Marc Dion: My Grandmother Knew Lizzie Borden (Creators Syndicate)
In the 1890s, the "free market" in Fall River, Mass., made 1,000 people out of 100,000 rich, so rich they couldn't be convicted of murder even if they killed their parents. Nearly everyone else was poor, their children's legs twisted with rickets, their lungs clotted and wheezy with lint they inhaled working weaving machines.
Terry Savage: Taxing Games (Creators Syndicate)
Time is money. You've heard that old saying. But when it comes to investment, the better way to say it is: Time leverages money. Especially when you don't have to pay taxes on the money you earn.
"Eleanor Rigby" is a song by the Beatles, released on the 1966 album Revolver and as a 45 rpm single. It was written primarily by Paul McCartney, and credited to Lennon-McCartney.
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"Eleanor Rigby"
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
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John I from Hawai'i was first, and correct, with:
"Eleanor Rigby."
mj wrote:
I always thought
That she was secretly waiting for Father McKenzie. I suspected he and Eleanor Rigby had a thing going on.
Charlie said:
Softball question today.
Eleanor Rigby
STEPHEN F responded:
Eleanor Rigby
Harry replied:
Eleanor Rigby
Adam answered:
Eleanor Rigby
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Eleanor Rigby
Deborah wrote:
Ah, that's Eleanor Rigby, which is also the title of the song. I taught myself to play it on the piano, and when I played & sang it, I felt sorry for Eleanor Rigby's apparently sad life. I was a kid; what did I know?
Happy Saturday!
Sally said:
Eleanor Rigby, "waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door." All the Lonely People...
Only two left...
Happy Saturday,
PS: I had no connection to the Internet this morning. We had rain all day yesterday, and last night it was unbelievable. I had forgotten to close my bedroom window, and when I heard the rain, and got up to close it, I thought someone was aiming a hose at the widow, full blast - that's how strong was the force of the rain! I've not seen this before...
Marian replied:
Eleanor Rigby
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, is engaged in some salty therapy near Bodega Bay.
Lois Of The Lambs In Oregon answered:
If Eleanor Rigby was wearing the face in THIS jar it would
explain why she died alone. Seriously though, that song was
a real bummer. "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" is much
better.
DJ Useo said:
Why, it's your friend and mine, Eleanor Rigby !
The string arrangement of that song changed pop music for everyone!
Back then, that was ground breaking musically.
Here's an extra cool mashup version
Alan J took the day off.
MAM wrote:
"Eleanor Rigby" ~ McCartney told the Associated Press: "Eleanor Rigby is a totally fictitious character that I made up."
BttbBob said:
Which is not one of my fa-vo-rite songs from...
(43) I'm not at all certain I'd turn my back on this lady if she's a-lookin' at me like this... anything could happen... and probably would.
"Dobie" is (79)... "Maynard" is timeless...
Rick is (64)... I'm a huge fan of his band
Yes- Fragile (Full Album) - YouTube
... Ah, memories of bongs filled with Mateus come with listening to this album.
~~~~~
"Peace", says my 'Deck Dove'... it's been cleanin' up the dropped seeds from the messy goldfinches, purple finches, chickadees, nuthatches, various sparrows and, of course, Mr. and Mrs Cardinal who own my airspace... Oh, and the occasional wacky Tufted Titmouse, too... Ya know, the usual suspects... My 'Deck Dove' likes to lay flat in the sun on the wide deck railings. I believe it knows it's perfectly camouflaged from above... There are hawks about, ya see.
Randall responded:
Eleanor Rigby
AAAAAAAAaaaahhhh look at all the lonely people
And, Joe S answered:
Poor,sad and lonely Eleanor Rigby, that's who.
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CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'The Mentalist'.
NBC opens the night with the FRESH'Coldplay: Ghost Stories', followed by a FRESH'American Dream Builders', then a RERUN'SNL - The Women Of SNL'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by the FRESH'2014 Billboard Music Awards'.
The CW offers a FRESH'SAF3', followed by 2 hours of what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'American Dad', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy', then a FRESH'Cosmos'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Dark Knight', followed by a FRESH'TURN', then a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 9
[7:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 10
[8:00AM] LIFE - Ep 8 - Creatures of the Deep
[9:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Gila Monster
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Lela's
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 10 - Park's Edge
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 11 - Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 3
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 4
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 5
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR APOCALYPSE
[5:30PM] THE USUAL SUSPECTS
[8:00PM] ANGELS & DEMONS
[11:00PM] ANGELS & DEMONS
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 2
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 3
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 4
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Married To Medicine', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', another 'South Park', followed by the movie 'Superbad', and 'Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles: Pt. 1'.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 2', followed by the movie 'This Means War', then the movie 'This Means War', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Craig Robinson Wears a Bordeaux Button Down and Dark Jeans
[6:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Mini-Bike
[7:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Carnival
[7:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Evacuation
[8:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Flashback
[8:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Houseboat
[9:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Emancipation
[9:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Book Club
[10:00AM] The Perfect Storm
[12:45PM] Pathfinder
[3:00PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[5:30PM] Lock Up
[8:00PM] Scarface
[11:45PM] Scarface
[3:30AM] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-The Good Wife
[6:30AM] Bella
[8:30AM] When Harry Met Sally
[10:30AM] Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
[12:30PM] Bullitt
[3:00PM] Brothers
[5:15PM] The Basketball Diaries
[7:30PM] Time Bandits
[10:00PM] Being There
[12:45AM] Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
[2:45AM] Amores Perros (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Chronicles Of Riddick', followed by the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans'.
Actress Salma Hayek holds up a sign reading "bring back our girls", part of a campaign calling for the release of nearly 300 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls being held by Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, as she arrives for the screening of Saint-Laurent at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2014.
Photo by Thibault Camus
The discovery that a CNN editor committed 128 instances of plagiarism began with a Google search, a CNN source told TheWrap.
The company said in an editor's note published Friday that it had terminated Marie-Louise Gumuchian, who reported from CNN's London bureau about Africa, Europe and the Middle East, after discovering the plagiarism spread across 50 articles. Seven had to be taken down altogether, and the others rewritten.
The discovery began when a lone copy editor noted some unusual phrasing in one of her stories, and copied it into Google, the CNN source said. It turned out that a story by Reuters, Gumuchian's former employer, was the source of the language.
"She was caught during routine spot checks by a copy editor who I think flagged some of her work because he thought the sentence structure looked familiar. And up came a Reuters piece that looked very similar," the person at CNN said. "He put the sentence into Google and out popped a Reuters piece."
Despite the black eye CNN will suffer, it sounds from the insider's account as if the company does more than many news organizations to root out plagiarism. First, it does regular spot checks. And it runs a plagiarism computer program to catch those who steal others' work. CNN used that program after Google revealed the first red flag.
Actress Eva Longoria poses for photographers as she arrives for the screening of Saint-Laurent at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2014.
Photo by Alastair Grant
Tech companies have filed an emergency lawsuit to prevent the Billboard Music Awards from using their patents to project a Michael Jackson hologram at this weekend's show.
Hologram USA Inc. and Musion Das Hologram Ltd. sued Jackson's estate and dick clark productions in federal court over technology known for digitally resurrecting deceased rapper Tupac Shakur at the 2012 Coachella music festival.
A lawyer representing the show's producers and Jackson's estate responded to the suit Friday by stating that if the virtual performance from the King of Pop were blocked, they would be irreparably harmed.
Attorney Michael Feder, representing the show and Jackson estate, said in his filed response that the holographic performance has been planned for months and had been discussed with Alki David, who owns the rights to the technology that creates and projects lifelike images to appear alongside live performers through Hologram USA and Musion.
Motorcyclists and movie fanatics from as far away as Canada have made the pilgrimage to northern New Mexico to celebrate Dennis Hopper and his iconic counterculture film "Easy Rider."
They are gathering Saturday in the dusty, adobe encircled plaza in the community of Ranchos de Taos, 4 miles south of Taos, to kick off what town officials hope will be an annual event - Dennis Hopper Day - with a rally and ride through some of the places made famous in the film.
Saturday would have been the late actor and director's 78th birthday. Hopper lived in Taos - a diverse town known for skiing, art and Hispanic and Native American culture - for years and is buried here.
Town Manager Rick Bellis says the day is aimed at recognizing Hopper's contributions as a resident, a filmmaker, a supporter of the arts and for simply being a "colorful member" of the community.
Paul McCartney came down with a virus and canceled his Tokyo concert Saturday, but he added a performance to make up for the lost show.
He said he felt sick Friday, and that doctors told him Saturday to cancel his appearance that night at the National Stadium in Tokyo.
But McCartney said he should be well enough for Sunday's scheduled concert and Monday's makeup.
Organizers said tickets for Saturday's show are valid for Monday, but a refund will also be offered. Ticket prices range from 13,500 yen ($130) to 17,500 yen ($170), and an extra 67,000 yen ($650) payment allows entry into the sound-check.
Looking for a reason why people hate their cable companies? Well, there are likely several reasons but one of them is undoubtedly the constant stream of price increases and fees that are taking out more and more of consumers' wallets every year. A major new study from the Federal Communications Commission has found that basic cable prices increased by 6.5% throughout 2012 while expanded basic cable prices rose by 5.1% over the same period. In contrast, the general rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index throughout 2012 was just 1.6%, meaning that basic cable prices rose at more than four times the rate of inflation in 2012 while expanded basic cable prices rose by more than three times the rate of inflation.
The FCC also found that cable prices have been growing much more quickly than inflation for a very long time now, as the compound average annual rate for expanded basic cable services between 1995 and 2013 was 6.1% while the compound average annual growth rate for the CPI over that same period was 2.4%. Counterintuitively, the FCC also found that prices for cable services ever since 2009 have been growing faster in areas with "effective competition," which means that there are two cable companies or more operating in the same market, although the study also found that just 25% of cable subscribers live in markets that are effectively competitive.
Actress Tiffani Thiessen attends Super Saturday LA benefiting the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at Barker Hangar on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Santa Monica, Calif.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
The lead singer for a heavy metal Christian rock band was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for pleading guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife, prosecutors in California said.
Tim Lambesis, 33, lead singer for the band As I Lay Dying, had been in a custody dispute with his wife, Meggan, over their three children in May 2013 when he asked a personal trainer at his gym if he knew anyone who could kill his wife, according to charging documents in the criminal case.
The trainer contacted the San Diego Sheriff's Department, which sent an undercover detective to meet with Lambesis.
As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Lambesis admitted that he had paid the undercover detective $1,000 in cash for the murder, with an additional $19,000 to be paid when his wife of eight years was dead.
He also gave the officer photos of his wife, the address of her complex and codes for the security gates, and a list of dates when he would have their three adopted children with him to provide an alibi, according to court documents.
Producer Pedro Almodovar, second right, poses with, from left, producer Augustin Almodovar, actor Ricardo Darin, actress Erica Rivas and actor Oscar Martinez during a photo call for Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2014.
Photo by Alastair Grant
Anheuser-Busch did not discriminate against a former executive by paying her significantly less than a male predecessor, a jury in St. Louis decided Friday.
The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for more than 10 hours over two days before siding with the company, a onetime family business now owned by Belgium-based brewer InBev.
Counting bonuses and stock options, Francine Katz earned about $1 million annually after her 2002 promotion to vice president of communications and consumer affairs and appointment to the company's influential strategy committee.
But Katz's base salary was half that of John Jacob, a former National Urban League president and Anheuser-Busch board member. The company argued that Katz's salary, benefits and bonuses compared favorably to those in similar positions at other large U.S. corporations and that Jacob had considerably more responsibilities, including an informal role as trusted adviser to former CEO August Busch III, whose family of German immigrants founded the iconic maker of Budweiser and Bud Light in the 19th century.
In her two-decade career, Katz, 56, rose from a young corporate lawyer to a role as key strategist and the company's top female executive. She was often the face of her hometown employer, defending Anheuser-Busch from state and federal regulators and anti-alcohol campaigns.
Director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of Saint-Laurent at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2014.
Photo by Alastair Grant
Authorities say a conservative Mississippi blogger went into a nursing home, photographed the bedridden wife of Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran without permission and posted an image online as part of a video.
Rose Cochran, 72, has lived at St. Catherine's Village since 2000 and has dementia.
Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, of Pearl, was arrested Friday and charged with a felony, exploitation of a vulnerable adult, Madison police said. Kelly remained in the Madison County Detention Center on Saturday on $100,000 bond. It wasn't immediately clear whether he has an attorney.
Cochran's June 3 Republican primary challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, said his campaign has no connection to Kelly.
Kelly's Facebook page includes one photo of Kelly with McDaniel at a campaign meet-and-greet event and another photo of a McDaniel campaign sign. Kelly has a blog called Constitutional Clayton (http://bit.ly/1sEK0iz ), which includes a post that says: "When it comes to Republicans with a bad voting record, you can't get any worse than Thad Cochran. Thad should represent the 'Controlled Opposition' Wing of the Republicans more than John McCain or Lindsey Graham."
In this Tuesday, April 29, 2014 photo, Elliot Mintz poses for a portrait in his library at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Determined to retire after five decades in Hollywood, the 69-year-old is releasing what he calls a "cyberography": A free website filled with more than 150 hours of his radio and TV interviews comprising hundreds of celebrities and subjects. ElliotMintz.com goes live Sunday, May 18, 2014.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Geologist Erin Argyilan's concept of sand dunes was shattered last July when she heard the parents of a 6-year-old boy frantically shouting that their son had been buried alive after falling into a hole.
Argyilan initially thought Nathan Woessner's parents must have simply lost sight of him on Mount Baldy at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore along Lake Michigan, which draws thousands of visitors annually.
"All of my scientific knowledge was leading me to the conclusion that it couldn't happen," said Argyilan, head of Indiana University Northwest's department of geosciences, who was conducting a wind study that day. "... sand dunes are typically dry individual grains of sand, so they stack rather tightly on top of each other. You don't expect for there to be large cavities."
Since July 12, three more holes a foot or less in diameter have been discovered on the 126-foot dune - each lasting a day or less before vanishing - and people have reported seeing holes in the past. Now, officials at parks in Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin and other states are paying close attention to what Argyilan and three other investigators find, hoping to ensure their own sandy attractions are safe.
There is a working hypothesis of the cause of Mount Baldy's holes: Trees, brush or other structures and debris buried by the dune during the late 1900s became unstable last spring because of wet conditions and collapsed, creating the openings. A ground-penetrating radar survey done last year by the Environmental Protection Agency found 66 anomalous spots beneath the dune, the National Park Service has said.
Two European bison (Bison bonasus) stand together after being relocated, at Armenis, Tarcu Mountains, southwestern Romania, May 17, 2014. The bison, Europe's largest living wild land mammal, has been extinct in the area for 200 years. Seventeen bison were brought here from Sweden, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Romania, in the biggest-ever bison transportation and reintroduction to have taken place in Europe, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Rewilding Europe environmental organisations. It is hoped that the animal will serve as a regional tourism attraction, with a Bison Visitor Centre to be established in the future. Bison shed their winter coats in the warmer months of the year.
Photo by Bogdan Cristel
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