zEN mAN (observing NBA badboy Dennis "the menace" Rodman... the over-tattooed, nose-ringed, dress-wearing, spring -loaded high-jumping former-strong forward for the Chicago Bulls flying to Pyongyang in North Korea to hang out with North Korea's new young leader...Kim Jong Un....they drank Coca Cola together and watched Harlem Globetrotters reruns...who would have guessed the the "Worm" could be such an effective diplomat?)
George Dvorsky: 11 Emerging Scientific Fields That Everyone Should Know About (io9)
There was a time when science could be broken down into neat-and-tidy disciplines - straightforward things like biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. But as science advances, these fields are becoming increasingly specialized and interdisciplinary, leading to entirely new avenues of inquiry. Here are 11 emerging scientific fields you should know about.
Nevada
State Land Owned By Federal Government: 59.3 Million Acres
Total State Land: 70.2 Million Acres
Percent State Land Owned By Federal Government: 84.5%
Nevada has by far the greatest amount of its land owned by the federal government compared to the other states. The majority of land in the state is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. As a result of the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998, money made from sales of federal land in Nevada stays in the state. The state has taken advantage of this, making $3 billion by auctioning off unused lands to private buyers, then using funds to develop state infrastructure.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Nevada, where everyone I know but us has moved when retired from California
DanD, in fine form, wrote:
Human State of Denial (the one with no river)?
Adam answered:
Nevada.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Nevada
Charlie responded:
Nevada, but they've always put it to good use.
Teapot Bee (1955, 8 kilotons)
Sally said:
The US government owns a whopping 84.5% of Nevada - so sayeth the Internets...
Look at Jersey, we are only owned by Chris Christie...
PS: I came home from the food store and flipped on the TV. I saw a "special Report" and wondered what tragedy had struck us.
All I saw was a helicopter following the Pope's helicopter to the hills of Rome, while commentators lamented his retirement...
So apparently the Tri-States in the NY area stop because of Pope News??? WTF!!!
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Of course it's the Great State of Nevada. Home of brothels, atomic downrange human testing and Area 51.
"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government."
~Lenny Bruce
Alan J answered:
Nevada
MAM wrote:
Nevada
BttbBob responded:
I know this one... Nevada. Think of things like:
Amongst others... The truth (whatever that may be) is out there (or not)... However, much of the government land is relegated to parks and BLM grazing property... as well as nuclear weapon testing.
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Happy Birthday today to: Actor/Director Ron Howard (58), Actor Robert Conrad (83) of TV's "Wild, Wild West" fame, Actress Catherine "Daisy Duke" Bach (58), Actor Alan Thicke (65), Actor Robert Clary (86) of "Hogan's Heroes", Singer/Activist Harry Belafonte (85) [Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song (live) 1997 - YouTube] Singer/Musician/Songwriter Roger Daltry (68) [Roger Daltry "Behind Blue Eyes" - YouTube] (written by Pete Townsend)...
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From Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary":
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones... (When's the last time you saw one in sackcloth? Yeah, me too...)
And, Joe S said:
Nevada. I have some connection to Nevada, I lived there for a short time when I was an infant, while my father learned how to build "The Bomb." My mother and I later moved to Flagstaff and I have a greater connection to Arizona. Later in life my mother lived in the small town of Benson until she walked on.
But I digress, back to Nevada. One of my most favoritest songs about Nevada by Canadian singers is Darcy Farrow. Actually it's one of my most favoritest songs ever. (Yes, favoritest is a real word. I made it up myself.) And of course there is another great song by the great Hank Snow that at least starts out in Nevada.
And then there's my good friend Larry who lives near Elko. This is Larry and his Sweat Lodge.
So you see I have a connection to Nevada.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Undercover Boss', followed by a RERUN'Blue Bloods', then another RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNDave (from 2/14/13) are Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Grohl & the Sound City Players with Stevie Nicks.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Trace Adkins and Naya Rivera.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Bill O'Really (R-Loofah), Abigail Breslin, and the Mavericks.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Mariah Carey, Billy Eichner, and Prince.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Tom Colicchio, "The Dinner Party Download", and Walk the Moon.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Malibu Country', then a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel it's "Jimmy Kimmel Live: This Week".
The CW offers a FRESH'Nikita', followed by a RERUN'Cult'.
Faux has a FRESH'Kitchen Nightmares', followed by a FRESH'Touch'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hannibal', then 'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Army Ants
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 1 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronnie Corbett, Miranda Hart, Usher
[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 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Santa La Brea, Giuseppi's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 4 - Black Pearl
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The High Ground
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q
[9:00PM] RESIDENT EVIL
[11:00PM] RESIDENT EVIL
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The High Ground
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', followed by the movie 'The Family Man', then the movie 'The Family Man', again.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'The Jeselnik Offensive', 'Nathan For You', 'Tosh.0', and 'The Ben Show With Ben Hoffman'.
FX has the movie 'Salt', followed by the movie 'Taken', then a FRESH'The Americans'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Portlandia -No-Fo-O-Fo-Bridge
[6:30AM] Out There -Quest for Fantasy
[7:00AM] Mimic
[9:15AM] Exorcismus
[11:30AM] The Broken
[1:30PM] Mimic
[3:45PM] Exorcismus
[6:00PM] The Last Legion
[8:15PM] Rambo
[10:00PM] Portlandia -Blackout
[10:30PM] Out There -A Chris by Any Other Name
[11:00PM] Hostel Part II
[1:00AM] Portlandia -Blackout
[1:30AM] Out There
[2:00AM] Hostel Part II
[4:00AM] Valhalla Rising (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Self-Esteem (Episode 12, Season 1)
[7:00A] Bootmen
[8:45A] I Hate Valentine's Day
[10:15A] Dopamine
[11:45A] Bootmen
[1:30P] I Hate Valentine's Day
[3:00P] Dopamine
[4:30P] Always Crashing In The Same Car
[4:45P] Bootmen
[6:30P] ICONOCLASTS - Jamie Oliver + Paul Smith (Episode 5, Season 6)
[7:00P] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Self-Esteem (Episode 12, Season 1)
[8:00P] RESTLESS - Part 1
[10:00P] RESTLESS - Part 2
[12:00A] Henry & June
[2:30A] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
[4:30A] Big Fan (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'House Of Bones', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then 'Robot Combat League'.
George Lopez is taking over as master of ceremonies of the annual Playboy Jazz Festival.
The comedian was announced as the festival's new host Thursday at an event at the Playboy Mansion.
Bill Cosby previously served as the festival's host for more than 30 years. Cosby was a fixture at the gathering of jazz luminaries since the first festival was held in 1979.
Lopez said Cosby called him to give him advice on the gig. His tips included not letting musicians in his dressing room "because they'll eat all your food and drink all your drink," joked Lopez.
The Playboy Jazz Festival is scheduled for June 15 and 16 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Zach Braff attends Walt Disney Pictures European Premiere of 'Oz: The Great And Powerful' at the Empire Leicester Square in London on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013.
Photo by Jon Furniss
Director Steven Spielberg will preside over the 2013 Cannes film festival jury in May, organizers said on Thursday, an A-list casting that adds Hollywood firepower to the high-brow international festival.
Spielberg, whose presidential drama "Lincoln" took home two Oscars at Sunday's Academy Awards, will succeed Italian director and actor Nanni Moretti, who helmed the jury for Cannes' 65th anniversary last year.
The 12-day festival, which takes place on the Cote d'Azur in the south of France, is a major showplace for new movies from around the world that attracts top and emerging screen writers, deal-makers and hundreds of film critics.
Spielberg's blockbuster film E.T. screened as a world premiere at Cannes in 1982, and festival President Gilles Jacob called the respected director a "regular" at the prestigious film festival.
He may just be a footnote to history, but Dr. Isachar Zacharie is having a posthumous mini-moment, thanks to the Hollywood-sparked surge of interest in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Zacharie was buried in London's famed Highgate Cemetery in 1900, but he is only being added to the cemetery guide Friday, joining such notables as communist philosopher Karl Marx, novelist George Eliot and punk pioneer Malcolm McLaren as a likely draw for visitors to the north London landmark.
Zacharie's claim to fame? He was Lincoln's foot doctor. And a good one at that, if the president's signed endorsement can be taken at face value.
"Dr. Zacharie has operated on my feet with great success, and considerable addition to my comfort," the 16th president of the United States wrote in 1862, when the United States was gripped by civil war.
Zacharie's connection to Lincoln has long been known to historians, but Ian Dungavell, the cemetery's chief executive, said the cemetery's management only learned of it recently.
Actress Michelle Williams poses for photographers at the European premier of Oz: The Great and Powerful in London February 28, 2013.
Photo by Neil Hall
"90210" is "9021"-over. Or at least it will be, soon.
The CW will end the series after its current fifth season, with a May 13 series finale.
The network will likely include a retrospective of the series in the finale, as it did with "Gossip Girl" and "One Tree Hill."
"90210," an update of the '90s Fox series "Beverly Hills, 90210," has been struggling in the ratings. The most recent episode on Monday drew a mere 0.3/1 in the key 18-49 demographic and drew just 575,000 total viewers - about half the viewers that its lead-in, the "Sex and the City" prequel "The Carrie Diaries, received.
"Girls Gone Wild" has filed for bankruptcy in a move it says is an effort to restructure its legal affairs after several disputed court judgments.
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday in Los Angeles, listing more than $16 million in disputed claims.
The largest claim is $10.3 million that Wynn Resorts is seeking from the company for judgments entered against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis over a gambling debt and statements he has made about the casino and its founder, Steve Wynn.
Francis no longer owns the company, which has made a fortune selling videos and magazines of young women flashing their breasts.
Not everyone in the House of Representatives wanted to pass the Senate's version of the bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act - which the House succeeded in doing on Thursday afternoon. (The bill is now headed to President Obama, who has promised to sign it.)
After all, efforts to reauthorize the bill, which funds a bevy of programs designed to helps victims of violence, have languished for more than a year in the GOP-controlled House, whose members have either ignored or tinkered with Senate versions of the reauthorization bill, which provisions funding for the Act for the next five years. (Since expiring at the end of 2011, VAWA has survived on temporary funding.) It's a relief, certainly, but also an opportunity to recognize the Congressmen and -women who still didn't want to reauthorize an important bill that has always been reauthorized, without controversy, since being passed in 1994.
A total of 138 House members voted against reauthorizing the intact bill, including nine GOP Congressmen - Paul Broun, Scott Garrett, Louie Gohmert, Tim Huelskamp, Walter Jones, Steve King, Thomas Massie, Tom McClintock and Matt Salmon - who vowed on Wednesday to strike down any version of the bill - even the heavily amended version their colleagues tried to push through (unsuccessfully) before considering, and passing, the Senate's bill.
And yes, in case you were wondering: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor - the de facto leader and brain behind the post-2012 Republican Party - voted nay.
A Madame Tussauds employee moves a wax figure of singer Beyonce on display as part of a publicity event, at the international airport in Sydney February 28, 2013. The new figure of the pop star will be exhibited at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Sydney.
Photo by Daniel Munoz
"Cloud Atlas," the pricey and sprawling adventure tale from Lana and Andy Wachowskis, has surpassed its North American haul at the Chinese box office.
As of Thursday, "Cloud Atlas" had taken in $28.6 million with just a few days left in its run in China, just ahead of its overall North American total of $27.1 million. Since opening on October 26, it has grossed $113 million worldwide, $86 million of that coming from foreign markets.
Topping its U.S. box office total in China is both a positive and a negative. While the China figure is pretty good - and will make that country by far the most lucrative market for the film - the film was a major disappointment in the U.S., where it opened to less than $10 million.
The independently financed "Cloud Atlas" had a $102 million production budget and was co-directed by the Wachowskis ("The Matrix") and German filmmaker Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run"). Based on the novel by David Mitchell, it's an ambitious adventure that simultaneously tells multiple stories throughout the past, present and future in order to explore how individuals' actions affect others. It stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw and Xun Zhou, among others in multiple (and often unrecognizable) roles.
"Cloud Atlas" has been generally well-reviewed in China, where its spiritual message seems to have resonated. It might have done even better at the box office there, had it not gone up against "Skyfall" and the domestic blockbuster "Journey to the West." Chinese film officials and censors excised almost 30 minutes" from the film's 172-minute running time - mostly sex and violence - prior to the film's debut in Beijing.
This image released by Stuart Weitzman shows the reknown shoe designer Stuart Weitzman holding a pair of glass slippers that will be worn by actress Laura Osnes in the title role of the Broadway musical, "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway." Weitzman knows how to make shoes that make a splash. For years, he made the "million-dollar Oscar shoes," diamond-covered footwear that a celebrity would wear to the Academy Awards. He employed a welded-construction technique that uses no screws so that Cinderella could have a seamless look.
Photo by Stuart Weitzman
A growing split in the Republican Party deepened today when Clint Eastwood, the movie star who rocked the GOP convention by interviewing an invisible President Obama empty chair, joined the ranks of Republicans who are in favor of legalizing gay marriage.
The support for gay marriage by Eastwood and about 100 prominent Republicans, along with budding support within the party for immigration reform, is creating an obvious divide in the party. It pits moderate Republicans and party operatives on one side against conservative activists who drive turnout in the primary elections.
One of the four former Republican governors who signed the legal brief in favor of same sex marriage is ex-New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman who she says there are days she "absolutely" doesn't feel like part of the party because she says the GOP is being "defined by the talking heads and they don't for the most part represent me."
Whitman said she signed the gay marriage brief because it's important to be heard and it's an opportunity to get this issue behind us."
A model presents a creation by Indian designer Manish Arora as part of his Fall-Winter 2013/2014 women's ready-to-wear fashion show during Paris fashion week February 28, 2013.
Photo by Benoit Tessier
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. (New) George Strait; $1,367,779; $84.13.
2. (2) Justin Bieber; $1,249,114; $72.51.
3. (3) Neil Young & Crazy Horse; $1,006,485; $97.89.
4. (4) Dave Matthews Band; $967,758; $73.76.
5. (5) The Who; $892,620; $91.98.
6. (6) Leonard Cohen; $889,177; $99.50.
7. (New) Cirque du Soleil - "Quidam"; $757,381; $57.28.
8. (8) Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $559,545; $51.31.
9. (9) Carrie Underwood; $534,340; $58.45.
10. (11) Eric Church; $370,588; $45.76.
11. (10) Jeff Dunham; $353,909; $51.19.
12. (12) Shinedown / Three Days Grace; $216,984; $38.60.
13. (New) Robin Williams; $202,858; $93.93.
14. (13) The Moody Blues; $160,360; $68.27.
15. (16) "Winter Jam" / Tobymac; $144,163; $11.99.
16. (14) Wiz Khalifa; $135,446; $36.98.
17. (18) Ron White; $134,368; $52.41.
18. (15) "The Story Tour" / Mark Hall / Jeremy Camp; $133,526; $31.11.
19. (17) Mannheim Steamroller; $132,873; $58.00.
20. (19) 3 Doors Down / Daughtry; $125,048; $44.98.
This is diagram of the Liverpool slave ship Brookes dated 1789, made available by the Museum of London Docklands on Wednesday Feb. 27, 2013 . The diagram details the stowage of slaves on the Liverpool slave ship 'Brookes'. A new database lets Britons search for uncomfortable information ó whether their ancestors owned slaves. Researchers at University College London have compiled a searchable listing of thousands of people who received compensation for loss of their "possessions" when slave ownership was outlawed by Britain in 1833.
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