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Microsoft SOA strategy: A failure to communicate?
Microsoft follows the road-less-traveled and nowhere is it more apparent than in its strategy for SOA, which some see as muddled while others think it's on target, but not well communicated.
Rich Seeley, News Writer
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate."
Microsoft is open when it comes to other objects and formats coming into their environment, but the stuff doesn't go out nearly as easily.
Dana Gardner
principal analystInterarbor Solutions LLC.
The classic Strother Martin line from "Cool Hand Luke" might sum up analysts views as to why so few people outside Microsoft can understand what the software giant is talking about when it talks about service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Views differ as to whether Microsoft knows what it is doing with SOA, but doesn't know how to communicate it, or whether it doesn't really know what it is doing with SOA and is communicating what it doesn't know. A third view might be that Microsoft is making a hash of both SOA and its communications.
Analysts asked about Microsoft's SOA strategy for this article offered views in these three categories, although there are shades of gray. However, even the analysts who strongly support Microsoft's approach to SOA, see problems with the way the company explains its service-oriented strategy.
While complaints that the Redmond, Wash.-software giant is pursuing MOA, or Microsoft-oriented architecture, are not new, Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst of ZapThink LLC., sparked the most recent debate last week with an opinion article, "The inadequacy of Microsoft's SOA message".
In an interview after that piece was published, Schmelzer said ZapThink has been trying for months to tell Microsoft that it needs to improve its SOA focus. Far from being "Microsoft haters," he said the ZapThink analysts believe Microsoft has technology potential, but isn't making the most of it.
"Microsoft could be so much more," Schmelzer said, including building on its desktop dominance to "become the ultimate composition platform" for services. The problem, as he sees it, is that Microsoft still hasn't figured out how to move into the heterogeneous Web 2.0 world.
"They haven't figured out how to capitalize on Web 2.0," Schmelzer said. "They haven't figured out how to capitalize on Software as a Service (SaaS). They haven't figured out how to capitalize on open source. We've been giving them this opinion for the past nine months. The question is what are they going to do about it."
One-way interoperability
Dana Gardner, principal analyst of Interarbor Solutions LLC., agrees with Schmelzer and said Microsoft is not being proactive enough with SOA. Gardner said the company is mostly "dancing around SOA."
"Microsoft has had to do a dance around SOA," Gardner said, "adopting some of its principles, particularly around interoperability, but not around the core bedrock principle of heterogeneity."
Gardner said Microsoft has the "Roach Motel approach." to interoperability.
"Microsoft is open when it comes to other objects and formats coming into their environment, but the stuff doesn't go out nearly as easily," he said. "There isn't really heterogeneity in principle. It's strategy really still favors Microsoft trying to grow its footprint at the expense of the larger SOA ideals, which is that it shouldn't matter what goes in and what goes out. What should matter is the ease of creating business processes that can extend across multiple environments, data types, application silos, and formats."
Gardner said some of its SOA technology and marketing communications problems stem from the fact that it is a "confused company" as it transitions to its post-Bill Gates era. He held out hope that a new generation of management may help it focus better on the new SOA world.
"Microsoft needs to hit the reset button," Gardner said.
Good plan, poor communication
While acknowledging that Microsoft may have trouble communicating its strategy, Neil Ward-Dutton, research director at Macehiter Ward-Dutton, takes a positive view of the company's SOA strategy. He sees some of the communications problem stemming from Microsoft's reluctance to adopt the same marketing buzz words as major vendors.
"I think Microsoft is a victim of its strategy sometimes," Ward-Dutton said. Microsoft tends to release large numbers of products in waves, which he noted is hard for people to get their heads around. Another communications problem stems from the fact that sometimes Microsoft executives are not speaking the same language as their counterparts at other software vendors.
"The company has a habit of not really following industry buzzwords in the way that most of the other vendors do," Ward-Dutton said.
He noted that while the rest of the known software world was marketing 'application servers,' Microsoft eschewed the term to the point that it seemed unclear whether they had the technology.
"It was the same with EAI and ESBs, and it was the same with SOA more broadly," Ward-Dutton said.
But where Gardner said he is not sure Microsoft's Oslo modeling approach to SOA will work, Ward-Dutton sees Oslo as a positive initiative.
"If you look at what Microsoft has planned with Oslo - that is, a set of tools that work from design, through development, and then through deployment and operation, against one common software application model, which supports applications as sets of cooperating services – then – to us at least – that's pretty powerful," Ward-Dutton said. "It's particularly powerful because once you get past the simplistic side of SOA – that it's simply a way of building and integrating applications – you realize that to really deliver services that requires a consistent approach that pulls together across the whole software delivery lifecycle, which is exactly what Microsoft is doing."
SaaS and cloud-based services
As opposed to the view that Microsoft doesn't really get SaaS, Ward-Dutton sees value in the company's concept of Software + Services.
"What Microsoft is planning to do to link the Office applications, Sharepoint, and so on into cloud-based services," Ward-Dutton said. "Then look at how Microsoft is planning to stretch the Oslo model out beyond on-premise application delivery to delivery of cloud-based services, and we think you can see that Microsoft actually has this SOA thing sorted out pretty well."
Joe McKendrick, analyst and SOA blogger on ZDNet, while agreeing with some of the criticism, sees another possible strategy for Microsoft as a "disruptor," operating characteristically outside the traditional vendor landscape.
"I see Microsoft trying to play more of a disruptor role in SOA," McKendrick explained. "That is, Microsoft doesn't intend to go head-to-head with IBM or BEA/Oracle to compete for high-value projects. Rather, it is targeting the underserved market that hasn't had the budgets or resources for big-time SOA. This is usually small to medium businesses. Microsoft's traditional strategy has been to move into these underserved areas, build a foundation of business, and move up the enterprise from there."
Fuzzy product roadmap
What might be characterized as a middle view of the Microsoft SOA strategy is proposed by Chris Haddad, vice president of application platform strategies and data management strategies at Burton Group Inc.
Haddad agrees with Microsoft's stated strategic direction for what the vendor calls "Real World SOA," which involves in the vendor's words "making a new class of model-driven and service-enabled applications mainstream."
While other analysts may disagree, Haddad said, "At a vision level, Microsoft understands service-orientation, adoption challenges, and is focused on enabling pragmatic approach to achieve success."
But then up jumps the devil. Communication.
The Burton analyst argues that Microsoft needs to do more to articulate its strategy and move it forward.
Summarizing his view, Haddad said: "While Burton Group agrees with Microsoft's strategic statement, we feel Microsoft must invest more time to clearly articulate their view of SOA principles, how their product roadmap will be realigned to support service-orientation, and describe fundamental architectural service-oriented building blocks required to realize value."
This would go a long way toward quieting industry criticism of Microsoft's approach to SOA in the Burton analyst's opinion.
Microsoft's SOA vision: 'The model is the application'
Microsoft: The SOA road less traveled
"Current industry dissatisfaction with Microsoft's SOA direction is due to a lack of communication," Haddad said. "To demonstrate progress towards their strategic vision, Microsoft must better communicate how Visual Studio and BizTalk Server will align with Microsoft's Oslo initiative. While Microsoft state development within the product lines will be 'business driven' and include 'next generation declarative languages', the message must also include 'software asset discovery and visualization,' integration of various 'service model perspectives,' and 'portfolio oriented process modeling.'"
Haddad is not without hope that this can be done.
"We look forward to Microsoft articulating a clear set of principles and a corresponding roadmap as they did with their prior ground breaking initiative, Indigo," he said, referring to the original code name for Windows Communication Foundation.
That may be coming in the fall when Microsoft holds its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Burley Kawasaki, director of product management, Microsoft Connected Systems Division, said the Oslo approach to SOA will be made much clearer in presentations scheduled for that event.
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Q: Nested MySQL select statements within the select clause Is there a way to use a sub select statement, which returns a list of column names, to be used in the 'select expression' in an outer mySQL expression?
eg
select (
    sub select that returns a comma separated list of column names
)
from table1;

In case your wondering how I get the comma separated list of column names, my sub select statement is somethign like...
SELECT group_concat(COLUMN_NAME) FROM information_schema.`COLUMNS`
where table_name = 'table2' group by TABLE_NAME

A: You have to solve this using PREPARE and EXECUTE, as explained here: How To have Dynamic SQL in MySQL Stored Procedure

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We do have a bit of a challenge ahead of us this week, playing Penn State up on the road at their place, a hostile environment. And just really excited about going into that; Coach (James) Franklin and his staff and their players have done a great job. They have some really good players, they're scheme-coached well. A lot of things you look for in a top-10 program, they have that. So it's a big challenge, but we're looking forward to it — and our guys are eager to show the hard work they put into the offseason and showing what they got.
You've gone through five of these season openers. What's this week like for you? What's changed since that first one?
SS: Well, not really a whole lot. We pretty much do it the same way that we prepare for any game; this just happens to be the first one. And I think there are some questions that have to be answered whenever you do play that first game. You're trying to find out your strengths, your weaknesses, what you do well and that's what you want to do.
You have an idea about that going into the opening game — and it's the same thing with personnel. You have a pretty good idea about a bunch of your personnel, but there are a couple guys that you don't really know what they're going to do until they go out there and play in that first game. So those are some of the unknowns. But, as far as preparation goes, we treat it like any other game.
Trace McSorley is widely seen as a Heisman contender. What have you seen from him, and how do you stop a player like that?
If the play's breaking down, he can go make those plays, get the ball in the hands of those playmakers. They utilize his legs quite a bit; that's what I think separates him from a lot of players. He's very tough to defend, and what he does is take care of the football and he puts their offense in the position to make plays.
You look at last year, they scored a lot of points throughout the season. And they're extremely difficult to defend. I think he's the catalyst for everything they do offensively.
Saturday is the 11th anniversary of Appalachian State-Michigan. James Franklin reminded his team about that. How do coaches in your position use that?
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The U.S. has long accused Pakistan of allowing militants to operate relatively freely in its border regions to carry out operations in neighboring Afghanistan. In August, the United States said it would hold up $255 million in military assistance for Pakistan until it cracks down on extremists threatening Afghanistan.
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You should be hiring people with the right attitude and the capability to learn, master and teach since although you know what you are doing now you don't know what you'll be doing 1,3,5 or 10 years from now.
Hire top performers, hiring anything less than the best will hurt your bussiness. Talent bring talent, incompetence repels talent. A mediocre or low performer will not aid the team and will actually diminish its performance though having to deal with messed up projects or missed deadlines. It is generally easy to identify low performers and exceptionally high performers, the challenge comes with the mediocre ones – once hired these people are very difficult to remove because they are not doing anything wrong they are just not capable of performing at the high levels which you need. Top performers perform between 10 to 16 times more than an average one.
Understand your current pool of talent, ask them to periodically update their CVs to map out the teams current knowledge and experience. Knowing who is in the team will identify holes in the team if they need filling and will help you focus your recruitment if you need to replace someone. Critically the profile needs to look at leadership, experience (tenure, technologies etc), style (cautious, quick, adventurous, perfectionist) and roles (build engineer, tool engineer, user interface developer etc). Engineers have two preferences, either creators or optimisers. As a project changes from the start-up/creation phase into the optimisation phase this might mean that the people in the team needs to change to ensure that the engineers are still being suitably challenged.
Hire ahead where possible – the pressure of hiring someone urgently to fill a role will always lower quality through subconscious if not though concious bias.
First hires on a team are critical – you need engineers who are leaders and great communicators, who inspire the team both technically and on a personal level developing and coaching them.
Its a race – how quickly can you hire? because if someone else can hire quicker the candidate might be off the market before you have got very far through your process. Look at the process, the barriers and try to reduce the process to as short a time as possible – could you go from candidate to decision in one day? Can you speed things up, remove steps or reject candidates earlier? There are ways to make things quicker without lowering the quality of the candidates.
Candidates as customers. Candidates will be more likely to work for a company with a simple and enjoyable hiring process. If your candidates experience is exceptional, they will notice, talk and refer others to you. You will turn down a lot of candidates so if they are treated well rejected candidates can still spread the word about your company. So ask the candidates how they found the process, see what they say and improve things. By being as open with the candidate as possible they will know what to expect and so can perform at their best – provide a guide for the candidate to know what the steps of the process are. During the interview the words chosen should be straightforward – uncommon or complicated words should be avoided, not just for people for who the interviewing language is not their first language but for all candidates. There are some people who should just not be allowed to interview – for whatever reason they are not the suitable, these people should not be forced to interview as these people will leave a bad experience with the candidates.
Passive candidates need wooing – this might be extra steps such as a getting to know you phone call, speaking with developers, pre screening etc. Reduce the barriers to entry – such as not requiring a fully up to date CV however all candidates should be treated fairly. Don't make exceptions for one if you are not prepared to make exceptions to all.
Active candidates contain a large number of people who can't hold down a job, don't have sufficient skills (e.g. new graduates). These sort of candidates gain a lot of experience at being interviewed.
Job descriptions are not inspiring – why would anyone work for a company based on a job description. If your target is passive candidates especially then they will either ignore or not care for the job description, so how can you attract such people but still provide them with the details of what they will be doing? A passion statement, this shows the passion for the company – Why are they doing what they are doing? Why should people work for you? and don't present it in a dull form.
Great software engineers know other great software engineers, tapping into their network is immensely powerful but engineers themselves are usually not very good at seeing or networking. Additionally it is likely that their immediate group of contact are not looking for a job but encouraging them to speak about your company both to their immediate network and their wider network (friends of friends) is a great way to spread the word about your company.
Recruiters want to make money, if you reject all of their candidates they will not send you any more. The best way to improve this is better explain the candidate you are looking for to them, to explain the company, to help them better understand what you are looking for. The more information they have the more suitable candidates they will send to you and thus the better the candidates the more you will hire and the more money they will make. So spending time with recruiters is a great way to improve the quality of the source of candidates. Just remember that because the recruiter is incentivised to hire people they are likely to do whatever they can to help the candidate get the job (such as leaking interview questions etc).
Contract hires, instead of a long laborious interview process hire more freely on a short term contact then if they are performing well look to give them a permanent contract. To the author this has always turned out to be counter productive and a distraction rather than a benefit.
Unfortunately it is part of the concious for people to want to hire people "just like them", this introduces bias be it sexism, ageism, universityism etc these are a challenge so when people say why they should not hire someone try to get to the root of it. For new starters working in another country it is likely that this bias is even greater. Don't bother searching the internet for details about a candidate – it is as likely that you will find out irreverent information as relevant information, as such the risk of bias is greatly increased. Consider if the interviewer actually needs to have seen the CV or not – if the interview is competency based then there is no need for a CV then they should not see it since this will introduce additional unneeded bias. The HR team should redact any information which is not important to the hiring process and could introduce bias – such as gender, age, marital status etc.
Identify the source of the candidate, where you get a good source spend more time getting candidates through that source. Different recruitment companies and even recruiters have different approaches so try to focus on the ones which work best for you.
Lower the barrier to entry. Do you really need 6 years of Java experience? CV screening is quick simple and cheap – but this drastically reduces your pool of candidates for no good reason. Someone doing the same project for 6 years gaining Java experience is very different to someone working for 2 years on a variety of projects. Interviewing is expensive but it is better to look at your interview process, such as telephone interviews, rather than being harsh on CV content. When going through CVs look for positive points, negative point and neutral points. If the positive outweigh the negative then the candidate is worth interviewing. Positive items are things such as length of experience, relevant experience, variety of experience, education, computer science experience (such as university but specifically computer science rather than just Java courses), patents and publications (though reading these is not recommended), responsibility. Negative items are "wall of words" but not saying what the individual did, lengthy CV and quickly changing companies. Things to discard when reviewing a CV, things such as breaks in service, irrelevant information, small spelling or grammatical errors – especially when dealing with people who's first language is not English.
Telephone screening provides its own challenges because of the unnatural narrow band of communication. A simple problem can become difficult and a tricky problem can become impossible over the phone. Asking open questions such as about recent projects can just use up valuable interview time because the power is passed to the candidate. Posing coding questions should be short, typically 30 seconds and can be conveyed without confusion and the answer to which are just a few lines long. An alternative is to use a shared screen so that there is no room for confusion.
To maximise the use of interviews ensure that there is some coordination over who is going to ask which questions to prevent repetition. Four or five experienced interviewers are the optimal number. When handing over the candidate don't discuss the candidate to prevent bias. Gain feedback from interviewers independently before discussing the candidate.
If the candidate says that they are suffering from outside stress offer to reschedule the interview for a time when they are better able to focus on the interview process. During interviews candidates will be at their best. As an example if the candidates English is a challenge it is likely to be worse once they are hired, however a thick accent should be forgiven since after a day or two of working with the individual you will quickly get used to the way they speak. If the candidate makes inappropriate jokes or comments these are likely to be more prevalent once they start. If the candidate has strange mannerisms (such as restless legs etc) these can be medical conditions or stress induced and should be ignored. If there is silence then let it happen, this could be the way the candidate thinks and so you should be happy to let a little time pass for the candidate to focus. A large number of candidates lie, if you suspect a lie push it a bit to find out more – it is likely the candidate will admit to a misunderstanding however if the candidate gets caught up in their own lie the author has highlighted the issue and contradictions and then ends the interview process. Candidates expect certain questions, if you ask questions which are similar to these but are not the same then the candidate might inadvertently answer the wrong question in which case you should highlight the difference to clear the confusion up for the candidate. Where possible get them to do the job you will expect them to do and see how they get on, for jobs where you can't do this ask them questions about their past jobs but remember it is likely the responses will be on the positive side. The book goes into many more details about interview questions than I am going to cover here.
Interviewers are only able to asses people of a similar level – it is very hard for a junior developer to asses the difference between a senior and a principle developer. This can be a real issue where you are looking to recruit a competency into a team that you don't currently have as people will be recruiting outside of their field of expertise. Training interviewers through shadowing, classes and workshops, documentation and guides, coaching, practice interviews and then once they are actually interviewing candidates to continue to provide feedback so they are always improving. It is especially important to get interviewers to understand between domain knowledge and capabilities, if the candidate does not have the knowledge but has the capabilities then they will quickly pick up the knowledge.
Hire the best engineers you can afford and keep going till you run out of money/budget. During hiring there is always a margin of error. Hiring a poor performer is quickly correctable, you can just let them go. It is difficult to fire someone for doing just and "all-right" job. Hire the candidate is all of the things you want and nearly none of the things you don't. "Nice" people are not enough, they need to have capability the nice people who are pleasant to everyone but when they start have no capability to do the work are the hardest to let go. You should never hire people who: slam former employers, severely irritates anyone, lies or deceives, ignores goals. Never hire below your standard, the hire will have impact for their entire tenure at the company which could exceed your own.
Feedback can give the option for a candidate to argue about an already made decision and potentially could give the option for a legal challenge. As such, if the HR team do not already have guidelines of what you say, the author recommends giving more generic feedback such as "You were not a great match today. Gain some more experience, hone your skills-coding, design and so on and consider applying again in a year or two".
Keep and analyse records – not just of the candidates but of the recruiters. Review the data regularly. If you hire someone then let them go, was there any data which could have given you the information earlier? If a candidate performs really well were there things which you could pick up on to help identify this earlier? etc.
The amount you pay developers falls between the bounds of local market rate at the lower end up to creating golden handcuffs at the top. If you want great developers you need to pay them appropriately but over paying people will mean people who should not take the job take it only for the money and get tied in so they can not leave. Decide what your offer is and make it, this should be the maximum which you feel would be appropriate and explain this to the candidate so they know their is no room for negotiation. Make sure that you hire at the appropriate level, someone being interviewed for a developer role who is at a principle level will sail through the interview but they are not right for that role. Let the candidate speak to others on your team, even after the interview process, by being open and honest with them they are more likely to feel that they have made the right choice. If the candidate does not respond within a week don't assume that they are not interested, instead get the highest person in the company you can to call to speak to the candidate as a sell call – this will set your company apart for a candidate who might get a couple of offers and your CEO has phones to speak to them.
The recruitment process is not over until the candidate is settled into their new job. Once they accept send a welcome email to them, giving them details about the work they will be doing – a large number of candidates will be passionate to know about some of the technologies they will be using before they actually start and will do some investigation at home. For people who relocate they will need even more help with things which you take for granted, e.g. where to rent a place or where shops are etc speak to them before they begin to see what help you can give them. Think about the first day – make sure they have a desk, their network account is set up, arrange for people to go out for lunch – everything you can do to make the new starter fell welcomed and part of the team. Try to arrange things for their first week to get them to start settling in this should cover the team, bussiness and technologies. Perhaps give them a peer mentor that they can chat to, someone who is an aspiring leader will usually enjoy taking on this role. Everyone is different and so will need to be treated a little differently to help them fit in.
Top talent want top talent requiring jobs, if you hire top talent make sure that the work they are doing is suitable. The things which turn off top talent are incompetent developer and low quality work.


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Q: Import statement is breaking down application im trying to import a mongoose model from one file containing the schema (issue.js) to another file (server.js). i am running the app with nodemon and all works well until i try to import the Issue model from the issue.js file into the server.js file, nodemon then logs a message saying

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier"

referring to the model in the import statement
Ive tried implementing different types of import statements and
here is my "issue model" and export statement in issue.js
const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

const Issue = new Schema({
    title: {
        type: String
    },
    responsible: {
        type: String
    },
    description: {
        type: String
    },
    severity: {
        type: String
    },
    status: {
        type: String,
        default: 'Open'
    }
});

export default mongoose.model('Issue', Issue);

and here is where i try to import it into server.js
const mongoose = require('mongoose');

import Issue from './models/Issue.js';

when i save the server.js file with the import statement nodemon restarts the application and crashes with the console message
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

in reference to the Issue import.
Is there something that i am missing here about the syntax of these import and export statements?

A: To use imports you need to config it in Babel. A quick fix is to use the common JS system
const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

const Issue = new Schema({
    title: {
        type: String
    },
    responsible: {
        type: String
    },
    description: {
        type: String
    },
    severity: {
        type: String
    },
    status: {
        type: String,
        default: 'Open'
    }
});

module.exports ={ mongoose.model('Issue', Issue);}

and then
const Issue = require('./models/Issue.js')

for import


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Share this Story: A grieving father Predrag Zoricic says his son 'will live forever'
A grieving father Predrag Zoricic says his son 'will live forever'
Terry Bell
In 1988 Predrag Zoricic brought his family to Canada from the former Yugoslavia so they could have a better life.
Sunday, in the still terrible hours following his son Nik's death after a crash in a World Cup ski cross race in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Predrag Zoricic said that his boy did get to enjoy a better life but it ended too soon.
A grieving father Predrag Zoricic says his son 'will live forever' Back to video
"He had an awesome journey, it was just a little bit short," Zoricic said in a telephone interview Sunday from his Toronto home. "He's going to live forever and be young forever. I guess that's a positive sign."
Nik Zoricic was 29. He died of severe neurotrauma after crashing into netting near the bottom of the course. He is survived by his mother Silvia and his sister Katrina, 25, who's now studying law at Michigan State. Nik's uncle Mio Zoricic lives in Germany. His grandfather still lives in Sarajevo.
The family is now either already in Toronto or on its way here from various corners of the world.
"We are all over the globe because of that conflict we had when the former Yugoslavia fell apart," Predrag said.
"Everybody moved out and started new lives. Unfortunately, Nik's life kind of came short."
Predrag — everyone calls him Bebe — is a ski coach. He was in Whistler with a juvenile aged team when he learned that his son had been in a bad crash and been airlifted to hospital.
"Dave Ellis (the national team's director of sport), he called me at 3 a.m. in my room," Zoricic said. "I was on my computer (getting ready to watch Nik's World Cup race). I heard the phone and that's what he called me about. He was disturbed, same as me. I thought I was dreaming. I called him back. I said 'Dave, is it true, what you just said?' He said it was true."
Predrag Zoricic said his son was a gifted athlete who played hockey, baseball, football, tennis and golf.
"He was a really gifted athlete," he said. "Since he was a little kid he loved sports. He played football and baseball. Tennis, he won under-12 all Canadian tournament. He just decided skiing is what he wanted to do."
He was also a top student. But when they put him in a school for gifted students he balked and returned to his old school.
"He was good in school. He was a gifted kid so they put him in another school but he wasn't at that school one year when he said there's no sports so I'd like to go where my friends are."
Now his friends are all over the world. As the news of Nik's death spread they expressed their shock.
Sunday Whistler's Mike Janyk, who grew up skiing with Zoricic, finished 19th in a World Cup slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. The result qualified him for the World Cup finals later this week at Schladming, Austria. He paid tribute to his friend after the race.
"We grew up together — across the country but he was a teammate for years," Janyk said in a release.
"It's insanely shocking. I can't believe it. It's been a tough season and when something tragic like this happens you almost want to harness the beautiful things in life. Standing up there and getting a chance to give your best in whatever that thing is, it's one of the most amazing things you can do with your life. It's something special.
"Nik loved ski racing and was going for his best and that's really what it was about today."
Predrag Zoricic said there will be a memorial for Nik. It's too soon to know the details but it'll probably be next weekend at his Craigleith Ski Club north of Toronto.
"We don't know the schedule of Nik's arrival," Predrag Zoricic said. "It (the memorial) should be on the weekend, I hope. It should be at the Craigleith Ski Club. We're from Toronto. Every winter we've been up there the last 20 or so years. I felt he belongs up there. It would be nice to be there with the people he knows."
"In a word I would say, there's no regrets. I gave him everything I could. He met a lot of people, he went everywhere and it looks like he touched a lot of people. It's a tough go. It's a big hole. I don't know how I'm going to fill it.
"Last night was a long, long night. I couldn't believe the night could be that long. Somehow we have to figure out how to move forward."

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Beggs & Lane Welcomes Matthew P. Massey
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By Beggs & Lane| 2019-02-13T17:22:26+00:00	December 7th, 2018|
Beggs & Lane is pleased to announce that Matthew P. Massey has joined the firm as an associate in the Pensacola office, where his practice will focus on commercial litigation, business disputes, professional malpractice, and white collar criminal defense.
Prior to joining the firm, Matthew served as an Assistant United States Attorney for four years with the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he tried over 20 cases on behalf of the United States Department of Justice.
"Matthew's service as an Assistant United States Attorney will benefit the firm and its clients for years to come. We are thrilled to have him on our team," said J. Nixon Daniel, III, Managing Partner at Beggs & Lane.
Matthew earned his undergraduate degrees from the University of Virginia in 2009. He continued his studies at Emory University School of Law where he served as a Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal.


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YouTube Music emerges as leading streaming platform in Korea
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By Dong Sun-hwa
Until a few years ago, Korean music streaming service Melon seemed to have no rivals in terms of market share, with its share nearing 50 percent in 2018, according to data tracker Nielsen Koreanclick. Yet, the rising influence of YouTube Music, a streaming service developed by global video sharing platform YouTube in 2018, is threatening its dominance.
According to big data platform Mobile Index, as of December, YouTube Music held the third-largest market share in Korea (19.22 percent), only after Melon (37.28 percent) and Genie (19.24 percent). The relatively new service, which began with a 1.7 percent share in 2019, edged out other homegrown platforms such as FLO (13.31 percent) and VIBE (4.08 percent).
It also saw a dramatic rise in the number of monthly active users (MAU). Its MAU was about 630,000 on Jan. 1, 2021, but the number spiked to 1.26 million on Dec. 1 ― a 97 percent increase in just a year.
The fact that the subscribers of YouTube Premium ― a paid membership service that enables people to watch YouTube clips without advertisements ― can get free access to YouTube Music is picked as a big contributing factor behind the platform's growing popularity.
"I came across YouTube Music after subscribing to YouTube Premium, and I am very satisfied with its services," a user commented on an online community. "I am particularly fond of its sound quality and its music recommendation system."
YouTube Music also offers a wide range of video music, such as live performances and cover song videos.
"For me, using YouTube Music is the best way to enjoy live performances that were only available on YouTube in the past," another user said. "The other streaming platforms do not have this kind of content."
Some others, however, point out that there is room for improvement, as the service currently does not provide the lyrics for many K-pop songs.
Asked about the platform's plans for 2022, a YouTube Music official told The Korea Times, Monday, that it will "continue to take part in different activities."
"YouTube Music has contributed to the growth of the Korean music industry and artists last year through our 'Artist on the Rise' program and 'Remastering Project,'" the official said. YouTube Music supported numerous up-and-coming artists with its "Artist on the Rise" program, and remastered old K-pop music videos and songs in cooperation with K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment.
"This year, we will continue to perform different roles to expand our presence here."
Nevertheless, the competition among streaming services will still be tough in 2022, with many of them seeking to achieve a breakthrough with inventive strategies. Bugs Music, which had a 2.37 percent market share in 2021, will release a series of music dramas with its partners to create original content. Its first production, "Soundtrack #1," which stars singer-actor Park Hyung-sik and actress Han So-hee, is scheduled to premiere later this year.
Melon is preparing to enhance its music recommendation system based on users' personal data and Genie is set to showcase content that blends music and its audio services. The latter is also planning to kick off new businesses that involve artificial intelligence (AI), the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFT).
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Agenda for Change 2016: the strategic agenda
7 Jun 2016|Peter Jennings
This piece is drawn from Agenda for Change 2016: strategic choices for the next government.
In the August 2013 version of Agenda for Change, I suggested four big reforms for the incoming government:
Develop a global rather than Asia-centric foreign policy focus, set it out in a new Foreign Policy White Paper and increase Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) funding by $100 million a year by reducing AusAID funding.
Return order and consistency to defence planning by reconciling ambitious equipment plans with budget realities.
Rethink approaches to cybersecurity by committing to a Cyber Security White Paper within 12 months of taking office, and boost cyber policy and decision‐making capabilities.
Take a more disciplined approach to using the cabinet for decision-making. Rethink the roles of junior ministers and strengthen the use of parliament to help produce better quality policy.
As we approach the 2016 election, how did my recommendations fair over a tumultuous first term for the Coalition government? I'll claim one 'half done' reform, two substantially implemented and one that didn't even make it out of the gate.
The foreign policy recommendation stands as 'half done' in my view. The government has clearly adopted a more global as opposed to an Asia-focused foreign policy. While the tone has changed, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull both championed closer Australian engagement with Europe, partly because of the need for closer counterterrorism cooperation, partly to diversify economic interests as Chinese growth slowed. It wasn't coincidental that Germany was an early visit destination for Malcolm Turnbull, given his commitment to innovation and new ideas driving economic growth. There's been a remarkable increase in cooperation with European countries on intelligence, defence and counterterrorism matters, and the decision to buy a French-designed submarine will transform that bilateral relationship as we learn to deal with a French 'parent navy'.
Government continues to put priority on military operations in the Middle East and on the US alliance, and has shown refreshing interest in emerging relationships in Africa (minus an effective aid program, though) and Latin America. It turns out that Australia can take a more global approach and still keep the closest engagement with Asia. This isn't an 'either/or' choice, even though many foreign policy 'Asia only' advocates insist that it is.
Implementing a grown-up, globalised foreign policy is a signal achievement for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who has managed to increase Australia's foreign representation overseas—the first such growth of overseas missions in more than 20 years. Bishop has also affectively linked Australian aid priorities towards broader foreign policy goals by bringing AusAID into DFAT. She has also made effective use of multilateral institutions and promoted quality people-to-people linkages through her New Colombo Plan training scheme.
With those successes, it's puzzling that government hasn't committed to a new Foreign Policy White Paper. Julia Gillard's Asian Century White Paper was rightly committed to the electronic archives, but nothing credibly and crisply sets out the government's foreign policy priorities has replaced it. It should be an easy task for a returned Coalition government to develop such a policy statement. Diplomacy without the underpinnings of an articulated strategy is a bit like improvised theatre: creative, but soon forgotten. If Julie Bishop stays as Foreign Minister, she should tell us in a White Paper what the government's foreign policy stands for. A Labor government should want to do the same. Tanya Plibersek as foreign minister will need to set out her own thinking on foreign policy priorities, establish lines of continuity to past Labor approaches and work out what policy settings from the past three years to keep and what to change.
Of my other suggestions, the cyber policy statement was released in April 2016. Better late than never, although delaying such a paper for years hardly suggests that the bureaucracy 'gets' the need for speed in dealing with the fast-changing cyberworld. The policy is solid, and unexpectedly revealed that Australia maintains a capacity to mount 'offensive' cyber operations. In a difficult fiscal environment, money has been found to support closer engagement between government and the business community on cyber matters. Expectations of further policy development in that area are high, particularly given Turnbull's deep understanding of telecommunications. The need for a strong cyber policy and better whole-of-government implementation is greater now than three years ago, so rapidly is the area developing.
The 2016 Defence White Paper fully delivers on the recommendation to align Defence equipment plans with budget realities. Both the government and the opposition remain committed to lifting defence spending to 2% of GDP. The White Paper is better costed than all its predecessors. Via a circuitous path, the government has finally landed on a long-term commitment to continuous shipbuilding in Australia, so we can finally pack away the wet dreams of dry zealots about shipping defence industry offshore. Of course, the believability of the 2016 DWP is tied to the government's spending commitment in what we all know is a worsening budgetary situation. But what policy isn't tied to future spending decisions? At least the White Paper will show us when future governments change course.
As for my final recommendation about government taking a more disciplined approach to using cabinet for decision-making … well, what could I have been thinking! Readers wanting to see how far I was off the mark should consult Laura Tingle's Quarterly Essay, 'Political amnesia', Niki Savva's book, The Road to Ruin and a slew of memoirs from Labor's shell-shocked casualties of the Rudd–Gillard–Rudd era to see how disastrously cabinet government has run off the rails. Blame the 24/7 media cycle. Blame battalions of staffers relentlessly texting each-other. Blame tweeting internet trolls, twerking populists and ranting radio shock jocks. Blame a 'responsive' rather than a thoughtful Australian Public Service. Just don't expect a return to the calm nostrum that good process makes good policy.
At worst, the future of public policy looks more like Donald Trump than John Howard. That should profoundly worry anyone who cares about the idea of government producing considered policy. It remains true the best way forward for government is the intelligent use of cabinet processes, the orderly working of parliament and its committees and a public service with spine and a commitment to policy excellence rather than just 'issue management'. An explicit and believable commitment to return to methodical policy development should be the most fundamental policy goal for any future Australian Government.
Beyond completing, or indeed starting, on the policy objectives outlined above, I suggest four big national security goals for the Australian Government after the 2016 election:
Step up efforts to defeat Islamic State in Iraq.
Modernise how we manage our alliance with the US.
Prepare the ground for submarine nuclear propulsion.
Promote a defence export base for industry.
None of those tasks is necessarily easy, and all are potentially controversial. Hence the need for careful policy preparation, a focus on explaining a public case for each initiative and a commitment to making each initiative as bipartisan as possible.
Peter Jennings is executive director at ASPI.
Agenda for Change 2016
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Eugenio Suarez's fractured thumb raises anew the issue of when the Reds should call up their top prospect, Nick Senzel. Borrowing from an old post, here's a quick refresher of the labor framework and math of service time considerations and how they relate to Senzel.
As determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement signed by owners and the players union in 2016, the team owns the right to a player until that player accrues six full years of MLB service time, assuming the club offers a contract each year. After that, the player earns the right to free agency.
Service time is the number of years and days a player spends on the 25-man roster of a major league team or major league disabled list during the regular season. Example: If a player gets called up for a game on July 1 and sent back down to the minors after the game on July 8, the player has earned eight days of MLB service time. The unit counted is calendar days, not games played. The player doesn't have to get on the field and off-days count as service time as well. The clock stops when the player is sent back down.
Including off-days, there are 186 days in the 2018 MLB season. According to the CBA, players can earn a maximum of 172 days per year. After 172 days in a given season, that's it until next year. One year of service time is 172 service days. Example: A player on the roster for 175 days in a single season earns one year of service time. A player on the roster for 179 days also earns one year of service time. A player on the roster for 171 days has not accrued a year of service time.
Note the agreement says six full years of service time must accrue before a player becomes a free agent. There's no rounding up. If a player ends a season at 5.170 (five years, 170 days), he is still under team control the entire next season.
In a sense, it's misleading to say a team has six years of control over a player. If the club takes the simple and modest step of delaying the big league debut of a player for two weeks into a season, it is impossible for that player to accrue a full year. It's more accurate to think of team control as seven years, unless you're the Reds and Mike Leake.
Calculating the date when a club can call up a minor league player and avoiding a full year of service time is pretty straightforward. The 2018 season ends on September 30. Counting backwards 171 days (again, we're counting days, not games) means a player could start on Friday, April 13 and it would be impossible to accrue 172 days of service time.
Senzel Situation: The Reds can call Nick Senzel up to start this Friday in St. Louis and not risk losing a year of his service time. Assuming no contract extension was signed, Senzel would be eligible to become a free agent in 2025.
A player has no power to determine his salary in his first three major league seasons. With few exceptions, he receives the league-wide minimum set by the CBA. That number is $545,000 in 2018. Teams generally offer modest raises for second- and third-year players.
After three years, the player earns the right to negotiate his salary with the team. If they don't agree, the player has the right to arbitration. Arbitration is neutral decision-making based on comparisons to how players with similar playing time and stats have been paid. Most good players have three years pre-arbitration and three years of arbitration. They typically see a large increase once they earn the right to arbitration. For example, Billy Hamilton earned $570,000 in 2016, his final year of pre-arbitration, and $2,625,000 in 2017, his first year with arbitration rights.
As stipulated in the CBA, a certain percentage of players enjoy a major exception to the three-full-year requirement for arbitration. It's called Super Two status. And it can influence when a player is called up to the major leagues. Each year, players with more than two and fewer than three years of service time are placed in a group and ordered based on who has the most service time. Players in the top 22% of that group are eligible for arbitration. They are called Super Two because they don't have to wait three full years of service time to access the financial benefits of arbitration.
The Super Two rule incentivizes organizations to hold players in the minor leagues for about two months.
Unlike the cutoff for years of team control, the Super Two deadline isn't fixed or known ahead of time. It's based on looking back. Teams don't know when the cutoff will be in any given year. The date moves around. In 2017, the cutoff was 123 days of service time. In 2016, it was 131 days. In 2011, it was 146 days, almost a month earlier than 2017.
A cutoff of 122 days of service time for the 2018 season would be June 1, 135 days would be May 19, and 145 days would be May 9.
The Super Two delay is about money, not duration of team control. Super Two players still fall under the same service time rules (six full years before free agency). But they are eligible for arbitration four times instead of three. That means more money in year three, a bonus that compounds the next three seasons based on percentage increases on a larger base. Over a career, that might mean a difference of $10 million to a club and player.
For example, the Reds called up Jay Bruce on May 27, 2008, which was not quite enough of a delay in his service time to avoid Super Two status. The Reds right fielder later became eligible for arbitration in 2011 as a Super Two with service time of 2.125 and earned $2.8 million instead of $450,000.
Senzel Situation: If the Reds want to avoid Nick Senzel earning Super Two status, they'll delay his call-up to sometime in June.
None of this speaks to when the Reds should call Nick Senzel up to the major league club. It just explains part of the framework in which that decision is being made. In theory, you could call Senzel up now and send him back down when Suarez is ready to return. Burning an option year isn't much of a consideration for a player of his caliber. But if Senzel plays really well, it could lead to pressure on the club not to send him back down.
Senzel has only played a few games in AAA call. I am not sure he is ready. I think the Reds did right in calling up Blandino, in fact, he should have started the season in the dugout, Based upon how Price has used call-ups in the past he will likely sit the bench in favor of Pennington or Gosselin.
Give Nick some time in AAA to ensure he is ready.
Hopefully Geno is only out a short time.
I am still thinking we need a SS who cat hit his way of of a wet paper bag.
Senzel should be called up now and made every day 3B. When Suarez is ready to come back, move him back to his original position, SS. Peraza and Hamilton are role players at best, and should used accordingly .
100% correct,changes need to be made.Whats it going to hurt.This team needs to be jump started.The only one to work the count is Votto,and Barnhart.Everyone else up there flailing away.Come on Reds let's go and put some fear into opposition.
Eh, Winker has shown great plate discipline.
Votto has been swinging earlier in the count as he did to start last year. And he has struck out at a rate far higher than normal for him. Thus far he has NOT produced efficiently with runners in scoring position. All of the above will change as the season progresses. The key question is will he regress to his far better norm in time before the season is already over?
Cowboy said that coaches and scouts at AA Pensacola last year said he was big league ready then. Cowboy also commented on Senzel's surprising athleticism. He may surprise us. It wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't called up until June to avoid Super 2 status as well.
Then again, the Braves said, "Heck with it," a couple of years ago and brought Dansby Swanson up to the Big Club, thinking that when you're ready, you're ready.
Based solely on plate discipline, Senzel could play and be productive at the major league level right now. He doesn't need "seasoning" at AAA.
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To be a better ballclub next year, 1) Senzel needs to stay down right now and get AAA work at one or both positions he'll likely be called on to play in the next few years: 2B and SS. 2) Blandino needs to get the bulk of the work in place of Suarez, so we can see if he's a useful bench player going forward or a potential trading chip. Playing Gosselin or Pennington (Gosselton? Pennelin?) would be extremely wasteful of a precious evaluation and development opportunity.
With the way this team operates, I'm expecting to see a lot of Gosselton. Although Duvall sat on opening day and Winker batted leadoff, so aye they'll surprise us.
I'm going to blame you if Gosselton becomes a thing. You and Bryan Price.
Pennington and Gosselin being this year's Jack; Gallardo being the current incarnation of Home Run Hoover or Kevin Gregg.
I think I will be clamoring for Senzel less if Blandino is the guy playing 3B every day (or almost every day). An injury like this gives the Reds the chance to get an extended look at Blandino, something they probably wouldn't have without it. He's currently blocked at every infield position, and starting May 1, Senzel would have likely been the first AAA infielder called up.
What happens in an ideal world is that whenever Senzel ultimately gets the promotion, we get an every day infield of Votto, Suarez, Senzel, Blandino.
Senzel needs another 2 months and 200 at bats in AAA to finish his maturation. He should not be called up until he is ready to play every day as a major leaguer indefinitely. The June 5 homestand and early summer gives the Reds 19 home games in 27 days. That would be a good time to bring him up, assuming he can meet the demands of playing at AAA.
It also would be a good time that Suarez could be back healthy. Then….. The Reds could have Winker/Senzel/ votto/ Suarez hitting 1-4. That also gives the young pitchers and injured pitchers time to get things together and sort things through.
The Reds aren't winning in 2018 and the first half of this season in particular is still firmly Rebuild mode. Let's see how things look around June 5. I think much better.
Where are you getting these numbers from? Is there any hard evidence to suggest he can't hit major league pitching right now, but could do it after 200 more minor league ABs? Is there any evidence to suggest he won't be an even better player in 2019 after a full year of seeing major league pitching?
This sounds right to me. Waiting until June will (a) let Suarez get back, (b) give Peraza two full months at SS, and (c) see how Scooter Gennett does at 2B. In the meantime, Alex Blandino is a good option at 3B to see how he handles the major league game – IF Bryan Price will play him.
Lot of good sense here about how they might handle Senzel. If they are inclined to wait out the Super2 date, I'm sure they will probably have someone crunching numbers and try their best to err on the side of keeping him down "too long".
However if the team is really in the tank at mid May, I could see them deciding to go on and bring Senzel up for PR purposes.
My memory/ eye test is when Senzel played with the Reds during spring training he got a lot of starts and early game action which means in general he was playing versus MLB pitchers. So, at least offensively, I'm not sure he has a lot left to prove; and, he also probably doesn't need a lot more seasoning at 3B.
Your point is solid – 2018 is not going to be a contending year!
However, and I'm sure you agree, the rebuild can show us many things and the Reds must take advantage of them… maturing young pitchers that learn how to pitch, young hitters that learn to take walks & run bases, staying competitive with some excellent clubs in the NL Central, starting to gel as a team is poised to make a run, learning how to study pitchers & situations (Votto-style), the learning list is endless.
RLN is tremendous – the writers/readers are focused on the development of the young guys and putting the team in a position to compete! We generally understand that it takes time, but we demand (as best we can on a website) that the manager/FO stay consistent and make good decisions that promote the learning and development.
We can only hope that those that own "the process" are astute/shrewd baseball men and not just tentative decision makers that are "too patient" with the process.
Very good explainer here. However, it leaves off one important point: This kind of service time manipulation is illegal and an exploitation of the players. Yes, all teams do it, and fans and media openly talk about holding off on bringing a player up because of service time concerns (Kris Bryant as one notable recent example). However, you notice that GM's and managers never come out and say that they're doing it, because this is a violation of the CBA.
Is it a smart thing for front offices to do? Probably. But it victimizes Nick Senzel, a player we are all anxious to watch and cheer for. Fans have accepted this exploitation of baseball labor, and players evidently have too. But who are we cheering for? Players, or front offices?
In the case of Nick Senzel, there's a legit case for having him play a little at AAA and see if he can hit there as well as field 2B. I wouldn't use the word "victimize" in his case, at least not yet. We're cheering for players, of course, but that doesn't mean what's best for the player is always to call them up without considering their development needs.
Okay. I understand Steve. He needs to play a little at AAA. $ more days sounds about right to me.
The "Price Watch" has officially begun. I don't expect to see Blandino play as much as I hope.
Speaking of "small sample sizes"… let me be the first on this website to come to the conclusion that Hamilton and Peraza can't hit a lick.
Hoping the brains behind the operation decide that either Suarez or Senzel will be the shortstop of the future while we wait to see if Rodriguez continues to improve at the plate.
I agree that the Senzel case is far less blatant manipulation than Bryant or Acuna. A legit developmental case can be made that Senzel needs further time in AAA, although that case would be certainly blunted if the Reds were to call him up on the very day (or close to it) that would delay his free agency by a year. We'll find out soon enough if that's the course the Reds take.
I am more responding to the extent to which fans have accepted this sort of behavior from front offices. We all nod along and agree that this is a smart baseball move, when it's keeping a top prospect making peanuts now and could cost him millions down the road.
Agree on the developmental opportunities. We've all seen hitters come up, succeed for a minute, and then have the league get the "book" out, and then go through the adjustment period.I assume that over time, the same thing happens in AAA and it would be good for him to have the place to work out any kinks as they show up.
Now, Senzel may be a good enough hitter that he won't need that, but that's pretty rare.For all intents and purposes, he'd be making the jump from A+ to MLB.
Best case is that he tears up AAA that he brings that confidence with him whenever it is time to be here. Worst case, he gets called up early, struggles, and has to work out the kinks against the best pitching baseball has to offer.
Excuse me, a dash of AA in there too. Didn't mean to slight him!
Senzel is a multi-millionaire from his signing bonus. He's not experience the same plight as a majority of the other minor leaguers.
I am sure it is something that will be discussed in the next CBA, but changing it may be difficult since it is only affecting a handful of people. I think the players bigger concern will be fixing free agency issues like compensation picks for free agents who turn down qualifying offers and how to avoid teams "playing for draft picks" Guys like Senzel and Acuna potentially delay their free agency and potential earnings through service time manipulation, but it isn't something happening to every single player. It is unfortunate for those few guys who are impacted, but it would be difficult to prove anything illegal was being done; for Senzel it could easily be stated he was blocked by Suarez and needs time to learn a new position.
didn't duvall used to play 3rd? this is fantasy baseball – right?
It's probably a fantasy to think he can play 3B. He couldn't when he was in the minors: 417 games 99 errors, .917 fielding %.
Cody Reed starts tonight for the Reds. Finnegan starts tonight for the Bats. Hunter Greene starts tonight for the Dragons. Big night for Reds pitching prospects.
Great article Steve and thanks for explaining this crazy process. I agree that Blandino should get the call and most of the playing time. The Reds needs to see what he can really do. Though, I doubt this will happen and the playing time will go to the infield bench players.
BTW, how many options does a player have?
Three. An option is good for an entire season. A guy put on option can be called up and sent down any number of times during that season; and, it only counts as one option.
There are some special cases where a 4th option year can be earned. I believe Garrett was awarded a 4th year; and that Lorenzen also met one of the loophole criteria for an additional one.
I think this is probably all moot, because the Reds almost always seem to leave guys in the minors until there's absolutely no possible way for them to justify leaving them there for another minute. I'd be surprised if he's called up for months unless there's another couple infield injuries.
Thanks for the clear explanation, Steve.
Not that Homer Bailey isn't a handsome fella, but can't help wonder why Steve Mancuso doesn't display a photo of Steve Mancuso in his short bio after several recent articles. Come on Steve, the chin on your hand pose is just fine. Is Bryan Price behind it?
If they are bound to play Billy. Could Duvall slide to 3b and all 3 other OFers can play regular. I say this knowing Blandino is going to ride pine for Pennington/ Gosselin. I would rather see Duvall give it a try over those two.
How did they get away with only 8 guys in the lineup? Are they going to bat out of turn every other inning?
Winker appears to be a scratch himself tonight.
Ervin between Barnhart and Pennington.
Is anybody surprised that Blandino isn't playing?
I'm fine with it as he probably only joined the team in Philly earlier today.
In general, I believe service-time manipulation to be a bad idea, especially with pitchers. It is fundamentally dishonest, which to me is bad business with one's employees.
The better question is whether Jose Peraza could hit Yovani Gallardo. Something would have to give: a movable object against a resistible force.
Steve, phenomenal write-up! Definitely the most direct, clear-cut description of both service time accrual and Super 2 status I've seen anywhere.
It's looking like the Reds will bring up Senzel to play third base for 6-10 weeks. Unexpected development with the Suarez injury. But…….
Why not bring Suarez back as a shortstop? 2018 is nearly lost already. The season should be about preparing for 2019. His injury rehab will force him to go painfully slow from week to week building on his progress as he heals. Do it as a shortstop. Work with benavides every day whens cleared. Go to AAA for 7-10 days as a SS. Move Peraza back to 2b as a platoon with Gennett in june until Gennett's gets traded….and see how 2018 unfolds? If Senzel can't cut it at 3b or Suarez can't at SS…..you've at least answered the question.
Situations and circumstances change. No one saw this coming…. But be bold. Adjust. Bring Suarez back at SS.
Senzel strikeout to walk rate if you look at his stats going up the minor league ladder has well gotten just a tad worse each level. That great plate discipline some of you mention well it may not be so major league ready yet. Its only been a handful of games at Triple A but yet he is on a pace to strikeout far more than he was last year. Last year in Double A he had a worse strikeout rate than he was showing in the lower levels. Yes each level pitchers are better and they make adjustments and the hitters have to make adjustments….but all I am saying is it wouldn't hurt to give him a few more weeks in Triple A to see if he starts to adjust to Triple A pitching. Otherwise if he isnt ready to start smacking Triple A pitching around he sure won't be ready in the majors. Last thing you want to do is rush the kid who is going to have emense hype once he is called up and see him struggle and loose confidence. Then the Reds are wasting service time much like the White Sox did last year with Yoan Moncada and the guy isnt ready. Once he shows he has adjusted to Triple A pitching and hitting a few weeks with no problems there then yes maybe call him up. As for the Reds moving him to other positions that is just crazy. The guy is a 3B and Suarez when he is healthy again he was not a natural 3B…you move him back to SS …Peraza was over hyped in the Braves system and is really a utility infielder type…..but he can man 2B for now…..leave the kid Senzel at third….why you want to put even more pressure on the kid along with all the hype and force him to learn a new position now….that was something if they was going to do should have been done after he was drafted…not right before the majors. SS is not an easy position to suddenly just be expected to play when you never have before….its way different than maning the hot corner. But long term and I think as soon as next year Senzel will be the professional major league bat that will give the Reds the leader to pass the torch to so to speak as Votto declines as he advances in age. He is the best looking kid Cincy has had in my opinion since they brought up Votto years ago….this kid is better and will be better than Jay Bruce ever has been by far I think. I wont say he will be as great as Votto as that isnt fair to the kid but potential to be is there.


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How does Shiro get into the Deadman Wonderland?
We know that Deadman Wonderland is a brutal prison for convicted criminals.
And at various points in the show, it is revealed how each of the main characters ended up there. (what crime they were convicted of)
But how did Shiro get there? Is it ever revealed what Shiro did to end up in that prison?
We know that Shiro was Ganta's childhood friend. So that means that she started off outside in the normal world. But are there any clues to what brought her into Deadman Wonderland?
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Even though Shiro and Ganta were childhood friends,
Shiro was used in experiments by the director (Hagire Rinichiro) and Ganta's mother. This was all before Deadman Wonderland was created, and when the director founded it, he created a special room for Shiro. Shiro wasn't imprisoned there, but lived there so that the experiments to create the "Wretched Egg" (Shiro's other personality) can continue, thus she was brought there by the director when Deadman Wonderland was created.
This was mentioned briefly in the Deadman Wonderland wiki.
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That's interesting. I don't think that was ever revealed in the Anime. (Or if it was, it wasn't obvious...) – Mysticial Feb 22 '13 at 22:38
@Mysticial I don't think it was either, there was that bit where the director revealed what his real plans were and his relation to Shiro, but never mentioned that he brought Shiro to Deadman Wonderland. – Jon Lin Feb 22 '13 at 22:40
That's because she was never bought into the facility. – кяαzєя♦ Feb 22 '13 at 22:51
Deadman Wonderland was originally the medical center in the flashbacks, but when it was destroyed by the Great Tokyo Earthquake, the prison was built over it.
Deadman Wonderland was built specifically to contain Shiro's second, more sinister personality, the Wretched Egg, aka the original Deadman, the Red Man. At the heart of the facility is the Mother Goose System which was designed to transmit a lullaby that suppresses the Wretched Egg. This way you could say the heart of the facility exists to contain her, and that's why she's there.
Deadman Wonderland was built on ground zero of the Great Tokyo earthquake, also being the place where Shiro and Ganta lived during their childhood, to suppress poor Shiro with speakers, made partly of her own flesh and blood, aka the Mother Goose System. Shiro is the original sin, the original deadman, which Ganta was supposed to be.
I honestly doubt there will ever be any more shown in the anime, since key characters have been missing, but let's hope for a continuation.
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Shiro was adopted by Hagire (the man who was the "boss" of the National Medical Center later Deadman Wonderland (after the earthquake). She was used as an experiment subject, so they did a lot of painful experiments on her. Later they build D.W. with its main goal to keep Shiro there (the Red man) and to collect every branch of sin. So with that Hagire can get rid of the MotherGoose system and can become like Shiro.
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Question: What Religion Does Cyprus Have?
1 What are the main religions in Cyprus?
2 What is the religion of people in Cyprus?
3 How much of Cyprus is Turkish?
4 Is Cyprus an Arab country?
5 Is Cyprus dangerous?
6 What do you call a person from Cyprus?
7 What race of people live in Cyprus?
8 Who owns Cyprus?
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10 Why did Turkey take over Cyprus?
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What are the main religions in Cyprus?
Religion in Cyprus
Orthodox Christianity (89.2%)
Roman Catholic (2.9%)
Protestant (2%)
Islam (1.8%)
What is the religion of people in Cyprus?
Religion. The Greek Cypriots are primarily Eastern Orthodox Christians. Their church, the Church of Cyprus, is autocephalous (not under the authority of any patriarch); this privilege was granted to Archbishop Anthemius in ad 488 by the Byzantine emperor Zeno.
How much of Cyprus is Turkish?
The Republic of Cyprus occupies the southern two-thirds of the island (59.74%). The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus occupies the northern third (34.85%), and the United Nations-controlled Green Line provides a buffer zone that separates the two and covers 2.67% of the island.
Is Cyprus an Arab country?
The majority of people think that Cyprus is an Arab country. But in reality, the Republic of Cyprus isn't considered an Arab country. Arab identity is the state of perceiving oneself as an Arab and as relating to being Arab.
Is Cyprus dangerous?
Cyprus is generally very safe to travel to, even though it is geographically close to countries hit by terrorism and wars. Petty crime does occur, especially during the holidays and summer.
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Cypriot (in older sources often "Cypriote") refers to someone or something of, from, or related to the country of Cyprus, including: Greek Cypriots. Maronite Cypriots. Turkish Cypriots.
What race of people live in Cyprus?
The people of Cyprus are broadly divided into two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, who share many cultural traits but maintain distinct identities based on ethnicity, religion, language, and close ties with their respective motherlands.
Who owns Cyprus?
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Cyprus is certainly not perfect, but it is an exotic little island, offering the stability of being inside the EU, good networking opportunities, low tax pressure and amazing weather for all the sun seeking entrepreneurs out there. Moreover, the crime rate is very low, and it's one of the safest countries in the world.
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The aim of the coup was the union (enosis) of Cyprus with Greece, and the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus to be declared. In July 1974, Turkish forces invaded and captured 3% of the island before a ceasefire was declared. The Greek military junta collapsed and was replaced by a democratic government.
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The Greeks or Hellenes (/ˈhɛliːnz/; Greek: Έλληνες, Éllines [ˈelines]) are an ethnic group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and, to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
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Cyprus has for years been among hottest holiday destinations in Europe. Although closer to the Asia, the Republic of Cyprus is within the borders of the European Union and its currency is euro. Prices in Cyprus are moderate. Some say it is a little more expensive than in Spain or Greece.
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Garden next to Grangetown Fire Station opened
A FORMER fire station manager saw his dream of a community garden for school children and residents become reality.
Frank Sweeney was joined by children from Grangetown Primary School and Cleveland Fire Brigade's chief fire officer Ian Hayton for the official opening of a "grow and learn" garden next to Grangetown Fire Station.
"I am very proud to be here today," said the station's former manager.
Children inspected the garden, where they will be growing vegetables and learning about healthy eating.
And Year 6 pupil Quinn Doyle, 10, said: "It's pretty cool, I'm surprised that they built it this fast actually."
Frank conceived the idea of building the garden after the fire crew visited youngsters
"We were at the school and they told me they had no outdoor places for the kids to go and I knew there was waste land here so we were able to agree the land. I thought it would be a great way to encourage kids to learn about food and, at the same time, really integrate the fire station into the local community," he said.
He added the scheme would not have been possible without funding from local businesses.
"Ideas are great but we need money to make them a reality so we have to thank the businesses that have helped us, particularly Impetus Trust," he added.
Residents and allotment holders will also be invited to help maintain the garden when the school can't.
Work on the garden was carried out over six weeks by Saltburn- based firm Dig It Projects.
Dig It Projects director Richard Smith said: "The area looks great and everyone involved is extremely happy with the outcome, allowing the local schools and residents to access the garden area to enjoy and work with."


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The Chinese Smartphone manufacturer Huawei has announced the launch of its first foldable 5G Smartphone in the country. The company has officially announced this on its Twitter handle. The first Huawei foldable 5G Smartphone will be launched on the Mobile World Congress 2019, scheduled to be held on 24 February in Barcelona. The company has already sent media invites for the launch event of the said handset.
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