Helaine Olen: What the fate of Silicon Valley's Donald Trump can teach us (Washington Post)
It's somehow fitting that Neumann got shoved out of the CEO's office on the same day House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) finally announced an impeachment inquiry into President Trump's conduct. Neumann is, in some ways, a Silicon Valley Donald Trump - grandiose, greedy and ethically challenged. His fall shows us just how fast public perception can change, and how leaders can seem all-powerful until, suddenly, they're not.
Michael Chabon: What's the Point? (Paris Review)
These feel like such dire times, times of violence and dislocation, schism, paranoia, and the earth-scorching politics of fear. Babies have iPads, the ice caps are melting, and your smart refrigerator is eavesdropping on your lovemaking (and, frankly, it's not impressed).
Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998, this childhood favorite was invented by André Cassagnes, a French electrician, who named it L'Écran Magique. What is the name of this toy in the US?
Etch A Sketch is a mechanical drawing toy invented by André Cassagnes of France and subsequently manufactured by the Ohio Art Company and now owned by Spin Master of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Etch A Sketch was introduced near the peak of the Baby Boom on 12 July 1960 for $2.99 (equivalent to $25 in 2018). It went on to sell 600,000 units that year and is one of the best known toys of that era. In 1998, it was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong, in Rochester, New York. In 2003, the Toy Industry Association named Etch A Sketch to its Century of Toys List, a roll call commemorating the 100 most memorable and most creative toys of the 20th century. The Etch A Sketch has since sold over 100 million units world wide.
The Etch A Sketch toy was invented in the late 1950s by André Cassagnes, an electrician with Lincrusta Co, who named the toy L'Écran Magique (The Magic Screen). In 1959, he took his drawing toy to the International Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany. The Ohio Art Company saw it but had no interest in the toy. When Ohio Art saw the toy a second time, they decided to take a chance on the product. L'Écran Magique was soon renamed the Etch A Sketch and became the most popular drawing toy in the business. After a complex series of negotiations, The Ohio Art Company launched the toy in the United States in time for the 1960 Christmas season with the name "Etch A Sketch".
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Etch A Sketch.
Randall wrote:
Etch a Sketch
Alan J answered:
Etch-A-Sketch.
Dave said:
Etch A Sketch. I don't remember if we had one at home or not, but I messed around with one from time to time. I didn't like it enough to put it on my Christmas list though. I'm kind of surprised they are still on the market.
zorch replied:
Andre Cassagnes invented the Etch a Sketch, which Dilbert's boss thought was a laptop computer.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Etch a Sketch
Deborah wrote:
Is that the French name for the Etch-a-sketch? I liked mine almost as much as I liked my Colorforms.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is Etch A Sketch.
Mac Mac wrote:
Etch a Sketch
Joe S answered:
The precursor to the iPad, the Etch-A-Sketch.
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Marty, I know that this is probably out of line, but would you consider posting this article defending the rights of the disabled to stay in their homes at the government centers. My sister is mentally disabled - she has been in the state center for 57 years. since she was 10 years old. The state of PA as a "cost cutting" measure has decided to close 2 of the remaining 4 facilities, and push the clients there into group homes in the community (I refer to them as "Disability Slumlords").
The state closed the Hamburg center near Allentown Pa, a couple years ago and in the yearlong process 15 of the 90 displaced clients died, some directly related to the trauma of the move. The centers are not the places that used to exist, they have turned themselves into the equivalent of the highest quality nursing homes. The closures are against the ruling of the "Olmstead decision" (SCOTUS) that requires the states to have these facilities as an alternative to "community living" aka disability slum lords.
(personally I do not necessarily care for the "national Review magazine" {{william f buckley}}
and likely do not agree with most of the authors views, but he has this one nailed.
• In 1958, Esquire magazine commissioned Art Kane to take a group photograph of many jazz musicians. He took it at 10 a.m. on the front steps of a house in Harlem. Jazz musicians almost always work at night, and some of the jazz musicians who were in the photograph stated that they had not previously realized that a single day contained two 10 o'clocks.
• If you want a good photograph of a band, it helps if the members of the band are looking in your direction. Bass player Alex James of the Blur remembers that one female photographer tried to make the members of the band look in her direction by flashing her breasts at them.
Politics
• In 1979, Jello Biafra, the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys, ran a satirical campaign for mayor of San Francisco, during which his platform included such planks as 1) making everyone who worked in the business section wear clown costumes during business hours, 2) hiring back 7,000 city employees who had been laid off and making their job panhandling in rich neighborhoods at a 50% commission, 3) making police officers run campaigns to be rehired in the neighborhoods they patrol (residents in those neighborhoods would cast votes) and 4) legalizing squatting in buildings that were vacant because of tax reasons. As is the case with satire, his humor had a point. For example, he says, "In San Francisco, land of the homeless, there are so many buildings left empty for tax write-off purposes - it's obscene."
• After Dan White, a former police officer and city supervisor, murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk, he used the Twinkie defense (he claimed that eating junk food had diminished his ability to use his reason) to get only a 5-year sentence as punishment for committing the two murders. Jello Biafra, lead singer of the Dead Kennedys, regarded this as outrageous, and when he ran for Mayor of San Francisco, he ran on a platform one of whose planks advocated the erection of many Dan White statues in San Francisco - along with concession stands where people could buy eggs and tomatoes to throw at the statues.
Practical Jokes
• Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson once played a practical joke on singer Ella Fitzgerald. She owned a fur coat that her manager, Norman Grantz, had given her that she was very proud of. In the days before ballpoint pens, Mr. Peterson bought a trick ink bottle that came with a fake inkblot. He then visited Ms. Fitzgerald in her dressing room and made sure that she saw him writing with his pen. She warned him to be careful with the pen and ink because her fur coat was in the dressing room, and he said that she had nothing to be worried about. But when she left, he put the fake inkblot on her fur coat and upended the trick ink bottle. He was pretending to cry when Ms. Fitzgerald returned to her dressing room. She was a kind person; instead of displaying attitude, she comforted him. Mr. Peterson said, "She was more concerned about me than the coat." He called her "such a sweet person." Of course, people respected her singing. After she appeared at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, in 1956, a spectator commented, "Ella Fitzgerald could sing the Van Nuys [California] telephone directory with a broken jaw and make it sound good - and that's a particularly dull telephone directory." Occasionally, however, a member of an audience would start acting up while Ms. Fitzgerald was singing - and she would add new lyrics to the song and give that audience member a warning. And if a technical problem occurred on stage, she would sing about it and let the technicians know what the problem was. How good was Ella? She won 13 Grammies (and a 14th for lifetime achievement), and for 18 years in a row Down Beatmagazine named her "Top Female Vocal Jazz Singer."
• Music critic Henry T. Finck and Steven J. Jecko were friends at Harvard, class of '76 - 1876. They were regarded as musical prodigies, something they encouraged with a practical joke. They told their classmates that they could name each of a string of whatever notes that the other played. Mr. Finck sat at the piano and played several notes. Mr. Jecko then named several notes, and Mr. Finck said, "Correct." Then they traded places. Mr. Jecko sat at the piano and played several notes. Mr. Finck then named several notes, and Mr. Jecko said, "Correct." However, in advance each of them had agreed to say "Correct" to whatever notes the other named.
Mother Pounce (wife of VP Mike Pounce) teaches at a school full of white privileged junior MAGA boys hoping to boof their way onto the Supreme court:
3-minute video--she has been a straight-A student; they not only cut her hair but covered her mouth to keep her from calling for help. (How terrifying for her!) And she says these boys have been bullying her all school year.
A 12-year-old girl in Northern Virginia says a group of boys attacked her on the school playground, cutting off her dreadlocks and saying her hair was "nappy." Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey shares the child's family's call for action.
Tuesday gas was $3.55/gal at the no-name cash-only station.
Yesterday it was $3.65/gal and today - $3.75/gal.
Must be that booming economy I keep hearing about.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', follwod by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Patricia Heaton and Tegan & Sara.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, (from 8/13/19) are RuPaul, David Oyelowo, and Alfie Allen.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Bluff City Law', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Billie Eilish and Sebastian Maniscalco.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers (from 9/11/19) are Jennifer Lopez, Michael Sheen, Mika, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh (from 9/16/19) are Mindy Kaling and Rainn Wilson.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'Fresh Off The Boat', then 'What Would You Do?', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel (from 9/16/19) are Anthony Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, Melanie Martinez, and Whitney Cummings.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a FRESH'The Big Stage', then a FRESH'Peaking', followed by another FRESH'Peaking'.
Faux has the FRESH'WWE Smackdown's Greatest Hits', followed by a RERUN'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Die Hard With A Vengeance', followed by the movie 'Twister'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-Two Broken Fingers
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-The House Within The House
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE RETURN OF DOCTOR MYSTERIO
[9:30AM] OUTBREAK (1995)
[12:30PM] CONTAGION (2011)
[3:00PM] JAWS (1975)
[6:00PM] JAWS 2 (1978)
[8:45PM] JAWS 3 (1983)
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 25 - EPISODE 13
[12:00AM] JAWS 3 (1983)
[2:15AM] ANACONDA (1997)
[4:15AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Good Will Hunting', followed by the movie 'Catch Me IF You Can'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
[8:00A] Inescapable
[10:00A] Drillbit Taylor
[12:30P] Hall Pass
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Moon Over Point Place
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Reefer Madness
[4:00P] That '70s Show - Red Sees Red
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Hyde's Father
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Too Old to Trick or Treat, Too Young to Die
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Roller Disco
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - It Never Rains in Hooterville
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Smooth as a Ken Doll
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - Aunt Myra Doesn't Pee a Lot
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Tucked, Taped and Gorgeous
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - Mr. McGlue's Feedbag
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-Lookin'
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - Prostitutes and Gelato
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Large Birds, Spiders and Mom
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Media Room Slash Dungeon
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - Dum Diddy Dum Diddy Doo
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - City of Great Racks
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - Putting Swim Fins on a Cat
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - A Big Bag of Dog
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - Four Balls, Two Bats and One Mitt
[1:00A] That '70s Show - Moon Over Point Place
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Reefer Madness
[2:00A] That '70s Show - Red Sees Red
[2:30A] That '70s Show - Hyde's Father
[3:00A] Rush
[5:45A] Night Flight - Fame! (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Runaway Bride
[3:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:40am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] 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] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] Field of Dreams
[1:30pm] Runaway Bride
[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] Along Came a Spider
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:40am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters', followed by the movie 'Red', then a FRESH'Van Helsing'.
Jann Wenner will retire next year as chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in New York.
Wenner announced Wednesday that he will step down on Jan. 1. The co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine is one of the founding members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is credited with recruiting the late architect I.M. Pei to create its Cleveland museum.
The 73-year-old Wenner will be replaced by rock hall board member John Sykes, the co-founder MTV and VH1.
Greta Thunberg's U.N. address became the speech heard 'round the world this week. Thunberg addressed hundreds of global leaders and while one, President Trump, seemed unimpressed by the 16-year-old climate activist, another U.S. politician wants to help her.
Thunberg said this week that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger offered to lend her his electric car. In clip from the Scandinavian talk show "Skavlan," Thunberg reveals the governator's offer.
In the teaser clip, Thunberg speaks in her native Swedish and tells host Fredrik Skavlan that many people have offered to help her. "One of the funniest offers I've received is that Arnold Schwarzenegger has offered me to lend his electric car if I want to," she said, according to a translation by Newsweek.
In 2017, Schwarzenegger partnered with electric mobility company Kreisel to develop an electric Hummer. CBS News has reached out to reps for Schwarzenegger for more details about his offer to lend the car to Thunberg.
This is not the first time Schwarzenegger has showed support for Thunberg. In 2018, the actor-turned-politician tweeted about how Thunberg inspired him. The two finally met in May 2019 at a climate conference in Austria. Schwarzenegger shared a photo of himself with Thunberg, saying he was "starstruck."
Amazon will introduce Jackson as the first celebrity voice for its Alexa virtual assistant later this year, the company said Wednesday.
For 99 cents, you can hear the Hollywood star read you the news, give you a weather report and even tell jokes.
But Jackson wouldn't be who he is if he weren't a little explicit, right? Don't worry. Amazon is leaning into the actor's essence. That's probably why this new feature is rated mature.
Users can choose whether or not they would like Jackson to use explicit language. And it's OK if they change their minds later. They can just head over to the settings menu of the Alexa app to select between clean and explicit content.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to advance legislation that would allow banks to provide services to cannabis companies in states where it is legal.
By a vote of 321-103, lawmakers approved the bill, which now heads to the Senate. The bill received nearly unanimous support from Democrats, as well as nearly half of all Republicans.
The measure now heads to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain fate. Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo has said he wants to consider similar legislation in the coming months, but it is not clear if the full Senate will vote on such a measure, analysts say.
Some Republicans are wary of giving banks the green light to engage in marijuana business while it is still federally illegal. And some Democrats have said they would rather consider broader legislation around marijuana legalization or criminal justice reform rather than a targeted banking bill.
The bill clarifies that proceeds from legitimate cannabis businesses would not be considered illegal, and directs federal regulators to write up rules for how they would supervise such banking activity.
In a move immediately decried by immigrant advocates as an affront to the nation's humanitarian commitments, the administration said it had to shift focus to processing a backlog of hundreds of thousands of asylum claims, most of which are filed by migrants from Central America crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The current burdens on the U.S. immigration system must be alleviated before it is again possible to resettle large number of refugees," the State Department said in a statement.
At the same time, President Don-Old Trump (R-Individual #1) issued an executive order saying his administration would seek the approval of state and local governments to resettle refugees in their communities, in a shift for a federally directed program.
Trump has made cutting immigration a centerpiece of his presidency. One of his first acts after assuming office in January 2017 was to issue an order capping the maximum number of refugees that year at 50,000, less than half the number former President Barack Obama had set a few months earlier.
Of the proposed 18,000 spots, 4,000 would be reserved for Iraqis, 5,000 for those fleeing religious persecution and 1,500 for people from the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. That leaves 7,500, or roughly 40%, for all others.
The man who created the world's first labradoodle has spoken of his regret in creating the popular mixed-breed dog, describing them as "crazy Frankenstein's monsters" prone to hereditary problems.
Australian, Wally Conron, bred the first labradoodle, Sultan, in 1989 as a guide dog for a blind woman whose husband was allergic to dog hair.
"I find that the biggest majority are either crazy or have a hereditary problem," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"I do see some damn nice labradoodles but they're few and far between."
Despite the creature's popularity, Conron expressed concern that people are overbreeding the dog and creating new sub-breeds, such as the spoodle (a cross between a spaniel and a poodle) and the groodle (a mixture of golden retrievers and poodles).
A drought in Spain has revealed an ancient stone circle that usually stands hidden beneath the waters of the Valdecañas Reservoir in Western Spain. But the so-called "Spanish Stonehenge" is just a small piece of an ancient Spanish landscape flooded by dam construction in the 1960s.
The exposed rocky floor of the reservoir today is punctuated by about 150 granite stones in concentric oval rings around a chamber about 5m wide, meant to be entered through a megalith-lined passage facing east. It has earned the nickname "Spanish Stonehenge," but that's something of a misnomer. Unlike Stonehenge, Guadalperal wasn't built as an open-air monument.
The standing stones visible today are the framework of a burial mound. Once, the spaces between the concentric rings would have been filled with earth and pebbles, and the vertical stones would have supported a roof of horizontal slabs. An earthen mound would have covered the whole thing; you can still see the remains of that structure in the bank of sand and gravel that now surrounds the standing stones.
At the inner end of the passage, marking the entrance to the main chamber, one standing stone, or menhir, bears the carved image of a snake and several cups. Alcalá University archaeologist Primitiva Bueno Ramirez describes the stone as "engraved showing a human body, with bound shoulders and a severed head. On one side of the body, [there is] a sinuous line with a triangular head, which could be described as a snake." Very similar images have been found engraved or painted at the entrances of other dolmen in Spain, and the direction of the passage means that morning sunlight would help illuminate the image.
Archaeologists have documented more than 400 similar monuments in Spain, mostly along the routes of the Tagus and Douro Rivers. They're usually associated with the remains of the earliest farming settlements in Spain, and burials in the dolmens often include artifacts from the Bell Beaker culture. The culture first turned up in Spain around 4,750 years ago and spread throughout Central and Western Europe and Northwest Africa by about 4,500 years ago.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of September 25, 2019:
1. The Rolling Stones; $12,700,483; $226.61.
2. Ed Sheeran; $8,016,913; $89.01.
3. Pink; $6,641,718; $110.34.
4. Paul McCartney; $5,431,748; $154.26.
5. Metallica; $5,280,764; $98.92.
6. Muse; $3,825,769; $80.75.
7. Dead & Company; $2,837,397; $88.86.
8. Eagles; $2,378,754; $139.36.
9. Jennifer Lopez; $2,160,482; $137.83.
10. Phish; $2,053,497; $65.24.
11. Jonas Brothers; $1,984,263; $122.45.
12. Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,946,470; $123.74.
13. Ariana Grande; $1,856,020; $116.31.
14. Def Leppard; $1,663,142; $127.53.
15. Zac Brown Band; $1,518,456; $59.84.
16. Hugh Jackman; $1,473,290; $101.85.
17. John Mayer; $1,465,185; $106.13.
18. Michael Bublé; $1,441,228; $114.10.
19. Dave Matthews Band; $1,382,870; $73.80.
20. Florida Georgia Line; $1,335,082; $70.92.
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