Mark Morford: You Still Alive? Prove It (SF Gate)
The basic truism holds: The further we get from Source (god, divine, center, soul, Self, core, egoless-ness, enlightenment, call it what you will but please don't call it unattainable, or a commodity), the more intense the experience we require to feel anything.
Matthew Yglesias: Americans' Inexplicable Aversion to the 1990s (Slate)
On Tuesday the Economist published the results of a fun poll asking people which decade they'd most like to return to. Inexplicably, the 1990s-objectively speaking the best decade-not only underperformed the overrated 1950s and 1960s but proved to be one of the overall least-popular choices.
Redditors who live in a country with universal healthcare, what is it really like?
A response from Germany: "Had a couple of broken bones and a rather nasty bacteria infection and even a small nose job (one of my mighty noseholes was too big and closed the other side which sucked when I tried to breath through them). Money was never a concern during these times. The only question you have when going to the hospital is if you get a room by yourself or have to share it with somebody."
Robert T. Gonzalez: The gut-wrenching, organ-puréeing truth about the death care industry (io9)
In one of the most compelling reddit threads we've come across, an anonymous funeral-director has spilled the grisly, swindle-tastic beans on his/her entire profession. "It hasn't always been like this," s/he writes in this scathing tell-all diatribe, "but with the corporatization of the death care industry, the almighty dollar is the only consideration anymore."
What is a "dirty little (or big) secret" about an industry that you have worked in, that people outside the industry really ought to know? (Reddit)
Throwaway, obviously. I'm a funeral director. Our entire industry is basically a pyramid scheme. It blows my mind how blindly people accept that certain things "have to" be done to the body of their loved one. Think about that for a second: this is the last tangible remnant of someone you loved and you are now going to pay stranger thousands (oftentimes HUNDERDS of thousands) of dollars to (warning: graphic from here on out) systematically mutilate that body.
Ub Iwerks worked as a commercial artist in Kansas City in 1919 when he met Walt Disney who was in the same profession. When Disney decided to form an animation company, Ub Iwerks was the first employee he had due to his skill at fast drawing as well as being a personal friend.
He co-created (with Walt Disney), designed, and animated the first version of Mickey Mouse in 1928.
He was known as the fastest animator in the business in early sound period. He animated Mickey's first short, Plane Crazy (1928) by himself in only two weeks (700 animation drawings a day!).
Walt Disney referred to him as "the greatest animator in the world."
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Ub Iwerks
Charlie wrote:
Ub Iwerks.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Ub Iwerks
Adam answered:
Ub Iwerks
Dale of Diamond Springs, Blazing Norcali, replied:
I just read something about Ub Iwerks in an old Harpers. Walt Disney's friend, partner, adversary and alter ego all rolled into one, Iwerks was responsible for creating Mickey Mouse, adding color, sound and 3-dimensionality to cartoons and basically revolutionizing live-action films with his inventions, innovations and sheer brilliance. Even though he and Walt didn't get along, his creativity was magnificent!!!
Sally said:
I am thinking that Disney's early partner (and creator of Mickey Mouse) Ubbe Ert Iwerks would be your answer today.
Have you noticed that no one names their child Ubbe any longer?? :)
Here is a picture of my g/d, Jessie riding on the Senior Bus yesterday. She was SO excited, we went to the MALL!
(We looked and shopped till we dropped - really!) Good times, she is a champ!
DJ Useo responded:
I've always had a hankering for animation, so I was pretty sure right off the answer was Ub Iwerks.
A Very memorable name indeed.
I broke down and checked a search engine, and by George, I was correct! Woot!
A fun question this one. Thanks.
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with the movie 'Escape From New York'.
On a RERUNDave (from 8/1/13) are Oprah Winfrey and Paul Rudd.
On a RERUNCraig (from 6/20/13) are Lewis Black and Matt Morales.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', followed by another RERUN'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', then 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 7/18/13) are Anthony Hopkins, Amy Schumer, Robert Randolph and the Family Band.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 7/19/13) are Jeff Bridges, Stacy Keibler, an Jesse and the Rippers.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/14/13) are Davey Havok, "The Exquisite Corpse Project", and Kitten.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'The Neighbors', then a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/29/13) are Neil Patrick Harris, Clayton Kershaw, and Pepper.
The CW fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football'.
Faux has a RERUN'Bones', followed by a RERUN'The Following'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Italian Job', followed by the movie 'The Departed'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 5
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 6
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Data's Day
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 12 - The Wounded
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 13 - Devil's Due
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 5 - The Curry Lounge
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Sabatiello's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 6 - Cafe Tavolini
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 5
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 6
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 26 - Time's Arrow - Part 1
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 1 - Time's Arrow, Part 2
[9:00PM] CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982)
[11:30PM] CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982)
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 24 - The Next Phase
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 26 - Time's Arrow - Part 1
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 1 - Time's Arrow, Part 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Repot', an old ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', and yet another 'Futurama'.
FX has the movie 'Hereafter', followed by 'American Horror Story'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whatever Happened To...?-Super Snobs
[6:30AM] TV With TV's Jonathan Torrens-Kids Shows
[7:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Jury Duty
[7:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Cliques
[8:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Monkey
[8:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Zoo
[9:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Humilithon
[9:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Family Reunion
[10:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Stupid Girl
[10:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Forwards Backwards
[11:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Forbidden Girlfriend
[11:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm Holds His Tongue
[12:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Boys at the Ranch
[12:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Grandma Sues
[1:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-If Boys Were Girls
[1:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Long Drive
[2:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Kicked Out
[2:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Stereo Store
[3:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Hal's Friend
[3:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Garage Sale
[4:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Academic Octathalon
[4:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Clip Show 2
[5:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Reese's Party
[5:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Future Malcolm
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Baby
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Baby
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Day Care
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Vegas
[8:00PM] Poseidon
[10:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Richter Wears a Suit Jacket and a Baby Blue Button Down Shirt
[10:30PM] Arrested Development-Meet the Veals
[11:00PM] Arrested Development-Spring Breakout
[11:30PM] Arrested Development-Righteous Brothers
[12:00AM] Arrested Development-The Cabin Show
[12:30AM] Arrested Development-For British Eyes Only
[1:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Richter Wears a Suit Jacket and a Baby Blue Button Down Shirt
[1:30AM] Saw IV
[3:30AM] Saw V
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Man Shops Globe-France
[6:30AM] Victor/Victoria
[9:30AM] Dreaming of Joseph Lees
[11:00AM] Runaway
[11:15AM] Barry Lyndon
[2:30PM] Victor/Victoria
[5:30PM] Playing by Heart
[8:00PM] Dead Man Walking
[10:00PM] The Usual Suspects
[11:45PM] Dead Man Walking
[1:45AM] The Usual Suspects
[3:30AM] Dead Man Walking
[5:30AM] Man Shops Globe-South Africa (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Heroes Of Cosplay', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then a FRESH'Continuum'.
Actress Daryl Hannah (C) joins protesters with Americans Against Fracking during a noon time protest in front of the White House in Washington, August 22, 2013. The group is urging U.S. President Barack Obama to ban hydraulic fracturing on public lands.
Photo by Larry Downing
Tony Bennett plans to travel to the nation's capital to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. as the March on Washington marks its 50th year.
Bennett, who marched with the civil rights leader in Selma, Ala., in 1965, is scheduled to perform as part of Saturday's festivities commemorating the historic march and King's "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
The entertainer said Thursday he wants to honour King's humanitarian message, but will also be in Washington as part of the Voices Against Violence campaign that is pushing for gun limits.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is holding an event on Saturday with King's son, Martin Luther King III. President Barack Obama will speak on the actual anniversary day Wednesday.
Micky Dolenz and wife Donna Quinter seen at Focus Features Los Angeles Premiere of 'The World's End', on Wednesday, August, 21, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
Warner Bros. announced Thursday that the 41-year-old actor-director will star as a new incarnation of the Dark Knight in a film bringing Batman and Superman together. The studio says Affleck will star opposite Henry Cavill, reprising his role as Superman from "Man of Steel." The movie will also reunite "Man of Steel" stars Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane.
The big-screen DC superhero mash-up was originally announced at last month's Comic-Con International in San Diego by director Zack Snyder.
Production is expected to begin in 2014, and the as-yet-untitled film is set for release July 17, 2015.
Comedy Central certainly picked the right person to enter uncensored territory with.
Comedian Dave Attell has been tapped to host the network's first-ever uncensored, weekly late-night stand-up series, the network said Thursday.
The as-yet-untitled, eight-episode series, which Attell and 3 Arts Entertainment will executive produce, will feature Attell and his comedy colleagues performing "uncensored and unfiltered," according to the network.
In addition to the series, Attell will star in a one-hour special, which will also premiere next year.
A 3-month-old Indian baby is the center of a medical mystery as doctors are trying to determine if the infant suffered from spontaneous human combustion , according to the New York Times.
The infant is being treated at the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital in Chennai, India, after his parents claimed he caught on fire four separate times.
The boy's mother, Rajeshwari Karnan, said nine days after his birth she found the baby on fire in her hut after he was left alone momentarily.
"There was a flame on his belly and his right knee, and my husband rushed with a towel to put it off," Karnan told the New York Times. "I got very scared."
Multiple medical tests have given no indication that the baby could catch fire without an ignition source, according to the Times of India.
"Good Morning America" reached quite the milestone last week.
ABC's morning show drew the week's top total viewership among its competition for the week of August 12, marking the 52nd consecutive week - a solid year - that it's come in first in total viewers.
The year-long stay at the top is the longest running streak for "Good Morning America" since the 1991-1992 season.
ABC's morning show averaged 5.078 million total viewers last week, compared to 4.270 million for "Today" and 1.356 million for "CBS This Morning."
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost seen at Focus Features Los Angeles Premiere of 'The World's End', on Wednesday, August, 21, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
Rap lyrics written by a man convicted of killing a Reno drug dealer were allowable evidence at trial because they described details of the crime, a divided Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel upheld the first-degree murder conviction of Deyundrea Orlando Holmes for the 2003 shooting death of Kevin "Mo" Nelson outside a Reno recording studio.
Holmes wasn't arrested until 2008 after genetic evidence recovered from a cigarette butt gathered at the murder scene matched his DNA. He was on parole in California at the time of his arrest. He was convicted and sentenced in 2011 in to life without possible parole.
In his appeal, Holmes argued Washoe District Judge Janet Berry should not have allowed a jury to hear lyrics to a rap song, "Drug Deala," that he penned in jail while awaiting extradition from California.
Jack Black and wife Tanya Haden seen at Focus Features Los Angeles Premiere of 'The World's End', on Wednesday, August, 21, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
A central Kentucky theater owner who trained pilots during the Vietnam War is refusing to show the nation's top movie, "The Butler" because one of the stars is Jane Fonda who was an outspoken opponent of the conflict.
Ike Boutwell owns MoviePalace and Showtime Cinemas in Elizabethtown. He tells The News-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/16QB9Er) he won't show the popular flick about a butler who served eight U.S. presidents because it has Fonda starring as former first lady Nancy Reagan.
Boutwell said Fonda's statements and demonstrations against the Vietnam War caused him to view her as a traitor, and he won't show any movie involving her in his theaters.
The Korean War veteran said: "I trained hundreds of pilots to fly, many of whom Ms. Fonda clapped and cheered as they were shot down."
Mike Judge and Clifton Collins Jr. seen at Focus Features Los Angeles Premiere of 'The World's End', on Wednesday, August, 21, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
Billed as the single-largest archive of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's personal property, an upcoming auction of hundreds of personal letters, photos and other memorabilia offers a candid look inside the master painter's life as an artist, loving husband and devoted father.
The Renoir Estate Collection is set to be sold in New York on Sept. 19 as 143 lots. Heritage Auctions has estimated its value at $3 million.
In addition, the sale includes 19 original sculptural plaster models, or maquettes, created during Renoir's twilight years between 1913 and 1918 with the help of a young assistant, Richard Guino.
A consummate artist who painted every day of his life, Renoir died in 1919. His personal archive remained with his heirs until 2005 when his grandson Paul offered it for sale as a single lot at a Maryland auction where it was purchased by the current owner.
Boys dressed as holy cows participate in a parade to mark the Gaijatra Festival, also known as the festival of cows, in Kathmandu August 22, 2013. Hindus in Kathmandu celebrate the festival to ask for salvation and peace for their departed loved ones. Cows are regarded as holy animals in Nepal which help departed souls to reach heaven.
Photo by Navesh Chitrakar
Archaeologists have discovered a ring with an inconspicuous cavity that they believe may have been used to hide poison for political murders in medieval Bulgaria.
The bronze ring, which is more than 600 years old, was found during excavations at the ruins of Cape Kailakra, where aristocrats of the Dobrudja region lived during the 14th century.
Local officials said more than 30 other pieces of jewelry have been found at the site - including gold ornaments, gold rings and pearl earrings - but none like the ring most recently uncovered.
It was exquisitely crafted and deliberately hollowed out, and may have been imported from Italy or Spain, said the dig leader Bonnie Petrunova, deputy director of Bulgaria's National Archaeology Museum.
Petrunova believes the ring would have been worn on the pinkie finger of a man's right hand. The hole would have allowed its wearer to sneakily pour poison into a glass with the flick of his finger, the archaeologist said in a statement from Bulgaira's Kavarna municipality.
A basket full of keychains with fobs in the shape of a banana commemorating the banana split sundae are for sale at the Latrobe Art Center in Latrobe, Pa., Wednesday Aug. 21, 2013. A weekend of festivities are planned to surround the dedication of a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission marker to be dedicated Friday, Aug. 23 that acknowledges apprentice pharmacist David E. Strickler for inventing the banana split there in 1904.
Photo by Keith Srakocic
One of the first stepping stones for Europeans as they explored across the Atlantic to ultimately land in the Americas was colonized much earlier than previously thought - and not by the Vikings, who were once thought to be the pioneers of those isles, researchers say.
The Faroe Islands are located about halfway between Norway and Iceland. They were the first stepping stones beyond the Scottish archipelago of the Shetlands for the Viking diaspora that culminated in the European discovery of continental North America in the 11th century, about 400 or 500 years before Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage.
Until now, scientists thought the Vikings undertook the first major settlement of the Faroes in the ninth century. Still, there were hints there might have been earlier arrivals there - for instance, in about 825, the Irish monk Dicuil in the court of Charlemagne wrote of Irish hermits settling islands beforehand that may have been the Faroes, researcher Mike Church, an environmental archaeologist at the Durham University in England, told LiveScience in an interview.
Now, scientists have discovered firm archaeological evidence "for the human colonization of the Faroes by people some 300 to 500 years before the large-scale Viking colonization of the ninth century, although we don't yet know who these people were or where they came from," Church said in a statement.
A reveller dances while taking part in a LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) pride parade to mark the Gaijatra Festival, also known as the festival of cows, in Kathmandu August 22, 2013. The parade was organised to demand equal rights in society, according to participants.
Photo by Navesh Chitrakar
Amazing new photos and video of the elusive red lightning called sprites are helping researchers understand how the mysterious electric bursts form.
Sprites last less than a second as they dance on the tops of thunderstorms. Many viewers say the clusters of charged particles look like jellyfish - big, red balls with tendrils that reach down into the clouds. But red sprites take many shapes, from crowns to carrots, and researchers still don't why. Because few sprites are seen from the ground, thanks to obscuring storms, scientists are hunting them from the air.
Graduate student Jason Ahrns captured stunning images of sprites during several flights over the Midwest this summer aboard the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Gulfstream V research plane. Ahrns is part of a sprite-hunting team from University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the U.S. Air Force Academy and Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.
"It's still not clear what exactly is happening in a sprite, and why there are different kinds of sprites," Ahrns told LiveScience in an email interview.
Red sprites can race high toward space, up to 60 miles (96 kilometers) above the Earth. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station caught a sprite on camera in 2012 . A sprite's red tendrils also reach down into the stratosphere, about 15 to 20 miles (25 to 32 km) above Earth's surface. They look brightest between 40 to 45 miles (65 to 72 km) up.
Lew Wood, a veteran broadcast journalist who covered the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy for CBS and later anchored the news report for NBC's "Today" show, has died at age 84.
Wood's daughter, Brigitte Wood, says her father died Wednesday at a hospice in Riverside County.
Wood began his career in radio in 1952 at WDZ-AM in Decatur, Ill.
He transitioned to TV the following year, working as a reporter-cameraman, and anchoring the evening news, for a fledgling TV station in South Bend, Ind.
As a correspondent for CBS in the 1960s, Wood covered the Civil Rights movement and was part of the news team in Dallas to report on Kennedy's visit when the president was killed.
A visitor holds an albino hedgehog in a private zoo in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Three rare albino hedgehog babies, born on the same day as Britain's new prince, have moved into a miniature castle at a Moscow petting zoo. The three are named after the Prince of Cambridge - George, Alexander and Louis. On Thursday, when they turned one month old, they were shown their new home at the All-Russia Exhibition Center.
Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr
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