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Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematicsby David Berlinski
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In Infinite Ascent, David Berlinski, the acclaimed author of The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus, and Newton's Gift, tells the story of mathematics, bringing to life with wit, elegance, and deep insight a 2,500-year-long intellectual adventure.
Berlinski focuses on the ten most important breakthroughs in mathematical history–and the men behind them. Here are Pythagoras, intoxicated by the mystical significance of numbers; Euclid, who gave the world the very idea of a proof; Leibniz and Newton, co-discoverers of the calculus; Cantor, master of the infinite; and Gödel, who in one magnificent proof placed everything in doubt.
The elaboration of mathematical knowledge has meant nothing less than the unfolding of human consciousness itself. With his unmatched ability to make abstract ideas concrete and approachable, Berlinski both tells an engrossing tale and introduces us to the full power of what surely ranks as one of the greatest of all human endeavors.
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Chapter 1
The history of mathematics begins in 532 BC, the date marking the birth of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Having fled the island of Samos in order to escape the tyranny of Polycrates, Pythagoras traveled to Egypt, where, like so many impressionable young Greek men, he "learned number and measure from Egyptians [and] was astonished at the wisdom of the priests." Thereafter, he settled in southern Italy; he began teaching and quickly attracted disciples. Very little is known directly of his life, except that his contemporaries considered him admirable. Nothing from his own hand remains: He has been preserved against the worm of time by the amber of various literary artifacts. Admission to the Pythagorean sect was evidently based on mathematical ability. Secrecy was enforced and dietary restrictions against beans maintained. New members were required to keep silent for a number of years, a policy that even today many teachers will find admirable, and they were expected during this time to meditate and reflect. Some members of the Pythagorean sect regarded the external world as a prison, a cave filled with flickering shadows and dull brutish shapes. Let me add to this confused but static scene the heat lightning of superb mathematical intuition.
Until the mid-twentieth century, the thesis that in mathematics as in almost everything else, the Greeks were there at first light, did not require an elaborate defense. With their forearms draped in friendship over any number of toga-clad shoulders, classicists who had spent years mastering infernal Greek declensions naturally assumed that the "Greeks were fellows of another college." The history of the Ancient Near East has come into sharper focus over the past century, great scholars poring over cuneiform tablets and re-creating the life of ancient empires that had until their work been swallowed up as the impenetrable before. They have found remarkable things, a history before classical history, evidence that men and women have used and loved mathematics in the time before time began. Neolithic ax-marks have even suggested that the origins of mathematics lie impossibly far in the past, and that men living in caves, their hairy torsos covered by vile-smelling furs, chipped the names of the numbers onto their ax handles as bison grease spattered over an open fire. And why not? Like language itself, mathematics is an inheritance of the race.
The burden of those impossibly distant centuries now disappears. It is roughly six centuries before the birth of Christ. The Greeks are just about to elbow their way into all the corridors of culture. They give every indication of knowing everything and having known it all along. Yet the Babylonians already possessed a remarkably sophisticated body of mathematical knowledge. They were matchless observational astronomers, and they had brought a number of celestial phenomena under the control of precise mathematical techniques. They were immensely clever. "I found a stone, but did not weigh it," one scribe wrote. "I then weighed out six times its weight, added two gin, and then added one third of one seventh, multiplied by twenty-four. I weighed it. [The result came to] one ma-na." "What," the scribe now asks his oil-haired students, "was the original weight of the stone?" Mathematicians are apt to see an all-too-familiar face peeping through the problems of a Babylonian scribe—their face, of course, ubiquitous and always the same.
But those classicists sipping sherry in the common room of time had been right all along. The Greeks were there at first light.
The natural numbers 1, 2, 3, . . . begin at one and they go on forever, the mathematician's dainty dots signifying an endless progression. As soon as anyone attempts to cap the natural numbers, anyone can find a way to cap the cap, say by adding one to the last natural number capped. If the numbers are infinite, they are also wonderfully various. When the great Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan lay dying in a London hospital, the cold English winters eating his lungs away now ending his life, his friend, the mathematician G. H. Hardy, paid him a visit. Paralyzed by his own reticence, Hardy could think only to blurt out the number of the taxi that had brought him to the hospital—1729, as it happens.
"I don't suppose it is a very interesting number," he added.
"Oh, no, Hardy," Ramanujan replied at once, "it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
And so it is: 1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103. No smaller number has this property. The story has become famous. No one quite knows what it means, but every mathematician understands why it is told.
Like Ramanujan, the Pythagoreans were taken with the inexhaustible variety of the natural numbers, their personalities. They were fascinated by 1, 3, 6, and 10, because these numbers could be expressed geometrically as triangles composed of dots. They quite understood the importance of numbers that are divisible only by themselves and 1—the prime numbers such as 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11; and they may well have understood that the prime numbers are fundamental, lying like dark rubies amid the pale panoply of the ordinary numbers. They discovered that certain numbers such as 6, 28, and 496 could be expressed as the sum of their divisors. They lived in caves—I mean such is the legend—and squatting there, a pile of smooth pebbles in their laps, they saw that there are square numbers as well as triangular numbers, and amicable relationships between numbers, as when each of two numbers is the sum of the other's divisors, or when the sum of two consecutive triangular numbers such as 3 and 6 is a square number, and progressions from one series of numbers to another; and in all this, as the tallow dripped from their candles, they treated the natural numbers as if they were themselves men at play, serious but never solemn, their endless curiosity amounting at times to a form of intellectual rapture and so entirely alien to the beetle-browed scribes and accountants of the Ancient Near East, men forever plodding along the severe utilitarian axis of a commercial culture.
What did the Pythagoreans care for some pharaoh's monstrous pyramid or staring one-eyed sphinx? They were mathematicians.
Superstitious? Of course they were, but Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans were devoted to a higher spookiness. It is their distinction. With his vein-ruined hands describing circles in the smoky air, Pythagoras has come to believe in numbers, their unearthly harmonies and strange symmetries. "Number is the first principle," he affirmed, "a thing which is undefined, incomprehensible, [and] having in itself all numbers." The number one, the Pythagoreans termed the monad, and at times they seemed to suggest that the natural numbers might be subordinated to a dull grunting process by which all of the numbers could be generated from the monad, number creation monstrous and pullulating. "And the first principle of numbers is in substance the first monad, which is a male monad, begetting as a father all other numbers." The numbers two, three, and four enter into Pythagorean thought scent-marked from the first, the number two, because it is squat and feminine, and three, because it marks a return to the masculine, its three-tipped triangle when inverted (base up, apex down) looking very much as if a pair of wide-spread shoulders were descending toward a manly groin. The number four merits celebration—but I really have no idea why it does, except for the fact that one, two, three, and four sum to ten, at which point the number series topples back to one, with eleven expressed as the sum of one and ten. It is the number ten that served the Pythagoreans as the object of a sacred oath, one offered at night in the owl-hooted landscape and dedicated to "him that transmitted to our soul the tetraktys, which has the spring and root of ever-flowing nature."
Half-mad, I suppose, and ecstatic, Pythagorean thought offers us the chance to peer downward into the deep unconscious place where mathematics has its origins, the natural numbers seen as they must have been seen for the very first time, and that is as some powerful erotic aspect of creation itself. "Number," the Pythagoreans wrote, "is the essence of all things." Time has long scattered the Pythagoreans and canceled their sense of play, and yet the declaration that number is the essence of all things has lost none of its thrilling intellectual power. Number? And the essence of all things? Of all things? The Greeks heard those unearthly and mysterious words and tried to give them sense, but sand needed to sift over the monuments of antiquity before they would again enter into the mathematician's self-confident self-consciousness. When Galileo initiated the great scientific revolution of the West, writing that the Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics, he was reconveying that Pythagorean note, those Pythagorean words.
The Pythagoreans never succeeded in explaining what they meant by claiming that number is the essence of all things. Early in the life of the sect, they conjectured that numbers might be the essence of all things because quite literally "the elements of numbers were the elements of all things." In this way, Aristotle remarks, "they constructed the whole heaven out of numbers." This view they could not sustain. Aristotle notes dryly that "it is impossible that [physical] bodies should consist of numbers," if only because physical bodies are in motion and numbers are not. At some time, the intellectual allegiances of the sect changed and the Pythagoreans began to draw a most Platonic distinction between the world revealed by the senses and the world revealed by the intellect. The literal aspect of the Pythagorean doctrine gives way. Numbers are one thing, the world of sensory objects another. But numbers still remain the essence of all things, the Pythagoreans groping their way toward the remarkable doctrine that the harmony between numbers offers a guide to the harmony between things.
"To give an example of my meaning," Aristotle remarked in describing the Pythagoreans, "inasmuch as ten seemed to be the perfect number and to embrace the whole nature of numbers, they asserted that the number of bodies moving through the heavens were ten, and when only nine were visible, for the reason just given they postulated the counter-earth as the tenth." This is neither muddied nor mystical: The inference on which the Pythagoreans relied has been championed by physicists from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. It is the rock of their faith.
In the 1920s, for example, the French mathematician Paul Dirac set himself the problem of extending the Klein-Gordon field equations so that they encompassed relativistic solutions for the electron. The details of Dirac's project may safely be subordinated; what is at issue is a risky navigational maneuver in which a man sets off on a road he cannot see trusting for guidance in a road he has already seen. Dirac quickly encountered difficulties. Equations needed to be factored, as when x2 + 11x + 10 is resolved into x + 10 and x + 1, and new mathematical objects were needed to accomplish this. Groping now and guessing like mad, Dirac succeeded in solving the Klein-Gordon equations, the relativistic electron appearing as a physical correlate to a mathematical object. And then Dirac noticed something odd. The solutions to the Klein-Gordon equations were split like the devil's tail. One solution corresponded to the expected electron, the solution's negative sign matching the electron's negative charge; but another and opposite solution seemed to correspond to the electron in all of its properties except charge. Lesser mathematicians might have discretely discarded this anomalous solution and carried on. Dirac ignored their advice and affirmed the existence of the positron.
He had seen the fork on the devil's tail. Some years later—not many, mind you—experimental physicists confirmed the existence of the positron.
Let us by all means cast out what is unwholesome in Pythagorean lore—the beans, the number mysticism, and the mumbo jumbo. There remains this. The doctrine that number is the essence of all things, passing through the prism of a thousand philosophical tracts, remains the central insight of Western science, the indispensable key of coordination. And this, too: The fact that this key opens so many locks has often been celebrated, but it has never been explained.
Greek historians tell an odd little story. A ship is sailing across the Aegean Sea, the sound of the waves slapping against its wooden hull, the rowers chanting. On board are a number of mathematicians, Pythagoreans all, although why a group of mathematicians should have decided on an ocean voyage, I do not know.
Now Pythagoras is best known in the official history of mathematics for the theorem that bears his name. I am going to need that theorem close at hand, where it can do some good. Consider a right triangle whose tips are labeled A, B, and C. Distances between distant points are what they seem—distances, and so numbers. If distances cannot be correlated with numbers, very little remains of the grand Pythagorean proposition that number is the essence of all things. Although very simple, a right triangle—any old right triangle—is an object quivering with unsuspected numerical relationships; and in particular, Pythagoras discovered that when it comes to any old right triangle, the distances between A and B, and again between B and C, are coordinated with the distance between A and C. They are, in fact, coordinated by the simple formula: (A - B)2 + (B - C)2 = (A - C)2. The proof that Pythagoras offered is all grunt and shove. A number squared suggests an area in prospect. The area of a square is, after all, the product of its length and width, and since, by definition, they are the same so far as squares go, it is the product of its length or its width with itself. Pythagoras thought to construct squares along each of the triangle's sides, and then by a series of geometrical adjustments—the grunt now follows—which involved shoving those squares around, he showed that the square . . .
But now that I have given away the key, the readers may follow Pythagoras through that open door. In mathematics, it is always the key that counts.
The Pythagorean theorem dooms any naive version of the Pythagorean program, the denouement taking place on board that sailing vessel just recently seen leaving port. A mathematician named Hippasus of Metapontum has just drawn a right triangle whose sides are one unit in length on the dusty surface of a ship's plank; throat cleared wetly to draw attention, he observes that by the Pythagorean theorem, the length of its diameter must correspond to the square root of two.
Now suppose, Hippasus continued, that the square root of two is a number or that it may be represented as the ratio of two numbers. In that case, S2w = m/n. The steps that follow have a concision suggesting the taps of a telegraphic key:
Tap. Suppose that m/n has been reduced to its lowest common form by division.
It follows that either m and n are both odd, or that m is even and n odd, or, finally, that m is odd and n even.
Nods all around. It is a fine thing to be on board a ship.
Tap. Squaring both sides of S2w = m/n, it follows again that
2 = m2/n2.
Tap. Then 2n2 = m2, so that m2 is even.
If so, then m = 2x, where x is now some number. This is, after all, what it means to say that m is even.
Tap. Squaring things lavishly, it follows that m2 = 4x2 = 2n2. . . .
My telegraphic taps now end just before the final tap; but like a newspaper announcing a great victory in headlines with details to follow on subsequent pages, this message is really complete. To get to those subsequent pages, the reader need only see that n2 = 2x2 so that . . .
But if my taps have come to an end, Hippasus kept right on tapping, pointing out with evident satisfaction that a contradiction had been reached, and that—tap, tap, tap—it consequently made no sense to suppose that the square root of two corresponds to the ratio of two numbers, and that—tap, tap, tap—it follows that certain distances cannot be measured by the natural numbers at all, and that—tap, tap, tap—
But here the story really ends. The Pythagoreans pitched Hippasus overboard where, still tapping, he perished ignominiously.
It is said that at some point in his mathematical career, Pythagoras proclaimed himself a god.
He was right to do so.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
David Berlinski received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and has taught mathematics, philosophy, and English at Stanford, Rutgers, the University of Puget Sound, and the Université de Paris at Jussieu. He has been a research fellow at both the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France. His many books have been translated into more than a dozen European and Asian languages. His essays in Commentary have become famous. A senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, he lives and works in Paris.
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Daniel Cormier wants the biggest fights in the world. But at UFC 166, he'll be settling for a fight with Big Country.
Cormier is currently ranked as the No. 4 heavyweight in the world and his resume would demand a title shot if he were to beat the right guy in the division. This, according to Cormier, is exactly why a tilt with No. 3-ranked Fabricio Werdum was almost completely out of the question.
Cormier told Franklin McNeil of ESPN:
I would have taken the fight if UFC had offered it to me. I will fight anybody who's winning, anyone but Cain. So if they would have offered me the fight with Werdum in an eliminator, I would have accepted it and I would have beaten him and not taken the title shot. It would have really kind of jacked things up a little bit.
UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is a training partner of Cormier's, and the two are on record as saying they would not fight one another, which is why DC plans to cut to light heavyweight after the Roy Nelson fight.
A fight with Werdum would wreak havoc on the heavyweight division if Cormier were to emerge the victor, but how does the Nelson fight benefit him?
A win against Nelson would not help his claim for a shot at Jon Jones, it does nothing for him in his current division and a loss might eliminate an immediate crack at Jones.
Daniel Cormier is a former Olympic wrestler, and he currently holds a 12-0 MMA record with five knockouts and three submission wins. His stand-up is evolving at light speed, making him a scary talent in the UFC.
After he handily, though not spectacularly, beat Frank Mir in his UFC debut in April, Cormier established himself as one of the best in the heavyweight division. Add the fact that light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has nearly cleaned out his division, and Cormier becomes a big threat if he can cut weight.
The fact that Cormier will not fight Velasquez has caused him to make plans to cut weight with the hopes of fighting Jones. He's proven he can fight the best and win, and he already believes he can beat Jones.
"I have the skills to win that fight [against Jones]," Cormier said. "But I have to get through [Nelson] first. I have to fight a fight that will strengthen my case."
He plans to cut after the Nelson fight, so a win does nothing for him at heavyweight. Cormier believes the fight strengthens his case for a shot at Jones should Jones win in September, but what if DC loses?
Roy Nelson, unlike Cormier, appears to be on a downward slope after a unanimous decision loss to Stipe Miocic bounced him out of the top 10 in the division. Also, if you call to attention the fact that Nelson lost by unanimous decision to Werdum in February of 2012, a fight with him doesn't look that appealing.
Big Country is a tough fighter with possibly the best chin in the entire UFC. He has big power in his hands, as evidenced by his three straight knockout victories preceding the loss to Miocic last month.
But the fact that he lost so badly to a relative unknown in Miocic makes this a dangerous fight for Cormier. Although all signs point to an easy win for DC given that he could neutralize Nelson with his wrestling if need be, one shot could end Cormier's dreams of a fight with Jones, at least for now.
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SOURCE: Greenberg, Robert M. "Transgression in the Fiction of Philip Roth." Twentieth Century Literature 43, no. 4 (winter 1997): 487-506.
In the following essay, Greenberg examines the theme of transgression in Philip Roth's work, contending that the author's techniques are uniquely reflective of his relationship with mainstream American media and literary activity.
In The Anatomy Lesson (1983) Philip Roth provides an explanation for Nathan Zuckerman's involvement with transgression as a man and a writer. Roth describes first-generation immigrant fathers as "pioneering Jewish fathers bursting with taboos" who produce second-generation sons "boiling with temptations." A page later he adds about his literary alter ego, "If it hadn't been for his father's frazzled nerves and rigid principles and narrow understanding, he'd never have been a writer at all," "a second-generation American son possessed by … exorcism...
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I have a WordPress based website running on a shared hosting. Its response time is very decent (around 2s to retrieve the HTML page and 5s to load all the resources).
I was planning to move it to a dedicated virtual server (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), which should theoretically improve things and make them more consistent given its not shared. However I observed severe performance degredation, with the page taking 10seconds to be generated.
I ruled out network issues by editing
/etc/hosts on the server and mapping the domain to
127.0.0.1. I used the Apache load tester
ab to get the HTML, so JS, CSS and images are all excluded. It still took 10 seconds.
I have Zpanel installed on the server which also uses MySQL, and its pages come up quite fast (1.5s) and also phpMyAdmin. Performing some queries on the wordpress database directly through phpMyAdmin returns them quite fast too, with query times in the 10 to 30 millisecond region.
Memory is also sufficient, with only 800Mb being used of the 1Gb physical memory available, so it doesn't seem to be a swap issue either. I have also installed APC to try to improve the PHP performance, but it didn't have any effect.
What else should I look for? What could be causing this degradation in performance? Could it be some kind of I/O issue since I am running on a cloud based virtual server?
I wish to be able to raise the issue with my provider but without showing actual data from some diagnosis I am afraid he will just blame my application.
UPDATE with
sar output (every second) when I did an HTTP request:
02:31:29 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
02:31:30 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
02:31:31 all 2.22 0.00 2.22 0.00 0.00 95.56
02:31:32 all 41.67 0.00 6.25 0.00 2.08 50.00
02:31:33 all 86.36 0.00 13.64 0.00 0.00 0.00
02:31:34 all 75.00 0.00 25.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
02:31:35 all 93.18 0.00 6.82 0.00 0.00 0.00
02:31:36 all 90.70 0.00 9.30 0.00 0.00 0.00
02:31:37 all 71.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 28.95
02:31:38 all 14.89 0.00 10.64 0.00 2.13 72.34
02:31:39 all 2.56 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.44
02:31:40 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
02:31:41 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00
UPDATE 2 After josten's suggestions.
iotop fails with
OSError: Netlink error: No such file or directory (2) and
sar -d also fails with
Requested activities not available in file /var/log/sysstat/sa14. I think this is because this is a virtual machine, just like
iostat also fails. Could it be the reason why
%iowait reported by
sar 1 10 is always 0%?
CPU Load:
The process that is topping the CPU% in
htop is actually
apache2. I was expecting this to maybe be the database, but its not. It goes up to 94% for a few seconds when I do a fresh HTTP request. Seems this is the culprit.
I have done an
strace -f -t and one summary
strace -c -f. There seems to be an awful lot of
lstat calls (57786), with 2455 resulting in errors. No idea if this is normal.
Other than that the topmost call was
wait4 which I presume is normal (its just waiting), and
munmap. Top 5 below.
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
51.06 0.124742 897 139 6 wait4
14.90 0.036388 1 57786 2455 lstat
9.67 0.023622 13 1857 munmap
7.69 0.018790 37 514 brk
6.70 0.016361 481 34 clone
2.87 0.006999 74 94 12 select
strace itself slowed down apache by a factor of 2. I am trying to understand the long trace now to see if there is anything indicative of what was causing the CPU to spike for a few seconds.
What is the typical time for
lstat for a good performing server? I wish to gather some information so that I can complain in a constructive manner to the provider if it is the storage access fault.
UPDATE Output of
fio random read test:
random-read: (g=0): rw=randread, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1
fio 1.59
Starting 1 process
random-read: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 128MB)
Jobs: 1 (f=1): [r] [100.0% done] [12185K/0K /s] [2975 /0 iops] [eta 00m:00s]
random-read: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=24264
read : io=131072KB, bw=10298KB/s, iops=2574 , runt= 12728msec
clat (usec): min=119 , max=162219 , avg=380.34, stdev=957.37
lat (usec): min=119 , max=162219 , avg=380.89, stdev=957.40
bw (KB/s) : min= 7200, max=13424, per=99.89%, avg=10285.72, stdev=1608.68
cpu : usr=2.80%, sys=18.65%, ctx=33511, majf=0, minf=23
IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
issued r/w/d: total=32768/0/0, short=0/0/0
lat (usec): 250=45.57%, 500=37.17%, 750=3.41%, 1000=7.83%
lat (msec): 2=5.67%, 4=0.27%, 10=0.08%, 20=0.01%, 250=0.01%
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
READ: io=131072KB, aggrb=10297KB/s, minb=10545KB/s, maxb=10545KB/s, mint=12728msec, maxt=12728msec
The only hint I have now is that the CPU line of the
fio output seems to show quite a bit of activity when compared to other systems. I ran it on my local Ubuntu machine and the output was:
cpu : usr=0.19%, sys=0.59%, ctx=32923, majf=0, minf=23
usr percentage seems to be a small fraction of what is being reported on my server.
UPDATE Re PHP APC. Yes it is installed. Output from phpinfo:
APC Support enabled
Version 3.1.7
APC Debugging Disabled
MMAP Support Enabled
MMAP File Mask no value
Locking type pthread mutex Locks
Serialization Support php
Revision $Revision: 307215 $
Build Date May 2 2011 19:00:42
Is there any specific setting I should check for? These are the settings I have (local value, Master value):
apc.cache_by_default On On
apc.canonicalize On On
apc.coredump_unmap Off Off
apc.enable_cli Off Off
apc.enabled On On
apc.file_md5 Off Off
apc.file_update_protection 2 2
apc.filters no value no value
apc.gc_ttl 3600 3600
apc.include_once_override Off Off
apc.lazy_classes Off Off
apc.lazy_functions Off Off
apc.max_file_size 1M 1M
apc.mmap_file_mask no value no value
apc.num_files_hint 1000 1000
apc.preload_path no value no value
apc.report_autofilter Off Off
apc.rfc1867 Off Off
apc.rfc1867_freq 0 0
apc.rfc1867_name APC_UPLOAD_PROGRESS APC_UPLOAD_PROGRESS
apc.rfc1867_prefix upload_ upload_
apc.rfc1867_ttl 3600 3600
apc.serializer default default
apc.shm_segments 1 1
apc.shm_size 32M 32M
apc.slam_defense On On
apc.stat On On
apc.stat_ctime Off Off
apc.ttl 0 0
apc.use_request_time On On
apc.user_entries_hint 4096 4096
apc.user_ttl 0 0
apc.write_lock On On
UPDATE Increased
apc.shm_size to 96M. Cache full count is now 0, and there are 96.5% hits to the cache after a few refreshes of the website here and there. APC memory usage is 25.4MB free.
It seems to have reduced the loading time by 3 seconds or so, now down to around 4 to 5 seconds if I do a pure
wget from the server itself without getting any images etc. Still more than twice slower than the other hosting but definitely was an improvement.
I am still finding it strange why it was taking so long to render those pages when the server is totally idle (I don't have APC installed on my development PC and it doesn't have that kind of behaviour). And its still strange where those extra remaining seconds are being wasted.


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Published: Monday, March 11, 2013 at 6:24 p.m.
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RALEIGH – Gov. Pat McCrory has declared March 11-17, 2013 as Multiple Sclerosis Week in North Carolina, encouraging citizens to recognize the challenges and impacts of this disease.
Thousands of North Carolina families are impacted by the daily challenges of multiple sclerosis, McCrory's office said in a news release.
The state joins the National MS Society and other interested agencies and organizations in encouraging increased education of multiple sclerosis and awareness about programs and services to assist people with MS and their families.
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Traitors don't want Patriot Act renewed
Published: Monday, December 26, 2005 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 26, 2005 at 12:00 a.m.
To The Editor: Wisconsin's liberal Democratic Sen. Russell Feingold and (not surprisingly) Pennsylvania's liberal Republican Sen. Specter are having problems with renewing the Patriot Act.
It seems, according to them, no one should tap phones and generally watch American citizens to help identify our home-grown traitors.
Why? Well there's the "public reason" that it just ain't nice, and maybe it's even (a favorite liberal word) "unconstitutional."
Additionally to the "public reason," politicians always have actual, real reason(s) behind the masking "public reasons" they and their supporters spread about. What could the actual real reasons be?
I'll bet it has to do with the possible exposure a thorough, genuine investigation would do to some (or many?) of their wealthy supporters whose actions, speech, attitudes, financial contributions, etc., appear seditious enough to warrant a closer look. We are at war!
For a more public example, consider the rich and clueless entertainers who hate America winning anything, and even threatened to leave the country if President George W. Bush was re-elected. The last we've heard, unfortunately, they're still here, living in their imaginary nation of Nuevo California stuck onto our left coast.
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From my experience in the IRC, if you remove SObot, you remove the only person actually communicating :)
I just use my IRC software to ignore sobot. That way those that like the new question feed can have it, but I don't have to watch it update every 2 minutes.
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Oscar Isaac On World Cafe
Before Guatemalan actor and singer Oscar Isaac auditioned with the Coen Brothers for the title role in their new film, Inside Llewyn Davis, his friends told him that he would love the brothers — and that he wouldn't get the part or ever hear back from them. They were right about him loving the filmmakers, but not so much when it came to Isaac getting a call.
While Isaac's character is based on the 1960s folksinger Dave Van Ronk, he makes the role his own — and his live performances are especially impressive. Here, he visits the WXPN studio to talk with host David Dye about working with the Coens, and with the film's music guru, T-Bone Burnett.
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July 27, 2016
Our Monks' Bar was named as one of the five best hotel bars in Western Pennsylvania -- with the writer noting that it is small but mighty!
Priory Hotel Receives Sixth Straight Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence
June 15, 2016
The Priory Hotel, already in the Tripadvisor Hall of Fame, was awarded its sixth straight Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence, which is awarded to hotels with an average rating of four or more stars out of five for the previous year. With its 4.5 stars, the Priory Hotel is in the top 5% of hotels throughout the nation rated by Tripadvisor users. "We are extremely pleased and proud of this honor," noted Priory Hotel General Manager Rebecca Lazeration. "We are especially gratified in knowing that this award is created by the ratings of the guests who stay with us, and for whom our team has delivered a great experience."Priory Hotel Owner Acquires Historic Westinghouse Castle
June 07, 2016
Priory Hotel owner John Graf acquired the Westinghouse Castle building in Wilmerding, PA, about 15 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh. As explained in the story, Graf plans to turn the building, which served as the office building for George Westinghouse's air brake company, into a boutique hotel, event center and restaurant, similar to the Priory Hotel. The building, vacant for nearly four years, was made available through sheriff's sale. Graf is presently raising funds to begin the project, which, if things proceed according to plan, should open some time in 2019.
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Tribune-Review writer Sarah Sudar recognizes the Priory Hotel's Monks' Bar as one of the five best hotel bars in Western Pennsylvania, giving a special shout out to the house specialty the Monktini!More ...
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This story recounts the excitement of the residents of Wilmerding, PA, located about 15 miles to the east of Pittsburgh, about the prospect of Priory Hotel owner John Graf transforming the historic Westinghouse Castle into a boutique hotel. The Castle, originally built in the 1890's, served as George Westinghouse's headqurters for his air brake company.More ...
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Priory Hotel owner John Graf acquired the historic Westinghouse Castle in Wilmerding through sheriff's sale on June 6, 2016. Graf plans to turn the stunning building, located about 15 miles from downtown Pittsburgh, into a boutique hotel, event space and restaurant. Built in the early 1890's and added on to in the late 1020's, the landmark once served as George Westinghouse's headquraters for his air brake business.More ...
May 13, 2016
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The Graf family and the Priory Hospitality Group was named Family Owned Business of the Year by the Pittsburgh Business Times in the 51-75 employee category. Both Priory founder Ed Graf and current President and CEO John Graf were in attendance at the gala luncheon on May 12, 2016 at the Fairmont Pittsburgh.More ...
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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will hold press briefings four times per year to present the Federal Open Market Committee's current economic projections and to provide additional context for the FOMC's policy decisions.
In 2011, the Chairman's press briefings will be held at 2:15 p.m. following FOMC decisions scheduled on April 27, June 22 and November 2. The briefings will be broadcast live on the Federal Reserve's website. For these meetings, the FOMC statement is expected to be released at around 12:30 p.m., one hour and forty-five minutes earlier than for other FOMC meetings.
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Zometa is indicated for the treatment for hypercalcemia of
malignancy. It is also used to reduce and delay bone
complications due to multiple myeloma and bone metastases from
solid tumors. Zometa is used with anti-cancer medicines. Zometa
sales in 2012 were $1.3 billion.
Dr. Reddy's had received tentative approval for the
Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for the generic version
of Zometa from the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in Sep
In Jan 2013, Dr. Reddy's launched its generic version of
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Clarinex Reditabs is indicated for the treatment of seasonal
allergic rhinitis, perennial allergic rhinitis and chronic
idiopathic urticaria. According to IMS Health, Clarinex Reditabs
generated US revenues of approximately $5.3 million for the 12
months ending Nov 2012.
Dr. Reddy's has a robust generic product pipeline. Dr. Reddy's
has 65 ANDAs pending approval with the FDA, of which 35 are Para
IV filings and 8 are first-to-file. Revenues of the Global
Generics segment were up 24% year over year to $380 million in
2012. Strong sales in North America and in other market
territories were primarily responsible for the growth displayed
by the Global Generics division.
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The phrase "just doing my job" takes on a whole new meaning when your job is as important as Amy Brasher's, Melissa Fanelli's and April Leming's.
Fanelli and Brasher are registered nurses, and Leming works at The Bridge, Children's Advocacy Center. The three worked together with the Amarillo Police Department to get an alleged pedophile off the streets - and out of people's houses - in southwest Amarillo.
Brasher, who works as a sexual assault nurse examiner at Northwest Texas Healthcare System, collected DNA and other evidence from a 5-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in the middle of the night in August. The girl was sexually assaulted and then dropped off early in the morning about six miles from her home.
The unspeakable crime shook the Belmar neighborhood. The safety a home provides no longer seemed so secure. Barking dogs weren't viewed as a nuisance, but perhaps a warning. Everyone was on edge.
Then five months later it happened again.
In January, an 8-year-old girl, who lived in another southwest Amarillo neighborhood, was sexually assaulted by a stranger in her home during the night.
Fanelli, also a sexual assault nurse examiner at Northwest Texas Healthcare System, collected the same type of evidence as Brasher had in the earlier case.
Leming, a child interviewer at The Bridge, talked with both girls. Her ability to gather evidence, coupled with the work of Fanelli and Brasher, helped lead to five felony indictments against Rodney Love, 29, of Tucumcari, N.M. Love is in the Randall County Jail on a $3 million bond.
We are so saddened by these two crimes and hope that these two girls and their families will be able one day to move beyond the tragedies. Committing crimes against innocent children might be the most despicable act imaginable.
The jobs that Leming, Fanelli and Brasher perform have to be some of the toughest, most heart-wrenching tasks in our community. On Monday, the police department recognized them for their efforts. They each received a Citizen Certificate of Recognition during a ceremony at The Bridge.
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Asean+3 to drive forward Chiang Mai Initiative on forex reserve cooperation
Asean+3 finance ministers will today announce a decision to
multilateralise the management of the Chiang Mai Initiative
(CMI), a $75 billion network of bilateral currency swaps
created seven years ago to help ward off regional currency
Korean finance minister Kwon
Okyu also praised the decision. It becomes more
formalised, and provides a more systematic way to deal with any
future financial crisis, Kwon said in an interview with
Emerging Markets.
Under the new system, if
there is a crisis, members countries are required to have a
meeting within two days and then they have to decide whether to
offer support [to crisis-hit countries] within two
Kuroda considers a currency
crisis like the one that caused economic turmoil in 1997 to be
very unlikely. But, he said, the situation could
change in future, and volatile inflows and outflows
of capital could challenge monetary authorities.
The region needs to safeguard against that possibility.
In five, ten or 15 years
time the financial and economic situation in Asia may be
different. If the Asean+3 finance ministers improve the
Chiang Mai Initiative safety net, that would mark
significant progress toward financial safety in the long
run, the ADB president said.
Multilateralising the CMI
would be significant progress over a network of bilateral
arrangements, added Kuroda. But he emphasised that this
would not turn the CMI into an Asian Monetary
Kuroda, a former deputy finance
minister for international affairs in Japan, is often credited
with devising the original plan for an Asian Monetary Fund at
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support arrangement under the CMI.
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of the CMI, while confirming our commitment to maintain the two
core objectives of addressing short-term liquidity difficulties
in the region and supplementing existing international
arrangements, they said.
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Riff Raff, left, and Katy Perry arrive at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Katy Perry and Riff Raff took it back to 2001 Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake in matching denim, while Amber Rose channeled Rose McGowan circa 1998 in barely there silver with cascading chains at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards.
Perry popped out of a sports car with the grilled Riff Raff onto the red carpet just before the televised awards began. She called her tight, studded patchwork dress a custom Versace in a "throwback to Britney and Justin," a la the American Music Awards 13 years ago.
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The 21-year-old Grande worked long zippers back and front on her strapless Moschino moto look. Charli's tight leotard and leggings were designed by the same Italian brand.
Designer Jeremy Scott joined Charli in her yellow, yellow world in bright tuxedo tails — chest bared — with a big smiley face on the back.
"I feel sexy in it," said Charli, among the early red carpet walkers. "I think my spirit animal is probably a tiger."
Kesha, sometimes a red carpet shocker, went classic in a floor-length sparkler in a far more subdued carpet than VMAs of yore.
Taylor Swift arrived in a long-sleeve, blue lace shorty romper with a lettered alphabet theme to go with her new short 'do. It was designed by London-based Mary Katrantzou.
Laverne Cox was in sparkly blue, a space-age one-sleeve from Marc Bouwer, and Miley Cyrus tugged on a tiny strapless black leather midriff-baring top she wore with high-waisted matching trousers.
"Marc has been so good to me," said Cox, an advocate for trans women like herself.
She has worn several of his designs in recent months.
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Jessie J stood out in a pale green vintage Halston goddess gown with a deep V halter, and Jennifer Lopez showed off her curves in silver cutouts.
Rita Ora, in a Donna Karan Atelier classic backless red dress with a high side slit, finished her look with a slicked-back down 'do not unlike that of Iggy Azalea, who wore blue Versace. Also in red was Demi Lovato in a gown with wide chest-bearing V neck.
AP television producer Marcela Isaza in Inglewood, California, contributed to this report.
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This Hotel have some lovely staff one I shall single out is Anna, she looked after me with the IHG passion for satisfying the customer and ensuring that they have a perfect stay. When you enter the beautifully appointed foyer you may feel it a bit like a shopping mall with all the escalators but look past them till you get to your room. The rooms are good, the beds are like sleeping on a Plush cloud, ok not every room is Brilliant, I like nearly every room I've stayed in on the "Opposite Casino side" and not so much those not. An ambient temperature is kept by the air conditioning. Let me not forget to mention the wonderful pillows, it's an IHG thing you can ask for your favourite style pillow and the rooms are very clean and well kept by an efficient house keeping, with the rooms made up brilliantly everyday. The curtains in the room are block out, so a sleep in is possible, the amenities amongst the very best.
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Grupo Mexico to Merge Mining Units in $6 Billion Deal
Grupo Mexico SAB, the nation's largest mining company, said it plans to merge its Asarco LLC and Southern Copper Corp. units into a single business to save costs after regaining control of Asarco late last year.
Investors would receive 1.237 shares of Americas Mining Corp., which owns Asarco, for each share of Southern Copper, Grupo Mexico said today in a statement. The transaction values Asarco at $5.94 billion, Grupo Mexico said. Americas Mining would list its shares in the U.S. and in Peru after the deal.
Combining the units would place all Grupo Mexico's mining operations into one publicly traded company, allowing investors to value that separately from Grupo Mexico's railroad and oil- drilling units. The merger would also cut transportation costs and capital investments, Grupo Mexico said.
Asarco's "good fundamentals" should "generate more value for the group," Rodrigo Heredia, an analyst with Ixe Grupo Financiero in Mexico City, said in a telephone interview.
As of yesterday, Grupo Mexico's 80 percent stake in Phoenix-based metals producer Southern Copper was worth about $21.8 billion or 10 percent more than the Mexico City-based company's own market value.
Combining units simplifies options for investors who may be interested exclusively in mining stocks, Heredia said. The next step for Grupo Mexico to increase shareholder value would be to list its transportation division, he said.
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City Attorney Calls Filner's Actions "Cruel," "Over The Line"
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Following reports from San Diego City Hall that Mayor Bob Filner had his second-in-command escorted from a closed-session meeting Tuesday, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith today released a statement announcing that his office "will have more to say about this issue next week on the steps we will be taking."
Following reports from San Diego City Hall that Mayor Bob Filner had his second-in-command booted from a closed-session meeting Tuesday, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith today released a statement announcing that his office "will have more to say about this issue next week on the steps we will be taking."
Goldsmith wrote in the statement this afternoon that Filner's use of police force to remove Executive Assistant City Attorney Andrew Jones was "a cruel act with no basis in law."
"It was an extreme abuse of power that should never be tolerated in a free and democratic society," he wrote.
According to a story written by the U-T San Diego's Trent Seibert, "Filner repeatedly cut off Jones in the meeting, accusing him of leaking confidential information from previous closed sessions...".
Jones told the U-T that he has never leaked information.
Goldsmith was not present at the meeting, but noted in his Friday statement that he reviewed the transcript of Tuesday's scuffle and now has "a good understanding" about what happened.
Goldsmith also noted that he does not see his interactions with Filner as "feuding." He instead called it a "continuous attempt by the mayor to thwart my office's ability to do the job I was elected to do."
The mayor also this week vetoed a decision by the City Council to restore $508,228 to the City Attorney's office, according to a U-T San Diego article. Filner cut funding and included a list of jobs in Goldsmith's office that he believe could stand to be eliminated when he released his first budget draft this spring. Jones' job was included in that list.
The City Council rejected that proposed cut in an attempt to keep the money in the city's $1.2 billion operating budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
In his memo to the council regarding his veto, Filner called the restoration of those funds "fiscally irresponsible."
Goldsmith's full statement is below:
Having reviewed the transcript and statements from many of those present, I now have a good understanding as to what transpired at the Closed Session of the San Diego City Council on June 18, 2013.
I take issue with those who have characterized this as a "feud" between Mayor Filner and me. This is not a "feud." This has been a continuous attempt by the Mayor to thwart my office's ability to do the job I was elected to do. It started on January 2, 2013 at our first business meeting when he very loudly proclaimed that he is not bound to keep our office apprised of matters or follow our legal guidance. This petulant and uncooperative behavior has not stopped. We have done nothing to warrant such treatment. Mayor Filner simply does not want to be constrained by the law.
Now Mayor Filner has escalated tensions to the breaking point by using the City's police force against my number two lawyer, Executive Assistant City Attorney Andrew Jones, a man of the highest honesty, integrity and character who I respect and admire. This was a cruel act with no basis in law. It was an extreme abuse of power that should never be tolerated in a free and democratic society. Filner has gone far over the line of decent behavior in a civilized society. We will have more to say about this issue next week on the steps we will be taking.
DonWood | June 21, 2013 at 4:34 p.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
Goldsmith goes after the mayor but tiptoes around the key question here: Did attorney Jones in fact leak the contents of previous closed city council meetings to the local media? Did Goldsmith leak information he got from Jones on closed council meetings to the media? If so the law was broken and Goldsmith was elected to enforce the law. He needs to get to the bottom of the charges and do his job, not just go after the mayor as part of his upcoming mayoral campaign.
ninotrovato | June 21, 2013 at 5:06 p.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
Mayor Filner is a complete hypocrite holding money ransom and stating that he will not allow other's to hold him ransom.
spourat | June 21, 2013 at 5:20 p.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
Donwood Goldsmith is not tiptoeing around anything. Both Jones and Goldsmith have denied that they have leaked any information. didn't you read the article? Have you considered that it might be Filner or one of his staff leaking this info? Filner is a thug and egomaniac nothing more nothing less who like to ethnic race cards to further his own cause. RECALL FILNER!!!
CaliforniaDefender | June 21, 2013 at 6:59 p.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
This is not meeting the level of professionalism we expect from the Mayor of San Diego, and I think most would agree, Democrat, Republican, left, right, or middle.
It is time to seriously consider recalling Filner.
Mmikey | June 22, 2013 at 7:50 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
classic example of bi-polar disorder.
Peking_Duck_SD | June 22, 2013 at 9:39 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
This is ridiculous.
Everyone attacks Filner because he is TRANSPARENT and HONEST.
People did the same thing to City Attorney Aguirre.
Mr. Goldsmith knows how to play the game.
He is a backroom politician.
He acts inappropriately but he is savvy enough to act in that smug, holier-than-thou manner whenever the cameras are on or a meeting on the record is occurring.
Mr. Goldsmith is inappropriate and is using his position for political purposes.
Mr. Goldsmith has been aligned with DeMaio, and has the Republican Bosses of San Diego County firmly behind him.
Their goal: To make Mayor Filner look like a hot-head so they can get a Republican in next time.
Goldsmith is the puppet for the DeMaio-Republican Machine working behind the curtain to orchestrate scenarios where they know Filner will get upset.
It's shameful, really.
And it is playing out precisely as it did with City Attorney Aguirre, I can't believe people are too dense to see it.
I find Mr. Goldsmith to be a coy, cunning, unsavory, politically-motivated, back-room, pompous, inept hack.
The city would be better off voting this rotten apple out of office, he is poison to the city and his poisoning of our city government is DELIBERATE, backed by the Republican political machine who are still childishly bitter over their boy DeMaio flailing and failing in the last election despite Mr. Manchester's efforts of politically-motivated yellow journalism!
Peking_Duck_SD | June 22, 2013 at 9:43 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
CA Defender:
"This is not meeting the level of professionalism we expect from the Mayor of San Diego, and I think most would agree, Democrat, Republican, left, right, or middle.
It is time to seriously consider recalling Filner."
CADefender - do you think Mr. Goldsmith allowing himself to be used as a political pawn and instead of acting as council to the mayor, as his job description states, is blatantly being a deliberate adversary to the mayor is "professional"?
It is time to seriously consider recalling Goldsmith.
Peking_Duck_SD | June 22, 2013 at 9:49 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
The media loves high drama, so a public official yelling or becoming frustrated in public will always trump stories of more substance.
How about KPBS, instead of just focusing on Mayor Filner's "moods" actually do a comprehensive examination into Mr. Goldsmith's job as City Attorney and look at his political connections and how they tie in to the positions he is taking.
Not too long ago he publicly attending some even with Mr. DeMaio.
It's no secret the Republican Machine of San Diego County, and the Republican-biased mainstream Manchester-run media her saw a Filner victory as a horrific defeat for them.
Naturally, political hacks do what political hacks do - they find the next-most powerful person in city government and groom that person to be their slimy tentacle into city hall.
And Goldsmith, like a loyal lapdog, is all too willing to serve this role.
Please, examine his job as city attorney, and look in detail at his decisions.
I am very confident you will find a man who is not serving the Mayor nor the people of San Diego County; rather, you will find a man who serves the Republican Party of California with the primary focus being to bring the downfall of Mayor Filner.
Peking_Duck_SD | June 22, 2013 at 9:51 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
* sorry, meant to say San Diego City, not County
I guess mentally I group Goldsmith with the county supervisors, he is just like them.
Peking_Duck_SD | June 22, 2013 at 10 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
"Both Jones and Goldsmith have denied that they have leaked any information. didn't you read the article?"
Surrrrre, because when politicians deny wrong-doing they are alsways telling the truth, aren't they?
"Have you considered that it might be Filner or one of his staff leaking this info?"
What are you talking about? The article doesn't even specify what it was that was released, what motive would there be for Filner to release it himself? And then get mad about it? Are you ca Goldsmith Groupie? Or, just a huge Filner hater?
Peking_Duck_SD | June 22, 2013 at 10:04 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
From the article:
According to a story written by the U-T San Diego's Trent Seibert, "Filner repeatedly cut off Jones in the meeting, accusing him of leaking confidential information from previous closed sessions...".
Jones told the U-T that he has never leaked information.
Well there you go, case-closed.
A known biased media outlet run by a man who is not shy about his hate for Mayor Filner runs a one-sided article.
That's not surprising.
What IS surprising, however, is that KPBS continues to use this jaundiced media outlet as a source in their stories.
KPBS, you have talented staff, real journalists who are capable of investigating things yourself.
Please quit using the UT as a source, it dwindles your credibility.
laplayaheritage | June 22, 2013 at 10:49 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
It looking like a Republican set up with Criminal Division ACA Jones playing the political victim again, like he did with Aguirre. With Goldsmith and the Lincoln Club to the rescue to defend the presence of a Criminal Division lawyer at a Closed Session City Council meeting, that by law can only discuss Civil cases.
ACA Mary Jo Lanzafame in charge of the Advisory Division, who was also in Closed Session, assisted by Bonny Hsu, is the lead lawyer in charge of City Council issues if Goldsmith or ACA Don Worley in charge of the Civil Litigation Division are absent. Not ACA Jones.
Also Goldsmith's cover page states that he released retracted Close Session transcript, not approve by the City Council, in response to a 10 News Public Records Act (PRA) request. When the confidential and privileged closed session minute book, aka transcripts, are specifically exempt from the PRA by Government Code Section 54957.2 (a)
"Government Code Section 54957.2 (a) ... The minute book made pursuant to this section is not a public record subject to inspection pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1), and shall be kept confidential. The minute book shall be available only to members of the legislative body or, if a violation of this chapter is alleged to have occurred at a closed session, to a court of general jurisdiction wherein the local agency lies. Such minute book may, but need not, consist of a recording of the closed session."
x76 | June 24, 2013 at 10:25 a.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
So the Hairpiece got outmaneuvered again? Tough. Filner is getting things done rather than sinking in the usual San Diego mud. Good for him.
CaliforniaDefender | June 24, 2013 at 1:42 p.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
You keep deflecting the issue.
This is about Filner's inappropriate (possibly illegal) oppression of another elected official and the staff of an entire city department.
Filner could approach them in a professional way to correct the issue. Instead, he is using threats, bullying, and intimidation (even physical aggression).
That is NOT what we expect from a mayor regardless of political party. If DeMaio was mayor and he did this, you would be screaming at the top of your lungs for his removal. And so would I.
You know Filner is wrong, Duck. It is time to put down the partisan politics and do what is right for San Diego.
DonWood | June 24, 2013 at 2:45 p.m. ― 3 years, 1 month ago
"According to a story written by the U-T San Diego's Trent Seibert, "Filner repeatedly cut off Jones in the meeting, accusing him of leaking confidential information from previous closed sessions...".
First question: How was UT's Trent Seibert notified of what transpired in a closed city council session?
2nd question: Who contacted Seibert and the UT and asked them to file a public records act request to get a transcript of the closed city council session?
3rd question: Who released a transcript of a closed city council meeting to the UT?
4th question: What other information about what was discussed at closed city council sessions have been leaked to the UT by that same source?
Please put your own watchdog journalists on this story and find out the truth.
DeLaRick | June 25, 2013 at 8:09 a.m. ― 3 years ago
Doing what's right for San Diego should be the main objective. But, isn't it somewhat satisfying to see elected officials actively politicking instead of endlessly campaigning? They might, and I say "might," actually legislate or adjudicate an issue. Filner is challenging the status quo. Our local government's past results are nothing to hang your hat on.
CaliforniaDefender | June 27, 2013 at 4:24 p.m. ― 3 years ago
Bullying and bending/breaking laws might be the norm in Washington, but it is unacceptable in San Diego no matter where in the political spectrum the mayor is.
Even if you think Filner is trying to adjudicate an issue in your favor, is bullying the manner you want it done? It will just alienate people and make compromise impossible.
That is not good for any San Diegan, left, right, or center.