Paul Krugman: The Price Is Wrong (New York Times)
But which price - that is the question. It's a slow morning on the economic news front, as we wait for various euro shoes to drop, so I thought I'd share a meditation I've been having on the diagnosis and misdiagnosis of the Lesser Depression. It's not really different from what I've been saying all along, but maybe coming at it from a different angle is somewhat enlightening.
Henry Rollins: "The Day After Bowie's 'The Next Day'" (LA Weekly)
It's already an interesting year for album releases, and it's not even Record Store Day yet. Besides the excellent Nick Cave and Marnie Stern albums released this year, we have the new David Bowie album, The Next Day, and at the end of next month, Ready to Die by The Stooges.
Kristi Harrison: Like to Write? Like Money? Write for Cracked! (Cracked)
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This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and Census Designated Places), with number of times that name occurs (in parentheses).
1. Greenville (50)
2. Franklin (30)
3. Clinton (29)
4. Springfield (28)
5. Salem (25)
6. Fairview (24)
7. Washington (24)
8. Madison (23)
9. Georgetown (22)
10. Arlington (21)
11. Marion (21)
12. Oxford (21)
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Greenville
mj said:
Pure guess
But there's been one in every state I've spent time in. I'm going with Middletown.
Adam answered:
Well, there is a Springfield in every state.
Marian responded:
Greenville
Sally said:
According to the Internets, "Greenville" is the most common place name (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and Census Designated Places) in the US.
Hummmm, interesting.
PS: I was surprised to read that "pain" was the number one reason for visiting a doctor (yesterday's question dejour). May I suggest that you try some "Bengay" type of product and use it with an ice pack. The pain medicines are so hard on your liver and kidneys, and the liniment works so well - it just takes patience and (preferably) someone to help you put it on... I was sorry to read that so many of you are suffering too...
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali responded:
It's Greenville. Had a client in Greenville, CA at one time. Nice place out in the middle of NE Sierra Nevada's. Good fishing in local waters. Good place to Hide out if you were a con on the lam!!!
MAM wrote:
Greenville
BttbBob took the day off.
And, Joe S answered:
Greenville? Greenville? Well I'll be dipped. Not Greendale, Greenville. Hmmmm.
Greenville is a city in Montcalm County of the U.S. state of Michigan. Greenville is named after its founder, John Green, who settled in the wilderness of the southwest part of the Montcalm County in 1844. John Green constructed a sawmill on the Flat River that is credited for attracting other settlers. The newly formed Green's Village attracted many people of Danish origin who followed another early Danish settler's positive letters home regarding the area. Because of the town's heritage, Greenville celebrates the Danish Festival every year on the third weekend of August. A post office was established on January 20, 1848, with Abel French as the first postmaster. John Green had the village platted in 1853 and it was a station on the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western Railroad. Greenville incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1871.
Since the foundation of Ranney Refrigerator Co. in 1892, the town has been known as the "Refrigerator Capital of the World." It has also been home to the Gibson, White Consolidated, Frigidaire, and until recently, the Electrolux refrigerator factory. Electrolux closed the Greenville facility in early 2006, as it was in the process of relocating the factory to Ciudad Juárez in Mexico. This move by a profitable factory impacted 2,700 employees and their families.
The city is now the epicenter of "green" technology with the addition of solar panel manufacturer United Solar Ovonic. It is also home to the brand-new manufacturing and design center of Northland Marvel, an undercounter refrigeration company that just became a part of the UK-based AgaRangemaster group. Lafayette Street, the downtown district, was placed on the National and State Register of Historic Sites in November 2008.
Just in case you're interested.
The Mackinac Bridge (Might Mac!) will be lit blue at sundown Tuesday and continue to be illuminated at night for the entire month as part of an autism awareness campaign. The Mackinac Bridge Authority is working with several corporations and organizations for "Light It Blue Michigan." All costs are paid by private donations... It's part of a national campaign that includes bathing the White House and Empire State Building in blue. Autism affects people's ability to communicate and socialize. More than 50,000 people in Michigan have autism, including about 16,000 children.
Mackinac Bridge to be bathed in blue for autism | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
It should make a most beautiful sight. There's only small towns at either end and photos taken from the east would have only woods and water as a back-drop. It might be worth the 160 mile drive for me to see and photograph it...
The marine layer was puffy and fluffy all day over the PV Peninsula, but fairly sunny on the Westside of LB.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Golden Boy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Regis Philbin and a performance from the Broadway musical "Cinderella".
On a RERUNCraig (from 1/15/13) are Lena Dunham and Bill Pullman.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'The New Normal', then another FRESH'The New Normal', followed by a FRESH'Smash'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Blake Shelton and Jim Rome.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Tracy Morgan, Andy Cohen, Deerhunter, and B.J. Thomas.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Pete Wentz, "No Place on Earth", and Tift Merritt.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Splash', followed by a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', then a FRESH'Body Of Proof'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Bill Maher, Giancarlo Esposito, and Cold War Kids.
The CW offers a RERUN'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a RERUN'Beauty & The Beast'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a RERUN'New Girl', then a FRESH'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome', followed by the movie 'The Marine', then the movie 'Marked For Death'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 18 - Jude Law, Mila Kunis, Dame Judi Dench, Olly Murs
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 19 - Season 12 Compilation
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Gridlock
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Daleks In Manhattan
[12:00PM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Valiant
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Mixing Bowl
[4:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 5 - The Curry Lounge
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Mixing Bowl
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[8:00PM] BEATLES BIGGEST SECRETS
[9:00PM] THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR
[11:00PM] BEATLES BIGGEST SECRETS
[12:00AM] THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Oscars
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 5 - The Mixing Bowl
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 5 - The Curry Lounge (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and 'Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'The Jeselnik Offensive', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'The Jeselnik Offensive'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Jonathan Sperber.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jim McGreevey.
FX has the movie 'The Fighter', followed by a FRESH'The Ultimate Fighter', then a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear', 'Counting Cars', and another 'Counting Cars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Lolita
[9:30AM] Blazing Saddles
[11:30AM] Lethal Weapon 3
[2:00PM] You Kill Me
[4:00PM] Blazing Saddles
[6:00PM] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
[8:00PM] Gangs of New York
[11:30PM] Angel Heart
[2:00AM] Gangs of New York
[5:30AM] Out There-Joanie Loves Terry (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Freaks and Geeks-Kim Kelly Is My Friend
[7:00AM] Coffee and Cigarettes
[8:45AM] Thumbsucker
[10:30AM] One Week
[12:15PM] Coffee and Cigarettes
[2:00PM] The Kid With a Bike
[3:30PM] Freaks and Geeks-Kim Kelly Is My Friend
[4:30PM] Thumbsucker
[6:15PM] The Prime Gig
[8:00PM] The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
[11:15PM] The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
[2:30AM] Autoerotic
[3:45AM] The Prime Gig
[5:30AM] The Mortified Sessions-True Blood's Kristin Bauer & Comedian Matt Walsh (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Star Trek: Nemesis', 'Robot Combat League', followed by a FRESH'Robot Combat League'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Paul Rudd and von Grey.
TBS says it's extending Conan O'Brien's late-night show through November 2015. O'Brien premiered "Conan" on TBS in November 2010, some months after his departure from a short-lived stint as host of NBC's "Tonight" show. He left NBC when Jay Leno was returned as "Tonight" host.
Although "Conan" averages just 900,000 viewers nightly, TBS says it leads the late-night pack in social media engagement and online activity.
"Conan," hosted by O'Brien with Andy Richter as announcer, airs Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m. Eastern time.
Colin Hanks (2nd L), his wife Samantha Bryant (L), Elizabeth Hanks, and Rita Wilson (R) arrive for the premiere of the play Lucky Guy in New York, April 1, 2013.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
An 1877 Steinway grand piano used by Motown greats during the label's 1960s heyday, and restored thanks to Paul McCartney, is back home in Detroit, officials announced Monday.
Steinway technicians delivered the 9-foot Victorian rosewood to the "Hitsville, U.S.A," building midday Monday and workers set it up in a former recording studio in what's now the Motown Historical Museum.
McCartney, a longtime fan of the Motown sound who played and recorded several of the label's songs during the Beatles' early days, told museum officials after a 2011 concert in Detroit that he wanted to help with the piano's refurbishment after learning the historic instrument no longer could be played.
During his museum tour, McCartney played a different piano bearing a sign that read, "Please do not touch." He apologized and said he had to. When he came across the Steinway in Studio A, he found a cover on the keys, foiled not by a sign, but by deterioration that made the piano unplayable.
Stephen Sondheim has won one of the top honors in the arts world, the Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement.
The MacDowell Colony, the New Hampshire-based artist residency program, announced Sunday that Sondheim has received an award that has been given to Robert Frost and Georgia O'Keeffe among others. The 83-year-old Sondheim is known for such classic musicals as "A Little Night Music" and "Into the Woods."
He will accept the medal at an August ceremony.
In a statement issued through the MacDowell Colony, Sondheim called the award a "sort of homecoming," noting that as a child he used to play compositions by the man for whom the medal and colony are named. Edward MacDowell, who died in 1908, was known for such pieces as "To a Wild Rose."
A performer dressed as a medievel knight shows off jousting skills at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire April 1, 2013. Knebworth House, a stately home of the Lytton family since 1490, hosted The Knights Of Royal England in their first medievel jousting tournament of the season.
Photo by Olivia Harris
A new concert piece about Harvey Milk by Tony Award-nominee Andrew Lippa will have its world premiere in June in San Francisco to mark the 35th anniversary of the slain gay rights leader's death.
Lippa said Monday that his "I Am Harvey Milk" - part choral, part theater - will be performed June 27-28 at The Nourse Auditorium as part of the events celebrating the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus' own 35th anniversary.
Lippa, who wrote the music and lyrics for Broadway's "The Addams Family" and the upcoming "Big Fish," will play Milk in front of the 300-strong chorus and the 30-piece orchestra. Tony-winner Laura Benanti will add her soprano to the piece. Tickets range from $25-$65.
Lippa had initially been approached to contribute a short piece of music for the anniversary. "Some click went off in my mind. I didn't want to write a five-minute piece. I wanted to write a 60-minute piece," he said. "It felt like one of those 'A-ha!' moments."
Regulators on Monday launched a review of policy governing the way it enforces broadcasts of nudity and profanity on radio and television and asked for public comment on whether its current approach should be amended.
The Federal Communications Commission issued a public notice inviting comment on whether it should focus its efforts on pursuing only the "most egregious" cases in which rules are broken, or focus on isolated cases of nudity and expletives uttered on radio and TV shows.
The public notice follows a Supreme Court ruling in June 2012 against a government crackdown some 10 years ago on nudity and profanity.
It asked for public input over the next 30 days on whether, for example, it should treat cases of nudity in the same way as profanity, and whether "deliberate and repetitive" use of expletives is necessary to prove indecency.
Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills in KhanYounis, southern Gaza Strip , Sunday, March 31, 2013. Parkour is a physical discipline of movement focused on overcoming obstacles. Training is held at cemeteries in KhanYounis.
Photo by Hatem Moussa
Twitter did away with vowels, Google unveiled a button to add smells and the cast of the 1990s sitcom "Wings" launched a Kickstarter campaign.
The digital world celebrated April Fools' Day with the rollout of mock innovations and parody makeovers. Many of the top online destinations spent Monday mocking themselves and, in Google's case, playfully trying to lure users into pressing their noses against their computer screens.
Google, having already debuted its wearable Google Glass, on Monday showcased Google Nose to add scents to it search results. It urged visitors to lean in close and take a deep whiff for search results such as "unattended litter box."
YouTube, despite 72 hours of video uploaded every minute, said it was shutting down. The Google Inc.-owned video site joked that its eight-year rise was merely a lengthy talent search. At the end of the day, nominees were to no longer be accepted so judges could, for the next 10 years, sift through the billions of videos and declare a winner.
An appeals court on Monday declined to temporarily shut down Aereo Inc, an online television venture backed by billionaire Barry Diller that broadcasters say is infringing their copyrights.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with the broadcasters, including Walt Disney Co's ABC and Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal, that Aereo should discontinue its service until litigation between the companies is resolved.
The television industry is closely watching the case to see whether it could disrupt the traditional TV model. The industry sees Aereo and other similar services as a threat to its ability to control subscription fees and generate advertising income, its two main sources of revenue.
Aereo does not pay licensing fees to the broadcasters, while paid TV operators, such Comcast and Time Warner Cable, shell out billions in retransmission consent fees to broadcasters.
Subscribers to Aereo can stream live broadcasts of TV channels on mobile devices using miniature antennas, each assigned to one subscriber. The service was launched in March 2012 in the New York area at a cost to subscribers of $12 a month. The company in January announced plans to expand to 22 U.S. cities.
Pilgrims dressed in Bavarian clothes attend the traditional Georgi horse riding procession on Easter Monday in the southern Bavarian town of Traunstein April 1, 2013. Since the early 16th century, farmers have taken part in the pilgrimage to bless their horses. This tradition, the "Georgiritt", goes back to the legend of Saint George, the horsemen's patron saint.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
Veteran correspondent Byron Pitts is jumping from CBS to ABC News, where he will be chief national correspondent and a fill-in anchor for various broadcasts.
Pitts spent 15 years at CBS News, where he covered political conventions and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ABC News President Ben Sherwood said in a memo to his staff Monday announcing the hire that Pitts "has a unique talent for stories about people and communities facing the longest odds."
In a 2009 memoir, Pitts revealed how he overcame a stutter and said he was essentially illiterate until about age 12. He grew up in Baltimore.
ABC has been making more news lately with departures. Jake Tapper and Chris Cuomo have both left for CNN.
A trove of Neanderthal fossils including bones of children and adults, discovered in a cave in Greece hints the area may have been a key crossroad for ancient humans, researchers say.
The timing of the fossils suggests Neanderthals and humans may have at least had the opportunity to interact, or cross paths, there, the researchers added.
Neanderthals are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, apparently even occasionally interbreeding with our ancestors. Neanderthals entered Europe before modern humans did, and may have lasted there until about 35,000 years ago, although recent findings have called this date into question.
The archaeological deposits of the cave date back to between about 39,000 and 100,000 years ago to the Middle Paleolithic period. During the height of the ice age, the area still possessed a mild climate and supported a wide range of wildlife, including deer, wild boar, rabbits, elephants, weasels, foxes, wolves, leopards, bears, falcons, toads, vipers and tortoises.
In the cave, the researchers found tools such as scrapers made of flint, quartz and seashells. The stone tools were all shaped, or knapped, in a way typical of Neanderthal artifacts.
Participants attend a street carnival to mark the end of Easter celebrations at Tafawa Balewa square in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos April 1, 2013.
Photo by Akintunde Akinleye
When filmmaker Carla MacKinnon started waking up several times a week unable to move, with the sense that a disturbing presence was in the room with her, she didn't call up her local ghost hunter. She got researching.
Now, that research is becoming a short film and multiplatform art project exploring the strange and spooky phenomenon of sleep paralysis. The film, supported by the Wellcome Trust and set to screen at the Royal College of Arts in London, will debut in May.
Sleep paralysis happens when people become conscious while their muscles remain in the ultra-relaxed state that prevents them from acting out their dreams. The experience can be quite terrifying, with many people hallucinating a malevolent presence nearby, or even an attacker suffocating them. Surveys put the number of sleep paralysis sufferers between about 5 percent and 60 percent of the population.
Her questions led her to talk with psychologists and scientists, as well as to people who experience the phenomenon. Myths and legends about sleep paralysis persist all over the globe, from the incubus and succubus (male and female demons, respectively) of European tales to a pink dolphin-turned-nighttime seducer in Brazil. Some of the stories MacKinnon uncovered reveal why these myths are so chilling.
Some still insist that climate change is a hoax, but the vast majority of Americans believe the globe is warming, a new survey finds - and they want to prepare for the worst.
In fact, even 60 percent of climate-change doubters favored preparations, the survey found. Researchers collected opinions between March 3 and March 18 via an online questionnaire, using a nationally representative sample of 1,174 American adults, both English and Spanish speaking.
The survey asked about climate-change beliefs and support for adaptation strategies to help coastal areas cope with the rising sea levels and frequent, intense storms that a warmer world could bring. The results showed that 82 percent of Americans are in favor of preparation.
The survey found high levels of belief in global warming, with 82 percent of respondents agreeing that Earth's temperatures have risen over the last century. People tended to see efforts to hold back Mother Nature as futile, Krosnick said. Instead, they preferred preparation strategies that would reduce exposure to risk. For example, 48 percent of respondents supported sand dune restoration, and 33 percent favored replenishing eroding beaches with sand.
Paul Williams, a pioneering rock music journalist whose Crawdaddy! Magazine is considered the first U.S. publication to write seriously about rock 'n roll, has died in California. He was 64.
U-T San Diego says Williams died on Wednesday in an Encinitas care facility.
His wife, Cindy Lee Berryhill, tells the Los Angeles Times that Williams died of complications of dementia triggered by head injuries from a 1995 bicycle accident.
Williams was a teenager when he began publishing Crawdaddy! in 1966. It appeared 18 months before Rolling Stone.
Williams also wrote more than 30 books and helped introduce readers to the work of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. He was Dick's literary executor.
A man dressed as the Easter Bunny is given a warning by California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer Adam Griffiths in this CHP handout photo in La Mesa, California March 31, 2013. The man was stopped on his motorcycle for not wearing a proper safety helmet and because his costume might impair his vision.
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