...aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist - but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact... He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on...
Don't talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking - Times Online
Despite that, should we seek out new life and new civilizations? (Thanks, Gene)
A.) Sure! ... Yoo Hoo! Here we are! Stop by for dinner! (haha).
B.) No way! ... Move along now, ALF, nothing to see here (especially cats).
Paul Krugman: Berating the Raters (nytimes.com)
The Goldman Sachs e-mail messages we should be focusing on are the ones from employees at the rating agencies, which reveal huge conflicts of interest.
Connie Schultz: Surfing the Wave of Change (creators.com)
My mom always said you never get a second chance to make a first impression. She had her checklist: Stand up straight. Don't tuck the back of your skirt into your pantyhose. Try not to say anything stupid. And smile. We didn't spend all that money on braces so you could frown.
"Innocent" by Scott Turow: A review by Chris Bolton
Scott Turow has been called "the thinking man's John Grisham," which is neither terribly fair to Grisham nor very accurate about Turow's strengths. He's more like "the feeling man's John Grisham." What makes Turow's books stand out, besides the lack of blockbuster histrionics, is their attention to the details of his characters.
Fabio Periera: Ten Minutes with: Lynda Carter (huffingtonpost.com)
Best known to the world as Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter has been working in showbiz since she was a teenager. She started off in Phoenix as a girl singer with a band, and through a lot of hard work, a little bit of luck and a long journey, made her way to being Miss World USA and landed the starring role in 'Wonder Woman.'
zEN mAN (observing 73 year old Tecora Brown who was squealed on by her own son (Prince) for pimping young girls and guys (including her own neice and nephew)
Megan Ruth Marshack (born October 1953, in California) was an aide to former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and was with him when he died, in January 1979.
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Marian the teacher was first, and correct, with:
Nelson Rockefeller
BadtotheboneBob (in pain and one handed) wrote:
Megan Marshack was the last person to see Nelson Rockefeller alive.
Alan J said:
Nelson Rockefeller
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
Nelson Rockefeller
Tom C responded:
Megan Marshack was the last person to see Nelson Rockefeller alive. He died of high blood pressure; 75 over 25.
Charlie replied:
On January 26, 1979, it was Nelson Rockefeller. It was suspected they were having an affair.
Sally said:
Don't even have to look this one up, I remember this case quite well! Megan Marshack, had been in the mid-Manhattan town house (at 13 West 54th Street) of Nelson Rockefeller at the time of his death. (Personally, I think she was in his bed, and there was a major discrepancy in the time between calling the cops and his heart attack...) Officially, the police received the anonymous call, but the caller was not an unknown woman, but a quite familiar one to Rockefeller and his associates: Skank, Megan Marshack, 26, a 'research assistant' and MISTRESS, who had been helping Rocky with various publishing projects - "A'hem!"
Yeah, the family pressured various publication to suppress this fact, by I remember the case well - he was just like all the other philanders - with lots of money and prestige! Don't get me wrong here, it's not that I feel sorry for his wife at that time, "Happy." She had done the same thing before ending his marriage to his wife of 32 years, the mother of his FIVE children, and marrying him some years before. As 'they' say, "What comes around, goes around..."
Nelson Rockefeller, Republican Swine, and former Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and 41st VP of the USA 1974 - 1977
PS: Marty, FYI. I had problems bringing up your page on AOL both yesterday and this morning, but B2BB taught me to try Internet Explorer first, and I had no problems doing so there.
PPS: Vic in Alaska, my little buddy, LOVED the pictures of Moose Pass - just like the opening scene of the old TV series, "Northern Exposure!"
Dave in Tucson answered:
Just a SWAG (Stupid Wild-Ass Guess) - Megan Marshack was the last person to see Judge Crater alive.
MAM wrote:
Nelson Rockefeller. and what a story this was!
Megan Marshak Nelson Rockefeller
Elton responded:
... Nelson Rockefeller.
Joe S (on the road to recovery) said:
Nelson Rockefeller suffered a fatal heart attack in the presence of his
25-year-old aide, Megan Marshack, circumstances which led to
eyebrow-raising. To this day, (Warning: Graphic metaphor ahead) a
"Rockefeller" in golf is a putt that trickles into the cup, since such a
putt "dies in the hole."
Oops wrong governor
I went to the doctor today, everything is good. When I was hospitalized
last fall I lost 32 pounds down to 195, then came the holidays. I gained
back 17 pounds up to 212. I'm losing again back down to 207 and my short
term goal is 195. My A Fib is gone and that's the best thing. It went
away without medical procedures. Whoo-hoo! (You know, in case anyone's
interested)
And, Gene L answered:
I love your site ---- Never miss it
The Answer is -- Nelson Rockefeller --- (and they had to cremate him as they couldn't get the smile off his face -- and they couldn't get the lid on the casket closed -- Hahahaah (he had a boner)
When metro Detroiters travel, they often take a piece of home with them and we've got tons of pictures to prove it. The iconic Olde English D has been spotted across the globe, displayed by readers with hometown pride.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS', then a FRESH'The Good Wife'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Courtney Love, Michael Caine, and Hole.
On a RERUNCraig (from 3/23/10) are Jay Baruchel, and Regis & Joy Philbin.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'Parenthood'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Jessica Simpson, Jackie Earle Haley, and Dierks Bentley.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Rebecca Hall and the Whigs.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Citizen Cope.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by a FRESH'Lost', then a FRESH'V'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Dominic Monaghan, the latest "Dancing With The Stars" castoff, and Civil Twilight.
The CW offers a FRESH'90210', followed by a RERUN'Life Unexpected'.
Faux has a FRESH'American Idol', followed by a FRESH'Glee'.
MY here fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball', with Cleveland visiting the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', and the FRESH'The Battle For Late Night'.
AMC offers the movie 'Good fellas', followed by the movie 'First Blood', then the movie 'Rambo: First Blood Part II'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow UK - Episode 5
[1:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow UK - Episode 16
[2:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 4
[2:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 4
[4:00 PM] Colin and Justin's Home Heist - Episode 7
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 2 Walnut Tree
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 2 The Ensigns of Command
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[9:00 PM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[10:00 PM] Survivors - Episode 6
[11:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 2 The Ensigns of Command
[11:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 2 The Ensigns of Command
[12:00 AM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[1:00 AM] Survivors - Episode 6
[2:00 AM] Doctor Who - 2 - The Beast Below
[3:00 AM] Survivors - Episode 6
[4:00 AM] BBC World News
[4:00 AM] BBC World News
[4:30 AM] BBC World News
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'Millionaire Matchmaker', still another 'Millionaire Matchmaker', followed by a FRESH'9 By Design'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Richard Whittle.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Conn Iggulden.
FX has the movie 'The Marine', followed by the movie 'Hitman', then a FRESH'Justified'.
History has 'Modern Mrarvels', 'Ancient Aliens', and 'The Universe'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] The Field
[8:05 AM] Solaris
[9:45 AM] Dinner Rush
[11:30 AM] The Field
[1:30 PM] Solaris
[3:10 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[3:25 PM] Dinner Rush
[5:05 PM] A Fish Called Wanda
[7:00 PM] Britannia Hospital
[9:00 PM] Arrested Development
[9:30 PM] Arrested Development
[10:00 PM] Food Party
[10:15 PM] Food Party
[10:30 PM] Dinner With the Band
[11:00 PM] Ideal
[11:30 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[12:00 AM] Buddy Boy
[1:50 AM] Wrong
[2:00 AM] The Business
[2:30 AM] The Henry Rollins Show
[3:00 AM] Arrested Development
[3:30 AM] Arrested Development
[4:00 AM] Food Party
[4:15 AM] Food Party
[4:30 AM] Dinner With the Band
[5:00 AM] Ideal
[5:30 AM] Monty Python's Flying Circus (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:45 AM] Murderball
[8:15 AM] Swedish Auto
[10:00 AM] The Cowboy And The Frenchman
[10:30 AM] Love Comes Lately
[12:00 PM] Crazy Love
[1:35 PM] Monterey Pop
[3:00 PM] Swedish Auto
[4:45 PM] Pen Pusher
[5:00 PM] Love Comes Lately
[6:25 PM] Crazy Love
[8:00 PM] The Lazy Environmentalist - 202
[8:30 PM] Cities On Speed - 102
[9:30 PM] Under The Bombs
[11:10 PM] The Lazy Environmentalist - 202
[11:40 PM] Cities On Speed - 102
[12:40 AM] Die Mommie Die!
[2:10 AM] Under The Bombs
[3:50 AM] Love Comes Lately
[5:15 AM] Die Mommie Die! (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Merlin', another 'Merlin', still another 'Merlin', followed by a FRESH'WWE NXT'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are Ozzy Osbourne and Kendra & Hank Baskett.
Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo show 'Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,' answers a question during the NBC Universal 2010 Summer Press Day in Pasadena,Calif., Monday, April 26, 2010.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner on Monday donated the last $900,000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to save the famed vista of the Hollywood sign from being spoiled by development.
Hefner's key role in reaching the group's fund-raising goal was announced by Los Angeles city officials, Governor Arnold $chwarzenegger and the San Francisco-based Trust for Public Land at a news conference in the Hollywood Hills.
The land trust needed to collect a total of $12.5 million by this Friday under a deal with a group of Chicago investors who bought the 1,820-foot (555-meter) ridge, called Cahuenga Peak, from the estate of billionaire Howard Hughes in 2002.
The trust will now purchase the 138-acre (56-hectare) adjacent parcel and turn it over to the city to be incorporated into the surrounding Griffith Park, preventing any construction that would mar the postcard-perfect view of the Hollywood sign nearby.
From left, Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Simon and Burt Bacharach appear at the curtain call for the opening night performance of the Broadway musical 'Promises,Promises' in New York, Sunday, April 25, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
The Huffington Post will soon turn five-years-old - veritable old-age in Internet years.
As the site, co-founded by Arianna Huffington and launched on May 9, 2005, marks the anniversary, its proclaimed mission to be an "Internet newspaper" gains more credence every time its traffic surpasses the websites of its print brethren.
It recently made the top 10 current events and global news sites, with 13 million unique users in March, an increase of more than 94 percent over the year before, according to Nielsen Online. If the trend continues, The Huffington Post could soon pass The New York Times' website (16.6 million uniques in March) in traffic this year.
The growth is a remarkable feat for a site launched as little more than a collection of celebrity bloggers, a liberal rival to the Drudge Report.
Since then, HuffPo, as it is known, has developed 20 sections ranging from food to books, launched four city-specific pages and integrated itself with social networks, partnering with Facebook and Twitter.
ABC is planning up to seven Jimmy Kimmel specials for summer, returning the comedian to primetime for the NBA Finals. Starting June 3, half-hour "Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night" specials will lead-off the network's coverage of the NBA Finals. This will mark the third year in a row that ABC has aired the specials, which tend to give the talk show host added exposure. Last year's episodes averaged about 3.2 million viewers.
Chelsea Clinton attends the opening night performance of the Broadway musical 'Promises, Promises' in New York, Sunday, April 25, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Hollywood is producing less trash these days - 40 million pounds less.
The Solid Waste Task Force says major movie studios collectively diverted 66 percent of studio sets and other solid waste from landfills in an industrywide effort to be more environmentally friendly.
MPAA President Bob Pisano said Wednesday the joint effort by the Motion Picture Association of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has reached "an all-time high" in recycling and reusing since it began in the early 1990s.
Disney will donate of a portion of ticket sales for its new film "Oceans" to support coral reef conservation. Fox is marking Earth Day's 40th anniversary and the DVD release of "Avatar" with a pledge to plant a million trees around the world by the end of 2010.
Police broke into the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen and confiscated four computers and servers, the tech blog. Gizmodo broke the news last week about Apple's next-generation iPhone, after paying a source who found it in a California bar $5,000 for the device.
The officers were from the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT), a California law enforcement group based in Silicon Valley. In the search warrant, which Gizmodo posted, REACT officers checked a box indicating that they were looking for property "used as a means of committing a felony."
Since the Gizmodo iPhone scoop broke last week, some have speculated that Gizmodo and its parent company, Gawker Media, might be liable for criminal prosecution for being in receipt of stolen goods under California law.
Gawker has blasted back at the police with seized-property charges of its own, claiming that the police had no legal grounds for seizing a journalist's property. Gaby Darbyshire, Gawker's chief operating officer, wrote to the police that Chen "tells me that he showed you an email I had sent him earlier that day that told him that he should tell you that under both state and federal law, a search warrant may not be validly issued to confiscate the property of a journalist."
John Stamos and Liza Minnelli attend the opening night performance of the Broadway musical 'Promises, Promises' in New York, Sunday, April 25, 2010.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Randy and Evi Quaid were briefly jailed Monday after showing up to court two weeks late for a criminal case, authorities said.
The actor and his wife were released after posting $100,000 bail each and were told to return for a court hearing on Wednesday, the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department said in a news release.
The couple have repeatedly failed to show up for hearings in a felony case alleging they defrauded an inn out of more than $10,000. They also have been charged with burglary and conspiracy and have pleaded not guilty.
Photos taken Monday by the Santa Barbara News-Press showed the handcuffed couple smiling as they were escorted by deputies. The Quaids spent less than four hours in custody.
An actor who was denied entrance to the Oscars last month has sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for false imprisonment, claiming he and his wife were detained for hours without their consent.
Michael Avila, whose IMDb profile says he appears (under the name Michael AvMen) in the upcoming films "Battle: Los Angeles" and "Straw Dogs," claims in a lawsuit filed Friday that he and his wife Mandy were unlawfully imprisoned outside the ceremony after a ticket mix-up.
The Venezuela-born actor says his publicist (unidentified) arranged for him to attend the March 7 ceremony at the Kodak Theater and told him he could pick up his tickets once inside the venue. But when the Avilas arrived on the red carpet without tickets, they say they were "rushed away to an AMPAS detention center where they were held and questioned about how they had been able to get onto the red carpet."
Six hours later, they were transferred to the police station and released without any charges.
Sharon Osbourne, left, and Howie Mandel, judges on the NBC show 'America's Got Talent,' pose together following a panel discussion on the show during theNBC Universal 2010 Summer Press Day in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, April 26, 2010.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
The Supreme Court will decide whether free speech rights are more important than helping parents keep violent material away from children.
The justices agreed Monday to consider reinstating California's ban on the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, a law the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco threw out last year on grounds that it violated minors' constitutional rights.
California Gov. Arnold $chwarzenegger (R-2 Passports), who signed the law in 2005, said he was pleased the high court would review the appeals court decision. He said, "We have a responsibility to our kids and our communities to protect against the effects of games that depict ultra-violent actions, just as we already do with movies."
However, the judge who wrote the decision overturning the law said at the time that there was no research showing a connection between violent video games and psychological harm to young people.
Kate's eight are free to appear on their mom's upcoming reality show.
A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry says producers have obtained child-labor permits for Kate Gosselin's twins and sextuplets to appear with their mother on a series of TLC specials, "Kate Plus 8."
Pennsylvania regulators concluded last month that permits should have been obtained for Gosselin's old show, "Jon & Kate Plus 8." The series ended last year when Kate split with her husband, Jon.
No legal action was taken, but the producers agreed to submit paperwork for any future taping.
In this publicity image released by Julien's Auctions, a photo ID badge for Gene Roddenberry, used to access Paramount Studios set of 'Star Trek V: TheFinal Frontier' 2, is shown. The item will be auctioned by Julien's Auctions along with other 'Star Trek' memorabilia on June 27, 2010 at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino Las Vegas
Photo by Shaan Kokin
A sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday exposed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to billions of dollars in legal damages when it ruled a massive class action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination over pay for female workers can go to trial.
In its 6-5 ruling, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the world's largest private employer will have to face charges that it pays women less than men for the same jobs and that female employees receive fewer promotions and have to wait longer for those promotions than male counterparts.
The retailer has fiercely fought the lawsuit since it was first filed by six women in federal court in San Francisco in 2001 and said it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The appeals court upheld a lower court ruling allowing the lawsuit to go forward as a class action, which attorneys for the Wal-Mart employees said encompasses more than 1 million women. Wal-Mart disputes that figure and asserts fewer than 500,000 women are covered by the decision Monday.
People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, U.S. researchers said on Monday, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate.
They said people who were depressed ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month, compared with 5.4 servings among those who were not.
And people who had major depression based on results of a screening test ate even more -- 11.8 servings per month. A serving was considered to be one small bar, or 1 ounce (28 grams), of chocolate.
Many people consider chocolate a mood-booster but few studies have actually confirmed the connection between the confection and mood. And most studies have looked only at women.
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