Connie Schultz: A Lesson from Ohio (Creators Syndicate)
Less than a week after my visit to that factory, as if confirming my hunch, Romney was back in Ohio claiming that Chrysler was going to move its Jeep production from Toledo to China. Even after Chrysler's CEO insisted otherwise, the Romney campaign refused to pull misleading TV and radio ads designed to fuel Jeep workers' greatest fears. Had Romney bothered to visit that Jeep plant, he would have discovered more than 700 tradespeople - including 300 electricians - working to get the plant ready for increased production.
David L. Ulin: Neil Young's Memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, Offers a Wandering Glimpse of His Life and Music (Los Angeles Times)
Back in high school (a long time ago, but bear with me), my mother and I had an argument about Neil Young. I'd been blaring one of his albums - Rust Never Sleeps? Zuma? - and she came to my room to tell me to turn it down. When I protested that Young was a genius, my mother looked at me as if I were speaking a language she didn't understand. "If he was a genius," she told me, "he wouldn't be playing electric guitar."
Michael Hann: "ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta" (Guardian)
They have put buffalo on hydraulic lifts, made crack-rap cover versions and taken part in Dada-inspired art projects. ZZ Top are the veteran absurdists of 12-bar blues.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
The Big Mac (introduced in metro Pittsburgh in 1967 and nationwide in 1968) is a hamburger sold by McDonald's, an international fast food restaurant chain. It is one of the company's signature products. It consists of two 1.6 oz (45.4 g) 100 per cent beef patties, American cheese, "special sauce" (a sort of Thousand Island dressing), iceberg lettuce, pickles, and onions, served in a three part sesame seed bun.
The Big Mac was created by Jim Delligatti, one of Ray Kroc's earliest franchisees, who was operating several restaurants in the Pittsburgh area. The Big Mac was invented in the kitchen of Delligatti's first McDonald's franchise which was located on McKnight Road in north suburban Ross Township. The Big Mac first debuted at Delligatti's south-east suburban Uniontown, Pennsylvania restaurant in 1967 at a selling price of 45 cents.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
Pittsburgh
Charlie wrote:
Pittsburgh, 1967.
BttbBob replied:
Don't you mean the 'Big Ack'?... The answer is Uniontown, PA... My question is: Why?
Alan J replied:
Pittsburgh, PA
Jim from CA, retired to ID, took the day off.
Sally said:
The Big Mac was introduced in Pittsburgh, PA in 1967.
So true...
PS: Phone back on, Internet up, heat and hot water - were it not for a ton on leaves on my lawn, life would be great! Oh, Hell, life is good!!
PPS: Professor Charlie, loved your picture of Mitt Howell, III! I never thought of it, but damn, you could fit him right in that Howell family tree!!
Adam took the day off.
Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Uniontown, Pennsylvania in 1967 at a cost of $.45.
And, Joe S answered:
Pittsburgh in 1967. I remember the first McDonalds I ever had. I went to visit my Grandmother in Colorado , probably the summer of 1961, not sure of the year but no later than 1962. Grandmother asked me if I wanted to go eat at McDonalds, which was strange because she was really tight with her money. She had lots of it and the reason she had lots of it was because she never let a dollar go unless she absolutely had to. I was with her one time in a grocery store and at the check out the clerk told her what the grocery total was and Grandmother started counting out the money and she didn't have enough. She was a few dollars short and I had some money in my pocket and started to reach for it when she said she would have to dip into her emergency money. She pulled out a roll of bills big enough to choke a horse, pulled off a ten and paid the bill.
Anyway, we went to McDonalds and on the way there she explained that the food was pretty good and was fairly inexpensive, for a restaurant. A couple of days later I saw my first McDonalds commercial on TV, advertising a three-course meal, hamburger, fries and milk shake and change back from a dollar. What a deal, sure didn't have anything like that in Michigan.
First Ronald McDonald commercial.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'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 FRESH'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Revenge', followed by a FRESH'666 Park Avenue'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for news and other fluffery.
Faux has an old 'The Office', followed by a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'The Simpsons', then a FRESH'Bob's Burger', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy', then another FRESH'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'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by 'The Walking Dead' (Killer Within), then a FRESH'The Walking Dead' (Say The Word), followed by 'The Walking Dead' (Say The Word), then a FRESH'Talking Dead', followed by a FRESH'Comic Book Men' (The Sidewalk Stash).
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10-Episode 1
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10-Episode 2
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Caves
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Deserts
[10:00AM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - Season 2 - Ep 3 - American Bullfighter/Paddle Boarder
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 09-10-Episode 4
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR AT THE MOVIES
[1:30PM] FIRST KNIGHT NEW
[4:30PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[7:30PM] THE BRITANNIA AWARDS RED CARPET SPECIAL 2012 NEW
[8:00PM] THE BRITANNIA AWARDS 2012 NEW
[10:00PM] THE BRITANNIA AWARDS 2012
[12:00AM] FIRST KNIGHT
[3:00AM] A KNIGHT'S TALE (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami'.
Comedy Central has 'Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious', 'Gabriel Iglesias: Hot & Fluffy', 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself', 'Key & Peele', and 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', followed by the movie 'Predators'.
History has 'The White Men Who Built America', another 'The White Men Who Built America', still another 'The White Men Who Built America', followed by a FRESH'Outback Hunter'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:30AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-And Now, the Sordid Personal Bits
[7:45AM] Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
[10:30AM] Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
[12:45PM] Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
[3:00PM] Star Trek Generations
[5:30PM] Star Trek: First Contact
[8:00PM] Star Trek: Insurrection
[10:15PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[12:45AM] Star Trek: Insurrection
[3:00AM] The Last of the Mohicans
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - The Substitute (Episode 6, Season 1)
[7:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Why Jordan Can't Read (Episode 7, Season 1)
[8:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Strangers in the House (Episode 8, Season 1)
[9:00A] Dopamine
[10:30A] Blind Date
[12:00P] The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
[2:00P] Kate! The Making of an Icon
[3:00P] Park Benches
[5:00P] Dopamine
[6:30P] Colin Fitz Lives!
[8:00P] Sideways
[12:25A] Spider
[4:25A] Death Bell (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Outlander', followed by the movie 'GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra'.
John Williams arrives at the "Lincoln" premiere at AFI Fest at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Thursday November 8, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
Photo by Todd Williamson
An American regarded as a father of computer graphics, an Indian literary critic and a Japanese molecular cell biologist have received the Kyoto Prize, Japan's highest private award for global achievement.
The Inamori Foundation awarded its advanced technology prize on Saturday to U.S. computer scientist Ivan Sutherland, who developed the graphic interface program Sketchpad in 1963.
Gayatri Chakrovoty Spivak , an Indian literary critic and professor at Columbia University, won the arts and philosophy prize.
Yoshinori Ohsumi, a molecular biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, received the basic sciences prize for his work on autophagy, a cell-recycling system that could be used to help treat neurodegenerative and age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer.
The U.S. presidential campaign was a political rollercoaster ride forBarack Obama and Mitt Romney, but it couldn't compare to the ride their bobblehead dolls took earlier this week.
On Monday (Nov. 5) - the day before President Obama defeated Romney to win a second term in the White House - a group of California schoolkids launched bobbleheads of the two candidates to the stratosphere aboard a high-altitude balloon.
"We estimate that the balloon reached 120,000 [feet]," Earth to Sky Calculus, a group of middle- and high-schoolers from Bishop, Calif., wrote on Facebook Wednesday. "It was a crystal clear, gorgeous fall day in the western United States!"
Monday's launch wasn't the first balloon flight for some of the Bishop schoolkids. They also lofted a balloon in early September, as part of a project called The Golden iPod.
Kenneth Branagh, who has played royalty on stage and screen, has been made a real-life knight by Queen Elizabeth II.
The British actor said he was pleased to be honored in the year of the queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics. He said that "it's been a hell of a year for the U.K. and I feel very honored to be a tiny part of it."
Belfast-born Branagh was knighted at a Buckingham Palace ceremony Friday for services to drama and for his charity work in Northern Ireland.
Best known as a Shakespearean actor and as TV detective "Wallander," Branagh joins the pantheon of theatrical knights alongside the late Sir Laurence Olivier - whom Branagh played in "My Week With Marilyn."
This undated photo released by Peru's Ministry of Culture shows a mummy. The mummified toddler seized from antiquities traffickers is at least 700 years old and sits about a foot tall, according to authorities. On Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, it was returned to Peru by Bolivia, where officials seized it two years ago when smugglers tried to ship it to France.
Chicago television icon Rich Koz, better known as Svengoolie, is reportedly recovering in an area hospital after suffering a heart attack.
Time Out Chicago's Robert Feder reported this week that the 60-year-old horror film host was admitted last Saturday evening to a Chicago hospital where he is now recovering.
A statement released Monday by Weigel Broadcasting reported that Koz's "condition is improving and his family has asked for privacy at this time." Friends and fans of Svengoolie are being directed to send cards, if they wish to do so, to Rich Koz care of WCIU The U, 26 North Halsted, Chicago, IL 60661.
Koz previously suffered a heart attack in 2002, according to Time Out. He has played Svengoolie on his classic horror film show since 1979, the Daily Herald notes.
New Zealand's government said Friday that it would not sign on for a second stage of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, a stance that angered environmentalists and political opponents.
The announcement came the same day that Australia said it would stay the course and commit to "Kyoto 2."
The treaty aims to curb international greenhouse gas emissions through binding national reductions. But some question its effectiveness after many of the world's biggest polluters, including the United States and China, did not sign on.
New Zealand's climate change minister, Tim Groser, said he remained committed to emission reductions agreed to under the first Kyoto Protocol.
A woman holding a naked doll takes part in a 'Slutwalk' to protest against discrimination and violence against women in Lima November 10, 2012.
Photo by Enrique Castro-Mendivil
BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned on Saturday, just two months into the job, after failing to get to grips with a child sex abuse scandal that has thrown the 90-year-old state-funded broadcaster into turmoil.
Entwistle has faced widespread criticism since a rival broadcaster carried charges last month that a former BBC star, the late Jimmy Savile, was one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders.
Condemnation grew after the corporation made an embarrassing apology on Friday following an admission that the BBC's flagship news programme aired a mistaken allegation that an ex-politician sexually abused children.
Speaking outside the BBC centre in London, he said he had taken the decision "in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards of the Newsnight film broadcast on Friday 2nd November" because he was editor-in-chief.
"I have decided that the honourable thing to do is to step down from the post of director general," he said.
Math says Allen West lost his Florida congressional seat to Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy. West begs to differ.
The state released unofficial vote counts on Saturday showing Murphy up by 2,500 votes. The results are made official on November 20. Murphy declared his victory over West in a statement. West, unfortunately, isn't ready to give up the spotlight that congress brings. His campaign manager is raising questions over the votes in St. Lucie county, alleging that some votes were counted twice. They've even gone so far as to ask to review voter sign-in books to make sure the numbers of votes count.
Canada's Veronica Solimano performs during the women's competition at the World Pole Sport & Fitness Championships in Zurich November 10, 2012.
Photo by Arnd Wiegmann
Archaeologists say they have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria.
The treasure was found on Thursday near the village of Sveshtari, 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Sofia, team leader Diana Gergova said.
She said that among the artifacts, dating back to the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century B.C., were gold jewelry and applications for horse trappings, a tiara with reliefs of lions and fantasy animals, as well as four bracelets and a ring.
The Thracians lived in what is now Bulgaria, and parts of modern Greece, Romania, Macedonia, and Turkey between 4,000 B.C. and the 7th century A.D., when they were assimilated by the invading Slavs.
Judy Garland's blue and white gingham dress from "The Wizard of Oz" sold for $480,0000 (3,018,867.92 pounds) at auction on Saturday, Julien's Auctions said.
The price for the pinafore dress and white puffy-sleeved blouse that Garland wore throughout the 1939 film classic was in line with estimates from the Beverly Hills auction house, but below the sky-high figures paid last year for Hollywood costumes worn by Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.
Other highlights of the Hollywood Icons sale included a dress worn by Julie Andrews for "The Sound of Music," which sold for $38,400 (24,150.94 pounds).
Cake from two British royal weddings also fetched high prices. Julien's said that representatives of PawnUp.com led the bidding to obtain a slice of cake from Prince William's and Kate Middleton's 2011 wedding ($7,500) and from Prince Charles' and Princess Diana's 1981 nuptials ($1,375).
In this Thursday, Oct. 25 2012 photo, Sir Galahad, Cryder Memorial Window, from St. Andrew's Dune Church, Southampton, N.Y., appears on display at the "Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion" exhibit at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
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