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- What machines support perl? Where do I get it?
- How can I get a binary version of perl?
- I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter?
- I copied the perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts don't work.
- I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
- What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN? What does CPAN/src/... mean?
- Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
- Where can I get information on Perl?
- What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
- Where should I post source code?
- Perl Books
- Which magazines have Perl content?
- What mailing lists are there for Perl?
- Where are the archives for comp.lang.perl.misc?
- Where can I buy a commercial version of perl?
- Where do I send bug reports?
- What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl
This section of the FAQ answers questions about where to find source and documentation for Perl, support, and related matters.
What machines support perl? Where do I get it?
The standard release of perl (the one maintained by the perl development team) is distributed only in source code form. You can find the latest releases at http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html .
Perl builds and runs on a bewildering number of platforms. Virtually all known and current Unix derivatives are supported (perl's native platform), as are other systems like VMS, DOS, OS/2, Windows, QNX, BeOS, OS X, MPE/iX and the Amiga.
Binary distributions for some proprietary platforms can be found http://www.cpan.org/ports/ directory. Because these are not part of the standard distribution, they may and in fact do differ from the base perl port in a variety of ways. You'll have to check their respective release notes to see just what the differences are. These differences can be either positive (e.g. extensions for the features of the particular platform that are not supported in the source release of perl) or negative (e.g. might be based upon a less current source release of perl).
How can I get a binary version of perl?
(contributed by brian d foy)
ActiveState: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX
- http://www.activestate.com/
Sunfreeware.com: Solaris 2.5 to Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86)
- http://www.sunfreeware.com/
Strawberry Perl: Windows, Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0
- http://www.strawberryperl.com
IndigoPerl: Windows
- http://indigostar.com/
I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter?
Since you don't have a C compiler, you're doomed and your vendor should be sacrificed to the Sun gods. But that doesn't help you.
What you need to do is get a binary version of
for your system
first. Consult the Usenet FAQs for your operating system for
information on where to get such a binary version.
You might look around the net for a pre-built binary of Perl (or a C compiler!) that meets your needs, though:
For Windows, Vanilla Perl ( http://vanillaperl.com/ ) and Strawberry Perl ( http://strawberryperl.com/ ) come with a bundled C compiler. ActivePerl is a pre-compiled version of Perl ready-to-use.
For Sun systems, SunFreeware.com provides binaries of most popular applications, including compilers and Perl.
I copied the perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts don't work.
That's probably because you forgot libraries, or library paths differ.
You really should build the whole distribution on the machine it will
eventually live on, and then type
make install
. Most other
approaches are doomed to failure.
One simple way to check that things are in the right place is to print out
the hard-coded
that perl looks through for libraries:
- % perl -le 'print for @INC'
If this command lists any paths that don't exist on your system, then you
may need to move the appropriate libraries to these locations, or create
symbolic links, aliases, or shortcuts appropriately.
is also printed as
part of the output of
- % perl -V
You might also want to check out How do I keep my own module/library directory? in perlfaq8.
I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
Read the INSTALL file, which is part of the source distribution.
It describes in detail how to cope with most idiosyncrasies that the
script can't work around for any given system or
What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN? What does CPAN/src/... mean?
CPAN stands for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a multi-gigabyte archive replicated on hundreds of machines all over the world. CPAN contains source code, non-native ports, documentation, scripts, and many third-party modules and extensions, designed for everything from commercial database interfaces to keyboard/screen control to web walking and CGI scripts. The master web site for CPAN is http://www.cpan.org/ and there is the CPAN Multiplexer at http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you via DNS. See http://www.perl.com/CPAN (without a slash at the end) for how this process works. Also, http://mirror.cpan.org/ has a nice interface to the http://www.cpan.org/MIRRORED.BY mirror directory.
See the CPAN FAQ at http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html for answers to the most frequently asked questions about CPAN including how to become a mirror.
is a naming convention for files available on CPAN
sites. CPAN indicates the base directory of a CPAN mirror, and the
rest of the path is the path from that directory to the file. For
instance, if you're using ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN
as your CPAN site, the file
is downloadable as
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/misc/japh .
Considering that, as of 2006, there are over ten thousand existing
modules in the archive, one probably exists to do nearly anything you
can think of. Current categories under
include Perl core modules; development support; operating system
interfaces; networking, devices, and interprocess communication; data
type utilities; database interfaces; user interfaces; interfaces to
other languages; filenames, file systems, and file locking;
internationalization and locale; world wide web support; server and
daemon utilities; archiving and compression; image manipulation; mail
and news; control flow utilities; filehandle and I/O; Microsoft
Windows modules; and miscellaneous modules.
See http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html or http://search.cpan.org/ for a more complete list of modules by category.
CPAN is a free service and is not affiliated with O'Reilly Media.
Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
Certainly not. Larry expects that he'll be certified before Perl is.
Where can I get information on Perl?
The complete Perl documentation is available with the Perl distribution.
If you have Perl installed locally, you probably have the documentation
installed as well: type
man perl
if you're on a system resembling Unix.
This will lead you to other important man pages, including how to set your
. If you're not on a Unix system, access to the documentation
will be different; for example, documentation might only be in HTML format. All
proper perl installations have fully-accessible documentation.
You might also try
perldoc perl
in case your system doesn't
have a proper
command, or it's been misinstalled. If that doesn't
work, try looking in
for documentation.
If all else fails, consult http://perldoc.perl.org/ which has the complete documentation in HTML and PDF format.
Many good books have been written about Perl--see the section later in perlfaq2 for more details.
Tutorial documents included in current or upcoming Perl releases include perltoot for objects or perlboot for a beginner's approach to objects, perlopentut for file opening semantics, perlreftut for managing references, perlretut for regular expressions, perlthrtut for threads, perldebtut for debugging, and perlxstut for linking C and Perl together. There may be more by the time you read this. These URLs might also be useful:
- http://perldoc.perl.org/
- http://bookmarks.cpan.org/search.cgi?cat=Training%2FTutorials
What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
Several groups devoted to the Perl language are on Usenet:
- comp.lang.perl.announce Moderated announcement group
- comp.lang.perl.misc High traffic general Perl discussion
- comp.lang.perl.moderated Moderated discussion group
- comp.lang.perl.modules Use and development of Perl modules
- comp.lang.perl.tk Using Tk (and X) from Perl
Some years ago, comp.lang.perl was divided into those groups, and comp.lang.perl itself officially removed. While that group may still be found on some news servers, it is unwise to use it, because postings there will not appear on news servers which honour the official list of group names. Use comp.lang.perl.misc for topics which do not have a more-appropriate specific group.
There is also a Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by
perl.org at nntp://nntp.perl.org , a web interface to the same lists
at http://nntp.perl.org/group/ and these lists are also available
under the
hierarchy at http://groups.google.com . Other
groups are listed at http://lists.perl.org/ ( also known as
http://lists.cpan.org/ ).
A nice place to ask questions is the PerlMonks site, http://www.perlmonks.org/ , or the Perl Beginners mailing list http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=beginners .
Note that none of the above are supposed to write your code for you: asking questions about particular problems or general advice is fine, but asking someone to write your code for free is not very cool.
Where should I post source code?
You should post source code to whichever group is most appropriate, but feel free to cross-post to comp.lang.perl.misc. If you want to cross-post to alt.sources, please make sure it follows their posting standards, including setting the Followup-To header line to NOT include alt.sources; see their FAQ ( http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-sources-intro/ ) for details.
If you're just looking for software, first use Google ( http://www.google.com ), Google's Usenet search interface ( http://groups.google.com ), and CPAN Search ( http://search.cpan.org ). This is faster and more productive than just posting a request.
Perl Books
There are many good books on Perl. See the perlbook documentation or ( http://books.perl.org ).
Which magazines have Perl content?
The Perl Review ( http://www.theperlreview.com ) focuses on Perl almost completely (although it sometimes sneaks in an article about another language). There's also $foo Magazin, a German magazine dedicated to Perl, at ( http://www.foo-magazin.de ).
The Perl-Zeitung is a German-speaking magazine for Perl beginners (see http://perl-zeitung.at.tf ).
Magazines that frequently carry quality articles on Perl include The Perl Review ( http://www.theperlreview.com ), Unix Review ( http://www.unixreview.com/ ), Linux Magazine ( http://www.linuxmagazine.com/ ), and Usenix's newsletter/magazine to its members, login: ( http://www.usenix.org/ ).
The Perl columns of Randal L. Schwartz are available on the web at http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/ , http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/ , and http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/ .
The first (and for a long time, only) periodical devoted to All Things Perl, The Perl Journal contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies, announcements, contests, and much more. TPJ has columns on web development, databases, Win32 Perl, graphical programming, regular expressions, and networking, and sponsors the Obfuscated Perl Contest and the Perl Poetry Contests. Beginning in November 2002, TPJ moved to a reader-supported monthly e-zine format in which subscribers can download issues as PDF documents. In 2006, TPJ merged with Dr. Dobbs Journal (online edition). To read old TPJ articles, see http://www.ddj.com/ or brian d foy's index of online TPJ content ( http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=711609 ).
What mailing lists are there for Perl?
Most of the major modules (
) have their own
mailing lists. Consult the documentation that came with the module for
subscription information.
A comprehensive list of Perl-related mailing lists can be found at:
- http://lists.perl.org/
Where are the archives for comp.lang.perl.misc?
The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup content.
If you have a question, you can be sure someone has already asked the same question at some point on c.l.p.m. It requires some time and patience to sift through all the content but often you will find the answer you seek.
Where can I buy a commercial version of perl?
In a real sense, perl already is commercial software: it has a license that you can grab and carefully read to your manager. It is distributed in releases and comes in well-defined packages. There is a very large user community and an extensive literature. The comp.lang.perl.* newsgroups and several of the mailing lists provide free answers to your questions in near real-time. Perl has traditionally been supported by Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriad programmers, all working for free to create a useful thing to make life better for everyone.
However, these answers may not suffice for managers who require a purchase order from a company whom they can sue should anything go awry. Or maybe they need very serious hand-holding and contractual obligations. Shrink-wrapped CDs with perl on them are available from several sources if that will help. For example, many Perl books include a distribution of perl, as do the O'Reilly Perl Resource Kits (in both the Unix flavor and in the proprietary Microsoft flavor); the free Unix distributions also all come with perl.
Where do I send bug reports?
(contributed by brian d foy)
First, ensure that you've found an actual bug. Second, ensure you've found an actual bug.
If you've found a bug with the perl interpreter or one of the modules in the standard library (those that come with Perl), you can use the perlbug utility that comes with Perl (>= 5.004). It collects information about your installation to include with your message, then sends the message to the right place.
To determine if a module came with your version of Perl, you can
use the
module. It has the information about
the modules (with their versions) included with each release of Perl.
is not installed on your system, check out
http://perlpunks.de/corelist .
Every CPAN module has a bug tracker set up in RT, http://rt.cpan.org .
You can submit bugs to RT either through its web interface or by
email. To email a bug report, send it to
bug-<distribution-name>@rt.cpan.org . For example, if you
wanted to report a bug in
, you could send a message to
email@example.com .
Some modules might have special reporting requirements, such as a Sourceforge or Google Code tracking system, so you should check the module documentation too.
What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
Perl.com ( http://www.perl.com/ ) used to be part of the O'Reilly Network, a subsidiary of O'Reilly Media. Although it retains most of the original content from its O'Reilly Network, it is now hosted by The Perl Foundation.
The Perl Foundation is an advocacy organization for the Perl language which maintains the web site ( http://www.perl.org/ ) as a general advocacy site for the Perl language. It uses the domain to provide general support services to the Perl community, including the hosting of mailing lists, web sites, and other services. There are also many other sub-domains for special topics like learning Perl, Perl news, jobs in Perl, such as:
- http://www.perl.org/
- http://learn.perl.org/
- http://jobs.perl.org/
- http://lists.perl.org/
Perl Mongers uses the pm.org domain for services related to Perl user groups, including the hosting of mailing lists and web sites. See the Perl Mongers website ( http://www.pm.org/ ) for more information about joining, starting, or requesting services for a Perl user group.
CPAN, or the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network ( http://www.cpan.org/ ), is a replicated, worldwide repository of Perl software. See What is CPAN? in perlfaq2.
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and other authors as noted. All rights reserved.
This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Irrespective of its distribution, all code examples here are in the public domain. You are permitted and encouraged to use this code and any derivatives thereof in your own programs for fun or for profit as you see fit. A simple comment in the code giving credit to the FAQ would be courteous but is not required.
- What machines support perl? Where do I get it?
- How can I get a binary version of perl?
- I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter?
- I copied the perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts don't work.
- I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
- What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN? What does CPAN/src/... mean?
- Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
- Where can I get information on Perl?
- What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
- Where should I post source code?
- Perl Books
- Which magazines have Perl content?
- What mailing lists are there for Perl?
- Where are the archives for comp.lang.perl.misc?
- Where can I buy a commercial version of perl?
- Where do I send bug reports?
- What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?


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"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." Orison Swett Marden
The new school year is right around the corner. Let's discuss some goals we would like to accomplish by the end of the academic year. Goal setting is one of the most important things we should do at the beginning of the school year to be successful.
What are your goals this upcoming year (i.e., academic, scholarship, and service)?
How do you create a schedule to manage multiple tasks throughout the school year?

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blow (something) out of (all) proportion(redirected from blow it out of all proportion)
blow (something) out of (all) proportion
To make something seem more important, negative, or significant than it really is; to exaggerate something or focus unnecessary attention on something. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by that comment—don't blow it out of proportion. Of course she's mad at me because I didn't call her back—you can always count on my mom to blow something out of all proportion!
See also: blow, of, out, proportion
blow out of proportion
To make more of than is reasonable; exaggerate.
See also: blow, of, out, proportion


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English law regarding proscribed marriage partners was based entirely on those laid down by the Anglican Church and stemmed from Henry VIII's reformation of the English Church. These laws almost exactly correspond with those set out in Leviticus, which, whilst explicitly naming the parties forbidden to marry, makes no mention of a deceased wife's sister. Thus, the status of such a union was arguable until laws passed in 1835 rendered it illegal in England and Wales [It was to remain so until the law was repealed through the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act of 1907]. See here for more info.
As with all laws, however, those set on circumventing them would always find ways to do so.
On the death of his wife, Elizabeth, it seemed practical for John Michaelis Barnardo to marry her sister, Abigail, who had been in charge of the household since her sister's death. However, the Bill which was to permit marriage with a deceased wife's sister had not yet been passed, and according to the law as it stood it would have been illegal. By coming to London and by having the ceremony performed in a German church by a German pastor, John Michaelis was able to avoid the legal impediment to his marriage, for as a Prussian subject he was not bound by English law. The full story can be found here 'Birth and boyhood and the melting pot 1845 – 1866′.
The Wesleyan minister, William Morley Punshon (1824-1881) married three times. His first wife, Maria Ann Vickers of Gateshead, by whom he had 6 children, died of consumption in 1858 and was buried at Kensal Green. After her death, her sister Fanny came to live with Punshon to help care for his remaining children. Over the years, Punshon fell in love with her but, as it was illegal in English law, he was advised to send her away and marry someone else. Punshon, clearly a man of honour, decided his only course was to leave England. Invited by the Canadian Methodist Conference to become their President and, such unions not being illegal in that country, the couple were duly married in Toronto in 1868. More details available in a Biography here.
Jewish law imposed no such restriction and, indeed, it is specifically included in the list of those whom it is permissible for a man to marry. viz: His deceased wife's sister, but not his divorced wife's sister (unless the former is deceased already). Chabad.org provides a summary here.
But a combination of the passing of the 1835 Marriage Act and the introduction of Civil Registration in 1837, meant that Jews, along with the rest of their fellow citizens, would have had to go outside the country in order to enter a legal contract of marriage: Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels were the most likely destinations.
This would explain why no English marriage can be found for Ernst Falck who, on the death in 1877 of his first wife, Helene Samuel was to marry her younger sister, Matilda some time between 1877 and 1881.
If anyone has any information about this marriage, we should be pleased to hear from them.


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Google has become part of President Barack Obama's Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, but so far it's the only big tech company in Silicon Valley that has signed on. Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL have also partnered with the president for a Do Not Track button to be placed on their Web browsers.
The Obama administration views the privacy bill of rights as a necessity for Americans so they can control how their personal information is used on the Internet. "American consumers can't wait any longer for clear rules of the road that ensure their personal information is safe online," Obama said in a statement. "As the Internet evolves, consumer trust is essential for the continued growth of the digital economy. That's why an online privacy Bill of Rights is so important."
- Individual Control: Consumers have a right to exercise control over what personal data organizations collect from them and how they use it.
- Transparency: Consumers have a right to easily understandable information about privacy and security practices.
- Respect for Context: Consumers have a right to expect that organizations will collect, use, and disclose personal data in ways that are consistent with the context in which consumers provide the data.
- Security: Consumers have a right to secure and responsible handling of personal data.
- Access and Accuracy: Consumers have a right to access and correct personal data in usable formats, in a manner that is appropriate to the sensitivity of the data and the risk of adverse consequences to consumers if the data are inaccurate.
- Focused Collection: Consumers have a right to reasonable limits on the personal data that companies collect and retain.
- Accountability: Consumers have a right to have personal data handled by companies with appropriate measures in place to assure they adhere to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
The privacy bill of rights is part of the White House report, "Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy."
U.S. & World
What we find interesting is that only Google is part of the team. Apple, Facebook or Twitter are not even mentioned. We all know that Obama has a cordial relationship with Eric Schmidt, so perhaps that explains some of it, because we would like to think other tech companies care about consumer privacy.
While some critics said Obama's move was a good start, the lack of details could just mean more political grandstanding. "The principles are genuinely good," Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center told CNET. "The problem is that there is no plan for implementation or enforcement."


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Executive Chef/owner Stefan Richter of Stefan's at L.A. Farm, was born in Finland to a Czech German father and a Finnish mother.
He lived most of his youth in Germany where he began his formal training at the Hotel and Culinary School in Immenstadt and Bad Woerischofen, Germany. He received several awards as one of the outstanding young European chefs. Further training took him to Zurich, Switzerland and eventually he earned his Certified Master Chef diploma at Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt in Germany.
As a young chef, Richter worked his way through kitchens in Germany, Bangkok, and Canada, finally traveling to the United States to serve as sous chef and garde manager (pantry supervisor) for the Ritz-Carlton in Dearborn, Michigan. Subsequently he was one of a team for the opening the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas where, as executive sous chef, he created, developed and executed menus for a $25 million banquet kitchen that catered high-profile events which included Wolfgang Puck's 50th birthday party.
Richter was one of the runner-ups on "Top Chef" where worked with "signature ingredients" including apples, oats, and eggs, creating dishes such as lamb chops with tabouli, hummus & yogurt; chicken paillard with grilled corn, mizuna, onion & grape tomatoes; and nectarine and strawberry tartlet with thyme, cream & lemon zest.
Following sampling a delightful array of dishes from his L.A. Farm tasting menu, your reporter sat down with this most lively, spirited chef for an interview that has been edited for print purposes.
Cohn: When did you start cooking?
Richter: When I was six or seven. My mom was a chef, as was most of my family, so I was caught up in the chef's world and spent years training in all areas of the kitchen. She was in the restaurant business in Finland and Germany and my father was an architect who inspired me with his work ethic.
Cohn: What were some of your favorite childhood foods and do you incorporate any of them in your cooking?
Richter: My mom cooked easy stuff for us such as really thick Finnish pea soup. She also loved to cook fish soup, salmon, spinach, and meat loaf. I offer some very basic dishes for lunch such as meat loaf and mashed potatoes with white truffles.
Cohn: How do you come up with your recipes?
Richter: You have to play. It's like marriage. You gotta' work on it.
Seriously. I collaborate with Leo (Bongarra) who has been my Chef du Cuisine for seven years. He's been a friend of mine for nine years and I got him when he was untainted. He was very clean and sober and very virgin and there were no bad influences in him so I could train him to my standards and now he's adding a lot to my work. For example, I can't be in the kitchen right now because I'm doing this interview so he's taking care of everything and is supervising the 12 chefs we have in the kitchen. Anyway, he and I write the menus together and test a new dish by running a lunch special to see how it flies.
Cohn: Do you use organic products?
Richter: As much as possible I use organic produce, or at least what I believe it's organic. I can buy it from a vendor who tells me it's organic, but we don't know for sure that they're not spraying the fields. So, you have to trust your vendors. I go to the Santa Monica Farmer's Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I'm a Santa Monica child.
Cohn: Do you have an overall cooking philosophy?
Richter: Keep it simple. People want to eat what they know and what they like and the biggest seller here for lunch is the turkey burger and chicken potpie. I sell 30 to 40 a day. Do I put my own twist on these dishes? Absolutely.
Cohn: Do you have a Happy Hour?
Richter: We start Happy Hour at 4:30 and it goes to 6:30, Monday through Friday.
Cohn: What's your biggest challenge in running a restaurant?
Richter: My biggest challenge is people's expectations. Everybody is a food writer or a blogger and it's very hard to satisfy everyone. Sometimes in this economy it's hard to plan like if it's a Sunday night and you have 25 reservations, how many waiters do you schedule? Two, right? Maybe two bus boys and a bartender. But what if one night you have 90 reservations, service might not be as good as you would like, and people get freaked out about it and then write nasty things. Really? How bad could it be? If you order a medium rare steak for $22 bucks and it's medium, just eat it. It's not that big a deal.
Cohn: What do you think about all these food trucks?
Richter: I wouldn't do it. I think it was great in the beginning because it was a cash business. People drove their food trucks around and they made a nice living. But, now there are 450 lunch trucks in a three-mile area so I don't think anyone is making that much money and I'm glad I didn't buy one.
Cohn: Do you think they're impacting on restaurant business?
Richter: I don't think so. Do you really want to have lunch standing on the corner of Third and Alameda eating taco? I wouldn't and 99% of people don't want to either.
Cohn: You got you training at some of the finest culinary schools in Europe. Where are the great European chefs coming from?
Richter: Ireland has advanced a lot. Thirty years ago you couldn't eat anything, but now some of the greatest chefs are coming out of Ireland.
Cohn: Are there any restaurants in Santa Monica that you particularly like when you eat out?
Richter: I don't go out much because it's hard for me to go out. It's like you're in the restaurant business and do you want to do the same thing when you're off. But, I do go to places like Gjelina's on Abbott Kinney. It's a very cute and well done and I love going there. I also love my In-and-Out Burger, and Gilbert's El Indio Restaurant on Pico, a Mexican joint that's been there forever. I go to Rae's for breakfast for their biscuits and sausages. I like to eat and it doesn't have to be fine dining. I'd rather go to a good taco joint instead of having a mediocre five-course meal.
Cohn: You were a runner up on Top Chef. How did that affect your career?
Richter: I think being on television helped a lot. It was the best PR you could get. I now have two restaurants, a catering company, and three delis.
Cohn: How often to you go back to Finland?
Richter: I go back five times a year. I have a restaurant there and a 40-acre house on the water. I like to hunt and fish in the summer and I spend time on a little farm where I get to relax. On holiday, I like to surf and snorkel in Australia and ski in Switzerland.
Cohn: Earlier you said that coming up with recipes is like a marriage in that you have to work at it and play with the ingredients. Have you been married?
Richter: I've been married twice to the same chick.
Cohn: Is it difficult to maintain a relationship in your line of work?
Richter: I cook every day. I go to the restaurant at 7:00 in the morning and leave around 10:30 at night. And that's pretty much my life. I'm 39 soon and still single. You know how it is when you travel. You're just not home. As soon as someone asks for a drawer in my house, that's it for me because, this is Stefan's house and all the drawers are Stefan's. (Laughter)
Cohn: Do you think you'll ever want to have children or do you think that would be too demanding on your time?
Richter: I would have with my last girlfriend, but my train is up and I think I'm done.
Cohn: What are you thought about men who have kids later in life?
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Richter: I like older women. Young men don't know how good women get with age. They're like fine wine. They get better with age.
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NEWARK, N.J. - Following up on the August 27 symposium on the impact of tourist helicopters on New Jersey communities, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and U.S. Congressman Albio Sires (both D-NJ) contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to present a plan for implementing tourist helicopter restrictions to protect quality of life and safety in New Jersey communities along the Hudson River.
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September 23, 2013
Mr. Carmine Gallo
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1 Aviation Plaza
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Dear Regional Administrator Gallo:
As you know, we have been very concerned about the numerous low flying tourist helicopters that are causing a serious public nuisance over communities on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. When we first called for a meeting on July 29, 2013 bringing together Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials, local elected officials and residents, you were extremely responsive to our concerns. You promptly scheduled a symposium for August 27, 2013 at Teterboro Airport to hear from stakeholders and to evaluate the issues that were involved in ameliorating the situation. This is much appreciated.
We note that there has been a substantial increase in helicopter traffic from 2012 to 2013, which has only exacerbated the concerns communities along the Hudson are having. While we understand the economic development interests of helicopter tourism, we believe that the residents' well-being and public safety must be the preeminent concerns. Because helicopters have unique characteristics that cause more intensive noise perception than fixed-wing aircraft, we think you will agree that no one should have to endure this barrage of noise and vibration that our New Jersey communities on the Hudson River are experiencing.
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Some names may have garnered little more than 15 minutes of fame with their athletic glory while a few have become heroes who will never be forgotten in the local community as well as in the entire country. Athletes who were either born in the state of Maryland or resided here for a significant period of time during their triumphs were considered for the list.
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using System;class ExampleClass{ static void Main() { System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!"); }}
#include <stdio.h>void main(){ printf("Hello, World");}
C has always been the language for pedal to the metal performance. It's one step away from assembly, yet it's also considered a high level language.C is easy to read - I would argue that it's one of the easiest languages to read, due to its limited set of keywords. I would also argue that it compiles to some of the fastest machine code out there.
Linux is written in C. The Apache web server, which dishes out most of the world's websites, is written in C. The original Unix operating system and just about all subsequent ones were/are written in C.
The compilers or interpreters of other computer languages are often written in C.
I mostly agree with you bryan922, just wanted to make it clear that C is grate for low level programming but it also stops there: it's not an effective language for other kinds of applications.
// In C:if( intersect_ray_tri( ray, tri, &t )) { ...}if( intersect_ray_sphere( ray, sphere, &t )) { ...}// In C++ without OOP:if( intersect( ray, tri, &t )) { ...}if( intersect( ray, sphere, &t )) { ...}// In C++ with OOP:if( ray->intersect( sphere, &t )) { ...}if( ray->intersect( tri, &t )) { ...}
calling ray->intersect(sphere)
OOP languages like java are called performance languages (where previously languages like C were thought of as research style langauges).
What would be left if you ditched OOP from C++? How can you possibly implement operator overloading or function overloading without an object? What is it that you don't like about the "->" operator? Are you sure you're not confusing overloading methods with overriding methods?
Just because you ca do it with C or ASM doesn't mean you should do it!
Just for reference, does anybody know what the java virtual machine or intermediary platform is programmed in?
I have read everyone's replys and have another question. For robotics, is C fine or should I switch to C++?
True, you need to use what C++ terms an object to do function overloading, but that's a semantic issue that boils down to use of terminology. There is nothing about the conceptual components of function overloading within the realm of computer science that require one to adopt an OOP paradigm with regard to creating function overloading in a language. Function overloading, in its essence, boils down to a compiler detecting the argument types. It is C++'s choice to entangle that with OOP, which outside of C++, conceptually refers to objects which have methods and can inherit.
int func1(int x) { return x;};int func1(double x) { return 0;}
No, because you can't. You would need a C++ compiler for the processor, and they mostly don't exist.
Assuming that, like most of us, you are using the FREE avr gnu compiler -then it also copes with C++ - see my Members Tutorial
Please help me understand. By function overloading you mean something like this:Code: [Select]int func1(int x) { return x;};int func1(double x) { return 0;}... and then have the compiler choose between the two based on the type of the RVALUE you're actually passing. Well I've got good news for you, that code up there is perfectly correct C++ code that used overloading for global functions (not part of an object). It compiles without warnings and produces the expected results. When you were talking about method overloading I honestly thought you were confusing overloading with overriding as overriding is what's interesting about OOP, not overloading.
As an aside, I think C++ applications and C++ APIs would be cleaner, easier to read, easier to code in, and the code would be more terse and elegant if OOP was ditched, but leaving in operator overloading and function overloading.
I also believe you're comparing Apples to Oranges when you're comparing C++ to Lisp - Lisp is an interpreted language and that's where all the interesting sintax comes from. I know there are compilers for Lisp but apparently you loose most of what makes Lisp by writing code that's compileable (ex: You need to use type declaration for everything you use!).
There's an other issue: You apparently don't like Perl because of it's inconsistent syntactical rules but you like Lisp because you can define your own syntactical rules (by creating your own domain-specific programming language).
I've said it and I repeat it. I've got no problem with all the other programming paradigms and - in fact - I enjoy learning about new programming languages and ideas. I believe that every single one of those programming languages has it's own place. If you insist on bashing C++ do it with the right arguments! Example: C++ is annoying because it's an type-checked language that limits one's creativity for the sake of noobs (that's one of the arguments used by Ruby people)
Quote from: Webbot on January 01, 2009, 03:20:32 PMAssuming that, like most of us, you are using the FREE avr gnu compiler -then it also copes with C++ - see my Members TutorialCan you put a link to your tutorial here? I'm trying to locate it in this list but can't find it:http://www.societyofrobots.com/member_tutorials/taxonomy/term/1?sort=asc&order=AuthorThanks.
That isn't true. Lisp by definition is not interpreted, and Lisp incarnations which compile do not give up features of Lisp. In fact, by definition, Lisp contains a function called 'compile', which will compile any piece of Lisp code, assuming the Lisp implementation has implemented the function to its fullest potential.
Surprisingly, Lisp benchmarks at often only about half the speed of C, which an interpreted language could never do.
The Corman Lisp kernel is written in C/C++/x86 assembler
a sophisticated native-code compiler which is capable of powerful type inferences, and generates code competitive in speed with C compilers.
For those of you who wish to continue to 'diss' C++ then don't forget that early C++ compilers would turn the code into C (using struct contructs) and then compile the C program. So if you think C++ is rubbish then, by implication, you think C is rubbish.
In every case I can think of, intersect returns a boolean. Every single case. The 3d point (or 2d point), or ray's parameter value t, or anything else, is, in every single case I have ever seen, an additional argument pointer. Such code is always written:if( intersect( ... )) { ....}Considering I wrote my first ray tracer in 1987 (on an Amiga) and have studied 3d graphics on and off ever since, I am not unfamiliar with said territory.
Please, I have been quite clear in what I have been saying, and I have made mistakes, but not generally with regard to where my statements are being attacked.
Re-writing everything from oop 'shape1->intersects(shape2)' into 'intersects(shape1,shape2)', when there are many different shapes, is surely just replacing virtual methods with operator overloading and makes the code harder to read and debug as you end up with one monolithic lump of source code. Of course, if you insist on doing this, then you can still do it in C++ anyway if you choose to do so.
Quote from: geek1 on January 01, 2009, 07:58:49 AMI have read everyone's replys and have another question. For robotics, is C fine or should I switch to C++?If it means anything to you, Admin started with basic, moved on to C++ for more advanced features, then finally settled on C as my preferred language for microcontrollers.If I were to program for a PC I'd probably use C++ or Visual Basic. It really depends on the task - use the language best for the task at hand. All languages have their advantages and disadvantages. I prefer languages simple to use with a lot of source code and community support, I don't care for 'optimal' as all of them will work fine for my limited apps.As for which language is fastest or takes up the least memory or whatever, that's more of a compiler issue. Hypothetically a compiler, that's good enough, can turn C++ to be as efficient as assembly code when compiled. Hypothetically . . .Anyway, this is a friendly forum, try to be sensitive in your comments. Proving you're an awesome programmer should be limited to the amazing robots you upload on youtube


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WEB is a software system that facilitates the creation of readable programs. It was originally developed by Donald E. Knuth as he wrote the TeX typesetting system. Users of WEB are able to
The main idea is to regard a program as a communication to human beings rather than as a set of instructions to a computer. Your program is also viewed as a hypertext document, rather like the World Wide Web. (Indeed, Knuth used the word WEB for this purpose long before CERN grabbed it!)
CWEB is a version of WEB for documenting C, C++, and Java programs. WEB was adapted to C by Silvio Levy in 1987, and since then both Knuth and Levy have revised and enhanced the system in many ways, notably to support C++ and ANSI C. Thus CWEB combines TeX with today's most widely used professional programming languages.
If you are in the software industry and do not use CWEB but your competitors do, your competitors will soon overtake you---and you'll miss out on a lot of fun besides.
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The second printing of this book also contains Knuth's open letter to the U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks.
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Known errors in CWEB or its documentation have always been corrected immediately in the online version. Only a few trivial bugs in the programs have been found since Version 3.4 was released in April 1995, except that many of the more recent features of C++ were not properly supported. Version 3.6 corrects these flaws and adds important new capabilities related to PDF files (Adobe Portable Document Files for the Acrobat reader). Version 3.64 improves the latter capabilities.
If your program worked with Version 3.4 but is formatted strangely with Version 3.6, the probable cause is that you have used identifiers that became reserved keywords in the latest C++. For example, the identifiers `and', `compl', `not', `or', `xor', and `not_eq' are now reserved; also 'bool' is predeclared. The cure is to put a line like this near the beginning of your .w file:
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The authors do not intend to change CWEB henceforth unless some devastating new bug is discovered. Non-catastrophic infelicities should therefore be considered permanent features of CWEB.
Version 3.61 of CWEB introduced cool new features with which you can weave programs in PDF format with clickable links, and these features have been refined in version 3.64. In fact, the new software gives you two ways to proceed, either with standard TeX together with Mark A. Wicks's program dvipdfm, or with an extension of TeX called pdfTeX. Instructions on how to use these features are explained in the current CWEB manual and examples appear in the Makefile.
(Note for those who like gory details: Version 3.63 --- vintage 2001 --- was almost as good as 3.64; but it didn't handle LaTeX and Acrobat simultaneously, and it didn't do nearly as good a job when making the bookmarks for an Acrobat file. Most of the changes between 3.63 and 3.64 occur in the file cwebmac.tex, which contains some very instructive TeX macros.)
If you compile the CWEB sources with modern compilers you will get lots of harmless warning messages. Wojciech A. Koszek has figured out how to avoid them.
The philosophy of literate programming is explained fully in the book Literate Programming, which also contains an extensive bibliography of the subject. More than 30 example CWEB programs can be found in The Stanford GraphBase; ten more are in MMIXware. And I've made several additional programs available for downloading.


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At least 40 companies including Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. were targeted in malware attacks linked to an Eastern European gang of hackers that is trying steal company secrets, two people familiar with the matter said.
Apple, one of three victims to publicly disclose attacks this month, said some of its internal Mac systems were affected by a malware attack. The hackers used an iPhone-developer website, according to the people familiar with law enforcement efforts, including investigations by the FBI and Secret Service, and didn't want to be identified because of the probe.
"We identified a small number of systems within Apple that were infected and isolated them from our network," Cupertino, California-based Apple said yesterday in a statement. "There is no evidence that any data left Apple. We are working closely with law enforcement to find the source of the malware."
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Investigators suspect that the hackers are a criminal group based in Russia or Eastern Europe, and have tracked at least one server being used by the group to a hosting company in the Ukraine. Other evidence, including the malware used in the attack, also suggest it is the work of cyber criminals rather than state-sponsored espionage from China, two people familiar with the investigation said.
The New York Times Co. reported Jan. 30 that its computer network was hacked repeatedly by attackers in China. For four months, the newspaper's computer systems were infiltrated and Chinese hackers accessed some passwords for its reporters and other employees, the publisher said.
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Plenty of analyst reports are showing the growth of cloud computing, along with the fact that PaaS (platform as a service) is picking up steam in 2011. Indeed, this Forrester Research report from April was quite accurate: "PaaS is the third-largest cloud category, with a market size of $820 million in 2011, and Forrester predicts steady growth as PaaS becomes a serious alternative for developing custom applications. Many [software vendors] have been using PaaS since 2010; usage in corporate application development will take off in 2011, while service providers will engage more with PaaS from 2012 on."
Beyond the growth of sales and the addition of new options such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk, there are three core reasons why PaaS is taking off.
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First, the price for development within the enterprise is too high. Consider the cost of middleware, databases, tools, testing platforms, staging platforms, and so on, and you're looking in the neighborhood of $1 million to design, build, and deploy an application. As the application backlogs build up, enterprise IT wants a reasonable way to get these applications into production.
Second, many of those who use PaaS in a corporation are not under IT's control. Employees frustrated with the wait for corporate IT to solve a business problem simply hire their own developers and use PaaS as a cheap way to get their applications built, tested, and deployed. What IT doesn't know won't hurt it.
Third, many new applications use Web-based resources to augment the functionality of the application, such as data validation services, mapping, and other services that can be mashed into an application. It's much easier to use Web resources from other Web resources. PaaS becomes the path of least resistance and, thus, the platform of choice.
These are just a few reasons why PaaS is gaining traction. Perhaps it's time for your IT department to look into it.
This article, "3 reasons cloud app development is taking off," originally appeared at InfoWorld.com. Read more of David Linthicum's Cloud Computing blog and track the latest developments in cloud computing at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Dru Meadows, chairman of E60, says that emerging interest in sustainability is reflected by the development of E60, founded in 2008 after having been a subcommittee in Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings.
"The fact that we have E60 is huge and it's not been without some effort," says Meadows. "In 1994, a subcommittee on green buildings attracted two people to its initial meeting."
Today's E60, with hundreds of members and many standards under its jurisdiction, illustrates the evolution of sustainability. Meadows and Schmeida speak of the innovative ways in which E60 presents sustainability issues.
Meadows, principal at the theGreenTeam Inc., Tulsa, Okla., says that the Sustainability Database compiled by ASTM and other organizations and now maintained by E60, highlights more than 800 standards, including over 500 ASTM standards.
Schmeida, director, compliance and sustainability at Tremco Commercial Sealants and Waterproofing, Cleveland, Ohio, notes that he and Meadows have visited the executive committee meetings of other ASTM committees to describe E60's work. E60 offers assistance whether a committee opts to develop sustainability standards through its own subcommittees or via an E60 group. In cases such as work on standards for vegetative green roofs, E60 and Committee D08 on Roofing and Waterproofing established a coordinated effort that best utilizes the expertise in each of the committees.
E60's latest workshop, Sustainability Standards and Methods: A State of the Union, will be held Oct. 21 in Jacksonville, Fla. The workshop will bring standards organizations together to get an understanding of what standards are needed and to identify possible areas of collaboration. Information on the workshop can be found on the Committee E60 home page.
E60 also presents awards of appreciation to members of other ASTM committees who promote the cause of sustainability. Recipients have been:
"Committee E60 definitely wants to be a partner to any other committee," says Schmeida. "We want to be a resource and an incubator for sustainability standards."


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The Sundre-area rancher has always been one to look to the future and not to the past. Under his management, Red Deer River Ranches — a 118-year-old cattle ranch in the foothills of the Rockies — has made major changes, transitioning from a traditional cow-calf operation to an all-natural ranch that sells beef directly to consumers. He has also diversified by creating a guest ranch on the property. Each year, 800 visitors come seeking peace and quiet and the authentic Western lifestyle.
On a glorious May day, with the sun sparkling on the Red Deer River and a gentle breeze stirring the grasses, Bradley finds it easy to be hopeful about his future on the ranch. But there have been darker days, for him and his thousands of counterparts around the province. Ten years ago come Monday, a discovery was made that shook the beef industry to its very core.
Bradley can't recall where he was or what he was doing that day in 2003 when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed a case of BSE, or mad cow disease, had been discovered in northern Alberta.
What he does remember is how his anxiety gradually escalated throughout the following weeks, as auction marts across the province cancelled sales and international borders remained closed to Canadian beef.
For Bradley, Canada's BSE crisis didn't arrive with the sudden shock of a car accident or natural disaster, but with the slow-growing realization that the future of his whole industry was in jeopardy.
"It was day after day after day of things unravelling," he says. "It was like your whole business and whole reason for being was completely under attack. Everything that you knew, in terms of the way to do business, was gone."
What would eventually become one of the worst crises in Canadian agriculture history began quietly in late January 2003, when Marwyn Peaster, a former catfish farmer from Mississippi trying his hand at cattle ranching in Alberta, sent a sick cow to a local slaughterhouse. The cow was so ill it could no longer stand up — a "downer" in industry terms. Deeming the cow unfit for human consumption, an inspector shipped its head for testing; the rest of the carcass was to be rendered into pet food and pig and poultry feed.
Peaster — notoriously media shy at the time of the incident, later moved back to Mississippi and is now in Oregon.
When recently contacted by the Herald, Peaster declined to comment, saying, "I don't think I'm interested in getting involved in that."
The Mennonite farmer, who was 30 in 2003, couldn't have known as he prepared for spring on his ranch near Wanham, Alta., that year that he would soon be at the centre of a major international news story. He couldn't have known that four months after loading that sick cow into the back of a truck, the animal's brain cells would test positive in a provincial laboratory for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Unlike Bradley, Dennis Laycraft — executive vice-president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association — remembers exactly what he was doing that fateful day. It was the May long weekend of 2003, and Laycraft was in Chilliwack, B.C., on a family vacation when he got a phone call from then federal Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief, telling him a "probable" case of BSE had turned up in Alberta. Laycraft immediately packed his bags and returned to Calgary, to wait for confirmation from the World Reference Laboratory in Britain and prepare for the firestorm that was sure to follow.
View a map of BSE cases across western Canada
Laycraft knew full well what a positive case could mean for the industry. He had followed closely what had happened in the 1980s and 1990s in the U.K., where BSE — a progressive, fatal disease of the central nervous system — had infected millions of animals and devastated the British farming industry. By 2003, more than 100 deaths in the U.K. had been attributed to the human form of BSE, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and consumer confidence in beef products had been shattered.
Laycraft says for him, the darkest moments were those first two days when officials were waiting for the results to be confirmed and discussing how to go public with the news.
"It was surreal, to be honest," Laycraft recalls. "We'd had an animal that had been imported from the United Kingdom in 1993 test positive, and at the time we and the federal government were accused of being almost draconian in our response — we had started monitoring all imported animals, all remaining animals from that herd were destroyed, and their remains were incinerated. We'd gone 10 years since that time without any positives . . . . We honestly felt we'd moved past the risk, so this was totally unexpected."
On May 20, 2003, a Tuesday, the results came in, and federal and provincial officials summoned the media to a news conference in Edmonton. North America had its first domestic case of mad cow disease.
The impact was immediate and far-reaching. Forty countries shut their borders to Canadian beef.
Truck shipments were halted, auctions were cancelled, and cattle prices plummeted. Feedlot operators with live cattle ready to go had nowhere to sell them. Prior to BSE, Canada had been exporting somewhere between 50 and 60 per cent of its overall production of both beef and live cattle — the majority to the United States. Canada's beef industry was an export-dependent business, and the customers had disappeared overnight.
Grant Hirsche — a purebred Hereford breeder from the High River area and today a part-owner of Hirsche Fraser Meats in Okotoks — remembers being in Australia for a bull show when his wife phoned to tell him there had been a BSE discovery in Canada.
"Me being an optimist, I said, 'Oh, well, that's not going to be a big issue. They'll get it cleaned up and within a few days it'll be fine,' " Hirsche recalls. "Well, lo and behold, it wasn't fine."
Not only was it not fine, it nearly broke him. Prior to BSE, more than 50 per cent of Hirsche's sales were to international or American customers.
"We had markets all over the world. We were exporting semen to, the last I counted, 37 different countries," says Hirsche. "So when BSE hit, it was devastating for us. Overnight, our sales totally shut down."
The domestic market had withered as well. Cow-calf operators who weren't certain they'd be able to sell their calves in the fall certainly weren't about to go out and spend a lot of money on a new breeding bull. Hirsche knew he had to do something, or he'd go bankrupt.
The solution he came up with was to sell his own meat. He got the necessary licences, found a small local abattoir that could take four or five cows a week, and contacted a friend who owned an old refrigerated milk delivery truck. Then he chose a day, loaded the truck with frozen hamburger, and parked it at a local High River car dealership.
Hirsche recalls he had decided to sell for 99 cents a pound, since hamburger at that time was going for about $1.29 a pound. But as he drove the truck into town that day, he saw a sign advertising a "BSE Special" at the local grocery store, with ground beef on sale for 69 cents a pound.
His heart sank. And yet, that weekend — in spite of the fact his product was more expensive than the stores — he sold out.
"I had never seen anything like it. People were so supportive, they really wanted to do something to help the farmer," Hirsche says. "I must have had 100 people ask why I was selling just hamburger. They were willing to buy anything."
Before long, Hirsche and his partner — fellow rancher Doug Fraser — were selling everything from ground beef and steaks to sausages and jerky. For two years, they sold their homegrown beef at trade shows and out of their truck parked on the side of the highway. Then in 2005, they opened the butcher shop in Okotoks.
Like most new business owners, Hirsch and Fraser found it a tough go at first. Hirsche says they never could have survived without the outpouring of support from the public at that time. Contrary to what many in the industry feared the day the news broke, domestic consumption of beef never went down as a result of BSE — in fact, in 2003, per capita beef consumption actually increased to 32.4 kg, from 30.58 kg in 2002.
It appeared Canadians had decided the risks of BSE were minimal, but the consequences of international trade restrictions — to both the beef industry and the economy as a whole — were huge. That summer, Albertans rallied behind the beef industry, slapping "I Love Alberta Beef" on their bumper stickers and hosting one barbecue after another.
Arno Doerksen, who was chair of the Alberta Beef Producers at the time and still ranches near the southeast community of Gem today, says those gestures did a lot to bolster morale, especially in small rural communities where the entire local economy was dependent on the health of the beef sector.
"There was an outpouring of support that was really remarkable," Doerksen says. "To see the way Canadians pulled together on this issue, it was touching — no question about it."
But while Canadians were munching on burgers, and enterprising ranchers like Hirsche were taking matters into their own hands, a higher level political battle was underway.
In Washington, D.C., John Masswohl — then Agriculture Counsellor for the Canadian Embassy — knew he was in for a busy summer the second he got the phone call from a counterpart in Ottawa.
"My immediate thought was, 'I need to go talk to the Ambassador (Michael Kergin),' " Masswohl says. "Usually there's a chain of command, but I knew this was a big deal."
While Masswohl and his colleagues in Washington knew their job was to help get the border open again, they weren't sure what it was going to take.
"Nobody knew, not even the folks at the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), because they had never reopened to a country that had a case of BSE," says Masswohl, who today serves as the Canadian Cattlemen's Association's director of government and international relations. "The procedures were there for the emergency closure, but there was really no road map for the reopening."
A month into the crisis, tests on more than 1,400 animals from cattle herds believed to be connected to Peaster's sick cow had turned up negative for BSE. A team of international scientists — invited by Canadian officials to examine the situation — had completed a review and made a number of recommendations, including reviewing animal feed restrictions, strengthening tracking and tracing systems, and improving disease testing and surveillance. The Canadian government promised a quick response to the recommendations. Outlining the steps Canada has taken to ensure the safety of its beef, officials pressed the U.S. and other governments around the world to lift their trade restrictions.
But even though Canada was convinced it had science on its side, it wasn't an easy road. In August 2003, the U.S. reopened to boneless beef from animals under 30 months of age — a major coup for Canada and a shot in the arm for the beef industry. But in April 2004, just as the U.S. government agreed to lift restrictions on bone-in and ground beef under 30 months, the American cattle producers' lobby organization R-CALF obtained a court injunction halting the process.
"I remember the ambassador going to meet with a number of these congressmen and senators (from states where R-CALF was active), and providing them with a bunch of information about why what they were saying was wrong. But if someone's motivation is to keep you out, and you give them information showing them they're wrong, then they come out with new information," Masswohl says. "But I would say the majority of people in the USDA, and the people in scientific positions who wanted to make decisions based on what the science is, realized pretty quickly that, 'OK, this is a pretty small risk.' "
The ensuing legal battle lasted for more than a year, until the U.S. reopened the border to bone-in and under 30 months live cattle in July of 2005. It wasn't until November 2007 that the U.S. opened its border fully to Canadian beef, resuming imports of animals over 30 months.
While all this was going on, then Alberta Agriculture Minister Shirley McClellan and former premier Ralph Klein — who created an uproar when he told the Western Governors' Association that any self-respecting rancher facing a potential case of mad cow would have "shot, shovelled and shut up" — worked to tide over a suffering industry. In June 2003, Klein went to the Western Premiers Conference to get support for a federal assistance program. The premiers emerged from the conference urging Ottawa to provide financial aid to help the industry recover from lost revenue. Ten days later, Ottawa announced a $460-million national BSE Recovery Program, cost-shared between the federal and provincial governments.
McClellan says the program was the result of many meetings with agricultural leaders — many of whom were leery of taking any assistance at all, but realized it was the only way to keep the industry afloat.
"I can remember Ralph telling me, you get the industry together and you develop what you believe is the solution with them," McClellan says. "The beef industry in particular is not an industry that would look to government for anything. . . . I think what maybe made me so proud of these folks, when they were faced with absolute devastation, was the way they would say, 'OK, we can beat this thing.' "
While the opening of the U.S. border marked the end of the crisis, Canada continues to face BSE-related trade restrictions with other markets to this day. There have now been 18 cases of BSE in Canada, the most recent in February 2011. (There have also been four cases in the U.S., the first of which was discovered in December 2003.)
The Canadian Cattlemen's Association estimates that, all told, the BSE crisis cost the industry between $6 billion and $10 billion. But as difficult as that period was, the industry has made a significant recovery. Of the top 10 international markets for Canadian beef in 2002, trade access has been restored at least in part to all of them. And both the federal and provincial governments continue to lobby holdout countries to reverse their bans.
The vast majority of ranchers and feedlot operators — though they lost a lot of equity — were able to ride out the BSE crisis without going under, and in recent years, cattle prices have strengthened dramatically.
Still, the Canadian beef industry today is not the beef industry of 10 years ago. Producers were still emerging from the nightmare of BSE in 2005 when they were hit with the double whammy of a rising Canadian dollar and soaring feed grain prices — challenges that have defined the second half of the post-BSE era.
The effect of the last decade is visible in the numbers. According to Statistics Canada, the number of farms reporting beef cows in Alberta declined from 28,510 in 2001, to 25,665 in 2006, and 18,618 in 2011. The size of the Canadian cattle herd is about four million head now, a significant decrease from 5.2 million head in early 2003. And where the value of Alberta's beef exports was pegged at $1.6 billion in 2002, the 2012 figure was just $852 million.
While the BSE crisis is by no means the only factor, it's part of the reason for these falling numbers.
"There's always, in the back of people's minds, this feeling like, 'What if we got another case of BSE, or something like BSE?' There's sort of this ongoing caution that lingers there and I think it maybe does restrict our capacity to expand, a little bit," says Brian Perillat, manager and senior analyst with Canfax, the marketing division of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. "There's still that psychology, 10 years on, in the guys buying cattle."
If anything, ranchers today are more aware of their own vulnerability. Hirsche — the purebred breeder turned meat shop owner — likes what he's doing at his Okotoks store and believes the market for rancher-direct, natural meat products is going to grow. He's also started to rebuild his purebred herd after a major downsizing in the years following BSE. Last fall, one of his bulls was named overall grand champion at the Canadian Western Agribition.
But Hirsche hasn't forgotten the lean years of BSE. He says Canada's beef industry is still far too reliant on the United States for the processing and sale of its product. He points to the havoc wreaked by the temporary closure of one packing plant — XL Foods in Brooks — due to an E. coli scare last fall.
"It is a frustrating situation, because I don't think we've learned. We are in the very same boat that we were," Hirsche says. "If they ever shut the borders again, for whatever reason, we are back in the exact same situation."
Back on the Red Deer River Ranch, Jason Bradley says that's part of the reason he is putting so much effort into building a customer base for his rancher-direct beef. BSE highlighted for him just how vulnerable a cow-calf producer is to international events beyond his control. By choosing to bypass the auction mart and the feedlot and sell directly to consumers, Bradley hopes he has mitigated some of that risk.
"If another thing were to come along like BSE, and the U.S. and other countries were to shut their borders, right now we're not restricted by that," Bradley says. "Our beef goes to people in Calgary or Red Deer or Canmore — directly to their houses and into their freezer. One of the things we wanted to avoid was being completely dependent on exporting in such a big, industrial fashion. I don't want to be held hostage by that anymore."
BSE kicked off a tough 10 years, Bradley says, and it's no surprise to him there are fewer Canadians ranching today. He doesn't expect those numbers to increase anytime soon.
"I see the industry continuing to rightsize. Whoever's left at the end of this are going to be the survivors, the ones who had the financial wherewithal and the ability to diversify," he says. "It's not like it's going to be easy, in the very short term, to make money in the cattle industry."
Still, Bradley is determined to stick to that adage about "looking where you're riding." Ranching has given him a lifestyle like no other, and he's convinced the industry has a future for those who have the vision to adapt and change.
"We need to keep making new decisions about how we're going to stay positive and stay motivated," he says. "We need to keep that passion and that dream going — that little boy dream of 'I always wanted to be a cowboy.' "


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Literature and Medicine
Course Number: ENGL 170LM
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Massachusetts officials said Sunday they had closed another pharmacy as part of a crackdown after an outbreak of fungal disease that has killed 25 people and made 344 sick.
They said a surprise inspection turned up unsanitary conditions at Infusion Resource, a compounding pharmacy in Waltham, Massachusetts that prepares sterile, injectable medications. The facility was also administering injections, something it wasn't licensed to do, said Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the state department of health's Bureau of Healthcare Safety and Quality. Biondolillo did not say any products from the pharmacy were in any way linked to the ongoing outbreak linked to pain injections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported six new cases of fungal disease on Saturday in the outbreak traced to steroid injections made by the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts, bringing the total to 344 cases of infection in 18 states, with 25 deaths. Officials have closed NECC and a separate pharmacy with common ownership, Ameridose, has also closed.
The fungus causes an unusual type of meningitis in some patients who got injections directly into their spines, and patients must undergo weeks or months of treatment with antifungal drugs that themselves can be dangerous, with severe side-effects. State and federal regulators are working to find out how the drugs got contaminated and how the pharmacy managed to operate at such a large scale for so long.
"As our joint investigation with our federal partners into NECC and Ameridose continues, we have launched a series of immediate, on-site inspections of other compounding pharmacies in Massachusetts that prepare sterile injectable medications," Dr. Lauren Smith, interim commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, told a news conference Sunday.
"We will continue our aggressive unannounced inspections of compounding pharmacies while also focusing on our ongoing investigations of NECC and Ameridose." Smith said the department was adding inspectors and other staff to help take on the workload.
NECC was licensed as a compounding pharmacy, which is supposed to custom-make drugs to order on a per-prescription basis. Instead, officials say, it was mass-producing and distributing drugs to hundreds of clinics treating tens of thousands of patients in two dozen states.
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration released details of some of its inspections of NECC, and said it found greenish black matter growing in some of the products. The FDA doesn't regulate compounding pharmacies like it does drug manufacturers, but can look for unclean conditions. The FDA said it found dirt, puddles of water and improper sterilization practices at NECC.
State health agencies are supposed to regulate compounding pharmacies but Massachusetts officials say they didn't have the power they needed to keep tabs on NECC, which had received several state and federal warnings in recent years. Smith said her department was preparing regulations to require compounding pharmacies to submit frequent reports about sterile, injectable medications -- especially how much they are making and distributing. "This reporting will allow us to better identify large-scale operations acting more as a manufacturer, which requires federal licensure and additional scrutiny," she said.
"We are also launching a special commission to examine best practices in other states and potential changes to state law or regulations to help us keep pace with an evolving industry and close the regulatory gray area that exists between state and federal oversight."
Infusion Resource, the pharmacy that was closed Sunday, has a branch in Rhode Island, also. "Our patients' infusion solution needs are being serviced out of our Rhode Island pharmacy located within our main headquarters building in East Providence," Infusion Resource LLC CEO Bernard Lambrese said in a statement.
Biondolillo said inspectors found "significant issues with the environment in which medications were being compounded, which has called into question the company's compliance with nationally accepted pharmacy standards and Massachusetts regulations." She said while no products have been found to be contaminated, the state has closed the facility because of worries about sterility.
"Additionally, there was an adjacent space set up for giving patients intravenous medications on-site. Infusion Resource does not have an appropriate clinic license to conduct these activities, which is a violation of state regulations," Biondolillo said.
Infusion Resource said the issues uncovered by the inspectors did not involve its products.
"The compliance issues involve such physical plant issues as a hairline crack discovered in a 4-pane window caused by settling of the anteroom, the condition of the standard clean room flooring, and a leak in a refrigerator drain hose," the company said in a statement.
"The company provides infusion therapy services to patients in home, ambulatory suite or hospital locations, with approximately 80 patients in Massachusetts served from its Waltham location. It does not provide batch compounding services -- rather it compounds for individual patient dosing needs." A spokeswoman added that the on-site space flagged by the researchers was for education, not for delivering infusions.
In a separate matter, Smith also said state pharmacy board member Sophia Pasedis, who is also a manager at Ameridose, had been asked to resign but said she had refused. Smith said Pasedis should have recused herself from any matters concerning Ameridose and NECC but it wasn't in fact clear that she had. "Given the ongoing investigation, we believe it is in the best interest of the board to have Ms. Pasedis step down," Smith said. "We are considering what actions to take in the interim. "
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Yankees Hit "Send"
The relationship between the Yankees and their cash cow ticket-buyers, calm for nearly two years since the team did a 180 on the astonishing overpricing of 2009, may be strained anew.
The club tonight advised its season ticket holders that their addresses, phone and fax numbers, and club-related data, had been compromised – emailed to several hundred other season ticket holders.
Dear Yankees Season Ticket Licensee:We are writing to inform you about an accidental electronic distribution of information that you have previously supplied to the New York Yankees.Monday evening, April 25, 2011 an employee of the Yankees sent an e-mail to several hundred Yankees Season Ticket Licensees. The e-mail mistakenly attached an internal Yankees spreadsheet that listed the following information associated with your New York Yankees account:
- Your name, and the address, phone number(s), fax number, and e-mail address that you previously provided to the Yankees
- Your seat numbers, Yankees account number, Yankees account representative name, and the ticket package code associated with your accountNO OTHER INFORMATION WAS INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENT THAT WAS ACCIDENTALLY ATTACHED TO THE APRIL 25th E-MAIL. THE DOCUMENT DID NOT INCLUDE ANY BIRTH DATES, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, CREDIT CARD DATA, BANKING DATA, OR ANY OTHER PERSONAL OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION.Please note, immediately upon learning of the accidental attachment of the internal spreadsheet, remedial measures were undertaken so as to assure that a similar incident could not happen again.The Yankees deeply regret this incident, and any inconvenience that it might cause.
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I just received the same message. As a loyal fan and partial season ticket holder for 10 years it isn't the best feeling based on the amount of warmth they have shown in the past.
Not the worst news, considering. That info doesn't seem that sensitive or hard to obtain for whomever may have been interested, especially if it does not include birth/SS/financial data. Folks are starting to get used to this sort of breach, unfortunately.
I was thinking this entry might have been about that worst call ever that just happened…and maybe it is coming up…I mean UMP! On one hand, this seems okay, like Kiko said. There is so much info and misinformation out there. Also, if one is able to afford those season tickets, then that is a safeguard in itself! On the other hand, I have seen some of the pictures of people out at the stadium…and well…let us just hope that they are all more like Mother Teresa, the popo and even ShamWow guy. Don't be afraid, but if they start asking for the birth certificate, do not produce it! Play ball!
First thing I'd've done – and I'm not proud of this – is called a bunch of famous people. Just to say hi, because I'm nice.
Pssst — Keith, please notice the Indians quick! Holy cow they've been fun to watch in April.
I've been an Indians fan all my life, so I know it probably won't last, but some seasons we've already given up by now. This year it feels like they're just getting started.
One week later, and the Yankees have still yet to take any action to protect its season ticket holders from the long-term fallout of this goof-up. My friend is a 70-year-old season ticket holder whose information was released. In a year, when he gets a call from "the Yankees" asking him to renew or update his billing information, is he going to remember that it may be bull? The Yankees didn't just release names and numbers–they released email addresses, season ticket account numbers, seat locations, and the names of the pass holder's account representative. Further, the truly devious individual could try to "friend" my friend on Facebook to cull personal information with a simple "Hey, we met last week in Sec ABC, Row X." The consequences of the Yankees screw-up will be left…. eventually. I can almost promise this.
This is unrelated, but could Keith address the MLB television blackout issue if he already hasn't. I live in New Orleans and am trying to watch a game being played in Arlington, Texas – but MLB says 500 miles away is under blackout!!!! 500 miles? This is horrible. If this is how the owners hope to raise money, baseball's growth can only remain stagnant.
I live in New Orleans and am trying to watch a game being played in Arlington, Texas – but MLB says 500 miles away is under blackout!!!! 500 miles? This is horrible. If this is how the owners hope to raise money, baseball's growth can only remain stagnant.