Timothy Spangler: A college degree is not the path to the middle class (Guardian)
Unfortunately, although the discussion of university attendance rates, when it occurs, is often framed in economic terms, the real driver here is not really about job prospects and earning power. Instead it is invokes a concept so ethereal and pernicious that it cannot be fully and fairly discussed by many Americans. Class.
Amanda Marcotte: Sorry About Losing Your Rights, Ladies. Want a Cookie? (Slate)
But [Gov. Pat] McCrory [of North Carolina] has a plan to make it all OK: cookies! Yes, the governor came out of his mansion to greet pro-choice protesters, who were dressed in '50s-era fashions to represent the era that Republicans want to return women to, and gave them a bunch of cookies. Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Central NC posted a picture.
George Dvorsky: Earth will turn into a Venus-like hell earlier than previously thought (io9)
But there is some good news. According to Robinson and Goldblatt, it's likely impossible for human activity to induce a runaway greenhouse effect. To do so, we'd have to raise the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to around 30,000 parts per million. This is considerably more that could be attained even if we burned all the available fossil fuel reserves on the planet - 10 times more to be exact.
What Don't People Do in Zombie Apocalypse Movies That You Would Do? (Slate)
Have a supply of emergency food that grows over time. ?I buy 10-pound cans of freeze dried food from places like Mountain House and Backpackers Pantry once a month. To be honest, this is not for zombies but just for emergencies. These cans last for 25 years: Buy them once, keep them forever. If you ever get stuck in a storm or disaster, you will never need to worry about food. Buying one or two cans a month, eventually I will have enough to last me many months, needing only water to rehydrate them.
Jill Harness: 5 Sitcoms You Might Not Know Were Based on Real People or Events (Neatorama)
There are plenty of TV dramas based on real people or real events, but comedy is largely more imaginative and therefore, more often fiction. Even so, you'd be surprised how many of your favorite characters and plots in sitcoms are actually based on real life people and events. Here are five such examples.
The Four Gentlemen, also called the Four Noble Ones, in Chinese art refers to four plants: the orchid, the bamboo, the chrysanthemum, and the plum blossom. The term compares the four plants to Confucianist junzi, or "gentlemen". They are most typically depicted in traditional ink and wash painting and they belong to the category of bird-and-flower painting in Chinese art.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Four Gentleman
Charlie replied:
Four Gentlemen, or Noble Ones.
Adam answered:
The Four Gentlemen, or The Four Noble Ones.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Four Gentlemen
Marian is off on an adventure (walking boot and all).
Sally said:
In Chinese culture, the bamboo, plum blossom, orchid, and chrysanthemum are collectively referred to as the Four Gentlemen.
These are the only four gentlemen for me!
(But then, I'm not Chinese either...)
PS: Update on Anthony (Carlos Danger) Weiner:
Apparently, other recent posts are coming to the surface - under still another Tweeter name: "Carlos Spicy Weiner!"
And this man wants to be the mayor on NYC?
For real?
PPS: In the same vein - thanks MAM, for the post, Rick Santorum Files for Divorce, Blames the Gays - as unbelievable as is Carlos Danger's bid to govern!
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, took the day off.
MAM wrote:
Four Gentlemen ~ As they represent the four different seasons (the orchid for spring, the bamboo for summer, the chrysanthemum for autumn, and the plum blossom for winter), the four are used to depict the unfolding of the seasons through the year.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Oprah Winfrey and Paul Rudd.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Anthony Edwards and Georgia King.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'The Winner Is', followed by a FRESH'The Winner Is', then a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Casey Affleck, Allison Janney, and Sammy Hagar.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Jennifer Aniston, Lenny Kravitz, and Goodie Mob.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/21/13) are Mark Webber, "Asad", and White Arrows.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Motive', then a FRESH'Rookie Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Selena Gomez, Ben Stein, and Palma Violets.
The CW fills the night with the FRESH'2013 Young Hollywood Awards'.
Faux has a RERUN'Glee', followed by a RERUN'New Girl', then a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Beyond Scared Straight', followed by a FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight', then another FRESH'Beyond Scared Straight'.
AMC offers fills the night with 'Return To Lonesome Dove'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 21
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 22
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 15 - Lower Decks
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 16 - Thine Own Self
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 17 - Masks
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Ruby Tates
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 11 - Cafe 36
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Runaway Girl
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 21
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 22
[6:00PM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 1 - Episode 3
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 4 - Caves
[8:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 5 - Deserts
[9:00PM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 6 - Ice Worlds
[10:00PM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Black Hairy Thick Tail Scorpion
[11:00PM] DANGERMAN: THE INCREDIBLE MR. GOODWIN - Season 1 - Episode 4
[12:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 6 - Ice Worlds
[1:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Black Hairy Thick Tail Scorpion
[2:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 5 - Deserts
[3:00AM] GORDON RAMSAY'S GREAT ESCAPE - Season 1 - Episode 3
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 4 - Caves
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH - Ep 5 - Deserts (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', still another 'Below Deck', yet another 'Below Deck', and 'Real Housewives Of OC'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's ' Jon Stewart' Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart John Oliver is Colin Quinn.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Bryan Cranston.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 2', 'Anger Management', followed by a FRESH'Anger Management', then a FRESH'Wilfred', and another 'Wilfred'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Pawn Stars', then another FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by the FRESH'Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-Lust for Glory
[7:15AM] Escape From Alcatraz
[9:45AM] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[12:15PM] Westworld
[2:15PM] Escape From Alcatraz
[4:45PM] Bad Boys
[7:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Anna Kendrick Wears a Patterned Blouse & Burgundy Pants
[8:00PM] The Green Mile
[12:00AM] The Green Mile
[4:00AM] Nightmare Man (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
[7:15AM] Lost in America
[9:15AM] Everything Is Illuminated
[11:15AM] Gosford Park
[1:30PM] Lost in America
[3:30PM] Everything Is Illuminated
[5:30PM] Pride
[7:45PM] Requiem for a Dream
[10:00PM] Alone With Her
[11:30PM] Alone With Her
[1:00AM] Lust, Caution
[3:45AM] The Border (ALL TIMES EST)
Natalie Hynde (R), daughter of singer Chrissie Hynde of "The Pretenders", and Ray Davies of "The Kinks", sits by her friend Simon Medhurst with their hands glued together around the entrance gate to a site run by Cuadrilla Resources, outside the village of Balcombe in southern England July 31, 2013. The well is a conventional one that will not use fracking, but Cuadrilla has fracked elsewhere, and is one of a handful of companies with access to shale acreage that might be fracked in future, and so its activities have become a target for anti-fracking protests.
Photo by Toby Melville
Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson isn't backing down from comments he made comparing Florida's struggle with the Trayvon Martin case to the civil rights clashes with police during the 1960s in Selma, Ala.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday demanded that Jackson apologize for his comments calling the state the "Selma of our time." He also said Florida has been an "apartheid" state.
But Jackson, in an interview with The Associated Press, defended his remarks. He cited the state's voter laws and incarceration rates of blacks versus the general population as examples of "apartheid like conditions."
Jackson made his original remarks while taking part in a protest at the Florida Capitol. He joined a group upset that George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of Martin.
Garrett Morris arrives at the CBS, CW and Showtime TCA party at The Beverly Hilton on Monday, July 29, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Jordan Strauss
Gay rights activists in New York City dumped vodka onto the street on Wednesday to protest new laws in Russia targeting homosexuals, as a growing number of gay bar owners across the United States vowed to stop pouring Russian vodka.
The boycott was called last week by gay rights activist and Seattle-based sex advice columnist Dan Savage in response to anti-gay violence and restrictive laws in Russia. Since then, owners of mostly gay bars from San Francisco to New York have vowed to stop serving Stolichnaya and other Russian vodka.
Gay rights advocates in New York City, carrying signs that read "Russian vodka: infused with hate," gathered outside the Russian consulate on Wednesday protesting Russia's stance on gay issues. They emptied bottles of Russian vodka onto the pavement.
In an open letter sent a day after Savage's call for a boycott, Val Mendeleev, chief executive of Stolichnaya's parent company the SPI Group, distanced his enterprise from the Kremlin's policies and emphasized that the Russian government has no ownership stake in the Luxembourg-based company.
Author J.K. Rowling accepted an apology and a charitable donation Wednesday from a law firm which revealed she wrote a crime novel under a pseudonym.
The "Harry Potter" author was exposed by a newspaper on July 14 as the author of "The Cuckoo's Calling," a thriller ostensibly written by former soldier and first-time novelist Robert Galbraith.
The book was published in April to good reviews but modest sales, and there was speculation that Rowling or her publisher had leaked the news to raise the book's profile.
But the law firm Russells, which has done work for Rowling, acknowledged that one of its partners had let the information slip to his wife's best friend, who tweeted it to a Sunday Times columnist.
Russells agreed to reimburse Rowling's legal costs and to make a "substantial" donation to The Soldiers' Charity, which helps former military personnel and their families.
Rowling also said she was donating all royalties from the book for the next three years to the charity.
From left, James Wolk, Amanda Setton, Robin Williams, and Sarah Michelle Gellar arrive at the CBS, CW and Showtime TCA party at The Beverly Hilton on Monday, July 29, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Jordan Strauss
British playwright Tom Stoppard has won the 2013 PEN/Pinter Prize established in memory of the late Nobel laureate and fellow dramatist Harold Pinter, organizers said on Wednesday.
The 76-year-old Czech-born Stoppard, who co-wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1998 film "Shakespeare in Love", came to fame in the theatre for writing plays such as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", "Jumpers" and "Arcadia".
The prize is awarded annually to a British writer or writer living in Britain, who, in the words of Pinter's speech on winning the Nobel literature prize, casts an "unflinching, unswerving" gaze upon the world.
Stoppard will receive the award at a public event at the British Library on October 7, PEN said. He will share it with an "International Writer of Courage" chosen by him in association with English PEN's Writers at Risk Committee to recognize a person who has been intimidated for speaking out about their beliefs.
British poet Carol Ann Duffy shared last year's prize with exiled Syrian author Samar Yazbek, whose book "A Woman in the Crossfire" portrayed life inside the Syrian conflict.
The Navajo Nation is jumping into the emotional and divisive fray over a return to domestic horse slaughter, drafting a letter to federal officials in support of a New Mexico company's plan to begin exporting horse meat next week.
The tribe's support for Valley Meat Co. comes one week after Robert Redford and former Gov. Bill Richardson joined the opposite side of the debate, saying, among other reasons, that they were "standing with Native American leaders" to protect cultural values.
But Erny Zah, spokesman for Navajo President Ben Shelly, said Wednesday that the nation's largest Indian reservation can no longer support the estimated 75,000 feral horses that are drinking wells dry and causing ecological damage to the drought-stricken range.
"It's a sensitive subject to begin with because horses are considered sacred animals, so you just can't go out and euthanize them," Zah said. "That would go too far against cultural conditions. At the same time we have a bunch of horses that no one is caring for, so it's a delicate balance."
Because of the horse overpopulation, the tribe already is rounding up and selling wild horses, Zah said. Some of those, he said, end up being shipped to Mexico.
From left, Don Cheadle and Bridgid Coulter arrive at the CBS, CW and Showtime TCA party at The Beverly Hilton on Monday, July 29, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Jordan Strauss
TLC, the network that gave the world "Best Funeral Ever" announced on Wednesday that will air the one-hour special "The Man With the 132 Lb Scrotum' on August 19 at 9 p.m.
The documentary will document the life of 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Wesley Warren Jr., who suffers from the thankfully rare medical condition scrotal lymphedema.
"Due to the large size of his scrotum, Wes has difficulty with simple tasks like walking, preparing meals and even going to the restroom," TLC said in a release announcing the schedule.
The special will also track Warren's attempts to "find appropriate medical care and raise money for the surgery he desperately needs."
From left, Glynn Turman and wife Jo-Ann Allen arrive at the CBS, CW and Showtime TCA party at The Beverly Hilton on Monday, July 29, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Jordan Strauss
Tens of thousands of negatives of Marilyn Monroe and other stars by celebrity photographer Milton Greene have sold at auction for $1.8 million.
The archive includes 3,700 negatives and slides of Marilyn Monroe. All the material was sold with copyright.
Profiles in History auction house says the highlights included a collection of color transparencies of the Hollywood siren with Laurence Olivier from the "The Prince and the Showgirl" movie. It sold for $42,000.
A group of transparencies of Monroe from the film "Bus Stop" fetched $39,000.
The seller is an American photography collector who purchased the archive 10 years ago. The items came from the Greene estate.
Lester "Buddy" Stroud, a farm hand at Shelley Farms, checks over a field of tobacco ready to be harvested in the Pleasant View community of Horry County, South Carolina July 26, 2013. The traditional tobacco harvest requires many labor-intensive hours to bring the crop to market, especially with the flue-cured variety prominent in the southern United States. With the growing health concerns with smoking in the US, most farmers use market cooperatives to sell their crop to the growing markets in China.
Photo by Randall Hill
Two fossilized dinosaur skeletons found on a Montana ranch in 2006 are coming up for sale in New York City.
The nearly complete skeletons are billed as the Montana Dueling Dinosaurs.
They'll be offered as a single lot at Bonhams on Nov. 19. The auction house estimates it could bring $7 million to $9 million.
Bonhams says the dinosaurs - a plant eater and a meat-eater - appear to be locked together in mortal combat.
They're being sold by the owners of the ranch where the fossils were found. It's located in the fossil-rich Hell Creek formation, where dinosaurs once roamed.
Mannequins representing missing people are placed in Copacabana Beach during a protest by non-governmental organization (NGO) Rio de Paz (Rio of Peace) in Rio de Janeiro July 31, 2013. According to the organizers, 35,000 victims of violence are missing in the Rio de Janeiro state since 2007.
A total of 33 previously unknown ant species have been discovered in Central America and the Caribbean. The nearly blind ants live in leaf litter and rotten logs in rainforests and are all quite tiny, each less than one-twelfth of an inch (2 millimeters) in length, according to new research.
Scientists named about one-third of the ants after Mayan deities, said Jack Longino, an entomologist at the University of Utah, in a statement from the school.
One of the newfound species, Eurhopalothrix zipacna, is named for a violent, crocodile-like Mayan demon, and is found in Guatemala and Honduras. Another, dubbed Eurhopalothrix xibalba, or "place of fear," refers to the Mayan underworld; this ant is found from Honduras to Costa Rica.
Scientists have so far recorded about 15,000 species of ants worldwide, according to the statement. But there may be as many as 100,000 in total, said Longino, who has now discovered 131 new species of ants, the statement noted. Insects in the tropics have astonishing levels of diversity, studies have shown.
Author John Graves, whose 1960 book "Goodbye to a River" and authentic depictions of rural Texas made him one of the state's most celebrated and beloved writers, has died. He was 92.
Graves died Wednesday at his home near Glen Rose, said W.K. "Kip" Stratton, president of the Texas Institute of Letters. Stratton did not know the cause of death but said Graves had been in declining health since breaking his hip several years ago.
Graves was best known for "Goodbye to a River," a memoir of a canoe trip down the Brazos River that chronicled nature in masterful language and used history and philosophy to capture a sense of place. It has endured as one of the most acclaimed books about Texas and was nominated for a National Book Award.
Graves also wrote "Hard Scrabble" in 1974 and "From a Limestone Ledge" in 1980. The books became known as his "Brazos Trilogy." His fans included former first lady Laura Bush, who often listed "Goodbye to a River" as one of her favorites.
Admirers of Graves often called him the Henry David Thoreau of Texas.
Graves was born in Fort Worth on Aug. 6, 1920. He studied literature at Rice University and was drafted into the military soon after graduating. He lost sight in one eye during battle and returned home to try his hand at fiction, but never felt like he was good enough at it, said Mark Busby, a professor at Texas State University who wrote a 2007 book about Graves.
It was not long after Graves returned to Texas that he took his voyage on the Brazos that made his legacy. Graves was supposed to write an article about the trip for Sports Illustrated, but Busby said the piece was rejected for being too philosophical.
Three years after taking the canoe ride, "Goodbye to a River" was published.
One of our neighbors, Oscar, called me at work yesterday to say he'd found a lizard in his yard and did we want it.
Called the kid and told him to go get the lizard from Oscar. He texted me when he got back home, and turns out it wasn't a lizard, but an iguana.
A big freaking, over 2-foot long iguana.
Since it's not an indigenous critter, we put up signs in the 'hood, trying to find his home.
But until then, he's gonna be our Jim.
We decided 'Iggy' was too obvious of a name, so we named after a famous 'Iggy' -
Jim Ignatowski, AKA
Rev. Jim, on
Taxi.
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