BartCop Entertainment Archives - Monday, 4 July, 2011

Monday

4 July, 2011

(Updated Daily)

[1440 days in a row]



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Minnesota GOP Forces Elimination of One of 'Twin Cities'


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Paul Krugman's Blog: Interest Rates: A Dowist Perspective (New York Times)
One of my principles of 21st-century public discourse is that nobody ever admits that they were wrong about anything.


Paul Krugman's Blog: Cash Is Not the Problem (New York Times)
So repeat after me: lack of cash at major corporations, both financial and nonfinancial, is not the problem with our economy. And showering more cash on these players will do nothing except, well, shower cash on these players.


Can The Police Search Your Digital Devices?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a "Know Your Rights" guide regarding police search and seizure of digital devices. Remember, law enforcement isn't allowed to search your phone or computer without a warrant, your permission, or solid reason to believe that they will find incriminating evidence. Most important, only a judge or a grand jury can pry your password from you, so set one and you're golden.


Marc Dion: "A Prayer Between the Crack Pipe and the Candles: For the Girls in Cleveland" (Creators Syndicate)
They're trying Anthony Sowell for killing 11 women, drug addicts lured to his home for a night of crack pipe partying, then smashed into nonexistence and left to lie like the thrown away furniture one sees through the windows of abandoned houses, where one last shred of lace curtain blows out of a broken window.


Jim Hightower: SCHICK GETS SCENTS-ITIVE
There has been some rude talk that American corporations just don't have the right stuff anymore, having become lazy oligarchs that have lost their innovative edge. Well, for those carping critics, I have three words that'll shut you up: "scented razor handles."


Mark Shields: Why The 2012 Conventional Wisdom Could Be Wrong (Creators Syndicate)
Since 1944, exactly one Democratic U.S. president has been re-elected to a second White House term. So when the one man who has accomplished that feat - Bill Clinton - says of the incumbent president, Barack Obama, "I'll be surprised if he's not re-elected," you know he's speaking as somebody who personally knows more than a little about the subject.


Kathy M. Kristof: Cramming, or placing bogus charges on phone bills, grows to epidemic proportions (LA Times)
It's time to check your phone bill for unauthorized charges. Only 1 in 20 victims of cramming realize it, according to an FCC study.


Emine Saner: The wisdom of Sarah Ferguson (Guardian)
The Duchess of York's new book has some useful advice for even the lowliest British subject. … "You have to choose the kind of day you want." Easy. I want the kind of day where I get to snark about someone who seems quite well-meaning, even if she says things such as "after I'm gone, people will know that I dedicated my life to children's causes" and "I am special and unique . . . loving, caring and sooo [sic] funny".


Zoe Williams: Feminism in the 21st century (Guardian)
Caitlin Moran writes about her body, Rachel Cusk dissects the aftermath of her divorce and Sylvia Walby addresses 'raunch culture'. What do their books reveal about feminism today?


Michael Lewis: A Good Joke Spoiled (TNR)
It is hard to think of another writer as great as Mark Twain who did so many things that even merely good writers are not supposed to do. Great writers are not meant to write bad books, much less publish them. Twain not only published a lot of bad books, he doesn't appear to have noticed the difference between his good ones and his bad ones.



David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."


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Trivia Question of the Day


What TV show's theme starts with:
     Mister Trouble never hangs around
     When he hears this mighty sound.


                                  



Send your answer to Marty







Trivia Question from Yesterday


What TV show's theme starts with:
     There's a man who leads a life of danger.
     To everyone he meets he stays a stranger.


   "Secret Agent" ("Danger Man")                                                      Source




     There's a man who leads a life of danger.
     To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
     With every move he makes,
     Another chance he takes.
     Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow.

     Secret Agent Man.
     Secret Agent Man.
     They've given you a number.
     And taken away your name.

     Beware of pretty faces that you find.
     A pretty face may hide an evil mind.
     Ooh be careful what you say.
     Or you give yourself away.
     Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.

     Secret Agent Man.
     Secret Agent Man.
     They've given you a number.
     And taken away your name.

     Swinging on the Riviera one day
     Layin' in a Bombay alley the next.
     Oh don't let the wrong word slip.
     While kissin persuasive lips.
     Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.

     Secret Agent Man.
     Secret Agent Man.
     They've given you a number.
     And taken away your name.
       Source

Danger Man (titled Secret Agent, Destination Danger and John Drake in non-UK markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

It is debated by Prisoner fans whether or not John Drake of Danger Man and Number Six in The Prisoner are the same person.[7] Like John Drake, Number Six is evidently a secret agent, but one who has resigned from his job. Moreover, in the surreal Prisoner episode "The Girl Who Was Death", Number Six meets "Potter", John Drake's Danger Man contact. Christopher Benjamin portrayed the character in both series. As has been previously stated, "The Girl Who Was Death" was an adaptation of an unused Danger Man script. Also as well as guest-starring in this show, Paul Eddington played another spy and No.6's former colleague, Cobb, in the opening episode of the latter show.

The first Danger Man series includes four episodes which use footage filmed in the Welsh resort of Portmeirion, which later became the primary shooting location of The Prisoner. This dramatic overlapping is complicated by reference books such as Vincent Terrace's The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs 1947-1979 referring to The Prisoner as a Danger Man continuation. Terrace postulates that John Drake's resignation reason is revealed in the "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling" episode, which is a follow-up to a mission assigned to Number Six before he was sent to The Village. Richard Meyers makes the same claim in his 1981 book, TV Detectives. He further states that this connects directly to "an episode of Secret Agent never shown in this country [i.e., the United States] with John Drake investigating the story of a brain transferral device in Europe".; however no such episode of Danger Man was ever made. McGoohan, however, stated in a 1985 interview that two characters were not the same, and that he had originally wanted a different actor to play the role of No.6.        Source

"Secret Agent Man" is a song written by Steve Barri and P. F. Sloan. The most famous recording of the song was made by Johnny Rivers for the opening titles of the American broadcast of the British spy series Danger Man, which aired in the U.S. as "Secret Agent" from 1964 to 1966. The song itself peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.        Source







Charlie was first, and correct, with:
   Secret Agent, the US title of the British show Danger Man.




mj said:
   It had two titles
  In the UK it was Danger Man. Here, it was Secret Agent. It starred the incredible Patrick McGoohan. The bizarre and somewhat freaky Prisoner seemed to be a follow on. The Village still freaks me out.




Marian wrote:
   Secret Agent



Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
   Secret Agent Man



Alan J replied:
   Secret Agent Man



STEPHEN F answered:
   Secret Agent Man is the song.Emily Litella would probably refer to the song as Secret Asian Man.



BttbB wrote:
   The American broadcast of the British spy series Danger Man, which aired in the U.S. as "Secret Agent" from 1964 to 1966... Patrick McGoohan was featured as 'John Drake' an agent for a Washington DC based intelligence organization that worked on the behalf of NATO... I remember it well and watched it without fail... I've been a McGoohan fan for years and loved his role as Edward 'Longshanks' the First in 'Braveheart'. "Arrows cost money... The dead cost nothing." he cynically told a minion after he ordered a mass charge of infantry against the Scots instead of an archery barrage. A classic line...



Adam answered:
   It's a song called 'Secret Agent Man' and it might have been attached to the American broadcast of Patrick McGoohan's Dangerman/Secret Agent, but it wasn't written for the show.



Sally said:
   HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, ALL YOU ALL!!
  "There's a man who leads a life of danger.
  To everyone he meets he stays a stranger..."
  "Secret Agent Man!"

  Don't remember his name, but do remember the look...
  PS: In thinking about all these old shows, that made TV great (not the groody, 'Reality' shows that are so cheap to produce these days), I am sad to report the demise of my sub-channel 2 shows, HOT TV, and Retro TV respectively. I had found them when re-scanning my digital box (as suggested by the manufacture to do every few months) and was very pleased with them. Then, one day a few weeks later, the channels went blank (no test pattern or anything), so I re-scanned. Sad to say, now the stations, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, are just gone...
  For those of you who don't have a clue about 'digital boxes,' we 5 or 10 people in the US who do not have cable TV, were FORCED to buy them in order to receive network TV (non-cable) about a year ago. I personally prefer analogue TV, the sound is better, and the picture doesn't suddenly 'marbleize' for God knows what reason... I think it is the Cable Gods trying to force us to buy their TV services... Bah humbug! IAC, guess I will have to settle for my Antenna TV which is good too!




George M replied:
   Marty, I know those two lines - they're from "Secret Agent Man", by Johnny Rivers, which was the theme song to the television series, "Secret Agent", starring Patrick McGoohan. Of course, there is one line in the refrain of the song which was telling - "They've given you a number and taken away your name", which was telling because Patrick's next series involved just that - his next series was "The Prisoner".



Ann & Tom responded:
   The answer is "Secret Agent man".



DanD wrote:
   Music that Bush-2 grew up to believe in
  Secret Agent (aka known as Danger) Man.




Steven B answered:
   That would be Secret Agent Man starring Patrick McGoohan who later became The Prisoner. The show also had an incarnation titled Danger Man but I forget which came first and don't care enough to look it up.



Ed K (The Thalia Street Gallery) wrote:
   The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite?



John I from Hawaii says:
   "Secret Agent Man."



Redlake replied:
   Ooh! Ooh! I know!
  Oddly enough, it was "Secret Agent," unless you were in the UK, where it was "Danger Man." Patrick McGoohan played the Irish-American-sometimes-British semi-independent agent John Drake (the situation shifts around somewhat, but it's secret, right?).
  McGoohan later starred in the perfect TV series "The Prisoner," which was "Secret Agent on Acid."




MAM   wrote:
   "Secret Agent" from 1964 to 1966. I don't remember this at all!

  Secret Agent Man Intro Theme Song




wirething answered:
   secret agent man
  with Patrick McGowan?




Litebug said:
   There's a man who leads a life of danger.
  To everyone he meets he stays a stranger.
  With every breath he takes, another chance he takes.
  Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow.
  SECRET AGENT Man. SECRET AGENT Man.
  They've given you a number, and taken away your name.




And, Joe S     replied:
   Danger Man



  





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Killer Stars

From the ' As if I don't have enough to worry about' File...


Killer stars from deep black space threaten Earth - English pravda.ru

Outer space poses a threat to the Solar System. This time it was declared not by homegrown advocates of the near doomsday, but solid astrophysicists. Earlier this year the 217th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society was held in Seattle where the most dangerous objects for our planet were named.

With the help of The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, researchers have compiled a list of stars that may represent a potential threat to Earth, for example, by approaching the Sun and impacting objects around it.

It turned out that of the 40,000 red dwarfs (objects of this class are most common in the universe) nearest to us, 18 are quite capable of "attacking" the solar system...
Ye Gods and little fishes! It's always sumpthin', ya know? Now it's 'attacking' red dwarf stars! What next? Oh, yeah... This...

... the Oort cloud, a giant bubble containing billions of ice and rock boulders. Researchers believe that these objects are constantly circulating through the solar system as comets, leaving deep craters when coming into contact with planets. They fell on Earth as well...
Great... Just frickin' great... Ice boulders fallin' from the sky... I recently put my new grill out on the deck and now this. I'm bummin', I'm tellin' ya...


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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

THE FOUNDING RASCALS!

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GREEDY RIGHT WING SCUM OWN AMERICA!

"DEATH TO AMERICA!" COURTESY OF EXXON

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO QUANTIFY THE DEGREE OF STUPID THAT CRAZY EYES REPRESENTS

JUDGE PROSTITUTE MUST GO!

ENJOY YOUR PLUTOCRACY SUCKERS!

STOP THE EVIL. NO NUKES!

HAVE GREAT DEPENDENCE DAY!

IS AMERICA NECESSARY?

HOW TO KILL OFF CHARLIE SHEEN! THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT.

THE VAMPIRE SQUID IS ALIVE AND WELL AND READY TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! HAPPY DEPENDENCE DAY

WHAT, ME WORRY!

NYT SUCKS!

CHARLIE SHEEN AND LINDSEY LOHAN VISIT CANADA!

ZEN MASTER "BUCK." LIVING IN THE MOMENT OF THE HORSE. DON'T MISS IT!

RICK PERRY HATES WOMEN!

MADE IN CHINA



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Lovely marine layer rolled in.



Tonight, Monday:

CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN 'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN '2½ Men', followed by a RERUN 'Mike & Molly-, then the FRESH 'The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 6/25/10) are Jay-Z and Eminem.
On a RERUN Craig (from 4/6/11) are Ellen Page and Marc Maron.



NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'America's Got Talent', followed by the FRESH 'The 35th Annual Macy's Fourth Of July Fireworks Spectacular'.
On a RERUN Leno are Jack Black, Mike Huckabee, and Parachute.
On a RERUN Jimmy Fallon (from 5/27/11) are John Rich, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Marcela Valladolid.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/23/11) are Ben Schwartz, Duncan Jones, and Biffy Clyro.



ABC starts the night with a FRESH 'Bachelorette', followed by a RERUN 'Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 6/15/11) are Gordon Ramsay, Mike O'Malley, and Hanson.



The CW offers a RERUN '90210', followed by a RERUN 'Gossip Girl'.



Faux has a RERUN 'MasterChef', followed by a RERUN 'House'.



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



A&E has 'Hoarders', another 'Hoarders', followed by a FRESH 'Hoarders', then a FRESH 'Intervention'.



AMC offers the movie 'Rocky II', followed by the movie 'Rocky III', then the movie 'Rocky IV'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00 AM]   BBC World News
 [7:00 AM]   BBC World News
 [8:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 1
 [9:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 2
 [10:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 3
 [11:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 4
 [12:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 5
 [1:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 6
 [2:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 7
 [3:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 1
 [4:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 2
 [5:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 3
 [6:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 4
 [7:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 5
 [8:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 6
 [9:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 1
 [10:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 2
 [11:00 PM]   Top Gear - Episode 3
 [12:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 4
 [1:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 5
 [2:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 6
 [3:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 1
 [4:00 AM]   Top Gear - Episode 2
 [5:00 AM]   BBC World News     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', still another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', and 'Real Housewives Of NJ'.



Comedy Central has the movie 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For The Road', 'Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', still another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', and yet another 'it's Always Sunny In Philly'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted
Colbert Report is pre-empted



FX has the movie 'Ghost Rider', followed by the movie 'Eagle', then the movie 'Eagle Eye', again.



History has 'How The States Got Their Shapes, 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00 AM]   Trail of the Screaming Forehead
 [7:45 AM]   Trust the Man
 [10:00 AM]   Freaks and Geeks
 [11:00 AM]   Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings
 [11:30 AM]   Young Broke and Beautiful
 [12:00 PM]   Bollywood Hero
 [1:15 PM]   Bollywood Hero
 [2:30 PM]   Bollywood Hero
 [3:45 PM]   Trust the Man
 [6:00 PM]   Freaks and Geeks
 [7:00 PM]   Undeclared
 [7:30 PM]   The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [8:00 PM]   Thirteen
 [10:15 PM]   Edmond
 [12:00 AM]   Thirteen
 [2:15 AM]   Carrie
 [4:30 AM]   The Whitest Kids U'Know
 [5:00 AM]   Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings
 [5:30 AM]   Young Broke and Beautiful     (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [8:00 AM]   Police, Adjective
 [10:00 AM]   Love Lust & Little Black Dress
 [11:00 AM]   Love Lust & the Bikini
 [12:00 PM]   Love Lust & Heels
 [1:00 PM]   Love Lust & Makeup
 [2:00 PM]   Love Lust & Street Eats
 [3:00 PM]   Love Lust & Sex Symbols
 [4:00 PM]   Love Lust & The Social Network
 [5:00 PM]   Love Lust & The Undead
 [6:00 PM]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - The Substitute (Episode 6, Season 1)
 [7:00 PM]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Why Jordan Can't Read (Episode 7, Season 1)
 [8:00 PM]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Strangers in the House (Episode 8, Season 1)
 [9:00 PM]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Halloween (Episode 9, Season 1)
 [10:00 PM]   MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Other People's Mothers (Episode 10, Season 1)
 [12:00 AM]   ALL ON THE LINE - Dana-Maxx (Episode 5, Season 1)
 [1:00 AM]   Love Lust & The Undead
 [2:00 AM]   Life In Flight
 [3:20 AM]   Police, Adjective
 [5:15 AM]   Know Your Mushrooms    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy continues with the traditional 'Twilight Zone' marathon.



TBS:
On a RERUN Conan (from 12/9/10) are Sarah Silverman, Dr. Michio Kaku, and She & Him.
On a RERUN Lopez Tonight (from 5/18/11) are Will Ferrell, Niecy Nash, and Sheila E. & The Family.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      The Flag (1927)     [AKA: 'The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross']    SILENT 
 [6:30 AM]      The Devil's Disciple (1959)
 [8:00 AM]      The Howards of Virginia (1940)
 [10:00 AM]      John Paul Jones (1959)
 [12:15 PM]      The Scarlet Coat (1955)
 [2:00 PM]      1776 (1972)
 [5:00 PM]      America, America (1963)
 [8:00 PM]      Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
 [10:15 PM]      The Roaring Twenties (1939)
 [12:15 AM]      Network (1976)
 [2:15 AM]      Duck Soup (1933)
 [3:30 AM]      Monkey Business (1931)
 [5:00 AM]      Animal Crackers (1930)     (ALL TIMES EST)



Tuesday  -  07/05/11

TCM:
 [6:45 AM]      Major Barbara (1941)
 [9:00 AM]      The Passionate Friends (1949)
 [10:45 AM]      Madeleine (1950)
 [12:45 PM]      Hobson's Choice (1954)
 [2:45 PM]      Summertime (1955)
 [4:30 PM]      Doctor Zhivago (1965)
 [8:00 PM]      The Sea Hawk (1924)     SILENT 
 [10:30 PM]      The Thief Of Bagdad (1924)     SILENT 
 [1:00 AM]      The Sheik (1921)     SILENT 
 [2:30 AM]      Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
 [3:45 AM]      The Lost Patrol (1934)
 [5:00 AM]      Spanish Earth (1937)     (ALL TIMES EST)







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In this photo taken Friday, July 1, 2011, Martha Reeves, of "Martha Reeves and the Vandellas," encourages people of all ages to join her on stage and "dance like we used to" as she performs her classic hit "Dancing in the Street," at the The Smithsonian Folklife Festival's Rhythm and Blues pavilion on the National Mall in Washington.
Photo by J. Scott Applewhite

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Vidiot Speak

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10 Most Momentous Strikes of the 20th Century

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Honored On Anniversary

Jim Morrison

Former members of The Doors have marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Jim Morrison by lighting candles at his grave in Paris.

Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band known for his partying lifestyle, died on July 2, 1971, at age 27 of heart failure in his bathtub in Paris, and his grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery remains a pilgrimage site for fans.

On Sunday, band members Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist, and guitarist Robby Krieger, lit candles at the grave of Morrison, who was known by the nickname the "lizard king."

Fans of Morrison, who some considered a poet, also paid homage at his grave by leaving flowers there. Some wore black T-shirts containing a white drawing of Morrison's face and the words "40th anniversary."

Jim Morrison

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The American dancer Ghrai DeVore, second left, from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater received the Danish Queen Ingrid Scholarship of Honor of 250,000 Danish Kroner ($48,560) in Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Thursday, June 30, 2011. The daughters of Queen Ingrid: Queen Anne-Marie, left,Princess Benedikte, second right, and Danish Queen Margrethe, right, granted her the scholarship.
Photo by Miriam Dalsgaard

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The Physics of Cheating in Baseball | Science & Nature

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Cancels Kazakh Concert

Sting

British singer Sting has canceled a concert in the Kazakh capital Astana scheduled for Monday after human rights group Amnesty International informed the former Police frontman about what it described as a "crackdown" on oil workers there.

Several thousand workers at UzenMunaiGas, a unit of London-listed oil producer KazMunaiGas Exploration Production, went on strike on May 26, saying their salaries had been cut and their lawyer imprisoned on false charges.

The company has called the strike illegal and a spokesman said last week that around 250 employees had been fired for breaching their contract terms.

Sting, criticized for performing in 2009 in Uzbekistan which is widely regarded as one of the most repressive countries to emerge from the Soviet Union, described the treatment of the Kazakh workers as "unacceptable."

Sting

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Wake-up Call


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Ventures Into Chinese Social Media

Radiohead

Radiohead has taken a tentative step into censored Chinese cyberspace, even though the British rock band has been critical of China's human rights record.

Radiohead recently launched a page on the "weibo" site of leading Chinese Internet portal Sina.com. "Weibo," which translates as "microblog," is the Chinese-equivalent of Twitter.

But the band has only posted a single message on Friday. It says "testing the weibo."

Sina.com checks the authenticity of celebrity weibos and has certified the Radiohead weibo as genuine.

The move comes despite Radiohead's activism against Chinese government policies. The rock group has performed at Free Tibet concerts and in December, posted a note on its official website urging fans to campaign for the release of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. "You know it makes sense," the band said.

Radiohead

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In this June 29, 2011 photo, actress Joyce DeWitt poses for a portrait in New York. DeWitt the former "Three's Company" star, makes her stage debut in "Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage!," a 90-minute comedy being staged at Sofia's Downstairs Theater on 46th Street.
Photo by Charles Sykes

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YouTube - The Ray Harryhausen Creature List

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Leaving NBC, Headed To ESPN

Wimbledon

Wimbledon is leaving NBC after 43 years and appears headed to ESPN.

NBC said in a statement Sunday that "while we would have liked to have continued our relationship, we were simply outbid."

A person with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed that ESPN was working on a contract with the All England Club to televise all of the Grand Slam tournament. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal was not ready to be announced.

It would be the latest major sporting event to move from the traditional four over-the-air networks to cable. College football's Bowl Championship Series title games are on ESPN, and NCAA basketball's Final Four will be on TBS in alternating years starting in 2016.

Wimbledon

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Military May Scrap All Gender Barriers

Australia

Women fight for militaries around the world but rarely if ever are allowed to take the jobs most closely associated with soldiering - those focused on ground combat in close quarters and even hand to hand. That may be about to change in Australia.

A policy overhaul to be decided by Cabinet within weeks would remove all gender barriers from the military next year, arguably making the Australian Defense Force the world's leader on gender equality.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the first woman to lead Australia, and Defense Minister Stephen Smith are among those calling for the change. Smith has said that "what you do in the forces should be determined by your physical and intellectual capability or capacity, not simply on the basis of sex."

If Australia's Cabinet supports the policy change it would be in place by the end of 2012. That could give Australian women a chance to qualify for infantry roles in Afghanistan before 2014, when the country plans to withdraw its 1,550 troops.

Gender boundaries have been steadily retreating in Australian defense services for years.

Australia

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A statue of singer Freddie Mercury is seen on the lakeside during the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux July 2, 2011. Over 350 artists and groups will perform on the two main stages and at the ten free venues during the sixteen-day long festival.
Photo by Valentin Flauraud

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Light Painting With A Roomba

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$1 Billion Worldwide

"Pirates"

Disney on Saturday confirmed that its fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, "On Stranger Tides," has grossed more than $1 billion worldwide since its May 20 release.

The film represents the second top-grossing "Pirates" film, and will now set its target on 2006's "Dead Man's Chest," which took in $1.066 billion worldwide.

At $756.1 million going into the weekend, "On Stranger Tides" is the third biggest international ticket seller of all time among all time, beaten only by James Cameron's "Avatar" ($2.02 billion) and "Titanic" ($1.24 billion).

While domestic box office performance for "Pirates 4" has trailed the three previous films in the franchise, the movie's international performance is nothing short of extraordinary.

"Pirates"

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The Food Lab: The Science of Pie

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Confront Violence

Mexican Artists

Dozens of plastic foam heads rain onto the stage. Four drug traffickers in fringed jackets and sparkly pink cowboy hats bat them into the audience with toy AK-47s. All the while, the cast croons, "Let them slit our throats, let them pack us up ... let them not ask any questions, let them not investigate."

This is cabaret, Mexico style. Las Reinas Chulas, or the Beautiful Queens, parody drug violence in a show the women first produced in 2005 and that still fills nightclubs around Mexico, including a performance in the tourist town of Taxco this weekend.

Like other aspects of Mexican society, violence now pervades the arts. From paintings to movies to opera, the killings and kidnappings that dominate headlines are now the topic du jour for artists trying to process what's happening to their country. Many artists say they also hope their work helps to spark change in a society that seems to be growing numb to the daily bloodshed.

Dead bodies, blindfolded and hands tied, blot bucolic landscape paintings. Pieces of a car window shattered in a shootout provide material for glittery bracelets that are part of an art installation. A famous narco-ballad about a female drug trafficker who kills her lover becomes an opera.

Mexican Artists

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Israelis practice yoga at sunrise at the port of Tel Aviv, during the all-night "White Night" celebrations in Tel Aviv, Israel, early Friday, July 1, 2011. The annual nighttime artistic and cultural event celebrates the "White City" area of Tel Aviv's status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on account of its Bauhaus-style architecture.
Photo by Dan Balilty

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En la calle: sex work in Quito

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Reveals Secret Jail

CIA Man

Admitting that "some will call me a torturer" is a surefire way to cut yourself off from anyone's sympathy. But Glenn Carle, a former CIA operative, isn't sure whether he's the hero or the villain of his own story.

Distilled, that story, told in Carle's new memoir The Interrogator, is this: In the months after 9/11, the CIA kidnaps a suspected senior member of al-Qaida and takes him to a Mideast country for interrogation. It assigns Carle - like nearly all his colleagues then, an inexperienced interrogator - to pry information out of him. Uneasy with the CIA's new, relaxed rules for questioning, which allow him to torture, Carle instead tries to build a rapport with the man he calls CAPTUS.

But CAPTUS doesn't divulge the al-Qaida plans the CIA suspects him of knowing. So the agency sends him to "Hotel California" - an unacknowledged prison, beyond the reach of the Red Cross or international law.

Carle goes with him. Though heavily censored by the CIA, Carle provides the first detailed description of a so-called "black site." At an isolated "discretely guarded, unremarkable" facility in an undisclosed foreign country (though one where the Soviets once operated), hidden CIA interrogators work endless hours while heavy metal blasts captives' eardrums and disrupts their sleep schedules.

Afterward, the operatives drive to a fortified compound to munch Oreos and drink somberly to Grand Funk Railroad at the "Jihadi Bar." Any visitor to Guantanamo Bay's Irish pub - O'Kellys, home of the fried pickle - will recognize the surreality.

CIA Man

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Bid "Pi" For Nortel Patents And Lost

Google

At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128.

Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, but it puzzled many of the people involved in the auction, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation on Friday.

"It became clear that they were bidding with the distance between the earth and the sun. One was the sum of a famous mathematical constant, and then when it got to $3 billion, they bid pi," the source said, adding the bid was $3.14159 billion.

"Either they were supremely confident or they were bored."

It was not clear what strategy Google was employing, whether it wanted to confuse rival bidders, intimidate them, or simply express the irreverence that is part and parcel of its corporate persona. Whatever its reasons, Google's shenanigans did not work.

Google

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Young Szeklers, an ethnic Hungarian group, dance during a traditional celebration held since 1931, in Miercurea Ciuc, in Romania's central region Transylvania, Saturday, July 2, 2011. Ethnic Hungarians in Romania want the creation of a region, called Szeklerland, cut along ethnic lines in central Romania, uniting three counties where they are in the majority. Critics have warned that the creation of a Hungarian-dominated enclave in the heart of Romania could lead to demands for territorial autonomy in a part of the world that is already home to several separatist movements.
Photo by Mircea Rosca

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Dark Roasted Blend: Magnificent & Weird Trees

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Huge Deposits Found In Pacific

Rare Earth

Vast deposits of rare earth minerals have been discovered on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean amounting to 1,000 times those on land, media reported on Monday citing a study by Japanese researchers.

The deposits are estimated to amount to 100 billion metric tons, the Nikkei business daily said.

They are believed to lie at a depth of 3,500 to 6,000 meters and cover an area of over 11 million square meters, the reports said.

China, which produces 97 percent of global rare earth supplies, has been tightening trade in the strategic metal, which is used in high-tech electronics, magnets and batteries, causing concerns globally about supply and triggering jumps in prices.

The study by researchers from the University of Tokyo and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology is to be published on Monday in the online edition of the British science magazine Nature Geoscience, the reports said.

Rare Earth

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66 Beautiful Small Cities & Towns In Europe

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Weekend Box Office

'Transformers'

"Transformers" robots have lost some of their money-making power but delivered the biggest opening weekend domestically so far this year.

Distributor Paramount Pictures said Sunday that "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" took in $97.4 million domestically in its first weekend. That beat the $90.2 million debut of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides."

But the domestic haul for the sci-fi sequel was down from the $109 million first weekend for 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

Since opening Tuesday night, the new "Transformers" pulled in $162 million domestically through Sunday, a drop from $200.1 million for "Revenge of the Fallen" in its first five days.

'Transformers'

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Google - The Censored Internet

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Kent Carmichael of Ulysses, Kan. poses with a giant halibut he caught on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, in the Gulf of Alaska, about 90 minutes offshore from Pelican in Southeast Alaska. A conversion table in the Alaska Tide Book was used to determine the weight of the 94-inch fish to be an estimated 466 pounds.

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