BartCop Entertainment Archives - Saturday, 9 July, 2005
Saturday
9 July, 2005
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
John Graham: Who's Watching the Watch List? (AlterNet)
My name is on a list of real and suspected enemies of the state and I can't find out what I'm accused of or why, let alone defend myself.
Operation Yellow Elephant Radio Ad
This is a 30 second spot playable on any radio station as a Public Service Announcemnt.
Operation Yellow Elephant Radio Ad - download
Paul Krugman: Free to Choose Obesity?
(Click on "Columns," then on "Free to Choose Obesity?")
The obvious model for those hoping to reverse the fattening of America is the campaign against smoking.
Bob Brigham: CA-50: Randy "Duke" Cunningham Scandal
Few things have given me such pleasure as of late as watching Josh Marshall spin the tale of Randy "Duke" Cunningham and the scandal that keeps going and going and going -- with no end in sight.
Annalee Newitz: Hot for Data (AlterNet)
Now you don't need to build your own repressive state apparatus, because HP and Microsoft have done it for you.
Infant Mortality Rates: 2005 Estimates from the CIA
Look it up: Cuba has fewer infant deaths per 1000 live births than the United States.
Life Expectancy at Birth: 2005 Estimates from the CIA
Look it up: The United States ranks 46th.
CIA: The World Factbook
Swing State Project
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EVIL INTENTIONS
HIDDEN BY A BANDANA...
WEED WACKER BANDIT
Zen Man
(in Lake County with Yaro clearing the hillside of weeds)
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Reader Suggestion
Tombstone Generator
Online Tombstone Generator
A neat tool, with hundreds of applications! Perhaps a contest is in order?
Ohio Moose
Thanks, Moose!
Excellent idea!
Send 'em in!
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Purple Gene Revies
'March of the Penguins'
Purple Gene's review of the Documentary movie "March of the Penguins" (2005) Directed by Luc Basquet:
"AVIAN ORGY ON ICE"
"SEX PARTY AT THE SOUTH POLE"
"March of the Penguins" was filmed on location in the coldest place on Earth!! Somewhere near the South Pole! This is the story of the primordial instinct to survive by waddling over a million arduous Penguin steps (70 miles at about 4" per step) or even on their bellies to get to a thick iced little valley….to MATE…..en MASSE!
I suppose males of any species will walk a long way to get layed…but the awesome, unreal visuals of a couple thousand Emperor Penguins in a single file schlogging to their destination……for GROUP SEX!!!!! Not really!!! When these determined nun-like looking tele-tubbies finally get to their love valley, they actually PAIR UP…..There's a little foreplay…a little beak bumping….then some penguin poking and pretty soon the moms pop an egg out and hold it off the ice with their feet…and keep it warm in a "Bun Oven" like flap way down there……well the moms lose about a third of their body weight carry and dropping the eggs and need to walk back 70 miles to EAT….so after the EGG TOSS (The females patiently pass the precious eggs to the males to keep warm) and it's time for the "First Wives Club" to go fishing…and they leave the guys for 3 months to stand around in a crowd like a bunch of big bobbling incubators…while the temperature drops to 180 degrees below zero and the winds blow up to 100 miles per 100! They remain bunched together to survive the incredible chilling environment!
Just when the exhausted horde is about to give up…guess what? The eggs all start to open and these fuzzy little, floppy little penguin infants are born to the Dads! There is a critical few days of life where this whole arrangement can go "SOUTH" because the dads have no food (except a small ort in their craw for the newborns)…but sure enough….just in time, the fattened up mommies come back from fishing to feed the babes….but how does each mom find it's mate and new offspring????? I don't know…the moms circle the crowd and there's peeping and poking and pretty soon these threesomes are together…but not for long because the dads are nearly starving from 3 month without any food…so they all kiss the moms and chicks goodbye and head back to the open sea…70 miles away.
Well after the Chicks get big enough, all the moms leave them and head back to ocean. The chicks will waddle back in their own good time and finally dive into the briny. For three months these incredible creatures spend Summer Vacation frolicking and feeding and fattening up for next "AVIAN ORGY ON ICE"! The juvenile penguins wait five years before they get to go to the LOVE Valley.
Watching this movie reminded me a little bit of winged migration. Instead of a French voice Narrating, we had the elegant tones of Morgan Freeman guiding us through this truly amazing and arduous journey…..This one is not rated by Purple Gene…just go see it!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & getting summertime hot.
Sure wish big ticket dems would take a lesson from the California State Teachers Union and learn how to deal with bullies.
Their new ads take on Governor Musclehead (R-2 Passports) and his crony-driven Rovian administration calmly, rationally, and very effectively.
California Teachers rock!
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS opens the night with '48 Hours', followed by a RERUN 'Cold Case', then another '48 Hours'.
NBC has lifted the evening's programming from their sister station Sci-Fi Channel, and offers 2 episodes of the 'new' 'Battlestar Galactica'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Lindsay Lohan hosting, music by Coldplay.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 15 March, 1986, with Griffin Dunne hosting with music by Roseanne Cash.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'The Emperor's New Groove', followed by a RERUN 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos'.
The WB offers 'Bikini Destinations', followed by 'Xotic Xtreme', then another 'Bikini Destinations', followed by another 'Xotic Xtreme'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN fills the night with the movie 'The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell Of Fear'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', followed by a FRESH 'City Confidential', then 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'Iron Eagle', followed by the movie 'Platoon', then the movie 'Hamburger Hill'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Rabbitts;
[2:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Mitchell;
[3pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Pigott;
[3:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - McKellin;
[4pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Stewart;
[4:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Burdett;
[5pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Hinchcliffe;
[5:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Hamilton;
[6pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Porter;
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Spencer;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Norden;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 1;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 4;
[9pm] 'Little Britain' - Episode 6;
[9:40pm] 'The Young Ones' - Sick;
[10:20pm] 'The Young Ones' - Summer Holidays;
[11pm] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Towering Alan;
[11:40pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 1;
[12am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 6;
[12:40am] 'The Young Ones' - Sick;
[1:20am] 'The Young Ones' - Summer Holidays;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 1;
[2:30am] 'House Invaders' - Episode 4;
[3am] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Towering Alan;
[3:40am] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 1;
[4am] 'Little Britain' - Episode 6;
[4:40am] 'The Young Ones' - Sick;
[5:20am] 'The Young Ones' - Summer Holidays;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Blade Runner', followed by the movie 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents' (Eddie Gossling), another 'Comedy Central Presents' (Jim Gaffigan), 'Stella', 'Reno 911!', another 'Reno 911!', 'The Mind Of Mencia', and 'Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Last Days Of WWII', and the movie 'Battle Of The Bulge'.
IFC devotes the night to Punk and Punks.
[6AM] 'IFC July Short Film Collection II' (2005);
[8AM] 'Blind Swordsman # 15: The Blind Swordsman'S Cane Sword' (1967);
[9:45AM] 'Shadow Of China' (1990);
[11:30AM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[12PM] 'Julian Po' (1997);
[1:30PM] Short film: 'Charnel House' (2002);
[2PM] 'Blind Swordsman # 15: The Blind Swordsman'S Cane Sword' (1967);
[3:45PM] 'Shadow Of China' (1990);
[5:30PM] 'Julian Po' (1997);
[7PM] 'The Ultimate Film Fanatic #203' (2004);
[7:30PM] 'Dinner For Five #41' (2005);
[8PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[8:15PM] 'High Art' (1998);
[10PM] 'Punk Attitude' (2005);
[11:30PM] 'Jesus of Suburbia' (2005);
[11:45PM] 'SLC Punk!' (1999);
[1:30AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #108' (2005);
[2AM] 'Punk Attitude' (2005);
[3:30AM] 'Jesus of Suburbia' (2005);
[3:45AM] 'SLC Punk!' (1999);
[5:30AM] 'Henry's Film Corner #108' (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Sabretooth', followed by the movie 'Attack Of The Sabretooth'.
Sundance -
[6:45AM] 'The Flower of Evil';
[8:30AM] 'Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train';
[9:50AM] 'Within/Without';
[10AM] 'The Passion of Maria Elena';
[11:20AM] 'Neo-Noir';
[11:30AM 'I'm Going Home' (Je Rentre a la Maison);
[1PM 'Bartleby';
[2:30PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Buffalo Soldiers';
[3PM] 'The Tesseract';
[4:40PM 'Roundabout';
[5PM 'Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train';
[6:25PM] 'Work Hard, Play Hard';
[8PM] 'Pi';
[9:30PM] 'Clerks';
[11:05PM] 'Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator';
[12:10AM] 'Anatomy of A Scene: Sidewalks of New York';
[12:30AM] 'The Hanging Garden';
[2:05AM] 'Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train';
[4:10AM] 'The City of Lost Souls'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[6:15am] 'Million Dollar Baby' (1941);
[8am] 'Beyond A Reasonable Doubt' (1956);
[9:30am] 'MGM Parade Show #13' (1955);
[10am] 'The Big Sky' (1952);
[12:30pm] 'Buck Privates' (1941);
[2pm] 'Abbott And Costello In The Foreign Legion' (1950);
[3:30pm] 'Fistful Of Dollars' (1964) [AKA: 'Per un pugno di dollari'] [View Trailer];
[5:30pm] 'The Way West' (1967);
[8pm] 'It Should Happen To You' (1954);
[9:30 pm 'Paper Lion' (1968);
[11:30pm] 'Splendor In The Grass' (1961);
[2am] 'Shampoo' (1975) [View Trailer];
[4am] 'Gaslight' (1944) [View Trailer]. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sunday - 07/10
TCM:
[6am] 'Your Cheatin' Heart' (1964);
[8am] 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' (1958) [View Trailer];
[10am] 'Kissin' Cousins' (1964) [View Trailer];
[12pm] 'Suspicion' (1941);
[2pm] 'The Seven-Per-Cent Solution' (1976);
[4pm] 'The Pink Panther' (1964);
[6pm] 'It Should Happen To You' (1954);
[8pm] 'The Last Command' (1955);
[10pm] 'Ten Thousand Bedrooms' (1957);
[12am] 'Daddy Long Legs' (1919) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'Boys' Town' (1938) [View Trailer];
[3:15am] 'David Copperfield' (1935) [AKA: 'The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger'];
[5:30am] 'Festival of Shorts #44' (2002). (ALL TIMES EDT)
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Italian-American opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti (R) celebrates his 94th birthday with his son Francis at the Festival of Two Worlds in the Italian town of Spoleto July 8, 2005.
Photo by Giulio Marcocchi
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TODAY - MTV & VH1
Live 8
After a drubbing from critics, MTV and VH1 will rerun 10 hours of coverage of the Live 8 concert events without commercials on Saturday.
VH1 will carry the first five hours from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., while MTV will carry the second leg from 3-8 p.m.
MTV was roundly assailed by pundits and critics for the frequent commercial breaks and other interruptions during its live coverage of the July 2 concerts.
Live 8
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British rock singer Elvis Costello performs in the 'Back in Town' show at the 39th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, July 7, 2005.
Photo by Dominic Favre
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Set Up By CGOP
John Davison
I've never walked off the set of a TV show in disgust before, but this week I did. There's a first time for everything, I guess. I was in the studio for a live-to-tape session of the Donny Deutsch show on CNBC, "The Big Idea" on Tuesday morning this week. After enduring it for about 10 or 15 minutes it was clear that the whole situation had been a set-up from outset.
The show's director originally contacted me on Monday this week. I was told that Deutsch would be talking about videogames, and they wanted someone from the gaming media to talk about a bunch of things. The subjects listed to me ran the gamut from "the future of videogames" to "online clans and community." I was told that the violence thing might come up, in light of the recent 25-to-Life exposure, to which my response was a dismissive "that's been done to death, it's boring." The director simply asked me if I would "just say that on air."
When I arrived at the studio, and after being caked in layers of makeup, I sat down in front of the camera and soon learned that the entire show was about violence. It kicked off with Donny holding up a copy of Computer Games magazine declaring that there wasn't a single game in there that wasn't violent, and they then immediately cut to scenes of CJ stamping on a girl until she bled over the pavement in San Andreas. I was introduced as pretty much the bad guy who thinks this doesn't have an effect on kids, and...well...things just deteriorated from there. I tried to discuss the ratings system, I tried to talk about how the majority of games are sold at Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy, and how they all take the ratings system very seriously...but this isn't what the show was supposed to be about. Donny had an agenda. "All games are violent" was his proclamation, and nothing was going to sway him. We weren't here to test a hypothesis. While this was happening, the director kept nagging me through the earpiece to "jump in and talk about what you're here to talk about." I was pissed. "That's not what the show appears to be about, darling."
For the rest - John Davison
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Internet Legend
Jorn Barger
A bum in a Google cap. Now there's a sign of the times, I think as he shambles toward me. He looks pretty much like any other tattered street person in San Francisco - long, windblown dirty-blond hair with a beard to match. Unbuttoned shirttails flapping in the afternoon breeze.
But he's walking with someone I recognize - Andrew, a dapper writer I've known for years. We stop on the sidewalk, and Andrew introduces me to the guy in the Google cap: "This is Jorn Barger," he begins. "Another homeless blogger," his companion finishes.
Jorn Barger. It takes me a moment to recognize the name. Barger is an online legend I've been following for a decade. He was the unstoppable Usenet poster who could carry on simultaneous debates about Ibsen, Chomsky, artificial intelligence, and Kate Bush. He was the keeper of the James Joyce FAQ. Barger's prolific posting made him famous, if not popular, in the protoblogosphere.
Barger crossed over from Usenet to the Web in 1997 and set up his own site, which he dubbed the Robot Wisdom Weblog. He began logging his online discoveries as he stumbled on them - hence "weblog." I barely understood what he was talking about, and still I read him giddily. Barger gave a name to the fledgling phenomenon and set the tone for a million blogs to come. Robot Wisdom bounced unapologetically from high culture to low, from silly to serious, from politics to porn.
For the rest, Jorn Barger
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Top Amazon Author
J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling tops the list. Dan Brown is ranked very high. William Shakespeare just missed out. It's Amazon.com's top 25 best-selling authors.
The online retailer, celebrating its 10th anniversary, announced its biggest sellers Thursday, with Rowling no surprise at No. 1. The " Harry Potter" author was followed by Spencer Johnson of "Who Moved My Cheese?" fame, romance novelist Nora Roberts and "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown.
Rounding out the top 10 were Dr. Seuss, John Grisham, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, "Left Behind" novelists Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins and business writer Jim Collins.
Shakespeare was No. 26, one notch below Tom Clancy.
J.K. Rowling
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Annie Duke, one of the top female poker players, competes in the $10,000 buy-in, no limit Texas Hold 'Em main event during the 36th annual World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada July 8, 2005. Over 5,500 players signed up for the main event which is expected to run through July 16.
Photo by Steve Marcus
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Snarky Gossip
Paris Hilton
Backstage at Live8 Ricky Gervais was at the side of the stage. Paris Hilton walked up to him and said how much she liked his stuff.
Ricky: "Have we met before?"
Paris "Yes. I'm Paris Hilton"
Ricky "Oh, sorry Paris, I didn't recognise you without a cock in your mouth."
Exit Paris in a huff.
Paris Hilton
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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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U.S. Losing Lead
Science
More than half a century of U.S. dominance in science and engineering may be slipping as America's share of graduates in these fields falls relative to Europe and developing nations such as China and India, a study released on Friday says.
The United States has had a substantial lead in science and technology since World War II. With just 5 percent of the world's population, it employs almost a third of science and engineering researchers, accounts for 40 percent of research and development spending and publishes 35 percent of science and engineering research papers.
Numbers of science and engineering graduates from European and Asian universities are soaring while new degrees in the United States have stagnated -- cutting its overall share.
The picture among doctorates -- key to advanced scientific research -- was more striking. In 2001, universities in the European Union granted 40 percent more science and engineering doctorates than the United States, with that figure expected to reach nearly 100 percent by about 2010, the study showed.
Science
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Knut Foppe, left, Darin Oestmann, center, with the National Park Service and Thorsten Mowes, right, rappel a scuplture of Thomas Jefferson's face to begin power washing Mount Rushmore National Monument, Thursday, July 7, 2005, near Keystone, S.D.
Photo by Doug Dreyer
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Court Reinstates Convictions
Haing Ngor
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated the murder convictions of three California gang members blamed for the shooting death of Oscar-winning actor Dr. Haing Ngor, rejecting a lower court's finding of prosecutorial misconduct.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said prosecutors did not engage in misconduct by invoking Ngor's ordeal in 1970s Cambodia or by "falsely" telling jurors he was killed in a struggle over the only picture he had of his late wife.
Ngor, who survived the mass killings of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s but lost his wife when she died during childbirth, won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1984 film "The Killing Fields" about the Khmer Rouge atrocities.
Haing Ngor
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A woman tries to avoid getting hit by 'cabezudo' (big head) during San Fermin's 'Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos' (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona July 8, 2005. Enormous puppets, accompanied by brass bands, parade daily through the city during the week-long festival made popular by U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway.
Photo by Susana Vera
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Reaches TV Animation Deal
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild and industry negotiators said Thursday they tentatively agreed to a new, three-year contract covering television animation.
Terms include a 3% increase in minimum pay, retroactive to July 1, as well as a 1% increase in contributions to the union's health and pension plans beginning Jan. 1.
The deal, reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, now goes to SAG's national board for approval at its plenary meeting July 30.
Screen Actors Guild
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A statue of a pirate sits on top of the Buccaneer Hotel as lightning strikes on Treasure Island along the Gulf Coast of Florida July 8, 2005. Treasure Island is in the path of Hurricane Dennis whose winds and rain are already affecting the area. Hurricane Dennis roared through the Caribbean on Friday, leaving 10 dead in Cuba and 22 in Haiti before aiming for Havana on a course toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where oil rigs and vulnerable coastal areas were evacuated.
Photo by Marc Serota
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Jump to Their Deaths
450 Sheep
First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.
In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, the Aksam newspaper said. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned, Aksam reported.
The estimated loss to families in the town of Gevas, located in Van province in eastern Turkey, tops $100,000, a significant amount of money in a country where average GDP per head is around $2,700.
450 Sheep
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In Memory
Tom Talbert
Tom Talbert, a self-taught pianist who arranged music for jazz greats such as Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton and Claude Thornhill, has died. He was 80.
Talbert became interested in arranging at age 15 after hearing big bands on the radio. During World War II, he joined the Army and became an arranger for a military band at Ft. Ord that performed for war-bond drives throughout California.
After the war, the native of Crystal Bay, Minn., came to Los Angeles and led his own 14-piece orchestra from 1946-49 and toured with singer Anita O'Day. In 1950, Talbert moved to New York and arranged music for many jazz greats, including Rich, Kenton and Thornhill.
Talbert released two albums in the mid-1950s, "Bix Duke Fats," a modern jazz treatment of compositions by Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller, and "Wednesday's Child" with singer Patty McGovern.
In 1975, he returned to Los Angeles and wrote the soundtracks for such television shows as NBC's "Serpico" and "Emergency." He led a septet and another big band, revived his recording career and performed through the 1990s.
He also established a scholarship for young musicians studying at California State University, Long Beach.
Talbert is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, of Beverly Hills; four stepchildren; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Tom Talbert
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An aerial view of an eruption of an underwater volcano is seen in the Pacific Ocean near the uninhabited Minami Iwojima Island, about 1,400km (870 miles) south of Tokyo July 3, 2005. The Japanese Coast Guard sent a plane to investigate the approximately 1,000-metres (3,280-ft) column of steam after it was spotted on Saturday by a member of Japan's armed forces stationed on the island of Iwojima.
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