Scott Burns: Workers Unite! (assetbuilder.com)
Have you dared to look at your 401(k) statement lately? If you have, you're probably thinking unkind thoughts about the well-paid folks who are supposed to be managing your money. I say it's time to give 'em the boot---but let's talk this through first.
Will Harris: A Chat with Lindsey Buckingham (bullz-eye.com)
"When (Fleetwood Mac) got off the road after the Say You Will tour in 2004, I said to the band, 'Look, don't bother me for three or four years, because I really want to put out two albums in relatively short order for me and tour behind both of them."
Steven Rea: "Charlie Kaufman as director: On the whole, he's up to the parts" (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"I don't need to be mentored," says Charlie Kaufman, a touch indignant, when asked if Spike Jonze helped out with advice on "Synecdoche, New York." The film, which marks the famously idiosyncratic screenwriter's directing debut, was originally going to be helmed by Kaufman's pal - and his "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation" director - Jonze.
The common carp, as a food fish with the ability to survive and adapt to many different climates and waterways, was bartered and spread to many different areas, including North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Wild populations of the common carp now exist in those four continents and South America.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America, makes
D 5
I got a big box of books yesterday. Digging through it, I decided a good place to start would be Goodnight Bush, which was easy enough to get through in five minutes, but I did find it a bit depressing to reflect on the past eight years. Not sure what to do with the McCain book, I suppose I'll skim it to see what bullets we may have dodged. I am still worried about what Cheney and Bush might try to pull in the next couple of months, and the Charlie Savage book Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy might contain a few hints in that regard.
mj responded:
Carp are pretty tough
But I don't think they breed well while frozen, so I'm guessing Antarctica isn't one of the haunts. Since they seem to be fairly primitive, I'm guessing they predate the break up of the original super continent and can be found happily habitating the whole world. They survived in the pre-cleanup Monongahela. If they can make it there, they'll make it anywhere.
Alan J answered:
C 4
Marian the Teacher replied:
four
DanD wrote:
Lessee ... Eur-asia, Africa, North America, South America, As far as vast expanses of land are concerned, there are four. Australia brings up the rump as a "sub"- continent.
Anyway, carp are a "live-anywhere" fish that has been exported everywhere as a result of stupid fish aficionados. When they got tired of their "exotic" fish, they just flushed them. Carp are as much a parasite as they are a fish.
Of course, this is just me counting with my fingers and an old globe. More "educated" people may have a different number of continents.
Sally said:
Wild populations of the common carp now exist on (C) 4 continents - North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
The carp is most prevalent, however, on FOX TV news...
PS: Thank you for today's correction in reference to, "Adam from NoHo." I should have rethought my assumption, and realized that he couldn't possible be a NY'er!! (Still love ya though, Adam from CA!)
PPS: BIG shout out for, "BadtotheboneBob!" Please get well fast, we miss you!! :)
And, Joe S noted:
I've found that wild carp exist on every continent except South America. So that would be, for this exercise, D: 5 continents; Africa, Asia, Australia, North America and Europe. However, as Europe is only a continent because Europeans say it is, the REAL answer is 4. I mean, look at a map. How is Europe a continent? It's no more continent than India is.
Note to Sally: 'NoHo' is LA-speak for 'North Hollywood' and 'WeHo' is West Hollywood.
Oh, come-on Marty, Now I've experienced this in my most decadent past while walkin' the boulevard, and it's that NoHo means "No I don't" for the semi-pros on Vineland and WeHo is "Yes we do!" being recited by all those amatuer top-end "Valley Girls" (and boys) east of Malibu (Hey, pass that glass pipe back over here!)
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 13', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'The Unit'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Monk', and/or an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW offers a RERUN'In Harm's Way', followed by a FRESH'Valentine', then a FRESH'Easy Money'.
Faux has a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simspons', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has the movie 'As Good As It Gets', followed by an old 'House', then another old 'House'.
A&E has 'The Cleaner', 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', and still another 'CSI: The 2nd One'.
AMC offers the movie 'House On Haunted Hill', followed by the movie 'Hannibal'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
[2:30 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 1
[3:30 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 2
[4:30 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 3
[5:30 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 4
[6:30 PM] Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
[8:00 PM] Transvestite Wives
[9:00 PM] Skins - Ep 13 Michelle
[10:00 PM] Skins - Ep 14 Chris
[11:00 PM] Transvestite Wives
[12:00 AM] Skins - Ep 13 Michelle
[1:00 AM] Skins - Ep 14 Chris
[2:00 AM] Transvestite Wives
[3:00 AM] Skins - Ep 13 Michelle
[4:00 AM] Skins - Ep 14 Chris
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 23 Morris
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 24 Pender
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Tommy Boy', 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For The Road', and 'Ralphie May: Austin-Tatious'.
FX has the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', followed by the movie 'The Mummy Returns'.
History has 'Shadow Force', 'Gangland', followed by a FRESH'Cities Of The Underworld', and 'Ancient Discoveries'.
IFC -
[6:55 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase
[8:00 AM] Amarcord
[10:05 AM] Umberto D
[11:35 AM] Proof
[1:15 PM] Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy
[2:15 PM] The Cars That Ate Paris
[3:45 PM] Chinese Box
[5:30 PM] Proof
[7:10 PM] The Florentine
[9:00 PM] Wild at Heart
[11:05 PM] Lantana
[1:15 AM] Reservoir Dogs
[3:00 AM] Wild at Heart
[5:10 AM] Lantana (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Star Trek: TNG', another 'Star Trek: TNG', and the movie 'Bladerunner: The Final Cut'.
Sundance -
[04:30 AM] One Take Only
[06:00 AM] A Summer in the Cage
[07:30 AM] Friends With Money
[09:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: The Kills, Sara Bareilles & the Fratellis
[10:00 AM] Terminal City: Episode 6
[11:00 AM] The Drug Years: Break on Through
[12:00 PM] Rosetta
[02:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Bill Maher + Clive Davis
[03:00 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Recycle
[03:35 PM] Strange Culture
[04:55 PM] Outrageous Wasters: Episode 4
[06:00 PM] A Curtain Raiser
[06:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 6
[07:00 PM] The Guys
[08:30 PM] Site Specific: Las Vegas
[09:00 PM] Pulling: Episode 4
[09:30 PM] The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: Episode 4
[10:00 PM] Southern Belles
[11:30 PM] The Saviour
[12:00 AM] One Missed Call 2
[01:45 AM] The Doom Generation
[03:00 AM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 4
[03:30 AM] Nimrod Nation: Episode 2
[04:00 AM] The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part Two - Vaux to the Sea (ALL TIMES EST)
Singer Gloria Gaynor performs one of her hits, 'I Will Survive,' during a ceremony to honor her in Newark, N.J., Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. Gaynor was born and raised in Newark and performed in clubs there in her early professional career.
Photo by Mike Derer
The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released documents show.
Students at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism obtained the FBI documents by filing a Freedom of Information Act request. The university posted the documents on its Web site Thursday.
The FBI monitored Halberstam's reporting, and at times his personal life, from at least the mid-1960s until at least the late '80s, the documents show. The agency released only 62 pages of a 98-page dossier on the writer, citing security, privacy and other reasons.
It's unclear when the FBI began monitoring Halberstam, though the first documents made public date from 1965, when he was a Times correspondent in Poland during the Cold War.
Four time Grammy award winning African American opera singer Jessye Norman holds a rose was she waits to receive the Austrian Cross of Honour award which was presented to her by Austrian President, Heinz Fischer, in Vienna, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. Norman's emotionally expressive singing and formidable intellectual understanding of the music are well documented and she is believed by some to be the inspiration for the title character in the 1981 French film 'Diva'.
Photo by Lilli Strauss
Journey's 27-year-old "Don't Stop Believin'" has just become the first catalog track to sell more than 2 million digital downloads, dwarfing the numbers posted by such classic rock warhorses as Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" (1.46 million) and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1.44 million).
Through a combination of high-profile placements and happy accidents, "Believin'" has sold 2.03 million downloads since hitting digital service providers in April 2003, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The song's most famous placement was the series finale of "The Sopranos" in June 2007, after which digital sales went up 482%. It has also appeared in episodes of "Family Guy" and "Laguna Beach" as well as the Oscar-winning Charlize Theron film "Monster."
"They are one of the most important artists we have," Sony Music Entertainment Commercial Music Group president John Ingrassia says. "We're constantly working with the band and our team to create new products or highlight the catalog."
A group of New Yorkers is fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, the half-dozen row houses where iconic American songs were born.
The four-story, 19th-century buildings on Manhattan's West 28th Street were home to publishers of some of the catchiest American tunes and lyrics - from "God Bless America" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" to "Give My Regards to Broadway."
The music of Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, George M. Cohan and other greats was born on Tin Pan Alley.
The buildings were put up for sale earlier this fall for $44 million, with plans to replace them with a high-rise. The construction plan fell through amid the turmoil in the economy, but the possibility of losing the historic block hastened efforts to push for landmark status for Tin Pan Alley.
Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck watches traditional games at Chang Lime Thang stadium during coronation celebrations in Thimphu November 8, 2008. Bhutan's new "People's King", as he has inevitably been nicknamed, is a young man who has also been educated in the United States and India and now wants to help shepherd his ancient Himalayan kingdom into the modern world.
Photo by Desmond Boylan
Utah's growing tourism industry and the star-studded Sundance Film Festival are being targeted for a boycott by bloggers, gay rights activists and others seeking to punish the Mormon church for its aggressive promotion of California's ban on gay marriage.
It could be a heavy price to pay. Tourism brings in $6 billion a year to Utah, with world-class skiing, a spectacular red rock country and the film festival founded by Robert Redford, among other popular tourist draws.
"At a fundamental level, the Utah Mormons crossed the line on this one," said gay rights activist John Aravosis, an influential blogger in Washington, D.C.
"They just took marriage away from 20,000 couples and made their children bastards," he said. "You don't do that and get away with it."
The Smurf float is readied for a flight test at Balloonfest, in New York on Saturday Nov. 8, 2008. Three new balloons were inflated and soared aloft ahead of their upcoming debut at the 82nd Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Photo by Rick Maiman
A contractor who found $182,000 in Depression-era currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars, but he feels some vindication.
The windfall discovery amounted to little more than grief for contractor Bob Kitts, who couldn't agree on how to split the money with homeowner Amanda Reece.
It didn't help Reece much, either. She testified in a deposition that she was considering bankruptcy and that a bank recently foreclosed on one of her properties.
And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne - the wealthy businessman who stashed the money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and joblessness - will each get a mere fraction of the find.
Actors filming a late-night hostage scene sparked a full scale police emergency in Australia's southern city of Melbourne, police said on Thursday.
The emergency started late Wednesday when a distressed witness went to a local police station to report seeing a person pointing a gun at another person at a nearby apartment block.
Police put up road blocks and kept local residents away from the area, while armed police wearing body armour were sent in.
It turned out the armed assailant and his victim were making a film, but hadn't notified the police or anyone of their plans. Police found a fake gun, a script and film equipment.
A Chinese dancer performs Japan's traditional dance "Ranryo-ou" at "Return Extinct Dances to Asia from Japan" event in Tokyo November 8, 2008. The dance performance was held on Saturday as a part of an art forum to develop and introduce "Gagaku", Japan's traditional classical music that has been performed at the Imperial court for several centuries.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
The question troubles officials, academics and rabbis alike: how to commemorate a night of terrible carnage and fear that became known as "Kristallnacht," or "Night of the Broken Glass"?
It vexed British star violinist Daniel Hope six months ago, and slowly an idea unfolded: a concert of world-class classical, pop and jazz musicians donating their time and energy to honor the victims and send a message of hope for civil courage.
The concert takes place Sunday night on the 70th anniversary of the of the Nazi-incited mass riots that left more than 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted.
Two of Australia's largest bookmakers are refusing to pay out on bets that Barack Obama would win the U.S. presidential election, citing fears he could be assassinated before his inauguration, a report said Saturday.
The two bookmakers, Sportsbet and Centrebet, told the Sydney Morning Herald they would not pay out on the bets until the first African-American U.S. president takes office in January.
Sportsbet chief executive Matt Tripp denied this was the company's main concern.
"God forbid he has a stroke or gets hit by a bus," Tripp told the paper. "I love the bloke. I want to pay out on him. I think he is good for America and good for the world."
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Wild populations of the common carp now exist on how many continents?.
