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The co-owner of a commercial cucumber greenhouse heavily damaged in an early-morning fire says the family plans to rebuild the operation.
"We're not quitters. We will build bigger and better," Trevor Schriemer said, shortly after his release from Steinbach's Bethesda Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation.
The RCMP said in a statement one man was treated for smoke inhalation as a result of the fire in Otterburne, 57 kilometres south of Winnipeg on Highway 59, on Wednesday.
Schriemer beat fire crews to the scene when flames ignited inside a shed at the front of the massive greenhouse, which covers 0.8 hectares.
Twenty volunteer firefighters from St. Pierre-Jolys and St. Malo battled the blaze for nearly four hours before it was finally contained shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Schriemer said he spent four hours being treated for smoke inhalation after he risked entering the smoke-filled building. He said the threat the greenhouse gas boiler might explode, injuring firefighters, impelled him to enter.
"The first responders were on the scene at that point. It was about four o'clock in the morning and I needed to shut off the gas supply to the boilers," he said.
He said he was the only one on the scene who knew where the emergency shut-off valves were. Meanwhile, firefighters focused on keeping the flames from igniting bags of fertilizer located with equipment at the front the greenhouse.
"When I opened the door, a big blast of smoke came through, and then I had to go through an area of smoke, but I did it," Schreimer said in an interview from his St. Pierre-Jolys home after his release from hospital.
St. Pierre-Jolys fire Chief Pat Laroche said there were a lot of tense moments at the fire.
"What our concern was is there is a lot of fertilizers there, and on the side there are fuel tanks. The fire didn't get to the fuel tanks," Laroche said. A backhoe moved in after 8 a.m. to remove the shed after the flames were contained.
Schriemer said he and his brother, Scott Schriemer, who jointly own the greenhouse, are devastated by the loss.
"It's a tragedy for our family. My brother and I, we worked our whole lives to set this up," Trevor Schriemer said.
"Many people are working in our facility, and it's difficult for them when they're out of work."
The fire left about 20 people jobless.
The brothers are working with their insurance company and plan to reopen, but Trevor Schriemer said it's too early to estimate when that will happen.
The massive greenhouse is believed to be worth millions of dollars, but neither brother would discuss dollar figures yesterday.
It was built in 2011 to house a growing operation of about two million cucumbers.
The Schriemer family is well-known in the Winnipeg area for its market gardens.
The brothers' father opened the first market in St. Norbert, Vic's Fruit Market, 50 years ago. That market on Pembina Highway is still running.
Scott Schriemer owns Schriemer's Home and Garden Showplace and Market Garden on McGregor Farm Road in East St. Paul.
The St. Pierre-Jolys RCMP detachment is investigating the fire and had yet to release a damage estimate.
They did not comment on reports they are investigating whether the fire was deliberately set, perhaps as an act of vandalism.


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Choo celebrates birthday by extending hitting streak
ATLANTA -- Reds centerfielder Shin-Soo Choo, who extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a single in the first inning on Saturday, doesn't call a lot of attention to himself, unless you want to talk about his play.
Fittingly, he did not go out of his way to announce that Saturday was his birthday. Teammate Todd Frazier isn't as modest and made an announcement to the team.
Choo waved his cap and joked to a group of teammates sitting on the couch, "Don't guess my age."
He's 31.
Oddly, for a guy who was born in July, Choo has seen next to no action on his birthday, as the game against the Braves was only the second time he's played on July 13. Last year was the first time in his eight-year career that he suited up on his birthday.
The big 30 wasn't exactly kind to Choo, as Cleveland lost, 1-0, in Toronto, and Choo went 0-for-4.
Choo didn't waste time making year No. 31 better, as smacked singles to center off Atlanta starter Mike Minor in each of his first two at-bats, the second driving in a run. He came into the game hitting .405 during the first 10 games of his hitting streak.

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Los Angeles, CA (February 21, 2013) -
Thinkbox Software today announced the release of Krakatoa MY, the high-volume particle renderer for the Autodesk Maya 3D software running on Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems.
Krakatoa is Thinkbox Software's production-proven volumetric particle renderer previously available for the Autodesk 3ds Max 3D software. Krakatoa is CPU-based, highly optimized, heavily multi-threaded, and can be used successfully on most hardware running Windows or Linux operating systems including laptops and render nodes without dedicated high-end graphics accelerators.
Krakatoa MY seamlessly connects Autodesk Maya with the Krakatoa renderer and provides a number of features designed to accelerate artists' workflow when manipulating millions of particles. Krakatoa MY shares the same rendering core with Krakatoa SR (Stand-alone Renderer) and Krakatoa MX (3ds Max) and will produce identical results given the same input data and settings.
Key features of Krakatoa MY include:
-- Point or voxel representation of particle data, with various filter modes, motion blur and depth of field camera effects, and HDRI render passes output to OpenEXR files
-- Simultaneous support of both additive and volumetric shading models, with per-particle control over color, emission, absorption, density and more
-- Support for various light scattering algorithms, high-quality self-shadowing and occlusions from both geometry and DTEX maps
-- Dedicated particle loader object supporting Krakatoa .PRT file sequences, RealFlow .BIN file sequences and .CSV file sequences, with the ability to offset, retime, combine and modify already cached particles
-- Dedicated PRT Volume and PRT Fractal objects inside the Maya viewports provide procedural particle creation from polygon mesh volumes and mathematical algorithms
-- Particle partitioning tools for caching multiple versions of the same simulation to combine into high-density particle clouds
-- Particle repopulation for render-time conversion of low-count simulations into high-count particle clouds
"Versatility and performance have made Krakatoa a favorite tool among studios of all sizes for years. With the release of Krakatoa MY, we are thrilled to bring Maya users access to an efficient pipeline for particle effects creation, something they have been requesting for some time. We love feedback from our clients and are more than happy to go above and beyond to make whatever they want a reality so it's exciting to see Krakatoa MY come to fruition," said Chris Bond, founder, Thinkbox Software.
Thinkbox Software will demonstrate Krakatoa MY at the Autodesk User Group event organized by Autodesk, Gnomon and RFX in Los Angeles, CA on February 28th, 2013. To register and for more information, please visit http://rfx.com/events/70
Krakatoa MY requires its own dedicated workstation license for interactive use inside of Autodesk Maya, but is compatible with the network rendering licenses used by the other Krakatoa implementations (Krakatoa SR and Krakatoa MX). Workstation and render license bundles are available at a reduced price.
Please visit www.thinkboxsoftware.com/sales or call 1-866-419-0283 to request a 15-day evaluation license, or for more information about Krakatoa MY, including pricing.
About Thinkbox Software
Thinkbox Software provides creative solutions for visual artists in entertainment, engineering and design. Developer of high-volume particle renderer Krakatoa and render farm management software Deadline, the team of Thinkbox Software solves difficult production problems with intuitive, well-designed solutions and remarkable support. As an artist-driven company, we create tools that help artists manage their jobs and empower them to create worlds and imagine new realities. Thinkbox was founded in 2010 by Chris Bond, founder of Frantic Films. http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/


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In many families, it is nothing short of heresy to fix anything "different" for Thanksgiving dinner — especially when it comes to the basics, such as stuffing for the turkey or, perhaps, sweet potatoes. Either a recipe is tried, true, trustworthy and, most of all, expected … or it is not. Said another way, either the sweet potatoes have marshmallows "because that's how my mother made them" or …
The other side of the story is to experiment just a bit, even on an occasion as sacred as Thanksgiving. And there is always the opportunity to try something new when you are "bringing a side dish" as a guest to somebody else's holiday table. In that spirit, The Observer family is happy to share three of our sweet-potato favorites with not a marshmallow in sight. They range from a puree redolent of bourbon to a tempting coalition with coconut.
If you are inclined to reciprocate, by all means send us your favorite recipe for this toothsome tuber, and we will publish on our website.
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Candied Sweet Potatoes with Walnuts
Yield: 6 servings
Start to finish: 1 hour, 45 minutes (includes potato baking time)
4 large sweet potatoes (3 1/2 to 4 pounds), baked,
peeled and cut into 1/3-inch thick slices
1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
1 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup Curacao or other orange-flavored liqueur
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 2 tablespoons water
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Scrub potatoes well and prick all over with a fork. Line a jelly roll pan or other baking tray with foil. (Sweet potatoes weep when cooked; this saves clean-up and does not alter the taste or texture.)
Bake at 375 degrees until tender. Time will vary from 45 to 60 minutes or more, depending on size of potato.
Butter a shallow baking dish (one shown is 7 inches in diameter by 2.5 inches high). Arrange sweet potato slices in layers and scatter walnut pieces over each layer.
Combine brown sugar, orange juice, liqueur and butter in a small saucepan over moderate heat. Bring to a gentle simmer. Cook briefly to dissolve sugar then thicken with the cornstarch-and-water mixture, cooking until the sauce is thick and shiny.
Pour sauce over potatoes and walnuts and bake 30 minutes or longer if desired.
Cook's notes: This recipe is delicious without nuts, as well. To save time, you can make this dish with canned sweet potatoes, if desired. For whatever reason, the canned product is typically labeled "yams" (with "sweet potatoes" underneath).
(Recipe from Lois Scheyer, Longboat Observer Energetic Traveler)
Savory Sweet Potato Puree with Buttered Pecans
Yield: 8 to 10 servings
Start to finish: About two hours (includes potato baking time)
6 pounds sweet potatoes (about six large)
3 tablespoons bourbon
1/2 cup (eight tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups pecan halves
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
2 tablespoons packed dark-brown sugar
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Bake potatoes as listed in Candied Sweet Potatoes with Walnuts recipe.
As soon as you can handle them, peel, cut into large chunks and transfer half the potatoes to a food processor. Add bourbon and six tablespoons butter and puree until smooth. Transfer puree to a large bowl, puree remaining potatoes and add to bowl, stirring to combine completely. Season with pepper and salt it desired. Purée may be made two days ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature before proceeding.
Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees. Spread pecans in a single layer in a shallow baking pan and bake about 10 minutes until fragrant. Toss hot pecans with remaining two tablespoons butter and salt. Nuts can be prepped a couple of days ahead and held at room temperature.
Butter a two-quart gratin dish or other casserole large enough to hold the puree (one shown is 8.5-inch diameter by 3.5 inches deep).
Arrange pecans on top of purée and sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake purée in upper third of 325-degree oven until heated through and pecans are slightly browned, about 30 minutes.
Cook's notes: It is a good idea to prepare a few extra pecans, so you can select the prettiest ones to decorate the casserole — and have a few to eat. They are irresistible. This dish travels and reheats well.
(Recipe from Molly Schechter, Observer food editor, adapted from Gourmet, November 1997)
Sweet Potato Casserole for a Crowd
Yield: 12 to 16 servings
Start to finish: About one hour
3 large (28 ounce) cans of yams, drained
4 eggs
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/3 cups shredded coconut, sweetened
2 15-ounce cans Mandarin oranges
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Combine first six ingredients in bowl of electric mixer and beat until light and fluffy. Put in greased 9-inch-by-13-inch-by-2-inch baking dish and bake 35 minutes.
Remove from oven, sprinkle coconut and oranges around edges of top. Bake for 15 minutes longer.
Cook's notes: Can be prepared in advance. You may not need to use all three cans of yams; start with two and see what the texture is like after whipping with the other ingredients. Then add more if needed. Mixture should be light and fluffy.
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CHULA VISTA, Calif. (Sept. 29, 2012) – The U.S. women's beach volleyball teams of Emily Day and Heather Hughes along with Summer Ross and Morgan Beck have advanced to the semifinals of the 2012 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit event at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
The USA1 team of Day (Torrance, Calif.) and Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) will play Mexico's Martha Revuelta and Bibi Candelas in one semifinal. The USA3 women's team of Ross (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Beck (Coto de Caza, Calif.) will play Canada's Jamie Broder and Kristina Valjas in the other.
The semifinals are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. PT. The losers will play for the bronze medal at 11 a.m. followed by the gold medal match at noon.
Ross and Beck finished pool play undefeated on Saturday with a 2-0 (21-19, 21-11) win over compatriots Stevi Robinson and Eve Ettinger of USA5. In the quarterfinals, they took a three-set victory over the USA2 team of Michelle Moriarty and Kaitlin Sather (21-16, 16-21, 15-9).
"This is our third day ever playing together… I think we're more concerned with learning to play together and learning to play well together," Beck said. "Right now it's been really fun and the outcome is great. Obviously we're excited with wins. But it's nice to see us gradually improve."
Ross agreed that the team is improving with each match.
"I think we learn new things about each other's game as we play, so it's fun," she said.
Day and Hughes also finished pool play undefeated, opening Saturday with a 21-13, 21-12 win over Diana Peguero and Nairobi Agramonte of Dominican Republic.
In the next round, the U.S. pair won a battle against Puerto Rico's Yarleen Santiago and Yamileska Yantin, 2-1 (17-21, 21-18, 15-12).
The other three U.S. women's teams competing in Chula Vista finished their tournaments on Saturday.
Moriarty and Sather finished second in Pool D behind Day and Hughes after winning their final pool play match on Saturday, 2-0 (21-19, 21-11) over compatriots Stevi Robinson (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) and Eve Ettinger (Santa Barbara, Calif.) of USA5. Moriarty and Sather were eliminated after the loss to Beck and Ross.
Robinson and Ettinger finished third in Pool D and did not advance in the winners' bracket. However, they will play in a consolation match against Costa Rica's Ivette Alas and Marianela Alfaro on Sunday.
The USA4 women's team of Kirby Burnham (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Sara Hughes (Costa Mesa, Calif.) finished second in Pool B with a 1-1 record, but they fell to Revuelta and Candelas in the next round, 2-0 (21-19, 21-16) and were eliminated.
About the photo: Morgan Beck blocks against Puerto Rico during their match on Sept. 28. Photo courtesy of NORCECA
Saturday's Results
Pool A: MEX d LCA 2-0 (21-7, 21-9); Pool B: CAN d GUA 2-0 (21-11, 21-11); Pool C: PUR d CRC 2-0 (21-9, 21-13); Pool D: USA1 d DOM 2-0 (21-13, 21-12), USA2 d USA5 2-0 (21-19, 21-11)
Round 1: DOM d LCA 2-0 (21-9, 21-8), CRC d GUA 2-1 (19-21, 21-14, 15-10, CAN d TRI 2-0 (21-8, 21-7), MEX d USA4 2-0 (21-19, 21-16) Quarterfinals: USA3 d USA2 2-1 (21-16, 16-21, 15-9), USA1 d PUR 17-21, 21-18, 15-12


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Call for User Stories¶
Over the last few years we've been delighted to see the Epsilon community grow and expand. We'd like to take the opportunity to thank you all for your feedback and contributions, and if it's not too much of a hassle, we'd like to ask for your help one more time.
Epsilon is developed and maintained by members of staff at the University of York (UK) and University of Cadiz (Spain). In the context of the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014, we (the York people) need to prepare a portfolio that demonstrates the impact of our research (for some definition of impact).
In this direction it'd be really appreciated if you spare a few minutes to write a few sentences on what you're using Epsilon for in your company/research group and why it's cool, and share them with us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
All responses, no matter how short or seemingly trivial, would be very helpful for us, and will be rewarded accordingly next time we meet. Of course, no user story will be made publicly available without your explicit consent.
In case you'd like an example, we recently received the following statement from Jendrik Johannes, a founder of DevBoost. Our thanks to Jendrik for his statement and for kindly allowing us to use it here.
"We used Eugenia in a project where we developed a graphical editor for a client as an extension for their existing tool for modeling wind farms. The client already used a model as the basis for the tool and thus it was a matter of minutes to generate a prototype of the editor with Eugenia. This gave us the possibility to discuss the clients requirements directly on a working prototype which later on also served as the basis for the actual implementation. Using Eugenia, we implemented the prototype within a week - a task that usually takes a month."
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The Maxwell Football Club plans to honor Penn State's seniors for the players' commitment and leadership during a challenging season.
The 31 seniors will receive the Thomas Brookshier Spirit Award after the Nittany Lions finished 8-4 following the NCAA sanctions for the school's handling of the child molestation scandal involving retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
The seniors helped keep most of the team together following the penalties. The past year also included the passing of former coach Joe Paterno and the transition to successor Bill O'Brien's tenure as coach.
Maxwell president Ron Jaworski in a statement praised the seniors and called their accomplishments ``astonishing.''
``With the difficult circumstances surrounding the program it would have been easy for many of these players to look for a different situation to finish their college careers,'' Jaworski said. ``But they chose to stay and support their teammates, coaches and university.''
The award will be formally presented at the Maxwell Club's awards gala on March 1 in Atlantic City, N.J.
Separately, O'Brien was also named a finalist Tuesday for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year award, which is handed out in partnership with the National Football Foundation. O'Brien is also a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year award by the Football Writers Association of America.


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It lets you see how quickly your data goes from your computer to another computer on the Internet and will tell you how many other computers your data must go through to get there.
A graph shows time and speed history, allowing you to see what Internet activity took place when you were away from the computer. You can zoom and print the graph. The active taskbar icon graphs the current speed. A network monitor shows all Internet activity on your DSL connection and lets you unmask all spies. It also provides router and Windows Server and Workstation monitoring, and you can monitor and remote control small home networks or large server farms.


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As I write this, Tropical Storm Isaac is churning up the Gulf of Mexico and preparing to pack a punch on the Gulf Coast, but no matter where you are, you've probably been walloped by some pretty severe weather this summer. Parts of the country have suffered some of the most devastating drought conditions in decades, while other areas have dealt with flash floods, tornadoes, and even other natural disasters like widespread wildfires and the earthquake swarm occurring over the past few days in southern California. And if your experience has been like mine, you may not have always seen the trouble coming.
I was at a friend's home in northern Virginia about two months back when what turned out to be a "derecho" storm with hurricane-force winds suddenly slammed into the house, and less than a minute later, the power blinked out and didn't come back on for two days. Lightning illuminated the house with constant, unceasing flashes for at least 20 minutes, and huge trees snapped outside, blocking roads and totaling cars. It was over as quickly as it had come, and once we felt we could safely venture back outside, we found the curbside trashcan had blown two blocks down the street. This storm came completely out of left field—I had actually just checked the weather forecast 15 minutes before the storm hit and had no indication that we were in for anything aside from a partly cloudy night.
It's not always easy to expect the unexpected when it comes to weather, and park and recreation professionals probably know this better than most. Many agency-organized events are held outdoors, and it's usually impossible to know in advance exactly what sort of conditions you can anticipate. However, some agencies are taking strides to be as prepared as possible for any severe weather that comes their way. The National Weather Service has developed a StormReady program (http://www.weather.gov/stormready/) and certifies counties, communities, universities, and government agencies (including parks) that have:
- Established a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center
- Adopted more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and forecasts and to alert the public
- Created a system that monitors weather conditions locally
- Promoted the importance of public readiness through community seminars
- Developed a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises.
Unfortunately, that June derecho storm that swept the country killed two young boys at a state park in New Jersey, when a tree crashed into the tent where their families huddled together to ride out the unexpected maelstrom. Although we're never going to be able to eliminate all risk, especially with the unpredictable nature of weather, we owe it to our communities and our field to protect the public in our parks as much as possible. This week, as Tropical Storm Isaac follows in Hurricane Katrina's devastating footsteps from seven years ago, I hope some lessons learned from that eye-opening disaster means that communities in the path of the storm will be prepared for what's coming. We can do our part to lead by example.
Danielle Taylor is NRPA's Senior Editor of Parks & Recreation Magazine. Follow her at https://twitter.com/AdventureEdit.


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Supermarket Sweets: New Warheads Sour Coolers
Taste-test, Aisle 1.
Warheads were really big when I was a kid, and I loved them. I used to eat so many in quick succession that I'd get that singular, too-much-sour-candy-on-your-tongue injury that is strangely equivalent to rug burn. But that was part of the experience—there's more to enjoying Warheads than flavor, there's a great sense of achievement.
Once you put one in your mouth, you had to soldier through the initial sour shock, endure it until you were rewarded with the sweet hard candy underneath, and then, after sucking through that, there was the final treasure, an extra sweet inside that crackled slightly with carbonation on your tongue, like tiny pop rocks. When you popped a Warhead, you felt pride in understanding that good things come to those who wait. When you popped a Warhead, you assumed the people around you were impressed.
So I was excited to try the latest offering from Warheads, a special summer release called Warheads Sour Coolers. Marketed as having a special cooling effect for summer, I figured they might follow that earlier Warheads trajectory—power through the sour, and get a reward of cool instead of sweet.
But these are a whole different game, and they're really strange. First of all, they're a chalky disc rather than a crunchy, crystallized sugar sucker like the original Warhead. What great candy is in chalky disc form? I can't think of one. Smarties certainly don't qualify.
Second of all, they're not that sour. Not in a way that befits the Warheads man on the package, with his lips pursed and steam coming out of his forehead. As for the cooling effect, it's immediate. This isn't a layered candy like the classic Warhead. The cooling sensation took over my mouth immediately, and while it was pretty cool in the sense of cold, it was not very cool in the sense of neat. This seemed more like a lozenge than a candy—indeed, the feeling these things give is somewhere between the strange mouth numbing of a serious business sore throat lozenge and the menthol kick of a candy-section cough drop, minus the minty-ness. The whole business doesn't say "candy" to me, and they left my mouth feeling sort of dry and chalky. On top of all that, even the flavor was majorly lacking, tasting of just the barest hint of faux-fruit.
Impressive? Not quite, but they did make me want to go find some original Warheads.
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All around the Jemez mountains, a layer of rock known as tuff erodes into fanciful cities of cones. The tuff formed from ash ejected from the Jemez volcano, which erupted explosively around 1 million years ago. Two eruptions threw 50+ cubic miles of rock into the air and belched great landslides of superheated ash down the sides of the volcano.
New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics at 45% (2008 estimate), being descendants of Spanish colonists and recent immigrants from Latin America. It also has the third-highest percentage of Native Americans after Alaska and Oklahoma, and the fifth-highest total number of Native Americans after California, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Texas. The tribes represented in the state consist of mostly Navajo and Pueblo peoples. As a result, the demographics and culture of the state are unique for their strong Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultural influences. At a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth most sparsely inhabited U.S. state.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_mexico]


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Let's face it. Many Boy Scouts would not become an Eagle Scout without their parent's support, especially their mother's support. She probably learns as much, if not more, than the young man does on his road to Scouting's highest award. Maybe that is the reason mothers receive a pin each time their son receives a Scouting rank. Just a little recognition, you know.
Thanks to Bryan, over at the Bryan On Scouting blog, I was introduced to a humorous and emotional video which salutes mothers for "putting up with" and helping out all those Boy Scout who have earned their Eagle Rank. Eagle Scout mothers – We salute you!


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Treatment of Prisoners
If, as Dostoevsky wrote, the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons, then America is a primitive society. Our prisons are harsh, secretive, and lacking in rehabilitative efforts that could enable prisoners to rejoin society as law-abiding citizens. Because the courts traditionally have been a forum where questions can be raised about prison practices, the Justice Center has brought several lawsuits that raise important issues including conditions at supermaxium security prisons, overcrowding and the rights of the mentally ill.


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Patronage, only for happiness? – An analysis on Coexistence of Multiple Consumption Emotions
Consumption emotion is the perceived feeling of customers when they use products or enjoy service. This feeling can exist for a long time in the minds of consumers and influence their purchase decisions. Consumption emotion falls into three categories, namely positive emotion, negative emotion and neutral emotion. During consuming process, customers may experience a variety of emotions. So it is natural to wonder how these emotions influence decision-making of customers when they coexist. Based on previous studies, this research proposes hypotheses and collects 756 valid data with questionnaire method applied. With employment of multiple linear regression models, hypotheses are verified to draw the final conclusions. Positive and neutral emotions can exert significantly positive effect on patronage intention, while negative emotion significantly affects patronage intention in a negative way. Meanwhile, negative influence on patronage intention is conspicuously reflected from interaction of positive and neutral emotions. Interaction of negative and neutral emotions does not generate obvious effect on patronage intention. However, positive effect on patronage intention is observed in interaction of positive and negative emotions. In different retail formats, interaction of consumption emotions exerts different influence on consumers. According to research results, in real business management, negative emotion of customers does not necessarily lead to worse consequence. Customer satisfaction can still be obtained if it is possible for them to experience positive emotion from other aspects.
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True to its History, the FBI is Still
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According to a report released last week by the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) violated procedures for wiretapping and other methods of obtaining intelligence more than 100 times in the last two years. The department's inspector general regarded some of the violations as "significant," including wiretaps that were broader than what a court had approved, and wiretaps that were allowed to go on for weeks, even months, longer than had been authorized. Given the bureau's history, this shouldn't be surprising. The FBI was created for partisan political purposes, and has blatantly violated civil liberties since its inception.
In 1919 the Attorney General of the United States, A. Mitchell Palmer, exacerbated public fears of Communism in order to generate publicity for his candidacy in the upcoming presidential election. Coming only two years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, there was widespread hysteria in America concerning Communists and other supposed radicals. Attorney General Palmer capitalized on this by creating an antiradicalism division in the Justice Department. He selected a young government attorney named J. Edgar Hoover to lead the new division.
Hoover's division became the FBI In 1919, the bureau staged the first of what became known as the "Palmer Raids." Agents invaded the offices of suspected radical political organizations and labor unions. These raids rounded up thousands of legal aliens who had committed no crime, but were suspect only because of their political beliefs (many were Communists or socialists) or their immigrant backgrounds (many had Russian or German ancestry). Since they lacked U.S. citizenship, many were deported without indictment or even a trial.
The only evidence of domestic terrorism that the raids netted were blueprints that the bureau maintained were for a bomb, intended to be used to overthrow the government. It was eventually discovered that the blueprints were actually for a new and improved record player. Despite a lack of evidence that the suspected radicals were actually a threat, in January 1920 the FBI staged its infamous "New Year's Raids." This time, in addition to entering offices, the agents invaded thousands of people's homes, largely without search warrants.
Approximately 6,000 individuals in 23 states were arrested and jailed. Most were never charged with any crime, and were denied legal counsel. It's ironic, of course, that the nation's chief law enforcement agency was denying American citizens of their constitutional rights. Arrests were made on the basis of subscribing to Communist newspapers, reading Russian novels, eating in restaurants that served foreign cuisine, and simply because someone "looked like a radical," according to published sources.
Almost 85 years later, little appears to have changed in the FBI According to the Justice Department's report, the inspector general identified 108 instances of violations in 2004 and 2005 regarding wiretaps and other methods of obtaining intelligence. The report also found violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which governs how and when the federal government can eavesdrop on domestic communications. In 2004, 48 percent of the FBI violations trampled on FISA, and this figure surged to 69 percent last year.
The inspector general's report also revealed that the duration of the violations grew over the last two years. This was the case regarding the "overcollection" of intelligence data, in which the FBI collected more evidence than a court had authorized. In one such instance, the bureau obtained the complete content of 181 telephone calls related to an intelligence investigation, but a court had only authorized the bureau to obtain billing records.
This was also the case with "overruns," in which the FBI allowed a wiretap or other method of obtaining intelligence to run longer than a court had approved. In one instance, a wiretap lasted 373 days longer than it had been approved for. The average duration in which overcollections and overruns were permitted before the bureau stopped them was 22 days in 2004, and 32 days in 2005.
The spokesman for the FBI, John Miller, attempted to justify these violations of civil liberties by arguing that some violations are inevitable "given the scope and complexity of national security investigations." However, it's more likely that the bureau is simply perpetuating longstanding practices. The Justice Department would do well to view its report as a serious comment on the blatant lawlessness within the FBI, and to demand serious reforms within the bureau. It's long overdue.
Gene C. Gerard has taught history, religion, and ethics for 14 years at several colleges in the Southwest, and is a contributing author to the forthcoming book Americans at War, by Greenwood Press. He writes a blog for the world news web site OrbStandard at: www.orbstandard.com/GGerard.
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He keeps or gives away some of what he finds, and some he sells: The tree, for instance, fetched $100 on Craigslist, and he sold the pin on eBay for $70.
Gregory, 26, documents his finds, in words and in pictures he takes with a Canon point-and-shoot, on a thoughtful and at times philosophical blog called, appropriately, Things I Find in the Trash (garbagefinds.com). He has close to 600 followers.
Mostly, he goes through the garbage because he thinks too many people throw too much out too easily, says the native of the western Quebec community of Shawville, who came to Montreal to complete a sociology degree at Concordia University.
"My primary goal is recycling," he said, his manner gentle and soft-spoken. "My philosophy is that a lot of the problems of society have root in the fact that we waste a lot. I think part of it is that people don't understand the value of things."
As spring cleaning kicks into high gear and Montreal prepares for July 1, when it seems half the city moves house, Gregory will soon be busier than ever. "Spring cleaning is a boon to my trash picking," he said.
He plans to devote himself completely through October to searching through trash and posting to his blog, as he announced in a March 17 post he called The Summer of Garbage.
With a backpack and his bicycle, equipped with a red plastic milk crate attached behind his seat, he'll head out twice daily on garbage days — rain or shine, four days a week; the plan is to treat trash picking "like a full-time job." He hopes to venture further afield than his part of town, to such neighbourhoods as Ville-Émard and Westmount.
Gregory has enough money saved to pay the bills — he shares a Plateau Mont-Royal flat with three roommates and pays just $300 a month — and to make sure "I don't starve," as he put it, "but I'll definitely have to find some good trash to sell so that I won't be dead broke by the end.
"Ideally, I'd like to break even and prove that I can survive and have a decent life — based completely on recovering trash," he wrote.
His plan is to be frugal and eat mainly from Dumpster diving — his blog features a map of local food Dumpster diving opportunities — and yet not deny himself basic pleasures. "I don't want living off trash to be a practice of asceticism," he wrote. "I like my free-range eggs and sunflower oil, and it isn't too often you find good microbrewed beer in the garbage."
There may well be a dearth of microbrewery beer in the garbage, but Gregory's ability to hone in on an ordinary looking plastic garbage bag and extract from it such finds as an 18-karat gold neck chain, a clutch of sterling silver rings or a set of china is uncanny — almost like a sixth sense. It is as if he knows, even before looking, whether a bag will give up treasures: The other week, for instance, he turned up a filigreed Birks sterling silver nut dish that polished up to a nice gleam.
Some of what he rescues from the trash he sets on the curb in a more visible place than where he found it, or lists in the giveaway section of his blog.
His room is furnished and decorated with things he found in the garbage: a bookcase, probably from the 1950s, a comfortable chair and a loveseat, a striped woollen throw on the bed, a laptop (OK, so it had no hard drive when he found it and he had to kick in $60 to buy one, but still) and artwork including a vintage oil painting of a winter scene a century or so ago by a talented Quebec artist named Duveyre.
And some he sells: A 14-karat gold 1912 pocket watch went for $250, for instance (he sold it to an aunt), he got $40 on Craigslist recently for an old manual typewriter, and a sterling silver ring from Mexico featuring two hands clasped around a heart fetched $59 on Etsy. He lists what he has sold in a section on his blog called Buy My Garbage.
The actual purpose of the garbage-picking-as-full-time-job exercise, however, is more far-reaching than simply re-distributing it.
"I want to change the way people look at the 'things' in their life and get them thinking about how to reduce waste," he wrote. It is his hope that raising people's awareness will cause them to reduce the amount of waste they create. And with less waste created, "we have to mine less, manufacture less, grow less, and put less in landfills — all of which helps to make the world more pleasant for us, future generations, the planet and all forms of life."
Reducing waste "can also help to bring people closer," he said. "Putting something up for free on Craigslist, for example, connects you to a group of people you may have never interacted with otherwise."
Lofty ambitions notwithstanding, Gregory said he wouldn't be trolling the trash if he didn't love it. "It can be a lot of work with no payoff, and it's definitely not a way to get rich," as he wrote.
And a strong stomach is a job requirement, "because you're going to encounter some gross stuff, get nastiness on your hands, smell some putrid stuff, and so on," he said. "Some people don't handle that sort of stuff so well."
Gregory does. Besides, he loves spending time outdoors, walking or cycling the city "finding cool things" and loving "the exhilaration that comes with finding something especially awesome."
He found a pair of unworn boots in the garbage, from Aldo — and they fit him perfectly. As he bent to inspect a Sony CD player with space for five discs, its owner opened the door to call out that it worked fine — but that she simply no longer needed it.
It is rare for someone to bother to him about his going through garbage — "People are pretty cool," he said — and, when someone does complain, he just moves on. "It's the way of the road," he said.
In the five or six years he has been going through garbage, Gregory has grown pretty skilled at it. He has developed "an eye for value, even if it's just for something to give away on Craigslist."
"I'm finding a lot of silver these days," he said. "I think people don't know what it's worth. … I think I look for more valuable things than the guys looking for cans and bottles. It's pretty instinctual."
The Gazette tagged along a couple of times as Gregory made his rounds — once through his Plateau neighbourhood one rainy late afternoon on foot, and another, brighter, day in Mile End with him on his bicycle, us trailing him slowly by car.
He starts by giving bags a soft kick to check whether they feel "interesting," he explained. He doesn't open bags that feel soft and squishy because they tend to contain nothing more than food scraps and other household waste, he said. He is similarly uninterested in garbage made up of renovation materials like plaster and wood.
If a bag is heavy, "that's often a good sign." Gregory looks for asymmetrical shapes poking from bags as a sign that there's something inside worth salvaging.
"Sounds interesting," he said of a large bag he kicked in a lane near Parc and Van Horne Aves. — a site he had visited before. "Sounds like glass."
Indeed, he found several pairs of sunglasses inside the bag and a pair of clip-ons. "People like shades," he said. "I have no idea sometimes what things are worth, but maybe someone will."
Sometimes readers comment on his blog — "I love that you're being green AND that you're outing the wasteful people who throw things away and don't even give them to charity," one reader wrote — and provide suggestions. He has found several cast-iron pans, for instance, and one reader provided a link on how to identify antique and vintage cast-iron cookware.
Gregory tends to return to places where he has had luck before. In a lane near Parc Ave., he had found a vintage Schick portable hair dryer — the kind you sit under, like at the beauty parlour — as well as a vintage fan with metal blades and a cast-iron frying pan. "I think they may be clearing out a house," he said.
He is unfailingly careful about the way in which he inspects garbage: he does his best to untie knotted bags, rather than tear them open, and then to retie them when he is finished.
He crouched and examined two plastic soft-drink carriers, wondering out loud whether they were collectible. He found an elegant gold-coloured cigarette case, a heavy old metal bowl that looked a bit like a helmet and office equipment, including two metal hole-punchers.
He decided to keep the cigarette case and a couple of other pieces — and dropped the rest off at the Give Box, a cabinet down the street on St-Viateur St. at Esplanade Ave. where people are free to drop off things they don't want and pick up objects they do. Such cabinets are part of the culture in some European cities, and in Montreal they pop up in different neighbourhoods in warmer weather.
"I think it's the only one right now, but there should be more coming up now that it's warm," Gregory said. "Last summer, I used one that was on Gilford St. and Brébeuf."
He headed from Van Horne southward to Maguire St. and east to St-Dominique St., where, in one pile of garbage, he found what looked liked the components of a circuit board and an electronic repair kit in a box. "I don't know what these things are, but I know they have value," he said. "I will take it so it doesn't go to waste."
He found an electric guitar. A keyboard. Another cast-iron frying pan.
Going through someone's garbage can give you insight into details of how they lived. "You learn about people and their lives," Gregory said.
There are times, for instance, when he thinks that the garbage is at the curb because a couple has split up: he recalled seeing photos, camping equipment, books and jewelry once at the curb and suspected a breakup.
Other times, he comes upon objects from a house that is being emptied because its occupant has died or moved to a seniors' residence. It can be sad to find evidence, there in the trash, of a life — photographs and religious articles and dishes that look unused because they were saved for special occasions — and to know there was no family member to want any of it.
And yet, from a trash picker's point of view, there can be good stuff at spots like these. At a place near Lafontaine Park he returned to, he discovered, among other things, religious medallions, a rosary, a sterling silver crucifix and a cassette with a photograph of Brother André taped to it: There were fabrics, sewing materials, a set of Royal Albert dishes in pristine condition and several objects with a kitschy 1950s vibe, including a small teapot in the shape of a conch that Gregory, a tea drinker, decided to keep. There were salt and pepper shakers from Japan.
"I will look at Etsy and eBay," he said. "Salt and pepper shakers are definitely collectible."
One byproduct of finding objects in the garbage is that you learn a fair bit about a lot of things. He researches the provenance and value of items online and, sometimes, when he asks questions on his blog, readers respond with hints about everything from how to remove a lingering tobacco smell from jewelry (scrub with toothpaste, place in an alcohol bath, then rinse in water) to how to clean dust and light grime from paintings: apparently white bread, dabbed gently on the surface, works: Who knew?
Martin Gregory's blog, Things I Find in the Garbage, is at garbagefinds.com. Find him on Facebook at Things I Find in the Garbage and on Twitter @susanschwartz


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When it comes to an FM tuner mandate for smartphones, it's never entirely clear who is going to take what position at any given moment. Here's the latest development—the Recording Industry Association of America is supporting Representative Darrell Issa's (R-CA) resolution asking Congress to "oppose any mandate for the inclusion of terrestrial broadcast radio tuners in the manufacture or sale of mobile devices, which would stifle innovation, competition, and consumer choice."
The resolution is co-sponsored by Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and would put the kibosh on what at one point last year looked like the Grand Compromise between big content and the broadcasters over the Performance Rights Act. Radio stations would agree to pay performers royalties when their works are broadcast over radio stations, and the stations would get a Congressionally-required FM tuner in mobiles in return.
It seemed like the music labels were pretty cozy on this idea, last we checked. The RIAA-backed musicFIRST coalition said it was definitely on board. "As regards the chip, this is a key issue for the radio industry," the group told Ars late last summer. "musicFIRST, too, likes FM chips in cell phones, PDAs, etc. It gives consumers access to more music choices."
This infuriated the Consumer Electronics Association. "Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that do," the CEA's Gary Shapiro declared—although the trade group later hinted that it would go along with the idea if it had to.
But that deal fell apart, and now everybody on the content/mobile side is a happy family again, it appears. The CEA, CTIA—The Wireless Association, and the RIAA have put out a joint statement praising the House resolution against a chip requirement.
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"Every platform in the industrialized world respects property rights but one—terrestrial radio in the US," says RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol. "So the idea of the government rigging the playing field to expand the scope of the existing taking makes zero sense. That's why we welcome this resolution and the broader concept of policies that reward technical and creative innovation."
In fact, you'd never know these groups ever warmed to the concept after reading the supporting statement of Neil Portnow, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences: "The music community wants to see the growth of distribution platforms that compensate musicians and performers. The most exciting new mobile devices are also the distribution platforms that fully compensate musicians and performers. FM Radio, by contrast, does not."
The statement says that 150 prominent musicians have also joined the no-FM chip cause. But these commentaries also suggest that while the FM tuner mandate appears headed for the dumpster—the PRA is still a going cause. Issa, it should be noted, was one of the original sponsors of the legislation, which has fizzled out over the last few Capitol Hill seasons, despite efforts to find common ground.
His and Eshoo's resolution would appear to keep the performance royalties flame alive, as these preliminary "whereas"-es suggest:
Whereas the United States should provide fair and meaningful protection for artists, creators, and innovators;
Whereas copyrights need to be supported to encourage creative development;
Whereas Internet, satellite, and cable radio support the creation of new music by compensating the artists whose talent and hard work are at the core of the music and the investors who support them and bring their music to the public . . .
Killing your home town
Of late, the Obama administration has reiterated its support for the PRA. White House Intellectual Property Coordinator Victoria Espinel issued a set of copyright protection recommendations in March.
"Finally," read the last, "we recommend creating a right of public performance for copyright owners for sound recordings transmitted by over-the-air broadcast stations which, in part, will allow copyright owners to obtain overseas royalties that are now denied to them."
But this brought a quick rebuke from the National Association of Broadcasters. "NAB remains unalterably opposed to legislation creating an onerous, jobs-killing fee on America's hometown radio stations without offsetting provisions and benefits that recognize the unparalleled promotional value of radio airplay," the organization's Executive Vice President Dennis Wharton warned.
"The NAB offered a legislative package to resolve this issue last year, which was summarily rejected by the musicFirst Coalition," the statement added. "Our offer still stands."


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please note that when arrays are copied, the "reference status" of their members is preserved (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.whatdo.php).
An array in PHP is actually an ordered map. A map is a type that associates values to keys. This type is optimized for several different uses; it can be treated as an array, list (vector), hash table (an implementation of a map), dictionary, collection, stack, queue, and probably more. As array values can be other arrays, trees and multidimensional arrays are also possible.
Explanation of those data structures is beyond the scope of this manual, but at least one example is provided for each of them. For more information, look towards the considerable literature that exists about this broad topic.
An array can be created using the array() language construct. It takes any number of comma-separated key => value pairs as arguments.
array( key => value, key2 => value2, key3 => value3, ... )
The comma after the last array element is optional and can be omitted. This is usually done for single-line arrays, i.e. array(1, 2) is preferred over array(1, 2, ). For multi-line arrays on the other hand the trailing comma is commonly used, as it allows easier addition of new elements at the end.
As of PHP 5.4 you can also use the short array syntax, which replaces array() with [].
Example #1 A simple array
$array = array(
"foo" => "bar",
"bar" => "foo",
// as of PHP 5.4
$array = [
"foo" => "bar",
"bar" => "foo",
The key can either be an integer or a string. The value can be of any type.
Additionally the following key casts will occur:
If multiple elements in the array declaration use the same key, only the last one will be used as all others are overwritten.
Example #2 Type Casting and Overwriting example
$array = array(
1 => "a",
"1" => "b",
1.5 => "c",
true => "d",
The above example will output:
array(1) { [1]=> string(1) "d" }
As all the keys in the above example are cast to 1, the value will be overwritten on every new element and the last assigned value "d" is the only one left over.
PHP arrays can contain integer and string keys at the same time as PHP does not distinguish between indexed and associative arrays.
Example #3 Mixed integer and string keys
$array = array(
"foo" => "bar",
"bar" => "foo",
100 => -100,
-100 => 100,
The above example will output:
array(4) { ["foo"]=> string(3) "bar" ["bar"]=> string(3) "foo" [100]=> int(-100) [-100]=> int(100) }
The key is optional. If it is not specified, PHP will use the increment of the largest previously used integer key.
Example #4 Indexed arrays without key
$array = array("foo", "bar", "hello", "world");
The above example will output:
array(4) { [0]=> string(3) "foo" [1]=> string(3) "bar" [2]=> string(5) "hello" [3]=> string(5) "world" }
It is possible to specify the key only for some elements and leave it out for others:
Example #5 Keys not on all elements
$array = array(
6 => "c",
The above example will output:
array(4) { [0]=> string(1) "a" [1]=> string(1) "b" [6]=> string(1) "c" [7]=> string(1) "d" }
As you can see the last value "d" was assigned the key 7. This is because the largest integer key before that was 6.
Array elements can be accessed using the array[key] syntax.
Example #6 Accessing array elements
$array = array(
"foo" => "bar",
42 => 24,
"multi" => array(
"dimensional" => array(
"array" => "foo"
The above example will output:
string(3) "bar" int(24) string(3) "foo"
Both square brackets and curly braces can be used interchangeably for accessing array elements (e.g. $array[42] and $array{42} will both do the same thing in the example above).
As of PHP 5.4 it is possible to array dereference the result of a function or method call directly. Before it was only possible using a temporary variable.
As of PHP 5.5 it is possible to array dereference an array literal.
Example #7 Array dereferencing
function getArray() {
return array(1, 2, 3);
// on PHP 5.4
$secondElement = getArray()[1];
// previously
$tmp = getArray();
$secondElement = $tmp[1];
// or
list(, $secondElement) = getArray();
Attempting to access an array key which has not been defined is the same as accessing any other undefined variable: an
E_NOTICE-level error message will be issued, and the result will be
Array dereferencing a scalar value which is not a string silently yields
NULL, i.e. without issuing an error message.
An existing array can be modified by explicitly setting values in it.
This is done by assigning values to the array, specifying the key in brackets. The key can also be omitted, resulting in an empty pair of brackets ([]).
$arr[key] = value; $arr[] = value; // key may be an integer or string // value may be any value of any type
If $arr doesn't exist yet, it will be created, so this is also an alternative way to create an array. This practice is however discouraged because if $arr already contains some value (e.g. string from request variable) then this value will stay in the place and [] may actually stand for string access operator. It is always better to initialize a variable by a direct assignment.
Note: As of PHP 7.1.0, applying the empty index operator on a string throws a fatal error. Formerly, the string was silently converted to an array.
To change a certain value, assign a new value to that element using its key. To remove a key/value pair, call the unset() function on it.
$arr = array(5 => 1, 12 => 2);
$arr[] = 56; // This is the same as $arr[13] = 56;
// at this point of the script
$arr["x"] = 42; // This adds a new element to
// the array with key "x"
unset($arr[5]); // This removes the element from the array
unset($arr); // This deletes the whole array
As mentioned above, if no key is specified, the maximum of the existing integer indices is taken, and the new key will be that maximum value plus 1 (but at least 0). If no integer indices exist yet, the key will be 0 (zero).
Note that the maximum integer key used for this need not currently exist in the array. It need only have existed in the array at some time since the last time the array was re-indexed. The following example illustrates:
// Create a simple array.
$array = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
// Now delete every item, but leave the array itself intact:
foreach ($array as $i => $value) {
// Append an item (note that the new key is 5, instead of 0).
$array[] = 6;
// Re-index:
$array = array_values($array);
$array[] = 7;
The above example will output:Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 3 [3] => 4 [4] => 5 ) Array ( ) Array ( [5] => 6 ) Array ( [0] => 6 [1] => 7 )
There are quite a few useful functions for working with arrays. See the array functions section.
The unset() function allows removing keys from an array. Be aware that the array will not be reindexed. If a true "remove and shift" behavior is desired, the array can be reindexed using the array_values() function.
$a = array(1 => 'one', 2 => 'two', 3 => 'three');
/* will produce an array that would have been defined as
$a = array(1 => 'one', 3 => 'three');
and NOT
$a = array(1 => 'one', 2 =>'three');
$b = array_values($a);
// Now $b is array(0 => 'one', 1 =>'three')
The foreach control structure exists specifically for arrays. It provides an easy way to traverse an array.
Always use quotes around a string literal array index. For example, $foo['bar'] is correct, while $foo[bar] is not. But why? It is common to encounter this kind of syntax in old scripts:
$foo[bar] = 'enemy';
echo $foo[bar];
// etc
This is wrong, but it works. The reason is that this code has an undefined
constant (bar) rather than a string ('bar' - notice the
quotes). It works because PHP automatically converts a
bare string (an unquoted string which does
not correspond to any known symbol) into a string which
contains the bare string. For instance, if there is no defined
constant named
bar, then PHP will substitute in the
string 'bar' and use that.
The fallback to treat an undefined constant as bare string is deprecated as
of PHP 7.2.0, and issues an error of level
Formerly, an error of level
E_NOTICE has been issued.
Note: This does not mean to always quote the key. Do not quote keys which are constants or variables, as this will prevent PHP from interpreting them.
ini_set('display_errors', true);
ini_set('html_errors', false);
// Simple array:
$array = array(1, 2);
$count = count($array);
for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
echo "\nChecking $i: \n";
echo "Bad: " . $array['$i'] . "\n";
echo "Good: " . $array[$i] . "\n";
echo "Bad: {$array['$i']}\n";
echo "Good: {$array[$i]}\n";
The above example will output:Checking 0: Notice: Undefined index: $i in /path/to/script.html on line 9 Bad: Good: 1 Notice: Undefined index: $i in /path/to/script.html on line 11 Bad: Good: 1 Checking 1: Notice: Undefined index: $i in /path/to/script.html on line 9 Bad: Good: 2 Notice: Undefined index: $i in /path/to/script.html on line 11 Bad: Good: 2
More examples to demonstrate this behaviour:
// Show all errors
$arr = array('fruit' => 'apple', 'veggie' => 'carrot');
// Correct
print $arr['fruit']; // apple
print $arr['veggie']; // carrot
// Incorrect. This works but also throws a PHP error of level E_NOTICE because
// of an undefined constant named fruit
// Notice: Use of undefined constant fruit - assumed 'fruit' in...
print $arr[fruit]; // apple
// This defines a constant to demonstrate what's going on. The value 'veggie'
// is assigned to a constant named fruit.
define('fruit', 'veggie');
// Notice the difference now
print $arr['fruit']; // apple
print $arr[fruit]; // carrot
// The following is okay, as it's inside a string. Constants are not looked for
// within strings, so no E_NOTICE occurs here
print "Hello $arr[fruit]"; // Hello apple
// With one exception: braces surrounding arrays within strings allows constants
// to be interpreted
print "Hello {$arr[fruit]}"; // Hello carrot
print "Hello {$arr['fruit']}"; // Hello apple
// This will not work, and will result in a parse error, such as:
// Parse error: parse error, expecting T_STRING' or T_VARIABLE' or T_NUM_STRING'
// This of course applies to using superglobals in strings as well
print "Hello $arr['fruit']";
print "Hello $_GET['foo']";
// Concatenation is another option
print "Hello " . $arr['fruit']; // Hello apple
When error_reporting is set to
E_NOTICE level errors (by setting it to
E_ALL, for example), such uses will become immediately
visible. By default,
error_reporting is set not to
show notices.
As stated in the syntax section, what's inside the square brackets ('[' and ']') must be an expression. This means that code like this works:
echo $arr[somefunc($bar)];
This is an example of using a function return value as the array index. PHP also knows about constants:
$error_descriptions[E_ERROR] = "A fatal error has occurred";
$error_descriptions[E_WARNING] = "PHP issued a warning";
$error_descriptions[E_NOTICE] = "This is just an informal notice";
Note that
E_ERROR is also a valid identifier, just like
bar in the first example. But the last example is in fact
the same as writing:
$error_descriptions[1] = "A fatal error has occurred";
$error_descriptions[2] = "PHP issued a warning";
$error_descriptions[8] = "This is just an informal notice";
E_ERROR equals 1, etc.
At some point in the future, the PHP team might want to add another constant or keyword, or a constant in other code may interfere. For example, it is already wrong to use the words empty and default this way, since they are reserved keywords.
Note: To reiterate, inside a double-quoted string, it's valid to not surround array indexes with quotes so "$foo[bar]" is valid. See the above examples for details on why as well as the section on variable parsing in strings.
For any of the types integer, float, string, boolean and resource, converting a value to an array results in an array with a single element with index zero and the value of the scalar which was converted. In other words, (array)$scalarValue is exactly the same as array($scalarValue).
If an object is converted to an array, the result is an array whose elements are the object's properties. The keys are the member variable names, with a few notable exceptions: integer properties are unaccessible; private variables have the class name prepended to the variable name; protected variables have a '*' prepended to the variable name. These prepended values have null bytes on either side. This can result in some unexpected behaviour:
class A {
private $A; // This will become '\0A\0A'
class B extends A {
private $A; // This will become '\0B\0A'
public $AA; // This will become 'AA'
var_dump((array) new B());
The above will appear to have two keys named 'AA', although one of them is actually named '\0A\0A'.
It is possible to compare arrays with the array_diff() function and with array operators.
The array type in PHP is very versatile. Here are some examples:
// This:
$a = array( 'color' => 'red',
'taste' => 'sweet',
'shape' => 'round',
'name' => 'apple',
4 // key will be 0
$b = array('a', 'b', 'c');
// . . .is completely equivalent with this:
$a = array();
$a['color'] = 'red';
$a['taste'] = 'sweet';
$a['shape'] = 'round';
$a['name'] = 'apple';
$a[] = 4; // key will be 0
$b = array();
$b[] = 'a';
$b[] = 'b';
$b[] = 'c';
// After the above code is executed, $a will be the array
// array('color' => 'red', 'taste' => 'sweet', 'shape' => 'round',
// 'name' => 'apple', 0 => 4), and $b will be the array
// array(0 => 'a', 1 => 'b', 2 => 'c'), or simply array('a', 'b', 'c').
Example #8 Using array()
// Array as (property-)map
$map = array( 'version' => 4,
'OS' => 'Linux',
'lang' => 'english',
'short_tags' => true
// strictly numerical keys
$array = array( 7,
// this is the same as array(0 => 7, 1 => 8, ...)
$switching = array( 10, // key = 0
5 => 6,
3 => 7,
'a' => 4,
11, // key = 6 (maximum of integer-indices was 5)
'8' => 2, // key = 8 (integer!)
'02' => 77, // key = '02'
0 => 12 // the value 10 will be overwritten by 12
// empty array
$empty = array();
Example #9 Collection
$colors = array('red', 'blue', 'green', 'yellow');
foreach ($colors as $color) {
echo "Do you like $color?\n";
The above example will output:
Do you like red? Do you like blue? Do you like green? Do you like yellow?
Changing the values of the array directly is possible by passing them by reference.
Example #10 Changing element in the loop
foreach ($colors as &$color) {
$color = strtoupper($color);
unset($color); /* ensure that following writes to
$color will not modify the last array element */
The above example will output:
Array ( [0] => RED [1] => BLUE [2] => GREEN [3] => YELLOW )
This example creates a one-based array.
Example #11 One-based index
$firstquarter = array(1 => 'January', 'February', 'March');
The above example will output:
Array ( [1] => 'January' [2] => 'February' [3] => 'March' )
Example #12 Filling an array
// fill an array with all items from a directory
$handle = opendir('.');
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
$files[] = $file;
Arrays are ordered. The order can be changed using various sorting functions. See the array functions section for more information. The count() function can be used to count the number of items in an array.
Example #13 Sorting an array
Because the value of an array can be anything, it can also be another array. This enables the creation of recursive and multi-dimensional arrays.
Example #14 Recursive and multi-dimensional arrays
$fruits = array ( "fruits" => array ( "a" => "orange",
"b" => "banana",
"c" => "apple"
"numbers" => array ( 1,
"holes" => array ( "first",
5 => "second",
// Some examples to address values in the array above
echo $fruits["holes"][5]; // prints "second"
echo $fruits["fruits"]["a"]; // prints "orange"
unset($fruits["holes"][0]); // remove "first"
// Create a new multi-dimensional array
$juices["apple"]["green"] = "good";
Array assignment always involves value copying. Use the reference operator to copy an array by reference.
$arr1 = array(2, 3);
$arr2 = $arr1;
$arr2[] = 4; // $arr2 is changed,
// $arr1 is still array(2, 3)
$arr3 = &$arr1;
$arr3[] = 4; // now $arr1 and $arr3 are the same
please note that when arrays are copied, the "reference status" of their members is preserved (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.whatdo.php).
I think your first, main example is needlessly confusing, very confusing to newbies:
$array = array(
"foo" => "bar",
"bar" => "foo",
It should be removed.
For newbies:
An array index can be any string value, even a value that is also a value in the array.
The value of array["foo"] is "bar".
The value of array["bar"] is "foo"
The following expressions are both true:
$array["foo"] == "bar"
$array["bar"] == "foo"
Since PHP 7.1, the string will not be converted to array automatically.
Below codes will fail:
//Warning: Illegal string offset 'b'
//Warning: Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset
You have to change to as below:
$a['a']=array(); // Declare it is an array first
Note that array value buckets are reference-safe, even through serialization.
echo $test['B']; // Outputs "changed"
This can be useful in some cases, for example saving RAM within complex structures.
Beware that if you're using strings as indices in the $_POST array, that periods are transformed into underscores:
printf("POST: "); print_r($_POST); printf("<br/>");
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="Windows3.1" value="Sux">
<input type="submit" value="Click" />
Once you click on the button, the page displays the following:
POST: Array ( [Windows3_1] => Sux )
"If you convert a NULL value to an array, you get an empty array."
This turns out to be a useful property. Say you have a search function that returns an array of values on success or NULL if nothing found.
<?php $values = search(...); ?>
Now you want to merge the array with another array. What do we do if $values is NULL? No problem:
<?php $combined = array_merge((array)$values, $other); ?>
--- quote ---
Both square brackets and curly braces can be used interchangeably for accessing array elements
--- quote end ---
At least for php 5.4 and 5.6; if function returns an array, the curly brackets does not work directly accessing function result, eg. WillReturnArray(){1} . This will give "syntax error, unexpected '{' in...".
Personally I use only square brackets, expect for accessing single char in string. Old habits...
Regarding the previous comment, beware of the fact that reference to the last value of the array remains stored in $value after the foreach:
foreach ( $arr as $key => &$value )
$value = 1;
// without next line you can get bad results...
//unset( $value );
$value = 159;
Now the last element of $arr has the value of '159'. If we remove the comment in the unset() line, everything works as expected ($arr has all values of '1').
Bad results can also appear in nested foreach loops (the same reason as above).
So either unset $value after each foreach or better use the longer form:
foreach ( $arr as $key => $value )
$arr[ $key ] = 1;
Used to creating arrays like this in Perl?
@array = ("All", "A".."Z");
Looks like we need the range() function in PHP:
$array = array_merge(array('All'), range('A', 'Z'));
You don't need to array_merge if it's just one range:
$array = range('A', 'Z');
When creating arrays , if we have an element with the same value as another element from the same array, we would expect PHP instead of creating new zval container to increase the refcount and point the duplicate symbol to the same zval. This is true except for value type integer.
$arr = ['bebe' => 'Bob', 'age' => 23, 'too' => 23 ];
xdebug_debug_zval( 'arr' );
(refcount=2, is_ref=0)
array (size=3)
'bebe' => (refcount=1, is_ref=0)string 'Bob' (length=3)
'age' => (refcount=0, is_ref=0)int 23
'too' => (refcount=0, is_ref=0)int 23
but :
$arr = ['bebe' => 'Bob', 'age' => 23, 'too' => '23' ];
xdebug_debug_zval( 'arr' );
will produce:
(refcount=2, is_ref=0)
array (size=3)
'bebe' => (refcount=1, is_ref=0)string 'Bob' (length=3)
'age' => (refcount=0, is_ref=0)int 23
'too' => (refcount=1, is_ref=0)string '23' (length=2)
or :
$arr = ['bebe' => 'Bob', 'age' => [1,2], 'too' => [1,2] ];
xdebug_debug_zval( 'arr' );
(refcount=2, is_ref=0)
array (size=3)
'bebe' => (refcount=1, is_ref=0)string 'Bob' (length=3)
'age' => (refcount=2, is_ref=0)
array (size=2)
0 => (refcount=0, is_ref=0)int 1
1 => (refcount=0, is_ref=0)int 2
'too' => (refcount=2, is_ref=0)
array (size=2)
0 => (refcount=0, is_ref=0)int 1
1 => (refcount=0, is_ref=0)int 2
[Editor's note: You can achieve what you're looking for by referencing $single, rather than copying it by value in your foreach statement. See http://php.net/foreach for more details.]
Don't know if this is known or not, but it did eat some of my time and maybe it won't eat your time now...
I tried to add something to a multidimensional array, but that didn't work at first, look at the code below to see what I mean:
$a1 = array( "a" => 0, "b" => 1 );
$a2 = array( "aa" => 00, "bb" => 11 );
$together = array( $a1, $a2 );
foreach( $together as $single ) {
$single[ "c" ] = 3 ;
print_r( $together );
/* nothing changed result is:
[0] => Array
[a] => 0
[b] => 1
[1] => Array
[aa] => 0
[bb] => 11
) */
foreach( $together as $key => $value ) {
$together[$key]["c"] = 3 ;
print_r( $together );
/* now it works, this prints
[0] => Array
[a] => 0
[b] => 1
[c] => 3
[1] => Array
[aa] => 0
[bb] => 11
[c] => 3
In array(key=>value) construct key is also an expression.
This works fine:
$a = array(
1 =>0,
1+1 =>1,
$k =>2,
//array keys are always integer and string data type and array values are all data type
//type casting and overwriting(data type of array key)
$arr = array(
NULL=>"r",//string(0)"" note null and NULL are same
"NULL"=>"s",//string(4)"NULL" ,,,In last element of multiline array,comma is better to used.
//check the data type name of key
foreach ($arr as $key => $value) {
echo "<br>";
//NOte :array and object data type in keys are Illegal ofset.......
Note that objects of classes extending ArrayObject SPL class are treated as arrays, and not as objects when converting to array.
class ArrayObjectExtended extends ArrayObject
private $private = 'private';
public $hello = 'world';
$object = new ArrayObjectExtended();
$array = (array) $object;
// This will not expose $private and $hello properties of $object,
// but return an empty array instead.
There is another kind of array (php>= 5.3.0) produced by
$array = new SplFixedArray(5);
Standard arrays, as documented here, are marvellously flexible and, due to the underlying hashtable, extremely fast for certain kinds of lookup operation.
Supposing a large string-keyed array
$arr=['string1'=>$data1, 'string2'=>$data2 etc....]
when getting the keyed data with
php does *not* have to search through the array comparing each key string to the given key ('string1') one by one, which could take a long time with a large array. Instead the hashtable means that php takes the given key string and computes from it the memory location of the keyed data, and then instantly retrieves the data. Marvellous! And so quick. And no need to know anything about hashtables as it's all hidden away.
However, there is a lot of overhead in that. It uses lots of memory, as hashtables tend to (also nearly doubling on a 64bit server), and should be significantly slower for integer keyed arrays than old-fashioned (non-hashtable) integer-keyed arrays. For that see more on SplFixedArray :
Unlike a standard php (hashtabled) array, if you lookup by integer then the integer itself denotes the memory location of the data, no hashtable computation on the integer key needed. This is much quicker. It's also quicker to build the array compared to the complex operations needed for hashtables. And it uses a lot less memory as there is no hashtable data structure. This is really an optimisation decision, but in some cases of large integer keyed arrays it may significantly reduce server memory and increase performance (including the avoiding of expensive memory deallocation of hashtable arrays at the exiting of the script).
It is true that "array assignment always involves value copying", but the copy is a "lazy copy". This means that the data of the two variables occupy the same memory as long as no array element changes.
E.g., if you have to pass an array to a function that only needs to read it, there is no advantage at all in passing it by reference.


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Part of the fun of The Gourmet Cookie Book (aside from the cookies, of course) is the wonderful insight into food fashions of years gone by. Take these Bourbon Balls for example—they were created to be served on a midnight buffet for New Year's Eve circa 1980. The menu for this particular soiree is fantastically dated—crab roulade, wild rice waffles, and mushroom smitane (if you're wondering about that last one, it's mushrooms cooked in a brown sauce with sour cream and onions). But even if the rest of this early '80s menu doesn't stand the test of time, the bourbon balls should.
They're a decidedly grown-up no-bake cookie. The dough is a mixture of bourbon macerated raisins, chopped pecans, and crushed chocolate wafer cookies spiced up with a warm mix of cloves, ginger and cinnamon. Since the dough isn't baked, the bourbon really has a chance to make its boozy presence known. I'd love to see these bourbon balls paired with a Manhattan or and old-fashioned for an updated version of Gourmet's midnight buffet.
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- Yield:3 dozen cookies
- 1/2 cup chopped raisins
- 1/4 cup bourbon
- 2 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
- 1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1/4 cup unsulfured molasses
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
n a small bowl, let 1/2 cup chopped raisins macerate in 1/4 cup bourbon for 15 minutes. In a large bowl, combine well 2 cups chocolate wafer crumbs,1/2 cup each of firmly packed dark brown sugar and finely chopped pecans, the raisin mixture, 1/4 cup unsulfured molasses, 1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon and ground ginger, and 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves. Form the mixture into 1-inch balls and roll the balls in finely chopped pecans. Store the bourbon balls in an airtight container in a cool dark place for at least 1 week before serving.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - Downtown Oklahoma City Inc. on Wednesday released a 10-year strategic plan.
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Commissioned in 2008, nearly 200 stakeholders participated in the strategic planning process through online surveys, roundtable discussions, workshops, one-on-one interviews and forums. Progressive Urban Management Associates, a Denver-based consulting firm, was selected to lead the process.
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