AWESOME X: Beautiful Moments (YouTube)
"Edis Productions edited together footage of places all over the world to make this inspiring and soothing video, sure to make you fall in love with Mother Earth. And then you'll want to go visit these lovely places." Neatorama
Scott Burns: "Beyond Envy: Wealth Addiction Revisited" (AssetBuilder)
One of the hallmarks of wealth addiction is very simple: more possessions, but less use. We become so interested in possession of the thing that we lose the experience it provides. This can be as vast as owning homes all around the world, as some of the very rich do, as simple as Bernie Madoff's shoe collection, or as obsessive as a collection of rare watches. Whatever it is, the wealth addict confuses possession with experience.
A phrase specially constructed so that an acronym fits an existing word (for example: NASA's "Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill" = COLBERT), is called a _____?_____
Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. It employs a keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Non-human primates
mj wrote:
It's been a long time
But I think that was invented by Al Capp.
Charlie replied:
Non-human primates. Teaching them "language" is a dubious enterprise, as they are not wired for it.
Chomsky on B. F Skinner.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non human primates
Adam answered:
Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates.
Marian responded:
non-human primates
Sally said:
Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates.
Using Yerkish
Michigan Governor...
TTFTFDOH Ta ta for the first day of Hanukkah,
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Yerkish is an artificial language using geometric forms to represent words, created for experimental communication between chimpanzees and humans. The first ape trained to communicate in Yerkish was the chimpanzee Lana , beginning in 1973 within the context of the LANA project. Here's some Lana's to get yerkish with!!!
Lana the Chimp Lana Wood
Lana Turner Lana Tailor
MAM wrote:
Non-human primates. It employs a keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas.
PS Kudos to BttbBob!
BttbBob responded:
...non-human primates to communicate with humans by way of a keyboard that has symbols (a.k.a. lexigrams or logograms) that represent concepts or objects. Yerkish can also be called a 'constructed language'... New CBB • View topic - Logogram-Based and Pictoral Languages
Pretty cool, eh?
And, Joe S said:
Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. It employs a keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas. Everybody knows that.........
In "Serious Jibber-Jabber," Conan O'Brien has lengthy, uninterrupted conversations with interesting people on topics which fascinate him. In this episode, Nate Silver, the statistical whiz behind the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog, which correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states in the 2012 Presidential Election, sits down with Conan to talk about hard data, trusting your gut instinct, and the power of perception...all while wearing a Cookie Monster t-shirt.
AMC offers the movie 'Coach Carter', followed by the movie 'Miracle'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Momma Cherri's
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Episode 1
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 11 - Fleming
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 4 - Black Pearl
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Moore Place
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 11-12-Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 1
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 2
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 3
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 19 - Genesis
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 20 - Journey's End
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 21 - Firstborn NEW
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 22 - Bloodlines NEW
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 23 - Emergence NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 6 - Jake Gyllenhaal, Joan Rivers, Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Ke$ha NEW
[11:00PM] BATMAN RETURNS
[1:30AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 6 - Jake Gyllenhaal, Joan Rivers, Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Ke$ha
[2:30AM] FUNNY AS HELL 2012-Part 1a NEW
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 1 - The Impossible Astronaut
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Day of the Moon
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Shahs Of Sunset', followed by the movie 'Accepted'.
Comedy Central has 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat ... I'm Fluffy', 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', followed by the FRESH'Gary Gulman: In This Economy'.
FX has 'UFC On FX', followed by the movie 'Step Brothers', then the movie 'Easy A'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Mankind The Story Of All Of Us', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Tavern
[7:45AM] Get Shorty
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-Cuckoo on a Choo-Choo
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-Don't Throw That Knife
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges-Dopey Dicks
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-Dunked in the Deep
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Flagpole Jitters
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-For Crimin' Out Loud
[12:30PM] The Ringer
[2:30PM] The Savages
[5:00PM] The Brothers Grimm
[7:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants
[8:00PM] Escape From L.A.
[10:15PM] Bound
[12:30AM] Escape From L.A.
[2:45AM] Bound
[5:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Paul Rudd Wears a Red Lumberjack Flannel Shirt
[5:30AM] Action-Mr. Dragon Goes to Washington (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - I'm With the Band (Episode 6, Season 1)
[7:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Carded and Discarded (Episode 7, Season 1)
[8:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Girlfriends and Boyfriends (Episode 8, Season 1)
[9:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - We've Got Spirit (Episode 9, Season 1)
[10:00A] Mammoth
[12:15P] The History Boys
[2:15P] The Real Place
[2:30P] Rescue Dawn
[4:45P] The Verdict
[7:00P] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - The League's Mark Duplass (Episode 3, Season 2)
[7:30P] ICONOCLASTS - Seth MacFarlane + Norah Jones (Episode 3, Season 6)
[8:00P] Tiny Furniture (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Snowmageddon', followed by the movie '12 Disasters Of Christmas'.
Novelist Stephen King gestures as he speaks to creative writing students at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in Lowell, Mass., Friday, Dec. 7, 2012.
Photo by Elise Amendola
South Carolina's governor appears to have closed the door on appointing Stephen Colbert to the U.S. Senate, all because the comedian didn't know the state drink was milk.
During "The Colbert Report" on Thursday, Colbert urged his fans to send Gov. Nikki Haley messages on Twitter with the hashtag "SenatorColbert" telling her why he would make a great senator from his home state. Haley is appointing a senator after Jim DeMint announced he is resigning at the end of the year.
"You want somebody young, somebody conservative, somebody from South Carolina, maybe somebody who had a super PAC," Colbert said, ticking off the choices by putting down a finger until the final one was left pointing at himself.
"When I look at the U.S. Senate, I say to myself, you know what they could use?" Colbert said. "Another white guy."
Actors Elijah Wood, left, and Ian McKellen attend the premiere of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Thursday Dec. 6, 2012 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
During the auction portion of Alicia Keys' Black Ball Redux, one man was ready to jump his bid from $100,000 to $250,000 for a trip to South Africa - if Keys would join him and his friends.
"I'll go for a little more," Keys said Thursday night at the Apollo Theater, where her charity's annual gala was held.
The man - pharmaceutical billionaire Stewart Rahr - didn't raise his bid, but he later pledged $1 million to Keep a Child Alive, helping the R&B singer raise more than $2.9 million.
Keys honored Oprah Winfrey at the event for the entrepreneur's philanthropic efforts, including her school, The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, which launched in 2007.
Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo was also honored and she joined Keys onstage for some upbeat, drum-filled numbers.
Bonnie Raitt also performed, as she and Keys sang a duet version of her slow groove "I Just Can't Make You Love Me." Keys said it was "one of my dreams to sing" with Raitt.
Legendary rock band The Rolling Stones, "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart and actor Leonardo DiCaprio have joined the line-up for a fundraising concert in New York next week for victims of Hurricane Sandy, organizers said on Friday.
The Stones, who last week launched a five-concert celebration of their 50th anniversary as a band, will take the stage with previously announced stars Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Kanye West, Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, The Who and others at the December 12 concert in New York City's Madison Square Garden.
Another 18 celebrities, including Billy Crystal, Chelsea Clinton, Quentin Tarantino, and Jon Stewart will take part either on stage or in a live telethon, the organizers said in a statement.
Organizers said some two billion people worldwide will have access to the "12-12-12" benefit on television, radio, in movie theaters and online. It will also be streamlined on digital billboards in New York's Times Square, and in Paris and London.
Cast member Hal Holbrook poses at the premiere of "Promised Land" at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) in Los Angeles, California December 6, 2012. The movie opens in the U.S. on January 4. 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
The mtvU network is honoring a rap superstar who detailed his love for another man and a Pakistani girl shot for her education advocacy as its Man and Woman of the Year.
Frank Ocean, who earned six Grammy nominations Wednesday, published a letter online about his first love, a man, just as his "channel ORANGE" disc was being released. MtvU on Thursday called it "an incredibly brave move for an artist on the verge of superstardom."
Fifteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai blogged about her support of education for girls in Pakistan. For that, Taliban militants stormed her school bus and shot her in the head and neck, but she survived.
The mtvU network is geared toward college students and is seen on more than 750 campuses.
One of the topics Fox News loves to cover is the White House's response on the Benghazi attacks, even if a majority of Americans do not believe there was any cover up whatsoever. And Tom Ricks has nothing on this: Ed Henry, Fox News's Chief White House Correspondent, tells the AP today that a few of the network's shows have been harping on the topic more than has been necessary. "We've had the proper emphasis ... But I would not be so deluded to say that some of our shows, some of our commentators, have covered it more than it needed to be covered," Henry says in the AP interview. (C'mon Ed, name names!) That's the key takeaway of a profile on Fox's top White House reporter. And amid all the Fox noise, Henry's voice matters - he's their White House guy, and the question of Fox's conservative influence on its coverage and Washington power has been back in the news all week. Henry had some very careful words when the AP's David Bauder asked him about the network's Benghazi barrage:
Benghazi has proven an interesting case study. Henry rejects the notion that he works off Fox marching orders in discussing the issue, but said, "I wouldn't lie to you. I see that we're covering Benghazi a lot, and I think that should be something that we're asking about."
Now obviously Henry is talking about his employer, which means he has to be measured in his words-no one in their right mind would going to trash their boss or, you know, their own job in a national interview. But reading between the lines it may be fair to say that, as far as Ed Henry is concerned, Fox's marching orders go something like this: Fair? Sure. Balanced? Not when it comes to Benghazi.
British actor Terence Stamp (L) and his compatriot, actress Gemma Arterton, arrive at the tribute to director Jonathan Demme during the 12th International Marrakech Film Festival in Marrakech December 7, 2012.
The South Korean pop singer behind the viral smash hit "Gangnam Style" apologized on Friday for past concerts featuring anti-American lyrics, ahead of a holiday performance to be attended by U.S. President Barack Obama and his family.
Psy issued the apology after reports surfaced in the United States on Friday about his participation in two performances critical of the U.S. military in 2004.
In one performance, which Psy said was from eight years ago, the rapper protested the deaths of two teenage South Korean girls who were run over by a U.S. tank stationed in the country.
In a separate performance, Psy was critical of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and its occupation, in which South Korean forces participated.
Authorities have issued a felony arrest warrant for comedian Katt Williams related to a police chase in California.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department told KCRA-TV the warrant issued Thursday is for reckless driving.
The California Highway Patrol says Williams fled officers on a three-wheeled motorcycle on Nov. 25 after being spotted driving on a sidewalk near a downtown Sacramento hotel.
The CHP said Williams was asked to stop and refused, leading to the pursuit.
The CHP says Williams nearly hit five people during the chase.
Director Jonathan Demme holds his award at his tribute during the 12th International Marrakech Film Festival in Marrakech December 6, 2012. Picture taken December 6, 2012.
Photo by Abderrahmane Mokhtari
The Chicago company that makes the familiar gold-plated Oscar statues is laying off almost 100 employees.
R.S. Owens & Co. Inc. said this week in a notice to the Illinois Department of Commerce that it will lay off 95 workers on Dec. 17. The notice says the layoffs are permanent. The business-data website Hoovers says the company has about 250 employees.
The cuts come a month after R.S Owens announced it was being purchased on Dec. 17 by St. Regis Crystal Inc. of Indianapolis. R.S. Owens had said earlier this year that it was struggling financially.
A news release on the sale said the company will continue to make Oscar and Emmy statues in Chicago.
A light sculpture titled "1.26" by Janet Echelman of the U.S. hangs over Amstel river during the opening of Amsterdam Light Festival in Amsterdam December 7, 2012.
Photo by Michael Kooren
Better known in the West for promising to "bury" the capitalist world, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev is also remembered by Russians for banning works that didn't conform to the Communist Party's notion that art should be straightforward, realistic and appeal to workers and peasants.
Visiting "The New Reality" exhibition in Moscow in December 1962, Khruschev got so enraged with what he saw that he shouted obscenities at the artists, promised to deport them from the Soviet Union and ordered the exhibition closed down.
The exhibition's shutdown marked the end of Khruschev's "thaw" - the relative liberation of political and cultural life that reversed Stalinist-era purges. A subsequent crackdown got more artists blacklisted and drove whole genres of art underground - including folk singers, jazz and rock bands, a generation of avant-garde composers and filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky.
Fifty years later, some of the banned canvases are on display again at the same Manezh hall - at a time when critics compare Khruschev's ban to recent charges against the band Pussy Riot and artists whose paintings have angered the Kremlin and Russia's dominant Orthodox Church.
The Los Angeles television engineer who won Emmy Awards for creating helicopter news coverage in 1958 has died in Southern California at 92.
The family of John D. Silva tells the Los Angeles Times that he died Nov. 27 of pneumonia complications in Camarillo.
Silva was the chief engineer for KTLA-TV when he outfitted a rented Bell helicopter with a TV camera to create a flying TV studio. The station broadcast live aerial coverage of major news events, including earthquakes, fires and freeway calamities.
Silva had to persuade KTLA executives to spend $40,000 on broadcast equipment that might not have worked. Then, he had to get a ton of TV equipment down to 368 pounds so the helicopter could lift off the ground.
Reinhold Weege, the creator of the hit NBC sitcom "Night Court," has died, a spokeswoman for the family told TheWrap. He was 63 years old.
He also wrote for other notable television shows, including "Barney Miller" and "M*A*S*H."
However, it was "Night Court," a show that poked gentle fun at bureaucratic absurdity, that would become his signature work. The series centered on a young judge (Harry Anderson) saddled with handling the bottom of the barrel cases that come into Manhattan's night court and featured a breakout performance by John Larroquette as a skirt-chasing lawyer.
The show started out tackling serious legal issues, but over the course of its nine seasons, slowly expunged commentary in favor of broad humor.
Weege might never have entered show business had he not been fired from a job in journalism. In a 1994 piece in the Chicago Tribune, he wrote that he was working as a reporter and editor of a tiny suburban paper when he reported on a secret meeting, between the town and the Pritzker hotel chain about a proposal to build a monorail, hotels and a 60-story office building.
After his paper was less than thrilled with the piece he copyrighted it and had it picked up by a larger paper -- the result was he got canned.
"Shortly after that, I sold our couch, the only asset my wife and I had, got in the car and headed toward Hollywood," Weege wrote.
Weege is survived by his ex-wife Shelley, two daughters and a granddaughter.
Riki-san, a 14-week-old clouded leopard is pictured in this handout photo at the San Diego Zoo taken December 6, 2012. The male cub and his brother (not pictured) arrived earlier this week.
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