Presidential News Conference on Iran Nuclear Deal (C-SPAN)
(One Hour, Eight Minutes) President Obama held a news conference on the Iran nuclear agreement. The deal limits the country's nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for the lifting of international sanctions and an eventual lifting of the arms embargo.?The president talked about why the deal is in the national security interest of the United States and addressed some of the criticisms of the agreement, such as why the release of U.S. hostages being held in Iran was not part of the deal.?
Andrew Pulver: "Robert Carlyle: 'Big films don't feed your soul'" (Guardian)
He dominated the 90s with hits such as Trainspotting and The Full Monty, but has spent the past 10 years avoiding blockbusters. Now he's back as the director, and accidental star, of Glaswegian comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson.
Delirious Dale of Haute Diamond Springs, Norcali responded:
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Reminds me of the little loops we used to make in Computer 101, many moons ago.
Fucking Family Reunion this weekend at my daughter's house in Pollock and then up to Union Valley. The Matriarch (Ma Small) and I won't make the latter trip to the Reservoir, but the rest of them will.
Remember, the family that lays together, stays together!
PS - Keep at it with your inspirational poetry, Lois!
MAM wrote:
8 bits per byte ~ A BYTE is really not complicated at all. It is simply a group of eight BITS. When eight BITS are structured into a BYTE, then each of those BITS has special significance. A BIT is the smallest piece of information that a computer can deal with.
Patriot Act NSA Spying Unconstitutional Section 215 National Security Letters Must End
My name is Marc Perkel and I have decided to announce that I will not comply with the so called "Patriot Act" laws requiring me to disclose information about my customers. If I receive a national security letter I will immediately photograph it, post it online everywhere I can, and then make a video of me burning it. I will then await my arrest. If you want to put me in jail then come get me mother fucker.
Every time I visit the grocery store I wonder why no one is talking about inflation.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a dumpathon of the FRESH, but canceled, 'The Millers', followed by another FRESH'The Millers', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Running Wild With Bear Grylls', followed by 'Dateline'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Kevin Hart hosting, music by Sia.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets'.
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'.
AMC offers 'Hell On Wheels', another 'Hell On Wheels', followed by a FRESH'Hell On Wheels', and another 'Hell On Wheels'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] Top Gear: Best Of 08-09-Episode 3
[7:00AM] Top Gear: Best Of 06-07-Episode 1
[8:00AM] The Edge
[10:30AM] Escape From New York
[12:30PM] Stargate
[3:00PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Where No One Has Gone Before
[4:00PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Lonely Among Us
[5:00PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 8 - Justice
[6:00PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 9 - The Battle
[7:00PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Hide and Q
[8:00PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 11 - Haven
[9:00PM] Atlantis - Season 2 - Ep 10 - The Dying Light
[10:00PM] Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Season 1 - Ep 6 - The Black Tower
[11:15PM] Stargate
[1:45AM] Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Deason 1 - Ep 6 - The Black Tower
[3:00AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Encounter at Farpoint (Part 1)
[4:00AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Encounter at Farpoint (Part 2)
[5:00AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 - Ep 3 - The Naked Now (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', an old 'Watch What Happens Live', then the movie 'Hitch'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Step Brothers', followed by the movie 'Step Brothers', again.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 2', followed by the movie 'This Is The End'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', and still another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-REESE'S JOB
[6:30AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-LOIS' MAKEOVER
[7:00AM] BATMAN-SMACK IN THE MIDDLE
[7:33AM] BATMAN-FINE FEATHERED FINKS
[8:06AM] BATMAN-THE PENGUIN'S A JINX
[8:39AM] BATMAN-THE JOKER IS WILD
[9:12AM] BATMAN-BATMAN GETS RILED
[9:45AM] THE MONKEES-ROYAL FLUSH
[10:20AM] THE MONKEES-MONKEE SEE, MONKEE DIE
[10:55AM] THE MONKEES-MONKEE VS. MACHINE
[11:30AM] MARON-PATENT TROLL
[12:00PM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-JAMES MARSDEN WEARS GRAY PANTS AND BLACK HIGH-TOP 12:30PMSUPER
[2:45PM] GREEN ZONE
[5:15PM] BAD BOYS
[8:00PM] I AM LEGEND
[10:15PM] I AM LEGEND
[12:30AM] SAW VI
[2:30AM] SAW VI
[4:30AM] THE SPOILS BEFORE DYING-MURDER IN B FLAT
[5:00AM] THE SPOILS BEFORE DYING-BLUES FOR BARNABY
[5:30AM] THE SPOILS BEFORE DYING-THAT'S JAZZ (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Naked Lunch
[8:30AM] Beyond the Sea
[11:00AM] Single White Female
[1:30PM] Kiss the Girls
[4:00PM] Eden Lake
[6:00PM] Jaws
[9:00PM] Jaws 2
[11:30PM] Jaws 3
[1:45AM] Jaws the Revenge
[3:45AM] The Hunting Party (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Robo Shark', followed by the movie 'Mega Shark Vs. Kolossus'.
Actor Michael J Fox attends a media conference for the 30th anniversary of his film "Back to the Future" at the London Film and Comic-Con in London, Britain July 17, 2015.
Photo by Neil Hall
A fast-moving wildfire swept across a freeway Friday in a Southern California mountain pass, torching at least a half-dozen cars and a tractor trailer as motorists abandoned their vehicles and ran to safety. There were no confirmed injuries, authorities said.
The fire swept by desert winds burned on both sides of Interstate 15, the main connector between Southern California and Las Vegas that was crowded with vehicles.
Dozens of vehicles were abandoned and hundreds of others turned onto side roads to get away from the flames as water-dropping helicopters flew overhead.
U.S. Forest Service spokesman Uriah Hernandez said no injuries had been confirmed. Some areas were evacuated in the Cajon Pass area along the freeway, about 55 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
Dick Van Dyke, center, does a little dance before having his photo taken with the Disney Legends which included Bob Gurr, an original Disney ride designer, second left, Van Dyke, composer Richard M. Sherman, second from right, and others on stage during Disneyland's 60th birthday celebration, Friday, July 17, 2015, in Anaheim, Calif.
Photo by Mark Rightmire
A powerful pro-Israel lobby is backing a new political group that on Friday launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to oppose the nuclear pact the United States recently made with Iran.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is supporting an independent action committee called Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran, dedicated to preventing Iran from obtaining the capacity to obtain nuclear weapons.
Spokesman Patrick Dorton said Friday that the group is launching a national TV and digital ad campaign in many media markets around the country.
The group's website lists an advisory board of five former Democratic and independent lawmakers - one-time Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Mark Begich of Alaska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut along with former Rep. Shelley Berkley of Nevada.
A man who has spent 24 years scanning Scotland's Loch Ness for its legendary mysterious monster reckons Nessie is most likely a giant catfish -- although he is not prepared to give up looking just yet.
Steve Feltham, who holds a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous Nessie vigil, says it is the most probable explanation for the enigmatic beast that has captivated people's imaginations the world over.
"The current frontrunner is the Wels catfish. It's the most likely explanation," the 52-year-old told AFP.
"I'm not saying it's the final explanation. It ticks most of the boxes with sightings -- but it doesn't tick them all."
Media reports this week suggested Feltham had given up his vigil after favouring the catfish theory, but he insisted he would keep searching for the definitive conclusion.
British actor John Hurt poses with his award after receiving a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle in Windsor, Britain July 17, 2015.
Photo by Steve Parsons
A campaign to require condom use in pornographic film productions in California has collected enough signatures to put a ballot measure before state voters in 2016, organizers said.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said in a statement late on Thursday it had amassed more than 371,000 signatures, above the 366,880 threshold set by the state.
The signatures must still be validated by California election officials.
Historically, Los Angeles, especially its San Fernando Valley suburb, has been a hub of porn production. A number of high-profile X-rated performers in the area have suffered HIV infections, shaking the industry and local health officials.
In the past, porn producers have said viewers do not want to see condoms in porn because it distracts from their fantasies. They also warned that porn creators will be more likely to move productions out of state to avoid such rules.
A judge refused to lower bail Friday for former rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight after determining his lawyers had not presented any new circumstances that would warrant reducing it from $10 million.
Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen made the ruling after reviewing a video of the incident that defense attorneys had described as a new, unedited, version of Knight running over two men with his pickup truck outside a Compton burger stand in January.
"There's nothing new in the video," Coen said. Grainy surveillance footage from the burger stand was played in court in April, and Knight's attorneys submitted a longer version of the video this week.
Defense attorney Thomas Mesereau also argued that prosecutors had presented an unfair picture of his client's criminal history and told Coen that the Death Row Records co-founder wasn't a gang member.
In this picture made available Friday, July 17, 2015 musicians Chick Corea, right, and Herbie Hancock, left, perform together on the Auditorium Stravinski stage during the 49th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, Thursday, July 16, 2015.
Photo by Laurent Gillieron
Boeing, one of the world's two largest aircraft makers, warned its passenger airline customers on Friday that flying bulk shipments of lithium-ion batteries can cause fires capable of destroying the planes.
The guidance sent to airlines around the globe urged that they not carry the batteries as cargo "until safer methods of packaging and transport are established and implemented," Boeing spokesman Doug Alder told The Associated Press in an email.
The rechargeable batteries are used in cellphones, laptop computers, power tools and many other electronic devices. They are also often shipped as cargo on international airline flights.
FAA tests over the past year show that when the batteries short-circuit they emit hydrogen and other gases that can build up. When the gases ignite, they cause fierce explosions and unleash fires that are very difficult to put out. The halon fire suppression systems in the cargo compartments of airliners have been shown to be ineffective against battery fires. The systems have been able to put out the initial flames from overheated batteries, but are unable to stop the batteries from continuing to overheat and reigniting.
It's common for tens of thousands of batteries to be packed into a single shipping container. The global battery industry has been lobbying heavily against significant restrictions on battery shipments other than minor changes to current regulations. Many electronics manufacturers also prefer to receive batteries quickly by air, rather than more slowly by ship, so that they can avoid having to keep large supplies on hand.
British singer Tom Jones performs during a concert at the 24th annual Les Vieilles Charrues Festival in Carhaix, France, 17 July 2015. The music festival runs from 16 to 19 July.
Photo by Hugo Marie
Women jailed in a Kigali prison for murdering their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda's 1994 genocide talk about the killings as if they are still trying to justify why they took part in one of the most notorious mass killings of modern history.
Clad in pink and orange prison dresses, female perpetrators recall the past in "Shades of True", a documentary about eight women who took part in the genocide.
"We had to kill the enemy," says one of the women inmates, while another describes how some Tutsi women were sliced open and had their intestines removed by killers "looking for where the foundation of their beauty lay."
About 2,000 women convicted of genocide-related offences remain in Rwandan prisons.
"Our children should not forgive us," one of them says.
A girl gets her hands decorated with traditional henna patterns at a roadside stall ahead of Eid-al Fitr to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Karachi, Pakistan, July 17, 2015.
Photo by Akhtar Soomro
Vatican departments had more than a billion euros that were not declared on an overall balance sheet before new accounting standards kicked in last year, a financial statement showed on Thursday.
The man appointed to clean up Vatican finances said last December that departments had "tucked away" million of euros and followed "long-established patterns" in jealously managing their affairs without reporting to any central accounting office.
Thursday's statement showed that such funds totaled about 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion), the first time the Vatican has quantified the unreported funds discovered after Cardinal George Pell took up the newly created post of economy minister.
Pope Francis picked Pell, an outsider from the English-speaking world, to oversee the Vatican's often muddled finances after decades of control by Italians.
HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot, waits for a passing motorist to pick it up Friday, July 17, 2015, in Marblehead, Mass. HitchBOT is beginning its' first cross-country hitchhiking trip of the U.S., in Marblehead with a final destination goal of reaching San Francisco.
Photo by Stephan Savoia
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. The Rolling Stones; $8,066,135; $178.44.
2. U2; $6,030,279; $111.53.
3. Paul McCartney; $5,111,024; $158.57.
4. Take That; $4,461,359; $108.93.
5. Taylor Swift; $3,104,630; $108.24.
6. Fleetwood Mac; $2,692,909; $116.05.
7. Kenny Chesney; $1,886,595; $82.75.
8. Shania Twain; $1,741,551; $99.13.
9. Neil Diamond; $1,210,336; $102.27.
10. Bette Midler; $1,179,237; $126.93.
11. Luke Bryan; $1,164,083; $63.11.
12. André Rieu; $1,100,450; $79.10.
13. Herbert Grönemeyer; $958,492; $57.49.
14. Olly Murs; $931,720; $64.97.
15. The Who; $843,896; $95.95.
16. Dave Matthews Band; $794,122; $59.43.
17. Maroon 5; $783,712; $57.73.
18. Ed Sheeran; $746,953; $60.14.
19. Romeo Santos; $717,996; $87.91.
20. New Kids On The Block; $683,598; $59.65.
His agent, Larry Corsa, confirmed that Morris passed away in Los Angeles on Wednesday at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital, where he'd been under care for several weeks. He was 89.
In his over five-decade career, Morris, who brought a memorable touch of eccentricity to many of his parts, appeared in films including "The Wicker Man," Woody Allen's "Love and Death" and "Lisztomania."
But it was his portrayal of the sniveling probation office to Malcolm McDowell's Alex in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic "A Clockwork Orange" that will stand as his most beloved and famous role. As P.R. Deltoid, Morris blended the sinister with the campy and comedic in his scenes with Alex - especially when he unforgettably knocks Alex in the crotch after a wholly unconventional house call.
One of nine children, the Portsmouth, Hampshire, native studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He made his stage debut in "The Winter's Tale" in 1944 at London's Regent Park and would go on to appear on Broadway.
A Madagascar lemur is fed during a hot summer day at a zoo in Spata near Athens , Greece July 16, 2015. Three weeks after capital controls were imposed on Greece's moribund banking system, supplies of the special imported dietary supplements needed to feed 2,200 animals from 345 species at Athens' only zoo are under threat.
Photo by Yiannis Kourtoglou
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