Brigid Prayson, James T. McMahon, PhD, Richard A. Prayson, MD: Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating? (Annals of Diagnostic Pathology)
Abstract: Americans consume about 5 billion hamburgers a year. It is presumed that most hamburgers are composed primarily of meat. The purpose of this study is to assess the content of 8 fast food hamburger brands using histologic methods. ... Meat content in the hamburgers ranged from 2.1% to 14.8% (median, 12.1%). ... Fast food hamburgers are comprised of little meat (median, 12.1%). Approximately half of their weight is made up of water. Unexpected tissue types found in some hamburgers included bone, cartilage, and plant material; no brain tissue was present. Sarcocystis parasites were discovered in 2 hamburgers.
Paul Krugman: The Good Web (New York Times)
What I want to talk about instead is the effect of the Internet on the quality of reporting, which I believe has been overwhelmingly positive.
Annalee Newitz: Are we in a "Gutenberg moment" with science writing online? (io9)
Newspapers may be dying, and television may be turning science into Megalodon specials, but there is one place where stories about science are exploding: on the web. MIT science journalism professor Tom Levinson has a terrific essay explaining why it's a great time to be reading about science online.
Kathleen Parker: Hillary Clinton power in 2016 (Washington Post)
Let's begin with a working (and provable) premise: Women, if allowed to be fully equal to men, will bring peace to the planet. This is not so far-fetched a notion. One, men have been at it for thousands of years, resulting in millions and millions of corpses. Two, countries where women are most oppressed and abused are also the least stable.
Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers on the English-language propaganda radio programme Germany Calling, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in Great Britain on the medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and by shortwave to the United States. The programme started on 18 September 1939 and continued until 30 April 1945, when Hamburg was overrun by the British Army. This nickname, Lord Haw-Haw, generally refers to William Joyce, who was German radio's most prominent English-language speaker and to whom it gradually came to be exclusively applied. However, it was also applied to other broadcasters, mostly in the early stages of the war.
William Joyce was American-born and raised in Ireland and as a teenager he was an informant to the British forces about the IRA rebels during the Anglo-Irish War. He was also a senior member of the British Union of Fascists and fled England when tipped off about his planned internment on 26 August 1939. In February 1940, the BBC noted that the Lord Haw-Haw of the early war days (possibly Mittler) was now rarely heard on the air and had been replaced by a new spokesman. Joyce was the main German broadcaster in English for most of the war, and became a naturalised German citizen; he is usually regarded as Lord Haw-Haw, even though he was probably not the person to whom the term originally referred.
Joyce, initially an anonymous broadcaster like the others, eventually revealed his real name to his listeners. The Germans actually capitalized on the fame of the Lord Haw-Haw nickname and came to announce him as "William Joyce, otherwise known as Lord Haw-Haw".
Joyce was captured by British forces in northern Germany just as the war ended, tried, and eventually hanged for treason on 3 January 1946. Joyce's defence team, appointed by the court, argued that, as an American citizen and naturalised German, Joyce could not be convicted of treason against the British Crown. However, the prosecution successfully argued that, since he had lied about his nationality to obtain a British passport and voted in Britain, Joyce owed allegiance to the king.
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Alan J was first, and exactly correct, with:
Lord Haw-Haw
Charlie wrote:
Lord Haw-Haw
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Lord Haw-Haw
John A. replied:
Lord Haw-Haw?
Adam answered:
Lord Haw Haw.
Marian is off on an adventure.
Sally said:
Lord Haw-Haw was the name British listeners gave to William Joyce, a German radio propaganda broadcaster during World War II.
Actually, he was hung...
Another Fundamentalist gone wrong...
PS: Researching Haw Haw reminded me of this. My dear little son, who studied the violin as a lad, became a talented bass guitarist, is now playing the banjo - and living in NC. Where did I go wrong??
Sigh...
Dale of Stiflingly Sticky Diamond Springs, Norcali, replied:
William Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw. Joyce was an American-born fascist politician who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain during the Second World War. He was hanged for treason by the British as a result of his wartime activities, even though he had renounced his British nationality and become a naturalised German. He went to the gallows unrepentant. All he ever did was incite his own hanging!! Damn, the TEA Party could have used him!!!!
BttbBob responded:
I didn't read this book, but I did know the answer. An Ex-Pat, Joyce was a member of the British Union of Fascists and fled to Germany shortly before WWII began. Though he was a naturalized German citizen, the British claimed jurisdiction because he was captured with a British passport to which he was not entitled to. The British have always taken treason seriously, dontcha know.
"Axis Sally", Mildred Gillars, an American broadcasting for the Germans was convicted of treason here and was given 10-30 years and served 12...
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Bruce Link Comment - Making telemarketers talk like pirates as an idea for a slightly better world? Excellent. I'll sign any petition to the FCC on that one...
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Birthday correction; Yesterday I said Madonna was 54. No, she's 55. I will send "The Boss" $5 for everyone who caught the mistake and made it known today...
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Davy Crockett (1786-1836) I passed by the Alamo (which is in downtown San Antonio) everyday, to and from work at Brooke Army Medical Center, for close on two years. I only visited it once. It is not at all what you might imagine and nothing like what you may have seen in the movies. I think the most common comment by visitors is probably, "This is all it is? Wow!". But, Texicans sure make a big deal over it, I'm tellin' ya.
MAM wrote:
"Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen"
Joyce, initially an anonymous broadcaster like the others, eventually revealed his real name to his listeners. The Germans actually capitalized on the fame of the Lord Haw-Haw nickname and came to announce him as "William Joyce, otherwise known as Lord Haw-Haw".
And, Joe S answered:
Fightin' Nazi's Talkin' Blues
Lord Haw Haw was born William Joyce,
To the Nazi's he did lend his voice.
The Brits found him guilty of high treason,
And strung him up for just that reason.
Here, we don't hang 'em
We put 'em on the radio
Give'm TV shows
Elect them to Congress
Whee-oh
Had a visit from the dreaded 'Blue Screen O'Death'. : (
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'The Mentalist', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with FRESH'2013 P&G Gymnastics Championships', followed by a FRESH'Do No Harm'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Martin Short, music by Paul McCartney.
ABC fills the movie 'Mamma Mia!'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux has a RERUN'Cops', followed by another RERUN'Cops', then a RERUN'Bones'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Duck Dynasty', another 'Duck Dynasty', still another 'Duck Dynasty', 'Bad Ink', another 'Bad Ink', followed by a FRESH'Psychic Tia', then another FRESH'Psychic Tia'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather: Part II', followed by a FRESH'Hell On Wheels', and another 'Hell On Wheels'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Clubway 41
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 4 - The Fish and Anchor
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Trobiano's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Anna Vincenzo's
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 6 - Mama Rita's
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Spanish Pavilion, Kingston Cafe, Capri, La Frite
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 8
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 6
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 9
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 10
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 11
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 1
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 21 - Frame of Mind
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 22 - Suspicions
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 23 - Rightful Heir
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 24 - Second Chances
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 25 - Timescape
[11:00PM] BEING HUMAN - Season 5 - Ep 6 - The Last Broadcas
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 21 - Frame of Mind
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 22 - Suspicions
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 23 - Rightful Heir
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 24 - Second Chances
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 25 - Timescape
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 21 - Frame of Mind (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles', another 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles', still another 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles', followed by the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Grandma's Boy', followed by the movie '50 First Dates'.
FX has the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', followed by the movie 'Something Borrowed', then 'Louie'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
[7:15AM] One Million Years B.C.
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Busy Buddies
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Cactus Makes Perfect
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Calling All Curs
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Cash and Carry
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Cookoo Cavaliers
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Crash Goes the Hash
[12:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Lois' Birthday
[12:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Dinner Out
[1:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Casino
[1:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Convention
[2:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zoe Saldana Wears a Tan Blouse and Glasses
[2:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Gillian Jacobs Wears a Red Dress with Sail Boats
[3:00PM] Escape From Alcatraz
[5:30PM] Blade Runner
[8:00PM] Cloverfield
[9:45PM] V for Vendetta
[12:30AM] Cloverfield
[2:15AM] V for Vendetta
[5:00AM] Bunk
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Pizza
[7:30AM] The Virgin Suicides
[9:15AM] The Darjeeling Limited
[10:45AM] Lost in America
[12:45PM] The Virgin Suicides
[2:30PM] The Darjeeling Limited
[4:00PM] Schindler's List
[7:30PM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[8:00PM] There Will Be Blood
[10:30PM] Polish Wedding
[12:30AM] House of Pleasures
[3:15AM] The Dancer Upstairs (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Axe Giant', followed by the movie 'Bigfoot'.
Actress Eva Longoria, chef Jose Andres and actor and director Diego Luna are among those who will receive the 26th Hispanic Heritage Awards.
The Hispanic Heritage Foundation announced the winners Friday. The awards will be presented Sept. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington and will be broadcast Sept. 15 on MundoFOX.
Other winners include: musical group Los Tigres Del Norte; superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools Alberto Carvalho; Voto Latino President Maria Teresa Kumar; actress and singer Lucero; and race car driver Juan Pablo Montoya.
The Hispanic Heritage Awards were established in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan to commemorate the creation of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Designer Vivienne Westwood poses for photographers outside a site run by Cuadrilla Resources, near Balcombe in southern England August 16, 2013. An oil explorer has suspended drilling in southern England in response to the threat of an escalating protest against fracking, the controversial process used to extract gas and oil from shale deposits that has transformed the U.S. energy market. Caudrilla Resources's site in the village of Balcombe in rural West Sussex has become a focal point for protesters who oppose fracking, a technique the company has pioneered in the search for shale gas in Britain.
Photo by Stefan Wermuth
Jon Stewart can breathe easy - if he decides to take time off to make another movie, he has an able replacement to hold down the fort.
With "The Daily Show" correspondent John Oliver's guest-hosting stint coming to a close, it looks like the late-night Comedy Central show has stayed on an even keel in the ratings department.
Data ranging from June 10 - when Oliver assumed the anchor desk on "The Daily Show" - until this Tuesday indicates that Oliver has mostly held steady with Stewart. During that period, "The Daily Show" averaged a .65 rating among the 18-49 demographic most important to advertisers, and 1.3 million total viewers.
Compared to year-ago numbers when Stewart presided over the show, that's an 8 percent downtick in the demo and a 13 percent dip in total viewers. Fairly insignificant dips -- particularly given that the nation was ramping up for a presidential election last summer, which no doubt benefited the politically-charged "Daily Show."
Fergie has officially changed her name: The singer born Stacy Ann Ferguson is now Fergie Duhamel.
The Grammy winner's representative confirmed the name change Friday.
Fergie is one-fourth of the Black Eyed Peas. She released her solo debut, "The Dutchess," in 2006. It launched five big hits, including "Fergalicious" and "Big Girls Don't Cry."
The 38-year-old singer is married to 40-year-old actor Josh Duhamel. She is pregnant with their first child.
Argentine rock legend Charly Garcia lights a cigarette using a candle flame before an interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Garcia, who is 61 and has a vast career that defined and inspired the rock and pop music world in Latin America, will perform two shows at Teatro Colon, Argentina's landmark opera house, on Sept. 23 and 30.
Photo by Victor R. Caivano
Elvis Presley fans from around the world made their annual pilgrimage to Graceland on Thursday to pay their respects to the rock n' roll icon with a solemn candlelight vigil on the 36th anniversary of his death.
Thousands of Presley fans carried lit candles as they walked silently through the Mediation Garden at Graceland, Presley's longtime Memphis home. The garden is the location of Presley's grave and also is the spot where his mother, father and grandmother are buried.
Wreaths of flowers and pictures of Presley encircled the grave, while shadows cast by the glowing candles danced along the stone wall surrounding the garden. Soft music played in the mild night, as some in the procession bowed their heads or cried quietly.
The vigil is the highlight of Elvis Week, which this year featured a listening party at Stax Records for the recent release of the three-CD box set "Elvis at Stax." Performances by Presley tribute artists and a screening of the "Aloha from Hawaii" television program from January 1973 are other featured events of the weeklong reunion, which wraps up Saturday.
The composers of the hit song "Blurred Lines" have preemptively sued the owners of songs by late soul singer Marvin Gaye and funk band Funkadelic, asking a California federal court to rule that the chart-topping track does not violate any copyrights.
"Blurred Lines," released in March by R&B singer Robin Thicke, rapper T.I. and singer-producer Pharrell Williams, is the second-best selling song track this year with more than 4.6 million copies sold in the United States.
The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles late on Thursday, alleges that the owners of Gaye's 1977 hit "Got to Give It Up" and Funkadelic's 1974 song "Sexy Ways" have threatened legal action over copyright infringement if the composers of "Blurred Lines" do not pay a monetary settlement.
"Being reminiscent of a 'sound' is not copyright infringement. The intent in producing 'Blurred Lines' was to evoke an era," the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit asks the court to declare that "Blurred Lines" does not infringe on either "Sexy Ways" or "Got to Give It Up" and that the owners of the songs do not have standing to later sue.
A masquerade dancer representing the Edo State of Nigeria performs an acrobatic display during a "peace rally" organised by the National Council for Women Society (NCWS) in Abuja, August 15, 2013.
Photo by Afolabi Sotunde
The U.S. Republican party resolved on Friday to boycott any 2016 presidential debates sponsored by CNN and NBC if the networks go ahead with plans to make special programs on Hillary Clinton, who is widely expected to seek the Democratic nomination.
Delegates to a meeting of the Republican National Committee voted for a resolution that included the boycott and said the programs would be "little more than extended commercials promoting former Secretary Clinton."
The RNC also resolved that it would require that any future debates have "appropriate moderators and debate partners."
Delegates approved the motion by a unanimous voice vote.
The motion did not reference Fox News, a network with a conservative bent that is a favorite with Republicans. Owned by News Corp, Fox is in talks with NBC to have a role in producing its Clinton miniseries, according to press reports.
Even in southern West Virginia, where corruption is as much as a part of life as coal, people are shocked by allegations that a judge commandeered the legal system in a years-long attempt to frame a romantic rival for crimes he didn't commit.
Federal prosecutors indicted Mingo County Circuit Judge Michael Thornsbury on two counts of conspiracy Thursday, just hours after indicting County Commissioner Dave Baisden on extortion charges. Thornsbury attorney Steve Jory declined comment while Baisden's attorney did not return messages.
The state Supreme Court has suspended Thornsbury and his law license, and a replacement judge took over his caseload Friday.
Thornsbury is set to appear in federal court in Charleston at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Meanwhile, he's been ordered to surrender his passport, to give up any weapons and to avoid contact with dozens of potential witnesses, including another judge, county officials, five state troopers and prominent multimillionaire industrialist James "Buck" Harless.
Both Thornsbury and Baisden are free on $10,000 bond while awaiting trial, but the indictments were painful news in a community still reeling from the assassination of its sheriff in April.
Participants perform a folk dance during a cultural program to celebrate India's 67th Independence Day in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh August 15, 2013.
Photo by Ajay Verma
The United States is facing yet another manufacturing blunder in the production of its new $100 bill, which might have ruined more than thirty million of the notes.
The United States' new hundred dollar bills have been delayed, creased and now they've been "mashed," according to the New Yorker, a problem caused by applying too much ink to the paper during the printing process.
The bills are scheduled to begin circulation on Oct. 8, 2013, delayed from the original 2010 date. And this isn't the first problem that's frustrated the process.
He's been deposed, reviled, buried and dug up, and now a new battle looms over England's King Richard III.
A British High Court judge on Friday granted a group of Richard's relatives permission to challenge plans to rebury the 15th-century monarch in the central England city of Leicester, where his remains were found last year.
Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said the Plantagenet Alliance could take action against the government and the University of Leicester, though he hoped the dispute could be settled out of court.
"In my view, it would be unseemly, undignified and unedifying to have a legal tussle over these royal remains," the judge said, urging the opposing sides "to avoid embarking on the (legal) Wars of the Roses Part 2."
The government gave Leicester Cathedral a license to rebury the king, but the relatives' group wants him interred in the northern England city of York, claiming it was Richard's wish.
A giant paper statue of Chinese deity "Da Shi Ye" or "Guardian God of Ghosts" is burnt during the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival in Kajang, outside Kuala Lumpur, early August 17, 2013. The Hungry Ghost Festival is celebrated during the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, when prayers are offered to the dead and offerings of food and paper-made models of items such as televisions, refrigerators and sport cars are burnt to appease wandering spirits. It is believed that the gates of hell are opened during the month and dead ancestors return to visit their relatives.
Photo by Bazuki Muhammad
A Pennsylvania restaurant owner is trying to find a good home for an 8-foot stuffed polar bear.
For years, patrons of the Woods Creek Grill outside of Harrisburg have enjoyed posing for pictures with the bear, which was legally shot in Alaska in 1967, the Harrisburg Patriot-News reported.
Restaurant owner Dave DeWees bought the bear and other mounted animals at auctions.
But when he shifted careers and decided to sell the restaurant, he learned that the law on bears has shifted, too.
Now, the bear can't cross state lines or be sold to someone in another country because of endangered species laws, even though it was shot almost 50 years ago.
UFO buffs and believers in alien encounters are celebrating the CIA's clearest acknowledgement yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades.
The recently declassified documents have set the tinfoil-hat crowd abuzz, though there's no mention in the papers of UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings.
The CIA history released Thursday not only refers to Area 51 by name and describes some of the aviation activities that took place there, but locates the Air Force base on a map, along the dry Groom Lake bed.
George Washington University's National Security Archive used a public records request to obtain the CIA history of one of Area 51's most secret Cold War projects, the U-2 spy plane program.
National Security Archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson first reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of the country's most mysterious military base had been redacted. So he requested the history again in 2005, hoping for more information. Sure enough, he received a version a few weeks ago with the mentions of Area 51 restored.
Jane Harvey, the jazz vocalist who performed with the likes of Desi Arnaz, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, has died. She was 88.
A spokesman for Harvey says the singer died Thursday at her home in Los Angeles after a battle with cancer.
Harvey began her career as a performer at Cafe Society in New York. She went on to record such songs as "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me," ''Close as Pages in a Book" and "Only Another Boy and Girl" with the Goodman orchestra. She also recorded "A Rainy Night in Rio" with Arnaz and "A Hundred Dreams From Now" with Ellington.
Harvey is survived by her husband, William King, her son Bob Thiele Jr., daughter-in-law Amy Kanter Thiele and a grandson, Owen Thiele.
Canadian-born actor August Schellenberg, who starred in the "Free Willy" films and appeared in numerous television roles, has died at his Dallas home after a fight with lung cancer, his agent said Friday. He was 77.
Schellenberg played the role of Randolph Johnson, a whale trainer in all three "Free Willy" movies. In 2007, he was nominated for an Emmy as a supporting actor for his role as Chief Sitting Bull in the HBO series, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."
One of his last notable works was in 2012, when he played the lead role in an all Canadian cast of Shakespeare's "King Lear" at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, said his agent, Jamie Levitt.
Schellenberg, who was born in Montreal, was half Mohawk and half Swiss, according to his website. He is survived by his wife, actress Joan Karasevich, and three daughters.
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