Paul Krugman: Hearsay Economics (New York Times)
And where do the reputable people get their information? Why, it's what they heard somebody in their circle say. It's hearsay economics all the way down.
Andrew Tobias: Small Government
We have a huge infrastructure deficit, millions unemployed, and interest rates so low we would be nuts not to borrow to put them to work repairing 150,000 bridges, modernizing 35,000 schools, weatherizing 80 million homes . . . and everything else that would make us more efficient, competitive, prosperous, healthy and secure. (Side-benefit: we'd jump start the economy, increase tax revenues, decrease safety-net payments, and lower the deficit.)
Susan Estrich: Puck (Creators Syndicate)
On the day I moved into my house, seven years ago almost to the day, Puck rang my doorbell. She welcomed me, told me how much she liked my house and that she had been living next door to it for 50 years, and how close she was to the seller (whom everyone else disparaged). She had just one favor to ask.
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Tootsie is a brand of chewy candy that has been manufactured in the United States since 1896. The manufacturer, Tootsie Roll Industries, is based in Chicago, Illinois.
It was the first penny candy to be individually wrapped.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Tootsie Roll
mj wrote:
guessing again (I prefer it to looking each answer up first)
Mary Jane's
Charlie replied:
Tootsie Rolls (first made in 1896).
Adam answered:
Chocolate Midges, or Tootsie Rolls
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
It was the tootsie roll!!
Sally said:
Remembering back, I think the first individually wrapped American penny candy to be sold was the Tootsie Roll!
I had a couple of these a way back when...
Who remembers have a nickel (or dime if rich) and going to the candy store, spending a half-hour choosing penny candy from the case? There would usually be a few of us, and the owner would set up bags and wait for us to pick and choose... That is a great memory for me...
Marian replied:
Tootsie Rolls
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
Tootsie Rolls were the first individually wrapped candies and have been manufactured in the United States since 1896. Much preferred the Pops myself.
MAM wrote:
Tootsie Rolls, in 1896 ~ Leo Hirshfield, an Austrian immigrant, opened a small candy shop in New York City, producing the first individually wrapped penny candy from a recipe he brought from Europe.
Tootsie Roll 1909
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And, Joe S answered:
TOOTSIE ROLLS!!! I LOVE TOOTSIE ROLLS!! The little ones, not the big ones.
And here's a penny candy song, one of my very favorites.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest', followed by a FRESH'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Grohl & the Sound City Players with Stevie Nicks.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are George Lopez and Sutton Foster.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Community', followed by a FRESH'Parks & Recreation', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by a FRESH'1600 Penn', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Jarod Miller, Colbie Caillat, and Gavin DeGraw.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Bruce Willis, Molly Shannon, and Trinidad James.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Anthony Anderson, Sam Sheridan, and Local Natives.
ABC starts the night with the SERIES PREMIERE'Zero Hour', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Scandal'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Rachel Weisz and Josh Groban.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a FRESH'Beauty & The Beast'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Glee'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', still another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'Comic Book Men', then a FRESH'Freakshow', followed by a FRESH'Immortalized', and 'Comic Book Men'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] CROCODILE: SMILING PREDATOR
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 11 - Ep 4 - Jessie J, Simon Amstell, Julie Walters, Didier Drogba
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Forest of the Dead
[11:00AM] PRIMEVAL - Season 4 - Episode 4
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Rococo
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 19 - Cooking for Special Occasions
[1:30PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 20 - Special Salads
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Ruby Tates
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Capri
[4:00PM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 2 - Episode 2
[5:00PM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 2 - Episode 3
[6:00PM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 2 - Episode 4
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 4 - Caves
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 5 - Deserts
[9:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Giant Centipede
[10:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 6 - Ice Worlds
[11:00PM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 5 - Deserts
[12:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Giant Centipede
[1:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 4 - Caves
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 6 - Ice Worlds
[3:00AM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 2 - Episode 4
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 4 - Caves
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Ep 5 - Deserts (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Watch What Happens: Live''Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'Kathy'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', and another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Susan Rice.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Gavin Newsom.
FX has the movie 'The Other Guys', 'Anger Management', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', then a FRESH'Archer', followed by a FRESH'Legit', then a FRESH'Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell', followed by a FRESH'BrandX With Russell Brand'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', then a FRESH'Big Rig Bounty Hunters'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Portlandia-Cops Redesign
[6:45AM] Nuns on the Run
[8:45AM] Doghouse
[10:45AM] Lethal Weapon 3
[1:15PM] Lethal Weapon 4
[4:00PM] Nuns on the Run
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Burning Man
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Health Insurance
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Reese vs. Stevie
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Halloween
[8:00PM] Batman
[10:45PM] Batman & Robin
[1:30AM] Batman
[4:15AM] Portlandia-Grover
[4:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:00AM] Undeclared-Hal and Hillary
[5:30AM] Undeclared-Eric's POV (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Guns and Gossip (Episode 3, Season 1)
[7:00A] Mammoth
[9:15A] Secret Sunshine
[11:45A] L'amour Fou
[1:30P] Mammoth
[3:45P] Secret Sunshine
[6:15P] An American Haunting
[7:45P] The Crucible
[1:30A] Weekend
[3:15A] Cass
[5:10A] Teleglobal Dreamin'
[5:30A] ICONOCLASTS - Jamie Oliver + Paul Smith (Episode 5, Season 6) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Frank Miller's Sin City', followed by the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Dr. Phil McGraw, Julianne Hough, and the Vaccines.
Actress Daryl Hannah is arrested outside the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, as prominent environmental leaders tied themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline..
Photo by Ann Heisenfelt
The high school in Pete Seeger's upstate New York hometown has named its theater after the 93-year-old folk singer and his wife.
A ceremony held Tuesday night unveiled a bronze plaque outside the theater at Beacon High School in Dutchess County. The plaque identifies the venue as "The Seeger Theatre" and is adorned with an engraving of a banjo, Seeger's signature instrument.
The Poughkeepsie Journal reports that the school board voted in October to name the theater after Seeger and his wife of nearly 70 years, Toshi. The couple has lived in Beacon for decades and the folk singer helps out local students.
After the dedication ceremony, students performed a musical tribute to the couple, including such Seeger classics as "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "If I Had a Hammer."
Guest of honor, actor Dustin Hoffman and actress Kathy Griffin are seen at AARP The Magazine's Movies For Grownups Awards on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.
Photo by Vince Bucci
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stopped by "Sesame Street" this week to help out with a vocabulary lesson. The "Lincoln" star paired up with fuzzy and huggable monster Murray to teach viewers about the meaning of "reinforce." He even consented to use his watch as a prop while Murray deployed a hammer.
On the scale of Gordon-Levitt's acting challenges, it may not rank alongside his gay hustler in "Mysterious Skin" or a time-traveling hit man in "Looper," but he gets points for being such an enthusiastic English teacher.
Gordon-Levitt next stars as a porn addicted lothario in "Don Jon's Addiction," which marks his directorial debut. Hopefully, it will not share much of a crossover audience with "Sesame Street."
Nora Ephron helped craft the modern romantic comedy, leaving an indelible mark on the genre by chronicling love-lorn, mildly neurotic urbanites in hits like "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle."
The director and screenwriter was hailed as a latter-day Ernst Lubitsch for her sparkling dialogue when she died last June after battling cancer. Now the Writers Guild of America, East will add its own tribute.
The guild will honor Ephron, a member of its union, at its 2013 awards ceremony February 17 in New York City.
In addition to her films, Ephron was a journalist and memoirist. Her novel "Heartburn" was a thinly disguised roman a clef about the dissolution of her marriage to reporter Carl Bernstein; her play, "Lucky Guy," stars actor Tom Hanks and debuts on Broadway in March 2013.
Ephron received the union's Ian McClellan Hunter Award honoring her body of work as a writer in motion pictures in 2003.
Actor Christopher Lee arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the movie "Night Train to Lisbon" at the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 13, 2013.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
Steve Martin is a new dad - and also darned good at keeping a secret.
The 67-year-old actor, writer, comic and banjo player welcomed his first child with wife Anne Stringfield, 41, his rep confirmed to People on Wednesday, providing no other details.
But don't go thinking that the child - gender unknown to the public - is an Aquarius. According to the New York Post's Page Six, which first broke the news, the wee one was born way back in December.
The couple has apparently been spotted out with the child near their L.A. home.
The sight of the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director is improving after an operation in Germany to save his vision following an acid attack, Russia's chief ophthalmologist said on Wednesday.
The January 17 assault put the spotlight on the bitter rivalries at the Bolshoi, one of the world's leading theatres, and in the fiercely competitive world of ballet.
Sergei Filin, 42, underwent several operations in Moscow before flying to Germany last week for more treatment after sulphuric acid was thrown in his face by a masked attacker.
Police have not arrested anyone over the attack. Filin says he believes he knows who was behind it and has made clear that he thinks it was connected to his work, in which he has the power to make or break careers.
Lady Gaga has canceled the rest of her tour dates due to a hip injury.
A Wednesday news release from Live Nation Global Touring says Lady Gaga has a tear in her right hip that will require surgery to repair, followed by a recovery period.
The pop star had 21 dates through March 20 remaining on her "Born This Way Ball" tour schedule. She postponed four dates on Tuesday after telling fans in a tweet she'd hurt herself some time ago, but hid the injury from her staff. Over the last month, the injury became worse and she said she was unable to walk following a performance Monday in Montreal.
Fans who have already bought tickets will receive a refund.
U.S. actress Tatyana Ali (L) plays mas with her sisters Anastasia (C) and Kimberly with during their "Butterflies, Beasts & Bacchanal" presentation on the final day of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival at Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain February 12, 2013. Picture taken February 12, 2013.
Photo by Andrea De Silva
Fox News Channel is hiring former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown as a contributor, and the Republican is making his debut in prime time on Wednesday.
The network says Brown will offer commentary across several programs, starting with Sean Hannity on Wednesday. Brown lost his seat to Elizabeth Warren in November and declined to run in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by now-Secretary of State John Kerry.
Brown says he's looking forward to challenging elected officials to put the country's needs ahead of their partisan interests.
Children from Ciudad Caribia, dressed as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, parade during the Carnival festival in Caracas, February 12, 2013. The Chavez disguise is one of the most popular among children during the Carnival. President Chavez is still in Cuba recovering from cancer surgery and has not been seen in public since December 8 last year.
Photo by Jorge Silva
Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that new covers have been commissioned for U.S. trade paperback editions of J.K. Rowling's blockbuster series. The first new cover, for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," replaces Mary GrandPre's iconic sandy-colored design of Harry in flight with a purplish-blue street setting by graphic novelist Kazu Kibuishi. The GrandPre illustrations will still be used for hardcovers and mass market paperbacks.
The new edition of "Sorcerer's Stone" is scheduled for September, the 15th anniversary of Potter's debut in the U.S. The British editions are published by Bloomsbury. They have long had separate designs from the U.S. versions.
Newly initiated Sadhvis, or Hindu ascetic women of the Juna Akhara, return to their camp after attending Diksha, a ritual on the banks of the river Ganges, during the ongoing Kumbh Mela or Pitcher Festival in the northern Indian city of Allahabad February 13, 2013. During the festival, Hindus take part in a religious gathering on the banks of the river Ganges. The festival is held every 12 years in a temporary city covering an area larger than Athens, spread over a wide sandy river bank in Allahabad at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet a third mythical river.
Photo by Jitendra Prakash
The Library of Congress unveiled an extensive plan Wednesday to help libraries and archives nationwide preserve recorded sound to guard against losing historic recordings as has happened with those by George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland.
About 14,000 public and private institutions hold sound recordings, according to one survey. The plan carries 32 recommendations as a blueprint to coordinate their efforts and enlist commercial recording studios and private copyright holders in preservation efforts. Congress called for a plan in a 2000 law on preserving audio recordings.
The Library of Congress already saves some key historic recordings each year, but researchers say many others are being lost due to a lack of storage capacity, changing technology, inadequate funding and disparate copyright laws.
The library plan calls for the creation of a national directory of all sound collections; a national collections policy to preserve recordings, radio broadcasts and neglected audio formats; and the creation of new university degree programs in audio preservation.
Anna-Sofiya Matveeva is reflected in a mirror near a chewing gum portrait of head coach of Shakhtar Donetsk soccer club Mircea Lucescu (L) she is working on, in the town of Makiyivka in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, February 13, 2013. The creation depicting Shakhtar Donetsk's coach Mircea Lucescu should become the third one from the series, which also includes a completed portrait of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and partially finished chewing gum illustration of singer Elton John. The artist uses gums chewed by her acquaintances, as a creation usually requires from five hundred to one thousand chewed gums. Small pieces, donated by different people and making one portrait, symbolize contributions of multiple individuals to the formation of a celebrity, according to artist Matveeva.
Photo by Gleb Garanich
Norway is celebrating the 150th anniversary of expressionist painter Edvard Munch's birth with postage stamps of his most famous compositions, including "The Scream" - the world's most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.
Norway Post spokesman Hilde Ebeltoft-Skaugrud says that four stamps of Munch's works, including his 1895 classic "Madonna," and a miniature sheet will go on sale Friday.
Ebeltoft-Skaugard said Wednesday that "The Scream" had not been on stamps before because it hadn't become synonymous "40 or 50 years ago" with Munch as it has done today.
Munch, who died in 1944, painted four versions of "The Scream." The one used for the 20-kroner ($3.60) stamp is at the National Museum in Oslo.
This Feb. 8, 2013 photo shows the plaster cast worn and then painted by artist Frida Kahlo as she recovered from one of seven operations on her spine in 1950, part of the exhibition featuring the works of Kahlo and Diego Rivera, "Frida & Diego: Passion Politics and Painting", at the High Museum in Atlanta. The exhibit features more than 140 works, making it the largest exhibition of the couple's art ever displayed together. Atlanta's High will be the only U.S. venue for the exhibition, which opens Feb. 14 and runs through May 12.
Photo by David Goldman
After running 1,000 computers non-stop for 39 days to uncover the world's largest prime number yet, a Missouri college professor said this week he is starting all over to top his own record.
"It's a never-ending job," said Curtis Cooper, a computer science professor at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. The computers are still running, although finding a higher prime number is estimated to take five to seven more years. Thousands of other computers in the United States are making the same search.
Cooper said he has received calls and emails from around the world after Wednesday's announcement that he had identified the prime number - which is a number that can only be divided by itself and 1. For example, 4 is not a prime number because it can be divided by itself, 1 and 2. Prime numbers include 2, 3, 5, 7 and on up to the giant figure Cooper and his computers discovered, which has 17,425,170 digits.
The new number is 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, minus 1. A single campus computer, labeled #22, found the number on January 25, but it had to be verified by the prime number locator project known as GIMPS - the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.
The term "Mersenne" refers to the rarest prime numbers, only 48 in all, that have ever been discovered. GIMPS has discovered the last 14 of them.
An ice sculpture of a dinosaur is seen as ice carvers from China work ahead of the Ice Festival in Jerusalem February 13, 2013. Thirty-five artists and carvers from China are preparing dozens of ice sculptures for an International Ice Festival which opens in Jerusalem next week.
Photo by Ronen Zvulun
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