Paul Krugman: The Issue That Won't Go Away (NY Times Blog)
So another atrocity has us talking about race again. And rightly so. Nothing about America makes sense without understanding the long shadow cast by the original sin of slavery.
CHRISTINE PORATH: No Time to Be Nice at Work (NY Times)
MEAN bosses could have killed my father. I vividly recall walking into a hospital room outside of Cleveland to see my strong, athletic dad lying with electrodes strapped to his bare chest. What put him there? I believe it was work-related stress. For years he endured two uncivil bosses.
HENRY ROLLINS: A TRIP DOWN THE BUMMER SIDE ROADS OF MEMORY LANE (LA Weekly)
I have always been fascinated by time. Everyone gets 60 seconds per minute, so in a way, it's a fair deal. But depending on what your circumstances are, time as a measurable thing becomes conceptual, and this is where it gets interesting.
PETER GILSTRAP: "BRIAN AND MELINDA WILSON ON UNFLINCHING BIOPIC LOVE & MERCY: 'IT HAD TO BE FACTUAL'" (LA Weekly)
Days away from his 73rd birthday this June, Brian Wilson ploughs ahead into his endless summer. The former Beach Boy's 11th solo album, No Pier Pressure, has just been released. He's embarking on a world tour this month, and the Wilson biopic Love & Mercy , starring Paul Dano and John Cusack as Brians young and older, has hit theaters, a film telling a deeply personal tale that's far from fun, fun, fun.
Scott Burns: Count Your Fathers (AssetBuilder)
Let me tell you about my fathers. Many men wish that they had "a real father." I was one of them. I have few memories of my biological father.
A tuna is a saltwater finfish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a sub-grouping of the mackerel family (Scombridae) which together with the tunas, also includes the bonitos, mackerels, andSpanish mackerels. Thunnini comprises fifteen species across five genera, the sizes of which vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna (max. length: 50 cm (1.6 ft), weight: 1.8 kg (4 lb)) up to the Atlantic bluefin tuna (max. length: 4.6 m (15 ft), weight: 684 kg (1,508 lb)). The bluefin averages 2 m (6.6 ft), and is believed to live for up to 50 years.
Japan is the biggest tuna consuming nation and is also the leader in tuna farming research. Japan first successfully farm-hatched and raised bluefin tuna in 1979. In 2002, it succeeded in completing the reproduction cycle and in 2007, completed a third generation.The farm breed is known as Kindai tuna.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Japan.
Deborah wrote:
I was going to say U.S.A. but decided that it must be Japan, because so many dolphins die in the hunt for tuna.
Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there.
Marian replied:
United States followed closely by Japan
gmbullas responded:
Japan consumes the most Tuna
MAM, wrote:
Japan
Lois Of The Sea answered:
Surprisingly or not Japan kills and eats more of everything
from the sea including tuna, whales, mermaids, whatever! And
sometimes, you are alive when they begin to eat you!
Randall took the day off.
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali took the day off.
Patriot Act NSA Spying Unconstitutional Section 215 National Security Letters Must End
My name is Marc Perkel and I have decided to announce that I will not comply with the so called "Patriot Act" laws requiring me to disclose information about my customers. If I receive a national security letter I will immediately photograph it, post it online everywhere I can, and then make a video of me burning it. I will then await my arrest. If you want to put me in jail then come get me mother fucker.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'Scorpion', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One'.
The programming geniuses at CBS are filling Dave's hour with reruns of 'CSI: The Original One'.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE (from 4/29/15) are Russell Crowe, Kathryn Hahn, Eddie Izzard, and Kodaline.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by a FRESH'The Island'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Seth MacFarlane, Amber Heard, and Leon Bridges.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Maya Rudolph, Joe Manganiello, Belle and Sebastian.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/5/15) are Brian Unger, White Fence, and Cory Branan.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH'The Whispers'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Andre Iguodala, Chris Tucker, Mark Feuerstein, and Robert Delong.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Originals', followed by a RERUN'Jane The Virgin'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48: Deadly Sexual Encounters', then another FRESH'The First 48: Deadly Sexual Encounters', followed by still another 'The First 48: Deadly Sexual Encounters'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the FRESH'The Making Of The Mob: New York'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] Cash in the Attic - Season 18 - Ep 31 - Ferriman-Grobel NEW
[7:00AM] Cash in the Attic - Season 18 - Ep 32 - Ahir NEW
[8:00AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares UK - Season 4 - Ep 4 - The Fish and Anchor
[9:00AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares US - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Trobiano's
[10:00AM] Top Gear - Season 8 - Episode 4
[11:00AM] Top Gear - Season 8 - Episode 5
[12:00PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Last Outpost
[1:00PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Where No One Has Gone Before
[2:00PM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 1
[3:00PM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 2
[4:00PM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 4
[6:00PM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 5
[7:00PM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 7
[8:00PM] Top Gear - Season 12 - Episode 8
[9:30PM] Top Gear: Season 15 Special - Season 15 - Top Gear: Season 15 Special
[11:00PM] Top Gear - Season 19 - Episode 1
[12:00AM] Top Gear - Season 19 - Episode 2
[1:00AM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 1
[2:00AM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 2
[3:00AM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 3
[4:00AM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 4
[5:00AM] Top Gear - Season 14 - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Orange County Social', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Odd Mom Out'< then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park', 'Archer', and another 'Archer'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Sen. Al Franken.
Scheduled on a FRESH@Midnight are Randy Sklar, Jason Sklar, and Sara Schaefer.
FX has 'Mike & Molly', another 'Mike & Molly', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon'.
History has 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', then a FRESH'Woodsmen', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-LOIS' SISTER
[6:30AM] FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
[9:15AM] KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST
[11:00AM] FANTASTIC MR. FOX
[1:00PM] INTOLERABLE CRUELTY
[3:15PM] FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
[6:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-MALCOLM DEFENDS REESE
[6:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-MALCOLM'S MONEY
[7:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-BRIDE OF IDA
[7:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-COLLEGE RECRUITERS
[8:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-MONO
[8:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-HAL GRIEVES
[9:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-A.A.
[9:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-LOIS STRIKES BACK
[10:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-HAL'S DENTIST
[10:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-BOMB SHELTER
[11:00PM] THE MATRIX
[2:00AM] THE MATRIX
[5:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-AZIZ ANSARI WEARS A CHARCOAL BLAZER
[5:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-ANNA KENDRICK WEARS A PATTERNED BLOUSE & BURGUNDY PANTS (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
[8:00AM] Damsels in Distress
[10:15AM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[12:30PM] Infamous
[3:00PM] Law & Order-Golden Years
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Snatched
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Breeder
[6:00PM] Law & Order-White Lie
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Whiplash
[8:00PM] Law & Order-All My Children
[9:00PM] Law & Order-Brother's Keeper
[10:00PM] Law & Order-School Daze
[11:00PM] Law & Order-Judge Dread
[12:00AM] Law & Order-Deep Vote
[1:00AM] Deutschland 83-Quantum Jump
[2:00AM] Law & Order-Who Let the Dogs Out
[3:00AM] The Red Road-A Cure
[4:00AM] The Red Road-The Hatching
[5:00AM] The Red Road-Shadow Walker (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park III'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Judd Apatow, Ashley Tisdale, and Fort Minor.
US author George R.R. Martin speaks during the Harbour Front Literature festival at the Congress Centrum Hamburg, in Hamburg, Germany, 21 June 2015.
Photo by Bodo Marks
Bryan Cranston isn't done with Walter White just yet, as the "Breaking Bad" star channeled the antihero at dance music festival Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. The actor made a special surprise appearance during British trance crew Above & Beyond's Saturday night set.
Just as Above & Beyond was about to play their 2013 song "Walter White," Heisenberg himself appeared onstage, with Cranston speaking into the microphone, "Say my name," a reference to one of the most famous and terrifying lines in "Breaking Bad."
After the audience burst into applause, Cranston continued with the bit, saying, "You're goddamn right."
Cranston then had the honor of pressing the button that started "Walter White" on the stage's sound system. The Emmy winner later tweeted about the evening, posting a video of the excited crowd.
Mick Jagger performs with Keith Richards, right, Ronnie Wood, left, and Charlie Watts on drums as The Rolling Stones play in their "Zip Code" tour on Saturday, June 20, 2015, in Pittsburgh.
Photo by Keith Srakocic
Weapons Manufacturers Can't Call Themselves Christian
Pope Frankie
People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.
Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.
"If you trust only men you have lost," he told the young people in a long, rambling talk about war, trust and politics after putting aside his prepared address.
"It makes me think of ... people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn't it?" he said to applause.
He also criticized those who invest in weapons industries, saying "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another."
A prominent Al-Jazeera journalist will remain in German custody for a second night, prosecutors said Sunday, adding they have not yet decided whether to extradite him to Egypt or set him free.
As dozens of supporters protested Sunday in front of the Berlin court building where Ahmed Mansour was being held, his lawyer, Fazli Altin, called for the journalist's immediate release, saying that Germany was getting involved in a politically tainted case.
Mansour, 52, a well-known journalist with the Qatar-based broadcaster's Arabic service, was detained at Berlin's Tegel airport on Saturday on an Egyptian arrest warrant, his lawyers said. Mansour, who holds dual Egyptian-British nationality, was trying to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha, the station reported.
A government judicial official told the AP there would probably be a decision next week on whether Mansour has to remain in custody. In addition, the Berlin Court of Justice would decide - once it gets a request for extradition from Egypt - whether Mansour can be extradited or whether the case is politically motivated.
British designer Vivienne Westwood (R) appears on the catwalk with husband Andreas Kronthaler at the end of the presentation for her Spring/Summer 2016 Menswear Collection during the Milan Men's Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, 21 June 2015. The Milano Moda Uomo runs from 19 to 23 June.
Photo by Matteo Bazzi
A postcard bearing a signed drawing by Picasso fetched a record $188,000 (166,000 euros) at auction on Saturday, the Gaertner auction house in southern Germany announced.
The sales set a "world record for a postcard", the auction house in Bietigheim-Bissingen said in a statement.
The buyer, described as a "trans-Atlantic collector", clinched the deal by telephone following frenzied bidding in German, English, French and Russian, the statement said.
The card from Pablo Picasso to his friend, French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, is dated September 5, 1918, and has an authenticated drawing that "can be considered part of the artist's cubist still life series," Gaertner said.
The postcard never made it to Apollinaire however because Picasso had addressed it in Spanish, writing his friend's name as Don Guillermo Apollinaire.
Democrats see a chance to pick up the Florida Senate seat being vacated by Republican Marco Rubio - but only if U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson stays out of the race.
Democratic leaders fear Grayson could spoil the party's chances for capturing the seat by challenging Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy in the primary. Rubio is running for president instead of seeking a second term.
Grayson, who is considering a Senate run, is known for using fiery rhetoric to knock down opponents. He made headlines for describing the GOP health plan as "don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly." He called a Republic opponent "Taliban Dan" in an effort to paint him as a religious extremist, compared the tea party to the Klu Klux Klan and called his estranged wife a gold digger during an explosive divorce.
Democratic leaders see Grayson, 57, as too inflammatory and too liberal to win a general election and have coalesced around Murphy, a 32-year-old accountant in his second congressional term. Party leaders see Murphy, who is the only prominent Democrat in the race so far, as a strong candidate and don't want him bloodied by Grayson's aggressive campaign tactics.
A former Republican, Murphy casts himself as a moderate in a state whose politics tend toward the middle. He isn't discussing the possibility of a Grayson challenge.
Mariangeles Borghini holds a burned Confederate flag during a rally to take down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse, Saturday, June 20, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. Rep. Doug Brannon, R-Landrum, said it's past time for the Confederate flag to be removed from South Carolina's Statehouse grounds after nine people were killed at the Emanuel AME Church shooting.
Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt
The construction of a $1.4 billion telescope on land considered sacred by some Native Hawaiians will resume Wednesday, according to the nonprofit company behind the project.
Henry Yang, chairman of the Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Board, in a statement said the board decided to move forward after more than two months of consultations.
"Our period of inactivity has made us a better organization in the long run," Yang said. "We are now comfortable that we can be better stewards and better neighbors during our temporary and limited use of this precious land, which will allow us to explore the heavens and broaden the boundaries of science in the interest of humanity."
The telescope is planned for the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island. It would be one of the world's largest telescopes.
The telescope project was developed as a collaboration between U.S. and Canada universities and the national institutes of Japan, China and India.
A naked Hindu holy man smokes as he walks during a procession on the eve of the Ambubasi festival near the Kamakhya Hindu temple in Gauhati, India, Sunday, June 21, 2015. Hundreds of Hindu holy men have arrived at the temple ahead of the five-day festival in this northeastern Assam state.
Photo by Anupam Nath
A former child actor who starred in one of the "Star Wars" movie sequels faces charges after leading South Carolina deputies on a high-speed chase.
Colleton County Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday arrested a 26-year-old man they confirmed through a former talent agent was Jake Lloyd, who played a young Anakin Skywalker in the 1999 movie "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace," Sgt. Kyle Strickland said Sunday.
The man was charged with failing to stop for officers and reckless driving after hitting speeds over 100 miles an hour, Strickland said.
The chase lasted for more than 25 miles before Lloyd drove off Interstate 95, plowed through a fence, and continued speeding along a parallel frontage road, authorities said. The road ended at a dead end, but the vehicle kept going into a wooded area before it hit several small trees and stopped.
Lloyd said in a 2012 interview that the role he performed when he was 10 years old made his youth hellish because he was bullied by other children. His last acting credit was in 2005, according to IMDB.com.
Andean religious leaders perform a new year's ritual at the ruins of the ancient civilization of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, early Sunday, June 21, 2015. Bolivia's Aymara Indians are celebrating the year 5,523 as well as the Southern Hemisphere's winter solstice, which marks the start of a new agricultural cycle.
Photo by Juan Karita
Watercolour paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler from about a century ago were sold at auction in Germany at the weekend for nearly 400,000 euros ($450,000), organisers said.
The most expensive was a painting of King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, now a tourist magnet, which went to a buyer from China for 100,000 euros, Nuremberg-based Weidler auctioneers said, quoted by German news agency DPA.
A still-life of carnations changed hands for 73,000 euros and all of the works on offer, which date from 1904 to 1922, most signed A. Hitler, sold at the auction which ended Saturday.
Germany permits auction houses to sell the late Nazi leader's paintings as long as they do not feature any banned symbols.
A picture made available on 21 June 2015 shows people gathering in front of the illuminated Karlsruhe Palace during the opening ceremony of the celebrations of the city's 300th birthday in Karlsruhe, Germany, 21 June 2015. The city birthday KA300 is celebrated with a summer festival running until 27 September.
Photo by Uli Deck
In a box-office bout of Tyrannosaurus-sized proportions, "Jurassic World" kept the No. 1 spot with one of the biggest second weeks ever, while Pixar's "Inside Out" nearly matched it with a $91.1 million debut well above expectations.
The unexpected sensation of the Colin Trevorrow-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced fourth entry in the franchise had turned Disney's $175 million 3-D "Inside Out" into an underdog expected to merely nip at the heels of "Jurassic World." But the emotional "Inside Out," about the voices in the head of an 11-year-old girl, blew past its own forecasts to set records, too.
"Inside Out" was the first Pixar release not to open in first place, following an unparalleled two-decade streak of 14 straight no. 1s. But it's the largest opening for a wholly original movie (one not based on source material or a sequel), unseating "Avatar" in that distinction. Directed by Pete Docter ("Up") and co-directed by Ronaldo del Carmen, "Inside Out" had been expected to open in the range of previous Pixar non-sequels like "Wall-E" ($63.8 million opening) and "Brave" ($66.3 million).
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Jurassic World," $102 million ($160.5 million international).
2. "Inside Out," $91.1 million ($41 million international).
3. "Spy," $10.5 million ($9.6 million international).
4. "San Andreas," $8.2 million ($18 million international).
5. "Dope," $6 million.
6. "Insidious Chapter 3," $4.1 million ($3 million international).
7. "Pitch Perfect 2," $3.3 million ($1 million international).
8. "Mad Max: Fury Road," $2.8 million ($4.9 million international).
9. "Avengers: Age of Ultron," $2.7 million.
10. "Tomorrowland," $2 million.
The sun rises as thousands of revellers gathered at the ancient stone circle Stonehenge to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, near Salisbury, England, Sunday, June 21, 2015.
Photo by Tim Ireland
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