Hello and welcome to the the first ever weekly Big Donk news!

MONDAY NOVEMBER 9th

Prince went hard at his Live performance in vegas!

Prince apparently planned his performances the weekend before and the shows sold out in only 77 minutes!

ON A SERIOUS NOTE, On that same day 

From CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry

"Reports that President Obama has made a decision about Afghanistan are absolutely false," Jones, who generally keeps a low public profile, said in a prepared statement Monday night. "He has not received final options for his consideration, he has not reviewed those options with his national security team, and he has not made any decisions about resources. Any reports to the contrary are completely untrue and come from uninformed sources."

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10th

Celebrity Birthdays, November 10

Also, look what came out on DVD!

Movies on DVD

A morning show producer (Katherine Heigl), who can’t find love, is dragged into a series of excessive romantic tests by her chauvinistic correspondent (Gerard Butler) in The Ugly Truth.  Are there any movies this year without Gerard Butler?

Special Features: Select scenes and director commentary, deleted and extended scenes, alternate endings plus a gag reel (always good for a laugh), The Truth Is Ugly: with male and female povs and the art of laughter.

An elderly man ties thousands of balloons to his home and sets off to see South America.  Problem is, he’s not alone and it’s only after taking off that he discovers a boy has stowed away for the ride in Up.  Pixar animation rocks and Up is an example of why.

Special Features: Exclusive animated short film - Dug’s Special Mission, plus a funny theatrical short entitled Partly Cloudy.

The Accidental Husband is a comical cautionary tale about a radio talk show host (Uma Thurman) who advises one of her listeners to kick her boyfriend (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to the curb.  Naturally, the jilted guy sets out on a mission to get even.

Special Features: Matters of the Heart: a making-of featurette.

Spread, stars Ashton Kutcher as a man who has slept his way into a privileged life.  Spread is a look at the seduction of money, sex and Hollywood combined.

Special Features: Living The Dream - the making of Spread doc, the world According to Nikki where the viewer goes behind the scenes with actor/producer Ashton Kutcher, audio commentary with Kutcher along with co-stars Anne Heche and Margarita Levieva.

TV on DVD

JAG: The Ninth Season is five discs over 16 hours and 52 minutes worth of military courtroom action. That should be enough of a special feature for any fan.  This show was a hit with a consistent fanbase.

Nash Bridges: The Third Season revolves around a San Francisco police investigator (Don Johnson), who is successful in his career, but not so good in his personal life.  The DVD contains five discs.

Nostalgia Alert: Untouchables: Season 3, Volume 2 contains three discs of crime-solving adventures.  Special Agent, Eliot Ness heads up an team of dedicated agents to battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.  The series stars Robert Stack and is narrated by Walter Winchell.

DragonBall: Season Two is five discs of the anime series following the adventures of an uber strong boy searching for seven dragon balls, which can grant the owner any one wish.

Rating: TV14 Parents Strongly Cautioned - may contain materials inappropriate for children under 14.

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days in only two discs, but they’re stacked with memories.

Special Features: Over four-and-a-half hours of the best Sesame Street episodes, over 50 minutes of the rarest, never-before-seen backstage footage, interviews, pop-up facts the history of the show, segments from all 40 seasons, plus a limited-edition book and a sneak peek at a new computer-generated segment entitled Abby’s Flying Fairy School.

NORTH KOREAN AND SOUTH KOREAN SHIPS CLASHED AT SEA

A South Korean warship has exchanged fire with a North Korean naval vessel, reports from both countries say.

Officials in Seoul say the South Korean vessel opened fire when the Northern ship crossed a disputed sea border. The North Korean vessel then fired back.

North Korea insists its ship did not cross the border, and has demanded an apology, according to news agency KCNA.

The White House warned North Korea against any further action that could be seen as an "escalation".

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11th

The feed began in August after Halpern moved back in with his parents

A Twitter feed featuring pearls of wisdom from a 73-year-old father could become a family comedy on US TV.

Justin Halpern, 29, has become an internet star with more than 700,000 followers since he began posting his father's often profane words of wisdom.

The comments include: "The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain't spitting it out."

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Halpern will co-write the CBS project.

The trade paper also reports that Halpern will be a co-executive producer and that the creators of Will and Grace, David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, are on board to develop the comedy.

It will then become a pilot before executives decide whether to turn it into a series.

Halpern already has a book deal with Harper Collins - he will co-write the TV project and will also be a co-executive producer.

Halpern moved back in with his parents in San Diego in August and began the Twitter feed based on daily conversations with his dad soon after.

Here are some of Mr Halpern Snr's words of wisdom:

• "Oh please, you practically invented lazy. People should have to call you and ask for the rights to lazy before they use it."

• "Just pay the parking ticket. Don't be so outraged. You're not a freedom fighter in the civil rights movement. You double parked."

• "Don't touch the bacon, it's not done yet. You let me handle the bacon, and I'll let you handle... whatever it is you do. I guess nothing."

• "Your mother made a batch of meatballs last night. Some are for you, some are for me, but more are for me. Remember that. More. Me."

• "Why would I want to check a voicemail on my cell phone? People want to talk to me, call again. If I want to talk to you, I'll answer."

• "I turn the kitchen faucet on and the shower burns you, yes, I get it... No, I'm not gonna stop, I'm just saying yes, I get that concept.

A US man has been found guilty of the murder of a television newsreader he attacked at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas in 2008.

Curtis Lavelle Vance, 29, could now face the death penalty for killing 26-year-old Anne Pressly.

Doctors said Ms Pressly, a presenter on the KATV station, was brutally beaten around the head and face, suffering massive swelling of the brain.

Vance was also found guilty on charges of rape and burglary.

Ms Pressly was found by her mother who had gone round to her house on 20 October after she failed to answer her regular morning wake-up call.

She died five days later having never regained consciousness.

Shortly before the attack, the presenter had had a small role in W, the Oliver Stone film about President George W Bush, as a conservative commentator.

ALSO, THIS COOL BOOK CAME OUT!

I'll admit it, when I heard there was a "Dark X-Men" mini-series, I groaned. Another mini-series with the word "dark" in the title? Really? On the other hand, it was reuniting the "Captain Britain and MI13" creative team of Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk, so for that alone it was worth taking a gander at. As it turns out? This reminds me a lot of the first year's worth of "Thunderbolts" by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley, and I loved those comics.

The premise is a solid enough one; after losing half of his own X-Men team during the events of "Utopia," Norman Osborn's remaining roster (Mystique, Mimic, Omega, and Dark Beast) continue to work for him even as they're all falling apart. Cornell wisely takes a different tactic with each of the characters; Mimic and Dark Beast are at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of "hero" versus "villain," while Omega and Mystique occupy various shades of gray in-between the two. So while Mystique genuinely worries about Mimic's state of mind, at the same time she's also not against emotionally putting the screws towards the X-Men. Or even as Omega keeps talking about trying to make up for the bad things he's done in the past, his addiction to the energies from other mutants comes across more than a little worrisome.

It's actually fun watching these misfits of the mutant universe interact with one another. Cornell gives them a good rapport, one that is certainly aided by Kirk's slick pencils. You can see the worry on Mimic's face while in Moonstone's office, or when he starts catching a glimpse of his own future and begins to push Mystique away. I don't know if these characters could carry an ongoing series or not, but I can't help but think that based on this it would be worth a shot. Of course, Kirk's clean character designs are paramount to that idea; he's able to make them have just the right "good and wholesome" outward appearance that Osborn would demand for his X-Men team, and it's a perfect contrast to the darkness that resides in the hearts of characters like Dark Beast and Mystique.

I also have to give Cornell credit for bringing back a semi-obscure X-Men character here. Not only does the character fit the whole "dregs of the mutant universe" tone of the book, but there's even a connection between this character and a member of the team. (One that I'd actually forgotten until it's alluded to by the character.) It's a nice usage of past continuity, and it promises to be fun as the book moves forward. I've been saying lately that I'm burnt out on "Dark" books from Marvel, but for "Dark X-Men" I'm more than willing to make an exception.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12th

I know we are all sick of this Balloon  Boy crap, but here you go!

Falcon Heene's alleged balloon flight triggered a media storm in the US

The US parents who triggered a major alert by claiming their six-year-old son was adrift in a helium balloon are to admit charges, their lawyer says.

Falcon Heene's mother is to admit false reporting to authorities and his father will admit attempting to influence a public servant.

Falcon's disappearance became a media drama but he was later found at home.

Police accused the family of masterminding the 15 October incident as part of a publicity bid.

The couple, who have three children, will enter their pleas at Larimer County Court on Friday, a statement from their lawyer says.

Police search

The incident in Colorado led to a media storm.

The couple reported that their young son had been carried away by a helium balloon - whose progress was then tracked by news organisations.

Police carried out an intensive search for the boy after the balloon landed about 64km (40 miles) north of Denver and was found to be empty.

But it then transpired that the child was hiding at home and days later the couple were accused of an elaborate hoax.

According to a statement from lawyer David Lane, Mayumi Heene, 45, will admit a misdemeanour and her husband Richard, 48, a felony.

Mr Lane said Mr Heene agreed to "fall on his sword" by admitting the felony charge to prevent his wife - a Japanese national - being ordered out of the US.

The stipulated sentences for both are probation, his statement said, with the possibility of up to 60 days in jail for Mrs Heene and up to 90 days for Mr Heene.

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden had earlier suggested that the couple could have faced charges of conspiracy and contributing to the delinquency of a minor - which carry jail terms of up to six years.

By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website

The Ilulissat glacier has retreated by approximately 15km over the past decade

The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than in previous years and making an increasing contribution to sea level rise, a study has confirmed.

Published in the journal Science, it has also given scientists a clearer view of why the sheet is shrinking.

The team used weather data, satellite readings and models of ice sheet behaviour to analyse the annual loss of 273 thousand million tonnes of ice.

Melting of the entire sheet would raise sea levels globally by about 7m (20ft).

For the period 2000-2008, melting Greenland ice raised sea levels by an average of about 0.46mm per year.

If you multiply these numbers up it puts us well beyond the IPCC estimates for 2100 Professor Roger Barry

Since 2006, that has increased to 0.75mm per year.

"Since 2000, there's clearly been an accelerating loss of mass [from the ice sheet]," said lead researcher Michiel van den Broeke from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

"But we've had three very warm summers, and that's enhanced the melt considerably.

"If this is going to continue, I cannot tell - but we do of course expect the climate to become warmer in the future."

In total, sea levels are rising by about 3mm per year, principally because seawater is expanding as it warms.

Sea change

Changes to the Greenland sheet and its much larger counterpart in Antarctica are subjects commanding a lot of interest within the scientific community because of the potential they have to raise sea levels to an extent that would flood many of the world's major cities.

CLIMATE CHANGE GLOSSARY Select a term from the dropdown:GlossaryAdaptationAnnex I countriesAnnex II countriesAnthropogenic climate changeAtmospheric aerosolsBali action planBali roadmapBaseline for cutsBlack carbonBoxer-Kerry billBusiness as usualCap and tradeCarbon capture and storage (CCS)Carbon dioxide (CO2)Carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalentCarbon intensityCarbon leakageCarbon neutralCarbon offsettingCarbon sequestrationCertified Emission Reduction (CER)Clean Coal TechnologyClean Development Mechanism (CDM)Climate changeCFCCO2COP15Dangerous climate changeDeforestationEmission Trading Scheme (ETS)EU Burden-sharing agreementFossil_fuelsGeological sequestrationGlobal average temperatureGlobal energy budgetGlobal dimmingGlobal warmingGreenhouse gases (GHGs)Greenhouse effectIPCCJoint implementationKyoto ProtocolMajor Economies Forum on Energy and ClimateMethaneMitigationNatural greenhouse effectNon-annex I countriesPer-capita emissionsPre-industrial levels of carbon dioxideREDDStern reviewTechnology transferUNFCCCWaxman-Markey energy billWeather Climate change - A pattern of change affecting global or regional climate as measured by yardsticks such as average temperature and rainfall, or an alteration in frequency of extreme weather conditions. This variation may be caused by both natural processes and human activity. Global warming is one aspect of climate change. Suggest additions Glossary in full The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report projected a sea level rise of 28-43cm during this century. But it acknowledged this was almost certainly an underestimate because understanding of how ice behaves was not good enough to make reliable projections. By combining different sources of data in the way it has, and by quantifying the causes of mass loss, the new study has taken a big step forwards, according to Roger Barry, director of the World Data Center for Glaciology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, US. "I think it's a very significant paper; the results in it are certainly very significant and new," he said. "It does show that the [ice loss] trend has accelerated, and the reported contribution to sea level rise also shows a significant acceleration - so if you multiply these numbers up it puts us well beyond the IPCC estimates for 2100." Professor Barry was an editor on the section of the IPCC report dealing with the polar regions. On reflection An ice sheet can lose mass because of increased melting on the surface, because glaciers flow more quickly into the ocean, or because there is less precipitation in the winter so less bulk is added inland. The new research shows that in Greenland, about half the loss comes from faster flow to the oceans, and the other half from changes on the ice sheet itself - principally surface melting. The Grace satellites provide a twin eye on gravity at the Earth's surface Another analysis of satellite data, published in September, showed that of 111 fast-moving Greenland glaciers studied, 81 were thinning at twice the rate of the slow-moving ice beside them. This indicates that the glaciers are accelerating and taking more ice into the surrounding sea. Melting on the ice sheet's surface acts as a feedback mechanism, Dr van den Broeke explained, because the liquid water absorbs more and reflects less of the incoming solar radiation - resulting in a heating of the ice. "Over the last 10 years, it's quite simple; warming over Greenland has caused the melting to increase, and that's set off this albedo feedback process," he told BBC News. "Quite likely the oceans have also warmed, and it's likely that explains the [acceleration of] outlet glaciers because they're warmed from below." Data provided over just the last few years by the Grace satellite mission - used in this study - is giving researchers a closer view of regional variations across the territory. Grace's twin satellites map gravity at the Earth's surface in unprecedented detail; and it is now possible to tease out from the data that most of the mass is being lost in the southeast, southwest and northwest at low elevations where the air will generally be warmer than at high altitudes. Professor Barry cautioned that the Grace mission, which has produced valuable data about Antarctica as well as Greenland, has only a further two years to run, and that no replacement is currently scheduled.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13 

Red, Thor, Ninja Assassin: Nov 13th Comic Reel

2012 Rated: PG-13 "2012" revolves a family who goes on vacation in December 2012, just as the Mayan calendar is coming to a close. Over the decades, many have prophesized that the world will end when the ancient calendar ceases on Dec. 21, 2012.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox Rated: PG "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" is visionary director Wes Anderson’s first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop motion techniques to tell the story of the best selling children’s book by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach). Mr and Mrs Fox (Clooney and Streep) live an idyllic home life with their son Ash (Schwartzman) and visiting young nephew Kristopherson (Eric Anderson). But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox’s wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief and in doing so, endangers not only his beloved family, but the whole animal community. Trapped underground and with not enough food to go around, the animals band together to fight against the evil Farmers - Boggis, Bunce and Bean - who are determined to capture the audacious, fantastic Mr Fox at any cost.

Pirate Radio Rated: R In 1966 -- arguably British pop music's finest era -- the BBC played only two hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio blasted rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people -- more than half the population of Britain -- listened to these pirates every single day.

The Messenger Rated: R Foster will play a young Army officer who is forced to work with a partner he can't stand in the least desirable job in the military. His life becomes even more complicated when he falls in love with a soldier's widow.

Dare Rated: NONE Dare follows three very different teenagers through the last semester of high school. There are Alexa (Emmy Rossum), the overachieving good girl who longs to break out of her shell; Ben (Ashley Springer), the melancholy outsider confused about his sexuality; and Johnny (Zach Gilford), the rich kid who has everything, including good looks, but hides behind his bad boy persona. This unlikely trio fall into each other's lives and each other’s arms, making a last ditch effort to shake things up before they actually have to start living as adults. Director Adam Salky and writer David Brind takes us into some uncharted territory with fresh eyes and matter-of-fact authority. Sweet and sexy don’t always go together, but they work beautifully in this instance because the sexuality of the film is cleverly woven into the fabric of the story. You can ask why the kids are in such a hurry to experience adult feelings, especially when their parents, comically enough, are afraid to get in the way. All is answered in the nuanced performances of this exceptional cast. They capture perfectly a generation with nothing to rebel against except their self imposed inhibitions. By being keenly perceptive, director Salky stacks up countless priceless moments in crafting teen romance with a decidedly modern spin. In DARE, the kids do what they need to do to become the adults they should.

Women in Trouble Rated: R A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.

Love Hurts Rated: PG-13 The story centers on a newly separated father having to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart.

Uncertainty A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe Rated: NONE Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed “Chicago 8” activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer.