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This article was published 29/11/2012 (1725 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I went out with this woman who took me back to her place and made me dinner. As we were watching a movie together, I suddenly became violently sick and threw up all over the sofa. Then I spent two hours in her bathroom. I was embarrassed because I didn't know her all that well, and didn't call her afterwards. Last week she called me out of the blue and asked, "How would you like to come over and puke at my place again tonight?" We started laughing. So, I suggested we go out for dinner at a restaurant so we could blame it on somebody else's cooking if I got sick again. We went out, and back to her place, and I got sick again. Do you think this is just a big case of nerves? That's what my mom thinks. I had a nervous stomach as a kid and threw up before every exam. If so, how do I get over it? I am 25. This girl is really special and she's willing to try a third time. -- Nervous Guy, Wolseley
Dear Nervous: This week, spend a lot of time on the phone getting used to each other so there's not so such a build up of nervousness and excitement. Explain about the nervous stomach and how you used to toss your cookies before exams, and say, "So now you know it isn't just you that make me want to vomit." Then eat an early lunch at home and go out in the mid-afternoon with no food involved and do something active to burn off nervous energy. And talk about it. Just like a person can't sneeze when asked to, it will be harder for you to throw up if you talk about it. Say funny things like, "Should I try to do it now?" Alternatively, you might also want to see a doctor to get a small amount of anti-anxiety medication to use only when needed -- like for first dates, exams or job interviews.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I met a strange man when I was out walking who had three dogs on leashes. I asked him why and he said, "I like company. Please sit down." We sat on a bench and watched the world go by, talking about life and love and philosophy and our different backgrounds. I felt quite close to him, with the dogs around us in the snow. Then he asked me to come home with him and make love -- just like that. And I went! Afterwards he was very sweet but said I could never come back for my "own heart's protection," and he called me a cab. What happened? -- Mysterious Lover, St. Boniface
Dear Mysterious: You may have met a married man whose wife was away, or a bisexual man who thought he would only break your heart, or he may know he is sick and dying. But listen, you did have a lovely time and you should try to frame it like a picture in your memories of this life. Don't pursue him now. Men generally tell you the hard truths about themselves before they get emotionally involved. He gave it to you in a sort of riddle, but the upshot was, "Thank you, but no more is possible."
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Two of country music's leading lights put on powerful performances Friday night during their first appearances at the Hollywood Bowl.
Without introduction or lighting cues, Keith Urban casually strolled onstage to play an instrumental and was gradually joined by his band. Then his two-hour performance began with an energetic "Long Hot Summer" and infectious, extended "Sweet Thing," complete with fiery fretwork, while "Cop Car," among the more intriguing new tunes on his recent chart-topping album, Fuse, boasted soaring vocals.
The set list was evenly divided among the Aussie musician and American Idol judge's catalog. Highlights included sturdy country rockers "Even the Stars Fall 4 U," "Good Thing" and "Kiss a Girl" (initial opening act Dustin Lynch, grinning ear to ear, assisted on that one). Second-billed Little Big Town added supple harmonies to "You Gonna Fly," while the mid-tempo "Stupid Boy" featured a sizzling solo from the headliner and tender ballad "Without You" came dedicated to Urban's wife, Nicole Kidman.
Dashing to a B-stage halfway through the packed venue for an impressive version of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and his own sprightly "Days Go By," Urban also gave a nod to the city with Bob Seger's "Hollywood Nights." Like a game of "spot the reference," he tossed in bits of Blake Shelton's "Boys 'Round Here" and David Bowie's "Fame," and even yodeled (!) on his return trip to the main stage, before circling back to an epic "Better Life." After that, "A Little Bit of Everything," driven by drum machines and ukulele, was illuminated by a disco ball, provoking more fans to dance.
When one concertgoer's handmade sign caught the singer's eye, she and her husband, egged on by Urban, chatted for what seemed like an eternity about it. Additionally, the star spent considerable time reading off several other placards around the place. A constant focus on Urban's band (having them take lead vocals during snippets of tracks from Adele, fun. and Bruno Mars) affected the pacing, but those were minor annoyances.
Come encore time, Urban played piano for the plaintive "Tonight I Wanna Cry" (a real treat) and ventured back into the crowd for the whimsical "You Look Good in My Shirt."
Little Big Town's excellent fifth album, Tornado, has been racking up well-deserved plaudits since its release a year ago. Those tunes and others from the Alabama quartet were a revelation in concert, especially their stellar harmonies.
After some Black Keys intro music, swirling red lights flashed and the singers appeared on a ramp behind the drums, huddled around a single valve mike. Their astounding 50-minute performance kicked off with a feisty "Little White Church" and possessed a Southern Sunday revival vibe.
A fun "On Fire Tonight" (very appropriate) was the first of seven "Tornado" selections. Guitarist Phillip Sweet's soulful side was spotlighted during the smooth "Bring It on Home" and multi-instrumentalist Kimberly Schlapman's honeyed pipes added more resonance to "Sober" live; the banjo-led "Pavement Ends" and upbeat "Front Porch Thing" were totally rousing.
Guitarist Jimi Westbrook and his wife Karen Fairchild took the lead during some captivating drama on "Your Side of the Bed" and eventually came together at center stage. Meanwhile, the group's cover of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" was a perfect fit, and a smoldering, bluesy take on the Oak Ridge Boys' "Elvira" brought to mind a mix of Leon Russell and the Civil Wars.
Later, Fairchild – her long, dark hair blown from behind for effect – showed more grit amid "Tornado." Most of the audience stood for slinky smash hit "Pontoon" and Westbrook proved his vocal mettle during the swampy closer, "Boondocks."
First up at the Bowl this evening was Dustin Lynch. The white-Stetson-wearing singer's self-titled debut came out in 2012 and entered at No. 1 on Billboard's country album chart. In Hollywood, he offered a satisfying half-hour set despite a muddled mix that tended to engulf his vocals. The raucous vibe of "Name on It" and double-entendre lyrics of recent Top 40 country hit "She Cranks My Tractor" were reminiscent of Jason Aldean.
Each song went down well with early arrivals, as did an upbeat cover of David Lee Murphy's 1995 chart topper "Dust on the Bottle." Lots of ladies happily danced around, and Lynch immediately segued into an odd snatch of Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body." Yet, like early influences Garth Brooks and Clint Black, the Tennessee vocalist fared best at ballads like the contemplative "Hurricane" and appealing platinum single "Cowboys and Angels," inspired by his grandparents.
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The Center for the Advancement of STEM Education at Bridgewater State University (CASE) offers a new hands-on science academy focused on biotechnology, environmental biology and physics.
The Summer Science Academy offers one-week classes for middle school students entering grades 6-9 in the fall. This unique program allows participants to work as scientists and is designed to inspire students about science while providing them with the foundations necessary for further exploration. The students are immersed in science courses, conduct hands-on investigations, and participate in extracurricular science activities. They also focus on the importance of science communication as they lead presentations on the last day of class.
The academy runs throughout July, and features the following courses: Whale of a Mystery, x-STREAM Adventures, Fornesics Institute of Bridgewater and Up in the Air: The Physics of Flight.
Spend some time with the participants of the x-STREAM program by watching this video. (Video shot by students Nicholas Allende and Brian Zayas, edited by Nicholas Allende, University News)


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Hi I am new to php and see it is essential if I want to take web development to the next stage.
I have used Wordpress and general HTML/CSS to generate websites in the past. I notice that all wordpress themes are generated using PHP.
Where is the best place to learn PHP, essentially how to design Wordpress themes using PHP?
Thanks in advance
I don't work for SitePoint but I'd happily endorse their books. Buy a book from them. Better than anything "for Dummies". There's also the PHP manual. You can also expect web searches to return many good results on almost any PHP-related topic. The search term "tutorial" is probably particularly useful to you.
Thanks for the advice, have seen their books but never seen reviews.
Just ordered Jump Start PHP as it looks exactly what I'm looking for
Another good place to start (Learnable -- owned by Sitepoint)https://learnable.com/topics/search?q=wordpress
Then of course, if you are interested in a few articles to readhttp://www.sitepoint.com/?s=wordpress
I'll put my two cents in...
It really depends what you want to do and what is your current level.
Do you have any other experience with programming? Do you know about basic programming stuff such as loops, variables, etc.?
Second, what do you know about web development and databases? Could you make a form in plain PHP (without WordPress) that saves a text entered by a user into the database?
Some other questions:
How to design Wordpress themes using PHP
What do you mean by "design"? Do you want to start from 0 or an existing PSD? Or maybe you'll already have all the HTML/CSS somewhere?
I don't have any experience with programming, I have looked at the code to generate wordpress themes such as the twenty twelve/thriteen/fourteen ones and can understand the basic lines of code. But this has made we want to learn PHP so I can create my own wordpress themes.
Thus far I have only created websites using HTML and CSS, but then moved onto wordpress themes and tinkering with the CSS myself.
Second, what do you know about web development and databases? Could you make a form in plain PHP (without WordPress) that saves a text entered by a user into the database?
I couldn't do this at this stage as I have never used PHP. I have just purchased the "Jump Start PHP" book from sitepoint http://www.sitepoint.com/store/jump-start-php/ I see this as a good place to start?
What do you mean by "design"? Do you want to start from 0 or an existing PSD? Or maybe you'll already have all the HTML/CSS somewhere?
Sorry this is me being a newbie to web design. I meant create, not design. Ultimately I want to be building my own wordpress themes using php, html and css. Am I right in saying learning php will help me achieve this or are there many other factors?
@cpradio Thanks for the links I have found some useful stuff on there
This is where those articles I linked you to (or rather the search results) will greatly help you. Narrow them down to Wordpress Theme topics and you'll pick up a lot in a short time.
This is a good book to start learning PHP. It won't necessarily help you in your endeavor with Wordpress Themes though. You'll at least start to understand the syntax, the functions, and figure out what it is doing, but Wordpress has its own template system that has books related to it on its own.
The book (if you have the means to get it) Build your own Wicked Wordpress Themes may be something you'll want to invest in. I've skimmed it a bit to make sure it is still relevant and it seems to be (although it was written in 2010, so some things may have changed). The book states it was intended for the following audience.
Who Should Read This Book
This book is aimed at front-end web designers looking to branch out from building static sites or simple PHP-based projects into the world of WordPress theme development.
You should already have at least intermediate knowledge of HTML and CSS, as those technologies are as important to WordPress themes as they are to static websites. We'll also assume that you know a little bit of PHP; while there's no requirement for you to be a programming whiz, you should at least understand concepts such as if statements, loops, functions and variables, and the way PHP generates HTML for output. While you can certainly customize a theme without using any PHP, the more advanced features shown in the second half of the book require some familiarity with these basics.
PHP will definitely help when you need to do advanced tasks in your theme, so learning the basics will ultimately help you build better themes, of which the book you already bought will be of great value.
Funnily enough I had a look at that "Wicked Wordpress" book whilst perusing through the links and thought this would be quite useful. My logical plan is to get through the jump start PHP book, then when I have an understanding of PHP I am going to delve into the wordpress book.
I bought this book last year http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781449319267?redirected=true&viewCountry=UK&selectCurrency=GBP&gclid=CKmLxPfy_bwCFYQfwwodgm4AEg
But i have found it very hard to follow, I feel that the sitepoint book will be a bit more up to date and easier to follow, well fingers crossed anyway!
Ah yes. That is because there is too much grouped together. JavaScript and CSS should not be part of any PHP/MySQL book. It is an entirely separate entity and should be treated as such. When you combine two separate entities together, you quickly get a very complicated/hard to follow book. I've bought similar books way back when and learned my lesson the hard way too. Now-a-days, I go to a local library (or book store) and see if they have the book I'm interested in and I read a chapter or two there before buying it.
They each had their own respective chapters, but it was just very hard to follow and nothing like I have come across in web design in the last 18 months. I feel PHP is the next logical step in the learning process.
I'm sure to research a book before I buy it now, or ask on a forum like here as people on here have done it before
Again, my 2 cents
Lets say that building a PHP app is like building a house. WordPress would be an almost complete 3 bedroom house model, already done for you. It just needs the paint and you have a house where you can live in.
Now, if you paint that 3 bedroom house 100 times, you'll be an expert at painting this kind of house model. It won't help you much into building a houses. And painting other model of houses would be a different task.
You could also decide that you want to add a room and a bathroom to your "house model". Do that 100 times, and you're an expert at customizing this kind of "house model" to add a room and a bathroom. If it's want you want to do, that's fine.
But, it won't make you an expert at building houses. And you won't really know how that "house model" is built from the ground up. Sure, you could learn how some parts are made, but knowing everything about an already constructed house is kinda difficult. And what if the "some parts" you learn about are not done well anyway? What will happen when you'll try to build your own house from the ground up?
Then, if you want to build a gym and just know how to customize that kind of "house model", well.. It'll be possible to customize it to a gym, but probably inefficient. It would be like building a boat out of a truck.
Also, if you want to learn how to better customize your house, you should learn how to build a house from the ground up. The foundation frist. Then the wall, etc. Then, if you go back to your "house model", you'll know what's good and what's wrong with it. You'll also know when you should use it and when you shouldn't (like if you want to make a gym).
If we go back to WordPress:Adding themes to WordPress can be a viable hobby and even a business, but it won't make you a PHP programmer.
And just "coding" with WordPress will give you the view on how WordPress is done, but it's not a "normal" web application, it's a blogging platform. It's good at making blogs, not other kind of web apps. You can make other kind of web apps, but it wasn't built for that in the first place. Yea, WordPress have a lot of plugins and you can even make a membership site out of it, but it'll be like building a boat out of a car. You'll either get a really ugly boat, or it'll take a lot of time to turn that car into a boat. It would be more efficient to start from scratch. (Don't get me wrong, WordPress is a really nice prodduct)
If you want to build other kind of PHP applications, you need to start at the beginning:- Learn general programming concepts (you can try codeacademy for example)- Learn the HTTP protocol (seems complicated but it's not, shouldn't take you more than 2 hours for the first read) : http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/- Learn the basics of website development (HTML, CSS and a little bit of JavaScript). You already know HTML and CSS, that's good. Just try some JavaScript, it's crucial that you understand what you can do with JavaScript and Ajax VS what you can do on the server-side with PHP. It'll help you with WP theme development too.- Then, go with PHP (a beginner book)- Try to build 2-3 really small apps... like a contact form, something that writes stuff into a file, etc.- Then, you can try some PHP frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter, etc.- Then you can go with mySQL, a noSQL database, etc.
That's the path I would recommend if you want to make advanced and efficient web applications or become really, really good with WordPress development (not just themes but plugins also).
@xMog Thanks very much for that analogy, it's really helped me understand how each area of PHP and Wordpress fit into the creation or edition of wordpress themes.
I will follow those steps you have suggested there, are there any particular areas you would suggest to focus on in "code academy"? I will crack on with these, then I can move onto the beginners PHP book I have ordered.
I have a vague understanding of what Javascript can offer, in terms of slide shows, animation of web pages etc. Is there anywhere you would suggest the best place to learn this would be. As I have done a few youtube tutorials in the past, but they have jumped from one subject to the next....allowing me to become easily confused!
Thanks for your help on this, it has given me a great insight into PHP
@ontargett : I'm really glad it helped you!
For code academy, you could start with JavaScript, for example. The goal here is to understand the basics of programming. Variables, loops, control structures, etc.An even better tip would be to search "programming basics" on Google and read what you find interesting.
When you'll know the basics, you'll probably understand a little bit more what you already did when you customized WP themes.
If you already understand how JS works and what it can offer, you don't need to go into the details right now. One thing you should understand well is the concept of server side VS client side. And also what Ajax (which is made with JavaScript) can offer to a web page.
Also, be careful when you start developing with PHP. Every beginners do that and that's normal, but being aware of it is a good thing. So, you'll learn about basic programming and PHP. Then you'll use your knowledge to create php pages that blends code with HTML all over the place. And you'll probably also write difficult to maintain code. That's just normal for beginners. But, when you feel like it, look on Google (or ask questions here) about how you can make your PHP code more maintainable, if there are security problems with your code, how you can improve your code, etc.
Would the code be difficult to maintain as it is mixed in with HTML?
Well, there will always be a minimum of a mix between HTML and PHP somewhere, except if you use a "template engine" (like Smarty).But you should keep it to a minimum. The more split up your HTML is in your PHP code, the more it'll be difficult to maintain.
For example, if one page is made up from 21 PHP files that all outputs HTML to this page, it's kinda hard to find where a specific part of HTML comes from.
Compare that with a code like:
<title><?= $this->title; ?><title/>

<? $this->leftMenu->render(); ?>

<? $this->centerContent->render(); ?>

Which is: Easy to read. All your HTML is at the same place. Your PHP code that displays this HTML will be clean (no HTML mixed in).
I took the example from this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62617/whats-the-best-way-to-separate-php-code-and-html
But if you're working with WordPress, well, you're stuck on how WordPress works, but there are ways to minimize the mixup between PHP and HTML.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Some of the state of Florida's top talent has taken note of the recent successes of Saint Leo Men's Basketball as recent recruits Jaylon Bell, Trey Griseck and Stephane Beneche were named as three of Florida Hoops' Top-100, as announced by the organization earlier this week. The list, loaded with numerous Division I signees, sees the Saint Leo group listed alongside players heading to North Carolina, Florida and Butler.
Saint Leo is the only Sunshine State Conference team and NCAA Division II institution represented on the entire list.
Bell, No. 69 on the list, comes to Saint Leo from West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Fla. where he averaged 17 points and eight assists per game in leading the Warriors to a 23-8 overall record and an 8A District Championship. Named as a member of the Fourth-Team All Central Florida Boys Basketball Team, he was also a First-Team All-Conference Selection on an All-Conference team littered with Division I signees. Coming into Saint Leo as a performer in the classroom with a 3.6 GPA, Bell was also a Florida Association of Basketball Coaches All-Star selection and an All-State selection on the Florida Athletic Coaches Association Boys Basketball Team.
Picked 81st and the first signee of the 2012-13 season back in November, Griseck helped Olympia High School to a 22-9 record his senior season as he shot over 40 percent from behind the 3-point arc and posted close to a 2:1 assist-to-turnover ratio on the nationally-ranked squad. The 6'4" guard also considered Rollins and Eckerd of the Sunshine State Conference, along with multiple Division I offers, including those from Kennesaw State, Liberty and Campbell.
Ranked 83rd and averaging 15 points and nine rebounds per game, the 6'10" presence of Beneche allowed him to lead Palm Beach County in blocks as he averaged five rejections per contest. The Palm Beach County All-Star selection and the game's MVP posted 10 games where he had at least six blocks and notched 10 or more rebounds in at least 15 games this season. A Second-Team All-Area selection, Beneche was also extremely accurate with the ball, making 61 percent of his shots, a stat which helped the all-around player earn a spot in the Florida All-Star Basketball Classic. He made a memorable impression on many his senior season with a triple-double performance against archrival Palm Beach Central, posting 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 blocks in a 53-39 win.
It was a year of resurgence in the Lions' men's basketball program led by Head Coach Lance Randall. He inherited a team that was picked last in the SSC preseason poll and led it to a third-place finish in the regular-season standings with a 10-6 conference mark. With an 18-12 overall record, the Lions won nine consecutive games at one point, breaking a program record that dates back to at least 1987.
The success from 2011-12 sheds a new light on the men's basketball program and has the growing fan-base excited to see the trio of new additions team up with all-conference players Marcus Ruh and Trent Thomas along with Shaun Adams, Tom Neary, Dominick Robinson and redshirt Jerrel Harris in the upcoming season.


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"My brother, how could they be sent back? It is unbelievable. This is a horrible thing. They are in the hands of murderers. It is like saying, "Go on! Get on with it." May Allah forbid it! How could they? Turkey is very big; they could be settled anywhere. There is no rule that they have to stay there. Everywhere in Turkey people would provide them with food and clothing as much as they could. Kizilay would provide tents. Our brothers can be hosted in many locations. This is a terrible thing. May Allah forbid! If this is true, then this situation is very terrifying.
They should place our brothers all around Hatay. There are a handful of communists in Hatay only they don't like this situation. The so-called Ergenekon terrorist organization has agents there. They don't like it. It would be wrong to put our dear brothers in a difficult situation just because they said so.
"Kizilay shall help as well. Let's … Our Syrian brothers at the borderline"
This is unbelievable. They are sending them back. They could at least keep them waiting by the border; somewhere 50 meters or 100 meters away from the border. They shall halt at a point 100 meters away from the border; they would be provided with food there and other means as well. Assad's forces could not enter there - he cannot bomb the border. This is very difficult. All right then, no problem; they could wait at the border. They could set up tents along the border. We can still find a good location but they should come there especially. The climate is also very good there.
My brothers, guests come with expectations. They shall come with their families and children. The border area is very long. They shall come and stay at the border area. Kizilay shall provide tents. Let's gather up food and send it with trucks. Let's do everything in our power. Right?
May Allah forbid! May Allah forgive! They made such a mistake. Let me tell you. They should turn back. There must be a way for sure. They must be close by. They are still out there somewhere. They must apologize again and again. Whoever did this, whoever caused this; I am apologizing on their behalf. This is a horrible thing. Allah would ask us about doing this. What are we going to say if Allah asks us, "Why did you give them away to murderers? Why did you hand these innocent people over to murderers? Would you have it if they handed you to murderers?" May Allah forbid!
What else could people who frantically escaped to save their lives do? There is an extraordinary situation. People are waiting for them there with guns in their hands. It is unbelievable to say, "Let's send them back!" This is a horrible proposal.
This is a great cruelty and cruelty brings disaster. May Allah forbid! This is oppression. It is horrible. Whoever did it, he made a big mistake. He should apologize for the sake of Allah and call them back immediately. Turkey is a very big country. My brother, they could go anywhere in Turkey. (Adnan Oktar, May 14th, 2013: A9 TV)2013-05-22 14:10:48


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The Pinal County Assessors Office took a lead role in the development of Pinal County's GIS. The collaborative effort of several County departments began in mid 1999. The project is based on an extensive network of survey control points which all county townships, sections, and parcels are aligned. This base map of parcel data is linked with roads, taxing authorities and other related mapping information.
The ultimate goal of the project to create a one stop source of data and mapping information for County departments and better serve the residents of Pinal County is now available at
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Clock Changes in Yerevan, Armenia in 2011
Mar 27
Forward 1 hour
Mar 27, 2011 - Daylight Saving Time Started
When local standard time was about to reach
Sunday, March 27, 2011, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned forward 1 hour to
Sunday, March 27, 2011, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead.
Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on Mar 27, 2011 than the day before. There was more light in the evening.
Also called Spring Forward, Summer Time, and Daylight Savings Time.
Oct 30
Back 1 hour
Oct 30, 2011 - Daylight Saving Time Ended
When local daylight time was about to reach
Sunday, October 30, 2011, 3:00:00 am clocks were turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, October 30, 2011, 2:00:00 am local standard time instead.
Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour earlier on Oct 30, 2011 than the day before. There was more light in the morning.
Also called Fall Back and Winter Time.
Daylight Saving Time in Other Years
DST changes do not necessarily occur on the same date every year.
|DST Start (Clock Forward)
|DST End (Clock Backward)
|Sunday, March 28, 2:00 am
|Sunday, October 31, 3:00 am
|Sunday, March 27, 2:00 am
|Sunday, October 30, 3:00 am
|2012 — 2019
|DST not observed
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Around four months after the launch of the Z10, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins took to the stage at the BlackBerry Live event to tie together the company's consumer and enterprise stories, and to expand on his mobile computing vision.
The biggest takeaway: BlackBerry is doubling down on its strengths -- including midrange phones and device management -- and has enough confidence to open up parts of its business to other platforms.
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Here's a rundown of what was announced today.
Hero phones aren't for everyone
While hero phones like the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy lineup may get all the press, they're not for everyone. It's the midrange devices that capture the vast majority of sales, and that market drove much of BlackBerry's international expansion and cemented its entry-smartphone role in more mature markets.
With this in mind, Heins unveiled a new, lower-cost 4G BlackBerry device, the Q5. It's a hybrid QWERTY device with a 3.1-inch touchscreen, available in a range of bright colors. Heins noted that IDC is predicting that by 2016, the global mobile workforce will be over 1.3 billion, giving BlackBerry an opportunity to deliver the mobile-first computing experience that that the next generation of mobile workers will be looking for.
Existing BB10 devices won't be left behind. The Z10 will be upgraded to the new 10.1 release of BB10, adding support for HDR photography, along with improvements to the Hub notifications service. The 10.1 release will also add features needed to support Skype, which will be released for the Z10 as well as for the Q10. International devices will be upgraded to 10.1 over the next week, with U.S. devices to follow shortly. BlackBerry device updates used to be rare, so a commitment to regular updates is an important change, and one that's necessary in the fast- moving mobile space.
The broader mobile computing vision
Heins came in for some criticism recently around remarks he made about the future of tablets and the tablet market, so he took time to explore the company's mobile computing vision. Using the QNX demonstration Bentley, he showed how a large-screen device (here built into a car) could be controlled by a phone, including scheduling and managing updates, and integrating with BlackBerry's cloud services.
With QNX's real-time OS at the core of embedded systems all over the world, BlackBerry's mobile computing vision is one where smartphones serve as a bridge between users and the "Internet of things." Heins pointed out that the pieces are in place, "It's mobile computing, with one element on your hip, in your pocket; how it relates to large screens is a technical issue. In five years, it'll be connecting to screens and to cars."
Secure work space and BYOD
While much of the focus on BlackBerry has been on the consumer side of the business, BlackBerry 10 provides a powerful platform for BYOD, from its range of application development tools to the Balance managed container that securely separates work and personal data and apps.
Much of BlackBerry's BYOD story builds on its BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which provides both secure device management and secure communications to the managed Work side of Balance. A new version of BES, 10.1, will add high-availability support as well as tooling for regulated industries. BES 10.1 is also the foundation for BlackBerry's Secure Work Space tool, which will add Balance-like features to Android and to iOS and a secure, VPN-less connection to company resources. Due in the summer, Secure Work Space will also allow developers to build apps that can take advantage of its managed storage and network.
It's easy to miss the importance of Secure Work Space to BlackBerry -- and to anyone implementing a BYOD policy. You'll be able to standardize on a single mobile device management platform for all your managed devices, with a per-device licensing model, and with access to BlackBerry's own secure data network. Users will be able to keep their own data separate from work data, while organizations will be able to reduce the risks of data loss and data leakage. It won't matter whether users are bringing iOS or Android devices in alongside BlackBerrys, the same tools will work for them all, for mail, for messaging, for file browsing, for document reading. While apps may not be fully portable, technologies like BlackBerry's HTML5 WebWorks platform will allow you to build apps that will offer basic cross-platform capabilities.
Opening BBM to other platforms
BlackBerry's device-to-device messaging platform has long been one of the jewels in its consumer crown. A new Channels feature can best be thought of as its version of Facebook's Pages, allowing brands and individuals to broadcast messages, photographs, and video. However, perhaps the biggest change to BBM is the announcement that it's going cross-platform, with the core messaging and groups features arriving on iOS 6 and Android ICS over the summer.
Opening up BBM to third-party platforms is a big change for BlackBerry -- possibly even bigger than its Secure Work Spaces coming to iOS and Android. It gives users access to a secure, device-to-device communication channel that supports one-to-one and one-to-many communications. While consumer services like WhatsApp may be more popular, BBM's secure underpinnings will mean it's more likely to gain acceptance across BYOD boundaries in organizations, facilitating communications between managed and unmanaged devices.
BlackBerry has done a lot to recover from what appeared to be a disastrous tailspin. It's had a profitable quarter, two successful device launches, and 120,000 apps in its BlackBerry store. BlackBerry Live is showing how the company, to steal its own tagline, keeps moving. While it's opening up elements of the BlackBerry platform to iOS and Android, the BB10 OS is also setting the foundations of Heins' mobile computing vision, where the hub of your digital life is in your pocket, bridging an Internet of people and an Internet of things -- and where work and personal co-exist on a single device.
This story, "BlackBerry: Confident enough to go beyond BlackBerry," was originally published at on CITEworld.com.


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The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
Dec. 19, Elliott Howard Ansin, 26, Interlachen, grand theft. Bond $2,000.
Dec. 19, Timothy Wade Arnold, 35, Inglis, DWLS, leaving scene of a crash. Bond $20,000.
Dec. 19, Michael Wayne Aurilio, 29, Dunnellon, two VOP.
Dec. 18, Marlena Annette Batey, 27, Bronson, VOP.
Dec. 20, Alisha Marie Braswell, 28, Chiefland, DWLS.
Dec. 20, Jeremy Lee Burchett, 25, Williston, two out of county warrants. Bond $300.
Dec. 11, Emily Elizabeth Barber, 24, Old Town, trafficking in controlled substance, possession of drug equipment. Bond $16,000.
Dec. 14, Walter Evan Bell Jr., 31, St. Augustine, battery, out of county warrant. Bond $25,000.
Dec. 16, Tanya Marie Blaisedell, 41, Chiefland, assault on officer, carrying electric weapon, disorderly intoxication, obstruction W/OV. Bond $55,000.
Dec. 12, Charles Rowland Bray, 55, Inglis, DWLS. Bond $2,000.
Dec. 5, Nicholas Lee Bailey, 23, Bronson, VOP.
Dec. 4, Dawn Marie Bartkus, 25, Bronson, two counts out of county warrant. Bond $1,000.
Dec. 7, Latoria Shanese Bell, 27, Cross City, out of county warrant. Bond $5,000.
Dec. 9, Justin Wayne Bingaman, 25, Chiefland, battery, misuse 911. Bond $20,000.
Dec. 7, Ronald Robert Bischoff, 40, Vine Grove, Ky., two VOP.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
Dec. 1, Reginald Ventrell Adams, 50, Chiefland, disorderly intoxication. Bond $2,500.
Nov. 28, Cody Allman, 19, Chiefland, no DL. Bond $500.
Nov. 28, Joshua Clemons, 19, possession of drug equipment, intent to purchase Schedule III drugs. Bond $1,000.
Nov. 28, Rachael Clifford, 20, Alachua, burglary-two counts, criminal mischief-two counts, grand theft. Bond $145,000.
Nov. 29, Timothy Lavane Cobb, 39, fraud, petit theft, dealing in stolen property. Bond $11,000.
The Levy County Sheriff Office reports the following arrests:
Nov. 22, Renee April Bevington, 33, Inglis, assault with deadly weapon without intent to kill, battery. Bond $7,500.
Nov. 21, Glenn Gerald Gates, 56, Williston, three out of county warrants. Bond $11,000.
Nov. 20, Carla Lee Gillis, 30, Citra, non support of children or spouse. Bond $250.
Nov. 24, Howard Allen Hughes, 39, Sarasota, battery. Bond $5,000.
Nov. 20, Molly Rain Jaconsen, 38, Tampa, FTA. Bond $2,000.
The Levy County Sheriff's Department reports the following arrests:
Nov. 16, Douglas Barnhart, 52, Bristol, VOP.
Nov. 17, Jonny Kim Buckley, 39, Bronson, possession of weapon or ammunition by a convicted felon. Bond $10,000.
Nov. 14, Jesse Chesterfield, 42, Homosassa, four out of county warrants. Bond $200,000.
Nov. 15, Terry Darden, 50, Bronson, violating injunction of protection domestic violence. Bond $50,000.
Nov. 18, Lauren Blake Dennis, 25, Trenton, DWLS, possession of drug equipment, possession of marijuana.
Nov. 4, Victor Alonso, 19, two counts battery, abuse without great harm toward child. Bond $5,000.
Oct. 29, Jonah Lee Arthur, 30, Bronson, out of county warrant.
Nov. 3, Bryan Keith Baker, 48, DWLS. Bond $2,500.
Nov. 3, Jason Wade Byrd, 38, Inglis, DUI.
Nov. 4, Kelly Michelle Colson, 27, Chiefland, DWLSR.
The following information was taken from Levy Count Sheriff's Office arrest reports:
Oct. 24, Eric Leonard Adams, Inglis, arrested while license suspended. $2,000 bond
Oct. 24, Lafaye Nicole Adkins, Williston, arrested for public intoxication and trespassing. $1,500 bond
Oct. 24, John Edward Blair Jr., Archer, arrested for possession and intent to sell cocaine, possession of marijuana more than 20 grams and driving with a suspended license. $212,000 bond.
Julian Christopher Howard, 32, and Arnett Clarence Bryant Jr., 30, both of Archer, were arrested in the Raleigh area of Levy County on Thursday by the Levy County Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Marshals Service Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force on drug charges in an investigation that began in February.
Levy County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force started the investigation with Howard, considered a mid-level drug dealer who is is known to sell crack cocaine, powder cocaine and marijuana.
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28 U.S. Code § 3002 - Definitions
§ 3002.
DefinitionsAs used in this chapter:
(1) "Counsel for the United States" means—
a United States attorney, an assistant United States attorney designated to act on behalf of the United States attorney, or an attorney with the United States Department of Justice or with a Federal agency who has litigation authority; and
any private attorney authorized by contract made in accordance with section 3718 of title 31 to conduct litigation for collection of debts on behalf of the United States.
"Court" means any court created by the Congress of the United States, excluding the United States Tax Court.
(3) "Debt" means—
an amount that is owing to the United States on account of a direct loan, or loan insured or guaranteed, by the United States; or
an amount that is owing to the United States on account of a fee, duty, lease, rent, service, sale of real or personal property, overpayment, fine, assessment, penalty, restitution, damages, interest, tax, bail bond forfeiture, reimbursement, recovery of a cost incurred by the United States, or other source of indebtedness to the United States, but that is not owing under the terms of a contract originally entered into by only persons other than the United States;
and includes any amount owing to the United States for the benefit of an Indian tribe or individual Indian, but excludes any amount to which the United States is entitled under section 3011(a).
"Disposable earnings" means that part of earnings remaining after all deductions required by law have been withheld.
"Earnings" means compensation paid or payable for personal services, whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus, or otherwise, and includes periodic payments pursuant to a pension or retirement program.
"Garnishee" means a person (other than the debtor) who has, or is reasonably thought to have, possession, custody, or control of any property in which the debtor has a substantial nonexempt interest, including any obligation due the debtor or to become due the debtor, and against whom a garnishment under section 3104 or 3205 is issued by a court.
"Judgment" means a judgment, order, or decree entered in favor of the United States in a court and arising from a civil or criminal proceeding regarding a debt.
"Nonexempt disposable earnings" means 25 percent of disposable earnings, subject to section 303 of the Consumer Credit Protection Act.
"Person" includes a natural person (including an individual Indian), a corporation, a partnership, an unincorporated association, a trust, or an estate, or any other public or private entity, including a State or local government or an Indian tribe.
"Prejudgment remedy" means the remedy of attachment, receivership, garnishment, or sequestration authorized by this chapter to be granted before judgment on the merits of a claim for a debt.
(12) "Property" includes any present or future interest, whether legal or equitable, in real, personal (including choses in action), or mixed property, tangible or intangible, vested or contingent, wherever located and however held (including community property and property held in trust (including spendthrift and pension trusts)), but excludes—
property held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian tribe or individual Indian; and
"State" means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, or any territory or possession of the United States.
(15) "United States" means—
"United States marshal" means a United States marshal, a deputy marshal, or an official of the United States Marshals Service designated under section 564.
(Added Pub. L. 101–647, title XXXVI, § 3611, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4933.)
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Apple A4/A5 Designer & K8 Lead Architect, Jim Keller, Returns to AMDby Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/1/2012 8:00 AM EST
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lecaf - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkK8 was released 2003, as far as I remember (I used to own one)
from the article
"Keller first joined AMD in 1998" and "Keller left AMD in 1999"
how can he be the father of a K8? something seems wrong, but I can't say what.
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DanNeely - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkThere're several years between when a chip is designed and when it finally gets to market. Reply
Zoomer - Thursday, August 02, 2012 - linkAlso remember that he works on the architecture. That's a little higher level, and a ton of work goes on after that towards custom implementations. Reply
morfinx - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkIt takes about 5 years from conception to market for a new CPU architecture. Reply
romesh - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkit takes abt 1 year to complete the design of a processor architecture like k8 Reply
name99 - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkI have no idea what "complete the design" means, but morfinx is essentially correct. The number is substantially larger for x86 designs than other designs because they are so complex.
From initial conception to ship was 7 years for Nehalem. This number is not secret. There is a talk at Stanford on iTunesU about the design process and how long it took. Reply
romesh - Thursday, August 02, 2012 - link2003-1998=5 years Reply
ChipAnalyst - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linklecaf is right. Jim left AMD before K8 microarchitecture was finalized. Fred Weber took over the K8 program and led the final design. Reply
JNo - Thursday, August 02, 2012 - linkMaybe but although the article praises the K8 in particular, the K7 original athlon architecture kicked intel's butt for many years I seem to remember. Both MHz for MHz and $ for $. Reply
pavlindrom - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkOne thing that makes me wonder - did he go to graduate studies or not? I am interested to see if that affects the future much or not. Reply
lbeyak - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkI don't know what you mean by "affects the future or not", but I don't see what graduate studies has to do with being a successful/driven person.
I did Graduate studies myself because I thought it would be fun and interesting.
Sure, maybe it means they are interested in things, and so will be more willing to put in effort to do something worthwhile.
Of course, there are several high school / university drop-outs that became highly successful. Reply
pavlindrom - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkWhat I meant was whether he became a high-profile person with some aid from a graduate school; as in an employer placed him in a challenging position because he has the degree from where he succeeded.
Is work ethic and intelligence all that is necessary to succeed, is what I am trying to understand. I am wondering if there is anything to be gotten for me with a graduate degree. Reply
name99 - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkIf a field is VERY NEW then you can get away with no graduate studies --- eg Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, probably some of the early CPU architects.
Once a field has been around for ten years or more, there is an accumulated body of knowledge and how best to do things. Once that arises, you'd be foolish to assume that you can avoid grad school --- at that point you're essentially saying that you are so smart you have nothing to learn from the accumulated experiences of thousands of individuals in a wide variety of circumstances. This may even be true --- but good luck proving it to anyone.
There MAY be a few fields like this today (for example I suspect if you can come up with something truly innovative in Augmented Reality you could get away without grad school), but the number of fields like this is always very limited, and fields of this nature fifteen years ago (eg a lot of network coding, coding for huge clusters, coding for phones, video game coding) have long become professionalized. Reply
Oxford Guy - Thursday, August 02, 2012 - linkJobs got into the industry thanks to the technical ability of Wozniak. Without Woz, Jobs' business skills would have had to look elsewhere.
Gates is a similar case. He didn't succeed because of his technical ability. He was a businessman.
Businessmen don't necessarily need graduate degrees. Reply
medi01 - Monday, August 06, 2012 - linkYou're right on Jobbs, wrong on Gates.
Jobbs was a businessman only, but Gates could (and did) code (a lot in early days). Reply
KoolAidMan1 - Monday, August 06, 2012 - linkDOS was bought by Gates from another engineer. His coding was minimal, and one of the few things he had his name on was this game notorious for being bad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONKEY.BAS
Gates was a businessman first and foremost. He wasn't much of an engineer and ironically he wasn't half the technologist that the non-engineer Jobs was. Reply
mevans336 - Friday, August 03, 2012 - linkAnd neither do technical people.
If you want to become an true engineer, you need grad school.
If you want to specialize in Cisco, WIndows, VMWare, or databases, your best option is to avoid grad school (and most times college altogether if you start early enough) ... because experience trumps all. Reply
Coilaman - Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - linkI recently, was building a budget PC for graphic design, web design and video editing and I have to tell you, I decided on a Llano edition of the FM1 socket Athlon II X4-631 processor. It was released in August 2011. Why did I buy it?
I got this processor for $81 and it's a very powerful quad-core beast. It easily beats any Intel Core 2 Quad or even first generation Core i3 processors and it just grinds through any video editing or big Photoshop files with great ease. Combined with a $100 graphics card, you'll be able to work very efficiently and even game quite well for some time to come.
Like I said, it's a beast and I highly recommend AMD processors because of their incredible value for dollar, especially in the low-end market. Reply
KitsuneKnight - Thursday, August 02, 2012 - linkThe low end is really the only segment where AMD is competitive at all with Intel, and, even then, things aren't exactly going well for them. AMD really does need to step up their game... at this point, ARM is quickly growing to be a bigger direct competitor to Intel than them. Reply
Belard - Friday, August 03, 2012 - linkAMD's socket standards is messed up. The FX-series is sometimes slower than the previous tech... the "8core" AMD is usually slower than intel's mid-range quads.
Socket FM1 is dead. Once the inventory is gone, you'll see FM2 for the general users. Otherwise, companies like HP are already making and shipping FM2 systems. No new CPUs models for FM1.
The current Socket AM3+ is outdated, the latest chipset is mostly a renamed previous chipset that is certified to use the new FX CPUs. The FM1/2 Chipset has native USB3 support. FM1 and FM2 sockets are incompatible, even thou its the same number of pins and socket style. NO FM2 CPUs will fit a FM1 motherboard. But the other kicker? Its the same exact Northbridge used on both!
There are no motherboard support for PCIe 3.0 for AMD systems any time soon... we're talking 2013~14?! Nevermind that AMD makes PCIe 3.0 graphics cards.
For a low-end low-cost entry level computer, AMD is fine... I guess. But its not something I would use for myself and would not sell to my clients. During the P4 era, All I built were AMD systems. 2012 is the first year I didn't build any AMD powered systems.
AMD has serious issues, and making Pentium4 2.0 was a stupid stupid thing to do.
They really should have just die-shrunk what they already had, it would have been cheaper. Reply
OBLAMA2009 - Friday, August 03, 2012 - linkeven if they came out with a good chip the desktop market is rapidly disappearing Reply
Belard - Friday, August 03, 2012 - linkThe funny or sad thing about PA-Semi is that no more products will likely come from them, nothing new anyway. What they make/made were low-powered PowerPC compatible CPUs, military/space grade.
What is sad/funny is that the Amiga community WENT with THAT as their CPU platform... taking them years to come up with a custom board with both PCIe, PCI and Amiga slots. The system board is unique... for sure. And they consider the 1.8Ghz low-watt CPU to be a powerhouse? It costs about $1500+ for the computer. Its a hobby OS for 10+ years running on hardware with no future, again.
Its amazing that what is left of the Amiga community hasn't just gone Linux. Its the closest thing to Amiga they could use (Amiga is still a *nix based OS). Reply
iwod - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkWell may be a question to Jim, did Apple *really* design A4 or A5. Or the internet rumours are those chip just Samsung Exynos, which i think is not true since Sammy dont use PowerVR.
If so what exactly has PA-Semi contribute to Apple? and Intrinsity ? After all they dont seems to be ground breaking things from Apple SoC. Reply


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TRIBUTES have been paid to a well-known Blackburn doctor who has died from cancer at the age of 80.
Although he retired almost 20 years ago, many people will remember Dr Michael Peter Mahoney as running ward seven at Blackburn Royal Infirmary.
Dr Mahoney, who lived in Wilpshire, trained at the Welsh National School of Medicine, in Cardiff, where he met his wife-to-be, Frances, when they were both medical students.
During his time at the Blackburn hospital, where he was appointed in June 1970, he started a medical library so doctors and nurses would have access to the latest journals and books.
And with friend and colleague, Dr Frank Lewis, a consultant radiologist, he used an endowment fund to start a radio isotope scan facility, which was the precursor of the nucl-ear medicine unit used today.
Dr Mahoney also pioneered the endoscopy unit to investigate gastro-enter-ology illnesses.
Outside the hospital, Dr Mahoney enjoyed photog-raphy and clay pigeon shooting, and attended Rishton Clay Pigeon shoot, as well as Blackburn Gun Club. He was also fascin-ated by trying to under-stand how things worked, and had a keen interest in steam engines, and DIY.
Dr Mahoney died after being cared for at East Lancashire Hospice, where he was looked after by for-mer colleagues.
He leaves his widow Frances, children Peter, Paul, Sara, Michael and Damien, and grandchild-ren Naomi, Kieran, Dion, Amelie, Dylan and Rose.
His son, Damien said: "He had a good relationship with colleagues and nurs-es, all working as a team to do their best for their patients.
"Perhaps because he did not enjoy good health himself for much of his life, he had great sympathy for sick people, and would frequently visit patients at their homes, or in hospital, in his own time, and would never refuse a telephone call for his advice at any time of day.
"He was a man with very strong principles and a sense of what was right.
"He stuck up for his patients, and anyone who he felt was being let down, mistreated or on the wrong end of a misjustice.
"But he had a a very dry sense of humour, which persisted right to the end, even when suffering a lot with cancer and other health problems.
"I'm proud that so many people I've known in Black- burn over the years have told me how well he look-ed after them, or their relatives, during his med-ical career."


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Pirates' arbitration deadline nears
The Pirates have until midnight Friday to tender contracts to their eight arbitration-eligible players.
Joel Hanrahan, Garrett Jones, James McDonald, Neil Walker and Gaby Sanchez seem likely to be tendered. Chris Resop, who is poised to finally reach the $1 million salary mark, also should get an offer.
Walker has enough service time to qualify for Super 2 status, which gives him an extra year of arbitration eligibility. He made $500,000 this year, close to the major league minimum, but probably will see his salary hiked toward $3 million in 2013.
The Pirates and Walker discussed a multiyear contract in 2011, but talks broke down and have not been resumed. For now, both sides seem to be content to let Walker's contract status play out year by year.
Last year Hanrahan avoided arbitration by agreeing to a $4.1 million deal. After racking up 76 saves over the past two seasons, Hanrahan probably will make upwards of $7 million next year. That would make him the third-highest-paid player on the team, behind starting pitchers A.J. Burnett ($16.5 million) and Wandy Rodriguez ($13 million).
Pitchers Charlie Morton and Jeff Karstens might be non-tendered. The right-handers were beset by injuries this past season, raising questions about their value for the dollar in 2013. Players who are non-tendered become free agents.
Pain in his shoulder and hip limited Karstens to 90 innings, his fewest since 2008. Yet when Karstens was able to pitch this past season, he was effective, posting a 3.97 ERA and a career-best 1.147 WHIP.
Karstens made $3.1 million this year and could expect a raise of at least $500,000 through arbitration. That might make the Pirates hesitate, but their lack of experienced major league starters could nudge them toward tendering Karstens an offer.
Morton made only nine starts before having season-ending Tommy John surgery. Morton is rehabbing his elbow in Florida and is expected to be back in action by the middle of the 2013 season.
Morton is in his second year of arbitration eligibility and made $2.445 million this season. If he is non-tendered, the Pirates likely will try to re-sign him at a lower rate.
Any player who is tendered a contract must be offered at least 80 percent of his previous season's salary. A player who goes through arbitration is practically guaranteed a raise, even if he is coming off a subpar year.
Rob Biertempfel is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 412-320-7811.


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AT News Update: Removing the MHz Myth, Againby Kristopher Kubicki on 3/12/2004 10:03 PM EST
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Xentropy - Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - link"Wow, it took CRAMITPAL more than 17 hours to respond to a thread just begging for his usual dumbass mutterings. Must be a new record."
Abraxas was already here to cover him.
"AMD processors (aside from HT ability) are faster than intel CPUs at everything." Reply
TrogdorJW - Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - linkThe real problem with determining IPC is that it isn't set. It can vary wildly between different programs. For example, Quake 3 might end up with an IPC of 1.6 on P4 and 1.8 on Athlon, but then Return to Castle Wolfenstein might have IPCs of 1.3 and 1.5. Throw in the fact that certain applications are completely bottlenecked in areas other than the CPU (i.e. on RAM, hard drive, graphics, etc. performance), and IPC becomes even more difficult to quantify.
Then you throw in the problem of chipsets, as Pumpkin pointed out, and it becomes almost useless. A P4 with only 256K L2 cache running at 2.8 GHz on an 800 MHz FSB with dual-channel RAM would likely beat out a P4 with 512K cache running at 3.06 GHz on a 533 FSB with single channel RAM by a decent margin. What are the "model numbers" going to be, were such chips to actually exist?
In Intel's defense, at least it sounds like they're saying the model names are really there as a guideline for the "Dummies" out there looking at computers, and they will still continue to list the GHz, Cache, FSB, etc. of their CPUs. Thankfully, most resellers of AMD CPUs also list this information. AMD almost went the route it sounds like Intel is going to take with their Opteron and Athlon FX lines, and I find the "model names" to be much more preferrable to "3200+". Reply
Oxonium - Monday, March 15, 2004 - linkphantom505: Not to sound like a lameass Intel fanboy, but you are wrong on a few things. Intel beat AMD to 90nm. AMD still has no 90nm chips. Intel cpu's could use DDR chipsets from VIA for the Pentium III roughly at the same time they were introduced for the Athlon (again from VIA). Historically (until Prescott), Intel chips have had a lower power consumption than equivalent AMD chips, especially in the mobile arena where power consumption really matters. Yes, lately it seems like Intel has been following AMD with x86-64 and now the new processor rating system. It was pretty much inevitable that Intel would have to do those things. Whether they continue to follow is anyone's guess. Reply
phantom505 - Monday, March 15, 2004 - linkFace it, there is not good way to describe processor speed with the exception of some sort of somewhat hokey benchmark like AMD uses. People are entirely too critical about that. They are doing their best to give consumers a pretty good idea of where their processers lie.
Unlike AMD, Intel that decided to ride out the lie as long as possible now finds itself having to get line with AMD, yet again. Sort of interesting how that keeps happening to follow AMD on almost EVERYTHING, DDR, transition to 90nm, x86-64, power consumption, the list goes on. AMD follows, what? SSE, SSE2, SSE3, just because otherwise Intel with their highly optimized software would run almost as fast. So as long as you make the software specifically for Intel then of course it will run better on say a P4 vs a K8. Personally I can't wait for them to declare that they were the first to use SOI and on chip memory controllers. Reply
Pumpkinierre - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkEman #24, I didnt say I liked it('MHz is liked because it is an absolute index'). In fact I've never seen Intel push it either nor AMD rubbish it (although indirectly they promote IPC). I've only heard on the web hearsay and anecdotal evidence that higher Mhz is better for sales. Personally I am not sure of the truth of this. But, like you, I prefer the MHzxIPC index (first proposed to my knowledge by Abraxas). However as others have stated in these posts, IPC is more difficult to quantify than clockspeed which is an absolute (WYSWYG- non-debatable). As you suggest the FTC could set the standard. I think it should be taken up and pushed by AT (known P4 lovers) initially.
Pumpkinierre - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkExpornentially- a measure of size increment- definitely another well understood absolute.
MrEMan - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkPumkinierre, you stated "MHz is liked because it is an absolute index". How exactly is that the case?
About the only thing which can be said for MHz/GHz is that it is accurate for similar architectures since one half of the IPC x GHz product is the same for both processors (the same would be true if the clockspeed was the same and the IPC was varied).
The only other thing that can be said for clockspeed is that Intel marketing loved clockspeed when that is all their processors could claim (certainly in many cases it wasn't performance).
As I have posted in the past, would you brag about your processor that it needed a 30% clockspeed advantage to perform as well as your main competitor... I sure wouldn't. Reply
MrEMan - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkAMD tried to come up with a more meaningful performance metric with their True Performance Initiative, but since Intel didn't want a real measure of performance it didn't get anywhere.
I find it interesting that many who defend(ed) the totally bogus "clockspeed is everything" (when they know/knew in fact that it was a bullshit way to measure performance of different CPU architectures), are now slamming IPC as a bad measurement metric.
Why not come up with performance test suite based on something much more accurate: the product of clockspeed and IPC? Maybe the FTC should step in like in the case of audio amplifier power specs.
It would show high GHz x low IPC (Intel) = low GHz x high IPC (AMD). Reply
Oxonium - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkExpornentially: A naming system based on how fast a cpu can encode a porno from DVD to divx. Reply
Pumpkinierre - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkSorry about the 'expomemtially' - exponentially. At least I'm consistent.I thought it was expornentially at first. That would have been a real Freudian slip. Hell, I've got to use my P4 for something!
Pumpkinierre - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkYes, Derek #11, you cant quantify everything with a single index. In oz, we say 'horses for courses' ie different strengths animals for different race lenghts and conditions. Cpus with different pipeline length and no., branch predictors, cache architecture and chipset interface cannot be lumped under one index. That's why I'm against the AMD PR rating. If you throw in chipsets, GPUs, RAM etc. the number of variables escalates expomemtially. I'm all for direct subjective testing (no demos/synthetics beyond scaling experiments ie exactly the same system at different MHz or memory settings etc.). However no one does this, because it requires extensive testing and grouping of results (like phyla in biology). Nevertheless if you are going to label a cpu, the Abraxas index (AI), MHzxIPC, would be a good one.
MHz is liked because it is an absolute index. You wont get that with IPC but I'm sure a good assembler/machine code programmer would be able to set up a routine that would cover the instruction set in a similar fashion to expected application code, and be close to absolute. The branch prediction doubt (Kristopher #14) would be covered by the fact that branching statements are in the instruction set and different lenght loops and non branch sequences would be included in the routine. The size of the routine should be contained within the smallest L1 cache (L2 caches preferably switched off) and no reading/writing to main memory during execution.
The only other performance index would be the memory/cache subsystem which could be described by the memory/cache subsystem latency (MSL). This naturally would be dependent on chipset and RAM (run at default or standard -JEDEC specs.) So I propose the Pumpkin Index (PI) for systems:
PI (Pumpkin Index)= AI(Abraxas Index)xMSL = IPCxMHzxMSL
I'll get my 15 minutes in the sunshine yet!
Oxonium - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkAdding on to my previous comment: But since Intel is the most recognized brand name, it would likely be chosen over an equivalently marked AMD *IF PRICES WERE SIMILAR*.
Oxonium - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkWow, it took CRAMITPAL more than 17 hours to respond to a thread just begging for his usual dumbass mutterings. Must be a new record.
I agree with johnsonx that using a third party wouldn't work. For one thing, neither AMD nor Intel would likely agree on a common metric and wouldn't be bound to it. To make it effective, there must be a baseline processor for comparison and that baseline must not change over the years so as to avoid consumer confusion.
A common nomenclature might cause more confusion. For example, if there was an Athlon64 570 and a Pentium 4 570, to the average consumer (and even some not-so-average ones) there won't be any reason to choose one over the other. Sure AMD could claim 64-bit support on the box and Intel could claim HT, but when it comes down to it, they'll just look at the number. Granted, by using a common nomenclature, they should be getting equal performance no matter which CPU they choose. But since Intel is the most recognized brand name, it would likely be chosen over an equivalently marked AMD. Reply
CRAMITPAL - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkExpect BOGUS performance ratings from InHell to defraud consumers as they've done since the Pig$ was rushed to market like the PressedCrap, aka Pig 4 E (for Enema edition). InHell has fallen and can't fix their design/production/performance issues so they once again chose to misrepresent the facts to save face and bilk consumers. This has all been documented on the Pig 4 and that's why InHell has a multi BILLION dollar Class Action Suit against them in court right now for FRAUD ! Reply
crimson117 - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linklike others have said, IPC isn't sufficient...
That'd be like saying one program was faster than another because it contained fewer lines of code. However, the larger program may have that code to more efficiently handle certain situations.
consider an sql statement...
"select * from mytable" is shorter, but "select * from mytable where mypk=10" will run much faster. Reply
tsee - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkThis just introduces a whole bunch of confusion. You can never tell the specs of the CPU anymore without a long index. I don't know what the author is thinking, sorry. Reply
johnsonx - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkA 3rd party processor rating scheme won't cut it either. Look what happened when 3dMark was taken as a de-facto rating system for 3D GPU's: vendors started writing driver optimizations just for 3dMark, and perhaps even designed hardware with 3dMark in mind (just a guess on my part). Then there was griping about how 3dMark might favor some hardware designs over others.
Imagine how bad it would be for CPU's if, for example, Sandra were enshrined as the official rating system. Each architechtural change would have one CPU maker clamoring for Sandra to include their new instructions or optimizations, with the other CPU maker(s) crying foul. Each new release of Sandra would be hailed by the CPU vendor who's scores went up by a bit, and accused of bias by those who lost ground. Finally, internal cpu microcode would probably start getting optimized for Sandra instruction sequences, at the expense of real-life performance.
Like it or not, the rating system we are stuck with is the one that each CPU vendor implements for their own products, be it Mhz, performance ratings, or model numbers.
KristopherKubicki - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkThe problem with IPC is you run into problems with branch prediction - IPC is only half of the solution.
Not like I really have a better one, i just thought i would mention my two cents :)
Kristopher Reply
Stlr22 - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - link"Even though Banias (Centrino) is a brilliant processor"
I dont mean to be picky but shouldn't the "centrino" part be *Pentium-M* instead?
Would help clear up some of the confusion as to what the "centrino" really is. Reply
Abraxas - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linknice to see my name mentioned :). i see why intel would do this, as its been pretty obvious that a 1.7mhz pentium M is faster than any pentium 4-M on the market.
i stand by my previous statement, while average IPCxmHz is not necessarily perfect, its the best solution anyone has to offer. AMD processors (aside from HT ability) are faster than intel CPUs at everything. Intel has an advantage in encoding apps, which are so far the only apps that benefit from HT.
if intel named a 3.6ghz P4 prescott the 575, AMD would just name a 2.4 ghz A64 the 580. It adds even more marketing lingo to the whole system. its time for a completely 3rd party organization to step in for processor naming, or for OEMs to start building their systems saying "a 2.2 ghz athlon 64 is about 10% faster than a P4 3.2ghz due to a more efficient design." let the manufacturers do the mudslinging and marketing, not the cpu makers. Reply
DerekWilson - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - link#10
The problem with assigning a product number or rating based on average IPCxMHz is just as bad as AMDs method of rating against a reference processor.
In AMDs case, performance of a current processors is not always going to be exactly equal to the performance of a thunderbird at whatever MHz: Different programs will be more or less efficient in different situations.
In the case of average IPCxMHz, any given processor will have a completely different IPC for different programs in different situations.
Averaging IPC over all programs has essentially the same "goodness" as averaging relative performance of a specific processor over another.
Not only that, but IPCxMHz is still not the be all end all of performance in processors ...
if processor 1 is faster at instuction A and slower at B than processor 2, even if both processors have the same IPC and MHz, processor 1 will win benchmarks to which instruction A is critical and lose benchmarks that rely on instruction B.
It may seem like average IPCxMHz is the best solution, but even actual IPCxMHz for given code will only be a good indicator of relative performance between processors of the exact same architecture. going by average IPCxMHz is just as good (or bad) as AMDs scheme ... Though, I suppose both methods are a little better than pure MHz if you want to argue that point.
The bottom line is that the *only* real indicator of performance is the actual runtime of the programs you want to use.
I appologize if I didn't explain all that very well ... the point is a subtle one, and its pretty late so I might not be making much sense. :-) Reply
Pumpkinierre - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkSomebody in an earlier post (abraxas?) suggested an IPCxMHz rating. An average IPC (instructions per clock cycle) could be established with a suitable test program. This would at least solve the horsepower side of the cpu spec. (sorely lacking in present descriptions and benchmarks). It would also stop the bleating about MHz or IPC being more important depending on the manufacturers product range. Cache size and FSB would still have to be quoted separately as their performance is subjective to application.
Mangler - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkwow... I remember icomp!
I did a google search and brought up this page about it.
As they say the future is just the past re-organized! Reply
johnsonx - Saturday, March 13, 2004 - linkDoesn't this remind anyone of the Intel iComp rating system from the way-back time? I still remember buying servers (from more than one vendor) equipped with "Intel Pentium 735/90" or "810/100" processors (in other words, the 90Mhz Pentium had an iComp rating of 735, while the 100Mhz had a rating of 810). The original iComp system gave a rating of 100 to an i486SX @ 25Mhz as a baseline. iComp 2.0 came out a couple years later, and I think a Pentium 75Mhz got the 100 point baseline rating then. Intel had some documents carefully explaining that Mhz wasn't everything. But the market didn't really bite on iComp, so it faded away...
CrystalBay - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linkthier fabs cant keep up Reply
CrystalBay - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linkpart of thier agreement...
CrystalBay - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linkAMD sold out thier memory controller for SSE3 and this
ViRGE - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linknutxo, that's AMD's official line, but it's pretty obvious what they're really baseing it on. Reply
nutxo - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linkIt was my understanding that the rating system employed by AMD was based on the thunderbird scaling higher ( like a 1700+ would be how fast a tbird would have to run to do the same work)and not to correspond with intels speeds. Reply
klah - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linkhttp://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0312/ubiq5...
7xx series - High end
5xx series - Main stream
3xx series - Value Reply
mkruer - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linkI see, so now the chips will be named as follows.
Cron = Celron
2000 = 2GHz
400 = 400MHz FSB
8 = 8kb L1 Cache
64 = 64kb L2 Cache
Much simpler LOL


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Topic: Met another cc patient
I met yet another cc patient today. He is not on this site, although his son investigates here. If you see this, "hi, Mark!"
I'm not giving out too many details, but this gentleman is trying to get on the same trial. He's having problems with some of his numbers, tho, and if the bloodwork isn't good, you can't do the trial...
I hope my positive attitude was helpful today. He seemed to be very sure he won't live too many more months longer, and he isn't even THAT sick! I told him I've been there, but there is so much more out there now. He can't give up! I hope I got through.
"Don't just have minutes in the day; have moments in time."
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MICHAEL Rutter has hailed a brilliant weekend in the British Superbike Championship.
The Kingswinford rider was pleased with his efforts at the Knockhill circuit in Fife, Scotland, last weekend.
Four rounds into the championship and it looked like it was shaping up to be Rutter's best round yet aboard his Bathams Prizewinning Ales BMW.
Having clocked respectable lap times in the early practice sessions, Rutter qualified in ninth place and a good start in race one looked promising. However, issues with the BMW's clutch meant efforts were thwarted and a 13th place finish was all that 'The Blade' could manage.
With the problem resolved for race two, the BMW 1000RR was back on track to enable Rutter to finish in a competitive 10th place.
He said: "It's been a brilliant weekend for me. We've been in the top seven all weekend until the first race - which I think, if we didn't have the problem, we could have had at least an eighth place finish in. Because of my lap times in race one I ended up on the fifth row of the grid for race two and that's tough at Knockhill because it's very twisty with not many overtaking places - so I'm well happy with 10th. I'm hoping we can get some upgraded engine parts for Brands Hatch as our bike has a standard engine in at the moment and we definitely need more speed".
Rutter will head to Brands Hatch in Kent to compete from July 18 to 20 for round five of the British Superbike Championship.