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Dave D'Onofrio's Patriots Notebook: Once a rival, now an ally
July 26. 2014 11:19PM
GIVEN that he staked his claim to the unofficial title of the league's top cornerback as a member of the Jets, it was only natural that Darrelle Revis felt a little bit strange Thursday and Friday as he went through his first workouts as a member of the Patriots.
New England was a rival for the six years he spent in New York, and the enemy in a so-called border war between the franchises that dates back long before his NFL lifetime. To trade green and white for blue and gray had to be in some ways surreal, even with a year in the Buccaneers' pewter and red bridging his transition from one team to the next. "It's been kind of weird in a way," he said - but ultimately it matters little how Revis feels about the colors on his uniform, or how he feels about switching sides in the division.
All that matters at this point is how he feels physically, and while it may take some time for Revis to get comfortable in his new surroundings and new situation, the good news is that from that perspective the superstar says he's as good now as he's ever been.
"I," he said, "am in the best shape of my career."
Remember, that's quite a career Revis is referencing. In six full seasons he's been selected to five Pro Bowls. He has 21 interceptions and has defended 108 passes, including the six picks and 31 balls he got his hands on in 2009 - which began a streak of three straight nominations as a first-team All-Pro.
That run was interrupted in 2012, when he tore the ACL in his left knee during the second game of the season. That proved to be his final game as a member of the Jets, as he forced a trade to Tampa Bay when he and New York hit an impasse on talks of a contract extension, and though he rewarded the Bucs with a season good enough to get him another trip to Hawaii, he admits now he wasn't completely recovered from the knee reconstruction.
But now he is. And the Patriots - who made him the game's highest-paid defensive back when Tampa cut him loose this spring - stand to reap the benefits.
"Coming off the ACL injury was tough for me," he said. "I finished all 16 games last year, but I still wasn't where I wanted to be physically as a player, so this is my first offseason where I can really focus on, not rehabbing, but just working out - working out and having a full offseason where I can just do that."
And after those workouts does the knee feel as good as it did before the injury?
"Oh, yes," Revis said. "They say it takes a year and a half or two. I think I'm at a point now where I'm there."
If that's true, he should be at a point where he can make the case that he's the league's best at his position - a distinction that tends to get the elite cornerbacks all riled up. Revis and the Seahawks' Richard Sherman engaged in an infamous back-and-forth over Twitter when the topic arose early in 2013, though Revis says no he's got nothing to prove, wins are all that matters, and he'll leave it up to the media to rate the players as they see fit.
And that's apparently not the only way he's already bought in to being a Patriot.
"He's worked hard," coach Bill Belichick said. "Smart guy. I've been impressed with him. Very professional. Has a good understanding of the game, he's a smart player and he's had a real good focus and instinct. He's a smart player scheme-wise but he knows how to play. He's a very instinctive player."
When he was with the Jets, Revis infamously referred to Belichick as a "jerk," though Friday he referred to a "friendship" with his new coach, and the coach said he'd enjoyed the chance to establish a personal relationship with his new defensive linchpin.
After all, they're on the same side now. The past is the past. Bygones are bygones. Feelings have changed.
None more important than the way Revis feels about his body.
"I'm excited about this year," he said. "I worked my butt off this offseason to get in shape and get my weight down, and I'm just getting prepared for a long season."
DEFENSIVE lineman Tommy Kelly returned to practice Saturday, activated from the physically unable to perform list after a knee injury ended last season for him after Week 5.
Reports indicated that while the rest of the team wore pads for the first time this camp, he wore shorts and sat out the contact drills.
That suggests he's still got some rehab work to do, and in the meantime opportunity continues to knock for Sealver Siliga on the inside next to Vince Wilfork.
The Pats' PUP list had been narrowed to four, though none of the names is insignificant. On the list are recievers Aaron Dobson, Jeremy Gallon and Matthew Slater, as well as cornerback Alfonzo Dennard. Dobson is a player the Pats are hoping can make a leap in year two after showing some signs of emergence as a rookie, but continues to be plagued by a foot problem.
Slater is a Pro Bowl-caliber special teams captain, while Gallon is a seventh-round draft pick who could force the Pats into decisions on some of their other young wideouts if he gets the opportunity to make an impression. Dennard was a starting cornerback for the Pats the past two seasons, but remains sidelined by a shoulder injury as the team looks to determine who'll play opposite Revis until Brandon Browner returns from a four-game suspension.
According to the Patriots' website, 13,819 fans attended Saturday morning's sessions on the practice field behind Gillette Stadium. The team works out again this morning at 9:15, and has yet to announce its schedule for the coming week. The team's first preseason game is a week from Thursday at Washington.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Patriots for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is email@example.com.

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Oh hello there, I wasn't expecting you! (Puts down half empty whiskey bottle.) It's me, your old pal Wanye Gretz, and I'm visiting 1966 disguised as an old man in a natty grey suit. Does anyone know the name of the giant silver cup sitting next to me on my desk? Did someone say The Stanley Cup? Right you are, well done, lambs!
Some of you might be wondering "Wanye, is this a boil or a mole on my arm?" Others still might be asking themselves "Wanye, why are you disguised as an old man sitting with the Stanley Cup?" Both good questions.
First: that isn't a mole or a boil. It's an M&M. And second, I've fired up the OilersNation Stanley Cup Time Machine™ to go back in time to September 11, 1966 and witness the birth of Troy Crosby—father to Sidney Crosby. You see I'm firmly of the belief that the Penguins are going to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference championships in 2008, and this is going to be in large part because of the son of Troy.
So I brought the Stanley Cup here to Halifax and disguised myself as a doctor of this era and will be delivering Troy into this world. I want the first thing he sees to be Lord Stanley's Mug so that he understands from a very early age that his sole purpose in life is to meet Trina Forbes, marry her, and one night over a box of wine and an Air Supply record produce what will ultimately become the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2008.
So I have to go, lambs, but I want you to remember this: if I can go back in time, I can also go forward. This means I know how everything works out in the end so I will leave you with this:
- The new look for 2009 will be three-legged jeans. Any of you fashion-forward people in the Nation can look forward to looking like real assholes for the next 24 months with an extra pant leg dragging on the ground.
- Penguins over the Flyers in seven—you can count on it so bet the farm. If you don't have a farm, sign over the farm of someone you know and rest easy knowing it's a lock.
- Pitkanen doesn't ever win a Norris Trophy, so knock off all the stupidity speculating that he will.
So until I return to your time, farewell! I can hear Grandma Crosby going into labour…
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Paperwork problem keeps AmSam athlete from Olympics
Alex Morgan won't be going to the Olympics after all.
The Ventura High graduate qualified to represent American Samoa in the discus in London.
But American Samoa officials did not submit the paperwork in time to send any athletes to participate in the Olympics.
"I am disappointed. I just really wish I could be following my dream," Morgan said. "The dream is still there, but it's just frustrating that they didn't do something so easy and simple because it's not just me not going; it's two other athletes that had probably the same dream and aspirations that I do."
After capturing the gold medal at the Oceania Regional Track and Field Championships last month, Morgan, 19, returned to the United States to begin training for London.
But late last week, she was informed her summer plans would be changing drastically.
"They told us in June that I was cleared and ready to go, and I recently found out that they got my tickets and everything figured out. It was exciting because it seemed more real, like it was really happening," Morgan said. "But then I got a call saying they didn't submit the paperwork until July 3 and got denied, so there would be no athletic representation for American Samoa."
Morgan wants to prevent a similar situation from happening again in four years.
"My dad and I want to help them improve their program. Doing things like this doesn't give them a very good reputation," she said. "Because they are such a small island in the middle of the South Pacific, they don't realize how big things are like this and how important little things are to do in order to get people to represent them."


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Men's Golf Takes Eighth at Wimberly Intercollegiate
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The Arizona men's golf team wrapped up its fall season on Tuesday with a surge up to eighth place at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate.
The Wildcats saved their best round of the fall for last, firing a three-over 287 on Tuesday to bring their total of 886 (+34). UA steadily improved over the course of the tournament, moving from 15th after the first round to 12th after the second round before settling into eighth place at the conclusion of play.
"It was a huge boost to see our team shoot a good number today," Arizona head coach Jim Anderson said. "We talked about being competitive despite our position in the field following yesterday's round. Today was a fight, and even though eighth isn't our best, we took a small step forward."
Senior Erik Oja concluded the fall season with his fourth top-10 finish in five starts, shooting an even-par 71 on Tuesday to bring his total to 215 (+2). That score was good for a share of ninth place.
Junior Alex McMahon posted a top-20 finish to round out the fall, also shooting 71 (E) on Tuesday to tie for 16th with a total of 218 (+5). Junior Brenden Redfern fired his best round of the season on Tuesday with an even-par 71, and finished in a tie for 26th with a total of 221 (+8). Junior Dylan Kornberg and freshman Bertrand Mommaerts finished in a tie for 77th and 92nd, respectively.
Senior Benson Liu, playing as an individual, tied for 53rd place with a total of 226 (+13).
"Knowing that we have guys willing to fight gives us hope as we look toward the spring," Anderson said. "We don't have an 'off-season' if we want to get back to Regionals. We have to continue working now, and we'll see what kind of fighters we have."
The Wildcats will resume competition in late January, when they host the Arizona Intercollegiate at Sewailo Golf Club in Tucson. For more information on Arizona men's golf, follow @UAWildcatsGolf on Twitter.
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OSSINING, N.Y. -- Police and firefighters were busy Thursday afternoon securing a shaky church steeple at First Baptist Church on 1 Church Street.
Police closed off Church Street from Spring Street to South Highland Ave as firefighters responded to the scene.
According to the building department, the fire department was called in after debris was seen falling off the steeple. The building department said once the steeple is secured, a structural engineer will be called in to ensure everything is safe and is no longer a hazard.
Carina Salvador saw the steeple begin to shake.
"It was dangerous," Salvador said. "If it wasn't for the firefighters, it would've tipped over. It's not safe, it's an unfortunate situation. I hope they take care of it."
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|2011-11-27, 09:19
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Seriously, at this point I think you are just grasping at straws to prove your logic that the show is illogical.
|2011-11-27, 09:23
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Okay, 3 things I have to say:
Firstly, the G-Exes is totally kickass. Screw the Titus.
Secondly, it would be totally facepalm if it turned out the UE and Feddie suits were actually manufactured at the same MS workshop. I was quite surprised to see the Zedas there, displayed right next to the Genoace Custom even.
Thirdly, the events of this episode made me realize that the previous episode was totally insignificant, unnecessary even. Makes me gripe about episode 7 even more, but oh well. The tension builds, maybe we'll discover the secret of the UE the next episode.
|2011-11-27, 09:26
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From my point of veiw you are forcibly trying to contradict an obvious plot setting of this show. I don't know about you but if it were me I'd never fight a high mobility flying unit in a ground unit. Other Gundam series proved this idea to be pretty much stupid. MSG did this, Zeta did this, ZZ did this, 0083 did this, 00 did this, even Seed did this.
Also, I'd love for you to show me a way to fight with Titus against an aerial unit and manage to win in a situation where logic is applied. Are you going to jump at it with Arm Rings? Are you going to kick it / punch it, tackle it in mid air? Does Flint have enough skills to even hit a high mobility unit that can basicaly dodge your jump-attack in a moments instant? All you can do is stand and watch how your armor is peeled-off period
|2011-11-27, 09:36
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Gafrans aren't exactly that that highly mobile either. They are the Zakus of the UE, grunt suits with grunt specs. The AGE-Normal was able to take those down with basic levels of mobility. The Zedas is what you are thinking of, and that fight will probably happen and that is when we will probably see the Spallow. Right now, as I said, they have yet to gather enough battle data for the Zedas for anything like that to come out yet.
As to your claims about MSG/Zeta/ZZ/0083, I can remember the Gundam (a ground unit) destroying plenty of flying things all the time, but those shows don't really have flying MS's (Zeta and ZZ have flying transformed MS's though, though I don't remember a battle where a main character was having trouble destroying those transformed MS's just because they are flying). MS's have the ability to boost into the air even if they don't fly, so fighting flying things was really not much of an issue.
|2011-11-27, 09:38
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I thought AGE Builder making Titus was perfectly plausible. Afterall, it was tailor made to counter a specific kind of enemy, in a specific environment. It's not perfect, but in this case, Titus got the job done. I have a feeling that it will get its ass kicked by the high mobility Zedas, which will lead to the high mobility Spallow to counter it.
Anyway, if AGE Builder managed to build new AGE parts with high speed, high defense, high powered rifles and high powered beam saber, people will scream that it is too overpowered. It makes sense to show that AGE Builder is not perfect. It might be too specified for its own good
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|2011-11-27, 09:57
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Is that not enough logic for you?
|2011-11-27, 09:57
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The Titus was tailormade to fight in fardain, Remember that the first battle the Baqto was involved in, Flit had difficulty firing the dods rifle because it was too powerful. Also as brightman said, there is no data that the Gafrans have long range weaponry, and if it was the case, I'm sure that the programming of the Age system will take that into consideration. All combat data pertaining to the UE were yielding results that would suggest that a long range attack isn't a viable option for those suits.
|2011-11-27, 11:29
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I'm curious if that will ever be an issue where the AGE System determines a specific weapon to be suitable and Flit or whoever the pilot is may refuse to use that weapon for whatever reasons even if that weapon might be their only chance at winning. (I would've said surviving but the UE sometimes just spare them anyway.)
|2011-11-27, 11:54
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You can harass and maybe bomb/strafe targets as an aerial unit, but you can't occupy territory. Eventually, you'll have to land and fight on the ground.
If high mobility units must be engaged in the air, provided that Titus can use the DOTS rifle, Flit may could theoretically boost jump close enough to a chosen UE unit and fire the DOTS rifle midair with a higher probability of landing a shot than shooting from the ground. Or, if he's working tag team with other mobile suits, they can always set up traps, have Flit use Titus to lure or distract UE units and have someone experienced like Woolf do the actual aiming and shooting.
|2011-11-27, 12:09
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|2011-11-27, 12:18
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|2011-11-27, 12:23
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Well the Age system seems to have taken to consideration the earlier battle with the collateral damage.
The Titus parts was specifically designed so that ranged beam weapons wont be needed. Titus was specifically made for close range in your face fights.
We finally get a name for the mask man, Yark Dole.
And he gets his custom mech from the same guy. Who knew?
Grodek is probably thinking whoever the UE are they have access to old technology given the stealth screen. Now he has a suspect name.
|2011-11-27, 12:51
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This episode was fucking great imo! Great action and a little bit of mystery at the end... I like that^^ The only thing I can say about the G-Exes and the Titus is: I fucking wan't those damn model-kits!!!
I give the ep a 9. Can't wait for the next week^^
|2011-11-27, 13:00
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Nice action, but forget the Titus. The G-Exes is so awesome! Nice to see Zalam and Euba come to truce. So now Grodek has to meet this Dak Yole who seems very interesting. Also i'm guessing that black ms in the hangar was his, looks to much like and EU ms.
|2011-11-27, 13:03
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Glad to see they actually developed more on the episode 7äs rushed ending with them showing more Largan fighting and the Titus parts getting strapped on
The Titus was pretty underwhelming and in my opinion the G-exes overshadowed it in less than a minute
You can really tell they are just trying to sell toys in this episode with wolf pointing it out " in a fun way ", made me giggle a bit, but it's pretty sad they are actually doing commercials in the actual episode now.
Fighting execution and choreography is still horrible, the UE are just plain out dumb to make the Titus look good, they show no sense of strategy at all.
Homage to AE in AGE? pretty nice, but this " dark merchant " idea seems a tad bit silly.
One fun thing was to see the AGE-1 getting its parts replaced, Gunpla style!
Overall i expected a bit more out of this episode, going to give it a 4/10
|2011-11-27, 13:52
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|2011-11-27, 14:27
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We've seen that Titus is capable of reaching and beating Gafrans within the confines of a colony, and if it were in space flight capability's not an issue. If the show ever goes to Earth, the Gundam might get re-specced again, but for now, Titus is sufficient.
|2011-11-27, 16:17
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Concering the Titus and this episode, personally I have a hard time understanding why it seems that we always have to try and justify every single thing that happens in Gundam to do with power scaling, "toy commercials" and "realism" and what not that some people will obviously never be okay with. Seems like something one could spend a whole lifetime doing and never reach any sort of satisfying conclusion and personally I'd rather just watch the show and not worry about this sort of stuff obsessively unless it really becomes a problem. Then again I don't take much offense to anything other than excessive use of stock footage and speed lines in mecha combat of which this series only has the latter so far. That would be my only issue with how the action is depicted in AGE.
Back on the Titus and me not wanting to get into yet another manufactured argument over it (ask Chris Guanche of MAHQ to tell you about the former Colosseum sub forum on Mechatalk if you want to know why), maybe that's part of the reason I've managed to enjoy both U.C and AU Gundam shows so consistently. I'm willing to allow each individual series to do their own thing and have their own rules on how the MS are built and customized and don't feel the need to constantly defend anything more than a beam saber, beam rifle and shield on an MS. Just don't feel the need to make like we should always be on the ropes versus posters that don't like anything that isn't immediately recognizable as "realistic". I feel as a fan it's not really my place to try and justify nor to outright condemn each and every mobile suit design and Gundam customization in an AU series and whether it fits or not in whatever episode it's introduced in. It is what it is and if you don't like it you don't like and if you do then you do.
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Governments around the world are taking a leap into the cloud. New deployments are popping up every day, in large part because the cloud model has the potential to help agencies save on infrastructure and storage costs, pay "on-demand" for the services they use and access computing resources from any location.
But listing the benefits is easy. The real challenge is evaluating whether a cloud solution can provide these advantages while still meeting the unique privacy, security and compliance needs of large and complex government agencies.
This is especially true for the Defense Department, which has gone on record about seeking a balanced approach to cloud computing, ensuring that key concerns such as security remain a top priority during the transition.
As defense agencies embrace cloud computing, many are finding that cloud solutions deemed good enough for consumers can't handle their unique requirements. So here are a five things to think about when evaluating whether a cloud solution is truly ready to support your mission.
1. Total cost of ownership
We all love low sticker prices, but determining the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an enterprise cloud solution is far more complex. To do this, it is important to think big picture. There are long-term costs around accessibility, device support, interoperability and scalability that have to be factored into ROI considerations. If a consumer cloud solution doesn't come equipped with enterprise-level tools, it will have to be supplemented with expensive third-party "add-ons," which increases complexity while negatively affecting your agency's bottom line.
Say a defense agency just bought a consumer cloud productivity solution that doesn't allow it to encrypt messages, sort e-mail or designate a file as confidential. Now that agency has to go shopping for those capabilities. It's like entering a Smart Car into a NASCAR race. Even though the sticker price was great, after you replace the engine, modify the body, buy new tires and slap on a new paint job, you end up spending more than Dale Earnhardt Jr. spent on his car.
And because your car was patched together, and not built for this type of race from the start, you're less confident in your prospects for success.
2. Security and privacy
Most of us use cloud-based e-mail applications for our personal mail, and as much as we care about our privacy and data security, our concerns pale in comparison to the highest level security requirements of defense agencies. These organizations are responsible for protecting highly sensitive information that directly affects our national security and economic stability. Security certifications are important, but there are other factors to consider as well. In defense agencies, IT leaders typically start with one very important question: Where is my data located? Data location matters. Does it stay in the U.S.? Who has access? What other data lives in that environment?
It's also important to remember that all data isn't created equal. Some types of information are more sensitive, which is why many defense agencies operate mixed or "hybrid" IT infrastructures consisting of both cloud and on-premise resources. For example, a defense agency may want e-mail and collaboration in the cloud, but financial or classified mission data on-premise. This requires a solution capable of offering both options and integrating the two environments to simplify usability and management.
3. Functionality
There shouldn't be a penalty for moving to the cloud. Defense agencies shouldn't have to sacrifice functionality to take advantage of cloud computing. They should be able to enjoy the same innovative tools and capabilities they've come to expect from their traditional on-premise software in both connected and disconnected network environments.
As DOD expands its cloud portfolio beyond e-mail to include collaboration (such as chat, document collaboration and video conferencing), Web hosting, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, there can't be a decline in functionality. A guarantee of functionality will involve thorough testing and deploying pilots.
4. Records compliance
In the cloud, records should never be lost in translation. Important documents must remain consistent as they move in and out of the cloud. That's particularly critical for defense agencies, where official documents are essential to daily operations.
Some cloud offerings do not maintain such data integrity, and can potentially disrupt formats, discard data or removing key features like watermarks. Considering the volume of sensitive intelligence reports managed by defense employees on a daily basis, this information is too important for record inconsistencies. That goes for archiving and data retention policies as well. Regulations put forth by the Government Records Act, the E-Government Act of 2002 and National Archives and Records Administration must be observed in the cloud just as they are in any other environment.
5. Support
Defense agencies need confidence that their cloud provider is there when they have product questions, experience service disruptions or are ready to upgrade to a new service. This comes in the form of customer support, service-level agreements and product road maps.
Complex defense enterprises can't have their personnel spending time searching the Internet for information on how to use a certain cloud-based tool. They need access to experts who are available and accessible 24/7. Guaranteed uptime and robust SLAs are paramount for defense agencies, which can't afford to be without mission-critical computing resources for extended periods of time.
And lastly, defense agencies should demand clear product road maps in order to know where their cloud solution is headed. Enterprise-ready cloud solutions should have a long-term vision and coherent development process that matches defense needs and risk tolerance.
The lesson
Look before you leap into the cloud, because not all "best of breed" solutions are created to support the needs of defense environments. Evaluate which applications are good targets for the cloud by looking at the sensitivity of the data the application maintains, and then map your risk tolerance to the cloud providers security features and deployment model that best meets your needs (public, private and hybrid).
Conducting the right research on the front end will prevent any hidden surprises, helping you choose the best solution for your agency's unique mission.
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Wow - I've read some luddite chicken little anti-cloud pieces in the past, and while overall the article is not technically incorrect... Really? For email, all the major vendors (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, associated resellers) have FISMA compliant government only semi-private clouds that I guarantee offer better archiving, discovery and records management than 90% of the in house agency solutions out there today. Probably complying more fully with all the security regulations as well. For anyone to even hint that an agency is going to just go to Google.com and sign everyone up for the same Gmail account you get at home is, I really hope, preposterous! And even with all that, the providers are doing it cheaper than in house because once they get FISMA, OMB A-130, Clinger Cohen and the rest of the hodge podge of federal information security regulations figured out, their done! They can leverage that, just like they leverage their standard service offerings, across all of their government customers. It's not rocket science nor smoke and mirrors pie in the sky fantasizing either. Now, once you get past email, things get more interesting but FedRAMP is your friend and starting place (mandatory too) for figuring out if a potential cloud solution is a good fit. But this article seems like it woudl have been far more appropriate three years ago when cloud was completely new and uncharted territory, not here in 2012.
As usual, they miss one of the key issues, accessibility under worst case scenarios. If there is a major natural or man made disaster, that's when we need the information the most and that guarantee isn't there with the cloud. Aside from the possible physical interuptions of service, the cloud is run by civilians with family and other concerns that may keep them from doing what needs to be done regardless of the risks involved.
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Senior here know how I'm addict to NTFS Permission and love to know anything about those! Well, the other day I was looking around the Internet and I found this very fun utility.
What is Xcalcls.vbs
Download Link : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=enThere is an updated version of the Extended Change Access Control List tool (Xcacls.exe) that is available as a Microsoft Visual Basic script (Xcacls.vbs) from Microsoft. This step-by-step article describes how to use the Xcacls.vbs script to modify and to view NTFS file system permissions for files or for folders. You can use Xcacls.vbs from the command line to set all the file system security options that are accessible in Microsoft Windows Explorer. Xcacls.vbs displays and modifies the access control lists (ACLs) of files.
How To : http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;825751
I primary use that tool list all the permission on all file and directory and log it to a text file before changing them! Very usefull!


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Bruce Bolander on Color in the Kitchen
A colorful kitchen doesn't necessarily mean a kitchen that's full of colors. According to architect Bruce Bolander, in fact, the way to go is bold, but in limited numbers of colors:
In an article featuring his kitchens at Dwell, Bolander states, "I try to have a fairly uniform and limited palette of color and material in the kitchen. Kitchens tend to gather so much clutter and I find that starting off with clean and simple helps when the clutter occurs."
We love the result of this approach as pictured above. Bold greens that form a taut, consistent surface kitchen-wide make a statement without making things feel wild or jittery. Do you agree with this less-is-more (but not a bore) approach to color?
See more of Bolander's work at his website.
Related: Kitchen Gallery: Green Like Spring Peas
(Images: Dwell)


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Mara (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus watches as Scandinavian horror uses busty ladies to hide the dullness.
Jenny (Angelica Jansson) recalls a recent tragedy with her group of friends in a secluded house in the woods but the more we find out, the more Jenny's dark past may prove to be the cause of the massacre.
This low budget digitally shot horror has a purple tint to its snow coloured landscape and that remains throughout the film to varying degrees. Lighting it simple and textures are realistic because of it. Black levels are nice and deep and while the darker areas hide most of the detail it makes for a good all round image that punches above the weight of the films obvious budget constraints.
The darkness of the film hides most of the minimal set designs (especially in the not so convincing integration room) but the lit focal points look pretty good. Jenny's face is always well lit and natural and clothing, when under direct light is loaded with texture. The film plays well with darkness for the most part but often suffers form a lot of noise. There's not fear living in shadow and there's a good range of black levels but the darker ones are usually pretty overbearing and blasts out of the detail in the frame.
Initially the film is all crunching footprints in the snow and tonal audio shifts between time frames or memories. Dialogue takes the forefront and incidental music disappears into the rears, offering a low rubble as a background element until it's called on to shock. The film is largely quiet other than dramatic dialogue but the jumps do come in albeit pretty minimally with little real impact beyond the fact they are simply louder.
Behind the Scenes Documentary (74 mins) explains that the film was shot in just seven days, which is both impressive and explains a lot. We see a lot of filming, on set chats and raw footage and to keep you locked in the opening is what seems like extended footage of Jenny showering.
Casting Feature (03:56) shows meeting with the cast and some talk of the cast choices. This is expanded on with the 'Interview with Angelica Jansson' (03:07) after a screening of the film.
Last up is a selection of low budget horror trailers.
This film moves slowly as Jenny our lead being interrogated about what has occurred previously. Parents deaths, blood soaked clothes, old and new friends in the woods and lots of Jenny looking off with inward intensity as she recaps her plight. When the shocks do come it's all a bit late and there's nothing fresh about this tale at all.
Maraisn't all that good. Its basically a few pretty Scandinavian girls in various tight tops walking around a cabin with very little actually going on. Sure that makes for eye candy but like most candy its not very filling really. The disc is bog standard modern low budget, digitally shot stuff and the audio just about gets by. The extras aren't too bad though.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 13th January 2014
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: Dolby Digitsl 5.1 Swedish
Subtitles: Dolby Digitsl 5.1 Swedish
Extras: Behind the Scenes, Casting, Interviews Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Åke Gustafsson, Fredrik Hedberg, Jacob Kondrup
Cast: Angelica Jansson, Cecilia Samuelsson, Emelie Frantz Nilsson
Genre: Horror
Length: 77 minutes
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WIS Masquerade Ball Reminder
Sat. Apr 6, 2013 11:00pm - Sun. Apr 7, 2013 1:00am
Cardinal William H. Keeler Dining Room
Women In Science is hosting this Masquerade Ball and food drive. This fun night will be full of masks, lovely attire, and dancing. The kicker to this dance is, the female asks the male to the dance - Sadie Hawkins style. Get excited, start making masks, and finding those dazzling dresses. This is a event you won't want to miss.
This event is open to all Mount students plus one guest. Tickets are $5 per person and will be available for sale in Patriot Hall prior to the event.
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A jury on Wednesday rejected a claim that the promoter of Michael Jackson's comeback concerts was negligent in hiring the doctor who killed the superstar with a drug overdose.
Katherine Jackson had sought to link AEG Live LLC to her son's death, arguing it hired Dr. Conrad Murray to be the singer's physician without considering whether he was fit for the job. Jurors rejected her lawsuit and said they didn't believe Murray was unfit or incompetent to perform his duties involving the singer.
"We reached a verdict that we understand that not everybody is going to agree with. But the decision was reached after very careful consideration of five months of testimony, thousands of documents and of course the guidance of the court." __ jury foreman Gregg Barden.
"AEG didn't do anything wrong and would not allow themselves to be shaken down." __ AEG Live lead defense attorney Marvin S. Putnam.
"We, of course, are not happy with the result as it stands now. We will be exploring all options legally and factually and make a decision about anything at a later time." __ Kevin Boyle, attorney for Katherine Jackson.
"I don't want to say whose fault it (Jackson's death) is. I'm not one to point fingers." __ Juror Bryant Carino, 36, of Los Angeles.
"That doesn't mean we felt he was ethical." __ Barden, on the jury's findings regarding Murray.
"AEG would have never agreed to finance this tour if they knew Mr. Jackson was playing Russian roulette in his bedroom every night." __ Putnam
"We think that what we've done with this case is prove some things that are important for the Jackson family and for the concert industry and the sports industry with regards to treatment by doctors." __ Boyle


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Facing charges that she allegedly bilked a New Berlin, Wisconsin landscape company, 37-year-old former secretary Robbin R. Hoeppner was charged with one count of theft of more than $2,500, and 15 counts of identity theft for financial gain. She allegedly stole $4,000 from AAA Landscaping, and if convicted, she faces up to 93½ years in prison and $160,000 in fines.
Hired as a secretary in 2009, she had been on the job for less than a year when the quality of her work began to deteriorate. At some point, she asked the owner if she could take checks to the bank and bills to the post office, but after several months the owner noticed that some bills were not getting mailed. Hoeppner said she must have forgotten to mail them. The owner soon discovered that she was cashing checks meant to pay some bills, and keeping the cash for herself.
Since her work ethic wasn't good, the owner decided to hire another person in 2010 to help take care of some of the work. Hoeppner knew that the new employee would find the missing money soon, so she started cashing more checks from the business for herself. In all, she cashed 15 checks, for a total of $3,967.
In July 2010, she called the victim's cell phone; he had already reported the crime, and put the call on speaker so investigators could listen in. She said she would pay the victim back, but was able to get only $210 at that time. Hoeppner said she took the money because she was behind on car payments, and had a brain tumor.
In November 2010, officers called Hoeppner, who said she was living near West Virginia and had left Wisconsin. She said she would be coming home for Thanksgiving, but alluded to the fact she may never come back, depending on the case. When confronted about the embezzlement, she said there had been a mix-up with a check while working at AAA Landscaping, and the other suspicious checks were reimbursements she had received from the company.
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Rolls-Royce reveals record sales
* More than 3500 cars sold * Best sales figures in company's history * Ghost model drives sales...
Rolls-Royce has recorded record sales for 2011 selling more than 3500 cars.
Sales for the luxury limousine jumped by 31% compared with 2010 figures.
Sales have been driven by the Ghost model, which costs from 165,000. It is smaller and more efficient than the company's Phantom cars that are priced from 285,000.
Rolls-Royce boss Torsten Muller-Otvos said 2011 had been an 'outstanding year'.
It was a good year elsewhere in the luxury car segment, with Rolls-Royce's key rival Bentley reporting a 37% rise in sales. The Volkswagen Group-owned car maker sold 7003 cars.
Rolls-Royce's sales figures were the best in the company's 107-year history. Sales for 2011 beat the previous high of 3347 vehicles sold in 1978.
The Ghost model has been central to the car maker's flourishing fortunes, because the smaller, less ostentatious and cheaper alternative to Phantom models has proved popular with younger and female buyers.
Exports also boosted Rolls-Royce's figures, with particularly strong growth in sales to Germany and Russia. Sales to the Asia Pacific region increased by 47%, while the number of cars shipped to the Middle East rose by 23%. UK registrations grew by 30%.


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The call changed her life.
"Caserta, a team in the Italian Softball League, called inviting me to come play ball for them this season," Wiginton said. "I was torn because I already had committed to help coach (Bob) Brock as a graduate assistant, but this was an unexpected opportunity."
Brock, one of the "winningest" coaches in NCAA Division I softball, thought this decision was a "no-brainer."
"We told Hailey to go for it," the Sam Houston skipper who is nearing his 1,000th career coaching victory this spring. "This is a once in a lifetime chance to continue to play the sport she loves. There's not many opportunities to play professional softball in the United States."
Wiginton left for Italy a month ago and now is playing for the defending Italian league champion. She is a member of a truly international squad that includes another American Tenaya Tucker and an Aussie, Brenda De Blaes.
Last spring, the Friendswood, Texas, product was recognized as an All-Southland Conference selection for the fourth consecutive season.
She was an honorable mention selection as a freshman, second as a sophomore and first team each of the past two years. Wiginton posted a .331 batting average in 2011, leading the Bearkats in total hits (54), doubles (9) and home runs (9).
She completed her Bearkat career as Sam Houston's all-time leader in doubles (37), ranks second all-time in total runs (129), hits (224), and home runs (18) and is the third-leading hitter in Kat annals with a four-year batting mean of .348.
"Hailey is one of the best shortstops to play for Sam Houston State," Brock said. "She is a tremendous person as well and brought a lot of leadership to the program."
Wiginton came to Sam Houston after a decorated high school and club career. She was a four-time first team all-district shortstop for Friendswood High School and a top player for Team Texas AFA softball club. Survant was an all-state and all-district outfielder for Bryan High School and played for Cy Fair Intruders Gold.
"What I always will remember about Sam Houston is how close all the athletes are," Wiginton said. "Not just the softball team, but all the athletes. We'd take the field at home games and see players from the football, volleyball, basketball, bowling and other teams in the stands cheering for us. It's like one big family here.
"Coach Brock has a passion for the game that few other coaches possess and I learned a lot. The family atmosphere made it a tremendous experience."
Wiginton was graduated last May and was working on her graduate degree in curriculum instruction before the opportunity to play in Italy.
"Obviously, I intend to finish work on my graduate degree," Wiginton said. "This is such an exciting opportunity and I am grateful to all the support I received from everyone at Sam Houston to make this happen."


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After a Middlesex County Superior judge told them they had to obey the subpoena, both Lewis' complied before leaving the courthouse.
"I will have no comment on that" DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett told the ABC7 I-Team when reached by phone on Friday afternoon. "I just won't comment" said Birkett, whose office could prosecute any murder charges brought in the case because several of the killings occurred in DuPage.
The cases could also be brought in Cook County, where poisoning murders also took place.
In Cook County this afternoon, a spokesman for State's Attorney Anita Alvarez told us "the cases remain open." State's Attorney spokesman Andy Conklin declined to discuss the Tylenol killings cases, including whether Chicago prosecutors will share the DNA and fingerprint samples provided by the Lewis'.
There is no federal murder statute but the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been aiding and assisting metro Chicago law enforcement for nearly 28-years, attempting to solve the haunting crimes.
"The investigation into the 1982 Tylenol killings is still ongoing" said FBI Special Agent Ross Rice in response to reports that Lewis and his wife had been served subpoenas for their DNA and fingerprints.
Agent Rice, assigned to the Chicago FBI field office, announced a year ago that a team of law enforcement officers was executing search warrants on the Lewis' residence outside Boston.
"No arrests have been made and no criminal charges filed" Rice told thevI-Team on Friday, neither confirming-nor denying-that there has been a new turn in the investigation.
Investigators working on the case, who asked not to be identified because of grand jury secrecy laws, said that the case is focused on returning state murder charges in Illinois. The investigation is complicated by the passage of time and the distance between Chicago-where the crimes were committed-and Boston, where the prime suspect and his wife reside.
That has resulted in cumbersome court arrangements and numerous jurisdictional hurdles, say law enforcement sources.
The first report of the Lewis' court appearance was in a small suburban Boston newspaper.
"The couple arrived in the front corridor of the courthouse at 8:45am and were briefly interviewed by one of our Somerville News/Cambridge News Weekly correspondents and later by FBI agents as well as by local authorities, who escorted the couple to the hearing room" stated the story.
The Lewis' were cooperative with agents a during last year's search of their home but providing fingerprints and DNA samples would reflect a sharp escalation in tactics by the authorities.
James Lewis, 63, has a Boston lawyer who declined even to confirm that the hearing took place.
"Proceedings such as that reported by the Somerville News, to the extent that they occur, are supposed to be secret precisely to protect the reputations of innocent people like James Lewis and his wife," attorney David Meier told the Globe. Meier, the former long time head of the homicide unit of the Suffolk district attorney's office said "To comment further would be irresponsible, unprofessional, and unethical."
The seven victims of cyanide-tainted Extra-Strength Tylenol-including a 12-year old girl-died in 1982 after taking the capsules that had been bought from Chicago drug and grocery stores.
Lewis was sentenced to prison in June 1983 for demanding $1 million from Johnson & Johnson, parent of Tylenol manufacturer McNeil Consumer Products Co., ``to stop the killing.''
In interviews with the I-Team over the years, has Lewis admitted sending the extortion demands but has always denied the killings. In one interview with us he said that the "Tylenol murderer is still dancing in the streets."
After Mr. Lewis was released from prison in the Tylenol extortion matter, he was not free of trouble with the law. In 2004, after moving to the Boston area, Lewis was charged with rape and kidnapping for an alleged attack on a woman in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The charges were dropped three years later.


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The Long Goodbye
With the departure of Beaumont Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Carrol Thomas looming ever closer with each passing week, most taxpayers will undoubtedly breathe a sigh of relief when Butch finally heads for his retirement villa – or wherever one of the most highly compensated public school officials in Texas will go to count his millions. The pomp and circumstance surrounding this long goodbye seem more appropriate for a ruling monarch or head of state, but his BISD minions should count themselves lucky there hasn't been a pyramid constructed where they would be entombed with Thomas and his gold.Those who will miss Doc can take comfort in the ascension of Dr. Timothy Chargois, already granted a Thomas-like automatic annual pay raise despite the stated intention of a clear majority of board members. Chicanery by BISD attorneys and rogue board members managed to thwart the will of the majority. To date, Chargois has shown no sign of rejecting this backdoor largesse even though his salary doubled when he got the job.
But Thomas isn't gone yet, and the bill for his leave-taking gets more expensive by the day. He agreed to move up his retirement date by five months after the BISD board ponied up $156,000 to cover the remaining five months of his contract.
Now a nonprofit group called Beaumont Metropolitan Council of PTAs has announced a "Retirement Extravaganza" to honor Thomas on Aug. 23. The fete will kick off with a three-hour reception starting at 4 p.m. at the new Beaumont Event Center followed by a "Gala Concert" at 7:30 p.m. featuring a Motown revue presented by a group out of Houston. The admission to that Civic Center event is $16.
The PTA group claims no taxpayer money will be used for the event – at least not directly. But money that passes through BISD's hands has a way of ending up where the district wants it. Remember the scandal last year involving Business Review USA, the online "magazine" that inexplicably rated BISD as one of the Top 10 school districts in the nation? In exchange for the "honor," BISD provided them with a list of their vendors who were solicited for advertising sales.
Among the BISD vendors embroiled in this scheme were Favre Public Adjusters, Manning's Supply and SETEX Construction, which had been paid at least $800,000 that year for work on BISD bond projects. Perhaps an argument can be made that the money spent to secure that Top 10 rating was not direct taxpayer dollars, but where do you think those vendors got it?


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Ursula Bauer, PhD, MPH, is the director of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), a position she assumed on January 4, 2010.
"Our top priority in chronic disease prevention is to help create environments that support and sustain health. People in every community should have ready access to safe places to walk and play, to abundant, affordable sources of healthy foods, and to indoor air that is free of tobacco smoke."
—Ursula Bauer, Ph.D., MPH
Prior to becoming director of NCCDPHP, Dr. Bauer was director of the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention in the New York State Department of Health. She was named to that post in March 2008. She provided leadership, vision, and direction to the state's chronic disease programs and efforts to integrate prevention activities into a focused set of strategies to reduce the burden of chronic disease, reduce health care costs, and improve the health of New Yorkers.
Dr. Bauer joined the New York health department in 2001 as the director of its Tobacco Control Program. In that role Dr. Bauer transformed the program into a focused, effective exemplar of tobacco control strategy and practice. She doubled the program's funding from $43 million to $85 million and implemented key evidence-based policy strategies, including two cigarette excise tax increases and the statewide Clean Indoor Air Act.
Prior to her service in New York, Dr. Bauer worked as a chronic disease epidemiologist with the Florida Department of Health and, as a CDC epidemic intelligence service officer, with the Louisiana Office of Public Health. She conducted public health surveillance, led evaluation and research programs, and designed and implemented systems and studies to monitor and demonstrate the impact of public health interventions. She was also an assistant professor at the University of South Florida's College of Public Health.
One of Dr. Bauer's sentinel publications was an August 2000 JAMA article that documented a 40-percent reduction in smoking among Florida middle school students and an 18-percent drop among the state's high school students in a 2-year period following implementation of the Florida Pilot Program on Tobacco Control.
Dr. Bauer received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Yale University, an M.P.H. in Family Health from Columbia University, and a Master's degree in Political Science from Rutgers, The State University. She is married and has two daughters.


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SANTA CLARA, CALIF., AND CAMBRIDGE, UK –Jan. 6, 2003 – DSP Group Inc., (Nasdaq: DSPG), a worldwide leader in developing and providing Total Telephony Solutions™ and short range wireless products, and ARM, [(LSE:ARM) (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, today announced that DSP Group has licensed the ARM7TDMI® microprocessor core for use in its short range wireless residential line of products.
"In applying the ARM® technology to residential wireless market products, DSP Group has opted to use the industry-leading core and TeakLite DSP cores which bring together excellent power efficiency and operating performance to advanced telephony equipment," said Shlomo Rosenberg, Israeli country manager, ARM. "The ARM7TDMI core is the most widely licensed of all the ARM cores and provides system designers with the flexibility necessary to build embedded devices requiring small size, low power and high performance capabilities."
"Having an integrated system-on-a-chip solution using the low power and high-performance characteristics of the ARM7TDMI core and DSP Group's TeakLite DSP core make it a compelling product for our short range residential wireless products, including cordless telephony, PBX systems, Bluetooth products, IP phones, hands free car kits for the automotive, multimedia handheld devices and others," said Ofer Shneyour, CTO of DSP Group. "ARM has established itself as the leading designer for 32-bit RISC cores over a number of years and our customers will appreciate the benefits of its performance in our ARM Powered® end-products."
About DSPG
DSP Group, Inc. is a semiconductor fabless company that is a leader in the wireless residential market. By combining its DSP cores technology with advanced RF, communication technology and speech-processing algorithms, DSP Group is a worldwide leader in developing and providing Total Telephony Solutions™. These applications include digital 900MHz, 2.4GHz, DECT (1.9GHz), 5.8GHz and Bluetooth for residential and automotive applications. DSP Group's advanced RF CMOS and communications technology provides the company with a clear path to a Phone-on-a-Chip™ solution. DSP Group also develops and markets embedded, integrated silicon/software solution for Voice-over-Digital-Subscriber Line (VoDSL), Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) applications, and other Voice over Packet applications for Integrated Access Device (IAD) and IP Phone. More information on DSP Group is available at www.dspg.com
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals and system-on-chip (SoC) designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com/
ARM, ARM Powered and ARM7TDMI are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM China
Total Telephony Solutions and Phone-on-a-Chip are trademarks of DSP Group, Inc.
Yaniv Arieli, DSP Group
Michelle Spencer, ARM
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By Richard Cowan and David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As divisions over major reductions in federal budget deficits solidify, President Barack Obama and members of Congress on Thursday began weighing limited steps that might be brokered in a bipartisan deal later this year.
Obama spent much of Thursday afternoon on Capitol Hill, first meeting with Republican senators and then huddling with fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Despite nearly two weeks of outreach to lawmakers, Obama seemed no closer to an agreement with Republicans on a large deficit reduction deal by midyear.
Instead, Republicans and Obama's Democratic allies in Congress engaged in partisan rhetoric, even as the president was striking a moderate tone in his private meetings with Republican senators.
"The president's idea of compromise is, 'Just do it my way.' That's just not going to work," Republican House Speaker John Boehner told reporters.
Obama has been calling for more tax hikes on the wealthiest taxpayers, coupled with new spending cuts, to help curb budget deficits that have exceeded $1 trillion in each of the past four years, in part because of the weak economy.
"No more tax hikes," Boehner added, referring to the more than $600 billion in new revenues Obama won at the beginning of this year by raising income taxes on the wealthy.
The Democratic-controlled Senate Budget Committee was on track on Thursday to pass a budget plan that calls for $1 trillion in new tax revenues by ending tax breaks for the highest earners and corporations, while replacing automatic spending cuts and making modest cuts elsewhere.
Republican Paul Ryan's budget, passed by the House of Representatives budget panel on Wednesday, aims to slash $4.6 trillion largely from social programs to reach balance by 2023. It contains no new tax revenues.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, noting the yawning gap between her party and Republicans on the functions of government, told reporters: "This is a bigger difference than I have seen ... well I've never seen anything quite like it. I don't think anybody has seen anything quite like it."
Some lawmakers have begun hinting at more incremental steps if Republicans cannot swallow any more tax hikes for deficit reduction and Democrats cannot deliver on the "entitlement" program reforms Obama has dangled.
The latter could include changes to the Social Security retirement program and Medicare and Medicaid healthcare for the elderly, disabled and poor.
"You set aside differences and you find where you can work together. That's what we ought to be doing," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Wednesday after his fellow Republicans met privately with Obama.
A senior House Republican aide said one such idea was cutting federal workers' pensions, putting them more in line with private-sector retirement funds. Democrats in the past have acknowledged that is an area that could be ripe for reform.
Pelosi and Senator Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, both expressed a willingness to look at changes to how cost-of-living benefit increases are calculated in order to save money.
"I'd have to say if we can demonstrate that it doesn't hurt the poor and the very elderly, let's take a look at it," Pelosi told reporters.
Durbin warned that "some senators will never, ever consider" the change, which is called "chained CPI." But he too said it was "worth looking at" as part of any effort to restore the solvency of Social Security.
An estimated $340 billion could be saved over 10 years with the new method for calculating cost-of-living increases that proponents say takes into account more real-world estimates of the cost of consumer goods.
Part of the budget savings also would come from higher revenues collected as tax bracket thresholds fail to keep pace as closely as they do now with rising incomes.
As chances dim for a comprehensive reform of the U.S. tax code as part of this year's budget negotiations, Obama has told Republicans in both chambers that he favors a revenue-neutral reform of corporate taxes.
That conversation went a step further on Thursday when the president and Republican senators talked about the possibility of doing corporate tax reform as a stand-alone fix, instead of folding it into more far-reaching reforms as had been assumed.
All the talk of limited steps has some lawmakers worried.
Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, a former Bush administration budget director, told Reuters that a deficit-reduction deal of between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion was the minimum necessary to stabilize the nation's debt at a safe level. That would be on top of the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over 10 years that began to take hold on March 1.
"A lot of people are talking about a lot less than that," Portman said.
Obama embarked on his private sessions with Republicans after a couple of them signaled a willingness to accept higher taxes to help reduce budget deficits.
One congressional aide said the intimate meetings were aimed at gauging just how deep support might be among congressional Republicans.
Obama got a bleak assessment last Saturday night during an annual white-tie dinner held by the Gridiron Club, a Washington press organization. He was seen holding a sustained conversation at the event with House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy.
A source who asked not to be identified said McCarthy thanked the president for reaching out to Republicans on the budget issue. Obama, the source said, told McCarthy he would talk to more people than just Boehner, a change from previous budget negotiations.
McCarthy then told Obama, according to the source, "'It doesn't matter who you talk to, if you keep talking about tax revenues, you're going to get the same answer."
That answer appears to be "no."
(Additional reporting by Rachelle Younglai, Thomas Ferraro and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Fred Barbash, Tim Dobbyn and Peter Cooney)


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This Broadcom chipset sometimes does not behave well unless you specify the order of the modules to be loaded. The modules are broadcom and tg3, the former needing to be loaded first.
These steps should help if your computer has this chipset:
$ lspci | grep Ethernet 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
If your wired networking is not functioning in some way or another, try unplugging your cable then doing the following (as root):
# modprobe -r tg3 # modprobe broadcom # modprobe tg3
Now plug you network cable in. If this solves your problems you can make this permanent in any of the following ways (just pick one!).
Add broadcom and tg3 (in order) to your MODULES line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf or /etc/rc.conf:
MODULES=".. broadcom tg3 .."
If you added it to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf you will have to run this command:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Or you can add these lines to /etc/rc.local (for example):
#!/bin/bash # # /etc/rc.local: Local multi-user startup script. # modprobe -r tg3 modprobe broadcom modprobe tg3
Note: These methods may work for other chipsets, such as BCM57760.


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1 Introduction
Raspberry Pi is an ARM based single-board computer, developed for educational purposes, costing USD 25. For more details, see the Wikipedia article about Raspberry Pi, or the FAQ list.
2 Links
3 GHC Status
Of the "official" images currently available from the Raspberry Pi Downloads page, the following versions of GHC are available
Note: GHCi does not currently work on ARM below version 7.4.2. See this post on haskell-cafe for information on this
4 Current Issues
The main issues encountered so far is the memory limitations of the device, at 256mb GHC will execute fine, but problems will start to arise when using cabal to install new libraries, especially ones with lots of dependencies.
Potential solutions to this problem have been suggested, including using QEMU on a more powerful system and thus compiling your application there and copying the resulting binary across to your Raspberry Pi


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Balaenoptera borealis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|The Sei Whale is a recognized species, but phylogenetically it falls within a clade including the Bryde's Whale and Omura's Whale (B. omurai) (Wada et al. 2003). Older catch and sightings records of Sei Whales, particularly prior to 1972, tended to include Bryde's Whales, and possibly Omura's Whales, in counts of "sei whales" in areas where one or both of the other two species also occur. Tomilin (1957) proposed two subspecies, B. b. borealis in the northern hemisphere and B. b. schlegeli Flower, 1884 in the southern hemisphere, but these are not widely recognized.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered A1ad ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Reilly, S.B., Bannister, J.L., Best, P.B., Brown, M., Brownell Jr., R.L., Butterworth, D.S., Clapham, P.J., Cooke, J., Donovan, G.P., Urbán, J. & Zerbini, A.N.
|Taylor, B.L. & Notarbartolo di Sciara, G. (Cetacean Red List Authority)
The cause of the population reduction in this species (commercial whaling) is reversible, understood, and is not currently in operation. For this reason, the species is assessed under criterion A1, not under A2, A3 or A4. The global mature population is estimated to have declined by about 80% over the last three generations (Figure 1 in supplementary material). This is supported by observed declines in abundance in several regions. Most of this decline is attributable to the southern hemisphere. While a higher intrinsic rate of increase than that given in Table 1 (in supplementary material) may be possible and could result in a less threatened category, a precautionary approach is to use the value given in Table 1, which, based on the available data, is plausible for Sei Whales, particularly given the absence of direct evidence of any increase in the population.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Sei Whale is a cosmopolitan species, with a mainly offshore distribution, occurring in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Southern Hemisphere, but probably not in the Northern Indian Ocean (Rice 1998); it is an occasional visitor to the Mediterranean (Reeves and Notarbartolo di Sciara 2006). Sei Whales migrate between tropical and subtropical latitudes in winter and temperate and subpolar latitudes in summer, staying mainly in water temperatures of 8-–18°C, and tend not to penetrate to such high latitudes as other rorquals. Their winter distribution seems to be widely dispersed and is not fully mapped (Horwood 1987, 2002).
In the North Pacific, Sei Whales in summer are distributed mainly north of 40°N, including the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands (US), and to some extent into the Bering Sea, but not into the Okhotsk Sea. The wintering grounds are poorly known, but Sei Whales were formerly caught in winter off the Bonin Islands (Japan) (IWC 2006); animals tagged there have been recaptured throughout the summer range (Masaki 1977).
In the North Atlantic the summer distribution seems to be quite variable from year to year; however, Sei Whales typically occur north of an arc running from south of Nova Scotia in the west, to the northwestern British Isles and Trondheim (Norway) in the east. They occur as far north as the Davis Strait and the northern end of the Denmark Strait. Occasional incursions into other areas have been noted (e.g. the Gulf of Maine, Schilling et al. 1993). Peaks of catch rates in early and late summer suggested a northward and southward migration through the former Nova Scotia whaling ground (Mitchell 1975). Sei Whales have been scarce in Norwegian waters in recent years despite significant catches there in the past. Sei Whales were caught in limited numbers, mainly in late summer, off northwestern Spain (Aguilar and Sanpera 1982), and have been recorded in winter as far south as the Caribbean Sea and Cap Blanc, Mauritania (Rice 1998).
The summer (Jan–Feb) distribution in the southern hemisphere is mainly in the zone 40–50°S in the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans, and 45–60°S in the South Pacific (Miyashita et al. 1995). Known wintering grounds include a number of former low–latitude whaling grounds, including northeastern Brazil at 7°S (da Rocha 1983), Peru at 6°S (Valdivia et al. 1982), and in earlier years off Angola and the Congo (IWC 2006). Catches off western South Africa (Donkergat) and eastern South Africa (Durban) showed peaks in spring and autumn, suggestive of populations on migration routes (Horwood 1987).
Chilean whaling records (32–38°S) show catches and sightings of "Sei" Whales throughout the year including summer until the early 1980s, but some of these may have been Bryde's Whales. However, some Sei Whales have been observed feeding in summer at around 42°S off Chile in recent years (Galletti et al. 2005).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bermuda; Brazil; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Faroe Islands; French Southern Territories; Gibraltar; Greenland; Haiti; Iceland; Ireland; Japan; Kenya; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Madagascar; Mauritania; Mexico; Morocco; Namibia; New Zealand; Northern Mariana Islands; Norway; Peru; Portugal; Réunion; Russian Federation; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (Tristan da Cunha); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; South Africa; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Spain; Turks and Caicos Islands; United Kingdom; United States; Uruguay; Western Sahara
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – Antarctic; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – southeast; Indian Ocean – Antarctic; Indian Ocean – eastern; Indian Ocean – western; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – northeast; Pacific – Antarctic; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – western central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|North Atlantic. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) recognizes three stock divisions for sei whales in the North Atlantic: Nova Scotia; Iceland-Denmark Strait; and Eastern (including the waters of Spain, Portugal, British Isles, Faeroes and Norway), but the divisions were chosen on largely arbitrary grounds (Donovan 1991).
About 14,000 Sei Whales are recorded caught by modern whaling in the North Atlantic. In addition, an unknown proportion of the approximately 30,000 unspecified large whales caught in the North Atlantic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were Sei Whales.
Sei Whales appear to have been depleted in the eastern North Atlantic, with over 7,500 recorded taken in Norwegian and British waters prior to World War II (not counting the unspecified whales), but fewer than 200 since then. The species seems to be virtually absent there now: Norwegian surveys of northeast Atlantic waters in 1987, 1989, and annually from 1995–2005 have yielded only one Sei Whale sighting in the Eastern stock area. Small numbers of sei whales were caught during 1957–80 off northwestern Spain, mainly in late summer/autumn (Aguilar and Sanpera 1982); the stock identity of these animals is unclear.
By contrast, Sei Whales are still abundant in the central North Atlantic (Iceland-Denmark Strait IWC stock area), especially southwest of Iceland south to 50°N in summer. The only survey with reasonably complete coverage, designed specifically for the purpose of estimating sei whale abundance, was in 1989, and yielded a population estimate of 10,300 whales (CV 0.27) (Cattanach et al. 1993). Areas of Sei Whale abundance seem to shift markedly between years relative to the northern extent of the distribution, more so than for other baleen whale species (Gunnlaugsson et al. 2004).
No recent abundance estimates are available for the western North Atlantic. The population size during 1966–69 was estimated at 2,078 (Mitchell and Chapman 1977) from sightings surveys, using strip transect methodology. About 1,200 Sei Whales were taken off Nova Scotia during 1962–72.
North Pacific. The last assessment of North Pacific Sei Whales by the IWC Scientific Committee was in 1974 (IWC 1977). The exploitable population (animals of legally catchable size) was estimated to have declined from 42,000 in 1963 to 8,600 in 1974 (Tillman 1977). Over 40,000 Sei Whales were caught during this period (IWC 2006). A 75% reduction in Sei Whale catch rates of Californian whaling stations during the 1960s is consistent with an ocean-wide decline (Rice 1977). Exploitation ceased in 1975. The extent to which the population has recovered since then is unclear.
Hakamada et al. (2004) gave an estimate of 4,100 animals from one area of the western North Pacific, but attempts to extrapolate this to produce an estimate for the entire western North Pacific have not been accepted. It is likely that there has been some increase in the population since the end of exploitation, but given the tendency for sei whale distribution to change from year to year, it is hard to interpret the limited survey data that currently exist.
Sei Whales appear not to have formerly been uncommon in the eastern North Pacific. However, a preliminary estimate for the US west coast based on surveys in 1996 and 2001 is only 56 whales (Barlow 2003). In the Eastern Tropical Pacific, all potential sei/Bryde's whales that could be specifically identified were found to be Bryde's, suggesting that Sei Whales are now rare (Wade and Gerrodette 1993).
Southern Hemisphere. Over 200,000 Sei Whales are recorded taken by modern whaling in the southern hemisphere during 1905–1979. The IWC arbitrarily divides southern hemisphere Sei Whales, along with other southern hemisphere baleen whales, into six longitudinally defined management Areas. Sei Whales in all of the six Areas have been classified as Protection Stocks by the IWC since 1978. The greatest catches were during 1960–72, when they exceeded 5,000 in every year, topping at nearly 20,000 in 1964 alone. Most catches were taken in summer by pelagic fleets operating south of 40°S, but winter catches were also taken from land stations in Brazil, Peru and South Africa (and smaller numbers in Chile, where there is ambiguity with Bryde's Whales).
The last assessment of southern hemisphere Sei Whales by the IWC Scientific Committee was conducted in 1979 (IWC 1980). Some extra information on these assessments is given by Horwood (1987). Based on catches/sightings per unit effort from Japanese catch and scouting vessels respectively, the "exploitable" stock size (Sei Whales of legal size, approximately 2/3 of total population), excluding Area II (South Atlantic sector), was estimated to have declined from about 64,000 in 1960 to about 11,000 by 1979. The population model used failed to produce an estimate for Area II, because nearly all the catch for this area was taken in just the two seasons 1964/65 and 1965/66, with nearly 30,000 Sei Whales being taken in these two years, yet the abundance indices suggested a more continuous decline during the 1960s and 1970s (IWC 1980). This suggests that the management Areas do not correspond to biological populations.
Other available evidence also suggests a severe and rapid decline in Sei Whale stocks during the 1960s and 1970s. The catch and sighting rates from winter whaling operations off Brazil and South Africa show even sharper declines. Abundance indices from the Brazilian whaling ground for Sei Whales during 1966–81 (da Rocha 1983) declined by ca. 90% during 1966–72.
No recovery of sei whales in Brazilian waters has been detected since that time (Zerbini et al. 1997, Andriolo et al. 2001). Catch and sightings indices off Durban, South Africa for 1965–74 (Best 1976) declined by over 95%. Tag-recapture data from pelagic whaling suggested an approximately 6-fold decline between 1962–76 (IWC 1980, Fig. 1).
IWC (1996, Table 2) gives a total population estimate for Sei Whales south of 30°S of about 10,000 based on a combination of IDCR and Japanese Scout Vessel (JSV) sightings data. It is difficult to know how much reliance to place on this estimate, because no variance is given, but it is consistent with a severe decline. No more recent summer data are available, except for the area south of 60°S, which is outside the main summer range of Sei Whales. In the absence of dedicated surveys in Sei Whale habitat, and resulting abundance estimates, it is not possible to assess whether there has been any increase in southern hemisphere sei whales since the cessation of whaling.
Generation time and maximum rate of increase. The generation time is estimated to be 23.3 years (Taylor et al. 2007). The 3-generation time window for applying the decline criterion (A) is 1937–2007.
For assessment purposes, the IWC Scientific Committee has used a natural mortality rate of 0.06, an age at first reproduction declining (with stock depletion) from 12-13 years to 10-11 years, and an annual pregnancy rate increasing (with stock depletion) from 0.27 to 0.37-0.39 (IWC 1980; Horwood 1980). Assuming a maximum annual pregnancy rate of 0.40, a minimum age of first reproduction of 10 years, and no juvenile mortality, the maximum rate of increase is 2.7% p.a. Horwood and Millward (1987) also conclude that the maximum rate of increase for sei whale populations is less than 3% per year.
Population assessment. Because the available published assessments for this species are not up to date, an updated population assessment is conducted here to enable assessment of the population reduction over the period 1937-2007 relative to the A criterion. While the available data do not permit a scientifically rigorous estimation of the extent of population reduction, it is reasonable to use conventional population assessment methods to provide a crude indication of the extent of possible reduction relative to the criteria. A conventional deterministic age-structured model with an age at first capture ("recruitment") (ar) and an age at first reproduction (am), and linear density-dependence was applied to the North Pacific, North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere regions separately. The results are provided in the supplementary material, and constitutes an integral part of this assessment.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Sei Whales exhibit a greater variety in diet than, say, Blue Whales, but tend to feed on only one type of prey at a time. Of 21,713 stomachs examined in the North Pacific, 82.7% contained copepods only, and 12.6% contained euphausiids only; of 31,494 stomachs examined in the southern hemisphere, 54.3% contained euphausiids only, 30.5% contained copepods only, and 14.4% contained amphipods only (Nemoto and Kawamura 1977). Sei whale stomachs examined in the Northeast Atlantic contained copepods and euphausiids (Jonsgård and Darling 1977). Sei Whale stomachs analysed in the North Pacific off California contained euphausiids and anchovies (Rice 1977). Sei Whales are noted for their erratic appearance in specific feeding grounds, being plentiful in some years and absent (sometimes for years or even decades) in others (Horwood 1987).
|Use and Trade:
|Major commercial hunting of this species has ceased. About 100 animals are taken annually in the North Pacific.
|Major Threat(s):
Sei Whale exploitation by modern whalers was particularly intensive in the southern hemisphere and the North Pacific from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, following the depletion of Blue, Fin and Humpback Whales. Sei Whale stocks were seriously depleted during this period. Exploitation in the North Atlantic occurred over a longer period and was less intensive, except in the eastern North Atlantic, where the population appears not to have recovered from early modern whaling. Commercial exploitation ceased in the North Pacific in 1975, in the southern hemisphere in 1979 and in the North Atlantic in 1989. Catches by Japan under scientific permit resumed in the North Pacific in 2002: since 2004, the annual take has been 100 animals.
Reports of other human-caused deaths of Sei Whales are rare. Two fatal ship strikes (Sei Whales found dead on the bows of ships) were reported on the US East Coast during 2000–2004 (Cole et al. 2006). It is hard to extrapolate from known cases to an estimated total, but Sei Whales appear to be at relatively low risk of human impacts, probably because of their largely offshore distribution.
Rice (1961, 1974) reported a pathological condition in several North Pacific sei whales which resulted in deterioration or loss of baleen; however, the current frequency of this condition, and its impact (if any) on the population, are unknown.
|Conservation Actions:
|Sei Whales have been specifically protected from commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission since 1975 in the North Pacific and 1979 in the southern hemisphere. They have also been protected by the general moratorium on commercial whaling since 1986, although this does not cover catches taken under scientific permit. This species is included in CITES Appendix I although Iceland has held a reservation against this listing since 2000. The species is listed in Appendix II of CMS.
|Reilly, S.B., Bannister, J.L., Best, P.B., Brown, M., Brownell Jr., R.L., Butterworth, D.S., Clapham, P.J., Cooke, J., Donovan, G.P., Urbán, J. & Zerbini, A.N. 2008. Balaenoptera borealis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T2475A9445100. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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Several weeks ago, the boys and I (far right) enjoyed a lovely breakfast at the newest Bob Evans store near our home with several other bloggers from our area. Notice the 30 meals for $5.99 or less sign! Great restaurant prices in my book!
Whenever we are on a road trip, we always stop for a meal at Bob Evans. It's become a Chase family tradition! We like eating there because it is reasonably priced, and is "allergy friendly"…meaning I can always find something on their diverse menu that the boys can eat!
While at the breakfast, we took a tour of the new restaurants they will be building in the future. The exterior design will look more like a farmhouse than a restaurant. When walking into the store, you'll be greeted by a "kid friendly" waiting area and then their upgraded "eat-in kitchen," complete with dining bar, tables for two, and even flatscreens to catch up on the latest news and sports. They realized that many of their customers were coming in pairs or in alone, so they wanted to create a warm and welcoming space where couples or lone diners would feel "at home" while eating their meal. The interior "feels" more farmhouse-like, as to make you feel like you're there on the actual farm eating dinner with Bob and his family!
Also, during the tour, there was a LOVELY young lady who played with the boys, helped them enjoy their breakfast, colored with them, painted their faces and made sure they were taken care of. As a mom, I found this so thoughtful and really appreciated that I could listen and focus on the tour, and not worry about what the kids were up to.
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