Jim Hightower: Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy
Four whiney GOP congressional leaders - John Boehner and Eric Cantor in the House, Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl in the Senate - insist that it'd be the height of irresponsibility to raise America's debt ceiling without first slashing spending on programs for the poor and middle class, while simultaneously protecting Big Oil and hedge fund billionaires from any increase in the paltry tax rates they pay.
Stanley Fish: Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure (New York Times)
What Riley does is take the standard rationale for academic freedom seriously and then argue that the ascendancy of vocationalism, in combination with other factors she names, undermines that rationale and leaves very few college teachers in need of, or deserving of, academic freedom.
Norman Lebrecht: How Harry Saved Reading (Wall Street Journal)
What J.K. Rowling achieved-long before her work was adapted into films-was a children-led read-in that crossed all age barriers, uniting families in a fireside act of sharing an unfolding story.
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 smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard Bflat trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either Bflat or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the Bflat piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard Bflat trumpet. Piccolo trumpets in G, F, and even high C are also manufactured, but are rarer.
The soprano trumpet in D is also known as the Bach trumpet and was invented in about 1890 by the Belgian instrument maker Victor Mahillon to play the high trumpet parts in music by Bach and Handel.
The piccolo trumpet solo in The Beatles' "Penny Lane", which introduced the instrument to pop music, was played by David Mason. Paul McCartney was dissatisfied with the initial attempts at the song's instrumental fill (one of which is released on Anthology 2), and was inspired to use the instrument after hearing Mason's performance in a BBC radio broadcast of the second Brandenburg Concerto and asking George Martin what the "tremendously high" trumpet was. Eventually Mason recorded the solo using a piccolo trumpet in A.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Piccolo Trumpet
mj wrote:
While there is much in the world
About which to be brassed off, I'm going to remain calm and guess coronet.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The trumpet is the smallest instrument in the standard brass family and
the highest in pitch
Marian said:
trumpet
Charlie responded:
The piccolo trumpet.
Adam answered:
The smallest trumpets are referred to as piccolo trumpets. The most common of these are built to play in both B? and A, with separate leadpipes for each key. The tubing in the B? piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B? trumpet. Piccolo trumpets in G, F and C are also manufactured, but are rarer. Many players use a smaller mouthpiece on the piccolo trumpet, which requires a different sound production technique from the B? trumpet and can limit endurance. Almost all piccolo trumpets have four valves instead of the usual three - the fourth valve lowers the pitch, usually by a fourth, to assist in the playing of lower notes and to create alternate fingerings that facilitate certain trills. Maurice André, Hĺkan Hardenberger, David Mason, and Wynton Marsalis are some well-known piccolo trumpet players.
bebo responded:
kazoo.
Sally said:
I think that the piccolo trumpet is the smallest instrument in the trumpet family.
Yeah, that looks pretty small to me!
PS: I am really bummed today.
I just watched a police report on TV (interrupted "the View") on a little 9 year old boy (same age as my gd, Jessie) who has been missing, and has been found - dead, chopped up and in the freezer of a custodian. Don't know if he worked for that day camp, but my gks go to a camp affiliated with the one that little boy attended! He was a little Lubavitch Jewish child, they are a sect (the men with the long side curls) and the child lived in a enclave of Jews in Brooklyn (the most densely populated of all the 5 boroughs in NY).
My God, he chopped the child in pieces - who in his/her right mind would do that?? I feel so bad, especially for the parents. Too close to home I guess...
MAG in TN responded::
I'm guessing the piccolo trumpet.
And, Joe S responded:
Ok, I played hooky yesterday. I didn't want to participate, I wanted a day off. I had the answer all ready (in my mind). Both answers, the right one and the "comic relief." I even had graphics ready, young ladies playing instruments without their vests (in my mind). I wanted to take the day off, ok? Sally already chastised me for it.
Ok, I'm going with the soprano cornet. That's my final answer. And no pictures. I know a story about a bull and a bugle though, maybe I'll tell it sometime.
Climate change is impacting some of the major national parks in the Great Lakes region, according to a report released today.
Michigan destinations such as Sleeping Bear Dunes, Pictured Rocks (Both National Lakeshore Parks) and Isle Royale National Park were among the five parks studied in a report that targets global warming as the cause of a host of negative impacts on the parks. Those include:
- Birds dropping dead at Sleeping Bear Dunes due to outbreaks of botulism.
- Declining moose population on Isle Royale in Lake Superior.
- Temperature changes allowing Lyme disease-carrying ticks to show up for the first time on Isle Royale.
- The deterioration of shorelines at each park resulting from decreased winter ice.
The study was put together by the conservation groups Natural Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization...
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'Rules Of Engagement', then a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Kyra Sedgwick, Tim Harmston, a Top Ten List presented by Chris Evans, and Nikki Jean.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Zooey Deschanel and Jim Cummings.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'Community', followed by a RERUN'Parks & Recreation', then a RERUN'The Office', followed by a RERUN'30 Rock', then a FRESH'Love Bites'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Don Rickles, Bristol Palin, and Colbie Caillat.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Bob Saget, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and James Blake.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/4/11) are Josh Radnor, Brothers Strause, and Cee-Lo Green.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Expedition Impossible', then a FRESH'Rookie Blue'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/27/11) are Louis C.K., "Bachelorette" Ashley Hebert, Missy Peregrym, and Steel Magnolia
The CW offers a RERUN'Vampire Diaries', followed by a RERUN'Nikita'.
Faux has a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance', followed by a RERUN'Glee'.
MY recycles an old 'Without A Trace', followed by another old 'Without A Trace'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'The First 48: Missing Persons'.
AMC offers the movie 'Batman', followed by the movie 'Kill Bill: Vol 1', then the movie 'Kill Bill: Vol. 2'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Robert Downey Jr., Ed Byrne, Will Young
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 3 Moore Place
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo
[12:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 6
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Ruby Tates
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 11 Cafe 36
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 24 The Next Phase
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 4 The Girl In The Fireplace
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
[3:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 11 Excelsis Dei
[4:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 12 Aubrey
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', still another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'South Park', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', followed by a FRESH'Futurama', then a FRESH'Ugly Americans'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jose Antonio Vargas.
FX has the movie 'Mission Impossible II', '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', still another '2½ Men', yet another '2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'Wilfred', then a FRESH'Louie'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', and 'Ancient Aliens'.
SyFy has the movie 'Dawn Of The Dead', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Ultimatum'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 4/19/11) are Tina Fey, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Plan B.
On a RERUNLopez Tonight (from 6/15/11) are Cee-Lo Green, J.J. Abrams, Brandon Scott Wolf, and MC Lyte.
John Fogerty performs at the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. The Ottawa Bluesfest is ranked as one of the most successful music events in North America.
Photo by Patrick Doyle
Some of the first gay marriages in New York will literally be a theatrical event.
The Broadway theater where "Hair" is being performed this summer will be the stage where some same-sex couples will be married on July 25, the day after gay marriage becomes legal in the state.
Rory O'Malley, a star of "The Book of Mormon" and a co-founder of the gay-rights group Broadway Impact, said several gay couples from the Broadway community will be married on stage right after that evening's performance of "Hair."
"It's not just a summer of love," he said at a press conference Wednesday in front of the St. James Theater, where the touring revival of the hippie musical has landed. "It's a summer of equality."
Other theater celebrities on hand for the announcement included Joel Grey from "Anything Goes," the cast of "Hair" and Will Swenson from "Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Musical."
Marianne Faithfull performs at the 44th Festival d'ete de Quebec on the Parc de la Francophonie in Quebec City, Tuesday, July 12, 2011. The Festival d'ete de Quebec is Canada's largest music festival with more than 1000 artists and close to 400 shows over 11 days.
Photo by Francis Vachon
Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis joined Senator Kay Hagan and Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to introduce a bill that would support efforts to improve the image of girls and women in the media.
"I am proud to join with Sen. Hagan and Rep. Baldwin to promote gender equality and positive portrayals of women and girls in the media," Davis said in a statement. "What children see affects their attitudes toward male and female roles and impacts the value they place on girls and women in society. The Healthy Media for Youth Act will help ensure we are creating a positive media environment for all our children."
The legislation would provide grants to encourage and support media literacy programs and youth empowerment groups, facilitate research on how depictions of women and girls in the media affect youth.
It also would establish a National Taskforce on Women and Girls in the Media, intended to develop voluntary standards that promote healthy, balanced, and positive images of girls and women in the media.
A German university says recently released Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has accepted an offer to join the Berlin institution as a visiting lecturer.
Berlin's University of Arts said Wednesday it was unclear when Ai will be able to start in his new position due to his legal troubles in China.
University president Martin Rennert says he hopes Ai will be able to join "in the near future."
The university first published the offer - in the works since December - following Ai's arrest on tax fraud charges in April. He was released June 22, but Chinese authorities say he is still under investigation for at least a year.
It seems so familiar to us now - puppet characters on television that are so real, so expressive, so alive that we forget there's a human being doing the actual work behind the scenes.
There's a reason that's so familiar, the organizers of an exhibit opening this weekend in New York say: Jim Henson.
The master puppeteer and media innovator behind pop culture icons such as Kermit the Frog and Big Bird was a creative thinker who understood the opportunities that television and technology presented, said Karen Falk, archivist for The Jim Henson Company and curator of "Jim Henson's Fantastic World."
The touring exhibit opening Saturday is making its last stop of a multi-year trip at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, where it will be on display into January. It's fitting that the final stop is in New York - the museum is near Kaufman Astoria Studios, where Sesame Street is taped. Henson's puppet creations including Big Bird and Bert and Ernie have been a vital part of what has made the children's show a global success for decades.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is surrounded by members of the media as he arrives in Britain's Royal Courts of Justice for his extradition appeal in central London, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Assange is fighting extradition to Sweden on the grounds that the allegations of sexual misconduct laid against him there don't amount to a crime. Assange's repeated disclosures of classified U.S. documents have infuriated the Pentagon and energized critics of American foreign policy, but allegations that the 40-year-old Australian molested two women during a trip to Scandinavia last year have tarnished his reputation and cast a shadow over his future.
Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis
TV Police drama "Rookie Blue" has received an early renewal for a third season from ABC after airing just three episodes of its second season, the network announced on Wednesday.
The series, which stars Missy Peregrym, Gregory Smith, Charlotte Sullivan and Enuka Okuma, has been a solid ratings earner for ABC, ranking first in its Thursday at 10 p.m. time slot in the adults 18-49 viewer group so far this summer.
The move to that time slot from its previous 9 p.m. spot provided a boost to ABC, leading to an 8 percent increase in total viewers and a 14 percent climb among adults 18 to 49-years-old in that hour over the network's summer 2010 averages.
The third season will begin production in Toronto later this summer.
All six fake Democrats lost to Democrats supported by the party in primaries Tuesday that are the first in a series of recall elections targeting nine Wisconsin state senators for their positions on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's divisive union rights restrictions.
The winners advance to take on incumbent Republicans targeted for recall on Aug. 9.
The state Republican Party orchestrated the placement of the fake Democrats on Tuesday's ballot, thereby delaying the general election for a month. That gave the Republican incumbents more time to campaign and distance themselves from the turmoil over the union law that they voted to support in March, spurring the recall efforts.
Five of the six winners had at least 65 percent of the vote, based on unofficial results. The sixth, Shelly Moore, had 54 percent.
In this picture taken Tuesday July 12, 2011, British Singer Joe Cocker performs during the Moon and Stars Festival on the Piazza Grande in Locarno, Switzerland.
Photo by Karl Mathis
Rupert Murdoch's dream of controlling a British broadcasting behemoth evaporated Wednesday as he withdrew his bid for BSkyB - the latest, biggest casualty of what Prime Minister David Cameron called the hacking "firestorm" sweeping through British politics, media and police.
Cameron appointed a senior judge to lead an inquiry into the phone hacking and police bribery scandal engulfing Murdoch's British newspapers, and promised it would investigate whether Murdoch's reporters sought the phone numbers of 9/11 victims in their quest for sensational scoops.
As lawmakers from all the country's main parties united to demand that Murdoch's News Corp. withdraw its bid for British Sky Broadcasting, the media magnate bowed to the inevitable, accepting that he could not win government approval for the multibillion dollar takeover.
Murdoch had hoped to gain control of the 61 percent of BSkyB shares that he doesn't already own. The takeover - potentially his biggest, most lucrative acquisition - appeared certain to succeed just over a week ago, despite concerns about the size of Murdoch's hefty share of the British media market.
Actress Paz de la Huerta is set to admit she threatened to hit a former reality TV figure in a trendy hotel bar, a person familiar with the case said Wednesday.
The "Boardwalk Empire" actress will plead guilty Thursday to harassment in her March encounter with Samantha Swetra, who appeared on the MTV reality series "The City," the person said. Harassment is a violation, not a crime.
De la Huerta's punishment will entail a fine and a day of community service, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans in advance of Thursday's court date.
De la Huerta's lawyer, Jamel Oeser-Sweat, says he's working with prosecutors toward a plea deal and expects some movement on the case Thursday. Prosecutors declined to comment.
De la Huerta, 26, was charged with assault and other offenses after authorities said she punched Swetra in the face, gave her a bloody nose and hurled a glass that cut Swetra's leg at the swanky Standard Hotel. De la Huerta also lashed out at Swetra with words, telling police she herself was "a real actress" and Swetra "a publicity-seeker, a fake actress," according to a court complaint.
Julia Landrey, right, and Matt Cornell perform their aerial acrobatics in a dress rehearsal for their part of the Underbelly Arts Festival at a disused industrial site on Cockatoo Island in Sydney, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. The one-day festival with 150 local and international artists is set for Saturday.
Photo by Rick Rycroft
District of Columbia officers who gave a police escort with sirens and flashing lights to actor Charlie Sheen from a northern Virginia airport to a city performance did not violate department policies, according to a new report that calls such escorts a routine and accepted practice.
The 82-page report issued this week by the city's Office of Inspector General appears to conflict with statements from Police Chief Cathy Lanier, who has said the April 19 escort from Dulles International Airport to DAR Constitution Hall broke with police protocol.
The ride given to Sheen, which attracted attention after the fired "Two and a Half Men" actor wrote about it on his Twitter account, led to dueling accounts from the chief and department members about whether escorts for celebrities and non-dignitaries were standard practice in the agency. Besides the inspector general's review, the police department has been conducting an internal affairs investigation into celebrity escorts and the D.C. Council heard testimony last month from Lanier and the special operations division commander, among others.
The report concludes that the "approval and performance of the Sheen escort was not extraordinary," though it does say the officers should have coordinated with police in Virginia - where the airport is based.
A Wyoming foundation named for the woman who was the first to vote there is honoring Lynne Cheney, the wife of former Vice President Dick "5-Deferments" Cheney (R-Chickenhawk).
Cheney is scheduled to receive the Louisa Swain Award Wednesday evening in Jackson. Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is among those expected to attend the ceremony.
The award is the second given by the foundation named for Louisa Swain. She was the first woman to cast her ballot in 1870 in Laramie after women were given the right to vote in Wyoming Territory.
The first Louisa Swain Award was given to former Wyoming first lady Jane Sullivan.
A 'Kilikis' member of the 'Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos', or Parade of the Giants and Big Heads, looks out through his mask while hiding from a rain storm at the San Fermin festival on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, in Pamplona, Spain.
Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of July 4-10. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:
1. "HLN Local Edition" (Tuesday, 2:24 p.m.), HLN, 3.9 million homes, 4.87 million viewers.
2. Movie: "A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.79 million homes, 5.82 million viewers.
3. "Morning Express" (Monday, 11 a.m.), HLN, 3.78 million homes, 5.02 million viewers.
4. "Royal Pains" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.73 million homes, 5.01 million viewers.
5. "HLN News" (Tuesday, 2 p.m.), HLN, 3.62 million homes, 4.5 million viewers.
6. Auto Racing: Sprint Cup/Kentucky (Saturday, 7:29 p.m.), TNT, 3.51 million homes, 4.96 million viewers.
7. "Morning Express" (Monday, 10 a.m.), HLN, 3.5 million homes, 4.46 million viewers.
8. "Burn Notice" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.49 million homes, 4.88 million viewers.
9. "Covert Affairs" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.38 million homes, 4.8 million viewers.
10. Movie: "A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!" (Sunday, 11 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.34 million homes, 4.79 million viewers.
11. "Necessary Roughness" (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.336 million homes, 4.41 million viewers.
11. "True Blood" (Sunday, 9:03 p.m.), HBO, 3.336 million homes, 5.04 million viewers.
13. "HLN News" (Tuesday, 3 p.m.), HLN, 3.31 million homes, 4.02 million viewers.
14. "Suits" (Thursday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.239 million homes, 4.52 million viewers.
15. "HLN Local Edition" (Tuesday, 3:24 p.m.), 3.238 million homes, 3.84 million viewers.
This image provided by the San Diego Zoo shows a Somali wild ass and her foal running through their exhibit on Tuesday July 12, 2011 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The foal is one of three born to this endangered species at the park in July 2011, which brings the size of the herd to seven. The park has celebrated 42 successful births since it started breeding the Somali wild ass in 1985.
Photo by Tammi Spratt
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