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QPR loanee Benoit Assou-Ekotto speaks out over FA's improper conduct charge
BENOIT ASSOU-EKOTTO has spoken of his disappointment at the Football Association's decision to charge him with improper conduct.
QPR's on-loan Tottenham defender was charged following social media posts relating to the 'quenelle' gesture. Hull striker Yannick Sagbo has also been charged, while Samir Nasri and Mamadou Sakho have also been rapped on the knuckles.
The salute came to the fore when West Brom forward Nicolas Anelka made the arm gesture when celebrating a goal against West Ham on December 28.
"During my seven years as a player at Tottenham, my record of engaging with the diverse local community and my strong stance on anti-racism issues speaks for itself"Benoit Assou-Ekotto
An independent regulatory commission last month handed down a five-match ban to the former France international after finding it "did contain a reference to anti-Semitism" in that it is strongly associated with his friend, the French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, who has been convicted seven times of anti-Semitic crimes.
In a statement released to Press Association Sport, Assou-Ekotto said: "I am disappointed to have been charged by the Football Association with misconduct in respect of my use of Twitter but I am grateful that as part of this process I will be able to present my case to them.
"I would like to reassure the fans of both Tottenham and QPR, along with the football community generally, that I condemn discrimination and racism in any form.
"During my seven years as a player at Tottenham, my record of engaging with the diverse local community and my strong stance on anti-racism issues speaks for itself.
"I am proud that the work undertaken by my foundation in educating young people has as its cornerstone inclusion and respect for diversity.
"I will not be making any further comment in respect of these issues whilst the Football Association's disciplinary proceedings are ongoing but would like to thank all of those people who have provided me with messages of support since the charge was confirmed by the Football Association."
West Brom sacked Anelka for "gross misconduct" on March 14 - just hours after he took to Twitter claiming he had decided to terminate his contract - once it was confirmed neither he nor the FA would contest the ban.
The governing body had argued for a more severe sanction and on Tuesday confirmed action against Assou-Ekotto, Sagbo, Nasri and Sakho.


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Update 6:21 p.m. PST: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are reporting that Apple and Lala have struck a deal.
Apple acquired Lala on Friday, unlikely offering much for the streaming-music service.
Sources with knowledge of the discussion told me Apple is interested in bringing some of Lala's engineers onboard. According to the sources, Apple is impressed by Lala's technology. The 4-year-old Lala scans users' hard drives and creates a duplicate music library that they can access from Web-enabled devices. The company also sells songs for a dime each.
I posted a story on Friday about the acquisition talks. Apple declined to comment on "rumor and speculation" and a Lala spokesman did not respond to an interview request.
Over at The New York Times, Brad Stone posted a report citing sources who also said Apple had a special interest in obtaining Lala's engineering talent. But the Times also added this:
"The talks (between Apple and Lala) originated when Lala executives concluded their prospects for turning a profit in the short term were dim," Stone wrote. "(Lala) initiated discussions about a potential investment with Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president in charge of iTunes."
That Lala was struggling to turn a profit is consistent with the kind of bleak news that has come out of digital music the past year. Many of the newer and experimental business models, such as ad-supported music, have flopped. The only reasonable question now is how much longer will this shakeout continue?
We saw Ruckus falter and close in January. We saw SpiralFrog flameout spectacularly in March. In August, MySpace picked up iLike, and sources said that MySpace acquired Imeem last month, but the news has not been announced.
What seemed to be different about Lala is that the company had received positive reviews from the music labels for a long time. Executives at some of the biggest recording companies have told me in the past that they respected Lala's management and its focus on the bottom line. This spring, label execs said they saw some encouraging signs after Lala had revamped the service for seemingly the umpteenth time. It initially made a name for itself by trying to enable users to swap CDs over the Internet. It never went anywhere.
Then came the announcement in October that Google would offer Lala's music to users searching for information on music acts. That could mean a boon said some of the pundits. Apparently, by that time, Lala's fate was sealed.
So, we're kind of right back where we started. The only proven winners in digital music are Apple and download sales.
Michael Robertson, the serial entrepreneur and MP3.com founder, told me earlier this year that it doesn't matter if Imeem, Lala, and their competitors went away because there is always a new crop of players longing to jump into the music industry.
"It's sexy," Robertson said.
In that case, who's up next? Let's see your ideas and technology. Better bring a lot of nerve.
All Marvel franchises ranked, from Avengers to Daredevil: How do the X-Men movies stack up to Iron Man, Spider-Man and *shudder* Ghost Rider? Just so happens we made a list.
How Muslim millennials are looking for love: Some call it haram (forbidden), but more Muslims than ever are turning to apps like Minder and Muzmatch to find romance.

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Mike Butler needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 345 designs submitted by 79 freelance designers.
Butler Architectural Group
My new firm will be one where the staff shall be able to grow into the architects they dreamed of becoming. The older members shall mentor the younger ones. The younger ones shall keep the older ones fresh.
We will demonstrate respect of our resources through our office practices. Ideas of sustainable design shall inform our decisions about workflow and material interaction. The projects we design shall help our clients better understand their part of the community.
The firm is located in East Texas, a rural area experiencing a lot of growth. The area has been conservative in the past, but a change of ideas and thoughts is happening.
The current website is being developed. The previous firm website is http://www.fitzpatrickbutler.com for an example of the style of work my firm produces.
Our clients include liturgical, education, multi-family and single family housing, non-profits, commercial (retail and office) and recreation/sports.
The clients include individuals, corporations, boards/committees and community groups.
The identifying image could include the firm name, Butler Architectural Group; the initials, BAG; the founder's name, Butler; the founder's initial, B; or a logo/icon that would become recognizable as the firm's without a name or initial.
The image should be able to color adapt to different situations; eco colors for a sustainable event, primary color for something kid oriented, etc. The design should also work in black and white or shades of gray.
The image should be able to be viewed in a professional setting by corporate types, yet maybe have a fun side (BAGgies, BAGgettes)?
The image will be used in the future for business cards, project signs and other promotional material.
The selected image should be available in digital formats I can adapt to various promotional material, ie. web page, brochures, letterhead, business cards, etc. It has been suggested a web file format of .jpg and .png and a vector file format of .eps and .ai.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Welcome to our pharmacy where our focus is on you and your pharmacy experience. We offer maintenance and specialty medications, while our main specialty is in customer service. At Braun Pharmacare we separate ourselves from other pharmacies by taking the time to make a difference, because all of our staff truly cares about each individual client. Our specialty divisions comprise of fertility, veterinary and hormone replacement therapies and medications.
Our pharmacists and staff are experts in specialty fields and we ensure that all of our products are accessible to everyone through direct mail order services. We provide delivery anywhere in the United States to meet all of your needs and gladly except all major insurance plans. At Braun Pharmacare, we are always trying to enhance our programs and services to continue improving the quality and care delivered to our patients. We look forward to helping you and enhancing your therapeutic outcome.
Braun Pharmacare has been a family owned business since 1987 that specializes in Fertility, Veterinary, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and compounding while maintaining the ability to be a retail pharmacy for our neighbors in Chicago. Braun believes in the simple, yet important concept of customer service. We want every person that we are fortunate to work with to feel comfortable, welcome and to have the ability to have confidential one-on-one access to our team anytime they desire.
Our pharmacy has trained pharmacists for our specialty divisions to better assist our patients' individual needs. We have a full line of fertility medications as well as nationally competitive discount plans for patients without coverage on these important products. Braun also carries an extensive line of veterinary medications that are custom compounded in order to tailor-make products for each of your family's pets to better aid in the administration and palatability of these typically bitter and hard to administer prescribed products. Our HRT side enables patients to have their bio-identical hormones customized to their prescribed combination of products needed that are not found in chain pharmacies.
Braun Pharmacare believes your pharmacy experience is how we differentiate ourselves from other pharmacies out there. Through exceptional customer service, direct contact with trained professionals and the ability to come in or have your medications shipped anywhere in the U.S., our friendly team is eager to help you in any way we can.
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NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Former teenage idol David
Cassidy of 1970s U.S. television series "The Partridge Family"
was arrested and charged with felony drunken driving on
Wednesday, authorities said.
Cassidy, 63, was stopped shortly after midnight in Schodack,
N.Y., about 15 miles (24 km) south of state capital Albany, when
he failed to turn off his car's high-beam headlights against
oncoming traffic, said Schodack Police Chief Bernhard Peter.
"That's fairly typical behavior of someone who's been
drinking," Peter said.
Cassidy, who shot to stardom as an actor and singer in the
early 1970s, failed a field sobriety test and was booked at
Rensselaer County Jail for driving while intoxicated,
authorities said. His blood-alcohol concentration was 0.1, above
the state's limit of .08, they said.
He was held on $2,500 bail, which he later posted.
Cassidy was arrested in 2010 in Florida, where he has a
home, on suspicion of drunken driving. Authorities said his
misdemeanor conviction in that case led to Wednesday's felony
charge. If found guilty, he could face up to four years in
A message left with Cassidy's publicist seeking comment was
not immediately returned.
Cassidy's shag haircut and baby-faced looks made him a
worldwide teenage heartthrob in the 1970s, with hits like
"Cherish" and "I Think I Love You" during the run of the "The
Partridge Family," about a family of pop singers.
Since then he has appeared on Broadway, in U.S. stage shows
and in films.
(Reporting by Chris Michaud; Editing by Eric Kelsey and Xavier


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Center for Health Improvement and Prevention Studies
Index of articles from Center for Health Improvement and Prevention Studies The Center for Health Improvement and Prevention Studies (CHIPS) at the University of California San Francisco is a multi-disciplinary research team. We conduct clinically-relevant behavioral research to improve the practice of risk-behavior prevention by health care providers. Over the past 20 years, our research group has studied health care providers' and patients' attitudes and behaviors regarding sensitive behavioral risk areas such as domestic violence, substance use, and smoking. Current projects involve health care settings including dental care, HIV care, and prenatal care.
One of our current studies is Positive Choice, which features an interactive computer program that supports the prevention efforts of HIV care providers. To support and simplify the HIV care providers' role, CHIPS has created a cutting-edge multimedia computer program for patients, featuring an in-depth risk assessment, tailored and interactive messages from a "video doctor," and printouts that cue providers to patients' risks and suggest brief risk-reduction messages. The Positive Choice study is a randomized, controlled trial to determine whether integrating the multimedia computer program and provider cueing into patients' routine health care visits can reduce patients' alcohol and drug use and risky sexual behavior.
How to Reach the Center for Health Improvement and Prevention StudiesDirector: Barbara Gerbert, Ph.D.
350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 905
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: 415.502.7283
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How Much is Disconnected Well Data Costing Your Business?
"Not only do we underestimate the cost for projects up to 150%, but we overestimate the revenue it will generate." This quotation from an Energy & Petroleum (E&P) company executive illustrates the negative impact of inaccurate, inconsistent and disconnected well data and asset data on revenue potential.
"Operational Excellence" is a common goal of many E&P company executives pursuing higher growth targets. But, inaccurate, inconsistent and disconnected well data and asset data may be holding them back. It obscures the complete picture of the well information lifecycle, making it difficult to maximize production efficiency, reduce Non-Productive Time (NPT), streamline the oilfield supply chain, calculate well by-well profitability, and mitigate risk.
To explain how E&P companies can better manage well data and asset data, we hosted a webinar, "Attention E&P Executives: Streamlining the Well Information Lifecycle." Our well data experts Stephanie Wilkin, Senior Principal Consultant at Noah Consulting, and Stephan Zoder, Director of Value Engineering at Informatica shared some advice. E&P companies should reevaluate "throwing more bodies at a data cleanup project twice a year." This approach does not support the pursuit of operational excellence.
In this interview, Stephanie shares details about the award-winning collaboration between Noah Consulting and Devon Energy to create a single trusted source of well data, which is standardized and mastered.
Q. Congratulations on winning the 2014 Innovation Award, Stephanie!
A. Thanks Jakki. It was really exciting working with Devon Energy. Together we put the technology and processes in place to manage and master well data in a central location and share it with downstream systems on an ongoing basis. We were proud to win the 2014 Innovation Award for Best Enterprise Data Platform.
Q. What was the business need for mastering well data?
A. As E&P companies grow so do their needs for business-critical well data. All departments need clean, consistent and connected well data to fuel their applications. We implemented a master data management (MDM) solution for well data with the goals of improving information management, business productivity, organizational efficiency, and reporting.
Q. How long did it take to implement the MDM solution for well data?
A. The Devon Energy project kicked off in May of 2012. Within five months we built the complete solution from gathering business requirements to development and testing.
Q. What were the steps in implementing the MDM solution?
A: The first and most important step was securing buy-in on a common definition for master well data or Unique Well Identifier (UWI). The key was to create a definition that would meet the needs of various business functions. Then we built the well master, which would be consistent across various systems, such as G&G, Drilling, Production, Finance, etc. We used the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM) data model and created more than 70 unique attributes for the well, including Lahee Class, Fluid Direction, Trajectory, Role and Business Interest.
As part of the original go-live, we had three source systems of well data and two target systems connected to the MDM solution. Over the course of the next year, we added three additional source systems and four additional target systems. We did a cross-system analysis to make sure every department has the right wells and the right data about those wells. Now the company uses MDM as the single trusted source of well data, which is standardized and mastered, to do analysis and build reports.
Q. What's been the traditional approach for managing well data?
A. Typically when a new well is created, employees spend time entering well data into their own systems. For example, one person enters well data into the G&G application. Another person enters the same well data into the Drilling application. A third person enters the same well data into the Finance application. According to statistics, it takes about 30 minutes to enter wells into a particular financial application.
So imagine if you need to add 500 new wells to your systems. This is common after a merger or acquisition. That translates to roughly 250 hours or 6.25 weeks of employee time saved on the well create process! By automating across systems, you not only save time, you eliminate redundant data entry and possible errors in the process.
Q. That sounds like a painfully slow and error-prone process.
A. It is! But that's only half the problem. Without a single trusted source of well data, how do you get a complete picture of your wells? When you compare the well data in the G&G system to the well data in the Drilling or Finance systems, it's typically inconsistent and difficult to reconcile. This leads to the question, "Which one of these systems has the best version of the truth?" Employees spend too much time manually reconciling well data for reporting and decision-making.
Q. So there is a lot to be gained by better managing well data.
A. That's right. The CFO typically loves the ROI on a master well data project. It's a huge opportunity to save time and money, boost productivity and get more accurate reporting.
Q: What were some of the business requirements for the MDM solution?
A: We couldn't build a solution that was narrowly focused on meeting the company's needs today. We had to keep the future in mind. Our goal was to build a framework that was scalable and supportable as the company's business environment changed. This allows the company to add additional data domains or attributes to the well data model at any time.
Q: Why did you choose Informatica MDM?
A: The decision to use Informatica MDM for the MDM Trust Framework came down to the following capabilities:
- Match and Merge: With Informatica, we get a lot of flexibility. Some systems carry the API or well government ID, but some don't. We can match and merge records differently based on the system.
- X-References: We keep a cross-reference between all the systems. We can go back to the master well data and find out where that data came from and when. We can see where changes have occurred because Informatica MDM tracks the history and lineage.
- Scalability: This was a key requirement. While we went live after only 5 months, we've been continually building out the well master based on the requiremets of the target systems.
- Flexibility: Down the road, if we want to add an additional facet or classification to the well master, the framework allows for that.
- Simple Integration: Instead of building point-to-point integrations, we use the hub model.
In addition to Informatica MDM, our Noah Consulting MDM Trust Framework includes Informatica PowerCenter for data integration, Informatica Data Quality for data cleansing and Informatica Data Virtualization.
Q: Can you give some examples of the business value gained by mastering well data?
A: One person said to me, "I'm so overwhelmed! We've never had one place to look at this well data before." With MDM centrally managing master well data and fueling key business applications, many upstream processes can be optimized to achieve their full potential value.
People spend less time entering well data on the front end and reconciling well data on the back end. Well data is entered once and it's automatically shared across all systems that need it. People can trust that it's consistent across systems. Also, because the data across systems is now tied together, it provides business value they were unable to realize before, such as predictive analytics.
Q. What's next?
A. There's a lot of insight that can be gained by understanding the relationships between the well, and the people, equipment and facilities associated with it. Next, we're planning to add the operational hierarchy. For example, we'll be able to identify which production engineer, reservoir engineer and foreman are working on a particular well.
We've also started gathering business requirements for equipment and facilities to be tied to each well. There's a lot more business value on the horizon as the company streamlines their well information lifecycle and the valuable relationships around the well.
If you missed the webinar, you can watch the replay now: Attention E&P Executives: Streamlining the Well Information Lifecycle.


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Comprehending the subject. This is the one of the most important thing to remember while penning an essay. What is the subject matter? What should be the essay all about?


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Here is link to our facebook page which I am going to start building up.
I have kept quite for awhile on the working (flowing sewer) vs. replacement. Granted i have a bias as we do installs. But my main thing is that sewers are out of view and not thought about unless there is trouble but there is a lot more going on. Our water infrastructure was given a D rating by engineers, our nations water supply and sewers are aging badly with no funds to repair them. I wish the current administration would set aside funds toward it's repair like they do for the roads, get america working heck there is a lot that needs done.


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My perl5 TODO list
Below is a formal list of possible optimizations, which most would agree on. We had these discussion in 2001 with damian were perl6 and perl5i took off. I'd like to work on these for perl5 core and need decisions. Most p5p hackers seem to be informed about the general possibilities and directions, but not all. We'd need this to improve general perl5 performance, and also help static compilation.[1]
We had this before, so I'd like to keep it formal. So each proposal gets a perl6-like name, and replies should change the subject to that name. I choose PDD for "Perl Design Draft".
Beforehand: "compiler" means op.c not B::C. compile-time and run-time should be obvious.
PDD01 const / readonly lexicals
The CONST op currently is a SVOP, holding a global gvsv. A CONST op might hold lexicals also, a PADOP type. The more constants the compiler knows at compile-time the better it can optimize. The following datatypes need to be represented as const:
PADSV (lexicals and esp. function arguments)
"PDD02 final classes - const @ISA"
"PDD03 immutable classes - const %class::"
Esp. readonly function arguments need to be parsed into lexical consts, but "my const $i" or "my $i:ro" also. I have no opinion on "my $i is ro", but it would be the best choice. See "PDD05 Function and method signatures"
SVt_READONLY already is good enough to hold this information in the data. But the compiler does not want to optimize on datatypes, the information needs to represented as OP. Just for the special cases @ISA and stashes it is not needed.
So either add a mixin svop+padop type for CONST decriminated by OPpCONST_PAD 1, add a CONST flag to PADSV,
or add a new CONSTPAD op, replacing PADSV/const which needs to be added into all current CONST checks in the compiler.
CONST with OPpCONST_PAD flag:
Pro: Easier and faster for the compiler.
Contra: The logic for the new OP type which is a union of SVOP and PADOP needs to be added for all accessors. B and its libraries, but also XS walkers.
PADSV with OPpPAD_CONST flag
Pro: Does not break libraries
Contra: CONST checks need to check PADSV's also.
Pro: Does not break libraries
Contra: CONST checks need to check CONSTPAD also.
Personally I lean against CONSTPAD.
Keywords: (how to parse)
The following variants are being considered: lexicals and globals:
my const $i; my const ($i, $j) = (0, 1); (as const keyword upfront)
my $i :ro;
my $i is ro;
See "PDD05 Function and method signatures"
sub call (const $i) {}
sub call ($i:ro) {}
sub call ($i is ro) {}
See "PDD02 final classes - const @ISA"
const our @ISA = ('MyBase');
our @ISA :ro = ('MyBase');
our @ISA is ro = ('MyBase');
class MyClass is final {
our @ISA = ('MyBase');
class MyClass (extends => ('MyBase'), is_final => 1) {}
See "PDD03 immutable classes - const %class::"
const package MyClass { } and const package MyClass;
const %MyClass::;
class MyClass is immutable {}
class MyClass (is_immutable => 1) {}
No keyword. immutable should be the new default for the class keyword, old-style packages stay mutable.
Keyword discussion:
The type qualifier const, which creates CONST/CONSTPAD op and sets the SVf_READONLY flag can be represented either as new keyword "const", which looks most natural, but is hardest to parse. Larry opposed it initially, because it looked to C++ish. But nowadays it looks best.
The attribute it would be easiest to parse, as a MYTERM also parses and handles attributes, The MYTERM type just needs be extended for signatures. It also looks natural.
The perl6-like type trait is harder to parse, and a bit unnatural for lexicals.
The Moose style hash attributes only work for classes, not for lexicals and sigs.
PDD02 final classes - const @ISA
A const isa is commonly known as "final" keyword. The class is not extendable, the compiler can do compile-time method resolution, i.e. convert a method to a function.
Pro: Compile-time method resolution
If the compiler knows at compile-time for each method, that all isa's until the method is found are const and also those classes are immutable (const), the method can be converted to a function. That would be a huge performance win, esp. with classes with favor methods over hash accessors.
Note that the accessor typo problem could also be solved with const hashes of the object representation, but nobody is using that yet. A const class (const %classname::) not, as this is independent of the underlying object representation, which is usually a blessed hash.
Function calls are slow, and method calls even 10% minimum slower. (10% for immediately found methods, for a deeper search the run-time costs are higher)
I hope the "final" problem is known from java. Since the compiler needs to know in advance the inheritances it is not possible to extend and override methods of final classes. One cannot extend java strings. Thanks to Michael Schwern for the discussion.
(Reini): Define the following convention. No additional keywords needed. Libraries may use final, but finalization is defered until the application is processed, and all libraries (use statements) are already loaded. So mocking is still possible, but the default is to use compile-time method resolution. Schwern sees a problem in that scheme which I haven't understood yet.
(Larry): Libraries may use final, but the application with a
#pragma finalhas the final word.
See also pddtypes.pod
PDD03 immutable classes - const %class::
Classes should default to immutable, packages keep the dynamic behaviour unless a package is declared as const. (Damian)
Some might know from Moose that immutable classes makes it 20x faster, even if not all possible optimizations are yet done.
PDD04 Types
They are already parsed for lexicals, just not for named arguments. The 3 coretypes int, num, string need to be reserved. p5-mop will probably define more. bool needs to be added probably also.
Type conventions in core are needed to
talk to other languages, like json, perl6 or java,
to specify the wanted behavior for methods acting on types, such as smartmatch or multi-methods, or
for special performance purposes, e.g. int loop counters, int arithmetic, smaller and faster typed arrays or hashes, or to enforce compile-time method resolution.
See pddtypes.pod and perltypes.pod I had an old version at my blog and at YAPC
An initial benefit would be natively typed arrays and hashes in core, with const hashes even optimizable hashes (so called "perfect hashes"). Further type checks and optimizers are left to modules.
Compile-time attribute hook for our three types to be able to use attributes for my declarations.
Note: Attributes still suffer from an over-architectured and broken Attribute::Handler implementation which evals the attribute value.
our $name:help(print the name); will call eval "print the name";
Without fixing this, attributes will have no chance to be accepted. The syntax is nice, and it is already parsed.
PDD05 Function and method signatures
The current prototype syntax explictly allows named arguments. There are several implementations already.
But there are several decisions required.
In order to optimize function and method calls, we need to define type qualifiers, and eventually return types, even if they are not used yet.
New syntax allows changing the semantics.
Lets follow perl6:
is bind (default) vs is copy (old semantics)
is ro (default) vs is rw (old semantics)
allow passing types and attributes to functions. attributes allow user-define hooks as now, just on function entries, not on variable declarations.
Optional arguments are defined by specifying defaults.
If we do not follow perl6 syntax with "is", we need attributes to specify ":rw" and possibly "\$" to specify bind (by reference).
e.g. sub myadder (\$i, $num = 1) { $i =+ $num }
or sub myadder ($i:rw, $num = 1) { $i =+ $num }
bind ro is by far the fastest calling convention. optimizable and checkable by the compiler. copy is the safe way, rw uses the old $_[n] semantics.
I outlined my proposal in pddtypes.pod
Q: Do function args and return values keep constness?
A: Only function args by ref. This is current behaviour and makes sense.
PDD06 Function return types
Any optimizer needs to stop if a function return type is not known. We don't even know if any value is returned at all, so we have to check @_ at every LEAVESUB, though the parser knows the context information already. By optionally declaring return types, a type checker and optimizer can kick in. Esp. for coretypes like int, num, str or void or a const qualifier.
There exist old and wildly different syntaxes for return types, but they are unused. Use the perl6 syntax, which is c-like.
Q What about libraries declaring their return values constant? I cannot change them then and have to copy them?
A: No. Return values so far are not const. Only if you declare a function to return a const it will be so.
PDD07 Compile-time entersub optimizations
Calling a function via ENTERSUB and cleaning up at LEAVESUB is by far the slowest part of perl.
We can check our functions for the following situations: exceptions, jumps out, lexicals, locals, function calls, recursive calls.
If none of these occur, the function can be inlined.
We also need to check for tail calls and arguments. (signatures)
If no exceptions or no locals occur the parts in ENTERSUB and LEAVESUB which deal with that can be skipped.
We need to store the context and possible return type in ENTERSUB and LEAVESUB to speed up @_ handling.
We need to seperate XS calls from ENTERSUB.
PDD08 Compile-time op-arg optimizations
Our current optree resolves op argument types (the compile-time op flags and also the POP'ed flags) at run-time. For the cases the op itself specifies the behavior or the argument type can be compile-time deferred (lvalue, context, magic, ...), an optimized op version should be used.
Promote type pessimization to all affected ops, and use optimized ops for non-pessimized. Similar to i_opt (integer constant folding) if all operands are non-magic IVs.
The biggest blocker are functions borders. Without named arguments passed as bind (alias), each function must optimize from scratch and looses all information.
PDD09 Compile-time function inlining
See "PDD07 Compile-time entersub optimizations". entersub (and leavesub) needs to hold compiler information about the function, which requires waiting for parsing all embedded functions.
Even functions with arguments can be inlined, for safe versions with arguments by copy, and destructive arguments by bind. They just need a scope block.
PDD10 Compile-time method resolution
We can easily change run-time method calls at compile-time to function calls. What is left is a decision on "PDD02 final classes - const @ISA" and "PDD03 immutable classes - const %class::"
Outlined here how-perl-calls-subs-and-methods and further refined at "Compile-time type optimizations" in perltypes
PDD11 Compile-time method inlining
This just does method resolution (change to functions) and then does function inlining.
PDD12 Run-time method caching
This is trivial as there are already isa change hooks. METHOD_NAMED and METHOD just need a check a global method or object cache.
PDD13 Multi
multi needs types. (As smartmatch needs types to work reliably.)
As for the syntax multi can be implemented traditionally where the compiler generates the different methods per types automatically, or the perl6 way, with a seperate keyword. I see no problem with the first approach. This would need no new keyword.
The current MOP discussion and opinion is mainly about the new class and method keywords, but a MOP has nothing to do with that. Also not with Moose or a new object system. A MOP allows the definition of new behaviour for classes, methods, attributes, types, roles, inheritance and so on. How they are initialized, the layout, the behavior. A definition of alternate object systems. It is mainly proposed to overcome a Moose problem with anonymous packages, to seperate classes from stashes.
Introducing a MOP is good if the current object system is not good enough. The current object system is not good enough for Moose, and should be improved. There need to be two seperate discussions. One about what improvements Moose needs from the traditional stash based objects (global vs lexical namespaces - anon Packages), and the second about the MOP itself.
I have no opinion on the mop. Just this: Why bother with a mop before some basic langauge features are not yet decided upon? Moose does not even use types properly yet. This smells for premature hooks. But pmichaud is highly convinced that a p5 mop is a good thing.
PDD20 no vivify
Something like autovivification needs to get added to improve the optree. As shown in optimizing-compiler-benchmarks-part-3 disabling vivification of arrays but also hashes will lead to compile-time optimizations and dramatic performance improvements, similar to const arrays or hashes, but even better.
PDD21 no magic
Similar to no vivify or const lexicals, a lexical no magic pragma can lead to compile-time optimizations and dramatic performance improvements.
PDD22 slimmer nextstate
Slimmer nextstate op variants can be optimized at compile-time, which do not: reset PL_taint, the stack pointer and FREETMPS.
PDD23 loop unrolling
As shown in optimizing-compiler-benchmarks-part-2 AELEMFAST is about 2 times faster than the generic AELEM, but it needs to know the index at compile-time. This is easy to do for loops.
Unroll loops with known size and lots of AELEM into AELEMFAST accesses automatically.
PDD30 Alternative parser
The worst part of perl is the parser. It is a hack, it is fast, but changing and esp. adding rules in a sane manner is hard, because the parser deviates in too many ways from a lexer/tokenizer seperation. For adding new syntax you usually cannot just add the syntax rules to perly.y
Second generating a traditional AST which generates a better optree (better optimizable, or emit jit or emit native code) is worthwile.
PDD31 Alternative vm
Our VM is a stack machine, which handles the stack on the heap. There are no typed alternatives.
There are integer optimized opts, but they are rarely used, "use integer" and "my int" can overcome this, but overflow behaviour needs to be defined. Either slow promotion to number or fast integer wrap, unsigned or signed. With "my int" this behaviour can be changed.
The VM is simple and easy to XS, but has major problems. An alternative VM could be based on parrot or vmkit or simply reuse the existing ops, with a different compiler and different stack handling.
A c-stack based compiler could arrange the optree as a natively compiled or jit'ed C program. Before each op call the op arguments (0-2 SV pointers) are put on the stack, lexicals also as in native closures, and functions are called natively via cdecl or stdcall, depending on if we need varargs.
By using LLVM even a register based (fastcall) layout can be arranged.
PDD32 Jit
A jit could solve the run-time decisions for dynamic cases, which are not solvable at compile-time. But the vm should be JIT friendly. The current VM is quite jit-friendly, but the ops itself are too dynamic. There need to be pre-compiled optimized alternatives for certain ops with known argument types.
To be practical I'm thinking of adding labels with a naming scheme to most ops, where a JIT or LLVM could hook into.
Just some random examples from pp.c, to give you an idea.
dVAR; dSP; dPOPss;
if (PL_op->op_flags & OPf_MOD || LVRET) {
SV * const ret = sv_2mortal(newSV_type(SVt_PVLV));
sv_magic(ret, NULL, PERL_MAGIC_pos, NULL, 0);
LvTYPE(ret) = '.';
LvTARG(ret) = SvREFCNT_inc_simple(sv);
PUSHs(ret); /* no SvSETMAGIC */
else {
if (SvTYPE(sv) >= SVt_PVMG && SvMAGIC(sv)) {
const MAGIC * const mg = mg_find(sv, PERL_MAGIC_regex_global);
if (mg && mg->mg_len >= 0) {
I32 i = mg->mg_len;
if (DO_UTF8(sv))
sv_pos_b2u(sv, &i);
dVAR; dSP; dMARK;
if (GIMME != G_ARRAY) {
if (++MARK <= SP)
*MARK = &PL_sv_undef;
*MARK = refto(*MARK);
while (++MARK <= SP)
*MARK = refto(*MARK);
- "Ertl and Gregg analyze the performance of the following interpreters: Gforth, OCaml, Scheme48, Yap, Perl, Xlisp. While Gforth, OCaml, Scheme48 and Yap are categorized as efficient interpreters, Perl and Xlisp benchmarks are used for comparison purposes as inefficient interpreters.
While efficient interpreters perform with a slowdown by a factor of 10 when compared to an optimizing native code compiler, inefficient interpreters have a slowdown by a factor of 1000."
M. Anton Ertl and David Gregg. The structure and performance of efficient interpreters. Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism, 5:125, November 2003. Cited on pages 6 and 7. https://students.ics.uci.edu/~sbruntha/cgi-bin/download.py?key=thesis


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – Tim Hardaway Jr. brought Michigan back with a relentless streak of 3-point shooting, then blocked a shot by Aaron Craft in the final seconds of overtime to give the third-ranked Wolverines a 76-74 victory over No. 10 Ohio State on Tuesday night.
Hardaway finished with 23 points, including five straight 3-pointers in the second half. The Wolverines (21-2, 8-2 Big Ten) led by two points when Craft rushed the ball into the frontcourt after a missed Michigan free throw. He got all the way to the basket, but Hardaway was there to smother his last-ditch attempt to tie it.
After scoring at will most of the second half, Ohio State (17-5, 7-3) managed only two points in overtime.
Trey Burke missed a 3-pointer at the end of regulation that would have won it for Michigan – the Wolverines' only miss in nine second-half attempts from beyond the arc. Burke's 3 at the start of overtime made it 75-72, and then neither team scored until Craft's driving layup with just under a minute to play.
Craft stole the ball from Burke, but the Michigan point guard hustled back to prevent an easy basket. The ball went out of bounds to Ohio State.
With the shot clock off, Craft drove past Burke, but Burke recovered to block Craft's shot from behind at the free throw line. Michigan's Glenn Robinson III was fouled and made one of two free throws with 7.6 seconds left.
Deshaun Thomas scored 17 points for the Buckeyes.
Michigan and Ohio State were meeting for the first time with both teams ranked in the top 10.
With a sold-out, early arriving crowd cheering them on, the Wolverines went on an early 12-0 run, and they led 18-8 after Burke scored off a nifty hesitation dribble. But the Buckeyes settled in, scoring the game's next seven points and eventually taking a 29-28 lead when Craft drove for a layup.
Ohio State was ahead 31-30 at halftime.
The Buckeyes led 48-40 after a 3-pointer by Lenzelle Smith Jr., but Hardaway and the Wolverines rallied. Hardaway's fourth 3-pointer of the half put the Wolverines up 55-54.
Amid all that, the Buckeyes stayed patient on offense. Smith's three-point play inside put Ohio State back ahead, and a 3-pointer by LaQuinton Ross made it 60-55.
Ohio State led 62-60 after another 3-pointer by Hardaway, and the Wolverines were finally able to stop the Buckeyes for a couple of possessions. Burke's breakaway layup followed by a 3-pointer from Nik Stauskas put Michigan back ahead 65-64.
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Greenwich resident and famed Hollywood director Ron Howard listed his Conyers Farm compound this week, asking $27.5 million for the chance to take his place in Greenwich's backcountry. The Howard family has called the 32-acre estate home for two decades.
"We moved 3,000 miles away from the hub of Los Angeles to raise our family here," Howard said in a statement Friday. "Whether we're watching films in our theater, walking the trails throughout our property, star gazing in our observatory, or just relaxing with friends and loved ones by the lake, Cheryl and I feel we've accomplished the goals we set when we began work on this place. Our children are grown, so it's time to move on, but the memories of this very special place will never leave us."
Greenwich Brokerage independent sales associate Lyn Stevens and her team were selected to co-market the Howard estate along with Tamar Lurie, a top-producing sales associate affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Connecticut and Westchester, N.Y.
The Howard family has spent limited time in Greenwich in recent years, coming for holidays and other special occasions, while living most of the time in California, Lurie said.
But Stevens said, "We don't know that Greenwich is losing the Howards.
"They have been very bold about saying that they love Greenwich and hope to have a presence here, so we hope they stay," Stevens said Friday. "But our focus right now is getting this house sold for them."
The Howards came to Greenwich in 1985, for the most part to raise their children outside of the show-business bubble. They raised three daughters and a son here, sending them to Greenwich Country Day School. In 1994, they built the 17,200-square-foot, shingle-style mansion on their backcountry property, which they cobbled together from three undeveloped parcels.
In Greenwich, show business "is not what people think about all the time," Ron Howard told Greenwich Time in 1986. "You don't go into a restaurant and overhear people talking about film deals or television game shows or things like that."
Shortly after the move, Howard described getting used to life outside of Hollywood.
"In a way, you know, it's kind of like we're visiting Disneyland or something right now," he told the newspaper. "It's such a change for us and we're excited about it."
Living here allowed Howard to remain connected to the entertainment industry, given the proximity to New York, while being present in the lives of his children. He also liked the town because people didn't make a big deal over him.
"People don't hound you in Greenwich," he told Greenwich Time in 1991. "Everybody there might be interested, but in Greenwich, they are pretty cool. They're sophisticated."
Unlike some notables who live here, but never emerge from behind stone walls, the Howards have been part of the community.
From time to time they could be seen eating anywhere from Gabriele's Italian Steak House on Church Street or the Ginger Man on Greenwich Avenue to Tomatillo Taco Joint on Railroad Avenue and the Fairways Restaurant at the Griff on King Street.
They spoke at public meetings against plans to install a cellular phone tower at Parkway School in 1990. When a "Go Greener Greenwich Student Environmental Video Contest" was announced in 2009, Ron Howard agreed to be a judge. He did the same for the Junior League of Greenwich's inaugural Greenwich Youth Film Festival three years later.
Nearly 25 years ago, when austerity measures threatened fire station closings, the Howards arranged for proceeds from the first Greenwich showings of his film "Backdraft" to go to the Greenwich Fire Department.
"When I saw that headline in Greenwich Time, I panicked -- just couldn't believe it," Cheryl Howard said during a news conference at the Central Fire Station in 1991. "We thought (the benefit) was the best way for us to show our appreciation to the firefighters."
Another time, Howard allowed a Cos Cob resident to arrange an advanced screening of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to raise money for cancer research.
Stevens thinks it's likely the next owners will be similar.
"The buyer could be someone very much like the Howards -- someone with a higher profile who wants to enjoy some anonymity and privacy in that setting," she said.
The house, which technically sits in North Castle, N.Y., though all entrances are located in Greenwich, is tucked away beneath a canopy of trees.
"It's like a magical compound. You drive onto the property and you're greeted by two beautiful barns with paddocks, grazing sheep and miniature horses. It feels very much like a gentleman's farm," said Stevens, who added that the lake-side compound also includes a greenhouse, professional-grade observatory, formal and informal gardens and "everything you can imagine. It has a very serene and welcoming, inspiring feel to it. That's probably why they've been here for so long, because it's such a great environment to be creating in."
At $27.5 million, the estate is just one of three homes in town priced above $25 million currently. (The list includes Hollywood producer Bob Weinstein's waterfront home, listed at $32 million.) But while the price is at the top of the Greenwich market, Lurie said she and Stevens have already been hearing from other brokers, and they expect the house to make a big splash.
"I think the timing is great," Stevens said. "There's some real energy in the high end, and the $120 million sale last month (of Copper Beech Farm, the most expensive residential property sale on record in the U.S.) has given great confidence back to the high-end buyer that Greenwich is a great place for an investment."


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When it came time to book his opening acts for his Virtual Reality Tour, Brad Paisley took a chance on one of country music's hottest newcomers, Scotty McCreery. McCreery, who was fresh off his 'American Idol' win when he accepted the kind offer, says the experience thus far has been nothing short of amazing.
"Brad is a great guy," McCreery tells Taste of Country. "He treats his opening acts well and treats the people who work for him well. I haven't been on any other tours, but I've heard horror stories about the headliners not talking to their opening acts and don't want anything to do with them … they just brush off all their workers and it's all about them. But Brad, he's the total opposite."
Because the 'Waitin' on a Woman' hitmaker welcomed him with open arms, McCreery, 18, has made himself a sponge. The 'Water Tower Town' singer is learning how to be a country star by watching everything from the way Paisley performs, right down to how he treats everyone involved with the tour.
"Brad will walk around and eat dinner with anybody," McCreery says with a smile. "Sometimes, he'll ask me to come eat dinner or lunch with him. He's just an all-around good guy. You can talk to him about anything."
He adds, "That's how I want to be. I don't want anybody to feel intimidated before they come talk to me. I want to be open with anybody, kind of like Brad. He's a good teacher for me. If I'm in school, he's a great professor."
Like with most tours — especially those that Paisley is involved with — the road run comes with its share of pranks, and McCreery says both parties have already tested the waters. "There's been a little bit going on already," he admits, laughing. "He [Paisley] has those big video boards behind him, so he'll throw a shot up there with my head on a naked guy's body or something like that. He's funny with that. I've got him once or twice with little things. We'll see if I get him again anytime soon!"
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Your hosts: J. Lowry, B. Martin.
This is an idea that I've talked about for a while, but I wanted to get something down on virtual paper as I've been thinking about it lately. We have discussed this before, I think, but these are some of my current thoughts.
Basically, I refuse to accept the categorization of media producers and consumers. I believe that we all, according to our abilities, should be content producers, and that we must refuse to live as mere consumers of what the Southern California and New York City producers think we should like. [Which I think makes me a content/intellectual property socialist.] This is part of why I dislike mindless movies - but for the millions of dollars they have available for production and promotion, I believe I or other people I know could produce movies of comparable interest, if not quality. Except that I want to emphasize that I don't believe that millions of dollars are necessary; I believe movies (or whatever) of quality can be produced for much less. The same is even more true of music and literature.
What is necessary to achieve this? Well, that's maybe not a trivial question to answer. Some elements that I believe will ply a part are the following though:
This implies we need to better train ourselves, also. Take some guitar lessons or practice writing.
Of course, do so mindfully - no need to repeat the empty cliches parroted in the television (which is actually improving in quality, to be honest) or past generations of hack writers. We don't need or want to repeat those mistakes - a certain degree of confidence is necessary, but so is humility at least as far as judging quality. We need to be more strict in regards to quality as critics of ourselves.
Having said this though, we don't need to become as good as the best professionals - there will always be room for folk musicians, for example. And honestly, many folk musicians are better than many of the commercial performers!


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USDCHF: With the pair closing lower on sell off the past week and following through lower during Monday trading session, more decline is envisaged. On the downside, support lies at the 0.9600 level. A turn below here will open the door for more weakness towards the 0.9550 level and then the 0.9500 level. On the upside, resistance resides at the 0.9700 level where a break will clear the way for more strength to occur towards the 0.9750 level. Further out, resistance comes in at the 0.9800 level. All in all, USDCHF remains biased to the downside on more weakness.
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Fame 2009 (Starring Naturi Naughton, Debbie Allen & More) [Movie Trailer #2]
This movie is based upon the 1980 film which follows NYC talent attending the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, (Known today as Fiorello H. Laguardia H.S.) students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. In 1936, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia founded the High School of Music & Art in order to provide a facility where the most gifted and talented public school students of New York City could pursue their talents in art or music, while also completing a full academic program of instruction. In 1948, the School of Performing Arts was created to provide training in performance skills to students who wished to prepare for professional careers in dance, music or drama.
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Dorothy Armstrong (nee Partington) also known as "Dottie Partington" died at the age of 88 in Long Beach, California on May 5, 2011. Dorothy was born and raised in Staten Island, New York. She was the only daughter of Ralph Edwin Partington, a New York police office, and Dorothy Ellen Partington, a homemaker. Following her extensive modeling work in New York, Dorothy was cast as the character Miss Lace in Milton Caniff's Male Call cartoon series. Aimed primarily at servicemen during WW II, Male Call was published in over 3,000 camp newspapers around the world. As Miss Lace, Dorothy would frequently visit wounded veterans at military hospitals and joined several USO tours to boost and support the morale of US servicemen. She was very proud of her contributions to the morale and support of servicemen during WW II as part of the US war effort.
Following high school graduation, Dorothy was discovered and subsequently hired as a model for the Harry Conover Agency in New York, as a "Conover Cover Girl" Dorothy appeared in the leading magazines of the day, in addition to advertisements and signboards. In the early 1940's Dorothy was cast and performed in several Broadway stage plays. During World War II, Dorothy was the model and inspiration for Miss Lace in Milton Caniff's Male Call cartoon series that was distributed to over 3,000 military bases around the world from 1941-1946. Later, she appeared in television shows such as "Tales of Wells Fargo," and "Lawman" and the movie, Ice Palace.
Dorothy was married twice. Her first marriage was to Charles Fredrick, a highly decorated war veteran. They divorced in 1951. Her second marriage was to George B. Armstrong. They were married from 1953 until 1966. Shortly after her marriage to George Armstrong, the couple moved to Los Angeles, California in 1956 where they first lived in Baldwin Hills. After the birth of their son William (Bill) Armstrong, the family moved to Burbank, California. Dorothy's parents also moved to Burbank to be near their daughter and new grandson. After moving to Burbank, California, Dorothy worked at Warner Brothers and NBC as a cast member on television westerns. Following her television work she worked as a research assistant to screenwriter Harry Kleiner for five years where she assisted him in the research and writing of screenplays including the Bullit and Fantastic Voyage movies.
After her divorce she needed to work full time to help support her family. Dorothy attended adult education classes in the evening to acquire office skills and secured employment with the City of Burbank in the Public Works Department where she worked for over 20 years.
As a single mother, she focused on the raising of her son Bill, and provided a rich nurturing environment for his growth and educational development. The value she placed on education and cultural enrichment was reflected in a home filled with books, magazines, and music. Her warm, conversant style ensured that she had many friends and loved to entertain guests at home and around the backyard pool. Dorothy had a smile that could light up a room. She had a quick wit and laughed easily. Her sense of humor, and warm and open nature was a gift, and she shared these gifts with her many friends and family.
Dorothy greatly loved nature, the beach, and the outdoors and would make frequent forays to the beaches and parks of Southern California. She also maintained a small mobile home located on the beach south of Ensenada, Mexico that she frequently visited. Reflecting her love of nature, she was also a longtime member of the Sierra Club. Dorothy loved to watch Animal Planet on television, and was an avid reader and subscriber to National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Sierra magazines.
Following Bill's graduation from college, she retired from her position with the City of Burbank Public Works department in 1990 after 22 years. In all Dorothy was a Burbank resident for over forty years in the Rancho Equestrian area of the city. After retirement she lived in Pacific Palisades, CA until 1996, and later moved to Westminster, CA, then to Long Beach, CA where she resided the last eight years. She is survived by her son, William Bannon Armstrong; cousins, Cyrus Partington and Anne Partington; niece, Vicki Lanzilotta and nephew, Gregory Armstrong.
A memorial service for Dorothy Armstrong will be held Saturday, June 25th at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills located at: 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90068. 1-800-204-3131. Directions:http://www.forestlawn.com/About-Forest-Lawn/Locations-and-Directions-Hollywood-Hills.asp
Reference: Dorothy Armstrong Memorial Service
From the 134 Freeway in Los Angeles either east or west bound take the Forest Lawn Drive exit to Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills.
The memorial service will start at 2:30 PM at the Old North Church, with a reception at 3:45 PM at the Recital Hall (Hall of Liberty), also at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills
Note: Traffic can be heavy in this area even on a weekend, please allow enough time to arrive for the 2:30 start time on Saturday, June 25th.


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American Airlines could be facing more financial problems.
The Federal Aviation Administration is looking to charge the Fort Worth-based carrier with hefty fines for safety and maintenance violations. Bankruptcy court documents reveal that the FAA could seek up to a record $162 million from American's parent company, AMR.
"In accordance with deadlines set by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Federal Aviation Administration filed Proofs of Claim to protect the interests of U.S. taxpayers. The documents detail both proposed and potential Civil Penalties in connection with ongoing enforcement cases involving both American Airlines and American Eagle. Because these cases remain open, the FAA cannot discuss the details of the individual investigations," said the FAA in a statement Tuesday.
An investigation revealed the company knowingly violated safety and maintenance rules. The investigation reveals the FAA has serious concerns over American's maintenance system with some of the alleged problems dating back to 2007.
The FAA said American failed to fix wiring issues between the engines and wings on the Boeing 757s and flew nearly 15,000 flights with passengers months after knowing about the problem.
Another proposed $28 million fine deals with landing gear and testing issues in 777s.
The penalties continue to add up after American continued to fly the Boeing 767s more than 2,000 times without making the required changes to the plane engine mounts and wing structures.
The company admitted between 2006 and 2008, they kept some of its DC-9 jets in service. The jets were used to fly passengers after the airline used the wrong fasteners to fix cracks in key structural parts of the planes.
American maintains it has never operated a plane that was unsafe for flight.
"Safety is fundamental to the success of American Airlines, and at no time did American operate an aircraft that was unsafe for flight. Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers, our people and our planes," said Bruce Hicks, AMR spokesperson.
The FAA would typically propose a penalty in these matters, and then the amount of the fine would be negotiated down -- a process that could take years.
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By one-shot, do you mean an adventure or encounter that can be conducted entirely over a single online session, maybe three to six hours; or do you mean a single adventure, even if it takes more than one online session to accomplish?
This topic is of interest to me because that's what I'm engaged in right now, in both ways. I'm three sessions into a single adventure out of a projected total of twelve sessions; and I've been running, or trying to run, micro-adventures that can be concluded in a single three hour chat.
For the single, multi-session adventure, I'd say there is no particular obstacle beyond what everyone encounters in their medium of choice: player recruitment and attrition, scheduling, continuity, that sort of thing. Realistically, many "campaigns" don't last to the conclusion of their first adventure, anyway. Some players only want to play in campaigns and won't consider standalone adventures, but that's just one of any number of idiosyncratic reasons players will reject games.
The one-session adventure changes the nature of the challenge in several ways, though. Now you have to really pay attention to exactly how long you expect your session to run and how much you can truly expect to accomplish in that time. This will depend on several factors: rules system, preparation, the affordances of the medium, and the biggest factor that you have the least control over: your players.
In most systems, there are some parts of a role-playing session that will be more mechanically-intensive than other parts. Usually this means combat. When things go well in a three-hour session, I can fit in two mechanically-intensive segments interspersed between two less-intensive ones. A settling-in period and a wrap-up serve as bookends. Most GMs are more interested in the wrap-up and would prefer to dispense with the settling-in, but player dynamics rarely allows this to occur, so it's wise to plan for both. At the same time, if the GM does want some kind of denouement, it's important not to get carried away, or players will start popping off arbitrarily.
So that's when things go well. At their worst, which would be the one-session game I tried to run most recently, you don't even get through the first intensive encounter. If the players are interested in reconvening, that's great. (I'm currently in the midst of trying to determine whether that's true in my case.) Otherwise, you just have to be willing to scrap it and either try again later, or try something else later. At least, unlike a campaign, there's not as much investment lost if you decide to move on.
I could go on and talk about limitations of scope in these standalone sessions, but I think that's fairly clear based on what's laid out above. More than one red herring or plot twist, or often enough, even a single such curve ball, will usually guarantee that the session won't reach its resolution. Fast-paced, decisive action, with little in the way of mystery, is usually the way to do it. Perhaps you can have a single mystery take up most of the session until the players solve it, and follow that up with a brief climax and simple denouement, but you will certainly need players who can be satisfied with something like that.


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