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COOPERTOWN, Tenn. >> A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force.
Coopertown Police Chief Shane Sullivan took over the department in November, becoming the 11th chief in as many years. He was hired on the heels of a series of police scandals that for a few months left Coopertown with no police at all. Years before that, a mayor was voted out of office after the local prosecutor accused him of racism and running a notorious speed trap.
Law enforcement experts say Sullivan's polygraph approach is unusual, though some departments use the devices for other purposes during the application process. Others try to root out bias in other ways. One polygraph expert warned that lie detectors can't accurately predict racism for reasons that include people's inability to recognize their own racism.
Sullivan said he doubts racists will even apply for the force if they know about the tests.
"I think the polygraph will definitely keep these people from applying," the 39-year-old chief said.
And he believes the policy is working, because he says it's already discouraged some applicants. "I've told a couple of ones about the polygraph who have not called me back."
Before Sullivan's hiring, the sheriff's department had overseen law enforcement in the town 30 miles northwest of Nashville while the department was temporarily disbanded.
First, the only full-time patrolman was fired over a road rage incident. Then the reserve officer was dismissed after a dashboard camera captured him using a racial slur to describe a black motorist. The dash cam video was later aired in the media. Soon after that, the police chief quit.
Coopertown Mayor Sam Childs said the chief resigned because of the "predatory media."
The rural community of about 4,000 people that is 95 percent white earned a reputation as a notorious speed trap, with about a third of its revenue coming from speeding tickets handed out by city police during the former mayor's tenure. In 2006, the National Motorists Association said Coopertown had one of the most "blatant examples of speed traps in the country." It stopped after a prosecutor filed a petition against the mayor in 2006. Its 25 squares miles encompass significant stretches of Interstate 24 and another highway that drivers use to cut through to Interstate 65.
In 2006, the county prosecutor asked a court to oust then-Mayor Danny Crosby on allegations he was running a speed trap and ordering police to target Hispanics, out-of-towners and soldiers from nearby Fort Campbell, Ky., for traffic tickets.
Although an appellate court agreed with a lower court's finding that Crosby's conduct and statements were strongly suggestive of "bigotry, sexism or utter foolishness," it refused to remove him. Crosby was later voted out of office and the speed trap is gone.
One lifelong resident said he's fed up with the city government and the police department making the town look bad.
"It's put a black eye on the city," Wayne Brown said of Coopertown's controversies. Brown, a mechanic and football coach, said he thinks there should be no city government or police department because they aren't providing any services.
"Other than writing speeding tickets, they don't do anything for us." Brown said of the department.
The new chief intends for his lie detector idea to help clean up the Coopertown's image. Candidates are required to answer whether they have ever committed a hate crime or a race-based crime.
"It doesn't ask if you've ever made a racist remark or slur," the chief said. Nor does the test ask people if they are prejudiced against any ethnic or religious minority.
Sullivan, who has taken the lie detector test himself, said he's hoping to establish a professional police department that can eventually provide 24-hour service seven days a week. Right now, he doesn't have the staff to police the town around the clock and leaves those duties up to the sheriff's office. He's already hired two police officers, both of whom have passed the polygraph, and he wants to add more. The department's budget is about $250,000 this fiscal year, Sullivan said, and the chief makes $41,000.
Bob Peters, a spokesman for the American Polygraph Association, said asking about factual matters is a better approach than using subjective questions about prejudice or racism. He says a polygraph can't accurately predict whether someone is racist.
"There might be people whom I might think have racist attitudes but they might not think so," said Peters, whose association has established best practices for use of the polygraph.
Peters says the new chief is using the best approach, and some voters are applauding him.
"I am very pleased with Chief Sullivan and the effort he is making to create a sound and secure police department for Coopertown," said Valorie Buck, chairwoman of the Coopertown Community Development Committee.
Malik Aziz, national chairman of the National Black Police Association, said the best way to keep bigots from being cops is through extensive background checks.
It's not unusual for police departments to use polygraphs on people before letting them join the force. Police applicants can be asked about past drug use or whether they have been involved in criminal activity.
"I haven't heard of any agency using a polygraph specifically geared toward eliminating racists from the application process," he said.
Sullivan says he's also using background checks to probe the racism issue.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department requires job candidates to undergo a voice stress test during the interviewing process, department spokeswoman Kristin Mumford said. Would-be officers are asked about bias during the test.
Voice stress tests are similar to polygraph tests, but instead of measuring heart rate and blood pressure, they detect changes in an applicant's voice pattern.
The department, she said, also uses an extensive background check and psychologically evaluates its job candidates.
"Polygraphs in and of themselves have a lot of problems," Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the ACLU of Tennessee, said.
Still, Weinberg commended the chief for the effort to bar racist applicants. But she thinks the best way for police departments to be accountable is by making sure citizens have their complaints of unfair treatment investigated.
Carolyn Murray, a professor of psychology at the University of California Riverside, supports other types of testing to detect bias, such as ones that use images of different racial groups and gauge reaction time when they are described as either "good" or "bad." Still, she applauded Sullivan's approach.
"If he's making this effort, he's making the biggest effort I've seen to date," Murray said. "You're not going to get everybody, but you will be able to stop a few people who would have been able to do a lot of damage to citizens."


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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the Breast
Test Overview
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves to make pictures of the breast. It does not use X-rays. MRI may show problems in the breast that cannot be seen on a mammogram, ultrasound, or CT scan.
The MRI makes pictures that show your breast's normal structure; tissue damage or disease, such as infection; inflammation; or a lump. MRI is better than mammography or ultrasound for looking at some breast lumps.
In most cases, a dye (contrast material) may be used so that abnormalities can be seen more clearly from normal breast tissue. The contrast material makes it easier to find problems with increased or abnormal blood flow, such as with some types of cancer or areas of inflammation.
MRI is a safe and valuable test for looking at the breast, but it has a high rate of false-positive results, and it is more costly than other methods and is not available in all hospitals.
You may be able to have an MRI with an open machine that doesn't enclose your entire body. But open MRI machines aren't available everywhere. The pictures from an open MRI may not be as good as those from a standard MRI machine.
Why It Is Done
An MRI of the breast is done to:
- Find breast cancer. Breast MRI may be done when a mammogram or breast ultrasound scan cannot tell if a lump is cancer.
- Check women who are at increased risk for breast cancer. This includes women with:
- Gene changes (such as BRCA).
- Close family members who have had breast cancer.
- A history of radiation therapy to the chest as a child.
- Choose the best treatment for breast cancer. It may also be used to check breast tissue changes during treatment.
- Check breasts with nipple changes for signs of breast cancer. These changes include inverted nipples, nipples with scaly skin that flakes off, and nipples with abnormal discharge.
- Check women with breast implants. MRI may be used to look for breast cancer or to check if the implant is leaking.
Women at increased risk for breast cancer may have screening tests that alternate between MRIs and mammograms. This is done because the tests can detect different kinds of problems.
How To Prepare
Before your MRI test, tell your doctor and the MRI technologist if you:
- Are allergic to any medicines. The contrast material used for MRI does not contain iodine. If you know that you are allergic to the contrast material used for the MRI, tell your doctor before having another test.
- Are or might be pregnant.
- Have any metal implanted in your body. This helps your doctor know if the test is safe for you. Tell your doctor if you have:
- Heart and blood vessel devices, such as a coronary artery stent, a pacemaker, an ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator), or a metal heart valve.
- Metal pins, clips, or metal parts in your body, including artificial limbs and dental work or braces.
- Any other implanted medical device, such as a medicine infusion pump or a cochlear implant.
- Cosmetic metal implants, such as in your ears, or tattooed eyeliner.
- Had recent surgery on a blood vessel. In some cases, you may not be able to have the MRI test.
- Have an intrauterine device (IUD) in place. An IUD may prevent you from having the MRI test done.
- Become very nervous in confined spaces. You need to lie very still inside the MRI magnet, so you may need medicine to help you relax.
- Have any other health conditions, such as kidney problems or sickle cell anemia, that may prevent you from having an MRI using contrast material.
- Are taking medicines or wearing a medicine patch. You may need to stop taking certain medicines for a time before, during, or after the MRI. And if you're wearing a medicine patch, the MRI may cause a burn at the patch site.
Arrange to have someone take you home after the test in case you are given a medicine (sedative) to help you relax.
You may be asked to sign a consent form that says you understand the risks of the test and agree to have it done.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form( What is a PDF document? ).
How It Is Done
An MRI of the breast is usually done by an MRI technologist. A radiologist usually studies the pictures to look for problems. But some other types of doctors may also do this.
Before the test
You will need to remove all metal objects (such as hearing aids, dentures, jewelry, watches, and hairpins) from your body because these objects may be attracted to the powerful magnet used for the test. If there is a possibility that you have metal fragments in your eyes from an accident or a surgery or because you work around metal, an X-ray or a CT scan will be done before the MRI to see if any metal is present. An X-ray or CT may also be done if there is a concern about metal fragments in your head or spine.
You will need to take off your clothes above the waist. You will be given a gown to cover your shoulders during the test. Empty your pockets of any coins and cards (such as credit cards or ATM cards) with scanner strips on them because the MRI magnet may erase the information on the cards.
During the test
During the test, you will lie on your stomach on a table that is part of the MRI scanner. Straps may be used to help keep your body in the best position. The table will slide into the machine part that holds the magnet. A device called a coil may be placed over or wrapped around the breast area.
Inside the scanner, you will hear a fan and feel air moving. You may also hear tapping or thumping noises as the MRI scans are taken. You may be given earplugs or headphones with music to lessen the noise. It is very important to hold completely still while the scan is being done. Otherwise, repeat scans may be needed. Also, you may be asked to hold your breath for short periods of time.
During the test, you may be alone in the scanner room. But the technologist will watch you through a window, and you will be able to talk to him or her through a speaker.
If contrast material is needed, the technologist will put it in a vein (intravenous, or IV) in your arm. The contrast material may be given over 1 to 2 minutes. Then more MRI scans are taken.
An MRI test usually takes 30 to 60 minutes but may last as long as 2 hours.
How It Feels
You will not have pain from the magnetic field or radio waves. The table you lie on may feel hard and the room may be cool. You may become uncomfortable from lying in one position for a long time.
Some people feel anxious (claustrophobic) inside the MRI machine. You may be given medicine (sedative) to help you relax.
If dye is used, you may feel some coolness when it is put into your vein.
In rare cases, you may feel:
- A tingling sensation in your mouth if you have metal dental fillings.
- Warmth in the breast. This is normal and does not need treatment unless it becomes bothersome. Tell the technologist if you:
- Have any breathing problems.
- Feel sick to your stomach.
- Have a headache.
- Feel dizzy.
- Have pain.
- Feel a burning sensation.
- Have itchy skin.
There are no known harmful effects from the strong magnetic field used for MRI. But the magnet is very powerful. The magnet may affect pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), artificial limbs, and other medical devices that contain iron.
Metal parts in the eyes can damage the retina. If you may have metal fragments in the eye, an X-ray of the eyes may be done before the MRI. If metal is found, the MRI will not be done.
Iron pigments in tattoos or tattooed eyeliner can cause skin or eye irritation.
An MRI can cause a burn with some medicine patches. Be sure to tell your health professional if you are wearing a patch.
There is a slight risk of an allergic reaction if contrast material is used during the MRI. But most reactions are mild and can be treated using medicine. There also is a slight risk of an infection at the IV site.
A dye (contrast material) that contains gadolinium may be used in this test. Be sure to tell your doctor if:
- You are pregnant or think you may be pregnant.
- You have kidney problems.
- You've had more than one test that used gadolinium.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has safety warnings about gadolinium. But for most people, the benefit of its use in this test outweighs the risk.
If you breastfeed and are concerned about whether the dye used in this test is safe, talk to your doctor. Most experts believe that very little dye passes into breast milk and even less is passed on to the baby. But if you prefer, you can store some of your breast milk ahead of time and use it for a day or two after the test.
An MRI may be more likely than other tests to report a problem in the breast when a problem is not there (false-positive). A false-positive result may lead to more tests such as a biopsy when no serious problem is really present. So MRI is not used as a screening test for women at low or average risk for breast cancer.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves to make pictures of the breast.
The radiologist may discuss the results of the MRI with you right after the test. Complete results are usually available to your doctor in 1 to 2 days.
An MRI scan can sometimes find a problem in a breast, even when the size and shape of the breast looks normal.
Normal: |
The breast tissue looks normal in size, shape, and appearance. |
No solid masses are present. |
A breast implant is intact. |
No signs of inflammation or infection are present. |
Abnormal: |
Solid masses are present. |
Signs of infection or inflammation are present. |
A breast implant is ruptured. |
Underarm lymph nodes do not look normal. |
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Medical devices that have metal, such as a pacemaker or an ICD. These devices may not function properly or can cause problems during an MRI scan.
- Other types of metal, such as surgical clips. If these will interfere with a breast MRI, the test will not be done.
- Inability to remain still during the test.
- Being very overweight. This may affect your ability to fit into the opening of some standard MRI machines.
What To Think About
- Abnormal findings on a breast MRI often are not cancer. If the MRI has an abnormal result, your doctor will do other testing to find out if the problem is serious. This may involve doing an ultrasound test or a biopsy, or both.
- Sometimes your MRI test results may be different because you were tested at a different medical center or earlier test results are not available to compare to the new test findings.
- While MRI is a safe and valuable test for looking at your breast, it is much more costly than other methods, and it may not be available in your area.
Other Works Consulted
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Kuhl C (2007). The current status of breast MR imaging, part 2: Clinical applications. Radiology, 244(3): 672–691.
- Kuhl C (2007). The current status of breast MR imaging, part I. Choice of technique, image interpretation, diagnostic accuracy, and transfer to clinical practice. Radiology, 244(2): 356–378.
- Morrow M, et al. (2011). MRI for breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Lancet 378(9805): 1804–1811.
- Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby.
Current as of: December 19, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Sarah A. Marshall, MD – Family Medicine & E. Gregory Thompson, MD – Internal Medicine & Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & Elizabeth T. Russo, MD – Internal Medicine & Laura S. Dominici, MD – Surgery, General Surgery, Oncology
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Haplogroups E1b1b1b(M81 derived), E1b1b1a-β (M78 derived chromosomes showing the rare DYS439 allele 10) and a subset of J1 (M267 derived) were identified in the literature as being NWAfrica specific, together accounting for between 58 and 90% of males in populations from this area, but never above 13% in Europe.
Therefore, following this, European Y chromosomes within the three haplogroups identical to, or with one mutational difference from, NW African STR haplotypes were considered compatible with an MNA ancestry. In Iberia and peninsular Italy, they account for 90, 78 and 42% of the E1b1b1b, E1b1b1a-b and J1 chromosomes respectively.
It seems that E-M81 in Europe is indeed largely of recent North African origin, E-M78β is largely so, but J1 only partly so; perhaps the rest of it is due to other (pre)-historic movements of people from West Asia directly into Europe.
Estimates of the NW African types ranged from 0 to 18.6% (in Cantabria). For Sicily, the estimate was 7.5%, similar to the 6% reported recently. NW Apulia is second in Italy at 6.5% and E Campania third at 4.8%. The remaining Italian regions have lower than 2%, except Lucera (3.3%) and Central Tuscany (2.4%). W Calabria comes in at 0% as do some other Italian regions.
In Portugal, the total contribution is 7.1% and in Spain 7.7%. Higher than average is the aforementioned Cantabria and Galicia (6.8%).
It is noteworthy that in all the regions, E-M81 seems to be the main component of the NW African element, but the situation in Sicily is reversed: Sicily is highest in J1 and second-highest in E-M78β and not particularly high in E-M81.
European Journal of Human Genetics doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.258
Moors and Saracens in Europe: estimating the medieval North African male legacy in southern Europe
Cristian Capelli et al.
To investigate the male genetic legacy of the Arab rule in southern Europe during medieval times, we focused on specific Northwest African haplogroups and identified evolutionary close STR-defined haplotypes in Iberia, Sicily and the Italian peninsula. Our results point to a higher recent Northwest African contribution in Iberia and Sicily in agreement with historical data. southern Italian regions known to have experienced long-term Arab presence also show an enrichment of Northwest African types. The forensic and genomic implications of these findings are discussed.


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"I'm fighting for the belt, co-main event on the first UFC card in Ontario, so I have an obligation to do as much as I can to help promote not only my fight, but the sport in general up here." - Mark Hominick
If Hollywood made a movie about Team Tompkins, the London, Ontario fight team consisting of Mark Hominick, Sam Stout, and Chris Horodecki, producers would have some of the richest characters in all of mixed martial arts to cast in their film.
The handsome and brooding Stout, with his piercing blue eyes and chiseled features, would be played by Star Trek's Chris Pine. Horodecki, the former IFL and WEC star with a puckish sense of humor and a stand-and-bang fight style, would go to The Social Network's Justin Timberlake.
And while the platinum blonde coach Shawn Tompkins (he'd play himself in the film, naturally) is the de facto team leader, number one featherweight contender Mark Hominick's character would need a special kind of actor to portray the range and depth the real life man has in his personality.
A University of Windsor graduate with a degree in Commerce who started training in martial arts in ninth grade, Hominick would need to be portrayed by an actor who not only kicks ass – after all, he hasn't lost in three years – but someone who is convincing as a thinking man who never buckles under the pressure of the moment.
Matt Damon of the Jason Bourne series would likely get the nod.
"Matt Damon is definitely cool. The Bourne Ultimatum and all of those films definitely made him a lot tougher. I can live with that," he says, agreeing that Tompkins would play himself.
"Nobody but Shawn could play Shawn."
And while a typical Hollywood movie would produce some kind of fantastic ending pitting the protagonist against his toughest challenge in a champion like Jose Aldo, in front of a record setting hometown crowd of 55,000 screaming Canadians – the reality is just as amazing.
Not only will he have the fight of his life against the best featherweight in the world in front of a record audience in his home country of Canada, but his wife Ashley is due to give birth to the couple's first child, a daughter they will name Raeya, just five days after the fight.
In the champion Aldo (18-1), the ten-year MMA veteran faces a Brazilian who not only hails from the opposite side of the world, but who also comes from the opposite side of the tracks.
"Jose has had to overcome many difficulties in his life. Sleeping in the gym, he's had to fight a lot harder for things in life than I have for sure. I'm fortunate that I am from Canada, where we enjoy certain privileges, but that doesn't mean I'm not as mentally tough as he is," says Hominick, who grew up amidst the brutally cold Ontario winters, a stark contrast to the sun and heat of Manaus, Brazil --- from where his opponent hails.
A Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion with excellent striking and devastating Muay Thai leg kicks, Aldo is number three in most pound-for-pound rankings, behind teammate Anderson Silva and Canadian Georges St-Pierre.
Hominick agrees with that distinction.
"What makes him so dangerous and pound-for-pound one of the best is that he can finish guys from anywhere," says Hominick. "On the feet, in the clinch and on the ground, he's so well rounded that preparing for him in this fight camp has been a lot of fun. Because he's so dangerous everywhere, we brought in a lot of guys who are great in different areas."
Hominick, for his part, however, is no slouch.
A former ISKA super welterweight kickboxing champion, "The Machine" has finished 16 opponents by knockout or submission, including the likes of George Roop, Yves Edwards and Yves Jabouin, and he's currently enjoying a five fight win streak.
"I don't think he's seen anybody with my hand speed and footwork," says Mark. "I think I'm the one question mark for who he's been able to take out so far. It's going to be interesting to see how he meets the challenges I will pose to him on fight night."
For Team Tompkins, fight camp is usually in Las Vegas at the TapouT Training Center. However with a pregnant wife and a fight just one hour away from the Adrenaline Training Center, a gym he co-owns with Stout and Horodecki, Mark stayed north of the border and brought fighters and trainers to him this time.
"There's no jetlag and no travel time so that's an added bonus come fight day," he said. "Shawn and BJJ coach Keebo Robinson came up to London and Sam and Chris are here. 155-pounder Jorge Brito is a BJJ black belt and he's been working with me. I have a lot of great national team wrestlers who've been in and I've been boxing with some Olympic boxers, working on my footwork and my clinch game."
And while most fighters training for a championship fight are focused on getting the belt, Hominick says having a pregnant wife during this camp has kept things in perspective for him.
"It's been overwhelming, everything's happening all at once," he said. "We are trying to enjoy the ride and take things one day at a time. There will never be another time like this in our lives. Fighting for the title and giving birth to our first child, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. It's going to come and go but we're trying to enjoy it all. There are days when Ashley is really stressed but we're trying to make it all work. Yesterday I did nine rounds of sparring, left the gym and went straight to Lamaze class. Those are the types of days we've been having."
For Hominick, everything that has happened during the course of his decade long career – training, wins, losses, travel, coaching and running his gym – has been preparation for April 30.
"I believe it's my destiny," he says. "It's a huge opportunity. This is my tenth year as a pro, and to fight in my home province on the biggest card of all time, a baby on the way, I've been training for this for fifteen years. My whole fighting life has been in preparation for this one moment. I really do believe everything happens for a reason, and you're right, Hollywood couldn't have scripted it any better for me."
Hominick started competing in martial arts just two weeks after signing up for his first class. It was a ninth grade gym class field trip to a London, Ontario martial arts school that changed the course of his life forever, something that his mother and late father weren't too keen on.
"They were really never into me being a fighter," he said. "They are not fight fans. My mom's first question to me after every fight is 'Are you retiring now?' My father was a great athlete, but he and my mom wanted me to go the business route. That's why I have a degree from business school. But now my mom's pretty into it. She's very supportive, especially when she's got co-workers who want autographs (Laughs)."
Hominick's father succumbed to cancer four years ago. He says that while many fighters fight through adversity to get to the top of the fight game, nothing really compares to seeing someone suffer through chemotherapy.
"We lost my dad and my wife's mom within six months of each other, and they were going through cancer treatment at the same time, so it was a really difficult time, seeing them go through all the treatment and fight so hard, but to see those people battling cancer it's an awful thing to see anyone go through, let alone someone you love," he said. "He'd be proud, but fighting wasn't something we shared. He didn't really understand the mindset of fighting, but he'd support me in his way. He'd come to my fights but he'd leave right after."
These days Mark's world is consumed with mixed martial arts. He trains full time, he watches fights as much as possible, reads the industry sites and magazines and tries to stay as healthy as he can. He believes that having a close team in Shawn, Sam and Chris is part of the reason he's been in the fight game for so long and is in the position now to fight for the title.
"Shawn was the best man in my wedding," he said of 'The Coach.' "Sam, Chris and I were all groomsmen in his wedding to Sam's sister Emilie. We are all very close, like brothers, and that's really important. I think that's what separates us from a lot of other fighters, especially recently, as you see people gym-jumping. We've been the same crew for twelve years and there's a certain bond we have with each other. There are things I can't do without them. And it's really because of Shawn. He's always led the way and been the one that brought the passion out of all of us. He leads by example."
For Hominick, coming in to this fight as a huge underdog doesn't mean he's not feeling the pressure of the moment. He says that as soon as the fight was announced to take place in his home province, not a day has gone by without reporters calling or dropping by the gym, but he says he's relishing the moment.
"You know guys can't just show up in Georges St-Pierre or Jake Shields' gyms," he says. "But since I'm only an hour away from the venue a lot of the buzz that this card has brought to the area has led a lot of the sports reporters to me, which is great. My life changed overnight on January 22 as far as me being kind of a face of MMA in the area. So a lot of the attention of the show is coming my way. I'm fighting for the belt, co-main event on the first UFC card in Ontario, so I have an obligation to do as much as I can to help promote not only my fight, but the sport in general up here."
As the UFC continues to grow and mixed martial arts becomes more and more accepted in the world of professional combat sports, it's not such a stretch that Hollywood would do the Mark Hominick story. After all, most movies are shot in Toronto anyway. Like the fight on April 30, it would be an easy commute.
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<entry-title>Brainstorming for a Comment Microformat</entry-title> This is a brainstorm for comment microformat. Examples of a comment can be found here comment-examples
Shortform: How do you publish comments on your own site, and how do you publish comments others have made on your posts?
Longform: How do you publish your own comments, others' comments on your stuff, and how do you track comments? How do track the comments you have made on blogs, comments made on blogs your interested in and comments other people have made on your own blog?
How can you do this in a pragmatic way, ingested into some kind of data store, searched or aggregated?
Distinction between Comment (permalink) and List of Comments
Ideally, each indieweb comment/reply should have it's own permalink page, but also get copied into the markup of the post it's in reply to. Should the markup of the two cases differ? We should be able to solve both problems by extending h-entry
a little.
Discovered Elements
Based on the analysis of 25 real world examples of a comment, the results can be found at the Comment Analysis section
The following properties occur most regularly across all examples (84% or more)
- comment 100%
- author 96%
- published 96%
- author-url 84%
Other achievable elements
- comment-link (permalink) 60%
microformats2 h-feed p-comments
For publishing others' comments on your posts:
- h-entry with child
h-feed p-comments
- h-feed because it's a bunch of h-entries in (reverse) chronological order
- p-comments to explicitly declare the children as comments, expose array on
- No real need for h-comment on the child h-entries as h-entry already covers everything a comment needs
- Each comment should have an ID attribute and a
- Perhaps
on the child comments so they can be taken out of context and still used?- Where would it go in markup?

A Blog Post

The First Comment

The Second Comment

- -1 for too much markup compared to .h-entry > .h-entry.p-comment --bw 09:54, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
microformats2 p-comment h-entry
For publishing others' comments on your posts, including syndicating in others' comment posts onto your posts:
How to:
- post h-entry with property
p-comment h-entry
(child) for a comment - one such
p-comment h-entry
per comment - each comment should have an ID attribute and a
permalink inside- maybe with
on same element or child<time>
element - if comment was syndicated in, link to original with
rather than local ID.
- maybe with
on the child comments so they can be easily extracted out of context- e.g. a simple

inside thep-comment h-entry
would connect the context of the page URL (post permalink) as what is being replied to.
- e.g. a simple
for the contents of plain text commentse-content
if you trust the markup from others' comments (or your comment entry HTML stripping/simplifying code)
- explicit
markup either the whole p-content of the comment, or perhaps the first sentence as a simple abbreviation (perhaps useful for syndicating the comments into a feed). - should have
p-author h-card
for the comment author
- no need for h-feed because p-comment property value can already be an array
- any consumer of the comments can decide sort order for themselves, i.e.
- published order (order in the p-comment array)
- chronological order by dt-published of the p-comment h-entry elements
- or reverse chronological order using the same
- No real need for h-comment on the child h-entries as h-entry already covers everything a comment needs
- and simply adding
isn't really sufficient to justify the overhead/complexity of a new root microformat "h-comment"
- and simply adding

A Blog Post

The First Comment
(YYYY-DD-MM HH:MM)

The Second Comment
(YYYY-DD-MM HH:MM)
Note simplifications from microformats2 h-feed p-comments proposal:
- no
- one fewer div / less hierarchy than proposal above
Use case for same page u-in-reply-to
Q: What is the use-case for the same page u-in-reply-to?
A: The use-case for the same page u-in-reply-to is applications/sites that may subscribe to the comments as a feed, perhaps mix them in with other comments/entries. Having an explicit u-in-reply-to makes the comment portable. It's not critical, but it is also a simple/good pattern that encourages extracted data to be self-contained in general.
Schema I
- hentry (root class name)
- The
element represents an individual entry for a comment.
- The
- author (author) 96%
- an Entry Author element MUST be encoded in a hCard
- url (author-url) 84%
- Use the url value of a hcard
- entry-content (comment) 100%
- The "logical Entry Content" of an Entry is the concatenation, in order of appearance, of all the Entry Contents within the Entry
- updated (date) 96%
- use the datetime-design-pattern to encode the updated datetime
- bookmark (comment-link) 60%
- By adding "bookmark" the author is indicating that the page http://someblog/post#comment-001 is a link to a key entry point within an extended document.
- source: [1]
- See also Working Examples

  Matthias Pfefferle  said  about: 85 days ago

 <q cite="http://notizblog.org">Awesome! It works perfect for me. Do you know if its possible to use the firefox microformats api with ubiquity? And by the way... nice webslices implementation on your blog.</q>

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 <q cite="http://notizblog.org"> Awesome! It works perfect for me. Do you know if its possible to use the firefox microformats api with ubiquity? And by the way... nice webslices implementation on your blog.</q>
 </content> <author> <name>Matthias Pfefferle</name> <uri>http://notizblog.org</uri> </author> </entry>
Working Examples
- Comments marked up using hAtom example (note:
usage in comments)- hAtom to Atom transformation example
Parser Notes
- If the
element is not used, the atom:title element SHOULD use theauthor
value of thehentry
presented in a contextual way, for example by prefixing theauthor
value with "by" or appending it with "said" or "says". - The
element SHOULD provide textual content and not be an empty string.
- This proposal means that on the whole nothing much is needed for a comment microformat, a comment can re-use terms outlined in the hAtom Microformat
Design Notes
- Linked Data (Tim Berners-Lee 2006)
- Dereferenceable Uniform Resource Identifier (Wikipedia)
Schema II
- reuse hAtom
- if Entry "B" is in an Entry Comments element of Entry "A", then Entry "B" is a comment on Entry "A"
- an Entry Comments element is identified by using both class names "hfeed comments"

The blog post title

The blog post text
 (etc)

Comment #1
 (etc)

Comment #2
 (etc)

- if there is no Entry Title for a comment
it can be assumed to be empty, it can be invented by the parser - this was discussed at SGFooCamp, see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/90594399@N00/2271787498/
Specific Example from the Wild
hAtom Comments changes are marked IN UPPER CASE LETTERS FOR VISIBILITY. Assume them to be the normal case in otherwise
(section to be completed)
If we can indicate that the hAtom entries are also comments, we could add an indicator beside hAtom.

 hAtom pattern goes here.

Alternatively, we could add hcomment
with hentry
to indicate that the following hentry can be treated also as a comment.

 hEntry pattern goes here.

--Sarven Capadisli 11:59, 25 Sep 2008 (PDT)
- If an hfeed is embedded in an hEntry, that could be enough context to show "these items are replies to the one they're embedded in" singpolyma 12:20, 25 Sep 2008 (PDT)
hAtom and in-reply-to
A user comment (e.g., in blogs, wikis, forms) can be marked as an hAtom since it has a similar content pattern. A way to differentiate an hEntry (e.g., a blog post) from another hEntry (e.g., a user comment) can be done reusing in-reply-to from Atom Threading Extensions. It provides a mechanism to indicate that an entry is a response to another resource. rel="in-reply-to" can indicate that the current hEntry is a reply to another hEntry and has a reference point @href:
Parent
hEntries that use rel="in-reply-to" can be considered as a comment entry in response to a parent entry in the threaded conversation (e.g., in blogs, wikis, forms).
hEntries that are chronologically listed can all use rel="in-reply-to" and refer to the root hEntry (e.g., blog post, form post)
By reusing in-reply-to, we can solve the microformats representation for user comments [2], [3], [4].
Example comment using in-reply-to: http://www.csarven.ca/my-responses-are-in-white
--Sarven Capadisli 21:25, 3 Oct 2008 (PDT)
Idea Consolidation
This is a list of all the various "micro-ideas" that have been discussed on the mailing list in the Wiki, to capture everyone's thoughts and preferences.
- "examples covered" indicates the percentage of examples that can be marked up without presentation changes
- Add your comments, objections and votes (-1, 0, +1) as a sublist in "comments" with your wikiname.
use hAtom Entry for a comment
- notes:
- test cases covered: 95%
- the blogger comments marked as a definition list is problematic, as there is no object that wraps an entire comment
- comments and votes:
- +1 Martin McEvoy
- +1 TobyInk
- +1 David Janes
- +1 Sarven Capadisli
- +1 Singpolyma
mark the comment permalink with rel="reply"
- notes:
- By adding "rel-reply" the author is indicating that the resource indicated by the href is a "reply" to the current document.
- test cases covered:
- 60%
- comments and votes:
- -0.5 David Janes I have several objections: this seems to be a proper subset of what could be covered by marking a comment hEntry with class="comment", and it seems to being opening up a general "reply/threading" microformat that should be completely and independently analyzed. I have doubt too about how well this will work if the document that's being replied to is specified with hashed URL.
- Agreed, this needs separate analysis with more use cases Martin McEvoy
- -0.5 David Janes I have several objections: this seems to be a proper subset of what could be covered by marking a comment hEntry with class="comment", and it seems to being opening up a general "reply/threading" microformat that should be completely and independently analyzed. I have doubt too about how well this will work if the document that's being replied to is specified with hashed URL.
mark the comment permalink with rel="in-reply-to"
- notes:
- test cases covered:
- comments and votes:
- Who proposed this? Sounds like an an abuse of the meaning of
. -1 from me. TobyInk
- Who proposed this? Sounds like an an abuse of the meaning of
add an independent rel="in-reply-to" link
- notes:
- test cases covered:
- comments and votes:
- As long as it's optional (i.e. not the only way to mark that an hentry is a reply to something), my vote is +1. TobyInk
- David Janes -1. This seems be inventing something that for the most part is already covered, i.e. is entirely an orthogonal solution. I do not deny this could be of great utility as part of a general threading microformat, but that would have to be independently analyzed.
- Sarven Capadisli +1 for optional because it has potential to handle various types of commenting where an hentry is a response to another hentry (anywhere):
- chronological comments
- threaded comments
- a blog entry as a reaction to another blog entry
- microblogging replies
add class="comment" to the comment Entry
- notes:
- All the examples studied were the concept of a comment
- test cases covered:
- 95% (note the usual DL/DT issues in some Blogger templates)
- comments and votes:
- +1 Martin McEvoy
- 0 David Janes although it covers 100% of the examples, hAtom does have the concept of a cluster of related Entries, and thus I feel it would be better modeled that way.
add hAtom Entry Feed around all comments
- notes:
- test cases covered:
- comments and votes:
- +1 TobyInk
- -1 un-necessary just use class="comments" Martin McEvoy
- 0 unnecessary where there is an indicator for each comment entry if they are chronologically listed as a response to the main post. Perhaps for threaded comments, however, in that case, class="replies" or class="comments" may be more suitable. Sarven Capadisli
add class="comments" (or similar) to a element around all comments
- notes:
- test cases covered: 10)%
- comments and votes:
- +1, but would prefer
because of analogy with Atom. Better to reuse an existing vocabulary than pull terms out of a hat. TobyInk - +1 David Janes. I'm thinking of this as Entry Replies, which would be physically represented as whatever. Using Entry Replies around all comments would reflect the fact that in 100% of the examples comments come in bunches.
- +1 There is no reason why not Martin McEvoy
- +1 Sarven Capadisli. I also prefer
as it is consistent with the vocabulary in Atom Threaded Extensions. - -1 class=hfeed is more generic and conveys the meaning of "reply" when nested Singpolyma
- +1, but would prefer
use XOXO to mark up comments
- notes:
- test cases covered:
- comments and votes:
Twitter is a comments system
- notes:
- comments and votes:
- Indeedy. TobyInk
- -1 David Janes. Twitter has nothing in common with the other comments system listed. In particular, all replies on Twitter are first class "posts" on your own twitter stream, are done in your own user context, and may not even be replies as they may be conversation initiations.
- +1 Sarven Capadisli. Microblogging notices that only lead with the "@" character (see twitter.com or identi.ca: e.g., "@username Monkey see monkey do") can be considered as replies. If replies are considered to be comments then the system caters user commenting. However, not all notices are comments (responses, replies) because they are standalone messages. The "@" convention is considered to be a reply since the notice also ends up in that user's replies stream. A side note here: using
on the "in reply to" anchor in notices that lead with "@" creates a linkable comment.
A comment microformat should deal with hierarchically nested comments
- notes:
- comments and votes:
- assuming that there is some kind of explicit, programmably-discoverable link between the comments and the thing being commented on (be it through nesting, an anchor link or some other method), then it is almost unavoidable that a comment microformat would be able to deal with hierarchical comments. After all, a hierarchical set of comments is merely a set of comments such that some of the comments are comments commenting on other comments. (I wonder if I could have avoided using the word "comment" six times in that previous sentence?) TobyInk
- +1 Yes As all comments that I have looked at DO have a hierarchical structure, some nested inside each other as replies to other comments. I believe in "most" cases xoxo (
 and
) can address the problems of structure and hierarchy, this SHOULD however be totally optional, or maybe just a design note Martin McEvoy
if hAtom Entry is used, the Entry Title if not present should be X
- comments and votes:
- +1 Use the author value of the hentry presented in a contextual way, for example by prefixing the author value with "by" or appending it with "said" or "says" Martin McEvoy
- David Janes I'm happy to have whatever made up by parser implementers, which seems to be the way Atom feeds happen today. I have issues with specing English words, as it's non-I18N friendly.
- -1 because entry-title doesn't have to be an explicit title that is entered by the commenter. entry-title could be based on the information that already exists e.g., "John Smith commented on 2008-11-24". I don't think making up data (even if it is "X" or null) from thin air to satisfy the parsers is the right approach. This also wasn't the case for regular (non-comment) hAtom Entries. Sarven Capadisli
suggested usage template for above
- notes
- bla bla bla
- test cases covered:
- 50%
- comments and votes:
- +1 this is a great idea - SomeUser
- -1 this doesn't even work in have the cases - SomebodyElse
- you don't even know how to spell "half" - SomeUser
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• An island in the Ob Sea is nicknamed Taiwan by locals: in winter you can walk to it across the frozen water.
One of Novosibirsk's jewels is the remarkable satellite town of Akademgorodok, meaning 'Academic Town' and also nicknamed Silicon Taiga, located in an enchanting forest close to a vast reservoir on the mighty Ob River, known to locals as the Ob Sea.
The city is 3,666 km (2,278 miles) east of Moscow, the Russian capital, taking just over two days by train, or four hours by plane.
More modern than most Siberian cities, it marks only its 120th anniversary in 2013.
Originally Gusevka, a small village of labourers who built a crossing over the Ob River, the Trans-Siberian railway led to its rapid development as a trade and transport centre.
It was later known as Novonikolayevsk, in honour of both Saint Nicholas and Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, before becoming Novosibirsk in 1926.
Novosibirsk is an important access point for the spectacular Altai Mountains to the south or mammoth river trips on the Ob through the vast Russian north as far as Salekhard.
It is also at the northern end of the Turksib railway which links the Trans-Siberian route with Almaty in Kazakhstan, making it a journey of 1,678 km, and beyond that into western China.
Have a look at Novosibirsk WHAT TO SEE page for some ideas both within Novosibirsk and also on a trip out to the satellite town of Akademgorodok.
In summers, when it can be very hot, or in the extremely cold but often sunny winters, the city is good for strolling, with plenty of pubs and cafes to wander into for those in need of a cooling, or warming, drink. While not everyone speaks English, if you need help, you'll usually find someone who does.
Hotel choice and standards in Novosibirsk are dramatically improving for business and budget travellers alike. The Doubletree by Hilton, opened in 2011, a pioneering new-build Western chain hotel in Siberia, offering all you would expect, with fabulous top floor gym, pool, and sauna facilities.
Hugely improved is the Azimut Hotel Sibir and the River Park Hotel, close to a remarkable winter ice park. If you prefer the more intimate atmosphere of a boutique hotel, try either the Garden Apple Hotel or the Boutique Hotel Nord Castle.
See Novosibirsk WHERE TO STAY listing, which also include more basic options for travellers wishing to rest for a night, and get a hot shower, after a few days on the train.
Whether you're here for work, or a quick respite from crossing Siberia by train, Novosibirsk has a wide selection of places to eat, drink and relax.
At the top end, in Akademgorodok, some half an hour drive south from the city centre is one of Siberia's finest restaurants, 'TBK Lounge', run by entrepreneur Denis Ivanov.
The Siberian Times also likes the feeling of 'La Maison' restaurant, conveniently situated in the very centre of Novosibirsk, at Sovetskaya street, with a nice romantic story behind the 1908 building, which the English-speaking staff would be glad to share with you.
We've had a try and enjoyed the quality of sushi and sashimi at 'Planet Sushi' — the part of Russian chain restaurant, also seen in the West of the country and across Siberia. Its sister restaurant 'Il Patio' is well-known for good quality Italian food.
Novosibirsk houses 'Old Irish', the first Irish pub opened east of Urals in 1997, and, surprisingly to many, six other pubs to cheer up fans of Kilkenny and Guinness.
You won't be lost for choice, and usually visitors from afar can expect a warm welcome.


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Cilantro and lime make this simple shrimp dish outstanding – and it takes just minutes to make!
This is an oldie but goodie, a regular in my home. I was making it for dinner the other night and felt the need to re-shoot it. We serve
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Cilantro Lime Shrimp
Servings: 6 • Serving Size: 2/3 cup • Old Points: 3 pts • Points+: 3 pts
Calories: 119 • Fat: 3 g • Protein: 19 g • Carb: 2 g • Fiber: 0 g • Sugar: 0
Cholest: 144 • Sodium: 140 (without the salt)
- 1 1/2 pounds peeled and deveined jumbo shrimp
- 1/4 teaspoon plus 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
- Kosher Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 5 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 tablespoons lime juice (from 1 medium lime)
- 3 to 4 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
Season the shrimp with cumin, and salt and pepper to taste.
Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 teaspoon of the oil to the pan, then add half of the shrimp. Cook them undisturbed for about 2 minutes. Turn the shrimp over and cook until opaque throughout, about 1 minute. Transfer to a plate.
Add the remaining 1 teaspoon oil and the remaining shrimp to the pan and cook, undisturbed, for about 2 minutes. Turn the shrimp over, add the garlic, and cook until the shrimp is opaque throughout, about 1 minute. Return the first batch of shrimp to the skillet, mix well so that the garlic is evenly incorporated and remove the pan from the heat.
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about the expected tablet update to date as BlackBerry Tablet OS v2.0 so far and well, we haven't really had a name yet for the phone version of that operating system. Until now.We've now confirmed with multiple sources that RIM is set to unveil a new name for their QNX-based BlackBerry platform at BlackBerry DevCon this month. And the name is...BlackBerry X or BBX for short.
No, this is not BlackBerry TEN, but rather B B EX representing the coming together of BlackBerry and QNX. Developers have been waiting for the official release of the NDK for QNX, which to date has been targeted for the PlayBook, but I'm thinking with QNX
on the horizon it only makes logical sense that RIM re-brand the QNX development platform and come up with a name that will work for both both tablets and phones. Beyond developing for the BBX platform, I think it really works as the consumer-facing brand of the OS as well. Apple has iOS... RIM can have BBX.When QNX-based BlackBerry
hit the market RIM is going to need a way to clearly differentiate to consumers that these BlackBerry SuperPhones are unlike any BlackBerry Smartphones made to date, and being able to market them as running on the all-new BBX OS sounds good to me.I'm sure we'll see the next week or two get dominated with iPhone news following Apple's event on Tuesday, but I'm thinking with this news that BlackBerry DevCon is starting to shape to be a good one. If you haven't registered yet, it might the time to do so. And of course the CrackBerry Team will be on hand reporting back with all the news.


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Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people
Sep 20, 2012, 5:35 AM
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Nearly 6 million Americans _ significantly more than first estimated_ will face a tax penalty under President Barack Obama's health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said Wednesday. Most would be in the middle class.
The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what critics see as broken promises.
The numbers from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office are 50 percent higher than a previous projection by the same office in 2010, shortly after the law passed. The earlier estimate found 4 million people would be affected in 2016, when the penalty is fully in effect.
That's still only a sliver of the population, given that more than 150 million people currently are covered by employer plans. Nonetheless, in his first campaign for the White House, Obama pledged not to raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 a year and couples making less than $250,000.
And the budget office analysis found that nearly 80 percent of those who'll face the penalty would be making up to or less than five times the federal poverty level. Currently that would work out to $55,850 or less for an individual and $115,250 or less for a family of four.
Average penalty: about $1,200 in 2016.
"The bad news and broken promises from Obamacare just keep piling up," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who wants to repeal the law.
Starting in 2014, virtually every legal resident of the U.S. will be required to carry health insurance or face a tax penalty, with exemptions for financial hardship, religious objections and certain other circumstances. Most people will not have to worry about the requirement since they already have coverage through employers, government programs like Medicare or by buying their own policies.
A spokeswoman for the Obama administration said 98 percent of Americans will not be affected by the tax penalty _ and suggested that those who will be should face up to their civic responsibilities.
"This (analysis) doesn't change the basic fact that the individual responsibility policy will only affect people who can afford health care but choose not to buy it," said Erin Shields Britt of the Health and Human Services Department. "We're no longer going to subsidize the care of those who can afford to buy insurance but make a choice not to buy it."
The budget office said most of the increase in its estimate is due to changes in underlying projections about the economy, incorporating the effects of new federal legislation, as well as higher unemployment and lower wages.
The Supreme Court upheld Obama's law as constitutional in a 5-4 decision this summer, finding that the insurance mandate and the tax penalty enforcing it fall within the power of Congress to impose taxes. The penalty will be collected by the IRS, just like taxes.
The budget office said the penalty will raise $6.9 billion in 2016.
The new law will also provide government aid to help middle-class and low-income households afford coverage, the financial carrot that balances out the penalty.
Nonetheless, some people might still decide to remain uninsured because they object to government mandates or because they feel they would come out ahead financially even if they have to pay the penalty. Health insurance is expensive, with employer-provided family coverage averaging nearly $15,800 a year for a family and $4,300 for a single plan. Indeed, insurance industry experts say the federal penalty may be too low.
The Supreme Court also allowed individual states to opt out of a major Medicaid expansion under the law. The Obama administration says it will exempt low-income people in states that opt out from having to comply with the insurance requirement.
Many Republicans still regard the insurance mandate as unconstitutional and rue the day the Supreme Court upheld it.
However, the idea for an individual insurance requirement comes from Republican health care plans in the 1990s.
It's also a central element of the 2006 Massachusetts health care law signed by then-GOP Gov. Mitt Romney, now running against Obama and promising to repeal the federal law.
Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Wednesday the new report is more evidence that Obama's law is a "costly disaster."
"Even more of the middle-class families who President Obama promised would see no tax increase will in fact see a massive tax increase thanks to Obamacare," she said.
Romney says insurance mandates should be up to each state. The approach seems to have worked well in Massachusetts, with virtually all residents covered and dwindling numbers opting to pay the penalty instead.
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Leveraging CMDBf
COSMOS Project Home > COSMOS Wiki > COSMOS Documents > COSMOS architecture
This page is the beginning of where we can begin our discussions on the CMDBf specification.
- The CMDBf specification can be found here: http://cmdbf.org/
- The CMDBf Interoperability Workshop Scenarios: http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/d/d2/CMDBf-Interop-Workshop-v0.31.zip
- COSMOS CMDBf Deliverables: http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/b/b3/Cmdbf-cosmos-deliverables-v0.07.zip
- CMDBf Query Service: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Providing_a_CMDBf_Query_and_Registration_Service
The COSMOS project intends to produce a reference implementation of a CMDBf Management Data Repository (MDR). The project will demonstrate how a client can use multiple MDRs through the CMDBf query interfaces and registration services to display information from multiple management systems. COSMOS will also create any additional infrastructure required to support the basic use case.
- Chris to update this section with business value and function positioning relative to commercial products
Basic End to End Use Case
The image below is an overview of the most basic use case.
These are the high level requirements necessary to complete the implementation of CMDBf. We will break these down into bugzilla enhancement requests.
(Needs to be expanded on during the call... this is just a start....)
- Query
- Implement the CMDBf as a Muse capability. Bind to the CMDBf API
- Start on Binding to Ali's API
- Map CMDBf query to convenience APIs for SML repo, Stat repo, and CBE repo (this is the data set issues)
- Registration
- How do we reconcile the registration of MDRs vs. the item relationship
- Do we need registration in the first round? Start with a focus on Query.
- Data Broker 197867: Need to design and implement the COSMOS DC Data Broker for i6
- WS-RC 198553: Provide an implementation of WS Resource Catalog
- Client updates 197870: Need to design and implement the COSMOS DC client APIs
- UI work for sheldon
- Reconcilliation
- Need to make sure that the IDs line up or that we have only simplistic means of aligning the different resources
- This gets into a bit of the taxonomies. May need simplistic mappings.
- MDRs look like Data Managers
- DataBroker/ProviderRegistry as MDR
Based on a discussion of the proposed DataBroker design, it appears that what is desired is a combination of an EPR registry for locating DataManagers and a repository of existing data sets that can be processed by those DataManagers. From the use case described above, it appears that the ProviderRegistry should act as an MDR to surface its knowledge of datasets and there attached metadata. If we are going to adopt the CMDBf query dialect as our lingua franca for communicating topology/metadata type information, then it makes sense to apply the CMDBf query capability to both the topology repository and the SDMX-style dataset/keyset repository of the ProviderRegistry.
The Data Broker is intended to be a simple component.
- Clarification of Registration v. Query (Push vs. Pull).
- MDR Negotiation: The handshake b/t the MDR and the Broker in order to facilitate Pull
- Need to outline the use case of bootstrapping the MDR with the management domain.
Ali and David's design is here-->COSMOS_Design_200222
Notes from 8-31 call
Want to have pluggable reconcilliation. Define an "idResolver interface"
- Want to have CMDBf query APIs in front of the data broker
- Need to provide example of what is returned from the query, e.g. the graph query result
- We'll need the EPR of the MDR, maybe some way to determine how to build a query for the MDR
- Need to provide example of what is returned from the query, e.g. the graph query result
- Data Broker becomes an internal implementation detail of the ???
- Break down the cmbdf query green box to separate the web services part
- Break down the web services into the muse capabilities
- We will use the registration APIs to add things into the data broker
- But may only accept queries about what we know about
- The data broker is not going to have relationships initially.
- Who has data about "server 33"?
In the interest of time, don't worry about the ws-rc APIs on the broker
COSMOS is an enablement technology for MDRs. COSMOS provides helpers, et. for federating CMBDs.
- Picture Updates.....
- Change MDR2 to be "Asset Data"
- Add a third MDR, call "Monitor Data".
- No green query box. Yellow registration box
- Add a CMDB (not implemented in COSMOS). Indicate that this is a federating CMDB. Would like to try and show reuse of the COSMOS helpers
- Add CMDBf query on the CMDB box. It takes care of the reconciliation. We ASSUME in COSMOS that ID reconciliation is done.
Next Steps
- Coordinate w/Ali the work that needs to be done
- Figure out how to make the CMDBf Web service gorp
- Provide examples of what needs to flow into the registration service
- Update data broker to handle this new info
- Chris update overview section of this page
Open Issues/Questions
- Do we want the data broker to have CMDBf APIs on it?
- What value will an adopter derive by utilizing this use-case? (Jimmy Mohsin)
- What is the definition of exact deliverable, i.e what is in the final release package for this use case? (Jimmy Mohsin)
- What are the design / implementation pre-requisites for implementation of the CMDBf use case (Jimmy Mohsin)
- Will this use case result in one ER or multiple, i.e. how will the work be divided? I hope MULIPLE! (Jimmy Mohsin)
- How many resources are envisioned to be utilized and from which companies? (Jimmy Mohsin)
- What is the estimated time scope in weeks AND iterations (i7? i7 & i8?) (Jimmy Mohsin)
- Who will define the quality metrics and by when? (Jimmy Mohsin)
- We need clear (and timely) timeframes for design completions. (Jimmy Mohsin)
- Discussion of end-to-end CMDBf use case (Jimmy Mohsin has added the following sub-items)
** Pre-requisites for implementation for the CMDBf use case ** Will this result in one ER or multiple, i.e. how will the work be divided? ** How many resources are envisioned and from which company? ** Definition of exact deliverable ** Estimated time scope in weeks AND iterations (i7? i7 & i8?) ** Definition of quality metrics ** Clear timeframes for design completions


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