Susan Estrich: Dinner in Brentwood (Creators Syndicate)
The traffic alerts are already out. Since no one can ever tell you which route a president is going to take, the most that traffic-conscious Angelenos (I think I've included everyone here) can find out is where he's going and when he's leaving.
Jim Hightower: WORKERS DOWN, BOSSES UP: A MORALITY PLAY
Early this year, Gannett employees were notified that, for the third year in a row, they would get no raises and would have to take a week off without pay. … To soothe the pain a bit, the note added that Gannett's two top executives would take a commensurate cut in their salaries. ... Only two months later, bonuses totaling $3 million were very quietly bestowed on the top two. And to add a bright cherry to this sweet delight, the duo of honchos also were awarded stock options and deferred pay totaling as much as $17 million.
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Today, (potato) chips are packaged in plastic bags, with nitrogen gas blown in prior to sealing to lengthen shelf life, and provide protection against crushing.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
nitrogen
Alan J replied:
Nitrogen
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
nitrogen gas
Sally said:
Happy Easter to all who celebrate the day!!
And, as for the potato chips, they are packaged in plastic bags, with nitrogen gas blown in prior to sealing to lengthen shelf life, and provide protection against crushing.
Hummmm, after finding out about the gas, I think I shall investigate other ways to get laid. Ah, I mean 'Lays,' chips...
PS: I have out of town company staying for the next week, actually (hopefully) arriving this afternoon. Hopefully, because she lives maybe 100 miles from St Louis where a tornado has shut down that airport... My attendance may be spotty here while the company and I take several day trips, but never fear, I shall do my best to check in as I can... :)
BttbB answered:
The correct answer 'they' say is Nitrogen... But, I say, that is a big, fat LIE... A LIE, I'm tellin' ya... What it actually is, I am convinced, is a super-top secret diabolical concoction that when whooshed into yer face upon opening the bag causes one to be incapable of eating just one!... I call it 'Potato Chip Zombie Gas'... and there should be an investigation into it, so there should...
John I from Hawaii says:
"nitrogen"
Adam, who didn't take the day off, responded:
Noooo! I sent his Sat AM:
They pump nitrogen into the bags. oxygen would make the chips become stale, so nitrogen keeps them fresh and crisp. along with this bags are lined on the inside with aluminum to keep it dark inside the bag. this keeps them from getting soggy.
The same is done for meat now to keep it red longer.
Charlie also took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Nitrogen Gas (N2) a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that makes up 78.09% (by volume) of the air we breathe.
And, Joe S answered:
At first, potato chips were packaged in barrels or tins, which left chips at the bottom stale and crumbled. Laura Scudder, an entrepreneur in Monterey Park, California started having her workers take home sheets of wax paper to iron into the form of bags, which were filled with chips at her factory the next day. This pioneering method reduced crumbling and kept the chips fresh and crisp longer. This innovation, along with the invention of cellophane, allowed potato chips to become a mass market product and made Laura Scudder a household name. Today, chips are packaged in plastic bags, with nitrogen gas blown in prior to sealing to lengthen shelf life, and provide protection against crushing.
My introduction to potato chips began at age 6. We had moved from rural Northern Michigan to the big city of Muskegon. A couple of days after moving in our new house the next door neighbors invited our whole family over to their house to get acquainted. The grown-ups retreated to the kitchen and us kids were sent to the living room, the carpeted living room. My God! A soft rug that covered the whole, entire floor. Well anyway the neighbor lady sat a large, round tin in the middle of the floor. The tin, I believe, was probably a two gallon sized container and it was filled with potato chips, New Era potato chips to be exact. I had never seen a potato chip before this. We three children, me, my sister Judy and the neighbor girl ate the whole thing and thus began a 61 year love affair.
My mother was of course appalled that we ate the entire container of chips but the neighbors just laughed it off, it was just fine, no harm done. The neighbor lady opened a cupboard door and the whole cupboard was filled with New Era potato chip tins. The neighbor man worked at New Era. I knew that the little neighbor girl was the luckiest little girl in the world and I tried never to get on her bad side.
Sam Richards is a sociologist and teacher of the largest race relations course in the US. He argues that empathy is the core of sociology.
By leading the Americans in his audience at TEDxPSU step by step through the thought process, sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can they understand -- not approve of, but understand -- the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? And by extension, can anyone truly understand and empathize with another?
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then the FRESH made-for-TV-movie 'Beyond The Blackboard'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH'America's Next Great Restaurant', then a FRESH'Trump's Ego On Parade'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers an old 'Friends', followed by the movie 'The Count Of Monte Cristo'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons', then the movie 'The Simpsons Movie'.
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'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', still another 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'Breakout Kings'.
AMC offers the movie 'U.S. Marshalls', followed by the movie '88 Hours', then a FRESH'The Killing'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Enid - Enid
[8:00 AM] Elephants of Samburu
[9:00 AM] Nature: Shaped by Time
[10:00 AM] Animals: Inside the Womb
[11:00 AM] Diana's Dresses - Diana's Dresses
[12:00 PM] Princess Diana: Her Life in Jewels
[1:00 PM] William & Kate: Modern Monarchy
[1:30 PM] Modern Monarchy: Dos & Don'ts
[2:00 PM] Prince William's Africa
[3:00 PM] Prince William & Prince Harry: Into the Future
[4:00 PM] William & Kate: Modern Monarchy
[4:30 PM] William & Kate: A Fairytale Romance
[6:00 PM] Royally Mad - Episode 1
[7:00 PM] Royally Mad - Episode 2
[8:00 PM] Batman - Batman
[10:30 PM] Batman - Batman
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[5:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Scary Movie r', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Step Brothers', followed by the movie 'Role Models'.
History has 'Ax Men', another 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', then a FRESH'Inspector America'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Toto le Héros
[8:00 AM] Twelve and Holding
[10:00 AM] Bend It Like Beckham
[12:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:30 PM] The Grid
[2:45 PM] Toto le Héros
[4:45 PM] Twelve and Holding
[6:45 PM] The Gate
[8:30 PM] 28 Days Later
[11:00 PM] Onion News Network
[11:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:00 AM] Freaks and Geeks
[1:00 AM] Undeclared
[1:30 AM] Mr. Show With Bob and David
[2:05 AM] 11:14
[3:50 AM] Nosebleed
[4:00 AM] Twelve and Holding (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:40 AM] Monsieur Hubert de Givenchy
[7:35 AM] The Toe Tactic
[9:00 AM] BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET: Habitats (Season 3)
[9:30 AM] BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET: Companies (Season 3)
[10:00 AM] Ice People
[11:20 AM] Trolls
[11:30 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Demands Dignity (Episode 5, Season 1)
[12:00 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Saves the Show (Episode 6, Season 1)
[12:30 PM] ALL ON THE LINE - Kara Janx: That Dress is Great if You're Going to the Prom With Justin Bieber (Episode 2, Season 1)
[1:30 PM] ALL ON THE LINE - Between the Sheets: I'm Nervous Your Model is About to Have a Britney Moment (Episode 3, Season 1)
[2:30 PM] Instead of Abracadabra
[3:00 PM] Treeless Mountain
[4:35 PM] The Toe Tactic
[6:05 PM] The Door
[6:25 PM] In A Day
[7:50 PM] L'Auberge Espagnole
[10:00 PM] A Home at the End of the World
[11:45 PM] ALL ON THE LINE - Between the Sheets: I'm Nervous Your Model is About to Have a Britney Moment (Episode 3, Season 1)
[12:45 AM] SHAMELESS (Episode 7, Season 5)
[1:45 AM] ALL ON THE LINE - Between the Sheets: I'm Nervous Your Model is About to Have a Britney Moment (Episode 3, Season 1)
[2:45 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Demands Dignity (Episode 5, Season 1)
[3:15 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Saves the Show (Episode 6, Season 1)
[3:45 AM] A Home at the End of the World
[5:30 AM] L'Auberge Espagnole (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has fills the night with the movie 'Tin Man'.
Hayden Panettiere, right, David Alan Grier and Amy Poehler arrive to the 'Hoodwinked Too!' premiere during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Saturday,April 23, 2011.
Photo by Charles Sykes
British music superstar Elton John has revealed that he and his partner have chosen pop diva Lady Gaga to be their baby boy's godmother, as he spoke of his joy at being a father.
"Yes, yes she is," John told ABC's Babara Walters when she asked him if the outlandish singer was the godmother of his son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, in an interview broadcast late Friday.
"When you get to the real person underneath, there's a very simple New York girl who loves her parents. I love her to death and a lot of people said, 'oh, you know, that's crazy,' but they don't know her and we do."
Zachary was born December 25 to a surrogate for John, 64, and his partner 48-year-old Canadian filmmaker David Furnish, and the couple told ABC of their delight in having a son, and their determination not to spoil him.
Canadian actor Keanu Reeves waves as he arrives at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Reeves playsin the 3D film 'Ronin 47' to be shot in Budapest in the next weeks.
Photo by Bea Kallos
Lost in the renewed scrutiny into President Barack Obama's birth records is the fact that anyone can walk into a Hawaii vital records office, wait in line behind couples getting marriage licenses and open a baby-blue government binder containing basic information about his birth.
Highlighted in yellow on page 1,218 of the thick binder is the computer-generated listing for a boy named Barack Hussein Obama II born in Hawaii, surrounded by the alphabetized last names of all other children born in-state between 1960 and 1964. This is the only government birth information, called "index data," available to the public.
So far this month, only The Associated Press and one other person had looked at the binder, according to a sign-in sheet viewed Wednesday in the state Department of Health building. The sheet showed about 25 names of people who have seen the document since March 2010, when the sign-in sheet begins.
Those documents complement newspaper birth announcements published soon after Obama's Aug. 4, 1961 birth and a "certification of live birth" released by the Obama campaign three years ago, the only type of birth certificate the state issues.
NBC has pulled "The Paul Reiser Show" off the air after just two episodes.
The comedy premiered last week to 3.3 million viewers in the coveted 18-49 year old demographic, ranking as the network's lowest-rated in-season comedy beginning ever.
Its second episode didn't fare any better, collecting 2.5 million viewers in 18-49 demographic.
Repeats of "The Office" will take over beginning next week.
From left, actors Rob Morrow, Orlando Bloom, Riley Keough and Sorel Carradine attend the premiere of 'The Good Doctor' during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, April 22, 2011, in New York.
Photo by Peter Kramer
Two pieces of a torn 660-year-old Chinese painting held by Taiwan and mainland China will be reunited for the first time in centuries at an exhibit at Taiwan's national museum, in a sign of warming ties between the rivals.
The main portion of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" by revered Chinese landscape painter Huang Gongwang has been stored in Taipei's Palace Museum since 1949, when the two sides separated during a civil war.
The other part of the 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) painting will be shipped from China's Zhejiang Provincial Museum for an exhibition opening June 2, Palace Museum Director Chou Kung-shin said.
The Yuan Dynasty painting was torn more than 300 years ago by a private collector who tried to burn it as he was dying, but a relative saved it from the flames, Chou said. The two parts have been kept in separate places since then.
The day unfolded all too familiarly for Lindsay Lohan: a court hearing, a jail sentence, a quick release.
The starlet appeared before a judge Friday for the fourth time in nearly a year and was sentenced to 120 days for violating her probation by taking a designer necklace.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said she thought the actress had intentionally taken the $2,500 necklace from an upscale Venice store and shown poor judgment in not trying to return it until police became involved.
The judge reduced the actress' charge from felony grand theft to a misdemeanor and imposed the 120-day sentence.
Lohan's attorney Shawn Holley filed a notice of appeal right before court closed, clearing the way for the actress' release on bail.
This undated photo provided by the Museum der Moderne Salzburg shows the painting 'Litzlberg am Attersee' by famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Officials say the precious Klimt painting now in an Austrian museum was seized by the Nazis and must therefore be returned to the heir of its former owner. The painting belongs to Salzburg's modern art museum MdM Salzburg and is estimated to be worth as much as euro 30 million ($44 million).
U.S. Sen. John Ensign's decision this week to resign marked a mysterious change of heart for the Nevada Republican, raising questions about what an ongoing Senate ethics probe has uncovered while also muddling the field of candidates for congressional seats now held by the GOP headed into a key election year.
Leaders of the Senate Ethics Committee noted tersely that Ensign made the proper decision in turning in a letter of resignation amid their unfinished two-year probe of his conduct.
Ensign, 53, cited "wear and tear" on himself and his family in his announcement Thursday, which came nearly two years after he acknowledged having had an extramarital affair with a former staffer. The ethics probe has explored Ensign's handling of the affair and whether he tried to illegally cover it up.
Ensign's exit protects him from future disciplinary action and questioning. The committee cannot penalize Ensign once he is no longer a senator, and, with the Senate in recess, it is unlikely that the committee will be able to do so before Ensign's May 3 resignation.
But Ensign is not entirely in the clear. It is likely the committee will move forward on the months-long investigation by issuing an embarrassing statement regarding the propriety of Ensign's behavior and the panel could even go so far as to recommend a criminal investigation. It would by a damning, but mostly symbolic, gesture because committee members do not have authority over federal investigators.
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards' daughter Theodora will get her New York City graffiti and drug case dismissed in exchange for doing two days of community service, a judge said Thursday.
Theodora Richards, a 25-year-old model, smiled but stayed mum as she left a Manhattan court. She has until late June to do the community service and won't have to enter a plea.
Police said officers spotted her March 1 writing the letters "T" and "A," with a heart symbol between them, in red ink on the side of a Manhattan building that houses a convent. She has a sister named Alexandra, her lawyers noted.
Theodora Richards had a small amount of marijuana and 8 1/2 hydrocodone pills in her purse and acknowledged she didn't have a prescription for the hydrocodone, a narcotic pain reliever, police said in a court document.
Prosecutors agreed to the dismissal "given her lack of a criminal record and her ongoing treatment," Manhattan assistant district attorney Kelli Clancy told the judge. At her previous court appearance, they had included a one-day visit to a drug treatment program as a condition for a dismissal, but it's not required now.
A model performs with a snake before a presentation by Kazakhstan's Kenje design house during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty April 23, 2011.
Photo by Shamil Zhumatov
Members of Kyrgyzstan's divided parliament slaughtered seven rams before their morning session on Thursday, in a sacrifice they hope will banish "evil spirits" disrupting their work.
Kyrgyzstan elected a new legislature in October in a bid to build the first parliamentary democracy in former Soviet Central Asia, a region otherwise run by authoritarian presidents.
But the fragile governing coalition has come under threat after weeks of bitter recriminations and disputes in parliament, leading a senior government member to resign temporarily.
Kyrgyzstan, which lies on a drug trafficking route out of Afghanistan and hosts both Russian and U.S. military air bases, saw its president toppled by a violent revolt last April. More than 400 people were killed in ethnic riots in June.
"We decided to resort to popular customs, in order for this building not to see bloodshed anymore," member of parliament Myktybek Abdyldayev told Reuters after the rams were sacrificed on a green lawn in front of the government headquarters.
The 10 bells of London's Westminster Abbey will chime for more than three hours following the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, St James's Palace said on Saturday.
Ringers at the abbey where the couple marry on Friday will perform a full peal of 5,000 changes, or sequences of bell chimes, with none repeating.
A peal of this length is only rung on special royal or national occasions and was last performed for the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's marriage to Prince Philip in 2007, a spokesman for the abbey said.
The palace said the chimes for the royal wedding will combine two methods called London and Bristol to result in a peal of Spliced Surprise Royal.
A baby kangaroo named Marta is held by a keeper who is looking after her after she was abandoned by her mother, in Belgrade Zoo, Serbia, Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
Photo by Darko Vojinovic
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