Bartcop Entertainment - Wednesday, 13 August, 2003

Wednesday

13 August, 2003

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Bonus Issue

Disinfotainment Today

By Michael Dare

presents
Inside/Outside
Who's in jail but belongs out?
Who's out of jail but belongs in?
by Billy Hayes

 
 
INSIDE
Bill & Peggy Riddick
 
Charge: Marijuana Cultivation

Sentence: After 5 years of trials and staggering legal fees, they were sentenced to 30 months federal prison.
 
Bill and Peggy were hard-working grandparents, with no criminal records, who had raised their now-adult kids in a rural home in Placerville. Their property was blessed, they said, and their garden had always provided ample fruits and vegetables for the family. They were loved by their neighbors and a group often gathered on the huge flat rock in the trees behind their house to light candles and meditate as the sun went down. After the passage of Prop 215, they met with Dennis Perone, and while not smoking pot themselves, they agreed to grow plants for his S.F. Cannabis Club.  This would supplement their Social Security income and help those suffering from AIDS and cancer. And since Prop 215 had passed, they knew there wouldn't be any legal problems.
 
Except that a friend of the Riddick's kids, who did smoke pot, got busted and decided to turn State's evidence. On Valentine's Day, 1997, with a hundred plants growing in a shed behind the Riddick house, a squad of Sheriff's deputies stormed onto their property, broke in without a warrant, handcuffed them and proceeded to systematically ransack their home. They remained cuffed for six hours while the police went back for their warrant. They were held for a month in Placer jail, released, then immediately picked up by Federal authorities and moved to Sacramento County Jail. Judge Garland E. Burrell set bail at $1,500,000 for Bill and $1,000,000 for Peggy. When a motion was presented protesting the warrantless bust, Judge Burrell said, "I don't even read these things." When Judge Burrell abruptly left to take on the Unibomber case, a magistrate lowered their bail and three local families put their own homes up as collateral to get the Riddick's released.
 
Their court battle lasted for five years, during which time Bill had open heart surgery and Peggy had a hysterectomy. They also supported others with similar charges and were often in court with them as well. When they were finally sentenced in 2002, their home was taken by the government and sold within two weeks. The Riddick's were placed in separate prisons and forbidden to write to each other--to avoid felonious conspiracy, no doubt. They are scheduled for release around Christmas, 2004.  They have no home, no savings, and have lost their Social Security.
 
These people should be Outside.

 
OUTSIDE
Judge Garland Burrell Jr.
 
 

When Garland Burrell worked for the Sacramento city attorney's office, he defended the police department, sued several local bookstores under an anti-smut ordinance, and supervised litigation aimed at drug abatement. He also defended the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in a civil rights case over illegal searches.
 
It was Judge Garland Burrell, the first African-American federal judge in Sacramento, who presided over the trail of B.E. Smith, the first California medical marijuana patient to be tried and convicted under federal law since California voters passed Prop. 215 in 1996. Smith, a Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, claimed his 87 plant marijuana crop was for his medical use and thus protected under state law. He notified state and federal authorities that he was growing the plants. When state authorities declined to bring charges, the federal prosecutor initiated prosecution.
 
Early in the trial, Burrell granted a motion by the prosecutor to ban any defense testimony regarding either state law or the medical properties of marijuana. At sentencing Judge Burrell handed down a sentence of 27 months in prison, the top of federal sentencing guidelines range, citing what he called Smith's "utter disdain for federal marijuana law." Calling Smith "beyond rehabilitation," Judge Burrell handed him a longer sentence than prosecutors had recommended. 
 
Burrell was quoted as blaming Smith for "the great evil that marijuana causes throughout our nation." NORML Executive Director Keith Stroup said "It is a sad day when the federal government ignores the will of the citizens of California by prosecuting medical users."
 
Barred by Burrell from presenting any evidence regarding his medical condition or his use of marijuana to treat himself, Smith's defense was limited entirely to character witnesses. One of the witnesses, actor/activist Woody Harrelson, drew the judge's ire when answering an already sustained question about whether he was surprised to see Smith standing trial. "Certainly, for a medical marijuana case, I consider it odd," said Harrelson. When Burrell warned Harrelson to obey the rulings from the court, Harrelson replied, "I'm just wondering why you're keeping the truth from the jury." At that point, Burrell immediately sent the jury from the room and lectured Harrelson on a judge's rights to legally control the proceedings. "I didn't think you had much respect for the law", retorted Harrelson, who then asked Burrell how he slept at night.
 
How Judge Burrell sleeps is questionable, but where he sleeps--Outside and free--is a given. Perhaps Judge Burrell should spend the same amount of time behind bars as the people he has convicted for marijuana cases.
 
 

 
Billy Hayes is the author of Midnight Express. He has written the sequel book Midnight Return, and is currently co-producing the filmed version. He recently directed the feature film Cock & Bull Story, which is being distributed by Pantheon Entertainment.
 
 
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Weekly Review

HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW

August 12, 2003

Liberian civilians were starving in their homes as rebels and government fighters, some wearing women's wigs and blue painted toenails, continued to fight for control of Monrovia; a small number of Nigerian peacekeepers arrived in the country, and a United States official said that American forces would provide "communications assistance" to the peacekeepers and might even go ashore. President Charles Taylor resigned, blaming all his troubles on the United States, and compared himself to Jesus Christ; Vice President Moses Blah was sworn in as his successor.

Two workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory were accidentally exposed to plutonium, and the Army denied that depleted uranium was causing the mysterious outbreak of pneumonia among American soldiers in Iraq.

L. Paul Bremer, the American overseer of Iraq, said he thought the bombing was carried out by "outside" forces because he wasn't sure the "ex-regime people" who have been shooting U.S. soldiers had the know-how to make a car bomb.

Engineers from the Defense Intelligence Agency concluded that the mobile laboratories found in Iraq were probably used to make hydrogen for weather balloons, just as Iraqi scientists have claimed.

It was reported that Florida police are building an "antiterrorism" database called Matrix that will be used to detect patterns of suspicious activity among the citizenry; the system, which will be partially financed with federal funds, is remarkably similar to the Pentagon's Terrorist Information Awareness program.


Continued at  www.harpers.org/weekly-review

--Roger D. Hodge

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Reader Reading Suggestion

from Alex

Allison Hayward on California Recall on National Review Online


Thanks, Alex!

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Reader Comment

Republican Scam

I've figure out how the Republicans are raising so much money and actually not using their own money but ours! You see they got the big tax cut (our money) sent to them. Now they are giving it to Dubya for his campaign (tax deductible), so we pay for it again.

The Republicans screw us coming and going. I guess this is how they plan on stimulating the economy.

If they'd just take 10% and put it into something real like Medicare, veterans benefits, education, rebuilding the dilapidated public highways, you know, real stuff, they might actually do something productive! What do want from the people who tell you to volunteer until it hurts because it's good for America but then call you a bum because your not working for a living!

If you volunteer that means you DON'T get paid, stupid. You see, that's what I did while my kids were in school so I could be home when they were. I volunteered so much that I was never home and I spent thousands of dollars doing it.

But now I'm being called a lazy, good-for-nothing-bum. And since I have this large gap in my resume, I'm having trouble getting back in the work force. Republicans, I just love them.

JH


Thanks, JH!
The schools here would be massively screwed without volunteers, especially since republicans seem intent on destroying & dismantling what is left of the public system.
With the economy stinking, a lot of the usual volunteers are scrambling for jobs that pay.
Without our PTA volunteers, there'd be no scissors or kleenex in the classrooms, no construction paper or paste for the kindergarten, no book fair, no science fair, no field trips.
Hell, there wouldn't even be a library in the school - a lot were shut down for 'cost-cutting'. Most of the grade school teachers I've dealt with have spent thousands of their own dollars for books for their classrooms, and some have spent a lot more.
Know that you did right, and that if you'd been lazy, you'd know all the prices of products on 'The Price Is Right' or if you'd been good-for-nothing, you'd be dreaming of clearing brush in Crawford.
OTOH, at least we haven't had to listen to any '1000 points-of-light' crap - so far.

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Reader TV Suggestion

Re: I Love The 70's

After a fabulous summer of vegging out to "I Love the '80's" we have "I Love the '70's" coming up next Monday. We've thoroughly enjoyed the '80's and it's quite an addictive program. Here's the link

~~Heather


Thanks, Heather!

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Another too hot day, with too high humidity & crappy, chunky, foul-smelling air (yep, I'm cranky).

Have a new feature for the Thursday page - 'Hollywood Hustle' by The Artful Dodger. Check it out tomorrow!

So, I see where Petey Wilson is the co-chair of Ahhhnold's campaign. Why doesn't anyone point out how Wilson's shitty stewardship is responsible for Gray Davis' current situation? Petey was the great force behind the deregulation of energy while governor. Petey could visit with Dick Cheney during the fake energy crisis, while Gray couldn't get so much as a phone call returned.

Another thing that's annoying me is how not one talking head in the local media has had the courage to explain how mis-directed the recall is. That it's all been orchestrated by hate-radio. That the only malfeasance is 'consolidation' which has killed anything close to meaningful discourse. That when it's all over, more than $100 million will have been pissed away on this dog-and-pony show. That celebrity governors, congress critters & presidents have egos larger than their IQ's. Oh, and serial philandering is OK for republicans (Schwarzenegger, Guiliani, Gingrich...), but not really newsworthy.



Tonight, Wednesday, CBS begins the evening with '60 Minutes II', followed by a FRESH 'Big Brother', then '48 Hours'.
On a RERUN Dave are Kelly Ripa and Good Charlotte. (RERUNs all this week & next)
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Dakota Fanning, "CSI" executive producer/creator Anthony Zuiker, and Dido.

NBC opens the night with a FRESH 'Race To The Altar', followed by a RERUN 'West Wing', then a RERUN 'Boomtown'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Brittany Murphy and Wynonna.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Andy Richter, Mick Foley, and Marilyn Manson.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Roseanne Barr, Pharrell, Clipse, and N.E.R.D.

ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a RERUN 'George Lopez', then a FRESH 'The Real Roseanne', then a FRESH 'The Family'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Ashton Kutcher and Louie C.K., with this week's guest co-host Super Dave Osborne.

The WB offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Pepsi Smash'.

Faux has a RERUN 'That 70's Show', followed by a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Parasite Hotel'.

UPN has a RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by another RERUN 'Enterprise'.

A&E has 'Biography' (Liberace), 'American Justice', and 'Take This Job...'.

AMC offers the movie 'Rio Conchos', followed by the movie 'Gunfight At The O.K. Corral', then the movie 'Shane'.

BBC  -    [7pm] 'Ground Force' - Spalding;    [7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Weston Super Mare;    [8pm] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Southgate;    [8:30pm] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Harbourne;    [9pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 5;    [9:40pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 9;    [10:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 10;    [11pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Linda Hamilton;    [11:30pm] 'So Graham Norton' - Michael Learned, Trude Mostue;    [12am] 'My Hero' - Episode 5;    [12:40am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 9;    [1:20am] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 10;    [2am] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Southgate;    [2:30am] 'Homefront in the Garden' - Harbourne;    [3am] 'So Graham Norton' - Linda Hamilton;    and   [3:30am] 'So Graham Norton' - Michael Learned, Trude Mostue.     (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'West Wing', the movie 'Wag The Dog', then 'West Wing', followed by 'West Wing'.

Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Paul Giamatti.

History is all 'Modern Marvels' all night.

SciFi has 'Tracker', followed by the movie 'Cherry Falls'.

TCM pays a 24-hour tribute to Gary Cooper - damn, I love 'Sergeant York'!) and grab another hanky for 'Pride Of The Yankees'.
[6am] 'Operator 13' (1934);    [7:30am] 'It's A Big Country' (1951);    [9am] 'Saratoga Trunk' (1945);    [11:30am] 'Man Of The West' (1958);    [1:30pm] 'Along Came Jones' (1945);    [3pm] 'Vera Cruz' (1954);    [5pm] 'Task Force' (1949);    [7pm] 'Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend' (1991);    [8pm] 'The Pride Of The Yankees' (1942);    [10:15pm] 'Meet John Doe' (1941);    [12:30am] 'Sergeant York' (1941);    [3am] 'Return To Paradise' (1953);    and   [4:30am] 'One Sunday Afternoon' (1933).     (ALL TIMES EDT)


Thursday  -  8/14

TCM provides 24-hours of Charlton Heston.
[6am] 'Khartoum' (1966);    [9:30am] 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (1965);    [1:30pm] 'The Big Country' (1958);    [4:30pm] 'The Hawaiians' (1970);    [7:00pm] 'Private Screenings: Charlton Heston' (1998);    [8pm] 'Touch Of Evil' (1958) [also written & directed by Orson Welles];    [10pm] 'Ben-Hur' (1959);    [2am] 'Soylent Green' (1973);    and   [4am] 'Skyjacked' (1972).     (ALL TIMES EDT)



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A group of Girl Scouts ride the Log Jammer Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2003, during Girl Scouts Day at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pa. The gathering of Girl Scouts was used to unveil new 'girl-friendly' scientific signage called explanatoids on the popular water ride. The signs encourage riders, to figure out who in the log will get wettest. The program's goal is spark an interest in science and math among middle school age girls.
Photo by Gene J. Puskar

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Doesn't Mind Faux Lawsuit

Al Franken

Al Franken, the humorist being sued by Fox News Channel for use of the phrase "fair and balanced," said Tuesday he doesn't mind the legal action.

"I normally prefer not to be out of the country on vacation when I'm sued. However, from everything I know about law regarding satire, I'm not worried," Franken, who has not filed a response in court, said in a statement released Tuesday. He is vacationing in Italy.

In its court papers, Fox described the author and liberal commentator as "neither a journalist nor a television news personality. He is not a well-respected voice in American politics; rather, he appears to be shrill and unstable. His views lack any serious depth or insight."

Fox alleged that Franken was "either intoxicated or deranged" when he attacked the network and conservative host Bill O'Reilly at an April press correspondents dinner. The lawsuit also says that Franken has been described as "increasingly unfunny."

"As far as the personal attacks go," Franken responded, "when I read `intoxicated or deranged' and `shrill and unstable' in their complaint, I thought for a moment I was a Fox commentator.

Al Franken

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Likely to Be Kept Off Air

Arnold's Films

Arnold Schwarzenegger's foray into California's gubernatorial recall election poses a dilemma for broadcasters who might be tempted to show his films during the race: Doing so would allow rival candidates to demand equal time.

For that reason, broadcasters in California will likely not air Schwarzenegger movies such as "Total Recall" and the "Terminator" or a repeat of a "Diff'rent Strokes" episode with Gary Coleman for the next few months.

Cable channels are not covered by the Federal Communications Commission's equal-time provision, which in the past kept reruns of "Death Valley Days" off the air while Ronald Reagan ran for president. A repeat of a "Saturday Night Live" episode featuring Don Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci, on cable, for instance, would not trigger the provision.

Equal time is not automatic. Candidates must file a request within seven days, and the provision makes exceptions for appearances on news programs, interview programs such as "Meet the Press," documentaries or spot coverage of news events.

Arnold's Films

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The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel

Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

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Want Cable TV Re-Regulated

Consumer Groups

Four U.S. consumer advocacy groups said on Tuesday they will lobby Congress to reimpose regulation on cable television operators to stop them from gouging TV viewers and dominating the growing market for high-speed Internet service.

Cable companies have "flouted the intent of Congress" and "co-opted" federal regulators, said Jay Halfon, author of a report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) that concluded cable operators were reaping huge profits at the public's expense.

U.S. PIRG, CFA, The Center for Digital Democracy and the Media Access Project said at a news conference that the authority to oversee prices in the industry should go to state public utility commissions.

In December, regulators at the Federal Communications Commission said cable rates had risen 6.3 percent in the year ended June 2002, almost six times the rate of inflation.

Consumer Groups

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'Law & Order' Tribute Tonight

Gregory Hines

Gregory Hines' guest star appearance in a Johnny Cochran-like role on NBC's "Law & Order" will be rerun on Wednesday night as a tribute to the star who died over the weekend, the network said on Tuesday.

Hines, who died on Saturday from cancer, appears as a flashy defense attorney described as "Johnny Cochran without the rhyme" who manipulates the media in a case where a black teenager is charged with shooting a cop.

The episode ran originally on March 26.

Gregory Hines

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A still nameless baby giraffe stands in front of the giant legs of its mother Turkana in their enclosure in the zoo of the western German city of Duisburg on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2003. The 1.80 meter tall boy-giraffe, that has a weight of nearly 55 kilograms, was born on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2003.
Photo by Michael Sohn

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Chicago Tribune Salutes Author

Tom Wolfe

The Chicago Tribune has awarded its 2003 Literary Prize to Tom Wolfe for a lifetime of achievement.

The prize, announced Monday, goes to an author whose body of work has had a great impact on American society, according to the newspaper. Last year's winner was playwright Arthur Miller.

Wolfe, 72, is the author of numerous books, including "The Right Stuff," a nonfiction work about the U.S. manned space program, and the novels "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full."

Tom Wolfe

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Bogart & Bergman Families

'Casablanca' Anniversary

The families of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman gathered Monday for a 60th anniversary screening of "Casablanca" and laid to rest some myths about their parents' famous on-screen chemistry.

Bogart's wife, Lauren Bacall and their son Stephen Bogart joined Bergman's daughters, Pia Lindstrom, Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Rossellini for a special screening of a new 35mm print of the 1943 romantic classic at the Lincoln Center in New York.

"She didn't really get on with your father," Lindstrom observed to Stephen Bogart, who agreed that the relationship was purely that of two professional actors doing their jobs.

"In later years, my mother's eyes used to glaze over whenever someone mentioned Casablanca," Lindstrom recalled. "It really wasn't her favourite movie-making experience."

'Casablanca' Anniversary

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Trouble On The Set?

'Raymond'

Production on the eighth season of Everybody Loves Raymond started Monday with two actors MIA from the first table read.

Patricia Heaton called in sick, according to CBS, while Brad Garrett stayed away because his character, Robert Barone, isn't scheduled to appear in the season's first episode, reports Variety.

Sources say Garrett issued an ultimatum to the Eye network a few weeks ago, demanding a salary hike before he returned to work. The move came on the heels of his Emmy nomination and comments from CBS head honcho Les Moonves about a possible Robert Barone spinoff series.

The thesp, who's under contract through 2004, pulls in under $200,000 per episode, less than any of the other regular cast members.

'Raymond'

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Comedy Central Renews

Colin Quinn

It's a tough crowd, but Colin Quinn will be navigating it for at least another year.

Comedy Central announced Monday that it had renewed the comic's late-night show, "Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn," through the end of 2004.

Colin Quinn

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The giant plant sculpture titled, 'The Legend of Mother Earth,' is displayed at an international mosaiculture exhibit in downtown Montreal, August 12, 2003. The exhibit titled 'Myths and Legends,' features 60 sculptures from participants representing 32 countries.
Photo by Shaun Best

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Showcasing Independent Film

Tony Shalhoub

An independent film by Tony Shalhoub, who stars on the TV series "Monk," makes its Maine premiere on Wednesday.

Shalhoub, who won a Golden Globe Award for playing an obsessive-compulsive detective on the USA network series, stars with his wife Brooke Adams in "Made-Up."

Shalhoub, 49, said he and Adams decided to bring the film to Maine because of his long-term ties to the state. Shalhoub graduated from University of Southern Maine in 1977, began his acting career in Portland and spoke at the school's graduation in May.

"Made-Up" is billed as a "mockumentary" in which the story is seen through the eyes of a character who's making a documentary for her video class.

Tony Shalhoub

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Received Hollywood Star

Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner stars in the Western drama "Open Range," which opens Friday. But first, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

His star, the 2,233rd on the Walk of Fame, is outside the Kodak Theatre, which hosts the Academy Awards.

Kevin Costner

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Formerly 'The Vidiot'

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Olympic Daytime Host

Jim Lampley

As it gears up for coverage of next year's Summer Olympic Games in Athens, NBC on Tuesday named long-time sports broadcaster Jim Lampley the host of its daytime programming from the Greek capital.

Lampley's assignment will be his 12th at the Olympics, tying a broadcasting record, the network said. Pat O'Brien, currently a co-host on the nightly entertainment program "Access Hollywood" and also a veteran sports presenter, will host morning coverage on NBC's cable channel, Bravo.

The network has already tapped Bob Costas as its prime-time anchor and Keith Olbermann as host of its coverage on cable news channel MSNBC.

Jim Lampley

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Helps Prague Flood Victims

Sean Connery

Scottish film star Sean Connery attended a special screening of his latest film in Prague in aid of victims of the floods that swept the Czech Republic in August 2002.

Connery, most famous for playing James Bond, was filming "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in Prague when the worst floods in more than a century hit the 800-year-old city, forcing the evacuation of the hotel he was staying in.

After the screening, he and actress Peta Wilson were due to present former Czech president Vavlav Havel's Vision 97 foundation with a check of one million koruna (33,000 euros, 37,000 dollars) to help flood victims.

Sean Connery

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Dave Brown, president of the American Academy of Model Aeronautics, holds a model airplane called The Spirit of Butts Farm after its successful 1,888.3 mile (3,035.8 km) flight from Canada Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2003 near Marrin Beach in County Galway, Ireland. The plane, built by Maynard Hill, 77, of Silver Spring, Md. was lauched from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, 38 hours, 23 minutes before its landing in Ireland, and may set world records for distance traveled by a model airplane as well as duration of flight.
Photo by Tom Frawley

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Cried, Didn't Testify in Trial

Tom Sizemore

Actor Tom Sizemore sat at the defense table and cried as his lawyers concluded testimony in his abuse trial by showing a videotape of former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss declaring her love for him.

Sizemore, 41, who has appeared in "Black Hawk Down" and "Saving Private Ryan," declined to take the witness stand Monday.

He is charged with multiple counts including making about 100 harassing phone calls to Fleiss, vandalism, threatening to inflict injury to a person or property and corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition. He faces up to 13 years in prison if convicted of all the charges.

Tom Sizemore

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'Passion' Already Fueling Hatred

Rabbi Marvin Hier

Mel Gibson's new film "The Passion" has already unleashed a wave of anti-Semitism in the United States despite the fact that it won't be released for months, a Jewish leader said on Tuesday.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Reuters the Jewish human rights organization had received dozens of hate calls and letters prompted by a handful of private screenings and advance publicity about the movie.

Hier said the bigotry had already started, and that the Simon Wiesenthal Center had received hate mail from people who had seen or heard about the movie, and who accused Jews of killing God's son, praised Adolf Hitler and made veiled threats against the center and Jews collectively.

"Are there any manifestations of hate so far? The answer is an unequivocal yes," Hier said. "We have had hate mail in the past ... But never in spurts like this."

Rabbi Marvin Hier

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Decapitated

Ted Williams

Ted Williams was decapitated by surgeons at the cryonics company where his body is suspended in liquid nitrogen, and several samples of his DNA are missing, Sports Illustrated reported.

After Williams died July 5, 2002, his body was taken by private jet to Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, Williams' body was separated from his head in a procedure called neuroseparation, according to the magazine.

The operation was completed and Williams' head and body were preserved separately. The head is stored in a steel can filled with liquid nitrogen. It has been shaved, drilled with holes and accidentally cracked 10 times, the magazine said. Williams' body stands upright in a 9-foot tall cylindrical steel tank, also filled with liquid nitrogen.

The procedure, approved by Williams' son, John Henry, and daughter, Claudia, carries a $136,000 bill. Alcor claims it is still owed $111,000.

Ted Williams

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Was Murdered

Otzi, The Iceman

The 5,300-year-old "Iceman" discovered in 1991 in the Italian Alps was killed by one or more assailants in a fight that lasted at least two days, shows evidence obtained by sophisticated DNA testing and old-fashioned detective work.

Scientists initially presumed that the Stone Age Iceman, nicknamed Otzi, was caught in a storm and froze to death. But a new team said Monday that Otzi's case instead has become the world's oldest, and coldest, murder case.

"We've been working round the clock for the last three weeks to get these results," DNA specialist Thomas Loy of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, told USA TODAY Monday by phone from a laboratory in Bolanzo, Italy. "It was very exciting when the blood samples came back positive for human DNA from four separate individuals."

For more, Otzi, The Iceman

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An Echidna, native to Australia, walks past a kangaroo in Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Scientists say that the echidna, which has been called a 'freak of nature', has often been the victim of mistaken identity with the hedgehog and North American spiny porcupine but is in fact one of the world's clearest examples of Convergent evolution - the emergence of chance look-alikes.
Photo by David Gray

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'Ark of Darkness'

"The Ark of Darkness", a Political/Science-Fiction work, in tidy, weekly installments (and updated every Friday).

The Ark Group splits up. Steve returns to the bottom of hell, as the rest struggle through the storm raging at Kanda Feng.



Chapter 18 - Teleport


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