Marc Dion: Buddy Cianci, Next in the Long Line of Last White Mayors (Creators Syndicate)
As a rule of thumb, a city is due for its last white mayor when you walk into a restaurant called "Angelo's" and the guy out front is Brian, Angelo's grandson, there are 15 Guatemalans working in the kitchen and the dishwasher is Haitian. Brian lives in the suburbs, 15 miles from the "ristorante." The Guatemalans and the Haitian live in the neighborhood, which used to be Italian.
Barbara Ellen: Loneliness is one thing. A happy loner quite another (Guardian)
There used to be a fashion for scaremongering surveys about single women, saying things like: "Eight out of 10 women are going to die alone, surrounded by 17 cats." But to that I would mentally add: "Or it could all go horribly wrong." To my mind, aloneness never necessarily equated with loneliness. It wasn't a negative, something to be avoided, feared or endured.
Adam Tod Brown: 5 B.S. 'Achievements' People Need to Stop Taking Seriously (Cracked)
Read any list of things that motivate employees to work harder and you'll find that recognition for a job well done regularly outranks money. If I had to guess, I'd say that's probably because the only people who bother to write lists like those are companies that want to pay you less than you deserve.
In 1911, she was awarded a U.S. pilot's certificate by the Aero Club of America, becoming the first woman to gain a pilot's license in the United States. What is her name?
Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It follows an investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). Its pilot episode was first broadcast on April 8, 1990, on ABC. Seven more episodes were produced, and the series was renewed for a second season that aired until June 10, 1991. The show's title came from the small, fictional Washington town in which it was set. Exteriors were primarily filmed in the Washington towns of Snoqualmie and North Bend, though additional exteriors were shot in southern California. Most of the interior scenes were shot on standing sets in a San Fernando Valley warehouse.
Cooper lies in his room after having been shot. In an injured and semi-lucid state, he experiences a vision in which a giant appears to him. The giant reveals three clues to Agent Cooper: "There is a man in a smiling bag"; "The owls are not what they seem"; and "Without chemicals, he points." He then takes Cooper's gold ring and explains that when Cooper understands the three premonitions, his ring will be returned.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
I think I need new shoes and pie
Twin Peaks.
Charlie said:
Twin Peaks (Duh).
Alan J wrote:
Twin Peaks
Adam answered:
I am guessing Twin Peaks.
Deborah replied:
I'll take a WAG and guess "Twin Peaks."
Never watched it, but heard lots of talk about it.
Happy weekend!
Marian responded:
Twin Peaks
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Twin Peaks
DJ Useo responded:
The answer is classic tv show, " Twin Peaks",
which was not about cleavage. Lol.
Lois Of The Flat Lands In Oregon answered:
Let me get this straight...Twin Peaks in the picture...Owls
not what they seem to be, hmmm, they could only
be...HOOTERS!?! Must have been a show about GIANT BOOBS
killing people. No wonder it was so popular.
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, has gone coastal.
MAM wrote:
Twin Peaks ~ A television serial drama created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It follows an investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer. It ran for rtwo seasons, 1990 - 1991.
Twin Peaks - Opening Credits Sequence
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Twin Peaks. One of my all time favorite TV shows. Loved it, never missed an episode.
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CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Reckless', followed by a FRESH'Unforgettable'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by a RERUN'America's Got Talent'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Wipeout', then a FRESH'Rising Star'.
The CW offers a RERUN'SAF3', followed by an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then 2 hours of what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'The Simpsons', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
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 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', then a FRESH'Wahlburgers'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Dark Knight', followed by a FRESH'Halt & Catch Fire'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 3 - Episode 1
[7:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 3 - Episode 2
[8:00AM] 24 HOURS ON EARTH - Ep 1 - Day
[9:00AM] 24 HOURS ON EARTH - Ep 2 - Night
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Walnut Tree
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Classic American
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Leone's
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 6
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode
[13:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 2
[4:00PM] BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
[6:30PM] HANNIBAL
[9:00PM] THE MUSKETEERS - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Sleight of Hand NEW
[10:15PM] HANNIBAL
[12:45AM] THE MUSKETEERS - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Sleight of Hand
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 6
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 1
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 11 - Episode 2
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta: Kandi's Wedding', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta: Kandi's Wedding', followed by a (F) 'Married To Medicine', and another 'Married To Medicine'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Billy Madison', followed by the movie 'South Park Zoo'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon'.
History has 'Mountain Men', another 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', then a FRESH'The Hunt'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-SARAH SILVERMAN WEARS A BLACK DRESS WITH A WHITE COLLAR
[6:30AM] THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
[9:30AM] INSIDIOUS
[11:45AM] KILLSHOT
[1:45PM] MARON-MOUTH CANCER GIG
[2:15PM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-TONY HAWK WEARS A PLAID SHIRT AND SILVER WATCH
[2:45PM] THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
[5:45PM] BROKEN ARROW
[8:00PM] RAMBO
[10:00PM] COP LAND
[12:15AM] RAMBO
[2:15AM] COP LAND
[4:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-PATTON OSWALT WEARS A BLACK BLAZER AND DRESS SHOES
[5:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-CRAIG ROBINSON WEARS A BORDEAUX BUTTON DOWN AND DARK JEANS
[5:30AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-JENNA FISCHER WEARS A FLORAL BLOUSE AND BLACK HEELS (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Waiting for Guffman
[7:45AM] Risky Business
[10:00AM] Cheech and Chong: Get Out of My Room
[11:15AM] Fierce Creatures
[1:15PM] All Good Things
[3:30PM] Sideways
[6:15PM] Sideways
[9:00PM] Rectify-Sleeping Giants
[10:00PM] Pan's Labyrinth
[12:30AM] Pan's Labyrinth
[3:00AM] Repo Man
[5:00AM] Loredana, Esq.-Potheads and Knuckleheads (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Priest', followed by the movie 'The Wolfman'.
American actor Larry Storch attends the Dean Martin Expo and Nostalgic, Comedy and Comic Convention featuring collections of memorabilia from 1950's and 60's in New York June 28, 2014.
Photo by Eduardo Munoz
A shadow fell over a National Security Agency data collection facility today in Bluffdale, Utah.
The cause? A 135-foot-long blimp was floating overhead, the words "NSA Illegal Spying Below" printed on its side. To erase any doubt, an arrow pointed down to the facility.
The stunt was a collaboration between the environmental group Greenpeace, digital rights campaign group Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the constitutional awareness group Tenth Amendment Center.
"The public needs to be brought into the Congressional debate around surveillance reform happening right now," said Rainey Reitman, EFF's activism director, in the press release.
Robert Plant performs on the Pyramid main stage at Glastonbury music festival, England, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Thousands of music fans have arrived for the festival to see headliners Arcade Fire, Metallica and Kasabian.
Photo by Joel Ryan
CNBC co-anchor Simon Hobbs had a major faux pas on TV on Friday, June 27, when he accidentally outed Apple CEO Tim Cook as gay during a live segment. Hobbs and the other anchors were talking to New York Times columnist James B. Stewart about gay CEOs in major companies.
"I got an extremely cool reception, not one would allow to be named at all," Stewart said.
Hobbs then noted, "I think Tim Cook is open about the fact he's gay at the head of Apple, isn't he?"
The comment was met with silence before Stewart shook his head saying, "Hmm, no."
"Oh dear, was that an error?" Hobbs asked. "I thought he was open about it."
Eric Clapton may not be long for the road. In a new interview with Uncut magazine, the legendary guitarist said he is considering curtailing his touring efforts going forward.
"The road has become unbearable," he said. "It's become unapproachable, because it takes so long to get anywhere. It's hostile - everywhere: getting in and out of airports, traveling on planes and in cars."
Clapton, who turns 70 next year, suggested he is likely to spend more time in the studio in the coming years. "There are tons of things I'd like to do, but I'm looking at retirement too," he said. "What I'll allow myself to do, within reason, is carry on recording in the studio. I don't want to go off the boil to the point where I'm embarrassing myself." When asked if he plans to stop playing guitar altogether, Clapton replied, "Maybe. It might be that I can't, if it hurts too much. I have odd ailments."
This isn't the first time the guitarist has hinted at retiring his road show. Last year, Clapton told Rolling Stone, "When I'm 70, I'll stop. I won't stop playing or doing one-offs, but I'll stop touring, I think."
In his chat with Uncut, Clapton also discussed the possibility of a Cream reunion. Though from his comments, the prospect of getting the band back together seems highly unlikely. "I haven't spoken to Jack [Bruce] or Ginger [Baker] for quite a time," he said. "I don't think there's been any line of dialogue between any of us - or between me and them, that is to say - since the American affair [the trio's Madison Square Garden shows in 2005].
British actor Ian McKellan, right poses for a selfie with a reveler at the London Pride Parade 2014 in central London, Saturday, June 28, 2014. President Barack Obama's administration has taken the U.S. gay rights revolution global, using American embassies across the world as outposts in a struggle that still hasn't been won at home. With gay pride parades taking place in many cities across the world this weekend, the U.S. role will be more visible than ever. Diplomats will take part in parades and some embassies will fly the rainbow flag along with the Stars and Stripes.
Photo by Stefan Rousseau
Back when Ol' Blue Eyes was Young Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra got his first New Jersey driver's license at age 19. And earlier this week, that automotive relic from the crooner's teenage years was purchased for $15,757 at Boston's RR Auctions, the Associated Press reports.
According to a press release, the license is numbered "549631" and dates back to 1934, the year before Sinatra launched his legendary music career. And the item shows its age, with a faded yellow color and a glaring typo (having been issued to "Francis Sintra, 841 Garden Street, Hoboken, New Jersey"). The singer's weight was listed at 130 pounds and his height at five feet eight, with his eye color, naturally, as blue.
Also included in the auction was a curious letter (dated March 12th, 1940) written to the state's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles; the item, penned by the attorney of a man involved in a car accident with Sinatra, requests that the singer's driving privileges be revoked until he'd paid his owed remittance of $7.50.
A Montana judge facing suspension by the state's top court for implying a 14-year-old girl was partly to blame for her rape by a teacher and imposing an unlawfully lenient sentence in the case contends his punishment was unprecedented and suggests it be retracted.
State District Judge G. Todd Baugh is due to be censured by the Montana Supreme Court next month and faces a 31-day suspension after a judicial standards commission found he acted improperly by imposing a sentence of just 30 days against a former teacher convicted of raping his teenage student.
The Montana Judicial Standards Commission also found that Baugh undermined public confidence in judges by remarking last year that the victim, who killed herself before the case could be prosecuted, had been "as much in control of the situation" as her rapist.
Baugh said in documents filed this week with the Montana Supreme Court that he will submit to penalties it deems appropriate. But he said justices for the first time ordered a suspension when none was recommended by the judicial panel.
American actor Robert Vaughn listens to questions of fans as he attends the Dean Martin Expo and Nostalgic, Comedy and Comic Convention featuring collections of memorabilia from 1950's and 60's in New York, June 28, 2014.
Photo by Eduardo Munoz
Living in the lush, wooded countryside with fresh New England air, Wendy Brennan never imagined her family might be consuming poison every day.
Brennan is not alone. Urine samples collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from volunteers reveal that most Americans regularly consume small amounts of arsenic. It's not just in water; it's also in some of the foods we eat and beverages we drink, such as rice, fruit juice, beer and wine.
Under orders from a Republican-controlled Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency in 2001 established a new drinking-water standard to try to limit people's exposure to arsenic. But a growing body of research since then has raised questions about whether the standard is adequate.
The EPA has been prepared to say since 2008, based on its review of independent science, that arsenic is 17 times more potent as a carcinogen than the agency now reports. Women are especially vulnerable. Agency scientists calculated that if 100,000 women consumed the legal limit of arsenic every day, 730 of them would eventually get bladder or lung cancer from it.
But an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity found that one member of Congress effectively blocked the release of the EPA findings and any new regulations for years.
Deana Martin (seated), the daughter of Rat Pack legend Dean Martin, poses for a photograph as she signs autographs for fans next to a collection of memorabilia from the 1950's and 60's during the Dean Martin Expo and Nostalgic, Comedy and Comic Convention in New York, June 28, 2014.
Photo by Eduardo Munoz
More than 100 tourists and workers have been airlifted out of a private lodge in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve after floods washed out portions of a road and left them stranded, a National Park Service spokeswoman said on Friday.
The group was evacuated late on Thursday by four fixed-wing airplanes and two helicopters after rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday morning caused two nearby shallow creeks to swell, said park spokeswoman Kris Fister.
The creeks turned into a "confluence of raging bodies of water," taking debris and chunks of road with them, Fister said, adding that the evacuations were aided by Alaska's late-setting summer sun.
"It allowed us to be working much later in the evening, no question," Fister said of the four-hour effort. "We were fortunate with that, and we were fortunate that the weather was good all night."
People pose for photos in front of the Stonewall Inn before the start of Pride Week activities in the Manhattan borough of New York June 27, 2014. The Stonewall Inn is the traditional gathering place for many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
Photo by Carlo Allegri
Rising lake levels are swallowing American white pelicans' nesting grounds at a guano-rich island in central North Dakota known as North America's largest refuge for the big-billed birds, federal wildlife officials said.
About 30,000 pelicans returned to 4,385-acre Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge this year to find water had gobbled several acres of their main nesting island, creating increasingly cramped conditions for the giant birds, among the largest in North America. They weigh up to 20 pounds, have a wingspan of nearly 10 feet and measure six feet from bill to tail.
The decreased elbow room does not appear to have affected nesting activity so far, and the island continues to be filled with the grunts and squawks of thousands of white pelicans and their chicks, said Neil Shook, a U.S Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and refuge manager.
Shook said the island has been shrinking by a couple of acres annually since the early 1990s but appears to have mysteriously decreased from 24 acres last year to about 15 acres this year, a loss in land mass equal to about nine football fields. The decrease of island real estate comes despite relatively average rain and snowfall - and it has even shrunk in dry years, he said. It's not clear why it's happening.
A slaughter truck stuffed with farmyard puppets entitled 'Sirens Of The Lambs', is driven through Worthy Farm in Pilton, during Glastonbury music festival, England, Saturday, June 28, 2014. 'Sirens Of The Lambs' is moving sculpture by graffiti artist Banksy, which is designed to highlight the issue of animals being farmed for their meat.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Besides gold-plated guns and heaps of cash, nothing says drug lord quite like exotic pets. Pablo Escobar, perhaps the biggest kingpin of them all, sure thought so. And lately, his ghost has been haunting his countrymen by way of the hippos fleeing from his old backyard.
It started in 1981 when Escobar smuggled four of the African mammals-one male and three females-and added them to his personal menagerie inside his Hacienda Napoles estate. Neighbors got to visit and see the hippos, which lived among the giraffes, elephants, other exotic animals, and the weird giant concrete dinosaurs. It almost seemed like a great idea in a give-back-to-the-people Escobar way.
That is until he got arrested and the hippos that weren't taken by zoos continued breeding. Colombia's climate turned out to suit the animals well. Without the drought that keeps their population in check in Africa, the abandoned hippos mated all year and even matured years earlier than their forbearers. Since Escobar's death in 1993, it's been reported that fertile female hippos have been giving birth to one calf every year.
Authorities now estimate 50 to 60 hippos in the region, reports BBC . Most of them remain in one of Hacienda Napoles' manmade lakes. At least a dozen, though, have plodded past the estate's shoddy fences and have been roaming rural towns near Bogota.
Xing Xing, formerly known as Fu Wa, one of two giant pandas from China, eats bamboo at the Giant Panda Conservation Center at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, June 28, 2014. The two pandas arrived in Malaysia on May 21 to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Malaysia and China. The pair will live in the country for the next 10 years.
Photo by Lai Seng Sin
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