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by Mike Chomentowski
Excuse me for beginning this column with both an obvious observation and a gross understatement, but parenting is all about making important choices. Choices that are so big and so impactful that a paralyzing serum of indecision would run through you every time you stopped to consider the many ramifications, not to mention the lack of qualifications you have as the decision-making caretaker of a little human being.
So far I've discovered it is best to make these huge decisions quickly and just as quickly move on. If the choices you make for your child turn out to be wrong, well, that's what a second or third child is for.
Happily, there are some decisions that are almost utterly inconsequential to how well- or poorly-adjusted your baby will be in adulthood. One of these trifles is what your baby will wear during his first year of life. He doesn't care what he wears. And since babies constantly create so many stains in all shapes and colors (Jackson Pollock would be jealous), their outfits have a shorter lifespan than a major league baseball. With so many other issues for the new parent to ponder, the little dude's duds should be a no-brainer. Then how come my head hurts from all the different styles and choices in baby clothes?
From the beginning, the clothes our son Henry wore were simple: onesies in the "we're not finding out the sex of our baby beforehand" rainbow palette of white, green, or yellow. Note: if you're not going to find out the gender, you'd better like frogs and ducks because your family and friends are going to shower you with biblical-plague levels of frogs and ducks.
But once the baby outgrows the initial wardrobe, it's time to go shopping. This is where it gets "headachy." My wife and I were lucky enough to have friends who had a baby boy 18 months before us, and they generously lent us bins and bins of their infant clothes.
My tip to you: if you are having a baby and do not have friends or family with a large surplus of baby wear, I recommend that you go to a playground or kid-friendly restaurant and look for a nattily-dressed baby of the same sex as yours (if you don't know what you're having, find one of each gender) and befriend the couple with a stalker-like enthusiasm. Nine months later, sit back as your new best friends (trust me, they'll be your friends, people with kids love making friends with other people with kids) give you the shirt off their baby's growing back (ask for the pants too).
No matter how many outfits you've stockpiled from others, eventually you won't be able to help yourself and you'll feel the irresistible urge to dress your child in a style similar to certain people in your social circle (you). We have a boy, so I can't speak to what's happening in six-month old girls haute couture, but based on the shelves and racks in the guy half of Baby Gap, bulldozers, bulldogs, football players, "futbol" players, skulls, guitars, bears, baseballs, and cowboys are all the rage this season.
But looks aside, boys' outfits make all manner of outlandish claims. I can't swing a cat without hitting a little guy in a shirt proclaiming him to be a Future All-Pro, Champ, All-Star, MVP, or Team Captain. My son has one shirt that names him a Superstar All-Pro (ridiculous) as well as another that celebrates him as Daddy's All-Star. I'm the daddy here and I have no recollection of filling out a ballot or submitting any sort of official nomination to the All-Star people.
I certainly love my son, but as a life-long follower of multiple sports, I know you don't just throw around the "All-Star" designation willy-nilly. Also, he got this shirt pretty early on, like, two months into his life. He was a good, healthy baby, thank goodness, but I don't recall him setting any infantile records or putting together any Guinness-worthy streaks.
And since he's my only child, who else would I name as Daddy's All-Star? I mean, why don't we create the Henry Chomentowski award, for anyone under 2 named Henry Chomentowski and see who wins it next year? Really, Daddy All-Star laurels should only be awarded in households with more than one child. It doesn't have to be a big ceremony, just something after family dinner and before bath time, where one child gets the shirt while the others watch. To be fair and avoid inferiority issues, the other children also get a shirt or consolation bib, but theirs would read "brother/sister of an all-star" (to be clear I think they should read "brother/sister," not one or the other).
Not into jockwear? Fear not, there are alternatives to the sporty baby look. There's a whole wide web of options. Just Google "cool baby clothes" or "witty baby wear" and you'll find pages of sites that will sell you baby onesies with Johnny Cash or David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust) airbrushed on the front, or blazoned with ironic sayings like "I only cry when ugly people hold me" and "Diapers are so beneath me."
Last I checked, my son is not into the indie band Wavves, nor was he spotted sipping breastmilk in a Brooklyn speakeasy with Natalie Portman; he's not cool. He's amazing, he's adorable, but he's not ironic or sardonic or whatever it is when a seven-month old wears a Nina Simone romper. My son poops himself multiple times a day and that's just about the most uncool and least ironic thing you can do. And witty? My son laughs for five straight minutes every time the dog yawns. It's safe to say he's no Ira Glass.
Keep looking, but once you get to the matching Charles Bukowski(!) dad and baby t-shirt set you realize that these clothes aren't about the baby, they're about the parents: "Look how hip and iconoclastic I am, my baby's in a tee shirt with a silk screened parody of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe featuring Lindsay Lohan's police mug shot" (a steal at only $22.99).
While we're here, we must discuss Star Wars. No other beloved morsel of my generation's childhood has been removed from the fridge of nostalgia, reheated, and served to us to re-consume more times than Star Wars. Any child clothes purveyor worth its salt has a yoda onesie or Millennium Falcon bib in stock. Again, who is this for? My son was negative 33 years old when Star Wars came out. I'm sure he will get an enormous thrill looking at photographs of him in a Boba Fett sweatshirt in the same way I would have enjoyed looking at baby pictures of me in a "Gone With the Wind" Rhett Butler tee.
I better stop now. I feel a headache coming on and I think I hear my son waking up. If it is true that clothes make the man, then baby clothes make this man crazy.


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Joe Jonas, a third of boy band Jonas Brothers, will be a guest judge on tonight's episode of American Idol.
Joe reveals he had a great time as a guest judge once he learned to be candid with the contestants about their performances.
"[I was] a little nervous at the start because I was kind of afraid I was going to hurt people's feelings," said 20 year old Joe to Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show Monday morning. "You have to really be honest. At first, you feel bad, because you see these people come through, and they just want it really bad. The first few, I was like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're great.' Towards like five [people] in, you have to be like, 'I'm sorry, no. This isn't for you.'"
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Posted by S.R. on December 05, 2003
In Reply to: Who and whom posted by Strunk on December 05, 2003
: : Keith Jackson, a prominent American sports announcer had a dilemma a couple of weeks ago during a college football broadcast. While surmising possible matchups in the upcoming holiday football season, he said, "Whoever gets whom." He then corrected himself and said, "Whomever gets who." Are they not both incorrect or am I nitpicking here. I think it should be "Whomever gets whom."
: It's whoever gets whom.
: Subject verb object
: Who is always used for the subject of a sentence (in this case we are talking about the whoever that is going to receive whom).
: Whom is is used for the direct object of a sentence.
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The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology is mandated to 'Lay the foundation for the accelerated use and development of ICT in Namibia, and Coordinate information management within Government'. As a step to fulfil their mandate, MICT embarked upon the development of a comprehensive five-year Strategic Plan 2017-2022 through a process of strategic planning and application of strategic thinking.
Focused to contribute to the realization of Namibia Vision 2030
In order to evaluate its successes and overcome challenges in executing the mandate, the process of strategic planning commenced with the review of the previous Strategic Plan 2014-2017. This was done to appreciate the past and lay a foundation for the new Strategic Plan as well as to execute the mandate in response to attaining the country's Vision.
The methodology followed in formulating the 2017-2022 Strategic Plan was based on the Public Service Strategic Planning Framework. It was developed by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) to guide the development of strategic plans across the entire Public Service. In this regard, the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) will in the next five years deliver results on the following Pillars:
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- Accelerate ICT development, access and use for an inclusive ICT smart Namibia.
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- Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
- Letter is an intimate snapshot of a King most people don't know, scholars say
- King once hated whites, and his anger is on display in the letter, scholars say
- Letter is a "black man's cry of pain," says author of new book on King
By the time Clarence Jones reached him, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in bad shape.
He was unshaven, dirty and dejected. King had spent several days alone in solitary confinement with no mattress in a filthy dark jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama.
"Take this out of here," King whispered as he grabbed Jones' belt and stuffed balled-up newspapers and toilet tissue down his pants.
Jones, King's lawyer, wondered if King was starting to lose it. He didn't pay attention to what King had given him -- it was just a mish-mash of words and arrows scribbled on bits of paper.
"Not until five days later did I actually read a mimeographed copy of the letter," says Jones. "To be honest with you, I was more worried about bail money, not what he had written."
Millions of people have since read what Jones first ignored. As the nation commemorates the 50th anniversary of King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on Tuesday, the document has become an American epistle. It's considered a classic defense of civil disobedience.
But those who see King's letter as just a tract on nonviolent resistance make the same mistake King's lawyer made: They miss what's special about something that's right in front of their eyes, some King scholars say.
The letter is one of the most intimate snapshots of a King most people don't know: An angry black man who once hated white people and, according to one scholar, was more dangerous than Malcolm X, a man King admired.
"Before everything else, (the letter) is a black man's cry of pain, anger and defiance," says Jonathan Rieder, author of the just-released "Gospel of Freedom," which looks at the "furious truth teller" revealed in King's classic letter.
King's blackness -- his fierce racial pride, his distinctively black Christian faith and his belief that most whites were "unconscious racists" -- is on full display in his letter, scholars say. The anger that drove King's letter would become more prominent in the speeches King gave until, literally, his last hours, Rieder says.
"If there was a YouTube in 1968 and some of King's sermons would have been captured, he would have been seen as a Jeremiah Wright," says Rieder, invoking the name of President Obama's fiery former pastor.
Rieder says King's dual nature -- the "crossover King" with the refined, professorial manner, and the private, even sarcastic King -- take turns on center stage in the letter.
Around trusted friends, King was a man who smoked cigarettes, cracked people up with his impersonations of pompous black preachers, and once abruptly ended a meeting by telling his staff as he headed to a concert: "I'm sorry, y'all, James Brown is on. I'm gone."
"King was a bad-ass," says Rieder, a sociology professor at Barnard College in New York who spent a decade listening to King's private and public recordings. Rieder also wrote, "The Word of the Lord is Upon Me," a book that revealed King's backstage discussions with friends and colleagues.
Yet the "crossover King" -- the man who never embraced black separatism or abandoned nonviolence -- is just as authentic, Rieder says, and his moral passion has inspired nonviolence activism around the globe.
"King's words -- the bristling at those who tell the oppressed to 'wait for a more convenient season' ... has resonated among freedom fighters long after the 'Letter' was written," Rieder writes in "Gospel of Freedom."
Jones, the lawyer who smuggled the letter for King, stopped wondering about King's emotional stability after he sat down to read a typed-up version of King's notes.
Jones had given King's notes to a 17-year-old secretary at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization King led. The secretary deciphered King's scrawl and produced the written version. (She complained that King could preach, but his handwritten notes sure were hard to follow.)
"When I read it, I said, 'Oh my God, it's a masterpiece," says Jones, author of the 2011 book, "Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed America."
"He didn't have a book around him. He did this all out of his head. With all due respect to many things he's written, including the 'I Have a Dream' speech, the letter is one of the most profound (examples of) literature created in the 20th century," says Jones, who helped write King's "Dream" speech. Today Jones is a visiting professor at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute in California.
King's letter, though, didn't receive much attention when it was published by the Quakers as a pamphlet in May. It did not produce a breakthrough moment in King's campaign against segregation in Birmingham -- that moment came when the Rev. James Bevel, one of King's lieutenants, suggested using children as demonstrators -- and was initially ignored by the local and national press.
But in summer 1963, the letter started to gain traction, appearing in the Christian Century, Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Evening Post magazines. Rieder says it gained its widest audience as a chapter in King's popular 1964 book, "Why We Can't Wait."
One minister was so inspired by reading King's letter in the Christian Century that he wrote, "If the canon of the Holy Scripture were not closed, I would nominate it ... as an addition to the Epistles in the best tradition of the Pauline prison letters."
The clergymen King addressed in his letter had a more mixed reaction, Rieder wrote in his book. Some thought it worsened racial tensions, while another called it a "vicious document" and complained that he received letters throughout his life asking if he was still a bigot.
King on edge
The letter was written at a moment when King thought he had failed.
He and others had organized a massive protest in one of the most violently segregationist cities in the South. The local Ku Klux Klan was one of the most violent in the nation and had infiltrated the police department. The KKK had been suspected in so many bombings of Birmingham's black community that the city had been dubbed "Bombingham." (Four black girls attending a black church in Birmingham would be killed by a bomb five months after King's letter.)
But the protests faltered because activists couldn't summon enough participants and were running out of bail money for those who had been arrested. King decided he needed to do something dramatic. He provoked his arrest by leading a demonstration on April 12, 1963, Good Friday.
King's boldness may have been forced by events outside Birmingham. He had become a national figure eight years earlier after leading the successful bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that brought Rosa Parks to fame. Yet he'd had no major victories since then, and a younger generation of activists -- sit-in protesters and Freedom Riders -- were grabbing headlines and questioning King's toughness.
"They had taken away the initiative from King," says Clayborne Carson, editor of the multi-volume "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.," one of the most comprehensive collections of King's speeches and writings. King's late widow, Coretta Scott King, selected Carson to edit King's papers.
"Nearly everything that happens, nothing of it has anything to do with King," says Carson, director of the King institute at Stanford. "King needed a victory desperately."
King's desperation deepened after he was placed in solitary confinement in the Birmingham jail. He hated being alone. He depended on the company of people for emotional support after his many arrests. He also had been scarred by an earlier experience when he was driven to an isolated jail in rural Georgia where he thought he was going to be killed.
King also had been virtually isolated by his own community. Only about five black churches in Birmingham allowed King to use their churches for mass meetings. The rest wanted nothing to do with him, says Rieder.
"A lot of them were being cautious about politics," he says. "They were part of the professional classes and didn't want to rock the boat. And some of them didn't like the idea of the big man coming in to tell them what to do."
Depressed and angry and alone in jail, King read an ad that had been placed in a Birmingham newspaper by eight moderate white clergymen. The newspaper had been smuggled to King while he was in jail. In the ad, the clergymen called King an outside agitator and lawbreaker and counseled him to wait.
King's struggle with anger
King didn't take their advice. Scribbling in the margins of the newspaper or on whatever paper he could find, he became the angry prophet. He unloaded on the clergymen.
Writing only from memory, he deftly cited Socrates, St. Augustine, the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber and the theologian Paul Tillich. He was schooling the clergymen on their own faith.
At one point in the letter, he responded to criticism that he was advocating breaking the segregationist laws in Birmingham. How could a minister tell people to break the law?
King said there was a difference between just and unjust laws. An unjust law is one that a dominant group is not willing to follow itself.
"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal,'" King wrote. "It was 'illegal' to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
The emotional fire in the letter comes when King speaks as a black man, some scholars say.
King once detested white people because of his experiences growing up in the segregated South, Rieder says. Though King grew up in the black middle class of Atlanta, he experienced all sorts of racial humiliation and saw blacks treated with viciousness.
"He went through a period of hatred toward whites, and it took him some time to get over it," Rieder says. "He would say that when he saw Malcom X on television, there would be times when he would feel that old bitterness rising."
King wrote about that hatred as a graduate student at Crozer Theological Seminary, Rieder says. In a paper entitled, "Autobiography of Religious Development," King wrote about how shocked he was to hear how his parents had been insulted by whites. King was once ordered to give up his bus seat for a white person and cursed as a "nigger."
"As my parents discussed some of the tragedies ... I was determined to hate every white person," King wrote. "As I grew older and older this feeling continued to grow. ... I did not conquer this anti-white feeling until I entered college."
That bitterness pervades King's letter.
King wrote that it was easy for white people to tell blacks that they were moving too fast. But when you "have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will ... when your first name becomes 'nigger' and your middle name becomes 'boy' ... you will understand why we find it difficult to wait."
King declared in the letter that the "great stumbling block" toward black freedom wasn't the white racist "but the white moderate."
Rieder says King identified with black anger so much that when race riots spread across America in the mid-1960s, he refused to demonize black rioters. King once said that a riot "is the language of the unheard."
"It was his Christianity that wouldn't allow him to hate, but he wasn't alien to those feelings," Rieder says. "He wasn't above it. He never looked down on it."
King was particularly angry at the white church. He expected support from Southern white churches, but said in the letter that most "have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained glass windows."
He even wonders in his letter, as he reminisces about passing beautiful white Southern churches during his travels, if they share the same faith:
"What kind of people worship here?" he asks. "Who is their God?"
James Cone, the father of black liberation theology, says King was so angry because he loved his people.
"Love is passion," says Cone, a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. "If you love somebody and they are hurt, you are hurt, too. King identified with black people who had experienced injustice and humiliation. You can't look at that and not get mad. King's anger was expressed precisely in the letter."
Speaking the language of his people
King spoke the language of white theologians in the letter, but it showed he was bilingual -- that he was also fluent in the language of the black church, some scholars say.
In his book, "Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare," Cone talks about the fierce pride King had in his black heritage.
King talked about taking pride in his kinky hair, once told a group of ministers that Jesus "was not a white man" (he said Jesus' color was irrelevant), and in his famous letter and elsewhere King linked the civil rights movement with the black liberation movements in Africa, Cone says. (King attended Ghana's independence celebration in 1957 and Nigeria's in 1960.)
In the letter, King boasts about being the "son, grandson, and the great-grandson" of black preachers. Years before afros, dashikis and black power, King was invoking black pride.
"Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here," King wrote in the Birmingham letter. "Before the pen of Jefferson etched the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence ... we were here. For more than two centuries our forebears labored in this country without wages; they made cotton king; they built the homes of their masters while suffering gross injustice ... and yet out of a bottomless vitality they continued to thrive."
King's affirmation of the black church was a pattern. He often cited songs and phrases that were distinctive to the black church. He closed his "I Have a Dream" speech with the words from a Negro spiritual. The last sermon he delivered the night before his assassination -- his "I've been to the mountaintop" speech -- was built on riffs off the Exodus story, a biblical narrative favored by slaves.
"When your back is against the wall, you can't have a borrowed faith," Cone says. "It's not your intellect that gives you courage. What gives you courage is that which has come out of your own history, that which has brought you to the place where you are."
Cone says King's anger was more threatening to America than Malcolm X's.
"White people didn't like Malcolm, but they could tolerate him because Malcolm wasn't organizing black people in a way that would challenge the function of the government," Cone says. "King did."
Though King's letter made little difference in the Birmingham campaign, it did set up one of his greatest public moments.
"If the Birmingham campaign would have failed, there would not have been an "I Have a Dream" speech because he would not have been invited to give the "I Have a Dream" speech," says Carson, editor of the King papers.
King was given the coveted closing spot at the 1963 March on Washington, where he was free to improvise the "I Have a Dream" speech because he had no time restrictions, Carson says.
That speech is still more celebrated than King's Birmingham letter.
Rieder, the "Gospel of Freedom" author, says he knows why:
"It's King as a dreamer with black and white children holding hands," Rieder says. "It becomes part of the myth of a post-racial society: 'Aren't we fine people?'"
The letter, he says, undermines America's investment in its feel-good celebration of King. Many Americans aren't ready to meet the King revealed in his epic letter.
That King isn't a dreamer, Rieder says, but someone else: The angry black man who wonders what kind of God some white people follow.


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<big>*</big>costing 49 Euros per month or more can get the 100 GB backup space for free.
'''Important:''' please note that the backup space can only be used from your server as access is only permitted from within the Hetzner network.
'''Important:''' please note that the backup space can only be used from your server as access is only permitted from within the Hetzner network.
Version vom 20. Mai 2014, 08:30 Uhr
Applying for backup space
In addition to your dedicated/virtual server you can acquire a backup space to use for your own backups. This backup space can be ordered via Robot. To do so, click on the Server menu on the left, select your server and then go to the "Backup" tab. Here you can order different sizes of backup space, as well as up/downgrading your current backup space. The available backup space options can be found in the table below (all prices include 19% VAT):
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*A server costing 49 Euros per month or more can get the 100 GB backup space for free.
Important: please note that the backup space can only be used from your server as access is only permitted from within the Hetzner network.
Functions in Robot
In Robot (under the "Backup" tab) you can generate a new password for your backup space and also erase the content of the backup space. Furthermore, you can have your current backup usage displayed graphically. The data for this display is updated every 10 minutes.
Useful software
- Backup with Tartarus
- "On-the-fly" backup on FTP server
- Support of LVM snapshots
- Encryption (symmetrical or asymmetrical by key or password)
- Incremental security measures
- Based on prevalent Unix tools, enabling easy recovery from the Rescue-System (tar, bzip2, etc.)
- Profile configuration files
- Integrated "Hooks" make it suitable for special cases
- Removal of old security measures from the FTP server using the charon tool
- Tartarus backup configuration with examples and instructions
- Backup with Backup2l/gpg/ftp
- Duplicity – GPG encrypted, compressed, incremental backup from untrustworthy media or unencrypted protocols such as the FTP offered exclusively by Hetzner to the backup server. Also works with rsync and ssh.
General tips
Please note that the upload speed for the backup account is dependent on how many other clients are simultaneously accessing the backup server. Consider running your backups at another time if you experience performance problems.
It is also important to use the DNS names assigned to you (<username>.your-backup.de; only affects new backup space accounts) in place of the underlying IP address as the IP address can change.
You can access your backup space by means of FTP, SFTP and SCP. Please use the host names assigned to you (<username>.your-backup.de) as well as your username and password.
For SFTP/SCP it is possible to authenticate yourself with a Public Key. You can provide a Public Key in RFC4716 format in the file .ssh/authorized_keys on your backup space. You can convert your Public Key into RFC4716 format with the "ssh-keygen" program with the parameters "-e" and "-f <input pubkey>". It is important that the automatically inserted comment line be erased. You need to manually create the .ssh directory if required.
For example:
server# ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/root/.ssh/id_rsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: cb:3c:a0:39:69:39:ec:35:d5:66:f3:c5:92:99:2f:e1 root@server The key's randomart image is: +--[ RSA 2048]----+ | | | | | | | . = | | . S = * o | | . = = + + = | | X o = E . | | o + . . . | | . | +-----------------+ server# ssh-keygen -e -f .ssh/id_rsa.pub | grep -v "Comment:" > .ssh/id_rsa_rfc.pub server# cat .ssh/id_rsa_rfc.pub ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAz+fh731CVfH3FPM0vK5hX7NT5HogdBEQ4ryGJIeVMv mCQJWwrFtdWh1pXMyXsYzXq1xbjILgCZGn+H0qUBKopJaa/Pzsw5U0UyRgiFhU2k0eiHUq pkiixTbHcLsCj3kjAv5i07wZJ/ot246hLQD1PtSQtcX7nHvhdhenOTGO+ccpM2KEdX1E64 eaTtO9Bf7X4OTXnRxS7tjYH9sls5DOunpvoIZLvbmcVw1+wMdJBXOAU6/tnkN5N3mYE4Hu JjnRtBAI9MS9Tt3DNAp1K/udUHA6hfYf08fxYs9uwsCM793b7FczmVvHEIwIKszG7Jwiwo Dqit4EExR8bNNCeD6D3Q== ---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- server# cat .ssh/id_rsa_rfc.pub >> backup_authorized_keys server# echo mkdir .ssh | sftp email@example.com Connecting to u15000.your-backup.de... The authenticity of host 'u15000.your-backup.de (188.8.131.52)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is 3d:7b:6f:99:5f:68:53:21:73:15:f9:2e:6b:3a:9f:e3. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'u15000.your-backup.de ,18.104.22.168' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. firstname.lastname@example.com 's password: sftp> mkdir .ssh server# scp backup_authorized_keys email@example.com:.ssh/authorized_keys firstname.lastname@example.com's password: backup_authorized_keys 100% 406 0.4KB/s server# sftp firstname.lastname@example.com Connecting to u15000.your-backup.de... sftp> ls sftp> exit server#
Note: When uploading the Public Key you cannot use ssh-copy-id.
You have the option of integrating your backup space with Samba/Cifs. To do so you can use the following UNC path:
\\<username>.your-backup.de\backup mount.cifs -o user=USERNAME,pass=PASSWORD //USERNAME.your-backup.de/backup /PATH/FOLDER
Furthermore, with the following line of code in
/etc/fstab the backup space will be mounted automatically during boot time (it is just one line of code!)
//<username>.your-backup.de/backup /mnt/backup-server cifs iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=/etc/backup-credentials.txt,uid=<Systemkonto>,gid=<Systemgruppe>,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0
The file
/etc/backup-credentials.txt (mode 0600) should contain the following two lines:
username=USERNAME password=PASSWORD
On Debian-based distributions, the command is provided via the package cifs-utils (
apt-get install cifs-utils).
The direct use of rsync is not possible. The backup space can however be locally mounted using smbfs, sshfs or ftpfs, allowing a limited use of rsync. To take full advantage of rsync (such as incremental backups using hardlinks) an image file must be created, which should be mounted via loopback. In addition to this it is also possible to add encryption via encfs (Encrypted File System) to protect the data.
You can also access your backup space with the same hostname via IPv6. To get the IPv6 address you can for example use the following command:
dig AAAA <username>.your-backup.de
Determining memory usage
To find out how much free space you have (be it via backup scripts or status emails) you can use the "sftp" or "lftp" program:
apt-get install sftp echo "df" | sftp USERNAME@BACKUPSERVER echo "df -h" | sftp USERNAME@BACKUPSERVER echo "df -hi" | sftp USERNAME@BACKUPSERVER
Under certain circumstances lftp can give you incorrect values, which is why sftp is recommended. Following is the variant with lftp:
# apt-get install lftp
Determining memory usage:
# echo du -s . \ | lftp -u USERNAME,PASSWORD BACKUPSERVER
This is more readable with the parameter -h:
# echo du -hs . \ | lftp -u USERNAME,PASSWORD BACKUPSERVER
The following command allows you to use a hook to link with Tartarus, by inserting the following lines in the Tartarus configuration:
TARTARUS_POST_PROCESS_HOOK() { echo "du" | /usr/bin/lftp -u "$STORAGE_FTP_USER,$STORAGE_FTP_PASSWORD" "$STORAGE_FTP_SERVER" | awk -v LIMIT=100 '$2=="." {print ((LIMIT*1024*1024)-$1)/1024 " MiB backup space remaining"}' }


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The first clip from the vampire drama Byzantium has landed online. Directed by Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire), the film stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother/daughter vampire duo who arrive in a small British town where their secret doesn't stay kept for long. This clip is a scene between Ronan and X-Men: First Class star Caleb Landry Jones, and it's not exactly Twilight. We see Ronan's character react in slow motion to Jones dropping a fair amount of his blood on the ground. It's a bit haunting, a bit strange, and slightly disturbing, but I'm wholly intrigued.
Hit the jump to take a look. The film also stars Sam Riley and Jonny Lee Miller. Byzantium will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, which is currently underway.
Clip via Empire.
Here's the synopsis for Byzantium:
Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.


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Get fresh litter trays automatically delivered to your door. Choose when you'll receive each shipment and how many trays you need. Free shipping and 10% discount included!
If your pet eats a couple of crystals or small bites of litter, he should be perfectly fine. Just provide your pet with water. The crystals will pass through his system.
However, you should make sure your pet doesn't eat a large amount of litter. Contact your vet if you notice any changes in your pet's behavior or health or if you suspect your pet has eaten more than a few bites of any type of litter at one time.
If your dog often tries to eat your cat's litter, you can take extra steps to keep your dog out of the litter box.
Use a hood with the litter box.
Set the timer to sweep 5 minutes after your cat uses the box (for ScoopFree Ultra boxes).
Put the litter box somewhere your dog can't get to it, such as in a closet or on a raised shelf.
Put the litter box in a room your dog can't get in by closing the door and adding a cat door.
Use a pet proofing spray or barrier to keep your dog away from the litter box area.
Load it
Lift the box and slide in a disposable litter tray. The trays are filled with crystal litter that reduces odor 5x better than traditional litter.
Leave it
No scooping needed! ScoopFree automatically rakes waste into the covered trap, so you can leave it alone for weeks at a time.
Toss it
Every few weeks, throw away the old tray and replace it with a new one. Get new trays automatically with the new autoship subscription service.
Using the litter tray for more than 30 days per cat may result in urine leakage and tray breakage.Close
ScoopFree was designed for use with one or two cats. If you have more than two cats, you will need one litter box for every two cats.Close
Litter trays are 22" x 14-1/2" x 2-1/2". The usable litter bed area is 14" x 14". ScoopFree Free litter trays do not include lids and can be nested, allowing them to be stored in a smaller space.Close
ScoopFree's litter bed measures 14" x 14", and the exterior litter box dimensions are 27-3/8" x 19" x 7". The height is 16-3/4" with the optional hood installed (the Ultra comes with the privacy hood). ScoopFree Slide's litter bed measures 14" x 14", and the exterior litter box dimensions are 27" x 18-1/2" x 9"H.Close
When the litter is saturated or the waste trap is full, simply place the cover on the used litter tray and throw it away. Replace the used litter tray with a new one.Close
ScoopFree litter trays won't last forever, but each tray can give you up to 30 days of freshness without scooping. Here are a few tips to make each tray last even longer.
Setup is a snap. Simply lift the litter box and slide in the disposable litter tray filled with Premium Blue crystals litter for unbeatable odor control.Close
We recommend replacing the litter tray every 20 - 30 days for one cat, every 10 - 15 days for 2 cats, or every 7 - 10 days for 3 cats. You may need to replace the litter tray more often if you have cats who eat a diet high in crude fiber, ash, and byproducts; cats over 10 years old; cats with health problems; and kittens under 6 months old.
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The blue crystal litter is made of a silica gel. The crystals are non-toxic and perfectly safe for people and animals if eaten accidentally. Silica gel is an inert substance that's mined from the earth. A derivative of silica gel is used in many powered drinks and soups as an anti-clumping agent.Close
ScoopFree is rigorously tested in our lab for more than 100,000 cycles without failure or jamming.Close
You should change the tray when either of the following occurs:
ScoopFree has proven to be very safe in testing. Following are standard safety precautions:
The rake will not sweep if a cat is in the litter box because it will be obstructing the infrared sensors. The countdown timer will reset itself, so the rake will begin to sweep 20 minutes (or 5, 15, or 20 if you have ScoopFree Ultra) after your cat leaves the litter box again.Close
The Premium Blue litter tray comes preloaded with Premium Blue Crystal Litter that stops odor 5 times better than clay and clumping litter. All Premium Blue litter trays come with a lid. When the tray is ready to be disposed, simply cover it and toss it in the trash.
The Free Crystals Litter Tray is made from recycled materials (paper with no bleach added) and comes pre-filled with premium crystal litter free of perfumes and dyes. Free trays do not come with a lid so the trays nest, making them easier to stack and store in small spaces.Close
The serial number is located on a sticker on the bottom of the litter box (not the litter tray) on the same end as the indicator light. The serial number is listed after the letters "SN" at the bottom of the sticker. Click here to register your product.Close
You can purchase litter trays online or subscribe for our auto-ship service and get litter trays automatically delivered to your home. You'll also receive a 10% discount and free shipping with our subscription program. You can also find litter trays at certain pet specialty stores. Call a PetSafe authorized retailer near you to ask about local availability.Close
All ScoopFree litter trays work with all ScoopFree litter boxes, including ScoopFree Slide. They do not work with the Simply Clean or Sweep One litter boxes.Close
Cats over the age of 10 years old tend to be prone to kidney issues which account for increased urine output and decreased litter tray lifespan.Close
The green indicator light flashes for two reasons:
ScoopFree needs little cleaning because the parts most likely to get dirty are part of the disposable litter tray, which is thrown away. You may occasionally choose to clean ScoopFree as follows:
Do not immerse ScoopFree in water, spray it down, or expose it to excessive sunlight or moisture.Close
ScoopFree is designed to be left alone for up to 20-30 days with one cat. Most users never have to remove the waste because it is automatically raked into the covered waste trap built into the disposable litter tray.Close
Never add litter to your ScoopFree litter box or use another type of litter. The Premium Blue Crystal litter is formulated especially for ScoopFree. The amount is carefully pre-measured for optimal performance. Too little or too much litter may cause your ScoopFree to malfunction. You can add two handfuls of your old litter to the Premium Blue crystals in your ScoopFree litter box to help your cat adapt when you first use the box without risking malfunction.Close
Most cats adapt easily to ScoopFree boxes and use it within a week. If your cat needs help adjusting, try these tips:
If you have a kitten under 6 months old, we recommend leaving the box unplugged and scooping waste manually. You can start getting her used to using the litter box with these tips.
You will experience minimal tracking with the ScoopFree litter box due to our unique litter formulation. However, we do offer a hood for the Original system (this is included with ScoopFree Ultra) and an anti-tracking carpet for all 3 litter boxes. The hood does not fit ScoopFree Slide due to the manual raking mechanism. Purchase these accessories for the ScoopFree litter box to ensure litter stays where it should.Close
ScoopFree has a large 14" x 14" litter bed that can accommodate up to two large cats. Most large cats can also easily use ScoopFree with the hood.Close
We recommend ScoopFree litter boxes for cats over 6 months old.
If you have a kitten under 6 months old, contact Customer Care to ask about litter options for kittens.Close
The packaging may have changed, but the litter trays have exactly the same litter crystals your cat knows and loves. We're always working to improve our products based on your feedback, so we may upgrade the litter formula in the future. Learn more about our continuous product development process.Close
You can manage your account online at My Account. Log in with your email and password. Or contact Customer Care to manage your subscription by email or by phone at 1-866-738-4379. Customer Care is available Monday through Friday 8 am - 8pm and Saturday 9 am - 5pm EST.Close
You will receive a discount off your current subscription rate. That's just our way of welcoming you to the PetSafe family. Shipping will still be included at no charge, except for residents of Alaska and Hawaii. Tennessee residents will now be charged sales tax.Close
On your subscription billing statement, you will see charges from Radio Systems Corporation instead of PetSafe. Radio Systems Corporation is the parent company of the PetSafe brand and many other pet brands including Invisible Fence®, Premier®, Drinkwell®, and Innotek®. Learn more about PetSafe and Radio Systems Corporation.Close
Some cats may require an adjustment period to get used to a new litter box. Here are a few tips to help with the transition.
Animals learn by association , so you'll need to adapt what your cat is peeing on now to the litter box in small, slow steps. If at any time your pet goes backwards a few steps, this is an indication you're pushing him/her too far too fast. Slow it down or even back up a stage or two, then try again, but at a slightly slower pace. Your pet only wants to make you happy, so continual praise and reward is the key!
If your cat is peeing on an object such as a small area rug or box:
If your cat is peeing in a specific spot such as a corner or wall:
Remove the four green plastic shipping inserts on the bottom of the litter box. The rake should work correctly after you remove and discard these inserts.Close


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Lindsay Lohan said Wednesday that allegations that her car grazed a man's knee outside a Hollywood nightclub are "a complete lie."
Lohan went straight to her 3 million Twitter followers to respond to the latest in a long-line of car-related troubles for the "Mean Girls" actress and recent "Saturday Night Live" host.
"This is all a complete lie. I've been at community service," Lohan tweeted on her official account. "These false accusations are absurd."
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According to police, Lohan's black Porsche was surrounded by paparazzi outside the club at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. The man told officers her sports car grazed his knee outside the club.
Lohan drove off and a police report wasn't taken because the man, an employee of the Hookah Lounge near the club, wasn't hurt, Los Angeles police Sgt. Mark Ro said.
The 25-year-old starlet was trying to make a U-turn outside the Wilcox Avenue club.
"Space was tight," the sergeant said, adding that Lohan may have nudged the lounge employee's parked car, believed to be a Corvette, but it wasn't damaged.
"He came out and said, 'Don't hit my car,'" Ro said. "She was making a multipoint U-turn and photographers were in her way."
The sergeant said he didn't know who called police, but Lohan was gone when officers arrived.
"We did not take a report for hit-and-run," Ro said. "We didn't go looking for her."
TMZ.com first reported the incident.
Lohan and her publicist Steve Honig said she was trying to get to a friend's birthday party at the club, but she turned around when she was mobbed by photographers and never got out of her car.
"I attempted to wish a friend happy birthday, which I didn't even get to do because I was freaked out by all of the paparazzi," Lohan said on Twitter.
Honig said she and her Porsche did not make contact with anyone as she left.
"At no point was there ever any indication that her car hit anyone or anything," Honig said in a statement. "We are confident this matter will be cleared up in the next few days."
A phone message was left at the Hookah Lounge several hours before it opened, seeking comment from the man who was allegedly grazed. The call was not immediately returned.
Lohan has a history of bad luck with cars.
A woman claimed in a January lawsuit that she was struck by Lohan's Maserati while walking across a West Hollywood intersection in September 2010. Nubia Del Carmen Preza's lawsuit said she has suffered "disabling and serious personal injuries, pain, suffering and anguish."
Photographer Grigor Balyan also sued Lohan in January, claiming he was struck by a vehicle in which Lohan was riding in January 2010.
During a court hearing last month, a judge praised Lohan on her progress in a long-running drunken driving case.
The former Disney star has been under strict probation guidelines imposed last year, including therapy sessions and weekly stints working at the morgue.
Lohan still had to complete 14 days of work at the morgue and attend five therapy sessions before the judge ends her probation on the 2007 drunken driving case.
She is due back in court March 29 for what could be her final court appearance if she stays out of trouble.
Lohan would remain on informal probation for a case filed after she took a necklace without permission in January 2011, but she would no longer have to report to a probation officer or appear in court for frequent updates.


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One of the leading European auction houses: Since 1971 Reiss & Sohn is holding book and map auctions in spring and fall, devoted to the classical fields of antiquarian book trade: rare and valuable books, whole libraries and collections, illustrated books, atlases, manuscripts, incunabula, early printing, science, medicine, mathematics, botanical and zoological works, travel and geography, topography, literature, law and statesmanship, press books, rare maps and views of all parts of the world, decorative prints etc. Reiss & Sohn is regularly exhibiting at international antiquarian book fairs.
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Having tried pretty much every variation imaginable, I think what I'm going to do from now on is pony up for a case of the 500 mL PET bottles, tape it up well, and ship it as-is. A case of glass is flirting with the weight and size limits once you include all the packing material, and shipping is less expensive anyway.
I have shoved enough beer into a suitcase that it exceeded the checked bag weight limit. I ended up carrying (or rather my wife carried) a paper bag full of clothes onto the suitcase to get under the limit. I have no shame.


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Mr. Speaker, western Canadian farmers have worked with Alliance Grain over the last number of years.
Murad Al-Katib and his great team at Alliance Grain have been major processors and exporters of pulses. They now look with envy at moving into the durum market, the same market that they are feeding with their pulses. The same farmers who they are buying from can also work in the durum. Unfortunately, with the environment in Europe their major market is stagnant at this point. They have decided to delay the movement on the pulse/durum processing facility, but they look forward to the day when they can put shovels in the ground and put that facility right near Regina.


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Measles claims three more lives in Mohmand
[Dawn] The health authorities in
Mohmand Agency
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
postponed the scheduled
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
campaign starting from Jan 21 to cope with the measles outbreak which claimed lives of three more children in Haleemzai tehsil on Saturday.
On the directives of political agent Amir Ali Khan, the health authorities have started taking urgent steps to arrest the measles epidemic, which has so far killed over a dozen children and affected scores of others in last two weeks in the militancy-plagued Mohmand tribal region.
Residents said that the children who died of measles on Saturday included one-year-old daughter of Tahir Mohammad of Babikhel, five-year-old daughter of Wali Mohmmad and two-year-old daughter of Nasim Khan of Barokhel, while several others seriously affected children had been hospitalised.
They said that scores of children were affected as the measles broke out in various villages of Haleemzai, sub-district of Mohmand Agency. The residents complained that lack of medicines and other facilities at the health centres caused the deaths.
Anti-measles vaccination campaign has been launched in the agency headquarters' hospital in Ghalanai, which was inaugurated by agency surgeon Dr Dawood.
The surgeon said that over 40 teams had been sent to the affected areas in Haleemzai to administer anti-measles vaccine to children in the age bracket of nine months to 10 years.
Dr Dawood claimed that so far over 10,000 children had been vaccinated in different localities of the tribal agency.
He said that in this connection anti-polio campaign scheduled to be started from Jan 21 had been postponed for the time being so as to focus on protecting maximum children from measles.
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He looks pretty good in the pic they show of him. I for one am very glad to see him out and around now!
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06194/705562-66.stmLOS ANGELES -- Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger made his first public appearance last night since his June motorcycle accident.
Roethlisberger attended ESPN's ESPY awards show at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and left little doubt he will be ready to lead the Steelers in their Super Bowl defense.
Roethlisberger looked healthy and happy when he made a surprise appearance at the end of the show, which was taped last night but will not be shown on ESPN until Sunday night.
The Steelers won the award for the "Best Team," and coach Bill Cowher, along with a number of players -- Joey Porter, Jerome Bettis, Ike Taylor, Antwaan Randle El (who has since signed with Washington), Hines Ward -- took the stage. Bettis took the microphone and introduced Roethlisberger, who received a standing ovation as he walked across the stage.


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Mechanical Bull & The Return of the Repressed
New album: Mechanical Bull
Artist: Kings Of Leon
Label: RCA
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
The title of the latest Kings Of Leon album is one syllable shy of aptly describing what's left of the music industry. Even so, the band seems intent on hanging in there.
For a band to make it past the two-year mark these days borders on triumphant, as the title of Kings Of Leon's latest album may or may not attest to. As on previous releases by this band, "Mechanical Bull" isn't brimming with originality but there is enough earnest determination to pull the whole thing through to the land of the pretty good.
Caleb Followill is unquestionably one of the best vocalists in mainstream rock. For proof, give lead single "Supersoaker" a spin and revel in the lack of Fall Out Boy-isms in his delivery. The song itself is decently constructed, but its Caleb Followill's pure approach to the microphone that makes it something bordering on special.
Another thing "Mechanical Bull" has going for it is the interplay between guitarists Matthew Followill and Caleb Followill. There's plenty of barre chord power to be sure, but the subtle flourishes from the Townshend/Edge playbooks create a colorful audio palette throughout. Josh and Nathan Followill (bass, drums) shine brightly on the moderately funky "Family Tree", proving to be a solid rhythm section that can ride in the pocket with the best of them.
If this album has a deficit, it's a lack of memorable songs. There are no bad songs here, but there aren't many that seemed destined for anyone's long term memory. Arguably the best of the bunch is �Comeback Story,� with chiming guitars providing the perfect canvas to yet another sterling Caleb Followill vocal.
"Mechanical Bull" most likely won't win over any new converts, but if you're already a Kings Of Leon fan you'll find enough pleasure in it to warrant the purchase.
Classic album: Return Of The Repressed/The John Fahey Anthology
Artist: John Fahey
Label: Rhino Records
Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Even on his first commercially available recordings released in 1959, John Fahey's style and abilities set him apart from other musicians.
Fahey predominantly performed instrumental music on solo acoustic guitar, yet his work has an orchestral flair to it. Album titles such as "The Transfiguration of Joe Death" (1965) and "Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes" (1967) attest to Fahey's rapier wit, and his ability to weave upwards of half a dozen styles of music into one song with ease has yet to be matched by anyone.
Before the term "world music" was part of the lexicon, Fahey was using the blues as a means to pull classical and indigenous


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Home >> Course Descriptions >> College of Arts and Sciences
History of Africa Since 1880
Three semester hours. (FL-Even)
This course is a survey course of major events and processed that occurred on the continent of Africa after 1800. Focusing on select cases and examples that illustrate larger trends and issues, this course concentrates on the expansion of African trade and states, European colonization, African response to colonial rule, African independence movements, and recent challenges and events in African nations (including underdevelopment, poverty and genocide).
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Weekly auto rail, with car-buying tips, Car Q&A with Junior Damato and more.
Tip of the Week
If you're in the market for a new car (or used car), you're probably ready to visit a couple of dealers and take several test drives to get the feel of the car. But there are other details you really should consider before you make a purchase - things like potential auto repair costs while you own the car, if the manufacturer has recalls posted for any parts of the car and even what your new insurance costs will be. Here's a checklist to help you research the car you're interested in buying, just to make sure you're getting the best deal you can get.
- Before going to the lot, determine which car model(s) you are interested in. Then research them online - and this works if you're purchasing new or used. Check safercar.gov for consumer complaints and government notices about recalls - especially if you're shopping used. See if there are any articles about the manufacturing company that could affect your purchasing decision.
- Determine how expensive it will be for you to replace auto and body parts on the car as it ages. For example, will replacing the shocks or struts cost you around $200 or $1,400? Or will replacing the belts, brakes, headlights or radiator cost more than they would on a different model? For a great resource to compare the cost of replacement auto parts, look up the Repair Index at online auto parts retailer RockAuto.com.
- If you're buying used, check out the car's history. You can opt to purchase a vehicle history report from a number of different companies, or visit the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System at nmvtis.gov for additional information and resources.
- Check with your insurance agent about the potential higher expenses you may have to pay when you purchase your new car. A car model that is less safe or more expensive to repair will have higher insurance premiums, as will cars that are high on the theft list. Make sure those expenses don't go over your budgeted amount for insurance.
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Here are the five safest automobiles, according to a report from ABC:
- Ford F150
- Honda Civic
- Subaru Impreza Outback Sport
- Volvo XC60
- Volvo S80
Did You Know
Volkswagen reported a loss of $1.3 billion in net income in 2009 from the previous year.
Car Q&A
Q: I own a 2008 Ford Fusion. The Ford dealer uses an oil blend of part regular oil, part synthetic for oil changes. When I inquired about whether I should go all synthetic (having read your advice), the service manager said I could, but that their blend is "good enough." What do you think – stick with the blend, or go all synthetic? I have 18,000 miles on the car. Is it OK to make a switch now?
A: Full synthetic oil will be the best choice. Over the years both engines and oil additives have changed. I would recommend the switch and oil change intervals of 5,000 miles or twice a year if you drive less than 10,000 miles a year. The full synthetic will improve economy and is better for the engine.
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December 28, 2011
Red Sox-Yankees Will Wear 1912 Uniforms For April 20 Game
On April 20, 2012, the New York Yankees will play the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park at 3 PM.
* - The team was actually known as the Highlanders at that time.
According to the Red Sox's Fenway Park 100 website, both teams will wear throwback 1912 uniforms for the rivals' first meeting of the season. Boston won that 1912 game, the first major league game played in the new park, 7-6 in 11 innings.
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3 comments:
- BrooklynTrolleyBlogger said...
It's a great idea. Happy Birthday Fenway Park! If I were Commish for a day, I'd make the Yanks wear their Baltimore Oriole uniforms just to make them remember where they came from.
- December 28, 2011 at 1:57 PM
- Jere said...
The team said in their initial press conference that there will be four throwback games, but only mentioned one: "already on the schedule is May 2nd" vs. the A's. And a newspaper report I mentioned on my blog on December 12th said the Sox/Yanks will wear throwbacks for the pre-game ceremony on April 20th. Since the May game was mentioned as a throwback game but not the 4/20 game, I read what was on the Fenway 100 site as implying it was for just the pre-game. Looking at the Fenway 100 thing now, though, I read it as them wearing throwbacks for the actual game. Anyway, I'm hoping they're worn in the game.
As for the 3:05 start, I read an account that the 1912 game started at 3:00 but also one that said 3:15. Maybe they went 3:05 just to be in the right area. Or maybe they have an official source that knew it was 3:05.
- December 28, 2011 at 7:15 PM
- laura k said...
The unis are great but I hope they remember to put their faces on.
- December 29, 2011 at 8:47 AM


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During a lifetime under the glare of the spotlight, Elizabeth Taylor's ethereal, relentlessly expressive violet eyes saw as much as they said.
As a young star, Taylor witnessed the last of the Golden Age of Hollywood, when movies were the universe, actors were the stars – and she was a supernova who lit up movie screens around the world.
At the height of her fame, Taylor saw personal tragedy unfold before her as she embarked on a series of star-crossed marriages that turned her into fodder for the nascent mass-media gossip machine.
In middle age and beyond, she saw her career tank as she became a supermarket tabloid staple whose personal strife – from her weight to illnesses to addictions to divorces – played out for tawdry entertainment.
With her death Wednesday at age 79, Elizabeth Taylor left us as both one of the last links to the Hollywood of old and as the prototype of the modern celebrity.
That's a function of a life in the public eye solidified on the big screen with Taylor's star-making turn at the tender age of 12 in "National Velvet" and ended with her death as a trending topic on Twitter.
Even during her final years, her trips in and out of hospitals were reported by the online and TV celebrity news outfits that her public travails helped spawn.
But in an era where infamy is too often mistaken for stardom, Taylor still stands out as a one-of-a-kind legend: From the start, she burst with an irresistible beauty and talent that was captured on celluloid and splashed onto the screen, larger than life.
Those violet eyes proved alluring and versatile, piercing hearts and breaking them, revealing everything from fire to vulnerability. Those eyes told us nearly all we needed to know about the spunky heroine of "National Velvet," the woman in the middle in "Giant" and the sultry woman on the edge in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
The public watched Taylor's every move, fascinated as much by her troubles as accomplishments – perhaps more so at times. Her most notorious failure, 1963's expensive mess, "Cleopatra," ultimately overshadowed the impact of what would be her last great performance three years later as a woman unhinged in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
The outpouring of accolades for Taylor in death is all the more remarkable considering that her run as a movie powerhouse was effectively over before her 40th birthday, half a lifetime ago.
Life after screen triumphs couldn't have been easy for Taylor, who took on an unfortunate new position in the popular imagination, going from Hollywood legend to Hollywood joke. John Belushi, in drag, mocked her as a chicken-chomping glutton on "Saturday Night Live" in 1978. Her eighth and final marriage, in 1991, to a construction worker 20 years her junior whom she met in rehab, became a punchline. Larry Fortensky, after all, was a far cry from Richard Burton.
But Taylor, to her everlasting credit, used the spotlight that too often burned her to become one of the first celebrities to shed light on AIDS, the scourge that took her friend Rock Hudson. The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation went on to raise tens of millions.
One of Taylor's last public appearances came in September 2009, at the funeral of another friend, Michael Jackson, a fellow child performer turned adult superstar who also paid the price of fame in a way that perhaps only she could understand.
Unlike Jackson, though, Elizabeth Taylor proved herself a survivor.
Tabloid headlines fade, and the echoes of gossip become whispers with time. In the end, we're left with indelible screen memories and a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of celebrity, courtesy of a pop culture icon whose unforgettable eyes saw it all.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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catch (one) at a bad time
To encounter or try to communicate or work with someone at an inopportune time, such as when they are busy or preoccupied. I'll definitely help you with that report later—you just happened to catch me at a bad time right now. If Dean was grumpy, you probably just caught him at a bad time.
catch someone at a bad time
to attempt to speak or deal with someone at a time inconvenient for that person. I'm sorry. You look busy. Did I catch you at a bad time?


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Paul Reubens (b. 1952) is an actor best known for playing "Pee-wee Herman" in a stand-up act, three movies and his TV show, Pee-wee's Playhouse.
In 1986, he received an "Honorary Muppet Award" in Muppet Magazine issue 14. He appeared on the magazine's cover again in 1987, in issue 17. He had previously been paired with Robin the Frog for "The Second Great Muppet Look-Alike Contest" in issue 5.
In issue 20, Kermit spoofed Pee-wee, as Ker-mee Herman, where he wore a "Pee-wee suit" and imitated the "Tequila" dance scene from Pee-wee's Big Adventure in a biker bar full of Muppet Pigs.
In 1987, Reubens filmed an insert for Sesame Street as Pee-wee (on the set of Pee-wee's Playhouse), reciting his own version of the alphabet (First: Episode 2356). He also appeared in the first celebrity version of Put Down the Duckie.
Reubens played Professor Spatz in the 1997 Creature Shop film Buddy, and he performed the voice of a raccoon in the 1998 film Dr. Dolittle.
A betting form posted on the door of Pepe's stateroom aboard Disney Cruise Line's ship, the Disney Fantasy, lists Peewee Hermit as one of the competitors in Pepe's Crab Races. The name is a spoof of Reubens' Pee-wee Herman character.
Screen credits include appearances in Tim Burton's Batman Returns and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Roald Dahl's Matilda, The Blues Brothers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Among Reubens' television guest spots are appearances on Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, Murphy Brown, Mork & Mindy, Dolly, hosting Saturday Night Live and voice work on Rugrats and The Flintstone Comedy Show.
Reubens also hosted the short lived ABC game show You Don't Know Jack in the persona of the fictional host Troy Stevens.


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The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (1996)
Trevor Noah and The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Episode 1 - Paul GiamattiRelease Date: 2011-01-03
The media calls Barack Obama the "comeback kid," and Paul Giamatti says "rapscallion.
Episode 2 - Sen. Kirsten GillibrandRelease Date: 2011-01-04
Republicans focus on 2010 issues, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to reform the Senate filibuster rules.
Episode 3 - Jimmy WalesRelease Date: 2011-01-05
John McCain gets cranky, and Jimmy Wales imagines Wikipedia's relevance in 500 years.
Episode 4 - Patton OswaltRelease Date: 2011-01-06
Facebook refuses to disclose its financial results, and Patton Oswalt uses a prisoner ghostwriter.
Episode 5 - Denis LearyRelease Date: 2011-01-10
John Oliver reports on the Arizona shootings in his PJs, and Denis Leary discusses "Suck on This Year.
Episode 6 - Colin FirthRelease Date: 2011-01-11
John Oliver celebrates Verizon's iPhone announcement, and Colin Firth talks about "The King's Speech.
Episode 7 - Tim PawlentyRelease Date: 2011-01-12
Members of Congress introduce gun legislation, and Tim Pawlenty defends Republican rhetoric.
Episode 8 - Ron HowardRelease Date: 2011-01-13
John Hodgman makes NASCAR more exciting, and Ron Howard shares his enthusiasm for show business.
Episode 9 - Peter BergenRelease Date: 2011-01-17
Michael Steele steps down as RNC chairman, and Peter Bergen talks about progress in Afghanistan.
Episode 10 - Neil deGrasse TysonRelease Date: 2011-01-18
Jon promises Sarah Palin a classy conversation and reveals his love for Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Episode 11 - Paul ClemensRelease Date: 2011-01-19
Glenn Beck appears on the "Today" show, and Paul Clemens discusses blue-collar decline.
Episode 12 - Kambiz Hosseini & Saman ArbabiRelease Date: 2011-01-20
Steve Cohen compares Republicans to Nazis, and Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi call Jon a prophet.
Episode 13 - Anand GiridharadasRelease Date: 2011-01-24
Wyatt Cenac dons a parrot suit in Mississippi, and Anand Giridharadas tells Jon the truth.
Episode 14 - James FrancoRelease Date: 2011-01-25
A reporter searches for homeless talent, and Jon composes an ode to James Franco's Oscar nomination.
Episode 15 - Jonathan AlterRelease Date: 2011-01-26
Michele Bachmann looks off camera, and Jonathan Alter examines Obama's plans for the future.
Episode 16 - T. Boone PickensRelease Date: 2011-01-27
Bill O'Reilly defends his Nazi analogies, and T. Boone Pickens wants America on an energy plan.
Episode 17 - Bill GatesRelease Date: 2011-01-31
Egyptian forces use American tear gas canisters, and Bill Gates works on curing polio.
Episode 18 - Michael SteeleRelease Date: 2011-02-01
Conservatives turn into political hypochondriacs, and Michael Steele must prove his identity.
Episode 19 - Matthew PerryRelease Date: 2011-02-02
Republicans close the rape loophole, and Matthew Perry talks about his happy friend.
Episode 20 - Adm. Michael MullenRelease Date: 2011-02-03
Justin Bieber switches bodies with Jon, and Mike Mullen talks about the crisis in Egypt.
Episode 21 - Edward GlaeserRelease Date: 2011-02-14
Episode 22 - January JonesRelease Date: 2011-02-15
Episode 23 - Brian WilliamsRelease Date: 2011-02-16
Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News. The award-winning journalist and friend-of-the-show stops by.
Episode 24 - Ed GillespieRelease Date: 2011-02-17
Episode 25 - Lisa LingRelease Date: 2011-02-21
Episode 26 - Anderson CooperRelease Date: 2011-02-22
Episode 27 - Donald RumsfeldRelease Date: 2011-02-23
Episode 28 - Austan GoolsbeeRelease Date: 2011-02-24
Episode 29 - Howard SternRelease Date: 2011-02-28
CNN anchors take viewer requests, and Howard Stern hopes to talk to Charlie Sheen.
Episode 30 - Prince Zeid Ra'adRelease Date: 2011-03-01
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Representative, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan The U.N. representative of Jordan discusses King Abdullah II's new book, "Our Last Best Chance.
Episode 31 - Allison StangerRelease Date: 2011-03-02
Episode 32 - Diane RavitchRelease Date: 2011-03-03
Episode 33 - Sen. Rand PaulRelease Date: 2011-03-07
Episode 34 - Brian ChristianRelease Date: 2011-03-08
Author Brian Christian ('The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive').
Episode 35 - Aaron EckhartRelease Date: 2011-03-09
From 'Battle: Los Angeles,' actor Aaron Eckhart.
Episode 36 - Trey Parker & Matt StoneRelease Date: 2011-03-10
'South Park,' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Episode 37 - Sarah VowellRelease Date: 2011-03-21
Author, "Unfamiliar Fishes." The author discusses her new book about American colonization of Hawaii in the 1800s.
Episode 38 - T.J. EnglishRelease Date: 2011-03-22
The author of "The Savage City" discusses his new book about murder and corruption in New York City during the 1960s and 70s.
Episode 39 - Richard LewisRelease Date: 2011-03-23
Episode 40 - Bret BaierRelease Date: 2011-03-24
Episode 41 - Dr. Mansour O.El-KikhiaRelease Date: 2011-03-28
Republicans want to lower the corporate tax rate, and Mansour O. El-Kikhia discusses Libya.
Episode 42 - Miguel NicolelesRelease Date: 2011-03-29
Joe Biden works the room at a war speech, and Miguel Nicolelis helps paralyzed people walk again.
Episode 43 - Jake GyllenhaalRelease Date: 2011-03-30
Republicans appeal to their narrow base, and Jake Gyllenhaal considers marrying a stranger.
Episode 44 - Norm MacDonaldRelease Date: 2011-03-31
CIA operatives might arm Libyan rebels, and Norm Macdonald wants to blow up his stupid high school.
Episode 45 - Billy CrystalRelease Date: 2011-04-04
The comedian and actor discusses his role as a vampire in an upcoming Funny Or Die short.
Episode 46 - Colin QuinnRelease Date: 2011-04-05
The comedian discusses his one-man Broadway show and special on HBO.
Episode 47 - Mike HuckabeeRelease Date: 2011-04-06
The former governor of Arkansas discusses his views on government, families and his latest book.
Episode 48 - Jamie OliverRelease Date: 2011-04-07
The chef talks about healthy cooking habits and the upcoming season of his Emmy-winning series.
Episode 49 - Foo FightersRelease Date: 2011-04-11
The rock band visits to perform a song from their latest album.
Episode 50 - Governor Deval PatrickRelease Date: 2011-04-12
The governor of Massachusetts discusses his rise from poverty and what gives him hope for America's future.
Episode 51 - Tracy MorganRelease Date: 2011-04-13
The actor and comedian discusses his role in the upcoming animated film.
Episode 52 - Ricky GervaisRelease Date: 2011-04-14
The comedian talks about his new HBO special with Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis C.K.
Episode 53 - Gigi IbrahimRelease Date: 2011-04-25
John Oliver highlights royal wedding coverage, and Gigi Ibrahim talks about the Egyptian uprising.
Episode 54 - Elizabeth WarrenRelease Date: 2011-04-26
Olivia Munn looks into tiger mothering, and Elizabeth Warren wants to protect consumers.
Episode 55 - Bernie SandersRelease Date: 2011-04-27
Obama releases his long-form birth certificate, and Bernie Sanders fights for workers' rights.
Episode 56 - William CohanRelease Date: 2011-04-28
John Oliver talks to British taxpayers about the wedding, and William Cohan discusses Goldman Sachs.
Episode 57 - Philip K. HowardRelease Date: 2011-05-02
The U.S. kills Osama bin Laden, and Philip K. Howard explains why the government can't make choices.
Episode 58 - Rachel MaddowRelease Date: 2011-05-03
A royal wedding simulation reveals the consummation, and Rachel Maddow discusses Bin Laden's death.
Episode 59 - David BartonRelease Date: 2011-05-04
The White House hides the Bin Laden photo, and David Barton discusses religion in the Constitution.
Episode 60 - Joe MeachamRelease Date: 2011-05-05
Donald Trump steals the crazy oxygen from Sarah Palin, and Jon Meacham discusses the Civil War.
Episode 61 - Keira KnightleyRelease Date: 2011-05-09
Jason Jones visits the gayest city in America, and Keira Knightley learns about the Santorum.
Episode 62 - Will FerrellRelease Date: 2011-05-10
Republicans take credit for Bin Laden's death, and Will Ferrell simulates sex with a baseball bat.
Episode 63 - Albert BrooksRelease Date: 2011-05-11
Common causes controversy, and Albert Brooks talks about his Kate Middleton obsession.
Episode 64 - Kristen WiigRelease Date: 2011-05-12
Newt Gingrich announces his candidacy on Twitter, and Kristen Wiig talks about "Bridesmaids.
Episode 65 - Jon RonsonRelease Date: 2011-05-16
Osama bin Laden's porn stash is discovered, and Jon Ronson talks about psychopaths.
Episode 66 - Annie JacobsenRelease Date: 2011-05-17
Al Madrigal weighs in on immigration reform, and Annie Jacobsen talks about Area 51.
Episode 67 - Richard BeemanRelease Date: 2011-05-18
Newt Gingrich outrages Republicans, and Richard Beeman discusses religion in government.
Episode 68 - Lisa P. JacksonRelease Date: 2011-05-19
John Hodgman creates a Bin Laden conspiracy theory, and Lisa P. Jackson addresses EPA criticism.
Episode 69 - Jimmy FallonRelease Date: 2011-05-31
Sarah Palin takes a bus tour with her family, and Jimmy Fallon reads a thank you note.
Episode 70 - Bill MoyersRelease Date: 2011-06-01
Donald Trump eats his pizza with a fork, and Bill Moyers discusses good journalism.
Episode 71 - Tim TebowRelease Date: 2011-06-02
Eric Cantor wants to justify tornado relief, and Tim Tebow talks about his missionary parents.
Episode 72 - Maziar BahariRelease Date: 2011-06-06
Sarah Palin offers her version of Paul Revere, and Maziar Bahari recounts his Iranian imprisonment.
Episode 73 - Fareed ZakariaRelease Date: 2011-06-07
John Oliver promises to mock Anthony Weiner, and Fareed Zakaria discusses American labor.
Episode 74 - Larry KingRelease Date: 2011-06-08
Anthony Weiner apologizes to Bill Clinton, and Larry King prepares for his European stand-up tour.
Episode 75 - Howard WasdinRelease Date: 2011-06-09
Jon spins the penis wheel, and Howard Wasdin talks about SEAL Team Six.
Episode 76 - Alex Prud'hommeRelease Date: 2011-06-13
Nancy Pelosi calls on Anthony Weiner to resign, and Alex Prud'homme discusses water pollution.
Episode 77 - J.J. AbramsRelease Date: 2011-06-14
Republican hopefuls gather for their second debate, and J.J. Abrams talks about writing for TV.
Episode 78 - Trey Parker & Matt StoneRelease Date: 2011-06-15
Barack Obama visits Puerto Rico, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone become the Broadway establishment.
Episode 79 - Ray NaginRelease Date: 2011-06-20
Sam Bee reports on the smoking ban in NYC parks, and Ray Nagin discusses Hurricane Katrina.
Episode 80 - Cameron DiazRelease Date: 2011-06-21
PolitiFact checks Fox News for false statements, and Cameron Diaz removes Jon's stitches.
Episode 81 - Mitchell ZuckoffRelease Date: 2011-06-22
Greece protests proposed austerity measures, and Mitchell Zuckoff recounts an unlikely WWII rescue.
Episode 82 - Bruce HeadlamRelease Date: 2011-06-23
John Hodgman battles hackers on their own turf, and Bruce Headlam discusses "Page One.
Episode 83 - Jennifer AnistonRelease Date: 2011-06-27
New York legalizes gay marriage, and Jennifer Aniston talks about her movie, "Horrible Bosses.
Episode 84 - Louis C.K.Release Date: 2011-06-28
Rod Blagojevich has much to look forward to in prison, and Louis C.K. deconstructs fart jokes.
Episode 85 - Tom HanksRelease Date: 2011-06-29
Democrats and Republicans can't agree on the debt ceiling, and Tom Hanks discusses his movie "Larry Crowne.
Episode 86 - Bill KristolRelease Date: 2011-06-30
Mark Halperin calls Barack Obama a dick, and Bill Kristol discusses American war strategy in Afghanistan.
Episode 87 - Denis LearyRelease Date: 2011-07-11
Aasif Mandvi finds out why America's birds are dying, and Denis Leary talks about potato Vodka.
Episode 88 - Kid RockRelease Date: 2011-07-12
China might repossess America if Republicans and Democrats don't come to an agreement over the debt crisis, and Kid Rock is a responsible parent with his own brand of beer.
Episode 89 - Matthew RichardsonRelease Date: 2011-07-13
Jerry Seinfeld helps Jon repress his urge to make gay jokes about Marcus Bachmann, and Matthew Richardson reveals his plan to solve America's mortgage crisis.
Episode 90 - Sgt. 1st Class Leroy PetryRelease Date: 2011-07-14
The ongoing debt ceiling negotiations get heated, and Leroy Petry demonstrates his robotic hand.
Episode 91 - Daniel RadcliffeRelease Date: 2011-07-18
Barack Obama breaks out his I-mean-business podium and sets a deadline to solve the debt ceiling crisis, and Daniel Radcliffe talks about the last "Harry Potter" movie.
Episode 92 - Pervez MusharrafRelease Date: 2011-07-19
The Murdoch scandal turns ugly, and Pervez Musharraf enjoys a beverage and converses about Pakistan.
Episode 93 - Steve CarellRelease Date: 2011-07-20
Rupert Murdoch throws his employees under the bus, his wife pummels a pie-wielding idiot, and Steve Carell loves his papa bear.
Episode 94 - Scott MillerRelease Date: 2011-07-21
A battle for survival rages among GOP presidential candidates, Allen West doesn't hate women, and Scott Miller discusses William McKinley's ill-liked, anarchist assassin.
Episode 95 - Neil Patrick HarrisRelease Date: 2011-07-25
Wyatt Cenac proves his commitment to weather reporting, Samantha Bee and Jason Jones interview gay newlyweds, and Neil Patrick Harris talks Smurf sex and circus tricks.
Episode 96 - Juan WilliamsRelease Date: 2011-07-26
Barack Obama urges Americans to call their members of Congress about the debt crisis, and Juan Williams discusses the assault on honest debate.
Episode 97 - Rachel WeiszRelease Date: 2011-07-27
Conservatives in America live a lonely life of persecution, and Rachel Weisz discusses filming "The Whistleblower" in Romania.
Episode 98 - Peter TomsenRelease Date: 2011-07-28
Congressional Republicans try to rev support for John Boehner's debt ceiling plan with a clip from "The Town," and Peter Tomsen discusses the wars of Afghanistan.
Episode 99 - Freida PintoRelease Date: 2011-08-01
Congress reaches a budget deal that Tea Partiers don't like, Jon salutes the troops he met in Afghanistan, and Freida Pinto talks apes.
Episode 100 - Jason BatemanRelease Date: 2011-08-02
Joe Biden charges his Secret Servicemen rent, Aasif Mandvi explores the effects of wind farming on Florida's ducks, and Jason Bateman talks R-rated body swaps.
Episode 101 - Austan GoolsbeeRelease Date: 2011-08-03
A congressional super committee answers America's prayers, Wyatt Cenac interprets public sentiment, and Austan Goolsbee finds it hard to work in Washington.
Episode 102 - Dick DurbinRelease Date: 2011-08-04
Jon gives Barack Obama a birthday present, Jason Jones survives a vasectomy, and Senator Dick Durbin understands America's disappointment in Congress.
Episode 103 - Mark AdamsRelease Date: 2011-08-08
America's credit gets downgraded, John Oliver tells the single greatest story he's ever heard, and Mark Adams turns right at Machu Picchu.
Episode 104 - Jay BahadurRelease Date: 2011-08-09
Looters queue up in the U.K., Europe needs a war to cling to, and Jay Bahadur gets the pirates of Somalia talking.
Episode 105 - John CoffeeRelease Date: 2011-08-10
Wisconsin's populist-off comes to a head, Larry Wilmore wants Barack Obama to go blacker, and John Coffee pins down credit rating agencies.
Episode 106 - Michael WallisRelease Date: 2011-08-11
The Best F#@king News Team covers the Iowa straw poll, Megyn Kelly comes back fighting, and Michael Wallis reveals the real David Crockett.
Episode 107 - Ali VelshiRelease Date: 2011-08-15
Michele Bachmann wins the Iowa straw poll, Rick Perry announces his presidential candidacy, and Ali Velshi knows how to speak money.
Episode 108 - Matt LongRelease Date: 2011-08-16
The media loves Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry hits on America, John Hodgman rethinks bookstores, and veteran firefighter Matt Long survived being crushed by a bus.
Episode 109 - Michael SteeleRelease Date: 2011-08-17
The media shifts its focus to Paul Ryan, John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac explore racial language in politics, and Michael Steele discusses the field of GOP candidates.
Episode 110 - Anne HathawayRelease Date: 2011-08-18
Warren Buffett enters the "class warfare" fray, Fitch downgrades New Jersey's credit rating, and Anne Hathaway talks Scrabble strategy.
Episode 111 - Buddy RoemerRelease Date: 2011-09-06
The media scrutinizes Barack Obama's speech scheduling, James Hoffa Jr. upsets conservatives, and Buddy Roemer discusses his presidential candidacy.
Episode 112 - Dr. Sanjay GuptaRelease Date: 2011-09-07
Mitt Romney and Rick Perry battle it out, the U.S. Postal Service faces bankruptcy, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the terrifying effects of the World Trade Center's dust.
Episode 113 - Marion CotillardRelease Date: 2011-09-08
GOP candidates square off at the presidential debate, Rick Perry rickrolls Mitt Romney, and Marion Cotillard discusses her fear of contagion.
Episode 114 - Mike MullenRelease Date: 2011-09-12
Barack Obama hits congressional Republicans with his jobs speech, America should settle for a campaign-driven economy, and Admiral Mike Mullen discusses the troops.
Episode 115 - Jim LehrerRelease Date: 2011-09-13
CNN and the Tea Party team up, Rick Perry gets a beatdown, and Jim Lehrer discusses the tensions of presidential debates.
Episode 116 - CommonRelease Date: 2011-09-14
Dick Cheney's medical equipment humanizes him, the Democrats lose a congressional seat, and Common tries to make sense of it all in his memoir.
Episode 117 - Caroline KennedyRelease Date: 2011-09-15
Congress investigates the Solyndra scandal, Kristen Schaal unveils her pro-vagina campaign products, and Caroline Kennedy commemorates her parents' legacy.
Episode 118 - Ron SuskindRelease Date: 2011-09-20
Jason Jones reports on the end of "don't ask, don't tell"; Wyatt Cenac examines America's loss of UFOs to China; and Ron Suskind evaluates Barack Obama's confidence.
Episode 119 - Mitch DanielsRelease Date: 2011-09-21
Barack Obama presents his tax plan, the super rich risk extinction, and Mitch Daniels discusses the American economy.
Episode 120 - Jennifer GranholmRelease Date: 2011-09-22
John Oliver and Aasif Mandvi fight over sacred ground, Lewis Black evaluates the threats American kids face, and Jennifer Granholm discusses America's economic future.
Episode 121 - Ron PaulRelease Date: 2011-09-26
Rick Santorum thinks sex is a non-issue, the GOP calls for Chris Christie to run for president, and Ron Paul delivers his political message.
Episode 122 - Seth RogenRelease Date: 2011-09-27
Barack Obama gets heckled in Hollywood, Larry Wilmore discusses the black vote, and Seth Rogen explores the lighter side of cancer.
Episode 123 - Bill O'ReillyRelease Date: 2011-09-28
Pundits interpret Chris Christie's message, Sarah Palin weighs the presidential pros and cons, and Bill O'Reilly talks job creator taxes.
Episode 124 - Tony BennettRelease Date: 2011-09-29
An NYPD officer pepper-sprays protestors, the NRA unveils a conspiracy theory, and Tony Bennett collaborates with young artists on "Duets II.