BartCop Entertainment Archives - Wednesday, 1 January, 2014

Wednesday

1 January, 2014

(Updated Daily)

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M Is FOR MASHUP - January 1st, 2014

Happy New Year

By DJ Useo





Due to urgent matters M IS FOR MASHUP by DJ Useo will return next week.

In the meantime, enjoy this new NEW YEARS' EVE long mix from Useo
( www.bmbx.org/2013/12/new-years-eve/ ).

It was designed to be played from 11 pm to midnight last night.


















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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Mark Coker: "2014 Book Publishing Industry Predictions - Price Drops to Impact Competitive Dynamics" (Smashwords)
It's that time of year again when I polish my crystal ball and stick my neck out with predictions for the year ahead.


Benjamin Bratton: We need to talk about TED (Guardian)
Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol - as embodied by TED talks - is a recipe for civilisational disaster.


Moises Velasquez-Manoff: Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? (Mother Jones)
Imbalances in the microbial community in your intestines may lead to metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes. What does science say about how to reset our bodies?


Ria Misra: "The greatest newspaper correction ever written (49 years too late)" (io9)
In 1920, rocket scientist Robert Goddard wrote up an article postulating how we could use rocket fuel to launch a ship into space - perhaps even all the way to the moon. His ideas did not meet with a warm reception in the media, where he was roundly mocked. 49 years later, Apollo 11 took-off to the moon, triggering The New York Times' to print the greatest newspaper correction ever to run.


Charlie Jane Anders: Our 12 Favorite First Date Movies (io9)
The best romances begin by taking a step into the dark together. So the best first date often involves watching a really great science fiction or fantasy movie - one that contains not just romance, but boundless possibility. Here are our 12 favorite "first date" movies.


Rob Bricken: The Biggest Mistakes, Blunders and Bad Ideas of 2013 (io9)
To err is human, to forgive divine. So I guess if you forgive these people and companies for making some of the most moronic decisions of this year, you're a god. Congratulations! Now cast your divine attention to learning how DC, Cartoon Network, Disney and more bungled their way through 2013.


Ten Ways a Condom Can't Protect You (YouTube)
"A better title for this video would be "Ten things a condom can't protect you from," which include the kind of dangers found in a sci-fi or fantasy novel: they cannot protect you from velociraptors, magic spells, comic book heroes, or farting in an elevator. This public service video from the UK's Centre for HIV and Sexual Health is intended to appeal to geeks by hitting them where they live. Of course, it also tells you what condoms are good for." - Neatorama


20-Minute Lara Croft Fan Film (YouTube)
A woman will risk everything to save a young girl held hostage in the mountains by a group of mercenaries.


Beans (YouTube)
Written and directed by Animator Alvise Avati and produced by Animation Director Eamonn Butler. Beans, a short film with an unexpected ending, showcases Cinesite's creature animation skills.



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Trivia Question of the Day


Who holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


Born Gladys Marie Smith in Toronto, she was called "America's Sweetheart". By what name is she better known?


      Mary Pickford                                                      Source


Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "The girl with the curls," she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting.

Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry. In consideration of her contributions to American cinema, the American Film Institute named Pickford 24th among the greatest female stars of all time.

Mary Pickford was born Gladys Marie Smith in Toronto, Ontario. Her father, John Charles Smith, was the son of English Methodist immigrants, and worked a variety of odd jobs. Her mother, Charlotte Hennessy, was of Irish Catholic descent. She had two younger siblings, Jack and Lottie Pickford, who would also become actors. To please the relatives, Pickford's mother baptized her in both the Methodist and Catholic churches.        Source







Lois Of Oregon was first, and correct, with:
   Oh my god, what a sad and terrible life had poor Mary Pickford! "Having lost the love of her life, her career, and her mother within a very short time, Pickford withdrew and gradually became a recluse". She died an alcoholic, like the rest of her blighted family. Her adopted children, betrayed and abandoned. Fame and fortune, all empty in the end. Wow, what an inspirational New Years story. On a personal note...@Sally: your nun picture deeply disturbed my husband Richard, who survived a Catholic Education. Also, he made a very crude joke about Milley Cyrus appearing at Times Square tonight to "grease the ball" so it will drop properly. @BttbBob: Speaking of salacious, couldn't you find any NAKED pictures of the Monkees? You know, for the ladies? Also, may I take this opportunity to apologize to Joe? I notice you no longer regale us with tales of wizardry, and persist in mentioning the Misses. I hope my tasteless wand joke was not a source of marital discord! Please forgive me, but alas, my New Year's Resolution is to be a BIGGER JERK than ever in the coming year! In fact, I've already gained 8 pounds this week! Here's wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year!!




Charlie said:
   Mary Pickford




Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
   Mary Pickford



Alan J replied:
   Mary Pickford



Ken responded:
   Mary Plckford...not sure about the spelling, but I am sure about the name. Thanks for finding a use for all this junk taking up space in my brain.



Adam answered:
   Mary Pickford.



Sally said:
   Born Gladys Marie Smith in Toronto, Mary Pickford was called, "America's Sweetheart."

  Bet Mary was pushing 40 in this picture - she thrived on being a 'girl!'
  I knew this answer without even looking it up. My mother and her two aunts (2 & 4 years older than she) read everything they could get there hands on about her and (especially) her second husband, the swashbuckling, Douglas Fairbanks!
  Many an hour they spent in my grandmother's kitchen gossiping about them. (Did I mention that they were nearing 45 or more at this time?)
  You can't imagine how very popular was Mary back in the 20's, 30's, and even in the 40's, WO media and Internet! Of course movie magazines ruled, and I saw more then one stashed away in grandma's closet. Such magazines were frowned upon back then, for women of 'culture.' They were thumbed through in private...
  Of course Mary fell from grace after divorcing Douglas, even though he was reported to be a cad. Women were taught to 'look the other way' when men indulged in valiance's back then... Mother and the hens felt that Mary, after all, had Douglas, wasn't that enough for her?
  PS: Hopefully I will be here tomorrow, but will be frolicking with the gks tonight, and tomorrow, and don't know if I'll have the energy to get online after that, you know??
  IAC, see you next year, hahaha!




Marian responded:
   Mary Pickford



Happy New Year to all says Dale of Diamond Springs, Norprecipitationcali, who answered:
   It is Mary Pickford, an amazingly powerful actress of the first third of the 20th Century. One of the Co-founders of United Artists, Pickford was the most popular person in the media. How can we ever forget Pia Zadora?





BttbBob   replied:
   Ha! Who cares? Certainly not me... nope... not-at-all. Now why would I speak in such a churlish manner, huh, I'm askin' ya? Let me handle that one... Cuz all I'm concerned about, at this time (dagnabbit) is the current reigning "America's Sweetheart" (...and absolutely mine) who is none other than...

  You know her... I love her... Google "America's sweetheart" and hers is the first name listed in the Wiki article - "America's sweetheart" (#2 is the answer to the trivia question - Ha! So there...)
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  "She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force
    You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
    She used to look good to me, but now I find her... Simply irresistible"
   Robert Palmer - 'Simply Irresistible' - ORIGINAL VIDEO - stereo HQ.mp4 - YouTube   (Hoo ha, and I'm-a tellin' ya...)
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  "Did you know?" Moment - The photo of the Waterford Crystal piece that is part of the "Ball Drop" made me think of what my Mom (aka "The Old Nan") told me after one of her nine visits to Ireland and a visit/tour of the Waterford works. There are no 'seconds' with Waterford Crystal items. Any piece with a flaw is destroyed... always.
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  I want to say to all y'all E! fans that I wish for you this coming year - good health, good fortune and some dagnab good times! Okay? Got that? Good...
  ... now go make it happen.
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  January 1 Birthdays - Celebrities Born January 1 | Famous Birthdays




MAM   wrote:
   Mary Pickford ~1892 - 1979. Co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Dinners at Pickfair included a number of notable guests. Charlie Chaplin, Fairbanks' best friend, was often present. Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba. Pickford kept the estate and spent her final years there

  Douglas Fairbanks Mary Pickford


  Pickfair

  PS~ Happy New Year!




And, Joe S     took the night off.
  


  


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


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Artistic markers help passersby observe king tides - SFGate



Meet The People Who Think America Is 2014 Years Old



On Christmas, Republicans Quietly Declare War on Themselves | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone



Genderswitched Bilbo makes The Hobbit a better read - Boing Boing



Daily Kos: Macca's Meatless Monday: New Years resolution becomes solution to climate change



Restless America: state-to-state migration in 2012 | vizynary



1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fires - AOL On



The Online Education Revolution Drifts Off Course : NPR



Here's How Young Farmers Looking For Land Are Getting Creative : The Salt : NPR



Taking out the rivers' trash, one piece at a time - CNN.com



The stories of Johnny Cash - CNN.com



10 Ways to Find Cheaper Prescriptions - Yahoo Finance



Disney: Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, What's Not to Like? - Stocks To Watch - Barrons.com



The Downside of Early Retirement - Yahoo Finance



Cardinal Dolan on Pope's capitalism comments | Watch the video - Yahoo Finance
     Cuck Fardinal Colon




Thanks, Michelle!


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Gare's Astrology Column

About Venus and Love

About Venus and Love

Venus is retrograde right now until 1/31. This will help you get through it. Or at least to have a giggle. Click. Share with all of your friends and cats!

Thank you and have a great 2014! You bring a lot to my party!


Reading the stars with my feet on the ground,

Gare G



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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


HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERBODY!

"DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN."

READ IT AND WEEP REPUGS!

READ IT AND WEEP REPUGS! - BONUS CLICK

"NOTHING REALLY MATTERS"

GUNS AND BUTTER!

THE YEAR OF THE 'LEAKER'

FEEL THE WARM!






Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music



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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Still sunny, still warmer than seasonal.



Tonight, Wednesday:

CBS starts the night with a RERUN 'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a RERUN 'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN 'CSI: The Original One'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 12/11/13) are Emma Thompson, a Top Ten List presented by Josh Groban, Andy Cohen, and Nick Lowe.
On a RERUN Craig (from 10/29/13) are Alyssa Milano and Lawrence Block.



NBC opens the night with a RERUN 'Revolution', followed by a RERUN 'L&O: SVU', then another RERUN 'L&O: SVU'.
On a RERUN Leno (from 11/21/13) are Kristen Bell, David Gregory, and Julian Lennon.
On a RERUN Jimmy Fallon (from 10/23/13) are Julie Bowen, Mandy Patinkin, Dierks Bentley and Mike McCready.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 10/21/13) are "Humor Abuse", Tomahawk, and the Pack A.D.



ABC begins the night with a RERUN 'The Middle', followed by a RERUN 'The Goldbergs', then a RERUN 'Modern Family', followed by a RERUN 'Super Fun Night', then a RERUN 'Nashville'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 12/18/13) are Tim Robbins, Bill Simmons, Jalen Rose, and Haim.



The CW offers a RERUN 'The 125th Tournament Of Roses Parade'.
On a RERUN Arsenio Hall (from 12/5/13) are Mike E. Winfield, and R. Kelly.



Faux has a RERUN 'Dads', followed by another RERUN 'Dads', then a RERUN 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', followed by another RERUN 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'.



MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.



A&E has all 'Duck Dynasty' all night.



AMC offers 'The Walking Dead' marathon.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [6:30AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:30AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [8:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 1 - The Impossible Astronaut
 [9:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Day of the Moon
 [10:00AM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 1
 [11:00AM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 2
 [12:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 3
 [1:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 4
 [2:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 5
 [3:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 6
 [4:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 7
 [5:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 8
 [6:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 9
 [7:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 1 - Episode 10
 [8:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 1
 [9:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 2
 [10:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 3
 [11:00PM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 4
 [12:00AM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 5
 [1:00AM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 6
 [2:00AM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 7
 [3:00AM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 8
 [4:00AM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 9
 [5:00AM]    THE TUDORS - Season 2 - Episode 10     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', Real Housewives Of BH', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH 'Top Chef'.



Comedy Central has all 'Tosh.0' all night.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.



FX has the movie 'What Happens In Vegas', followed by the movie 'Superbad', then the movie 'Superbad', again.



History has all 'American Pickers' all night.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    Lake Placid
 [7:45AM]    Anaconda
 [9:45AM]    Snakes on a Plane
 [12:00PM]    Lake Placid
 [1:45PM]    Anaconda
 [3:45PM]    Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
 [5:45PM]    Snakes on a Plane
 [8:00PM]    The Big Lebowski
 [10:30PM]    The Big Lebowski
 [1:00AM]    Snakes on a Plane
 [3:15AM]    Snakes on a Plane    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]    The New World
 [9:00AM]    Lions for Lambs
 [11:00AM]    Marie Antoinette
 [1:30PM]    Le Divorce
 [4:00PM]    Kingpin
 [6:30PM]    You've Got Mail
 [9:00PM]    The Full Monty
 [11:00PM]    Waiting for Guffman
 [12:45AM]    Serial Mom
 [2:45AM]    Beautiful Girls
 [5:15AM]    The Writers' Room-New Girl
 [5:45AM]    Lipsett Diaries    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has a 'Twilight Zone' marathon.



TBS:
On a RERUN Conan (from 11/7/13) are Chris Hemsworth, Marc Maron, and Gavin DeGraw.



TCM:
 [6:30 AM]      It Should Happen To You (1953)
 [8:00 AM]      The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
 [10:00 AM]      Notorious (1946)
 [11:45 AM]      Splendor In The Grass (1961)
 [2:00 PM]      The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
 [4:00 PM]      Magnificent Obsession (1954)
 [6:00 PM]      The Thrill Of It All (1963)
 [8:00 PM]      Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
 [10:15 PM]      The Lost World (1960)
 [12:00 AM]      The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
 [2:00 AM]      She (1965)
 [4:00 AM]      The Lost Continent (1968)     (ALL TIMES EST)



Thursday   -  01/02/14

TCM pays tribute to director Charles Brabin all day, then spends the night with a pre-code Joan Crawford.
 [6:00 AM]      Now Playing January (2014)
 [6:30 AM]      The Ship From Shanghai (1929)
 [7:45 AM]      Call Of The Flesh (1930)
 [9:30 AM]      The Great Meadow (1931)
 [11:00 AM]      Sporting Blood (1931)
 [12:30 PM]      New Morals For Old (1932)
 [2:00 PM]      Washington Masquerade (1932)
 [3:30 PM]      Day Of Reckoning (1933)
 [4:45 PM]      The Secret Of Madame Blanche (1933)
 [6:15 PM]      Stage Mother (1933)

 [8:00 PM]      The Unknown (1927)     SILENT 
 [9:00 PM]      Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
 [10:30 PM]      Our Modern Maidens (1929)
 [12:00 AM]      Our Blushing Brides (1930)
 [1:45 AM]      Lady of the Night (1924)     SILENT 
 [3:00 AM]      The Boob (1926)     SILENT 
 [4:15 AM]      Spring Fever (1927)     SILENT 
 [5:45 AM]      Across to Singapore (1928)     SILENT 
    (ALL TIMES EST)




Antenna TV

Bounce TV

Cozi TV

MOVIES! TV Network

Me-TV

RTV - The Retro Television Network

This TV


Al Jazeera






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Fireworks explode over Edinburgh Castle during the Hogmanay (New Year) street party celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland January 1, 2014.
Photo by Russell Cheyne

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Architectural Kaleidoscopes: Buildings Spun into Fractal Art | Urbanist

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Made A Dame

Angela Lansbury

Hollywood star Angela Lansbury, best known as the clue-collecting super-sleuth in the television series "Murder, She Wrote," has been made a Dame of the British Empire.

The 88-year-old actress was one of more than 1,000 people who were recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year's Honors List. For the first time since the Order of the British Empire was founded in 1917, most of them were women.

Actress Penelope Keith, known to Brits as the snobbish Margot Leadbetter in the 1970s sitcom "The Good Life,"was also made a dame.

The twice-yearly royal honours reward hundreds of people for services to their community or national life.

Angela Lansbury

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Fireworks explode over the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014.
Photo by Rob Griffith

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20 Fun Facts About The Exorcist On Its 40th Birthday | Mental Floss

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Chaos Communications Conference

Spy Gear

A well-known privacy advocate has given the public an unusually explicit peek into the intelligence world's tool box, pulling back the curtain on the National Security Agency's arsenal of high-tech spy gear.

Independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum on Monday told a hacker conference in Germany that the NSA could turn iPhones into eavesdropping tools and use radar wave devices to harvest electronic information from computers, even if they weren't online.

Appelbaum told hundreds of computer experts gathered at Hamburg's Chaos Communications Conference that his revelations about the NSA's capabilities "are even worse than your worst nightmares."

Even though in the past six months there have been an unprecedented level of public scrutiny of the NSA and its methods, Appelbaum's claims - supported by what appeared to be internal NSA slideshows - still caused a stir.

One of the slides described how the NSA can plant malicious software onto Apple Inc.'s iPhone, giving American intelligence agents the ability to turn the popular smartphone into a pocket-sized spy.

Spy Gear

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Long Last Names Accommodated

Hawaii

A Hawaii woman whose last name is 36 characters long has finally gotten the whole thing to fit on her driver's license and state identification card.

Janice "Lokelani" Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele has a surname that consists of 35 letters plus an okina, a mark used in the Hawaiian alphabet. She received her new license and ID after her campaign to get her full name on the cards prompted the state Department of Transportation to change its policy to expand the number of characters that can appear.

Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele, 54, said Monday that she's happy she was able to help fix the problem of identification cards lacking sufficient space for long names.

Hawaii driver's licenses and ID cards previously had room for names totaling up to 35 characters. The new policy allows 40 characters for last names, 40 for first names and 35 for middle names.

Hawaii

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Fireworks explode in the sky across the whole of The Palm Jumeirah and the The World Islands during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the 'Largest Firework Display' in Dubai in this January 1, 2014 handout provided by the Dubai World Record 2014.
Photo by Simon Brooke

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Simulated Gophers Explain Mysterious Mima Mounds | Popular Science

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Old School Video Store

Saskatoon

A couple of Saskatoon movie buffs are reaching into their personal collections in hopes of reviving a staple of the last century - the VHS movie rental.

Jon Vaughn and Tyler Baptist estimate they have a collection of about 2,000 VHS tapes.

Vaughn and Baptist say they've been lending out their movies to friends for years and thought they should just start renting them.

Their store, dubbed Videonomicon, will operate out of Beaumont Records.

They admit their collection is outside the usual stuff that can be found on DVDs or Netflix, but they say they'd hate to see their underground favourites lost forever.

Saskatoon

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West Nile Virus Blamed

Eagles

An unusual wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of shore birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

At least 27 bald eagles have died this month in the northern and central parts of Utah from the blood-borne virus, and state biologists reported that five more ailing eagles were responding to treatment at rehabilitation centers.

The eagles are believed to have contracted the disease by preying on sick or dead shore birds called eared grebes that were infected by West Nile virus, said Leslie McFarlane, Utah wildlife disease coordinator.

The water birds have died by the thousands in and around the Great Salt Lake since November. Initial testing suggested an infectious bacterial disease such as avian cholera caused the deaths, but findings released on Tuesday showed West Nile virus was the culprit, McFarlane said.

The dead birds do not pose a risk to people, Utah Health Department epidemiologist JoDee Baker said in a statement. Yet Baker urged those who find sick or dead birds to avoid handling them.

Eagles

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Fireworks explode in the sky during New Year celebrations in Moscow's Red Square January 1, 2014.
Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva

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Why We're Afraid of the Dark (and Why It's Good That We Are)

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Explodes In Taiwan...Again

Giant Yellow Duck

A giant yellow duck on display in a northern Taiwan port exploded Tuesday, just hours before it was expected to attract a big crowd to count down the new year.

The 18-metre-tall (59-feet) duck on show at Keelung burst around noon and deflated into a floating yellow disc, only 11 days after it went on display.

It was the second time that a giant inflatable duck -- a bath toy replica created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman -- had burst while on show in Taiwan.

Last month the duck on display in the northern county of Taoyuan became a high-profile victim of a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which triggered a power outage that caused it to deflate when an air pump stopped working.

Powerful winds caused the duck's rear end to burst while it was being re-inflated. Organisers in Taoyuan had to borrow another duck commissioned by the Kaohsiung city government to continue the show.

Giant Yellow Duck

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Transporter Bridges | Amusing Planet

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Actually Medieval Italian

'Neanderthal'

A few fragmentary bones thought to be the remains of Neanderthals actually belonged to medieval Italians, new research finds.

The study is a reanalysis of a tooth, which was found in in a cave in northeastern Italy along with a finger bone and another tooth. Originally, researchers identified these scraps as belonging to Neanderthals, the early cousins of humans who went extinct about 30,000 years ago. Instead, the new study reveals the bones to belong to modern Homo sapiens.

There's no telling whom the original owner of the teeth and finger was, but the cave where they were discovered was both a hermitage, or dwelling place, and the site of a grisly medieval massacre.

The teeth and the bone were found in the San Bernardino Cave in the 1980s in a rock layer dating back to Neanderthal times, approximately 28,000 to 59,000 years ago. But location alone is not enough for a firm identification, said study researcher Stefano Benazzi, a physical anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. An analysis of the bones themselves is necessary, too. Earlier, researchers had conducted this analysis, but they lacked the high-tech tools available to scientists today.

'Neanderthal'

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Pope Francis holds a monstrance as he celebrates a New Year's Eve vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Pope Francis has used his traditional year-end prayer service of thanksgiving to urge people to ask themselves: Did they spend 2013 to further their own interests or to help others? That's what we all should "courageously" consider as New Year's celebrations get under way, the pontiff said, as he led the service in St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday evening.
Photo by Alessandra Tarantino

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These Snow Sculptures From China Are Simply Breathtaking

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2013 An Historically Dry Year

California

A swath of California closed out 2013 as the driest year on record, marked by above-normal temperatures and thirsty reservoirs.

Dozens of cities saw historically parched conditions this year, setting new marks in record-keeping that in some cases dates back more than a century.

Downtown Los Angeles received a meager 3.60 inches of rain since Jan. 1, the driest calendar year since 1877. Normally, downtown would be soaked with about 15 inches of precipitation.

Similarly, San Francisco recorded just 5.59 inches of rain since the beginning of the year, 18 inches below normal. Sacramento is 14 inches below average after receiving 6.13 inches of rain this year.

December is typically one of the wettest months, but a stubborn dome of high pressure has steered storms away from California for the past month. While the country shivered during Christmas, Californians flocked to the beach and basked in summer-like temperatures.

California

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Ratings

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 23-29. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.

    1. NFL Football: Philadelphia at Dallas, NBC, 27.36 million.
    2. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 19.21 million.
    3. "The OT," Fox, 15.32 million.
    4. "Football Night in America," NBC, 14.58 million.
    5. "NFL Today Post-Game," CBS, 13.39 million.
    6. NFL Football: Atlanta at San Francisco, ESPN, 13.22 million.
    7. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 10.98 million.
    8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.47 million.
    9. "Kennedy Center Honors," CBS, 7.18 million.
   10. "The Millers," CBS, 7.143 million.
   11. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.141 million.
   12. "NCIS," CBS, 6.96 million.
   13. "Dateline NBC," NBC, 6.22 million.
   14. "Person of Interest," CBS, 5.86 million.
   15. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 5.77 million.
   16. College Football: Miami vs. Louisville, ESPN, 5.75 million.
   17. "Shark Tank," ABC, 5.67 million.
   18. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.63 million.
   19. "The Simpsons," Fox, 5.6 million.
   20. "20/20," ABC, 5.5 million.

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In Memory

Joseph Ruskin

Film, television and stage actor Joseph Ruskin has died of natural causes at the age of 89.

Ruskin garnered 124 television credits, including "Mission: Impossible" and "Star Trek," and appeared in 25 films, including "The Magnificent Seven," ''Prizzi's Honor" and "Smokin' Aces."

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said Tuesday that Ruskin died at UCLA Santa Monica Hospital on Saturday.

His last performance was on the stage this year in the Anteus Theatre Company's production of "The Crucible."

Ruskin was born in Haverhill, Mass. He studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University and began his professional acting career at Pittsburgh Playhouse and the Rochester Arena Stage before finding success in television.

He served as SAG's 1st national vice-president for eight years and was the first western regional vice-president of Actors Equity Association.

Joseph Ruskin

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A man leads his horse as he walks past a message left by a visitor on New Year's Eve, along Karachi's Clifton Beach December 31, 2013.
Photo by Athar Hussain

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