'Best of TBH Politoons'
Re: Queen Mawulolo
Subject: Humaliwo
The (Chumash) name for Malibu was actually 'Humaliwo.'
Maybe they're related. Does she surf?
Paul
Thanks, Paul!
Don't know if Queen Mawulolo surfs, but they sure do at the 'bu.
I was supposed to be in the first freshman class at Pepperdine when they moved out to Malibu.
But the new 'bu campus wasn't finished on schedule and ended up spending that year at the old 78th & Vermont location, with it's 'Pepperdine Blue' buildings.
George Pepperdine founded Western Auto, where 'Pepperdine Blue' paint was sold, and every single building on the old campus was painted that putrid shade of sea-sick aqua.
Heh - when I put 'Pepperdine' through the spell check it wants to change it to 'Pepperoni'.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Stan Cox: The Disjointed States of America (AlterNet.org)
You can't understand this country's politics using red and blue; the USA's voting patterns make more sense when the country's Wal-Marts, ecological habits, income and population size are spread across the same map.
Carol D. Leonnig and Eric Rich: U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons: Court Is Asked to Bar Detainees From Talking About Interrogations (washingtonpost.com)
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
Nina Shapiro: The Dangerous Lives of Train-Hoppin' Hobos (seattleweekly.com)
For some people, seeing the country from a boxcar is the ultimate freedom. But as an October fatality indicates, it can come with a price.
Rachel Sklar: That '70s Show (villagevoice.com)
'Saturday Night Live' in the post-Tina Fey, YouTube unknown
Lucy Mangan: Schoolboy heartthrob Harry Potter comes of age (guardian.co.uk)
His fame, of course, derives almost wholly from the Harry Potter films. It looked dicey at the beginning. Anyone over the age of reason who sat through the first two might have taken bets on whether the franchise was going to kill Daniel Radcliffe and his two child co-stars or the other way around.
Come fly with me (guardian.co.uk)
George Reeves was the 1950s small screen Superman who fought all his life to be taken seriously. The perfect part for me, Ben Affleck tells Geoffrey Macnab.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and 94°.
All Ahnold, All Day
Encore
LAist notices that Encore's Action channel has adopted an all-Schwarzenegger schedule
Encore via defamer.com
UK Hall Of Fame
Prince
Prince is the latest musician confirmed for induction into the U.K. Music Hall Of Fame, during a November 14 ceremony at London's Alexandra Palace.
Other inductees already named for this year's event are Bon Jovi, James Brown, Brian Wilson, Dusty Springfield, Led Zeppelin and Rod Stewart.
A delayed broadcast of the ceremony will air November 14 on BBC Radio 2, while U.K. terrestrial TV broadcaster Channel 4 will beam the event November 16. U.S. audiences can catch the ceremony November 25 on VH1.
Prince
Foul Language On TV OK - Sometimes
FCC
The Federal Communications Commission changed its mind and dismissed charges against two television shows it had deemed indecent but upheld its findings against two others, according to a court filing submitted late Monday night.
The two shows the FCC still considers indecent were:
-A Dec. 9, 2002, broadcast of the Billboard Music Awards on Fox, in which singer Cher used the phrase, "F--- 'em."
-A Dec. 10, 2003, Billboard awards show in which reality show star Nicole Richie said: "Have you ever tried to get cow s--- out of a Prada purse? It's not so f------ simple."
The agency changed course on two other cases, ruling they were not indecent:
-Several episodes of the ABC police drama "NYPD Blue," that aired between Jan. 14 and May 6, 2003, in which characters used the words "d---," "d---head" and "bulls---." Martin said those complaints were dismissed "solely on procedural grounds and they were not decided on the merits."
-A Dec. 13, 2004, broadcast of CBS' "Early Show" in which a "Survivor" cast described a fellow contestant as a "bulls------." "I believe the commission's exercise of caution with respect to news programming was appropriate in this instance."
FCC
Most Americans Favor
Sex Education
Regardless of their political leanings, the majority of American adults (80.4 percent) favors a balanced approach to sex education in schools, including teaching children about both abstinence and other ways of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, a University of Pennsylvania study finds.
The findings suggest that the U.S. government's support for abstinence-only programs doesn't reflect broad public support for comprehensive sex education, say researchers from the school's Annenberg Public Policy Center.
The researchers analyzed data from 1,096 adults (average age 46.8) who took part in the Annenberg National Health Communication Survey between July 2005 and January 2006. The respondents were asked about their support of three different types of sex education: abstinence-only; comprehensive; and comprehensive that includes condom instruction.
Sex Education
Hospital News
Ahmet Ertegun
Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, is recovering after hitting his head in a fall at a recent Rolling Stones concert.
Ertegun, an integral figure in the careers of artists including Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, was attending a Stones concert at the Beacon Theatre on Oct. 29 when he slipped and fell, according to a statement released by Atlantic Records.
He injured his head and was taken to a hospital, according to the statement, but he is improving. Atlantic Records denied reports that Ertegun had been in a coma.
Ahmet Ertegun
International Tour
Genesis
English rockers Genesis announced plans on Tuesday for an international tour in 2007, joining a lengthening list of aging acts seeking to revive their careers on the road.
Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks of Genesis are in good company, with the Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Queen among the bands shrugging off the advancing years and hitting the circuit.
Collins told reporters they were not in it for the money, and did not have to worry about where "the next million or two" was coming from.
Genesis
Buys Rare WW1 Letter
Chris de Burgh
A rare letter home by an unnamed British soldier describing the Christmas Day truce with German forces in 1914 sold on Tuesday for around 40 times its estimate, and was bought by Irish singer Chris de Burgh.
"He found the content extremely moving as it documented a very personal account of World War One and he believes it to be a great historical manuscript, charting the surreal events of December 25, 1914," Bonhams said after the sale.
The five penciled pages of an army-issue notebook addressed to "My dear Mater" and signed simply "Boy" are one of the few uncensored accounts of life in the trenches.
Chris de Burgh
Face Facility Closures
US Astronomers
With the release of a long-awaited report, US astronomers now have a hit list of observatories that may have to shut down to save the National Science Foundation (NSF) money in coming years.
Among those hardest hit were the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico - famed for its role in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a group of ten telescopes scattered across the United States. Both programmes will have to obtain external funding by 2011 to avoid being shut down, the report suggests. It also advises closing the National Solar Observatory's facilities at Kitt Peak on the Tohono O'Odham Reservation in Arizona and Sacramento Peak in Sunspot, New Mexico.
The report comes from a committee tasked with shaving $30 million from the NSF ground-based astronomy budget - about 15% of the total budget for the NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences. Over the next several months, the division will consider the recommendations, originally set to be released in April but not unveiled until last Friday.
US Astronomers
Turk Says He's The Real Borat
Mahir Cagri
A Turkish Internet celebrity is so convinced he was the inspiration for Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat" character, he's traveling to London seeking an apology and a way to get paid from the film's surprise success.
Mahir Cagri 44, became a cyber celebrity after posting a personal Web site in 1999, featuring unintentionally amusing photos of himself playing pingpong or the accordion and sunbathing in a skimpy bathing suit. Fans were captivated by his broken English and hilarious invitation to women: "Who is want to come TURKEY I can invitate ... She can stay my home."
"The world knows he is copying Mahir," Cagri told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his hometown of Izmir on Monday, minutes before he was to board a plane for Istanbul to appear on a talk show.
Mahir Cagri
Sparky's Holiday Special
'Shrek'
ABC is going for a green Christmas with "Shrek the Halls," a half-hour original animated special based on the DreamWorks feature franchise.
The special -- to be voiced by the "Shrek" features' original cast of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas -- is slated to premiere in December 2007. Sources said the pact is for 15 years, with ABC set to rerun the special around the holidays every year.
Jeffrey 'Sparky' Katzenberg and his team came up with the idea to get their "Shrek" characters in the Christmas spirit.
'Shrek'
Calls Picasso Claim "Utterly Spurious"
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Theater impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber's art charity has dismissed as "utterly spurious" last-minute legal action that threatens the sale of a Picasso portrait worth up to $60 million.
The picture was due to be auctioned by Christie's in New York on Wednesday, but a U.S. judge temporarily halted the sale of the 1903 painting after German Julius Schoeps sued Lloyd Webber's foundation and laid claim to the picture.
A spokesman for the Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation said on Tuesday that the claim was "utterly spurious (and) without legal or factual substance." The foundation was not made aware of the lawsuit until Monday morning.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Clear Channel's Free Ad
KFBK
Sacramento radio station KFBK transmitted more than its test of the Emergency Alert System on Monday - adding a paid political advertisement by Republican Senate candidate Dick Mountjoy that ended up on KDVS and other stations in the region.
The paid ads caused the nonprofit, noncommercial Davis station to violate Federal Communications Commission rules as well as its own policy giving equal time to candidates.
A conservative talk radio station owned by Clear Channel Communications, KFBK (1530 AM) is the station designated to start EAS messages for 17 Northern California counties. The tones at the beginning and end of such tests automatically tell the operating system of the other stations when to start and stop the broadcast.
Just after 10 a.m. Monday, KFBK sent out the squawk and dull tone of the monthly EAS test. The ad for Mountjoy followed, then another for a mortgage company, before the second set of tones ending the broadcast finally played about 21/2 minutes later.
KFBK
Thanks, Fred!
World Food Program
Josette Sheeran
The United Nations on Tuesday named American diplomat Josette Sheeran the next head of the World Food Program and she said her top priorities will be to ensure no child goes to bed hungry and to reduce hunger-related deaths.
Sheeran, the U.S. undersecretary of state for economics, business and agricultural affairs, will replace American James T. Morris for a five-year term as head of the world's largest humanitarian agency.
Formerly known by her married name of Josette Shiner, she spent 15 years at the Washington Times founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, including as managing editor. She joined Moon's Unification Church in the 1970s, but has said she later became an Episcopalian.
She has long conservative credentials as a writer and commentator and as president at the conservative public policy group Empower America, based in Washington. She served as managing director of Starpoint Solutions, a leading Wall Street technology firm, and was a member of an independent panel that just finished a report on streamlining U.N. development, humanitarian and environment operations.
Josette Sheeran
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Oct. 30-Nov. 5. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (2) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 22.65 million viewers.
2. (7) "NBC Sunday Night Football: Indianapolis at New England," NBC, 21.95 million viewers.
3. (1) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 21.03 million viewers.
4. (3) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 20.77 million viewers.
5. (4) "Dancing with the Stars," ABC, 20.51 million viewers.
6. (5) "Dancing with the Stars Results," ABC, 19.22 million viewers.
7. (9) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 16.97 million viewers.
8. (15) "Deal or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 16.90 million viewers.
9. (8) "CSI: NY," CBS, 16.64 million viewers.
10. (10) "Lost," ABC, 16.07 million viewers.
11. (16) "NCIS," CBS, 15.94 million viewers.
12. (16) "60 Minutes," CBS, 15.31 million viewers.
13. (19) Survivor: Cook Islands," CBS, 15.30 million viewers.
14. (25) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 15.28 million viewers.
15. (26) "Heroes," NBC, 14.89 million viewers.
16. (30) "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 14.61 million viewers.
17. (6) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 14.47 million viewers.
18. (13) "House," Fox, 14.18 million viewers.
19. (18) "Cold Case," CBS, 13.96 million viewers.
20. (22) "ER," NBC, 13.85 million viewers.
Ratings
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