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The following movies have been previously reviewed by Free Press movie critic Randall King, unless otherwise noted.
Grant Park. 14A. 102 minutes.
Dr. Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, who suffers the loss of his wife in a restaurant suicide bombing, only to discover she has been deemed responsible for the attack. Convinced of her innocence, he enters the Palestinian territories in pursuit of the truth. Lebanese writer-director Ziad Doueiri's film is a moving drama about his journey into an uneasy truth. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Cinematheque. PG. 113 minutes.
The '70s rock band Big Star may be gone but it's not forgotten in this overly reverent doc that follows the band from its inception in Memphis to its surprising resurgence as a college-rock mainstay beloved by R.E.M. and the Replacements. The talking heads will interest fans but the songs should win over even the unconverted. 'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Jill Wilson)
Cinematheque. PG. 90 minutes.
This doc examines the tragic story of Tilikum, a killer whale designated for performances in an aquarium show who killed several people while in captivity. Built around scores of interviews with ex-SeaWorld trainers, eyewitnesses to tragedies and near-tragedies, and whale experts, the consensus is this "didn't just happen." 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Globe, Grant Park. PG. 98 minutes.
Woody Allen splices the Bernie Madoff affair with A Streetcar Named Desire and creates a potent drama utilizing the formidable Cate Blanchett as the frail, increasingly unhinged Blanche DuBois-like wife of a high-rolling Wall Street fraudster (Alec Baldwin). After his misdeeds are exposed, she journeys to San Francisco to live with her unpretentious sister (Sally Hawkins) to make a fresh start... but a life based on lies dies hard. 'Ö'Ö'Ö 1/2
Polo Park. 14A. 112 minutes.
Director James Wan returns with his Insidious star Patrick Wilson for an allegedly real-life haunted house story set in the 1970s. Wan serves up some classic scary situations and provide a decent jolt or three, but horror audiences are more sophisticated than this story. 'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Polo Park, St. Vital. G. 98 minutes
This sequel to the 2010 hit sees Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) enlisted to save the world. It's a gag-filled delight from start-to-finish with more laughs in its first five minutes than Monsters University managed over its entire length. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Grant Park, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 110 minutes.
This science-fiction epic takes place in the year 2154, where a dying man (Matt Damon) realizes his only hope is to escape the wretched, toxic confines of a polluted earth and invade the titular paradise-like space station occupied exclusively by the very rich. It's wonderfully pertinent, simultaneously evoking the immigration debate currently raging in the U.S., as well as the widening divide between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us. Pity writer-director Neill Blomkamp can't resist the lure of techs and violence with all those robotic smackdowns. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Grant Park. 14A. 85 minutes.
This pertinent docu-drama examines the last day in the life of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) before he was inexplicably killed by a cop at the titular San Francisco train station on New Year's Day in 2009. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Globe. 14A. 91 minutes.
Pedro Almodovar directed this uncharacteristically loopy comedy set on an airplane where passengers and crew are obliged to consider the end is near when the landing gear fails. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, Polo Park, Towne. PG. 128 minutes
Ashton Kutcher plays computer brainiac Steve Jobs in this biopic about Jobs' rise, fall and resurrection in Apple. Kutcher, usually recognized as a dim goofball (Dude, Where's My Car?) pulls off a decent performance. but even while it acknowledges Jobs' vanity and tempestuous temper, it still feels more like hagiography than legit biopic. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 18A. 103 minutes.
This sequel to the 2010 comic book movie sees Dave/Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Mindy/Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz) face a new menace in the form of Chris D'Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who has gone the route of the supervillain with an assembly of serious bad guys in his thrall. Alas, as the first movie's shock-of-the-new appeal has worn off, a sense of the familiar has blanketed the franchise, making for a harsh, disagreeable combination of ultra-violence and outr© high-school hijinks. 'Ö'Ö
Globe, Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park. 14A. 133 minutes.
Lee Daniels (Precious) directs this drama starring Forest Whitaker as a sharecropper's son who grows up to become a White House butler in service to every U.S. president from Eisenhower (Robin Williams) to Reagan (Alan Rickman). The stunt casting is off-putting and Daniels prefers seamy melodrama to insights into the varying characters of presidents, but the central idea still manages to provoke. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park Imax, St. Vital, Towne. PG. 130 minutes.
A stilted, silly mishmash of earlier fantasy franchises starring Lily Collins as a young woman who learns she is the latest in a long line of "shadow-hunters," descendants of an angel, born to do battle with sundry demons, vampires, witches and warlocks. If you love exposition and shapely if bland young actors in leather, skinny jeans, knee boots, goth cocktail dresses and heavy eye makeup, this may be the movie for you. 'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital. PG. 106 minutes.
This sequel to Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief sees our demi-god hero (Logan Lerman) and his friends attempting to save their refuge by going on a mission to the Bermuda Triangle to discover the Golden Fleece. The saga gets points for attempting to illuminate the world of Greek mythology for young audiences, but it's too bad the result is largely lacklustre. 'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by Claudia Puig)
McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital. G. 92 minutes.
A humble crop dusting plane named Dusty Crophopper (voiced by Dane Cook) aspires to be a racer and enters an around-the-world contest in this Disney spinoff of Pixar's Cars franchise. The movie earns a few bonus air miles with some exotic locales and a few genuinely funny moments but a wartime flashback is a tad too grim for the presumably juvenile crowd. 'Ö'Ö
Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. G. 105 minutes.
Wizard Garmagel (Hank Azaria), needing some Smurf magic, conjures up a couple of Naughties (elfin Smurf-like entities of dishonest disposition) to kidnap Smurfette (Katy Perry). Filled with Smurf wholesomeness, Smurf puns and posi-Smurf messages about "never giving up on family," The Smurfs 2 still sucks Smurfberries. 'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
McGillvray, Polo Park. 14A. 109 minutes.
A couple of bank robbers (Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg) accidentally steal $40 million from a small-town bank, leading to the slow unravelling of a massive conspiracy involving the DEA, the CIA, the Navy and a Mexican drug cartels. It all feels like a '70s throwback (specifically recalling the '73 classic Charley Varrick) and Washington and Wahlberg have a bit of charisma, which helps with an otherwise rote action movie. 'Ö'Ö1/2
Towne. PG. 103 minutes.
A 14-year-old boy (Liam James), bullied by his mother's overbearing boyfriend (Steve Carell) gets a job at a water park and finds an unlikely friend and confederate in the facility's outrageous manager (Sam Rockwell). A nifty blend of humour, heart and drama. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Colin Covert)
Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 110 minutes.
Jason Sudeikis is a lowly pot dealer forced to assemble a bogus wholesome family to get a huge shipment of marijuana across the border from Mexico. A twist on the snobs-vs.-slobs comedy formula -- call it straights-vs.-reprobates -- this is a pleasingly raunchy summer farce with Sudeikis ideally cast as a lowlife with a wholesome facade and Jennifer Aniston gleefully tearing apart her Friends image as the sensible good girl, in the role of a desperate stripper at the end of her G-string rope. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Polo Park, St. Vital. 14A. 126 minutes.
The feral, adamantium-boned loner Logan (Hugh Jackman) is summoned to Japan by a man whose life he saved during the Second World War, only to find himself rendered physically vulnerable for the first time in his life. This gets points for going somewhere new in a superhero movie, where the norm is to get stuck in the fertile but familiar mud of the origin story. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Kildonan Place, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 109 minutes.
The world ends not with a bang but a whimper and so too does director Edgar Wright's otherwise riotous "Cornetto trilogy" (also including Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz). Simon Pegg is a stuck-in-the-past party animal who convinces four of his old mates to complete a 12-stop pub crawl unsuccessfully initiated in the '80s. Alas, the old hometown is now populated with robots. In the previous films, Wright and Pegg took the mickey out of genre movies and contemporary life. This movie, while not without some rewarding comic bits, seems to have taken the mickey out of them. 'Ö'Ö'Ö


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Barbara Kingsolver's new novel takes place in southern Appalachia, Tennessee: redneck country. Sheep farmer's wife Dellarobia Turnbow finds a colony of monarch butterflies that have migrated from Mexico to the forest behind her house. Her discovery makes her a minor local celebrity, and then it attracts out-of-towners. Among these is Harvard-trained entomologist Ovid Byron (names are not this book's strong point). ''Six and a half feet tall,'' Dellarobia tells her friend Dovey, ''skinny as a rail, African American, but not totally. I mean, sort of on the lighter side of that. And the way he talks is unreal. Silky smooth.'' Dovey replies, and there will be readers who have mouthed along with her: ''That was Barack Obama.'' Reverse Ovid's initials and remember Obama has been nicknamed the Professor-in-Chief: is this the first novel ever published whose romantic lead is a fantasised serving president?
Besides setting Dellarobia to dream, Ovid brings with him a team of scientists to research the butterflies, and suddenly the town is full of people, the likes of whom she and her family have never met before. They have higher degrees and use words such as ''heinous'' to describe bad restaurants (the only kind in this neck of the woods), whereas someone like Dellarobia's father-in-law responds to any calamity with the words: ''I've seen worse.''
To the scientists, butterflies in the forest look like the harbinger of calamity, and the ignorance of people like Dellarobia, who think it is some kind of miracle, means they have to have anthropogenic climate change explained.
Short of apocalyptic science fiction, it's not easy to see how a novel can deal with global warming head on, so Flight Behaviour turns out to be as much about class as anything else. At first we see the rednecks through Dellarobia's sarcastic, impatient eyes. She is too smart for the people around her, and if she hadn't married straight out of school, she would have gone to college. Later, however, Dellarobia finds herself defending the same rednecks from the condescension she sees beneath the politeness of Ovid and his colleagues, and also, perhaps, ours.
''Ovid looked stupefied. 'What, you're saying is some kind of contest between the peasant class and the gentry?' Dellarobia returned his look: 'I definitely don't think I said that.'''
Nor is the book saying that, exactly, if contest is the central idea. But it is about the divide between those whose education and sense of empowerment lets them care about the bigger picture, and those whose horizons are narrowed by their limited opportunities and daily worries, those who think it is not for the likes of them to worry, and anyway, who says it's getting hotter? It's all in God's hands, regardless.
Kingsolver's empathy might have come across more strongly if it weren't a little reminiscent of a teacher telling us all to stop picking on the poor kid. And after all, it's not that hard to see that these farmers are victims too, while the novel almost entirely keeps clear of the planet's real enemies, the oil companies and such, with their bought scientists and hypnotised journalists (perhaps there's a novel in that). Kingsolver raises these issues once, when Ovid turns righteously angry on a ditsy TV reporter, though the scene is so obviously designed to make you punch the air (yeah!) that you may prefer to sit on your hand.
Kingsolver is a writer praised and sneered at for her good intentions, though she's got more going for her than that. There is craft, and she can shape a sentence as well as anyone. What annoys her critics, perhaps, is that she can't just be written off as a klutz. But, in the end, there's something just a little too facile about it all.

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AMD Analyst Day Platform Announcementsby Derek Wilson on 6/2/2006 1:00 PM EST
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MrKaz - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkDid you talk someone at AMD if they have some one interested (or going to do) some SQL accelerator, or CAD calculations accelerator, or even multimedia accelerator accelerator?
It would be nice to boost the performance of SQL by 2X, or even media encoding from minutes to seconds... Reply
DerekWilson - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkthey are certainly talking heavily about the possibility of hardware like that, but no hardware designers have commited to building anything yet. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Sunday, June 04, 2006 - link
As with K8, K8L will have 3 ALUs (arithmetic logic units) and 3 AGUs (address generation units). Combined with cache enhancements and the new ability to reorder loads, K8L has a shot at outpacing Core in integer performance.
No. Because Core Duo(Yonah) with inferior decoder configuration, inferior memory bandwidth(which won't matter a lot but will make slight difference) and platform, still manages to outperform the current K8's. The Pentium M, which is even worse than Core Duo(slightly) still manages to outperform the K8's in integer. Now put Core with integrated memory controller, and comparison will look like Core Duo against Athlon XP.
Core microarchitecture will exceed K8's in general integer architecture, and at least equal in K8L's ability. Integer superiority is still gonna be there, K8L will be faster than Core in FP and SSE performance because of low latency integrated memory controller with lots more real-world bandwidth(well that depends on how AMD implements SSE, Intel may still have an advantage if AMD puts a poor implementation like they did with Athlon XP's SSE, or at least it looked poor). Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, June 04, 2006 - linkIf ~33% of all instructions are Loads, and K8 pretty much totally lacks the ability to reorder Loads, adding that feature could substantially boost performance. It definitely "has a shot" at beating Core, but it may also fall short. Anyone making blanket statements one way or the other - i.e. it *will* beat Core, or it *won't* come close - needs to take a step back and check what they really know and what they are just assuming.
At present, AMD is saying K8L is going to have the ability to reorder Loads. They might only do minor reordering, or they might go so far as to have something similar to Conroe's memory disambiguation. Given that AMD hasn't done a major update to K8 in over 3 years (no, DDR2 controller and going dual core don't really count as major updates to the underlying architecture), K8L could be a lot of things. It migth only match Core Duo 2 on a clock-for-clock basis; it might fall short; it might even come out ahead. Also, there has been no indication that Intel is seriously planning on-die memory controller in the near future, probably to continue to protect their chipset market.
Personally, I really hope AMD manages to basically match CD2 performance, because runaway performance leads don't help the consumer. In the end, theoretical integer, PF, SSE, etc. performance isn't as important as real-world application performance. Right now, it's just too soon to declare a victor in the Core Duo 2 vs. K8L match-up. CD2 vs. K8 is already pretty much a done deal, though, and there's no indication that AMD will be able to come out on top in that rivalry. K8L is their "counterattack", and that's the architecture that needs to compete with CD2. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Sunday, June 04, 2006 - link
If ~33% of all instructions are Loads, and K8 pretty much totally lacks the ability to reorder Loads, adding that feature could substantially boost performance. It definitely "has a shot" at beating Core, but it may also fall short. Anyone making blanket statements one way or the other - i.e. it *will* beat Core, or it *won't* come close - needs to take a step back and check what they really know and what they are just assuming.
It's easy to see the performance in integer against Core. Core has ability to reorder loads, but Core Duo is in same situation as K8, it doesn't really have the ability either. Other than that, on the basic block diagram, K8 is superior architecturally to Core Duo, yet Integer performance is somewhat better on Core Duo. The difference probably goes deeper than that. One of the articles mention K7/K8 has similar technique to Intel's micro op fusion. It could be Intel's is much better, etc. If a K8 with substantially better microarchitecture(+ODMC) can't beat integer performance of Core Duo, will K8L with basically same microarchitecture(or may be worse) beat Core?? It's simple to see it probably won't. Reply
DerekWilson - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkcore duo can reorder loads as the Pentium M could reorder loads --
MrKaz - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkP3 on steroids may beat the K7 on steroids in performance.
But performance isn't everything or Intel employees where out of job since K7 came out and beat P3 and P4. And Intel didnt recover yet!
I didn't see any presentation of Intel new architecture, but I bet even the Hammer look better than any thing Intel will release.
4MB cache, 128bit SSE that tells me nothing. Other than the P3 started with PC100 SDRAM, 256Kb cache and SSE and it's now at DDR2 667, 4MB cache and SSE4. Reply
Sceptor - Saturday, June 03, 2006 - linkFinally a real interconnect that can be used for a serious co-processor...perhaps a physics co-pro not limited by the PCI bus would help smooth transition to more realistic games.
Or a dedicated video co-pro to use with Cad or 3D Modeling programs... Reply
od4hs - Friday, June 02, 2006 - link
-> UK firm to unveil wall-socket PC
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lopri - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkI totally agree that the "direct connect" is the most desirable way but I cannot help but think AMD is somewhat daydreaming. That is, what's showing in the slides seems way ahead of today's "practicality".
I mean, we've had this PCI Express which has been strongly pushed by core logic vendors, but so far all we practically have are video cards. I sometimes think all these mobo makers pay more attention to "asthetic" point when they design PCI-E slots so the boards look prettier. (lol)
If my understanding is correct, AMD will introduce a new type of slot, HTX, on motherboards. Will other technology/market follow? Or will it just give another chance to graphics card manufacturers to push us to buy new cards? On today's desktop boards, basically everything is "integrated", sans video. I know that a video card has its own core and frame buffer, and transfers data via Hyper Transport, but if a physics card can utilize the HTX, what stops a video card from connecting directly to CPU, without passing the core logic or system memory?
I think this will also be closely related to the available bandwidth of HTX per CPU core (or cores), and I can't really think of any add-in board that'll prioritize the bandwidth other than video cards, (OK and the physics cards) even though the HTX will be an open standard. (look at the lazy/lame Creative)
A very desirable case would be where storage (hard disks) can take advantage of this "direct" connection but then again there is a such thing called "memory", so my imagination stops there. (maybe solid-state/I-Ram type of storage can make use of the HTX? Then what's the use of memory? Taking care of I/O?) Talking about I/O, I just thought it'd be interesting to see keyboards/mice connect to CPU via HTX. (Sorry I couldn't resist)
All in all, like the article says, this roadmap seems just too broad/ambiguous/futuristic. I'm not a CPU engineer so my thinking could be totaly off, though. If so, please enlighten.
peternelson - Saturday, June 03, 2006 - link
High end pcie cards are available if you look for them
eg Areca 8 sata II onto 8x pci express
eg Myrinet 10 gigabit ethernet onto 8x pci express
Plenty of other examples.
Also, witness the highend server boards many are now offering pcie as an option to the former server standard pci-x.
PCIE is here to stay and is a must for anyone interested in a performance system.
There is a direct mapping of pcie onto Hypertransport.
There is already fast networking available on an HTX card.
lopri - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkCorrection: ..video card.. transfers data via PCI Express..
;) Reply
saratoga - Friday, June 02, 2006 - link
At a lower level, we have a block diagram of the compute core for K8L CPUs. Again, this diagram is a bit oversimplified, but we can see a few key features of the architecture. On the FP side, the CPU is able to handle 2x128-bit floating point or SSE operations per clock. While this isn't quite as flexible as Intel's Core with its 3 SSE units, AMD's K8L will be able to handle 4 double precision floating point operations per clock. . (Current K8 chips can only do 1x128/2x64-bit SSE instructions per clock.)
I'm a little confused. IIRC Core2 can do 2x 128 bit operations, each of which can be an add or multiply, but only one of which can be a load. AMD is restricting the actual operations to just 1 add and 1 multiply, but is removing the restriction on loads? So they'll be better able to feed the vector units then Intel, but have less flexibility once they've loaded?
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I'd think if their SSE implementation was less agressive, they would not have added more load units to feed it. Has AMD confirmed that there are only 1 add and 1 mult unit? Or is this a case of Intel designing a nice backend and not providing the front end resources to keep it fed? Reply
mino - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkWell, you're kinda right and wrong at the same time:)
However intel's C2 frontend(from L2 up) is far superior to AMD's. And was such since Banias. Also intel's backend(execution units) is now on par but only recently Yonah and older were inferior to AMD's brute force 3-issue backend.
AMD has kinda ingeniously hidden poor backend by IMC however for streamed(desktop) pseudo-random loads intel's huge cache structures mitigated this so they are forced to improve frontend(hard to do) and do some backend optimizations(easy) on the way. Well, they kinda knew they will have to do this since the 90's, they have just chosen to implement IMC and cater to the core itself in the next iteration.
On the 2load units - without them the maxFLOPS would be n, real one x. With them(load units are relatively simple and low power compared to FPU's) they've got MmaxFLOPS around 2n AND real achievable one(IMHO) in the 1.2x~1.5x range. Pretty good ROI for the one added load unit. Reply
saratoga - Saturday, June 03, 2006 - link
However intel's C2 frontend(from L2 up) is far superior to AMD's. And was such since Banias. Also intel's backend(execution units) is now on par but only recently Yonah and older were inferior to AMD's brute force 3-issue backend.
Could you explain how?
On the 2load units - without them the maxFLOPS would be n, real one x.
No it wouldn't. CPUs have registers, so the number of load units has nothing to do with FLOPs. You could have just one load unit and still sustain an arbitrary number of FLOPs, provided you didn't mind using the same registers over and over again, which I suppose could be the case if you're doing an iterative approximation of a value.
With them(load units are relatively simple and low power compared to FPU's) they've got MmaxFLOPS around 2n AND real achievable one(IMHO) in the 1.2x~1.5x range. Pretty good ROI for the one added load unit.
I don't think loads count as FLOPs, even if you're loading things to be used in FP operations, so having more load units doesn't increase max FLOPs. Reply
mino - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkSory for the english, grammar wasn't my friend :) Reply
DigitalFreak - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkThe smartest thing AMD ever did was create HyperTransport. There are so many cool uses for it! Intel, on the other hand, still insists on using their proprietary solutions. Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkHyperTransport was created by an open consortium.
But you do have to remember that AMD implimented a propreitary coherent HT for use in SMP systems. They haven't always been open, even if their method was implimented on top of an open standard.
I do agree that general use of HyperTransport makes I/O much easier on many levels, and was a very good move for AMD. And now that they are opening up cHT, some really cool things can happen -- if the industry is ready. :-) Reply
Viditor - Saturday, June 03, 2006 - link
HyperTransport was created by an open consortium
Actually, it was created by AMD, it was developed by an open consortium.
However coherent HT is still (at least until now) proprietary AMD... Reply
Viditor - Saturday, June 03, 2006 - linkDoh! I need to read first, post second...already asked and answered. Sorry... Reply
HurleyBird - Friday, June 02, 2006 - link
HyperTransport was created by an open consortium.
HyperTransport was created by AMD. The consortium was created afterwards to manage the standard. Reply
od4hs - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkAMD began developing the HyperTransport™ I/O link architecture in 1997.
Pre-Consortium Versions of the Specification
AMD has released these two pre-consortium documents which define two revisions of "LDT" (Lightning Data Transfer) as HT was known before the HT Consortium was formed.
AMD has disclosed HyperTransport technology specifications under non-disclosure
agreement (NDA) to over 170 companies interested in building products that incorporate
this technology.
Multiple partners have signed the license agreement for HyperTransport technology,
including, among many others:
Sun Microsystems Cisco Systems Broadcom
Texas Instruments NVIDIA Acer Labs
Hewlett-Packard Schlumberger Stargen
PLX Technology Mellanox FuturePlus
API Networks Altera LSI Logic
PMC-Sierra Pericom Transmeta
AMD is releasing the specifications to an industry-supported non-profit trade association in the fall of 2001.
The HyperTransport Consortium will manage and refine the specifications, and
promote the adoption and deployment of HyperTransport technology. It is also expected
to consist initially of a Technical Working Group and a Marketing Working Group.
Subordinate task forces will do the work of the consortium. Anticipated technical task
forces include:
Protocol Task Force
Connectivity Task Force
Graphics Task Force
Technology Task Force
Power Management Task Force
Information on joining the HyperTransport Technology Consortium can be found at
this website: http://www.hypertransport.org">http://www.hypertransport.org
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white...">HyperTransport Technology I/O Link (white paper), PDF
San Jose, Calif., July 24, 2001 -- A coalition of high-tech industry leaders today announced the formation of the HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium, a nonprofit corporation that supports the future development and adoption of AMD's HyperTransport I/O Link specification.
[...] More than 180 companies throughout the computer and communications industries have been engaged with AMD in working with the HyperTransport technology
http://www.hypertransport.org/consortium/cons_pres...">hypertransport.org press release
peternelson - Friday, June 02, 2006 - link
HT 1,2,and 3 are published standards.
Direct Connect Architecture (DCA 1.0 and 2.0 are published standards).
HTX is a published standard.
Some questions for you to ask the AMD engineers:
I'm still interested to obtain pinouts of AM2 and F1207 sockets to establish how many HT links they can support.
From 4x4 it looks like AM2 *MIGHT* support TWO HT links (one to other processor, one to the tunnel chip.
I note 4x4 is slated for 2006 launch.
Hope to see those boards real soon ;-) I assume you can populate one socket and put the other proc in there later when you have more money ;-)
I would like to see HTX appear on some 4x4 or AM2 boards but doubt it will happen.
However, on the "acceleration technology" I would like 4x4 to support the so-called "socketfiller" type where you drop in a xilinx fpga onto the socket. That would give a cheap 1cpu + 1fpga system. Hopefully acceleration is not precluded just cos its not opteron and not 1207.
Now thinking of opterons, I want to know the pinout of socket F. I want to count the HT link support built in to the socket. If its only 3 HT links that would force a socket change to do 4 links.
What news on possible future socket change requirements? eg for ddr3 and HT3 speed?
Can the Nvidia chipset for opteron be built onto an AM2 board?
I would encourage many board makers to add HTX to their opteron boards (easy and worthwhile) because eg one example is the pathscale HTX cluster interconnect cards.
I am interested in AMD terms for licensing of any proprietary tech for their cache coherency, or DCA2, any white papers on it or reference designs.
Is the 4x4+ in 2007 only K8 quadcore or is it K8L quadcore?
Will K8L be supported on AM2 socket?
Please encourage AMD to publish web datasheets on AM2 as exist for their old sockets. Reply
saratoga - Friday, June 02, 2006 - link
Can the Nvidia chipset for opteron be built onto an AM2 board?
I think any HT compliant chipset can be used with any HT compliant part. Thats why Apple can use AMD's PCI-X bridge designed for Opteron processors on their older G5 systems. The chipset supports HT, thats all you need.
I don't know if that changes with the new HT standards though. Reply
peternelson - Friday, June 02, 2006 - link*IF* an am2 socket can indeed support TWO HT links, then the SECOND processor could use its spare link to connect to yet another I/O interface chip/chipset.
This would give opportunity for innovative 4x4 boards to add additional I/O, more pcie links, or an HTX slot.
Please can we verify:
How many links are available on AM2, and howmany links are available on FX62, and how many links are available on lower AM2 chips. I suspect the lower ones only have one HT link which would make them unsuitable for 4x4 operation. Please confirm.
Jellodyne - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkThere's a few of ways 4x4 could work with only the one HTT link in the socket.
1. AMD could enable a second chip-to-chip HTT link using pins/lands on top of the cpu, or some sort of edge connector, with a pcb which bridges the two.
2. AMD could be splitting the HTT link into 2 8-bit links. One to the chipset, one to the 2nd processor. Heck, if the chipset is smart enough the leftover 8 bit link could go back to the chipset, resulting in the equivalent bandwidth between chipset and processors as a 'standard' dual opteron rig, just less between the processors. For desktops, 8 bit is probably enough.
and of course if you're talking custom chipset, that leaves
3. The chipset has dual CHT links, one to each processor, and acts like a traditional dual FSB chipset.
I'd say #2 is pretty likely.
Squidward - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkWhoever designs those slides should be fired or at least taught some color coordination. They hurt my eyes.
Now dual slot - dual core mobos sound tasty but the price would be astronimical to configure a killer system. (looks at outdated Athlon 2500+ and sighs)
Calin - Monday, June 05, 2006 - link(looks at outdated Duron 600 and cries) Reply
LoneWolf15 - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkTime to draw the L1 bridges shut and clock your way up, my friend.
My Duron 600 made 1GHz when cooled right --it was cooler at 7.5 x 133 than at 10.0 x 100.
And if you fry the chip, well...a used Duron, Thunderbird, or Palomino core is relatively inexpensive these days... Reply
Frallan - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkWell at least U guys have saved some money on the way of beeing outdated...
*looks at outdated 3500+, 6800Gt@Ultra, 2*1Gb Ram and empty wallet and howls with pain*
/F Reply
Squidward - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkumm, that should be astronomical
the message is clear... my typing has failed! Reply
Hulk - Friday, June 02, 2006 - link:| Reply
PrinceGaz - Saturday, June 03, 2006 - linkConroe is already obsolete because K8L will grind it into the dirt. Anyone who buys a Core 2 Duo this year is wasting their money because AMD's K8L is better in every way. There's no point upgrading now unless you are stuck with a rubbish last-generation netburst processor like a Northwood or Prescott, because it's clear that K8L will totally annhilate Core 2 Duo and its successors. But if Intel fanbois want to waste their money on Core 2 Duo, that's fine. A little bit of competition from Intel before AMD strike their devestating counter-attack next year will ensure AMD don't cut corners in the K8L design.
The best way to sum up the next year in CPUs is: Intel manage to gain a slight lead in the second half of 2006 and early 2007, but after that it will be AMD r0><0rs and Intel is teh su><0rs again!!!111
P.S. The above is not meant to be taken entirely seriously ;) though I do believe from what we've seen that K8L should be a bit ahead of what Intel have next year, if nothing else because of its integrated memory controller. Reply
JumpingJack - Monday, February 05, 2007 - link
Conroe is already obsolete because K8L will grind it into the dirt.
Really, where can I buy a K8L then?? Reply
MrKaz - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkTell me what does conroe, woodcrest and meron bring new to the market?
Even the 5 years old amd hammer architecture presentation looks better than conroe, ..., ...
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Downl...">http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content...ableAsse... Reply
Darth Farter - Friday, June 02, 2006 - link:| Reply
xTYBALTx - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkGreat article, but like everyone else I am interested in how 4x4 will improve gaming performance. Guess we'll have to wait and see. Reply
Calin - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkMore than two graphic cards will improve performance (over just two) only in the most insane resolutions (like 3000 by 2000 pixels). As for the use of four cores, there certainly exists - just not in the games right now. Even two cores won't bring a big boost in game performance - as of now. Who knows, maybe games ported from PS3 and XBox 360 will use them (hopefully) Reply
Regs - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkI can kind of figure it out for myself but I wanted to make sure - what is cache coherency? Either way, Torrenza looks very interesting and very promising. Not only will AMD be delivering good competitive performance, but has a chance to unlock a whole new path in bringing a new standard through integrated computing.
Hope you find out the goods for us Derek. Keep up the good work! Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, June 02, 2006 - linkTo go with the shortest description, cache coherency is the catchall term for methods used to organize and inform multiple processors of cache changes in multiprocessor/multicore systems. Because both processors can work on the same data set at once, if one changes the data, the other needs to be intelligently informed about this, otherwise it will likely do something incorrectly. Reply


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Topic: Visiting my old stomping grounds
I just wanted to post that in the morning I am accompanying a good friend to NYC. To, of all places, Sloan Kettering. She is having outpatient surgery and needs someone to go with her. I hope I don't have flashbacks! Lol
While there, I'm going to their gift shop to buy another "head wrap". Since the hair is still ending up in my brush more than staying on my head.....
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A test
for potassium in the urine is a test that
checks how much potassium is in the urine. Potassium is both an
electrolyte and a mineral. It helps keep the water
(the amount of fluid inside and outside the body's cells) and electrolyte
balance of the body. Potassium is also important in how nerves and muscles
Potassium levels often change with sodium levels. When
sodium levels go up, potassium levels go down, and when sodium levels go down,
potassium levels go up. Potassium levels are also affected by a hormone called
aldosterone, which is made by the
adrenal glands.
Potassium levels can be
affected by how the
kidneys are working, the blood
pH, the amount of potassium you eat, the
hormone levels in your body, severe vomiting, and
taking certain medicines, such as diuretics and potassium supplements. Certain cancer
treatments that destroy cancer cells can also make potassium levels
Many foods are rich in potassium, including scallops,
potatoes, figs, bananas, prune juice, orange juice, and squash. A balanced diet
has enough potassium for the body's needs. But if your potassium levels get low, it can take some time for your body to start holding on to potassium. In the meantime, potassium is still passed in the urine, so you may end up with very low levels of potassium in your body, which can be dangerous.
A potassium level that is too high or too low can be
serious. Abnormal potassium levels may cause symptoms such as muscle cramps or
weakness, nausea, diarrhea, frequent urination,
dehydration, low blood pressure, confusion,
irritability, paralysis, and changes in heart rhythm.
A urine test to check potassium levels
is done to:
You do not need to do anything before
having this test.
Talk to your doctor about any
concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be
done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance
of this test, fill out the
medical test information form(What is a PDF document?).
Urine potassium can be checked in a
single urine sample but it is more often measured in a 24-hour urine
There is no discomfort in collecting a
one-time or 24-hour urine sample.
There is no chance for problems in collecting a
one-time or 24-hour urine sample.
A test for potassium in the urine is a
24-hour test or a one-time (spot) test that checks how much potassium is in the
urine. Potassium is both an
electrolyte and a mineral.
The normal values listed here—called a reference range—are just a guide. These ranges vary from lab to lab, and your lab may have a different range for what's normal. Your lab report should contain the range your lab uses. Also, your doctor will evaluate your results based on your health and other factors. This means that a value that falls outside the normal values listed here may still be normal for you or your lab.
Results are ready in 1 day.
milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L) per day or 25–125
millimoles per liter (mmol/L) per day
mEq/L per day or 10–60
mmol/L per day
Many conditions can affect potassium levels. Your doctor
will talk with you about any abnormal results that may be related to your
symptoms and past health.
Reasons you may not be able to
have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
CitationsFischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Other Works ConsultedChernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis:
Saunders.Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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It is believed that the rise in cases is a result of cash strapped owners, who are feeling the pinch in the current economic climate, skimping on the Parvo vaccination which needs to administered each year.
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Grants and Funding
The search for funding can be a long and arduous one. Wherever you look it is a virtual certainty that the amount of money in any fund will be less than the amount wanted by all those chasing it.
Organisations with funding schemes usually have their own purpose for which they make this funding available. So if your scheme does not fit that purpose, it's not the one to pursue! However, if after an initial look, your need seems like it might fit, the best thing is always to speak to them. The sooner you do this the better - they can always ask you to "call back at a later date, when you have more information". If you leave it too late, you run the danger of missing deadlines or even making yourself ineligible to apply at all.
The main sources of grant aid for projects are:
- Local Councils
- National Lottery - Lottery Good Causes and Big Lottery Fund
- Big Lottery Fund - Awards for All
- Hampshire County Council Grant
- Sport England
- Arts Council England
- Heritage Lottery Fund
- Other Charitable Trusts
There are literally thousands of organisations that offer grants to community and voluntary groups. Where you apply will depend principally on the following:
- Whether you are a charity, community group, other voluntary organisation, statutory or public organisation;
- The rules and priorities of the organisation which is offering the funding - for example, it may itself be a charity (grant-giving trust), a voluntary organisation, a National Lottery distributor, or a central Government department or agency, and will specify who can apply and what they will give money for;
- The rules of a particular grant aid scheme, which will dictate who can apply and for what.
- All of the above will also have a direct bearing on the way you need to put your application together and the people you need to involve in the actual development and delivery of the project.
- Approach the potential funder early, do not wait until the work has started.
- Get the application in before any given deadline.
- Complete all parts of the application form.
- You need to 'sell' your scheme to the potential funder. Include as many details as possible on why your scheme is important, what the benefits will be and how many people will be affected.
- If you are undertaking a building project, consider how the future running costs will be met.
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Funding for leisure activities through the District Council
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Sport and Physical Activity
Email: Jamie Burton
Play and Youth
Email: Jamie Burton
Arts, Heritage and Community
Email: Jamie Burton
Email: Sally Igra
Website: New Forest Leader
The grant aid funds are open to bids from organisations with a proper constitution. Schemes promoted by individuals are not eligible for consideration, nor do we provide funding for individuals. If you are an individual seeking personal support for costs such as those involved in sports coaching, visit our Sports Funding page. If you are seeking funding for Play related schemes, visit our Holiday Playscheme Funding Applications page.
District Council Construction Funding
These funds are for the construction of new buildings or the extension of existing buildings. We cannot support maintenance works as these are the responsibility of the organisation itself. If you are involved in a building project and you start before you make contact with us, we will not be able to consider your project.
Schemes must be specifically allied to the Council's Corporate Plan - Corporate Plan 2016 - 2020. Any bids under this heading are the subject of a long process via what is known as the Council's Expenditure Plan. Bids will be needed by the end of June in any given year. However, the outcome of the bid will not be known until February of the following year and, if successful, the actual funding would not be available until after 1st April.
In order for us to be able to even consider an application, the following criteria need to be met:
- The application needs to be from an organisation, not an individual.
- The organisation must have a constitution which is to the satisfaction of the Council.
- The organisation and the project must be to the benefit of residents of the New Forest District Council area.
- You must be able to demonstrate that the organisation is financially and administratively viable.
- Every application is to be made on the Council's application form.
- Applications cannot be made retrospectively - i.e. you cannot apply if the organisation has already entered into any form of commitment in respect of the project, prior to making an application.
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If you have any uncertainties about these criteria and how they relate to your circumstances, contact the appropriate officer first.
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FAMILIES have been flocking to Tropiquaria Zoo to celebrate 'Love Your Zoo Week'.
The idea of the week is for visitors to go along to one of the participating zoos to show their love for it and learn more about what it does.
Tropiquaria has been running a number of zoo trails with prizes and a colouring contest. Children have been having plenty of fun learning all about the different animals at the zoo.
Some budding zookeepers have even been having a hold of some of the various animals.
Tropiquaria director Chris Moiser said: "It's been going really well this week.
"We're one of over 70 zoos taking part in the week and it's important because it means we can tell the public a bit more about the work we do.
"We're not just about having fun but we do a lot of conservation and educational work and it's a chance for the staff to explain to people what they do every day." '
To learn more, visit www.loveyourzoo.co.uk
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Resection for Thoracic Metastases From Sarcoma
Resection for Thoracic Metastases From Sarcoma
Sarcoma metastasizes to the lungs in 20% to 40% of patients and in most cases does not involve any other organ. Systemic chemotherapy is of unproven benefit for stage IV sarcoma. Retrospective studies have shown 5-year survival rates of 21% to 38% with wedge resection of metastatic pulmonary nodules, and up to 30% to 40% of patients survive an additional 5 years with repeated metastasectomy. In this article, we provide an extensive review of patient selection criteria and surgical approaches, as well as of controversies regarding resection for metastatic sarcoma.
Sarcomas may arise from nearly any embryonic mesodermal tissue and constitute approximately 1% of all newly diagnosed malignancies annually. Through hematogenous dissemination, rates of metastatic disease to the lungs have been reported to be as high as 20% for osteogenic sarcoma[1] and 40% for soft-tissue sarcoma,[2] and pulmonary metastases are present in most patients who die from sarcomatous malignancies. Furthermore, the pulmonary bed often is the only site of distant disease.[1-3] Sarcomas are the second most common cause of pulmonary metastatic disease, following colorectal cancer. The youthful demographic most often affected by sarcoma warrants an aggressive approach to metastases.
The Pathophysiology of Pulmonary Metastases
Tumor progression from the primary site to clinically detectable pulmonary metastases involves multiple complex steps, including vascular invasion, survival without an extracellular matrix (anoikis), immune system evasion, extravasation into the target organ, dormancy followed by proliferation, and angiogenesis.[4] This pathway applies to all solid tumors, yet certain solid tumors preferentially metastasize to specific organs. Attempts to characterize this phenomenon date back to Paget in the late 19th century, with his proposal of a "seed" and "soil" theory. Paget theorized that certain elements within the tumor cell (seed) have an affinity for elements in the target organ (soil). This was challenged by Ewing in the early 20th century, who maintained that target organ anatomic variables were more critical.[4] Ewing postulated that the frequency of lung metastases was related to the vast capillary system that could snare tumor cells, and the high oxygen tension that could support their growth. Although both theories are likely relevant to the lung as a primary site of metastases, more recent data evaluating pulmonary and tumor chemokine production and receptors have suggested that the "seed" and "soil" theory may have a more significant impact on the development of pulmonary metastases. Specifically, a primary chemokine produced by the lungs is CXCL12, and its cognate receptor is CXCR4. In both breast cancer and melanoma, the overexpression of the receptor CXCR4 has been associated with a dramatic increase in the rate of pulmonary metastases.[5,6] CXCR4 overexpression has also been demonstrated in soft-tissue sarcoma and seems to correlate with the targeting of metastases to lung and bone.[7] Blocking this chemokine-receptor interaction represents a potentially clinically useful intervention for preventing metastases, but it likely would have little to no impact on existing lung lesions.
Therapeutic Interventions for Thoracic Metastases From Sarcoma
Traditionally, metastatic solid tumor treatment consists of systemic chemotherapy. In soft-tissue sarcoma, anthracycline-based regimens are considered standard of care, yet there has never been a prospective randomized controlled trial comparing this to best supportive care. Pulmonary resection of secondary lung tumors was first performed over 125 years ago. Numerous retrospective studies have shown better than expected outcomes with surgical resection when compared to no treatment or chemotherapy only, but these studies are subject to substantial selection bias. To date, there have been no randomized controlled trials evaluating the effect of pulmonary metastasectomy on survival. The most convincing evidence of the benefit of this approach came from an analysis of the International Registry of Lung Metastases.[8] Pastorino and colleagues retrospectively reviewed 5,206 cases of pulmonary metastasectomy accrued to the registry from 1991 to 1995 from 9 different countries for a variety of cancers. Of the cases in this series, 42% were soft-tissue sarcoma. A stepwise decrease in 5-year survival was seen with the number of metastases: 43% with a single metastasis, 34% with two or three metastases, and 27% with four or more metastases. Additionally, the disease-free interval between resection of the primary tumor and detection of pulmonary metastasis was directly correlated with survival. Resectability, however, was the most important determinant of survival: overall median survival was 35 months in patients who had undergone complete resection and only 15 months in those patients who had an incomplete resection (Figures 1 and 2). These data can be compared to historical outcomes of best supportive care, with a median survival of 8 to 13 months,[9,10] and of chemotherapy only, with a median survival of approximately 19 to 25 months.[10]
Similar findings specific to soft-tissue sarcoma were seen at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where 719 patients with lung metastases from soft-tissue sarcoma were evaluated.[11] The median survival for patients who had undergone complete resection was 33 months, compared with 11 months for those patients treated with nonoperative therapy. The investigators also showed that the disease-free interval and, most importantly, resectability had significant roles in survival. A group at MD Anderson Cancer Center had similar findings: a median survival of 25 months was seen after complete resection vs 6 months in unresectable disease.[9] The MD Anderson investigators also found that the number of nodules detected by preoperative computed tomography (CT) had significant prognostic value. Although Girard et al[12] also found the number of pulmonary metastases to be a significant prognostic factor, survival rates after metastasectomy were still acceptable with multiple pulmonary metastases. They concluded that, if metastases were fully resectable, the number of lesions should have limited influence on the decision to proceed with resection. A short period of observation to ensure stability was suggested for situations in which numerous lesions are found. Blackmon et al evaluated 234 patients with pulmonary metastases from sarcoma and found a similar median survival—35.5 months.[13] Interestingly, the authors also found that the presence of extrapulmonary metastases resected either previously or synchronously did not appear to decrease survival (median survival, 37.5 months). The current National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for soft-tissue sarcoma recommend a broad range of choices for patients with single-organ metastatic disease: metastasectomy ± chemotherapy ± radiation; chemotherapy alone; stereotactic radiation or external beam radiation alone; or observation.[14]
Osteogenic sarcoma often responds poorly to systemic therapies and rarely spreads to organs other than the lungs. Thus, metastasectomy plays an important role in this particular histology. Outcomes are significantly improved with resection of all sites of disease compared with any other combination of treatments.[15] Bricolli et al have shown that even repeat metastasectomy for recurrent pulmonary lesions yields excellent outcomes, with 3-year and 5-year event-free survivals of 33% and 32%, respectively.[16]


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Welcome to Dragon Cave! Dragon Cave is an online adoptables game. Collect eggs, raise them to adulthood, and then breed them to create interesting lineages. New types of dragons are added regularly!
Few dragons embody serenity and potential quite as perfectly as Avatars of Creation. They dedicate their abilities to the arts of healing and growing, and their shimmering scales seem to glow in accordance with their mood. The tendrils of an Avatar of Creation grow slowly throughout its life, and the longer the tendrils grow, the more potent its abilities become.
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.
Dragons don't communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.


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Duo brings down-home songs to Arden stage
Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 06:00 am
Wednesday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Arden Theatre
5 St. Anne Street
Tickets: $40 plus facility fee. Call 780-459-1542 or purchase online at ticketmaster.ca
Two of American roots music�s most highly regarded artists have earned their keep in the annals of music history.
Darrell Scott and Tim O�Brien netted a Grammy nomination for their song Keep Your Dirty Lights lauded for Best American Roots Song.
The deeply thought-provoking song is on the pair�s collaboration Memories & Moments, a critically praised CD released in September 2013 on their newly minted Full Skies label.
�As independent artists, we don�t have a label backing us. We�re two guys doing it ourselves. We�re a little cottage industry, and to get a Grammy is a success and a mystery,� Scott says.
In less than four minutes, the song tackles America�s coal mining industry and the larger issues of environmental degradation.
Conservation is an issue dear to their hearts. O�Brien comes from West Virginia and Scott resides in Kentucky. From the porch of his house facing east, Scott can see Bear Knob Mountain where strip mining has been going on since the 1930s.
He explains that in mountain top removal, coal is removed by planting explosives in the mountain. When the mining is complete, the mountain is gone and only rubble remains.
Rather than being an attack on the industry, the duo is trying to make people aware that the electricity they use brings about the destruction of majestic mountains � an environmental dilemma that cannot be fixed with glue.
O�Brien may drive a hybrid but he doesn�t consider himself an activist.
�I try to stay out of politics. Most of the time you�re preaching to the choir.�
But it�s these down-home truths sung in an authentic fashion that the award-winning pair present at their Arden Theatre debut on Wednesday, April 23.
The duo has made music together for a long time, both as collaborators and as solo acts. Despite what O�Brien might say, their blue-collar roots music makes people think.
Scott and O�Brien met about 17 years ago, but had known of each other through the interconnected web of roots musicians. Their managers believed they would make strong songwriting collaborators and invited them to Nashville.
They paraded their musicianship at a party where they played together in an intimate songwriting circle.
�We realized we played well together. Tim had booked a three-week tour and invited me along, and one thing led to another,� Scott explains.
Back in 2000, they recorded the album Real Time, a deep and widely acclaimed album nominated for a Grammy Award. Following the album, they became a much-in-demand touring act and they hit the road whenever schedules allowed.
Both have flourishing careers as solo artists and sidemen and opportunities to record together have been few and far between. But once in the same room, the two stripped down musicians slide into their roles quite seamlessly.
Scott describes their musicianship and partnership in the same vein as breathing.
�It�s the most natural thing we do. It doesn�t require us to do a lot of other things. We�ve been playing for decades. The big thing is we listen really well to each other. It�s fun. It�s natural. We�re cognizant that we�re here to entertain. It�s about being in the moment.�
O�Brien suggests their passion for recording and singing in real time stems from a love of old recordings.
�We like to have it sound like you�re sitting around the kitchen table. That�s the way we record. You hear us reacting in real time. It�s like eating fresh vegetables instead of store-bought.�
Scott pointed out that when the pair completes the Memories & Moments tours in September, they have no plans for future projects. Meanwhile, they plan to give it all they�ve got.
O�Brien closed the interview saying, �It�s a great honour and gift to be a musician. When the audience comes, and you get this thing flowing through you and it becomes part of a bigger thing.�


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - An estimated 10 million Americans are victimized by identity theft, with one expert reporting there's a new victim every 79 seconds.
To help protect against this fastest-growing of all crimes, Channel 4 and Republic Services Recycling Center are teaming up to to offer free shredding of things like your bank statements, canceled checks, medical records and any other paperwork containing personal information you don't want to fall into the wrong hands.
If you don't have access to a shredder, you can bring any paperwork containing Social Security numbers, bank or credit information, tax information and health forms to Channel 4's studios between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday.
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Channel 4 is also asking people to bring non-perishable food donations for Second Harvest Food Bank as they drop off their papers for shredding. WJXT also created a Facebook event with information about Shredder Day and to learn about a contest to win a free personal shredder.
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In the .htaccess file, how do you get all website address's that end with .php to strip off that part ie, to take away the .php part
Any help appreciated.
Why would you want to do that? how would the server read just the file names then? I think maybe you want to display all .php files as .html or vice versa? I've done just that before, having .html files behave as if they are .php with .htaccess. Please look on google for ".PHP as .HTML through .htaccess" You will quickly find your answer.
Try something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+)$ $1.php
It should rewrite anything that doesn't have an extension and that doesn't exist.
Another option is to save your files without extensions and parse extensionless files as PHP - though I wouldn't recommend it.
Your best approach, to be honest, is sending every non-existent request to a PHP controller, which deals with requests from there. For example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ Controller.php?Path=$1
$Path = $_GET['Path'];
$PathSplit = explode('/', $Path);
//$PathSplit contains the path in an array. E.g. a request to /page/view/3 would exist as array('page', 'view', 3). Use a switch to figure out the first item, then the second, and handle like that
That would be the beginning of an MVC-style application.
That's YOUR job. Did you read the tutorial linked in the sticky threads OR in my signature. WHY would you even want to have Apache strip off the file extension(s) - as DIDO says, what would Apache use to parse your php files (let alone the others) for your visitors?
Although I abhor the use of the :kaioken: EVERYTHING :kaioken: atom (normally, that's (.*) but Jake's is the same thing excluding the dot character and requiring at least one character - BTW, don't escape the dot character in a range definition) but this is essentially what WordPress (and other CMS systems) use. What his code is doing is
Ensuring that mod_rewrite is not in comment mode
Checking to see whether the {REQUEST_URI} is a file
Checking to see whether the {REQUEST_URI} is a directory
Redirecting everything without a dot character (in the path/filename) to the same thing with a .php extension.
Personally, I would use ([a-zA-Z]+) to specify the character I want mod_rewrite to match (rather than the NOT match anything with a dot) but that runs into problems with accented and "special" characters).
I also agree with Jake that directing Apache to parse extensionless files as PHP is not advised.
As to his "controller" script, that's again what WP does ... with EVERYTHING. WP uses index.php to parse every request (which is not a file, i.e., css, js, jpg, etc) to pull content from a database using modules determined from the parsed request.
Okay, that's how the watch works, not what time it is but it should give you something to think about.
Many, many applications use this kind of method. In fact, in the PHP Application Design forum, anyone who doesn't appears a little crazy :lol:
The main reason is that, as useful as regular expressions are, they have no intelligence. They can't tell if a certain module exists, or redirect indefinite categories etc. PHP, however, has more parsing abilities - so requests are sent for PHP to handle. This is the C in MVC - Controller.
So requests such as:
could use the content model, the 'view' template and use Home as the identifier.
Whereas a request like:
Could use PHP as a category, OOP as a subcategory and dependency_injection as the article identifier.
More possibilities emerge, depending on your imagination. For example:
could be parsed to render the home content as a PDF file rather than HTML. Of course, you'd need to write the PHP to do it, but it's possible. Heck, if you're talented you could even have:
To generate the home page as an image.
You can also pass processing instructions if you wish.
Possibilities are much more open when parsing with PHP, and this works best when you pass everything to PHP, rather than just sections.
Hi Jake!
Yeah, that's WP and many other CMS processes, as I said above. It does, however, require mod_rewrite to get any request which does not exist as a file or directory to the "brains of the outfit."
Thanks for the friendly input Jake, it's appreciated. Just to clarify, I don't want it to rewrite anything that doesn't have an extension - the aim is to rewrite anything that does have an extension, so that :
http://www.anydomainname.com/filename.phpbecomes :http://www.anydomainname.com/filename
or :
http://www.anydomainname.com/differentfilename.htmbecomes :http://www.anydomainname.com/differentfilename
http://www.anydomainname.com/otherfilename.htmlbecomes :http://www.anydomainname.com/otherfilename
You're thinking about it backwards
The mod_rewrite doesn't rewrite differentfilename.htm to differentfilename - it recieves the input and has to generate a valid URL from it.
So, for example, say the URL that the user typed in is /filename, it's Mod_Rewrite's job to make the server see that as /filename.php - which is what the above code does
Thanks Jake, I was sure that I read somewhere that it could be done ? ? :injured:
It can!
What I'm saying is that you're thinking about it backwards. Your initial question stated that you want a request like /contact to be sent to the file /contact.php.
That's what my code does.
The way you're currently thinking about it, you want /contact.php to be rewritten to /contact. It works the other way around - it takes a 'fake' request (/contact) and processes it into a real request (/contact.php) without the user/browser knowing any difference. All they know is that they went to /contact and it shows the contact form - which, on your server, is physically at /contact.php.
As mentioned originally, the request has always been for the .php part to be stripped off, but ok, bearing all of this in mind, what code are you suggesting for the .htaccess file please ?
Exactly what I gave before. Just try it
Say you have '/filename.php' on the server. Go to /filename in the browser.
Yep, I did try it and it didn't work as wanted, that's why I asked again
Just to clarify again, I don't want to add any file extensions, I want to take them away, i.e., if there's a file that says :/filename.php on the server, it should show in the address bar as /filename in the browser.
:lol: Thats what the code does.
Ok, let me clarify. The code takes a request to /contact, for example, and tells the server to load /contact.php. So the user types in yoursite.com/contact and the server reads it as yoursite.com/contact.php.
This is stripping away the extension. The user doesn't type the extension in, it is added (invisible to the user) before the request is processed.
The files in your server won't change, just the way they're accessed.
So, if you tried my code and went to /contact, it should be as if you had asked for /contact.php.
You say it didn't work as you wanted - can you clarify?
This is where the confusion is coming in - I'll copy your post to below, with it amended to show what is really wanted :
The code takes a request to /contact.php for example, and tells the server to load /contact.php. So the user types in yoursite.com/contact.php and the server serves it up as yoursite.com/contact
So the user types in yoursite.com/contact.php
What benefit would you possibly get from the user typing in the extension but there being no extension on the physical file on the server? Think about that carefully.
So, let me get this straight. If a user sees this in their address bar
Then the server loads the physical file
If that's actually what you want:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+).php$ $1
A typical request is that when /Contact is put in the URL, /Contact.php is loaded on the server, you seem to be requesting the opposite?
Ok, let's try again :
You have a file called :
the website is :
so, the file is linked to from the site, as :
What is clearly needed, is a way, so that when someone clicks on a link from one of the other pages in the site, to :
it shows in the address bar, as :
Why would you want to do that ? It's easy,
Looks a lot 'prettier' than :
Ok, I see what you mean.
The code I gave you parses domain.com/filename and turns it, to the server, into domain.com/filename.php to the server. The browser still sees it as domain.com/filename.
So, using the initial code I gave you, simple link to only domain.com/filename and people will link to that.
If you want any request to domain.com/filename.php to be physically directed to domain.com/filename in the browser, that's called a 301 redirect. So when a user goes to domain.com/filename.php, their browser will be redirected to domain.com/filename, but then behind the scenes all requests to domain.com/filename will be internally redirected to domain.com/filename.php.
The code I gave you initially does half of this job.
So to complete it, try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+).php$ $1 [301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+)$ $1.php [L]
Be careful not to create a loop.
Thanks Jake, your perseverance is appreciated and at least we're making some headway now in the confusion arena
Have you tried :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+).php$ $1 [301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+)$ $1.php [L]
In your .htaccess file ?
It doesn't work, it gives the usual 'Internal Server Error'
Don't just take my word for it - try it
Agh, .htaccess isn't my forte at all, as I've found out by trying this out! I'd certainly appreciate an answer from a guru on it!
So, here's the code we had before:
I found that it shouldn't be [301] but it should be [R=301]:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+).php$ $1 [301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+)$ $1.php [L]
After a bit of playing around, I came up with:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\\.php$ http://localhost/Sitepoint/Redirect/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [L]
Note that, here, localhost/Sitepoint/Redirect is the project folder. Turns out that you must use the full URL.
So here's where the problem is. I made Contact.php as a test file, with just some text output to verify that I'm at the right page.
So I tried Contact.php and... infinite loop. I changed the above 301 redirect condition to redirect phps requests rather than php, and all works well! It's just when the php extension is used, because one clause triggers the next to be true.
This is the last code I tried before giving up:
I thought the L would stop the infinite loop... but it doesn't.
Does anyone have any ideas? To summarise the OP's request: