Connie Schultz: Recruiting for Democrats, One Abortion Bill at a Time (Creators Syndicate)
Thirty-four years later, I still recall one particular father's call. "You listen here, young lady," he shouted into the phone. "I will never let my daughter stick an IUD up her rectum." "Good for you," I said, "'cause that's not where it goes." In 1979, that father sounded like an uninformed loon. Today, he could be a Republican member of Congress.
Froma Harrop: The Missing Cows of Mass Destruction (Creators Syndicate)
Where did the panic over mad cow disease go? Off the front pages, for sure. A few years ago, respected journalists warned of a looming public health disaster as Americans consumed deadly hamburgers. ... Back then, the number of American deaths caused by eating meat from mad cows was zero. The number is still zero…
John Swansburg: When James Gandolfini Got Even With Slate (Slate)
When Gandolfini finished his acceptance speech, he walked back to his seat. As he passed our table, we raised our glasses to to the actor. Gandolfini leveled a chilling, unsmiling Tony Soprano gaze at us. "Now we're even," he said. On the contrary, I've always counted myself still in his debt-for that thrilling if disingenuous accolade and for the hours of joy his acting brought me.
Are Women Turned on by Pictures of Naked Men? Kevin Costner (Slate)
"I have also come to love the current trend among NFL players to forgo wearing a cup in the interest of speed and maneuverability. For the heterosexual female football fan, this adds a great deal to the game!" - Rebecca
Jennifer M. Wood: Ten People Who Hated Their Own Biopics (Mental Floss)
While not everyone who's had a movie made about his or her life has been around to see the celluloid results, some of those who have seen their stories (and faces) reimagined for the big screen have regretted the fact. While Liberace would likely have been tickled by Steven Soderbergh's careful reconstruction of his fancy digs and elaborate costumes, not every real person-turned-movie character has been so lucky.
Part of the British Invasion, this duo played "The Redcoats" (Fred and Ernie) on the the Dick Van Dyke Show and British singing duo Nigel & Patrick on The Patty Duke Show. Who are they?
A common mnemonic for remembering lists is to create an easily remembered acronym, or, taking each of the initial letters of the list members, create a memorable phrase in which the words with the same acronym as the material. Anyone can create their own mnemonics to aid the memorisation of novel material.
To memorise the colours of the rainbow: the phrase "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" - each of the initial letters matches the colours of the rainbow in order (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). Other examples are the phrase "Run over your granny because it's violent" or the imaginary name "Roy G. Biv".
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Roy G. Biv is an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
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Roy G. Biv is the colors of the rainbow, or visible spectrum R(ed) O(range) Y(ellow) G.(reen) B(lue) I(ndigo) V(iolet).
Alan J said:
Colors of the Rainbow
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Roy G. Biv is an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as
making up a rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
Charlie responded:
Now this is easy.
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet
Colors of the rainbow, A.K.A. visible light spectrum
Also -
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
Isaac Newton himself realized that the spectrum had a continuum of colors, but chose to name seven of them.
John A. replied:
The colors of the rainbow:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Sally said:
Roy G Biv is used to memorize colors.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, idigo (black), and violet.
I learned from Crayola's myself...
Dale from the Diamond Springs Compound, Norcali answered:
Roy G Biv - An acronym for the sequence of colors in a rainbow.
Acronyms for FUCK: Found Under Carnal Knowledge, False Use of Carnal Knowledge, Felonious Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Felonious Use of Carnal Knowledge, File Under Carnal Knowledge, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Fornication Under Cardinal Knowledge, Fornication Under Carnal Knowledge, Fornication Under the Christian King , Fornication Under the Command of the King, and Full-On Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.
MAM wrote:
Roy G. Biv is an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
And, Joe S said:
I don't get it. Roy G. Biv is easier to remember than red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet? I don't think so. First you have to remember the "name" then you have to remember the colors the name represents. Too complicated, just remember the colors you should have learned in, what? Third grade?
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Stanley Cup Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Louis CK, music by fun (from 10/03/12).
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Zero Hour', followed by a FRESH'666 Park Avenue', then '20/20'.
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 fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', followed by the movie 'Independence Day'.
AMC offers the movie 'Con-Air', followed by the movie 'S.W.A.T.', then the movie 'S.W.A.T.', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 6
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 7
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[10:00AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 6 - Episode 7
[10:40AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 6 - Episode 8
[11:20AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 5 - Episode 1
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 2
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 3
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 4
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 5
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 6
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 26 - Time's Arrow - Part 1
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 1 - Time's Arrow, Part 2
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Realm of Fear
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 3 - Man of the People
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 4 - Relics
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 25 - The Inner Light
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 26 - Time's Arrow - Part 1
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 1 - Time's Arrow, Part 2
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Realm of Fear
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 3 - Man of the People
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 4 - Relics
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 1 - Time's Arrow, Part 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-And Now, the Sordid Personal Bits
[7:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:30AM] Event Horizon
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Hot Stuff
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Hugs and Mugs
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Hula-La-La
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Husbands Beware
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Listen, Judge
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Merry Mavericks
[12:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Water Park
[12:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Traffic Jam
[1:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Halloween Approximately
[1:30PM] Godsend
[3:45PM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[5:45PM] Exorcismus
[8:00PM] The Hills Have Eyes
[10:15PM] The Hills Have Eyes 2
[12:15AM] The Hills Have Eyes
[2:30AM] The Hills Have Eyes 2
[4:30AM] Maron-Marc's Dad
[5:00AM] Maron-Dominatrix
[5:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Carded and Discarded
[7:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Girlfriends and Boyfriends
[8:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-We've Got Spirit
[9:00AM] All the President's Men
[11:30AM] Gods and Monsters
[1:30PM] Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
[2:00PM] The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
[3:45PM] Network
[5:45PM] Little Children
[8:00PM] The Last King of Scotland
[10:15PM] There Will Be Blood
[12:45AM] Student Services
[2:45AM] Happy Endings
[5:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Carded and Discarded (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Shutter Island', 'Sinbad', followed by a FRESH'Sinbad', then a FRESH'Primeval: New World'.
Actress Natalie Gal poses next to a sculpture of a large silver Leica camera by Chinese artist Liao Yibai titled 'Fake Leica,' at the launch of the Leica Store Los Angeles in Los Angeles June 20, 2013. The store features three floors of a gallery, retail space and library and features the company's high-end still cameras. Picture taken June 20, 2013.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Jon Stewart took the guest's seat Friday on Egypt's top satirical TV show, modeled after his own program "The Daily Show."
Stewart was brought to the set wearing a black hood and introduced by host Bassem Youssef as a captured foreign spy.
Stewart, wearing a scruffy beard, spoke briefly in Arabic as the studio audience gave him a raucous welcome.
"Please sit down, I am a simple man who does not like to be fussed over," he said in Arabic to laughter.
Youssef, host of the show "Al-Bernameg" and one of Egypt's most popular TV presenters, has been questioned by prosecutors on accusations of blasphemy and insulting the president. Stewart defended his counterpart and friend in one of his monologues after Youssef was interrogated earlier this year, and Youssef has appeared as a guest on the popular New York-based show.
Revellers celebrate the summer solstice at the Stonehenge monument on Salisbury Plain in southern England June 21, 2013. Stonehenge is a celebrated venue of festivities during the summer solstice - the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere - and it attracts thousands of revellers, spiritualists and tourists. Druids, a pagan religious order dating back to Celtic Britain, believe Stonehenge was a centre of spiritualism more than 2,000 years ago.
Photo by Kieran Doherty
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Monday in memory of "Sopranos" star and New Jersey native James Gandolfini.
The governor's order says Gandolfini was an iconic actor who "left a timeless impact upon television and film in the state of New Jersey and across our nation."
Gandolfini was born in Westwood, N.J., grew up in Park Ridge and attended Rutgers, the state's flagship public university.
The governor says the actor acclaimed for his role as mobster Tony Soprano was also an advocate, in two documentaries, for U.S. servicemen and women and veterans.
Christie has called Gandolfini a "New Jersey treasure."
"Jenny from the Block" has a spot on the most famous block of all - the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Jennifer Lopez received the 2,500th star Thursday surrounded by her boyfriend Casper Smart, her 5-year-old twins Max and Emme, and friends including Jane Fonda, Keenen Ivory Wayans and "Selena" director Gregory Nava.
Lopez relished the chance to "kind of walk down memory lane" with Wayans - "he's the reason I moved to Los Angeles because I got that job as a fly girl" - and Nava, who put her in her first movie.
A committee selects celebrities eligible for a star and those who accept pay $30,000 in costs and fees.
Aymara indigenous musicians play flutes and drums after the first rays of sun during a new years' ritual at the ruins from the ancient civilization of Tiwanaku, in the highlands in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, Friday, June 21, 2013. Bolivia's Aymara celebrate the year 5,521 as well as the southern hemisphere's winter solstice, marking the start of a new agricultural cycle.
Photo by Juan Karita
In a park not so far away, iconic filmmaker George Lucas on Thursday unveiled statues of two of his most movie popular characters.
With doves released in the air, Lucas was on hand to show off the bronze renderings of Indiana Jones and Yoda at the new Imagination Park in his hometown of San Anselmo, the Marin Independent Journal (http://bit.ly/107I7QL) reported.
About 500 people cheered as they got their first look at the statues depicting the hero of the Indiana Jones movie series that stands at about 6-foot-3 as well as the 2 ½ feet full-sized replica of the Jedi sage from the groundbreaking Star Wars franchise.
Lucas donated the land for the 8,700-square-foot nearly completed downtown park in Marin County by razing an existing building at his expense and also paying for the bronze statues created by Berkeley sculptor Lawrence Noble.
A finger-pointing political argument on Fox News Channel boiled over when a male conservative talk show host shouted at a woman to "know your role and shut your mouth."
The man, Bill Cunningham, later asked Fox contributor Tamara Holder, "Are you going to cry?"
It was only three weeks after another exchange on Fox, where daytime host Megyn Kelly said she was offended by a male colleague's suggestion that children of working mothers don't fare as well as children with stay-at-home moms. One Fox contributor, Erick Erickson, said that in nature, males were traditionally dominant.
Admonished by Hannity at the end of their segment to shake hands, they refused. "I don't shake hands with trolls," Holder said.
A long exposure picture of the Kokino megalithic observatory is seen during summer solstice celebration in Kumanovo June 21, 2013. The 3,800 years old observatory was discovered in 2001 in the north-western town of Kumanovo 70 km (43 miles) north from capital Skopje and is ranked as the fourth oldest observatory in the world after Egypt's Abu Simbel, Britain's Stonehenge and Cambodia's Angkor Wat according to NASA.
Photo by Ognen Teofilovski
The Food Network said Friday it's dumping Paula Deen, barely an hour after the celebrity cook posted a videotaped apology online begging forgiveness from fans and critics troubled by her admission to having used racial slurs in the past.
The 66-year-old Savannah kitchen celebrity has been swamped in controversy since court documents filed this week revealed Deen told an attorney questioning her under oath last month that she has used the N-word. "Yes, of course," Deen said, though she added, "It's been a very long time."
The Food Network, which made Deen a star with "Paula's Home Cooking" in 2002 and later "Paula's Home Cooking" in 2008, weighed in with a terse statement Friday afternoon.
"Food Network will not renew Paula Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month," the statement said. Network representatives declined further comment.
A wax figure of pop singer Justin Bieber is officially presented outside of Madame Tussauds wax museum in Vienna June 21, 2013.
Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader
A federal bankruptcy judge signed off on a sealed agreement that resulted in "Mr. Las Vegas" Wayne Newton moving from his sprawling "Casa de Shenandoah" property after 45 years.
Newton family members and attorneys weren't in court Friday while U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Bruce Markell accepted the plan submitted by lawyers for new property owner CSD LLC.
Landowner Lacy Harber says he still plans to open a tourist attraction on the 40-acre estate that Newton named "Casa de Shenandoah."
Harber bought the property in June 2010 for $19.5 million with plans to open a "Graceland West" attraction commemorating the "Danke Schoen" crooner's show biz career.
Newton, his family and their menagerie of exotic animals moved this month to another nearby property.
Turkish felt artist and a whirling dervish Celalettin Berberoglu performs a Sama practice in his shop in the central Anatolian city of Konya January 28, 2012.
Photo by Umit Bektas
A French court has fined Gerard Depardieu 4,000 euros ($5,300) and suspended his driver's license for six months in a drunk-driving case that started when the actor fell off his scooter in Paris in November and ended up being taken to a police station.
Depardieu's lawyer, Eric de Caumont, said he planned to appeal Friday's ruling. He said Depardieu, who was not at the hearing, was in Moscow filming.
It's not the first time alcohol and the law mixed for the 64-year-old actor. In 1998, Depardieu crashed his motorcycle when his blood-alcohol level was five times over the legal limit. He escaped with leg and face injuries.
Depardieu has publicly feuded with France's ruling Socialist government and accepted a Russian passport from President Vladimir Putin.
A druid mask is seen on Salisbury Plain in southern England June 21, 2013. Stonehenge is a celebrated venue of festivities during the summer solstice - the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere - and it attracts thousands of revellers, spiritualists and tourists. Druids, a pagan religious order dating back to Celtic Britain, believe Stonehenge was a centre of spiritualism more than 2,000 years ago.
Photo by Kieran Doherty
A New York congressman says the Bravo series "Princesses: Long Island" is the most objectionable thing he's seen on television.
Rep. Steve Israel says the show about the lives of six young single women promotes stereotypes. He represents the region where the new series is filmed.
Israel says it encourages viewers to think such Jewish women are all narcissistic and obsessed about money. He wants Bravo to air a disclaimer before each show.
After three episodes, the show is considered a success for Bravo. A spokeswoman for the network says the show isn't meant to represent all Jewish women, or all Long Island residents.
This undated photo provided by Christie's Auction House shows an "Apple 1" prototype computer, built in 1976, accompanied by an operation manual and schematic as well as a photo of its inventors, Steve Wozniak, left, and Steve Jobs. One of the very first Apple 1 computers, it goes on sale later this month at Christie's auction house, the latest in a recent run of vintage tech sales that have attracted some eye-popping prices.
Three former Blackfeet tribal leaders will serve three years of probation for holding illegal big-game hunts for country musicians that were filming an outdoors television show on the northwestern Montana reservation.
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen on Thursday also ordered Jay St. Goddard, Jay Wells and Gayle Skunkcap Jr. to pay $56,625 in restitution.
Prosecutors filed an objection to Christensen's sentence after a lengthy hearing in Great Falls. They had recommended 15 months of prison for each man and a total of $68,625 paid back to the tribe.
The trio earlier pleaded guilty to holding four hunts in 2010 and 2011 without the proper licenses and to using tribal funds and personnel to outfit and guide the musicians, including Josh Thompson, Justin Moore and Mark Cooke.
Dirty Martini performs onstage at "Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray!" Starring Dita Von Teese on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
Workers on Friday plan to wrap bee-proof netting around blooming trees in the parking lot of an Oregon shopping center in an attempt to prevent the deaths of more bees.
Portland-area bee experts with the Xerces (ZERK-zees) Society for Invertebrate Conservation estimate at least 25,000 bumble bees have died in the lot since last weekend. The bees were clustered under dozens of linden trees.
The Oregonian reports that Agriculture officials are working with the Xerces Society, the city of Wilsonville and the distributor of an insecticide.
State officials say tests to confirm the cause of the deaths could take two or three more days. They are checking for insecticides as well as possible natural causes.
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