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I've uploaded DragonFly 4.0.6 ISO and .img files. (Does that capitalization make sense?) They should be available at your nearest mirror, or will be shortly. I am still working on the 4.2 release candidate images.
Category: DragonFly
DragonFly 4.0.6 image up
DragonFly 4.2 and 4.0.6 branched
The more eagle-eyed may have noticed a branching for DragonFly 4.2, and for DragonFly 4.0.6. The 4.2 branch is currently only a release candidate, so don't necessarily change over yet – it's for testing, not release.
Note that packages for 4.2 are not yet built, so you'll have to manually specify a package path to install with pkg on 4.2 – for now.. That won't be the case for the actual release, of course. DragonFly 4.3 users will have to specify PKG_PATH manually to use 4.2 images until new ones are built. 4.2 release candidate users will be fine. (see comments for correction.)
The 4.0.6 release is mostly to get the recent OpenSSL update into a 4.0.x build.
I am working on image building for both.
BSDNow 093: Stacked in Our Favor
This week's BSDNow has a talk with DragonFly's very own Sepherosa Ziehau, about the huge amount of work he's done on the network stack.
Thinking about a 4k monitor?
Matthew Dillon's already using a 4K monitor on DragonFly, and he's written notes on the various performance tweaks that went with it.
Video memory defaults changed
The direct memory access reservation on DragonFly has been set to 128M. It used to be 16, but anyone using a system for more than a text console would want the greater memory reservation. It can be set back to 16M, which is useful probably if you are one of those text console users, or if you have a strangely underpowered video card.
Eventually everything goes SMP
Even sysctl accesses can be made to handle multiprocessor environments. This can actually make a difference when you've got a lot of processors building a lot of software, as in all of dports.
Sudden buildkernel improvements
From IRC today:
"19:43 <@dillon> I'm bored at the moment. lemme try to speed up module builds"
Buildkernel, depending on your processor count, now may have tripled in speed.
KMS/console in master for DragonFly
Those changes I mentioned yesterday for text console support? They're in DragonFly-master now, along with a loader tunable to turn it on and off.
USB ethernet adapters and DragonFly
Accelerated video users, please try this
If you are using a DragonFly system with accelerated video, and you have noticed that you can't return to a text console after exiting xorg – Sascha Wildner/Imre Vadasz have a branch for you to try. Please do so if you have time and are on master; this is the last big item to fix before the next release.
Radeon readings rendered reachable
You can now get temperature readings from your Radeon card under DragonFly.
Radeon updates
Nginx and DragonFly
If you're using nginx on DragonFly, version 1.9.1 has specific DragonFly speedup options built in.
In Other BSDs for 2015/05/30
A short but more interesting list this week, I think.
- ZFS Mastery is out in print and electronic versions.
- BSD management with Puppet.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/25.
- Dell Networking OS 9 powered by NetBSD.
- Lumina Desktop Status Update/FAQ.
- PC-BSD 10.1.2: an Interview with Kris Moore.
- A FreeBSD Foundation visit to the (a?) NYI datacenter.
- "Patrol Read" support in OpenBSD.
- syslog-ng and ELK on OpenBSD.
- Yay for compatibility!
- The Linuxulator on FreeBSD now does 1:1 threads and x86_64.
- See this "Low Cost 10G Router" post on NANOG? Follow the very long thread, and you'll notice a reoccurring theme: set up a BSD machine.
- Bitrig at NYCBUG on 2015/05/06, video.
Your Not BSD link of the week: Never fix anything.
More Hammer 2 improvements
Hammer 2 now uses LZ4 compression by default. It also uses a new CRC algorithm that performs much better, and there's numbers to prove it. It helps iSCSI too. When I say new, it appears to be from the 1980s? I may be looking at the wrong place.
Is your serial weird?
There's a new 'ifconsole' option for /etc/ttys on DragonFly that may help you if your serial output device is a bit strange.
Recent Hammer2 work
Matthew Dillon has been doing a lot of Hammer 2 work lately. Well, he's been doing it for quite some time, but the recent commits contain the sort of things that are easier to link to, like deletion speedups, freemap changes, and stats tracking/compression results.
Recent dragonfly-master users: update
If you were running a version of DragonFly 4.1 (i.e. the master version, not release) built between the 20th and 25th, rebuild. There's a UFS bug introduced in that short timeframe.
If you are running 4.0.x release or built your version of DragonFly-master outside of that date range – you are unaffected.
Haswell +, power–
A recent commit from Matthew Dillon means users of Intel Haswell or later CPUs will see reduced power usage, if I'm reading this commit correctly.
Hammer abort-cleanup added
Hammer will perform daily housekeeping tasks each night. If you're up late enough, it may kick off while you are working. If you want to stop the process after it's already started (since it's disk-intensive), John Marino has added the 'abort-cleanup' command.
A scanning tip
Automatic encryption of swap
Experimental automatic crypting of swap is now available in DragonFly-master. Recently added, though it may have been possible another way.
A leaf falls, briefly
leaf.dragonflybsd.org, where the DragonFly website is hosted, is temporarily down while a disk is replaced. Images and binary packages are still available.
Minnowboard and DragonFly
This may not be a huge surprise, but the Minnowboard MAX can run DragonFly just fine, modulo some dmesg complaints.
Shut up ARP
Sepherosa Ziehau has introduced a new sysctl:
Set this to zero and you won't get endless ARP events from networks you aren't on. For example, I'm hooked up to a cable modem. I only get a public routable IP address, but the network used for the cable modem network itself bleeds ARP packets out where my DragonFly machine can see it. Since it's on a different network segment than the address I receive through DHCP, it always fails and the system logs it. For example:
May 11 05:20:52 www kernel: arplookup 22.214.171.124 failed: host is not on local network
I can't do much about it since that layer 2 leakiness is going to happen, but I can shut it up with this sysctl – and thank goodness, cause I've been seeing these messages since first using a DOCSIS modem in… 2001 or so?
Broadwell support, other video changes
Francois Tigeot has committed his Broadwell work, which has a longer-than-I-realized list of benefits. Does anyone have a 4k screen to try?
DragonFly server and desktop
Jesse Wattenbarger wrote in with his success story of switching to DragonFly, both for server and desktop. Of note is his noticeable speedup with swapcache.
More Intel video testing
If you're running DragonFly-master and you have an Intel video chipset, Francois Tigeot has an update for you. It brings accelerated Intel video up to match the Linux 3.14 version, adds Broadwell chipset support, and should generally improve performance. He lists how to test right in the message.
Hammer spreads via GSoC
DragonFly committer Joris Giovannangeli has a Google Summer of Code project. He's bringing Hammer2 to OpenBSD, in single-node form. It's a very difficult project, but Joris is a very talented worker.
Reblock all the things!
Tomohiro Kusumi has been quietly making a lot of commits to Hammer. I haven't been linking them because they don't necessarily equate to new features, but here's an recent exception: the -A argument will make your Hammer command run on every PFS. It only affects reblocking/rebalancing – for now.
In Other BSDs for 2015/04/25
It's been a relatively calm week, for once.
- New Delhi has a BSD user group. (via)
- PC-BSD and 4K — Oh my!
- Is nvidia the best option for gaming on FreeBSD?
- EuroBSDCon 2015 has extended the time for paper submission, cause they have so much to work through.
- Hipster keyboard layout on NetBSD
- The pkgsrc-security GPG key has changed.
- Binary packages of pkgsrc-2015Q1 for illumos and OS X are available.
- I like cross–pollination.
- PC-BSD can now restore encrypted volumes over iSCSI.
- Two more mentions of OpenBSD (though any should work) on Vultr.
- Better OpenBSD performance on KVM via x2apic mode.
- OpenBSD rolls their own file(1).
- OpenBSD has W^X support for i386 userland now.
- 2-factor authorization on FreeBSD. (via)
- My switch to OpenBSD, first impressions (via)
- Microsoft .NET Running on FreeBSD 10.1/amd64 (via)
NFS and Hammer slaves
You can now export Hammer slave volumes as NFS mounts – but since slave volumes are updated from master, you're mounting a snapshot of that point in time. That may actually be an advantage.
Building only one compiler
DragonFly builds two compilers by default. If you weren't interesting in building both, there were switches to build only the default, like NO_GCC47. This changed with every compiler update.
With the switch to GCC 5, the new switch is "NO_ALTCOMPILER". That will last through compiler changes. I'm mentioning this now because sooner or later, you'll want to gain back some time on a buildworld.
GCC 5 released, switched
DragonFly now has GCC 5.1 release. If you are running DragonFly master (i.e. 4.1), you'll probably want to both rebuild world and kernel, and update your packages so they all match. There's already packages built with GCC 5.1, so binary package upgrades can happen quickly. There's GCC 4.7 packages still available if you aren't making the jump yet.
If you're on DragonFly 4.0.x – nothing's changed.
CPU, RAM temperature monitoring
I'm late posting about these, but they go together: Sepherosa Ziehau has added the ability to read CPU temperature through various sysctls, and the same for DIMM temperature readings.
Broadwell guidance
Matthew Dillon bought a system with a Broadwell series CPU, installed DragonFly, and wrote up his experience. Read it if you plan on purchasing this hardware any time soon.
Extra reading on page coloring
Here's some comments from Matthew Dillon on page coloring in DragonFly; a topic that comes up every year for some reason.
GCC 5.1 release candidate added
The release candidate for GCC5 (5.1.0) is out, and it's in DragonFly too. It's not yet switched over to run as the default – that'll require the release.
Changing to gcc 5.0
The default compiler in DragonFly is going to change over from GCC 4.7 to GCC 5.x very soon, to match the GCC 5.1 release. This means that packages built for DragonFly-master won't be compatible with the old ones. You will need to reinstall packages when you next 'pkg install'. John Marino has an extensive writeup detailing what's needed, and the actual change is some days off.
If you are using DragonFly 4.0.x (the release), this doesn't affect you at all.
i915 update to try
Francois Tigeot has a new update to the drm/i915 driver for testing. It matches, feature-wise, what's in Linux 3.12. Try it if you've got the hardware. (and dragonfly-master)
Periodic reports on DragonFly
I have had trouble with my daily/weekly periodic reports never making it to my GMail account. Sascha Wildner pointed out to me that periodic.conf has its own answer already:
… and newsyslog is already set to take care of them. There's more in the periodic.conf man page.
DragonFly on Vultr
There's been some linking to the updated HAMMER2 design document. The Reddit link doesn't have anything specific, but the Hacker News one has some details (including a credit code!) for installing DragonFly on a Vultr VPS.
Mars time, too
Noticed in the most recent time zone data update for DragonFly: some people keep Mars time.
ACPICA update for DragonFly
The most recent (well, this is the mostest recent) update of ACPICA for DragonFly, by Sascha Wildner, is different from the usual import: it happens to include actual upstream support for DragonFly
BSDNow 084: pkg remove freebsd-update
This week's BSDNow talks with Baptiste Daroussin about developing and using pkg, for ports and for packaging the base FreeBSD system. (Baptiste has been seen on #dragonflybsd, since pkg is on DragonFly, so I'm sure there's some relevant bits there, too.) There's also the usual news summary.
Hammer and Hammer2 details
I haven't been drawing enough attention to it, but there's been a bunch of HAMMER filesystem activity lately: First, Tomohiro Kusumi has been working on HAMMER – these posts are a small subset of his commits. Second, Matthew Dillon has been working full steam ahead on HAMMER2. The HAMMER2 design document has been updated (read this!), and he's already accomplished master->slave disk syncing.
It's not ready for production, of course, which you may already realize, so don't install it unless you want to work on the code.
In Other BSDs for 2015/04/04
If you're part of a BSD user group, please let me know your schedule. I'm able to catch NYCBUG announcements cause I'm on their announce@ mailing list – but I could use more.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/30.
- Lumina 0.8.3 is released.
- Building PC-BSD Utilities From Source. (video)
- BSD Magazine for March.
- Directly building FreeBSD AMI images.
- FreeBSD daily status reports, a little more human-readable.
- 4 new commands in FreeBSD DDB.
- The FreeBSD boot loader can now take your GELI passphrase.
- A probably definitive answer on OpenBSD and clang.
- pf tables mean no reloading.
- BSD contributor Paul Schenkveld has died.
- If you are in the UK, there's a mini OpenBSD ports hackathon happening now.
- NetBSD systems can now resize / on reboot, if space is available.
- LibreSSL in pkgsrc, soon.
- NYCBUG's next meeting is April 8th, with Christos Zoulas presenting blacklistd.
Info pages gone
Do you use info pages? Yeah, me neither. John Marino's removed or converted the various info pages already in DragonFly, and removed texinfo since it's no longer required. (I've linked to a few examples, but there were a number more commits than this.)
Blue bug, new shell
The default .cshrc in DragonFly has had some changes, which shouldn't be anything but handy… assuming you are using tcsh. Also: the loader menu defaults to a blue Fred, now.
New binutils, faster build
In the process of committing binutils 2.25 to DragonFly, John Marino also broke its build into parallel parts and removed the build of the gold linker. Buildworlds should be noticeably faster now, though I don't have a before/after.
New wireless documentation
John Marino's written an extensive page about wireless and DragonFly, on dragonflybsd.org.
Keymap details
If you're looking to change your DragonFly system's keymapping to support a non-US character set, use this users@ post from Adolf Augustin as a cheat sheet to make all the right changes.
Clustering and copies in HAMMER2
Matthew Dillon answered some mailing list questions on how clustering and data copies will work in HAMMER2 – no due date, of course, because this is very complex. If you're really into it, there's always watching the recent commits.
New locking and synchronization docs
Matthew Dillon has rewritten the Locking and Synchronization documentation for DragonFly. Keep this in mind the next time you say "Which lock should I use for this new software/ported software?" There's also locking(9).
A PHP upgrade note
The other day, I updated some packages using pkg. The default version of PHP went from 5.4 to 5.6. I ended up doing what /usr/dports/UPGRADING says and making a list of all PHP packages on my system, before removing PHP and its dependencies. I then reinstalled the packages that used PHP, bringing the needed packages back in at the right version. pkg 1.4 didn't handle the transition cleanly, unfortunately. I also had to specify mod_php56 because pkg was trying to get the 5.4 version despite it not being default.
None of these are insurmountable problems, but it never hurts to be forewarned. pkg 1.5 is on the horizon and may have an easier time with sorting these types of dependency/version changes. This may apply to FreeBSD in addition to DragonFly.
DragonFly 4.0.5 out
I've tagged version 4.0.5 of DragonFly, and it's available at your nearest mirror. This revision is mostly to incorporate the newest OpenSSL security bump.
New OpenSSL so new point release
OpenSSL has yet another security update, and Sascha Wildner has added it to DragonFly. It probably justifies a 4.0.5 release, so I'll be working on that.
New sshlockout option
As a side effect of the new ipfw3 import, the sshlockout script included with DragonFly now has -pf and -ipfw options.
SSD and book recommendations
Some recent users threads pointed at SSD wear stats, along with what Matthew Dillon has seen on dragonflybsd.org machines, and good filesystem books.
New ipfw in DragonFly
Bill Yuan's work on a new ipfw has been committed, and for clarity, called "ipfw3".
Extra world messages
Next time you're building or installing world on your DragonFly system (running master), your computer will do a better job letting you know the status.
USB update
Matthew Dillon pulled in a new USB update from FreeBSD to DragonFly. What does it change? I'm not completely sure, but he did it to get apcupsd working, so that may be a hint.
HDMI sound trick
If you have a HDMI-connected monitor, but no sound, this trick about increasing available memory may help.
DragonFly 4.0.4 out
DragonFly 4.0 has had a minor point release, to 4.0.4. There was a bug in the initial install where the rescue image installed on disk would be incorrect. This was fixed after the first time a build/installworld was done, but might as well have it start out right. There's some other small fixes, and the release commit will show you the summary. Download from your nearest mirror or update normally.
Sendmail removed, DMA added
John Marino has removed Sendmail from DragonFly (as part of the base system), and replaced it with DMA, the DragonFly Mail Agent. If you just need delivery to local users, DMA will do the trick.
The announcement message covers what you need to do to deal with it (potentially nothing), and there's more in-depth documentation to cover how to switch if you need more full-featured software.
BSDNow 079: Just Add QEMU
The newest BSDNow episode talks with Sean Bruno about poudriere and QEMU. He's using those tools on FreeBSD, but poudriere is useful for building dports on DragonFly, too. The usual news collection is there, too.
Got Nagios? Got Hammer?
If you're monitoring your DragonFly systems with Nagios, here's a way to check the health of your Hammer mirror-streams. Thanks, Mike!
Did you upgrade DragonFly on the 25th?
If you are on DragonFly-master and you upgraded during select hours on the 25th of February, you may have been bit by a makefile error. The fix, as listed in that link, is simple:
cp /usr/src/share/mk/sys.mk /usr/share/mk
If you are not on -master or you did not upgrade in that timeframe: never mind.
DragonFly GUI resurrected
Michael Neumann has switched out pkgsrc packages for dports packages for building DragonFly with a GUI. There's no built image to download right now, but I'm optimistic the next release will have it. You can build it now on a DragonFly system using src/nrelease. With all this video work going in lately, it will give us something to show.
Radeon updates, too
If you've been sitting with a Radeon-based video card and wishing you had all the nice updates i915 users are getting, today is your lucky day. Michael Neumann has brought Radeon support equivalent to Linux 3.9 into DragonFly, and he has a 3.10 branch for testing if you feel adventurous.
In Other BSDs for 2015/02/21
There's some DragonFly material in here, though I normally confine that to the rest of the week. It's inextricable from the rest of the links.
- Setting up an OpenBSD mail server. (via)
- FreeBSD-current users, regenerate your keys. (fixed)
- Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans. (via)
- A Prediction: 2020 the year of (PC-)BSD on the desktop. (also)
- "Has Linux lost its way?" (via) (also)
- DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/16.
- Curious if FreeBSD or any other BSD district would work better on a MacBook pro?
- Which
- Am I taking a realistic route to learning more about internals? (hey, it's DragonFly!)
- Speaking of which: cross–pollination.
- More cross-pollination, and surprise from me; I didn't know USB video link worked on any BSD.
- The m0n0wall project has ended.
- The end of 'games' as a separate object on FreeBSD.
- Tetris: still changing.
- autonet – simple automatic wifi chooser on OpenBSD.
- pkgsrc binaries as an exit strategy from systemd.
- IPFW now the default firewall (and on) in PC-BSD.
- The updated roadmap to 1.0.0 for Lumina, PC-BSD's desktop environment, to go with the 0.8.2 release.
- PC-BSD at SCALE.
- s2k15 hackathon report.
memtemp(4) update
I admit I never thought about it much, but I've also never had enough RAM to matter: there's a memtemp(4) tool that monitors temperature sensors for your system's memory. Sepherosa Ziehau has updated it on DragonFly to support some newer processor setups.
Really turning off Sendmail
This bites many people sooner or later: you think you've turned sendmail off, but it still gets opened up on your system. The answer: sendmail_enable="NONE".
(It should support sendmail_enable="NOPE".)
SSDs and disk wear
Several of the DragonFly machines used for building packages and/or releases have SSDs, and have been vigorously exercising those disks for some time. SSDs are supposed to have a shorter lifetime than spindle-based hard drives. However, Matthew Dillon found that there's surprisingly little wear on those SSDs. This empiric information was noticed in several places.
HEADS UP: pkg will eat itself
Well, might rather than will , but I had to make a music reference. There's a bug in versions of pkg from 1.4.6(ish) to 1.4.11 that can make it accidentally delete itself while updating packages. If this happens to you, there's an easy fix, as posted to users@:
# cd /usr && make pkg-bootstrap
Once you're on version 1.4.12+, you're fine.
Video updates to test
New committer: Tomohiro Kusumi
Say hello to the newest DragonFly committer: Tomohiro Kusumi. He's been contributing Hammer patches for some time and appearing on IRC, so it's easier to just let him make changes directly. Welcome, Tomohiro.
GCC 5 Arrives
John Marino has removed gcc 4.4 in DragonFly, and replaced it with gcc 5.0. Two things to note: gcc 5 does not yet successfully build world, and DragonFly is an officially supported platform for gcc with this release.
em(4), emx(4) updates
If you have a em(4)/emx(4) card, AKA 'Intel(R) PRO/1000', Michael Neumann has an update for you. It's from Intel's 7.2.4 release of the code. This is to support the new I218 cards. Initial reports are positive.
In Other BSDs for 2015/02/07
This week is relatively quiet.
- Raspberry Pi GPU acceleration in NetBSD 7. (via)
- OpenBSD networking on Macbook Pro?
- PC-BSD 10.1.1 is out.
- Is there any RNDIS support in any BSD?
- Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
- Stuck between OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD (mostly Web and File Server)
- devctl, a new device control utility in FreeBSD.
- FreeBSD has gained a VCHI driver for the Broadcom "VideoCore IV GPU".
- Things you can remove from FreeBSD.
- PC-BSD gains 'personacrypt', for encryption of home directories.
- OpenBSD gained iwm(4), for Intel 7260 wifi.

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Services Provided to Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, and Stalking
GAO-07-846R: Published: Jul 19, 2007. Publicly Released: Jul 19, 2007.
Additional Materials:
- Full Report:
- Accessible Text:
(202) 512-6510
Office of Public Affairs
(202) 512-4800
Historically, domestic violence, sexual assaults, and stalking incidents have often been ignored by society and treated as private family matters. However, in 1984, Congress passed and the President signed the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to, among other things, help prevent domestic violence and provide shelter and related assistance for victims. Grants funded under the act are administered by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Children and Families and are available to states, Indian tribal governments and organizations, state domestic violence coalitions, and public and private nonprofit entities. In response to continued concerns about domestic violence as well as sexual assault and stalking incidents, Congress passed and the President signed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994. VAWA created new federal criminal laws and established additional grant programs within HHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for state, local, and Indian tribal governments and nonprofit organizations. These grant programs have various purposes, such as providing funding for direct services including emergency shelter, counseling, and legal services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assaults, and stalking across all segments of the population. The Violence Against Women and DOJ Reauthorization Act of 2005, enacted January 5, 2006, requires us to conduct a study and report on data indicating the prevalence of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking among men, women, youth, and children; to survey DOJ, as well as any recipients of federal funding, to identify what services are provided to victims of these crimes; and to report on whether the services are made available to men, women, youth, and children, as well as the number, age, and gender of victims receiving each available service. This report responds to the segment of the mandate related to victim services. This report presents the results of our efforts to address the following questions: (1) What types of data have grant recipients collected and reported to HHS and DOJ related to services provided under these grant programs to victims, specifically data by type of service on the extent to which men, women, youth, and children receive each service? and (2) What challenges, if any, do federal departments report that they and their grant recipients would face in collecting and reporting information on the demographic characteristics of victims receiving services by type of service, if they currently do not do so?
Recipients of the 11 grant programs we reviewed currently collect and report data to the respective agencies on the types of services they provide, such as counseling, the total number of victims served, and in some cases, demographic information, such as the age of victims; however, data are not available on the extent to which men, women, youth, and children receive each type of service for all services. This situation occurs primarily because the statutes governing these programs do not require the collection of such data. The agencies administering these 11 grant programs collect some demographic data for certain services, such as emergency shelter under FVPSA and supervised visitation and exchange under VAWA. However, even if demographic data were available by type of service for all services, such data might not be uniform and reliable because (1) the authorizing statutes and resulting reporting requirements for the 11 grant programs differ; (2) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has not developed a standard form for its grant recipients to use in collecting and reporting data, and its grant recipients have not always collected and reported data for consistent time periods; (3) grant recipient officials assigned to manage FVPSA programs have experienced high turnover resulting in a loss of program knowledge; and (4) recipients of grants administered by all three agencies use varying data collection practices. HHS has efforts under way to improve the uniformity and reliability of data collection efforts, but does not anticipate full implementation of these efforts until fiscal year 2010. HHS and DOJ reported that they would face significant challenges in collecting and reporting data on the demographic characteristics of victims receiving services by type of service for all services funded by the 11 grant programs included in our review because of concerns about victims' confidentiality and safety, resource constraints, overburdening recipients, and technological issues. ACF officials also said that some of their grant recipients do not have the resources to devote to these data collection efforts, since their primary focus is on service delivery. In addition, ACF officials said that being too prescriptive in requiring demographic data could overburden some grant recipients that may report data to multiple funding entities, such as federal, state, and local entities and private foundations. Furthermore, all three agencies reported that some grant recipients do not have sophisticated data collection systems in place to allow them to collect additional information.
May 26, 2016
Human Trafficking:Actions Taken to Implement Related Statutory ProvisionsGAO-16-528R: Published: May 26, 2016. Publicly Released: May 26, 2016.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection:Review of the Staffing Analysis Report under the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014GAO-16-606R: Published: May 26, 2016. Publicly Released: May 26, 2016.
May 23, 2016
Prisoner Operations:United States Marshals Service Could Better Estimate Cost Savings and Monitor Efforts to Increase EfficienciesGAO-16-472: Published: May 23, 2016. Publicly Released: May 23, 2016.
May 17, 2016
Office of National Drug Control Policy:Progress toward Some National Drug Control Strategy Goals, but None Have Been Fully AchievedGAO-16-660T: Published: May 17, 2016. Publicly Released: May 17, 2016.
May 9, 2016
Smartphone Data:Information and Issues Regarding Surreptitious Tracking Apps That Can Facilitate StalkingGAO-16-317: Published: Apr 21, 2016. Publicly Released: May 9, 2016.
Apr 26, 2016
Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program:Improvements Made but Information on Performance Goals Still NeededGAO-16-617T: Published: Apr 26, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 26, 2016.
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Gisele Bündchen wants to remain the world's richest model and is insisting she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar dollar. Like billionaire...
Gisele Bündchen wants to remain the world's richest model and is insisting she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar.
Like billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, the Brazilian supermodel is on a growing list of rich people who have concluded the currency can only depreciate because Americans led by President Bush are living beyond their means.
The dollar has fallen 34 percent since 2001, and the biggest investors and most accurate forecasters say it will weaken further as home sales fall and the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates.
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The dollar plummeted to its lowest ever last week against the euro, Canadian dollar, Chinese yuan and the cheapest in 26 years against the British pound.
"We've told all of our clients that if you only had one idea, one investment, it would be to buy an investment in a non-dollar currency. That should be on the top of the list," said Gross, the chief investment officer of Pacific Investment and manager of the world's biggest bond fund.
The dollar fell 0.8 percent last week and touched $1.4528 per euro, the weakest since the euro's debut in 1999. The dollar lost 2.8 percent last week to 93.47 Canadian cents and 1.8 percent to $2.09 per British pound.
BNP Paribas chief currency strategist Hans-Guenter Redeker, the most accurate foreign-exchange forecaster last quarter in a Bloomberg survey, said the dollar may drop to $1.50 per euro by year-end.
When Bündchen, 27, signed a contract in August to represent Pantene hair products for Procter & Gamble, she demanded payment in euros, according to Veja, Brazil's biggest weekly magazine.
She'll also get euros for the deal she reached with Dolce & Gabbana in Milan to promote the Italian designer's new fragrance, The One, Veja reported.
Bündchen earned $33 million in the year through June, Forbes reported in July.
"Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros, because we don't know what will happen to the dollar," Patricia Bündchen, the model's twin sister and manager in Brazil, said in September from São Paulo. She declined to discuss details of the arrangements last week.
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Buffett told reporters in South Korea last month that he is bearish on the U.S. currency.
"We still are negative on the dollar relative to most major currencies, so we bought stocks in companies that earn their money in other currencies," Buffett said Oct. 25.
Jim Rogers, a former partner of investor George Soros, said last month he's selling his house and all his possessions in the U.S. currency to buy China's yuan.
"The dollar is collapsing," Rogers said last week. "I'm moving to Asia because moving to Asia now is like moving to New York in 1907 or London in 1807. It's the wave of the future."
The dollar is falling as investors seek better returns outside the United States. Developing Asian nations including China and India will grow 9.8 percent this year, compared with 1.9 percent for the U.S., the International Monetary Fund said last month.
"The world has learned to live with a weak dollar," said Jay Bryson, a former Fed analyst who is a global economist at Wachovia, the fourth-largest U.S. bank. "It's not worried. It doesn't rely on the U.S. as much as it once did."
The weaker currency has cushioned the U.S. economy during the worst housing recession in 16 years. Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.9 percent in the third quarter, the most in more than a year, the Commerce Department said Oct. 31.
"As long as the dollar's decline doesn't trigger inflation, it's a good thing, helping the U.S. economy to stay out of recession," said Robert Mundell, a professor at Columbia University who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1999.


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Seattle hasn't won a road playoff game since 1983; Washington hasn't hosted a playoff game since 2000. All that history isn't going to amount to much in a game between teams who believe they've found themselves a quarterback of the future. While Robert Griffin III had a better season than Russell Wilson, it was the Seahawks' rookie who had the better finish with 16 touchdown passes and only two interceptions over the final eight games. Washington's defense might very well stymie Marshawn Lynch's ground game, but Wilson has become Seattle's trump card.
Seattle Times reporter Larry Stone
Seahawks 28, Washington 21
Both teams are on a roll, but with RG III not at full strength, I think the Seahawks have the edge, even on the road.
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Seahawks 21, Washington 13
These teams are two of the greatest unknowns in the playoffs. Wilson's ability to throw downfield and the Seahawks' shutdown corners should be the difference.
Mike Wise, Washington Post columnist
Seahawks 35, Washington 20
Russell Wilson is healthier than Robert Griffin III and the Seahawks' defense is sturdier and deeper than London Fletcher and friends. Unless Washington can win the turnover battle or Touchdown Threesus has one more miracle left in him, the run ends because too many yards and points will be given up.


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I really like Kapoor's work. I think the way that he has used the materials he uses is very disingenuous. It is very hard to carve stone, but he has gone one step further by carving out the inside of stone to create a dark black hole effect, this is a very hard objective to achieve. During the video we watched, it was very obvious to see that Kapoor was very enthusiastic about his work which is good to see in an artist as the work produced is better. Kapoor is a painter who makes sculptures.
I think the critics were wrong to go against Kapoor as he has explored the internal language, but they have just looked at what he has done and instantly jumped to the conclusion that his work is easy to do so they have prejudged it as poor work.
My favourite piece of work that he has created is the one above of it is of resin with a bubble inside it. I like the way the colour has formed on this and the way the bubble is directly in the middle like it is trapped and waiting to get out or burst.


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Oklahoma City police officer dies from crash injuries
Oklahoma City police officer Chad Peery, a source of inspiration to others after he suffered life-changing injuries in 2011, died shortly after noon Monday following a weekend rollover crash, authorities said.
"The police department has suffered a great loss," Oklahoma City police Capt. Dexter Nelson said. "Chad was a point of inspiration for several officers, not only in our department but across the country."
Peery suffered head and internal injuries in the crash Sunday evening on Interstate 40, Nelson said.
His family has donated Peery's organs, Nelson said. They declined to comment immediately, but asked that donations in Peery's memory be made to the Chad Peery Foundation.
"The Oklahoma City Police Department and Chad Peery's family would like to thank everyone for their concerns, their support, their prayers and their well wishes throughout Chad's injury which began February of 2011 until the tragedy today," Nelson said.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his four children, who are now trying to cope with the loss of their father and heal from their injuries."
The crash
Peery, his caretaker and his four children were eastbound in a van east of Shawnee in Seminole County when the van crashed about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nelson said.
The van was in the inside lane when the left rear tire blew out. The van went into a slide, went down an embankment and rolled three full times before hitting a fence, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported
Peery, 36, of Oklahoma City, and McKinsey Peery, 13, Mason Peery, 11, and McKade Peery, 7, all of Stigler, were thrown from the vehicle. The driver, Shelby Palmer, 19, of Yukon, and passenger Morgan Peery, 5, of Stigler, also were injured in the crash, troopers said.
Only the driver was wearing a seat belt, and the air bags didn't deploy, troopers said.
All six were taken to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City.
According to a hospital spokeswoman, Palmer was released Monday. Mason Peery is in serious condition, Morgan Peery is in fair condition, and McKade and McKinsey Peery are in good condition, she said.
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Officer Peery was paralyzed Feb. 15, 2011, when he intervened to break up a bar fight while off duty at Dan O'Brien's Public House.
The three men involved in the attack all pleaded guilty and have been sentenced.
Officer Peery continued to work with the police department after his attack, investigating cybercrimes. He underwent rehabilitation therapy and was learning how to drive again, Nelson said.
"We have had officers here on-and-off since 5 p.m., late yesterday evening, and we will continue to stay here until the family is ready to leave," Nelson said Monday afternoon at OU Medical Center. "Everyone wants to be here to be with Chad, to be with the family to support him, because he has done so much for us, being an inspiration to us, and coming back after his tragedy."
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Could anyone give advice best places to watch Wishes and Illumination shows ?
how early should we try and get a place?
Illuminations ... on the bridge between the UK & France . Get there early . Or you can book a late dinner at The Rose & Crown Pub in the UK and hope your lucky enough to get a patio seat .
MK Fireworks ... I always watch to the right hand side of Main Street USA . Again, if you get lucky enough , up the steps to the train . Right there in the front is a great viewing area for the parade & fireworks .
You will get many answers to where is the best place to watch . DH and I even went to the Polynesian one night and sat on a bench under Ohanas where the music is piped in . There are just so so many great spots .
Doesn't really make a difference . I've been there when its cold & windy . The only difference is, is at the MK, Tinkerbell will not fly in inclement or windy weather . Although, I've heard and this is just a rumour , that while Summer Nightastic is taking place , there will be different fireworks and since Tink is in the Main Street Electrical Parade . She can't possibly be in two places at one time . :wink:
Tink does fly in Nightastic.
The direction of the wind can matter a great deal. You'll not want to be downwind of the fireworks as you can end up engulfed in the smoke and fumes and have your vision obstructed. This is particularly important at Illuminations.
There are a number of excellent viewing areas around World Showcase lagoon, however be certain that there are no trees or buildings in your direct view, and that you have a clear view of the center of the lagoon.
For Nightastic we liked smack in the middle of the end of Main St.
MSEP, the cross over in front of the castle is great. You see the floats coming and can focus in as they clear the bend and come right toward you.
Get there early though! It's an extremely popular parade and was jammed to the gills (shoulder to shoulder) both times it ran on the 5th of June.
Hope that helps!
Thats Great News, Sister Tink . Must have been a rumor then .
I won't spoil it for you, but be watching for her. She appears suddenly and very unexpectedly.
Its not Wishes though during the MSELP , right ? Thanks Again


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Woo-hoo!! My first diesel engine problem... (I guess the second really, after flat batteries on the weekend would have made us late for the start of the race if the start hadn't been delayed by lack of wind!)
Went down to the boat yesterday to sort out the afore-mentioned electrical issues and noticed diesel in the bilge. Having a closer look at the engine, I noticed diesel dripping out from under one corner of the fuel injector plate-thinghy (under the rusty-looking bolt lower left corner - the paint has flaked off..)
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The engine is a Volvo MD2040, but the nameplates have been painted over or missing entirely so I have no idea what series it is (either A or B). I haven't had the courage yet to try to take the plate right off because:
a) I don't know what gaskets are required.
b) The injector lines aren't very flexible and I don't want to stuff anything else.
c) I don't have a Workshop Manual or even know how to get one.
Any ideas how best to fix this? Is this likely to be just a gasket thing or is there something else going on?
Check your email. Workshop manual is on the way.
ps -other than that...don't ask me I a mechanically inept, last time I changed the spark plugs on a car I had to have the thing towed..something to do with putting the leads back on in the wrong order and stuffing up the timing.
pps- surely you can hand crank a 2040 ?
I'm a little mechanically-challenged myself too, I'm afraid. It seems from the manual you sent it should be as simple as taking the cover off and renewing the gasket BUT there are shims under there that are apparently pretty critical and with words like 'correct torque' they make it sound about as easy as doing the cylinder block!! :eek:
I've got a call out for a mechanic.. Crap.. Warranty expired last month so that's more $$$ out the window... Oh, the joys of owning a boat.
Didja try tightening the rusty bolt? I would check to see if it's loose before I started tearing things apart and replacing gaskets. Just saying.....
I'm guessing btw that those bolts/nuts should have been checked at some time in the past and have just worked themselves a bit loose. If the engine is only just out of warranty I find it hard to believe that the gasket is shot.
I wonder why such a new engine would have been repainted ??
I'm not exactly sure what the displacement is (6.14 tonnes Thames Measurement if that helps - but it probably doesn't) although it must be up around the 6 ton mark - or even more. She started life with a Henry-Meadows 15Hp clunker and I do know now why the PO chose a 40HP donk: Going in and out of the pen and anywhere else it's kinda tight, it's nice to be able to throttle up and git going before the wind pushes the bow around.. and she'll do hull speed at 2500rpm, with more on tap if you're running late for the start! :)
You're both probably right - it may just be a loose bolt - but the books say use a Torque Wrench set to 9.9Nm and that's beyond my tool-box capaciuty I'm afraid.
Did I check if it was just a bolt loose? Nope! Dummy!! (insert smack head smiley) :(
The loose bolt may not be obviously loose. If it was last touched when installed it could have just loosened off a tadge, just enough to allow the gasket to unseat. You could of course hire a torque wrench from someone like Kennards.
Trouble with gaskets though is that once they leak you often need to take 'em off and dry them out. Depends on the type of gasket I believe.
9.9 newtons meter = 7.30186528 foot pounds according to Google.
That's not a lot of force, you'd tighten the lug nuts on a compact car to about 75 foot pounds, by comparison. So...seven foot pounds would be "use a small short wrench and a limp wrist or ask a four year old to do it". Or hold your hand right over the bolt--not at the end of the handle--and tighten it about as much as the lid of a jelly jar.
(Well then again, if you buy a torque wrench they're not very expensive these days, and last a lifetime if you treat them right.)
If the one came that loose, it might just pay to buy whatever gaskets are needed, remove and retorque the entire cover so you know they are ALL seated properly. The copper tubing should have enough flex in it to allow that as long as you move gently. If it doesn't--then it was about to fail anyway. Copper work-hardens, better to fail at the dock than under way.
i'm not familiar with that engine,but is the leak coming from under the pump retainer or from the bolt hole its-self,if so and just tightening it doesn't stop the leak you could try a copper washer
Thanks, HS - I'll have a closer look at it when I'm down there next and try your suggestion. I'm not sure where to get Volvo parts around here, but these engines are pretty common (old Perkins) so I should be able to find someone close by! :)
I suspect I'll find it's the gasket that's gone and the bolt isn't loose at all and if that's the case, overtightening to stop the leak will just stuff things up further.
I'll play around with it over the weekend, but if I get into trouble I've got a mechanic coming out early next week (it's about time for a service anyways) and will post the outcome.
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The War of 1812 was a defining moment for the residents of Niagara and has contributed to the identity of our community and country.
To commemorate the War of 1812 and the significant impact that the war had on the residents of Niagara Falls the City of Niagara Falls, along its federal and provincial partners have invested in the Niagara Falls History Museum, with its significant collection of War of 1812 artefacts and located just steps away from the Battle of Lundy's Lane National Historic Site.
The Museum houses three galleries, the R.D. Gale War of 1812 Gallery, the Community Exhibitions Gallery and the OPGI Temporary Exhibitions Gallery. Exhibitions will explore the history of Niagara Falls and the impact of the War of 1812.
In the spring of 1812, war broke out between the United States and Britain. The conflict was focused on the British North American colonies, notably along the border between Upper Canada and the Northeast United States. The Niagara Peninsula was one of the principal scenes of action.
Most historians agree there was no single cause of the War of 1812 but rather several related causes.
The Napoleonic Wars (c.1803-1815) raging in Europe had a global impact. Wishing to remain neutral and assert its independence, the United States continued to trade with both Britain and France. Nevertheless, diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Britain deteriorated. Forced labour and terrible conditions on British naval vessels resulted in sailor desertions to the U.S. by the thousands. Meanwhile, Britain's support of the First Nations in the American Northwest threatened U.S. expansion. Not all voices clamoured for war, but a persuasive American political faction called the War Hawks emerged who believed victory over British North America would be "a mere matter of marching".
During the War, the residents of Niagara Falls were encircled by British, American, Canadian and Native forces. Major battles occurred in the surrounding towns and villages but by 1814, the current city of Niagara Falls became a war zone. The Battle of Chippawa and Battle of Lundy's Lane were defining moments for the soldiers, officers, residents and the nations involved.


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Just when you thought all was quiet after a couple of moves early on Saturday, the Philadelphia Flyers struck with another trade.
The Flyers acquired Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Luke Schenn in exchange for forward James van Riemsdyk, in a trade that had been rumored to be a match since the middle of this season.
It was almost a certainty that van Riemsdyk was going to find his way out of Philly this summer. After a disappointing year, both in health and performance, and the emergence of rookies Sean Couturier and Matt Read, most figured the Flyers would spin JvR somewhere for some defensive help.
And that defensive help they got in Luke Schenn, who was the fifth overall pick of the Leafs back in 2008. He adds to a Flyers blue line that was very inconsistent throughout the season, particularly in the playoffs.
He's not the kind of guy that's going to put up too many points, but he's what the Flyers needed to add to their defense. He's a big body on the blue line and is as physical as they come. He tallied 270 hits in 2011-2012 to go along with the 115 shots that he blocked.
This is the type of trade that makes sense for both teams. The Flyers needed a guy like Schenn in their defensive corps and JvR needed a "change of scenery" deal. It helps that he's a big forward that Toronto had been needing as well. This is the type of trade that should work out for both sides.
Schenn becomes the second brother to join his brother's team in the last two days, as he now teams with Brayden Schenn in Philly (pending some sort of potential deal for Bobby Ryan). Jordan Staal joined Eric Staal when he was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.


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Rain spoils enthralling finish between Surrey and Worcestershire
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County Championship Division One: Surrey (140 and 224) drew with Worcestershire (119 and 94-1)
Rain put an end to an enthralling day between Surrey and Worcestershire as the match looked set to have a positive result.
The visitors had cruised to 94-1 chasing a target of 246 and had a miniumum of 39 overs remaining to reach their target.
Michael Clinger had looked in ominous form, cruising to 69 not out and the stage was set for a thrilling finale.
Surrey had resumed on 131-6, a lead of 152, with Rory Hamilton-Brown resuming on 55 and Gareth Batty at the crease.
It was the latter who hit the first boundary of the day to the deep point boundary after four overs as the visitors looked to pick up early wickets.
And Hamilton-Brown joined the party soon after, hitting Alan Richardson back over his head to move the lead past 160.
Batty was the first man to depart with lead at 163 and he was caught brilliantly by James Cameron at point off the bowling of David Lucas.
Stuart Meaker's arrival appeared to be the cue for Hamilton-Brown to attack and he moved into the 70s with a four through square leg.
But with the skipper 24 runs from his century he skied Richardson's delivery to Shaaig Choudhry to give the Worcestershire bowler 10 wickets in the match.
However, Surrey inched their lead past the 200 mark thanks to successive fours from Jon Lewis.
The home side reached 199 before losing their ninth wicket with Meaker slashing Richard Jones to Vikram Solanki at slip.
Last man Jade Dernbach smashed his third ball to the boundary to lift Surrey's second innings above the 200 mark.
In the next over the England bowler smashed Richardson for six with a wonderful shot, straight back down the ground.
Dernbach then smashed Jones for successive boundaries to lift the lead past the 240 mark, causing the field to spread.
The fun couldn't last as the bowler went for one big shot too many and picked out Choudhry at mid on to set up a victory target of 246 to win in a minimum of 70 overs.
Worcestershire openers Daryl Mitchell and Michael Clinger survived the three overs before lunch.
The latter then hit a wonderful cover drive off Dernbach straight after lunch as the wicket appeared to have flattened out as the visitors cruised to 21 without loss.
Indeed the victory target moved to under 200 without a wicket falling.
Meaker gave Klinger a scare when he succeeded in hitting the opener in the lower abdomen.
Gareth Batty came on in the 19th over and the 172nd over of the match, the first over bowled by a spinner in the match.
And the former England bowler nearly had reward with his third ball as Klinger hit over the top which just evading the despairing dive of Meaker, to move the Australian onto 41.
Klinger was caught off the bowling of Batty but it was by a gentleman in the crowd, who caught it in such a nonchalant way and that maxium took him to his half century.
Mitchell, on the other hand, only had nine by the time the Australian had reached 50 and although he hit a boundary to take his tally to 20 off 91 balls he was clean bowled by Chris Jordan the very next ball.
Surrey had 39 overs in which to claim the last nine wickets and Vikram Solanki came to the crease.
One ball later and Solanki was walking back to the pavilion as umpires took the players off at half past three.
Just 20 minutes later and the rain came pouring down and the hosts would be breathing a sigh of relief as Worcestershire had looked comfortable.


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Dynamic device management with Udev, HAL, and D-Bus
Just a couple of years ago, configuring new hardware on Linux was a daunting task and just one more reason for newcomers to keep clear. Now, Linux offers convenient device management that provides trouble-free, dynamic handling of devices plugged in at run time – including WLAN sticks, digital cameras, and even camcorders. Linux can listen on interfaces such as Bluetooth and Firewire and, if necessary, not only integrate a device you plug in, but launch the matching application as well.
Fortunately, the trend in recent months has been toward standardizing the underlying technologies. Udev has already clearly ousted its predecessor, Devfs, and found its way into the Linux kernel. Now the Freedesktop.org-sponsored team of HAL and D-Bus is establishing itself in the face of competition from the previous Gnome and KDE favorites, Corba and DCOP.
This merge has greatly improved communications between the two desktop environments. Gnome already has a mature front end for dynamic device management with Gnome Volume Manager and related tools. KDE is following suit after considerable restructuring of its libraries in version 4.
The KDE Solid hardware library adds a new and powerful framework to make hardware management on KDE easier than ever. In the months to come, you can look forward to more dynamic device management fireworks.
Short form of User Event. This means a notification event from the kernel to programs in userspace. This memory area, which is separate from the kernel space, is populated by normal programs and non-kernel subsystems. The Udev subsystem runs in userspace.
A virtual filesystem that was introduced with kernel version 2.6. It is normally accessible under /sys and makes device and driver information defined in the Kernel Device Model, the kernel's internal device database, available to programs in userspace.
Short for Interprocess Communication, a method of communication and data exchange between processes on the same computer.
- Udev: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
- HAL: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal
- Freedesktop.org: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki
- D-Bus: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
- Corba: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORBA
- DCOP: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/dcop.html
- DCOM for programmers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms809311.aspx
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Upon further review, the expanded practice of going to the monitor for every questionable call needs further review.
Enough already.
Do we really need to second-guess every close call? At what point do we decide that officiating — both the calls that are frequently right and sometimes wrong — are simply part of the game, not a matter for pseudo-judicial review?
Apparently, we are not there yet.
Add baseball to football and basketball as the sports using technology to confirm and correct the calls made during play.
You know the drill, officials stop play and huddle over the replay from every conceivable angle. Was the toe on the line? Did the ball beat the runner? Did the receiver have possession?
Frequently, the endless cycle of video only confounds the question as different views produce different conclusions. At many other times, the zebras actually got the call correct in the first instance.
Regardless of the outcome, a five-minute, momentum-killing recess can be expected. Players congregate along the sidelines, trying to stay loose. Fans grow tired of video-board replays. Home viewers have time to take out the trash and pay the bills.
It is all well-intended. But it is killing the experience.
We might as well call in Judge Judy to preside over the whole mess.
It started with football, where NFL officials gather under a hood on the sidelines to view video replays that can be initiated by a coach or by an official in the booth, depending on the circumstances.
You know the drill. Fans (at least those at home) are shown replays from every possible angle, often leading to conflicting conclusions depending on the view. Meanwhile, the referee takes several minutes to reach a conclusion. More often than not (about 55 percent of the time in the NFL), the play is upheld.
In basketball, reviews have become more frequent, subject to the officials' discretion. A review of a key play in the last minute of the Kentucky-Louisville contest in the NCAA tourney took more than four minutes and resulted in no change.
The last two minutes of close contests — already lengthy due to fouling and timeouts — has been elongated even further. Basketball is a rhythm sport that has lost
its beat.
Coaches who long told players to play through bad calls have been turned into sideline litigators, pleading for review.
The replay practice now has expanded to baseball with questionable usefulness. MLB adopted the procedure this season, giving managers the ability to challenge two calls a game.
In the first week of games, challenges were many, but rarely game-altering. That is to be expected.
In fact, if MLB's look at last season's calls hold true, review will seldom be a factor in the final outcome. That is because there simply are not that many "mistakes," if we really call them that.
According to MLB:
Umpires missed a total of 377 calls all year. That's an average of one blown call per 6.4 games. But because each team has the ability to challenge, the more applicable rate is one blown call for every 12.8 team games. Force plays and tag plays accounted for 86.4 percent of all blown calls.
Not once last season was there a game in which umpires missed more than two calls against one team. That means there is unlikely to be a case where a team is hurt if it uses challenges wisely.
As the next game you watch comes to an inevitable screeching halt for officials to go to the monitor—and virtually every sport now has some form of video review—ask yourself whether it is worth it.
Technology is supposed to make things easier. Is that really the case here?
Yes, games are perhaps more technically accurate, but that comes at a tradeoff with time and momentum.
It seems to me that the quest to be right has turned into a wrong.
Upon further review, we just don't need further review.
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