BartCop Entertainment Archives - Sunday, 2 November, 2008

Sunday

2 November, 2008

(Updated Daily)

[465 days in a row]

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McCain Finally Provides Some Straight Talk, on the Cheney Endorsement


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Ted Rall: THE FIRST RULE OF REELECTION IS DON'T THINK ABOUT REELECTION
Why Obama Should Consider Himself a One-Term President.


RICHARD ROEPER: Who's the big winner in this election? We are (suntimes.com)
One week before the first Tuesday in November, I walked over to my local polling place to cast an early ballot.


Roger Ebert: "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story" ( 3 1/2 stars)
When he was a boy, Lee Atwater pulled an electric cord, and a fryer full of hot grease fell on his little brother Joe, killing him. "He said he heard those screams every single day for the rest of his life," a friend remembers. "He grew up in a world without mercy."


Roger Ebert: M&Ms prove Darwin was right
I received this message on the blog, but it obviously fits no known topic. The author is something of a mystery: "R. Crutch," no city, no e-mail. But I felt it necessary to share with you. RE


The quiet revolutionary (guardian.co.uk)
Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman is a champion for the downtrodden. She tells Amy Fleming about her fears for young people, her fight against sexism - and her respect for Madonna.


Len Righi: Magnetic Fields tugging in a different direction (The Morning Call)
As the lodestar of Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt has exerted an insistent tug on indie-pop since 1990 by crafting simple, clean, melodic songs that lean heavily on keyboards.


Rachel Leibrock: "Oh, Lordz: Brooklyn brothers keep fighting the good rap-rock fight" (McClatchy Newspapers)
The Lordz paid a visit to "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" last summer to play a track off their latest CD, "The Brooklyn Way." As the band prepped backstage, a makeup artist asked frontman Kaves how long the trip was from his Brooklyn home to the downtown Manhattan television studio.


My life in shopping: Cerys Matthews, singer
'I'm a terrible shopper. I'd rather we all went naked.'


David Hiltbrand: One guy, two robots, and lots of laughs (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Mystery Science Theater" 3000 came from modest roots: a goofy TV series on a small UHF station in Minneapolis in 1988. But over time, the show would soar to - well, fairly modest stature.


Patrick S. Pemberton: Zac Efron is back, starring in 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' (McClatchy Newspapers)
It didn't take long for Zac Efron to encounter one of the downsides of superstardom. As the hottest young actor in Hollywood, the Arroyo Grande, Calif., native has become a paparazzi favorite. Whether he visits an airport, Starbucks or a gas station, several photographers will follow, repeatedly snapping his image.


Ikuko Kitagawa: Director John Woo takes on China's greatest literary work and a Western audience (The Yomiuri Shimbun)
For director John Woo to realize his 18-year dream of filming the 13th-century masterpiece "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," he would have to return to Asia. The veteran Chinese director, who was responsible for blockbusters such as "M:I-2" and "Face/Off," needed the knowledge and insight that only Asian writers and actors could provide. But most importantly, it was necessary for the director to get back into an Asian mindset.


John Anderson: Q&A with Catherine Keener of 'Synecdoche' (Newsday)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Once considered the indie queen, actress Catherine Keener has become a ubiquitous presence in movies ranging from "Capote" to "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" to "Into the Wild," to "Synecdoche, NY," the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind").


DAVE HOEKSTRA: Sexpot star of 'Faster, Pussycat!' returns for art show (suntimes.com)
Tura Satana was a little girl growing up on the West Side of Chicago. Strike that. She wasn't so little. "I wore a 36 D bra when I was 13," Satana said from her home in Reno, Nev. "I am now a 40 HH."


Roger Ebert: The fastest of the Pussycats
Tura Satana. From Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi, to a Japanese-American internment camp, to a Chicago housing project, to street corner newsgirl, to Tura Satana, to Bourbon Street stripper, to discovery by silent star Harold Lloyd, to superstar of cult movies, to lover of Elvis, to dental receptionist, to icon of pop art, to grandmother of eight. The American Dream.


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Ditched by Joe the Plumber, McCain Now Campaigns with 'Janitor in a Drum'


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Trivia Question Of The Day

In 1881, the Isle of Man was the first country to give women the vote. What was the first major country to give women the vote?

   A    Argentina
   B    Denmark
   C    Greece
   D    Liechenstein
   E    New Zealand



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Trivia Question from Yesterday

In 1952, what company announced the development of Mylar?

  A    DuPont
   B    Goodyear
   C    Hoffman-LaRoche
   D    Monsanto
   E    Union Carbide                   Source A   and   Source B






Charlie was first, and correct, with:
   Has to have been
  A DuPont
  The stuff is useful.




Alan J responded:
   A DuPont



Jim from CA replied:
   Dupont



Adam in NoHo answered:
   If Hoffman-LaRoche is drugs, and Union Carbide is chemicals, and Goodyear is rubber, then is comes down to DuPont & Monsanto.
  Since Monsanto is more into biologicals (at least contemporarily), then it must be A- DuPont.




Marian the Teacher replied:
   DuPont



DanD wrote:
   The innertubes SE says "A", or DuPont.
  I noticed that Bruce had this one subject line in his reader's list:
  Martin Beckford and Urmee Khan: Harry Potter fails to cast spell over Professor Richard Dawkins (telegraph.co.uk)
     Harry Potter has become the latest target for Professor Richard Dawkins who is planning to find out whether tales of witchcraft and wizardy have a negative effect on children.
  Do you really want to know what kind of effect tales of witchcraft and wizardry has on children? Well, since the Judeo-Christian bible is (as a two-book set) fundamentally nothing more than a somewhat kosher tale of similar proportions, in that it has quite specifically absorbed vast proportions of Hollywood-witchcraft's theme, just look at your average Zio-Christo-ban movie-go'er and you can quickly discover the answer by just looking at the people next to you.
  Hey, they don't even have to be religious, 'cause it's a cultural imposition.




Sally said:
   "Mylar?" Hummmmm, I thought that was the new name for Burma - no, guess that's Myanmar... Okay, seriously, DuPont (A) discovered the fabric... Meanwhile, Myanmar is still ruled by a military junta who has taken the people back to prehistoric times...
  Happy All Saint's Day,
  PS: Wonder if all the little neighborhood ghosts and goblins have recovered from their sugar-highs by tonight? I had LOTS of little ones visiting me last night, and I even ran out of treats and had to substitute pennies after a while! They were so cute...




And, Joe S (After searching for something interesting, or witty to say about Mylar and finding neither, I just want to mention that I am SO sick of "Joe the plumber" I could just puke.) noted:
   The answer is A: DuPont.




  


Thanks to Charlie for the picture.





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Not sure what has changed, but lately about half the pictures on your page don't "show up" for me. I've tried reloading the page several times, but I keep having the same problem. It's really interfering with my enjoyment of all you offer. Any ideas??

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Thanks, Linda!
All those pictures should be showing up.
A week ago yesterday & again this past Tuesday, there were pictures that didn't get uploaded until the next day.
It was a time-thing.
But, I'm all caught up.
Besides hitting 'refresh', try right clicking on the empty box and the pop-up box should offer 'show picture' and click on it.
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Copy it & paste it in your browser.
OTOH, the ways of the innertubes are a mystery to me.
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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

VERSE, VERSE, CHORUS, VOTE!

DUMB AND DUMBER!

THE END OF AN ERROR!

THEY DON'T WANT TO MAKE LAWS CHRISTIAN, THEY WANT TO MAKE CHRISTIAN THE LAW!

GOODBYE MISTER CHIMP!

JARED THE LONG SNAPPER!

FASCIST BITCH!

JUST CALL MY JAPANESE LAWYER SOSUMI!

IT'S NO WONDER THAT BOB NEEDS VIAGRA!

COLLATERAL DAMAGE IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE. NOTHING AINT WORTH NOTHING BUT IT'S FREE!

THANK YOU CHIMP BOY!

"EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE AND PERMISSION IS GRANTED." A MUST READ!!!

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE VOTING, AND THE REPUGS WERE POISED, TO STEAL THE ELECTION, WITH ELECTRONIC TOYS!

WORSE THAN THE OSAMA ENDORSEMENT!

PUNKED!

LIPSTICK!

MUST BE A REPUG!

THE SUNDAY FUNNIES!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

A mostly rainy day. Woo hoo!



Tonight, Sunday:

CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Amazing Race 13', then a FRESH 'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH 'The Unit'.

NBC fills the night with LIVE 'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Monk'.

ABC begins the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by a FRESH 'Desperate Housewives', then a FRESH 'Brothers & Sisters'.

The CW offers a FRESH 'In Harm's Way', followed by a FRESH 'Valentine', then a FRESH 'Easy Money'.

Faux has a RERUN 'American Dad', followed by another RERUN 'American Dad', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH 'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH 'American Dad'.

MY has the movie 'Hotel Rwanda', followed by an old 'House', and another old 'House'.

A&E has 'The Cleaner', 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', and still another 'CSI: The 2nd One'.

AMC offers the movie 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind', followed by the movie 'Reign Of Fire', then the movie 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'.

BBC  -   
 [12:00 PM]    Top Gear - Episode 5
 [1:00 PM]    Dragons' Den - Episode 4
 [2:00 PM]    Doctor Who - Ep 11 Utopia
 [3:00 PM]    Sex Change Soldier
 [4:00 PM]    Britain's Youngest Grannies
 [5:00 PM]    My Fake Baby
 [6:00 PM]    Brothers and Sisters in Love
 [7:00 PM]    Primeval - Episode 13
 [8:00 PM]    Sex Change Soldier - Sex Change Soldier
 [9:00 PM]    Skins - Ep 12 Sid
 [10:00 PM]    Skins - Ep 13 Michelle
 [11:00 PM]    Sex Change Soldier - Sex Change Soldier
 [12:00 AM]    Skins - Ep 12 Sid
 [1:00 AM]    Skins - Ep 13 Michelle
 [2:00 AM]    Sex Change Soldier
 [3:00 AM]    Skins - Ep 12 Sid
 [4:00 AM]    Skins - Ep 13 Michelle
 [5:00 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 9 Hawkridge
 [5:30 AM]    Cash in the Attic - Ep. 10 Eaton
 [6:00 AM]    BBC World News    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.

Comedy Central has the movie 'Super Troopers', followed by the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle', 'South Park', and 'Chocolate News'.

FX has the movie 'Fantastic Four', followed by the movie 'The Omen'.

History has 'MonsterQuest', followed by a FRESH 'Gangland', then a (F) 'Cities Of The Underworld', and 'Ancient Discoveries'.

IFC  -   
 [6:20 AM]   Close to Home
 [8:00 AM]   Solaris
 [10:50 AM]   IFC in Theaters
 [11:00 AM]   La Jetee
 [11:30 AM]   IFC Shorts
 [12:00 PM]   'Bama Girl
 [1:15 PM]   No Man's Land
 [3:00 PM]   Requiem
 [4:35 PM]   Ulee's Gold
 [6:35 PM]   The New World
 [9:00 PM]   The Proposition
 [10:45 PM]   Blue Velvet
 [12:50 AM]   IFC News Special
 [1:00 AM]   Indie Sex: Extremes
 [2:15 AM]   The Proposition
 [4:00 AM]   Blue Velvet    (ALL TIMES EST)

SciFi has the movie 'Star Trek: First Contact', followed by the movie 'Battle Planet'.

Sundance  -   
 [04:45 AM]   Seven-Per-Cent Solution
 [07:00 AM]   Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
 [09:00 AM]   Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Elbow, MGMT & Alanis Morrisette
 [10:00 AM]   Terminal City: Episode 5
 [11:00 AM]   The Drug Years: Just Say No
 [12:00 PM]   Slaughterhouse Five
 [02:00 PM]   Tanner on Tanner: Dinner at Elaine's
 [02:30 PM]   Tanner on Tanner: Boston or Bust
 [03:00 PM]   Tanner on Tanner: Alex in Wonderland
 [03:30 PM]   Tanner on Tanner: The Awful Truth
 [04:00 PM]   Opening Night
 [06:30 PM]   Architecture School: Episode 5
 [07:00 PM]   Monsoon Wedding
 [09:00 PM]   Pulling: Episode 3
 [09:30 PM]   The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle: Episode 3
 [10:00 PM]   Happily Ever After
 [12:00 AM]   Princess Aurora
 [02:00 AM]   Sunset Bollywood
 [03:00 AM]   Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 3
 [03:30 AM]   Nimrod Nation: Episode 1
 [04:00 AM]   Live-In Maid
 [05:30 AM]   Slaughterhouse Five    (ALL TIMES EST)

TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
 [8:00 AM]      Love Affair (1939)
 [9:30 AM]      Macbeth (1948)
 [11:30 AM]      Victor/Victoria (1982)
 [2:00 PM]      Torn Curtain (1966)
 [4:15 PM]      The Mortal Storm (1940)
 [6:00 PM]      Gigi (1958)
 [8:00 PM]      All The President's Men (1976)
 [10:45 PM]      The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
 [12:45 AM]      Dr. Jack (1922)    SILENT 
 [2:00 AM]      Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
 [4:00 AM]      Plunder of the Sun (1953)     (ALL TIMES EST)


Monday  -  11/03/08

TCM features Charles Laughton most of the night..
 [6:00 AM]      So Young, So Bad (1950)
 [7:45 AM]      Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
 [9:30 AM]      The Lusty Men (1952)
 [11:30 AM]      The Man From Laramie (1955)
 [1:30 PM]      Middle of the Night (1959)
 [3:30 PM]      The Howards of Virginia (1940)
 [5:30 PM]      Topaz (1969)
 [8:00 PM]      Rembrandt (1936)
 [9:30 PM]      The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
 [11:30 PM]      The Private Life Of Henry VIII (1933)
 [1:15 AM]      Young Bess (1953)
 [3:15 AM]      The Man From Down Under (1943)

 [5:00 AM]      Roseanna McCoy (1949)     (ALL TIMES EST)



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From left, comedian Kathy Griffin, actress Bette Midler and singer Gloria Estefan arrive at the Hulaween Benefit Gala for the New York Restoration Project at The Waldorf Astoria in New York on Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.
Photo by Peter Kramer

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ElectoralMaps.org - Timeline of U.S. Presidential Elections

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Punk'd

Palin

Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday.

"Maybe in eight years," replies a laughing Palin.

The Republican vice presidential nominee discusses politics, the perils of hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney, and Sarkozy's "beautiful wife," in a recording of the call released Saturday and set to air Monday on a Quebec radio station.

Palin campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt confirmed she had received the prank call.

Palin


Transcript of 'The Masked Avengers' Vs. Sarah Palin

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Stanton Wong, left, of Diamond Bar, Calif. and Glenn Yee of Redondo Beach, Calif. dressed in the Russia costume attend the Halloween Carnaval in West Hollywood, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.
Photo by Matt Sayles

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Tribute To Graffiti: 50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks

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Boosts "Daily Show" To New Record

Obama

Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" pulled in its biggest audience ever Wednesday night.

The 11 p.m. episode, which featured an appearance by presidential candidate Barack Obama, averaged 3.6 million total viewers, beating by 600,000 viewers the previous record set October 8 when his wife Michelle Obama appeared on the show.

At 11:30 p.m., "Colbert Report" also had its most-watched episode ever, drawing 2.4 million viewers.

Obama

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Graffiti from Pompeii

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Toy Re-Enactment

Germany

Two German entertainers will use hundreds of Playmobil men to re-enact the history of Germany from 1949 until 1990 on live television, a spokeswoman for the production company said on Thursday.

The re-enactment is based on a 500-page book by German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler and will be aired on Thursday night on public channel ARD, said the spokeswoman for Bonito TV.

Harald Schmidt is known for having reanacted other episodes of history, including the first moon landing, in the past using Playmobil figures which are less than 10 centimetres tall.

But this show will be more of a challenge than any of the previous ones, mainly because of the complicated plot and the number of toy figures involved, he told the paper.

Germany

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Plain Dealer Critical Of Critic

Donald Rosenberg

The reassignment of a newspaper reviewer critical of Cleveland Orchestra conductor Franz Welser-Moest left a dissonant trail of questions about censorship and the risk of panning a hometown arts icon.

The move of Donald Rosenberg off The Plain Dealer's orchestra beat doesn't trump talk about the Browns football team or basketball superstar LeBron James at the watercooler in Cleveland, but reviewers across the country noticed and yelled, "Foul!"

Rosenberg was summoned into a conference room at Ohio's biggest newspaper in September and was told by Editor Susan Goldberg that he was off the beat that he had for 16 years.

Britain's Guardian newspaper said the move amounted to censorship, and The New York Times said the reassignment "is sure to send shivers down the opinionated spines of critics everywhere."

Donald Rosenberg

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Britain's Roger Hodgson, formerly of the band Supertramp, performs at the AVO Session in Basel, Switzerland, on Friday evening, Oct. 31, 2008.
Photo by Patrick Straub

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The Long War Journal

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Toilet House Art Show

Munich

A public toilet in Munich which has been transformed into an art museum has attracted hundreds of people in the first days after opening, a spokesman for the city's tourism agency said on Thursday.

Built in 1894, the toilet house was originally constructed to serve nearby households which lacked necessary facilities.

After being in use for over a hundred years, the toilets were locked up in 1992 because they were very rarely used.

The art exhibited is mainly graffiti often with a political theme. Examples include images of Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel flanking a urinal in the corner of the room. Four artists contributed their work to the exhibition.

Munich

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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Grosse Pointe's Grossest Pointy-Head

Shirley Nagel

A suburban Detroit woman has decided to scare up the vote among neighborhood children by just offering treats to John McCain supporters.

Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., handed out candy Friday only to those who shared her support for the Republican presidential candidate and his running mate Sarah Palin. Others were turned away empty-handed.

TV station WJBK says a sign outside Nagel's house warned: "No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters."

Nagel calls Democrat Barack Obama "scary." When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."

Shirley Nagel

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Italian actress, Claudia Cardinale, carrying her honorary award, on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008, at the inauguration of the 12-day 16th Damascus International Film Festival that will honor a lot of Arab and foreign actors, singers and directors.
Photo by Bassem Tellawi

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Become Web Dead: Erase Your Online Identity in 10 Steps

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Suspends US Anti-Drug Efforts

Evo Morales

Bolivian President Evo Morales suspended U.S. anti-drug operations on Saturday as Washington's relations with his leftist government spiraled downward.

Morales accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of espionage and funding "criminal groups" trying to undermine his government.

He announced the indefinite suspension while declaring that his government has eradicated more than 5,000 hectares (12,300 acres) of illegally planted coca so far this year - the minimum required under a 1988 Bolivian law passed under U.S. pressure.

Bolivia-U.S. relations have deteriorated in recent months as Morales's government limited DEA activities and later expelled the U.S. ambassador over charges of spying and involvement in anti-government protests in the eastern lowlands.

Evo Morales

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Where These Internet Pioneers Got Their Names

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When Sisters Feud

Tatiana & Natasha Boncompagni

The wife of an heir to Hoover appliances sued her sister, accusing her of stealing credit for her new novel, "Hedge Fund Wives," and releasing stolen chapters of the book onto the Internet.

The novel by socialite and freelance writer Tatiana Boncompagni Hoover, wife of Max Hoover, is due to be published by HarperCollins Publishers, a unit of News Corp, in May 2009.

Hoover alleges that her older sister, Natasha Boncompagni, misrepresented herself as the novel's co-author after stealing a copy of the manuscript from Hoover's personal computer while visiting her New York apartment.

The novel has two active copyrights, according to the U.S. Copyright Office website. Boncompagni obtained joint copyright protection in September for herself and her sister, and, in October, Hoover obtained an exclusive copyright for the novel.

Tatiana & Natasha Boncompagni

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Crows rest on a tree during this year's first snow fall in Puchheim near Munich October 30, 2008.
Photo by Michaela Rehle

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The GreenDot Project

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State Sanctioned Religious Insanity

Somalia

A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.

Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.

Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.

A quarter of Somali children die before age 5; nearly every public institution has collapsed. Fighting is a daily occurrence, with violent deaths reported nearly every day.

Somalia

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Kids Halloween Candy Code

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Museum Returns Painting

Fernand Leger

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has sent a painting by cubist Fernand Leger back to the heirs of a Jewish art collector in France, after concluding it had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

The museum had owned the 1911 Leger painting "Smoke Over Rooftops" since 1961. But after a decade of detective work, the institute decided to return it to the heirs of noted Parisian collector Alphonse Kann, who died in 1948.

"Having researched this to the end of the road, we decided we had to return the painting; it was the right thing to do," Kaywin Feldman, director of the institute, told the Star Tribune for a story published Thursday.

Fernand Leger

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20 Very Strange Endangered Animal Species

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In Memory

Jacques Piccard

Swiss deep sea explorer and inventor Jacques Piccard, who holds the record for travelling to the deepest point underwater, died Saturday at the age of 86.

Piccard, who was born in Brussels, together with Don Walsh reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 10,916 metres (35,813 feet) below sea level on January 23, 1960 -- the farthest point underwater.

He also witnessed living organisms at a depth of over 11,000 metres below sea level, a discovery that led to a ban in nuclear waste dumping into the ocean.

Piccard had also built four mid-depth submarines, including the first tourist submarine that carried 33,000 passengers deep into Lake Geneva in 1964 and carried on deep sea exploration up to the age of 82.

Piccard's father Auguste Piccard twice beat the record for reaching the highest altitude in a balloon, in 1931-32.

Jacques Piccard

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In Memory

John Daly

John Daly, the British-born producer of 13 Oscar-winning movies including "Platoon" and "The Last Emperor" who helped launch the careers of many A-list directors and actors, has died. He was 71.

Born in London, Daly joined with British actor David Hemmings in 1967 to form Hemdale, a company that managed rock bands such as Yes and Black Sabbath.

Hemdale later became a leading independent film producer and distributor in Great Britain.

Under Daly's stewardship, Hemdale produced more than 100 films that grossed more than $1.5 billion.

He is survived by three sons, Michael, Julian and Timothy, and one daughter, Jenny.

John Daly

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The newly born Eastern Black Rhinoceros calf stands with its mother Kitani in its enclosure at Chester Zoo, northern England, October 31, 2008. The two-day-old calf is the first Eastern Black Rhinoceros to be born at the zoo in a decade.
Photo by Phil Noble

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