Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spoke about his just-announced 2016 presidential bid at Liberty University Monday morning, the Washington Post reports.
The Tea Party conservative tweeted out his plans to run for president late Sunday night, making him the first major contender to formally announce a bid.
Educated at Harvard University and Princeton University, the 44-year-old lawyer is most widely known for his 2013 attempts to block the Affordable Care Act's implementation, leading to a 16-day federal government shutdown.
This morning, Cruz is scheduled to lead convocation at Liberty—a private, Christian college founded by Jerry Falwell, a fundamentalist preacher and televangelist.
Could the future of higher ed be found at Liberty University?
The venue may represent Cruz's attempt to court social conservatives and young Republicans. A Cruz aide says the university's large alumni network, filled with activists, factored into venue choice.
"Liberty enforces a strong message that taking a stand for what is right speaks volumes about character," says the aide.
Liberty is the world's largest Christian university and in recent decades, has become a "symbolic center of the GOP political-religious universe," writes Chris Cillizza in Washington Post's "The Fix" blog.
Then Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Massachusetts), Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), and then Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) all spoke at the university during the 2012 presidential race, as did Sen. John McCain(R-Arizona) in his 2000 primary campaign.
Cruz spoke there last year as well, warning about the danger religious liberty faces today (Zezima/Costa, Washington Post, 3/23; Cillizza, "The Fix," Washington Post, 3/23).
The takeaway: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is to speak about his just-announced 2016 presidential bid at Liberty University today, a venue choice that represents his courting of social conservatives according to political reporters .


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UConn Women Picked First In AAC, Three Huskies Make All-Conference First Team
By Kelli Stacy
| kstacy@courant.com |
Oct 15, 2018 | 11:10 AM
Connecticut's Katie Lou Samuelson prepare to throw a three-point basket in a contest as the UConn's men's and women's NCAA college basketball teams look on during the annual First Night celebration in Storrs. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (Jessica Hill / AP)
UConn women's basketball is heading into the season ranked first in the AAC and boasting a number of preseason award winners.
It's here! Here's the 2018 @American_WBB preseason poll, just released at the #AmericanTipoff! pic.twitter.com/3wPxQfSCAE
— The American (@American_Conf) October 15, 2018
During the conference's media day on Monday it was announced the team was selected at the top of the conference. The coaches, who are responsible for voting for the rankings and preseason awards, named Katie Lou Samuelson, Napheesa Collier and Crystal Dangerfield to the preseason all-conference first team.
Samuelson was selected as the preseason player of the year.
Jalen Adams Makes All-AAC First Team; UConn Men Picked 5th In Preseason Poll
The team's ranking comes as no surprise after finishing last season undefeated in the conference before ending their season with a last-second loss to Notre Dame in the national semifinals. The team received 10 first place votes with UConn coach Geno Auriemma, who is not allowed to vote for his own team, voting for USF. USF placed second in voting, followed by Houston, UCF and Cincinnati rounding out the top five.
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Samuelson is coming off of a big season for the Huskies, averaging the most points per game on the team at 17.4 and leading the nation in 3-point percentage at 47.5 percent. During the summer she's been recovering from surgery to fix an injured ankle, but said she should be fully healthy for the first game of the season.
The preseason @American_WBB All-Conference first team selections have been announced here at the #AmericanTipoff! pic.twitter.com/g0qEuEdxkR
Another star for UConn, Collier, is coming off not only a big season for the Huskies, but a summer of practicing with Team USA for the World Cup. Collier spent a few weeks with the team before being cut in the final selection rounds. Last season she averaged 16.1 points per game and scored in the double digits in 33 games.
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Dangerfield finished last season on the AAC third team after averaging 9.5 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. She had the second-highest assists on the team with 142, and the third-highest steals with 59.
The rest of the first team consists of Jasmyne Harris of Houston and Kitija Laksa of USF. Collier, Samuelson and Laksa were all unanimous selections.
The second team is Angela Harris of Houston, Laura Ferreira of USF, Alicia Froling of SMU, and Alliya Butts and Mia Davis of Temple.
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sang jazz, R&B and pop on her last two albums, 2004's "The Dana Owens Album" and 2007's "Trav'lin' Light." But she returns to her original vocal calling -- rap -- on much of her new album, "Persona."
"It's like riding a bike," the Jersey native says of rapping on the album, which will be released on Aug. 25, the same day that she performs at New York's Nokia Theatre. "I'm completely used to it, so it's a lot of fun. It's actually a lot more fun (than singing). It's a whole different attitude and energy."
Latifah, who is also an Oscar-nominated actress (for "Chicago"), doesn't just rap on the album, but sings in a variety of styles. On one track, "Take Me Away (With You)," she even transforms herself into a dance-pop diva."Persona" is her most eclectic album, and that's how it got its title.
"As we were recording the album, each song started taking on its own persona," she says. "I also realized that I was bringing all the different aspects of my career under one roof, musically -- anything I've learned from doing 'Hairspray' and 'Chicago' to doing these jazz albums, to my history as a rap artist.
"As I would imagine the songs, I would also use my acting to really take myself there, mentally. Each song took on a life of its own, and a different character."
She will have a 13-piece band with her at the show, and focus on the "Persona" material, though she also may perform a few old hits.
She expects to mount a full tour in the Fall, but is currently shooting a movie: the romantic comedy "Just Wright," where she plays a physical therapist who falls in love with a professional basketball player. She recently filmed scenes for the movie at the Izod Center in East Rutherford.
She has spent much of this summer working on "Just Wright," which she also is co-producing. But she did take time out to perform "Cue the Rain" (the first single from "Persona") and "I Know Where I've Been" (the inspirational anthem from "Hairspray") at a July 18 Nelson Mandela tribute concert at Radio City Music Hall.
It was a memorable day for her. As she prepared to go on, she says, she watched CNN coverage of President Obama visiting Ghana -- and specifically, an outpost in Ghana where slaves had been kept, before being transported to the Americas.
"It was deep, watching the last place in Africa where people who would have become slaves were kept," she says. "It just made me appreciate where we are and what we've been through, and to see an African-American president touring this place was cathartic to me.
"It got kind of emotional for me, and I was also thinking about what Nelson Mandela has gone through, and his influence on me. I was just very proud to be there."
Her pride, and her positivity, also come through on "The Light," which opens "Persona." At the start of the song, she makes a speech saying that children growing up in New Jersey are always told they won't amount to much.
"I guess that's what they told Bruce Springsteen, Wayne Shorter, John Travolta, Sarah Vaughan, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi, the Fugees," she continues, sarcastically, with music swelling behind her. "I guess that's what they told Naughty By Nature, Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra, the Jonas Brothers, Redman, Jerry Lewis, Shaquille O'Neal ... I guess that's what they told the people who came up with the film industry itself, before Hollywood ... But guess what, they didn't tell me."
Latifah grew up in Newark, East Orange and Irvington.
"Just growing up, there's a lot of obstacles against you," she says. "Quite often, you hear the bad things about Newark. But I think it's important that I always let people know that you can make it, regardless."
She says the streets where she grew up usually make the news only when the story is about shootings, or carjackings, or unemployment.
"But from those same streets, here I am, and I made it. So you can make it too.
"I don't know if people realize how many people are from Newark, let alone New Jersey, so I figured I'd drop a few names (in 'The Light'). We have a lot to be proud of. We've got something about us that allows us to make it anywhere in the world."
Where: Nokia Theatre, Broadway and 44th Street, N.Y.
When: Aug. 25 at 8 p.m.
How much: $30. Call (800) 745-3000) or visit Ticketmaster.com.


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Biografia

Di origini ungheresi, ha insegnato all'università March-Bloch  di Strasburgo dal 1998 al 2005, ed attualmente è professore di estetica all'Università Paris X: Nanterre.

È stato capo-redattore di alcune riviste e collezioni dell'IRCAM  dal 1996 al 2001; dal 2002 è consigliere musicologico  per i programmi della Cité de la musique.

È stato allievo di Jacques Derrida, del quale ha seguito i seminari presso la Scuola di alti studi in scienze sociali (École des hautes études en sciences sociales - EHESS) di Parigi; le sue opere sull'ascolto, il corpo e la lettura sono influenzate altresì dagli scritti di Jean-Luc Nancy e Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.

In Italia ha acquisito una certa notorietà presso il pubblico "non accademico" con il suo Intercettare — Estetica dello spionaggio (ISBN 978-88-7638-087-7).

Il pensiero di Szendy
Si è inizialmente dedicato ad una revisione critica dell'ascolto e della sua storia, nella prospettiva di una decostruzione dei modelli romantici o modernisti.
Nel caratterizzare l'ascolto come "un furto tollerato", il suo saggio Écoute, une histoire de nos oreilles (2001), ha contemporaneamente suscitato un certo dibattito sulle questioni del copyright e del suo antagonista, la "pirateria". Allargando questa riflessione ai rapporti tra ascolto e potere, in Sur écoute. Esthétique de l'espionnage  (2007) propone un'archeologia della sorveglianza acustica, attraverso una lettura dei testi di Bentham, Freud, Deleuze e Kafka, oltre all'analisi di diverse sequenze di Hitchcock, Lang, Coppola e De Palma.

Con Membres fantômes. Des corps musiciens (2002), Peter Szendy ridefinisce la nozione di "corpo" nelle due accezioni, di anatomia e di logica, per costruire una "organologia generale" fondata sull'effictio (un'antica figura retorica che egli reinterpreta per descrivere gli organi come se fossero effettivamente creati dalla fantasia). Oltre a numerosi articoli dedicati ad artisti e musicisti contemporanei (ricorderemo almeno Georges Aperghis e Brice Pauset, con i quali Szendy ha pure collaborato in qualità di librettista, György Kurtág, Christian Marclay) ha tra l'altro composto un saggio dedicato al romanzo  Moby Dick (Les Prophéties du texte-Léviathan. Lire selon Melville, 2004), in cui prefigura una teoria della lettura come profezia, prodromica ad un'analisi dei rapporti tra lettura e politica.

Note

Bibliografia
Libri
 Musica practica. Arrangements et phonographies de Monteverdi à James Brown, L'Harmattan, coll. «Esthétiques», 1997.
 Écoute, une histoire de nos oreilles, preceduto da Ascoltando di Jean-Luc Nancy, Éditions de Minuit, 2001. (Traduzione spagnola di José María Pinto: Escucha. Una historia del oido melomano, Paidos, 2003. Traduzione inglese di Charlotte Mandell: Listen, A History of Our Ears, Fordham University Press, 2008.)
 Membres fantômes. Des corps musiciens, Éditions de Minuit, 2002.
 Les prophéties du texte-Léviathan. Lire selon Melville, Éditions de Minuit, 2004.
 Wonderland. La musique, recto-verso (con Georges Aperghis), Bayard, 2004.
 Béla Bartók, Écrits, traduzione francese e prefazione di Peter Szendy, Éditions Contrechamps, 2006.
 Sur écoute. Esthétique de l'espionnage, Éditions de Minuit, 2007. (Traduzione italiana di Salvatore Patriarca: Intercettare. Estetica dello spionaggio, Isbn, 2008.)
 Tubes. La philosophie dans le juke-box, Éditions de Minuit, 2008.
 (Edizione italiana: Tormentoni! La filosofia nel juke-box, tradotto da Laura Odello, Isbn Edizioni, 2009, ISBN 88-7638-135-X, 9788876381355)

Articoli
 «Notre époque de plagiats (D'un reste d'Adorno)», in Critique, n° 663-664, agosto-settembre 2002.
 «L'image du pouvoir et le pouvoir de la lecture (le Léviathan, en somme)», in Geste, n° 4, 2007.
 «Antriloquies. Voix déviées dans la caverne» (con Laura Odello), in Les espaces de la voix, Revue des sciences humaines, n° 288, 2007.
 «Kant chez les extraterrestres. La philosofiction du sujet assiégé», in Vertigo. Esthétique et histoire du cinéma, n° 32, 2007.
Recensioni
 Anne Bourse, «Lectures de Melville: de l'archive à l'appareillage», Critique, n° 696, 2005.
 Julia Peslier, «Lire sur écoute», Acta Fabula, vol. 9 n° 2, 2008, http://www.fabula.org/revue/document3888.php

Voci correlate
 Sorvegliare e punire

Collegamenti esterni
 *  Bibliographie complète sur le site de l'université de Nanterre:
  Extraits et revues de presse sur le site des Éditions de Minuit: http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.eu/f/index.php?sp=livAut&auteur_id=1655
  Plusieurs articles en ligne sur le site de la revue Vacarme: http://www.vacarme.eu.org/auteur156.html
  «Musique et politique: le sang de la coupure et la promesse de la percée», dans Tympanum, n° 4, special issue: Khoraographies for Jacques Derrida, juin 2000, https://web.archive.org/web/20080510154845/http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/4/szendy.html
  Un entretien en ligne sur le site du Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (CRAL), à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS): «Effictions. Pour un autre discours de la méthode», https://web.archive.org/web/20071020122650/http://musique.ehess.fr/document.php?id=65

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5 Regional broadcast details
5.2 1984 - 1988
10 Trivia
Bob Holness (1983-94)
Michael Aspel (1997)
Liza Tarbuck (2000-1)
Vernon Kay (2007 special)
Susan Rae (1997)
Dan Strauss (2000-1)
Central for ITV, 29 August 1983 to 4 June 1993 (1200+ episodes in 11 series)
Sky One, 18 April to 30 September 1994 (120 episodes in 1 series)
(but see Regional broadcast details below)
BBC 2, 31 March to 28 August 1997 (60 epsiodes in 1 series)
Sky One, 30 October 2000 to 23 March 2001 (100 episodes in 1 series)
TalkbackThames for ITV1, 14 April 2007 (Gameshow Marathon one-off)
Buzzing in and answering the question correctly meant that space would be turned your colour. One player had the white spaces, and a team of two players had blue. The idea of the game was to fill in as many spaces as necessary so that a contiguous line of your colour went across the board horizontally (for the blue team) or vertically (for the white player, who could make the journey in one less space than the blues to compensate for their single-ness). The 'two against one' concept proved rather contentious, with many viewers being of the opinion that the double team had an unfair advantage (even if they did have to answer more questions correctly to win), but the format was clearly such a winning one that the whole issue never really mattered that much and it certainly didn't affect the show's popularity or reputation. In any case, there were certainly plenty of single player-victories over all the series.
Regardless of whether the player won the Gold Run or not, the champion(s) went on to play another team or single player. Winning successive matches earned a chance at further Gold Runs with increasingly impressive prizes. A fourth Gold Run tended to be a holiday break somewhere in Europe, while winning the fifth and final Gold Run led to an excellent adventure holiday somewhere in the world. A failed Gold Run meant that the contestant(s) would get £10 for every correct answer. Correct answers during the main game were worth £5. Oh, and during the main game, there was always the chance that a letter chosen would emit a special noise, indicating that the contestant who got it right would win a prize for his/her school. This was usually something along the lines of a computer or science or sports equipment. Although a fair number of contestants achieved this, very few actually won more than one school-prize.
An enjoyable spin-off ITV series, Champion Blockbusters, invited former winners back to play again. This time, the money was for charity (with the 'mystery letter' boosting the funds considerably when answered correctly), but the contestants still won the Gold Run prizes, all of which were relevant in some way to whatever they were now doing. BBC 2 experimented with a cheaper afternoon version for adults, which did not have the charm of the original show. Michael Aspel seemed very wooden and ill-at-ease as the new host - and bizarrely so, given that he was no stranger to hosting quizzes.
Regional broadcast details
Blockbusters' broadcast history is rather complicated. What we know is as follows:
In 1983, all regions started broadcasting the series. Some stations moved Blockbusters to a earlier slot because soap operas were being broadcast at 5.15.
29 August 1983 at 5.15 on Border, Central Television, Granada Television, HTV, Yorkshire Television and UTV. Finished on 4 November 1983.
5 September 1983 at 3.30 broadcast by Anglia Television, Grampian Television, Scottish Television, TVS, TSW, Thames Television, Tyne Tees Television and Channel Television. Finished on 11 November 1983.
Border, Central, Granada, HTV, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire and UTV: Broadcast Monday - Friday at 5.15, Saturday at 5.05: September - February.
Anglia, Grampian, Scottish, TVS, and Thames/LWT: Broadcast: Wednesday - Friday at 5.15, Saturday at 5.05, September - April. Monday and Tuesday slot was filled with Emmerdale or Sons and Daughters on TVS.
Thames/LWT from September 1985: Monday - Saturday (except Thursdays): 5.15.
TSW from September 1985: 5.15 Monday, Friday and Saturday. Series 2 (1984) was not fully transmitted, because the 5.15 slot was taken up with Crossroads or Emmerdale Farm. The latter was moved into early peaktime in 1985 (as it was on Thames). Around 50 editions of the 1984/5 series were shown on TSW during summer holiday mornings, 1 July - 24 August 1985.
Channel Television followed TSW's schedules until January 1986, then switched to follow TVS. This meant that approx 16-20 episodes were skipped as TVS were further ahead.
All regions broadcast the show from 2 September 1988 to 10 February 1989 at 5.15 Monday to Friday and 5.05 Saturday. However, some editions were shown on Sundays on Anglia and Scottish, instead of Saturdays.
The show was delayed by nearly all the ITV companies until January 1990, as Australian soap Home and Away had taken over the 5.10 slot and Emmerdale Farm was now being broadcast at 6.30, but was moved to 7pm in January 1990.
Anglia, Central, Thames: Broadcast 3 episodes a week from January 1990, Monday - Thursday at 5.10, with Home and Away at 6pm. The days of broadcast changed from time to time, occasionally showing on all four days.
LWT: No longer broadcast any episodes.
Scottish: January - April 1990 Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30; from May moved to a daytime slot around 1.30, 2-4 times a week. In 1992 it was at 1.45, Mondays-Thursdays.
Grampian: January 1990 - December 1992, broadcast at 6.30, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Border, HTV, Yorkshire: Broadcast from 2 January 1990 at 6.30 Tuesday - Thursday all year round.
Granada showed episodes Tuesday - Thursday at 6.30 in 1990, moving to 5.10 during 1991. In 1992 the series moved again to 6pm Wednesdays - Fridays.
UTV also showed Tuesday - Thursday at 6.30, reducing to one episode at week from January - October 1992, then from 26 October 1992 broadcast it at 3.20, Mondays - Fridays.
TVS and Channel Television aired 2 episodes a week at 6.30 for most of 1990, During 1991/1992 went back to 3 per week, plus an additional episode around lunchtime on Saturdays.
TSW also followed the 6.30 Tuesday - Thursday schedule, but dropped the series to 2 per week every so often. To catch back up, the series was moved to 5.10 (Mondays to Fridays) in September 1992.
Tyne Tees had also followed the 6.30 Tuesday - Thursday pattern in 1990. For around 18 months in 1991-2 Tyne Tees broadcast more local output at 6.30, which resulted in fewer episodes per week. In preparation for Tyne Tees and Yorkshire merging their scheduling from January 1993, Tyne Tees showed more episodes of Blockbusters to catch up (in November 1992 it was showing the series four times a week - Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays), but had to drop over 50 episodes.
Anglia, Central and TSW aired repeat episodes during August - December 1989.
A number of new ITV companies began transmissions, which resulted in regional news being extending to a full hour from 6pm in some areas, which in turn meant a number of stations moved the series back before CITV.
Anglia and Central: Monday - Wednesdays 5.10, then switching Wednesday - Friday 5.10.
Carlton Television: Monday - Friday at 3.20, the series completed on 4 June 1993.
UTV: Monday - Friday at 3.20, completing the run in July 1993.
HTV: Monday - Thursday 1.45. Completed 2 August 1993.
Scottish continued to broadcast the series 4 times a week, completing on 2 September 1993.
Westcountry Television: 1.45 Monday - Friday, completed by 3 September 1993.
Border, Meridian, Tyne Tees, Yorkshire: continued with Tuesday - Thursday 6.30, the run finished on 30 September 1993.
Grampian: 1.45 Monday - Friday, completed by December 1993.
Granada: Still broadcasting 3 episodes most weeks at 5.10, the series completed in January 1994.
After the final ITV series, Blockbusters was no longer networked on ITV. It continued for one more series on the satellite channel Sky One.
Sky One: Weekdays 7pm before moving to 6.30.
Anglia and Central: Monday - Wednesdays 2.50 from June 1994 to 24 May 1995.
Tyne Tees and Yorkshire also broadcast the Sky One version from July to December 1995, 6.30 Tuesday - Thursday.
For the record, the BBC2 editions in 1997 began at 5.05, but later floated around the afternoon schedule wherever there was a gap. Sky One's revival in 2000 aired at 6pm.
When Bob once asked, "What 'L' is a sum of money you borrow from a bank?" a girl answered, "Can I have a loan, please, Bob?" Bob's response was to get his wallet out straightaway.
The famous out-take (below) where a contestant answered a biology question with the response "Orgasm" instead of "Organism".
The 'O' has been chosen and now we wait for the slip-up.
And the lesser-known one where another student offered the answer "Kama Sutra" instead of "Kowtow".
The 'K' has been chosen and...
...Uh-Oh, she's in trouble.
On another occasion, a highly unusual answer to a question relating to London was 'Prostitutes' when in fact the answer was 'Parks'. Another was when Bob asked, "What 'L' do you make in the dark when you're making a wild guess?" and one contestant answered, 'Love' (the answer being 'Leap', of course).
Perhaps not an outtake as such, but two unusual answers were given when Bob asked the question, "What 'N' is meant by the phrase, 'Hit him on the Boko?'" One member of the double team buzzed and said, "Nob". The question was duly passed to the single player, who said' "Nag". The answer was in fact "Nose", so it could be argued that 'Nob' (not in the rude sense, obviously) was actually on the right lines.
On another show, in which the double team were Welsh, Bob asked the question, "What 'C' is the Welsh word for 'Wales'?" The non-Welsh single player buzzed in first and gave the answer, 'Cymru', mispronouncing the word, but also spelling it correctly, and Bob accepted it because of the latter. Naturally, there were quite a few laughs - mainly from Bob, of course - at the fact that the double team had failed to answer the question, but they both took it very much in the right spirit.
Many questions were of the 'trick' variety, ie there was a twist in the second half, leading to the downfall of contestants who interrupted them too early (a self-confessed speciality of the show's original question-setter, Ann Meo). Three such examples were, "What 'M' was the mouse created by Disney as a girlfriend for Mickey?", "What 'D' is a camel that isn't alive?" and, "What 'Y' could be a longing for some Japanese currency?" Not that the contestants to whom the questions were offered following the incorrect answer always managed to capitalise, however - one example of this was when Bob asked, "What 'J' sits in a box...?", at which point one member of the double team buzzed in and answered, 'Jack'. Bob then offered the full question to the single player: "What 'J' sits in a box and decides on the outcome of a court case?" and she answered 'Judge' - the answer was, in fact, 'Jury'.
Opening titles from 1983-7.
Opening titles from 1987-93.
One of the contestants for the pilot show was David Elias, a quiz-setter by profession who won a series of Countdown. However, when the series was commissioned it was decided that teenagers at sixth form or in college should take part. Hence, he was the oldest ever contestant on Blockbusters - the Holness-version, anyway.
Blockbusters was notable for being the first game show on British TV to run five times a week (Countdown was still only on four nights at this stage, only expanding to five in October 1984, more than a year after Blockbusters). Many thought this was overkill, but this was subsequently shown to be wrong as the show ideally slotted into the invariably tricky 5.15pm slot, this being in the days when Home and Away was a purely Australian institution. Indeed, throughout most of the 1980s, the show ran for 6 days a week, being shown at 5.05pm on Saturdays in addition to the weekday broadcasts. However, in 1990, it was only shown 3 days a week and then at the rather less convenient time of 6.30pm, which clashed with the BBC's regional news programmes. Later still, it became a daytime show, which resulted in a considerable drop in ratings and the show was axed as a result. Different regions also lagged behind in broadcasting the show, and if you lived somewhere where you could get more than one ITV region, it was not uncommon to be able to switch from one to another and see a completely episode. As a result of this, some regions finished airing the show before others - while Carlton and UTV (and presumably the originating company, Central) aired the final "networked" episodes in June 1993, most regions ran the series over the summer to finish in September. Grampian had such a backlog that it didn't finish airing the show until November. (See also 'Regional Broadcasting Details', above).
Bob once revealed that the young man who had famously said 'Orgasm' instead of 'Organism' had not had such a rough deal as one might think. Of course, he would have been horribly embarrassed at the time, especially with the whole studio cracking up laughing - and no doubt he also took a lot of flak from his friends back at school - but apparently, every time the outtake is shown on 'Alright On The Night', 'TV Nightmares' or any other outtake show, he gets a small repeat fee. Not bad going, really.
Original question-setter Ann Meo revealed in an interview in the 1989 'Blockbusters' annual that the letters that began the most words in the English language were P and S, while the ones that began the least (bearing in mind that X and Z were never used on the main board) were J, K and Q. She claimed that she used to sit in the studio cursing as a string of questions on the most difficult letters fell by the wayside, thus creating more work for her. She also stated that another of her most thankless tasks was to adjudicate on dubious answers, especially as the audience were always on the side of the contestants and didn't like to see them fail. As Meo put it, "Sometimes I was lenient and sometimes strict - but I always had a reason".
In addition to the main Zeus figurehead that was above Bob, there were many others which were displayed in the studio on a rotation basis. These included: Abraham Lincoln, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Tina Turner, Mother Teresa, George Bernard Shaw, Amy Johnson, John Wayne, Harold Macmillan, William Shakespeare, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Meryl Streep, Einstein, Lenin, Harrison Ford, Mao Tse Tung, Kenny Dalglish, Bob Geldof, Beethoven, Martina Navratilova, Hilda Ogden, Woody Allen, Toyah Willcox, Confucius, Queen Elizabeth I, a Punk Rocker, Moses, Daley Thompson, Marilyn Monroe, a Teacher, an Astronaut, a Diver, a Rastafarian and Tutankhamun. They were made out of polystyrene, and moulded by cutting out the relevant sections using a hot wire.
Mathematically speaking, it doesn't make any difference which space a contestant picks at any point in a game. Since whoever selects a space, it is decided by an equal race to the buzzer (so that whenever in the game a space is chosen, the same team should theoretically win it), and because a completed game board can only have one winner on it, the process of playing can be thought of as uncovering the final grid to "see" who wins. Therefore, the best tactic is arguably to simply choose the spaces that will delay the ending of the game and hence accrue a player the most cash (or, of course, to choose the letters with the most potential for hilarious innuendo). Former contestant Stuart Langley writes: "Interested to read the point about the best tactic being to fill the board and take the money as that is exactly what Anita Garrad and I did when we were on the show (many years ago). We were apparently the first and only people to do this. However, at the next ad break we were taken to one side by the producer and told not to do it again. I guess they were worried it would catch on and bankrupt the show." And Tim Allison observes: "While it may not make any mathematical difference what space is picked, I am sure that it makes a psychological difference. There seemed little benefit to me going round the board on the 1984 series when it might increase opponents' confidence. The gold run prizes were far better than the cash and not worth the risk - not that I was much good at gold runs."
In later series, a bell (annoyingly loud, might we add?) would ring indicating when an advertising break was about to talk place. Bob would read out one more question before going into the ads. What purpose this served is unknown.
In August 1987 there was a special episode called Blockbusters Abroad following Gold Run winners on their prize holidays.
Konnie Huq was a contestant in 1992 .
Twelve Blockbusters quiz books were published by Sphere, plus five "Gold Run" books. A very successful board game was also made, which became the British Association of Toy Retailers' Game of the Year for 1986. There was a "Gold Run" travel card game as well. In 1989, an annual was printed although this was the only one to be published to our knowledge.
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Home Science Environmental news Ghana Loses US$290 Million To Poor Sanitation Every Year
Ghana Loses US$290 Million To Poor Sanitation Every Year
The Environmental Health Officers' Association (GEHOA) in Collaboration with the Local Government Workers Union, Health Service Workers Union and Ghana Federation of Allied Health Professions have established an eight week programme dubbed: Annul Environmental Health and Sanitation Promotion Campaign (AEHSPC).
The programme was aimed at bringing Environmental Health Professionals (EHP) in Ghana and its Labour unions on board to contribute to contribute towards the ongoing National Sanitation Campaign currently being embarked by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLG&RD).
The programme which would last for eight (8) weeks is under the theme: "Kick cholera out of Ghana; the role of the Environmental Health Professionals(EHP)".
The General Secretary of the Ghana Environmental Health Officers' Association Mr. William Freeman Goku, hinted that idea of the campaign was engendered from the devastating effects of frequent outbreaks of sanitation related diseases in the country.
"Such as cholera which killed not less than 190 people and rendered about 23,432 morbid who spent number or weeks out of work because they bedridden(WHO Outbreak Bulletin Volume.4 Issue 4, 13/10/2015)" he explained.
Adding that, not only cholera was the issue but other related diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, and helminthic infestation as well as other diarrheal diseases are also serious concerns without leaving out the dreadful Ebola.
"It is in records that about 75% of diseases reported at the hospitals in Ghana are sanitation related and more seriously poor sanitation is costing Ghana US$290 million annually(World Bank Report)".
This he said, records available also indicate that cholera outbreak in 2014 affected over 23,600 people was estimated to cost the country not less than US$13.3 million excluding other economic implications as cost relating to loss productivity.
Statistics also indicates that Ghana has met the millennium development goal target on water, but sanitation lags behind.
"We are of the view that a more concerted efforts is required to tackle the issue of sanitation which is currently stands at 14% according to the Joint Monitoring Platform (JMP)" he said.
The programme which would last for eight weeks has among others under listed activities to be executed:
Community Cholera education by use of information Van positioned at a center in the evenings to show video clips on dangers, causes and preventive interventions of cholera,
Training of Districts Cholera Response Team to sensitize the community in Churches, mosque and other religious bodies,
Using Environmental Health Officers and other Health staffs to embark on house to house cholera education and also taking data in addition to the distribution of aqua tabs where necessary.
Others are: Cholera education for targeted groups such as food vendors, head porters, traditional caterers, sachet water producer/distributors, Public toilet operators and managers as well as community opinion leaders.
And also embarking on massive clean-ups exercise where the communities would be awarded prizes at the end of the program depending on the level of participation at a grand durbar which will be held at Adabraka in the Osu- Klottey Sub-Metro of Accra Metro Assembly.
By: Isaac Kofi Dzokpo/NewsGhana.com.gh
AEHSPC
Annul Environmental Health and Sanitation Promotion Campaign
Environmental Health Officers' Association
GEHOA
ISAAC KOFI DZOKPO
Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
MLGRD
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Hello and welcome to the first day of the second pre-season test of 2015. Two weeks after the last test in Jerez, the F1 teams have decamped to Barcelona for another four days of track action.
Hi Nate...Any one on track at the moment ??
@AM: Ricciardo has just re-emerged after a long spell in the garage. Wehrlein is out there too.
A look at the rear of the McLaren. Not the extra cooling around the exhaust - this might be tightened up later in the season, but is also for the MP4-30's cooling layout. A good view of the slats and louvres in the rear wing endplates.
Ricciardo jumps to second with just his second lap, posting a 1:27.541, as he sets about making up for lost time.
And now for a more scenic view of the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmelo. Werhlein has to use a green rain light to note his rookie status - it will be interesting to see if they change the one on the Mercedes when he swaps cars later today.
Hi nate , any devlopments on Mclaren_Honda trying to run marussia as sister car?
@Tech_Savy: There were rumours Honda might buy Marussia as a B-team but they were well wide of the mark. It has yet to be confirmed which engine Marussia intend to use if they are successful in returning - but it won't be a McLaren customer car as that is against the rules.
do we have official lunch time?
@MMimmyyo: Yes we do! It's at 13:00 local time and Nate is going to sample Mercedes' fine offerings for the first time. He's very excited (and rightly so).
Is Torro Rosso still running the 2014 renault engine?
We're about half an hour away from lunch, and it's the two men making up for lost time - Ricciardo and Maldonado - out on track.
@Brouwer: Not that I'm aware of. It would be an odd thing to do as Renault needs all the mileage it can get. However, the Toro Rosso does have more ample cooling than the Red Bull, if that's what you are driving at?
Never cared much for size zeroes. I'll take the curvy Italian.
Unless it's this Italian you're after?
@grahamg: Not a huge amount, no. Over the course of the next four days it should get a lot quicker (barring any rain storms). It's then only a three day break before the final test when the track should ramp up even more.
If they run the 2015 engine it's odd then that they have good speed and no problems. Red Bull seems to have a lot of problems.
@Brouwer: I see your reasoning, but it's also about engine installation. The Red Bull is very tightly packaged and has very small sidepod openings for the radiators whereas the Toro Rosso is running the same cooling requirements as it had for last year's engine. As usual, Red Bull are trying to get every last bit of performance it can from its package.
Compared to the others, the Merc's nose look very simplistic and rough. Maybe it's not the final one?
@CrM: A lot of development parts will come to the Mercedes over these two tests. However, it is still a pretty impressive piece of kit when you get up close. That nose is one of the shortest and most slender I've seen (not easy to pass the crash test) and the rear has some very fine detailing. The wings in Jerez were very similar to last year but they will be updated.
Wolff continues to accumulate miles, she's just crossed for her 72nd of the day.
The Williams is the only car currently out on track.
Confusingly we now have two Wehrlein's on the timing screen, which can only mean one thing - the German has started his shift at Mercedes after taking over from the poorly Hamilton.
@CrM: Most cars run them. It's a bit of a loophole in the regulations but allows teams to get a bit more rear downforce. I would say Mercedes' one looks like one of the most developed on the grid - it's certainly pretty complex.
@GusCameron: You're not alone in thinking that. Overall our feedback from readers was negative towards the plans to prevent drivers changing helmets.
When we will you know the crash test results ?
@Tungath: All the cars out there have passed their crash tests. They wouldn't be allowed to run if they hadn't.
@bitinq: It's an improvement on Jerez, let's put it that way. The team has made clear that it is tracing all the problems it sees appear on the car, but it's often a slow process. They will be hoping for a lot more laps towards the end of this week though.
Wehrlein only completes six laps in the Mercedes and returns to the pit lane. It'll be important for the world champions that they get a good afternoon of testing under their belts after Hamilton's stoppage this morning.
A problem with the Honda power unit's MGU-K seems to be the issue and an engine change is needed.
The chequered flag is out in Barcelona, which signals the start of the one-hour lunch break. Plenty to digest at the McLaren garage I imagine.
We've had to stop running today due to a faulty seal on the MGU-K which caused an issue that requires full replacement of the power-unit.
Right, we're back. 10 minutes until the start of the afternoon session and another four hours of F1 action.
At least that's what we are hoping for. We know for certain we won't see the McLaren again for the rest of the day and Hamilton has left the track ill.
What kind of wine did you pair with your seal cutlet?


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Too hot for humans? First Nations people fear becoming Australia's first climate refugees
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Aboriginal people in Alice Springs say global heating threatens their survival
The town had 55 days above 40C in the year to July 2019
Central Australian outstations are running out of water
Poor quality housing in town camps cannot be cooled effectively
Indigenous leaders fear extreme heat will cause influx of internal refugees
Josie Douglas sits on a verandah overlooking a ridge of red rocks and earth, scrubby with saltbush and spinifex near the centre of Alice Springs. It's late afternoon and only 31C – a reprieve from a run of days in the high 30s and 40s.
But Douglas knows that from now on it will only get hotter.
Last summer was the hottest on record, and the driest in 27 years in central Australia. Five per cent of the town's street trees died. A heat monitoring study showed that on some unshaded streets the surface temperature was between 61C and 68C.
"We can't keep going on the way we're going," says Douglas, who is manager of policy and research at the Central Land Council.
"Central Australian Aboriginal people are very resilient. They have evolved to cope with the harsh and variable desert climate, but there are limits.
"Without action to stop climate change, people will be forced to leave their country and leave behind much of what makes them Aboriginal. Climate change is a clear and present threat to the survival of our people and their culture."
Across central Australia, people are bracing themselves for another scorching summer of drought.
At least nine remote communities and outstations are running out of water. A further 12 have reported poor quality drinking water as aquifers run low and the remaining supply is saline.
Temperature records have already been broken. In the year to July 2019, Alice Springs had 129 days over 35C, and 55 days over 40C.
It wasn't meant to be like this – at least, not yet. The national science agency, the CSIRO, predictedthat these temperatures would not arrive until 2030.
As the Northern Territory's environment minister, Eva Lawler, said last September: "If we don't do anything, the NT will become unliveable."
The problem is where to start.
In Alice Springs opinion is divided among local politicians about the impact climate change is having on life in the desert.
'The antidote to despair is action'
The Pintupi-Luritja artist Irene Nangala was among the first to return to her home country at Kintore in the western desert, near the border with Western Australia, in the early 1980s.
Until then, Pintupi people had been living a long way from home at the mission at Papunya, and they were homesick.
Nangala helped set up the Kintore school. It was a "windbreak school" at first, she says: just a tarp to keep the sun and the rain water out.
"Then we got a few teachers. It was hard work. We've got a proper good school now, proper shop. Nice clinic and aged care, child care."
Nangala says she doesn't have an air-conditioner. On hot days the family puts blankets on the windows. Other elders whose aircon units break down have to wait for a repairer to come from Alice Springs, more than 10 hours' drive away.
"It's really hot in Kintore. We can't go and sit outside. We have to go at night to sit down with the families."
Nevertheless, Nangala says she does not want to leave.
"We built up Kintore,' she says. "People are really enjoying going back to their grandfather's land. That's the right thing to do. And it's good for them to go back, the old people, good for the heart and the spirit.
"When they went first, they cried, they missed that place for a long time
Nangala says people don't want to come into town, where life might be worse.
"Climate change is true," Nangala says. "They [politicians] got the map and weather things, they should see the temperature what is happening around Australia, it's so hot."
Jimmy Cocking says: "We are walking blindly into the new climate reality. We've moved beyond hope, and we can't be running on hope alone.
"The only thing that is going to get us over the line is action. And the antidote to despair is action.
"So there's a lot of things that we need to be looking to change so that we aren't going to be putting people's lives at risk."
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A great opportunity to acquire a particularly fine five bedroom detached family home situated at the head of a small peaceful cul-de-sac which features just eleven interesting detached homes of differing designs. Regarded as of the village's most sought after residential areas, the "Creskelds", the property by virtue of its elevated position commands spectacular long distance views across picturesque Wharfedale and Almscliffe Crag seen in the distance. The inviting entrance hall has a guests cloaks/toilet, doors off to the downstairs rooms and a staircase down to the lower ground floor with a utility room and an internally accessed double garage. The spacious lounge is an attractive feature with a log effect gas fire and a splayed bay window enjoying the superb far reaching views. Double doors lead to a conservatory again enjoying stunning views and French doors open to the patio and a mature generous sized surrounding garden. There is a separate dining room, a study/playroom and the lovely breakfast kitchen has integrated appliances, granite work tops and a useful separate pantry. On the first floor, the master bedroom has a recently replaced en suite, the further four bedrooms equally enjoy delightful views, the luxury house bathroom has been recently replaced too with a white suite and there is an attic store. The accommodation has a gas fired heating system and the windows are UPV sealed double glazed.
Bramhope is a picturesque semi-rural village and is regarded as one of North Leeds most sought after residential areas. It enjoys an active community spirit including the Fox and Hounds pub with a coffee lounge and patio area, a number of local shops including a village butchers and bakery, sporting clubs including bowling, tennis and cricket grounds, a medical centre including a dental practice, two churches, a children's nursery and a highly regarded primary school which currently feeds to Prince Henrys Grammar. There are a number of private schools too located nearby catering for all age groups. The village is strategically located for daily commuting to Yorkshire's key commercial centres including Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate, York and there is the M1/A1/M62 national motorway network near to Wetherby making areas further afield more accessible by road. Otley's nearby active and historic market town includes Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Asda supermarkets. Train stations with main line links are available at nearby Weeton (Huby), Horsforth and there is the Leeds/Bradford International Airport at Yeadon.
Leeds 7 miles, Bradford 11 miles, Harrogate 11 miles, Motorways 11 - all distances approximate.
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Q: "Couldn't load file functions/bar.mcfunction in functions directory." I made two function files:
tag @e[tag="xf_selected"] remove "xf_selected"
tag @e[c=1] add "xf_selected"

and
tag @e[tag="xf_selected"] remove "xf_selected"
tag @e add "xf_selected"

And that's it. I've tested the commands and they are valid. I get the following errors:
[Commands][warning]-Couldn't load file functions/selectentity/all.mcfunction in functions directory.

[Commands][warning]-Couldn't load file functions/selectentity/nearest.mcfunction in functions directory.

What's wrong and how can I fix it? - I literally have nothing else in the pack except for the manifest (which seems to be working).

A: My functions directory was called Functions by mistake (I blame you .NET)!
Make sure your directory is named functions.


Living the expat life as I do, there are inevitably times when I begin to doubt my Americanness. Usually this happens when I find the latest U.S. celebrity gossip or pop culture reference sailing over my head, and definitely when I confess to fellow Americans that I actually don't like peanut butter all that much. This identity crisis doesn't particularly distress me, I have to admit, and I even find myself concocting fantasies about how my character has evolved into some kind of sophisticated pan-national cocktail of all the places I've lived. These nation-free delusions have even enjoyed occasional reinforcement from others, such as the time I was buying a bus ticket in New Zealand and the girl behind the counter confessed at the end of our transaction that she had been trying to place my accent but couldn't get beyond 'somewhere European', or the time my own mother told me my speech had become so regionally ambiguous she would assume I was a non-native speaker of English if she didn't know me. Aww, thanks mom.
But then something happens, every year without fail, to shatter my cosmopolitan fantasies and bring me crashing back down on my roots. It starts shortly before a certain Thursday in November and lasts about a month, give or take a few days, and sees me afflicted by the totally uncontrollable and overwhelming compulsion to bake pies.
You see, despite the plethora of foodstuffs traditionally associated with the holiday period, the only one that seems to have stuck itself like velcro to my psyche is the one involving pies. Threaten a Thanksgiving without turkey and I won't bat an eyelash. Threaten to take away my pies, and watch out. The funny thing is that I don't love pies per se – I mean I certainly don't dislike them, but if at any other time I'm given the choice between pie and crisp, or pie and cheesecake, or pie and something fudgy and chocolate, the pie will probably lose out, but that fact always gets conveniently buried under all the flour, butter and perfectly-crimped edges passing under my fingertips at this time of year. The only explanation I can devise is that somewhere along the line pies came to represent the one most potent symbol of the family-filled holiday celebrations of my childhood, and making them now is the strongest link I can conjure to those increasingly distant memories.
In all honesty, though, my favorite pie, and the one I have to make at least once every holiday season, is not the pumpkin, apple, pecan or (heaven forbid) mincemeat of my youth, but a comparatively recent arrival called, somewhat peculiarly, Toll House pie. Toll House is actually the name of a cookie – the original chocolate chip cookie, to be precise, the recipe for which has been gracing packages of Nestle semi-sweet morsels for decades. It was supposedly coined back in 1930, when Ruth Wakefield and her husband purchased an 18th-century toll house in Whitman, Massachusetts, and built an inn upon the site. In keeping with the toll house tradition of providing weary travelers with home-cooked meals, Ruth cooked and baked for guests who stayed at the new Toll House Inn. One day, while preparing a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies, a recipe dating back to colonial days, Ruth cut a bar of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate into tiny bits and added them to her dough, expecting them to melt, but instead found that they simply softened and provided little nuggets of chocolate in the buttery dough. The resulting recipe became wildly popular, was published in newspapers across the country, and was eventually sold to the Nestle corporation who have been printing it on the back of their chocolate packaging ever since. The Toll House name has subsequently been given to other sweet treats that contain those familiar morsels (such as the ones in here), but in my book none was more inspired – or more delicious – than the pie.
It's hard to imagine that a pie inspired by a cookie could be anything worthy of acclaim, let alone family tradition, but I assure you it is anything but a gimmick. Toll House pie manages to offer the best qualities of a chocolate chip cookie – all that buttery, caramelly chewyness bursting with chocolate and nuts – and puts them in pie form, which, like the perfect cookie, gets ever-so-slightly firm on top but stays wonderfully soft and gooey inside, the perfect textural foil for the crisp and flaky pastry crust. It is rich, certainly, but so good that it belongs to the small category of recipes I've barely tweaked at all to suit my own tastes. While I have made a couple of minor improvements, like substituting good bittersweet chocolate for the Nestle chips, and browning the butter with a vanilla bean to coax out just a little more flavor, the heart of this recipe remains just about as all-American as it gets. And that kind of appeals to the pie-baking patriot in me, since while I may not go out of my way to show my homeland that it still holds much sway over me, when it comes to the holidays, America will always have my stomach.
Sources: The filling is a Nestle classic recipe; the pie crust, impossibly tender and flaky and currently my favorite, comes with minor adaptations from Rose Levy Beranbaum and her Pie and Pastry Bible.
Notes: The great thing about this pie is that it really is like its namesake cookie in the sense that just about anything goes – while the basic recipe is really good, it's also really good chock-full of just about every kind of chocolate, nut, or fruit that tickles your fancy. So feel free to make it as-is, or to use the recipe as a template – I've included some suggestions for other additions, but really, the sky's the limit. The pie pictured above, for example, was made with 1/2 bittersweet and 1/2 white chocolate, pecans and dried tart cherries. Yum!
To make the crust, cut the butter into small (about 3/4-inch) cubes. Wrap it in plastic wrap and freeze it until frozen solid, at least 30 minutes. Place the flour, salt, and baking powder in a plastic bag and freeze for at least 30 minutes. Place a metal mixing bowl in the freezer as well.
Place the flour mixture in a food processor with the metal blade and process for a few seconds to combine. Cut the cream cheese into 3 or 4 pieces and add it to the flour. Process for about 20 seconds or until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the frozen butter cubes and pulse until none of the butter is larger than the size of a pea. Remove the cover and add the cream and vinegar. Pulse until most of the butter is reduced to the size of small peas. The mixture will be in particles and will not hold together. Dump it into your chilled mixing bowl and using your hands, begin pressing the mixture together, kneading lightly, until it all comes together and forms a compact, cohesive ball. Add another dribble of cream if you need it – this dough is better slightly too moist than too dry. Don't handle the dough any more than necessary, though. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap, flatten it into a disc and refrigerate for at least 45 minutes (you can make the browned butter during this time – see below).
Roll the dough out on a well-floured surface to a large circle at least 12 inches (30cm) in diameter. Using a 9-inch (23cm) pie pan as a guide, cut out a circle of dough about 1 1/2-inches larger than the pan on all sides. Gently ease the circle into the pan and flute or crimp the edges as desired. Let rest in the refrigerator while you make the filling.
To make the filling, preheat the oven to 325F/160C. First brown the butter* (you can do this while the dough is chilling). Place the butter in a skillet over medium heat. Split the vanilla beans down the middle and scrape the seeds with the tip of a knife into the skillet. Toss in the vanilla pods too (if you're using extract, add it to the egg mixture in the next step). Swirling occasionally, bring the butter to a boil and keep it boiling until the solids turn chestnut brown and everything smells deeply nutty. Do not let it burn. Remove from the heat and let cool. Discard the vanilla pods.
In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with the sugars for a couple of minutes, until thick and light. Fold in the flour and salt, and then the cooled browned butter until everything is incorporated. Stir in the chocolate, nuts and any additional ingredients. Pour the filling into the chilled crust, set on a baking sheet to catch any drips, and bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes. Remove and let cool for at least 30 minutes before serving.
Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, warm or at room temperature. Actually, it's pretty good cold too. I've even been known to eat it frozen.
*If you're pressed for time you can forego the browning of the butter, in which case just melt and cool it slightly before adding to the other filling ingredients.
Oh yes, that pastry recipe, I know it well. It's amazing. Amazing! Happy Thanksgiving, Melissa!
Yeah, I'd take a slice of this over apple, pumpkin or mincemeat anyday. I'm gonna do an apricot crostata for my contribution this year.
Happy Thanksgiving, this looks and sounds great!
Happy Thanksgiving. This recipie sounds like paradise.
My goodness. I'm in the process of scouting some holiday recipes. I'm. So. Making. This. My family sends their thanks in advance.
This looks absolutely delicious…..I would enjoy a bite right now!
Thanksgiving is the only holiday where I steadfastly repeat the most traditional food each and every year…I think I'd probably be divested of pie duty otherwise.(One year I broke out and made a trifle-but..) My pumpkin pie is done, and I'll be making the apple tomorrow. After that, well, this looks like a good candidate for Next New Pie. A Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Heaven forbid we take your pies away from you, Melissa! I say bake away. I will happily support you in your pie-baking endeavours.Happy Thanksgiving!
It does look super. Where's mine?
Thank you, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving (or, for the rest of you, a pleasant last Thursday in November ;).Luisa – It is amazing, isn't it? I only wish I had discovered it years ago. When I was handling the dough it was so moist and stretchy I thought it was doomed to fail, but it baked up tender and crisp as any crust I've ever made!Sam – It's a strange thing. I never really cared much for Thanksgiving until I left the US and had to endure years without it. Although I still feel it's too close to Christmas to justify all that indulgence, I appreciate the fact that it's really the only American holiday that's centered around nothing more than food and family. Austin – I feel your pain. I don't know how you survive, but then again I'm sure life in Thailand has *many* other perks, which I'm guessing more than make up for the lack of ovens… :)Lindy – In my family as well the food traditionalists come out of the woodwork at Thanksgiving. Although I'd be happy to eat anything so long as there's pie afterwards, I would risk life and limb if I suggested doing away with certain other annual staples. Although in all fairness to them, they're vegetarian so it's Tofurkey instead of Turkey, which no doubt would make other Thanksgiving purists scream!
Thank you for this recipe. I made it last year, didn't brown the butter and still had so many compliments about the pie. This year I browned the butter and holy cow! What a pie!
Sherpa – so glad to hear it! Happy Thanksgiving!
Did you use a bar of chocolate and just chop it up roughly?It looks so good!
Melissa,I would love to make this with pistachios, but I'm not sure what other ingredients would be good with them. Any ideas?
Hi Hilary – Hmm, what doesn't go with pistachios? I love the combination of dark chocolate and pistachios, but if you want fruit both sour cherries and apricots would go great with them. I'm sure whatever you do will be delicious!


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If my postings ist in two categories and I want generally one of this both to exclude (its name is comments)...how to proceed ?
At the moment he gives out both categorie..."comments" and the second category, where my post is in.
I tried this here, but it doesnt function:
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$1.2 billion proposal to redevelop waterfront area will be fleshed out during the next two years.
SAN DIEGO — The Port of San Diego and the 1HWY1 team will enter into an exclusive negotiating agreement (ENA) as part of an effort to redevelop the city of San Diego's Central Embarcadero district. 1HWY1 and the port district hopes to upgrade a portion of the San Diego waterfront just east of Harbor Island and directly adjacent to an area where hundreds of recreational boats are moored or docked.
Current plans call for the selected developer to bring an aquarium, hotels, maritime office uses, retail and restaurant spaces, and a Space Needle-like spire to the San Diego waterfront. The spire element of the project would be a 500-foot structure with an observation deck at the top.
1HWY1, a development entity to be created specifically for the Central Embarcadero revitalization, projected the revitalization of San Diego's waterfront would cost about $1.2 billion.
Commissioners hope the ENA process would not be as drawn out as the RIDA redevelopment of Chula Vista Harbor.
Whether the negotiation process would be completed in a timely manner was not the commission's only concern. The project site apparently sits atop an earthquake fault, which is being studied by the developer and port district staff.
Boating and fishing interests would also be incorporated into the redevelopment plans, according to port district staff – although the nature of such plans is still being ironed out.
1HWY1 also hopes to work with Scripps Institution of Oceanography to bring a maritime academy to the tidelands district.
San Diego's Central Embarcadero includes Seaport Village and Tuna Harbor Dockside Market; the southern portion of the Central Embarcadero envelops a portion of the Marriott Marquis Marina.
In all 70 acres of land and water between USS Midway and Marriott Marquis Marina and Hotel would be redeveloped under 1HWY1's proposed project.
The ENA process, which is expected to last two years, was approved May 16; commissioners are expected to review project details at the end of the ENA process. 1HWY1 will also have to provide the port district with updates on its debt and equity commitments throughout the ENA period. The developer must also provide the commission and port district staff with a project description in one year.
Commissioners Robert Valderrama and Garry Bonelli were not present during the 1HWY1 discussion; Commissioner Anne Moore was excused from voting.


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Remember we are linked by a common goal, to love and serve the Lord.
The most recent message from the Grand Knight June 5, 2021:
We may be in a lockdown mode, but there is much for us to do.
Greetings Brothers of Council 10910…as this Fraternal Year comes to an end, I wanted to highlight some of our successes.
We started the Fraternal Year with good intentions and we set goals that we felt were obtainable. Unfortunately, Covid-19 restrictions made us adjust and adapt goals and ways to meet them.
As many of you know, our mission is based on charitable activities which includes creating fundraising opportunities to support those charities. Instead of having fundraisers such as pancake breakfasts, Lenten fish frys, and Narthex table activities at St. Thomas More Catholic Church as we normally would have, we collaborated with local businesses such as Panera Bread, Brixx Pizza, Jersey Mike's, Duck's Donuts, and Captain John's Dockside Restaurant. These collaborations allowed us to fundraise to support our many charities and our mission.
SUCCESSES:
With support of the Council members, Parish, and the friends and families of Knights, the Council made the fundraisers with businesses successful. The success of the fundraisers enabled the Council to fulfill its financial obligations and charitable activities. The Council also supported or hosted several spiritual events during this past year.
Charitable activities included the following:
Seminarian Support. Two seminarians were provided with $500 each for their Seminary needs.
Donation of $500 to the IFC Food Bank.
Coats for Kids Program. $200 Donation.
Donation of $500 to the Knights of Columbus Covid-19 Relief Fund.
Donation of $500 to the STM Financial Assistance Program.
Donation of $500 to the St. Thomas More School for playground equipment upgrades.
Donation of $500 to Father Scott for A/V Equipment upgrades.
Donation of $268 for STM Usher badges.
Donation of $150 to Catholic Daughters of America.
Gifts totaling $1100 to Parish Clergy and office staff for their tireless work during this pandemic year. Gifts were presented in lieu of The Clergy Appreciation Dinner which was canceled due to Covid.
The Council also updated and maintained it's website due to James Davisson's dedication to the website maintenance. Both Brothers James and Steve Travers maintained our financial/budgetary obligations. The Council recognized Knight of the Month and Family of The Month recipients throughout the fraternal year. We also presented certificates of appreciation as recognized.
James Davisson was also our recipient for the Knight of The Year Award! Please congratulate James when you see him at Church. The award was well deserved for all the Council activities that James oversaw and maintained!
The Council sadly lost several Knights who were key members of the Council over the years. We lost Brothers Jerry Pilarski and Gene Drogos. Both were key members of our Council since it's inception. We also lost the wife of late Brother John Marino, Jinny Marino. Her funeral was yesterday June 4, 2021.
Council 10910 recently held elections and have voted in new officers for Fraternal Year 2021-2022.
In closing, it has been my privilege to serve you as Grand Knight this past year. I thank all of you for your support. I ask all of you to support our incoming Grand Knight, Greg Kleiman, and the other incoming officers of Council 10910.
May the Peace of Christ be with all of you and your families!
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Q: async foreach with breaking condition I have an interface:
public interface IRunner
{
    Task<bool> Run(object o);
}

and I have some classes that implement it using async, for example:
public class Runner1 : IRunner
{
    public async Task<bool> Run(object o)
    {
        var num  = await SomeExternalAsyncFunc(o);
        return num < 12;
    }
}

I need to implement a function that runs on all of the Runners classes in parallel, and returns true only if all of them returned true.
After reading this and this I came up with the following implementation:
public class RunMannager
{
    public async Task<bool> Run(ConcurrentBag<IRunner> runnersBag, object o)
    {
        var results = new ConcurrentBag<bool>();
        var tasks = runnersBag.Select(async runner => results.Add(await runner.Run(o)));
        await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
        return results.All(result => result);
     }
}

However, I have two problems with this implementation:

*

*I would like that if one of the runners already returned false, the function should not wait for all the others.

*Some of the runners may never return, I would like to use a timeout. If the runner didn't return anything for 10 seconds it will be considered as true was returned.
Maybe using reactive extensions can help?

A: Here is a version with Rx, with timeouts included. The code as written will run in LINQPad with Rx references added. You can experiment with constructing TrueRunner, FalseRunner and SlowRunner instances in the RunnerFactory method.
Key ideas:

*

*Use Select and ToObservable() to start and convert the async Task into an IObservable (see below for a better alternative)

*Use Timeout() to add a timeout to each task, which substitutes a true result if a task times out, as requested.

*Use Where to filter out True results - we only get notified about false outcomes now.

*Any returns true if there are any elements in the stream, false otherwise, so flip the result of this in the subsequent Select and we are done.

Code:
void Main()
{
    Observable.Merge(
        RunnerFactory().Select(x => x.Run(null).ToObservable()
        .Timeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1), Observable.Return(true))))
        .Where(res => !res)
        .Any().Select(res => !res)
        .Subscribe(
            res => Console.WriteLine("Result: " + res),
            ex => Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message));
}

public IEnumerable<IRunner> RunnerFactory()
{
    yield return new FalseRunner();
    yield return new SlowRunner();
    yield return new TrueRunner();
}

public interface IRunner
{
    Task<bool> Run(object o);
}

public class Runner : IRunner
{
    protected bool _outcome;

    public Runner(bool outcome)
    {
        _outcome = outcome;
    }

    public virtual async Task<bool> Run(object o)
    {
        var result = await Task<bool>.Factory.StartNew(() => _outcome);
        return result;
    }
}

public class TrueRunner : Runner
{
    public TrueRunner() : base(true) {}
}

public class FalseRunner : Runner
{
    public FalseRunner() : base(false) {}
}

public class SlowRunner : Runner
{
    public SlowRunner() : base(false) {}

    public override async Task<bool> Run(object o)
    {
        var result = await Task<bool>.Factory.StartNew(
            () => { Thread.Sleep(5000); return _outcome; });
        return result;
    }
}

The OnError handler in there is redundant given the Runner implementations I used; you may want to think about a Catch if you want to suppress Runner errors in your implementation - you can substitute an IObservable<bool> much like I did with Timeout.
EDIT Another thing I just thought worth mentioning, is that using Observable.StartAsync is a better way to start the Task, and will give you support for cancellation as well. Here's some modified code showing how SlowRunner can support cancellation. The token is passed in by StartAsync and causes cancellation if the Subscription is disposed. This all happens transparently if Any detects an element.
void Main()
{
    var runners = GetRunners();

    Observable.Merge(runners.Select(r => Observable.StartAsync(ct => r.Run(ct, null))
                    .Timeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10), Observable.Return(true))))
                    .Where(res => !res)
                    .Any().Select(res => !res)
                    .Subscribe(
                        res => Console.WriteLine("Result: " + res));
}

public static IEnumerable<IRunner> GetRunners()
{
    yield return new Runner(false);
    yield return new SlowRunner(true);
}

public interface IRunner
{
    Task<bool> Run(CancellationToken ct, object o);
}

public class Runner : IRunner
{
    protected bool _outcome;

    public Runner(bool outcome)
    {
        _outcome = outcome;
    }

    public async virtual Task<bool> Run(CancellationToken ct, object o)
    {
        var result = await Task<bool>.Factory.StartNew(() => _outcome);
        return result;
    }
}

public class SlowRunner : Runner
{
    public SlowRunner(bool outcome) : base(outcome)
    {
    }

    public async override Task<bool> Run(CancellationToken ct, object o)
    {
        var result = await Task<bool>.Factory.StartNew(() =>
        {
            for(int i=0; i<5; i++)
            {
                if(ct.IsCancellationRequested)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Cancelled");
                }
                ct.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
                Thread.Sleep(1000);
            };
            return _outcome;
        });
        return result;
    }
}

A: How about using Parallel.ForEach()?
Following code should give you the idea of what I mean.
You could define CancellationTokenSource
CancellationTokenSource cancellationToken = new CancellationTokenSource();
ParallelOptions po = new ParallelOptions();
po.CancellationToken = cancellationToken.Token;

Then pass po to Parallel.ForEach
Parallel.ForEach(items, po, item =>
{
   //...
   if(num < 12)
     cancellationToken.Cancel(false);

});

return !cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested;


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Q: Setting up multiple containers in github actions I'm trying to set up our CI with github actions. After trying for a couple days to do it on my own, I come here looking for help.
Actually I have a Go API that uses a postgres database and my tests directly call the API, so I need the API and the database to be running for the tests.
Locally I don't have any problem, my API runs in a docker container I build using commands in my Makefile. But I can't get my tests to work on github actions.
Here's my Makefile:
GOCMD=go
GOBUILD=$(GOCMD) build
GOCLEAN=$(GOCMD) clean
GOTEST=$(GOCMD) test
GOGET=$(GOCMD) get
BINARY_NAME=ATS-user

all: test build

build:
    $(GOBUILD) -o $(BINARY_NAME) -v
test:
    $(GOTEST) -v ./...

clean:
    $(GOCLEAN)
    rm -f $(BINARY_NAME)
run:
    $(GOBUILD) -o $(BINARY_NAME) -v ./...
    ./$(BINARY_NAME)

start_db:
    sudo docker network create network_app
    sudo docker run --name postgresdb --net network_app -p5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=***** -e POSTGRES_DB=userdb -d postgres

migrate_db:
    migrate -path tests/migrate/ -database postgres://postgres:*****@localhost:5432/userdb?sslmode=disable -verbose up

start_server:
    sudo docker build . -t app
    sudo docker run -p 8080:8080 --net network_app app

remove_db:
    sudo docker container stop postgresdb
    CONTAINER_ID=$(shell sudo docker ps -aqf "name=postgresdb");\
    sudo docker container rm $$CONTAINER_ID

remove_server:
    sudo docker container stop app
    CONTAINER_ID=$(shell sudo docker ps -aqf "name=app");\
    sudo docker container rm $$CONTAINER_ID

And my Dockerfile for the app
FROM golang:1.16-alpine

WORKDIR /app

COPY go.mod ./
COPY go.sum ./

RUN go mod download

COPY . ./

RUN go build -o /mdr

EXPOSE 8080

CMD [ "/mdr" ]

What I do locally is basically
make start_db
make migrate_db
make start_server
make test
On github actions I use that:
name: build and test

# Controls when the action will run.
on:
  workflow_dispatch:

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "test"
  test:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    #Add services, aka Docker containers that runs in paralell
    services:
      #Name the service
      postgres:
        #Set the Docker image to use, find images on Dockerhub.com
        image: postgres
        # Set environment variables
        env:
          POSTGRES_USER: postgres
          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: *****
          POSTGRES_DB: userdb
        # Expose ports
        ports:
          - 5432:5432
        # Add some health options to make sure PostgreSQL is running fully before moving on
        options: >-
          --health-cmd pg_isready
          --health-interval 10s
          --health-timeout 5s
          --health-retries 5

    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      # Sets up and installs Golang
      - name: Setup Go environment
        uses: actions/setup-go@v2.1.3
        with:
          go-version: 1.16
      - name: Get migrate
        run: go install -tags 'postgres' github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/v4/cmd/migrate@latest
      - name: migrate DB
        run: make migrate_db
      - name: create network
        run: docker network create network_app
      - name: Connect Postgresdb to network
        run: docker network connect network_app postgres
      - name: Build docker
        run: docker build . --file Dockerfile -t app
      - name: Run docker
        run: docker run -p 8080:8080 app
      # Run tests that are available
      - name: Test
        run: |
          go test -v ./tests/test_routes/
          echo Complete

The actual problem is I can't connect postgres to the created network, but even if that worked, I feel like I shouldn't build my docker container the way I do it in the yml file.
I'm quite lost right now and I've been searching for quite some time so I hope I can get help here.
Thank you for your time, have a nice day.

A: According to this you don't need any kind of fancy docker network setup for the service container to be reachable, in this example the postgres host just becomes "postgres" if your tests are assuming localhost you could consider a command line flag or env variable that sets the postgres host instead of having it hardcoded


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It's Do or Die for Orlando Salido This Saturday in Tijuana
September 15, 2014 by Administrator Leave a Comment
The last time fight fans saw Orlando Salido (41-12-2, 28 KOs), he was limping to the finish line with just enough of a points lead to decision mega-Olympian Vasyl Lomachenko last March.
Despite taking home the victory in the bout, the 31-year-old looked to be the loser in every other aspect. Not only did he look dead tired and desperate at the very end of the Lomachenko fight, but he also had to go through the indignity of vacating his WBO featherweight belt earlier due to an inability to make the 126 lb. limit.
It's six months later now and "Siri" Salido, the very definition of a grizzled, well-traveled veteran, is looking to claim another belt (of sorts) as he takes on Thailand's own version of the grizzled veteran, the 33-year-old southpaw, Terdsak Kokietgym (53-4-1, 33 KOs), for the vacant WBO interim super featherweight title in Tijuana, Mexico.
Salido is eighteen years into a career that began when he was just fifteen years of age and saw him have to work his way through the unforgiving Mexican club circuit. There may be little to nothing left in the tank of the experienced former world titlist, but this bout with Kokietgym, who is best known for being stopped by Juan Manuel Marquez in 2006, will show Salido and the world whether there's enough there to go on yet another title run.
Filed Under: News Tagged With: Orlando Salido, Terdsak Kokietgym
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That problem can lead you to some very awkward moments that will forever live on the internet for eternity.
Unless you're a vampire a reflection will always exist.
It's a totally normal thing to sleep with a scarf and giant hoop earrings, and your taking a selfie of yourself, right ?
Who in their right mind decides to selfie while they're having a poop?