BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 12 October, 2012

Friday

12 October, 2012

(Updated Daily)

[380 days in a row]



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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

See how President Obama has helped your state
President Obama led the country out of the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, growing the economy from the middle class out, not the top down. There is still more work to do, but take a look at just some of the ways that the President has helped your state and community over the past four years.


Tom Danehy: Here's why using standardized tests as the main way to evaluate teachers is a stupid idea (Tucson Weekly)
A teenage girl walks into a classroom every day, usually a few minutes late. She then puts her head down on the desk and falls asleep. When the teacher asks the kid why she even bothers to show up at all, the girl explains that she has two kids of her own (who are being taken care of, free of charge, at the day-care center elsewhere on campus), and her social worker has told her that if she doesn't show up to school, she won't get her government checks (yes, checks, multiple) every month.


Steven Bertoni: "Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Is Trying To Go Broke" (Forbes)
Chuck Feeney is the James Bond of philanthropy. Over the last 30 years he's crisscrossed the globe conducting a clandestine operation to give away a $7.5 billion fortune derived from hawking cognac, perfume and cigarettes in his empire of duty-free shops.


Lunch lady slammed for food that is 'too good' (The Local)
A talented head cook at a school in central Sweden has been told to stop baking fresh bread and to cut back on her wide-ranging veggie buffets because it was unfair that students at other schools didn't have access to the unusually tasty offerings.


Pat Conroy: Book-Banners are Invariably Idiots (Letters of Note)
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.


Jana Prikryl: Waking Up at the Movies (New York Review of Books)
Kael's taste tended toward quick pacing and a down-to-earth story that could grab an audience and make it feel something. A movie didn't have to be hysterically funny to win her over; she found it especially thrilling when a loose, jocular tone somehow eloped with otherwise straight-faced genres-hence her lifelong allegiance to Jean Renoir and Robert Altman and Jonathan Demme.


Ask a grown-up: how can there be one God when there are Zeus, Athena and all those ones? (Guardian)
Five-year-old Zachary's question is answered by classics scholar Mary Beard.


I, Anonymous: Crack Cracks Are Wack (the Stranger)
Stop making my friend the butt of your jokes before I make you the reason I'm on death row.


John Cheese: 5 Pieces of Advice Every Adult Wishes They Got as a Teenager (Cracked)
#5. Realistically, no, you can't do "anything" you set your mind to. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't give it a shot or 20.



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Trivia Question of the Day


What is the only US state with a unicameral legislature?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


Four days before the swallows return to Capistrano, what bird returns to Hinckley, Ohio?


   Buzzards (Turkey Vultures)                                                      Source


Hinckley Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States, located in the northeast corner of the county. The 2000 census found 6,753 people in the township.

The township became known across Ohio and the United States as the home of the buzzards. On March 15 of every year, buzzards arrive in large flocks at the town, as if on a very exact biological clock. The town began celebrating the arrival of the birds in 1957, and today as many as 50,000 visitors visit the Hinckley Reservation in the town annually on "Buzzard Day" to witness the return of the avian residents. The event is used to mark the beginning of spring for Hinckley and the surrounding towns.        Source







Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   Buzzards



Charlie said:
   Hinckley is about 30 miles southeast of where I'm sitting right now, so for many years I've heard all about the Buzzards return, each March 15.




mj wrote:
   That would be
  Buzzards. I believe they stand guard against vultures (like Bain).




Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
   The swallows may return to Capistrano each spring, but here in Ohio, March 15 signals the return of turkey vultures, more commonly known as buzzards



BttbBob responded:
   Buzzards... but, they are in fact, turkey vultures. We have them around these parts in Michigan, too. They are the ones that refuse to live in Ohio. I don't fault them a bit for that choice, I'm tellin' ya...



Adam answered:
   Crows? Oh, buzzards.



Marian replied:
   buzzards



Sally said:
   Q: Four days before the swallows return to Capistrano, what bird returns to Hinckley, Ohio?
  A: Well, that's an easy one! It's that big Buzzard, Mitt Romney! He's been in Ohio about all of this week, begging for, 'early' votes...

  Land Ho! I see Ohio in my sights...
  PS:

  Gotta love that big yellow bird...




Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
   The Turkey Buzzard and other unsightly creatures!!!!!




MAM   wrote:
   Buzzard, a common name for the "turkey vulture."

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And, Joe S     answered:
   I got this one, Turkey Vultures better known as Buzzards. No relation to Vulture Capitalists, Turkey Vultures are bifacial and are an important participant in out environment. Vulture Capitalists on the other hand serve no purpose other to themselves, much to the detriment of the environment and economy. Vulture Capitalists actually kill their victims by stripping them to the bones, Turkey Vultures clean up entities that have already died, and they are the masters of the skies.



  


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Middle Class Political Economist

New Model Legislation Would be Great First Step Toward Subsidy Reform




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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Jason Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Funding For Embassy Security: 'You Have To Prioritize Things'



Dana Milbank: Letting us in on a secret - The Washington Post



Indonesia Gang-Rape Victim Reportedly Expelled From School For 'Tarnishing Institution's Image'



Michael F. Jacobson: Amputation, Impotence, Painful Dentistry: Soda Equals Sadness



Jeff Flake Promises Not To Sign Tax Pledge He Already Signed



Beyond the bombs: Afghanistan's toughest sport also source of hope - World News



Nebula views captured with X-ray vision - Technology & science - Space - Space.com | NBC News



Google search for 'completely wrong' yields page of Romney photos - CNN.com



Kids in solitary confinement: America's official child abuse | Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | Comment is free



"Eye Of The Sparrow" - A Bad Lip Reading of the First 2012 Presidential Debate - YouTube



Daily Kos: FOX NEWS Race Baiting Makes "African-Americans for Obama" Most-Viewed Campaign Video of 2012



VIDEO: Romney Aided Fringe Utah College Founded by Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist | Mother Jones



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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


PITY THE FOOL

BAIN OR BANE. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

"DON'T COMPARE US TO THE ALMIGHTY; COMPARE US TO THE ALTERNATIVE."

THE 'CHIPMUNKS.'

"THE PLUCKY BURGER-FLIPPIN' SUCCESS STORY..."

THE WOMAN FOR MITT ROMNEY!

FREE THE SLAVES!

"KILLING THE KIDS THAT DON'T NEED TO DIE!"

ALL AROUND THE WORLD CONSERVATIVES SUCK!

ALL AROUND THE WORLD CONSERVATIVES SUCK! PART TWO

ALL AROUND THE WORLD CONSERVATIVES SUCK! PART THREE

"TWIGGY" WHO?

THE REST OF THE STORY

THE KISS!

OH, STFU MITTENS!






Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Thunder, lightning, and an intense downpour around 6am. Twelve hours later, we more thunder & lightning and another very intense downpour.

Although the dinner show ended with a rainbow.





On most weeknights KCBS airs 'Frasier' at 2:36am, but last night they went with the network overnight news.

Around 2:55am, the news suddenly went to bars & tone for about 30 seconds, then a slate with "Proof Of Performance Test" and some sort of tone generator, followed by some garbled talking, and then this:



Makes me think CBS is getting their day hires from the parking lot at Home Depot.



Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'CSI: The 3rd One', followed by a FRESH 'Made In Jersey', then a FRESH 'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are John Goodman, Jeff Altman, and Jamey Johnson with Alison Krauss.
On a RERUN Craig (from 9/24/12) are Dennis Quaid and Ellie Kemper.



NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'Grimm', followed by a FRESH 'Grimm', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Whitney Cummings, Rove McManus, and the Script.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Salma Hayek Pinault, Andrew Lincoln, Peter Gabriel, and Ben Gibbard.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/26/12) are Billy Corgan, Giles Walker, and Andrew Bird.



ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'Shark Tank', followed by 'Primetime: What Would You Do?', then '20/20'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 10/3/12) are Amy Poehler, Alan Arkin, and Garbage.



The CW offers a RERUN 'Arrow', followed by a RERUN 'Beauty & The Beast'.



Faux has a RERUN 'The X Factor', followed by a FRESH 'Fringe'.



MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.



A&E has all 'Criminal Minds' all night.



AMC offers the movie 'Cujo', followed by the movie 'Christine', then the movie 'Pet Sematary'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]   BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:00AM]   BBC WORLD NEWS
 [8:00AM]   THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 11 - Ep 5 - Kristen Stewart, Chris Rock, Engelbert Humperdinck, Stephen Mangan
 [9:00AM]   MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Excalibur
 [10:00AM]   DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 11 - The Lodger
 [11:00AM]   BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 1 - Ep 5 - You Can't Go Home Again
 [12:00PM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 3 - Ep 2 - The Fenwick Arms
 [1:00PM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
 [2:00PM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 9 - Le Bistro
 [3:00PM]   DOCTOR WHO: BEST OF THE MONSTERS
 [4:00PM]   DOCTOR WHO: BEST OF THE DOCTOR
 [5:00PM]   THE SCIENCE OF DOCTOR WHO
 [6:00PM]   THE WOMEN OF DOCTOR WHO
 [7:00PM]   THE TIMEY-WIMEY OF DOCTOR WHO
 [8:00PM]   THE DESTINATIONS OF DOCTOR WHO
 [9:00PM]   ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
 [11:00PM]   ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
 [1:00AM]   DOCTOR WHO: BEST OF THE DOCTOR
 [2:00AM]   THE SCIENCE OF DOCTOR WHO
 [3:00AM]   THE WOMEN OF DOCTOR WHO
 [4:00AM]   THE TIMEY-WIMEY OF DOCTOR WHO
 [5:00AM]   THE DESTINATIONS OF DOCTOR WHO     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Bravo has all 'Real Housewives Of OC' all night.


Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Key & Peele', 'Tosh.0', 'South Park', and 'Brickleberry'.



FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Easy A', then a FRESH 'Ultimate Fighter Live'.



HBO offers a FRESH Bill Maher - guests include:
Ann Coulter (R-Despicable), Sheila Bair, Ben Affleck, Brian Schweitzer, and Darrell Issa (R-Car Alarms).



History has all 'American Restoration' all night.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    The Good, the Bad, the Weird
 [9:00AM]    2001: A Space Odyssey
 [12:00PM]    Bunk
 [12:30PM]    Whitest Kids U'Know
 [12:45PM]    The Good, the Bad, the Weird
 [3:45PM]    Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
 [5:30PM]    Antwone Fisher
 [8:00PM]    Training Day
 [10:30PM]    Cop Land
 [12:45AM]    Training Day
 [3:15AM]    Offspring
 [5:00AM]    The IT Crowd-The Dinner Party
 [5:30AM]    Undeclared    (ALL TIMES EDT)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00A]    Love Lust & Chocolate
 [7:00A]    Blind Date
 [8:30A]    Picture Me
 [10:00A]    When a Man Comes Home
 [11:35A]    Blind Date
 [1:05P]    Picture Me
 [2:35P]    When a Man Comes Home
 [4:15P]    Brokedown Palace
 [8:00P]    The Manchurian Candidate
 [10:15P]    Antwone Fisher
 [12:15A]    Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
 [2:05A]    Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980
 [3:45A]    Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983    (ALL TIMES EDT)



SyFy has the movie 'Shutter Island', followed by a FRESH 'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then a FRESH 'Haven'.



TCM:
 [6:30 AM]      Lovin' the Ladies (1930)
 [7:45 AM]      Elmer The Great (1933)
 [9:00 AM]      Happiness Ahead (1934)
 [10:30 AM]      A Man to Remember (1938)
 [12:00 PM]      On Borrowed Time (1939)
 [1:45 PM]      Cross Country Romance (1940)
 [3:00 PM]      Come Live With Me (1941)
 [4:30 PM]      One Foot In Heaven (1941)
 [6:30 PM]      Shining Victory (1941)
 [8:00 PM]      Born Yesterday (1950)
 [10:00 PM]      A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012)
 [11:00 PM]      The Great Mcginty (1940)
 [12:30 AM]      I Married A Witch (1942)
 [2:00 AM]      The Born Losers (1967)
 [4:00 AM]      The Wild One (1953)     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Saturday   -  10/13/12

TCM features the films of master cinematographer Robert Krasker all night.
 [6:00 AM]      Mr. Skeffington (1944)
 [8:30 AM]      Crack-Up (1946)
 [10:15 AM]      Prehistoric Women (1967)
 [12:00 PM]      Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)
 [1:15 PM]      The Palm Beach Story (1942)
 [3:00 PM]      Sitting Pretty (1948)
 [4:30 PM]      Gandhi (1982)
 [8:00 PM]      The Third Man (1949)
 [10:00 PM]      Cry, the Beloved Country (1952)
 [12:00 AM]      Brief Encounter (1945)
 [1:45 AM]      Alexander The Great (1956)
 [4:15 AM]      Billy Budd (1962)
    (ALL TIMES EDT)




Antenna TV

Me-TV

RTV - The Retro Television Network

This TV





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French President Francois Hollande (C) reacts as he greets singer Bono (L) and Bill Gates, co-chairman and co-founder of the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
Photo by Phillipe Wojazer

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Nobel Literature Prize

Mo Yan

Novelist Mo Yan, this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offending those who uphold it.

Mo, whose popular, sprawling, bawdy tales bring to life rural China, is the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of the authoritarian government. And Thursday's announcement by the Swedish Academy brought an explosion of pride across Chinese social media.

The reactions highlight the unusual position Mo holds in Chinese literature. He is a genuinely popular writer who is embraced by the Communist establishment but who also dares, within careful limits, to tackle controversial issues like forced abortion. His novel "The Garlic Ballads," which depicts a peasant uprising and official corruption, was banned.

The state media hoopla and government cheer contrasted with the last Nobel prizes given to Chinese. Beijing disowned China-born French emigre dramatist, novelist and government critic Gao Xingjian when in 2000 he became the only other Chinese writer to win the literary prize.

Mo Yan

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Actor Edward Norton during the launch of the Baja International Film Festival at the Beverly Hilton on Wednesday, October 10, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Bret Hartman

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Sues Disney Over Marvel Rights

Stan Lee Media

Stan Lee Media, a company that says it controls the rights to Marvel characters including Spider Man and Iron Man, has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Colorado against the Walt Disney Co seeking "billions of dollars of profits."

Stan Lee, no longer associated with the company, created many of Marvel's stable of comic book characters. The company claims Lee assigned it his rights to those characters in 1998 but then agreed a month later to assign the same rights to Marvel Enterprises.

Disney acquired Marvel Enterprises, which had been renamed Marvel Entertainment, in 2009 for $4.3 billion.

The lawsuit focuses on successful movies based on Marvel characters that Disney has released since its Marvel acquisition. Those films include "The Avengers," which has grossed more than $1.5 billion in worldwide sales and is second only to "Avatar" and "Titanic," according to movie site Box Office Mojo.

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Reality TV Show Features Prettiest Sheep

Senegal

The street level of Ousmane Ndiaye's building features a fabric shop. He and his family live in a posh apartment on the second floor. Their upstairs neighbors? His beloved ram Billal and 10 other sheep.

Here his animals prance on a sunny outdoor terrace well above the commotion of buses and vendors below, and only rarely use the building's winding staircase.

Billal is fed the family's dinner leftovers, and Ndiaye jokes that his wife is jealous of his sheep. The family even foregoes potential rental income by leaving the upper level of their building unfinished.

"I could rent this place out for 250,000 francs ($500) a month, but I prefer to keep Billal and my sheep here," says Ndiaye, 60, sporting a royal blue boubou as he strokes the head of the sheep he hopes will become a reality television star.

In a nation where sheep are given names and kept inside homes as companion animals, the most popular television show is "Khar Bii," or literally, "This Sheep," in the local Wolof language.

Senegal

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U.S. actor Richard Gere arrives on the red carpet during the opening of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival October 11, 2012.
Photo by Ben Job

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Controversial Documentary

Donkey Love

Controversy over a documentary about bestiality has forced a Kelowna film festival to try and secure a new home on the eve of its scheduled opening.

The Okanagan Film Festival International had been slated to start its four-day run on Thursday at Kelowna's Paramount Theatre, which has hosted the festival for several years.

But this year's program includes the movie Donkey Love, a documentary about village life in remote parts of Colombia where men have sex with donkeys.

It has screened at four film festivals around the world and won the best documentary award at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.

Donkey Love remains on the program and its filmmaker, Daryl Stoneage, plans to be at the screening. He says the outrage over his movie is misplaced.

"The film is a well made film, it's a well researched film. We interview animal rights activists, police officers, lawyers, doctors, history professors, musicians. We even interview a guy who wrote a book on the topic. I think people are forgetting that this actually is a documentary."

Donkey Love

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Wake-up Call


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Russian Judges Defend Ruling

Pussy Riot

The Russian judges who ruled to keep two of the three Pussy Riot band members behind bars took the unusual step of publicly defending their decision, saying Thursday that it was made independently and without pressure.

A panel of three judges at the Moscow City Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling to send Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina to prison for two years, but they released Yekaterina Samutsevich after giving her a suspended sentence.

The presiding judge said the appeals court deemed it necessary for Tolokonnikova and Alekhina to remain incarcerated.

Samutsevich's lawyer made the case at the appeals hearing that her client should be treated differently because she had been nabbed by security guards and taken out of the cathedral before she was able to join other band members in the performance.

Pussy Riot

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John Savage and Peter Fonda attend Fox Searchlight's "The Sessions" Los Angeles Premiere After Party at LACMA, on Wednesday Oct. 10, 2012, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson

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NJ Trial Continues

Amy Locane-Bovenizer

Testimony continues at the aggravated manslaughter trial of a "Melrose Place" actress accused of killing a New Jersey woman in a 2010 motor vehicle accident.

Jurors on Wednesday heard from a woman who followed Amy Locane-Bovenizer for four miles after she said the actress had rear-ended her minivan in a minor fender-bender.

Maureen Ruckelshaus said the actress appeared wasted and drove off before police could be called.

However, the defense tried to show that Ruckelshaus may have contributed to the deadly crash in Somerset County. Ruckelshaus followed Locane-Bovenizer, flashing her lights and honking her horn.

Ruckelshaus watched as the Locane-Bovenizer's SUV struck a car pulling into a driveway, killing the woman.

Amy Locane-Bovenizer

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William H. Macy, Helen Hunt and John Hawkes attend Fox Searchlight's "The Sessions" Los Angeles Premiere After Party at LACMA, on Wednesday Oct. 10, 2012, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson

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'Some Girls Rape Easy'

Wisconsin

Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan has withdrawn his endorsement of a Wisconsin state lawmaker who has come under fire for controversial comments he made about rape.

Late last year, while discussing an alleged rape at a high school in his district, Rep. Roger Rivard told a local newspaper that his father taught him "some girls rape easy."

"State Rep. Rivard's comments are outrageous and offensive," Kevin Seifert, the manager of Ryan's congressional campaign, said in a statement on Thursday. "Congressman Ryan believes there is no place in our discourse for rhetoric such as this. Congressman Ryan cannot support Mr. Rivard or his indefensible comments."

Rivard, a freshman state representative running for re-election against Democrat Stephen Smith, was endorsed by Ryan on Aug. 9, two days before GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney selected Ryan to be his running mate.

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Bishops attend a mass celebrated by Pope Bemedict XVI marking the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. Benedict, after celebrating mass, will greet churchmen, including a dozen original Vatican II participants, re-enacting the great procession into St. Peter's that launched the council in 1962.
Photo by Andrew Medichini

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No Police Report

SUV

Radio talk show host Glenn Beck's family had a close call when their sport utility vehicle rolled down a steep hill in New York's Finger Lakes region just after they had exited the SUV.

In a slanted account of the mishap posted on Beck's website, TheBlaze.com, he says he was hugging his newly married daughter as his wife got their young son out of the vehicle. They had just arrived at the cottage rented for the daughter's wedding reception last weekend in Lodi, on Seneca Lake. Beck says the SUV slid down the hill and overturned, coming to rest near the shoreline.

Photos on the website show the SUV with broken windows and damage to its passenger side.

The Seneca County Sheriff's Office says the accident wasn't reported to police in the county.

SUV

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A model presents a creation by Ukrainian designers Kamenskaya and Kononova during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev October 11, 2012.
Photo by Gleb Garanich

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Top 20

Concert Tours

The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

    1. (1) Madonna; $5,128,536; $165.55.
    2. (2) Kenny Chesney / Tim McGraw; $4,467,950; $89.56.
    3. (4) Cirque du Soleil - "Michael Jackson: The Immortal"; $2,649,429; $96.72.
    4. (5) Coldplay; $2,461,130; $84.99.
    5. (6) Dave Matthews Band; $1,421,798; $55.11.
    6. (7) Phish; $1,271,069; $55.02.
    7. (8) Enrique Iglesias / Jennifer Lopez; $1,114,513; $79.70.
    8. (9) "Gigantes Tour" / Marc Anthony / Marco Antonio Solis / Chayanne; $1,042,502; $106.99.
    9. (10) Jason Aldean; $742,641; $39.58.
   10. (11) "Honda Civic Tour" / Linkin Park; $702,819; $49.66.
   11. (12) James Taylor; $690,346; $54.69.
   12. (13) Iron Maiden; $620,383; $57.67.
   13. (14) Brad Paisley; $612,029; $40.66.
   14. (15) Rascal Flatts; $569,159; $38.28.
   15. (16) Journey; $535,889; $57.48.
   16. (17) Def Leppard / Poison; $507,830; $61.21.
   17. (New) Carrie Underwood; $492,178; $60.07.
   18. (18) Wiz Khalifa / Mac Miller; $449,346; $27.21.
   19. (New) Mumford & Sons; $415,747; $45.39.
   20. (19) "Vans Warped Tour"; $389,434; $29.07.

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In Memory

Sammi Kane Kraft

Sammi Kane Kraft, whose baseball skills earned her the role of a youth league pitcher in the 2005 remake of "The Bad News Bears," has died in a Los Angeles car crash. She was 20.

The Los Angeles Times says Kraft was a passenger in an Audi that rear-ended a big rig and was struck by another car at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday on Interstate 10.

The California Highway Patrol says the Audi's driver was treated for moderate injuries and arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Kraft was 13 when she was discovered on an LA baseball diamond and cast in her only film. She played the role originated by Tatum O'Neal in 1976.

Sammi Kane Kraft

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In Memory

Paddy Roy Bates

Paddy Roy Bates, who occupied an abandoned fort in the North Sea and declared it the sovereign Principality of Sealand with himself as its prince, has died aged 91, his son said on Wednesday.

Michael Bates said his father died on Tuesday at a care home in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's.

In the 1960s, inspired by the "pirate radio" movement, Bates set up Radio Essex on an offshore fort. When that was closed down, he moved in 1966 to Fort Roughs, a disused second world war platform in international waters about seven miles off the coast.

Michael Bates said his father initially intended to set up another radio station, but then "had the bizarre idea of declaring independence".

Rejecting a British order to leave, he proclaimed the fort the Principality of Sealand, declaring himself Prince Roy and his wife, Joan, as princess.

The 550-square-metre (5,920-square-foot) fort two concrete towers connected by an iron platform claimed to be the world's smallest sovereign state, though it was not internationally recognized.

Despite the lack of legal status, Bates gave Sealand its own constitution, red, white and black flag, passports, stamps, coins, national anthem and a motto, E Mare Libertas: "From the sea, freedom".

Today, Sealand makes money by selling aristocratic titles and hosting Internet servers.

According to Sealand's official website, Bates fought in the Spanish civil war and worked at Smithfield meat market in central London before joining the British army during the second world war, serving in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy.

After the war, he imported meat from Ireland to northern England, where rationing was still in effect, imported rubber from Malaysia and ran fishing boats off Britain's east coast before founding Sealand.

In his old age, Bates moved to the mainland, making his son, Michael, regent and head of state of Sealand.

Bates is survived by Joan, Michael and his daughter Penny.

Paddy Roy Bates

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In Memory

Harris Savides

Harris Savides, the acclaimed cinematographer who worked frequently with Gus Van Sant and David Fincher, has died at 55.

Savides died Wednesday night, his representatives at The Skouras Agency confirmed Thursday. They did not release a cause of death.

He was known for vividly recreating the hazy hues of 1970s cinema in films like Fincher's "Zodiac" and Ridley Scott's "American Gangster," and for mesmerizingly fluid, long takes with Van Sant in movies including "Last Days," ''Elephant" and "Gerry." The last film he shot was Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," based on the true story of teens who burglarized celebrities' homes, which is due out next year.

Savides also shot several influential music videos, working often with director Mark Romanek on clips including Michael Jackson's "Scream" and Madonna's "Rain."

Harris Savides

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A Swiss Air Force F18 fighter jet releases flares during a flight demonstration of the Swiss Air Force over the Axalp in the Bernese Oberland October 11, 2012.
Photo by Pascal Lauener

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