Marc Dion: James Foley was a Hack (Creators Syndicate)
Every now and then, some unwise high school teacher will invite me to come speak to his/her journalism class. "It's all crap," I tell them. "Everything in the paper is lies."
Dr. David Lipschitz: Age-Related Muscle Loss and Weakness can Be Prevented by Weight Training (Creators Syndicate)
Perhaps one of the greatest breakthroughs in the prevention of frailty comes from the research of Dr. William Evans, who showed that even in 90-year-olds, resistance training or exercising with weights can increase strength by over 170 percent, increase muscle and bone mass, improve metabolism, increase food intake and even improve mood. More importantly gait and balance are dramatically improved, leading to an 80 percent reduction in fall and fracture risk.
Froma Harrop: Neil deGrasse Tyson Is a Nice Man (Creators Syndicate)
When I first encountered Neil deGrasse Tyson, I thought, "What a nice man." He was on the TV screens at New York's Hayden Planetarium, where he's director, urging us to behold the wonder of - to use the biblical term - the heavens.
16 Diabolical Acts of Evil by Famous Corporations (Cracked)
We like to think of big corporations as being run by shady individuals who would watch the world burn if it meant making and saving a few bucks. It turns out that we aren't too far off the mark in some cases ...
Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native mainly in Mexico, but also Central America, and Colombia. A member of the Asteraceae (or Compositae), dicotyledonous plants, related species include the sunflower, daisy, chrysanthemum and zinnia. There are 42 species of dahlia, with hybrids commonly grown as garden plants.
The dahlia was declared the national flower of Mexico in 1963. The tubers were grown as a food crop by the Aztecs, but this use largely died out after the Spanish Conquest. Attempts to introduce the tubers as a food crop in Europe were unsuccessful.
In Europe and America, prior to the discovery of insulin in 1923, diabetics-as well as consumptives-were often given a substance called Atlantic starch or diabetic sugar, derived from inulin, a naturally occurring form of fruit sugar, extracted from dahlia tubers. Inulin is still used in clinical tests for kidney functionality.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
The Dahlia
Charlie wrote:
Dahlia
Deborah said:
Another question to which I know the answer - thanks, Marty!
The national flower of Mexico is the Dahlia. They come in so many colors and sizes, I don't know how one can choose which to grow. They are lovely and very showy.
Adam answered:
The Dahlia.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Dahlia
Marian responded:
dahlia
DJ Useo said:
Living in Austin, Texas, as I do, it'd be hard to NOT know the answer is Dahlias.
As the Poet Nerglet once wrote -
"Flower is good,
smells like a bee,
They're good for your eyes,
if you can see,
Dahlias." ;)
MAM wrote:
Dahlia Pinnata ~ Which originated in the mountainous regions of Mexico and Columbia. They mostly bloom in the summer and autumn months.The Dahlia is named after the Swedish 18th century botanist Anders Dahl. It was named the national flower in 1963.
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CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Unforgettable', followed by a FRESH'Reckless'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe a 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Rising Star', then a RERUN'Castle'.
The CW offers a RERUN'SAF3', followed by an old 'Friends', then another old 'Friends', followed by 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', 'Wahlburgers', and another 'Wahlburgers'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: AFTER WHO LIVE
[7:00AM] AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE ULTIMATE TIME LORD
[10:00AM] MAKE YOUR OWN SUNDAY DOCTOR WHO FAN FAVORITE MARATHON!
[9:00PM] THE MUSKETEERS - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Musketeers Don't Die EasilyNEW
[10:15PM] INTRUDERS - Season 1 - Ep 1 - She Was Provisional
[11:15PM] ALIEN 3
[1:45AM] THE MUSKETEERS - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Musketeers Don't Die Easily
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Blink
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Silence in the Library
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Forest of the Dead (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Game Of Crowns'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself', 'Jeff Dunham: Spark Of Insanity', and 'Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos'.
FX has the movie 'Battleship', followed by a FRESH'The Strain'.
History has 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', then a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE MARINE 3: HOMEFRONT
[8:00AM] BATMAN-THE JOKE'S ON CATWOMAN
[8:30AM] BATMAN-LOUIE'S LETHAL LILAC TIME
[9:00AM] BATMAN-NORA CLAVICLE & THE LADIES' CRIME CLUB
[9:30AM] BATMAN-PENGUIN'S CLEAN SWEEP
[10:00AM] BATMAN-THE GREAT ESCAPE
[10:30AM] BATMAN-THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
[11:00AM] PORTLANDIA-CATNAP
[11:30AM] PORTLANDIA-MOTORCYCLE
[12:00PM] PORTLANDIA-FEMINIST BOOKSTORE 10TH ANNIVERSARY
[12:30PM] PORTLANDIA-NO OLYMPICS
[1:00PM] PORTLANDIA-BRUNCH VILLAGE
[1:30PM] PORTLANDIA-WINTER IN PORTLANDIA
[2:00PM] PORTLANDIA-TAKE BACK MTV
[2:30PM] PORTLANDIA-MISSIONARIES
[3:00PM] PORTLANDIA-NINA'S BIRTHDAY
[3:30PM] PORTLANDIA-SQUIGGLEMAN
[4:00PM] PORTLANDIA-OFF THE GRID
[4:30PM] PORTLANDIA-THE TEMP
[5:00PM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-SPEECHLESS
[5:30PM] SCREAM
[8:00PM] KILL BILL: VOL. 2
[11:00PM] KILL BILL: VOL. 2
[2:00AM] EASTERN PROMISES
[4:15AM] GARFUNKEL AND OATES-SPEECHLESS
[4:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-JASON SCHWARTZMAN WEARS A STRIPED SHIRT & HIGH TOP SNEAKERS
[5:15AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-COBIE SMULDERS WEARS A STRAPLESS BLACK & WHITE DRESS
[5:45AM] WHITEST KIDS U'KNOW (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Rectify-Always There
[7:00AM] Rectify-Sexual Peeling
[8:00AM] Rectify-Modern Times
[9:00AM] Rectify-Plato's Cave
[10:00AM] Rectify-Drip, Drip
[11:00AM] Rectify-Jacob's Ladder
[12:00PM] Rectify-Running With the Bull
[1:00PM] Rectify-Sleeping Giants
[2:00PM] Rectify-Charlie Darwin
[3:00PM] Rectify-Donald the Normal
[4:00PM] Rectify-Act as If
[5:00PM] Rectify-Mazel Tov
[6:00PM] Rectify-Weird As You
[7:00PM] Rectify-The Great Destroyer
[8:00PM] Rectify-Until You're Blue
[9:00PM] Rectify-Unhinged
[10:15PM] Caddyshack
[12:30AM] Caddyshack
[2:45AM] Traffic (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Mirrors', followed by the movie 'Freddy Vs. Jason'.
T-Bone Burnett and Callie Khouri seen at the 3rd Annual Women Making History Brunch presented by the National Women's History Museum and Glamour Magazine at the Skirball Cultural Center on Saturday, August 23, 2014, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Jon Hamm, a St. Louis native, says he hopes "cooler heads prevail" in the Missouri city of Ferguson and "people come through it for the better."
Talking about the riots that followed the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer, Hamm says "it's difficult to watch because it's my hometown."
But the "Mad Men" star supports the protesters. He says "they have a legitimate reason to protest and they're exercising their right to do that and so hopefully, in the end, people will come through it stronger."
He said cities should not "be measured on how they have failed, but how they get through and how they clean up after their mistakes."
Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, left, from the television show Modern Family laughs after dropping the ball into the glove of Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Drew Butera instead of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch from the mound prior to a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis cut an arresting figure in his crisp uniform, dark blue cap -- and a sign demanding "the truth" about the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black youth.
Lewis turned heads and got people talking Thursday in his first appearance at the nightly protests in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson that followed the August 9 death there at the hands of a white policeman of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
"These people have been exploited and oppressed their entire lives, and now they have their own police department perhaps murdering one of their own," he told AFP around the corner from where Brown was fatally shot.
"And I came out to show solidarity with them," he said.
Lewis, who is white, served 24 years in the Philadelphia police force, most of them in the city's edgy north side, before retiring eight years ago and embracing political activism.
The artist Christo says his plan to suspend nearly 6 miles of silvery fabric in sections over the Arkansas River is in a "stand-still situation."
The 79-year-old artist updated supporters on his "Over the River" project during a luncheon in Canon City, Colorado, on Thursday. The Daily Record reports his visit also included a rafting trip down the Arkansas.
Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude began scouting for a location for the temporary installation in the 1990s. After visiting 89 rivers in seven states, they chose the Arkansas River between Salida and Canon City.
The project received federal approval to move forward in November 2011, but it has been delayed because of legal challenges by groups that say it's too disruptive. Those challenges are working their way through the legal system.
Gary Fitzgibbon (center, R), 22, and Laura May Keohane (center, L), 21, who were crowned King and Queen at the Irish Redhead Convention pose for a group photo with other red heads in the village of Crosshaven in County Cork August 23, 2014. The annual festival which attracts people from all over the world celebrates people with red hair.
Photo by Cathal McNaughton
During the darkest days of Chile's dictatorship, a man named Jorge Schindler saved dozens of leftist militants by employing them undercover at his pharmacies, risking his own life like a different Schindler during another of history's nightmares.
The South American Schindler's story was published for the first time Friday in "The Chilean Schindler's List," a biography.
It retraces his silent struggle against Augusto Pinochet's brutal regime and the uncanny parallels with Oskar Schindler's secret defiance of Nazi Germany. The two men are not, however, related.
Jorge Schindler was an active member of the Chilean Communist Party when Pinochet's troops overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.
Depending on Time Warner's possible moves, HLN could become a millennial-oriented news network featuring offbeat programming or a potential Fox News competitor led by a libertarian firebrand. Or neither.
Last month, a Sky News report centered on Shane Smith's Vice Media and HLN in a deal with Time Warner. On Friday, it was revealed that Time Warner also held talks with Glenn Beck's The Blaze representatives about a joint venture involving the HLN station, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The talks died down after the parties "couldn't agree on terms," the newspaper reported.
Financial matters held up the deal, not ideology, a source familiar with the negotiations told The Hollywood Reporter. Talks stretched since June and ended recently.
A model displays a creation by Pranav Mishra and Shyma Shetty during the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014.
Photo by Rajanish Kakade
North Carolina legislators have ditched the state's longtime film and TV incentives program amid a conservative push to cut back on such government support.
"We knew that this would be an uphill battle and we were cautiously optimistic," said Johnny Griffin, director of the Wilmington (N.C) Regional Film Commission. "The problem was that a lot of legislators were philosophically opposed to any incentives, period. So we were absolutely not surprised."
TV series recently shot in North Carolina include CBS' "Under the Dome," ABC's "Secrets and Lies" and Fox's "Sleepy Hollow." Recent movies include "Iron Man 3," "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," "Tammy," "The Longest Ride" and Relativity's untitled heist drama about the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery.
The state's legislature decided to end North Carolina's current 25% incentive program - which is covering about $300 million in production expenditures this year - and replace it next year with a grant program for movie and TV productions with a total annual cap of $10 million in grants.
Participants in traditional clothes run across a stubble-field during the 'shepherd's run ' at the Swabian traditional festival 'Markgroeninger Schaeferlauf ' in Markgroeningen, Germany, Saturday Aug. 23, 2014.
Photo by Sebastian Kahnert
Chinese authorities on Saturday blocked an annual independent film festival from opening, seized documents and films from its organizers' office and hauled away two event officials. The move against a rare venue where films critical of the government could be screened is seen as a sign that Beijing is stepping up its already tight ideological controls.
Li Xianting, a film critic and founder of the Li Xianting Film Fund, the organizer of the Beijing Independent Film Festival, said police searched his office and confiscated materials he had gathered over more than 10 years. Li and the festival's artistic director, Wang Hongwei, were later detained by police, according to their supporters.
The festival, which began in 2006, has seen severe police obstruction over the past few years, but this year's crackdown is far more serious, Wang said earlier Saturday.
Police in the Beijing suburb of Songzhuang, where the event was supposed to open, said Saturday that they were unaware the festival had been canceled. But security was tight at the would-be festival site, with about two dozen men blocking the area and preventing around 30 film directors and members of the public from entering.
Debus players perform with knives during Banten Beach Festival in Anyer , Banten province,Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. The Debus is an ancient ceremony of the Sundanese people proving the power of faith. Debus Player pulls sharp knives across his body and tongue without doing harm.
Photo by Achmad Ibrahim
To the villagers near the ancient Greek town of Amphipolis, archaeological treasure is nothing new -- many in the area have lived off antiquity smuggling for decades.
But a massive tomb unearthed near the town dating back to the era of Alexander the Great has locals and visitors abuzz like never before.
The Hellenistic-era tomb lies within a mound 500 metres (over 1,600 feet) long and three metres high -- the largest of its kind ever discovered in Greece.
This week, archaeologists used a crane to gently remove limestone blocks barring access to the inner tomb, where a diamond-pattern floor mosaic has already been detected.
A samba dancer in kabuki, or Japanese classical drama,costume and has a face painted performs through a street during the annual Asakusa Samba Carnival at Asakusa district in Tokyo Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. The festival dates back to 1981 and more than 4,700 dancers were on hand for the parade.
Photo by Eugene Hoshiko
Children in Tennessee will have to get used to holding a pencil again next year when new cursive handwriting standards go into effect in schools throughout the state.
The trend around the United States is to emphasize keyboarding - a skill that is included in the Common Core education standards adopted by most states.
But Tennessee lawmakers, concerned that some children do not have a signature and struggle to read their teachers' handwriting, overwhelmingly passed a bill making cursive a mandatory subject in grades two through four.
Keyboarding and print writing will still have their place, but legible penmanship will be required by third grade.
A man runs between two large show kites during the annual Singapore Kite Festival at the central business district area of Marina Bay in Singapore August 23, 2014.
Photo by Edgar Su
Binge drinkers and frat boys aren't the only ones despairing over Maryland's new ban on grain alcohol: Violin makers who used the liquor to make varnish are also affected.
Silver Spring violin maker Howard Needham tells The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/1sVB1y0) that nothing works better than Everclear grain alcohol for making the varnishes he uses to repair chipped or broken musical instruments. He's been hoarding whatever grain alcohol he can get his hands on since the ban took effect last month.
Other violin makers report similar concerns.
Maryland became one of several states to ban sales of alcohol at 190 proof or higher. Leaders at Maryland's colleges and universities supported the ban, saying students abused grain alcohol as a cheap way to get drunk.
Samba dancers in colorful costumes perform through a street during the annual Asakusa Samba Carnival at Asakusa district in Tokyo Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. The festival dates back to 1981 and more than 4700 dancers were on hand for the parade.
Photo by Eugene Hoshiko
Police in Juneau took a call Tuesday to check out a suspicious device spotted on the side of a road.
The Juneau Empire reports the first officer on the scene wasn't sure what to make of the object. A dispatcher sent out a second officer with expertise in bombs.
The second officer determined that the device was a plastic light saber toy taped to a stick. The laser swords were the preferred weapons of Jedi knights.
The confusion may have occurred because the toy, which expands to reveal a long plastic "blade," was in the closed position.
Panda cub Bao Bao hangs from a tree in her habitat at the National Zoo in Washington on her first birthday, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. The National Zoo is celebrating with a traditional 'Zhuazhou' ceremony, a Chinese birthday tradition symbolizing long life.
Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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