SUSAN ESTRICH: Good Humor (creators.com)
Funny? That is how Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reportedly defended the sexually explicit content of various postings on his personal Web site.
Theodore Dalrymple: The Pains of Memory (newenglishreview.org)
It is an unfashionable truth in these times of psychobabble and emotional intelligence, but a trouble shared is often a trouble doubled. She wanted all that she had seen, and all that she suffered, to go with her to the grave, for she was of the pessimistic view that man never learns, at least from the experience of others. I do not entirely agree, and wish she had said more; but she had earned the right to silence.
Dr. David Lipschitz: Dignified Woman Given Dignified Death In Hospice (creators.com)
The story of Jane Woodruff should be a lesson to everyone, young and old alike. Death is as natural as birth, a continuation of the circle of life. No one wants to spend their final days in a hospital and hooked up to machines. Whenever possible, a dignified and comfortable death means a much better life for everyone.
Tom Danehy: TUSD's Raza Studies program has this Hispanic Tucsonan angry (tucsonweekly.com)
I had barely finished reading the article in the paper when my friend called to rant about it. Carlos (I'll use his middle name) was incensed about a piece on Raza Studies in the Tucson Unified School District. The May 25 article by Rhonda Bodfield (you really have to read this well-done piece) looks at a program that is praised by some and vilified by others.
CATHERINE O'SULLIVAN: Married? Then do not read this column (tucsonweekly.com)
I really have no time to do this column this morning. I'm headed to Los Angeles to receive an award for the World's Greatest Columnist. This is a prestigious prize given with less frequency, but much more sincerity, than either the Nobel or the Pulitzer. I plan on using the millions of dollars in prize money to establish a foundation for the eradication of scabies.
Mike Farley: A Chat with Leona Lewis (bullz-eye.com)
"I left school at 17 because I really wanted to pursue a career and record an album. I've demoed loads and worked in the studio all the time as well as working as a receptionist part-time, and also as a waitress and retail assistant. So I did a lot of different jobs, but I was always so passionate about music. That was what I'd always wanted to do. So I stayed dedicated and that's what I'd say, is to stay dedicated. If you're passionate about it, just keep doing it."
Joseph V. Amodio: Fast chat with 'The Happening' co-star John Leguizamo (Newsday)
John Leguizamo's been busy. This year alone he's appeared in the crime drama "The Take," the indie black comedy "The Babysitters," and Friday he hits the big screen in M. Night Shyamalan's psychological creepfest "The Happening." Later this year he'll play a detective alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in "Righteous Kill," a washed-up boxer dad in "Where God Left His Shoes" and a member of a dysfunctional Latino family in the holiday heartwarmer "Humboldt Park."
zEN mAN (observing Mark McCain (Johnny Crawford) and Lucas McCain (Chuck Conners) portraying a single father and son on the 1958 TV series "The Rifleman"....I just saw an episode on the Western Channel called "Wyoming Story" where Lucas has to leave Mark alone for a few months and their reunion was really beautiful....kissing and hugging like we all should do on "POPS DAY")
This seems to be another 'can of worms' question.
Thought I'd remembered it from an old history class, but in Googling, it seems difficult to confirm.
The question is used
here,
here, and
here,
but none offer a source.
Came across this one -
Odd Info and it cites a book,
2201 Fascinating Facts by David Louis, Greenwich House, New York, 1983.
However, Marianne's research turned up
this site and
Sally found
this source,
so it looks like this one is open for futher research.
Any volunteers?
Vic in AK was first, writing:
I always thought it was just called the Flyer....but it
appears it was the Kitty Hawk.....I'll be
damned....whattayuh know?
Speaking of planes I took the bus to Muldoon to go grocery
shopping at Freddy's and on my return trip to my place
on the Park-Strip my bus was stopped at an intersection
while an F-15 Eagle fighter was being towed down the
road....Coolest thing I seen in a long time, wish I had
brought my video camera!!!
Alan J replied:
Kitty Hawk, but it was also called the Flyer
Charlie answered:
Generically known as the Wright Flyer, it's sometimes
called the "Kitty
Hawk," but I think
the answer you're
looking for is
A: Bird of Prey
Sally wrote:
As I remember (NO, I wasn't actually THERE), The Wright Flyer (often referred to as, "Flyer I") BUT MORE popularly as the "Kitty Hawk" (D) was the first powered aircraft designed and built by the Wright Brothers. :)
I thought this was an interesting blip from history and was taken From Testimony to Flight
"Surfman John T. Daniel snapped this picture when the Wright Flyer made its historic first flight, December 17, 1903. Orville flew as Wilbur watched. (165-WW-7B-6)
"According to the records of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, which are especially notable because the Life-Saving Station employees at the Kill Devil Hills Station were the eyewitnesses and helpmates for the December 17, 1903, flights. The employees were called surfmen because they retrieved shipwreck victims in lifeboats launched and beached through the surf, usually during fierce storms. In Orville Wright's account of the flights at Kitty Hawk, he credits the help the surfmen of the Life-Saving Station at Kill Devil Hills, and cites their names. These names are documented in the Life-Saving Service records at the National Archives..."
Gotta do the, "Boot Scoot Boogie" as the clan will be arriving soon to party hardy,
PS I really enjoyed today's reply from our friend, Charlie - someday we will probably be reading his quotes preserved by history :)
Marian the Teacher said:
Bird of Prey
MAM () responded:
The first airplane flown by the Wright Brothers was uslaully refered to as 'Wright Flyer I' but sometimes called 'Kitty Hawk'.
There are wonderful photos here.
Gary in PA answered:
bird of prey
lofty name for something that slow
And, Buzzcook said:
At a guess I'd say Kitty Hawk was the best bet of the
choices you've
given us.
I've always heard the Wright brothers plane referred
to as the Wright
Flyer. I'm guessing branding wasn't a big a deal
back then.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the LIVE on the East Coast (tape-delayed & edited for the left coast) 'Tony Awards', hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.
NBC has LIVE'US Golf Open', followed by 'SNL: The Best of Mike Myers'.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NBA Finals', followed by a RERUN'Jimmy Kimmel', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'.
The CW a RERUN'One Tree Hill', followed by a RERUN'Everybody Hates Chris', then a RERUN'Aliens In America', followed by a RERUN'The Game', then a RERUN'Girlfriends'.
Faux has a RERUN'Don't Forget The Lyrics!', followed by a RERUN'Simpson', then a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy', then a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'Raymond', followed by the movie 'Past Sins'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hang 'Em High', followed by the movie 'The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Age Of Steel
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Idiot?s Lantern
[3:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 3 Child Hood
[4:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 The Angel of Death
[5:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 Ducking and Diving
[6:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 6 For England...!
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 7 Show Me the Money
[8:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls
[10:00 PM] Britain's Worst Teeth - Britain's Worst Teeth
[11:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls
[1:00 AM] Britain's Worst Teeth - Britain's Worst Teeth
[2:00 AM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls
[4:00 AM] Britain's Worst Teeth - Britain's Worst Teeth
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 40 Boyle
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 39 Brown
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Scary Movie', followed by the movie 'Without A Paddle'.
FX has the movie 'The Transporter', followed by the movie 'Transporter 2'.
History has 'MonsterQuest', 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', then a FRESH'Surviving History'.
IFC -
[06:25 AM] Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
[11:05 AM] The Princess and the Warrior
[01:25 PM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections
[01:50 PM] Elephant
[03:15 PM] Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
[04:45 PM] Media Lab Shorts Uploaded
[05:00 PM] The Princess and the Warrior
[07:15 PM] Dallas 362
[09:00 PM] The Long Kiss Goodnight
[11:05 PM] Quiet Cool
[12:30 AM] Dinner Rush
[02:15 AM] The Long Kiss Goodnight
[04:20 AM] Quiet Cool
[05:50 AM] Dinner Rush (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Dawn Of The Dead'.
Sundance -
[04:40 AM] Adam & Paul
[06:05 AM] Site Specific: Olivo Barbieri
[07:00 AM] Five Disasters Waiting to Happen
[08:00 AM] Craig David, James Morrison & Dave Matthews
[09:00 AM] Jamiroquai, Damien Rice & The Goo-Goo Dolls
[10:00 AM] The Kooks, Wynton Marsalis & Muse
[11:00 AM] Kasabian, Josh Groban & The Good The Bad and The Queen
[12:00 PM] Paul Simon, Corinne Bailey Rae & Primal Scream
[01:00 PM] The Feeling, Gnarls Barkley & The Killers
[02:00 PM] Part 2
[03:00 PM] Business
[03:35 PM] Crude Impact
[05:20 PM] Episode 4
[06:00 PM] Room
[07:15 PM] Agnes Browne
[09:00 PM] Episode 6
[10:00 PM] The Celebration
[11:45 PM] Helmer & Son
[12:00 AM] Cavite
[01:20 AM] Madame Sata
[03:00 AM] Episode 6
[03:30 AM] Episode 2
[04:00 AM] Natural City (ALL TIMES EST)
Tens of thousands of people braved heavy rain and thunder Saturday night to see Paul McCartney perform a charity concert on Kiev's central Independence Square.
The outdoor show, the first in Ukraine for the former Beatle, was billed as the biggest concert ever in the former Soviet republic. It was broadcast live on national television and on giant screens in five cities.
After a half-hour delay because of the weather, McCartney, who turns 66 next week, came out on the stage and greeted the crowd in Ukrainian, before diving into the Beatles hit "Drive My Car."
Organizers said the money raised will be spent on diagnostic equipment for Ukraine's National Cancer Institute's children's department. Many children now seek treatment abroad because Ukraine lacks the necessary equipment.
An investor group led by NBC Universal moved closer to buying The Weather Channel Friday after Time Warner Inc. dropped out of the bidding.
NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co., said late Friday that it had entered exclusive negotiations to buy The Weather Channel from its owner, Landmark Communications Inc.
NBC is working on the bid together with the private equity investment firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.
The bidding process for The Weather Channel had drawn earlier interest from other media companies including CBS Corp., but Time Warner and NBC were the only ones that made it to the final round.
A month after the death of Yves Saint Laurent, Christie's is auctioning seven pieces of the legendary French fashion designer's clothing and jewelry representing nearly every decade of his career.
The items at the July 2 auction include a 1958 cocktail dress for Dior and a 1970s Rive Gauche camel cable-knit sweater trimmed in fox fur similar to one Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wore.
The cable-knit sweater - with a pre-sale estimate of $250 to $400 - is a version of one Onassis was often photographed wearing, a style she owned in several colors, according to Christie's auction catalog.
All of the items are in excellent condition and are relatively inexpensive because they aren't new designs and have been worn, Leyfer said Friday. "That's part of the appeal and it's what makes it a collectible," she said.
A statue of U.S. musician Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight festival 2008 in Newport, England, on Saturday, June 14, 2008. Hendrix played at the festival in 1970, which was one of his final perfomances as he died shortly after.
Photo by Nathan Strange
Police say the wife of rapper Snoop Dogg has been arrested in California's Orange County for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Fullerton police Lt. Craig Brower says officers stopped 32-year-old Shante (Shahn-taye) Broadus of Sherman Oaks about 12:15 a.m. Saturday and took her to jail. She was cited and then released pending a court appearance.
Broadus and Snoop Dogg - whose real name is Calvin Broadus Jr. - were married in 1997 and have three children.
Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if "small numbers" of polar bears or Pacific walruses are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years.
Environmentalists said the new regulations give oil companies a blank check to harass the polar bear.
About 2,000 of the 25,000 polar bears in the Arctic live in and around the Chukchi Sea, where the government in February auctioned off oil leases to ConocoPhillips Co., Shell Oil Co. and five other companies for $2.6 billion. Over objections from environmentalists and members of Congress, the sale occurred before the bear was classified as threatened in May.
This handout image from video released Friday, June 13, 2008 by Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville, shows the crows nest and foremast of the sunken 228-year-old British warship HMS Ontario, a British warship built in1780 that has been discovered in deep water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Kennard and Scoville used side scanning sonar and an unmanned submersible to locate the HMS Ontario, which was lost with barely a trace and as many as 130 people on board during a gale in 1780.
Photo courtesy of Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville
Questions from the media prompted Republican John McSame to cancel a fundraiser at the home of a Texas oilman who once joked that women should give in while being raped.
The Texan, Republican Clayton "Claytie" Williams, made the joke during his failed 1990 campaign for governor against Democrat Ann Richards. Williams compared rape to the weather, saying, "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it." He also compared Richards to the cattle on his ranch, saying he would "head her and hoof her and drag her through the dirt."
Williams' comments made national news at the time and remain easy to find on the Internet. Even so, McCain's campaign said it hadn't known about the remarks.
The campaign said it would not return money Williams had raised for McCain because the contributions came from other individuals supporting McCain and not from Williams. Williams told his hometown newspaper, the Midland Reporter-Telegram, that he had raised more than $300,000 for McCain.
The playboy brother of the Sultan of Brunei, threatened with jail for failing to turn up to a British court hearing, on Sunday hit back at his critics, insisting he was a scapegoat in the affair.
Prince Jefri Bolkiah told Britain's Sunday Telegraph from his Paris home that he meant no disrespect to London's High Court, which issued a Europe-wide warrant for his arrest after his no-show there Wednesday.
The prince is accused of breaching the terms of a court order requiring him to hand over three billion pounds (3.8 billion euros, 5.8 billion dollars) in cash and assets to the Brunei Investment Agency, overseen by the sultan.
Prince Jefri said he had tried and failed to reach a "lasting solution" with his brother, to whom he has reportedly not spoken for four years.
The resurrected Judean date palm tree, at age 26 months and at a height of 121cm, is seen in this undated handout photograph, made available in London on June 12, 2008. Israeli researchers who grew a sapling from a date seed found at the ancient fortress Masada said on Thursday the seed was about 2,000 years old and may help restore a species of biblical trees.
Photo by Guy Eisner
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to review on time nearly half the applications from generic drug makers seeking approval to sell cheaper versions of brand-name pharmaceuticals, according to a government report released on Friday.
The report, by the Department of Health and Human Service's Inspector General, also found the FDA approved or tentatively approved 4 percent of generic applications reviewed in 2006, rejecting the majority because they did not meet the agency's standards.
The inspector's office looked at the FDA's review times in 2006 for 989 generic drug applications and found that 46 percent of them were not fully evaluated within the 180-day period allowed by law.
Among a sample of 105 delayed applications, the agency did not even begin to review 70 percent of them until after the 180-day period had ended, the report found.
Fifteen tattered $20 bills recovered from the 1971 D.B. Cooper skyjacking sold Friday for more than 120 times their face value at a Dallas auction.
Heritage Auction Galleries said the bills sold for a total of more than $37,000 - two to three times higher than expected.
Winning bidders paid about $6,500 each for two of the $20 bills. The money has the handwritten initials of investigators who examined the bills, which were found buried in sand in 1980.
Brian Ingram of Mena, Ark., consigned the notes to Heritage. He was 8 years old when he found three bundles of deteriorating $20 bills on the shore of the Columbia River near Portland, Ore.
Charlie Jones, the deep-voiced sportscaster whose career as a play-by-play announcer dated to the beginning of the American Football League in 1960, has died. He was 77.
Jones died of a massive heart attack Thursday at his home in the La Jolla district of San Diego, said his wife, Ann.
Jones started at ABC in 1960, the year the AFL made its debut. He moved to NBC in 1965, remaining with that network until 1997.
Jones announced 28 different sports, while with NBC, from golf to tennis, baseball to figure skating. He called events at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Jones also is survived by two children and three grandchildren.
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A: Bird of Prey
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