Paul Krugman: Manufacturing Ain't Great Again. Why? (NY Times Column)
When Donald Trump promised to Make America Great Again, his slogan meant different things to different people. For many supporters it meant restoring the political and social dominance of white people, white men in particular. For others, however, it meant restoring the kind of economy we had a generation or two ago, which offered lots of manly jobs for manly men: farmers, coal miners, manufacturing workers. So it may matter a lot, politically, that Trump has utterly failed to deliver on that front - and that workers are noticing.
Mary Beard: Feminism in Barcelona (TLS)
As some people have might have noticed (!), I have been away for twenty-four hours, proudly getting a degree "honoris causa" at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. As always, I am the lucky recipient, but the truth is that these honours are awarded to all those, who in their very different ways, and with considerable disagreement, keep up our conversation with the ancient world. I am the girl who gets the medal on behalf of many.
Peter Bradshaw: Jane Fonda's 10 best films - ranked! (The Guardian)
1. Klute (1971). Here is the quintessential Fonda performance, in Alan J Pakula's psychological thriller: she is smart, beautiful, tough and haunted - in a film that, like Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, embodies a proto-Watergate fear of being spied upon. And Fonda provides a new spin on the classic "shady lady" figure that always shows up in noir movies. She is Bree Daniels, a would-be model and actor who is doing escort work to pay the bills. Donald Sutherland plays Klute, the private detective spying on her because a serial killer is on the loose, and she is in danger. Fonda's character is cool and reserved, having apparently mastered a kind of emotional numbness as part of the play-acting involved in her work, and part of her genuine alienation.
Ancraophobia, also known as anemophobia, is an extreme fear of wind or drafts. It is rather uncommon, and can be treated. It has many different effects on the human brain. It can cause panic attacks for those who have the fear, and can make people miss out on regular everyday activities such as going outside.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Wind or drafts.
Randall wrote:
fear of WIND
Dave said:
Wind, air, or drafts. People are sometimes cured by hypnosis, which makes them forget what they are afraid of. Or something. But if you live in a house of straw that fear may be rational.
zorch answered:
Ancraophobia is the extreme fear of wind.
Roy, the Texas Libtard Snowflake, Fan of wind and kites, responded:
People who suffer from ancraophobia tend to become anxious out of doors and near open windows. Their fear of wind, or even drafts, must make them absolutely paranoid when faced with the need to dry their hair. One Texas Republicon Congressman (Barton), is so fearful of the wind as to have suggested our nation's many wind farms are going to deplete our precious wind supply and may even slow the Earth's rotation.
Cal in Vermont replied:
It is the fear of wind (a good one of which I can furnish once in a while) and other weather-related events more generally.
Saskplanner said:
Flowers? I'm not googling it. I will after I send this email....
Mac Mac wrote:
Wind and drafts
Adam answered:
Abnormal fear of drafts or windy weather.
Deborah replied:
Oh, push the irony button: That's the extreme fear of wind. Should have known there was a word for it.
Cooler than seasonal, no big winds in the forecast, but still plenty dry. By afternoon it'll be warm enough for a t-shirt, especially in the sun. Just the way I like it.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Ancraophobia, also known as anemophobia, is an extreme fear of wind or drafts
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Wind
Joe S wrote:
Fear of drafts, or breezes, or wind. Sheldon suffers from this, positions his spot out of the draft. I'm just the opposite, not only do I like gentle breezes I love the wind. I used to walk the lake shore on windy days and even during rain storms. I used to have beach parties when the wind was so strong the bonfire blew sideways.
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• Garry Trudeau became an adult in the 1960s. He says, "It was the cauldron, the late 60s, when I began to think as an adult. All hell was taking place, the Black Panthers were on trial, students were shot in the Kent State protests, war was waging on the other side of the globe, it was very hard not to be swept up in all of that." He made his comic strip, Doonesbury, topical. In order to write about very current events, he kept pushing his deadlines back, thus making many printers, who were paid overtime for their work on his comic strip, happy. Supposedly, one printer made so much money by working overtime because of Trudeau that he bought a yacht and named it Doonesbury.
• Louis Caldor, an engineer, discovered Grandma Moses in 1938 when he saw four of her paintings displayed in a drugstore window in Hoosick Falls, New York. He brought her to the attention of art dealer Otto Kallir, who began to display and sell her paintings. Once, after some of the paintings Mr. Caldor had bought were sold for much more money than he had paid, a check for the extra money was sent to Grandma Moses. She returned the check, saying that she had been paid once for the paintings and once was enough.
• In the 1980s,Waldemar Januszczak asked German painter Georg Baselitz, who often painted figures upside down, about the very high - actually, "astronomical" - sums of money that people were paying for his paintings. In particular, he asked Mr. Baselitz if he felt guilty about those sums of money. Mr. Baselitz, who was smoking, blew smoke in Mr. Januszczak's face and replied, "What is better than a painting? Nothing." Mr. Januszczak says, "Conversation over."
• In the 1920s and 1930s, Albert Strunsky was a dream landlord in Greenwich Village for musicians and artists because he was very forgiving when a tenant was late with the rent. Sometimes he would make the tenant move, but it was always into another of Mr. Strunsky's studio apartments. Eventually, Mr. Strunsky was owed so much money that his daughter sent out bills in an attempt to collect. This made Mr. Strunsky angry, and he made his daughter apologize to his tenants.
• Harry Hammond was a photographer of early British rock-and-rollers, including the Beatles. He knew many celebrities throughout his very long career - he started his apprenticeship in fashion, advertising, and press photography in 1934. He says that he was never star-struck by celebrities; instead, he says that he looked at them as "guineas on legs." And for good reason. He says, "I was usually paid five guineas a shot, which saw me living high on the hog."
• Often, we read about works of art being sold for millions of dollars, but of course artists often start by selling their works of art for much less. In 1957, art dealer Irving Blum bought a painting by Ellsworth Kelly, paying $75 for it - by making payments of $5 monthly. In an article about Mr. Kelly titled "Ellsworth Kelly is the king of colour," arts reporter Mark Rappolt wrote, "These days $75 wouldn't even get you his signature."
• Nathan Rothschild knew money, but he did not know art. Many art dealers tried to get him interested in starting an art collection, but he rebuffed their attempts. Finally, one art dealer brought Mr. Rothschild a letter of introduction from an important rabbi. Mr. Rothschild decided that he ought to buy a painting, so he told the art dealer, "Give me a £30 picture. I don't care which one. Goodbye."
• Photographer Andreas Johnsen knows how to find wonderful places to live that don't cost much money. He found out why one place was so inexpensive when his landlord climbed up the fire escape to show him this sign through the window: "Do not leave the apartment. There's a city inspector in the hallway." No one was supposed to be living in the building.
Gas is still $3.89/gal at the no-name, cash-only station.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Bull', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night on the East Coast with 'Dateline', followed by an old 'SNL' - and on the left coast, there's a LIVE'SNL', followed by an old 'SNL'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Kristen Stewart hosting, music by Coldplay.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe a 'Nightline'.
The CW buncha '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire', followed by the movie 'The Hunger Games: Mockinjay - Part 1'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Painted Wolf
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Emperor Penguin
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-On Thin Ice
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Ends of the Earth
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Spring
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Summer
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Autumn
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Winter
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-An Epic Journey
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-Cities
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Islands
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-Mountains
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-Jungles
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-Deserts
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-Grasslands
[9:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Special Presentation
[10:12PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Islands
[11:01PM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-Mountains
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-Jungles
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-Deserts
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH II - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-Grasslands
[3:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE MAKING OF PLANET EARTH II
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Fifty Shades Darker', followed by the movie 'Fifty Shades Darker', again.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'Friends', followed by the movie 'Blended'.
FX has the movie 'War For The Planet Of The Apes', followed by the movie 'Terminator Genisys'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Stan Against Evil - Nubbin but Trouble
[6:30A] Stan Against Evil - Vampire Creek
[7:00A] Stan Against Evil - Intensive Scare Unit
[7:30A] Stan Against Evil - Stan Against Evie
[8:00A] Batman - Pop Goes the Joker
[8:33A] Batman - Flop Goes the Joker
[9:06A] Batman - Ice Spy
[9:39A] Batman - The Duo Defy
[10:12A] Batman - Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin
[10:45A] Mama
[1:00P] Halloween
[3:00P] Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
[5:00P] Halloween
[7:30P] Halloween II
[9:45P] Lake Placid
[11:30P] Dark Skies
[1:30A] The Mist
[3:15A] To Be Announced
[4:15A] Night Flight - The Heartbreakers
[4:30A] Halloween (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Rifleman
[6:30am] The Rifleman
[7:00am] The Rifleman
[7:30am] The Rifleman
[8:00am] The Rifleman
[8:30am] The Rifleman
[9:00am] The Rifleman
[9:30am] The Rifleman
[10:00am] The Rifleman
[10:30am] The Rifleman
[11:00am] M*A*S*H
[11:30am] M*A*S*H
[12:00pm] M*A*S*H
[12:30pm] M*A*S*H
[1:00pm] M*A*S*H
[1:30pm] M*A*S*H
[2:00pm] M*A*S*H
[2:30pm] M*A*S*H
[3:00pm] M*A*S*H
[3:30pm] M*A*S*H
[4:00pm] M*A*S*H
[4:30pm] M*A*S*H
[5:00pm] M*A*S*H
[5:30pm] M*A*S*H
[6:00pm] M*A*S*H
[6:30pm] M*A*S*H
[7:00pm] M*A*S*H
[7:30pm] M*A*S*H
[8:00pm] M*A*S*H
[8:30pm] M*A*S*H
[9:00pm] Vegas Vacation
[11:00pm] 48 HRS.
[1:00am] Animal House
[3:30am] Last Action Hero (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters', followed by the movie 'GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra'.
Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Catherine Keener Arrested
"Fire Drill Friday"
Jane Fonda was at the forefront of another climate strike as she hosted a fourth "Fire Drill Friday" outside of the Capitol Building before getting arrested for the fourth consecutive week.
The 81-year-old actress was joined by fellow actors Rosanna Arquette and Catherine Keener to specifically address the burden that women carry when it comes to climate change and their role in fighting for the Green New Deal. According to Washington Post reporter Hannah Jewell, the group that gathered outside of the capitol was the largest of Fonda's Fire Drills to date. And after listening to speeches and a performance by fellow activists and artists, the protesters made their way into the Hart Senate office building to participate in civil disobedience, which led to arrests.
Arquette and Keener were put in plastic handcuffs soon after arrests began. Fonda was then arrested for the fourth time while protesters cheered.
Fonda plans to get arrested every Friday until she's set to begin filming the final season of her Netflix show Grace and Frankie. This week's arrest was the fourth of her planned 14.
A decade after McDonald's shut down in Iceland, thousands of online users follow the live slow decay of the last order -- a seemingly indestructible burger with a side of fries protected in a glass case like a precious gem.
The American chain closed its only three branches in Iceland during the subarctic island's financial crisis in 2009, making it one of the only Western countries without a McDonald's.
On October 31 of that year, just before the restaurant's closure, Hjortur Smarason bought a menu for conservation.
"I decided to buy a last meal for its historical value since McDonald's were closing down," Smarason, who works as a communications manager for a company specialising in space tourism, told AFP on Wednesday.
"I had heard that McDonald's never decomposed so I just wanted to see if it was true or not."
If you're looking for a distraction from the fun of spending Thanksgiving with your relatives, this rapidly closing 25th anniversary year of the dawn of Friends (and Fathom Events) is here to provide. When the company previously brought the beloved-by-many sitcom to movie theaters in September, "more than 230,000 fans participated nationwide," says Entertainment Weekly. The airings across three nights grossed almost $3 million, "making it the second-highest-grossing U.S. event cinema release of 2019."
So it's unsurprising that Fathom would go back to that particular well, taking advantage of Friends' favorite holiday for themed episodes: Thanksgiving. Coming up on the Saturday and Sunday of Thanksgiving week will be the series' turkey holiday chapters ("The One With The List" isn't expressly Thanksgiving themed, but does have Monica trying to incorporate "Mockolate" into traditional turkey day recipes). No word on whether participating theaters will also be serving Rachel's trifle or three types of mashed potatoes to mimic the Friends' holiday menu.
If you have to pick just one day, we suggest November 24, because the football game is a fun testament to Monica's obsessively competitive nature and the one with all the Thanksgivings has the fun haircut flashbacks and Chandler declaring his love to Monica for the first time (granted, she has a turkey on her head at the time). Weirdly, "The One With The Rumor," starring Jennifer Aniston's then-husband Brad Pitt as the co-founder of "The I Hate Rachel Green Club" is not featured; also missing is "The One With Chandler In A Box," in which Monica nearly dates her ex's son, played by Alias' Michael Vartan. But Christina Applegate won an Emmy for "The One With Rachel's Other Sister" if you're jonesing for a Thanksgiving guest star who may make you feel slightly better about your own family.
Archaeologists in Greece have located a "major treasure" of Minoan origin in a Bronze Age settlement on a small island in the Libyan Sea, the culture ministry said Friday.
A team excavating on the tiny island of Chrysi south of Crete for over a decade have unearthed a 3,800-year-old Bronze Age compound containing gold jewels, glass beads and the remains of bronze talents, the common unit of value of ancient Greece.
Some of the beads are of Egyptian origin, the culture ministry said in a statement.
The archaeologists also found ancient fish tanks and large amounts of porphyry -- a prized purple pigment of the ancient world derived from sea snails, and later the colour exclusively reserved for Roman emperors.
"The amount of broken shells found...show a very early Mediterranean production of porphyry dye," the culture ministry said.
As the impeachment hearings get more and more alarming for Donald Trump (R-Crooked), with damning new evidence emerging every day, there appears to be increasing urgency in the parallel counter-offensives under way by the president's team in an attempt to defend him.
There are attacks against the witnesses giving testimony by Trump and his supporters, including attempts to smear Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, Ukraine expert at the National Security Council who this week provided crucial testimony about Trump's telephone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. And there have been the extraordinary scenes of Congress Republicans breaking into the proceedings and disrupting them.
At the same time, overshadowed by the publicity around the impeachment, is the ever-broadening investigation by Attorney General William Barr which the White House sees as a game-changer. An investigation which is seeking nothing less than to overturn the conclusion of the US intelligence services and Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Russia interfered in the last US presidential election.
This has now been designated a criminal investigation with power of subpoena and the possibility of prison sentences for those who have been allegedly involved in criminal actions, although exactly what these criminal actions entail remains unclear.
It may also seem odd that Trump, having repeatedly claimed that the Mueller report was a "complete and total exoneration" of him over Russiagate, is now going to such lengths to try and discredit it.
Spaniards are voicing outrage after five men were acquitted of rape on the grounds that their 14-year-old victim had been unconscious at the time.
The Barcelona-based court ruled Thursday that the men were guilty of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and sentenced them to 10-12 years and fined them 12,000 euros ($13,300).
It ruled that their act could not be considered sexual assault since the girl was unconscious after consuming alcohol and drugs and so they did not need to use violence or intimidation, a requirement for a rape conviction in Spain.
Spain's deputy prime minister, Carmen Calvo, said that while her government does not comment on court decisions it has set as a priority a modification in the law to make clear that consent is necessary for sexual relations to occur legally.
The attack occurred in the town of Manresa, near Barcelona, in 2016 when the girl and the men went into an abandoned factory to drink.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum appealed to Keystone pipeline owner TC Energy to review its inspection and monitoring of the line after it leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) in the northeastern part of the state.
Burgum spokesman Mike Nowatzki said the Republican governor spoke Thursday night to officials at the Calgary, Alberta-based company formerly known as TransCanada.
The conversation came two days after the company shut down the pipeline after the leak was discovered and affected about 22,500 square feet (2090 sq. meters) of land near Edinburg, in Walsh County.
Burgum said in a statement he "received assurance" from the company that the spill would be cleaned up "as thoroughly and quickly as possible."
State Environmental Quality Chief Dave Glatt said the pipeline remained closed Friday and the cause of the spill was still unknown.
A glacier in Patagonia that has lost half its length in 30 years may be the fastest-thinning glacier on the planet.
The glacier, known as Hielo Patagónico Sur 12 (HPS-12), is perched in the Andes mountains in Chile. Researchers reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience in September found that HPS-12 has been losing thickness and retreating inland. According to their analysis of satellite data, the glacier lost 98 feet (30 meters) of ice thickness each year, on average, between 2000 and 2008, near its terminal end. At its fastest, the thinning occurred at a rate of 144 feet (44 m) per year, according to study co-author Etienne Berthier, a glaciologist at the University of Toulouse in France. The section where that thinning was recorded melted away entirely in 2018.
"To our knowledge, this is indeed the fastest observed rate of loss for a glacier," Berthier told NASA's Earth Observatory.
The glaciers of Peru and Chile are known as "tropical glaciers," a seeming oxymoron that signifies that the glaciers sit in Earth's midsection, rather than near the poles. Tropical glaciers are retreating rapidly. Research released in 2013 found that glaciers in the Andes have lost between 30% and 50% of their surface area since the 1970s. These glaciers are vulnerable to warming both from above (due to air temperatures) and below (due to ocean temperatures at the glacier terminus, or the end of the glacier that is advancing or retreating.
Seasonal glacial melt provides water that feeds agriculture and industry, but as ice retreat hastens, that meltwater can also kill by causing floods and avalanches. As the ice disappears entirely, water in the Andes will become an increasingly scarce resource, according to Columbia University's Earth Institute.
It almost seems like astronomers are in a race to unveil the biggest black holes they can find. Most recently, a team of German astronomers claimed to have discovered a black hole 40 billion times the mass of the Sun.
But what if there are also black holes many magnitudes smaller?
In a study published today in the prestigious journal Science, a team of astronomers from Ohio State University claim to have discovered an object that belongs to a previously missing class of black holes.
If confirmed, current theories would have to take into account a new class of black hole - forcing us to rethink how we understand the way stars and other kinds of celestial objects are born and die.
Thompson and his team were puzzled by the huge gap between the size of the biggest neutron stars - extremely dense and relatively small stars that form after larger stars implode after a supernova - and the smallest black holes we know of.
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