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Japan's Abe Appoints Ex-Rival as His No. 2
TOKYO—Japan's incoming prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Tuesday appointed Shigeru Ishiba, a former rival for leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party and a party heavyweight, to the party's No. 2 post, a key role in what will be a major challenge for the new administration—winning upper-house elections this summer.
Mr. Ishiba, who recently made headlines with aggressive comments calling for a weaker yen, will wield considerable influence over the LDP as it returns to power with Mr. Abe, who is set to be chosen prime minister by the lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
Mr. Ishiba's reappointment as LDP secretary-general is also seen as a move to capitalize on his popularity among rank-and-file party members, as well as his high profile among the public.
Following a landslide victory in the Dec. 16 lower house elections, the LDP now aims to win back a majority in this summer's upper-house election to give the government a free hand to pass most bills and banish the legislative gridlock that has hamstrung Japan for years.
"We were victorious in the general election, but only by winning next year's upper-house election will we be able to resolve the twisted Diet and move forward with our mid-to-long-term plans," Mr. Abe said during a news conference following his appointments to the party's top positions. He was referring to the situation by which no party controls both houses of parliament.
Of the party's top four posts, Mr. Abe filled two with women, something he said indicated that the party was changing.
Seiko Noda, who served as postal minister under the administration of former prime minister, Keizo Obuchi, in the late 1990s, was appointed chairwoman of the party's general council, while sixth-term lawmaker Sanae Takaichi was chosen as policy chief.
Mr. Ishiba, a former defense minister who narrowly lost to Mr. Abe in the LDP's presidential election in September, said on Friday he believed a suitable trading range for the dollar was between ¥85 and ¥90.
Mr. Abe had said throughout the parliamentary campaign that the yen needs to be weaker to revitalize Japan's economy. But it was the first time a senior LDP official had indicated a specific range.
Mr. Ishiba said excessive yen weakness would have downsides, such as higher prices of fuel imports. On Sunday, Mr. Abe also said a dollar at around ¥90 would support the profits of Japanese exporters.
The calls weakened the yen to a 20-month low of ¥84.95 against the dollar in Tuesday trading.
Mr. Ishiba headed the Defense Ministry for three terms—including a period before it was upgraded from an agency to full ministry status in 2007—and is known for his expertise in security issues.
Like Mr. Abe, he has been a strong advocate of revising Japan's constitution and lifting a self-imposed ban on exercising the right of collective self-defense, which requires allies to assist each other when they come under attack.
National security was a major focus for the LDP in the election campaign, as ties between Japan and China soured amid a territorial dispute over islands in the East China Sea claimed by both countries.
In response, the LDP promised to strengthen Japan's control of the islands while increasing military spending.
The LDP won an overwhelming victory in the election, securing 294 of 480 lower house seats. Adding those won by its ally, New Komeito, the total surpasses the two-thirds majority required to override upper house vetoes. However, governing parties tend to be careful about using such a supermajority out of concerns of being seen as too forceful, making the coming upper-house election all the more important.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party of Japan, which suffered a crushing defeat in the general election, also held its leadership election Tuesday. Former Trade Minister Banri Kaieda was elected the party's new president to replace incumbent Yoshihiko Noda, and is tasked with rebuilding the party ahead of the upper house election.
Mr. Kaieda, who worked as an economic commentator before becoming a politician, was making his second run for the party's top post after losing to Mr. Noda in August last year.
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I make music and sounds for video games. Which software should I install on Ubuntu Studio for this purpose?
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Generally, Ardour is the go-to DAW for Linux. As for software with more specific purposes, I would just search through the software center for whatever you're looking for and see which one you like best- maybe starting with the ones with higher ratings.
It is easier, with Linux, to take a more modular approach to music and sound development by using jack.

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I've been told recently that when you delete files they are not truely and completely deleted. Is this true? And, if so, is there a way to permenately delete files?
Deleting files
Thank you so much. I'll look for that application.
If you just Google "file shredder" the first link that comes up is a perfect program for what you are asking for


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Palladino: Injury behind her, Hearts' star set to go
It happened on the first day, at the first practice, in the first hour. Sacred Heart junior center Mikyla Jacobs screamed and then collapsed to the floor. Head coach Ryan Sullivan could tell by the sound she made that this was not good.
In fact, it was a disaster.
The 5-10 Jacobs, one of the state's best post players, suffered an ACL tear in her left knee. The knee was surgically repaired on Dec. 20, 2012, and for six long months the game Jacobs loved was torn from her life.
But she is back on the floor for 2013-14, older and a bit wiser.
"I had been through a lot in my junior season," Jacobs said. "This was a major setback. Colleges were coming at me and I was ready. And then, bam, I tear my ACL. It was the worst thing that could possibly happen to me. It took away something I loved."
Jacobs said she grew up a bit through this experience.
"It did mature me," she said. "It made me think about things. Everything happens for a reason. It was meant to happen. I learned patience. I learned that time heals all things."
Including left knees.
Playing with a knee brace, the Mikyla Jacobs who will torment NVL opponents this season was back on the floor last weekend at the city girls jamboree. She led all scorers on the day, and she did the things on the floor that Sacred Heart fans have come to expect. She rebounded, buried 3-pointers, handled the ball with the deftness of a guard and was a menace in the paint.
"It is so good to see her on a basketball court," said Sullivan, who admitted that he worried about his star on the first day of practice this season. "It was great to see her run around and get through those first moments at practice. We were all on edge. And when she went down that first time, to see her get back up, we all had the feeling that, 'OK, we can get through this now.'"
From a team standpoint, 2012-13 was a season of bandages and braces for the Hearts. Along with the Jacobs injury, Dionne Parker was lost for an extended period with a knee injury; Maryn Vaillancourt missed the postseason with an injury; and point guard Elena Colaci missed time due to injury.
The Hearts are healthy now. Last season, the team was happy to make the state tournament. This season, Sullivan said, "We shoot a little higher."
Jacobs is a big part of that.
"No one knows what she went through last year, in her personal life and basketball life," Sullivan said. "They don't know the type of kid Mikyla is. I want to see her experience her senior year of basketball, and come out on senior night, and enjoy everything she missed last year."
The college pursuit has also resumed. Sacred Heart University visited Sacred Heart High practices, and Niagara and Fairfield University are also in play.
But first, Jacobs is focused on the pure job of being in a Hearts uniform and playing basketball again in the NVL.
"I can't put into words what it feels like," Jacobs said. "You have to be on the court to feel it."
Jacobs is back, on the court and feeling it again.
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4 Nobel Prize Winners Who Were Clearly Insane
#2. Phillipp Lenard
Prize: Physics
Talked Out Of His Ass About: "Jewish science"
AIDS is still pretty controversial these days, but you know what's not controversial? Nazism. Shockley might have been a clueless eccentric and Mullis might be LSD-addled, but Phillipp Lenard was a plain old Nazi Aryan supremacist.
Sure, everybody in Germany was a Nazi back then if they wanted to get by, but he dove into the philosophy with gusto and joined the Nazis before it was the cool thing. So that just makes him a jerk. Here's what makes him stupid: He had previously won the Nobel Prize for his work on cathode rays, and as a Nobel Prize winner, he started to think he was an expert on "science," which as I've explained above, is like saying you're an All-Star in "sports."
Extending his reach beyond his grasp, Lenard went from thinking German people were superior to thinking that German people doing science could somehow make the actual science German. He felt that so-called German physics (Deutsche Physik) was superior to "Jewish physics" being espoused by wrong and stupid Jews like Albert Einstein.
Look at that drooling moron.
Being a physicist fully qualified him to say things like: "Science, like every other human product, is racial and conditioned by blood." It was an objective and unbiased opinion and surely had nothing to do with the fact that he had hurt feelings from a personal falling-out with Einstein.
Lenard's book. I don't know why anyone would take science advice from a guy who couldn't even spell "physics."
In 1932, by which time his opinions on the inherent nationality of physics had been made quite clear, Lenard received a Franklin Medal (a science award) from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, causing Ben Franklin's corpse to spontaneously combust.
Hell, Nicaragua was still honoring him in 2001.
To no one's surprise, the Nazis also liked Lenard's ideas. He was appointed Hitler's chief of Aryan physics, whatever the hell that means. His reputation helped make Deutsche Phsyik such a prevailing paradigm in Nazi Germany that brilliant scientists like Werner Heisenberg were harassed and ostracized for studying anything Jewish scientists like Einstein were studying.
Like bagel mechanics.
By the middle of World War II, however, even the Nazis realized that attaching "German" and "Jewish" labels to scientific facts was stupid. They encouraged Heisenberg's pursuit of "Jewish physics" theories which provided for most of the German advances in nuclear science, but it was too little too late. The actual Jewish scientists they had exiled long before had been hard at work in the U.S., eventually placing the war-ending weapon in American hands instead of in German hands, where it might have had changed history a bit.
Sometimes things have a way of working out.
#1. Brian Josephson
Prize: Physics
Talks Out Of His Ass About: Other physics specialties... and telepathy.
I've mentioned chemists talking out of their asses about biology and the like, but here's a physicist talking out of his ass about another physics specialty. Even within a field, there is so much sciencing to be done that one guy can't know it all.
Now Brian Josephson is an expert in a particular kind of physics, namely the kind that has the word, "Josephson" in it, such as the "Josephson effect," which he won his Nobel for, and the "Josephson junction" invention derived from it. The remarkable coincidence of discovering things that shared his name may have led him to a belief in destiny and the supernatural, which he quit physics to study after winning his Nobel.
He then adopted the customary crazy hair required for this career change.
As you can see from Josephson's Web page, he is the director of the Mind-Matter Unification Project at Cambridge University where he is working hard to keep Britain at the "forefront of research" on telepathy, as he wrote in his blurb for Britain's Royal Mail commemorative Nobel stamps in 2001. While scientists fumed about how terrible the stamp blurb was, British citizens paid their bills while reading Josephson's intriguing views on how quantum science may one day explain telepathy.
Nature addressed the issue with the hilarity you would expect from a science journal.
Josephson's homepage complains quite a bit about the party pooping scientists and how biased they are against telepathy. Closer to his area of expertise, he is also pissed about scientists pooh-poohing cold fusion (or bubble fusion in the most recent case). He's not just saying, "Let's consider the possibility," but really thinks telepathy and cold fusion have enough evidence that would "normally lead them to being accepted" if scientists weren't so closed-minded.
That is kind of a bold claim for a phenomenon like cold fusion which is basically the Michigan J. Frog of science--people always seem to discover it alone in their lab when no one is looking, and it never seems to work when other people are watching or try to do it themselves.
"I swear, he was emitting neutrons and tritium right before you came in."
If you still think there's a possibility that Josephson is just ahead of his time and the rest of us are too conventional to follow his vision, I'm going to have to point out this is a man who thinks Taco Bell serves "very good" Mexican food.
Or maybe it was just his subtle way of insulting Mexican food.
Clearly Josephson's overall grasp of science and cuisine (and web design) is tenuous, but he's still got a chance to turn things around. I suggest he buy this smoked seafood business.
It's clearly destiny.
Check out more from Christina, in 6 Ways World of Warcraft is Worse Than Real Life and The 5 Miserable VFX Jobs That Make Movies Possible.


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The Jeddah-based Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has expressed serious concern about reports that a far right group plans to hold an anti-Islam conference in Cologne, Germany in September.
In a statement issued yesterday, a spokesman for the OIC's Islamophobia Observatory in Jeddah said that the proposed conference intended to stir up anti-Muslim sentiments in Europe and that it would pose a threat to inter-communal peace and harmony in society.
The spokesman added that the organizers of the event are motive by racial hatred and xenophobia. He also expressed the hope that Germany and other European nations would strongly oppose the conference and reject those who seek to promote hatred and racism.


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Jefferson County
Damaged: Fire hydrant on state Route 213, Toronto, Friday.
Arrested: Donavon Fletcher, 3421 West St., Weirton, domestic battery, Feb. 9.
Arrested: Mark C. Smith Jr., Apt. B, 3162 Pennsylvania Ave., Weirton, domestic battery, possession of a controlled substance, protection from domestic violence violation and a capias arrest warrant based on an indictment out of Hancock County, Feb. 9.
Arrested: Kari Ann (Smith) Vigliotti, Apt. B, 3162 Pennsylvania Ave., Weirton, capias arrest warrant based on an indictment out of Hancock County, Feb. 9.
Arrested: David Campbell, 628 Florida Ave., Chester, public intoxication and trespassing, Thursday.
Theft: Marland Heights resident reported their vehicle was entered and items taken while it was parked in the Kroger parking lot, Tuesday.
Brooke County sheriff
Arrested: Krista L. Licht, 28, Wellsburg, leaving the scene of an accident and driving while suspended, Monday.
Cited: Chance B. Stewart, 30, 719 Hukill Run Road, Wellsburg, striking an unattended vehicle.
Theft: A sawhorse was taken from outside a garage at a residence on Butcher Lane, Follansbee, on Thursday.
Cited: Phillip G. McAllister, 52, RD 1, Colliers, driving with suspended license; Lorrie A. Cade, 42, 9077 Blue Ridge Road, Bloomingdale, failure to stop in assured clear distance ahead; John D. Polen, 23, St. Clairsville, speeding; Thomas J. Bartlett, 19, Apartment 1, 106 Cunningham Lane, expired registration and driving on a permit without licensed driver; Robert P. Sivdak Jr., 43, 309 County Road, Follansbee, speeding; Michael J. Vok, 47, 2632 Hollywood Blvd., Steubenville, speeding; Cristen L. Fish, 24, Apartment B, 833 Jeanette Ave., Steubenville, expired registered; Penelope J. Martin, 58, New Philadelphia, speeding.
Charged: Joshua B. Little, 26, 116 Lamar Drive, Wintersville, operating a vehicle under the influence and left of center, Feb. 9.
Theft: A house in the 1300 block of Walker Road was entered and copper pipe removed. It was reported Wednesday.
Theft: A house in the 700 block of Virginia Avenue was broken into and an iPad, Wii and jewelry were taken Thursday. Entry was gained through a rear window.


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As title says I'm trying to implement a secure cookie protocol
HMAC(username|expiration name|data|session key, sk)
It seams that session key is not constant during whole application session lifetime. Now I'm not sure what to replace it with, someone suggested to me to use browser agent but it doesn't seem unique or too hard to produce, anyone has any suggestion?
I also wonder where should I store server key. (Hard code it into source code, or there is a batter solution?)


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I am trying to connect to an external host that is living in the Internet.
From my laptop I can ssh fine. From an Ubuntu 12.10 server, the connection times out.
Since they're in the same network, they are originating from the same IP address.
The server receives the initial packets from the server but never acknowledges them (after looking at a tcpdump).
I'm having a hard time figuring this one out. Nothing in iptables, nothing in hosts.allow/deny...


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Crunchy Veggie Bites
Categories: Entertaining, Make ahead, Snacks
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Type: Appetizers and Snacks
Here's a great way to get everyone eating healthy broccoli and cauliflower florets.
Serves: Serves: 8
- 1 1/2 pounds broccoli florets (about 5 cups)
- 2 pounds cauliflower florets (about 4 1/2 cups)
- 1 cup egg substitute
- 1/4 cup evaporated skim milk
- 1 1/2 cups cornflake crumbs
- 1/2 cup grated nonfat Parmesan cheese
- 3/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
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- Preheat oven to 475F.
- Line baking sheet(s) with foil and spray with cooking spray.
- Place broccoli in microwave-safe dish; add several tablespoons water, cover and microwave 4 to 7 minutes, just until tender-crisp. Repeat with cauliflower. Drain well.
- Combine egg substitute and evaporated skim milk in medium bowl and mix well.
- Combine cornflake crumbs, Parmesan cheese, garlic powder and pepper on paper plate or plastic bag and toss until well mixed.
- Dip vegetables in egg mixture; roll in crumb mixture until coated. Arrange vegetables in single layer on baking sheet(s) and spray lightly with cooking spray.
- Bake 15 to 20 minutes, until crisp and browned. Vegetables can be frozen; thaw in refrigerator for several hours and reheat in 500F oven 7 to 8 minutes, until heated through.
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What properties should an ideal straight P-Box exhibit?
Straight P-Boxes should have only 1 input for each output and the same number of inputs as outputs.
Straight P-Boxes will also be invert-able.
This is not an answerable question. The requirements for a P-box (whatever that is) depend upon the cipher it is embedded in; that cipher imposes some requirements on the P-box. Therefore, you cannot do P-box design in the abstract, without knowing what the requirements are. There is no one, single answer that is valid for all ciphers.
P.S. Where did you hear the term "P-box"? As far as I know, this is not an accepted or widely used term, let alone "straight P-box".


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My requirement is to have a grid that moves along with a grid view when I scroll through a grid view. I used WinRT XAML Toolkit to get the Gridview descendants http://winrtxamltoolkit.codeplex.com/ - VisualTreeHelperExtensions.
This is the code I have to get the scrollbar within the GridView.
var scrollViewer = itemGridView.GetFirstDescendantOfType<ScrollViewer>();
var scrollbars = scrollViewer.GetDescendantsOfType<ScrollBar>().ToList();
var horizontalBar = scrollbars.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Orientation == Orientation.Horizontal);
horizontalBar.Scroll += horizontalBar_Scroll
My problem is - the scrollViewer is always null. Setting breakpoints I see, the count of ScrollViewers inside the GridView is 0.
How do I get a reference to the scrollbar inside the gridview? Or is there another way to move the grid element whenever the gridview is scrolled?


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A long-awaited component of the Brooke County Veterans Memorial Park was put in place Friday.
It's a 7-foot-tall cast bronze statue that pays tribute to the local men and women who have served their country, and its arrival came just in time for Sunday's Veterans Day services.
The work of Canadian sculptor Tim Schmalz, the statue will serve as the centerpiece of the veterans park, which is located near the paddle boats at Brooke Hills Park. Through its images, the statue conveys, according to Schmalz, the values and sacrifices of those who have served, including those who have given their lives.
Schmalz brings a great deal of experience to the veterans park project. In addition to a statue of Jesus Christ that stands at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, his work can be found at the Canadien Veterans Memorial in Ontario and the Mother Theresa Memorial in Calcutta, India.
While the arrival of the statue last Friday is a milestone for the project, there's still work to be done, according to President Howard Armstrong. Next up will be the installation of 267 granite pavers between the statue and the granite wall that bears the names of the 186 Brooke County veterans who have died while serving their country and the 27 who were prisoners of war.
The park is scheduled to be dedicated at 2 p.m. Sunday, Veterans Day, and serves as a fitting tribute to those from Brooke County who have stepped forward to serve their country.


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December 18 CLE Program Will Focus on Common Ethical Dilemmas
Pick up end-of-the-year CLE credits at the Rutgers Institute for Professional Education's "Second Annual ETHICS-fest: Analyzing Common Ethics Dilemmas." The program will be held from 9:30 am to 1 pm on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at Rutgers School of Law–Newark.
Participants will discuss everyday, but challenging, ethical dilemmas faced by attorneys. Designed for seasoned and new attorneys alike, the fast-paced, highly-interactive program will be structured around a series of vignettes and video clips modeled on common practice situations.
According to one participant in last year's similarly-presented ETHICS-fest, "This is the way to conduct discussions on ethics. I felt engaged and thought this was a good way to flesh out the rules in practical terms."
The program will be taught by Rutgers IPE Director Andrew L. Rossner, Associate Dean for Professional and Skills Education at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Rossner is founding director of the New Jersey Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, served as Deputy Director of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.
Pre-registration is required at www.rutgerscle.com. The program will provide 4.0 ethics CLE credit hours CLE (NJ, NY) and 3.5 ethics CLE credit hours (PA). The registration fee is $125.


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5 Ways Television Went Crazy Since I Quit Watching in 2003
Sometime in early 2003, I gave up television. It wasn't some conscious decision to try to become a more productive person or anything of the sort. I just found that the remote had become just an extra unused object on my computer desk that got in the way of my mouse, like job applications and intervention letters.
But eventually, you find that without it you miss out on a lot of social interactions, especially at work. Over seven years, I had a lot of moments that went like this:
"Did you see Family Guy last night?"
"No, I don't have TV. Do you play World of Warcraft?"
"No, I have sex."
So I decided to buy cable again, and let me tell you that after seven years without seeing a single episode of anything except by accident, I found myself feeling like a time traveler in a world where everything had gone just a bit insane.
It turns out that in the last seven years...
#5. We Turned Child Molestation Into a Spectator Sport
If you were to get into your DeLorean, drive back to 2003 and tell me that within a couple of years there would be a version of Punk'd where instead of playing pranks on celebrities with a hidden camera, they would trick child molesters into trying to molest a child, I would have laughed in your face and then stolen your car. You would have never caught me, either, because I would have gone one hundred years into the past and shot my own grandfather just to see what would happen.
Now it's not like I was living with the Amish and raising barns when To Catch a Predator was airing (2004-2007). I knew vaguely what it was and there were internet memes about it.
Is it too late to start the "Child Molestation Batman" meme?
But when I finally sat down to watch an episode and saw a completely naked child predator cover his pixelated erection while Chris Hansen said, "Surprise! You've been caught on the NBC MolestoCam!" I realized we had discovered something no dystopian novel about the future ever thought was possible.
I'm not judging -- I proceeded to watch every single episode in one night. My favorite part? In almost every case, the decoy (who'd contact the pervs in chat rooms) requested that the predator bring over something specific, I guess to prove that he was there to carry through with the encounter they discussed and the guy couldn't say, "No, I was just coming over to warn her about the dangers of chatting with older men online." But the requests kept getting more and more specific, from something simple like a package of M&M's, to an apple fucking pie. Sure enough, the guy showed up with one.
It got to the point that I was positive the staff was taking bets see who could get him to bring over the most ridiculous thing. "Can you bring over an old car muffler filled with centipedes? Or maybe a photo album with pictures of you molesting other children? That would turn me on sooooo much."
"Also, could you pick up some dry-cleaning for me? It's under the name 'Hansen'."
They haven't made any new episodes since 2007 but there have been hints about it coming back. If so, I'll goddamned be there this time. Hopefully they'll up the stakes, maybe having multiple predators all show up at the same house at the same time, or have a dude attempt to molest a child during half time of the Super Bowl.
But even if they do, I won't find that as disturbing as...
#4. Flavor Flav's Penis Has Apparently Launched a Media Empire
Competitive dating shows were already a thing when I was cut off from TV seven years ago -- The Bachelor has been grinding along since 2002. And like most Americans, I watched that show with one thought in my head: "Damn, these women are going after this guy like he's as handsome as Flavor Flav."
So maybe I shouldn't be surprised that in 2006 VH1 in fact did allow women to compete for Flav's heart in a show called So You Want to Fuck Flavor Flav? Gonna Have to Work for it, Bitches! which the network at the last minute changed to Flavor of Love.
We don't want to know what flavor this is.
I get it, it's a wacky reality show. I can roll with that.
But then I find out that not only did that show run for multiple seasons, but spawned a spin-off, Flavor of Love: Charm School and that one of the contestants from Flavor of Love got her own show, I Love New York (New York being the name of the woman). And then that one has run for multiple seasons.
Dammit all to hell.
And that Flavor Flav would have another show about how he was dating Brigitte Nielsen (Strange Love) even though I could have sworn she died like ten years ago. And then from that they spun off Rock of Love, starring Poison's Bret Michaels as Flavor Flav's Relief Dong. And from that they spun off Rock of Love Bus and Daisy of Love (again, starring one of the contestants) and Rock of Love: Charm School and about half a dozen others involving various combinations of those words.
What I'm trying to say is that after seven years I returned to TV to find that Flavor Flav's penis had spawned more television franchises than Law and Order. There are buildings full of people employed to run the many, many shows that a grew from America's insatiable appetite for women fighting to ride Flavor Flav.
Flavor Flav. Formerly of the rap group Public Enemy, the guys who worshipped Louis Farrakhan and who once made a video in which they assassinated the governor of Arizona by blowing up his car.
This is prophesized in the Bible. I'm sure of it.
What confuses me about these shows isn't that the women have to compete in wacky contests that somehow prove they are worthy mates ("All right, ladies, this is a game we call, 'Vagina Pole Vault.'") No, what I find fascinating is that these are continuing shows, and the contestants know it. In other words, at the end of each season of Rock of Love -- when Bret Michaels declares which woman has won the final round of Titty Billiards, and thus, his undying devotion -- it was understood that the show was coming back next year. With the same man. Which would require him to choose a new woman.
So basically in between seasons some VH1 executive would sit down with the winning girl and say, "You and Bret are going to break up this Summer. Or else you're going to be found dead floating in his fucking pool. You understand what I'm saying?"
No jury will convict this man.
Forgive me if this is old hat to you. Because I was also surprised to find that...
#3. We Are Obsessed With Wealthy British People Cursing at Middle Class Americans
I dropped my cable about six months after American Idol really started to become a big deal, but already everybody knew the name Simon Cowell. Still, you wouldn't think a British man who invited Americans on stage to sing, and then insulted them until they cried and ran away, would completely alter the entertainment landscape.
But I returned to television most of a decade later to find that we had gone crazy for sarcastic Brits shouting at common people to clean up their act. There are a dozen of these shows. The first time I saw Gordon Ramsay wheel around on some fresh-out-of-college prep chef and call her a "stupid fat fucking cunt" for burning a scallop, I knew TV had gone to a weird place.
Burn one more garnish, and I'll hate fuck everyone you've ever met.
TV executives apparently nodded and said, "Yes, we need more of that." So they gave Ramsay six fucking shows. Meanwhile, every competitive reality show needed a snide British judge -- So You Think You Can Dance has one, America's Got Talent has two. Project Runway switched things up with the German Heidi Klum.
But even stranger to me are the weird Kitchen Nightmares ripoffs. That's such a bizarrely specific formula to catch on (British person shows up at your place of business and curses at you until you get your books in order). On Bravo you'll find Tabatha's Salon Takeover, which is exactly Kitchen Nightmares, except it takes place in a salon instead of a kitchen.
Backtalk me one more time, and I set your fucking house on fire.
Tabatha is technically from Australia, but it's just Bravo so you take what you can get. On Lifetime they have The Fairy Jobmother, where the cursing British host yells at unemployed Americans until they get off their asses and find work.
If you had obeyed earlier, there would be six people in this picture.
Seriously, what the fuck? Why are they all British (or pseudobritish)? It's not because we hate foreigners and like to paint them all as dicks -- the cursing Brits are the ones we're rooting for. It's like the United States entered into some bizarre S&M relationship with England. All because we saw one snide British man and said, "Yes, we want more of that, all of the time."
GOD YES! We're 2/3rds there.
It'd be like jumping ahead in time to seven years from now and finding that half of the TV shows feature a guy walking with a limp and a cane, because it turned out that's all we liked about House.


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In 1 Cor. 9:27, Paul says:
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. (ESV)
What is meant by being "disqualified"?
In 1 Cor. 9:27, Paul says:
What is meant by being "disqualified"?
This is a fascinating passage. In 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, Paul is using an athletic metaphor as both an example of the Christian life and a particular defense of his ministry. Within that context, we could consider this a reference either to losing (not winning) - verse 24, failing to compete effectively - verse 26, or to being rejected from competition. (Perhaps for breaking the rules?)
The Greek word translated "disqualified" is αδοκιμος (Strongs G0096), meaning "failing the test", "rejected" or "worthless". This word appears 8 times in the New Testament. In addition to "disqualified", the NET Bible also translates it "unfit", "useless" or "fail". This is also the word translated "depraved" or "debased" in Romans 1:28.
(My personal opinion is that it's one of the first two that I mentioned above, since there are already verses in the passage that refer to them. Also, the two concepts are very closely related - if you don't compete effectively, you can't win.)
See Hebrews 12:1-2 for another passage with a very similar metaphor.


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The question is in the title. In order to give a bit more backround about the question, one knows that their are several different notions of an algebraic object. One approach is that of Lavere and his algebraic theories. One may also talk about monads. Another approach is an operadic/prop type approach. Yet another way to define an algebraic object is to use sketches of various types. Their may be other approaches that have not been enumerated. My understanding is that all of the things we would like to consider algebraic are not covered by one of these approaches. So this is where the question in the title comes from. Is their a context where all of the things we would like to consider algebraic fit into the aforementioned context? (of course I may be mistaken)
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Ezra Stiles was a Congregationalist minister in Newport, Rhode Island in the late 18th century. He was a frequent visitor to the Newport Synagogue and there met Rabbi Raphael Hayyim Issac Carregal, a meshulach [fund raiser] from Hebron. In his diary, Stiles relates a question he asked Rabbi Carregal that stumped the good rabbi. After the rabbi agreed that marriage partners would be reunited in the resurrection, Stiles asked whether a woman was married to more than one man, to whom would she be reunited in the Resurrection? Rabbi Carregal (whose name is misspelled at that point in the diary, but spelled correctly elsewhere) replied that there are several opinions, but he did not know the answer. What opinions was he referring to?
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Rav Pe'alim 2 - Sod Yesharim 2 says that she will return to her first husband since before Techiyas Hameisim the Neshama returns to the Neshama of the first spouse therefore it will remain so after Techiyas Hameisim. He further says that the (Guf) body that will get up for Techiyas Hameisim is a new Guf and the previous connection with the second husband will be broken.
Sefer Anaf Yosef - Sanhedrin beginning Perek Chelek says that the death of the first husband is similar to a divorce and the wife will remain with the second husband after Techiyas Hameisim.


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Mount Starr Climber's Log
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|up - east slope / down - west slope
Date Climbed: Sep 17, 2006
|With my mom. Good times (and views). Went solo over to Lookout Peak afterward.
|Posted Sep 19, 2006 4:32 pm
|Route Climbed: Mono Pass
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2006
|Climbed with my daughter Tessa. Her first Sierra peak at 3 years old. Of course she got a ride in the pack, but she laughed and sang the entire way up and down.
|Posted Sep 14, 2006 9:37 pm
|From Mono Pass
Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2006
|Did this as an afternoon hike after our usual late start. Not the most exciting, but worth doing at least once. The views from the summit are quite nice.
|Posted Jul 31, 2006 2:28 am
|Date climbed July 15 2006 Route climbed, mono pass to southern ridge, traverse ridge to summit to the north
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006
|Mono Pass still with snow. No register on Starr even though several have been left since 2004. Took a friend on this for his second summit hike ever.
|Posted Jul 18, 2006 3:45 am
|Route Climbed: West slope from Mono Pass Date Climbed: July 12, 2003
|Fun hike with great views!
|Posted Jan 2, 2006 3:34 am
|Route Climbed: mono pass Date Climbed: 7/22/2005
|I don't know where the register might be. Went from one end of the ridge and back and still couldn't find it.
|Posted Nov 8, 2005 6:56 pm
|Matthew Holliman
|Route Climbed: East Sand Slopes (ascent) / West Sand Slopes (descent) Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2005
|Glenn, his brother Curt, and I climbed this as a warmup for the TBolt-North Pal traverse the next day. We'd been told by a mutual friend--I'll won't name him here in order to spare Bob B. some embarrassment--that the East "Face" offered some nice scrambling. We found instead a hell of a lot of sand, and somewhere near the top about 20 feet of enjoyable contrived third class. At least the equally sandy slopes down to Mono Pass were pleasant to descend. Nice views from the summit--I thought they were probably better than those from Mills or Abbot.
We continued on to Ruby Ridge (some exciting cl 4-5 scrambling to gain that), but bailed on continuing on to Ruby Peak because of general apathy.
|Posted Oct 5, 2005 3:04 am
|Route Climbed: West slope from Mono Pass Date Climbed: July 20, 2001
|Great views.
|Posted Sep 27, 2005 7:30 pm
|Route Climbed: via Mono Pass Date Climbed: May31, 2002
|great views
|Posted Sep 8, 2005 11:28 pm
|Route Climbed: Mono Pass Date Climbed: August 4th, 2005
|Quick warmup hike from Mosquito Flats trying to get acclimated for my hike the next day to Hilgard and BCS. Fun ridgeline scramble to the highpoint.
|Posted Aug 18, 2005 3:15 pm
|Route Climbed: Ruby Lake and Mono Pass Date Climbed: July 6 2005
|Reached the pass after about 1/4 mile hike on snow. There was still significant amounts of snow around the pass but it is doable if you are careful! We didn't climb the summits as we didn't have gear with us and my friends were concerned about the late time of day. Ruby Lake still had much snowpack and was beautiful.
|Posted Jul 11, 2005 2:56 pm
|Route Climbed: Mono Pass Date Climbed: August 14 2004
|Just did this in May, went back to put the register book in a plastic bag. Clouds rolled in about 11am, completed the task and ran from lightning back to Mosq.Flat.
|Posted Aug 16, 2004 9:51 am
|Route Climbed: from near Mono pass Date Climbed: October 1995, June 2004
|10/95: Took some friends from work to Little Lakes Valley for fishing. Fishing was poor, so we scrambled up to Mt. Starr .
6/04: Climbed with 11 yr. old son Charlie (who i had a hard time keeping up with!)
|Posted Mar 4, 2004 6:07 pm
|Bob Burd
|Route Climbed: East Face (ascent), Mono Pass (descent) Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2003
|Yes, a great time with Dave (see below). Not sure what Southeast Chute of Ruby Wall Dave is referring to. We climbed the northeast slopes to the ridge and went above Ruby Wall to Ruby Peak. We'll get that last part between Ruby Peak and Mt. Mills next go around! Trip Report
|Posted Nov 12, 2003 10:22 pm
|Route Climbed: Mono Pass Date Climbed: September 15, 2000
|Beautiful hike up Little Lakes Valley. Actually did this hike on my honeymoon...wife was sick, and since I was in the neighborhood it seemed a fairly easy peak to bag. Great views and some nice fall colors.
|Posted Sep 26, 2003 12:26 pm
|Mike Zastoupil
|Route Climbed: Mono Pass Date Climbed: 8/17/03
|Spent the night at Ruby lake. I took my dog with me she did great until the pass. I was able to coax her about 3/4 of the way up and she fizzled on me. So no summit. I did meet a group of friends coming out from Fourth Recess. To much scrambling for a dog!
|Posted Aug 20, 2003 5:21 pm
|Scott M.
|Route Climbed: From Mono Pass Date Climbed: July 21, 2003
|Great little trip. Ran up to the pass. Scrambled to the top for great views and back to the pass. Had a nice run back down to Mosquito Flat. A fun little peak that doesn't take long.
|Posted Jul 26, 2003 7:02 pm
|Mike Zastoupil
|Route Climbed: Mono Pass Date Climbed: June 2001
|I have climbed this one several times. A nice side trip in or out of Fourth Recess. This is a scramble from the saddle on up. The view is worth it.
|Posted Jun 18, 2003 1:17 pm
|Route Climbed: mono pass Date Climbed: July 4 2000
|A really nice dayhike!! Great views. Hiked it with my wife before we got married, her first peak.
|Posted Sep 15, 2002 4:27 pm


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This kind of task is generally used when studying short-term memory. Typically, a subject is presented with some stimuli, followed by a probe item after a varying delay; subjects is then asked to recall (information retrieval) if the probe item was presented before (information encoding). A famous example is Sternberg experiment.
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Recently I saw some physical problems that can be modeled by equations with fractional derivatives, and I had some doubts: is it possible to write an action that results in an equation with fractional derivatives? For example, consider a hypothetical physical system with the principle of least action. Is there a "wave equation" with the time-derivative $3/2$? Does such a question make sense?
When I've seen fractional derivatives I've assumed that one place where they would naturally arise is in physical situations where there's a fractional dependency on time.
For example, random walks typically result in movement proportional to $\sqrt{t}$. Googling for "fractional+derivative+random+walk" on arxiv.org finds some papers that explore this:
So I'm wondering if there's a way of relating some of the diffusion versions of QM with fractional derivatives.
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6 Products Designed Solely to Make You a Worse Person
The beauty of the free market is that it doesn't judge you. In most American cities you can--in one shopping trip--buy a shotgun, shells, a children's swimming pool and enough tacos to fill it up, and nobody will raise an eyebrow as long as your card doesn't reject the charges.
But even the rational self-interest of the market takes the encouragement of our bad habits a bit too far. These are the products that seem specifically intended to turn us into a grave hazard to ourselves and others.
#6. Antipoleez Mints
The next time an officer of the law pulls you over after a long night knocking 'em back at T.J. McHooligans, or some nosy cop wants to know why you're carrying a naked mannequin down main street at 4AM, ditch the vodka vapors with these hobo-breath-eliminating mints.
Ah, hold on. We spoke too soon. The website plainly says "never drink and drive" at the top. So these aren't intended to aid illegal activity at all! What were we thinking? They're probably just so you can hide your drinking from your wife, or employer, or your fellow astronauts on board the space shuttle. "Antipoleez" is probably just "breath mint" in some other language. And it has a picture of a police officer on the label because... uh...
It will make you fear the law?
Anyway, the makers of the coyly named Antipoleez breath mints tout them as having a "unique combination of components (which) work to increase the consumption of breath producing molecules by the epithelium of the mucous coat of the upper respiratory passages resulting in clean, fresh breath." Which we think is just techno babble for "black magic and bull semen." And we're damned sure it won't help you pass a breathalyzer test.
#5. The Pissinator
You're up for that big job opportunity and suddenly "The Man" wants to pry into your "totally under control" chemically-enhanced lifestyle. Enter the Pissinator: everything you need to sail through a piss test, from designer bladder brew to an anatomically correct rubber dong.
According to the website, the device is absolutely not intended to be used for any illegal purpose, specifically drug tests. Their competition, the Whizzinator, got taken down by a federal prosecutor for selling drug paraphernalia, so you can see how the Pissinator people have to keep it on the down low (if you'd like to amuse yourself for an afternoon, try to imagine just one non-illegal, socially acceptable use of a prosthetic penis that fires someone else's urine).
All you do is strap the bag of piss under your shirt, snuggled all comfy under your armpit. A handy heat pack will keep the brew at the right temperature, and you can deposit your sample with a flow so "simple and realistic that even your own mother would not be able to detect that it is in-fact simulated." Oh, that's what it's for. So you can win the annual family Thanksgiving Piss Distance Contest without your Mom (who referees the event) noticing you're cheating. So there's one use right there.
Actually, the makers of the Pissinator also proudly advertise the device as an "ultra hygienic wet sex simulator (a.k.a. urinating device) designed for sensual pleasure." So for all you dreamers out there who prayed for the day you could play "Drug Test" with your girlfriend portraying you and you starring in the role of "toilet," your golden moment has arrived.
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Which of those two gentlemen said, "Inequality is the root of social ills"? And who said, "We cannot resign ourselves to the mind-set that says rising inequality is a necessary byproduct of urban success"? It's surprisingly difficult -- or not so surprising, I suppose, given de Blasio's ideological roots in South American activism and the social Gospel. Anyway, I got 9/10. Don't hate.
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just 6 out of ten.. my excuse is, I 'm 3000 miles from NYC and 6000 from Rome.. (-:
Here is another interesting juxtaposition. The Times, noting the emphasis Bill de Blasio placed on economic inequity, says it is stepping up coverage of poverty in New York City:
And Pope Francis also seems to call in his newly released letter for better news coverage of poverty:
"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion. Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality."
Intriguing justapositions indeed. A pope from South America who is an advocate for the poor and a mayor who believes in liberation theology. de Blasio is not allied with any churche while Bergoglio is the leader of the largest church. Both have Italian mothers. We have not had a pope like Francis who advocated for the poor like this. Same for the Mayor.
How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.
Solution: Government control of the news media so that the elderly homeless person's death is properly and respectfully reported. In addition, the stock market news must be reported with the proper perspective, including the fact that the exclusion reflects the inequity of our economic system (See Hugo Chavez and Joseph Stalin for models of how the economic system ought to be configured).
Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality.
Solution: Detain and transport those throwing away food to the appropriate camp for re-education. (See Pol Pot's techniques for pointers on how to do this)
Next problem?
Thanks, Bob. We do need a regular dose of Acton Institute kristyanitee a la "Fr." Robert Sirico.
No, Bob's comments, repellent as they are, represent a real alternative to the Acton Institute's spin, which would have you believe that, when properly understood, most of what Pope Francis is saying is perfectly consistent with the economic policies of the Republican Party. I find Bob's candor refreshing. Not for him the vain effort to rescue the pope from his foolish economic ideas. For him, the pope is an authority on all questions having to do with sexual morality but knows nothing about wealth and poverty.
Pope Francis does seem to be making some heaway on the right. The current First Things has an article about the Pope's economics that's quite encouraging. The "free market Catholic" author, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, tells us
"What in 2006 looked like the invisible hand of the market leading the financialization of the economy turned out to be a disastrous instance of crony-capitalist central planning. And when the Pope denounced it, I was among those condescendingly explaining to him that he didn't get it. What it turns out is that economists actually know very, very little, and that a lot of what we thought we knew turned out to be wrong. Given this hard-to-swallow fact, the prophetic voice of the Church that reminds us of what must be the ends of economic activity is very salutary."
He says emphatically that we must all think *first* about the effect of economic policies on the poor. That, I think, is a very,very great step forward for a free marketer of any sort. Mr. Gobry is himself an entrepreneur. I wish him well.
("Crony-capitalist central planning"?? What in the world is that.)
Ann, Crony capiralism and central planning don't usually go together, but there is no reason why they can't. Crony capitalism is when the government takes care of its friends, like making the banks whole and then forgetting about the mortgage-payers the banks made unwhole. Central planning is when the government decides for the banks whom they will make whole and whom they will make unwhole. As when the secretary of the Treasury clears every move with Goldman Sachs.
That is the top-down view. Pope Francis, bless him, looks at the situation from the bottom up.
Ann, Sorry, I just gave you two examples of crony capitalism. A better example of central planning would be the government decidinfg what kind of coverage everybody's insurance policy must contain. Since this was cone with the aid, advice, assistance and insistence of Big Insurance, it could also be seen as crony capitalism. Especially since it was done with so much private-sector input. Usually when they talk about central planning they are thinking of government bureaucrats, not insurance company bureaucrats.
Tom B, if we define central planning as any Government regulation to insure product safety, product honesty, elimination of product scams. ecological restrictions etc.and maybe ,God forgive me ,even single payer plans, .. . I guess I'm all for a bigger dose of what some would call central planning...... and anyone,[Bob?] please don't call a fan of Pol Pot or Stalin..
Ed, I think there is a difference between regulation and planning. Product safety, honesty in advertising, ecological restrictions are all about things corporations and individuals cannot, for the good of the larger society, be allowed to do, or that need to be subject to restrictions so everyone doesn't do them at once. I know that during the past 40 years the distinction between regulation and tyranny has been wiped out, along with the difference between democratic socialism and soviet communism and the difference between market capitalism and crony capitalism. All that surely should have been wiped out considering how much money certain parties have spent buying politicians, packing courts and buying or gaming the media to attain that result.
When one seriously considers the alternatives to free enterprise economic systems and turns to the various socialist models, i.e., National Socialism, Marxism, the European quasi-socialist regimes, and Obama's desired "fundamental transformation" templates, what ithey all lead to is some form of total state control of all human activities. For example, the health of the American people, for liberals and socialists, would compel the government to control:
< What we eat
< How much and what kind of exercise we perform
< How, and how much, we are feeding our children
<How much we smoke and/or drink
<What kind of supplements we do or don,t take
Another example: Environmental concerns:
<How big is our house? (How much energy do we use, and what kind?)
<Where do we live? (How much fuel do we use & what kind?)
<Where do we work? (Same questions as where we live)
The list could go on and on and on.
By the way, I presume that by "unfettered" capitalism the Holy Father means "unregulated" capitalism. Where does that even exist?
And again by the way: Thanks to those who answered my post with civility and kindness. Believe it or not, I was touched by that (and I am not being ironic)
Tom Blackburn: there is indeed no reason that central control and crony capitalism can't coexists quite happily. Some would argue that that's precisely what's going on in China. There are faint signs that Xi Jinping may try to change this, but the vested interests are enormous. Francis I surely has his work cut out for him in trying to change the Vatican, but it's a kindergarten compared to China.
@ Nicholas Clifford: "to change the Vatican, but it's a kindergarten compared to China."
Maybe. With China, it is more the degrees of magnitude that inflates their issues. China is just soooooo big, sooooo many people. It's hard for any political regime or hegemony to move a giant dinosaur to effective reform and change.
The Vatican on the other hand actually does resemble the mysterious, hidden, and remote Chinese imperial court at the end of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century.
Then in China real eunchs, not just ones for the sake of the kingdom a la St. Paul, choreographed and staged managed the daily ceremonial life of the imperial court [much like our hierarchs parading around in the Vatican in medieval costumes as if in some twisted kabuki theater - I know I'm mixing cultural metaphors] with little regard for and totally oblivious to the revolutionary currents churning Chinese society just outside the walls of the Forbidden City - an apt metaphor for the modern Vatican, especially for us sheeple.
No wonder it took the convergence in the 20th century of mass starvation, world-wide economic depression, corrupt western colonialism, two world wars, brutal Japanese military occupation and exploitation [read The Rape of Nanking], to finally bring the Peoples Red Army to power under Mao Zedong.
As much as I admire our Jesuit pope, Francesco's efforts toward reform and renewal will eventually be overwhelmed - just like they were in the last forty years with our Polish and German popes - unless Francesco enables the PEOPLE to find ways to SEPARATE the MONEY from MINISTRY.
Very interesting analogy, Jim Jenkins. But China didnt' do awfully well under Mao either.


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Back when Barry Bernson's journalism career first blossomed, men were all you saw or heard on television and radio. Today, the setting's much different, but one thing's the same: Bernson's quirky style of story-telling and charming sense of humor.
In his new memoir: "Bernson's Corner: A Reporter's Notebook," Bernson shares memories from his 47 years in newspaper, radio and TV – from his "start" in print at age 7 to his 2:46 a.m. wake-up call to report the morning news.
"(Waking up at 2:46 a.m. is) probably the manliest thing I've ever done in journalism," Bernson quipped. "(That) takes a lot of testosterone, pal."
While his news stories aren't necessarily any more manly than womanly, he explained "there's no gender to unusual people. All the people who I've done stories on, they were not publicity hounds. They were people who did what they do and had to be sort of uncovered."
Some of those individuals, featured on a DVD inside Bernson's book, include the "Plunger Man," the "Turtle Man," and the "Engine Imitator," capable of mimicking the sound of any vehicle imaginable.
Aside from journalism, Bernson narrates books for the Library of Congress through Louisville's American Printing House for the Blind. The six-time Ohio Valley Region EMMY award-winner has accomplished quite a career in half a century; his memoir a pleasing reminder of the many lives he touched through his work.
Bernson joked his book is simply geared toward, "people with $24.95," but in all seriousness, he said it's dedicated to his descendants and anyone who came to know him through TV.
"Everybody should leave something behind when they go," Bernson said, quoting a Ray Bradbury character. "They should leave a tree, or a garden, or some kind of a thumbprint that lets the world know that you were there. So this was my little thumbprint."
His thumbprint may be small, but his legacy's far greater in size. He's a man who, Bernson admitted, got more out of journalism than he ever could have given. And what he gave to his audience in smiles and laughter is a thumbprint that will certainly never be forgotten.


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6 Famous Explorers Who Shaped The World (With Insane Lies)
#3. John Smith Pulls The Legend of Pocahontas Completely Out of His Ass
In the 17th century, John Smith was eager to make a (less generic) name for himself, so he decided to go to America and colonize in England's name. Unlike Raleigh, however, Smith was actually successful in creating a permanent settlement in the Americas: Jamestown. It wasn't easy, though. Four-hundred and thirty-nine of the original 500 settlers died. And even as more settlers came in, they just kept dying.
Welcome to Jamestown.
That's where our hero comes in with all of his heroic heroism: By courageously working with the savage natives who begrudgingly respected his noble spirit, he single-handedly turned life around and helped Jamestown lose their reputation as the settlement where everybody went to die.
Like Florida is now.
So What Did He Lie About?
Basically everything.
His most well-known story is that of Pocahontas. According to Smith, he was kidnapped by hostile natives who were preparing to kill him when, at the last (and most dramatic) moment, the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, threw herself in front of Smith at her own peril, saving his life. She was also a super-model. She goes to a different colony, though; you wouldn't know her.
As we're sure you've inferred by now, historians call it a bunch of hogwash. It also doesn't help his case any that he didn't actually write the tale in detail until about 20 years later, after Pocahontas (the only person who could corroborate) was dead.
But Smith established himself as a crackerjack liar well before he even got to the New World, with a story that's just as disputed and 100 times more ludicrously badass. Before he was a colonizer, Smith was a womanizer. Also, a full on pirate. During his "adventures," he claimed he was captured by some Turks, where he immediately did what we'd all do: behead three of them. Also, a Transylvanian prince rewarded him for their severed noggins with the title of "English Gentleman" (because Transylvanian princes totally had that kind of influence over England).
Oh, and then Smith was sold into slavery! Oh no! But he for reals ex-scaped by like, totally seducing his lady master, and then, and then he like, he fought and killed her brother (probably with like, this sweet jumpkick!) and escaped! God he's so cool! The only reason he didn't go to prom (a bunch of girls asked him) is because he was under arrest for illegal motorcycle racing (which he won).
Calvin Klein asked him to be an underwear model but they didn't have ones with a big enough package flap, so he said no.
#2. Marco Polo Lies About Pretty Much Everything
Marco Polo was a 13th century merchant and explorer who went to China where he invented and refined the popular swimming pool game. Also, some other things.
Mostly pool games, though.
In 1271, Marco, along with his father and uncle, went on a 24-year trip to China, Mongolia and the Middle East. Alone, this isn't that much of a feat (everyone kind of already knew China was there; especially the Chinese). The real accomplishment was his book, The Travels of Marco Polo, which was so wildly popular that over 150 copies still exist today.
So What Did He Lie About?
All of it. Maybe.
As it turns out, much like John Smith, Polo's description of his travels may have been just a little too awesome. According to his book, he did a lot of really cool stuff like play the hero in an important battle, become a personal emissary for Kublai Kahn, and even govern a large Chinese city.
And all this stuff was generally accepted, until historians started thinking about it. At all. So when they decided to verify his claims and began looking at the Chinese records, they realized that his story had more holes in it than a teenage girl trying to get her parents to notice her.
"I want one right through my eyeball!"
Hey, you know what? Chinese people, being one of the most advanced societies on Earth at the time, actually wrote stuff down! As it turns out, Polo places himself in a battle that ended one or two years before he got there . He also claimed he was the governor of Yang-Chou for three whole years, so surely somebody recorded his name--even once--on a payroll or a check or a diary or... no? Nothing? Not one single record of Marco Polo in Yang-Chou, or in China, period?
Marco Who?
In fact, when experts began considering all the utterly Chinese things that Polo didn't mention, like calligraphy, tea, the printing press and the Great fucking Wall, it started to look like Marco Polo never even went to China at all. He's probably just a guy who heard a lot of stories about the place and put them into a book. Then made himself the main character, a hero, a ruler and a badass, stopping just short of dutifully recording the time he single-handedly beat back the Mongol hordes with his giant, giant dong.
#1. John Mandeville Inspires The Greatest Discoveries On Earth...With Lies
If you lived in the 14th century, you would know who John Mandeville was: For about 35 years Mandeville traveled around Northern Africa and Eastern Europe, but like Polo, Mandeville didn't actually claim to discover anything. His world-altering contribution is also the book that he wrote. And that book was insanely influential.
To the left, to the left...
There wasn't exactly a New York Times bestseller list back then (or even a paltry Amazon ranking), but if surviving copies are any indication of original production, he was much more popular than Marco Polo. His book still has over twice the amount of surviving copies than Marco Polo's, and it was so respected that even Leonardo Da Vinci studied it, and it's thought to have been the central inspiration for Christopher Columbus' entire career.
So What Did He Lie About?
All of it. Definitely.
Everything in The Travels of John Mandeville was a lie. But they weren't just low-key sexy Indian Princess lies. No, his fabrications were so multitudinous and hilariously stupid that some less dedicated, lazy hack could have filled this article with them alone.
It's running next week.
So let's start with the MOUTHLESS PYGMIES, shall we? According to Mandeville, there was an island in the Indian Ocean populated exclusively by tiny people who had tiny holes in their tiny heads where their tiny mouths should have been. So they had to suck all of their meals through straws (and we are not going to make a pygmy blowjob joke here; we're better than that). Another tribe had mouths, but they didn't use them for eating, because all they needed nutrition-wise was the smell of wild apples. Not the apples themselves, mind you, just the smell. Without that smell, they would immediately die. Talk about having a weakness: Their kryptonite was not having apples in their faces at all times.
Finally, someone we can take in a fight!
Mandeville's lies didn't just make him popular, they changed the course of human history. According to some historians, he was literally the driving force for Columbus to undertake his own Voyage of Untruths to the New World. But that's nothing! Mandeville's biggest lie of all... was that he actually existed. Because he didn't! The book was likely nothing more than stories compiled by some guy, who just needed a main character. How's that for a twist?
He himself was a lie! And he was a killer plant! And he was allergic to water!
And it wasn't the 14th century; it was 1986! And I suck!
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After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Congress of the United States formally declared war on Japan. After Germany declared war on the United States, the Congress then formally declared war on Germany. However for all subsequent conflicts that the United States has been involved (Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan), there has been no formal declaration of war. Instead, these conflicts have been justified as UN police actions, UN peacekeeping activities, requests by local governments, security threats, etc. Congress has passed resolutions but no declarations. It now appears that the position of the President as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces has usurped the power of Congress to control whether the US goes to war or not.
What you may be confusing in this case is what is termed the War Powers Act which gives the President latitude to actually engage in military operations for up to 90 days before declaring war or going to Congress. Part of this stems from the face that Vietnam avoided this with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which then President Lyndon Johnson used to initially get Congress to accede into allowing soldiers to be sent to Vietnam. Later there were disputes about the accuracy of the attacks cited to get the resolution passed, note the end of the article which mentions the major points. While the War Powers Act has been side-stepped since its passing, the discussions on this came up most recently after the September 11th attacks, a good read on this at Slate which goes over the War Powers act and some of the discussions around sending troops into combat.
So to reiterate my comment, its not like it used to be but times and the methods of war have changed since the Constitution and the Presidents powers have been written.


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COPPERAS COVE (September 2, 2012)-For Sgt. Jason Pena moving from Fort Bliss in El Paso to Fort Hood was challenging enough.
Then he learned he has been scammed by the person he thought he was renting a home from.
It is a scam that is growing in popularity; scammers are going on to county tax appraisers websites and getting information on homes and homeowners.
Names on the home, addresses, year purchased, and number of beds and baths are all the scammers need to place an ad on Craigslist.
Once the ad is in place, for many it looks as if they are dealing with a person locally when they are likely dealing with someone not even in Texas or America.
Michael Dehart, the executive officer of the Fort Hood Association of Realtors say that scammer will discourage people from going to the home and trying to get inside.
So even though Sgt. Pena had a friend talk to neighbors, he had no idea he was being scammed until it was too late.
Now Pena is out more than $1,700 and will be filing a police report with Killeen police.
While Dehart is trying to start a new campaign with the BBB and KPD letting more central Texans know that scams are happening in their own backyard.
Some signs that a Craigslist Ad is a scam include incorrect grammar, poor English, and wanting you to send your private information before any contracts are signed.
Dehart also says working with a realtor is always a safe bet when buying or renting a home.


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Trojans Square Off with Erskine for Final Time This SeasonMarch 31, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Snapping a brief losing skid with an 8-7 win over South Atlantic Conference rival Brevard on Sunday, Anderson University baseball returns to the Upstate and welcomes archrival Erskine to Anderson Memorial Stadium for a midweek matchup on Tuesday. First pitch against the Flying Fleet is slated for 6 p.m.
The Trojans
AU split its rain-shortened series at Brevard on Sunday, as the Trojans fell 7-6 in the opening game, while bouncing back to take an 8-7 decision in the final contest of the weekend. Despite a 12-23 overall record, Anderson is on the cusp of the final slot for the 2014 Food Lion SAC Tournament, sitting in seventh place in the league standings, as the top six make the tournament. The Black and Gold hold a 9-11 conference mark and are currently a win behind sixth-place Newberry.
As a team, the Trojans are hitting .290 for the season with four everyday starters hitting above .300 for the year. Leading the way is sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper with a .373 average with 35 driven in (fourth in SAC) and 31 runs scored (third in SAC). Cooper joins senior outfielder Paul Como with 13 doubles on the season (second) and ranks fourth in the conference in slugging percentage (.619).
Joining Cooper in the top-five of the league in RBI is senior Nathan Galliford with 34. With a home run against the Tornados last weekend, Galliford became the second player in the SAC to record double figure home runs, as he continues to chase Lincoln Memorial's Josh Coker (11) for the conference lead. Galliford is seventh in the SAC with a .588 slugging percentage while boasting a .286 batting average.
Junior middle infielder Brett Cash enters Tuesday with an eight-game hitting streak with six of those games being multi-hit contests. In the span, Cash is hitting .533 (16-for-30) with a .633 slugging percentage highlighted by three doubles, five RBI and five runs scored.
On the mound, junior-hander Landon Beck recorded his fourth complete game of the campaign against Brevard on Sunday, tossing seven complete innings with four strikeouts and just one walk. With the four strikeouts, Beck is in a three-way tie for the league lead in punch outs with 61 for the year. Beck joins Catawba's Craig Brooks and Mars Hill's Dale Innes as the only hurlers in the SAC with more than 60 strikeouts for the year. Despite being tied for the SAC lead in strikeouts, Beck holds the highest strikeout per game average of the trio at 11.28.
The Flying Fleet
With a doubleheader with conference rival Pfeiffer scheduled for Monday, Erskine is currently 20-7 overall and 7-2 in Conference Carolinas. The Fleet is an impressive 13-1 at the friendly confides of Grier Field, as they sit two wins behind league leader Mount Olive.
Redshirt junior Zach Smith leads the Erskine attack, as he ranks second in Conference Carolinas with 32 RBI and fourth in home runs with six. Smith's .624 slugging percentage is third in the conference, as he leads the league with five sacrifice flies. The infielder has gotten a hit in eight of his last nine appearances, headlined by a three-hit performance in an 8-6 setback to Lander on March 19.
The EC offense continues to impress as the team has accumulated a .341 average and has outscored its opponents 211-82. The Fleet has tallied 28 home runs, while slugging .526 for the year.
Junior right-hander Austin Gambrell leads all of the league's starters with five victories and a 2.04 ERA. In his last outing, Gambrell tossed seven innings and gave up just one hit against conference-leader Mount Olive, as the Fleet squeaked out a 2-1 win in the series opener with the Trojans. As a staff, Erskine carries a 2.86 ERA as opponents are hitting just .239 against the Flying Fleet.
The Series
Erskine has taken both games from Anderson this season, kicking off the series on Feb. 4 with a 6-0 shutout at Grier Field. The Trojans returned to Due West on Feb. 25, as the Fleet continued their winning streak over AU with a 9-3 triumph. With a half-point on the line in the Beville Cup standings, Anderson looks to snap its losing skid against its archrivals, not having beat Erskine since April 3, 2013.


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SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive VP/General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that D Colby Robak has been recalled from the San Antonio Rampage (AHL).
Robak, 22, has played in 40 games for San Antonio this season registering 18 points (3-15-18) and 40 PIM. He made his National Hockey League debut with Florida during the 2011-12 season, appearing in three games with the Panthers.
The Dauphin, Manitoba native was drafted by Florida in the second round (46th overall) in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.