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Our team in Chile sent us this stunning picture today from just offshore of Robinson Crusoe Island, part of the remote Juan Fernandez archipelago 400 miles West of mainland Chile. In 1704 Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk became marooned on the island, serving as the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe character (100 miles west is an another island, Alexander Selkirk Island, named in his honor).
The discovery came as a surprise to our Chilean team as dolphins are somewhat rare to the Juan Fernandez Islands. But marine life is not rare on this volcanic chain of seamounts, where nutrient rich water from the deep comes to the surface, powering a profusion of life.
Last month the Chilean senate voted to ban bottom trawling on all 118 of the country's seamounts, after years of advocacy by Oceana, a move that comes as a special relief to Juan Fernandez and its vulnerable marine inhabitants.
Learn more about about Oceana's work in South America.
A report out this week, "Resources Futures" by the venerable U.K. NGO, the Chatham House, issues a clarion call for wiser management of the world's finite resources. In the face of a more crowded planet in the coming century, as billions aspire to a resource-intensive western lifestyle, pressure on the world's food systems and its reserves of raw materials could become more acute.
This is especially true for the world's fisheries and the report singles out practices, like unnecessarily generous subsidies for fishing fleets and the wide-scale waste of discarded fish as adding to the global decline of fish stocks. Interestingly, the report also asserts that overfishing poses not only a major threat to food security, but to broader world security as well. The authors write:
"Given the importance of fishing to livelihoods in many poor and rural areas, over-fishing can have other effects on security. Analysts have linked the rise of piracy off the Horn of Africa in recent years, for example, with the inability of the Somali state to prevent the overfishing of Somali waters by European, Asian and African ships. The reduction in fish stocks essentially raises the cost of legitimate livelihood. As one account puts it, 'in a region where legitimate business is difficult, where drought means agriculture is nothing more than subsistence farming, and instability and violence make death a very real prospect, the dangers of piracy must be weighed against the potentially massive returns.' Some pirates have even used this as a justification for their actions, arguing that they are protecting their resources and that ransom payments should be seen as a form of legitimate taxation. Overfishing also played an important role in the development of piracy in Southeast Asia."
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Last night, NBC Nightly News took note of Oceana's most recent troubling report about the widespread problem of seafood fraud.
The report focused on fish that was purchased in the New York City area and subjected to DNA testing. That testing revealed, among other startling findings, that 79 percent of red snapper served in New York City restaurants and grocery stores was replaced with less expensive fish, like tilefish. The FDA warns pregnant women and young children to avoid tilefish altogether because of its high mercury content.
Similarly 94% of white tuna served at sushi restaurants was in fact escolar, a fish whose high levels of wax esthers can potentially cause diarrhea in diners.
Meanwhile the New York Times detailed Oceana's report in its Tuesday Science section, in the article "Tests Say Mislabeled Fish is a Widespread Problem":
The findings are broadly similar to those of studies Oceana has conducted in Los Angeles, Boston and Miami, where 55, 48 and 31 percent of samples, respectively, were mislabeled.
One finding that surprised the research team was that national chain supermarkets offered less mislabeled seafood than regional chains or small specialty markets. High prices were no guarantee of accurate labeling: one restaurant in the highest price range offered red snapper on its menu but, according to Oceana, was serving up lowly tilapia.
Learn more about seafood fraud and what Oceana is doing to fight it.
An article in today's New York Times science section details an effort by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to map the effects of human-generated noise in the ocean. Whether it's the drone of commercial shipping or the deafening blasts of seismic air guns, sounds that can travel for hundreds of miles, this noise has been on the rise for decades. For animals that depend on sound as their primary means for communicating or finding prey, this increasingly cacaphonous environment can have devastating consequences
The article articulates well the dangers posed to the ocean's inhabitants by an increasingly noisy ocean:
Sea mammals evolved sharp hearing to take advantage of sound's reach and to compensate for poor visibility. The heads of whales and dolphins are mazes of resonant chambers and acoustic lenses that give the animals not only extraordinary hearing but complex voices they use to communicate.
In recent decades, humans have added raucous clatter to the primal chorus. Mr. Bahtiarian noted that the noise of a typical cargo vessel could rival that of a jet. Even louder, he added, are air guns fired near the surface from ships used in oil and gas exploration. Their waves radiate downward and penetrate deep into the seabed, helping oil companies locate hidden pockets of hydrocarbons.
Marine biologists have linked the human noises to reductions in mammalian vocalization, which suggests declines in foraging and breeding.
The sorts of air gun tests described above are currently being proposed for waters spanning from Delaware to Florida to search for oil and gas deposits. The Department of the Interior which is reviewing the proposal and will issue its decision sometime next year, estimates that those tests would injure 138,500 whales and dolphins.
In this case "injuring" often means literally deafening the animals. For whales and dolphins that use sound as the primary means to find mates, find food, and communicate, such as the North Atlantic right whale (of which there are an estimated 361 left on the planet) going deaf is equivalent to a death sentence.
The tests could also wreak havoc on the area's $12 billion fishing industry. Similar tests elsewhere have resulted in drops in catches of cod and haddock from 40 to 80 percent after the use of just a single airgun array.
Today Oceana released a new report documenting the problem of widespread seafood fraud in the New York City area. A full 39 percent of seafood sold in New York City grocery stores, restaurants and sushi venues was found to be mislabeled.
Out of 142 samples Oceana conducted DNA testing on, from 81 separate businesses, 56 were found to be different species than advertised. Oftentimes cheaper fish was swapped in for more expensive species, but seafood fraud can be an issue of consumer safety as well, as discussed in the above segment aired on the NBC's Today Show this morning covering Oceana's report.
The report's key findings were:
The fraud could even lead consumers to unknowingly violate religious dietary restrictions, such as when kosher fish like albacore or pacific cod are replaced by non-kosher fish, like escolar and sutchi catfish, respectively.
"Everywhere we look, we find seafood fraud, and New York City is no exception," said Beth Lowell, campaign director at Oceana. "Seafood fraud is a national problem that requires national attention. Traceability, tracking fish from boat to plate, will ensure that seafood is safe, legal and honestly labeled while preventing consumers from getting ripped off. "
Elsewhere Oceana and others have found similar levels of fraud: in Boston 48 percent of seafood was mislabeled, in Los Angeles that figure reached 55 percent and in Miami 31 percent. Oceana is urging congress to pass the Safety and Fraud Enforcement for Seafood (SAFE Seafood) Act, H.R. 6200, introduced this summer by Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA), Barney Frank (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC). The Bill would require full traceability for all seafood sold in the U.S.
Show you care about what's on your plate and sign our petition. Learn more about seafood fraud.
After the Chilean senate voted last month to ban bottom trawling on all 118 of its seamounts, after years of advocacy by Oceana, we thought it was an appropriate time to remind our supporters just what we've been fighting to protect.
Above is video shot by Oceana in 2011 off of the uninhabited Alexander Selkirk Island in the remote Juan Fernandez Island chain 400 miles off of Chile. The island, named for an 18th century shipwreck survivor who likely inspired Robinson Crusoe, is part of a volcanic archipelago surrounded by seamounts, or underwater mountain ranges that support a staggering variety of marine life.
Until now the Juan Fernandez archipelago was open to bottom trawling, an extremely destructive method of fishing which reduces the sort of complex habitat seen in this video to the appearance of "ploughed fields" according to a recent study in the journal Nature.
Oceana, along with our partners at National Geographic, have made a number of visits to the area in recent years to document this previously unseen abundance of life, and was instrumental in Chile's recent vote to close these wonders to the ravages of bottom trawling.
Learn more about these distant marvels and about Oceana's work in South America.
A year after Boston Globe investigative reporters revealed that the fish on the menu at many Massachusetts restaurants often had little relation to what ended up on the plate, they went back for seconds. As it turns out many of the same restaurants originally cited for selling mislabeled fish are still up to their old tricks.
Cheaper tilapia was often marked up and sold as more expensive red snapper or albacore. Frozen Pacific cod was similarly marked up and sold as fresh, more expensive Atlantic cod. Not only is the consumer cheated in such instances, but there remains the very real concern about food safety.
As the Globe article notes:
"Much of the substitution occurs with imported fish, which now makes up about 91 percent of the seafood Americans consume. Disease outbreaks linked to imported fish have increased in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making it more urgent to better regulate the supply chain."
One of the more common substitutions cited in the article is that of escolar masquerading as white tuna. Escolar has earned the unfortunate moniker "the ex-lax fish" due to the rather unpleasant gastrointestinal effects associated with its consumption.
Oceana campaign director Beth Lowell was quoted in the article decrying the practice.
"The public should be frustrated. How can we trust the food we eat when we can't even trust basic information on the label or a menu?"
Oceana senior vice president for North America and chief scientist Mike Hirshfield recently sat down with 20/20 to discuss the widespread problem of seafood fraud, telling ABC:
"I would be astonished if anyone buying white tuna or super white tuna at a sushi restaurant got anything other than escolar."
If you care about what ends up on your plate sign our petition.
Our friends at the Pew Environment Group put together this extremely helpful graph that goes a long way in explaining just why taking sharks out of the ocean by the millions is a bad idea. It turns out that sharks' biological life history much more closely resembles that of marine mammals - and even grizzly bears - than that of their fishy cousins.
While some fish like swordfish and mackerel are able to reach maturity quickly and spawn by the millions several times a year, making them more resilient to higher catch rates, sharks are slow-growing, late-maturing and give birth to small litters of live young. Some sharks, like the Atlantic Ocean's dusky shark, do not mature until as late as 21 years of age and give birth to as few as three pups every three years.
Pew writes:
A female shark that produced 10 pups every two years for 20 years would add only about 100 individuals to the population. In contrast, a female swordfish could theoretically contribute millions of offspring, and it is possible that thousands of these could survive if natural mortality from predators, disease, or starvation was low.
Every year, 70 million sharks are taken from the ocean, a rate far higher than these vulnerable creatures are able to withstand. They've been around for almost a half-billion years but now face severe threats. While the Asian appetite for shark fin soup fuels much of the shark trade, other products, from shark liver oil dietary supplements to squalene-based beauty products contribute to their dwindling populations.
Learn more about sharks and what Oceana is doing to ensure their survival.
It has been a whirlwind few weeks in Chile, where Oceana's hard work has paid off in some monumental policy victories.
Last week the Chilean senate passed sweeping new fisheries regulations that, simply put, place the health of the oceans ahead of the short-term interests of the fishing industry.
After being proposed by Oceana in 2009, the Chilean senate agreed last week to close all 118 of Chile's seamounts to bottom trawling. Seamounts are underwater mountain ranges where nutrient-rich water upwells from the deep, fueling a staggering array of biodiversity. The greatest beneficiary of these new measures will be marine life, especially that of the volcanic Juan Fernandez Islands, a remote archipelago and a regular haunt of bottom trawlers.
The new laws will also impose science-based fishing quotas and drastically reduce the incidental capture and discarding of unwanted species, known as bycatch. To do this, the new laws require improved monitoring on Chilean fishing vessels. For the bottom fishing fleet, this means that 100% of ships will require on-board observers to collect information about vulnerable marine ecosystems.
These changes would not have happened without Oceana and during the passage of this historic legislation several senators as well as the Chilean Minister of the Economy singled out our organization for special commendation.
As our executive director of Oceana in Chile, Alex Muñoz, said: "Protecting the seafloor from destructive activities, such as bottom trawling, especially in seamounts and other vulnerable marine ecosystems, is a fundamental measure for responsible fishing."
All this comes just after President Sebastian Pinera announced he would seek to expand the Motu Motiro Hiva Marine Park off of Easter Island. No larger than Washington D.C., Easter Island is the world's most remote inhabited island on the planet—known chiefly to the rest of the world as the home of those inscrutable, stone-faced megaliths, the moai.
But the waters surrounding Easter Island hold treasures as well. Just over 200 miles to the northeast is Sala y Gómez, a desolate volcanic island - the rare mountaintop that pokes above the surface in a range of underwater seamounts. In 2010, after an expedition by Oceana and National Geographic uncovered thriving communities of red corals, Galapagos sharks, butterfly fish and more, President Piñera declared the 58,000 square miles of water surrounding Sala y Gomez a marine park, closed to commercial fishing.
Now, the president has announced that Chile will seek to expand that park to include the range of seamounts that link Sala y Gómez to Easter Island. The president and the government of Chile will next consult with the people of Easter Island, the Rapa Nui, and ask them to endorse this plan.
We have been advocating for the protection of these special places for years and, thanks to your support, future generations will be able to partake of their beauty and diversity.
You might have missed it, but over Thanksgiving Oceana won some major victories. One that we are especially excited about was the vote by the European Parliament to impose a strict ban on shark finning. While this ban has technically been in place since 2003 the new vote closes a crucial loophole by requiring all vessels in EU waters, as well as all EU vessels around the world, to bring their sharks to shore fins attached.
This is a major victory for Oceana, which has been pushing for the strict ban for years. It is also an especially big victory for sharks. The EU is the largest exporter of shark fins to China and Hong Kong in the world. Fishing the Atlantic, Indian, Mediterranean, and Pacific Oceans it has become the world's top fisher of sharks.
The practice of shark finning is just as brutal as it sounds. Once captured, a shark is brought on board and its fins are sliced off. The finless shark is then discarded in the ocean, where it is left to struggle and die. Up to 70 million sharks are killed every year, mostly to serve the market for the Chinese status symbol delicacy, shark-fin soup. Sharks are slow-growing, late-maturing, long-lived and give birth to few young, making them unable to cope with such high levels of exploitation.
By requiring the sharks to be brought on board fins attached fishermen are unable to stockpile huge numbers of fins in their holds and the number of sharks that can be killed on any one trip is dramatically curtailed.


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Mayor's First Ever African Youth Town Hall Draws 85 Youth From DC Schools
Mayor's First Ever African Youth Town Hall Draws 85 Youth From DC Schools
Mayor' Gray's first ever African Youth Town Hall was held on Saturday, April 28 from 12-2 pm at Howard University Middle School for Math and Science located on the Howard University campus. Over 85 youth from elementary, middle and high schools and colleges in the District attended this forum created to provide African youth with an opportunity to voice their ideas, concerns, and recommendations directly to the Mayor.
The town hall kicked off with refreshments and an information fair where youth and their parents received information on college preparation, summer jobs, and other resources they could use for academic and extracurricular purposes.
Director of the DC Youth Advisory Council, Cedric L. Jennings opened the town hall with welcoming remarks, followed by the Mayor's Office on African Affairs Director, Ngozi Nmezi, who thanked the Mayor for his vision and leadership in creating intentional opportunities for all of the District's diverse communities to engage with him directly and express their views and concerns.
Four DC students from School Without Walls and from George Washington University partnered to deliver a brief and lighthearted skit highlighting three common experiences of African immigrant youth: linguistic and cultural barriers, bullying and discrimination in diverse schools, and balancing home & school cultures. An 11th Grader at School Without Walls, and a Cameroonian-American student leader of the African Club at her school, Elmina Bell introduced the Mayor and spoke of her efforts to actively build bridges among African youth of diverse backgrounds and African Americans in her school and community.
In his remarks, Mayor Gray acknowledged and thanked his staff for the work they are doing, and touched on his administration's education-related priorities such as early education, the cradle-to- career initiative, and the Summer Youth Employment program aimed at ensuring that all District students thrive both academically and socially. He then opened the floor for questions and encouraged youth to "come forward not only with questions but also with your ideas, solutions and recommendations." A Cameroonian senior at Columbia Heights Education Campus, Patience Bekono asked the Mayor about what he can do to support African immigrant students who are enroll as English Language Learners (ELLs) and need additional support to excel and take advanced classes.
This Youth Town Hall initiated per the Mayor's request was uniquely dedicated to surfacing issues that impact African youth in the District of Columbia and came at the heels of over 5 youth dialogues convened and facilitated by the Office on African Affairs (OAA). In the last four months, OAA convened more than 200 African youth in the District through an African Youth Leadership Roundtable in January, a Youth Mixer in March, and four school-based focus groups in April in which African youth at Brightwood Education Campus, Columbia Heights Education Campus, and Howard University Middle School of Math and Science discussed a wide range of issues and prioritized those they feel impact them most socially, educationally, and economically.

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Let's call her "Kaylee." Her Mom says that's OK. The young Texan chose the pseudonym herself, taking it from a character who talks to machines on Fox's "Firefly" science fiction series. But this Kaylee is not a fiction. And as this teen synesthete is underage and still living in a world that doesn't quite understand her trait, we've decided to protect her identity. It is also important to note that she didn't seek publicity. I sought her out after learning about her in the synesthesia community.
Kaylee just gave me an astonishing interview in which she described synesthesia related to machinery. Of the 60 or more types of synesthesias now identified, it seems to most correspond to mirror-touch in which someone literally feels the pain or emotion of another—but until now, that "other" was usually human.


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Another reason more students are turning to private loans is
their parents may be unwilling or unable to pay for college expenses.
private loan substitutes for the parent doing any kind of contributing,"
says Linda Peckham, the College Board spokeswoman for financial aid issues.
Some families prefer that a son or daughter borrow for college rather than the
parents. And some parents just can't fit another loan payment into their monthly
budget. The best they can do is to offer to help the student with private loan
payments, which would start a few months after graduation.
lot of times families are turning to these instead of the parents doing the borrowing,"
Peckham says. "The entire cost of education is being paid for by the dependent
Private loan
lessons Students turning to private loans to pay for college will
want to do plenty of research before signing on the dotted line. Interest rates,
fees, repayment terms and borrower benefits vary from private loan to private
"People really do need to do their homework
by making side-by-side comparisons," Buck says. "Really lay out the
paperwork and select the best choice. Read the fine print."
All private education loans are credit-based loans.
The interest rate you pay on a private loan depends on your credit,
so the better your credit, the lower the rate you'll pay. Interest
rates on private loans typically range from 4 percent to 15 percent.
Students with excellent credit can expect to pay
interest rates in the 4 to 6 percent range.
"If your credit isn't stellar you might
pay more, but it's still generally a single-digit number,"
says Daniel Meyers, chief executive officer at First Marblehead,
a Massachusetts company that manages and finances private education
loan programs.
Some students may need a co-signer to qualify for
a private loan.
"Different lenders require different things,"
Peckham says. "Several of them are going to require a parent
as a co-borrower."
Even a student that qualifies for a private loan on
their own may want to consider getting a co-signer anyway. Signing
on with a creditworthy co-signer could mean a lower interest rate
and lower fees.
For example, a Signature Loan from College Board
charges up to a 6-percent repayment fee for students who borrow
on their own. Student borrowers with co-signers pay no such fee.
A student's major or area of study may influence
repayment terms as well. One lender may view a pre-med student as
a safer risk than, say, a philosophy major. Another lender may charge
a law student a slightly higher interest rate than a graduate business
And that's why it's so important to begin your private
loan search at your school's financial aid office. An aid counselor
may be able to direct you to lenders that offer favorable loan terms
to students in your area of study. There's also a good chance your
college will have negotiated favorable loan deals for its students
with one or more lenders.
And just as importantly, a financial aid counselor
will double-check to make sure you've exhausted all your federal
aid options. A private loan should be your last resort.
"We don't want them to get into a private
loan situation when they don't have to," Johnson says.
Private loan shopping
If you're certain you need a private loan, you may want
to do some shopping around on your own.
The Internet makes it easy. All you have to do is
type in "private education loan" on any search engine
and a whole slew of lenders will pop up.
Don't forget to check your university's Web site.
Some financial aid departments list private loan information online.
You'll also want to check to see if your parent's
bank offers private education loans. Having a co-signer who is a
longtime bank customer may land you a lower rate on your loan.
"Always try to check prices and costs
from a few different programs," Meyers says.
Be sure to study the fine print of every
deal. What kinds of interest rates are available?
Does the loan charge a disbursement fee or a repayment
fee? A disbursement fee is a fee that's charged once your student
loan check is cut. A repayment fee kicks in when it's time to start
paying on your loan.
Keep in mind that the terms offered in big, bold
letters are probably reserved for people with squeaky-clean credit.
There's no guarantee you'll qualify for that rock-bottom rate, even
with a co-signer.
"Be a bit cautious of marketing gimmicks,
things designed to catch people's attention," Meyers says.
"Be a little careful. I wouldn't instantly assume you're going
to get all the benefits of the loan."


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U.S. markets on Friday cut loose from the anchor of European debt that has weighed them down for months. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 200 points in early trading after European leaders agreed to easier bank bailouts and regional oversight for their troubled financial sector.
"I hate seeing myself misquoted, misinterpreted or just misunderstood," says our friend Fusion IQ chief and Big Picture blogger Barry Ritholtz. We can relate, given the reaction we get when we start talking about Treasuries, why we hate them and why we own them anyway.
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose Wednesday as Japan's benchmark surged to its highest level since Sept. 2008 though wariness over corporate earnings pulled European indexes lower in early trading.
Stocks took off on Monday, with the Dow taking a triple-digit leap after a report that March retail sales jumped their highest in 18 months.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed unofficially 146 points higher, while the S&P 500 added 14 points and the Nasdaq put on 22 points.
(NEW YORK) — Materials and energy companies led the stock market higher Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its second all-time high in a week. The Dow closed at 14,673.46, a gain of 59.98 points, or 0.4 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index also rose 0.4 percent, closing less than two points below its own all-time high set April 2. The prices of metals like copper, gold and silver have rebounded this week after slumping for the first three months of the year on waning demand. Oil is also rising following a sharp decline last week.
The market rally of the past few months has propelled the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a new all-time high and has put the S&P 500 Index of within striking distance of its previous all-time high reached in October 2007. In a note this week, Credit Suisse's Private Bank Investment Committee said that "plentiful liquidity, attractive valuations and low inflation" are helping fuel the current rally and "make equities among our best options in an asset allocation context."
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final term solve paper CS614- Data Warehousing current spring July 2011
Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
It is observed that every year the amount of data recorded in anorganization is
Doubles (handouts page # 6)
Remains same as previous year
Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Multidimensional databases typically use proprietary __________ format to store
pre-summarized cube structures.
File ( Page # 69 )
Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Pre-computed _______ can solve performance problems
Aggregates (page # 101)
Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
_______________, if fits into memory, costs only one disk I/O access to locate a
record by given key.
A Dense Index (page # 211)
A Sparse Index
An Inverted Index
None of These
Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
The degree of similarity between two records, often measured by a numerical
value between _______, usually depends on application characteristics.
0 and 1 (page # 157 )
0 and 10
0 and 100
0 and 99
Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
The purpose of the House of Quality technique is to reduce ______ types of risk.
Two (page # 181)
Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
NUMA stands for __________
Non-uniform Memory Access ( page # 194)
Non-updateable Memory Architecture
New Universal Memory Architecture
Question No: 8 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Which is the least appropriate join operation for Pipeline parallelism?
Hash Join
Inner Join
Outer Join
Sort-Merge Join
Question No: 9 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
There are many variants of the traditional nested-loop join. If the index is built as
part of the query plan and subsequently dropped, it is called
Naive nested-loop join
Index nested-loop join
Temporary index nested-loop join ( page # 230)
None of these
Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Data mining derives its name from the similarities between searching for valuable
business information in a large database, for example, finding linked products in
gigabytes of store scanner data, and mining a mountain for a _________ of
valuable ore.
Question No: 11 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
With data mining, the best way to accomplish this is by setting aside some of
your data in a ________ to isolate it from the mining process; once the mining is
complete, the results can be tested against the isolated data to confirm the
model's validity.
Question No: 12 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
The Kimball s iterative data warehouse development approach drew on decades
of experience to develop the _____________.
Business Dimensional Lifecycle (page # 276 )
Data Warehouse Dimension
Business Definition Lifecycle
OLAP Dimension
Question No: 13 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
We must try to find the one access tool that will handle all the needs of their
Question No: 14 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
For a smooth DWH implementation we must be a technologist.
False (page # 306)
Question No: 15 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
During the application specification activity, we also must give consideration to
the organization of the applications.
True ( page # 294 )
Question No: 16 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Investing years in architecture and forgetting the primary purpose of solving
business problems, results in inefficient application. This is the example of
_________ mistake.
Extreme Technology Design
Extreme Architecture Design
None of these (page # 303)
Question No: 17 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
The most recent attack is the ________ attack on the cotton crop during 2003-
04, resulting in a loss of nearly 0.5 million bales.
Boll Worm (VIDO LECTURE # 38)
Purple Worm
Blue Worm
Cotton Worm
Question No: 18 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
The users of data warehouse are knowledge workers in other words they are
_________ in the organization.
Decision maker (page# 10 )
Database Administrator
DWH Analyst
Question No: 19 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
_________ breaks a table into multiple tables based upon common column
Horizontal splitting (page # 46 )
Vertical splitting
Question No: 20 ( Marks: 1 ) – Please choose one
Execution can be completed successfully or it may be stopped due to some
error. In case of successful completion of execution all the transactions will be
Committed to the database (page # 398 last line)
Rolled back
Question No: 21 ( Marks: 2 )
What is meant by the statement Be a diplomat NOT a technologist in the
context of a data warehouse development project?
7. Be a diplomat NOT a technologist
The biggest problem you will face during a warehouse implementation will be people, not the technology or the development. You're going to have senior management complaining about completion dates and unclear objectives. You're going to have development people protesting that everything takes too long and why can't they do it the old way? You're going to have users with outrageously unrealistic expectations, who are used to systems that require mouse-clicking but not much intellectual investment on their part. And you're going to grow exhausted, separating out Needs from Wants at all levels. Commit from the outset to work very hard at communicating the realities, encouraging investment, and cultivating the development of new skills in your team and your users (and even your bosses).
Question No: 22 ( Marks: 2 )
Elaborate the concept of data parallelism.
- § Parallel execution of a single data manipulation task across multiple partitions of data.
- § Partitions static or dynamic
- § Tasks executed almost-independently across partitions.
- § "Query coordinator" must coordinate between the independently executing processes.
So data parallelism is I think the simplest form of parallelization. The idea is that we have parallel execution of single data operation across multiple partitions of data. So the idea here is that these partitions of data may be defined statically or dynamically fine, but we are requiring the same operator across these multiple partitions concurrently. And this idea actually of data parallelism has existed for a very long time.
Question No: 23 ( Marks: 2 )
What will be the effect if we program a package by using DTS object model?
Question No: 24 ( Marks: 3 )
What is meant by the classification process? How we measure the accuracy of
Classification means that based on the properties of existing data, we have made or groups i.e. we have made classification.
Question No: 25 ( Marks: 3 )
How page dimension captures the static and dynamic nature of different web
Question No: 26 ( Marks: 3 )
Write down the limitations of pipelining parallelism?
Pipeline parallelism is a good fit for data warehousing (where we are working with lots of data), but it makes no sense for OLTP because OLTP tasks are not big enough to justify breaking them down into subtasks.
Question No: 27 ( Marks: 5 )
For a maximum performance of Bitmapped index, what characteristics a query
should have?
Question No: 28 ( Marks: 5 )
How the three parallel tracks capture the user requirements in the Kimball s data
warehouse life cycle Road Map?
Question No: 29 ( Marks: 5 )
How time contiguous log entries and HTTP secure socket layer are used for user
session identification? What are the limitations of these techniques?
Question No: 30 ( Marks: 10 )
What are the issues regarding the record management tools at campuses where
text files are used to store data?
Main issues
Data duplication
Update the data
Data deletion
We can easily elaborate these issues
Question No: 31 ( Marks: 10 )
Shared RDBMS architecture requires a static partitioning. How do you perform the
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Never in my life had I imagined a moment as magical as this. Walking into the Armory, the winter wonderland set immediately took my breath away. And when the first look stepped out and stepped gracefully down the stairs, an audible synchronized gasp pervaded the audience. Marc Jacobs proved his sheer brilliance yet again this season with what was basically a pompous Mad Hatter party for beautiful people. It was Alice in Wonderland.. less the Alice, more the wonderland. Fluffy wild hats perched atop sparkling scarves, embellished coats and oversized jewel encrusted loafers. I may have exclaimed "i die!" on twitter over a hundred times in the past week, but the Marc Jacobs show was the first to seriously blow my mind away.
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NYFW day one.
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Worse yet, of the thirty-two members of the 2005 panel that was charged with deciding whether the COX-2 inhibitors were safe enough to stay on the market, ten had financial connections with one of the manufacturers, according to a front-page story in The New York Times that appeared a week after the panel's decision.15 As is often the case, these ten members with conflicts of interest were not disqualified. And as it turned out, they voted 9–1 in favor of Vioxx and Bextra. Without their votes, the panel would have recommended that these two COX-2 inhibitors be removed from the market (there would still have been enough votes to keep Celebrex). This does not prove that these nine advisers were biased, but it certainly raises the question, especially since Vioxx and Bextra were rejected by the majority of panel members with no known ties to the manufacturers. That is why FDA advisory committees should not include people with conflicts of interest, no matter how expert they may be.
The clinical trial that caused Merck to withdraw Vioxx was designed to see whether the drug could prevent the recurrence of colorectal polyps; the finding that the drug increased the risk of heart attacks and stroke was an accidental result of the trial. The company professed to be surprised. Then the CEO, Raymond Gilmartin, who claimed his wife took Vioxx right up until the drug was withdrawn, said the results were "unexpected."16
But in fact, it could hardly have been a complete surprise. There had been signs of trouble for years.17 In 2000, a company-sponsored trial was published in The New England Journal of Medicine comparing Vioxx with over-the-counter naproxen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.18 This was called the Vioxx Gastrointestinal Outcomes Research, or VIGOR, trial (medical researchers and their sponsors love catchy acronyms), and it was intended to show that Vioxx was easier on the stomach than naproxen (Aleve). In relieving pain, the drugs proved to be the same, but those taking Vioxx had only half the risk of serious stomach problems. Unfortunately, the study also showed at least a fourfold increase in the risk of heart attacks. The details of the cardiovascular effects were not described in the published paper, but an FDA analysis indicated that the drug was more likely to cause heart attacks or strokes than to prevent stomach ulcers. Merck tried to explain the alarming finding away by saying the difference probably showed that naproxen protects the heart, not that Vioxx harms it. But, of course, without testing that hypothesis, it was simply self-serving speculation. Moreover, within a year, other evidence came to light that Vioxx increased cardiovascular risks, and that Celebrex may do so as well.
In my book I discussed the power of the big pharmaceutical companies to sell just about anything. What Merck should have done after it got the results of the VIGOR trial was immediately launch a large enough clinical trial to investigate the cardiovascular risks as quickly as possible. Instead, a few months later, it signed Dorothy Hamill to skate its problems away. The company reportedly spent $160 million on direct-to-consumer ads for Vioxx in 2000, and continued to spend approximately $100 million a year during the next four years.19 The costs of even a very large clinical trial would almost certainly have been less than what the company spent on ads. But as expensive as they are, the costs of direct-to-consumer ads are small compared with what drug companies spend promoting their products to doctors. In a variety of expensive ways doctors became convinced—just as the public did more cheaply—that Vioxx was some sort of a breakthrough. The fact that it was no more effective than naproxen, or presumably other over-the-counter remedies, was a fact soon forgotten.
That the advisory panel recommended halting direct-to-consumer ads highlighted the hollowness of the pharmaceutical industry's contention that such ads are "educational"—designed to encourage patients to discuss medical problems with their doctors. It should be obvious that there is nothing educational about watching Dorothy Hamill pitch a drug or about the other prescription drug ads we see on television. They are meant to persuade patients (and doctors) to use the drug. And they work—as they did spectacularly well in the case of the COX-2 inhibitors. That is why every other advanced country except New Zealand does not permit such ads. But despite the fact that senior officials of the FDA, including the last two commissioners, have repeatedly endorsed the fiction that direct-to-consumer ads are educational, the advisory panel clearly knew better. If ads were truly educational, panel members would not have recommended a moratorium on broadcasting them. 20
In a sense, Merck was doing what big drug companies often do. It was touting the benefits of its drug (such as they were), downplaying or explaining away the risks, and marketing it as though it were a medical miracle. Less explicable is the dereliction of the FDA. If Merck didn't want to launch a study of the cardiovascular effects of Vioxx (and it had nothing to gain commercially by doing so), why didn't the FDA insist on it? After all, the FDA's responsibility is to ensure that prescription drugs are safe and effective, and there was clearly something that needed looking into here. The FDA should also have taken a close look at the ads, since one of its jobs is to ensure that they are accurate and balanced—which they obviously were not.
But the FDA did nothing. Later, it protested that it doesn't have the authority to mandate additional studies once a drug is marketed, but that is sophistry. The FDA has the authority to pull drugs off the market, and that threat would have been enough to get Merck to organize a trial. Finally, in 2002, after a year of wrangling, it got Merck to add a tepid warning to the drug's labeling information—the material in small print that comes with prescription drugs (and that few actually read). That hardly met the agency's responsibility. The part of the FDA that approves new drugs now receives half of its funding from "user fees" paid by drug companies for each drug evaluated. These were first authorized by Congress in 1992, and in return the FDA was required to speed up its review of drugs. I warned in my book about the baleful effects of the user fees, which put the FDA on the payroll of the industry it regulates. This story brings that warning home.
The Vioxx case underlines the importance of clinical trials in deciding whether drugs work or not. Without them, doctors and patients would have to decide on the basis of personal accounts indicating whether or not a given patient seems to improve. That is an unreliable (not to mention dangerous) method. As I wrote:
The assumption that a drug works if a patient gets better does not allow for natural variations in the illness, for the placebo effect (the tendency of both doctors and patients to imagine a drug is working), for all the other times when the drug might fail, or for the possibility that another drug might have worked better.
That is why clinical trials were such an important medical advance when they were first introduced in the middle of the twentieth century, and why the FDA requires clinical trials rather than a collection of testimonials to decide whether drugs are safe and effective.
I mention this because the public hearings held by the FDA advisory panel permitted testimonials from people who said they wanted the COX-2 inhibitors left on the market because nothing else relieved their pain. The panel was reportedly much influenced by these testimonials (could that have explained the pro-Celebrex vote by panel members not on Pfizer's payroll?), and it ultimately concluded that, although the drugs should be used far less widely than they were, they might be uniquely effective for some people. But while that is possible, there was no evidence on which to base that conjecture.
Not only are testimonials an unreliable way to judge a drug's effectiveness, they are particularly useless when those giving the testimony are selectively chosen. According to the transcript, at least one of the patients who spoke at the hearings was brought there by Pfizer, the maker of Celebrex and Bextra. I have not seen any evidence that patients who had suffered heart attacks or strokes while on these drugs were brought to Washington to testify; nor, so far as I know, were those who had tried a COX-2 inhibitor but preferred Advil or Aleve.
The notion that testimonials are useful in evaluating drugs reflects the biases of some doctors (mainly those in clinical practice) and much of the public. Many patients like to think they are uniquely different from others, not only as persons, but biologically. However, biological variations among patients are probably far less significant than is widely believed, and would need verification, in any case. Clinicians, for their part, want as many choices of drugs as possible, even if they have little basis for choosing among them. When a drug doesn't seem to work, they want to be able to say, "Here, try this and see if that's better." So it should not be surprising that testimonials played such a big part in these hearings. They were open hearings, and it would have taken a brave panel member to point out publicly that testimonials are not a good basis for making a decision about the benefits of drugs.
Drug companies are quick to exploit the view that there is great biological variability among patients; it is one of their justifications for turning out so many me-too drugs. They like to present me-too drugs as backups for one another. But there is little evidence to support the notion that if a particular drug doesn't work for a patient, another one in the same class will. Drug companies don't test their me-too drugs on patients who have found a similar drug ineffective, so there is no way to know for sure. But much of what may look like differences among me-too drugs probably has mainly to do with the size of doses. It may be, for example, that a double dose of Celebrex would act just like Vioxx for virtually everyone.
Even if we grant the possibility that some people may respond very differently to these drugs, does that justify accepting a greatly increased risk of heart attacks and strokes? Since those who most need pain relievers for arthritis are precisely older people who are most vulnerable to cardiovascular disease, the drugs have been estimated to have caused tens of thousands of heart attacks among the millions of people who have taken them regularly.21 That is a tremendous cost to balance against the dubious proposition that the drugs offer something unique for pain relief. It is the FDA's job to see that the benefits of prescription drugs outweigh the risks. It seems clear to me that the agency failed to do so in this case.
The courtroom is not a good place to resolve questions like whether Vioxx caused someone's heart attack. For one thing, when there are other possible causes of a medical condition, it's usually impossible to know which one was responsible in any specific case. The best we can do is deal with statistical probabilities. For example, if we look at large numbers of people and find that heart attacks are more than twice as common in those who took Vioxx (as some studies have found22 ), then we can say that the drug outweighs all other risks in the average person like those in the trials. But our legal system requires juries to determine causation in particular individuals, with particular sets of risks, something that is rarely possible. It is an illusion of our tort system to think that we can, and it is one reason these kinds of cases yield such inconsistent verdicts. The best we can do is assume each person is typical of those studied in clinical trials.
John McDarby had a number of other conditions that could have affected his heart, such as diabetes and clogged arteries, and Merck made the case that his heart attack should be attributed to them, not Vioxx. This strategy had been successful in earlier cases. But McDarby's lawyers stood the argument on its head. They made the case that precisely because of these other heart risks, he was especially vulnerable to the dangerous effects of Vioxx—in their words, "the last person who should have been on Vioxx." That is certainly a commonsensical view, and clearly the jury saw it that way. Essentially, they were persuaded that a push is more dangerous if you're standing on the edge of a cliff.
The punitive damages in the McDarby case were based largely on the jury's finding that Merck had misled the FDA by not supplying it with an internal analysis the company had done of Vioxx's risks. Merck argued that it withheld the analysis because it was flawed, but had supplied all the underlying data. Whatever the truth about McDarby's claims, the FDA certainly had enough information to take stronger action years ago.
We have an FDA precisely because we know that drug companies, given their inherent conflict of interest, should not be left to decide on their own whether their products are safe. Caveat emptor may be a reasonable approach for many consumer products, but not for prescription drugs. But the Vioxx story underscores the extent to which the FDA has come to see itself as representing the drug companies, not the public.
Two reforms are necessary. First, the conflicts of interest that pervade the agency should be eliminated. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) that authorized drug companies to pay user fees in return for quick approval of their drugs comes up for renewal in 2007. Congress should let it die, and instead appropriate adequate support from public funds for this vitally important agency. The FDA should also prohibit experts who consult for drug companies from sitting on its advisory panels. No one's expertise is indispensable, contrary to the current practice of granting virtually automatic waivers on those grounds.
Second, the FDA should be made much more transparent. Drug companies are required to inform the agency about all the clinical trials they sponsor on drugs for which they are seeking FDA approval. But the agency does not make the studies public without permission of the sponsor, and drug companies naturally publish only the most favorable results. By allowing less favorable results to remain buried, the agency puts proprietary interests ahead of the public interest, and doctors and the public come to believe prescription drugs are better than they are. That should stop. All studies involving human subjects should be registered at inception in a publicly available, central database, and the salient results added at completion.
These reforms will require congressional legislation—an uphill battle, in view of the power of the pharmaceutical lobby in Washington. That power will need to be offset by concentrated pressure from citizen and advocacy groups with an interest in regulating prescription drugs, something that has so far been lacking. But the spotlight does belong squarely on the FDA. That, after all, is where the public's protection should lie, not with juries after the damage is done.
Gardiner Harris and Alex Berenson, "10 Voters on Panel Backing Pain Pills Had Industry Ties," The New York Times, February 25, 2005.↩
Quoted in Anna Wilde Mathews and Barbara Martinez, "E-Mails Suggest Merck Knew Vioxx's Dangers at Early Stage," The Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2004.↩
For several accounts of the longstanding safety concerns about Vioxx, see Mathews and Martinez, "E-Mails Suggest Merck Knew Vioxx's Dangers at Early Stage"; Eric J. Topol, "Failing the Public Health—Rofecoxib, Merck, and the FDA," The New England Journal of Medicine, October 21, 2004; Barbara Martinez, "Vioxx Lawsuits May Focus on FDA Warning in 2001," The Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2004.↩
Claire Bombardier et al., "Comparison of Upper Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Rofecoxib and Naproxen in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis," The New England Journal of Medicine, November 23, 2000.↩
The $100 million figure was widely reported; see, for example, Topol, "Failing the Public Health"; see also www.todaysseniorsnetwork.com/excessive _ads.htm.↩
In April of this year, Pfizer resumed advertising Celebrex after a steep drop in sales during the moratorium. The ad included the following text: "Important information: Celebrex may increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke that can lead to death."↩
For estimates, see Eric J. Topol, "Failing the Public Health. Also, testimony of David J. Graham, associate director for science and medicine in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, before the Senate Finance Committee, November 18, 2004.↩
For an overview of studies, see Peter Jüni et al, "Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Rofecoxib: Cumulative Meta-analysis," The Lancet, December 4, 2004.↩
The 'Dangerous Drugstore' November 16, 2006
Gardiner Harris and Alex Berenson, "10 Voters on Panel Backing Pain Pills Had Industry Ties," The New York Times, February 25, 2005.↩
Quoted in Anna Wilde Mathews and Barbara Martinez, "E-Mails Suggest Merck Knew Vioxx's Dangers at Early Stage," The Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2004.↩
For several accounts of the longstanding safety concerns about Vioxx, see Mathews and Martinez, "E-Mails Suggest Merck Knew Vioxx's Dangers at Early Stage"; Eric J. Topol, "Failing the Public Health—Rofecoxib, Merck, and the FDA," The New England Journal of Medicine, October 21, 2004; Barbara Martinez, "Vioxx Lawsuits May Focus on FDA Warning in 2001," The Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2004.↩
Claire Bombardier et al., "Comparison of Upper Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Rofecoxib and Naproxen in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis," The New England Journal of Medicine, November 23, 2000.↩
The $100 million figure was widely reported; see, for example, Topol, "Failing the Public Health"; see also www.todaysseniorsnetwork.com/excessive _ads.htm.↩
In April of this year, Pfizer resumed advertising Celebrex after a steep drop in sales during the moratorium. The ad included the following text: "Important information: Celebrex may increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke that can lead to death."↩
For estimates, see Eric J. Topol, "Failing the Public Health. Also, testimony of David J. Graham, associate director for science and medicine in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, before the Senate Finance Committee, November 18, 2004.↩
For an overview of studies, see Peter Jüni et al, "Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Rofecoxib: Cumulative Meta-analysis," The Lancet, December 4, 2004.↩


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My wife and I got into Vegas early Saturday and had the entire day to visit places we have not been to the previous trips. We did a lot of walking, got our badges early and made sure we hit the Treasure Island gym to get in our daily P90X2 workout. Since we've been on this health kick it's now just plain natural to workout everyday no matter where you are at. Even on vacation.
Sunday was my big day of the conference. I had two events lined up and missed the entire meet market. My wife walked the floor and said it was huge. I had a six hour private meetup with Affplaybook at the Palms during the day.
Right after that I headed back to Caesars and got in on the IMGrind Mastermind session. This concluded around 9pm so I headed back to T.I. to get ready for the night.
Some of you might have thought it was dumb to go to these types of meetings to hear what people are doing in the space. I have a different opinion obviously. The two meetings were nearly 180 degrees apart from each other. I was really happy to listen to the different opinions of everyone that spoke. It just goes to show you that internet marketing is huge and you can find anything out there that will make you money.
Monday we woke up late and got in a workout and headed to the show floor. While I was walking around and checking out the booths it made me realize how my goal of attending ASW is very different than others. Everyone that goes has an agenda on why they are there. Sunday, I met people that didn't even buy a pass and had no intention of going to the show because everything that they were there for was private meetings outside of the show.
This got me thinking about ASW '13 and how it will be different for me. Will I even buy a pass knowing that just a few weeks ago I spent less than 3 hours on the show floor?
Monday night was the affiliate ball party. Nelly was the headliner and it was great. Last year with 3 Six Mafia I had a great time but felt like it wasn't as good. We did not stay for the very end because of a 9am flight on Tuesday.
Affiliate Summit West 2012 was a great time and I got to meet some new and old friends. The information I gathered was great and can't wait to make 2012 my best year in internet marketing.
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Buzz: Jimmy Graham received non-exclusive tag
News broke today of an interesting development in the Jimmy Graham saga. For those not keeping score at home, the Saints placed their franchise tag on their pro bowl tight end earlier this week, albeit with the looming threat of Graham filing a grievance to say that he should be treated as a wide receiver and therefore receive a higher sum. The Saints don't have a very good cap situation, so they will have been relieved to hear the recent news of recent cap hikes, which might mean they're well positioned to extend him long term. The latest development is an interesting one though…
This would allow a team to negotiate with Graham and, although the Saints could match the offer, if they chose not to they would lose him and receive draft pick compensation instead. It opens up the possibility that a team with more cap space than the Saints could offer him a contract with front-loaded cap hits that could be difficult for them to match.
So what do you reckon, Jets fans? Would it be worth a shot? Answer the poll below and elaborate in the comments.
No way Idzik gives up 2 first round draft picks.
The Jets won't get a better receiver than Graham with this year pick and since next year the Jets will make it to the playoffs, YES YOU MAKE THAT TRADE.
Apparently the Pats have put Amendola on the trading block!
I really want Calvin Pryor in the first. I know we need receivers but this draft is deep at receiver.
Can we trade 18 for 32 and 64 via the Seahawks, and then do this?
What about Sam shields doh. Does no one else agree we should go after this guy?
So is this Vick talk for real or is it media made?
peta +injury history = risky
You can either trade way back with say Seattle for the 32nd pick and package the 2nd and 3rd and move up to the 49ers spot (30th?). Just because it's 2 first round picks doesn't mean they have to be high ones. Also we could work out a trade with NO, say a 1st and a 3rd.
There is no debate. Jimmy Graham is neutralized by press coverage. Screw him.
On another note I say we let cro go and go after Sam sheilds. He's younger 26 and more productive than cro at this point in his career. He also ran 4.23 at combine so he can stay with any receiver.
Go watch the Seahawks - Saints playoff game and tell me he is worth two #1's and top WR pay...
Hopefully the second first round pick would be the 32nd
@a57se I could see them cutting him
@Marcus Armstrong It's theoretically possible. However, you do that and then the Saints match and suddenly you have those picks and would have to use them in the draft, losing the 18th in the process. I mean, maybe you then would trade up, but in essence this is a plan that in practice involves several steps and compliance from the player and another team which can get derailed.
I think the fact is we're getting another qb to compete with geno. I think we would go after mccown first seeing as he's used to being a back up. Less drama.
I think it is Vicks agent trying to generate as much buzz for his client as he can....
You trade this years 18 and hope you go far in the playoffs and only give up 32 next year.
Woah that's awfully bold. So if Kyle Wilson just presses him it's gg?
We once held Keyshawn Johnson to 1 catch for 1 yard... Steve Smith to 1 catch for 5 yards. You can scheme out a player but if the other team knows that then they have an advantage.
Or watch how Talib abused him in the Pats game
Dude not many people looked good against the hawks this year. They also sent two guys at him almost every time.
Was there already a debate over him?
@Pat d Nothing says you can't trade back this year and get more picks while giving up the pick in compensation... I think that's what Atlanta did for Abraham and then we got Mangold at ~28th spot.
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@reprocity @Tooned In Keyshawn was considered elite? Steve Smith ever have any other receivers than Steve Smith? Was it a playoff game when these things happened?
@lagoo If he is elite then the least he could have done was show up. He was gutless in that game.
Looks like he would fit in better than I thought anyway it won't happen and I can't afford to keep making this fictional signings
Bryant is a unique player, I will grant you that. However, he was used as a defensive end last year and very effective in that role.
Is it a different defense? You may be surprised to learn that there are major similarities: http://thejetsblog.com/bga/bga-more-on-the-similarities-between-the-jets-and-the-seahawks/ (scroll down to "Strategy")
It won't happen but that depth at d line would be great he could spell any of the front 3.
Red Bryant is fat. I'm pretty sure he's much heavier than 323 listed. I would say he's pushing 340. But all those stats were in Seattle different d. Anyway I'm pretty sure you stick red between mo and Sheldon he'd do swell.
@harold Right on ... but I'd expect him to want to start somewhere rather than get a depth role with a team like the Jets. He's definitely good enough to start on most teams.
He could be a NT in passing situations. But he not suited to be a everydown NT.
Lastly we have Mo and Sheldon who we can play at NT on pass downs who are much better options. He is a DE and would be a good depth player if Douzable leaves.
@lagoo He's a defensive end. In 561 snaps this year he played just 29 as a 4-3 DT and literally NONE as a nose tackle. He was a defensive end or standing up on the rest.
Muhammad Wilkerson isn't a nose tackle, but he's 315 pounds and he actually DID play at nose quite often - 121 snaps (exclusively in nickel/dime packages though).
I think being over 320lbs kind of makes you a nt.
I guess the jets don't feel the same about tj.
Yea I agree but red Bryant and snacks would be a way better duo. For a fair price I would do it and it doesn't hurt he was a captain.
Oh well hope we go after him. Bad move by the packers. I would also love to get red Bryant to back up snacks.
Frankly, I just believe the money would be better spent on a defensive player like Worilds or Orakpo and build the offense through the draft and add a low cost receiver in free agency
I can name any other mediocre cb. I think press with a safety over the top is a better approach ie seattle
@lagoo Talks tough before game and then catches 1 ball for 8 yards in most important game of the season...
I'd agree. I hope it doesn't happen but I can't say I wouldn't be excited if it did.
When the hawks want they can take any one player out the game. Doesn't make him gutless.


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