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And Change is Coming-what do you love or hate about 2008? Can Obama really bring the change we need?
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Anil Ananthaswamy: Did our cosmos exist before the big bang? (newscientist.com)
ABHAY ASHTEKAR remembers his reaction the first time he saw the universe bounce. "I was taken aback," he says. He was watching a simulation of the universe rewind towards the big bang. Mostly the universe behaved as expected, becoming smaller and denser as the galaxies converged. But then, instead of reaching the big bang "singularity", the universe bounced and started expanding again. What on earth was happening?
Kimberly Brooks: "Dreaming of Robert Graham: 1938-2008" (huffingtonpost.com)
The figures, mostly women, were rendered with great prowess, slightly smaller than life size. What stood out was their strength. They were not objectified or fetishized -- they were beautiful and powerful. He re-introduced the nude to the world in a major way and I know of only a few collectors who don't have a bronze statue of his in their house. Eventually he appeared, with his mane of white hair, and took a group of us to an adjoining room where he showed us this massive sculpture of an athletic headless torso. It was a breathtaking sight.
James Rampton: "The comedian: Barunka O'Shaughnessy "(independent.co.uk)
Barunka O'Shaughnessy once worked in a jam factory in order to make ends meet. It was mind-numbing work. "My job was to pick up any jam-jars that had fallen over," she recollects, "but one only fell over every five hours. I was going mad there!"
COLE HADDON: Will Weighs in (metrotimes.com)
"I truly believe a large part of why Barack is in office is due to MTV," he says. "What MTV did is lay conduit between the inner-city and the suburbs and American kids and the world. You can't tell 15-year-old kids lies about black people; they know it's not true. But their parents and grandparents, you could feed them anything you wanted to because they didn't have the connectivity. What MTV was able to create by connecting kids of all races, creeds, and colors was a release of the fear that exists when you don't know."
Who gave the Golden Gate Strait the name 'Golden Gate Strait'?
John C. Fremont
The name came from the fact that the Golden Gate Strait (named by John Fremont) is the entrance into San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.
Source
Alan J was first, and correct, with:
John C Fremont
Sally answered:
On 1 July 1846, before the discovery of gold in California, the entrance acquired a new name. In his memoirs, John C. Frémont wrote, "To this Gate I gave the name of "Chrysopylae," or "Golden Gate"; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn."
Technically, the 'gate' is defined by the headlands of the San Francisco Peninsula and the Marin Peninsula, while the 'strait' is the water flowing in-between.
Happy New Year's Eve,
PS: I will be at my daughter's until Saturday, and like Marian (our Librarian) I will be fending off curious grandkids looking over my shoulder...
Tonight, we will be building Time's Square in LEGO's as we do every year...
HAPPY NEW YEAR'S Trivia buffs!!
Adam in NoHo replied:
According to Encarta (Encarta? Didn't know that was still around...) The
American explorer John Charles Frémont gave the strait the name Golden Gate in
1846.
Charlie answered:
About 1846, the Strait was so named by
John C. Frémont, an extraordinary figure to be sure.
Perhaps overly dedicated to notions of Manifest Destiny, but at least he opposed slavery.
Kappy in Philly wrote:
It is generally accepted that the strait was named "Chrysopylae", or Golden Gate, by John C. Fremont, Captain, topographical Engineers of the U.S. Army circa 1846. It reminded him of a harbor in Instanbul named Chrysoceras or Golden Horn. Source
Right, like I remembered that from school.
Happy and Healthy New Year to you Marty, and to all the fellow loyal readers out there! Marian the Teacher, wanna take me back to warm Cal. with you?
Joe S ("It is generally accepted that the strait was named "Chrysopylae", or Golden Gate, by John C. Fremont, Captain, topographical Engineers of the U.S. Army circa 1846. It reminded him of a harbor in Istanbul named Chrysoceras or Golden Horn." From the Golden Gate Bridge Research Library) respnded:
John C. Fremont
MAM replied:
Answer . . . Golden Gate Strait, the entrance to the San Francisco Bay, was named by Army Captain John C. Fremont, a topographical engineer, in 1846. He named it "Chrysopylae", or Golden Gate, as it reminded him
of a harbor in Instanbul named Chrysoceras or Golden Horn.
And, Marian the Teacher, still in Philly, responded:
John C. Fremont
Milk - In Limited Theaters Now - WIDE Release on December 12th
After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.
Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and career.
Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk's real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.
Prizes:
4 prizes in all - 3 first-prizes:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Hat
o T-shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
And, 1 grand prize:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Sweatshirt (made from recycled materials)
o Script Book
o Hat
o T-Shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', then a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'Eleventh Hour'.
On a RERUNDave (from 12/15/08) is Adam Sandler.
On a RERUNCraig (from 11/10/08) are Mark Harmon and Ron White.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a RERUN'The Office'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 12/12/08) are Jamie Foxx and David Gregory.
On a RERUNConan (from 9/3/08) are Nicolas Cage, Vivica A. Fox, and Delta Spirit.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 11/6/08) is T.I.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', then a RERUN'Private Practice'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 12/22/08) are Tom Cruise and Keane .
The CW here regurgitates the 'Tournament Of Roses Parade'. for the 8th time.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football - FedEx Orange Bowl', then pads the left coast with local crap.
AMC offers the movie 'Rocky II', followed by the movie 'Rocky III', then the movie 'Rocky IV'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 15
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 10
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 12
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Lanterna
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 1
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place
[7:00 PM] BBC World News
[7:30 PM] My Family - Ep 7 The Art of Being Susan
[8:00 PM] Arthur
[10:00 PM] BBC World News
[10:30 PM] Coupling - Ep 9 The End of the Line
[11:00 PM] Arthur
[1:00 AM] Arthur
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 6 Jackie Chan, Dawn French and Duffy
[4:00 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[4:30 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 9 Posner
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 10 Ollier
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'The Biggest Loser', another 'The Biggest Loser', and 'Real Housewives Of OC'.
Comedy Central has has 'Not Another Teen Movie', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'The Mummy Returns', followed by the movie 'The Rundown', then the movie 'The Rundown', again.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', 'Seven Deadly Sins' (Gluttony), followed by a FRESH'Seven Deadly Sins' (Sloth), and 'Cities Of The Underworld'.
IFC -
[7:30 AM] Confidence
[7:30 AM] Confidence
[9:15 AM] Miller's Crossing
[11:15 AM] State of Grace
[1:35 PM] Confidence
[1:35 PM] Confidence
[3:20 PM] IFC in Theaters
[3:30 PM] Miller's Crossing
[5:30 PM] United We Stand
[5:45 PM] State of Grace
[8:00 PM] The Pope of Greenwich Village
[10:05 PM] IFC News Special
[10:15 PM] Reservoir Dogs
[12:00 AM] Never Die Alone
[1:30 AM] The Pope of Greenwich Village
[3:35 AM] Reservoir Dogs
[5:20 AM] Confidence
[5:20 AM] Confidence (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has continues with the 'Twilight Zone' marathon.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Adaptation
[07:00 AM] Nose, Iranian Style
[08:00 AM] A Hebrew Lesson
[10:05 AM] The Puffy Chair
[11:30 AM] Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
[01:00 PM] Friends With Money
[02:30 PM] Lights in the Dusk
[03:45 PM] This is England
[05:30 PM] The Puffy Chair
[07:00 PM] Capote
[09:00 PM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Archbishop Desmond Tutu + Sir Richard Branson
[10:00 PM] The American Astronaut
[11:35 PM] The Substitute
[12:00 AM] Spectacle: Tony Bennett
[01:00 AM] Nose, Iranian Style
[02:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Archbishop Desmond Tutu + Sir Richard Branson
[03:00 AM] Spider Forest
[05:00 AM] The Legacy (ALL TIMES EST)
In this image released by Disneyland, actress Cynthia Nixon, right, poses with her daughter Samantha, 12, left, her partner Christine Marinoni and son Charlie, 6, foreground, outside Mickey Mouse's home in Toontown during a visit to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008.
Photo by Paul Hiffmeyer
Bjork has partnered with a Reykjavik-based venture capital firm to establish a fund that will invest in socially and environmentally responsible companies that will help restore Iceland's battered economy.
The Icelandic singer launched the venture fund with Audur Capital and given her name to it.
BJORK is intended for investors seeking opportunities in new venture creation and the development of small companies with the objective of helping the recovery of the Icelandic economy.
The small North Atlantic island nation was an early victim of the global financial crisis as its currency plunged and its financial system all but collapsed in October, under the weight of billions of dollars of foreign debts incurred by its banks. The top three commercial banks were nationalized.
Actress Cloris Leachman, the Rose Parade Grand Marshall, gestures at the Rose Bowl kickoff luncheon, Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008, in Pasadena, Calif.
Photo by Nick Ut
Merle Haggard is not letting a bout with lung cancer get in the way of his ambitious touring and recording plans.
Haggard says he is singing better now that he is in the throes of kicking his daily marijuana habit. More importantly, the son of Depression-era Dust Bowl migrants from Oklahoma views himself as a cheerleader during tough times.
Haggard will play his first concerts in a little over two months on Friday and Saturday in his central California hometown of Bakersfield.
They will be the first shows of his life where he has not loosened up before with either tobacco or marijuana, he said. "So it's gonna be interesting as to what kind of a show comes out of this body that's used to performing the other way."
Haggard, who once derided pot-smoking hippies in his 1969 hit "Okie From Muskogee," got hooked on marijuana after a doctor said it was a good substitute for his Valium habit.
A letter from Oprah Winfrey last week seemed like the world's best Christmas present - until teacher Ron Clark noticed an extra piece of paper flutter out of the envelope.
That's when the Atlanta educator saw the $365,000 check for the innovative private school he opened in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods in 2007. It was, quite literally, an answer to a prayer.
"We teach school all day and fundraise at night," said Clark, who finds private donors to pay most of the $14,000 annual tuition for each student. "To have an unsolicited gift come like that is incredible."
The donation, which likely will go to scholarships for students, would pay for 26 children to attend the school for one year.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will get to keep historic instruments from Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash and Mother Maybelle Carter pledged by a man who committed suicide after being accused of defrauding millions from investors.
The settlement between the Country Music Foundation, which operates the museum, and the trustee handling the bankruptcy for Bob McLean was filed Tuesday in bankruptcy court in Nashville. It requires the museum to pay $750,000 to McLean's bankruptcy estate to help pay back his creditors.
McLean, an investor from Murfreesboro, was accused of swindling victims of more than $67 million in a Ponzi scheme. He committed suicide last year after investors filed an involuntary bankruptcy suit against him.
McLean donated two Johnny Cash guitars to the museum, each valued last year at $125,000, and pledged money that allowed the museum to enter confidential purchase agreements for the other instruments: Monroe's 1923 Gibson mandolin, once priced at $1.1 million, and Carter's 1928 Gibson guitar, once priced at $575,000.
Artists perform "Brij Ki Holi", a folk dance, during the ten-day long Gandhi Shilp fair in the northern Indian city of Allahabad December 31, 2008.
Photo by Jitendra Prakash
Some women in Naples said they won't make love if their men shoot off dangerous fireworks on New Year's Eve. "Se Spari, Niente Sesso" (If you shoot, no sex), as the reported group calls itself, claims to have signed up hundreds of women in the Naples area to combat celebrations that injure or maim hundreds each year.
Carolina Staiano, a mother of two, was quoted in La Stampa daily on Wednesday as saying she was inspired to create the group because her father was partially paralyzed in a fireworks accident.
Setting off fireworks, often homemade or illegally imported, remains popular in Italy and especially in Naples, even though accidents are frequent and sometimes deadly.
Staiano said that "there are other ways to celebrate." And if men don't get the message, women should "send them to sleep on the couch."
The half brother of comedian Dane Cook has pleaded not guilty to embezzling millions from the comedian and ordered held on $3 million bail.
Darryl McCauley was arraigned Wednesday at Woburn District Court on charges including forgery and larceny. Prosecutors alleged that McCauley, 43, stole the money from Cook while being paid $12,500 a month to act as Cook's business manager as part of his company, Great Dane Enterprises, Inc.
Judge Joseph Jennings ordered McCauley to document the source of any funds used to meet his bail.
Prosecutors accused McCauley of transferring funds from Cook's business accounts to his personal accounts between July 2007 and December 2008. In one instance, McCauley forged a $3 million check written from Cook's account to himself, investigators said.
A pyrotechnician loads mortars for the New Year's Eve celebrations in Berlin, December 31, 2008. Berlin expects one million visitors for its spectacular New Year's Eve party between the Brandenburg Gate and the Sigessaeule.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
Actor Matt Dillon was charged with driving at an excessive speed for allegedly going 106 mph on an interstate highway, Vermont State Police said. Dillon, 44, of New York, was pulled over by a trooper on Interstate 91 in Newbury about 10 p.m. EST Tuesday. He was driving a rented 2009 Chevrolet Impala. The posted speed limit is 65 mph, so Dillon was charged criminally under a statute that bans going more than 30 mph above the limit while traveling 60 mph or more.
He is scheduled to appear in Vermont District Court on Jan. 21. If convicted, he could get three months in jail and be fined $300.
"We're trying to treat him no different than we would anyone else," said Sgt. Tara Thomas, a State Police spokeswoman.
Charles Barkley was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol early Wednesday.
An officer with a task force that targets drunken driving saw the former NBA star run a stop sign about 1:30 a.m., Gilbert police Lt. Eric Shuhandler said. Barkley was in Scottsdale's Old Town area, a trendy spot in the Phoenix area.
The 45-year-old Barkley, now an NBA television commentator, failed field sobriety tests after the officer smelled alcohol on him, and he was arrested. Barkley declined to submit to a breath test but was given a blood test. The results weren't immediately available.
Barkley was cited and released. His car was impounded and he left in a cab, Shuhandler said. Police described Barkley as cooperative, adding it is customary to release people after an arrest on suspicion of DUI.
Irish-American dance master Michael Flatley is back on stage after years of suffering from a "mystery virus," thanks to a treatment by an Irish "energy healer," Irish media quoted Flatley as saying Wednesday.
Flatley, born in the United States in 1958 of Irish heritage, rose to fame as a member of the "Riverdance" troupe that helped propel Irish dancing into the global spotlight and later opened his own "Lord of the Dance" show.
"Conventional medicine failed to cure me from my mystery virus," Flatley told the Irish Independent newspaper.
"And then, by chance, I met a young man from Ireland called Michael O'Doherty who works on the body's energy," Flatley said.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Dec. 22-28. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:
1. NFL Football: Green Bay vs. Chicago (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 9.58 million homes, 13.8 million viewers.
2. College Football: Wisconsin vs. Florida St. (Saturday, 4:30 p.m.), ESPN, 5.09 million homes, 7.09 million viewers.
3. College Football: Miami vs. California (Saturday, 8 p.m.), ESPN, 4.53 million homes, 6.5 million viewers.
4. "College Gameday Scoreboard" (Saturday, 4:11 p.m.), ESPN, 4.45 million homes, 5.8 million viewers.
5. College Football: West Virginia vs. North Carolina (Saturday, 12:55 p.m.), ESPN, 4.41 million homes, 5.88 million viewers.
6. "College Gameday Scoreboard" (Saturday, 7:49 p.m.), ESPN, 3.96 million homes, 5.67 million viewers.
7. College Football: Boise St. vs. TCU (Tuesday, 7:55 p.m.), ESPN, 3.66 million homes, 5.06 million viewers.
8. "NCIS" (Saturday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.43 million homes, 4.78 million viewers.
9. "NCIS" (Saturday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.35 million homes, 4.73 million viewers.
10. "NCIS" (Saturday, 11 p.m.), USA, 3.32 million homes, 4.51 million viewers.
11. "NCIS" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), USA, 3.22 million homes, 4.55 million viewers.
12. "NCIS" (Saturday, 5 p.m.), USA, 3.205 million homes, 4.2 million viewers.
13. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.203 million homes, 4.88 million viewers.
14. "House" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.02 million homes, 4.1 million viewers.
15. "NCIS" (Saturday, 4 p.m.), USA, 3.01 million homes, 3.88 million viewers.
In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Shelby, a three-year old female snow leopard reclines in the freshly snow covered greenery at the Bronx Zoo's Himalayan Highlands exhibit, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008 in New York. Forecasters are calling for snow and brutally cold temperatures as a cold front whips into New York City on the last day of 2008. Shelby's apparent confront is a stark contrast to that of the New Year's Eve revelers across town as they brave high winds and falling temperatures later in the evening on New York City's Times Square.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
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