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Gatland has England backing in Lions rowGavin Mairs
Published: February 14 2013 - 12:35PM
Warren Gatland on Wednesday received the full support of England's representative on the British and Irish Lions board in the wake of the head coach's claims that an English-dominated party for the tour of Australia could bring "pressures" on the squad by potentially generating negative media coverage.
John Spencer, the Rugby Football Union's representative on the five-man Lions board told The Telegraph in London he is certain nationality would play no role in Gatland's selection of his 37-man squad for the three-Test tour in Australia this summer.
Gatland yesterday honoured a long-standing arrangement to spend the day with Stuart Lancaster's squad at their training camp at St George's Park in Burton.
The 49-year-old New Zealander had earlier sought to defuse the furore caused by his comments in a newspaper on Monday, saying that he would "happily pick 15 English players in the first Test at Brisbane" if he thought they were the best players for the job.
Spencer, a former England centre who was a member of the Lions' successful tour of New Zealand in 1971, said: "I have every confidence that Warren will deal with selection and the playing of players on a very fair and equitable basis," said. "His preparation as far as the board is concerned has gone really well and is very detailed. He has been very open-minded as far as selection of players is concerned."
Gatland, along with the Lions director of operations, Guy Richardson, were both welcomed by the England camp yesterday, just a day after his interview had been published in the Evening Standard. Gatland had said that it looked like there would be a "reasonable England contingent" in his squad but added that it brought "a certain element of - how do I say it - other pressures that come with selecting a lot of English players.
However, he added that "hand on heart I would never be able to look myself in the mirror if we didn't pick a player who deserved to go on Tour because he was English."
It is understood both Gatland and Richardson were present to watch Lancaster and his coaching team review the 12-6 victory against Ireland with the squad during the morning session. Gatland then observed a full training session in the afternoon before leaving the camp last night.
Former England head coach Dick Best, who was part of the Lions coaching team on the tour of New Zealand in 1993, said he had some empathy with Gatland's original comments that a Lions squad with a lot of English players could led to risks of media "stings or set-ups trying to create controversy".
"There is an element of the English media that will go on the Lions tour that will be more interested in off- field events, but that could be said for any English sporting team that tours abroad," Best said. "That goes with the territory. During the 2011 World Cup, I am fairly positive that some of the other countries weren't exactly whiter than white but you don't have the pack of media following them around.
"But I don't think it will prohibit English players going on the tour. In England's defence, I would have to say, under the Lancaster regime, they have done everything they can in order to take the game back to the people and be PC and media friendly. They have been a shining example of what a professional sports team should be. You couldn't fault them."
Former England wing Rory Underwood, who was a key member of the Lions tours to Australia in 1989 and New Zealand in 1993, said although had been impressed by Gatland as Lions coach, he was disappointed that the issue had been raised.
"The way he has carried himself so far has been outstanding and I have been impressed by everything I have heard him talk about but I just felt a bit disappointed [by Gatland's comments]. I can't work out what was the point of it? What does that say to England players?
"Warren Gatland has coached Wales for ages and I have no doubt he understands the concept of the Lions. For me it all boils down to picking the right sort of players, creating the right environment where you are allowed to play and play together. For me, it doesn't matter if they take a squad of 30 Scots or 30 Englishmen."
The Telegraph, London
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/gatland-has-england-backing-in-lions-row-20130214-2eenu.html


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If you're anything like me you've likely started, or perhaps even finished, shopping for the holidays. One of things I dislike most is being faced with a mountain of gifts to wrap all at once. It takes any pleasure from wrapping and decorating package when you've a dozen or more to do at once.
When my kids were young I began wrapping the gifts as I bought them and stacking them on a closet shelf. No ribbons, gift tags or other decoration. I'd just wrap at that point. In soft pencil on or near the tape I'd put a small symbol to represent which person it was meant for. Squiggle, circle, star, square, etc. Just something easy to let you know who each gift is for when the time comes to put them out.
A week or so before Christmas, once the tree was up and decorated, I'd take down the stack of gifts and decorate with ribbon and gift tags to place under the tree which only took a few minutes.
I found my kids were less likely to snoop through the gifts if they didn't know who they were for and the ribbons were less likely to get squashed plus it took the stress out of gift wrapping.
Sometimes it's just as important to be frugal with your time as it is with your money. Any little tricks that preserve your sanity during the holiday season counts as frugal in my book!

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My daughter is almost 7 months old. She still wakes up at least once, usually twice a night to eat. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to help her sleep all night??
My daughter is almost 7 months old. She still wakes up at least once, usually twice a night to eat. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to help her sleep all night??
Congratulations on breastfeeding for 7 months. I'd like to ask a few questions, does your baby co-sleep with you? Or is she in her own room?
I've found that every baby is different, and some sleep through the night earlier than others (schedules or food usually have nothing to do with this). Your baby may be hungry (keep in mind that breastmilk digests in less than 2 hours) or she may just want time with you. Babies whose mothers work during the week often nurse more at night and on weekends, perhaps to reconnect with mum.
It is common for breastfed babies to not sleep through the night for a long period of time. On the other hand, some breastfed babies start sleeping through the night when a few months old.
My children co-sleep and tend to sleep through the night around 3-4 years old.
I understand that time frame is not for everyone.
Every baby is very different, each having their own sleep cycle.
Possibly try having dad cuddle with baby and rock or comfort in the night rather than mum getting up to nurse. Maybe a night time routine of bathtime, gentle massage a long walk, all will help baby relax and possibly aide in a restful nights rest.
Remember that night waking in babies and young children is normal and temporary.
Thanks! She sleeps in our room. We have thought about moving her to another room, but that would mean sharing with my 2 year old son, and we don't want her to wake him up, so we have kept her with us.
She had been doing really well - down to just once a night - but then just the last couple weeks it has jumped back up to every couple hours. But I think you are on to something - I have been working more this month. I typically only work about 4 hours a day, but I have had to put in a bunch of overtime recently. So it would make sense that she is just making up for lost time. That makes a lot of sense.
After this week, my work schedule should settle back to normal so that should help.
Thanks for you thoughts!
Dear egamblin,
I also agree with sunnymumof5's advice above. My 15 month old still wakes at least once in the night to breastfeed and I co-sleep with him to allow me a good night's sleep whilst still feeding him. He also likes the comfort of me being near. I recently wrote a post which I called 'Are we losing our perspective on sleep and young children' which you may find interesting to read. I'm not, by any means!, implying that you are losing your perspective on your baby's sleep. I have found that there are a lots of expectations in society for our babies and toddlers to be 'sleeping through the night' when much research shows this isn't normal (for example, research by the infant sleep lab at Durham University, UK) for this age group.
Another thought I had was that, if there has been a change in your daughter's sleep, then she could be going through a growth spurt or even a developmental leap. Studies have shown that just before a baby goes through a developmental leap (e.g. starts crawling) the baby needs more breastmilk (and so needs to feed more frequently for a time to increase mum's milk supply) in order for the brain to make this developmental leap.
Warm wishes,
Thanks for your thoughts LJ. I will read that post. Having 2 under 2 it just seems like it's been years since I have slept a whole night. My sister's kids slept through the night almost from birth so I think I'm just jealous! It hasn't helped that my 2 year old seems to be waking up 2-3 times a night now as well. Right when one goes to sleep the other wakes it seems. My husband gets up with our son, but it still wakes me.
What you said about her needing to eat more frequently to increase my supply fascinated me as well. Just how the whole process works is simply amazing! Thanks for your words!
You are very welcome.
I can really empathise with you - I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old who both wake around two times a night. Most of the time I am able to accept that this is normal for them and that my 1 year old still needs to breastfeed in the night. However, on difficult nights I feel frustrated and I wish that they would sleep for longer. It does help me to know that some research shows some children will not sleep through the night until they are between 3 and 4 years old and this is normal and natural for them. It is our society (including the frequent use of formula milk) which can sadly make us think there is something wrong with us or our children if they are not sleeping through the night without any comfort from us.
Yes breastmilk is amazing isn't it - and the whole breastfeeding process and relationship is an incredible one. Did you know that breastmilk has been found to contain stem cells? Our bodies will produce the right breastmilk for our babies as long as we put them to the breast whenever they need feeding (day and night).
Thinking of you and here if you need any further support.
Warm wishes,


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The week of May 17-23 has been designated National Safe Boating Week. In reality, boat safety should be a year round practice.
Baltimore County has 175 miles of waterfront. We in the county are fortunate to have various boating marinas, docks and parks that supply boat ramps so people can enjoy boating, fishing and other water sports.
If you are a boater or plan on buying a boat, why not plan to take the Maryland Safe Boater Class at Bowleys Quarters Volunteer Fire Department? This state-approved course is required by law for boat operators born after June 1, 1972. Even if you've been boating for years, this is a good refresher course, and you might learn something new.
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ROGER FEDERER presumed the teenaged Bernard Tomic might be a player to be intimidated by him when they first met. Then Tomic took a set off him and he figured the kid was confident enough not to be cowed as others might by the weight of grand slam titles.
"There's certain characters and certain players that have an easier time to play against good players. I was one of those as well . . . there's other players who are much more overwhelmed by an occasion like that. To me, he seems to be more of a guy that likes to be on centre court, playing against the top guys, feels like he belongs there. I think it's going to make it easier for him to play me," Federer said of his blockbuster clash with Tomic on Saturday night.
He recognises Tomic's record suggests he is a better player now than he was – 10 straight wins this year – but also that when players are young they improve rapidly but inconsistently.
Federer is mindful of the crowd support for the last remaining Australian, but after 1000 ATP Tour matches there is little he has not experienced, weathered and overcome before. This will be little different
"I don't think it matters whether he's the last Australian or 10 more," he said. "I think there's always excitement about Aussies playing here. I played him here last year. The crowd was great. I played him in Davis Cup. Crowds were fair there, too. I expect something similar. If it's not, if it's totally for him, that's fine, too. I'm always excited when the crowd gets into it. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to the match. Hopefully it's not going to be a bad match. I don't want that to happen."
Federer was dismissive of the slant on Tomic comments that could suggest he was baiting the former world No.1, cheekily cautioning that Federer had to beat Nikolay Davydenko first to reach him (Federer won in straight sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in two hours on Thursday night). Federer felt the young player might have been "lured" into such comments which ultimately would not affect him and so were irrelevant by the time the match began.
Apparently though there is a good time to play Roger Federer and according to Tomic that time is now. Well at least it is a good time to play him in terms of how Tomic is playing.
"I feel so confident. This is the perfect time to play him," Tomic said. "I think, you know, I've got a good attitude to win. I've beaten a lot of good players over the last past two weeks. I think I can do it if he wins his match."


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This article was published 26/4/2013 (1579 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Organizers of the annual Crocus Festival in Arden aren't the only ones fretting about Manitoba's exceedingly late, cold spring.
The annual festival, which features a photography contest of the province's official flower and one of the first signs of spring, was forced to extend the deadline for entries from Friday to April 30 because the snow has been too deep for even for those perky little flowers to fight their way through. Spring thaw or not, the festival is going ahead as planned May 4.
Arden's frustration pales in comparison to anxious farmers worried about getting this year's crop in the ground.
With fields only now just emerging from beneath their blanket of snow and the prospect of spring flooding still looming, there is already speculation about unseeded acres.
It's a serious concern, but the conversations around it turn into a quirky history lesson as people draw comparisons to the past crop seasons through the context of other notable events; it was the year someone was born, or that was the year the barn burned down or the family took an extended summer holiday after five inches of rain drowned out the fledgling crop.
Will it be worse than 1979 -- when the river ice didn't clear until April 25 and there was a big flood? Farmers seeded in June that year. Or 1962, when Manitoba Agriculture records show seeding became general on June 5? Or 2011, when desperate farmers were hurling canola seed out of airplanes?
One thing we do know for sure is this year isn't going to be like the last one, when seeding equipment was already starting to roll toward the end of March. In fact, the hotly contested question this time last year was -- how early is too early?
For most crops, every day seeding extends past mid-May is associated with a one to two per cent per day drop in yields and a higher risk of suffering damaging frosts in the fall.
But as the old-timers say, we've never written off a crop in April yet. Despite those difficult past springs, more often than not, farmers still pulled off a decent crop by early September. There is still plenty of time if the weather co-operates, the fields dry out and the soil warms up. Oh, and if it doesn't rain too much.
The immediate crisis is in the province's cattle sector. Hay supplies were barely adequate going into the winter. The late spring has left herds running short and pastures still snow-covered. Add to that the potential of flooding and anxiety levels in the cattle community are rising faster than the thermometer.
"There is a shortage of hay in Manitoba. This stretches throughout the entire province, but it is certainly felt most critically in the southeast areas that were hit by drought conditions last year, as well as near the lakes that experienced reduced yield and acreage due to the 2011 flood," says a bulletin put out by Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives and Manitoba Beef Producers.
Newborn calves depend on well-nourished cows, so producers are being advised to seek out professional advice before substituting alternatives such as molasses, or hemp screenings, pea flour, and oat hulls into their herd rations.
Manitoba Beef Producers general manager Cam Dahl said the situation is worst for producers still waiting for compensation promised by the federal and provincial governments in the wake of the 2011 flood that left pastures and hay lands unproductive in 2012.
"Instead, they appear to be at a stalemate, blaming each other for the lack of progress," Dahl said in a letter to farm newspapers. "(Producers) were promised compensation and they deserve compensation. It is not right that producers are being forced to contemplate liquidating their herds because the required compensation has not been forthcoming."
All in all, it's turning into a pretty typical year in Prairie farming -- a bunch of 'ifs,' some definite 'maybes' and a whole lot of waiting for things farmers can't control.
Laura Rance is editor of the Manitoba Co-operator. She can be reached at 792-4382 or by email: email@example.com


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|FYI — May 2003
|By Brad Dunn
Northeast to Middle East
The pair of New Jersey-based cutters, the USCGC Adak from Sandy Hook and the USCGC Bainbridge Island from Highlands, were deployed with a total of about 35 officers and crew toward an undisclosed location in the region.
In the Northeast the 110-foot, high-speed patrol boats were conducting homeland security operations; in the Middle East, they were assigned to protect naval ships from suicide bombers, like the ones that attacked the USS Cole in 2001.
"The ship is in the best shape it's been in since I've been in command, and the crew looks good," said Lt. Sean MacKenzie, skipper of the Adak, according to the Associated Press.
Though MacKenzie had never seen combat, the ten-year Coast Guard veteran did patrol New York Harbor immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. To prepare for the contingency of war, MacKenzie and his crew conducted intense drills for three months to sharpen their interdiction and port security operations.
"In a way, it's exciting," said Matthew James, operations petty officer. "This is different, going into a potentially hostile area."
In a public statement, Coast Guard officials said the aim of the deployment is to protect high-value targets, such as Navy ships, oil tankers, and military command vessels.
MacKenzie said the months of drills and preparations have boosted the crew's attitude toward their mission.
"You wind up increasing your confidence level quite a bit about your ability to protect yourself and the assets you're in charge of," he said. "We're definitely ready to go."
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How does one teach quantitative reasoning skills? These modules offer pedagogical models and examples of their use. They have been made available through the Pedagogy in Action project:
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Once you've identified the core learning goals for your course, you can use these to focus your search for relevant materials in our resource collections.
Course Development
- The City University of New York's NICHE (Numeracy Infusion Course for Higher Education) Project provides information including assessment instruments, QR learning goals, and best practices for QR instruction.
Instructional Activities
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This collection of internet resources is intended to help faculty teaching QR courses. Many of the resources are good problems, class activities, lecture notes or PowerPoint presentations that are illustrated with useful diagrams, graphs and figures.
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- Mathematics Across the Community College Curriculum provides an extensive list of books and resources on quantitative reasoning and math across the curriculum.
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The study concluded that vaccination with NDV-3 induced potent, protective immune responses against VVC that were characterized by high anti-NDV-3 antibodies. These immune responses led to decreases in vaginal fungal burden. The study found that the mechanism of protection elicited by NDV-3 against VVC was mediated by both T-cells and B-cells.
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Pronunciation: mê-dhêr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: The female parent, a woman who bears and/or primarily raises a child.
Notes: Mother, the word, has borne a large and happy family of derivational offspring. The adjective and adverb of this noun are both motherly, which has a noun, motherliness, that expresses the affection and nurturing of good mothers. The status of being a mother is, of course, motherhood, as a woman who enjoys motherhood. The new term for "baby talk" is motherese since we discovered that it is an affectation of mothers and not childish speech. Just as mothers often must handle two jobs, so does today's Good Word, which doubles as a verb. "She mothers him too much," means that she is too attentive to his needs.
In Play: Mothers are the central part of our lives and often of other things as well: the central part of a computer is the motherboard and Mother Earth and Mother Nature completely enfold us. The mother of all sales would be the biggest imaginable sale and the one imitated by all others. Our mothers are the critical part of our lives and of things that are bigger than life.
Word History: It is most appropriate that the word for "mother" in Proto-Indo-European originated in the first recognizable syllable uttered by babies: ma. This syllable was attached to a kinship suffix, -ter, which also turns up in brother, father, and sister. The original form, mater-, later evolved into the current words for "mother" that we now find in all the Indo-European languages: Latin mater, Greek meter (as in metropolis, the mother city), German Mutter, French mère, Serbian majka, Russian mat', materi, Italian and Spanish madre, Portuguese mãe, Danish moder, Dutch and Afrikaans moeder, Norwegian and Swedish mor, Icelandic móðir, Irish máthair, Hindi mataji, Gujarati maataa, Farsi (Persian) madar, and Pashto (Afghanistan) mor. If you are a mother, may this day be as beautiful and exciting as your name in all these languages.
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At the reception table in the hall outside Anderson Family Commons, there was a lot of hugging going on. Also squeals of recognition and laughter, some back slapping and hand shaking. It was a reunion after all. Though most of the merry-makers were on winter break from high school or college, some came straight from work dressed in suits.
Whichever stage of life they're in now, whatever potential has been realized, it's a far cry from the summer they first stepped onto the Rice campus. Reconnecting
January 3, over a buffet dinner at the Jones School, the Rice Summer Business Institute (RSBI), and its graduates, families, teachers, and corporate friends celebrated the start of the tenth year of introducing ambitious high-school students from low- and moderate-income communities to the world of business. For two weeks every June, the program brings rising juniors and seniors from Houston high schools — Chinquapin, Davis, Harmony, KIPP, Reagan, Sam Houston, Wheatley, Yates, YES Prep — to the Jones School for first-hand exposure to the fundamentals of business, finance and energy.
Rahsaan King, a Harvard freshman studying, economics, statistics and social studies, participated in RSBI as both student in 2012 and teaching assistant in 2013. He has done non-profit work with inner city Houston students and is now founder and CEO of studentsofstrength.com, a network of scholars from top tier universities who serve as mentors, tutors, and academic support systems for struggling middle and high school students. "The Rice Summer Business Institute gave me the formal training and experience that prepared me to pursue my passion for social entrepreneurship."
King introduced the evening's keynote speaker, Jamey Rootes, president of the Houston Texans, who spoke about the notion of adversity, how to face a challenge and how to sustain success. His four points to staying on track were to stay humble, stay focused, stay balanced and keep going. "The path to realizing your potential lies with those four points," Rootes said. "You all have incredible capacity for success."Gaining perspective
When Jill Foote, executive director of RSBI, looks back, she can't believe it's been 10 years. She can't believe four former RSBI students are now enrolled at Rice as undergraduates. "These students have been able to accomplish amazing things. They have tremendous attitudes. It makes you realize what's important in life."
Along with a venture capital new business 'pitch competition,' a sports management case study, a competitive analysis of an episode of Pawn Stars, and a capstone team stock analysis and presentation, students at RSBI also take field trips to companies, including underwriter Bank of America Merrill Lynch, corporate sponsor ConocoPhillips (a sponsor since day one), Reliant Stadium (home of corporate sponsor McNair Foundation/Houston Texans), and the Federal Reserve.
"Our sponsors, our schools, even our faculty — everyone is changed by this program." What has had the biggest visible impact? "To watch the kids' horizons expand. To watch them step through a series of doors — it's extraordinary. Because of the business institute, they're able to visualize what is possible for them."Lessons learned
Testimonials from former students bring the real message to the people — a room full of family, friends, faculty and graduates of RSBI.
Rudy Ramirez, a 2006 graduate of RSBI, formerly with JP Morgan Chase now in investment banking with Key Bank, said, "I grew up in the Fifth Ward. Going to RSBI motivated me to pursue finance and business. It made me realize I could do this." He added that he values the relationships he made while a participant. "I can still come back here and talk to my professors." His gratitude for the program has also made him motivated to give back.
Paloma Mendoza, a 2011 graduate who came back in 2012 as a teaching assistant, studies civil engineering at Vanderbilt. "I learned you don't have to be over 30 to be a leader; networking is important in a career; and I could be a successful professional."
Kierra Lee, a 2008 graduate of RSBI who had, days earlier, graduated cum laude from Texas A&M, said with resounding emotion, "The summer business institute was a foundation for me, to see my potential."
Now that Dr. Foote and James Lenz, associate director of the finance center and Rice MBA '07, have tracked down many of the RSBI alumni, they're looking forward to celebrating the students' success stories for years to come, especially the first RSBI graduate who comes full circle as a Rice MBA.


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On most of my sites I have a simple logging system of all PHP page requests that I save to the database to have something easier to work with than Apache logs. I collect data such as URL, IP, host name, user agent, sometimes username, session ID, etc. I also collect the time the page took to render. The way I measure time is like this: at the start of the script (common index.php) I store microtime(true) in a global variable and then in my shutdown function I take another measurement and store the time duration. This works well in most cases but this measurement may also include the time the remote client took to download the page. While this knowledge is useful I'd also like to have a measurement of 'pure' PHP execution time excluding the network data travel.
Most of the pages are rendered with template engine (for example Smarty) but there are also pages that are rendered by a separate class (for example, XML reports, generated PDF pages, downloads, etc.). So there's really no uniform way of sending output to the client and there's no one particular final echo statement or ob_get_contents which I could precede with a microtime() measurement to know how much time PHP spent on executing the CPU intensive tasks of the script. Smarty uses output buffering so HTML pages are sent in one go, which makes the measurement accurate in most of the cases, however sometimes the network transfer times can add up to it.
I'm wondering, is there some universal way to measure the script execution time while ignoring the time it takes to send the page to a remote client?
I'm not sure why you think that time would include the downloading of the data to the end user. That's Apache's job and thus it would be difficult for your application to contain that (wouldn't it?)... So unless you have any CURL calls or are accessing databases across the network, the network communication stored within that time would be very minimal.
Another thought (that may prove or disprove my claim)
You can always use time wget <url> to see how it matches up with the time your log states it took. If there is a deviation between the two, yours does not contain the time the client needs to download and load the page.
I'm sure in some cases the time includes the downloading of the data, there's no question about it since I've studied the logs enough to see what is going there.
Normally, when you output the page using echo the data gets buffered to some predefined length and then it is sent to the browser and so on and on (that's why you can immediately send output to the browser using flush() or ob_flush() ). Then the PHP script will wait for each chunk of data to be received by the client. Sure, it's Apache's job but here PHP is running under Apache and it's PHP's job to tell Apache what to send :).
But in my case the situation is better because on most pages the template engine buffers all output before sending it to the client, moreover zlib compression is enabled on the server, which further prevents from sending data in chunks so the measurements stay pretty accurate (fractions of a second).
However, I've noticed that scripts that output large XML files (around 3MB) run for quite a while (even >30 seconds) and data transfer is included in the time. I know because for those I have a separate log file where I count how much the generation script runs before it starts outputting and the difference is quite large. For example, generating XML takes 4 seconds (measured up to just before the final echo) while the whole script duration (measured up to the shutdown function execution) takes 20-30 seconds. There's really nothing else that could take so long apart from the sending data to the client.
I've also seen some rare cases when PHP scripts of standard (buffered) html pages took very long to complete. I had a few page requests by some bot from China which took 300 seconds as measured up to the shutdown function. And there was nothing abnormal in my PHP scripts, they didn't do any processing during that time (my hosting provider confirmed there was no CPU usage at all), they simply hanged waiting for the response from the client until the server timeout was reached and ended.
So I'm pretty sure sending data is included in the global measurement, at least in some of the cases. Of course, we are not talking about any CURL requests and the like - there are none in the scripts I'm taking into account.
I see the use of echo/ob_flush as part of your scripts execution, sure apache may start to send that output to the user for "actual download" but the compiling of that output and the memory/streams developed from it are still part of your script's execution.
That still "shouldn't" include the actual processing of that data being sent from apache to the user's browser...
I agree with cpradio. It would be a very poor design decision if the PHP Dev team made the script pause every time you called echo for the network activity to finish before proceeding with the script.
To test it, run the same script from the browser and the command line and you shouldn't see any difference.
I don't know if I understood what you were trying to say in the first sentence. What I meant was that Apache may start to send the output to the browser while the PHP script is still running and actually waiting for Apache to finish, while Apache is waiting for the browser to receive the data, which in effect results in PHP waiting for the browser. In such cases 'echoing' is included in script's execution time. See my reply to Tom below.
Well, but in fact this is how PHP works - almost. I didn't say the PHP script waits every time after calling echo for the network activity to finish but it does so after the output buffer is filled. And the butter gets filled many times if the output is large - in such cases PHP waits for the network after sending the content of each buffer. Of course, I'm talking about default behaviour - zlib compression and the like will surely change how it works.
Okay, since you both sounded so convincing I had to really test it :). Here is my test script:
ini_set('zlib.output_compression', '0'); // on my server gzip is on by default so I turn it off
$str = str_repeat('A ', 3*1024*1024);
$start = microtime(true);
echo $str."\
echo round(microtime(true) - $start, 3);
This effectively sends 6 MB of data to the browser. Opening the script in the browser results in measurement of about 25 seconds on my 2Mbit/s connection. Fetching the script with wget from the same server results in 0.142 s. measurement. So echo CAN take a lot of time waiting for the browser to receive the data.
I get strange results with that test....
Browser (Chrome):
Output of microtime 0.063
Command Line (php buffer.php):
Output of microtime 0.576
Command Line (php buffer.php > test.out):
Output of microtime 0.01
wget (wget http://localhost/buffer.php | cat buffer.php):
Output of microtime 0.032
Command line is 9 times slower (probably because it is using stdout)!
I'm still not convinced that what you say is happening, is truly happening... so I found that if you put %D in your apache LogFormat, it tells you how long the request took in microseconds! COOL!
So let's see what apache says for wget http://localhost/buffer.php:Output from cat buffer.php: 0.031Output from tail access.log (microseconds in bold): ::1 - - [07/Oct/2013:19:37:48 -0400] "GET /buffer.php HTTP/1.1" 200 6291739 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)" 0/56520
Seems the request via apache far exceeds what PHP states and more so lines up with php from the command line.
Okay, let's increase this:
$str = str_repeat('A ', 10*1024*1024);
php from the command line (stdout): 1.898php from the command line (to file): 0.032 (time php buffer.php > test.out reports 0.260)wget: 0.061apache access.log: ::1 - - [07/Oct/2013:19:42:19 -0400] "GET /buffer.php HTTP/1.1" 200 20971804 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)" 0/108153browser (Chrome): 0.217apache access.log: ::1 - - [07/Oct/2013:19:43:16 -0400] "GET /buffer.php HTTP/1.1" 200 20703 "http://localhost:12710/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.76 Safari/537.36" 0/237888
As you can see, Apache, wget, and the command line all have additional overhead. The command line actually has the overhead "built in", which is strange and it has a bit more overhead when using time php buffer.php; but it literally is 1.853 versus 1.941 so it is hardly measurable. I still believe this to be due to using stdout (which my data seems to support).
Nonetheless, I still think you are not seeing anything from apache in your time output. I just can't fathom a scripting language knowing when apache is working or apache halting/pausing the script execution whilst it feeds a partial buffer output to the user. That just doesn't make sense.
If you test this script in the browser make sure gzip is turned off, otherwise the echo will execute very fast because the output needs to be buffered and compressed first before sending it to the browser. I was able to reproduce the same behaviour (about 25 seconds) on 3 different Apache servers. Sometimes the echo executed in a fraction of a second like in your case so it was enough for me to disable gzip support in my browser and then it changed to 25 seconds. I believe apart from gzip there can be other optional mechanisms buffering the whole output and making echo fast, however this is not the default behaviour.
As you noticed wget and command line may have additional overhead depending on where you direct the output but even a small overhead proves my point that echo waits for the remote client to finish receiving output otherwise you would see the same fraction of a second regardless of how you invoke the script, it's just that sending data to command line on the same server is much faster then sending it to a remote browser.
In my server logs I also don't see the times including the echo but I believe it is because server logs report CPU time. Anyway, this doesn't change anything here.
So what am I seeing then? The script timed the echo to take 25 seconds, how else can you explain this? As far as I remember PHP has always worked like that - waiting for the browser to receive the next chunk of data. And yes, you can prevent the PHP script from finishing at all by pressing the stop button in your browser. Whether this makes sense or not is another subject, however it allows for progressive rendering of a webpage with a lot of content, at least to some extent. This behaviour is often overriden by the use of compression methods so we don't notice it much nowadays and in many cases it is not practical anyway.
Anyway, this discussion sidetracked to me trying to prove that the blue colour I see is blue while I'd like to hear some suggestions as to how to time the script without including outputting to network. I already know that zlib compression is a solution that works, however sometimes there are browsers/clients/bots that do not support gzip and in such cases I notice the network being added to the time.
Sorry, I think my point wasn't clear, or I didn't accurately indicate my point. wget's microtime output from PHP was less than what Apache reported it to take in the logs. Thus the overhead was outside of PHP and was in Apache territory.
You'd have to add the %D to your LogFormats to see the execution time Apache records for your script (which includes its' sending of the output of your script to the client).
Honestly, I think you are seeing PHP fill its stream, request more memory allocation, filling it again, and repeat. That is costly and can easily happen with large output. The only solution to those (that I know of) is gzip or some other compression library for your output. At my old job we used .NET but we had one specific page that took 10 seconds to load when all of the others took 1-2 seconds. gzip dropped it down to 5 seconds, and the other 3 seconds were found to be related to poorly written code (it had nearly 600 SQL queries that I condensed down to 12).
If you profile your script, what does it show as the execution time? Versus the log in Apache? All of the tests I performed indicated that using wget, apache, or CLI with stdout, all produced additional overhead above the microtime reported by the script itself, so their handling of the output added on to the scripts execution time. I really think you are seeing the stream size fill, expand, and then fill again. That would create a "pause" effect because PHP can't write any more output until the stream size is increased. If it is doing that repeatedly, than that makes it take even longer. But I honestly still can't fathom this being an Apache issue. Do you have access to nginix or lightHttpd? Does it happen there too?
Ok, I see now. Yes, some additional overhead outside of PHP can be expected.
Unfortunately, I don't have root access to the server so I'm not able to change the log format. There is execution time in the log but the sending output is not included there so it must be a different log format.
I could try profiling the code but I don't think it would make sense because there are certain signs that prove 100% the echo time to be dependent on the network connection. PHP filling its stream and requesting memory allocation does not sound possible - well, it's possible it happens but why so long? Processing 6MB of data in 25 seconds is just incredibly slow, I might believe it if it was 20 years ago. Besides, why would turning on gzip suddenly shorten it to 0.0xx seconds? 25 seconds is just the time it takes to download 6MB over 2 Mbit/s connection plus some minimal overhead, and this is exactly what is happening here.
Also, the echo statement will execute much faster than 25 seconds if I press the stop button in my browser. In such a case PHP will detect the stop button and terminate the script, calling the shutdown function if there is any. When you move the final time calculation to the shutdown function and save the result to a file you can actually test it and see that the script execution time depends on the network and can be stopped at any time by the remote client. Then any statement after the echo will not be executed at all. So it is NOT only a pause effect - there are real pauses happening and also real script termination caused by the remote client. And this can be all measured by microtime() in PHP.
I don't have nginx or lighthttpd so I can't test it. But this behaviour certainly depends on the server, it's even mentioned here. Of course, this page is about flush() behaviour, however by default PHP automatically flushes output after the buffered is filled. And I don't notice this phenomenon on my windows testing computer, which is in line with what the PHP documentation says (Several servers, especially on Win32, will still buffer the output from your script until it terminates before transmitting the results to the browser.).
Edit: I cannot be sure whether it's PHP or Apache that auto-flushes output to the browser in chunks. However, this is what is happening for all practical purposes.


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Guthrie matches KC record for unbeaten starts
Royals right-hander pins down Indians in Game 1 of day-night twin bill
KANSAS CITY -- There just seems to be no beating Jeremy Guthrie.
Guthrie made his 16th consecutive start without a loss for Kansas City in the Royals' 9-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday in the first game of a day-night doubleheader at Kauffman Stadium.
That string of undefeated starts, dating to last Aug. 8, matched the club record set by Royals Hall of Fame left-hander Paul Splittorff from Aug. 13, 1977, to April 22, 1978.
The game, which began in 68-degree sunshine and finished at 73, drew 22,001 fans including walk-up sales of more than 6,400. This was the first split doubleheader at home in Royals history.
The Royals beat right-hander Justin Masterson, who came into the game with a 4-1 record and a 1.85 ERA. He, too, was seeking a special achievement. He was 5-0 in April 2011 and, with a victory on Sunday, he could've become the first pitcher since 1920 to have five or more April wins in multiple seasons.
"Justin Masterson is such a good pitcher and going into the game, my mind was prepared for a low-scoring affair, that we were going to have to squeak out some runs," Royals manager Ned Yost said.
But by the afternoon was over, the Royals had a home run and two RBIs each from Alcides Escobar and Alex Gordon and two RBIs also from Jarrod Dyson.
Masterson was dinged for seven runs on nine hits in his 6 1/3 innings. This was the Royals' highest-scoring game since they had nine runs in the sixth game of the season at Philadelphia.
"It was a great day offensively and a great day for our pitching staff," Yost said.
Guthrie started his undefeated streak of 16 starts on Aug. 8, 2012, at Chicago. Since then he's had a 7-0 record and a 2.44 ERA. Even better, the Royals have won 14 of those 16 games.
"Ultimately it means a lot because it means that hopefully the guys behind me, when I go out, are confident they have a chance to win the game," Guthrie said.
Guthrie pitched into the seventh inning, working around hits or walks in every inning. He said he learned a lot about the Indians by watching Ervin Santana pitch seven shutout innings in Saturday night's 3-2 victory and listening to catcher Salvador Perez on Sunday morning.
"To see Ervin got out there yesterday and do what he did, that gives everybody else confidence, to see him be able to dissect the lineup and just be as dominant as he was just gives me a little bit of a blueprint," Guthrie said. "And Salvy carried that over into the meetings today."
He also gave Perez credit for throwing out Jason Kipnis trying to steal to end the third inning.
"Salvy throwing that guy [out] at second from his knees the way he did was a big momentum-shifter for me and kind of got me out of a jam," Guthrie said.
About the closest the Indians came to scoring was on Carlos Santana's drive to the top of the right-center field wall in the second inning. It was a double, but the Indians thought it might have cleared the wall for a homer. A video replay, however, verified it was a double.
The Indians' Nick Swisher has been impressed by the Royals' pitching.
"I think that whole staff kind of has a different philosophy, the way they're going about pitching now," Swisher said. "They do a good job. I think the biggest thing is we've got a good amount of guys on this team who take a lot of pitches. We try to wear pitchers down. Those guys are throwing strikes, man. The next thing you know, you blink your eyes, and you're down 0-2.""
By the fifth inning, Guthrie had a 4-0 lead. That came when Escobar lined a home run just inside the left-field foul pole off Masterson's first pitch. It was Escobar's third home run this year and the 500th hit of his career.
"To get 500 with a homer is really nice," Escobar said. "We had a lot of offense. Everybody did something."
Indeed, everyone in the lineup got on base at least once -- Mike Moustakas four times on three walks and a single. His run-scoring walk in the seventh marked the Royals' fifth walk with the bases loaded this season.
Moustakas' first two walks each came with two outs and ignited scoring for the Royals in the second and fourth innings. Each walk came on four pitches, baffling Masterson.
"I think there was a force field around the strike zone for his first two at-bats. I couldn't put it there," Masterson said. "I have no clue why. It was unbelievable."
Jeff Francoeur hit an RBI double to the left-center field wall for the Royals' first run. Eric Hosmer banged a run-scoring single. Dyson, giving center fielder Lorenzo Cain a break, drove in his two runs with a double and a single.
Gordon capped off the scoring in the eighth, belting a two-run homer off reliever Scott Barnes. Gordon's third homer of the season came after Chris Getz walked and it traveled an estimated 416 feet to right-center field.
"He works hard at being a good hitter and when he gets his pitches, he doesn't miss 'em," Yost said.
Guthrie was pulled in the seventh with two out and two on and left-hander Tim Collins got the third out. Luke Hochevar finished up with two scoreless innings and the former starter got to absorb the cheers and get the handshakes at the mound.
"That's fun. As a starter, the only time you're getting that is when you go [a complete game]," Hochevar said. "It's fun finishing games like that, especially with the adrenaline, it's real fun."
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Here's a sad example of compounded stupidity:
Two people were injured when a shotgun accidentally discharged at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
State Agricultural Department spokesman Brian Long said a 12-gauge shotgun discharged while its owner unzipped its case. A law enforcement officer was to check it at a security entrance.
Witness Daniel Peadan told WNCN that a deputy was unloading the weapon at a security check-in area. "I was actually getting ready to step inside the building. I was at the door when I heard a loud pop," Peadan said.
Mistake #1: Never case a loaded firearm.
If you are going to transport a weapon, unload it, verify the chamber is clear, and insert a chamber flag. In the long history of firearms, no-one has been shot with a gun that had an empty chamber verified by a chamber flag. You should have one (or more) for every gun you own.
Mistake #2: make sure the safety is on.
Unless it malfunctioned, it was off.
Mistake #3: Never point a firearm at anything you aren't willing to destroy.
Rather obviously, this firearm was not pointed in a safe direction.
Mistake #4: Never pull the trigger until you are on target.
We're not told if this firearm had the trigger pulled by the person or by material inside the case, but unless there was a mechanical failure, the trigger was pulled when it shouldn't have been.
Let's all pray that the persons injured recover quickly and fully, with no last damage.
As for the person(s) responsible for this negligent discharge, they need to face charges. I've never encountered a real gun "accident," just negligent gun handling.


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With the changes in wheat beginning stock almost fully offsetting, foreign wheat supplies are up 7.5 million tons, while foreign wheat use in 2013/14 is projected to increase 6.9 million tons this month to a record 671.1 million. All the global increase in wheat use is from foreign disappearance, as U.S. domestic wheat use is unchanged.
The largest increase is in wheat food, seed, and industrial use for India, up 2.0 million tons to 87.5 million. In order to at least partly relieve its bulging wheat stocks (currently at twice the required level), and dampen the high growth in domestic wheat prices, the Government of India has recently allocated a total of 9.5 million tons of wheat — 8.5 million tons to bulk consumers, and 1.0 million tons to small private traders — out of wheat stocks in Punjab and Haryana.
Another development in India that is expected to increase its food consumption (of both wheat and rice) is that the long-awaited overhaul of the Public Distribution System (PDS), a policy intended to support the hungry (nearly a quarter of the country's 1.2 billion population), finally has a chance to materialize.
In July 2013, the cabinet cleared the National Food Security Bill (NFSB), which is expected to be passed into law during the current August session of the Parliament. The food security bill is expected to restructure the PDS, which is acknowledged as being inefficient, leakage prone, and corrupt.
Wheat food use is also projected slightly up in Iran, Turkey, and several more countries.
The largest increases in wheat feed use are projected for China, EU, and Syria. China is expected to feed 1.0 million tons more wheat with some of it coming from the abundant but lower quality harvest. A substantial amount of this wheat is below the government quality requirements for storage.
State reserves being rotated out of storage because of low quality or damage are also expected to boost wheat feeding.
At the same time, China is expected to boost imports of high-quality wheat for both milling purposes (mixing with low-quality wheat), and to replace the sub-par wheat in its state reserves. Some wheat imported into southern China may move directly into feed channels.
With more projected wheat output of marginal quality (because of generally wet growing conditions), the EU is expected to feed another 0.7 million tons, reaching 53.2 million of feed use (about the average of recent years).
In Syria, wheat feeding is projected to double, up 0.5 million tons to 1.0 million. Because of the political conflict, the Government is reportedly not capable of procuring its usual share of the harvest, as the large wheat-producing areas in the north are under the insurgents' control.
Because of a record in both wheat production and yields, though of low quality, residual use is projected to increase year to year, while farmers in the northern part of the country are expected to use more of their wheat on farms as animal feed.
To counterbalance the shortage of wheat in the government-controlled part of the country, and to be able to feed the population, the regime is regularly issuing official tenders and buying larger than expected quantities of wheat.
Feed use is also expected to be higher in Moldova and Kazakhstan (up 0.3 and 0.2 million tons) because of higher production; in Morocco (up 0.2 million tons) because of higher beginning stocks; and by less than 0.1 million tons in a number of countries. Wheat feed use is projected lower in Thailand, Vietnam, and Jamaica because of lower expected wheat imports.
World wheat ending stocks for 2013/14 are up 0.6 million tons this month to 173.0 million, as projected increases in production are marginally larger than this month's growth in expected use. The increase in foreign stocks is larger, up 1.3 million tons to 158.0 million, as U.S. wheat stocks are down 0.7 million tons.
Projected global stocks are down only 1 percent from last year, and almost 27 million tons lower than in 2011/12. The largest increase this month in ending stocks is for Iran, up 1.3 million tons to a record of 7.4 million.
The country appears to continue to amass record-level wheat reserves, a trend that started about a year ago, and is related to the sanctions and other reactions of Western countries to Iran's nuclear program.
Ending stocks are also projected up 0.8 million tons for Pakistan, with its reported substantial purchases of wheat mostly from the Black Sea countries.
Partly offsetting is a decline in EU wheat ending stocks, down 0.7 million tons to 11.0 million. Despite a hefty increase in production, lower expected imports and higher exports pull the stocks down. There are small (under 0.3 million tons) changes in projected ending stocks this month for a number of countries.
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The use of Teambox has been transformational for Western Wyoming Community College, Bodily said, allowing it to do a much better job of addressing its entire service area, which is the size of the state of Rhode Island. Putting the nursing program online has made it possible to serve many students who could not have found time to drive hundreds of miles, sometimes in dangerous weather, to attend class in person, he said. "This has opened up an opportunity for people who had no opportunity before."
Before the college could make distance learning practical, however, it needed a tool that matched its teaching strategy. The nursing program follows a methodology called Problem-based Learning that was developed for use in medical schools but can also be applied to other professional disciplines. This is a student-centered approach intended to focus on developing problem-solving skills, which forces students to define what they need to learn to solve a problem under the guidance of the instructor, who acts as a tutor and coach rather than a lecturer.
"It's been around since the 1960s, but it's not commonplace," Bodily said. However, his college has found it to be effective, he said.
An example of a problem-based learning exercise would be to present students with the case of a 57-year-old truck driver who stumbles into the cab of his truck, sits down slowly and falls over backward. A bystander calls 911, and the man is brought into the hospital as a suspected heart attack victim. As Bodily explains, the problem for the class is to make sure this man will be treated for the right thing: "Not so fast -- how would you know if someone's had a heart attack? What are your responsibilities in the emergency room?
"The process itself is absolutely collaborative," Bodily said, but until recently the teaching methods to support it were only available in the classroom. Now, more of the discussion about the right way to respond to this incident can take place online, he said. Meanwhile, Teambox's task management and file sharing capabilities allow him to manage course assignments and deadlines, as well as the distribution of course materials, he said.
Students with more social media savvy may pick up on how to use Teambox a little faster, but those who have made regular use of any Web-based application, such as online banking, get the idea pretty quickly, Bodily said. "The people who have trouble with this technology would also have trouble with the LMS," he said.
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Cricket Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Australian, Michael Dighton, to the position of National Coach.
Dighton, the former Tasmanian batsmen, is a veteran of over 60 First Class Australian domestic matches scoring over 4000runs, and recently assisted Netherlands at the 2011 Cricket World Cup in South Asia. Michael has also had coaching stints as head coach of the Cricket Australia National Emerging Talent Rookie Squad and the batting coach of the Tasmania u23 side.
As an overseas player, Dighton has also had stints with Hampshire, Derbyshire, & Netherlands in the ECB's pro-40 competition.
Vimal Hardat, Cricket Canada's Vice-President was excited to make the announcement from Toronto this morning.
"We are thrilled to have someone of Michael's background on board to direct our drive to the 2015 Cricket World Cup and restore our position as one of the top Associate Cricket Nations. Michaels drive and determination to succeed will be a welcome addition to our programs and we look forward to him joining us."
Dighton for his part was upbeat and looking forward to the challenge following his arrival in Canada this morning,
"I will place a big emphasis on physical preparation and fielding, the two areas that we can control and always improve on. I will encourage an attacking and dynamic brand of cricket combined with smart decision making…"
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A college education can be very important in deciding your life's direction, because it helps you figure out what you're good at doing.
Or, as in Brian Regan's case, what you're not so good at doing.
"My nickname in college was 'Rip,' for Rip Van Winkle," Regan offered in a recent telephone interview. "I literally couldn't get up in the morning, so everybody called me Rip. It was like a running gag: 'Where's Rip?' 'He's probably sleeping.' I remember having these early, like 7 a.m., classes that I just couldn't get to. I remember thinking, 'If this world requires you to get up and be at places before the sun comes up, I don't think I can handle it.'
"And then a comedian came to perform at my college, and his show started at 8 p.m., and I thought, 'Wow, you can wake up in the afternoon and do this.' It was a very comforting feeling."
That was a long, long time ago, of course, and in the 30-plus years that followed his moment of slow-awakening inspiration, Regan has become one of the most accomplished and hard-working standup comedians on the planet.
A native of Miami, Fla., Regan admits that his college-aged shift into comedy was also prompted by something he actually learned in one of his classes.
"One of the first moments that I realized I wanted to do this for a living was when I was taking a speech class in college," he recalled. "I tried to make my speeches funny, just so I wouldn't be bored, and I ended up killing in front of a class of 35 students and the teacher at the back of the room.
"It was an experience I had never had before, and I remember walking back to the dorm, feeling like I was walking on a cloud -- I thought, 'I never feel like this when I'm walking back to the dorm after biology class.' And I started to realize that whatever that was, I wanted more of it. And that was it. That's how it started."
Clearly, it was a lesson well learned. Starting out in a local Miami club at which the open-mike performers were relegated to spots after the headliner had finished and most of the crowd had gone home, Regan began the workmanlike process of building an act, and then a following, and then a career.
This week, Regan, 56, starts the second leg of his current 79-city North American tour with a series of Canadian stops that includes a show on Sunday, Aug. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre (tickets are $56 at Ticketmaster).
Known for his sarcastic, energetically physical and often self-deprecating style as well as his refreshingly clean style of humour, Regan is one of those rare few performers who are described as "a comedian's comedian" because they are so widely admired by their peers.
Among Regan's biggest fans are Marc Maron, host of the definitive comedy podcast WTF, late-night host David Letterman (Regan has performed on The Late Show 26 times, more than any other comedian), and longtime friend Jerry Seinfeld, who chose Regan as one of the first ride-along guests for his hugely popular online series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
"That was a huge honour," said Regan. "When he first started to do this, I don't think he had a second season or a third season in mind. The way Jerry Seinfeld described it to me was that he had about 10 or 15 comedians that he wanted to do this with, so to be included was a big thing.
"He's always been very kind to me, and he's always said very nice things about my comedy, going way back to before he had his TV show. It's been a big deal to me that he's always kind of been in my corner, comedy-wise, and when he decided he was going to do (Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee) and said he wanted me to be one of them, it was definitely an honour. I think everybody else he's done has been a name that people know; I might be the only one where the average Joe Blow would have no idea who I am.
"I felt like I was being knighted or something. It was really nice."
Perhaps Seinfeld's appreciaton of Regan's humour is rooted in their shared preference for not relying on profanity to punctuate their material. On that topic -- choosing clean-scrubbed over blue-hued -- Regan said it's really more a matter of personal taste than any kind of strategic career decision.
"For the most part, it's just how I think comedically," he says. "I enjoy trying to get laughter out of everyday things. I'm not the kind of guy who likes to do hurtful comedy -- I like the people I'm with to laugh, too; I don't want anybody to be the butt of the joke. If there's 10 people around, I don't want to be, 'Hey, nine of us are going to laugh at you and your stupid face.' I want all 10 to be laughing.
"Something that's really interesting to me is that I have this tape -- a guy I went to college with gave it to me -- that we made when I was a freshman in college, before I had taken that speech class and got into comedy. It's just a tape of the two of us goofing around in our dorm room ... one of those fake-interview things, where he keeps trying to turn it in a dirty, filthy direction and I keep spinning back in more of an off-the-wall, clean direction.
"I listened to it after I'd been doing comedy for 15 or 20 years, and it was very interesting, because I thought, 'Wow, that was my instinct, even before I was a comedian.' It shows that even back then, I was doing what I love. I'm kind of proud of that."
You can sample some of Brian Regan's comedy at http://brianregan.com/clips-pics/ .
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MEDIA in the Philippines are reporting that courtroom shooter John Pope was a former Manitoban who once wrote speeches for Tory backbenchers in the Gary Filmon government.
The Cebu Daily News said Pope stated in court documents he had "worked as a full time speechwriter and researcher for the provincial caucus of backbenchers in the ruling Progressive Conservative Party for the province of Manitoba in Canada."
Meanwhile, Inquirer Global Nation, a Manila-based newspaper, ran a photo of Pope's 2001 Manitoba driver's licence, which listed his birthdate as Jan. 1, 1946.
The Associated Press in Manila said a Canadian man facing charges of illegal possession of firearms opened fire in a Philippines courtroom Tuesday, killing two people and wounding a prosecutor before police fatally shot him.
"The suspect, John Pope, appeared in court in central Cebu city to face the charges when he pulled out a gun and shot a lawyer and a physician who filed a case against him, police said.
He then fired at a prosecutor in the hallway of the building before police fatally wounded him, said police Chief Mariano Natuel," AP reported.
The PC caucus could not confirm Tuesday evening that Pope had worked for the party during the Filmon years, but at least one veteran remembers a caucus employee by the same name,
"There was a man by that name that worked in PC caucus. I can neither confirm or deny it's the same man," said caucus spokesman Mike Brown.
"Nobody really knew him. One staff member remembered the name, but little more. He was on staff during the '90s, but it doesn't sound like he was here for a long time."
Bonnie Staples-Lyon, at one time press secretary for then-premier Gary Filmon, said neither she nor two former Filmon officials she contacted Tuesday evening remembered Pope.
Other Filipino media sources identified Pope as a Canadian national born in St. Cloud, Minn., and said he identified himself as a former journalist.
The AP reported regional police director Marcelo Garbo said Pope ignored orders to surrender and tried to fire at police.
The Philippine Star reported on its website Tuesday that Pope, who was in his 60s, was carrying two firearms -- a .357-calibre revolver, which he used to shoot the victims, and a .45-calibre pistol police later recovered from a bag he carried.
Police said they were investigating Pope's background.
Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs said Canadian officials were in direct contact with Philippine authorities and were providing consular assistance to Pope's family, the AP reported.
"Our deepest sympathies are with those affected by the terrible event in the Philippines," department spokeswoman Amanda Reid said.
Philippines media reported on Pope in 2011, when police held him on charges of illegal possession of firearms.
The physician killed in Tuesday's shooting accused Pope, his neighbour, of brandishing a weapon and threatening him and other residents of their condominium.
The Freeman, an English newspaper in Cebu, reported online Tuesday that Pope had been living in Cebu for 15 years and had been served with a deportation order late last year. The news outlet reported that he had not been deported before the shooting because he still had pending court cases.
The Cebu Daily News reported that a check with the Bureau of Immigration in Cebu showed Pope was a retiree visa holder and had been a resident of Cebu city for 14 years.
A former neighbour, who asked not to be named, said that sometime in mid-2000, Pope owned a condominium unit at Residenza Tuscania and Rafols lived in a townhouse inside the same residential compound at Barangay (village) Guadalupe in Cebu city, the Cebu newspaper said.
Rafols was then association president when Pope approached Rafols to complain about "something so crazy, so miniscule."
But Pope reportedly got mad when Rafols didn't act on his complaint. During an association meeting, Pope complained someone would knock on his door but when he opened it, no one was around.
The source said Pope told the association he suspected Rafols was the one annoying him.
To appease him, the association posted a guard outside his unit, but Pope still complained that the knocking continued.
A source said Pope would stone Rafols' townhouse, though Rafols maintained he never knocked on the door of the Canadian's condo unit.
Barangay captain Michael Gacasan of Guadalupe, said Rafols filed several complaints against Pope.
"They met at least three times in the barangay hall, but their dispute was never settled. So the barangay issued a certification to file action," he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The Cebu newspaper said complaints about Pope were filed with the Canadian Consulate in Cebu, which responded that a personal dispute was best left to authorities.
When reached by phone, the newspaper said Wednesday that Canadian consul Robert Lee declined to comment, on instructions of the Canadian Embassy in Manila.


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I need some help with deciding how to encode some videos for the web that an outside firm has done for my company. I don't mess with videos much so I'm a bit of a n00b. The firm did some videos for us and now they want me to give them some encoding specifications. For the file format I told them .flv as it seems that will be easy to use with a .flv streamer like Flowplayer. But they are also asking about the resolution. They mentioned they could do "640 x 360 (360P) and use 1.2 to 2.0 Mb/sec" but I have no idea if this is a good choice. Can anyone give me some guidelines for these considerations?
Flv is an older format, you'd be better off using h.264 mp4, which can playback via flash but can also play without flash. How much bandwidth is required is dependant on how much movement there is within the movie, how detailed it is and how high the perceived quality needs to be. You should be able to err on the lower side of the bandwidth estimate using h.264 in the dimensions mentioned and still retain excellent quality.
Not all browsers support h.264, so is your statement "can playback via flash" the way to get around that? Do you have an example of the setup for that? It would be nice not to have to provide a whole bunch of formats, but I haven't heard of a way to use one format that all browsers can access.
It's as close as you can get to universality with one file - the browsers that don't support h.264 (firefox/chrome) do support flash, and as long as the h.264 profile is restricted to the simpler levels, it will also play on pretty much any mobile device.
If you embed a video tag, then have swfobject replace the element with a flash player pointing at the same file if flash is available, then the vast majority of people get to see it.
If you absolutely must have blanket coverage of every niche then you'd have to expend effort duplicating across extra formats, though I tend to agree with the majority of major online broadcasters who are currently settled on h.264 for their online format.
Are you able to link to an example where someone's done that? I've like to see it in action.
The [guardian homepage has a brightcove player that does this sort of thing (presumably all other brightcove corporate clients do too),[URL="http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/07/new-way-to-embed-youtube-videos.html"] youtube iframe embeds do similar, and the ubiquitous [URL="http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12539/supported-video-and-audio-formats"]longtailmedia players](http://www.guardian.co.uk/). Most of these have their own custom javascript rather than swfobject but are accomplishing the same end result.
Thanks EastCoast!
Old thread but for anyone currently experiencing the same problem here are a few points. - Select a video encoding / sharing platform (if you want ownership of your content you will need to look elsewhere than the obvious youtube) - Upload the video to the platform (should offer one click upload functionality) - Copy a line of script that the platform provides you with to embed the video (this will initiate the encoding process) - The video content is now ready to shared to whichever platform / device you select
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PHILADELPHIA -The University of Pennsylvania's Director of Athletics, Steve Bilsky, will be inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum on Sunday, April 21, 2013.
The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame & Museum is dedicated to honoring Jewish athletes, coaches, broadcasters and others who have distinguished themselves in the world of sports. Each year those persons being inducted are honored in a ceremony held at the Suffolk Y JCC in Commack, N.Y., the home of the Hall of Fame.
"This is an overwhelming honor," said Bilsky. "To join a group that spans my heroes growing up, to athletes I competed against, to colleagues I have worked with, makes me proud and humbled. I congratulate those receiving this recognition with me, and I look forward to our induction in the spring."
Bilsky was a three-time All-Ivy guard and captained a Penn team that was arguably the greatest in program history-in 1970-71, the Quakers went undefeated through the regular season and NCAA Tournament before falling in the East Regional final.
Now in his 19th year as Director of Athletics at his alma mater, Bilsky has created a rich environment for student-athletes to thrive athletically and academically.
During his tenure, 90 Penn teams have earned conference championships in 22 different sports. Penn has been honored with more than 369 Academic All-Ivy honorees, 34 Ivy League Players of the Year, and 133 All-Americans.
To support that success, Bilsky has made efforts to secure the best facilities and coaching for Penn. Since raising $800,000 in 1994, Penn Athletics has nearly quadrupled the athletic department's annual Weightman Fund. In addition, Penn Athletics recently surpassed its $112-million goal in its Campaign For Athletics Excellence capital campaign, which was part of the University's Making History campaign.
During Bilsky's tenure as AD, Penn has built or renovated nearly 20 facilities, most recently the state-of-the-art George A. Weiss Pavilion which was completed in 2010; Penn Park, which opened in September 2011; and Shoemaker Green in front of The Palestra, which was completed in August 2012.
In terms of personnel, the department has received specific donations to endow 10 head coaching positions as well as the Penn Relays directorship.
Bilsky has also raised Penn's profile nationally, as during his tenure the University has been the host institution for six NCAA Championship events.
In 1996, Bilsky formed the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame; a total of eight classes have been inducted, the most recent on May 10.
Before returning to Penn in 1994, Bilsky was executive director of the Department of Athletics and Recreation at George Washington University. Prior to that, he was assistant director of athletics at Penn (1979-83). His educational background includes a Master's degree in counseling psychology from the Oregon in 1975, and a bachelor's in economics from Penn's Wharton School in 1971.
Bilsky already is a member of the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame (1988), the Penn Athletic Hall of Fame (1998), and the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (2002).


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BEST-selling novelist J. K. Rowling says she is ''alarmed and dismayed'' at the response of the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to the Leveson report.
The Harry Potter author, who gave evidence about press intrusion into her family's privacy to the inquiry on media practice by Lord Justice Brian Leveson, argued that without statutory underpinning the recommendations would fail.
She said she had been left feeling ''duped and angry'' by Mr Cameron's hesitance to ''cross the Rubicon'' and introduce a press law.
''I thought long and hard about the possible consequences to my family of giving evidence and finally decided to do so because I have made every possible attempt to protect my children's privacy under the present system, and failed,'' Rowling said.
''If I, who can afford the very best lawyers, cannot guarantee the privacy of those dearest to me, what hope did the Dowlers, the McCanns and the Watsons ever have of protecting their children and their good names?''
The father of Madeleine McCann, one of several families of child victims of crime who appeared at the inquiry, said his evidence would prove ''almost useless'' if the recommendations were not implemented. Gerry McCann urged politicians to ''do the right thing'' and accept in full the suggestions for a new regulatory system.
The coverage of the disappearance of Madeleine, who went missing while on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007, was cited by Justice Leveson as an example of how stories ran ''totally out of control''.
Giving evidence to the inquiry last year, Madeleine's mother, Kate McCann, said she felt like ''climbing into a hole and not coming out'' after the now-defunct News of the World printed her personal diary.
Speaking on Friday after the release of the Leveson report, Mr McCann said: ''The only reason we went to Leveson was to effect change and if Leveson's report isn't implemented in full then I would say that giving evidence for all of the victims has been almost useless.''
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