Roger Ebert: On Orgasms
The two most important things that can happen to you in a mainstream movie are being killed and having an orgasm. Sometimes in facial close-ups it's hard to tell one from the other. When Pauline Kael saw that wall poster in Italy saying "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," she sensed she was onto something.
Ted Rall: Our F- You System of Government
Governments are supposed to fulfill the basic needs of their citizens. Ours doesn't pretend to try. Sick? Too bad. Can't find a job? Tough. Broke? Can't afford rent? We don't give a crap. Forget "e pluribus unum." We need a more accurate motto. We live under a f- you system.
Froma Harrop: Clean Energy Worth the Political Muck (Creators Syndicate)
Princely U.S. government subsidies have made developing wind, solar and other clean energy nearly risk-free to investors - and that's bad. But the price of this domestically produced power has tumbled, thanks in part to such aid. That helps clean energy compete with the fossil kind, which is definitely good.
Connie Schultz: Class Warfare, Codified (Creators Syndicate)
What the Stanford study shows is that a deeper disparity is sinking its claws into more children in America - and at a much younger age. These are children doomed to failing schools and rotting neighborhoods. Children who are surrounded by the sad evidence of defeated lives. Children for whom college always will be someone else's dream. If pointing this out is waging class warfare, I have to ask: Who do you think is winning?
Henry Rollins: Alice Bag's Punk Rock Legacy (LA Weekly)
More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, "Survive" and "Babylonian Gorgon," were great and made many of my mix tapes.
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."
Spiders produce silk from their spinneret glands located at the tip of their abdomen. Each gland produces a thread for a special purpose - for example a trailed safety line, sticky silk for trapping prey or fine silk for wrapping it. Spiders use different gland types to produce different silks, and some spiders are capable of producing up to 8 different silks during their lifetime.
Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, each having its own function - there are also spiders with just one pair and others with as many as four pairs.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Usually three, but from one to four.
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
It's too damn'd early in the day to think about spiders. I'll get back to ya later...
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Most spiders have at least two pairs of spinnerets, with each spinneret
containing many, many silk-producing "spigots."
Adam answered:
4 Pairs of spinnerettes.
Sally said:
As I remember from the book (or film) "Charlottes Web," spiders usually have two or three pairs of spinneret's, located at the rear of the abdomen... My kids were into spiders for a while after reading that book.
Spider spinneret's.
PS: @C. Talbott, that was funny (about your relatives)!
PPS: Did get downtown (NYC) yesterday afternoon. I went the Foley's Square and found a huge mass of protestors - mulling around, checking their iPhone's, and tweeting like crazy. Some, in the same crowd, were texting back and forth to each other. (I found that strange...)Nice, nice people, but sorely lacking leadership. There is all this energy, and frustration, but no where to direct and vent. While I understand their intent, it is getting lost in the fray. And, of course, the angry (and perhaps mentally ill) have infiltrated the crowds, and there follows the media and cameras. I have been to many, many Gay Pride events. There, as here, you will find 95% of the people who are boringly average, and then the 5% who are angry, extreme, or mentally ill. Headlines the next day always show the scantly-clad men on the floats. So, why am I surprised to read that many people think the Gay community is filled with debauchery? And, it's the same way here - if they can find bad behavior, the camera's and networks are right there.
OTOH, I say, please do not sell this movement short! They are mostly young, educated, tech savvy, and motivated. They need leadership - I just hope they get the right persons to gather up their energy...
"Hey Bloomberg, we have to say;
The 99% are not going away!!!
(I liked that one!)
Alan J answered:
3 pairs
Marian responded:
3
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Scientists don't know exactly how spiders form silk, but they do have a basic idea of the spinning process. Spiders have special glands that secrete silk proteins (made up of chains of amino acids), which are dissolved in a water-based solution. The spider pushes the liquid solution through long ducts, leading to microscopic spigots on the spider's spinnerets. Spiders typically have two or three spinneret pairs, located at the rear of the abdomen.
BadtotheboneBob answered:
Ok... Spiders... spinnerets... 3 pairs usually... I hate spiders. I have spider stories I could tell y'all from remote unmanned Lighthouses that would creep out Stephen King... I kid you not. Thousands upon thousands... and BIG... Lantern rooms totally filled with web and the nasty beasts... and we had to go up into them to service the lanterns. Ya know that Harry Potter movie with the spiders in the forest? Yeah... Like THAT!
MAM wrote:
Usually 3 pairs. A spinneret is a spider's silk-spinning organ. It is usually on the underside of a spider's abdomen, to the rear.
The dark patch on the spider's abdomen contains its spinnerets.
Try to get this sent to the right place tonight!
And, Joe S answered:
Three, and I ain't postin' no picher of no spider.
My back is driving me nuts.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', then a RERUN'The Mentalist', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Harry's Law', followed by a RERUN'Prime Suspect', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Jason Segel hosting, music by Florence + The Machine.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'Futurama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux has 'Cops', followed by another 'Cops', then a RERUN'Terrra Nova'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
AMC offers the movie 'True Grit', followed by 'Hell On Wheels'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] Primeval-Episode 7
[7:00AM] Primeval-Episode 1
[8:00AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word-Episode 11
[9:00AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word-Episode 12
[10:00AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares-Ep 5 The Curry Lounge
[11:00AM] The X-Files: Fight The Future
[1:30PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation-Ep 23 Sarek
[2:30PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation-Ep 24 Menage a Troi
[3:30PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation-Ep 25 Transfigurations
[4:30PM] Beowulf
[7:00PM] Battlestar Galactica-Ep 6 - Torn NEW
[8:00PM] Battlestar Galactica-Ep 7 - A Measure of Salvation NEW
[9:00PMPrimeval-Episode 2 NEW
[10:00PM] The Graham Norton Show-Ep 4 - Sir Cliff Richard, Lord Alan Sugar, Micky Flanagan, Kelly Rowland NEW
[11:00PM] The Inbetweeners-Episode 5
[11:30PM] The Inbetweeners-Episode 6
[12:00AM] Primeval-Episode 2
[1:00AM] The Graham Norton Show-Ep 4 - Sir Cliff Richard, Lord Alan Sugar, Micky Flanagan, Kelly Rowland
[2:00AM] The Inbetweeners-Episode 5
[2:30AM] The Inbetweeners-Episode 6
[3:00AM] The X-Files-Ep 14 Die Hand Die Verletzt
[4:00AM] The X-Files-Ep 15 Fresh Bones
[5:00AM] The X-Files-Ep 16 Colony (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Suprremacy', then the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Extract', followed by the movie 'Employee Of The Month', and 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly'.
FX has the movie 'Hancock', followed by LIVE'College Football'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The New World
[9:00AM] Polish Wedding
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-The Ghost Talks
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Beer Barrel Polecats
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-Calling All Curs
[12:30PM] The Three Stooges-Dizzy Doctors
[12:55PM] The Three Stooges-Dizzy Pilots
[1:20PM] The Three Stooges-Fright Night
[1:45PM] The Three Stooges-Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
[2:10PM] Occupations
[2:15PM] The New World
[5:15PM] The Great Raid
[8:00PM] AV Club's One Track Mind
[8:05PM] Full Metal Jacket
[10:35PM] Lord of War
[1:05AM] Miracle at St. Anna
[4:35AM] Nosebleed
[4:45AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:00AM] Onion News Network-Today Now! Special
[5:30AM] Onion News Network-Sex in America (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Man in the Chair
[7:50A] Pen Pusher
[8:00A] Police, Adjective
[9:00A] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Santa Fe (Episode 1, Season 1)
[10:00A] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Omaha (Episode 2, Season 1)
[11:00A] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Mobile (Episode 3, Season 1)
[12:00P] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Denver (Episode 4, Season 1)
[1:00P] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Raleigh (Episode 5, Season 1)
[2:00P] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Redondo Beach (Episode 6, Season 1)
[3:00P] LUDO BITES AMERICA: One More Bite (Episode 7, Season 1)
[4:00P] Man in the Chair
[5:50P] Runaway
[6:00P] Love Lust & the Bikini
[7:05P] Peter and Vandy
[8:25P] One Week
[10:00P] In America
[11:50P] This Way Up
[12:00A] Total Eclipse
[2:00A] Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983
[3:45A] In America
[5:35A] The New Tenants (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Planet Terror', followed by the movie 'Friday The 13th'.
Organizers say British actress Helen Mirren will co-host this year's Nobel Peace Prize concert, featuring performances by Benin's Angelique Kidjo and other world artists.
The Dec. 11 concert is held a day after the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, which this year honors President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women's right activist Leymah Gbowee - both of Liberia - and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.
The lineup of artists include Ahmed Fathi of Yemen and Liberian-born singer Miatta Fahnbulleh, as well as David Gray, Jill Scott, country duo Sugarland and World Youth Choir. Organizers said Friday that Mirren's co-host will be announced later.
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize highlighted women's rights and women's efforts in building peace.
A poster for a play with "Sex" in the title has been banned from a northeast Ohio courthouse.
Tuscarawas County commissioners this week ordered the removal of posters advertising a local production of the play "No Sex, Please, We're British."
Commissioners got a complaint about "Sex" in the title of the play, about a couple dealing with a flood of pornography going into their apartment. Commissioner Chris Abbuhl tells The (Dover-New Philadelphia) Times-Reporter newspaper the person who complained thought the poster was inappropriate for a public building.
Non-profit groups have historically been allowed to put up posters in the courthouse, including the Little Theatre hosting the play.
Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, from the ABC comedy "Modern Family," attends Out magazine's Out 100 gala in New York, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Los Angeles County authorities say singer Patricia "Bonnie" Pointer has been arrested for investigation of possessing rock cocaine.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the 61-year-old was arrested in South Los Angeles Friday after the car she was riding in was pulled over for a mechanical malfunction.
Deputies say she was released after posting $10,000 bail.
Actress Meryl Streep laughs as she listens to interpretation during a seminar of "Film and Director: Actor's Perspective" at US-China Forum on the Arts and Culture in Beijing, November 18, 2011.
A judge sentenced self-help guru James Ray on Friday to two years in jail for the deaths of three people following a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona two years ago.
Ray was sentenced to three two-year terms for the deaths of James Shore, Liz Neuman and Kirby Brown, who died after attending a personal growth seminar he led near Sedona, Arizona, in 2009. The terms were to run concurrently.
The fatal sweat lodge ceremony cut short Ray's dazzling rise in the personal development industry, peddling a "harmonic wealth" philosophy that promised to "unlock the secret to true wealth and fulfillment" in clients' lives.
Career high points included appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN's Larry King Live, according to his website.
A jury in June found Ray guilty on three counts of negligent homicide. He faced a maximum sentence of three years in jail on each count.
Cast member Cybill Shepherd poses with director of the movie Peter Bogdanovich at the premiere of the digitally restored "definitive director's cut" movie "The Last Picture Show" in celebration of the film's 40th anniversary at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California November 17, 2011.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Think of the Texas drought, floods in Thailand and Russia's devastating heat waves as coming attractions in a warming world. That is the warning from top international climate scientists and disaster experts after meeting in Africa.
The panel said the world needs to get ready for more dangerous and "unprecedented extreme weather" caused by global warming. These experts fear that without preparedness, crazy weather extremes may overwhelm some locations, making some places unlivable.
The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a special report on global warming and extreme weather Friday after meeting in Kampala, Uganda. This is the first time the group of scientists has focused on the dangers of extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, droughts and storms. Those are more dangerous than gradual increases in the world's average temperature.
For example, the report predicts that heat waves that are now once-in-a-generation events will become hotter and happen once every five years by mid-century and every other year by the end of the century. And in some places, such as most of Latin America, Africa and a good chunk of Asia, they will likely become yearly bakings.
And the very heavy rainstorms that usually happen once every 20 years will happen far more frequently, the report said. In most areas of the U.S. and Canada, they are likely to occur three times as often by the turn of the century, if fossil fuel use continues at current levels. In Southeast Asia, where flooding has been dramatic, it is likely to happen about four times as often as now, the report predicts.
Paul Vance remembers calling his friend and fellow songwriter Lee Pockriss more than 50 years ago to share the lyrics of a song he had just written: "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini."
"Lee, I said, I have an idea," he recalled Friday. "He went crazy. By the time he got to my office he had 90 percent of the tune written."
The song, which was recorded by 16-year-old teen idol Brian Hyland, surged to No. 1 on the Billboard charts in August 1960 and has been pop culture staple ever since.
Pockriss, who wrote other hit songs for an eager, youthful post-World War II generation, died in Connecticut this week after a long illness. He was 87.
Pockriss, who also worked in musical theater, co-wrote several songs with Vance, including "Catch a Falling Star" in 1957.
Vance, 82, said Pockriss did an excellent job on their collaborations.
"He was a very talented composer, a great composer, the opposite of me," he told The Associated Press on Friday. "He knew music inside out. I don't know one note of music."
Vance was erroneously reported as dead five years ago because of the death of an Ormond Beach, Fla., man who had falsely claimed to have written "Itsy Bitsy" under the name Paul Vance. The real Vance was able to prove that it was he, not Paul Van Valkenburgh, who had written the song.
Vance, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., said Pockriss also worked in musical theater and wrote the music for the 1963 Broadway show "Tovarich," for which Vivien Leigh won the Tony Award for best actress in a musical.
Pockriss was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 20, 1924, his wife said.
He served as a cryptographer, writing in code to guide Army Air Force planes over the Pacific during World War II, she said. Pockriss studied musicology at New York University with the modernist composer Stefan Wolpe, she said.
Sonja Pockriss said her husband was versatile, broadening his formal education in music with an ability to improvise. That talent was in demand for live TV in the 1950s and '60s and helped him land gigs on top programs starring Jack Paar, Milton Berle and Martha Raye, she said.
Mark Hall, who created much loved British children's animations including DangerMouse and Jamie and his Magic Torch, has died. He was 75.
His son Simon Hall said Friday his father died overnight in his family home in the northern city of Manchester after a short illness.
Hall worked closely with his college friend Brian Cosgrove. the two met at Manchester's Regional College of Art in the 1950s and worked as graphic designers for the television channel Granada TV in the 1960s. They formed their own animation company Cosgrove Hall Productions in 1976 and went on to create a series of magical, often surreal cartoons.
Their best known creation was "DangerMouse" - a cartoon secret agent mouse that first appeared on television in the 1980s with his sidekick hamster Penfold. The show attracted 19 million viewers at its peak.
They also created "Jamie and his Magic Torch" cartoons about a boy whose torch takes him to fantasy lands after bedtime. They also produced an animated version of Kenneth Grahame's book "Wind in the Willows," about riverside animals including Rat, Mole and Toad of Toad Hall.
Hall and Cosgrove retired in 2000, but had recently reformed their animation company under the name Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick Entertainment and had planned to produce new animation.
Pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels are projected onto Durham Cathederal in Durham, northern England November 17, 2011. Projection artist Ross Ashton has collaborated with composer and arranger Robert Ziegler and Imagination
sound designer John del Nero, to create a twelve-minute son et lumiere. Ashton will project illustrated pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels across the 100m span of Durham Cathedral as part of Durham Lumiere the UK's largest light festival which brings together 35 British and international artists working with light from 17-20 November 2011.
Photo by Nigel Roddis
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