Paul Krugman: Three Unsayable Words (New York Times)
And I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to think of a single prominent conservative economist who has responded to the complete failure of his predictions by changing his views. This has long since stopped being merely an analytical issue; it has become a moral issue, a test of character. And almost everyone on that side of the debate has failed.
Peter Conradi: "'The Shakespeare of the lunatic asylum' - review of The Dostoevsky Archive by Peter Sekirin" (The Spectator)
After you decapitate someone, might their severed head continue thinking? Prince Myshkin holds his audience spellbound with this macabre inquiry in The Idiot, a great novel whose author, Fyodor Dostoevsky, was once called the Shakespeare of the lunatic asylum. Each of his great novels concerns a murder (one a parricide); most also touch upon the sickening theme of the rape of a child.
A bindi (from Sanskrit bindu, meaning "a drop, small particle, dot"), or a pottu/bottu (in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam) is a forehead decoration worn in South Asia (particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Mauritius) and Southeast Asia. Traditionally it is a bright dot of red color applied in the center of the forehead close to the eyebrows, but it can also consist of a sign or piece of jewelry worn at this location.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
forehead
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
A bindi is a forehead decoration worn in South Asia. Thanks for well
wishes.
Alan J responded:
Forehead
mj replied:
It is commonly worn
On the forehead, centered above the space between the brows, although you could probably apply it anywhere. But would it still be a bindi?
Charlie answered:
Forehead
Sally said:
I am thinking that a, "Bindi" is the gem that Indian people wear on his/her forehead.
Then there is
Bindi Irwin sans crocodile dad.
PS: Shout out to JoeS, hoping Carla will be up and about really soon!!
Dale of Sizzling Springs, NORCALI took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Forehead ~ Traditionally, the bindi is worn on the forehead of married Hindu women. It symbolizes female energy and is
believed to protect women and their husbands. Bindis are traditionally a simple mark made with the paste of colored sandalwood, sindoor or turmeric. The bindi is most commonly a red dot made with vermilion.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a FRESH'Under The Dome'.
On a RERUNDave (from 6/13/13) are Harry Connick Jr. and Dylan Moran.
On a RERUNCraig (from 4/8/13) are Max Greenfield and Debbie Reynolds.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by a FRESH'Siberia'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 5/16/13) are Adam Sandler, Phil Jackson, and Family of the Year.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 6/11/13) are Seth Rogen, Jeffrey Tambor, and the Lumineers.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/11/13) are Ludo Lefebvre, Ian Ruhter, and Superhumanoids.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH'Mistresses'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Johnny Depp, Rebecca Romijn, and Steve Martorano.
The CW offers a RERUN'Oh Sit', followed by a RERUN'The Carrie Diaries'.
Faux has a RERUN'Raising Hope', followed by a FRESH'The Goodwin Games', then a RERUN'New Girl', followed by a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Duck Dynasty', another 'Duck Dynasty', still another 'Duck Dynasty', yet another 'Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'The Glades', then a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'Godzilla', followed by the movie 'King Kong'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 7 - Unification - Part 1
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 8 - Unification - Part 2
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Kingston Cafe
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 4
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 4
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 5
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 6
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 1
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 2
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 3
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 4
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 5
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 17 - Episode 6
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of New Jersey', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Below Deck'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', 'Key & Peele', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', 'Brickleberry', and 'South Park'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart John Oliver (from 6/13/13) is Fareed Zakaria.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 6/5/13) is Jonathan Alter.
FX has the movie 'Hancock', followed by the movie 'Battle: Los Angeles'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Dear Frankie
[8:15AM] American Gun
[10:15AM] Braddock: Missing in Action III
[12:30PM] Suicide Kings
[2:45PM] American Gun
[4:45PM] Braddock: Missing in Action III
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Burning Man
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Health Insurance
[8:00PM] Hostel
[10:00PM] Hostel Part II
[12:00AM] Hostel
[2:00AM] Hostel Part II
[4:00AM] House of the Dead (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Top of the Lake-Episode 1
[7:00AM] Thank You for Smoking
[8:30AM] Dick
[10:15AM] How to Be
[11:45AM] Thank You for Smoking
[1:15PM] Dick
[3:00PM] How to Be
[4:30PM] Thank You for Smoking
[6:00PM] My Own Private Idaho
[7:45PM] Thelma & Louise
[10:00PM] Push Girls-Sex Ed
[10:30PM] Push Girls-Tipany's Missing Sister
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-Thirty-Eight Snub
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Open House
[1:00AM] Push Girls-Sex Ed
[1:30AM] Push Girls-Tipany's Missing Sister
[2:00AM] Thelma & Louise
[4:15AM] My Own Private Idaho (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Anacondas: Trail Of Blood', 'Defiance', followed by a FRESH'Defiance', then a FRESH'Warehouse 13'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 4/8/13) are Adam Sandler, Molly Shannon, and Nate Bargatze.
Mick Jagger, center, Ronnie Wood, left ,Charlie Watts, rear on drums and Keith Richards, right, of British band the Rolling Stones, perform on the Pyramid main stage at Glastonbury, England, Saturday, June 29, 2013. Thousands of music fans have arrived for the festival to see headliners, Arctic Monkeys, Mumford and Sons and the Rolling Stones.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Late movie critic Roger Ebert has been honored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
Ebert, who worked at the Chicago Sun-Times for more than 40 years, took first place for online columns or blogs on large websites in the NSNC's annual column contest. The group held its annual conference Saturday in Hartford, Conn.
Ebert died earlier this year at age 70, after a long battle with cancer. The day before his April 4 death, he wrote in a post on his blog that he was taking a break from his schedule of almost-daily movie reviewing because cancer had recurred.
He won national fame teaming with fellow film critic Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune in 1975 for a television show that had them each give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down rating to the latest releases.
Actor Neil Patrick Harris, left, and David Burtka arrives at the world premiere of "Michael Jackson ONE" at THEhotel at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Saturday, June 29, 2013 in Las Vegas.
Photo by David Becker
Steve Wozniak, one of the original co-founders of Apple, recently made an appearance at the "Further with Ford" technology conference in Dearborn, Michigan. As always, Wozniak was happy to give his uncensored opinion on events in Apple's history that he had a privileged insider's perspective on.
Regarding the first Macintosh computer that Steve Jobs helped to create, Wozniak stated via The Verge that, "what [Jobs] did was he made a really weak, lousy computer, to tell you truth, in the Macintosh, and still at a fairly high price. He made it by cutting the RAM down, by forcing you to swap disks here and there. It was a lousy product."
Wozniak noted that Jobs approached the Macintosh project as an opportunity to "compete with the Lisa group that had kicked him out." Wozniak recalled that Jobs called the Lisa group "idiots" for not keeping the price of their computer down. However, Wozniak notes that, "one megabyte of RAM back then cost 10,000 of today's dollars," so a computer with any significant amount of RAM was bound to be fairly expensive.
Although Jobs was determined to make the Macintosh an affordable device, "Woz" believes the end product was a "lousy computer." He also points out that the much-improved successors to the original Macintosh were not overseen by Jobs. "[The] Macintosh failed, really hard, and who built the Macintosh into a success later on? It wasn't Steve, he was gone. It was other people like John Sculley who worked and worked to build a Macintosh market when the Apple II went away," stated Wozniak.
Third-generation oceanographer Fabien Cousteau will attempt to spend a record 31 days living and working underwater in a bus-sized laboratory submerged in the warm, turquoise Atlantic off the Florida Keys.
If he succeeds he will beat the 30-day underwater living record set 50 years ago in the Red Sea by his scuba-pioneering grandfather, Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
"We're doing something unprecedented," said the 45-year-old who grew up on the decks of his grandfather's ships, Calypso and Alcyone. "It's the risk of discovery, it's the curiosity, it's the adventure. It's going beyond that box that we always live in and are comfortable with, to learn something new."
While submerged, Cousteau and his five-person team plan to Skype with school children in classrooms around the world, make a 3D IMAX documentary, measure the effects of underwater living on their own bodies, count the fish and chart the pollution levels in the surrounding waters, experiment with coral-growing techniques and test the newest underwater motorcycles.
He and his Mission 31 team plan to take the plunge on September 30 and surface on Halloween at the Aquarius habitat in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The cylindrical 43-foot (13-meter) laboratory sits on a patch of sand near some deep coral reefs about 9 miles south of Key Largo.
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte arrives at the world premiere of "Michael Jackson ONE" at THEhotel at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Saturday, June 29, 2013 in Las Vegas.
Photo by David Becker
It's a question that has long prompted heated arguments among devoted opera fans: Who was the greater composer, Richard Wagner or Giuseppe Verdi?
Both were born exactly 200 years ago, and so in this year of their bicentennials, the Bavarian State Opera decided to settle the question once and for all. Sort of.
Even though the two men never met in real life, they came face to face on Friday night in the form of giant puppets wearing boxing gloves, cheered on by a crowd estimated by police at nearly 10,000 spectators in Max Joseph Platz next to the National Theater.
The puppets - Verdi in top hat and Wagner wearing a beret - were the centerpieces of an extravaganza featuring more than three dozen aerial acrobats, fireworks, a chorus line and two wind orchestras and two brass bands totaling about 240 musicians.
The hour-long performance then became a back-and-forth contest of greatest hits, the puppets all the while changing colors from purple to red to green to yellow. At one point, the "Entrance of the Guests" from Wagner's "Tannhaeuser" was rudely interrupted by the "Triumphal March" from "Aida." And Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" was similarly obliterated by the "Dies Irae" from Verdi's "Requiem."
Jennifer Lopez sang "Happy Birthday" to the leader of Turkmenistan during a show, but her representative said she wouldn't have performed there at all if she had known there were human rights issues in the country.
The singer and actress performed in the former Soviet bloc country on Saturday night. A statement released Sunday by her publicist said the event was hosted by the China National Petroleum Corp. and wasn't a political event.
However, the country's leader, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, did attend. Berdimuhamedow has been criticized for oppressive rule by human rights organizations. Human Rights Watch describes Turkmenistan as "among the most repressive in the world."
Lopez's publicist says the event was vetted by Lopez's staff: "Had there been knowledge of human rights issues any kind, Jennifer would not have attended."
A combination of two pictures shows participants reacting before and after the 'The Color Run' Festival in Munich on June 30, 2013. About 9000 runners completed a 5 km course, being covered in blue, pink, orange and yellow powder on their way to the finish line.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
Julian Assange didn't have much to say about the status of NSA leaker Edward Snowden's asylum requests in his interview on "This Week With George "Judas" Stephanopoulos" Sunday. But the WikiLeaks founder had plenty to say about the U.S. government's justification for its spy program, and the American media's willingness to lap it up.
"We have secret interpretations of the law," Assange said from the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where he has been living for over a year. "What does the law mean if there are secret interpretations in secret courts?"
WikiLeaks has reportedly been assisting Snowden since he revealed himself as the NSA leaker. He was last reported to be in a Moscow airport and seeking asylum in Ecuador.
"Asylum is a right that we all have. It's an international right. The United States has been founded largely on accepting political refugees from other countries and has prospered by it. Mr. Snowden has that right. Ideally he should be able to return to the United States. Unfortunately, that's not the world that we live in and hopefully another country will give him the justice that he deserves.
Belarusian women take part in the Rusalle festival (the holiday of mermaids) in the village of Sosny, about 200 km (124 miles) south of Minsk, June 30, 2013. The festival is an ancient tradition originating from pagan times, which women sing and dance around a campfire, throw their wreaths into a river and choose a leader of the mermaids, in a belief that the leader will protect the harvest.
Photo by Vasily Fedosenko
It would not be a proper Florida theme park attraction if you didn't exit through the gift shop.
But the souvenir station that awaits guests inside the new "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit, opening Saturday (June 29) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, is not your typical trinket stand.
The new Shuttle Express shop is helping to underwrite the preservation and presentation of a national treasure.
Though NASA owns the visitor complex and the new $100 million "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit - as well as the $2 billion retired spacecraft that the facility showcases - the space agency paid for none of it.
Everything at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, including the "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit, is funded by the proceeds that are generated by ticket, food and, yes, merchandise sales, which translates to having to sell a lot of t-shirts, patches and models.
Pilar (L) and Nuevo Amanecer, both men who are dressed as traditional Zapotec also known as "Muxe", pose for a photograph inside a women's bathroom during a traditional party in Mexico City, June 29, 2013. Anthropologists say the tradition of blurring genders among Mexico's indigenous population is centuries old but has been revived in recent decades due to the gay pride movement. The muxes, mostly of ethnic Zapotec descent, are widely respected in southern Mexico.
Photo by Edgard Garrido
The family of a French billionaire and art collector eased a sore point in history on Friday by returning two bronze animal heads, among Chinese treasures pillaged from a Beijing palace by French and British troops more than a century and a half ago.
The sculptures, of a rabbit and a rat, are among 12 animal heads representing the Chinese zodiac that were looted from Beijing's Old Summer Palace in 1860 by Anglo-French troops during the Second Opium War.
The mystery of the heads' whereabouts and lengthy efforts by Chinese authorities to retrieve them have built up a mystique around the artifacts.
"By returning these two marvels to China, my family is loyal to its commitment to preserving national heritage and artistic creation," said Francois-Henri Pinault (Mr. Salma Hayek), chief executive of luxury and retail group Kering, at a ceremony at China's National Museum alongside Tiananmen Square.
Pinault's father, Francois Pinault, and Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong pulled red silk covers off the small busts to unveil them in front of reporters.
Some 5,390 participants play a song with Anklungs, Indonesian traditional bamboo musical instruments, during a performance in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people playing Angklung at the Workers Gymnasium in Beijing, June 30, 2013.
Photo by Jason Lee
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy brought "The Heat" against Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx at the box office.
The Fox action-comedy starring the funny ladies as mismatched detectives earned $40 million in second place in its opening weekend, topping the $25.7 million debut haul of Sony's "White House Down," according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Disney-Pixar animated prequel "Monsters University" remained box-office valedictorian in its second weekend, earning $46.1 million in first place.
Meanwhile, Paramount's globe-trotting zombie thriller "World War Z" starring Brad Pitt took another bite out of the box office in its second weekend with $29.8 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. "Monsters University," $46.1 million.
2. "The Heat," $40 million.
3. "World War Z," $29.8 million.
4. "White House Down," $25.7 million.
5. "Man of Steel," $20.8 million.
6. "This Is the End," $8.7 million.
7. "Now You See Me," $5.5 million.
8. "Fast & Furious 6," $2.4 million.
9. "Star Trek: Into Darkness," $2 million.
10. "The Internship," $1.4 million.
Marilyn Dishman, Kelly's ex-wife, said he died Saturday of cancer at his home in San Diego.
Sporting an Afro hairstyle and sideburns, Kelly made a splash with his one-liners and fight scenes in the 1973 martial arts classic. His later films included "Three the Hard Way," ''Black Belt Jones" and "Black Samurai."
During a 2010 interview with salon.com, Kelly said he started studying martial arts in 1964 in Kentucky and later moved to California where he earned a black belt in karate. He said he set his sights on becoming an actor after winning karate tournaments. He also played college football.
The role in the Bruce Lee film was his second. He had about a dozen film roles in the 1970s before his acting work tapered off. In recent years, he drew lines of autograph seekers at comic book conventions.
"It was one of the best experiences in my life," he told salon.com of working on "Enter the Dragon." ''Bruce was just incredible, absolutely fantastic. I learned so much from working with him. I probably enjoyed working with Bruce more than anyone else I'd ever worked with in movies because we were both martial artists. And he was a great, great martial artist. It was very good."
Flowers grow on the Valleflor flower farm in Pifo, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013. A week after National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden began his flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecuadorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of Ecuador's sun soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate.
Photo by Dolores Ochoa
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