Fairy Tales Recreated in 3D Balloon Art (environmentalgraffiti.com)
"Once upon a time" brings back memories that almost all of us share - happy memories from childhood of reading our favorite fairy tales and playing the characters that star in them. Well, "Airigami" artist Larry Moss and creative partner Kelly Cheatle have found a way to preserve those memories for us, using their amazing balloon work, together with other media, to create snapshots from the fairy tales.
Paul Krugman's Blog: Awesome Wrongness (New York Times)
And the worst of it is that the people who got this so wrong have not and probably won't admit to their awesome wrongness; on the contrary, they'll dig in. And the Lesser Depression will go on and on and on.
Tom Danehy: What songs will be playing when these candidates take the stage? (Tucson Weekly)
Rick Perry: "I Kissed a Girl (And I Liked It)." Sure, governor, sure you did. We believe you. You'd just better hope those evangelical buddies of yours believe you, too, lest you wake up some night to find John Waters standing over your bed with a hypnotic spinning wheel in one hand, and an electric cattle prod in the other.
Froma Harrop: The Commentary Pages Are No Tea Party (Creators Syndicate)
Several columnists recently referred to the teaparty "patriots" as terrorists. The terrorist label set off a stormy protest among the group's legion of message writers.
I was one of those columnists. I figured that had some radical sheik sitting in his cave threatened to blow up the American economy - that is, push the United States into default on its debt - if his demands weren't met, few would have questioned use of that unflattering term.
Dave Johnson: "Ideas To Get America Working: Rebuild Our Infrastructure" (Campaign for America's Future)
Put millions of people to work repairing and rebuilding our public infrastructure-now. Do it while the nation has an abundance of idle skilled labor, unused construction and manufacturing capacity, and record low borrowing costs. Ignore the deficit-mongers. This is essential for addressing today's jobs crisis and tomorrow's economic growth needs.
Jim Hightower: Your job, Mr. President, is jobs
Labor Day is coming up. What better time to propose a national recovery program that would hire millions of people to go to work on infrastructure and green-energy projects that America urgently needs? Put something real on the table, let the right-wing Koch-heads howl against it, then go to the countryside a lá Harry Truman and hammer them with their own know-nothing do-nothingism.
Scott Burns: Who Pays and Who Gets What from Social Security? (assetbuilder.com)
The Medicare portion of the employment tax, a total of 2.9 percent for employer and employee, now applies to all earned income, with no limit. Since we all get the same Medicare coverage, this is another "flat" tax that clearly isn't flat- the big dogs pay a lot more for their Medicare than typical workers.
Kimmy Dee: 5 Scientific Reasons Your Idea of Happiness Is Wrong (Cracked)
If you're looking for an answer to "How can I be happy?" then the response from the experts is, "You're asking the wrong question." The better question is why our idea of happiness is so screwed up that most of us wouldn't recognize the real thing if we saw it.
Carla Meyer: Bill Maher keeps it political (McClatchy Newspapers)
Though clearly on the Democrats' side most of the time, Maher also is genuinely, visibly curious about the other side. The thoughtfulness behind his smirk suggests he can understand an opposing or even fully wacked-out viewpoint, even if he doesn't agree.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
What future actor was awarded the winner's cup in a fat-baby contest by its judge, former President William Howard Taft, who thought the child was as fat as he was.
In early 1991, Bill Biixby was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent treatment. He was divorced in the same year. In late 1992, friends introduced him to the artist Judith Kliban, widow of B. Kliban, a cartoonist who had died of a pulmonary embolism. Bixby married Judith in late 1993, just six weeks before he collapsed on the set of Blossom.
Bixby's cancer recurred and was diagnosed as terminal. On November 21, 1993, six days after his final assignment on Blossom, he died of complications in Century City, California. Bixby's wife Judith, and his longtime friend Dick Martin, were by his side. Bixby's ashes are at Kliban's Maui estate.
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Sally was first, and correct, with:
Judith Kliban is the widow of cartoonist B. Kliban. She is also the widow of actor Bill Bixby... (Judith Kamman was married to cartoonist B. Kliban until his death in 1990. She later married actor Bill Bixby only seven weeks before his death in 1993.)
Judy Kliban-Bixby
WOW, that is weird.
PS: Could you add this, my son is playing there...
R. PARK FEST'11
Roosevelt Park,
Michigan (Detroit)
Location: Roosevelt Park
Time: 11:00 AM Saturday, August 20th
Charlie wrote:
Bill Bixby married Kliban's widow Judith.
mj said:
Guess
Both died relatively young. I know Bixby succumbed to cancer (prostate?). I think Kliban went the same route.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
. In late 1992, friends introduced him to the artist Judith Kliban, widow
of B. Kliban, a cartoonist who had died of a pulmonary embolism. Bixby
married Judith in late 1993, just six weeks before he collapsed on the set
of Blossom
Adam answered:
Kliban's 2nd wife married Bill Bixby after Kliban died.
I misread yesterday;s question, I though you asked 'Who played Uncle Martin?'. What can I say?
Lorie in Kent, Oh! responded:
The same wife -- Barbara Bixby, of QVC fame. The jewelry she designs is so, uh,
not my style?? I would imagine that those who like paintings by Thomas Kincaid would
like her taste. Oh well.
Marian replied:
both were married to Judity Kiliban
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MAM wrote:
Bill Bixby married Judith Kamman Kliban. B. Kilban's widow, in 1993. So she was the wife of B. Kilban and then later the the wife of Bill Bixby.
Judith Kamman Kilbaqn Bixby
And, Joe S answered:
They were both married to the same woman, but not at the same time.
I was going to write and post pictures of the most beautiful place in the world, Sleeping Bear Dunes, just up the road a-piece. I was also going to brag about losing 5 pounds in one week, but I'm too tired. I'm going to bed and it's not even 1:00 AM yet.
Bruce S's response to yesterday's Trivia Question about Bill Bixby arrived over 24-hours after he sent it.
Bruce S responded:
Another Martian spacecraft crash lands on Earth. It happens to be Martin's 11-year old nephew, Andromeda, played by Wayne Stam (b. 1952)
Bill Bixby played Tim O'hara
RICHARD mc D suggested:
If she is a he, then Oscar be his name
And, BttbB said:
Full of vinegar, eh... Well, then it's... Pickle!
Previous Reader Responses:
Donald M wrote:
How about 'Rover'?
Thank you for rescuing him.
Nancy Maynard made a great point with
I'd name him Bart!
And, Steve said:
Obiviously, his name is Doodlebug.
Michael D in Port Saint Lucie, FL replied to DanD with:
DanD you are absolutely correct. It was only an illusion that I "owned" them. After I posted that I realized how foolish it must sound. Of course I was subservient to them. And I dearly miss them.
DanD wrote:
Wow, you've changed the descriptive parameters! Let's see now, how to
keep this name PG ... "Two-Buck Fluff-n-Stuff?"
maurice said:
ANNIE
Kate M suggested:
As soon as I saw the kitty the name "Skylar" came to mind. Don't know why but he/she seems like a Skyler to me.
My family and I have seven cats...the eldest (over 15 yrs.) is Nikki...her owner was tragically killed in an accident so I took her. Then there's Hope and Annie (two kittens I adopted via my aunt's very pregnant {couldn't get her to get the cat spayed} cat). Hanna (nicknamed "bear" as in Hanna Bear for her bear like face) who came to us via my best friend's husband from Missouri. She rode sixteen hours in a U-Haul from Kansas City to Detroit. Jake Mews is a small grey cat we adopted from a co worker who could no longer keep him and his brother Elwood (who had to be put down due to illness recently). Finally there are two recent adoptees William (a BIG orange Morris-like boy) and Tatiana a huge Maine Coon we found at the shelter. No one wanted Tati...all of her kittens were adopted out but no one wanted her...but me! We love and care for them all but there is never a dull moment in our home! Thanks for reading about our feline family and good luck to you and your friend!
Brian wrote:
Why name a cat, it's it's not gonna listen anyway. Badumpbum.
BTW I have two sleeping in front of me that showed up on my neighbors garage roof last month, couldn't get rid of them either. Who rescues who?
Tom in Ohio replied:
May I respectfully offer "Pussy Gabor." She looks so lovely and glamorous in her fur coat.
Jonathan K said:
I suggest "Major Kong" as in the attached image.
sara replied:
His little paws all white are so sweet. How about "Spats"? Like the well heeled men of the early thirties.
And, Rock wrote:
How about "Sugarfoot"
DanD commented:
In response to Michael D in Port Saint Lucie's cat-naming suggestion
where he presumes: " ... The three cats I ever owned were Amos, Otis
and Sherman."
You actually thought that you owned those cats? Boy, did they have
you bamboozled!
Michael D in Port Saint Lucie, FL suggested:
Marty, I'll throw my hat into the ring with "Jetsam" as in "flotsam and jetsam" seeing as how she was found at the shore. The three cats I ever owned were Amos, Otis and Sherman.
mj wrote:
Turquoise eye set in silver fur?
What else but Squash Blossom?
DJ Useo said:
All my prayers to the found kitten & you also for truly caring. My suggestion for a name is Shanna, after the she-devil. When I lived at the edge of a large woods in Michigan, people always dropped off felines apparently thinking "oh,goodie, a woods, all cats thrive in the wild'. It was actually very dangerous with all kinds of predators, and feline leukemia around. I always took in cats & kept many. Actually managed to find homes for the rest. Good homes, too, from what I saw. Everyone, if you don't have a cat, or maybe only one, go today & rescue a cat. You will love yourself for the act, & the cat will double it.
Gene wrote: CF + for Chinese Food - hehehehehe
CY said:
She looks exactly like my Pookster, down the the toe-mittens.
She has amny names, but we can share:
Sweetface, McSplat, Pookarozzi, Roadkill, Whiner.
Sally said:
From the looks of that picture, I'd say: "Whomee?"
PS: Enjoy your new kitty...
Michelle in AZ wrote:
Spitfire
BadtotheboneBob replied:
Awwww... I love little kitties... then they grow and become cats, but that's cool. It's kinda like our own kids, ya know. I look proudly upon my grown up, successful daughter of 27, but often wistfully think back to when she was small... then she drops off 'Maddie Muffin' for me to play with and I get to do it all again! Being a 'grampa' is the best job in the world...
Anyway, my choice for this little ball of fur is... 'Tuffy'... for no other reason than it was the first thing that came to mind.
Linda >^..^< suggested:
Has to be Sweetheart!
DanD wrote:
"She's smart, playful, and quite a little ball of fire, fleas and fluff."
Name? FIREBALL!
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with FRESH'Gymnastics', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Anne Hathaway hosting, music by Florence and the Machine.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Phineas And Ferb: Across The 3rd Dimension', followed by a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos'.
The CW offers LIVE'NFL Preseason Football'.
Faux has 'Cops', 'Cops', 'American Dad', and 'The Cleveland Show'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'Swordfish', followed by the movie 'The Italian Job', then the movie 'A Few Good Men'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro
[7:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Lanterna
[8:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 2
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 3
[10:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 4
[11:00 AM] Doctor Who - 4 - The Doctor's Wife
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - 5 - The Rebel Flesh
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[2:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 21 The Perfect Mate
[3:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 22 Imaginary Friend
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 23 I, Borg
[5:00 PM] The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
[7:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 4 - Resistance
[8:00 PM] Battlestar Galactica - Ep 5 - The Farm
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - 14 - Dame Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt, Ed Byrne, The Wanted
[11:00 PM] Outnumbered - Episode 4
[11:30 PM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 4
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 14 - Dame Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt, Ed Byrne, The Wanted
[2:00 AM] Outnumbered - Episode 4
[2:30 AM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 4
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - 14 - Dame Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt, Ed Byrne, The Wanted
[5:00 AM] Outnumbered - Episode 4
[5:30 AM] Friday Night Dinner - Episode 4 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Year One', followed by the movie 'Tommy Boy', then the movie 'Zack & Miri Make A Porno'.
FX has the movie '12 Rounds', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', and yet another '2½ Men'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Watching the Detectives
[8:00AM] Jackie Chan's Project A
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges - No Dough Boys
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges - Out West
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges - Pardon My Clutch
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges - Punch Drunks
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges - Rhythm & Weep
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges - Shivering Sherlocks<
[12:30PM] The Three Stooges - Sing a Song of Six Pants
[12:55PM] The Three Stooges - Termites of 1938
[1:20PM] The Making Of: Transformation
[1:25PM] Aquarium
[1:45PM] Whisker Wars - West Coast Showdown
[3:45PM] Cherish
[6:00PM] Cursed
[8:00PM] The Descent
[10:00PM] The Descent
[12:00AM] High Tension
[2:00AM] Cursed
[4:00AM] High Tension (ALL TIMES EST)
Ray Manzarek of the band The Doors performs their song "Light My Fire" during a tribute to the band Motley Crue to launch the 4th Annual Sunset Strip Music Festival in West Hollywood, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. Motley Crue will headline the street festival on Saturday.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Danny DeVito has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The 66-year-old Emmy-winning actor was honored Thursday with star number 2,445 on the famous walkway.
The ceremony was held in connection with the Sept. 13 release of the DVD of the sixth season of the FX comedy "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" in which DeVito stars as the ne'er-do-well owner of a Philadelphia bar.
British artist Antony Gormley poses for the media at the opening of his "Two States" exhibition at Harewood House, in Leeds, northern England, August 19, 2011. The artist's two new works are on exhibition in the Terrace Gallery until October 30.
Photo by Nigel Roddis
The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in state and national immigration debates.
Antonio Diaz Chacon, 23, is married to an American and has been in the country for four years. But Chacon says he abandoned attempts to get legal residency because the process was difficult and expensive.
Diaz Chacon revealed his immigration status to Univision this week and confirmed to The Associated Press that he is illegal, prompting chatter on the Internet and social networking sites that his case underscored immigrant rights positions in two ongoing political debates.
"As exceptional as his story is," said Christina Parker, a spokeswoman for Border Network for Human Rights in El Paso, Texas, "it points to the fact that most undocumented immigrants living in the United States are not criminals. He's more than not a criminal now. He's a hero."
The online expression of enthusiasm is now in the dictionary. So are textspeak, sexting - and, less happily, cyberbullying.
They are among 400 new entries in the 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, published this month.
Another newcomer to the reference book's 24,000 entries is retweet - to repost another Twitter user's message.
Unlike the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the concise edition was founded to include modern and slang terms as they enter common use. Its first edition in 1911 featured the then-new words aeroplane, motorist and flapper.
Tibetan girls perform on horses during a Tibetan horse racing festival in Damxung county of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region August 19, 2011.
Photo by Jacky Chen
Burger King's spooky "The King" mascot is retiring so the struggling burger chain can refocus its marketing to reach new customers. The mascot has been around for years, but recently has become a more prevalent and somewhat creepy presence in ads - showing up in people's beds and peeping in their windows.
The fast food chain, which has suffered declining sales, will roll out a new advertising campaign this weekend sans "The King" that will focus on its burgers. The campaign is the first since Burger King switched advertising agencies in July.
"We won't be seeing The King for a while," a Burger King spokesman said.
An African American housekeeper wants a judge to reinstate a lawsuit that claims Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel-turned-movie "The Help," used her likeness without permission.
"The Help" is based on relationships between white families in Mississippi and the black women who worked for them in the 1960s. It was made into a movie that opened last week, debuting at No. 2 nationwide and bringing in $26 million.
Ablene Cooper, who works for Stockett's brother, claims a character in the book, Aibileen, was based on her likeness. Her lawsuit seeks $75,000 in damages.
Hinds County Circuit Judge Tommie Green ruled Tuesday that a one-year statute of limitations elapsed between the time Stockett gave Cooper a copy of the book in January 2009 and the time of the lawsuit's filing in February of this year.
Cooper's lawyer, Edward Sanders, filed a motion for reconsideration on Wednesday, saying the clock should not have started ticking on the statute of limitations until Cooper read the book in the summer of 2010. Sanders argued that Cooper didn't read it sooner because Stockett said in a handwritten note that, despite the similarity in names, the character wasn't based on Cooper.
Kenyan artist Bouke Atema works on a sand sculpture at the Sand Sculptures Festival in Rorschach at Lake Constance August 19, 2011. Atema and Dutch artist Maxim Gazendam built the sculpture 'Diabetes (Ant-i-jection)'.
Photo by Arnd Wiegmann
A judge has ordered actress Estella Warren to serve four months in a residential rehab facility after she entered a no contest plea in a drunken driving case on Friday.
Los Angeles city attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan says Warren was also sentenced to serve five years of informal probation.
The "Planet of the Apes" actress had been facing four misdemeanor charges after her arrest earlier this year for crashing into three parked cars and tussling with police.
The 32-year-old was previously convicted of drunken driving in 2007.
Oasis singer Liam Gallagher said Friday he is suing his estranged brother and former bandmate, Noel, for saying his hangover forced the rumbustious Brit rockers to cancel a concert.
Bad blood between the brothers has made headlines ever since Oasis burst to fame in 1994 with debut album "Definitely Maybe."
Liam is disputing comments Noel made last month alleging that Liam pulled out of the 2009 V Festival due to a hangover.
Liam said in a statement he wants an apology and for Oasis fans "to know the truth" about what happened - laryngitis prevented him from performing the gig.
A priest, his face smeared with color and sacrificial blood, dances with a sword and a goat during the two-day long Deodhani festival at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. The festival is held to worship the serpent Goddess where goats and pigeons are offered as sacrifice.
Photo by Anupam Nath
A chef from Italy is accusing TV chef Lidia Bastianich of tricking her into working round-the-clock caring for an elderly friend.
Maria Carmela Farina has filed a $5 million lawsuit in Manhattan.
Her lawyer, Paul Catsandonis, tells the New York Daily News that Bastianich handled Farina's immigration papers and promised her a $600-a-week kitchen job. The lawsuit says Farina was led to believe she'd be preparing dishes for Bastianich's television shows.
Instead, Farina says she was forced to work as a personal live-in assistant to Bastianich's aging friend from 2006 until he died in December at age 105.
Catsandonis said Farina wasn't paid for years of work and is destitute.
French actor Gerard Depardieu was humiliated and apologized to fellow passengers when prostate problems forced him to urinate in front of them during takeoff on an Air France flight this week, a friend said.
Fellow actor Edouard Baer, who was traveling with the 62-year-old film star on the flight to Dublin to film the latest "Asterix and Obelix" movie, said Depardieu had tried to urinate in a water bottle when denied access to the toilet by a hostess.
"It's just that the bottle was too small. It's true that it overflowed," Baer told Europe 1 radio. "He was embarrassed. He wanted to clean it up...It was very humiliating and awkward for him. He obviously made a big scene (saying) 'I pissed on myself'."
The incident came to light on Wednesday when a passenger on the flight from Paris to Dublin told French radio that Depardieu, star of movies such as "Jean de Florette" and "Green Card," appeared to be drunk and had urinated in the aisle during takeoff, when passengers must remain seated.
A pilot dips the basket of his hot-air balloon in the Androscoggin River in front of a couple in a canoe during the Great Falls Balloon Festival, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, in Lewiston, Maine. More than 20 balloons launched at sunrise to kick off the three-day event.
Photo by Robert F. Bukaty
Hundreds of foreign students on a State Department cultural exchange visa program walked off their factory jobs in protest on Wednesday.
The J-1 visa program brings foreign students to the country to work for two months and learn English, and was designed in part to fill seasonal tourism jobs at resorts and seaside towns. The 400 students employed at a Pennsylvania factory that makes Hershey's candies told The New York Times that even though they make $8.35 an hour, their rent and program fees are deducted from their paychecks, leaving them with less money than they spent to get the visas and travel to the country in the first place.
Some of the students were assigned night shifts, and said they were pressured to work faster and faster on the factory lines.
A spokesman for Hershey's, Kirk Saville, said the chocolate company did not directly operate the Palmyra packing plant, which is managed by a company called Exel. A spokeswoman for Exel said it had found the student workers through another staffing company.
Animals across the world are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago, a new study says.
About 2,000 species examined are moving away from the equator at an average rate of more than 15 feet per day, about a mile per year, according to new research published Thursday in the journal Science which analyzed previous studies. Species are also moving up mountains to escape the heat, but more slowly, averaging about 4 feet a year.
The species - mostly from the Northern Hemisphere and including plants - moved in fits and starts, but over several decades it averages to about 8 inches an hour away from the equator.
Federal weather data show the last decade was the hottest on record, and 2010 tied with 2005 for the hottest year on record. Gases from the burning of fossil fuel, especially carbon dioxide, are trapping heat in the atmosphere, warming the Earth and changing the climate in several ways, according to the overwhelming majority of scientists and the world's top scientific organizations.
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