BartCop Entertainment Archives - Thursday, 9 July, 2009

Thursday

9 July, 2009

(Updated Daily)


[713 days in a row]

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Five Things the Media Refused to Report About Palin's Fishing Trip


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Daydream Believer: Literal Video Version (youtube.com)
Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do, ...


Mark Morford: Obama the Muslim, extra lard (sfgate.com)
Good news! Across the country, a firm resolve that some things never change.


Garrison Keillor: Health-care controversy awaits the sausage mill
In the past two weeks, I've attended two benefit concerts to raise money for musicians to pay their medical bills, and that is just ridiculous. Why should anyone, least of all a valuable contributing member of society, have to pass the hat to pay the doctor? But there I was, watching ...


The lifestyle to beat Alzheimer's (guardian.co.uk)
Coffee drinkers will be clinking mugs in a toast to new research, says Peta Bee.


Janice Taylor: Is The Food Industry Manipulating Your Chemistry? An Interview With Dr. David Kessler (huffingtonpost.com)
If cake is your BFF (best friend forever), if the call of Cheeto sends you into an orange-stained spin, if you start to drool at the mere mention of Cinnabon, and/or if you are mad at yourself for giving in and diving into a vat of chocolate, then pull up a chair and start clicking for an interview that just may change your relationship to food and, in turn, your life.


20 QUESTIONS: Eleni Mandell (popmatters.com)
Acclaimed songwriter Eleni Mandell answers PopMatters 'Miss America'-like 20 Questions with self-deprecating humor.


Ben Wener: Prog-rock guitarist Steve Howe does double duty with Yes and Asia (The Orange County Register)
Steve Howe had gotten distracted again. "What's the word again? 'Taxing'?"


Charles P. Pierce: The Manny To End the Steroids Era (slate.com)
Manny Ramirez reveals our true attitude about baseball's drug war.


Luaine Lee: Having survived her initial success, Margaret Cho is ready to go back on TV (McClatchy-Tribune News Service)
Standup comedian Margaret Cho was never the polite, little Asian girl who covered her mouth when she laughed and made straight As. In fact, she was always the opposite.


"Bonsai" (Contemporary Art of the Novella) by Alejandro Zambra: A review by Marcela Valdes (The Nation; Posted on Powells.com)
When it was published in Spanish in 2006, Alejandro Zambra's novel Bonsai filled just ninety-four generously spaced pages, and its recent English translation by Carolina De Robertis stretches only to eighty-three. Still, each of these volumes should be considered a marvel of book design and production since in interviews the author has let slip that his original text ran only to forty sheets.


Bottom burps, stinky feet and other poems (guardian.co.uk)
Old Etonian, friend of David Cameron, the (very) wealthy man behind the Purple Ronnie franchise ... there are numerous reasons not to like Giles Andreae. But, warns Jon Henley you should never judge a book by its cover.


Laura Barnett: "Portrait of the artist: Prunella Scales, actor" (guardian.co.uk)
'In acting, you can keep going till you drop. I intend to die on the eighth curtain call.'


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Trivia Question from Yesterday

Which soap opera featured a character named 'Barnabas Collins'?

      Dark Shadows                                               Source


Dark Shadows is a Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971.
The series became hugely popular when, a year into its run, vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Jonathan Frid, appeared.






mj was first, and correct, with:
   With one of the world's most unexpected teenage heart throbs, Jonathan Frid, it was Dark Shaddows. The mansion, Collinwood, is a building on the campus of Salve Regina College in Newport, RI. The female lead, Alexandra Isles was Claus von Bulow's mistress.



Willow wrote:
   Dark Shadows



Charlie answered:
   Dark Shadows.




BGRDDAD responded:
   Dark Shadows



Alan J answered:
   Dark Shadows



John K replied:
   Many an after-school afternoon was spent wondering what would happen next on Dark Shadows, especially with Angelique and Barnabas . . .,



Kevin K responded::
   "Dark Shadows"



Lisa R replied:
   Dark Shadows!!



Ned said:
   Barnabas Collins - Dark Shadows

  Johnny Depp Closing in on Dark Shadows Adaptation




Colby in Frostproof commented:
   That would be "Dark Shadows". A few years ago I taught a pair of twins named Barnabas and Angelique.



~ Tony in Philly responded:
   Dark Shadows!




Jim from CA replied:
   Dark Shadows



MAG ("I've always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library"   -   Jorge Luis Borges) answered:
   Dark Shadows of course.



Sally said nothing.
  



Maria in Chicago replied:
   Dark Shadows, of course. I didn't even have to look that one up.



Leigh in Arizona responded:
   Marty, that would be my favorite early vampire show, Dark Shadows.



MAM     noted:
   'Barnabas Collins' was a fictional character in

  Barnabas Collins' Dark Shadows Scrapbook




joe b said:
   That was Dark Shadows I used to watch after school, it was creepy back then.



Marian the Teacher, back from vacation, responded:
   Dark Shadows



DanD answered:
   Was it Bronze Age Buffy? Amidst all those Dark Shadows, yeah, in a way.



And, Joe S wrote:
  
  I loved that Soap but I seldom got to watch it. I probably haven't changed much over the years because my favorite show now is True Blood





  



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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

STALKING THE 'CARIBOU BARBIE.'

THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE!

DAMN STRAIGHT!

HANG THIS PRICK FROM THE NEAREST LAMPPOST!

STOP THE BULLSHIT ASSHOLES!

REALLY FUCKING DUH!

CALL MY JAPANESE LAWYER SOSUMI YOU DUMB ASS WINGNUT SLUT!

BRING THE TROOPS HOME!

SINGLE PAYER NOW!

POST RACIAL MY ASS!

SICK FUCKING WINGNUTS!

FUCK THE CHAMBER OF WHORES!

WHAT!

NOW WHAT!

WHAT THE HELL!



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Still sunny and pleasant.


Took the Blue Line to the Red Line to Hollywood/Highland to gawk at the tourists, then came home.



Tonight, Thursday:

CBS opens the night with a FRESH 'Big Brother 11', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN 'The Mentalist'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Daniel Radcliffe, Veronika Part, and Levon Helm
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Jeff Goldblum and Jackie Collins


NBC begins the night with a RERUN '30 Rock', followed by a RERUN 'The Office', then another RERUN 'The Office', followed by a RERUN '30 Rock', then a FRESH 'The Listener'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Larry King, Zooey Deschanel, and Playing For Change
On a RERUN Jimmy Fallon (from 6/2/09) are Steve Martin, Paul Simon, and Vanessa Williams
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/13/09) are Steve-O, Nico Vega


ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Samantha Who?', followed by another FRESH 'Samantha Who?', then a RERUN 'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a RERUN 'Private Practice'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel are: Denzel Washington and Will Ferrell.


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


Faux has a RERUN 'Bones', followed by a FRESH 'So You Think You Can Dance'.


MY fills the night with the movie 'Passenger 57'.


A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH 'Crime 360', then another FRESH 'Crime 360'.


AMC offers the movie 'Clear And Present Danger', followed by the movie 'Blazing Saddles', then the movie 'Caddyshack'.


BBC  -   
 [12:00 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 6
 [12:30 PM]    You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
 [1:00 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
 [1:30 PM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 13
 [2:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Ruby Tates
 [3:00 PM]    Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
 [4:00 PM]    The Hotel Inspector - Episode 8
 [5:00 PM]    Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
 [6:00 PM]    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 9 The Olde Stone Mill
 [7:00 PM]    BBC World News America
 [8:00 PM]    Top Gear - Episode 3
 [9:00 PM]    Primeval - Episode 3
 [10:00 PM]    BBC World News America - Episode 7
 [11:00 PM]    Top Gear - Episode 3
 [12:00 AM]    Primeval - Episode 3
 [1:00 AM]    Top Gear - Episode 3
 [2:00 AM]    Primeval - Episode 3
 [3:00 AM]    The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 Miriam Margolyes, Ashley Jensen and Mika
 [4:00 AM]    How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
 [4:30 AM]    How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 13
 [5:00 AM]    BBC World News
 [6:00 AM]    BBC World News    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH 'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH 'The Fashion Show'.


Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Dane Cook: Rough Around The Edges', followed by a FRESH 'Tosh.0', then 'Important Things With Demetri Martin'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart (from 6/30/09) is Mike Kim
On a RERUN Colbert Report (from 6/29/09) is Neil DeGrasse Tyson


FX has the movie 'Behind Enemy Lines', followed by the movie 'Jarhead'.


History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH 'Gangland', and another 'Gangland'.


IFC  -   
 [6:05 AM]   Peppermint Frappe
 [7:45 AM]   Rabbit-Proof Fence
 [9:25 AM]   Ryan
 [9:45 AM]   The Secret Agent
 [11:30 AM]   Peppermint Frappe
 [1:15 PM]   Rabbit-Proof Fence
 [2:55 PM]   United We Stand
 [3:05 PM]   The Secret Agent
 [4:45 PM]   Peppermint Frappe
 [6:25 PM]   Shattered Glass
 [8:00 PM]   The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
 [10:00 PM]   Chasing Amy
 [12:00 AM]   The Sleeping Dictionary
 [2:00 AM]   The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
 [4:00 AM]   Chasing Amy    (ALL TIMES EDT)


SciFi has 'ECW', 'Eureka', followed by the movie 'The Mummy'.


Sundance  -   
 [06:15 AM]   Approaching Union Square
 [07:45 AM]   Shotgun Stories
 [09:20 AM]   The Favor
 [11:15 AM]   Man Push Cart
 [12:45 PM]   On the Road with Judas
 [02:25 PM]   The Angelmakers
 [03:05 PM]   Approaching Union Square
 [04:35 PM]   Shotgun Stories
 [06:10 PM]   Noise (2007)
 [08:00 PM]   4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
 [10:00 PM]   The Killing of John Lennon
 [12:00 AM]   That Obscure Object Of Desire
 [01:45 AM]   Pierrepoint
 [03:30 AM]   The Killing of John Lennon
 [05:30 AM]   Shotgun Stories     (ALL TIMES EDT)


TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      To Trap a Spy (1964)
 [7:45 AM]      The Spy With My Face (1966)
 [9:15 AM]      Hold On! (1966)
 [10:45 AM]      Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter (1968)
 [12:45 PM]      For Those Who Think Young (1964)
 [2:30 PM]      Get Yourself A College Girl (1964)
 [4:00 PM]      It's A Bikini World (1967)
 [5:30 PM]      Beach Party (1963)
 [7:15 PM]      MGM Parade Show #19 (1955)
 [8:00 PM]      Union Pacific (1939)
 [10:30 PM]      Dodge City (1939)
 [12:30 AM]      Stagecoach (1939)
 [2:15 AM]      The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
 [3:45 AM]      Blind Alley (1939)
 [5:00 AM]      Each Dawn I Die (1939)     (ALL TIMES EDT)


Friday  -  07/10/09

TCM:
 [6:45 AM]      The Roaring Twenties (1939)
 [8:45 AM]      1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
 [10:00 AM]      The Good Bad Girl (1931)
 [11:15 AM]      Attorney For The Defense (1932)
 [12:30 PM]      Final Edition (1932)
 [1:45 PM]      Three Wise Girls (1932)
 [3:00 PM]      Virtue (1932)
 [4:15 PM]      Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
 [6:00 PM]      The Young In Heart (1938)
 [8:00 PM]      Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
 [11:15 PM]      The Last Emperor (1987)
 [2:00 AM]      Beyond The Fog (1972)    [AKA: 'Tower of Evil']
 [3:45 AM]      Horror House (1969)
 [5:15 AM]      Short Film: Booked For Safekeeping (1960)     (ALL TIMES EDT)


USA has a FRESH 'Burn Notice', followed by a FRESH 'Royal Pains'.



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U.S. actor Michael Douglas gestures during the presentation of the film 'Beyond a Reasonable Doubt' in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009.
Photo by Manu Fernandez

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Not Slang In Nevada

'HOE'

A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency tried to cancel on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.

The high court said the DMV based its opposition to William Junge's plate on definitions found in the Web-based Urban Dictionary, which includes user contributions. Justices ruled that the contributed definitions "do not always reflect generally accepted definitions for words."

Junge, whose case was pursued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said he got the "HOE" plate in 1999 for his Chevy Tahoe, after being told "TAHOE" wasn't available.

"It's nonsense," Junge said of the state agency's efforts to pull his plates. He said he was referring to his vehicle's model and not to prostitutes with his plates, adding: "That was their interpretation. Shame on them."

'HOE'

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U.S. actor Richard Gere adjusts his glasses as he speaks during a press conference to promote his latest movie 'Hachi: A Dog's Story' in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, July 8, 2009.
Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi

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Resolution Faces GOP Opposition

Michael Jackson

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee may have trouble keeping the promise she made at Michael Jackson's public memorial for a House resolution that "forever" honors the late pop star.

Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, took the stage Tuesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and hoisted a framed copy of the resolution, embossed with a gold seal. The measure will be debated on the House floor, she said.

Without mentioning Rep. Peter King (R-Self Righteous) by name, Jackson Lee noted at the memorial that Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges. She blasted critics who "don't understand the hearts of entertainers" and "don't know how they heal the world on behalf of America."

Her legislation, House Resolution 600, lists several charitable acts by Michael Jackson over his long career and proclaims him as an American legend, musical icon and world humanitarian. He is, Jackson Lee said, "someone who will be honored forever and forever and forever and forever and forever."

Michael Jackson

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Rolling Out Collection

Jay Leno

When Jay Leno's new 10 p.m. show goes on air in September, some of his vintage cars will be making guest appearances. The host intends to drive his prized possessions onstage some nights.

The gambit is one reason NBC is using a larger venue than Leno has been accustomed to. Workers are busy customizing the soundstage once used by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and the Disney Channel sitcom "Sonny With a Chance," both of which have moved out.

Leno's primetime show will be taped on the NBC lot in Burbank on Stage 11, which is even larger than the 17,000-square-foot garage that houses Leno's car collection. The largest on the lot, Stage 11 is near Leno's former "Tonight Show" home at Stage 3, which is about 5,000 square feet smaller.

While Leno's plan to roll onstage in an expensive car could be viewed as an unnecessary display of opulence in the midst of a recession, he might be using his car collection as a Trojan horse to position his show as the place to advertise automobiles. Maybe he'll drive his 1906 Stanley Steamer onstage one night and the latest offering from Ford the next in a bit of high-octane product placement.

Jay Leno

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Television producer Mark Burnett, right, poses with DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg during a ceremony honoring him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes

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Dole Sues Documentary Maker

"Bananas"

Dole Food Company Inc filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against Swedish film makers it accuses of knowingly including "patent falsehoods" in a documentary about Nicaraguan banana workers who sued Dole for allegedly exposing them to pesticides on its plantations.

Dole said it repeatedly "implored" director Fredrik Gertten and producer Margarete Jangard to revise the film "Bananas!*" to show that the bananeros' lawsuits against Dole were thrown out in April by a Los Angeles judge who found a "pervasive conspiracy" to defraud U.S. courts by plaintiffs attorneys and Nicaraguan judges.

The film chronicles a "David versus Goliath" struggle by U.S. plaintiffs attorney Juan Dominguez to bring what he says in the film are the first ever claims by third-world farm workers in U.S. courts.

"Bananas!*" concludes with Dominguez winning a $2.5 million punitive damages verdict on behalf of five Nicaraguan plaintiffs, but leaves out what happened next, the suit said.

"Bananas"

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Vidiot Speak

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Caught In Ponzi Scheme

Paris Hilton

In an odd intersection of showbiz and securities fraud, proving a claim that Paris Hilton was a lousy pitchwoman would benefit investors jilted by a Ponzi scheme she had no part in.

A federal lawsuit set to go to trial Thursday against Hilton contends she didn't do enough to promote the 2006 sorority hijinks movie "Pledge This!" and seeks about US$8 million in damages from Hilton and her company, Paris Hilton Entertainment Inc.

One of the main investors in the box-office bomb was once a high-flying concert and theatre promoter from Miami named Jack Utsick, who was listed as one of the movie's producers. When the admittedly bad movie lost money, his now-defunct Worldwide Entertainment Group took a financial hit.

But it's not Utsick who's suing Hilton. Rather, the lawsuit stems from an effort to repay people ripped off in what federal securities investigators say was a $300-million Ponzi scheme hatched by Utsick. Hilton's work on the film had nothing to do with the scheme.

Paris Hilton

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Guy Laliberte, the Canadian billionaire owner of Cirque du Soleil, lies in a special capsule filled with gypsum to create a seat moulding in Star City outside Moscow July 8, 2009. The former fire-eater is on the countdown to become the world's seventh, and Canada's first, space tourist, slated to travel on a Russian Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station (ISS) in September.
Photo by Sergei Remezov

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Convicted

Jesse James Hollywood

Jesse James Hollywood was convicted Wednesday of the kidnap and murder of a 15-year-old boy that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog."

After deliberating about four days, a Santa Barbara Superior Court jury also found Hollywood, 29, guilty of the special circumstance allegation of being involved in a crime in which an assault weapon or machine gun was used, making him eligible for the death penalty.

The victim's parents said they were relieved but declined to comment further because of a gag order issued in the case.

The penalty phase of the case was scheduled to begin Monday.

Jesse James Hollywood

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Vegas Action

Eddie Mekka

Laverne And Shirley actor Eddie Mekka was arrested in Las Vegas on Friday on suspicion of drink driving.

Mekka, who played Carmine 'The Big Ragu' Ragusa in the 1970s Happy Days spin-off, reportedly collided with another car.

According to TMZ.com, police rushed to the scene after receiving a tip-off and administered sobriety tests on the actor.

Mekka was subsequently arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

Eddie Mekka

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Pickens Bails

Texas Wind Farm

Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines.

Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall - taller than most 30-story buildings.

Pickens' company Mesa Power ordered the turbines from General Electric Co. - a $2 billion investment - a little more than a year ago. Pickens said he has leases on about 200,000 acres in Texas that were planned for the project, and he might place some of the turbines there, but he's also looking for smaller wind projects to participate in. He said he's looking at potential sites in the Midwest and Canada.

In Texas, the problem lies in getting power from the proposed site in the Panhandle to a distribution system, Pickens said in an interview with The Associated Press in New York. He'd hoped to build his own transmission lines but he said there were technical problems.

Texas Wind Farm

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Pigmy tribesmen from Congo perform dances during a show in Algiers, Algeria, on Monday 6 July, 2009, inaugurating the second Pan-African Festival. The event, which runs until late July and is taking place for the first time in four decades, gathers over 8, 000 artists from across Africa to celebrate the continent's culture and reflect on its future development.
Photo by Alfred de Montesquiou

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Congestion Dips As Economy Falters

Traffic

Drivers are spending less time stuck in rush-hour traffic for a second straight year, the first-ever two-year decline in congestion as high gas prices and the economic downturn force many Americans to change how they commute.

In individual cities, Los Angeles traffic is getting better but is still the worst in the nation. Washington's is getting worse, now ranking second.

The average U.S. driver languished in rush-hour traffic for 36.1 hours in 2007, down from 36.6 hours in 2006 and a peak of 37.4 hours in 2005, according to a study being released Wednesday by the Texas Transportation Institute. Total wasted fuel also edged lower for the first time, from 2.85 billion gallons in 2006 to 2.81 billion, or roughly three weeks' worth of gas per traveler.

The last time traffic congestion had declined was in 1991 amid a spike in oil prices during the first Gulf War.

Traffic

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Mount Rushmore Banner

Greenpeace

Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change.

A video posted on the environmental group's website showed the massive banner hanging on the South Dakota mountain face.

Its message -- "America honors leaders not politicians: Stop Global Warming" and an unfinished portrait of Obama -- was barely visible as it was whipped by wind.

Greenpeace said the 11 climbers "took special care not to damage the monument, using existing anchors placed by the National Park Service for periodic cleaning."

Greenpeace

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From Pythons To Fungus

Invasion

A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom. The tragedy became the latest and most graphic example of a problem that has plagued the state for more than a decade: a nonnative species that is wreaking havoc in the Everglades, threatening people, the environment and native wildlife.

From a mysterious fungus attacking bats in the Northeast to zebra mussels in the Great Lakes and snakehead fish in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, native wildlife is facing new threats nationwide.

Lawmakers are considering a variety of measures to address the problem, including a bill that would more closely regulate ballast water discharge to ensure that invasive species do not enter the country through oceangoing vessels. Ballast water, which keeps ships stable in rough seas, is blamed for carrying zebra mussels and many other invasive species into U.S. waters where they have overwhelmed native species and caused other environmental harm.

Lawmakers also discussed the fungus killing Northeastern bats. Since it was discovered in a cave in upstate New York in 2007, the so-called white-nose syndrome has spread to 65 caves in nine states, and killed at least 500,000 bats. The disease now ranges from West Virginia to Vermont and could expand across the country, officials said.

Invasion

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Revellers hold up traditional red scarves during the start of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 6, 2009. San Fermin festival, best known for its daily running of the bulls, kicked off today with the traditional "Chupinazo" rocket launch and will run until July 14.
Photo by Eloy Alonso

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