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Portugal's Pedro Proenca will referee his second major European final in a matter of months as on Friday UEFA announced he would be in charge of Sunday's Euro 2012 final between Spain and Italy.
The 41-year-old refereed the Champions League final in May which saw Chelsea beat Bayern Munich on penalties.
Proenca's compatriots Bertino Cunha Miranda and Ricardo Jorge Ferreira Santos will run the lines in Kiev on Sunday, while Manuel Jorge Neves Moreira De Sousa and Duarte Nuno Pereira Gomes will be additional assistant referees.
Proenca and his team have already overseen Spain's 4-0 Group C win over the Republic of Ireland and Sweden's 2-0 victory against France in Group D.
They were also in charge at the England-Italy quarter-final, which the Azzurri won 4-2 on penalties after a goalless 120 minutes.
UEFA said that Proenca had been "on the rise in European refereeing circles" since officiating the European under-19 championship final in 2004.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
How Do You Correct Errors in Video Stories?
Not his mistakes -- yours. And other journalists. More accurately (and we do want to be especially careful today), he writes a column, maintains a blog, and has even written an entire book about factual errors committed by reporters... and how to prevent them.
His book's eponymous Website, Regret The Error, "reports on media corrections, retractions, apologies, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the press. I aim to provide a non-partisan resource to serve both the press and the public; my overall goal is to help make news reporting more accurate and transparent."
All admirable, to be sure, but it got us wondering. The most difficult thing about correcting an error in a text story is eating humble pie. Technically speaking, it's easy enough to issue a correction or even an entire new story -- whether for print or online. (Web protocol is to fix the mistake, and then add a note indicating what was altered or amended, and why.) Whether it's a misspelling, misleading quote, misidentification, or any of the other myriad ways in which humans can mess up relaying information, composing the correction (and apology) may be tricky, but keyboarding and copying/pasting text is not.
However, what happens when there's an error in an online video story? Not as simple to fix! Depending on the nature of the gaffe, you probably have to yank it offline, and then... what? Excise the offending footage? Add explanatory chyron titles? Re-shoot new scenes or interviews? No matter what, re-editing a video is a lot more time-consuming and labor-intensive than re-editing a text story. Or should you just add a text correction next to the video? (But then what if that video is "shared" on Facebook, or embedded on another Website? The text Band-Aid won't accompany the flawed video.)
Hypothetically anything your camera "saw" should be "true." But we all know that footage can be edited to skew or alter reality, especially by juxtaposing scenes (deliberately or inadvertently) in a way that could force a viewer to draw a false cause-and-effect conclusion.
Plus, the subjects you interview can make mistakes, which may not be called to your attention until after the video is posted. Then what? Go back and re-conduct the interview? Replace the old one with the new one? And, if so, let the viewer know this is a corrected version?
Even the reporter's own voiceover narration can accidentally incorporate a wrong date or statistic. Should it then be re-written and re-recorded to the exact length of the audio track it needs to replace?
In short, given the enormous number of ways in which errors can creep into a video story, frankly we're amazed that, even after viewing thousands of non-fiction videos, we've never encountered a "video correction." Is it because they're all so perfect? Or because it's too much work to fix relatively minor errors, so they're just left in? Or because it's too much work to fix errors, and so the wayward video is just removed from the Website altogether? Or because the videos are fixed, and it's just not formally called to anybody's attention?
Given the proliferation of professional videojournalism, we'd like to hear some real-world stories about how mistakes are corrected in that medium. Additionally, let us know if your department or organization has established guidelines or protocols for dealing with video errors when they do arise.
* Craig Silverman's Website
* Regret the Error Website
* Regret the Error book
* Regret the Error column (Columbia Journalism Review)
* Regret the Error 'Accuracy Checklist' (pdf)
* Poynter interview with Craig Silverman
Tip of the cyberhat to Advancing the Story!
3 comments:
YouTube makes it much easier to correct a video story now without reworking the entire thing.
We recently added a correction overlay after accidentally mislabeling a bank in a recent video for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund (see 0:59 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4TqcnID77c).
I'll be curious to see what protocol others follow.
- Amanda Zamora, Multimedia Editor, www.huffpostfund.org
- December 4, 2009 at 6:56 AM
- Dan Day said...
We have taken down videos with errors and reposted them after fixing the errors. That's been in situations where we've spotted the error immediately or shortly after posting.
But if the error were discovered days later? We'd still fix on the video, and I imagine we'd run a "set-straight" notice in print, on our site or both.
Dan Day
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Monday, December 31, 2012
The Front Side of Fifty
The fire department should be warned and the hospital alerted.
Someone might be playing with fire.
It's quite possible that my wife may bake a cake for me today. She may decide to plunge waxed wicks into chocolate and ignite their tips. People sometimes do that on birthdays. But mine is a fire hazard.
The cake, you see, must be huge to hold all those candles. Add to that bulk the weight of frosting and wax and serving dish and it's a disaster in the making. A hernia waiting to happen. A horror writer's delight.
With fire extinguisher in hand and buckets of water by my feet, I'll wait. Just in case...
And thus begins the last year I'll live on the front side of fifty. This time next year, God willing, I'll be half a century old. :::shudders:::
And because it's my birthday, I'll ask you to grant me one wish. It's one that each and every one of you can grant.
My birthday wish is simply this:
Celebrate the coming New Year to your fullest, but please, do so responsibly and safely. You are loved too much by too many to do otherwise.
The continued presence of those we love is the greatest birthday present we can have. Make sure you're around to be that present.
Happy New Year!
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Happy Birthday to you, Jeff!ReplyDelete
I hope you have a happy birthday and a happy New Year!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! And a safe and happy New Year to you as well!Delete
Happiest of birthdays, Jeff.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Donna. It's been a good one.Delete
Happy birthday Jeff!ReplyDeleteReplies
I appreciate that, Imogen! Just having another birthday makes me happy. ;-)Delete
Happy Birthday, Jeff, and Happy New Year!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Kyra! May your New Year be happy and safe too!Delete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2012 at 7:36 AM
Oh Jeff a very happy birthday to you. You are a definitely a man who lives sharing with others. May the "next half" let you see the blessing harvests of your life tenfold.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Julie! I'll be happy if the "next half" just lets me see! LOLDelete
Jeff! Wow - a New Year's Eve baby. What? Your mother couldn't hold out any longer for a chance to win a new car? "GET THIS OUT OF ME!"ReplyDelete
Happiest birthday wishes! The happiest wishes anyone in Blogdom can bestow...let's see the others try and fail.
But no wonder I've been feeling so old, what with hanging around you and Julie. I've got YEARS ahead of me before hitting that half-century mark. I'm trying to Benjamin Button it.
Happy Birthday, Jeff. I'll listen in on the scanner for combustion alerts. :o)Replies
Dad wanted the tax deduction. Mom just wanted it done. (I got an early start at being late.)Delete
You'll be safe hanging with us until you start checking the fiber content of your cereal and getting others to hold the newspaper so you can read it. ;-)
I'll give the Benjamin Button thing a try! And thanks for the grandest of birthday wishes!
Happy birthday, sir. I still haven't figured out how you can write nonfiction blog posts that sound like prose.ReplyDeleteReplies
Many thanks, Patrick. I'll clue you in...once I've figured it out myself. ;-)Delete
Today is your birthday? Happy birthday then! You're one year ahead of me - let me know what fifty is like before I hit it.ReplyDelete
I can grant you that wish because I never go anywhere on New Year's Eve and spend it playing games with my wife. May not sound exciting to some, but it's the best way I know how to spend the last few hours of the year. (Besides other things which will go unmentioned...)
Have a great New Year's Eve birthday!Replies
Today's the day! You do realize you're asking a lot of me, wanting me to remember something, right? And there is no better way to spend any hours than with the one you love, whether details can be mentioned or not. LOL Happy New Year, Alex!Delete
I had to bribe the Ancestors to smoke the Internet gods big time so they give me enough signal to display one single page today. They heard me out and from the corners of a very tiny town dragon came to wish you a very happy birthday and a grrrrreat New Year. Our bet stands for next year when we readjust calendars. :D Dwarves made you a singing card, they're wearing the cheerleaders customs they made just for you and they're making their best performance of the Hippos Ballet in Fantasy. Don't blame me. I had nothing to do with that. I'll pay for the psychological therapy you'll need after you see them and get nightmares of hairy legs for weeks. In the bright side, you'll also get an invitation to the Dwarf Tossing Championship with the best of the dragon league. ;) Bless be, my friend.ReplyDeleteReplies
I hope the Ancestors didn't require too high of bribe price. And instead of seeing valiant hobbits scaling mountains, I now see them lined like chorus girls parading around a Las Vegas stage. Therapy may indeed be needed. But who can resist appreciating such cheerful, well-meaning dwarves?Delete
I've come to the conclusion that our calendars were correct all along. They were simply misinterpreted, like that of the Mayans.
I appreciate the well wishes, Al. Truly. Have a splendid time in that very tiny town! May it be a wonderful start to a splendid New Year.
Birthday wish granted. Happy Birthday Jeff and may you live to see many more. There will be a point in my life when my age will be written by two plastic numbers and no more than ten representative candles on the cake. I'm 28 right now so I think I'm safe but at 40, I'll have to see a sample cake to decide if it's time to drop the amount of candles on the cake. Also enjoyed how you turned a birthday cake and candles into a post of dangerous hilarity.ReplyDelete
Have a great New Year.Replies
Great! I love it when my birthday wishes are granted. (I really don't make that many.) I do, however, fear the numbered candles. They have a way of getting transposed, "94" instead of "49" as though life has played a cruel joke on me. LOL Enjoy your years Sheena, each one is priceless, yet worth more than the one before. (And I'm glad you liked my hilarity!)Delete
Age 50 is your opportunity to start counting backwards--but why wait? It'll just get you to teenagedom one year sooner. :)ReplyDelete
I think that's an excellent idea, Lauren! I wonder if I can get away with it? Happy New Year to you!Delete
Happy birthday!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Sara! Have a great New Year!Delete
Happy birthday, from one Jeff to another. And that's a great wish, thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
It's a wish most sincere, Jeff. And thanks for the birthday wishes.Delete
Happy Birthday!ReplyDelete
I wish you many more birthdays and many more happy new years!Replies
Thanks, Carol! I LOVE the added "many" in there! I'll do my best to make both happen. May your New Years be happy as well.Delete
Happy Birthday, sir.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Rob! It was indeed a good one. (At my age, all birthdays are good ones! LOL)Delete
Happy (belated) birthday, and happy new year, too! ~\o/~ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Heather! And a happy New Year backatcha!Delete


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We've all heard the stories about Soviet-era officials who fell out of favor with the ruling elite and not only disappeared from the streets of Moscow but also from history.
Take Leon Trotsky, who was exiled, then assassinated in Mexico, and whose image was airbrushed from official Soviet photographs. Or Nikolai Yezhov, chief of the Soviet secret police who, after leading Stalin's 1930s purges for two years, got purged himself: He was executed, and removed from official photographs.
So there's a long history in Moscow of rewriting the past. But it looks as though the Russian government is trying to rewrite the present too. In the days after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, a computer traced back to the Russian government edited a Wikipedia entry about the disaster to say that the plane was shot down by the Ukrainian military (changing wording that said the rocket was obtained from the Russian Federation, a detail suspected but not yet established).
This isn't the first time Russian government computers, traced by their IP addresses, have made ostensibly anonymous edits to Wikipedia entries. According to Global Voices, nearly 7,000 such edits have been made over the last 10 years. That's a lot of rewriting.
Of course, the Russians aren't the only ones trying to alter history, or the present. In fact, the Russians are relatively light editors compared with folks manning computers at the U.S. Congress. Jari Bakken, the Norwegian programmer who tracked the Russian edits, found nearly 9,500 Wikipedia edits from 2002-2010 traceable to computer IP addresses tied to congressional offices.
As Abraham Lincoln once famously said, "You can't trust everything you read on the Internet."
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How do you go back to the version before Quantum
User Help for Mozilla Firefox
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I noticed that my FF is updated to Quantum. But an addon is not working, so I need to go back. How can I do this?
If you don't have a backup of your V56 profile, then you have to go nuclear on a Mac. DO NOT SET SOFTWARE OF ANY KIND TO AUTO-UPDATE IN THE BACKGROUND - You never know what it's going to do. Read the release notes BEFORE upgrading ANY piece of software on your system.
If you need to go nuclear then do this:
[0] Open your current version of Firefox and export your bookmarks and any add-ons that will let you export settings to the Desktop
[1] Download the latest stable release to your Desktop (V56 or V52ESR - ESR can be found here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/o ... tions/all/ )
NOTE: The ESR version will run fine and get all security updates until mid 2018, it may be a good option for you
[2] Go into the Applications folder and move Firefox.app to the Trash
[3] Go to ~/Library/Application Support/ and move BOTH the Firefox folder AND the Mozilla folder to the trash
[4] Go to ~/Library/Caches/ and move BOTH the Firefox folder AND the Mozilla folder to the trash
[5] Go to ~/Library/Preferences/ and move org.mozilla.firefox.plist to the Trash
Everything on your Mac related to Firefox is now in the Trash. ***** DO NOT EMPTY THE TRASH UNTIL EVERYTHING IS RUNNING WELL *****
[6] Open the latest stable release .dmg on your Desktop (from step 1) and install Firefox as directed.
[7] Open Firefox, set your prefs, reinstall all add-ons and re-import your bookmarks from the Desktop.
[8] Re-set all your prefs for all your add-ons. (unless they can be imported from step 0
[9] All your favicons will be toast - you will have to reload all bookmarks 50-100 at a time (or however you want) to get them back.
It takes a while, but you CAN do it.
It was auto-updated. How do you turn that off after going nuclear on this?
Firefox > Preferences > General - Scroll down to the Firefox Updates section and turn off auto-updating. Choose to either be notified (and let YOU decide when to do so), or no notification whatsoever. I also have the automatically update search engines turned off as well, but that's your call....
Using that preference is known to produce an unexpected outcome. The notification window can end up behind the main browser window all too easily, and Firefox will wait only a minute or so for the user to respond to the notification the update; and then will download the update without user input.
Best to use Never check for updates ...
Another thing than can be done is to null the value of app.update.url in about:config .
No URL for Firefox updates and there's no way a connection can be made to check for the availability of an update.
And on Windows computers disable the Mozilla Maintenance Service.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/wh ... ce-service
Mozilla can trigger an update at will, although they don't use that feature of MMS more then once or twice a year, at the most.
Yep, I have experienced a number of "WTF just happened, I thought that I turned that off. HTH did an update get downloaded?" moments over the years since the auto updater "feature" started with Firefox 3.0 .
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Mine has wandered off and I'm out looking for it.
@edmeister - thanks for the info. Much appreciated
@firebrand3 - Just set your option to Never check for updates, and then check this site every time you log on (only takes a second to do so):
You'll be able to see all releases, both point and major...
Does this mean that after mid 2018 everyone is forced to use Quantum?
no, you wont be forced, but responsible users will do the upgrade. you probably wont get help any longer on outdated versions, not here. or you change browser.
The ESR version being Firefox 52 ESR as 52.9.0esr out on June 26 is the last planned update for 52 ESR as next major version ESR will be based on Firefox 60.0 out on May 9th,
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Is it appropriate to discuss sex on the first date?
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Is it appropriate to discuss sex on the first date?
Forget politics and religion: the most uncomfortable first date conversation for a lot of guys is sex. However, i am going to put forward the radical notion that you probably should talk about — or at least around — sex on a first date. What do I mean by that? Some people are dating alot before starting eeven talking about sex - not even having it. And then it just turns out that you guys do not have alot of common things about your sexual life and desires in general. So i believe that we should talk about sex openly on the first date...At least i do that...Some people think that i am weird maybe - let it be. What do you think guys?
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When you're bantering with a woman, whether it's out at a bar or on a date, you basically want to accomplish a few things: be Funny: This is where you chat, banter, flirt and basically try to get her to smile or laugh. You want to be carefree and self-amused here. What you don't want to be is a dancing monkey desperate to entertain her… which is one reason that you should also… First it can sound weird and kind of uncomfortable but in general you will have a great fun,believe me! Nothing is wrong in such kind of chats. I do that by myself sometimes and people react normal on it. Do not be scared
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Re: Is it appropriate to discuss sex on the first date?
Be challenging: here's the part of the conversation where you push her away a little bit. You make jokes about how you gave up dating bad boys, or that it will never work between you two because she likes Grey's Anatomy. The point here is to keep things light still. You don't want to offend him or be a jerk. But even this won't work unless you're also ready to… Try to make the conversation more natural... Let it just go like it is...If he would like to stop talking about it or if you see that he does not like it - just do not push on him with this conversation. Give him time
Re: Is it appropriate to discuss sex on the first date?
Be sexual: being sexual means just that. This is where your flirting is going to shift more to sexual innuendo. You don't want to be a creep, but you'd also be amazed at what you can get away with once you've established some rapport with a man before. A lot of the time, the difference between being creepy and being sexy is whether or not he's into you.What happens when you start being a little sexual? It's good to go about this in a light way, just like when you're being funny or being challenging. If you come on too strong, that can turn him off.
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Remember that the point of being sexual on a first date is to let her know that you're not just interested in him as a friend. A lot of guys complain about the "friend zone," but a lot of these same guys aren't going out of their way to let men know that they are interested in them as more than "just friends." Without being sexual, you can come across as a bit like a "best friend" or "big brother" type. So when it comes to first date conversation, don't feel like you always have to play it completely safe. Want to make relations work out - feel free to talk everything you want.
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Re: Is it appropriate to discuss sex on the first date?
FOR THE RELATIONSHIP serious man, sex itself is NOT the goal, as he also knows the need to find out a lot about the person he may choose to be a husband and father to his children. He will still WANT sex just like any other man, but he will know how to control his desires and emotions to lead him down the path to exploring all he needs before committing to an exclusive relationship. Any man worth learning about always gives a man time to become familiar with him. He' not insulted or feels insecure by this. Most men are emotionally, it's not an insult, just a fact, and a fact that is well known.
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Re: Is it appropriate to discuss sex on the first date?
I do not know really.... Talking about sex on the very first date can be really confusing. First of all you have to make the person who is with you ( your date actually) to feel comfortable. If you can do that on the first date( not even in the end of it) - then my confratulations! You are a real cool man as lot's off people are not that open minded as you can think. Or well if you date your friend or just a guy who you know for some time already 0 then yes it can be ok to talk about sex on the first date. But that is the only variant i guess Do not think of these topic like of anything necessery to talk about. Feel free to talk about everything
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I am open to talk about sex on the first date. But not everybody is so easy with this. I mean that some guys a not open at all for acquaintances. They can't talk about some private themes. But I think that sex is not in the list of some special themes that shouldn't be discussed at least at the first date. It is natural process and really pleasurable one.
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i do not even know, i think that it depends on the people. if you see that the person feels normal talking about the sex then why not, especially if you want to have sex after this first date. but if you see that he is shy and does not even think about t then it is better not to ask anything about it, i hope that you understand it very very good. when the person does not expect it then he will be shocked and it may be not only your the first date but also the last one. if you do not want it then better live this topic for later.
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i have not even thought about it. if you are talking on your first date and there is such a topic then i think that you do not have to avoid it, but if you see that the partner is very shy and he does not like to talk a lot , it is better not to start this topic because you will put him in a very uncomfortable condition. if you want to have relations with him then it is better to ask about it on the next date but not straight. choose the way which will be the most comfortable for him. but if you notice that he wants to talk about it and this topic may be interesting for him then do not be shy, just ask. maybe you will interest him.
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Thijs Metsch, Platform Computing
Alexander Papaspyrou, Technische Universität Dortmund
Alexis Richardson, VMware
Published by the IEEE Computer Society
|Article Contents
|Why a Cloud Standard?
|OCCI Overview
|Impact and Implementations
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Today's cloud ecosystem features several increasingly divergent management interfaces. Numerous bridging efforts attempt to ameliorate the resulting vendor lock-in for customers. However, as the number of providers continues to grow, the drawback of this approach becomes apparent: the need to maintain adapter implementations. The Open Cloud Computing Interface builds on the fundamentals of modern Web-based services to define a standardized interface for cloud environments while enabling service providers to differentiate their service offerings at the same time.
• Discoverability. Service consumers can query the service provider to find out what capabilities are available. The information is self-describing and complete. If the service consumer is a broker, it can request that multiple service providers describe what's offered and then choose from among them.
• Extensibility. Because cloud computing spans a broad set of offerings, from infrastructure to software as a service (IaaS to SaaS), the OCCI specification must be extensible. Currently, it specifies one extension for the IaaS domain, but the working group can add others, as can providers themselves. Service consumers must be able to discover the extensions available.
• Modularity. Because of its extensibility, OCCI must be modular. Indeed, even the OCCI specification itself is split into three documents: the first describes the core model, which serves as the foundation; the second describes an extension to this model for the IaaS domain; and the third describes a simple text-based HTTP RESTful rendering. Each document can be used individually, ignored, or replaced as the situation requires.
Core. The core model's main objective is to introduce a type system through what OCCI calls categories: each resource in the OCCI namespace has a type that defines its capabilities (attributes, actions, and so on). 3 Categories are freely definable and uniquely identifiable using a scheme. They can relate to each other and thereby define a hierarchy.
Categories define only the type of resource. Extensions (such as the infrastructure extension described later) thus define subcategories that extend from the main categories themselves.
First, each resource instance will have one kind that's defined by a category in the OCCI model. This kind is immutable and specifies a resource's basic set of characteristics. This includes its location in the hierarchy, attributes, and applicable actions.
The action category defines an action and its parameters. An action is a specific operation that can be executed on a resource.
A mixin is a way of dynamically adding or removing a resource instance's capabilities. We can think of mixins as a way to inherit additional capabilities by composition (OCCI uses the composite pattern to realize mixins). They are similar to the concept many modern programming languages incorporate that allows for bundling reusable features. Object-oriented programming languages, such as Scala and Ruby, support this concept out of the box. Each OCCI resource can have zero or more mixins. An OCCI mixin also has a set of capabilities such as a location in the URI hierarchy, applicable actions, and attributes. This means that a resource instance's capabilities can be altered over time. OCCI also leverages mixins as a templating mechanism. It defines templates as mixins that can be applied to resource instances, which then assume the template's characteristics. Last but not least, OCCI uses mixins to tag resource instances and so enable folksonomic organization.
Complementing the category class is the entity class, which represents a type's instances; entities can be either resources or links. Figure 3 shows all these elements and how they relate to each other.
The resource entity represents resources that are exposed to the service consumer. The resources that each entity represents can be abstractions from what the service provider exposes through his or her underlying resource management framework. Links create an association between resource entities. A link is a directed association between two resources, but because it derives from an entity, it's also a resource itself and, as such, is exposed as a URI in a RESTful interface. Each entity is of a certain kind and can be assigned multiple mixins. The kinds, mixins, and actions of a resource are all exposed through their category definitions.
Some might view setting up a type system with categories as a remake of MIME media types. However, they are in fact orthogonal to them, because the main difference lies in their purpose: MIME media types indicate how the data delivered is being rendered, whereas categories indicate what data is being rendered. (Remember that in OCCI, the model is decoupled from the rendering. Other renderings might not have MIME media types.) In fact, categories don't attempt to replace MIME media types, but rather complement them and broaden the usage model.
The category type system is more feature-rich than a system using MIME media types alone: categories are self-descriptive, discoverable through a query interface, and self-sufficient. A resource in the OCCI model can have multiple categories assigned, exposing several facets simultaneously. In combination with MIME media types, categories deliver a powerful system for resource metadata exposure that supports different renderings of the same information for any given resource type.
Within the query interface, service consumers can find all categories that are usable in a service provider's namespace. The query interface exposes all registered categories and their corresponding hierarchy and describes how each individual category is composed (such as its capabilities and so on). Categories in the query interface can of course be filtered and searched for.
Infrastructure. The infrastructure model 4 is an extension to the core model that models entities in the IaaS domain. In the context of the core model, it describes a set of resources with their capabilities and how to link those resources together if required.
Through categories, the infrastructure specification describes three kinds, which can be used to create the resource instances of compute, storage, and network. When instantiated, any of the three will be accessible through the RESTful interface as URIs. Figure 4 shows how these entities relate to their corresponding parts in the core model.
The extension also further specifies links between resources. Links are necessary to represent associations between resources, such as a compute instance that links to an OSI layer 2 network device router or a storage resource — for example, a database, block device, or Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) end point. OCCI accomplishes interoperability with CDMI, for instance, through the linking mechanism.
Service consumers can apply mixins to some of the described infrastructural entities. Commonly, the infrastructural model's mixins are applied — especially in the case of service providers — to network-related entities to give them layer 3 and 4 networking capabilities. Otherwise, such entities would represent only layer 2 networking entities, which aren't particularly useful for internetworking. Figure 5 illustrates this concept. By dynamically adding an IPNetwork mixin to the Network resource, extra capabilities are added to the resource instance. Note that multiple mixins can be bound to a resource and that because links are themselves entities, we can add mixins to links as well.
The categories hierarchy ensures that only mixins relevant to the resource instance in question can be added. This way, service consumers and providers are limited to adding a mixin to a resource instance that's in the mixin's hierarchy. This means that applying networking mixins to a StorageLink isn't possible. Because the hierarchy itself isn't limited, mixins can build on other mixins.
Figure 6 describes a simple portal service users access to run a MapReduce application. This application has also been used to explore interoperability in the cloud with regard to integrating OCCI, the Open Virtualization Format (OVF), and CDMI. 5 The service is described using OCCI's infrastructure extension model.
Service consumers can access all entities illustrated in Figure 6 through their own URIs. The links, compute, and network resource instances would be in the same provider's namespace (but aren't required to be), whereas the storage entities could be hosted through a CDMI-compatible interface. Note that the links are essential to the core model's ability to express associations.
Figure 7 shows a request for creating the virtual machine that represents the portal.
When creating the instance using HTTP POST, a category for the virtual machine's kind is present alongside the network association. This tells the service provider to connect the virtual machine to a certain service-provider-managed network.
• The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has listed and noted OCCI in its cloud computing program strategic efforts, particularly in the area of Standards Acceleration to Jumpstart Adoption of Cloud Computing (SAJACC).
• The Standards and Interoperability for e-Infrastructure Implementation Initiative (SIENA) has named OCCI a key recommendation for cloud standards in its "European Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for eScience and e-Government" ( www.sienainitiative.eu/Repository/Filescaricati/8ee3587a-f255-4e5c-aed4-9c2dc7b626f6.pdf). Integrating OCCI with CDMI and OVF has been recommended for future eScience and e-government platforms.
• The UK government's G-Cloud initiative came out of the UK's cabinet office in response to the growing interest in cloud computing within the government. Several reports, among them the Technical Architecture Workstrand Report, recommend using OCCI ( www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/08-G-CLOUD-TechnicalArchitectureWorkstrand-Report.pdf).
• The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has identified OCCI as the leading standard for cloud computing in terms of both maturity and impact in its recently published report, "The Standardization Environment for Cloud Computing" ( www.bmwi.de/English/Navigation/Service/publications,did=476736.html).
• As the major stakeholder for e-infrastructure for the European research area, EGI has adopted OCCI as the flagship standard for infrastructure management within its overall eScience platform vision. To this end, EGI integrates OCCI with other standards toward a federated IaaS ecosystem profile. Complementing this activity in the US, FutureGrid is also considering the using OCCI.
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So here is another thing. Seth Myers is interviewing Joe Hill and I am watching from my perch high and far away on my mysterious island of emotional distance and contempt and it is as if the older I get the more godlike I am because there is nothing that surprises me and I cannot be seduced by the son of Stephen King and I am charmed by nothing; I have attained the weary omniscience of a god for whom all is repetition and slender variation; watching pop culture now is like watching a waterfall: the same silver mesmerizing stream, beautiful yet unchanging, soothing yet loveless; I observe without allegiance. It is just a waterfall.
There used to be allegiance. I used to fall in love with bands. I fell in love with The Clash.
Before Joe Hill was on Kerry Washington was on and in between them was Michael C. Hall. So Kerry Washington is a star on Scandal but you knew that. You knew that but I did not because as I say pop culture has marched on like a silent army of robotic simulacra outside my tenth-floor loft window in an ur-New York City apartment in an imaginary graphic novel that is being read by a character played by me in a black leather chair by the red brick wall of his tenth floor loft window while the TV is on. I remember being in the vortex of slavish pop culture erudition, the mindless brilliance and repetition that the liminal soul state between 12 and 18 requires, that I have hung over the edge of the waterfall and watched band after band slide into warm liquid obscurity, that now older but no more knowing I am riffing now that's all, on stage in the hot light in the roar of a bored indifferent crowd I strut with my top hat and cane, begging you to watch and begging you to see my code, crack the mystery of my eggshell, warm up to me, tell me a bedtime story.
Snorting speed to stay up all night entering calendar events in the computer of the San Francisco Weekly in the early 1980s: Now that was the big pop culture thrill: Knowing every single venue and every single show. For what? To feel the vicarious thrill. To possibly be cool by proxy. Enough. Horseshit. A bogus thing. But wait. Have you been there too? Do you also know the dizzy wakeup call when you're watching a new talkshowhost and you don't even know who the former talkshowhost was and you realize it's been 10 years?
How 10 years can go by. How all your young friends look old. How you can't believe children are allowed to be bank tellers.
When will I fall in love with a song or a book again? Perhaps never. Perhaps now it will just be an endless succession of amusing repetitions, authors enacting and reenacting a regal ceremony and me, locked in a sterile 10th floor room with my words, fewer and fewer, rolling them around on my desk, looking for a new combination. Me no better than you: both of us working with scarce few tools, seeing what we can do in the time allotted, like on Top Chef or the Apprentice.


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Lauren Murrell grew up in the small coastal town of Jupiter, on the east coast of Florida. Her Father instilled his love for all aspects of the outdoors into her from birth. Most of her childhood was spent either on the ocean deep sea fishing, or riding hunting buggies and airboats through the swamps of South Florida with her family.
Throughout her teenage years she was out in the woods hunting hogs, alligators, deer, and turkey every chance she could. In her early 20's she decided to try her hand at archery hunting, and changed her focus to primarily hunting whitetail deer in the south. Lauren has traveled all over the U.S., Canada, and Africa in pursuit of adventure, and a diverse list of wild game species. Hunting is a way of life for Lauren and we are very excited to have her on our team.
She is a staunch advocate for hunting, conservation, and fitness. She spends countless hours a week in the gym training so she will always be able to go the extra mile. "Never Quit" and "Failure is not an Option" are the two phrases she lives by. Last season Lauren hunted with us we knew at that moment if she wanted to guide she would be a tremendous asset. Lauren has a bright future in the industry with endless possibilities. Glad to have you as part of the Deltana Team! Looking forward to it!


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Mortality risk is higher for coronary artery disease (CAD) associated with radiation treatment than that from typical atherosclerosis, an observational study of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) suggested.
Patients with CAD associated with prior radiation therapy had higher mortality risk during more than 6 years of follow-up than did those with atherosclerotic CAD (38% versus 27% for atherosclerosis group, P=0.04). Even after multivariable adjustment, radiation exposure was an independent predictor for all-cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR] 1.85, 95% CI 1.21-2.85).
Mortality from cardiovascular causes was also elevated in the prior radiation group (adjusted HR 1.70, 95% CI 1.06-2.89), according to the investigation published in the June 2016 issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions.
"This is the first study to establish previous external beam radiation therapy exposure as an independent risk factor for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality after PCI," wrote authors Milind Y. Desai, MD, of Cleveland Clinic, and colleagues.
"Furthermore, our results are supportive of the premise that cardiovascular death is common among patients with malignancy who initially survive external beam radiation therapy (i.e., radiation survivors), particularly those previously treated with thoracic radiation that have developed concomitant CAD requiring PCI."
"We have previously demonstrated that previous external beam radiation therapy exposure was an independent risk factor for increased long-term mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, including isolated coronary artery bypass graft [CABG] and combined CABG and valvular surgery," they added.
The authors concluded that their data "seem to validate that alternative treatment strategies may be warranted in patients with previous external beam radiation therapy exposure requiring cardiac surgery."
After multivariable adjustment, other predictors of long-term mortality after PCI were:
- Balloon angioplasty or bare metal stents (HR 2.50, 95% CI 1.61-3.97)
- SYNTAX score greater than 10 (HR 1.99, 95% CI 1.32-3.04)
- New York Heart Association functional class 3 or worse (HR 1.83, 95% CI 1.15-2.91)
- Current or previous smoking (HR 1.88, 95% CI 1.10-3.09)
- Age 65 or older (HR 1.70, 95% CI 1.07-2.75)
Desai's single-center study included patients undergoing PCI at one tertiary care center, with the 157 with prior external beam radiation therapy matched with 157 with atherosclerotic CAD and no prior radiation therapy exposure.
"As ours was a population of patients selected for PCI, our cohort did not include patients who underwent CABG or patients with asymptomatic CAD. Thus, the true prevalence of ostial CAD in patients with radiation-associated CAD is likely higher than observed in this PCI-only population," the authors cautioned.
"In addition, although valvular heart disease is a known complication of external beam radiation therapy, in our sample, few patients had moderate or severe valvular pathology. This is likely because that at our institution, these patients are routinely selected for combined valve replacement surgery and CABG rather than PCI."
Another caveat was that the radiation and atherosclerotic CAD cohorts had several differing baseline and procedural characteristics despite matching. There were different rates of:
- Hypertension (61% for the radiation group versus 48% for the atherosclerosis group, P=0.027)
- History of chronic heart failure (25% versus 13%, P<0.011)
- Aortic insufficiency (0% versus 2%, P=0.037)
- Severe mitral regurgitation (3% versus 2%, P=0.003)
- Complex B2/C lesions (71% versus 36%, P<0.001)
Of note, "when stratified by the type of PCI, patients treated with bare metal stents or balloon angioplasty were at particularly high risk for both all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the external beam radiation therapy group, but not in the comparison group," the investigators commented.
Desai and colleagues suggested this may be due to certain comorbidities in the balloon angioplasty and bare metal stenting groups -- bleeding, subsequent surgery, for example -- that prevented drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation in patients in the first place.
"However, given our data, it may be reasonable to consider DES in patients with previous external beam radiation therapy whenever possible," they concluded.
Desai reported no relevant relationships with industry.
- Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE Assistant Professor, Section of Nephrology, Yale School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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text: Myers (Glorious Angels, 1995, etc.), inspired by a series of 1930s paintings by Lawrence, pens a straightforward narrative, subtitled "The Fight for Haiti's Freedom," about the freedom fighter Toussaint L'Ouverture. The story of the leader in the 1791 rebellion of black slaves against owners on the island that is now Haiti is well known. Through his victories, he abolished slavery on both the French and Spanish parts of the island by 1800. However, Napoleon sent many French troops, and L'Ouverture, duped by one of his generals, was captured and died in a French prison. The fight for freedom continued, however, and Haiti became independent in 1804. In an introduction, Lawrence recalls hearing street orators tell L'Ouverture's story in Harlem when he was growing up; he responded with 41 stark, stylized paintings in a somber, matte palette, all of which are reproduced here. Myers makes the story accessible, underplaying the text in light of the expressive paintings. (Picture book/nonfiction. 4-8)


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Power outages on Nipmuck Road and in the West Street area last week were tree-related, according to Diane Dillman, Municipal Light Department manager. Falling branches and hangers, souvenirs of the December ice storm, caused fuses to blow resulting in the power failures that lasted about an hour.
When a fuse blows, it explodes a cartridge that makes a loud popping sound. People sometimes think that noise means a transformer has blown, but that is not the case, she said. "Usually in these cases, it's a squirrel that causes this kind of outage, but this time it was tree related," she said.


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SRINAGAR: Signaling that the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) are slowly gaining foothold in the Valley, the office-bearers of two wings of these organisations said they are actively conducting political activities and conferences which has led to increase in the number of their members to a whopping figure of eight lakh in Kashmir alone.
The Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), the Muslim wing of the RSS, and the BJP youth wing BJYJM said their engagements with Kashmiris, particularly the "youth and ulemas," is a routine affair now. This engagement is meant to bring them in the "national mainstream" and make them understand the "shared Indian history between Hindus and Muslims" to live a life of "co-existence."
For doing a "commendable job" in Kashmir, the BJP youth wing of Kashmir was felicitated by the RSS headquarters in Delhi on Sunday.
The MRM's co-convener Dr Imran Chowdhry said that soon after the BJP came to power in Jammu and Kashmir in coalition with the PDP, the MRM began to expand its political activities in the entire state, including in Jammu, Kishtwar, Doda, Bhdarewah, Poonch, Rajouri, Ladkah, but the special focus was on Kashmir.
"Our main political activity is to inculcate nationalism among the people of Kashmir," Chowdhry said. "We tell the people of Kashmir through our activities that their future lies with India. We tell them India has market; it has inclusiveness; it has money; it has bright future for them."
Referring to the Kashmir uprising 0f 2016, the MRM leader said that they want to tell the world that Kashmiris are innocent; they are only instigated to pelt stones and demand Azadi by some sponsored men.
The separatists should sit with the Indian government instead of going to Pakistan embassy in New Delhi," Chowdhry said.
"We have over 10,000 members which includes a large number of ulemas in Kashmir. We often conduct programmes to pass on the message of the BJP and RSS," Chowdhry said. "We are conducting conferences and activities related to Kashmir for a quite long time."
On Saturday, he said, the BJP's different wings jointly conducted a students' conference in Delhi during which Kashmiri students participated and shared their experiences regarding the problems faced by them in educational institutions in and outside Kashmir.
"They talked with us about problems regarding scholarships and employment," Chowdhry said. "They also exposed the people who bring shame to Kashmir."
Tracing the history of MRM in Kashmir, he said that the organisation started its activities in Kashmir in 2005.
"We worked during the Kashmir earthquake. Then we were active during Kashmir floods. We are involved in humanitarian issues on permanent basis in Kashmir," he added.
"Kashmir has been always part of India. We have same history. In Kashmir, there is Mughal road, not China road," Chowdhry said.
The MRM demands scrapping of Article 370. Its patron Indresh Kumar had been a provincial organiser of RSS in Jammu & Kashmir during the 1990's.
MRM patron Kumar believes that when Hindus and Muslims share the same ancestors, culture and motherland, where is the scope for confrontation?
"Once the Muslims and Hindus understand and realize the spirit and soul of India, all artificial barriers will automatically vanish. The new movement was initially called "Rashtravadi Muslim Andolan-Ek Nayi Raah" which was re-christened as "Muslim Rashtriya Manch" in 2005," reads the official web page of MRM.
"There is no doubt that we share common history. We live together from hundreds of years. Bharat was one before the partition," state vice president of BJP's youth wing Er Aijaz told Kashmir Reader.
"We give Kashmiris a sense of their history. We inculcate nationalism in them by conducting events, conferences and social activities," he said.
Aijaz said that each month the youth wing conducts meetings, activities and conferences as a part of its reach-out programme with the Kashmiri youth.
"In every event about 400 people join BJP in Kashmir," he said. "So far the number of BJP members in Kashmir alone has gradually swollen to 8 lakh. We are happy with our performance since we are getting record inductions into BJP."
Since the BJP came to power, he said every month they conduct 10 activities in Kashmir which focus on politics and social issues.
"We started a signature campaign in Nehru park last months where we collected hundreds of signs in favour of Modiji's demonetisation programme. Similarly, we conduct political meetings on local levels while our activities also focus on social issues," he said.
Referring to the RSS-sponsored students' conference in Delhi, he said more than 3500 students participated in it. Newspaper reports had put the number of student participants at 300.
"Our leaders in the conference touched the issue of good parenting. They said Kashmiri children, who resort to stone pelting, should be counseled to become better citizens," Aijaz said. "We will be conducting more such conferences in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and other venues to reach out to Kashmiri students and businessmen. We want Kashmir youth to know their role in nation building."
Due to the increased political activities, the BJP youth leader said they are looking for a new office along the Jammu-Kashmir highway.
"Our office operates from Jawahir Nagar. But our office bearers are looking for new office in bye-pass area," Aijaz said.
Aijaz said that for doing "commendable job in Kashmir," the RSS felicitated him and other youth leaders at RSS headquarters in Kashmir on Sunday.
"We were felicitated today for doing a good job in Kashmir," Aijaz said.
Talking to Kashmir Reader, a 27-year-old man from Srinagar's downtown, who attended one of the BJP's youth wing meetings, said he was lured into the BJP fold when the party members said they would offer him government favours so that he is monetarily benefited.
"They were asking me and other aspiring members that BJP would utilise its position in the government to grant them monetary favours like contracts or granting governmental works so that we make money," he said. "Many people joined. But I did not."


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Gateway Announces Plans to Invest $100 Million in Northern Ontario Communities to Improve Customer Experience
SAULT STE MARIE, May 30, 2017 – Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited ("Gateway") has signed a 20-year Casino Operating and Services Agreement (COSA) with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation ("OLG") and has purchased the business and assets of the North Gaming Bundle. Gateway will take over the day-to-day operations effective today. With the OLG transition complete in the North and Southwest Gaming Bundles, Gateway will now focus on plans to invest in these communities to dramatically improve customer experience.
"The successful transition of the properties in the North is another exciting and important milestone for Gateway. Our portfolio of properties has now grown to 26 with over 6,100 employees working on our team across the country," said Tony Santo, Gateway's Chief Executive Officer. "We are very proud to officially welcome the OLG colleagues in the North to our Gateway team."
Gabriel de Alba, Gateway's Executive Chairman, said, "Gateway's growth strategy and focus on a superior customer experience revolves around investing in the company's unique gaming properties and creating a broader attraction across numerous demographics. Our success has resulted in significant job creation across the communities where we operate in Western Canada. We are bringing this same approach to Northern Ontario with a planned investment of over $100 Million to revitalize and enhance the gaming and entertainment landscape in the North."
The expansion into Ontario is the next step in the continued evolution of Gateway. In 2010, The Catalyst Capital Group Inc. ("Catalyst"), Gateway's ownership group, took Gateway and its 9 properties under management to rebuild and restructure the company. A focus on superior customer experience and measured growth has seen Gateway's portfolio expand to 28 properties once the North Gaming Bundle is fully developed.
Central to Gateway's success has been the development of signature casino and restaurant brands that have dramatically improved the gaming customer experience while generating important new customer segments. With transition complete, Gateway will now focus on plans to invest over $300 Million in Northern and Southwestern Ontario communities to introduce these signature brands.
In December 2016, Gateway was selected by OLG as the successful service provider in the North and Southwest Gaming Bundles. The North Gaming Bundle includes casinos in Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie, slots in Sudbury (at Sudbury Downs) and two planned casino builds in Kenora and North Bay. The Southwest Gaming Bundle, which transitioned to Gateway on May 9th, includes a casino in Point Edward and slots in Woodstock (at Woodstock Raceway), London (at the Western Fair District), Clinton (at Clinton Raceway), Dresden (at Dresden Raceway) and Hanover (at Hanover Raceway). The Ontario acquisitions are expected to be immediately accretive to Gateway's top-line growth, EBITDA margin and full year earnings.
A customer celebration will be held on June 22nd, 2017 at all Gateway's Ontario sites in the North and Southwest. The daylong celebration will include new and exciting promotions, prizes, live entertainment, Gateway merchandise giveaways and delicious food and drink specials. To learn more about the celebration on June 22nd please visit www.gatewaycasinos.com.
A commitment to responsible gambling is integral to how Gateway operates. All Gateway properties in British Columbia and Ontario hold RG Check accreditation. Together with OLG and other government partners, Gateway will continue to implement responsible gambling initiatives at all properties across Canada.
About Gateway Casinos & Entertainment
Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited ("Gateway") is the largest and most diversified gaming company in Canada. Operating in British Columbia, Edmonton and Ontario, Gateway has over 6,100 employees and operates 26 gaming properties with 286 tables, over 9,800 slots, 57 restaurants and bars and 272 hotel rooms. As the selected service provider in Northern Ontario, Gateway will undertake two new planned builds in North Bay and Kenora. Gateway is undertaking an ambitious growth strategy to dramatically improve the customer experience and attract new customers. This includes the development of proprietary casino and food and beverage brands like Match Eatery & Public House and Atlas Steak + Fish. This year Gateway is celebrating 25 years in the business of gaming and entertainment in Canada. Further information is available at www.gatewaycasinos.com.
About The Catalyst Capital Group
The Catalyst Capital Group Inc. ("Catalyst"), a private equity investment firm with more than $6 billion in assets under management founded in 2002, is a leader in operationally focused turnaround investing. The firm's mandate is to manufacture risk adjusted returns, in keeping with its philosophy of "we buy what we can build." Catalyst's Guiding Principles of investment excellence through operational involvement, superior analytics, attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, team and reputation are key to the firm's success. The Catalyst team collectively possesses more than 110 years of extensive experience in restructuring, credit markets and merchant and investment banking in Canada, the United States, Latin America and Europe.
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New England Patriots: Could Michael Brockers Be Another Richard Seymour?April 10, 2012
The news was pretty surprising. Spotted in Foxborough, Mass. a week ago was not a second-round hopeful linebacker, or sleeper pick safety, or even late first-round cornerback—you know, those positions the New England Patriots could use improvements in.
Instead, it was LSU standout and defensive tackle Michael Brockers. The news was enough to garner headlines, circulate rumors and build up discussion and analysis—which, in the weeks prior to the NFL draft, is par for the course.
The news of New England's interest in Brockers was surprising for two reasons. For one, Brockers is one of the most highly-touted players in the draft. He's supposed to have top-10 stock, according to Matt Miller's mock draft. That's way before Bill Belichick even begins to pick up the phone and tries to trade out of the first round.
The other puzzling part is Brocker's position. Defensive tackle? Another moose in the middle? Don't the Patriots have enough players who can take up space and occupy blockers in the middle? How about getting someone south of 300 pounds who can get around blockers and attack the quarterback?
Of course, Brockers isn't just a gap-filler. This is a player who, according to his ESPN profile, plays out of a 6'6", 306-pound frame, yet has "cat-quick agility" and an "unmatched combination of size, athleticism (and) strength," or so says a CBS Sports scouting report.
That doesn't sound like your dime-a-dozen mountain in pads. That sounds like someone else who Patriots fans should vividly remember watching for years.
Richard Seymour was that player in New England. He weighed over 300 pounds, but you wouldn't have known it given the way he played. He ran down running backs, pursued quarterbacks and slipped by blockers as easily as he pushed through them. He was either a massive defensive end or an evasive defensive tackle, and he was the best player on the line in either situation.
In other words, he was perfect for Belichick's 3-4 defense. Given the Patriots' supposed interest in Brockers, it's easy to think the LSU standout could be, too.
ESPN Boston's Mike Reiss drew a similar conclusion, but it's hard not to make that connection. Brockers has the frame for the defensive tackle position and the athleticism that exceeds it. That's the kind of player that is drawn up for a 3-4 line, and if Belichick and the Patriots are going back to their staple defensive structure, Brockers would fit seamlessly.
Drafting Brockers would also be the Patriots' attempt to make up for Seymour's departure, rather than trying to work around it. Seymour's absence was glaring in 2009 and '10, and last year, the Patriots traded for Albert Haynesworth in the attempt to have two bull-rushers at defensive tackle in a 4-3, rather than finding that hybrid tackle/end for a 3-4.
Seymour's presence was crucial on three Super Bowl winners, and if Brockers were able to be that kind of player, he'd make an impact even on a team that currently has a full house on the defensive line.
Of course, there's still the issue of draft stock. If Brockers falls into the teens or 20s, for whatever reason, great. That would be perfect.
But if Brockers is going as high as expected, this might all be moot. It should be, anyway. Even if Brockers pans out, the package the Patriots would have to put together to move up and take him would almost certainly be too much given their needs elsewhere.
Still, the idea of Brockers in Foxborough is tempting. The Patriots never found another Seymour. This could be the year they stop searching.


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Lecturer - Games Development, M24 6XH
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Contract type: Part Time
Contract term: Permanent
Suitable for NQTs: Yes
Hopwood Hall College is a leading Games Development College within Greater Manchester with high success rates and excellent progression onto University.
We are seeking a well-motivated, enthusiastic, experienced teacher with a range of specialist skills who is able to deliver effective, inspirational teaching and learning across a range of Games courses at FE and HE. You will carry out appropriate assessment activities including marking student work, designing and setting assessments and producing learning resources for a virtual learning environment and would also be expected to engage in enterprise and recruitment activities with local schools and the community.
Areas of specific expertise to include practical games development techniques within Game Maker Studio, Unity and/or Unreal Engine, critical and contextual approaches to game building and narrative and asset creation. The ideal candidate will hold a minimum of an undergraduate degree in an appropriate subject, together with a teaching qualification, for example CertEd or PGCE. You will need to be an enthusiastic and motivated individual who can engage with students to ensure they can reach their full potential.
- To teach on a wide range of full and part-time courses, in line with the college and curriculum area specifications.
- To contribute to the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the curriculum in the school
- To prepare and mark assessments as required within the range of programmes timetabled
- To promote and participate in the delivery of Basic / Key Skills
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Im almost 5 months pregnant with my second child. I was reading some things online and there was some things that said that while pregnant, you can still dye your hair, but you had to use dyes with no ammonia or peroxide... Which makes total sense. I didnt dye my hair with my first child, and i havent dyed it with my second. What im asking is, has any mothers out there done it and know if its an okay thing to do?? I would rather be safe then sorry so if being extra safe means not dying my hair, then of course i wont. But the exert i read said that as long as the woman was in her second trimester, and the hair dye was a more natural hair dye with less chemicals and DEF no ammonia or peroxide, then it has showed no proof in being harmful to your baby in any way... What do you ladies think??


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Well, freshmen, I hope three months was enough for dorm life to make an impression on you – because, naturally, now it's time to decide whether you want to do it again another whole year.
Dorms can be great: your friends can hang out whenever they want, you're a stone's throw from the nearest nationally ranked dining hall and — big plus here — bunk beds! It's like summer camp, but with a guy who smells and always complains about the Math Empo work he isn't going to do anyway.
Sure, it's not the "real world," but you didn't come here for the real world. You came here to play human bowling in the hall with office chairs and empty soda bottles.
Or, you could absolutely hate it. Your next-door neighbor wants to try his hand at dubstep, the toilet tissue is like sandpaper but less forthcoming and you spend most of your evenings in the study lounge because your roommate's friend is on your Xbox.
Too much personal experience? Oops. Anyway, if you're of the camp that wants to take a shower without flip-flops or just wants a mattress made of mattress, an apartment may be for you. However, apartment hunting in Roanoke can be daunting, so here are a few things to keep in mind before grabbing the nearest application form.
First off, know what you're willing to spend.
You're a college student, not the pope. You don't need a penthouse with plush chaise lounges and a crystal bidet.
However, you don't have to settle for the cheapest shack you come across, either. Keep an eye out for rent prices and see what's in your range. Spending less on an apartment than a dorm is a great motivator, but you're allowed to make sure it's habitable.
There's give and take. A bigger apartment will cost more, but not with more roommates. Plus, more people to split the cost means less you'll spend on utilities.
Speaking of attempting to stuff five dudes in a three-bedroom-two-bath apartment, remember that friends don't always make the best roommates.
If you think you and your best bud will work fabulously together, by all means, go for it. Just don't come crying to me when that person refuses to pay Comcast because he "didn't use the internet very much this month." Also, just because he's slowly becoming besties with the D.P. Dough delivery driver doesn't mean you'll want to.
You can go in as friends. That doesn't promise you'll come out as friends.
If you're thinking about rooming with friends, now's the time to start being an awful person on the side. Keep mental notes of all their idiosyncrasies, and then decide how much they'll bother you little by little until it escalates to passive-aggressive warfare.
How likely are they to lounge around with their shirts open when it gets warm (yes, even when you have guests over)? How likely are they to go out for a couch and return with a small animal? How likely are they to wear the same sweatpants weeks on end without a laundry day in between?
Roommates are basically coworkers. You don't have to get along amazingly; you don't even have to like each other. Just make sure their goals mostly line up with yours.
Lastly and most importantly, visit your older friends' apartments. This is assuming you have older friends — if not, go make some, quickly. They've had experience with apartment life, and you should definitely use them as a resource.
They'll be much more honest than any brochure or tour guide. They'll tell you how much utilities cost month-to-month, how bad parking is for guests, if you really need to pay the pet deposit or if you should just Anne Frank that cat — the works.
Experience beats out blind guessing every time. Use that to your advantage.
Speaking of experience, I'd like to apologize to every current roommate of mine I alluded to in this article, except the ones I no longer see on a daily basis. Let's burn that bridge.
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Hello FibroAction Members,
Please find the graph showing results from yesterday.
For Discussion: Are strong Opioids ineffective? as it is reported we have limited Opioid receptors. I have certainly found this in my experience, how about you? With the exception of Tramadol, possibly due to it's Serotonin pathway.
I know we currently have minimal participants but it should build up when it has been up & running a while and the word gets out! Thank You to those who did contribute
Q3. Where did your pain start?
a) Right upper quadrant (right shoulder)
b) Left upper quadrant (left shoulder)
c) Right lower quadrant (right hip)
d) Left lower quadrant (left hip)
e) Hips & pelvis
f) Neck, head & shoulders
g) Either right or left sided (hip & shoulder)
h) All over
When did a Health Professional decide it was time to do further tests?
a) In the early stages when you first identified pain experience
b) When there was 2 or more areas above identified as painful
c) When other symptoms were identified ie Fatigue, Lack of concentration, IBS etc
d) After repeated visits to the GP, asking for referral and/or second opinion.
Please Note:To increase involvement in our community I intend to share on Facebook & Twitter, so please can you ensure any content you contribute is not really personal and/or your avatar (forum/community name) is anonymous to protect your confidentiality.
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The Big Leadership Question: Why Should Anyone Follow YOU?
October 10, 2016 8:46am
At our upcoming BW Leadership Academy, the key question we will help each person answer is: Why should anyone follow you? Besides your job title, why should each person on your team trust and believe in you? The best leaders are lifters. They lift the hopes, dreams, and performance of everyone they are fortunate to serve.
At our innovative leadership academy, each attendee will:
-Be assigned a certified executive coach to work with both before AND after the Academy
-Be actively engaged in 2 full days of learning with my team and I about how to become a stronger leader.
-Take the acclaimed Gallup StrengthsFinder Online Assessment (to identify the attendee's unique strengths)
-Develop a customized action plan based on the attendee's unique strengths
Who should attend?
-The Academy is designed primarily for strong middle managers/dept heads and potential future senior leaders.
Which of your managers would benefit from attending this event?
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VISION: CPA firm is seeking Tax Managers. You will be exposed to cutting edge technology, venture capitalists, business leaders, executives and other movers & shakers.
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Are you guys sick of Puff Pastry yet? HAHA. I swear this is the last of it.. maybe. As our time in Germany winds down I'm trying to use up everything in the fridge/freezer/pantry. And seeing as I always have Puff Pastry in the freezer... lol.
Anyways this all-in-one baked dish is ideal for brunch w/ friends & family!
1 Tbsp. Olive Oil
1 Tbsp. Sugar
1/4 Cup Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Sauce
3/4 Cup Milk
1 Tbsp. Paprika
Salt & Pepper (To Taste)
3 Sheets of Puff Pastry
8 Eggs
10 Slices of Cooked Bacon
1 Large Onion
3 Small Potatoes
1 Container of Cherry Tomatoes
Allow your 3 Sheets of Puff Pastry to defrost about 30 to 45 mins.
Pre-Heat oven to 400 Degrees F.
Individually wrap your 3 potatoes in a wet paper towel and microwave for 5 mins.
Take out of the microwave and TURN each potato so the underside is on top and microwave for another 5 mins.
While your potatoes are in the microwave dice your onion into small pieces.
Add your oil to a hot pan.
Add your sugar and allow it to dissolve.
Add your diced onions and saute.
While your onions are sauteing you can slice your Cherry Tomatoes in half.
Take ONE of your puff pastry sheets and using a fork poke lots of small holes in it. This sheet you will use as the top of your puff pastry pie.
By now your onions should have turned into caramelized onions and you can take them off the heat.
Now spread your Sun Dried Tomato Pesto sauce. I like to do 1 to 1.5 heaping Tbsp per puff pastry sheet.. so roughly 5 Tbsp. or 1/4 cup.
If your Sun Dried Tomato Pesto sauce is too thick and difficult to spread just add some olive oil into your jar and mix with a spoon.
Spread all over so that it's evenly distributed all over your puff pastry.
Take one of your puff pastry sheets and attach extra depending on the side of your baking dish. Each sheet is 3 panels and as you can see I had to attach a 4th panel to my puff pastry sheet.
Take a cookie sheet and place your puff pastry on top and fit it on the bottom and sides of your baking pan.
(I know it looks scary but I promise it won't look like this at the end lol!)
Now that your potatoes have cooled a bit you can slice them into slices and just use a paper towel and crumple up your bacon.
(I pre-baked my bacon in the oven because I don't like to mess with bacon on a frying pan.)
Now add a layer of sliced potatoes to the bottom of the puff pastry.
Oh I should also mention this is where you should season with some salt as potatoes are a bit bland.
Now add half of your caramelized onions and distribute evenly over the potatoes.
Add half or your bacon and distribute evenly over the caramelized onions.
Repeat the same process again.
Potatoes, Salt, Caramelized Onions & Bacon.
After you've completed the 2nd layer of your Potato, Salt, Caramelized Onion & Bacon your final top layer will be your Cherry Tomatoes.
Now it's time to make the custard part of the dish.
Combine 6 eggs & milk.
Add your cracked pepper
Add your Paprika
Stir together until smooth.
Now pour all over your dish.
This is what it should look like. You should leave a bit of room for the pie crust edge to seal your pie later.
Also don't use ALL of your egg/milk custard. Reserve a little bit at the end to brush the TOP of your pie.
Now you can just take your last puff pastry sheet and add it to the top of the pie seal it and call it a day.
But I did a lattice weave top so I like to crack 2 eggs on top.
Once it bakes the whole egg yolk looks really pretty on top peeking through the lattice weave.
So if you want to continue and do the lattice weave top you'll take your last and final puff pastry sheet and cut it into equal sized strips.
Then you'll turn them over so the Sun Dried Tomato side is on the underside and make sure there's equal spacing on your pie. I like to space it around the whole egg yolks.
Then I fold it over.
And then add strips the opposite direction going horizontally.
If you've ever made plastic friendship bracelets at summer camp or one of those paper weaved Turkey's at Thanksgiving in Elementary school. It's the same exact concept. You're just doing a weave pattern with your pastry strips.
Repeat until you've "weaved" your whole pie.
Then with a knife cut off the strips that dangle on the ends of the pie.
Tuck all of the edges together so everything is sealed properly.
Use the remaining egg/milk wash from earlier and brush it on top of your pastry.
Into the oven covered with a aluminum foil top for 1 hour.
And then 15 min WITHOUT the foil top.
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In our International Conversation Café gathering today, we talked about everyone's spring break, the basketball craze, and upcoming holidays.
March Madness…Yes, the craziness surrounding the basketball tournaments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is back! If you want to play with brackets for the games, below are links for you.
ESPN bracket website for the NCAA men's basketball tournament: http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2015/en/game You likely need to create an ESPN account to participate.
Men's basketball bracket to print: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/15/march-madness-2015-bracket_n_6874646.html
Women's bracket for you: http://fansided.com/2015/03/16/printable-2015-ncaa-womens-tournament-bracket/
After discussing why Duke University's team was in a group that did not include the University of Carolina, among other things, we moved on to answer questions about our springtime holidays. Below are links to local events that you might want to attend.
If you're in the mood to check out an egg hunt (suitable for children), here's one in Hillsborough, March 28 or March 29, depending on the weather: http://www.townofchapelhill.org/town-hall/departments-services/parks-recreation/festivals-events/children-s-egg-hunt
Easter sunrise service, Duke Gardens:
Duke Chapel events: https://chapel.duke.edu/events
Passover events at Duke: http://bestevents.us/durham-passover-at-duke-2015/320460
Our conversation group will be back in two weeks, on April 2! Next week, I will be busy giving a presentation at the TESOL International Conference with a colleague.
All the best,
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Stop Food Waste
Save Money and Cut Down on Waste
We all waste food. It can't be helped - plans change, we prepare too much, leftovers go off in the fridge, we forget about the stuff in the bottom of the freezer, etc. As wasting food happens for different reasons there will be different ways for each of us to change how we do things to reduce our food waste and save ourselves money.
Stop Food Waste challenged 14 Skerries householders to set themselves a target to reduce their food waste by at least 1/4. By doing this they were able to save as much as €60 a month – that will help with some of the bills!
The Stop Food Waste Challenge - a tasty road to less food waste and more cash in your pocket – it involved 4 one hour meetings which will take place over a 5 week period. They were hosted by Edwina Dunford the Environmental Education Officer for Fingal County Council.
The meetings covered the following:
- Awareness of what is being wasted
- The importance of proper planning of meals and using your shopping list
- How smart shopping can ensure that you don't waste your hard earned money on food that you don't really need
- Storing food properly to make the most of what you have bought
- New ways of cooking, serving and reusing the food that you have in your home
- Finally, how to deal with the unavoidable food waste we do generate and the many methods of home composting
By working through this challenge we reduced food waste, saved money and had some fun on the way!
For more information log onto www.stopfoodwaste.ie
Christmas – lovely leftover recipes!
And so this is Christmas,
and the cookings yet to taste,
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Drumming after an injury: lost the use of my left hand
Re: Drumming after an injury: lost the use of my left hand
You need to purchase a Rick Allen signature kit.
"I always wanted to be remembered for; being honest. Nothing else is worth a damn." - Lemmy
Re: Drumming after an injury: lost the use of my left hand
Re: Drumming after an injury: lost the use of my left hand
Yes, I was in a car accident that broke off all the flexor tendons in my right hand. I also had a leg injury, so I just couldn't play at all for a couple of months, but having newfound impairment does cause you too think new ways.
Re: Drumming after an injury: lost the use of my left hand
Broke the scaphoid bone in my left wrist about three years ago. Took about 3 months before I could use it in drumming without pain. Bear in mind, my body does not heal fast, but if you have broken your hand in three places, I would be prepared to wait a little longer than a month.
I am right handed so I was not totally lost! In fact I attacked the drum kit with a renewed inspiration and focussed on my right hand-right foot co-ordination. I remember playing a lot of tribal-sounding drums between floor tom and bass drum. For fills, I worked a lot on right hand and right foot doubles.
Don't play too much if it hurts - it will only take longer to heal! It took fully about one and a half years to be 100 % back to normal for me.
Re: Drumming after an injury: lost the use of my left hand
Hi Channing and welcome to DW. About eight years ago, I had three Extensor tendons severed in my left hand. I even watched the plastic surgeon repairing my tendons. It took around eight to nine months before I could just even hold a stick in my hand (not correctly but just hold it somewhat). It was about a little over a year before I could start holding the stick and working it somewhat correctly. It was at about the year & three-quarter mark that I could start working my hand like I used too. At two & half years my hand was back working normal and better because I was still doing my exercises on my left hand daily that the hand therapist had me do.
I did what you are doing working the three limbs. I worked on triplets and paradiddles around the kit and did a lot working on my feet.
Just remember listen to your doctor and therapist. Also explain to them that you play drums and what to do if you start feeling pain. Try to have a pain manage plan in place from your doctor and or therapist. Let them tell you when you should start back using your left hand again. I hope you get well soon.
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In 2012 i fell down really bad and displaced my elbow and my wrist. Doctors couldn't find what was wrong (it was not visible very easy) and un accurately diagnosed me all kind of problems like tendinitis and carpal tunnel (they even wanted me to operate!!). I refused all this, somehow I knew that was not what was going on. Sure, I couldn't move my hand, neither my elbow, I couldn't turn it, and I didn't have force anymore because it hurted so much. The pain stayed and I also lost muscle strength. After 3 fysiotersphy sessions of 10 sessions each I gave up, we all tought I was going to remain with a bad arm. Years after, i moved to the Netherlands and saw a great fysio again(end 2015, begin 2016) 19 sessions and I was finally done (turns out my muscles also got a trauma and inflammation for abusing my arm while drumming after thr injury for half a year, before stopping definitively). It's fixed. In all this period it teached me not only patience, but I have learned to be almost left handed on the kit, made up my gaps of theory, made up my gaps in technique, corrected my technique, learned new things and the result is that I am now a much better drummer.
Take it as a blessing.!
Re: Drumming after an injury: lost the use of my left hand
I don't know what kind of music you are playing, but have you considered getting a double pedal just to help out with fills?
Re: Drumming after an injury: lost the use of my left hand
I'd work on patterns and independence exercises with the other 3 limbs.
do ostanitos on the feet and solo with the right hand. You can really work on your creativity with this too.
If you have a double pedal it could be time to work on your stamina and foot speed.
work on bass drum doubles with a single pedal, RR KK RR KK RR KK RR KK
you could do RKK RKK RKK RKK RKK RKK as well
KKR KKR KKR etc... Now add the hats.... also add the hats on 1/4 note down beats, 1/4 note upbeats, and 1/8th notes.o
You may not be "grooving" for a while but if you can keep your other limbs up to par or even improve them the left will come back quickly.
This could also be an opportunity to work on time.. grooves fills, clicks, gap clicks, slow fast etc.
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