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imhomerjay
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Re: "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune" is a go for Primetime on ABC
I'm not sure I understand the surprise at a lack of primetime network Wheel of Fortune until now. Jeopardy had one summer run prior to 2020. That's it, decades apart between the runs. It's not like it was a huge phenomenon. Price showed up periodically in that span. A couple of incarnations of Feud had celebrity network runs.
Now ABC has some holes to patch on an interim basis. Game shows have worked, so they go back to the well. The Jeopardy GOATs end up on The Chase. Wheel gives them an easy way to do a celebrity show for not a huge investment. Win win.
Celebrity Wheel will be premiering on Thursday, January 7 at 8pm. The Chase will follow at 9pm, and a new game show "The Hustler" hosted by Craig Ferguson will premiere at 10pm.
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wheelfan1991
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"If you overbid ONE MORE TIME!!!"
ABC O&O viewers will get lucky on Thursdays by getting 90 minutes of Wheel. I've always wanted a primetime Wheel even if it was a one-off thing like Super J! or J! GOAT.
Now that it's happening, I'd love to see ABC revive Password. I think it could work very easily, you just would have to find a good host. And, if possible, even if it's a pre-recording, have Betty White send a message or make some sort of an appearance.
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." —Og Mandino
SeaBreeze341
Taking a Bonus Spin
Everyone knows the damn thing's not there!
I believe in my area, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune has aired on my CBS affiliate and then my NBC affiliate, but never my ABC affiliate. Just a coincidence; I'll get 90 minutes of consecutive Wheel, but I'll have to press a button or two to make the switch. No big deal. Just rather amazing that I never had Wheel or Jeopardy on the network that has and will air Jeopardy and Wheel.
Quote from: wheelfan1991 on November 11, 2020, 09:30:20 AM
Of all the gameshows that have returned, and it's pretty much been all of successful & popular ones, this is the only one that hasn't returned. At least in its classic format (I thought the 2008-2009 $1,000,000 version was alright)! I think it would pretty good to see this return as part of the lineup (either in the summer or during the dead period between the fall and spring TV seasons).
That being said, I wouldn't bet on it. Unless it's a limited primetime series (I think that's what you meant), I'd bet against a Password-revival. I forgot where I saw it; tried to find where it was said (might've been quoted here on G-R dot Net), but Betty White made mention to why the show failed. I believe it was due to the current era & how modern day contestants aren't as bright as they were in the past
"Times change; people change" -- Casey Affleck
PatrickRox80
Count me as one of those since the NYC market will have that opportunity.
Anybody know yet if the primetime format is going to be two half hour games or one game for the full hour? Here's hoping it's the former; that seems more likely anyway.
Two games makes more sense to me. If they stretched one whole game to an hour, then theoretically, they could have 8 regular rounds of play. I think it would be awkward to do two Toss-ups, 3 rounds, Triple Toss-up, one more round, then repeat again. I could see them doing like Feud. My only concern would be if they give too much time to the celebs, it takes away from gameplay. I know there have been a handful of Feud episodes that only have one game for the whole hour.
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I'd sure hate to take away from the cliffhanger moments when the wheel will land on either $500 or $600.
RatRace10
In Contestant's Row
I hope that they have better puzzles than the regular show. For the past few years, it seems like syndicated Wheel has barely any 21st century pop culture in their puzzles. Nearly every Song Lyrics or Song/Artist puzzle is either Beatles or Bruce Springsteen, and I can't even remember the last time I saw TV Title, and not just 80's TV Title during Season 35.
BillyGr
Quote from: PatrickRox80 on November 11, 2020, 08:05:28 PM
And some that will get a 90 minute Wheel segment with a 30 minute Jeopardy interlude (like Albany NY, since they put Wheel at 7 and Jeopardy at 7:30).
Quote from: BillyGr on November 12, 2020, 08:59:37 PM
And of course, it was the same for the O&O's during Jeopardy GOAT last year. I remember they reran the first three episodes the following Saturday, so that whole night was a 3.5 hours of Jeopardy with 30 minutes of Wheel sandwiched in, though all were reruns of course.
I wonder if the Wheel episode airing the same day Celebrity Wheel premieres will have Pat and Vanna promote it in the closing segment. I know they've done special closing segments meant to air only on certain networks before (I recall a segment promoting Dancing with the Stars that only aired on ABC airings)
Quote from: RatRace10 on November 12, 2020, 09:58:08 PM
Good question - while it would make sense that some stations might not want to have something promoting a show on another station, things like that do happen on other shows (like talk shows where the guest is on a show that may also be on another network, at least in some areas).
Seems like it's even happened occasionally with a guest on a network show (like the late night shows) where the guest is in something on another network, but I'm not certain.
$100K Pyramid had people from NBC shows like SNL and This Is Us, so it's not like the shows stick to only ABC people.
Those barriers broke down quite some time ago.
Match Game, which is currently on ABC, has had a ton of people from SNL (and other NBC shows) over the years. I didn't even know there was an issue with that. Game shows have had stars from different networks appearing on their shows for 40-50 years (more or less).
FWIW, the original Family Feud did feature stars from ABC more often than not (including The Love Boat, All My Children, One Life To Live, General Hospital) instead of shows from CBS & NBC. IIRC, the nighttime syndicated Family Feud aired on my local ABC affiliate at 7:30 right before the ABC primetime specials when they had them. Not much promotion from Dawson, I don't think. Usually the stations would.
I don't think Pat & Vanna will be doing anything in their closing segments right before the show. If there was one, it would be edited in. Not much in the closing segment from one of their regular shows
Ivoryman86
What you guys meant is the daytime series has had daytime stars from other networks appearing and daytime game shows usually had the rule of booking the daytime soap stars and the daytime hosts appearing on their own network's daytime series. There have been exceptions with this for instance, Family Feud Challenge, Now You See It '89 and Scrabble all booked daytime soap stars from another network in the Soap Opera Special Week. Password Plus, Tattletales, Just Men! and The New Battlestars had also done so as well as the $25,000 Pyramid IIRC.
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There is something about Derry (also known as Londonderry) that keeps me going back. Maybe being so close to the Republic of Ireland's border and having a recent troubled past gives it a bit of an edge, or maybe it's the fact that it's totally underrated and sometimes overlooked by visitors to the Emerald Isle. There is definitely something special about the Walled City, so I've been giving it some thought and I've come up with a few reasons why everyone should include Derry in their Northern Ireland itinerary.
Derry is the only remaining completely walled city in Ireland, and it is these Walls that are the city's most famous attraction. They were built in the 17thcentury as a defence structure by the Irish Society for the English and Scottish settlers. You can imagine that these Walls hide an incredible amount of history. Today you can imagine and relive a little bit of that history by following the walkway that the Walls form around the inner city. Garvin from City Tours is the best guide to bring the Walls and the history of the city to life.
You will come across plenty of points of interest along the City Walls, including the cannons that were actually used in the famous Siege of Derry. Also, the promenade offers the best views of the original town and over the Bogside, outside of the City Walls.
Believe it or not, Derry is one of the best places to visit in Northern Ireland if you are a foodie. I discovered this on my previous visit and it was a bit of a revelation. Something that I loved was that local restaurants put a lot of emphasis in the quality of the ingredients used in their dishes. But not only that, there was a consistent focus on sourcing local ingredients as much as possible. Some of the menus even gave details of what farm the meat and vegetables where coming from – something that every restaurant should aim for, in my opinion.
Some of my favourite restaurants in Derry are Walled City Brewery and Brickworks for great food and a relaxed atmosphere, and Browns for more of a fine dining experience.
For decades Derry was at the centre of the conflict known as The Troubles. The city has come a long way since then, and part of the healing process was to set up the Museum of Free Derry. This museum is a must visit in the city, with its poignant exhibitions of Derry's recent past. It tells the story of what happened in the city during the period of 1968-1972, popularly known as 'Free Derry', and it includes the civil rights era, Battle of the Bogside and Bloody Sunday. It is by no means a political museum, but rather an educational project that very successfully puts Derry into a wider Irish and international context.
During the Troubles, there was one particular event that marked the city. In 1972 Bloody Sunday took place, when British soldiers shot 28 civilians during a peaceful civil rights march. These events have been depicted on a total of twelve large-scale murals along the entire length of Rossville Street, in the Bogside. The murals were painted by the Bogside Artists, a group of three local mural painters. They called this collection of murals The People's Gallery.
As well as illustrating the history of thirty years of conflict, The People's Gallery also includes work that demonstrates how far the communities in Derry have come to build bridges. There is certainly an air of optimism about the future in the city.
The best way to explore The People's Gallery and learn about the events and people represented on each of the murals is by taking a walking tour of the Bogside.
With a great choice of accommodation and plenty of things to do, Derry is the ideal base to explore Northern Ireland. It is only a drive away from popular sites such as the Giant's Causeway, the Dark Hedges and Carrick-a-Rede, and Belfast is only one and half hours away. But there are also plenty of options for day trips that are right in the city's doorstep. One thing is for sure, you will not run out of places to go in Northern Ireland from Derry.
Derry is also the ideal point to start a Northern Ireland road trip that includes the spectacular Causeway Coastal Route.
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If you have seen enough on your itinerary of Northern Ireland (is that even possible?), Derry offers the option to also explore a bit of Ireland. Derry is located right by the border with Donegal, so there are plenty of day trips that you can do there too. From the Walled City you can easily reach Glenveagh National Park, with its castle, lough, and cycling and walking trails. You can also visit places like Dunfanaghy, ideal for horse riding on the beach, and even Ardara and its beautiful surroundings.
One highlight less than an hour away is Malin Head, a truly breathtaking headland and the filming location of Star Wars Episode VIII. Malin Head is also the southbound starting point of the famous Wild Atlantic Way, so why not spend some time in Derry before setting off?
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Yes, you read that right. Halloween in Derry is a pretty big deal, and the world is now cottoning on to it. So don't be left out.
Halloween is thought to originate from the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain, when according to tradition, the spirits of the dead came back to walk the earth before the new Celtic year began on 1stNovember. Fast-forward over 2,000 years and Derry has become the centre of Halloween celebrations. This is where the City Walls come to life with the Awakening of the Walls, a trail that follows the wall with supernatural installations and performances. There are magic drummers that appear out of nowhere and entrance their audience, and the Return of the Ancients parade that snakes through the city. And absolutely everyone in Derry gets involved and dressed up – from the youngest to the oldest in every family.
It is for a reason that USA Today voted Derry the Best Halloween Destination in the World.
Flybmi now flies direct from London Stansted to City of Derry Aiport twice a day. The flight only takes an hour, so it's an absolute breeze. Sometimes crossing London takes longer than that! But what I really love is that it's a no-hassle, no-hidden fees flight. Checked baggage is included in the price and you can check in at the airport for free. Plus you get a free drink and a snack on board, which is unheard of today on short haul flights. Fares start at £99.
Located within the historic city walls in the heart of Derry City's Cathedral Quarter, this hotel is ideal to explore Derry's iconic tourist landmarks. These include the historic walls, The Guildhall, the Bogside and the Peace Bridge.
This 4-star hotel is located within Derry's historic city walls, and offers a luxurious stay and easy access to the city's theatres, restaurants and shops. Some rooms have views of the River Foyle and the 400-year-old city walls.
Do you have any questions about Derry?
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I hope you get to visit. The food there is unreal! You'd love it!
Didn't realise you could fly direct from London. Love to visit the Giant Causeway, this is the perfect base.
What a great post and very timely, too! I'll be traveling to Northern Ireland this summer. I haven't started fully researching the trip yet, but Derry sounds like an ideal location to spend a few nights and to explore as Giant's Causeway has been on my bucket list for far too long. And, great news about the flights from Stanstead. That would be so much more easier than dealing with Heathrow. Thanks for sharing!


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The doctor of the ship is a general practitioner and has no particular specialty. The medical center onboard is not equipped with the same medical equipment as a hospital ashore.


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Q: How to implement an efficient database driven ticket/protocol control system? Scenario: WAMP server, InnoDB Table, auto-increment Unique ID field [INT(10)], 100+ concurrent SQL requests. VB.Net should also be used if needed.
My database has an auto-increment field wich is used to generate a unique ticket/protocol number for each new information stored (service order).
The issue is that this number must be reseted each year. I.e. it starts at 000001/12  on 01/01/2012 00:00:00 up to maximum 999999/12 and then at 01/01/2013 00:00:00 it must start over again to 000001/13.
Obviously it should easly acomplished using some type of algorithm, but, I'm trying to find a more efficient way to do that. Consider:

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*It must (?) use auto-increment since the database has some concurrency (+100).

*Each ticket must be unique. So 000001 on 2012 is not equal to 000001 on 2013.

*It must be automatic. (no human interaction needed to make the reset, or whatever)

*It should be reasonably efficient. (a watch program should check the database daily (?) but it seems not the best solution since it will 'fail' 364 times to have success only once).
The 'best' approach I could think of is to store the ticket number using year, such as:
12000001 - 12999999 (it never should reach the 999.999, anyway)
and then an watch program should set the auto increment field to 13000000 at 01/01/2013.
Any Suggestions?
PS: Thanks for reading... ;)

A: So, for futher reference I've adopted the following sollution:
I do create n tables on the database (one for each year) with only one auto-increment field wich is responsible to generate the each year unique id.
So, new inserts are done into the corresponding table considering the event date. After that the algorithm takes the last_inseted_id() an store that value into the main table using the format 000001/12. (ticket/year)
That because each year must have it's own counter since an 2012 event would be inserted even when the current date is already 2013.
That way events should be retroactive, no reset is needed and it's simple to implement.
Sample code for insertion:
$eventdate="2012-11-30";
$eventyear="2012";
$sql = "INSERT INTO tbl$eventyear VALUES (NULL)";
mysql_query ($sql);
$sql = "LAST_INSERT_ID()";
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($sql));
$eventID = $row(0)
$sql = "INSERT INTO tblMain VALUES ('$eventID/$eventYear', ... ";
mysql_query($sql)

A: MongoDB uses something very similar to this that encodes the date, process id and host that generated an id along with some random entropy to create UUIDs.  Not something that fulfills your requirement of monotonic increase, but something interesting to look at for some ideas on approach.
If I were implementing it, I would create a simple ID broker server that would perform the logic processing on date and create a unique slug for the id like you described.  As long as you know how it's constructed, you have native MySql equivalents to get your sorting/grouping working, and the representation serializes gracefully this will work.  Something with a UTC datestring and then a monotonic serial appended as a string.
Twitter had some interesting insights into custom index design here as they implemented their custom ID server Snowflake.
The idea of a broker endpoint that generates UUIDs that are not just simple integers, but also contain some business logic is becoming more and more widespread.

A: You can set up a combined PRIMARY KEY for both of the two columns ID and YEAR; this way you would only have one ID per year.
MySQL:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `ticket` (
    `id` INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    `year` YEAR NOT NULL DEFAULT '2012',
    `data` TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`, `year`)
)
ENGINE = InnoDB DEFAULT CHARACTER SET = utf8 COLLATE = utf8_unicode_ci

UPDATE: (to the comment from @Paulo Bueno)
How to reset the auto-increment-value could be found in the MySQL documentation: mysql> ALTER TABLE ticket AUTO_INCREMENT = 1;.
If you also increase the default value of the year-column when resetting the auto-increment-value, you 'll have a continuous two-column primary key.
But I think you still need some sort of trigger-program to execute the reset. Maybe a yearly cron-job, which is launching a batch-script to do so on each first of January.
UPDATE 2:
OK, I've tested that right now and one can not set the auto-increment-value to a number lower than any existing ID in that specific column. My mistake – I thought it would work on combined primary keys…
INSERT INTO `ticket` (`id`, `year`, `data`) VALUES
    (NULL , '2012', 'dtg htg het'),
    -- some more rows in 2012
);

-- this works of course
ALTER TABLE `ticket` CHANGE `year` `year` YEAR( 4 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '2013';

-- this does not reset the auto-increment
ALTER TABLE `ticket` AUTO_INCREMENT = 1;

INSERT INTO `ticket` (`id`, `year`, `data`) VALUES
    (NULL , '2013', 'sadfadf asdf a'),
    -- some more rows in 2013
);
-- this will result in continously counted ID's

UPDATE 3:
The MySQL-documentation page has a working example, which uses grouped primary keys on MyISAM table. They are using a table similar to the one above, but with reversed column-order, because one must not have auto-increment as first column. It seems this works only using MyISAM instead of InnoDB. If MyISAM still fits your needs, you don't need to reset the ID, but merely increase the year and still have a result as the one you've questioned for.
See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/example-auto-increment.html (second example, after "For MyISAM and BDB tables you can specify AUTO_INCREMENT on a secondary column in a multiple-column index.")

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David is a producer of mixed grains and cotton. He has been managing his farm in Cecil Plains, Queensland for 20 years. The farm has been operating for 50 years and was passed down in the family.
Atlas Copco portable air compressors have been used on Australian farms for decades.
Atlas Copco portable air compressors can be used to perform various tasks around the farm including inflating tires on vehicles, cleaning production areas, powering pneumatic tools, spray painting, orchard protection, siloing excess grain and powering water pumps.
Portable air compressors can be used for a quick and easy clean-up of production areas.
Atlas Copco compressors can be used for maintenance work around the farm.
"Pneumatic staplers and nail guns can be used for fast DIY work on farms like putting up new structures, maintaining existing structures and running wire mesh from post to post" says Ross.


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Carlos Rican Roman, Jr.
June 2, 1987 - July 21, 2021
Monday, July 26, 2021, at Tharp Funeral Home, Lynchburg
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Carlos Rican Roman Jr, 34, of Amherst, passed away on Wednesday, July 21st, 2021. He was born on June 2nd, 1987, to Carlos and Melita Roman in Lynchburg, Va.
Carlos was preceded in death by his son, Averee Cruz Roman, and grandmother, Margarita Vega.
In addition to his parents, left to cherish his memory are his daughter, Havana Roman; sisters Nikita Roman of Lynchburg, Va, Carmelita Alfaro of New Jersey, and siblings Ramon Roman, Tia Roman Hall, Shonte Batts, Shawn Roman, and Deona Mansour; grandparents Norvell and Ruby Evans Sr of Madison Heights, Va; and a host of nephews and nieces, aunts and uncles, cousins, family, and friends.
Visitation will be held from 6 until 8 p.m. on Monday, July 26, 2021, at Tharp Funeral Home, Lynchburg. A PRIVATE service will be held later.

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De Road Duster (Dissosteira carolina) is een van de grootste sprinkhanen die voorkomt in Canada in de provincie Alberta. De sprinkhaan kan 40 millimeter lang worden. De kleuren van de sprinkhaan variëren van licht geelbruin tot vrij donker roodbruin, wat als camouflage dient voor als hij op de grond zit. Tijdens het vliegen valt de sprinkhaan op met zwarte achtervleugels die voorzien zijn van een brede lichtgele rand.

Vliegende Sprinkhaan
De volwassen sprinkhanen vliegen goed en kunnen laag boven de grond blijven zweven. Het vlieggedrag en het patroon, waaronder fladderen en duikelen van links naar rechts, zorgt ervoor dat de Road Duster soms wordt verward met een vlinder. Voor vogels en andere natuurlijke vijanden van de sprinkhaan is het 'willekeurige' vliegpatroon van de Road Duster een reden om niet te lang achter de sprinkhaan aan te blijven jagen.

Leefgebied
Deze sprinkhaan komt vooral veel voor in het midden en het zuidelijke deel van de Canadese provincie Alberta. Daarnaast is hij ook wel in verschillende delen van de Verenigde Staten te vinden.

Levenscyclus en ontwikkeling
De Road Duster heeft een levenscyclus van een jaar. De vrouwtjes zijn groter dan de mannetjes en de eerste volwassen exemplaren laten zich voor het eerst zien aan het eind van de maand juli. Eenmaal volwassen heeft deze soort nog een levensverwachting van ongeveer 1,5 tot 2 maanden en is daarom nog vaak tot ver in september actief.

Leefomgeving en eetgewoonten
In tegenstelling tot wat zijn naam doet vermoeden floreert de Road Duster in ruige gebieden, in het bijzonder gebieden met weinig vegetatie. Je komt hem ook wel tegen in (rand)stedelijke gebieden zonder begroeiing. De Road Duster voedt zich met een breed scala aan grassen en planten. Deze sprinkhanensoort zal zich niet snel ontwikkelen tot een zogenaamde plaag. Soms echter, kan de populatie sprinkhanen in een gebied zo groeien ( > 10 stuks /m2) dat je kunt spreken van een 'bijna plaag'. Naast de normale grassen en planten gaan de sprinkhanen zich dan ook voeden met gewassen als tabak, bonen, alfalfa, maïs, aardappel en natuurlijk alles wat er verder nog groeit.

Andere benamingen
Dissosteira Carolina is de Latijnse benaming van deze sprinkhaan, maar deze bijzondere soort is ook bekend onder de volgende namen:
Road Duster
Locust Carolina
Vlinder sprinkhaan
black-winged grasshopper

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Feb 16 (Reuters) - Public interest groups filed suit against Southern Co in federal court on Thursday to block the license that U.S. regulators issued last week for the country's first new nuclear reactors in more than 30 years at the Vogtle power plant in Georgia.
Nine groups sued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, alleging that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) violated federal law by issuing the Vogtle license without considering public safety and environmental implications of last year's Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.
The suit asks federal judges to order the NRC to prepare a new environmental impact statement on the proposed reactors. The NRC said it already has conducted a lengthy study that addressed the issues raised in the lawsuit.
Last week, the NRC voted 4-1 to issue Southern a permit to build and operate two units at Vogtle - the first permits issued in the United States since 1978, a year before the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania that cast a pall over the nuclear industry and halted plans for dozens of plants.
But NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko gave opponents some ammunition by casting an extraordinary dissenting vote, citing the Fukushima nuclear disaster that spurred the NRC to review whether existing and new U.S. reactors could withstand natural disasters like earthquakes and floods.
"Further, the NRC ... already rejected these groups' contentions relating to the NRC's analysis of Fukushima and we do not believe there is valid justification to stay the (license)," Higginbottom said.
Higginbottom also noted the NRC's Fukushima 90-day Task Force found the AP1000 already met most of its recommendations.
Southern and partners expect to spend about $14 billion to build the two 1,100-megawatt Westinghouse AP1000 reactors with the units entering service in 2016 and 2017.
The lawsuit was filed by groups including Friends of the Earth, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC WARN).
The public interest groups also said Georgia ratepayers and U.S. taxpayers would be on the hook if Westinghouse and the construction team could not build the reactors on time and on budget. Westinghouse Electric is majority-owned by Japanese multinational Toshiba Corp.
"U.S. taxpayers need to brace themselves for some bad news if they are put on the hook for any ill-considered 'investment' in the Vogtle reactors. Taxpayers and Southern Co's customers are sitting ducks for serial cost overruns and soaring power bills," Jim Warren, executive director of NC WARN said in a statement.
In defense of the project, Westinghouse spokesman Scott Shaw said the NRC has already rejected these groups' contention relating to its analysis of Fukushima and there is no valid reason to delay or stay the license for the new reactors.
Shaw also noted Georgia regulators just last week voted 5-0 to approve of Southern Co's Georgia Power unit's spending on the new Vogtle reactors and financing cost of the project were $60 million under budget.


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Whatever Chris Dorner's story is, it is doubtful we will ever hear a fair telling.
His manifesto presents his view, of course, but only after events had driven him to extreme acts. The LAPD viewpoint is quite different but, when compared with Chris' telling, at significant odds.
Some are saying Chris was disturbed and never should have been hired but, once on the payroll and in the system, rules and procedures designed to protect against unfair treatment may have been counterproductive and actually worked to prevent helpful action rather than ensuring it.
And so, it would seem that Chris got inadequate help, if any, and that the LAPD was stuck and unable to ease him out. It would seem possible, then, that the only way to get rid of him was to heap up his errors and misjudgements until he could be fired.
Chris says he was railroaded.
But that doesn't excuse his actions. Certainly Chris is to blame for what he did. He committed murder.
Some will say the LAPD contributed to his demise, making a bad situation catastrophically worse. We could argue whether or not their actions were right or wrong — and no doubt the department and possibly the press will do so — but clearly, Chris did blame them for his demise. In his view, it was their fault.
Where is the reality?
Given better care, therapy and, perhaps medication, the story might have been different.
Did that happen? Did Chris seek help? Did his employers suggest it, then recommend it, and maybe even escalate up to requiring it?
We don't know but, whatever the case, Chris didn't get the help needed to stop the escalation that ended in that cabin in the snowy mountains near Los Angeles.
Where should the blame be placed?
Did the union, in mandating procedural rules and protections for the employed officers, play a part? Were the procedures flawed and unable to guarantee help for someone who needed it or did this case just fall through the cracks?
Constricted by those rules and regulations, however, did the department feel it had no alternative other than to heap up evidence and eventually force Chris out?
If so, then yes, those rules that forced the department's only way out played a part in what happened.
And what about the press and their sensationalist coverage of other horrific events in the preceding months? Did that affect what Chris did?
Chris sent material to CNN not because he liked them, but because he knew it would be aired. Were that alternative not available, Chris wouldn't have been able to seek national attention in that way. Would he have calmed down? Would he have tried something else?
Of course, we cannot know. The "what if"s are infinite and unknowable.
We can only know what did happen, and that only comes to us from different viewpoints.
The reality through this long chain of events is hard to find.
In this situtaion, events have cascaded, one into another, like a long train of dominoes.
Was this end inevitable? Was the die cast for this terrible end when Chris was hired by the LAPD?
Or were there missed opportunities where the train of events could have been interrupted, the momentum dissipated, the eventuality diverted into something less terrible?
Chris' story is done now.
We'll never know if that was possible.
As I go through my day, I pray for those little kindnesses, to receive and to give, that might make a small difference in such a cascade.
Life is fragile.
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West Melbourne man seen yelling at people at a shopping plaza.
WEST MELBOURNE, Florida – Usually when people are having a bad day, they stay at home.
But not if you're 30-year-old Ramiro Lopez Matias and have something to say to people while walking around the Publix shopping plaza in West Melbourne.
West Melbourne police received a call in reference to a man yelling at patrons and "giving them the middle finger" as they entered the stores, according to the report.
Officers arrived at 2251 W. New Haven Avenue and saw Matias yelling at people near the 192 Bagel shop, the report said.
Matias appeared to be angry at something because of the way he yelled at people.
"He began to disturb the patrons of the plaza by yelling at individuals and giving them the middle finger," the officer said.
Matias was arrested on a charge of Disorderly Intoxication and booked into the Brevard County Jail.
According to jail records, Matias has never been arrested before in Brevard County.


Question: What's even better than finding out you have the most painful medical condition known to man?
Answer: Knowing it will only get worse.
Well, aren't I just little Sally Sunshine today? Actually, I'm in a pretty good mood, but the future is definitely something I think about. Or rather I think about not thinking about. I prefer to be in the moment – in the "now" if you will. That isn't some kind of philosophical crap about living each minute to the fullest. It's self-preservation. See, if I really start thinking about where I'll be in a year or five years, it's pretty damn depressing.
Let's look at my facts: I'm a single, fifty years old female and I rarely leave my house, so, you know, men are really beating a path to my door. (And if you buy that, you are clearly NOT a single, fifty year old female who rarely leaves her house.) I'm not saying the path to personal fulfillment lies only with finding the right man, but it would be nice to be meandering through the days with someone. I can't have a job at present due to the TN and trying to fill my days with something – anything – I can do to help from turning my brain and body into mush is a challenge. Please know that I am aware that a lot of people wish they were in my position of "early retirement" if only for a little while. But it's harder than it seems. First the financial aspect is frightening, but moreover the psychological impact is even worse. I'm used to working, talking with people, solving problems, heck, moving. I don't need a FitBit thing to tell me how much I've walked each day. I can just count how many steps it takes for me to walk from the living room to the kitchen and multiply that by eight or so.
Okay, I kind of got off topic. I started out talking about the future. But that's what happens. When the spectrum of the future is laid out before me, I mentally change channels. My short-term future consists of deciding whether or not to put more ice in my glass of water. I don't think of the long-term unless long-term can be defined by how many days the watermelon I bought will stay good in the fridge.
Is it unhealthy for me to not think about the future? I'm gonna say no. The reason being that I would probably imagine the worst possible outcome and that just may not be what happens. Maybe there will be new advances in the treatment of TN. Maybe I'll go into a remission and be able to work again. Maybe when I'm out buying watermelon I'll bump into a single man who has the looks of Kevin Bacon and is as much of a goofball as I am.
So I'm not going to think about it. I'm just going to go put more ice in my glass of water.


Pour vinegar mixture over about 8 ounces cole slaw mix, let stand to soak in about 15 minutes; then add, 1 t Dijon mustard, 1/3 cup mayonnaise, 1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese. About 4 servings.
It's the perfect time of year for corn on the cob–I feel like I'm still catching up from the two years in junior high when I had braces and couldn't eat it!
Shuck the ears, place a tablespoon of butter (or less, if you're feeling virtuous) in the center of the ear, and wrap up in foil–throw them on the hot grill (indirect heat) for about 15 minutes, turning occasionally.
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With south exposure this house / villa of 250 m² (about 2688 ft²), built in 1974, on 3 levels, with a land size of 2231 m² (about 0,55 acres) contains 8 rooms including 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 3 toilets. It is equipped with a living room of 43 m² (about 462 ft²), with a fitted, with a terrace, with a cellar and with 3 parkings. Others : fireplace.


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Roost Smart Battery v. 2.0 Review: Add Smarts to Your Smoke Detector
This Wi-Fi-connected battery will send an alert to your smartphone when your smoke detector goes off.
By Mike Prospero 2018-01-24T14:48:02Z
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A smart smoke detector can alert your phone remotely if the sensor detects a fire or carbon monoxide in your home. But what if you have a bunch of traditional smoke detectors and don't want to spend a lot of money upgrading? Roost's Smart Battery offers a cost-effective compromise. This $35 device plugs into most any smoke detector. Not only will it alert you when the alarm sounds, but it will also let you silence the noise, temporarily, from your smartphone.
By necessity, the Roost Smart Battery's shape hasn't changed from its original version; it's the size of a 9-volt battery, but a small speaker is built into it.
The bottom end, where the smarts are housed, is removable. The Roost should be able to fit into any smoke detector that uses a 9-volt battery.
MORE: Best Smart Smoke Detectors 2018
The biggest change between Roost's first- and second-generation smart battery is that the company simplified the setup process. Previously, the battery would emit a series of beeps and squeals, which would be picked up by the Roost smartphone app, as part of the configuration process.
Now, after launching the app, you merely have to connect to the battery's Wi-Fi, and then connect the battery to your home Wi-Fi network; that approach is similar to those found with most other smart home devices, such as smart plugs.
As it's only a battery, the Roost can't detect smoke or carbon monoxide. Rather, it sends you an alert when the detector in which you've installed the battery sounds an alarm. So, you'll want to make sure that whatever detector you're using is up to date and capable of picking up smoke, fire and carbon monoxide.
One of the reasons that the Nest Protect is our favorite smart smoke detector is that its photoelectric sensors can detect both smouldering and fast-burning fires, as well as carbon monoxide.
Roost simplified the setup process for the company's second-gen smart battery.
After installing the Roost into a smoke detector, I then pressed the test button on the detector. A second or two after the test alarm went off, I received an alert on my smartphone from the Roost app, which gave me the option to snooze the alarm. That's roughly the same amount of time as Nest's app took to alert me.
Roost's integration with other smart home systems is fairly limited. You can connect it to other devices only via IFTTT; by comparison, the Nest Protect can directly connect to a host of smart home devices.
If you're looking for the best smart smoke detector, the Nest Protect can't be beat. But Nest's $119 device costs roughly the same as three of Roost's batteries. If you have a bunch of traditional smoke detectors and are looking to retrofit them to make them connected, then the Roost smart battery is the way to go.
Credit: Roost
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Robert Greenblatt, es un ejecutivo de televisión de Estados Unidos, es actualmente el presidente de WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct-to-Consumer. WarnerMedia es una compañía de entretenimiento, que surgió de la adquisición de Time Warner por parte de AT&T. WarnerMedia concentra las operaciones de Turner Broadcasting, HBO y WarnerBros, DC Comics y CNN.

Carrera
Greenblatt empezó su carrera televisiva con la Fox Broadcasting Company, albergando programación del horario central y desarrollando tales programas como Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, The X-Files, y Party of Five.

Greenblatt era el productor de varios series para múltiples cadenas, incluyendo Six Feet Under, el miniserie Elvis, y American Family: Journey of Dreams de Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

Desde 2004 hasta 2011, Greenblatt era el Presidente de Entretenimiento para Showtime Networks, supervisando una pizarra de programación original que dramáticamente reposicionó el canal de pago como un líder en la empresa de cable premium. Bajo su liderazgo, desarrolló y supervisó tales programas como Weeds, Dexter, The Tudors, Nurse Jackie, y United States of Tara.

Como un productor teatral, desarrolló una adaptación de 9 to 5 para la etapa musical. Esta producción, que se nominó para 4 Premios Tony, se estrenó en Broadway en abril de 2009, y se cerró en septiembre de 2010.

Greenblatt es actualmente el presidente de NBC Entertainment. Sucedió a Jeff Gaspin en enero de 2011 después de que Comcast tomó el control de NBCUniversal poco después de que se le dio ese nombre.

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SparkCognition, one of the world's fastest growing AI companies, is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. David Asher to its executive team. Asher joins as Executive Vice President of Strategy. He brings extensive experience in the financial world, both as a hedge fund strategist and as the architect of financial intelligence and operational programs for the US government. With a unique background in both security and securities, Asher helped pioneer the use of big data, machine learning, and network analysis in pursuit of some of the biggest counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and counter threat finance programs and initiatives in US history. Based on his experience in government, Asher believes artificial intelligence, specifically that developed by SparkCognition, has the power to counter critical threats, fight crime, and make the world safer.
Asher is also helping expand SparkCognition AI into the commercial financial sector. Over the last twenty years, Asher has worked for and advised some of the biggest and most successful asset managers and global hedge funds. He has helped spearhead recent client engagements at SparkCognition, applying patented artificial intelligence to quantitative trading, strategy identification, and research, while also leading the development of proprietary AI capabilities to automate and bring down the costs of compliance, sanctions screening, and anti-money laundering processes, which have become huge costs incurrences for financial institutions.
Dr. Asher has earned a reputation as a global expert on counter threat finance priorities, such as the identification and pursuit of illicit financing and facilitation schemes, money laundering, and trafficking. For more than twenty years, Asher has been an advisor to US government Departments and agencies, including SOCOM, CENTCOM, DEA, CIA, and the Departments of Defense, Treasury, State, and Justice. He has advised such organizations, and others, on finance issues and international finance overall, especially in Asia, and the Middle East.
Prior to joining SparkCognition, Asher was managing partner at Vital Financial, advising two of the world's premier hedge funds on Asia, Middle East energy, and global macro strategy. He continues to serve as Chairman of Sayari Analytics, focused on the AML/CFT space for financial institutions. Asher is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS, http://www.cnas.org) and a board member of the Center for Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (http://defenddemocracy.org/about-fdd/team-overview/csif-advisor/).
Asher graduated from Cornell University, studied at the London School of Economics, and received his doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He spent two years as a postgraduate researcher at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
SparkCognition has established itself as an artificial intelligence technology leader with event prediction for business-critical solutions in place for customers in energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, and finance, including the London Stock Exchange Group.


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Authors: ada Yesterday, Green For All CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins testified before Congress, at a hearing on Raising Wages and Living Standards for Families and Workers. The hearing was held by House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, chaired by Representative David Obey. Here are some excerpts from Phaedra's testimony... On the definition of Green Jobs... [Green For All] articulated a simple but I think useful definition in a report that we issued last year - Green Collar Jobs in America's Cities - with our colleagues at the Apollo Alliance: green-collar jobs "are well paid career track jobs that contribute directly to preserving or enhancing environmental quality..." By this standard "… if a job improves the environment, but doesn't provide a family-supporting wage or a career ladder to move low-income workers into higher-skilled occupations, it is not a green-collar job." On changing the tenets of our Economy... ...The promise of green jobs and a green economy – not to mention the liveable planet we must leave for our grandchildren – will be lost unless we change the rules of our economy. Right now, [our economy] relies on mistaken assumptions: that fossil fuel energy is abundant and cheap; that pollution is free; that fast and cheap is the same as quality and productivity. To change these tenets, we need specific policies to ensure that markets for industries that create green jobs are supported, that these jobs provide family sustaining wages and benefits, and that there are pathways to green economy careers for those Americans who most need them. Policy Recommendations... 1. Smart energy and climate policy has to be the foundation of an inclusive green economy. This country - and our planet - needs a bill that limits greenhouse gas emissions and advances aggressive climate solutions that are timely enough to avert the worst environmental and economic consequences of global warming. We need a bill that invests generated revenue to maximize the gain and minimize the pain for low-income people in the transition to a green economy. 2. Maximizing impact will require policies at a scale commensurate with the challenge we face. Green For All and our partners have developed a proposal for a Clean Energy Corps (CEC), which is an ambitious effort to integrate jobs, training, and service to combat global warming, grow local economies, and demonstrate the employment promise of a clean energy economy. In this era of widespread budget deficits, it makes sense to implement large-scale energy-saving measures on existing buildings – retrofits that can be financed by a revolving loan fund that will replenish itself with the energy savings achieved. 3. Job quality in the green economy won't happen without smart public policies that ensure it. I'd like to recommend to the Committee a recent report written by our colleagues at Good Jobs First – High Road or Low Road: Job Quality in the New Green Economy. The report documents the divergence we're seeing between employers in green sectors who treat workers with respect and fair compensation, and those that do not, which includes businesses offshoring production of clean energy products in to pay substandard wages. 4. The green economy won't be built without a skilled workforce. I want to thank you Mr. Obey, your fantastic staff, and this entire committee for including $500 million for green job training in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. We will be working with our partners to ensure we receive the maximum impact for that investment. We commit to bringing back to this Subcommittee the stories we hear and lessons we learn from our training partnerships, and identifying those that provide the best models for connecting skilled workers to emerging green industries. I would also respectfully ask the Committee to look beyond the two years of funding provided by the Recovery Act and consider reserving funds in next year's appropriations bill for the Green Jobs Act, authorized in the 2007 Energy bill and authored by Secretary of Labor Solis.


Masked thieves who attacked a young man east of Paris to steal his car repeatedly stabbed him after noticing he was wearing a Jewish symbol, French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said. Alliot-Marie condemned the "revolting attack" in the suburban town of Fontenay-sous-Bois and said authorities are working to find the perpetrators. The ministry said in a statement Friday that the attackers shouted anti-Semitic threats at the man as they stabbed him four times with a knife in the Thursday evening attack. It did not provide details on the man's condition.


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European Regulators Concerned Apple's Proposed Shazam Acquisition Could Hurt Competitors Like Spotify
Monday April 23, 2018 9:51 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
The European Commission today announced it has opened an in-depth investigation into Apple's proposed acquisition of Shazam.
The regulators are concerned that the merger could reduce choice for users of streaming music services in Europe. In particular, they believe that Apple could gain access to sensitive data that could allow Apple to directly target its competitors' customers and encourage them to switch to Apple Music.
While the European Commission did not name any specific services, Apple Music's biggest rival in Europe is Spotify, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Other competitors include Deezer, Tidal, and Google Play Music.
European Commission competition chief Margrethe Vestager:
The way people listen to music has changed significantly in recent years, with more and more Europeans using music streaming services. Our investigation aims to ensure that music fans will continue to enjoy attractive music streaming offers and won't face less choice as a result of this proposed merger.
In addition, the European Commission said it will investigate whether Apple Music's competitors would be harmed if Apple were to discontinue referrals from the Shazam app to them following the acquisition. Shazam's app currently integrates with multiple services, including Spotify and Deezer.
The regulators have set a September 4, 2018 deadline to reach a decision, delaying an Apple-Shazam merger for at least 90 days.
Apple announced its plans to acquire Shazam in December, describing the two companies as a "natural fit" with "exciting plans" ahead. In February, the European Commission received requests from Austria, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Sweden to assess the deal under European merger law.
Shazam is a popular service that can identify the name and lyrics of songs, music videos, TV shows, and more. It has apps across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, iMessage, and Mac, while the service has been built into Siri since iOS 8.
Tags: European Commission, Shazam
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ideal.dreams
So, Apple will have to promise to continue to allow Shazam to list other streaming services when it makes referrals. They'll probably agree to that. Now, if they could just force Apple to allow the Homepod to use other services.
They should have zero control over that. Apple manufactures and sells its Homepod and has a right to limit its streaming services to Apple Music only.
allow Apple to directly target its competitors' customers and encourage them to switch to Apple Music.
The horror! A company trying to convince users of a competing product to switch to its own! We cannot allow that!
Jakexb
Don't understand how anyone is forcing Apple to do anything. If Spotify wants to make a Spotify speaker, are they going to be forced to support Apple Music?
jayducharme
I don't understand how this is a problem. Shazam isn't a streaming service; it simply identifies songs. I guess Apple could engineer it so that it displayed songs only on Apple Music and tried to steer users to buy it if they don't already have Apple Music. But I'm sure in that case another app would come along to fill in the gaps.
jbc25
It almost sounds as though they don't actually understand what Shazam is. Like they're assuming it's another music streaming service.
MacBebe
It is up to the customers who they pick as their streaming service. This complain doesn't make sense.


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UFC Gold: The Possibilities If Penn, St. Pierre, and Silva All Move Up
We all savvy the case for dominance: think Celtics, Yankees, or Mike Tyson for combat sports purposes.
Dynasties can undoubtedly be a great fixation, especially for a sport looking to attract mainstream appeal…but when does it actually become a hindrance to the sport itself?
When pundits and uber-fans alike start to consider that a champion can simply mail it in—that there is not even the slightest suggestion that a title holder might be usurped—then perhaps it is time for the powers that be to shake things up.
Caught in the cross-hairs of all three moving up at the same time is the intrigue of a third fight between Penn and St. Pierre; also the long mused-about "super fight" between St. Pierre and Silva.
If you take Dana White at his most recent word, he has little interest in putting up Canada's finest against the Spider via his whitewashing of former light heavyweight champ Forrest Griffin. White believes that "what tangled webs he weaves," Silva is just too eight-legged ginormous for someone in St. Pierre that would weigh in as a diminutive middleweight.
Time will tell if that fight ever makes its way to a stadium conveniently located within the friendly confines of Toronto.
As far as the conclusion of the Penn vs. St. Pierre trilogy, that one seems more likely if Penn walks through Frankie Edgar at UFC 112 and St. Pierre does not want to leave his home-sweet-home at 170.
If so, he better quit putting on so much muscle though…could we ever see a day where GSP actually misses weight?
Penn won't get the title shot automatically though. Look for St. Pierre to most likely challenge the Josh Koscheck-Paul Daley winner, possibly as coaches on season 12 of The Ultimate Fighter .
A compelling first fight for Penn, should he ascend upward, could come against Jon Fitch or Thiago Alves.
Imagine the stand-up war pitting Penn's vaunted boxing up against Alves's aggressive Muay Thai. Could we see a scenario play out where Penn actually started to lose the stand-up battle and tried to take down Alves? Of the three fighters, the likelihood of Penn packing on some pounds feels most likely.
For St. Pierre and Silva, the plot thickens.
"O Canada" has seemed hesitant at the hypothetical of moving up thus far; at the very least he is in no rush to do so.
He has talked about building a legacy, wanting to be considered the best mixed martial artist of all time.
Perhaps he believes his path to greatness lies in laying waste to un-formidable foes at welterweight with no end in sight. While it would certainly add to his trophy case, and his consecutive title defense tally, at some point his legacy would have to be called into question if he does not make the swim upstream to stiffer waters.
Assuming Anderson Silva makes the move to a combination of light heavyweight/heavyweight, St. Pierre would get to start from scratch in a division that may be lacking the depth of the welterweight division, but fights with the best at 185 would be no easy chore for the trigger-happy takedown artist.
Of course the fight that would have to be side-stepped would be a fight against fellow Greg Jackson-trained teammate Nate Marquardt.
But that is certainly a more manageable chore in avoidance then the three AKA-trained welterweights (Fitch, Koscheck and Swick) managing to avoid each other—especially with Marquardt not being in the immediate title picture.
Fights against Vitor Belfort, Chael Sonnen, Demian Maia, Wanderlei Silva, and even Michael Bisping all hold more intrigue then rematches with Jon Fitch, Thiago Alves, Josh Koscheck, or even B.J. Penn for that matter.
If St. Pierre truly wants to cement his legacy, will he not be at some point feel compelled or be forced by scrutiny to move up in weight?
Last but not least, what to do with Anderson Silva.
After his fight with Demian Maia, is there anything left for the Spider in the middle-of-the-road division? He has already face-planted all of the big bugs with his 100 mile per hour windshield mentality. It's simply time for him to upgrade to a wider lane highway.
The biggest hurdle standing in his way of possible light heavyweight dominance is his friend and Team Black House training partner Lyoto Machida. If "The Dragon" reigns his fistic fire on Shogun's parade for a second time, Machida will likely have the second heavyweight division on lockdown for awhile.
And by awhile, we mean until Jon Jones arrives at his destination of title town (hype train choo chooing at full steam).
Perhaps it would be in the best interests of all involved for Silva to circumvent all that noise and take his act to the grandest platform of them all: the reinvigorated UFC heavyweight division.
Anderson Silva, via his manager Ed Soares, has stated that he wants to be involved in the biggest fights possible, and what would be bigger, both literally and figuratively, than potential fights with Frank Mir, Cain Velasquez, Shane Carwin, and, last but not least, everyone's favorite behemoth Brock Lesnar (Junior dos Santos not eligible due to that whole pesky teammate thing).
For once, Silva would not have to cut weight. In fact, he would be encouraged to bulk up for his debut at heavyweight and come in at least a beefed up 240, allowing him to weigh as much as the smallest of the lot in Velasquez.
Just imagine: If Dan Henderson is the prototype of a fighter to tangle up Silva (and take a round), just how sticky could things get for Andy if he fights a bigger, better version of Hendo, via Velasquez?
Sure divisional dominance is great, but anything can wear out its welcome, and knowing when to color outside the lines is a must when the possibilities are so utterly captivating.
Brian Oswald
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A few weeks ago, I arrived home to find one of the greatest things in life – a surprise package on my doorstep. My sweet friend Pam sent me a box with a card, some bridal magazines, and The Austin Cookbook. As much as I love California, I desperately miss food from Austin, which made this book one of the best gifts I received in a while. Mark immediately flipped to the Bob Armstrong Dip aka Tex-Mex Queso Recipe and asked if we could please make it the first Sunday of football. Um, duh, of course, we can!
Matt's El Rancho is one of the oldest restaurants in Austin and has been serving up Tex-Mex since 1952. My dad had an office near there when I was in middle school. When my summers switched from lazing around with my friends to working for my dad's company, we often went to a late lunch at Matt's. In my twenties, Mark and I lived near there and loved popping in for Mexican Martinis, fajitas and queso (Matt's hands down has the best veggie fajitas in town). Matt's El Rancho is not necessarily my favorite Mexican food, but it is classic and consistent. And their queso, affectionately known as "The Bob", is awesome.
The Bob Armstrong Dip aka Tex-Mex Queso Recipe has three components that are made independently and put together to create the classic. The first component is the ground meat, which should be beef. I don't eat beef, so I used ground turkey and didn't really notice a difference. The second is fresh guacamole (in my opinion an essential part of any good queso), and the third, of course, is the cheese.
First, saute your meat with tomatoes, onion, CELERY, and garlic. I have to say I was shocked to read that celery appears not once but twice in this queso. I would never add this on my own, but I wanted to keep this as close to the recipe as possible, and I had already subbed turkey for beef and fresh garlic for garlic powder, so in it went. Funny how close this is to the Cajun holy trinity….
Once your meat is finished, set aside and keep warm and begin your guacamole. I added some cilantro and jalapeno to my guac because I literally cannot live without it there. Set the guacamole aside as well. I thought that I was going to make a giant version of the Bob, pouring all of the queso over all of the meat and guacamole. Apparently, Mark had different ideas and he immediately nixed this. He wants it the original way with a bowl of queso and a scoop of each on top.
The last and most important part of The Bob is queso. The recipe called for shredded American or processed cheese. I know I should use the shredded American, but Velveeta is so much easier, and as a Texan, I have been making queso my whole life with Velveeta and Rotel.
Bring a cup of water to boil and add tomatoes, onions, poblanos, celery and bell pepper. Boil for about a minute. Turn the water down to a simmer and slowly add in your cheese, stirring constantly, until you end up with the right consistency.
Find a shallow bowl and ladle in your piping hot queso. Top with a scoop of ground meat and guacamole – careful not to mix! Matt's never mixes it all in – they leave that up to you.
Serve immediately! The only bad part about any queso is it is only good while hot; when it cools it separates or forms a skin.
Mark had no trouble taste testing this. We both agreed that this was very close to the original in the restaurant.
I am Really Into This Bob Armstrong Dip aka Tex-Mex Queso Recipe! I am amazed at how close it tastes to the restaurant version. Nobody has queso out here in California, so when I need a fix I will definitely go with this recipe again. If you are craving a Tex-Mex original, look no further!
This copycat recipe comes from Matt's El Rancho in Austin, TX via The Austin Cookbook. It is a Tex-Mex Queso Classic.
Heat skillet over medium heat and add all ingredients. Cook, stirring, until the onion is translucent and the meat is cooked, about five minutes. Most of the liquid should evaporate, but the mixture shouldn't be dry. Keep warm while you prepare the other components.
Combine the avocados, lemon juice, garlic, and oil, mashing everything slightly. The mixture should be chunky, not smooth. Stir in the tomato and season with salt.
Bring 1 Cup of water to boil in a small saucepan. Add the celery, bell pepper, onion, poblano, and tomato and boil briefly to cook everything, about one minute. Turn the heat down to low and gradually whisk in the cheese. Heat for a few minutes, stirring constantly. The second all the cheese is melted and everything is heat through and smooth, remove from the heat so it doesn't overcook. Do this step right before serving.
Pour the hot queso into a wide, shallow serving bowl. Add a scoop of meat and a scoop of guacamole, about 1/2 cup each. Do not mix. Guests should combine the queso, guacamole, and ground beef together with tortilla chips as they eat it.
I miss Tex Mex and BBQ almost as much as I miss HEB! Thank you Brian.


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Volcanos may be countering greenhouse warming
By illconsidered on March 8, 2013.
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Fake skeptics of anthropogenic global warming love to set up the straw man that mainstream climate science believes that CO2 is the one and only driver of climate change. They can then use it in many different attacks, such as gee whiz isn't it stupid that they haven't even thought of the sun's influence. This is of course patently false as even the most cursory survey of actual scientific content will quickly reveal. This straw man is also an implicit part of the argument that the "16 year pause" in global warming proves that CO2 is not a climate driver. If CO2 has risen and temperature has not, then the theory of AGW has failed, they say. Well, this would only be true if CO2 were believed to be the only possible driver of the surface temperature record. (For this post I am ignoring the two facts that, one, 16 years is not enough to unambiguously show a trend and two, there actually is an upward trend).
Well, some recent research out of the University of Colorado, Boulder has found that despite the lack of any major eruptions, like that of Pinatubo in 1991, there has in fact been a significant increase in volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere over the last decade. This increase is large enough that its cooling effect could mask as much as 25% of the greenhouse warming we would expect to see if CO2 really were on its own as a climatic influence.
Between 2000 and 2010, the average atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide — a planet-warming greenhouse gas — rose more than 5%, from about 370 parts per million to nearly 390 parts per million. If that uptick were the only factor driving climate change during the period, global average temperature would have risen about 0.2°C, says Ryan Neely III, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. But a surge in the concentration of light-scattering particles in the stratosphere countered as much as 25% of that potential temperature increase, he notes.
Further modeling indicates that the Asian Brown Cloud, unpleasant and influential as it may be regionally, does not explain the global data being recorded by satellite observation.
Now, by using a computer model that includes processes due to global atmospheric circulation and atmospheric chemistry, Neely and his colleagues show that the human contribution of aerosols to the stratosphere was minimal between 2000 and 2010. In one set of simulations, the researchers estimated the effects of all known volcanic eruptions, including the quantity of aerosols produced and the heights to which they wafted, on the month-to-month variations in particulate concentrations.
The pattern of stratospheric particulate variations during the past decade "shows the fingerprint of volcanoes, with the right episodes showing up at the right time," says William Randel, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
This is an excellent illustration of why what the IPCC publishes are not called predictions, nor can they fairly be treated as such. They are projections of what would happen given assumed trajectories of key climatic forcing agents. When those agents, be they insolation, CO2 concentrations, stratospheric aerosol concentrations, ozone or albedo changes, do not actually change the way it was assumed in a climate model run, this is not the fault of the model.
So in summary, we have now yet another reason to dismiss the suggestions that recent surface temperature trends require the scrapping of the last 150 years of research and we must abandon the idea that humans are changing the global climate. We are changing the global climate, and the temporary amelioration of our disastrous warming influence by other natural factors is not likely to last long.
Of course, you know that deniers are also going to say that this research proves that volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans. In 3, 2, 1, ...............
By mandas (not verified) on 08 Mar 2013 #permalink
mandas, can you cite articles which quantify CO2 emissions from submarine volcanoes in the pacific ocean?
By freddy (not verified) on 09 Mar 2013 #permalink
Yes, so can you if you only google.
The US geological survey group look at that sort of thing for the USA.
All volcanoes add up to between less-than-1% and 3% of human production.
By Wow (not verified) on 09 Mar 2013 #permalink
This last paragraph is a mess:
"So in summary, we have now yet another reason to dismiss the notion that recent surface temperature trends require the scraping of the last 150 years of research we must abandon the notion that humans are changing the global climate."
Scrapping, not scraping, I think, embedded in an accidental run-on sentence which is also missing a negation.
Feel free to delete my comment if you fix the sentence.
By Dan L (not verified) on 09 Mar 2013 #permalink
That was a mess, is hopefully better now...
By illconsidered on 11 Mar 2013 #permalink
Of course do volcanos counteract any atmospheric warming. The degree of the cooling effect is completely unknown since science has no sufficient values about submarine volcano eruptions. This deficiency in knowledge and GCMS parametrization is insufficiently known to the people outside the climate science circles, i.e. among politicians, media people, ordinary people like wow, jan, mandas, marco, etc. anf many other back seats in the audience without knowledge about what's going in science.
"Of course do volcanos counteract any atmospheric warming"
Really? So ANY amount of atmospheric warming is removed by volcanoes? But that would mean the world would drop to -33C after an eruption.
Please explain why this doesn't happen.
And how does freddykaitroll propose submarine volcanoes "counteract" atmospheric warming?
This "ordinary [person] not only knows about submarine volcanoes, he even knows that their effect on global climate, based on the assessment of volcanologists, is unlikely to be anything more than noise. Their effect on the trend is likely even less, as there is no evidence whatsoever of a trend in activity in the submarine volcanoes that are being monitored.
Freddykaitroll is once again showing off his ignorance.
By Marco (not verified) on 18 Mar 2013 #permalink
coby, people ask me something and you preven me from answering. At least you could inform the blog participants that you censor me. Could you please com back to civility and abstain from German nazi police-like actions against me and civilized manners. Be a man and try to avoid the impression that you are one of the most primitive censors on the internet. I have already been banned several times from alarmist blogs, but every time the blog master had announced it. Not too long ago you proudly stated here that you would not censor any person. So what is your problem??
[coby: I have never said I would not censor anybody, and besides you have not been censored, I am just slowing you down. That makes your trolling a little less enjoyable for you, then that is probably the point. I do however really dislike sock puppets, take your handle either Kai or Freddy and stick with it.]
"And how does freddykaitroll propose submarine volcanoes "counteract" atmospheric warming?"
And without heating the oceans to be noticed, either.
"At least you could inform the blog participants that you censor me."
Censorship is government stopping you speaking, right?
And you can still type what you want elsewhere, can't you? So you're not being censored at all, you're just not being given a platform by someone else to speak.
Get your own.
coby, thank you, fair enough. I slow down, you are right.
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Q: PHP variable wont show in form input field I'm trying to select a PHP variable from a database insert it into an html form input. I guess my question is how do you store the query into a variable and then call that variable in an html form? Also, the form is located on a separate page from the form action file. Why is it undefined if it's defined in the PHP file? The desired output is when I load the html page the value from the database for nickname auto-fills that field of the form.
error:
Notice:  Undefined variable: Nickname in C:\xampp\htdocs\Client-Projects\Crossfire\templates\CoinSubmission.html on line 45
CoinSubmission.html
<form autocomplete="off" action="AdminCoinSub_Code.php" method="POST">

        <input type="text" name="Nickname" id="Nickname" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($Nickname); ?>" />

</form>

AdminCoinSub_Code.php
<?php {
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "administrator_logins";

try {
    $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=$dbname", $username, $password);
    // set the PDO error mode to exception
    $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

    // prepare sql and bind parameters
    $stmt = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO coin (ProfileID, Store, Position,
        Nickname, ContactNumber, MachineCount, CutOffDate, Coins, location, LastSubmission, Rank)
        VALUES (:ProfileID, :Store,:Position, :Nickname,:ContactNumber,:MachineCount,:CutOffDate, :Coins,:location,:LastSubmission,:Rank)");

    $stmt->bindParam(':ProfileID', $_POST['ProfileID']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':Store', $_POST['Store']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':Position', $_POST['Position']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':Nickname', $_POST['Nickname']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':ContactNumber', $_POST['ContactNumber']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':MachineCount', $_POST['MachineCount']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':CutOffDate', $_POST['CutOffDate']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':Coins', $_POST['Coins']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':location', $_POST['location']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':LastSubmission', $_POST['LastSubmission']);
    $stmt->bindParam(':Rank', $_POST['Rank']);

    $stmt->execute();

      echo "Success";
    }
catch(PDOException $e)
    {
      echo "Error: " . $e->getMessage();
    }
$conn = null;
}

$conn=mysqli_connect($servername,$username,$password,$dbname);
if (mysqli_connect_errno($conn))
{
  echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}

$query = "SELECT `Nickname` FROM `adminlogin` WHERE `ProfileID` = ':ProfileID'";
$Nickname = $conn->query($query);  // This is where the query is executed
$fetcher = $Nickname->fetch_assoc();
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($Nickname))
if (mysqli_num_rows($Nickname) > 0) {
    echo 'User name exists in the table.';
} else {
    echo 'User name does not exist in the table.';
}

?>

A: First of all, your html page should have the extension .php and not .html, that way it can interpret your php code inside the html file, don't worry this wont break the html.

why is it undefined if it's defined in the php file.

It's because each php script run separately unless you hook them together.
I would recommend yo read a bit more about how php works.
For this example to work i would do it it this way.
CoinSubmission.php
<?php //This goes at the top of the file
 include_once('AdminCoinSub_Code.php') //If they are in the same dir else you will need to set the path properly.
?>

<form autocomplete="off" action="AdminCoinSub_Code.php" method="POST">

  <input type="text" name="Nickname" id="Nickname" value="<?php echo
   htmlspecialchars($Nickname); ?>">

</form>

The include at the top will "paste" your code of AdminCoinSub_Code in the CoinSubmission file and treat it as one file. So the variable will be accesible for it.
Note: My explanation is oversimplified, it ain't exactily how it works, but should get the gist of it.
Alaa Morad answer if also valid, but remember to change the .html to .php
Happy Coding :)

A: That's because $Nickname will not be set if Register Globals is off witch is a normal thing !

Register Globals has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 5.4.0

so use $_POST
<input type="text" name="Nickname" id="Nickname" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['Nickname']); ?>">


// parameters related to automatic updates can be set.
// to ensure that the desired version is applied to the cluster.
// where the cluster should look for version updates.
// hexadecimal values). This is a required field.
// an update exists with that version in the availableUpdates or history.
// it will use the appropriate update server for the cluster and region.
// contain stable updates that are appropriate for production clusters.
// the operator from creating or updating the object.
// progress, or is failing.
// desired is the version that the cluster is reconciling towards.
// with the information available, which may be an image or a tag.
// history contains a list of the most recent versions applied to the cluster.
// observedGeneration reports which version of the spec is being synced.
// and conditions fields may represent from a previous version.
// and is for internal use only.
// condition "Progressing" is set to true if an update is being applied.
// applied to the cluster or not.
// to the cluster (all resource updates were successful).
// or is currently being applied.
// UpdateHistory is a single attempted update to the cluster.
// parts of the update successfully applied).
// startedTime is the time at which the update was started.
// that is currently being applied will have a null completion time.
// update (usually to the started time of the next update).
// retrieving the image, this value may be empty.
// before it was installed. If this is false the cluster may not be trusted.
// ClusterID is string RFC4122 uuid.
// kind indentifies which object to override.
// group identifies the API group that the kind is in.
// scoped, the namespace should be empty.
// name is the component's name.
// resources in this cluster.
// URL is a thin wrapper around string that ensures the string is a valid URL.
// field is part of spec, version is optional if image is specified.
// availableUpdates field contains a matching version.
// or potentially malicious sources.
// required before a new update is deployed.
// availableUpdates field is accurate and recent.
const RetrievedUpdates ClusterStatusConditionType = "RetrievedUpdates"
// ClusterVersionList is a list of ClusterVersion resources.


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HPH Trust posts lower profit, leading to 22% drop in distribution per unit
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Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) has posted a 25.9 per cent drop in net profit to HK$420.5 million (S$68.8 million) for the second quarter.
Revenue for the three months to June 30 slipped by 2.6 per cent to HK$3.03 billion.
On a half year basis, net profit dropped by 21.3 per cent to HK$800.8 million on the back of a 0.9 per cent decrease in revenue to HK$5.9 billion.
Distribution per unit for the half year fell to 18.7 HK cents from 24.05 HK cents previously.
Payout is scheduled for Sept 19.
The trust experienced a fall in container throughput in the latest quarter.
However, the average revenue per box for Hong Kong was higher than last year because of the favourable throughput mix of containers from liners, whereas that for China was about the same as last year due to less concessions granted to some liners but which was offset by output value-added tax as a result of Shenzhen's tax reform with effect from Nov 1, 2012.


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UK pensioner convicted of raping children in Kenya
May 23, 2018 News Room SA Africa, World 0
Kenya- Prosecutors said a 72-year-old British man was convicted on Tuesday of raping two children in Kenya after a trial in Britain in which one of his victims gave evidence from Africa via video-link.
Keith Morris befriended several families living in a Kenyan village over a period of around 20 years and gave them money and gifts, as well as paying for medical treatment and children's education.
Morris visits to the village, he would take groups of children out of the village for day trips and often invited them to stay in hotel rooms.
Britian's Crown Prosection Service said in a statement he would then buy the children sweets, make-up and take them out for meals.
In Leeds Crown Court, northern England was found guilty of sexually assaulting and raping two of the girls on several occasions in 2016 and 2017.
The charges come after concerns were raised by a hotel guest, an investigation was launched by Britain's National Crime Agency and the Kenyan Police Child Protection Unit.
Morris was eventually arrested in Britain in February 2017.
Kate Hurst, from Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement, "Under the guise of supporting Kenyan families, Keith Morris used his position of trust to abuse two young girls in his case,"
"Both victims had the courage to describe what happened to them, including one victim giving evidence via video link from Kenya," she said.
Morris has been convicted of four counts of rape, three counts of assault by penetration, four counts of sexual assault and two counts of perverting the course of justice after trying to persuade the victims to withdraw their complaints against him.
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Savages OF Modernity
Published: April 14, 2009 - 11:33 Updated: July 1, 2015 - 12:55
Gajanan Khergamker Mumbai
When businessman, Moninder Singh Pandher, and his domestic help, Surendra Koli, were arrested on December 29, 2006, after the police found 15 skulls outside the businessman's bungalow in Noida on the outskirts of Delhi, the entire nation was shocked. Investigations revealed that the remains belonged to four women and 15 young girls who had been raped, killed and mutilated. In the most eerie sections of a charge-sheet prepared it was revealed that Koli allegedly suffered from necrophilia - the deranged urge to have sex with a corpse - and necrophagia - the perverse urge to eat flesh.
The findings rewrote the ground rules of crime. Criminals had fallen to a new record low; a low that baffled basic human sensibilities. Dismal psychiatric conditions coupled with innate brutal tendencies formed the fundamental plinth of the new-age criminal; a plinth alien to law-enforcers and legal machinery alike. And when, in the first of the Nithari case judgments, a special CBI court in early February convicted the two for raping and killing 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar who had been allegedly strangled and then cut to pieces by Koli with two kitchen knives and an axe, the nation heaved a sigh of relief. Finally, a thin glimmer of justice appeared to light up the darkest chapters in India's penal history. On February 13, 2009, convicts in the Nithari killings, Koli and Singh, were awarded the death sentence for the 'rarest of rare cases' - spelling hope, or so it seemed.
In the very next month, on March 19, broke out a story of two minor daughters being forced to have sex with their father and a tantrik; a pre-marital relationship ending into a torrid threesome with the husband's acquiescence to the tantrik's relationship with his wife and more. Brutally forced into silence and subjugation, a 21-year-old girl continued being raped repeatedly over the years since the tender age of 12 by her father and the tantrik even as her 'naked' mother watched on. Her mother, investigations revealed, had had consensual sex at the same time with both her husband and the tantrik - her lover prior to marriage.
The elder daughter filed a complaint in a Mumbai police station that she had been raped over a period of nine years by her 49-year-old father, Kishore Chauhan, and a 55-year-old tantrik, Hasmukh Rathod, who has reportedly sexually abused other women as well. It was only after the tantrik began to rape her 15-year-old younger sister that the older sister could take it no more and spilt the beans before her maternal uncle and grandmother, who helped her file the complaint.
In a series of shocking revelations, the tantrik went on to justify his act saying that he was "checking his masculinity" after his wife's death owing to cancer. He added that while his wife was alive, she had stopped him from having sexual relations with other women.
The younger sister, presently 15, had apparently been taken to the tantrik's home in Juhu Gully in Mumbai last November by her mother. "Rathod chanted something and tied sacred threads on our wrists, before he stripped us," she said. He then had sex with them both. The tantrik had allegedly encouraged the father of the family to rape his elder daughter saying that he could become prosperous by doing so.
The 'reward' theory has, however, been stoically opposed by the police who claim that it's only a front for the morally depraved couple to put up as a lame justification. "There were times when I had given up on life completely," said the elder daughter in her statement. "When a child is in trouble, she first approaches her parents for help and protection, but who would protect me from my own father who had behaved like a beast?" The girl had confided in a close friend, who had encouraged her to complain about her parents.
The tantrik, in a display of morally-misplaced regret, suggested to the Mira Road police in Mumbai following his arrest that he was ready to get his son married to the younger sister as 'compensation' for the act. According to Rathod, apparently, he would not get his son married to the elder daughter as she had been 'used' too much and he himself had raped her at least 50 times. What's sickening, he added that the younger girl was petite and would "suit his son".
Concurrently, when the mother was asked how she could be so cruel to her daughters, she replied, "What's wrong in that?" adding, "Now, it is up to my daughters whether to keep our home intact or to destroy it."
What lends the edge of fatality to the heinous offence is the all-persuasive involvement of the victim's parents in a perverse saga of kinky sex and incest (and relentless cruelty) leaving little by way of hope for children in similar predicaments of sex-linked crimes that bare the devious psyche of lust-ridden incestuous families, often socially invisible.
In a horrifying case of relentless rape and brutality, a perverse father and mother devastate their young daughters, along with a maniacal tantrik Gajanan Khergamker Mumbai
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Nithari, crime, Murder, Noida, UP, Rape, Moninder Singh Pandher, Delhi, Police