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Is the Economy a Controllable Process?
All Processes, Including the Economy, Are Controllable, but That Does Not Mean They Will Be Controlled
"Ask the Experts" is moderated by Béla Lipták, editor of the three-volume Instrument Engineer's Handbook (IEH). While the publication of the 5th edition is years away, I am recruiting co-authors who will bring fresh blood and increase the global nature of the handbook. I welcome contribution offers from qualified colleagues. Submit questions to email@example.com.
Q: In 2005, Béla Lipták wrote an article describing how one might design a control system for the global economy as if it were an industrial process. ("Can an Automation Engineer Control the Economy?" Lessons Learned, Sept./Nov. 2005, www.controlglobal.com/articles/2005/479 and www.controlglobal.com/articles/2005/530.html). Has he done any more work in this area in the past five years?
Dr. David Scott III
A: Yes, all processes, including the economy, are controllable, but that does not mean they will be controlled. The prediction of my 2005 article unfortunately turned out to be fairly accurate, as the housing bubble did burst, showing that the laws of process control apply to all processes. Now, five years later, I believe that if the "control loop" is not corrected, in a couple of decades the whole global economy can become an uncontrollable runaway process. But, I also believe that this unstable process can be stabilized, if the recommendations of artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms are followed.
ANN can control processes we do not fully understand, if the behavior of the process is rational and predictable by "self-tuning." ANN is capable of learning the "personality" of any predictable process on the basis of its past performance, and determining its dynamics by observing its "dead time," "gain," "period of oscillation," etc. The key word here is "predictable," meaning that the future behavior of the process is predictable on the basis of its past behavior.
In case of the economy, this predictability itself is changing. For example, in the past, the period of its oscillation equaled about five dead times, but due to faster communications, its dead time is getting shorter. And, because of the general nervousness, its gain (sensitivity) is also increasing.
It is possible that the next cycle of oscillation of the unstable and runaway global economy might create an even worse upset than did the "housing bubble." This upset is likely to occur because our controller (the government) did not obey and implement the control algorithm shown in Figure 1. Why? Because the strategy of keeping the controlled variables (GDP, LEI, unemployment and debt) "on setpoint" by manipulating the flow of money into the economic process (by throttling taxation, expenditures, trade barriers, interest and exchange rates) was not implemented.
In a few decades, the ANN algorithm of Figure 1 will no longer be applicable because major new disturbance variables are evolving. These disturbances have both long dead times and large inertia, which tend to make control very difficult. Using process control language, these new disturbances are reset windup, loop interactions and limit control.
Reset wind-up occurs when the integral mode of the loop keeps integrating the area under the error curve while the controller output is prevented from correcting the error. This occurs when the loop is in manual, or when the control valve is already fully open. In case of the economy, this occurs when the "controller" increases the flow of money into the economy "in the manual mode" (without balancing it). This causes reset windup (the accumulation of error = debt). Under this manual control, interest rates are kept artificially low, and expenditures can be increased without increasing taxes. Eventually reset wind-up causes the loss of control. In the case of the economic process, the loss of control can result in the burst of the "debt bubble" and a major depression.
Interactions between control loops occur when the control actions of one loop upset another. This is how national economies operate today because they are not "cascaded" to (are not controlled by) a common master controller. This interaction is already occurring as the mostly open-loop, feed-forward totalitarian economies, such as China, interact with the mostly free-market based economies of the United States or the European Union that are under closed-loop (free-market based) feedback control.
The third, and probably the most important, new development is that the process itself is changing because the global economy is beginning to exceed its limits on resource availability because the rate of growth in consumption has already exceeded the rate of new resource discoveries. This changes the continuous control algorithm of the past, when pumping more money into the economy fueled economic expansion (assumed in Figure 1) into a constraint-limited process. As a result, the introduction of more money can no longer increase resource availability. If we continue to increase the use of exhaustible resources, the process will change into a batch process in the sense that once the supply is gone, it has to stop. The process of the economy can also be compared to an industrial process where the cooling water control valve has reached full opening. Once that occurs, cooling can't be increased, control is lost, and an explosion can be the result.
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The Italian government says an Italian journalist and a Belgian national who were kidnapped in Syria in April have been freed.
The government announced late Sunday night that Domenico Quirico, a correspondent for the Turin newspaper, would arrive soon on a flight to Rome.
Premier Enrico Letta's office added in a statement that Belgian Pierre Piccinin was also `'free" and was flying to Italy with Quirico.
The premier's office says `'hope had never faded" for Quirico's safe return but gave no details on how he became free. Quirico had entered Syria from Lebanon on April 6 and disappeared three days later while traveling to the city of Homs in war-torn Syria.
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Peer pressure can do a lot of things -- influence the clothes you buy, the cars you drive, even the friends you keep.
And now drought-stricken water suppliers are discovering peer pressure is an excellent water saving tool.
In the first large test program of its kind, 10,000 East Bay households cut water use by 5 percent over a year after getting regular reports comparing their use with similar size homes in their neighborhood.
East Bay Municipal Utility District households using less than the average for like homes got their water use reports stamped with a smiley face.
Households with average use got neutral faces. Households using more than the average got a stern face on their report, along with Web links to conservation tips tailored to their household.
The district board will be asked later this month to expand the program, which compares customer use to a neighborhood norm based on similar sized houses, families and yards.
"We get asked all the time by people who believe they use water efficiently, "What is a standard? " said Richard Harris, EBMUD's manager of water conservation. "This water report provides a goal tailored to similar households, and information how to reach it."
Psychologists say the comparison approach makes use of social norm based efficiency standards, which have been used to reduce natural gas and electricity use but not water use.
It's based on a common human desire not to be too different from the pack, said Wesley Schultz, a psychology professor at Cal State San Marcos.
"Absolutely, there is peer pressure involved here," said Schultz, who has studied social norms as a conservation tool, although he was not involved with the EBMUD test. "We don't want to be too different, so people who use more than their neighbors are motivated to save."
Water use can vary widely from home to home with differences in climate, home and family size, and landscaping. An average EBMUD home uses 250 gallons a day, but use is less in cooler areas with smaller yards and higher in hotter areas with bigger yards.
But wherever people live, surveys show most customers underestimate their water consumption, which is typically listed as gallons per day on water bills, said EBMUD spokeswoman Andrea Pook.
"The water bill isn't a great benchmark," Pook said.
But the household comparison reports can help save in the short term during droughts and in the long term to manage demand, said the California Water Foundation, a nonprofit research group that co-sponsored the test.
The household reports were designed by the WaterSmart Software company and sent out every two months from June 2012 to June 2013.
Most customers picked for the test were from Castro Valley because of the area's mild weather and modest-size homes.
Jim Robson, of Castro Valley, took part. He said seeing the water comparisons provided a wake-up call that made him decide to tear out his lawn last fall and plan to switch to low water use landscaping and irrigation.
"I try to be green, but I was surprised we were using as much water as we were," Robson said. "The reports helped to frame things."


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- Click Preview Dashboards if you'd like to see a preview of the dashboards included with the app before installing.
- In the Install Application dialog box, select the installation path (the default is the Personal folder in the library), or click New Folder to add a new folder.
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HOUSTON, Texas - The Houston Astros managed one win on a seven-game road trip and have not gotten the type of consistent starting pitching to compete in the American League.
The Detroit Tigers, who boast one of the best offenses in the league, will take aim at that pitching staff in the opener of a four-game series at Houston on Thursday. The Tigers had a five-game winning streak come to an end on Wednesday and are battling for first place in the AL Central.
The Astros were swept in a four-game series at Boston last weekend and dropped two of three against the New York Yankees to cap their road trip, with the lone win coming on Monday behind a stellar performance from Lucas Harrell. Unfortunately for Houston fans, Harrell can't start every day, and the rest of the rotation has not been able to slow opposing offenses. Erik Bedard lasted only four innings on Wednesday and Philip Humber was knocked around the previous night.
Detroit has Torii Hunter, Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder all hitting over .300 in the middle of the lineup and power throughout. Cabrera had two of the Tigers' six hits on Wednesday and has multiple hits in six of the last nine games to go along with 11 RBIs in that span.
TV: 8:10 p.m. ET, Fox Sports Detroit, Comcast SportsNet Houston
PITCHING MATCHUP: Tigers RH Rick Porcello (1-2, 8.84 ERA) vs. Astros RH Jordan Lyles (2012: 5-12, 5.09 ERA)
Porcello is trying to hold down the No. 5 starter spot and has been serviceable in most of his four starts, with the big exceptions being a meltdown at the Los Angeles Angels on April 20 when he was reached for nine runs and nine hits while recording two outs.
The 24-year-old bounced back from that with his first win on Saturday, holding Atlanta to three runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out a season-high five against the Braves.
Lyles was passed over for a rotation spot in spring training and began the season with Triple-A Oklahoma City. The 22-year-old made 40 starts for Houston over the previous two seasons and will take over the rotation spot of rookie Brad Peacock, who was pushed to the bullpen.
Lyles did not have great numbers in Oklahoma City last month, but the Astros were satisfied that he had made the necessary improvements to have success in the majors by attacking hitters and not falling behind in the count.
1. The Tigers' pitching staff set an AL record on Wednesday with the sixth straight game of at least 10 strikeouts. The Astros' offense leads the majors in strikeouts.
2. Houston is beginning a season-long 10-game homestand.
3. Fielder has 55 hits, including 14 home runs, in 46 career games at Minute Maid Park.
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After the Cincinnati Bengals cut defensive tackle Devon Still, they re-signed him to their practice squad.
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A new safety campaign to support Wiltshire's primary school pupils is being launched on Monday.
Throughout next week, year five and six pupils at selected schools will receive free high visibility arm bands which they can wear walking to and from school on dark mornings and nights.
The safety campaign is part of a drive by Wiltshire Council, Wiltshire Police, Wiltshire Fire & Rescue and NHS Wiltshire to make the region's roads safer.
Wiltshire Councillor Dick Tonge, cabinet member for highways, said: "This is one of many initiatives we are proud to be a part of to help children travel to school safely.
"We work hard with schools to develop individual travel plans which ensure we are looking at every aspect of the journey to school, and doing what we can to make it safer."
Pupils from Aloeric School in Melksham will receive their bands on Monday, Studley Green Primary School will get their bands on Tuesday, Queens Crescent School, in Chippenham, will be given the bands on Wednesday with Pewsey Primary School getting their bands on Thursday and Salisbury's St Martin's receiving the bands on Friday.
Any remaining bands will be given to other schools across the region and will also be available from fire stations across Wiltshire.
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What's Cookin' at Callie's Cabin: Super nachos with superfoods
November 8, 2012
Nachos are a fun food made fast with tortilla chips and covered in cheese to serve as a quick snack or created with a variety of good-for-you foods to make a meal. Around the lake, these can be found at Mexican-style restaurants, Taco Bell, 7-11 stores and you can do it yourself. This popular food takes me back to 1999 before Y2K. I remember working on my first real book, "The Healing Powers of Vinegar." While learning about healing vinegars and other superfoods (functional eats for health) I was mentally consumed with the big scare that our world would change as we knew it. So, before New Year's Eve, I overstuffed my pantry, begged my editor(s) to pay me before the world ended, and upgraded my computer. Early on Dec. 31, I made simple nachos with corn tortilla chips (crunchy foods help you to de-stress), grated cheddar cheese (creamy dairy is comforting and calcium can soothe your nerves). I retired to the big, cozy sofa bed complete with comforters in the living room in front of the fireplace — and my two late senior companion animals, an orange-and-white cat and dog, Dylan and Alex cuddled up with me. I munched on nachos and turned on the TV to watch the world collapse like in a sci-fi film. But it didn't happen.More than a decade later, I ponder about Dec. 21 — the pinpointed end days. When the movie 2012 hit our local theater, I paid to see the world self-destruct. I confess that while munching on movie nachos, parts of the doomsday images did grab my attention and had me on the edge of my seat. The happenings are based on the Mayan Calendar, predicting that in 2012 the world would come to a halt. But this time around I'm not going to fall for the media hype. Instead, I will make a batch of DIY super nachos with immune-boosting superfoods to stay healthy and ward off a cold or flu during our snow days in 2013.Super NachosA package of multigrain tortilla chips1 cup cheese (cheddar, jack, mozzarella), grated1 cup Roma tomatoes, chopped1/4 cup red onion, chopped1/4 cup chili or jalapeno pepper, sliced1/2 cup avocado, sliced or mashed1/2 cup sour creamParsley for garnish on sour creamSpread approximately 3 cups of chips on a plate. Top with shredded cheese. Sprinkle with a mixture of tomatoes, onion, and chili pepper. Pop into the microwave and nuke till bubbly (about one minute). Top with avocado and sour cream. 1 1/2 cup serving of chips with toppings serves two (a meal). I admit it. This week I almost whipped up double-chocolate brownies or a pecan pie. But then I thought, "I want to stay well during this season" and "I don't want to eat high-fat fare and pack on unwanted pounds," so I fed my cravings with healthier foods, like super nachos. The crunchy-gooey goodies taste fresh, and have layers of flavors, colors, and are easy on the eyes. Pair it with a cup of joe (I adore cinnamon spice), and a small serving of low-fat pumpkin ice cream for dessert (more calming calcium). So, come this December, if Mother Nature tosses us a snowstorm with some earth challenges like flooding or lightning around the lake, I'll chill, cope and make a batch of super nachos to stay well. And you can do the same.Motto: You cannot control Earth changes. You can take charge of the food you eat during the best and worst of times, with respect to Charles Dickens.— Cal Orey, M.A. is an author and journalist. Her books include "The Healing Powers" series (Vinegar, Olive Oil, Chocolate, Honey, and Coffee) published by Kensington. (The Healing Powers of Honey and Coffee are offered by the Good Cook Book Club.) "Animal Attraction: A Collection of Tales & Tails" will be released this fall. Her website is http://www.calorey.com.


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Assemblyman Marc Butler says a proposed ban on assault weapons could cost central New York 300 gun manufacturing jobs.
The Republican represents Ilion where Remington Arms Co. employs about 1,000 people. Butler says the deal approaching agreement in Albany will cost 300 jobs that the company could move to another state.
Remington now legally makes a rifle that could become illegal under a new assault weapon ban in New York.
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That's a bail out for Ian not a blocked shot
Shots like that are why I feel better with CJ Watson running the point.
They are knocking the C out of us
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Bad call there. Thought Mahinmi went straight up.
Hill had been feeling it though. That was a heat check.
I am okay with Hill taking that shot, especially when he is heating up, but that was just a bad moment to do it. Had we run a play and looked for a good shot, it would have given us the lead. In that situation I'd rather try for the best shot instead of a heat check shot.
Make up call
Solomon Hill has played more minutes than Paul George.
I'd much rather play to win this game than worry about Brooklyn tomorrow.
These are tough shots Gay is making. Fluke game. He'll play mediocre the next 10 games after this.
Refs hate us
We aren't winning this game with Rudy Gay hitting shots like that.
We're going to figure this out. We just need to show up in the second half.
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I love OJ's aggressiveness on that board.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Paul George short on everything tonight. Tired, still.
Note to Paul George- superstars show up in every game.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
amir johnson lol
I feel like we're gonna wear them out
Gay is the reason Toronto is ahead. Where is the defense?
PG is having a shocker tonight
Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.
Draw another foul on gay.
Why the **** does PG not guard Gay?
I don't get it. Its stupid mental, mistakes that I've never seen him make. It has happened 3-5 times this game where he just stops playing defense.
Gay surely can't keep this up for two halves.
It is still very frustrating how Hibbert struggles to score in the post.
Those backdoor cuts are a sign of not paying enough attention. We are too good of a defensive team to be caught ball-watching like this. That's something that should be fixed at half-time.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.


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Jacqueline Valentine Wise passed away in Mountain View, California on July 22, 2013 at the age of 84.
Jacy was born to the late Anna and Alfred Valentine in Santa Rosa, CA on August 6, 1928 and grew up in Sebastopol. She graduated from Analy High School in 1946 and received a BA in English / History / Education from Mount Saint Mary's College in 1950. She married William LaVay Wise III in 1949 and lived in Palo Alto, CA; Edmunds, WA; and then moved to Mountain View in 1963. She worked at the Mountain View Library for 26 years as the inter library loan officer and enjoyed helping people find information from books she secured from near and far, including China and Russia.
Jacy enjoyed gardening, working in her orchard, pottery, playing the piano, music, game shows, puzzles and lifelong learning. Jacy passed this love of learning to her children. Jacy also had a vast interest in flying and in the space program, waking all her children to watch every significant launch, landing, and scientific exploit. Her biggest joy was spending time with her family and close friends.
Jacy is survived by her former husband, William LaVay Wise III and her 5 children: her two sons, Larry Wise (Cupertino, CA) and Steve Wise (Elk Grove, CA); her three daughters, Sandy Ogden (Cassel, CA), Teri Waldman (Mountain View, CA) and Patti McLain (Carmichael, CA). Jacy is also survived by fifteen grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; her two sisters, Marlene Anderson (Menlo Park, CA) and Kathleen Beltrame (San Mateo, CA) and many nieces and nephews.
A Rosary and Vigil were held at Cusimano Colonial Mortuary, 96 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View 94040 on Thursday, July 25 at 5 pm.
The Funeral Mass was held at St. Simon Church, 1860 Grant Rd, Los Altos, CA 94024 on Friday, July 26 at 10 AM. Interment took place at Sebastopol Memorial Lawn cemetery, 7951 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol on Saturday July 27.
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FOR a fourth successive Saturday, there was no change in the standings for teams in Division Three.
For a third week running the weather took its toll on the fixture programme as all four scheduled games were lost to waterlogged pitches.
Westwood News have played one game more than their closest challengers Fleece and hold a healthy nine-point gap over them.
They are a further two points clear of third placed Bradford United Reserves who have played two matches more than the leaders.
The Stiffs are currently propping up the table with no win in nine games and just above them are both Bratton Reserves and United FC.
Polenez Westbury, who managed just one victory from 18 outings last term, already have three victories to their name this season and their nine points have come from eight games.
League newcomers Levi's and Lacock are mid-table, both with 13 points to their name and Trowbridge Town Reserves and Trowbridge Rangers make up the sides looking to derail what looks to be an odds-on charge by Mark Hurkett's Westwood side to the title.
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Hayward will be adding piano keyboard crosswalks throughout the downtown traffic loop under construction.
This summer, the crosswalks at Foothill Boulevard and Hazel/City Center Drive were painted to resemble giant keyboards.
"We wanted to do something different and fun in the downtown area," said Kevin Briggs, city project manager for the Route 238 Corridor Improvement Project.
City Council members said last week they liked the idea of adding keyboard crosswalks at intersections along the corridor project traffic loop, which will include Foothill, A Street and Mission Boulevard, Briggs said.
"We like the uniqueness and innovation of the crosswalks," Councilman Francisco Zermeno said.
Briggs said that when city staff members were beginning to design the Route 238 project, they looked at various crosswalk configurations in use and came across the piano keyboards.
"We thought they were a little more interesting and something that would go over with the public," he said.
Staff members have posted a survey on the city's website asking if people liked the keyboard crosswalk.
"So far, we've only gotten positive comments," Briggs said.
Oakland voters feel pessimistic, less safe
Twice as many likely voters think Oakland is going in the wrong direction and four times as many residents feel less safe, according to a poll commissioned by the Chamber of Commerce.
The poll, released this week, found that voters' top priorities were fixing streets and adding police officers, although there isn't enough support to pass an additional parcel tax to pay for more officers. Oakland property owners already pay special taxes to pay for community service officers and help fund pensions for retired public safety employees.
The Chamber has been asking voters about the city's direction for over a decade and found the electorate in one of its most gloomy moods.
Fifty-four percent of respondents said Oakland was on the wrong track, while only 26 percent said it was going in the right direction. When the Chamber first asked the question in 1999, three times as many respondents said Oakland was going in the right direction.
Likewise, 47 percent of respondents said they felt less safe than a year or two ago, compared with 12 percent who felt safer. In 1999, twice as many respondents said they felt safer.
The poll, conduced by EMC Research, also asked respondents about this year's city elections, but the Chamber refused to release those results.
However, the citizen's group Neighbors Opposed to Backyard Slaughter did conduct a recent robo-poll in Districts 1 and 3, where backyard livestock is most common and the two incumbent council members aren't running for re-election.
The poll found no discernible leader in District 3, which includes West Oakland and downtown, and Amy Lemley with a small lead in District 1, which covers North Oakland. In both races, the vast majority of voters said they were undecided.
The poll also found that slightly more than half of those polled in the two districts opposed the breeding and slaughter of backyard animals, such as goats and rabbits.
San Leandro libraries added to fiber optic loop
San Leandro's libraries are now hooked up to the Lit San Leandro fiber optic loop, greatly speeding up Internet connections.
The libraries will celebrate the "lighting" of the fiber connection at 4 p.m. Monday in the Karp Room at San Leandro Main Library, 300 Estudillo Ave. Patrons will be able to test out the new connection speed at the celebration. The main library and the three branches are sharing the bandwidth.
"Although Lit San Leandro has been largely focused on serving and attracting businesses, the connection to our library system will be of tremendous benefit to the residents of San Leandro," Mayor Stephen Cassidy said.
The city is also adding Wi-Fi access throughout the main library, including meeting rooms.
"One hundred people could show up with their laptops for a conference and work on their projects at the same time," said Jeff Kay, San Leandro administrative analyst.
Connecting to the fiber optic loop will speed up Internet connection speeds for all the computers at the library.
"In recent years, as we've increased the number of public computers and added wireless Internet service, available bandwidth has been constrained and connection speeds have suffered," said library services manager Theresa Mallon. "Now visitors to the library will be able to connect at incredibly high speeds."
Lit San Leandro is a public-private partnership between the city and Patrick Kennedy, CEO of OSIsoft, a San Leandro-based company that makes software for monitoring heavy industry. Most of the 11-mile loop is already in operation, and there are plans to expand it to almost 20 miles.


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Jason Brockhoft probably would've enjoyed Santa Fe a lot more if he hadn't wrecked his car and lost his chance at $200,000.
Brockhoft, a sandy-haired Californian, was a contestant in the reality TV show Bullrun, an amateur competition in which, as Brockhoft puts it, "average Joes with their hot rods go cross-country, and whoever gets there fastest wins $200,000."
In classic reality TV fashion, one two-person team—they take turns driving—is eliminated in each episode. Former WWE wrestler Bill Goldberg is Bullrun's host.
In December 2008, the show came to Santa Fe. Brockhoft and his partner, Chris Rogers, were racing Brockhoft's Mitsubishi Evolution on a makeshift track behind the old state penitentiary.
According to Brockhoft, the producers walked him through the course beforehand but neglected to tell contestants that behind the finish line—a chain-link fence they were instructed to "bust through," Brockhoft says—was a massive concrete block hidden under weeds.
"We hit that at speed—both air bags popped, totaled my car," Brockhoft says. "I gave the producers what-for. I told them, 'How dare you almost kill us for your stupid production? Is this funny to you?'" Rogers declined to comment on the incident.
On the YouTube video of the crash, Brockhoft leaves the set cursing—but that's where accounts of the story diverge.
In Brockhoft's version, Goldberg chased after him, grabbed him by the shirt and shoulder, and urged him to stay.
"A producer had to intervene between us because he had this look of 'I'm gonna kill you' on his face," Brockhoft says. Angry and intimidated, Brockhoft hurried back to his hotel and filed a report with Solomon Romero from the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
According to the sheriff's report, Romero then headed to the penitentiary, where he met with two Bullrun producers who confirmed the crash but denied any physical contact between Goldberg and Brockhoft. Romero then interviewed Goldberg—whose name has been redacted from the sheriff's report because he was never charged—who also said that "the incident was never physical."
Brockhoft says that's untrue. "This isn't a hearsay issue," Brockhoft says. "It's all on videotape."
Bullrun, which is currently airing its third season on Fox's SpeedTV, disagrees.
"Any accusations that [Brockhoft] was assaulted or intimidated at any stage during filming are not true, it simply did not happen by anyone within the Bullrun production and as a consequence no footage exists," Bullrun Press tells SFR in a statement.
But Brockhoft is insistent. "Not only did the production company lie to the sheriff, but the sheriff's interpretation of what I said to him was absolutely off base," Brockhoft says. "It's almost a useless police report."
For one thing, his name is listed on the report as "Brockhart." He also says neither of the producers Romero interviewed actually witnessed his argument with Goldberg and takes issue with Romero's failure to arrest the host.
But Undersheriff Robert Garcia says the report is satisfactory, and that there wasn't enough evidence of the alleged assault and battery to bring in Goldberg.
Brockhoft says he filed an amendment to correct the original report's errors a few months ago, when he returned to Santa Fe to retrieve his car. But Garcia says his office has no record of receiving anything from Brockhoft, despite twice sending him blank forms so he could send in a written statement.
To Brockhoft, the whole thing seems like a cover-up. He had a lawyer until recently, he says, but feels his case is a hard-sell since he wasn't seriously injured.
The Bullrun producers "have a lot of money and can drag it out forever," Brockhoft says. "I'm just a little guy in a bad financial situation."
That's why he entered Bullrun in the first place, he says: the allure of $200,000.
"The great thing about reality TV," Brockhoft says, "is you can get slugs nationwide who want their five minutes of fame, and they'll do anything to get it. They'll do the stupidest, stupidest things!"


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3 Friends in CollegeLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
Three best friends from high school (Livia, Maggie, Nicole) decided to go to different colleges (A&M, Rice, UT) and major in different scientific fields (Biology, Chemistry, Zoology). Each girl also participated in a different extracurricular activity (Band, Cheerleading, Choir) and had a different GPA (3.4, 3.8, 4.0) after her first college semester. Can you figure out where each girl went, what she chose to major in, what activity she participated in and her GPA after her first semester?
1. The friend who went to A&M did not have the highest GPA nor was she the friend who majored in Biology.
2. The friend who was a cheerleader did not let her practices affect her studying: she had the highest GPA of her friends.
3. Though she played in band in high school, Maggie was not part of her college band program.
4. The chemistry major did not go to UT nor did she have a 3.4 GPA.
5. Livia, who can't carry a tune to save her life, was not studying animal life.
6. The girl attending Rice had the highest GPA.
7. Nicole hates working with chemicals and compounds, so she chose a different branch of science to major in.
8. Maggie and the biology major both played the flute in high school.
9. The friend with a 3.4 GPA has loved animals her entire life, so of course she chose to study animals in college.
10. Maggie loves singing so much that she started her own band.
AnswerLivia - Rice - Chemistry - 4.0 - Cheerleading
Maggie - A&M - Zoology - 3.4 - Choir
Nicole - UT - Biology - 3.8 - Band
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GSA Releases FY2011 Per Diem Rates for Federal Travel
Standard reimbursement rate increases 10 percent to $77; rates help ensure effective stewardship of taxpayer dollars.
August 31, 2010
Contact: Diane Merriett, (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON – GSA, the federal agency charged with establishing per diem rates for federal travel, has released per diem reimbursement rates for fiscal year 2011, which will take effect on Oct. 1. Per diem is the allowance provided to government employees for lodging (excluding taxes), meals and incidental expenses incurred while on official government travel. Federal government per diem rates, calculated based on widely accepted industry measures, provide effective stewardship of taxpayer dollars.
"By using the lodging industry's standard measure for lodging rates, the Average Daily Rate, as the base, GSA maintains best value to the taxpayer when calculating reimbursement rates for official government travel," said Kathleen M. Turco, Associate Administrator for GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy.
The daily rate is a commonly used performance indicator in the hotel industry that represents the average rental income per occupied room in a given time period. FY2011 rates reflect an overall decrease of 3.85 percent when compared to FY2010 rates.
In establishing per diem rates, GSA sets two different kinds of rates – a standard per diem rate and a non-standard per diem rate. Most areas, approximately 2,600 counties, are covered by a standard per diem rate. The standard rate, which is reviewed every three years, is an aggregate of rates for locations across the country, not including those locations that are considered non-standard. For FY2011, the standard per diem rate has been adjusted upward to $77 to reflect the average daily rate for lodging across the country. Reimbursement for meals and incidental expenses remain unchanged from FY2010 ranging from $46 through $71 for meals per day depending on the location and $5 for incidental expenses.
GSA also sets per diem rates for 378 "Nonstandard Areas" in the United States. Nonstandard areas are frequently traveled by the federal community and are reviewed annually. Of these 378 areas, 310 will see decreases in their FY2011 rates, 50 will increase, and 18 will remain the same. The per diem rate is the maximum allowable reimbursement rates for federal travelers. Agencies may authorize actual expenses consistent with the Federal Travel Regulation.
GSA has statutory responsibility to establish actual and necessary expense reimbursements and per diem allowances for federal employees traveling on official business.
For all full list of all FY2011 per diem rates per location or for more information on how GSA determines federal per diem rates, www.GSA.gov/perdiem.
GSA offers a wide range of travel products and services to federal agencies to help them meet their mission requirements while reducing costs. These include the Airline City Pairs program, which leverages the buying power of the federal government to set one-way air fares for federal travel between key markets well below full commercial fares; and FedRooms, the government-sponsored lodging program that simplifies hotel booking for federal travelers through pre-negotiated room rates in key markets across and the country. In addition, GSA manages the federal government's E-Gov Travel Service, which has simplified booking and management of government travel and provided significant costs savings to the federal government.
Founded in 1949, GSA manages more than 11 percent of the government's total procurement dollars and $24 billion in federal assets, including 9,600 government-owned or leased buildings and 213,000 vehicles.
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87 Wins.
87 Wins.
"It's easier to give up. I'm not a very vocal player. I lead by example. I take the attitude that I've got to go out and do it. Because of who I am, I've got to give everything I've got to come back."
-Ken Griffey Jr.
I'll go with 78 wins.
And This One Belongs to the REDS!!!
89 wins.
Acevedo is going to be the man in the rotation, and Lidle looks to be doing what he was signed to do. Harang will be the key. 89 wins, but i'll take the 5 and shhot for 94
"There was like a softness to it, a glow to it. I felt... I felt warm."
-- Joseph Daniel Votto 7/10/2017
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
66 wins :dflynn:
69-74 wins.
Nothing to see here. Please disperse.
Marty will get to say "and this one belongs to the Reds" 84 times this year. only 78 times will the old lefthander round third and stop off for a beer before heading home.
66-95-1 Yes, we'll have us a tie game that won't get made up cause the Reds will be out of the playoff picture.
71 wins. :boredom:
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Cars > Challenges > "american graffiti clone" Vs "money pit"
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1955 Chevrolet 210 coupe
"american graffiti clone"
1969 Chevrolet RS camaro RS
"money pit"
Head to Head
About "american graffiti clone"
i built 2 clones the 55 and the 32 from the movie american graffiti both cars tour with the stars candy clark and bo hopkins
About "money pit"
owned the car for 13 years, recent frame off restoration,was a automatic,now a 4-speed, paint is orange pearl,interior is orange houndstooth, engine is a 350 with mild cam and 4barrel intake with headers. front wheel disc brakes with two inch drop spindels. 373 gears in a 10 bolt posi rear end
Specs for "american graffiti clone"
454 motor 4 speed all the changes made for the movie car
Specs for "money pit"
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Factory Options for "american graffiti clone"
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A/C set up, deluxe interior,posi rear end, ralley sport package, power steering
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Catherine Zeta-Jones Narrates THE RUNAWAY BUNNY, Michael Douglas Narrates THE STORY OF BABAR on CD, 11/15
GPR Records (Glen Roven, Peter Fitzgerald, Richard Cohen, artistic directors) will release a children's CD of Catherine Zeta-Jones narrating The Runaway Bunny, based on the best selling children's classic by Margaret Wise Brown. Michael Douglas narrates everyone's favorite elephant - The Story of Babar - The Little Elephant, a 1931 classic written by Jean de Brunhoff. Also on the CD will be English Baritone Mark Stone singing Goodnight Moon also by Margaret Wise Brown. The CD, distributed by Naxos, will be released on November 15th and will be available at www.GPRRecords.com, Amazon, and iTunes.
Catherine Zeta-Jones narrates The Runaway Bunny in a new piano trio version composed by GPR Records artistic director and 4-time Emmy Award Winner Glen Roven. RUNAWAY BUNNY has been performed all over the world and narrators have included: Brooke Shields, Glenn Close, Sandy Duncan, Donna McKechnie, Kate Mulgrew, and Phyllis Newman. This piece premiered at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra, with Glenn Close narrating. Runaway Bunny was written in 1942 and has been published continuously since that time.
"It is such a pleasure to participate in The Runaway Bunny for this recording - it's a wonderful timeless story of free thinking and creativity," said Catherine Zeta-Jones. "I know the importance of music and reading and my hope is that this CD will touch and capture the imagination a new generation."
Narrating the tale of one of the most famous elephants in the world Michael Douglas, a two-time Academy Award winning actor and producer, tells the story of an orphan elephant who is befriended by a kind old lady, introduced to the pleasures of civilized life, then returns to the jungle and marries his childhood sweetheart and is elevated to King of the Elephants. The story of Babar, which celebrated its 81st Anniversary this year, includes music by Francis Poulenc and Jason Wirth on piano.
Also on the CD will be GOODNIGHT MOON, a lullaby for baritone and piano, which is sung by international Opera superstar and English Baritone Mark Stone in the new concerto. GOODNIGHT MOON is based on Wise's book, in print for over 60 years.
"Runaway Bunny, The Story of Babar - The Little Elephant and Goodnight Moon are National Treasures and many of us remember them from our childhood," said GPR Records Producer and composer Glen Roven. "Having Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas and Mark Stone really solidifies GPR Records' goal of creating wonderfully new and sophisticated products for children. We're so pleased to be able to honor Margaret Wise Brown with this recording, as well as helping The Windward School.
The Windward School, located in White Plains, New York, is an independent co-ed day school focused exclusively on helping students in grades 1-9 with language-based learning disabilities. Windward students are children of average or above average intelligence who have not been able to achieve language competency in traditional classroom settings. For more information: www.thewindwardschool.org.
Catherine Zeta-Jones - is a multi-award winning actress whose talents range from film to theater. She garnered an Academy Award for her portrayal of the notorious Velma Kelly, in the screen adaptation of the Broadway musical "Chicago." The film, which won the Oscar and Golden Globe for "Best Picture," also starred Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere. Zeta-Jones was nominated for a Golden Globe and took home the Critics' Choice Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA Award for "Best Supporting Actress" for her performance.
She won the Tony Award for Lead Actress in a Musical for critically acclaimed debut on Broadway as Desirée Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. The musical was a box office success co-starring the legendary Angela Lansbury. Zeta-Jones was most recently seen in the musical "Rock of Ages," directed by Adam Shankman and co-starring with Tom Cruise, Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin. Upcoming she will be seen in Playing the Field," with Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel and Dennis Quaid; "Broken City" with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe and "Lay the Favorite," with Bruce Willis and Vince Vaughn, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance film festival. Zeta-Jones also just wrapped production in Steve Soderbergh's latest film "Bitter Pill" with Jude Law, Rooney Mara, and Channing Tatum.
In 2005, she reprised her role as Elena de La Vega in "The Legend of Zorro," the sequel to the blockbuster film "The Mask of Zorro." She starred in Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's 12," and prior to that appeared opposite Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal." Zeta-Jones also starred with George Clooney in the Coen Brothers' comedy "Intolerable Cruelty." Her recent films include the Warner Bros' hit romantic comedy "No Reservations," also starring Aaron Eckhart; and the romantic thriller "Death Defying Acts," with Guy Pearce. Zeta-Jones earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of the wife of a drug-runner in Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic." The cast of the critically praised film received a SAG Award for "Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture."
She first captured international recognition in the action adventure film, "The Mask of Zorro,"opposite Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. Zeta-Jones continued to captivate audiences in 1999, in Jon Amiel's romantic-thriller "Entrapment," opposite screen legend Sean Connery. She also starred with Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal and John Cusack in the ensemble comedy "America's Sweethearts."
Born in Wales, Zeta-Jones began her career on the stage in London and following that was cast in the popular Yorkshire Television series, "The Darling Buds of May," based on the novels of H.E. Bates. In 2010, Zeta-Jones was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the film industry and charity. Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas. They have a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Carys.
Michael Douglas - is an actor with over 35 years of experience in theatre, television and film. Douglas has appeared in such high profile works as "The Streets of San Francisco," "Romancing the Stone," "Fatal Attraction," "The War of the Roses," "Basic Instinct," "Disclosure," "A Perfect Murder," and "The American President." His performance as the ruthless corporate raider Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" Earned him an Academy Award as Best Actor. He received the prestigious American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 2009.
Over his career, Douglas also produced and starred in such socially and politically influential films as 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" for which he won a Best Picture Oscar; "The China Syndrome," "Falling Down" and "Traffic."
Michael Douglas most recently starred as Liberace in HBO Films' "Behind the Candelabra" opposite Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Douglas has long been a champion of social and environmental causes. He has been actively involved in working with the United Nations and in 1998 was appointed a UN Messenger of Peace focusing on nuclear proliferation and the control of small arms.
Michael Douglas is the son of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas and actress Diana Douglas and is married to Academy Award winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. He and Zeta-Jones have a son and daughter and Douglas has a son from a previous marriage.
Mark Stone - is an English baritone who studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, and then singing and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
On the operatic stages of his homeland he has sung for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North¸ Glyndebourne Opera, Opera Holland Park, Buxton Festival, Garsington Opera and Grange Park Opera, and overseas he has sung for La Scala Milan, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Cologne, Liceu Barcelona, Leipzig, Stockholm, Montpellier, Netherlands Reisopera, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Opera Atelier Toronto, Israeli Opera and New Zealand Opera. His operatic roles include Marcello, Belcore, Sonora, Gianni Schicchi, Ashton, Ford, Germont, Don Carlo (Forza), Silvio, Rossini's Figaro, Don Giovanni, Almaviva, Guglielmo, Onegin, Yeletsky, Danilo, Eisenstein, Chou En-lai, Hector, Junius, Sid and Demetrius.
He has sung with leading orchestras at many of the major European concert halls, and he is also busy as a song recitalist, specializing in the English song repertoire. He has performed in recital at London's Wigmore Hall and New York's Carnegie Hall, performing a program of songs by Glen Roven, with the composer accompanying – including Goodnight Moon.
Peter Fitzgerald Founding partner of GPR Records, a new recording company devoted to classic and unexpected works for children, contemporary classical audiences and poetry lovers. A noted Broadway sound designer represented currently by: Old Jew Telling Jokes, David Mamet's Glengary Glen Ross staring Al Pachino and his new play Anarchist. Peter is a prolific designer with credits including: Will Farrell's Your Welcome America, Blithe Spirit, Speed the Plow, Billy Joel's Movin' Out, Paul Simon's The Capeman, La Cage Aux Folles, Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews, City of Angels, Gypsy, Falsettos, The Will Rogers Follies, Minnelli on Minnelli with Liza, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas to name a few. Noted plays: The Odd Couple, M. Butterfly, Stones in His Pockets, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Thousand Clowns. Peter is President and owner of Sound Associates, Inc a premier provider of sound and video systems to the theater and business community with locations is New York, Yonkers, and Atlanta and Toronto. He was instrumental in developing the recording studio at the New York location, home of GPR Records. Peter and his wife, Maritza, are the proud parents of daughters Lori and Mallori.
Glen Roven, a four-time Emmy winner, recently conducted his Violin Concerto at Carnegie Hall and will accompany Baritone Mark Stone this season at Carnegie when Stone performs a full evening of Roven's music. He has conducted The Israel Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Munich Philharmonic, The Radio Luxembourg Orchestra, The American Symphony, as well as many others. He has produced for Julie Andrews, Kathleen Battle, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Aretha Franklin, Kenny G., Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Quincy Jones, Kermit the Frog, Patti LaBelle, Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross to name a few. Career highlights include conducting the original Broadway production of Sugar Babies, conducting four Presidential Inaugurations, conducting Frank Sinatra's last television appearance and Sammy Davis Jr,'s last televised appearance. Next season sees the debut of his Broadway musical, Dr. Seuss's The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Richard Cohen has broad and extensive experience in theater, television and film as a producer, designer and theater tech. His career in live theater began at The Metropolitan Opera in 1968, on Broadway, from Company in 1970 to Smokey Joe's Cafe in 2000. Richard has designed video projections on Broadway for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Legend. He coordinated lighting for arena shows and industrials. His television credits include soaps, news, variety shows and commercials for every brand of detergent on the market. Richard produced a TV pilot, The Tatler in 1981. His film credits include, among others, "Billy Bathgate" and "The Thomas Crown Affair". Outside the biz, developed real estate in New Jersey.
For more information, visit www.GPRRecords.com.


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"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought" -- George Orwell, 1984
The fiscal debate is about to heat up considerably in the next two weeks. Perhaps it will even melt some of the massive snowfall that accumulated over the Northeast this weekend. Certainly the hot air emanating from Washington will become intolerable, especially as both sides accelerate their use of Saul Alinsky-style negotiating tactics ("Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.")
As is always the case in controversy and debate, language becomes both a tool for manipulation and a source of deception. Here, in no particular order, are some thoughts regarding the frame of debate -- as well as how "they" are trying to manipulate your thought process, and then your investment implications.
Grotesque Domestic Product
Economists have a well-established definition of gross domestic product that misdefines economic output and distorts analysis. The classic definition, of course, is:
GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports ŌłÆ imports)
Economists have never explained why "government spending" should be considered economic output, other than to plead that government's large size impacts the economy. The challenge is that government is a "cost center," as a businessperson would describe it. Some level of government constitutes a necessary expenditure for a functioning society, just as every company must have accounting and human resource departments. They aid in the administration of the business, but they are not "value-added." If a business has sluggish sales, does management propose adding bookkeepers in the accounting department, or do they hire more product engineers and salespeople?
GDP is better redefined as follows: GDP = C + I + (X-M) - G
In business terms, we would call this the country's profit-and-loss statement, or P&L. Growing government expenditure does not boost the economy; it puts a greater drag on the private sector, just like bloated general-and-administrative cost reduces the bottom line of a business.
If you bought into my definition, you would be cheering the fourth-quarter GDP report. While it nominally was negative under the classic definition, this was due to falling government expenditures, which in fact are good for the economy. Under my definition, the fourth-quarter GDP would be seen as showing healthy positive growth.
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"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." -- George Orwell, 1984
Bending the Curve
Both sides of the budget debate are already deep into discussing how we will cut trillions, nearly all of which will be in future spending. I am starting to wonder if they actually believe their own nonsense, as the saying goes.
Is there even the slightest shred of credibility to the idea that, in 2013, we will somehow "promise" to cut spending 10 years out? If it does, then shouldn't this Congress and administration be executing the budget decisions made 10 years ago, in the 2002 budget? I have yet to hear anyone mention those projections, nor any projection from any budget from any previous year. Every Congress from 2014 through 2023 will ignore any spending "decisions" made this year, so any discussion of future spending is a decoy to cover up the fact that spending is not being cut now.
Here is what the Congressional Budget Office projected in 2001 -- the latest data available. The budget from that period anticipated outlays rising to $2.6 trillion in 2011, with a surplus in every year!
What really happened was that outlays came to $3.1 trillion, causing a $1.3 trillion deficit, instead of an $889 billion surplus.
In this Pew Trust analysis of the CBO's incorrect projections, we see the "miss" in deficit/debt projections was due primarily to legislative actions.
There are very few guarantees in life, but I can guarantee with 100% certainty that the 10-year projections being thrown around today will be wrong. More important, I can 1,000% guarantee that future Congressional sessions will in no way be bound by current projections, nor even care what they were. A debate about "bending the curve" and future spending is a decoy to avoid any meaningful spending cuts now. Even the dreaded sequestration would only reduce 2013 spending by $53 billion, or 0.3% of GDP, according to Goldman Sachs. It's utterly meaningless.
Stay tuned for part 2 of this article, where I'll debunk a bit more of this misleading discourse -- and spell out how you should invest accordingly.


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Despite warm weather, the winter 'Spare the Air' season is now in effect
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 5:45 AM
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 6, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Thank goodness the Spare the Air season is back with us. The meatball that lives behind us has his wood burning stove going every damn night, and day and night on weekends. It just makes it very difficult for those that have respiratory issues. With the EPA banning any number of things they have no business banning, one wonders why they don't ban wood burning in cities. Burning wood makes no sense economically, and it is a a major air pollutant.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 6, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Why didn't you let me know my wood smoke was bothering you? Now, I can build the fire a little larger - and more often - mission accomplished.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 7, 2012 at 9:04 am
I wonder if the ban applies to 'medicinal' pot smoking, as well. you know, we've got to all bend over backwards for those sensitive, weak people who have to have their special needs catered to be everyone around them. All the while, they are driving around in vehicles that contribute more to air pollution than any modern wood stove. That doesn't make them hypocrites, right? After all, it's not like they could limit their driving, like homeowners have been asked to do with their home heating methods.....
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KINGSLAND, Ga. - A man charged with murder in the death of a 21-year-old woman found dead in a Kingsland hotel in February was arrested Friday by U.S. marshals in Florida City, south of Miami.
According to warrants obtained by Kingsland police, Amos Southall, 27, is accused of killing 21-year-old Michelle Hainley.
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Hainley, the mother of a 3-year-old boy, was living with her parents in Yulee.
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I switched from using file_get_contents to cURL for communicating with the Twitter API to fetch the users latest tweets.cURL is great since it doesn't produce an error when the fetch fails to return anything but I'm wondering what I could do when cURL doesn't return anything either.
It seems to retrieve, then every time I refresh my webpage it calls the function (below) to fetch the data again but may not return anything at all and hence I'm left with a blank space where my Tweets should be.
Here's the function I call to fetch the data. Of course this is called every time I refresh my webpage. Using a caching system is sometimes worse because it will cache the webpages at a time they did not have the Twitter data.
//Gets the users latest Tweets from Twitter.
function get_latest_tweets()
$options = get_option('website_options');
$userID = $options['twitter_user'];
$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/' . $userID . '.xml?count=3';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($file_contents);
foreach ($xml->status as $status)
$tweet = $status->text;
$id = $status->id;
$date = $status->created_at;
$tweet = //Format the Tweet
$formatted_date = date( "M jS g:i a", strtotime($date) );
echo "
" . $tweet . " - " . $formatted_date . "
";
Is there anything simple I could do about this? I thought of storing the returned Tweets to Array until a certain timeframe passes then refreshing that array but I'm not sure if it's random that the data is retrieved or it's Twitter limiting their bandwidth.
Thanks for the help.
You'll probably want to introduce some sort of error checking in there to make sure the curl operation completed successfully.
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
if ($file_contents === false) {
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
That will tell you if it's an issue with your curl transaction, or if it's an issue with Twitter just not returning any data.
If it's just an issue with Twitter not returning data, you can use sessions to do a semi-cache.
if ($file_contents != "") {
$_SESSION['cached_tweets'] = $file_contents;
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($_SESSION['cached_tweets']);
Or something like that. That way if Twitter returns an empty dataset, you can just use the last good dataset from the $_SESSION var.
I would separate the two operations, fetch and store - and display.
fetch and store: I'd have cron call a script which attempts to grab the data, every minute or two say. On success, format the data so that it is ready to be included in your html page and cache that output in a ready-made plain html text file.
Then have your webpage just
include "tweets.html";
in the correct spot.
IF because of any reason (latency etc) the last cycle of fetch and store did not work, you still have a reliable fall-back showing the previously cached version and your users will be none the wiser.
I'm not sure a cron would work in this situation. I think they're pulling different timelines depending on the user that's viewing the page
Oh yes, looks as if you are right there.
As, you say then -- do some basic error checking, and then perhaps fall back to displaying a default tweet stream?
That would at least put something on the page.
If not, display some kind of friendly notice and try the fetch again.
Thanks kduv your method works well once the data is received but since it's a users session it's not the case for everyone, sometimes it never receives anything - Yet it never produces an error.I'll keep looking into it, atleast I know I can use sessions now.
Well, I managed to figure it out so for future reference (anyone who comes across this thread)...I didn't realise the API was versioned and that I was using it incorrectly.
The URL should actually have been as follows:
$url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/' . $userID . '.xml?count=3';
Notice the api.twitter.com instead of twitter.com and the version number after it. It doesn't really matter anyway since xml is has been deprecated. Version 1.1 requires JSON and OAuth.
That's good to know. I've never actually needed to do any Twitter integration so I'm not familiar with their API.


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