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How Sustainable Is 'Socially Responsible' Mining?
In a six-day period over Christmas, two prominent anti-mining activists in El Salvador were shot dead in broad daylight.
First, Ramiro Rivera Gomez, vice-president of the Cabanas Environment Committee, which is campaigning to stop Canadian mining company Pacific Rim from opening a gold mine in the area, was killed while walking with his 14-year-old daughter. Six days later, Dora "Alicia" Recinos Sorto was shot returning from washing laundry in a nearby lake. She was eight months pregnant and another prominent member of the CEC.
On January 5, Amnesty International called on the Salvadoran authorities to investigate the killings.
"This has nothing to do with Pacific Rim. It's a local family feud," said Tom Shrake, chief executive of Pacific Rim. "There are radical elements out there that would like people to believe it's about mining, but it's not true."
But stories of violence and disruption at mining sites around the developing world are increasingly common. In Mexico, also in December, authorities temporarily closed down a barite mine operated by another Canadian company, Blackfire Exploration Ltd., after indigenous leader and activist Mariano Abarca Roblero was shot in the head and killed by a passing motorcyclist. Abarca Roblero had been a leader of the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining, and was involved in the resistance to an open pit extraction mine in Chiapas.
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These stories will bring back bad memories for an industry that has spent the last decade lavishing considerable amounts of money and time on trying to clean up its image. In a 2007 article in the Multinational Business Review, Hevina Dashwood explains that mining companies "were caught in the mid-1990s with a significant gap between societal expectations and their institutionalized practices.... For the industry as a whole, the gap had widened so much that companies experienced a legitimacy crisis."
This crisis was averted by a slew of new organizations dedicated to promoting corporate social responsibility (CSR) and improving the image of the industry. In 1999, nine of the biggest mining companies joined forces to create the Global Mining Initiative, intended to provide ideas and strategies for "sustainability in mining." In 2001 the representative body for the mining industry was transformed into the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), which dedicated itself to ten principles--from education to the environment--to which the industry pledged to hold itself.
The field of CSR was so popular in the mining industry during this period that the University of Queensland in Australia founded its own Sustainable Minerals Institute in 2001 to promote the practice. It was, the school said, established "in response to growing interest in and debate about the role of the mining and minerals industry in contemporary society."
But a decade later, there is debate about how much CSR has actually changed the industry.
"The recent murders of mining organizers in Mexico and Guatemala, and horrendous toxic waste spills such as at Barrick Gold's North Mara mine in Tanzania, make it very hard for the mining companies to convince us that their conduct has improved," says Alexis Stoumbelis, executive director of the Committee in Solidarity With the People of El Salvador, which has spoken out about the recent assassinations in the country. "What has changed is the mining companies' attention to and investment in projecting an image of themselves as socially and environmentally responsible."
Tim Purcell, a director of the public relations firm CO3, disagrees: "The larger players have now had to tackle ICMM issues," he said. "Some [issues] are old as the hills, from indigenous tribal issues, to political insensitivity, to profound health and safety issues. But the industry does take these issues seriously, and it shares the concern and strategies about dealing with these things."
"About ten years ago major mining companies had big reputational issues," he continued. "The criticisms...were starting to affect business. Companies weren't getting licenses to operate--things like that."
Winners and Losers
Kenmare Resources PLC, which owns and operates a titanium mine in Mozambique, is one of the success stories of this trend of corporate concern about reputation in the mining industry. It won a Corporate Social Responsibility Award in 2009 from the Chamber of Commerce of Ireland for its development association, KMAD, which was founded in 2004. The company also won the Nedbank Socio-Economic Award for the same project.
"Basically, right at the outset of the project, we knew that in order for this to be a long-term success, we had to make sure that people saw it as an economic good for them--not for the country, but for them directly," says Kenmare's chairman, Michael Carvill. "In order to achieve this, we set up a not-for-profit development organization with the objective of ensuring that the local communities benefit from mines."
KMAD provides many services to local communities in Mozambique, from jobs to healthcare to agricultural training. "We even started a wildlife fund joint-venture, which provided agriculture technicians to tutor people in how to grow stuff that might be sold to the mine, and we lean on the mine so they buy," Carvill says. "It has given people who were in absolute poverty some money, and it has allowed for a better trickle-down effect. We've also built a couple of schools."
The downside of Kenmare's venture for the people of Mozambique is in the fine print. The Moma mine operates in what is called an Industrial Free Zone (IFZ), which makes the processing plant exempt from corporate taxes, import duties, export duties and VAT, with a one percent turnover after six years of production. It is estimated that Moma could have annual revenues of $85 million over a twenty-year period. This kind of deal is often cut between governments and foreign companies, especially when capital costs will be high, and it's one of the main gripes of civil society groups in developing countries, which argue that while jobs and benefits may flow to the communities near the site, the rest of the country is left empty-handed, save for those elements of infrastructure needed to connect the site to the rest of the country.
"When I first engaged this industry, over thirty years ago, with very few exceptions it was rough-handed and red-necked," said John Elkington, founder of SustainAbility, a strategy consultancy and think tank. "These people were real bruisers. In the same way it's said that you can't make omelets without breaking eggs, they argued that you couldn't dig mines without destroying the environment. They had no time for environmentalists." Now, though, he says, things are different. "I genuinely believe that the ICMM process helped catalyze real progress--and some industry leaders have had some sort of crisis of conscience over the past decade or so."
Legal Wrangles
Recent legal battles would indicate that things have not only not improved, but have gotten worse. One of the most high-profile cases involving local resistance to a new project involves the British company Vedanta. A tribal people in India called the Dongria Kondh are engaged in a civil disobedience campaign to stop the company from developing an open-pit bauxite mine in the Niyamgiri hills, in the state of Orissa, in eastern India. The Dongria worship Niyamgiri's peak as the seat of their god. Vedanta already has a bauxite mine at the base of the hills.
In October a British government agency, UK National Contact Point (NCP), which oversees the enforcement of OECD guidelines on business conduct, released a statement critical of Vedanta. It concluded that "Vedanta failed to engage the Dongria Kondh in adequate and timely consultations about the construction of the mine, or to use other mechanisms to assess the implications of its activities on the community, such as an indigenous or human rights impact assessment."
Vedanta disputes the findings, saying that it "complied in all respects with the Indian regulations" and that the criticisms are "both inaccurate and inappropriate."
In the same month as the NCP ruling, the English High Court froze the £5 million of assets belonging to another British mining company, Monterrico Metals, after twenty-seven men and women were allegedly detained for three days at its Rio Blanco mine in northern Peru. The twenty-seven were protesting the mine's development, but the company disputes the allegations.
"We will be following the progress of the case here in the UK closely," says Gaby Drinkwater of the Peru Support Group. "Human rights groups in Peru believe that the conduct of these companies must be properly investigated. The escalation of social tensions caused by mining projects in Peru, of which Rio Blanco is only one case, is cause for concern."
"Mining activities have a beginning and an end. They do not go on forever," contends ICMM president Dr. R. Anthony Hodge. "Rather, it is mining's contribution that needs to be tested against the criteria of contributing to the well-being of people and the environment. That is what sustainability is all about. From this perspective, mining has a critical contribution to make. I utterly reject those who suggest this is merely PR. If effective systems manage mining responsibly, mining can be an engine of well-being. That is what we seek."
"I'd love to say our projects were entirely altruistic," said Brad Sampson, executive director of Discovery Metals, a copper mining company operating in Botswana. "But the last decade or so, mining companies have realized that unless you bring along the local community, you can't operate. If you don't, you will not get a social license to operate. I'm not talking about paper--but [that] local communities can stop projects [from] developing. You have to get them on side.
"What you are doing with a mining project in a faraway part of the world, you are imposing a degree of change, which is difficult," he concedes. "I think there's no question that the mining industry came with a messy reputation. Whether that is deserved you can debate."
Developing- World Change
Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, is at the forefront of a change in the attitude among developing-world leaders toward foreign--or, more specifically, Western--mining companies. His country owns half the world's deposits of lithium, which could be hugely lucrative if developed. But his government is reluctant to let Western companies in. It remains unsure whether the words regarding an about-face in mining morality are actually true.
Mining minister Luis Alberto Echazu has said: "We will not repeat the historical experience since the fifteenth century: raw materials exported for the industrialization of the West, which has left us poor."
Instead, Bolivia has bucked conventional developmental economics--which outsources development and production to foreign companies expert in the field and with reserves of capital--and has endeavored to develop its deposits with state-owned companies, rebuffing the overtures of countless Western companies. Morales needs to raise $800 million to construct the mines and processing plants needed for this approach.
"I know that they are in some discussions with France, Korea and Japan [about working in Bolivia], but we don't want to be only raw material exporters. We want to create added value in the country," said Maria Beatriz Souviron, Bolivian ambassador to the UK. "Depending on the conditions they offer, in order to do so there will be an agreement between the countries. The policy of my government is to retain sovereignty over the investments made in the country. So if the people that want to invest in my country follow that rule, then it's fine. If not we'll do it ourselves."
In an industry report announced in December, Bolivian mining was reported to have grown 13 percent in 2009.
Over the last decade, the global mining industry has awakened to the need to address sustainability issues. But for this to be fully realized and its services utilized over the next decade, many within the industry believe, a binding international regulatory framework is the vital next step. "Voluntarism only takes you so far," said Elkington of SustainAbility. "It helps promote experimental approaches and a degree of competitive behavior, but there will always be those companies that prefer not to follow the corporate-citizenship line. They have to be brought under control via appropriate governance--regulatory and legal mechanisms."


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A ninth grade student was kidnapped in the village Kabali in the district of Lagodekhi. The girl's parents want her back as quickly as possible. As they had informed Khaketi Information Centre for help and asked police but all was in vain.
"She was kidnapped for marriage; we weren't at home when this happened. The boy is also from our village but we don't want our daughter to become his wife. He previously had one wife whom he dismissed from his house. We have been to the police but even after several hours they don't give attention to us, "– said the girl's parents.
Police officers of Apheni, in the Lagodekhi district, explained that the parents of girl are arguing with them because they want money or goods from the boy's family. They have a rule that when you bring a woman to your house you have to pay money or goods to girl's family. – told by the police.
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first,l on the way to meet the guys, somebody thought it's a good idea to speed up if you see a yellow light in the distance...I tried to floor it to get out of his way, but he still got me and spun me out into the field (luckily I have witnesses that I had a green light).
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That was exactly what Elmer Espiritu and Robert Labagala did on Wednesday against Air21, knocking down the crucial buckets that helped the Kings continue riding a five-game winning streak after a 90-84 win.
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Bruce Campbell's iconic demon slayer meets Xena Warrior Princess, huh?
Feb 4, 2009
ARMY OF DARKNESS was Sam Raimi's sequel to his EVIL DEAD flicks which had long been fan favorites for their horror and for their cheerful abuse of the film's leading man Bruce Campbell. There were those fans, however, who were unhappy with the change of tone in ARMY and the way the gore and horror of the DEAD flix had been all but abandoned in favor of a more family friendly comedy/adventure approach. XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS was a groundbreaking TV series that ran for six seasons in syndication. It featured the strongest, smartest, most independent female hero ever to grace the small screen, and for at least four years of its run the series was wildly successful with its mix of comedy, action, and adventure, before it took a wrong turn and started taking itself way too seriously. Both these enterprises had the same production companies in common so it seemed inevitable that one day...but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Both ARMY OF DARKENESS and XENA have gone the comic book route. Topps published over 60 issues of their Xena title before it closed, and later Dark Horse published two separate Xena series themselves. Dark Horse also did an adaptation of ARMY OF DARKNESS that coincided with the film's release, but let it go at that. Fans were left waiting for the comic adaptation of EVIL DEAD as well as the further adventures of its hero Ashley Williams until Dynamite Entertainment latched onto the titles a few years ago. Ever since that day Ash has not had one peaceful moment. They've yanked him back and forth from the past to the present and the present to the future and the future to the past so many times that he has a terminal case of temporal whiplash. He's faced off against everything that the redundant and ubiquitous Necronomicon Ex Mortis could throw at him including legions of your standard face munching undead, Herbert West, Freddy Kreuger, Jason Voorhees, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the personifications of the seven deadly sins, and Satan himself--not to mention a whole slew of zombified Marvel Super Heroes! In short, they've worn the poor guy ragged!
But just when you think they've run out of ideas--they offer us this one. The story they proudly proclaim: "No One Asked For". Well, if we didn't its simply because we didn't think of it! But as I said earlier, it was inevitable. ASH IN XENALAND!? It's a wonderful idea rife with possibilities. For example what happens when our ruggedly handsome hero Ash encounters that ruggedly handsome thief Autolycus?
Issue #1 of what was to be a 4 book arc is even better than I could have hoped! Each issue has 2 available covers, which is the minimum these days I suppose, with art by either the Udon Studios or Fabian Neves. The interior artwork by Miguel Montenegro takes some pains in the first issue to resemble the actors but lets that slide as we progress. But the story! The set up alone is near genius, and I'm not about to give it away either. The story is written by John Layman in issues 1-3, with Brandon Jerwa taking over in issue #4 which has a "To be continued" at its end! Will Ash simply pop into another reality or will his newest screw up of the magic words, "Klaatu Barada Chick Show", cause Xena and Gabrielle more problems as well? I can't wait to find out!
Is this for you? Sure, if you're a Bruce Campbell, EVIL DEAD, or XENA fan its a must have. Would it be possible to enjoy this with no prior knowledge of either of these franchises? Probably not.
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April 10, 2010
One of the greatest reviews ever, of all time, and basically any where, great work on this. Sorry for skipping straight to this I will read and rate all of them when I am no longer only to do so without getting flagged. You know I love Bruce and any & everything he is apart of, love it. Excellent review.
April 11, 2010
Thanks, Thanks FM. There's usually not much of a problem with flagging around here--although Mackshere did manage to get himself thrown off twice! =)
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June 21, 2009
Wow. Really? I never would have thought. I might have to look for these comic books. Evil Dead(s) were B movie almost scary, Xena was definitely girl power that was fun (for a while), and Army of Darkness was funny. And Ash v. Autolycus yeah - dopleganger away, well except for the chainsaw. Bruce Campbell is the most awesome B movie man alive, and not a bad TV actor. Gotta luv a guy who can do what he does with a straight face and enjoy himself and have NO SHAME!
June 21, 2009
Yeah it was a shame what happened to Xena in those last few seasons. I loved the EVIL DEAD movies, ED2 was my favorite because they pulled out all the stops. And who doesn't love Bruce Campbell? I presuming here that you've seen his old series BRISCOE COUNTY JR. That was a great show which like all great shows was cancelled. It was smart and funny and completely different from anything that had ever been on tv before. Some people compared it to WILD WILD WEST but the resemblence was only superficial at best.
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June 21, 2009
Briscoe County Jr was a great show! I just found out that the series is on DVD. I'm going to have to renew my acquaintance. And in looking up the series on Amazon, I found another Bruce Campbell nugget - Jack of All Trades. Don't remember it all that clearly, but remember that it was amusing. Actually can't think of a single thing that BC has been in that hasn't at least been amusing! He's great in Burn Notice! Campy but excellent.
June 23, 2009
It had the greatest theme song and opening credits of all time, but unfortunately the show itself was not a highlight of Bruce's career. Brisco County on the other hand is something all Bruce Campbell fans should own and cherish.
So you've been catching his co-starring role on "Burn Notice"? His part has been beefed up since they found out how many viewers he's brought to the series. Then of course there were his continuing roles on both Hercules and Xena back in the good old days. He also made a guest appearance on an episode of "American Gothic" which was a series Sam Raimi produced way back when. It was a great show. Luckily they knew about their cancellation in advance and they actually got to wrap up their story line. I reviewed it here if you're interested and haven't heard of it, although I suspect you have.
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May 20, 2009
What was "My Name Is Bruce" like? I heard his interview on NPR and seemed like an interesting guy/zombie.
May 20, 2009
It was okay. It wasn't the funniest thing I've ever seen, SUNDOWN: THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT is much better and it recently had its long awaited release on dvd. I reviewed it too. I wasn''t aware that there was already a review of MY NAME IS BRUCE on Lunch so I just jotted down a few things and posted it if you'd care to check it out. Its definitely one for the fans, and every fan is gonna love it. Bruce rips on everything.
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April 18, 2009
Yeah it was a really great idea. The same company also put Raimi's DARKMAN into the ARMY OF DARKNESS world but it didn't work nearly as well as this cross-over did. They did come out with a 4 issue sequel to this where Xena and Gaby get thrown into the corporatew world of S-Mart along with Ash to battle the evil dead but it didn't play as well. I've seen all the Herc and Xena episodes because I was with them from the start. I own the first 3 seasons of XENA and season 3 of Herc which had some of their funniest episodes.
April 21, 2009
I always dug the darker, more action/adventure oriented episodes myself. For me Season 3 of Herc was where things began to go down hill.
April 22, 2009
I was always into the more comedic espisodses so obviously the more comedic ones are going to appeal to me more.
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This is such a delightfully weird concept: taking Sam Raimi's horror-spoof anti-hero Ash and placing him in the world of Raimi-produced television series Warrior Princess, Xena. So bizarre and too good to be true. Have you caught up on watching the early episodes of Herc or Xena lately? It's amazing how well they hold up considering that most '90s entertainment was cool for about ten minutes and then became as stale as... well, really stale. :)
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February 08, 2009
Probably, although I don't think I changed too much. They did come out with another 4 issue sequel. In this one Xena and Gabrielle get sucked into the modern day world and the dreaded S-Mart.
April 18, 2009
Now if they could only get Hercules to team up with Darkman... that would be something. LOL!
If you get around to it, I'd love to see a review of the first season of
. Still my personal favorite season of just about any TV show. Too bad they screwed up the DVD release by giving it to Anchor Bay to produce and distribute.
April 18, 2009
They did do a cross over with Darkman!
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February 07, 2009
I think I've read this review before sometime ago, but I can also tell you re-edited and may have added to it. I think this was the first review I've read from you that we became friends shortly afterward...
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Never Seen XENA? Too bad, in the first 3 seasons it was a fun show and quite groundbreaking for tv in terms of strong female characters. But then Rob Tapert let himself be misled as to where his core audience really lay and the show quickly derailed. Still there flashes of the old Xena from time to time. As for me I'm not into comix very much but more than I can afford and less than I would like to be. I get ARMY OF DARKNESS, CONAN, KULL THE CONQUEROR, BUFFY, ANGEL(which is actually more enjoyable than Buffy right now),whatever stray XENA's they may do from time to time and I may continue SOLOMAN KANE if I can afford it. I love Robert Howard.
April 18, 2009
Because I would often read my textbooks in school all at once in the beginning of the year, I would spend most of my time drawing Conan pictures in my notebook. Most of them were crap and very clearly inspired by the Frank Frazetta paintings and the comic book work of John Buscema.
April 22, 2009
There are worse things to be inspired by.
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I've seen Evil Dead a few times and Bubba Hotep, but I am unfamiliar with the Warrior Princess. Nevertheless, I am sure this comic will attract tons of fanatics of both series. I've never been a big comic collector, just TMNT comics!
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CGI Programming
This time, we are going to look at one of the most common things that people want their CGI programs to do, namely save data to files on disk. By the end of the column, we will have accumulated enough tools to produce a simple, but functional guest-book program that will allow visitors to your site to save comments that can be read by others.
For starters, let's look at a simple HTML form that will allow users to send data to our CGI program, which we will call "entryform.pl":
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Data entry form
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Name: <input type=text name="name" value="">

E-mail address: <input type=text name="email" value="">

Address: <input type=text name="address" value="">

Country: <input type=text name="country" value="">

Male <input type=radio name="sex" value="male"> Female <input type=radio name="sex" value="female">
 <input type=submit> </Form>
Of course, an HTML form won't do anything on its own; it needs a CGI program to accept and process its input. Below is a Perl5 program that, if named "entryform.pl" and placed in the main "/cgi-bin" directory on a web server, should print out the name-value pairs that arrive from the above form:
0 #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 1 # We want to use the CGI module 2 use CGI; 3 # Create a new CGI object 4 my $query = new CGI; 5 # Print an a appropriate MIME header 6 print $query->header("text/html"); 7 # Print a title for the page 8 print $query->start_html(-title=>"Form contents"); 9 # Print all of the name-value pairs 10 print $query->dump(); 11 # Finish up the HTML 12 print $query->end_html;
Here's a quick run-down of what each line of code does:
Line 0 tells a Unix box where to find the Perl interpreter. If your copy of Perl is called something else, you need to modify this line.
Without explicitly importing the CGI module in line 2, Perl wouldn't know how to create and use CGI objects. (Trying to use code from a module you haven't imported is guaranteed to confuse Perl and generate error messages.) We then declare $query to be an instance of CGI (line 4).
We then tell the user's browser that our response will be HTML-formatted text, and we do that by using a MIME header. The lack of a MIME header is the most common reason for a 500 error; whenever one of your CGI programs produces one of these, make sure that you aren't trying to print HTML before the header! Note that line 6 is equivalent to saying:
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
which also tells the browser to expect text data formatted in HTML. In general, though, I prefer to use the CGI object for readability reasons.
Line 8 creates the basic HTML necessary to begin the document, including giving it the title, "Form contents".
Line 10 uses the CGI object's built-in facility for "dumping" an HTML form's contents in an easy-to-read format. This allows us to see what value was assigned to each of the elements of the HTML form, which can be invaluable in debugging problematic programs. For now, though, we are just using the CGI "dump" method to get ourselves started and confirm that the program works.
Now that we have proven that our HTML form is sending data to our CGI program, and that our program can send its output back to the user's web browser, let's see what we can do with that data. For starters, let's try to save the data from the form to a file on disk. (This is one of the most common tasks that clients ask me to implement, usually because they want to collect data about their visitors.)
#!/usr/local/bin/perl5 # We want to use the CGI module use CGI; # Set the filename to which we want the elements # saved my $filename = "/tmp/formcontents"; # Set the character that will separate fields in # the file my $separation_character = "\t"; # Create a new CGI object my $query = new CGI; # ---------------------------------------------- # Open the file for appending open (FILE, ">>$filename") || die "Cannot open \"$filename\"!\n"; # Grab the elements of the HTML form @names = $query->param; # Iterate through each element from the form, # writing each element to $filename. Separate # elements with $separation_character defined # above. foreach $index (0 .. $#names) { # Get the input from the appropriate # HTML form element $input = $query->param($names[$index]); # Remove any instances of # $separation_character $input =~ s/$separation_character//g; # Now add the input to the file print FILE $input; # Don't print the separation character # after the final element print FILE $separation_character if ($index < $#names); } # Print a newline after this user's entry print FILE "\n"; # Close the file close (FILE); # ----------------------------------------------- # Now thank the user for submitting his # information # Print an a appropriate MIME header print $query->header("text/html"); # Print a title for the page print $query->start_html(-title=>"Thank you"); # Print all of the name-value pairs print "
Thank you for submitting the "; print "form.
\n"; print "
Your information has been "; print "saved to disk.</P7gt;\n"; # Finish up the HTML print $query->end_html;
The above program is virtually identical to the previous one, except that we have added a section that takes each of the HTML form elements and saves them to a file. Each line in the resulting file corresponds to a single press of the HTML form's "submit" button.
The above program separates fields with a TAB character, but we could just as easily have used commas, tildes or the letter "a". Remember, though, that someone is eventually going to want to use this data—either by importing it into a database or by splitting it apart with Perl or another programming language. To ensure that the user doesn't mess up our database format, we remove any instances of the separation character in the user's input with Perl's substitution(s) operator. A bit Draconian, but effective!
One of the biggest problems with the above program is that it depends on the HTML form elements always coming in the same order. That is, if you have elements X, Y and Z on an HTML form, will they be placed in @names in the same order as they appear in the form? In alphabetical order? In random order? To be honest, there isn't any way to be sure, since the CGI specifications are silent on the matter. It's possible, then, that one user's form will be submitted in the order (X, Y, Z), while another's will be submitted as (Y, Z, X)—which could cause problems with our data file, in which fields are identified by their position.
A simple fix is to maintain a list of the fields that we expect to receive from the HTML form. This requires a bit more coordination between the program and the form, but given that the same person often works on both, that's a minor concern.
First, we define a list, @fields, near the top of the program. This list contains the names of all of the fields that we expect to receive, in the order that we expect to receive them:
my @fields = ("name", "email", "address", "country", "sex");
Next, we change the "foreach" loop (which places the field elements in the output file) such that it iterates through the elements of @fields, rather than @names.
foreach $index (0 .. $#fields) { # Get the input from the appropriate HTML form # element $input = $query->param($fields[$index]); # Remove any instances of $separation_character $input =~ s/$separation_character//g; # Now add the input to the file print FILE $input; # Don't print the separation character after the # final element print FILE $separation_character if ($index < $#fields); }
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OLD SAN PATRICIO -- As the sun inched its way across a clearing Sunday, seven girls began a daylong journey of becoming women.
The maidens learned endurance as their feet tapped softly to the music of drums and they learned about the "four laws" of the Apache people as their godmothers gave them counsel. The four laws encompass generosity, bravery, honesty and pride in oneself and one's people.
The girls received and gave prayers and blessed those who gathered for the first Lipan Apache public coming-of-age ceremony in Texas in 150 years.
"It was outlawed in the 1860s because the government was afraid we would get together and rise up against them," said Ringo Carrillo, an elder in the Lipan Apache Band of Texas. "In 1973, the Supreme Court overturned this and said it was OK to have the ceremonies. It never stopped, it was just held in secrecy."
Carrillo has spent the past seven years attending ceremonies at the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico to learn the traditional coming-of-age ceremony so that the Lipan Apache Band of Texas could have its own locally.
"It needs to be done," Carrillo said. "It won't be as unique as their (Mescalero Apache Reservation) ceremony, but we tried to put something together as close to their ceremony. It is a transformation for the girls. More than anything else is the spirituality that goes with this, our Apache way of life."
The ceremony is a chance for the newest generation, which is the seventh generation of Indians, to learn and embrace tradition.
"This is a long-awaited ceremony our people have been crying for," said Larry Running Turtle Salazar, a holy man who presided over the ceremony. "Our children are the seventh generation. They can now pray freely, openly and without guns aiming at them or in the darkness."
The Lipan Apache Band of Texas has about 230 members from Houston, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley. Five maidens were from Texas, one was from California and one from Washington.
"I feel special and honored that we're bringing this back," said 12-year-old maiden Lissette Velasquez of California. "I learned to bless others and that I have lightning in my hands and I can heal other people and conquer any fear."
More than 70 people attended the ceremony, which traditionally has brought prosperity, safety and other benefits to the tribe, Carrillo said.
"We believe that everyone there will benefit, not only the girls," he said. "It's more of a belief that our people carry with them. We want this to continue and be something for our kids to carry with them."
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Bankers, on Wednesday, ruled out a reduction in interest rates even as the Reserve Bank of India kept the key policy rates on hold. Bank of India Chairperson V. R. Iyer said there was no room for cutting lending and deposit rates at the moment.
"Inflation is very high and there is hardly any scope for us to reduce the interest rate on deposits, at least at the year end. Absolutely, we will not be able to do that at the moment," Mr. Iyer said, adding that immediately there would not be any room for the bank to reduce the Base Rate.
State Bank of India Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya said: "It really hurts the depositors, and we would not like to do (cut rates) that. Our rates are still higher than what they were on July 15, I see no immediate response towards the rate cut."Indian Overseas Bank Chairman M. Narendra said it would not be possible to cut rates at this juncture as the bank was already providing loans to many sectors at lower interest rates.
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Close Calls - Week 12
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Glancing at the scoreboard won't tell you the whole story in most games. Here are the games that went down to the wire relative to the spread in the fourth quarter last week in the Week 12 NFL games. Each week there are several games where the money changes hands late based on a few critical late plays, whether the outcome of the game is in doubt or not. Get the details of those close calls in this weekly column.
Cleveland Browns (+2) 20, Pittsburgh Steelers 14 (33½): At halftime, Pittsburgh led 14-13, leaving a possible push for many as the Steelers were one-point favorites early in the week. While the Browns would punt on six of seven second-half possessions and net 56 total yards in the half, they did manage a 31-yard touchdown drive to take a 20-14 lead in the third quarter, following up one of three Charlie Batch interceptions and one of eight Pittsburgh turnovers. The Steelers only had one great scoring opportunity in the fourth quarter, but that drive was also finished with an interception as the Browns held on to win and the total was a push for most right at 34 before dropping just before game time.
Atlanta Falcons (-1½) 24, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23 (51½): Atlanta led 17-13 in the third quarter after connecting on an 80-yard bomb to Julio Jones. Tampa Bay would take the lead 20-17 early in the fourth quarter and then had the chance to take complete control by getting a fumble from Atlanta on the next possession and being set up in great field position. The Buccaneers had to settle for a field goal however, leading by just six points. Atlanta responded with a 64-yard touchdown drive and with the critical extra-point, the Falcons had the lead and were in position to earn most a push as the line was just -1 most of the week before adding a half-point. That margin did not seem likely to hold as both teams lined up for long field goal attempts in the final minutes, but both teams missed.
Miami Dolphins (+3) 24, Seattle Seahawks 21 (38): The Seahawks led 14-7 entering the fourth quarter, but a defensive battle featured a high-scoring final frame as Ryan Tannehill and the Dolphins caught fire. With about eight minutes to go, the Dolphins punched in a touchdown to finally tie the game, only to have Leon Washington return the ensuing kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown. It only took the Dolphins six plays to get down the field to tie the game again, however, going against a great defensive team. Seattle would move to midfield on its final possession, but they had to punt and the Dolphins got another chance with 1:32 left on the clock. Miami was able to go 65 yards to set up the game winning kick for Dan Carpenter, who delivered despite missing some notable kicks earlier this season.
Baltimore Ravens (-1½) 16, San Diego Chargers 13 (47): The Chargers led 10-0 at halftime and 13-3 late into the fourth quarter. With San Diego's offense doing very little, a tired defense finally allowed Baltimore into the end zone with just over four minutes to go in the game, cutting the lead for the Chargers to 13-10. Baltimore had just come up empty on an 11-play, 60-yard drive on the previous possession. San Diego was held to a three-and-out and the Ravens got the ball back with just over three minutes to go and still with two timeouts as the Chargers opted to pass on two of the three plays. After getting sacked on third and 20, the Ravens faced a now infamous fourth and 29 from their own 37. Joe Flacco stunningly opted to check down to Ray Rice despite knowing if they did not convert the game would be over. Rice made the catch on an overthrown ball and rushed forward, making a sharp cut left to foil several chasing defenders that took poor angles to cut off the play. Rice charged forward further through contact with the help of an egregious block-in-the-back that was not called and lunged for the first down. The play was reviewed, the ball was moved back a half yard, but it was still enough to grant the amazing first down. The review saved Baltimore a timeout and allowed the Ravens to eventually kick the game-tying field goal. In overtime, the Chargers picked up two first downs on the first possession, but eventually had to punt. The Ravens also moved to midfield, but punted back to San Diego. At this point, a tie was looking very possible and would have been a winning result for San Diego backers as the Chargers kicked back to Baltimore and pinned the Ravens at the 11-yard line with less than five minutes to go. Baltimore converted two big third down plays to move down the field and extend the game, the second of which came on a 31-yard pass to Torrey Smith that withstood review and put the Ravens in field goal range. The Ravens kneeled three times to burn as much clock as they could and kicked the winning field goal for an incredible comeback win.
Carolina Panthers (-3) 30, Philadelphia Eagles 22 (41½): Carolina stormed out to a 14-3 lead in the first quarter, but the Eagles rebounded with two field goals and a touchdown in the second quarter, oddly going for two down 14-12 early in the game and failing, thus leading 15-14 at halftime. Both teams had touchdowns in the third quarter to give the Eagles a 22-21 lead entering the fourth. The Panthers were able to add a field goal early in the fourth, but they still sat short of the favorite spread until Cam Newton ran in for a touchdown with less than five minutes to go. Carolina should have gone up nine at that point, making Andy Reid's decision to go for two early in the game look costly, but the Panthers actually kept the Eagles in play by missing the extra-point kick. Philadelphia was not able to rally to tie the game, however, now having lost seven straight games.
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Caller-Times College Football countdown: #14 Oregon
CORPUS CHRISTI - Head coach: Chip Kelly (Second season at Oregon and overall, 10-3)
Last season: 10-3 (Lost to Ohio State in the Rose Bowl)
Starters returning/lost: Offense, 9/2; Defense, 7/4
Three offensive players to watch: RB LaMichael James; WR Jeff Maehl; OT Bo Thran
Three defensive players to watch: CB Talmadge Jackson III; ROV Eddie Pleasant; DE Kenny Rowe
Breakout player: DT Wade Keliikipi. There are few openings for new starters in the Ducks' lineup. But there are a couple of vacancies on the line and Keliikipi, who redshirted as a freshman last season with a shoulder injury, looks like he will hold down a tackle spot for some time.
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Sept. 11 at Tennessee
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Sept. 25 at Arizona State
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Oct. 30 at USC
Nov. 6 WASHINGTON
Nov. 13 at Cal
Nov. 26 ARIZONA
Dec. 4 at Oregon State
1. Pack a Punch On the Field. Insert the Cincinnati Bengals West jokes here. But, for Oregon, sports reports were replaced by police reports way too often last season. Boorish behavior dominated the team, culminating with the dismissal of QB Jeremiah Masoli after he entered a guilty plea on a burglary charge. Running back LaMichael James will miss the season-opener after getting sentenced to two years' probation following a physical harassment guilty plea. At least four other players were charged, sentenced or suspended since last year's opener.
2. QB Quandary. Yes, Masoli will be missed on the field. With him, the team was considered a national title contender. Without him, well, the ranking is No. 14 and that's fairly consistent with other rankings across the nation. Masoli was excellent at the read-option. Nate Costa, a former starter, is not as agile and gifted as Masoli. Sophomore Darron Thomas may be the closest thing to Masoli on the Ducks roster right now — without the outside baggage, Oregon hopes — but running the show like Masoli is a different matter.
3. Backs Back. The Ducks suspended running back LeGarrette Blount after the season opener for taking a shot — after the game — at a Boise State player. No worries. James' style was different, but effective. Quick, weaving and fast, James provided a contrast to Blount's bullish ways. Blount is gone. James is suspended for the season-opener. But reserve Kenjon Barner is not a drop off by any means and can flat-out run. There's much more talent behind James and Barner in Lache Seastrunk and Dontae Williams. With five linemen returning, the running game will be the spread's bread and butter.
4. Secondary Style. Lost in all the offensive fireworks last season was that the Ducks defense was a pretty solid defensive outfit. In the pass-oriented PAC 10, Oregon managed to rank 44th in the pass last season. Expect better. Three starters are back but the competition is wide open at two spots as former LB Eddie Pleasant has been outstanding in shifting to rover. It would come as no surprise if a starter from last season was a third-string player this year.
5. Missing Dickson. Masoli's loss grabbed headlines, but tight end Ed Dickson leaves a huge void, as he is headed to the NFL. A rarity now in college football, Dickson was a tight end who was a key component in his team's offense and affected the game's outcome with big plays. He was fast, dangerous down the middle and possessed usually reliable hands. The Ducks have fine receivers but none present the matchups problems that Dickson did.
6. Halfline Hopes. Two starters are back upfront in Oregon's 4-3 alignment. End Kenny Rowe looks solid after leading the PAC 10 with 11.5 sacks. Wade Keliikipi is an up and comer at tackle. But there is a lack of depth and more standout players need to surround Rowe.
Season at a glance
On the Ducks: "Both make great plays, and that's all you can ask. As long as they're out there competing every day and making the right decisions, we should be fine with either guy." — Oregon WR Jeff Maehl to the Salem (Ore.) Statesman-Journal on the quarterback race between Nate Costa and Darron Thomas.
Key game: Dec. 4 at Oregon State. The Civil War has become one of the bigger rivalry games in the nation. The odds are this season's meeting will again decide the PAC 10 champion — and be every bit as nasty as any showdown.
Why they could be No. 1: There are a lot of experienced and talented athletes. The secondary has enviable depth, the linebackers are impressive, the offensive line deep and the running backs fast. This team normally would have a higher ranking.
Why they will be No. 14: Normally, the team would be ranked higher, but there is not a sure-thing at quarterback and the off-field issues could be major distractions.
Trouble if: There is more trouble off the field.
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1987 USO final
Lendl - 18.75
Wilander - 12.4%
1988 USO final
Wilander - 13.8%
Lendl - 12.2%
Between these two matches, I had always regarded the 1988 final as superior quality. That's because there was somewhat more net play; in '87 the rallies seemed to be longer. It was like watching paint dry, is the way Tony Trabert put it in the booth.
But a few years ago I rewatched the matches, counting winners and service percentages, all the stuff I usually get in my own stats. When I finished watching I actually felt like the '87 final was better played. And the '87 final has higher AM's, as I found out later when I calculated them.
It's true that Lendl was hitting powerful winners all over the place in '88. But he was also making a lot of unforced errors. And his serve really failed him: he made only 42% of first serves -- just
24% in the final set
. When he got his serves into the box he made some booming aces; and when he landed his groundstrokes his winners were awesome. That gives the impression of a more exciting match -- which it was. I still would call the '88 final the more exciting one. But I doubt, now, that it had the higher quality.
Lendl was more clutch in '87, especially with his serve. His service percentage never deserted him the way it did in '88; and he actually made some big first serves on a few huge points in the '87 match.
In '87, when everyone was watching the paint dry, there was a stage deep in the long third set when it seemed that neither player could get any kind of advantage. Someone at Tennis Magazine wrote that the two players were fighting over every point, and every game, like two dogs over a bone. And the rallies were often very long, featuring endless backhand exchanges. A lot of people would find that boring, and in some ways it was.
But I remember an exchange in the booth. I think Trabert said that Wilander, despite pulling ahead occasionally, just couldn't consolidate, could not put Lendl away. Newk replied immediately that Lendl couldn't put HIM away either.
And that's the thing: Lendl could not always hit through Wilander. He had the weaponry to do it sometimes, but when Wilander started doing his sprints, Lendl could get into real trouble trying to put Mats away. In other words, he could easily start missing, if he pulled the trigger too soon.
So I think Lendl played well within himself in '87. He couldn't put Mats away so he didn't try to do so prematurely. He was patient enough -- and just barely aggressive enough. He struck the right balance. His patience did make the rallies longer, and could put some people to sleep. But in the end he played his opponent the way he needed to do.
I think the AM's reflect all that. On the other hand, I don't think the AM's reflect too well some of the improvements in Wilander's game in '88. Wilander came to net a lot more in '88; and his service percentage was much higher. His slice, as many people have noted, was working to perfection in '88; it kept Lendl from teeing off, and put him slightly off balance. That had something to do with Lendl making unforced errors; it wasn't JUST a drop in Lendl's quality that was responsible for all his errors.
The AM's do show an improvement by Wilander in '88, though maybe not as much as you would expect to see.
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Thelma and Louise Imperialism
Let me make an argument about the possibility that a regime-change-style, shock-and-awe air assault might someday be launched on Iranian nuclear facilities and associated targets--based on no insider knowledge, just the logic of George and Dick's Thelma and Louise-style imperialism.
Of course, we all know at least half the story by now. Is there anybody in official Washington--other than our President, Vice President, the Vice President's secretive imperial staff, assorted neocon supporters, and associated right-wing think tanks--who isn't sweating blood, popping pills, and wondering what in the world to do about our delusional leaders?
Senators, House members, former top officials and high military types are now crawling out of the Washington woodwork to offer the kinds of dire warnings that, not so long ago, would have been confined to the distant peripheries of political argument.
After all, to anyone not delusional--which leaves out you-know-who and his Vice President--a massive air assault on Iran, surely involving staggeringly powerful bunker-busting missiles, would seem to be an act of madness. It would be immensely destructive to Iran (and yet almost surely a rallying point for its fundamentalist regime); bloody in its repercussions for US soldiers in Iraq; imperiling to US allies in the region; and, for the global economy, a potential energy catastrophe. A series of explosive events could unravel the oil heartlands of the planet, making the Administration's last several years in Iraq little more than an hors d'oeuvre before a banquet of catastrophe.
You don't have to rely on me for this. In his confirmation hearings, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered his own bloodcurdling scenario for the aftermath of such an assault:
"...[While] Iran cannot attack us directly militarily, I think that their capacity to potentially close off the Persian Gulf to all exports of oil, their potential to unleash a significant wave of terror both in the -- well, in the Middle East and in Europe and even here in this country is very real... Their ability to get Hezbollah to further destabilize Lebanon I think is very real. So I think that while their ability to retaliate against us in a conventional military way is quite limited, they have the capacity to do all of the things, and perhaps more, that I just described."
Fatwa Time
The possibility of an attack on Iran has long been on the horizon. You'd have to start back before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when, as Newsweek reminded us, one quip of the bolder neocons was: "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran." You'd have to go back to January 2005, when reporter Seymour Hersh, in a New Yorker piece, "The Coming Wars," wrote, "In my interviews, I was repeatedly told that the next strategic target was Iran."
You'd have to go back to August 2005 when, in the American Conservative magazine, former CIA official Philip Giraldi warned: "In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the Administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran"--possibly involving an "unprovoked nuclear attack" on that country. A contingency plan was, he claimed, being drawn up in the Pentagon, "acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office."
You'd have to check out a second Hersh piece from April 2006 in which he reported that, increasingly, insiders believed the President's goal was not simply aborting the Iranian nuclear program, but Iraq-style "regime change," and that, against Pentagon opposition, "the nuclear option"--the possibility of using a "bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon"--had made it into initial Iran planning. You'd have to check out the work of former UN arms inspector Scott Ritter, who recently published a book whose title says it all: Target Iran.
These men--some classic conservatives--are now, if anything, even more passionately convinced that the Administration is headed for the Iranian cliff, possibly as early as this Spring.
But it took more than their work for so much of official Washington to panic. It took the Administration's decision to send the USS John C. Stennis, a second aircraft carrier task force into the Persian Gulf (with hints that a third could follow); it took the announcement of what Juan Cole has termed George Bush's " fatwa," allowing the US military to take out Iranian agents anywhere in Iraq; it took the detention by US forces of various Iranian officials in Iraq and the invasion of an Iranian office in Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan; it took the President's announcement of a decision to emplace Patriot anti-missile systems in the smaller Gulf states; it took a sudden, massive, eerily familiar ratcheting up of Administration rhetoric about Iran and Iranian influence in Iraq and the cherry-picked intelligence to go with it.; it took the refusal of officials like John Negroponte to say whether they believed the Administration already had the right to whack Iran without returning to Congress for permission; it took reports about the readying of new bases in Bulgaria and Romania for a future Iranian air campaign; it took rumors that the Pentagon's latest strike plan against Iran includes "more than 2,300 'high value' targets."
And it took, of course, the Administration's ongoing catastrophe in Iraq, which drives everything before it, as well as Bush's pugnacious (if hopeless) "surge plan" reaction to rejection in the November midterm elections; it took the President's insistence on victory in a situation where loss was so obvious that you didn't need scads of dollars and the sixteen agencies of the US intelligence community to make the point in a National Intelligence Estimate; it took Vice President Cheney's insistence, in a duke-it-out interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, that the Administration's Iraq policy would be "an enormous success story."
And, of course, it took all those eerie parallels with the Administration's behavior in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, not to speak of the realization that this Administration, devoted to an unfettered commander-in-chief-style of presidential power, believed it already had authorization aplenty to attack Iran. All of this brought home the possibility that our leaders might one day actually take the house down with them, that they might gun the car and head directly for the cliff with something between sneers and smiles on their faces.