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A powerful thunderstorm that swept through the Lowcountry on Sunday night knocked out the power for thousands of residents.
Kim Asbill, public affairs specialist for South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., said the greater Beaufort area-- which includes Bluffton and Hampton-- had 7,800 customers lose power during its outage peak at 8 p.m. As of 11 a.m. Monday, 657 customers were still without power in Beaufort County.
By Tuesday morning all of Beaufort County was back online. Thirteen customers in Jasper County were still without power on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.
Palmetto Electric Co-Op reported about 5,800 customers without power at its outage peak at 10 p.m., said Jimmy Baker, vice president of marketing and public relations.
Out of the 5,800 customers, most were in Hampton County. About 2,000 customers in Jasper County and less than 1,000 in Beaufort County reported outages. Most of the outages in Beaufort County were in the Rose Hill area and some were near Spanish Wells Road on Hilton Head.
"Crews worked all night," Baker said. "We have crews coming in from another co-op to help."
About 1,200 customers were still without power on Monday morning at about 11 a.m. Baker said all of Beaufort County was back on line. All customers in Jasper County had their power restored by noon on Tuesday, Baker said.
"We hope to get everybody back by the end of the day," Baker said on Monday. However, that will depend on what crews encounter.
Randy Hunter, spokesman for the Bluffton Township Fire District, said the fire department received several calls for downed trees during the storm.
One report was for a tree that fell on a house on Callawassie Island. No one was injured in that incident, Hunter said.


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Last Sunday I taught a cookie-making workshop. Debra initiated the workshop as a get-together idea with friends. During the three-hour event, we talked about cookie methods, ingredients, techniques and tips to make, shape and store cookies. My goal was to keep the group interested and entertained by explaining baking process, answering questions, and getting them involved as much as possible. I enjoyed having the group roll, scoop and assemble cookies. We made gingersnaps, rugelach, chai butterballs, korova cookies, and orange almond biscotti. I supplied everyone with a small booklet/collection of cookie recipes. I think that we had a good time, and everyone left with cookies. All in all, it was a fun day of baking and eating.
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those all look great. wish i could have attended! could you maybe supply a recipe...for the Chai Butterballs, perhaps? They sound delicious! Thanks.
- Tue. Dec. 12, 01:41:00 p.m. EST
- viji said...
Hi Sam, very good collection of recipes. You are the one asked for Methi Parrupusuli recipe in my blog. I posted already. Nice to know about your blog. Will keep visiting.Viji (Vcuisine)
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- peabody said...
What a fun idea. Maybe next year I will gather my friends up.
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- Dianka said...
What beautiful cookies! Great idea to have a cookie workshop!
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Hi Sam,
I sometimes have a baking day with a friend who also loves to bake. But this workshop sounds like a perfect idea for a bigger group of friends. So nice that they can all take home the produce. My friends and I were also going to attend a soup workshop. Unfortunately here in Holland it seems impossible for most people to make time for these finer things in life (esp. at the same time). Time seems to be the one thing that nobody has enough of.
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Joshua Barkan, Ph.D. is a Copeland Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. His dissertation, entitled "A Genealogy of the Corporation: Articulating Sovereign Power and Capitalism" reframed the understanding of the development of "corporate sovereignty" through an historical study of corporation law.
Nandini Chatterjee is a Ph.D. candidate, faculty of history at St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge. Her Ph.D. thesis is on the history of the Indian state's policy towards religion, focusing on religious family laws, endowed religious institutions, and regulation of sectarian instruction in state-funded schools, in the period 1830-1950.
Roman J. Hoyos is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Chicago. The title of his dissertation is "'In Convention Assembled': Constitutional Conventions, Law, and Democracy in 19th Century America."
Anne Kornhauser, Ph.D. is a lecturer in U.S. history at Princeton University. Her dissertation title was "Saving Liberalism: Political Imagination in the American Century."
Sophia Z. Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale University. Her dissertation is entitled, "'Almost Revolutionary': Labor Politics, Civil Rights Constitutionalism, and the Administrative State, 1935-1978."
Lisong Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. Immigration History at the University of Minnesota. The title of his dissertation is "Mobility, Community, and Identity: Chinese Skilled Migrants in the U.S. and Transnational Citizenship, 1978-Present."
Masako Nakamura is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, "War Brides of the Pacific War: Marriage, Race, Immigration and U.S. Occupation of Japan," examines how Japanese wives of servicemen became central to the debate about the makeup of the "ideal American family" and led to changes in postwar U.S. immigration policy.
Stephen R. Porter is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Chicago. His dissertaion is "Defining Public Responsibility in a Global Age: Refugee Resettlement, NGO's, and the American State, 1933-80."
Honor Sachs, Ph.D. is a Clay Postdoctoral Fellow at
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exclusions to shape rights on the eighteenth-century frontier as part
of a broader effort to secure western lands within the national
Stelios Tofaris is a Ph.D. candidate in law at University of Cambridge's Corpus Christi College. His doctoral research, "Contract Law in British India 1772-1905," involves the interaction of English common law with indigenous legal rules in the colonial courtroom.
Laura Weinrib is a Ph.D. candidate in American History at Princeton University. Her dissertation title is "Civil Liberties in America, 1920-1937."
Diana Williams is the Raoul Berger Visiting Fellow in Legal History at Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. candidate in the history of american civilization at Harvard University. Her dissertation is entitled, "'They Call it Marriage': the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy."
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Most reviews that I write involve downloading an ISO of a Linux distribution, burning it to a USB drive or DVD and then installing it to the hard drive before even contemplating trying out the finer features of the operating system.
Knoppix is one of those rare distributions designed to work straight from a USB device. There are other Linux operating systems that work in this way including Puppy Linux and SLAX.
So what would you traditionally use a live USB based distro for? Well if you have done something bad to your main operating system, a live Linux distro provides a quick and easy way to boot your computer to analyse the damage. Even if your host operating system is beyond repair and riddled with viruses you can use something like Knoppix to try and rescue those all important photos that you meant to back up ages ago.
Consider that old laptop that you thought was worthless. The hard drive died ages ago and it has been collecting dust in the cupboard. Get yourself a copy of Knoppix and burn it to a USB drive and you no longer need to worry about that dead hard drive.
Need a computer? A bit hard up maybe. You've searched eBay for a new computer but they are all a bit pricey and then you see an advert like this one.
This sale is for a Dell Inspiron 510M
laptop. The Screen is fine (no dead pixels), the keyboard is fine (no
missing or blank keys) and the general condition of the case is fine for
its age. There are a few marks, dinks scratches, but nothing bad. There
is a big asset sticker which could be removed.
I have taken the hard drive out for data
safety reasons, but put the drive caddy and screws back inside, so all
it needs is a new IDE hard drive and a Windows XP installation disc and
it will be up and running in no time.
Included also in the sale is the original
Dell mains adapter. The Dell/Microsoft XP COA is on the bottom of the
machine, and the code is totally readable.
The battery works fine.
nside is a Pentium M processor running
at 1.50Ghz. 768Mb of DDR 333 RAM. Built-in Intel graphics, 15″ screen,
Sigmatel Audio, modem, CD writer/DVD reader combo drive, built-in
wireless and ethernet port.
The starting bid is just 99p. The chances are that because it is old and has no hard drive that the ending bid will be not much more than a tenner.
Now the RAM is a little on the low side but here are the specifications for Knoppix as taken from the Knoppix home page.
- Intel/AMD-compatible CPU (i486 and up),
- RAM: at least 120 MB for the graphical desktop. Recommended for working with various office applications: 500MB RAM,
- a bootable CD-ROM/DVD drive (IDE/ATAPI/SATA, Firewire, USB), or USB flash disk,
- a standard SVGA-compatible graphics chipset,
- PS/2 or USB Mouse.
So now we have a few uses Knoppix (and I am really only touching the surface here) let's give it a whirl.
Now as it is a live distribution you would think there isn't much to the installation and you would be right but there are a few things you should know.
To download Knoppix visit http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html and choose the mirror closest to you.
If you have a really poor internet connection like me then you can visit this page which has a list of online shops to order Knoppix from.
You can also buy a copy of Knoppix by clicking this link.
Personally as I have been having internet connection issues over the past month I obtained my copy by buying a Linux magazine with Knoppix as the cover disc.
The version of Knoppix I am running is 7.2 which uses the LXDE desktop.
After booting the CD you will notice that on the menu there is a Knoppix sub menu. If you click the Knoppix sub menu you will see an option called "Install Knoppix to Flash disk".
Burning to a USB device is better than a CD as it means you can then store files and install applications that persist after rebooting.
When the installation is complete you can reboot and use the USB drive instead of the CD.
During the startup and shutdown of Knoppix a little voice says "starting Knoppix" and "Knoppix is stopping". Very quaint.
First impressions
Knoppix boots from USB very fast, lighteningly quick in fact. The performance of Knoppix in general is excellent.
Now whilst performance is great there are some trade offs.
The first thing I noticed was the incorrect time in the bottom right corner. Now whilst this isn't ideal you can be comforted by the knowledge that help is at hand. I found that by visiting the Knoppix website, Knoppix Forums and the Knoppix WIKI page most of my queries were resolved.
To fix the date and also the previously unmentioned language layout issue I just needed to follow the instructions on this page.
The LXDE interface is very easy to use with a panel at the bottom, a series of icons in the bottom left and a series of items in the systray in the bottom right.
If you click the icon in the bottom left corner then a menu will appear and by selecting a category you will see all the available applications under that menu.
Connecting to the internet
There is a network icon in the bottom right corner and if you click on it you should see all your wired and wireless networks.
Knoppix successfully picked up my home broadband and my mobile broadband. Unfortunately I haven't been able to connect to the mobile broadband using Knoppix.
In theory it should be easy to connect to the mobile broadband device because I am using a MiFi device which just works like a normal wireless network but despite a fairly wide search I couldn't resolve the problem.
I did manage to connect to my home broadband service and therefore I was able to connect to the internet.
The default browser in Knoppix is Iceweasel which is an unbranded version of Firefox.
Now if you look at the screen to the left you will see that Google's homepage didn't render properly.
The reason for that is the two add-ons that are included with Knoppix. One is an ad-blocker and the other blocks scripts from running (unless you tell the scriptblocker otherwise).
Personally I don't like ad blockers. I think that if a site is going to provide content which doesn' t require you to pay for it then you can at least acknowledge that the site has adverts. I feel it is part of the contract of using the site.
The scriptblocker for me was just intrusive. It was a lot of hassle trying to get the basic sites working properly.
Flash and MP3
Flash didn't work straight away but installing Flash is fairly easy.
is an application under the Knoppix menu called "Install Components".
Selecting "Install Components" brings up a dialog box whereby you can
install non-free programs including Flash, Audacity and Openshot.
As you can see from the image above the Flash installer worked perfectly and this cost me about 6 hours of my life as I then watched a number of episodes of the cult classic "Rentaghost".
As most of this article talks about "Live" distributions it is quite fitting that the Youtube video I chose for this week's review is about ghosts.
The default music player in Knoppix is MPlayer.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Knoppix likes AC-DC straight away without messing around with GStreamer plugins.
Knoppix is a live distribution and as such you can't expect there to be too many applications installed by default (although Puppy Linux kind of defies all logic in these regards).
Knoppix does come with the full LibreOffice suite including Writer, Impress, Calc and Draw for word processing, presentations, spreadsheets and art.
GIMP is also included and so live distribution or not, Knoppix is a fully featured operating system.
Installing Applications
Synaptic is used to install applications in Knoppix. Knoppix is based on Debian and therefore there is an endless list of applications to choose from.
I chose to install a better audio player but to keep things lightweight I chose to install gmusicbrowser.
It is worth mentioning at this point that gmusicbrowser required gStreamer plugins in order to play MP3s. I had to install gStreamer-Ugly to get the music to play properly.
To change the desktop background select the "desktop preferences" setting from the preferences menu and then find the image you want to use as a desktop background.
You may have noticed that a number of the screenshots in this article have little dots on them and you might be wondering why that is.
Knoppix comes with Compiz Fusion installed by default.
Compiz provides all sorts of desktop effects such as wobbly windows and a rotating cube.
Knoppix is really good. There are a few quirks here and there but it is definitely a distribution you can get your teeth into.
The fact that there is an office suite and GIMP installed means that you can use Knoppix without ever worrying about installing it to the hard drive.
This might not be the distribution of choice for somebody new to Linux as there is some reading required to get all things working perfectly.
I have read the WIKI page and by all accounts Knoppix is able to handle UEFI. When I tried to use Knoppix on my new UEFI enabled Dell laptop it wouldn't boot. I think this is due to using the CD version which is 32-bit.
All in all Knoppix is one of those handy distributions for keeping on a USB drive in the front pocket of your rucksack or on a USB drive attached to your keys. You never know when you'll be asked to fix a friend's computer after they clicked the image of Miley Cyrus performing a certain dance that has caused a virus to takeover and render their machine useless.
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Schrödinger's equation can be mathematically transformed into the Heisenberg formalism, and into the Feynman path integral. The Schrödinger equation describes time in a way that is inconvenient for relativistic theories, a problem which is less severe in Heisenberg's formulation and completely absent in the path integral.
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[Earn 1 CPE] Critical Actions to Survive a Data Breach in 2019 and Beyond
With large-scale data breaches continuing to make the headlines in 2018, Today's organizations face a cybersecurity landscape more difficult to navigate than ever before. When it comes to data breaches, the risk for organizations is high, from the easily calculable costs of notification and business loss to the less tangible effects on a company's brand and customer loyalty. Cyberattacks that target and infiltrate critical infrastructure are very real and for the United States, it's not a matter of if, but when.
Keeping your company secure is as much about detecting and responding to attacks as they occur as it is about preventing attacks before they happen. On this webinar our panel of experts will discuss THE critical actions organisations should consider to prepare for and survive any subsequent breach that may happen, and attendees will learn how to:
- Implement security analytics for incident detection and response.
- Quickly determine the extent of a compromise once a breach is detected, and understand the steps necessary to contain the affected systems.
- Leverage AI to autonomously respond to emerging threats before they can do serious damage.
- Understand key information that needs to be communicated to various stakeholders in the event of a breach.
- Apply a "standard of due care" in order to prove compliance to regulatory agencies.
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Weeks of searching and no answer yet - is openbsd performance good for web server ?
After weeks of searching and I can't find the answer - is openbsd performance good enough for web server ?
I see many say that freebsd is far better in performance but some say that the
new versions of openbsd are also good in performance.
It is for a news site, might have some high loads.
You need to define very clearly what you mean by "web server" and "performance". Without definition, both terms are meaningless -- your question cannot be answered.
Any computer can serve web pages. But ... how many pages per second or per minute? How complex are these pages? How much of the complexity is managed by the "web server" and how much by other servers in your network? This might be a separate database server, an application server, or an authentication server? Do you envision ever requiring multiple web servers and load balancing?
You only mention "news site" and "high load". But you need to tell us what that means. You also need to define your intended hardware platform.
With what we know so far, the only answer that any of us could provide is "maybe." The more information you can provide, the better your answers will be.
dedicated server - 4 Gig memory
portal site , serving maybe 1000/10000 users .
One computer for database and web server.
using nginx as the server.
never mind what computer, dedicated server , dual core.
I sit big difference or not ? 100% or 500% better ?
How far is openbsd ver 5.1 form freebsd in performance.
I read that it was improved lately, is that true?
The big problem with openbsd is all the myths around it.
Just read the forums and see so much people think so many things.
It is important to make some tests with ver 5.1 against freebsd and linux 2.6 and publish them online.
test from 2003
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Portal to what? Serving portlets?
500/1000 per seconds .
Dynamic content.
Drupal 6 or 7.
I don't know all the details.
But I have a feeling that freebsd is my system, not openbsd.
M5Hosting and servint recommends me to use only freebsd and not openbsd.
Last edited by barti; 20th August 2012 at 03:26 PM.
This is 1-2% of your desired transaction rate.
The hardware and software used for that benchmark: a dual core AMD 64 X2 2.2GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB SATA disk, with Ubuntu 8.04.1, Apache 2, MySQL 5.0, PHP 5.2.4.
Still I can't get that simple answer.
If I get a dedicated from m5hosting.com put on it drupal 6 + mysql + php.
Serving a community of 2000 users.
Openbsd or freebsd ?
I think the best is to use freebsd as web server + database server and openbsd as the front server - firewall.
Last edited by barti; 20th August 2012 at 05:52 PM.
Had you specified what hardware you were considering, a general recommendation might have been forthcoming. For instance, multiprocessor performance with FreeBSD is generally better than with OpenBSD. That does not mean that it would always be the case or that it would be so for your application.
I'd recommended to you that you test your solution with both OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It will take a few hours. That is much less time than your "weeks of searching".
You had already told us in this thread that you wish to support a rate of 500-1000 transactions per second. I have shown you a benchmark of a small Intel-compatible server environment -- Linux instead of BSD and Apache instead of nginx, but with the MySQL database on the same computer. That was able to produce less than 9 transactions per second. Either your requirements are wrong, or your application will require far more computing resource than a single Intel-based computer.
Does FreeBSD performs much better than OpenBSD or not ?
The hardware is not the issue here.
How the kernel behaves under heavy loads ?
Because of high security you have to give up performance?
IMHO if you have to use something like Wordpress or Joomla or badly written PHP you are already compromising with security
The latest and fastest Apache 2.4, has not been ported to OBSD yet, so that would force you to go for the FreeBSD way.
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
J65, barti chose nginx.
barti, you want a simple, easy answer for a question that can only be answered by a benchmark that you conduct yourself.
Ok. Here's an easy answer: FreeBSD is better.
That answer is a lie.
The truth is, IT DEPENDS.
Your unwillingness to accept that does not make it less true.
I actually prefer openbsd, but when people tell me to use freebsd , Then I have a problem with myself.
The OS is nothing more than a tool. You keep asking which hammer is best, but you don't yet know if you have a nail sticking up.
Your earlier statement that "hardware is not the issue" is incorrect. These two OSes have widely divergent SMP implementations, and as I mentioned earlier, generally FreeBSD offers higher multiprocessor performance -- but only when the workload is highly parallel. Serialized workloads (or a single CPU server) will not see these differences. Your hosting vendor offers dedicated servers that vary widely in performance capability, from single processor Intel Atom machines to 8-way Intel Xeon platforms. Saying "a dedicated server" is not meaningful when you are asking about performance.
If a high transaction rate is a real requirement, you should consider what a high-transaction rate infrastructure entails. Multiple servers, load balancing, the ability to add new servers to increase performance and scale quickly. Multiple servers are also used to add security, as I show in the example below. In this example, there are two firewalls. FW1 permits access only to the web servers, FW2 permits only SQL access only from the web servers, and nothing from the Internet. The "web server farm" may include load balancers to direct incoming transactions to web servers, or FW1 may provide that service. As demand increases, additional web servers may be added. As demand declines, web servers may be removed.
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Sefo Liufau may not have full support from fans, but the Colorado quarterback has a very important man on his side.
His head coach.
With the Buffaloes (3-3, 0-2 Pac-12) riding a two-game losing streak and their offense still trying to get rolling, there is a certain fraction of fans calling for backup Cade Apsay (who happens to be the third-string quarterback).
Asked Monday if he's ever considered making a change at quarterback, CU head coach Mike MacIntyre gave a definitive, "No," and went on to the next question.
Later, MacIntyre said it's very simple why the Buffs continue to play Liufau at quarterback.
"Sefo has played a lot," MacIntyre said. "He's done well, he's big, he's strong, he's competitive. I can't say how big the gap is (between Liufau and backups Jordan Gehrke and Apsay), but we feel like he's better right now."
After back-to-back losses to Oregon and Arizona State to open Pac-12 play, the Buffs are looking to get back on track when they host Arizona on Saturday.
Liufau is coming off his best statistical game (25-for-40, 389 yards) of the season, but, for the second game in a row, threw an interception and had a costly fumble.
Liufau has cut down on his interceptions this year - he has three in six games, after throwing 15 in 12 games last year - but he hasn't been nearly as productive through the air, and he is 1-15 as a starter in Pac-12 games.
All that has led to fans clamoring for somebody else to take the reins of the offense, but CU has no plans to do that.
"No. 1, we need to play better all across the board on offense," MacIntyre said. "It hasn't always been his fault. The quarterback always gets all the blame no matter what, and he gets all the credit no matter what.
"We just have to execute better in every phase - a little bit with Sefo, a little bit with receivers, a little bit with the offensive line, a little bit with the running backs."
MacIntyre said that's why he left Liufau in the game during the final six minutes on Saturday, despite the Buffs trailing by 25 and despite the fact that Liufau had been hit hard all night.
"We wanted to get him in rhythm," MacIntyre said. "We got that drive going and we hadn't been in rhythm on offense. We were hitting plays right down the field and looked really good, trying to give him confidence."
Liufau was 4-for-7 for 53 yards and was sacked twice on that last possession. He was sacked a career-high eight times on the night.
For the year, Liufau, who set 54 school records in 2014, is 116-of-194 (59.8 percent) for 1,391 yards, six touchdowns and three interceptions. He's also rushed for 111 yards and two touchdowns - the first two rushing touchdowns of his career.
Punt protection change
While Liufau's job is safe, it appears somebody else on the team has lost a job.
Punter Alex Kinney has had two punts blocked and another one tipped this year and MacIntyre said, "It's one guy's fault. The same guy."
Asked how the Buffs can correct that, MacIntyre said, "Replace him."
MacIntyre did not indicate which player has been at fault.
Prime-time players
On Monday, the Pac-12 announced that CU's game at Oregon State on Oct. 24 will kick off at 8:30 p.m. Mountain. It will be televised on the Pac-12 Network.
That will be CU's fourth consecutive night game, and it'll be the sixth time in the first eight games that CU will kick off after 5 p.m. local time.
MacIntyre said left tackle Sam Kronshage (concussion) will be back this week. The Buffs aren't sure whether linebacker Addison Gillam (knee) or running back Michael Adkins II (hamstring) will play. ... Monday was CU's first time on the field since Saturday's loss. MacIntyre said the team was focused. "They're a resilient bunch that always keeps working hard. We just need to execute a little bit better on game day."
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With the Royal Rumble today, many are speculating as to what is in store on the show, traditionally one of the four big pay-per-views WWE puts on every year. The Rumble is significant due to its proximity and linkage to the Wrestlemania show, usually in March. The idea of the Rumble was actually thought up by WWE legend Pat Patterson and rumour is that he is back from his self-imposed retirement to stage manage this event.
Of course, the big question with the Rumble, a more intricately organized battle royale, is who the winner will be, as he will go on to fight for the title at Wrestlemania. Some years you can predict it pretty easily; other years you don't mind that you can predict it because they are pushing the right person (a sporadic occurrence); and some years there is a big surprise. This year the rumour is that the surprise is none other than Brock Lesnar.
Lesnar, who somewhat famously quit the business in order to pursue his dream of being an NFL lineman, has been holding discussions in private about returning -- which WWE has been publically downplaying. There were bad feelings about Lesnar's departure, with Triple H thinking that Brock should have shined more people on the way out (a legitimate position). But, one suspects that a larger part is the independence factor: that is, when talent can walk away they gain back some control. Despite all of this, I have no doubt that Brock will be back, but not how many are predicting.
Rumours are that Brock may come in and win the Rumble. This is highly unlikely when one examines the traditional four roles that seem to repeat every year. The first is the winner, in this case likely to be Batista.
The second is the Brooklyn Brawler spot: the guy who comes out with a great head of steam and is instantly eliminated (a great spot as you get the pay-per-view payoff, but don't have to put any time in, although it is somewhat career limiting). The third is the guy who gets in early and stays around forever (usually a great worker), teasing that they may win, before getting eliminated (a workhorse spot -- look for Chris Jericho here).
The fourth is the hot shot spot. This role was first played by Diesel (Kevin Nash) and involves a large man coming out and clearing the ring of wrestlers (often six or seven in a 20-second time frame). This often occurs around the halfway point of the Rumble and accomplishes two things: first, it gets rid of some wrestlers quickly, and second, it hot shots the match.
With all of the drama being at the end, the Rumble needs something to spice it up in the middle and this is it. Look for Brock in this spot this year, as a great surprise.
Then look for him to be eliminated by whomever he will be in a program with down the line.
Brock returning could mean big help for the ailing Smackdown brand (if he ends up there) and could provide a great foil for Batista if he ends up (as many are expecting) the world champion after 'Mania. Those who think that Brock might not make it back because of money should look at past Rumbles and watch a Smackdown episode.
Rob Van Dam has had reconstructive knee surgery and is out for six months ... Jeff Jarrett was taken to the hospital with a splinter in his eye after a recent TNA show.


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Some on the left want to compare last night's debate to the 2004 mismatch between Vice President Cheney and John Edwards. As I noted before the debate, there is a superficial similarity. In both instances an elderly, highly experienced incumbent vice president squared off against a fresh face. And now that the debate has occurred, I can point to another similarity — like Cheney, I believe that Biden rallied a base that was demoralized by a poor debate performance from the president.
But the similarities end there. In his debate with Edwards, Cheney was nothing like Biden. He conducted himself with dignity and reserve, even when Edwards tried to bring the homosexuality of one of Cheney's daughters into the discussion.
Moreover, Ryan was nothing like the cloying, transparently phony Edwards. Sure, Ryan missed some opportunities and failed to match Biden's force of personality. But Ryan showed good command of substance across a wide range of issues including foreign policy. Unlike Edwards, he was not just another pretty face.
To find the closest analogy to last night's VP debate, I look all the way back to the very first one — the 1976 encounter between Walter Mondale and Robert Dole. In that debate, Mondale was the earnest, fresh looking candidate and Dole was the worldly, knowing cynic.
Early in the debate, I thought Dole was winning. Several times, as I recall, he used his dagger wit to puncture Mondale and knock him off of his high horse.
But as the debate progressed, Dole's tone seemed to override his debating skill. In fairness, Dole didn't indulge in overt sneering and jeering, the way Biden did last night. But his digs became tiresome, and his bad mood became mildly disturbing. To use the parlance of the time, Dole was a bummer.
As for Mondale, he just kept coming. Ryan did, as well. If anything, his game improved in the final half hour.
As I recall, the 1976 debate was widely viewed as a win for Mondale. In part, this was because, as his mood worsened, Dole attacked the Democrats for "their" wars, mentioning not just Vietnam and Korea, but also World War I and II (in which Dole was severely injured).
Biden, of course, made no such gaffe. But for many, his demeanor was a bummer. At a minimum, I imagine that, no matter what you have to say in a debate, it's difficult to be seen as the winner when your behavior is as obnoxious and your tone as bitter as Biden's was last night.


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(Alisterus scapularis)
Being a large, brilliantly coloured bird, king parrots are conspicuous and never fail to impress, irrespective of how familiar they may be to the observer. The adult male is a particularly striking bird having a bright scarlet head, neck, breast and abdomen, dark green mantle, back and wings, longitudinal turquoise-green stripe on the wing coverts, dark blue lower back and rump, black tail feathers and a red upper mandible, tipped black. The adult female has a dark green head, wings and back, dull green throat and upper breast tinged red, scarlet lower breast and abdomen, faint pale green wing stripe, blue lower back and rump, tinged green and a dark brown mandible.
In coastal and high-rainfall mountain regions, king parrots are characteristic inhabitants of densely forested areas, where they frequent a variety of forest communities, including temperate and subtropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest and secondary growth. On the inland side of the Great Dividing Range they favour remnant patches of wet forest in gullies or along watercourses, but do come regularly into drier open woodlands. They have been quite successful in colonising urban habitats and farmlands to utilise manmade feed sources, becoming regular visitors to parks and gardens. The king parrot is found in coastal and connecting mountain regions of eastern Australia, excluding Tasmania.
King parrot feed on seeds, fruit, berries, nuts, nectar, blossoms, leaf buds, insects and their larvae. Seeds of eucalypts, angophoras and acacias make up a major proportion of the diet, and these are procured mostly in the trees and shrubs.
The breeding season lasts from September to January. King parrots nest in a hollow limb or hole in a tree, usually in the trunk of a tall tree standing in or at the edge of a forest. A favoured site is in the hollow trunk of an eucalypt, entrance being where a limb has broken off, and the hollow is usually very deep with eggs being at or near ground level.


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NEW YORK — A new generation of more versatile BlackBerry smartphones is finally about to hit the market after excruciating delays allowed mobile devices made by Apple, Samsung and others to build commanding leads in a market that is redefining society.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. formally unveiled its long-awaited line-up of revamped smartphones and software Wednesday at simultaneous events held in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, Johannesburg, Jakarta and Delhi.
In a move underscoring the stakes riding on its make-or-break product line-up, the Canadian company used the occasion to announce it is changing its name to BlackBerry — a pioneering brand that has lost its cachet since Apple"s 2007 release of the iPhone reset expectations for what a smartphone should do.
The first devices in the new crop of BlackBerrys will be called the Q10, which will feature a physical keyboard like previous versions of the phone, and the Z10 will have only touch-screen keyboard, like Apple"s trend-setting iPhone and other handsets running on Google"s Android software, including Samsung"s popular Galaxy. They will run on a redesigned operating system called BlackBerry 10, which the company began working on after buying QNX Software Systems in 2010.
The new software and BlackBerrys were supposed to be released a year ago, only to be delayed while Apple and Android device makers won more zealous converts to their products. In the meantime, Microsoft Corp. also rolled out a new Windows operating system for smartphones giving RIM another technology powerhouse to battle. The delays helped wipe out $70 billion in shareholder wealth and 5,000 jobs.
"It is the most challenging year of my career," said RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, whose anniversary leading the company occurred last week. "It is also the most exhilarating and exciting one."
The wait for U.S. smartphone users interested in buying the new BlackBerry line isn"t over. The Z10 won"t be released in the U.S. until March and the Q10 might not arrive in the country until April, Heins said, to give wireless carriers more time to test the product. The estimated U.S. prices for the phones weren"t announced either.
The Z10, which BlackBerry will call the "Zed-10" outside the U.S., will go on sale in United Kingdom Thursday. The same model will be released in Canada on Feb. 5 and will cost about $150 there with a three-year contract.
BGC Financial analyst Colin Gills said the new phones" tardy arrival to the U.S. threatens to cause even more BlackBerry users to defect to the iPhone or an Android device.
Wednesday"s event didn"t go over well on Wall Street. RIM"s stock fell $1.18, or 7.5 percent, to $14.48 in afternoon trading.
Repeated delays have turned the once-iconic BlackBerry into an afterthought in the shadow of the iPhone and Android devices. That has led some analysts to question whether the company that helped create the smartphone market will survive, especially as its losses have mounted in the past year.
Yet there was renewed optimism heading into Wednesday"s event. Previews of the BlackBerry 10 software have gotten favorable reviews on blogs. Financial analysts are starting to see some room for a comeback. RIM"s stock has more than doubled from its nine-year low in September, though it"s still nearly 90 percent below its 2008 peak of $147.
RIM redesigned the system to embrace the multimedia, apps and touch-screen experience prevalent today. The company is promising speedier devices, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone.
Most analysts consider BlackBerry 10"s success to be crucial for the company"s long-term viability. Doubts remain about the ability of BlackBerry 10 to rescue RIM.
"We"ll see if they can reclaim their glory. My sense is that it will be a phone that everyone says good things about but not as many people buy," Gillis said. He thinks the company will need to sell at least 5 million BlackBerrys each quarter to remain viable.
Jefferies analyst Peter Misek called it a "great device" and said RIM does have some momentum just months after the Canadian company was written off for dead.
"Six months ago we talked to developers and carriers, and everybody was just basically saying "We"re just waiting for this to go bust,"" Misek said. "It was bad."
The BlackBerry has been the dominant smartphone for on-the-go business people and crossed over to consumers. But when the iPhone came out, it proved phones can do much more than email and phone calls. Suddenly, the BlackBerry looked ancient. In the U.S., according to research firm IDC, shipments of BlackBerry phones plummeted from 46 percent of the market in 2008 to 2 percent in 2012.
Regardless of BlackBerry 10"s advances, though, the new system will face a key shortcoming: It won"t have as many apps written by outside companies and individuals as the iPhone and Android. RIM has said it plans to launch BlackBerry 10 with more than 70,000 apps, including those developed for RIM"s PlayBook tablet, first released in 2011. Even so, that"s just a tenth of what the iPhone and Android offer. Popular services such as Instagram and Netflix won"t have apps on BlackBerry 10.


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- Premier League round-up
Vertonghen fires Spurs up to fourth as WBA draw
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Tottenham are in possession of the fourth Champions League spot after they beat Swansea on Sunday, while fellow chasers West Brom could only draw at home to West Ham.
A well-taken finish from Jan Vertonghen proved the difference as Tottenham claimed an important 1-0 victory at home to Swansea. The Belgian - restored to central defence as Kyle Naughton slotted in at left-back - showed his technical ability to turn home a deflected free-kick after 75 minutes, although the Welsh side had reason to feel aggrieved as television replays indicated Vertonghen was marginally offside.
Spurs, having picked up a habit of conceding late goals, looked nervy in the closing stages, but held on to move up to fourth in the Premier League table - level on points with third-placed Chelsea. Andre Villas-Boas will be heartened by his side's third clean sheet of the season and the energy of the irrepressible Jermain Defoe, but playmakers Clint Dempsey and Moussa Dembele offered little.
Emmanuel Adebayor limped off with a second-half injury and there was a brief injury-time cameo from Scott Parker, making his first appearance since suffering an Achilles injury at Euro 2012.
Spearheaded by the Premier League's joint-top scorer Michu, Swansea rarely troubled the home goal and looked lethargic after their midweek Capital One Cup quarter-final victory over Middlesbrough.
That was in contrast to Vertonghen's intervention - which was the reward Tottenham deserved after controlling a disappointing encounter that failed to match expectations before exploding into acrimony deep into injury-time.
Swansea striker Michu was caught by Hugo Lloris as the goalkeeper punched the ball clear and fell heavily to the floor. While those players closest to the stricken Michu furiously waved to the touchline for medical assistance, Spurs played on through substitute Andros Townsend.
Incensed by Townsend's perceived lack of sportsmanship, defender Chico Flores confronted the forward and several Spurs players and was only placated when his Spanish compatriot Michu climbed to his feet.
West Brom could have leapfrogged Spurs into fourth had they won by three clear goals at home to West Ham, but they only managed a 0-0 draw at the Hawthorns. The result snapped a run of three straight losses for the Baggies, but they stay sixth level on points with Everton.
James Morrison was twice denied by the woodwork as West Brom failed to score for a third successive game in a dire stalemate. Sam Allardyce's side were worth a share of the spoils in a game which seldom moved out of second gear.
West Ham were only able to field six substitutes due to their current injury crisis after Mohamed Diame was ruled out with a hamstring injury. However, they should have taken the lead in the first half when Winston Reid spurned a gilt-edged chance from James Collins' header.
Albion started the second period on the offensive and Morrison's hooked volley struck the top of the bar. The Scotland international then struck the bar for a second time with 17 minutes remaining with a header from Chris Brunt's corner.