Paul Krugman: Depression Denial Syndrome (NY Times)
The fall of Bill Gross at Pimco is an example of how decision-makers refuse to acknowledge that the rules are different in a persistently depressed economy.
Andrew Tobias: 2016 Slogans
If Democrats pick up the governorships of Florida and Georgia next month - to take two key examples - that would block what would otherwise be strenuous Republican efforts to keep poor people and young people in Florida and Georgia from voting in 2016. And if voting isn't suppressed among those voters, the Democratic nominee likely wins the White house - instead of a Republican who could be an even less good choice than Mitt.
Maxwell Yezpitelok: 3 Artists Who Got Screwed for Creating Iconic Characters (Cracked)
Have you ever looked at an outrageously cool scene in a superhero movie and thought, "How do they come up with this stuff?!" Well, the short answer is: they don't. If Hollywood is answering that question, it's, "Fuck you. Die, you ignorant turd. That'll be $25."
Ben Walters: "Neil Patrick Harris on Gone Girl: 'I was pinching myself'" (Guardian)
Now he has taken Broadway by storm in gold platforms, and landed a memorable role in David Fincher's new thriller Gone Girl, Harris's Doogie Howser days are long behind him. Not least because he has become one of Hollywood's most successful gay actors.
Anonymous Hero Immediately, Non-Violently Ends Train Attack (YouTube)
"This mysterious video shows a thug scream at and harrass a woman on a German train. When he savagely kicks her, a fellow passenger stands up. In one quick movement that did no harm to the attacker, he immediately defused the situation." - Neatorama
A fascinator is a headpiece, a style of millinery. The word originally referred to a fine, lacy head covering akin to a shawl and made from wool or lace, but mostly feathers. In the modern usage, it refers to a woman's alternative to hat for formal attire; it is usually a large hair decoration on a band or clip with elaborate trimmings and decoration like a formal hat and it can incorporate a base to make it a miniature hat.
The history of the fascinator goes back to Queen Marie Antoinette, who made is fashionable to decorate the head with ostrich feathers and jewels. Although the use fell out of favour, it made a return during the Edwardian era in the early 1900s. The fascinators made way to hats until they were made popular again through Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
Today, a fascinator may be worn instead of a hat on occasions where hats were traditionally worn-such as weddings-or as an evening accessory, when it may be called a cocktail hat. It is generally worn with fairly formal attire.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Head
Charlie wrote:
Hair, or maybe head.
Adam answered:
The head (but I would not have thought so...).
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
it refers to a woman's alternative to hat for formal attire
Deborah replied:
I know this one - a fascinator is worn on the head. It's bigger than a fancy barrette and smaller than a hat. Some of them are pretty, and some are just crazy. Much like fashion trends as a whole, I suppose.
TGIF!
Marian responded:
head
Douche Dale of Diamond Springs, HotNorcali……90 in SF yesterday….Indian Summer here for the next few days said:
On the head! Mostly ludicrous except on Halloween.
DJ Useo answered:
You wear them on your dome, your gourd, your melon,
your noggin, your noodle, your skull, & your cranium,
but NEVER ANY OTHER PART.
MAM wrote:
The head ~ A style of millinery. A woman's alternative to hat for formal attire; it is usually a large hair decoration, mostly feathers, on a band or clip with elaborate trimmings and decoration like a formal hat.
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One', followed by a RERUN'Stalker', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Mysteries Of Laura', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU', then a RERUN'SNL' (4/08/2000 - Christopher Walken & Christina Aguilera).
'SNL' is FRESH with Sarah Silverman hosting, music by Maroon 5.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Castle'.
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 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Tombstone', followed by a FRESH'Hell On Wheels', then a FRESH'TURN: Washington Spies'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Natural Selection
[7:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Instinct
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Revisited: Bonapartes
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 13 - Prohibition Grille
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 3 - Mike & Nellie's
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 7 - Levanti's Italian Restaurant
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 2
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 4 - Botswana Special
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Hide and Q
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 11 - Haven
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 12 - The Big Goodbye
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 13 - Datalore
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 8 - Ep 6 - The Caretaker
[9:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 8 - Ep 7 - Kill the Moon NEW
[10:00PM] INTRUDERS - Season 1 - Ep 7 - The Crossing Place NEW
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 16 - Episode 1
[12:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 8 - Ep 7 - Kill the Moon
[1:00AM] INTRUDERS - Season 1 - Ep 7 - The Crossing Place
[2:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 16 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 11 - Haven
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 12 - The Big Goodbye
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 13 - Datalore (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', followed by the movie 'Gangs Of NY'.
Comedy Central has 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat ... I'm Fluffy', 'Gabriel Iglesias: Hot & Fluffy', 'Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy', and 'Kevin Hart: I'm A Grown Little Man'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-MATURITY
[6:30AM] BATMAN-PENGUIN SETS A TREND
[7:03AM] BATMAN-PENGUIN'S DISASTROUS END
[7:36AM] BATMAN-BATMAN'S ANNIVERSARY
[8:09AM] BATMAN-A RIDDLING CONTROVERSY
[8:42AM] BATMAN-THE JOKER'S LAST LAUGH
[9:15AM] BATMAN-THE JOKER'S EPITAPH
[9:48AM] BATMAN-CATWOMAN GOES TO COLLEGE
[10:21AM] BATMAN-BATMAN DISPLAYS HIS KNOWLEDGE
[10:54AM] BATMAN-A PIECE OF THE ACTION
[11:27AM] BATMAN-BATMAN'S SATISFACTION
[12:00PM] HOLLYWOODLAND
[2:45PM] JACKIE BROWN
[6:00PM] KILLSHOT
[8:00PM] THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
[11:00PM] THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
[2:00AM] SAW IV
[4:00AM] SAW V (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Dedication
[8:00AM] Serial Mom
[10:00AM] American Graffiti
[12:30PM] American Graffiti
[3:00PM] Dream School-Episode 1
[4:00PM] Money Train
[6:15PM] Spy Game
[9:00PM] Chinatown
[12:00AM] Mystic River
[3:00AM] Chinatown (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Reaping', followed by the movie 'Dark Haul'.
Carol Burnett, arrives at the Chestnut Ridge Resort for a banquet to receive the 2014 Harvey Award presented by the Jimmy Stewart Museum, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, in Blairsville, Pa.
Photo by Keith Srakocic
Steve Martin is being saluted with this year's Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
The award will be given at a tribute in Los Angeles next June. The gala ceremony will be aired for a third year on the TNT network and by its sister channel, Turner Classic Movies.
The 69-year-old Martin followed initial stardom as a standup and TV performer with his debut feature film, "The Jerk," in 1979.
His many other films include "Pennies from Heaven," ''Three Amigos!," ''Little Shop of Horrors," ''All of Me," ''Roxanne" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it paused its "shot-clock" on the review of the proposed $45 billion merger between the two largest U.S. cable providers, Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc.
The FCC, which will determine whether the deal is in the public interest, said it is stopping its informal 180-day clock to review the merger until Oct. 29, the new deadline for the public and stakeholders to comment, or until the agency is satisfied with Comcast's response to requests for additional information. The deadline had been set for Oct. 8.
On Friday, the FCC's review of the merger was in day 85 of the 180-day self-imposed informal deadline to complete transaction reviews. The FCC's review had been expected to be finished on or around Jan. 6.
Consumer advocates and some competitors have urged the FCC to reject it, saying the combined company would have too much clout over what Americans watch on television and how they access the Internet.
If Americans want to understand how their government justifies sweeping intelligence-gathering measures, they need to familiarize themselves with a little-known executive order from the Reagan era: E.O. 12333.
It's being dubbed the real source of power behind the government's dragnet surveillance-not any of the post-9/11 legislation that responded to modern terror threats, such as parts of the Patriot Act or the FISA Amendments Act that created secret courts to handle terror surveillance authorization. The order dates to 1981 and may be used as justification to conduct surveillance in the United States, according to documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Unlike activities authorized by the Patriot Act and other laws that have been part of the public debate about government spying, the programs operating under the order have virtually no oversight from Congress or the courts-not even secret courts.
Some of the most shocking tactics of government spying revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden were authorized by this executive order, according to the ACL. Instances include NSA's interception of Web traffic traveling through fiber-optic cables to Google's and Yahoo's foreign data centers and a cell-phone-location tracking program.
This undated image released by Guernsey's Auction House shows a letter from John Lennon to Waylon Jennings. The item is one of many items from country singer Waylon Jennings' possessions up for auction in Phoenix. New York City-based auction house Guernsey's is holding the sale of more than 2,000 of Jennings' belongings online at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Jennings, who defined the outlaw movement in country music, died Feb. 13, 2002, at 64.
Former Lady Vols media director Debby Jennings has reached a $320,000 settlement in her lawsuit against the University of Tennessee and athletic director Dave Hart.
Jennings' lawyer, David Burkhalter, released a statement Thursday that said the parties had "reached an amicable settlement" and noted the amount. The lawsuit, filed in September 2012, alleged age and sex discrimination had led to Jennings' forced retirement after 35 years at the university.
Jennings' suit alleged that Hart and other athletic officials wanted to remodel the athletic department as a "good ol' boys" club while replacing her with a younger man. Jennings was 57 years old when she left her job in May 2012 as the university worked toward consolidating the men's and women's athletic departments.
The suit also argued Hart retaliated against Jennings when she protested that Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt's diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease protected her from losing her job under the Americans With Disabilities Act. It indicated Jennings was forced out for opposing what she perceived as discriminatory actions taken by Hart against Summitt.
The cast and crew of British motoring show "Top Gear" have fled Argentina after furious residents hurled stones at a BBC car bearing a license plate which appeared to reference the 1982 Falklands War.
Presenter Jeremy Clarkson was among those who were forced to abandon their vehicles after an angry crowd gathered and began throwing stones.
One of the vehicles -- a red Porsche -- carried the plate H982 FKL, which local newspapers and residents took to be a reference to the 1982 Falklands conflict.
The BBC confirmed its team had left, but denied the registration plate was intended as a deliberate provocation.
People watch a projection on the facade of the Konzerthaus Berlin during the 'Berlin leuchtet' (Berlin shines) festival in Berlin, October 3, 2014. Several landmarks and tourist spots will be illuminated in the German capital from October 2 to October 19.
Photo by Thomas Peter
For media covering the spread of Ebola in West Africa, the infection of a cameraman who works for NBC offers both a reason to emphasize precaution and to continue to bear witness.
The New York Times' approach is emblematic of many news organizations: "We want to figure out a way to have maximum protection for people involved in the coverage and also to continue the coverage," said Joseph Kahn, the newspaper's international editor.
Other than NBC, no news outlet has publicly cited Ashoka Mukpo's infection as the impetus for removing personnel from Liberia, where the freelance cameraman had been covering the disease's rapid spread and the strains it placed on its health care system. CNN announced Friday that it was sending reporter Nima Elbagir to that country this weekend and Sanjay Gupta, its most visible medical correspondent, said he's lobbying his bosses to send him there.
Mukpo, who previously covered Ebola for several news outlets, began working for NBC on Tuesday and fell ill the next day. NBC said Friday it was concentrating on how to get him and his colleagues out of the country before discussing future coverage plans. He was working with medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman who said she and others with NBC feel fine, though the network ordered them to return to the United States and quarantine themselves until any danger has passed.
Mukpo has covered the epidemic for several outlets, including Al Jazeera. Vice News said he shot footage for the organization's documentary about Liberia, "The Fight Against Ebola." CBS News, which hasn't sent its own reporters to Liberia, said Friday it had used some of Mukpo's work to illustrate its stories.
People watch as an effigy of 10-headed demon King Ravana is burnt during the Hindu festival of Dussehra in the northern Indian city of Amritsar October 3, 2014. Effigies of the 10-headed Demon King "Ravana" are burnt on Dussehra, the Hindu festival that commemorates the triumph of Hindu god Rama over the Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil.
Photo by Munish Sharma
The renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York purchased a collection of 4,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts found a century ago by a British explorer, averting a plan to auction the antiquities that had drawn criticism from historians.
The Treasure of Harageh collection consists of 37 items such as flasks, vases and jewelry inlaid with lapis lazuli, a rare mineral. Discovered by famed British archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, the relics date to roughly 1900 B.C., excavated from a tomb near the city of Fayum. Portions of the excavated antiquities were given in 1914 to donors in St. Louis who helped underwrite the dig.
The planned auction had been condemned by U.S. and British historians who feared the loss of a valuable cultural resource to the private marketplace. British auction house Bonhams withdrew the treasure Thursday, the planned day of sale, and announced the new deal Friday. Bonhams did not disclose the purchase price, but it had valued the items at $200,000.
The collection was owned by the St. Louis Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. It was initially housed at the St. Louis Art Museum and then at Washington University in St. Louis before it was placed in private storage two years ago.
The auction prompted the archaeological institute's national office to rebuke the independent St. Louis chapter in a written statement that cited its "firmly expressed ethical position concerning the curation of ancient artifacts for the public good."
A Los Angeles Fire Department fire truck barely clears off a contractor truck parked on narrow street in the Hollywood hills in Los Angeles, Friday, Oct 3, 2014. With wildfire danger high across much of the state, the Los Angeles County Fire Department has beefed up many of its firefighting crews from three to four people and stationed extra equipment in strategic locations.
Photo by Nick Ut
A new genetic history of HIV shows how the pandemic almost certainly took root in the 1920s in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers said Thursday.
Assisted by train transport and the sex trade, the virus that causes AIDS then spread across the continent and eventually the world, infecting some 75 million people and killing 36 million of them.
An international team of researchers reconstructed the genetic history of the HIV-1 group M pandemic, and found that the common ancestor of group M is "highly likely" to have emerged in Kinshasa around 1920.
While various strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have jumped from primates and apes to humans at least 13 times, only one such transmission event has led to a human pandemic.
And it did because it was aided by "a 'perfect storm' of factors, including urban growth, strong railway links during Belgian colonial rule, and changes to the sex trade, combined to see HIV emerge from Kinshasa and spread across the globe" between the 1920s and 1950s, said the study in the journal Science.
A Rickenbacker A-22 "Frying Pan" early electric guitar (circa 1935) is seen on display as part of a new exhibition from the National Guitar Museum "Guitar: The Instrument That Rocked The World" at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, October 3, 2014. The lapsteel guitar created by George Bauchamp was the first mass-produced electric guitar and was called "Frying Pan" because of its shape. The exhibition, which runs from October 4 through January 4, 2015, explores facets of the world's most popular instrument from its history as an instrument of popular culture over the past 400 years to the science of creating sound with wood, steel and other materials.
Photo by Mike Segar
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venuemanagers .
A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken, walks through undergrowth in Richmond Park in south west London, October 3, 2014. Over 600 red and fallow deer roam in the largest of London's Royal Parks, and have their numbers managed in an annual cull each November and February.
Photo by Toby Melville
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