Almanacs “The Almanac - Dec. 9 - Post Chronicle” plus 4 more |
- The Almanac - Dec. 9 - Post Chronicle
- CBS To Put A Stop To "As The World Turns" In 2010 - All Headline News
- 'As the World Turns' canceled - Los Angeles Times
- CBS to draw curtain on 'As The World Turns’ - The Money Times
- The first of the megabooksellers - The Guardian
The Almanac - Dec. 9 - Post Chronicle Posted: 09 Dec 2009 05:03 AM PST Today is Wednesday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2009 with 22 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Mars, Saturn and Mercury. The evening stars are Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They include English poet John Milton in 1608; journalist Joel Chandler Harris, author of the "Uncle Remus" stories, in 1848; Clarence Birdseye, industrialist/inventor, noted as "the father of frozen foods," in 1886; circus clown Emmett Kelly in 1898; bandleader Freddie Martin in 1906; actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in 1909; actor Broderick Crawford in 1911; former Speaker of the House Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, D-Mass., in 1912; actor Kirk Douglas in 1916 (age 93); comedian Redd Foxx in 1922; actors Dina Merrill in 1925 (age 84), Dick Van Patten in 1928 (age 81), John Cassavetes in 1929, Judi Dench in 1934 (age 75) and Beau Bridges in 1941 (age 68); Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker, sportscaster and actor Dick Butkus in 1942 (age 67); actors Michael Nouri in 1945 (age 64) and John Malkovich in 1953 (age 56); singer Donny Osmond in 1957 (age 52) and actor Joe Lando in 1961 (age 48).
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In 1907, the first Christmas Seals to raise money to fight tuberculosis went on sale in the post office in Wilmington, Del. In 1920, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. In 1958, in Indianapolis, retired Boston candy manufacturer Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., established the John Birch Society, a right-wing organization dedicated to fighting what it perceived to be the extensive infiltration of communism into U.S. society. In 1974, White House aide John Ehrlichman testified at the Watergate trial that U.S. President Richard Nixon was responsible for the coverup. In 1985, OPEC oil ministers abandoned the struggle to control production and prices, setting the stage for a global oil price war. In 1987, in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, the first riots of the Palestinian intifada began one day after an Israeli truck crashed into a station wagon carrying Palestinian workers, killing four and wounding 10. In 1990, Lech Walesa won Poland's first direct presidential vote. In 1992, the U.S. Marines landed in famine-wracked Somalia to ensure the delivery of food and medicine. Also in 1992, British Prime Minister John Major announced the formal separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton fired U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders for reportedly suggesting that masturbation be taught in schools. In 2002, United Airlines, which said it was losing $22 million a day, filed for bankruptcy. In 2003, the U.S. Defense Department indicated that only nations that supported the United States in the war in Iraq would be allowed to bid on the $18.6 billion in contracts for reconstruction projects there. In 2005, published reports said a key prewar Bush administration claim about ties between Iraq and al-Qaida came from a prisoner who said he made it up to avoid harsh treatment. In 2006, latest U.S. midterm election figures showed Democrats with a 31-seat gain to recapture control of the House of Representatives, with 233 seats to 202 for the Republicans. Democrats earlier assured themselves the Senate majority. Also in 2006, arson was suspected in a Moscow clinic fire that killed 45 women trapped in the inferno by metal bars across the windows. In 2007, leaders of African nations and the European Union, meeting in Portugal, set aside their differences on human rights to agree to a pact on trade and democracy. In 2008, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was accused of plotting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
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CBS To Put A Stop To "As The World Turns" In 2010 - All Headline News Posted: 09 Dec 2009 05:39 AM PST December 9, 2009 8:42 a.m. ESTTopics: TelevisionLos Angeles, CA (CNS) - The longtime running soap "As the World Turns" has been canceled. CBS announces that it will end the series' 54-year run on September 17, 2010. ![]() CBS' Senior VP for Daytime Programming, Barbara Bloom, said in a statement, "It's extremely difficult to say goodbye to a long-running series that's been close to our hearts for so long." ""The almanacs will show As the World Turns as a pioneer of the format, a hallmark for quality with its numerous Emmy's, the launching pad for many television and film stars and a daytime ratings powerhouse for parts of three decades." The soap, set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois and filmed in New York, debuted on air on April 2, 1956. It has spawned stars out of some of Hollywood's heavyweights, including Meg Ryan, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, and James Earl Jones among many others. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
'As the World Turns' canceled - Los Angeles Times Posted: 09 Dec 2009 04:34 AM PST Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Los Angeles Times, 202 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, California, 90012 | Copyright 2009 This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
CBS to draw curtain on 'As The World Turns’ - The Money Times Posted: 09 Dec 2009 04:41 AM PST Three months after pulling the curtains on "Guiding Light", CBS has announced Tuesday that it is winding up U.S. show 'As The World Turns' in September. Tuesday marked the show's 13,661st episode. Show's viewership falling Over the years there has been a fall in the shows viewership as more women have joined workforce and the number of cable channels and entertainment choices have increased manifold. Apart from this, it has been seen that during the daytime, formats like talk shows, other less expensive programs have achieved more success than soap opera that require a huge budget for paying the cast, producers, writers etc. Over all, the scripted dramas have become too expensive, following the fall in viewership. Average viewership of 'As the World Turns' this year has been 2.5 million, fall from 2.6 million last year and 6.5 million in 1993. The total viewership of the show is less than half of the viewers that watch "The Young and the Restless," whose average is over 5 million. Lynn Leahey, editorial director of Soap Opera Digest said, " 'As the World Turns' just isn't making money." The announcement is a big symbolic loss for Procter & Gamble. The company that has made soap operas for the last 80 years spends only tiny proportion of its income on this business now, focusing majorly on global advertising. 'As The World Turns'- launching pad for many Barbara Bloom, of CBS, said in a statement, "The almanacs will show As The World Turns as a pioneer of the format, a hallmark for quality with its numerous Emmys, the launching pad for many television and film stars and a daytime ratings powerhouse for parts of three decades." Eileen Fulton, who plays the oft-married Lisa Grimaldi on the show, was quoted by New York Post as saying, "It's just a shock -- it's like mother and daddy got divorced or died or something." This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
The first of the megabooksellers - The Guardian Posted: 09 Dec 2009 04:49 AM PST ![]() Browsers' paradise ... Waterstone's update the innovation of James Lackington. Photograph: Martin Godwin Now that the holly is finally decked out, many of you will doubtless be hustling to your favourite bookstores to pick up the latest books of the year. While some will make a point of patronising local independents – those charming ones with the unrivalled personal service – more of us will, with perhaps a twinge of guilt, leg our way through the crowded aisles of Waterstone's ... There was, of course, a time when these big, high street shops weren't around – at least not where I live, in Canada. I well remember the day the first one came to Ottawa. They gutted an old Woolworths downtown, several blocks away from the Peace Tower, and when the Chapter's store finally opened it wowed all who entered: deep, pillowy armchairs, gleaming hardwood floors, the scent and sound of Starbucks percolating up and down in the sleek adjoining coffee shop … and furlongs of multidimensional, multi-topical books lining the walls. It was a kind of mod-library where you could hang out, buy what you read, and make an afternoon of it. Despite the collateral damage of some small publishers being screwed over, a narrowed selection of titles, and the eventual rationing of stuffed seats, this place, and others like it, revolutionised the book buying experience – mostly for the better. Nothing like it ever existed before, at least over here. In London, however, this kind of emporium is yesterday's news. Late 18th-century news, to be precise. In Shadows of the Old Booksellers (published in 1865), Charles Knight tells us of a bookshop in Finsbury Square, Moorgate, named The Dome of the Muses belonging to bookseller James Lackington: "A dome rises from the centre, on top of which a flag is flying…Over the principal entrance is inscribed 'Cheapest Booksellers in the World' … We enter the vast area, whose dimensions are to be measured by the assertion that a coach and six might be driven round it. In the centre is an enormous circular counter … We ascend a broad staircase, which leads to 'The Lounging Rooms', and to the first of a series of circular galleries, lighted from the lantern of the dome, which also lights the ground floor. Hundreds, even thousands of volumes are displayed on shelves running round their walls. As we mount higher and higher, we find commoner books, in shabbier bindings; but there is still the same order preserved, each book being numbered according to a printed catalogue." Lackington was no slacker. His memoirs reveal a poverty-stricken youth who showed a genius for selling bakers' pies and almanacs (so successful was he that competitors threatened bodily harm). After devouring a volume of Epictetus that a friend bought for him, he chose to live on bread and tea only in order to save money for more books. Apprenticing as a shoemaker, then marrying his sweetheart, a dairy maid with whom he lived in happy poverty for several early years, he moved to London in August, 1774. An inheritance of £10 from his grandfather provided them with furniture, plus a little extra to spend at the second-hand bookstores he had begun to frequent. Like all bona fide bibliophiles he dealt with temptation in the way Oscar Wilde advised, by giving in to it; he bought almost all the books he wanted most. One Christmas eve, when tasked with buying dinner, he instead came home carrying a copy of Young's Night Thoughts. Ironically, though, it was this love of books that put turkey on the table for the rest of his life. After renting a shop from which to sell the shoes he'd made, he thought to use the spare room to sell the growing number of books in his possession. Starting with a stock of 50 volumes he spent all his leathery profit on more; soon he was into a new, larger space, and enjoying life as a successful bookseller. Business boomed largely because he knew how to buy and sell. His genius was to mark every book at the lowest price he could possibly afford. In fact the words inscribed on his carriage doors exclaimed: 'Small profits do great things.' He bought big and bold, sometimes dropping tens of thousands of pounds at single auctions. He wasn't greedy, he was generous, sticking, it seems, all of his life to the dictates of this little ode by Samuel Wesley: "No glory I covet, no riches I want, A pretty good motto it seems, particularly at this busy book buying time of the year. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
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