Al Gore: The case for optimism on climate change (TED Talk)
Al Gore has three questions about climate change and our future. First: Do we have to change? Each day, global-warming pollution traps as much heat energy as would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs. This trapped heat is leading to stronger storms and more extreme floods, he says: "Every night on the TV news now is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation." Second question: Can we change? We've already started. So then, the big question: Will we change? In this challenging, inspiring talk, Gore says yes.
The Academy Awards, or "Oscars", is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognise excellence in cinematic achievements in the film industry as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
The awards ceremony was first broadcast to radio in 1930 and televised in 1953. It is now seen live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Oscars is the oldest entertainment awards ceremony
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Alan J was first and correct with:
1953.
Randall wrote:
What a coincidence - the year of my own birth
1953
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
1953
Deborah replied:
March 19, 1953. I was curious enough to look it up.
Took a listing yesterday morning and wrote an offer for the same people in the afternoon. My business is peaking like the almond orchards. Whee!
Dale of Diamondy Springs, Norcali said:
1953
Here we go again with Hollywood's annual search for mediocrity! I only watch this show for malapropos and fuck-ups. Are we gonna pick winners this year? Saw most of the flicks this year. Not a real good crop to choose from.
Lois Of The Darkened Luminaries replied:
Ah, the Oscars! Hollywood's mastaburory frenzy, first aired on TV in 1953, before I was even a zygote, and slightly before the Entertainment Industry became indistinguishable from the Political Industry. In retrospect, Bob Hope really wasn't that funny.
MAM wrote:
1953 ~ They were also bi-coastal (!!!) with Bob Hope entertaining in LA and the great Fredric March working the crowd in New York.
1953 ~ John Wayne accepts the Best Director Oscar on behalf of an absent John Ford during the 25th Academy Awards. It was the first year the ceremony was televised!
Patriot Act NSA Spying Unconstitutional Section 215 National Security Letters Must End
My name is Marc Perkel and I have decided to announce that I will not comply with the so called "Patriot Act" laws requiring me to disclose information about my customers. If I receive a national security letter I will immediately photograph it, post it online everywhere I can, and then make a video of me burning it. I will then await my arrest. If you want to put me in jail then come get me mother fucker.
Without winter, it's now flea-season year round. Ack.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'Life In Pieces', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'2 Broke Girls', then a FRESH'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Tim Daly, Krysten Ritter, and Jason Isbell.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Casey Affleck and Lucy Hale.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'You, Me & The Apocalypse', followed by a FRESH'The Blacklist', then a FRESH'Shades Of Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Gerard Butler, Jenny Slate, and the 1975.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Angela Bassett and MisterWives.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Heartless Bastards, and Teachers.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a FRESH'Scandal', then a FRESH'How To Get Away With Murder'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kelly Ripa, Billy Brown, and Tinashe & Snakehips featuring Chance the Rapper.
The CW offers a FRESH'DC's Legends Of Tomorrow', followed by a FRESH'The 100'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'American Idol'.
MY has 'TMZ (Not So) Live', followed by 'Hollywood Today (Not So) Live'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48: The Detective Speaks', then another FRESH'The First 48: The Detective Speaks'.
AMC offers the movie 'Enemy Of The State', followed by the movie 'The Patriot'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 16-Galaxy's Child
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 17-Night Terrors
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 10-Park's Edge
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 11-Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 2-The Beast Below
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 3-Victory of the Daleks
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 25-Transfigurations
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 26-The Best of Both Worlds (Part 1)
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 5
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 6
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 7
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 8
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR: THE WORST CAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
[7:30PM] RONIN
[10:00PM] PREY - SEASON 1 - Episode 1
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 5
[12:00AM] THE PROFESSIONAL
[2:30AM] RONIN
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 22 - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', followed by a FRESH'Top Chef', then a FRESH"Recipe For Deception', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', another 'South Park', 2 hours of old 'Tosh.0', followed by a (F) 'Workaholics', then a (F) 'Idiotsitter'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Michael Hayden.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore is Tom Papa.
Scheduled on a FRESH@Midnight are Theo Von, Tiffany Haddish, and Andrew Santino.
FX has the movie 'The Internship', followed by the movie 'The Hangover Part II', then a FRESH'Baskets', followed by another 'Baskets'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Join Or Die With Craig Ferguson', another 'Join Or Die With Craig Ferguson', 'Vikings', followed by a FRESH'Vikings', then a FRESH'Join Or Die With Craig Ferguson', followed by another FRESH'Join Or Die With Craig Ferguson'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] PORTLANDIA-Shville
[6:30AM] PORTLANDIA-Weirdo Beach
[7:00AM] PORTLANDIA-Breaking Up
[7:30AM] STUCK ON YOU
[10:00AM] GET SMART
[12:30PM] ANIMAL HOUSE
[3:00PM] GHOSTBUSTERS
[5:15PM] GHOSTBUSTERS II
[7:45PM] PAUL
[10:00PM] PORTLANDIA-TADA
[10:30PM] PAUL
[12:45AM] PORTLANDIA-The Celery Incident
[1:00AM] PORTLANDIA-TADA
[1:30AM] ANIMAL HOUSE
[4:00AM] PEEP WORLD
[5:45AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-Eddie George (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-House of Cards
[6:30AM] Rescue Dawn
[9:30AM] The Karate Kid
[12:30PM] The Karate Kid Part II
[3:00PM] Law & Order-Charm City
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Custody
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Encore
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Savior
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Deceit
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Atonement
[9:00PM] Law & Order-Slave
[10:00PM] Law & Order-Girlfriends
[11:00PM] Law & Order-Pro Se
[12:00AM] Law & Order-Homesick
[1:00AM] Law & Order-Aftershock
[2:00AM] The Karate Kid
[5:00AM] The Art of Getting By (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Mummy', followed by the movie 'The Mummy Returns'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Kate Hudson, Robert Patrick, and Lake Street Dive.
An Australian telescope used to broadcast live vision of man's first steps on the moon in 1969 has found hundreds of new galaxies hidden behind the Milky Way by using an innovative receiver that measures radio waves.
Scientists at the Parkes telescope, 355 km (220 miles) west of Sydney, said they had detected 883 galaxies, a third of which had never been seen before. The findings were reported in the latest issue of Astronomical Journal under the title 'The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey'.
"Hundreds of new galaxies were discovered, using the same telescope that was used to broadcast the TV pictures from Apollo 11," said Lister Staveley-Smith, a professor at the University of Western Australia's International Center for Radio Astronomy Research.
"The electronic technology at the back end is substantially different and that is why we can still keep using these old telescopes," he said.
Fish and other important resources are moving toward Earth's poles as the climate warms, and wealth is moving with them, according to a new paper by scientists at Rutgers, Princeton, Yale, and Arizona State universities.
Climate change is forcing some species of migrating fish to shift their range toward the poles, which means big changes for people whose livelihoods depend on those fish.
"What we find is that natural resources like fish are being pushed around by climate change, and that changes who gets access to them," said Malin Pinsky, professor of ecology & evolution in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
The stronger and more conservation-oriented the natural resource management in a community, the higher the value that community places on its natural resources, whether those resources are increasing or diminishing, Pinsky reports. If wealthier communities and countries are more likely to have strong resource management, then these wealthy groups are more likely to benefit, thus exacerbating inequality.
Pinsky his co-authors report that "inclusive wealth" -- not just fish, but plants and trees and other species important to human beings -- is shifting out of the temperate zones and toward the poles as global temperatures rise. Inclusive wealth is the sum of a community's capital assets, including natural assets like fish or trees, but also human health and education, as well as built assets like roads, buildings and factories. Because climate changes unevenly from place to place, natural assets migrate -- or reproduce -- unevenly.
It's been a busy morning for Cletus, Meynard, Victoria and others of their furry band. Tiny noses and long whiskers twitching, they've scurried and sniffed their way across 775 square meters (8,300 square feet) of fields to eliminate a scourge that has killed thousands of Cambodians: land mines.
Meet the Hero Rats: intelligent, surprisingly adorable creatures with some of the most sensitive noses in the animal kingdom. Sent from Africa, where they successfully cleared minefields in Mozambique and Angola, they began the same task in northwestern Cambodia early this month and have already scored tangible results.
Unlike standard mine detectors, the super-sniffers pick up only TNT and not other metal objects. And unlike wage-earning humans, the rats work for peanuts - and their other favorite, bananas.
Each rat can clear an area of 200 square meters (2,150 square feet) in 20 minutes, something a technician with a mine detector would take 1 to 4 days to complete. Their sense of smell is so keen that in Africa they are also used to detect tuberculosis in human sputum samples at a rate much faster than the standard laboratory method.
Move over, New York City: Beijing is the new "Billionaire Capital of the World."
The Chinese capital has overtaken the Big Apple as home to the most billionaires - 100 to 95 - according to Hurun, a Shanghai firm that publishes a monthly magazine and releases yearly rankings and research about the world's richest people and their spending habits.
The study, which comes months after reports suggested China now has more billionaires than the United States, highlights how China's elite are continuing to accrue vast wealth despite a wobbling stock market and cooling economy.
Beijing took the title from New York after minting 32 new billionaires last year, while New York gained four. Moscow came in third place, with 66 billionaires, while Hong Kong and Shanghai came in fourth and fifth with 64 and 50, respectively, Hurun said.
China's richest man, real estate tycoon Wang Jianlin, came in 21st place globally behind Wal-Mart scions, the Swedish family that owns Ikea and Brazilian investor Jorge Paulo Lemann. Other Chinese billionaires in the global top 100 included Alibaba founder Jack Ma, beverage magnate Zong Qinghou, and the tech bosses at phone maker Xiaomi, social media firm Tencent and Baidu, the search engine.
Amnesty International said the global situation for human rights deteriorated in 2015, with the systems designed to protect basic rights themselves under attack by governments.
In the group's annual report released Wednesday, researchers highlighted the situation in Syria as the world's most urgent crisis, particularly for refugees.
While Syria is at the forefront of the world's conflicts, Amnesty Secretary General Salil Shetty said there is a broader trend of deteriorating human rights.
"The U.N. Security Council and the so-called international community continue to watch helplessly as Syria faces a complete meltdown," he said. "But it's not just Syria. Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Burundi, North Korea are all in a precarious condition."
Fashion designer Pam Hogg (R) arrives with an unidentified guest for the BRIT Awards at the O2 arena in London, Britain, February 24, 2016.
Photo by Paul Hackett
Republican Ted Cruz asked a federal court in Houston to throw out a lawsuit questioning whether he is eligible to be president of the United States because he was born in Canada, saying the case against him "suffers from fatal deficiencies."
Lawyers for Cruz contend in the filing made on Monday that the U.S. senator from Texas meets the constitutional requirements to serve as president and that the Houston lawyer trying to have the court block his bid does not have standing to bring the case.
The lawsuit brought in January by Newton Schwartz, an 85-year-old self-described liberal, also cited Cruz's stance on issues such as abortion rights, gay marriage and the Bible in a 27-page argument against the senator's eligibility.
Billionaire Donald Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, has repeatedly questioned whether Cruz is eligible and warned that his winning the nomination could throw the party into chaos and hand the election to the Democrats.
A child tries to get the attention of the Berenson robot as it strolls among visitors during the exhibition "Persona : Oddly Human" at the Quai Branly museum in Paris, France, February 23, 2016. The Berenson robot, developed in France in 2011, is the brainchild of anthropologist Denis Vidal and robotics engineer Philippe Gaussier. Its programming allows it to record reactions of museum visitors to certain pieces of art and then use the data to develop its own unique taste, which allows "Berenson" to judge whether or not it likes a certain work of art within an exhibition.
Photo by Philippe Wojazer
Investigators say they noticed something strange when they began tracking food stamp transactions coming out of two small convenience stores in a polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border.
The volume of food stamp purchases was so large that it rivaled big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Costco.
They said they ultimately learned that residents were scanning their food stamp debit cards at the stores but getting no items in return, allowing leaders of the polygamous sect to funnel the money to front companies. The proceeds paid for a John Deere loader, a Ford truck and $17,000 in paper products, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Eleven people were charged with food stamp fraud and money laundering, including Lyle Jeffs and Seth Jeffs, top-ranking leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and brothers of imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs.
Lyle Jeffs runs the day-to-day operations in the polygamous community of Hildale, Utah, while Seth Jeffs leads a branch of the group in South Dakota. Their brother Warren Jeffs is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting girls he considered brides.
Holograms of protesters are shown on the screen during a holographic demonstration called 'ghost protest', demanding freedom of assembly and guarantee the right to peaceful assembly, in front of the Gwanghwamun, the main gate of the 14th-century Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea's well known landmarks, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Protesters appeared on a screen 10 meters long and 3 meters wide in a rally organized by Amnesty International Korea.
Photo by Lee Jin-man
Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million of damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company's talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades.
In a verdict announced late Monday night, jurors in the circuit court of St. Louis awarded the family of Jacqueline Fox $10 million of actual damages and $62 million of punitive damages, according to the family's lawyers and court records.
Johnson & Johnson faces claims that it, in an effort to boost sales, failed for decades to warn consumers that its talc-based products could cause cancer. About 1,000 cases have been filed in Missouri state court, and another 200 in New Jersey.
Fox, who lived in Birmingham, Alabama, claimed she used Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for feminine hygiene for more than 35 years before being diagnosed three years ago with ovarian cancer. She died in October at age 62.
Jurors found Johnson & Johnson liable for fraud, negligence and conspiracy, the family's lawyers said. Deliberations lasted four hours, following a three-week trial.
Miniature replica Oscar statuettes are shown for sale in a shop along Hollywood Boulevard as preparations continue for the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2016. The Oscars will be presented February 28, 2016.
Photo by Mike Blake
Antonin Scalia suffered from coronary artery disease, obesity and diabetes, among other ailments that probably contributed to the justice's sudden death, according to a letter from the Supreme Court's doctor.
Presidio County District Attorney Rod Ponton cited the letter Tuesday when he told The Associated Press there was nothing suspicious about the Feb. 13 death of the 79-year-old jurist. He said the long list of health problems made an autopsy unnecessary.
Ponton had a copy of the letter from Rear Adm. Brian P. Monahan, the attending physician for members of Congress and the Supreme Court. The letter was to Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who conducted a death inquiry by phone and certified Scalia's death.
In the letter, Monahan listed more than a half-dozen ailments, including sleep apnea, degenerative joint disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and high blood pressure. Scalia also was a smoker, the letter said.
A breathing apparatus was found on the night stand next to Scalia's bed when his body was found, but he was not hooked up to it and it was not turned on when he died, according to a Presidio County Sheriff's Office incident report obtained late Tuesday by The Washington Post.
A newborn baby hippo swims with its mother Maruska in their enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, Feb. 24, 2016. The baby was born on Jan. 28, and is yet to be named.
Photo by Petr David Josek
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