BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 29 December, 2017

Friday

29 December, 2017

(Updated Daily)

[329 days in a row]



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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Andrew Tobias: Hurrah for Disney
You often hear from Republicans about their doubling of the standard deduction, to $24,000 for joint filers. Have you ever heard them mention eliminating the $4,050-per-person exemption? Yes, a family with three kids sees its standard deduction jump by $12,000 - oh happy day! And gain $3,000 from the doubling of the child tax credit. But they also lose $20,250 in personal exemptions. So once you do all the math, it may not be quite the bonanza for middle America that the Trump family will see (for example). Or the Wilbur Ross or Gary Cohn families. Or the Steve Mnuchin family or the Carl Icahn family. And us not forget the Kochs and Mercers, Betsy DeVos, and the delightful Sheldon Adelson.


Stuart Jeffries: "Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and all: have we reached 'peak asshole'?" (The Guardian)
From the US president firing dimwitted tweets at Kim Jong-un, to Hollywood moguls and actors exposed as sexual predators, and the oafish Boris Johnson blundering onwards: 2017 has been the year of the asshole. And the signs are that 2018 could be just as bad.


The Ten Best Films of 2017 (BBC)
From The Florida Project to Paddington 2, BBC Culture film critic Nicholas Barber chooses his favourite movies of the year.


Josh Marshall: Dylan and the Cross (TPM)
I've always thought what's known as Dylan's 'Christian period' is the most underrated period of his career, though many see it as a black hole or an embarrassing digression.


Dot Wordsworth: After many centuries, the triumph of 'hi' is complete (Spectator)
It was first recorded in the 15th century, but now nearly every email starts this way.


Felicity Cloake: 'If it looks better than it tastes, step away' - 2017's dumbest food trends (The Guardian)
Last year's avo toast was only a precursor to 2017's parade of culinary weirdness - with plates filled with cloud eggs, Yorkshire pudding wraps and a side of unicorn sprinkle.


Zoe Williams: Everything is awesome (ish)! Ten reasons why 2017 was actually brilliant (The Guardian)
Good news for people who like good news - here are 10 events from the year that suggest it wasn't quite the dystopian hellscape we feared.


Black Women Got Swag After Leaving Alabama Voting Booths



David Bruce's Amazon Author Page

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David Bruce's Blog

David Bruce's Lulu Storefront

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David Bruce has over 80 Kindle books on Amazon.com.


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Presenting

Michael Egan




@drmivhaelegan






The Tragedy of King Richard II Part One: Ascribed to William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of Richard II, Part One): Michael Egan



Editorial and Political Cartoons



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Trivia Question of the Day


A Sapiophile is sexually or romantically attracted to ______?_____

                                  



Send your answer to Marty








Throwback Thursday Trivia Question from Yesterday


On what TV series would you find this unnamed charwoman?


       The Carol Burnett Show                                                      Source


The Carol Burnett Show (also Carol Burnett and Friends in syndication) is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. In 1975, frequent guest star Tim Conway became a regular after Waggoner left the series. In 1977, Dick Van Dyke replaced Korman for much of its final season (but he left the show by Thanksgiving, on friendly terms). The show originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and again with nine episodes in the fall of 1991. The series originated in CBS Television City's Studio 33, and won 25 primetime Emmy Awards, was ranked number 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002, and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's 100 Best TV Shows of All Time.

The Charwoman - Burnett's signature character, an unnamed charwoman (most often in a musical number), whose animated image has been used in the opening credits        Source







Mark. was first, and correct, with:
   A caricature of Carol Burnett would signify the Carol Burnett Show.



Randall wrote:
   Carol Burnett Show





Alan J answered:
   The Carol Burnett Show.



Stephen F said:
   Carol Burnett Show



mj replied:
   The char woman
  Who inhabited a world of her own after all the lights went down was one of the iconic identities of Carol Burnett on her eponymous CBS show.




Gene responded:
   The Carol Burnett Show



Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
   Carol Burnett Show



Adam answered:
   The Carol Burnett Show



David of Moon Valley wrote:
   my aging brain cells shout out Carol Burnett for the answer but those very same cells have shouted out so much crap and drivel as of late that i could be wrong, too...oh well...i'm clicking send anyway....



Deborah replied:
   I think the answer is "The Carol Burnett" show.
  Seasonal, dry, no chance of rain in the next 7 days. I have a bad feeling about this.




Kevin K. in Washington, DC responded:
   That was the animated charwoman from the opening (and closing) credits of the Carol Burnett Show.



Daniel in The City said:
   The Carol Burnett Show



Dave in Tucson wrote:
   The charwoman placing the star on top of the tree is none other than Carol Burnett!



Billy in Cypress responded:
   Looks like "The Carol Burnett Show"



Rosemary in Columbus replied:
   From the Carol Burnett Show



zorch answered:
   That's the charwoman played by Carol Burnett.



Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali wrote:
   The Gary Moore and Carol Burnett Shows



Joe S     said:
   Carol Burnett Show. I loved that show. I don't care much for most comedians, they're mostly not funny, but Carol and the crew were hilarious.



Harry M. took the day off.
  



DJ Useo took the day off.
  



George M. took the day off.
  



John I from Hawai`i took the day off.
  



Paul of Seattle took the day off.
  



Dave took the day off.
  



Gary E.K. took the day off.
  



Michelle took the day off.
  



Sandra in Maine took the day off.
  



Gary K. took the day off.
  



BttbBob   has returned to semi-retired status.
  
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  December 29 Birthdays - Celebrities Born December 29 | Famous Birthdays




Sally has retired.
  



MAM     In memory.



  





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Middle Class Political Economist




Now a Blogger-Columnist at US News and World Reports "Economic Intelligence"


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Private prison investors set for giant windfall from Trump tax bill | US news | The Guardian



'Trumpism' is ingrained in white America. When he goes, it will remain | Cas Mudde | Opinion | The Guardian



Fears of another Fukushima as Tepco plans to restart world's biggest nuclear plant | World news | The Guardian



The most exciting sci-fi, fantasy and horror films of 2018 | Film | The Guardian



We Asked 615 Men About How They Conduct Themselves at Work - The New York Times



At an Air Show in China, Drones, Not Jets, Are the Stars - The New York Times



Model, activist Chrissy Teigen neatly snips Trump supporter with four words-and Twitter loves it



Louisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Out Its Coastal Plain



A new Republican civil war brewing between House and Senate over destroying the social safety net



Arizona Can't Ban Mexican-American Studies Anymore, Judge Says | HuffPost



Trump finally turns on the formerly 'wonderful man' Michael Flynn - The Washington Post



Blue states may get their revenge for the GOP tax bill - The Washington Post



Polls show Americans distrust the media. But talk to them, and it's a very different story. - The Washington Post



A Philippines grandmother fought to get a toxic coal stockpile out of her neighborhood. Three bullets stopped her - LA Times



Trump called for a 'truly representative process' for managing public land. One already exists in Idaho - LA Times



America's anxious times made it a banner year for villains and bad guys in movies and TV - LA Times



A Democrat on Trump's voter fraud commission asked for more transparency. Here's what happened next - LA Times



Poachers shoot down anti-poaching drone in the Gulf of California - LA Times



How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System : The Two-Way : NPR



Trump Sends Pointless Attack Email to Supporters



NEW: Devin Nunes' Campaign Donor Was Original Funder Of Trump-Russia Dossier



Want to get Mueller's back? Protest the 88 universities that endorse 257 Limbaugh stations.



Sad News: The Great Rose Marie has Passed away.



California is building a blue wall against Trump's mass deportation force



Thanks, Michelle!


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Reader Comment

Current Events


15 people who look like people in old paintings!

15 People Who Are Definitely Time Travelers





Now we're paying for trucks to hide him from view!

Yet more wasted taxpayer dollars as he continues to golf ALL the time:

After CNN took a video of Trump golfing, his staff went next level ridiculous on the next golf trip





In case you need to get away to more pleasant thoughts, here's a list (with links) to 50 mostly pleasant things that happened i 2017:

50 actually nice things from 2017




Linda   >^..^<
     We are all only temporarily able bodied.


Thanks, Linda!



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Bonus Links

Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp


Welcome to The Trump Family Swamp | By Eugene Robinson | Common Dreams



Trump administration bars abortion for raped minors because it's in their "best interest." | Slate



Trump's Message to Tribes: Let Them Eat Yellowcake - Mother Jones



Trump's War on the Truth-and How We Can Fight It | The Daily Beast



She Imports Trump's Foreign Labor. Now She's Running for Congress. | The Deaily Beast



Devin Nunes' Latest Scam, Explained - Talking Points Memo



Milo Yiannopoulos Lawsuit Exposes Hilarious Book Edits - The Forward



The editor's notes on Milo's manuscript are pretty hilarious - but also insidious - ThinkProgress



We're letting meals on wheels, a great program, slowly whither and die. | Slate



Mysterious truck prevents us from seeing Trump in stylish golf pants - VICE News



Why are all these Florida Republicans attacking Bob Mueller? - Salon.com



How the Loss of Critical Reasoning is Harming America - TheHumanist.com



Meet 'Posh George': The Shady Money Man Tangled Up With Brexit, Russia, and Trump | The Daily Beast



Banned From the Banking Industry for Life, a Scott Pruitt Friend Finds a New Home at the EPA | The Intercept



Why Trump's Golf Habit Is the Ultimate Metaphor for His Bizarre Presidency | Vanity Fair



Trump: US could use some 'good old Global Warming' to heat up cold states | TheHill



Trump administration halts scientific study on offshore drilling safety - ThinkProgress



Report: Trump DC Hotel employee wrote in email that Trump 'is definitely still involved' in Trump Org. | TheHill



Trump: I will win in 2020 because 'media will tank' without me | TheHill



Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers On The Backs Of The Young | By Ellen Brown | Common Dreams



Here Is the Worst Anti-Science BS of 2017 - Mother Jones





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from Marc Perkel

Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer

So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.

Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.

I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.

The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.

So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?

I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.

Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect

Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect



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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


DOOMED?

"HIS MOTHER WOULD BE HORRIFIED."

OOPS!

'YAWN-NOPOULOS.'

ROY (NO) MOORE.

IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE.

'PEAK ASSHOLE'?

READ A BOOK.


TRUMPS MOUSE NEEDS A REST.





THE YEAR IN REVIEW.






Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music




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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Road Trip Monday!



Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with '48 Hours', followed by a RERUN 'MacGyver', then a RERUN 'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUN Stephen Colbert (from 12/4/17) are Billy Bush and Gwendoline Christie.
On a RERUN James Corden, OBE, (from 8/2/17) are Kate Beckinsale, Adam Scott, and Poppy.



NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'L&O: SVU', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Fallon (from 11/17/17) are Jessica Chastain, Timothee Chalamet, Justin Verlander, Kate Upton, and a musical tribute to Sharon Jones.
On a RERUN Seth Meyers (from 11/2/17) are Rosie O'Donnell and David France.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 12/14/17) are George Foreman, Against Me!, and Mike Feeney.



ABC opens the night with a RERUN 'Shark Tank', followed by 'In An Instant'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 10/30/17) are Mila Kunis, Aisha Tyler, and Ty Dolla $ign featuring YG, with guest host Shaquille O'Neal.



The CW offers a RERUN 'iHeartRadio Music Festival, Night 2'.



Faux has a RERUN 'Hell's Kitchen', followed by another RERUN 'Hell's Kitchen'.



MY has 'Page Six TV', followed by 'Top 30', then an old 'American Ninja Warrior'.



A&E has 'Live PD', followed by hours of 'Live PD: Police Patrol'.



AMC offers all old 'Fear The Walking Dead' all night.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-The Changeling
 [7:10AM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-Mirror, Mirror
 [8:20AM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-The Apple
 [9:30AM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-The Doomsday Machine
 [10:45AM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7-Catspaw
 [12:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-I, Mudd
 [1:10PM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-Metamorphosis
 [2:20PM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Journey to Babel
 [3:30PM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Friday's Child
 [4:40PM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 12-The Deadly Years
 [5:50PM]    STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Obsession
 [7:00PM]    TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
 [10:00PM]    TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003)
 [12:30AM]    TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES (2003)
 [3:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 19-Manhunt
 [4:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 20-The Emissary
 [5:00AM]    STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 21-Deadlock     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has 'Married To Medicine', another 'Married To Medicine', followed by the movie 'The Game Plan'.



Comedy Central has all old 'South Park' all night.



FX has the movie 'Fast & Furious 6', followed by the movie 'Furious 7'.



History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH 'Ancient Aliens: Declassified'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    STAN AGAINST EVIL-Let Your Love Groan
 [6:30AM]    STAN AGAINST EVIL-Mirror Mirror
 [7:00AM]    STAN AGAINST EVIL-A Hard Day's Night
 [7:30AM]    THE OTHERS
 [9:45AM]    THE POSSESSION
 [11:45AM]    PRIEST
 [1:45PM]    RESIDENT EVIL
 [4:00PM]    RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION
 [6:00PM]    UNSTOPPABLE
 [8:00PM]    THE LAST STAND
 [10:30PM]    UNSTOPPABLE
 [12:30AM]    THE LAST STAND
 [3:00AM]    RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION
 [5:00AM]    STAN AGAINST EVIL-Mirror Mirror
 [5:30AM]    STAN AGAINST EVIL-A Hard Day's Night     (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]    The Andy Griffith Show
 [6:30AM]    The Andy Griffith Show
 [7:00AM]    The Andy Griffith Show
 [7:30AM]    M*A*S*H
 [8:00AM]    M*A*S*H
 [8:30AM]    M*A*S*H
 [9:00AM]    M*A*S*H
 [9:30AM]    M*A*S*H
 [10:00AM]    Overboard
 [12:30PM]    Steel Magnolias
 [3:00PM]    Law & Order-His Hour Upon the Stage
 [4:00PM]    Law & Order-Star Struck
 [5:00PM]    Law & Order-Severance
 [6:00PM]    Law & Order-Blood Is Thicker ...
 [7:00PM]    Law & Order-Trust
 [8:00PM]    Law & Order-Armed Forces
 [9:00PM]    Law & Order-For Love or Money
 [10:00PM]    Law & Order-Soldier of Fortune
 [11:00PM]    Law & Order-Possession
 [12:00AM]    Law & Order-Formerly Famous
 [1:00AM]    Law & Order-Myth of Fingerprints
 [2:00AM]    Steel Magnolias
 [4:30AM]    The Andy Griffith Show
 [5:00AM]    The Andy Griffith Show
 [5:45AM]    The Andy Griffith Show     (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has the movie 'The Last Airbender', and hours and hours of old 'Futurama'.



TCM:
 [6:15 AM]      The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
 [8:00 AM]      The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
 [10:30 AM]      The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
 [12:15 PM]      The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
 [2:00 PM]      The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
 [4:00 PM]      Nora Prentiss (1947)
 [6:00 PM]      Mildred Pierce (1945)
 [8:00 PM]      Jules and Jim (1962)
 [10:00 PM]      Apollo 13 (1995)
 [12:30 AM]      Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
 [3:15 AM]      Night of the Living Dead (1968)
 [5:00 AM]      Kelly's Heroes (1970)     (ALL TIMES EST)



Saturday   -  12/30/17

TCM:
 [7:30 AM]      Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
 [9:15 AM]      The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
 [11:00 AM]      The Window (1949)
 [12:45 PM]      This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
 [2:30 PM]      The Man Behind The Gun (1953)
 [4:00 PM]      The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
 [6:00 PM]      Follow The Boys (1963)
 [8:00 PM]      The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
 [10:30 PM]      Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
 [12:45 AM]      The Tender Trap (1955)
 [2:45 AM]      He Knows You're Alone (1980)
 [4:30 AM]      Don't Open the Door! (1975)     (ALL TIMES EST)




Antenna TV - Johnny Carson (from September 27, 1989) - Jason Bateman, Larry Miller, and Florence Hodges.

Bounce TV

CHARGE!

Comet TV

Cozi TV

Decades TV Network

Escape

Heroes and Icons

Find Justice - Justice Network

Get TV

Grit - Television With Backbone - Grit

Laff - You Know You Want To. - Laff

Me-TV

MOVIES! TV Network

RTV - The Retro Television Network

the works

This TV





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With temperatures in the single digits, Ray Levesque, mate of the crab/lobster boat Bradbill, makes his way across the deck covered in ice to tie off, after arriving in New Bedford, Mass., harbor on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, from a one day fishing voyage.
Photo by Peter Pereira

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Laws Collide

California

California legalizes marijuana for recreational use Monday, but that won't stop federal agents from seizing the drug - even in tiny amounts - on busy freeways and backcountry highways.

Marijuana possession still will be prohibited at eight Border Patrol checkpoints in California, a reminder that state and federal laws collide when it comes to pot. The U.S. government classifies marijuana as a controlled substance, like heroin and LSD.

"Prior to Jan. 1, it's going to be the same after Jan. 1, because nothing changed on our end," said Ryan Yamasaki, an assistant chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector. "If you're a federal law enforcement agency, you uphold federal laws."

The checkpoints, located up to 100 miles (161 kilometers) from Mexico, are considered a final line of defense against immigrants who elude agents at the border. They also have been a trap for U.S. citizens carrying drugs, even tiny bags of marijuana.

About 40 percent of pot seizures at Border Patrol checkpoints from fiscal years 2013 to 2016 were an ounce (28 grams) or less from U.S. citizens, according to a Government Accountability Office report last month. California's new law allows anyone 21 and over to carry up to an ounce.

California

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A resident seen attempting to walk through the snow on 10th street after two days of record-breaking snowfall in Erie, Pa., Dec. 27, 2017.
Photo by Robert Frank

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Ancient European Culture

Cave Paintings

Archaeologists have discovered that prehistoric tools and artwork from western Europe owe their existence to an even earlier culture in the Middle East. Carbon dating of a cave in Israel supports a theory that the Ahmarian culture of the Levant predated the Aurignacian culture of Europe by thousands of years, according to Haaretz.

The Ahmarian and Aurignacian cultures were the first two modern human cultures, according to Haaretz. They did coexist, but it's been unclear if one was borne from the other. Now, archaeologists have dated the Ahmarian-inhabited Manot Cave, in northern Israel near the Lebanon border, which shows that Ahmarians lived in the region around 42,000 to 46,000 years ago-earlier than Aurignacians are known to exist.

This evidence suggests that somewhere around that time the Ahmarians entered Europe and gave rise to the entire Aurignacian culture-evolving along the way-and it weakens the opposing theory that the two cultures evolved at the same time and independently of each other.

"Once we see a sequence from the Levant to Europe, from the older to the younger, we can confirm that the dispersal model of the Ahmarian-Aurignacian is right," co-lead excavator Omry Barzilai, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority, told Haaretz. "If in the Levant this culture is 46,000 years old and in Europe it's 40,000 then it makes sense to say that the direction is from the Levant to Europe."

Scientists from the Dangoor Research Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, were able to radiocarbon date the charcoal remains from Manot Cave's hearths. Elisabetta Boaretto, director of Weizmann's Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, told Haaretz that they were able to date levels containing tools from each culture. The Middle Eastern Ahmarians developed predominantly stone tools, while the later European Aurignacians developed bone tools.

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Women Will No Longer Be Arrested For Violating 'Islamic' Dress Code

Tehran

Police in Iran's capital are loosening up restrictions regarding dress code after decades of pushback from women in the country.

On Wednesday, Tehran police announced that women will no longer risk arrest for breaching the country's conservative interpretation of Islamic dress code, which includes a ban on wearing nail polish, heavy makeup or loose headscarves. Instead, violators will be ordered to take police-instructed classes on "Islamic values," while repeat offenders could still be subject to legal action, reported the Wall Street Journal.

"Based on a society-oriented, educational approach, the police will not arrest those who don't respect Islamic values," said Brig. Gen. Hossein Rahimi, according to the country's official Islamic Republic News Agency. "It will instead educate them."

For decades, Iranian women have been resisting a government ruling passed in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution that required women to wear headscarves in public. Iranian millennials have been especially defiant of the policy through social media protests and street marches.

The decision marks another step toward social progress under Iran's relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani, though some Iranians question just how large of a step it is.

Tehran

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Birds take flight over the frigid waters below the Rum River Dam, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017, in Anoka, Minn. Wind chill advisories or warnings are in effect for all of North Dakota and Wisconsin, as well as swaths of South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan and Indiana.
Photo by David Joles

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Slightly More Christmassy Than 'White Christmas'

'Die Hard'

A December 2017 survey listed action movie "Die Hard" as the US's seventh-favorite Christmas film. The film's scriptwriter Steven E. de Souza offered a light-hearted perspective on its merits as a seasonal classic via Twitter.

Mall hostage rescue story "Die Hard" is one of the US's favorite Christmas movies, according to a late December poll run by political news site Axios in conjunction with SurveyMonkey.

Ranked seventh with a combined seven percent percentage point tally, the 1988 Bruce Willis movie directed by John McTiernan ("Predator") sees an off-duty police officer tackle a terrorist plot in a glitzy shopping mall in Los Angeles.

Based on a novel by Roderick Thorp, "Die Hard" takes place at Christmas. This, among other reasons, might make it a better Christmas movie than the 1954 Bing Crosby musical "White Christmas," one of its scriptwriters playfully suggests.

The entirety of the film is set during Christmas, Steven E. de Souza noted through his Twitter account - during a Christmas party, in fact. By contrast, "White Christmas" waits until its final reel to usher in the festive event.

'Die Hard'

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Outgrows 'Witch Hunt' Phase

Mueller Probe

Steve Bannon's eyes lit up. Several months before he left his job as a senior White House adviser last August, Bannon was talking to President-for-now Trump (R-Crooked) about the brewing political storm over the Justice Department investigation into his campaign's alleged ties to the Kremlin. Suddenly, Trump had an inspiration. He looked straight at Bannon, jabbed at him with his finger and uttered the phrase that would become the slogan of the White House pushback against the Russia probe: "Witch hunt!"

Brilliant, thought Bannon, as he later related the exchange to colleagues.

Ever since, it is a phrase Trump has returned to time and again - and repackaged with typical Trumpian hyperbole. "This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!" Trump tweeted last May after ex-FBI director Robert Mueller was appointed as Justice Department special counsel to oversee the probe.

But now, as Trump prepares to end his first year in office, the witch hunt narrative may have outlived its usefulness. Mueller's investigation has expanded and gained serious traction: The president's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and Manafort's chief deputy, Rick Gates, have been indicted. His former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has pleaded guilty and is now a cooperating witness. So too is a former foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, who has admitted lying to the FBI about repeated contacts with alleged Russian cutouts who had offered the Trump campaign "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails."

As described by sources familiar with various aspects of the investigation, the Mueller probe is fast approaching a critical crossroads. The president's lawyers, Ty Cobb and John Dowd, are pressing Mueller to wind down the investigation and exonerate their client, which they have assured the president will happen by early next year.

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Soledda Hernandez stands on the roof of her car as she brushes off snow in Erie, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017.
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(a.k.a. Playing Golf)

'Back To Work'

Day after day, CNN's team of political journalists have set up cameras on the same public road to catch glimpses of President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Corrupt) hitting the links at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. But on Wednesday, a white box truck parked right in front of those cameras and blocked the news organization's view.

While the Secret Service denied that the truck was intentionally placed to obstruct views of Trump, CNN's Dan Merica pointed out the significance of the vehicle's placement.

"The president and the White House have tried to obscure the fact that President Trump golfs on a regular basis," Merica said. "This is a man who ran for president, who criticized President Barack Obama regularly for playing golf during his presidency, but that criticism hasn't continued into the Trump presidency."

Trump's latest outing marked the 87th time he has visited one of his golf properties since taking office. It was also his 112th day staying at a Trump-owned property during his presidency, NBC News reported.

The most recent rounds of golf occurred soon after Trump tweeted that he was getting "back to work" after the Christmas holiday. According to pool reports, Trump arrived at his West Palm Beach golf course at 9 a.m. on both Tuesday and Wednesday. The White House would not say if the president was actually playing golf.

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Set For US Auction

Hitler's Mercedes

A 1939 luxury Mercedes limousine used to carry Adolf Hitler around Germany will be auctioned in the US state of Arizona next month -- one of only four such models ever built.

Powered by a 7.7-liter supercharged engine capable of exceeding 100 mph (160 kph), the Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser -- known to the world as the "Super Mercedes" -- was a potent propaganda symbol of the Third Reich which the Fuhrer rode standing in the front seat.

Billed as "the most historically significant automobile ever offered for public sale," the imposing four-door convertible will be offered to bidders at the Worldwide Auctioneers event in Scottsdale on January 17 at the city's annual classic car event.

The car -- which carried the number plate 1A 148461 -- was used to ferry Hitler on his victory parade through Berlin following the stunning defeat of France, and for a state visit by Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

After the war it went briefly to a private owner in Belgium before being sent to the US where it made its way to the Greenville, North Carolina bureau of Veterans of Foreign Wars, which used the car for parades, carrying dignitaries and Gold Star Mothers.

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Andy Warhol Paintings

Authorities say an intoxicated Dallas woman on a first date with a prominent Houston trial lawyer caused at least $300,000 in damage to his art collection, including two Andy Warhol paintings.

Lindy Lou Layman was arrested Saturday on criminal mischief charges after her date with Anthony Buzbee. She was released on $30,000 bond. Online court records don't list an attorney for her.

Prosecutors say Buzbee told investigators that the 29-year-old Layman got too intoxicated on their date, so he called her an Uber after they returned to his home. She allegedly refused to leave and hid inside the home, and that when Buzbee found her and called a second Uber, she got aggressive.

Authorities say she tore down several paintings and poured red wine on some, and she threw two $20,000 sculptures.

The damaged Warhol paintings were each valued at $500,000. She was released on $30,000 bond. Online court records don't list an attorney for her.

Andy Warhol Paintings

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Briefly Pops Up In New York

Enormous Mural

For a brief spell over the festive period, the Lower East Side had an enormous erection.

No, really it did. A huge, four-storey mural of a turgid penis popped up on a building on Broome St. in New York City on Christmas Eve. But, a mere matter of days after the phallus made its debut on the street, the mural was painted over at the request of the building's landlord.

The handiwork of Swedish artist Carolina Falkholt, the phallic artwork was commissioned by local street art organisation The New Allen. The giant penis was intended as a complement to a nearby super-sized mural of a vagina on Pike Street.

"I usually paint giant vaginas, pussies and cunts," Falkholt toldThe Guardian. "And since I had just finished one on the side of a five-storey building, I felt like a dick was needed."

Falkholt says the space on Broome Street was a "perfect fit" for the penis painting. "To paraphrase Judith Bernstein, if a dick can go into a woman, it can go up on a wall," she added.

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In Memory

Rose Marie

Rose Marie, best known for her role as Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," died Thursday in Van Nuys, Calif. She was 94.

Rose Marie was Emmy nominated three times for her work on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," in which she played part of the writing team, led by Van Dyke's Rob Petrie, for the fictional "Alan Brady Show." The actress began a five-season stint as Sally Rogers in 1960, but decades earlier, she had been a child singing star under the name Baby Rose Marie. She began her career at 3, starring in her own show on NBC radio by the age of 5, cutting records and appearing in vaudeville, in shorts including 1929's "Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder" and in Paramount's 1933 feature "International House" with W.C. Fields.

Later, as a teenager, she became a nightclub singer before returning to radio as a comedienne.

In the early 1950s Rose Marie appeared on television variety shows as a singer and dancer, and she returned to the big screen in 1954, starring opposite Phil Silvers in "Top Banana," an adaptation of Silvers' Broadway show about a TV comedian.

The actress recurred on "The Bob Cummings Show" as Martha in 1958-59, and she was a series regular on a brief TV adaptation of "My Sister Eileen." After "The Dick Van Dyke Show" she guested on a variety of TV shows, including "The Monkees" and "My Three Sons," and she recurred on "The Doris Day Show."

During the 1960s she also appeared onstage in "Bye Bye Birdie" and in a pair of features, starring opposite her "Van Dyke" co-star Morey Amsterdam in "Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title," and appearing in "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round," starring James Coburn.

Rose Marie made a steady stream of TV appearances from the early 1970s until the early 2000s, appearing, for example, on "Adam-12" and "Kojak"; recurring as Hilda the sandwich delivery lady on "S.W.A.T."; appearing repeatedly in different roles on "The Love Boat"; guesting on "Cagney and Lacey" and "Murphy Brown"; appearing as a series regular on the brief 1994 sports comedy "Hardball"; and guesting on "Caroline in the City" (with Amsterdam), "Wings" and "Suddenly, Susan." She was also a semi-regular on "Hollywood Squares" in the 1980s and '90s.

Onstage, she starred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O'Connell and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue "4 Girls 4," which toured the U.S. and made television appearances for several years beginning in 1977.

In the 2000s she appeared in another comedienne's HBO special, "Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales," and returned to the "Van Dyke" fold for Carl Reiner's animated "The Alan Brady Show" and for 2004's "The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited."

Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New York City. She was married to trumpeter Bobby Guy from 1946 until his death in 1964.

She is survived by a daughter.

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