BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 24 December, 2010

Friday

24 December, 2010

(Updated Daily)

[1248 days in a row]


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NY Jets' Rex Ryan Names Wife As Assistant Coach


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Tom Danehy: Arizona's high school sports governing body is destroying the hopes of thousands of young athletes (Tucson Weekly)
It's a sad reality in education and interscholastic athletics that the further away one gets from face-to-face interaction with young people on a regular basis, the more likely it is that an administrator will view student-athletes in terms of numbers rather than as human beings with hopes and dreams and goals.


Connie Schultz: Some Dreams Refuse To Die (Creators Syndicate)
Last week, as millions of Americans toiled, Republican senators complained about having to work so close to Christmas.


Jim Hightower: LET'S FIGHT THE TRAGEDY OF A.S.S.
Another Texas legislator has come down with the tragic disease know as "Amazing Stupidity Syndrome." A.S.S. attacks the lobe of the brain that controls one's ethical behavior, apparently causing the moral synapses in that region to go on the fritz, thus allowing the stupidity hormone to seep in and take charge. The main symptom is that afflicted legislators develop sticky fingers, causing then to double-bill for airline tickets, rooms at luxury resorts, lavish meals, etc.


James Rainey: "On the Media: A plea for honesty in paid TV pitches" (Los Angeles Times)
It shouldn't be that hard for news programs to clearly point out when guest 'experts' are being paid to pump up certain products.


Paul Krugman: Notes On Government Employment (New York Times)
… most government workers are at the local level, and most of the rest are state workers; the federal government is a small piece of the total. And if you look at what they do, a lot of them are teachers; many of the rest are firefighters, police, and other occupations we sort of like.


CHRISTOPHER MIMS: And the Smartest Site on the Internet Is... (technologyreview.com)
The Internet used to be full of highbrow reading material, until broadband penetration exploded and everyone with a credit card managed to find his or her way onto the Web. Finding your way back to the rarefied air that used to suffuse the 'net can be a slog, so Google has a new way to help you out: You can now sort sites by reading level.


Michelle Pauli: Andy Mulligan talks Trash (Guardian)
The children's author Andy Mulligan talks about his thriller, 'Trash,' and how Blue Peter ducked a chance to take their viewers beyond the 'cotton-wool world' when they removed it from their book prize shortlist.


Bob Blaisdell: Review of "'Voltaire: A Life' By Ian Davidson" (Christian Science Monitor)
Another look at the life of Voltaire, the 18th-century philosophe whom many would call the greatest, most interesting man of his epoch.


joenolan: Beefheart Doc Salutes the Captain (disinfo.com)
Me and mine were all saddened last week with the news of the passing of one of the true great originals of American popular music - Captain Beefheart.


Simon Mills: "Take That: style icons for older men" (Guardian)
The mature Take That have reinvented their sound - and given their wardrobe a serious overhaul. They're now the perfect fashion role models for men over 40.


Craig D. Lindsey: John Waters has his own special brand of holiday cheer (McClatchy Newspapers)
John Waters loves Christmas. Seriously. You wouldn't expect the man behind such twisted cult classics as "Pink Flamingos," "Female Trouble," "Polyester" and his breakout, Broadway musical-inspiring hit "Hairspray" to be the kind of guy who likes to deck the halls. But he swears he does.


Will Harris: A Chat with Henry Rollins, Host of National Geographic Channel's "Born to Rage" (bullz-eye.com)
I got all kinds of the oddest mail from ('Sons of Anarchy'). People would write me in my character. Like, girls. Angry girls, because I had hit Charlie. 'Look here, Mr. Weston, I don't know you who think you are…' Uh, I think my name is Henry, and I think I drive a Subaru back to my house after the day of work is over in the Valley where we shoot this, you weirdo.



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The Weekly Poll

The Weekly Poll returns December 28th with a 'Year in Review' sorta Poll. Until then, I wish you all a Merry Christmas
(Can I say that? Is it OK?... Sure, why not...)



BadToTheBoneBob





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Wake-up Call


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HAIKU HEADLINES


THE ICEBERG COWBOY

SADDLES UP HIS FLOATING HORSE

AND LASSOS ICE FLOES


zEN mAN
(observing marine biologist Andrew Perry roaming the Arctic Plain herding stray icebergs)

zEN mAN archives


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Trivia Question of the Day


What state leads the U.S. in per capita consumption of cooked oatmeal cereal?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


Traditionally, what does a chandler make?

   Candles                                                      Source



A candle manufacturer is traditionally known as a chandler.         Source





Baron Dave ("People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it." -- Ogden Nash) was first, and correct, with:
   Could a chandler be any more of a candle maker?



Marian replied:
   candles..what a mess this rain has made..plastic on the roof and rocks all over the roads combined with mud...better than snow maybe??



mj said:
   Ah, the taste of sea salt!
  Chandlers handled provisioning for ships.
  On dry land, they made candles.




Sandra in Bangor answered:
   barrels



Alan J wrote:
   Candles



BadtotheboneBob responded:
   Candles and soap... But, as I have a 'Maritime' background (Boatswain's Mate, Coxswain and Lighthouse Keeper), I know that the term 'Chandler' has also historically been used to describe a person that sells supplies to ships e.g. canvas, ropes, tar (for rigging), blocks and other such things... Avast and belay, there, Matey!



Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
   chandlers made both soap and candles



Adam answered:
   More Chandlers...!
  Oh, well, it's candles.




Sally said:
   Chandler is a popular and common surname . It is considered as an occupational surname. Actually chandler is a word that indicates a person who makes and sells wax, candles, and soaps.

  YouTube - Peter, Paul and Mary - Light One Candle




Charlie responded:
   Candles.




John I from Hawaii says:
   "candles."



MAM   wrote:
   A chandler makes tallow or wax candles and usually soap.

  PS The picture of Joe S. in his PF Flyers is priceless! I remember wearing PF Flyers and REALLY wanting 'high-tops', but my Mother said, "No!"




That Madcat, JD replied:
   CHANDELIERS?



And, Joe S     answered:
   Traditionally, chandlers made both soap and candles, because a long time ago both of these products were made with lard and suet. Today, the crafts are separate, and the candle maker has retained the title chandler.

  Call me a traditionalist, call me sentimental, but I had to watch Letterman tonight. It's a holiday tradition. I laughed soundly at Jay Thomas recite the Lone Ranger story. I cheered wildly as Jay Thomas knocked the meatball off the Christmas tree. I sat spellbound as the ageless, AGELESS, Rock n Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love sang Baby Please Come Home. Now it's Christmas.



  



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Sick Days


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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Reader Suggestion

Net Neutrality

It's not Net Neutrality that's responsible, it's the END of Net Neutrality via the sleazy laws being proposed for wired Internet and the absence of any laws at all for wireless.

This columnist got it right:


James in Alhambra


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BadtotheboneBob

Hello, Creationists?

Hello, Creationists? Explain this... Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species.The ancient humans have been dubbed Denisovans after the caves in Siberia where their remains were found. There is also evidence that this group was widespread in Eurasia. A study in Nature journal shows that Denisovans co-existed with Neanderthals and interbred with our species - perhaps around 50,000 years ago... According to the researchers, this provides confirmation there were at least four distinct types of human in existence when anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) first left their African homeland...    BBC News - Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us


Curiouser and curiouser, I'm sayin'...

BadtotheboneBob



Thanks, B2tbBob!

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

THE REPUG CHRISTIAN HATE CLUB LOSES THIS ROUND!

THE LAME DUCK LIMPS ACROSS THE FINISH LINE

REPUG DEATH PANEL!

HANG HUCKABEE!

WELL, DUH!

YOU AINT SEEN NOTHING YET!

CALL THIS NUMBER, (202) 580-5212, AND TELL THEM THAT "ALL GODS SUCK."

WHAT A FUCKING PRICK!

HAVE A MERRY LED CHRISTMAS!

THE HIGH PRICE WE'RE PAYING FOR GREENSPIN!

THAT LUCKY OLD SUN GOT NOTHING TO TO DO BUT ROLL AROUND HEAVEN ALL DAY!

NOTHING, NADA, ZERO!

TOYS IN THE NATIONS ATTIC

THE ATTACK OF THE HYPERGIANTS!

THE ADVENTURES OF THE ICEBERG COWBOY!

THE CHRISTIAN WAR ON CHRISTIMAS

JULIAN GOES TOO FAR

FOR ALL THOSE SCROOGES OUT THERE

A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Overcast and damp.



Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The 2nd One', then a RERUN 'Blue Bloods'.
Dave is pre-empted.
Craig is pre-empted.


NBC fills the night with the movie 'It's A Wonderful Life'.
Leno is pre-empted.
Jimmy Fallon is pre-empted.
Carson 'The Scab' Daly is pre-empted.


ABC opens the night with 'Disney Prep & Landing', followed by 'Phineas And Ferb Christmas Vacation', then the movie 'The Santa Clause 2'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 12/13/10) are Rachael Ray, Garrett Hedlund, and Darker My Love.


The CW offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a RERUN 'Supernatural'.


Faux fills the night with the movie 'Are We There Yet?'.


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


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


AMC offers the movie 'White Christmas', followed by the movie 'Miracle On 34th Street', then the movie 'White Christmas'.


BBC  -   
 [6:00 AM]   BBC World News
 [7:00 AM]   BBC World News
 [8:00 AM]   The Graham Norton Show - New Year's Eve Special
 [9:00 AM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary
 [10:00 AM]   Doctor Who - Ep 4 Daleks In Manhattan
 [11:00 AM]   Doctor Who - Ep 5 Evolution Of The Daleks
 [12:00 PM]   Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
 [1:00 PM]   Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Christmas - Episode 1
 [2:00 PM]   Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Christmas - Episode 2
 [3:00 PM]   Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 J Willy's
 [4:00 PM]   The Graham Norton Show - Episode 13
 [5:00 PM]   Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Lazarus Experiment
 [6:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 1
 [7:00 PM]   William and Harry: The Brother Princes
 [7:30 PM]   William & Kate: Modern Monarchy
 [8:00 PM]   The Queen
 [10:00 PM]   The Queen
 [12:00 AM]   Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Idiot's Lantern
 [1:00 AM]   Doctor Who - Ep 3 The Unquiet Dead
 [2:00 AM]   Doctor Who - Ep 2 Tooth and Claw
 [3:00 AM]   Doctor Who - Ep 4 The Girl In The Fireplace
 [4:00 AM]   Doctor Who - Ep 2 The Shakespeare Code
 [5:00 AM]   Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (2005)    (ALL TIMES EST)


Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by the movie 'Casino Royale'.


Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle', followed by the movie 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted..
Colbert Report is pre-empted.


FX has the movie 'Horton Hears A Who!', followed by the movie 'Horton Hears A Who!', again.


History has 'UFO Busters', 'American Pickers', another "American Pickers', still another "American Pickers', yet another 'American Pickers', and one more 'American Pickers'.


IFC  -   
 [6:00 AM]    The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [6:30 AM]    The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [7:00 AM]    The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [7:30 AM]    Distant Voices, Still Lives
 [9:15 AM]    Spirited Away
 [12:00 PM]    Where God Left His Shoes
 [2:15 PM]    Distant Voices, Still Lives
 [4:00 PM]    Spirited Away
 [6:45 PM]    Where God Left His Shoes
 [9:00 PM]    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 [11:00 PM]    Undeclared
 [11:30 PM]    Undeclared
 [12:00 AM]    Undeclared
 [12:30 AM]    The Woods
 [2:30 AM]    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 [4:30 AM]    Undeclared
 [5:00 AM]    Undeclared
 [5:30 AM]    Undeclared     (ALL TIMES EST)


Sundance  -   
 [6:05 AM]    The Balanda And The Bark Canoes
 [7:00 AM]    Manufactured Landscapes
 [8:30 AM]    Fermat's Room
 [10:05 AM]    Noise (2007)
 [11:55 AM]    Girl on the Run: Winter 2011
 [12:55 PM]    Manufactured Landscapes
 [2:25 PM]    Fermat's Room
 [4:05 PM]    Noise (2007)
 [6:00 PM]    THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 10, Season 1)
 [6:30 PM]    THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 11, Season 1)
 [7:00 PM]    GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind (Episode 5, Season 1)
 [7:30 PM]    GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations (Episode 6, Season 1)
 [8:00 PM]    THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 10, Season 1)
 [8:30 PM]    THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 11, Season 1)TVMA
 [9:00 PM]    GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind (Episode 5, Season 1)
 [9:30 PM]    GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations (Episode 6, Season 1)
 [10:00 PM]    A Christmas Tale
 [12:35 AM]    Breaking Upwards
 [2:05 AM]    THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 10, Season 1)
 [2:35 AM]    THE COMEBACK - Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover (Episode 11, Season 1)
 [3:05 AM]    GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind (Episode 5, Season 1)
 [3:35 AM]    GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations (Episode 6, Season 1)
 [4:05 AM]    A Dirty Shame
 [5:35 AM]    Noise (2007)     (ALL TIMES EST)


SyFy has 'Warehouse 13', followed by a FRESH 'WWE Friday Steroid SmackDown!', and 'Star Trek: TNG'.


TBS begins it's 24-hour marathon of 'A Christmas Story'.


TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Beyond Tomorrow (1940)    [AKA: 'Beyond Christmas']
 [7:30 AM]      Bundle Of Joy (1956)
 [9:15 AM]      Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
 [10:30 AM]      Holiday Affair (1950)
 [12:00 PM]      It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
 [2:00 PM]      The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
 [4:00 PM]      In The Good Old Summertime (1949)
 [6:00 PM]      Scrooge (1970)
 [8:00 PM]      The Bishop's Wife (1947)
 [10:00 PM]      Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
 [12:00 AM]      Remember the Night (1940)
 [2:00 AM]      Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
 [4:00 AM]      Bell, Book and Candle (1959)     (ALL TIMES EST)


Saturday  -  12/25/10

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Little Women (1933)
 [8:00 AM]      The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
 [10:00 AM]      Susan Slept Here (1954)
 [11:45 AM]      A Christmas Carol (1938)
 [1:00 PM]      Ben-Hur (1959)
 [5:00 PM]      The King of Kings (1961)
 [8:00 PM]      The Lion In Winter (1968)
 [10:30 PM]      Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
 [1:00 AM]      Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
 [3:00 AM]      Ordinary People (1980)
 [5:15 AM]      Indiscretion Of An American Wife (1954)     (ALL TIMES EST)






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A tourist carries his shoes and socks as he prepares to walk across the pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road in St. Johns Wood, north London December 22,2010. The most famous pedestrian crossing in popular music, outside Abbey Road Studios in north London, was designated a site of national importance by the British government on Wednesday.
Photo by Andrew Winning

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FBI Releases Files

Daniel Schorr

The Nixon White House was so worried about Daniel Schorr's reporting that it ordered an investigation into the veteran network correspondent whose tough stories landed him on the president's infamous enemies list, according to newly released FBI files.

The administration had the bureau conduct a background investigation in 1971, according to one section from among hundreds of pages released Thursday from Schorr's FBI file.

The White House said it was considering Schorr for a public affairs job in the environmental area. A day later, the investigation was canceled but the White House still wanted to see anything the FBI had managed to discover about Schorr.

The first reference to Schorr in FBI files dates from July 31, 1942, when FBI Director J Edgar Hoover asked the chief of the Special War Policies Unit for more information on Schorr's status as a "representative of a foreign principal" in his employment with the Netherland Indies News Agency.

Daniel Schorr

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A Secret Service boat passes a surfer as it patrols the water near the vacation home of U.S. President Barack Obama in Kailua Hawaii December 23, 2010.
Photo by Kevin Lamarque

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Has All WikiLeaks Cables

Aftenposten

A Norwegian newspaper says it has obtained the entire trove of 250,000 uncensored U.S. diplomatic documents that WikiLeaks has been distributing.

The announcement Thursday appears to make Aftenposten the first media organization outside WikiLeaks' five partners to obtain the material - a development sure to heighten U.S. government fears that the public release of some uncensored diplomatic cables could endanger informants' lives.

So far WikiLeaks has released about 1,900 of the more than 250,000 State Department documents it claims to possess, many of them containing critical or embarrassing U.S. assessments of foreign nations and their leaders. The documents are also being published by The New York Times, France's Le Monde, Britain's Guardian newspaper and the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Managing editor Ole Erik Almlid said Aftenposten has no restrictions on how to use the material, and will be publishing articles about the U.S. documents that it finds relevant in its online and paper editions.

Aftenposten

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Cherokee, Apple Partner

iPhones

Nine-year-old Lauren Hummingbird wants a cell phone for Christmas - and not just any old phone, but an iPhone. Such a request normally would be met with skepticism by her father, Cherokee Nation employee Jamie Hummingbird.

He could dismiss the obvious reasons a kid might want an iPhone, except for this - he's a proud Cherokee and buying his daughter the phone just might help keep the tribe's language alive.

Nearly two centuries after a blacksmith named Sequoyah converted Cherokee into its own unique written form, the tribe has worked with Apple to develop Cherokee language software for the iPhone, iPod and - soon - the iPad. Computers used by students - including Lauren - at the tribe's language immersion school already allow them to type using Cherokee characters.

The goal, Cherokee Chief Chad Smith said, is to spread the use of the language among tech-savvy children in the digital age. Smith has been known to text students at the school using Cherokee, and teachers do the same, allowing students to continue using the language after school hours.

iPhones

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Visitors skate past holiday displays on a quarter-mile track in the outfield at Progressive Field in Cleveland Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. The Cleveland Indiansturned their summer home into a winter attraction called 'Snow Days' featuring ice skating, snow tubing and piles of natural and artificial snow.
Photo by Mark Duncan

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Questions Harsh Pot Penalties

Marion 'Pat' Robertson

Religious broadcaster Marion 'Pat' Robertson told his "700 Club" audience that harsh penalties for marijuana possession are costly for the nation and damaging to young people, but a spokesman said Thursday he was not calling for decriminalizing pot.

Robertson, 80, made the comments on the Christian Broadcasting Network in the context of faith-based approaches to treating offenders, the spokesman said.

The comments, however, were widely interpreted on several websites as an endorsement by the Christian Coalition founder of legalizing marijuana. They were celebrated by NORML, a group that advocates legalization of the drug.

While Robertson said, "I'm not exactly for the use of drugs," he added that criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot is "costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That's not a good thing."

Marion 'Pat' Robertson

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Producer Sues

"Black Swan"

A New York film production company has sued its former president, claiming "gross lapses in judgment" cost the company millions of dollars in lost revenue and a producer credit on the movie "Black Swan."

The defendant, Aaron Kaufman, called the claims baseless and said he would countersue for libel.

"Black Swan," starring Natalie Portman, was released for the holiday season and has gained early Oscar buzz after being nominated for four Golden Globe awards, including best drama.

Overnight LLC, led by producer Rick Schwartz, accuses Kaufman of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of corporate opportunity in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.

"Black Swan"

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New born male giraffe cub Tebogo stands next to its mother Monique at the zoo of Frankfurt, central Germany, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Tebogo was bornduring the night from Dec. 8 to 9.
Photo by Thomas Lohnes

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Sues Kevin Costner

Stephen Baldwin

Stephen Baldwin has sued fellow actor Kevin Costner over their investments in a device that BP used in trying to clean up the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The federal lawsuit filed in New Orleans on Wednesday by Baldwin and a friend claims Costner and a business partner duped them out of their shares of an $18 million deal for BP to purchase oil-separating centrifuges from a company they formed after the April 20 spill.

BP ordered 32 of the centrifuges, which separate oil from water, and deployed a few of the devices on a barge in June. BP capped the well in July and kept any more oil from leaking until the seafloor gusher was permanently sealed in September.

Baldwin and his friend, Spyridon Contogouris, owned shares in Ocean Therapy Solutions, the company that marketed the centrifuges to BP.

But Baldwin and his friend claim they were deliberately excluded from a June 8 meeting between Costner, his business partner Patrick Smith and a BP executive, Doug Suttles. At the meeting, the suit says, Suttles agreed to make a $18 million deposit on a $52 million order for the 32 devices.

Stephen Baldwin

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3 Arrested In Theft

Stradivarius Violin

Three people were arrested for stealing a 1.2 million-pound ($1.85 million) antique violin from an internationally acclaimed musician while she stopped for a snack at a London sandwich bar, British police said Thursday.

South Korean violinist Min-Jin Kym was eating inside the sandwich shop outside Euston station on Nov. 29 when she noticed that her black violin case - which contained the 300-year-old Stradivarius as well as two expensive bows - was missing, police said.

The violin, made in 1696, is one of only around 400 in the world. It was stolen with a Peccatte bow, valued at 62,000 pounds, and another bow worth more than 5,000 pounds.

Police arrested and charged John Maughan, 26, and two teenagers on Wednesday for theft. The teens, aged 16 and 14 years old, cannot be named for legal reasons. Maughan is in custody and the two teenagers are free on bail.

Stradivarius Violin

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An elevated view of Crested Butte, Colo. with several feet of snow is seen Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. The last round of the long lasting winter storm thathas impacted Eastern Utah and Western Colorado with a Winter Storm Warning is still in effect today.
Photo by Nathan Bilow

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Loses Ratings Appeal

David Schwimmer

Former "Friends" star David Schwimmer has lost a bid to soften the rating for his latest directing effort, a movie about the dangers of online predators.

"Trust," due out in theaters on April 1, was handed a restrictive "R" rating for "disturbing material involving the rape of a teen, language, sexual content and some violence."

An appeal filed by distributor Millennium Entertainment was fell on deaf ears at the Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Rating Appeals Board, which on Wednesday upheld the original rating.

Executive producer Avi Lerner had said in a statement that it was important for the film be seen by teenagers, especially as a cautionary tale. Schwimmer had said that he would not modify the film in order to receive a lesser rating. The film stars Clive Owen and Catherine Keener.

David Schwimmer

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Numbers Down

Executions

The United States executed fewer people this year, in part because there is a shortage of the drug used in lethal injections and because executions are too expensive in tough economic times, a report released on Tuesday said.

The Death Penalty Information Center said in its annual report that executions decreased 12 percent this year and new death sentences stayed near the lowest level since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.

Texas led the nation with 17 of the 46 executions carried out this year in the United States. The total is down from 52 in 2009 and less than half the number put to death in 1999.

One factor reducing or delaying executions is difficulty obtaining sodium thiopental, one of the drugs used in lethal injection executions, the Washington-based group said.

Executions were postponed or canceled in five states due to a shortage of the drug, it said. Arizona imported some from Britain, where executions have been abolished, but Britain is now restricting the drug's exportation.

Executions

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A commemorative pill box is seen in this undated photograph received in London on December 20, 2010. The Royal Collection has announced the launch of a range of china commissioned to commemorate the forthcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

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Brings Scrutiny To Betty Ford

Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan isn't the only one authorities are investigating over a late night spat with a rehab worker. Experts say the facility where she is being treated and its former employee will also receive some scrutiny.

A spokesman for the California Department of Public Health confirmed the agency was conducting an investigation at Betty Ford, but declined to release details. Spokesman Ralph Montano said this week that details may be released later, but he could not confirm that the inquiry was related to Lohan or an interview by the fired employee.

Detectives are investigating Lohan for misdemeanor battery at the request of a Betty Ford Clinic worker who was involved in a fight with the "Mean Girls" star shortly around 1 a.m. on Dec. 12.

The worker later conducted an on-camera interview with celebrity website TMZ, which also posted an e-mail the worker apparently sent to supervisors after the fight. The woman, identified by TMZ as Dawn Holland, was promptly fired by Betty Ford.

Criminal defense attorney Steve Cron, who is not involved in the case, said both Betty Ford and Holland are likely to face some repercussions. Betty Ford, which described the Lohan incident as the first time in 28 years that it had a breach of patient confidentiality, could face a civil fine, he said.

Lindsay Lohan

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Lands New Movie

New Mexico

New Mexico has landed what Gov. Bill Richardson's office is billing as the largest movie production in state history.

Richardson and Marvel Studios' co-president Louis D'Esposito announced this week that the comic book-based adventure film "The Avengers" will be shot primarily in New Mexico.

The film is expected to employ hundreds of New Mexico-based cast and crew, and use hundreds of local service and supply vendors.

Its all-star cast includes Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johannson, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo.

New Mexico

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In Memory

Fred Hargesheimer

Fred Hargesheimer, a World War II Army pilot whose rescue by Pacific islanders led to a life of giving back as a builder of schools and teacher of children, died Thursday morning. He was 94.

On June 5, 1943, Hargesheimer, a P-38 pilot with the 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, was shot down by a Japanese fighter while on a mission over the Japanese-held island of New Britain in the southwest Pacific. He parachuted into the trackless jungle, where he barely survived for 31 days until found by local hunters.

They took him to their coastal village and for seven months hid him from Japanese patrols, fed him and nursed him back to health from two illnesses. In February 1944, with the help of Australian commandos working behind Japanese lines, he was picked up by a U.S. submarine off a New Britain beach.

After returning to the U.S. following the war, Hargesheimer got married and began a sales career with a Minnesota forerunner of computer maker Sperry Rand, his lifelong employer. But he said he couldn't forget the Nakanai people, who he considered his saviors.

The more he thought about it, he later said, "the more I realized what a debt I had to try to repay."

After revisiting the village of Ea Ea in 1960, he came home, raised $15,000 over three years, "most of it $5 and $10 gifts," and then returned with 17-year-old son Richard in 1963 to contract for the building of the villagers' first school.

In the decades to come, Hargesheimer's U.S. fundraising and determination built a clinic, another school and libraries in Ea Ea, renamed Nantabu, and surrounding villages.

In 1970, their three children grown, Hargesheimer and his late wife, Dorothy, moved to New Britain, today an out-island of the nation of Papua New Guinea, and taught the village children themselves for four years. The Nantabu school's experimental plot of oil palm even helped create a local economy, a large plantation with jobs for impoverished villagers.

On his last visit, in 2006, Hargesheimer was helicoptered into the jungle and carried in a chair by Nakanai men to view the newly found wreckage of his World War II plane. Six years earlier, on another visit, he was proclaimed "Suara Auru," "Chief Warrior" of the Nakanai.

Besides Richard, of Lincoln, Hargesheimer, a Rochester, Minnesota, native, is survived by another son, Eric, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and a daughter, Carol, of Woodbury, Minnesota; by a sister, Mary Louise Gibson of Grass Valley, California; and by eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Richard Hargesheimer said no services are planned.

Fred Hargesheimer

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In Memory

John Alldis

John Alldis, whose choir ranged from working with opera to collaborating with Duke Ellington and Pink Floyd, has died of pneumonia. He was 81.

He founded the professional, 16-voice John Alldis Choir in 1962 and made an early mark with the world premiere performance of Alexander Goehr's "A Little Cantata for Proverbs." Alldis died Monday, his family said.

Subsequent recordings, mainly for Argo, tackled modern composers including Malcolm Williams, Harrison Birtwistle and Richard Rodney Bennett, but the choir repertoire reached back as far as the Renaissance.

The Alldis Choir worked with Pink Floyd on the "Atom Heart Mother" album in 1970, and in 1973 on a recording of Ellington's "Third Sacred Concert."

Alldis worked with choral ensembles for the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philnarmonic, and taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1966 to 1977.

He conducted the American Choral Symposium in Manhattan, Kansas, from 1978 to 1987, and was permanent guest conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Choir from 1985 to 1998.

Alldis is survived by his wife Ursula and two sons.

John Alldis

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A newborn potto hangs inside of the Nocturnal House at The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, in Cincinnati, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010.
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