Post subject: The Stock Market Reopened!
It's been an idea in the back of my mind for a long time to find a way to bring back the Stock Market. It couldn't be reinstalled here, because the hack doesn't work with phpBB3, which is why we lost it in the first place, but I thought it might be neat to create a phpBB2 site that could still use it just for that purpose. Not a real part of the ToO, but a place the Market could be used by people who wanted to check out what it was like.
The recent discussion on the lost features of the old economy finally gave me the motivation to start on this project and see if it was even doable. After some effort it turned out it was, and as a result it is my great pleasure to reintroduce The ToO Stock Market!
This is separate from the actual ToO, so money made will not be transferred, but that's probably for the best. The Stock Market and Job System, as neat as they were, posed several economic problems, as discussed in this thread. This way, the experience of playing the Market can be achieved with no affect on the actual ToO economy; it's a win-win!
This is the same Stock Market mod that the old ToO used, and the stocks themselves are, for the most part, the same ones that were on the original Market. I did some digging through old threads and listed the ones people named. A few I added in myself to fill the list out.
As seems to be a theme with a majority of my ToO projects (such as the Shadow Paws Story Arc for example) this endeavor was not only for you the public, but it was beneficial for me as well. The end result was providing a service for the community, but the process to achieve that result strengthened my coding knowledge and abilities.
In order to make this work, I had to plunge into a self-taught, hands-on, in-depth crash course in phpBB management. It was quite an experience, going into it completely ignorant, but I'm really proud of what I learned to do and I'm sure it will be valuable knowledge in the future.
Before looking into creating a forum, I first had to figure out if I could even get the stocks working. I didn't know at the time which hack the old ToO used, but after some searching I found one that sounded good. I almost couldn't download the files for it because the links were dead since phpBB2 is no longer supported, but fortunately the Wayback Machine had archives of the download pages, and the files. With those in hand I then set to finding a forum host.
I started out on this project trying to take the easy route. I knew I needed a forum, but I didn't want to build it from scratch. For one thing I didn't know anything about how to do that, and for another it seemed unnecessary. I knew there were numerous phpBB hosts out there that automated everything. The only catch was finding one that still allowed for a phpBB2 forum, most are only phpBB3 these days. I settled on Forumotion and the site was created easily. I began feeling my way through the administration functions and layout templates, customizing the look and features. I was very happy with the end result, until I went to install the Stock Market hack. I couldn't do it. Hacks require access to the PHP and database files behind the forum so you can modify them. I had known this, but had never actually checked if that was possible before getting the site all set up. On Forumotion you are not allowed to access anything in the site file structure, except the style templates, making hack installation impossible. There was absolutely no workaround, the project was sunk. Dejected, I abandoned the site I had just perfected.
I was unwilling to give the project up though, having come so close to success. Now that I knew what functionality I needed, I was determined to find a way to make this work. The trouble was not many free hosting services give you that file structure and database access that was vital. I found a handful that said they did, but due to either registration issues or capability problems none worked. A sensible person would have probably given up at that point, since this wasn't really an 'important' project it was just something I had wanted to do or fun, but I persevered and finally came across one last hope. I registered and reviewed the tools they provided me. It was exactly what I needed.
It started as an empty file structure that could be built through FTP. This meant I would be building a fresh phpBB site from the ground up. At this point that idea was no longer daunting, I had been reading up on how to do it and come to the realization that this was probably the best way to do it anyway. With a preset installation script you didn't really know exactly what was or wasn't included. Building it by hand allowed you to know exactly what was involved. Because of this, I took the opportunity to select and install the exact version of phpBB that the Stock Market hack I had was built for, to ensure it would function. It called for phpBB 2.0.10, which I was able to obtain through OldApps. I uploaded all the files into the directory and created a database, then installed the forum. Everything worked beautifully and I was quite proud of myself.
Next came reconfiguring the forum, which was a little harder this time around than it was on Forumotion, because the process was different. With the negative of the 'host only' services being they don't allow PHP or SQL access, the plus was that they streamlined customization. They present the templates that control site layout in a straightforward and easy to modify way. On this new site, I was on my own in that regard. I now had access to the file structure and could modify any file I wanted in any way I wanted, so instead of going through a clean form on the host I had to dig right into the template files themselves in the directory and edit their actual contents by hand. But there were just enough similarities that my experience from Forumotion allowed me to figure out how to get it done.
With the site customized, and actually looking slightly better than the Forumotion one had because I had full access this time instead of mostly-full, I looked once again to installing the hack. I knew it would work this time because I had all the proper functionality, but before I went into it I decided it would be best to make my site exactly the same as the old ToO, just to be absolutely sure everything would work the same way. As I mentioned, my site was version 2.0.10, it turned out the ToO was 2.0.14. This meant I had to upgrade four phpBB versions. That usually wouldn't be much of a task, you just upload and replace the changed files which were downloadable separately from the full files for doing a new install of the next version, but because phpBB2 is so out of date it was a little more difficult.
I couldn't find any of the changed files only downloads, but OldApps had the full packages of all the versions I needed to go through. So I took the long way around, and followed the steps for upgrading manually. Put simply, that entailed downloading the full version's files and uploading only completely new files, then locating the files that had changes made between versions and manually changing the code accordingly. Fortunately there were very good instructions on how to do this for each version. So I did that for 2.0.11 through 2.0.14 and in the end I'm actually glad I had to do it that way because it gave me a lot more experience and confidence in navigating and manipulating the site file structure and a much better understanding of how the directories work.
With my site now at phpBB 2.0.14 and virtually a clone of the old ToO, I finally installed the Stock Market hack, as well as two supplemental hacks that were provided with it, a Stock Report and a Stock Ticker, and they all went without a hitch. However upon installation, I discovered that they were not exactly what I wanted. They were for making static stock lists, the admin had to control everything. In other words, if you wanted the value to change you had to manually edit each one. So I went back to scouring the internet, and was eventually able to determine the actual hack the old ToO used. It was actually a part of the Vault mod, the Stock Market was a side feature. Unfortunately this download was also dead, and this time archived files were not as easy to come by. But after much searching and digging I finally found a working link. Before installing I had to have a functioning point system, which was separate, so I also located, downloaded, and installed the cash mod the ToO used. I then installed the Vault mod which got the Stock Market up, and it all went great. After getting oriented to the GUI I figured out how to add and modify stocks and set the fluctuation rate, and that was that.
Since I was now confident in working with the file structure and editing the code of individual files and I had a pretty solid understanding of how mods worked, I took a few extra steps to touch up the site, just because I could. I figured out how to modify the Stock Ticker and Stock Report hacks I installed previously to point to the database for the Vault mod so they would display the information for those stocks instead of the ones for the mod I wasn't going to use. I impressed myself there and was quite proud. And I also installed a Chatbox mod. There was nothing really big about that in itself, it was just following instructions like installing any other mod, but then after it was installed I dug into the code and was able to isolate the message display section and embed it into the index page, something that wasn't part of the original functionality, so I took pride in that as well.
So that's how it came to be, if you read any of that, and now here it is!
Again, this is separate from the ToO and should only be used as a side-feature. There is a forum for discussions particularly pertaining to the Market on there, but anything else should be kept for the ToO. This isn't a new message board, it's just a new experience.
And as an extra bonus, I also recreated the Regisville theme there so it can be used once again!
By the way, if anyone is wondering why the Vault there is called the Bank of Fenix that's a reference to the days of the original Stock Market when Fenix became infamous for making incredible amounts of money off it.
It's not letting me use my username/email address. Why?
It shows you on the member list.
You're on the list too. In fact, it appears you created two accounts.
oh oops hey can you activate one and delete the other?
Sure, I'll delete the second one.
Well, I bought two shares in the Universal Press Foundation!
So, one thing about this (it may be what was giving you two trouble), after you log in it will redirect you to an advertisement page (which may error because I partially restricted that) so it might look like it's not working. But just click the back button, or go to the url again, and it will work then.
The website is temporarily unable to server your request as it exceeded its allocated resource limit.
If you are seeing this message regularly this means your site is exceeding limits allowed for a free hosting site, you should consider upgrading at Securesignup.net."
If you are seeing this message regularly this means your site is exceeding limits allowed for a free hosting site, you should consider upgrading at Securesignup.net.
On attempting to get an account I got what JCGJ did.
It means what it says: This is a free host so it limits resources. Just try again later, it will be back.
The site is back, and KF you are on the list.
Pretty much. Just give it some time if it happens again.
I made the first purchase, I believe!
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I think Woody did actually, he posted first anyway, but good for you either way!


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Looking to fill your cellar for those rainy Winter months? Join us for our second Wine Warehouse Sale, where you will find the ever popular Mystery and Reserve Mystery cases. Some of the top South African wines from Edgebaston, Steenberg, Delaire Graff; to name a few, will be available on the morning. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.
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Everest Three Pass Trek is one of an exhilarating challenging adventure trek designed for the trekkers looking to challenge the Everest region of Nepal. This trail includes trekking in popular Everest Base Camp trails while also discovering High Mountain passes, its tranquil lakes with fantastic views of the landscape. This trail can also be taken as the ultimate Everest Experience that is available in the Khumbu region of Nepal. Everest High Passes Trek or Everest Three Pass Trek is combined with ascents of Kongma la pass 5,530 m, Cho la pass 5,420 m and Renjo la pass 5340 m and finally setting foot to the Everest and the greatest view from Kala Patthar. Mt. Thamserku, Mt Ama Dablam, Mt. Kongtega, Mt Everest are some of the best view to encounter during your trek along with the blue lake seen in the Gokyo village.
We start our journey of Everest Three pass Trek with 45 minutes of flight to Lukla only the main entry point for Everest Trek. We follow the trail of high passes on the famous trekking route Everest Base Camp starting from Namche Bazaar and entry inside the Sagarmatha National Park where we will trek through the lush vegetation of pine forests, rhododendron and making our way through Thame, Lungden. We will pass through the narrow valet clogged with giant boulders to Renjo la pass from where our high passes starts. While on the Renjo la pass and Goyko village you will be able to capture charming blue lake, Huge Glacier. Next we will ascent to the lap of Everest via Chola and the scenery is speckled and impressive in the heart content. The Ngozumpa Glacier is the largest in the Nepal Himalayas which can be viewed along our trail. After reaching the summit of Kongma La, as we compose our way towards the Everest Base Camp through Khumbu glacier, we wonder at the sight of Khumbu ice-fall tumbling from the Western side. We will finally complete our trek with a descent to Lukla and catching our early flight to Kathmandu.
Everest High Pass Trek is a strenuous trek leading to greatest pass during your extended period of stay is favorable for trekkers with enough holidays of three weeks. The thrill and adventure in the wilderness of high Mountains is something to seek for is gaining popular among the trekkers with. If you plan to have holidays in Nepal with the average of three weeks than be part of Himalayan Yatri and travel to the highest passes around the world.
Fly Kathmandu to Lukla [2,820 m] & trek to Phakding [2,623 m], about 4-5 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Trek Phakding to Namche Bazaar [3,440 m], about 5-6 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Trek Namche Bazzar to Tengboche [3,860 m], about 5-6 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Trek Tengboche to Dingboche [4,410 m], about 6-7 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Trek Dingboche to Chhukung [4,730 m], about 4-5 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Early morning climb Kongma-La pass [5,535 m] and trek to Lobuche [4,970 m], about 8-9 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Trek Lobuche to Gorakshep [5,160 m], about 2-3 hours of trek and after lunch visit Everest Base Camp [5,360 m], trek back about 4-5 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Early morning climb Kala Patthar [5,545 m], about 2-3 hours to ascend and 1-2 hours to descend. After breakfast trek to Dzongla [4,860 m], about 3-4 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Early morning climb the Cho-La Pass [5,330 m], about 2-3 hours of trek & trek to Thangna [4,700 m], about 7-8 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Early morning climb Renjo-La pass [5,340 m], about 3-4 hours of trek then descends to Marulung [4,300 m], about 6-7 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Trek Thame to Phakding [2,623 m], about 6-7 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Trek Phakding to Lukla [2,820 m], about 4-5 hours of trek & overnight stay in lodge.
Fly Lukla to Kathmandu, about 45 minutes of flight. Transfer to hotel, farewell dinner & overnight stay in hotel.


Over the past 10 years, the Tanzanian Maasai landscape has witnessed a dramatic increase in soil erosion with almost total destruction of the soil resource in many areas used for grazing of livestock.
Soil erosion impacts communities at local and global levels. The interdisciplinary 'Jali Ardhi' research programme (led by the University of Plymouth in collaboration with The Nelson Mandela African Institution for Science and Technology, University of Exeter, Schumacher College and the International Water Management Institute) seeks to deliver novel insights to support solutions to this global challenge.
Professor Will Blake from the University of Plymouth and the project's creative associate, Carey Marks, developed photographic documentation of the research project in action, a whiteboard animation and a soil erosion game to help the Maasai community understand the process of soil erosion.
Carey has photographed the Maasai stakeholders who have been involved in the Jali Ardhi project. It is their landscape that is rapidly disappearing, and is it them who will benefit from the research.
For the soil erosion game, the team created a series of icons (around the size of a CD) on heavy Perspex disks. They also created an A0 sized material background for the game, designed to represent the typical African landscape.
Carey Marks is a Portrait, Research and Documentary photographer who has a passionate interest in portraits and photo-journalism: particularly "communities and people in context". He is also an established Art Director and Graphic Designer, with over twenty years experience in London and the US.
His recent work for the University of Plymouth's Jali Ardhi, or 'care for the land' project, has been featured in the Guardian, and he has developed branding for Vivienne Westwood's "MAN", designed invitations for her Majesty the Queen, and designed various campaigns for organisations such as the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery, Channel 4 Sitcom Comedy Festival and the London Underground.


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As Rick and Daryl pull away from the Alexandria Safe Zone in the opening minutes of this week's episode — "The Next World" — they pop in a CD of baby-faced 1950s rockabilly sensation Ronnie Dawson, singing his first big hit, "Action Packed." Call the song an overture, though not because this chapter of The Walking Dead features wall-to-wall zombie-fighting. If anything, the latest episode is a lot quieter and simpler than last week's midseason premiere. But it's also more focused, which means that every scene and every moment matters a lot more.
Plus, it's funny. And when's the last time anyone said that about this show?
Then again, when's the last time a post-apocalyptic horror epic introduced a character named Jesus? Fans of the comics have been awaiting the arrival of Paul Monroe (who here says his last name is "Rovia") almost as much as they've been anticipating the long-teased Negan. And though he doesn't reveal much of himself or his plans this week, this ersatz Christ does make a strong first impression. His face is half-covered in a white cloth when he literally runs into our dynamic duo at a trashed old gas station, where he stealthily swipes the keys to the fully loaded truck they just found. Before he sneaks away, however, he pulls away his mask, reveals a long beard, extends his arms: "But my friends used to call me Jesus."
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Most of the rest of the episode is about our heroes looking for Jesus. (Literally, not symbolically … although is anything ever not symbolic on this show?) Actor Tom Payne has a fine presence as the hairy highwayman, exuding a calm assuredness even after Rick and Daryl catch up to him and draw their guns. Nothing seems to faze this Jesus with the slick kung-fu moves and ability to easily slip out of traps. He's a miracle-worker.
If there's a knock against this episode, it's that everything happening back in Alexandria is duller by comparison. Periodically, the story shifts to the woods outside of town, where Michonne has a heart-to-heart talk with Spencer about his purpose in life, while one-eyed Carl does the same with Enid. While they're gabbing away, both parties have an encounter with the undead Deanna, whom Carl allows to escape so that her son can get closure and end his zombie mother's second life.
There's nothing especially wrong with any of those scenes. They're well-acted and well-staged, and the more low-key, personal give-and-take about the future is a nice change of pace from the series' usual navel-gazing conversations, which tend to boil down to "let's build a beautiful new world" versus "toughen up, hippie."
Still, this could've been an all-time Walking Dead classic if it'd stuck mainly with the supply run. For one thing, this particular "brave and the bold" pairing is one the show hasn't done too often. Rick and Daryl have mostly been off on their own individual trips, which makes it all the more fun to see them scavenging for food, medicine, and toiletries in tandem while talking in their usual strong-but-silent way about evolving perspectives. Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus have a good chemistry together, which makes a big difference when "The Next World" takes a turn from road trip to farce.
First-time TWD director Kari Skogland (who's worked on Under the Dome and Boardwalk Empire, among many other shows) fills the episode with amusing moments, made wittier by the framing and choreography: the low-angle shot of Rick and Daryl simultaneously blowing away a walker to prove their guns are loaded; that long take of Paul falling off the truck, pausing for a split-second, and then running away like some silent-movie buffoon. Our heroes even get a little Abbott-and-Costello beat at the end of the hour, when they're back in Alexandria with their new prisoner, bemoaning the stupidity of their daily expeditions and then agreeing to "do it again tomorrow."
There's no way that the show is going to stay in this low-stakes adventure mode for long. This episode ends with Jesus escaping (again) and showing up in Rick's room, implying that he has something important to share. So the drama's likely to intensify again soon. But given the way The Walking Dead has been lately — dragging its feet, going in circles — it's refreshing to see this installment leap so confidently ahead in the story, rather than lingering on last week's slaughter. (And apparently, during that unseen period of rebuilding, Rick and Michonne became a couple. Huh. That'll be something to keep an eye on throughout the rest of this year.)
Maybe last week's mess was necessary, to get this show recalibrated. Or maybe it's like what the boys say to each other as they hit the road, that the "law of averages" was bound to break in their favor. The Walking Dead is too good to dwell in the doldrums forever. That's just math.
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I didn't know who he was or who he played for before he sat down and social media lost it's collective mind, but here I am writing about him.
What he meant to do was bring more equality. Highlight a wrong that we as a people need to address. It is easy to criticize the act but, as a friend said this afternoon when I sent this to him for a sanity check, no decent human can criticize the intent. My wise, (and tall and smart and funny, in case he's reading this), active duty Marine friend continued our conversation with:
I love that he lives in a country that has afforded him the salvage of a possibly wasted life. I love that he chose to do something. I love that he can choose to piss people off. I love that it has sparked controversy. His act. The act of a hashtag. The act of giving voice to opinion is all at once the means of change (read power, influence, etc). I love that veterans disagree. What I'm saddened by – truly- is that I believe we're missing the forest for the tree and mislaying blame. His actions however good intentioned were wrongly aimed. The last thing we need to do is blame the country and the government. Never ends well. It is the culture we must address. **These were all texts. I corrected the typos. Thumbs.**
To those who've suggested he disrespected America, men killed in combat and all of us who served in the military? I can't speak for all veterans, but I didn't serve for a song.
I served initially for a better future. And three meals a day. And a skill set. And for the chance to afford college someday. And to break away from the tragic series of stereotypes I was born into. And to be forced guided taught voluntold led to make better choices. When I reenlisted years later, I served for a Nation who'd just been attacked. And for the freedoms and rights that Nation embodies and affords to all of her citizens. Not for a song.
This comic says it better, though. Succinctly and in color.
I posted that photo on Facebook this morning with a single line:
"Don't use my service to demand his silence." Sgt H
Among the early responses was one from a friend whose opinion I value; someone I enjoy exchanging ideas with even if we don't always agree. Someone who is far more attuned to things in the sportsball community than I am:
It's not so much what he did that bothers me as the way he went about it. So what, he sat. Big freaking woo. And now he's relevant again for 5 minutes as people talk about him. Has his "message" changed anything? Nope. Has he himself done anything to change anything? Nope. Perhaps he could make some real change by putting his money where his mouth/actions are. He is in a real position to make a difference (perhaps donate his time to a football camp for at risk inner city kids) & instead he chose to sit on his talentless ass.
Whoah. Ok. Um, ok. So, that cartoon struck a nerve. This was my response:
Sitting down is no less effective than smashing a hashtag at the end of a vitriol infused tweet and calling yourself "part of the solution." The field is his platform.
Sitting down was his way of standing up and I commend him for it. The point of my post was to share my opinion about the lame idea he disrespected American veterans or America herself by sitting down.
The National Anthem is a song. It's words. Words penned more than a century ago. Some of the words have been intentionally ignored because they're disparaging to an an entire segment of the American population.
None of us served, fought or DIED for a song. We served, fought and DIED for a Nation and, in part, for the freedoms we're afforded as a result of being born here.
What blows my mind is the way white fans flipped their shit about it. Where are *those* fans when NFL players rape, kill, torture animals, abuse drugs, wreck cars and abuse women and children? They're pissed because their fantasy football teams played poorly while their "main man" was suspended for a few games.
What are ANY of us doing to change oppression if we're not, in the very least, raising our own voices against it?
Stripped of nothing but our beliefs, we're all left with just our voice.
He used his.
Most people couldn't spell his name before he sat through a song and yet, dude's been actively engaged in charity and fundraising since he joined the NFL.
Good for him for sitting down.
Dude was so talented** he was drafted by the Cubs, chose football instead and raises awareness of pediatric heart disease and money for *disadvantaged* kids suffering from it because his adoptive parents lost two babies to heart disease before they adopted him from an unwed mother when he was 5 weeks old. *exhale*
(Thanks, Google)
Why don't people talk about THAT?
Oh. Because he sat down.
**Not a football fan and not here to debate how he compares to other dudes who play the same positions on their sportsball teams; just saying he had enough talent to be drafted in more than one major sport, so I imagine he plays ok. And he has a right to express his opinions, just like we all have a right to express ours.
——I write some really long responses on Facebook sometimes. Eh. ——-
I never thought I'd write a blog about anything NFL related. Ever. Or baseball, for that matter, but it bears mentioning the great Jackie Robinson, himself a veteran of the U.S. Army, a commissioned officer no less, also took issue with standing for the National Anthem and saluting the flag as a result of racial inequalities and injustices he both witnessed and endured in his lifetime.
The Facebook conversation that prompted this post fell off the rails. It seems I'm condescending, ha, and my subsequent responses resulted in me being unfriended. I was disappointed it ended that way but I wholly support the friend's right to make that choice.
As I come back to this blog to finish, copy edit and hit publish, the last comment on the comic on my page is from my best friend's dad, a veteran of U.S. Army's Special Forces in Vietnam.
I disagree with him. I fought for his right to disagree with me.
Indeed you did, DaddyBall. Indeed you did.
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It might have something to do with what Lenin said about "following who benefits financially"…
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000695751/article/hot-item-colin-kaepernick-jersey-sales-skyrocket
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Jan. 20 - Age on Inauguration Day 60 years, 7.9 months.
Nov. 6 - Re-elected to a second term, def. state Rep. Kurt Bills (R) by 65.23% to 30.53%.
Aug. 25 - Author of The Senator Next Door (Henry Holt).
Nov. 6 - Re-elected to a third term, def. state Rep. Jim Newberger (R) by 60.31% to 36.21% (+).
Feb. 10 - Announces
candidacy at Boom Island in Minneapoolis, MN.
Re-elected Hennepin County Attorney.
June 9 - Wins DFL endorsement. Sept. 12 - Wins primary with 95.51% of vote.
Nov. 7 - Elected to the U.S. Senate, def. U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy (R) by 58.06% to 37.94%
Marries John Bessler.
Short run for Hennepin County Attorney, but drops out in June.
Elected Hennepin County Attorney.
B.A. in political science from Yale University.
J.D. from University of Chicago.
Author of Uncovering the Dome (Waveland Press).
...partner in Dorsey & Whitney and Gray Plant Mooty law firms...
Parents divorce.
Graduates from Wayzata High School, valedictorian.
Born May 25, 1960 in Plymouth, MN.
Parent: Jim worked as a sportswriter, and Rose taught second grade. Klobuchar has a jounger sister Beth.


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Porsche 911 RSR makes its debut at Goodwood (Video)
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The new Porsche 911 RSR has made its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the car took part in the hill climb at the festival.
The 911 RSR can be seen i9n the video below, the car will be used for the FIA World Endurance Championship.
The Porsche Motorsport endurance racer took its first steps in the hands of Porsche GT Team driver Gianmaria Bruni. Jörg Bergmeister introduced the car live to the world at the start of the Goodwood Hillclimb. The car is expected to defend the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) title.
You can find out more information about the new Porsche 911 RSR over at Porsche at the link below.


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In the Matter of the Petition of the Shelby County Courts for Administrative Rule 17 Emergency Relief
Supreme Court Case No. 20S-CB-143 Order
The courts of Shelby County (hereinafter "courts") en banc have petitioned this Court for emergency relief pursuant to Indiana Administrative Rule 17. The petition states that the World Health Organization has determined the outbreak of COVID-19 ("virus") is a worldwide pandemic; national and Indiana states of emergency have been declared a a result; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") has determined that "social distancing" among other preventative measures is necessary for the prevention of further spreading the virus, including cancellation of in-person gatherings of fifty (50) people or more for the next eight (8) weeks and other drastic steps.
The petition further states that due to a shortage of cleaning and sanitation products, the courts find that Shelby County does not possess adequate hygiene stations or sanitation supplies for the large volumes of people who regularly appear at the Shelby County courthouse.
The Honorable R. Kent Apsley has been appointed as the presiding Judge for this emergency. It appears from the petition that this emergency inhibits litigants' and courts' ability to comply with statutory deadlines and rules of procedure.
The Court therefore finds that good cause exists for granting emergency relief. Being duly advised, the Court GRANTS the petition, DECLARES pursuant to Indiana Administrative Rule 17 that an emergency exists in Shelby County, and APPROVES the plan as submitted.
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One downside of moving to Jekyll (as I recently did with this blog) is that you leave the vibrant ecosystem of mobile blogging apps. Tumblr's app, for example, let me get thoughts down with my one free hand and post them right away, or edit old posts with ease.
But mourn no more, Jekyll bloggers! Octopage is an iPhone app that lets you edit and create new posts to your GitHub Pages-based Jekyll site. (Despite the Octo- prefix, it works fine with plain old Jekyll and doesn't presuppose Octopress.) Start the app, enter your GitHub credentials, select your GitHub Pages repository, and you're ready to begin editing existing posts or creating a new one. Octopage even prepopulates new posts with the requisite YAML front matter for Jekyll posts and has several settings for code block style and autocapitalization that create the right environment for your editing. Built in Markdown preview and syntax guide are nice touches for people like me who are still learning Markdown.
A few nits: I would prefer that Octopage use Github's official OAuth API for authentication. Entering my username and password into an app feels so 2010. I encountered some display glitches that left me with only 2 lines visible. Making the app universal and thus pleasant to use on the iPad would be great.
Ultimately, I hope more apps add native Github Pages and Jekyll publishing abilities. We need a more vibrant ecosystem for Jekyll. I really hope that the fantastic new Editorial app for iPad will rise to the occasion and add these capabilities. Or perhaps Octopage's creator will integrate directly with Editorial, something Editorial was built for.
But for now, Octopage gets the job done and does so quite nicely. To prove it, I wrote this entire post in Octopage — with my left thumb while my daughter napped in my lap.


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Heart Family Challenge – winter edition!
Choose one of these four Wintry challenges, take a photo or video, then share your entry on Instagram or Twitter using #HeartFamilyChallenge and tagging @thisisheart. On Instagram you must tag @thisisheart in the actual photo/video! Make sure you follow the Heart account too.
The four winners are chosen on four separate dates (make sure your entry is in before 11.59am on these days to be considered): 15th Feb, 18th Feb, 19th Feb and 20th Feb – but all entries will be considered for each of the four competitions, so get your entry in early! You can enter more than once.
Winning entries will be selected by the Heart judges based on the most creative, entertaining, relevant and feel good submissions – shortlisted entrants will be contacted by Direct Message on social media and must respond within 12 hours.
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Future & Lil Wayne Joining DJ Khaled For Summerfest Cruise
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Two months ago, DJ Khaled announced plans for his Summerfest cruise. The voyage has now begun to take shape, and some of the biggest name in hip hop will be coming aboard. Future, Lil Wayne, Migos, and A$AP Rocky have all been confirmed as performers on the boat.
The festival-at-sea is set to depart Miami, Florida on June 30th. The ship will make two stops in the Bahamas, and then return to Miami on July 3rd. In what promises to be one of the biggest cruise-related festivals of all time, there also promises to be more artists named to the captain's log before the ship sets sail.
In addition to the performances, the Summerfest cruise will be filled with perks like a "Meet & Greet Reception," "Themed Parties" and "Partying and mingling up close and personal with the entertainers." Tickets and lodging information for the 18-and-over festival can be found on the Summerfest site.
Recently, DJ Khaled released a new track "Shining" featuring Beyonce and Jay Z during February's GRAMMY Awards. He has also been teasing a new video and song via his Instagram that will include Chance the Rapper, Justin Bieber, Migos, and Lil Wayne. Khaled's follow up to 2016's Billboard chart-topping Major Key is due out later this year, and will be titled Grateful.
The Summerfest cruise promises to be an experience like no other. And if Khaled is reading this, we're still waiting on our invite, but assume it has been lost in the mail, and would appreciate another one sent our way asap.
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Galaxy Wearable app not working for some, Samsung looking into it
People are having trouble logging in and downloading/updating apps.
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Samsung makes some of the best smartwatches for Android that you can buy, and when you use one, all of its settings are managed through the Galaxy Wearables companion app. Unfortunately for some users, it hasn't been working as intended over the last few days.
Members on the Samsung Community forums have complained that they're having trouble logging into the Galaxy Wearables app, in addition to not being able to download or update apps.
While the issues do seem pretty widespread, anyone that was signed in before April 18 or is using a Galaxy smartwatch with a Samsung device should be fine.
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Breaking Up Google in Europe
Last week, the European Union Parliament voted in favor of a resolution, breaking up Google within its territories. Luckily for Google, the EU Parliament does not have the legal authority to break up the company; however, the resolution may pressure the European Commission who has regulatory powers over companies in Europe. More specifically, the European Commission could potentially bring formal antitrust charges against Google's dominant position in Europe's Internet search business.
Google's search engine holds approximately 90% of the market in some countries in the European Union which has sparked legitimate concern. Since 2010, investigations have been underway to determine whether Google's search engine favors other Google services, inhibiting other competing search advertising platforms. In particular, the investigation focused on four areas of concern about Google's business. First, its links to its own "vertical search" services such as Google Shopping, YouTube and Maps over rivals, the copying of content from competing vertical search companies, restriction on rivals advertising on sites using Google ads, and the portability of advertising campaigns from Google's system.
Major tech companies, like Microsoft and Yelp, formed a lobbying group called the Open Internet Project. Keeping this in mind, it is hard to say whether the resolution was a product of a genuine concern for consumers or a successful lobbying effort by Google's competitors. Regardless, it is important to remember that this resolution is not legally binding.
In reality, a breakup of Google in the European Union is unlikely without a high level of consumer threat. An exercise of the European Commission's regulatory powers over companies in Europe would be a more effective solution. Should the European Commission bring formal antitrust charges, Google will likely face orders to modify its business practices concerning competing search advertising platforms. Google could also be slapped with fines that could add up to 10 percent of its global annual sales, which is the equivalent of $6 billion.
Was this resolution meaningless since it is not legally binding? If the charges are brought against Google, should Google be fined or broken up? Do you think this resolution was based on a genuine concern of the consumer or a product of successful lobbying efforts by Google's competitors?
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Here at Imagefix we were delighted to be asked to assist with the creation of a new website and logo for Bedfordshire based kitchen, bathroom and bedroom design company, Box Interiors. Our web design team have many years experience of producing first class websites which enabled us to build the perfect new site for them, as well as designing a new logo for the Box Interiors brand.
As a father and son team, the owners at Box Interiors were keen to engage with local customers looking to make improvements to their own homes. With family values being at the core of the brands sensibilities, it was important that their website was able to reflect this. They also wanted to be able to showcase their work and be able to advise potential new customers about the products they use and services they supply.
Our team here at Imagefix began the design process by creating the perfect logo. Much more than just a pretty symbol, the Box Interiors logo needed to be both easy on the eye and instantly recognisable to act as the new face of the brand. Because we understand that successful logos deliver a lasting impression, we took the utmost care in designing theirs to create a visual representation of the Box Interiors dedication to quality and service.
We then went on to begin building their new website using the ever-popular WordPress platform. WordPress gave us the freedom to build the website exactly to the clients specification, as well as the ability to include first class images and carefully crafted content. The finished product is a great looking, easy to navigate website, that is fully responsive and includes multiple calls to action to encourage customer interaction.
Using WordPress also offers the clients an extremely easy to use interface, meaning the team at Box Interiors are able to update images and add text pages as and when they need to.
The website has been created with the same attention to detail as their craftsmanship and design skills. Each page has information about the services they provide, and offers useful details about dimensions and manufacturers specifications, as well as a list of the top quality brands they supply and work with.
A great website and a well designed logo will give every business the very best start when it comes to increasing both their bottom line and internet presence. But, to ensure that the Box Interiors website is always found at the top of search engine rankings we have also devised an ongoing SEO strategy.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) helps to ensure that websites can be found easily by potential new customers when they input particular terms, words or phrases into any search engine query box. By offering Box Interiors an ongoing SEO service, we will be able to review how well the website is performing and make any relevant changes as and when necessary.
The team at Box Interiors were delighted with the finished product and we look forward to supplying them with ongoing SEO services and website updates as their Bedfordshire based interiors business evolves. Give us a call on 01525 715608 for any website needs or other requirements.


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Causal Consistency
Written by Written by Jan Lindstrom 2015-02-22
Causal consistency [1] is one of the consistency criteria that can be used on distributed databases as consistency criteria.
Distributed database provides causal consistency if read and write operations that are causally related are seen by every node of the distributed system in the same order. Concurrent writes may be seen in different order in diffrent nodes. Causal consistency is waker than sequential consistency [2] but stronger than eventual consistency [3]. See earlier blog for more detailed description on eventual consistency https://blog.mariadb.org/eventually-consistent-databases-state-of-the-art/.
When a transaction performs a read operation followed later by a write operation, even on different object, the first read is said to be causally ordered before the write. This is because the value created by the write may have been dependent upon the result of the read operation. Similarly, a read operation is causally ordered after the earlier write on the same object that stored the data retrieved by the read. Also, even two write operations performed by the same node are defined to be causally ordered, in the order they were performed. Intuitively, after writing value v into object x, a node knows that a read of x would give v, so a later write could be said to be (potentially) causally related to the earlier one. Finally, causal order is transitive: that is, if operation A is (causally) ordered before B, and B is ordered before C, A is ordered before C.
Operations that are not causally related, even through other operations, are said to be concurrent. Consider following example:
Direction of time ---------------->
P1 : w1[x] = 1
P3 :             r3[x] = 2
P4 :                         r4[x] = 1
This execution is causally consistent because read operations r3[x] is causally dependent on write w2[x] and read operation r4[x] is causally dependent on write w1[x]. Note that concurrent write operations may be seen on different order on different transactions or nodes.
Implementing Causal Consistency
Causal consistency can be reached by using Lamport clocks [4] or version vectors [5]. The causal consistency model is implemented by using multi-part timestamps, which are assigned to each object. These timestamps are stored on a vector that contains the version number of the object at each replica. This vector must be included (in the form of dependencies) in all update and query requests so that operations respect the causal ordering: an operation A can only be processed at a given node if all operations, on which the operation A causally depends, have already been applied at that node.
Each element in the vector clock corresponds to one host and the value of element indicates the number of messages sent from that host. The vector clock information is used to order or delay the delivery of messages if necessary, thus maintaining the required consistency. However, for maintaining the consistency of data items, we need information about writes on each data item, and maintaining a clock per data item can help. Therefore, instead of a vector clock of size N (number of hosts), we maintain a vector of size M (number of objects). The value of v[i] in the vector v contains the number of writes on data item i.
Each host maintains a vector of size M. Whenever it updates the value of an item, it increments the corresponding element and sends the vector along with the message of data item and new value to every site, which has a copy of the replica. When a host receives an update message, it delays the delivery of a message till each element in its vector is greater than or equal to the one that is piggybacked. After that, the updates to the data items are applied. In this case, the message overhead is O(M) and thus is independent of the number of hosts in the system.
If each message is an update message, it carries the new value of the data item rather than instructions. Then the delivery of an update on a data-item does not need not wait for the previous updates on the same item. This would not have been possible if vector clocks had been used. In that case, the delivery of a massage would have been delayed even for previous messages that are causally overwritten.
Applications and Databases using Causal Consistency
COPS and Eiger
COPS system [6] (Clusters of Order-Preserving Servers) introduces the causal+ consistency and is designed to support complex online applications that are hosted in a small number of large-scale data-centers, each of which is composed of front-end servers (clients of COPS) and back-end key-value data stores. Eiger [7] has a similar design but a different implementation.
COPS and Eiger support causality through a client library. Both systems replicate writes to geographically distributed data centers and enforce observed ordering. The observed ordering is enforced by delaying the write operations until all causally previous operations have been already applied at that data center.
COPS executes all read and write operations in the local data center in a linearizable [8] fashion, and then replicates data across data centers in a causal+ consistent order in the background. Figure 1 describes the high level architecture of COPS.
Figure 1: Architecture of COPS and Eiger [6].
Similarly, the Eiger system provides the linearizability inside each data center and the causally-consistent data store based on a column-family data model to achieve better performance in a geo-distributed setting. All operations from clients are served from the local data center using a client library. The library mediates access to nodes in the local data center, executes the read and write transaction algorithms, and tracks causality and attaches dependencies to write operations. Each replica stores full replica of the database, and operations are handled locally. After an operation is executed locally, the operation is asynchronously pushed to remote data centers, but committed only after all causally dependent operations have been previously committed.
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Bailis et. al. in [9] propose a client-side middle-ware software called Bolt-on. This middle-ware guarantees only application-defined dependencies as an alternative to the causal consistency. Figure 2 describes the architecture of the Bolt-on middle-ware.
Figure 2: Architecture of Bolts-on [9].
The Bolt-on architecture assumes that the underlying data store handles most aspects of data management, including replication, availability, and convergence. In the architecture, the underlying data store locally uses the eventual consistency and allows a large space of read and write histories; the middle-ware handles causal dependencies, and consists of a set of rules, which limit the possible histories to the histories that obey the desired consistency model.
Application: MMORPG
In Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG), players can cooperate with others in a virtual game world, and both players and different game words are naturally distributed. These systems manage large amounts of data, and the biggest problem is how to support data consistency. According to the CAP theorem, we have to sacrifice one of two properties: consistency or availability [10]. If an online game does not guarantee the availability, players' requests may fail. If data is inconsistent, players may get data not conforming to the game logic, and this data can affect their operations. Therefore, it is important for the MMORPG environment to find a balance between the data consistency and the system availability. For this reason, we must analyze the data consistency requirements of MMORPG so as to find the balance [10].
Diao [10] has studied different consistency models for MMORPG and found that there indeed are part of data, where the causal consistency is an appealing choice: Game data. The game data contains e.g. the world appearance, the meta-data of non-player characters (the characters are created by game developers and controlled only by the game logic), the system configuration and game rules. This data is used by players and the game engine in the entire game, but can be only modified by the game developers. Consistency requirements for the game data are not so strict compared e.g. to the account data. Because e.g. a change of non-player character name or of the duration of bird animation may not be noticed by players.
Furthermore, some change of the game data needs to be delivered to all online players synchronously, e.g. a change of the word appearance, the weapon power, non-player characters, game rules and scripts. If there is inconsistency on these areas, it will cause errors on game display and logic errors on players. Therefore, some data needs to be stored on the server side and some on the client side. The game data on the client side could only synchronize with servers when a player logs in to or starts a game. For this reason, the causal consistency is required [10].
This could mean that when a player A uses the browser to connect with the game server, the game server will check the current local data and update the game data of the client side in the form of data packets. After updating, all future local accesses will return the updated value. Player B, who has not communicated with the game server, will still retain the outdated game data.
Game servers maintain the primary version of game data, and transfer it to client sides. Additionally, players on different game words cannot discuss to each other. Thus, the only need is to make sure that the game data is consistent in one game word in a time so that all players on that game word are handled equally. This requires using the strong consistency locally in the game word and the causal consistency among different game words. When the game data is modified by developers, the update value should be delivered synchronously to all replicates on that game word, and asynchronously to other game words.
While the possibility of using the causal consistency on MMORPG has been identified on research [10] to the authors' knowledge there is no actual publications or other information that the causal consistency is actually used on MMORPG games (e.g. Lord of the Rings Online).
Application: Facebook
Facebook is an online Social networking service. After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles.
When you log into your account on Facebook, the server will show your own status messages and your friends' status messages at that point in time. Status messages on Facebook may contain pictures, shared links and stories or your own messages. Naturally, your account data requires a strong consistency, but for status data the weaker consistency models are acceptable. During the time the user is online, the status updates of a user's friends and of the user do not need to be strictly ordered, and the causal ordering is enough.
Thus when a user A sends a status update and a user B replies to that update, there is a causal order on the two updates. However, when users C and D do a totally unrelated update, the order these updates appear to users A and B is not relevant. This is because users A and B do not know in which order updates are performed.
The reason why the eventual consistency is not enough for Facebook status updates is that the eventual consistency does not require any ordering between writes. Consider a case, where the user A first sends a status update, and after few seconds A updates the first status update. With the eventual consistency, all friends of A could see only the first update, because the eventual consistency does not guarantee that first update is performed before the second one. In the causal consistency, as there is a read (by user A) of first update and then write (updated status from user A), these are causally related and all user A's friends will naturally see second update.
Although the causal consistency is the possible consistency model for Facebook status updates and several similar distributed services containing status updates like LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo, to author's knowledge there is not scientific or other literature that would show the causal consistency being really used.
The causal consistency model can be enforced with Lamport clocks. Transactions using the causal consistency are executed in an order that reflects their causally-related read/write operations' order. Concurrent operations may be committed in different orders and their results can be read also in different orders.
Actually, the causal consistency can solve many problems, which cannot be solved in the eventual consistency, such as ordering operations. The causal consistency ensures that every sees operations in the same causal order, and this makes the causal consistency stronger than the eventual consistency. However, the causal consistency cannot support e.g. distributed integrity constraints.
Although there are a few promising systems developed on research to the authors' knowledge there is no commercial or mature systems using the causal consistency model. For more thorough discussion see [11].
[1] Mustaque Ahamad , Gil Neiger , James E. Burns , Prince Kohli , P.W. Hutto: Causal Memory: Definitions, Implementation and Programming, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.50.3356
[2] Leslie Lamport: How to Make a Multiprocessor Computer That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs, IEEE Trans. Comput. C-28,9 (Sept. 1979), 690-691.
[3] Werner Vogels: Eventually consistent. Communications of the ACM 52: 40. doi:10.1145/1435417.1435432
[4] Leslie Lamport: Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system, Communications of the ACM, 21: 7, pp. 558–565, 1978.
[5] C. J. Fidge: Timestamps in message passing systems that preserve the partial ordering, in Theoretical Computer Science, 1988.
[6] W. Lloyd, M. J. Freedman, M. Kaminsky, and D. G. Andersen: Don't settle for eventual: scalable causal consistency for wide-area storage with COPS, in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 401–416, Portugal, October 23-26, 2011.
[7] W. Lloyd, M. J. Freedman, M. Kaminsky, and D. G. Andersen: Stronger semantics for low-latency geo-replicated storage," in Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, pp. 313–328, Lombard, IL, USA, April 2-5, 2013.
[8] M. Herlihy and J. M. Wing, Linearizability: A correctness condition for concurrent objects, ACM
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[9] . Bailis, A. Ghodsi, J. M. Hellerstein, and I. Stoica,: Bolt-on causal consistency," in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 761–772, New York, NY, USA, June 22-27, 2013
[10] Z. Diao, "Consistency models for cloud-based on-line games: the storage system's perspective," in
25th Workshop on Grundlagen von Datenbanken, Computing, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 16-19,
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[11] Mawahib Musa Elbushra, Jan Lindström: Causal Consistent Databases, Open Journal of Databases (OJDB), 2:1, http://www.ronpub.com/publications/OJDB_2015v2i1n02_Elbushra.pdf
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When Tim and Abby are together, nothing is impossible.
Written: December 2007. Word count: 200.
Gibbs knows when Abby and McGee get together anything is possible.
For either of them to say that something was impossible, would simply be unacceptable.
There is nothing they cannot achieve together.
He watches them; heads close together, trying to crack the passwords that will help him solve the murder.
He doesn't say anything; he just watches them.
Abby; his Abby; his beloved surrogate daughter; eight months pregnant, but still willing to come in when he asks.
McGee; Abby's husband; the man he handed her over to; the man he trusts to look after her; to love her.
Both of them; completely wrapped up in what they're doing; thinking as one, acting as one; knowing they will succeed.
Gibbs always knew they would.
Not to have done so would have been impossible, unacceptable.
"I can't, boss. It's impossible."
"Yes, you can, Tim. You have to."
"But she's in so much pain."
"Know that, Tim. But she needs you. And you don't want to miss it."
Gently, but firmly, Gibbs pushes McGee back into the delivery room.
Gibbs knows he'll stay there now.
Not to do so will be impossible, unacceptable.


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Robert Anthony Beckett (* 2. Januar 1986 in Mottingham, Bromley, London) ist ein britischer Komiker, Moderator und Schauspieler.

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Becket wuchs zusammen mit vier Brüdern in Mottingham auf, einem Stadtteil im Stadtbezirk Bromley im Südosten von London. Er besuchte die Coopers School in Chislehurst.

Seit 2014 ist er mit Louise Watts verheiratet, mit der er zwei Töchter hat.

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Beckett begann 2009 mit der Stand-up-Comedy und gewann bereits im ersten Jahr vier Preise. Er belegte für seinen Auftritt in So You Think You're Funny den dritten Platz und gewann den "Amused Moose Laugh-Off", der es ihm ermöglichte, auf dem Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australien aufzutreten. In Adelaide wurde Beckett in der Kategorie "Best Newcomer" nominiert.

2011 hatte Beckett einen Gastauftritt als Mike in der Channel 4-Fernsehserie Fresh Meat.

Sein Debüt auf dem Fringe Festival in Edinburgh hatte er 2012 mit seinem Programm Rob Beckett's Summer Holiday.

Von 2012 bis 2014 war Beckett Co-Moderator von I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW!, einer Begleitsendung zu I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! auf dem zweiten Programm von ITV; er moderierte das Format an der Seite von Laura Whitmore und Joe Swash. Im Oktober 2015 gab er bekannt, dass er das Format verlassen werde, um sich auf seine Tournee zu konzentrieren; er wurde durch  Komiker David Morgan ersetzt.

Beckett präsentierte auch die Sonntagssendung Rock'N'Roll Football auf dem privaten Radiosender Absolute Radio von August 2014 bis 2018.

An der Seite des Komikers Ian Smith und des ehemaligen Fußballers Jimmy Bullard moderierte Beckett den satirischen Fußball-Podcast The Magic Sponge auf dem britischen Fernsehsender Dave; einem "respektlosen Blick auf das Leben von Profifußballern."

2016 war Beckett Sprecher bei der Serie Celebs Go Dating für den britischen Fernsehsender E4. Auch in der zweiten Staffel des Formats, die im Februar 2017 begann und sich diesmal auch internationalen Prominenten aus Übersee widmete, kommentierte er und schrieb Beiträge. Seit 2016 ist Beckett ein Mannschaftskapitän der Panel-Show 8 Out of 10 Cats auf dem britischen Fernsehsender More4.

Beckett war Kandidat und später Gewinner in der dritten Staffel von Taskmaster, die im Oktober 2016 ausgestrahlt wurde. Im Jahr 2018 präsentierte er die Samstagabend-Unterhaltungsformate Wedding Day Winners an der Seite von Lorraine Kelly und All Together Now mit Geri Halliwell auf BBC One.

Filmografie

Nominierungen
 2002: Gewinner des Laughing Horse in der Kategorie "New Act Of The Year"

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'The toughest BMX in the world': Australian woman triumphs at event
A teenage Australian driver from Sydney's west has proved herself in the world of off-road driving, winning the lead female-only event for Australian and New Zealand driver club BMX Girls on Sunday.
Teenager Jessica Bartlett, 17, trained on the state event circuit and has been racing as a driver's cousin for the past seven years, according to her company's website.
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She is a member of the Sydney-based male-only BMX Motorcycle Club, CB Group, which has been around since 2012 and boasts some of the world's most successful riders.
Bartlett took her sixth-place finish in the opening round of the BMX/BMX Action League in Melbourne on Sunday – her third time competing – to Australian Open BMX/BMX Ladies Championship.
The race was given a closed women's lane, one of four in the Australian and New Zealand competition in the off-road motorcycling discipline.
Her win means she is the first female to win the opening round of the women's competition for the CB Group. She and fellow winner Therese Fisher shared $2000 and their respective teams received racing bikes.
BMX will feature in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the first time the sport has been taken off the rollercoaster that is the international circuit.
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Howe's speech in Batavia
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In 1866, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe was asked to give a keynote address for a ceremony entitled "Laying the Cornerstone" for a new institution for the blind in Batavia, New York. Howe pleaded with them not to open the institution, stating our commitment to providing education had gone astray.
"The human family is the unit of society. The family, as it was ordained by our great Father, with its ties of kith and kin; with its tender associations of childhood and youth; with its ties of affection and sympathy; with its fireside, its table and its domestic altar - there is the place for the early education of the child. His instruction may be had in school; his heart and character should be developed and molded at home . . .
"We should be cautious about such artificial communities, or those approaching them in character, for any children and youth; but more especially should we avoid them for those who have natural infirmities, or any marked peculiarity of mental organization. . . .
"They depend more than ordinary persons do for their happiness and for their support upon the ties of kindred, of friendship, and of neighborhood. All these, therefore, ought to be nourished and strengthened during childhood and youth, for it is then, and then only, that they take such deep root as to become strong, and life-lasting. . . The home of the blind and of the mute should be his native town or village; there, if possible, he should live during childhood and youth; there he should form his friendships; there, if he comes to need special aid, it will be given most readily and fitly; and there his old age will be cherished.
"Beware how you needlessly sever any of those ties of family, of friendship, of neighborhood, during the period of their strongest growth, lest you make a homeless man, a wanderer and a stranger. Especially beware how you cause him to neglect forming early relations and affection with those whose sympathy and friendship will be most important to him during life. . . ."
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Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms this evening. Clouds lingering later. Low near 70F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%..
Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms this evening. Clouds lingering later. Low near 70F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Outfielder Easton Forbes (No. 1) arrives safely at second base during Franklin County's home Piedmont District baseball contest against Class 3 Tunstall won by the Eagles. Sunday, Forbes was 3 of 4 at the plate for Rocky Mount Post 6 in an 8-6 District F loss to two-time reigning league champion Lynchburg Post 16 at W.W. Naff Jr. Field. The contest was decided in nine innings.
Photos by STEVEN MARSH
Rocky Mount Post 6's Jacob Moureau (No. 23) delivers a strike to the plate during his 6 2/3 innings of relief in Sunday's 8-6 District F loss to Lynchburg Post 16 at W.W. Naff Field. In the background is Post 6 second baseman Logan Mason. Post 6 saw a four-game winning streak end with its second setback of the season.
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Post 16 needs nine frames to stymie Post 6
From STAFF REPORTS
A first 2019 regular-season battle between the two teams that competed for last year's District F championship was decided in extra innings Sunday at W.W. Naff Jr. Field.
Lynchburg Post 16, the two-time reigning District F titleholder, took a standing eight count after building an early lead, then rebounded to score two runs in the top of the ninth for an 8-6 victory over Rocky Mount Post 6's Seniors.
Post 16 scored those two runs on a wild pitch and a bases-loaded walk.
Post 6 employed relievers Grayson Chitwood (0-1) and Davis Ferguson in the ninth. Chitwood permitted the winning run to score on the wild pitch. Ferguson yielded the bases-loaded walk, but the runner who scored from third base was one he inherited from Chitwood.
Chitwood and Ferguson combined to throw 39 pitches.
Chitwood walked three batters, while Ferguson walked two and struck out two.
Post 16 scored its two runs in the ninth without the benefit of a hit.
Post 6's Bailey Hall opened the last of the ninth with a single before Post 16 retired each of Rocky Mount's next three batters — Cameron Mullins, Hunter Cannaday and Ferguson — on two fly outs and a strike out to end the game.
Post 6 (4-2) saw a four-game winning streak end with the loss.
Post 16 outhit Post 6, 10-8, and each team left 10 runners on base.
Post 16 overcame two errors, while Post 6 played error-free defense.
Post 6 trailed 6-0 after 1 1/2 innings and 6-1 after two frames. Courtesy of a three-run fifth, Post 6 cut the deficit to 6-4.
Post 6 scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie the count, but left the bases loaded. In the eighth, Post 6 stranded the deciding run at third base.
Post 16 sent seven batters to the plate in its two-run first and 12 hitters to the plate in its four-run second.
Noah Basham drove in Post 6's first run in its half of the second inning with a sacrifice fly to left field.
In the fifth, walks to Basham and Jay Mohler and singles by Forbes and Chitwood accounted for Post 6's three runs.
In the seventh, doubles by Forbes and Cameron Mullins and a single by John Michael Holley keyed Post 6's two-run rally.
Three Post 16 pitchers combined for six strikeouts, but the trio surrendered eight walks and five of Post 6's six runs were earned.
Tyler Hargis, the last pitcher of the threesome, worked three innings for the win. He allowed five hits, two walks and two runs, both of which were earned. He struck out two.
Jacob Moureau worked 6 2/3 innings innings of shut-out relief for Post 6.
Moureau threw 93 pitches, 59 of which were strikes, to 25 batters. He struck out seven and inducted four ground outs and six fly outs.
Taylor Fisher and John Kistler each collected two hits for Post 16, while Kyle Parker, Reed Dawson, Lucas Dickerson, D.J. Ferguson, Tyler Knight and Camen Bailey each registered one hit.
Forbes was 3 of 4 to pace Post 6, while Chitwood, John Michael Holley, Hall, Mullins and Cannaday each had one hit.
CIRCLING THE BASES:
Post 6 scored the game's initial eight runs Friday en route to a 10-3 District F victory over Danville Post 325 at Dan Daniel Memorial Park's Legion Field.
Post 6's victory is its second this season over Post 325.
Post 6 scored two runs in the first inning, one in the second, four in the fourth and one in the sixth to build an 8-0 lead.
Post 325 prevented the shutout by tallying all of its runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Post 6 manufactured its final two runs in the top of the seventh.
Post 6 outhit Post 325, 9-6, and benefited from two Post 325 errors, while committing just one defensive blunder.
All 15 of the game's hits were singles.
A Mullins single was the highlighted hit of Post 6's two-run first.
In the fourth, Post 6 took advantage of singles by Hall and Chitwood and a walk to Basham to produce four runs.
Mullins (1-1), a right-hander, worked 5 2/3 innings to earn his first win of the season.
Mullins permitted four hits, four walks and three runs, while striking out eight.
Mullins threw 110 pitches, 68 of which were strikes, to 27 batters. He induced four ground outs and four fly outs. He hit one batter.
Ferguson worked 1 1/3 innings of relief and allowed two hits.
Ferguson threw 26 pitches to six batters.
Post 6 also benefited from 10 walks yielded by five of Post 325's six pitchers.
Only three of Post 6's runs were earned.
Dawson Oakes, the first of five Post 325 relievers, was charged with the loss. He surrendered two hits, four walks and four runs, none of which were earned. He struck out three.
Dylan Cassell led Post 325 with two hits, while Grayson Reed, Brae Adkins, Josh White and Jackson Lancaster each had one hit.
Chitwood, Mullins, Cannaday and Matthew Holley each collected two hits for Post 6 and Hall had one hit.
Cannaday and Hall each drove in two runs, while Chitwood and Mullins each drove in one.
Holley stole two bases, while Chitwood and Logan Mason, who drew three walks and scored four runs, each swiped one.
Post 6 stranded 11 runners on base. Post 325 left nine runners aboard.
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St. Scholastica's College and San Miguel Pure Foods Sign MOA of Partnership for Business Students
A Memorandum of Agreement was signed last 26 September 2017 by St. Scholastica's College and the San Miguel Pure Foods Company, Inc. to forge a partnership for SSC School of Business students' office internship or on-the-job training (OJT) in the San Miguel Purefoods offices.
The tie-up was initially explored by Dean Ramon R. Mañalac of the School of Business with the San Miguel Purefoods Human Resources Division to open up more practicum or internship placement opportunities for SSC business students. San Miguel Pure Foods Co., Inc. is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of food products. It operates through the segments agro-industrial, processing and marketing of value-added refrigerated processed meats and canned meat products, and milling segment that produces and markets flour, flour mixes, and bakery ingredients. Starting this year, San Miguel Corporation announced that it will pour in as much as P75 billion into its traditional food business lines – which had taken the backseat in the conglomerate's rapid expansion during the last decade (Daxim L. Lucas – Reporter / Philippine Daily Inquirer / January 03, 2017)
The MOA in a nutshell calls for cooperation in arranging for the placement of SSC business students to the practicum/on-the-job (OJT) program of offices and departments in the San Purefoods. Whenever possible too, the San Miguel Purefoods Company shall coordinate educational and academic events in company that will enhance the learning of the SSC business students.
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Al-Junoob Sport Club (), is an Iraqi football club based in Basra, that plays in Iraq Division Three.

History
Al-Junoob Sports Club was founded in 1952 by Mr. Abboud Al Shubbar, who was chosen as the club president at the beginning of its foundation by members of the General Assembly, which was made up of 72 members. Then Mr. Kadhim Jbarah became the club's president from 1953 to 1969, during which time sports teams were formed: football, basketball, volleyball, boxing, weightlifting, bodybuilding, table tennis, badminton, and cycling team, with the number of club members increasing to 250. In the 1980s, women's sports teams were formed.

Stadium
In 2015, the club's building and infrastructures were rebuilt, including the rehabilitation of a Al-Junoob stadium with a capacity of 1,000 spectators.

See also
 2000–01 Iraqi Elite League

References

External links
 Iraq Clubs- Foundation Dates
 Basra Clubs Union

Football clubs in Iraq
1952 establishments in Iraq
Association football clubs established in 1952
Football clubs in Basra
Basra


Originally Published: December 15, 2012 10:45 a.m.
PHOENIX -- The state Court of Appeals will consider next week whether to at least delay an order for Maricopa County to provide the necessary paperwork for a Sun City medical marijuana dispensary to open.
Without comment the judges agreed to hear arguments by County Attorney Bill Montgomery that officials should not be forced to do something he believes could get them into legal trouble. Montgomery pointed out that marijuana remains illegal under federal law, meaning anyone who helps someone set up shop even in the slightest form is aiding and abetting a felony.
The petition Friday comes after Superior Court Judge Michael Gordon rejected exactly the same arguments -- twice. And on Thursday Gordon ordered the county to process the paperwork, something Montgomery does not want to do.
The hearing this coming week actually is the first step in getting a ruling that would affect dispensaries statewide: While Gordon's decision affects only the proposed Sun City operation, the appellate court ultimately will be asked to decide whether any dispensary licensed by the state under the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act can legally operate given the federal prohibition.
That law permits those with a doctor's recommendation and state approval to obtain up to 2 1/2 ounces of marijuana every two weeks. While the more than 33,000 people already approved have had the option to grow their own, the law envisions a network of more than 125 dispensaries to legally sell the drug.
The first, in Glendale, opened earlier this month and state health officials have given final approval for shops in Tucson and Dragoon.
To get state approval, applicants must show they have the proper zoning. But Maricopa County officials, on Montgomery's advice, refused to provide the certification.
Gordon told him the county had no right to do that and gave them about two weeks to comply. Montgomery is hoping the appellate court will overrule that.
"The county defendants and their employees would find themselves in a dilemma, forced to choose between deliberately defying the Superior Court's order or complying with the order and risking federal prosecution under the Controlled Substances Act,' Montgomery wrote in Friday's filing. And he said that current and former federal prosecutors have said that selling the drug or even helping someone do that remains a federal crime, no matter what state laws say.
"County employees should not be compelled to break the law in order to see if the federal prosecutors are serious,' Montgomery wrote.
The possibility of federal action, however, appears even less likely after President Obama, in an interview this week with ABC News' Barbara Walters, said pursuing even recreational users in states that have decriminalized marijuana entirely is not a top priority.
"We've got bigger fish to fry,' he said in response to a question about the decision of voters in Colorado and Washington to make possession of small amounts of the drug legal under state laws.
"It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal,' the president said.
That stance reflects what has generally been the practice at the U.S. Department of Justice regarding medical marijuana. While declining to say there would never ever be anyone prosecuted, federal officials have said pursuing those who use the drug for state-approved medical reasons is not a priority.
In a briefing Friday, presidential press secretary Jay Carney said, though, that Obama's statements did not absolutely mean there would be no enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act.
Carney said the president believes it remains the responsibility of the executive branch to enforce federal laws. But he said that's only half the equation.


How to Get Internet to Isolated Puerto Rico? With Balloons.
More than one month after Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, cell phone communication and connection to the internet remain sorely lacking.
Enter Project Loon, the internet-beaming balloons from X, the "moonshot factory" run by Google's parent company, Alphabet, which have provided a huge boost to getting the affected U.S. territories back online.
The balloons launched from the Nevada desert over the weekend and traveled the 3,500 miles by sky to reach the stratosphere over Puerto Rico. Algorithms are keeping them in position where the need is greatest.
At least 66 percent of cellular sites were out of service in Puerto Rico and 55.4 percent are out of service on the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to a status report released on Monday by the FCC.
"This is the first time we have used our new machine learning powered algorithms to keep balloons clustered over Puerto Rico, so we're still learning how best to do this," a blog post from X said. "As we get more familiar with the constantly shifting winds in this region, we hope to keep the balloons over areas where connectivity is needed for as long as possible."
X received permission from the FCC earlier this month to deploy the balloons 12.5 miles over the ground in Puerto Rico. However, deploying them and bringing connectivity wasn't exactly simple.
Earlier this year, the moonshot factory had success connecting people in Peru during a time of torrential rain and flooding. In that case, X had an advantage in rapidly getting Peruvians connected because it had already been working with a local carrier on testing the technology.
But this time, X had to quickly work with partners to integrate Loon into their networks, ensuring the system would work once it was deployed. X is working with AT&T in Puerto Rico to deploy internet to the hardest hit parts of the island.
That means some people on the ground with LTE-enabled devices will get basic connectivity, enough to send texts and emails and get some internet access.
Loon is still a work in progress, but having it up and running in Puerto Rico could potentially allow X to work out any potential snags.
"Project Loon is still an experimental technology and we're not quite sure how well it will work," X freely acknowledged in its blog post. "But we hope it helps get people the information and communication they need to get through this unimaginably difficult time."