The Ultimate Runway Model Fails Compilation (YouTube)
"Everyone loves a good FAIL compilation; but when it's prancing catwalk models taking a tumble, it's even better...The sound track makes it perfect." - Ana Samwise
New Rules Real Time with Bill Maher June 8 2012 (YouTube)
"Now that summer is upon us, the Occupy Wall Street movement must think of a more effective form of protest than . . . camping. To be considered a real movement, it has to start moving asses off the streets and into the voting booth."
Paul Krugman: Greece as Victim (New York Times)
Ever since Greece hit the skids, we've heard a lot about what's wrong with everything Greek. Some of the accusations are true, some are false - but all of them are beside the point. Yes, there are big failings in Greece's economy, its politics and no doubt its society. But those failings aren't what caused the crisis that is tearing Greece apart, and threatens to spread across Europe.
Save the Troy Library "Adventures In Reverse Psychology" (YouTube)
Yard signs began appearing that read: "Vote to Close Troy Library on August 2nd - Book Burning Party on August 5th." No one wants to be a part of a town that burns books, and the outraged citizens of Troy pushed back against the "idiotic book burners" and ultimately supported the tax increase, thus ensuring the library's survival.
Terry Savage: Millions to Give Away! (Creators Syndicate)
More than $7 billion of Federal TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) funds are sitting around in 18 states and the District of Columbia - just waiting to be given to homeowners who have fallen behind in their mortgage payments! This is not a fantasy. It is cold, hard cash that was meant to help keep the unemployed from losing their homes. But some states are having a tough time actually putting the money to work. The irony is that this is named the "Hardest Hit" program - but the money isn't getting to its destination.
Happiness is a Glass Half Empty (Guardian)
Be positive, stay focused on success: so goes our modern mantra. But perhaps the true path to contentment is to learn to be a loser, says Oliver Burkeman.
Henry Rollins: Joey Ramone's Legacy is in Danger (LA Weekly)
When an artist is gone, we get to see the integrity of those who are looking after their memory. I would like to thank the Miles Davis and Frank Zappa estates for being so classy and releasing excellent records, which keep the quality at a premium and bring new people to this incredible music. Seeing more merchandise of a band when it is dead and gone than at anytime the band was alive and functioning makes me weary.
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."
Michael Caine is one of only two actors who have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s. Who is the other actor?
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, actor and writer/author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
The first of his fourteen stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. His final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death.
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BttbBob was first, and correct, with:
1977. I've always thought George was the funniest 'intellectual humorist' on the planet (somewhere George is yellin', "You called me what?"). Too bad, George. Sue me. Oh, wait... you can't, now, can ya? Haha... Seriously, though, the man was a comedic genius, sans pareil. I have book-marked a page of his quotes that I read occasionally when the world starts to get to me. It helps...
I miss you George...
Alan J said:
1977
Charlie wrote:
1977 - On Location: George Carlin at USC
Adam answered:
It was filmed in 1977.
Jim from CA, retired to ID replied:
George Carlin at USC (aka An Evening with George Carlin at USC) is
American comedian George Carlin's first ever HBO special, Recorded during
the Summer of 1977 at the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles.
The soon-to-be-vacationing Marian responded:
1977
Sally, whose birthday is today, said:
I never was into George Carlin when he was performing, but in the last few years I have become a real fan. He is so spot on, guess he was before his time...
IAC, Carlin's first HBO performance was in 1977, "On Location: George Carlin at USC."
Check...
PS: Cell phone update. My gks attend a Jewish school. 8-blocks away is a Catholic school, and another 8-blocks away is a Public school - sort of in a triangle. So, last week one of the kids from the Catholic school was walking home with his friend. The area is alive with kids walking home at this time of day, so the kid pulls out his phone (one with all the bells and whistles) to call his dad. Two bigger kids come up to them, grab the phone as saunter off!! When telling us the story, JJ says, "He had just picked up the phone from the truck."
"What truck" I ask?
Okay, ready for this?
Most kids are not allowed to carry his/her phone to school BECAUSE OF THE METAL DETECTORS, but they 'need' them after school. Now, some enterprising people got together, bought vans that they park outside the schools. The kids check in their phones, for a DOLLAR a day, and retrieve them when coming out of school!! When I checked it online, I found these guys are making MILLIONS and, in our area, with 3 schools so close together, they can make a killing! If a kid comes out on lunch hour, they can get the phone, but it's another buck to check the phone back in!! Mind you, these are kids under 13 years of age!! They say the high-schools are gold mines...
Guess the economy is driving society to a whole new level of foolishness. No wonder it's so expensive to raise children these days!
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
1977's "On Location: George Carlin at USC" was George Carlin's first HBO Special. He is one of my true heroes. Great Carlin quotes:
"There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. "All of you words over here, you seven….baaaad words." That's what they told us, right? …You know the seven, don't ya? That you can't say on TV? Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits."
"Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
I highly recommend "Last Words" - Carlin's last book!
MAM wrote:
1977
George Carlin at USC', 1977
And, Joe S answered:
The first of his fourteen stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977.
Happy birthday Sally! Here's a little beefcake for your party. Look! Speedos!
A Horse Is A Horse, Unless Of Course It's Ann Romney's Dressage Champ : It's All Politics : NPR By way of disclosure, I live/work on a 5-acre "farmette" and own/ride my magnificent QH mare 3-4 times per week. It costs 2+K per year to keep her; nowhere NEAR the $77,000 Rmoney is claiming as a "BUSINESS" expense for his wife's Olympic-bound dressage horse. While I certainly don't begrudge her her love for the horse and completely agree with horse riding as therapy, how the F can "Rafalca" be deducted on HIS taxes? She doesn't even RIDE the mare.
(Um... the hypotenuse of a right triangle is... wait a minute... I know this!)
Black bears have demonstrated counting abilities, in a first for the species. Three captive bears took a series of number-based tests on a touch-screen computer, research published in the journal Animal Behaviour showed. They had to choose between two different-sized sets of dots and were rewarded with food for correct answers... the North American black bears were first trained to understand the process and equipment involved in the tests... The experiment then involved presenting the bears with two sets of dots or "arrays"... the team varied the pattern of the dots and the shaded area on which the arrays were shown, and in some tests the dots were also moving...
BBC Nature - Black bears show counting skills on computers
Are these bears smarter than the average bears or are average bears just plain ol' smart? Inquiring minds want to know...
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Jeff Daniels, Benjamin Walker, and Walk the Moon.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Steve Carell and Snoop Dogg.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by another RERUN'America's Got Talent', then a FRESH'Love In The Wild'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Matthew McConaughey, Natasha Leggero, and Grouplove.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Michelle Pfeiffer, Cedric the Entertainer, Dirty Projectors, and Larry Dunn.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/23/12) are Jamal Simmons, Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter, and Young the Giant.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball Finals', followed by a FRESH'Jimmy Kimmel Live', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Sally Field, Kevin Love, and Waka Flocka Flame.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Catalina', followed by a RERUN'The LA Complex'.
Faux has a FRESHHell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'Cold Case', followed by another old 'Cold Case'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Barter Kings', then another FRESH'Barter Kings', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then another FRESH'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'The Fugitive'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 10-Ep 19 - Hugh Grant, Jo Brand, Joanna Page, David Guetta
[9:00AM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 19 - Asian-style Salmon
[9:30AM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 20 - Killer Jerk Chicken
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 2 (2006)-Ep 2 Tooth and Claw
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 1-Ep 1 - Bonapartes
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 4-Ep 2 - Piccolo Teatro
[1:00PM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 21 - Rib Eye Stir Fry
[1:30PM] JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 22 - Thai Green Curry
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 2-Ep 1 - Lanterna
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 1U-Ep 2 - Lela's4:00PMDOCTOR WHO - SEASON 2 (2006)-Ep 3 School Reunion
[5:00PM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - SEASON 3-Ep 4 - Exodus, Part 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 9-Episode 4
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 2
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 12-Episode 1
[9:00PM] DISCOVERING LENNON
[10:00PM] THE BRIT LIST: 20 COOLEST
[11:00PM] THE BRIT LIST: 20 SEXIEST
[12:00AM] DISCOVERING LENNON
[1:00AM] THE BRIT LIST: 20 COOLEST
[2:00AM] THE BRIT LIST: 20 SEXIEST
[3:00AM] TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH -Episode 4
[4:00AM] TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH -Episode 5
[5:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Pregnant In Heels'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Workaholics'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Sen. Marco Rubio.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Olivia Wilde.
FX has the movie 'Tooth Fairy', followed by the movie 'The Proposal', then the movie 'The Proposal', again.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Four Weddings and a Funeral
[8:30AM] Bunk
[9:00AM] Dancer in the Dark
[12:00PM] Morning Light
[2:15PM] Four Weddings and a Funeral
[4:45PM] The Three Stooges-Vagabond Loafers
[5:10PM] The Three Stooges-Wham-Bam-Slam
[5:35PM] The Three Stooges-Booty and the Beast
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Company Picnic
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Reese Drives
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Cynthia's Back
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Hal's Birthday
[8:00PM] King of New York
[10:15PM] The Bank Job
[12:45AM] King of New York
[3:00AM] The Bank Job
[5:30AM] Action-Pilot (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally
[6:30A] Wordplay
[8:00A] Amreeka
[9:45A] Saturn In Opposition
[11:35A] Pen Pusher
[11:45A] Wordplay
[1:15P] Amreeka
[3:00P] Love Lust & Secret Societies
[4:00P] Pal/secam
[4:15P] Saturn In Opposition
[8:00P] Shooting Fish
[9:45P] The Business Trip
[10:00P] INDIE SEX: Extremes
[11:30P] The Exterminating Angels
[1:15A] Enter the Void
[3:45A] Shooting Fish
[5:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Hills Have Eyes II', followed by a FRESH'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files', then a FRESH'Hollywood Treasure'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Sharon Osbourne, Ashley Fiolek, and Chad Daniels.
Hosts LMFAO (L) perform with actor Rico Rodriguez of "Modern Family" during the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, June 17, 2012.
Photo by Mike Cassese
A retired music executive will donate more than 200 audio interviews with popular singers including Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Paul McCartney and others to the Library of Congress, officials announced Monday.
The gift includes interviews that Joe Smith recorded over two years while president of Capitol Records/EMI. He compiled the candid oral histories for his book, "Off the Record," published in 1988. The collection includes interviews with dozens of big names, including Barbra Streisand,George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner and others.
Now the recordings have been digitized by the world's largest library and will be available to researchers at its reading room on Capitol Hill. Some will be streamed on the library's website later this year to provide wider access.
The 84-year-old Smith said he wanted to preserve part of the nation's cultural history. The 238 hours of interviews stretch from the Big Band era with Artie Shaw and Woody Herman to U2's Bono.
His interview with Glenn Frey of The Eagles came at a time when the band was ready to break up, but Smith was trying to convince Frey and Don Henley to make a live album. Eventually, the musicians agreed to do the album if Smith could answer one question.
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) accepts the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty (L) and singer Bono from the rock band U2 in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin, Ireland June 18, 2012.
Photo by David Moir
A state lawmaker who says she was barred from speaking in the Michigan House because Republicans objected to her saying "vagina" during debate on anti-abortion legislation is set to perform "The Vagina Monologues" on the Statehouse steps - with a hand from the author.
Eve Ensler, whose groundbreaking play about women's sexuality still packs theaters 16 years after it debuted, is overseeing Monday night's performance on the Statehouse steps by Democratic state Rep. Lisa Brown, 10 other lawmakers and several actresses. The show was expected to draw quite a crowd, as more than 3,700 people had indicated they planned to attend on the Facebook event page, "Vaginas Take Back the Capitol!"
Ensler, who took time away from a production she's overseeing in California so she could help put on Monday's performance, said she's thrilled to be involved. She likened the punishment meted out by the Republicans who control the Michigan House to "the Dark Ages."
"If we ever knew deep in our hearts that the issue about abortion ... was not really about fetuses and babies, but really men's terror of women's sexuality and power, I think it's fully evidenced here," Ensler told The Associated Press by phone Monday.
"We're talking about the silencing of women, we're talking about censoring people for saying a body part," she said. "Half of these people who are trying to regulate vaginas, they can't even say the word."
Arsenio Hall is returning to TV's late-night scene, where he flourished with a talk show two decades ago.
CBS Television Distribution says it is developing a syndicated nightly talk show with the 57-year-old actor and comedian. The company said Monday that the show is set to premiere in fall 2013.
Hall is best known for hosting the Emmy Award-winning "Arsenio Hall Show," which ran from 1989 to 1994. That show's place in pop-culture history was clinched in 1992 when then-presidentialcandidate Bill Clinton appeared and played "Heartbreak Hotel" on the saxophone.
Hall was featured in the 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy "Coming to America" and was a regular on the CBS series "Martial Law" in the late 1990s.
Electronic books accounted for 282.3 million dollars of sales in the first quarter of 2012 (up 28.1 percent from year), according to theAssociation of American Publishers (AAP). It's the first time that e-book sales account for more than hardcover books, sales of which accounted for $229.6M, (up 2.7 percent from last year).
Paperbacks remain the most lucrative sector, with sales totaling $299.8M, but they registered a drop of 10.5 percent compared to last year.
Another figure reinforces the trend: exports of American books reached $357.4M (up 7.2 percent). While the portion of electronic books in that total remained relatively minor at $21.5M, it showed an increase of 332.6 percent in one year.
This data was based on sales figures from 1,189 publishers and does not include data for children's books.
Flaring tensions led to violence and an arrest in Michigan this weekend as members of Christian missionary groups turned up to protest at the largest public gathering of Arab-Americans in the U.S.
Christian protesters traveled across the country to Dearborn, Mich., where they taunted attendees and even held a severed pig's head for three days at the annual Arab International Festival. The protests turned violent Sunday, and by the end of the day as many as 10 people facing disorderly conduct or assault charges, according to ABC News Detroit affiliate WXYZ .
"You're going to burn in hell," a missionary reportedly yelled at a group of Arab-American boys, while other protesters held anti-Muslim signs that made bigoted remarks about Islam and its prophet Mohammed, including "Islam is a religion of blood and murder" and "Muhammad (Islam's prophet) is a … liar, false prophet, murderer, child molesting pervert."
Dearborn has the highest concentration of Arab-Americans in the country, compromising nearly 42 percent of the city's population, according to the 2010 census. This has made the city a flashpoint for conflict amongst Christian grounds and Arab-Americans.
A Kashmiri Muslim clerk displays a relic (inside glass tube) of Prophet Mohammad to devotees during Meeraj-un-Nabi celebrations at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar June 18, 2012. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims on Monday thronged to the Hazratbal shrine which houses what is believed to be a relic from the beard of Prophet Mohammed. The festival marks the ascension of Prophet Mohammed to Heaven.
Photo by Fayaz Kabli
Actor Richard Dreyfuss is suing his father and uncle to dissolve their business partnership and demand repayment of a $870,000 loan.
Star of "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Dreyfuss filed an action for dissolution and breach of fiduciary duty against his father, Norman Dreyfuss, and his uncle, Gilbert Dreyfuss, according to Courthouse News Service.
According to Courthouse News Service, Dreyfuss says his family asked him to contribute $870,000 for a "family crisis" 20 years ago, but instead used the money to purchase a 13-story office building in downtown Los Angeles.
Dreyfuss also claims that, although he owns at least 29 percent of the company, he has received nothing in exchange for his investment.
Dreyfuss said his family members claim he owns no more than 10 percent of the business. He alleges that they pocketed $5.5 million from a 2009 judgment won by the company but gave the actor nothing. Now, he says in his complaint, his father and uncle are trying to sell the building.
An episode of "Thailand's Got Talent" has stirred a morality debate after a contestant painted a canvas using her bare breasts, drawing a rebuke from the culture minister who called it "very shocking."
Culture Minister Sukumol Kunplome said Monday that nudity on television is not considered appropriate in Thai society. She said the show's producers have been summoned to explain why the segment was broadcast and the ministry will then decide whether to take action.
The show, broadcast Sunday on Thailand's Channel 3, featured 23-year-old Duangjai Jansaunoi, who walked onstage barefoot in jeans and a baggy men's button-down shirt. She introduced herself as an independent artist from northern Thailand.
She then turned to a large canvas and painted a yellow outline of a person. She then removed her shirt, unhooked a black bra and doused herself with several tins of paint before turning to the audience with a broad smile to display her multicolored torso. The area around her breasts was blurred out by censors.
As dance music played, the contestant used her body as a paintbrush to fill in the outline.
A woman passes by an art work called "The Pokrova Church on the Nerl River" at the "Wheel of History" exhibition of sand sculptures in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, June 18, 2012. Sand sculptures, created by Siberian artists and depicting space exploration, the personality of Leonardo da Vinci, the Olympic Games, the Patriotic War of 1812 against the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and other topics, will be on exhibit all summer, according to organizers.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
If Sigur Ros' new video were a movie, it might merit an NC-17 rating.
For the band's clip of "Fjogur Piano" released Monday, "Transformers" star Shia LaBeouf appears naked.
Alma Har'el directed the video. It is part of a series being created for the band's latest album "Valtari." The video also features female nudity, dancing, an octopus, lollipops and trippy images.
Videos don't come with ratings. But the Sigur Ros video does have a warning for its content before it begins.
Father's Day might always be a tricky holiday for Woody Allen but this year was particularly awkward. Ronan Farrow, the 24-year-old son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen let loose yesterday tweeting, "Happy father's day - or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day."
Woody and Ronan have been estranged for years since his parents split and because of Woody was dating (and later married) Soon-Yi Previn, Mia's adopted daughter, Ronan's step-sister. He has been quoted in the past as saying, "He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression." Soon-Yi has said that she never considered Allen her father or even a father figure, noting that Andrew Previn, Farrow's former husband was her adoptive father.
Ronan, named Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow when he was born in 1987 is the sole biological child of Woody and actress Mia Farrow. He is currently serving as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Global Youth Issues and director of the State Department's Global Youth Issues office.
Jellied eels (top row L-R), scotch eggs, bangers and mash (middle row L-R), a full English breakfast, roast beef and yorkshire pudding, pie and mash in liquor, crumble and custard (bottom row L-R), bread and butter pudding and strawberries and cream are seen in this combination photograph taken June 13, 2012. A menu of oddly named and sometimes oddly tasting traditional British dishes awaits adventurous diners visiting London for the Olympic Games this summer.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
An archaeologist says he found the oldest piece of rock art in Australia and one of the oldest in the world: an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago in an Outback cave.
The dating of one of the thousands of images in the Northern Territory rock shelter known as Nawarla Gabarnmang will be published in the next edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science.
University of Southern Queensland archaeologist Bryce Barker said Monday that he found the rock in June last year but only recently had it dated at New Zealand's University of Waikato radiocarbon laboratory.
He said the rock art was made with charcoal, so radiocarbon dating could be used to determine its age. Most rock art is made with mineral paint, so its age cannot be accurately measured.
The oldest known rock art is in Spain, where hand stencils and red disks made by blowing paint on to the wall in El Castillo cave are at least 40,800 years old, according to scientists using a technique known as uranium-thorium dating.
When traveling overseas or even across the country, we are forced to deal with long lines, disgruntled TSA agents, crying babies and hours of terrible movies. Airline travel has become such a hassle that this writer is more likely to embark on a multi-day road trip than hop on the next flight out of JFK. For years, TV shows and movies have imagined different and unique ways we might travel, but most of them are very far fetched in terms of currently-available technology. While various countries employ high-speed bullet trains, the airlines are still the fastest way to get from A to B for the time being. If one company's technology manages to gain support, however, this might not be the case in the near future.
Imagine leaving London and arriving in New York in just 60 minutes. A futuristic vacuum train could cut the travel time between the two cities by nearly 90%, or even take travelers from Washington D.C. to Beijing in just two hours - all of this done without ever touching the sky.
A company called ET3 is currently selling licenses for its Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) system, which it claims is a safer, cheaper, greener and faster means of transportation. These futuristic "vactrains" are designed to travel through tunnels that have had all of the air sucked out of them to minimize friction, theoretically enabling the train to reach speeds of up to 4,000 miles per hour.
The concept of the modern vactrain was first introduced more than 100 years ago, when American engineer Robert Goddard drew up specs for a prototype in the 1910s while attending Clark University. Goddard's original design conceptualized a vactrain traveling from Boston to New York at speeds of 1,000 mph, making the trip in a mere 12 minutes.
Writer Erica Kennedy has been found dead in her Miami Beach apartment. She was 42.
Police confirmed Monday that Kennedy, whose full name was Erica Kennedy Johnson, was found dead last week. No cause was immediately reported.
Sarah Robinson, known to family and friends as Aunt Porgy, released a statement over the weekend.
According to a bio linked to Kennedy's Twitter account, the former fashion publicist began her writing career as a special correspondent for the New York Daily News. She went on to write about fashion and entertainment for magazines such as Vibe, In Style, Paper and Elle UK.
She published the hip-hop satire "Bling" in 2004 with a book cover of her own design. It became a New York Times best seller and was optioned for film by The Weinstein Company. Kennedy's follow-up novel, "Feminista," was released in 2009.
The graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Oxford University, Kennedy worked most recently as a creative consultant for fashion and lifestyle brands and was known for her lively tweets.
Jaguar-Drillinge (Panthera onca) spielen am Dienstag (12.06.12) in ihrem Gehege im Zoo in Berlin. Die drei Katzenkinder wurden am 16. April 2012 geboren. Es ist der erste Zuwachs bei den Jaguaren nach zwei Jahren Pause. Waehrend zwei der drei Katzen die typische Fleckenzeichnung aufweisen, hat das dritte Tier schwarzes Fell.
Photo by Paul Zinken
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