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All their writers weigh in. General consensus is 2nd in pacific and #7 seed. Bucher gives them the most love, saying they are a guaranteed 50 win team maybe 55 with a healthy Baron. Hollinjerk, trying to figure out how to make his calculator work with the dried semen still on the multiply function from thinking about the great Chuck Hayes, disses them, and swears to himself he'll actually get around to watching an NBA game this year:
Expert Picks
J.A. Adande
PACIFIC: 2 | WEST: 7 Now that the yellow T-shirts are fading, you might realize this team didn't qualify for the playoffs until the last game of the season and then played one great series. Can they play good ball for a full season, and do it without Jason Richardson?
Greg Anthony
ESPN.com PACIFIC: 2 | WEST: 7 Leadership is a question here. Losing Jason Richardson is big, as will be the Baron Davis health watch. Troy Hudson could have a huge impact playing for Nellie.
PACIFIC: 2 | WEST: 7 Still a team no one wants to face in the playoffs. Champion level? No. Dangerous? Yes. (Ask the Mavs.) Although they played great against Dallas, when the Warriors went up against a bruising team like Utah, the need for a big man showed.
ESPN Mag
PACIFIC: 2 | WEST: 8 This is not a great team. It's a good, incredibly exciting team that caught a great matchup against Dallas last postseason. If Baron is healthy, in shape and committed, the Warriors will be arguably the most entertaining show in the league. If he isn't, the lottery could beckon.
ESPN Mag
PACIFIC: 2 | WEST: 6 Austin Croshere, Marco Belinelli and Troy Hudson just give Don Nelson more ways to find mismatches. If Baron Davis stays healthy -- always a big if -- they're a cinch for 50 wins. Maybe 55.
PACIFIC: 3 | WEST: 10 The loss of Jason Richardson combined with no significant additions probably mean that they fall short of the playoffs. The team's at a crossroads. Their veterans and their coach want to win now, but at the expense of developing young players?
PACIFIC: 3 | WEST: 9 The Warriors don't strike me as the type of team that can handle expectations. I'm also not sure I'd bank on a team that named Stephen Jackson a captain.
PACIFIC: 3 | WEST: 9 The Warriors run to end the season was amazing, but it's tough to catch lightning in a bottle twice. Richardson's departure leaves a hole on the wing, and Baron Davis' health is always a question.
PACIFIC: 2 | WEST: 7 I think we can all agree on one thing: The playoffs weren't as exciting last season after they went out. I'm expecting big things from Italian draft pick Marco Belinelli, especially if he beats out Monta Ellis for the starting 2-guard spot.
Stein ESPN.com
PACIFIC: 2 | WEST: 7 Except for a couple of seasons in the early 1990s, Golden State hasn't been able to call itself California's best team since the championship glory days of 1975. Until now. They really are Cali's finest.
TOTAL PACIFIC: 2.3 | Standings WEST: 7.7 | Standings
Hollinger Analysis
Team Strength: Speed
Even without Jason Richardson, the Warriors are blazingly fast and again figure to play the league's fastest pace. Don Nelson loves to play small wherever possible and space the floor with shooters, and has the resources to do it again.
Obviously it all starts with Baron Davis, a huge talent whose injury proneness and poor shot selection have provided the lone barriers to superstardom. He appeared to start conquering those demons last season, and if so he'll be an All-NBA player. His ability to push the pace and finish sets up everything else, while his ball pressure on defense forces opponents to play faster than they'd wish.
But there's plenty more.
Monta Ellis may be even faster in transition than Davis and should continue progressing in this third season. Matt Barnes, Kelenna Azubuike and Mickael Pietrus (if he stays) are jackrabbits too, while Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington are good shooters for their size who can fill lanes on the wing.
Additionally, even the big guys can move a little. Andris Biedrins is a good finisher, while newcomer Brandon Wright adds another dimension with his ability to flush in transition.
• John Hollinger's complete Warriors forecast Insider
Lineup Breakdown
Baron Davis
Point Guard
6-3 | 215
MVP candidate if he picks up where he left off in playoffs.
Monta Ellis
Shooting Guard
6-3 | 177
Get this: He's starting because he missed too much time to learn the point.
Stephen Jackson
Small Forward
6-8 | 218
Vows this will be the season he's notorious for basketball only.
Al Harrington
Power Forward
6-9 | 245
Worst playoff performer was best in training camp. Little late, no?
Andris Biedrins
6-11 | 245
Go-to threat for Latvia in EuroBasket -- and now back to reality.
ESPN The Magazine's NBA Preview hits newsstands October 24.
Player Spotlight
Baron Davis
Player efficiency rating
projection: 19.43
vs. NBA avg.: +4.43
Warriors profiles
Scouting report: Davis is one of the most athletic guards in the game and an absolute terror in transition because of his ability to pass or finish. At 6-3, 215 pounds, he can destroy smaller guards on the post-ups in the half court -- something he happily did to Dallas in the first round of the playoffs from his preferred perch on the left block.
Davis has a bad habit of getting 3-point happy and forcing long shots off the dribble, but he isn't a good shooter unless his feet are set and he's just catching and shooting.
His size and athleticism are huge weapons at the defensive end, too; Davis deserved far more All-Defense attention than he received. Davis ranked second among point guards in blocks per minute and third in steals per minute; he also was outstanding at pressuring the ball upcourt and his size allowed him to defend shooting guards in the half court.
Although his effort wasn't consistent every night, at his best there was nobody better, and he was at his best for all of the final two months of the season.
Injuries are an annual concern with Davis, who tends to pull hammys and groins quite a bit. He hasn't played more than 67 games in any of the past five seasons.
2007-08 outlook: Davis is entering a free-agent year (if he opts out of his contract), so if he can stay healthy for 70 games and control the urge to take horrible shots, he's going to make himself a very wealthy man. The Warriors are understandably reluctant to offer him a rich extension just yet; whether Davis can actually pull this off is in some doubt.
His talent, however, is not. Davis might play only 60 games, and he might force a ton of bad shots when he plays, but few guards possess this kind of talent. Look for three-quarters of an All-Star season from him again.
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Way to hold it down, Bucher. After years and years of ignoring the Warriors, now you're finally starting to advertise that you're from the Bay again. Jeez, if one didn't know any better, they might think you're just hopping back on the wagon after years of writing off the Dubs like every other blowhard on ESPN's writing staff (Mark Stein excluded).
TMC wrote:I stopped reading after Hollinjerk's name...
Just wanted to say you did a good job with the poll, Colt.
and I agree, 32, Bucher shows them proper love and knowledge of their improvements. Sheridan and Stein are also reasonable about it. According to the bald twins Hollinjerk and Ford, losing JRich outweighs getting Belinelli, Wright, Hudson and Croshere plus a $10 million trade exception
I beg to differ
They write based on their opinions and what they hear from others. Or at least that's how it seems. And of course, there's always the east coast bias. They don't watch much of games with teams in the West. Only the ones making a big splash like the Spurs, Suns, ect.


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Lithographic Stochastic Limits on ResolutionMonday, April 3rd, 2017
By Ed Korczynski, Sr. Technical Editor
The physical and economic limits of Moore's Law are being approached as the commercial IC fab industry continues reducing device features to the atomic-scale. Early signs of such limits are seen when attempting to pattern the smallest possible features using lithography. Stochastic variation in the composition of the photoresist as well as in the number of incident photons combine to destroy determinism for the smallest devices in R&D. The most advanced Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) exposure tools from ASML cannot avoid this problem without reducing throughputs, and thereby increasing the cost of manufacturing.
Since the beginning of IC manufacturing over 50 years ago, chip production has been based on deterministic control of fabrication (fab) processes. Variations within process parameters could be controlled with statistics to ensure that all transistors on a chip performed nearly identically. Design rules could be set based on assumed in-fab distributions of CD and misalignment between layers to determine the final performance of transistors.
As the IC fab industry has evolved from micron-scale to nanometer-scale device production, the control of lithographic patterning has evolved to be able to bend-light at 193nm wavelength using Off-Axis Illumination (OAI) of Optical-Proximity Correction (OPC) mask features as part of Reticle Enhancement Technology (RET) to be able to print <40nm half-pitch (HP) line arrays with good definition. The most advanced masks and 193nm-immersion (193i) steppers today are able to focus more photons into each cubic-nanometer of photoresist to improve the contrast between exposed and non-exposed regions in the areal image. To avoid escalating cost and complexity of multi-patterning with 193i, the industry needs Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography (EUVL) technology.
Figure 1 shows Dr. Britt Turkot, who has been leading Intel's integration of EUVL since 1996, reassuring a standing-room-only crowd during a 2017 SPIE Advanced Lithography (http://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/advanced-lithography) keynote address that the availability for manufacturing of EUVL steppers has been steadily improving. The new tools are close to 80% available for manufacturing, but they may need to process fewer wafers per hour to ensure high yielding final chips.
The KLA-Tencor Lithography Users Forum was held in San Jose on February 26 before the start of SPIE-AL; there, Turcot also provided a keynote address that mentioned the inherent stochastic issues associated with patterning 7nm-node device features. We must ensure zero defects within the 10 billion contacts needed in the most advanced ICs. Given 10 billion contacts it is statistically certain that some will be subject to 7-sigma fluctuations, and this leads to problems in controlling the limited number of EUV photons reaching the target area of a resist feature. The volume of resist material available to absorb EUV in a given area is reduced by the need to avoid pattern-collapse when aspect-ratios increase over 2:1; so 15nm half-pitch lines will generally be limited to just 30nm thick resist. "The current state of materials will not gate EUV," said Turkot, "but we need better stochastics and control of shot-noise so that photoresist will not be a long-term limiter."
TABLE: EUVL stochastics due to scaled contact hole size. (Source: Intel Corp.)
From the LithoGuru blog of gentleman scientist Chris Mack (http://www.lithoguru.com/scientist/essays/Tennants_Law.html):
One reason why smaller pixels are harder to control is the stochastic effects of exposure: as you decrease the number of electrons (or photons) per pixel, the statistical uncertainty in the number of electrons or photons actually used goes up. The uncertainty produces line-width errors, most readily observed as line-width roughness (LWR). To combat the growing uncertainty in smaller pixels, a higher dose is required.
We define a "stochastic" or random process as a collection of random variables (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_process), and a Wiener process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_process) as a continuous-time stochastic process in honor of Norbert Wiener. Brownian motion and the thermally-driven diffusion of molecules exhibit such "random-walk" behavior. Stochastic phenomena in lithography include the following:
- Photon count,
- Photo-acid generator positions,
- Photon absorption,
- Photo-acid generation,
- Polymer position and chain length,
- Diffusion during post-exposure bake,
- Dissolution/neutralization, and
- Etching hard-mask.
Figure 2 shows the stochastics within EUVL start with direct photolysis and include ionization and scattering within a given discrete photoresist volume, as reported by Solid State Technology in 2010.
Resist R&D
During SPIE-AL this year, ASML provided an overview of the state of the craft in EUV resist R&D. There has been steady resolution improvement over 10 years with Photo-sensitive Chemically-Amplified Resists (PCAR) from 45nm to 13nm HP; however, 13nm HP needed 58 mJ/cm2, and provided DoF of 99nm with 4.4nm LWR. The recent non-PCAR Metal-Oxide Resist (MOR) from Inpria has been shown to resolve 12nm HP with 4.7 LWR using 38 mJ/cm2, and increasing exposure to 70 mJ/cm2 has produced 10nm HP L/S patterns.
In the EUVL tool with variable pupil control, reducing the pupil fill increases the contrast such that 20nm diameter contact holes with 3nm Local Critical-Dimension Uniformity (LCDU) can be done. The challenge is to get LCDU to <2nm to meet the specification for future chips. ASML's announced next-generation N.A. >0.5 EUVL stepper will use anamorphic mirrors and masks which will double the illumination intensity per cm2 compared to today's 0.33 N.A. tools. This will inherently improve the stochastics, when eventually ready after 2020.
The newest generation EUVL steppers use a membrane between the wafer and the optics so that any resist out-gassing cannot contaminate the mirrors, and this allow a much wider range of materials to be used as resists. Regarding MOR, there are 3.5 times more absorbed photons and 8 times more electrons generated per photon compared to PCAR. Metal hard-masks (HM) and other under-layers create reflections that have a significant effect on the LWR, requiring tuning of the materials in resist stacks.
Default R&D hub of the world imec has been testing EUV resists from five different suppliers, targeting 20 mJ/cm2 sensitivity with 30nm thickness for PCAR and 18nm thickness for MOR. All suppliers were able to deliver the requested resolution of 16nm HP line/space (L/S) patterns, yet all resists showed LWR >5nm. In another experiment, the dose to size for imec's "7nm-node" metal-2 (M2) vias with nominal pitch of 53nm was ~60mJ/cm2. All else equal, three times slower lithography costs three times as much per wafer pass.


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I don't know, if I came across half the deals you seem to always find I'd be buying loads too. Are you always at carboot sales to be getting games at those prices?
That looks to be very good condition! Just the minimal amount of wear needed that it isn't extortionately priced.


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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Homemade Goat Cheese
9 comments:
- Anna said...
Wow, all I can say is WOW. Your food is absolutely stupendous - so, so, inspired and beautifully presented. I take my hat off, you're a pure master!
- February 26, 2011 at 6:16 AM
- cathy said...
So excited to see this post! I loooove goat cheese, and even if this doesn't have that classic chevre taste, I'm going to try this. It will be a great little science experiment to do with my kids. :) Can't wait to see your post on a homemade cheese that has that chevre flavor! (Oh, and the lemon juice...lemons can be really variable in their acidity. White vinegar is a great, consistent choice when acidity is a concern.)
- February 26, 2011 at 8:41 AM
- Susie said...
Okay, I am going to give this another go, I have tried a failed, and perhaps the vinegar is the key. My only request at my new house this fall besides a knock out kitchen (like the one I'm leaving) is room for a goat, I think it would be a fine hobby!...thanks for helping to demystify the issues!
- February 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM
- Aisha Jameel said...
Your dishes look yum ... loved the presentation of the food ! good work
you can view some of my dishes on http://kitchensojourn.blogspot.com ! i would be really happy if you follow it :)
- February 26, 2011 at 6:49 PM
- Fiona said...
Cannot wait to go home for spring break and try this out! Also, please post about your skyr experience soon! My Siggy's yogurt habit is just not sustainable! ($2.69 for 6 oz at Whole Foods, but soooo delicious, http://skyr.com/index.html)
- March 5, 2011 at 10:33 PM
I have been reading Animal,vegetable, mineral which has already inspired me to make cheese. Now seeing what you have done I HAVE to make some. Your photos are wonderful can't wait to try this. Thanks. Joy. :)
- March 11, 2011 at 3:10 AM
I've been looking for a good home made goats cheese recipe for ages and yours seems reasonably easy to do. Are you going to be posting about the Farmer's Cheese and your later results with goats cheese? I'll look forward to those posts!
- March 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- Jules and Ruby said...
hi fellow cheezzze heads...i'm working on the Chevre post and i just finished making some "Goat Skyre" flavored with vanilla bean and fresh rosemary...yummm!...so a Skyre post is coming as well. BTW, ...Skyre is a fabulous yogurt from Iceland...
- March 26, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- Alex Staff said...
If I have to give my opinion about this cheese, I'll say that it looks great. I may not look like it, but I also like making cheese and I've only just started recently. And thanks for reminding us that giving up is never an option for this.
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By Steve Freidell
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Are poor eating habits or overeating partly to blame for our economic crisis? In a way, they are.
A study done recently in Germany showed that over-indebtedness is strongly associated with obesity. After adjusting for socioeconomic and health risk factors, this study found that people who were deep in debt were almost twice as likely to be overweight and more than 2.5 times as likely to be obese as those who were debt-free.
Of course, this study does not prove that debt causes obesity; however, it does seem to suggest an association between the two.
A common perception exists that healthy foods cost more money than their unhealthy, mass-produced counterparts. Therefore, when spending is constricted, consumers often turn to dollar menus and frozen-food aisles to find what they've been conditioned to believe are the cheapest options.
This pattern of poor nutritional choices is a lot like saddling yourself with credit card debt. You're sacrificing your long-term health for short-term convenience. That fast-food dollar menu may be appealing to your wallet, but it can also lead to far more expensive health problems in the future.
Getting debt free requires a financial diet. And that's not just a metaphor. You'll be surprised how much your budget and your diet are intertwined. It's often the most common area where people overspend. And it's the perfect place to start making simple changes that will leave you with excess cash instead of calories.
The perception that eating healthy costs more money is absolutely false. If you look at each meal, you're spending at least $5 to $8 per person at a fast-food joint, and double or triple that at even the most modestly priced restaurant.
If you take that same amount of money into the grocery store, and purchase raw ingredients (vegetables, fruit, meat, bread, dairy) rather than overpriced prepackaged options, you'll be stunned by your savings. In addition, you will be in far better control of the nutritional content of the food you eat – saving calories, sodium, fats, etc.
Go into the store with a list of what you need to prepare a set amount of meals and a budget to spend. Look up easy recipes online that use food items on sale. Find healthy foods that you and your family enjoy and then stick to them.
With just a little time and planning, you'll be eating healthier and saving money. And more importantly, you'll be instilling the willpower to make the tough, but ultimately beneficial, choices rather than falling prey to the oversimplified, heavily marketed easy way out.
It's time to restore some self-control over what we eat, what we spend, and how we think of ourselves, or else we will continue to be at the mercy of industries that place their own short-term financial concerns over our long-term well-being – both financial and physical. LL
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Hue Jackson went on Sirius NFL Radio from the NFL Senior Bowl this week and attempted to dispel any notions about owner Al Davis.
"Everybody always said that everything is done by coach (Davis)," Jackson said. "That's not true. I mean, I'm hiring the staff. He made me the head coach of this football team and said, `Hue, let's go. Obviously, I bounce everything off him. Why wouldn't I? This is his team. But he doesn't sit there and rule everything with an iron-clad fist."
There more, a transcription of which will run below.
Jackson is enjoying what Lane Kiffin referred to as the "honeymoon" period between Davis and the head coach.
Kiffin was the golden child once, bringing in a handful of assistant coaches he selected, making change, and attempting to affect change. He called Davis "Al," and talked about how he basically could do anything he wanted at the NFL owner's meetings.
A year later, he wasn't wearing Raiders gear at the NFL scouting combine and was rejected in his attempts to fire defensive coordinator Rob Ryan and defensive line coach Keith Millard.
Once Kiffin was gone, Tom Cable told us we had it all wrong with Davis. Cable said he was the coach of the team, he hired his entire staff, and that his working relationship with Davis couldn't be better.
We know how that turned out.
Norv Turner said he thought working for the Raiders was his dream job because he had a boss who truly understood football, a guy who went out and landed players such as Warren Sapp and Randy Moss.
Turner ended up having to do a tortured backtrack on a decision to start Marques Tuiasosopo ahead of Kerry Collins after one game, and was gone the next year.
There is little doubt that all these coaches were initially telling the truth. There's a period of time, before anything happens in the loss column, where you're actually running a team owned by someone who actually knows and understands football.
He'll give the coach his thoughts and ideas, maybe produce a list of coaches who might make good coordinators based on philosophy and track record along with how much they can be paid. Then he'll let the coach make the call.
Win and the honeymoon can be extended. Experience has taught us what happens when the losing begins.
Q: What is the stamp want to put on the Raiders?
Jackson: We kind of started that process a year ago. We want to be a very physical team on offense. We want to be able to stop you on defense, and we want to be explosive on special teams. Obviously, I thought last year, we started that process and we need to take it to another level this year, and there's no question that we're going to be able to do that.
Q: How advantageous having a year under your belt, knowing how Raiders operate, knowing the roster?
Jackson: Obviously; it helps you tremendously, because you know the environment, you know the players, you know the coaches. You know exactly how Mr. Davis wants things to be. I think it's a great opportunity to hit the ground running right now.
Q: It all starts at QB, what has impressed you about Jason Campbell?
Jackson: He's a pro. I mean the guy comes in, he comes early, he stays late, he wants to be the best at what he does. He's young, he's talented. Our job is just to make sure we create the right environment around him so he can be the best he can be.
Q: There was great improvement with Darren McFadden last year, is he just scratching surface?
Jackson: There's no question he is. I'm so excited about what he brings to the organization. Him and Michael Bush, those two guys are a 1-2 punch for us, obviously, he was the No. 4 pick three years ago, and what he did for us last year is what we all envisioned he could be. So I'm excited about what the future holds for him.
Q: With uncertainty with regard to a labor agreement and a number of free agents, including Nnamdi Asomugha, how would you describe your approach to the offseason?
Jackson: I think everybody is kind of in that same boat. Nobody knows what the CBA is at this time. But I promise you this. Coach Davis has a plan, and we have a plan, and we feel very confident as we move forward that we're going to be able to put great football players out on our football field.
Q: On the defensive side of the ball, where do things stand with coordinator?
Jackson: We're still in that process. We're going to go hire the best fit for our Raiders staff. Obviously we're working through that, we're getting closer, we're excited about all the candidates and the people who have applied that want to be a part of what we're building. Again, I know you hear all the different stories about the Raiders, but none of those things are true. Coach Davis had done a great job just creating an environment for the players and coaches to come in and be successful, and that's we're looking to do.
Q: Could you expand on that? What are the biggest misconceptions which were dispelled since you joined the Raiders?
Jackson: Everybody always said that everything is always done by coach. That's not true. I mean, I'm hiring the staff. He made me the head coach of this football team and said, Hue, let's go. Obviously, I bounce everything off of him. Why wouldn't I? This is his team. But he doesn't sit there and rule everything with an iron-clad fist. The guy runs the draft as well as anybody I've ever seen run a draft. I mean, this guy knows football, and to me, for me not to use him as a resource would not be very smart on my part. So I'm very excited about the relationship I have built with him over time. The relationship that I think our coaches and our players have built with him over time. The one thing coach wants to do is win. That's what we all want to do. We all want to play in that game a week from now that Pittsburgh and Green Bay is going to be in, that's the ultimate goal.
Q: Could you describe your coaching philosophy?
Jackson: I have a very very simple philosophy. If you have good players, put 'em in situations to have success. Just try to create an environment to let them showcase their talents and abilities, and we have some very explosive players who can run, and if you create space for them, they have an opportunity to make plays. It sounds simple, and it is hard, don't get me wrong, but that's what it's really all about. Create an environment for your players to showcase their talents and abilities and have players that will allow them to do that, the Jason Campbells, the offensive line, the tight ends, the receivers, the Darren McFaddens, give those guys opportunities and normally good things will happen.
Q: How did you grow as a coach last year?
Jackson: You're in all those pressure situations, week in and week out. I know what it's like to call a great game. I know what it's like to wish you had some plays back. I know what it's like to call a bad game. I know what it's like when practice is not going as good or when you don't feel as well and you've got to go get this done. So I've been through all these situations throughout my career, and that's what's prepared me for today. There's not much that I haven't seen. Nothing truly prepares you to go out and do it, day in and day out, but I've been through a lot, and I'm so excited about this opportunity to lead this organization.


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-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/03/06-agenda
-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2008/02/14-minutes
Mohamed gives probably regrets, perhaps until our respective daylight savings times align
Andrew gives regrets for next week
-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/09/lastcall/comments.html
-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/09/lastcall/comments#C058
-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-comments/2008Feb/0066.html
Norm attempts to summarize his message 66.
Richard: So options obscure inherited options immediately.
Norm: Yes.
Richard: How is this like XSLT?
Norm: The solution I conclude
with in message 66 is the same.
... Anyone think more time on the list will help?
Mohamed: No, I don't think so.
Richard: There are three
different situations in which you use p:option:
... 1. When calling an atomic step
... 2. When declaring an atomic step
... 3. In a compound step where it counts as both.
Norm: Yes.
Richard: In the calling of an atomic step, does it bind it in there as well? If you bind 'a' on atomic step, does that get used immediately.
Norm: No. That's the subtle distinction, options in atomic steps aren't declarations.
Richard: Right. So that's the expected behavior. I think that sounds like the best we can do.
Norm: Anyone else?
Alex: Could we just start over?
Some discussion of getting rid of the current parameter mechanism and using p:param and p:with-param here.
Richard: The case of options on a
subpipeline, that's more like variable than parameters.
... We're left with option on an atomic step decl is like xsl:param, option on an atomic step is like xsl:with-param, and option on a compound step is like xsl:variable
Norm: Yes, I think so.
... There's a sense in which I'd like to add p:variable, but I'm reluctant.
The analogy in XSLT would be:
<xsl:param name="match" select="'MATCHSTUFF'"/>
<xsl:call-template name="...">
<xsl:with-param name="match" select="'//a[@foo]'"/>
<xsl:with-param name="attribute-value" select="$match"/>
<PGrosso> ac
Richard: Renaming the things is
something we can do or not do regardless of how we decide the
scoping quesiton.
... We should do this now and deal with renaming later.
... I agree with Michael in principle that it would be easier if we renamed things.
Michael: Why do we not have a single name proposed for all instances of calling things?
Norm: We have the design we arrived at by consensus :-)
Richard/Michael discuss how this is related to ALGOL and Lisp
Proposed: we finesse the problem and say that the options that are in scope are all of those *declared* by preceding-siblings or *declared* by ancestors.
Michael: I like that, and I'd like to call 1 and 3 option and 2 with-option.
Richard: I think what I'd like is to rename options to parameters, so we have param, with-param and variable and the things we currently call parameters we call something else.
Norm: Absent a proposal that replaces our current parameter mechanism, I don't think that's practical.
Michael: Our existing parameters are things we hand off to black boxes. Right?
Norm: yes.
Michael: They are the name/value
pairs I give to XSLT ot initialize xsl:params at the top-most
level of the stylesheet.
... I don't know how this relates to one stylesheet calling another.
... I'd be happy to use with-param for all of them
Norm: We have options and parameters and we need to keep those two bags separate
Some discussion of options and paramters and namespaces and lions and tigers and bears
<MSM> my firefox has decided to launch a background process; i've got to kill it
Richard: Is it productive to continue talking about this here? If someone can come up with a better ansewr, I'd be delighted, but I doubt it's going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
Proposed: we finesse the problem and say that the options that are in scope are all of those *declared* by preceding-siblings or *declared* by ancestors.
<MSM> so they are unprefixed in practice, but qualified in theory -- analogy to the QT function namespace
-> http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/09/lastcall/comments#C083
-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-comments/2008Feb/0022.html
Norm: We really need to work this
one out. I'm not sure we can do it in 20 minutes,
... Perhaps someone would take an action to come back with a proposal.
Richard proposes Henry.
<scribe> ACTION: Norm to try to get Henry to tell us the right answer. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/03/06-xproc-minutes.html#action01]
<scribe> ACTION: Alex to fix p:directory-list [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/03/06-xproc-minutes.html#action02]
Norm: I'm not inclined to go there, it requires solving the mixing several streams of XML into a single document problem.
Proposed: Reject.
Norm: The commenter wonders why we call things that aren't hypertext references "href". The answer is precedent. So why not on xsl-formatter?
Richard: I don't think href is used for places that you're going to write *to*
Norm: Anyone feel strongly that we should resolve this inconsistency?
<MSM> Norm (and MSM, silently): yes, it is, at least for XSLT 2.0 result documents.
Alex: Is this really inconsistent?
Mohamed: I think we should use href everywhere.
Alex: I agree.
Proposed: Rename uri on p:xsl-formatter to href
Norm isn't sure he understands the question
Richard: We did talk about this before, if you wanted to name it for some purpose other than calling it, you might want to give it a name.
Mohamed: You could use the p:declare-step form if you wanted to name it, right?
Norm: yes
... I'm not sure if that means we should allow a name on p:pipeline or not.
<scribe> ACTION: Norm to point out p:declare-step to the commenter and see if they're satisfied. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/03/06-xproc-minutes.html#action03]
Norm: Alex, this is on your radar?
Alex: I already have an action to
fix this.
... There's nothing to do there accept remove the content-type restriction.
Norm: Ok, reply to the message when you check in the changes.
None. Adjourned.
<scribe> ACTION: Norm to investigate parameters to sha1 for p:hash [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/03/06-xproc-minutes.html#action04]


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4. Be free to yell in the public forum. Burn those caustic remarks you have been waiting to use against your most hated enemies, while making grotesque gestures to the opposing team that may be captured on television prompting your mom to wonder where she went wrong.
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It's so good, it makes me angry. No, not the jealous kind of anger. Though there is some jealousy in there too. This is the kind of anger that comes from being wrong -- from when you thought there wasn't much room for improvement, but clearly there was.
Piano Opera FF I/II/III was a much-needed addition to the canonized FF music library. But FF IV/V/VI? I was flabbergasted when I first saw the announcement. "What's the point?" I thought to myself. Sure, the old individual Piano Collections for IV, V, and VI aren't terribly advanced in their arrangement (particularly IV and V). But they have their own charm, and they feature a good track selection, and hey, they sound great! "Who does Nakayama-san think he is?" I continued to ponder, "trying to improve upon music that's already there?!"
At first I mitigated my frustration by reminding myself that each of the three Super Famicom FFs have so many more songs in their OSTs that were never arranged for piano. So, as long as Nakayama didn't double-dip, I'd be okay. Then they announced the tracklist: over half of it overlapped with the previous Piano Collections. Now that's just uncalled for ... right? ... wrong.
The re-done songs from the SNES games: Troian Beauty, Clash on the Big Bridge, FFIV Main Theme, Theme of Love, My Home Sweet Home, Kefka, and FFV Main Theme (Presentiment / Ahead on Our Way), all are so much more enjoyable as a listening experience, and so much more impressive from the standpoint of music theory and technique ... there's just no going back at this point.
And then there are the new selections. The most obvious and most necessary one, of course, was "Dancing Mad." This track runs over 10 minutes in length, so it's hitting all four parts of the piece. This seems to be a big trend lately, doing full-on arrangement and performance of Dancing Mad (in one night this past January I saw two bands do it, one of them being Uematsu's own Earthbound Papas). Nakayama knocks out of the park, full concerto piano style, never missing a chance to decorate or do other weird hand-contorting things that I'll never be able to pull off (more on this at the bottom).
FFV was probably the weirdest of all the old FF Piano Collections, so I was really pleased with these new arrangements. Among them, "The Sorrow of Parting" takes the cake for most impressive. I had nearly forgotten about this melody. "My Home, Sweet Home" wins the award for "I had every reason to believe this would sound awesome, and sure enough, it does." Yes, that's an award category.
Strangely absent from the old piano collection, Red Wings ~ Kingdom Baron from FFIV was an obvious choice for arrangement, and Nakayama does an outstanding job with this one. It's one of my favorite tracks on the album, in fact. Just as good, and just as necessary an arrangement, "Searching for Friends" from FFVI. How that got missed the first time around, I'll never know. But it's a fan-favorite that really needed a piano solo version. I gotta say, I love it.
What could make this album better? A few more tracks couldn't have hurt, especially if they had done some town/battle medleys like on I/II/III. Also, licensing Benyamin Nuss's performance of "Serpent Trench" to tack on as a bonus track couldn't have hurt, as that's one of the best piano renditions of VGM I've ever heard in my entire life.
Right now, as I finish typing up this review, I'm placing an import order for this album's sheet music. But I don't know why I bother. Sure, I was able to master most of the pieces from the old IV/V/VI, and I am advanced enough as a pianist that I can play a few tracks from each of the other piano collections (sans XIII -- that one has really been a struggle for me!). I already have the sheet music for Piano Opera I/II/III in my hands, and there are a few songs that are simple enough that I can wrap my puny hands around them (FFIII's "Crystal Cave" is where I've made the most progress). Listening to this CD, I doubt there's a single track I'll be able to really play without error and at tempo. This is honest-to-Uematsu triple-A concert piano work. I'll have to appreciate this one as more a bystander and less a participant.
Oh, and one more thing about this album. The liner notes, specifically. You open the booklet, and what do you see? Photos of Uematsu and Nakayama at a freaking elementary school. On the playground, in the music room playing piano and writing notes on the board. That's extremely clever marketing if you ask me. You wanna tug at the ol' nostalgic heart strings? You got me. I played these games when I was in elementary school. I also started playing piano at that age. It's like the photos are saying: "remember those good times? We do too. That's why we made this album." I can't read the Japanese liner notes, but I can't help but think Uematsu associates these games with a simpler time, a time of youth, as well.
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"We want to give companies tools that provide an alternative and are easy to use, and that make it easy to do the right thing," in terms of how content is handled via the mobile channel, Story says. The reality is that it's hard to get employees to comply with security guidelines if it means they have to learn new systems or procedures, "but if it's the same system as they already using on desktop, it makes it easy for them to be in compliance."
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Brussels, 13 July 2011
Questions and Answers on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy
The overall objective of the Commission's proposals for a modern and simpler Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is to make fishing sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially. The new policy will bring fish stocks back to sustainable levels by ending overfishing and setting fishing opportunities based on scientific advice. It will provide EU citizens with a stable, secure and healthy food supply for the long term; it seeks to bring new prosperity to the fishing sector, end dependence on subsidies and create new opportunities for jobs and growth in coastal areas.
Why is a new policy necessary ?
Europe's fisheries policy is in urgent need of reform. Vessels are catching more fish than can be safely reproduced, thus exhausting individual fish stocks and threatening the marine ecosystem. Today, three out of four stocks are overfished: 82% of Mediterranean stocks and 63% of Atlantic stocks. The fishing industry is experiencing smaller catches and facing an uncertain future.
Against this background, the Commission is proposing an ambitious reform of the policy. This reform is about putting in place the conditions for a better future for fish and fisheries alike, as well as the marine environment that supports them. The reform will contribute to the Europe 2020 Strategy and the policy will be developed as part of the broader maritime economy to ensure more coherent policies for the EU's seas and coastal areas by working towards robust economic performance of the industry, inclusive growth and enhanced cohesion in coastal regions.
Sustainability is at the heart of the proposed reform. Fishing sustainably means fishing at levels that do not endanger the reproduction of stocks and that provide high long-term yields. This requires managing the volume of fish taken out of the sea through fishing. The Commission proposes that by 2015, stocks must be exploited at sustainable levels, defined as the highest catch that can be safely taken year after year and which maintains the fish population size at maximum productivity. This level is known as the 'maximum sustainable yield' (MSY). This objective is set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas, and was adopted at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development as a target the world should reach by 2015.
Estimates1 show that if stocks were exploited in this way, stock sizes would increase by about 70%. Overall catches would increase by around 17%, profit margins could be multiplied by a factor of three, return on investments would be six times higher, and the gross value-added for the catching industry would rise by almost 90%, equal to € 2.7 billion over the next decade.
Fishing sustainably would also free the catching sector from depending on public support. It would make it easier to achieve stable prices under transparent conditions, bringing clear benefits for consumers. A strong, efficient and economically viable industry operating under market conditions would play a more important, active role in managing stocks.
What are the main elements of the new proposals?
The multi-annual ecosystem-based management
To rebuild a vibrant fishing economy in Europe, the marine environment must be protected more effectively. From now on, EU fisheries will be managed by multi-annual plans and governed by the ecosystem approach and the precautionary principle to ensure that the impacts of fishing activities on the marine ecosystem are limited. The fishing industry will have a better and more stable basis for long-term planning and investment. This will safeguard resources and maximise long-term yields.
Multi-annual management plans should move from the current single-stock plans to fisheries-based plans – covering more fish stocks in fewer plans, with the aim of reaching sustainable levels by 2015. Stocks not under plans will be managed through fixing fishing opportunities by Council, and other conservation and technical measures which are part of the toolbox of instruments proposed.
Banning discards
Discarding, ie the practice of throwing unwanted fish overboard, is estimated at 23% of total catches (substantially more in some fisheries!). This unacceptable practice will be phased out with a precise timeline for implementation and in combination with some flanking measures. Fishermen will be obliged to land all the commercial species that they catch. Under-sized fish cannot be sold for human consumption.
Member States shall make sure that their fishing vessels are equipped to ensure full documentation of all fishing and processing activities so as to monitor compliance with the obligation to land all catches.
This approach will lead to more reliable data on fish stocks, support better management and improve resource efficiency. It is also an incentive for fishermen to avoid unwanted catches by means of technical solutions such as more selective fishing gear.
Making fishing profitable
A system of transferable catch shares, known as 'concessions', will be introduced as from 2014 for vessels over 12 metres long and all vessels using towed gear. Based on agreed principles at EU level the concessions will be distributed by Member States in a transparent way, and will grant their owner an entitlement to a share of the national fishing opportunity for each year. Operators will be able to lease or trade their concessions within their Member state, not between Member states. The concessions will have a minimum validity of 15 years but can be recalled before expiry in case of serious infringement by the holder. Member States may create a reserve and introduce a fee for the concessions.
This new system will give the fishing industry a long-term perspective, more flexibility and greater accountability, while at the same time reducing overcapacity. Operators will have an incentive to increase their concessions while others may decide to leave the industry. It is predicted that incomes could raise by over 20% and crew wages by between 50% and over 100% by 2022 under this system2.
Support for small-scale fisheries
In the EU, the small-scale fleet accounts for 77% of the total EU fleet in vessel numbers but only for 8% in tonnage (vessel size) and 32% in terms of engine power. Small-scale coastal fisheries often play an important role in the social fabric and the cultural identity of many of Europe's coastal regions. They therefore require specific support. The reformed CFP extends to 2022 the right for Member States to restrict fishing in a zone within 12 nautical miles of the coastline. Small-scale fisheries may also be exempted from the transferable fishing concessions scheme. The future financial instrument for fisheries will include measures beneficial to small-scale fisheries and will help local economies adapt to the changes.
Developing sustainable aquaculture
A better framework for aquaculture will increase production and supply of seafood in the EU, reduce dependence on imported fish and boost growth in coastal and rural areas. By 2014, Member States will draft national strategic plans to remove administrative barriers and uphold environmental, social and economic standards for the farmed-fish industry. A new Aquaculture Advisory Council will be established to give advice on industry-related issues. There is a clear EU dimension in aquaculture development: strategic choices made at national level can have a bearing on such development in neighbouring Member States.
Improving scientific knowledge
Reliable and up-to-date information about the state of marine resources is essential to support sound management decisions as well as effective implementation of the reformed CFP. The proposal establishes the basic rules and obligations for Member States on data collection, management, data availability and access provisions for the Commission. Member states will be entrusted with collecting, maintaining and sharing scientific data about fish stocks and the impact of fishing at sea-basin level. National research programmes will be established to coordinate this activity
Decentralised governance
The Commission proposal is clarifying roles and obligations of each actor and will bring decisions closer to the fishing grounds. It will end micro-management from Brussels so that EU legislators will only define the general framework, the basic principles, the overall targets, the performance indicators and the timeframes. Member States will then decide the actual implementing measures, and will cooperate at regional level. The proposal includes provisions to ensure that the Member States concerned adopt measures which are compatible and effective. A fall-back mechanism is established for Commission action in cases where Member States cannot agree, or where the targets are not being reached.
New market policy - empowerment of the sector and better informed consumers
A proposal for a new Market Policy is part of the package proposed to ensure that the organization of the common markets for fisheries products contributes to achieving the objectives of the new CFP. It aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the EU industry, improve the transparency of the markets, and ensure a level playing field for all products marketed in the Union.
It also includes a modernisation of the intervention regime as the current system of spending public money to destroy fish is no longer justifiable. It will be replaced by a simplified storage mechanism, which will allow producer organisations to buy up fisheries products when prices fall under a certain level, and store the products for placing on the market at a later stage. This system will foster market stability.
Producer organisations will also play a greater role in collective management, monitoring and control. Better marketing of EU fisheries and aquaculture products will help to reduce waste and provide market feedback to producers.
New marketing standards on labelling, quality and traceability will give consumers clearer information and help them support sustainable fisheries. Certain labelling information will be compulsory, for example to differentiate fisheries and aquaculture products; other claims may be supplied on a voluntary basis.
A modern and adapted financial instrument
EU financial assistance will be granted to support the sustainability objectives of the new CFP. Financial assistance will become conditional upon compliance with the rules, and this principle will apply to both Member States and operators.
For Member States, non-compliance may result in interruption, suspension or financial correction to the Union financial assistance. For operators, serious infringements may lead to banning of access to financial assistance or financial reductions. In addition, the proposal introduces the obligation for Member States, when granting financial assistance, to take into account the behaviour (in particular the absence of serious infringements) of operators in the recent past.
A proposal for a new financial instrument, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) for the period 2014-2020 will be made later in 2011. In the framework of the Multi-annual financial framework, the Commission proposed a budget of € 6.7 billion for the EMFF.
Taking international responsibility
Almost 85% of the world fish stocks for which information is available are reported as being either fully exploited or overexploited, according to the FAO. The EU, being the world's largest importer of fisheries products in terms of value, must act abroad as at home. The external fisheries policy must be an integrated part of the CFP. In international and regional organisations, the EU will therefore advocate the principles of sustainability and conservation of fish stocks and marine biodiversity. It will establish alliances and undertake actions with key partners to combat illegal fishing and reduce overcapacity.
In bilateral fishing agreements with non-EU countries, the EU will promote sustainability, good governance and the principles of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Sustainable Fisheries Agreements (SFAs) will replace the existing Fisheries Partnership Agreements (FPAs) and they will ensure that the exploitation of fishery resources takes place on the basis of sound scientific advice only targeting surplus resources that the partner country cannot or does not want to fish itself. Under SFAs, partner countries shall be compensated for granting access to their fishing resources and financial assistance shall be provided to the partner countries for the implementation of a sustainable fisheries policy.
Will there by new rules on Control and Enforcement?
The proposal is consistent with the EU's new control regime from 20103 and integrates the basic elements of the control and enforcement regime for compliance with the rules of the CFP. In light of the introduction of the landing obligation to avoid discards the Commission proposes monitoring and control obligations in particular in relation to fully documented fishery, as well as pilot projects on new fisheries control technologies that contribute to sustainable fishing.
When will the reform come into effect?
The new rules will come into effect once the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament have voted on the proposals. Implementation will be progressive because there is a need for the sector to adapt and to be able to deliver results. But the reform sets clear deadlines. The aim for adoption and entry into force of the new legislation is 1.1.2013.
See also: IP/11/873
Impact Assessment Accompanying Commission proposal for a Regulation on the Common Fisheries Policy
Impact Assessment Accompanying Commission proposal for a Regulation on the Common Fisheries Policy
Council Regulations No 1005/2008 and No 1224/2009
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They are both young, married, beautiful and have deep ties to the military. They are both also doting moms with impressive careers.
But their ties to ex-CIA director David Petraeus has put Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley in the glaring spotlight. Broadwell, who was reportedly having an affair with Petraeus, saw Kelley as a romantic competitor – and that rivalry shattered three families, torpedoed the Petraeus' career and has forced two women and their families into hiding.
Even though they are nowhere to be found, details are beginning to emerge of the two women who seem to be captivating the world's attention.
A close Petraeus associate says FBI investigators told Petraeus that Broadwell sent anonymous emails to Jill Kelley, a Petraeus family friend from his time at Central Command in Tampa, warning her to stay away from him. The Petraeus associate spoke on condition of anonymity. The CIA director resigned last week after confessing to the affair.
Petraeus was not shown the emails, but was told the tone and content seemed threatening to Kelley, prompting her to report them, the close Petraeus associate said. That triggered the investigation that led the FBI to Broadwell and evidence of her affair with Petraeus.
Broadwell first met fellow West Point graduate David Petraeus in the spring of 2006, when she was a graduate student at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
He was a lieutenant general working on a counterinsurgency manual that would be tested during his command in Iraq. The university had invited him to give a speech.
Broadwell was in the Army Reserve after being recalled three times to active duty since the Sept. 11 attacks to work on counterterrorism issues. She intended to return to active duty or get into the policy world, according to the preface of the Petraeus biography she would later write with a Washington Post editor.
Petraeus, who held much-praised military commands in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday after admitting he had an extramarital affair, a disclosure that ended the retired four-star general's civilian career as director of the CIA.
He carried on the affair with Broadwell, now 40, according to several U.S. officials with knowledge of the situation. The officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss publicly the investigation that led to the resignation. The FBI discovered the relationship by monitoring Petraeus' emails, after investigators were alerted that Broadwell may have had access to his personal email account, two of the officials said.
Broadwell wrote in the preface to "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," published by Penguin in January, that while at Harvard, Petraeus passed along his card and offered to help her academic work on leadership. The book's ranking on Amazon.com jumped from 76,792 on Friday to 111 by midday Saturday.
"I later discovered that he was famous for this type of mentoring and networking, especially with aspiring soldier-scholars," Broadwell wrote, adding that "I took full advantage of his open-door policy to seek insight and share perspectives."
Broadwell is a research associate at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, according to her biography on Penguin's website. According to The Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune, she grew up in North Dakota and moved to Charlotte, N.C., more than three years ago with her husband, a radiologist, and their two young sons.
The book began as research for her dissertation, a case study of Petraeus' leadership. It evolved into an authorized biography written with Washington Post editor Vernon Loeb after President Barack Obama put Petraeus in charge of Afghanistan in 2010.
Two years earlier, she wrote in the book's preface, while visiting Washington he had invited her to join him and his team for a run along the Potomac River.
"I'd earned varsity letters in cross-country and indoor and outdoor track and finished at the top of my class for athletics at West Point; I wanted to see if he could keep stride during an interview. Instead it became a test for me," she wrote. He eventually increased the pace "until the talk turned to heavy breathing, and we reached a 6-minute-per-mile pace. It was a signature Petraeus move. I think I passed the test, but I didn't bother to transcribe the interview."
In the Army Reserve, she specialized in military intelligence, spending time at the U.S. Special Operations Command and the FBI Counterterrorism Task Forces before pursuing an academic career, according to her Penguin bio. She "lived, worked, or traveled in more than 60 countries during more than 15 years of military service and work in geopolitical analysis and counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations," her bio states.
Broadwell made multiple trips to Afghanistan, with unprecedented access to Petraeus, and also spent time with his commanders across the country.
When Petraeus left the military and took the job at the CIA, Broadwell kept in contact with him and sometimes was invited to his office for events such as his meeting with actress Angelina Jolie.
"History has yet to fully judge Petraeus' service in Iraq and Afghanistan, his impact on the U.S. military and his rank among America's wartime leaders," Broadwell wrote in the preface. "But there is no denying that he achieved a great deal during his 37-year Army career, not the least of which was regaining the strategic initiative in both wars" after Sept. 11, 2001.
"His critics fault him for ambition and self-promotion. I will note in the pages that follow that he is driven and goal-oriented, but his energy, optimism and will to win stand out more for me than the qualities seized on by his critics."
In an interview with The Bismarck Tribune shortly after the biography was published, Broadwell said Petraeus was a motivational force not only for organizations but individuals as well.
"He inspires people of all ages to improve themselves. On that note, I would conclude that his sheer energy whether applied to soldiering, scholarly pursuits, public outreach or mentoring can be equally empowering for an organization or an individual subordinate," Broadwell said.
Petraeus' relationship with Kelley, the "second woman" involved in the scandal, is more unclear. But she has been identified as living in Tampa, Fla., and serving as an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the military's Central Command and Special Operations Command are located.
Staffers for Petraeus said Kelley and her husband were regular guests at events he held at Central Command headquarters.
In a statement Sunday evening, Kelley and her husband, Scott, said: "We and our family have been friends with Gen. Petraeus and his family for over five years. We respect his and his family's privacy and want the same for us and our three children."
A U.S. official said the coalition countries represented at Central Command gave Kelley an appreciation certificate on which she was referred to as an "honorary ambassador" to the coalition, but she has no official status and is not employed by the U.S. government.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the case publicly, said Kelley is known to drop the "honorary" part and refer to herself as an ambassador.
A former associate of Petraeus insists Kelley and the ex-CIA chief were not having an affair. The associate, who has been in touch with Petraeus since his resignation and requested anonymity, says Kelley and her husband were longtime friends of Petraeus and wife, Holly.
Attempts to reach Kelley were not immediately successful. Broadwell did not return phone calls or emails.
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