PAUL KRUGMAN: WHY ECONOMICS FAILED (NY TIMES)
Though it's true that few economists saw the fiscal crisis coming, policy makers and politicians ignored both the textbooks and lessons of history.
Gavin Aung Than: "JIM HENSON: A puppeteer's advice" (Zen Pencils)
Henson realised he was in control of his life at an early age. There was only one industry Henson wanted a career in and that was television. Puppeteering was just a means to an end for Henson, a way to get his foot in the television door. It was only after a trip to Europe where Henson discovered the rich history of puppeteering did he recognise the potential of the artform and decide to dedicate his life to it.
Recommended Reading: Zen Pencils
Zen Pencils adapts inspirational quotes into cartoons. It's illustrated by Gavin Aung Than and it updates with a new comic roughly every week.
Evan Spencer Brace: "Tiësto feat. Matthew Koma - 'Wasted'" (Vimeo)
"Tiesto is the name of a EDM artist who loves to fill his life with electronic color, and he's accompanied by singer Matthew Koma on this libatious track that's sure to become the summer anthem for party people everywhere- Wasted." - Neatorama
Smaragdine sounds like a Smurfs villain, but it means emerald green. It was the 2013 Pantone Color of the Year.
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Lois, Green Around The Gills, Of Oregon was first, and correct, with:
According to my 1942 Websters Unabridged Dictionary, (which
is an impressive five and a half inches thick and has never
failed to satisfy me!), "smaragdine", from the german:
Pertaining to emerald; consisting of emerald, or resembling
it; of an emerald green. I can see why this word isn't in
common usage...Dorthy headed for Smaragdine City? Ew. Sounds
too much like something the Janitor has to mop up after a
long day on the porn set.
Alan J said:
Green
Charlie wrote:
Emerald green.
@Dale of Hot Diamond Springs, Norcali
I'm not old enough to remember Babe Ruth's last three homers, but I am old enough to have seen some games in Forbes Field, the most memorable of which was seeing the Pirates get absolutely smoked by the high-kicking Juan Marichal during "The Year of the Pitcher." The game-winning hit was a home run by Willie Mays, and the Pirates pitcher was their ace, Bob Veale. Of course that means I also got to see players like Clemente, Stargell, and Mazeroski.
Adam answered:
Green.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
emerald-green
Marian replied:
emerald green
Deborah is taking a day or 2 or 3 off to attend to business.
Sally said:
"Smaragdine" is a definition of/or pertaining to emeralds - i.e., Emerald Green.
Ooh...
PS: We have a dinette up the road from me. It has had a sign touting, "Grand Opening, March 17th! Come on in and have a free coffee on us!"
It has yet to open, they say it's a license issue. Think I'll still get my free coffee if/when they DO open??
Daleo o da Green Diamond Springs, Norcali, responded:
Smaragdine is having the color of emeralds.
BttbBob, after 4 afternoons of Hard-Charging-Grandpa-Duty, is taking the day off. However:
P.S.
Miss Maddie holding Li'l Bilby for the first time... I think she'll be a fine 'Big Sister'.
Until, that is, 'LB' starts gettin' into 'MM's' stuff, then, hoo ha, Katy bar the door!
Har!
DJ Useo answered:
Emerald green is the answer. I know because I sold mat boards for framing, and also many art papers.
One had to be very familiar with colors, and their various titles.
I can tell you with all assurance that no one ever asked even once for smaragdine. lol.
MAM wrote:
Emerald-green ~ The emerald is regarded as the traditional birthstone for May.
And, Joe S said:
Emerald green, but do you know what is the color Octarine? It's the color of magic.
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Friends With Better Lives', then a RERUN'The Mentalist', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline Saturday Night Mystery', followed by an hourlong RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH, hosted by Andrew Garfield, music by Coldplay.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Transformers'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'24: Live Another Day', then a RERUN'The Following'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jaws', followed by the movie 'Jaws 2'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Revisited: Handlebar, Casa Roma, The Black Pearl
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 12 - Yanni's
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Mojito's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - PJ's Steakhouse
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 1
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 2
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 3
[1:00PM] DOCTOR WHO: VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Partners in Crime
[3:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 2 - The Fires of Pompeii
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Planet of the Ood
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 17 - The Outcast
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 18 - Cause and Effect
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 19 - The First Duty
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 20 - Cost of Living
[9:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Mingling Its Own Nature With It NEW
[10:00PM] THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION - Ep 3 - Invasion NEW
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 15 - Episode 4
[12:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Mingling Its Own Nature With It
[1:00AM] THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION - Ep 3 - Invasion
[2:00AM] IN THE FLESH - Season 1 - Episode 3
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 18 - Cause and Effect
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[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 20 - Cost of Living (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', then the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Yes Men', followed by the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', then the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', again.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 2', followed by 'Fargo'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Aziz Ansari Wears a Charcoal Blazer
[6:30AM] Scream 2
[9:00AM] The Three Stooges-Heavenly Daze
[9:25AM] The Three Stooges-Hoi Polloi
[9:50AM] The Three Stooges-Hold That Lion
[10:15AM] The Three Stooges-Horses' Collars
[10:40AM] The Three Stooges-Idiots Deluxe
[11:05AM] The Three Stooges-Idle Roomers
[11:30AM] The Three Stooges-If a Body Meets a Body
[11:55AM] The Three Stooges-Loco Boy Makes Good
[12:20PM] The Three Stooges-Men in Black
[12:45PM] Portlandia-Getting Away
[1:15PM] Portlandia-Alexandra
[1:45PM] Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
[3:30PM] Enter the Dragon
[5:45PM] Hudson Hawk
[8:00PM] The Shawshank Redemption
[11:00PM] The Shawshank Redemption
[2:00AM] Saw
[4:15AM] Portlandia-Late in Life Drug Use
[4:45AM] Portlandia-3D Printer
[5:15AM] Portlandia-Getting Away
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Night and the City
[8:15AM] CSNY: Deja Vu
[10:15AM] The Lucky Ones
[12:30PM] A Good Year
[3:00PM] The Writers' Room-House of Cards
[3:30PM] The Hurt Locker
[6:30PM] Escape From Alcatraz
[9:00PM] The Basketball Diaries
[11:15PM] Layer Cake
[1:30AM] Tenderness
[3:45AM] We Don't Live Here Anymore (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Jeepers Creepers II', followed by the movie 'The Uninvited'.
Gwen Stefani, left, presents the award for iHeartRadio innovator to Pharrell Williams at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Thursday, May 1, 2014, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Episode No. 550 of Fox's "The Simpsons" was put together Lego brick by brick, in a CGI manner of speaking.
Using computer-generated special effects, the town of Springfield and its residents have been reimagined in the style of the famed plastic toys for Sunday's episode, "Brick Like Me" (8 p.m. EDT).
It's a tart title - a play on "Black Like Me," the book - for a sweet episode, one that combines CGI and the show's traditional animation to shake up Homer Simpson's world and teach him a lesson about parenting.
With the box-office hit "The Lego Movie," a newly launched "Simpsons" Lego toy line and now the TV episode, it could be suspected that much corporate plotting was involved.
Clark Gregg, left, and Jennifer Grey arrive at the LA Premiere of "God's Pocket" held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Thursday, May 1, 2014 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Richard Shotwell
The code "A113" is present in nearly every Pixar movie, from "Finding Nemo" to "Up" to "Toy Story." Beyond that, attentive viewers have also spotted the sequence in Disney films, like "The Brave Little Toaster" and "The Princess and the Frog," and animated television shows, such as "The Simpsons" and "American Dad."
It was a mystery akin to Stonehenge or "The Da Vinci Code," but then, like all great puzzles, "A113" was solved by Reddit users.
As user TheGhostWhoHatesSpills noted on Imgur:
"A113 refers to a classroom number at the California Institute of Arts. It was the classroom for first year graphic design and character animation, where many of the animators at Pixar and Disney, and several other studios, discovered and mastered their craft. The use of A113 in their films is a friendly nod to one another that they once shared a classroom without which they would never be doing what they're doing now."
Italian researchers are worried that Michelangelo's statue of David may be in danger of collapsing due to weakened ankles.
Experts have long been concerned that the marble statue, which is roughly 500 years old and has long stood as one of history's most triumphant achievements in art, may have suffered structural damage, the U.K.'s Telegraph explains.
How so? Thousands of people visit the statue every day and over the course of hundreds of years, their footsteps combined with the rumble of nearby traffic have apparently taken a toll on the statue, experts from Italy's National Research Council and Florence University found.
The relatively poor quality of the marble used to sculpt David, the biblical slayer of Goliath and historically righteous king of Israel and Judah, is thought to have played a part in its present troubles. For hundreds of years it was displayed outdoors, sometimes at a slight angle.
Helene Jonca, one of the painters of the Paris Grevin Wax Museum, holds a brush as she works on the head of late French singer Edith Piaf in their workshop in Paris, February 5, 2014. The statues are prepared ahead of the opening of the new Grevin Museum in Prague on May 1st. Fifteen artists, including sculptors, moulders, dressmakers, make-up artists, wig makers, hairdressers along with lighting and set designers and sound engineers are involved in the creation of the hyper realistic statues. The Grevin Museum opened in Paris in 1882.
Photo by Philippe Wojazer
It's a girl for Kerry Washington and retired NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha.
A birth certificate released Friday shows the couple's daughter Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha was born around 5 p.m. on April 21 in Los Angeles. The parents haven't announced the baby publicly. Washington's publicist Amanda Silverman said no statement was available.
Washington is the Emmy-nominated star of the ABC series "Scandal." The show's third season was cut short after the 37-year-old actress became pregnant.
Asomugha, a former cornerback with the Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers, announced his retirement last year.
A special judge says the Tennessee Court of Appeals should decide the appeal of Joe Brown, the former TV judge who was jailed on contempt of court charges.
Brown said in court Friday that the recording of his March 24 comments in the Juvenile Court of Shelby County was "severely edited" and does not reflect what happened.
Brown was jailed after Juvenile Court officials said he caused an outburst in the courtroom while there representing a client. Brown maintains he was not out of line. On a recording provided by Juvenile Court, Brown is heard challenging the magistrate's authority.
The Shelby County Juvenile Court Clerk said the recording was only cut off in the first few seconds to delete the name of Brown's client and nothing edited afterward.
Consumer rights law firm Hagens Berman said it filed a nationwide antitrust class-action lawsuit against Google Inc alleging the company "illegally monopolized" the Internet and mobile search market in the United States.
The lawsuit alleges that Google has expanded its monopoly of the internet search market by pre-loading its applications onto Android mobile devices through its Mobile Application Distribution Agreements.
According to the lawsuit, Google's role in placing this suite of apps, including Google Play and YouTube, has hampered the market and kept the price of devices made by competing manufactures like Samsung Electronics and HTC Corp artificially high.
Steve Berman, the attorney representing consumers, alleged that Google had not achieved its monopoly by offering a better search engine, but through anti-competitive placement and market manipulation.
The city of Pasadena placed its health director Eric Walsh on leave this week, because it turns out that he apparently thinks DisneyLand is a "dark empire" of witchcraft, that the scientific theory of evolution is a satanic religion, and that homosexuality is a sin.
All this came to light when Pasadena City College tapped Walsh to replace their previous commencement speaker at the last minute. Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black lost his spot as commencement speaker after school officials dug up photos of him engaging in sexual acts with an ex boyfriend on "internet gossip sites," as the LA Times puts it. They obviously went very far in the other direction with their second choice.
The last-minute replacement happened because the school was trying to avoid another round of bad press this year. They've already had at least one sex scandal involving
a professor theremake the news. But Black took offense at the school's decision, writing an open letter that accused the school of encouraging bigotry. The disinvitation,
he wrote, was:
"sending the message that LGBT students are to be held to a different standard, that there is something inherently shameful about who we are and how we love, and that no matter what we accomplish in our lives, we will never be worthy of PCC's praise."
That's when a group of PCC students found the
publicly available sermons from Walsh, who is also a Seventh-day Adventist minister, containing his controversial remarks. Although Walsh's public remarks and actions pertaining to the city's LGBT community have not reflected the tone of his sermons, many students understandably felt uncomfortable with their school's decision to replace an LGBT individual with one who has preached incendiary remarks against them.
A Savannah College of Art and Design student works on a sculpture of a popular movie character during the 2014 SCAD Sand Arts Festival, on Friday, May 2, 2014, in Tybee Island, Ga. Students compete for cash prizes while working with typical carving tools such as putty knifes and buckets to create a diverse sculptures.
Photo by Stephen B. Morton
A Texas veterinarian has been charged with cruelty to animals after several dogs that had been brought to his clinic to be euthanized were kept alive in squalid conditions for use in blood transfusions, Fort Worth police said on Thursday.
Millard Tierce, who operates Camp Bowie Animal Clinic in Fort Worth, turned himself into authorities on Wednesday and was released on a $10,000 bond, the police said.
An owner of one of the dogs, Marian Harris, told the Fort Worth Star Telegram she believed her dog Sid had been euthanized last fall after Tierce diagnosed it with a degenerative spinal disease.
The dog was found alive and covered in filth. It was then returned to its owner.
Local media said investigators have found five dogs that were supposed to be euthanized and which Tierce is suspected of keeping alive.
Some eight hours dusty drive from the nearest major settlement, tucked into the eastern corner of Turkmenistan and unknown to the outside world until the second half of the last century, lies one of the most mythical yet least visited spots in the former Soviet Union.
Turkmenistan's Plateau of the Dinosaurs is the location of one of the most magnificent collections of fossilised dinosaur tracks anywhere on Planet Earth, which only became known to Soviet palaeontologists in the 1950s.
On the plateau, some 2,500 dinosaur tracks have been discovered. Some are 40 centimetres long and 30 centimetres wide, others even bigger, measuring 70 by 60.
The plateau is renowned for having the longest trackways -- continuous lines of footprints made as a dinosaur walked or ran -- anywhere in the world.
In places they reach up to 200 metres. It seems improbable that what is now an arid mountain zone could sustain such life but 150 million years ago when these creatures reigned supreme on Earth the eco-system was completely different.
A nine-week-old greater one-horned rhino calf named Parveshand and his mother Alta walk into the Asian Plains exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in San Diego, California in this handout photo received on May 1, 2014. According to the zoo, Thursday was the first time the hefty male calf, born on February 25 and approaching 300 pounds, had experienced such diverse terrain, having spent his first few weeks in a smaller maternity yard, and he was eager to explore the 40-acre habitat. This is the second calf born to Alta. Mandatory Credit.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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