Froma Harrop: The Long, Hot Summer of Work (Creators Syndicate)
Problem is, few of us worker bees will be packing a steamer trunk of volumes to while away the lazy afternoons. Average working Joes now put in a month more of labor a year than they did 25 years earlier, and much of that time comes out of summer vacation's hide.
Wealth Perception Versus Reality
"It shows the wealth distribution most people imagine exists in the country today . . . the distribution they imagine would be fair . . . and the actual distribution (which Mitt Romney has pledged to skew yet further toward the ultra-rich)."-Andrew Tobias
ESTHER INGLIS-ARKELL: 10 Science Policies We Wish the Government Would Enforce (io9)
There's been a lot of talk recently about how science is defined and who does it best. I don't much care to follow that, because it makes me stomp around my room shouting at the walls, and that's a waste of time. I'd rather discuss science in a way that makes other people shout at the walls. So here are the ten things I would enforce, in the science department, if I ran a country. Any country at all.
Alan Henry: How to Determine If A Controversial Statement Is Scientifically True (Lifehacker)
Every day, we're confronted with claims that others present as fact. Some are easily debunked, some are clearly true, and some are particularly difficult to get to the bottom of. So how do you determine if a controversial statement is scientifically true? It can be tricky, but it's not too difficult to get to the truth.
Jessica Park: How Amazon Saved My Life (Indiereader)
I am an author. I still can't get used to that title, but I suppose after having written seven books-five of them traditionally published-that's what you'd call me. The funny thing is that I feel more like a real author now that I self-publish than when I had the (supposed) support of a publisher behind me.
Charlie Jane Anders: Awesome Books to Replace Your Favorite Cancelled TV Shows (io9)
The love of television is always tragic. We're doomed to fall in love with television shows and then lose them, again and again. And often, our love burns the brightest for shows that live the shortest amount of time. We'll never get our favorite cancelled TV shows back again - but the good news is, for every TV show you miss, there are books (or book series) that can help fill the void.
Hanna Rosen: Critics Are Missing What's Radical in 'Brave' (Slate)
The general disappointment with Pixar's new movie Brave, which opens Friday, began long before even a trailer was released. The complaint was focused on the lead character Merida, who Pixar proudly announced would be its first girl heroine. After enduring some public and critical outcry over the lack of female leads, the company, known for daring to foist extreme dystopian landscapes and despot teddy bears on the world's children, was now making its big feminist statement with a … princess.
Jane Hu: Where Do I Start with Justin Bieber? (Slate)
A useful contrast can be drawn between Bieber, and the other Justin of bubblegum pop, Timberlake. The latter is a better singer, and he has long since shifted to a darker, and arguably more sophisticated, brand of sex appeal. Bieber's draw is different; rather than the bitterness of "what goes around comes around" and "cry me a river," we get something more intimate. Bieber nearly always addresses, quite directly, one girl, while still singing to millions…
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He took his professional name from his schoolmaster and tutor, Philip Burton, who took the 17-year old Richard Jenkins and groomed him for success, both academically and as an actor. The two became so close, Burton attempted to adopt him as his son, but was prevented from doing so as he was too young, under the law. Nevertheless, Jenkins, who became known to the world as Richard Burton, considered Philip Burton his adopted father and honored him by taking on his surname. Years later, when Philip Burton met Elizabeth Taylor and she asked Philip Burton how he came to adopt her soon-to-be fifth (and later sixth) husband, Richard piped up, "He didn't adopt me! I adopted him!".
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Richard Burton
Jim from CA, retired to ID responded:
Richard Burton
Charlie wrote:
Richard Burton
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Sally said:
Richard Burton (1925-1984), was born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.
Alcoholic heartthrob, Richard Burton, with his enabler, Liz Taylor. Hear tell she could knock them back with the best of the drunks as well...
PS: I have found a great new series of books to read. It's the 'Gaslight Mysteries" by Victoria Thompson. I am reading the first one, "Murder on Astor Place" which I received for my birthday. These are murders at the turn of the last century, set in NYC. The heroine is a midwife, from a 400-family, who had a dispute with her family and married a doctor (apparently, doctors were not held in such high esteem back then). In this one, she clashes with a police detective, but I see she is working with him in future books. IAC, it is an easy read, and very interesting as she also tells of the times and customs back then. Surprise ending in this one, good read!
PPS: @JoeS, don't be surprised when I arrive on your doorstep one hot night, suitcase in hand and set to stay until the fall! 49o nights, sigh...
BttbBob responded:
I know this straight-away... One of my all time favorite actors... That Welshman...
Richard Burton...
... with his 'main squeeze' during the filming of 'Where Eagles Dare'.
(and, no... no, no, no... Lindsay Lohan is no Elizabeth Taylor)
Adam answered:
Richard Jenkins? Too easy...Richard Burton.
Dale of Diamond Springs said:
Richard Burton was born as Richard Walter Jenkins. Classically Welsh trained actor!!! Just gives me more of an opportunity to send photos of Liz!!!
Marian's on vacation.
MAM wrote:
Richard Burton
And, Joe S answered:
Richard Burton, famous for being a fairly decent actor, marrying Liz Taylor a couple of times, and sometimes ugly up a bit and sing The House of the Rising Sun. I'm pretty sure that's the case. I'm 87.8% sure.
The Queen of Soul has received yet another kudo. Aretha Franklin tops Rolling Stone's new list of greatest albums by female artists who rock with her 1967 classic "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You."... Besides the title song, that album contains the epic anthem "Respect" and unforgettable cuts like "Dr. Feelgood" and "Do Right Woman - Do Right Man"... Rolling Stone says of the Motor City diva extraordinaire: "The greatest rock, pop or soul singer ever steps to the mike and clears her throat. Franklin was shocking in 1967, and still is: Nobody has ever sung with more intensity, more swagger, more soul"...
Aretha Franklin rules Rolling Stone's list of women who rock | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
The song "Respect" while originally written, recorded and released by Otis Redding in '65, it was Aretha that made it huge nation-wide. But, around these parts an Ann Arbor, MI rock band, The Rationals, released a cover here in '66, a year before Aretha did, and it received extensive AM radio air-play and was a big local hit. Not knowing (or ever hearing) Redding sing the song, when I first heard Aretha sing it I remember thinking, "Hey! She's doing that 'Rationals' tune!" So went the recording and radio business in those days...
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Person Of Interest', then a RERUN'The Good Wife', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC opens the night with FRESH'2012 US Olympic Trials', followed by 'Dateline', then a RERUN'America's Got Talent'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Secret Millionaire', then a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'The Cleveland Show', then the RERUN'Fox's 25th Anniversary Special'.
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'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'The Glades', then a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'Pale Rider', followed by the movie 'Open Range'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 9-Episode 5
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 9-Episode 6
[8:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 4-Episode 4
[9:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 2
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 1
[11:00AM] ANIMALS: EXTREME LIVES
[12:00PM] ANIMALS: INSIDE THE WOMB
[1:00PM] GRIZZLY: NATURE'S ENTREPRENEUR
[2:00PM] LION: SPY IN THE DEN
[3:00PM] SECRET GORILLAS OF MONDIKA
[3:30PM] SEARCH FOR TIGERS
[4:00PM] DIE ANOTHER DAY
[6:30PM] DIE HARD II
[9:00PM] ENTRAPMENT
[11:30PM] DIE HARD II
[2:00AM] ENTRAPMENT
[4:30AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 12-Episode 8 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Dumb & Dumber', followed by the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', and 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie 'Avatar', followed by the movie 'Avatar', again.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', and 'Mountain Men'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Che: Part One
[8:45AM] Che: Part Two
[11:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jon Hamm Wears a Light Blue Shirt & Silver Watch
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Exit Strategy
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-Development Arrested
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Pilot
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Top Banana
[2:00PM] Marie Antoinette
[4:30PM] Slow Burn
[6:30PM] Cop Land
[8:45PM] The Devil's Rejects
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!
[11:30PM] Bunk
[12:00AM] The Devil's Rejects
[2:15AM] Cop Land
[4:30AM] Action-Re-enter the Dragon
[5:00AM] Action-Blood Money
[5:30AM] Action-Blowhard (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Runaway (animated)
[6:10A] Saturn In Opposition
[8:00A] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 1
[9:00A] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 2
[9:30A] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 3
[10:00A] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 4
[10:30A] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 5
[11:00A] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 6
[11:30A] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 7
[12:00P] TRANSGENERATION - Episode 8
[1:00P] Prodigal Sons
[2:30P] Pageant
[4:05P] Saturn In Opposition
[6:00P] PUSH GIRLS - Everyone Stares (Episode 1, Season 1)
[6:30P] PUSH GIRLS - Watch Me (Episode 2, Season 1)
[8:00P] Happy Endings
[10:15P] Little Miss Sunshine
[12:00A] Eloise's Lover
[1:45A] Heartbeats
[3:30A] Happy Endings
[5:45A] The Necktie (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Signs', followed by the movie 'The Mist'.
The Vatican has hired an American journalist from the Fox News Network and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media, a senior Church source said on Saturday.
Greg Burke, Fox's Rome-based roving correspondent for Europe and the Middle East, will become a "senior communications adviser" to the Secretariat of State, the key department in the Vatican's central bureaucracy.
Burke, 52, a native of St Louis, Missouri, has been working for Fox for 10 years. Before that he worked for Time magazine in Rome for 10 years. He worked as a stringer for Reuters in Rome early in his career and has also written several books, one about an Italian soccer team.
Burke's role - a revolution in the Vatican's communications structure - will be similar to that of communications advisors in the White House.
He will report directly to the Vatican's deputy secretary of state, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the third-ranking person in the Vatican hierarchy. Father Federico Lombardi will remain spokesman.
Russian gay-rights activists wear a T-shirt and hold a placard supporting imprisoned members of women's punk band, "Pussy Riot" during the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Berlin, June 23, 2012. Three members of Russian women's punk band Pussy Riot, who derided President Vladimir Putin in a protest in Moscow's main cathedral, were denied bail on Wednesday despite calls for their release by hundreds of supporters at the hearing. The annual street parade parade is a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lifestyles and denounces discrimination and exclusion.
Photo by Thomas Peter
A key witness for lawyers seeking to defend California's ban on same-sex marriage in federal court in 2010 has changed his view on the subject, and pronounced his support for giving gay unions social recognition.
David Blankenhorn, founder of the conservative Institute for American Values think tank, wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Times that he now believes the time for "denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over."
"Whatever one's definition of marriage, legally recognizing gay and lesbian couples and their children is a victory for basic fairness," Blankenhorn wrote in a piece published on Friday.
In 2010, Blankenhorn was the final witness called to defend California's ban on gay marriage, which was passed by voters in the state in 2008 in a ballot measure called Proposition 8.
A legal dispute is threatening to put the restaurant chain created by the real-life Soup Nazi on simmer.
Al Yeganeh was immortalized on the show "Seinfeld" as the "Soup Nazi," a character famous for his unsavory behavior and for uttering the iconic "No soup for you!" catchphrase.
Creditors of a bankrupt company called Soup Kitchen International are steaming, saying they were put on the back burner after a group of the original soup man owners mismanaged the company.
Soup Kitchen International owned the The Original Soup Man name first - and claimed they were bilked out of the name and Yeganeh's recipes during a 2009 licensing deal.
Russian gay-rights activists fly their national flag next to a poster with a caricature painting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Berlin, June 23, 2012. The annual street parade parade is a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lifestyles and denounces discrimination and exclusion.
Photo by Thomas Peter
Glass jewellery believed to have been made by Roman craftsmen has been found in an ancient tomb in Japan, researchers said Friday, in a sign the empire's influence may have reached the edge of Asia.
Tests have revealed three glass beads discovered in the Fifth Century "Utsukushi" burial mound in Nagaoka, near Kyoto, were probably made some time between the first and the fourth century, the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties said.
The government-backed institute has recently finished analysing components of the glass beads, measuring five millimetres (0.2 inches) in diametre, with tiny fragments of gilt attached.
It found that the light yellow beads were made with natron, a chemical used to melt glass by craftsmen in the empire, which succeeded the Roman Republic in 27 BC and was ultimately ended by the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The beads, which have a hole through the middle, were made with a multilayering technique -- a relatively sophisticated method in which craftsmen piled up layers of glass, often sandwiching gold leaf in between.
The granddaughter of the tunesmith who wrote "On the Good Ship Lollipop" and "Hooray for Hollywood," among other musical chestnuts, filed a lawsuit against Warner/Chappell Music on Wednesday, claiming that she's been stiffed on royalties from her grandfather's catalog.
Deborah Bush Gervasi, the granddaughter of deceased tunesmith Richard A. Whiting, says that Warner/Chappell has shown a "willful, intentional, and/or grossly negligent failure" to pay proper royalties on her grandfather's songs. According to Gervasi, she discovered that Warner/Chappell was paying a lower royalty rate than its publishing agreement called for in 2007, and the company has been stonewalling ever since.
Gervasi's complaint says that, per a 1943 renewal agreement (the songwriter died in 1938), Whiting's wife was to receive 50 percent of all receipts on Whiting's songs. However, in 2007, Gervasi said she discovered paperwork indicating that Warner/Chappell had been paying a lesser royalty rate. Gervasi said that, when she contacted Warner/Chappell, the company claimed that royalties on Whiting's songs were subject to an earlier, 1936 agreement.
Published in 1934, "On the Good Ship Lollipop" went on to become a signature song for child actress Shirley Temple and spawned numerous covers by singers including Tiny Tim. "Hooray for Hollywood," meanwhile, first appeared in the 1937 film "Hollywood Hotel" and has since become a staple.
A Tunisian woman shows how bread is baked using a traditional "oven", during a display for tourists in Bouficha, Tunis June 23, 2012.
Photo by Zoubeir Souissi
The North Carolina Senate rejected a plan to compensate victims of a mass sterilization plan that targeted mostly poor minorities for decades in the 20th century.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans refused to support the measure put forth by the House to set aside $10 million in the state budget for compensation, which would have given victims $50,000 each. The move would have made North Carolina the first state to compensate eugenics victims.
From 1929 to 1974, an estimated 7,600 people were sterilized by consent, coercion or without their knowledge as a part of the North Carolina Eugenics Board program, according to the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation . The office estimates that up to 1,800 victims are still living, and 146 have been verified so far.
North Carolina ran one of the country's most active eugenics programs, targeting people who were poor and undereducated, and those with physical or mental disabilities. The North Carolina Eugenics Board, a five-person panel, made its decisions in the name of social welfare.
Students whose mysterious twitches drew a national spotlight will accept their high school diplomas on Sunday, with most of them back to normal after a controversial diagnosis that the actions were caused by attention from social and news media.
A total of 20 patients - almost all of them girls enrolled at Le Roy Junior/Senior High School - first began exhibiting involuntary movements in October 2011 in this working class town about 50 miles east of Buffalo.
Doctors and state health department officials made the quick but controversial diagnoses of conversion disorder, in which psychological stress causes patients to suffer physical symptoms, and mass psychogenic illness, in which members of a tight-knit group subconsciously copy behavior.
Doctors determined the attention from social media andmainstream media aggravated the problem, and discouraged patients from participating in either. The result, doctors say, is that most of the patients shed the Tourette-like symptoms and returned to a "normal life" in time for high school graduation on Sunday.
"We noticed that the kids who were not in the media were getting better; the kids who were in the media were still very symptomatic," Mechtler said.
A model wears a creation by Versace from the men's Spring-Summer 2013 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Saturday, June 23, 2012.
Photo by Luca Bruno
A framed poster on the wall of a kindergarten classroom shows bright-eyed children brandishing rifles and bayonets as they attack a hapless American soldier, his face bandaged and blood spurting from his mouth.
"We love playing military games knocking down the American bastards," reads the slogan printed across the top. Another poster depicts an American with a noose around his neck. "Let's wipe out the U.S. imperialists," it instructs.
Toy pistols, rifles and tanks sit lined up in neat rows on shelves. The school principal pulls out a dummy of an American soldier with a beaked nose and straw-colored hair and explains that the students beat him with batons or pelt him with stones - a favorite schoolyard game, she says.
For a moment, she is sheepish as she takes three journalists from The Associated Press, including an American, past the anti-U.S. posters. But Yun Song Sil is not shy about the message.
"Our children learn from an early age about the American bastards," she says, tossing off a phrase so common here that it is considered an acceptable way to refer to Americans.
A participant of the annual Mansky tourist three-day-long festival, dedicated to the opening of the amateur rafting season, looks at a butterfly that landed on her bathing suit near the Mana river near the settlement of Beret in the Siberian Taiga, about 75 km (47 miles) east of the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk, June 22, 2012. Local nature-lovers, fans of ecological tourism and devotees of the festival have gathered for more than 30 years, to travel by self-made rafts to take part in the overnight festivities and rest around campfires.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
Chicago-area parents thought their pit bull was to blame when they heard their 18-month-old daughter crying and discovered one of her fingertips had been severed.
Turns out, the culprit was a piranha the family kept in an aquarium.
Doctors determined the bite wasn't from a dog after the girl was rushed to a hospital by ambulance Tuesday night.
Cook County Sheriff's Department spokesman Frank Bilecki tells the Chicago Tribune the girl's father cut open one of two piranhas and found the fingertip. He says doctors tried to reattach the fingertip, but he didn't know if they were successful.
Bilecki says the parents were distraught and aren't facing charges.
A one-month-old red-handed tamarin monkey (also known as Saguinus midas or the Golden-handed tamarin) sits on his mother inside an open air enclosure at Royev Ruchey zoo in the suburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, June 22, 2012.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
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