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Super Bowl LIV will feature the Kansas City Chiefs taking and the San Francisco 49ers — the ultimate matchup between one of the NFL's best offenses in 2019 and one of the best defenses. But that's not all these two teams are. The Chiefs boast one of the most improved defenses over the second half of the season and the 49ers have one of the most efficient offenses.
The game is scheduled to be played on February 2, 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, marking the seventh different decade for the Super Bowl. This will be the 11th Super Bowl hosted by the South Florida region. The sixth Super Bowl hosted in Miami Gardens, which hosted Super Bowl XLIV ten years earlier.
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira will headline the Super Bowl LIV halftime show next February. Super Bowl LIV will be held on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020 from Hard Rock Stadium in South Florida. It will air on Fox. Lopez and Shakira signed on about a month after the NFL closed a deal with Jay Z's Roc Nation to serve as the league's official Live Music Entertainment Strategists and spearhead the selection of artists for tentpole performances like the Super Bowl.
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Let's not waste too much time on benchmarks, we have already compared the E-350 to Atom processors on more than one occasion. In most tests, Brazos is about 20 percent faster than the fastest Atom/ION 2 combo and that's the bottom line. Atoms might be somewhat faster in multithreaded applications, ION 2 might win a bench here and there, but in real life Brazos comes out on top. This is particularly true of 1.66GHz Atoms, while 1.8GHz parts like the D525 manage to hold their ground a bit better.
In terms of features and future-proof technologies, Brazos makes Atom look as obsolete as an abacus. This is a pretty big deal, as you are unlikely to upgrade HTPCs or nettops as frequently as proper desktops. In terms of upgradeability, nettops are a lot closer to notebooks, so every little counts. USB 3.0? Check. DirectX 11? Check. SATA 6Gbps and eSATA? Check.
We compared the Zbox to Sapphire's Edge HD2 nettop, based on the dual-core Atom D525 at 1.8GHz and ION2 graphics. Bear in mind that this is the fastest Atom platform on the market. Most Atom nettops are based on the slower D510 processor and lack ION2 graphics. Sapphire's Pure White Fusion board with an E-350 APU is also in the mix, with a desktop 3.5-inch drive at 7200rpm. As expected, heavily treaded tests favor the Atom, but in non-threaded tests AMD is in the lead.
Both nettops lose to Sapphire's Fusion rig with a speedy 7200rpm drive in content intensive tests.
Here are a few 3Dmark and CPU-Z/GPU-Z screens, nothing to report here.
Even under very heavy load, i.e. running a few consecutive benchmarks, the Zbox does not get too hot and noisy.
Our only complaint has to do with storage. Zotac could have gone for a 7200rpm drive, just to improve system responsiveness and boot times. Still, if you are interested in the barebone, this minor complaint obviously doesn't apply.

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Lightness, vitality, expression - Barbara Beckers wallpaper collection b.b. Home Passion 5 embodies the pure joy of life. Because of that you can generate with the wallpapers 479348 mottled design in grey a cosy living space that you makes feel comfortable. The German brand product is highly washable, dry strippable and has a good lightfastness.


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So, here's Seacrest County in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. It's got every challenge a street racer could want, but man, this place feels familiar.
Tri-City in Undercover or Rockport in Most Wanted didn't feature night driving nor snow-capped mountains, but the rest of this - the freeways, coast and back roads - have struck me as a dead match for the franchise's old stomping grounds. I'm not necessarily saying that's a bad thing. It's a racer, some environmental continuity can be a gamer assist. I just keep wondering why they change the name when the scenery largely stays the same.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is out Nov. 16; the demo is available until Tuesday.


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MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual Including MySQL NDB Cluster 7.3-7.4 Reference Guide
MERGE tables can help you solve the following
Easily manage a set of log tables. For example, you can put
data from different months into separate tables, compress some
of them with myisampack, and then create a
MERGE table to use them as one.
Obtain more speed. You can split a large read-only table based
on some criteria, and then put individual tables on different
disks. A
MERGE table structured this way
could be much faster than using a single large table.
Perform more efficient searches. If you know exactly what you
are looking for, you can search in just one of the underlying
tables for some queries and use a
table for others. You can even have many different
MERGE tables that use overlapping sets of
Perform more efficient repairs. It is easier to repair
individual smaller tables that are mapped to a
MERGE table than to repair a single large
Instantly map many tables as one. A
table need not maintain an index of its own because it uses
the indexes of the individual tables. As a result,
MERGE table collections are
very fast to create or remap. (You must
still specify the index definitions when you create a
MERGE table, even though no indexes are
If you have a set of tables from which you create a large
table on demand, you can instead create a
MERGE table from them on demand. This is
much faster and saves a lot of disk space.
Exceed the file size limit for the operating system. Each
MyISAM table is bound by this limit, but a
collection of
MyISAM tables is not.
You can create an alias or synonym for a
MyISAM table by defining a
MERGE table that maps to that single table.
There should be no really notable performance impact from
doing this (only a couple of indirect calls and
memcpy() calls for each read).
The disadvantages of
MERGE tables are:
You can use only identical
MyISAM tables
for a
MERGE table.
MyISAM features are unavailable in
MERGE tables. For example, you cannot
FULLTEXT indexes on
MERGE tables. (You can create
FULLTEXT indexes on the underlying
MyISAM tables, but you cannot search the
MERGE table with a full-text search.)
If the
MERGE table is nontemporary, all
MyISAM tables must be
nontemporary. If the
MERGE table is
temporary, the
MyISAM tables can be any mix
of temporary and nontemporary.
MERGE tables use more file descriptors than
MyISAM tables. If 10 clients are using a
MERGE table that maps to 10 tables, the
server uses (10 × 10) + 10 file descriptors. (10 data
file descriptors for each of the 10 clients, and 10 index file
descriptors shared among the clients.)
Index reads are slower. When you read an index, the
MERGE storage engine needs to issue a read
on all underlying tables to check which one most closely
matches a given index value. To read the next index value, the
MERGE storage engine needs to search the
read buffers to find the next value. Only when one index
buffer is used up does the storage engine need to read the
next index block. This makes
MERGE indexes
much slower on
searches, but not much slower on
ref searches. For more
information about
ref, see
Section 13.8.2, "EXPLAIN Statement".


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Yes, and PDF downloads go to my desktop. Yours did, FlightAware's still don't. Anyway I've now seen the report and thank you for your help.(Written on 2018年 07月 26日)(Permalink)
This link doesn't work!(Written on 2018年 07月 24日)(Permalink)
What a load of cobblers! This bloke is just another prophet of doom for the UK - and he's got it so very, very wrong. Just watch how things unroll over the next few months and the UK will be better off than ever. Idiots like the writer of this piece ought to be put out to grass - I wonder who he's working for? The people of the UK voted for OUT because we're totally fed up with faceless, unelected fat cats in Brussells and corrupt bankers thinking they can push us around. Well, Brits are made of sterner stuff and now we have had our say. "Dire consequences for UK aviation" my a***e! What a plonker.(Written on 2016年 06月 28日)(Permalink)
The test engineer who was "let go" (Big US Corporation-speak for "sacked") says it all. Boeing has been caught with its corporate trousers down with this Nightmareliner. The more I read - even with a big pinch of salt next the keyboard - the more determined I am never to fly this white elephant. Give me a 747 or any A300 series any day!(Written on 2013年 02月 07日)(Permalink)
Doo have a nice day(Written on 2013年 01月 21日)(Permalink)
That response is to be expected of someone demonstrating a total lack of humour! Do have a nice day...(Written on 2013年 01月 21日)(Permalink)
Killjoy! This world needs cheering up - and that video did it for me!(Written on 2013年 01月 21日)(Permalink)
Reading this makes me more than ever determined not to fly the Nightmare-liner. Ever. If one of the batteries burnt the factory down what the hell is it doing in an airplane? Something smells about all of this...(Written on 2013年 01月 21日)(Permalink)
Unfortunately, Boeing has shot itself in the foot with the 787. Badly assembled fuel system components leading to potentially disastrous leaks, batteries bursting into flames - all these faults indicate poor quality control in the assembly of the plane, ineffective quality testing prior to delivery - sure signs that the plane was rushed into service before it was properly sorted. Car manufacturers have been using the public to do its final testing for years, but with aircraft this is not a sensible policy. I wouldn't fly in a 787 at the moment - possibly not ever!(Written on 2013年 01月 08日)(Permalink)
NO! NO! NO! NO! NEVER!(Written on 2013年 01月 01日)(Permalink)
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At Eli's, we celebrate the success of our associate's children
and their accomplishments in school and in outside activities. We have watched
Mike Neuhaus, son of Mike and Peggy Neuhaus, grow up and have celebrated his
football career at Shepard High School in Palos Heights, at Naval Academy
Preparatory School and now at the University of Wyoming.
Saturday, November 8th was a great day for the Eli's, Neuhaus
and University of Wyoming families as the Cowboys beat the Volunteers by a score
of 13 to 7 before over 99,000 fans at Tennessee. For Mike Neuhaus, it was a
great day as he intercepted a pass and returned it 55 yards to the Volunteers 4
yard line and returned a kickoff for 16 yards. Great statistics for a 260 lb.
Defensive End.
The win puts Wyoming back in post season Bowl contention with
the two final games of the season against UNLV and Colorado State.
Congrats to Mikey (as he was known at Eli's as a small boy),
Mike and Peg.


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Strong majorities of Americans say they favor stricter gun laws, including an assault-weapons ban and universal background checks for private gun sales, according to a new national Morning Joe/Marist poll.
Six in 10 respondents – including 83 percent of Democrats, 43 percent of gun owners and 37 percent of Republicans – believe that the laws covering gun sales should be stricter.
This figure is virtually unchanged from the 61 percent who backed stricter gun laws when a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll asked the same question in February, even though at least one other national survey has found waning support for gun-control laws months after the Dec. 2012 shootings in Newtown, Conn.
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John Woodall. left, of Newtown, Conn., carries a sign that he says indicates the percentage of Americans who support universal background checks, speaks with Gordon Jones of Southbury, Conn., a supporter of gun rights during a rally outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation headquarters in Newtown on March 28.
What's more, the Morning Joe/Marist poll finds that 87 percent of Americans support background checks for private gun sales and sales at gun shows, and 59 percent favor legislation that would ban the sale of assault weapons.
Later this month, the U.S. Senate is set to consider Democratic-backed gun legislation that, among other provisions, contains a requirement for universal background checks. With Republican senators threatening to filibuster the legislation, its prospects for passage remain uncertain.
Democrats also are expected to offer an assault-weapons ban as an amendment to the legislation, but it has almost no chance to win passage in the Senate.
Favoring job creation over deficit reduction
Turning to the economy and the deficit, the Morning Joe/Marist survey shows that Americans – by nearly a 2-to-1 margin – want President Barack Obama and Congress to make job creation their top priority (64 percent) instead of deficit reduction (33 percent).
Top Talkers: The first-ever Morning Joe/Marist poll shows that a majority finds controlling gun violence is more important than protecting gun rights, think gun laws should be more strict, and support a ban on assault weapons. The Morning Joe panel -- including New York Magazine's John Heilemann and Mike Barnicle -- discusses the results of the poll.
Those who prefer Washington's political leaders to emphasize job creation include 76 percent of Democrats and 46 percent of Republicans; a narrow majority of Republican respondents (51 percent) want the focus to be on deficit reduction.
Also, Obama edges congressional Republicans by four percentage points, 44 percent to 40 percent, on the question of who has a better approach to deal with the federal budget deficit.
As the Republican Party tries to find their message on gun control in the wake of Newtown and on gay marriage before the Supreme Court rulings this summer, Stuart Stevens, Romney's 2012 campaign manager, offers them some advice.
But the president's approach to deficit reduction – calling for a combination of spending cuts and increased tax revenues – is more popular than the Republicans' cuts-only approach.
Forty-two percent of respondents prefer a mixture of spending cuts (including to entitlement programs) and revenue increases; 35 percent pick increasing mostly revenue; and just 17 percent choose mostly cutting government spending (including to programs like Medicare and Medicaid).
The Morning Joe/Marist poll was conducted March 25-March 27 of 1,219 national respondents by both landline phone and cellphone. It has a margin of error of plus-minus 2.8 percentage points.


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I've just installed the latest Sabayon 64b Gnome version to set up my HTPC.
(I usually use Gentoo...but I did want to spent to many times on this computer...and I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu...Hopefully Sabayon will suit me and that I will not mess between emerge and equo)
I got several questions as I don't really know how to use Sabayon.
The main one concern the mirrors list.
I firstly deleted every mirrors in the package manager in order to set the closest mirrors. However i thought a software like mirrorselect but for equo was available....I didn't find anything close to that....is it the case ?
So I have manually added some "close" mirrors from the download page of sabayon. However despite my relatively good connection (FTTC 20M/5M) I'm living in Taiwan and there isn't any mirrors there...and the Japanese mirror seems dead, as the Thai one.
So I'm currently running under a Malaysian mirror but not very fast....(300kb/s max with some latency)
I've added some others mirrors (USA and AU), run the command
And it has ranked the mirrors by "speed"
Code: Select all
equo repo mirrorsort sabayonlinux.org
However it has still selected a malaysian one....but with an actual lower DL rate than the one I was using (So I had to skip it)
I guess it's because it is based on ping test right ?
Does Sabayon as any more powerfull tool to select mirrors ? and Does sabayon have more mirrors than shown on the download page ?
Quite bad, I will need to add all of them manually and to run the mirrorsort command again and do manually my selection...
Also, still base on mirror, I see there isn't any mirror in France...I have a dedicated server there with a 1Gbps connection. What are the requirement to run a mirrors ? (if it is accepted by Sabayon's team)
Thank you


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NYC union: Cops not to blame for drugged-out death
NEW YORK (AP) — Officers shouldn't be held responsible for the death of a drugged-out man in police custody, the head of a police union said Saturday.
The New York Police Department said Friday it was being investigated by Manhattan prosecutors for the July 13 death of Ronald Singleton. The 45-year-old was high on PCP, a hallucinogenic drug, and had been acting erratic in a taxi when officers responding to a 911 call restrained him, placing him in a protective body wrap, police said. He was headed to a hospital to undergo a psychiatric evaluation when he went into cardiac arrest and died.
The medical examiner's office said Singleton was in a state of excited delirium related to severe intoxication from the drug. It cited "physical restraint by police" as well as heart disease as contributing factors in his death.
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said it was the PCP that placed Singleton's life in jeopardy and that officers were just doing their jobs.
"The drug puts the abuser in an extremely agitated state while boosting the person's strength to abnormal levels," Lynch said in a statement. "Our members follow department protocols designed to best insure the safety of the drug abuser and of the police officers who are attempting to get the individual the necessary medical aid."
It is the second recent police custody death under scrutiny, after the July 17 chokehold death of Eric Garner in Staten Island. Garner, a 43-year-old father of six who had asthma, could be heard on an amateur video shouting "I can't breathe!" as an officer placed him in a chokehold during an arrest on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. The officer was stripped of his gun and badge.
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HomeStyle® Renovation
- One-time close home construction loan that finances home and its improvements
- Any permanent renovation that adds value to the home is eligible
- Can be used for "luxury" improvements such as swimming pools
- Borrower has 6 months to complete renovations
- Loan-To-Value is based on the home's projected future price so borrower can afford construction costs
- Seller concessions are permitted up to 3%
- Can be used on vacation homes and investment properties
- Finances up to 6 months of mortgage payments if home cannot be occupied
What is a HomeStyle® Renovation Loan?
A FannieMae Homestyle® Renovation loan is a single-close loan used to make renovations to a 1- to 4-unit primary residence or a 1-unit second home/1-unit investment without needing a second method of financing. Borrowers can make improvements worth up to a total of 50% of the post-improvement appraisal. The loan can be used either when purchasing without the need for a home equity loan or the additional burden of a second set of closing costs.
How a HomeStyle® Renovation Loan Works:
The FannieMae HomeStyle® Renovation loan allows borrowers to take out the amount of the house's projected appraised value. The borrower shares their planned home improvements with the lender so when the home is appraised as part of the mortgage approval process, the appraiser will base the value off the future worth of the finished house. This then ensures that borrowers have enough money to finance both the house and the construction costs without needing another loan. Borrower must choose their own licensed contractor. Also finances up to 6 months of mortgage payments if home cannot be occupied.


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3 arrested in convenience store robberies in Surry County
Three people have been charged in a recent string of convenience store robberies in Surry County, including one where a clerk fired a gun at the suspects.
Arrested were Jeremiah David Bruce, 29, of Mount Airy and Dobson residents Jason Dwayne Newman, 33, and Jeremy Dale Woody, 29, both of the same address.
The arrests came after Surry County detectives stopped a suspect vehicle Tuesday night on Simpson Mill Road in White Plains.
The traffic stop came shortly after a robbery at the Super C at the intersection of N.C. 103 and N.C. 104 inside Mount Airy city limits, Surry County deputies said.
Along with Tuesday's robbery, investigators were able to link the suspects to a robbery Friday at the Circle K on Highway 74 and Red Brush Road, as well as a robbery Sunday night outside the Cupboard Convenience Store on Old Highway 601 in White Plains.
In the Sunday robbery, the clerk shot at the suspects, but they were able to get away. She shared her story with WXII on Tuesday.
Charges include robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon and second-degree kidnapping.
Newman and Woody were charged with the robberies on Friday and Sunday, while Newman and Bruce were charged with the robbery on Tuesday. All three were held in the Surry County Jail under $100,000 secured bonds.
More charges are pending, deputies said.


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The FIBA World Championships is an international basketball tournament held every four years by the International Basketball Federation. For most people outside of the United States, its importance eclipses that of the Olympic Games' basketball tournament.
Today, Tony Parker told reporters that he may forgo playing in the 2010 FIBA World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Here are a few quotes from Parker…
"I just think I've played too much basketball," Parker said to nba.com.
"I've played five summers in a row, and I think it's about time I need a rest.
"It's going to be tough. The contract's coming up, and Pop wants me to play well every night.
"Sometimes it's tough because you know you play all these championship runs and every year I play for the national team. Every year.
"This year is the first year I've found my body is a little bit tired, you know?
"So I'll have to make some decisions, because I'm not Superman.
"I can't do 82 games at the level Pop wants, and then play on the national team."
Whenever a professional basketball player abstains from ancillary play, the critics come out in droves. Here's a quote from a fan of USA Basketball's Facebook page:
"Need to rest"…these players get spoiled.What more could a player want than to represent his Country? I haven't had a vacation in 5 years,yet I still work hard at my job and my business.I believe that all of us would love to play all year whatever sport we love and get paid so well we can be financially independent at 30.Please professional players,save your excuses and go play.
This fan first asks, "what more could a player want than to represent his country?" Tony Parker has been representing France on the basketball court since 1997, when he was 15 years old. Parker played on the Under-16, Under-18 and Under-20 before moving onto his country's senior national team. He has been the captain of the French senior national team since 2003. By all accounts, he has been very much involved in France's official basketball program for all of his adolescent and adult life. (Parker was even involved in Paris' bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and was the first ambassador for Make-A-Wish France.)
A more appropriate question is "what more could a player do to represent his country?"
The Facebook fan then seems to trivialize Parker's work ethic by saying "I haven't had a vacation in 5 years, yet I still work hard at my job and my business." This comment betrays a lack of understanding for how much dedication it takes to achieve success at the highest level of a commercially-viable sport. They seem to believe that the physical and mental demands on a high-profile athlete is comparable to their work struggles, since they work 10 hours a day.
Lots of casual fans seem to believe that the NBA (and other professional sports leagues) is filled with spoiled, lackadaisical athletic freaks who have all happened onto a high-paying job. A player of Parker's stature has put a considerable amount of work into his trade and any fan would be misguided if they dismissed this fact.
The Facebook fan then seems to be making a connection between Parker's financial position and his duty in representing his country. This particular fan is lucky enough to presumably own a computer and purchase access to the internet. Since these are luxurious afforded to him, should this fan have considered donating his internet budget to a trivial, sports-related, nationalistic cause?
The accompanying argument I hear a lot is "Athlete X is a great basketball player. He should be playing every year for the national team." The rationale is that if a person has the capability to do a physical act, they should do that act since others cannot.
Here is an analogy: since some people do not have the use of their legs, a physically capable person should be obliged to run a marathon every year for their country. Granted, this is somewhat brash and hyperbolic but the spirit of the argument is the same. Since others cannot, capable people should do it whenever possible.
It can be argued that Tony Parker has contributed more to French basketball than any person in the last 10 years. Even if you take his visibility into account, I think he's done his fair share. Why are clearly-dedicated players lambasted when they take a year off from international play?


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Anthony's Week 15 NFL Pointspread Picks
Last week: 8-8. Season totals: 103-98-7, Pct. .512. Best Bets: 20-20-2, Pct. .500.
Home team in capital letters; point spreads (opening line) in parentheses after underdog team; selections with point spreads in bold.
DENVER 34, San Diego 20 (+10) - The Broncos need 85 points in their last three games to become the first NFL team ever to score 600 in a season - and even after hanging 51 on the Titans at home last week, Peyton Manning might want to get in some more productive reps in the cold in his last regular-season home game.
Seattle 21, N.Y. GIANTS 17 (+6 1/2) - Last road game of the regular season for the Seahawks - and in order to make it their last road game altogether they need to win only two of their last three. But truth be told, their receivers are average at best, at least until Percy Harvin is finally unveiled, and Seattle is an unappetizing 13-39 straight up and 21-31 against the line since 1986 as a visitor in cold weather, so take the points in what shapes up as a surprisingly competitive week for non-contending home underdogs.
ATLANTA 24, Washington 10 (+3 1/2) - It's official: Mike Shanahan has thrown in the towel (probably in more ways than one), shutting down RG3 for the season - and even if he hadn't, Washington is 2-10 outright and 4-8 pointwise in domes since 2009 and has dropped three straight to the Falcons both ways.
New England 20, MIAMI 13 (+2 1/2) - It is reckless to write the Pats off just because Rob Gronkowski is out again (and this time for the season), and they've beaten Miami seven in a row by an average of over 17 points a game, making New England a bargain at this determinedly favorite-friendly number.
JACKSONVILLE 13 (+2), Buffalo 10 - There's simply no percentage in laying points with the Bills on natural grass when they only win one out of three on grass - and if a second-place finish in a division means anything to any team, it's the Jaguars, who host the Titans, who they have already beaten on the road this year, next week with the AFC South runner-up spot very likely on the line.
San Francisco 16, TAMPA BAY 14 (+5) - The 49ers have come down with a bad case of field goal-itis and have been outscored 79-15 in their last three trips to Tampa (not having won there since 1993), all of them losses and non-covers. Add in the very real possibility of a letdown after spoiling Seattle's bid to clinch the NFC West at their house, and this is another eliminated home underdog that roars against a playoff contender.
Chicago 24 (+2), CLEVELAND 14 - The Bears might as well keep Josh McCown in there for one more game even if Jay Cutler is just barely healthy enough to return this week. True, McCown did lose at St. Louis and Minnesota, but this one's on grass, where Chicago is 3-1 both ways on the road in the last calendar year, as opposed to 1-4 straight up and 0-5 against the line as a visitor on the carpet. No way the Browns should be favored in this one.
INDIANAPOLIS 35, Houston 13 (+6) - It's Andrew Luck coming off a loss again - and it's the Texans at Indy, where they're 0-11 lifetime by an average of just under 14 points per outing, and Houston is 1-9-1 against the spread on artificial turf the past three years. Even though the Colts - who clinched the wretched AFC South last week when Tennessee lost - are pretty much now locked into the fourth seed in the AFC playoffs, this is still best-bet material.
Philadelphia 26, MINNESOTA 23 (+4) - No quit in these Vikings, and Adrian Peterson may be in there after all. If their defense can contain LeSean McCoy, this is another out-of-it home underdog that can cover.
CAROLINA 27, N.Y. Jets 7 (+10 1/2) - If the Jets weren't so hapless on the road, the Panthers might be risky business in this sandwich situation (lost at New Orleans last week, hosting the Saints next week) and the home team is a perfect 5-0 against the spread in the series. Jets are also 3-7 against the line on grass since 2011.
Kansas City 21, OAKLAND 14 (+3 1/2) - After a fairly promising start, the Raiders appear to have snuffed it, and there's no point in critically-endangered Oakland head coach Dennis Allen risking sending his banged-up running backs back out there prematurely, unless he honestly believes that to do so will somehow save his job.
Arizona 20, TENNESSEE 10 (+3) - The Cardinals won't go away, although their only real hope is that the Seahawks have nothing to play for when they travel to Seattle next week - which actually can happen, with a Seattle win over the Giants plus losses by both the 49ers and Saints. These teams have alternated beating each other the last four times they've played, and the Titans won the last meeting (in 2009).
New Orleans 19, ST. LOUIS 16 (+5 1/2) - The Saints are caught in the same potential letdown/looking ahead squeeze as the Panthers, but their 1-5 spread record on the road in 2013, including a non-cover indoors at Atlanta three Thursday nights ago, makes them much more vulnerable than Carolina to a possible upset. So take the out-of-contention home underdog yet again.
DALLAS 33, Green Bay 17 (+7) - Yeah I know, Tony Romo in December - but this line tells you all you need to know about Aaron Rodgers' chances of returning, and Green Bay's recent form in Dallas couldn't be sorrier: Nine consecutive losses (last win there - 1989), outscored 297-168, all nine losses by double digits. Cowboys may need wins here and at Washington next week, otherwise they could already be eliminated before they even take the field at home against the Eagles in the season finale.
Cincinnati 27, PITTSBURGH 13 (+3) - The Bengals can make things a lot easier on themselves by winning here and at home against Minnesota next week, so that they can go into their season-ending home game against Baltimore with the AFC North wrapped up. And does Mike Tomlin have something to worry about as regards his job security?
DETROIT 31, Baltimore 21 (+6) - Throw out last Sunday's Blizzard Bowl. The Lions should get back on track here to become just the fifth team in NFL history to make the playoffs both the year before and the year after a 4-12 or worse season in a series that has not seen a road victory since 1983 (0-7 straight up, 1-6 against the spread, outscored by an even 100 points in the last five), and against a team that has played poorly indoors for a very long time (only five wins in the last 19).
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It's hard to get excited about a game based on a film. We've all been burned so many times before—remember Watchmen: The End is Nigh and X-Men Origins: Wolverine—that it's often hard to believe a great movie-based game will ever be made. And while Avatar: The Game might not be the title to change all that, it's certainly trying.
The game will be appearing on virtually all viable platforms, but different systems will receive different experiences. I was able to check out the game on both the Wii and the Xbox 360, and while both versions are very different beasts, they share at least one common thread: a love of new technology and peripherals.
Like the film it's based on, the 360 version, which will be the same as the versions hitting the PlayStation 3 and PC, will support 3D visuals. Displayed on a not-yet-available television utilizing Sensio 3D technology, Avatar: The Game looked absolutely stunning.
The lush, alien world of Pandora really pops, with fog and smoke swirling just off the screen. But by far the most impressive bit of visuals were the flying sequences. The 3D rendering of the helicopter looks great, and I had to fight the urge to reach out and grab the tail of the craft as if it was actually in front of me.
But while I was able to view the game on a $4,000 3D enabled set, I was told that it would also run on TVs that are 120Hz capable and have an HDMI output.
Disappointingly, it looks like the visual technology is the main draw for this title. The action itself is a fairly standard third-person, mission-based shooter. Built using the Far Cry 2 engine, Avatar: The Game has players taking on missions which consist mostly of collecting objects while staving off the aggressive inhabitants of the planet. These inhabitants range from explosive plant life to raging Na'vi warriors—the tall, blue alien species from the film. I was told that the key to success was picking the right weapon for the right job, but in my brief time playing I found that the grenade launcher solved almost any problem just fine.
"We wanted a game that was accessible for people who saw the movie," an Ubisoft representative explained, possibly explaining why the main game felt so straightforward and relatively simple.
One interesting aspect is a meta-game that looks very similar to the board game Risk. Using experience points earned in the main game, players can expand their army's reach by conquering new areas of Pandora, adding another layer of complexity to the game.
The Wii version, meanwhile, obviously doesn't feature the same level of visual fidelity as its 360 counterpart. It's a good -ooking game, but it smartly takes advantage of some of the strengths of the console. Namely, its wealth of peripherals.
Taking place before the events of the film, the Wii version of Avatar puts players in the role of a Na'vi warrior whose village was destroyed, and is now hell-bent on getting revenge. The game is a combination of stealth action and flying segments, both of which utilize a different Wii add-on.
The action segment I was able to play took place in a gully, with the game guiding me along a predetermined path. Littered with enemy soldiers—who often seemed to ignore me until I actually attacked—the goal was to sneak up on them and dispatch them quietly, so as not to alert others in the areas. This could be done in one of two ways: taking the high road and dropping down on the target, giving them little time to react, or sneaking in the brush where you can't be seen and quietly taking out enemies from behind.
Attacks are made using a combination of button presses and Wii remote gestures, and, though it wasn't on display, the game will support MotionPlus to make these gestures more "intuitive." What exactly that means remains was unclear.
Far more interesting, though, was the flying segment I was able to try, which made use of the Wii Fit Balance Board. Essentially you use your feet to fly. It takes some time to get used to, especially considering you'll also be using the Wii remote to aim and fire as you tilt back and forth controlling your craft, but eventually the controls come to be fairly intuitive. The section I played was very early in the game, and essentially served as a tutorial: you maneuver your way around obstacles while firing at unmoving targets. I was told that things will pick up significantly though, as ship-to-ship combat is introduced later in the game.
"The action definitely picks up," the Ubisoft rep explained.
Avatar on the Wii also features an RPG-like character upgrade system, where you can collect orbs and then use them to level up attributes like strength and stealth, depending on what type of player you are. There's also a drop-in, single-screen co-op mode.
All told, both versions of the game looked solid. But what has the potential to set them apart from the hordes of movie licensed games available is their clever use of different gimmicks. The 3D visuals really do add a lot to the experience, while the Balance Board controls make an otherwise unremarkable portion of the game more enjoyable. Whether these will be enough to make Avatar one of those rare, satisfying movie games, remains to be seen.
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HAYWARD — Even though his health was failing, Marvin Burrows was determined to join last year's San Francisco Gay Pride Parade in June to celebrate the overturning of California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 and a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, which he had worked to defeat "so others don't have to go through what I went through."
The 77-year-old accepted the San Francisco Fire Department's invitation to ride with them in the parade. "I just can't turn down the idea of riding with all those firefighters," he jokingly remarked to longtime friend Molly McKay.
Burrows, who died Dec. 14, "had very sparkly blue eyes and a gorgeous smile. He was very friendly and fun-loving," McKay said.
But the Hayward resident will be remembered for the tale of losing his home and becoming destitute after his partner of 51 years died and his fight for equal rights. He spoke at rallies and testified in support of a marriage equality bill at the state Capitol in 2005 and against the Defense of Marriage Act before a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 2011.
After San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom directed the city clerk to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples in 2004, state Sen. Mark Leno officiated at the wedding of Burrows and Bill Swenor — 50 years after they first met as teenagers in Flint, Mich.
The state Supreme Court later nullified their marriage, and 4,000 others of same-sex couples. A year after they exchanged vows, Swenor died unexpectedly.
"Even though they had been together for more than 50 years and were registered domestic partners, because Marvin did not have a marriage license when Bill died, he could not access Bill's pension benefits, his veteran's benefits, his health benefits, his Social Security benefits, all of which would come automatically to a surviving spouse," Leno said.
"He could no longer afford the home they had shared for 37 years. In the midst of mourning the loss of his lifelong love, Marvin was suddenly homeless."
Burrows' experience helped people understand the importance of being permitted to marry, Leno said.
"I tell Marvin's story to groups of people, and they say that's not possible. People say, 'You wouldn't kick a senior citizen literally to the curb in the midst of his grief.' That's exactly what we're talking about," the senator said. Leno honored Burrows on the state Senate floor on Friday and will speak at his memorial at 2 p.m. Saturday at LARC Hall, 1101 Walpert St., Hayward.
After losing his home, a Hayward friend gave Burrows a place to stay and others helped Burrows in his fight for Swenor's pension benefits. Ultimately, International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals 6 and 17 renegotiated contracts in 2007 to grant pension benefits to domestic partners and made the change retroactive to include Burrows.
"We were over the moon," said McKay, who worked with Burrows in Marriage Equality USA, a nonprofit group advocating for same-sex marriages.
Burrows championed gay rights from an early age, she said.
"When Marvin came out as a teenager, which was a brave thing to do then, he was kicked out of his house," McKay said. His grandmother took him in, then Swenor's mother let him move in with their family. Burrows and Swenor were never apart after that except when Burrows served in the Air Force.
After they moved to California, Burrows helped start Lavender Seniors of the East Bay for in 1994. He was also a board member of Gay and Lesbians Organized for Betterment and Equality, a political-action committee.
"Marvin fought very hard for what he believed in, always, but he always did it with grace," said South Hayward activist Betty DeForest, who founded the Hayward Gay Prom in 1995 with Burrows and others.
Burrows was a grand marshal in the 2008 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade and also volunteered at Meals on Wheels for more than 20 years.
In 2000, he and then-City Councilman Kevin Dowling opened Lighthouse Community Center in Hayward to create a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people.
"Marvin had a real joy for life. He cared about marriage equality and the gay community, especially in the East Bay, but he was always fun to be around," Dowling said.
Contact Rebecca Parr at 510-293-2473 or follow her at Twitter.com/rdparr.1
Marvin Burrows
Born: Feb. 19, 1936
Died: Dec. 14, 2013
Survivors: Brothers Danny Burrows, of Newman, and Al Burrows, of Flint, Mich.; sister Janet Bearup, of Flint; and niece Tina Thompson, of Newman
Services: 2 p.m. Saturday, LARC Hall, 1101 Walpert St., Hayward


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Lipo's Easter Island Findings Featured In July National Geographic MagazinePublished: July 17, 2012
Easter Island (Rapa Nui), located nearly 2,500 miles west of Chile, has long intrigued explorers and scientists because of its enigmatic moai statues.
When was the remote island first inhabited, what did the gigantic stone statues represent and how did ancient islanders move them?
These questions fascinated archaeology professors Carl Lipo of CSULB and Terry Hunt of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. After 10 years of research, Hunt and Lipo published their investigations of Rapa Nui's civilization in the book The Statues That Walked, which led to the cover story by author Hannah Bloch in the July issue of National Geographic magazine and a NOVA/National Geographic television documentary scheduled to air in November.
"Islands are well known as great laboratories for studying how evolution shapes change," Lipo said. "In the case of Easter Island, we have a really remote place that is completely isolated from the rest of the world. Once people arrive on the island, they're subject to the limits of whatever the island has. Leaving the island to get some missing resources simply isn't possible when the nearest bit of land is more than 1,500 miles away by open ocean. Yet, here on Easter Island we have some of the greatest examples of art and ingenuity in the prehistoric world. This apparent paradox really intrigued me: why would people in this place, of any place in the world, have made and transported nearly 1,000 multi-ton statues? I just had to go there to figure out why."
Lipo and Hunt's views take a decidedly different direction than previous researchers and are generating comment in the archaeology community. Rapa Nui once contained lush forests and later experienced an ecological and social collapse, but Lipo and Hunt discovered strong evidence that the destruction was largely the result of rats who came aboard Polynesian settlers' boats rather than from inhabitants overcutting trees. And, over time, contact with Europeans brought disease and mistreatment to natives that exacerbated the island's downfall.
"What surprises me about the archaeological record of Easter Island is how poorly known it is," Lipo said. "Despite more than 100 years of research, much of what we think we know is simply drawn from stories rather than direct observation. Researchers have been blinded by an account that derives from the earliest European visitors in the 18th century who moralized that prehistoric people must have squandered their resources since the island has large statues but almost no resources. As it turns out, there really was never much in the way of a bountiful set of resources on the island, yet the Rapanui were able to build these statues. What this implies is that our sense that the island represents a destroyed environment is incorrect: the island was made in to a productive place by the actions of the Rapanui."
Another key finding is that island residents likely moved moai statues by a back-and-forth "walking" motion rather than on tree trunk rollers as other scientists proposed. "Oral traditions recorded as early as the 1880s mention that the prehistoric statues 'walked,' but most researchers have assumed that this line of evidence is simply a fanciful story," Lipo explained.
"My colleague, Sergio Rapu, a native Rapanui—the name for the people who live on Easter Island—had studied statues all his life and convincingly argued that these stories were more than just a fable," Lipo continued. "As we surveyed on the island, he pointed out various features of statues that made no sense if one was going to just put them on rollers or a sledge and drag them. So with Terry Hunt, we began to study the moai carefully and observing how the ones that were scattered across the landscape before they reached the end of their journey were shaped, how they broke and how they fell over.
"What we found is that the statues found in transport along prehistoric roads have features that could only be explained if the statues were standing and being moved before falling over," he said. "We then became intrigued in understanding the physics of how this could be so. Our studies of how the statue leaned forward and when rocked back and forth would roll across its front edge to minimize friction led us to create the five-ton replica of a road moai and actually try it out. To our great amazement, it worked: the statue walked!" The forthcoming NOVA/National Geographic TV episode focuses on their movement research using the replica moai, funded by National Geographic's Expedition Council.
It was a concept that made sense, Lipo noted. "When we move a refrigerator, we do not lay it down on its back and then push it across the kitchen on wheels. Instead, we rock it back and forth and shuffle it from one side of the kitchen to the other. In this way, one person can move a giant refrigerator. The people of Easter Island used this idea but took it to the next level. Like a refrigerator, they rocked the statue back and forth, but then also shaped the statue so that it takes advantage of the movement."
Modern island dwellers shared ancestral Rapanui stories with Lipo and Hunt that corroborated this moai transportation idea. "They even have a word for this kind of motion: neke-neke, which means shuffle forward on your feet in a twisting motion. Individuals have told us that their grandmothers used to sing a song about the walking moai and do the neke-neke motion. So for them, it's an obvious link to their traditional beliefs."
Lipo said he and Hunt have much more to learn about the Rapanui. "Their management of the land supported statue construction in a way that was sustainable for more than 500 years. Assumptions about ecological catastrophe are simply unwarranted. Thus, we need to examine the island's archaeology in light of this understanding and to look directly at the record to understand how they were able to achieve what they did. This will take a lot of additional field work."


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New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie's Administration abruptly cancelled meetings and cut ties with Jersey City's Democratic mayor after he declined to endorse the governor's re-election campaign, according to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Star Ledger and others.
This comes after emails and other documents released last week proved that top aides to the governor worked with his appointees at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to shut down lanes on the George Washington Bridge in retaliation against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee. That mayor also declined a request to endorse the governor's re-election. The lane closures disrupted thousands of motorists over four days ... and at least one person died after emergency response times doubled.
The documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal through a public records request showed communications between Mr. [Steven] Fulop and Christie administration staff members arranging the meetings in June and July, until the commissioners all canceled one meeting after another. ...
Bridget Anne Kelly, a senior staffer to Mr. Christie, was involved in the lane closures, and also appears in emails documenting the administration arranging meetings for Mr. Fulop. ... On July 18, Mr. Fulop was informed by his aide that four commissioners had canceled the meetings. No explanation was given, according to the emails. On July 19, Mr. Fulop was told that Mr. Baroni had canceled, and on July 22nd the last commissioner canceled, the documents show.
Mr. Fulop later sends several emails to Mr. Baroni to try and reschedule their meeting, but they aren't returned, according to the documents.
Kelly was the deputy chief of staff to Gov. Christie who was fired last week after the release of documents showing she gave the signal to shut down local traffic lanes feeding into the GWB: "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee!"
Federal authorities are also investigating the state's use of Hurricane Sandy relief funds for a television advertising campaign that featured the governor and his family.
The revelations around the Christie Administration's hardball tactics aren't surprising. Everyone knows that Christie delights in confrontation and obstruction—this is the man who vetoed the marriage equality legislation passed by both houses of the legislature. But what is surprising: Christie was easily expected to sail to a comfortable re-election and didn't need the endorsements. What would happen in a hypothetical Christie presidency ... would he cut off heating oil assistance or delay SNAP benefit to states that didn't support him?


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Some of the state's top architects will take to the podium as part of the Neutra House's fall lecture series. The Neutra House is a restored Los Altos home designed in the 1930s by Richard Neutra. Talks take place in an adjacent auditorium, followed by a reception at the house.
The series runs at 6 p.m. October through March, 97 Hillview Avenue, Los Altos. neutrahouse.org
Among the speakers will be Charles Davis (October 13), senior partner at the San Francisco firm EHDD. Among Davis's projects was the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Craig Hartman (February 9), design partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's San Francisco office, designed Oakland's remarkable Christ the Light Cathedral, among other projects.
Southern Californian Ray Kappe (March 8), a leading designer of modern residences who was profiled in our spring issue, pioneered 'green' building before the term existed.
Architect Rob Steinberg (January 12) will talk about his late father Goodwin Steinberg, an important modernist designer based on the Peninsula. Architectural historian Thomas Hines (November 10) will discuss Neutra. And on December 8 the speaker will be Steve Glenn, founder of LivingHomes, which build prefabricated homes designed by, among others, Ray Kappe.
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As far as I know, all Ducharme families now living in North America have their origins in Québec. It would be easy to link them to their ancestor, if there was only one source.
This is not the case. At least 5 completely different sources are known. In this text, we will talk briefly about each of these, and give some (limited) clues as where to look for them.
These informations are based on respected books, such as René Jetté's "Dictionnaire des familles du Québec", and also on my own experience as a searcher for those famillies.
1)Fiacre Ducharme's family
He came to Nouvelle France [New France] in 1653 and settled in Montréal. He brought with him the original name, « Ducharme », and was the only one to do so.
His sons were fur traders and voyageurs, so you can find his descendants very early after 1700 around the Great Lakes and alongside the Mississippi. For instance, Dominique Ducharme, the first person to receive a land in Wisconsin around 1795, was one of his descendant.
Although this family is not by far the most numerous, if your ancestors have been in these areas for a very long time, there is a good chance that Fiacre is your ancestor.
2) Louis Tétreau's family
Louis came from France around 1662, and settled in Trois-Rivières. One of his son Joseph, took the nickname Ducharme around 1700, for reasons not known. Descendants are numerous along the Richelieu river, and there are important groups in Louisiana and New England.
3) Pierre Charron's family.
Pierre got in Montréal in 1662. He never wore the name Ducharme, but one of his son, François, took the nickname in 1701 and all his descendants use it. 40 to 50% of all Ducharme are from this origin.
You will find them in Québec in a area called Lanaudière (around Berthier, Joliette, etc.). An important group went to Manitoba around 1780, others to Wisconsin and New England from 1840 on. You can find them all over North America now.
More details on Pierre Charron's family on the « Association des Charron & Ducharme » website.
4) Sébastien Provencher's family.
Sébastien came in Québec around 1672. He never wore the name Ducharme but one of his son, Jean-François, took that nickname also around 1701, and all descendants of Jean-François use it today. They live in Québec around Bécancour and Trois-Rivières, and many went to New-England after 1840.
5) Francois Repoche's family
Francois came in around 1669, and settled in Québec City. He used the nickname Ducharme, and many of his descendants did the same. I don't know much about them, except for the fact that many went to Maine after 1840.
Of course, much more could be said: this is only a brief notice on Ducharme famillies. As president of the "Association des Charron & Ducharme", I will gladly try to help people looking for their own Ducharme ancestors.
Pierre Ducharme, président
Association des Charron & Ducharme inc.
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I find it amazing that I tried to do things early for school so that I wouldnt stress the crap out, but then my plans get scewed over. Lets see, the school wouldnt take my debit card so I couldnt buy my textbook so that I can do my homework thats due tomorrow. Work is being a pain in the ass and my boss is being a dumbass and wont hire people when he god damn knows well that we need workers. You know what else is just really fcked up right now? life. As soon as Wednesday is over some of my stress should be gone.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Forget yesterdays post. I'm in a better mood tonight even though school does start tomorrow.
Gotta love having awesome friends.
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
I cant believe you started to sound like her of all people, I like you for who you are. I get that shes there and im here but really? ilzhjcalijfh For two years Ive known you and I love your sense of humor and the way you say good bye to me. I dont know you anymore. This hurts. it hurts right now
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Not my day
yeah.... today was just a why the hell did I get out of bed day. Should have just stayed sleeping with my killer headache, but I wanted to talk to him so i stayed awake. He found out i had a headache and told me to go to sleep again. I did and i ended up waking up at 240 when i start work at three. Got ready and realized my dad had the car so i rode my board to work, but going down a small hill my wheel decided to come loose. Im missing a bolt and a fcking wheel AFTER i just replaced the bearings for it. I called my coworker and told her i would be a few minutes late and asked if she could cover for me. I got my coffee from my friend for free today and as soon as I get into work some douche knocks the coffee out of my hand and i would have started dropping f bombs if my coworker didnt cover my mouth. Then i realized I forgot my uniform at home and had to borrow someones.
^^^That all happened in 25 minutes after I woke up from a nap....
after my coworker alex went to barnes and nobles to get me another coffee and played some relaxing music while i demolished all of the prep work we had to do for the day hahaha yeah no customers and a butt ton of prep work isnt so bad when you have the right music and the right person to spend the next 6 hours with.
My night got better again when I came home to my sisters singing and dancing to high school musical three and I just couldnt help but sing and dance with them. Then i got to talk to him again tonight and it just made it even better. Now im cuddled on my couch eating pizza wishing i had soda and another movie to watch haha
nightnight everyone or good morning
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Friday, August 12, 2011
I saw her
I saw her again :] just a customer who became a regular, who started flirting with me and i didnt really notice until my coworker pointed it out. I didnt see her the whole summer until today and I didnt realize it at first which made me sad, but we got to talking and you know what? I still dont know her goddamn name, and Im pretty sure she knows mine. Yeah I had this goofy grin on my face at work the whole day and yeah adjkldjfs ssoo happy :]
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
My sister and her boyfriend broke up tonight while I was at work and you know what my mom did? Absolutely nothing. I think she actually made things worse. I hate my mom for doing this to my sister, I hate that she couldnt be my sisters shoulder to cry on, I hate that my sister just didnt call me at work, I hate not being there to be her shoulder to cry on. My grandma was the perfect shoulder to lean on and I miss her like crazy right now. When people need me I can only be someone they can talk to and just hold them when they need me. I give the worst advice, well maybe its not the worst just super generic is all. I hate it when I know my friends need me but I cant be there.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Everyday and Night
I have this grin on my face again. My friend is helping me learn some new skate moves which arent going so well, so I'm taking a break now. While im watching him and my other guy friends skate Im talking to my other friend online and honestly both of these guys are making me pretty happy right now. Which is heavenly considering the argument i had with a diff friend the other night. Right now life is finding a way for things to work out more for me and im loving it.
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A day late
So let me get this straight
You say now you loved me all along
What made you hesitate
To tell me with words what you really feel
I can see it in your eyes you mean all of what you say
I remember so long ago, see I felt that same way
Now we both have separate lives and lovers (and lovers)
Insignificantly enough we both have significant others
Only time will tell
Time will turn and tell
We are who we were when
Could've been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could've been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
But thoughts they change and times they rearrange I don't know who you are anymore
Loves come and go and this I know I'm not who you recall anymore
But I must confess you're so much more then I remember
Can't help but entertain these thoughts
Thoughts of us together
We are who we were when
Could've been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could've been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
My day late friend
So let me get this straight
All these years and you were nowhere to be found
And now you want me for your own
But you're a day late and my love, she's still renowned
We are who we were when
Could've been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could've been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
This song has been on repeat for most of my day and I cant help but think in my head of what could have been with a couple of people in my life, but whatever happens happens.
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
This summer is turning out to be a pretty awesome summer :] Going out everyday to spend time with friends, going on random adventures in walmart, playing airsoft again, driving around, avoiding getting tickets, coming home at 3 am then leaving for work at six haha this summer is just pretty epic and I have two weeks left of it. Today though was a family day. Had to go to the dentist, my sisters saw me at work, went to a fundraiser, danced like idiots at the fundraiser, buy smoothies, get lost on the other side of the island and take my sister megan to her bowling practice for school and ending up eating chinese before we came. The three Shinagawa girls having a girls day out. I need more days like this and I hope my friends can understand this :/
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you: are you ignoring me?
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1. Re: Arquillian transaction supportpaul.robinson Jan 4, 2012 3:44 AM (in response to dan.j.allen)
Are you able to provide an example of a test that uses @Transactional(TransactionMode.ROLLBACK)? I'm wondering, what is the use case for this feature? I guess some people will use it to revert the test data back to it's pre-test state. This seems like a bad idea as there are better ways to do this.
I'm thinking, the real use case is:
- Write a test that makes some changes to the application state
- Annotate the test method with @Transactional(TransactionMode.ROLLBACK)
- Check the state of the system in an @AfterTest annotated method? Or if using, the persistence-extension, specify a @ShouldMatchDataSet to specify what the data should look like after the rollback.
If this is the case, what are we testing here? It seems like we are testing that the middleware is performing correctly? Of course, this could be a valid test, I'm just trying to get my head around who the target audience is for this feature. I have some tests in the Narayana (rebranding of JBossTS) project that would benefit from this feature, but here we are testing the middleware, rather than an application.
I've found some tests that use @Transactional(TransactionMode.ROLLBACK) in arquillian-extension-persistence. One in particular is this one:
'shouldPersistUsersAndRollbackTransactionAfterTestExecution' and 'shouldPersistUsersWithinTransaction' seem to have the same logic, but one is set to rollback after the test. I can't see anywhere in the test that asserts the rollback did as intended. Is this test missing something, or is it me that's missing something?
2. Re: Arquillian transaction supportpaul.robinson Jan 4, 2012 3:35 AM (in response to dan.j.allen)
Do we know of a way to assert that the DML commands have fired? It would be great to provide a test case for this issue. Also, It would also be nice to run it on Spring to see if they have already solved this issue.
3. Re: Arquillian transaction supportpaul.robinson Jan 4, 2012 3:43 AM (in response to dan.j.allen)
I think I missed something when I stated this in our original email thread:
To be more specific, the problem is that persistence layers "save up" writes to the database until the last minute, just before the 2PC occurs. If the client marks the transaction as rollback only, or invokes UserTransaction.rollback(), the TM optimizes by not calling the beforeCompletion phase, which prevents the updates being sent to the DB. This results in issues like mapping layer miss-matches being left undetected.
This only applies for resource managers that use synchronizations to flush the cache. My understanding is that some flush changes during the prepare phase of the 2PC protocol. It's also possible that some RMs might do some other 'magic' to flush the data at some other time. This last statement is entirely speculation; but the point is that our users will be using RMs that we have never tested, so we need to be sure that our assumptions around this are valid if we create a solution that relies on them.
4. Re: Arquillian transaction supportpaul.robinson Jan 4, 2012 3:55 AM (in response to dan.j.allen)
I have an idea that may help. However, in it's current form, it will only work for RMs that flush during the synchronization protocol.
Essentially the problem is that the beforeCompletion phase in the protocol is not being fired. We need to cause the transaction to rollback at a later stage in the protocol. We could do this by enlisting a mock participant that always votes rollback. We then have Arquillian call commit, rather than Rollback. What should happen is:
- Arquillian registers a participant that always votes rollback on call to prepare.
- Arquillian invokes UserTransaction.commit() after the test method has invoked
- The beforeCompletion should fire for all participants.
- The persistence layer flushes it's changes
- The prepare phase begins and all participants are asked to prepare
- Our mock participant votes to rollback the transaction
- Rollback is called on all participants
- The client receives a RollbackException on the call to UserTransaction.commit()
- Arquillian checks the rollback occurred, due to our mock participant.
As a result, TransactionalWrapper#afterTest would look something like this:
public void afterTest(@Observes EndTransaction endTransaction) throws Exception { ... if (TransactionMode.COMMIT.equals(mode)) { obtainTransaction().commit(); } else { TransactionManager tm = (TransactionManager) contextInstance.lookup("..."); RoolbackParticipant p = new RollbackPrticipant(); tm.getTransaction().enlistResource(p); try { obtainTransaction().commit(); } catch (RollbackException e) { //If didn't rollback due to our participant, register a test failure } } }
Potential issues:
- Is the pre-prepare phase invoked on all participants before prepare is called on any participant? Otherwise, our rollback participant may vote to rollback before the pre-prepare on the DB participant.
- Will only work if RM uses synchronizations to flush data.
There might be a way of ordering prepares in Narayana. This would allow us to be the last participant and thus support RMs that flush during prepare. If such a feature did exist, it would be non-standard, and unlikely to work on an AS that didn't use Narayana.
5. Re: Arquillian transaction supportpaul.robinson Jan 4, 2012 4:12 AM (in response to paul.robinson)
Paul Robinson wrote:
To be more specific, the problem is that persistence layers "save up" writes to the database until the last minute, just before the 2PC occurs. If the client marks the transaction as rollback only, or invokes UserTransaction.rollback(), the TM optimizes by not calling the beforeCompletion phase, which prevents the updates being sent to the DB. This results in issues like mapping layer miss-matches being left undetected.
This only applies for resource managers that use synchronizations to flush the cache. My understanding is that some flush changes during the prepare phase of the 2PC protocol. It's also possible that some RMs might do some other 'magic' to flush the data at some other time. This last statement is entirely speculation; but the point is that our users will be using RMs that we have never tested, so we need to be sure that our assumptions around this are valid if we create a solution that relies on them.
A cunning trick could be to use a one-phase aware resource as our mock participant. One phase resources, are ones which are not capable, or do not wish to prepare. Only one instance of these can be enlisted in a 2PC. The one-phase resource is instructed to commit after all the other participants have prepared. If the commit succeeds, all the other resources are committed. if the commit fails, then all other participants are rolled back. This feature is typically used if you use an RM that has not implemented a correct prepare method, or for a critical resource that you do not wish to lock for the duration of the 2PC.
I think this is the latest we can hook into the 2PC protocol, without using heuristics (failing during commit) which would be very bad!! So should work for all XA compliant RMs.
Potential issues:
- Doesn't work if the resource we are testing is also one-phase aware as there can only be one in a transaction.
- I'm not 100% sure that handling of one-phase resources is mandated in the JTA spec. This needs checking if you want this to work on other application servers.
6. Re: Arquillian transaction supportpaul.robinson Jan 4, 2012 4:15 AM (in response to dan.j.allen)
It looks like your transactional support assumes you are using XA Datasources. Is this correct?
I suspect a user would get unexpected behavior if they used a non-XA datasource with these annotations. For example, the rollback would not occur as the resource is never enlisted in the transaction that eventually rollsback.
This is a potential problem for your "it just works" requirement.
7. Re: Arquillian transaction supportdan.j.allen Jan 4, 2012 7:25 PM (in response to paul.robinson)
"What are we testing here?" is a great place to start. After all, there's no use spending time adding features just to boast that we have them
The request for this feature can likely be traced back to the testing chapter of the Spring reference docs where it introduces transaction management. I think this section is misguiding the developer by making some pretty bad assumptions about what can be legitimately asserted.
The first sentence is the source of the widespread fixation that "an integration test should never change the database".
One common issue in tests that access a real database is their affect on the state of the persistence store.
That should not be an absolute. There are cases where that should be true, and cases where it shouldn't. But here's the real misinformed statement.
Also, many operations — such as inserting or modifying persistent data — cannot be performed (or verified) outside a transaction.
What? Actually, I'd say it's the opposite. We can't be sure inserts or updates happened correctly *unless* the transaction completes. It's likely better to have a compensating transaction than to naively rollback with a single participant.
The next paragraph goes on to suggest that assertions within the transaction will all be accurate and you can just rollback when you are done. However, we know that with ORM this is certainly not the case since it queues DML (insert/update/delete) statements until a flush (usually at commit time unless something triggers an interim flush). Assertions in this context could be nothing more than false positives.
On the other hand, if the goal is to detect mapping errors without affecting the state of the database, then we need to have something along the lines of your idea of a mock participant voting to rollback the transaction. We'll call it the "dry run" use case. You want the persistence provider to attempt the SQL statements to be sure no prerequisite (or the query itself) fails.
Here's the statement that is at most odds with the Arquilian mission (and most appaling to us):
If you want a transaction to commit — unusual, but occasionally useful when you want a particular test to populate or modify the database — the TestContext framework can be instructed to cause the transaction to commit instead of roll back via the @TransactionConfiguration and @Rollback annotations.
Unusual? Certainly not. That's called a real test And it's what we prefer, actually. It's better to give the developer the opportunity to clean up the database either by properly rolling back the operation or by providing an easy way of doing a compensating operation.
To move forward, I think we should define the different use cases and create some hypothetical scenarios to match. Here's my first cut at identifying them:
1. Basic - Wrap the test in the context of a transaction so that transaction components can be used safely, committing afterwards. If the state of the persistence store changes, so be it.
2. Dry-run - Force the SQL statements to be prepared and executed to check for mapping errors, validation errors or invalid SQL, but don't alter the state of the database
3. Compensating - Allow the test to modify the state of the database, but provide a callback (or script) to revert the changes after the test assertions are checked
Can you think of cases I missed? Should we break these down furthur.
Part of our job will be to undo the misconceptions planted in the minds of developers by the Spring reference documentation (btw, even as a Spring developer I saw the holes in those recommendations).
8. Re: Arquillian transaction supportjhalliday Jan 10, 2012 8:59 AM (in response to dan.j.allen)
hmm, interesting discussion. I can see the utility of an annotation that allows a test method to run in a transaction. I can even see the benefit of allowing commit/rollback of that tx to be configurable through the annotation. I think you've jumped from that general framework to a deep discussion of the issues in supporting the specific case or ORMs, which are just one type of transactional resource manager, albeit a common one. So, there certainly needs to be some consideration of how e.g. message queues or distributed caches may behave. However, I'll stick with the JPA discussion thread for now.
The separation between SQL execution and transaction commitment is certainly key. Spring incorrectly lumps these in together, with obvious drawbacks. Paul has identified various interesting hacks, but for a transaction manager neutral framework like arq none of them are particularly attractive. I think the best compromise for implementing 'dry run' is probably to have the test framework explicitly flush the JPA session, which should be sufficient to force the queued SQL to be executed. That's normally all a beforeCompletion will do, but there is nothing to stop the call being made directly instead. I also like the 'compensating sql' hook. Sure using a @before/@after to reset the entire db is an option, but it's expensive. Being able to apply just a test specific minimal change set to the db would help execution time.
Whilst an explicit flush will work for JPAs, a more general solution is needed for other types of RM. At present there is no resource ordering guarantee in the JTA spec, so to make Paul's suggestion work you'll wind up needing a plugin for each transaction manager you want to support. Maybe start out with the generic JPA support and add the more complex general XAResource support later if there is demand. Looking ahead though I think it makes sense for the transaction annotations to be separate from JPA/database package, they are not specific to that one class of resource manager.


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