DAVID BROOKS: The Geezers' Crusade (nytimes.com)
It now seems clear that the only way the U.S. is going to avoid an economic crisis is if the older generation takes it upon themselves to arise and force change.
roger ebert's journal: Of the feel of theaters and audiences, and eight films from Sundance
I saw my final film of Sundance 2010 here in Chicago. It was my best Sundance experience, and I want to tell you why. The film was "Jack Goes Boating," the directorial debut of Philip Seymour Hoffman. It played here in the Music Box, as part of the "Sundance USA" outreach program, which has enlisted eight art theaters around the country to play Sundance entries while the festival is still underway.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation. Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his spending plan for the next budget year is expected to include billions of more dollars in federal guarantees for new nuclear reactors... Obama's new climate card: nuclear power - Climate Change- msnbc.com
Do you support the increased use of nuclear power in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
zEN mAN (observing a 19 year old New Zealand teenager auctioning off her virginity on the internet...starting bid $32,000....to pay her tuition...sooooo much for a free education and higher learning)
Maple sugar is about twice as sweet as standard granulated sugar.
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Marian the Teacher was first, and correct, with:
2 x or twice as sweet depends if you are cooking or comparing
mj responded:
Another wild guess
Of 1.5, simply based on how much I need to sweeten my Cream of Wheat.
Alan J answered:
Twice
Charlie wrote:
Wikipedia says it's twice as sweet, though measuring sweetness is a sticky subject:
The measurement of the sweetness of a substance is peculiarly problematical. There are no laboratory instruments to perform the task, no absolute or even arbitrary units of sweetness. Instead we have to rely on the human tongue and the hope that if we average the findings of large numbers of tongues we can obtain useful data. The data scientists obtain will still not be in absolute units but will be expressed relative to some arbitrary standard, usually sucrose.
Googling the subject does turn up a variety of methods used, but I'll go with the tongue.
Sally said:
Offhand, I'd say that Maple sugar is about twice as sweet granulated sugar - at least it used to taste so to me, before the diabetes set in...
PS: Would you believe, we didn't get one flake of snow by me, but only 25 miles down the turnpike they were calling it blizzard conditions! So crazy, the storm came in from the West and went to the mid-Atlantic! Like I said, it's seed-catalogue time in Northern, NJ!!
MAM replied:
Maple sugar is about twice as sweet as standard granulated sugar.
PS to Sal: Ah, Sal, your ground hog may have seen his shadow, but you can't look out the window and see 26 to 30 inches of snow on your porch furniture.
And, Joe S answered:
Roses are red,
Violets are purple,
Sugar is sweet,
So is maple syruple.
(I didn't make that up)
And maple sugar is twice as sweet as granulated sugar.
My dad used to make maple syrup and maple sugar. He used a woodburning
laundry stove in the basement at first. The whole house would smell
sweet, I can still smell it. Later on he built a little sugar shed
outside. He built the stove, and evaporator and he even made his own tree
taps.
He always added some beech sap to the maple for a more mellow taste. I
don't know the formula, he never told anyone but it was good. Yum! With
the first batch he would pour some of the syrup on snow to harden it up
and we would eat it with a dill pickle.
The urge to give your car a unique paint job is sometimes overwhelming and the results can vary - both from the point of view of the artist and those who are obliged to view the results. Art for car's sake or simply metaphorical case of auto erotica? Judge for yourself.
Gargoyles - they are strange, bizarre, unpleasant or just plain ugly. They have been hovering around our towns and cities for centuries, for so long that it can be forgotten that they have meaning and purpose. Take a tour of the weird world of the gargoyle.
CBS has LIVE'NFL Football', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Undercover Boss', then pads the left coast with some local crap and maybe an old 'NCIS: The 2nd One', and maybe an old 'Cold Case'.
NBC fills the night with old 'The Biggest Loser'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Modern Family', then a RERUN'The Middle', followed by a RERUN'Modern Family', then a RERUN'Cougar Town', followed by another RERUN'Modern Family', and still another RERUN'Modern Family'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Sleepover'.
Faux has a FRESH'Til Death', followed by another FRESHTil Death', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and still another 'Criminal Minds'.
AMC offers the movie 'Silverado' (not the Neil Bush story), followed by the movie 'Dances With Wolves'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[3:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 1
[4:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 2
[5:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 3
[6:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 4
[7:00 PM] Last Restaurant Standing - Episode 5
[8:00 PM] Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
[9:15 PM] Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
[10:30 PM] The Graham Norton Show
[11:00 PM] Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
[12:15 AM] Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
[1:30 AM] The Graham Norton Show - The Doctor Who Special
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
[3:15 AM] Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
[4:30 AM] The Graham Norton Show The Doctor Who Special
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', still another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', and 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'Larry The Cable Guy: Tailgate Party', 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself', 'South Park', and another 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Ice Age: The Meltdown', followed by the movie 'Night At The Museum'.
History has 'Food Tech', 'Decoding The Past', 'Biography: Caligula', and 'Sex In The Bible'.
IFC -
[6:10 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[7:10 AM] Trans
[8:30 AM] House of Games
[10:25 AM] American Buffalo
[12:00 PM] Arrested Development
[12:30 PM] Arrested Development
[1:00 PM] Arrested Development
[1:30 PM] Arrested Development
[2:00 PM] Arrested Development
[2:30 PM] Arrested Development
[3:00 PM] Antichrist
[3:30 PM] Trans
[4:55 PM] Cube
[6:30 PM] The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
[8:15 PM] Get Shorty
[10:00 PM] Arrested Development
[10:30 PM] Arrested Development
[11:00 PM] Indie Sex II: Censored
[12:15 AM] The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
[2:00 AM] Get Shorty
[3:45 AM] Arrested Development
[4:15 AM] Arrested Development
[4:45 AM] Indie Sex II: Censored (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[05:45 AM] Approaching Union Square
[07:10 AM] Aloha, New York
[07:40 AM] The Duchess Of Langleais
[10:00 AM] The River Cottage Treatment: Episode 101
[11:00 AM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: The Great Warming
[12:30 PM] Street of Crocodiles
[01:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 3: Madeleine Albright + Ashley Judd
[02:00 PM] Be Good Johnny Weir: Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 2
[02:30 PM] Be Good Johnny Weir: Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 3
[03:00 PM] Nothing But a Man
[04:35 PM] Alexander The Last
[05:50 PM] Flutter
[06:00 PM] Approaching Union Square
[07:25 PM] Caramel
[09:00 PM] Spectacle - Season 2: Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Bono & The Edge
[10:00 PM] Angel
[12:00 AM] Lady Chatterley (2006)
[02:45 AM] Garage
[04:15 AM] Angel (ALL TIMES EST)
Beyonce performs in concert in Sao Paulo, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Beyonce is on her first Brazilian tour and will perform in Florianopolis, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador.
Photo by Nelson Antoine
Berlin-born Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich will be immortalised on the streets of her home city on a new "Walk of Fame" to be unveiled during the Berlin film festival this week, promoters said Saturday.
Dietrich will be first to have a star laid in her honor on the "Walk" -- modelled on Hollywood's own -- by festival director Dieter Kosslick and Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit on Thursday, the ART+COM company said.
The actress, who was born German but later took on US nationality, shot to fame in the 1930 movie "The Blue Angel," featuring her signature tune "Falling In Love Again." She died in 1992 aged 90.
Dietrich is one of 40 actors, directors, composers and scriptwriters who will be honoured on the "Walk" when it is unveiled in full late this summer near Berlin's film museum on Potsdamer Strasse.
Singer Tom Jones performs during his concert in Vina del Mar, about 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Santiago February 6, 2010.
Photo by Eliseo Fernandez
Facebook is redesigning its site yet again, this time to better emphasize applications, games and search.
Links and items have moved around the home page as Facebook tries to streamline navigation and make games and apps stand out more.
The latest evolution continued Friday after Facebook started rolling the changes out late Thursday, the company's sixth birthday. The changes were being made in stages, so not all users were seeing them right away.
Past changes have sparked protests from many users, though Facebook says it makes them to serve its audience better. Facebook says that it conducts months of testing and that many users request such changes.
Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery for Jessica Alba.
The actress said Saturday she's been distressed by Internet reports about a Chinese woman who is having a plastic surgery makeover to look like Alba in hopes of getting her lover back.
"I think you should never have to change yourself like that," Alba said. "If somebody loves you, they'll love you no matter what."
Alba, who is starring in the upcoming film "Valentine's Day," is in town for the Super Bowl; she was at an Audi party Friday with Hilary Swank, Taylor Lautner, Rob Lowe, New York Giant Osi Umenyiora and former New England Patriot Tedy Bruschi. It was one of numerous celebrity soirees attached to the Super Bowl.
Members of a "comparsa", a carnival band, participate in the "llamadas" parade in Montevideo February 6, 2010. On February 4 and 6, thousands of people crowd the capital's traditionally black neighborhood as costumed drummers and dancers kick off a street fiesta known as "llamadas" -- Spanish for "calls." The parade originated from the colonial period and started as a parade of slaves on the streets of the city.
Phto by Andres Stapff
Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has postponed an upcoming European tour by six months after hurting his lower back while exercising, his representatives said Friday.
A statement said his doctors advised the 75-year-old to follow the same four- to six-month regimen of physical therapy as athletes do with similar injuries.
A spokeswoman declined to specify what Cohen was doing when he hurt himself. He appeared fairly nimble Saturday when he accepted a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in Los Angeles and recited his wry poem "Tower of Song" to the audience.
The nine-date tour, set to begin on March 1 in the French city of Caen, will now begin on September 15, with shows scheduled through October 7 in Moscow.
The anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in the icy waters off Antarctica on Saturday - the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between the two sides.
No one was reportedly injured in the latest strike. The U.S.-based activist group Sea Shepherd, which sends vessels to confront the Japanese fleet each year, said a small hole was torn in the hull of its ship, but it was above the water line and the vessel was not in danger of sinking.
Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson said by satellite telephone that the Japanese ship rammed the Bob Barker - named after the U.S. game show host who donated millions to buy it for Sea Shepherd - as it blocked the slipway of the Japanese fleet's factory ship.
Saturday's collision was the second this year between a Sea Shepherd boat and the Japanese fleet.
A Mercedes that Charlie Sheen reported stolen from his Sherman Oaks home was found overturned hundreds of feet down a nearby cliff early Friday, but there's no evidence anyone was in the car when it went into the ravine, police said.
A Bentley was later found off the same road nearby Friday afternoon, and police said three other cars reportedly were broken into in the same area. Police were investigating if the incidents were linked.
Police got an emergency call around 4 a.m. from an OnStar-style alert system that calls emergency officials when there is a problem with the vehicle that may require assistance, Officer Wendy Reyes said. At about the same time, Sheen called police to say his four-door Mercedes-Benz had been stolen, Officer Bruce Borihanh said.
Police and firefighters found the car 300 to 400 feet down a cliff, upside-down in the brushy ravine. They searched the area on foot and with an infrared-equipped helicopter but found nobody in or around the car, Borihanh said.
A former New York cable TV newsman convicted of assaulting his wife at their home has been released from jail after serving 19 days of a 30-day sentence.
Sheriff's Department Detective Lt. William Barbera told the Journal News that 45-year-old Dominic Carter was released Tuesday after his sentence was reduced for good behavior and time served. As part of his sentence, he must stay away from his wife for two years.
Carter was convicted in November of attacking his wife Marilyn during an October 2008 argument at their Ramapo home, northwest of New York City. He is appealing his conviction.
Carter was influential in city and state politics as host of NY1's "Inside City Hall." He was taken off the air after NY1 learned of the incident.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, pedestrians walk in sand and dust on a street in Yulin City of northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Blowing sand hit Yulin on Saturday, causing poor visibility in the urban area, Xinhua said.
Photo by Tao Ming
After a weeklong absence, new copies of Andrew Young's "The Politician," Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and other books published by Macmillan are available for purchase on Amazon.com.
Since last Friday, Amazon had limited the availability of Macmillan releases in a dispute over e-books, with Macmillan calling for a new pricing system that would end the $9.99 rate Amazon had been setting for best-sellers on its Kindle e-reader. Macmillan and other publishers believe $9.99 is too low and threatens the value of books overall.
Amazon, where new copies of Macmillan books were returning Friday night, had announced last week it expected to "capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books."
The new revenue sharing system will likely reduce initial profits for publishers, but publishers, authors and agents believe that setting a higher price benefits the industry in the long-term.
A 62-year-old sledder looking for a burst of power got it when the homemade rocket strapped to his back exploded, burning him over nearly 20 percent of his body. Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was hospitalized in stable condition Monday.
The man was hosting a Sunday night sledding party when he filled an automobile muffler with gasoline and gunpowder, strapped it to his back and had it lit, seeking what McCabe called "a rocket-launch effect."
The device blew up as the man headed downhill, causing second-degree burns to his face and right side of his body and possible eye damage.
No charges have been filed against the man, whom McCabe said is known for doing "outrageous things" at his sledding parties.
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