewing of Internet pornography could be a subcategory of sex addiction, sometimes called hypersexual disorder. But psychologists have not been able to agree on whether sex addiction (let alone porn addiction) fits the same addiction model that is used to describe people with substance abuse problems, for example. Sex addiction was not recognized in the latest version of the American Psychiatric Association's mental health handbook, the DSM-5, and there is no official diagnosis.
Regardless of whether porn addiction is "real," Grubbs and his co-authors note that perceived addiction has been linked to several real elements of psychological distress, such as depression, compulsive behavior and anxiety.
An activist dances with her body covered in black paint to resemble oil during a protest against oil prospection in the Mediterranean sea in Palma de Mallorca, in the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca, February 14, 2014. Activists protested against plans of oil prospection off the coast of the Balearic Islands for fears of eco-system danger and negative effect on the tourist industry.
Photo by Enrique Calvo
Spanish archaeologists have discovered a 3,600-year-old Egyptian mummy inside a wooden sarcophagus adorned with rare feather drawings in the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt's antiquities ministry said Thursday.
The two metre-long and 50 centimetre-wide (6.5 feet by 20 inches) sarcophagus was in good condition and its colours were still bright, the ministry said in a statement.
The sarcophagus bears hieroglyphic inscriptions meant to ease the journey to the afterlife, in accordance with pharaonic beliefs.
The feather drawings symbolise the ancient Egyptian goddess of law Maat, who was believed to have weighed the hearts of the dead against a feather to determine their status in the afterlife.
The discovery was made in an ancient burial site on Luxor's west bank, near a tomb belonging to the storehouse administrator of Queen Hatshepsut, a member of the 18th dynasty who ruled Egypt from 1502 to 1482 BC.
A streaker in a G-string interrupts the Prabal Gurung Fall 2014 collection as it is modeled during Fashion Week, in New York, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014.
Photo by Richard Drew
We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.
Wrong. Everyone notices. They may not know the exact words, but they know it's definitely not what you're singing. In fact, there's a word for this phenomenon. It's called "mondegreen," and it means "the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase, such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song." (There's a great website called kissthisguy.com that's named after the frequently misheard Hendrix song listed below and is dedicated to the cataloging of mondegreens.)
So now that you've been outed, here are a half-dozen favorite misunderstood lyrics. Who was it that said, "No one pays attention to the lyrics?" Well, here's the proof.
6. Tom Petty: "American Girl"
5. Queen: "Bohemian Rhapsody"
4. Jimi Hendrix: "Purple Haze"
3. Bruce Springsteen: "Blinded by the Light"
An octopus made from made from lemons and oranges is seen on display during the Lemon Festival in Menton, southeastern France, February 14, 2014. Some 145 metric tons of lemons and oranges are used to make displays during the 81th festival, which is based on the theme "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and runs from February 15 through March 5.
Photo by Olivier Anrigo
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