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ZF-2898: Zend_Validate / Zend_Filter $namespaces search order
When providing Zend_Validate or Zend_Filter with a classBasename with the same name as a Zend_Validate or Zend_Filter class but different namespaces Zend_Validate / Zend_Filter class is a higher priority in the include list.
e.g. Zend_Validate::is('123asd', 'Int', null, array('MyWeb_Validate'));
This would include the Zend_Validate_Int before it would include MyWeb_Validate_Int I think this should be changed to make the users vaildate be included first.
Quick example of just swapping the array_merge
The desired change would be a backward compatibility break, so I'm marking to be fixed for next major release, pending demonstration that the original behavior is broken (e.g., documentation states otherwise intended behavior).
Hi Darby,
So if this seems like a dumb question. But fixes that have been okayed for the next major release, does this make them safe to be committed to trunk and not merged into branch? or is it best to leave it?
As this would not be a strictly backward-compatible change, I must say to leave it as is for now, but I do support making the change as an improvement for the next major release (the upgrade path will need to be well-documented). If instead it can be demonstrated that this is truly a bug (e.g., violating documented behavior), then we should be able to fix it with less regard for keeping backward compatibility.
I agree with you regarding the BC change.
I am somewhat concerned that a script that could work today with no problems with namespace could break tomorrow due to the ZF adding a Filter or Validation calss of the same type.
e.g. Zend_Validate::is('123', 'Number', null, array('MyWeb_Validate'));
Might be fine right now, but lets say ZF adds a Zend_Validate_Number it would now not see my namespace as important as it uses the ZF's class not mine. Quite a big problem as I see it.
It is expected that in the rest of the ZF we use a LIFO (stack) approach for things. I certainly expected the same behavior here.
Lets take view scripts as an example, Quoted from the mailing list. {quote} Script paths added later get searched first, script paths added earlier get searched last, LIFO. This is so that you can have later script paths override defaults. If we did this as a FIFO, you would never be able to override default paths with local paths. {quote}
The current behavior is decidedly broken, so I've marked it as to fix for next mini-release. Documentation should be updated to cover the change.
Ralph, are you in agreement with Darby that the behavior is broken? Should we fix this in the next minor release? I don't want to make a backwards incompatible fix in a mini release.
I've been thinking about this one abit more. Find it hard to see how anyone could be using this in a way that could BC? Thoughts?
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Illumina acquired BlueGnome, a U.K. firm that provides products for screening for genetic abnormalities associated with developmental delay, cancer, and infertility. Founded in 2002, BlueGnome introduced its CytoChip genetic test for genetic abnormalities in 2006, and in 2008 introduced its 24sure assay for screening for chromosomal aneupoidy in single cells, which was developed in collaboration with leading IVF centers around the world. The firm claims CytoChip is now used in hundreds of laboratories globally as a first-line cytogenetic test that replaces traditional G-band karyotyping, primarily for abnormalities associated with developmental delay or complex leukemias.
BlueGnome will operate as a wholly owned subisidary of Illumina. "The BlueGnome acquisition supports Illumina's goal to be the leader in genomic-based diagnostics and enhances the company's ability to establish integrated solutions in reproductive health and cancer," comments Jay Flatley, Illumina president and CEO. BlueGnome claims becoming part of Illumina will offer new opportunities for genetic testing. "By joining forces with Illumina, we will be able to leverage the industry's leading microarray and sequencing platforms for our next-generation products," states Nick Haan, president and CEO at the U.K. firm.
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Toffee and chocolate dot the golden brown batter of these delightful brownies. I do a lot of cooking for the police officers I work with, and they always line up for these treats. —Jennifer Ann Sopko, Battle Creek, Michigan
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chunks
- 4 Heath candy bars (1.4 ounces each), coarsely chopped
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat the butter, eggs and vanilla until smooth. Stir into dry ingredients just until combined (batter will be thick).
- Spread into a 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle with chocolate chunks and chopped candy bars; press gently into batter.
- Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars. Yield: 2 dozen.
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"I made these for a family party & everyone loved them! I used 3/4 cup pre-crushed Heath bits, and substituted semisweet chocolate morsels for the chunks (because that's what I had on hand). They baked 18 minutes and were done. Excellent recipe -- a keeper!"
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Reflection injection
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Vulnerabilities Table of Contents
Reflection injection problems are a subset of injection problems, in which external input is used to construct a string value passed to class reflection APIs. By manipulating the value, an attacker can cause unexpected classes to be loaded, or change what method or fields are accessed on an object.
Access control: Reflection injection allows for the execution of arbitrary code by the attacker.
Exposure period
- Design: It may be possible to find alternate methods for satisfying functional requirements than using reflection.
- Implementation: Avoid using external input to generate reflection string values.
- Language: Java, .NET, and other languages that support reflection
- Platform: Any
Required resources
Likelihood of exploit
The most straightforward reflection injection attack is to provide the name of an alternate class available to the target application which implements the same interfaces but operates in a less secure manner. This can be used as leverage for more extensive attacks. More complex attacks depend upon the specific deployment situation of the application.
If the classloader being used is capable of remote class fetching this becomes an extremely serious vulnerability, since attackers could supply arbitrary URLs that point at constructed attack classes. In this case, the class doesn't necessarily even need to implement methods that perform the same as the replaced class, since a static initializer could be used to carry out the attack.
If it is necessary to allow reflection utilizing external input, limit the possible values to a predefined list. For example, reflection is commonly used for loading JDBC database connector classes. Most often, the string class name is read from a configuration file. Injection problems can be avoided by embedding a list of strings naming each of the supported database driver classes and requiring the class name read from the file to be in the list before loading.
Risk Factors
- Talk about the factors that make this vulnerability likely or unlikely to actually happen
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- Consider the likely [business impacts] of a successful attack
The following Java code dynamically loads a connection class to be used for transferring data:
// connType is a String read from an external source Class connClass = Class.forName(connType); HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)connClass.newInstance(); conn.connect();
Suppose this application normally passed "javax.net.ssl.HttpsUrlConnection". This would provide an HTTPS connection using SSL to protect the transferred data. If an attacker replaced the connType string with "java.net.HttpURLConnection" then all data transfers performed by this code would happen over an un-encrypted HTTP connection instead.
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- Design: It may be possible to find alternate methods for satisfying functional requirements than using reflection.
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Apr. 22, 1962: The colorful balloon from the movie, "Around the World in 80 Days," leaves the plaza hub of Disneyland following an old-fashioned Easter Parade down Main Street, U.S.A. on Easter Sunday.
Apr. 22, 1964: The 1964-65 New York World's Fair opens at Flushing Meadows in New York City. It features four Disney attractions that later find homes at Disneyland: It's a Small World, Carousel of Progress, Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln and Magic Skyways.
Apr. 22, 2010: Children and horticulturists release 140,000 ladybugs throughout the Disneyland Resort to help keep the plants healthy as part of an Earth Day celebration.
Apr. 23, 1957: Midget Autopia opens in Fantasyland.
April 23, 2012: Disney announces that six Starbucks cafes will be added to U.S. Disney parks, including the first one at Disney California Adventure in summer 2012. (Construction is now underway for a Starbucks in Disneyland that is set to open in fall 2013.)
April 26, 1992: The live "Beauty and the Beast" show, called "The Enchanted Book Shoppe," has its final performance at Disneyland. (Source: This Day in Disney History website.)
April 27, 2010: Angel player Hideki Matsui, who was new to Anaheim, makes his first trip to Disneyland, where he posed for pictures and rode on "it's a small world." (Matsui no longer plays for the Angels.)
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Face it, the vast majority of films you'll see at the Sundance Film Festival this year are not geared toward kids.
But there are a few standouts they'll enjoy (just keep in mind, they might be better for older kids), and Park City's Main Street offers a lot for kids to do—not to mention the New Frontier exhibit and nearby tubing at Gorgoza.
The First Time
If you have a teen (and you're ok with them seeing movies like Superbad), check out this coming-of-age flick by director/screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan. Dave is a high school senior, who hasn't been able to find a girlfriend, and Aubrey is an artistic junior with a jerk for a boyfriend. The two meet at a party and end up spending a weekend together. They both experience what it's like to really fall in love, even though it's... well, complicated. Very brief nudity and some sexual content, but like we mentioned above, much tamer than a Superbad or American Pie. Also a better movie.
FYI: We'll be interviewing Matthew Fahey, one of the stars of the film, in the coming week.
Saturday, Jan. 21 at 12:15 p.m. at the Eccles Theatre, Park City
Saturday, Jan. 21 at 9 p.m. at the Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Sunday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. at the Redstone Cinema 7, Park City
Wednesday, Jan. 25 at The MARC, Park City
Thursday, Jan. 26 at Library Center Theatre, Park City
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The fest's father-daughter movie, and it's a fantasy. Six-year-old Hushpuppy and her father Wink live in a small community at the edge of the world. And even though Wink is hard on Hushpuppy, it's all to prepare her for a time when he's not there to protect her. That time comes as Wink falls ill and the world begins to collapse, along with the arrival of monsters called aurochs. Might be a bit scary for very young audiences.
Friday, Jan. 20 at 12:15 p.m. at the Eccles Theatre, Park City
Saturday, Jan. 21 at 9:30 p.m. at the Redstone Cinema 8, Park City
Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3:30 p.m. at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC
Monday, Jan. 23 at 3 p.m. at the Sundance Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 8:30 p.m. at The MARC, Park City
Thursday, Jan. 26 at 12 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, Park City
On/near Main Street:
Java Cow Coffee & Ice Cream
Drop by for a treat, 402 Main Street, and then call Park City Ghost Tours for a private tour at 435-615-7673.
Cisero's for dinner
Why Cisero's? They serve one of the best pizzas around and the tablecloths are paper, which kids can draw all over with crayon. 306 Main Street
New Frontier
If you have the kids with you, definitely check out the media installations, multimedia performances and all of the film innovations on display at New Frontier.
Now until Friday, Jan. 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at The Yard, 1251 Kearns Blvd., Park City (Saturday, Jan. 28 till 3 p.m.)
Also at 20 S. West Temple, SLC until Jan. 28 (Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.).
Gorgoza Tubing
Forget strapping anything to your feet with the kids. This is the ultimate tubing spot. Minus the skill involved for skiing, the kids can take their tubes up the hill as many times as they want before you hit Java Cow on Main Street.
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Transportation companies, spurred on by shippers and manufacturers, are joining the green revolution in a big way.
Both UPS and FedEx have invested in alternatively fueled vehicles
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Transportation companies, spurred on by shippers and manufacturers, are joining the green revolution in a big way.
Whether it's alternatively fueled vehicles ranging from compressed natural gas to experimental hybrid trucks, transport companies are racing to be the first to discover the breakthrough technology that allows the nation to wean itself off imported oil. Or, rather, breakthrough technologies.
"UPS looks at alternative fuel technologies as a multimodal approach. We don't see one technology as a silver bullet to solve the fuel equation," says UPS spokesman Michael French.
French said the green revolution in this country is important for the 103-year-old company "in the sense we have been striving for efficiencies since we were founded in 1907. "We're always looking for ways to be more efficient and more energy friendly. It's not just good for customer, it's good for us."
"We treat our AFV fleet like a rolling laboratory to find the best technology for the best geographic location," French said. "Our vehicles are the lifeblood of our operations. We want to make sure they are using fuel as efficiently as possible."
Instead of one breakthrough technology, UPS says transportation companies are likely to evolve to use different technologies in different parts of the country in different operational environments. Hybrid electric vehicles might work best in congested cities for pickup and delivery during the daytime so they can be recharged at night. Compressed natural gas (CNG) might work best in rural areas. A futurist would say solar-powered vehicles might work best in the desert southwest where the sun is plentiful—and free.
"We see good applications for each one, depending on our particular situation in that area," French said.
Today, UPS operates one of the largest private fleets of alternative fuel vehicles in the industry – more than 1,900. Since 2000, UPS's "green fleet" has traveled more than 165 million miles.
UPS is hardly alone. Rival FedEx Corp. last summer expanded its alternative energy vehicle fleet by with four purpose-built electric trucks—optimized for electric operation from the wheels up—operating in the Los Angeles area last June. Those vehicles joined more than 1,800 alternative-energy vehicles already in service for FedEx around the world.
FedEx has a history of such innovation. In 2004, it says it was the first global company to invest in hybrid-electric commercial trucks. It later introduced an even cleaner all-electric parcel delivery truck.
FedEx Chairman, President and CEO Fred Smith says his company is making these investments to speed the transition to a cleaner transportation system.
Rather than creating its own proprietary technology, FedEx using the marketplace to spur solutions. It bought its first North American all-electric vehicles from two different suppliers to evaluate the robustness of that technology for demanding daily FedEx Express deliveries in the Los Angeles area and provide information to help guide future FedEx vehicle purchases. Two of the all-electric trucks come from Navistar, and are based on the Modec design already operated by FedEx in Europe. FedEx already uses 10 such trucks in London and five more are on order for Paris.
Two more all-electric vehicles were bought from a different manufacturer for delivery to the Los Angeles area later in 2010. Both sets of electric vehicles are designed with a range that allows many FedEx Express couriers to make a full eight-hour shift of deliveries before their vehicles need recharging.
During testimony before Congress last summer, FedEx founder Smith urged the nation to adopt a comprehensive program to encourage affordable electrification of local transportation to foster more domestic energy production, less reliance on imported oil and an overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
In his annual report to shareholders, Smith noted that FedEx has devoted much time and money this year to advocating a shift in how the U.S. powers its transportation sector — by using electricity as the power source for short-haul ground vehicles.
"Electricity is diverse, domestic, stable, and a fundamentally scalable energy source with fuel inputs almost completely free of oil," Smith noted.
Vehicle miles fueled by electricity emit less carbon than those fueled by gasoline, even if all of the electricity used to charge the vehicle is generated through conventional sources, he added. High penetration rates of grid-enabled vehicles propelled by electricity and stored onboard in a battery "could radically reduce" oil consumption in the United States," Smith noted.
"Electric vehicles would strengthen our economy, reduce national security and economic risks, and dramatically reduce emissions of greenhouse gases," Smith said flatly.
FedEx says it has the industry's largest fleet of hybrid electric package-delivery trucks and it is expanding that fleet, but not just by buying new hybrids. It also is expanding the useful lives of some conventional diesel trucks by retrofitting them with hybrid electric drive trains.
These electric trucks make dollars as well as sense. They are particularly well suited for densely populated, moderate-climate urban areas, where FedEx says they cut direct operating costs by 60-80 percent per vehicle mile. As the capital costs of these electric vehicles come down — and their battery capacity and range go up — FedEx officials say they will convert more of its fleet to electric.
Mitch Jackson, Fed Ex's vice president, environmental affairs and sustainability, said although electric trucks are still in their infancy, he thinks they have a bright future in the mix of alternative energy vehicles. Down the road, he said, he sees the possibility charging electric vehicle fleets with low- or zero-emission electricity generated on site by such innovations as solar electric power. It already has a solar-powered hub in Oakland, Calif.
"We have a goal of improving our overall fleet fuel mileage by 20 percent by 2020," said
Deborah Willig, a FedEx spokeswoman. "New technologies and new initiatives are a major part of that.
UPS recently deployed 200 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks in eight U.S. cities. These hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) join roughly 20,000 low-emission and alternative-fuel vehicles already in use. These trucks can yield a 35 percent savings in fuel costs, according to Bob Stoffel, UPS senior vice president of supply chain, strategy, engineering and sustainability.
He said these 200 new HEV delivery trucks are expected to reduce fuel consumption by roughly 176,000 gallons over the course of a year compared to an equivalent number of traditional diesel trucks. The hybrids also should reduce by 1,786 metric tons the amount of CO2 gases released annually into the atmosphere.
The UPS hybrid power system utilizes a conventional diesel engine combined with a battery pack, saving fuel and reducing pollution-causing emissions. The small diesel is used to recharge the battery pack and to add power when necessary. They also use regenerative braking so that the energy generated from applying the brakes is captured and returned to the battery as electricity. That's the same technology used in the popular Toyota Prius, which can get up to 50 miles per hour in city traffic. The combination of clean diesel power and electric power, supplemented by regenerative braking, allows dramatic improvements in fuel savings and emissions reductions.
America's shippers already are going green. Led by Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, shippers are asking transportation companies to join in the revolution. Wal-Mart wants to save $3.4 billion by forcing suppliers to reduce packaging materials by 5 percent, which will have a profound effect on transportation companies' bottom line as truckers have traditionally charged by weight of shipments.
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The Pretenders were one of the seminal bands of the second British Invasion, rising out of London in 1979 with a forceful, self-titled first album. Their melodic but hard-charging sound suggested a union of punk and New Wave approaches. Moreover, being older and more seasoned than their punk peers, they drew inspiration from bands of the first British Invasion, including the Kinks and the Who, as well American soul music.
Leader Chrissie Hynde was, in fact, an American expatriate who grew up in Akron, Ohio, and moved to London in the hope of finding her way into the music business. It took several years to put a band together, but once guitarist/singer Hynde assembled the definitive Pretenders lineup - guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, bassist Pete Farndon and drummer Martin Chambers, all from rustic Hereford - they took off almost instantly.
Throughout their volatile history, which has included the drug-related deaths of two founding members, the Pretenders have remained a vehicle for Hynde's songs and breathy, dark-timbered alto. From the outset the Pretenders were an explosive combination of precision and flamboyance. The group mastered the blistering tempos and brute force of punk, but Hynde's writing took them other places as well. Her songs possessed the melodic sheen of well-turned pop yet employed unconventional time signatures (one writer referred to her "treacherously eccentric meters") and at times blunt, psychosexual lyrics.
As one of the first women to front a popular rock band - not only as the singer but also main songwriter and bandleader - she presented a hard, unsentimental image that was far removed from the likes of Linda Ronstadt or Stevie Nicks. She seemed tough, and her songs - including "Tattooed Love Boys," "Up the Neck" and "The Phone Call" - could at times be unsparing, though she'd counterpoint those with sweeter tunes like "Kid" and "Don't Get Me Wrong."
The Pretenders' first single, released in 1979, was a cover of "Stop Your Sobbing," a Kinks song from 1964 that Hynde had loved while growing up. The self-titled album that followed was an Eighties standout and one of rock's most solid debut albums. Pretenders and "Brass in Pocket," a soulful, sensual track taken from it, topped the U.K. album and singles charts. The album reached #9 in America, helping kick open the door for "new music" in this country. The Pretenders worked hard to broaden their following, touring for as long as a year after each new album. Released in 1981, Pretenders II yielded three more hits - "Message of Love," "Talk of the Town" and "I Go to Sleep" (another Kinks cover) - and rigorous touring further established the group.
Bassist Farndon was let go, having become increasingly incompatible with his bandmates due to a mounting drug habit. Guitarist Honeyman-Scott died two days later, on June 16, 1982, of a cocaine overdose. Farndon himself died of a heroin overdose on April 14, 1983. Between those traumatic passings, Hynde recorded an excellent new Pretenders single, "Back on the Chain Gang," with guitarist Billy Bremner and bassist Tony Butler. The song reached #5 and was chosen for inclusion on the soundtrack to The King of Comedy.
A newly revised lineup, now with guitarist Robbie McIntosh and bassist Malcolm Foster, recorded the third Pretenders album, Learning to Crawl. Like its predecessors, it was produced by Chris Thomas, and it yielded a bounty of hit singles, including "Middle of the Road," "2000 Miles" and "Thin Line Between Love and Hate." Get Close showed Hynde and company in solid form as well, producing such favorites as "Don't Get Me Wrong," "Hymn to Her" and "My Baby." The Singles, a 16-track hits collection from 1987, showed just how much the Pretenders had impacted the charts over the previous eight years.
Following an exhausting eight-month world tour, guitarist McIntosh left the Pretenders; he would subsequently become a mainstay of Paul McCartney's band. In terms of personnel, the Pretenders were in a perpetual state of flux, with Chambers leaving in the mid-Eighties and returning in the mid-Nineties. Hynde, of course, remained the constant, variously working with guitarists McIntosh, Bremner and Adam Seymour. In fact, guitarist Seymour and bassist Andy Hobson - who joined in 1994 - would wind up having the lengthiest tenures in the Pretenders on their instruments.
Hynde maintained a high songwriting standard on Pretenders albums that followed at a less dizzying pace: Packed! (1990), Last of the Independents(1994), Isle of View (1995) and Viva El Amor! (1999). Among them, Last of the Independents was particularly strong, containing the exquisite "I'll Stand by You," and Isle of View is notable as a Pretenders retrospective performed acoustically with backing by the Duke String Quartet.
When the Pretenders' two-decade-long relationship with Sire/Warner Bros. came to a close, Hynde signed with Artemis Records, releasing Loose Screw in 2002. A quarter century after the Pretenders first stood the world on its ear, Chrissie Hynde remains their feisty, determined and passionate leader.
"It's never been my intention to change the world or set an example for others to follow," she once remarked. "I just wanted to play guitar in a rock and roll band and make music that people could dig."


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In the history of Pasadena City College football, no opponent has given the Lancers more headaches than El Camino College. On Saturday night in Torrance, the woes that PCC have encountered in the past continued in a forgettable 43-7, SCFA non-conference defeat.
El Camino (3-0) won for the 26th time in 38 meetings with the Lancers, taking a 30-0 halftime lead. By game's end, the Warriors had outgained PCC in total offense, 585 yards to 228 and in first downs, 29 to 14.
The Lancers (0-3) avoided a shutout when reserve quarterback Andrew Mathews engineered an 11-play, 95-yard drive. He capped it with a 7-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Micah Shirley with 3:29 left in the contest. Running back Travion Boykins made PCC's longest play of the game during the series on a 25-yard run into El Camino territory.
El Camino quarterback Cole Webb completed 21 of 30 passes for 309 yards and three touchdowns. The Warriors, feeling that being ahead 36-0 wasn't enough, threw eight passes during a scoring series by their starting unit midway through the third quarter. Webb drilled a 13-yard TD pass to Jaiquis Shows with six minutes left in the period to make it 43-0.
The Lancers' highlights included a better rushing game with sophomore Marciss Grigsby totaling 61 yards in 14 carries, Boykins 42 yards in five attempts, and Khyree Morgan with 29 yards in seven touches. Starting quarterback Darrian Cazarin completed 14 of 27 passes for only 96 yards. He was sacked three times. Sophomore receiver Marcus Green totaled a team-high four receptions for 23 yards.
On defense, safety Rodon Ogilvie made 11 tackles and broke up a pass while fellow safety Austin Alexander contributed seven tackles (team-high five solo). Letterman lineman Dalyou Pierson added four tackles, including his team-best third sack of the season.
The Lancers open their National Northern Conference part of the schedule Saturday, Sept. 28 against College of the Canyons. Kickoff at Robinson Stadium is 6 p.m.
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ZF-5277: fix_dst doesn`t work correctly
In the following example, the fix_dst option doesn`t work correctly.
ini_set('date.timezone', 'UTC');
Zend_Date::setOptions(array('fix_dst' => true));
$date = new Zend_Date(mktime(22, 0, 0, 10, 25, 2008));
$date->add(1, Zend_Date::DAY);
$date->sub(1, Zend_Date::SECOND);
echo $date->get(Zend_Date::DATE_SHORT) . ' ' . $date->get(Zend_Date::TIME_MEDIUM);
Current result: 26.10.08 22:59:59
Expected result: 26.10.08 23:59:59
This bugreport relates to a post in the german ZF-Forum. http://www.zfforum.de/showthread.php?t=2853
When I set the default timezone to Europe\Berlin and not to UTC it works, but this is not the required approach.
Debugging your example I get:
$date = new Zend_Date(mktime(22, 0, 0, 10, 25, 2008));
The date object contains
which is correct... now you set the timezone
and the object changes to
which is correct because we are in summertime on this date so GMT+2 Now you add one day
$date->add(1, Zend_Date::DAY);
but there is a change from summer to wintertime... so the object changes to
because this day has only 23 hours, but also the zone changes to GMT+1 Substracting one second makes no difference
$date->sub(1, Zend_Date::SECOND);
as the zone does not change on 22-23h.
I see no problem at all.


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UPDATE: Stories of mine safety concerns after the explosion that left 29 miners dead, and of tough new EPA regulations on water quality in mountaintop-removal mining, have filled the news. Here, a profile of activist Maria Gunnoe, who has been taking on the big coal companies, such as Massey (the company whose miners are trapped), over mining procedures and environmental fallout.
Grabbing a late lunch at a deserted Chinese restaurant in a tired West Virginia town, Maria Gunnoe piles her plate with greasy noodles and wontons, her voracious appetite belying her compact frame. Between bites, she holds forth on the cause that consumes her life: what she sees as the rape of Appalachia by the mighty coal industry. "They depend on two things," Gunnoe believes, "our people being uneducated, and our people being poor." She has been both. Now she is neither. And for her, silence is not an option.
A grassroots activist who declares, "I'm not an environmentalist, I'm a survivalist," Gunnoe can spend hour after hour quoting the Clean Water Act, indicting regulatory agencies and describing the selenium levels of mutant two-headed fish in polluted streams. Just shut up, her own husband has been known to beg her.
Gunnoe, 41, is petite and girlish, 125 pounds of sinewy muscle in jeans and hiking boots, with the chiseled cheekbones of her Cherokee grandfather. A diamond stud dots the cartilage at the front of each ear, and the frames of her reading glasses are filigreed with tiny peace symbols. The corners of her deep-set brown eyes turn downward, giving her a look of perpetual sorrow, and her tanned hands sport two Band-Aids and a thumb ring, but no wedding band. Her marriage is fragile. That, too, Gunnoe indirectly blames on the mining companies.
Now, mid-rant and mid-wonton, she suddenly springs up and hurries to the window. She scans the parking lot.
"I thought I saw a guy walk behind my Jeep," she explains sheepishly. That would be her sexy new black Wrangler with the "I Love Mountains" decal on back, paid for with part of the prestigious $150,000 Goldman Environmental Prize she won in 2009 for not shutting up.
Gunnoe may be a heroine in environmental circles, but she lives like a moving target. "Death threats," she says with a shrug; she feels they're to be expected when a native daughter dares to challenge an industry long considered vital to the economy of the second-poorest state in the country.
"I've had sand put in the gas tank of my old truck, and somebody tried to cut the brake line," she says, adding matter-of-factly that coal trucks also occasionally try to run her off the narrow mountain roads of Boone County, where she lives, about 45 miles south of the state capital of Charleston. Even when it's not hunting season, she sometimes hears the crack of gunfire from the mine site that backs up to her property line. Miners see her crusade as a threat to their livelihood, Gunnoe explains, while the huge, out-of-state energy companies that run West Virginia's coal mines see her as a litigious nuisance.
For 12 years now, Gunnoe has waged a spirited battle to end mountaintop removal, a process by which the tops of mountains are blasted off so miners can get at seams of coal that their employers say are inaccessible or too costly or too dangerous to reach by sending miners underground. The practice began in the 1970s and now produces more than 126 million tons of coal a year—enough to power more than 25 million American homes, according to the National Mining Association. "They're making fuel so you can have a hair dryer in the morning and your coffeemaker and a computer and electricity," says Bill Raney, president of the advocacy group Friends of Coal.
More than 500 peaks across Appalachia have been sheared off so far, and coal companies dump the resulting tons of blasted rock, dirt and vegetation into steep valleys adjacent to the mine sites. The practice is legal but heavily regulated by a plethora of county, state and federal agencies. Activists like Gunnoe argue that these so-called "valley fills" routinely bury streams, destroying aquatic and animal habitats in violation of the Clean Water Act—a contention the Environmental Protection Agency has agreed with on multiple occasions, levying millions of dollars in fines against mining operations. In 2008, Massey Energy, which is based in Richmond, Virginia, but does much of its mining in West Virginia, agreed to pay a record $20 million fine and make an additional $10 million worth of facility upgrades in response to a federal lawsuit citing some 4,500 violations of the Clean Water Act. However, in a recent debate with environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Massey CEO Don Blankenship called the rules and their enforcement "unreasonable." In 2009, he told his shareholders that the company conducts surface mining "with full respect for the stewardship of the environment."
Activists and environmental lawyers claim that coal companies sometimes pay people to move away or simply wait for the blasting and coal dust to force them out and thereby slowly turn small communities in regions like Gunnoe's into ghost towns.
"By destroying these mountains, they're destroying our history and our culture," Gunnoe says. And she, for one, is refusing to budge.
Maria Gunnoe considers herself bullheaded but not necessarily brave. "I've always been the jumpy sort," she allows, and it is hard to tell, in any given moment, whether she is preyed upon or paranoid. "Did you see the hard look they gave me?" she demands after slowly driving past three men in mining overalls sitting on the front porch of a bungalow in Lindytown, a largely deserted mining community. The men don't say or do anything, but Gunnoe still feels scrutinized. "I don't want any comments from the peanut gallery, so I'm rolling up my window," she mutters.
Towns like this are examples of the very intricate relationship between coal and Appalachia, says Grace Toney Edwards, a North Carolina native and head of the Appalachian Regional Studies Center at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia. "Coal companies owned towns; they provided the houses, the churches, the ministers, the teachers," she explains. But there was exploitation as well, she adds, with miners sometimes being paid with vouchers they could only use in company-owned stores. Still, generations grew up considering "coal their livelihood, and coal companies their savior," Edwards says.
In many ways, the rustic way of life Gunnoe has set out to preserve has already been lost. Growing up in the impoverished backwoods, she learned the names of every peak and hollow—or "hollers," as she calls them: "A holler is like a village in the nook between two mountains." Gunnoe's family, like most in the area, depended on the abundance of the woodlands, which had thrived for 600 million years. What the paychecks from the coal mines and sawmills couldn't provide, the mountains always did. Game was plentiful, and you could gather wild greens, pears, apples, potatoes and berries by the bushel. "Aw, we had the best water," Gunnoe remembers, "so cold it'd freeze your hand and clear as a bell."
Gunnoe's late grandfather and father both worked in underground mines at some point in their lives, and two of her three brothers still do. On Sundays, the extended family would gather on her grandparents' porch after supper for bluegrass jam sessions. After high school, Maria was itching to leave the hollow; at 19 she took a factory job in Hickory, North Carolina. "But when I got out, I was hungry to come back," she says. She returned at 25, had a son and a few years later met Richard Pitzer, a mason who courted her by leaving roses wherever she went. In 1995, Maria married Richard and eventually settled with her husband, their new daughter and her son in the small blue house her grandfather had built in Bob White, a hamlet named for the quail whose calls echoed down from the ridges. Life was cozy and predictable; Gunnoe became a "sports mom" and worked in the same restaurant where her mother was a cook.
"I know it sounds crazy, but as a waitress, I learned so much about the ties the coal companies and politicians and DEP agents had with each other," Gunnoe says. "It's a small town, and they'd all have lunch there. You just get to know who's connected to who."
Then a long-smoldering underground fire in an abandoned mine finally burned close to the surface, and Gunnoe's activism surfaced as well. She grew concerned about the impact the constant haze of coal smoke was having on the Boone County community— "The elders were suddenly being put on oxygen, and the schools kept the kids inside." She began volunteering for an environmental organization known as OVEC—the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. When mountaintop removal came to Bob White in 2000, she began educating herself about that as well.
The rumble of explosives soon replaced the bobwhite calls. Thick gray dust clumped on the furniture and windowsills in Gunnoe's house, making her sneeze until her nose bled. The water corroded her faucets and took on "this foul smell," she says. It also left red and gray stains on her clothes, sink and dishes. The familiar peak behind her house disappeared, and bulldozers heaved the rubble of an ancient forest into a nearby valley. Floodwaters repeatedly swept down the ravaged landscape, carving a 70-foot trench across Gunnoe's property and washing out the two bridges that linked her to the only road out. "We had to hike in for seven years," she recounts. "Sometimes it'd take two hours just to unload the groceries." (Gunnoe filed a complaint, but the West Virginia DEP concluded that heavy rainfall, not mining activity, caused the flood.)
"At first, I was concerned about what was happening to me and my backyard," she recalls. "Then I just had the desire to know more, and the more I knew, the more I felt I had to fix."
After years of volunteering—taking phone complaints, interviewing people living near mine sites, monitoring streams for pollution—Gunnoe became a paid staffer at OVEC, badgering regulatory agencies to enforce laws regarding inspections, permits and polluting, and providing testimony and evidence that have led to fines, injunctions or blocked permits for giants like Massey Energy and Patriot Coal. "We've blocked dozens of valley fill permits so far," she says proudly.
What began as a concerned mother's resolve turned to full-blown obsession. "I know I haven't taken the time to pamper my relationships the way I should," she says. Her children, now teenagers, have both been menaced, she says. Her daughter was harassed by men in mining coveralls who used the "c" word and referred to her as "that bitch Maria Gunnoe's daughter"; her son overheard a man at a football game telling another man "how he was going to burn me and my kids up at night," she says. Two and a half years ago, Gunnoe was scheduled to testify in federal court for the first time to stop a valley fill; if successful, she would effectively shut down a mine site. One afternoon she went outside to do yard work and heard more than 200 rounds of ammunition fired from behind her property.
"I'd like to think they were better shots if they meant to hit me," she says wryly. "They're trying to scare me." Gunnoe did testify. Nonetheless, a year would pass before she felt comfortable venturing into her yard without wearing a bulletproof vest. Today Gunnoe's house, now painted a camouflage khaki and green to make it less visible to her foes, is a small fortress behind a six-foot chain-link fence that she loathes. Video cameras and two guard dogs give her some sense of security, but "it takes a toll," she says. "There are days I literally can't get my head out of my hands." Gunnoe says her daughter's dog was shot and its body dumped in front of the post office, where the kids' school bus stopped each day. Another family dog was shot years later in the backyard.
"They got a saying: 'First we kill your dogs, then we come for you,' " says Larry Gibson, an activist and mentor of Gunnoe's who has fought mountaintop removal in West Virginia for 25 years. But in spite of this climate of hostility, Gunnoe considers it futile to report the harassment to local law enforcement, claiming that even potentially life-threatening incidents are never thoroughly investigated. No one, she insists, will even bother taking a report against a coal miner in Boone County. Not true, counter the state police and sheriff's offices. Sergeant Andy Perdue notes that the state police have made at least one arrest (when a miner's wife hit a protester). But in this highly charged atmosphere, he adds, not all harsh words result in a police action. As he puts it, "Everyone threatens everyone around here." (West Virginia governor Joe Manchin has begun meeting with coal companies and citizens on both sides in an attempt to defuse tensions.)
Miner Roger Horton, who spent the first half of his career underground before layoffs prompted him to "become fluent in large earthmoving equipment" and shift to mountaintop removal, says the threats run both ways. "Are there tensions? Absolutely," says Horton, founder of the advocacy group Citizens for Coal and an employee of Patriot. "I've had people call and tell me they'll kill my ass [if I don't stop mining mountaintops]," he says. Like Gunnoe, he responds with the mixture of dry humor and grit so prevalent in the hardscrabble hollows: "If someone wants to kill you, honey, there's not a dadgummed thing you can do about it. You're a goner. People who make these threats are cowards. I applaud Mrs. Gunnoe for standing fast to her beliefs."
But though he's had what he describes as cordial debates with Gunnoe, Horton, a citizen of Appalachia for all of his 56 years, draws a conclusion different from hers about the coal in the surrounding mountains: "The good Father put it here for us to use, and that's what we're doing."
"I love this land, too," he adds. "It's my heart, and I want to see it taken care of in proper fashion." He lauds the reclamation projects coal companies have undertaken to restore mountains after mining is complete—projects that have ranged from planting trees and grasses to using the now-level land for economic development, building prisons, shopping malls and even a golf course.
"I don't know too many hillbillies who play golf," Gunnoe scoffs. Her fat files include sheaves of aerial photos showing vast, empty moonscapes where mountains once were.
Concedes Horton: "You don't disturb a mountaintop and put it back exactly as it was, and the law doesn't require you to."
The Obama administration has promised to review changes the Bush administration made to the Clean Water Act—changes that allowed coal companies to dump mine debris into streams. Valley fill permits are no longer being rubber-stamped by the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA (at this writing, 79 permits are under review, 23 of them in West Virginia). Meanwhile, Maria Gunnoe patrols the rugged mountains and valleys in her Jeep, conspicuous among the pickup trucks and Fords more typical along the rutted roads. She keeps an eye out for fallen trees and debris, or for black water in streams. "That sludge pond has breached!" she cries, pulling over across from in-ground water containments on coal company land. She points to puddles of brackish water in the weeds, grabs her Nikon and marches to the middle of the road, clicking away. "If I get run over, just grab the camera," she advises, only half-joking.
Her first stop today was Lindytown, which backs up to a mountaintop removal project about 10 miles from Gunnoe's home. Flooding, pollution and the stress of living so close to the blasting and heavy machinery have forced most of the roughly 40 residents to flee, and now many houses are abandoned and the church is boarded up. Coal company lawyers routinely hand out five-figure checks for "relocation assistance" to homeowners in the path of mountaintop removal; environmental groups regard it as hush money, since such settlements bar involvement in any future lawsuits. "Many residents of Lindytown were interested in selling their property to Massey, and they contacted Massey," says the company's PR representative, Jeff Gillenwater. "It is important to note that none of these properties had to be bought [to execute the mining plan]."
Gunnoe slows down at the edge of Lindytown and toots her horn outside a double-wide mobile home. Lora Webb pokes her head out the screen door and waves. She and her husband (who is not home today) are among the last holdouts here. Webb was eager to escape the detonations that shook her trailer and left wads of dust everywhere. But she says her husband, an underground miner who had grown up here, didn't want to leave. Families go back for generations in Appalachia, and the land is often held "in heirship," meaning it is divided and then later subdivided multiple times among remaining relatives—dozens of them, sometimes. A distant cousin in Arizona who has never lived in West Virginia could have a say about what happens to property that a native has lived on for most of her life. When the Webbs refused the coal company's initial overtures, Lora recalls, the firm traced enough heirs to buy their shares and force the Webbs out. After three years of blasting, the couple finally accepted an $80,000 settlement check and were given 60 days to vacate. Their only other recourse would have been a legal fight—an option beyond the means of most people living in the impoverished region.
As far as Webb is concerned, the mining behind Lindytown ravaged more than the mountain. When her in-laws started selling their shares of the property, she recounts, one of them got $15,000. Now, she says, there are family members her husband doesn't talk to anymore. (More was unable to reach Webb's husband for comment.) She adds that she and her spouse are at an impasse, as well. "He wants to stay in the hollow," she says. "I'm 41 now. I want some fresh air. Clean water. That's all I'm asking for."
Like Lora Webb, Gunnoe's husband, Richard, was a transplant to Boone County, and he saw little point in staying. Living downslope from a massive mining operation was stressful enough without his wife's activism making the family a target of resentment. Gunnoe says that her husband, tired of feeling as if he was living under siege, left her for several months last year; they have since reconciled, but Richard Pitzer separates himself from his wife's crusade. He declined to be interviewed.
"He understands now that I'm doing this for our kids and their futures," Gunnoe says. Still, she admits, "I think I drive him crazy . . . and I believe there's a chance he'll need another break from me before we die."
Gunnoe's son has enlisted in the Navy and is leaving for boot camp in Michigan the same month his son—Maria's first grandchild—is due. He and his stepfather have been busy outside lately, digging. Back at the house Gunnoe points to a rectangular hole nearby. "That's where the foundation is going," she says, beaming. Her son is building a house on this land his mother refuses to abandon. And when Gunnoe's daughter is ready to start a family of her own, the original home will go to her. Maria and her husband will relocate somewhere else in the county, as parents and grandparents here often do, letting the young ones start out right where they were raised, Gunnoe explains.
"This belongs to them," she says simply.
Tamara Jones is a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer based in the Washington, D.C., area.
Originally published in the April 2010 More.
- To read about the tensions pulling activist Maria Gunnoe's community apart: Battle for Appalachia
* To view photos of the ravaged mountains above Maria Gunnoe's home: Blasting Through Appalachia
- To learn more about the ecological effects of mountaintop-removal mining: Scientist Warns of "Permanent Damage" to Appalachia Ecosystem


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Then I went to another event in New York and I interviewed another woman who mentioned her dinner group. And then a woman in Atlanta mentioned her lunch group. When I met a woman from Anchorage at another conference who mentioned her lunch group, I knew I was on to something.
More: Unlike traditional old-boy networks, many of these stiletto networks comprise women from disparate fields. Why?
P.M.: The groups that started developing 20 or 30 years ago came together because, in those days, there was only room for one woman at the top in a given field. And when that's the case, there's a lot of backstabbing and competition [rather than networking]. So those top women had to find top women in fields different from their own. What I think is different now is that there is more room for women to breathe at work and more room for women to succeed. There are enough women in positions of power, even in the same industry, to really make a difference in each other's careers.
More: How else are the groups different from all-male ones?
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More: You say these groups have exploded in the past several years. Why so?
P.M.: In the book I describe it as the result of both evolution and revolution. The evolution is that there are enough women in positions of power or influence, earning their own wealth, to really make a difference for other women in their careers. When you couple that with the revolution that's happening in technology, this becomes an explosion. You have a lot of highly engaged women who are redefining the system.
More: Women used to be protective of their contacts, and often downright unwilling to share them. Why has that changed?
P.M.: Two reasons: I think they figured out something that men have long known, which is that it raises your stock to be the connector. If you are the person who is constantly linking people up, you benefit as well. I don't think these women did it with Machiavellian intent. But the networking has in fact made them more valuable in their jobs and at what they do. Also, women have finally realized that we're so much stronger together than we are alone. There's real power in that collective voice.
More: What has been the impact of these groups?
P.M.: I have charted billions of dollars in transactions and corporate board fees attained and promotions landed and companies founded and funded as a result as these stiletto networks. But I tell everybody that it's a love story disguised as a business story. This is a powerful nationwide movement but at its heart it's about female friendship. There is a massive money trail, but the friendships are not by nature transactional. They bleed into every area of life. These women are close friends.
More: So the impact of stiletto networks isn't confined to the business world.
P.M.: Right. These women have looped each other into each other's causes. It's not just what I can do for me or even what I can do for my friend. It's what we can do together for the world. A lot of these women are thinking about legacy. I've charted unprecedented amounts of women's wealth channeled toward charities that benefit women and girls and political candidates who represent women's interests. So this isn't just changing the face of business. We are looking at a national social overhaul.
When you suddenly have women sitting on influential nonprofit boards and controlling lots of money, that makes them more powerful in business, too. All these different arenas are coming together.
More: Why do you think so many members of stiletto networks describe the groups as magical or life changing?
P.M.: In the book I talk a lot about wealthy or accomplished or high-powered women, but they weren't wealthy or accomplished when they started these groups. They credit their stiletto networks with giving them courage and facilitating their success. That's life changing.
More: What are some tips for women looking to create their own stiletto networks?
P.M.: First, you don't have to be wealthy or famous or fabulous to create a network, and you need not begin with any connections. Being young is no deterrent; the earlier in life women start groups, I found, the tighter and stronger the groups become, because they go through life events together. Second, think about diversity. These shouldn't be groups of best buddies or employees all from the same companies. The most effective groups tend to draw women with diverse skills from a variety of industries because they are introducing women who might not otherwise meet. As a result, they keep members fresh, expand their horizons and increase their spheres of influence.
More: Many of the groups have tongue-in-cheek names, like SLUTS (Successful Ladies Under Stress), Brazen Hussies and Power Bitches. Do you think names like that undercut the significance of the networks?
P.M.: This all stems from a sense of fun. Obviously, all those terms are outdated and somewhat sexist. But by reappropriating them the women are acknowledging how they might be perceived from the outside, but turning that on its head.
More: In the groups you write about, the age range of members is from the 20s through the 70s, and the younger women often look to the older ones for mentoring. Did you find any examples of younger women helping older women?
P.M.: Yes, absolutely. A number of senior executives who started stiletto networks told me that they anticipated it being a mentoring relationship but they have been blown away by how much they got back in return, because the younger women bring to the table a deep knowledge of technology and different skills and mindsets. In one instance, a senior executive at a large media conglomerate was planning to do a rollout of a particular technology platform and a younger woman in her network, who worked at a tech startup, told her she thought she was choosing the wrong platform. She also helped her find the right alternative.
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