Kasey Kahl Arrested For Drunken Disorderliness

Kasey Kahl, a Z-list reality star best known for his stints in The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad and Vienna Girardi, was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.

$h!t went down at a club in Fresno, Calif. Way to go man.

Law enforcement sources say Kahl was allegedly involved in an incident at a place called Club Habanos. So far, it's unclear what Kahl is accused of doing wrong.

He was definitely arrested though. Thanks to TMZ, we have this lovely photo, a new (and abnormally happy) addition to our celebrity mug shot gallery:

Kahl was booked at a nearby police station and released a few hours after this classic mugshot. Things couldn't have been too bad if he's smiling like that.

He just finished taping the inaugural season of VH1's upcoming Relationship Rehab with - you guessed it - former life partner/soulmate Vienna Girardi.

This is the last you'll hear of either of them until that show premieres ... probably. They're like bad pennies the way they always turn up somewhere.

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'Artist,' 'Tinker Tailor' up for UK film awards (omg!)

LONDON (AP) ? It's spry versus spy as frothy silent movie "The Artist" and moody thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" lead the race for the British Academy Film Awards, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.

"The Artist" received 12 nominations and "Tinker Tailor" 11, with each film up for best picture and director, and best actor nominations for leading men Jean Dujardin and Gary Oldman.

The other best-film nominees, announced at a ceremony Tuesday by actors Daniel Radcliffe and Holliday Grainger, were "The Descendants," ''Drive" and "The Help."

In a diverse field not dominated by any single film, there are also multiple nominations for "Hugo," ''My Week With Marilyn," ''The Iron Lady" and "The Help."

The nominations are another feather in the cap of "The Artist," a black-and-white French film about a silent screen star's fall with the rise of talkies that has become an unlikely hit. On Sunday it won three Golden Globes, including best musical or comedy film.

Director Michael Hazanavicius said Tuesday he and his crew had been "a bit mad to make a black-and-white silent film in 2011."

"We certainly hoped to find an audience, but the support we have received from so many people in so many different countries was unexpected, overwhelming and quite wonderful," he said.

The shortlist gives a boost to "Tinker Tailor," an atmospheric adaptation of John le Carre's espionage classic that has received rave reviews but has so far been snubbed during the U.S. awards season.

"Tinker Tailor" producer Tim Bevan said the film was a "particularly British cultural phenomenon. It's great that it's being recognized at the BAFTAs but that it hasn't at the Golden Globes is not surprising."

"'The Artist' seems to be the film with the momentum, and rightly so," he said. "It's been an OK year but not a brilliant year for movies, and 'The Artist' defines what cinema should be. It's brave, different, it's got a great shot."

The best actor contest pits Oldman and Dujardin against Brad Pitt for "Moneyball," George Clooney for "The Descendants" and Michael Fassbender for "Shame."

The best actress category includes two performers playing real-life icons ? Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn" and Meryl Streep as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady."

Streep, who has been widely praised for her performance, said the nomination was "thrilling news ... Not just for me, but for the film of which I am very proud, and for the hundreds of people who worked on it! Thanks, from a (New) Jersey girl."

The other nominees are Berenice Bejo for "The Artist," Tilda Swinton for "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and Viola Davis for "The Help."

The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Feb. 12. They are considered an important indicator of prospects at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles two weeks later.

In recent years, the awards, known as BAFTAs, have helped small British films gain momentum for Hollywood success.

In 2010, Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" won seven BAFTAs, including best film; it went on to take eight Oscars. Last year "The King's Speech" won seven BAFTAs and four Oscars, including best picture.

"My Week With Marilyn," the story of the movie legend's time shooting an ill-starred comedy in England, received six BAFTA nominations, including a supporting-actor nod for Kenneth Branagh, who plays Laurence Olivier.

He is up against Christopher Plummer for "Beginners," Jim Broadbent for "The Iron Lady," Jonah Hill for "Moneyball" and Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Ides of March."

The supporting actress category features Carey Mulligan for "Drive," Jessica Chastain for "The Help," Judi Dench for "My Week With Marilyn," Melissa McCarthy for "Bridesmaids" and Octavia Spencer for "The Help."

The multinational best-director contest pits Hazanavicius against Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn, for the turbocharged "Drive," Sweden's Tomas Alfredson for "Tinker Tailor," Britain's Lynne Ramsay for "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and Martin Scorsese of the United States for "Hugo."

The best British film category contains "My Week With Marilyn," racing documentary "Senna," sex-addiction drama "Shame," family tragedy "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."

Steven Spielberg's equine adventure "War Horse" was overlooked in the major categories but gained five nominations, including cinematography, visual effects and music.

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Straying Djokovic has easy win at Australian Open

Serbia's Novak Djokovic waves to the crowd as he celebrates his win over Italy's Paolo Lorenzi at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/John Donegan)

Serbia's Novak Djokovic waves to the crowd as he celebrates his win over Italy's Paolo Lorenzi at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/John Donegan)

Serbia's Novak Djokovic makes a forehand return to Italy's Paolo Lorenzi during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/John Donegan)

Russia's Maria Sharapova serves Argentina's Gisela Dulko during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

David Ferrer of Spain serves to Rui Machado of Portugal during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)

Argentina's Gisela Dulko hits a forehand to Russia's Maria Sharapova during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ? Novak Djokovic was having an easy time of it in his first-round match at the Australian Open, so he decided to experiment by coming to the net.

Like pretty much anything he does on the tennis court these days, it was an unqualified success. He easily beat Paolo Lorenzi 6-2, 6-0, 6-0 on Tuesday to advance to the second round and continue his quest to join Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal by winning three straight Grand Slam singles titles.

"When you're 3- , 4-love up, why not try some other things, something that is not characteristic for your game," said Djokovic, who usually doesn't stray far from the baseline.

"But I am definitely working on my net game, approaching the short balls as much as I can, and take my chances."

He took them well, winning 21 of 26 points he attempted at the net.

While Djokovic looks to extend his Grand Slam success, reigning U.S. Open women's champion and Australian hope Sam Stosur was beaten in the following match, and a full and partisan house at Rod Laver Arena could do nothing to help.

The sixth-seeded Stosur was outplayed by Sorana Cirstea 7-6 (2), 6-3. The Romanian later told the crowd that "probably the whole country hates me now."

Serena Williams, a five-time Australian Open champion who lost to Stosur in the U.S. Open final last September, was due to play her first-round match later Tuesday against Tamira Paszek of Austria.

Williams, who comes into the match with concerns over her left ankle after twisting it at the Brisbane International two weeks ago, didn't defend her title here last year because of injury.

Stosur's first-round loss mirrors that of Petra Kvitova, who went out in the first round of last year's U.S. Open after winning Wimbledon.

"I'm not sure if it's one of my biggest matches, but it feels like that now," said Cirstea, who had lost both her previous matches against Stosur.

Stosur saved three match points while serving to stay in the match, but finally lost it when her looping forehand drifted over the baseline. No Australian has won the national title since Chris O'Neil in 1978.

"Certainly not the way that I wanted, not just this tournament but the whole summer," to play out, Stosur said. "There's not any other word for it but a total disappointment."

Second-ranked Kvitova and No. 4 Maria Sharapova advanced. After surrendering her opening service game with a double-fault, Kvitova won 12 consecutive games in a 6-2, 6-0 win over Russia's Vera Dushevina.

Sharapova, a former Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, won the first eight games of a 6-0, 6-1 win over Gisela Dulko of Argentina in her first match since returning from a left ankle injury.

The 2008 champion needed just 58 minutes for the win and the only game she lost was on her own serve.

Other women advancing included No. 7 Vera Zvonareva, who beat Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 6-3.

No. 14 Sabine Lisicki, No. 17 Dominika Cibulkova, No. 27 Maria Kirilenko, Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak, Shahar Peer of Israel and 2000 Wimbledon semifinalist Jelena Dokic also advanced.

Joining Djokovic in the second round of the men's draw is the player he beat last year in the final here, fourth-seeded Andy Murray, who had a first-set lapse before beating American Ryan Harrison 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

Murray, who has lost in Grand Slam finals three times without taking a set, is attempting to become the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a major.

Andy Roddick easily defeated Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 to also move into the second round. The 15th-seeded American broke Haase to go up 3-0 in the final set with a running passing shot down the line that left his opponent hitting his head with his racket. He broke Haase again to close out the match.

No. 5-seeded David Ferrer advanced in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, over Rui Machado of Portugal. No. 17 Richard Gasquet, No. 23 Milos Raonic of Canada, No. 24 Kei Nishikori of Japan and No. 32 Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia also advanced.

Djokovic started his Australian Open defense wearing a pair of red, white and blue shoes with images of his three major trophies on the sides and a Serbian flag on the heels.

He gave up an early break but immediately broke back at love as he won the next 17 games, saving a break point in the opening game of the second set.

"I think it was a learning process for me in the last couple of years. I just have more confidence that I'm playing on right now," he said. "I just believe that I can win, especially against the biggest rivals in the major events."

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Palhares spectacular leg lock finishes Massenzio at UFC 142

Don't let Rousimar Palhares get near you. If he does you're probably going to walk away from the fight with a limp

Palhares flashed brilliance in taking down Mike Massenzio, quickly getting a hold of his leg and finishing things with a heel hook just 63 second into pay-per-view fight No. 3 of night at UFC 142.

Palhares (14-3, 7-2 UFC) has posted five submissions in seven UFC wins. The Brazilian has also had his brushes with controversy. He's held onto several submission finishes even after the referee stopped things. Tonight, he behaved himself.

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How Iranian nuclear scientist's assassination will affect Tehran's strategy

In Iran's eyes, the assassination of another Iranian nuclear scientist is proof that the West's carrot-and-stick policy has become solely punitive ? giving Tehran little reason to compromise.

With Wednesday?s assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist ? widely seen as the latest strike in a broader covert war ? and impending sanctions targeting Iran?s oil industry, tensions between the Islamic Republic and the West have escalated to their highest pitch in years.

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The assassins remain unknown, but Iran is vowing to strike back against the US and Israel for the killing of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.

Iran?s hard-line Kayhan newspaper stated that retaliation is ?legal under international law,? and that ?assassination of Israeli officials and military members are achievable. One Iranian intelligence official was quoted by the hard-line Rajanews warning that ?Iran?s reactions will extend beyond the borders [of Iran] and beyond the region.?

The fevered rhetoric is further proof, analysts say, that what began as a US-led carrot-and-stick policy designed to goad Iran into dropping any aspirations of developing nuclear weapons has turned into a purely punitive approach that leaves Iranian leaders little reason to cooperate.

?They have very few tools in their tool kit right now, and in a sense we have pushed them into a corner with sanctions,? says Anoushiravan Ehteshami, an Iran specialist at Durham University in England.

?So what else do [Iranian leaders] have to lose? If they retaliate, they can change the game a bit, and that?s what they are doing,? says Mr. Ehteshami. ?Of course, when you start changing the game a bit, you don?t quite control how much you change. You can unleash all kinds of forces.?

Indeed, the stage appears set for a highly volatile year, as both the United States and Iran prepare for important elections, Tehran faces key decisions on its nuclear program, and an Iranian-American convicted of spying sits on death row in Iran.

When Iran?s supreme religious leader looked out on his nation?s strategic landscape in mid-November, he saw many gathering storm clouds.

Enemies were readying tougher sanctions ? perhaps to embargo oil, Iran?s economic lifeblood. They were killing Iranian nuclear scientists. They had sent the computer virus Stuxnet to disrupt Iran?s uranium enrichment. Their agents were reportedly inside Iran, replacing street signs and bricks in buildings with new ones equipped with radiation detectors.

And the United Nations nuclear watchdog had just published details of alleged ?systematic? nuclear weapons-related work by Iran through late 2003, and declared of ?particular concern? more episodic work as recently as 2009 ? prompting fresh global opprobrium.

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MakerBot Replicator hands-on (video)

Sure, there's really not much of a DIY presence amongst the shiny new mass produced gadgets that line the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES, but MakerBot's public appearances at the show managed to leave an impression on just about everyone who spotted the company's newly announced Replicator 3D printer. Founder Bre Pettis stopped by our stage at the convention center's Grand Lobby, becoming our final interview of the show. We managed to get him to print something out during our conversation, but the real draw was, no doubt, the large plastic rocket ship lamp sitting at the end of the stage, a pretty solid visual reminder of the concept of being able to print out just about anything you can imagine with one of these devices.

MakerBot is one of the driving forces in bringing 3D printing to a mainstream audience, and the Replicator takes yet another big step in that direction. For starters, there's the fact that, unlike past products from the company, the units ship assembled, taking the difficult and time consuming construction process out of the equation -- at less than $2,000, it's also a good deal cheaper than a fair amount of the competition. Pettis also insists that the printing process itself is rather simple. There's an SD slot on the front -- pop in a card and choose a project from the simple LCD.

Gallery: MakerBot Replicator hands-on

There are pegs for the spools of plastic on the rear of the device. Opting for the $1,999 version lets you do dual extrusion -- using two different spools for two-color objects. When the printing starts, the plastic spools (made of ABS, the same stuff that Lego is made from) feed through tubes, getting melted down, hot glue gun-style. The layering of the plastic creates a ribbed effect on the objects, though Pettis points out that some people sand down their projects after they're finished.

The process is a bit time consuming -- Pettis was printing out a small plastic cupcake that didn't finish during our 20-minute-long interview. Apparently it takes closer to 45 minutes to finish something like that. But this model has a key competent its predecessors lacked: the ability to print large objects. You can print things up to the size of a loaf of bread using the Replicator.

We're working with MakerBot to get a unit that we can spend a bit more time with -- and believe us, we can't wait. In the meantime, watch Pettis give a guided tour of the device after the break.

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Myanmar starts freeing more political prisoners (Reuters)

YANGON (Reuters) ? Political prisoners began to walk free from jails around Myanmar on Friday in an amnesty that officials said could cover a total 651 inmates, as one of the world's most reclusive states opens up after half a century of authoritarian rule.

The United States and Europe have said freeing political prisoners is crucial to even considering lifting the economic sanctions that have isolated the former British colony, also known as Burma, and pushed it closer to China.

There was no official word on how many political prisoners would be included in the total, but among them was Sai Nyunt Lwin, 60, a prominent ethnic minority Shan politician and secretary of the former Shan Nationalities' League for Democracy (SNLD), who was released from Kalaymyo prison.

Contacted by telephone, he told Reuters: "I have confirmed all remaining leaders of the SNLD, including Chairman Khun Tun Oo, were released from different prisons across the country today."

"I was sentenced to 85 years but released today after seven years. I am in good health. I'm flying to Yangon this afternoon," he added.

Family members and prison officials said many more political activists, including members of the "88 Generation Students Group," young dissidents who led a pro-democracy uprising in 1988 when thousands of protesters were killed, would be released in the second major prison amnesty in four months.

Among them were Min Ko Naing, a top leader of the group, and Shin Gambira, a well-known Buddhist monk who led 2007 street protests, prison officials said.

Former Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, who was once the powerful chief of military intelligence (MI), was being freed from house arrest, a senior prison official said.

"Out of 651 released from different prisons today, 308 are what you call 'prisoners of conscience' like Min Ko Naing and Shin Gambira and 148 are former military intelligence personnel, including former MI chief and Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt," he said.

Appointed prime minister in 2003, Khin Nyunt began implementing a then much-derided seven-point "roadmap to democracy" but was purged the following year in circumstances that were never fully explained. He has been under house arrest since then.

Secluded Myanmar has initiated radical reforms since a civilian government was allowed to take power in March after almost half a century of rule by the military.

The authorities freed about 230 political detainees in a general amnesty on October 12.

Media curbs have been eased and the government has initiated a dialogue with Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has led the fight for democracy and was herself released from years of house arrest in late 2010.

Last month Hillary Clinton, the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Myanmar in more than 50 years, said Washington stood ready to support reforms and possibly lift sanctions.

The next major step in the reform process will be April by-elections in which Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) will take part.

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Min Ko Naing would be freed from Thayet Prison, a prison official and a member of his family told Reuters. He was arrested in 1989, released in 2004 and then arrested again in 2007 on charges of organising protests.

Shin Gambira was a leader of the All-Burmese Monks Alliance, which played a prominent role in the 2007 protests that were violently suppressed by the junta. He was 27 years old when he was sentenced in 2007 to 68 years in prison.

"Ashin Gambira will be freed later today," said a prison official in Myaungmya prison, southwest of the commercial capital, Yangon, using an honorific for monks.

An official from Taunggyi prison in Shan State said two other prominent activists, Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Ko (Brother) Jimmy, and Ko Zaw Thet Htwe would be freed there.

"We are going to take them to the bus terminal later this morning," the official said.

Ko Jimmy's wife, Nilar Thein, will also be released from Tharyawadi prison in the centre of the country, a family member said. Both celebrated members of the 88 Generation Students Group, they were given 65 years in jail for their role in the 2007 protests, a sentence that effectively orphaned their infant daughter.

Another 88 Group leader, Htay Kywe, was being released, his brother in law said, adding that he had heard almost all members of the group, including another prominent activist, Khun Tun Oo, were being freed.

The exact number of political prisoners is unclear.

Rights groups and the United Nations have put it at about 2,100. But Minister for Home Affairs Lieutenant General Ko Ko told U.N. Special Rapporteur Tom?s Ojea Quintana in August the number was 600, or about 400 after the October 12 amnesty.

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), a group that tracks prisoners, had identified 1,536 "political prisoners" before today's release.

But diplomats and some independent analysts question those numbers and say they depend on different definitions of political prisoners and whether rebels or those who used force to oppose the government are included.

A review of the AAPP's list of prisoners by European diplomatic missions in Thailand suggested the number of non-combatant "prisoners of conscience" appeared to be about 600, or about 800 before October's amnesty.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy provides help to more than 460 people it considers "prisoners of conscience," according to Naing Naing, the party official in charge of its assistance, adding that there "a few dozen" more who did not seek its help.

(Writing by Jason Szep and Alan Raybould; Editing by Robeert Birsel)

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