JANE E. BRODY :Rules Worth Following, for Everyone's Sake (nytimes.com)
In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual," by Michael Pollan.
Paul Krugman: Fiscal Scare Tactics (nytimes.com)
Fear-mongering on the deficit as part of the Republican political strategy could end up doing as much harm as the fear-mongering on weapons of mass destruction.
John Campanelli: Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back (The Plain Dealer)
This marks the 15th year since "Calvin and Hobbes" said goodbye to the comics pages. Creator Bill Watterson, who grew up in Chagrin Falls and still makes Greater Cleveland his home, recently answered some questions via e-mail from Plain Dealer reporter John Campanelli. It's believed to be the first interview with the reclusive artist since 1989.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation. Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his spending plan for the next budget year is expected to include billions of more dollars in federal guarantees for new nuclear reactors... Obama's new climate card: nuclear power - Climate Change- msnbc.com
Do you support the increased use of nuclear power in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
zEN mAN (observing the maiden voyage on the San Francisco Bay of the good ship "Soda Pop" or "Plastiki" preparing to sail across the Pacific ocean on 12,500 plastic bottles)
In 1935, beer cans with flat tops were marketed, and a device to puncture the lids was needed. The same ironic term, "church key", came to be used for this new invention: made from a single piece of pressed metal, with a pointed end used for piercing cans - devised by D.F. Sampson for the American Can Company, who depicted operating instructions on the cans themselves, and typically gave away free "Quick and Easy" openers with their newfangled beer cans.
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~ Tony in Philly was first, and correct, with:
the can opener
Alan J nailed it with:
The Churchkey
Marian the Teacher responded:
Church Key (bottle/can opener)
Charlie wrote:
The type of can opener, called a churchkey, used to open beer cans in the days before pull tabs.
Sally said:
DF Sampson invented a puncture-style can opener in 1935 like these:
PS: Well, as I said the other day, seems like the big snow storm that it blasting the southern part of the East coast is stopping just before it hits me, here in NORTHERN Jersey! But then, our groundhog DIDN'T see his shadow, we are getting out gardens ready for our early spring, lala, lala! :)
BadtotheboneBob answered:
Churchkey...
And, MAM wrote:
The church key, designed by D F Sampson in 1935, was made for opening the flat top cans of beer.
And, Joe S replied:
The church key! This device, in the days of pop top cans and screw top
bottles is pretty much obsolete. We still keep one around for the
occasional large tomato juice can.
Even more important than the church key is the G.I. can opener. I still
have mine after 40 years. I have an emotional attachment to it, it saved
me from starving. It is not obsolete, it still has value and it still
works.
CBS begins the night with the movie 'Front Of The Class', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Mercy', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Ashton Kutcher hosting, music by Them Crooked Vultrues.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Remember The Titans'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'Wanda Sykes' is FRESH.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
AMC offers the movie 'Blazing Saddles', followed by the movie 'Silverado' (not the Neil Bush story), then the movie 'Silverado' (still not the Neil Bush story), again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Six Nations Rugby Championship - Wales v. England
[2:30 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 Peter's
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Evolution Of The Daleks
[8:00 PM] Demons - Episode 5
[9:00 PM] Demons - Episode 6
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Juliette Lewis, Isabella Rossellini, Alistair McGowen
[11:00 PM] Demons - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Demons - Episode 6
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Juliette Lewis, Isabella Rossellini, Alistair McGowen
[2:00 AM] Demons - Episode 5
[3:00 AM] Demons - Episode 6
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Juliette Lewis, Isabella Rossellini, Alistair McGowen
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 1
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'Beerfest', followed by the movie 'Balls Of Fury'.
FX has the movie 'Death Sentence', followed by the movie 'Death Sentence', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Holy Grail In America', and 'The Templar Code'.
IFC -
[6:35 AM] Let Him Have It
[8:35 AM] A Decade Under the Influence
[9:30 AM] Dallas 362
[11:15 AM] Shopping
[1:00 PM] 2010 Spirit Award Nomination Special
[1:30 PM] Let Him Have It
[3:30 PM] Dallas 362
[5:15 PM] Shopping
[7:00 PM] The Jon Dore Television Show
[7:30 PM] Arrested Development
[8:00 PM] American Psycho
[9:45 PM] Chopper
[11:20 PM] Food Party
[11:30 PM] Halloween
[1:05 AM] American Psycho
[2:50 AM] Chopper
[4:30 AM] Halloween (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[04:50 AM] Zoo
[06:10 AM] The Saviour
[06:35 AM] Nothing But a Man
[08:10 AM] Lemon Tree
[11:00 AM] Spectacle - Season 2: Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Bono & The Edge
[12:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Live from Abbey Road: Season 2 - Ben Harper, Justin Currie & Bryan Adams
[01:00 PM] Street of Crocodiles
[01:30 PM] Approaching Union Square
[03:00 PM] The Saddest Music In The World
[04:45 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 2: Iconoclasts: Season 2 - Isabella Rossellini + Dean Kamen
[05:45 PM] Metropolitan
[07:30 PM] Alexander The Last
[08:45 PM] The Metamorphosis
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Madeleine Albright + Ashley Judd
[10:00 PM] Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
[11:45 PM] Helmer & Son
[12:00 AM] A Bittersweet Life
[02:00 AM] 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
[04:00 AM] Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
[05:45 AM] Approaching Union Square (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'House Of Bones', followed by the movie 'Cursed'.
Actress Marilyn Monroe is shown with poet Carl Sandburg in this December 1961 photo taken in New York City in this photo released to Reuters February 5, 2010. Photographer Len Steckler shot the black-and-white images of Monroe when she unexpectedly arrived at his apartment in December, 1961, to visit his friend, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Sandburg. Steckler is offering them for a sale as a limited edition series called "Marilyn Monroe: The Visit."
Photo by Len Steckler
South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela invited one of his former jailers to his home for a special dinner to help mark the 20th anniversary of his release from prison.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner spent 27 years in prison under white-minority apartheid rule, mainly on the notorious Robben Island near Cape Town. His release on February 11, 1990, set South Africa on the path to democracy.
Christo Brand was a Robben Island warder, but the two developed a friendship that Mandela said in his memoirs had "reinforced my belief in the essential humanity of even those who had kept me behind bars."
Brand was among a small group invited to Mandela's home late Thursday for a dinner with his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, his daughter Zindzi, and leading anti-apartheid activists who helped Mandela on the day when he walked free.
Actor, song writer, and pop musician Justin Timberlake, center, is honored as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year as Harvard University students Alec Brown, left, and Tyler G. Hall, right, present the award on the Harvard University campus, in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Timberlake, a Grammy and Emmy award winner, received the pudding pot from the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe during a roast Friday.
Photo by Steven Senne
Five crates of whisky and brandy belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton have been recovered after being buried for more than 100 years under the Antarctic ice, explorers said Friday.
The spirits were excavated from beneath Shackleton's Antarctic hut which was built in 1908.
"To our amazement we found five crates, three labelled as containing whisky and two labelled as containing brandy," said Al Fastier of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, who previously believed there were only two crates.
Some of the crates have cracked and ice has formed inside which will make the job of extracting the contents delicate.
One of Australasia's richest literary prizes was scrapped Friday after the resource-rich state of West Australia said it was a waste of money.
The 110,000-dollar (95,502 US) Australia-Asia Literary Award (AALA) was launched in 2008 as the biggest prize in the region, with the then-Labor state government saying it gave Asia an award on a par with those of Europe.
But Western Australia's current conservative government said while it agreed with the intent of the award, the money would be better spent elsewhere.
Funding will now be transferred to the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, increasing that prize's top winnings to about 40,000 dollars and bringing it in line with other significant Australian state awards.
In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, former college and pro football player Doug Flutie plays the drums with his 'Flutie Brothers Band' on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, during opening festivities for the Billfish Bowl in Key Largo, Fla. The fishing tournament off the Florida Keys, that continues through Saturday, is a fundraiser for Gridiron Greats, an organization that helps retired pro football players in need.
Photo by Andy Newman
Works from the art collection of bestselling U.S. author Michael Crichton will be sold by Christie's in New York in May, the auctioneer said on Friday.
The collection includes "key" works by Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein, and one painting by each artist will go on display at Christie's in London from February 6-12.
Although the auctioneer did not give an estimate of the value of the collection to be sold, the four exhibited works alone are expected to fetch around 20 million pounds ($32 million).
One of the highlights is "Flag" by Johns, dated 1960-66, which Christie's described as a "painstakingly beautiful rendition of the American flag" which has never been on the public market.
Jesse James Hollywood was sentenced to life in prison Friday for orchestrating the kidnap-murder of a teenager, ending a 10-year legal odyssey that included an international manhunt and a movie inspired by the high-profile crime.
Superior Court Judge Brian Hill sentenced Hollywood, 30, to life without the possibility of parole in a Santa Barbara courtroom after denying a defense motion for a new trial.
Hollywood had faced a possible death penalty, but jurors recommended life after finding him guilty in July of first-degree murder. Prosecutors said Prosecutors said Hollywood ordered the killing of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz in August 2000 over a $1,200 drug debt owed by the victim's half-brother.
It also captured the attention of producers who made the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog," with Bruce Willis, Justin Timberlake and Emile Hirsch, who played "Johnny Truelove," a character based on Hollywood.
Robin Williams has fired blanks in his lawsuit against an independent producer over an alleged $6 million deal to star in "Cop Out" (formerly titled "A Couple of Dicks").
Williams' loan-out company Fiat Risus sued Gold Circle Films in October 2008 in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming the actor was hired to star in the action-comedy before Gold Circle put the movie on ice. Williams said he had a "pay-or-play" deal, meaning he would be paid even if the movie did not get made.
Warner Bros. made the film with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and will release it February 26.
In defending the lawsuit, Gold Circle claimed it never finalized a deal with Williams and presented evidence that its business affairs executive sent an e-mail to the Williams camp saying the company "did not agree to all of the terms set forth in the Deal Memorandum," according to Thursday's ruling by Judge Joanne O'Donnell. That and other evidence was enough for O'Donnell to grant Gold Circle's motion for summary judgment, effectively ending the case.
Over the past century, some of the world's best violinists developed trust in William Moennig & Son, a storied shop they could go to for repairs, adjustments, new instruments and bows.
String players returned to Moennig through the Great Depression, two world wars and an evolution in classical music as tastes changed. From Isaac Stern to Itzhak Perlman to Philadelphia Orchestra greats, they consulted four generations of Moennigs.
Now, Moennig's run has ended abruptly, stunning many in the violin community and symbolizing the ever-evolving nature of the specialized industry. The shop quietly closed its doors in mid-December, its owners citing the end of a generational line and an era in which big operations like theirs have become dinosaurs.
Since the 1950s, big shops like Moennig have been closing across the country as more people develop the skills to repair, appraise and sell violins and other stringed instruments. That has led to many more smaller shops and made relics of the bigger ones.
The renowned Wurlitzer shop closed in New York in the 1970s; Moennig bought much of their collection. The changing industry has led to the closure of many other well-known big shops, including, among many others, W.E. Hill & Sons in London and, in the 1990s, Jacques Francais Rare Violins Inc. in New York.
A giant figure of U.S. President Barack Obama is seen during preparations for a carnival parade in Nice southeastern France February 5, 2010. The 126th Nice's Carnival starts on February 12 and continues to February 28 and will celebrate "King of the Blue Planet".
Photo by Eric Gaillard
Standing before the wreckage of his bulldozed home, John Lokitis Jr. felt sick to his stomach, certain that a terrible mistake had been made.
He'd fought for years to stay in the house. It was one of the few left standing in the moonscape of Centralia, a once-proud coal town whose population fled an underground mine fire that began in 1962 and continues to burn.
After years of delay, state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia, a borough in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania that all but ceased to exist in the 1980s after the mine fire spread beneath homes and businesses, threatening residents with poisonous gases and dangerous sinkholes.
But dozens of holdouts, Lokitis included, refused to go - even after their houses were seized through eminent domain in the early 1990s. They said the fire posed little danger to their part of town, accused government officials and mining companies of a plot to grab the mineral rights and vowed to stay put. State and local officials had little stomach to oust the diehards, who squatted tax- and rent-free in houses they no longer owned.
One of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island.
Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of "Bo," was the oldest member of the Great Andamanese tribe, R.C. Kar, deputy director of Tribal Health in Andaman, told Reuters Friday.
"With the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory," said Stephen Corry, director of Survival International, an organisation that supports tribes worldwide.
According to Survival International, there are now only 52 members surviving members of the tribe, which is thought to have lived on the Andaman Islands for as many as 65,000 years, making them descendants of one of the oldest cultures in the world.
A robin looks for berries as snow clings to the branches of the trees, in Fort Washington, Md., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, after a winter storm left up to six inches of snow in the Washington area.
Photo by Alex Brandon
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