M Is FOR MASHUP - January 4th, 2012
TV QUIZ
By DJ Useo
Howdy y'all. I trust the new year is already a big improvement.
I ain't gonna take up too much of your time, but I do have a quick fun tv quiz that wont task the brain & is just perfect for the early-year mindstate we are all adjusting to.
Simply tell us the relevance of each television show picture.
01 - Who lives in this house?
02 - What show does this man speak on?
03 - What town is this?
04 - Who lives in this house?
05 - Who performs behind this wall?
06 - Why do these people look so strange?
07 - Who is wearing these rather jazzy sunglasses?
08 - Name this tv show announcer & the show he is in.
09 - Who is this guy with his brain in a bowl?
10 - What is Curly dreaming about?
11 - What show advertises this bizarre product?
12 - Name this rarely seen tv show employer & the show he is on.
13 - What did PFC Gomer Pyle just blow up?
14 - Who works making what in this factory?
Send your responses to Marty by 6pm (pst) Sunday, 9 January, 2012.
Results Monday, 10 January, 2012.
There are no prizes.
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Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance
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STEVE SHEINKIN: "The Notorious Benedict Arnold" (Horn Book)
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Jim Emerson: 'Idiocracy' and the ten-best trolls
She "owed" them $114.25, so she gave the young man at the counter $120, fresh from the ATM. He said he didn't have any coins to give her the 75 cents change. That's OK, she said, here's a quarter. But I don't have any coins, he said. That's why I'm giving you the 25 cents, so you won't need to give me 75 cents; you can just give me six dollars back, she said. But I don't have 75 cents, he said.... It went on like that. She eventually paid $115 instead ("Keep the change!"), and he didn't have to give her 75 cents. Whew.
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10 Best Films of 2011 (PopMatters)
It was the year of good movies. Not many GREAT ones, but a lot of above average offerings worthy of year-end consideration. It happens.
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Rightful Owner Of KKK Store
New Beginnings Baptist Church
After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold.
A circuit judge ruled last month that New Beginnings Baptist Church is the rightful owner of the building that houses the Redneck Shop, which operates a so-called Klan museum and sells Klan robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. The judge ordered the shop's proprietor to pay the church's legal bills of more than $3,300.
Since 1996, the Redneck Shop has operated in an old movie theater in Laurens, a city about 70 miles northwest from Columbia that was named after 18th century slave trader Henry Laurens.
Ownership of the building was transferred in 1997 to the Rev. David Kennedy and his church, New Beginnings, by a Klansman fighting with others inside the hate group, according to court records. That man, according to Kennedy, was feuding with store proprietor John Howard over a woman and "developed a spiritual relationship" with Kennedy's church, the judge wrote.
But a clause in the deed entitles Howard, formerly KKK grand dragon for the Carolinas, to operate his business in the building until he dies.
New Beginnings Baptist Church
W. Virginia County Should Stop Funding 'Jesus Fest'
ACLU
A battle is brewing in Charleston, West Virginia, between the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Harrison County Commission.
Every August, a two-day festival called Jesus Fest takes place in Clarksburg. And each year, the county provides $2,000 in funding to the initiative - support that the ACLU is claiming must end.
In a Dec. 20, 2011 letter, the state's ACLU office asked county commissioners to stop funding the festival, as it is an initiative which promotes Christianity. In the eyes of the ACLU, this is clearly a constitutional breach.
The ACLU claims that it is acting on behalf of Harrison County residents who have complained and are bothered by the county's support for the Jesus Fest. The commission has not yet made a decision regarding funding and is waiting for a recommendation from Prosector Joe Shaffer before taking any action on the matter.
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World's First Found Off Australia
Hybrid Shark
Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world's first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.
The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.
The find was made during cataloguing work off Australia's east coast when Morgan said genetic testing showed certain sharks to be one species when physically they looked to be another.
The Australian black-tip is slightly smaller than its common cousin and can only live in tropical waters, but its hybrid offspring have been found 2,000 kilometres down the coast, in cooler seas.
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No Longer A Hilton
The Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
The Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino officially changed its name to drop its hotel chain moniker on Tuesday after a license agreement expired at the start of 2012.
Workers changed the hotel marquee to reflect the new name for the property east of the Las Vegas Strip: The Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.
It's the second time Elvis Presley's former haunt has changed its name. Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian opened the property in 1969 as the International Hotel, then sold it to the Hilton chain. It became the Las Vegas Hilton in 1971.
The hotel-casino sought to end the agreement last year as the property contended with financial troubles. It defaulted on a $252 million loan in 2010 and used operational expenses to make payments during three months last year while it tried to restructure debt.
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Imaginary Earthquakes
Ohio
A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.
Research is continuing on the now-shuttered injection well at Youngstown and seismic activity, but it might take a year for the wastewater-related rumblings in the earth to dissipate, said John Armbruster of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.
Brine wastewater dumped in wells comes from drilling operations, including the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale that has been a source of concern among environmental groups and some property owners. Injection wells have also been suspected in quakes in Ashtabula in far northeast Ohio, and in Arkansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma, Armbruster said.
Thousands of gallons of brine were injected daily into the Youngstown well that opened in 2010 until its owner, Northstar Disposal Services LLC, agreed Friday to stop injecting the waste into the earth as a precaution while authorities assessed any potential links to the quakes.
A spokesman for Gov. John Kasich (R-Corporate Tool), an outspoken supporter of the growing oil and natural gas industry in Ohio, said the shale industry shouldn't be punished for a fracking byproduct.
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Feud Over Use Of Assistants
British Artists
Two of Britain's art superstars are squabbling about whether it's acceptable to use assistants to create works of art.
The argument pits painter David Hockney, just awarded Britain's prestigious Order of Merit, against conceptual artist Damien Hirst.
Hockney uses the poster for his upcoming Royal Academy show to state that all the works on exhibit were "made by the artist himself."
Radio Times magazine reported Tuesday that Hockney said in an interview that the comment was directed at Hirst, who has used assistants to help create some of his most famous pieces.
Hirst has said his assistants do a better painting job than he could and that he becomes easily bored. He is best known for suspending a shark in formaldehyde and covering a human skull with more than 8,000 diamonds.
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Twitter Account Fake
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A Twitter account purported to be linked to the current wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate) has turned out to be bogus.
Twitter spokeswoman Rachel Bremer said Tuesday that the popular micro-blogging site "mistakenly verified" the "Wendi_Deng" account as genuine for a short time. She said the company apologizes for the confusion.
Bremer said Twitter would not discuss its verification procedures, which are put in place to prevent hoaxes.
News International spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop said while the account was fake, the Twitter account opened over the New Year's weekend by News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch was genuine. Murdoch has used the account to offer political and literary views in the last few days.
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Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there was a man named Obama shackled in the bowels of a slave ship. There is no proof that the unidentified Obama has ties to President Barack Obama. All they share is a name. But that is exactly the commonality that Emory University researchers hope to build upon as they delve into the origins of Africans who were taken up and sold.
They have built an online database around those names, and welcome input from people who may share a name that's in the database, or have such names as part of their family lore.
"The whole point of the project is to ask the African diaspora, people with any African background, to help us identify the names because the names are so ethno-linguistically specific, we can actually locate the region in Africa to which the individual belonged on the basis of the name," said David Eltis, an Emory University history professor who heads the database research team.
So far, two men named Obama sit among some 9,500 captured Africans whose names were written on line after line in the registries of obscure, 19th century slave trafficking courts. The courts processed the human chattel freed from ships that were intercepted and detoured to Havana, Cuba or Freetown, Sierra Leone. Most of the millions of Africans enslaved before 1807 were known only by numbers, said James Walvin, an expert on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Once bought by slave owners, the Africans' names were lost. Africans captured by the Portuguese were baptized and given "Christian" names aboard the ships that were taking them into slavery.
But original African names - surnames were uncommon for Africans in the 19th century - are rich with information. Some reveal the day of the week an individual was born or whether that individual was the oldest, youngest or middle child or a twin. They can also reveal ethnic or linguistic groups.
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'M-A-S-H' Diner Exec Fights Theft Charges
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The grandson of the founder of an Ohio hot dog diner made famous on TV's "M-A-S-H" has pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing from the family business.
An assistant prosecutor says Tony Packo's Inc. executive vice president Tony Packo III and another company official pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Toledo to three counts each of aggravated theft.
Authorities say the charges stem from an 18-month investigation into the alleged theft of about $170,000 from the restaurant chain.
Tony Packo's was referenced in episodes of the 1970s and '80s TV series "M-A-S-H." Cross-dressing character Cpl. Max Klinger craved the hot dogs.
Tony Packo's
Deal To Sell Diner Falls Through
Tony Packo's
The sale of an Ohio hot dog diner made famous on TV's "M-A-S-H" has fallen through, with the potential buyer saying he will not complete the $5.5 million deal because of bank-required changes.
The news surfaced on Tuesday, the same day that two officials with Tony Packo's Inc. pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing from the restaurant chain.
Bob Bennett, owner of Bennett Management Corp. and TP Foods LLC, said in a statement that his decision came after Fifth Third Bank required some last-minute changes. The bank, which holds the loan to the chain, insisted on changes that included an increase in the loan interest rate, multiple media outlets reported.
Bennett did not address the loan interest rate in his statement. He did say that the bank had increased requirements for its support of the sale and "interjected itself in negotiations" between TP Foods and a receiver who has had control of the chain since a lawsuit alleged misappropriation of company funds by Tony Packo III, Packo's executive vice president and grandson of the diner's founder.
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Drought Led to Demise of Ancient City
Angkor
The ancient city of Angkor - the most famous monument of which is the breathtaking ruined temple of Angkor Wat - might have collapsed due to valiant but ultimately failed efforts to battle drought, scientists find.
The great city of Angkor in Cambodia, first established in the ninth century, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, the major player in southeast Asia for nearly five centuries. It stretched over more than 385 square miles (1,000 square kilometers), making it the most extensive urban complex of the preindustrial world. In comparison, Philadelphia covers 135 square miles (350 sq. km), while Phoenix sprawls across more than 500 square miles (1,300 sq. km), not including the huge suburbs.
Angkor possessed a complex network of channels, moats, and embankments and reservoirs known as barays to collect and store water from the summer monsoons for use in rice paddy fields in case of drought. To learn more about how the Khmer managed their water, scientists analyzed a 6-foot (2-meter)-long core sample of sediment taken from the southwest corner of the largest Khmer reservoir, the West Baray, which could hold 1.87 billion cubic feet (53 million cubic meters) of water, more than 20 times the amount of stone making up the Great Pyramid at Giza.
The researchers deduced a 1,000-year-long climate history of Angkor from the baray. They found at around the time Angkor collapsed the rate at which sediment was deposited in the baray dropped to one-tenth of what it was before, suggesting that water levels fell dramatically as well. The discovery "really emphasizes how significant the events during this period must have been," Day said.
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In Memory
Ronald Searle
British cartoonist Ronald Searle, best known for his spiky drawings of the tearaway pupils of the fictional girls school St Trinian's, has died in southern France aged 91, his daughter said on Tuesday.
Searle, whose anarchic St Trinian's characters spawned a series of movie adaptations, died on December 30 at a hospital near his home in Draguignan, in France's south-eastern Var region.
"(He) passed away peacefully in his sleep, with his children and grandson by his side," Kate Searle told Reuters.
His spindly schoolgirl creations, which first appeared in 1941, hit the big screen in 1954 as "The Belles of St Trinian's," with Alastair Sim starring in drag as headmistress Millicent Fritton.
The film franchise was revived in 2007, with Rupert Everett taking over the headmistress role, with a follow-up, "St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold," appearing in 2009.
Searle was also known for his comic illustrations in a series of 1950s satires on British private school education, written by author Geoffrey Willans, including "Down with Skool" and "How to be Topp."
Searle's cartoons also appeared in magazines and newspapers, including Britain's Punch and The New Yorker.
His work was recognized internationally, and he won a number of awards from America's National Cartoonists Society. In France, where he lived since 1961, he was awarded the country's prestigious Legion d'Honneur.
Searle was born in Cambridge in 1920 and attended the Cambridge School of Art.
Serving with Britain's Royal Engineers in World War Two, Searle was captured in Singapore by the Japanese and spent three and a half years as a prisoner of war in Changi and working on the Thai-Burma railway.
During captivity he secretly made sketches of the hardship of camp life, hiding the drawings under the mattresses of prisoners suffering from cholera.
He published the drawings after his liberation, with many of the pictures now kept at the Imperial War Museum in London.
Ronald Searle
In Memory
Fred Milano
Fred Milano, who made rock and roll history on doo-wop hits with Dion and the Belmonts in the 1950s and continued to perform while starting a late-in-life career with the New York City Department of Correction, has died. He was 72.
Milano died Sunday, three weeks after his lung cancer was diagnosed, said Warren Gradus, who joined the Belmonts in 1963. Milano lived in Massapequa, on Long Island, and died in a hospital, Gradus said.
Dion DiMucci, the lead singer who left the Belmonts in 1960, said on his Facebook page Tuesday, "May he rest in peace and rock on in heaven."
Milano and three friends from the Bronx formed the Belmonts in the mid-1950s, borrowing their name from the borough's Belmont Avenue. They became Dion and the Belmonts after DiMucci joined in 1958.
Milano sang tenor on hits like "A Teenager in Love" and "Where or When."
The Belmonts continued to perform and to record with different lineups after DiMucci left for a solo career. Gradus said Milano was performing with the Belmonts at casinos and other venues just weeks ago.
There was strife between DiMucci and Belmonts members, who were not pleased when DiMucci was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without them in 1989.
Milano went back school in middle age and joined the Department of Correction in 2003.
In his position as a legal coordinator at the Rikers Island jail complex, he helped inmates research their cases and taught a legal research class, said Karen Powell, director of law libraries for the department.
Powell said Milano had more energy than colleagues two decades younger and "was a person who really loved life."
Milano is survived by his wife, Lynn, two children and 10 grandchildren.
Fred Milano
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