Froma Harrop: Politically and Otherwise, the Mountain West Swings (Creators Syndicate)
When the sun goes down, the new Mountain West comes out swinging. Denver's Larimer Square and LoDo (Lower Downtown) district turns into a multicultural Mixmaster of educated professionals, ordinary folk and tourists jamming bars, hamburger joints, steak palaces and French bistros. Meanwhile, armies of largely Spanish-speaking immigrants work the kitchens and vacuum the deserted offices. For all the legends of the spacious West, the region is one of the most urbanized.
Mark Shields: No Right to Remain Silent (Creators Syndicate)
The Obama campaign has spent time and money defining Romney's private equity career as regularly putting profits before people and private international paydays ahead of American domestic prosperity. From Romney, there have been no public sightings of humor, candor or empathy. The Romney campaign insists that there will be time to introduce the Real Mitt to American voters at the Tampa, Fla., convention. But the longer he remains silent about who he is and what his personal hopes and, yes, doubts might be, Mitt Romney all but guarantees that essentially hostile brushes will paint his public portrait.
Darren Naish: Why the world has to ignore ReptileEvolution.com (Scientific American)
Notice to those who see that this article is incredibly long and then decide not to read it: here's the take-home point… ReptileEvolution.com does not represent a trustworthy source that people should consult or rely on. Students, amateur researchers and the lay public should be strongly advised to avoid or ignore it.
Pete Doctor: Whatever You Like Doing, Do It! (Letters of Note)
But I loved animation, so I kept doing it. I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better. Meanwhile, many of the people who could draw really well kind of rested around and didn't do a whole lot. It made me angry, because if I had their talent, man, the things I would do with it!
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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Kindred
Alan J said:
Kindred
WDR wrote:
In baseball score keeping it stands for a strikeout, A backwards letter K stands for a called third strike.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Philip Kindred Dick
Marian responded:
Kindred
Adam answered:
Kindred. Isn't that a girl's name?
Gene responded:
Philip Kindred Dick
He had a twin sister named Jane who died at about 2 months of age. He is buried next to her.
BttbBob is taking a break to go tromp in the woods.
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. His work was successful during his lifetime but has grown exponentially in influence since his death in 1982. Dick's work will probably be best known through the dizzyingly successful Hollywood adaptations of his work, in movies like "Blade Runner" (based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"), "Total Recall," "Minority Report," "A Scanner Darkly" and, most recently, "The Adjustment Bureau." I read a few of his books and had mixed feelings about the movie adaptations. I loved Blade Runner. The rest, ehhhh?
Sally said:
I remember, Philip Kindred Dick for his SiFi short stories.
I did not realize he was so prolific...
PS: I'm getting a bumper crop of tomatoes this year, but I've had to work for them too. I did some in pots, placed on top of other pots turned upside down to raise them up to deer level, but well away from the rabbits, squirrels, and woodchucks. I placed some garbage cans in front to the plants to discourage the deer, and so far so good. When we have storms blow in, I put the more delicate plants under the patio cover, AWA the eggplants. I leave the peppers and cucumbers in the ground because none of the pests seem to like them... Oh, the onions are good too, but the carrots have suffered from the chipmice. Wonder if I can grow them in pots next year? Mumble, grumble, hot weather and pests...
MAM wrote:
Kindred ~ Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre.
And, Joe S answered:
Kindred, was that his mother's maiden name?
Carla and our granddaughters.
Sunny and seasonal - guess it's about time to finally put the fans in the windows.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'Person Of Interest'.
On a RERUNDave (from 7/11/12) are Bryan Cranston, R.A. Dickey, and Zac Brown Band.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Rachael Ray and the Imagineers.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'The Middle', followed by a RERUN'Last Man Standing', then a RERUN'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'NY Med'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/9/12) are Paul Reubens, Dreama Walker, Marina and the Diamonds.
The CW offers a RERUN'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'The LA Complex'.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by another RERUN'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'Cold Case', followed by another old 'Cold Case'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then another FRESH'Storage Wars', followed by still another FRESH'Storage Wars', then yet another FRESH'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Behind Enemy Lines', followed by the movie 'Hidalgo', then the movie 'Sahara'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 8-Ep 13 - Kate Hudson, Russell Kane, Tinie Tempah
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 11-Ep 11 - Will.I.Am, Greg Davies, Miriam Margolyes, Adam Lambert
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 5-Ep 3 - Victory of the Daleks
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 5-Ep 4 - The Time of Angels
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - SEASON 1-Ep 4 - Moore Place
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 2-Ep 3 - Trobiano's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 3-Ep 10 - Anna Vincenzo's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - SEASON 2-Ep 6 - Clubway 41
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 4-Ep 9 - Forest of the Dead
[5:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-Ep 3 - He That Believeth In Me
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - SEASON 2-Episode 1
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 3-Ep 11 - Fleming
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 2-Ep 4 - Black Pearl
[9:00PM] JAMIE OLIVER'S FOOD REVOLUTION - SEASON 2-Ep 3 - Is It Me or Have We Just Been Pushed Into a Corner? NEW
[10:00PM] JAMIE OLIVER'S FOOD REVOLUTION - SEASON 2-Ep 4 - We're Going to Go Guerilla NEW
[11:00PM] NO KITCHEN REQUIRED - SEASON 1-Ep 1 - Dominica
[12:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 4-Ep 1 - Spanish Pavilion
[1:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 3-Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 1-Ep 2 - Lela's
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 5-Ep 12 - The Pandorica Opens
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 5-Ep 13 - The Big Bang
[5:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles', another 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles', followed by a FRESH'Love Broker'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', and 'Workaholics'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Saima Wahab.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Mark Shriver.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Zombieland'.
History has 'The Universe', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Top Gear', and another 'Top Gear'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Protector
[7:45AM] The Valet
[9:30AM] Away From Her
[12:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Adam Scott Wears a Red Oxford Shirt & Jeans
[12:30PM] Bunk
[1:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:15PM] The Protector
[3:00PM] The Valet
[4:45PM] The Three Stooges-Don't Throw That Knife
[5:10PM] The Three Stooges-Dopey Dicks
[5:35PM] The Three Stooges-Dunked in the Deep
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Houseboat
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Emancipation
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Book Club
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm's Girlfriend
[8:00PM] The Bank Job
[10:30PM] Lord of War
[1:00AM] The Good, the Bad, the Weird
[4:00AM] Onion News Network-The Trial of TR-425
[4:30AM] Onion News Network-Cyber Attack
[5:00AM] Mr. Show With Bob and David-The Velveteen Touch of a Dandy Fop
[5:35AM] The Three Stooges-Don't Throw That Knife (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Love Lust & The Undead
[7:00A] Encounters At The End Of The World
[8:40A] Beautiful Losers
[10:15A] Visioneers
[11:50A] Pen Pusher
[12:00P] Encounters At The End Of The World
[1:45P] Carny
[3:00P] Love Lust & Secret Societies
[4:00P] Visioneers
[5:35P] Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More To Life
[6:00P] Love Lust & Comfort Food
[7:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Pressure (Episode 13, Season 1)
[8:00P] Dangerous Parking
[11:00P] Little Children
[1:20A] Diary of a Nymphomaniac
[3:05A] Dangerous Parking
[5:05A] David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has 'Destination Truth', another 'Destination Truth', followed by a FRESH'Destination Truth', then a FRESH'Haunted Highway'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Lisa Kudrow, Vince Gilligan, and Grouplove.
Actress Nichelle Nichols, who played the character Uhura in the original "Star Trek" TV series, poses at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calfiornia August 5, 2012. The Mars Science Lab Curiosity rover is set to land on Mars in the late evening of August 5, 2012. The Mars rover Curiosity, on a quest for signs the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life, streaked into the home stretch of its eight-month voyage on Sunday nearing a make-or-break landing attempt that NASA calls one of the toughest feats of robotic spaceflight.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Members of a feminist Russian punk band on trial for performing a stunt against Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral sought to dismiss their judge on Monday, accusing her of being politically biased and ignoring their side of the story.
The Pussy Riot members also said they did not mean to hurt anyone's religious feelings when they performed a "punk prayer" in Christ the Saviour cathedral against Putin's return to the Russian presidency.
But the Judge refused to listen to any of the motions of the defense, and the daily 12-hour court sessions on hooliganism charges continued as the trial moved quickly toward completion.
The three women - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23; Alekhina, 24; and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29 - have been in custody for five months following their stunt. The band members, who are facing a seven-year sentence if convicted, have previously complained that they've been deprived of sleep and food.
The trial that started in July has sharply divided Russia. Some believers felt insulted by the act, while top rights groups have declared the women prisoners of conscience.
U.S. singer and actor Harry Belafonte poses with his "Pardo alla Carriera" award during a photocall at the 65th Locarno Film Festival in Ascona August 6, 2012.
Photo by Fiorenzo Maffi
Halle Berry, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Maya Rudolph will be hanging out on "Sesame Street" this season - and they'll be far from alone.
The long-running children's show announced the guest stars for its upcoming 43rd season on Monday, unveiling a list that includes Berry, Gordon-Levitt, Rudolph, Don Cheadle, Amy Ryan, Casey Affleck, Melissa McCarthy, Steve Carell and Jon Hamm.
Other actors who will be guesting on "Sesame Street" include David Hyde Pierce, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard, Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Kristen Bell and Paula Patton.
On the musical end of things, rapper Common, singer Colbie Caillat and rock band Train will make appearances. Train will duet with Elmo and the Count on "Five By," a parody of their hit "Drive By."
Oh, and the Muppets will also be getting a visit from U.S. Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Sharon Osbourne says she's leaving NBC's "America's Got Talent" because the network discriminated against her son, Jack Osbourne, by cutting him from its upcoming "Stars Earn Stripes" after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
"I just can't be fake," the New York Post quoted her as saying. "It's discrimination, and it was badly handled."
Representatives for the show said during the Television Critics Association summer press tour last month that Jack Osbourne, 26, had been in talks with the military-themed reality competition. Producer David Hurwitz said the "rigors of the show were too intense for him."
Sharon Osbourne caught NBC executives off-guard when she tweeted to fellow "AGT" judge Howard Stern on July 24, the day of NBC's TCA presentation, "My darling @HowardStern, money is not the reason I'm not returning to @nbcagt, it's because..."
The Post said both Osbournes acknowledged that Jack Osbourne's contract was never signed. But they said he was moving forward with the network based on a good-faith, verbal commitment. Sharon Osbourne said she had a similar agreement with NBC before formally joining "AGT."
Firebrand reggae star Peter Tosh will receive Jamaica's third-highest honor in a ceremony later this year.
The island's government announced Monday that the late reggae legend will be awarded the Order of Merit during the annual national honors ceremony in October.
Tosh was killed in 1987 at age 42 by robbers who broke into his Jamaican home.
He was a founding member of the Wailers, forming the three-man core of the group with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer. Tosh and Marley wrote the black power anthem "Get Up, Stand Up." Tosh left the group to pursue a solo career in the 1970s, releasing the hard-hitting albums "Legalize It" and "Equal Rights."
The lanky musician advocated legalizing marijuana and encouraged blacks to return to Africa.
Actress June Lockhart, best know for her TV roles in "Lost in Space" and "Lassie", poses for a photograph in the newsroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calfiornia August 5, 2012. Lockhart was an invited guest for the Mars landing. The Mars Science Lab Cuiosity rover is set to land in the late evening of August 5, 2012. The Mars rover Curiosity, on a quest for signs the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life, streaked into the home stretch of its eight-month voyage on Sunday nearing a make-or-break landing attempt that NASA calls one of the toughest feats of robotic spaceflight.
Photo by Fred Prouser
The "Black Swan" star married her longtime squeeze Benjamin Millepied on Saturday at a private home in Big Sur, People reports.
Millepied is the father of Portman's 14-month old son Aleph. The couple met while filming "Black Swan." Millepied was a choreographer on the ballet drama and played a dancer. Portman won a best actress Oscar for her work in the film.
Jeff Ross has earned himself a slightly less prominent place in Comedy Central's roast of Roseanne Barr with a joke about the massacre at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo., last month.
Comedy Central has cut the joke from the broadcast of "Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne," which premieres Sunday at 10 p.m., a spokesman for Comedy Central told TheWrap.
The primary target of the joke was red-headed roaster Seth Green, who Ross compared to Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes.
"Seth, you haven't gotten this much attention since you shot all those people in Aurora," Ross cracked. "You're actually not like (accused shooter) James Holmes. He was doing things in a theater that people remember."
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (R) talks to U.S. actor Sean Penn during an election rally in Valencia, some 150 km (93 miles) west from Caracas August 5, 2012.
Federal prosecutors say a deal has been reached to drop the criminal case against Gibson Guitar Corp. after the instrument maker acknowledged its exotic wood imports violated environmental laws.
Under the agreement announced Monday, Nashville-based Gibson is to pay a $300,000 penalty. The company also agreed to forfeit claims to about $262,000 worth of wood seized by federal agents and contribute $50,000 to promote conservation of protected tree species.
Gibson's decision stands in contrast to a 2011 publicity campaign mounted after agents raided Gibson facilities in Memphis and Nashville.
Republicans and tea party members rallied behind CEO Henry Juszkiewicz when he denounced the raids as overzealous federal regulation that threatened American jobs.
Triza Lapani helps U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to put on a chitenje cloth, a type of traditional skirt, at Camp Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) run by the Peace Corps, in Lilongwe, Malawi, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, on the first ever visit to Malawi by a U.S. Secretary of State.
Photo by Jacquelyn Martin
A groundbreaking ceremony has been held for a museum that will tell the story of a Utah internment camp where Japanese Americans were detained imprisioned during World War II.
Seven former internees were among a crowd that attended the ceremony Saturday for the $2.3 million Topaz Museum and Education Center in Delta.
The 8,254-square-foot facility will include exhibits, a library and an art gallery featuring paintings created at Topaz.
Thousands of Japanese Americans living in the San Francisco Bay area were dispossessed, and then sent by train to the remote Utah camp after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Actor Dave Foley arrives with his ex-wife Crissy Guerrer (top L), daughter Alina (bottom R) and her unidentified friend for Focus Features' "ParaNorman" premiere at the Globe Theatre at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, August 5, 2012.
Photo by Bret Hartman
Police have charged two out-of-state men with robbing two other men in western Pennsylvania by claiming they were recording a video for a reality TV show called "You Just Got Robbed."
Police in Indiana, Pa., tell The Associated Press the incident happened about 1:20 a.m. and that the suspects apparently attend a nearby technical school. They're identified as 21-year-old Randall Smith, of Templehill, Md., and 18-year-old Artie Goodwine, of Memphis, Tenn.
Police say one of the men put the victims into headlocks while the other recorded the robbery - in which $20 was taken from one of the victims - on a cellphone.
Online court records don't list attorneys for the men. Smith has posted bail but Goodwine remained in the Indiana County Jail on Monday, about 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Tattoo artist Maria Jose Cristerna of Mexico attends the Tattoo Art Mex 2012 convention at the World Trade Center in Mexico City August 5, 2012. The convention, which brought together dozens of Mexico City tattoo artists and drew hundreds of tattoo enthusiasts, also showcased body modification, body painting, graffiti and displays of colourfully decorated cars.
Photo by Henry Romero
Fiona McLaren, 59, had kept an old painting in her Scottish farmhouse for decades. She reportedly didn't think much of the painting, which had been given to her as a gift by her father. But after she finally decided to have the painting appraised, some experts are speculating that it may in fact be a 500-year-old painting by Leonardo da Vinci and potentially worth more than $150 million.
"I showed it to him [auctioneer Harry Robertson] and he was staggered, speechless save for a sigh of exclamation," said Ms. McLaren, according to The People.
The Daily Mail says the painting may be of Mary Magdalene holding a young child. The painting is now undergoing further analysis by experts at the Cambridge University and the Hamilton Kerr Institute, who will attempt to uncover its exact age and origins.
Even if the painting is not a da Vinci original, it is believed to at least be from the da Vinci school, created by one of the master's pupils during the 16th century.
A papal bull was found attached to the back of the painting and is believed to have originated from the era of Pope Paul V, head of the Catholic Church in the early 17th century. McLaren says the word "Magdalene," is visible on the faded paper.
Mark O'Donnell, the Tony Award-winning writer behind such quirky and clever Broadway shows as "Hairspray and "Cry-Baby," died Monday, his agent said. He was 58.
Jack Tantleff, O'Donnell's agent at the Paradigm agency, said the writer collapsed in the lobby of his apartment complex on theUpper West Side of Manhattan.
O'Donnell won the 2003 Tony for best book of a musical for co-writing "Hairspray" with Thomas Meehan, and the pair earnedTony nominations in 2008 for doing the same for another John Waters work, "Cry-Baby."
His other plays include "That's It, Folks!" ''Fables for Friends," ''The Nice and the Nasty," ''Strangers on Earth," ''Vertigo Park" and the musical "Tots in Tinseltown."
He wrote two novels, "Getting Over Homer" and "Let Nothing You Dismay," and published two collections of comic stories, "Elementary Education" and "Vertigo Park and Other Tales."
He also adapted Georges Feydeau's "Private Fittings" for the La Jolla Playhouse in California and a symphonic version of "Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Kennedy Center.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the George S. Kaufman Award.
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