zEN mAN (observing normally nice guy Bill Nye when asked about Creationists in general...and Todd Akin in particular...he called them all..."fucking idiots" (right on) and specifically commenting on Todd Akin's infamous remarks about women and "legitimate rape" and how their bodies probably wouldn't allow them do get prego from a rape....Mr Nye facetiously asked if regular babies are delivered by the normal stork...and if there was a "rape stork" delivering babies from "legitimate rapes"....I so much agree with Nye..."fucking Idiots"!)
Paul Krugman: The iPhone Stimulus (New York Times)
Don't say that the government can't add to total spending, or that government spending can't create jobs. If you believe that the iPhone 5 can give the economy a lift, you've already conceded both that the total amount of spending in the economy isn't a fixed number and that more spending is what we need. And there's no reason this spending has to be private.
Tom Danehy: After watching the two national conventions, Tom has some thoughts (Tucson Weekly)
Conclusions I reached during the two weeks of conventions: There is not an American alive who could beat Bill Clinton in an election. There aren't a whole lot of dead ones, either, although I think a Ronald Reagan-Bill Clinton race would be entertaining as all hell. Clinton took Romney and Ryan and the entire Republican Party behind the woodshed and beat the livin' piss out of 'em.
Robert Mankoff: NIPPLEGATE (The New Yorker)
The New Yorker has a Facebook page, which a lot of you like, or maybe it's just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking the page over and over again. But in any case, it's a whole lotta like. We like that. What we don't like is that we got temporarily banned from Facebook for violating their community standards on "Nudity and Sex," by posting this Mick Stevens cartoon: …
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In meteorology, rainfall types can include the character or phase of the precipitation which is falling to ground level. There are three distinct ways that rain can occur. These methods include convective, stratiform, and orographic rainfall. Convective precipitation is generally more intense, and of shorter duration, than stratiform precipitation.
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Charlie wrote:
Three: convective, stratiform, and orographic.
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Adam answered:
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Sally said:
Well, according to the Internet, there are three distinct ways that rain can occur. These methods include convective, stratiform, and orographic rainfall.
Hahahahaha!
PS: Sorry, but I didn't have time for more research (which I really enjoy) but I am expecting company later on today. This is fun company, someone who enjoys doing the stuff I like to do. I mean, how many times can you see, "Times Square," "Empire State Building," and the "Statue of Liberty?" I want to go to the huge indoor Farmer's market, and some used book stores. For instance, I love, "The Strand Bookstore" (an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway at the corner of East 12th St in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan). You could spend a couple of days in there alone, it's huge! Also, B&N has a large collection of used and collectable books in their store here in Jersey...
From the basement, four floors up and all the way down the block - all books!!
Then, if you go over to the New York University, people set up tables and sell their books (lots of school course books) and everything else you can imagine. The tables go on and on for blocks and blocks. So many books, so little time...
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
There are three distinct ways that rain can occur. These methods include convective, stratiform, and orographic rainfall.
Jim from CA, retired to ID,
Yesterday was permafrost...Today, There are three distinct ways that rain
can occur.
MAM wrote:
Three: Convectional precipitation, Frontal precipitation, Orographic precipitation.
BttbBob
Hmmm... Right now for me, two... Yes, two distinct ways rain can occur.
A.) The kind you experience sitting in the 21st century comforts of one's own home where I am right now... and B.) The kind that you experience occasionally at the Barcia Camp, T.42N - R.15W, on the Manistique River in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where I just returned from for the past 8 days... (There's a trivia question fer ya... What do those letters and numbers mean?)
Originally built in the 30's as "Red's Deer Camp" it has a small 4-bunk room, a small kitchen area and combined eating area (one does not 'dine' at camp, dontcha know) and slumping area (One does not 'lounge' at camp, neither. Those rules are strictly enforced). Note the screened in front porch that faced south and the river. I get to that later... No electricity, No TV, No computers, No cell phone signal. But, a kick-ass Manistique AM station (late 60's - 70's AM rock/pop) as long as their signal didn't fade kept us amused occasionally. Heard lots of tunes that I haven't in a while. Guess Who? - No, really - The Canadian band 'Guess Who?' was often heard... We did have propane 4X4'd in after Spring thaw for a camp gas range w/oven and 8 over head mantled lights. And a spiffy new tin roof that rain (the kind you get here at camp) bounces nicely upon and can make a fine drumming if it wants to ('Rain', here at camp is a 'living thing' of my Ojibwe forest. Along with its brother, 'Wind' - seriously)...
Now, then, back to that front porch...
Behold! My sleeping quarters! By choice, mind you now. That little bunk room was closer than a Coast Guard cutter's berthing area and it was the forest fresh air for me whilst a-slumber on the overflow roll-away ('deer camp' here can be a rollicking affair, I was told). It rained 3 of the nights, but out of the north and the porch faced south and was well covered by said tin roof. Perfect! Didn't dampen up in the night and stowed my gear inside during the day. Forest Brother 'Wind' provided copious amounts of cool air all night long... The wood is for a stove in the slouching area that facilitates mellowness before sleep (no rowdy 'beer-deer' camp this time, campers. This camp was al-l-l-l-l about serenity, and that's a fact)... Note, too, please, the fine U.P. hardwood walking stick that I found and will fashion into a proper personal statement...
Oh, and lest I forget! This is the only camp, that I have ever seen, that has an outhouse with a clear glass storm door... only.
That's right, campers! One has wonderful view of the river and the forest beyond whilst on the 'seat of ease', rain (like the kind at camp) or shine...
Beauty, eh?
Now, then, back to business. I reiterate...
There are two distinct ways rain can occur...
For me, that is... Right now.
Plus! Submitted for your approval and as a request, Ma'am... is a photo I took during my adventure for your 'sign-off' shot.
(Scroll down ~marty ; ) )
And, Joe S answered:
In meteorology, rainfall types can include the character or phase of the precipitation which is falling to ground level. There are three distinct ways that rain can occur. These methods include convective, stratiform, and orographic rainfall.
See? I didn't know that, and I've been out in the rain a LOT! But you know, the rain falls on us equally. Some more equal than others.
Still feeling the effects of today's migraine.
Bill Nye Blasts Todd Akin, Challenges 'Fucking Idiot' to Debate | The Daily Currant Just to clarify, I originally sent this along assuming that your readers saw clearly that the "Daily Currant" content was satirical; It's stated at top right of page. Besides, who could actually believe Bill Nye wld use such language? ( I wld, but him?)
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Saving Hope', followed by a RERUN'The Voice'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Seth MacFarlane hosting, music by Frank Ocean.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
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'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', 'Shipping Wars', another 'Shipping Wars', still another 'Shipping Wars', and yet another 'Shipping Wars'.
AMC offers 'Into the West' (Manifest Destiny), followed by the movie 'Casino'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Clubway 41
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 1 - The Secret Garden
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 4 - The Fish and Anchor
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Jack's Waterfront
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Momma Cherri's
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 5
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 6
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 7
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 84
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 5 - Schisms NEW
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 6 - True Q NEW
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 7 - Rascals NEW
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 8 - A Fistful of Datas NEW
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 2 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
[9:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy NEW
[10:00PM] COPPER -Season 1 - Ep 4 - The Empty Locket
[11:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 2 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
[12:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy
[1:00AM] COPPER -Season 1 - Ep 4 - The Empty Locket
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 2 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 7.1-Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy
[4:00AM] COPPER -Season 1 - Ep 4 - The Empty Locket
[5:00AM] THE WOMEN OF DOCTOR WHO (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by the movie 'Kill Bill: Vol. 2'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[6:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Adam Scott Wears a Red Oxford Shirt & Jeans
[7:00AM] Four Weddings and a Funeral
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Mutts to You
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-No Census, No Feeling
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Nutty But Nice
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Playing the Ponies
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Pop Goes the Easel
[12:00PM] Blood of Dracula
[1:30PM] Devil Doll
[3:15PM] Bunk
[3:45PM] Bunk
[4:15PM] Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
[6:00PM] The Ringer
[8:00PM] The Last Legion
[10:15PM] The Last Legion
[12:30AM] Valhalla Rising
[2:30AM] Gothic
[4:30AM] Bunk
[5:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jon Hamm Wears a Light Blue Shirt & Silver Watch
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Michael Cera Wears a Blue Denim Shirt & Red Pants (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] The Father of My Children
[8:00A] ALL ON THE LINE - Gemma Kahng (Episode 4, Season 1)
[9:00A] ALL ON THE LINE - Dana-Maxx (Episode 5, Season 1)
[10:00A] ALL ON THE LINE - Jedda Kahn (Episode 6, Season 1)
[11:00A] Dopamine
[12:25P] Full Grown Men
[1:45P] The Father of My Children
[3:45P] Breakfast on Pluto
[6:00P] GET TO WORK - Pressure Does Two Things (Episode 4, Season 1)
[7:00P] GET TO WORK - A Complete 180 (Episode 5, Season 1)
[8:00P] The Deep End
[9:45P] Always Crashing In The Same Car
[10:00P] Cassandra's Dream
[11:50P] French Roast
[12:00A] Student Services
[1:50A] Unmade Beds
[3:30A] Cassandra's Dream
[5:20A] Trolls
[5:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Argentina (Episode 8, Season 1) (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Aladdin & The Death Lamp', followed by the movie 'Pegasus Vs. Chimera'.
Actor Jon Hamm smiles before the start of American League MLB baseball action between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts September 13, 2012.
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi
Paul Rudd wants to take you bowling - and he's bringing along some of his A-list friends.
The actor is hosting a bowling benefit next month in New York to support Our Time, which helps children who stutter. The event will be held Oct. 22 at Lucky Strike lanes.
The guest list includes Gina Gershon, Mariska Hargitay, Rashida Jones, Julianna Margulies, Jesse L. Martin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Denis O'Hare,Fisher Stevens, Victor Garber, Fisher Stevens, Rosie Perez, Anthony Rapp, Rachel Dratch, Lewis Black, John Oliver, Mo Rocca, Steve Kazee, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bobby Cannavale.
Rudd was playing a character who stutters in Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain" in 2006 when he learned about Our Time.
George Takei has plenty of practice exploring strange new worlds on TV and film, but delving into a painful time in his family's life onstage is something even he never imagined.
Takei and his family were among thousands of Japanese-Americans put in internment camps during World War II. The 75-year-old "Star Trek" actor's memories inspired composer/lyricist Jay Kuo to write "Allegiance - A New American Musical," which has high hopes of making it to Broadway.
Takei and Tony Award-winner Lea Salonga ("Miss Saigon") headline the production at The Old Globe in San Diego. Set to open Wednesday, the show follows a Japanese-American war veteran played by Takei who looks back on his family's time in an internment camp.
"I wanted to turn my childhood experience in the internment camps that we were in into a script. Jay said a musical is much more moving and you'll reach many more people with a musical," Takei said in an interview.
Takei was 5 years old when soldiers marched onto his front porch with bayonets in May 1942 and ordered his entire family to leave their Los Angeles home. Tears streamed down his mother's face as she held his baby sister and a duffel bag, "a memory that's seared into my brain."
A farming town in northeastern Arkansas is hoping that an unexpected visit by The Beatles nearly 50 years ago can get its economy rocking again.
This weekend Walnut Ridge hosts Beatles at the Ridge, a festival dedicated to The Beatles' only stop in Arkansas.
It all goes back to a Friday night in 1964, when a plane carrying the Fab Four to a Missouri dude ranch experienced mechanical problems and was forced to land on a World War Two-era airstrip in Walnut Ridge.
The band hitched a ride to Missouri but returned to the Walnut Ridge airport on Sunday morning, when hundreds of fans waited to greet them.
The musicians did not perform in the town, but their visit remains a vivid memory for many longtime residents.
Actor and comedian Larry David (L) talks with comedian Bill Cosby before the start of American League MLB baseball action between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts September 13, 2012.
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi
Geoffrey Rush - who played speech therapist Lionel Logue in the Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech" - has repeatedly said he first found the script left in brown paper wrapping on his Australia home's doorstep. Now, he says he wishes he had kept that story to himself.
Rush says other aspiring filmmakers have followed suit, leaving all manner of projects at his front door in Melbourne since the movie first came out in 2010. As he puts it: "The brown paper package phenomenon continues."
In a recent interview promoting his film "Eye of the Storm," the actor asked that prospective Oscar-winners route submissions through his agent. He assured them that if their script has a "keen and interesting and enthusiastic" cover letter, it will be read.
Plus, Rush says he might accidentally bury a doorstep delivery "under a pile of correspondence or something and forget about it."
When Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said during an August radio interview that he once ran a marathon in less than three hours, North Carolina runner Bill Walker was impressed, but wanted more details.
The 63-year-old attorney, who has run four sub-three-hour marathons since college, posted a simple question on a message board for LetsRun.com, a national online forum for runners. "In an Aug. 22 interview by Hugh Hewitt, Representative Ryan said he had run a marathon in 'two hour and fifty something,'" Walker wrote on the message board. "Does anyone know the marathon and the year?"
In little time, hundreds of skeptical runners on the message board started questioning Ryan's claim that his best marathon time was "two hour and fifty something." The thread went viral. The day after Walker posted his question, Runner's World writer Scott Douglas started examining it. Turns out Ryan never ran a marathon in that time; a campaign spokesman was forced to walk back the comment.
"I just wanted to know," Walker said in an interview posted Wednesday on LetsRun.com. "If he had really run a marathon in that range, I would be impressed because I know the effort that goes into a sub-three-hour marathon. But, if he was lying or really stretching the truth, I thought that would be significant since he had just been nominated to run for Vice-President on the Republican ticket."
Walker says he is a registered Republican, but will be voting for President Barack Obama in November.
Actress Penelope Cruz arrives for the gala presentation of "Twice Born" at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, September 13, 2012.
Photo by Mark Blinch
A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a New York home has sold for $1.3 million at auction.
The blue and white moon flask was auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby's sale of Chinese works of art. Its presale estimate was $600,000 to $900,000.
The piece had been in the same family collection for decades. The auction house said the family decided to sell it after seeing a similar piece in a Sotheby's advertisement.
They had the vase on a wooden stand that was used as a doorstop in their Long Island home.
Hallucinogenic berries, not religious experience, likely caused the strange behavior of a scraped-up monk who was discovered stumbling naked through a German forest last Thursday (Sept. 6), according to NBC .
A concerned hiker who spotted the naked man and tried unsuccessfully to assist him notified police in the Bavarian town of Unterwössen, according to news reports. Police found the man cold and disoriented and took him to the hospital.
Apparently the monk, who is from a town nearby Unterwössen, had eaten poisonous berries while camping. The berries reportedly gave him hallucinations and partial paralysis, preventing him from finding his way back to his tent.
But, given the type of berry he likely ate, it may not be such a mystery. The hospital determined the ingested berries probably came from the Deadly Nightshade plant, according to a German police report.
Boxes with plastic Christmas trees for the Russian market are seen at the Zhongsheng Christmas Crafts factory in Yiwu, Zhejiang province September 13, 2012. Christmas comes but once a year, but for Christmas decoration factories and retailers in China, it starts as earliest as July and ends in late September, when massive orders from around the world arrive in Yiwu, located 300 km (185 miles) south of Shanghai in the prosperous Zhejiang province. Yiwu is considered a bellwether for China's low-cost exports, especially exports destined for emerging markets. Orders come from places as far away as Europe, the United States and South America. This year, European demand for Christmas goods has dropped sharply, local vendors said. One estimated European orders were down 20 percent from last year, while another said his European orders had fallen by 40 percent. Picture taken September 13, 2012.
Photo by Carlos Barria
Menopause is a rare phenomenon in the animal world. Besides humans, killer whales are among the few species whose females lose their ability to reproduce well before the end of their natural life span. But to what advantage?
Researchers have speculated that for humans, menopause evolved to reduce competition between different generations of reproducing women in one family, or, as the grandmother hypothesis states, older women might forgo costly late-life pregnancy to focus on the survival of their existing children and grandchildren. And now scientists say that for killer whales, menopause might allow aging mothers to care for their adult sons.
"Our analysis shows that male killer whales are pretty much mommy's boys and struggle to survive without their mother's help," Dan Franks, of the University of York, said in a statement. "The need for mothers to care for their sons into adulthood explains why killer whales have evolved the longest post-reproductive lifespan of any non-human animal."
Female killer whales typically stop reproducing by their 40s, but can survive into their 90s. Franks and his fellow researchers reported in the journal Science Thursday (Sept. 13) that having a menopausal mom around boosted an adult male whale's chances of survival, but the scientists didn't find the same effect in females.
El Azizia, Libya, no longer holds the title for "world's hottest temperature." Today, that record passes to Death Valley, Calif.
No, a heat wave didn't pass through the notoriously baking area yesterday. The new record-setting temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius) was actually recorded in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.
The temperature is only now being recognized because the previous record high temperature of 136.4 F (58 C) in El Azizia has been overturned by the World Meteorological Organization after an in-depth investigation by a team of meteorologists. The record temperature had long been thought dubious, but this new study has finally made the persuading case to overturn it, 90 years to the day after it was made.
The Libyan temperature had been recorded on Sept. 13, 1922, at an Italian army base. It had long stood out as an oddity, even though Libya certainly sees hot temperatures: El Azizia is located about 35 miles southwest of Tripoli, which lies on the Mediterranean coast. The waters would have a tempering influence on temperatures in the area, all of which weren't nearly as high as the record temperature.
Essentially, the case likely boiled down to someone inexperienced incorrectly reading a thermometer that could easily be misread, the team concluded. The resulting reading was too high by 12.6 F (7 C), they found.
Officially, the "new" world record temperature extreme is 134 F (56.7 C), recorded on July 10, 1913, at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, Calif.
Wary Wild Turkey hens very near the Barcia Camp. A flock of 10. We saw them 4 times. Once, running along the forest edge 40ft from the back door one early evening. This time they let me quietly follow them down the lane through the woods at about the same time as they had previously passed the camp. I stayed about 25 yards behind them. They stopped at a clearing after 100 yards and took a left. I stopped and they were eyeing me well as they moved on.
Photo by BadtotheboneBob
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