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I've been trying to learn OO style JS today, but am having an issue with inheritance. I have the following, which seems to work okay, and is hopefully correct:
function Person(name){
var job; //private
this.name=name; //public
return job;
return this.name;
function Postman(name){
//construct the parent
Person.call(this, name);
//set the job on the parent
//Postman extends Person
Postman.prototype=new Person();
//Postman constructor will be Person now, so switch it back to Postman
//Override the parent method
//call the parent method to get the name
return this.getJob()+" "+this.parent.getName.call(this);
var MrsGoggins = new Person('Mrs Goggins');
MrsGoggins.setJob('Shop assistant');
console.log(MrsGoggins.getJob()); //Shop assistant
console.log(MrsGoggins.getName()); //Mrs Goggins
var Pat = new Postman('Pat');
console.log(Pat.getJob()); //Postman
console.log(Pat.getName()); //Postman Pat
The issue is, if I modify the Person object so that name is required e.g.
function Person(name){
var job; //private
throw {"name" : "InvalidArgument", "message" : "name of Person must be supplied", "toString" : function(){return this.name+": "+this.message}};
this.name=name; //public
Then when the script gets to Postman.prototype=new Person(); the error will be thrown as no name is supplied.
So, I'm not sure how you are meant to extend an object if that object requires a parameter to be instantiated?
Yup, this was definitely a problem with JavaScript's inheritance model. Today, instead of using new Person() to extend the type, you would use Object.create.
Postman.prototype = Object.create(Person.prototype);
The caveat is that IE8 doesn't support Object.create, so if you still need IE8 support, then you'll have to monkey patch the global environment a bit.
if (!Object.create) {
Object.create = function (o) {
function F() {}
F.prototype = o;
return new F();
Also, take special care with your "private" variables. That only works if your code follows a specific pattern, where all your methods are defined and attached to each new instance within the constructor itself.
function Person(name){
var job; //private
this.name=name; //public
// define and attach methods to each new instance
return job;
return this.name;
Also also, JavaScript very sadly makes it extremely easy to make mistakes. A lot of the places where you referenced what you thought was a job instance variable, you were actually using a global variable. For example:
var MrsGoggins = new Person('Mrs Goggins');
MrsGoggins.setJob('Shop assistant');
var Pat = new Postman('Pat');
console.log(MrsGoggins.getJob()); // Oops. Postman?
Thanks very much for the help and advice Jeff. I'm clearly not understanding the scoping issues, will have to play a bit more and read some more.
In contrast to some other programming languages, it is perfectly legal in JavaScript to omit parameters even if the function has been defined to accept these arguments. The missing parameters are simply given the value undefined.
So you got it all wrong. throw mechanism is what's getting in the way, no matter what, since it's "natural habitat' is inside a try..catch. Also, throwing string values, is rarely a good idea, because it makes it hard to recognize the type of the exception.
Example 1
function Person(){
var name = arguments[0];
throw {"name" : "InvalidArgument", "message" : "name of Person must be supplied", "toString" : function(){return this.name+": "+this.message}};
this.name=name; //public
try {
var somebody = Person();
} catch(e) {
console.log("Why would you leave me nameless?!");
Example 2
function Person(){
var name = arguments[0];
throw {"name" : "InvalidArgument", "message" : "name of Person must be supplied", "toString" : function(){return this.name+": "+this.message}};
this.name=name; //public
return job;
return this.name;
function Postman(name){
//construct the parent
Person.call(this, name);
//set the job on the parent
try {
//Postman extends Person
Postman.prototype=new Person();
//Postman constructor will be Person now, so switch it back to Postman
//Override the parent method
//call the parent method to get the name
return this.getJob()+" "+this.parent.getName.call(this);
var MrsGoggins = new Person('Mrs Goggins');
MrsGoggins.setJob('Shop assistant');
console.log(MrsGoggins.getJob()); //Shop assistant
console.log(MrsGoggins.getName()); //Mrs Goggins
var Pat = new Postman('Pat');
console.log(Pat.getJob()); //Postman
console.log(Pat.getName()); //Postman Pat
} catch(e) {
console.log("My way or the highway");
Also, you got it wrong when you try to define constrains in the "class" constructor (object constructor really, you should drop any nostalgia from other languages and embrace the prototypal inheritance and terminology; while you're at it, renounce exception handling also, you know, throw, try..catch and such, there are better ways, better to learn how to catch Javascript ball). Instead, you simply put that constrain when creating new objects instead:
if (name) {
var name = new Person(name);
I think the community refers to this as one-stage vs two-stage construction. The OP is certainly welcome to try both approaches, but I don't think there's a consensus about which is the better approach. Personally, I can't think of a good reason why a JavaScript constructor shouldn't throw exceptions.
while you're at it, renounce exception handling also, you know, throw, try..catch and such
Same deal. Could be worth exploring, but "renounce exception handling" is by no means standard practice in JavaScript.
Well, if an exception is thrown with object creation, and proper exception handling is in place (one important missing part which the OP doesn't have), normally the only code to be executed is an object deconstructor. This is the part where I mentioned the OP should embrace Javascript. Javascript is not C, so we don't do fine grain memory allocation control with it, we code smart, we don't get in the GC way and let GC do its work.
There is a use case for error handling by throw in Javascript, but it must be treated like an... exception! It must be something... exceptional! Otherwise, normal error handling is the norm: check for an error before doing the work or check and resolve on spot for error the returning result.
The problem is not only with Javascript, but with "after the fact" error handling. Like I said, a throw must have a corresponding try..catch. But this means that an error will most likely occur only after some constructor and/or some other work has already began in this case.
The main problem is understanding when to throw errors. And remember, the mission for the corresponding try..catch with objects is two step: first to deconstruct and then to handle errors in the most specific way possible, certainly not in a general manner.
Doing it the clean way, like I did, keeping constraints outside the constructor, assures error handling on spot, before the fact, before entering or calling the constructor, before any work is done: if criteria is met then enter the constructor.
Doing it like the OP did, putting the constrains inside the constructor results in a messy way of error handling, after some work has already been done: first entering or calling the constructor, then checking if criteria is met: throwing the error and then handling the error. The first two steps are memory consuming for nothing (why would you want to load the constructor before checking if you meet the criteria) and the last step is bound to make you forget to catch one thing or another.
Erm... I'm not sure why destructors and C became part of this conversation.
This is JavaScript. There is no "deconstruct" step. Are you perhaps coming from a C++ mindset?. Certainly in languages like C++, exception handling gets more tricky because you also have to free allocated memory.
The downside is that there's no assurance of correctness. If the programmer has to do some error checking each and every time before invoking a constructor or any function for that matter, then eventually there will be a place in the code where the programmer forgot, or where the programmer didn't cover all the cases he was supposed to check for. If, on the other hand, the constructor checked its own arguments and threw an error as appropriate, then it would be pretty much impossible to construct an object and not perform these checks.
This kind of error handling gets extremely tedious for the programmer, to have to check the return value after every call to any function at every level of the call stack that might encounter an error. Plus it's harder to convey exactly what kind of error was encountered. Plus the function's valid return values might leave few choices for an "error" return value.
var result = doSomething();
if (result === null) {
// does null mean "no value" or does it mean "error"?
// if it's an error, then why exactly did it fail?
// if this is an error that can't or shouldn't be handled at this level
// then all I can do is pass the error further up the call stack
return null;
By contrast, when exceptions are used, programmers don't have to explicitly check every return value. They can try/catch a whole block of code at once. Or they can allow the exception to cascade up the call stack where certain kinds of errors are more properly handled. Plus exceptions can specify exactly what kind of error occurred with a detailed message. Plus there is zero overlap between valid return values and errors.
Worrying about the memory consumption of entering a function before throwing an error sounds like a micro-optimization to me. And although, yes, the programmer might forget to catch an exception, the worse alternative is that the programmer might forget to check for an error condition entirely.
Though I do want to add that this is not a clear-cut issue. Some very smart people have tried and continue to try going exceptionless. Google's C++ style guide reads like a back-and-forth debate. They start off saying they don't use exceptions. Then they give a nice pro/con list. Then they say, "Things would probably be different if we had to do it all over again from scratch." And that, "On their face, the benefits of using exceptions outweigh the costs, especially in new projects."
On the other hand, Google's Go programming language was designed to be exceptionless.
On the other other hand, Google's JavaScript style guide says yes, use exceptions.
It's certainly an interesting idea that's worth exploring, but for people who are still learning, like the OP, I think we should avoid saying that there is a definite right or wrong choice (because there isn't), and I think we should avoid saying that exceptionless is standard practice in JavaScript (because it isn't).
I said exceptions have their place in Javascript, just not in the constructor.
For an example where I would use exceptions, see this thread: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?1164061-Python-have-more-power-than-php&p=5577834&viewfull=1#post5577834
And why, exactly? (When you tried to explain this before, you ended up talking about destructors and C.)
I have explained it before, you just didn't try to understand.
Because that's the pattern in other languages for using exceptions with object constructors: if an exception occurs, the only thing to do is to free the memory up from whatever leftover the constructor started generating.
In Javascript this doesn't apply, you don't usually clean up memory, even if it can be done. You let the GC work.
And it's also simpler, smarter, cleaner to just check for new object criteria before calling the constructor.
Weren't you saying earlier that JavaScript is not C, and we should embrace JavaScript? It doesn't matter what other languages do.
Thank you. That's kinda my point. In C++, there may be a good reason to avoid exceptions in the constructor, but in JavaScript, it's not a problem.
What can I say. You got it backwards. You misconstrue. Have it your way.
Maybe this is doing a better job to convince you throwing errors should be used sparsely in Javascript, and support my claim about well known issues when throwing errors: http://flippinawesome.org/2013/09/30/rethinking-javascripts-trycatch/
It is such a powerful construct that in a perfect world you would want to wrap everything in a try/catch block to provide simple and effective error trapping. However, due to concerns in performance critical situations, employing it is often frowned upon in JavaScript.
No matter what context you use a try/catch block in, there will always be an inherent performance hit, quite possibly a substantial one.
I'd expect if you choose to carry on antagonistically to at least post some legitimate sources as well.
Before you get too snarky, you should at least realize that the article you linked to makes a completely different argument with completely different reasoning than what you were saying. Your arguments were "renounce exception handling," and "you got it wrong when you try to define constrains in the 'class' constructor."
In contrast, the article you linked to doesn't say anything about when you should or shouldn't throw. It's whole premise is to offer a custom try/catch construct that's supposed to deliver better performance. It still expects you to throw exceptions in the normal way.
EDIT: And to boot, their's is a micro-optimization. They say "90% loss in performance," but they don't say what that actual time is. Turns out that 90% is equal to four nanoseconds (that is, four one-thousandths of a microsecond).
Man, are you that thick? What did you expect the article to say: "Yes Jeff, myty is right!"? And yes, they're making the same argument: use error throwing sparsely. It's an art, error throwing, and so beginners should just stay off it. If "employing it is often frowned upon in JavaScript" doesn't convince you, what does?
Just please stop with the act and please link back with something substantial and legitimate! Link to at least a quasiknown piece of software that uses throws in the constructors or error throwing extensively. OK?
Here it is, one more: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3217294/javascript-try-catch-performance-vs-error-checking-code
Avoid try-catch in performance-critical functions, and loops[...]Use them wisely, use them sparingly.[...]But as I see you clearly misuse some functions for error checking. You can test for the desired objects and properties of objects right before you use them instead of complex checking.
And before you again say they're saying something different:
Here's another: http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/JavaScript_Performance_Best_Practices
Or if possible, avoid try-catch-finally completely
Here's another: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/144326/try-catch-in-javascript-isnt-it-a-good-practice
One should avoid throw errors as the way to pass error conditions around in applications.The throw statement should only be used "For this should never happen, crash and burn. Do not recover elegantly in any way"try catch however is used in situation where host objects or ECMAScript may throw errors.[...]There are also other issues like try / catch is really expensive and it's ugly and it simply doesn't work with asynchronous operations.
So since synchronous operations should not throw an error and it doesn't work with asynchronous operations, no-one uses try catch except for errors thrown by host objects or ECMAScript
and in comments:
I wouldn't go so far as to say no one uses try catch, it's just the wrong tool for the job in most cases. When there are truly exceptional circumstances, it can be worthwhile to throw an Error, but they are few and far between.
and yes, they're agreeing with me:
Now, please get a little snarky in return and post something better. I am in favor of changing my programming habits even if it's a 180, but let it be something serious.
I expected it to back up the points you were trying to make. It didn't.
See, the thing is, this claim is extremely easy for anyone to check. The article you linked to definitely said no such thing. The word "throw" is only even used just once. Here's the sentence: "The event is capable of detecting runtime errors including any errors that you explicitly throw yourself." It says absolutely nothing about when you should or shouldn't throw.
Such as, perhaps, Google style guides? Look above. I already did that. Or if you like StackOverflow, then look above, I linked to a SO answer as well.
Couple things here. 1) The answer is talking about the performance of try/catch. Not about throwing in a constructor, or even about throwing in general. And 2) Look at the SO answer I linked to above. Which, by the way, is exactly on topic. It's about whether it's OK to throw from a constructor. The top voted answer says, "I've never understood the reasoning behind this approach. I'm firmly in the group that supports one-stage construction."
And just to reiterate, I never said that it's absolutely right to throw from the constructor. You told the OP that he was absolutely wrong, and my rebut was, "I don't think there's a consensus about which is the better approach." That seems to me to be a calm and reasonable and accurate rebut. So... chill.
This says the same thing as all your other links: "Don't use try-catch-finally inside performance-critical functions." And if your argument was to avoid exceptions in performance critical places, then I would certainly agree with you. But that wasn't your argument, nor is it what I've been rebutting all this time. Your argument was about whether it's OK to throw from a constructor, and whether we should "renounce exception handling" in general, regardless if it's performance critical or not. None of your links have backed up that argument.
Finally, for the first time, a link that supports (part) of your argument. So what we have now is a SO answer that says one thing, and a SE answer that says another. Pretty sure this backs up my statement that there's no consensus. If we can agree on at least that much, then we can start a new thread and discuss the pros and cons of exception handling, and hopefully we'll both come out of it knowing something that we didn't before.


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Interview with Jackson Hsu, Product Management Director at GIGABYTEby Ian Cutress on 8/9/2013 9:00 AM EST
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Impulses - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkNice interview, tho I had to Google who HiCookie was! Reply
zaddie63 - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkI would like to know whether they are devopnig a new windows 8
I would like to know whether they are releasing a Atom based tablet this year or in 1H2014. I currently using an S1080 to type this request actually, but would like to upgrade. Reply
MrSpadge - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkWrong article? MS is the company responsible for any devopning-ing Win 8 receives! Reply
endgenerate - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkHow are people's experience with Linux on GIGABYTE boards? Even though OEMs use mostly the same components, the implementation can cause compatibility issues. BIOS problems seem to occur more when it comes to Linux than Windows?
Are they like Asus where support will tell you that they don't support and test for Linux compatibility then tell you to use Windows? Reply
SleepyFE - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkHi
Long ago when i was putting together my firt PC i wanted to know that too. I did some googleing and found an article stating that Gigabyte realised linux is driving inovation so their boards would support it. My board works fine. I tried Ubuntu and now openSUSE. Had no problems so far. Wireless drivers might give you a hard time, but if you're connected via UTP cable like me you won't have problems. Reply
PeterT16 - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkIf I intend to install Linux, one thing I do is stay away from Asus boards. They make it pretty clear that they don't support Linux. You may be lucky and things will work or at least it seems like they are but Asus specifically does not test any Linux distro during their tests before release and tech support will provide zero help.
As for which other board maker provides the best Linux support including tech support, I can't really say. GIGABYTE does seem okay though. Reply
lilotech - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkI agree, most people who say the don't have problems often times don't notice it, pretend it doesn't exist or never encounter it because they just surf the interwebs and play on social networking sites.
I've had problems with Asus motherboards when using VT-d while other motherboards worked very well after exhuastive testing. I've also had issues with network teaming, jumbo packets and other network problems. I got the use Windows reply from Asus too.
If you dont't do much with your PC then most motherboards will work adequately but if you're going to do more complex things and/or need the max performance and compatibilty then stay away from Asus. Reply
adas - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkApparently, GIGABYTE gives the same response as Asus: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&am... Reply
Zanegray - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkAlthough I have never found an issue on some of my recent Asus boards (or if I have had an issue, I tend to blame my inadequate knowledge of Linux rather than find a problem with a MB), I have had major issues with one of their wireless cards.
On a side note, I would be sold as a customer if they started migrating some of their tools over to Linux. How cool would it be to be able to interact with all the Asus AI tools from the command line! Or be even be able to update your BIOS from Linux..
I just bought a Gigabyte board a week ago and although I havent fired it up yet, Im hopeful I won't encounter any issues with Linux... Crossing my fingers! Reply
goinginstyle - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkNever had an issue with Linux on numerous ASUS motherboards. Have no idea how a couple of you are setting up their boards but no problems here. Reply
Peroxyde - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkI install Linux on a dozen of machines (not for gaming). From 10 years old (HP, IBM Pentium 4) to 3 years old (Core 2, Gigabyte, Asus). Graphics are ATI, NVidia. Never had any problem. The newer the hardware the better. I would say the motherboard brand would be the least of your concern. Reply
Mondozai - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkGreat interview. Reply
janprusak - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkGigabyte, we totally need X79 boards with more than one internal USB 3.0 port. It is quiet usual to have a case with 4x USB 3.0 connectors an a 3.0 card reader. Thanks. Reply
Kevin G - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkI love that Gigabyte will try new things. I liked the X79-UP5 that actually has a Xeon chipset. The catch is that they need to follow up with support after the product launch. There are a few firmware bugs there. Nothing deal breaking but just still outstanding after several months.
Also I would like to see more Gigabyte server boards at e-tail. Reply
andrewaggb - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkI thought that was a decent interview. So many interviews are pure marketing bs without a single personal answer. He was at least answering your specific questions. I haven't personally bought a gigabyte product in a long time though. Reply
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Alice the Cook's Renaissance Kitchen - 2nd edition
de Anjila K. Olsen
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I am a food historian who writes food articles for Renaissance Magazine as well as performs cooking demonstrations at various festivals and historical re-enactment shows.
I love to share my passion for cooking with others and I encourage others to share their cooking stories as well. This cookbook is a reflection of all of my favorite recipes. I test recipes in my kitchen with cast iron pots and wooden utensils and utilize a fire pit to practice and perfect my recipes in a traditional manner. I hope you enjoy them.
I specialize in British, Irish, Scottish and Welsh cuisines, but I have been known to explore French, Spanish, Italian, Middle Eastern, and Indian cuisines as well. I write articles for Renaissance Magazine and gives lectures on the use of herbs from the Middles Ages to modern times and how herbs were used to help the ailing.
This is my second book. Improvements have been made from the first book and I think you will like what you see. Improvements include additional recipes and some other additional bits of information. I've also attempted to bring the price down so that it is more affordable.
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Mindy McCreadys' downward spiral has continues with last week's story about her disappearing with her son Zander. McCready was ordered to return the boy to Florida or face possible charges. McCready and Zander were found hiding in a closet in Arkansas where Zander was taken by authorities and McCready was taken into custody.


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Defending champion Stephane Peterhansel overcame a 34-second overnight deficit to storm into the lead of the Dakar Rally on Sunday as former winners Carlos Sainz and Nasser al-Attiyah fell off the pace.
Frenchman Peterhansel, a 10-time champion on the world's toughest auto endurance race, took his Mini to victory on the second stage, a 242km timed run in and around Pisco, in 2hr 35min 38sec.
South Africa's Giniel De Villiers, another experienced Dakar campaigner in his Toyota, was second on the day, 2min 35sec behind while French driver Ronan Chabot, in an SMG, was third, 3min 52sec off Peterhansel's pace.
"We had a good stage, mainly thanks to navigation. We're fast, and we've got the potential to go even faster, but it was mostly (co-driver) Jean-Paul Cottret's navigation which saved the day, nothing else," said Peterhansel.
Overnight leader Sainz, the 2010 champion, endured a nightmare session, getting lost at the 75km mark, and finished outside of the top 10.
Buggy teammate al-Attiyah, the 2011 winner, was sixth on the stage, 11min 37sec behind and is also sixth overall, more than 10 minutes behind Peterhansel.
Spain's Joan Barreda Bort, riding a Husqvarna, won the motorcycling stage and also took over the overall lead.
Barreda Bort won in a time of 2hr 42min 31sec with compatriot Juan Pedrero Garcia, on a KTM, in second place, 3min 12sec behind.
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In early August, the Australian dollar was pushing towards US106¢ despite softening commodity prices. There were predictable cries from rent-seekers calling on the Reserve Bank to devalue the freely-floating exchange rate to subsidise trade-sensitive industries, to the detriment of importers' purchasing power and consumers (via higher inflation).
More than two decades of uninterrupted economic growth has engendered this deepening sense of entitlement. Yet it is not obvious the experts, let alone the public, understand the full costs of currency intervention. Some estimates imply the quantifiable costs could be more than $11 billion a year. The RBA's governor,
Since the 1980s, the RBA has profitably leant into overshooting currency markets on several occasions. In most instances, the RBA was buying Aussie dollars to staunch price falls, and capitalising on an implicitly positive "carry trade" as it retired higher-yielding domestic securities by selling lower-yielding foreign assets. The problem is today the RBA would arguably face an extremely negative carry trade.
The benchmark set by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) offers one guide as to what this might entail. The SNB started selling Swiss francs in 2009 to stop the currency's appreciation against the euro. When this failed to halt its ascent, the SNB announced in 2011 an unconditional commitment to selling francs above a certain price. To date, this has necessitated the SNB buying foreign reserves worth roughly 50 per cent of Swiss gross domestic product.
Let's imagine the RBA sells a smaller sum of Aussie dollars worth, say, one third of GDP, or circa $500 billion. Since the RBA has less than $50 billion in Australian dollar securities, it would need to "create" these new reserves. It would then buy $500 billion of foreign currency in return for selling Australian dollars. Mechanically, the RBA would receive foreign currency in an overseas bank account while its counterparty would be paid Aussie dollars placed into a local account.
A critical nuance that is often overlooked is that the RBA's balance sheet has to balance. So any reserve "assets" manufactured by the RBA must be offset by matching "liabilities".
These liabilities usually take two forms. The first is cash held by authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) with the RBA in exchange settlement accounts (ESAs). ESAs are the main medium through which ADIs settle day-to-day payments with one another via the infrastructure supplied by our "risk-free" central bank. When money goes into an ESA, the RBA pays the depositor an interest rate one quarter of a percentage point below its target cash rate (i.e. 3.25 per cent). The cash rate, in turn, is set according to the RBA's inflation outlook.
A second RBA liability is physical currency. It's possible a fraction of the new reserves the RBA prints might leak out as hard notes. While it does not pay interest on the notes it issues, debasing the value of money gives us inflation, which is costly.
Let's assume the RBA's $500 billion in new reserves boosts ESAs by a similar sum. At the same time, suppose the RBA, like the SNB, rationally invests its $500 billion of new foreign currency in highly rated government bonds. The RBA would be lucky to get a 1 per cent interest rate on these assets.
There is, therefore, a ball-park 2.25 per cent annual interest gap between what the RBA is earning on its foreign investments and what it is paying out on its reserve liabilities. On a $500 billion intervention, this would introduce a carrying cost of about $11.25 billion a year.
The SNB's economic calculus is very different. Because the SNB was fighting off deflation, it cut rates on Swiss deposits to zero before commencing large-scale purchases of foreign assets. This meant the Swiss had no negative carry as they could print new reserves at no cost. In fact, they may have positive carry if they are holding bonds paying a yield (no sure thing these days).
Potentially mitigating the RBA's interest costs would be mark-to-market gains on its foreign asset portfolio should the Australian dollar depreciate. But to properly crystallise these profits, the RBA would have to sell foreign reserves and buy Aussie dollars, which would risk extinguishing them.
Devaluation of the Australian dollar would also produce higher inflation in tradeable goods and services (the opposite of the recent tradeables deflation that has kept overall inflation low), which undermines all taxpayers' real consumption wages.
The bottom line is there are large known costs, and uncertain benefits, associated with currency intervention that policymakers should carefully weigh.
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Manual therapy includes:
Chiropractors, osteopaths, massage therapists, and
physical therapists sometimes use manual
Manual therapy is sometimes used for
neck pain. A review of multiple studies shows that
exercise and mobilization, either separate or used together, are likely to be
helpful in the treatment of nonspecific neck pain. (Pain is "nonspecific" when its cause isn't clear.) A combination of exercise and manual therapy is likely to work the best.1 And manual therapy may be better than medicine for relieving nonspecific neck pain.2
Manipulation is not recommended if you have nerve-related problems that are very severe or getting worse.
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Do your research. Not all manual therapy is the same. And
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Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.Bronfort G, et al. (2012). Spinal manipulation, medication, or home exercise with advice for
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – On the road for the first time this spring, the University of Pennsylvania women's tennis team led 1-0 over Marshall after doubles play, before falling to The Herd, 4-3, Saturday afternoon at Penn State.
Penn (2-3) playing the first of its two matches this weekend, saw its top two doubles combinations win to start the match. The duo of Sol Eskenazi and Kana Daniel won 8-5, while Sonya Latycheva and Jaime Yapp-Shing won in a tiebreaker, 8-7 (1).
In singles play, Eskenazi and Daniel continued their streak of impressive play at the top of the Quakers' lineup. Eskenazi dispatched of Marshall's Dana Oppinger 6-0, 6-2, while Daniel defeated Derya Turhan 6-2, 6-4.
Marshall (5-2) was able to take the remaining four singles matches to pull out the victory over the Quakers.
Playing in the fourth position, Penn seniorYapp-Shing retired after one game in her second set of singles play.
The Quakers will play host Penn State Sunday afternoon at 12 p.m. The 57th-ranked Nittany Lions were defeated on Friday by Marshall, 4-3.
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Eskenazi (P) def. Oppinger (M); 6-0, 6-2.
Daniel (P) def. Turhan (M); 6-2, 6-4.
Broomfield (M) def. Latycheva (P); 6-4, 6-2.
Pomyatinskaya (M) def. Yapp-Shing (P); 6-0, 1-0.
Timko (M) def. Do (P); 6-3, 6-3.
Morales (M) def. Ion (P); 6-2, 6-0.
Eskenazi/Daniel (P) def. Oppinger/Turhan (M); 8-5.
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Orange County Animal Care has put out a call for help for three dogs in its care.
The shelter, in Orange, recently has taken in three dogs with broken legs.
The dogs – Blizzard, Dickens and Comet – all have the same injury to their legs, shelter spokeswoman Tammy Osborn said.
Comet, who arrived at the shelter first, is a 9-month-old male, probably a terrier mix. His leg has been fixed but the shelter still owes $850 on the bill. Shelter personnel hope to raise $1,000 each to pay for surgery for 2-year-old Pomeranian mix Dickens and 8-month-old poodle-schnauzer mix Schnoodle to have the same surgery.
All three of the little dogs would make great companions, Osborn said. "Help us help these three broken little dogs," she added.
Donations of any amount can be made to Noble Friends Foundation via the group's website.
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If you like cute little dogs and you'd like to help save some unwanted pooches, Bella Pomeranian has a deal for you.
The dog has her own Facebook page, , and she also has her own 2013 calendar. For $15 you get a year of glossy photos of Bella (who just might give Boo, that famous Facebook Pom, a run for his cuteness money) with all of the proceeds going to Southern California Pomeranian Rescue. More info about the group is available online.
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Californians who placed orders for the pet lover's license plate can rest assured: They're one step closer to sporting the Pierce Brosnan-designed plates on their cars.
As of Wednesday, the 7,500 preorders needed to ensure production of the plates had been received. This means that sometime in 2013, plates should begin arriving at DMV offices, where recipients will exchange their old license plates for the new ones.
Preorders will be filled before orders to the general public, according to the official website for the plate, www.petloversplate.com.
Preorders are still being accepted for a limited time, according to the site. Standard plates are $50; personalized plates are $98. Portions of the fees will be distributed to cities and counties to use in free spay and neuter clinics. The goal is to lower the number of unwanted animals born in the state and subsequently killed in shelters.


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Welcome to the home for the Wheel of Time on Tor.com! This page is intended to be your one-stop information extravaganza for everything Wheel of Time-related, from Leigh's fantastic reread, to the latest news and in-depth coverage of Team Jordan and the end of the series.
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Towers of Midnight Excerpts, Reviews, and Discussion
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Towers of Midnight: News, Excerpts, and Discussion
The thirteenth volume of The Wheel of Time series was released on November 2, 2010. Relive the news running up to the release of Towers of Midnight and discuss your opinions on what occurred in the story and what the last volume may entail.
- Watch the Towers of Midnight trailer: Tor Books is proud to present the book trailer for Towers of Midnight.
- The Way of Kings Holds a Secret From The Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt begins! Brandon Sanderson scatters coded bumper stickers during his tour for The Way of Kings, each code unlocking a piece of the forthcoming book.
- The Wheel of Time: Towers of Midnight Spoiler-Free Review: Leigh Butler's spoiler-free advance review of the hotly anticipated upcoming release of Book 13, Towers of Midnight.
- The Wheel of Time: Towers of Midnight Spoiler Review: Leigh Butler's review of the 13th and penultimate book of the Wheel of Time series, Towers of Midnight. Spoiler alert!
- Answers from Today's Towers of Midnight Tweet-Up with Brandon Sanderson: Twitter played host to a tweet-up between Wheel of Time fans and current series writer Brandon Sanderson. For those who missed it, were stuck in the office, or busy with other Important Works, we've assembled an edited down transcript of the questions and answers
- The Wheel of Time: Towers of Midnight NYC Signing Report: Follow the NYC Towers of Midnight book signing with Leigh Butler.
- Your Questions for Brandon SandersonAnswered!: Tor.com readers ask Wheel of Time and Way of Kings author Brandon Sanderson a host of questions, including Wheel of Time-related queries. [Spoilers for Towers of Midnight within.]
- Towers of Midnight, Chapter 1: "Apples First": Tor.com is thrilled to present Chapter 1 of the next Wheel of Time Book, coming from Tor Books on November 2, 2010.
- Audioslice: Listen to Towers of Midnight, Chapter 2: "Questions of Leadership": In conjunction with Macmillan Audio, Tor.com is happy to bring you an exclusive listen from the audiobook version of Chapter Two of Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's Towers of Midnight, "Questions of Leadership."
Discussion Threads:
- Towers of Midnight Prediction Open Thread: What do you think will happen in the second to last volume? Join the conversation here.
- Spoiler Thread for "Distinctions," the Prologue to Towers of Midnight: Tor.com is pleased to offer a place to chat for those of you who have gotten a chance to read "Distinctions," the prologue to the upcoming Towers of Midnight.
- Spoiler Thread for "Apples First," the First Chapter of Towers of Midnight: The discussion is open on this tread for "Apples First," the first chapter of Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson!
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It's finally here: the much-anticipated twelfth volume of Robert Jordan's acclaimed series, The Wheel of Time. Tor.com is beyond thrilled, and we have a heap of exclusive content, news, and reviews for your reading pleasure.
- Tor announces The Gathering Storm, Book Twelve of Robert Jordan's legendary Wheel of Time fantasy series: You heard it here first.
- Leigh Butler's Advance Review: For the spoiler-phobic, Leigh Butler gives her completely spoiler-free review of the new book.
- Leigh Butler's Review & Open Spoiler Thread: Giant, massive, book-destroying spoilers within! This is the place to sound off in the comments about the latest installment of the Wheel of Time.
- The Gathering Storm Audiobook: Watch an interview with Kate Reading and Michael Kramer, the dynamic duo behind all of the Wheel of Time audiobooks.
- The Gathering Storm Release Party at Brigham Young University: Spencer Powell talks about the much-anticipated event, and dinner with Team Jordan.
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- Read the Prologue, "What the Storm Means": Tor.com announces that the prologue for The Gathering Storm is finally on sale.
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11/02/09: Wheel of Time eBook Publishing Schedule, by Pablo Defendini
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The Wheel of Time Reread on Tor.com with Leigh Butler
Read Leigh Butler's introduction to the ambitious series and visit the index to begin reading along.
|11/20/09: The Duel, part 2: How I will defeat Brandon Sanderson – With the, er, deck stacked against him, Jason Denzel refines his plan of attack.
|11/13/09: East is east and west is west, except in the Wheel of Time – Eastern and Western philosophy and religion in The Wheel of Time, by Jason Henninger.
|11/04/09: The Duel, part 1: Help Me Defeat Brandon Sanderson – Jason Denzel challenges author Brandon Sanderson to a game of Magic: The Gathering.
|07/23/09: Beyond the Aryth Ocean: A review of selected Wheel of Time maps – Dragonmount's Jason Denzel talks about the Wheel of Time's various map editions.
|05/22/2009: The Wheel of Time Comic: Interview With The Creative Types – Leigh Butler's interview with Chuck Dixon and Chase Conley.
|04/22/2009: Recap of JordanCon (AKA: Adventures at Rand Al'Con) – Richard Fife reports on the blessed mania of JordanCon.
|04/22/2009: JordanCon 2009: The Report of DOOM – Leigh Butler reveals all most.
|04/15/09: The Wheel of Time #0: Dragonmount, coloured and lettered – Tor.com's sneak peek at the comic.
|04/02/2009: The Wheel of Time Side-Project No. 1: Murphy Brown, eat your heart out – Leigh Butler solicits questions to ask Chuck Dixon and Chase Conley, the creative team behind the Wheel of Time comic.
|4/28/2010: Recap of JordanCon II: The SeanCon Invasion – Richard Fife, reporting
|4/30/2010: JordanCon: Interview with Harriet McDougal – Harriet and Richard talk about editing one's husband, Conan and Tolkien, and who killed Asmodean.
|05/03/2010: JordanCon: Interview with Maria Simons – Maria and Richard talk about how she came to be Jordan's assistant, working with Brandon, and a bumper sticker that reveals who killed Asmodean.
|05/05/2010: JordanCon: Interview with Wilson Grooms – Jordan's cousin/brother and "fourth of three" talks to Richard about the Wheel of Time as a phenomenon and the first realizations of Jordan's illness.
|05/12/2010: JordanCon: Interview with Alan Romanczuk – Richard talks to the "time lord" of the Wheel of Time and unearths an interesting take on Perrin's journey.
|05/17/2010: – JordanCon: Interview with Red Eagle Entertainment – Larry Mondragon discusses the challenges in bringing The Eye of the World to the big screen.
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|06/07/2010 – JordanCon: Interview with Brandon Sanderson – Richard gets into detail about Brandon's writing process, and more.
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POINTE DU BOIS -- Manitoba Hydro dropped the bombshell on Pointe du Bois just a few days into the new year.
Residents had seen the signs. Manitoba Hydro inherited this company town in 2002 as part of its purchase of Pointe du Bois and Slave Falls hydroelectric dams on the Winnipeg River. But Manitoba Hydro never wanted the town of Pointe du Bois, just the power stations. It put little into the upkeep of the town during the past decade.
Even so, when Manitoba Hydro made its recent announcement that it is closing the town, it was a bitter pill for people to swallow. Manitoba Hydro announced everyone must be out by Jan. 1, 2015. Some people have lived here over 40 years.
Then the town, carved out of Canadian Shield rock a century ago, will be razed and returned to nature. The Crown corporation may put a plaque somewhere, perhaps embedded in the Precambrian rock. Otherwise, this town will be erased from the map and landscape.
Rows of two-storey, mostly pre-Second World War homes greet visitors to Pointe du Bois. Most of the homes are vacant now and the streets are largely empty during the day. It's as if one of those fictitious bombs went off that kill people but leave the buildings and infrastructure standing.
The process of winding down the town started years ago, according to the 30 or so remaining residents. Manitoba Hydro wouldn't let anyone move into the houses when they became vacant. It was closing the town by attrition.
"They never repaired the homes," said Bill Sullivan, a Hydro employee for 22 years who rents a two-bedroom suite in the town's apartment block. "They let them get further and further into disrepair, and mold moved in, and they became contaminated."
Only about 10 Pointe du Bois building are now occupied, out of 44 still standing. There used to be many more but they have been demolished in stages -- six were torn down last year. There's also the apartment block with four two-bedroom units. Three units are occupied. When the fourth came open, Hydro refused to lease it.
There's no private ownership here. Everyone rents. The apartment suites go for under $300 a month, the homes for about $400. "To work here, you had to live in the town," explained Sullivan.
Pointe du Bois means "wooded point." Its hydroelectric power station was built in 1911 and is the oldest in Manitoba. The Pointe power station is small by today's standards, producing just 78 megawatts continuously, versus 1,340 megawatts at a Nelson River station like Limestone. Still, Manitoba Hydro sees good value in the Pointe station.
With no road access back in 1911, employees needed a place to live. Until the 1950s, the only connection to the outside world was by rail. So a company town was built.
For some employees, it was ideal. You got off work and went fishing or hunting. The town had from 300 to 400 residents at its peak. Cut off from the rest of the world, people pulled together. Pointe du Bois had hockey teams and an indoor curling rink. It had a medical clinic, a church, a school and community hall. Residents pooled their resources to haul in sand to make a little beach on the Winnipeg River, and to build an outdoor pool in 1967. (As part of Manitoba Hydro's purchase of the dams, it had to rebuild the aging pool, which it did a half dozen years ago.) It has a small grocery store.
Amazingly for a town in the Canadian Shield, all the homes in Pointe du Bois have basements. Did they blast through granite? No. Apparently, boxcars of fill were brought in, local people say. The Canadian Shield was levelled off into a little patch of suburbia.
The cheap rent softened the deprivations of living in a remote community. As well, for the first half century, Winnipeg Hydro provided residents with free electricity. But the only TV reception for many years was a snowy CBC channel. Then everyone got those huge 10-foot-diameter satellite dishes in their yards. The first road built in the 1950s was awful and tore up many tires and oil pans. The road was finally paved in 1973. After that, the Canadian Union of Public Employees won a decision whereby hydro employees at Pointe du Bois no longer had to live there, and many families started to gravitate to Lac du Bonnet.
"Personally, I think (the town's closure) is terrible," said Mickie Chapman, 27, who, along with her 20-month-old son, Cohen, is living with her parents in Pointe du Bois. Chapman was born and raised here and feels like her history is being erased.
"It's just ridiculous having to let the town go like this. It's only 30 people left here. Why can't they leave us alone?"
While residents have to be out by 2015, Hydro is offering an incentive to speed the process. If people leave this year, they can receive a payout of $12,000 so long as it's spent on a new residence or a vehicle for the extra commute. After tax, the incentive is about $8,500
Chapman's parents have lived here 30 years but have already purchased a home in Lac du Bonnet and will move out in June. "People have lived here their whole lives. Why wouldn't Manitoba Hydro give us an option (to stay)?" she asked.
Some residents were planning to retire here, and some already had. Some people have never held a mortgage, but now they will suddenly be required to get one and will have to budget for that. People living here before the 2002 purchase of Winnipeg Hydro were supposed to be able to live here as long as they wanted. "It was a slap in the face for all of us," said one resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Peter Duffield is more resigned to the closing. He has lived here for about 40 years. He continued to live in Pointe du Bois after his retirement.
"We're sad at the idea the place is going to be gone. Do you know old Pinawa, the old Pinawa dam, the first generating station in Manitoba? This place will look like that in a few years. Just the odd tree and a few cairns with markers on them," said Duffield
"I feel badly for my kids. This is where they grew up. It's one thing to move but to have the place where you grew up destroyed is kind of upsetting for them."
So why demolish Pointe du Bois? Why not give people the option of staying and owning the homes? Why not give others a chance to purchase vacated homes? It's in a lovely location, on a rise overlooking the Winnipeg River. There's a new outdoor pool. There are paved streets and street lights. There's a small store with liquor and beer sales and that serves hot lunches.
Yes, company towns get closed. But isn't there some kind of statute of limitations? Isn't there some sort of amnesty for a town that has existed for more than a century and become part of the lore, fabric and lexicon of Manitoba?
Manitoba Hydro spokesman Glenn Schneider said the decision came down to whether to spend its money on its core business or on being a landlord.
"Manitoba Hydro has an obligation to act in fiscally responsible manner," said Schneider. "You make decisions about the cost of doing these things and whether it's worth the input costs. There was a time we needed houses there when there was no road access and that changed when the road came."
Schneider maintained the housing stock is too deteriorated to bother saving. Many of the homes are from the 1920s and 1930s, he said. (There are also homes from the 1940s, residents say.) In addition to mold, a number have asbestos insulation in their ceilings. To fix the homes would be a significant cost, Schneider said. Hydro would also have to invest $1.6 million to redo the sewer system and treatment plant.
Schneider claimed the neglect of housing stock began with previous owner, Winnipeg Hydro. "We got them in this condition," he said.
There's some truth that the City of Winnipeg shares the blame. Winnipeg Hydro was a cash cow for the city and it never put enough money back into the town or the power plant.
But Manitoba Hydro's tenure certainly accelerated the deterioration of housing stock by keeping them vacant, residents say. Half of the 44 homes were occupied when Hydro took over in 2002. When people moved out, Hydro refused to let anyone move in. "People moved out of one house two years ago and it's already in disrepair," said Chapman.
The homes still occupied are structurally sound, people say. "Our house, I would say, is in very good shape. It's still a very nice house," Duffield maintained.
Perhaps the main reason for the demolition is that Hydro wants to repurpose the property. Schneider said demolishing the townsite will allow Hydro to erect a work camp on the site in the future when the day comes that the Pointe du Bois powerhouse has to be rebuilt. Others suspect the utility may want to erect another hydro tower where the village is now.
Hydro does not require government approval for the demolition, the province says. Although the site is within Whiteshell Provincial Park, the land is privately owned by Hydro. Since Hydro also owns the buildings, what it chooses to do with them is its business, a provincial spokesperson said.
"As with any other demolition, there are legislated mechanisms in place to deal with any environmental issues that arise," the official said. "We are confident that Manitoba Hydro will follow any regulations regarding proper clean up of the site and will act in a corporately responsible manner."
It's as if Manitoba Hydro doesn't answer to anyone, says Ingrid Bauer, who grew up in the area and now lives down the road in a cottage subdivision. She has started a petition to at least save the store and outdoor pool from demolition.
Yes, company towns close from time to time, argues Bauer. But it's extraordinary for a company to also throw everyone out. Many mines that gave birth to towns, like Lynn Lake and Sherridon, have closed but there are still warm bodies in those communities. People weren't evicted.
At a minimum, Hydro should have kept up maintenance of the homes, says Bauer. Then the hundreds of workers from Kiewit Corporation now here to build a new $400 million spillway for the Pointe du Bois dam would have some accommodations.
As it is, the Kiewit workers are spread out all over the region, renting any space available between here and Lac du Bonnet for $1,500 to $2,500 per month. The rents are so exorbitant that some people have rented out their primary residences and live elsewhere, to profit from the difference. Normal rent rates in the area range from $800 to $1,000.
"All these empty houses could have been used by these guys," said Bauer. "Hydro is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for these guys to rent, when it could have fixed up these places."
Then it could have sold the houses once the construction crew departed, said Bauer. People are willing to pay good money to buy cottages. Why not make these places available? Hydro sold off houses it once owned in Seven Sisters and Great Falls. And Hydro could have accommodated Pointe residents who want to stay in their homes.
"Manitoba Hydro says it's not in the business of housing. OK, fine. Why not let people live here instead of forcing them to leave? Why not make some kind of agreement so they can stay?"


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WHO: GSP International Airport District
WHAT: Daily Parking Lot Temporary Closure
WHERE: GSP International Airport
WHEN: Tuesday, January 14, 2013
The Daily Parking lot will close temporarily to new vehicles from midnight tonight until February 28th. This temporary closure will allow for the construction of a new entrance to the parking lot along with new sidewalks and crosswalks. Visitors should park in any of the other parking areas at the posted rate. Six dollar a day parking is available on the 5th level only of either of parking garages.


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Don Glanden was born in 1951 in Wilmington, Del. He began traditional classical piano lessons at the age of 10 with Sarah Miller; within a year he was accompanying the elementary school chorus. He was immediately drawn to jazz after hearing Charles Freeman, the family piano tuner, play blues and standards at the conclusion of his regular tunings. A friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown, Mr. Freeman proved to be an inspiring and encouraging influence.
Don's teen years were spent at Brandywine High School, where he took three years of classical theory and played in the school's award-winning jazz band, The Blazers. During this time, he also studied jazz composition with film composer Tom McIntosh and jazz piano with Bernard Peiffer, both at the Wilmington Music School. Peiffer became a mentor and profound influence on Don's musical development in the following years. After attending West Chester University, where he was a piano major and student director of the lab band The Criterions, he left college for a year to study piano and composition exclusively with Mr. Peiffer.
In 1973, Glanden transferred to North Texas State University, where he majored in composition and formed his own jazz quintet that included bassist Dennis Irwin. Other classmates included Marc Johnson, John Riley, Steve Houghton and Lyle Mays. At NTSU he met Jo Lynn (Jody) Thomas; they married in 1974. He graduated in 1975 earning a Bachelor of Music degree in composition.
In 1980, Don received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Fellowship to study privately with Sir Roland Hanna. Sessions with Hanna continued over a two-year period and included piano studies, composition and extensive analysis. Hanna included some of Don's music in his own performances during this time.
Don received a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies in 1997 from Rutgers, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. There he studied jazz piano with Kenny Barron and classical composition with Ronald Surak. Additional classical piano studies have been with Alexander Fiorillo, and training in the Taubman approach with Robert Durso and Edna Golandsky.
Don has performed extensively in various settings with Donald Byrd, Ernie Watts, Terell Stafford, Henry Mancini, Larry McKenna, Patti Austin, Randy Brecker, Robin Eubanks, Chuck Israels, Wilby Fletcher, Charles Fambrough, Tom Darnall, Al Stauffer, Eddie Gomez, John Swana, Ralph Bowen, Gerald Veasley, Jimmy Bruno, John Goldsby, John Riley, Marcus Belgrave, Dennis Irwin, Marc Johnson and Ken Filiano. He has recorded two CDs as a leader, Sudden Life (Dream Box Media) and Only Believe (Cadence Jazz Records), and he has made various appearances on television and radio, at jazz festivals, clubs, casinos, and various concert venues. He was house pianist at the Hotel DuPont for 12 years and is currently music coordinator for Sullivan's Steakhouse in Wilmington, where he performs and books the nightly jazz acts. His current working trio includes drummer Fred Biondi and bassist Micah Jones.
Don has served on the faculty at the Wilmington Music School, Combs College of Music and Temple University. In 1996, he joined the faculty at the University of the Arts and was promoted to full professor in 2004. He is currently Division Head of Graduate Jazz Studies, Piano Department Coordinator and Theory Department Co-Chair. He has presented numerous clinics and workshops at high schools and colleges, including Rowan University, Lincoln University and the New England Conservatory.
His activities in the area of music scholarship include paper presentations to the American Studies Association and the International Association for Jazz Education, along with the publication of numerous articles in Downbeat, Jazz Improv and All About Jazz. He has researched and documented the life of French pianist Bernard Peiffer and in 2006, he co-produced Formidable, a disc of Peiffer's solo piano playing. A leading researcher of the life and career of jazz legend Clifford Brown, Don is the producer of "Brownie Speaks: A Video Documentary," and served as director of the Clifford Brown Symposium held in 2008 at the University of the Arts.
Don and his wife Jody live in Wilmington, Del. They have two sons, Chris and Brad, and two grandchildren, Nicky and Ana Julia.
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"…I found him to be an extremely gifted pianist and composer. He is creative, adventurous, and at the same time has a firm understanding of the roots of jazz." KENNY BARRON
"… the pianist is a quality musician with an extraordinary conception and an impressive touch. His lush ballads and witty creations are of the highest emotional order, and his classical training shines through like a summoning beacon." TOM BOWERS, Jazz Now Magazine
"…a Philadelphia based pianist, dripping with talent…it's clear that he has his own voice and approach to form and space." JASON BIVINS, Cadence
" In eight different groupings Don Glanden turns warm, funky, intellectual, romantic, classical, different kinds of classical … Think of a diamond: you get many facets, and the bright spots are bright indeed … and he swings like crazy." JOHN BARRETT,JR., Jazz Improv Magazine
"… Glanden's use of dissonance overwhelms and captivates."
BRETT MATSON, Victory Music Review
"… a stunning solo piano version of "Autumn In New York," the chords of which are almost entirely reharmonized. On other tunes, Glanden combines imaginative chordings with virtuoso melody-line runs."
ROBERT TATE, Jazz Now Magazine
"…His compositions are singular as well, being quite extraordinary in their sensitivity… I could never express how much he's expanded my musical horizons." BRUCE KLAUBER, D.MUS, noted author and jazz historian
"I have had the opportunity to work with Don Glanden in a variety of settings and I feel he is a disciplined and versatile musician and educator.
… his sense of improvisation allowed me to be spontaneous with the students… he demonstrated great skill as a reader and musical support to my more difficult charts." ERNIE WATTS
"My right (and left) hand man …Don Glanden." DONALD BYRD at The Kennedy Center
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Humble Bundle: Origin Edition [Updated]by Jarred Walton on 8/16/2013 12:07 AM EST
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haldolium - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkWell that is kind of a uncritical article, isn't it? During the first ~24h the Origin servers were crushed and you could not redeem your codes (who would have thought of THAT, right?). On top of it, I have no clue where you get your experience with Origin but during the short time I used it just now for this bundle it caused more problems as Steam did within the past 8 years... and by now, one would expect Origin not being a total piece of shit software after more as 2 years being public. But well, another reason never support EA again. This time, at least they did not saw a penny of that money. Sadly one could not chose to give it to the developers. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkI've used Origin regularly for the past several years -- all of our Battlefield 3 benchmarking required it, for example. Other than short-term downtimes (something which Steam has also had on occasion), I never had serious problems. So, three questions:
When did you purchase your codes for the bundle, what problems did you encounter (other than the overloaded servers), and are the problems still ongoing or have they been resolved?
If the answer to the last one is that, yes, things are now working, I can't get particularly worked up about it. I mean, they're giving games away for charity, so even if the experience isn't perfect I'm okay with that. Reply
chizow - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkYeah I'd just ignore it. I never understood the anti-EA, anti-Origin vitriol you see from some people who then turn around and praise Steam. Steam was a total PITA piece of bloatware when it first launched yet people seem to forget that. Not to mention its not immune at all from near-complete shutdown during Steam sales. I had no problem redeeming my codes after the initial crush of orders, and I was getting games at a full 7mbps, so no complaints here. Reply
Mr. Pedantic - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkWell, I already have Steam, why would I want something extra? If we accept your premises that Steam is a PITA, and that it's improved over time, why would I want something else that's LIKE Steam, but crappier? Part of the advantage of Steam is that I have all my games accessible in one place, since I can even add non-Steam games into my Steam library. So why would I want to install another piece of software whose only purpose is to fragment this unity?
Also, regardless of whether it's better than Steam or worse than Steam, I don't understand why Origin forces me to open my browser to run Battlefield 3. I just don't. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkThat's not Origin, that's Battlefield 3. As for an alternative to Steam, while I'm not suggesting Origin is awesome, why would you ONLY want one place to go for all of your games and gaming needs? I like Steam a lot, but having other options out there is never a bad thing, as it forces Valve to continue to improve. Where would Intel be if AMD, Cyrix, ARM, etc. never existed? Reply
f0d - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkmy problem with origin is that it isnt a GOOD alternative to steam - with all the issues it has like simcity and when pretty much any game is released on it it has issues (even bf3 had issues when it first came out) or even when the humble bundle was released it was non functional and the fact that pretty much only EA games are released on it (although they do have other indie games on there i think) makes it not really an alternative to steam for me also the game library is small
so to sum it up
*small game library
*just about only EA games on it
*server issues when a new game is released (never had any issues redeeming the same humble bundle games on steam)
if you include the time it was called EA downloader in 2005 onwards it has been around long enough to have these issues resolved imo Reply
THizzle7XU - Sunday, August 18, 2013 - linkThe server issues for each specific game have nothing to do with Origin itself. Those are the servers provided for those games that were not adequate enough. If those games were sold on Steam they would have had the same problems. Reply
GiantPandaMan - Saturday, August 24, 2013 - linkAs a resident EA hater, I don't like Origin just because I dislike EA as a company. The DRM is horrendous on their games. You can't just separate Origin from their in game DRM. For example, yesterday I was playing Mass Effect 3 online with some friends. I lost connection to the multiplayer servers because they crashed. I know they crashed because every single person I was playing with had the same issue. I had to quit Mass Effect 3 just to reconnect Origin to their servers. Origin would NOT connect unless I did a full quit out of Mass Effect 3.
Origin has gotten better, but it's still very dodgy. It crashes, it has weird issues where certain friends may or may not show up to certain other friends on any given day. It's not that they're not online. It's not that I can't see both of them. They just can't see each other. Ultimately, I picked up the humble bundle because the money won't go to EA and I already have an Origin account. However, I've pretty much put on a personal boycott of EA games because of the horrendous DRM they put on. Using Origin supports EA so it gets a long look before I'd ever buy anything from it as well. Reply
chizow - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkSimple, because it offers alternatives and potentially better prices not only for older games, but new releases also. This bundle is a good example of it. If EA wasn't 1st party publisher for these titles, they would never be able to essentially give them away for free. Similarly I have also bought digital downloads from GameFly, Amazon, and GreenManGaming because they all have offered product at cheaper prices than Steam. So who cares, if I have to keep track of a few more client installs, no big deal, especially when EA has franchises that are absolutely worth maintaining just for their client. Now that the client is in place and I have some games in my Origin library, there's no downside to having it as a 2nd client since I'm going to have it regardless.
Also, Origin is not without benefits. One of the coolest things Origin did from the outset was allow boxed DVD owners to register their games on Origin for a digital download version. For the few legacy games that didn't auto-activate, they issued new keys and de-commissioned the old ones. Reply
f0d - Friday, August 16, 2013 - link"One of the coolest things Origin did from the outset was allow boxed DVD owners to register their games on Origin for a digital download version. For the few legacy games that didn't auto-activate, they issued new keys and de-commissioned the old ones."
they wont let me use my bf2142 keys on it and they wont give me any new ones i have tried a few times - not sure about other older games but i did try it with 2142 and was denied Reply
althaz - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkIt's still bloatware and a very average piece of software (Origin is better in some ways, that's how crap it still is). However, it doesn't force you to connect to the internet (so having the servers down makes no difference, unless you are trying to download a game) and makes DRM easy (except for Ubisoft games, which I will never spend money on again). It also is your only way to access the Steam service - which it totally fucking awesome.
I also use Origin (and the EA servers seem to be down a LOT), but it would be a lot better if there was some universal program that could collate all of my game libraries together. Reply
nikon133 - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkOrigin works fine for me, but I do have some anti-EA sentiments. Not letting players to host servers for BF3, while renting most of official servers... or, in my case, all (Oceania region for PC BF3). Not that you cannot find decent games, but pretty much every one of them is at least slightly modified (usually much higher number of tickets), and some of them are ridiculous with rules (no explosives, no shotguns, no this, no that), kicking people out for lag, for being better than "owners", moving them from one to another team for balance (quite often "balance", IMHO).
Looking at all the maps available in all the updates, I'm pretty sure I haven't played a few of them at all. No one hosted them in my region, and other regions are very keen of kicking me out for lag, even if game is perfectly playable for me.
So I bought both PS3 and PC versions. Got all updates for PS3 individually and Premium for PC... and I cannot play the game the way it was intended to be played, and - by the way - the way I liked it, which is why I purchased all extra content.
And now, if I want to play proper game with normal number of tickets, map rotations as well, I'd have to rent my own server as well. Really... how much money does EA want me to spend on single game?
In addition - what will happen when EA stops supporting BF3? My friends and I still play BF2 on lan parties. Will EA release home server for BF3 once they shut down their servers, or upgrade them to BF4 when renters move to BF4? Reply
ol1bit - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkI've had steam since day1. It rocks, I have over 200 games. Reply
Bob Todd - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkRabble rabble rabble! I want all of the old games I paid pennies for available right this f$cking instant!!! Get a grip. It's for charity. The games are stupid cheap. The world will not stop spinning if people have to wait a few days for Origin's lame infrastructure to be able to cope with the load. Reply
Moishe - Saturday, August 17, 2013 - linkOrigin is indeed VERY crappy. EA needs to stop being arse-clowns and understand that the future is in digital delivery and people expect quick downloads and proper support. Reply
Wolfpup - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkI would normally never support Origin, but since it went to charity...
I've had zero luck downloading anything so far. I started downloading Battlefield 3 Friday night. It made it to 38%, then fell back to 30%, then fell back to 20%. I've tried restarting the client, but at best it makes it up into the 30s, then falls back to 20%.
Color me incredibly unimpressed. It's a good thing this went to charity... Reply
idealego - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkYou have to pay at least $1 for this bundle or you get nothing.
For people who don't like Origin, keep in mind that you can pay $1, get five Steam games, and not bother with the Origin-only games.
If you don't like EA, also keep in mind that all the money is going to charity.
Overall it's an amazing deal. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkEdited; thanks! Reply
Bob Todd - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkThanks for the tip. I owned some of them already but I picked it up for the Dead Space games. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkSame here - a friend posted it on Facebook and I thought, "Hey, I was always curious about Dead Space and Burnout..." For $4.81, why now? Now I have an extra copy of BF3, Mirror's Edge, Crysis 2, and a few digital paperweights that I'll never download like Sims 3 and Medal of Honor. Haha Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkIn related news (not worthy of an actual post though), Steam has sales on the Kalypso catalog this weekend, as well as the Red Faction series. I'm not a major fan of many of their games, simply because I don't care for the genre, but I did play through Jagged Alliance: Back in Action last year and had fun doing so. Might be worth the $7.49 if you enjoy pausable real-time tactical games. Reply
chizow - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkThe dead space games are a hidden fem although some of the gameplay and upgrade mechanics aren't as fresh as they were then. If you are using Nvidia hardware be sure to set vsync in the driver and off ingame or you will get really bad input lag. 3d vision gamers should also check out the amazing work HeliX did with these games using his mod. Reply
chizow - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkEr hidden gem Reply
apertotes - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkSo, EA, why doesn't this depreciate video games IPs like Steam's offers? Reply
kwrzesien - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkJust pulled the trigger for $5, charity money well spent. Doesn't hurt to build a library of games at this price even if I don't play many of these FPS types. Reply
Daniel Egger - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkNow if only more than one of those games would run on Mac or at least Linux. The Sims isn't really my cup of tea... and buying Windows games without even owning a Windows machine doesn't appear to be a very bright move. Reply
jasonelmore - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkdont buy a mac expecting to game on it efficiently. Reply
wavetrex - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkOrigin just disabled code redeeming. No surprises here... Reply
Impulses - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkIs it one code to redeem the whole package or is it like other bundles where it's one code for the main stuff and another for the bonus? I bought it when I got the email, didn't even check, figured for $5 it was worth some charity even if I already had BF3. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkYou go to Humble Bundle via the link and get codes for each game. The codes are "for you only", but I wonder if you can give the ones you don't need/want to someone else? I already have BF3, for example.... Reply
Impulses - Saturday, August 17, 2013 - linkHuh, even better, I imagine anyone can redeem the codes (at least the Steam ones, dunno if the Origin ones could somehow be pre-bound to your email). Reply
piiman - Saturday, August 17, 2013 - link" So who cares, if I have to keep track of a few more client installs"
You don't even have to do that. Just place a shortcut on desktop and it will launch the right client.
I don't buy many games on Origin unless I have to as they are pretty high priced there and they keep that high price for a long time. But I have bought some game there and I bought the bundle for 1.00 and its was real worth it even though I had half of them on Steam already. DeadSpace3 for a buck alone is a steal. For a deal like that I'll install anyone's client lol.
And yes they were flooded and their code redemption server was down for a time, BIG DEAL! it happens even with Steam. Ever buy a hot title on Steam on release day? If you had you would know they almost always have trouble on launch day for big titles.
I also think people hate EA because they seldom patch games. DeadSpace 3 has a problem with some Hid game controllers and crashes on start up yet EA hasn't fixed it and probabaly never will. I have to unplug my Throttle to get the game to even launch but hey I only paid a $1.00 so I don't give rats ass. lol Reply
piiman - Saturday, August 17, 2013 - link"You have to pay at least $1 for this bundle or you get nothing."
Is that a complaint?!
And all the money does not go to Charity.
But yes it was a GREAT! Which is why their servers were slammed. Reply
sweenish - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkBy default it doesn't, this is correct. But you can definitely make it happen that way. Reply
eastyy123 - Sunday, August 18, 2013 - linkjust never expected to see the word humble in conjunction with ea Reply
Bromsin - Monday, August 19, 2013 - linkUnfortunately, I refuse to use the Origin service as it collects way too much data. Until they change their data collection policies, I am forced to not play EA games. It is a real shame as I love the Battlefield series and cannot play anymore. Reply
flyingpants1 - Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - linkI sure hope you don't use any Google products, or FB, or Amazon, or just about anything else on the internet! Reply
yhselp - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkJust a side note about redeeming the Sims 3 expansions. You can actually do it through the Sims webpage, it's just that you have to click "Register A Game" rather than "Redeem A Code" and it works like a charm - you just need to refresh your Origin library afterwards. The "Register A Game" section has five blocks. Hope this clears the issue. Reply
sweenish - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkI was able to redeem the game and both expansions directly through origin without issue. I'm surprised the article would mention otherwise in the first place. Reply
biassj - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkAre you guys having trouble launching the game? I hit the green play button on the Sims 3 launcher and the game doesn't start. =( Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkThe fact that Origin's/Humble Bundle's instructions are wrong might have something to do with it.... ;-) Reply
Sivar - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - link"Anything that requires DOSbox to run might be better served living in your fond memories instead of being dusted off to discover how badly it's aged. Well, except for Wasteland...."
Wasteland and X-Com. :) Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkI backed the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter (as well as the Torment Kickstarter); I can't wait for them to finish making the games! Reply
ol1bit - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkI always loved: Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret Reply