Paul Krugman: What Markets Will (NY Times)
The financial turmoil of the past few days, especially in Europe, have policy crusaders again sure that they know what the markets are asking for.
Randa Morris: "It's Official: President Obama Is The Best Economic President In Modern Times" (Addicting Info)
A new economic report, published by Forbes.com on September 6, 2014, clearly shows that President Obama is the best economic president in modern times. It's not an opinion, it's a fact, based on all of typical the economic indicators, including jobs, investments, growth and expansion, even the rate of inflation. In all of these areas President Obama's record outperforms that of every other modern president, including conservative idol, Ronald Reagan.
Dean Baker: The Deficit Is Down and the Deficit Hawks Are Furious (Huffington Post)
Last week the Congressional Budget Office reported that the deficit for the 2014 fiscal year that just ended was $460 billion, considerably lower than they had previously projected. This puts the deficit at 2.7 percent of GDP. At that level, the size of the debt relative to the economy is actually falling.
The Greatest American Hero is an American comedy-drama television series that aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC. Created by producer Stephen J. Cannell, it premiered as a two-hour pilot movie on March 18, 1981. The series features William Katt as teacher Ralph Hinkley ("Hanley" for the latter part of the first season), Robert Culp as FBI agent Bill Maxwell, and Connie Sellecca as lawyer Pam Davidson.
The series chronicles Ralph's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately for Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, he immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
The Greatest American Hero
Alan J wrote:
The Greatest American Hero
mj said:
Didn't really watch it, but liked the theme song
Greatest American Hero.
Adam answered:
From impossible to easy-
'The Greatest American Hero'.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The Greatest American Hero
Marian replied:
Greatest American Hero
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norfallcali said:
William Katt of "The Greatest American Hero". I remember the show, but I don't recall watching it. I reserve judgment. Barbara Hale (Della street) is his Mommy. Tommy Ross from "Carrie". Billy with Sissy, Nancy and Amy.
DJ Useo responded:
I have very hazy memories of watching that show, "The Greatest American Hero".
I liked the lead who played the hero, but I remember really liking the scenes where he flew.
They must've used the equipment left over from the seventies Superman movie.
Strangely, I don't think they made it into a comic book.
My mistake, they just didn't make it till the Obama era. Lol.
Randall answered:
Greatest American Hero
Believe it or not I'm walkin' on air
Never thought I could feel so free
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me!
The Greatest American Hero
and I really liked that show a lot.
I believe it was William Katt in the starring role.
I remember him learning how to fly and crashing into things and such...
What a terrific concept for a TV series:
a regular guy that becomes kind of a sad-sack superhero.
MAM wrote:
The Greatest American Hero ~ William Katt as Ralph Hinkley, Los Angeles public school teacher of special education high school students. 1981 - 1982
H J N said:
The Greatest American Hero.
Joe S replied:
Greatest American Hero? I never watched the show, not even one episode, so I can't render an opinion. (If indeed, that is the series in question.)
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', 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'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Chris Pratt hosting, music by Ariana Grande.
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 has a RERUN'Gracepoint', followed by another RERUN'Gracepoint'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Tremors 4: The Legend Begins', followed by the movie 'Tremors', then the movie 'Tremors II: Aftershocks'.
BBC -
[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 5 - Schisms
[6:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 5 - Conditions of Existence
[7:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Variations Under Domestication
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Sabatiello's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Mojito's
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - PJ's Steakhouse
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Ep 13 - Prohibition Grille
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 9
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 10
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 1
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR: AMBITIOUS BUT RUBBISH-Episode 1
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 16 - Too Short a Season
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 17 - When The Bough Breaks
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 18 - Home Soil
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 19 - Coming of Age
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 8 - Ep 8 - Mummy on the Orient Express
[9:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 8 - Ep 9 - Flatline NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 16 - Episode 3 NEW
[11:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 8 - Ep 8 - Mummy on the Orient Express
[12:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 8 - Ep 9 - Flatline
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 16 - Episode 3
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 16 - Too Short a Season
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 17 - When The Bough Breaks
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 18 - Home Soil
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 19 - Coming of Age (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'The Sweetest Thing', followed by the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days', then the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Tommy Boy', 'Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos', 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', and 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-SKEWERED!
[6:30AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-ALL YOUR FAVORITES ARE BACK
[7:00AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-GOING ALL THE WAY
[7:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-ZACH GALIFIANAKIS WEARS A SANTA SUIT
[8:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-RAINN WILSON
[8:15AM] BATMAN-INSTANT FREEZE
[8:48AM] BATMAN-RATS LIKE CHEESE
[9:21AM] BATMAN-ZELDA THE GREAT
[9:54AM] BATMAN-A DEATH WORSE THAN FATE
[10:27AM] BATMAN-A RIDDLE A DAY KEEPS THE RIDDLER AWAY
[11:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-ELLIE KEMPER WEARS A PURPLE RUFFLED SLEEVELESS TOP & LAVENDER FLATS
[11:30AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-SNOBS AND SLOBS
[12:00PM] JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK
[2:15PM] V FOR VENDETTA
[5:00PM] THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
[8:00PM] JAWS
[10:45PM] KILL BILL: VOL. 2
[1:45AM] THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
[4:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-ELLIE KEMPER WEARS A PURPLE RUFFLED SLEEVELESS TOP & LAVENDER FLATS
[5:15AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-SNOBS AND SLOBS
[5:45AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Loredana, Esq.-You Make Me Want to Do Crime
[7:00AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & Make-up
[7:15AM] Sideways
[10:00AM] To Rome With Love
[12:30PM] Dream School-Episode 3
[1:30PM] Kingpin
[4:00PM] The Blues Brothers
[7:00PM] Weird Science
[9:00PM] 9 to 5
[11:30PM] The Witches of Eastwick
[2:00AM] The Blues Brothers
[5:00AM] Loredana, Esq.-Dirty Talk and Stolen Identities (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Scarecrow', followed by the movie 'Finder's Keepers'.
Director Pedro Almodovar (C) poses with his trophy next Director Bertrand Tavernier (L) and actress Juliette Binoche after receiving the 2014 Lumiere Film Festival prize in Lyon, October 17, 2014.
Photo by Robert Pratta
Actress Uma Thurman attends the Wings WorldQuest Women of Discovery Awards at the Donna Karan Urban Zen Foundation on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in New York.
Photo by Donald Traill
British royalty has met acting aristocracy, as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II bestowed an honour on Maggie Smith during a ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Smith, who plays the imperious Dowager Countess of Grantham on "Downton Abbey," was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor on Friday in recognition of her six decades in theatre, cinema and television.
The award is limited to 65 living people "of distinction." Other members include physicist Stephen Hawking, actor Ian McKellen and artist David Hockney.
The 79-year-old actress has won two Academy Awards, for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "California Suite."
When the ashes of Mattie Clyburn Rice, the daughter of a slave, are buried Saturday in her father's grave in the North Carolina piedmont, a color guard of Confederate re-enactors will be in attendance. So will members of the United Daughters of Confederacy.
That the daughter of a man enslaved in the 1800s should live to see the 21st century seems almost extraordinary enough - but equally remarkable is the record of her father, who went to war to cook for his master, saved the man's life and ended up drawing a pension for his wartime service.
The lives of Rice and her father Weary Clyburn, who was in his early 80s when she was born, illustrate the tangled threads of history in connection to slavery, the Civil War and its aftermath.
Members of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans who knew Rice say she regarded her father as a Confederate soldier, but historians and his pension papers say that's not exactly the case; he was a slave who went to war to serve his master.
But Rice, who was 91 when she died in September in High Point, devoted her energy to confirming his Confederate service, said Tony Way, an SCV member who is arranging the funeral Saturday at Hillcrest Cemetery in Monroe.
Italian actor Franco Nero poses for photographers as he arrives at the Lumiere Award ceremony during the 'Lumiere 2014 Grand Lyon Film Festival', in Lyon, France, 17 October 2014. The event runs from 13 to 19 October.
Photo by Guillaume Horcajuelo
Their goal is to win Arab Idol, the Arab world's premiere television song competition.
But the journey Manal Mousa, 25, and Haitham Khalaily, 24, have taken from their villages in Israel to the competition in Lebanon could comprise a television drama of its own - featuring travel to an enemy country, Israeli security interrogations, and the complicated identity crisis of Israel's Arabs.
The two singers are competing for more than just fame: they want to be a part of the cultural world that has been largely off limits to them because of the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict.
In the bitter conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Arab-Israelis are stuck in the middle. Though citizens of the Jewish state, they share the ethnicity, language and culture of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Arabs who remained in Israel after its creation in 1948, and their descendants, today make up 20 percent of the population. Many identify as Palestinians rather than Israelis, watch Arab satellite television and dream of traveling throughout the Middle East. But their Israeli citizenship bars them from most Arab countries because Israeli passport holders are prohibited entry.
Led Zeppelin is stuck in Pennsylvania at the moment, forced to confront claims the band stole its biggest hit "Stairway to Heaven" from Randy Craig Wolfe, founding member of the band Spirit.
Wolfe's heirs sued Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and their music companies in June, asserting that the story Page has told over the years about holing himself up in a remote cottage in Wales in 1970 and creating the iconic song is false. The plaintiff alleges that the music really came from Spirit, which once toured with Led Zeppelin in the late 1960s.
In response, the plaintiff amended the lawsuit with some emphasis on why a Pennsylvania judge should oversee the case: "Defendants are subject to specific jurisdiction in this district because they make millions of dollars from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by directly targeting this district for the exploitation of 'Stairway to Heaven' through CD sales, digital downloading, radio and television play, advertising, marketing, concert performances, other performances, licensing, and otherwise targeting resident individuals and businesses to profit off the exploitation of 'Stairway to Heaven.'"
U.S. District Court Judge Juan Sánchez has now denied the motion to dismiss or transfer without prejudice, meaning that the Zeppelin parties can still try again.
Four people - including a son of U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake - have been indicted on cruelty to animal charges after 21 dogs died at a Gilbert kennel in June, prosecutors said Wednesday.
A grand jury indicted Green Acre Dog Boarding owners Jesse Todd and Malesia Maurine Hughes along with the couple's daughter Logan Flake and son-in-law Austin Flake, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said.
The Hugheses said the animals died of heat exhaustion on June 20 in an 8- by 12-foot room when one dog chewed through the air conditioner's power cord after the caretakers left the facility for the night.
The couple was vacationing in Florida at the time and said their daughter and son-in-law were in charge of watching the dogs, authorities said.
The Flakes reportedly tried to save the animals by hosing and icing them down, but authorities said they didn't call for emergency assistance before the dogs died.
American architect Frank Gehry poses as he attends a press visit at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in the Bois de Boulogne, western Paris, October 17, 2014. Reflecting sky, clouds and light, the airy and audacious building designed by Los Angeles-based architect Gehry and built on a one-hectare plot in the west of Paris resembles a swaying ship sitting next to a cascading rectangular pool of water. The Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, an art museum and cultural center, will open to the public on October 27, 2014 after three special open days for the Inaugural Weekend.
Photo by Benoit Tessier
The customized Captain America chopper Peter Fonda rode in "Easy Rider" is up for auction this weekend in California. Or is it?
Gordon Granger of Texas says he bought the original "Easy Rider" motorcycle in 1996 from Dan "Grizzly Adams" Haggerty, an actor with a bit part in the 1960s counterculture classic.
Both that red, white and blue bike and the one headed for auction Saturday have certificates of authenticity signed by Haggerty.
But the actor acknowledged to the Los Angeles Times this week that he has authenticated and sold two Captain America bikes.
Now Haggerty says just one of the bikes is legitimate, and it's Michael Eisenberg's - the one going up for sale Saturday with a $1 million minimum.
British actor-director Alan Rickman arrives for the premiere of 'A Little Chaos' at the 58th BFI London Film Festival, in London, Britain, 17 October 2014. The festival runs from 08 to 19 October.
Photo by Andrew Cowie
There are no signs that leprosy diagnosed in an Ohio inmate had spread to other prisoners or staff, and there is little risk that it has, prison officials said on Friday.
The inmate, originally from Micronesia, a region of islands in the Pacific Ocean, is being treated at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus after tests determined on Tuesday that he had leprosy, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said on Friday.
The chronic infection, also known as Hansen's disease, can be treated with antibiotics.
Mary DiOrio, an epidemiologist with Ohio's Health Department, said in a letter to prison officials that the inmate posed little risk to others because only 5 percent of the population is susceptible to the bacterium that causes the disease.
An Indian woman shows her hand decorated with henna design ahead of Diwali, the Festival of Lights, in Callcutta India, October 17, 2014. During Diwali, the entire house is cleaned and new clothes are purchased for the whole family. This is followed by lighting oil lamps around the house and setting off firecrackers.
Photo by Piyal Adhikary
Montana wildlife officials decided Thursday against shipping 145 bison captured from Yellowstone National Park to the Bronx zoo and other locations across the nation, choosing to send them to an American Indian reservation within the state.
The Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to transfer the bison to Fort Peck Indian Reservation instead of following a recommendation to divide the animals among the reservation, a New York-based wildlife consortium, Oklahoma's Cherokee Nation and the state of Utah. The bison are now being held on a ranch owned by media mogul Ted Turner under a five-year agreement that comes to an end next month, adding urgency to finding them a new home.
Commissioners said they are confident in the Fort Peck tribes' ability to manage the bison after successfully handling the one previous relocation of 63 Yellowstone bison in 2012. Commissioners also wanted to keep the animals in the state in anticipation of a Montana bison conservation plan to be completed next year.
Yellowstone bison are considered extremely valuable because they are one of the few wild herds left that have no cattle genes. These 145 bison were captured a decade ago under an experimental program to start new herds using the genetically pure Yellowstone animals.
The state agency recommended only 70 of the bison go to Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation, with 35 to Oklahoma's Cherokee Nation and the remaining 30 to Utah's Division of Wildlife.
A shrine maiden walks behind shinto priests before a ritual to cleanse themselves at the Yasukuni Shrine during the Annual Autumn Festival in Tokyo October 17, 2014.
Photo by Yuya Shino
It may be the only time you will find these words in the same sentence: "Ebola" and "Add to Wishlist."
Giantmicrobes Inc., which makes a line of plush toys based on viruses and other microscopic organisms, has sold out its entire Ebola stock, including the small Ebola doll for $9.95, a Gigantic Ebola doll for $29.95 and an Ebola Petri Dish toy for $14.95, according to the company's website.
"Since its discovery in 1976, Ebola has become the T. Rex of microbes," says the Stamford, Connecticut-based maker of the "uniquely contagious toy" on its website, which promotes them as gag gifts that also have educational value.
Giantmicrobes lists the World Health Organization as one of its largest customers, along with pharmaceutical companies and the American Red Cross.
Anyone disappointed by the current shortage of the Ebola toys can click on "Add to Wishlist" and wait for more stock to arrive. Or make a different selection from the company's array of other plush toys, including Anthrax, Botulism, Cholera and Dengue Fever.
People watch a mechanical installation named "Long Ma" emit water vapour during the Long Ma performance in front of the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing October 17, 2014. "Long Ma", a 17-meter (56-ft) long and 15-meter (49-ft) tall mechanized dragon sculpture, and "The Spider", a 5.7-meter (19-ft) tall and 6-meter (20-ft) wide machine, are operated by French performance art company La Machine. The structures are operated by an automatic control system and electronic equipment. The performance, which combines Chinese culture and French art, was held in Beijing in honour of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, an organiser of the event said.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
Hidden for more than 90 years beneath the rolling sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, an enormous, plaster sphinx from the 1923 blockbuster movie "The Ten Commandments" has been rediscovered and is now above ground.
The public will be able to see the sphinx on display as early as next year, once it has been reconstructed - a necessity since it became weather-beaten during its stint beneath the sand, said Doug Jenzen, the executive director of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center, who oversaw the recent excavation.
The roughly 15-foot-tall (4.6 meters) sphinx is one of 21 that lined the path to Pharaoh's City in the 1923 silent hit, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. He later remade the film, with Charlton Heston as Moses, in 1956.
"[The 1923 film] was one of the largest movie sets ever made, because they didn't have special effects," Jenzen told Live Science. "So anything that they wanted to look large, they had to build large." The facade to Pharaoh's City stood an estimated 12 stories tall and about 720 feet (219 meters) across. "It's giant," Jenzen said.
Tim Hauser, the founder and singer of the Grammy-winning vocal troupe The Manhattan Transfer, died Thursday from cardiac arrest, band representative JoAnn Geffen said Friday. He was 72.
Hauser founded Manhattan Transfer, who released their debut album in the early 1970s and launched hits such as "Operator" and "The Boy from New York City." They went on to win multiple pop and jazz Grammy Awards. Their critically revered album, 1985's "Vocalese," earned a whopping 12 Grammy nominations.
Alan Paul, Janis Siegel and Cheryl Bentyne round out the foursome. They said in a statement: "Tim was the visionary behind The Manhattan Transfer ... It's incomprehensible to think of this world without him."
Manhattan Transfer will continue their upcoming tour despite Hauser's death.
Meerkats chomp and romp with Halloween spirit during Woodland Park Zoo's annual Pumpkin Bash Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington. Pumpkin Bash is held Saturdays-Sundays, Oct. 18-19, 25-26 and Friday, Oct. 31.
Photo by Jordan Stead
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