BartCop Entertainment Archives - Tuesday, 2 September, 2014

Tuesday

2 September, 2014

(Updated Daily)

[1071 days in a row]



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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Paul Krugman: The Medicare Miracle (NY Times)
After all the talk about how providing health care to the uninsured would be unaffordable and unsustainable, it turns out that it isn't hard at all.


Henry Rollins: American Bigotry Is Alive in Ferguson (LA Weekly)
While most of America gets on with its business, Ferguson, Missouri, burns in archaic flames of exasperating, unresolved anger, for all to see. Once again, the world watches America roil in the mortifying echo of Jim Crow law brutality.


Amanda Mannen, Sara Castro, Christine M.: 5 Unexpected Things I Learned From Having an Eating Disorder (Cracked)
Our culture tends to make the most basic concepts way too complicated, even something as simple as putting stuff in our bodies so we can keep living. In one corner, we have evil food companies who trick you into becoming addicted to foods that will kill you, and in the other corner, in the blue trunks, we have our cultural obsession with things like the ever-elusive "thigh gap." It's no surprise, then, that some people become clinically confused, resulting in drastic measures like starving themselves or having their cake and puking it too.


Smokers Lungs vs Healthy Lungs (YouTube)
Six-second clip.


Alison Flood: Will Self declares George Orwell the 'Supreme Mediocrity' (Guardian)
Novelist takes particular issue with the 'Orwellian language police' who have made plain English an unquestioned virtue.


Alison Flood: Neil Gaiman brings American Gods back to life (Guardian)
Trigger Warnings, a short-story collection due in 2015, features story which revisits the world of his Hugo and Nebula-winning novel.


Robert Evans, Anonymous: "6 Tricks I Learned as a Faith Healer (for Scamming You)" (Cracked)
For some of us, religion is a reason to get up in the morning -- a balm in hard times, an inspiration during bouts of temptation. For others, the only time we encounter it is during sex, football games, and/or award shows. Still others view religion as nothing more than a paycheck or a cynical tool of control. We call these people bastards, monsters, and blasphemers. Some folks simply call them "faith healers." We sat down with a man who learned the conniving ways of a faith healer when he was a teenager. Here's what he told us:


Joseph Luzzi: The Great Unread (Paris Review)
Why do some classics continue to fascinate while others gather dust?



David Bruce's Amazon Author Page

David Bruce's Smashwords Page

David Bruce's Blog

David Bruce's Lulu Storefront

David Bruce's Apple iBookstore

David Bruce has approximately 50 Kindle books on Amazon.com.


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Trivia Question of the Day


A holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle is called a ___?___

                                  



Send your answer to Marty









Trivia Question from Yesterday


According to Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, what is "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"?


      42                                                      Source


The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately no one knows what the question is. Thus, to calculate the Ultimate Question, a special computer the size of a small planet and built from organic components was created and named "Earth". This appeared first in the radio play and later in the novelization of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The fact that Adams named the episodes of the radio play "fits", the same archaic title for a chapter or section used by Lewis Carroll in "The Hunting of the Snark", suggests that Adams was influenced by Carroll's fascination with and frequent use of the number. The fourth book in the series, the novel So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, contains 42 chapters.        Source






Deborah was first, and correct, with:
   I haven't watched this show in years and years, and my husband, a loyal follower and trivia consultant, tells me the answer is 42.
  If he's wrong, I don't want to be right.




Charlie wrote:
   42. And we also learn from this that
  42 is conjectured to be the scaling factor in the leading order term of the "sixth moment of the Riemann zeta function". In particular, Conrey & Ghosh have conjectured that

  where the infinite product is over all prime numbers, p




mj said:
   The Answer is (spoilers)
  42. The problem is, no one knows the question. The earth was supposed to be an organic computer designed to provide that answer, but then the Golgafrincham B Ark landed and turned it into a cock up, producing the question "What is 6 times 9?"




Lois on Highway 42 in Oregon, replied:
   Oh hell, I KNOW this one. Just got back to my filthy hovel on Highway 42 (which is the answer to the all that...42...don't you know) from visiting Richard, who has been in ICU at the Oregon Health and Science University for, jebus, almost three weeks now. Today was the first time he was AWAKE and LUCID, AND able to move all his limbs, although he couldn't talk, on account of the tracheostomy tube, and oh my god I am so tired and damn, life just isn't funny right now, but where there is life there is hope, and hope is the thing with feathers, and in every pot hole there is hope, and goddamn it, he is still kicking and I'm NOT LETTING HIM OFF THE HOOK until the end of us both. So there you are.



Alan J responded:
   42



Adam answered:
   42.



Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
   42



Marian said:
   42



Billy in Cypress replied:
   The answer is 42.



Dale of Diamond Springs, Norhotcali, answered:
   42 is the answer after diligently pondering the contents of my navel. 42 DD's
  Maybe this will draw you out Lois!!!




DJ Useo responded:
   Calculated by an enormous supercomputer over a period of 7.5 million years, the answer is 42.
  It reminds me of my recurring "joke" since being a teenager about the song "Blowing in the Wind".
  It sings "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?"
  & I always sang "72". So, I got it wrong. Lol. I'm no supercomputer.




MAM   wrote:
   42 ~ Unfortunately we dont know what the question is. All we know is the answer 42.




Dan S said:
   Is, was, always shall be - 42.
  From the Restaurant at the End of the Universe,
  -- So long and thanks for all the fish.




Joe S     took the day off.
  


Sally is on hiatus.
  



BttbBob   has retired.
  
  September 2 Birthdays - Celebrities Born September 2 | Famous Birthdays



  


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Middle Class Political Economist




Now a Blogger-Columnist at US News and World Reports "Economic Intelligence"


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Martha: The Last Passenger Pigeon



Atheists: Are they unelectable? (Opinion) - CNN.com



BBC News - Iran internet: Hassan Rouhani tells clerics web is vital



BBC News - Embracing animation in Africa



BBC News - Dumpster divers seek out free food as prices increase



Billionaire threatens charity donations if Pope continues support for the poor - Las Vegas Democrat | Examiner.com



Cary Elwes Talks About The Princess Bride and His New Book | Nell Minow



Bįršarbunga - And So Begins The Gas




Thanks, Michelle!


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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from Marc Perkel

BartCop

Hello Bartcop fans,

As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and provide email lists and groups for those who might put something together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to active@bartcop.com.

Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received. Anyone wanting to make a donation can click on this the yellow donate button on bartcop.com

But - I need you all to help keep this going. This note isn't going to directly reach all of Bart's fans. So if you can repost it on blogs and discussion boards so people can sign up then when we figure out what's next we can let more people know. This list is just over 600 but like to get it up to at least 10,000 pretty quick. So here's the signup link for this email list.
( mailman.bartcop.com/listinfo/bartnews )


Marc Perkel


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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


ONE REPUG, ONE WOMAN AND ONE CATHOLIC PRIEST.

AND THE "MORANS" WENT CRAZY!

A HAND ACROSS TIME.

THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN TEXASS!

WE HAVE TO STOP THE MURDERERS!

AND GOD SAID: "LET THE FISH WALK ON LAND."

"THE LEAGALIZED NIGHT STICK OF PLUTOCRACY..."

IS THIS THE "AMERICA" YOU WANT TO LIVE IN?






Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Still hot.



Tonight, Tuesday:

CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'NCIS', followed by another RERUN 'NCIS', then a RERUN 'NCIS: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Luke Wilson, Julie Chen, and Lee Brice.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Carrot Top and Gwendoline Christie.



NBC starts the night with a FRESH 'Food Fighters', followed by a FRESH 'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Adam Levine, Meredith Vieira, and Maroon 5.
Scheduled on a FRESH Seth Meyers are Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Matthew Berry.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/10/14) are Brian Unger, Zane Lamprey, the Crystal Method, and Milagres.



ABC opens the night with the FRESH infomercial 'The Story Of Frozen: Making A Disney Animated Classic', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Weight Loss'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Eva Longoria and Wiz Khalifa.



The CW offers a RERUN 'Arrow', followed by a RERUN 'Supernatural'.
On a RERUN Arsenio Hall (from 4/2/14) are George Lopez, Albert Tsai, and Camille Solari.



Faux has a RERUN 'MasterChef', followed by a RERUN 'New Girl', then a RERUN 'The Mindy Project'.



MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.



A&E has 2½ hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH 'Storage Wars', then a FRESH 'Brandi & Jarrod: Married To The Job', followed by a FRESH 'Cement Heads'.



AMC offers the movie 'Aliens', followed by the movie 'Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines', then a FRESH '4th & Loud'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [8:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 13 - The Parting Of the Ways
 [9:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO: THE CHRISTMAS INVASION
 [10:00AM]    TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 3 - To The Last Man
 [11:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 17 - Masks
 [12:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 18 - Eye of the Beholder
 [1:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
 [2:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Flamangos
 [3:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 8 - Sam's Mediterranean Kabob Room
 [4:00PM]    TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 1
 [5:00PM]    TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 2
 [6:00PM]    PLANET EARTH-Ep 11 - Ocean Deep
 [7:00PM]    THE BLUE PLANET-Ep 1 - The Blue Planet
 [8:00PM]    THE BLUE PLANET-Ep 2 - The Deep
 [9:00PM]    SUPERHUMAN ANIMALS-Ep 2 - Sound NEW
 [10:00PM]    PLANET EARTH: HUMAN PLANET-Ep 2 - Deserts - Life in the Furnace NEW
 [11:00PM]    THE BLUE PLANET-Ep 2 - The Deep
 [12:00AM]    SUPERHUMAN ANIMALS-Ep 2 - Sound
 [1:00AM]    PLANET EARTH: HUMAN PLANET-Ep 2 - Deserts - Life in the Furnace
 [2:00AM]    PLANET EARTH-Ep 11 - Ocean Deep
 [3:00AM]    THE BLUE PLANET-Ep 1 - The Blue Planet
 [4:00AM]    SUPERHUMAN ANIMALS-Ep 2 - Sound
 [5:00AM]    PLANET EARTH: HUMAN PLANET-Ep 2 - Deserts - Life in the Furnace    (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH 'Below Deck', then a FRESH 'The Singles Project'.



Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH 'Tosh.0', then a FRESH 'Drunk History'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Ramita Navai.
Scheduled on a FRESH Colbert Report is Mandy Patinkin.



FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'We Bought A Zoo', then the movie 'We Bought A Zoo', again.



History has 'Houdini' (part 1), followed by the FRESH 'Houdini' (part 2), then 'Houdini' (part 1).



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-PAYCHECKS!
 [6:30AM]    THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-GOOFY ROOFERS
 [7:00AM]    THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-CATCHING UP ON SHOWS
 [7:30AM]    THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-ROCK AND ROLL
 [8:00AM]    MILLER'S CROSSING
 [10:30AM]    THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
 [2:00PM]    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
 [5:00PM]    TWELVE MONKEYS
 [8:00PM]    RAMBO
 [10:00PM]    CONAN THE BARBARIAN
 [12:45AM]    CONAN THE DESTROYER
 [3:00AM]    CONAN THE BARBARIAN
 [5:45AM]    WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]    Rectify-Sleeping Giants
 [7:00AM]    Tiny Furniture
 [9:15AM]    The Constant Gardener
 [12:00PM]    Little Odessa
 [2:00PM]    Nine
 [4:30PM]    Hollywoodland
 [7:15PM]    Sneakers
 [10:00PM]    A Good Year
 [12:30AM]    Naked Lunch
 [3:00AM]    Sneakers
 [5:45AM]    Love Lust-Love Lust & the Little Black Dress    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH 'Face Off', then a FRESH 'Wizard Wars'.



TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Allison Janney, Brett Gelman, and Brooks Wheelan.



TCM spends most of the daylight hours with William Holden
 [6:00 AM]      TCM Presents Elvis Mitchell Under the Influence: Bill Murray (2008)
 [6:30 AM]      Our Town (1940)
 [8:00 AM]      Rachel And The Stranger (1948)
 [9:30 AM]      Force of Arms (1951)
 [11:15 AM]      The Moon Is Blue (1953)
 [1:00 PM]      Executive Suite (1954)
 [3:00 PM]      Toward The Unknown (1956)
 [5:00 PM]      The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

 [8:00 PM]      The Jazz Singer(1927)
 [9:45 PM]      The Jazz Singer (1953)
 [11:45 PM]      Hester Street (1975)
 [1:30 AM]      Avalon (1990)
 [4:00 AM]      Street Scene (1931)
 [5:30 AM]      MGM Parade Show #31 (1956)     (ALL TIMES EST)



Wednesday   -  09/03/14

TCM spends the night with Melvyn Douglas
 [6:00 AM]      Come September (1961)
 [8:00 AM]      Adam's Rib (1949)
 [10:00 AM]      Rhapsody (1954)
 [12:00 PM]      Meet Me In Las Vegas (1956)
 [2:00 PM]      Dear Heart (1964)
 [4:00 PM]      Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
 [6:00 PM]      This Could Be The Night (1957)
 [8:00 PM]      Being There (1979)
 [10:15 PM]      Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
 [12:00 AM]      A Woman's Face (1941)
 [2:00 AM]      Hotel (1967)
 [4:15 AM]      The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
    (ALL TIMES EST)



TNT has a FRESH 'Rizzoli & Isles'.



USA has a FRESH 'Royal Pains'.




Antenna TV

Bounce TV

Cozi TV

MOVIES! TV Network

Me-TV

RTV - The Retro Television Network

This TV


Al Jazeera






Any opinions?   Marty

Or reviews?   Marty




My PayPal account was hacked and cleaned out.

Details to follow when I find out wtf happened.



(See below for addresses)


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Cast member Frances McDormand and her husband Joel Coen attend the red carpet for the television mini-series "Olive Kitteridge" at the 71st Venice Film Festival September 1, 2014.
Photo by Tony Gentile

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Amazon Resurrecting

'The Tick'

In 2002, Fox cancelled superhero TV show The Tick just eight episodes in. Now, over a decade later, Amazon Studios is giving the show a second chance. According to The Wrap and People, star Patrick Warburton (Rules of Engagement, Ted, Seinfeld) has made a deal with rights holders Sony Television to produce a pilot for a rebooted version of The Tick.

In the original show, Warburton played the Tick - a big, blue, and clumsy parody of a superhero. The series was based on a comic of the same name, and a successful '90s animated kids show featuring the hero pre-dated the failed live-action effort on Fox. The show was favorably received by critics at the time - and has since garnered a bit of a cult following - but was cancelled before completion of its first season.

Now that superheroes are making bank at box offices, Amazon's original series arm is giving The Tick a shot. Like other shows that go through Amazon Studios, a pilot episode of The Tick will stream online along with other new shows, and viewers' votes will help decide if it gets produced into a full series for Amazon Prime Instant Video. You can check out the show's original 2001 pilot here.

'The Tick'

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Diana Nyad hoists a bronze plaque commemorating her 2013 Cuba-to-Florida Keys swim in Key West, Florida, September 1, 2014, in this photo courtesy of the Florida Keys News Bureau. The plaque will be installed on a promenade wall at Smathers Beach and will be augmented by a bronze sculpture of Nyad to be commissioned by the Key West Art in Public Places Board. At age 64 and on her fifth attempt, Nyad became the first person to ever swim from Havana to Key West without a shark cage, landing on September 2, 2013.
Photo by Andy Newman

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Photos Hacked

Jennifer Lawrence

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence has contacted authorities to investigate who stole and posted nude images of her online, a spokeswoman said on Monday, part of a reported mass hacking of celebrities' intimate photos.

Online pictures of the actress, 24, who won an Academy Award for "Silver Linings Playbook" and stars in "The Hunger Games" movie franchise, began appearing on Sunday. The source of the hack was unclear.

Images purporting to be of dozens of other female actresses, models and athletes were also posted. The authenticity of many could not be confirmed.

The photos were posted on the image-sharing forum 4chan. Britain's Mirror website quoted the anonymous uploader as saying on the site he or she was a collector, not the hacker.

NBC News said Apple Co iCloud accounts had apparently been hacked to get the photos. Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris said in an email: "We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report."

Jennifer Lawrence

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Makes You Snack More?

Action-Packed TV

Could action-packed TV fare make you fat? That's the implication of a new study that found people snacked more watching fast-paced television than viewing a more leisurely-paced talk show.

THE SKINNY: Cornell University researchers randomly assigned almost 100 undergraduates to watch one of three 20-minute sessions featuring: "The Island," a 2005 sci-fi thriller starring Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor; that same movie but without the sound; or the "Charlie Rose" show, a public television interview program. The students were all provided generous amounts of cookies, M&M candies, carrots and grapes.

During "The Island," students ate on average about 7 ounces (207 grams) of various snack foods, and 354 calories. That was almost 140 calories more and nearly double the ounces they ate watching interviewer Charlie Rose. Watching the movie without sound, they also ate more - almost 100 calories more - compared with Charlie Rose.

THE THEORY: The faster paced TV seemed to distract viewers more, contributing to mindlessness eating, said Cornell researcher Aner Tal, the study's lead author. The results suggest that a steady diet of action TV could raise risks for packing on pounds.

Action-Packed TV

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Actress Uma Thurman poses for photographers as she arrives for the screening of Nymphomaniac: Volume I at the 71st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014.
Photo by David Azia

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May Help

Pistachios

For people who may be headed for type 2 diabetes, regularly eating pistachios might help turn the tide, according to a new trial from Spain.

People with so-called prediabetes have blood sugar levels higher than normal but not yet in the diabetes range. If they do nothing, 15 to 30 percent will develop diabetes within five years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the new Spanish study, people with prediabetes who ate about two ounces of pistachios daily showed significant drops in blood sugar and insulin levels and improvements in insulin and glucose processing. Some signs of inflammation also dropped dramatically.

Although the trial specifically involved pistachios, many previous studies have found encouraging evidence that eating nuts may be linked to a lower risk of heart disease and lower cholesterol, the authors write in Diabetes Care.

Pistachios

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Wake-up Call


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Pay Fight

Fast-Food

McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food restaurants are expected to be targeted with acts of civil disobedience that could lead to arrests Thursday as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry's workers.

Kendall Fells, an organizing director for Fast Food Forward, said workers in a couple of dozen cities were trained to peacefully engage in civil disobedience ahead of this week's planned protests.

Fells declined to say what exactly is in store for the protests in around 150 U.S. cities. But workers involved in the movement recently cited sit-ins as an example of strategies they could use to intensify their push for higher pay and unionization. Past protests have targeted a couple of restaurants in each city for a limited time, in many cases posing little disruption to operations.

The "Fight for $15" campaign has gained national attention at a time when growing income disparities have become a hot political issue. President Barack Obama renewed his push for Congress to raise the minimum wage at a Labor Day appearance in Milwaukee.

Many fast-food workers do not make much more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. That equates to around $15,000 a year for 40 hours a week. But workers are often subject to unpredictable schedules and don't know how many hours they'll be given from week to week, since restaurants are careful to avoid paying overtime.

Fast-Food

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Bootsy Collins and his funk band perform on the second day of Bumbershoot, Seattle's annual music and arts festival, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014, in Seattle.
Photo by Jordan Stead

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Electorate Poised To 'Keep The Bums In'

2014

A surly electorate that holds Congress in even lower regard than unpopular President Barack Obama is willing to "keep the bums in," with at least 365 incumbents in the 435-member House and 18 of 28 senators on a glide path to another term when ballots are counted Nov. 4.

With less than 10 weeks to the elections, Republicans and Democrats who assess this fall's midterm contests say the power of incumbency - the decennial process of reconfiguring congressional maps and hefty fundraising - trumps the sour public mood and antipathy toward gridlocked Washington.

"Despite the incredibly low polling, favorable ratings for Congress, it's still an incumbent's world," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics that tracks political money.

That leaves many voters angry, not only with the political reality but their inability to change it.

The voter disgust is palpable, evident in blistering comments at summertime town halls and middling percentages for incumbents in primaries. Yet no sitting senator has lost and only three congressmen got the primary boot. Come Election Day, only a fraction of the electorate will be motivated enough to vote - if history is any guide.

2014

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Rich V. Poor

Diet Gap

Americans' eating habits have improved - except among the poor, evidence of a widening wealth gap when it comes to diet. Yet even among wealthier adults, food choices remain far from ideal, a 12-year study found.

On an index of healthy eating where a perfect score is 110, U.S. adults averaged just 40 points in 1999-2000, climbing steadily to 47 points in 2009-10, the study found.

Scores for low-income adults were lower than the average and barely budged during the years studied. They averaged almost four points lower than those for high-income adults at the beginning; the difference increased to more than six points in 2009-10.

The widening rich-poor diet gap is disconcerting and "will have important public health implications," said study co-author Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health. Diet-linked chronic diseases such as diabetes have become more common in Americans in general, and especially in the poor, he noted.

Hu said the widening diet gap reflects an income gap that deepened during the recent financial crisis, which likely made healthy food less affordable for many people. Hu also noted that inexpensive highly processed foods are often widely available in low-income neighbourhoods.

Diet Gap

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An Indian artist works at an idol sculpture of the Goddess Durga ahead of the Navratri festival in Bhopal, India, September 1, 2014. The nine-day Hindu festival celebrates the killing of a demon king by the Goddess Durga and ends with colourful celebrations all over the country. Navratri will runs from 25 September to 03 October.
Photo by Sanjeev Gupta

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Admits Concealing Side Effects

Novartis

The Japanese unit of Swiss pharma giant Novartis has admitted it did not report more than 2,500 cases of serious side effects in patients using its leukaemia and other cancer drugs, reportedly including some fatalities.

The revelations, which marked the latest in a string of scandals at the company's Japanese subsidiary, come after local authorities slapped the firm on the wrist, saying it had to clean up its operations.

On Friday, Novartis issued a statement saying it had failed to report to regulators at least 2,579 cases where patients had suffered serious potential side effects from its drugs.

The news comes about four months after Novartis replaced the top executives at its Japanese arm over allegations it did not properly disclose the possible side effects of its leukaemia treatments.

In July, Japanese prosecutors laid charges against the unit over claims that falsified data was used to exaggerate the benefits of a popular blood-pressure drug.

Novartis

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Poaching War

Kenya

With camouflage uniforms, assault rifles, night vision goggles, thermal imaging devices and radios, wildlife rangers in Kenya's Ol Jogi rhino sanctuary prepare for night patrol in the "war" against poaching.

As the late afternoon sun creeps towards the horizon and shadows lengthen on the sweeping plains dotted with rocky outcrops, Ol Jogi's armed rangers get set for another tough night on patrol.

"It sounds crazy, but it's actually a war," said Jamie Gaymer, head of security for the vast reserve. "It is organised crime on an international level and it is completely out of control. And these are the guys on the frontline who are having to put their lives at risk in order to protect these animals."

Trained by the Kenya Wildlife Service and police, the 32 men in the security force are also reserve police officers, allowed to carry weapons.

Kenya

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Dressed to march in the annual West Indian Day Parade, Brittany Grice poses for a photograph as she makes her way to the route along Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway, in New York, Monday, Sept 1, 2014. Hours before the parade, police reported multiple shootings overnight, one of them deadly, near the route for the parade, which celebrates Caribbean culture and echoes traditional pre-Lenten Carnival festivities.
Photo by Mark Lennihan

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School Retires Racist Mascot

Coachella Valley

A Southern California high school has retired a controversial Arab mascot.

The bearded, snarling mascot with a large hooked nose who wears a head scarf did not appear at Coachella Valley High School's season opening football game on Friday. A belly-dancing genie that often appears with the mascot during halftime was also retired.

The Arab mascot has existed since the 1920s to recognize the desert region's reliance on date farming, a traditionally Middle Eastern crop. Over the years, the mascot evolved from a turban-wearing horseman carrying a lance to a standing figure with a scowl and a traditional head covering.

It came under fire last November when the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sent a letter to the school district complaining that the mascot was stereotypical.

The district refused to change the school's "Arabs" nickname, but it agreed to redesign the Arab face on the school logo.

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"Guardians of the Galaxy"

The intergalactic misfits of "Guardians of the Galaxy" are the summer's box-office superheroes.

Marvel's cosmic romp topped the Labor Day box office with a three-day take of $22 million - its third time in first place since its release five weeks ago, according to studio estimates Monday. With North American ticket sales of more than $280 million so far, "Guardians" is also the summer's - and the year's - top-grossing film to date domestically.

Last summer broke box-office records with the success of "Iron Man 3," ''Star Trek," ''The Heat" and "Despicable Me 2." Next summer is expected to make history again with hotly anticipated releases including "Star Wars," ''Avengers: Age of Ultron" and Pixar's "Inside Out."

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Monday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers (through Sunday) are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Tuesday.

    1. "Guardians of the Galaxy," $22.2 million ($19.7 million international).
    2. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," $15.7 million ($13 million international).
    3. "If I Stay," $11.6 million ($4.6 million international).
    4. "Let's Be Cops," $10.5 million ($6.6 million international).
    5. "As Above, So Below," $10.3 million ($1.4 million international).
    6. "The November Man," $10.2 million.
    7. "When the Game Stands Tall," $8 million.
    8. "The Giver," $6.9 million.
    9. "The Hundred-Foot Journey," $6.3 million.
   10. "The Expendables 3," $4.5 million ($8.8 million international).

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In Memory

Jimi Jamison

Jimi Jamison, the lead singer of Eighties rock bands Cobra and Survivor, passed away August 31 after suffering a heart attack, TMZ reports. He was 63. Jamison's booking manager confirmed to TMZ that the former Survivor singer had died. Jamison served as Survivor's lead singer from 1984 until 1988, proving the vocals for the band's hits like "The Moment of Truth" from The Karate Kid, "Is This Love," and "Burning Heart" from Rocky IV. As a solo artist, he recorded the track "I'm Always Here," which became the memorable theme song for the TV series Baywatch.

Jamison joined Survivor after their then-lead singer, David Bickler, was forced to leave the group after developing polyps on his vocal chords shortly after Survivor recorded their biggest hit, the Grammy-winning Rocky III cut "Eye of the Tiger." In 1984, following the dissolution of Cobra, Jamison stepped in as Survivor lead singer, recording three albums with the band, 1984's Vital Signs, 1986's When Seconds Count and 1988's Too Hot to Sleep. Survivor disbanded in 1989, but reformed in 1993 with Bickler back at the microphone. Jamison would eventually rejoin Survivor in 2000 for another six years.

In the Nineties, the band was mired in legal issues as Jamison toured under the Survivor moniker even though his former bandmates, who had reunited with Bickler, also performed as Survivor. This lead to lawsuits between the two groups, which weren't resolved until guitarist Frankie Sullivan assumed ownership of the Survivor name. The band eventually made amends and, in recent years, Survivor toured with both Jamison and Bickler.

At press time, neither Survivor's Twitter nor Facebook accounts had commented on Jamison's death. The band had performed in Morgan Hill, California on August 30. They were scheduled to begin another tour on September 12 in Parker, Colorado.

Jimi Jamison

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A vendor holds an owl for sale at Jatinegara bird market in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 1, 2014. Many buyers from different regions come to the Jatinegara market either to buy or sell animals, even some endangered species. Sales of endangered animals becomes a major problem in Indonesia, especially as some endangered species are sold at a very cheap price.
Photo by Adi Weda

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