text: 150 years ago, in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln made an attempt to bind a fractured nation by signing the Pacific Railroad Act. Two companies -- the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad -- were tasked with building a rail line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, linking both coasts of the United States. Between 1862 and 1869, the two companies would take full advantage of government financing, cheap labor and a nation distracted by war. Though corners were cut and scandals were numerous, the achievement was tremendous: What once was a harrowing journey of six months now took just one week. While passenger rail travel in the U.S. now lags behind the high-speed railways of Europe and Asia, the train was king for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Pacific Railway Act, we take a look back at 10 great American passenger trains, from steam engines to streamliners. Union Pacific 119 On May 10, 1869, Central Pacific Railroad chief Leland Stanford used a golden hammer to pound a single golden spike into the ground, joining the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in Promontory Summit, Utah. Beside Stanford were two trains -- the Central Pacific's Jupiter, and the Union Pacific's 119. It was pressed into service by accident: Another locomotive was planned for the ceremony, but it couldn't make it to Promontory Summit after some bridge supports washed away in Colorado. No. 119 just happened to be the closest nearby train, and became part of history. That's a replica shown above: 119 was scrapped unceremoniously after pulling freight for more than 40 years. Photo: jshyun/FlickrOverland Flyer Arguably the most important part of the transcontinental rail journey -- and the most difficult section of track to lay -- was the connection between Council Bluffs, Iowa, and San Francisco, known as the Overland Route. It included a 12-mile trestle over the Great Salt Lake complete with a mid-lake station (known appropriately enough as Mid Lake Station) and tracks over the Donner Pass covered in wooden snow sheds. In 1890, the Overland Flyer train was renamed the Overland Limited. Union Pacific still runs trains on the Overland Route, but the last passenger Overland Limited train departed in 1963. Photo: Library of CongressUnion Pacific "Big Boy" The largest reciprocating steam locomotive ever pressed into service, the aptly named Big Boys built between 1941 and 1944 had two sets of eight drive wheels, four wheels for stability up front and another four wheels in the rear. They were so long that they had to be articulated in order to make curves. Only 25 were built, but they were legendary: Most remained in service until the late 1950s, when diesel locomotives had become commonplace. Eight have been preserved, a reminder of the final days of the steam engine era. Photo: Sheila in Moonducks/FlickrUnion Pacific 844 Fans of PBS' Shining Time Station will recognize this one: Union Pacific's 844, the last steam engine that the company would ever order. Built in 1944, it's never actually been retired. Instead, it serves as a "goodwill ambassador," running excursions for railway buffs and firing up the boiler to celebrate special occasions -- such as Union Pacific's 150th anniversary. Photo: Wildest Photo/FlickrUnion Pacific M-10000 Today, the snub-nosed "streamliner" is symbolic of the golden age of the railways. But in 1934, the M-10000 was revolutionary: all-aluminum, fully articulated and powered by an internal combustion engine. On a test run, it topped 100 mph and attracted crowds during the 1934 Chicago World's Fair. Though it ushered in a whole generation of streamliners, the M-10000's lightweight aluminum construction meant it wasn't up to the stress of everyday use. It was scrapped in the early 1940s -- supposedly to donate that aluminum exterior to the war effort. Photo: AdvertisementBurlington Pioneer Zephyr Though it came years after the M10000, the Pioneer Zephyr is what most Americans picture when they think of streamlined trains. The permanently linked, articulated train was built by the Budd Company and ran on the Burlington railroad between 1934 and 1960. The lightweight train featured stainless steel construction, and famously debuted with a "dawn to dusk dash" from Denver to Chicago. The trip took just 13 hours and five minutes at an average of 77 mph, and captured the attention of a nation that had been reluctant to travel during the Great Depression. Photo: Roger 4336/FlickrSanta Fe Super Chief The luxurious flagship of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway (just think of the Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer tune), the Super Chief brought stars from Chicago to Hollywood from the mid-1930s through the 1960s. In addition to its streamlined diesel locomotive and flashy paint job, the line was known for its plush all-Pullman sleeping cars and high-quality food from the Fred Harvey Company -- much of it sourced along the way, such as fresh-caught trout. The Super Chief was the only line of the era to offer direct service from Chicago to Los Angeles, a journey that took just under 40 hours. Photo: Advertisement20th Century Limited The 20th Century Limited was America's answer to the Orient Express, an elegant yet understated service between New York City and Chicago that cost as much as a first-class air ticket on the same route today. The 20-hour trip began and ended with attendants quite literally rolling out a red carpet -- the origin of the now-common phrase. The most famous trainset to traverse the route was designed in Art Deco style in 1938 by Henry Dreyfuss, who also penned the Trimline and Princess phones for Bell, not to mention the iconic circular Honeywell thermostat. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt /Pix Inc./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)GM Train of Tomorrow Under the direction of legendary designer Harley Earl, GM's Train of Tomorrow was a postwar effort at resurrecting American rail travel, which had already begun to suffer due to the advent of highways and airplanes. The central feature of the Train of Tomorrow was the Astra Dome roof, which allowed for uninterrupted views from an observation car. Such cars are commonplace on today's Amtrak trains, but it was a novelty back then. After three years of demonstration, Union Pacific ran the Train of Tomorrow on service between Seattle and Portland. Today, the train's last surviving car is at the Utah State Railroad Museum. It is described as being in deteriorating condition. Photo: AdvertisementUAC TurboTrain It's hard to believe it, but at one point North America seemed ready to embrace high-speed rail. Between 1968 and 1976, the United Aircraft Corporation's gas turbine-powered tilting TurboTrains ran between Boston and New York at average speeds of 100 mph -- first on the New Haven Railroad, and later for Amtrak. On Dec. 20, 1967, a TurboTrain set a North American land speed record at 170.8 mph in northern New Jersey. That record still stands. Photo: Amtrak


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By Leigh Crews
World renowned composer and director Leonard Bernstein said, "To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." How true! Fitness is no exception — without a plan, it is all too easy to let your exercise program slip right through the cracks. But if you can squeeze just 30 minutes out of your day, you can fit in a great workout. Here are some tips to turn your plan into a "great thing" for your body:
- Schedule it. Don't wait for extra time to show up in your day—because it won't. Mark off 30 minutes for exercise, just as you would schedule a doctor's appointment, and then make it a priority.
- Don't worry about the "right time" to exercise. It matters little if it's morning, noon or night. Choosing a time that works within your schedule will help you establish a permanent routine and keep other obligations from undermining your plan.
- Recruit a workout buddy. For many people, an exercise partner is the glue that helps you stick to your commitment. Choose someone with compatible fitness level and goals so that you can each progress comfortably together and feel successful.
- Start slowly. If you are not accustomed to exercise, don't try to do too much, too soon. Walking is a great way to begin an exercise program. It's simple—you already know how to do it! It requires no special equipment other than a good pair of walking shoes, and best of all, you can do it anywhere.
- Make working out fun. Consistency is a key ingredient for any successful fitness regime, so seek out activities that you like doing. It doesn't matter what the latest craze is that's "guaranteed" to burn thousands of calories per workout. If you don't enjoy doing it, you will never keep it up. Choose activities that add joy, not dread, to your day.
- Mix it up. You need cardio, strength training and flexibility-based activities for a well-rounded exercise program. Rather than walking the same route every day, mix things up by doing some strength training a couple of days per week. Try this awesome 30 minute strength training program that requires no equipment.
- Break it up when you must. On some busy days, 30 minutes straight is just not happening. On those days, three sessions of 10 minutes of exercise is better than writing it off completely. Do some body squats at your desk, take 10 to run the stairs, or find a quiet place to stretch. You will feel better and be more productive when you get back to your daily tasks.
- When (not if) you have to miss a day, you are not a failure. You cannot fail unless you quit. Redouble your efforts for the next day, and keep your good habit going. Don't let a missed day turn into a missed week and a missed opportunity for success.
Of Bernstein's two essential ingredients, I'm sure you already have the "not quite enough time"! I hope these tips will help you formulate a plan, your perfect fitness plan for the "great things" that you want to achieve. Be well!
Leigh Crews is a Media Spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise® (ACE®) and a Master Trainer for Fitness Anywhere. She has presented fitness education worldwide and starred in a number of fitness DVDs. She is a finalist for the 2010 IDEA Instructor of the Year Award.

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The (now defunct) Mishna Project was a startup band that set Mishnayoth to music in an attempt to make learning Mishnah more accessible.
I have their first album (which I highly recommend, if you can find it), and I'm interested in knowing whether there are any plans to revive the project and have more products produced. Does anyone know? Of course, the project's founders know, so if anyone knows a way for me to contact them, that'd be a good answer.


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Feminism is not the problem here. Its proponents have neither the brains nor the talent to advance this far on their own - high-status elite managerial men have allowed this to happen.
Men run the world. Men always have. Just a small number of alphas though. But that white technocratic political elite realised that in feminism they had found an unbeatable tool for cowing and demoralising lower status males who will always be potential usurpers.
Feminists are no problem to high status bosses. Women are wired to treat them with adoration and give them a pass whatever the transgression - see Bill Clinton (or even George W Bush being invited to slap a female gymnast on the rear "for luck."
If a low status male suggested that he try that he'd be lucky to escape with just being fired.)
Even feminist women are totally loyal to their male bosses, and reserve their wrath for peers and subordinates.
Feminism is part of the new class war whereby the right wing authoritarian elite have found they can use left wing dogmas to shore up their power. That is why elite managerial white alpha men like Tony Blair, David Cameron and Brown are so keen on it - it does not threaten them.
Feminism has finally achieved what Mrs Thatcher could never quite do - destroy workplace solidarity and ensure that collective action is largely a thing of the past. And it did not take billy-club wielding strike-breakers or labor camps. It took a generation of victimhood obsessed, unhinged females, who knew they could get away with saying and doing anything.
It is a theory I've long since subscribed too; if the Wimmin's Movement had been orchestrated and acted upon by women solely - and every man was either neutral or dead against it - those whining lezzers would have been bitch-slapped back into the kitchen so hard they'd smash through the wall and into the dining room with their burning bras round their neck.
Yet they seem to have been rather successful in inflicting their shitty ideology onto Western Society; and it does seem rather suspicious that virtually every man in mainstream-politics licks the unholy arses of feminisms. David Cameron forever being associated in my mind with his leadership acceptance speech when he bemoaned the horrors of the lack of women in his party, thus losing the vote of many men at a single stroke. The ponce.
Then there's the Labour Party in the U.K. As it's name suggests, it was meant to speak for the common man, the worker. The guy who does dirty and dangerous work to try to support himself and his wife and kids. The families who are almost on the breadline. The powerless. Now it's just morphed into something that rubs the faces of common men into shit, enforces feminist ideology, encourages single-motherhood, taxes the workers to support the lazy and feckless, and as side-project manages to tear the shit out of British culture in the name of diversity. What the fuck happened? All they wanted was power, and what better way to wield power than to sideline men by encouraging their removal from families, and make women subservient to the government by hooking them on benefits and governmental support.
Feminists and their powerful male allies seem to have failed to have taken one thing into account; when someone is made redundant, they don't work any more. And us men have been declared redundant.
This is what is happening in British Society and, no doubt, in other Feminist infected nations. In Britain there are millions of young men who don't work, who aren't in full-time education, who do fuck all, who basically don't have any interest or motive in contributing to society. And who can blame them? They've been declared redundant. They're not needed. Or, rather, they are needed, but only as wage-slaves to be taxed and, from time to time, as cannon-fodder to be fed to enemy cannons whilst the elite and their ho's relax. And even many guys (like me) who do work only work the bare minimum, avoid marriage and other traps to transfer what wealth we have to women, and who plot to emigrate. Or just vent our spleens on blogs.
In Britain, a single woman can nip to a sperm clinic, get a sample, get pregnant and then get on welfare, the idea of a father - or a step-father, or any man whatsoever - being part of a family now officially a 'sexist' idea and one to be rejected. In the workplace, women get priority in promotions and then get to all but choose their hours (usually very few) if/when they have kids. And if a guy works, he'll be taxed to buggery to pay for hordes of single mothers, effectively forcing him to pay for other men's offspring.
"Why bother?", sayeth us men in our almighty multitude. "Fuck this," we add.
If there's a war, many men won't fight to save this country. I fucking won't. Why bother? Most of us men don't have any attachment or any investment in what this country has become. Given that you'll never hear a feminist cry for 'equality' when it comes to the draft, why the fuck would any man be willing to get his head blown off to protect some whining, ungrateful, abortion-happy women and the powerful men, all safe at home? Fuck that. We might as well join the invaders and wreck some stuff for laughs.
The gravy train of feminism won't last long. What women call 'independence' requires a hell of a lot of funding; the single-mothers on benefits, the working mothers who barely work at all and consume taxes with their 'free' daycare, the Women's Shelters, the NHS-funded abortions for slags who can't keep their legs shut, the Ministry of Bloody Women, the endless non-jobs in the female-dominated civil-service...it all needs paying for through taxes. Taxes predominantly paid for by men, who increasingly shrink from the work-force thinking; 'Why bother?'
Similarly, it is men who do the real-work; refining oil, building buildings, logging trees, laying roads. And fighting wars of course. Rendered redundant, devoid of any incentive or investment in life, many men will stop doing this, and the powerful men and their harem of 'independent' wimmin will be left terrified in a society with no proper work-force and dwindling tax-reserves.
And a hell of a lot of seriously annoyed men with nothing to lose.
Maybe that's a bit of a nihilistic vision. But I can't see things getting any better, and the one thing that can keep us guys who, individually, have very relatively little or no power in society is that, collectively, we keep it going. So we can make it grind to a halt with very little effort at all.


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Mother's Day is the perfect chance for me to tell my incredible mom how special she is. She deserves to be thanked for all the thoughtful things she does every time I talk to her but life being life, it doesn't always happen. This past year was particularly rough for my family as my dad was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and his health was touch and go for several months. Through it all, there was Mom – holding down the fort, playing Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, staying positive and strong when it all looked pretty grim. My father readily admits if it weren't for my mother scheduling his doctors, handing him his pills at the right times, and basically standing over him telling him what he could and could not do, he wouldn't still be alive. Thank goodness for her.
Judging from my Facebook page this past Sunday, many of you feel the same way about your mom as I do mine. If so, make her (or another special someone) this cake. I promise you, it will not disappoint. It's not a difficult recipe and oh so pretty and delectable when it's done.
As I've mentioned before, rhubarb is one of my favorite dessert ingredients and a true harbinger of spring. Last week I saw it at the market for the first time this year and knew my mom would like anything I made with it. I was right! She loved this upside down cake. The sour cream batter produced a soft and delicate crumb, the rhubarb was sweetened just enough to take the edge off its inherent tang, and the crumb topping (which actually ends up on the bottom) gave each bite a pleasant crunch. This cake, like my mom, is an absolute keeper!
Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake
Adapted from Martha Stewart
Whoever designed this KitchenAid beater is a genius! The spatula-like edge eliminates the need to scrape down the sides of the electric mixer bowl. I'm not a fan of too many kitchen gadgets but this one is worth every penny.
Crumb topping
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
½ cup all-purpose flour
¼ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1 ½ sticks unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for buttering pan
1 pound rhubarb, trimmed and cut on a very sharp diagonal about ½ inch thick
1 ¾ cups sugar
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
Coarse salt
½ teaspoon finely grated orange zest
1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
2 large eggs
1 cup sour cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit with rack in center of oven. Make the topping: Stir together butter, flour, sugar, and salt until moist and crumbly.
Make the cake: Butter a 9-inch round, 2-inch deep cake pan. Dot with 4 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces.
Toss rhubarb with ¾ cup sugar; let stand for 2 minutes. Toss again, and spread in pan.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and 1 ½ teaspoons salt. Beat remaining stick butter and cup sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy. Beat in zest and juice.
Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until incorporated, scraping down sides of bowl. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with sour cream, until smooth. Spread evenly over rhubarb.
Crumble topping evenly over batter.
Crumble topping evenly over batter.
Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and top springs back when touched, about 1 hour.
Let cool for 10 minutes (less time and the rhubarb will be too hot to handle; more time and the cake might stick to pan). Run a knife around edge of cake and invert onto a wire rack. Let cool completely.
Serves 10


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Single-Table Multi-Tenancy
This feature is new in EclipseLink 2.3.
The SINGLE_TABLE multi-tenant type specifies that any table to which an entity or mapped superclass maps can include rows for multiple tenants. Access to tenant-specific rows is restricted to the tenant.
Tenant-specific rows are associated with the tenant by using tenant discriminator columns. The discriminator columns are used with application context values to limit what a persistence context can access.
The results of queries on the mapped tables are limited to the tenant discriminator value(s) provided as property values. This applies to all insert, update, and delete operations on the table. When multi-tenant metadata is applied at the mapped superclass level, it is applied to all subentities unless they specify their own multi-tenant metadata. REVIEWERS: I didn't include any of the info re: homogeneity from the design doc, because I took it to be implementation details that will be pertinent when TABLE_PER_TENANT is available. Therefore, I left it out. Please advise if I should add any back in.
Note: In the context of single-table multi-tenancy, "single-table" means multiple tenants can share a single table, and each tenant's data is distinguished from other tenants' data via the discriminator column(s). This is opposed to a different kind of multi-tenancy, where tenants may share a schema but do not share the same tables. It is possible to use multiple tables with single-table multi-tenancy; but in that case, an entity's persisted data is stored in multiple tables, and multiple tenants can share all the tables.
REVIEWERS: I added the above note to head off possible confusion about the using MULTIPLE tables in SINGLE-table multi-tenancy. Did I get it right?
|Specifies the multi-tenant strategy to use (SINGLE_TABLE).
|The SQL fragment that is used when generating the DDL for the discriminator column.
|The provider-generated SQL to create a column of the specified discriminator type.
|The name of the context property to apply to the tenant discriminator column.
|The type of object/column to use as a class discriminator.
|The column length for String-based discriminator types.
|The column length for String-based discriminator types. Ignored for other discriminator types.
|The name of column to be used for the tenant discriminator.
|Specifies that the tenant discriminator column is part of the primary key of the tables.
|Specifies that the tenant discriminator column is part of the primary key of the tables.
|The name of the table that contains the column.
|The name of the table that contains the column. If absent the column is assumed to be in the primary table. This attribute must be specified if the column is on a secondary table.
Configuring Single-Table Multi-Tenancy
To configure single-table multi-tenancy, you must specify both of the following:
- Annotate the entity or mapped superclass to use single-table multi-tenancy, using the @Multitenant annotation, for example:
@Entity @Table(name="EMP") @Multitenant(SINGLE_TABLE)
SINGLE_TABLE states that the table or tables (Table and SecondaryTable) associated with the given entity can be shared among tenants. @Table is not required; however, if you use a secondary table, @SecondaryTable is required. <-- REVIWERS: Is this true? The design doc says "The tenant discriminator column(s) are assumed to exist on the primary table. If using secondary tables the tenant discriminator column metadata must specify the table if it is not on the primary" but the examples in the design doc all use @Table, including the "minimal configuration."
- Specify the column or columns to be used as the discriminator column, using the @TenantDiscriminatorColumn annotation, for example:
@Entity @Table(name="EMP") @Multitenant(SINGLE_TABLE) @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT_ID")
You can specify multiple discriminator columns by using the @TableDiscriminatorColumns annotation, for example:
@Entity @Table(name = "EMPLOYEE") @Multitenant(SINGLE_TABLE) @TenantDiscriminatorColumns({ @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT_ID") @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT_CODE")})
Using Discriminator Columns
The following characteristics apply to discriminator columns:
- Tenant discriminator columns are completely application definable. REVIEWERS: I'm not sure what this sentence from the design doc is after. Can I rewrite as "Discriminator columns must be defined by the application."?
- There is no limit on how many tenant discriminator columns an application can define.
- Any name can be used for a discriminator column.
- Tenant discriminator column(s) must always be used with @Multitenant(SINGLE_TABLE). You cannot specify the tenant discriminator column(s) only.
- Generated schemas can include specified tenant discriminator columns.
- Tenant discriminator columns can be mapped or unmapped:
- When a tenant discriminator column is mapped, its associated mapping attribute must be marked as read only. With this restriction in place, a tenant discriminator column cannot be part of the entity identifier; it can only be part of the primary key specification on the database.
- On persist, the value of a mapped tenant discriminator column mapping is populated from its associated context property.
- Both mapped and unmapped properties are used to form the additional criteria when issuing a SELECT query.
- When a tenant discriminator column is not mapped, the row is populated with the tenant discriminator column's associated context property value.
REVIEWERS: I have a question about the following item from the design doc: "Unmapped tenant discriminator columns will require EclipseLink to populate the row with the tenant discriminator column's associated context property value. See Core section below."
I am confused by this. There is also the item:
"On persist, the value of a mapped tenant discriminator column mapping is populated from its associated context property. " It sounds like these two might be saying the same thing for mapped and unmapped. What am I missing?
Using Single-Table Multi-Tenancy in an Inheritence Hierarchy
Inheritance strategies are configured by specifying the inheritance type (see @inheritence in javax.persistence). Single-table multi-tenancy can be used in an inheritance hierarchy, as follows:
- Multi-tenant metadata can only be applied at the root level of the inheritance hierarchy when using a SINGLE_TABLE or JOINED inheritance strategy.
- It is possible to specify multi-tenant metadata within a TABLE_PER_CLASS inheritance hierarchy.
REVIEWERS: The above sentence is taken directly from the design doc. What is to be said about TABLE_PER_CLASS (that is different from the other strategies)? Is it that the metadata can be applied somewhere down the hierarchy?
Annotation Examples
The following example defines a single discriminator tenant column:
@Entity @Table(name = "CUSTOMER") @Multitenant @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT", contextProperty = "multi-tenant.id") public Customer() { ... }
The following example defines multiple tenant discriminator columns using multiple tables:
@Entity @Table(name = "EMPLOYEE") @SecondaryTable(name = "RESPONSIBILITIES") @Multitenant(SINGLE_TABLE) @TenantDiscriminatorColumns({ @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT_ID", contextProperty = "employee-tenant.id", length = 20) @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT_CODE", contextProperty = "employee-tenant.code", discriminatorType = STRING, table = "RESPONSIBILITIES") } ) public Employee() { ... }
The following example defines a tenant discriminator column mapped as part of the primary key on the database:
@Entity @Table(name = "ADDRESS") @Multitenant @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT", contextProperty = "tenant.id", primaryKey = true) public Address() { ... }
The following example defines a mapped tenant discriminator column:
@Entity @Table(name = "Player") @Multitenant @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "AGE", contextProperty = "tenant.age") public Player() { ... @Basic @Column(name="AGE", insertable="false", updatable="false") public int age; }
Specifying Metadata Using XML
You can also use XML to configure single-table multi-tenancy, as an alternative to or in addition to using annotations. Use the following elements in the eclipselink-orm.xml file:
- <multitenant>
- <multitenant-type>
- <tenant-discriminator-column>
REVIEWERS: The design doc makes it look like you don't have to specify <multitenant-type> when using XML. Is that correct? In fact, is "multitenant-type" even correct? I see it in the schema, but the example that specifies a secondary table in the design doc uses <multitenant type="SINGLE_TABLE"> instead.
For the EclipseLink schemas, see http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/XSDs.
XML Examples
The following example defines a single tenant discriminator column:
<entity class="model.Customer"> <multitenant> <tenant-discriminator-column name="TENANT" context-property="multi-tenant.id"/> </multitenant>
 ... </entity>
The following example defines multiple tenant discriminator columns using multiple tables:
<entity class="model.Employee"> <multitenant type="SINGLE_TABLE"> <tenant-discriminator-column name="TENANT_ID" context-property="employee-tenant.id" length="20"/> <tenant-discriminator-column name="TENANT_CODE" context-property="employee-tenant.id" discriminator-type="STRING" table="RESPONSIBILITIES"/> </multitenant>
 <secondary-table name="RESPONSIBILITIES"/> ... </entity>
The following example defines a tenant discriminator column mapped as part of the primary key on the database:
<entity class="model.Address"> <multitenant> <tenant-discriminator-column name="TENANT" context-property="multi-tenant.id" primary-key="true"/> </multitenant>
 ... </entity>
The following example defines a mapped tenant discriminator column:
<entity class="model.Player"> <multitenant> <tenant-discriminator-column name="AGE" context-property="tenant.age"/> </multitenant>
 ... <attributes> <basic name="age" insertable="false" updatable="false"> <column name="AGE"/> </basic> ... </attributes> ... </entity>
Setting Properties and Caching Scope
At runtime, context properties can be specified in a persistence unit definition or passed to a CreateEntityManagerFactory() call, as shown in the following examples.
The order of precedence for tenant discriminator column properties is as follows, listed from highest priority to lowest: '<-- REVIEWERS: is that right? Highest to lowest?
- EntityManager
- EntityManagerFactory
- Application context (when in a Java EE container)
The following example shows a property set in a persistence unit definition in the persistence.xml file:
<persistence-unit name="multi-tenant"> ... <properties> <property name="tenant.id" value="707"/> ... </properties> </persistence-unit>
The following example shows the property set in code:
HashMap properties = new HashMap(); properties.put("tenant.id", "707"); ... EntityManager em = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("multi-tenant", properties).createEntityManager();
Configuring the Entity Manager Factory
At the level of the entity manager factory, you must provide a unique session name through the eclipselink.session-name property, to ensure that a unique server session (and cache) is provided for each tenant. This allows for user-defined properties (without any prefixing). For example:
HashMap properties = new HashMap(); properties.put("tenant.id", "707"); properties.put("eclipselink.session-name", "multi-tenant-707"); ... EntityManager em = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("multi-tenant", properties).createEntityManager();
When using a shared entity manager factory, you must set the eclipselink.multitenant.tenants-share-cache property to indicate the factory will be shared:
When this property is set, all multitenant entities have a PROTECTED cache setting. At the level of the entity manager, you are responsible for setting caching strategies, because the same server session can be used for each tenant. For example, you can use an isolation level to ensure no shared tenant information exists in the second-level (L2) cache. These settings are set when creating the entity manager factory. For example:
HashMap tenantProperties = new HashMap(); properties.put("tenant.id", "707"); HashMap cacheProperties = new HashMap(); properties.put("eclipselink.cache.shared.Employee", "false"); properties.put("eclipselink.cache.size.Address", "10"); properties.put("eclipselink.cache.type.Contract", "NONE"); ... EntityManager em = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("multi-tenant",cacheProperties).createEntityManager(tenantProperties); ...
Swapping tenant ID during an active EntityManager is not allowed.
Defining Persistence Unit and Entity Mappings Defaults
You can define single-table multi-tenancy for specific entities and mapped superclasses, as described above. In addition, you can define the metadata at higher levels in the eclipselink-orm.xml file, to provide defaults. Standard JPA metadata defaulting and overriding rules apply. The elements used for specifying these defaults are:
- <persistence-unit-defaults>
- <entity-mappings>
Persistence Unit Defaults
You can specify default tenant discriminator column metadata using the <persistence-unit-defaults> element and its <tenant-discriminator-column> subelement. When defined at this level, it applies to all entities of the persistence unit that specify the SINGLE_TABLE multi-tenant type, excluding those that specify their own tenant discriminator metadata. For example:
REVIEWERS: I came up with this example myself. Is it correct? If not, please advise.
<persistence-unit-metadata> <persistence-unit-defaults> ... <multitenant> <tenant-discriminator-column name="TENANT" context-property="multi-tenant.id"/> </multitenant> </persistence-unit-defaults> </persistence-unit-metadata>
Note: With no defaults, an entity not marked with multi-tenant metadata will not use any multi-tenancy strategy.
Entity Mappings Defaults
You can also specify tenant discriminator column metadata using <entity-mappings> element. This overrides persistence unit defaults (described above) and applies to all entities of the given mapping file that specify the SINGLE_TABLE multi-tenant type, excluding those entities that specify their own tenant discriminator metadata. For example,
'REVIEWERS: I came up with this example myself. Is it correct? If not, please advise. '
<entity-mappings> ... <tenant-discriminator-column name="TENANT" context-property="multi-tenant.id"/> </entity-mappings>
Defaults always apply even when there are multiple tenant discriminators. This allows you to map several columns for the same property. For example, the code below defaults the property name to eclipselink.tenant-id and states it should be writing the TENANT column for both the EMPLOYEE and SALARY table.
@Entity @Table(name = "EMPLOYEE") @SecondaryTable(name = "SALARY") @MultiTenant(SINGLE_TABLE) @TenantDiscriminatorColumns({ @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT") @TenantDiscriminatorColumn(name = "TENANT", table = "SALARY") } ) public Employee() { ... }
Public Default Context Property
The public default context property (eclipselink.tenant-id) definition is available from:
- org.eclipse.persistence.config.EntityManagerProperties.MULTITENANT_PROPERTY_DEFAULT
- org.eclipse.persistence.config.PersistenceUnitProperties.MULTITENANT_PROPERTY_DEFAULT
For example:
EntityManager em = createEntityManager(MULTI_TENANT_PU); em.setProperty("tenant.id", "707"); em.setProperty(EntityManagerProperties.MULTITENANT_PROPERTY_DEFAULT, "707");
Support for Tenant Discriminator Columns through Entity Manager Operations and Querying The tenant discriminator column and value are supported through the following entity manager operations:
- persist()
- find()
- refresh()
They are also supported through the following queries:
- Named queries
- Update all
- Delete all
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Note: EclipseLink does not support multi-tenancy through named native queries. If you want to use named native queries in a multi-tenant environment, you must handle any multi-tenancy issues directly in the query. In general, it is best to avoid named native queries in a multi-tenant environment.


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A Newer, More Informative Google Maps
Google Maps has been overhauled in a way that focuses more intuitively on discovering categories of what you want to do, such as Eat, Drink, Shop and Play. WSJ's Katherine Boehret says it's a richer and more engaging model than its predecessor.
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Get ready to let the cat out of the bag with a 550 HP Jaguar super car that's rarer than a working Lucas ignition system. Here kitty, kitty, kitty.
You can count the number of mid-engine Jaguar models on one hand. And that's even if you're missing a finger or two. The XJ13 of 1965-66, the XJR-9/15 of the late '80s, and today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate- the XJ220.
In the mid 1980s, Jaguar's chief engineer, Jim Randle, saw competitors' halo cars emerging on the market, and felt Jaguar should follow suit. The vision was for a Lightweight two-seat coupe with unmistakable Jaguar genes in its appearance, and an unrivaled top speed.
The resultant XJ220 debuted at the 1988 British Motor Show to universal acclaim, and it was announced that the now-fat cat would go into limited production. Eager buyers put down deposits based on the show car, which had a 6.2 litre DOHC V12, upward rising doors, and Ferguson all-wheel drive.
Due to development cost constraints, the production XJ220 ended up with the TWR-engineered twin turbo V6 from the Rover Metro 6R4 rally car, and sans the scissor doors or all-wheel drive. Those who had made deposits on the car were compensated for the loss of 6 cylinders, 2 driving wheels and Lambo doors with a significantly higher price tag- $650,000 or about 10% more than initially quoted.
Despite this bumpy launch, TWR managed to squeeze out over 280 of the cars (Pininfarina designed one later on for the Sultan of Brunei) for Jaguar. The amazing bodywork is also remarkably efficient, allowing for a top speed of 215 mph, and providing articulating front and rear air control surfaces to help keep the shiny side up. In 1993, the competition version- the XJ220C- won the then newly created GT class at LeMans, and the street version held the production car top speed crown until the McLaren F1 knocked it off the pedestal in 1994.
This particular example is claimed to have been DOT/EPA certified in California, which is no small feat. It has 2,891 miles on the clock, and has a presence that is undeniable. But unlike, say, a Ferrari, there's a lack of universal iconic identification that tells the plebeians, as you pass them by, that this is a dramatically unique and valuable ride. And therein lies the rub, as Shakespeare most eloquently posited.
So are you a feline fancier who thinks $219,000 for an XJ220 is the cat's pajamas? Or does asking that much for a Jag make you want to cough up a hair ball?
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North American Stamping Group is adding new coil-processing lines from Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, MI, at three stamping facilities. A total of 10 lines will be installed at NASG plants in Portland, TN, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, and Queretaro, Mexico. Three lines include zig-zag feed capability; seven are conventional lines for progressive-die operations.
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Everett Golson says cheating got him expelled
Everett Golson was expelled from Notre Dame in May for cheating on a test, the quarterback told Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples.
The complete story is in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated and a video of Staples' interview with Golson is available here.
MORE: SI power rankings | Bowl projections | Best of BCS era
In the interview, Staples asks Golson if he cheated on a test and Golson responds, "Yeah, something like that."
Golson said it was not plagiarism or something involving a paper, but that it was a "test situation" and he left it at that.
"Basically I had poor judgment on the test. It wasn't due to poor grades or anything like that," said Golson, who has been working with quarterback coach George Whitfield Jr. the past couple months in San Diego.
Golson plans to return to Notre Dame in January, assuming he's accepted.
Last year, Golson helped the Irish reach the BCS title game where it lost to Alabama, 42-14. Golson completed 58.8 percent of his throws for 2,405 yards, 12 TDs and six interceptions in 11 starts. He also ran for 298 yards and six scores.
"It's very humbling," Golson said of playing for the BCS title in January and being out of school in May.


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Cameron University will showcase the work of senior art major Hailey Harris with a special exhibition in the Sciences Complex. Harris will present a gallery talk at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 13. The exhibition will feature a variety of original relief prints and paintings and will be on display through mid-April.
"This exhibition is a great opportunity for Hailey to show her works outside the Department of Art," says Liontas-Warren. "Her vision is unique, personal, meticulous, and inspirational. Cameron faculty, students and staff will find this exhibition to be outstanding in subject matter. We are very grateful to Dean Terry Conley in hosting this beautiful exhibition and look forward to future exhibitions in the Sciences Complex."
The exhibition will focus on Harris' fascination with insects. In her artist's statement, she writes, "As I learned more about insects, I wanted to show the beauty that I see in them. People seem to have a natural disdain toward insects and tend to view insects as dirty disgusting creatures. The intention of my work is to depict insects in a more attractive light, while exploring the importance of insect interaction as well as the devastations that are occurring in our world."
Harris, of Chattanooga, will graduate in May with a bachelor of fine arts in art. She plans to pursue a graduate degree in printmaking.
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I'm a big fan of Men's Health magazine – as a woman I do get some funny looks reading it in public, but the exercises and diet tips generally focus on building muscle and fitness, as well as improving performance, albeit with a testosterone focus. So, when I spotted an issue of Women's Health, I thought I'd give it a go – expecting more of the same, but with articles targeted to my lady-hormones (in their defence, they did eventually get around to telling me when I should start worrying about my thyroid and how to reduce my risk of osteoporosis, so props to them for that).
So imagine my disappointment when I flip open to this:
FFS. Women's Health is supposed to be a health and fitness mag. At least try and sell me a bag that I can fit my trainers in, rather than telling me I need a bag that will keep love rivals away from my man. So much for encouraging healthy relationships with other humans (not that many women's mags do that.) Frankly, if your relationship really needs a handbag to survive, then you need advice on where to get help, or how to get out – not a link to rentahandbag.com. I swear to God, this featurette had me doing a Lady Bracknell for a good ten minutes. A HANDBAG?
But that's not all. Other comedy highlights include "primal fitness" – one of only two exercise regimens in the whole mag, I should add. Primal fitness consists of a 30 minute work-out they recommend you do at the park which includes "the cat walk" (crawling), "the rabbit walk" (bunny hops) and "the toddler climb" (in case you needed infantilising a bit more). The illustrations indicate that these should be done in a leopard fur bikini, but my local park isn't really that kind of place and I bet yours isn't either.
"Is your salad habit derailing your diet?" I'm then asked. SPOILER ALERT: it turns out that Tesco's chicken and bacon pasta salad is not low fat. Who knew?
Then we have "Get Tess Daly's Hot Yoga Body: the only 4 moves you need". Tess Daly does yoga twice a week. Now, I'm sure she's a lovely lady, but when you consider how Men's Health tend to interview athletes, twice weekly yoga isn't really going to cut it. I didn't finish the article feeling inspired to take up her gruelling training regimen, let's put it that way. Moreover, the focus on getting a 'hot' body rather than a strong, healthy one will be familiar to women's magazine readers the world over.
In classic, 'food diary' style, Women's Health also interview a celebrity trainer about her diet and exercise regimen (the highlight of this diary is 11am on Saturday, when she consumes '2 litres of water' – YUM). Their comments in response to this are ridiculous – they recommend she tries coconut butter to aid fat loss (why does she need to lose fat exactly?) and suggest she has juice instead of breakfast cereal (!) Although they do quite sensibly recommend she try eating lunch (to stop perilous snacking, obv).
Then we have 'YOUR FLAT BELLY DIET DAY'. Apparently, if you hardly eat anything all day it will make you look slim (I haven't road-tested this, because not eating makes me grumpy). I have to say it doesn't appeal to me, especially not when you contrast it with Men's Health diet tips: "Split your regular workout into two sessions, boost your metabolism, eat some pizza". Seems fair.
But of all their tips, my personal favourite is this: "Every hour you sit reduces your life expectancy by 22 minutes". I guess I must be dead, then. Apparently half an hour of sitting down has the same effect on your lifespan as smoking a cigarette (If you stand up for a half hour fag break does it cancel out? I need to know).
To lighten the mood after that bombshell, the next page begins a feature on which shades of pink to wear in which decades of your life ('ON TUESDAYS WE WEAR PINK'). They don't really go into how this will boost your health or fitness, but seeing as I have a neon pink swimsuit at the back of my wardrobe, I will dig it out and see if it shaves a few minutes off my mile.
Then we have "SHAPE SHIFTING WORKWEAR", which sounds supernatural, but isn't. It's four pages encouraging you to label your body shape after some kind of fruit, before telling you what to wear to work, presumably to make it look like a different (in some way more appealing??) kind of fruit.
Once you've been transformed from quince to cucumber, you may or may not have worked out your 'PERFECT WEIGHT FORMULA' – also known as "the holy grail of dieting' which 'makes you better in bed, more confident in meetings and turn shopping for jeans into a pleasure." NEWSFLASH, Women's Health: Shopping for jeans is never a pleasure, no matter what size you are.
Finding your weight formula involves calculating your number and then only being allowed to love yourself if it matches what you see on the scales. You can also "win an extreme body makeover" (don't write in folks, this mag's been kicking round my doctors' waiting room for a couple of months). The prize includes medical weight loss aids which helped their 'before and after' model drop from a body fat percentage of 24.6 (perfectly healthy) to 16.2 %
I have nothing against dieting and weight loss – whatever you're into. But there are already so many magazines talking endlessly about these things. Conflating weight loss with health is a dangerous business, especially when the model that is being featured was healthy in the first place. Women's Health is too much diet and not enough exercise, and it really is a shame. I can't be the only woman who wants to bulk up rather than lose weight? Reading this magazine made me realise that it just isn't made for the likes of me, and the latest edition just confirms that:
'Drop one size', 'wobble less', '87 calorie breakfast', 'work your ass off', Shakira? I'll give it a miss and stick to the metabolism-boosting pizza, thanks, and if you're interested in being fit and strong rather than 'hot' and 'skinny', then I'd suggest you do the same.


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Verona couple continues holiday village tradition
VERONA -- Every year for 18 years, Parill and Millie Klein's living room is transformed into a Christmas village.
It started with a single house given to her by her daughter, Lana, and the collection grew from there.
Over the years, Millie and husband Parill say they have added pieces to the village purchased at Walmart, Lowes or found at garage sales.
There are now so many buildings the family can't even count them all, but the estimates are well into the hundreds.
With each piece they obtain, they try to keep them in scale with existing pieces, so that nothing sticks out and looks unbelievable, Millie said.
The village includes houses and stores, ski slopes and forests, and some years there is even a train that runs through the complete village. There is an ice skating rink with people moving about on the ice, a bakery, a ski slope and Santa Claus and his reindeer. Many buildings light up and some have visible scenery inside, in addition to landscape figures such as trees, light posts and villagers.
The Christmas village has become a happy, if not humorous, family tradition.
"It takes up half of my living room," says Millie. "Sometimes I can't even turn the television on because houses are in the way."
Every year the Kleins dig the plastic totes out of storage and start unboxing and unwrapping the houses. Electricity is run and cords are hid.
It takes more than a week to set everything up, they say, and this year there were even more houses in the dining room that could not fit in the living room.
The village rests on pillowy white batting to represent snow and the Kleins have even built shelving to fit underneath the batting to create high and low points in the landscape.
"It is a challenge," said Parill. "People don't expect it. They just say 'wow.'"
"We're very proud of this," said Millie. "We love it, but we can't leave it up year round."
The couple also have an Easter-themed village that is substantial in size, but not quite as big.


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The words that Kristin "Krazii" Beriau used to describe herself on her soon-to-be-privatized Facebook page are as follows: "i dont give a FUCK wat anyone thinks of me cuz i no im fabolous, i love to party and chill, im friendly and sometimes a bitch, sexy, KRAZII, and above all, i am a dime....sometimes cats be hatin but fuck it...let the haters hate!!!"
The words KKB used when she got taken down to the Stamford, Ct. clink after she allegedly "punched a taxi driver in the face because he refused to drive the woman and her six friends home Tuesday morning" are cute, too.
At the station, Beriau said, "Yeah I'm drunk. I'm an American with disabilities. Don't you respect me?"
She also said "It's always the illegals that get away with the (expletive)" the report said.
Yo, dat dime.
Police: Woman assaults taxi driver [News Times] (H/T Jonathan)


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How did Everton do in the window?
Ins and outs
Players in: Gareth Barry (Manchester City, 1 million pounds), Romelu Lukaku (28 million pounds), Muhamed Besic (Ferencvaros, undisclosed), Brendan Galloway (MK Dons, undisclosed), Christian Atsu (Chelsea, loan), Samuel Eto'o (Chelsea, free), David Henen (Olympiakos, loan)
Players out: Apostolos Vellios, Mason Springthorpe (both released), Shane Duffy (Blackburn, undisclosed)
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Sum up the window
Excitement briefly hit uncharted heights earlier this month, when Ross Barkley signed a new contract and Besic and Lukaku arrived within days of each other, but business has ticked over at a steady pace otherwise.
Using this window to add to a squad that so nearly gate-crashed the Champions League party, central midfield and attack has received the necessary strengthening.
The arrival of Besic -- a disastrous competitive debut aside -- and Barry ensures the Blues are strong in the middle of the park. Ahead of them, the record signing of Lukaku and the recent acquisition of Eto'o maintain Roberto Martinez's preference for having three centre-forwards at his disposal.
Youngsters Sam Byrne and Brendan Galloway will link up with the under-21 side, while the loan signing of Atsu covers for Deulofeu returning to Spain.
Elsewhere, those on the fringes deemed surplus to requirement found their path to the exit door.
Aside from the incomings, though, the doubts accompanying each transfer window linger on, and this latest incarnation was no different.
No matter how good it gets, there is often a sense that an opportunity went begging somewhere along the way, but more on that later.
Overall, Everton's transfer window gets an 8 out of 10.
Best piece of business?
Naturally, the record fee parted with for Lukaku is the dominant story. However, with the fee more reflective of his potential than his current standing, the best business may lie elsewhere.
The permanent addition of Barry is an astute move, but with supporters already well versed in his qualities after last season, the deal for Eto'o looks the shrewdest of the five main transfers this summer, especially if his lively, goal-scoring debut against his former club is a sign of things to come.
As expected, there was an air of excellence about his work. From the flick that almost created an exquisite goal for Kevin Mirallas to the through ball narrowly evading Lukaku to the deft header landing in the corner of the net, Eto'o was a joy to watch in his home debut.
Offering a wealth of experience, quality and finishing ability, the wily Cameroonian is a different, welcome alternative to Lukaku and Arouna Kone.
Averaging a goal every other game throughout his long and illustrious career, the hope is the 33-year-old can replicate this scoring rate at Everton.
Worst piece of business?
With each of the new (major) signings essential, and having shown their ability, either since joining or beforehand, the worst piece of business looks to be the decision to hand Tony Hibbert a new two-year deal.
Now, before his staunch supporters start up a lynch mob, let me clarify: This is not necessarily a slight on the player, rather the questioning of a seemingly baffling Martinez decision.
With Seamus Coleman only deemed fit enough for the bench on the opening day at Leicester, young centre-back John Stones found himself preferred to Hibbert, despite having never looked comfortable when previously employed as a full-back.
If Martinez is not going to use an experienced player in his rightful position, then there really is no logical explanation for the new contract afforded to Hibbert.
If his experience and defensive qualities are useful assets to have, which is something Martinez has referenced in the past, a coaching position is surely the option best suiting the parties involved.
Aside from Hibbert, the final deal of the window raised many eyebrows. Having trained with Everton for a month, only to sign for Olympiakos then be loaned to the Blues on the same day, the complicated Henen transfer was a head-scratcher, especially for a player touted as an under-21 player throughout the summer.
What remaining issues are there?
The squad is the strongest in recent memory. Glancing through it, there are, with one or two possible exceptions, two first-team players for every position. There is also a collection of youngsters on the periphery, hoping to break through and replicate the progress made last term by the likes of Barkley and Stones.
Still, in spite of the quality added this window, the nagging issue over the depth of the squad remains. As mentioned earlier, the lack of genuine (trusted) cover at right-back is a worry, while few would have frowned upon the loan arrival of a creative midfielder to temper the absence, albeit temporary, of Barkley and Steven Pienaar.
With a long season ahead, perhaps the biggest concern is central defence. Discounting Stones, the remaining three are on the wrong side of 30, and one of those, Antolin Alcaraz, appears to have limbs made of tissue paper. The addition of further defensive numbers may have eased fears surrounding a defence currently leaking goals.
Following on from that, it is a touch disquieting to note that, not counting goalkeepers, Alcaraz is the only defensive first-team addition in three transfer windows. It is important that this department does not go neglected for too long.
Who can help in January?
On the edge of the first team at the Etihad, and with Everton suspect in central defence thus far, a January move for Manchester City's Matija Nastasic, a player linked in this window, would bring a smile to the face of supporters. Young, composed and left-footed, Nastasic, on paper at least, would seem the ideal long-term replacement for an aging Sylvain Distin. The former Portsmouth defender turns 37 in December and cannot have many years left.
Another on the radar is Tom Cleverley. Despite his season-long loan switch to Aston Villa at the 11th hour, Everton might yet revive their interest, with the player out of contract at the end of the season. Or, with talk of a January break clause, the Blues may return to their pursuit in the next window. Working under Martinez at Wigan, Cleverley is seen as a potentially useful addition, one capable of filling various midfield positions.
Until the next window, though, with a packed September fixture list and beyond, the Blues may have to cross their fingers and pray injuries and suspensions are kind to a talented squad looking just a tad short.
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Council to talk ice arena beer sales Tuesday
The South Lake Tahoe City Council will consider modifying its agreement with Tahoe Sports Entertainment for operation of the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena Tuesday to allow the company to sell beer at the skating rink.
Last month, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control determined the ice arena is not entitled to a beer seller's permit because of a California law that prohibits the state or "an agency thereof" from being licensed to sell alcoholic beverages, according to a city staff report.
Because the city is getting a share of TSE's revenue from the ice arena, including the proposed beer sales, neither the city or TSE is not allowed to hold a beer-selling permit, according to the report.
City Attorney Patrick Enright has recommended the council remove alcohol sales from the contract detailing the revenue it receives from the ice arena in order to allow TSE to receive a permit for beer sales.
ABC heard the matter following a protest from South Lake Tahoe resident Eric Thelin. Thelin has objected to the sale of beer at the arena because of children's use of the facility. He also has doubts about how well the city will enforce alcohol laws at the ice arena if it is benefiting from beer sales.
The City Council meets starting at 8 a.m. at Lake Tahoe Airport. City Clerk Susan Alessi will swear-in newly appointed council member Brooke Laine prior to the council entering closed session.
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ST. MARYS, Ohio (AP) -- High temperatures have combined with toxic blue-green algae to scores of fish in Ohio's largest inland lake.
Area residents and Ohio parks officials reported finding several hundred dead fish floating in the shoreline channels of Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio last weekend.
Fish kills are an annual summertime occurrence at the shallow, 13,000-acre lake when decomposing algae rob the water of oxygen and suffocate them. It grows thick from feeding on phosphorus from manure and fertilizers that rain washes from nearby farm fields.
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Full-Text Search Architecture
Full-text search is powered by the Full-Text Engine. The Full-Text Engine has two roles: indexing support and querying support.
Beginning in SQL Server 2008, full-text search architecture consists of the following processes:
The SQL Server process (sqlservr.exe)
The MSFTESQL service does not exist in SQL Server 2008 and later versions. Full-text tasks that were performed by the MSFTESQL service in SQL Server 2005 and earlier versions are now performed by the SQL Server process.
The filter daemon host process (fdhost.exe)
For security reasons, beginning in SQL Server 2008, filters are loaded by separate processes called the filter daemon hosts. A server instance uses a multithreaded process for all multithreaded filters and a single-threaded process for all single-threaded filters.
fdhost.exe replaces the Full-Text Engine filter daemon (msftefd.exe) of SQL Server 2005 and earlier versions.
The fdhost.exe processes are created by an FDHOST launcher service (MSSQLFDLauncher), and they run under the security credentials of the FDHOST launcher service account. Therefore, this service must be running for full-text indexing and full-text querying to work. For information about setting the service account for this service, see How to: Set the FDHOST Launcher (MSSQLFDLauncher) Service Account for Full-Text Search (SQL Server Configuration Manager).
These processes contain the components of the full-text search architecture. These components and their relationships are summarized in the following illustration. The components are described after the illustration.
SQL Server Process
Full-text search uses the following components of the SQL Server process:
User tables
These tables contain the data to be full-text indexed.
Full-text gatherer
The full-text gatherer works with the full-text crawl threads. It is responsible for scheduling and driving the population of full-text indexes, and also for monitoring full-text catalogs.
Beginning in SQL Server 2008, a full-text catalog is a virtual object and does not belong to any filegroup. A full-text catalog is a logical concept that refers to a group of full-text indexes.
Thesaurus files
These files contain synonyms of search terms. For more information, see Thesaurus Configuration.
Stoplist objects
Stoplist objects contain a list of common words that are not useful for the search. For more information, see Stopwords and Stoplists.
Stoplist objects replace the noise word files of SQL Server 2005 and earlier versions.
SQL Server query processor
The query processor compiles and executes SQL queries. If a SQL query includes a full-text search query, the query is sent to the Full-Text Engine, both during compilation and during execution. The query result is matched against the full-text index. For more information, see Full-Text Engine.
Full-Text Engine
The Full-Text Engine in SQL Server is now fully integrated with the query processor. The Full-Text Engine compiles and executes full-text queries. As part of query execution, the Full-Text Engine might receive input from the thesaurus and stoplist. In SQL Server 2008 and later versions, the Full-Text Engine for SQL Server runs inside the SQL Server query processor.
Index writer (indexer)
The index writer builds the structure that is used to store the indexed tokens.
Filter daemon manager
The filter daemon manager is responsible for monitoring the status of the Full-Text Engine filter daemon host.
Filter Daemon Host
The filter daemon host is a process that is started by the Full-Text Engine. It runs the following full-text search components, which are responsible for accessing, filtering, and word breaking data from tables, as well as for word breaking and stemming the query input:
The components of the filter daemon host are as follows:
Protocol handler
This component pulls the data from memory for further processing and accesses data from a user table in a specified database. One of its responsibilities is to gather data from the columns being full-text indexed and pass it to the filter daemon host, which will apply filtering and word breaker as required. .
Some data types require filtering before the data in a document can be full-text indexed, including data in varbinary, varbinary(max), image, or xml columns. The filter used for a given document depends on its document type. For example, different filters are used for Microsoft Word (.doc) documents, Microsoft Excel (.xls) documents, and XML (.xml) documents. Then the filter extracts chunks of text from the document, removing embedded formatting and retaining the text and, potentially, information about the position of the text. The result is a stream of textual information. For more information, see Full-Text Search Filters.
Word breakers and stemmers
A word breaker is a language-specific component that finds word boundaries based on the lexical rules of a given language (word breaking). Each word breaker is associated with a language-specific stemmer component that conjugates verbs and performs inflectional expansions. At indexing time, the filter daemon host uses a word breaker and stemmer to perform linguistic analysis on the textual data from a given table column. The language that is associated with a table column in the full-text index determines which word breaker and stemmer are used for indexing the column. For more information, see Word Breakers and Stemmers.
For information about all of the full-text linguistic components, see Configuring Full-Text Linguistic Components.


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"McMillion Family" - Cheryl McMillion is struggling to raise her three children on her own, while her husband, Jonathan, a National Guardsman, is serving his tour of duty in Afghanistan. However, while Dad is overseas, there's a battle to keep the peace on the homefront, as the boys -- Ryan, nine, Hunter, seven, and Garrett, three -- act out by fighting and yelling. Mom's had it with the aggression in her family, and turns to Supernanny for help. Can Jo Frost bring harmony and peace to the McMillions? "Supernanny" airs FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Hailed by the New York Times as "fascinating" and "required viewing;" praised by Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Kelly Ripa; acclaimed by such publications as Newsweek, Hollywood Reporter and The New Yorker; and lauded by parents and nannies across America, "Supernanny" is a hit. Jo Frost, as Supernanny, can tame the wildest toddler, soothe the savage six-year-old and get the most difficult child to overcome problems with behavior, sleep, mealtime, potty training and other challenges that have vexed parents around the world for centuries. After just three episodes of the show aired in the U.K. in summer 2004, Jo Frost became Britain's hottest new TV star and godsend to desperate parents who were dazzled by her amazing results with misbehaving children. She debuted in America in early 2005 and captivated Americans as well with her practical, no-nonsense style, honed over 16 years of nannying. "Supernanny" is now an international phenomenon; it airs in 47 countries, almost all of them with Frost as Supernanny. Her book, Supernanny: How to Get the Best from Your Children, was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
On the show, Jo observes how the parents handle their day-to-day obstacles with their children. Once she's assessed the pitfalls, she works with the parents, instilling her tried-and-true methods for transforming unwanted behavior. Then, after demonstrating just how well the new style will work and getting unbelievable results from the children, the parents must fly solo with the Supernanny techniques. For several days they try to implement Jo's suggestions, and she revisits them at the end of the program to help keep them on track for the future. When parents witness Jo's results and -- even better -- achieve them on their own, they are truly believers in the Supernanny way. Best of all, children and adults alike can enjoy the lasting benefits of a more harmonious family life.
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The family footwear chain, Shoe Carnival, is opening its first store in Bradenton this week.
The 12,000-square-foot shoe store will host a grand opening celebration at its new 1137 Cortez Road location beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday. The first 100 customers at the store will receive a $10 reward card to use toward any purchase made in the store.
Other special events, like drawings for free shoes for a year, $1,000 cash and other doorbuster deals will go on throughout the weekend.
"We are excited to be opening a new store location in the Cortez Plaza and bring our customers a new spacious and inviting Shoe Carnival shopping experience," said Todd Beurman, senior vice president of marketing for Shoe Carnival, in a statement.
This is the company's second store in Southwest Florida. Shoe Carnival has a Lakewood Ranch location in the Shoppes at University Center on Cooper Creek Boulevard.
The chain has more than 364 stores in 32 states and Puerto Rico, including 21 locations in Florida. The shoe store retailer sells brands like Nike, Converse, Sperry New Balance and others.
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by Marcia Jensen
There's an old saying that you can't fight City Hall. That means that the government is just too powerful to go up against. But is it really true?
Recently, San Juan County residents were stunned to learn that 35 percent of the privately-owned land in the entire county has been proposed as critical habitat for the Gunnison sage grouse. It is a wild bird the Feds are in the process of placing on the National Endangered Species List.
My husband and I arrived home the other night to find that we had just missed an important town meeting on the subject here in Monticello. A question/answer session was conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in which local residents were allowed to express themselves.
According to reports, the meeting was passionate, but respectful. We were informed that our ranch, south of town, was included in the proposal, along with our neighbors and just about every other landowner in the area.
This particularly puzzled us because there are no sage grouse on our land, and we have no evidence that they have ever existed there. The same is true for many other landowners.
To state the obvious, this critical habitat listing could have a serious adverse impact on all private landowners in the proposed areas. Grazing and farming could be seriously hampered. Future oil and gas leases, as well as exploration, could be severely curtailed or eliminated altogether.
Residential construction and land development might be stopped, as well. The county tax base could be seriously affected. All this courtesy of the Gunnison sage grouse.
I think most of us are aware of the fact that the Endangered Species Act has been inappropriately used for decades as a vehicle to stop development and oil and gas production all over the West. We've all watched other communities be ruined by these listings, the most famous being the Spotted Owl which has severely impacted the lumber industry in the northwest.
I love animals. Sometimes, I love them more than people. I don't think I could hurt an animal if my life depended on it. But with our constitutional property rights at stake, I immediately knew we had to do something to keep this proposal from seriously damaging our community.
Some believe it's inevitable that the sage grouse will make the endangered species list, and our only hope is to try to fight the proposed critical habitat designation.
But is it inevitable? Is it fate? Or do we have a chance?
Enter the case of the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard. This three-inch lizard lives in Texas and New Mexico and had been a candidate for the Endangered Species List since 1994. That also happens to be the region where 20 percent of the nation's oil and gas exploration occurs.
The listing of this lizard was considered a sure thing and would have devastated the industry in eight counties in both states. But the citizens of Texas and New Mexico managed to stop it. How did they do it?
They did it by working together across county and state lines and coordinating between local governments, industry and one soil conservation district. And one more thing…they enlisted the help of the American Stewards of Liberty (ASL).
Who are the American Stewards of Liberty? A non-profit organization that has been fighting to protect constitutional property rights since the early 1990s.
The Texas-based organization, under the direction of Dan and Margaret Byfield, has achieved a strong track record of success by implementing a coordination strategy with citizens and local governments throughout the country and accessing the federal courts when necessary. One of their most recent successes was preventing the listing of the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard.
How did they manage to prevail against the odds? It became clear that the science behind the proposed listing was agenda driven and totally inadequate.
Based on the research and strategy put in place by the ASL, the local governments threatened to sue in Federal Court. The Feds backed down. It was a stunning victory for citizen property rights and saved the oil and gas industry in an important part of the country.
In San Juan, as well as several Colorado counties, we are faced with a similar threat. Proposed listing of the sage grouse could seriously affect our property rights and economy.
Fortunately, ASL is already on the case. They are working with Garfield County, CO to challenge the listing of the Greater sage grouse, of which the Gunnison sage grouse is a sub species.
They have met with two scientists who have been cited over 200 times in the Federal Register. These scientists are "alarmed" by the actions of the government and say they will do more harm than good.
The ASL, along with other scientists, believes the government's findings are "built on a house of cards" and listing is not warranted. Moreover, the burden is on the government to prove that currently proposed critical habitat areas must be designated in order to save the species and that the designation won't be detrimental to our local economy.
What can we do to keep the sage grouse from becoming the next spotted owl? We can begin by encouraging elected officials to work together across state and county lines in Utah and Colorado.
ASL could be of great assistance to help plan strategy and mount a challenge to both the sage grouse listing and the critical habitat designation.
Assistance from our Congressional delegation is critical. The State can help through financial resources. Environmental lawyers have actually stated that they intend to keep the sage grouse story as quiet as possible.
If they don't want publicity, there must be a reason. We need to put our story out to national media outlets to gain as much exposure as possible.
All these initiatives can work. Just because they say you can't fight City Hall, doesn't make it true. We can prevail, but we have to act now.
Let's all contact our local officials, bring in the experts and work together. The Federal Government exists to serve the people. Let's all work to make sure it does.
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