Joshua Keating: Who Is Middle Class? (Slate)
Whenever you see a headline about the developing world middle class, take a look at the cutoff number being used. The African Development Bank claims that "the middle class had risen to 34 percent of Africa's population, or nearly 350 million people"-a commonly repeated statistic in the media-but it also defines middle class as anyone living on more than $2 per day.
Susan Estrich: The New Eric Cantor (Creators Syndicate)
How's this for a punch line? You stage a rebellion to get rid of Eric Cantor, who is on his worst day (to critics on the right) a very conservative guy who relishes hardball tactics, and he gets replaced by a pragmatic moderate from California. You call this victory?
Henry Rollins: Freedom Rock (LA Weekly)
In Birmingham, Alabama, I visited the house where Martin Luther King lived for a few years with his family. I stood in his small study at the back of the house. I was told that pretty much everything in there were the actual items. I was impressed with the spareness of the room and furnishings. I was happy to see that, to his left, he had a record player.
22 Children's Hilariously Inappropriate Spelling Mistakes (Bored Panda)
Kids are a never-ending source of joy - if not for their boundless energy and joy, then for the hilarious and obliviously inappropriate things that they say and do. These 22 images are hilarious because of the fact that the kids probably have no idea just how raunchy they're being.
Chicago Derecho Storm Video and Time-lapse Highlights - June 30, 2014 (Vimeo)
Videographer Craig Shimala was working on another video project on June 30th, 2014 when he saw and captured a triple lightning strike on three of Chicago's tallest buildings: Willis Tower, Trump Tower and the John Hancock Building. Lightning struck in the same place twice for Shimala, when he captured another triple strike on the same buildings four years ago." - Neatorama
Actor George Kennedy started his show business career as the US Army technical adviser for what TV series?
You'll Never Get Rich (The Phil Silvers Show/Sgt. Bilko)Source
The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, was a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army.
George Kennedy was the show's US Army technical adviser; he had roles as a military policeman in several episodes.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
The Phil Silvers Show
Charlie wrote:
The Phil Silvers Show
Alan J said:
The Phil Silvers Show
mj replied:
Mr. Kennedy started by consulting on the inauspiciously named
You'll Never Get Rich aka The Phil Silvers Show.
Adam answered:
The Phil Silvers Show
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Kennedy became a technical adviser for the television series The Phil Silvers Show, where after encouragement from Silvers his acting career began with a few one-line parts
DJ Useo said:
He was an advisor to the Phil Silvers Show aka Sgt. Bilko.
I knew this already, as I enjoy that show quite often.
I bet it was one cushy position.
Prob'ly just had to fly in donuts for Doberman. Lol.
MAM wrote:
The Phil Silvers Show 1955-1959
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CBS opens the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mom', then a RERUN'Mike & Molly', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Under The Dome'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Halle Berry, Steve Young, and War on Drugs.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kathy Griffin and Ingrid Michaelson.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'Last Comic Standing', followed by a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Kiefer Sutherland, Nicole Richie, and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Brian Williams, Chrissy Teigen, and Charli XCX.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/7/14) are Rhys Darby and Band of Skulls.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelorette', followed by a FRESH'Mistresses'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/10/14) are Gerard Butler, Meagan Good, and Matisyahu.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a FRESH'Beauty & The Beast'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 12/13/13) are Tyler Perry, Jonathan Kite, and Sommore.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef', followed by a FRESH'24'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'Get Smart', followed by the movie 'Ocean's Eleven', then the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 9 - The Satan Pit
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 10 - Love & Monsters
[10:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 1
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Redemption (Part 2)
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Darmok
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Zocalo
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 5 - Hot Potato Cafe
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Blackberry's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 5
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 6
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR INDIA SPECIAL-Season 17
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 13-14 - Episode 1
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 13-14 - Episode 2
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 13-14 - Episode 3
[11:00PM] ALMOST ROYAL - Season 1 - Ep 4 - New York
[11:30PM] ALMOST ROYAL - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Texas
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 13-14 - Episode 1
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 13-14 - Episode 2
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 13-14 - Episode 3
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 13-14 - Episode 4
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 8
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 9 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta: Kandi's Wedding', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Ladies Of London'.
Comedy Central has 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'The View', followed by the movie 'The Proposal', then the movie 'The Proposal', again.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', then a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW
[6:15AM] THE THREE STOOGES-A BIRD IN THE HEAD
[6:40AM] THE THREE STOOGES-ALL GUMMED UP
[7:05AM] THE THREE STOOGES-AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE
[7:30AM] BATMAN-ENTER BATGIRL, EXIT PENGUIN
[8:00AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-JURY DUTY
[8:30AM] BATMAN-RING AROUND THE RIDDLER!
[9:00AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-CLIQUES
[9:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-GILLIAN JACOBS WEARS A RED DRESS WITH SAIL BOATS
[10:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-ZOE SALDANA WEARS A TAN BLOUSE AND GLASSES
[10:30AM] THE OMEGA MAN
[12:45PM] CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
[3:45PM] BATMAN-HI DIDDLE RIDDLE
[4:15PM] BATMAN-SMACK IN THE MIDDLE
[4:45PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-JURY DUTY
[5:15PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-CLIQUES
[5:45PM] PATHFINDER
[8:00PM] DARKMAN
[10:00PM] DARKMAN II: THE RETURN OF DURANT
[12:00AM] DARKMAN III: DIE DARKMAN DIE
[2:00AM] DARKMAN
[4:00AM] DARKMAN II: THE RETURN OF DURANT (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-Sons of Anarchy
[6:30AM] The Good Thief
[8:45AM] Tenderness
[11:00AM] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
[1:00PM] The Clearing
[3:00PM] Law & Order-Corpus Delicti
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Trophy
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Charm City
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Custody
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Encore
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Savior
[9:00PM] Law & Order-Merger
[10:00PM] Law & Order-Atonement
[11:00PM] Law & Order-Slave
[12:00AM] Law & Order-Girlfriends
[1:00AM] Law & Order-Pro Se
[2:00AM] Law & Order-Homesick
[3:00AM] The New World (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The 6th Day', followed by the movie 'Shutter Island'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 5/1/14) are Martin Short, Jessica Pare, and Kelis.
In this image provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Brian May of Queen performs during their concert with Adam Lambert at The Joint Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas, Saturday, July 5, 2014.
Photo by Steve Spatafore
Harrison Ford's injury will cause production on "Star Wars: Episode VII" to be suspended for two weeks.
Disney announced Sunday that shooting would be halted for two weeks in August to adjust the production schedule following Ford's injury. The 71-year-old broke his leg in June during filming of the much-anticipated sequel at Pinewood Studios outside of London.
Disney had said earlier that Ford's injury wouldn't cause any delays. The studio said Sunday that "Episode VII" is still "on track" to wrap in the fall and be released in December 2015.
The accident involved a spacecraft door on the Millennium Falcon falling on Ford's leg. His recuperation was expected to take up to two months.
London buses will no longer accept cash payments for tickets with effect from Sunday, the British capital's transport authority said.
Transport for London (TfL), which runs public transport in the city, said in a statement that dwindling numbers of passengers were using money to pay for their journeys.
Travellers on London's signature red buses must now use Oyster transport swipe cards, prepaid or concessionary tickets, or contactless payment cards. TfL added that more than 99 per cent of bus passengers are already using these payment methods.
Tourists will be largely unaffected because the vast majority tend to use a prepaid ticket such as a Visitor Oyster card to get around London, according to the transport authority.
Bridal couples at a Japanese wedding hall will have a special treat at their banquet: a bunch of fresh, juicy grapes that cost a record $5,400.
A wedding hall operator bought the Ruby Roman grapes at auction for 550,000 yen ($5,400) on Saturday, the first day of the buying season in Ishikawa prefecture, central Japan, local media reported.
The bunch of around 30 grapes weighed some 800 grammes (28 ounces), Japan's public broadcaster NHK said, adding that the red-skin grape can be as big as three centimetres (1.2 inches) in diameter.
The top notch grapes -- costing around $180 a pop -- will be served at the wedding hall in Kanazawa, central Ishikawa.
Cheryl "Salt" James, right, and Sandy "Pepa" Denton of Salt-n-Pepa perform on the main stage at Wireless festival in Finsbury Park, north London, Sunday, July 6, 2014. The first festival took place in June 2005 and was staged in Hyde Park.
Photo by Joel Ryan
The Washington Post said on Saturday a study of a large collection of communications intercepted by the U.S. National Security Agency showed that ordinary Internet users, including Americans, far outnumbered legally targeted foreigners caught in the surveillance.
"Nine of 10 account holders found in a large cache of intercepted conversations, which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden provided in full to The Post, were not the intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else," the Post said.
Nearly half of the files "contained names, email addresses or other details that the NSA marked as belonging to U.S. citizens or residents," it said.
Many other files were retained although, described as useless by analysts, they were about intimate issues such as love, illicit sexual relations, political and religious conversions and financial anxieties, the Post said.
The papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage.
Original documents from one of the biggest intelligence leaks in history - a who's who of Soviet spying - were released Monday after being held in secret for two decades.
The files smuggled out of Russia in 1992 by senior KGB official Vasili Mitrokhin describe sabotage plots, booby-trapped weapons caches and armies of agents under cover in the West - the real-life inspiration for the fictional Soviet moles in "The Americans" TV series.
After the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Mitrokhin traveled to a Baltic state - which one has never been confirmed - and took a sample of his files to the U.S. Embassy, only to be turned away. So he tried the British embassy, where a junior diplomat sat him down and asked, "Would you like a cup of tea?"
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures as he prays before he teaches on the fourth day of Kalachakra near Leh, India, Sunday, July 6, 2014. Buddhist devotees from across the globe have arrived in this Himalayan region of Ladakh to attend the âKalachakraâ or Wheel of Time initiations by the Dalai Lama that began Thursday. Sunday marked the birthday of the Tibetan leader.
Photo by Tsering Topgyal
In apparent defiance of Pope Francis, a church procession detoured from its route through a southern Italian town to honor a convicted mobster under house arrest.
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano on Sunday denounced the tribute in Oppido Mamertina, a Calabrian town and 'ndrangheta crime syndicate stronghold, as "deplorable and disgusting." He praised three Carabinieri policemen who abandoned the procession in disapproval.
The July 2 procession included clergy, the mayor, parents pushing baby strollers and dozens of local men carrying on their shoulders an ornate Madonna statue.
Another bishop, Monsignor Giancarlo Bregantini, told Vatican Radio Sunday that some 200 inmates in the maximum-security section of Larino prison told their chaplain they would boycott Mass, reasoning if they were excommunicated it made no sense for them to attend anymore.
A "muxe", wearing a traditional Zapotec woman's costume, dances during a traditional Zapotec "Vela Muxe" party in Mexico City July 5, 2014. In Zapotec culture, a "muxe" is man who dresses and behaves in ways otherwise associated with women. 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 ancestry, are widely respected in the southern state of Oaxaca.
Photo by Carlos Jasso
German-U.S. relations are facing a new test over a German intelligence employee who reportedly spied for the U.S., with Germany's president saying if the allegations are true, that kind of spying on allies must stop.
Prosecutors say a 31-year-old German was arrested last week on suspicion of spying for foreign intelligence services, and that he allegedly handed over 218 documents between 2012 and 2014. German media, without naming sources, have reported he was an employee of Germany's foreign intelligence service who says he sold his services to the U.S.
The issue threatens to strain German-U.S. relations again after earlier reports that the National Security Agency spied on Germans, including on Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone.
If it turns out the U.S. "gave this kind of assignment to one of our intelligence employees, then it really has to be said: That's enough now," President Joachim Gauck said on ZDF television.
People cheer after hearing the midday "Chupinazo" rocket announcing the start of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 6, 2014. Tens of thousands of expectant party goers holding red scarves squeeze into the town hall to kick off 204 hours of music, dancing, drinking, bullfighting and for the brave or unwary, an 825 metre (902 yard) daily sprint in front of six fighting bulls known as the Running Of The Bulls.
Photo by Vincent West
An invasive lizard first spotted in southern and central Florida about a decade ago has become the latest concern for wildlife officials after the four-foot-long, black-and-white tegu was caught on video stealing alligator and turtle eggs from their nests.
Scientists from the University of Florida during the spring and summer of 2013 planted several cameras in the Everglades around nests containing dozens of eggs.
"We captured images of tegus removing (up to) two eggs per day until an examination of the nest on Aug. 19 revealed no remaining eggs," University of Florida professor Frank Mazzotti wrote of one alligator nest in a forthcoming study, conducted with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, to be published in journal Biological Invasions this summer.
Florida, and particularly the Everglades, is home to dozens of invasive species that have escaped into the wild or been released by pet owners after growing too large. Most famously wildlife officials have struggled to contain Burmese pythons, and occasionally encountered some nearly 20-feet (6-meters) long, even preying on adult alligators.
They were dubbed the "forgotten souls" - the cremated remains of thousands of people who came through the doors of Oregon's state mental hospital, died there and whose ashes were abandoned inside 3,500 copper urns.
Discovered a decade ago at the decrepit Oregon State Hospital, where "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed, the remains became a symbol of the state's - and the nation's - dark history of treating the mentally ill.
A research effort to unearth the stories of those who moved through the hospital's halls, and to reunite the remains with surviving relatives, takes center stage Monday as officials dedicate a memorial to those once-forgotten patients.
Hospital officials have been working for years to reunite the remains of their former patients with surviving relatives. Since the urns were found by lawmakers on a tour of the hospital in 2005, 183 have been claimed.
Participants lie in the mud to break the world record for total number of 'mud angels' at the "Wattoluempiade," or Mud Olympics, in the northern German city of Brunsbuettel, July 6, 2014. During the event, participants also join in other games including football, handball and volleyball.
Photo by Morris Mac Matzen
The Fourth of July went off like a dud at the box office, as the Michael Bay sequel "Transformers: Age of Extinction" and the Melisa McCarthy comedy "Tammy" led the weakest summer holiday weekend in at least a decade.
The North American box office was down a whopping 44 percent over the July Fourth weekend last year, when "Despicable Me 2" and "The Lone Ranger" opened.
Paramount's "Transformers," the fourth in the series, opened the weekend prior to the year's biggest debut with $100 million. The movie, with a rebooted cast led by Mark Wahlberg, dropped considerably (63 percent) in its second week of release despite relatively little competition.
New Line's R-rated, Midwest road trip romp "Tammy" boasts one of the most bankable stars in movies - McCarthy - but is a smaller, homespun movie made for just $20 million and directed by McCarthy's husband, Ben Falcone. Despite being savaged by critics, the Warner Bros. release made $32.9 million in five days since opening Wednesday.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. "Transformers: Age Of Extinction," $36.4 million ($95.8 million international).
2. "Tammy," $21.2 million ($2.5 million international).
3. "Deliver Us From Evil," $9.5 million ($2.5 million international).
4. "22 Jump Street," $9.4 million ($10 million international).
5. "How to Train Your Dragon 2," $8.8 million ($33.5 million international).
6. "Earth to Echo," $8.3 million.
7. "Maleficent," $6.1 million ($17.3 million international).
8. "Jersey Boys," $5.1 million ($2.7 million international).
9. "Think Like a Man Too," $4.9 million.
10. "Edge of Tomorrow," $3.6 million ($8.4 million international).
Two horses fight during the "Rapa Das Bestas" traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo July 6, 2014. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia.
Photo by Miguel Vidal
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