Josh Voorhees: Court Denies Montana Judge a Do-Over On 30-Day Rape Sentence (Slate)
Highlighting just how unpopular Baugh's decisions have been lately, neither the prosecution nor the defense wanted Friday's scheduled re-sentencing hearing to take place. The defense, as you would guess, is quite pleased with the 30-day sentence, while the prosecution feared that revisiting the sentence now would undermine its formal appeal, which is currently winding its way through the state court system.
Lawyers of reddit, what is the dumbest thing your client has ever done?
My all time favorite is a client I had who was charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI), who wanted to challenge the charges on the grounds he didn't think he was drunk and the tests was administered improperly...who appeared at his court hearings rip-roarin' drunk...twice...and then, both times, he got into his car and tried to drive away...and BOTH TIMES, the police promptly stopped him, administered a breathalyzer and charged him with DUI and related offenses. We didn't win that case.
5 Shocking Statistics That Prove Working in America Sucks (Cracked)
Earlier this week, the United States celebrated Labor Day, that one day a year where we honor the achievements of workers by being lazy. And if this holiday is defined by not working, then sadly every day is Labor Day for a growing number of Americans. Yeah, there isn't that much to celebrate when you consider that ...
Simon Doonan: Remembering Fashion's Fallen Heroes (Slate)
In 1982 I took my boyfriend to the doctor. "It's just an in-grown hair," I said, pointing to the purple mark on his neck. The doctor had a different diagnosis. "You have AIDS," he said. "Can you give my friend a referral to a specialist?" I asked. "There are no specialists. There is no referral. Are you guys religious?"
Alan J was first, and correct, with:
# (the pound sign)
Charlie responded:
The # key, which also has many other names.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, has headed to California......back in a few days.
Adam answered:
The 'pound' key on your keyboard.
Sally said:
The # key on your keyboard is called an octotroph. I had to learn this stuff when I attended a Business Class in high school, 100 years ago.
And now, thanks to BCE, for the first time I get to use that information!!
PS: @Lighterthanair Lois in Oregon, I too am a fan of, "Coast to Coast AM!" Since it airs at 1 AM here, I usually catch the last hour of the show since I go to bed so early... I have listened for years, since it was called, "The Art Bell Show."
Marian took the day off.
Dale from Blast Furnace Diamond Springs, Norcali, took the day off.
(67) NFL Hall of Fame, one of my fa-vo-rite Lions ever... a classy guy.
(55) Still hot since "The Fall Guy"? Yeah, I'm tellin' ya... Sizzlin'...
(33) I loved it when she slammed Kanye for his VMA Taylor Swift stupidity...
P!nk - Get The Party Started - YouTube
Yeah, this tune can get me dancin'... BadtotheboneBoogyin'...
And, Joe S wrote:
Well everyone knows that, it's an eight-sided troph of course. But don't get it confused with the more popular six-sided troph, or to say it's scientific name, sextotroph. The octotroph has been around for centuries and in it's earlier primitive form, was used to play a very popular game of skill called Tic-Tac-Toe.
Oooh! A squirrel.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Unforgettable', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Shark Tank', then a FRESH'Secret Milionaire', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has an old 'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'The Simpsons', then another RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by another RERUN'Family Guy'.
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', followed by a FRESH'Bad Ink', then another FRESH'Bad Ink'.
AMC offers the movie 'National Treasure', 'Breaking Bad', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Bad' (runs 1hr, 4min), then a FRESH'Low Winter Sun'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 3
[7:00AM] THE NERDIST - Season 2 - Episode 4
[8:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Black Hairy Thick Tail Scorpion
[9:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Giant Centipede
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Handlebar
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 2 - D-Place
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Leone's
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 8
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 2
[4:00PM] ROB ROY
[7:00PM] THE SHINING
[10:00PM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 11 NEW
[11:00PM] THE SHINING
[2:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 10 - The Fine Ould Irish Gentleman
[3:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 11
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 8
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 9 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'The House Bunny', 'Tosh.0', and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of James Franco'.
FX has the movie 'Salt', followed by the movie 'Colombiana'.
History has 'Mountain Men', another 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', 'We're The Fugazis', and another 'We're The Fugazis'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] A Map of the World
[8:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[9:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang! -Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt and Glasses
[9:30AM] Dilbert -The Name
[10:00AM] Dilbert -The Competition
[10:30AM] Dilbert -The Prototype
[11:00AM] Dilbert -The Takeover
[11:30AM] Dilbert -Testing
[12:00PM] Arrested Development -Amigos
[12:30PM] Arrested Development -Good Grief!
[1:00PM] Arrested Development -Sad Sack
[1:30PM] Arrested Development -Afternoon Delight
[2:00PM] Monster's Ball
[4:30PM] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[7:00PM] Cabin Fever
[9:00PM] House of 1000 Corpses
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang! -Bill Hader Wears a Grey Button Down Shirt and Sneakers
[11:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang! -Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[12:00AM] Saw II
[2:00AM] House of 1000 Corpses
[4:00AM] Cabin Fever (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Big Fan
[7:30AM] Le Divorce
[10:00AM] Wall Street
[12:15PM] Next Floor
[12:30PM] The Writers' Room-American Horror Story
[1:00PM] Moulin Rouge
[3:15PM] Night Shift
[5:00PM] Michael Clayton
[7:30PM] Pale Rider
[10:00PM] The Bridge on the River Kwai
[1:30AM] The Libertine
[3:30AM] Blood and Wine
[5:45AM] This Way Up (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade', followed by the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull'.
Cast member Julia Louis-Dreyfus arrives with her husband Brad Hall for the screening of "Enough Said" at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival, September 7, 2013.
Photo by Mark Blinch
Bill Nye the Science Guy is getting a rare chance to show off his out-of-this-world dance moves.
The scientist and head of the Planetary Society is joining the cast of the 17th season of the ABC show "Dancing with the Stars," which premieres Monday (Sept. 16).
Bill Nye is most famous for his educational television show, which aired from 1993 to 1998. Nye began his career as a mechanical engineer, but has transitioned over the years into science education, comedy and acting.
In a blog post, Nye said he was inspired to compete on the show to get the word out about the Planetary Society's mission of human space exploration.
Nye isn't the first geek to strut his stuff on the show.
In 2009 Apple founder Steve Wozniak shimmied his way through a dance number to "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," but his performance was panned: One judge even described his moves as a "Teletubby going mad," CNET reported.
Actor Gene Wilder watches play between Stanislas Wawrinka, of Switzerland, and Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, during the semifinals of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, in New York.
Photo by Darron Cummings
The Japanese master of whimsical animation, Hayao Miyazaki, has retired before. This time, he says he really means it.
Miyazaki is one of animation's most admired and successful directors. He said Friday that at the age of 72, he now wants to do other things besides slaving away over his drawings to meet feature film deadlines.
"I know I've said I would retire many times in the past. Many of you must think, 'Once again.' But this time I am quite serious," he said.
"This will never happen again," Miyazaki said at the conclusion of a nearly 2-hour-long news conference in which he shared his thoughts on everything from war to Italian cuisine, one of his favorites.
The co-founder of Studio Ghibli, who won an Oscar in 2003 for his masterful, disturbing critique of modern industrialism in "Spirited Away," said he hopes to work for another decade, but at a slower pace that might allow him to perhaps even take Saturdays off.
Three award-winning domestic violence ads in India show powerful images of Hindu goddesses Lakshmi, Durga and Saraswati with cuts and bruises.
The public service ads, created by Save Our Sisters charity, serve as a stark reminder about the devastation caused by domestic violence and sexual trafficking in a country recently plagued by "gang rape culture," spurred by the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a Delhi bus last December.
The text accompanying the ads reads: "Pray that we never see this day. Today, more than 68 per cent of women in India are victims of domestic violence. Tomorrow, it seems like no woman shall be spared. Not even the ones we pray to."
The Abused Goddesses ad series, produced by marketing agency Tarproot India, has won several country awards at various festivals, including the Lotus award in March. The images were created by blending traditional hand-painted Indian art with modern-day photography using real models.
Roderick Spencer and Alfre Woodard are seen at Fox Searchlight's Premiere of "12 Years A Slave", on Friday, September 6th, 2013 in Toronto, Canada.
Photo by Todd Williamson
The Dallas Zoo will raise a pair of cheetah cubs with a Labrador retriever puppy, believing the dog will be a calming influence on the big cats as they grow to adulthood.
The 8-week-old male cheetahs Winspear and Kamau have arrived in Dallas, the zoo said, after a team of experts spent two weeks with them at their birthplace, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va.
They will be raised alongside an 8-week-old black Labrador retriever puppy named Amani, the zoo said in a statement on Thursday.
"Zoological experts have found that because dogs are naturally comfortable in public settings, Amani will provide a calming influence for the cubs, as well as another playmate as they grow to adulthood," the statement said.
A Texas art museum announced Friday it had acquired a rarely displayed painting by John Singer Sargent that depicts Edwin Booth, the renowned 19th-century actor and brother of President Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
The portrait from 1890 was commissioned by members of The Players, a private club for actors founded by Booth and his friends. It remained there until 2002, when it was sold to a private collector. The painting is now on its first extended public display in the main gallery at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
In the full-length portrait by Sargent - one of the period's most admired portrait painters - Booth is seen in a dark, three-piece suit in front of the grand fireplace in the club's hallway. Museum officials said it was purchased for about $5 million.
The painting has only gone on public display twice before: for about a month in 1926 at Sargent's memorial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and from late November 2003 to late February 2004 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Actress Sally Fields waves to the crowd during the semifinals of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, in New York.
Photo by David Goldman
More than 100 earthquakes in 2011 in Youngstown, Ohio were caused by fracking, says a new study, adding to past research that has linked fracking to earthquakes in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Youngstown is located over the Marcellus Shale, a geological formation that scientists estimate contains 489 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Before January 2011, it had never felt an earthquake, at least not since record-keeping began in 1776. But two weeks after the Northstar 1 well started pumping fluid into the ground, the tremors began. Though most were too small to feel, by December of 2011 seismometers in the town had recorded a magnitude 3.9 quake.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources quickly resonded, "The seismic events are not a direct result of fracking." But the well was shut down for investigation, after which the tremors stopped. This week's report, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, contradicts the director's claim.
The earthquakes "were induced by the fluid injection at Northstar 1," says the says study author Won Young Kim of Columbia University. Researchers say 167 distinct earthquakes resulted from that one well.
How did the researchers determine that Northstar 1 was to blame? For one, they found that the frequency and intensity of the quakes altered in accordance with the daily pressure levels in the well. Also, the epicenter of each of the quakes was either at the well or along the fault line that the well was connected to.
It seems that the Ohio's Department of Natural Resources didn't realize that a fault line ran beneath the well. "Ironically, the data needed to make that determination was already available," explains The Energy Collective, but because funds were short, and no federal regulations required the data, it eluded the state and the builders.
Composer Hans Zimmer is seen at Fox Searchlight's Premiere of "12 Years A Slave", on Friday, September 6th, 2013 in Toronto, Canada.
Photo by Todd Williamson
Amateur archaeologists have uncovered a massive network of tunnels under the Roman Emperor Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy.
The underground passageways likely allowed thousands of slaves and merchants to keep the estate running without creating any distraction at the street level.
Though similar tunnels have been discovered at the complex before, the new discovery is exciting because the passageways were not mentioned in any ancient plans of the grounds, Marina De Franceschini, an archaeologist heading the excavation who works with the University of Trento, wrote in an email.
The underground passageways allowed thousands of merchants, slaves and carts laden with goods to enter the villa without causing any hustle and bustle.
Slaves chiseled the passageways out of the soft tufa rock, and the same rock was then was used to construct the villa. But over the centuries, soil had completely filled in the underground tunnels and their full extent was a mystery.
South Korean film director Kim Jho Gwang-soo (R) and his partner Kim Seung-hwan perform during their wedding ceremony in central Seoul September 7, 2013. Kim Jho Gwang-soo symbolically married his long-term partner on Saturday, with the couple exchanging vows on a bridge, though same-sex marriage remains illegal in the conservative Asian country. Both men made clear they were trailblazing in a society where traditional values keep many homosexuals from coming out, let alone pressing for legal approval for same-sex unions.
Photo by Lee Jae-Won
Scientists at the University of Houston have uncovered the largest single volcano on Earth, located under water about 1,600 kilometres east off the coast of Japan.
Covering about 311,000 square kilometres, an area equivalent to the state of New Mexico, the Tamu Massif volcano is considerably bigger than the Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the largest active volcano on Earth, which only comes in at 5,200 square kilometres.
The newly discovered volcano is as big as some of the volcanoes on Mars, placing it among the largest in the solar system.
The Tamu Massif is the largest feature of the underwater mountain range known as the Shatsky Rise, which formed 130 to 145 million years ago by the eruption of several underwater volcanoes.
Dancers perform as they take part in festivities marking the start of the annual harvest festival of "Onam" in the southern Indian city of Kochi September 7, 2013. The ten-day-long Hindu festival is celebrated annually in India's southern coastal state of Kerala to commemorate the return of King Mahabali to his beloved subjects.
Photo by Sivaram V
The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book.
Chet Van Duzer's "Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps" (British Library, 2013) charts the evolution of the mythical creatures that adorned atlases from the 10th century through the 17th century. Cartographers used the beastly art to illustrate mysterious, unexplored regions of the globe and the possible dangers of seafaring.
"The creatures look purely fantastic. They all look like they were just made up," Van Duzer, a map historian at the Library of Congress, said here Thursday (Sept. 5) in a talk about his book. "But, in fact, a lot of them come from what were considered, at the time, scientific sources."
Sea monsters on maps run the gamut from menacing sea serpents to improbable lion-fish hybrids. Many cartographers simply copied these sea monsters from illustrated encyclopedias, Van Duzer told LiveScience. At other times, particularly a period in the 16th century, mapmakers took some poetic license with the animals (like terrestrial-aquatic hybrid animals).
But depictions of these creatures have been studied very little, Van Duzer said. Though people in modern times typically think of monsters as mythical beasts, whales and walruses were considered monsters in medieval and Renaissance times.
Komondors, traditional Hungarian guard dogs, play near Bodony, 130 km northeast of Budapest September 3, 2013. Komondors, a traditional Hungarian breed, have a fur coat that weighs 30 kg (60 pounds). The kennel has won several awards but makes hardly any money as dogs without pedigrees have displaced pure breeds from the market in recent years.
Photo by Laszlo Balogh
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