Andrew Tobias: An Iraqi's Perspective
We made so many mistakes in Iraq - invading in the first place, of course; not establishing order right away; protecting only the oil ministry from looters; disbanding the army . . . it was all so simpleminded, with such disastrous consequences, so many millions of wrecked lives and our own wrecked national balance sheet - and now Dick Cheney, who gave is this war, is chastisinging us for not exerting more military force around the world and relying too much on diplomacy and nuanced solutions? Really?
Anonymous, J.F. Sargent: 5 Harsh Truths You Learn as a Doctor in the Third World (Cracked)
I trained as a doctor in Caracas, Venezuela, the third most violent city in the world, just behind Deadwood and Rage Virus London. I worked every day to stem the tide of murder and suffering. So the next time you get miffed at the wait time and the weird stains on the chairs in the free clinic, spare a passing thought for us Third World doctors, who deal with stuff like ...
EVAN KINDLEY: LOVE, FACTIONALLY (Public Books)
Since 2003, Continuum Books and Bloomsbury have been publishing a series of short monographs on pop albums under the increasingly anachronistic title "33?." At their best, the 33? books, mostly written by professional music critics and cultural-studies academics, are models of passionate, cerebral fandom.
Marah Gubar: THE MIXED-UP KIDS OF MRS. E. L. KONIGSBURG (Public Books)
How fortunate we are that E. L. Konigsburg, who died a year ago, was not forced to dumb down her most famous story. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) represents a glittering pinnacle in her remarkably long and ambitious career.
Horology is the art or science of measuring time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers, and atomic clocks are all examples of instruments used to measure time. In current usage, horology refers mainly to the study of mechanical time-keeping devices, while chronometry more broadly includes electronic devices that have largely supplanted mechanical clocks for the best accuracy and precision in time-keeping.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
time
Lois Of Oregon wrote:
Horology is the study of TIME pieces, NOT the study of
ladies of the night as I first thought, which reminded me of
a joke: How do you make a hormone? Don't pay her! Pictured:
an unamused prostitute,a Practicing Horologist, and a creepy
watch.
Charlie said:
Time. Smart asses refer to their watches as horologes.
Physicists often use the centimeter as a unit of time, the time it takes light to travel 1 centimeter.
A jiffy is the time it takes light to travel the diameter of a proton, about 3 x 10-24 seconds.
Time, time, time...
Alan J responded:
The science of Measuring Time
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Horology is the art or science of measuring time
Adam answered:
< insert dirty joke here, segue to real answer>
Time.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"measuring time."
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali, said:
Horology is the art or science of making timepieces or of measuring time. I will try to keep my mind in the right place, even though I would care to endeavor into the darkness of true horolgical studies. Homological or homologous methane bodacious productions of swirling lights to celebrate Marty's trendsetting blog spherical stamina.
DJ Useo responded:
Horology is the study of time.
Personally, I have other things to do before I bite the big one. Lol.
MAM wrote:
Horology is the science of measuring time and the art of making timepieces.
Deborah replied:
I dreamed I answered this earlier today. Such is my reality.
Horology is the study of time.
Didn't have to Wiki or Google that one. My studies of Latin-based languages was all I needed (better use it while I still remember it, right?)
And, Joe S answered:
Que hora es?
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Melissa McCarthy, Tim Duncan, Rachelle Lefevre, and Phish.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are David Sedaris and Moon Bloodgood.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'The Night Shift'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 5/12/14) are Louis C.K., Neil Young, and Jack White.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 6/2/14) are Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Gilbert Gottfried, and Kip Moore.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/20/14) are Freida Mock, Sirah, and "Bad Words".
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Extreme Weight Loss', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Wife Swap'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Roseanne Barr, Eric Dane, and Tech N9NE.
The CW offers a FRESH'Famous In 12', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 11/4/14) are Michael Weatherly and Janelle Monae.
Faux has a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', another RERUN'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', and a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars', then another FRESH'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Shipping Wars', then another FRESH'Shipping Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Shutter Island', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation', then the movie 'Meet The Fockers'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 4 - The Power of Three
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 5 - The Angels Take Manhattan
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE SNOWMEN
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 13 - Devil's Due
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 14 - Clues
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Lanterna
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Handlebar
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 5
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 6
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 11 - Haven
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 12 - The Big Goodbye
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 13 - DataloreNEW
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 14 - Angel OneNEW
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 15 - 11001001NEW
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 16 - Too Short a Season
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 13 - Datalore
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 14 - Angel One
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 15 - 11001001
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 16 - Too Short a Season
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 11 - Haven
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 1 - Ep 12 - The Big Goodbye (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta: Kandi's Wedding', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then a FRESH'The People's Couch'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', and yet another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Jennifer Esposito.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Edie Falco.
FX has the movie 'Taken', followed by the movie 'Safe House', then a FRESH'Tyrant'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear', and 'The Hunt'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] SUPERCOP
[8:00AM] COP LAND
[10:15AM] THE BIG RED ONE
[12:45PM] ESCAPE FROM L.A.
[3:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-THERAPY
[3:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL PLAY
[4:00PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-BULLY
[4:30PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-OLD MRS. OLD
[5:00PM] THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
[8:00PM] THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
[11:00PM] SCARFACE
[2:45AM] SHAFT
[5:00AM] COMEDY BANG! BANG!-CASEY WILSON WEARS A WHITE LACE DRESS AND A BLACK BLAZER
[5:30AM] MARON-NOSTALGIC SEX BUDDY (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Law & Order-Second Opinion
[7:00AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Little Black Dress
[7:15AM] Awakenings
[9:45AM] Kissing Jessica Stein
[11:45AM] The Painted Veil
[2:30PM] The Fabulous Baker Boys
[5:00PM] The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
[7:30PM] True Romance
[10:00PM] True Romance
[12:30AM] Brothers
[2:45AM] Clay Pigeons
[5:00AM] Law & Order-Coma (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil: Extinction', followed by a FRESH'The Wil Wheaton Project', another 'The Wil Wheaton Project', then a FRESH'Heroes Of Cosplay'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Meredith Vieira and Dean Norris.
Actor George Takei, left, joined with Sen. Lou Correa, D-Anaheim, in giving the Vulcan Live Long and Prosper sign during Takei's visit to the Capitol in Sacramento Calif., Monday, June 23, 2014. Takei was one of several members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender community to be honored by lawmakers as part of the Legislature's celebration of LGBT Pride Month. The Live Long and Prosper sign was popularized in the 1960's TV show "Star Trek" where Takei played the role of Mr. Sulu.
Photo by Rich Pedroncelli
Three journalists who were arrested while working for Al Jazzera in Egypt were found guilty Monday of reporting false news and assisting the Muslim Brotherhood following the ousting of Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed were all given jail sentences of between 7 to 10 years, sparking outrage among fellow journalists and human rights observers.
Greste was an Australian correspondent for Al Jazeera; Fahmy and Mohamed worked at the station's Egyptian bureau. Ten other Al Jazeera journalists were tried and sentenced in absentia.
Arrested in December, Greste and Fahmy were sentenced to seven years in jail, and Mohamed was sentenced to 10 years, according to Al Jazeera, in a trial that manyclaim lacked any substantial evidence. As Al Jazeera reports, evidence against Greste, Fahmy, and Moahmed included "a BBC podcast, a news report made while none of the accused were in Egypt, a pop video by the Australian singer Gotye, and several recordings on non-Egyptian issues."
Calls immediately came for the verdict to be overturned and the journalists to be set free, with Amnesty International calling Monday a "dark day for media freedom."
A rare auction of an Oscar statuette brought a total of $79,200, well more than expected, at its sale Monday by a Rhode Island auction house.
Nanci Thompson of Briarbrook Auctions said the total included a 20 per cent buyer's premium for the 1942 Oscar. She declined to disclose the name of the buyer, but said "you would recognize the name."
The auctioneer had estimated the golden statuette would sell for $5,000 to $30,000. But several hours before the live auction began, the online bidding had already reached $32,000.
The statue was awarded to Joseph C. Wright at the 15th Academy Awards for color art direction for his work on "My Gal Sal," starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature.
Merry Clayton, the veteran backup singer who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "20 Feet From Stardom," is recovering after being seriously injured in an automobile accident.
Clayton's manager, Alan Abrahams, said in a statement Monday that the 65-year-old singer suffered "severe injuries to her lower body, including major trauma to her lower extremities," in the June 16 crash.
Clayton has "a long road to recovery," Abrahams said.
"It's a very serious situation," he said. "She's feisty, and she's with us. She's gonna make it."
Jim Parsons, Ashley Greene, Pierce Gagnon, Joey King, Screenwriter/Director Zach Braff and Donald Faison seen at Focus Features Presents the Los Angeles Premiere of 'Wish I Was Here' on Monday, June 23, 2014, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
An iconic "Water Lilies" painting by French artist Claude Monet sold for £31.7 million ($54 million, 39.7 million euros) at a London sale on Monday, the second-highest sum paid for his work on record.
The 1906 painting "Nympheas" formed part of a seminal exhibition held at the Galerie Durand-Ruel, in Paris, in 1909 to unveil Monet's Water Lily works.
The instantly recognisable Impressionist masterpiece once belonged to the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel and remained in his personal collection throughout his life.
"Le Bassin aux Nympheas" ("Pool of Water Lilies"), from the same series, still holds the record for a Monet painting sold at auction, fetching $80.3 million at Christie's in London in 2008.
An appellate court has upheld a $19 million judgment against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis in a slander case filed over his claims that casino mogul Steve Wynn threatened to kill him.
The California 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles upheld the verdict in a ruling issued Monday.
After a 2012 trial, a jury found that Francis' statements about threats were defamatory. Both men testified during the trial.
Francis appealed the verdict, arguing he first made the comments in a court proceeding over a gambling debt and should not be held liable for them.
Leading soprano Tamar Iveri on Monday had her contract torn up by Opera Australia for "unconscionable" anti-gay comments posted on her Facebook page that sparked a storm of protest.
The Georgian, daughter of acclaimed baritone Avtandil Javakishvili, referred to homosexuals as "fecal masses" in reacting to a gay pride march in Tblisi.
"I was quite proud of the fact how Georgian society spat at the parade ... please, stop vigorous attempts to bring West's 'fecal masses' in the mentality of the people by means of propaganda," said the post, which was later taken down.
The comments, made 18 months ago, sparked a backlash in Australia, culminating as Iveri was due to perform the role of Desdemona in Verdi's Otello from July 5 at the Sydney Opera House.
In a Facebook post on Saturday, Iveri blamed her husband for the offensive comments made. She said he was "deeply religious" and has a "tough attitude towards gay people".
Female North Korean soldiers walk along the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, June 23, 2014.
Photo by Jacky Chen
Kate Kelly is a Mormon women's rights activist. She founded the group Ordain Women, arguing women deserve a larger role in the Mormon church, including ordination as priests. She has led peaceful protests for her cause and runs an online forum for Ordain Women, where she blogs about her faith.
Earlier this month, the Mormon Church sent Kelly a letter, accusing her of apostasy and taking issue with her online presence. They also had a similar issue with John Dehlin, who runs an online group for Mormons questioning their religion.
On Monday, Kelly learned that she has been excommunicated by the Church. The decision came from three Mormon officials men in Oakton, Virginia, who held a hearing on the matter on Sunday. Before the decision was made, Kelly sent the officials men a letter pleading her case and asking not to be excommunicated. She included photographs of her upbringing in the Mormon church and an explanation of her devotion to Mormonism, as well as more than 1,000 other letters from supporters.
However, her letter stated that was refusing to stop her activism, and this is what ultimately got her removed from the Church. "I will not stop speaking out publicly on the issue of gender inequality in the church," she wrote in the letter, "I cannot repent of telling the truth, speaking what is in my heart and asking questions that burn in my soul."
According to the Bishops men who ruled against her, she can be considered for re-baptism at some point in the future, but that would require her to give up her personal teachings and she "must stop trying to gain a following for yourself or your cause and taking actions that could lead others away from the Church." It seems unlikely that she would comply with that request now.
A worker carries a piece of cork after harvesting it from the trunks of cork oak trees in a forest in Cortes de la Frontera, near Malaga, June 23, 2014.
Photo by Jon Nazca
Malaysia's highest court on Monday dismissed a bid by the Catholic Church for the right to use the word "Allah", ending a years-long legal battle that has heightened religious tensions in the Muslim-majority country.
The legal wranglings were seen as a test case for Malaysia's wider Christian community, but the government later clarified that the verdict was confined to the Catholic newspaper at the centre of the controversy. Worshippers can still use "Allah" to refer to God in church, the government added.
The divisive case, in which the Catholic Church challenged a government ban on its long-time use of the Arabic word, comes as minorities raise concerns that their rights are under threat from increasing Islamisation in Malaysia.
The government had previously banned the use of "Allah" in the local Malay-language edition of the Church's Herald newspaper. The use of the word had angered Muslims, who say Christians are overstepping religious boundaries.
A sand carver works on a sculpture during the Sand Sculpture Festival in Ostend June 23, 2014. A team of 33 carvers from around the world will spend five weeks building giant sculptures based on the 'Disneyland Paris Sand Magic' theme. Six thousand tonnes of sand were needed to complete 150 sculptures which will be on show between June 28 to August 31.
Photo by Francois Lenoir
Russian paleontologists have dug up well-preserved skeletons of two dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 100 million to 120 million years ago, a museum involved with the dig said Monday.
The team found two dinosaur skeletons at a depth of some 2.5 metres (eight feet) below the surface after spending three weeks at a well-known excavation site near the village of Shestakovo in the Siberian region of Kemerovo.
"The skeletons are intact and in great condition," Olga Feofanova, director of a local museum involved with the excavation works, told AFP.
She identified the species as Psittacosaurus sibiricus, noting that each skeleton was around two metres long.
Steve Rossi, one half of the prolific comedy duo Allen & Rossi, which became a favorite of "The Ed Sullivan Show" and other TV variety shows, died Sunday at age 82.
His friend of 40 years, Michael Flores told The Associated Press on Sunday that he visited the pal who introduced him to the likes of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in hospice care in Las Vegas on Friday, and he was weak from cancer of the esophagus that had spread but wasn't in any pain.
"I met every major entertainer in the country through Stevie, and I'm going to miss him," said Flores, who was manager of the Silver Nugget casino when Rossi was producing burlesque shows at another property, meeting through a hotel owner.
The duo appeared regularly on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson" and "The Merv Griffin Show." They also toured comedy clubs nationwide and headlined shows at major Las Vegas casinos in the 1960s until they split up in 1968, the newspaper reported.
They also famously appeared on Ed Sullivan's show multiple times with The Beatles.
Rossi was a casino entertainment director living in a hotel suite, but didn't know anyone. He asked to come over and watch TV one day and ended up staying about 3 ½ years, Flores said, laughing.
Rossi graduated from Loyola Marymount University, had a great sense of humor, was very creative and wrote music, including his hit "More."
Flores added that Rossi was religious and thought the comedian had made peace with his illness.
Rossi is survived by his wife, Karma, two children and two grandchildren.
In this June 12, 2014 photo released by the Los Angeles Zoo three critically endangered Chacoan peccary piglets born at the zoo on June 3, 2014. These medium-sized animals, found primarily in Paraguay and Bolivia, are very social and have a strong resemblance to pigs. The triplets are the first litter for both the mother and father, and can now be seen on exhibit daily during Zoo hours.
Photo by Ted Motoyama
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