Paul Krugman: The Rewards of Being Very Serious (New York Times)
… it remains true that Keynes's dictum - "Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally" - is probably even more true for politicians than it is for bankers. And this probably helps explain the persistence of the austerity cult despite years of failure.
Marc Dion: A Mouse on Welfare (Creators Syndicate)
In the newsroom where I work, there is a mouse, and he is a freeloader, a non-working bum of a mouse addicted to the entitlements of cookies, taco chips, granola bars, candy and all the other wonderful treats to be found in the desk drawers of hardworking, taxpaying reporters.
Terry Savage: Besides Contributing to IRA Before Tax Deadline, Name a Beneficiary (Creators Syndicate)
The beneficiary form you sign with your IRA custodian trumps even your will in determining who will get your retirement plan after death. In fact, a 2009 Supreme Court ruling unanimously held that an ex-spouse, who was still named as the beneficiary to a plan, was entitled to the cash - despite the fact that the man's will clearly stated that the money should go to his daughter.
Marilyn Preston: Epigenetics: Above All, You're in Charge of Your Well-being (Creators Syndicate)
When your obesity gene expresses itself loudly because, let's say, you've spent so much time in bed with bags of Dorito chips, you're a candidate for "The Biggest Loser." When you manage to mute your colon cancer gene by eating less red meat and exercising more, you're managing your epigenome in a way that Dr. Raby would applaud.
Chuck Norris: What Would Jesus Eat? (Creators Syndicate)
Q: Chuck, I was sitting in church during Holy Week and found myself thinking, "I wonder what Jesus ate?" What do you know about his first century diet? - Teresa M. in Connecticut
Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in the United States. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, and can significantly interfere with a person's quality of life and general functioning. Psychological factors such as social support, hypnotic suggestion, excitement, or distraction can significantly modulate pain's intensity or unpleasantness.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
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Alan J said:
Pain
mj wrote:
This has been a sore spot for some of my friends
So I'm going with back pain.
Charlie responded:
Pain. In what, one wonders?
Adam answered:
Pain- which, sure, but that's a little vague and reductive.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in the United
States
Sally said:
In the United States, colds account for more visits to the doctor than any other condition. IMHO, I think loneliness accounts for many doctor visits, especially from seniors...
TTFES (Ta ta for Easter Sunday),
Dale of Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, Home of Mountainbilly Heroin, CALINORTH responded:
PAIN !!!!
Precise estimates of the prevalence of different pain syndromes in the USA are difficult to ascertain; however, there might be more than 30 million people with chronic or recurrent painful conditions. Nearly one-half of Americans who seek treatment with a physician report that their primary symptom is pain. This makes pain the single most frequent reason for physician consultation in the United States.
MAM wrote:
Pain
BttbBob replied:
Without looking it up, I can say confidently the answer is - pain... in all its manifest forms and causes. Particularly when it's a chronic condition :(
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Happy Birthday this day to:
Debbie Reynolds (80) [ Debbie Reynolds - Singin' In The Rain - YouTube ]
Jane Powell (83) [ Jane Powell - Wonderful, Wonderful Day - YouTube ]
Susan Boyle (51) [ Original Version. Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream. - YouTube ]
Rachel Maddow (39)
(I love ya Rachel, but yer wrong about the Detroit EFM thing, IMO...)
Born this day:
Lon Chaney Sr (1883-1930) "The Man of a Thousand Faces"
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) Poet, Musician, Author...
(... and the revolution still hasn't been televised. Well, at least not here)
Bo Schembechler (1929-2006) Legendary football coach of the University of Michigan Wolverines... Go Blue!
(Right, JoeS? 'Final Four' bound and all, Hoo ha!)
April 1 Birthdays - Celebrities Born April 1 | Famous Birthdays
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'Sign-off Photo' Comment - Okay, let it be known that I'm a 'Cat guy'. I like 'em. I can appreciate a good dog, but I prefer the company of cats. Particularly, big ol' 'Tom-cats' like my Grandpa had that can take ya or leave ya, upon their leisure. That said, I found yesterday's photo of that 'Devon Rex' feline (one certainly couldn't decently call it a cat) to be - well, creepy... Blech...
And, Joe S answered:
I am most familiar with this, the answer is pain. Not a day that goes by that I don't hurt somewhere. Let me add a piece of advice, if you are in pain and you go to a doctor and the doctor says you have fibromyalgia, see another doctor. Get a second opinion or as many opinions it takes for some doctor to give you a real diagnosis. Fibromyalgia is a doctor's term that means, "Yes I can see you are in pain, or at least you think you are in pain, but I have no idea what is really wrong with you so I'm going to treat your symptoms with medication that may, or may not, make you feel better and may, or may not, actually make your affliction worse." I speak from experience.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Rules Of Engagement', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Altman, and the Band Perry.
On a RERUNCraig (from 11/13/12) are Toby Keith and J.R. Martinez.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Revolution'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Matthew Perry, Kristen Schaal, and Goo Goo Dollls.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Alec Baldwin, Emilia Clarke, the latest "Celebrity Apprentice" castoff, Janelle Monae, and DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Justin Bartha, Lunarcy, and Vacationer.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Shaquille O'Neal and Demi Lovato.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Carrie Diaries', followed by a RERUN'Hart Of Dixie'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'The Following'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', 'Bates Motel', another 'Bates Motel', followed by a FRESH'Bates Motel'.
AMC offers the movie 'A Knight's Tale', followed by the movie 'The Last Samurai'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 16 - Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Matt Lucas, Delia Smith, Rita Ora
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 17 - Richard Gere, John Malkovich, Saoirse Ronan, Taylor Swift
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Smith and Jones
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Shakespeare Code
[12:00PM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 1 - The Dragon's Call
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Momma Cherri's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Santa La Brea, Giuseppi's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 4 - Black Pearl
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS-Volume 1
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS-Volume 2
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR INDIA SPECIAL-Season 17
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 3
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR INDIA SPECIAL-Season 17
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS-Volume 1
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR TOP FAILS-Volume 2
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 3
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by a FRESH'LA Shrinks'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', yet another "Futurama', 'South Park', and another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Mary Roach.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Sigourney Weaver.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Pineapple Express'.
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Tricks and Treats
[7:00AM] The Necktie
[7:15AM] Visioneers
[9:00AM] Happy-Go-Lucky
[11:00AM] Gigantic
[12:45PM] Thank You for Smoking
[2:15PM] Happy-Go-Lucky
[4:15PM] Gigantic
[6:00PM] In the Loop
[8:00PM] The Beach
[10:00PM] Top of the Lake
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-Grilled
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Bit by a Dead Bee
[1:00AM] Top of the Lake
[2:00AM] Sleeping Beauty
[3:45AM] In the Loop
[5:45AM] The Necktie (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Casino Royale', 'Being Human', another 'Being Human', and 'Lost Girl'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan is a week of shows from Atlanta that begins with Seth Rogen and Earthquake.
People wearing their Easter hats pose for photos at the Easter Bonnet Parade in New York in this combination photo March 31, 2013.
Photo by Carlo Allegri
A copy of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album autographed by all four band members has shattered expectations at auction.
The iconic album was sold Saturday for $290,500 by Heritage Auctions in Dallas. It had been listed at $30,000 before the sale. The winning bidder was not identified, but The Associated Press reported the rare item had been sold to a person in the Midwest.
The autographs of the band members were obtained in 1967, the same year the record was issued, according to a letter of authenticity posted on Heritage Auctions' website.
Each of the Beatles signed next to his image on the inside spread of the album.
Performance artist Davey Mitchell, dressed up as "iBunny", poses for photos while taking part in the Easter Bonnet Parade in New York March 31, 2013.
Photo by Carlo Allegri
Beginning work a few years ago on her latest book, an anthology of poems for young people, Caroline Kennedy found herself looking through one of her mother's scrapbooks. She burst into laughter, she says, as she came across a poem that her brother John, as a youngster, had picked out and copied as a gift to their poetry-loving mom.
"Willie with a thirst for gore, Nailed his sister to the door," went the poem, by an unknown author. "Mother said with humour quaint, 'Careful, Willie, don't scratch the paint!'"
The poem "brought back memories of our relationship," Kennedy told a bookstore audience this week. "I laughed so hard."
But for Kennedy, now 55 and a mother of three grown children, there's a deeper meaning to that irreverent ditty. Poetry was a central part of her home life growing up. She and John regularly copied out and illustrated poems for their mother, Jackie, upon birthdays and Mother's Days. Sometimes, they'd recite them too, "if we were feeling competitive." And at family gatherings with their grandmother, there were frequent challenges to recite Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous (and famously lengthy) "Paul Revere's Ride." Only Uncle Ted (Sen. Edward Kennedy), it seems, was able to recite it in its entirety.
Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger - it's not how we usually think of William Shakespeare.
But we should, according to a group of academics who say the Bard was a ruthless businessman who grew wealthy dealing in grain during a time of famine.
Researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales argue that we can't fully understand Shakespeare unless we study his often-overlooked business savvy.
"Shakespeare the grain-hoarder has been redacted from history so that Shakespeare the creative genius could be born," the researchers say in a paper due to be delivered at the Hay literary festival in Wales in May.
Jayne Archer, a lecturer in medieval and Renaissance literature at Aberystwyth, said that oversight is the product of "a willful ignorance on behalf of critics and scholars who I think - perhaps through snobbery - cannot countenance the idea of a creative genius also being motivated by self-interest."
Pakistani Christian girls, display their hands decorated with Bangles and painted with Henna paste as they celebrate Easter holiday following a mass at in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Pakistan's Christians, are celebrating Easter along with other Christian nations.
Photo by Muhammed Muheisen
An entire troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures currently gripping Germany.
Flea circus director Robert Birk says he was shocked to find all of his 300 fleas dead inside their transport box Wednesday morning.
The circus immediately scrambled to find and train a new batch so it could fulfill its engagements at an open-air fair in the western town of Mechernich-Kommern.
Michael Faber, who organizes the fair, told The Associated Press that an insect expert at a nearby university was able to provide 50 fleas in time for the first show Sunday.
Birk said it was the first time his circus had lost all of its fleas to the cold in one go.
Egypt's most popular television satirist, who every week skewers the Islamist president and hard-line clerics on his Jon Stewart-style show, was released on bail Sunday but could face charges of insulting the country's leader and Islam.
Bassem Youssef is the most prominent critic of President Mohammed Morsi to be called in for questioning in recent weeks, in what the opposition says is a campaign to intimidate critics amid wave after wave of political unrest in deeply polarized Egypt.
Arrest warrants have been issued for five prominent anti-government activists accused of instigating violence.
Deputy chief prosecutor Hassan Yassin denied the nearly five-hour interrogation was part of an intimidation campaign and said his department was enforcing the law and seeking to establish some guidelines on freedom of expression.
Youssef is the host of the weekly political satire show known for his skits lampooning Morsi and Egypt's newly empowered Islamist political class. But he also mocks the opposition and the media.
Worshippers dressed as angels and characters from the Bible walk on special carpets made from coloured saw dust and flowers during an Easter Sunday procession in the historic city of Ouro Preto in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, March 31, 2013. The streets of Ouro Preto are decorated with carpets made of coloured saw dust and flowers, arranged in patterns to represent Biblical stories, during Holy Week.
Photo by Pilar Olivares
Yvonne Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system for satellites in the early 1970s and received a National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2011. Yet her New York Times obituary, published in the newspaper on Sunday, begins like this:
She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.
But Yvonne Brill, who died on Wednesday at 88 in Princeton, N.J., was also a brilliant rocket scientist, who in the early 1970s invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from slipping out of their orbits.
Many readers criticized the Times and obit writer Douglas Martin for leading with Brill's contributions at home rather than, you know, to the field of rocket science.
The Times, for its part, changed the online version of the article, stripping the reference to Brill's beef stroganoff.
Attention, unemployed copyeditors: Macy's may soon have a job opening for you.
The department store giant mailed a catalog to customers earlier this month which mistakenly offered a $1,500 sterling silver and 14-karat gold necklace for just $47. The heading: "SUPER BUY."
The actual sale price was supposed to be $479, but Macy's printed the 44-page circular without the "9."According to WFAA-TV in Dallas, customers flocked to the Collin Creek Mall to buy them before Macy's was able to catch the error.
"When the mistake was caught, signage did go up in the fine jewelry department and on store doors alerting customers that a mistake had been made," a Macy's spokeswoman said in a statement to the network. "For those customers who bought the necklace at the $47 price, they were fortunate. For the gentleman you spoke with, he was not so fortunate. We are sincerely sorry he was disappointed and unable to buy the necklace at the $47 price for his wife."
People use dyed sawdust to decorate a sawdust carpet before the start of Holy Week celebrations in Tegucigalpa March 28, 2013. Holy Week is celebrated in many Christian traditions during the week before Easter.
Malibu's celebrity haven of Broad Beach is struggling to survive as nature chews away at the shoreline and a $20 million effort to replace sand appears to be stuck in the mud.
Homeowners have run up against opposition and complicated approval processes as they pursue a plan to dredge sand from elsewhere and dump it to restore the 1.1-mile beachfront, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Waves sometimes lap up to an 8-foot-high 4,100-foot-long emergency rock wall that state regulators allowed homeowners to build about three years ago to protect dozens of multimillion-dollar homes.
With the reduced footage, "surfers can't get out to the good surf spots, and the homeowners can't get there, either," he said. Residents are proposing a $20 million project to dredge tons of sand and transplant it to restore the dunes and shoreline, both public and private.
However, the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors has objected, saying the sand might be needed to restore other public beaches as sea levels rise.
History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one.
Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison's plaintive cry, "Oh, the humanity!" made the 1937 explosion of the Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station probably the best-known crash of an airship.
But just four years earlier, a U.S. Navy airship seemingly jinxed from the start and later celebrated in song crashed only about 40 miles away, claiming more than twice as many lives.
The USS Akron, a 785-foot dirigible, was in its third year of flight when a violent storm sent it plunging tail-first into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after midnight on April 4, 1933.
Scientists may have discovered the first meteorite from Mercury.
The green rock found in Morocco last year may be the first known visitor from the solar system's innermost planet, according to meteorite scientist Anthony Irving, who unveiled the new findings this month at the 44th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. The study suggests that a space rock called NWA 7325 came from Mercury, and not an asteroid or Mars.
NWA 7325 is actually a group of 35 meteorite samples discovered in 2012 in Morocco. They are ancient, with Irving and his team dating the rocks to an age of about 4.56 billion years.
"It might be a sample from Mercury, or it might be a sample from a body smaller than Mercury but [which] is like Mercury," Irving said during his talk. A large impact could have shot NWA 7325 out from Mercury to Earth, he added.
Irving is an Earth and Space Sciences professor at the University of Washington and has been studying meteorites for years. But the NWA 7325 meteorite is unlike anything found on Earth before, he told SPACE.com.
After a nine-month delay, "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" deployed to the top spot at the box office.
The action film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum as the gun-toting military toys brought to life marched into the No. 1 position at the weekend box office, earning $41.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. "Retaliation" opened Wednesday at midnight, which helped bring its domestic total to $51.7 million.
After debuting in the top spot last weekend, the 3-D animated prehistoric comedy "The Croods" from DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox slipped to the No. 2 spot with $26.5 million in its second weekend. The film features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Catherine Keener as a cave family on the hunt for a new home.
Among the other new films this weekend, "Tyler Perry's Temptation" starring Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Lance Gross opened above expectations at No. 3 with $22.3 million, while the sci-fi adaptation "The Host" featuring Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, and Jake Abel as characters from the Stephenie Meyer novel landed at No. 6 in its debut weekend with a modest $11 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," $41.2 million ($80.3 million international).
2. "The Croods," $26.5 million ($52.5 million international).
3. "Tyler Perry's Temptation," $22.3 million.
4. "Olympus Has Fallen," $14 million.
5. "Oz the Great and Powerful," $11.6 million ($22.2 million international).
6. "The Host," $11 million ($6 million international).
7. "The Call," $4.8 million.
8. "Admission," $3.2 million.
9. "Spring Breakers," $2.7 million.
10. "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," $1.3 million.
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