Marc Dion: The Kindness of Strangers (Creators Syndicate)
I read a letter to the editor in a newspaper the other day. The woman who wrote it had been standing in line at a dollar store with her two young daughters. She checked out and discovered there was less money on her debit card than she had thought. She couldn't pay. And the guy behind her covered it for her, about $20 worth.
Paul Krugman: Kick That Can (New York Times)
Realistically, we're not going to resolve our long-run fiscal issues any time soon, which is O.K. - not ideal, but nothing terrible will happen if we don't fix everything this year. Meanwhile, we face the imminent threat of severe economic damage from short-term spending cuts.
Lawrence Donegen: "Susan Sarandon: ping-pong queen" (Guardian)
The hardest thing about playing ping pong against Susan Sarandon is playing against Susan Sarandon. It's distracting to look across the table and see your defensive block being swiped at by a Hollywood icon, a woman who by the compartmentalised standards of modern celebrity life has "done it all" - actor, activist, lover, mother, model, feminist, fearless campaigner on behalf of the dispossessed, easy target for America's right-wing bullies.
Lucy Mangen: Time's passing me by (Guardian)
Once you have a child, time loses all meaning. Apart, that is, from the giant rupture that divides life for ever more into the lazy, hazy, golden days of Ante-offspring and the bloodstained psychological battlefields of The Ever After.
Katie Hosmer: Casual Wardrobes Perfectly Blend Into the Background (My Modern Metropolis)
If you are the subject of photographer Bence Bakonyi's project, entitled "Transform," you'll find that blending into the background is a piece of cake. In the series, the Hungarian artist creates visually captivating and vibrant portraits in which his subjects become human chameleons. Coordinated wardrobes are purposefully matched to corresponding backdrops so that his subjects-all but the tops of their heads-fuse smoothly into each scene.
Morton Salt's hand-drawn logo features the "Morton Salt Girl," a young girl walking in the rain with an opened umbrella and scattering salt behind her from a cylindrical container of table salt, and is one of the ten best-known symbols in the United States. The company's logo (from 1914) and its motto, "When it rains it pours" (from 1911), were developed to illustrate the point that Morton Salt was free flowing even in rainy weather after the company began adding magnesium carbonate as an absorbing agent to its table salt in 1911 to ensure that it poured freely; calcium silicate is now used instead for the same purpose.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Morton Salt
Charlie said:
That would be Morton Salt, of course.
This gets the perfesser into science mode. There is an old Morton Salt mine 2000 feet below Lake Erie, east of Cleveland, that has featured in some cutting-edge physics research.
The Story of the Neutrino
mj wrote:
Suggesting that it wouldn't clump in humid conditions
That's Morton Salt, with the cute little girl with the umbrella.
Maurice responded:
Morton's Salt
STEPHEN F replied:
I will say it is Morton Salt Company
Adam answered:
Morton's Salt.
David L wrote:
Morton Salt.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Morton's Salt."
Marian replied:
Morton Salt
Jim from CA, retired to ID, is on vacation.
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
Leslie Salt is "when it rains, it pours. Big part of memories as a kid growing up in the East Bay area of SF Bay. The Leslie Salt Flats were located on the east side of the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge and are still operating in the West Bay We used to sneak out there and chase seagulls.
Sally said:
Morton Salt has used the motto "When it rains it pours" since 1911. '
When I was young, it was common to see people walking around with a goiter (growth on the thyroid). Them at some point the salt companies started adding iodine, and goiters were a thing of the past. But, then, the medical community decided that salt is BAD - and now the goiters are reappearing. The difference now is that you go to the doctor and he prescribes expensive medicine, treatment, and/or surgery. Makes me wonder...
Saskplanner replied:
Mortons salt?
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Morton Salt
BttbBob responded:
No need to look this one up... Morton Salt
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Speaking of salt -
The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit
"It is a world of salt. This gigantic salt mine, 1,200 feet beneath the surface, spreads out over more than 1,400 acres with 50 miles of roads. It lies underneath Dearborn's Rouge complex, much of Melvindale and the north end of Allen Park. The mine shaft opening is in Detroit. The International Salt Mine Company operated the mines until 1983..."
detnews.com | Michigan History
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"What the Hell was that!" Moment - Reading yesterday's link about shipwrecks in Lake Huron made me think of my running a CG boat in the Straits of Mackinac and unknowingly going over the wreck of the SS Cedarville, a 588 ft "Laker", which sank in 1965 after a fog bound collision with a "Salty" from Norway. The wreck lies in 110 ft of water (the captain tried beaching the ship, but didn't make it) and reaches up to within 35 feet of the surface. When we passed overtop the wreck the fathometer jumped from over 100 ft deep to about 40, or so, and then back down again. Startled, I checked the chart and it showed a wreck site. It was the 'Cedarville', much to my surprise, I later learned... SS Cedarville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deborah, one of my FB pals, replied:
That would be Morton Salt, which features a girl under an umbrella pouring salt out of a container as she walks in the rain – a great label.
And, Joe S answered:
That is the motto of the Morton Salt, one of the largest employers in Manistee. Funny you should bring this up at this time.
Fire rips through Morton Salt plant in Manistee
Back in the late '40s my father was the welder on the crew that built a giant smokestack at Morton Salt. It was huge and could be seen for miles around, it was a landmark available to guide you back to Manistee should you get lost. It no longer exists, demolished and replaced with something more modern and less visible.
Located in northwestern Lake Huron, Thunder Bay is adjacent to one of the most treacherous stretches of water within the Great Lakes system. Unpredictable weather, murky fog banks, sudden gales, and rocky shoals earned the area the name "Shipwreck Alley." Today, the 448-square-mile Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary protects one of America's best-preserved and nationally-significant collections of shipwrecks. Fire, ice, collisions, and storms have claimed over 200 vessels in and around Thunder Bay. To date, more than 50 shipwrecks have been discovered within the sanctuary and an additional 30 wrecks have been located outside of the sanctuary boundaries. Although the sheer number of shipwrecks is impressive, it is the range of vessel types located in the sanctuary that makes the collection nationally significant. From an 1844 sidewheel steamer to a modern 500-foot-long German freighter, the shipwrecks of Thunder Bay represent a microcosm of maritime commerce...
I know this area extremely well - from placing a 'Wreck Buoy (lighted)' near the mentioned German freighter, the Nordmeer - which is still partially exposed, as a deck seaman on the CGC Bramble to later working on Lighthouses on Thunder Bay and Middle Islands. This preserve is a diver's delight and has guided tours aboard glass-bottom boats. Even Jacques Cousteau's son has a link to it...
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a FRESH'Rules Of Engagement', then a FRESH'2 Broke Girls', followed by a FRESH'Mike & Molly', then a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Bill O'Really, a Top Ten List presented by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue models, and the Avett Brothers.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julie Andrews and Grace Park.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'Deception'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are James Spader, Lior Suchard, and Far East Movement.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are John Goodman, Carmelo Anthony, and Gary Allan.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly it's TBA.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Mindy Kaling, Carl Reiner, and Family of the Year.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Carrie Diaries', followed by a FRESH'90210'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'The Following'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights', followed by the movie 'Happy Gilmore'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] ANIMALS: INSIDE THE WOMB
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 11 - Ep 1 - Cate Blanchett, Ewan McGregor, Michael Sheen, Matt Lucas, Keane
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Doctor's Daughter
[11:00AM] PRIMEVAL - Season 4 - Episode 1
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Kingston Cafe
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 13 - Ultimate Slow Cooking
[1:30PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 14 - Slow Cooked Favourites
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Glass House
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 3
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 4
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 1
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 2 NEW
[10:20PM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 1 - Episode 1 NEW
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 1
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 19 - Episode 2
[1:20AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 1 - Episode 1
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 2
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 3
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 4 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives of Atlanta', 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', then a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', 'Brickleberry', and 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is George "Judas" Stephanopoulos.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Garry Wills.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Live Free Or Die Hard'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a (F) 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Gate
[7:45AM] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
[9:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[9:45AM] Frailty
[12:00PM] The Gate
[1:45PM] The Thing
[4:00PM] Cursed
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Tiki Lounge
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Ida Loses a Leg
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Chad's Sleepover
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-No Motorcycles
[8:00PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[10:15PM] Charlie Wilson's War
[12:15AM] Friday the 13th Part VII -- The New Blood
[2:15AM] Charlie Wilson's War
[4:15AM] Portlandia-Soft Opening
[4:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:00AM] Undeclared-Eric Visits Again
[5:30AM] Undeclared-Parents' Weekend (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Discos and Dragons (Episode 18, Season 1)
[7:00A] Looking for Richard
[9:00A] The Restless
[10:45A] A Year Ago in Winter
[1:00P] Looking for Richard
[3:00P] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comedian Tig Notaro & Parenthood's Jason Ritter (Episode 4, Season 2)
[3:45P] Holy Rollers
[5:30P] Lions for Lambs
[10:00P] THE STAIRCASE - The Prosecution's Revenge (Episode 6, Season 1)
[11:00P] Boy A
[1:00A] THE STAIRCASE - The Prosecution's Revenge (Episode 6, Season 1)
[2:00A] Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
[4:00A] Stolen (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Continuum', followed by a FRESH'Continuum', then a FRESH'Being Human', followed by a FRESH'Lost Girl'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Don Cheadle, Bill Burr, and Ed Sheeran.
Ben Affleck (R), George Clooney (L) and Grant Heslvov celebrate after winning the Award for Best Film for the movie "Argo" at the British Academy of Film and Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London February 10, 2013.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
A room full of engineers, computer whizzes and technicians brought the crew of the Starship Enterprisedown to Earth for a night at the Sci-Tech Oscars.
Zoe Saldana and Chris Pine hosted the annual awards dinner in which the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences beams its spotlight on the latter half of its name.
Pine and Saldana took turns attempting to describe technical accomplishments like "pose space deformation" and "wavelet turbulence." Pine allowed that one software innovation was too complex for "dumb actors" to fully comprehend.
It was a mostly rare brush with Hollywood glitz for the 26 men who received plaques, certificates and one statuette on a stage adorned with four large Oscar statues.
Actor Chris Pine, left, and actress Zoe Saldana arrives at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Scientific and Technical Awards at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Winners of the 2013 British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday:
Film - "Argo"
British Film - "Skyfall"
Director - Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln."
Actress - Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"
A man who died last summer willed his estate to two actors he never met, leaving them an estimated half a million dollars each.
Ray Fulk was 71 when he died last July. He lived alone on a 160-acre property in Lincoln, Ill. that he inherited from his father. He had no family or children.
What Fulk did have, though, was an admiration for actors Kevin Brophy and Peter Barton, whom he had never met. He admired them so much that he left his estate to be split between them.
Barton is known for his role as Dr. Scott Grainger in the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" from 1987 to 1993.
Brophy was in the 1977 show "Lucan." Fulk had a poster from the show on the wall of his house, according to the State Journal-Register.
Dr. John accepts the Grammy award for Best Blues Album for "Locked Down" at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, February 10, 2013.
Photo by Mike Blake
The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa's capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat.
Some people wore Viking hats and others walked around with makeshift snouts for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. The annual event featured more than 10,000 pounds of bacon served in unusual ways, such as chocolate-dipped bacon and bacon-flavored cupcakes and gelato.
And there was a lot of bacon to choose from. The smell of unique concoctions like bacon gumbo and chocolate bacon bourbon tarts wafted through one of two buildings at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. The other building had an Iceland theme, with a Viking boat and Icelandic dishes with bacon, to honor a group of delegates visiting from the country.
Festival co-founder Brooks Reynolds, who officially started the event just a few years ago, said it's become the largest bacon showcase in the world. He called the event a "bacon fellowship."
Three people have been killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash in a rural area of northern Los Angeles County while filming for a reality TV show.
Los Angeles County Fire dispatcher Robert Diaz said the crash occurred about 3:40 a.m. Sunday at the Polsa Rosa Ranch in Action. The ranch has been used as a film location.
Philip Sokoloski, a spokesman for FilmL.A., which processes filming permits for location shootings in the Los Angeles region, said a production company had been approved to use a helicopter for a reality TV show. The shoot was scheduled to go from Saturday afternoon into Saturday night.
Permit paperwork shows Bongo, Inc. was working on an untitled military-theme TV program. Records also show Crossbow Helicopters received approval to participate in filming from the Federal Aviation Administration.
According to its website, Polsa Rosa is a "movie ranch" where film crews can utilize a variety of terrains as well as two airstrips. The ranch, according to the Internet Movie Database, was used in "Windtalkers" and last year's remake of "Red Dawn."
Christoph Waltz celebrates after winning the Best Supporting Actor award for "Django Unchained" at the British Academy of Film and Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London February 10, 2013.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
Hollywood action star Steven Seagal has a few choice words for critics of his latest role.
On Saturday, the actor and martial arts expert guided members of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer posse through a simulated school shooting. Members of the volunteer posse, some of them armed, began patrolling areas surrounding schools in Arizona's most populous county, Maricopa, which includes Phoenix, in January.
Seagal's involvement was called a "mockery" by an Arizona state legislator, while a group of protesters also voiced their concern over Arpaio's school posse protection plan.
"Anybody who has criticized me or the sheriff for standing up to help the children, in my opinion, is an embarrassment to the human race," Seagal told reporters on Saturday.
Lisa Parker, left, and director Alan Parker arrive for the BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Opera House on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in London. Alan Parker, who has directed films including "Evita," "Bugsy Malone" and "Mississippi Burning," will be honored with the Bafta Fellowship award.
Photo by Jonathan Short
Egypt's prime minister faces accusations of being out of touch with the country's crisis after televised comments blaming rural infant sickness on mothers not washing their breasts.
Hisham Kandil, a former irrigation minister widely seen as a stolid technocrat, was speaking at a meeting with journalists broadcast on state television this week when he veered into a ramble on the "miseries" of life in rural Egypt.
"In my work, I've gone around the countryside," he said. "There are villages in Egypt, in the 21st century, where children get diarrhoea ... because the mothers who nurse them, out of ignorance, do not maintain personal cleanliness of their breasts."
Recalling a visit to the Beni Suef area south of Cairo in 2004, he spoke of the dire conditions of village life. "There's no water, there's no sewerage," he said. "The men go to the mosque ... the women go down to the fields and get raped."
His remarks unleashed a storm of criticism, much of it reflecting a sense of economic and political malaise that has settled over the country since an uprising two years ago that toppled veteran autocratic President Hosni Mubarak.
A homemade mask of West Virginia's late U.S. senator, Robert C. Byrd, sits in the store and mask museum in Helvetia, W.Va., on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, where revelers were celebrating the annual Fasnacht festival.
Photo by Vicki Smith
In a chilling case report, doctors in Turkey have described what they claim to be a real-life vampire with multiple personalities and an addiction to drinking blood.
The 23-year-old married man apparently started out slicing his own arms, chest and belly with razor blades, letting the blood drip into a cup so he could drink it. But when he experienced compulsions to drink blood "as urgent as breathing," he started turning to other sources, the doctors said.
The man, whose name and hometown were not revealed in the report, was arrested several times after stabbing and biting others to collect and drink their blood. He apparently even got his father to get him bags of the ghastly drink from blood banks, according to the report released today (Feb. 8) by the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. The case study was published last fall.
The doctors said they found traumatic events in the man's life leading up to his two-year bloodsucking phase. His 4-month-old daughter became ill and died; he witnessed the murder of his uncle; and he saw another violent killing in which "one of his friends cut off the victim's head and penis," the researchers write in the journal article.
Canoeists compete during the Quebec Winter Carnival ice canoe race on the St. Lawrence river in Quebec City, February 10, 2013.
Photo by Mathieu Belanger
Pablo Picasso, famous for pushing the boundaries of art with cubism, also broke with convention when it came to paint, new research shows. X-ray analysis of some of the painter's masterworks solves a long-standing mystery about the type of paint the artist used on his canvases, revealing it to be basic house paint.
Art scholars had long suspected Picasso was one of the first master artists to employ house paint, rather than traditional artists' paint, to achieve a glossy style that hid brush marks. There was no absolute confirmation of this, however, until now.
Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill., trained their hard X-ray nanoprobe at Picasso's painting "The Red Armchair," completed in 1931, which they borrowed from the Art Institute of Chicago. The nanoprobe instrument can "see" details down to the level of individual pigment particles, revealing the arrangement of particular chemical elements in the paint.
The analysis showed that Picasso used enamel paint that matches the precise chemical composition of the first brand of commercial house paint, called Ripolin. The researchers were able to compare the painting's pigment with those of paints available at the time by analyzing decades-old paint samples bought on eBay.
What's more, the detailed study, which used X-rays to probe the painting's pigment down to the scale of 30 nanometers (a sheet of copier paper is 100,000 nanometers thick), was able to pinpoint the manufacturing region where the paint was made by studying its particular impurities.
"Naga" sadhus or Hindu naked holy men from the Niranjani "Akhada" or sect, take out a procession to take a ritual dip at "Sangam," the confluence of Hindu holy rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, during the Maha Kumbh festival at Allahabad, India, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. Millions of devout Hindus and thousands of Hindu holy men are expected to take a dip at Sangam on Sunday, the most auspicious day according to the alignment of stars, for the entire duration of Maha Kumbh festival, which lasts for 55 days.
Photo by Saurabh Das
Venezuela might have the world's cheapest gas. But if you are heading through a McDonald's drive-thru, don't expect the same deal: It's got the most expensive Big Mac in the world.
The Economist's most recent "Big Mac" index shows that the McDonald's trademark will run you just over $9 in Venezuela, whose capital city Caracas now also ranks among the top 10 most expensive in the world, according to the Economist's cost of living index. It's the only city in the Americas to land in the top 10, sandwiched between Paris and Geneva.
Of course, as the Economist points out, cost calculations in the birthplace of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution" are inflated. They are made using the country's currency controls, which peg the dollar at about a quarter of its street value.
The survey admits that swapping greenbacks on the vast unregulated exchange market makes Venezuela's capital as cheap as Mumbai or Karachi, at the bottom of the list.
Drum Queen Viviane Araujo of the Salgueiro samba school participates on the first night of the annual carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome, February 10, 2013.
Photo by Pilar Olivares
"Identity Thief" has turned out to be the real thing at the North American box office.
The comedy starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy debuted at No. 1 with a $36.6 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The previous weekend's top movie, the zombie romance "Warm Bodies," fell to No. 2 with $11.5 million. That raises its domestic total to $36.7 million.
The weekend's other new wide release, Steven Soderbergh's thriller "Side Effects," had a modest opening of $10 million, coming in at No. 3.
Overall domestic revenues were down sharply from a year ago, when four movies had big openings - "The Vow," ''Safe House," ''Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" and a 3-D reissue of "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace."
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "Identity Thief," $36.6 million ($230,000 international).
2. "Warm Bodies," $11.5 million.
3. "Side Effects," $10 million.
4. "Silver Linings Playbook," $6.9 million.
5. "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," $5.8 million ($11.6 million international).
6. "Mama," $4.3 million ($6.1 million international).
7. "Zero Dark Thirty," $4 million.
8. "Argo," $2.5 million.
9. "Django Unchained," $2.3 million.
10. "Bullet to the Head," $2 million.
Dancers perform a fire dragon dance in the shower of molten iron spewing firework-like sparks during a folk art performance to celebrate traditional Chinese Spring Festival at an amusement park in Beijing February 10, 2013. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begun on February 10 and marked the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
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