Tom Danehy: Tom on Dr. Benjamin Carson, Burger King's grammatical errors and more (Tucson Weekly)
I hate that the so-called mainstream media went out of their way to portray the government shutdown and debt-limit/default issues as things for which both parties were equally at fault. That's insane. The "crisis" was wholly manufactured by a handful of nuts on the political fringe-cretins who hate poor people, minorities and government-and then thrown like a stink bomb into a crowded room.
Beginning operations in 1946 as one of the USA's pioneer commercial television networks, it is now considered the 'Forgotten Network'. What was it's name?
The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the USA. It began operation in the United States in 1946 It was owned by DuMont Laboratories, a television equipment and set manufacturer. The network was hindered by the prohibitive cost of broadcasting, by Federal Communications Commission regulations which restricted the company's growth, and even by the company's partner, Paramount Pictures. Despite several innovations in broadcasting and the creation of one of television's biggest stars of the 1950s, the network never found itself on solid financial ground. Forced to expand on UHF channels during an era when UHF was not profitable, DuMont ceased broadcasting in 1956.
DuMont's latter-day obscurity has prompted at least one notable TV historian to refer to it as the "Forgotten Network".
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
The DuMont Network
Louis Of Oregon said:
Loved her in "Duck Soup". Surprised to learn W.P. Blatty
filled in for Dear Abby. Loved his book "Twinkle Twinkle
Killer Kane". Helped make me the man I am today.
Adam answered:
The Du Mont television network
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
DuMont Television Network
Charlie responded:
DuMont.
I confess, I had forgotten.
@Sally - a little west of Cleveland - a.k.a "The Mistake on the Lake."
I find the buckeye leaf confusion amusing, but not everybody does.
Marian replied:
DuMont Television Network
Sally said:
Beginning operations in 1946 as one of the USA's pioneer commercial television networks, DuMont is now considered the 'Forgotten Network.'
I remember DuMont, it had the best comedies on air at that time! I especially remember it for the "Honeymooners!"
PS: @JoeS, may I suggest that you borrow one of your granddaughters to instruct you on the use of your, "Smart Phone." My gd is only 10 1/2, and she is already an expert. Face it Joe, their fingers are smaller, and their brains a lot faster. Sigh...
In the interest on Nat'l Security, I cannot reveal from whom I received this secret photo of JoeS attempting to use his, "SmartPhone," but I assure you, it's him...
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norfalcali, took the day off.
BttbBob answered:
The "Forgotten Network", eh? Uh... I forgot... AHAHAHA-HA-HA-HA!!!!...
Er, sorry... No, not really! - AHAHAHA-HA-HA-HA!!!!... Okay, okay... It's the DuPont or DuMont television network, or some damn'd like that... Losers...
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Cuz they didn't have Bugs Bunny et al, nor Rocky and Bullwinkle, I'm figurin', and that's why...
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Bruce link Comment - Hey, Miley! Do you realize that you and your outfit are not at all important in way, shape or matter? Yeah, really... Get over yourself, would ya now?
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Private Memo to SallyP: What? What was that you said? Huh? What?
Say again?
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"Whadda ya think? Moment - The historic, recently restored, magnificent Art-Deco "Temple Theater" in nearby Saginaw is hosting Drew Carey doing his stand-up routine on November 2nd. Should I go?
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(65) Imagine, if you would, what this lady would be like now, if she knew then, what she knows now... Happy Birthday, Madam Secretary...
(67) She wasn't my fa-vo-rite "Angel", but she is one nonetheless...
(45) I have a hard time thinking of this guy as an Kiwi- Australian... I think this is why
Keith Urban - Somebody Like You - YouTube
But, I gotta say I like it... Musically eclectic, I am... Oh, and he has an interesting taste in women, I gotta say... Hi, Nicole!
(56) I wonder if Tom ever calls her "Roxie"... I would... It fits... Perfectly
Born this day:
(1914-1984) In my perfect world, everybody would have an uncle like him...
It would be mandatory...
The caption on the Hyde Park picture at the bottom of yesterday's page
says "A visitor views the autumn colours..." A visitor?! It looks more like a figure of death stalking his next victim!
Linda >^..^<
We're all only temporarily able bodied.
Thanks, Linda!
I kinda thought the same thing! Even put on my glasses and got up close to the monitor...
It's the kid's birthday - can finally send him to the store to pick up a 6-pack.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', then a RERUN'Elementary', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Ironside', followed by a RERUN'The Blacklist', then an hourlong RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Edward Norton hosting, music by Janelle Monae.
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'2013 World Series', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Alien Resurrection', followed by the movie 'The Amityville Horror', then the movie 'The Omen'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 1
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 2
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Revisited: Le Bistro, Anna Vincenzo's, Lido di Manhattan
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Revisited: Bonapartes
[10:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 13
[10:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 14
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 6
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 2
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 8
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 9
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 7
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 23 - Emergence
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 24 - Preemptive Strike
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 25 - All Good Things..., Part 1
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 26 - All Good Things..., Part 2
[9:00PM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Immortal Sins NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 2 NEW
[11:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner
[12:00AM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Immortal Sins
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 2
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 23 - Emergence
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 24 - Preemptive Strike
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 25 - All Good Things..., Part 1
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 26 - All Good Things..., Part 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Million Dollar Listing Lost Angeles', followed by the movie 'Scary Movie', then the movie 'Scary Movie', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Ghostbusters', 'Jeff Dunham: Minding The Monsters', 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself', and 'Jeff Dunham: Minding The Monsters'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: The Last Stand', followed by the movie '30 Days Of Night'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Portlandia-Motorcycle
[6:45AM] Portlandia-Feminist Bookstore 10th Anniversary
[7:15AM] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[9:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[10:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[10:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Company Picnic
[12:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Reese Drives
[1:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Cynthia's Back
[1:30PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:45PM] Starsky & Hutch
[4:00PM] The Matador
[6:00PM] Lake Dead
[8:00PM] Hostel
[10:00PM] Hostel Part II
[12:00AM] The Rocky Horror Picture Show
[2:15AM] The Rocky Horror Picture Show
[4:30AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Lady and the Reaper
[6:15AM] The Player
[9:00AM] Religulous
[11:15AM] The Tree of Life
[2:15PM] Zodiac
[5:45PM] The Departed
[9:00PM] The Returned-Camille
[10:15PM] Body Double
[12:45AM] The Returned-Camille
[2:00AM] Return to Paradise
[4:30AM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[5:00AM] Dream School-Jeff Corwin, Soledad O'Brien, David Arquette & Doriana Sanchez (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Rise Of The Zombies', followed by the movie 'Zombie Night'.
Stan Lee, founder, chairman, board of director and CCO, POW! Entertainment, left, and comedian Carol Leifer arrive at "The Hollywood Reporter's Key Art Awards" Powered by Clio on Thursday Oct. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Conan O'Brien brought his humour to the announcing booth on Friday at Santa Anita, calling a race that likely left fans wondering exactly which horse had won.
The late night comic took over from veteran caller Trevor Denman for the second race. O'Brien didn't have to pronounce any tongue twisters among the six horses running a mile on the dirt. He even smoothly handled the favourite's name, Sarangani. That was the easy part.
Squinting through binoculars to describe what was unfolding proved much tougher in a sport that has its own unique lingo.
"I'm seeing a bunch of horses following Blue Collar Boy," O'Brien shouted. "All horses look alike when you're not around horses a lot."
O'Brien admitted that he was thoroughly confused trying to identify the horses by the colour of the jockeys' silks or "costumes," as he called them.
"If you're going to have idiot celebrities come in and call a race, you can't have two guys in all blue and two guys in all white," he said. "It's not fair."
Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., is defying criticism from Republicans and fellow Democrats for comparing the Tea Party to the KKK, saying he is "calling them out on their hate" and that it "needs to be done."
Grayson ramped up his attack on the Tea Party after he was rebuked by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel as well as from the GOP. But Grayson was unapologetic.
"I'm calling them out for their hate," Grayson said. "That's not wrong. That needs to be done. It's the only way to end it."
He also went a step further Wednesday, attacking the Tea Party for being engaged in hate speech, prejudice, discrimination, racism and even warned that they could resort to violence.
In an interview, in the congressman's home district, with Orlando ABC affiliate WFTV, Grayson said, "I think the Tea Party should expel those members who engage in hate speech…. So many members of the Tea Party have engaged in hate speech against the president, against the first lady, against numerous members of the Congress and against me. And we could give you examples of that."
"Welcome to The Program!" Every week Egyptians obsessively tuned in to hear that slogan and watch groundbreaking TV political satirist Bassem Youssef flay their politicians. Some loved his biting humor, others were infuriated, but no one could ignore it. For four months, they've gone without him, his show kept off the air by turmoil surrounding the country's coup.
Now the man known as "Egypt's Jon Stewart" is back, returning to the air Friday night in a country radically different from four months ago.
When Youssef's final show of last season aired, the president was Islamist Mohammed Morsi - Youssef's favorite target. The satirist mocked him and his Islamist supporters mercilessly week after week for mixing religion and politics and for botching the governing of the country. Soon after the last show, massive protests began against Morsi, paving the way for the military to remove him.
Youssef's long hiatus between seasons was in part because a curfew in place since mid-August made filming the show difficult and because of the recent death of Youssef's mother.
Michael Chiklis and Evan Handler attend the Autism Speaks' Blue Jean Ball at Boulevard 3 on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
The youngest Irwin is following in the TV hosting footsteps of late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin and big sister, Bindi.
Nine-year-old Robert Irwin will co-host "Wild But True" on Discovery Kids Asia, exploring parallels between nature and science.
He calls it a "really, really cool concept" for a television show. "... it's about how science has gotten ideas and built from inventions from the natural world," he said.
The siblings appeared regularly on their father's show before he died from a sting ray injury in 2006 while shooting a documentary.
Quincy Jones sued Michael Jackson's estate on Friday claiming he is owed millions in royalties and production fees on some of the superstar's greatest hits.
Jones' lawsuit seeks at least $10 million from the singer's estate and Sony Music Entertainment, claiming the entities improperly re-edited songs to deprive him of royalties and production fees. The music has been used in the film "This Is It" and a pair of Cirque du Soleil shows based on the King of Pop's songs, the lawsuit states.
Jones also claims that he should have received a producer's credit on the music in "This Is It." His lawsuit seeks an accounting of the estate's profits from the works so that Jones can determine how much he is owed.
Jackson's hits "Billie Jean," ''Thriller" and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" are among the songs Jones claims were re-edited to deprive him of royalties and his producer's fee.
Jones' lawsuit states the producer's contracts called for him to have the first opportunity to re-edit or alter the songs, in part to protect his reputation.
Host Gelila Assefa and her husband, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, attend the Dream For Future Africa Foundation inaugural gala in Beverly Hills, California, October 24, 2013.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Ecuador threatened Friday to sue Britain in international venues over the status of Julian Assange if it rejects a proposal to submit the matter to a bilateral commission.
The WikiLeaks founder took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in August 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning in two sexual assault cases.
Assange fears Sweden will hand him over to American authorities for prosecution for publishing a massive trove of classified US documents. But Britain has refused him safe passage to Ecuador.
In hopes of breaking the deadlock, Ecuador has proposed creating a bilateral commission to resolve the issue.
A Planispheric Astrolabe from the Maghreb and dated 1135 AH (Islamic Calendar) is displayed in a case at the "Nur: Light in art and science in the Islamic world" exhibition in Seville, Spain, Friday, Oct 23, 2013. A private museum in the south of Spain is hosting an exhibition of rare Islamic art objects that highlight the role which enlightenment played in decoration and investigation in the Arab world. The exhibition, "Nur: Light in art and science in the Islamic world," is sponsored by energy company Abengoa and has gathered together 150 pieces from collections like that of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University and private collectors across the world. From there, the entire exhibition travels to the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas.
Photo by Laura Leon
An East Tennessee magistrate who ordered a baby's name changed from Messiah to Martin has been charged with violating the state's Code of Judicial Conduct.
Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered the name change during a paternity hearing in Newport on Aug. 8.
At the time, the parents were disputing the 8-month-old baby's surname. Mother, Jaleesa Martin, hoped to keep the name she had given the boy- Messiah Deshawn Martin - and father, Jawaan McCullough, wanted the baby to bear his last name.
Ballew surprised both parents by ordering the baby's name be changed to Martin Deshawn McCullough, saying the name Messiah was not in the baby's best interest. Her written order said "'Messiah' is a title that is held only by Jesus Christ."
Among other things, the code requires that judges perform all duties without bias or prejudice based on religion.
Traditional sumo wrestling club members at Saitama Sakae junior and senior high school show their training to cyclists including Tour de France winner Christopher Froome of Britain, in Saitama, north of Tokyo October 25, 2013. Cyclists are in Japan to compete in the criterium races in Saitama this weekend.
Photo by Issei Kato
A Texas hunting club said Friday it aims to raise up to a million dollars for endangered black rhinoceroses by auctioning off a permit to kill one in Namibia.
"First and foremost, this is about saving the black rhino," said Ben Carter, executive director of the Dallas Safari Club, which is hosting the auction early next year.
Black rhinos are internationally considered an endangered species and the World Wildlife Fund says about 4,800 are alive in the African wild.
Carter said in a statement sent to AFP that the Namibian government "selected" his hunting club to auction a black rhino hunting permit for one of its national parks.
The permit is expected "to sell for at least $250,000, possibly up to $1 million. The Conservation Trust Fund for Namibia's Black Rhino will receive 100 percent of the sale price," said the statement.
A model waits backstage prior to the Bodyspectra body painting event in Cape Town, South Africa, 25 October, 2013. Bodyspectra is Africa's premier body painting event produced by the Cape Town based City Varsity . Artists and models prepared for up to fourteen hours before showcasing their creations at a gala show in the evening. The theme in this year's fourteenth edition is 'Permutation'. Proceeds from the event go to Project Rhino for the conservation of the African Rhinoceros.
Photo by Nic Bothma
A new study of the eastern Canadian Arctic has shown that the average summer temperatures we've been seeing there over the past 100 years are higher than they've been in at least 44,000 years, and quite possibly up to 120,000 years.
As the ice on Baffin Island melts due to the unprecedented rate of warming we're seeing in the Arctic in recent years, preserved mosses are being exposed that have been trapped under the ice for thousands of years. A team of researchers led by Professor Gifford Miller, from the University of Colorado Boulder, examined these mosses using carbon dating techniques. Their results showed that the last time these mosses were exposed to air was, at the very least, sometime between 44,000 and 51,000 years ago. That includes being higher than the 'warming peak' during the early Holocene, roughly 11,000 years ago, when the Arctic was receiving about 9 per cent more radiation from the sun than it is today.
"The key piece here is just how unprecedented the warming of Arctic Canada is," Miller said in a CU-Boulder news release. "This study really says the warming we are seeing is outside any kind of known natural variability, and it has to be due to increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."
Also, since the age of the mosses was very close to the limit on how far back radiocarbon dating could show them, Miller and his team extended the timeline by examining gases trapped in ice cores collected from nearby Greenland. These showed that the last century's Arctic temperatures could actually be higher than they've been in around 120,000 years.
Augusto Odone, a former World Bank economist, defied skeptical scientists to invent a treatment to try to save the life of his little boy, wasting away from a neurological disease, and to give hope to other children afflicted with the same genetic defect.
Odone, 80, died on Thursday in his native Italy, five years after the death of his son Lorenzo, who astonished doctors by surviving decades longer than they predicted.
The concoction, derived from natural cooking oils, became known as Lorenzo's Oil, which was also the title of a movie depicting the relentless efforts by Odone and his late wife, Michaela, to try to find a cure.
Cristina Odone told The Associated Press on Friday that her father had died in Acqui Terme, a town in northwestern Italy in the area where he grew up. She said he had lived for many years with a series of medical problems and had died of organ failure precipitated by a lung infection.
"What was so remarkable about my father is that he would never accept a death sentence, either for his own son or for himself," she said. "He was supposed to die eight years ago, six years ago, four years ago. Till the very end, he would not accept either medical wisdom or a death sentence that nature would impose."
Lorenzo was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy, a neurological disease also known as ALD, when he was 6 and living in the Washington, D.C., area. Doctors predicted the rare genetic disease would kill him in a few years and that he would not survive childhood. But Augusto and his wife Michaela refused to accept an outlook of doom.
Odone took early retirement and began work. After scouring medical journals and consulting scientists and doctors, he taught himself enough science that in 1987 he came up with a concoction derived from natural cooking oils.
He turned to a British scientist to produce an edible version, eventually contained in a bottle carrying the simple name "Lorenzo's Oil."
ALD is caused by a genetic defect that destroys the sheath covering nerve fibers. It is characterized by the buildup of substances in the blood called long-chain fatty acids. Lorenzo's Oil is believed to return acid levels to normal when the condition is diagnosed early and the oil is accompanied by a strict, low-fat diet.
New York-born Michaela Odone died of lung cancer in 2000. Lorenzo died in 2008 at age 30. His parents had cared for him at home as he became paralyzed and lost the ability to talk, needing 24-hour care.
After his son's death, Augusto Odone returned to his home region of Italy and wrote a book, "Lorenzo and His Parents."
Cristina Odone ventured that her father's legacy was to "try and try and try again, even when all around you say it is impossible."
Odone is survived by Cristina and son Francesco. Cristina Odone also named as part of the surviving family Oumouri Hassane, the man who cared for Lorenzo from his early years.
A baby chimpanzee holds onto its mother as she walks around their enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo October 25, 2013. The baby chimpanzee was born last week, and is now on public display.
Photo by David Gray
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