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To WilliamWilliam C. CarrCarr , Judge of the Cir
cuit Court, within & for the County of St. LouisCounty of St Louis
The petition of AspasieAspasia , a free woman of colour, represents to your honor, that She was,
(as she has always been informed and believes to be
true, and is ready to prove,) born of a negro woman
held in slavery by one Baptiste Jeandrau
in the Town of KaskaskiaKaskaskia in the now state
of IllinoisIllinois, about the year 1806; that your petitioner
was held and claimed as a slave by said
from her birth until about four or
five years ago, where your petitioner was pur
chased by Colonel Menard now a resident
of the said Town of KaskaskiaKaskaskia; that your petitioner was soon, after given to FrancoisFrancois Chouteau ChouteauFrancois Chouteau
and his wife, the latter of whom is the
daughter of said MenardMenard , both of whom now reside
in the County & city of St.LouisSt Louis in the
state of MissouriMissouri, and have for several years &
do now hold your petitioner in a state of absolute slavery, deprived of all her natural rights and privileges & in contempt and
defiance of the ordinance of the Congress of
the United StatesUnited States, made for the government of
Territory Northwest of the river OhioOhio,passed on the 13th day of July in the year of our Lord 1787 of which said
Territory IllinoisIllinois is a part, as your petitioner
your petitioner claims her freedom, being born
in said Territory Since the passage of said ordinance
Your petitioner therefore prays that she
may be permitted to sue as a poor person for
County, according to the form of the statute in
that behalf made and provided, and that she
may be permitted to make the said FrancoisFrancois Chouteau
ChouteauFrancois Chouteau , by whatever name he may be
called, and all other person claiming your
petitioner as a slave parties in said suit â. And your petitioner will ever pray
State of MissouriMissouri
County of St. LouisCounty of St Louis
Personally appeared before
me PeterPeter FergusonFerguson a
Justice of the peace within and for the
county of St.LouisSt Louis, AspasieAspasia , a woman of
color, the person in the foregoing petition
mentioned, who being sworn, upon her corporal
oath saith, that the statutes & facts
contained in the foregoing petition, Stated on
her own knowledge are true, and, and
those are the information of others she believes
to be true
me this 28th may 1827
PeterPeter FergusonFerguson
Justice of the peace
In the Circuit to Court July Term 1827.
St. Louis County Court,
AspasieAspasia who is permitted to sue as a
poor person by McGirk & Bent her attorneys complains of
FrancoisFrancois Chouteau ChouteauFrancois Chouteau of a plea of trespass with force and
arms for that whereas heretofore towith on thefirst day of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Twenty six. The said Francois ChouteauFrancois Chouteau to wit
at the county of St. LouisSt Louis aforesaid, an assault did make
in and upon the body of the said AspasieAspasia
then there beat bruised ill-treated, & imprisoned her
the said AspasieAspasia there the said AspasieAspasia then & there kept
and detained in prison against her will & consent &
without any reasonable or probable cause, for a long
period of time towit for the Term of eleven months
St Louis Circuit CourtCircuit Court
July Term 1827.
Francois ChouteauFrancois Chouteau
This is an action of assault & battery imprisonment
Issue a Summons
McGirk & Bent
ArchArchibald Gamble GambleArchibald Gamble Clerk
Executed this writ on FrancoisFrancois Chouteau ChouteauFrancois Chouteau May 30th 1827 in the
City of St. LouisCity of St Louis by reading the writ Declaration & order of the Judge to him
R. SimpsonR Simpson Sheriff
L.P. Simonds Jr. Dp. SheriffService $1.00
State ofMissouri MissouriMissouri
On reading within petition and affidavit, it is
ordered that the within named AspasieAspasia be permitted to sue as a poor
person according to the form of the Statute in such case made
and providedJohnJohn Bent BentJohn Bent Esquire are assigned as counsel. It is
further ordered that the said AspasiaAspasia have reasonable liberty to attend
her counsel & the court when occasion may require it and the said
AspasiaAspasia shall not he taken or removed out of the jurisdiction of
the circuit court for the county of St. LouisSt Louis, nor be subject to any severity,
because of her application for freedom â
WillWill C. CarrCarr
Judge 3. Circuit
County of St. LouisCounty of St Louis
The state of MissouriMissouri
to the Sheriff of St. Louis County Greeting
We command you to summon Francois ChouteauFrancois Chouteau that he be
and appear before the judge of our circuit court at the next time
thereof to be held at the City of St. LouisCity of St Louis within and for the county
of St. LouisSt Louis on the Fourth monday of July next then and there to
answer unto AspasieAspasia of a plea of Trespass with force and arms
to the damage of the said AspasieAspasia of one thousand dollars
and have you then there this writ
WitnessArchibald GambleArchibald Gamble Clerk of our said
Court at Office this Thirtieth day of May in the year 1827
Archibald GambleArchibald Gamble Clerk
And her the said AspasieAspasia he the said FrancoisFrancois still continues in prison & confinement contrary to the laws
of this state, and other wrongs to her the said AspasieAspasia then & there did against the place & dignity
of the state of MissouriMissouri; whereby the said AspasieAspasia
says she is injured and has sustained damage from
the said FrancoisFrancois to the sum of One Thousand
dollars, wherefore she sues
McGirk & Bent
State of MissouriMissouri
County of St. LouisCounty of St Louis
Personally appeared before
me PeterPeter FergusonFerguson a justice of the peace within
and for the county of St.LouisSt Louis, AspasieAspasia a woman of color; the person who signed & swore to the
truth of the foregoing Petition, and upon her corporal oath, by me administrated, saith, that She has been
informed by Mrs. ChouteauChouteau the wife of the foregoing named
FrancoisFrancois Chouteau ChouteauFrancois Chouteau in said petition mentioned, that she
& the said FrancisFrancis had determined to send this affiant
out of the state of MissouriMissouri, & had made preparations
to do so, but that not finding his affiant at
the time, She had refuted; & further this affiant saith that
she has understood and verily believes, that it is now the
find design & intention of the said FrancoisFrancois Chouteau ChouteauFrancois Chouteau
and wife to carry this affiant an board the steam
boat AmericaAmerica, now in port, and about to sail in a
few hours and convey this affiant down the river out
of the boundaries & this state for the express purpose
of preventing this affiant from constituting suit for &
obtaining her freedom; And further this affiant saith
that to require her to procure the affidavit of any
white person to attest the truth of her petition, would
be the certain means of defeating the ends of justice
& the institution of any suit for the freedom of this
affiant, and that she is certain, that of she is debarred
from her right to sue for her freedom immediately,
that her right will be completely defeated by delay
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this thirteith day of May 1827
PeterPeter FergusonFerguson Justice of the peace
County St.Louis State of MissouriMissouri
State of MissouriMissouri, 3. Judicial Circuit ss.
On reading the within petition & affidavit it is
ordered that the within named AspasieAspasia be
permitted to sue as a poor person according to
the form of the statute in such case made & provided,
and IsaacIsaac C. McMcGirk GirkMcGirk & John BentJohn Bent Esquires are
assigned as her counsel. It is further ordered that the
said AspasieAspasia have reasonable liberty to attened her
counsel & the court when occasion may require it,
and that the said AspasieAspasia shall not be taken or
removed out of the jurisdiction of the Circuit CourtCircuit Court for
the County of St.LouisCounty of St Louis, nor be subject to any severity,
because of her application for freedom.
this 30. May 1827.
WillWill C.CarrCarr
Judge 3. Circuit
Filed May 30th 1827
Archibald GambleArchibald Gamble clerk.
St. Louis Circuit CourtCircuit CourtJuly Term 1827.
And the said ChouteauChouteau by J SpaldingJ Spalding his attorney
comes and defends the force and injury when
& c. and says that he is not guilty of the said supposed trespasses above
laid to his charge or any past thereof in manner and form in as the said
AspasieAspasia hath above thereof complained against him and of this he said
ChouteauChouteau defendant puts himself upon Country &c.
And for a further plea in this behalf said defendant
says that said plaintiff ought not to have or maintain her aforesaid
action thereof against him because he says that the said
plaintiff was at the time when said several supposed trespasses
were committed and during all that time & from thence hitherto
was & now is, the slave of him the said defendant and this he
is ready to verify; wherefore he prays judgment if the said
plaintiff ought have or maintain her aforesaid action
against him &c.
J. SpaldingJ Spaldingfor defnt
And the said AspasieAspasia of the first plea of the said
FrancoisFrancois by him above pleaded doth the like
And for replication to the plea of the said FrancoisFrancois by him
secondly above pleaded She says that she was not at the time when
the said several trespasses committed & from that time hitherto nor is she now the slave of him the said FrancoisFrancois in manner & form as he
has in his plea alleged
Bent & McGirk P. Q.Filed July 25th 1827
A gamble Clerk
A G clerk
FrancoisFrancois Chouteau ChouteauFrancois Chouteau
In the St. LouisSt Louis circuit
court, Novr Term 1827
The above named defendant will take
notice, that the plaintiff in the above named cause,
will attend by herself or attorney at the Dwelling house of Madam RocheblaveRocheblave in the City of St. LouisCity of St Louis an saturday the
twenty fourth day of November instant between
the hours of nine of the forenoon and four
of the afternoon of that day, and then and there take the depositions of witnesses to be read at
the trial of the above named cause, an the
post of the plaintiff
St. LouisSt Louis, Novr 15th 1827
AspasieAspasia, by
Bent & McGirk Attys
FrancoisFrancois Chouteau ChouteauFrancois Chouteau
Notice to take depositions on 24 Nov.
A copy of the within notice was
delivered to Francois ChouteauFrancois Chouteau Nov 16. 1827.
R SimpsonR Simpson Shff
County Of St. LouisSt Louis, Sct.
The State of MissouriMissouri,
To the Sheriff of St. Louis County--Greeting.
You are hereby commanded to summon Marie Louise RocheblaveMaria Louisa Rocheblave , Louise La Chapelle
that, setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the Judge
of our Circuit CourtCircuit Court , on the Seventh day of December at the City of St. LouisCity of St Louis,
then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our
said Court, wherein AspasieAspasia is plaintiff,
and Francois ChouteauFrancois Chouteau is defendant,
on the part of the plaintiff; and have you then there this writ.
CourtCircuit Court , at the City of St. LouisCity of St Louis, this fourth day ofDecember in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
A gambleClerk, C.C.
Executed on Marie LouiseMaria Louisa Rocheblave RocheblaveMaria Louisa Rocheblave
and LouiseLouise LaChapelle LaChapelleLouise LaChapelle by reading to
them the same this 7th of December 1827
John Musick Sheriff
Francois ChouteauFrancois Chouteau
Marie LouisMaria Louisa Rocheblave RocheblaveMaria Louisa Rocheblave
LouiseLouise LaChapelle LaChapelleLouise LaChapelle
Deposition taken at the dwelling house of Madam RocheblaveRocheblave within
CityCity of St Louis of St. LouisCity of St Louison Saturday the twenty fourth day of November within the year 1827 between the hours of nine the forenoon and
four in the afternoon of said any by virtue of writ to be read in evidence at the trial or the case Now... Circuit court of the county
of St. LouisSt Louis Between AspasieAspasia woman of color
as plaintiff and Francois ChouteauFrancois Chouteau defendant on the part of the plaintiff
MarieMaria Louisa Rocheblave LouiseMaria Louisa Rocheblave RocheblaveMaria Louisa Rocheblave being duly sworn on her oath
Saith that she is a acquainted with AspasieAspasia a mulatto girl, knew her
at KaskaskiaKaskaskia in the state of IllinoisIllinois, knew her from the period
of her birth, was the slave of a certain Baptiste Jeandrau
same place has understood that she had been sold by Jeandrau
to Pierre MenardPierre Menard with whose daughter she the said AspasieAspasia
came to the city of St. LouisSt Louis, has held her within city of some
time back, that the said AspasieAspasia was born at KaskaskiaKaskaskia in the family of Jeandrau this deponent is acquainted with the mistress of said AspasieAspasia , the wife of FrancoisFrancois Chouteau -
ChouteauFrancois Chouteau , has visited the home of said ChouteauChouteau where she has seen said AspasieAspasia in capacity of a slave, believing the
said AspasieAspasia may be and of twenty years of age
Sworn to & subscribed
on the day and year between the hours and at the place above written, the plaintiff attending...
Justice of the Peace
MarieMarie LouiseLouise LaChapelle LaChapelleLouise LaChapelle being also duly sworn on her oath saith that she is acquainted with AspasieAspasia the above named girl, knew her at KasKaskia in IllinoisIllinois, understood that
the said AspasieAspasia was born at KaskaskiaKaskaskia...here at the taking of these depositions and who is
Francois ChouteauFrancois Chouteau
the clerk of the circuit court
St. Louis County
Filed 3rd December, 1827
A gamble clerk


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Server back up.
Logged in as Jacemora, hearthed to Dalaran and ported to Stormwind… WOW. Flying over SW is cool, and now I am not sure I will visit IF nearly as much.
Nice, found the starting point for Level 80's in Cataclysm. Right in the middle of the trade district.
Whoa, let me highly recommend going to SW, accepting the quest to Hyjal, and taking the port to Moonglade instead of porting yourself to Moonglade and flying yourself to Hyjal. That is all I am going to say… if for no other reason some easy XP.
Ok, I see the FP now at Nordrassil… son't know how I missed that early excpt that the green ! are no longer on the mini map for some reason… could be me… I now have connecting Flight Paths in Hyjal.
More observations…
- Still getting Wrath dust for DEing
- I hit Honored with Guardians of Hyjal
Dinner Time, more later.
Departure from WOW… just this post silly.
So every now and again I write a post about something unrelated to World of Warcraft, not as often as BRK used to with his coffee ramblings, but once in a blue moon… this is one of those posts.
I can't tell you how excited I am that Windows will be releasing a competitor to the Apple IPhone. Take a look HERE.
Most people know that many years ago in the infancy of personal computing Windows was made popular by taking ideas from the Apple OS, just as Apple did from Xerox and since then it has gone on and on and back and forth.
My beef is with Apple making the absolute horrible choice to tie their product down to one phone carrier (a bad one at that). Many of us are tied to certain carriers through our jobs, multiple year agreements, or area availability. Apple has always relished in turning it's nose up to the masses and I can fully appreciate how it is going to bite them in the rear once again.
Microsoft failed with Zune, no one can argue that but it was due to Apple putting the Ipod product out there in mass at all price points, colors, sizes, and with a wonderful software product to make using them easy (Itunes).
Make no doubt Microsoft is about to borrow another idea from Apple and do the same thing with the Windows phone they did with the Ipod… I can just hear all the nerd squeals as people think about the apps they are going to be able to make for the Windows phone using Silverlight (just a guess as dev's don't know yet how apps will be made.)
Check out THIS slick Silverlight App out there now for ferals (ok, I had to slip in a Warcraft reference somewhere in the post.)
Bottom line, since I have Verizon as my carrier and have been 100% satisfied with my service and coverage, I am praying that the Windows 7 phone does not let me down this Holiday season… I believe my wait for an IPhone will soon be ended… and I can just point and laugh at my Iphone buddies and their continuously dropped calls and bad reception… muhahahahaha.
Disclaimer – I am in no way getting a free early Windows phone for this post and I will still have the Iphone wordpress plugin for my readers… psssst, if you work for Microsoft I would take one though and write awesome things about it.
Farewell to Toskk
Toskk has decided for the time being to move on from the game of WOW.
Just a shout out wishing him the best and saying thank you, your theorycrafting saved me countless hours of doing my own math and selling / buying / grinding the wrong gear.
Good Luck in your future endeavors.
Oh man, first nerfs to content and now nerfs to tanks?
How about just leave the content and our classes alone and work on something else Blizzard?
Blue post on tanking avoidance changes…
Avoidance changes in 3.2
The main goal of the change was to make parry not so much less attractive than dodge as an avoidance stat. Since tank avoidance is so high already, we wanted to do that by nerfing dodge a little, not by buffing parry.
This hurts druids slightly more than other tanks, but the emphasis is on "slightly." This is not the big druid nerf that some forum posters have predicted. We will continue to evaluate tank survivability and threat generation based on PTR tests with "Patchwerk" to decide if druids need to be nerfed or DKs buffed or look at Prot warrior dps or anything else.
This is also not the big avoidance "come to Naaru" that some posters predicted. Overall, we think avoidance is too high and the game would work better with lower tank avoidance, but suddenly dropping everyone's avoidance by 20 or 30% would be a very big change with many ramifications for healing and gear among other things. It would also feel like a big nerf to the many players who didn't understand why it would be better for the game in the long term. But I still expect it is coming at some point. (Source)
What the hell? I just started ramping up my avoidance set and gearing more for avoidance than stamina and now this? Bears are going to continue to get screwed I can just tell. We had our short lived hayday at the beginning of Wrath and it has been all downhill ever since.
Some reminders Blizzard…
- We don't have block and parry.
- We don't get bonus armor any longer from items.
- We get less health for stamina now.
- We get less dodge from agility than ever before already.
- We get less threat stacking the only decent stat left in stamina.
- We have a buggy version of block that doesn't work right and wasn't that great to begin with.
I know warriors could use some help. I know DK tanks are OP. I know pally tanks I play with are just fine with good threat.
Where exactlly does that leave us bears that have done nothing but take nerf after nerf… with more nerfs to fix the other classes?
Yes this one change, taken by itself just hurts slightly. But factor in everything else we have lost and it hurts a lot. And behind this little hurt change you mention nerfing us more down the road.
Blizzard, did you know most of your Ulduar encounters do a lot of raid wide damage that tests the healers abilities, now you want to make the tank harder to heal as well? Really?
Do you guys know how challenging tanking already is with rotating all the verious mitigation cool downs we all have now?
I am thinking the blue poster meant Driud buffs and DK nerfs when referring to patchwerk testing… or at least I hope he did.
Rant over. Kitty Pew Pew incoming.


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Special acknowledgements
- Lorraine Krukowski (Project Manager, IBM Global Technology Services) - The team would like to give special thanks to Lorraine for her efforts in putting the team together and working with the customer to provide the environment that was used in performing the tests.
For most mission critical IBM Tivoli Directory Server (ITDS) deployments, customers rely on DB2 online backup utilities to take frequent backups while the system is up and running. DB2 online backup utilities provide the added advantage of not requiring stopping ITDS during the backup process. The online backup process works very well for systems that do not contain large binary objects (LOB). However, when an ITDS directory uses DB2 Systems Managed Storage (SMS) and includes LOB data, the online backup process may block access to the database for a period ranging from 72 seconds to 15 minutes, depending on the size of the database. All LDAP transactions may be blocked during this period of time until the DB2 online backup process completes. This lockout is definitely unacceptable as it may violate the customer's service level agreements. By default, when an ITDS DB2 instance is created, the resulting table spaces use SMS as opposed to database managed storage (DMS) table space containers. The lock management scheme used by DB2 for SMS table spaces in both versions 8 and 9 for LOB data have been known to cause lockouts. This problem does not occur with database DMS. In addition, DMS has several advantages over SMS, including:
- In general, a well-tuned set of DMS table spaces will outperform SMS table spaces. The difference is small on most platforms, but large on others, especially if LOB data is present.
- The size of a table space can be increased by adding or extending containers, using the ALTER TABLESPACE statement and existing data can be automatically rebalanced across the new set of containers to retain optimal I/O efficiency.
- A table can be split across multiple table spaces, based on the type of data being stored:
- Long field and LOB data
- Indexes
- Regular table data
- The location of the data on the disk can be controlled, if this is allowed by the operating system
- The backup procedure itself is often much faster when using DMS
Determine if LOB data is present
LOB data can be present in Tivoli Directory Server when binary objects like JPEG photographs or PKI certificates or XML documents are stored in the directory, or when some entries in the directory are large. Before using online backup with directory instances and SMS, it is best to check whether LOB data is present. (Offline backup can always be used, but may not suit the requirements of the deployment.) To check where LOB data is present, take a snapshot of the database as follows:
Listing 1. Determining if LOB data exists
$db2 connect to db2inst1 $db2 update monitor switches using table on $db2 get snapshot for all on db2inst1 > snap.out $db2 connect reset
In the snapshot, there will be several lines for LOB Object Pages. If these lines are absent, or if only one page is present for a given table, there is no LOB data in the directory. Otherwise, online backup should not be used if the directory uses SMS tablespaces.
Other kinds of migration
When an instance of Tivoli Directory Server is migrated to a new machine or a new set of disks, it is usually sufficient to back up the database and then restore it on the new machine or disks. However, there are cases where this approach will not work. If one of the machines is Windows and the other is Linux or Unix, the backup/restore procedure can't be used. If one of the machines is Linux on Intel, and the other is Linux on power, backup/restore won't work. Finally, if the source machine is using SMS, and the target machine is running DMS -- or conversely -- backup/restore won't work. The migration procedure described in this document can be used for each of these cases, and not only for moving from SMS to DMS.
SMS versus DMS - Test Results
The following sections contain details of the test setup and summary results of the actual test runs.
Test Setup
The test environment consisted of three ITDS servers running on IBM pSeries® 510 hardware with 8 Gigabytes of memory. These machines all contained an extra set of local disk drives that were initially intended to be used as mirrors. Since these spare drives were available, the team decided to use them as storage for the DMS database without disrupting the existing data. New file systems were created on the spare drives. Using Perl performance tools created for driving massive amounts of transactions, approximately 150 thousand test entries were created and added to the directories. These scripts simulated a very high volume customer environment with thousands of transactions with multiple threads. The number of threads is configurable and the number was adjusted up to 1000 threads in some of the tests. Peer to peer replication was also enabled, similar to most high volume customer deployments. The following is a summary of the three servers:
- M1 - This server was not actually used for the test. However, since replication was enabled, all modifications made to M2 and M3 were replicated to this server.
- M2 - This was the server where most of the tests took place. It was initially used as the benchmark server. Several test runs were performed on it to collect baseline data while running on SMS. The SMS to DMS migration was later performed and another set of tests were run under DMS. The test results contained in the next section are primarily based on the tests run on this server.
- M3 - This was the server where all the initial SMS to DMS conversion scripts were developed and tested. The performance test results from this server did not compare very well to the results received from M2. Unfortunately, no benchmark tests were run on this server before it was converted to DMS. As a result, we have no way of knowing why the performance results were not as good as those from M2.
Test data
The following tables contain a summary of the test results collected from M2 during the comparisons between SMS and DMS in the development environment.
|Test Run
|Number of Registrations (per min)
|Minimum Registration Time (in seconds)
|Maximum Registration Time (in Seconds)
|Average Registration Time (in seconds)
|Test 1
|Note: One registration transaction equals 1 LDAP add, 9 LDAP modifies, 25 LDAP binds and 36 LDAP search operations
|Test 2
|Test 3
|Test 4
|Test Run
|Number of Registrations (per min)
|Minimum Registration Time (in seconds)
|Maximum Registration Time (in Seconds)
|Average Registration Time (in seconds)
|Note: With SMS, the systems freezes consistently during the backup, starting between 58% and 69% and finally frees at about 84% to 90%
|Test Run
|Number of Registrations (per min)
|Minimum Registration Time (in seconds)
|Maximum Registration Time (in Seconds)
|Average Registration Time (in seconds)
|Test 1
|Note: One registration transaction equals 1 LDAP add, 9 LDAP modifies, 25 LDAP binds and 36 LDAP search operations
|Test 2
|Test 3
|Test 4
|Test Run
|Number of Registrations (per min)
|Minimum Registration Time (in seconds)
|Maximum Registration Time (in Seconds)
|Average Registration Time (in seconds)
|Note: With DMS, no lockouts were detected and the backup completes much faster at a rate of almost 10:1
Test summary
The results of the tests indicate the following:
- Using the DB2 db2pd command, the team clearly saw multiple lock-outs starting at about 58% of an online backup under SMS.
- No lock-outs were detected when running the same online backup under DMS.
- The backup process was much faster, at almost 10:1 ratio.
- Overall performance was much faster. The test system appeared to be performing even better than customer's production system, with half the CPU power, half the memory and no SAN storage.
- Start-up time was also much faster. Under SMS, the ibmslapd process was taking about 5 minutes to start. When the same system was converted to DMS, it only took a few seconds.
Based on the results summarized in the preceding section, it is recommended that customers experiencing similar lockouts during online backups of ITDS (when LOB data is present) should consider migration of their DB2 table spaces from SMS to DMS. The remainder of this document contains a high level summary of the steps necessary for converting ITDS DB2 table spaces from SMS to DMS.
Migration Procedure
The process for migrating a SMS database to DMS involves multiple steps, including exporting the existing data, dropping the table spaces, recreating table spaces and finally importing the data.
Migrating first ITDS master
Before starting the process, please note that customer specific DB2 maintenance operational procedures (if any) must be following when performing the tasks described in this section. Once the steps described in the operational procedures document have been completed, the following tasks need to be performed in the order specified.
Exporting the data and dropping the table spaces
The following steps need to be performed to convert the first ITDS master server:
- Stop the ITDS server, using the following command:
# ibmslapd -I db2inst1 -k
- Take an offline backup using the following commands:
# su - db2inst1 $ db2 backup database db2inst1 $ exit
- Create an export directory using the following commands while logged in as root:
# cd / # mkdir export # chmod 777 export
- Export the database to the export directory and drop the table spaces using the following commands:
# su - db2inst1 $ cd /export_fs/export $ db2move db2inst1 export -tc * -tn * -sn * -ts * $ db2 connect to db2inst1 $ db2 drop tablespace userspace1 $ db2 drop tablespace ldapspace
- After dropping the table spaces, you can use the following command to examine any tables remaining in the database:
$ db2 list tables for all $ db2 connect reset $ exit
Creating the DMS table spaces
The following steps must be executed sequentially to create the DMS table spaces:
- Create dms01 and dms02 subdirectories under /db2data. These are the directories where the new DMS table spaces will be created. These directories must be owned by user db2inst1 and group db2iadm1:
# mkdir /db2data/dms01 # mkdir /db2data/dms02 # chown db2inst1:db2iadm1 /db2data/dms01 # chown db2inst1:db2iadm1 /db2data/dms02
- Recreate the table spaces using the create_dms_tablespace SQL script (described in the resources section) while still logged in as the DB2 instance owner. To run the SQL script, type the following command:
$ db2 -tvf create_dms_tablespace.sql
- The table spaces created using above script have the following characteristic:
- Use file containers, and have two containers per table space
- No file system caching
- Table space page sizes are the same as they are in SMS table spaces
- Table space disk overhead and transfer rate are set as below (numbers are based on I/O throughput sampling data from the customer's production environment)
- TRANSFERRATE=0.10 for the 4 KB pagesize tablespace, USERSPACE1
- TRANSFERRATE=0.69 for 32 KB pagesize tablespace, LDAPSPACE
- Automatic table space resize is turned on based on following space growth estimate:
- USERSPACE1: 4.7 KB/entry * 10000 new entries/day = 46 MB
- LDAPSPACE: 35.1 KB/entry * 10000 new entires/day = 343 MB
- Initial table space size is based on 2,886,985 user profiles in customer test system
- The increase size can be changed by using the alter tablespace command. The following is a command to change the increase size to 100 MB:
$ db2 alter tablespace LDAPSPACE INCREASESIZE 100 M
A word of caution
An additional step may be necessary if the directory is very large. DMS regular tablespaces are limited in size to 16M pages. USERSPACE1 uses 4K pages, so that no more than 64M of data can be stored in USERSPACE1 using a DMS regular tablespace. LDAPSPACE uses 32K pages, so that no more than 496M of data could be stored in it using a DMS regular tablespace. There is a solution. Beginning in DB2 9.1, DMS capabilities have been extended so that one can create a DMS large tablespace, which can be used to store up to 2 terabytes of data. It is possible to convert DMS regular tablespaces to DMS large tablespaces as the directory grows.
Note also that there are actually two different kinds of DMS storage, which are called "cooked" and "raw". DMS cooked storage uses the file system and this is what was used for the testing in this paper. DMS raw storage uses no file system, and reads and writes go directly to the disk. When DMS raw storage is specified, one must indicate the name of the virtual disk to be used, and the cylinders to be used, on the CREATE TABLESPACE command. No file system should be present. DMS raw tablespaces can be faster, especially on Solaris, but because the file system is not present, they do require more skill to manage. See the DB2 product documentation on CREATE TABLESPACE for information about DMS tablespaces.
Importing the data
Import the tables and data, using the following commands:
$ cd /db2data/export $ db2move db2inst1 import $ exit # ibmslapd -I db2inst1 -n
Migrating second or third ITDS instances
Once one of the ITDS servers has been converted to DMS, the process for converting the second and any additional servers is a lot simpler. The most time consuming operation in the conversion process, which is the import of the data, is no longer required. Instead, a backup of the first DMS database can be taken and restored to the second server after dropping the table spaces and recreating the table spaces using DMS. The following are the required steps for converting the second and third servers to DMS:
- Stop the ITDS server, using the following command
# ibmslapd -I db2inst1 -k
- Take an offline backup using the following commands:
# su - db2inst1 $ db2 backup database db2inst1 $ exit
- Drop the table spaces using the following commands:
# su - db2inst1 $ db2 connect to db2inst1 $ db2 drop tablespace userspace1 $ db2 drop tablespace ldapspace
- After dropping the table spaces, you can use the following command to examine any tables remaining in the database:
$ db2 list tables for all $ db2 connect reset $ exit
- Create dms01 and dms02 subdirectories under /db2data. These are the directories where the new DMS table spaces will be created. These directories must be owned by user db2inst1 and group db2iadm1, using the following commands:
# mkdir /db2data/dms01 # mkdir /db2data/dms02 # chown db2inst1:db2iadm1 /db2data/dms01 # chown db2inst1:db2iadm1 /db2data/dms02
- Recreate the table spaces using the following SQL script and command:
$ db2 -tvf create_dms_tablespace.sql
- Stop M3 and take an offline backup using the db2bkupOffline.sh script. Please see Resources section for detailed instructions on the use of the script
- Run the db2restOffline.sh script to restore the database from M1 to M2. Please note that customer specific maintenance procedures (if any) for taking a master server offline must be followed when performing the conversion.
- 10. Repeat the above steps to convert M3 to DMS. It is highly recommended that the conversion for M1 should be performed during a scheduled maintenance window.
DMS table space monitoring and management
The procedures described in the preceding sections are setup for DB2 to automatically resize both USERSPACE1 and LDAPSPACE table spaces when they run out of space. Table-space resizing is fast and efficient. However, database response time can still be impacted during the resize operation. In order to minimize the chance of any unscheduled table space resizing, particularly during peak business hours, the following table space managing strategy should be considered:
- Monitor the tablespace utilization routinely. The "db2pd" command can be used to check the space usage of a DMS tablespace. The following are sample commands for checking and printing the USERSPACE1 and LDAPSPACE space utilization:
$ tbsusage=`db2pd -db db2inst1 -table spaces|grep USERSPACE1 | awk '{used=$16; totals=$15; printf "%.2f%\n", used/totals*100}'` $ echo "Tablespace USERSPACE1 usage: $tbsusage" Tablespace USERSPACE1 usage: 94.77% $ tbsusage=`db2pd -db db2inst1 -table spaces|grep LDAPSPACE | awk '{used=$16; totals=$15; printf "%.2f%\n", used/totals*100}'` $ echo "Tablespace LDAPSPACE1 usage: $tbsusage" Tablespace LDAPSPACE1 usage: 94.39%
- If the utilization has reached the threshold (e.g. 60%), resize the table space manually in a system maintenance window. The following are sample commands that resize all containers of USERSPACE1 to 300,000 pages.
$ db2 connect to db2inst1 $ db2 "alter tablespace userspace1 resize (ALL 300000)" $ db2 connect reset The following are sample commands that resize all containers of LDAPSPACE to 50,000 pages. $ db2 connect to db2inst1 $ db2 "alter tablespace ldapspace resize (ALL 50000)" $ db2 connect reset
Based on the results summarized in this document, it is clear that an ITDS system using DMS table space containers can be backed up using DB2 online backup without any lockouts. The results also show that DMS has better performance over SMS. The steps outlined in this document can be used by those customers who currently deploy ITDS with SMS table space containers with LOB data to migrate the DB2 table space containers to DMS. The procedures can also be used in other scenarios where normal backup/restore procedures cannot be used (e.g. when restoring to a different operating system).
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Vocabulary for Unit 7 of AP Human Geography. Vocab comes from de Blij's "Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture" and from The College Board
process in which areas not a part of the urban area become urbanized as people and business move into these areas
Tear downs
houses that are bought with the intention of tearing them down to replace them with a larger house
Urban Realm
describes areas of a metropolis that are economically, socially, and politically independent from the central city
Urban Sprawl
fast, unplanned growth of housing and commercial development over large expanses of land
Zoning Laws
the government plans the use of space in ways that would seem culturally/environmentally acceptable
3500 BC; first urban hearth, located in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
clustering of people or businesses for mutual benefits of close proximity; they can share labor pools, technological and financial services, etc.
Basic sector
activities and services that generate income for a city (ex. manufacturing, retail, etc.).
Non-Basic sector
work responsible for the functioning of the city itself (ex. government, street cleaning, utilities people, etc.)
Bid-rent theory
the theory that as one moves farther away from the CBD (Central Business District or major city), the price and demand of land decreases; land is pricier and most wanted closer to the city.
the process of white families selling their homes because of fears that black families would move in, lowering property values (popular during 1950s; led to migration from cities to created suburbs)
Census tract
a division of land for the purpose of taking the census (a collection of statistical data, including population, ages, etc.); every census tract has a standard number of people to keep them even.
Central Business District
location of skyscrapers and companies; center of trade, social services, economics, and major transportation types.
Central city
urban area that in NOT suburban; normally the older or original city surrounded by the new suburbs.
Central Place Theory
created by Walter Christaller, it seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in an urban system; settlements simply function as 'central places,' providing services to surrounding areas. CPT is shown through organized hexagons to eliminate unserved or overlapping market areas.
Mackinder's Heartland Theory
created by Halford Mackinder, the Heartland Theory suggests that the control of Eastern Europe was vital to the controlling of the world.
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland.
Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island.
Who rules the World-Island commands the world.
clustered conglomeration of people and buildings together serving as a center of politics, culture, and economics.
Colonial city
city established by colonizing empires as administrative centers; they were often established on already existing native cities, completely taking over their infrastructures.
Commercialization of the CBD
the process of focusing the CBD's purpose on business more than any other service of the CBD.
Commuter zone
area outside the CBD where people live but are still drawn to work in the CBD and are willing to commute (usually the suburbs)
an urban area or agglomeration comprising a number of cities, large towns and larger urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrially developed area.
synonym for megalopolis; large uniting supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world.
a demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas.
the tendency of people or businesses and industry to move to a location outside the central city.
process of social and economic changes in a city caused by the removal of major industry.
Disamenity sector
the very poorest parts of a city that in extreme cases are not connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs and drug lords.
Early cities
cities of the ancient world—mostly based on agriculture and subsistence farming; basically the urban hearths of the world (i.e. Mesoamerica, Indus River Valley).
Economic base
the manufacturing and service activities performed by the basic sector (producers of city income); functions of a city performed to satisfy external demands, earning income to support the urban population.
Edge city
the shifting focus of urbanization away from the CBD towards new buds of economic activity at the urban fringe creating small towns/cities outside the CBD (usually starts as suburbs and urbanize).
a trading center where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying for import duties (often as a profit).
Ethnic neighborhood
a neighborhood, typically located in a large metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs (i.e. Chinatown, Little Italy)
First Urban Revolution
the innovation of the city, which occurred independently in five separate hearths (Mesoamerica, Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, Huang Ho).
Gated communities
restricted neighborhoods or subdivisions, often literally fenced in, where entry is limited to residents and their guests; they have become a middle-class phenomenon in North America, though predominantly high-income based.
Gateway city
a city that serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical situation; they can also connect two cities, towns, etc.
trend of mid to high-income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture and also replacing the low-income population (negative view of rebuilding a neighborhood).
a term used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.
actions/processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
Griffin-Ford Model
a model of the Latin American city showing a blend of traditional elements of Latin American culture with the forces of globalization that shape the urban scene.
High-tech corridors
areas along or near major transportation arteries that are devoted to the research, development and sale of high-technology products.
Concentric Zone Model
created by Ernest Burgess in the 1920s, the Concentric Zone Model was the first of many to document the outline of a city, using rings.
2) Zone of Transition
3) Blue Collar Workers
4) Middle-Class
5) Outer Suburban Ring
McGee model
Developed by geographer T.G. McGee, a model showing similar land-use patterns among the medium-sized cities of Southeast Asia.
Homes referred to as such because of their "super size" and similarity in appearance to other such homes; homes often built in place of tear-downs in American Suburbs.
Terms used to designate large coalescing super cities that are forming in diverse parts of the world.
New Urbanism
Outlined by a group of architects, urban planners and developers from over 20 countries, an urban design that calls for development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walk able neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs.
Unplanned slum development on the margins of cities, dominated by crude dwellings and shelters made mostly of scrap wood, iron, and even pieces of cardboard.
Social Stratification
One of the two components, together with agricultural surplus, which enables the formation of cities; the differentiation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production, and prestige.
Spaces of consumption
Areas of the city, the main purpose of which is to encourage people to consume goods and services; driven primarily by the global media industry.
Primate city
The largest most economically influential within the state with the next largest city in the state being much smaller and much less influential.
In the 1960's, before the Civil Rights movement, businesses would identify an area to be "risky" in cities and refuse to offer loans to those in the districts (marked by red lines on a map)(now illegal). Worked against those living in poorer neighborhoods and helped to participate in keeping poorer neighborhoods rundown.
Rank-size rule
In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.
Sprawl (urban)
Unrestricted growth in many American urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning.
Multiple nuclei model
A model that recognizes that the CBD is losing its dominant position as the single nucleus of the urban area.
Informal sector
The informal sector is broadly characterized as consisting of units engaged in the production of goods or services with the primary objective of generating employment and incomes to the persons concerned. These units typically operate at a low level of organization, with little or no division between labor and capital as factors of production and on a small scale. Labor relations - where they exist - are based mostly on casual employment, kinship or personal and social relations rather than contractual arrangements with formal guarantees.
the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools.
Inner city
an older part of a city, densely populated and usually deteriorating, inhabited mainly by poor, often minority, groups.
Multiplier effect
An effect in economics in which an increase in spending produces an increase in national income and consumption greater than the initial amount spent.
Office park
a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in park-like surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
Restrictive covenants
a statement written into a property deed that restricts the use of land in some way.
Metropolitan/statistical area
an urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is found, and adjacent counties tied to the city.
Squatter Settlement
A squatter settlement (also called a shanty town) is a slum settlement (sometimes illegal or unauthorized) of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal and sheets of plastic. Shanty towns, which are usually built on the periphery of cities, often do not have proper sanitation, electricity or telephone services.
Settlement Form
the spatial arrangements of buildings, roads, towns and other features that people construct while inhabiting an area.
Nucleated Settlement Form
a settlement clustered around a central point, such as a village green or church.
Dispersed Settlement Form
in comparison with nucleated settlement, a settlement pattern characterized by scattered, isolated dwellings.
Peak Land Value Intersection
the region within a settlement with the greatest land value and commerce. As such, it is usually located in the central business district of a town or city, and has the greatest density of transport links such as roads and rail
Market Area
the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.
Medieval Cities
cities that developed in Europe during the Middle Ages; extreme density of development with narrow buildings and winding streets, a church as the focal point of the city; high walls surrounding
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From Orlando Sentinel: Thirty minutes into the exorcism thriller, "The Rite," Anthony Hopkins shows up. And for this performance, playing a grizzled, whimsical Welsh exorcist plying his trade in the working class back alleys of Rome, Sir Tony packed the prosciutto. This isn't just ham, served with a side of fava beans and a little Chianti. This is the good stuff, a hint of Hannibal Lecter in white wcollar, questioning the faith of the young cleric sent to study with him, testing him, hissing at him, waiting for a knock at the door.
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From Orlando Sentinel: "I don't ever want to be like my parents," a teenage Cindy (Michelle Williams) tells her aged grandmother in the new "Scenes from a Marriage" melodrama "Blue Valentine." Did those parents ever love each other? Did they once, and just get it out of the way?
"Blue Valentine" is about that ultimate question writer Tom Robbins posed once — "Who knows how to make love stay?" — and it's about that last ditch effort to remember how love was in the beginning, just to see if it was ever worth fighting for.
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In all three places where the twelve apostles were introduced (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), it's there... Judas the traitor... Judas the betrayer. What an legacy, Judas! Curious... why weren't the "mistakes" or downfalls of all of the disciples listed? None of them were perfect, they were all imperfect people, sinners, just like you and me, right? Why only Judas? Did Peter not also betray Jesus?
"Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him."
We all know the basic life story of Judas and Peter, but have you ever considered the similarities? Here's a brief rundown of both:
Judas was the group treasurer. Obviously, the disciples didn't expect him to be a greedy enough to sell someone, Jesus of all people, for money, or he wouldn't have been in his respectable position within the group. Jesus not only knew (because he's God - hello!), that he would sell him out, He even told Judas ahead of time that he would - and yet Judas STILL did it. Right before Judas sold him out, knowing what would happen, Jesus still called him "friend." (Is it hard for anyone else to wrap their measly human mind around the way God is love despite knowing every single unsightly thing about us?) Judas, when he saw the consequences of his actions, regretted his actions and returned to the religious leaders claiming Jesus' innocence, throwing the money he was paid for selling Jesus out down. Judas' regret and sorrow resulted in isolation and despair, and ultimately, he killed himself.
I love how this scripture allows me to visualize the redemption of a repentant heart :
"Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets."
Peter's heart changed the direction of his life. It took his ugly, shameful sin, and turned him one hundred eighty degrees back towards Jesus and he never looked back. Judas, as we know, ended up in the "deathbed of regrets."


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St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputies say a 15-year-old teenager accidentally shot himself in the head and died. The Advertiser reports that deputies said Eric Myers died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound on Thursday morning.
Deputies say Myers was camping with a 16-year-old boy in a tent on his grandfather's property near Opelousas.
Detectives say the 16-year-old told them they were playing with an old pistol, when Myers placed the pistol to his head and pulled the trigger.
The teenagers had apparently taken the pistol from the grandfather's home to protect themselves against animals getting into food left on the property.


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It suddenly hit me who was the distinguished man with the piercing blue eyes was on my flight to Vancouver, B.C.: Billy Mills. As in, the only American man to win gold in the 10,000 meters , doing so in a come-from-behind upset at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The race footage always gives me chills.
I geeked out, shaking his hand and telling him how inspiring his story was. Mills, a member of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Tribe, thanked me and said he was in Vancouver for meetings about the first-ever World Indigenous Games, in 2012 in Winnipeg.
I said goodbye and bumped into one of Vancouver's ubiquitous volunteers. She told me that last week she helped two frantic men whose travel agent had booked them a flight and hotels in Vancouver, Wash. I'd heard such stories before, but I still cringed for the poor guys.On the light rail to the Main Press Center, I met a volunteer who had grown up in Calgary, site of the 1988 Winter Games. She felt lucky to have lived in two Olympic cities. I feel lucky to be visiting one.


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BEMUS POINT - Despite the prediction of Dunkirk Dave, the winter weather has extended the deadline for the Chautauqua Lake Ice Pick competition.
The Chautauqua Lake Association announced on Tuesday that the deadline for entering guesses into the Chautauqua Lake Ice Pick competition will be extended until March 15.
Each guess costs $5. The ice pick is located in front of the Lawson Center in Bemus Point.
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According to Heather Nolan of the Chautauqua Lake Association, the deadline for guesses was also extended last year.
"The ice is not going anywhere for the next few weeks," she said, adding that the majority of guesses are for dates between mid-March and the end of April.
Nolan said that roughly $8,000 has already been raised - making the association's goal of $11,000 a real possibility.
In a recent press release, Doug Conroe, Chautauqua Lake Association president, explained the payout for guessing when the ice pick will fall.
"The winner will receive 25 percent of the entire jackpot," he said. "The five closest contestants will each receive 5 percent of the entire jackpot."
The remaining proceeds will go to the Chautauqua Lake Association to help keep the lake clean and fund year-round maintenance of the lake.
Last year, $5,000 from the contest directly benefited the lake.
Peter Sullivan created the event after traveling to Nenana, Alaska, and witnessing an annual event to predict when the ice would break. Originally, the tradition began during a time when the ice breaking signified that supplies would soon be on their way via ship. The first contest hosted by the Chautauqua Lake Association was in 2008.
The Chautauqua Lake Association's mission is to provide effective and efficient lake management services for the benefit of all the lake's users.
To enter a guess into the competition, visit www.clakeicepick.org and download the form to mail in or enter online with a credit card. For more information about the Chautauqua Lake Association, visit chautauqualakeassociation.org or call 763-8602.


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Police have released the name of a man whose body was found in the rubble of a garage fire in southeast Omaha.
He was identified as 58-year-old John Schmid, of Omaha. His last known address was in southwest Omaha but he'd moved away.
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By CHRIS KENNEDY
The NFL is a detail-oriented league to say the least, with every coach thinking and re-thinking seemingly every minute of the work week.
The beauty of the operation as a whole is that from all that order springs incredible chaos. Sunday is the final day of the regular season, but even now the first stops on the road to the Super Bowl are littered with unanswered questions.
Eleven of 32 teams, including the New England Patriots, still do not know their postseason fate. Half of the eight division titles remain undecided, and five of the 12 playoff berths will be determined in about a 10-hour stretch of football which starts Sunday at 1.
A New England win at Buffalo coupled with either a loss by Miami to the New York Jets or a loss by Baltimore to Jacksonville earns the Patriots a playoff berth. The Miami scenario brings with it an AFC East title, the Baltimore one a wild-card spot.
"It really comes down to us winning, because that's the only way in which we're going to get where we want to be," quarterback Matt Cassel said.
By the end of football business on Sunday, New England and others will know. It will happen so quickly, yet the gap between winners and losers will be so pronounced and quite lasting.
The winners will enjoy the spotlight of the postseason; the losers will simply pack up and disappear into the disappointment of off-season. The winners will remember what they did to qualify, the losers will recall what they failed to do and how they missed out.
The Patriots will be no different.
The positive would start with Cassel, of course. He replaced Tom Brady, lost to a knee injury in the season-opener, and he slowly developed into a quality quarterback who can do more than simply manage a game.
"I've been with him all four years he's been here," New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said, "He's never complained. He never did anything but come in and work hard, even though he knew he probably wasn't going to play while Tommy was playing. He was ready every week, what a tribute to him that it has paid off."
Others, though, will deserve much credit, too. Veteran Sammy Morris has stepped forward to provide a decent running game, receiver Wes Welker has been oh so dependable despite the fact that defenses were more ready for him this season. Kicker Stephen Gostkowski has been near-perfect, overcoming a perceived Super Bowl snub last February when coach Bill Belichick opted not to try a field goal at a significant moment in that loss. Defensively, a number of injuries have been survived, especially at linebacker where Rosevelt Colvin and Junior Seau proved you are never too old to play for Belichick.
The Patriots also maintained their business-like approach - even without Brady setting the tone. They posted a 7-1 record against the weak sisters of the NFC and AFC West divisions.
Should Sunday not work out, the season will leave those memories but also a handful of more frustrating ones. The Patriots have lost five games, and each came with its a unique pain.
In Week 3, Ronnie Brown rushed 17 times for 113 yards and four touchdowns to help Miami beat New England 38-13. Brown was devastating out a formation in which took a direct snap, even tossing a touchdown pass from that set, but ultimately he helped the Dolphins embarrass the Patriots up front - rare indeed.
In Week 6, corner Deltha O'Neal was burned deep on the opening play from scrimmage as Philip Rivers hit Vincent Jackson for 48 yards. The Chargers only managed a field goal, but the theme for the night was established and the Patriots were drubbed 33-10.
In Week 9, Jabar Gaffney dropped a sure touchdown pass, and David Thomas picked up a stupid and costly 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness late in the game as the Colts hung on for an 18-15 win. This might have been one of New England's finest efforts of the season, but it went for naught.
In Week 11, Brett Favre hit tight end Dustin Keller for 16 yards on a third-and-15 from the Jets 15, which jump-started the game winning drive in overtime. Keller finished with eight catches for 87 yards. A brilliant effort by Cassel and a stirring comeback from a 24-6 deficit were lost in the debris of that final drive and one of the rivalry's classic confrontations.
In Week 13, five consecutive turnovers paved the way for the Steelers, who dominated the second half and posted a 33-10 win a game that was viewed as a measuring stick for both.


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I interviewed Bob Miller!
I had a chance to sit down and interview Bob Miller recently to talk to him about his "reign" as president of the Southern California Sports Broadcasters and his long career in broadcasting (over 50 years). I will try to start posting as soon as possible, but for now I have a question for you…during the interview Bob was asked who was his favorite interview of all time…maybe you can guess who it was…some pretty big names on this list!
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