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And Change is Coming-what do you love or hate about 2008? Can Obama really bring the change we need?
Enjoy Chanukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa and Celebrate 2009 with us!
FROMA HARROP: Bubble Bourgeoisie Learns to 'Do-It-Yourself' (creators.com)
"Doing it yourself these days?" asks the Depression-era ad for bleach. It shows pampered hands wading in a tub full of laundry. There's more doing-it-yourself in this Great Recession, as well. The economic downturn has stripped the bubble bourgeoisie of the funds required to employ an army of house cleaners, nannies, personal trainers, dog walkers and other hired helpers.
LIKE SUSAN ESTRICH: The Christmas Spirit (creators.com)
In the eight years since he left the White House, Bill Clinton has worked tirelessly to save the lives of children in some of the most miserable places on the planet. He has traveled to Africa more than most of us travel to see relatives, in order to bring much-needed medicines for AIDS and malaria to those who would die without them and to support economic development in places like Rwanda and Malawi.
Mark D. Lange: Giving can change your mind (sfgate.com)
Why would any rational American give to a charity this year? The economy is staggering. We lost half a million jobs in November alone. Home foreclosures are at record highs.
Roger Ebert: THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (G; 3 stars)
"The Tale of Despereaux" is one of the most beautifully drawn animated films I've seen, rendered in enchanting detail and painterly colors by an art department headed by Oliver Adam. With a story centering on a big-eared little mouse named Despereaux, a sniffy rat named Roscuro and various other members of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, it is a joy to look at frame by frame, and it would be worth getting the Blu-ray to do that.
Christmas was established as a 'Federal Holiday' by Congress and President Grant in 1870. It has been said that their motivation for doing so was to help bring the country together during the difficult post-Civil War reconstruction period. Considering the 'establishment clause' of the constitution, the question is...
Should the status of Christmas as a 'Federal Holiday' be rescinded due to the religious nature of the celebration?
A Bodega Beige
B Fluorescent Gold
C Golden Gate Yellow
D International Orange
E Ripe Tomato
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International Orange was selected as the color of the bridge because it provided visibility in the fog for passing ships and also because it was a color that fit in naturally to the bridge's setting and the surrounding land area.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
D International Orange
Adam in NoHo replied:
My first guess was International Orange, but Ripe Tomato gave me pause.
It is, in fact, D- International Orange.
Joe S respnded:
D International Orange
Charlie answered:
One might think from looking at some pictures that it's Ripe Tomato, but it's called
D International Orange
The color was
chosen because:
The Golden Gate Bridge has always been painted orange vermilion, deemed "International Orange." Rejecting carbon black and steel gray, Morrow selected the color because it blends well with the span's natural setting. If the U.S. Navy had its way, the Bridge might have been painted black with yellow stripes to assure greater visibility for passing ships.
Haven't seen it myself since way back.
Plenty of beautiful pictures out there, but I'll send this
~ Tony In Philly said:
D: International Orange
Kappy in Philly wrote:
D, International Orange, also known as orange vermilion.
Nice link to a FAQ's page
Marian the Teacher responded:
International Orange. I'm in Philly until New Year's Eve and I hope that I have access to a computer each day!!
Sally answered:
Evening, Ms Marty,
"Fine night, now ain't it??"
But, you're here, and that's what counts...
Okay, "The "Golden Gate Bridge" is ugly-ass International Orange (D). Here's a close-up PIC for you:
And, MAM replied:
Answer . . . D International Orange
The Golden Gate Bridge's paint color is orange vermillion, also called international orange. Architect Irving Morrow selected the color because it blends with the bridge's setting.
Milk - In Limited Theaters Now - WIDE Release on December 12th
After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.
Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and career.
Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk's real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.
Prizes:
4 prizes in all - 3 first-prizes:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Hat
o T-shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
And, 1 grand prize:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Sweatshirt (made from recycled materials)
o Script Book
o Hat
o T-Shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
Tanner, the oldest bat in captivity in the world, turns 23 today at the Cranbrook Institute of Science. But don't expect loud horns or funny hats at this birthday party. And instead of cake, he'll get a luscious cup of papaya, mango and melon at noon.
Tanner is a golden bat, a rare species found in nature only on a 13-square-mile island in the Indian Ocean, about 1,300 miles off the shores of Madagascar. The species is critically endangered, with only 1,000 in captivity.
CBS begins the night with '48 Hours', followed by the movie 'The Longest Yard'.
NBC opens the night with the RERUN'Summer Olympics', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Ben Affleck hosting, music by David Cook.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Miracle'.
The CW offers '5th Quarter', followed by an old 'Friends', and another 'Old Friends'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
NADtv is a RERUN.
MY has the movie 'The Jewel Of The Nile'
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Investigative Reports', and another 'Investigative Reports'.
AMC offers the movie 'Casino', followed by the movie 'Two Weeks Notice', then the movie 'An Officer And A Gentleman'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 17
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 18
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 La Riviera
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 4 Bonapartes
[3:00 PM] Skins - Ep 19 Everyone
[4:00 PM] Gladiators - Episode 9
[5:00 PM] Gladiators - Episode 10
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[7:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 1
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Doctor's Daughter
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Unicorn and The Wasp
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 12
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Doctor's Daughter
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Unicorn and The Wasp
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 12
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Doctor's Daughter
[3:00 AM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Unicorn and The Wasp
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 12
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 12
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 13
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and the movie 'Waiting To Exhale'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder', followed by 'Scary Movie II', then 'Not Another Teen Movie'.
FX has the movie 'Independence Day', followed by the movie 'Click', then the movie 'Big Daddy'.
IFC -
[6:25 AM] George Washington
[8:00 AM] Seven Samurai
[11:30 AM] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[1:35 PM] Mighty Peking Man
[3:15 PM] IFC News Special
[3:30 PM] Howl's Moving Castle
[5:30 PM] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[7:30 PM] Quiet Cool
[9:00 PM] Last Man Standing
[10:45 PM] The Cooler
[12:30 AM] The Hard Word
[2:15 AM] Last Man Standing
[4:00 AM] The Cooler
[5:50 AM] IFC Shorts (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie '100 Million BC', followed by the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
Sundance -
[04:30 AM] The Funeral
[06:10 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Escape From Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
[07:20 AM] Cocalero
[09:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Venus Williams + Wyclef Jean
[10:00 AM] A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
[11:20 AM] The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
[12:00 PM] Safe Men
[01:30 PM] West Bank Story
[02:00 PM] John Safran vs. God: Episode 1
[02:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 1
[03:00 PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 3: Episode 5: All Blessed Secrets
[03:50 PM] Cotton Mary
[06:00 PM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Stereophonics, Colbie Caillat & Joan Armatrading
[07:00 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 1: Art from the Arctic
[08:00 PM] Site Specific: Olivo Barbieri
[09:00 PM] The Staircase: Chapter 4. A prosecution trickery
[10:00 PM] Capote
[10:00 PM] Capote (2005)
[12:00 AM] Friends With Money
[01:30 AM] The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
[02:00 AM] Spectacle: James Taylor
[03:00 AM] Water Lilies
[04:30 AM] Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (ALL TIMES EST)
Night view of the Champs Elysees avenue with the Obelisk and the ferris wheel in background, in Paris, Friday Dec. 26, 2008.
Photo by Remy de la Mauviniere
The holidays may be winding down, but for Oscar fans, the season of celebration has just begun.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mailed 5,810 official Oscar nominations ballots to voting members Friday, and perhaps no one was more excited - or more daunted - to cast votes than its 105 newest members.
Each of the academy's 15 branches is responsible for nominating those in their field - so actors nominate actors and sound engineers nominate sound engineers - based on the eligible films released that year. (There were 281 in 2008.) Oscar's final winners are determined by the entire voting membership, regardless of what branch they claim.
Membership in the academy is by invitation based on professional accomplishment. Nominations will be announced Jan. 22 and Oscars will be presented Feb. 22.
Imagine, John Lennon makes a television commercial for charity -- 28 years after his death.
Through the use of digital technology, the former Beatle urges people across the United States to support a campaign by "One Laptop per Child" to deliver tough, solar-powered XO laptop computers to the world's poorest children.
"Imagine every child no matter where in the world they were could access a universe of knowledge. They would have a chance to learn, to dream, to achieve anything they want," a voice and video image of Lennon has been created to say.
Yoko Ono approved the "One Laptop per Child" commercial, which was launched on Thursday and will be shown on donated broadcast and cable time. It can also be seen at www.youtube.com/olpc.
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc on Friday reported its best holiday sales season yet, even as sales and traffic at U.S. store chains were the weakest in decades, sending its shares up nearly 4 percent.
Analysts have pointed to Amazon as a rare bright spot in this year's holiday shopping season due to its scale and flexibility, as retailers try to outdo each other with deep discounts to lure consumers during a recession.
Online sales were also helped by winter storms that hit large sections of the United States on the last major shopping weekend before Christmas.
In a release titled "Amazon.com's 14th holiday season is best ever," the company said more than 6.3 million items were ordered on its site worldwide for the peak shopping day of December 15, amounting to 72.9 items ordered per second. On its peak day, it shipped more than 5.6 million units.
A make-up artist makes a mask in the likeness of US resident George W. Bush in the special effects department at Televisa Network studios in Mexico City, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. The Mexican soap opera, or telenovela, is still going strong as it marks its 50th anniversary.
Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills
China's freezing northern city of Harbin is building what organisers say is the world's largest Santa Claus ice sculpture.
The giant Father Christmas, 160 metres (525 ft) long and 24 metres high, centres on an enormous face of Father Christmas, complete with flowing beard and hat.
Its huge size and unseasonably warm temperatures have made the job especially challenging, said Tang Guangjun, one of the sculptors.
Every year the city plays host to a world-renowned ice festival. But the effects of global warming are taking a toll as the snow and ice now melt more rapidly than in the past.
In Arizona, seeing Joe Arpaio on TV is nothing new. But the self-described "America's toughest sheriff" now has a national platform to pursue lawbreakers that stretches beyond the 5 o'clock news.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, which oversees the state's most populous county, has a starring role in "Smile ... You're Under Arrest!," a new reality show debuting Saturday on Fox Reality Channel.
A cross between "Punk'd" and "Cops," the program sets up elaborate sting operations to snare people wanted on outstanding warrants. Actors and undercover deputies play along in faux scenarios where scofflaws are enticed to have a good time; the drama comes when cast members reveal the prank and waiting deputies slap on handcuffs.
Arpaio, who has been accused of being publicity-hungry more than once, says the show is not about fame-seeking, adding that the producers approached him.
Lokunda, a Malayan sun bear, grabs gingerbread from a Christmas tree in her enclosure during a special Christmas feeding at the zoo in Frankfurt December 24, 2008.
Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach
A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.
Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 Web sites prohibited by the government - mostly child pornography, excessive violence, instructions in crime or drug use and advocacy of terrorism.
Internet providers in the West have blocked content at times. In early December, several British providers blocked a Wikipedia entry about heavy metal band Scorpion. The entry included its 1976 "Virgin Killer" album cover, which has an image of a naked underage girl. The Internet Watch Foundation warned providers the image might be illegal.
Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom have filters, but they are voluntary.
Acclaimed for its ink-black skies, Death Valley, the hottest place in North America, also ranks among the nation's unspoiled stargazing spots. But the vista in recent years has grown blurry.
The glitzy neon glow from Las Vegas and its burgeoning bedroom communities is stealing stars from the park's eastern fringe. New research reveals light pollution from Vegas increased 61 percent between 2001 and 2007, making it appear brighter than the planet Venus on clear nights.
Skywatchers can theoretically see some 6,000 stars in the blackest pristine skies of Death Valley. With light pollution from Vegas, scientists estimate about 2,500 stars are visible from Dante's View, a 5,475-foot panoramic viewpoint overlooking the glimmering valley floor.
Amid such concerns, Death Valley, the largest national park in the contiguous United States, has set an ambitious goal: It wants to be the first official dark-sky national park.
Twentieth Century Fox says "Marley & Me" has set a Christmas Day record with $14.75 million at the box office.
That breaks the previous mark of $10.2 million, set by "Ali" in 2001, according to Media By Numbers LLC.
And "Marley & Me" may not be alone: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Bedtime Stories" were also expected to move past the previous Christmas Day mark, according to some studio estimates.
He lets out a piercing howl that slowly penetrates your chest. To human ears, it's the sound of being alone. And the creature who made the cry probably is.
The locals call him Romeo. He's a black wolf without a pack, a wild canine who's often seen patrolling Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier, the state capital's signature recreation area.
Romeo baffles area biologists and naturalists with his refusal to find a pack or a mate, choosing instead to return each winter, clearly at ease with humans walking within a few hundred yards.
Stories behind Romeo's arrival and how he got his name drive his mystique each year. The prevailing story dates to April 2003.
Eleven-year-old orang-utan Sinta holds her baby Natalia at Taman Safari zoo in Pasuruan in Indonesia's East Java province December 25, 2008. Natalia was born early morning on Thursday and 25 orang-utans are currently staying at Taman Safari in Pasuruan.
Photo by Sigit Pamungkas
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