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The National Football League is getting into the teeth of its schedule with eight divisional matchups among the 15 games (Pittsburgh and Indianapolis have the week off) on the Week Four slate.
Only 12 divisional games were played the first three weeks of the season.
Some of today's clashes are big rivalry games, particularly the matchup between the Super Bowl champion New York Giants and the Eagles in Philadelphia. New England at Buffalo, Oakland at Denver, San Diego at Kansas City and Minnesota at Detroit are some of other big divisional games.
Denver quarterback Peyton Manning will get his introduction to one of the fierce rivalries that exists in the AFC West when the Broncos host the Oakland Raiders. Teams in the AFC West, the only division in the NFL where all four teams are original American Football League franchises, have been going at it since 1960.
"Being a guy that has an appreciation of football and the history of it, I certainly understand what an important rivalry it is (and) the great teams that have occurred in this series, the great players that have played in these games," Manning said Wednesday. "I also know it's a pivotal game. It's a division game, which counts double.
We're 1-2, they're 1-2. It's a game we need to play well."
Blame it on the replacement refs or what have you (the regular officials ratified their 8-year deal Saturday), but the league seems as balanced as ever. Only three undefeated teams -- Atlanta, Arizona and Houston -- are left and only Cleveland and, surprisingly, New Orleans are winless.
>Game of the day
Giants (2-1) at Eagles (2-1)
TV: Ch. 2, 8:20 p.m.
The line: Eagles (-2).
The scoop: This has developed into one of the league's bitterest rivalries. Philadelphia has won seven of the last eight (including postseason). Last time the teams met, Vince Young quarterbacked the Eagles to 17-10 win at MetLife. Giants won in last visit to Philly when Eli Manning threw for four TDs and posted 145.7 rating. Manning has streak of 22 200-yard passing games going, second longest all-time. ... Giants have not played since Thursday night (Sept. 20) rout of Carolina while Eagles played late afternoon game at Arizona last week. ... Giants are being helped by three new faces, RB Andre Brown, TE Martellus Bennett and WR Ramses Barden. ... Eagles' Michael Vick had thrown six INTs so far.
Outlook: Giants win typically tense slugfest, 20-17.
>Top attractions
Patriots (1-2) at Bills (2-1)
TV: Ch. 4, 1 p.m.
The line: Patriots (-3 1/2 ).
The scoop: New England has won 21 of the last 23 games in the rivalry, including 10 of last 12 at the Ralph. Remember when all-time series was close (40-39-1) in favor of the Pats? ... Injury question: will Bills have RB Fred Jackson back? If not, Tashard Choice will have to carry the load again. ... Pats haven't had losing record when facing Bills since 2002.
Outlook: Looking for Bills' front four to have a big game and keep Buffalo in it. Patriots, 31-28.
49ers (2-1) at Jets (2-1)
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
The line: 49ers (-4).
The scoop: New York will have to carry on without All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis (season ending knee surgery). Jets coming off overtime win at Miami, while Niners try to shake off upset loss at Minnesota. ... San Francisco hasn't developed much pass rush (5 sacks), but neither have the Jets (3). Lack of rush should help Marc Sanchez have productive day for Gang Green.
Outlook: Last season, Niners played well on road in Eastern Time Zone (4-1), but that was then ... Jets, 20-17.
Saints (0-3) at Packers (1-2)
TV: Ch. 29, 4 p.m.
The line: Packers (-7 1/2 ).
The scoop: New Orleans is winless because defense is giving up 447.3 yards per game. Chiefs ran off 92 plays and controlled the ball in Saints OT loss last week. ... Packers, who were last in both categories in 2011, are surprising third in league in total defense and first against pass. One reason Green Bay is having trouble protecting Aaron Rodgers is that running game is averaging only 78.3 yard a game and just 3.7 per attempt.
Outlook: Packers are angry but so are Saints. New Orleans, 38-31.
Bears (2-1) at Cowboys (2-1)
TV: ESPN, Monday, 8:30 p.m.
The line: Cowboys (-3 1/2 ).
The scoop: Makes you think of Landry versus Halas of long ago, but actually franchises have met only 20 times in regular season play since Cowboys' first season in 1960. ... Cowboys haven't been very impressive in losing at Seattle and getting by Bucs (16-10) after opening win at home over Giants. ... Chicago QB Jay Cutler has faced Dallas only once in his career, a 27-20 win at Cowboys Stadium in 2010.
Outlook: Bears not as fierce outside of cozy confines. Dallas, 24-17.
>Best of the rest
Raiders (1-2) at Broncos (1-2)
Kickoff: 4:05 p.m.
The line: Broncos (-7).
The scoop: After dismal showing at Miami, Raiders came home and rallied to beat Steelers on 43-yard FG by Sebastian Janikowski. Broncos couldn't overcome big early deficit and fell to Texans (31-25). ... Oakland has won its last four in Denver, but Broncos' Manning has won his last three starts against Raiders. ... Oakland coach Dennis Allen was Denver defensive coordinator in 2011.
Outlook: Raiders at their best against AFC West opponents. Oakland, 27-21.
Panthers (1-2) at Falcons (3-0)
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
The line: Falcons (-7).
The scoop: Carolina QB Cam Newton coming off perhaps his worst performance as a pro last week against Giants. ... Falcons demolished Chargers on road last week in most impressive showing yet.
Outlook: Atlanta looks too solid for inconsistent Cam and Panthers. Falcons, 34-17.
Titans (1-2) at Texans (3-0)
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
The line: Texans (-12).
The scoop: Texans built big lead, then held off Broncos last week in Denver. … They lead AFC in turnover ratio (plus 4) and total defense (255.7), but their opposition has been mediocre (Jaguars, Dolphins, Broncos). ... Even with Chris Johnson, Titans have averaged NFL-worst 39.0 rushing while Houston has allowed only 67.7.
Outlook: Jake Locker stands up to tough Houston rush (9 sacks), but Texans win, 27-20.
Chargers (2-1) at Chiefs (1-2)
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
The line: Chargers (-1).
The scoop: San Diego shut out from the field at home for the first time since 1999 in 27-3 loss to Falcons. ... San Diego lost, 23-20 in OT, in 2011 finale at Arrowhead. ... Jamaal Charles of Chiefs ran for 233 yards in comeback win at New Orleans. It was his second career game with 230 or more. Only Jim Brown (3) has more.
Outlook: KC really better than showed against Bills. Chiefs, 28-24.
Dolphins (1-2) at Cardinals (3-0)
Kickoff: 4:05 p.m.
The line: Cardinals (-5 1/2 ).
The scoop: Cardinals are surprise team of league despite ranking 31st in total defense. Facing the Patriots and Eagles in successive weeks will do that to your numbers. ... Miami's Dan Carpenter (4 of 6) is last in FG percentage. His misses cost Miami win over Jets last week.
Outlook: Miami rookie QB Ryan Tannehill has yet to pass an NFL road test, but Dolphins have run more than 40 times last two games. Conservative Dolphins keep it tight. Arizona, 19-14.
Bengals (2-1) at Jaguars (1-2)
Kickoff: 4:05 p.m.
The line: Bengals (-1 1/2 ).
The scoop: Hottest passing combo in AFC may be Andy Dalton to A.J. Green. They hooked up for 183 yards on nine receptions last Sunday at Washington. … Only the Titans (113) have given up more points than the Bengals (102). Jaguars, however, are last in AFC with 52 points despite Maurice Jones-Drew, who is second in the league with 314 rushing yards.
Outlook: Jags can't keep up with Bengals, who have rung up 34 and 38 points last two games. Cincinnati, 31-21.
Vikings (2-1) at Lions (1-2)
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
The line: Lions (-4).
The scoop: Detroit leads the league in passing but Matt Stafford has thrown for more INTs (4) than touchdowns (3). Shaun Hill took over for Stafford (hand) in last week's OT loss to Titans and threw for two touchdowns in last 1:18. ... Vikings coming off upset at home over 49ers behind Christian Ponder, who has a 70 percent completion rate and 104.9 passer rating. Lions have won last three in series dominated by Minnesota (66-33-2).
Outlook: Ponder looks like a keeper, and Detroit defense has been a disappointment. Lions, 31-30.
Redskins (1-2) at Buccaneers (1-2)
Kickoff: 4:15 p.m.
The line: Buccaneers (-2).
The scoop: Home game against Redskins defense (30th in league at 429.3) may be just the tonic for Bucs' struggling offense (last in league, 243.7), which has produced only 60 points in three games, 34 in one game against Giants. ... Tampa Bay leads league in rushing defense (47.2) but is last in pass defense (353.3). ... Redskins rookie Robert Griffin III has 103.5 passer rating with just one INT so far.
Outlook: Redskins didn't quit, came back and tied game after falling behind Bengals, 24-7, last week. They will be a tough out. Washington, 24-21.
>Dog of the day
Seahawks (2-1) at Rams (1-2)
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
The line: Seahawks (-3).
The scoop: Ex Bill Marshawn Lynch of Seahawks leads NFC in rushing yards (305). ... Rams hung in with Bears on the road until Major Wright's 45-yard interception return gave Chicago some breathing room in fourth quarter. St. Louis, however, was held to two FGs.
Outlook: Looking for Rams to pressure rookie Russell Wilson into some mistakes. St. Louis, 17-14.
Last week's results: 6-9 outright, 4-11 versus spread. Season's record: 22-23 outright, 17-26-2 versus spread.
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ON A ROLL IN THE AMERICAN RIVIERA: Santa Barbara has long been tied to environmental causes and celebrations of nature. Not only does it throw one of the largest Earth Day celebrations each April -- the city famously has ties to the holiday's origins -- but its summer solstice parade is one of the biggest anywhere. So it isn't a surprise that Santa Barbara Car Free is both an organization and a state of mind, nor does it surprise that the city has so many cycling options. The recent Amgen Tour of California made a stop there, and several bikeries received some of the cycling spotlight. But, of course, the good thing is these are places that are open all year long, not just when a major bike tour comes through. If you love being out and about on two wheels and you're headed to the Central Coast burg, check out...
WINE COUNTRY BY BIKE: Santa Barbara Adventure Tours is at the helm of this full-day -- so 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. -- pedal to a number of area wineries. Tasting fees are included in the $159 fee, as is a van service, a guide, and lunch, too, which will be well-earned after going up and down those beautiful rolling hills of the Santa Ynez Valley.
I BIKE SANTA BARBARA: Another option for riding into wine country. "About 15 miles" of paved road is what you should expect, and you also have the option of riding and *not* tasting wine (you'll still get to enjoy rolling past all of those picturesque vineyards).
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Am planning to develop a text-based Cricket management simulator to be used in
play by email games. Each team will be represented by a roster and before a game is played, the manager have to send in their teamsheets with the teams to the
game admin.
The rosters contain player stats such as batting average, strike rate, bowling average and strike rate.
The teamsheet will contain the batting and bowling orders sent by the managers for each game.
The game engine will then simulate the match and a report file will be generated.
Am using C++ to code and this game. Currently am working on tweaking the algorithms to generate wickets and runs. Also need to add some commentary lines, and a few more additional features as fielding stats.
A sample over report is shown below:
First Innings
Bowling from the Pavillion End is J_Veron
Opening Batsmen are Carlos & Marlos
0.1, J_Veron to Carlos 2 runs scored
0.2, J_Veron to Carlos 2 runs scored
0.3, J_Veron to Carlos 0 runs scored
0.4, J_Veron to Carlos 1 runs scored
0.5, J_Veron to Marlos 0 runs scored
0.6, J_Veron to Marlos 1 runs scored
End of Over 1
pak - 6/0 RunRate = 6.00
J_Veron 6-0
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The Future of Business Schools in the UK. AIM Executive Briefing Note. (749.03 KB)(2006).
UK Business Schools: Historical Contexts and Future Scenarios. Summary Report from an EBK/AIM Management Research Forum. (666.55 KB)(2006).
Leading for Innovation - The impact of leadership on innovation. AIM Executive Briefing Note. (1.19 MB)(2005).
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A Day with Roger Thompson
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I would have love to have gone. And I would love to buy all his books! How many people turned up? Glad you enjoyed the day!ReplyDelete
Marian, it was an excellent rainy day event! His books were heavily discounted, and sold out before lunch. He was very gracious and autographed all of my books, too, during one of the breaks. There were many people, which is why they changed the location from the NEHGS rotunda to the New England Center a few blocks away. Most of the seats in the auditorium were taken.ReplyDelete
No PowerPoint, no naps!!! That's the amazing thing to me. Heck, I nod off 10 minutes into the sermon every Sunday.ReplyDelete
I have Sex in Middlesex, will look at the others since I have those towns in abundance.
All those books are indexed in my New Englanders of the 1600s, FYI.ReplyDelete


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The UK-based distributor will handle theatrical and festival distribution outside North America of films in the Cohen Media Group's catalogue, formerly known as the Rohauer Library.
Cohen Media Group media archivist Tim Lanza negotiated the deal with Park Circus co-founder and managing director Nick Varley.
The Cohen Film Collection includes more than 700 titles including work by DW Griffith, Buster Keaton [pictured], Douglas Fairbanks and Alfred Hitchcock. The Collection is releasing remastered versions of these films in theaters and on Blu-ray and DVD.
"Park Circus is a proven leader in specialised distribution of classic films, and we are confident that the titles in the Cohen Film Collection will be in good hands," said Lanza.
"The Cohen Film Collection is an amazing treasure of great and important films, and we are excited and fortunate to be able to bring them to new audiences," said Varley.
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May 07, 2014
Consensus Watch – 05/07/2014
An ongoing series dedicated to vigorously monitoring emerging threats to The Consensus that global warming is real, caused by humans, and must be addressed at all costs. Because without consensus, scientific conclusions would remain vulnerable to new data.
Yesterday was a good day for The Consensus. The White House launched a new strategy for furthering its global warming agenda. Gone are the days of trying to foment hysteria by reciting dry data about the ways the planet will be affected by climate change. From now on, they are going to try to foment hysteria by reciting the ways in which you will be personally affected by climate change.
We can only speak for ourselves, but we appreciate this more individualized approach to scaremongering. It sends the message, "We care."
As part of this effort, they created a splashy new web site that seems to take into account the effect federal "Common Core" educational standards are going to have on the population's reading comprehension skills.
For example, they conveniently sum up each section with a "key message," just in case you have difficulty, as many of us do, deciphering simple, short, declarative sentences:
Key Message: Stressed Infrastructure
Infrastructure will be increasingly compromised by climate-related hazards, including sea level rise, coastal flooding, and intense precipitation events.
Frankly, we are concerned that they are unnecessarily complicating the message. More in the spirit of this document might be:
Key Message: Global warming bad.
Global warming bad bad bad.
Incidentally, we are heartened to note that it looks like the people proofreading the site have already gone through Common Core:
Among the other claims are:
Key Message: Climate Risks to People
Heat waves, coastal flooding, and river flooding will pose a growing challenge to the region's environmental, social, and economic systems. This will increase the vulnerability of the region's residents, especially its most disadvantaged populations.
This point can't be stressed enough: It is our most disadvantaged populations that will find themselves at a disadvantage. It's just one of the many disadvantages of being disadvantaged.
Well, unless, you are a member of a "native community," in which case you are probably okay given your "deep cultural history of adapting to change."
Key Message: Native Communities
The cumulative effects of climate change in Alaska strongly affect Native communities, which are highly vulnerable to these rapid changes but have a deep cultural history of adapting to change.
Which, it should be emphasized, is not at all patronizing stereotyping. It would only be patronizing stereotyping if you said it.
Regardless, the web site is more than just shout outs to Democratic constituency groups. It also contains supporting data.
Take this chart, for example. Look at those projections! Wow! Even the lower of the two data sets suggests that temperatures are set to soar! It makes us want to go out and personally dismantle a coal plant with our bare hands.
Okay, sure, if you look really, really closely at the actual observational data as charted by the green line, the last 15+ years have experienced absolutely no warming whatsoever.
But that is probably all part of an effort to improve temperature projection qualitify.
No doubt, while this is all good news for The Consensus, challenges remain. Efforts to try to convince people that they are facing imminent peril from increasing global temperatures, rising sea levels, disappearing polar sea ice and more frequent extreme weather events, will continue to be complicated by the fact that none of these things are true.
But that's not what's important. What's important is, it's the Koch brothers' fault.
Key Message: Koch brothers are bad.
Koch brothers are bad bad bad.
Now you have a chance to show your support for The Consensus with the Shut up, that's why T-shirt, the perfect answer to anyone who dares to question the science behind global warming.
In addition to the T-shirt we also have a fashionable beach tote and a set of stackable mugs, so you'll have the opportunity to show the world that you're smart enough to know when not to ask too many questions.
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PLUS: Our "We're all going to die! (Some before others)" organic T-shirt, sleevless shirt, and mug.
We also have the classic Consensus Watch coffee mug, bag, and beer stein (along with assorted T-shirts, sweatshirts, and other garments): "Consensus Watch Because without consensus, scientific conclusions would remain vulnerable to new data" plus a complete line of "Stop raping the planet! You may, however, touch it inappropriately," items (shirts, coasters, stickers, buttons)
All proceeds raised from the sale of Consensus Watch merchandise go towards ensuring that we never run out of gin.
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April 22, 2014
Addressing First World Problems Since 1970
Do you know what today is?
If you are like most Planet Moron readers, you're probably thinking, "Tuesday, why? Did I miss a parole hearing? That's not until Thursday."
Also, "Wait, it's Earth Day, isn't it?"
Exactly. And to better help readers reacquaint themselves with this decades-long tradition, we've prepared a little Q&A:
Q: What is Earth Day all about?
A: Its primary purpose is to raise awareness about environmental concerns that threaten our well being.
Q: You mean, the one-third of the world's population that cooks and keeps warm burning twigs and dung, 4.3 million of which died in 2012 from the deadly fumes and resultant air pollution?
A: What? No. Threatens us. Not someone else.
Q: What threatens us?
A: Way too many lights on at night.
Q: That's a threat?
A: Absolutely. It's called light pollution. That is why we should all pitch in to help and keep lights off at night for the next week.
Q: You know who's a big proponent of keeping the lights off at night?
A: Al Gore?
Q: Close. Kim Jong Un.
A: An Earth Day champion if there ever was one!
Q: Now, what about those millions of people dying every year from air pollution?
A: Hey, they can pitch in too. They can put out their smoldering piles of twigs and dung at night.
Q: Won't they go cold and hungry?
A: Sure, but think of the brilliant night sky view they'll have!
April 22, 2014 at 04:36 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
April 17, 2014
And Here We Thought Billionaires Spending Their Money Trying to Influence Public Policy Was "Un-American"
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pledged millions of dollars to promote gun safety in an attempt to "outmuscle" the NRA, which in contrast spends millions of dollars to promote gun safety.
That ought to show them!
Of course, Mayor Bloomberg takes a slightly different approach. While the NRA seeks to educate the public in the proper use, care, and storage of firearms including practical safety tips and rules that promote responsibility and safe practices, Mr. Bloomberg believes it is more productive to scare the living hell out of you.
Of course we are being unfair. At the end of the video in which he scares the living hell out of you, he suggests you "start the conversation about responsible gun ownership in your home and community."
Sure, the NRA conducts the Eddie Eagle gun safety program in elementary schools all across the country, and conducts hundreds of hands-on courses for adults every year but, yeah, sure, conversations are good too.
So, you click on the "ACT NOW" button at the very end of the video and are informed that,
"No, it shouldn't!"
"Well then, let's do that!"
"Me? Great, Let's get going, then."
"I want to help stop the violence? How?"
"Yeah! I'll join the movement! Wait, the movement for what?"
It doesn't matter. Join the damn movement.
"That's it?"
That's it.
"Where's the rest?"
Well, you can click "get the facts" here, which will provide more information.
"What kind of information?"
That we need to start a conversation.
Or do you want to just wait around while fewer and fewer children every year are having their lives stolen from accidental shootings?
"Fine, fine, I'll go to the video on YouTube and start a conversation. "
You can't.
"Why not?"
So, let's contrast and compare. First, the NRA's list of things you can do to promote responsible gun ownership:
- ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
- ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
- ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until ready to use.
And now let's review Michael Bloomberg's list:
- Start a conversation.
- Act now
- Join the movement.
It's not even close. If the NRA wants to be taken seriously about gun safety, it's going to have to spend more time starting conversations and joining movements and less time on instructing people in the safe handling of firearms.
It's for the children, you know.
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April 15, 2014
He Hearts IRS
Virginia state Delegate and Democratic Congressional primary candidate Patrick Hope believes that in order to tackle the federal budget deficit, we need to raise taxes, but in doing so we should spare people who make less than $250,000 from this additional burden.
In other news, Virginia state Delegate and Democratic Congressional primary candidate Patrick Hope makes less than $250,000.
If you are like most Planet Moron readers, you're probably thinking to yourself, "That reminds me, isn't today April 15th? All this talk about taxes rings a bell for some reason, like I should be doing something…"
Also, "Well, most people make less than $250,000."
Yes, but Patrick Hope makes $231,197 a year.
However we're not suggesting that this is anything other than a coincidence. The difference between some fat cat making $250,000 a year, and a regular working man like Patrick Hope bringing home $231,197 a year is significant. It's like the difference between riding around in a Mercedes, and riding around in a slightly less expensive Mercedes. It's the difference between being able to afford a 12-day Mediterranean cruise and a 10-day Mediterranean cruise.
Hey, those hot shot SOBs who make a little bit more than Delegate Hope can afford to skip Barcelona, okay, and slum it in Athens and Cyprus like the rest of us common folks who have to work for a living. As health care lobbyists.
Hope believes he's hit on a winning formula, pointing out that raising taxes on people who make more money than he does,
"Solves our revenue problem very simply, by bringing in more revenue."
Well, more, more revenue.
Tax Revenues Hit Record in First 5 Months of FY14; 5-Month Deficit Still $377B
That's how you can tell you have a revenue problem. When you bring in more revenue than you ever have before in the history of the country and are still running huge deficits.
It's simple!
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March 10, 2014
Innocence of the Law is no Excuse
As if parents with school-age children don't have enough to worry about already, what with whether or not their children are eating enough vegetables from the red-orange subgroups, or ensuring that they participate in as little physical activity as possible, now we have a scourge Planet Moron has been following for some time:
Imaginary weapons.
Some might dismiss the threat posed by imaginary weapons, however they're not taking fully into account the many pretend deaths that could result if schools didn't act quickly and decisively to neutralize the non-existent threat.
Take for example, the boy caught red-handed with an imaginary bow and arrow.
Look, you could put out a make-believe eye with that thing.
If only the trouble ended there. The problem with letting little things, like not having a bow and arrow, pass without the proper disciplinary action, is that things can quickly escalate into children believing that they can get away with not having even deadlier weapons.
And that's how we end up with the boy with the finger gun.
First of all, as any young boy will tell you, finger guns have a nearly inexhaustible supply of pretend ammo, limited only by the ability to say "bang," quite possibly putting the finger gun in violation of magazine ammo limits.
And second, finger guns are the gateway weapon to other harmless non-firearms, such as the miniature gun-shaped key chain charm.
Don't let its diminutive size fool you. It may be small, but it's just as not deadly as the finger gun.
Perhaps it's the times we live in, but it doesn't stop there, either. Yes, now we have:
Keep in mind that the only difference between a make-believe bomb and the real thing, is that a make-believe bomb doesn't actually exist. And that is simply a difference without a distinction. Other than the distinction that it's not real.
And so, when it comes to education, we here at Planet Moron fully support zero tolerance for anyone found in possession of things they are not actually in possession of, and that the punishment meted out should be as severe as if they had actually done something wrong.
Except when it comes to teachers who are sex offenders and sadists.
Hey, a little compassion and common sense here, people.
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March 05, 2014
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" He Explained
There have been some concerns raised lately regarding the safety of a common food additive called azodicarbonamide, or "ADA," which is used mostly to soften the texture of baked goods. While recognized as safe by the FDA, some people have cited research calling this into question, pointing out that ADA breaks down into urethane, which can be toxic.
If you are like most Planet Moron Readers, you're probably thinking to yourself, "Unless they're adding it to gin, cigarettes, or despair, it doesn't really affect me."
Also, "I could see how that could be something worth looking into, but certainly nothing go get hysterical about."
And that's the problem. You're not going to get frenzied headlines over an obscure substance that has for decades been used widely in food with little obvious ill effect.
But that's a problem that's easily resolved. All you have to do is point out that ADA is also used in industrial applications such as in the production of foamed plastics as a blowing agent. What good does knowing that do you?
Nearly 500 ways to make a yoga mat sandwich
Group warns almost 500 products contain chemical found in yoga mats
'Yoga mat' chemical azodicarbonamide found in nearly 500 grocery store food items: report
And just like that, we have ourselves a national health crisis.
Now, if someone wants to argue with you, noting that bread without ADA still has urethane, you can point out that they are eating yoga mats. And when they add that the mere act of toasting a slice of ADA-free bread produces far more urethane, you can say they might as well be toasting a yoga mat, and how about some butter for that yoga mat, you yoga mat eater
Also, yoga mat.
See how much easier non-sequiturs make having what would otherwise be a boring debate over scientific merit?
Intrigued by the potential for creating wholly pointless hysteria, Planet Moron launched an extensive investigation that included wandering around our kitchen in pajamas, and has uncovered disturbing evidence that our food, the food you feed your family, the food you provide to your innocent, trusting, children, contains substances that are also used in totally unrelated products that sound scary.
For example, there's calcium carbonate. That sounds kind of chemically. It can be used as a preservative and also as a color retainer on such foods as organic apples.
You know what else calcium carbonate can be used for? Filler in unplasticized polyvinyl chloride drain pipe!
That's right, when you're eating an organic apple, you're basically sucking on a drain pipe.
And it gets even worse. Take this common bottle of salad dressing.
Looks benign enough, and eating salads is healthy! Well, take a closer look.
That salad dressing of yours contains vinegar. You know what else has vinegar? Yeah, that's right. Forget Wishbone, think Windex.
How does dumping a bottle of Italian window cleaner all over your greens sound, huh? Clearly we must act now to see to it that this powerful industrial detergent is removed from all salad dressings.
Well, all this talk of food has made us hungry. A nice big bowl of aircraft-de-icing fluid sounds just about right.
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February 28, 2014
You Should Only Have Rights if You're Right
Our old friend, New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, has identified what is possibly the single biggest peril facing America, one that, according to Mr. Bittman,
"Poses greater threats to our existence than any communicable disease you can name."
What is this hazard that stalks us?
Individual rights.
Or, as he prefers, "rights," because the only rights that are truly legitimate are those rights that are exercised in a fashion that would be agreeable to Mark Bittman.
And therein lies the problem. As it turns out, you're simply a victim of the "the corporate consumption complex," in which "companies engineer hyperprocessed foods in ways precisely geared to most appeal to our tastes."
Yes, that's right, companies continue to insist on producing products that will appeal to you.
How. Dare. They.
But the products they sell don't appeal to Mark Bittman, of course. Unlike you, he's not a complete imbecile who cannot possibly be trusted with the "right" to choose what is best for him. That imbecile would be you, what with your tiny mind, poor education, and non-New-York-Times editorial job.
Why, you might even work with your hands. <shudder>
And, according to Mr. Bittman, it's not just food, it's all manner of industries selling things "in ways that will cause premature mortality."
Sure, you may think you are capable of weighing the tradeoffs and risks associated with certain products and endeavors based on your own values system, priorities, and personal circumstances but the problem with that is you are not taking into account Mark Bittman's values system, priorities, and personal circumstances when making your decision.
And really, isn't that more important? After all, he's written books! Well, cookbooks.
Incidentally, here is a brief list of things that can bring on premature mortality:
- Any job other than potato farming.
- Any sport other than swimming.
- Any city other than Fishers Indiana.
We are aghast that anyone would risk their life doing anything other than swimming at their potato farm in Fishers Indiana.
It's like you people don't care if you live or die.
So, what can we do about people exercising their "right" to make decisions different from Mark Bittman? According to Mr. Bittman, it's all spelled out in the book, "Lethal but Legal," by Nicholas Freudenberg. We'll be exploring this book in the near future, but rest assured, the solution involves doing something about those "rights" of yours.
The current occupants of the White House share a similar concern regarding your seeming inability to choose the same things that they would, particularly Michelle Obama who has worked tirelessly to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic that doesn't exist. However, they believe they have hit on a possible answer:
Font sizes.
As they see it, one of the main problems with people eating more than people in the White House think they should, is that nutritional labels are obscuring the number of calories food contains by cleverly hiding it next to the word "calories."
It's a brain tickler all right.
The new label at least partly solves this problem by making the number bigger in a way that just screams, "Hey, look over here! Big number! Big! Pay attention to the big number. Big scary number.
The proposed label also changes some of the nutritional content provided since studies have demonstrated that it is healthier for people to ignore how much vitamin D is in their food rather than ignoring how much vitamin A there is.
They also add the category "added sugar," because as everyone knows, sugar that has been added is worse, possibly due to contamination by cooties.
And finally, we'll leave you with the White House exercise video that is sweeping the nation:
Thus demonstrating that if you run limply for one minute in your dress shoes once a week, you just might one day develop a nearly complete inability to stretch your quads.
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December 12, 2013
We Have Them Right Where They Want Us
This week, fiscally conservative budget cutter Congressman Paul Ryan managed to reach an historic agreement with his liberal Senate colleague, Patty Murray, in which spending will be cut, the deficit will be reduced, and taxes held steady.
How did he accomplish this monumental feat?
By agreeing to a deal in which spending will be raised, the deficit enlarged, and taxes increased.
William Shatner's got nothing on this guy.
Interestingly, Congressman Ryan, who as we mentioned before, is a fiscally conservative budget cutter, points out that his budget deal actually reduces spending AND the deficit. Well, not now. Next year and the year after discretionary spending increases by over $60 billion. But just you wait, once 2022 rolls around, we'll be rolling in spending cuts.
The fiscally conservative budget cutter also asserts that his plan does not raise taxes, only "user fees," which unlike taxes, is spelled completely differently.
Some might point out that increasing user fees on, for example, airline passengers, so as to offset increased defense and domestic spending that has nothing whatsoever to do with airlines could possibly be considered a hidden tax.
In the words of fiscally conservative budget cutter John Boehner, those people are "ridiculous."
There is the question of why a deal had to be done at all. Had the sequester cuts simply been left in place, discretionary spending would have gone down in 2014 and 2015 rather than going up under Congressman Ryan's budget cutting-ish plan.
But that would have meant the Pentagon would have had to get by on $500 billion dollars next year as opposed to $520 billion.
What if we once again find ourselves in a position where we have to bomb a country that hasn't attacked us? What then? Are you going to be the one to tell those brave young men and women in uniform, "I'm sorry, but you won't be required to place yourself in mortal danger not defending the United States?" Well, are you?
We didn't think so.
Now all we can do is hope they can successfully sneak it through Congress in 36 hours before anyone can think about it.
After all, taking into account your supporters' opinions can be so… messy.
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November 11, 2013
Standing up For Principal, er, Principle
Powerful business interests want to turn the tide against Tea Party-like upstarts within the Republican Party and return the GOP back to its traditional roots:
Doling out special favors to powerful business interests.
The problem is that radical Tea Party Republicans are spending far too much time trying to ward off fiscal catastrophe when that time could be better spent enriching powerful business interests at the expense of everyone else.
For example, according to CNBC:
"Call it the wrath of establishment Republicans and corporate America, always considered the best of friends. Since the Republican takeover of the House in 2010, they've watched the GOP insurgents slow a transportation bill and reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, block a treaty governing the high seas and stand in the way of comprehensive immigration legislation."
This is surely a dystopian future these radical fiscal conservatives paint, one in which lucrative transportation bills for which we have no money receive additional scrutiny. One in which private businesses have to finance their own imports and exports at market rates without the benefit of your money. One in which Congress refuses to surrender United States sovereignty to unnamed foreign courts. And one in which businesses are denied immediate access to abundant sources of dirt-cheap labor.
Let's face it. We owe it to our children to ensure that they never have to live in a world in which the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service is not fully funded. Or do you want to be the one who has to look into your young child's eyes and tell her that it was you who allowed it to happen. That it was you who stood by and did nothing while others saw to it that the marketing and promotion of potatoes was left only to the people who grew and sold potatoes.
Just tell her you're a monster now and get it over with.
To ensure a future in which government exists to reward the powerful, old-line establishment Republicans and their business allies are planning to support candidates that are not radical extremist Tea Partiers.
Such as South Dakota where an open Senate primary is allowing challengers from the right to go up against Mike Rounds, a well-known former governor who has refused to sign a no-new-taxes pledge.
No new taxes pledge? What if a private business needs a sweetheart deal? Where is the money supposed to come from? Aside from China, we mean. It is absolutely essential that we elect moderate Republicans to ensure not only that business interests have a friend in Washington, but to make sure that taxes can still be raised, just not raised as much as those dastardly Democrats would! Not significantly less, but less.
Okay, sometimes less, and sometimes more, such as when old-school conservative governor Bob McDonnell signed into law the largest tax increase in Virginia history, but it was for a traditionally conservative reason:
Powerful business interests supported it.
And that's why the Republican Party has to, as former representative Steve LaTourette, put it so eloquently, "beat the snot" out Tea Party Republicans.
Steve LaTourette believes strongly that Republicans should be a lot more like Steve LaTourette, and so has started a new PAC dedicated to seeing to it that that happens.
LaTourette is the kind of old-line establishment Republican who supports raising taxes, opposes cutting frivolous spending, and became a lobbyist to cash in on his contacts.
Hey, that ought to fire up the base! Finally, someone willing to forgo principle, so he can stand up for principal.
As LaTourette pointed out:
"40, 42 House members have effectively denied the Republican Party the power of the majority."
You know another way to deny the Republican Party the power of the majority?
Lose the majority.
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October 29, 2013
If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You're Wrong
There has been a growing controversy this week as millions of people are discovering that they are losing the health insurance they like as Obamacare regulations take hold. Many are confused, since President Obama had promised on repeated occasions that, if "you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period."
In fact, he specifically said, "Let me repeat this. Nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have."
Sure, at first glance, it appears as if The President was being less than completely truthful about Obamacare, but fortunately, the problem isn't with the law. As White House advisor Valerie Jarrett explains, the problem is that insurance companies are following the law.
FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.
Those SOBs will stop at nothing to comply with the law, even if it mean you can't keep your existing health plan. What's their excuse, "I was just following orders?" Let's see, where have we heard that before? Oh yeah.
Okay, sure, so the Administration knew that you would lose the plan that you liked, and even wrote the regulations to make sure of it, but did you ever consider the possibility that when the The President said you would get to keep to your health care plan, he might not have been talking about you specifically? Maybe he was talking to someone else in the room, perhaps Valerie Jarrett.
What, if you were sitting next to a couple at dinner and the woman said, I love you, would you immediately assume she meant you as well? (Note: She doesn't. BTDT.)
And besides, the issue isn't really whether or not you like your plan, it's whether or not you're too stupid to want a better, more expensive plan. For example, let's say there has never been any history of mental illness in your family and you show no signs whatsoever in yourself, so you decided you don't want to have to pay for mental health benefits.
Well, that just proves your crazy, and probably should be required to pay for mental health benefits.
Think of it as the Catch-22 of Obamacare.
And then there's the pediatric dental care that 55-year-old single men have been living without for far too long.
We're fortunate that President Obama is around to tell us what we need.
So, to review, President Obama did not lie when he said if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. After all, Vulcans can't lie. They can, however exaggerate.
So, he exaggerated.
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hawks4thewin wrote:Throwdown wrote:hawks4thewin wrote:I don't think he is going anywhere...We don't need the cash right now, we can see what happens in the draft... all before peddling away someone who at one time was brought in as a starter.
Flynn is good. Imagine if fumble fingers didn't drop that one pass he aired out recently...... we would be like WOW Flynn is awesome....
he don't suck, he is better than a lot of starters out there I think.... he will yield security, or profit.
We got Chancellor coming up, Browner too and some others, this team needs money to extend these dudes.
I'd rather keep the core intact instead of keeping the back up QB who can be easily replaced, no matter how you guys want to look at Flynn, he's still the back up.
Ohh I agree, with you throwdown, but I thought we didn't have much in the way of contracts to deal with yet?
Might or might not, I think Chancellor has 1 year left after this season and I think Browner as well, could be wrong so don't be surprised if I am lol.


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Simcha Fisher, author of The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning writes for several publications and blogs daily at Aleteia. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and ten children. Without supernatural aid, she would hardly be a human being.
State Rep. Babette Joesephs says that female legislators who support pre-abortion ultrasound laws must be "men with breasts," and not actually women. She said it twice during a rally organized to protest the bill: "I don't understand it … I don't believe they're really women. … I believe they're men with breasts."
Pro-life news outlets are rightly responding with disgust, calling her remarks misogynistic; and so they are. The representative's crass phrase, "men with breasts," shows a level of contempt for women which is hard to countenance. In her view, woman are made of two things: breasts, and the freedom to kill.
But the thing that strikes me about her remarks is how anti-man they are—not just anti-pro-life-man, but anti-men-in-general. Calling your opponent "men with breasts" implies that all men are, by definition, the enemy. It's like saying "the devil in disguise" or "a wolf in sheep's clothing." It assumes that the worst thing you can say about a woman is that she's like a man.
Every once in a while, I do come across an anti-abortion man who is a true oppressor—who thinks that women are silly, uppity creatures who must be controlled, shamed, reminded daily of her own constitutional weakness and treachery. It happens so infrequently, though, that my first response is always to laugh. Who are these guys? What the heck do they see when they look into the mirror? Very often, their personalities and beliefs are so repellent that they're single anyway, so their theories on how to control women remain in the theoretical realm.
And how often have I met pro-life men who respect women, who care about their health, safety, and happiness, and listen to them, and are willing to be corrected if they're mistaken when it comes to matters like pregnancy, childbirth, and female sexuality? Oh, eleven billion times. This number includes priests, married men, old men, traditionalists, up-and-comers, zealots, lukewarm nice guys, and so on. Pro-life is pro-woman.
Now, there have been many, many times when I have met with an impregnable wall of contempt and condescension from men—from pro-choice men. When men have fully swallowed the story that they have no right to an opinion about any "women's issues," they are invariably breathtakingly rude and condescending toward pro-life women. They actually do what feminists insist that pro-life men do: they tell us what we really want, they tell us what's good for us, they tell us to shut up and let the big boys do the heavy lifting.
And I can imagine why they are so harsh and bitter: they've been told for their entire lives that they are the enemy, they are nothing, they have nothing to say, and that every move they make harms women. They are only applauded by the cognoscenti when they take over things that used to be women's jobs, and never when they're brave or strong, never when they sacrifice themselves.
So when they come face to face with a woman who does not see herself as a victim of biological injustice, who is smart, capable, fulfilled, and happy, it must sting like a sonofagun. After all those years of hearing that women want them to stop being men, it must hurt where it counts when they discover that that was a lie—that there is a whole population of women who still value men for who they are, and not just as breastless, inherently guilty, malleable pseudo-women.
I often think of one of the final scenes in The Mummy Returns, where the hero and the villain are both dangling over a molten pit of some kind of deadly, otherworldly, condemned-soul-lava. The wife of the hero sees her husband's distress, and without hesitation darts out between falling boulders and burning stalactites as they hurtle down from the roof. She pulls him out and the two struggle away to safety.
The villain then calls to his beloved—the one who cost him his life and whom he's worked for millennia to be reunited with. She looks at him, looks at the peril she faces, and cries, "No. . . no!" and dashes away, to save herself. It takes the villain only a moment to realize that he has lost her—that she never really loved him, even after he gave her everything she wanted. And with a look of hellish calm, he does the only thing left to him: he lets himself go, falling backwards into the abyss.
Listen, men. You don't have to be "pro-choice" to be appealing to women. You may have been told that that's what women want, but let me tell you: be a good man, be a real man, and there are real women who will run across that burning room to be with you. The feminists are right when they say that women don't want to be told what to do. Women don't want to be treated like children or idiots. Unless there's something wrong with them, they don't want to be lectured or shamed or pushed around. But they do want to know that there is someone on their side, someone who will fight for them, someone who will make it safe for them to give themselves away.
Supporting a woman's right to choose is not the act of a real man. It's the act of a castrato, a disemboweled mummy of a man who has nothing to live for but to serve the snakelike and the faithless. Women don't want someone who's so supportive, he'll go halvsies on the abortion bill. They want someone who will make such a good life with you that choosing death is the last thing on anyone's mind. They want someone who is worth yanking out of that pit—someone you'd never even consider running from.
You know what? Sometimes life is that burning room. Sometimes a sexual relationship is full of falling boulders and burning peril. If you've been the man you ought to be, then the woman you love will come across it after you. Love makes us strong enough to yank each other out of the pit. Be strong, men. That is what women want.


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1. First things first: it is officially Grand Central Terminal, and NOT Grand Central Station. However, many people do still refer to it as the latter, including the Canadian author Elizabeth Smart, who wrote the prose poetry novel "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" .
2. There are, however, two existing grand central stations, so perhaps she was right after all. The U.S. Post Office station next door is also known as Grand Central Station. The name is also sometimes used to refer to the Grand Central – 42nd Street subway station, which serves the terminal.
3. Outside the station, the clock facing 42nd Street is well known for having the world's largest example of Tiffany glass.
4. All levels, floors, and platforms within Grand Central can be reached by lifts or ramps. It was billed as the first great "stairless" station, a design considered necessary for train passengers with large trunks and train cases.
5. A once secret basement, widely referred to as M42, lies under the Terminal, containing converters used to supply electric currents to run the trains from the Terminal.
6. During the Second World War, German military intelligence reportedly learned of the M42, and sent two spies to sabotage it. The spies were arrested by the FBI before they could strike.
7. For more than 20 years, the attic of the east wing contained an art school and gallery space called the Grand Central School of Art, which was founded in 1922.
8. Among the directors of the school of art was John Singer Sargent, one of the best known portrait painters of his generation.
9. Going Hollywood was the first of many films shot at the terminal. The 1933 movie starred Marion Davies and Bing Crosby.
10. One of the terminal's most striking features is the astronomical mural on the ceiling of the main concourse ceiling, which shows the Mediterranean sky during the October to March zodiac and features 2,500 stars.
11. Despite its magnificence, the mural is by no means perfect. The stars are slightly displaced, and the sky is actually in reverse. It was reportedly a commuting amateur astronomer who noticed the error in the same year the terminal opened. Officials tried to explain that it represented God's view. However, it seems more likely that workers had mistakenly looked at the diagram on the floor and done their work from there.
12. As many as 50 painters worked on the mural, trying to ensure that there was no variation in colour tone. They also experimented to find just the proper shade of blue.
13. Grand Central it is the largest train station in the world by number of tracks and number of platforms
14. The station is one of the world's most noted Beaux-Arts landmarks. One of the design team Whitney Warren (a cousin of the Vanderbilts – the family whose fortune stemmed from railways, and were highly influential in the creation of Grand Central – spent ten years at the École des Beaux Arts). Many naturally credit the terminal's look to him.
15. The information booth is a perennial meeting place of the station, most noted for its magnificent clock. Each of the four clock faces is made from opal, and auction houses including Sotheby's and Christie's estimate its worth at more than $10 million (£6.3m)
16. The information booth is also known for having a "secret" door – although rather less secret now it has a reference on Wikipedia – leading to a staircase down to a lower level information booth.
17. When it is open, staff at the information booth deal with more than 1,000 questions an hour.
18. On top of the information booth clock, there is an acorn. It's the Vanderbilt family symbol: "From the acorn grows the mighty oak." Acorns and oak leaf clusters have engravings in the marble and on lighting fixtures.
19. An eagle with a 13-foot wingspan that once graced the former Grand Central Depot is now perched on Grand Central Terminal. The eagle was discovered after new owners moved into a house in Bronxville in 1995. The couple contacted the Metro-North Railroad and asked if it might be used for the restoration.
20. September 11 has not been a lucky date for the Terminal. Obviously on that day in 2001, the terminal had one of its most fraught days ever. However, it was also the date in 1976 that group of Croatian nationalists planted a bomb in a locker at Grand Central Terminal. A bomb squad specialist was killed and 30 more wounded.
21. Grand Central was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, giving it official protection from developers who wished to demolish it.
22. Robin Williams's character in the film "The Fisher King" encounters the woman of his dreams in Grand Central Terminal.
23. There is a train platform that has a concealed entrance, along with a lift that goes straight up to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. This is the "secret" platform, number 61, and was once used to convey President Franklin D. Roosevelt directly into the hotel.
24. In North by Northwest, Cary Grant makes his escape from New York City in a sequence filmed at night inside the real station.
25. In terms of total area, Grand Central is thought to be one of the most successful shopping centres in the USA.
26. When Grand Central was renovated in the 1990s, the ceiling was hidden under a layer of black grime, thought to be from coal and diesel smoke. Closer inspection revealed it to be tar and nicotine from tobacco. A single dark patch is still there (above the Michael Jordan Steakhouse) as a reminder of the grime that once was.
27. The oldest business in Grand Central is the Oyster Bar, which first opened its doors the same year as the terminal itself in 1913.
28. The Oyster Bar carries up to 30 varieties of oysters each day.
29. Some language historians believe the phrase "red carpet treatment" evolved at the Grand Central Terminal. Its use is thought to have entered popular vernacular through the luxurious 20th Century Limited express passenger train from New York to Chicago. Passengers used to walk down a crimson carpet, a ritual only done for those departing from New York.
30. The Biltmore Room was where the 20th Century Limited train used to arrive. Passengers – often numbering celebrities and significant public figures – would descend from the train and greet their loved ones here. For that reason, it became known as the "Kissing Room".
31. There is "whispering gallery" in Grand Central on the dining concourse near the Oyster Bar . Low ceramic arches create acoustics that can make a quiet noise sound much louder.
32. The original station on the site was known as the Grand Central Depot, the brainchild of Cornelius Vanderbilt (see also fact 14), the American industrialist and philanthropist who built his wealth in shipping and railroads. It was finished in 1871.
33. In its second incarnation as "Grand Central Station," the most prominent feature was an enormous train shed, made of glass and steel, which some said rivalled the Eiffel Tower and Crystal Palace.
34. A catastrophic steam train collision on January 8, 1902 in the Park Avenue tunnel killed 15 people and injured 37. The ensuing public outcry increased demand for electric trains and precipitated plans for the new terminal.
35. In the ten years of Grand Central Terminal's excavation and construction, rail service continued uninterrupted.
36. Grand Central Terminal officially opened to great fanfare at 12:01 am on Sunday, February 2, 1913, and more than 150,000 people visited the new terminal on its opening day.
37. In 1947, an estimated 65 million people – or around 40 per cent of the entire population of the United States – travelled by train via Grand Central Terminal.
38. In 1967, the Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York City, which was created in response to the destruction of Pennsylvania Station – designated Grand Central Terminal as a landmark, subject to the protection of law.
39. The staircases in Grand Central were based on the designs of the Paris Opera House.
40. In the original architectural plans there were two grand staircases, but there was only one standing when the Grand Central opened, for reasons that remain unclear. Perhaps funds ran dry, perhaps builders decided there was nothing worth visiting on the eastern wing. The western one is the original; the eastern was added during the renovation in the 1990s.
41. Interestingly, the new eastern staircase is actually a few inches shorter than its western counterpart, and with a few less flourishes.
42. Every day, more than 750,000 people pass through Grand Central, which is more than the entire population of Leeds, or roughly the population of San Francisco.
43. The terminal covers 48 acres from 42nd Street to 97th Street, encompassing 33 miles of track.
44. Each day, an estimated 10,000 people come into Grand Central to have lunch, and don't a catch a train at all.
45. One of the original flash mob stunts happened within Grand Central. This clip shows more than 200 people stop completely still in the middle of the terminal out of the blue. Minutes later, they walk away.
46. The Lost and Found (lost property) at Grand Central receives more than 2,000 items every month. According to official statistics 80 per cent of the items are returned to the owners, apparently making it the best recovery rate of any Lost and Found in the world.
47. Items that have been handed in include an urn of cremated ashes and a barking basset hound. Both made it back to their respective owners.
48. All light bulbs in the original terminal were naked and prominently on display. This was a way of drawing attention to the fact the terminal was all electric, quite a noteworthy achievement in 1913.
49. It has been ranked as the sixth most visited tourist attraction in the world by Travel+Leisure magazine, with more than 21.5 million annual visitors.
50. Every clock in Grand Central is set by an atomic clock at a naval observatory in Maryland, which reportedly makes them accurate to with one second every 1.4 million years.
51. The basement in Grand Central is the deepest basement in New York City. Apparently a ten-story office could slip through the Main Concourse floor, and still not touch the basement floor of Grand Central.
52. Television and radio studios used to be on the third floor of Grand Central, making it a very common occurrence to see the likes of Groucho Marx and Bob Hope.
53. Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most prominent fans of the terminal. Apparently he always worked to make Grand Central look grand, shooting it in Technicolor where possible.
54. RKO Radio Pictures shot more films in Grand Central than any other studio. Stars in its films included Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple and John Wayne, and Jennifer Jones.
55. Grand Central was filmed in Technicolor for the first time in 1953. This was for the MGM movie "The Band Wagon" in which Fred Astaire got off the 20th Century Limited train and danced up Track 34.
56. In fact, almost every film featuring a train arriving at or departing from the terminal is shot from Track 34. This is due to it being one of the few platforms to have no columns.
57. Despite its renown as a Beaux-Arts landmark, some credit Grand Central as one of the forerunners of modern architecture, especially for its glass catwalks. They provide ventilation, illumination, and transportation from one office tower to the next, giving weight to the idea of form following function, a trademark of modern architecture.
58. The statues around the clock on Grand Central's south face represent Mercury, Hercules and Minerva, all considered apt gods to represent the railroads with their attributes of speed, strength and intellect.
59. At the time, this was considered the largest group of sculptures in the world, at 48 feet (14.6m) high.
60. The French artist Jules-Alexis Coutan was responsible for the design of the sculpture (known as "Transportation"). However, M. Coutan never visited the US, and the sculptures were carved by the John Donnelly company.
61. The largest newspaper recycling program under one roof in the USA is in operation at Grand Central. Apparently more than four tonnes of newsprint are recycled daily.
62. New cars used to be exhibited in Grand Central on turntables: the two models that were most often shown no longer exist: Oldsmobile and Rambler.
63. Broadcast studios, political rallies, art exhibits, and tightrope walks, have all taken place in Grand Central, a small taste of the many ways the public space has been used.
64. Someone called F. M. Lahm from the city of Yonkers in New York State is recorded as having bought the first ticket.
65. A large American flag is permanently draped in the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, placed there a few days after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
66. Grand Central subway station actually opened in 1904, a few years before the terminal. Designs for the terminal were required to incorporate links to the subway station.
67. Almost inevitably there has been a LEGO replica of the terminal, made of 5,000 bricks. It is being displayed in the terminal for the centenery celebrations.
68. In 1954, serious plans were mooted to replace Grand Central with an 80-storey tower, taller than the Empire State Building, plans that rumbled on in one form or another for decades.
69. The terminal's display board became something of a New York institution, with its many displays would flapping furiously to show the ever changing arrivals and departures. It was an electromechanical display that displayed times and track numbers of arriving and departing trains.
70. William J. Wilgus is credited as the person responsible for the design and construction of the new Grand Central Terminal. The idea came to him "in a flash of light," he recalled decades later, according to the New York Times.
71. On the original 17 acres bought by the railroad, 120 houses, three churches, two hospitals and an orphan asylum had to be obliterated, as would the stables, warehouses and other ancillary structures.
72. The New York Times said of the plans for the new terminal that: "in describing it, the superlative degree must be kept in constant use."
73. The destruction of buildings to construct the Grand Central Terminal was the city's largest individual demolition contract ever.
74. Apart from the trains, the most used form of transportation within Grand Central are the lifts, which make thousands of trips a day.
75. Nearly 3.2 million cubic yards of earth were excavated for the construction for the terminal, as well as rock to an average depth of 45 feet. At the busiest periods of construction, 10,000 people were working to the site, and work continued around the clock.
76. All the rubbish and debris was enough to fill almost 300 railway dump cars every day.
77. The terminal alone cost $43 million (£27m) to build, the equivalent of about $1 billion (£633m) today
78. The first train to leave the terminal was the Boston Express No. 2, which departed at 12.01am on February 2, 1913.
79. The first train to pull in at the terminal was a local train on the Harlem line.
80. Of the many shops at Grand Central, most are either private, small-scale businesses or small franchises. There are three exceptions: a Starbucks, a Rite Aid pharmacy and an Apple Store, the latter of which opened in December 2011.
81. On its opening the New York Times described Grand Central as "not only the greatest station in the United States, but the greatest station, of any type, in the world."
82. The finishing touches to Grand Central Terminal were not complete for several years after its official opening (the traffic viaduct did not open until 1919).
83. The Grand Central station that preceded the current terminal helped bring times into synch across the United States. In the mid-1800s, cities kept their own times. But with more people taking the train, railroad officials pushed for a national standard – to avoid collisions, among other things. On November 18, 1883, known as "the day with two noons," at three minutes and 58 seconds past 12, the clock was wound back to noon again. Grand Central had started keeping standard time a few hours before.
84. A barbershop for men that existed at the terminal in 1913 boasted that the customer could be shaved "in any one of 30 languages."
85. A man called Frank English has a very good claim to have taken more photos in Grand Central than anyone else. By his own estimation, he has taken at least 200,000 photos – unsurprising as he's been the official photographer since 1984.
86. A new ticket-vending machine was installed in Grand Central Terminal in 1955, called Automaticket, it machine printed tickets and even returned change to customers, a high-tech innovation at the time. However, the machine could only print tickets between Grand Central and another station, and no round trips. Change was limited to a maximum of 49 cents.
87. The original plans for Grand Central Terminal included a skyscraper.
88. Argent Ventures, a privately held real estate company, owns the land under Grand Central Terminal. So the man known as the owner of Grand Central is a Manhattan real estate developer called Andrew Penson.
89. One of the most recent films to feature Grand Central is Men in Black III, which also has one of the most original interpretations of the terminal. A race of tiny aliens is kept inside a Grand Central locker, while at the end of the film, a locker in an enormous alien version of the terminal is shown to contain the human world.
90. Commercial billboards and blackout paint – dating back to the Second World War – blocked out natural light in the station until its renovation in the 1990s.
91. The construction of Grand Central sparked a building boom in the area, with hotels and offices sprouting up nearby, including the Chrysler Building, and leading to Grand Central's nickname: "Terminal City".
92. The terminal once had its own organist, Mary Lee Read, who started playing in 1928. On the day after Pearl Harbour was attacked she played the National Anthem and everyone within the station ground to a halt, so the story goes, causing commuters to miss their trains. She was forbidden from playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" after that.
93. Another quirky fact concerns the same organist. She is credited with saving the life of a man who was planning to commit suicide until he heard her play a moving hymn.
94. Among the various food outlets is one named after Michael Jordan, perhaps the most famous basketball player ever. The Michael Jordan Steakhouse opened after the major 1990s renovation of the terminal, with a design reminiscent of a train dining car. It has now spawned sister restaurants in Connecticut and Chicago.
95. In 2008, it took six people to switch all the naked incandescent bulbs to the fluorescent bulbs that are currently in use at the terminal.
96. The decline of the station during the 1950s and 1960s is widely blamed on competition from large trunk government-subsidised trunk roads and intercity airline traffic.
97. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was one of the most prominent supporters of Grand Central Terminal in the 1960s and 1970s as it battled developers, and she helped to secure its long-term future.
98. In 1991 the long-distance Amtrak trains stopped serving Grand Central, instead running from nearby Pennsylvania Station.
99. When they were taken down for cleaning in the 1990s, the station's chandeliers were thought to be bronze. But once the encrusted dirt was cleaned up, their original gold was revealed.
100. High up on the ceiling mural (above the constellation Cancer) is a small hole, a legacy of a NASA promotion in 1957. With the government trying to drum up support for America's space program as the Space Race really gathered speed, NASA brought in a rocket to draw attention to their work. A six-inch hole was punched in the ceiling to help support it.
- With thanks to www.nycgo.com (the website of NYC & Company).
- Visit the official website for the Grand Central Terminal Centennial