zEN mAN (observing Bill Clinton's utterly amazing speech at the DNC tonight....he literally dissected, debunked and destroyed every crazy policy that Romney/Ryan and the lying republican platform espouses..."...they want to double down on "trickle down""...) the "Silver-Tongued Devil" demolished all the "Tin Angels"!)
Bill Maher's New Rule For GOP: Admit George W. Bush Exists (VIDEO)
Maher went after the RNC's lack of acknowledgement that a guy named George W. Bush was president for eight years. Oh, and while he's naming names, what about Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Michele Bachmann and all those other prominent Republicans? Did they stop existing, too?
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When you learn about Romney's plan, you know why he doesn't have much to say.
Unfortunate sign placement causes RNC slogan to backfire completely (Happy Place)
When Republicans devised their brilliant plan to shame the Obama administration by mounting this massive debt clock above the convention, they probably should've taken a second to consider the giant, ubiquitous catchphrase unfortunately placed right beneath it.
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In the 1930s, the German-British scientist Eric(h) Huzenlaub (1899-1964) invented a form of parboiling designed to retain more of the nutrients in rice, now known as the Huzenlaub Process. It involves first vacuum drying of the whole grain, then steaming, and finally vacuum drying and husking. Besides increasing rice's nutritional value, it also made it resistant to weevils and reduced cooking time.
In 1942, Huzenlaub partnered with a Houston food broker, Gordon L. Harwell, forming Converted Rice, Inc., which sold its entire output to the U.S. Armed Forces. In 1944, with additional financing from the Defense Plant Corporation and an investment by Forrest Mars, Sr., it built a second large plant. Not long afterwards, Mars bought out the founders and merged the company into his Food Manufacturers, Inc..
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
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Charlie wrote:
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BttbBob is contemplating nature and the nature of contemplation.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
In the 1930s, the German-British scientist Eric Huzenlaub invented a form
of parboiling designed to retain more of the nutrients in rice, now known
as the Huzenlaub Process
Marian responded:
rice
Sally said:
"Uncle Ben's Rice," was introduced by Converted Rice Inc., which was later bought by Mars, Inc. In the 1930's, the German-British scientist Eric(h) Huzenlaub (1899-1964) invented a form of parboiling rice, designed to retain more of the nutrients in rice, now known as the Huzenlaub Process.
My daughter and I go rounds about Uncle Ben's rice. I love it, she prefers 'sticky' rice, made in a rice cooker.
PS: I was at my daughter's home last night, WITH THE CABLE TV! I watched to Democratic Convention from 7 PM until midnight. What a pleasure, one speaker and/or interview was better than the next! After all the clap-trap last week, our list of speakers were there to back Barack Obama, and not themselves! Panning the audience, what a difference! We are the party of diversity, as is this country - not a nation of old White men and their wives who, "know their place..." (Oh, and the smattering of big mouth White women such as Palin and Bachman - who are just plain irritating.)
Then WE have Michelle Obama, what can I say except that she is fabulous - especially compared to the Republican Stepford wife, Mrs Romney!
Unfortunately, I will have to watch to rest of the convention on Network TV (probably NPR) where they cut the coverage to the bare minimum - mumble, grumble.
PPS: Shout out to your UNCLE, Marty. Blood plasma is truly the gift of life. Kudos to his years of blood donations to this worthy cause!
Adam answered:
From Wikipedia:
In the 1910s German-British scientist Eric(h) Huzenlaub (1899-1964) invented a form of parboiling which held more of the nutrients in rice, now known as the Huzenlaub Process. The whole grain is vacuum dried, then steamed, followed by another vacuum drying and husking. This also makes the rice more resistant to weevils and lessens cooking time.
Honkey Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
In the 1930s, British food chemist Eric Huzenlaub embarked on the development of a process to increase the nutritional value of white rice. At that time, modern milling methods removed rice kernels' nutrient-bearing husk and outer skins, resulting in a pleasingly pearly white, but nutritionally empty carbohydrate. After a decade of research, Huzenlaub came up with a way to seal in rice's naturally occurring vitamins and minerals. Dubbed "conversion" or "parboiling," the technique employed vacuum pressure to pull air from raw rice, then "pushed" the water-soluble nutrients back into each grain using high-pressure steam heating. Once the rice had dried, it could continue through the usual milling process. Not only did the technique--for which Huzenlaub obtained international patents--seal in nutrients, it also extended shelf life to years, made the grain impervious to weevils, and reduced cooking time.
I don't eat white rice in general, mostly Lundberg's from up the valley. Let us not forget Uncle Ben's brothers Uncle Tom Powell and Uncle Tom Steele!
MAM wrote:
Full grain rice into parboiled rice. Not sure of this answer. Sort of converting full grain rice into Uncle Ben's Rice!
And, Joe S answered:
The Huzenlaub Process is used to convert rice into gold. The process was developed by Erich during World War II when it became too expensive and impractical to convert lead into gold. Although gold is worth much more that lead, the lead was needed for bullets and stuff, and it's very imprecate to use gold for bullets. It pretty much defeats the purpose of converting lead to gold. Converting rice to gold is much more cost effective because you can always grow more rice and let's face it, there's only so much lead and if we used up all the lead we wouldn't be able to make bullets. Then where would we be?
This is a photo of Erich Gustav Huzenlaub, the founder of the converted rice process. He was financed to come to the United States from London, England (and previously Stuttgart, Germany) to create the company that converted rice to gold.
Kid started a new semester last week. Today was book-buying day. OMG.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by FRESH'Dems 2Nite'.
CBS opens the night early on the Left Coast with FRESH'Dems 2 Nite', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then an hour of local crap.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Howard Stern and Jason Aldean.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Angela Kinsey, David Simon, and the Heavy.
NBC begins the night on the East Coast with a FRESH"America's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'Saving Hope', then FRESH'Dems 2Nite'.
NBC begins the night early on the Left Coast with FRESH'Dems 2Nite', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent', then a RERUN'Saving Hope', followed by an hour of local crap or maybe an old 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Ellen DeGeneres, Josh Lucas, and Billy Ray Cyrus.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Claire Danes, Jeff Probst, and Calise Hawkins.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/7/12) are Jenny McCarthy, 5 Second Films, and Jessie Baylin.
ABC starts the night on the East Coast with a FRESH'Wipeout', followed by a RERUN'Rookie Blue', then FRESH'Dems 2Nite'.
ABC starts the night early on the Left Coast with FRESH'Dems 2Nite', then an hour of local crap, followed by a FRESH'Wipeout', then a RERUN'Rookie Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Matt Stone & Trey Parker, and Adam Scott, Everclear.
The CW offers a RERUN'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a FRESH'The Next: Fame Is At Your Doorstep'.
Faux has a RERUN'Raising Hope', followed by a RERUN'New Girl', then 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', still another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'Four Brothers', then the movie 'Four Brothers', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 10 - Ep 1 - Kate Winslet, Rob Brydon, Jamie Bell, Noah and the Whale
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 7 - Ep 6 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Minnie Driver, Ruth Jones, Katie Melua
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Smith and Jones
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Spanish Pavilion
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Handlebar
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 2 - D-Place
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 4 - The Doctor's Wife
[5:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 4 - Ep 20 - Islanded in a Stream of Stars
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 10 - New Ground
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 4
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 4
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 4
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 1
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 3
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 4
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 1
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 2 - Episode 3
[3:00AM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Abrams Tank
[4:00AM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Tree Harvester
[5:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Flipping Out', followed by the movie 'Collateral Damage', then the movie 'Collateral Damage', again.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'South Park', another 'South Park', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', and yet antother 'Futurama'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Austan Goolsbee.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Bill Richardson.
History has 'Titanic's Achilles Heel', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Strangers in Good Company
[8:15AM] A Prairie Home Companion
[10:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Ed Helms Wears a Grey Shirt & Brown Boots
[11:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[11:30AM] Strangers in Good Company
[1:45PM] A Prairie Home Companion
[4:00PM] The Ringer
[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] The Forbidden Kingdom
[10:15PM] The Forbidden Kingdom
[12:30AM] Phantoms
[2:30AM] Heartless
[5:00AM] Action-Blowhard
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Love Lust & Breakfast
[7:00A] Blue Blood
[8:35A] Amreeka
[10:15A] In A Day
[11:45A] Blue Blood
[1:20P] Amreeka
[3:00P] In A Day
[4:25P] Blue Blood
[6:00P] ALL ON THE LINE - Kara Janx: That Dress is Great if You're Going to the Prom With Justin Bieber (Episode 2, Season 1)
[7:00P] ALL ON THE LINE - Between the Sheets (Episode 3, Season 1)
[8:00P] Control
[10:05P] Another Day In Paradise
[11:50P] This Way Up
[12:00A] Wassup Rockers
[1:40A] Right Foot, Left Foot
[2:00A] ALL ON THE LINE - Kara Janx: That Dress is Great if You're Going to the Prom With Justin Bieber (Episode 2, Season 1)
[3:00A] Control
[5:05A] David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has 'Collection Intervention', another 'Collection Intervention', still another 'Collection Intervention', followed by a FRESH'Collection Intervention'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Seth Green, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Milo Green.
A life-sized cardboard cutout of actor Clint Eastwood next to an empty chair is seen overlooking a freeway in Glendale, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. The chair is a reference to Eastwood's 12-minute speech during last week's Republican National Convention that drew both criticism and praise for Eastwood. Life-sized cardboard cutouts of Eastwood, John Wayne and Gene Autry have been keeping watch over Glendale for months as part of an effort by Los Angeles resident Justin Stadel to spur a conversation about public art.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Magician David Copperfield said Wednesday he purchased a newly discovered audiotape of a Martin Luther King Jr. interview and would donate it to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis to promote the civil rights icon's message of nonviolence.
Copperfield told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he purchased the 1960 tape this week from New York-based collector and broker Keya Morgan, who acquired it from a Chattanooga man.
The clear audio recording includes King discussing the importance of the civil rights movement, his definition of nonviolence and his visit to Africa. An excerpt of the audio released last month on the Internet went viral, and evoked emotions in those who were close to King, such as U.S. Rep. John Lewis who said he was moved to tears after hearing King once again talk about nonviolence.
Copperfield said King inspired people to dream, and the magician's "art is about making people dream."
"The magic of Dr. King was in his message: peace and nonviolence," Copperfield said. "I didn't want this to be hoarded away. I wanted it to be shared with people to continue the message, which is more important today than it's ever been."
French actress Isabelle Huppert (C) poses with Italian actors Brenno Placido (R) and Gian Marco Tognazzi during the red carpet of the movie "Bella Addormentata " at the 69th Venice Film Festival in Venice September 5, 2012.
Photo by Max Rossi
Andy and Lana Wachowski are some of the most reclusive filmmakers working in Hollywood. In the past, they've refused to do press events for any of their movies, from their hugely influential "Matrix" trilogy to "V for Vendetta," which they produced, to "Speed Racer." But for their upcoming staggeringly ambitious movie, "Cloud Atlas," which premieres this week at the Toronto Film Festival, they've decided to talk with the New Yorker's Aleksandar Hemon in a lengthy profile.
While the article devotes pages to their new movie's long and difficult production -- it's fascinating, if you have a few minutes to spare, read it -- the piece also offers a few rare insights into the famously private filmmaking siblings. Until 2002, Lana was known as Larry. In the profile, Lana opens up about her long and painful transition.
While growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Larry was confused about her gender as early as the third grade, when he transferred to a Catholic school. When the students lined up according to sex, young Larry wasn't sure where to line up. "I just stopped in between [the two lines]. I stood for a long moment with everyone staring at me, including the nun. She told me to get in line. I was stuck -- I couldn't move. I think some unconscious part of me figured I was exactly where I belonged: betwixt."
Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple Inc's late co-founder Steve Jobs, will be joining her alma mater Stanford University's Board of Trustees as of October 1.
She will serve for 5 years at the elite university where she received her masters degree in business administration in 1991, Stanford said on Wednesday.
The Jobs family has deep connections to Stanford University. In one of the university's notable commencement speeches, late Apple CEO Steve Jobs recounted in 2005 his experience dropping out of Reed College in 1972.
Powell Jobs is the founder and chair of Emerson Collective, which supports people and organizations working in education. She is also the president of College Track, an after-school program she co-founded in 1997 to prepare high school students from low-income families for college.
U.S. actresses Selena Gomez (L), Vanessa Hudgens (C) and Ashley Benson pose on the red carpet during a screening for the movie "Spring Breakers" at the 69th Venice Film Festival September 5, 2012.
Photo by Tony Gentile
An Arizona woman is wondering what hurt more: getting stung by a scorpion or seeing her hospital bill after treatment.
Marcie Edmonds says the bill from Chandler Regional Medical Center was more than $83,000. That includes two doses of anti-venom at nearly $40,000 per dose.
The Arizona Republic says Edmonds' insurer has paid more than $57,000 and the suburban Phoenix hospital is asking Edmonds for the balance of about $25,000.
The 52-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident was stung in June while opening a box of air conditioner filters in her garage.
Edmonds says an emergency room doctor told her about the Mexican anti-venom Anascorp that could quickly relieve her symptoms, but she was never told about the cost.
Prosecutors have charged Amanda Bynes with hit-and-run in connection with two traffic crashes in recent months.
Los Angeles City attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan says the actress was charged Tuesday and is due for arraignment on Sept. 27.
Mateljan says Bynes was charged for leaving the scene of two accidents, one on April 10 and another on Aug. 4, without providing proper information. The first incident occurred just days after Bynes was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after grazing a sheriff's patrol car. She has pleaded not guilty in that case.
The 26-year-old is best known for her role in the WB's "What I Like About You" and the film "Easy A."
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale poses during the photocall of the movie "O gebo e a sombra " at the 69th Venice Film Festival in Venice September 5, 2012.
Photo by Max Rossi
U.S. securities regulators charged radio host Ray Lucia on Wednesday over investment seminars they said included misleading information.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said the host of the nationally syndicated "The Ray Lucia Show" inaccurately promoted a wealth management strategy as tested on historical data.
Lucia promoted his strategy, "Buckets of Money," as having been back-tested on historical data, according to the SEC, but performed "scant, if any, actual backtesting."
The investment strategy involved separating investments into different "buckets" and is directed at retirees as providing them with income while protecting savings.
A Des Moines doctor faces involuntary manslaughter charges for allegedly prescribing large amounts of narcotic painkillers to eight patients who fatally overdosed, including a metal band's founder.
Dr. Daniel Baldi appeared Wednesday in Polk County District Court, and a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, The Des Moines Register (http://dmreg.co/Q9pvXx ) reported. Involuntary manslaughter is an aggravated misdemeanor under Iowa law.
One of the eight patients was identified in court papers as Paul Gray, a founder of the band Slipknot. He died of an overdose in 2010 at an Urbandale hotel.
Court documents allege Baldi unintentionally caused Gray's death by writing "high-dose prescription narcotics to a known drug addict" starting on Dec. 27, 2005.
R&B diva Patti LaBelle has agreed to pay $100,000 to a Manhattan woman who accused her of hurling curses and water at her and her 18-month-old daughter during a dust-up over parenting in an apartment building lobby.
Roseanna Monk and her husband, Kevin, filed a lawsuit against LaBelle last year.
The couple lives in a Manhattan building where the Grammy Award-winning singer stayed while appearing in the Broadway musical "Fela!"
According to the lawsuit, LaBelle chastised Roseanna Monk, threw a bottle of water and launched into an obscenity-filled tirade during the Nov. 11, 2010 argument.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has tracked a Siberian tiger and posed with a polar bear, may soon be taking his love of wildlife to new heights by flying with cranes - to lead them on a migration route.
Putin has communed with wild animals several times as part of an effort to create the image of a clean-living, nature-loving leader in 12 years in power.
This time around, according to Russian media reports, he will don a white costume and pilot a hang glider, leading cranes through the air in a project to help introduce birds born in captivity to the wild.
Some reports said he would wear a beak as part of the costume whose purpose is to prompt cranes to follow his flight on a migration route, part of a project aimed at protecting the endangered Siberian Crane.
Macho stunts by Putin, who turns 60 in October, have helped his image but have also irritated some Russians and become a target for satire for opponents.
Yannan Wang, daughter of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and Director and President of China Guardian Auctions, the oldest auction house in mainland China, poses in front of a painting by Chinese painter Xu Beihong in Hong Kong September 5, 2012. China Guardian said that they will be making their official debut in Hong Kong in October.
Photo by Bobby Yip
Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs are of some of the most epic events of the last century, beautifully printed in black-and-white. The vast majority of those gelatin silver prints were made by one man between 1967 and 1997. He was Voja Mitrovic, a master printer at Paris' celebrated Picto photo lab.
Over the years, Cartier-Bresson presented Mitrovic with 28 signed and inscribed prints, some rarely seen by the public - until now.
Christie's is auctioning the prints, plus four other Cartier-Bresson-signed prints, on Oct. 4-5. The auction house believes they will fetch more than $400,000.
Cartier-Bresson, who died in 2004 at age 95, has been called one of the most talented photographers who ever lived, celebrated for what he called "the decisive moment" - moments from the Spanish Civil War, the liberation of the Nazi camps and the funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. He also captured scenes of everyday life and shot countless portraits of luminaries including Henri Matisse, William Faulkner and George Balanchine.
The prints at Christie's are offered for sale by award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley, who acquired the prints from Mitrovic in 2004 shortly after Cartier-Bresson's death.
Singer-songwriter Joe South, who penned hits in the 1960s and 1970s like "Games People Play," and "Down in the Boondocks," died Wednesday, his music publisher said. South was 72.
South, whose real name was Joseph Souter, died at his home in Buford, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, according to Marion Merck of the Hall County Coroner's office. Merck said South died from natural causes stemming from a heart attack.
South was an inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
South's song "Down in the Boondocks" was a 1965 hit for singer Billy Joe Royal. South worked as a session guitar player on recordings such as Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools," and on albums such as Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" and LPs by Eddy Arnold and Marty Robbins.
South also had a solo singing career producing hits such as the late 60s-song "Games People Play," which won him two Grammys for Best Contemporary Song and Song of the Year. The song, which was released on South's debut album "Introspect," spoke against hate, hypocrisy and inhumanity.
"Walk A Mile In My Shoes" and "Don't It Make You Want to Go Home" were also hits for South. He also wrote the Grammy-nominated "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden" for Lynn Anderson.
But his music career was struck by tragedy when his brother, Tommy Souter, committed suicide in 1971. South's last album was "Classic Masters" in 2002.
According to South's website, he was born in Atlanta on Feb. 28, 1940. As a child he was interested in technology and developed his own radio station with a 1-mile transmission area.
In 1958, South recorded his debut single, a novelty song called, "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor."
A keeper holds the head of JF, a 4.6 metre (15 feet) long reticulated Python ahead of a health check and ultrasound heart scan at Chester Zoo in Chester, northern England September 5, 2012. The zoo's two reticulated pythons are taking part in cardiological study as part of a joint research programme between the zoo and Cardiff Metroploitan University.
Photo by Phil Noble
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