Paul Krugman: Snow Job on Jobs (New York Times)
Mitt Romney talks a lot about jobs. But does he have a plan to create any? … But Mr. Romney, it turns out, doesn't have a plan; he's just faking it.
Rebecca Cusick: Traumatic lives of students affect teacher's evaluation (Washington Post)
I am crushed. I got my MCAS [Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System] growth score for last year in an email. My heart sank when I saw the score, my entire year summed up in a number. In the eyes of the state, I am not even "average." In fact, they probably believe I did my students more harm than good.
Reddit's Biggest Troll Loses Job After Identity Is Exposed By Gawker (Huffington Post)
Actions have consequences, which is something Michael Brutsch is just starting to learn. Brutsch, aka "Violentacrez," was Reddit's biggest troll until Gawker exposed his true identify, revealing to the world the man behind questionable forums, such as […]-- a space dedicated to pictures of women unaware that their photographs had been taken. Now that the 49-year-old from Arlington, Texas, has been outed, his behavior has caught up with him. […] Brutsch was fired from his position at a financial services company less than 24 hours after Gawker editor Adrian Chen's exposé went live.
Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says (CBS News)
Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn't the wheat your grandma had: "It's an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the '60s and '70s," he said on "CBS This Morning." "This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such as there's a new protein in this thing called gliadin. It's not gluten. I'm not addressing people with gluten sensitivities and celiac disease. I'm talking about everybody else because everybody else is susceptible to the gliadin protein that is an opiate. This thing binds into the opiate receptors in your brain and in most people stimulates appetite, such that we consume 440 more calories per day, 365 days per year."
Ted Heistman: Being a Guinea Pig (Disinformation)
I'm getting ready to go to the bank and cash my check and have so many hundred dollar bills that I won't be able to close my wallet. So what have I been doing for the last 11 days?
J.F. Sargent: 6 Insane Stereotypes That Movies Can't Seem to Get Over (Cracked)
We've talked before about how some negative stereotypes from the past are, somehow, still showing up in today's movies, and even in recent video games. But those are our grandfathers' prejudices, just in a modern form, like an old man cursing at an Asian nurse with a megaphone (that's why we don't visit, Grandpa). It turns out there are other, more subtle ways that Hollywood has been enforcing wrongheaded ideas right under our noses, and sometimes in our favorite films. Like ...
Apple Maps in the Movies (Holy Kaw!)
Had Katniss Everdeen depended on Apple maps for her survival, the Hunger Games would have continued for another seventy-five years, easy, but she's not the only one who luckily didn't depend on technology over good, old-fashioned street smarts in these parody trailers from YouTube channel Movieclips Trailers
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In geometry, an icosahedron is a regular polyhedron with 20 identical equilateral triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Twenty
Charlie wrote:
Twenty
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
In geometry, an icosahedron is a regular polyhedron with 20 identical
equilateral triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices.
Adam answered:
I count 32.
Marian replied:
20
Sally said:
I believe an icosahedron has twenty faces. This because the beginning of the word, icosa, in the Greek language means twenty. Yeah, that sounds good to me...
But not as many faces as the Mittster does!
PS: I love how Billy Graham has ONLY YESTERDAY removed "Mormons" from his 'cult' list of religions! Well, now we know Mitt is a shoo in after that hypocritical endorsement...
Dale of Diamond Springs answered:
I even remember this from H.S. Geometry. 20 triangular faces. Each is identical, and it creates a total of 30 edges. Now go ahead and make your own!!!
Sharon replied:
An icosahedron is a regular solid with 20 equilateral triangles as its sides.
If you cut each of the corners off an icosahedron, one third of the way down the edge, you get a truncated icosahedron which has 20 regular hexagons and 12 regular pentagons.
A truncated icosahedron is basically a soccer ball. I learned this on Wikipedia.
I got interested in this b/c I found a picture in the October issue of Art in America of a wooden version of one of these, which is 51 inches in diameter. I would LOVE to have one of these in my yard since I think it's weird yard art. I am taking a welding class at the moment. Maybe I could make one some day.
The one in the picture is by Ai Weiwei. He has gotten in political trouble with the Chinese government. Picture of cool sculpture attached.
MAM wrote:
20 (equilateral triangle) faces~ The beginning of the word icosa in the Greek language means twenty.
PS I said it before, and will say it again. Marty is a 'Butterfly Whisperer'!
BttbBob said:
Zounds! Geometry! Oh, joy! (Seriously... I like it a lot) It was/is my 'art' in many aspects. As a 'coast pilot' navigator (I made damn'd sure where I was, always, by my DR chart work, I'm tellin' ya. Caveat: Electronics breakdown at the most inconvenient times... like when it's foggy); a draftsman (still... many of my home invented creations e.g. a work bench, needs a blueprint, dontcha know) and a trained CNC machinist now retired... And, Oh! How I love Trig, too!... Anyway, the answer is: 20 identical equilateral triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids. (the others are equally as wonderful)
Like this! Coolness, eh?
Memo to Joe S (and other baseball musings): Loved the graphic, Man!
Broom! Broom! Out-go-the-lights!...
...Meanwhile, as the Snidely Whiplashes of Major League Baseball (that would be the New York Yankees) go slinking (and cursing) back to The Bronx utterly thrashed, humiliated and swept by the Detroit Tigers (think Dudley Do-Right), one looks ahead to the World Series. I hope we see, again, the St. Louis Cardinals. The '68 series between those two is still talked over reverently hereabouts... and '06 must be avenged... Oh, and thanks, M, for the added intro logo today. Nice touch... Here's another.
Fear the !!!!
Go Tigers!
And, Joe S replied:
In general, an icosahedron is a 20-faced polyhedron (where icos- derives from the Greek word for "twenty" and -hedron comes from the Indo-European word for "seat") Check it out, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Icosahedron.html I don't know what any of this stuff means.
A better question (not that I'm criticizing Marty, you do a wonderful job) (marvelous job) another question would be how many faces does Mitt Romney have? With the answer being, as many as it takes on any given day.
No, really Marty, you do a stupendous job . It's just that I don't know shit about geometry. I'm merely creating a diversion because I don't know shit about geometry beyond a truncated hexagonal pyramid, which I drew in drafting class when I was in tenth grade. 52 years ago.
I'm a music producer and I think my new track I've made sampling Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" quote at the Presidential Debate two nights ago would make for a great post on BartCop.com's Entertainment section as it has picked up almost 2,000 views in less than one day just via word-of-mouth.
The song came about as Alex was watching the debate and joked on Twitter that he would turn Mitt's "binders full of women" quote into a strip club instrumental for Juicy J ("Bandz A Make Her Dance") and 2 Chainz ("Birthday Song"). He turned his joke turned into reality the very next day. He's encouraging rappers to hop on the track and release their own versions on YouTube and SoundCloud as responses to his video.
The track was produced by Alex Kresovich, a music producer from Ithaca, NY currently best known for winning the NBA 2K12 Producer Contest to produce the main theme for NBA 2K12 video game (used in commercial on ABC here).
The track was mixed by Ken Lewis (ProToolsMixing.com), the 10x Grammy winner best known for being an instrumentalist/engineer for Kanye West. His work has included arranging the brass section on "All of the Lights" by Kanye West, serving as main engineer for Jeremih's breakout single "Down On Me", and most recently for providing additional drumming work to "We Are Young" by fun. and "Girl On Fire" by Alicia Keys.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'Person Of Interest', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Revolution', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Bruno Mars hosting & providing the music.
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 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Parking Wars', then another FRESH'Parking Wars', followed by a FRESH'Billy The Exterminator', and another FRESH'Billy The Exterminator'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday', then the movie 'Jason X', then the movie 'Eight Legged Freaks'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 8 - La Gondola
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Kingston Cafe
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - PJ's Steakhouse
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Glasshouse
[11:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Foreign Exchange
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 4
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 5
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 6
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 7
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 24 - Second Chances NEW
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 25 - Timescape NEW
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 26 - Descent, Part 1 NEW
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 1 - Descent, Part 2 NEW
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy
[9:00PM] BEDLAM - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Unfaithful NEW
[10:00PM] HEX - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Life Goes On
[11:00PM] FUNNY AS HELL 2012 NEW
[12:00AM] BEDLAM - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Unfaithful
[1:00AM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 9 - A Day to Give Thanks
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy
[3:00AM] A KNIGHT'S TALE (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt', 'Jeff Dunham: Minding The Monsters', 'Key & Peele', and 'Jeff Dunham: Minding The Monsters', again.
FX has the movie 'The Karate Kid', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups', then the movie 'Easy A'.
History has 'Cajun Pawn Stars', another 'Cajun Pawn Stars', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'The Men Who Built America'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Bunk
[6:30AM] Bunk
[7:00AM] Bunk
[7:30AM] Doghouse
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Back From the Front
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Brideless Groom
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Crime on Their Hands
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Disorder in the Court
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Fuelin' Around
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Fiddlers Three
[12:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[12:30PM] The Deaths of Ian Stone
[2:15PM] Captivity
[4:00PM] Doghouse
[6:00PM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[8:00PM] Creepshow
[10:30PM] Teeth
[12:30AM] Teeth
[2:30AM] May
[4:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[5:00AM] Bunk
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Tricks and Treats (Episode 3, Season 1)
[7:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Kim Kelly Is My Friend (Episode 4, Season 1)
[8:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Tests and Breasts (Episode 5, Season 1)
[9:00A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Cougar Town's Busy Philipps (Episode 1, Season 2)
[9:30A] This Is Not A Robbery
[11:00A] I Hate Valentine's Day
[12:30P] Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
[2:30P] Russian Dolls
[4:45P] Brideshead Revisited
[7:00P] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comic Marc Maron & Community's Gillian Jacobs (Episode 2, Season 2)
[8:00P] The Good Thief
[10:00P] The Untouchables
[12:00A] Public Sex
[2:00A] Election
[3:45A] Triad Election
[5:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comic Marc Maron & Community's Gillian Jacobs (Episode 2, Season 2) (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Daybreakers', followed by the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans'.
From the left. Musician Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Jane Fonda and husband Richard Perry seen at the Songs of Hope VIII - City of Hope Music Industry Gala and Fundraiser at the House of Rock on Thursday, October 18, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif.
Photo by Joe Kohen
ABC and Tom Hanks are apologizing after the actor let slip a swear word during a live appearance on "Good Morning America."
Hanks telegraphed his "f-bomb" during an interview Friday. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas had asked him to speak in his character's British accent in the movie "Cloud Atlas." Hanks said that it was "mostly swear words," but Vargas told him to go ahead anyway.
He began speaking in a mumble but the obscenity was clearly audible. ABC removed it for subsequent feeds of the show in the Midwest and West.
Vargas quickly said, "We are so sorry, 'Good Morning America.'" Hanks also apologized - and said he'd probably have a seven-second delay next time he's on the show.
The burned remains of Big Tex stand at the State Fair of Texas Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, in Dallas. Fire destroyed Big Tex on Friday, leaving behind little more than the metal frame of the 52-foot-tall metal and fabric cowboy that is an icon of the State Fair of Texas.
Photo by LM Otero
Fox's primetime will go into extra innings next Tuesday, after rain delays during a baseball game played havoc with the network's schedule on Wednesday and caused mass confusion with the broadcast of "The X Factor."
While Fox initially decided to re-air this week's episode of "The X Factor" in full next week, it will now broadcast a special one-hour edition of the singing competition, featuring the conclusion of the "Judges' Homes" round at 9:30, and air its Tuesday comedies "Raising Hope," Ben and Kate" and "New Girl" in their regular timeslots from 8 to 9:30 p.m.
The juggling of the schedule will push Fox's primetime to 10:30, past its usual bedtime of 10 p.m.
Wednesday's rain delay of the National League Championship created chaos with Fox's schedule. After originally hearing that the delay was likely to continue past primetime, Fox began airing "The X Factor," but when the delay was canceled about an hour later, the network pulled back "The X Factor" feed to switch to the game. However, a delay in the switch caused "The Mindy Show" to briefly air for some viewers.
Meanwhile, another glitch caused "The X Factor"'s east coast feed to air on the west coast, causing some viewers on the west coast to see "The X Factor" prior to its regular 8 p.m. airtime.
This five-foot-tall character with a foam head painted with outrageous red lips, a shrill voice and a penchant for salacious details rules Puerto Rico's gossip circuit, with legions tuning into her show every afternoon ready for the latest bombshell. La Comay dishes it out with ominous music playing in the background, talking about everyone from Mexican crooner Luis Miguel to Puerto Rico's own Miss Universe beauty queen Zuleyka Rivera.
With her trademark "Ayayayayayay!" shriek punctuated by the kind of wailing sirens reserved for nuclear meltdowns, La Comay delivers what has consistently been one the most popular shows in Puerto Rico for a decade.
The program has been derided for being over-the-top sensationalist and for broadcasting derogatory comments against women and gays, but "Super Xclusivo" remains the main news source for thousands in the U.S. territory and hundreds of Puerto Ricans in Florida and New York. The island comes to a stop every afternoon to watch La Comay not only talk small-town gossip but also expose government and business corruption scandals.
Members of a Chinese opera troupe wait backstage before performing outside a shrine during the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket October 19, 2012.
Photo by Damir Sagolj
Hollywood couple Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have married in southern Italy, People magazine said on Friday.
People said it would carry full details of the wedding, including exclusive photos, in next week's edition.
"Sexy Back" singer and actor Timberlake, 31, and "Total Recall" actress Biel, 30, have been dating on and off since 2007. They announced their engagement at the beginning of 2012, and carefully shielded the details of their nuptials from the public.
The pair have been in southern Italy for much of the week, partying with friends and wedding guests on a beach before exchanging vows. It was not immediately clear on which day the ceremony took place.
Republican Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois said after his Thursday debate against Democratic rival Tammy Duckworth that abortions are never necessary to save a pregnant woman's life, because modern technology has eliminated the risks of childbearing.
Walsh was defending his position that abortion should be outlawed with no exceptions, which is also the Republican Party's official stance on the issue.
"With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance" of a pregnant woman's life being at risk, he told reporters after the debate. "There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing." He added that "advances in science and technology" meant that abortion is never necessary for the health of a mother.
Walsh, a freshman Congressman, is currently trailing Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq War, in the polls.
People walk around candles covered in traditional Japanese papers and bearing messages from residents in the Tohoku area, which was devastated by last year's earthquake and tsunami, at the "Smile for Japan" event in Tokyo, October 19, 2012.
Photo by Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
Roger Ailes (R-Evil Incarnate's Bitch) has signed a four-year contract that will keep him at the top of Fox News as its chairman and chief executive.
Ailes launched Fox News in October 1996 under the umbrella of News Corp and built it up as one of the most successful news channels on cable television rivaling Comcast's MSNBC and Time Warner's CNN.
Ailes' new contract, announced on Friday, put an end to some uncertainty that he might not return Fox. Ailes, 72, told the Associated Press last year that he was undecided about renewing with News Corp after his contract expired in 2013.
The former Republican strategist will also continue to serve as chairman of Fox Television Stations and as a senior news and TV adviser to Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate), chairman and CEO of News Corp.
Oil has long lived in harmony with farmland and cattle across the Texas landscape, a symbiosis nurtured by generations and built on an unspoken honor code that allowed agriculture to thrive while oil was extracted.
Proud Texans have long welcomed the industry because of the cash it brings to sustain agriculture, but also see its presence as part of their patriotic duty to help wean the United States off "foreign" oil. So the answer to companies that wanted to build pipelines has usually been simple: Yes.
Enter TransCanada.
As the company pursues construction of a 1,179-mile-long cross-country pipeline meant to bring Canadian tar sands oil to South Texas refineries, it's finding opposition in the unlikeliest of places: oil-friendly Texas, a state that has more pipelines snaking through the ground than any other.
In the minds of some landowners approached by TransCanada for land, the company has broken the code.
Nearly half the steel TransCanada is using is not American-made and the company won't promise to use local workers exclusively; it can't guarantee the oil will remain in the United States. It has snatched land. Possibly most egregious: The company has behaved like an arrogant foreigner, unworthy of operating in Texas.
A devotee of Ban Tha Rua Chinese shrine is helped with piercing palm branches through his cheeks during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket October 19, 2012.
Photo by Damir Sagolj
Naked men of all sizes and shapes are appearing on Vienna kiosks as a prestigious museum kicks off an exhibit of male nudity.
But outside the exhibition, organizers are being forced into cover-up mode after a storm of complaints that the ad posters are offensive.
In a show titled "Nude Men from 1800 to Today," the Leopold Museum opened its doors Friday to examine how artists have dealt with the theme of male nudity over the centuries.
"Mr. Big" - a four-meter (more than 12-foot) high full-frontal photo mounted on plywood and depicting a naked young man in an indolent sprawl - is set up near the show's entrance, lest there be any doubt what visitors are about to see.
The complaints clearly caught the museum by surprise. Vienna's turn-of-the-century decadence allowed erotic artists such as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt to flourish, and has turned these days into complacent acceptance of displays of the flesh. Today, lingerie ads are racy and one popular daily paper regularly features pictures of half-naked women.
Mirko Curti was chasing his cat through the streets of his village on Tuesday night when the cat inadvertently discovered a set of ancient Roman ruins.
"The cat managed to get into a grotto and we followed the sound of its meowing," Curti told the Guardian.
When he caught up to the animal, it had crawled into an opening in the side of a cliff. Inside the opening, Curti stumbled upon a 2,000-year-old tomb "piled with bones" and ancient Roman urns.
Archeologists who were called to the site have speculated that it dates back to sometime between the 1st century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D.
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