Mark Morford: Is WiFi destroying your brain? (SF Gate)
Is your face getting hot right now? Do you feel an itch or a burn around your eyes, your mouth, perhaps a tightening in your throat? Are you finding it difficult to breathe? Focus? Swallow?
Lucy Mangan: "Dear Teddy Robinson by Joan G Robinson" (Guardian)
I realised I had been neglecting younger readers lately when I was invited for dinner with a couple of friends of mine whose daughter, Emma, is five. "You can read her a bedtime story," they said, though whether this was meant as an inducement or price of attendance it was hard to tell.
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963.
In his sleeve notes for The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991, John Bauldie writes that it was Pete Seeger who first identified the melody of "Blowin' in the Wind" as Dylan's adaptation of the old Negro spiritual "No More Auction Block". According to Alan Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America, the song originated in Canada and was sung by former slaves who fled there after Britain abolished slavery in 1833. In 1978, Dylan acknowledged the source when he told journalist Marc Rowland: "'Blowin' in the Wind' has always been a spiritual. I took it off a song called 'No More Auction Block' - that's a spiritual and 'Blowin' in the Wind' follows the same feeling."
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You can learn a LOT from these so called "trivia" questions!
Bob Dylan based his song on "No More Auction Block", a song sung by former slaves who fled to Canada after Britain abolished slavery in 1833. While cheating at Wikipedia to get the answer I also learned about this:
The Zong massacre was the killing of approximately 142 enslaved Africans by the crew of the slave ship Zong in the days following 29 November 1781. The Zong was owned by a Liverpool slave-trading syndicate that had taken out insurance on the lives of the slaves. When the ship ran low on water following navigational mistakes, the crew drowned some of the slaves in the sea. The owners of the Zong made a claim to their insurers for the loss of the slaves. When the insurers refused to pay, the resulting court cases held that in some circumstances the deliberate killing of slaves was legal, and that insurers could be required to pay for the slaves' deaths.
It is said that modern day capitalists have something called "peasant policies" on their employees and then try to work the to death. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Alan J said:
No More Auction Block
Charlie wrote:
One of many cases of Dylan, the great lyricist, "borrowing" a melody.
This one is from something called "No More Auction Block
Adam answered:
'No More Auction Block'
Marian responded:
No More Auction Block....
had a fabulous European vacation.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
"No More Auction Block"
Sally said:
Bob Dylan adapted the melody for, "Blowin' in the Wind" from a Negro Spiritual called, "No More Auction Block," and the lyrics were inspired by a passage from Woody Guthrie's, "Bound for Glory."
Oh yeah, I was at that concert, so natch have the 33 1/3 recording. It was held at the The New York Philharmonic, and not the one in Liverpool, UK BTW.
That being said, apparently, Dylan was not the genius he was thought to be... He recycled many of his best-known works.
Walked up to Walgreen's yesterday to buy some allergy medicine. I hated to do it, but I really was hardly functioning. Okay, showing you how long it's been since I have brought OTC medicines, would you believe I had to answer questions (ie., how long since your last purchase?) and show PHOTO ID in order to buy it!! Talk about Big Brother!!! I do feel better today, but even so...
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No Internet search - I'll say "Wild World."
Happy weekend!
Dale of Diamond Springy, Norcali, replied:
Pete Seeger who first identified the melody of "Blowin' in the Wind" as Dylan's adaptation of the old Negro spiritual "No More Auction Block". The song originated in Canada and was sung by former slaves who fled there after Britain abolished slavery in 1833.
And, Joe S answered:
"Blowin' in the Wind" is among Dylan's most celebrated compositions. In his sleeve notes for The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991, John Bauldie writes that it was Pete Seeger who first identified the melody of "Blowin' in the Wind" as Dylan's adaptation of the old Negro spiritual "No More Auction Block". According to Alan Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America, the song originated in Canada and was sung by former slaves who fled there after Britain abolished slavery in 1833. In 1978, Dylan acknowledged the source when he told journalist Marc Rowland: '"Blowin' in the Wind" has always been a spiritual. I took it off a song called "No More Auction Block"-that's a spiritual and "Blowin' in the Wind" follows the same feeling. Dylan's performance of "No More Auction Block" was recorded at the Gaslight Cafe in October 1962, and appeared on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991.
So there you are. "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" was my first Dylan album and remains my favorite. I still have the same record I bought in 1963. I like "Hard Rain" and "Masters of War" a tad better than "Blowin' in the Wind," but it's all good.
Another marine layer morning followed by a sunny afternoon.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Undercover Boss', followed by a RERUN'Blue Bloods', then another RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNDave (from 4/26/13) are Jon Hamm, Ricky Jay, and the So So Glos.
On a RERUNCraig (from 3/25/13) are Morgan Freeman and Vera Farmiga.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Howie Mandel, Sal Basille & Francis Garcia, and Sigur Ros.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Paul Walker, Joss Whedon, and They Might Be Giants.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/28/13) are David Duchovny, Derek Cianfrance, and Gold Fields.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by another RERUN'Shark Tank', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 5/16/13) are Chris Pine, Connie Britton, and Dawes.
The CW offers a RERUN'Nikita', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Brain Games: Blow Your Mind'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', followed by the movie 'The Last Samurai'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 1 - New Earth
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Tooth and Claw
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Clubway 41
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Spanish Pavilion, Kingston Cafe, Capri, La Frite
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 9
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 10
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 21 - The Drumhead
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 22 - Half a Life
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 23 - The Host
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 24 - The Mind's Eye
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 25 - In Theory
[9:00PM] NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACATION
[11:00PM] NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACATION
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 21 - The Drumhead
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 22 - Half a Life
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 23 - The Host
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 24 - The Mind's Eye
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 25 - In Theory (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Inside Amy Schumer', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Larry TCG'.
Jon Stewart Colbert Report
FX has the movie 'Mega-Mind', followed by the movie 'Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Lolita
[9:30AM] Bunk
[10:00AM] Bunk
[10:30AM] Godsend
[12:45PM] District 9
[3:00PM] Stop-Loss
[5:30PM] City Slickers
[8:00PM] Arrested Development-Not Without My Daughter
[8:30PM] Arrested Development-Let 'Em Eat Cake
[9:00PM] Arrested Development-The One Where Michael Leaves
[9:30PM] Arrested Development-The One Where They Build a House
[10:00PM] Maron-Dominatrix
[10:30PM] Arrested Development-Not Without My Daughter
[11:00PM] Arrested Development-Let 'Em Eat Cake
[11:30PM] Arrested Development-The One Where Michael Leaves
[12:00AM] Arrested Development-The One Where They Build a House
[12:30AM] Arrested Development-Amigos
[1:00AM] Maron-Dominatrix
[1:30AM] City Slickers
[4:00AM] Turistas (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-The Diary
[7:00AM] Joy Division
[8:45AM] The Art of the Steal
[10:30AM] A Film With Me in It
[12:00PM] Joy Division
[1:45PM] The Art of the Steal
[3:30PM] A Film With Me in It
[5:00PM] Swimming With Sharks
[6:30PM] Animal Kingdom
[8:30PM] The Good Girl
[10:00PM] Network
[12:00AM] The Lives of Others
[2:15AM] The Girl Under the Waves
[3:45AM] The Lives of Others (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Godzilla', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown', then a FRESH'Merlin'.
Director Costa-Gavras (C) pose on the red carpet as he arrives for the screening of the film "Nebraska" in competition during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 23, 2013.
Photo by Regis Duvignau
A guest at a charity auction at Cannes has paid 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million) for a trip into space with Leonardo DiCaprio.
AmFAR, a nonprofit devoted to AIDS research, held the auction Thursday night at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc as part of its 20th annual Cinema Against AIDS event at the French film festival.
The winning bidder paid to travel into orbit on a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to DiCaprio's sometime in 2014.
Another pair of seats on the same flight sold to a different bidder for $1.8 million euros ($2.3 million). The winning bidders were not identified.
Beatles frontman Paul McCartney has asked a Russian judge to release members of the Pussy Riot punk group from prison.
In letters dated Monday and posted online by the group's supporters, McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow's main cathedral.
McCartney wrote that he was making the request "in a spirit of friendship for my many Russian acquaintances who, like me, believe in treating people - all people, with compassion and kindness."
Alekhina went on hunger strike Wednesday in protest at not being allowed to attend her own parole hearing in Perm province. The judge in Mordovia province to whom McCartney addressed both letters denied Tolokonnikova parole last month.
Singer-songwriter Carole King speaks during an East Room concert honoring her with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington.
Photo by Jacquelyn Martin
A newly discovered novel by the late Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck is to be released this fall.
New York-based Open Road Integrated Media says Buck wrote the novel, "The Eternal Wonder," shortly before she died in 1973. The publisher says someone found the manuscript in storage in January. It will be published Oct. 22 in paperback and digital formats.
The publisher announced the decision Wednesday, describing the book as the coming-of-age story of a gifted young man whose search for meaning leads him to New York, England, Paris and Korea.
Buck's novel "The Good Earth" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and helped earn her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She raised seven adopted children and wrote many later works at her farm outside Philadelphia.
Viggo Mortensen will receive the fourth annual Dennis Lee Hopper Award at this year's inaugural AMFM Fest in California's Coachella Valley, Film 4 Change announced on Thursday.
Mortensen, an actor, writer, poet and visual artist, will receive the award at a ceremony in the desert town of Cathedral City on June 16, on the final day of the four-day festival that draws its name from the phrase "Art, Music, Film and More." His art will also be exhibited at the fest, which will include a screening of the Alex Kleinert documentary "Wild Horses and Renegades," in which Mortensen appears.
The award honors artists who work in a number of fields and also advocate for social change. The first award was presented to Hopper posthumously in 2010 at the Albuquerque Film Festival. Subsequent honorees were Dean Stockwell and director Alex Cox.
Galarza and co-director Rich Henrich also announced the addition of the award-winning, Joshua Tree-based rock group Gram Rabbit to the AMFM Fest's music lineup, as well as the Venice Beach-based group Terraplane Sun.
Gomer Pyle will be back for this year's Indianapolis 500. Carol Brady is staying home.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced Thursday that actor Jim Nabors will return to sing "Back Home Again in Indiana" during pre-race ceremonies for Sunday's 97th running of the 500. Nabors missed last year's race due to heart surgery, so a video of him performing the song at his home in Hawaii aired instead.
Nabors has performed in person at the race 33 times since 1972.
Florence Henderson, an Indiana native who played Carol Brady on TV's "Brady Bunch," traditionally sings "God Bless America" at the race but is ill this year and won't make the trip. Indiana singer-songwriter Jon McLaughlin will perform the song in her place.
Wife of Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, center second row, joins others in giving the two thumbs up at the American Pavilion at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Film critics and festival-goers congregated on the Cannes beach Thursday to raise their thumbs to the late critic Roger Ebert. Before his death in April, Ebert was a frequent presence at Cannes. In 2009, the festival named a conference center at the American Pavilion after the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic.
Photo by Nekesa Mumbi Moody
The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his hometown again.
More than two weeks after Charles Ramsey became an instant folk hero after telling his story to television reporters, Cleveland food blogger Michelle Venorsky said on Thursday that 15 restaurants are offering him a free hamburger, whenever he wants it.
Venorsky floated the idea to her followers after seeing Ramsey's first interview on TV.
"He was so entertaining...I thought he should never have to pay for another meal in Cleveland again," Venorsky said in a phone interview.
Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds. He then added: "I don't have any."
In 1998, Lewis famously said that watching women do comedy "sets me back a bit" and that he has trouble with the notion of would-be mothers as comedians.
Asked Thursday if he had changed his mind at all because of performers like Melissa McCarthy and Sarah Silverman, the 87-year-old Lewis said of women performing broad comedy: "I can't see women doing that. It bothers me."
"I cannot sit and watch a lady diminish her qualities to the lowest common denominator," he said. "I just can't do that."
Actress Rosario Dawson arrives for amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS 2013 event in Antibes during the 66th Cannes Film Festival May 23, 2013.
Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissie
An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday - she lost.
Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch scheme.
The federal jury in Chicago returned with a finding in Trump's favor. Goldberg, of Evanston, had sought various damages totaling around $6 million.
Goldberg herself showed little emotion but her attorney, Shelly Kulwin, slumped over and buried his head on a courtroom table. Trump's attorney Stephen Novack smiled and nodded his head in gratitude at the jury.
Mary J. Blige and her husband have been hit with a $3.4 million tax lien in New Jersey.
Court documents show the Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of a lien on the nine-time Grammy Award winner Feb. 7. That was two days before the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul was honored at a pre-Grammy party in Los Angeles.
Blige and husband Martin Isaacs have a home in Cresskill, N.J., about 15 miles north of New York City.
Court documents show as of the date of the IRS notice Blige owed more than $574,000 for the 2009 tax year, more than $2.2 million for 2010 and more than $647,000 for 2011.
Cast member Bruce Dern (R) and actress Laura Dern pose on the red carpet as they arrive for the screening of the film "Nebraska" in competition during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 23, 2013.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
A&E is canceling its long-running docu-series "Intervention."
The cable network announced on Thursday that it will begin airing the show's Season 13 with five final episodes on Thursday, June 13 at 9 p.m./8c.
"As 'Intervention' comes to an end, we're proud to have paved the way for such an original and groundbreaking series," said A&E and BIO Channel's executive vice president of programming David McKillop in a statement. "We're honored to have been a part of the 243 interventions since its premiere in March of 2005, leading to the 156 individuals that are currently sober to this day."
Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the IRS to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television screen.
Republican Gov. Paul LePage has temporarily moved his working space, and Democratic legislative leaders said Thursday he's threatened to move out for good by July 1.
The squabble stems from LePage's placement of a television in the hallway outside his State House office, an area that's under the control of legislative leadership. The TV was showing a repeated message that draws attention to two of LePage's priorities, which he says lawmakers have been slow act on: his proposed $6.3 billion state budget, and repayment of a $484 million debt to the state's hospitals.
But no partisan or political messages are permitted to be displayed outside offices in the State House, said the executive director of the state's Legislative Council, David Boulter, who's an unelected, nonpartisan official.
Democratic leaders said they were disappointed by the latest in a pattern of behavior by the blunt-speaking governor. Two years ago, LePage became the center of controversy after murals depicting scenes from Maine's labor history were ordered removed from a state office. The matter went to federal court and the murals were eventually displayed in the state museum. And after he became governor in 2011, LePage declined invitations to attend NAACP annual Martin Luther King events. Asked to respond to the group's statement that it was disappointed, LePage told a reporter: "Tell them to kiss my butt."
Actress Goldie Hawn arrives for amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS 2013 event in Antibes during the 66th Cannes Film Festival May 23, 2013.
Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier
The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.
All states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over five years. But the Mountain States of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Utah saw rates fall by 30 percent or more.
In 22 states, teen Hispanic birth rates plunged at least 40 percent, which was described as "just amazing," by the report's lead author, Brady Hamilton of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC report released Thursday is based on birth certificates for 2007 through 2011. Last year, the CDC announced the overall improvement in teen births: a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19. That compares to 42 births per 1,000 five years earlier.
An Edward Hopper painting of New York City's Roosevelt Island has sold for just over $19 million at auction.
"Blackwell's Island," a large-scale oil painting from 1928, sold at Christie's on Thursday. Christie's identified the seller as a private American collector. The buyer wasn't identified.
The painting depicts the island from across the East River against a dark silhouette of buildings. The island was renamed for President Franklin Roosevelt in 1971.
The current Hopper record is $26.9 million for "Hotel Window."
The world's largest Lego modelled after the Star Wars X-wing starfighter is seen at Times Square after being unveiled in New York May 23, 2013.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
The Classical Fast Draw Society is home to a select number of expert marksmen. But their most remarkable member is not technically their most accurate.
Bay News 9 reports that the man referred to as the "Midnight Gunslinger," has steadily been improving his accuracy.
"When I first started I was hitting about 25 percent of the time," Miekka told the station. "Now I think I'm hitting about 80 percent or something like that."
You can watch a video of Miekka showing up his quickdraw skills here.
The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.
It's thousands of years old - a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored.
The problem is - it's at the bottom of the biblical Sea of Galilee. For now, at least, Israeli researchers are left stranded on dry land, wondering what finds lurk below.
The monumental structure, made of boulders and stones with a diameter of 70 meters (230 feet), emerged from a routine sonar scan in 2003. Now archaeologists are trying to raise money to allow them access to the submerged stones.
The cone-shaped structure is found at a depth of between three and 12 meters (nine and 40 feet) beneath the surface, about half a kilometer (1,600 feet) from the sea's southwestern shore. Its base is buried under sediment.
Actor Steve Forrest, who was best known for a leading role on the short-lived 1970s television drama "S.W.A.T.," has died at the age of 87 in Thousand Oaks, California, near Los Angeles, his wife Christine said on Thursday.
He gained a following as Lt. Hondo Harrelson on the ABC crime drama series "S.W.A.T.," which ran for 37 episodes from 1975 to 1976 and was produced by Hollywood titans Leonard Goldberg and Aaron Spelling.
The actor, who fought in the U.S. Army at the Battle of the Bulge in World War Two, got his big break when actor Gregory Peck saw him in a theater production in 1950, which led to a contract with film studio MGM.
Forrest also starred in the 1965 British TV spy thriller series "The Baron," which was one of the country's first color television programs.
He was born William Forrest Andrews on September 25, 1925, in Huntsville, Texas. He was the youngest of 13 children.
Forrest is survived by his wife, three sons and four grandchildren.
Male brown bear Ari and female bear Arina in a bear sanctuary, after being rescued from a decade of captivity in a privately run illegal zoo, Thursday, May 23, 2013, in the village of Mramor near the Kosovo capital Pristina . Two brown bears, Ari and Arina have been released into a bear Sanctuary, in Kosovo after being rescued from a decade of captivity in a 20 square meter cage to amuse visitors of a restaurant, Kosovo officials say. Authorities released the 10-year old male and female bears on Thursday to a wider enclosure set up by the international animal charity group Four Paws. The organisation was called in to help sedate and transport the animals.
Photo by Visar Kryeziu
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