African Bull Frog ant crusher (Video)
The bearded dragon seemed resigned to accept that the ants he killed in a video game couldn't be eaten. But this African Bullfrog will not tolerate being an instrument of his human's amusement.
VW Factory - Germany (YouTube)
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Froma Harrop: 'Cool' Cities are Not Necessarily Warm (Creators Syndicate)
The soft economy has left lots of Americans in place, whether they want to be or not. That would include the most mobile group, young people. But to the extent that adults ages 25 to 34 are still moving, their preferred destinations seem to be "cool cities," according to U.S. Census Bureau figures. What are the so-called cool cities? Denver, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Raleigh, Austin, Washington, D.C., and Portland, Ore., among others.
Alan P. Lightman: "The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith" (Harper's Magazine)
Dramatic developments in cosmological findings and thought have led some of the world's premier physicists to propose that our universe is only one of an enormous number of universes with wildly varying properties, and that some of the most basic features of our particular universe are indeed mere accidents-a random throw of the cosmic dice.
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The tradition of singing Christmas carols in return for alms or charity began in England in the seventeenth century after the Restoration. Town musicians or 'waits' were licensed to collect money in the streets in the weeks preceding Christmas, the custom spread throughout the population by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up to the present day. Also from the seventeenth century, there was the English custom, predominantly involving women, of taking a 'wassail bowl' round their neighbours to solicit gifts, accompanied by carols. Despite this long history, almost all surviving Christmas carols date only from the nineteenth century onwards, with the exception of some traditional folk songs such as; 'God Rest You Merry Gentlemen', 'As I Sat on a Sunny Bank' and 'The Holly and the Ivy'.
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Sally was first, and correct, with:
No gift wrap fairy to date, so I have to make this short and sweet.
The tradition of singing Christmas carols in return for alms or charity began in England in the seventeenth century after the Restoration. I lived for a year, right outside of London, in the 1960's and spent a Christmas there. It was quite different than that which I was use to, and the food - well that was really - different... That being said, it was a nice memory, or a different culture.
Meanwhile, at MAM's house
"Can Wowser come out and carol with us?"
Jim from Ca, retired to ID, responded:
The tradition of singing Christmas carols in return for alms or charity
began in England in the seventeenth century after the Restoration.
Adam answered:
In the seventeenth century after the Restoration.
Marian responded:
17th century
Charlie said:
In the seventeenth century, after the 1660 Restoration.
Dale of Diamond Springs (Grandfather of 4 that will get a visit from the Gift Fairy) replied:
Merry Pagan Ritualism Days
From Wikipedia:
The tradition of singing Christmas carols in return for alms (money or charity), began in England in the seventeenth century. Also from the seventeenth century, there was the English custom, predominantly involving women, of taking a 'wassail bowl' round their neighbours to solicit gifts, accompanied by carols. Despite this long history, almost all surviving Christmas carols date only from the nineteenth century onwards, with the exception of some traditional folk songs such as; 'God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, 'As I Sat on a Sunny Bank' and 'The Holly and the Ivy'.
Santa Claws Some of my 2nd and 3rd cousins
Mr. Holiday Scary Spirit
MAM wrote:
In the seventeenth century
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
The tradition of singing Christmas carols in return for alms or charity began in England in the seventeenth century after the Restoration. Town musicians or 'waits' were licensed to collect
money in the streets in the weeks preceding Christmas, the custom spread throughout the population by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up to the present day.
And, Joe S answered:
The tradition of singing Christmas carols in return for alms or charity began in England in the seventeenth century after the Restoration.
Here is some Christmas music for you to enjoy.
Iesus Ahatonyah (The Huron Carol) Jana Mashonee sings Winter Wonderland Twelve Indian Days of Christmas
Now, Andy Borowitz said that as big as Christmas is it would even be bigger with Vampires so I'm going to catch up on some True Blood.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Blue Bloods', followed by '48 Hours', and another '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with the movie 'It's A Wonderful Life'.
'SNL' is pre-empted for papist pageantry.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'The Sound Of Music'.
The CW offers an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy', then an old 'Futurama', followed by another old 'Futurama'.
Faux has a RERUN'Terra Nova', followed by another RERUN'Terra Nova'.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has all 'Dog The Tancredo-Loving Racist Bounty Hunter' all night.
AMC offers the movie 'Lonesome Dove', followed by the movie 'American Outlaws', then 'Hell On Wheels'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
[7:00AM] Doctor Who: The End of Time
[10:00AM] Doctor Who at the Proms
[12:00PM] Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
[1:00PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Companions
[2:00PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Monsters
[3:00PM] Doctor Who: Best of The Doctor
[4:00PM] Doctor Who: The End of Time
[7:00PM] Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
[8:00PM] Doctor Who: Best of the Christmas Specials NEW
[9:00PM] The NerdistYear in Review NEW
[10:00PM] The Graham Norton Show-Christmas Special - Matt Smith, Russell Kane, Military Wives Choir NEW
[11:00PM] Would You Rather? with Graham Norton-Episode 5 NEW
[11:30PM] Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
[12:30AM] Doctor Who: Best of the Christmas Specials
[1:30AM] The Nerdist-Year in Review
[2:30AM] The Graham Norton Show-Christmas Special - Matt Smith, Russell Kane, Military Wives Choir
[3:30AM] Would You Rather? with Graham Norton-Episode 5
[4:00AM] Doctor Who: Best of the Christmas Specials
[5:00AM] Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'Real Housewives Of New Jersey' all night.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of 'Tosh.0', followed by 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Charlie Sheen'.
FX has the movie 'Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs', followed by the movie 'Alvin & The Chipmunks'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Jackie Chan's Project A
[8:00AM] Hero
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-Gents Without Cents
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-Grips, Grunts and Groans
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges-Hokus Pokus
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-Love at First Bite
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Malice in the Palace
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-No Dough Boys
[12:30PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:00PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:30PM] Jackie Chan's Project A
[3:30PM] Where God Left His Shoes
[5:45PM] Sunshine
[8:00PM] The Hunt for Red October
[11:00PM] Full Metal Jacket
[1:30AM] The Hunt for Red October
[4:30AM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret-The Snooker Player, The Black Canadian, The Turkish Terrorist and the Peanut
[5:00AM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret-In Which Brent Wilts Arrives and Things Take a Turn for the Worse
[5:45AM] The Larry Sanders Show-The Breakdown (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Love Lust & Holiday Feasts
[8:00A] The 27 Club
[9:30A] Kool: Dancing In My Mind
[10:00A] Love Lust & Little Black Dress
[11:00A] Love Lust & the Bikini
[12:00P] Love Lust & Heels
[1:00P] Love Lust & Makeup
[2:00P] Love Lust & Street Eats
[3:00P] Love Lust & Sex Symbols
[4:00P] Carny
[5:15P] A Town Called Panic
[6:30P] Instead of Abracadabra
[7:00P] Strangers
[8:25P] Marie Antoinette
[10:30P] Five Fingers
[1:35A] Nights and Weekends
[3:00A] Marie Antoinette (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Red Planet', followed by the movie 'The Fifth Element'.
In this Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 photo, Mother Dolores Hart, right, participates in two of seven daily prayers in the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Bethlehem, Conn. Mother Dolores, a cloistered nun whose luminous blue eyes entranced Elvis Presley in his first on-screen movie kiss, is praying for a Christmas miracle. She walked away from Hollywood stardom in 1963 to become a nun in rural Bethlehem. Now she finds herself back in the spotlight, but this time it's all about serving the King of Kings, not smooching the King of Rock and Roll. The former brass factory that houses Mother Dolores and about 40 other nuns cloistered at the Abbey of Regina Laudis needs millions of dollars in renovations to meet fire and safety codes, add an elevator and make handicap accessibility upgrades.
Photo by Jessica Hill
"The Colbert Nation Super PAC Presidential Primary" -- can you picture it in big, bold neon letters?
The Comedy Central funnyman is continuing his fight to sponsor the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, offering half a million dollars to cover the counties' "shortfall" in a guest editorial in The State.
State officials have been fighting over who should fund the primary, which is the first of the season in the South. Colbert, a Charleston native, has offered to help out through his Colbert Super PAC.
He formed the PAC earlier this year to satirize the country's campaign finance system, which became even more divisive after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens United case.
Richard Gere is getting a George Eastman Award in upstate New York for his contributions to movies and humanitarian causes.
The star of such films as "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Pretty Woman" will be honored Feb. 16 during a ceremony at Rochester's George Eastman House, the restored home of the founder of photography pioneer Eastman Kodak Co., according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper.
Gere has appeared in more than 40 films. In 1991, he founded the Gere Foundation, which gives grants for public health, education and emergency relief in Tibet. He has long been prominent in the fight against HIV-AIDS.
Past recipients of the George Eastman Award include Lauren Bacall, Martin Scorsese and Meryl Streep.
French actor and Alain Delon arrives to attend the funeral ceremony for the late former President Vaclav Havel at Prague Castle's St. Vitus Cathedral December 23, 2011. Heads of states and government officials from around the world, and ordinary Czechs bid farewell to Havel.
Photo by Stoyan Nenov
In honor of the film's 65th anniversary, the City Council declared Friday "It's A Wonderful Life Day" in Los Angeles.
To get people in the spirit, Councilman Tom LaBonge, several members of Capra's family and a few others gathered at the director's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on a sunny holiday morning.
The section of the walk, it turns out, is one filled with cheesy souvenir shops and sex toy emporiums. They give it more the look of Pottersville, the disreputable place in the film that the evil banker Mr. Potter turns bucolic Bedford Falls into when Bailey isn't there to stop him.
That didn't dampen Friday's celebration, however, which included Jimmy Hawkins, the actor who played Bailey's 5-year-old son, Tommy.
Anita Ekberg, the star of cult classic "La Dolce Vita", is hard-up and homeless and has asked for money from the foundation of the film's director, Federico Fellini, Italian newspaper La Stampa has reported.
The 80-year-old Swedish-born actress, famous for frolicking in the Trevi fountain with Marcello Mastroianni in an iconic piece of film history, is in an old people's home near Rome after her house was set on fire in a burglary.
She is also in a wheelchair after breaking her femur and spends the days mostly on her own working on a memoir, with occasional visits from her former neighbours in Genzano just south of Rome and volunteers from social services.
"It's not elegant to say it but Mrs Ekberg's real problem is a lack of liquidity," Massimo Morais, a court-appointed administrator who has written to the Fellini fund to ask for money on her behalf, was quoted as saying.
Actor Robert De Niro and his wife Grace Hightower have become the proud parents of a baby girl born via a surrogate, the actor's spokesman confirmed on Friday.
The child is the second for De Niro, 68, and Hightower, 56. She is named Helen Grace Hightower De Niro, and weighed a healthy 7 lbs 2 oz at birth.
The "Meet the Parents" star married actress Hightower in 1997, and the couple have a son, Elliot, born in 1998.
De Niro also has a son and adopted daughter with ex-wife Diahnne Abbott and two twin sons with former girlfriend Toukie Smith.
A youth practices parkour, also known as free-running, as he performs a somersault between tree trunks in the city of Netanya December 23, 2011. Parkour is a method of movement, originally from France, whose practitioners use techniques of vaulting, rolling, running, climbing and jumping to leap over or move around obstacles.
Photo by Amir Cohen
A gaunt and breathless George Michael tearfully thanked his doctors and fans on Friday for seeing him through a "touch and go" battle with pneumonia.
A thin and visibly weak Michael told reporters outside his home in north London that he wasn't supposed to speak for very long and was still recovering from a tracheotomy.
"I got streptococca-something...It's a form of pneumonia and they spent three weeks keeping me alive basically," Michael said of the doctors in the Austrian hospital where the singer has been receiving treatment since he fell ill last month.
The 48-year-old former Wham! frontman, who went on to pursue a successful solo career, was taken ill in the Austrian capital and diagnosed with severe pneumonia last month.
Nevada gambling regulators on Thursday unanimously approved rules that allow companies in the state apply for licenses to operate poker websites, a move that puts Nevada in a position to capitalize if Congress reverses its ban on Internet gambling.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the regulations would let casino companies operate Internet poker sites in the state, and some sites could begin operating by the end of 2012.
"We estimate the U.S. online poker market at $5 billion in revenue, relative to the current $24 billion global Internet gaming market and (the) $33 billion commercial casino market in the U.S.," Union Gaming Group analyst Bill Lerner wrote in a research report. "In our opinion, the commercialization of online poker is a 2013 event."
The guidelines were mandated by the state Legislature's approval of Assembly Bill 258 earlier this year, which dictated that Internet poker regulations be established by Jan. 31.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. and Boyd Gaming Corp. have already submitted proposals to be licensed once regulations are ready, along with casino equipment manufacturers such as International Game Technology, Bally Technologies Inc. and Cantor Gaming.
French luxury brand Louis Vuitton has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. over the use of a Louis Vuitton knockoff bag in "The Hangover: Part II."
According to the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York on Thursday, an airport scene in the film makes use of a counterfeit bag made by a company named Diophy, which is currently being sued by Louis Vuitton for trademark infringement.
During the scene, Zach Galifianakis' character, Alan, warns the character Stu (played by Ed Helms), "Careful, that is ... that is a Louis Vuitton." The French company objects to both the movies use of its trademark, and the characterization of the bag as a real Louis Vuitton. According to the suit, Warner Bros. is "explicitly misleading the public about the source of the Diophy Bag" and undermining the company's enforcement efforts against counterfeits of its product.
According to the suit, Louis Vuitton objected to Warner's after the film's opening, but the company still released the film on DVD with the offending footage included.
In the suit, the French company is asking that the court permanently enjoin Warner's from using its marks in any way, and order the company to surrender all copies of the film containing the marks. It is also asking for triple damages on all profits that Warner Bros. may have amassed from using Vuitton's marks, plus attorneys' fees and court costs.
The backlash against twenty-four-hour connectivity has started.
Carmaker Volkswagen has agreed to deactivate e-mails on German staff Blackberry devices out of office hours to give them a break.
Under an agreement with labor representatives, staff at Europe's biggest automaker will receive e-mails via Blackberry from half an hour before they start work until half an hour after they finish, and will be in blackout-mode the rest of the time, a spokesman for VW said.
The new email regime applies to staff covered by collective bargaining so it would seem board level executives will still be slaves to their Blackberries.
Mel "Sugar Tits" Gibson's three-decade marriage is officially over.
A judge finalized the actor-director's divorce on Friday from his wife Robyn, who was married to Gibson during his acting heyday and his more recent public downfall.
The judgment entered by Superior Court Judge Mark Juhas keeps virtually all details of the pair's split confidential. Neither Gibson nor his ex-wife, whose name is being restored to Robyn Moore, attended Friday's proceedings.
The former couple have seven children together, but only their 12-year-old son is a minor and subject to a custody agreement.
The skeleton of an 18th-century celebrity nicknamed the 'Irish Giant' should be removed from a museum and buried at sea in keeping with his last wishes, two experts have argued, reviving a debate about the ethics of handling human remains.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, medical ethicist Len Doyal and legal researcher Thomas Muinzer said there is no good scientific reason to display the skeleton of Charles Byrne, who died in 1783, and a strong moral case against it.
Byrne stood about 7 feet, 7 inches (2.3 meters) tall as a result of acromegaly, a condition caused when a tumor on the pituitary gland stimulates an excess of growth hormone.
He became a celebrity in 18th-century London as the star turn in a museum of curiosities but died aged just 22.
Despite Byrne's wish to be buried at sea, his body was purchased by pioneering surgeon and anatomist John Hunter, who often hired grave robbers to supply him with corpses. For two centuries Byrne's skeleton has been on display at the Royal College of Surgeons' Hunterian Museum in London.
A silver back gorilla eats treat left in his enclose during festive celebrations at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011.
Photo by Rob Griffith
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