Andrew Tobias: Putin Can't Believe It
you've got to watch these four minutes in which Steve Rattner explains that the trade deficit with Canada is actually a surplus. That the dairy deficit Trump has focused on is actually a surplus. That the tariffs Canada imposes on our goods are actually lower than those we impose on theirs. That the tariffs Trump placed on softwood have raised our cost of lumber by 27% and the price of homes we buy by thousands of dollars. And that in addition to making life more expensive for Americans, Trump's tariffs will cost thousands of American jobs. Putin can't believe it. America is diminishing itself faster than he could have ever dreamed possible.
Mars mega-storm threatens NASA rover after 14-year mission (The Guardian)
Opportunity was in remarkably good health going into the storm, Callas said, with only an arthritic joint in its robotic arm. "Keep in mind, we're talking about a rover that's been working at Mars, hanging in there, for 15 years and designed just for 90 days," said Jim Watzin, director of NASA's Mars exploration program. "It just doesn't get any better than that."
The novel Ulysses by James Joyce is set in Dublin, on a single day, and is commemorated by the observation of Bloomsday. On what date is Bloomsday celebrated?
Arthur William Matthew "Art" Carney (November 4, 1918 - November 9, 2003) was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. He is best known for playing sewer worker Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the sitcom The Honeymooners, and for winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Harry and Tonto.
In 1950, Jackie Gleason was starring in a New York-based comedy-variety series, Cavalcade of Stars, and played many different characters. Gleason's regular characters included Charlie Bratten, a lunchroom loudmouth who insisted on spoiling a neighboring patron's meal. Carney, established in New York as a reliable actor, played Bratten's mild-mannered victim, Clem Finch. Gleason and Carney developed a good working chemistry, and Gleason recruited Carney to appear in other sketches, including the domestic-comedy skits featuring The Honeymooners. Carney gained lifelong fame for his portrayal of sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden. The success of these skits resulted in the famous filmed situation comedy The Honeymooners, and the Honeymooners revivals that followed. He was nominated for seven Emmy Awards and won six.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Sewer worker
Mark. wrote:
Ed Norton worked in the sewer.
Stephen F said:
Sewer worker for the city
Alan J answered:
The Sewer.
Dave replied:
The Sewer Department. The Honeymooners is one of the few TV shows from the '50s that is worth watching today.
mj responded:
In the streets of New York
Literally. Well under them in the sewers.
zorch said:
Ed Norton worked in the Sewer.
Adam answered:
Garbage Man or Sewer Worker... Sewer Worker.
Deborah wrote:
I have no idea - my parents didn't watch that show, nor did I, so color me stumped.
After 3 days of triple digits, we're looking at a cool-down of up to 20 degrees. Listen to me not complain about that.
George M. replied:
Marty, it is full well known that Ed Norton worked as an "engineer in subterrainian sanitation" - in layman's terms, he worked in the sewers.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"The sewers."
Daniel in The City responded:
The Sewer Dept
Kevin K. of Washington, DC said:
Ed Norton worked in the sewers of NYC. You could say he was "Waist Deep in
the Big Crappy".
Dave in Tucson wrote:
Ed Norton was employed by the city as a sewer worker.
Harry M. replied:
The sewer.
Tony K. answered:
In da sewah.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Ed worked for the New York City sewer department and described his job as a "Sub-supervisor in the sub-division of the department of subterranean sanitation, I just keep things moving along."
Roy, Your Progressive amigo in Texas, wrote:
Off to a late start today, but I clearly remember Carney's Ed Norton earned his pay working in the New York City sewers.
Rosemary in Columbus replied:
Ed worked in the sewers.
Joe S said:
Norton worked in the sewers. I loved The Jackie Gleason Show, and I loved the Honeymooners especially Norton.
My father even liked the show and he disliked nearly all the comedy show of the time.
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
What I thought was one skunk out back turned out to be four.
I was fine with one that just passes through, but, jeez, four of them?
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Undercover Boss', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Thandie Newton.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 4/26/18) are Claire Foy, Method Man, and Michael Palascak.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jada Pinkett Smith, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Nikki Glaser.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 3/8/18) are Reese Witherspoon, David Remnick, and Zach Danziger.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/7/18) are Tony Hale, The Aces, Melissa Barrera, and Mishel Prada.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Quantico', followed by 'What Would You Do?', then '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Tiffany Haddish, DJ Khaled, and Ella Mai.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Life Sentence'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Four: Battle For Stardom'.
MY recycles an old 'American Ninja Warrior', followed by another old 'American Ninja Warrior'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jaws 2', followed by the movie 'Hancock'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7-3
[7:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-One Breath
[8:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Red Museum
[9:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 16-Colony
[10:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 17-End Game
[11:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 25-Anasazi
[12:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 1-The Blessing Way
[1:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 9-Nisei
[2:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10-731
[3:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 16-Aprocrypha
[4:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 23-Wetwired
[5:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 24-Talitha Cumi
[6:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-Herrenvolk
[7:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 7-Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
[8:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 8-Tunguska
[9:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 9-Terma
[10:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 14-Memento Mori
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 23 - EPISODE 10
[12:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-One Breath
[1:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Red Museum
[2:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 16-Colony
[3:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 17-End Game
[4:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 25-Anasazi
[5:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 1-The Blessing Way (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Sex & The City 2', followed by the movie 'Sex & The City 2', again.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office', followed by the movie 'Hot Tub Time Machine 2'.
FX has the movie 'Ride Along', followed by the movie 'Ride Along 2'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Gents Without Cents
[6:30AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Grips, Grunts and Groans
[7:00AM] THE THREE STOOGES-A Pain in the Pullman
[7:30AM] SIN CITY
[10:30AM] GRINDHOUSE PRESENTS: DEATH PROOF
[1:00PM] SIN CITY
[4:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Here I Come, Pants!
[4:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-For Whom the Booty Calls
[5:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-A Beer-Battered Rip-Off
[5:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Boompa Loved His Hookers
[6:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Don't Give a Monkey a Gun
[6:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Of Course He's Dead -- Part One
[7:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Of Course He's Dead -- Part Two
[7:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Pilot
[8:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Big Flappy Bastards
[8:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Go East on Sunset Until You Reach the Gates of Hell
[9:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-If I Can't Write My Chocolate Song, I'm Going to Take a Nap
[9:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-The Last Thing You Want Is to Wind Up With a Hump
[10:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Did You Check With the Captain of the Flying Monkeys?
[10:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-If They Do Go Either Way, They're Usually Fake
[11:00PM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Heavy Metal & Punk
[11:15PM] AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
[1:15AM] KILLING THEM SOFTLY
[3:30AM] AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
[5:30AM] BROCKMIRE-Caught in a Rundown (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:20am] the andy griffith show
[6:55am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] mr. holmes
[1:00pm] silver bullet
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] the split
[3:20am] silver bullet
[5:20am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Hellboy 2: The Golden Army', followed by a FRESH'12 Monkeys', then another FRESH'12 Monkeys', followed by still another FRESH'12 Monkeys'.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have donated $288,000 to the fight against the Trump administration's move to separate children and parents who come across US border amid protests over the policy across the country.
Teigen shared a statement of support for immigrant families on Twitter, calling out President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Crooked) and his administration for the, "horror stories of immigrant families seeking asylum and refuge in America being ripped apart due to inhumane policies"
Explaining on Twitter that their donation will go to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and their efforts, Teigen said that in honour of Mr Trump's 72nd birthday on Thursday she was ironically calling the fundraising efforts: "Make Trump's Birthday Great Again."
Teigen said her family have pledged $72,000 for each family member, which brings the total to $288,000 including Legend and their two children Luna and Miles.
"These actions are cruel, anti-family and go against everything we believe this country should represent," she wrote.
Jeff Goldblum, who has been in some of the biggest blockbusters in history, received the 2,638th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Thursday and joked: "That's always been my lucky number!"
The 65-year-old veteran of 80 movies thanked every actor, director and crew member he had worked with, declaring that he had devoted his life to acting while trying to remember not to get a big head.
"I was in the airport the other day and a woman was looking at me... and she walked up to me sort of in a trance, and said, 'Can I ask you a question?'" he told fans gathered in Hollywood Boulevard.
"And she said, 'Are you Howie Mandel?' That's true. A bitter pill, but a very good lesson, you can't get too full of yourself."
The ceremony came ahead the June 22 release of "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom," the sixth in the franchise in which Goldblum reprises his part as mathematician Ian Malcolm from the first two movies.
An honorary street naming in Detroit for the King of Pop was canceled Wednesday.
Michael Jackson Avenue was supposed to be officially unveiled Friday in Motor City, just as the late artist's surviving brothers prepared to perform at a weekend concert.
But the ceremony was called off, as members of the Jackson 5 -- the family act where Michael Jackson got his start -- wondered why the entire group wasn't being honored.
Under city rules, honorary street names cannot be granted to groups or organizations, only persons, the Detroit Free Press newspaper reported.
A city official told the newspaper that the naming ceremony was called off while a solution is sought.
The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice.
Guernsey's auctioneers said it will offer the house where Parks' family lived in a midsummer auction in New York City that also will feature several other items related to African-American history and culture. It said it expects the tiny wood-framed house marked with peeling paint to fetch seven figures.
The house, owned by Parks' brother, was abandoned and set for demolition in Detroit before Parks' niece, Rhea McCauley, bought it for $500 and donated it to American artist Ryan Mendoza in an attempt to preserve the legacy of the civil rights activist. Mendoza shipped it to his home in Berlin and reassembled it in his yard, where it drew a steady stream of visitors.
Mendoza brought it back to the U.S. this year for a temporary exhibit in Rhode Island, but he had been searching for a permanent home. The delicate structure should only be rebuilt one more time, he said.
The pieces of the house, currently in Providence, will be taken in two, 40-foot (12-meter) shipping containers to a storage area in Massachusetts on Friday, Mendoza said.
With just more than three months before his sentencing for assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, Bill Cosby has given the boot to his entire legal team.
Far from the first time the once beloved and now much accused actor has fired his lawyers, Deadline has learned that Cosby has now retained Pennsylvania attorney Joseph P. Green Jr. The established local lawyer takes over from the high-profile team led by Tom Mesereau. Brought on board in August 2017, the efforts of Mesereau, the cable news friendly ex-Michael Jackson attorney did not prevent a Norristown, PA jury from finding Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in a retrial that ended April 26.
Looking at potentially decades behind bars and amid chatter that his wife Camille could be seeking a divorce, Cosby is currently under house and is set to be sentenced after a two-day hearing September 24-25. No word yet from the new lawyer or the Montgomery County D.A.'s office if the new representation will mean those dates are pushed back.
When Meserau and others replaced Brian McMonagle and Angela Agrusa as Cosby's main lawyers after a mistrial was declared on June 17, 2017, the retrial date was shoved back from November of that year to the spring of this year. With a possible appeal in the making, a similar move is possible ahead of sentencing.
This latest lawyer purge by Cosby comes as no real surprise. Having cut ties with longtime attorney Marty Singer back in late 2015, Green is Cosby's fourth primary lawyer since then.
A 525-year-old copy of a letter by Christopher Columbus that was stolen from the Vatican was returned on Thursday after joint sleuthing by U.S. Homeland Security agents and Holy See antiquity experts.
"We are returning it to its rightful owner," said U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Callista Gingrich (R-Adultress), at a handover ceremony in a frescoed room of the Vatican Library, which houses tens of thousands of rare, historic items.
While still at sea returning to Europe in February, 1493 - four months after discovering the New World - Columbus penned a letter to Spain's monarchs describing what he had found and laying the groundwork for his request to fund another voyage.
His original letter was written in Spanish. A Latin translation was manually printed in several copies and they became the main vehicle for spreading news of his find to the royal courts of Europe and the papacy.
One of the Latin letters, printed in Rome by Stephan Plannack in 1493, found its way into the Vatican Library. Known as the Columbus Letter, it is made up of eight pages, each about 18.5 cm by 12 cm.
The mystery behind the skull of an ancient man discovered in the eroding coastline of a remote Southern California island has been laid to rest along with the bones unearthed by researchers.
But much of the story of the Native American who died 10,000 years ago will remain unknown.
After more than a decade of study, the bones of the so-called Tuqan Man were recently returned to San Miguel Island and buried by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians that had claimed him as their own.
The skull was inadvertently discovered during an archaeology survey by researchers from the University of Oregon in 2005.
Because the remains were exposed and in jeopardy of being lost at sea as the shoreline eroded, the National Park Service consulted the Chumash tribe and decided to excavate them.
A tractor-trailer hauling Fireball Cinnamon Whisky left quite a mess after a crash involving another tractor-trailer forced an Arkansas highway to shut down.
The accident happened on Interstate 40 in Pulaski County around 10:45 a.m. Thursday, according to KATV.
A photo tweeted by the Arkansas Department of Transportation shows the bottles of Fireball strewn about the highway. The pictures also show a charred trailer after firefighters were able to get the flames under control.
The Arkansas State Police told KATV that no one was injured in the crash.
Slow and steady wins the race, the saying goes -- and it seems to have worked for a small type of turtle native to western Mexico that has been declared a new species.
For 20 years, residents of the area around Puerto Vallarta, a Pacific coast resort town, had been telling scientists about the little turtles native to their area.
But it was only in May that zoologists were able to identify them as the world's newest species, Kinosternon vogti -- named for American herpetologist Richard Vogt, who has studied US, Mexican and Central American turtles for more than four decades.
The good news came with a dose of bad, however: the turtles, recognizable by a yellow spot on the tip of the nose, are also endangered.
Measuring just 10 centimeters (four inches) long, the tiny turtles easily fit in the palm of a hand.
The roe of shiwaikanago, a species of sand lance, is deposited on brown seaweed called akamoku in Hakodate Usujiri, Hokkaido, Japan, May 9, 2013. The gourd-like vesicles and branches of the algae reminded me of some pattern made up of monograms. I took this shot, picturing in my mind how these freshly-deposited eggs were going to grow slowly among the swaying seaweed.
Photo by Toru Kasuya
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