BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 19 May, 2018

Saturday

19 May, 2018

(Updated Daily)

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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Paul Krugman: Did China Just Bribe Trump to Undermine National Security? (NY Times)
An about-face on punishing a Chinese company came as a Chinese state-owned firm announced an investment in a project tied to the Trump organization.


Girish Shambu: "The Other Side of Hope: No-Home Movie" (Criterion)
One of the great pleasures of being an aficionado of auteur cinema lies in the process of gradually discovering a new world-a world created, brick by brick, film by film, by a director over time. The Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, who made his first narrative feature thirty-five years ago, is a model auteur: from the very start, his films have been firmly marked by a strong directorial personality.


Mary Beard: Would I watch the royal wedding? (TLS)
I am spared the dilemma of whether or not to turn on the television on Saturday, because it is our annual Newnham, pre-Tripos trip to Paris (Louvre plus lunch). But if I were here, I suspect I would.


Mary Beard: The menopausal economy (TLS)
That said I felt for Mr Broadbent as a human being. There you are, you are giving an interview and you have just used the economic "terminus technicus" - "climacteric". Then you think, "oh shit… no one is going to understand that'. So, on the spot, you produce a synonym that makes the word more comprehensible (and 'climacteric' IS a posh term for the 'menopause'). And in few seconds' thoughtlessness you have messed up. I'm sure I've been there myself.


Michael Gregor, MD: How Much Proof Do We Need to Eat Healthier? (NutritionFacts.org)
Demanding randomized trials makes sense for drugs, since drugs are expensive and risky, and their adverse side effects kill more than a hundred thousand Americans every year. But a healthy diet has no downsides-only good side-effects. So, we shouldn't have to wait on randomized controlled trials to start potentially saving people's lives.


David H. Abramson: Saving Stephen Hawking (Harvard)
I remembered that Harvard had left some supplies in a room nearby so we pushed him there…and discovered that it was also the temporary headquarters of the Secret Service. I quickly learned that you don't rush full speed into a Secret Service headquarters. For a few seconds I think the agents thought I was a crazed terrorist, and I did see weapons, but quickly they recognized what was happening. His nurse and I realized that his tracheotomy was clogged and that was why he was not breathing. Thanks to the medical supplies at hand we were able to get him breathing again. Yes, he would have died.


Emma Brockes: Tom Wolfe and the bonfire of male literary reputations (The Guardian)
The late US author's writing style might seem dated, but at least the obituaries were kind.



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Presenting

Michael Egan




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The Tragedy of King Richard II Part One: Ascribed to William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of Richard II, Part One): Michael Egan



Editorial and Political Cartoons



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Trivia Question of the Day


"One bit, two bits, three bits, a dollar..." What is the US monetary value of one bit?


                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


This leg of American thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown series has been termed "The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans". What is the more familiar name of this horse race?


       The Preakness Stakes                                                      Source


The Preakness Stakes is an American flat thoroughbred horse race held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the second jewel of the Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby and three weeks before the Belmont Stakes.

First run in 1873, the Preakness Stakes was named by a former Maryland governor after a winning colt at Pimlico. The race has been termed "The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans" because a blanket of yellow flowers altered to resemble Maryland's state flower is placed around the winner's neck. Attendance at the Preakness Stakes ranks second in North America among equestrian events, only surpassed by the Kentucky Derby.

The Preakness is the second leg in American thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown series and almost always attracts the Kentucky Derbywinner, some of the other horses that ran in the Derby, and often a few horses that did not start in the Derby.        Source







Randall was first, and correct, with:
   Preakness





Mark. said:
   The Preakness Stakes.



Alan J answered:
   The Preakness.



Dave wrote:
   The Preakness, the second leg of the Triple Crown. The Black Eyed Susan is the state flower of Maryland.





mj replied:
   It's this weekend
  And, if I remember aright, awards the most expensive trophy in sports and gets the winning stable's colors painted on the jockey weather vane.
  It's the Preakness.




zorch responded:
   That's the Preakness race.



Roy, AKA BlueTexan and/or LeftRoy, wrote:
   When it comes to betting on sporting events, I have the worst possible luck. In fact, friends and family members will sometimes ask me what teams I favor in sports involving two teams, and then place their money on the other team. But when we're talking about horse racing, which involves more than two competitors, I haven't a clue. But I have it on good authority (Wikipedia) that the The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans is the second jewel in the Triple Crown, known as the Preakness Stakes over in Baltimore. Ladies & Gentlemen, place your bets!



Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
   Preakness Stakes



Adam answered:
   The Preakness Stakes



Gene responded:
   This race is the Preakness Stakes.



George M. said:
   As I recall, Marty, the "Run for the Roses" is the Kentucky Derby, so the "Run for the black-eyed Susans" is the Preakness Stakes - which is the third Saturday in May; that's tomorrow!



Mac Mac wrote:
   The Preakness





Deborah responded:
   That's the race being run this Saturday, the Preakness Stakes. And 3 weeks after that is the Belmont Stakes, the final leg in the Triple Crown. It's an expensive venture, running a horse in those races, because they're teenagers with raw talent, and some days they're just going to bow up and refuse to do their job. Also, the distances (especially the Belmont) are challenging for young horses, who are mostly sprinters and haven't developed stamina. So, even though we all love a winner, the Belmont, as the longest race of the 3, is usually a race of attrition.
  I hope the weather holds for Saturday's race. I'll be in Sacramento for the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California. How cool is it that a major bike race is held not only in your state but virtually in your own back yard? The men will race on roads we ride all the time; not sure of the women's route yet. It'll be great!




Daniel in The City answered:
   The Preakness Stakes



Billy in Cypress replied:
   The Preakness Stakes



DJ Useo said:
   I reckon you're referring to the "Preakness Stakes". I hope the steaks aren't horse. ;)





Joe S     wrote:
   The Preakness. I looked it up because, although I like horses, I know nothing about horse races, and I don't care to. You know what I do like? I like Stephen Colbert. I also like the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary.





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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Trump administration expected to revive Reagan-era abortion 'gag' rule | World news | The Guardian



Bill Gates: Trump twice asked me the difference between HIV and HPV | US news | The Guardian



American farmers lose and Russia gains after China places record soybean order



Republican congressman explains sea-level rise: it's rocks falling into the sea | Environment | The Guardian



Smartphone Apps for Spontaneous Travel - The New York Times



Running Uphill: The Challenge of Unseating Dianne Feinstein - The New York Times



What #HeyJohnKelly Reveals About America's Immigrant Past : NPR



Trump administration will pull funds from groups that perform abortions or provide referrals - The Washington Post



Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms - The Washington Post



The elephants, rhinos and lions had been killed. Then came a 21st-century Noah's ark. - The Washington Post



It's been 50 years since Britain left. Why are so many African judges still wearing wigs? - The Washington Post



Will Trump's pick to run the EPA office in San Francisco show up for work?



It's the Guns - The Atlantic



Texas 'thoughts and prayers' Republicans cash more NRA checks than anyone else



Trump tried to bully postmaster general into doubling shipping rates for Amazon, other companies



NYPD flocks to known bigot Aaron Schlossberg's home ahead of 'Latin Party' protesting his hate



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Reader Comment

Current Events


There's my laugh for the day!

TX Lt. Governor suggests that every school have a single entry point to prevent shootings--everyone line up and go through one entry where they're scrutinized or searched or whatever! Sure, that ought to work very well! Of course, you better allow an extra two hours to get to school every morning and to go home at the end of the day. And that one choke point will solve everything.



RESIST!!!

Today I've made an additional contributions to the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. I urge you to consider doing so too. My Body My Choice! Resist oppression!

NARAL Pro-Choice America


Planned Parenthood | Official Site








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     We are all only temporarily able bodied.


Thanks, Linda!



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Bonus Links

Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp


The Communist Manifesto Gets a Comic Adaptation That's Both Nightmarish and Timely | io9/Gizmodo



Watch Rudy Giuliani Melt Down When He's Shown a Rebuttal By...Rudy Giuliani | Esquire



Rudy Giuliani Can't Handle This 1998 Clip of Him Blowing Up His Own Trump Claims - Mother Jones



Why Trump Should Fear Michael Avenatti More Than Bob Mueller | Politico



Grassroots Candidates Face Steep Democratic Party Voter Data Fees in Some States :: Politics :: Features :: Democratic Party :: Paste



Fox News' New CEO Enabled Roger Ailes' Harassment Culture, Lawsuits Say | The Daily Beast



The Four Horsemen of evangelical hypocrisy: How they whitewashed Donald Trump | Salon.com



Is Trump the Second Coming of Reagan? | The New Yorker



Rudy's desperate new defense for Trump: Conspiring with the Russians wasn't illegal! | Salon.com



Republicans claw at each other over farm bill implosion - POLITICO



Trump Resort Shooting Suspect Jonathan Oddi Liked Pro-Trump Tweets | The Daily Beast



Trump's "animals" remark and the ensuing controversy, explained - Vox



Primary win gives resurgent left a new shot of adrenaline | TheHill



Trump urged postmaster general to double rates on Amazon: report | TheHill



All the explanations you've heard so far about Laurel vs. Yanny are probably wrong. | Slate



Every bishop in Chile just resigned over the child sex abuse scandal - Vox



Cambridge Analytica Files For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Protection - Talking Points Memo



Judge Dismisses Andrea Tantaros' Lawsuit Against Fox News - The Daily Beast



NIH suspends study on benefits of alcohol after questions about industry involvement | TheHill





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from Marc Perkel

Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer

So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.

Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.

I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.

The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.

So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?

I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.

Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect

Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect



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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


"THE HOME OF THE PUSSY GRABBERS" AND "THE LAND OF REPUBLICAN TYRANTS".

PROVING ONCE AGAIN THAT REPUBLICANS ARE DUMBER THAN HOG DUMP!

TEXAS MANHOOD IS SAFE. HEE HAW!

GUNS AND PRAYERS.

RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!






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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Found the first caterpillar of the season.



Tonight, Saturday:

CBS begins the night with the FRESH 'Royal Romance: The Marriage Of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle', followed by '48 Hours'.



NBC fills the night on the East Coast with LIVE 'NHL 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs', followed by some local news, then a RERUN 'SNL'.
NBC opens the night on the left coast with some local crap (because of the NHL Playoff), then a LIVE 'SNL', then a RERUN 'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Tina Fey hosting, music by Nicki Minaj.



ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'American Idol', followed by '20/20'.



The CW recycles an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men'.



Faux has a RERUN 'MasterChef Junior', followed by a RERUN 'Showtime At The Apollo'.



MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by an old 'Rizzoli & Isles'.



A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH 'Live PD: Rewind', then 'Live PD'.



AMC offers the movie 'Independence Day', followed by the movie 'Run All Night', then the movie 'Ocean's Twelve'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    THE ROYAL WEDDING 2018 LIVE
 [9:00AM]    THE ROYAL WEDDING 2018
 [4:00PM]    THE ROYAL WEDDING HIGHLIGHTS: HARRY AND MEGHAN
 [6:00PM]    THE ROYAL WEDDING HIGHLIGHTS: HARRY AND MEGHAN
 [8:00PM]    THE ROYAL WEDDING HIGHLIGHTS: HARRY AND MEGHAN
 [10:00PM]    THE ROYAL WEDDING 2018
 [5:00AM]    HARRY AND MEGHAN: A VERY MODERN ROMANCE     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Bravo has the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's European Vacation'.



Comedy Central has the movie 'Dumb & Dumber', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'.



FX has the movie 'Thor: The Dark World', followed by the movie 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'.



History has all old 'American Pickers' all night.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    BROCKMIRE-Platoon Player
 [6:30AM]    BROCKMIRE-Knuckleball
 [7:00AM]    BROCKMIRE-Retirement Ceremony
 [7:30AM]    JACKIE CHAN'S FIRST STRIKE
 [9:30AM]    SIN CITY
 [12:30PM]    THE LEGEND OF HERCULES
 [2:30PM]    SIN CITY
 [5:30PM]    THE SOCIAL NETWORK
 [8:00PM]    SALT
 [10:15PM]    CHRONICLE
 [12:15AM]    SALT
 [2:30AM]    CHRONICLE
 [4:30AM]    BROCKMIRE-Retirement Ceremony
 [5:00AM]    PORTLANDIA-Cat Nap
 [5:30AM]    PORTLANDIA-Brunch Village     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Sundance  -   
 [6:10am]    the andy griffith show
 [6:45am]    the andy griffith show
 [7:20am]    the andy griffith show
 [7:55am]    the andy griffith show
 [8:30am]    the andy griffith show
 [9:00am]    the andy griffith show
 [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]    the quick and the dead
 [2:00pm]    pulp fiction
 [5:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [5:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [6:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [6:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [7:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [7:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [8:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [8:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [9:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [9:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [10:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [10:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [11:00pm]    m*a*s*h
 [11:30pm]    m*a*s*h
 [12:00am]    m*a*s*h
 [12:30am]    m*a*s*h
 [1:00am]    m*a*s*h
 [1:30am]    m*a*s*h
 [2:00am]    m*a*s*h
 [2:30am]    m*a*s*h
 [3:00am]    escape from alcatraz
 [5:30am]    the quick and the dead    (ALL TIMES EDT)



SyFy has the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park', then hours & hours of old 'Futurama'.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Riffraff (1936)
 [8:00 AM]      Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra (1946)
 [8:00 AM]      Blazing Sixes (1937)
 [8:00 AM]      MGM Cartoons: Homesteader Droopy (1954)
 [8:00 AM]      How to Start the Day (1937)
 [9:30 AM]      Red Barry: Heavy Odds (1938)
 [10:00 AM]      Popeye: Shoein' Hosses (1934)
 [10:00 AM]      Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
 [11:30 AM]      Spills for Thrills (1940)
 [12:00 PM]      The Great Escape (1963)
 [3:00 PM]      The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)
 [6:15 PM]      Valley Of The Kings (1954)
 [8:00 PM]      Desk Set (1957)
 [10:00 PM]      Pat and Mike (1952)
 [12:00 AM]      Crime Wave (1954)
 [1:30 AM]      Vanishing Point (1971)
 [3:30 AM]      Magnum Force (1973)
 [5:45 AM]      Cavalcade of San Francisco (1940)     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Sunday   -  05/20/18

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      The Merry Widow (1934)
 [7:45 AM]      You Can't Take It With You (1938)
 [10:00 AM]      Crime Wave (1954)
 [11:30 AM]      To Be or Not to Be (1942)
 [1:15 PM]      Les Girls (1957)
 [3:15 PM]      The World of Henry Orient (1964)
 [5:15 PM]      Oliver! (1968)
 [8:00 PM]      The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
 [9:45 PM]      Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
 [12:00 AM]      La Boheme (1926)    SILENT 
 [2:00 AM]      Il Posto (1961)
 [3:45 AM]      I Fidanzati (1962)
 [5:30 AM]      MGM Parade Show #7 (1955)     (ALL TIMES EDT)




Antenna TV - Johnny Carson (from May 22, 1979) - Danny Thomas, Paul Dickson, Aaron and Tony Rudnicki.

Bounce TV

CHARGE!

Comet TV

Cozi TV

Decades TV Network

Escape

Heroes and Icons

Find Justice - Justice Network

Get TV

Grit - Television With Backbone - Grit

Laff - You Know You Want To. - Laff

Me-TV

MOVIES! TV Network

RTV - The Retro Television Network

the works

This TV





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Makes Film A 'Vintage Genre'

TV

Television is making cinema a "vintage genre", John Travolta said Wednesday at the Cannes film festival, lamenting that films were "not as sought after" as before.

Travolta, 64, was in Cannes for the premiere of his film about notorious New York mafia boss John Gotti -- a family affair in which Travolta is the mob don, his wife Kelly Preston is Gotti's wife Victoria and their daughter Ella plays Gotti's daughter Angel.

The "Grease" and "Pulp Fiction" star, who brought his whole family to Cannes, went from jet black to grey for "Gotti", which is directed by Kevin Connolly.

Addressing film students during a masterclass later Wednesday, the actor, who played O.J. Simpson's lawyer in an American true-crime series in 2016, said television had shaken up Hollywood.

"It's not so good for us who have established ourselves in human drama on the big screen, because they're not as sought after, those dramas and types of movies."

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'Windows of the World' by André Vicente Gonçalves | Amusing Planet

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'Cursed' Film

Terry Gilliam

A Paris court gave Terry Gilliam the go-ahead Friday to release "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" in cinemas, a victory for the Monty Python member in the long-running legal battle over the apparently cursed film.

The comedy, which is due to close the Cannes film festival on Saturday, was supposed to come out in French cinemas on the same day.

But Paul Branco, a former producer of the disaster-hit production, made a last-minute court bid to halt its general release.

Branco, who claims his Alfama Films owns exclusive rights to the movie, has waged a lengthy legal campaign to stop the Hollywood director from releasing the final version starring Jonathan Pryce and "Star Wars" actor Adam Driver.

Paris judges are due to rule next month on a wider case over who owns the rights, and courts in France and Britain have previously sided with Portuguese-born Branco in the long-running dispute.

Terry Gilliam

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Street Name In Detroit

Michael Jackson

The king of pop will be honored in Motown with a street named Michael Jackson Avenue, officials announced on Thursday in Detroit.

The city, which has a rich history of nurturing American musical talent, will rename a portion of its Randolph Street in the downtown theater district in honor of the late entertainer.

The tribute comes 50 years after his family group known as the "Jackson 5" birthed their career with a successful recording contract audition in the Motor City.

The street renaming will take place June 15, coinciding with the Detroit Music Weekend outdoor festival, which Tito, Marlon, Jackie and Jermaine Jackson are scheduled to headline.

The city honored another American music royalty during last year's festival -- naming a street after queen of soul Aretha Franklin.

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The Abnormal, Gruesome Gall - Alien Invader in Your Yard ~ Kuriositas

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Stands By Co-Star

'Arrested Development'

The creator and executive producer of "Arrested Development" acknowledges that some people will not like his decision to keep Jeffrey Tambor on the show after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced last October.

"Good people will find this offensive," explained Mitchell Hurwitz. "I, too, get worked up when I hear about Harvey Weinstein and other people who have taken advantage of people. But I also believe very strongly that we don't want to live in a world where accusations ruin people's lives. We have tried that as a human race and it doesn't always, doesn't work out great, you know? So accusations are very different than proof and, you know, we obviously are going to support people that haven't done, that haven't been proved guilty."

Hurwitz said production was nearly wrapped on season five when news broke of the allegations made by Tambor's former assistant and an actress on his other show, "Transparent."

"Not only do I support him as a friend, but I've known him for 20 years. I've worked with him for 20 years and I've never seen any behavior like that described. I've never, even in private, he's never been in any way inappropriate about, we don't talk about women or objectify. It's just not who he is, and he's got a lot of things that I'd like to list, a lot of really bad qualities I'd like to list for you now, but nowhere in there, in my experience, is any kind of creep," said Hurwitz.

The "Arrested Development" cast unanimously supported the 73-year-old actor at the Los Angeles premiere Thursday for the cult comedy's new season. The event also marked one of the first public appearances for Tambor in recent months. Tambor posed for photos with his wife, Kasia Ostlun, but didn't do interviews with the press.

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Congressman Explains

Sea-Level Rise

A member of Congress has suggested that the White Cliffs of Dover tumbling into the English Channel was causing rising sea levels.

Republican Mo Brooks (R-Bag of Hammers) of Alabama pushed back at the notion that rising sea levels were the result of global warming in a hearing of the House Science, Space and Technology on Wednesday.

Instead, Brooks pointed to silt deposition as well as erosion as a cause of rising sea levels. Questioning scientist Phil Duffy of the Woods Hole Research Center, Brooks postulated that silt and mud washed by rivers into the ocean caused water levels to rise as it settled on the sea floor. "Now you have got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up," he said.

He went on: "What about the White Cliffs of Dover … [and] California, where you have the waves crashing against the shorelines, and time and time again you have the cliffs crashing into the sea? All of that displaces water which forces it to rise, does it not?"

The questioning went on as Brooks argued the Antarctic ice sheet was actually growing. A recent study reported that the ice sheet had shrunk by 1,463km from 2010 to 2016.

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How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit - Gastro Obscura

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Misplaced Blame

Family Splits

President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Crooked) is wrongly blaming Democrats for a law that he says is forcing migrant children to be taken from their parents at the border. The decision to separate families was made by the Trump administration.

THE FACTS: Not so. No law that "the Democrats gave us" mandates the separation of children from their parents at the border.

A 2008 law designed to combat child trafficking has been described by Trump and his administration as a principal reason for "catch-and-release" policies that he's trying to end at the border.

The law says children traveling alone from countries other than Mexico or Canada must be released in the "least restrictive setting" - often to family or a government-run shelter - while their cases slowly wind through immigration court. It was designed to accommodate an influx of children fleeing to the U.S. from Central America.

And it had full-throated support from Republicans and Democrats alike, passing both houses of Congress unanimously. Republican George W. Bush signed it into law as one of his last acts as president.

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Increasingly Arresting Immigrants Without Criminal Convictions

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is arresting more immigrants, and increasingly they have not been convicted of crimes, according to data released on Thursday by the agency.

About two-thirds of those arrested by ICE from October 2017 to the end of March had no criminal convictions - up from 21 percent during the same period the year before and only 13 percent the year before that. ICE officials noted that some of the arrested immigrants had been charged with a crime but not convicted.

The new figures, which reflect the first two quarters of the 2018 fiscal year, demonstrate that ICE is carrying out the crackdown on unauthorized immigrants that President Donald Trump promised. That means ICE officers are picking up more people with clean records, even if they were previously allowed to remain in the country.

ICE arrested nearly 80,000 people from October to the end of March, compared with about 63,000 in the same period the year before. By comparison, the agency arrested about 54,000 people in the first half of the 2016 fiscal year, when Obama's priority enforcement policies and instructed agents to focus on undocumented immigrants with criminal histories.

While ICE's arrests were up, deportations were slightly down - from about 126,000 in the first half of the 2017 fiscal year to about 117,000 in the same period in fiscal year 2018. For both periods, about 54 percent of those removed were convicted criminals.

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What makes the Red Planet red? The answer, as Sherlock Holmes might say, is elementary. And that element is iron.

The continental crust of Mars is so iron-rich that, over billions of years, surface rocks actually rust when exposed to the meager oxygen in the planet's atmosphere. The result is a rust-coated planet that appears red, even from Earth.

Earth might rust, too, for that matter, if just a fraction more iron was present in the planet's continental crust. But something, deep underground, is stealing Earth's iron.

For decades, scientists have pegged the case of the missing iron on a process involving volcanoes, and a mineral called magnetite that sponges up iron from molten magma pools deep underground. Now, a new paper published May 16 in the journal Science Advances points the finger at a new culprit for Earth's missing iron. The true thief is not magnetite, researchers from Rice University in Texas say, but a sparkly mineral we all know and love: garnet.

"The accepted wisdom is that magnetite pulls iron from the [magma] melt before the melt rises and gets erupted out at continental [volcano] arcs," study author Ming Tang, an assistant professor at Rice University, said in a statement. "Iron depletion is most pronounced at continental arcs, where the crust is thick, and much less so in island arcs, where the crust is thin."

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The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

    1. Justin Timberlake; $3,329,623; $143.04.
    2. Pink; $2,352,887; $134.02.
    3. "Springsteen On Broadway" ; $2,189,511; $508.90.
    4. Luis Miguel; $1,681,144; $97.49.
    5. Kendrick Lamar; $1,489,005; $88.86.
    6. Bon Jovi; $1,359,573; $97.84.
    7. Romeo Santos; $1,351,928; $99.97.
    8. Blake Shelton; $997,285; $78.17.
    9. Harry Styles; $901,450; $75.77.
   10. Demi Lovato; $898,787; $75.36.
   11. Maluma; $891,355; $97.08.
   12. The Killers; $869,201; $60.29.
   13. Kid Rock; $855,888; $88.43.
   14. Imagine Dragons; $828,979; $61.28.
   15. The Script; $786,789; $57.44.
   16. André Rieu; $744,428; $85.23.
   17. Kevin Hart; $717,288; $72.41.
   18. Lana Del Rey; $702,600; $77.37.
   19. Miranda Lambert; $583,098; $58.47.
   20. Bad Bunny; $579,562; $76.10.

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