Susan Estrich: Twenty Years After (Creators Syndicate)
It was 20 years ago. Los Angeles was burning. I could smell the smoke. There were reports that a camera store a few blocks away was on fire. I called my friend who lived in the hills and had a police car in front of her house because her husband was an elected official.
Ever wanted to know what's really in hotdogs? (Discover Magazine)
Meat content determined by microscopic cross-section analysis ranged from 2.9% to 21.2% (median, 5.7%). The cost per hotdog ($0.12-$0.42) roughly correlated with meat content. A variety of tissues were observed besides skeletal muscle including bone (n = 8), collagen (n = 8), blood vessels (n = 8), plant material (n = 8), peripheral nerve (n = 7), adipose (n = 5), cartilage (n = 4), and skin (n = 1).
Marc Abrahams: A Tribute to Professor Lipscomb
Bill, also known as "The Colonel" because he was a Kentucky Colonel, was a great scientist. A prize grad student of Linus Pauling, Bill went on to himself be awarded a Nobel Prize and later still to see several of his own students and mentees be given Nobel Prizes.
John Cusack explains why Edgar Allan Poe created everything you love (io9)
Before there was black eyeliner-ed youths rocking out to death rock, there was Edgar Allan Poe, the Godfather of Goth. But John Cusack - who plays the thirsty scribe in his wild horror flick The Raven - wants you to know that this angry (and very broke) poet is responsible for so much more. Everyone stole from Poe. Sherlock Holmes, War of the Worlds - Poe did it all first.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
Goddess of love, beauty, and desire. Symbols include the dove, bird, apple, bee, swan, myrtle and rose.
Married to Hephaestus, although she had many adulterous affairs, most notably with Ares. Her name gave us the word "aphrodisiac", while her Latin name gave us the word "venereal".
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mj was first, and correct, with:
That would be Mrs. Hephaestus/Vulcan
Aphrodite/Venus.
Marian said:
Aphrodite
Alan J wrote:
Aphrodite
Maurice replied:
Aphrodite
Charlie responded:
The goddess of love, etc.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Aphrodite aka Venus
Adam answered:
Aphrodite, Venus.
Baron Dave ("To you I'm an atheist. To God I'm the Loyal Opposition." -- Woody Allen, Stardust Memories) replied:
Hmm... I'm going to go with Aphrodite/Venus. They needed better PR people, disease-wise.
Sally said:
Contemporary Gods of Olympus, Aphrodite
Goddess of love, beauty, and desire. Symbols include the dove, bird, apple, bee, swan, myrtle and rose. Daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Dione, or perhaps born from the sea foam after Uranus' blood dripped onto the earth and into the sea after being defeated by his youngest son Cronus. Married to Hephaestus, although she had many adulterous affairs, most notably with Ares. Her name gave us the word "aphrodisiac", while her Latin name gave us the word "venereal."
Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Aohrodite (Greek), Venus (Latin) ~ Goddess of love, beauty
Aphrodite of Melos O(Venus de Milo) scukoture frin Jandros of Antioch, 130 -100 BC, marvke Louvre, Paris, France.
And, Joe S answered:
The Goddess of Love, Aphrodite to the Greeks and Venus to the Romans. Some things you remember from when you were 13.
Have I ever mentioned my granddaughters are Greek? They are, and they are beautiful and smart. They speak English and Greek (of course) and Spanish and Mandarin.
Sea lamprey may be one of the most hated (invasive) species in the Great Lakes, (They are, by far... Zebra mussels are next) but it's a key ingredient in a traditional English pie (Ack!) that will be given to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II for her Diamond Jubilee in June. But because the eel-like creatures are now a protected species in England, the City of Gloucester, which has given the pie as a gift to the monarch since the Middle Ages, made a request for the lamprey to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, which was only too happy to supply them. "We would prefer to send them truckloads of lamprey," commission spokesman Marc Gaden said... Gaden already has shipped 2 pounds of slimy Lake Huron lamprey, frozen, to Gloucester, but he is vacationing in England and will put on a tie and officially present the fish to the mayor May 4... (Here! Take them! Eat them! Put them around your neck and wear them as a tie! I don't care. just take them! That's what I'd say.) Great Lakes lamprey will be baked into a dish fit for a queen | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Lampreys are disgusting beyond measure. They attach themselves to larger fish like salmon and Lake Trout with their sucker-like mouth and bore into the fish with their teeth and suck the fish's blood often killing the fish...
They are not true eels, nor really considered 'fish', either, by many zoologists. They are killed here without mercy or care. If one catches a salmon with a lamprey attached (as I have) it is required that the lamprey be killed (as I've done), not returned to the water. Millions of dollars have been spent on how to eradicate these vile creatures. While a Coastguardsman, I've visited the US Fish and Wildlife research station at Hammond Bay, MI on Lake Huron (which is in a former Coast Guard Station) whose sole purpose is figuring out how to kill the damn'd things. Touring the place was like being in an 'X-Files' episode with huge tanks of water and these monstrous looking 'things' swimming about... Imagine being immersed up to your neck, naked, into a tank full of lamprey... Ack! Lamprey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
*Maybe the ATF is concerned about arsonists using a
lighter? Wonder if matches will be added to the list?
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Thanks, Lindy!
Cripes, I can remember my grandfather making fireworks out in his garage, and in high school, when we did demonstration speeches, most of the guys showed us how to load shotgun shells.
And, yes, they usually brought along a rifle, too. We never gave it a second thought.
There was 1 serious gun incident, though - a math teacher pulled a pistol on a student who had cut off his tie as an April Fool's prank.
It didn't scare anyone off guns - it just made us suspicious of briefcases.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Escape Routes', followed by a FRESH'The Firm', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Channing Tatum hosting, music by Bon Iver.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'The Blind Side'.
The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'Futurama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux has LIVE'NASCAR Sprint Cup', then pads the left coast with a couple of old 'Cops', and some local crap.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Flipped Off'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Beach', followed by the movie 'Braveheart'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES-Ep 7 - Kingston Cafe
[7:00AM] ANIMALS: INSIDE THE WOMB
[8:00AM] GREAT NATURAL WONDERS OF THE WORLD
[9:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 1- Dominica
[10:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 2 - New Zealand
[11:00AM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 3 - Chiang Dao
[12:00PM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED-Ep 4 - Fiji
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR INDIA SPECIAL
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR-Episode 1
[4:00PM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE-Abrams Tank
[5:00PM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE-Tree Harvester
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION-Ep 15 Power Play
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION-Ep 16 Ethics
[8:00PM] THE SHINING
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW-Ep 1 - Cate Blanchett, Ewan McGregor, Michael Sheen, Matt Lucas, Keane
[12:00AM] THE THICK OF IT-Episode 1 NEW
[12:40AM] KATY BRAND'S BIG ASS SHOW-Episode 1 NEW
[1:00AM] DUNE
[5:00AM] THE X-FILES-Ep 1 Little Green Men (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'xXx', followed by the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Lost Crusade'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard', followed by the movie 'Broken Lizard's Super Troopers'.
FX has the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', followed by the movie 'Dear John'.
History has 'Cowboys & Outlaws: The Real Wyatt Earp', followed by the movie 'Wyatt Earp'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Nosebleed
[6:10AM] Trail of the Screaming Forehead
[7:55AM] Diminished Capacity
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Half-Shot Shooters
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Half-Wits Holiday
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Hoi Polloi
[12:00PM] The Brain Eaters
[1:15PM] Invaders From Mars
[3:15PM] Trail of the Screaming Forehead
[5:00PM] Action-Re-enter the Dragon
[5:30PM] Action-Blood Money
[6:00PM] Meatballs
[8:00PM] Napoleon Dynamite
[10:00PM] Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[12:00AM] Doghouse
[3:00AM] Mimic
[4:15AM] Hush (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Paris
[8:15A] One Week
[9:50A] The Lady and the Reaper
[10:00A] A Girl Cut In Two
[12:00P] Paris
[2:15P] One Week
[3:55P] On The Line
[4:30P] A Girl Cut In Two
[6:30P] A Film With Me in It
[8:00P] La Belle Personne
[9:40P] Right Foot, Left Foot
[12:15A] The Orgasm Diaries
[2:00A] La Belle Personne (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Alien Tornado', followed by the movie 'Space Twister'.
Mayor of Guernica, Jose Maria Gorrono (C), and Guernica bombing survivor Luis Iriondo (L) and Nagasaki bombing survivor Toyoichi Ihara (R) sign a petition in favour of peace and against the use of nuclear weapons in Guernica April 26, 2012. Guernica is commemorating the seventy fifth anniversary of the aerial bombing by planes from the German Condor Legion, in aid of the nationalist military rebellion lead by General Francisco Franco. Reports of the scale and brutality of the attack inspired Spanish artist Pablo Picasso to paint one of the twentieth century's most enduring images, the giant mural "Guernica".
Photo by Vincent West
The Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to require broadcast TV stations to post online the advertising rates they charge political candidates and advocacy groups.
The vote came despite strong opposition from many broadcasters, who have argued that making sensitive advertising rate information so publicly available will undermine stations' competitiveness and give advertisers unfair leverage over how much they are willing to pay. A coalition of broadcasters put forth a compromise plan that would have required TV stations to put public files online while shielding information about political spending.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski rejected the compromise, noting stations already make available paper records of what they charge political advertisers. He said there was no reason such information should be "stuck in a filing cabinet" in an online world.
Genachowski and another Democratic commissioner, Mignon Clyburn, voted in favor of the new disclosure rules. Commissioner Robert McDowell, a Republican, voted in favor of an overall measure requiring stations to move their public files online but dissented on disclosing the political file.
Actress Charlize Theron accepts the Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film Award during the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 26, 2012. CinemaCon is the official convention for the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO).
Photo by Steve Marcus
An adult film producer was convicted Friday of violating federal obscenity laws by selling movies depicting bestiality and extreme fetishes.
The verdict ends a long-running legal saga that saw two mistrials, including one in which sexually explicit material was found on a personal website of the chief justice of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who was overseeing the case.
Ira Isaacs, 60, was found guilty of five counts, including mailing obscene matter, his attorney Roger Diamond said. The jury took about two hours to reach its decision.
Isaacs could face a sentence ranging from probation to 20 years in prison. He remained free on bond pending his Aug. 6 sentencing hearing.
Isaacs was indicted as part of an effort by a Bush administration task force to crack down on smut in the United States. The unit has since been disbanded.
John Mayer is piping up for America's veterans. The "Waiting for the World to Change" crooner made a stop in Washington D.C. on Wednesday to attend the Grammys on the Hill event, where he was one of the night's main attractions.
Mayer was honored for his efforts to support veterans in their transition back to civilian life, along with his work in promoting music education programs.
On the red carpet at the Liaison Capitol Hill hotel, Mayer took a moment to talk about promoting his two causes on Capitol Hill.
He was optimistic about lawmakers' willingness to help returning vets, offering, "I don't think you're gonna meet anybody who's ever gonna vote 'nay' on something to do with returning combat veterans."
Edward Burns attends the 3rd annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at NYU Paulson Auditorium in New York April 27, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Kelly
The musicians at International Jazz Day have a message for the world: Speak the same language without saying a word. Just use your heart, your soul and your ears.
The scores of musicians kicking off Friday's inaugural event are using the sounds, rhythms and improvisations of jazz to cross the borders of the globe.
In an interview with The Associated Press, renowned jazz artist Herbie Hancock says the new celebration is a metaphor for international harmony.
Things were getting groovy Friday behind the sober, concrete walls of the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, where hundreds of students were taking master classes, and workshops, films, lectures and performances preceded an evening concert.
Ted Nugent (R-Draft Dodger) said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Obama.
Commanders at the Fort Knox, Ky., post nixed Nugent's segment of a June concert after the rocker and conservative activist said at a recent National Rifle Association meeting that he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama is re-elected.
"To think that there's a bureaucrat in the United States Army that would consider the use or abuse of First Amendment rights in determining who is going to perform at an Army base is an insult and defiles the sacrifices of those heroes who fought for the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights," Nugent said.
Asked to clarify the remarks at the NRA convention, Nugent said: "A whole bunch of us ... believe ... we are in danger of being improperly and criminally jailed - I mean criminally on the part of the government."
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer accepts the Cinema Icon Award during the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 26, 2012. CinemaCon is the official convention for the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO).
Photo by Steve Marcus
When the Beverly Hilton's fire alarms went off in the middle of Thursday's Hollywood Radio & Television Society lunch with the industry's top reality television producers, production companies, and executives, almost nobody evacuated the ballroom, despite the flashing lights and repeated announcements.
"If we all die, what a great story this is going to be," moderator Tom Bergeron cracked. "Idiot Reality People Don't Leave Burning Building."
The non-idiotic reality producers on Bergeron's panel who survived the false alarm - Mike Fleiss ("The Bachelor" franchise), Brent Montgomery ("Pawn Stars"), Kris Jenner ("Keeping Up with the Kardashians"), Conrad Green ("Dancing with the Stars"), Eli Holzman ("Undercover Boss"), and Bertam van Munster ("The Amazing Race") - weighed in on the state of the industry and production crises ranging from fifty-pound bricks of runaway cheese, glass eyes popping out on camera, and unexpected visits from the FBI.
Predictably, all of the producers took a hard line against criticism that reality consumes too much of the finite broadcast schedule. "It's a fantasy that we're taking jobs from actors. It's crazy." Green said. "The sheer quantity and quality of drama on TV now compared to the past makes that a nonsense argument."
Jenner, whose television brand champions an elite lifestyle, offered a populist defense. "By the way, we're bringing work to a lot of other people," she said. "Our show employs hundreds and hundreds of people every year. Like when there was a strike, we had a show on the air and employed a lot of people who got to feed their families, and that made me feel really good."
After the Kardashian clan signed a new three-season deal with E! earlier this week, Jenner spoke up to defend her family's lucrative haul for the series. "There is definitely a misconception out there that just because you do a reality show, it means you don't work as hard. People need to remember it's definitely a business. Everyone in my family has an amazing work ethic. We're not trained actors. We don't have a lot of talent. I can cook, that's about it. My kids are definitely motivated to do a really good job," Jenner added.
Actress Anna Faris holds her Comedy Star of the Year Award during the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada April 26, 2012. CinemaCon is the official convention for the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO).
Photo by Steve Marcus
Robert Galinsky is skeptical about claims by producers of ABC's "The Bachelor" that they've had a hard time finding black singles willing to be on the show.
Back when he was an acting teacher, Galinsky's students were predominantly white. But now that he tries to help people break into show business as operator of the New York Reality TV School, about half of his students are racial minorities.
The nearly all-white racial makeup of "The Bachelor" (and its spinoff, "The Bachelorette") has simmered as an issue for years. Now it's the focus of a lawsuit filed last week by two black men from Nashville, Tenn., who say they were given little consideration when they tried to get on the show.
Through 16 seasons, all of the men given star billing to search for a mate were white. Same with the women in the seven seasons of "The Bachelorette." Two Hispanic contestants have been selected winners; the rest were all white.
The pattern extends to the pool of would-be mates, even when producers were aware critics were talking about the issue. None of the women vying for the bachelor's hand during the past four seasons were black, and one was in Season 12. That's one black woman out of 130, according to a review of the casts posted online.
Backcountry pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones says he's seen the effects of climate change up close after 18 years of heading to Alaska for deep winter powder.
"Our season ends a week earlier than it used to. The glacier we use to land on, we can't anymore," Jones said.
It's a big part of why Jones formed Protect Our Winters in 2007 to unite snowboarders and skiers to save what they love.
Coming off a shortened ski season with weak snowfall in much of Colorado, Utah and the Northeast, there's a sense of urgency to what Protect Our Winters wants to do next - get Congress to pay more attention to climate change.
Protect Our Winters has distributed money to groups working on projects like renewable energy and climate education. Last fall, board members, including Olympic snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, delivered a letter asking U.S. senators to support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has proposed stripping carbon dioxide from the list of pollutants included in the Clean Air Act.
Masks depicting Rupert Murdoch, bottom, and his son James rest alongside placards outside the Leveson inquiry at the High Court in London, after being taken off by protesters, Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2012. James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father's British scandal-tarred newspaper arm, saying Tuesday that he had been given assurances by subordinates "which proved to be wrong." Murdoch was testifying at Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry into media ethics to answer questions about his role in the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
Photo by Matt Dunham
A letter written by the British bandleader on the Titanic to his parents in England five-days before the ship struck an iceberg and sank a century ago sold for nearly $155,000 in an online auction on Thursday.
An unnamed U.S. investment group bought the letter written by Wallace Hartley, 33, who led the ship's eight-piece band, which played ragtime and other tunes to calm the passengers as the ship slowly slipped beneath the waves of the north Atlantic.
Hartley mailed the letter on April 11, 1912 during the ship's stop in Queenstown, Ireland, according to Livingston. The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15 on its maiden voyage from England with the loss of 1,517 lives.
"We have a fine band and the boys seem very nice," Hartley wrote in the letter, promising to see his parents the following Sunday when he returned.
Students stand in formation on a field as they form a smiley face in an attempt to break a world record in celebration of the 110th anniversary of their university in Nanjing, Jiangsu province April 27, 2012. A total of 3,110 students from Nanjing Agricultural University broke the Guinness World Record for World Largest Smiley Face on Friday, overtaking the last world record of 2,961 volunteers in Canada on July 2011, local media reported.
Photo by Sean Yong
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