BartCop Entertainment Archives - Tuesday, 25 March, 2014

Tuesday

25 March, 2014

(Updated Daily)

[910 days in a row]



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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Paul Krugman: Wealth Over Work (NY Times)
Making America Safe for Oligarchy.


Kathy Benjamin: "6 Ways You Can (Accidentally) Attract the Ladies" (Cracked)
#6. Be Effeminate


Robert Evans and Anonymous: 6 Things Nobody Tells You About Working at Disney World (Cracked)
Disney World is the happiest place on Earth, at least according to Disney's copyright lawyers. That description may fit pretty well for kids and a few adults, but working here is a different matter altogether. Don't get me wrong; it's still a Magic Kingdom. But Disney's "magic" is a multifaceted thing, just as liable to make some dude barf on the teacup ride as it is to create precious childhood memories.


Rush Limbaugh: rightwing talkshow host to bestselling children's author (Guardian)
He's no friend of those on the political left, but he knows how to woo kids. He's been named as one of four finalists for book of the year at the Children's and Teen Choice Book Awards.


Oliver Burkeman: "Bryan Cranston: 'I scare people'" (Guardian)
The Breaking Bad star on how playing Walter White changed his life, portraying Lyndon B Johnson on stage - and on the kiss that got him into acting.


Henning Mankell: 'No one should have to face cancer alone' (Guardian)
In his latest update since discovering he has cancer in his neck and lung, the Wallander author explains why every person with the disease needs someone to lean on.


Luisa Dillner: Should I go back to saturated fats? (Guardian)
A Mediterranean diet without too much pasta is likely to fit the bill. Dr David Katz, in an overview of diets in The Annual Review of Public Health concludes that we should eat "food, not too much, mainly plants". The healthiest diet is likely to consist mostly of vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans and seeds (including oil such as olive oil), with some fish, meat, eggs and diary. And the occasional slice of chocolate cake to keep things real.


Robert T. Gonzalez: "About That Giraffe and the Dying Zoo Worker: Your Questions, Answered" (io9)
By now you've probably seen news articles showing a giraffe in a Dutch zoo sharing a tender moment with a terminally ill zoo worker. Do the claims that this giraffe was kissing its human friend goodbye hold up to scientific scrutiny? Let me break it down for you.


Malek Rizkallah: "Crush" (Vimeo)
In "Crush", a pair of dummies are being assembled for a crash test. ?Moments before the test begins, a fateful spark alters the process. ?This event ignites a connection between the couple, driving them to defy their destination.



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Trivia Question of the Day


Who is the only person to receive a best acting nomination in any of the Star Wars movies?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


Who survived because he rubbed Bernice the Whiffle Hen's head for luck?


      Popeye                                                      Source


Popeye the Sailor Man is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and theatrical and television animated cartoons. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929; Popeye became the strip's title in later years.

Thimble Theatre's first main characters/actors were the thin Olive Oyl and her boyfriend, Harold Hamgravy. After the strip moved away from its initial focus, it settled into a comedy-adventure style featuring Olive, Ham Gravy, and Olive's enterprising brother, Castor Oyl. Olive's parents, Cole and Nana Oyl, also made frequent appearances.

Popeye first appeared in the strip on January 17, 1929 as a minor character. He was initially hired by Castor Oyl and Ham to crew a ship for a voyage to Dice Island, the location of a casino owned by the crooked gambler Fadewell. Castor intended to break the bank at the casino using the unbeatable good luck conferred by stroking the hairs on the head of Bernice the Whiffle Hen. Weeks later, on the trip back, Popeye was shot many times by Jack Snork, a stooge of Fadewell's, but survived by rubbing Bernice's head.        Source







Charlie was first, and correct, with:
   Popeye (when spinach isn't enough).




Marian said:
   Castor Oyl and Popeye



Alan J wrote:
   Popeye



Deborah responded:
   Popeye.
  Just a WAG.




Adam answered:
   Popeye- that is some LSD-level writing right there.



Jim from CA, retired to ID, took the day off.
  



Dale of Diamond Springy, Norcali, replied:
   Popeye, in pre Popeye famousness was shot many times by Jack Snork on a boat ride back from the casino on Dice Island with Olive's brother Castor Oyl. He rubbed his Whiffle-headed hen Bernice's head. What a man was he! And then he got his Spinach, and the planet was never the same!!!





DJ Useo, answered:
   The answer is Popeye. I knew that before you asked.
  I love to watch and read his adventures.
  I currently get all new stories from IDW comics, plus they reprint the classic ones also.
  They make me laugh!





Lois Of Oregon responded:
   Dagnabit, me and Pa thought we knowed everything about really old cartoons, like who Eugine the Jeep and Alice the Goon is, but neither of us knew that Popeye actually got his start on Bernice the Whiffle Hen's cartoon. Apparently Bernice inspired the creation of the wiffle bat which might have played a part in her disappearance (in addition to no one buying Wimpy a burger that particular day).




Sally said:
   "Popeye the Sailor Man" survived because he rubbed Bernice the Whiffle Hen's head for luck.

  Nuff said about him...
  PS: So, little John comes over this morning with green gunk in his hair. His sister told me that mom couldn't get it out, so the dad was taking him for a haircut after school.
  I said, "John, why did you put green gunk in your hair?"
  To which he said the standard 8-year old reply: "Cause..."
  I got out the peanut butter and got the gunk out...
  That stuff was nasty!
  Boys...




BttbBob   replied:
   Okay... I don't knows nuthin' 'bout no "Whiffle-Hens"... However, I do know sumpthin' 'bout "Guinea Hens"...

  Ya see, "The Old Nan" (who turns 80 today... Happy Birthday, Mom!) has always delighted in tellin' anecdotes about when she was a little girl and her grandma down the road havin' Guinea Hens on their farm. Curious, domesticated (to a point) fowl that run around in lines and make a loud buzz-saw noise when strangers (or any dangers, as perceived) appear... which was the source of "Nan's delight"... an' she says they are better'n watch dogs to raise a racket. Short Clips... Male Guinea Fowl Sounds - YouTube   Loud, eh? The beasts are normally 'free range' fowl that are voracious feeders on all manner of bugs an' spiders which is useful around farmyards, dontcha know. The University of Maine - Cooperative Extension: Livestock - Guinea Fowl May Be the Solution to Insect Pest Problems   and they also hate snakes, ganging up on 'em and killin' 'em if'n they can... also useful, eh?

  (if'n ya were right here the noise these fowl are makin' would be deafenin')
  They lay small brownish eggs and the fowl, themselves, are rather tasty having dark meat not unlike pheasant... Yum... "Nan' sez her grandma had them as pets, however, and they were not 'pot fare'...

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  My agent sez it was okay to ignore the question and talk 'bout Guinea Hens, it bein' "The Old Nan's" b'day, and all...

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  Happy Birthday (additionally) this day to:

Elton John
  (66)   Elton John - Pinky (Caribou 2 of 13) - YouTube   My fa-vo-rite tune of his...
  Not well known, but I love it...

Sarah Jessica Parker
  (48) ...said "Sarah" in   Hocus Pocus (1993) I took both of my young daughters (9-10) to see that film and they loved it... Bette Midler has said that it is her fa-vo-rite film that she had done. The witches are, indeed, a hoot.
  Finally, I find it beyond ironic that Gloria Steinem (79) and Anita Bryant (73) share this birth date... Har!

  March 25 Birthdays - Celebrities Born March 25 | Famous Birthdays




MAM   wrote:
   Popeye ~ Shot many times by Jack Snork but survived by rubbing Bernice's head.




And, Joe S     said:
   Before we get started here I just want to mention that I have never heard of a Whiffle Hen, let alone a Whiffle Hen named Bernice. So let's get started with the research, shall we? Oh look, it's Dorothy Irene Height's 102nd birthday. Um well, yes, research. Well I'll be dipped, It's Popeye. Must have been before my time.




  


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Protectors of S.F.'s urban coyotes try to calm fears - SFGate



Joe Arpaio Faces More Trouble Over Racial Profiling Case



Keep Your Religion Out Of My Bloody Life



History 101: Evolution Before Charles Darwin



Billionaire leaves Gov. Rick Scott's re-election campaign after racist incident



Order In The Courtroom - Here Come The Nuns! A New Force For Reproductive Choice



Taxpayer dollars teach that evolution is 'wicked and vain'



Microsoft Is About To Leave One-Third Of All Computers Vulnerable To Hacking



Gulf oil may be big trouble for big fish - CNN.com



Drought-ravaged California turns to tech for help - CNN.com



Carp(e) Diem: Kentucky Sends Invasive Fish To China : The Salt : NPR





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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

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from Marc Perkel

BartCop

Hello Bartcop fans,

As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and provide email lists and groups for those who might put something together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to active@bartcop.com.

So - to let you know what's going on, the guestbook on bartcop.com is still open for those who want to write something in memory of Bart.

I did an interview on Netroots Radio about Bart's passing
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Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received. Anyone wanting to make a donation can click on this the yellow donate button on bartcop.com

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


GUESS WHO GETS TO PAY FOR THE REPUG FOUR YEAR "VOMIT-O-THON?"

"CHRISTIAN CHARITY" IS AN OXYMORON!

"UGGA BUGGA"

BE A SLAVE OR WHINER. THAT'S THE REPUBLICAN WOMENS' CHOICE.

NUKES ON TRIAL!

THE CRACKERS ARE CRACKING.






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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

More early May Gray.



Tonight, Tuesday:

CBS begins the night with a FRESH 'NCIS', followed by a FRESH 'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH 'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Emma Watson, Nick Offerman, and the Strypes.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Howie Mandel, Ginger Gonzaga, and the Belle Brigade.



NBC starts the night with a FRESH 'The Voice', followed by a FRESH 'About A Boy', then a FRESH 'Growing Up Fisher', followed by a RERUN 'Chicago Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Jude Law and Shakira.
Scheduled on a FRESH Seth Meyers are Kim Kardashian, Taran Killam, and Arianna Huffington.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson 'The Scab' Daly are Veronica Roth, the Preatures, and MisterWives.



ABC opens the night with a RERUN 'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', followed by a RERUN 'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN 'Trophy Wife', then a FRESH 'Mind Games'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Nicole Kidman and Alyson Hannigan.



The CW offers a RERUN 'The 100', followed by a FRESH 'Supernatural'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Arsenio Hall are Dule Hill, Danny Brown, Miki Sudo, and DJ Spider.



Faux has a FRESH 'Glee', followed by a FRESH 'New Girl', then a FRESH 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'.



MY recycles an old 'Bone', followed by another old 'Bones'.



A&E has 'Barry'd Treasure', 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH 'Storage Wars', then another FRESH 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH 'Barry'd Treasure', and 'Storage Wars'.



AMC offers the movie 'Rocky III', followed by the movie 'Rocky IV', then a (F) 'Game Of Arms'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [8:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 4 - The Time of Angels
 [9:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 5 - Flesh and Stone
 [10:00AM]    ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 12
 [11:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q
 [12:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 14 - A Matter of Perspective
 [1:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Morgan's
 [2:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Anna Vincenzo's
 [3:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Ruby Tates
 [4:00PM]    TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 3
 [5:00PM]    TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 4
 [6:00PM]    PLANET EARTH-Ep 11 - Ocean Deep
 [7:00PM]    WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Black Hairy Thick Tail Scorpion
 [8:00PM]    THE BLUE PLANET-Ep 3 - Open Ocean NEW
 [9:00PM]    LIFE-Ep 1 - Challenges of Life NEW
 [10:00PM]    WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Giant Spitting Cobra NEW
 [11:00PM]    THE BLUE PLANET-Ep 3 - Open Ocean
 [12:00AM]    LIFE-Ep 1 - Challenges of Life
 [1:00AM]    WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Giant Spitting Cobra
 [2:00AM]    THE BLUE PLANET-Ep 3 - Open Ocean
 [3:00AM]    LIFE-Ep 1 - Challenges of Life
 [4:00AM]    WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Giant Spitting Cobra
 [5:00AM]    PLANET EARTH-Ep 11 - Ocean Deep     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH 'Real Housewives Of NYC', then a FRESH 'Online Dating Rituals Of The American Male'.



Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Kroll Show', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH 'Tosh.0', then a FRESH 'Kroll Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart are Amy Yates Wuelfing and Gibby Haynes.
Scheduled on a FRESH Colbert Report is Jimmy Carter.



FX has the movie 'Real Steel', followed by a FRESH 'Justified'.



History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', yet another 'Counting Cars', 'American Restoration', and another 'American Restoration'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    Portlandia-Ecoterrorists
 [6:30AM]    Beverly Hills Ninja
 [8:30AM]    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
 [11:30AM]    Marvin's Room
 [1:45PM]    Beverly Hills Ninja
 [3:45PM]    Enter the Dragon
 [6:00PM]    The Fog
 [8:00PM]    The Hills Have Eyes
 [10:15PM]    The Hills Have Eyes 2
 [12:15AM]    House of 1000 Corpses
 [2:15AM]    The Hills Have Eyes
 [4:30AM]    Portlandia-Farm
 [5:00AM]    Portlandia-A Song For Portland
 [5:30AM]    Portlandia-Pull-Out King    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]    Law & Order-Agony
 [7:00AM]    An Education
 [9:15AM]    All Good Things
 [11:30AM]    Brothers
 [1:45PM]    Among Giants
 [3:45PM]    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 [6:00PM]    In the Line of Fire
 [8:45PM]    Drop Zone
 [11:00PM]    Law & Order-Fools for Love
 [12:00AM]    Law & Order-Helpless
 [1:00AM]    Rising Sun
 [3:45AM]    We Don't Live Here Anymore    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by the movie 'Face Off', then the FRESH 'Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge'.



TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Rachael Harris, and Lucius.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Brief Encounter (1945)
 [7:30 AM]      A Passage to India (1984)
 [10:15 AM]      Great Expectations (1946)
 [12:15 PM]      The Passionate Friends (1949)
 [2:00 PM]      Madeleine (1950)
 [4:00 PM]      Doctor Zhivago (1965)
 [8:00 PM]      Carson on TCM: Julie Andrews (11/19/82) (2013)
 [8:12 PM]      Carson on TCM: Dudley Moore (5/18/79) (2013)
 [8:24 PM]      Carson on TCM: Sean Connery (12/5/75) (2013)
 [8:36 PM]      Carson on TCM: Sylvester Stallone (12/16/76) (2013)
 [8:48 PM]      Carson on TCM: Arnold Schwarzenegger (5/5/82) (2013)
 [9:00 PM]      Carson on TCM: George C. Scott (11/3/87) (2013)
 [9:12 PM]      Carson on TCM: Gene Kelly (11/7/75) (2013)
 [9:30 PM]      The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
 [11:15 PM]      Black Hand (1950)
 [1:00 AM]      The Three Musketeers (1948)
 [3:15 AM]      40 Carats (1973)
 [5:15 AM]      Crest Of The Wave (1954)     (ALL TIMES EST)



Wednesday   -  03/26/14

TCM spends the night with Mary Astor
 [7:00 AM]      West of Zanzibar (1928)     SILENT 
 [8:15 AM]      Tarzan The Ape Man (1932)
 [10:00 AM]      Trader Horn (1931)
 [12:15 PM]      King Solomon's Mines (1937)
 [2:15 PM]      Mogambo (1953)
 [4:30 PM]      Drums Of Africa (1963)
 [6:15 PM]      Rhino! (1964)
 [8:00 PM]      Little Women (1949)
 [10:15 PM]      Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
 [12:30 AM]      Red Dust (1932)
 [2:00 AM]      Men of Chance (1932)
 [3:15 AM]      The Royal Bed (1931)
 [4:45 AM]      The Runaway Bride (1930)
    (ALL TIMES EST)



TBS has a FRESH 'Cougar Town'.



USA has a FRESH 'Chrisley Knows Best'.




Antenna TV

Bounce TV

Cozi TV

MOVIES! TV Network

Me-TV

RTV - The Retro Television Network

This TV


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Actress Eva Longoria and director Michel Berry arrive at the premiere of his new film "Border", during the International Film Festival of Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saturday, March 23, 2014.
Photo by Refugio Ruiz

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Off To Fast Start

Jimmy Fallon

One month in, NBC's generational trade of Jay Leno for Jimmy Fallon at the "Tonight" show is succeeding beyond the hopes of executives who engineered it.

Fallon's fast start is clear in television ratings and even more stark in social media metrics. While too early to declare a new king of late-night TV, the transition is a marked change from how badly NBC fumbled the short-lived switch from Leno to Conan O'Brien in 2009.

When Fallon premiered on "Tonight" during the Olympics, the franchise hit numbers unseen since Johnny Carson's last week in 1992. Things have settled down but Fallon is still comfortably on top. During the week of March 10-14, Fallon averaged 4.26 million viewers to Jimmy Kimmel's 2.83 million on ABC and David Letterman's 2.78 million on CBS, the Nielsen company said. Fallon has consistently topped the 4.1 million viewers that Leno averaged this season before leaving.

Fallon's lead over his rivals is more pronounced among viewers aged 18-to-49, the demographic NBC bases its advertising sales upon.

Jimmy Fallon

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This photo provided by Galerie Westlicht in Vienna shows a Hasselblad 500 camera which was part of the equipment carried by the 1971 Apollo 15 mission _ and the only camera ever bought back from the moon. It was put on auction Saturday, March 22, 2014 and was sold for nearly 760,000 US dollar. Westlicht identifies the new owner as Japanese businessman Terukazu Fujisawa. It says the owner of an electronics chain placed his winning bid of 550,000 euros by phone.

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Taking on National Geographic Reality Shows

'Mystery Science Theater 3000'

The "Mystery Science Theater 3000" guys - well, the one guy and two robots - are coming back to TV. And this time it will be reality shows, rather than bad movies, that they'll be skewering.

The trio hosted a cult series that ran for more than decade on the Comedy Channel and Sci-Fi Channel in which Michael J. Nelson and robots Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow T. Robot (Bill Corbett) made snide, droll and almost always dead-on comments as the movie played in the background. They've continued to crack wise on their web site, Rifftrax.com, since leaving the air.

Nat Geo is bringing them back on Tuesday - that's April Fool's Day, but the channel insists this is for real - for "Total Riff Off." It will be three hour-long episodes featuring clips from some of National Geographic's wackier reality shows.

'Mystery Science Theater 3000'

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Shows Postponed

Gregg Allman

The Allman Brothers have postponed the remainder of their Beacon Theatre run this week due to Gregg Allman's illness.

A Monday news release says Allman is recovering from a case of bronchitis that already forced the postponement of concerts last Friday and Saturday.

Michael Lehman, Allman's manager, had said over the weekend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member was under a doctor's care and intended to play the final four shows of the run Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The band is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year.

New dates have not yet been announced.

Gregg Allman

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People hold posters and banners at an international protest during the Nuclear Security Summit at Malieveld in The Hague March 24, 2014. Netherlands is hosting the Nuclear Security Summit on March 24-25.
Photo by Cris Toala Olivares

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Wedding News

Berti - Bocelli

Singer Andrea Bocelli has wed longtime companion Veronica Berti.

A Monday news release says the couple married Friday at the Sanctuary of Montenero in central Italy. The couple chose the day because it is the start of spring and the second birthday of their daughter, Virginia.

The wedding was attended by a small group of friends and family, including Bocelli's sons Amos and Matteo from his previous marriage.

Berti wore a silk dress by Ermanno Scervino and Bocelli, an Italian tenor who sings both operatic and pop material, wore a blue suit by Corneliani.

Berti - Bocelli

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Wake-up Call


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5-Day "Staycation"

Judge Joe Brown

The star of the television show "Judge Joe Brown" has been arrested and charged with five counts of contempt of court in Tennessee.

Shelby County Juvenile Court officials said the 66-year-old Brown was sentenced to five days in jail after causing an outburst Monday in a courtroom hearing. A spokesman for the Shelby County Juvenile Court, chief Magistrate Judge Dan Michael, said Brown appeared to have been representing a client who was accused of not paying child support. Michael said Brown caused a spectacle in court by yelling and repeatedly challenging the juvenile court magistrate's authority.

Joe Brown is currently running to be the top prosecutor in Shelby County. Memphis is the county seat.

Officials with juvenile court and the sheriff's department don't know if Brown has a lawyer.

Judge Joe Brown

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People lay down in a pedestrian zone as part of an art project in remembrance of the 528 victims of the "Katzbach" Nazi concentration camp, in Frankfurt, March 24, 2014. The inmates of the Katzbach concentration camp, a part of the former Adler industrial factory, were forced into a death march to the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau on March 24th 1945. Some 528 victims of Katzbach are buried at Frankfurt's central cemetery.
Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach

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First Protest

Westboro

Westboro Baptist Church protesters demonstrating outside of a Lorde concert in Kansas City, Mo., over the weekend were met with an unusual counterprotest.

On Friday, two days after the death of Westboro's founding pastor, Fred Phelps, about 20 members of the church - holding signs that read "God Hates Sluts" among other messages - were greeted by demonstrators with banners that read, "Sorry for your loss" and "Live your life and be awesome."

The counterdemonstration was, in part, inspired by the New Zealand pop singer herself.

After the Topeka-based church announced it would protest Lorde's show because "the young lady has not been taught and will not teach young women to be sober and godly," she encouraged fans on Twitter to attend the concert dressed in rainbow colors and kiss Westboro protesters of the same sex.

Westboro

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U.N. Draft

Climate Change

Global warming will disrupt food supplies, slow world economic growth and may already be causing irreversible damage to nature, according to a U.N. report due this week that will put pressure on governments to act.

A 29-page draft by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will also outline many ways to adapt to rising temperatures, more heatwaves, floods and rising seas.

Scientists and more than 100 governments will meet in Japan from March 25-29 to edit and approve the report. It will guide policies in the run-up to a U.N. summit in Paris in 2015 meant to decide a deal to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions.

The 29-page draft projects risks such as food and water shortages and extinctions of animals and plants. Crop yields would range from unchanged to a fall of up to 2 percent a decade, compared to a world without warming, it says.

Climate Change

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A scale model of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) 'Abyss' is displayed at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) in Kiel March 24, 2014. The 'Abyss', one of only three worldwide unmanned deep sea search submarines, may join the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The submarine is designed to perform hydrographic reconnaissance in all parts of the ocean in depths up to 6000 meters and can stay submerged for up to 22 hours.
Photo by Fabian Bimmer

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Saudi Clerics Urge Faithful To Shun

"The 99"

Saudi Arabia's top clerics have declared an Islam-inspired cartoon series, which earned praise from US President Barack Obama, a "work of the devil" that Muslims should not watch.

The television version of superhero comic book "The 99" is being aired by Saudi-owned satellite channel MBC3, based in Dubai in the neighbouring United Arab Emirates.

But in a religious decree carried by Saudi websites on Monday, the clerics ruled the series blasphemous because the superheroes of its title are based on the 99 attributes ascribed to Allah in the Koran.

"The 99 is a work of the devil that should be condemned and forbidden in respect to Allah's names and attributes," the clerics, led by the kingdom's mufti, Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, said.

"The 99"

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Anti-Fracking Activist In Court

Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania judge could rule as early as this week on whether to modify his five-month-old injunction banning an anti-fracking activist from approaching lands leased by a Texas-based natural gas producer that effectively prohibits her from visiting the local hospital or grocery store.

Judge Kenneth Seamans suggested at a hearing on Monday in the Susquehanna County Court of Common Pleas that he was not inclined to lift the injunction against Vera Scroggins, 63, of Brackney, Pennsylvania, but he was skeptical about the 150-foot (46-meter) exclusion zone from active drilling sites and access roads requested by Cabot Oil & Gas Co.

"What is the significance of 150 feet?" Seamans asked.

Scott Michelman, a lawyer with Public Citizen Litigation Group in Washington, D.C., representing Scroggins, noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has limited protest exclusion zones around abortion clinics to as little as 15 feet.

Scroggins said at a news conference after the hearing that she would not stop her activism against gas fracking, no matter what the court said. Asked if she was willing to go to jail, Scroggins said she was, if it was necessary to protect friends and family from the "contamination" of the shale gas industry.

Pennsylvania

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Contestants are pictured backstage before taking part in a body paint pageant during Expobelleza Andalucia (Expobeauty Andalusia) in the Andalusian capital of Seville March 24, 2014.
Photo by Marcelo del Pozo

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No Longer Bank-Robbery Capital

Southern California

Southern California used to be known as the "Bank Robbery Capital of the World."

Not anymore.

The number of robberies has declined, part of a larger trend that has seen crime rates fall across the nation, the Los Angeles Times reported in Saturday's editions.

There were 212 bank robberies last year - the lowest since the 1960s - in a seven-county region overseen by the FBI's Los Angeles office.

At the height of the robbery spree in the early 1990s, the region saw 2,641 bank heists. During the worst year in 1992, more than two dozen Los Angeles banks were looted in a single day.

Southern California

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Almost Unknown In Greece

Greek Yoghurt

It's a global health fad with millions of fans in Europe and the United States, and yet in Greece, many people have never heard of 'Greek yoghurt'.

Equally surprising in an age when billions are spent on marketing, the term 'Greek yoghurt' is basically a quirk of fate.

"What is known abroad as 'Greek yoghurt' is called 'straggisto' (strained yoghurt) in Greece," explained Prokopis Ploumbis, a cheesemaker in the rural outskirts of Athens. "The secret lies in the milk," he adds.

Creamy, rich in protein and low in fat, strained yoghurt made from cow's milk is increasingly prized by health-conscious consumers, and it has benefited from the growing popularity of the Mediterranean diet in the Western world.

And yet, in terms of marketing, neither the Greek state nor any Greek company had sought to stamp a patent on the product, unlike feta cheese which is now a protected EU term.

Greek Yoghurt

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In Memory

Patrice Wymore Flynn

Patrice Wymore Flynn, a Hollywood actress and cattle rancher who was the widow of swashbuckling screen legend Errol Flynn, has died at her seaside home in Jamaica. She was 87.

During her film career, she worked alongside actors such as Doris Day, Kirk Douglas and Randolph Scott. She played Frank Sinatra's girlfriend in the original "Ocean's 11" in 1960.

The Kansas-born actress met her future husband when she was cast as the female lead in the 1950 western "Rocky Mountain." They spent much of their nine-year marriage in Jamaica. He died in 1959.

For decades, Wymore lived on the 2,000-acre Errol Flynn Estates cattle ranch in Jamaica.

Patrice Wymore Flynn

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In Memory

Dave Brockie

Dave Brockie, who as "Oderus Urungus" fronted the alien-costumed heavy metal band GWAR during graphic and fake-blood-soaked stage shows for more than three decades, has died. He was 50.

Officers were called to Brockie's home Sunday evening and found the singer dead inside the home, Richmond police spokeswoman Dionne Waugh said Monday. Detectives don't suspect foul play at this time, and the medical examiner's office will determine cause of death, Waugh said.

The band founded in 1984 is known for its comically grotesque costumes, stage antics and vulgar lyrics. GWAR was nominated for a Grammy Award for best long-form music video in 1993 for "Phallus in Wonderland" but lost to "Diva" by Annie Lennox. It also was nominated for best metal performance for "S.F.W." in 1996 but lost to "Happiness In Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails.

GWAR released its latest album, "Battle Maximus," in September 2013 and recently toured Australia and Japan. Over the summer, the band held its 4th annual GWAR-B-Q at a small water park in Richmond and released its own canned craft beer for the occasion made by Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Fla. The band had announced plans for its 5th annual event last week.

Brockie remained a constant in the band that has had a revolving door of members, including lead guitarist Cory Smoot, who was found dead on the band's tour bus in North Dakota in 2011. He was 34.

The state medical examiner said Smoot, who had performed since 2002 under the name "Flattus Maximus," died of "coronary artery thrombosis brought about by his pre-existing coronary artery disease." But records showed that investigators found on Smoot a $5 bill with a white powder residue, a prescription bottle holding eight Oxycodone-Acetaminophen pills, a lighter and two empty syringes.

Dave Brockie

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