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Video signals ride the light to far-off places.
Hall Research Technologies designed the HR-722A for direct connection of VGA computers in transmitting video and audio up to 2500ft. on multimode fiber or 21 miles on single-mode fiber. The system supports VGA, SVGA, XGA, and WXGA with HDTV resolutions of 480p, 720p, and 1080i (RGBHV format). Using all-digital processing and transmission in the 1310nm window, the HR-722A requires no adjustments, equalization, or de-skewing during installation.
For long-distance extension of dual-link HDCP-compliant DVI with resolutions up to 2560×1600 at 60Hz, Kramer Electronics has the 622T and 622R transmitter/receiver pair on eight simplex or four duplex LC optical connectors with a maximum data rate of 3.3Gbps. The DDC and HDCP bidirectional data are carried on a Cat-5 link with unshielded twisted-pair cable. One unit in the system, either the transmitter or receiver, needs to be connected to a power source to carry the signal up to 320ft. The front panel includes single- and dual-link LED indicators, a power-indicator LED, and fiber and RJ-45 terminals. The back of the unit has the DVI and power connections. Two units can be rackmounted side by side in a single-unit space using an optional rack adapter. The power source is 12VDC at 200mA, and it is included along with a bracket-installation kit and a DVI/DVI male/male connecting cable.
The Magenta Research Infinea DVI carries video at 1600×1200 and 1080p on single-mode fiber for distances up to 6.2 miles or on Cat-5e/6 up to 500ft. As an option, the SA model can carry CD-quality line-level stereo sound and full-duplex RS-232. In either case, a single twisted-pair or fiber cable carries all the signals. Multimode fiber can provide transmission distances up to 1640ft. Switch-selectable signal algorithms optimize DVI fidelity for various types of source content. The audio and COM connections use Phoenix connectors, and the fiber connectors are LC. The DVI-SA/-SAP unit has four link-status LEDs. The system's real strength is that the receiver units can be daisy-chained for nearly unlimited signal-transmission distances. The manufacturer's MTBF listing for Infinea DVI is 100,000 hours, and it can accept any format up to its maximum resolution with no manual adjustments.
Having taken the spotlight at December's Government Video Expo, Multidyne's new DVI-6000 fiber-transport module handles single- and dual-link RGBHV and DVI-D with a DVI-I interface. The DVI-6000 supports WQXGA 2560×1600 resolution over a single fiber, and it has optional stereo audio and bidirectional data for monitor control. The unit also has a loop-through DVI-I input with dual DVI-I outputs and a throughput bandwidth of 4.25Gbps. This provides optical transport for SMPTE 292M HD-SDI and SMPTE 424M 3G HD-SDI. The unit also provides EOS 4000 Electro-Optical Switcher support at 4.25Gbps, and HD and 3G HD switcher support at 1.485Gbps and 2.97Gbps, offering adaptive bandwidth reduction for resolutions greater than 1920×1200. An adaptive algorithm senses high- and low-motion content and adjusts accordingly. EDID monitor resolution is supported from the loop-through or from internal emulation.
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Breakfast Topic: Tank anxiety {WoW}
Aug 3rd 2010 3:00PM I want to second the poster who suggested warning your group ahead of time.
I have found that this has a magical ability to transform PUGers into human beings. I was a starting feral tank so every heroic I would open with:
"I kinda new at tanking this so please bear with me"
I must have used this joke over a dozen times. I never got a single nasty remark in those runs.
Thing is people outgear the dungeons which makes them inpatient and easy to pull off you, but it also means they are well equipped to deal with your small mistakes if they feel so inclined. Most of the impatience people display is really just preening about "hey I'm so cool that when I run h-UK it only takes 8 minutes" or whatever. This is even half the reason why people will quit a group. With a simple comment at the outset, you change the frame that people are playing by.
After I got a bit more confidence I stopped opening with the warning and I swear it was like some vast illusion had been dispelled from my whole battlegroup, and people reverted to their usual @$$-hattery.
As a tank YOU can set the tone of what your group will be like.
BlizzCon 2009: Blizzard announces cross-server instances {WoW}
Aug 22nd 2009 6:18PM Rewards for leading is a good idea. Putting a group together and leading noobish people through an instance does require some effort and leadership, and you get blamed if things fall apart. Though this has been less of an issue with the EZ-mode WoTLK 5-mans. Perhaps this could signal a return of more noob-unfriendly instances?
Say if it is your first time in an instance (or in a heroic mode), you could choose to give a "leadership award" to someone who you thought has been a good guide. I'm very grateful when other players explain the fight to me etc. The reward doesn't have to be anything big, more of a recognition than an inducement.
Its the kind of thing that happens between decent human beings. Sadly, humanity is often discarded in PUGs without loot to back it up.
I agree that getting a reward for having the crown on your head during some 30-min milk run is dubious.
Breakfast Topic: What do you think of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm? {WoW}
Aug 22nd 2009 3:22PM Here's hoping we get to see a cinematic of select quest-givers and low drop rate mobs being engulfed in lava/devoured by sharks. Ideally, Blizz will spend 50% of their development budget on recording their piteous cries.
Breakfast Topic: What do you think of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm? {WoW}
Aug 22nd 2009 2:43PM You seem to be asserting that:
Time and money spent=Value
which is incorrect. The best way to improve something is to fix its worst attributes. Perhaps recycling old content will give the developers more time to improve other parts of the game. Or maybe they could just dig a giant hole somewhere in Anaheim and fill it back up again. Would that satisfy you?
BlizzCon 2009: Stats vastly simplified {WoW}
Aug 22nd 2009 1:16PM Hear hear,
It looks like an end to the World of Stat Redundancy.
AP:More a renaming than a reworking; AP is already almost completely redundant to Str/Agi.
SP: Have you ever chosen Int. over SP? Didn't think so. Blizz is removing this false choice.
MP5: This change effects only those who:
1)Think the main goal in life is to beat the other raid healers for time spent in FSR
2)Enjoy solving quadratic equations
Defense: Okay, so this stat did perform an important social signalling role. Can be replaced with a hard-to-find checkbox saying "This tank is not a paste-eater."
Haste:What no more pew pew? GODS DAMN YOU BLIZZARD!!!!!!
FCC Comissioner: World of Warcraft causes college dropouts {WoW}
Dec 12th 2008 3:39AM It's a cop-out to say that if that WoW addicts would just get their fix some other way if there was no WoW. The consensus of people who study addiction is only a small fraction of the population is vulnerable to any given addiction. This makes sense if you think about it. For instance, for me hangovers are sufficiently unpleasant that I doubt I could ever become an alcoholic. The implication of this is that when a new drug, or a new addictive behavior, enters the market, it could turn out to be "your" drug.
The idea of an "addictive personality" is controversial too. Many of the traits thought to be part of this personality such as anxiety, alienation, and a difficulty delaying gratification might be the effect of addiction, not the cause. I suppose that if you happen to be a devout, goal-oriented, people-superperson
you'll be able to resist any temptation. But most of humanity is not like this.
There's a little doubt in my mind that if there was no WoW, there would be many many people who otherwise did not flunk out of college, or lose there job or their marriage. This game can be addictive, I'll testify to that firsthand. Is it the fault of the demon Blizzard? No, surely the responsibility has to lie with the individual. Many people enjoy the game responsibly. Still... I don't think I could ever work for Blizz for the same reason I would not work for Phillip Morris or a Las Vegas casino. These companies know that a substantial portion of their customer base consists of problem users, and they are OK with that. At least Blizz doesn't charge by the hour...


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Boiling Point: F*ck Faux Documentaries
Boiling Point By Robert Fure on August 30, 2010 | Comments (9)With an announced production budget of under $2 million, The Last Exorcism undoubtedly won big this weekend, pulling in an estimated $21 million. Numbers like that get noticed and, unfortunately, get undeserved sequels greenlit. I openly admit to walking into The Last Exorcism with a prejudice: I don't like fake documentaries or "found footage" films. It's a tired trick. Hollywood doesn't mind them though, because one mediocre weekend turns a big profit, and the film can be sent immediately to DVD. We've seen films like The Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity use this formula to great success on limited budgets. Since I'm not a Hollywood executive, I don't really give a damn if they make a ton of money. There are more entertaining ways to earn it, like just releasing more medium budget horror movies. Or releasing horror movies on Halloween. But I digress. I don't like faux documentaries or found footage films because they rarely work and they're never even close to real.
Review: 'The Fourth Kind' Should've Been Narrated By Robert Stack
Movie Reviews By Brian Salisbury on November 7, 2009 | Comments (6)With the Saw films firmly on the ice flow of sequels toward apocalypse, the question I keep coming back to is, "where are horror films going to go from here?" Enter the attempt of The Fourth Kind.
Fantastic Fest Review: Paranormal Activity
Fantastic Fest By Landon Palmer on September 25, 2009 | Comments (10)Paranormal Activity follows the Hitchcock 101 school of filmmaking like it's scripture: show as little as possible and let audience imagination fill in the rest. It's a rule most horror films could implement a bit more, and it works in this film to an astoundingly effective degree.
Boiling Point: POV Camera is Dead, Thanks
Boiling Point By Robert Fure on April 13, 2009 | Comments (30)While the handheld camera may have revolutionized porn (we give thanks!) it may have ruined Robert Fure's day in other ways.
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DID YOU NOTICE your day lilies were blooming less profusely last summer? How about your dahlias? Was your agapanthus looking crowded and less vigorous? If so, it might be time for a bit of digging, dividing and sharing.
Propagating, or multiplication by natural reproduction, of many perennials and bulbs is not only easy and economical, but it's also beneficial for your plants.
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I found this cane at a garden center today-very reasonable $4.00 for a 6 inch pot with substantial growth so I bought 2 but is this really Sophie Cecile (sorry, no pic)? She S. Irene looks very much like S. Cecile. I'm hoping she is a hybrid and Sophie Cecile is a parent.
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moving on down :) |
- Posted by hcmcdole z7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, May 16, 07 at 10:50
Without a picture it would be hard to ID. There is a 'Sophie Cecile' and an 'Irene Nuss' which both had the same pollen parent ('Lenore Olivier'). I have never heard of Sophie Irene so I suspect the seller had no idea what the true name was so they put the two names together to cover all bases. Post a picture if you can. P.S. Irene Nuss shows some silver streaking at times but usually goes solid olive green under normal garden conditions. |
I bought two mystery begonias yesterday. I sent photos to a local arboretum curator who ID'd them for me as "sophie irene", so I'm leaning toward believing that she exists! I found this thread during an Internet search to get into. on that begonia. I have photos, but have yet to figure out how to upload them here. If anyone wants me to email them to them, I'd be glad to. I'd also be delighted if someone wanted to post here them for me. CarrieB |
And I just found this on the web. I think that my foliage is actually a bit less splotchy and a little more spotted. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Sophie Irene
Me again. I went out and checked the foliage. It is exactly like the linked photo. (I can't believe how much bandwidth I'm hogging here - my very first posts to the Begonia forum) |
- Posted by hcmcdole z7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Mon, May 28, 07 at 15:11
The picture looks like 'Sophie Cecile'. I did a search for "Sophie Irene" and got a total of 6 hits (one was this thread, one was the site you linked to, and another was at DG about the same problem). Two other sites were about an author and a book. The last site was a bunch of gobbledygook. I think 'Sophie Irene' got misnamed (renamed) by a grower/seller and now the unsuspecting buyers will think that a begonia with this name actually exists. |
- Posted by susancarol 7 (My Page) on Tue, May 29, 07 at 9:44
Whatever mine are, they're fast growers. Still hoping it is another hybrid but am happy with them anyway. S |
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Just like that, it's as though they never existed.
Just like that, it's as though they never existed.
It was a beautiful morning to blow something up, and an even better morning to see it from the air! Whether you were for or against keeping them around, the El Paso skyline is forever changed as both ASARCO smokestacks were demolished at dawn. Thanks to Helicopters Anonymous and pilot Deb Rothchild, we got an exclusive aerial view of the event AND an exclusive on why it may have been delayed a few minutes.
Helicopters Anonymous will be helping us bring you the most unique view of the ASARCO smokestack demolition -- from mid-air!
Whether you agree or disagree with these demolitions, they're coming. Here's a few things you should know!
It is being widely reported that an El Paso landmark, the Asarco Smokestack, at one time the world's tallest, will be demolished.
I, for one, would like to see it brought up to code and remain as one of our city's most impressive erections.
But the City government has taken a pass on it and Border Patrol doesn't seem to take seriously my idea of making it a sniper nest.
If the smokestack is to remain, a practical purpose will need to be found. Fortunately, I have a few ideas...
This "big boy" is just over 9900 inches and rock hard. What is it?
Took a walk to the Smeltertown Cemetery at sunset the other day. You barely notice the place sitting behind a hill just west of I-10 and just south of Executive Center. But if you do, it's striking
There's been a lot of talk about the fate of the Asarco Smokestack as the demolition date is approaching and still no deal has been struck. Some of the arguments are solid on BOTH sides of the issue
Breathe easier, El Paso. They're cleaning it up, piece-by-piece, and if they're on schedule, early next year the ASARCO smokestack that has been a part of the El Paso skyline for over 100 years will come tumbling down


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My sister just may kill her cat, not really but. My sister and hubby are hoping to sell home so they can buy different one out in the country, maybe come out ahead. The other house is undervalued and so is theirs. They have been updating the house all summer, just had new carpet laid everywhere. (house has been total mess all summer) Yesterday she found that her cat had peed in two places a lot, soaking wet, she is livid. I suggested maybe a bladder infection when I spoke with her today. But it's just too much of a coincidence that only had problem just after new carpet laid. Could cat just be mad about the new carpet? Cat box in slightly different place than it had always been, but its been in "new" place for over a month. Maybe stress from all the goings on, but that cat should be used to it, lived through building of new cabin last summer.
Anyone had this problem. I can't take in another cat. |
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It's not unusual for some pets to mark new things in the home. He doesn't do it any more but between 1-2 yrs of age my dog would pee on any new blankets on the floor or new pillows in his bed. Like you, I think she should have the cat checked for any health problems. |
I read somewhere (maybe the Flooring forum) that there is something in new carpet tape or glue that attracts cats. Sorry for lack of specifics, but it may be something in the carpet rather than something in the cat. |
I found this article doing research on my cat with CRF, apparently there was a study that new carpet can smell like cat urine, to cats: http://cats.about.com/cs/cleaningmesses/a/newcarpeturine.htm Here's a snippet: "In lay terms, tiny microorganisms (bacteria) find a home in the latex backing of the carpet, and during their growth produce butyric acid, which is a weak acid that will not harm the carpet, but does have a decided odor that to some humans (and cats apparently) smells like cat urine. This particular bacteria appears to be anaerobic, which means it is capable of growth outside of oxygen. The standard disinfectant used in carpet manufacturing apparently does not affect these microorganisms, and any new disinfectants will need to be tested to ensure they do not harm the latex backing." A check at the vets may be in order too, as inappropriate elimination is often a sign of a heath issue. Good luck to your sister! |
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Internet protocol suite |
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SPDY (pronounced speedy)[1] is an open networking protocol developed primarily at Google for transporting web content.[1] SPDY manipulates HTTP traffic, with particular goals of reducing web page load latency and improving web security. SPDY achieves reduced latency through compression, multiplexing, and prioritization [1] although this depends on a combination of network and website deployment conditions.[2][3] The name "SPDY" is a trademark of Google and is not an acronym.[4]
As of July 2012[update], the group developing SPDY has stated publicly that it is working toward standardisation (available as an Internet Draft).[5] The first draft of HTTP/2 is using SPDY as the working base for its specification draft and editing.[6]
Implementations of SPDY exist in Chromium,[7] Mozilla Firefox,[8] Opera,[9] Amazon Silk, Internet Explorer,[10] and Safari.[11]
The goal of SPDY is to reduce web page load time.[12] This is achieved by prioritizing and multiplexing the transfer of web page subresources so that only one connection per client is required.[1][13] TLS encryption is nearly ubiquitous in SPDY implementations, and transmission headers are gzip- or DEFLATE-compressed by design[14] (in contrast to HTTP, where the headers are sent as human-readable text). Moreover, servers may hint or even push content instead of awaiting individual requests for each resource of a web page.[15]
SPDY requires the use of SSL/TLS (with TLS extension ALPN), and does not support operation over plain TCP. The requirement for SSL is for security and to avoid incompatibility when communication is across a proxy.
Relation to HTTP[edit]
SPDY does not replace HTTP; it modifies the way HTTP requests and responses are sent over the wire.[1] This means that all existing server-side applications can be used without modification if a SPDY-compatible translation layer is put in place.
SPDY is effectively a tunnel for the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. When sent over SPDY, HTTP requests are processed, tokenized, simplified and compressed. For example, each SPDY endpoint keeps track of which headers have been sent in past requests and can avoid resending the headers that have not changed; those that must be sent are compressed.
The IETF working group for HTTPbis has released the draft of HTTP/2.[16] SPDY (draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00) was chosen as the starting point.[17][18]
The server push mechanism pushes content regardless of existing cache which can result in waste of bandwidth. The workaround is to use the server hint mechanism.[19]
Protocol support[edit]
For use within HTTPS, SPDY needs the TLS extension Next Protocol Negotiation (NPN),[20] thus browser and server support depends on the HTTPS library.
OpenSSL 1.0.1 or greater introduces NPN.[21] Patches to add NPN support have also been written for NSS and TLSLite.[22]
SPDY is scheduled to switch from NPN to Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) before the end of 2014.[23]
Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) from Microsoft have not implemented the NPN extension to its TLS implementation. This has prevented SPDY inclusion in the latest .NET Framework versions. Since SPDY specification is being refined and HTTP/2 is expected to include SPDY implementation one could expect Microsoft to release support after HTTP/2 is finalized.
Protocol versions[edit]
SPDY is a versioned protocol. In its control frames there are 15 dedicated bits to indicate the version of the session protocol.
- Version 1: version 1 of the SPDY protocol is not used anymore.[24]
- Version 2: soon to be discontinued. Nginx supports SPDY/2 in versions prior to 1.5.10.[25] Firefox 28 and recent versions of Chrome drop support for it.[26][27] OpenLiteSpeed 1.1 and up support SPDY/2.[28]
- Version 3: SPDY v3 introduced support for flow control, updated the compression dictionary, and removed wasted space from certain frames, along with other minor bug fixes.[14] Firefox supports SPDY v3 in Firefox 15.[29] OpenLiteSpeed 1.1 and up support SPDY/3.[28]
- Version 3.1: SPDY v3.1 introduced support for session-layer flow control, and removed the CREDENTIALS frame (and associated error codes).[30] Firefox 27 has added SPDY 3.1 support.[31] OpenLiteSpeed 1.2.7 introduces SPDY/3.1 support.[32] Nginx 1.5.10 supports SPDY/3.1.[33]
- Version 4.0: SPDY v4 alpha3 is more closely aligned with the HTTP/2 draft; it has a new stream flow control and error codes unified with the HTTP/2 draft.[34]
Client (browser) support and usage[edit]
- Google Chrome/Chromium.[35][36] SPDY sessions in Chrome can be inspected via the URI:
. There is a command-line switch for Google Chrome (--enable-websocket-over-spdy
) which enables an early, experimental implementation of WebSocket over SPDY.[37] SPDY protocol functionality can be (de)activated by toggling "Enable SPDY/4" setting on localchrome://flags
page. - Firefox supports SPDY 2 from version 11, and default-enabled since 13 and later. (Also SeaMonkey version 2.8+.) SPDY protocol functionality can be (de)activated by toggling the
variable inabout:config
.[8] Firefox 15 added support for SPDY 3.[29] Firefox 27 has added SPDY 3.1 support.[31] Firefox 28 has removed support of SPDY 2.[26]about:networking
(or the SPDY indicator extension) shows if a website uses SPDY. - Opera browser added support for SPDY as of version 12.10.[38]
- Internet Explorer 11 added support for SPDY version 3,[39][40] but not for the Windows 7 version.[41] A problem experienced by some users of Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 is that on initial loading, Google says "Page not found" but on reloading, it is fine. One fix for this is to disable SPDY/3 in Internet Options > Advanced.[42] After version 11, IE will drop the support of SPDY, as it will adopt HTTP/2.[43]
- Amazon's Silk browser for the Kindle Fire uses the SPDY protocol to communicate with their EC2 service for Web page rendering.[44]
- Safari 8 and third-party applications in OS X 10.10 and iOS 8 adds support for SPDY 2, 3 and 3.1.[45]
Server support and usage[edit]
As of November 2014[update], approximately 2.3% of all websites support SPDY.[46]
Some Google services (e.g. Google search, Gmail, and other SSL-enabled services) use SPDY when available.[47] Google's ads are also served from SPDY-enabled servers.[48]
A brief history of SPDY support amongst major web players:
- In Nov, 2009, Google announced SPDY as an internal project to increase the speed of the web.[49]
- In September, 2010, Google releases SPDY in Chrome for all versions of Chrome 6. [50]
- In January, 2011, Google deployed SPDY across all Google services. [51]
- In March 2012, Twitter enabled SPDY on its servers, at the time making it the second largest site known to deploy SPDY.[52]
- In March 2012, the open source Jetty Web Server announced support for SPDY in version 7.6.2 and 8.1.2,[53] while other open source projects were working on implementing support for SPDY, like node.js,[54][55] Apache (mod_spdy),[56] curl,[57] and nginx.[58]
- In April 2012 Google started providing SPDY packages for Apache servers which led some smaller websites to provide SPDY support.[59]
- In May 2012 F5 Networks announced support for SPDY in its BIG-IP application delivery controllers.[60]
- In June 2012 NGINX, Inc. announced support for SPDY in the open source web server Nginx.[61]
- In July 2012 Facebook announced implementation plans for SPDY.[62] By March 2013 SPDY was implemented by some of their public web servers.[63]
- In August 2012 WordPress.com announced support for SPDY (using nginx) across all their hosted blogs.[64]
- In June 2013, LiteSpeed Technologies announced support for SPDY/2 and SPDY/3 on OpenLiteSpeed, their open source HTTP server.[28] Support for SPDY/3.1 was announced November 2013.[32]
- In January 2014, Synology announced SPDY is included in the new DSM 5.0.[65]
- In February 2014, CloudFlare using nginx announced automatic support for SPDY v3.1 for all customers with SSL/TLS certificates.[66]
- In May 2014, MaxCDN using nginx announced support for SPDY v3.1 via customers' Pull Zone settings and their API.[67]
- In October 2014, Yahoo shows support of SPDY on the Yahoo Homepage - www.yahoo.com [68]
According to W3Techs most SPDY-enabled websites use nginx.[69]
See also[edit]
- HTTP pipelining
- HTTP persistent connection
- Microsoft SM
- QUIC – another experimental Google protocol
- Optimized Protocol for Transport of Images to Clients (OPTIC)
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- ^ "Can SPDY really make the web faster?". Retrieved 21 July 2014.
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- ^ "Google Permissions: Guidelines for Third Party Use of Google Brand Features". Google. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
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- ^ Nottingham, Mark. "First draft of HTTP/2". HTTP Working Group Mailing List. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ "SPDY on Google servers?". Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ a b "Mozilla Bug 528288 - Implement SPDY protocol".
- ^ "Opera: Built-in support for the SPDY protocol". Retrieved 2012-11-06.
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- ^ "A 2x Faster Web". Official Google Chromium Blog. 2009-11-11. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
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- ^ a b "SPDY Protocol - Draft 3". Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ Mirko Lindner (13 November 2009). "Google stellt HTTP-Alternative SPDY vor" (in German). Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ Nottingham, Mark. "What's next for HTTP". Retrieved 2012-03-31.
- ^ "Fwd: [new-work] WG Review: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)".
- ^ "HTTPbis Working Group Start To Consider HTTP/2.0". InfoQ. 2012-04-28. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
- ^ "Server Push and Server Hints - The Chromium Projects". Chromium.org. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
- ^ NPN protocol and explanation about its need to tunnel SPDY over HTTPS.
- ^ Openssl 1.0.1 changelog.
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- ^ SPDY Protocol - Draft 2: "Currently, the only valid string is "spdy/2" (spdy/1 isn't implemented anywhere anymore)".
- ^ "Module ngx_http_spdy_module". Nginx.org. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
- ^ a b "Firefox Beta Notes - Desktop". 2014-02-06. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
- ^ "Issue 303957 - chromium - Make Chrome support only SPDY/3 and above - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Google Project Hosting". Code.google.com. 2013-10-03. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ a b c OpenLiteSpeed 1.1 (With SPDY!) Retrieved 2013-08-12.
- ^ a b "Firefox 15 — Release Notes". Retrieved 3 September 2012.
- ^ "SPDY Protocol - Draft 3.1". Retrieved 17 November 2013.
- ^ a b "Firefox Notes Desktop". 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
- ^ a b OpenLiteSpeed 1st Web Server to Support SPDY/3.1! Retrieved 2014-1-10.
- ^ NGINX Announces Support for SPDY/3.1 Retrieved 2014-02-04.
- ^ "Upcoming SPDY/4 changes to bring it more in sync with the HTTP/2 draft". Retrieved 27 February 2014.
- ^ Chromium SPDY client implementation.
- ^ Chromium: SPDY proxy examples.
- ^ List of Chromium Command Line Switches.
- ^ David Honneffer, Documentation Specialist. "Opera: Opera 12.10 Changelog".
- ^ "WebGL, SPDY/3, New Dev Tools, & More Confirmed For IE11 In Win 8.1". Microsoft News.
- ^ "IE11 Changes". Microsoft.
- ^ "Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7".
- ^ "Google not loading first time in IE11 via a web proxy on Windows 8.1? Turn off SPDY support. | The Angry Technician". Angrytechnician.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ Rob Trace, David Walp (October 8, 2014). "HTTP/2: The Long-Awaited Sequel". Microsoft. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
- ^ Ryan Paul (28 September 2011). "Amazon's Silk Web browser adds new twist to old idea". Retrieved 2011-10-21.
- ^ "What's New in Foundation Networking". Apple inc. Retrieved 2014-07-07.
- ^ Both NGINX and Apache offer SPDY support (to complement the above mentioned browser/client support more explicitly) Usage of SPDY for websites.
- ^ spdy-dev mailing list: SPDY on Google servers?.
- ^ Google Speeds Up Web-Page Downloads with SPDY Protocol - Cloud Computing - News & Reviews. eWeek.com (2011-06-20). Retrieved on 2013-11-21.
- ^ "Research Blog: A 2x Faster Web". Research Blog.
- ^ Ido Safruti. "From Fast to SPDY - Velocity 2011".
- ^ "Google Groups".
- ^ Twitter Adopts SPDY.
- ^ Jetty Feature SPDY.
- ^ "indutny/node-spdy · GitHub". Github.com. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
- ^ Fedor Indutny (2012-01-24). "What the $%@! is SPDY - blog.nodejitsu.com - scaling node.js applications one callback at a time". blog.nodejitsu.com. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
- ^ "mod-spdy - Apache SPDY module - Google Project Hosting". Code.google.com. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
- ^ "libspdy". daniel.haxx.se. 2011-10-18. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
- ^ "Welcome to Twitter - Login or Sign up".
- ^ "mod_spdy - mod_spdy — Google Developers". Google. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
- ^ F5 Helps Organizations Improve User Experience and Simplify Management with First Integrated SPDY Gateway | About F5 | F5 Networks. F5.com (2012-05-08). Retrieved on 2013-11-21.
- ^ "Announcing SPDY draft 2 implementation in nginx". Nginx. 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
- ^ Beaver, Doug. "HTTP2 Expression of Interest". W3C. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ Finley, Klint. "Facebook Makes Itself a Bit More SPDY". Wired. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ^ "Just enabled #SPDY for all http://WordPress.com -hosted sites.". 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2012-08-28.
- ^ [1] DSM 5.0 beta
- ^ John Graham-Cumming. "Staying up to date with the latest protocols: SPDY/3.1 | CloudFlare Blog". Blog.cloudflare.com. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ Justin Dorfman. "Now Serving: SPDY 3.1". blog.maxcdn.com. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
- ^ [2] Support of SPDY by Yahoo on www.yahoo.com
- ^ "Distribution of Web Servers among websites that use SPDY".
External links[edit]
- SPDY Documentation
- Real-Time SPDY (HTTPS) Performance Test
- SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP
- SPDY-Whitepaper
- Apache SPDY module
- SPDY Review and Analysis


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Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of Rock and Roll. The change of spelling of Holley to Holly came about because of an error in a contract he was asked to sign, listing him as Buddy Holly. That spelling was then adopted for his professional career. The original spelling of "Holley" was engraved on his headstone (see photo). Buddy Holly is considered one of the founding fathers of rock 'n roll and one of its most influential. Although his career was cut short, his body of work is considered among the best in rock music history and his music would influence not only many of his recording contemporaries, but also the future direction music would take. BiographyHolly turned to rock music after seeing Elvis Presley sing live in Lubbock in early 1955. A few months later, he appeared on the same bill with Presley, also in Lubbock. Holly's transition to rock was finalized when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets at a local rock show organized by Eddie Crandall, who was also the manager for Marty Robbins. As a result of this performance, Holly was offered a contract with Decca Records to work alone, which he accepted. According to the Amburn book (p.45), his public name changed from "Holley" to "Holly" on February 8, 1956, when he signed the Decca contract. Among the tracks recorded for Decca was an early version of "That'll Be The Day", which took its title from a phrase that John Wayne's character said repeatedly in the 1956 film, The Searchers. Back in Lubbock, Holly formed his own band, The Crickets, and began making records at Norman Petty's studios in Clovis, New Mexico. Among the songs they recorded was what became the hit version of "That'll Be the Day". Norman had music industry contacts, and believing that "That'll Be the Day" would be a hit single, he contacted publishers and labels. Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed Buddy Holly and The Crickets. This put Buddy in the unusual position of having two record contracts at the same time. Before "That'll Be The Day" had its nationwide release and became a smash hit, Holly played lead guitar on the hit-single "Starlight", recorded in April 1957, featuring Jack Huddle. The initial, unsuccessful version of "That'll Be The Day" played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the hit version. Holly's music was sophisticated for its day, including the use of instruments considered novel for rock and roll, such as the celesta (heard on "Everyday"). Holly was an influential lead and rhythm guitarist, notably on songs such as "Peggy Sue" and "Not Fade Away". While Holly could pump out boy-loves-girl songs with the best of his contemporaries, other songs featured more sophisticated lyrics and more complex harmonies and melodies than had previously appeared in the genre. Many of his songs feature a unique vocal "hiccup" technique, a clipped "uh" sound used to emphasize certain words in any given song, especially the rockers. Other singers have used a similar technique, though less obviously and consistently. An example is the start of the raucous "Rave On": "Weh-UH-eh-UH-ell, the little things you say and do, make me want to be with you-UH-ou...". Or this, from "That'll Be the Day": "Well, you give me all your lovin' and your UH-turtle dovin'..." Holly also managed to bridge some of the racial divide that marked rock, notably winning over an all-black audience when accidentally booked at New York's Apollo Theater (though, unlike the fictional movie biography, it took several performances for audiences to be convinced of his talents). After the release of several, highly successful songs, in March 1958, he and the Crickets toured the United Kingdom. Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a concert of Buddy Holly's, though a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, Tony Bramwell, did so. Bramwell met Holly, and freely shared his records with all three. Lennon and McCartney later cited Holly as a primary influence (their band's name, The Beatles, was later chosen partly in homage to Holly's Crickets). The Beatles did a cover version of "Words of Love" that was an almost perfect reproduction of Holly's version. The Rolling Stones covered "Not Fade Away". The group, The Hollies, were conventionally thought to have been named in homage, and various rock and roll histories have asserted this as fact. According to the band's website, [1] although the group admired Buddy Holly (and years later produced an album covering some of his songs), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962, when they re-formed their previous band (the Deltas) and had to come up with a new name. The site also admits to a degree of uncertainty about that story, so it is possible that they have disavowed any reference to Holly in order to avoid legal or copyright issues. Holly's personal style, more controlled and cerebral than Elvis' and more youthful and innovative than the country and western stars of his day, would have an influence on youth culture on both sides of the Atlantic for decades to come, reflected particularly in the New Wave movement in artists such as Elvis Costello and Marshall Crenshaw (who portrayed Holly in the Richie Valens biopic La Bamba), and earlier in folk rock bands like The Byrds and The Turtles. He married Maria Elena Santiago on August 15, 1958. In 1959, Holly split with the Crickets and began a solo tour with other notable performers, including Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, "The Big Bopper". DeathAlthough the crash received a good deal of local coverage, it was displaced in the national news by an accident that occurred the same day in New York City, when American Airlines Flight 320 crashed during an instrument landing approach at LaGuardia Airport. In that crash, 65 died and 8 survived. Holly's funeral services were held at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, and his body was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery. Holly's headstone carries the correct spelling of his name, Buddy Holley. It also features a carving of his Fender Stratocaster guitar. Downtown Lubbock has a "walk of fame" with plaques to various area artists such as Mac Davis and Waylon Jennings, with a life-size statue of Buddy, playing his Fender guitar, as its centerpiece. The tragic plane crash inspired Mike Berry & The Outlaws' single Tribute To Buddy Holly (1961), and singer Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad "American Pie", and immortalized February 3 as "The Day the Music Died". Contrary to popular myth, "American Pie" was not the name of the ill-fated plane. The plane had no name, only a registration number N3794N. The Surf Ballroom, a popular and old-fashioned dance hall that dates to the height of Big Band Era, continues to put on shows, notably an annual Buddy Holly tribute on the anniversary of his last performances. TributesIn 1988, Ken Paquette, a Wisconsin fan of the 1950s, erected a stainless steel monument depicting a steel guitar and a set of three records bearing the names of each of the three performers. It is located on private farmland, about one quarter mile west of the intersection of 315th Street and Gull Avenue, approximately five miles north of Clear Lake. He also created a similar stainless steel monument to the three musicians near the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay, Wisconsin. That memorial was unveiled on July 17, 2003. The dramatic arc of Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biography The Buddy Holly Story, for which actor Gary Busey received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Holly, as well as successful Broadway and West End musicals documenting his career. The West End musical, Buddy, ran for seven years. The movie, while entertaining, received wide criticism from the rock community for its wild inaccuracies. This led Paul McCartney to produce and host his own tribute to Holly, titled "The Real Buddy Holly Story." This authoritative video includes interviews with Keith Richards, Phil and Don Everly, Sonny Curtis, Jerry Allison, Holly's family, and McCartney himself, among others. The science fiction novel Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede, by Bradley Denton (ISBN 0-688-10822-9 and ISBN 0-380-71876-6), begins when television sets throughout the world suddenly begin broadcasting a concert by an apparently living Buddy Holly, who says he is on Ganymede. Terry Pratchett's novel Soul Music features a protagonist whose name, Imp Y Cellyn, translates to "Buddy Holly". "Oil", an episode of The Young Ones features Mike (Christopher Ryan) discovering Buddy Holly, alive and well and tangled in parachutes, in the attic of a house in London. Holly comments that he loves "your British beetles", as he has been eating them since the plane crash. Mike asks Holly if he has come up with any new material, and Holly plays a brief song about eating crickets...then his parachute strap suddenly breaks, slamming him into the floor and killing him. Mike later hands off a duffel bag containing Holly's corpse to two minor characters, asking them to "take care of my Buddy." A fictional version of a young pre-fame Buddy Holly appears in an episode of Quantum Leap, working as a veterinarian's assistant. Buddy is also one of the evil citizens that exists in the town of "Rock N' Roll Heaven", a community inhabited by deceased music legends in Stephen King's short horror story You Know They Got a Hell of a Band. He was portrayed by Australian actor Kristian Schmid in the television version on the Nightmares & Dreamscapes television mini-series. The 1998 film "Six-String Samurai," a surreal romp through an alternate-timeline post-apocalyptic America (Russia bombed and then invaded the United States in 1957), features a rock-and-rolling martial arts hero named "Buddy" who sports familiar black horn-rimmed glasses and a tuxedo. The film follows Buddy's journey to "Lost Vegas", the last outpost of freedom in the world, to claim the crown of the recently-deceased King Elvis. Buddy Holly was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its formation in 1986. His pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. The Smithereens' song "Maria Elena" is a Buddy Holly tribute as sung to his widow. On the infamous Gunfight at Carnegie Hall album, Phil Ochs famously sang a long tribute to Buddy Holly, while dressed in an uncharacteristic shiny gold suit. The album also includes a long Elvis Presley medley. Paul Simon's song "Old" references his early influences, including Buddy Holly, including the line "Buddy Holly still goes on, but his catalog was sold." The Dixie Chicks recently recorded the song "Lubbock or Leave It" which references Buddy Holly's death by airplane crash, and the statue that was erected in his hometown after his death. In an interview with Alan Freed, Holly and Freed mentions Cricket bass player Joe Mauldin's nickname "Joe Buy-Us", as in "Go buy us a coke". This was replayed in the TV series Arrested Development, where the character GOB (George Oscar Bluth) decides to start up a business with his brother-in-law Tobias in a collaboration named "Gobias Industries", which will deal in the sale of coffee. They then proceed to explain their reasoning behind the name, "Gobias, as in 'go buy us' a coffee". Of the trio of musicians who died in the crash, he was the one mentioned in Billy Joel's history themed song "We Didn't Start the Fire". In Pulp Fiction, Steve Buscemi plays a Buddy Holly lookalike waiter that serves John Travolta and Uma Thurman. The comic maxiseries Batman: The Long Halloween features a character named Alberto Falcone, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Buddy Holly. In a Simpsons episode, "Colonel Homer", the manager of the recording studio fondly recalled how "Buddy Holly stood on this spot in 1958 and said, 'There is no way in hell, I am gonna record in this dump.'" 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Peeps on the Kansas City Chiefs facebook page are saying it was Jovan Belcher.
From CBSSports.com: Chiefs player kills himself outside stadium; police investigating two shootings By Jason La Canfora | CBS Sports NFL Insider Dec. 1, 2012 11:03 AM ET A Kansas City Chiefs player fatally shot himself Saturday morning, according to Kansas City, Mo., police. A team source told CBSSports.com that linebacker Jovan Belcher was involved in a shooting at the Chiefs' practice facility. Kansas City police supervisor Andrea Khan could not identify the player but said the first shooting happened in a Kansas City, Mo., neighborhood and the second happened at Arrowhead Stadium, about five miles away, at about 8 a.m. Saturday. The Chiefs are scheduled to host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. Panthers interim general manager said the league has told the team to travel to Kansas City as scheduled, according to the Charlotte Observer. The Chiefs issued a statement that said, "We can confirm that there was an incident at Arrowhead earlier this morning. We are cooperating with authorities in their investigation." http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/2...-two-shootings Thoughts and prayers to their families and the Kansas City Chiefs. |
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I added Shootings to the title.
So far they aren't saying which player it is for sure. |
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610 Sports Radio- KC @610SportsKC Kansas City MO Police is now confirming that #Chiefs player Jovan Belcher is the player who shot and killed himself in what's being investigated as a murder-suicide. Facebook pics of Belcher, his girlfriend and new baby https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...28911258_n.jpg |
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Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher this morning shot and killed his girlfriend before going to Arrowhead Stadium and fatally shooting himself as team personnel tried to stop him, police said. Police Capt. David Lindaman said Belcher, 25, and his girlfriend, 22, got into an argument around 7 a.m. at their home in the 5400 block of Crysler Avenue in Kansas City. Around 7:50 a.m., Lindaman said, Belcher shot his girlfriend multiple times. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Lindaman said Belcher's mother, who was visiting the couple and their 3-month-old daughter, witnessed the shooting and was being interviewed by police. Belcher left the scene on Crysler and went to the Chiefs practice facility at Arrowhead, police said. Police were called to the stadium around 8:10 a.m. When Belcher arrived there he encountered General Manager Scott Pioli, Coach Romeo Crennel and other team personnel. Police said Chiefs staff attempted to keep Belcher from committing additional acts of violence. When police arrived, they heard a gunshot and found that Belcher had shot himself in the head. |
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My heart goes out to their beautiful daughter who, today, lost both her parents. So tragic. :sadness:
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crime of passion?...doesn't sound premeditated, what with his mom standing there witnessing the murder
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Probably, Killer. It happened between 7:00-8:00 AM. I wonder if he was out all night. His poor mother. I'm sure more details regarding his state of mind will come out if/when her statements are made public.
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my God how sickening. Such a tragedy he had to take the mother of his child with him. I don't care what she might have done, if anything at all, to provoke his rage.. That's just so unnecessary and sad.
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Better late than never, I suppose. We just got back from Homosassa where we had dinner. There's a little dive type place that has the best--and I do mean best--fresh from the Gulf shrimp you've ever tasted. You buy it by the (very generous) pound. We each had a pound. Not many sides to choose from, but really, that shrimp is all a person wants. That and an ice cold beer (which is like a dollar each--Sam Adams is $2). The place was packed so we had to eat inside. I much prefer the tiki bar out on the water. We all came home happy and very full! It was a fun afternoon. What did you/are you having for dinner? |
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I had a fried hotdog and chips. |
I like shrimp but not sure I could eat a whole pound at once. Give me a side salad and that would be enough for me. I had some meatballs in the freezer. I added them to some doctored pork n beans. Had a potato to go with it. This used to be one of my families favorite meals. Shirley |
Ohhh what a way to eat shrimp! I'm drooling! Johnny's Ray's BBQ: chopped pork mixed with no sauce, Picked up friend and went to Yogurt Twist and I had salted caramel frozen yogurt in a cup. So good! patti, will you please share your French potato salad recipe? |
- Posted by YogaLady1948 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 13, 13 at 18:50
Thai take out;) |
- Posted by hounds_x_two (My Page) on Sat, Apr 13, 13 at 19:06
Salad Baby greens, cucumber, cherry tomato, green onion, garbanzo beans, fat free feta, bacon bits and vinegar & oil dressing. |
Kayjones, fried hot dogs--another one of those good things I'd forgotten about. I used to split them in half lengthwise and put cheese on them. So good! Shirley, come down and we'll go have shrimp--betcah' you'll eat the whole pound. I ate all but 4. Ususally when we go out, if I order shrimp I may eat 5, but these are so fresh and so good you just can't stop eating them. I think they steam them, but I don't know for sure. They have the shells on and seasonings which are red and spicy, but not too spicy (sure make your hands messy, which is why they have rolls of paper towels on the tables instead of napkins). How is your sister feeling? Glenda, we both love chopped BBQ pork. I don't like sauce either. That sounds terrific. I've never had salted caramel, either. But it seems to be really popular now. Here's the French potato salad. The kids have had it for lunch every day :-) Instead of cooking the bacon I used a packet of those real bacon bits (mine were Primrose brand). French Potato Salad 2 lb. small red new potatoes Dressing: Boil potatoes until just tender. Drain and cut into small chunks. Place in salad bowl with remaining salad ingredients. Combine dressing ingredients, mix well and toss with warm potatoes. Salad should marinate in dressing for several hours in refrigerate. YogaLady, you're sooooo smart!! Hounds, your healthy dinner puts me to shame. It sounds really refreshing, too. |
Thank you! I might make that for Mother's Day! |
Mexican stuffed peppers and a fruit salad. |
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Had a ham bone, so put that and navy beans in the crockpot this morning. It was very good and now I'm having a glass of riesling before I go to bed. We have a horrendous snow storm coming our way, so the bean soup will be good to have. |
Kittiemom, is the filling more like a taco flavoring? Is there rice in it? It sounds good. Oh gosh, Phyllis--more snow??? Stay safe and warm. I can't believe it's snowing in the middle of April!! |
Waiting for hubby to bring home chicken tacos al carbon, some pico and rice! I am hungry! |
- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Sat, Apr 13, 13 at 22:03
We went to 5 guys burgers and fries for the first time ever. I would agree with what I have heard very good indeed. I didn't know that the burger was a double meat, Omg huge. Great fries too. I have lots of fries left. Boy I would have been right there with you eating a lb of those shrimp. I love them and I like them hot not on ice, good and spicy. Willies here does them good and they are jumbos. |
Yoghurt chicken, sauteed new potatoes, asparagus and salad. Pretty yummy. |
Hubby's gone for a week so I don't have to cook much. Yea!! Love the break but I will be happy to cook once again when he gets home. I made him ham salad and chicken salad so I have been eating this.. |
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FOXBORO — "I can't put into place an entire plan for the team at this point in time," head coach Bill Belichick said on Monday morning. "There's just not enough information; it's too early."
Too early? Belichick may not be ready to diagnose the Patriots' needs this offseason, but there's nothing stopping us.
In the wake of a deflating home playoff loss, the temptation is to blanket the roster with blame. But let's be honest: The Patriots went 12-4. They received a first-round bye for the third consecutive season. They led the league in points scored and point differential.
They are not in need of an overhaul.
But being honest here means admitting the flaws in the team's construction that were exposed at times throughout the 2012 season — and most significantly on Sunday.
Here's what the Patriots' priorities should be as they count down the days to training camp:
Fix the secondary
New England's pass defense has been its primary weakness for the past several seasons. The Patriots have been able to mask that problem most of the time by either outscoring opponents or coming through with key turnovers. But in their last three playoff losses, the Patriots haven't forced a single turnover.
The midseason acquisition of Aqib Talib was a big step toward alleviating the problems in the secondary.
The Pats received a reminder of just how integral Talib was to their defense on Sunday. After the corner suffered a first-quarter injury, the Ravens exploited his absence — and the lack of depth in the Patriots' defensive backfield — by spreading New England out with three-wide sets. It created a series of mismatches: Kyle Arrington on Torrey Smith, Marquice Cole on Anquan Boldin in the slot and a linebacker on receiving tight end Dennis Pitta.
If Baltimore — a team that doesn't often go with a spread formation and whose third wide receiver is either Jacoby Jones or Taylor Doss — could take control of the game in that spot, imagine what more explosive offenses can do next year.
Talib is an unrestricted free agent, and it makes sense for both sides to engage in conversation.
Arrington is an unrestricted free agent, as well. Even if both are brought back, the Patriots have to look to acquire additional depth. Injuries in the secondary plague every team; the Ravens, for instance, are headed to the Super Bowl despite the loss of top corner Lardarius Webb, precisely because Cary Williams, Corey Graham and Jimmy Smith proved to be capable options.
New England can't enter the season without depth beyond its season-opening nickelback.
Furthermore, the Patriots need to diagnose why their cornerbacks seem to be taking steps back in development. A Pro Bowl corner as a rookie, Devin McCourty is now a safety. A reliable starter in 2011, Arrington was out of his element on the outside in 2012. The hope is that promising rookie Alfonzo Dennard doesn't follow that track.
Finally, New England needs to make a decision on McCourty; he can't shift back and forth much longer. Given an entire offseason and training camp at safety, he could become the kind of playmaker in the back end that the Patriots have lacked since the departure of Asante Samuel.
Augment the pass rush
The easiest way to assist the secondary is by speeding up the quarterback's decision-making and release with the pass rush. The Patriots had an encouraging season in that regard: Rookie Chandler Jones had six sacks, and Rob Ninkovich emerged with eight of his own.
Even so, New England finished in the middle of the NFL pack — 17th to be exact — with 37 sacks. On Sunday, the Pats' inability to get to quarterback Joe Flacco allowed him to pick apart the secondary in the second half. Flacco was sacked twice on the afternoon — both by Ninkovich — and it's perhaps no coincidence that both sacks led to three-and-outs by the Baltimore offense.
An additional pass rusher, even to slot into the line on third-down passing situations or with Ninkovich sliding back some of the time to linebacker, could take New England's defense to another level.
(Although Jones wore down as the season went on, there is considerable hope for his future. It isn't uncommon for pass rushers to make leaps in production in their second season. Just this season, Aldon Smith jumped from 14 to 19.5 sacks, and Von Miller went from 11.5 to 18.5. Last year, Jason Pierre-Paul improved from four sacks in his rookie year to 16.5.)
Give Tom Brady more options
For the most part, the Patriots' offense isn't a problem. They have the best tight-end tandem in the league, and the running game made critical strides with Stevan Ridley in the backfield this season.
But even after signing Brandon Lloyd last summer and bringing Donte' Stallworth, Deion Branch and Jabar Gaffney to training camp, New England still found itself shallow in the wide receiving corps.
Stallworth, Branch and Gaffney were all cut at some point during the year — the first two were brought back. Lloyd had a nice season, but he didn't provide the deep threat the Patriots have lacked since Randy Moss was traded.
Regardless of what the Patriots do with free agent Wes Welker, adding a third wideout — and preferably one with speed to burn — would give Brady a different kind of weapon to work with.
The Patriots were a home win from their second consecutive trip to the Super Bowl; they aren't far off.
But there are tangible reasons they'll be spending next week at home rather than New Orleans.
"We have a great foundation as far as young guys getting the experience of a long season," Ninkovich said Monday. "Having a full offseason with those guys is going to help us. Our future is definitely bright."


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Z100 Pussycat Dolls Exclusive!
Last night, Rachel and I went backstage at the Z100 Jingle Ball to interview the Pussycat Dolls for all you CG!s. We waited outside the On3 Productions Artist Gift Lounge (where all the celebs go to get cool free stuff before/after the show, like a Canon PowerShot SD40 Digital ELPH Camera, BRATZ Fashion Pixiez Dolls, Dooney and Burke All Weather Leather Roller bags, HairDo Clip-In Extensions, H&M winter outfits, etc.) and there are all these girls dressed in black who walk around with the celeb and hold all their swag (they're called handlers). While we waited there, a little boy went up to the group of six girls (all with different hair color) and asked for them to sign his backstage pass...he thought they were the Pussycat Dolls! So cute!
Anyway, the girls should be flattered because once we actually saw the Pussycat Dolls, I couldn't believe how gorgeous they are in person. They're even prettier than in their videos! I walked around the gift lounge with Nicole Scherzinger, Melody Thornton and Carmit Bachar as they took photos of themselves with all the fun presents. At one stand, there was a Johnny Depp impersonator dressed up like his character in Pirates of the Caribbean for the Zizzle action figures and everyone who walked by would think it was really Johnny Depp. When Nicole got to that table, she handed me her camera and asked me to take a shot of them together and laughed, "Take a picture because this is the closest I'll ever get to Johnny Depp!"
Check the site for that shot and more soon!
Cheryl (associate editor)


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This student-led service is designed to bring attention and focus on a time of worship and communion for all who attend.
"While this is planned and programmed by and for Lee students, we welcome anyone from the community that would like to join us in this time of worship through music and sharing of the Lord's Supper," said U-Church Director Josh York.
The theme of the evening is personal revival. This theme is based upon Isaiah 57:15, "For this is what the high and exalted One says — He who lives forever, whose name is holy: 'I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.'"
Seating for U-Church events is first come, first serve.
Free childcare is available for all who attend.
The service is a free, non-ticketed event, and the community is welcome to attend. The doors will open at 7 p.m.
For more information about childcare, please contact Christie Wyatt at cwyatt@leeuniversity. edu.