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Tulowitzki wins Player of Week honors
DENVER — Troy Tulowitzki could have easily won NL Player of the Week a month ago, until San Diego's Adrian Gonzalez went nuclear. This time Tulowitzki smoked the competition, winning the award Monday by going 9-for-23 with four home runs in consecutive games. Tulowitzki is batting .289 with 81 RBIs this season as the Rockies are pushing to make the playoffs. He's attempting to become the first NL shortstop with 25-plus home runs and fielding percentage over .990.
"This is when you want to be at your best — down the stretch," Tulowitzki told The Denver Post today.
The Rockie' shortstop edged out Cliff Lee, Adam LaRoche, Jon Garland and Ryan Dempster for the award.


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Citadel Investment Group, managed by billionaire Ken Griffin, has reported a position of 6.6 million shares in TiVo TIVO, +1.45% This gives the fund 5.2% of the total shares outstanding. The company has reported almost 3 million subscribers to its DVR service, which allows consumers who receive digital cable from providers such as Comcast CMCSA, -1.94% to record shows as well as to discover new entertainment options; TiVo also provides audience data to channels and advertisers. According to Citadel's 13F from the end of September, the fund had owned just over 1 million shares, so nearly all of its current stake has been bought in the last three and a half months. Check out more of Griffin's stock picks.
In the third quarter of TiVo's fiscal year (the quarter ending October 2012), the company grew its revenues by 27% compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year. Somewhat slower growth in services was augmented by impressive growth rates in technology and hardware. Gross profits were up 34% as margins increased. Because of R&D as well as SGA expenses, TiVo Inc. was only profitable because of (presumably one-time) litigation proceeds as a result of the company's ongoing patent lawsuits with companies such as AT&T T, -0.31% If we strip out R&D costs as an investment- a common though not exactly conservative way to analyze a technology company- then the company had $10 million in operating income as opposed to $4 million a year earlier.
However, even a $10 million quarterly income rate- before R&D and taxes- is not exactly high for a stock with a $1.5 billion market cap (and $1 billion enterprise value, as TiVo Inc. has a substantial cash position). Wall Street analysts expect the company to be unprofitable on a forward basis, for the fiscal year ending January 2014. The most recent data shows that 12% of the outstanding shares are held short, so while we know that Griffin is long it is clear that a number of traders believe that TiVo is overvalued. We'd also note that the stock has a very high beta of 2.8, particularly for a company whose cash position is such a large share of its valuation.
Billionaire Steve Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors had more than doubled the size of its position in TiVo during the third quarter of 2012, to a total of 5.6 million shares (find more stocks Cohen was buying and read our analysis of TiVo from when SAC filed its own 13G). Omega Advisors, managed by billionaire Leon Cooperman and his team, initiated a position of 2.4 million shares between July and September (see more stocks Cooperman liked).
TiVo's peers include Netflix NFLX, +3.95% and Sony SNE, -1.25% Sony is also struggling in terms of profitability; the stock is down 33% in the last year, it is unprofitable on a trailing basis, and sell-side analysts don't see it earnings very much in its next fiscal year either. While some of its valuation multiples look low, such as its EV/Ebitda of 3.7x, we would avoid it. Netflix has been one of the most dramatic market stories over the last couple of years, and is currently priced at $100 per share. 24% of the outstanding shares are held short, though billionaire Carl Icahn has disclosed a position. Netflix, too, is also struggling to stay in the black and analyst consensus is for very low earnings in 2013.
Sustainable profitability seems to be some time away for TiVo, though it is interesting to see Griffin and Citadel taking a position here. We'd note that they might be more focused on short-term swings from the outcome of lawsuits than on long-term fundamental value, so investors should make sure that their own thesis on TiVo fits into their own time horizon rather than simply follow Citadel. We don't find the company's current financial situation to be particularly attractive.
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Doubtful double 'D' poll
11 September 2013
Before the election, Tony Abbott ruled out negotiating with independents or minor parties if he didn't achieve a majority in the lower house. But the pain Julia Gillard experienced in bargaining for the votes of three independents in the house is likely to be magnified for Abbott in getting six or more votes from a motley crew of micro parties in the Senate. Is there another path? Abbott previously threatened to call a double dissolution if his legislation was blocked in the Senate. How feasible and likely is this?
Unlike the House of Representatives, the Senate is not dissolved at every election. It is a continuing house. Its Senators have fixed six-year terms with half being elected every three years. The candidates who were elected to the Senate last Saturday (other than Territory senators) will not take up their seats until after the terms of half the current senators run out on June 30 next year. That means that the Abbott government will confront a Senate where the Greens hold the balance of power until June, followed by three years of micro- party horse-trading.
The only chance of changing this outcome is if a double dissolution is held, terminating both houses and starting afresh.
Double dissolutions are relatively rare. They have only been held six times in the past. This is partly because of the difficult and time-consuming procedure, but mostly because they are rarely advantageous for a government. The procedure involves a bill being passed by the house and blocked by the Senate twice, with an interval of three months in between the two attempts.
Holding a quick double dissolution before July 1 faces two potential hurdles. First, there is a timing problem. The Senate is perfectly entitled to scrutinise bills, including sending them off to committees for public hearings and the receipt of expert advice. Once this is combined with the three-month delay between bills, the process can become quite drawn out. Categorising a bill as having "failed to pass" the Senate because it gets sent to a committee is a dangerous business. Whitlam tried it in 1974, only for the High Court later to find it not a valid trigger. Whitlam fortunately had other valid triggers to rely on. If the Abbott government was relying on a single double- dissolution trigger, it would have to be very careful indeed.
Secondly, there is a constitutional question as to whether a double dissolution could be held before the July 1 changeover, given that new senators have already been elected. It could be argued, for example, that a double dissolution is intended to resolve a deadlock between the houses, but once the Senate's composition changes on July 1, such a deadlock might no longer exist.
The main reason that it is unlikely that a double dissolution would be held is that it would be likely to make it even harder for the Coalition to negotiate bills through the Senate. Because 12 senators would be elected in a state, rather than six, the quota for winning a seat would be lower. This makes it much easier for micro parties and independents to win seats. Given the high vote for micro parties at this half-Senate election, the likely outcome of a double dissolution in the next six months would be to increase the number of crossbenchers holding the Senate balance of power.
A double dissolution would only be likely if the major parties got together and agreed to change the electoral laws to limit the ability of micro parties to be elected to the Senate.
This could be done by increasing the threshold quota for election, increasing the deposit paid by candidates and increasing the compulsory number of party members. They might also consider the approach that NSW took after the infamous "tablecloth ballot paper" of 1999, which was to move to "optional preferential above-the-line voting", so that voters can still vote above the line but can control their preference flows, rather than a system that allows the "gaming" of upper house seats by micro parties.
Finally, there is the issue of sending voters back to the polls so soon after an election. There is likely to be a backlash from the public if they feel that they are being forced to put up with another long election campaign simply because the government feels that they "got it wrong".
Many will have deliberately voted against the Coalition in the Senate to force it to negotiate and compromise on its policies. They may be none too thrilled to be told to go back and vote again.
Anne Twomey is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Sydney
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Audio on demand
Introduction to the AE Smith collection
Robin Tait, National Museum of Australia
AE Smith Instruments collection, 17 November 2008
The AE Smith string quartet held by the National Museum is outlined by conservator Robin Tait. She also discusses the conservation strategy of display and occasional use for functional museum objects.
AE Smith Instruments collection
- Introduction to the AE Smith collectionRobin Tait, National Museum of Australia
- Bach, Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major BWV 1010 (c. 1720)David Pereira
- Peter Sculthorpe, Threnody (1991)David Pereira
- Arvo Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)David Pereira
- Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time (1942)David Pereira and Alice Giles
- Bach, Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009 (c. 1720)David Pereira
- David Pereira, Unity is Strength (2008)David Pereira
- Carl Vine, Inner World for Solo Cello and Electronics (1994)David Pereira


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All some Oakland County residents want for Christmas is electricity.
A weekend ice storm weighed down power lines with as much as 3/4-of-an-inch of ice, leaving as many as 138,000 without power in southeastern Michigan. As of Monday morning, 81,000 were still in the dark, with 39,000 of those outages in Oakland County, according to DTE Energy.
The utility said another 10,000 of its customers lost power on Monday as crews work to repair damage from Saturday night's storm. DTE estimated that 10 percent of customers who lost power might not have it restored by late Wednesday night.
Crews are working 16-hour shifts around the clock to restore power, and nearly 400 linemen from utilities in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Georgia are helping with repairs.
"I just want to make sure I can get my prime rib cooked," said Kris Harris, sales manager at Hamilton's Feed and Fuel in downtown Ortonville, as her holiday dinner approaches. "I don't know how to cook it on a grill."
Hamilton's was running on a generator, selling kerosene and diesel fuel to customers needing it to power their generators. Harris was completing sales the old-fashioned way — with a pen, paper and calculator.
Down the block, the Village Pub was open for business with candles burning and the ice coming from a bag.
"We call it pub camping," said owner Amy Guirey.
Frozen trees were lying on power lines and, in some cases, houses and cars in Brandon Township and Ortonville on Monday, and area dirt roads were icy and littered with downed branches. About 800 of roughly 900 customers in Ortonville were without power Monday, according to DTE Energy, and about 4,000 were waiting for the lights to come back in Brandon Township.
Brandon Fire Chief David Kwapis said his firefighters had responded to 61 calls since Saturday morning, at a department that gets an average of 30 calls per week. The calls were for downed wires and trees across roads, which firefighters cleared with chain saws.
"They're struggling as well," Kwapis said of DTE Energy. "Every time they go to energize a section (of line), they're finding more problems."
Continued low temperatures mean the ice isn't melting, Kwapis said.
"If we get any winds at all with this ice on the trees and power lines, we're going to have more lines down," he added.
The fire chief had some tips for those in areas affected by the power outages.
"Check on your neighbor," he said, and stay away from downed power lines.
Residents should turn off their generators when fueling them and also make sure their carbon monoxide detectors are working.
"Don't use ovens for heating," Kwapis said.
Space heaters "are a temporary thing — you've got to be really careful with them," adding that those without heat should consider heading to the home of a relative who does.
Paul Vassall, a Brandon firefighter and EMT, said "everybody thought it was lightning" during the ice storm.
"It was transformers arcing," he said.
About 36,000 were without power Monday in Lapeer County, and about 4,000 in Livingston County. A bulk of the outages locally are in communities such as Lake Orion, Ortonville, Oakland Township, Rochester Hills, Oxford, Springfield Township, Addison Township, Groveland Township, Brandon Township and Clarkston. A high volume of outages occurred in White Lake Township and Waterford Township, as well.
North and west of Oakland County, the impact of the ice storm on Michigan utility customers was more significant. The Associated Press reported that more than 250,000 Consumers Energy customers lost power and thousands more with other utilities also were without electricity.
The total number of customers impacted continues to rise as ice weighs down tree branches, causing them to snap and take down power lines, according to DTE. A quarter of an inch of ice is the equivalent of 500 pounds of weight on a power line.
DTE also warned customers to stay at least 20 feet away from downed power lines and anything they are in contact with, such as metal fences and cars. The utility urges residents to treat every downed power line as if it were energized.
Customers can report an outage, check on the status of an outage and view the DTE outage map all from their smart phones. Customers also may call DTE Energy at 800-477-4747 to report power outages or downed lines or visit the utility's website at www.dteenergy.com.
At Bueche's Food World in Ortonville, the doors were open and a generator was running. Customer John Gault, of Brandon Township, said power was restored to his home near Hadley Road and Kent Road at about 9:15 p.m. Sunday.
"I've probably got God knows how many trees that are all screwed up, (with) limbs down," Gault said of his 10-acre property. "I've got a lot of damage."
He said his plans after grocery shopping were to "go home and start chain-sawing."


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BSU Catalog Home | Economics Program | All-University Courses and Descriptions
College-Program Codes: 7-24. Check with department for semester when these courses are offered. Read each course description for prerequisites.
2000 MARKETS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION (3 credits) Develops microeconomic principles to explain and evaluate markets as mechanisms to signal buyers' preferences and induce suppliers' response. Considers the origin and historical development of market economies as well as theory. Liberal Education Categories 5 and 9
2100 MACROECONOMICS AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE (3 credits) Develops macroeconomic concepts to explore the determination of aggregate output, employment, and the price level in modern mixed economies. The interaction between the financial sector and commodity markets and the potential of monetary and fiscal policy to guide the course of the macro economy are also explored. Prerequisite: ECON 2000 or consent of instructor. Liberal Education Category 5
2150 THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE HAWAIIAN ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: PROJECTS FOR THE HAWAII FIELD PROGRAM (1-3 credits) Economic concepts and techniques in environmental valuation, sustainable development, and green accounting based on the report "Environmental Valuation and the Hawaiian Economy." Interconnection of the Hawaiian economy and environment through investigation of major environmental issues such as the role of forests, water quality and quantity, coral reef ecosystems, extractive activities versus eco-tourism, and invasive species. Direct observation of investment efforts toward achieving sustainability. Liberal Education Category 5
2925 PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE (3 credits) This course is a module linked to the interdisciplinary environmental issues course, People and the Environment. It is an integrative study of the natural, social, value-based, and citizen-action contexts for environmental awareness. The disciplinary component surveys economic approaches to and institutional settings for environmental decision making, including our behaviors as consumers and producers. Interdisciplinary perspectives are evaluated in light of different concepts of social well being, including economic efficiency, equity, and sustainability. Liberal Education Category 10
3010 PUBLIC ECONOMICS (3 credits) Examines the rationale of public provision of selected goods and services and compares alternative tax structures in terms of their effects on the rest of the economy and their capacity for financing government expenditures. The effects of the political process on taxes and spending and selected topics in intergovernmental fiscal relations are also considered. Prerequisites: ECON 2000 and ECON 2100.
3040/ENVR 3040 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS (3 credits) Examines environmental problems as consequence of market's failure to accurately value environmental resources. Alternative private and public policies are examined in terms of their effectiveness in improving the efficiency and equity with which water, air and other resources are allocated. Prerequisite: ECON 2000 or consent of instructor.
3070 LABOR ECONOMICS (3 credits) Analyzes structure and operation of labor markets as a background to exploring issues and topics related to collective bargaining and public policy. The impact of technological and institutional change on labor markets is considered. Prerequisite: ECON 2000 or consent of instructor.
3200 ECONOMICS OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR (3 credits) Looks at the operation of intermediaries and securities markets to allocate financial capital and price financial assets. The role of the central bank and related agencies in guiding the financial sector and influencing the macroeconomy are considered. Prerequisites: ECON 2000 and ECON 2100 or consent of instructor.
3230 BENEFIT/COST ANALYSIS (3 credits) Develops the theoretical base of benefit/cost analysis in reviewing public investment projects and examines the application of this tool by specific agencies. Emphasis on the meaning and treatment of risk in policy analysis. Prerequisite: ECON 2000 or consent of instructor.
3400 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE (3 credits) The origins and effects of trade and capital flows. The role of international financial markets in influencing trade flows and international investment. Prerequisite: ECON 2000.
3700 CURRENT ECONOMIC TOPICS (1-3 credits) Customized course providing in-depth investigation of a current issue of theory or policy. Content and credits may vary. Prerequisites: ECON 2000 and ECON 2100.
4000 MICROECONOMIC DECISIONS (3 credits) Individual decision making of households and firms. Resource allocation via market exchange in alternative market structures. Prerequisites: ECON 2000 or consent of instructor.
4100 MACROECONOMIC GROWTH AND FLUCTUATIONS (3 credits) Examines the sources of economic growth and cyclical fluctuations in a market economy, techniques for forecasting economic activity, and the potential for policy to improve performance. Prerequisites: ECON 2000 and ECON 2100 or consent of instructor.
4920 DIRECTED GROUP STUDY: CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE I (4 credits) Investigates advanced topics in micro and macro alternating years. Students are responsible for considerable out-of-class research and in-class presentations. Note: An appropriate internship may substitute for ECON 4920 in the major with department's permission. Prerequisites: ECON 4000 and ECON 4100 or consent of instructor.


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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2008-03-27T21:24:23.000+0000 Last Updated: 2009-06-03T04:04:29.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.8.0 (30/Apr/09)
Reporter: Gunter Spöcker (gunter) Assignee: Thomas Weidner (thomas) Tags: - Zend_Loader
Related issues: - ZF-4057
If you're running the PHP application in strict mode and the file you wish to check for readability does not exist, an warning is given by PHP. In my case this occurred if you validate a firstname.lastname@example.com eMail address since in the folder "Hostname" is no file for .net domains.
A trivial fix would be:

instead of:
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2008-04-14T08:18:35.000+0000
Can you tell me whether or not we also should fix Zend_Cache::_isReadable ? It seems Zend_Cache has same problem.
Posted by Gunter Spöcker (gunter) on 2008-04-14T08:49:14.000+0000
I would say so, since it is basically the same code.
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2008-04-14T19:34:38.000+0000
I think ZF-2701 has same trouble like as this.
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2008-04-23T10:37:21.000+0000
Resolved in SVN r2925
Posted by Darby Felton (darby) on 2008-04-23T12:47:31.000+0000
Reopening, since SVN r9295 should be reverted because fopen() is directed to utilize the include_path, whereas file_exists() does not use the include_path.
Posted by Jeffrey Sambells (jeffrey) on 2008-04-23T13:45:23.000+0000
Ya, r9295 breaks the PluginLoader: exception 'Zend_Loader_PluginLoader_Exception' with message 'Plugin by name Word_CamelCaseToDash was not found in the registry.'
Posted by julien PAULI (doctorrock83) on 2008-04-24T03:09:54.000+0000
Please, revert and see ZF-3170 as well
I have some more Zend_Loader tests to commit as well
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2008-04-24T10:05:54.000+0000
Thank you for mailing me and reverting, Darby.
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2008-05-02T10:00:19.000+0000
testing new code now
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2008-05-07T08:20:09.000+0000
I think the function will be as following. Today, I tested with Zend_Loader_PluginLoader. And I will try to test with other components. I will be happy If you tell me any ideas :-)

public static function isReadable($filename)
if (is_readable($filename)) {
return true;
$paths = explode(PATH_SEPARATOR, get_include_path());
foreach ($paths as $path) {
if (is_readable($path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $filename)) {
return true;
return false;
Posted by Emil Ivanov (vladev) on 2008-05-14T04:59:20.000+0000
I believe that SplFileObject supports opening a file in the include path and it throws an exception (that can be caught :) if the file is not found.
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2008-05-14T07:09:42.000+0000
Fixed in SVN r9451. In SVN r6780, fopen method was used instead of is_readable method. But it causes some problems. So, I fix by using is_readable.
To:Emil Ivanov Thanks your comment. But Unfortunately, I can not use filename in openFile method of SplFileObject.
Posted by Basil Guevarra (graphicengineer) on 2008-05-14T13:53:06.000+0000
Pardon me if I'm posting in the wrong place, but after updating to SVN r9451 I noticed breakage related to changes in Loader.php's isReadable() method.
Symptoms: My rendered views no longer worked as if the files template files were not being read. (Note, I use a Smarty/ViewRenderer solution)
I made a patch in my local copy by placing your suggested is_readable($filename) check above the directory path traversing.
I see you had posted on May 7th the inclusion of the is_readable($filename), I believe it should be added for consideration.
public static function isReadable($filename)
// If the directory methods above don't work, try the filename directly
if (is_readable($filename)) {
return true;
$dirs = explode(PATH_SEPARATOR, get_include_path());
$dirs = array_merge($dirs, array('.'));
foreach ($dirs as $dir) {
if (is_readable($dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $filename)) {
return true;
return false;
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (email@example.com) on 2008-05-14T15:16:35.000+0000
Hello, Basil. You means is_readable( "./$filename") does not work? If so, I will add is_readable($filename) and remove array_merge($dirs, array('.')).
Posted by Emil Ivanov (vladev) on 2008-05-14T23:44:56.000+0000
Satoru Yoshida: "Thanks your comment. But Unfortunately, I can not use filename in openFile method of SplFileObject."
Do not use openFile, use $f = new SplFileObject($filename, $mode, $useIncludePath);
Posted by Basil Guevarra (graphicengineer) on 2008-05-15T06:12:13.000+0000
Correct Satoru, the is_readable(./$filename) does not work. Adding the is_readable($filename) and removing array_merge($dirs, array('.')) would be good. Thanks!
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (email@example.com) on 2008-05-15T22:24:42.000+0000
Thank you for advice and responces, Emil Ivanov and Basil Guevarra .
Buy the way I hear ZF Dev Team members works on this matter. I will wait their to expect good results. :-)
Posted by Martin Winkel (storeman) on 2008-06-11T06:07:10.000+0000
I saw the same problem too, just like the other problem in a previous topic.
I think isReadable should also search in the default root, not using an includepath, so I did as follows:

* Returns TRUE if the $filename is readable, or FALSE otherwise.
* This function uses the PHP include_path, where PHP's is_readable()
* does not.
* @param string $filename
* @return boolean
public static function isReadable($filename)
$arrPaths = explode(PATH_SEPARATOR, get_include_path() );
$blnReturn = false;
if( file_exists( $filename ) && $fh = @fopen( $filename, 'r') ){
$blnReturn = true;
if( substr($filename, 0, 2) === './' ) $filename = substr($filename, 2);
foreach($arrPaths as $path){
if( substr($path, -1, 1) !== '/' && substr($path, -1, 1) !== '\\' ) $path .= '/';
if ( file_exists( $path . $filename ) && $fh = @fopen($path . $filename, 'r')) {
$blnReturn = true;
return $blnReturn;
Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) on 2008-10-02T20:03:21.000+0000
Two notes: First, any solution that involves looping over paths in userland code will be rejected. These solutions have a tremendous performance impact, which is why the fopen() solution was chosen (the third argument to this function allows it search on the include_path -- but doing so in C is magnitudes faster than doing so in userland PHP).
Second, the fopen() call also has the error suppression operator; you will only see these errors in your error log. This is acceptable when it comes to E_STRICT standards -- the spirit of this rule refers to the messages that will be displayed when display_errors is on. This is one reason why error suppression is discouraged -- it should be used only for very, very good reasons. This is one such case, to our thinking.
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (email@example.com) on 2008-10-06T06:03:07.000+0000
Hi, Matthew.
I thank you that you explain why fopen() should be selected than other ideas.
I think this issue should be closed as 'Won' t fix' , do you think?
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2008-11-03T05:06:45.000+0000
Hi, All.
I wondered why fopen() with at mark happens. Because I did not find any warning in my tests with ver.1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.5.3 and etc.
I understand what causes the warning, by talking about Simon on ZF-2900. I recommend to look at that issue to solve this issue.
Posted by EV (evalder) on 2009-05-15T15:25:47.000+0000
"First, any solution that involves looping over paths in userland code will be rejected. These solutions have a tremendous performance impact, which is why the fopen() solution was chosen"
According to my tests, your fopen-based method is always 5-30% slower than my "looping over paths in userland code" method.
Here's my test code: first add the new method to Zend/Loader.php: public static function _isReadable($filename) { if (is_readable($filename)) return true; foreach (explode(PATH_SEPARATOR, get_include_path()) as $path) { if (is_readable($path . (in_array(substr($path, -1), array('\', '/')) ? $filename : DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $filename))) return true; } return false; }
Now run test: <?php set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array('/path1', '/path2', '/path3', '/path4', '/path5', '/path6')) . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path()); require_once '/ZF/library/Zend/Loader.php'; $start = microtime(true); for ($i = 0, $count = 1000; $i < $count; $i++) { Zend_Loader::_isReadable("nonexistingFile$i"); Zend_Loader::_isReadable('Var_Dump.php'); } $stop = microtime(true); echo 'Using new method: ' . ($stop - $start) . ' seconds
'; $start = microtime(true); for ($i = 0, $count = 1000; $i < $count; $i++) { Zend_Loader::isReadable("nonexistingFile$i"); Zend_Loader::isReadable('Var_Dump.php'); } $stop = microtime(true); echo 'Using old fopen-method: ' . ($stop - $start) . ' seconds
'; ?>
Var_Dump.php is part of PEAR, and was just added to test for existing files in include_path (assuming PEAR path is part of include_path).
You could try commenting out the call to set_include_path(), or calls to both methods using nonexisting file or existing file, just to check that the resulting times are always similar when given similar input. The two methods also provide the same actual results, of course.
Could you please change this now, or do you need more proof?
Posted by EV (evalder) on 2009-05-15T15:52:20.000+0000
Sorry, there was a bug in my method - empty input would return true, as is_readable would only check against the directories in include_path. Adding the following line to the beginning of the method fixes the problem. if ($filename === null || $filename === false || $filename === '' || !is_scalar($filename)) return false;
This change will not effect performance (noticeably anyway).
Posted by Dolf Schimmel (Freeaqingme) (freak) on 2009-05-27T10:45:44.000+0000
Reopening as requested in a comment in ZF-2900 , I'm curious...
Posted by EV (evalder) on 2009-05-28T01:02:46.000+0000
Actually, I asked that this issue was un-duplicated, ie. remove the duplicate tag for this issue. I also mentioned that I would post a new bug instead, implying that re-opening this one would not be necessary.
You may close this again unless there were other reasons than my comment in ZF-2900.
Posted by old of Satoru Yoshida (firstname.lastname@example.com) on 2009-05-28T02:35:31.000+0000
If you think it is not duplicated issue, I would be out of ability to close this. change into unassign.
Posted by Thomas Weidner (thomas) on 2009-06-03T04:04:29.000+0000
Removed link to ZF-2900.
Closed issue again as the mentioned code is not reproducable and already fixed within the actual release.
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Wine of the Week: 2009 Antichi Vinai Petra Lava Rosato
Why does mid-winter need to feel like banishment to Siberia? Sure shoveling is tedious, and the sub-zero temperatures along the East Coast are causing ice crystals to form on the end of your perpetually running nose, but there are warm fires to snuggle near and children laughing as they make angels in the snow. Winter's chill is a state of mind that can be thawed, if just a bit, by a shift in thinking.
Now I know you're thinking that I'm delusional, or that I'm gloating because the weather here in Southern California is, well, let's just say "mild." But honestly, my sunny disposition comes not from the bright blue skies outside my window, but from the eloquent petals of prose proffered by Eric Asimov in his Monday New York Times post about winter rosés, A Rosé Can Bloom in Winter, Too.
Like most wine drinkers, I consume more hearty reds when the weather is cold. But I don't eat braised short ribs or rich red sauce pastas every night. I like to roast chickens and root vegetables, and enjoy a dried cherry and gruyere-stuffed pork chop every now and then, neither of which require a red wine that feels like a cozy chenille blanket. I like wines with bright fruit, minerality, herbaceousness, delicate tannins and plenty of acidity no matter what the season, and the pale garnet of a substantial rosé in the middle of a snow flurry can be like a SAD lamp for your palate.
So, in the spirit of Asimov's post, I'm ditching the last of my holiday gluttony-inspired Digestivo posts for a Wine of the Week that doesn't need a backyard barbecue to show it's stuff. The 2009 Antichi Vinai Petra Lava Rosato ($19.99) is anything but a frivolous, pool-side sipper. A blend of what the Sicilians call I Nerelli--Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio--grown on the northern slope of Mt. Etna, this rosé is intense and structured. Its aromas lean toward cranberry and cherry, with hints of hibiscus, all of which carry over to a full palate balanced by juicy acidity and earthy volcanic minerality. I'm going to drink this with the aforementioned stuffed pork chop tonight, and buy an extra bottle for Sunday's fresh, farmers' market roast chicken.
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I was wondering if anyone saw the irony. Thanks
claiming that they will deliver nearly unparalleled advances in CPU performance
What's the point of having 10 cores then ?
I laughed at NEARLY. Nearly unparalleled is not unparalleled. Not unparalleled is... well, paralleled.
SGI is going to use up to 256 of these in a supercomputer, bring some weenies and marshmallows.
Oracle's 11g database can run 10 times faster at encryption tasks using the E7 series chips. Lots more performance comparisons and the 19 companies names Bull, Cisco, Cray, Dawning, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, Lenovo, NEC, Oracle, PowerLeader, Quanta Computer, SGI, SuperMicro, and Unisys [digitalninjastl.com]
SGI is going to use up to 256 of these in a supercomputer, bring some weenies and marshmallows.
130W seems impressively low for 10 fast cores (20 hyperthreads) if you ask me. Just a few years ago that would have been an entire cabinet full of P4's complete with a dozen power supplies, etc.
It's called Moore's law.
I've got a SB desktop computer and it just screams. they made some sizable per-clock performance improvements. Also AES-NI is no joke. I am pretty amazed by the speed. Tryecrypt supports it and the benchmark difference is huge. With a 100MB buffer a pure software AES implementation benches at 649MB/sec on my system (553MB/sec for Twofish, 254MB/sec for Serpent). Same test with AES-NI on, 2.7GB/sec. That is 4.2x the speed.
Could be really useful for web servers, particularly if you are looking at going all SSL all the time.
Could be really useful for web servers, particularly if you are looking at going all SSL all the time.
Sure, except you also have to worry about algorithms like RSA, DH, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, and providing a good source of random bits as well (hardware RNG).
That's one thing I like about Sun/Oracle's T-series chips: they have all the above algorithms. A ~4 year old T2 chip can do RC4 at 81 Gb/s, AES-128 at 44 Gb/s, and AES-256 at 31 Gb/s: that's enough to saturate 10 GigE connections (in both directions at times). SHA-256 at 41 Gb/s and RSA-2048 at 6400 op/s make for very fast web secure servers.
I've got a SB desktop computer and it just screams.
You should clean or replace the fans then.
Yeah, get rid of the fans you have and install some golf fans instead. They don't tend to scream. Or maybe some Lions fans, since they don't really have much to scream about?
Hopefully Bulldozer will fix it but right now, they don't do so well. Have a look at this HardOCP article on the new SB processors (http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/01/03/intel_sandy_bridge_2600k_2500k_processors_review/3). They tossed in a high end 6 core AMD CPU too. It just gets killed. In many tests, it is below the older 4 core i7 CPUs, in pretty much all of them it is below the 4 core SBs and I don't see a one that it beats the 6 core i7 (the 980X).
AMD offers more cores, but their cores don't do as much. Don't buy in to core hype any more than MHz hype or anything else. More is not automatically better. Have to run benchmarks on it and see how it actually does.
Like I said, hopefully Bulldozer will change that. Hopefully it'll be competitive with Intel per core, per clock and so on. However right now Intel processors just kill.
Not all tasks are of an equal load at all times. You can have situations where there is a strong load on less cores, and then later ones with a load on all cores. That's the reason for such a thing to exist.
Not only that but turbo boost doesn't just work with how many cores are loaded, it has to do with electrical load and thermal load as well, hence why it can be active even if all cores are loaded. So it allows for a chip to meet a given TDP, but then if cooling is good it can go faster, and scale back if
no, we don't have any real info on how fast BD is yet. some technical papers on it indicate it's designed specifically for high clock while maintaining control on power dissipation. the shared FPU is somewhat faster than an unshared FPU would be, so this is a good choice, especially for code that's not always FPU-bound. and AMD has said that BD definitely has thermally-limited clock boosting.
Yeah, Sandy Bridge has slaughtered AMD for the current generation.
I've been a long time AMD supporter, just because I don't want there to be only one kid on the block (competition is good and all that), but about three hours ago I just bought a 2600K and matching mobo and ram on Newegg. First Intel CPU I've bought since the old $90 Celeron 300A that was 50% overclockable out of the box.
supporting some company because you want competition is a pretty bad was to have competition. Buy the bast bang for your buck, if only one player can deliver, so be it,.
As long as we continue to have good regulation so another competitor can rise up, all is good for the consumer.
>>supporting some company because you want competition is a pretty bad was to have competition.
If you have two equally good products (say the AMD64 vs. whatever Intel had at the time), it doesn't matter particularly which one you buy, so I always chose to support AMD. As I said, if we were down only to Intel, it would be a bad thing in general.
>>Buy the bast bang for your buck
Didn't I say I just bought Sandy Bridge? It's head-and-shoulders above anything AMD has right now.
As long as we continue to have good regulation so another competitor can rise up,
Continue to have? CONTINUE TO HAVE? We haven't had decent anti-monopoly regulation since Teddy Roosevelt was president.
AMD offers more cores, but their cores don't do as much.
Apart from running twelve things at once?
I think you are comparing apples to aardvarks here. Something that is designed to run on a single core may run a bit better on a two or four core machine when everything else gets out of it's way but after that you won't notice any improvement.
I think you are looking at this in entirely the wrong way and are missing the entire point of these chips with a lot of cores and thus what you are using to measure their
I've been drooling over these; still a bit out of a college student's budget for a single processor motherboard.
What do you do that can use that much parallelization? (Not that I have anything I could use it for; I just want it anyhow.
What do you do that can use that much parallelization?
Having just spent $130 in processing time on Amazon EC2 to render a 50 second movie in 13 hours, I'd really like to have a few of these...
Neat chips, but for $400 you can get an i5-2500K+motherboard. You won't get 10 cores, but it's still stupidly fast
What do you do that can use that much parallelization?
Processing seismic data to see what is under the ground. The data is in the form of digitised audio tracks that are picked up by geophones that act just like an old moving coil microphone. Now imagine applying the same filter or other transformation to twelve million audio tracks. It's a task you could split to twelve million CPUs at the stupid extreme - that's how easily the tasks can be split to run in parallel. Of course in reality you want to dum
IF this was only about cores, you might have a point. I mean, the cores have to word well, hand threads well and so on. The AMD multicores don't do that as well as Intel.
Also, we ware talking about servers needed for high utilization. For a basic PC, or even a 'gaming Rig' the difference will be measurable, but not likely noticeable.
IF this was only about cores, you might have a point.
It IS only about cores or you are talking about something you don't need but others do. If you don't want to run a huge amount of things at once for sustained periods of time these machines are not for you. File servers, a typical web server or a desktop PC do not often see anything like those sort of loads so that's not what these things are for.
It's a completely different niche typically called High Performance Computing (misleading name because it's
The new E7 series incorporates the benefits of Sandy Bridge
is a bit misleading, i think.
As far as i understood it uses the older Westmere EX architecture. So while it may have added instructions also available in the Sandy Bridge architecture, clock for clock it will likely be slower in most cases and probably won't reach the the clock speeds of Sandy Bridge based chips.
Though these do not seem to have all the Sandy Bridge technologies. In particular, AVX isn't listed. Thus is does not seem to have new SB instructions. Maybe they are talking about the improvements to the existing AES-NI instructions (SB is faster with those than older i7s) however it does not appear to have new extensions.
I don't know that AVX is of much use to servers, but it does mean this isn't SB architecture. Which means it is not as efficient per clock (SB made some good gains in that area, not that
And *particularly* this series lags even "entry" level Xeons (the ones that go up to two sockets). Generally, about 6 months after an architecture makes it to desktop land the associated entry Xeons release, and then about six months after that the high-end Xeon implementation of that architecture comes out. Hence this announcement in the ballpark of six months after the low-end Xeon Westmeres (I think a bit longer, but too lazy to look up).
FYI, Nehalem-EX and Westmere-EP was released around the same time, March 2010 or so. For comparison, Nehalem-EP was released May 2009. Lynnfield was released September 2009 or so. The 45nm Clarkdale was released January 2010. The desktop Sandy Bridge was released January 2011. And now we finally have Westmere-EX.
I don't know that AVX is of much use to servers
For my scientific computing work, getting as many AVX units as possible onto a single motherboard is actually a big deal. So it would have actually been great if these 10-core chips had AVX.
Yea, why not call it the Xeon 7600?
"...they will deliver nearly unparalleled advances in CPU performance..."
Good to hear. Hopefully the next iteration will be fully unparalled. Much easier to program for a single core.
Hardware accelerated SSH
Hardware accelerated LZMA
Thats about it.
The AES instruction set [wikipedia.org] referred to as security processing instructions in the summary will accelereate ssh.
Thanks, missed that little gem. Will be interesting to see how a bulldozer handles this.
The AES instruction set [wikipedia.org] referred to as security processing instructions in the summary will accelereate ssh.
Is this anything like the accelerators Sun put in the Niagara line a few years back?
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Your average game will use one core to keep the port to current generation of consoles simple.
Ummm... that might have been a current or valid point 5-6 years ago with PS2 and XBOX but not today.
Speaking as a game programmer, most of the industry has been working for years on optimizing games for multiple cores. The current generation of consoles (XBOX 360 and PS3) are multicore and the next generation promises to have even more cores. Heck even handheld gaming systems (Sony NGP has 4 cores), portables, tablets (iPad2 is dual-core), and phones are going multicore.
Sad. From the comments, it seems nobody even remembers what a hypercube computer is.
Again proving there are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don't.
I'm still quite content with my E5462-based 2008 model, thanks
I don't expect we'll see a Mac Pro announcement next week, as Apple's support for the AMD Radeon 69x0 cards is horribly broken in anything you can see outside of a lab in Cupertino. Announcing a system with "next generation performance" that uses previous generation video cards is something they are trying to get away from.
However, NAB is next week in Las Vegas, so who knows what they might do to get people to stop looking at CUDA-accelerated Adobe Premiere.
just what we need a $2500-$3000 1 cpu system with a low-mid range video card and like 2GB ram at the base price.
It has been just over a year since Santa Clara released its Nehalem-based octal-core Beckton processors
Huh? Why are the core operating on octal? Does this new version run in decimal?
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Helen Marena (Jones) Heller was born May 4, 1924, and passed into eternity June 29, 2011, at the age of 87. Helen was the eldest daughter of Chloie and Earl Jones, born in Hedrick, Iowa. As she often shared, her birth weight was under five pounds and they put her in a shoe box and kept her warm on the back of the cook stove at night. She began her life in a fragile condition and the past few months of her life were also fragile, but her spirit was definitely alive and her mind was sharp clear to the end. Often when she woke, she'd be thinking of someone and wondering how they were doing or thinking of someone to call or write, she was concerned about people and everyone was special to her. If she knew you, you've been prayed for. And if you've been prayed for by Helen, it was a long and fervent prayer with expected results. Her faith was strong, her love genuine, and her joy was deep. She loved her family and she considered many to be in her family circle. over the years many have called her mom or grandma and many have counted on her to say a prayer for them. Helen played high school girls half court basketball in Iowa. She could surprise the kids during recess at school or Stanley and his friends at home by shooting and making baskets, even when she was "old." her spiritual life was influenced by the camp meetings and revival meetings that would last for days. She moved to Des Moines and attended Open Bible Institute and worked in a plant making tents for the Army during the war. Two of her acquaintences and roommates were Violet Strauke (Stithem) and Deloras Baird (Webb). Violet was instrumental in bringing her to Dunning for a visit and meeting a rancher bachelor by the name of Miller Heller. She lost contact with Deloras until her future son-in-law, Bill Webb, introduced her to his mother some 25 years later. She worked in hospitals in Crawford, Kearney and Broken Bow. While dating Miller, she even tried to buy a bus ticket to LynnScott, Nebraska" so she could apply for a hospital job as he told her it'd sure be nice if she didn't live so far away because by the time he could get the cows fed and drive to Kearney it would be time to get back home to milk cows again. His solution was to move closer to Dunning and work in this really nice, new hospital they just built. Of course, LynnScott was no bigger than it is now and the closest hospital is still Broken Bow. While in Crawford, she'd preach in a box car on the Indian reservation close to Fort Robinson. She'd walk while carrying her saxophone and start playing gospel songs to let everyone know that it was time for church service. They would follow her to the box car and she would begin teaching from the Word of God. Sometimes if a dog fight started up outside, her whole audience would disappear to watch the fight, then they would come back afterwards and she would just pick up where she had left off. Helen and Miller were married on Christmas Eve, 1949, in Broken Bow and made their home on the ranch north of Dunning. She learned to milk cows, mow hay, ride horses and even after she turned 60 try out a used motorcycle before Miller could trade off an old pickup. She wrecked the motorcycle, ruptured her kidney and ended up in Good Samaritan Hospital during the night. She called and said she was suppose to preach that morning; Bill would have to preach for her, and her sermon notes were on the coffee table. She had a unique way of bringing people together. Helen is survived by her husband of 61 years, Miller Heller; sister, Beverly Hebbert of Casper, Wyo.; daughter, Vickie and Bill Webb of Dunning; son, Stanley and Shelly McKimmey of Ainsworth; daughter, Elizabeth and Laddie Kmoch of Broken Bow; six granddaughters, Jennifer and Mike Schmidt of Anselmo, Kelly and Chad Duryea of Merna, Lisa and Trent Russell of Merna, Cori McKimmey, Kristie and Dustin Peterson, and Nancy and Thomas Sipes of Kearney; 10 great-grandchildren, Dawson, Dalton and Dane Duryea, Brant, Bryce and Rylee Schmidt, Jayden and Kenzie Russell, and Madison and Wyatt Sipes. Preceding her in death were her parents, Chloie and the Rev. Chester Earl Jones; in-laws, Edver and Katherine Heller; brother-in-law, George Hebbert; infant twin daughters, Marilyn and Carolyn Heller; and son, Ricky Miller Heller.Published in Custer County Chief, July 7, 2011


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Overall, I'm not thrilled with the illumination performance of CF bulbs. I keep using them in all my sealed ceiling fixtures for two reasons: I don't like the risk of fire
Home Depot sells the Commercial Electric and nVision tubes. No delay. They work really well.
GE makes some dimmable CFL bulbs now. I picked up a couple from WalMart. The downside is that the dimming range isn't very big (the dimmest output is about half of the max) and are less flexible than incandescent bulbs. They're also rather expensive - about $12 per bulb. Not cost effective yet.My only current complaint is that they don't play nice with dimmers.
One to screw it in the socket, and two to lock the employees of the store that sold it in for the night [nytimes.com].
No, the majority of slashdotters don't like Wal-Mart. The majority of people, in general, either like it or don't have any feelings for it one way or another. Same with Microsoft, SCO, and the RIAA.Sure, the majority of people don't like Wal-Mart...
When we give a name to something, an entity as large as walmart for instance, that allows us to sum up the hundreds of thousands of people and millions of actions they take on behalf of walmart as one concept. But in reality, walmart is hundreds of thousands of people and millions of actions.
Add this to a blurry concept of good and evil, and you've got a real mess that can't be summarized easily and thus can't be easily comprehended by our brains.
The truth about walmart (and every other thing) is it is neither evil nor good. Some of the people are evil, some of the policies are evil, some are good, some of the people are good. I worked for walmart after college during a hard time in my industry
Go ask - women do not like the light they throw off.
AFAIK, the two main quality issues with fluorescent lights are:
With CFLs, the ballast frequency issue was solved a long time ago. Basically, the voltage needs to be stepped up way higher than line voltage (120V in the US, 220V many other places). The low-tech way to do this is with a transformer. This means you get 60 Hz (or 50 Hz, whatever) current at that high frequency. That means flickering. Flickering doesn't happen with incandescent bulbs because it is heat of the filament that is causing the light to be emitted. The electrical current going through the bulb goes to zero 120 times a second (with 60 Hz power), but the filament's thermal mass is high enough that the bulb "coasts" through the zero voltage (and zero current) crossing and continues to emit light. You can even turn off an incandescent and watch it continue to glow for a fraction of a second after power is removed, because it takes time for the filament to cool. But this continuous lighting thing is not the case with a fluorescent, as I understand it. The gas in the tube only produces light when there's a voltage, and it stops pretty much instantaneously when it's not being electrically excited. Thus, with a fluorescent and a low-tech ballast, you get an effect similar to what it looks like when your monitor is set at a painfully low refresh rate, only not quite as bad, but still annoying.
But, as I said, compact fluorescents don't suffer from this issue. The reason is they have electronic ballasts. Instead of simple, dumb circuit with a transformer in it, they have a circuit that steps up the voltage, but it converts it to a much higher-frequency A/C voltage before it gets into the tube. I'm not sure of the frequency, but googling indicates it is in the tens of thousands of Hz. So, it's fast enough your eye really can't perceive it.
The other issue, color temperature is a little different story. As this explanation [lightbulbsdirect.com] says, "Warm light is preferred for living spaces because it is more flattering to skin tones and clothing." I think this is the key reason for aesthetic objections to CFLs. Incandescents produce warm light at a color temperature of about 2700K, because that's what happens when you heat up a filament. With compact fluorescents, different options are available. If you want something similar to what you're used to with an incandescent, you should choose a 2700K CFL! It's not at all uncommon for CFLs to come in color temperatures in the range of 4000K or 5000K. That will appear considerably bluer or even weird and greenish compared to an incandescent. Nobody wants their skin tone to appear overly greenish, so 2700K it is, for aesthetic purposes, in most cases.
On a side note, things are different if you want to, say, take pictures of things. In that case, you might want to go with a higher color temperature, because 2700K is considerably warmer (yellower) than what you see outside on a nice sunny day.
That's because they're brighter (the CFL--not the woman). We know from experience that women find these two things odious:
Most women expend incredible amounts of time and effort to avoid being seen, either by altering their appearance cosmetically to mask or otherwise obfuscate their features or by insisting that you turn the lights off during sex.
When confronted by a well lit area, a reasonably intelligent woman, upon realizing that you installed the new light, will complain that she "doesn't like the way it throws off light," thereby marrying her distrust toward optical clarity with her natural prejudice against new technology.
If it succeeds in selling 100 million compact fluorescent bulbs a year by 2008
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I don't know if this is the place for it or if I should just call it out in the threads where I see it but it seems to me that the quality of discourse in the old red guard has plummeted and it's not new imports that are responsible but some of our older and more well known posters that are ....just getting into p***ing matches with each other.
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Feld's research focuses on the anthropology of sound involving intersections of music, linguistics, acoustic ecology, and media studies. His main ethnographic project since the mid 1970s, and the subject of many of his print and sound publications, concerns the acoustemology of Kaluli, people of the Bosavi rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Since the mid 1980s, he has also developed a second research project on music globalization, schizophonia, and the emergence of world music.
Feld is a jazz musician, cinematographer, record producer and political activist. He is the recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for outstanding achievement.
Feld's path-breaking book "Sound and Sentiment," links the sounds of nature, music, and lament in Papua New Guinea, and earned the J.I. Staley Prize in anthropology in 1991. His innovative book on the processes and politics of music-making, written as a series of interactive jazz-like riffs with fellow musician-scholar Charles Keil, won the Chicago Folklore Prize in 1995.
His work, however, has not been limited to the world of books. He has been a creative force in bringing together global concerns for the rainforest and indigenous peoples through music, film, websites, and political activism.
He graduated with a B.A. in 1971 from Hofstra University and earned a Ph.D from the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University in 1979. He has held positions in anthropology and music at New York University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Feld's lecture is part of the UH Distinguished Lecture Series, and is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Department of Music, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the International Cultural Studies Certificate Program.
In addition to his lecture, he will also be conducting a public seminar entitled "They have taken our mother's head and are now going into her throat: Indigenous and Activist Responses to Transnational Mining in West Papua," on January 29, 2003 from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. at the East-West Center, Burns 2121/2125.


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Program Aide Specialty Training: Songs and Games
This training will add more to your toolkit -- more songs and more games to keep younger girls engaged during activities and down time.
Prerequisite: PA Core Training
Event is for Scouts in Cadette, Senior, or Ambassador levels and/or Juliette Scouts in grades 6-7-8-9-10-11-12.
Training will be on Nov. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at camp Winnetaska, off Olive Street, in Ashland.
Registration fee is $8 per Scout. Adults & leaders are free.
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Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) congratulated Phoenix Hose, Hook & Ladder Co. on receiving a $111,720 grant for firefighters administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
�Phoenixville and the nearby communities served by Phoenix Hose, Hook & Ladder are fortunate to have committed firefighters who answer the public�s calls for help at any time,� Gerlach said. �This grant is well-deserved and will have an immediate and substantial impact on public safety. Making sure firefighters have up-to-date equipment is critical in protecting them as they serve our communities.�
The Assistance to Firefighters Grant funds will be used to buy new firefighter protective gear, helmets and other equipment that will replace outdated and worn gear, said David Meadows, president of Phoenix Hose, Hook & Ladder Co.
�As traditional fundraising methods become less lucrative as sources for funding of volunteer fire companies, federal grants are helping to keep us funded and thus partially offset some of the funding needs from local tax dollars,� Meadows explained.
Former Fire Chief James Gable worked together with Meadows on the grant application. Both men were instrumental in securing the funding.
The objective of the AFG program is to assist fire departments and emergency medical service organizations in meeting their needs for equipment critical to emergency response operations. The program awards grants directly in order to help increase the availability of protective gear, emergency vehicles, training, and other resources.
The Phoenixville Fire Department is a combination volunteer and career paid fire department and was first organized in 1874. The fire company is governed by a board of directors and works closely with the borough-appointed fire chief. Current Fire Chief John Buckwalter started in the post on Jan. 1.
Headquartered at 177 Church Street, the fire company has approximately 35 volunteers, two full-time and 15 part-time career firefighters. Fundraising activities include weekly bingo games every Tuesday at 7 PM, mail fund drive and the annual �Night at the Races,� which will be held on Saturday, March 23.


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European Financial Transaction Tax must be agreed without delay, says Oxfam
As EU nations announce that a decision on a long-awaited European Financial Transaction Tax has been postponed, Oxfam calls for European leaders to agree the tax without delay.
New EU development framework: self-interest trumps solidarity
EU governments have today furthered the recent trend of using development aid to advance their own short-sighted interests. They have adopted a new framework for the European Union's development policy that neither listens to EU citizens nor focuses on eradicating poverty.
Oxfam-Amnesty refugee and migrant solidarity project awarded in Greece
A touring exhibition by Oxfam and Amnesty International's Greek Section showcasing items donated by Greeks to refugees and migrants has received two Gold Ermis Awards from Greece's most prestigious advertising and communications body.
International community yet again falls short of meeting Yemen's dire need
In response to the US$1.12 billion pledged to Yemen during the high-level event today in Geneva, Oxfam says the international community has fallen short in its support for the Yemeni people.
Already more than 1,000 migrants killed or missing in the Mediterranean in 2017
Already more than 1,000 migrants have been reported dead or missing in 2017 while trying to cross the Mediterranean. EU leaders must expand safe and regular routes so migrants are not forced to risk their lives in search of safety and dignity, Oxfam said in response.
No breakthrough on the big issues at Spring Meetings
Oxfam's Nadia Daar commented on the Bank and the IMF's progress on climate change, inequality, education, and more.
World Bank's focus on making projects "commercially viable" cannot come at expense of the poor
Responding to a speech by the president of the World Bank, Oxfam's Nadia Daar said: "The Bank must guarantee that in any dealings with the private sector, reducing poverty, protecting the environment, and helping communities will take priority over financial gain.
Oxfam calls for greater G7 support for Syria peace talks
As G7 foreign ministers meeting in Lucca, Italy, failed to reach agreement on sanctions, Oxfam has called for a renewed push on Syria peace talks.
Rich countries misleading the public about overseas aid spending
Rich countries are exaggerating how much they are spending to tackle poverty and inequality in poor countries.
Brussels Conference is latest international event to fail the people of Syria
Oxfam, CARE International, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council and Save the Children have called for more international action from world leaders meeting in Brussels at a conference to discuss the Syria crisis.


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As previously reported, there were accusations that US guild Exodus used an exploit to obtain the World First of the last unclaimed Hard Mode in Ulduar -- Alone in the Darkness. As it turns out, these accusations were true and blue poster Daelo posted on the official forums that the Yogg-Saron encounter was hotfixed on all servers to prevent this from happening in the future. Owing to this, Exodus' kill is no longer recognized by some achievement trackers.
Contrary to some reports, however, Exodus released a statement on their website that members of their guild were not banned, clarifying that Blizzard meted out a 72-hour suspension for their abuse of game mechanics. They argue that the encounter wasn't beatable to begin with, similar to the C'thun fight in Ahn'Qiraj before it was fixed, prompting the exploit. In the same statement, Exodus also points at Ensidia's arguably hypocritical stance of complaining about the abuse considering Ensidia used similar questionable methods to achieve other World Firsts. Serennia mentions this behavior in his column at wowriot, as well, bringing into question Blizzard's apparent double standard when meting out punishment.


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Brain Scans May Help Guide Career Choice 133
GisG writes "General aptitude tests and specific mental ability tests are important tools for vocational guidance. Researchers are now asking whether performance on such tests is based on differences in brain structure, and if so, can brain scans be helpful in choosing a career? In a first step, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Research Notes have investigated how well eight tests used in vocational guidance correlate to gray matter in areas throughout the brain." The researcher's (provisional) paper is available as a PDF.


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Five nutrition strategies to beat the heat
The old adage is pay me now or pay me later, but when it comes to heat stress you could pay now and pay later if proper heat abatement steps aren't taken, says Martha Baker, dairy nutrition specialist with Land O'Lakes Purina Feed LLC.
Before the summer heat set in, steps were likely taken to clean and service fans, evaluate sprinklers and nozzles to make sure they were in working order and expand water availability, where necessary. Getting these basics right can go a long way in preventing heat stress.
Once the basics have been taken care of, the next area of focus should be on nutritional strategies to beat the heat.
"When cows are heat stressed, intake levels drop," notes Baker. "To support milk production, the cow needs to eat the same pounds of nutrients as she would in cooler weather. Therefore, the challenge is to provide the same level of nutrients in a smaller package."
Areas to be mindful of when formulating rations for heat stress include:
· Choose a highly palatable energy source. Because intake levels are reduced, it's important to feed a concentrated source of energy that is very palatable and appealing to the cow. A dense source of energy is important so that she is consuming the amount of nutrients needed to support milk production. Baker notes that oftentimes people look to corn to provide additional energy, but increasing corn can increase the opportunity for the animal to have acidosis.
· Look at trace mineral levels. The level of trace minerals in the diet may need to be elevated to help the cow cope with the stresses of heat. Trace minerals play a role in reproduction, production and the overall health of the animal. A diet deficient in trace minerals may have negative effects that can be costly.
· Closely examine PUFA levels. Be cognizant of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) levels in the ration. "You should be taking full advantage of fat feeding already, but there may be room for adjustments and it might be worth a closer look," adds Baker.
· Pay attention to potassium. During warm weather cows lose large quantities of potassium through sweat. If potassium levels are not optimum in the diet, health challenges could potentially result. Potassium plays a key role in protein metabolism and insulin production.
· Elevate DCAD levels. Dietary cation anion difference (DCAD) levels should be raised to account for warmer weather. Look to potassium carbonate to drive DCAD levels higher. "Consider raising DCAD levels to plus 35 or plus 45," says Baker.
Evaluating each area of your ration will help provide your cows with the optimal nutrients they need to overcome challenges associated with summer heat.
Baker advises, "If you don't take the necessary steps to prevent heat stress now, you will pay for heat stress long after the temperatures have cooled."
Remember, zeroing in on the cows' nutritional needs to beat the summer heat, is one aspect of a total program approach to feeding cows. "It should always be top of mind to feed every cow, exactly what she needs, where she needs it, when she needs it - nothing more and nothing less," says Baker. "This approach will aid dairy farmers in capturing opportunities for improved efficiency."
For more information on nutrition strategies to beat the heat, contact your local Land O'Lakes Purina Feed representative or go to: www.lolfeed.com .
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DELAND — In his campaign materials, mayoral candidate Pat Johnson touts his law enforcement experience and asks residents to vote for him so he can tackle DeLand's crime problems.
But Johnson's own career with the DeLand Police Department did not end well, records show.
Johnson, owner of Pompano Pat's motorcycle dealership and gun store, worked for five Volusia County law enforcement agencies in the 1980s and 1990s. He worked for about two years at the DeLand Police Department, where his personnel file shows he was fired for "insubordination."
In an interview, Johnson denied he was fired and insisted he left DeLand police voluntarily.
"If there's one piece of paper that's negative on my file, they loaded my file — deliberately and to try to make me look bad," he said.
DeLand City Manager Michael Pleus said that accusation is "definitely not true."
"I can assure you we did not load his personnel file," Pleus said.
Johnson, 48, a newcomer to politics, is challenging incumbent Bob Apgar, who's been mayor since 2001 and also served as a city commissioner from 1983 to 1991 and 1996 to 2001.
The two will face off in the Aug. 26 election for mayor, which pays $15,106 annually and carries a four-year term. Apgar declined to comment on Johnson's employment history.
According to Johnson's personnel file with DeLand police, he completed law enforcement training in 1985 and was hired as a part-time officer with the Ormond Beach Police Department. He left a year later and worked for the Daytona Beach Police Department for two years and briefly for the Port Orange Police Department.
In 1989, he was hired by DeLand police and then fired in 1991, according to city records.
Two of his superiors wrote letters in 1991 to then-Police Chief Richard Slaughter quoting Johnson as complaining about being assigned to "city hall bank detail," which involved taking money from City Hall to the bank for deposit, city records show.
"Pat was indignant and he loudly declared that he was giving me his best, citing the fact that he 'got a haircut,' 'not using foul language,' not complaining about 'people' showing up on his calls and that I was singling him out for a 'flunky assignment,' " read a letter dated March 23, 1991, from Sgt. T.J. Mattingly to the police chief. "He again stated emphatically that he did not want to do the escort duty and if I made him it would 'ruin' his attitude."
The letter goes on to say Johnson said the "flunky assignment" was appropriate for "a geeky kind of guy like Ridgway." Bill Ridgway started as an officer in 1989 and now is the police chief. He could not be reached for comment for this story.
Another letter on March 23, 1991, from Cpl. D.H. Hiers added that "Johnson said he found the detail menial and a part of the everyday 'bull (expletive)' that he did not want to deal with."
"Johnson said 'I won't do it, I'm not one of your rookie boys . . . You can't make me do it, I'll be miserable and I'll make everybody else miserable,' " another portion of the letter reads. "I asked Johnson what the Sergeant should do if every person on the shift decided they would not perform their assigned task. Johnson would only say, 'You will not win, you can't win.' "
A letter on March 25, 1991, from the police chief to Johnson said he intended "to recommend to the City Manager that (Johnson's) employment be terminated on account of insubordination."
Johnson appealed the decision, but then-City Manager Harold Pyke upheld the decision, telling Johnson in a letter on April 18, 1991, that Johnson "did refuse to obey a lawful order and exhibited disrespect to your superior officers."
Not long after his firing, Johnson applied for unemployment benefits. The city appealed his claim, citing his involuntary termination and won the case, according to a notice from the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security, city records show.
Johnson denies he was fired and said he worked as a DeLand police officer at the Oakland Terrace public housing development, in a position funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
When the HUD grant ran out, Johnson said he was given the option to quit voluntarily or become a regular patrol officer. He chose to quit, he said.
His personnel file shows he worked as an officer at Oakland Terrace and his June 1990 performance review shows he received a "satisfactory" rating. But Johnson had to "work on his attitude toward public," the review stated. Johnson also received a letter of commendation during his time at Oakland Terrace and another compliment for making key arrests, including the arrest of an armed robbery suspect, city records show. The personnel file indicates that Johnson became a patrol officer after his Oakland Terrace position.
He was hired by DeLand police after working for Daytona Beach police from 1986 to 1988. On his application to DeLand, he wrote that he left Daytona Beach police because of "Nepatism (sic)."
In a recent interview, Johnson said he left Daytona police in good standing and he didn't know why his application to DeLand police cited nepotism. Daytona Beach police said they no longer have a copy of his personnel file.
After leaving Daytona Beach police, Johnson worked for Port Orange police as a narcotics detective from January 1988 to September 1988, according to his DeLand application. While there, he received several commendations from superiors and members of the public. Johnson wrote on his application that he left the position because of "marital/family difficulty" after his wife's father died.
In a background check by DeLand police before they hired him, Capt. Randy Milholen with Port Orange police spoke highly of Johnson. "He worked his way up to investigator and might have made sergeant had he stayed with Port Orange," Milholen is quoted as saying in a DeLand police pre-employment screening report.
The DeLand report recommended hiring Johnson, noting that Johnson "could become a good police officer for this agency as long as he is supervised very closely during his probation period."
But the DeLand investigator who wrote the report also said Johnson "did seem to have a know all attitude which could be contributed to his age and from working with a big agency like Daytona P.D."
At the time, Johnson was 23. The pre-employment screening also said one of Johnson's former neighbors told the investigator that "Johnson had a temper. When I questioned him about this comment he would not elaborate," according to the report.
After his termination from DeLand police, Johnson applied for positions with the Eustis Police Department and the Knox County, Tennessee, Sheriff's Department, according to his DeLand personnel file. The two agencies sent letters to DeLand, requesting information on him.
In an interview, Johnson said he worked as a reserve officer with Oak Hill Police Department for several years in the 1990s after he left DeLand police and then he decided to leave police work for good to open his own business.
But he said his background gives him insights into DeLand's crime problems.
"We need to make sure (criminals) understand that DeLand is not a place you're going to come, break into someone's dealership, get about $20,000 worth of merchandise and get away with it," Johnson said at a mayoral debate last week, referring to a recent break-in at his motorcycle dealership.
"I'm not happy about the crime rate, but that's not the first time I've been affected by it. In front of my dealership, we can see prostitution going on up and down (U.S. Highway) 17-92," he said. "This doesn't make the newspapers, but it's going on."
Records: DeLand mayoral candidate was fired as cop
DELAND — In his campaign materials, mayoral candidate Pat Johnson touts his law enforcement experience and asks residents to vote for him so he can tackle DeLand's crime problems.


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Intel Sandy Bridge E-Series Platforms to Emerge in Q4 - Documents
Intel Corp. plans to update its enthusiast-class desktop platform late this year with Sandy Bridge E-series processors. Previously it was believed that the company would introduce them earlier during the year, but instead the company will speed-up the current platform with faster chips and will only bring the brand new platform in the fourth quarter to the market.
A document seen by X-bit labs indicated that Intel intends to introduce its Sandy Bridge E-series microprocessors in LGA2011 form-factor for extreme and premium performance desktop PC segments in Q4 2011. Earlier it was believed that the chip giant would unveil the new central processing units (CPUs) for enthusiasts sometimes in Q3 2011, but it looks like the company decided to postpone the release by several months.
Intel Sandy Bridge E microprocessors are specifically designed for enthusiasts, who demand maximum performance. For example, the chips will carry "extra large cache" to maximize speed of single-threaded or dual-threaded applications, quad-channel memory controller and a number of other enhancements. Sandy Bridge E chips with four or six cores will be paired with code-named Patsburg core-logic set. Platforms based on the latter will feature external base frequency generators and clock-speeds of buses like SATA or USB locked. As a result, enthusiasts will be able to boost clock-speed of microprocessors using traditional methods by increasing DMI frequencies, something that will allow them to easily and more efficiently to overclock their CPUs.
Thanks to a number of micro-architectural enhancements of Sandy Bridge, the new line of extreme processors promises to be very fast. It remains to be seen whether six-core Intel processors will be able to outperform eight-core chips from Advanced Micro Devices, which are due to be released in Q2 - Q3 2011.
Before launching the new LGA2011 platform for enthusiasts in Q4, Intel plans to speed up the current one with a new Core i7 9-series Extreme Edition microprocessor sometimes in the second or in the third quarters.


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Curious George On Time - After accidentally breaking Professor Wiseman's cuckoo clock, George decides to explore the inside of the BIG library clock to see how it works. When the big clock stops working too, Mr. Reloj, the local clockmaker, comes to the rescue. With Mr. Reloj's help, George discovers how to use various tools to make the clocks tick again. D
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Question: I am a person exploring different faiths and where I belong. In the Aug. 17 issue of Our Sunday Visitor, there is an article with the headline "U.S. nun's cause for sainthood opened." The article mentions people who have prayed to this woman, yet the Bible says you shall have no other Gods before me. Since we have a personal relationship with God, why would I need a go-between? Why do Catholics see praying to saints as more effective than praying to God directly?
Answer: Part of your concern is the understanding of the word "pray." Pray, like all words in the English language, has undergone some change in meaning in emphasis over the centuries. Most modern people in hearing the word pray think of an act of worship, and worship of course is directed only to God.
However, originally, the word "pray" simply meant "to ask." Even today, in the world of law, lawyers will often conclude a legal briefing with request "The defendant prays that the court will do such and so ..." To pray to a saint is to ask him or her something, not to engage in active worship.
As for your wonderment about going to anyone instead of straight to God, it should be clear that we are always able to go to God and should do so. However, there is also the human instinct that we all have to ask others to pray for us. St. Paul often ask others to pray for him, or for the Church, or for world leaders, etc. St. Paul — and the Holy Spirit speaking through him — does not consider asking others to pray for us to be a futile or a pointless thing to do. Communal prayer helps to build up the body of Christ and to grow in mutual charity.
Biblically, it does seem, there are some who have special influence with God. While this is mysterious, it is illustrated in Scripture. Moses, for example, as well as Abraham and others were able to specially intervene and get God to "reconsider" or delay his plans for punishment. Mary too, at the wedding feast at Cana, was able to get Jesus to make wine for the young married couple, though he seemed reluctant at first to do so. Scripture says that "the fervent prayer of the righteous person is very powerful" (Jas 5:17). So, while our personal prayer is effective because God loves us, it does seem that God also wills that we seek out others to pray for us as well, especially those noted for holiness.
Question: Was heaven not available to humans until Jesus died on the cross?
Answer: You are correct, there was no access to heaven until the work of Jesus to reconcile us to the Father. Without this sanctifying grace from Jesus, we could not endure the holy presence of God. Prior to Jesus, the dead were understood to go to Sheol, a shadowy place where the dead slept and were only vaguely aware, as they awaited the coming of the Messiah. After dying on the cross, Jesus went down to the dead and preached to them (cf. 1 Pt 3:19), gathering the righteous to him. And as he ascended to heaven, he led them there (Eph 4:8).
While there are stories of Enoch, Elijah and possibly Moses being caught up to heaven, it is unlikely that the highest heaven is meant in those passages.
Msgr. Charles Pope is the pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian in Washington, D.C., and writes for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., blog at blog.adw.org. Send questions to Pastoral Answers, Our Sunday Visitor, 200 Noll Plaza, Huntington, IN 46750 or to firstname.lastname@example.com. Letters must be signed, but anonymity may be requested.
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