Jim Hightower: BIG BANKS GOUGE CUSTOMERS FOR FUN & PROFIT
High-Low is a poker game that I've played in the past, but America's biggest banks have twisted it into a flimflam in which the deck is deliberately stacked against their own customers.
Froma Harrop: Government Protects the Little Guy (creators.com)
Over a century ago, William Jennings Bryan presided over mass rallies of mostly middle-class Americans angry about economic inequities. The tea party activists gathered in Washington last weekend for Glenn Beck's event shared similar concerns. Both leaders framed their populist mission in Christian terms.
Susan Estrich: Ladies Slug It Out (creators.com)
That was the headline on Thursday's Drudge Report. And it is as good a summary as any of what happened Wednesday night when incumbent California Sen. Barbara Boxer met her challenger, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, in their first debate.
Lenore Skenazy: Don't Let This Happen to YOU! (creators.com)
It always goes something like this: "Please Read! Your Safety Matters!" And it's an e-mail about some horrible story that makes you want to run and hide under a rock (after you've sent it to all your friends).
McFly go DIY (guardian.co.uk)
Would you like these boys to call you up? McFly tell Will Dean how they took back control of their music - and are giving fans unprecedented access to their lives.
20 Questions: Rasputina (popmatters.com)
The cello driven Rasputina, has a sound powered by deep classical influences, dark historical tales, and kick-ass girl power.
The aeolian harp (wind harp), the autoharp, and all forms of the lyre and Kithara are not harps because their strings are not perpendicular to the soundboard; they are part of the zither family of instruments along with the piano and harpsichord. In blues music, the harmonica is called a "Blues harp" or "harp", but it is a free reed wind instrument, not a stringed instrument, and is therefore not an actual harp.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Zithers
Marian the retired teacher answered:
zither and lyre take your pick becasue neither are alligned.
BadtotheboneBob responded:
It's gotta be Zithers!... or maybe guitars... No! ... It's Zithers! Yeah! Like the dulcimer my 'flower child hippy chick' sister played back in the day... And Joni Mitchell did, too! Loved Joni's dulcimer music on her Blue album... So, it's Zithers, I'm sayin'... (That's it, right?)
Sally said:
Still in the Bronx, killing time until our Saturday adventure leading home. The aeolian harp (wind harp), the autoharp, and all forms of the lyre and Kithara are not harps they are part of the zither family of instruments along with the piano and harpsichord.
The Zither Family from Asia...
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
they are part of the zither family
Adam in NoHo wrote:
The aeolian harp (wind harp), the autoharp, and all forms of the lyre and Kithara are not harps - they are part of what family of instruments?
The Zither, but more clarification is needed. From Wikipedia:
Lyres from various times and places are regarded by some organologists (specialists in the history of musical instruments) as a branch of the zither family, a general category which includes many different stringed instruments, such as lutes, guitars, kantele, and psalteries, not just zithers.
Others view the lyre and zither as being two separate classes. Those specialists maintain that the zither is distinguished by strings spread across all or most of its soundboard, or the top surface of its sound chest, also called soundbox or resonator, as opposed to the lyre, whose strings emanate from a more or less common point off the soundboard, such as a tailpiece.
Examples of that difference include a piano (a keyed zither) and a violin (referred to by some as a species of fingerboard lyre). Some specialists even argue that instruments such as the violin and guitar belong to a class apart from the lyre because they have no yokes or uprights surmounting their resonators as "true" lyres have. This group they usually refer to as the lute class, after the instrument of that name, and include within it the guitar, the violin, the banjo, and similar stringed instruments with fingerboards.
When you think of dead people, concrete and underwater, you might be
forgiven if your mind produces images of mafia gangsters and of their
victims swimming with the fishes. All that has changed - in the future
what might spring to mind is a remarkable new underwater cemetery.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a RERUN'Undercover Boss', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then another RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by yet another RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by another RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', then a RERUN"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by a FRESH'The Gates'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Material Girls'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons', then still another RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by another RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'That 70s Show', followed by another old 'That 70s Show', then an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', still another 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'The Glades'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Sum Of All Fears', followed by a FRESH'Rubicon', then a FRESH'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] James May At the Edge of Space
[12:30 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 7 Unification - Part 1
[1:30 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 8 Unification - Part 2
[2:30 PM] Star Trek Generations
[5:00 PM] Die Hard with a Vengeance
[8:00 PM] Superman II
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
[2:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 6 Ep 6 Booby Trap
[3:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 7 The Enemy
[4:00 AM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 8 The Price
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[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', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', and yet another 'Futurama'.
FX has the movie 'Alvin And The Chipmunks', followed by the movie 'Alvin And The Chipmunks', again.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Last Metro
[8:15AM] At the End of the Sentence
[8:30AM] The Young Americans
[10:15AM] Shopping
[12:00PM] Ideal
[12:30PM] Ideal
[1:00PM] Ideal
[1:30PM] Ideal
[2:00PM] Ideal
[2:30PM] Ideal
[3:00PM] I Love Sarah Jane
[3:15PM] The Young Americans
[5:00PM] Slow Burn
[6:35PM] Kill Me Again
[8:15PM] Bullet
[10:00PM] Freaks and Geeks
[10:45PM] Caraca!
[11:05PM] Requiem for a Dream
[12:50AM] Wrong
[1:00AM] Kill Me Again
[2:35AM] Bullet
[4:15AM] Requiem for a Dream (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:25 AM] The Tiger and the Snow
[8:20 AM] Blame It on Fidel
[10:00 AM] Cities on Speed
[11:00 AM] Encounters At The End Of The World
[12:45 PM] Iconoclasts
[1:45 PM] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Scotland (Episode 2, Season 2)
[2:15 PM] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Australia (Episode 3, Season 2)
[2:45 PM] Wondrous Oblivion
[4:35 PM] The Tiger and the Snow
[6:30 PM] Disengagement
[8:25 PM] The Dead Girl
[10:00 PM] Pan's Labyrinth
[12:00 AM] Romance & Cigarettes
[1:50 AM] Lynch
[3:15 AM] The Dead Girl
[4:50 AM] Pan's Labyrinth (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Silent Hill', followed by the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.
Sarah Palin (R-Quitter) can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.
His arrival in May made headlines and drew an indignant reaction from Palin and a visit from her husband, Todd. The Palins even tacked an extension onto an 8-foot board fence between the homes, leaving only a part of their second-story home visible from McGinniss' driveway.
Peeping into windows or peering through knotholes was never part of his research, McGinniss said.
"I've been very busy but on Lake Lucille it's been very quiet," he said. "As I told Todd back in May - he came over to get in my face about moving in there - I said, 'You're not even going to know I'm there. A lot of the time, I'm not going to be here. And when I am, I mind my own business. I don't care what happens on your side of the fence. That's not why I'm here.'"
U.S. Director, screenwriter and producer of televisions series ' The Sopranos ' David Chase seen during a photocall at the 36th American Film Festival,Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, in Deauville, Normandy, France.
Photo by Michel Spingler
Craigslist.com has dropped its "adult services" listings, which have become the target of U.S. state attorneys general who say the much-visited online classified ad site is not doing enough to quash prostitution.
Last year, Craigslist replaced its "erotic services" ads with a new "adult" category it said would be closely screened.
The move came after a masseuse who offered her services on Craigslist was killed and a client was charged with her murder. The man charged in the case committed suicide last month in a Boston prison cell.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is co-leading a group of states attorneys general looking into the company's efforts to purge illegal ads from it site.
Divers have found the world's oldest drinkable beer at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
Three bottles of dark beer were found in an unidentified 18th-century wreck off Aland, an autonomous part of Finland.
They were discovered as the divers tried to salvage around 70 bottles of what is thought to be the world's oldest champagne, which were discovered last month.
One of the smaller bottles broke because the fragile glass had a crack in it and the divers and Kalmar Museum Senior Restorer Max Jahrehorn could immediately establish that it was beer.
He said: "One could see the beer inside and that it was beginning to foam and the foam started slowly in the beginning and it accelerated and it was something I didn't expect to see from a ship that has been on the bottom of the sea for 200 years.
American-born British screenwriter, film maker and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe Terry Gilliam, during a photocall at the 36th American FilmFestival, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, in Deauville, Normandy, France.
Photo by Michel Spingler
A lawyer for Taylor Lautner says the "Twilight" star has settled a lawsuit with an RV dealership he claims didn't deliver a $300,000 coach in time for a movie shoot.
Attorney Robert Barta said Friday that McMahon RV of Irvine, Calif. will pay $40,000 to Lautner, who will donate it to Lollipop Theater Network, a children's charity.
The 18-year-old Lautner sued the dealership Monday, saying it missed a June deadline to deliver the 2006 Affinity Country Coach for use on the set of the movie "Abduction."
Dealership owner Brent McMahon had offered to compete in a push-up contest to solve the dispute.
Paris Hilton may owe investors in her 2006 movie "Pledge This!" about $160,000 for failing to do enough promotion.
U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno in Miami ruled Thursday that the 29-year-old celebrity socialite didn't live up to her contract when refusing interviews with publications in Russia and the United Kingdom.
Moreno preliminarily valued those lost opportunities at $160,000. But the judge wants more information about Hilton's contract before finalizing the amount. The investors initially wanted $8.3 million.
The judge's decision follows Hilton's arrest last weekend in Las Vegas on cocaine possession charges. Hilton told police the small amount of cocaine was not hers.
Actors Willem Dafoe, left, and Michele Venitucci pose during a photo call for the film A Woman at the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice,Italy, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed - evidence that the divisions left by Blair's decade as British leader have yet to heal.
Blair's new book, "A Journey," is a best-seller, but it has angered opponents of his policies, especially the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
About 200 demonstrators chanted that Blair had "blood on his hands" as the former prime minister arrived at a Dublin bookstore. Shoes, eggs and other projectiles were thrown toward Blair as he emerged from a car, but did not hit him. A flip-flop could be seen lying on the roof of a BMW in Blair's motorcade.
Blair spent about two hours in the store before emerging to more shouts, boos and hurled eggs. He was quickly driven away, as a police helicopter circled overhead.
Thousands of people marched in Paris and around France on Saturday to protest expulsions of Gypsies and other new security measures adopted by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government.
Protesters blew whistles and beat drums in the capital, the largest demonstration among those in at least 135 cities and towns across France and elsewhere in Europe. Human rights and anti-racism groups, labor unions and leftist political parties were taking part in the protests.
They accuse Sarkozy of stigmatizing minority groups like Gypsies and seeking political gain with a security crackdown. They also say he is violating French traditions of welcoming the oppressed, in a country that is one of the world's leading providers of political asylum.
The protests mark the first show of public discontent since the conservative Sarkozy, a former hardline interior minister, announced new measures to fight crime in late July.
The National Gallery hosting the art exhibition by US musician Bob Dylan in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. Denmark's National Gallery isdisplaying 40 acrylic paintings by Bob Dylan that have never before been shown to the public. Curator Kasper Monrad said the paintings in Dylan's 'Brazil Series' were specifically made for the Danish exhibition, which opens Friday.
Thorkild Amdi
Lacking enough of the anesthetic essential to the cocktail of lethal drugs administered during executions, several US states are being forced to postpone the procedure until early next year.
At the heart of the drug supply problem is Hospira, the only pharmaceutical company that produces the anesthetic sodium thiopental.
"We are working to get it back on the market and we anticipate we will by 2011," Hospira spokesman told AFP.
The US Food and Drug Administration does not approve the drug's use in lethal injections and Hospira does not sell it for that purpose, though prison officials make significant use of sodium thiopental in executions.
Pieces entitled 'Before and After' (1961), left, and 'Before and After' (1962), by American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) are displayed in the Kunstmuseum,in Basel, Switzerland, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. The exhibition 'Andy Warhol. The Early Sixties' runs from Sept. 5, 2010, until Jan. 23, 2011.
Photo by Georgios Kefalas
Two young goats wandered onto the thin ledge of a railroad bridge and spent nearly two days high above the ground until rescuers in a towering cherry picker plucked them from their perch, hungry but safe.
The rescue occurred Wednesday 60 feet above a little-trafficked rural roadway in southern Montana between Billings and Roundup, after a caller told the Rimrock Humane Society the goats were stranded on the 6-inch ledge.
The young female animals weighing 25 and 35 pounds mostly stayed on the angled ledge, even though there was a wider surface area on a pillar just a few feet away.
"The whole time, we thought they were going to fall off," said Sandy Church, humane society president. "These guys are just babies."
Paul Conrad, the political cartoonist who won three Pulitzer Prizes and used his pencil to poke at politicians for more than 50 years, has died. He was 86.
David Conrad says his father died Saturday of natural causes at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
Conrad took on U.S. presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush with his stark, aggressive visual style.
His favorite target was President Richard Nixon. At the time of the president's resignation, Conrad drew Nixon's helicopter leaving the White House with the caption: "One flew over the cuckoo's nest."
David Conrad said his father considered appearing on Nixon's enemies list to be his proudest achievement.
Larry Ashmead, a former book editor who worked with Isaac Asimov, Tony Hillerman and other authors, has died at 78, his former employer, former employer, HarperCollins, said Friday.
Ashmead was a native of Rochester in western New York who as a child was inspired by a talk given by a local mystery writer and dreamed that as an adult he could "sit in a skyscraper and read all day." He received a doctorate in geology from Yale University, but decided he preferred geology to geologists and chose to work in publishing, his 43-year career beginning at Doubleday and ending with his retirement from HarperCollins in 2003.
Ashmead edited more than 40 books by Asimov, the celebrated science fiction writer, and also worked on crime stories and books by Sister Wendy Beckett about art and spirituality.
He was known for his fascination with words and wordplay. He took on Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, "The Professor and the Madman," a surprise best-seller that Winchester credited Ashmead with rescuing from the "garbage bin" after other publishers had turned it down. Ashmead himself compiled "Bertha Venation And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People," published in 2007 and including such entries as Roger Gotobed and Ida Slaptor.
Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.
Schimmel's spokesman, Howard Bragman, said Schimmel died Friday evening in a Phoenix hospital.
Schimmel was a passenger Aug. 26 in a car driven by his 19-year-old daughter Aliyah. Bragman said Aliyah Schimmel swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle she was driving rolled to the side of the freeway. Bragman said she is hospitalized in stable condition.
Robert Schimmel lived in Scottsdale. The 60-year-old comedian has been a frequent guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and on Howard Stern's radio show. His 2008 memoir, "Cancer on $5 a Day," chronicles his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Schimmel starred in a Fox sitcom that was picked up in 2000 but had to be canceled after he learned he had cancer and needed to begin chemotherapy immediately, according to his website.
The site says Schimmel more recently had a Showtime special called "Life Since Then" and was integrating his life's experiences with comedy to not only make audiences laugh but raise cancer awareness and hope.
The site also says the comedian learned a lot about "life, attitude and laughter" following his cancer fight and the loss of a child. He also had two failed marriages.
The two snow leopard cubs born at the Oklahoma City Zoo on May 12, 2010, are now venturing outdoors and are pictured at the zoo, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Oklahoma City.
Photo by Sue Ogrocki
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