Lenore Skenazy: What You had that Your Kids Do Not (Creators Syndicate)
It's not that these kids don't have friends in their neighborhoods. It's that they never see them. The bungalow colony is sort of a nature preserve for humans. There's always someone kicking around outside. Or if not, kids go from cabin to cabin, seeing who wants to play.
Scott Burns: The Conspiracy For Failure in 401(k) Plans (AssetBuilder)
Unfortunately, those in the industry- mutual fund companies, insurance companies, consultants and others- have a vested interest in keeping fees high because our retirements are their lunch. The result amounts to a conspiracy to support failure.
Henry Rollins: Metalheads in Germany (LA Weekly)
The withering barrage du jour was about how, when choosing an alternative path for your life, there are a lot of hard knocks; one must not only strengthen one's mind and body against everything from illegal search and seizure to drugs, bad food and other sidelining toxins but also must cultivate the strength to help others on the trail when they are in need.
XJ Selman: 4 Recent News Stories That'll Restore Your Faith In Humanity (Cracked)
If you give the news a casual glance, the big picture tends to be fairly goddamn dreadful. After all, news outlets rely on readers coming back day after day to see which one of the planet's 7 billion people decided to go insane the day before. But amid the horde of world-ending dipshits hogging the headlines, there are those kindly folks out there who don't cause us to pray for Ragnarok on a daily basis.
The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Solar System to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Estimates of the length of one orbit range from 225 to 250 million "terrestrial" years.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
galactic year
Charlie wrote:
A galactic year, or cosmic year sometimes. About 225,000,000 (or so) of our usual years.
Alan J responded:
The Galactic Year
Adam answered:
One Galactic Year.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time
required for the Solar System to orbit once around the center of the Milky
Way Galaxy ...
Sally said:
Question: What is the term for the duration of time required for the Solar System to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy?
Answer: The galactic year AKA a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Solar System to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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PS: @JoeS, Little Wallace is gorgeous (pretty as his cousins)!
PPS: Hoping Dale from Diamond Springs is holding his own from that fire... "Hang tough," Dale!
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcalismokey, responded:
The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is approximately 220 million years long. Cosmic people at Burning Man!
BttbBob answered:
I don't readily know... I guess I'm "clueless". That's okay. I've been "clueless" before. I've even been called "clueless". No matter, though... water off a duck's back and all. How's that? Well, I can find out what the answer is which one does when one is "clueless"... Ah, now, the answer is a 'Galactic Year' (or, 'Cosmic Year' if'n ya prefer). It's a very, very long time, dontcha know, using our time frame reference. That length, however, isn't known fer absolutely sure, as many things are not known fer absolutely sure. One could use 225 million terrestrial years as that figure and probably not get much guff... But, as I always say, "Ya never know!" Why? Cuz there are those that are convinced that they, themselves alone, possess "The Clue" and then self-righteously exclaim that you are "clueless"... or some such thing. That can be such a bore, I'm tellin' ya...
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(65) Comrade KGB Major Anya Amasova (aka Agent XXX)
(69) The blond, not the magazine... (Parents Are Cubes?)
Alex Lifeson (59) Lead guitarist for Rush - limelight - YouTube
"Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage"
Born this day:
(1908-1973) I was peripherally involved in the medical response to his fatal heart attack. I worked in the cardiology department at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and the Chief of Cardiology, Col. George McGranahan, was his personal physician. There was a 'hot-line' phone from the ranch to our department and when the Secret Service called we went into action awaiting his arrival. We had a world-class cardiac-cath lab that was put on alert. A team (led by the Colonel) was flown by chopper from BAMC to the airport as he was being flown in from the ranch. However, it was too late. He had expired well before he arrived. The event is still very vivid in my memory...
The energy level in the department was off the scale.
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 Anderson Cooper, Olivia Munn, Robert Randolph and the Family Band.
On a RERUNCraig (from 6/14/13) are Emily Mortimer and Barry Rothbart.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'Hollywood Game Night', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Josh Duhamel, J.B. Smoove, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 7/30/13) are Dan Aykroyd, Paula Patton, Brad Paisley, and Booker T. Jones.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/17/13) are Buzz Aldrin and Big Black Delta.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Extreme Weight Loss', followed by a RERUN'Body Of Proof'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/5/13) are Sharon Stone, Dane Cook, Jamie N Commons.
The CW offers a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway,', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway', then a FRESH'Capture'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', then another FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', followed by a FRESH'Barter Kings'.
AMC offers the movie 'King Kong', followed by the movie 'The Mummy'.
BBC -
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 9
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 10
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 17 - Night Terrors
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 18 - Identity Crisis
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 19 - The Nth Degree
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 10 - Park's Edge
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Glass House
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 9
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 10
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 2
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 3
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 4
[9:00PM] 28 DAYS LATER
[11:30PM] 28 DAYS LATER
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 3
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 4
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 2
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Interior Therapy With Jeff Lewis', followed by a FRESH'Interior Therapy With Jeff Lewis', and 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles'.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'The Proposal', then the movie 'The Proposal', again.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', 'The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man', another 'The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man', followed by a FRESH'The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man', then another FRESH'The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[8:30AM] The Thing
[10:45AM] The Gate
[12:30PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[12:45PM] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[3:15PM] The Thing
[5:30PM] Jarhead
[8:00PM] V for Vendetta
[10:15PM] Cruising
[12:30AM] Cruising
[2:45AM] Bangkok Dangerous
[5:00AM] Bunk
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Gosford Park
[8:15AM] All the President's Men
[10:45AM] Snow Cake
[1:15PM] Gosford Park
[3:30PM] All the President's Men
[6:00PM] The Big Chill
[8:00PM] You Can Count on Me
[10:00PM] The Virgin Suicides
[11:45PM] You Can Count on Me
[1:45AM] The Virgin Suicides
[3:30AM] Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
[5:15AM] The Spine (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Heroes Of Cosplay'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 5/23/13) are Vin Diesel, Steve Schirripa, and the Mowgli's.
Bill Murray, the first guest on "The Late Show With David Letterman," will return as a guest on Thursday to mark its 20th year on the air.
Murray first appeared n the show on its first episode on August 30, 1993. This will mark his 26th appearance on the show.
Murray was also the first guest on Letterman's NBC series, "Late Night," when it debuted in 1982. Last year, he visited the "Late Show" to mark the 20th anniversary of that appearance. He nearly started a fire while lighting a cupcake in honor of the big day.
As of August 29, Letterman will have aired 3,897 episodes and four primetime specials. It has won nine Emmy Awards, including six for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Foxx and Forest Whitaker are among the celebrities joining three presidents this week to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
Soledad O'Brien and Hill Harper will host the "Let Freedom Ring" commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream speech on Wednesday. President Barack Obama and former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are also joining the tribute at the Lincoln Memorial.
Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, will speak at this year's march, along with Winfrey, Foxx and Whitaker.
Musicians including LeAnn Rimes and BeBe Winans are scheduled to perform.
The Environmental Media Association is honoring Matt Damon and Hayden Panettiere for their dedication to ecological causes.
The organization announced Monday that the two actors will be honored at its 23rd annual Environmental Media Awards this fall.
Damon will receive the Ongoing Commitment Award for his work with Water.org, the organization he co-founded that aims to bring safe water and sanitation to people around the world.
Panettiere will accept the Futures Award, which recognizes younger entertainers for their potential to be environmental activists. The "Nashville" star is active with the Whaleman Foundation, an oceanic research and conservation group.
Coca-Cola keeps the recipe for its 127-year-old soda inside an imposing steel vault that's bathed in red security lights. Several cameras monitor the area to make sure the fizzy formula stays a secret.
But in one of the many signs that the surveillance is as much about theater as reality, the images that pop up on video screens are of smiling tourists waving at themselves.
"It's a little bit for show," concedes a guard at the World of Coca-Cola museum in downtown Atlanta, where the vault is revealed at the end of an exhibit in a puff of smoke.
The ability to push a quaint narrative about a product's origins and fuel a sense of nostalgia can help drive billions of dollars in sales. That's invaluable at a time when food makers face greater competition from smaller players and cheaper supermarket store brands that appeal to cash-strapped Americans.
It's why companies such as Coca-Cola and Twinkies' owner Hostess play up the notion that their recipes are sacred, unchanging documents that need to be closely guarded. As it turns out, some recipes have changed over time, while others may not have. Either way, they all stick to the same script that their formulas have remained the same.
Grammy-winning reggae musician Frederick "Toots" Hibbert is suing several organizations after he was injured during a May concert in Richmond.
Hibbert has filed the $20 million lawsuit in Richmond Circuit Court against Venture Richmond and Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers Inc.
The suit also names security-provider Regional Marketing Concepts Inc. and another company that provided concessions for the concert.
The leader of Toots and the Maytals was struck in the head with a tossed vodka bottle while he performed on Brown's Island in the James River. After suffering a deep head cut, Hibbert canceled the remaining dates on his tour and returned to Jamaica.
"MediaBuzz," the new Fox News Channel show hosted by Howard Kurtz, will premiere Sunday, September 8 at 11 a.m. ET, Fox News executive vice president Michael Clemente said Monday.
The one-hour offering will "focus on the state of the news media in addition to the media's shaping of current events and their role in politics while also featuring interviews with leading journalists and commentators," the network said.
Kurtz, who until June had served as the host of CNN's weekly media-criticism show "Reliable Sources" since 1998, will be joined by Daily Download editor-in-chief Lauren Ashburn, who will serve as a contributor to "MediaBuzz." On the show, Kurtz "will examine media bias while dissecting news events of the current and previous weeks," Fox News added. "He will also analyze how social media has evolved and the effect it has had throughout the industry, including the stories that are most popular over the various social networks and how pundits use those mediums to deliver their specific narrative."
The series will feature Bing Pulse, which will display real-time reactions to the different segments throughout the show.
A portion of the Oregon Trail in south-central Idaho near Burley has been damaged by people using metal detectors and shovels to illegally search for artifacts, federal officials said.
Bureau of Land Management officials said they recently found about 400 holes over several miles of the trail, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and protected under the Archaeological Resource Protection Act of 1979.
The holes are along wagon ruts made in the 1800s through the dirt and sagebrush by thousands of immigrants heading to Oregon, officials said.
"Although owning a metal detector is not illegal, be aware that using this device on lands under federal management may result in a crime," BLM Burley Field Office Archaeologist Suzann Henrikson said. "If you sink a shovel in an archaeological site on public land, you could be convicted of a felony."
Polar Music Prize laureates Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (L) and Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour give a news conference in Stockholm August 26, 2013. They will be awarded their prizes on Tuesday by Swedish King Carl Gustaf at the Stockholm concert hall. The Polar Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, publisher, lyricist and manager of ABBA, and was awarded to N'Dour for promoting understanding between faiths as well as for his music. "Saariaho is a modern maestro who opens up our ears and causes their anvils and stirrups to fall in love," the award committee said.
Photo by Jonas Ekstromer
A Japanese school board on Monday scrapped curbs on children's access to an iconic anti-war comic, following criticism from those who saw the move as part of a trend to whitewash the country's wartime misdeeds.
The furor over the bid to limit access to the late Keiji Nakazawa's "Barefoot Gen" manga has echoed worries about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative agenda to recast Japan's wartime history in less apologetic colors.
Nakazawa's manga, "Barefoot Gen", is based on the author's own experience of the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and tells of the struggle of a boy whose father and siblings were killed.
Published over a dozen years from 1973 and translated into some 20 languages, the comic includes harsh criticism of the late Emperor Hirohito in whose name Japan fought World War Two.
A classic made into movies and animated films, the comic has drawn criticism from Japanese ultra-conservatives. They also argue that the post-war education system teaches a "masochistic" account of history, putting too much stress on Japan's wartime misdeeds.
The Chinese town where the Dalai Lama was born is undergoing huge redevelopment, and behind a mountain the exiled spiritual leader's family home has received a makeover of its own, with a three-metre wall and security cameras installed.
The building in Hongai village, at the summit of a towering peak, is the only place in China dedicated to the man Beijing considers a violent separatist and a "wolf in monk's robes".
But the house has become a symbol of China's bitterly divisive policy in Tibetan regions following its 2.5 million yuan ($400,000) refurbishment, amid concern from international rights groups over the scale and speed of Tibetan housing and relocation programmes.
"This is not modernisation but Sinofication," Tibetan poet and activist Tsering Woeser told AFP.
For Tibetans the building's transformation is a sign of lost traditions, unrecognisable from the simple farmer's dwelling found by a search party of Buddhists who identified toddler Lhamo Dhondup as the Dalai Lama's reincarnation in the 1930s.
The thieves tunneled under the thick walls of the colonial-era Roman Catholic church in the tiny southern Bolivian town of San Miguel de Tomave, emerged through the floor and made off with five 18th-century oil paintings of inestimable value.
It was the third time the highlands church had been plundered of sacred art since 2007. Most of the finely-etched silver that once graced its altar was already gone.
"Who would have thought they would take the canvases, too?" the Rev. Francisco Dubert, the parish priest, asked of the 2-meter-by-1.75-meter oils depicting the Virgin Mary.
Increasingly bold thefts plague colonial churches in remote Andean towns in Bolivia and Peru, where authorities say cultural treasures are disappearing at an alarming rate. At least 10 churches have been hit so far this year in the two culturally rich but economically poor countries.
"We think the thefts are being done on behalf of collectors," said the Rev. Salvador Piniero, archbishop of Peru's highlands Ayacucho province. Religious and cultural authorities say criminal bands are stealing "to order" for foreigners.
More than 50 women marched through downtown Vancouver on Sunday, baring their breasts in the name of gender equality.
The march was part of a national campaign organized by GoTopless, a women's organization fighting for equal topless rights.
"Being topless in B.C. is legal. We have the right to be topless and this is wonderful," GoTopless spokeswoman Denise Belisle said to a photo-snapping crowd that followed the marchers to Vancouver's Robson Square.
About 30 men joined the march on Sunday, wearing bras to show their support.
Women in Canada won the right to bare their breasts in public in 1996 when the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the 1991 conviction of Gwen Jacobs, saying "there was nothing degrading or dehumanizing" about her decision to take off her shirt in public.
CBS News says longtime foreign correspondent Bruce Dunning has died.
CBS said in a release that the retired newsman died Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City from injuries suffered in a fall. He was 73.
In 1975, Dunning captured part of the chaotic end to the Vietnam War. He reported on the last evacuation flight out of Da Nang and the scramble to get aboard as the city fell to North Vietnamese troops.
Dunning spent most of his 35-year career at CBS News reporting from Asia, opening the network's Beijing bureau in 1981 and serving as the Tokyo-based Asia bureau chief. He later covered Latin America and the Caribbean for CBS.
CBS says the New Jersey native's survivors include his partner, artist Tetsunori Kawana, and a brother.
Orlando Duque of Colombia dives off the roof of the Institute of Contemporary Art during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2013 competition in Boston, Massachusetts August 25, 2013. Divers plunged some 90 feet from the roof of the contemporary art museum into Boston Harbor. This is an in-camera, multiple exposure photograph.
Photo by Brian Snyder
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