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OAKLAND -- Matt McGloin threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Brice Butler with six seconds to play Friday night to give the Raiders a 27-26 preseason win over the Detroit Lions at O.co Coliseum.
Given that it occurred with lots of players who won't be on the 53-man rosters of either team, and that the first-team Raiders offense and defense were outplayed, there wasn't a lot to be gleaned other than it is better to win a game that doesn't count than to lose one.
McGloin, who came in with 5:35 to play after rookie Derek Carr left with a concussion, was 7 of 15 for 114 yards including the touchdown to Butler.
Carr provided a spark of his own, going 9 of 16 for 109 yards and a 3-yard touchdown pass to Jake Murphy. He left the game after being hit after a pass by defensive end Larry Webster. Carr also led drives that resulted in field goals of 26 and 36 yards by Sebastian Janikowski.
"After practicing against the Cowboys, we were limited game-plan wise," Raiders coach Dennis Allen said. "I thought we let them grab the momentum, and that was disappointing. But our guys kept fighting, and any time you get a win it's a positive thing for the team."
Starting quarterback Matt Schaub was 8 of 13 for 87 yards and authored a 60-yard 11-play drive that resulted in a 1-yard touchdown run by Darren McFadden for the first touchdown of the preseason by the starting offense.
He also had what Allen termed a "bad luck" interception on the opening drive, a pass that glanced off the hands of James Jones and into the hands of James Ihedigbo. The resulting 36-yard interception return set up Detroit's opening touchdown -- a 28-yard strike from Matt Stafford to Golden Tate.
Stafford also had a 4-yard touchdown pass to Kris Durham, and the Lions scored on field goals of 55 yards by Nate Freese and 25 yards by Giorgio Tavecchio.
Although the Raiders had a slight statistical edge at halftime, outgaining the Lions 162-159 and having 12 first downs to seven for Detroit, there was no rejoicing among the fans.
Detroit led 16-10, and the Raiders were largely unimpressive.
On Schaub's second possession, he was pressured into consecutive incompletions on second-and-7 and third-and-7, with Marquette King's 36-yard punt setting up the Lions on their own 42.
Allen said the Lions had been "more aggressive" than they'd showed previously and the Raiders would work to shore up protection issues.
"Any time your quarterback gets hit, you don't like it, but we'll go back and make the corrections we need to make to get that shored up," Allen said.
When the Raiders finally got on the board, it came with a lot of help from Detroit.
A 55-yard field goal by Janikowski on fourth-and-2 from the 37 was erased because Detroit had 12 men on the field. On third-and-8 from the Detroit 30, the Raiders got a first down because of a defensive holding call on Rashean Mathis.
With the Lions flooding into the Raiders backfield, Schaub found Maurice Jones-Drew on a 22-yard screen pass to the 13-yard-line, and then Jones-Drew added eight more yards on an inside run.
Allen turned to Carr, who played with the first team and directed a nine-play, 50-yard drive that resulted in Janikowski's 26-yard field goal. Carr completed 2 of 4 passes for 16 yards -- all on a 16-yard pass to Jones to the Detroit 30.
"After we'd scored, we decided to get Matt out of there and give Derek a shot behind the first offensive line," Allen said. "There really wasn't much to that."
With much of Oakland's first-team defense still in the game, backup quarterback Dan Orlovsky had completions of 22 yards to Jeremy Ross and 34 yards to Ryan Broyles to help get in position for a 55-yard field goal by Freese.
For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on Twitter at twitter.com/Jerrymcd.
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The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows a yawning gender gap over the state of the economy. Here's a closer look at several measures.
The poll asked Americans whether they see the U.S. as a place where anyone regardless of their background can get ahead, or if a widening income gap is instead undermining the idea that anyone who works hard can improve their lot. The responses divide sharply on gender lines, with a majority of men in the "anyone can succeed" camp and a majority of women in the "inequality is undermining opportunity" basket.
For women, that sentiment is shared across age groups and educational backgrounds. "It's not just because women make less money. It's not educational," says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Fred Yang. "Fundamentally, they have just very different views about economic opportunity."
Even though the share of respondents who say the U.S. is in a recession has dipped below 50% for the first time since the recession began in December 2007, a majority of women say the U.S. is still in recession. (Officially, the recession ended in June 2009 — and many, but not all, indicators show the economy in better shape.) Just 43% of all men—and around one in three men between 18- and 34-years of age—say the economy is still in recession.
These views about the economy translate into policy preferences. Seven in 10 women think raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would be good for the economy, compared to nearly half of men.
Why does any of this matter? More pessimism about the economy might appear to benefit the party that's out of the White House in a midterm election, but women don't appear inclined to break for Republicans this November. By a 14-point margin, women say they hope that Democrats control Congress after this fall's vote, compared to men, who favor Republicans by a 17-point margin.
Mr. McInturff says he's surprised by the extent of the gap, which has widened from recent surveys. "We are arguably headed to the largest gender difference people have seen in an off-year election," says Mr. McInturff.
Still, the gender-split doesn't show up on every single economic question. The poll asked Americans if they think their children's generation will be better off than their own. Equal numbers of men and women—just 21%—said yes. That's an all-time low.
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- Poll Finds Widespread Economic Anxiety
- Congress More Unpopular Than Wall Street
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Hamburgers? Ho. Hot dogs? Hum.
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Long before it became trendy, McMullen began grilling pizzas out of necessity, while living in a cabin with no electricity in Vancouver, Washington. He ends most of his classes by showing students how simple it is to grill pizzas directly on the grate.
The key, McMullen says, is keeping the pizzas small ("no bigger than a dinner plate") and using oil with a high smoke point, such as peanut or grapeseed oil, on the dough. He uses an oiled cutting board or cookie sheet while stretching out the dough, then picks the dough up and places it on the grill, oiled side down and closes the lid.
Initially, the dough will stick, but after cooking a couple of minutes it will release so it can be scooted away from hot spots. Once it's golden, McMullen flips it back out onto the oiled cutting board cooked side up and puts on toppings before returning it to the grill for a couple of minutes to cook the other side and melt the cheese.
Although it's intimidating at first to put uncooked dough directly on the grill, it works surprisingly well.
"Both sides have a nice crisp dough," McMullen says. "The crispness can't be beat."
In his cookbook "Live Fire" (Chronicle, $35, 224 pages), celebrity chef Michael Chiarello suggests using a pizza stone on the grill. The bottom gets nice and crisp, but the dough retains more moisture, giving it good chew, which is more similar to a traditional pizza.
Using a stone allows you to make larger pizzas and top the pies before putting them on, but a peel -- a flat wooden spatula or shovel -- is a necessity for transferring the pizza to and from the stone.
When it comes to toppings, Chiarello likes to keep it seasonal and simple.
"I don't like things that are too heavy when you're grilling pizza, because when you cut it, if it's not perfectly crisp, you can have some slippage," he says.
He suggests making one ingredient the star, and one other, like cheese, playing a secondary role. Add no more than two supporting flavors. So his pizza with mushrooms and shallots, is grilled with a pinch of thyme and anchored to the crust with a light sprinkling of fontina cheese.
Grilled pizza lends itself well to parties and the design-your-own aspect is a definite crowd pleaser. One thing to keep in mind, if using McMullen's direct grill method, is to make sure all the toppings are cooked and ready to eat, since they're not going to cook for more than a minute or two once they're on the pizza.
In addition to more traditional toppings, provide seasonal vegetables, barbecued chicken or pulled pork (all done on the grill, of course) along with a variety of cheeses to get the creative juices flowing.
Offer grilled slices of good quality, crusty bread with lightly grilled tomatoes for bruschetta, or a larger pizza topped with prosciutto, arugula and parmesan for guests to nosh while they're creating their own masterpieces and waiting for their turn at the grill.
Chiarello suggests piadine as another appetizer option. It's essentially a grilled crust topped with a flavorful paste and salad. It's light enough so it won't fill everyone up before their own pizzas are ready.
After everyone has eaten, keep the theme going by offering a dessert pizza, perhaps one topped with the nearly unbeatable combination of chocolate-hazelnut spread and bananas.
Whether you use charcoal or gas, a pizza stone or direct grill contact, grilling pizzas is as much about the event as the food.
"It's an activity that's a community effort," Chiarello says. "We call it eatertainment; it's like dinner and a movie."
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Kim Samuelson, RBJ's Family Restaurant owner, said a more formal grand opening is forthcoming. RBJ's C-Town Cafe, a new addition to the front of the restaurant, features a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu that can be served on the go, or in the cafe.
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Andre Berto has suffered a ruptured left biceps in training that will require arthroscopic surgery and the postponement of his highly-anticpated rematch against Victor Ortiz, according to three sources familiar with the injury.
Rolando Arellano, the managerial advisor to Ortiz, informed RingTV.com that he was told that the fight is off.
"We got a call from our promoter [Golden Boy Promotions matchmaker,] Eric Gomez that it's conclusive," said Arellano of the scheduled Feb. 11 bout. "Eric said that he was on his way to call [Golden Boy Promotions President] Oscar De La Hoya."
In an earlier report by RingTV.com, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer said that the problem was severe enough for Berto to be taken to the hospital.
Berto's manager Al Haymon met him at the hospital on Monday evening, where an MRI was apparently taken and revealed the rupture.
"It is my understanding that Andre hurt it throwing a left hook during sparring. I was just told that the surgery will likely take place tomorrow," said Victor Conte, Berto's nutritionist, who then recited a sequence relayed to him from Berto's trainer, Tony Morgan.
"Andre was sparring against Tureano Johnson, and when he threw a short left hook to the head, Tony said that Berto told him that he heard a pop. After this happened, Andre went and had an MRI. Apparently, the muscle is detatched from the bone. That's what Tony said."
Conte said that he was told by Morgan that Berto will be seen by a physician from the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday.
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"But we're still in shock. It's interesting, because you have such high expectations as a team and within the public and the community. So to have the plug pulled on you like this is just really disappointing. It's like you're 30,000 feet in the air, and you're going to go and land this aircraft, and then it's like, 'hey, guess what? There's no more fuel in the tank.'"
Since defeating Berto (28-1, 22 knockouts) by close unanimous decision for the WBC belt in a clash that featured both fighters hitting the canvas twice, Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KOs) subsequently lost the title to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September.
During the same month, Berto rebounded from the loss to Ortiz by dethroning IBF welterweight titleholder Jan Zaveck by fifth-round knockout.
Berto gave up the IBF belt to face Ortiz in a non-title bout, the rights for which were purchased for $2.25 million by Showtime's executive vice president and general manager of sports and event programming, Stephen Espinoza, trumping the offer of $2.15 million by HBO, which televised Ortiz-Berto I.
"Disappointed isn't even the best word to describe how I feel right now. I got home, and my manager is like, 'guess what? I don't know how to tell you this, so I'm just going to to ahead and tell you that your fight has been postponed or cancelled,'" said Ortiz.
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LAKE TAHOE — Members of the Congress are ideologues.
Its partisan agenda supports rock 'n' roll's traditional values and seeks would-be concert goers to elect to attend its shows. But its rival, electronica, has a populist following.
"There is a wave of music that's being recorded that's in the vein of the '70s," Congress bassist Jonathan Meadows said. "Good rock and roll — the Black Keys and bunch of bands like that who are taking that approach to music.
"We think the best music was made during that period. We strive to play our instruments in the studio together using good microphones to record ourselves. That's really all you need for a good recording."
The opposing party employs alien substances and ignores organics. Meadows can't stomach such a platform. He compares much of today's popular music to the 1980s-era disco that usurped the '70s rock from radio.
"History repeats itself but I think it's a phase," Meadows said. "We're seeing it now with the giant electronica craze where kids are paying $20 just to see a person who's not playing an instrument on stage. We're kind of fighting against that grain. We like to say that we're a dying breed. There's not too many people that are writing songs and playing music.
"There are so many DJs out there who are making a living pushing a button on a damn computer. Everything has its place in this world and in the musical spectrum, but, man, I just get bummed out about that (stuff)."
Formed in 2009, the Denver-based Congress on May 4 released "Whatever You Want," its debut record. (We, too, still call them records, brothers.)
The band has played the High Sierra festival and the Crystal Bay Casino several times. Meadows and co-founder and guitarist Scott Lane are natives of Virginia, and they have large following of former Southerners who now live in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
The Congress plays Thursday, Aug. 2 at Live at Lakeview's outdoor concert series at Lakeview Commons and later that same night at Brothers Place on Emerald Bay Drive in South Lake Tahoe. (Newly named Lakeview Commons is at South Shore and is not be confused with Commons Beach at North Shore, politicos pontificate.)
The Congress plays the Red Room after-party for Los Lonely Boys.
"I definitely appreciate what Los Lonely Boys do and I know that all three of them can sing their asses off and I look forward to seeing that," Meadows said, sounding almost like a politician.


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Clustering Events
By Antony Reynolds-Oracle on Feb 26, 2014
Setting up an Oracle Event Processing Cluster
Recently I was working with Oracle Event Processing (OEP) and needed to set it up as part of a high availability cluster. OEP uses Coherence for quorum membership in an OEP cluster. Because the solution used caching it was also necessary to include access to external Coherence nodes. Input messages need to be duplicated across multiple OEP streams and so a JMS Topic adapter needed to be configured. Finally only one copy of each output event was desired, requiring the use of an HA adapter. In this blog post I will go through the steps required to implement a true HA OEP cluster.
OEP High Availability Review
The diagram below shows a very simple non-HA OEP configuration:
Events are received from a source (JMS in this blog). The events are processed by an event processing network which makes use of a cache (Coherence in this blog). Finally any output events are emitted. The output events could go to any destination but in this blog we will emit them to a JMS queue.
OEP provides high availability by having multiple event processing instances processing the same event stream in an OEP cluster. One instance acts as the primary and the other instances act as secondary processors. Usually only the primary will output events as shown in the diagram below (top stream is the primary):
The actual event processing is the same as in the previous non-HA example. What is different is how input and output events are handled. Because we want to minimize or avoid duplicate events we have added an HA output adapter to the event processing network. This adapter acts as a filter, so that only the primary stream will emit events to out queue. If the processing of events within the network depends on how the time at which events are received then it is necessary to synchronize the event arrival time across the cluster by using an HA input adapter to synchronize the arrival timestamps of events across the cluster.
OEP Cluster Creation
Lets begin by setting up the base OEP cluster. To do this we create new OEP configurations on each machine in the cluster. The steps are outlined below. Note that the same steps are performed on each machine for each server which will run on that machine:
- Run ${MW_HOME}/ocep_11.1/common/bin/config.sh.
- MW_HOME is the installation directory, note that multiple Fusion Middleware products may be installed in this directory.
- When prompted "Create a new OEP domain".
- Provide administrator credentials.
- Make sure you provide the same credentials on all machines in the cluster.
- Specify a "Server name" and "Server listen port".
- Each OEP server must have a unique name.
- Different servers can share the same "Server listen port" unless they are running on the same host.
- Provide keystore credentials.
- Make sure you provide the same credentials on all machines in the cluster.
- Configure any required JDBC data source.
- Provide the "Domain Name" and "Domain location".
- All servers must have the same "Domain name".
- The "Domain location" may be different on each server, but I would keep it the same to simplify administration.
- Multiple servers on the same machine can share the "Domain location" because their configuration will be placed in the directory corresponding to their server name.
- Create domain!
Configuring an OEP Cluster
Now that we have created our servers we need to configure them so that they can find each other. OEP uses Oracle Coherence to determine cluster membership. Coherence clusters can use either multicast or unicast to discover already running members of a cluster. Multicast has the advantage that it is easy to set up and scales better (see http://www.ateam-oracle.com/using-wka-in-large-coherence-clusters-disabling-multicast/) but has a number of challenges, including failure to propagate by default through routers and accidently joining the wrong cluster because someone else chose the same multicast settings. We will show how to use both unicast and multicast to discover the cluster.
|Multicast Discovery
|Unicast Discovery
|Coherence multicast uses a class D multicast address that is shared by all servers in the cluster. On startup a Coherence node broadcasts a message to the multicast address looking for an existing cluster. If no-one responds then the node will start the cluster.
|Coherence unicast uses Well Known Addresses (WKAs). Each server in the cluster needs a dedicated listen address/port combination. A subset of these addresses are configured as WKAs and shared between all members of the cluster. As long as at least one of the WKAs is up and running then servers can join the cluster. If a server does not find any cluster members then it checks to see if its listen address and port are in the WKA list. If it is then that server will start the cluster, otherwise it will wait for a WKA server to become available.
You should now have a working OEP cluster. Check the cluster by starting all the servers.
Look for a message like the following on the first server to start to indicate that another server has joined the cluster:
<Coherence> <BEA-2049108> <The domain membership has changed to [server2, server1], the new domain primary is "server1">
Log on to the Event Processing Visualizer of one of the servers – http://<hostname>:<port>/wlevs. Select the cluster name on the left and then select group "AllDomainMembers". You should see a list of all the running servers in the "Servers of Group – AllDomainMembers" section.
Sample Application
Now that we have a working OEP cluster let us look at a simple application that can be used as an example of how to cluster enable an application. This application models service request tracking for hardware products. The application we will use performs the following checks:
- If a new service request (identified by SRID) arrives (indicated by status=RAISE) then we expect some sort of follow up in the next 10 seconds (seconds because I want to test this quickly). If no follow up is seen then an alert should be raised.
- For example if I receive an event (SRID=1, status=RAISE) and after 10 seconds I have not received a follow up message (SRID=1, status<>RAISE) then I need to raise an alert.
- If a service request (identified by SRID) arrives and there has been another service request (identified by a different SRID) for the same physcial hardware (identified by TAG) then an alert should be raised.
- For example if I receive an event (SRID=2, TAG=M1) and later I receive another event for the same hardware (SRID=3, TAG=M1) then an alert should be raised.
Note use case 1 is nicely time bounded – in this case the time window is 10 seconds. Hence this is an ideal candidate to be implemented entirely in CQL.
Use case 2 has no time constraints, hence over time there could be a very large number of CQL queries running looking for a matching TAG but a different SRID. In this case it is better to put the TAGs into a cache and search the cache for duplicate tags. This reduces the amount of state information held in the OEP engine.
The sample application to implement this is shown below:
Messages are received from a JMS Topic (InboundTopicAdapter). Test messages can be injected via a CSV adapter (RequestEventCSVAdapter). Alerts are sent to a JMS Queue (OutboundQueueAdapter), and also printed to the server standard output (PrintBean). Use case 1 is implemented by the MissingEventProcessor. Use case 2 is implemented by inserting the TAG into a cache (InsertServiceTagCacheBean) using a Coherence event processor and then querying the cache for each new service request (DuplicateTagProcessor), if the same tag is already associated with an SR in the cache then an alert is raised. The RaiseEventFilter is used to filter out existing service requests from the use case 2 stream.
The non-HA version of the application is available to download here.
We will use this application to demonstrate how to HA enable an application for deployment on our cluster.
A CSV file (TestData.csv) and Load generator properties file (HADemoTest.prop) is provided to test the application by injecting events using the CSV Adapter.
Note that the application reads a configuration file (System.properties) which should be placed in the domain directory of each event server.
Deploying an Application
Before deploying an application to a cluster it is a good idea to create a group in the cluster. Multiple servers can be members of this group. To add a group to an event server just add an entry to the <cluster> element in config.xml as shown below:
Multiple servers can be members of a group and a server can be a member of multiple groups. This allows you to have different levels of high availability in the same event processing cluster.
Deploy the application using the Visualizer. Target the application at the group you created, or the AllDomainMembers group.
Test the application, typically using a CSV Adapter. Note that using a CSV adapter sends all the events to a single event server. To fix this we need to add a JMS output adapter (OutboundTopicAdapter) to our application and then send events from the CSV adapter to the outbound JMS adapter as shown below:
So now we are able to send events via CSV to an event processor that in turn sends the events to a JMS topic. But we still have a few challenges.
Managing Input
First challenge is managing input. Because OEP relies on the same event stream being processed by multiple servers we need to make sure that all our servers get the same message from the JMS Topic. To do this we configure the JMS connection factory to have an Unrestricted Client ID. This allows multiple clients (OEP servers in our case) to use the same connection factory. Client IDs are mandatory when using durable topic subscriptions. We also need each event server to have its own subscriber ID for the JMS Topic, this ensures that each server will get a copy of all the messages posted to the topic. If we use the same subscriber ID for all the servers then the messages will be distributed across the servers, with each server seeing a completely disjoint set of messages to the other servers in the cluster. This is not what we want because each server should see the same event stream. We can use the server name as the subscriber ID as shown in the below excerpt from our application:
<wlevs:adapter id="InboundTopicAdapter" provider="jms-inbound">
<wlevs:instance-property name="durableSubscriptionName"
value="${com_bea_wlevs_configuration_server_ClusterType.serverName}" />
This works because I have placed a ConfigurationPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer bean in my application as shown below, this same bean is also used to access properties from a configuration file:
<bean id="ConfigBean"
<property name="location" value="file:../Server.properties"/>
With this configuration each server will now get a copy of all the events.
As our application relies on elapsed time we should make sure that the timestamps of the received messages are the same on all servers. We do this by adding an HA Input adapter to our application.
<wlevs:adapter id="HAInputAdapter" provider="ha-inbound">
<wlevs:listener ref="RequestChannel" />
<wlevs:instance-property name="keyProperties"
value="EVID" />
<wlevs:instance-property name="timeProperty" value="arrivalTime"/>
The HA Adapter sets the given "timeProperty" in the input message to be the current system time. This time is then communicated to other HAInputAdapters deployed to the same group. This allows all servers in the group to have the same timestamp in their event. The event is identified by the "keyProperties" key field.
To allow the downstream processing to treat the timestamp as an arrival time then the downstream channel is configured with an "application-timestamped" element to set the arrival time of the event. This is shown below:
<wlevs:channel id="RequestChannel" event-type="ServiceRequestEvent">
<wlevs:listener ref="MissingEventProcessor" />
<wlevs:listener ref="RaiseEventFilterProcessor" />
Note the property set in the HAInputAdapter is used to set the arrival time of the event.
So now all servers in our cluster have the same events arriving from a topic, and each event arrival time is synchronized across the servers in the cluster.
Managing Output
Note that an OEP cluster has multiple servers processing the same input stream. Obviously if we have the same inputs, synchronized to appear to arrive at the same time then we will get the same outputs, which is central to OEPs promise of high availability. So when an alert is raised by our application it will be raised by every server in the cluster. If we have 3 servers in the cluster then we will get 3 copies of the same alert appearing on our alert queue. This is probably not what we want. To fix this we take advantage of an HA Output Adapter. unlike input where there is a single HA Input Adapter there are multiple HA Output Adapters, each with distinct performance and behavioral characteristics. The table below is taken from the Oracle® Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Event Processing and shows the different levels of service and performance impact:
Table 24-1 Oracle Event Processing High Availability Quality of Service
|High Availability Option
|Missed Events?
|Duplicate Events?
|Performance Overhead
|Section 184.108.40.206, "Simple Failover"
|Yes (many)
|Yes (few)
|Section 220.127.116.11, "Simple Failover with Buffering"
|Yes (few)Foot 1
|Yes (many)
|Section 188.8.131.52, "Light-Weight Queue Trimming"
|Yes (few)
|Low-MediumFoot 2
|Section 184.108.40.206, "Precise Recovery with JMS"
I decided to go for the lightweight queue trimming option. This means I won't lose any events, but I may emit a few duplicate events in the event of primary failure. This setting causes all output events to be buffered by secondary's until they are told by the primary that a particular event has been emitted. To configure this option I add the following adapter to my EPN:
<wlevs:adapter id="HAOutputAdapter" provider="ha-broadcast">
<wlevs:listener ref="OutboundQueueAdapter" />
<wlevs:listener ref="PrintBean" />
<wlevs:instance-property name="keyProperties" value="timestamp"/>
<wlevs:instance-property name="monotonic" value="true"/>
<wlevs:instance-property name="totalOrder" value="false"/>
This uses the time of the alert (timestamp property) as the key to be used to identify events which have been trimmed. This works in this application because the alert time is the time of the source event, and the time of the source events are synchronized using the HA Input Adapter. Because this is a time value then it will increase, and so I set monotonic="true". However I may get two alerts raised at the same timestamp and in that case I set totalOrder="false".
I also added the additional configuration to config.xml for the application:
<warm-up-window-length units="seconds">15</warm-up-window-length>
<trimming-interval units="millis">1000</trimming-interval>
This causes the primary to tell the secondary's which is its latest emitted alert every 1 second. This will cause the secondary's to trim from their buffers all alerts prior to and including the latest emitted alerts. So in the worst case I will get one second of duplicated alerts. It is also possible to set a number of events rather than a time period. The trade off here is that I can reduce synchronization overhead by having longer time intervals or more events, causing more memory to be used by the secondary's or I can cause more frequent synchronization, using less memory in the secondary's and generating fewer duplicate alerts but there will be more communication between the primary and the secondary's to trim the buffer.
The warm-up window is used to stop a secondary joining the cluster before it has been running for that time period. The window is based on the time that the EPN needs to be running to be have the same state as the other servers. In our example application we have a CQL that runs for a period of 10 seconds, so I set the warm up window to be 15 seconds to ensure that a newly started server had the same state as all the other servers in the cluster. The warm up window should be greater than the longest query window.
Adding an External Coherence Cluster
When we are running OEP as a cluster then we have additional overhead in the servers. The HA Input Adapter is synchronizing event time across the servers, the HA Output adapter is synchronizing output events across the servers. The HA Output adapter is also buffering output events in the secondary's. We can't do anything about this but we can move the Coherence Cache we are using outside of the OEP servers, reducing the memory pressure on those servers and also moving some of the processing outside of the server. Making our Coherence caches external to our OEP cluster is a good idea for the following reasons:
- Allows moving storage of cache entries outside of the OEP server JVMs hence freeing more memory for storing CQL state.
- Allows storage of more entries in the cache by scaling cache independently of the OEP cluster.
- Moves cache processing outside OEP servers.
To create the external Coherence cache do the following:
- Create a new directory for our standalone Coherence servers, perhaps at the same level as the OEP domain directory.
- Copy the tangosol-coherence-override.xml file previously created for the OEP cluster into a config directory under the Coherence directory created in the previous step.
- Copy the coherence-cache-config.xml file from the application into a config directory under the Coherence directory created in the previous step.
- Add the following to the tangosol-coherence-override.xml file in the Coherence config directory:
- <coherence>
- Important Note: The <cluster-name> must match the name of the OEP cluster as defined in the <domain><name> element in the event servers config.xml.
- The member name is used to help identify the server.
- <coherence>
- Disable storage for our caches in the event servers by editing the coherence-cache-config.xml file in the application and adding the following element to the caches:
- <distributed-scheme>
- The local-storage flag stops the OEP server from storing entries for caches using this cache schema.
- Do not disable storage at the global level (-Dtangosol.coherence.distributed.localstorage=false) because this will disable storage on some OEP specific cache schemes as well as our application cache. We don't want to put those schemes into our cache servers because they are used by OEP to maintain cluster integrity and have only one entry per application per server, so are very small. If we put those into our Coherence Cache servers we would have to add OEP specific libraries to our cache servers and enable them in our coherence-cache-config.xml, all of which is too much trouble for little or no benefit.
- <distributed-scheme>
- If using Unicast Discovery (this section is not required if using Multicast) then we want to make the Coherence Grid be the Well Known Address servers because we want to disable storage of entries on our OEP servers, and Coherence nodes with storage disabled cannot initialize a cluster. To enable the Coherence servers to be primaries in the Coherence grid do the following:
- Change the unicast-listener addresses in the Coherence servers tangosol-coherence-override.xml file to be suitable values for the machine they are running on – typically change the listen address.
- Modify the WKA addresses in the OEP servers and the Coherence servers tangosol-coherence-override.xml file to match at least two of the Coherence servers listen addresses.
- The following table shows how this might be configured for 2 OEP servers and 2 Cache servers
OEP Server 1 OEP Server 2 Cache Server 1 Cache Server 2
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<socket-address id="1">
<socket-address id="2">
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<socket-address id="1">
<socket-address id="2">
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<socket-address id="1">
<socket-address id="2">
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<socket-address id="1">
<socket-address id="2">
- Note that the OEP servers do not listen on the WKA addresses, using different port numbers even though they run on the same servers as the cache servers.
- Also not that the Coherence servers are the ones that listen on the WKA addresses.
- Now that the configuration is complete we can create a start script for the Coherence grid servers as follows:
- #!/bin/sh
# specify the JVM heap size
if [[ $1 == '-jmx' ]]; then
JMXPROPERTIES="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dtangosol.coherence.management=all -Dtangosol.coherence.management.remote=true"
JAVA_OPTS="-Xms$MEMORY -Xmx$MEMORY $JMXPROPERTIES"
$JAVAEXEC -server -showversion $JAVA_OPTS -cp "${CACHE_SERVER_CLASSPATH}:${COHERENCE_JAR}" com.tangosol.net.DefaultCacheServer $1
- Note that I put the tangosol-coherence-override and the coherence-cache-config.xml files in a config directory and added that directory to my path (CACHE_SERVER_CLASSPATH=${CACHE_SERVER_HOME}/HADemoCoherence.jar:${CACHE_SERVER_HOME}/config) so that Coherence would find the override file.
- Because my application uses in-cache processing (entry processors) I had to add a jar file containing the required classes for the entry processor to the classpath (CACHE_SERVER_CLASSPATH=${CACHE_SERVER_HOME}/HADemoCoherence.jar:${CACHE_SERVER_HOME}/config).
- The classpath references the Coherence Jar shipped with OEP to avoid versoin mismatches (COHERENCE_JAR=${OEP_HOME}/modules/com.tangosol.coherence_188.8.131.52.jar).
- This script is based on the standard cache-server.sh script that ships with standalone Coherence.
- The –jmx flag can be passed to the script to enable Coherence JMX management beans.
- #!/bin/sh
We have now configured Coherence to use an external data grid for its application caches. When starting we should always start at least one of the grid servers before starting the OEP servers. This will allow the OEP server to find the grid. If we do start things in the wrong order then the OEP servers will block waiting for a storage enabled node to start (one of the WKA servers if using Unicast).
We have now created an OEP cluster that makes use of an external Coherence grid for application caches. The application has been modified to ensure that the timestamps of arriving events are synchronized and the output events are only output by one of the servers in the cluster. In event of failure we may get some duplicate events with our configuration (there are configurations that avoid duplicate events) but we will not lose any events. The final version of the application with full HA capability is shown below:
The following files are available for download:
- Oracle Event Processing
- Includes Coherence
- None-HA version of application
- Includes test file TestData.csv and Load Test property file HADemoTest.prop
- Includes Server.properties.Antony file to customize to point to your WLS installation
- HA version of application
- Includes test file TestData.csv and Load Test property file HADemoTest.prop
- Includes Server.properties.Antony file to customize to point to your WLS installation
- OEP Cluster Files
- Includes config.xml
- Includes tangosol-coherence-override.xml
- Includes Server.properties that will need customizing for your WLS environment
- Coherence Cluster Files
- Includes tangosol-coherence-override.xml and coherence-cache-configuration.xml
- includes cache-server.sh start script
- Includes HADemoCoherence.jar with required classes for entry processor
The following references may be helpful:
- Oracle Complex Event Processing High Availability White Paper
- Additional background reading with some good explanations.
- Oracle® Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Event Processing
- Oracle® Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Event Processing
- Oracle® CEP CQL Language Reference
- Oracle Fusion Middleware Java API Reference for Oracle Event Processing
- Oracle® Coherence Developer's Guide


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A single mother and her four children who were displaced after a fire damaged her public housing apartment Saturday will get a place to live despite an earlier denial.
The Houma-Terrebonne Housing Authority, which runs the low-income Senator Circle public housing complex, is required to provide housing to Charleta Lyons and her children — ages 17, 14, 11 and 9, federal Housing and Urban Development spokesman Patricia Campbell said Thursday.
The Red Cross and family members have been paying for the family to stay temporarily in a Houma hotel.
Lyons had planned to move to a homeless shelter Friday.
"You don't know what a relief it is," Lyons said Thursday. "Because I was in a hotel for five days, and I just didn't know what to do."
Houma-Terrebonne Housing Authority Director Wayne Thibodeaux said Wednesday the agency had no plans to give the family shelter before Houma Fire Department officials determine who was responsible the blaze at 234B Senator Circle.
Until that happened, he said, "I have determined that we don't have an obligation. She has family."
Fire Inspector Mike Millet said the investigation had come to a dead end, and fire officials may never know who is to blame.
Thibodeaux's decision contradicts the federal agency's policies, Campbell said.
"They are responsible for providing housing to Ms. Lyons when her housing assistance provided by Red Cross ends on Saturday," she said. "In the absence of available housing at the housing authority, the public housing authority is still responsible to provide adequate housing for its residents."
Thibodeaux couldn't be reached Thursday for comment.
The terms of Lyons' lease say if "the dwelling unit is rendered uninhabitable by circumstances beyond the resident's control," the Housing Authority must provide the resident another dwelling unit "on a temporary basis, until the damaged unit is fixed."
If the damage were determined to be Lyons' fault, the lease gives the Housing Authority the right to deny her another apartment and to require her to reimburse the agency for the cost of repairs to her old one.
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Mario Kart delivers what most games only wish they could do. It can be considered as one of the best hand-held games out there. It is easily accessible and you can play with it for hours without getting a bit bored, thanks to its online feature.
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In Mario Kart DS, you get to race and battle all 8 players at once just like the other Mario Kart games. You still get the 8 all-star cast which includes Bowser, Donkey Kong, Luigi, Mario, Peach, Toad, Wario, and Yoshi. The courses that can be played now come from the different Mario Kart games like Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, and the likes. Players too are no longer limited since you can play online and challenge other players from other places.
Mario Kart DS might be new to some but to those that have played it in the past, there seems to be very little change that can be seen. It has been observed that the makers of the game didn't do much to change the game; thus, you still get the same feel when you play just like how you felt the first time you did. Although this might sound a little odd, Mario Kart has managed to pull it off leaving users satisfied with the game.
The gameplay might be the same; but there certainly have been some noticeable additions. First, in the "items" section of the game, 3 new items have been added. You can make use of boo to make you invisible and immune to attacks while being able to steal other player's items, or release a blooper making your opponent's screen covered in black ink, or use the bullet bill and speed up to your advantage. Like the rest of the items, the effectiveness of these newly added ones still vary on how well you make use of them. The timing and accuracy still play a very important role in this game.
Another change that you may notice is the altered view that the map has. If in the past all you could see were all 8 players running around the race track, now you can also see where both traps and unused items are located.
You also get to see your opponent's position as well as their artillery or the item they have on hand. This makes you somewhat prepared for what is to happen in the later race.
As what has been mentioned before, you can now play with this game online. Once online, you get to meet other players and race with them for fun. Mario Kart DS is also the first to make use of the Nintendo WiFi.
Finally, in this game you get missions or tasks you need to complete that can eventually lead you to the boss.
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STOCKTON – Former San Francisco mayor and longtime state lawmaker Willie Brown tonight is scheduled to swear in Anthony Silva as Stockton's next mayor.
Brown, 78, served two terms as San Francisco's 41st mayor from 1996 to 2004 after serving in the state Assembly from 1964 to 1995, making history as the body's longest-serving Speaker in California history.
Silva, 39, will take the oath from Brown in a ceremony at 6 tonight on the sixth floor at the San Joaquin County Administration Building, 44 N. San Joaquin St. in downtown Stockton.
Silva won office overwhelmingly in the Nov. 6 election and takes the lead of a city in the middle of bankruptcy and a period of record high street violence. Also taking office on the city council are Michael Tubbs, Moses Zapien and Kathy Miller.
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Dan Moore, certified physician assistant at McLaren-Greater Lansing Internal Medicine in Lansing, is treating poison ivy this week.
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IndyCar Notes And Review, Mere Anarchy Edition
-We've got to start with one of the bigger stories, and that's the swirl of Panther/Dreyer and Reinbold rumors out there. I've now heard everything from a buyout of DRR by Panther to some formation of a partnership or simple tech alliance. I'm tending to think it's some sort of partnership/joint entry to help DRR get that Chevy engine--right now, I'm stopping short of calling it anything else. However, I do think it's going to be a pretty big deal in INDYCAR terms.
-So is Jean Alesi in or out? After Newman/Haas pulled their entry, we're still waiting to hear if his odyssey to the 500 is back on. The 47 year-old isn't exactly awash in confidence from the fans, but he'd hardly be the first driver to come late in looking for a ride at Indy. The Alesi camp seems very confident of an announcement shortly, but we'll have to see what actually transpires.
-I am really, really glad that Chevy's appeal of their failed is being heard on May 9th. Not because I feel justice will or won't be served, but at least we have a definitive date where this case will finally die, one way or the other. Many people geek out on tech spec arguments. I am not one of them. In fact, if something mechanical can't be fixed by banging on it repeatedly with a hammer, I am generally at a loss for how to remedy it.
-Although Michael Shank Racing hasn't given up, it certainly doesn't seem very likely they'll find a spot for Indy. But with the way this month has gone already, I'm not counting anything out, including Tom Sneva coming out of retirement.
-As I mentioned in yesterday's article, Jay Howard is still looking for a ride. It's hard to tell what direction this is going, or what a Panther/DRR merge for Indy could mean for its prospects. I'm also wondering if it isn't down to Howard or Alesi for a final Lotus seat. I can only imagine the immense amount of heartburn and frustration that comes with shopping a deal in a transition year. Keep at it, Jay, and best of luck.
-Don't forget, Townsend Bell should be "officially" announced as the driver of the #99 Sam Schmidt car today. That's been long expected, but it's always good to fill in another TBA after the actual announcement.
-A thought on the recent rash of news, for good and for ill: this is what a new car brings. This is what engine competition brings. This is what people wanting to be part of a Series brings. For every maddening engine discussion, there's a lot going on for the fan to follow, speculate on, and debate. The time of a small story each week, followed by a big story perhaps once each month, are over. We're getting into a busy news cycle, and though that's not always the best when discussing things in perspective, it is an overall positive. Ultimately, more to discuss is good for INDYCAR, but they need to do a strong job in promoting and selling the right story lines through social media.
-Every year we worry about not getting 33 cars, and every year it happens. Depending on Alesi, we could see as many as 34. Now after practice and qualifications, will we have 33 cars in one piece? Maybe not, but I'm still confident we hit that magic 33 number.
Have a great weekend, get some rest before things really kick off next weekend, and work on getting those friends of yours out for a day at the track!
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Not only has the swirl of stories revolving around the entrants been entertaining, we also then move forward to how the actual month plays out.ReplyDelete
In other words, some not so unimaginable 'what-ifs' can still shake things up of course:
- Will there be enough spare parts and chassis and motors and cash if the modest field of entrants totally wrecks 5 or 6 chassis or motors? I know they've 'planned' for extras, just curious how deep that actually goes.
- If things go well for most teams, and despite teams saying otherwise, will some T-cars appear on Fast Friday with heretofore unspoken drivers seated within?
- Which brings me to another question - ARE there T cars anymore and are they not considered an entry?
So many questions and little time to answer them. That's what May gives us anymore... Intrigue.
- AnonymousMay 4, 2012 at 10:30 AM
All of this drama is actually good. These protests and engine discussions have made there way into the mainstream media. Keeping indyCar relevant is a good thing. IndyCar continues to trend up.ReplyDelete
Very true on all counts.ReplyDelete
And good questions, DZ. I'm not sure I have the answers, but I do wonder about Bump Day. I think it all depends on the attrition between now and then.
- Calvin ReynoldsMay 4, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Great food for thought Zach.ReplyDelete
You'll also appreciate this Kenneth More quote from 'The Longest Day': "My old Grandmother said: anything mechanical, give it a good bash!"
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Oh, yes, I love that line! The beachmaster was one of the best roles of the film. :)Delete


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Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito (68) and tackle Jonathan Martin (71) stand on the field during an NFL football practice in Davie, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) by Fred GoodallAP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has broken his silence on the bullying scandal that has engulfed his team, saying he's appalled by Jonathan Martin's allegations of daily harassment by teammates. Ross said he plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location and that he has been in touch with the tackle by text. " I look forward to meeting with Jonathan Martin, discovering the facts," Ross said.


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A Dadeville man is in jail on multiple gambling-related charges stemming from three "Internet cafes" that investigators say he and a Georgia couple owned in Florida.
Agents from the U.S. Secret Service and Dadeville police arrested 58-year-old Samuel Keeble at his home without incident March 12. He is in the Tallapoosa County Jail awaiting a hearing for possible extradition to Florida. He does not yet have an attorney, but he told police it was a case of mistaken identity.
Being sought are Gary Wayne Davis and Diane Davis of Hogansville, Ga. Authorities say they were partners in the enterprises that officials called a "sophisticated racketeering and money laundering scheme."
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If it were up to him, Chad Kerley wouldn't walk another step in his life. His feet are used to going in a dizzying circular pattern, lifted a few inches from the concrete, gripping a set of pedals. That's where he's most comfortable, not with his legs swinging back and forth, pounding his fresh pair of Nike kicks against the unforgiving pavement. He's been riding a bike so long, he claims he barely even knows how to walk anymore.
"I just feel awkward now," Chad says. "I don't do it often, so I look weird walking. I could ride from [New York] to China and wouldn't be as tired as I am walking around."
Bicycles aren't the only thing Chad uses to get around, though. He's quick to hail a cab in big cities; he has no problem handling a halfpipe on a skateboard; and in high school, the girls are on a constant swivel, watching for one of his notorious piggyback attacks. Anything to avoid some steps. Regardless of his methods, Chad has been finding a way to push forward since he was 18 months old, when he first broke the shackles of training wheels and hit the open road on two wheels. The one thing he's never had to ride is anybody else's coattails.
At 18 years old, Chad has spent all his life in Serra Mesa, a neighborhood in San Diego of less than 30,000, smushed between Interstates 15 and 805 near Qualcomm Stadium, home of the Chargers.
Football, or any other mainstream sport, was never of interest to Chad. He started racing with a 14-inch Kent from Toys "R" Us at age four, when he couldn't even get over the jumps, and has only moved up in the biking community since.
I'd be at a race where there was a park nearby, and they'd have to come get me like, 'Yo, your race is coming up soon, you have to get ready.'
Chad quickly rose to the top of the kids' racing ranks, winning his district five times in a row, winning State two times, attaining National Age Group 1 at age 13, and placing second in Worlds later the same year. After nine years of speed, Chad decided racing had run its course. He was done, whether his parents liked it or not.
"I was over it. My dad flipped, because that was all I knew. But I wasn't having fun," Chad said. "I started purely because I wanted to make it over the jumps, and I was tired of working out and constantly having to get faster. I was the best, and to stay the best, it was work, not fun."
More and more, he was drawn to skateparks.
"I'd be at a race where there was a park nearby, and they'd have to come get me like, 'Yo, your race is coming up soon, you have to get ready,' but I just wanted to kick it there," he said.
Once he found a new, more natural-fitting, comfort zone with BMX street freestyling, he regained his strong passion for bicycling.
"Freestyling isn't nearly as stressful as racing," he said, reducing racing to a thing of the past. "I'm not competing against somebody. I'm just riding around with my friends, making videos, and doing whatever I want."
Like his natural talent, sponsors came to the Cali kid early. After multiple small offers in racing, his first major opportunity came just 10 minutes from his home. Chad was riding at Clairemont skatepark in Mission Valley when the Haro BMX crew took over. Premium, a company owned by Haro, wasn't watching its own riders, though. Chad's particular skill set was what popped at the park that day, and Premium wanted him. That same day, he responded with an are-you-crazy-of-course-I-do "Hell yeah!" when asked if he wanted to join. Less than two years later, he turned pro for the company and has vaulted as their biggest BMXer.


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Looking Behind the December Unemployment Data
Economists and others weigh in on the report showing a 155,000 gain in U.S. jobs and the unemployment rate unchanged at 7.8%.
–December's jobs numbers represent yet another good-not-great labor market report, a description which could characterize just about every piece of incoming employment data issued since midsummer. In some sense, this long-lasting mediocre situation echoes broader trends in the US economy, where we're faced with a number of risks from marginal components of economic growth (government spending, energy, exports), and a lack of "inspiration" when it comes to the core sources of output. As the page turns to 2013, there's little hint of change for the next twelve months. Long live the zero interest rate policy! –Guy LeBas, Janney Montgomery Scott
–Employment in the pro-cyclical construction (up 30,000) and manufacturing (up 25,000) sectors were higher on the month, providing some indication of improving growth momentum. Employment in the retail sector, however, declined by 11,000, undoing some of the brisk jobs gains in the previous months. Employment growth in the acyclical education and health services, added a whopping 65,000 – accounting for over one-third of all the job gains reported in December. –Millan L. B. Mulraine, TD Securities
–Total government employment fell by 13,000 as local and federal job losses outweighed growth at the state level. Finally, temporary help jobs declined by 1,000. Temporary help jobs have been a tremendous source of job growth since 2010. But since these jobs tend to pay less than full time jobs and since many view this development as a response to growing uncertainty and taxation at the federal level, the response by pundits has been muted. As it stands now, total nonfarm employment stands at about 134,000. That still leaves us about 4 million jobs short of the peak set right at the start of 2008. We all know the job losses in this recession were worse than anything we've seen in the post war era but with a relatively slow economic recovery, the length of time it is taking to recover that previous high dwarfs anything we've seen over the same time frame. –Dan Greenhaus, BTIG LLC
– The couriers and messengers sector fell -11,000. Recall this sector surged dramatically in the last few Decembers as BLS seasonal factors had trouble adjusting to rising Internet/shopping delivery trend. It looks like the seasonal factors have caught on (and if anything are now overcompensating). –Jay Feldman, Credit Suisse
–Employment (particularly in the private sector) continued to expand at a moderate rate in the final three months of 2012 despite the uncertainties over the fiscal cliff. Apart from the moderate pickup in private employment in the last three months versus the last year, there were other positives within the report including the strengthening in wage growth, the increase in the workweek (combined they point to a strong increase in wage incomes in December, while manufacturing hours suggest a very solid gain in manufactured output in the month), and increases in employment in the key sectors of construction and manufacturing. However, employment growth has not been strong enough to make further inroads into lowering the unemployment rate. –RDQ Economics
–Not especially strong nor weak. While a 150,000-170,000 per month trend in payrolls is far from booming, it is strong enough over time to keep the unemployment rate moving down given slowing in the secular trend in labor force growth. Unemployment was flat in December, but it is down 0.4 points in the last six months.–James F. O'Sullivan, MF Global
–We are still a fair way from the 6.5% Fed target, it is also important to note that as the labour market situation continues to improve there will be an encouraged worker effect which should see the unemployment rate decline at a less aggressive pace than we have seen over the last year. –David Semmens, Standard Chartered Bank
–This report indicates an economy that is stuck on a shallow growth trajectory. –Steven Ricchiuto, Mizuho Securities
–Beyond the headline employment numbers, gains in average hourly earnings (+0.3% m/m) and the workweek (up 0.1 to 34.5) are encouraging signs that the labor market more broadly is firmly in recovery mode. Aggregate hours rose an annualized 1.5% q/q in Q4 (up from 1.0% in Q3) and the payroll proxy of income was up 3.5%, up from 2.8%. –Peter Newland, Barclays Capital
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