Kathy Aney: "From Paris to Pendleton: A?lost bag's journey" (East Oregonian)
One act of kindness can travel across an entire ocean and warm the hearts of strangers. A little black bag lost in a Paris taxicab and its six-week journey to its owner in Pendleton illustrates the strength of one honest man and a single good deed.
Jim Hightower: "Judy Bonds: A Model Citizen"
Sadly, we recently lost one model citizen with the death of Judy Bonds, a spirited woman from Marfork Hollow, down in the coalfields of West Virginia. Forced out of her ancestral home a decade ago by the profiteering barons of mountaintop stripmining, Judy became the barons' worst nightmare: an enraged, fearless, knowledgeable, determined, and eloquent grassroots activist.
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The turkey trot was a dance made popular in the early 1900s. The Turkey Trot was done to fast ragtime music popular in the decade from 1900 to 1910 such as Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. It lost favor to the Foxtrot in 1914.
The basic step consisted of four hopping steps sideways with the feet well apart, first on one leg, then the other with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The dance was embellished with scissor-like flicks of the feet and fast trotting actions with abrupt stops.
It achieved popularity chiefly as a result of its being denounced by the Vatican. It was thought that the positions assumed by the dancers was offensively suggestive. Conservative members of society felt the dance was demoralizing and tried to get it banned at public functions, which only served to increase its popularity.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
hehe the Vatican, and we all know how much stock we put into what they think
mj said:
Wild guess
The WCTU?
Alan J wrote:
The Vatican
-pm in Texas responded:
The turkey trot, a dance popular in the early 1900s, achieved popularity chiefly as a result of its being denounced by The Vatican!
Adam answered:
The Temperance League?
Vernon and Irene Castle?
The Pope?
It was The Pope. I figured nosiness on this level from The Vatican was a more modern thing. Passing judgment in a vacuum never goes out of style.
BttbB replied:
(Cue dark, sinister monk chanting music)... The Vatican
Charlie answered:
The Vatican.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
I am very late today but here goes: It achieved popularity chiefly as a
result of its being denounced by the Vatican. It was thought that the
positions assumed by the dancers was offensively suggestive.
Sally said:
The turkey trot achieved popularity chiefly as a result of its being denounced by the Vatican - the same Vatican who sent out letters to the Bishops in Ireland, instructing the bishops NOT to report any of the cases of sexual abuse to the children there - because it could harm the reputation of the Church. Yeah, that Vatican decided the dance would lead to sin... . It was thought that in the Turkey Trot, the positions assumed by the dancers was offensively suggestive. Conservative members of society felt the dance was demoralizing and tried to get it banned at public functions, which only served to increase its popularity - as did the diddling of the kids in church...
Memo to B2BB: Using the royal 'we,' here, I say to you with all sincerity, "We are not amused..." :!
MAM wrote:
The Vatican
The Turkey Trot consisted of ragtime, a fast, marching one-step dance while the dancers pumped their arms at their sides. The dancers would then use arm-flaps occasionally that represented a crazed turkey. The woman has feathers in her hair and the man has tails. And they danced face to face!
And, Joe S answered:
The Vatican.
Also banned by the Vatican.
A top EU legal adviser has warned the French government that it must do more to protect endangered hamsters living near Strasbourg in eastern France. France could be fined if the European Court of Justice rules that it has failed to heed a final warning from the European Commission in 2008...
Another perfect summer day in the middle of winter.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with LIVE'NFL Playoff', followed by a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', then pads the left coast with a RERUN'Rules Of Engagement', followed by another RERUN'Rules Of Engagement', and some local crap.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by the movie 'Sex & The City'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a RERUN'Desperate Housewives', followed by a RERUN'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then the movie 'Bounce'.
Faux has an old 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'American Dad', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'Cleveland Show'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
AMC offers the movie 'Exit Wounds', followed by the movie 'The Brave One', then the movie 'The Brave One', again.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 6 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Minnie Driver, Ruth Jones, Katie Melua
[7:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[8:00 AM] Ramsay's Best Restaurant - Ep 7 North African
[9:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[10:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[11:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 5 The Jersey Devil
[2:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 6 Shadows
[3:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 11 The Hunted
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 12 The High Ground
[5:00 PM] Great Natural Wonders of the World
[6:00 PM] Nature: Shaped by Time
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[8:00 PM] From Russia With Love
[10:30 PM] From Russia With Love (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 'Jim Gaffigan: King Baby', 'Nick Swardson: Seriously, Who Farted?', 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly', and 'Dane Cook: Rough Around The Edges'.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man', followed by the movie 'Hancock'.
History has 'Ax Men', another 'Ax Men', still another 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:30 AM] A Prairie Home Companion
[8:45 AM] The Golden Bowl
[11:30 AM] The Ben Stiller Show
[12:00 PM] The Ben Stiller Show
[12:30 PM] The Ben Stiller Show
[1:00 PM] Mr. Show With Bob and David
[1:35 PM] Mr. Show With Bob and David
[2:10 PM] Mr. Show With Bob and David
[2:45 PM] Calendar Girls
[5:00 PM] Committed
[7:00 PM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[9:00 PM] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[11:00 PM] Onion News Network
[11:30 PM] Portlandia
[12:00 AM] Freaks and Geeks
[1:00 AM] Undeclared
[1:30 AM] Mr. Show With Bob and David
[2:05 AM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[4:05 AM] Monty Python and the Holy Grail (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:30 AM] Instead of Abracadabra
[7:10 AM] Alexander The Last
[8:30 AM] BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET: Furnish (Season 1)
[9:00 AM] BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET: Create (Season 1)
[9:30 AM] Garbage Warrior
[11:00 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[11:30 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[12:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
[12:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
[1:00 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Saves the Show (Episode 6, Season 1)
[1:30 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Very Special Episode (Episode 7, Season 1)
[2:00 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Relaxes in Palm Springs (Episode 8, Season 1)
[2:30 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Hangs With the Cool Kids (Episode 9, Season 1)
[3:00 PM] BRICK CITY - Summer Is Ours (Episode 1, Season 1)
[4:00 PM] BRICK CITY - Struggle (Episode 2, Season 1)
[5:00 PM] BRICK CITY - Central (Episode 3, Season 1)
[6:00 PM] BRICK CITY - Circus (Episode 4, Season 1)
[7:00 PM] BRICK CITY - Red October (Episode 5, Season 1)
[8:00 PM] White Lightnin'
[9:35 PM] Pal/secam
[10:00 PM] Barton Fink
[12:05 AM] The Business Trip
[12:15 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[12:45 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[1:15 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
[1:45 AM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
[2:15 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Demands Dignity (Episode 5, Season 1)
[2:45 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Saves the Show (Episode 6, Season 1)
[3:15 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Very Special Episode (Episode 7, Season 1)
[3:45 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Relaxes in Palm Springs (Episode 8, Season 1)
[4:15 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Hangs With the Cool Kids (Episode 9, Season 1)
[4:45 AM] White Lightnin' (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Total Recall', followed by the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'.
From left to right, activist Gloria Steinem, director Jennifer Siebel Newsom, actress Daphne Zuniga and actress Geena Davis pose together at the premiereof 'Miss Representation' during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Dozens of guitars and amplifiers from rock legend Eric Clapton's personal collection are set to go under the hammer for charity.
Proceeds from the auction at Bonhams will go to the The Crossroads Centre - the drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre that Clapton founded on the island of Antigua in 1998.
Highlights of the sale include one of Clapton's main stage guitars from 2005 - a custom-built black Fender Stratocaster, estimated to fetch $20,000-30,000.
Another Stratocaster used by Clapton on stage during his Asia Oceania tours in 2009 and at the O2 in 2010 is expected to go for $25,000-30,000.
Actor Terrence Howard (L) and singer Harry Belafonte pose during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 22, 2011.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
"Damn it. Lost again," cries Andreas Lanke as he suffers his umpteenth defeat at the hands of Nimrod, the world's first computer game at the centrepiece of a new museum that opens Friday in Berlin.
Nimrod, an enormous panel of flashing white LEDs, was a marvel when it came out, one of the first non-governmental computers and the first to offer a gaming element.
The rest of the museum is quite simply a geek's nirvana.
Spread over 670 square metres (7,000 square feet), it charts the history of computer games and gaming consoles from Nimrod to the latest 3D extravaganzas.
Nostalgia-seekers will delight at old arcade classics like Pac-Man, Asteroids or Space Invaders, while the museum also houses a colossal range of both hardware and software.
British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's wine collection sold for more than expected at a Hong Kong auction Saturday, raking in $5.6 million, one of several weekend sales in the fast-growing auction hub.
Every one of 746 lots found a buyer during the sale at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, with a dozen bottles of Chateau Petrus 1982 fetching $77,564, Sotheby's said.
Most of the collection beat previous price expectations, it said, adding that one lot had been withdrawn prior to the sale.
The high estimate for the whole collection had been about $4.1 million, said the auction giant, which sold about $52 million worth of fine wine in the former British colony last year -- more than twice as much as their wine sales in London and three times as much as New York.
Singer Carole King arrives with musicians Danny Kortchmar (R) and Leland Sklar for the premiere of the film "Troubadours" during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 22, 2011. Kortchmar and Sklar were part of the band for the Troubadour Reunion Tour by King and fellow musician James Taylor last year.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the actress is going home from the hospital, a week after doctors amputated most of her right leg.
John Blanchette says doctors are pleased with Gabor's recovery and she'll be transported by ambulance Saturday evening back to her Bel Air mansion.
Doctors at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center decided to amputate Jan. 14 when a persistent infection wouldn't heal. She had been expected to remain in the hospital for at least two weeks.
Blanchette says the 93-year-old "Moulin Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space" star will be monitored daily by nurses.
A French court, in a surprise ruling, on Friday convicted and fined Warner Music Group chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. for insider trading and former high-flying Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier for misusing company funds and misleading investors.
Bronfman, a former executive vice president of Vivendi Universal, was fined (EURO)5 million ($6.7 million) and given a 15-month suspended sentence for insider trading around the Vivendi media conglomerate when he was a top executive there. Messier was handed a three-year suspended prison sentence and a (EURO)150,000 fine.
The unexpected convictions came despite prosecutor Chantal de Leiris' recommendations that the two men and other ex-Vivendi executives be cleared of all charges for lack of evidence that they duped investors.
Bronfman and Messier said they would appeal the verdict, which deals a blow to the two men once considered masterminds of massive mergers in the media and telecommunications sectors.
Members of the Grateful Dead Mickey Hart (L) and Bob Weir arrive at the movie "The Music Never Stopped" before the film's screening duringthe Sundance Film Festival at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City, Utah January 21, 2011.
Photo by Jim Urquhart
A Tucson taco restaurant already has served up python, alligator, elk, kangaroo, rattlesnake and turtle.
Boca Tacos y Tequila says it's accepting prepaid orders for African lion tacos, to be served starting Feb. 16. Orders must be placed by Feb. 7 and owner Bryan Mazon says there are already a few reservations from curious customers.
Mazon says his restaurant started offering exotic tacos on its menu every Wednesday about six months ago and has tried "just about anything we can get our hands on."
The Arizona Daily Star says most of Boca's exotic tacos range between $3 and $4. The lion tacos will cost $8.75 apiece.
Inductee Cloris Leachman, right, and Valerie Harper pose together at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 20th Annual Hall of Fame Induction Galain Beverly Hills, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011.
Photo by Matt Sayles
When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.
Some say the effects of the powders are as powerful as abusing methamphetamine. Increasingly, law enforcement agents and poison control centers say the bath salts with complex chemical names are an emerging menace in several U.S. states where authorities talk of banning their sale.
From the Deep South to California, emergency calls are being reported over exposure to the stimulants the powders often contain: mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, also known as MDPV.
Sold under such names as Ivory Wave, Bliss, White Lightning and Hurricane Charlie, the chemicals can cause hallucinations, paranoia, rapid heart rates and suicidal thoughts, authorities say. The chemicals are in bath salts and even plant foods that are sold legally at convenience stores and on the Internet. However, they aren't necessarily being used for the purposes on the label.
A worker installs electric wires for rabbit-shaped lanterns to decorate a temple fair at the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu province January 21,2011. The Lunar New Year begins on February 3 and marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac.
Photo by Sean Yong
Burglars snorted the cremated remains of a man and two dogs in the mistaken belief that they had stolen illegal drugs, Florida sheriff's deputies said on Wednesday.
The ashes were taken from a woman's home in the central Florida town of Silver Springs Shores on December 15. The thieves took an urn containing the ashes of her father and another container with the ashes of her two Great Danes, along with electronic equipment and jewelry, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.
Investigators learned what happened to the ashes after they arrested five teens in connection with another burglary attempt at a nearby home last week.
Once they realized their error, the suspects discussed returning the remaining ashes but threw them in a lake instead because they thought their fingerprints were on the containers, sheriff's spokesman Judge Cochran said.
A Boeing Delta 4 Heavy rocket, which may someday be used to send humans into space, rises from the launch pad during its first unmanned launch at VandenbergAir Force Base, Calif., Thursday Jan. 20, 2011.
Photo by Phil Klein
Scientists are still hoping to mate the near century-old giant tortoise from the Galapagos - even though efforts over the past two decades have failed.
The Galapagos National Park said in a statement Thursday that they are providing two new female partners for George, who is believed to be the last living member of the Geochelone abigdoni species.
George is estimated to be between 90 and 100 years old - and could have at least 50 more years ahead of him. For the past 20 years, he has lived with two previous female partners, of the similar but different Geochelone becki species. The females laid eggs in 2008, 2009 and last year, but none resulted in viable offspring.
This image provided by the Los Angeles Zoo, Thursday Jan. 20, 2011 shows three of nine giant horned lizards that hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, marking the first time this species has ever reproduced in a North American zoo. The first of the nine lizards hatched November 26, 2010, and over the course of the following week the remaining eight lizards hatched.
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