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A woman who inherited a collection of Chinese carved jade from her father has scored the first $1 million (£600,000) appraisal from experts on the US television programme "Antiques Roadshow," the producers said on Monday. In a record for the show, four pieces of Chinese carved jade and celadon from the Qianlong era (1736-1795), including a large bowl made for the Emperor, were given a conservative auction estimate of up to $1.07 million. "For 13 years, we've been hoping to feature a million-dollar appraisal on 'Antiques Roadshow;' it's been our 'Great White Whale,'" said Marsha Bemko, the show's executive producer....

SOL - I have gotten several reports concerning threats to Tea Party events and two regarding threats to individual organizers and in one instance their family. In each instance when provided information (regarding this or other issues) I endeavor to source and verify or will not post or email it to the group. I do now have one confirmed statement from a victim of such a threat and have discussed it with him. The individual making the threat has direct ties to opposition groups as discussed below and an attorney has been consulted by the individual targeted and other steps...

First time the region has tipped into deflation for the first time since modern records began half a century ago. The eurozone region has tipped into deflation for the first time since modern records began half a century ago. Eurostat said the consumer prices index fell 0.1pc in June from a year earlier. The inflation picture has been distorted by the delayed effects of the oil crash from the speculative peak in mid-2008. But while prices are expected to rise again later this year after the commodity rebound, the eurozone is moving uncomfortably close to the sort of trap that...

My impression is Frankin won almost all the uncounted or newly found votes in post election counting. Anyone have the actual #s? Thanks

Published: June 30, 2009 WARREN, Ohio—It’s not something police see every day. A detective in Warren was interviewing a woman when a squirrel popped out of her shirt. It’s not unusual to find squirrels doing what they like to do best in Perkins Park in the summer. During his years as a detective in Warren, Wayne Mackey has run into quite a few squirrely situations, but none of that prepared him for what happened a few weeks ago when he was interviewing this witness on a recent murder case. “No, I was not prepared to see a woodland creature in...

 Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr.

I posted a few pics of the Fearless Reader while he was speaking and I added Drudge's Evil Eye pics too. I have noticed particular quirks when the President speaks and I was wondering if anyone else thinks he had tells like the ones I see. http://www.andimright.com/?p=680 For instance, he sticks his right arm out when he wants to shift blame or cast blame on someone else.

FAIRVIEW, N.J. – For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala. Recently, he stepped up to the money transfer window for a different purpose — to ask that his family send some of his savings back to him. "I hadn't worked for five months, and I was two months behind on rent, so I had them send $1,500," the 21-year-old Chamale said in Spanish. "My mother said, `That's a lot of money!'" With the U.S. economy in a ditch, money transfer agencies have been reporting a decline...

Note: The following text is a quote: Alleged Afghan Narcotics Trafficker Ordered Detained Pending Trial on U.S. Drug Charges Haji Bagcho, aka Haji Bagh Chagul, an Afghan national, was ordered detained today by Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia while he awaits trial on U.S. narcotics charges. Bagcho was charged in a two-count indictment unsealed June 24, 2009, with one count of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin knowing and intending that it would be imported into the United States and one count of distribution of one kilogram or...

A D.C. Superior Court judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to delay the implementation of a law recognizing same-sex marriages performed in jurisdictions outside the District and rejected efforts to bring the issue before voters. The lawsuit was an attempt to salvage a referendum drive that would have put the question of same-sex marriage on the ballot. ...snip The plaintiffs, seven D.C. residents led by Bishop Harry R. Jackson of the Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, said they were disappointed by the decision. "Essentially, today, the D.C. residents have been disenfranchised and unable to vote on an important public policy...

The human body, much like a computer, contains myriad data processors. They include, but are not limited to, the chemical-electrical activity of the brain, heart, and peripheral nervous system, the signals sent from the cortex region of the brain to other parts of our body, the tiny hair cells in the inner ear that process auditory signals, and the light-sensitive retina and cornea of the eye that process visual activity.[2] We are on the threshold of an era in which these data processors of the human body may be manipulated or debilitated. Examples of unplanned attacks on the body's data-processing...

WASHINGTON -- Obama administration officials will announce rules Wednesday for handing out $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds, but some companies already are raising concerns about how long it could take to award the money. Officials are expected to detail how they plan to distribute $4.7 billion in broadband money from the Commerce Department in grants and $2.5 billion from the Agriculture Department in grants or loans.

Should a federal court dismiss charges against the college student who hacked into Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail account? Yes No, but 25 years seems like an excessive potential sentence No, and throw the book at him

Today's daily poll question: Do you think Congress should be required to read and initial every page of legislation they sign? A Daily Poll.

The legal period for abortions will be shortened from 28 weeks of pregnancy to 24 starting July 8. And pregnant women will no longer be able to get an abortion simply because they have infectious diseases such as AIDS, rubella, chicken pox, or hepatitis, or suffer from hereditary diseases such as liver trouble, mental diseases, hemophilia, and epilepsy. The changes are included in a revision to the enforcement ordinance of the Mother and Child Health Act. The bill was endorsed by the government in a Cabinet meeting Tuesday. Lee Won-hee, a director at the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family...

A British man had to be rushed to a hospital emergency room after attempting to circumcise himself with nail clippers, the Telegraph reported Tuesday. The unnamed young man was taken to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where he had the wound cleaned and disinfected. He was kept in the hospital for observation.

When the deal was struck in September, J.P. Morgan Chase’s purchase of most of the collapsed Washington Mutual Bank looked like a master stroke, a $1.88 billion purchase price for operations expected to boost annual earnings more than $2 billion. In the first quarter alone, revenue jumped 48%, in part reflecting the impact of the WaMu purchase. But at least part of the deal is getting a second look, as Delaware Judge Mary Walrath on Friday granted a motion from the thrift’s parent, Washington Mutual Inc., to examine J.P. Morgan’s books. [more]

How I break down the word OBAMA.

Back in January it was revealed that part of the TARP Program included giving some funds to a bank that was cited for bad buisness practices.The money was given as a favor to Congressman Barney Frank Frank, head of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, acknowledged that last fall he inserted into the government’s $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program bill specific language to help OneUnited, New England’s only black-owned bank. He also said he contacted someone at the Treasury Department about OneUnited’s application for emergency TARP funds, though he insisted he never asked Treasury to bend any rules on...

The most complete terrain map of the Earth's surface has been published. The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry. The images were taken by Japan's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite. The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth's surface, and will be free to download and use.