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- A Very Brief Introduction to DI
- A Very Brief Introduction to DI Containers
- Simplest Usage Case (2 classes, one consumes the other)
- Simplest Usage Case Without Type-Hints
- Simplest Usage Case With Compiled Definitions
- Creating A Precompiled Definition For Others To Use
- Using Multiple Definitions From Multiple Sources
- Generating Service Locators
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A Very Brief Introduction to DI
Dependency Injection is a concept that has been talked about in numerous places over the web. For the purposes of this quickstart, we'll explain the act of injecting dependencies simply with this below code:
Above, A is a dependency of B, and A was injected into B. If you are not familar with the concept of dependency injection, here are a couple of great reads: Matthew Weier O'Phinney's Analogy, Ralph Schindler's Learning DI, or Fabien Potencier's Series on DI.
A Very Brief Introduction to DI Containers
Simplest Usage Case (2 classes, one consumes the other)
In the simplest use case, a developer might have one class (A) that is consumed by another class (B) through the constructor. By having the dependency injected through the constructor, this requires an object of type A be instantiated before an object of type B so that A can be injected into B.
To create B by hand, a developer would follow this work flow, or a similar workflow to this:
If this workflow becomes repeated throughout your application multiple times, this creates an opportunity where one might want to DRY up the code. While there are several ways to do this, using a dependency injection container is one of these solutions. With Zend's dependency injection container Zend\Di\DependencyInjector, the above use case can be taken care of with no configuration (provided all of your autoloading is already configured properly) with the following usage:
Moreover, by using the DependencyInjector::get() method, you are ensuring that the same exact object is returned on subsequent calls. To force new objects to be created on each and every request, one would use the DependencyInjector::newInstance() method:
Let's assume for a moment that A requires some configuration before it can be created. Our previous use case is expanded to this (we'll throw a 3rd class in for good measure):
With the above, we need to ensure that our DependencyInjector is capable of seeing the A class with a few configuration values (which are generally scalar in nature). To do this, we need to interact with the InstanceManager:
Now that our container has values it can use when creating A, and our new goal is to have a C object that consumes B and in turn consumes A, the usage scenario is still the same:
Simple enough, but what if we wanted to pass in these parameters at call time? Assuming a default DependencyInjector object ($di = new Zend\Di\DependencyInjector() without any configuration to the InstanceManager), we could do the following:
Constructor injection is not the only supported type of injection. The other most popular method of injection is also supported: setter injection. Setter injection allows one to have a usage scenario that is the same as our previous example with the exception, for example, of our B class now looking like this:
Since the method is prefixed with set, and is followed by a capital letter, the DependencyInjector knows that this method is used for setter injection, and again, the use case $c = $di->get('C'), will once again know how to fill the dependencies when needed to create an object of type C.
Other methods are being created to determine what the wirings between classes are, such as interface injection and annotation based injection.
Simplest Usage Case Without Type-Hints
If your code does not have type-hints or you are using 3rd party code that does not have type-hints but does practice dependency injection, you can still use the DependencyInjector, but you might find you need to describe your dependencies explicitly. To do this, you will need to interact with one of the definitions that is capable of letting a developer describe, with objects, the map between classes. This particular definition is called the BuilderDefinition and can work with, or in place of, the default RuntimeDefinition.
Definitions are a part of the DependencyInjector that attempt to describe the relationship between classes so that DependencyInjector::newInstance() and DependencyInjector::get() can know what the dependencies are that need to be filled for a particular class/object. With no configuration, DependencyInjector will use the RuntimeDefinition which uses reflection and the type-hints in your code to determine the dependency map. Without type-hints, it will assume that all dependencies are scalar or required configuration parameters.
The BuilderDefinition, which can be used in tandem with the RuntimeDefinition (technically, it can be used in tandem with any definition by way of the AggregateDefinition), allows you to programmatically describe the mappings with objects. Let's say for example, our above A/B/C usage scenario, were altered such that class B now looks like this:
You'll notice the only change is that setA now does not include any type-hinting information.
This above usage scenario provides that whatever the code looks like, you can ensure that it works with the dependency injection container. In an ideal world, all of your code would have the proper type hinting and/or would be using a mapping strategy that reduces the amount of bootstrapping work that needs to be done in order to have a full definition that is capable of instantiating all of the objects you might require.
Simplest Usage Case With Compiled Definitions
Without going into the gritty details, as you might expect, PHP at its core is not DI friendly. Out-of-the-box, the DependencyInjector uses a RuntimeDefinition which does all class map resolution via PHP's Reflection extension. Couple that with the fact that PHP does not have a true application layer capable of storing objects in-memory between requests, and you get a recipe that is less performant than similar solutions you'll find in Java and .Net (where there is an application layer with in-memory object storage.)
To mitigate this shortcoming, Zend\Di has several features built in capable of pre-compiling the most expensive tasks that surround dependency injection. It is worth noting that the RuntimeDefition, which is used by default, is the only definition that does lookups on-demand. The rest of the Definition objects are capable of being aggregated and stored to disk in a very performant way.
Ideally, 3rd party code will ship with a pre-compiled Definition that will describe the various relationships and parameter/property needs of each class that is to be instantiated. This Definition would have been built as part of some deployment or packaging task by this 3rd party. When this is not the case, you can create these Definitions via any of the Definition types provided with the exception of the RuntimeDefinition. Here is a breakdown of the job of each definition type:
- AggregateDefinition - Aggregates multiple definitions of various types. When looking for a class, it looks it up in the order the definitions were provided to this aggregate.
- ArrayDefinition - This definition takes an array of information and exposes it via the interface provided by Zend\Di\Definition suitable for usage by DependencyInjector or an AggregateDefinition
- BuilderDefinition - Creates a definition based on an object graph consisting of various Builder\PhpClass objects and Builder\InectionMethod objects that describe the mapping needs of the target codebase and …
- Compiler - This is not actually a definition, but produces an ArrayDefinition based off of a code scanner (Zend\Code\Scanner\DirectoryScanner or Zend\Code\Scanner\FileScanner).
The following is an example of producing a definition via a DirectoryScanner:
This definition can then be directly used by the DependencyInjector (assuming the above A, B, C scenario was actually a file per class on disk):
One strategy for persisting these compiled definitions would be the following:
Since Zend\Code\Scanner does not include files, the classes contained within are not loaded into memory. Instead, Zend\Code\Scanner uses tokenization to determine the structure of your files. This makes this suitable to use this solution during development and within the same request as any one of your application's dispatched actions.
Creating A Precompiled Definition For Others To Use
If you are a 3rd party code developer, it makes sense to produce a Definition file that describes your code so that others can utilize this Definition without having to Reflect it via the RuntimeDefintion, or create it via the Compiler. To do this, use the same technique as above. Instead of writing the resulting array to disk, you would write the information into a definition directly, by way of Zend\CodeGenerator:
Using Multiple Definitions From Multiple Sources
In all actuality, you will be using code from multiple places, some Zend Framework code, some other 3rd party code, and of course, your own code that makes up your application. Here is a method for consuming definitions from multiple places:
Generating Service Locators
In production, you want things to be as fast as possible. The Dependency Injection Container, while engineered for speed, still must do a fair bit of work resolving parameters and dependencies at runtime. What if you could speed things up and remove those lookups?
The Zend\Di\ServiceLocator\Generator component can do just that. It takes a configured DI instance, and generates a service locator class for you from it. That class will manage instances for you, as well as provide hard-coded, lazy-loading instantiation of instances.
The method getCodeGenerator() returns an instance of Zend\CodeGenerator\Php\PhpFile, from which you can then write a class file with the new Service Locator. Methods on the Generator class allow you to specify the namespace and class for the generated Service Locator.
As an example, consider the following:
The above code will write to ../Application/Context.php, and that file will contain the class Application\Context. That file might look like the following:
To use this class, you simply consume it as you would a DI container:
One note about this functionality in its current incarnation. Configuration is per-environment only at this time. This means that you will need to generate a container per execution environment. Our recommendation is that you do so, and then in your environment, specify the container class to use.


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Google continues to move forward with its work to improve the Google Maps experience as everything gets pushed further and further down to the local level in search. By opening the Google Maps Lab and allowing you to slap a beta logo on it if you please (a little humor from the Googlers, huh?) there is a look at what they are cooking up for the future.
When Google wants to test new features, they call them Lab experiments, and make them opt-in. Now, following many other services, Google Maps received a Lab icon. Click the green flask at the top of Google Maps and you get a chance to enable features like the following:

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Deserts and Beyond
Deserts and beyond...places in and around the southern California deserts and beyond. Photo taken at Canyon Lake, in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, December 2011. A few minutes later, after the sun disappeared, these cliffs were their normal color. They were only golden for a short time and I'm glad we were able to view them in their glory.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Palm Desert cross~Our World Tuesday~090412
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- Leora said...
What a lovely view to see every morning! I love the hints of light.
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- Fun60 said...
That cross really stands out against that magnificent background. Thanks for sharing.
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- Spare Parts and Pics said...
What a beautiful thing to always have on your horizon!
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Nice colours on the hills. - Margy
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i dont know. i havent seen it yet!!!
but i will
Maybe I just love 2 best cuz I was in WDW when it opened. But 3? It's one true cause of death is COMPOSITING! With 2 I was flaberghasted at every bit that I learned was CG'ed, but 3? I sat in the theatre, pointing & nitpicking at the CG.
I'm part of the guilty party that got my hands on the script for 3 even before 2 came out on DVD. Lemme tell ya, they shoulda stuck to that original script! But they changed it cuz it had gotten out. >~<
It mostly kept up with the rhythm & mood & feeling, mayhem & craziness, with untrustworthy pirates & confusing twists upon twists upon twists... EXCEPT for the attack of the 50 foot woman in the growing-diameter-rope dress who suddenly spoke like a hun from Night at the Museum.
BTW- Pirates is officially a Triology. 3 is it. Johnny has said so. Like a good artist, he knows when enough is enough.
(If I'm here, then I'm probably supposed to be animating instead.)
It was okay. I loved the first one, but absolutely hated the second one. Third one was a little better than the second one, but definitely not a favorite.
I thought it was an awesome movie. It was very interesting seeing it in the movie theater considering I was with my best friend who happens to be a huge Orlando Bloom fan. All she did was freak out throughout the whole movie. She kept saying how hot and georgeous he was.
When does it come out on DVD? I know that if it hasn't already it's coming out pretty soon.
- Matt
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2009 & 2010 WDW Half Marathons, 2009 Disneyland Half Marathon,
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I think it came out on DVD yesterday.
I loved the third movei!!! I cried at the end - I pretty much love Orlando Bloom/Will Turner...
Nothing can top the first movie - I mean, come on, it's the original!
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them - Walt Disney
The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem - Captain Jack Sparrow
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever - Walt Disney
Ugh! After watching this movie, I really wished they had just stayed with the first and let that be it. I mean the 1st movie was great, the second was ok, but the third was just weird and didn't make much sense (to me anyway). It was like they just threw something together at the last minute. I was pretty disappointed in the movie.
- Matt
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2009 & 2010 WDW Half Marathons, 2009 Disneyland Half Marathon,
Next Visit to the World: March '09 for Princess Half Marathon Weekend?
After finally getting to see it i would have to say i enjoyed it. I don't think it's better than 1 or 2 but i really did enjoy it.
I have a question: during the scene where they rescue Jack, Jack asks, why should I sail with any of you, four of you have tried to kill me in the past. Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and who is the fourth one?
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Great movie by the way. Once you watch it multiple times and understand it, you really appreciate it. It connects all of the movies together really well.
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I had to come to terms with the ending at first, but realized that given everything that the characters went through that there was no other choice.
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Church teens reflect on Sebenas' contributions
Updated On: Dec 28 2012 10:25:22 PM CST
Teens at Elmbrook Church were doing their part in the wake of Wauwatosa police officer Jennifer Sebena's death.
Kristen Overstreet, a youth group member. Said she felt like she had a knife stuck in her heart when she heard Sebena was gunned down during her shift Christmas Eve. Sebena helped as a youth group mentor for the teens. Now, the teens are helping raise money through a bake sale for her funeral expenses.
"She really showed that she cared about us a lot," Overstreet said.
Youth member Jillian Drewes said Sebena was joyful
"She had it deep inside her, this all-consuming joy that never went away," Drewes said.
Sebena was shot five times in the head outside a fire station as she left from a break. Her husband, Ben Sebena, is accused of pulling the trigger.
Ben was an Iraq War veteran, and the teens said he was open with them about his struggles with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. They said he credited Jen with helping him through it.
"He was always a presence that was someone to look up to, especially that he was an ex-Marine," said Levi Oury, another youth member.
Drewes said Ben was great with the guys and was mentoring them on topics like girl problems and kicking drug addictions.
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text: 10 April 2012 And the Winners of the 3rd Annual Photo Contest are… Posted by: Brian Bovard | 25 comments | Share: * Click on the photos once to check out the photographers' description of their photos. Click on the photo again to view a full sized image! Grand Prize winner of the Yellowstone/Tetons week-long photo tour with Jess Lee Grand Prize Winner by James Yule First Place: Wild Lands First Place: Wild Lands Category. Photo by Chase Schiefer First Place: Wildlife First Place: Wildlife Category. Photo by Hank Perry Second Place: Wild Lands Second Place: Wild Lands Category. Photo by Mark Johnson Second Place: Wildlife Second Place: Wildlife Category. Photo by Gene Furr Third Place: Wild Lands Third Place: Wild Lands Category. Photo by Rachele Matteucci Third Place: Wildlife Third Place: Wildlife Category. Photo by Danny Nestor Congratulations again to all of our winners and thanks to everyone who entered and voted for their favorites. Tune in next week for a slideshow featuring some of our fabulous honorable mentions! 25 Responses to "And the Winners of the 3rd Annual Photo Contest are…" Heather Moss April 10th, 2012 Such remarkable photographs! Congratulations to all the winners. Reply paula April 15th, 2012 Heather, you look like a twin in your picture!Iam a twin too, my parents where twins ,too.What animals often ave twins? polar bears.I put the leaping animal on my desktop for courage,too!go vegan ,love Paula twin of Lynne Cecelia April 10th, 2012 Where can I purchase pictures submitted.Absolutely gorgeous pics. Reply hank perry April 24th, 2012 Cecelia, thank you so much! My photos are up at naturalrealm.com and my proceeds go to Defenders and local wildlife conservation groups. yours in conservation, hp Bret @ Green Global Travel April 10th, 2012 Great photos! I especially love the polar bear and the nighttime waterfall shot. We'll have to remember to enter some of the shots from our trips to the Galapagos Islands and Peru's Amazon region in next year's contest. Will share this on our site now… Reply hank perry April 24th, 2012 Bret, thanks for the kudos! that bear back-scratched for awhile before he got around to a shake and it was very cold and windy out! there's a sense of luck and timing with the shot to be sure, but mostly, it's great to see them in the Northern Canada (if you've not been, get there soon!). a video with commentary is up at my site naturalrealm.com. thank you again.hp Geoffrey Harold April 10th, 2012 Great shots!!! Reply Priscilla April 10th, 2012 Ce sont toutes de tres belles photos c etait difficiles de voter pour les departages malgre tous ils sont tous gagnands. Reply Jaye Gundrum April 10th, 2012 I still love the Last Photo with the little guy jumping off the snow edge. Leap of Faith I think. He's beautiful. Reply Marie Rowland April 10th, 2012 I Love the bear and her cub, what a cutie. Of coarse I love all of Mother Nature's Wonders and especially all of God's four legged creatures. :):):) Reply Larry April 13th, 2012 Right on, Marie! God's creation is unbelievable! Daryl Hunter April 10th, 2012 I'm so glad to see James win this with the great photo of Blaze and her cub. I don't think this will be the last we see of the great photograph either Reply Michaelene (Mikey) April 11th, 2012 The wildlife pictures are beautiful and the wildlands Sunset. The problem I have is that the wildlands photo of the waves and the one with the waterfall,look like pictures of pictures. I have done pictures like that but would never enter them into a contest. The other thing I would like to mention is there should be a contest for folks with plain cameras, that cant afford the higher priced cameras with telescopic lenses that can take such close up shots of the animals. To me and probably alot of folks, higher price is anything over $200. I take pretty good shots, with my sale priced digital, but most of mine couldnt compare to the ones in this contest. Please consider this. Thank you and keep up the good work for our wonderful wildlife. Sincerely yours…Mikey Reply pat thomas April 11th, 2012 dan nestor's photo of that little creature jumping off the 'snow wave' into the air gave me courage this morning. thank you, thank you!! Reply Julie April 13th, 2012 These are some of the best shots I've ever seen. And I look at a lot of them. Incredible. Breathtaking. Phenomenal. Reply Linda M. April 13th, 2012 Beautiful!!!! Congrats to all the winners! TY for sharing.. Reply Gail R. McNamee April 14th, 2012 Amazing pictures. Nature in all it's splendor. Reply Karen Uyeno April 14th, 2012 I like the shot of the little animal jumping off a cliff. It probably was one of the hardest shots to capture, considering it probably took a lot of climbing. Maybe it was taken by someone that was skiing? Reply Susan April 16th, 2012 All of the photos are beautiful. Reply Alan Wolff April 16th, 2012 ALL of the photographs are really Great, and the effort put forward by these photographers cannot be accurately measured. Their contribution, however, can be measured, and it is Over Whelming. Thanks and gratitude to all of the entrants, you have captured the Heart of your subjects, be they Wild Life or Wild Lands. Interestingly 3 of the 4 Wild Life photographs are of animals in a winter/snowy setting. Me? I LOVE that brave determined, throw all caution to the wind…"I can almost fly…" Ermine!!!!!!! Kudos to Danny Nestor, Great image!!!! Reply Alan Wolff April 16th, 2012 Danny Nestor, Wanted to make a comment, actually share an haiku I composed for your "It's a Bird…It's a Plane…It's an Ermine" photo. Ermine winter white, black tail and eyes determined, "I can almost fly." Reply Heather Moss April 18th, 2012 Lovely, Alan! Margo Tracey July 14th, 2012 My favorite is the wave by Mark Johnson. Having grown up next to the ocean, I know how rare it is for a wave to break as beautifully as that, and for Mark to have caught this so perfectly and at such a rare moment, along with that glorious sunset and the rugged ridges on the shore… well, it's absolutely magnificent and awe inspiring. Fantastic job! Reply Angel Brooks July 15th, 2012 Beautiful Inspiring photos Reply Danny Nestor July 25th, 2012 I'm a little late to this but I just want to thank everyone for there comments about the little ermine, you can see more of my photo's at http://WWW.DANNESTORIMAGES.COM. Thanks Again Take Care be Safe Danny Nestor Reply Post Your Comment Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) Mail (required) (will not be published) You May also be interested in New record set for panthers killed on roads Last November, the death of a young Florida panther broke the all-time record set in 2012 of Florida panthers killed on roads. 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Thursday's Small-Cap Winners & Losers
Small stocks were tracking generally higher than the major indices Wednesday, with several small-cap energy names delivering upside on positive news.
Eagle Rock Energy (EROC) was climbing more than 8% on news the natural gas company will invest a total of $420 million on expansion. Its three acquisitions include $220 million for Escambia Asset and its 33 wells in Alabama and $180 million for 171 wells in Texas from Redman Energy. Based on the deals, Eagle Rock expects to increase its annual dividend by 3 cents to 35 cents, for a dividend of as much as $1.57 per year. Shares were up $1.98 at $25.99.
Another natural gas explorer, McMoRan Exploration (MMR), was also climbing on news of a well discovery. The New Orleans company said drillings at its Flatrock well "indicate a potential major discovery." Shares were up $1.34, or 8.9%, at $16.35.
Oilsands Quest (BQI) was surging 10% to $2.97 after the exploration company estimated the resource potential of its oil sands exploration permits in northwest Saskatchewan and northeast Alberta at 10 billion barrels of bitumen.Energy names weren't the only dominant forces in the small-cap space, however. Earnings drove stocks in various sectors both higher and lower. Among the biggest earnings winners was Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), shares of which climbed 30%, after the lumber company reported a surge in third-quarter earnings. Jewett generated net income of $757,000, or 32 cents a share, on sales of $20.9 million. In the third quarter last year, the company reported earnings of $561,000, or 24 cents a share, on $20.6 million in revenue. Shares were $2.23 higher at $10.18.
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'Tis the season, right? Wear your heart on your sleeve – and show your Boy Scout pride – with these fun crafts, from valentine bags to mini derby trophies.
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That was the vote this week in the House to give Amazon a five-year sales tax break, despite a relatively as lopsided vote last month to deny it. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it may see few chances to survive due to politicking and limited number of days left in this year's legislative session.
-- Gov. Nikki Haley, signing the state's new voter I.D. bill into law this week. Critics say the measure is a roadblock that will chill voting, particularly among Democratically-oriented voters. More.
With the session rapidly winding down, lawmakers offered dozens of congratulatory resolutions and local bills, but few major bills. Of interest:
TERI. S. 901 (Knotts) would prohibit state employees participating in the TERI program after June to not be reemployed after ending TERI participation. H 4221 (Viers) calls for shelving the whole TERI program.
Transfer. H. 4213 (Loftis) calls for the state Energy Office to be transferred from the Budget and Control Board to the state Department of Commerce.
Out-of-state inmates. H. 4214 (Limehouse) would keep a private detention health care facility for admitting an out-of-state inmate for treatment, unless there was a special agreement, with several provisions.
Santee Cooper. H. 4223 (Merrill) would keep the top 15 Santee Cooper employees from receiving raises in years that all state employees did not receive a cost-of-living pay increase.
Rail. H. 4238 (Stavrinakis) would establish a high-speed rail system commission to make recommendations.
Recall. H. 4244 (Sandifer) proposes a constitutional amendment to provide for recall of state or local elected officials based on petition. H. 4245 (Sandifer) is a bill with similar provisions.
Innocenti and Webel, a landscape architectural firm based on Long Island, New York, is best known for its work on corporate and college campuses in the Upstate and Midlands of South Carolina. Its early projects were quite different, however.
Umberto Innocenti and Richard K. Webel first came to South Carolina to design residential landscapes on Lowcountry hunting plantations. The men formed a partnership in 1931 when their employer, Ferruccio Vitale, closed his practice. His clients came to the new firm, and Innocenti and Webel became prominent among the wealthy residents of Long Island, New York.
One of their first major clients, Landon K. Thorne, along with his brother-in-law, Alfred L. Loomis, bought most of Hilton Head Island in the early 1930s, with the intention of alternating their summer playgrounds with a winter hunting estate in the South. They commissioned Innocenti and Webel's design services for both. On their Southern plantations as on their northern estates, the new country gentry wanted colonial-revival houses and fine landscapes that gave the appearance of age.
Innocenti and Webel provided a strongly architectural garden that related to the house and provided a view from which the owners and their guests could take in the breadth and variety of the property. Webel worked in the Long Island studio, while Innocenti directed the field crews who installed trees, winter-flowering shrubs and bushes, brick walls, ornamental gates, sandy walks, and "classical touches" such as weathered urns and statuettes. Because his partner and office were away in New York, South Carolinians considered the firm's work to be Innocenti's alone.
In the 1930s, Innocenti planted ever larger trees and ornamentals on Lowcountry hunting plantations. He completed country seats at Bonnie Doone for Alfred H. Caspary; Mackay Point for George D. Widener, chairman of the U.S. Jockey Club; and Nelson Doubleday's Bonny Hall. In Georgetown County, Innocenti and Webel's country estates included Wedgefield for financier Robert Goelet, Friendfield for Radcliffe Cheston, and Bellefield on Bernard Baruch's Hobcaw Barony.
During the 1940s, the firm's emphasis shifted to corporate projects. In 1952 came Innocenti and Webel's first large-scale work in South Carolina, Furman University's new campus in Greenville. They organized the thousand-acre agricultural tract into broad curves with axial streets and boulevards, planting hundreds of closely spaced trees to transform open fields into sheltered grounds. For decades their plan has allowed Furman to expand by constructing infill buildings within a mature landscape. At the Milliken Company's headquarters, begun outside Spartanburg in 1958, rows and groves of trees line roads and loom over parking areas, courts, and entries, emphasizing the geometric order of the new buildings while making the industrial campus truly a park. As at Furman, the Milliken complex has expanded within its own mature landscape.
From these signature projects, the firm continued to work in South Carolina even after the death of Innocenti (1968) and the retirement of Webel, whose son Richard C. Webel took over as managing partner. Important late-twentieth-century projects include Greenville-Spartanburg Airport, Fluor-Daniel Engineering Center (Greenville), BMW's North American Assembly Plant (Greer), and expansion of the University of South Carolina's main campus in Columbia.
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The origins of the settlement were relatively mundane, according to several sources. Duke Power, which provides power for consumers in several Southern states, originally approached state government in South Carolina with a question as to whether it was still "prudent" of the company to expend seed money on the permitting process for two proposed nuclear reactors at the Lee Nuclear Station in Cherokee County.
That site is currently a green field, but before Duke Power spent any more money, it wanted to make sure the "nuclear option was still on the table," according to company spokesman, Jason Walls.
That request caught the attention of several parties in the conservation and environmental communities in the state. They were concerned, in part, that going forward with double reactors might not be needed because of the economic downturn that has plagued the state, region and nation.
So Tom Clements from Friends of the Earth and the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League challenged the request, which asked, essentially, for permission to go ahead with spending $210 million more in seed money.
That challenge led through several rounds of testimony, which included the grilling of Duke Power chief executive officer Jim Rogers by Clement, and several rounds of negotiations between the Charlotte-based utility, the conservationists and the state Office of Regulatory Staff, which also joined the fray.
Wednesday's settlement agreement still has to pass muster with the state Public Utilities Review Commission (PURC), made up of legislators and concerned citizens.
Commission member and House Minority Leader, Harry Ott (R-St. Matthews) praised the settlement as the next step "down the exact path this state needs to be headed in" concerning power generation.
The settlement itself does some mechanical things, such as allowing Duke Power to spend $90 million over the next few months in pre-construction costs, which will likely be passed onto consumers via higher base rates once the PURC approves and accepts the settlement as expected.
But the settlement also does some relatively exciting things, observers agreed. Namely, it hands control to the commission of the power output of the proposed reactors, which could cost between $11 billion and $20 billion to construct.
That means Duke Power can't build the new reactors here and then zap their electricity to other states, like Florida, with which it already has power-sharing agreements. Instead, South Carolina will get the first crack at new nuclear power generated here before other states can access it.
Hamilton Davis, a lawyer and energy and climate director at the SCCCL, argued that if South Carolina were to take on the economic and environmental risks of more nuclear power, it should be first in line for the power generated from those proposed reactors, which have yet to receive federal safety approval.
Add to that, South Carolina could become the short-term storage destination for dangerous and radioactive material generated by the proposed reactors, according to Davis. The location probably would be in Aiken at the Savannah River Site, he said.
The settlement also requires Duke Power to report back to the state how baseload generation legislation, similar to laws passed in South Carolina in recent years, is snaking its way through the North Carolina legislature. With federal carbon-footprint tax a near certainty, our legislators could use additional insight, according to conservationists.
The last big opportunity the settlement provides is that it clears the way for multiple owners of the nuclear station, a provision that could directly affect nuclear expansion in the state in the future.
This means Duke Power has agreed to partner with other utilities like SCANA and Santee Cooper, increasing levels of management, safety and regulations.
So what does Duke Power get out of the deal? In two words, more nukes.
According to Walls, Duke Power entered into the settlement, in part, because it dovetailed with its "regional" approach to nuclear power, where it seeks more partners to spread out the economic costs and risks, thereby lowering individual consumer power bills.
Crystal ball: The PURC is going accept and approve of the settlement later this year, which will resolve the policy future for nuclear power generation in South Carolina. Not only will we get the first pull of the new electricity, but there will be more watching eyes and more reporting of what's going on throughout the region.Bill Davis, editor of Statehouse Report, can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.com. 5/13: Is Dept. of Admin. dead this year?5/6: White to take Ways & Means helm4/29: Dems may hold redistricting trump cardMORE NEWS: See our archives
Next week in the Senate was supposed to be the when senators tackled tort reform, or the Amazon deal, or anything other than the budget. Tough. They're still on the budget.
In the House, there will be five days of redistricting committee meetings, with discussion on the floor focused on a bill that would create tax rebates for families with kids in private schools. More.
Judging from rhetoric coming out of the legislature, especially the Senate, the state's Medicaid system will soon become the "welfare queen" of the new political generation. Understandable complaints about the program's "unsustainable growth" are growing louder … and louder … and shriller. Rhetoric aside, it's unclear when they'll do more than talk about it beyond cutting provider rates.
Four weeks wasn't enough in the Senate to produce a state budget for the coming 2011-12 fiscal year. Why? According to Senate sources, the budget "debate" is being used as a delaying tactic, to submarine a couple politically sticky issues. The first, according to sources, being the ratification of the House's tax-break deal for Amazon, and second, tort reform. A third: Unemployment tax reform. An additional reason for the slowdown this year: It's just taking a lot of time to do the actual voting on scores of amendments because of the Senate's new roll-call voting requirement.
The Senate will take up the budget (again) starting on Tuesday, even though Finance Committee chairman Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence) has already said publicly that there is not enough time to finish the budget before the scheduled adjournment, and the legislature will have to deal with passing it in the second week of June when the General Assembly is slated to return to deal with redistricting.
House Minority Leader Harry Ott (D-St. Matthews) has already said his fellow members aren't excited in the way the Senate plans to deal with an extra $210 million (tax breaks and education spending) in projected new revenues are handled. That influx is expected to inflate the General Fund portion of the budget to close to $6 billion.
Sources also say House members aren't thrilled by the Senate plan to plug another $4 million into the Department of Revenue in hopes of hiring enough investigators to go after out-of-state tax scofflaws to bring in an additional $80 million.
For the legislature to be able to pass a budget by even the end of the second week in June, there will have to be work committees in the House and Senate after adjournment to lay the groundwork for a conference report spending bill to be discussed in and around redistricting.
The House this week reversed course and voted overwhelmingly for a bill that would give the online giant a five-year state sales tax moratorium in exchange for more investment and more jobs.
Amazon countered by hinting at additional distribution centers, like the one on hold in Lexington County. But the new deal may have come too late, as the Senate is embroiled in a month-long battle over the state budget. There simply may not be enough time to pass the House bill before adjournment, especially since some in the Senate, according to sources, are purposefully slowing budget debate so they don't have to take a position, much less vote, on the contentious plan.
No surprise, Horry County will become the centerpiece in the proposed new 7th Congressional district under a plan unveiled by the state House this week.
Interestingly, the plan, created by the Republican-controlled House, would shift the district represented by a Democrat, U.S. Congressman Jim Clyburn, away from Charleston County to center more on Orangeburg County, another Democratic powerhouse.
The question is, will the new lines protect U.S. Congressman Tim Scott (R), whose district would shift away from Horry County, which helped propel him to Congress, and now include Beaufort County? For a bird's eye view, go here.
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But a word to the wise. Based on experiences in other states, be careful. You might just get less than you want.
In recent weeks, Gov. Nikki Haley has been toying with ideas to privatize mental health care for 120 sexual predators and about 200 mentally ill patients. She's also asked for suggestions on the merits of having a private company run the state's school bus fleet.
The rhetoric – put faith in the private sector to offer services more efficient than that nasty, old government can ever do – may sound good. But in reality, turning over the keys of state services to private companies or partnering with them through creative strategies isn't working that well everywhere.
Just this week, The New York Times reported that privatized prisons in Arizona offered no real savings, or in some cases, cost $1,600 more per inmate than government-run prisons. With South Carolina's per-inmate cost being the lowest in the nation, it's hard to see how turning over prisons to outsiders would save money. [Not to mention that having for-profit companies keep track of prisoners could be a security risk.]
Other examples that highlight privatization pitfalls:
Respected government analyst Richard Greene, a principal with Barrett and Greene, Inc., of New York, urged caution for states considering privatization.
"There's no reason to assume that the private sector can do anything so much more efficiently than the public sector -- and that it can make a profit and deliver the service just as well," he said. Sometimes, he suggested, the public sector can do a better job, in part, because it doesn't have to make a profit.
Often when governments consider privatizing functions, they do so in a tight fiscal environment to save money. But that often puts them in a weak negotiating position, according to a story Greene co-wrote last year for Governing magazine. Additionally, government officials negotiating complex deals often don't have the savvy that private sector professionals have, which can lead to unintended consequences.
He said any government really needed to do three things before moving ahead with privatization of services:
1. Perform a cost-benefit study that embraces all of the details involving a deal to see if it makes financial sense. For example, if a state wants to privatize a toll road, does it specify whose responsibility it is to pick up road kill?2. Level the field for negotiations by getting professionals just as clever as those in the private sector. Consider performance contracts that have clauses with penalties for companies that fail to meet service levels.3. Ensure there is appropriate government oversight to ensure a company will actually do what it claims it will.
1. Perform a cost-benefit study that embraces all of the details involving a deal to see if it makes financial sense. For example, if a state wants to privatize a toll road, does it specify whose responsibility it is to pick up road kill?
2. Level the field for negotiations by getting professionals just as clever as those in the private sector. Consider performance contracts that have clauses with penalties for companies that fail to meet service levels.
3. Ensure there is appropriate government oversight to ensure a company will actually do what it claims it will.
If South Carolina's leaders keep flirting with the idea of privatizing some services, it's probably wise first to take the evaluative baby step of setting up a blue ribbon Privatization Task Force to look realistically at which state services might be better run by outside vendors. Then it should do cost-benefit studies to see if privatized services would save money and be effective here. Only when officials have more than textbook, knee-jerk political rhetoric should the state move further.
Andy Brack is publisher of Statehouse Report and can be reached at: email@example.com.
By Ashley Landess Special to Statehouse Report
MAY 20, 2011 -- Sometimes repeating the obvious is the quickest way to get readers' attention, so here goes: people are struggling financially more than they have in decades and our state has been hard by the economic downturn. They aren't rebounding at home. They do not have more disposable income for vacations or upgrades to appliances and automobiles. Gas prices are crunching, the cost of goods and services is rising and savings accounts are dwindling.
But they don't seem to hear that in the Statehouse, where legislators are poised to pass the largest budget in state history. At $22 billion, it's more than $1 billion up from last year. That's right – state government's bank account is growing at the direct expense of ours. That isn't demagoguery, folks. Government spending is a zero-sum game. For every dollars they spend, that's a dollar we don't. And Columbia's spending is growing twice as fast as our income levels, which are still among the lowest in the nation.
We could talk about all the waste in the budget. And yes, it is still there. Millions to fund tourism and advertising, incentives for film producers, undisclosed economic development recruitment, etc. There is no point in arguing the value of any of that here, although I will say none of it has had measurable impact on job growth or income levels. But the question is whether in this economy taxpayers can afford to pay for any of it. The answer is no, and we shouldn't have to. Businesses in all counties are shutting the doors because they can't afford to pay their employees, much less cover the cost of industry-specific advertising campaigns.
Taxpayers shouldn't be fooled by the "Statehouse Economics" spin about how the general fund shrunk over the years, and we're just trying to get it back up again. The general fund is one of three pots of money that pays for government programs. It has shrunk over the last couple of years, in no small part because we waive more corporate income tax than we collect, and exempt more sales tax than we collect. That means while some get special tax breaks because of their connections in Columbia, the rest of us are paying the bills through "other funds," the fees that are tacked on to individuals and businesses for services we should already be funding through our income and sales taxes.
Legislators have been growing the size and cost of government for more than a decade. If the money isn't available in one fund, they get it from another. The federal government pays for more than a third of state government and this new budget contains more than $8 billion from Washington. The "other funds is also up, and over $7 billion. The legislature has not cut the cost of government at all, and they are not doing so this year.
There isn't any point in discussing what should be cut over what shouldn't, because all of it has to be. The irresponsible spending is crippling our state's economy and taxpayers simply can't afford it anymore. The question is no longer whether we want to give children health care or cut taxes for the rich. SC politicians of both parties have given away billions to wealthy out-of-state companies at the direct expense of taxpayers, and taken DC money to make up the difference. Today, it is middle-income taxpayers who cannot afford their medical bills. Who should spend that extra $1 billion – lawmakers or citizens?
Every government program has its defenders, and legislators thought every one of them valuable at some point. But reality dictates that we cannot afford them all, and this General Assembly is comprised of a majority who claim to believe taxpayers deserve to spend as much of their own money as possible. They need to remember that right now. There is no excuse to grow government by $1 billion. Lawmakers should cut programs this year and send money back home. Right now, we need it more than they do.
Ashley Landess is president of the South Carolina Policy Council.
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Sensitivity. House and Senate leaders are putting forward a bill to drop the phrase "mental retardation" from the state's lexicon, and replace it with "intellectual disability." More.
Relevancy. Charleston is set to host a GOP presidential town hall debate Jan. 19. More.
Dredging. South Carolina's congressional leaders secured a federal dollars down payment on the money to study dredging Charleston Harbor, which could lead to a deepening capable of handling substantially bigger boats and commerce. More.
Storms. While forecasters don't believe the upcoming hurricane season will be as bad as last year, they think will still be bad, with as many as 18 named storms, and as many as 10 hurricanes. More.
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Wigginton, 31, hit .285 with 23 home runs and 58 RBIs in only 111 games for the Astros in 2008. He started 74 games at third base and 30 in left field -- two positions where the Angels could use some help.
Also a former Met, Pirate and Ray, he has a .270 career average and slugged .460 with 110 homers in 787 major-league games. Wigginton has played 527 games at third base, 120 at second base, 84 at first base, 37 in left field and nine in right field.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Warren Buffett told CNBC on Wednesday he has increased his investment in IBM (IBM) and he abstained from supporting a multi-year compensation plan floated by Coca-Cola (KO) in the soda giant's 2013 annual proxy.
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Definitions for abbeæˈbeɪ, ˈæb eɪ
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word abbe
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ab•bé*æˈbeɪ, ˈæb eɪ(n.)(pl.)-bés.
a member of the secular clergy.
Category: Religion, Foreign Term
a title of respect for any ecclesiastic or clergyman.
Category: Religion, Foreign Term
* (esp. in France).
Origin of abbé:
1520–30; < F, MF < LL abbātem, acc. of abbāsabbot
Princeton's WordNet
a French abbot
An abbot, the (male) head of an abbey.
A member of the French secular clergy.
Origin: From the abbe, from abbas.
Webster Dictionary
the French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress
Abbé is the French word for abbot. It is the title for lower-ranking Catholic clergymen in France. A concordat passed between Pope Leo X and Francis I of France, gave the kings of France the right to nominate 255 Abbés commendataires for almost all French abbeys, who received income from a monastery without needing to render a service. Since the mid-16th century, the title abbé has been used for all young clergymen with or without consecration. Their clothes consisted of a black or dark violet robes with a small collar; they were tonsured. Since those abbés only rarely commanded an abbey, they often worked in honourable families as tutors, spiritual directors, etc.; others became writers.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
name of a class of men who in France prior to the Revolution prepared themselves by study of theology for preferment in the Church, and who, failing, gave themselves up to letters or science.
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Vodafone Sees Payment in NFC Wallets as 'Business Opportunity'
Vodafone sees its planned prepaid payment service in its forthcoming NFC mobile wallets as a "business opportunity," though it intends to enable many other applications, including payment from major banks, Christian Wirtz, group director for mCommerce told NFC Times.
Plans call for the telco to roll out a Vodafone-branded NFC prepaid payment service in at least five European countries over the next 12 months, in the biggest announcement of its kind from a major operator group.
The payment services are part of an announcement Vodafone and Visa made two weeks ago that would see at least five Vodafone branch operators, including those in Germany, Turkey and the United Kingdom, rolling out prepaid payment on the Visa network and using a Visa payWave prepaid application.
Visa Inc.'s head of mobile, Bill Gajda, said recently that he believes most mobile wallets introduced by such players as mobile operators will include a prepaid card for users of various banks. As Gajda put it, the application will be a "cash component that you can sort of drip feed into that wallet."
Telcos See a Business Case
But it's clear that Vodafone and most other mobile operators gearing up for NFC see payment as a key part of their business case for their wallets and the rollout of NFC technology. More large telco groups are expected to introduce prepaid applications supporting either Visa payWave or MasterCard PayPass when they launch their NFC wallets. And at least a few, such as Telefónica UK, or O2, will become licensed to issue their own applications.
"We want to get as many existing service providers in our wallet and for them be enabled by us, and this is our main objective," Wirtz said, adding: "We also want to have a payment product for our own customers, designed to our needs."
Under the plan, Vodafone operators would earn a cut of the merchant transactions fees when consumers tap their NFC phones to pay with the prepaid card. The Vodafone-branded application is also designed to reduce churn and perhaps tie into loyalty programs. The payment application also could be used for online and peer-to-peer payments, Wirtz indicated.
Unlike what rival O2 is doing in the United Kingdom, Vodafone isn't proposing to issue its own payment applications in the five European markets where it plans to launch NFC services over the next 12 months, which, in addition to Germany, Turkey and the UK, include the Netherlands and Spain.
Visa would provide the issuer, which would be a small bank or payment service provider licensed in the particular country to issue prepaid cards. It would also be a member of the Visa network.
To issue its own prepaid application, Vodafone would need to get an e-money license, as O2 UK has applied for. Wirtz said Vodafone doesn't see the need for that now. And consumers might not warm to the idea, at least at first, that their operator is also issuing their payment cards.
He added, however: "We don't have one (license), but that does not necessarily mean that we will never have one."
Wirtz also said the prepaid application in markets outside of Italy could one day support another payment brand, such as MasterCard. Vodafone Italy already has a deal to roll out co-branded prepaid cards supporting MasterCard PayPass and is expected to move the PayPass application to NFC phones.
Wallet as Main Interaction Point
While the other Vodafone prepaid cards will only support Visa, at least for the time being, other payment applications in Vodafone wallets issued by major banks could support PayPass, Wirtz noted.
That is in addition to transit and event ticketing, loyalty, couponing, offers and ID, among other applications the telco would like to host in its wallets.
"What we want to achieve, we want to establish the Vodafone wallet as the main interaction point for consumers for all of their transactions," Wirtz said.
While billed by Visa as the largest global mobile-payment partnership of its kind that could potentially extend to 30 countries and nearly 400 million Vodafone subscribers, Vodafone only has commercial agreements in place so far that would allow it to launch in the five European countries.
Most of the other markets covered by the Visa deal are in developing countries without any contactless infrastructure. Vodafone is rolling out peer-to-peer payment in developing countries–most notably Kenya with its M-Pesa scheme–without the help of such established payment networks as Visa.
Vodafone Group is also hiring its own trusted service manager to manage the SIM cards it will use to host the secure NFC applications, such as its payment application. It has already chosen a TSM for at least two markets, Germany and the UK, NFC Times has learned.
Working with Oscar
But Vodafone will have to adapt its groupwide wallet plans to individual markets, where the NFC commercial and technical landscapes differ.
For example, in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, almost all of the major telcos, including the Vodafone branches, are proposing to form joint ventures to develop common technical and commercial specifications and in some cases hiring a common TSM. In Spain, Vodafone and two other telcos, Telefónica and Orange, are forming a consortium to work on much the same thing.
The joint ventures must still be approved by European Union regulators, including the proposed "project Oscar" in the UK. There, Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere propose to build a common wallet platform and share some sales and marketing functions, but their wallets would carry their own brands and services.
When it comes to Vodafone's prepaid payment application, Vodafone would, in effect, become a service provider and connect the Visa application to the Oscar platform, Wirtz said.
The Vodafone deal with Visa will not be the last between a big telco group and payment network to enable the telcos to roll out their own mobile-payment services at the physical point of sale, say sources. Other plans are in the works.
NFC offers the opportunity for new payments players to enter the market, including telcos, handset makers and mobile platform providers, they say.


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Junius Bibbs (October 31, 1910 – September 11, 1980) was an American infielder in baseball's Negro Leagues from about 1933 to 1944. Born in Henderson, Kentucky to Lloyd Bibbs and Catherine Carr, the Bibbs family, including his sister Eloise, moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, when he was a child. While there, Bibbs attended Paul Lawrence Dunbar Elementary school and lettered in track, baseball and football at the former Wiley High School, from which he was graduated in 1927. While attending Indiana State University, where Bibbs studied for a BS in science, the switch hitter began his baseball career, playing with the Indianapolis Crawfords and the Detroit Star. His 1937 record with the Cincinnati Tigers -- reportedly batting .404 that season—led to his selection to the West squad of the All-Star game. Part way through his season with the Chicago American Giants in 1938, he was recruited to the legendary Kansas City Monarchs. From 1938 to 1941, he was a starter for the Monarchs, winning three (1939–1941) Negro Leagues Championships. He finished his career in 1944 with the Cleveland Buckeyes. In 1945, Bibbs began his teaching and coaching career at Indianapolis' Crispus Attucks High  ( Wikipedia article )
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