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Pensacola, Florida - Hurricane Opal thrashed northern Florida with gusts up to 144mph yesterday, flooding homes, knocking down piers and sending tens of thousands of terrified people on to jammed highways. At least one person was killed.
The storm centre came ashore east of Pensacola just after midnight British time. With sustained winds of 125mph, Opal was one of the strongest storms to hit the Gulf coast since Hurricane Camille killed 256 people in 1969.
"I think this one is going to clean our clock," said one resident, Tom Beliech, as he fled Pensacola. More than 55,000 people were evacuated from the Pensacola area on Florida's Gulf Coast as the ninth hurricane of the Atlantic storm season closed in.
"We're preparing for the very worst, extreme to catastrophic" damage, said state meteorologist Mike Rucker. "Within the eye wall, we're expecting total destruction of some homes and structures along the coast."
Opal, which left 10 people dead in Mexico, was expected to spin off tornadoes and cause flooding from storm surges of up to 15ft. The first US victim was a 76-year-old woman whose mobile home was destroyed.
Thousands who waited too long to evacuate were trapped in their homes, while those who did flee were caught in huge jams traffic crawled at 5mph. "People are turning around and going back home," said Tom Roche, emergency management director for Santa Rosa County. "Now we're asking people who have not yet left their homes to stay there. Otherwise, they're just going to become part of the problem." Hurricane shelters were nearly at capacity, and several reported food shortages.
"This thing came down on us fast," said one trapped resident. "We've got a large closet in the house, and we'll go in there and cover ourselves with mattresses if it gets that bad."
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Not sure what I think of the Scholo changes yet. It's my favorite instance... taking out the basements... while it'll be less confusing... it was so much fun. Very happy I took the time to farm my rouge's cadaver set when she was questing in there lol
they should have made gamon the boss of ragefire chasm. part of his revenge to get payback for the 6 years of being killed constantly.
Mixed feelings about RFC, to be honest - I know it was an instance most people just skipped, but I still have fond memories of the place; go ahead and change SM but not Ragefire Chasm =/
Am I the only one that really welcome ANY new revamp of the dungeons ?I liked the Cataclysm one alot.RFC, SM, Scholo look all awsome.And to be honest, I think that most people complaining weren't even running them anymore. It's fresh, new mechanic too. Might make new alt to enjoy them more. The only bad thing about it would be maybe some fight are harder for new player, but I guess it prepare them better for late game.I wish they would revamp Wailing Cavern now...
I am very happy that this dungeon is getting an overhaul. I am also happy that there is no longer a boss up in the hinterlands of the dungeon that no one remembers to get anyway. It sorely needed this, and it looks amazing so far. I sort of wish we could have seen the mechanics in it, but oh well. It's understandably hard to do that with an 85.Also, from the huntard in me, when I saw those dogs, the very first thing I thought was "NEWPET?:DDD" then I specifically looked at what the tooltip said their classification was, and was very sad to see the "Elemental" tag. :c
Thank you guys, this looks fantastic.
that seem a really nice work, from Blizzard... I really like to see the FL "Bosses" in that kind of Dungeons :)
Poor Krelumian casting RFC...Patiently meleeing every boss in SM and Scholo to get a glimpse of abilities, only to apologize for Ashelia's inability of unequipping a weapon on every boss...
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By A.Sherrod Blakely
MIAMI The NBA is made up of emotional players playing emotional games. NBA playoff games can be especially heated.
At times, those emotions can wrap themselves around the most level-headed of players, and take them for a spin.
Paul Pierce knows this all too well.
The Boston Celtics' captain was tossed in the fourth quarter of the Celtics' 99-90 Game 1 loss to the Miami Heat on Sunday after he was whistled for two technical fouls -- an automatic ejection.
At the time, Pierce didn't agree with the calls. Having had a night to sleep on it, Pierce's feelings haven't changed.
"Referees called what they saw," he said. "I have to do a better job of keeping my composure. That's it."
Pierce will get that opportunity on Tuesday in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals between Boston and Miami.
Keeping Pierce on the floor, especially down the stretch, will be critical to Boston's chances of splitting the first two games in Miami.
His first technical foul came after he was fouled by James Jones with 7:59 to play.
After the play, Pierce got into Jones' face which led to both players being whistled for a technical foul.
The league reviewed the play on Monday, and rescinded the technical foul against Jones. But they also changed the personal foul against Jones to a flagrant-1 penalty.
Less than a minute after the Jones incident, Pierce was trying to set a screen for Ray Allen when Dwyane Wade came barreling into him.
Pierce said something to Wade after Wade was whistled for a foul. It apparently was enough for official Ed Malloy to whistle Pierce for a second technical which is an automatic ejection.
On Monday, Pierce said he never received an explanation from Malloy on exactly why he was being tossed with seven minutes to play.
Lead official Danny Crawford explained to a pool reporter after the game what Pierce did to warrant the second technical foul.
"It's what we call a verbal taunt," Crawford said. "He directed profanity towards Wade. And in the rulebook, that is a verbal taunt. And it just so happened to be Pierce's second technical foul."
Whatever Pierce said, he didn't expect it would result in him being tossed out of the game.
"I was surprised in getting kicked out," Pierce said. "I didn't think what I did warranted ejection. Sometimes players get caught in the hype of the game. Sometimes the refs do, too."
Pierce does know one thing. A repeat meltdown on his part can do nothing but hurt the Celtics' chances of winning Game 2.
And while he's likely to have some thoughts about Game 1 prior to Tuesday's Game 2 tip-off, by no means does he plan to use that as added incentive to play well.
"I don't need no motivation," Pierce said. "I don't need that to fire me up for this. I have a common goal, just like the rest of my teammates, and that's to win a championship. I'm trying to do everything I can to make that happen."
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Once the euphoria of winning the Second Division title had died away, Derbyshire were never likely to kid themselves that life among the big-hitters of the County Championship would be anything but a challenge, but they may have hoped for a kinder induction than the First Division title-holders on their own patch.
Then again, they may argue there is no harm in knowing the true scale of the challenge right from the off. Chris Grant, the millionaire former stockbroker under whose shrewd guidance as chairman the once downtrodden Peakites have prospered, has approached his job with a similar mindset since he took charge in 2011.
Being at Edgbaston was a challenge in itself for Grant, two days after undergoing surgery for a broken toe suffered in an encounter with a door on the last day of Derbyshire's pre-season trip to Barbados. A heavy intake of painkillers leant a codeine-induced fuzz to his view of proceedings but he will have been no less thrilled for that when the ninth-wicket pairing of Tony Palladino and Mark Turner secured the first bonus point of their new existence.
Their partnership of 55, the highest of the innings after Palladino had attacked the second new ball to personal profit, gave Derbyshire's total much respectability after Warwickshire put them in. Palladino, whose highlights included a four and a six off consecutive balls against Oliver Hannon-Dalby, walked off with a fifth Championship half-century to his name.
Warwickshire looked rather less full of themselves by that stage than they had at the close of the opening session, when they headed for lunch in an orgy of self-congratulatory high-fives. Chris Wright, their leading wicket-taker of last season, was handed his county cap and had responded to the arrival of England head coach Andy Flower and national selector Geoff Miller by removing both Derbyshire openers in an 11-over spell that cost only 15 runs.
Hannon-Dalby claimed his first Warwickshire wicket, yet Derbyshire fought back, despite sagging in the face of a useful turn of off-spin by Jeetan Patel that cost them four wickets in eight overs. Shivnarine Chanderpaul, on his Derbyshire debut, did not achieve much, but first Wes Durston, then Dan Redfern and Chesney Hughes seized the initiative before Palladino cut loose as Warwickshire were reminded that the defence of the title may need some graft on their part too.
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it appears to only do this on Super load setting, I can live with 'Large' setting but am worried this might be the sign of a larger problem I should look into? Any easy ways to see what is causing the overflow(I'm assuming it's overflowing since it's coming out of the flood pipe at the bottom?)
Check the air dome and hose on the lower left side of the outer tub for gunk. Also make sure the hose connection is tight at the air dome as well as at the pressure switch behind the control panel. Check the hose for any cracks/splits along its length. If no problem is found, I would replace the pressure switch and hose. Other possiblities are that one or more of the tub dampening straps is/are broken allowing too much motion of the tub assembly during agitation. Worn out suspension rods can also contribute to that. You can feel for the straps by reaching under the lid over the top of the tub at the sides of the cabinet. Two on each side.
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Photos: Ike Taylor suffers broken arm
Cornerback Ike Taylor suffered a broken right forearm in the Steelers' victory over the Carolina Panthers.
Taylor made a break on a pass play and was struck on his right arm by teammate Lawrence Timmons, who was converging to make the tackle.
Taylor stayed down after the hit and was clearly in pain.
Ike Taylor grabbed his injured forearm and called for help from the sideline.
"Ike and I have been together for this thing for 11 years, and that's my brother, and I knew it was bad when I saw it happen," defensive end Brett Keisel said.
Trainers immediately rushed to Taylor's aid while he laid on the turf after the hit.
Taylor walked off the field for further treatment and did not return. He was seen wearing a hard cast after the game.
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Oc Charector. Created by: Lovova Age- 10 Best subject- Levitation Worst subject- Pyrokenesis Lily Feirce, better known as Lily's daughter in To Come and Find Me, is hot tempered, rash, and a little selfish. She isnt lazy, but she has a hard time with classes, and just barley got into the school with a foster scholarship. She has no idea who her real parents are ( though she plans on finding out) and has grown up in several different foster homes. She gave herself the last name Feirce in reminder of herslef that thats the way to live and get what you want; By being feirce. Unfortanatly, she's got a soft side and a consciuse, and though she can definatly threaten and defend herself, she doesnt have the heart to torment somebody else, even if they deserve it. She has a natural distrust of Raz, though she's not sure why, but gets along pretty well with her other classmates.9/11/2006 #2
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Hmmm...alright. You did Lili very well. You got her. And you OC charector seems interesting enough. You sound like you already have a story in mind for her, just try to remember not to monopolize the forum with it. The roleplays already started, so come on in.9/13/2006 #4
Saaa, Digi shall post her application as well, just so everyone knows that she did in fact apply. So..er, since I was dying to play Raz, I totally applied with this four-page long thing. It kind sucks, but hey, it got me in: "...Dude." That was the only way to describe it. It really was. When Razputin Aquato had been set on his latest mission as a Psychonaut, he hadn't been sure what to expect. You never were on these sort of things, you were dealing with human minds, after all. Even one as simple as "go get me a donut from that store across the street, you know, one of them glazed ones" never ended up quite as he expected, so of course how would a mission to retrieve information on the where-abouts of a known terrorist be any different? He certainly hadn't expected to find the only guy with the information was a crazed old hippie, his long graying locks held back from his face by a multicolored headband, dazed grin forever plastered on as he spoke. Of course, the fact that the hippie couldn't seem to remember anything wasn't much of a surprise (It was just like that one time in True Psychic Tales Issue 349!), so a trip into the mental world was unavoidable. And so as he placed Sasha's psycho-portal (He sort of "forgot" to return it after all this time, whoops) on the hippie's forehead, ignoring the cry of "FAR OUT MAAAN!" as he projected himself through the doorway, he hadn't been sure of what he would see. It really shouldn't have been too surprising, considering the mind's owner. But it didn't make it any less shocking. It was as if the entire world had been dunked in tye-dye. An entire field of swaying grass and trees waved before him, a rainbow of color. The grass changed from blue to yellow to red before his eyes as it moved, incense burners that would have made Milla proud dotting the landscape like flowers. The sky was an insane mixture of blinding colors, golden peace signs and multi-colored blossoms simply floating in mid-air. Some were actually rotating, glinting in the sunlight. "...Whoa." Raz mumbled, pushing his red-lensed goggles up onto his forehead, his reddish brown hair getting caught in the straps as wide, jade green eyes stared at the psychedelic world before him. He loved his job. He really did. How could he not? He was living his life's dream after all! He was famous as the worlds youngest psychic secret agent! What wasn't to love about that!? But there were some days when it could be very, very, VERY odd. "Okay...this is officially really, really weird." Raz muttered as a curtain of multicolored beads floated past like a long-feather bird. "Alright. Now if I were super secret information on a deranged psychic terrorist, where would I be?" He asked himself as he glanced around. "Duuuude, what's up, bro?" A voice asked from behind him. Raz jumped, spinning around to come face to face with a slightly younger version of the hippie whose mind he was in. "Oh, um, hey there." He said, blinking. "Cool duds, man. I love the shades." The hippie said, poking at the goggles, his dopey grin reflected in their red lenses. "Ooh, look, a little me! Aweeeeesome!" Raz took a step back, lightly batting the hippie's hand away. As admittedly cool as his wardrobe was, he wasn't so sure he wanted people poking at it like he was on display. It reminded him a bit too much of the circus. "Yeah, um, right. Listen, I'm looking for some information. Do you have any idea where I can find anything?" "Information?" The hippie blinked, brow furrowing. "Little dude, are you trying to find out, like...The Truth?" "Um..." Raz paused, blinking a moment before nodding. Well, if that was what "Top Secret Information On A Known Terrorist" was called around here. "Yeeaaah, that's it. Do you know where I can find it?" The hippie shook his head, his long blond hair waving with the motion. "Ooohh, bad idea, little dude. You don't wanna do that. Finding out The Truth will just bring a load of problems, man. You dig what I'm saying?" Raz rose a brow at this. "Sir, I'm a Psychonaut." He said, puffing out his chest. "Don't you worry, I think I can handle whatever 'problems' come from me finding what I'm looking for." "No man, trust me, you do NOT want to know. The Man's always watching. You do not wanna mess with The Man, Little Dude." The hippie stated, waving his arms in front of his face. The ten-year old Psychonaut blinked. "...The Man? Who's The—MMPH!" He was cut off when the hippie suddenly clapped his hands over his mouth. "SHHHH!" The hippie hissed, glancing this way and that. "They're watching!" Raz struggled for a moment before shoving the hippie's hands away, eyes narrowing. "They're watching!?" He demanded. "Who's--" He paused, glancing around. There they were. Flowers all over the field, smiling faces staring back at him with wide eyes. Watching. Always watching. It reminded him a bit of Boyd's mind, but it was different somehow... "...Oh." "You can't resist them, man. They're everywhere. Your best choice is to just sit back and mellow out, little dude. Chill." The hippie said, releasing him and nodding. The boy stood there for a moment. "Chill?" He repeated, then shook his head. "I don't have time to chill!" The hippie stared blankly back at him. "No time...to chill? Wha?" "No! No time to chill!" Raz said, shaking his head. "I need that information! Look, bro, aren't you sick of The Man holding you down like this!?" The hippie blinked. "Er...a little." He said slowly. "Then don't let them oppress you anymore!" Raz said, hands clenching into fists as he spoke. "Go after that Truth! Er...FIGHT THE POWER!" "Hm...Hey, I like that idea, that sounds pretty rad!" The hippie said with a nod and grin. "Yeah! So let's get started on it right now! How do we get that Truth?" Raz asked. "Er..." The hippie trailed off, frowning. "Well...I guess if you could get through the fortress of The Man's headquarters you'd find it..." Raz nodded. "Alright. Sounds good to me, how do I get there?" "Well, uh...you'd have to get to the island first...which is across Tye Dye Ocean--" "Ocean!? Wait, you mean water?" Raz interrupted, eyes widening. He could feel something like the stirrings of an ancient fear in the pit of his stomach at the mere mention of it. "Yeah. But to get across that you'd have to get a ship...and to get that you'd need to get past the Giant Killer Doves of Peace--" "Giant Killer Doves of Peace!? Isn't that name a bit contradicting!?" Raz repeated, eyes widening. This whole plan was starting to sound less fun by the minute. "Yeah, and--" The hippie suddenly paused, eyes widening and face going pale. "Oh man...they're here!" Raz blinked, brow furrowing as he glanced around. "Who's here?" "THE MAN!" The hippie cried. At that moment a bright red circle with a "Do Not Enter" sign appeared in the air, and out of it popped three censors. But these were nothing like any of the censors Raz had ever seen. No, these censors had Tye-Dye shirts and ties, and their look was completed with shades and hippie hair, a multicolored stamp clenched in each of their fists. "No way! No way!" They all babbled in the same mechanical voice all censors used. Raz's jaw dropped. "What. The. Hell. " He mumbled as the Hippie!Censors advanced, shouting their newest catchphrase over and over like tiny, psychedelic broken records. "AHHH! See! I told you, this is what happens when you mess with The Man!" The hippie cried, reaching out to grab Raz's shirt and shake him. "Now they're gonna come for you, little dude!" "Huh? Wha?" Raz gasped, glancing from the censors to the hippie's panicked face and back again. "Dude, I'm outta here! This is totally not worth it!" The hippie said, shoving Raz away and reaching out to grab one of the peace signs. He tugged on it, revealing a circular hole in the sky, and jumped through it. "Hey, wait!" Raz cried, waving after him. "What about 'Fighting the Power'!?" He demanded. "Sorry little dude, you're on your own! Peace!" The hippie said, flashing a peace sign with his fingers before reaching out and closing the peace sign behind him. Raz opened his mouth to call for his supposed partner in crime, then sighed and allowing his gloved hand to fall back to his side. "It figures." He sighed as he turned to the approaching Censors, reaching up to pull his goggles over his eyes. "Want something done, you gotta do it yourself." With that he pressed two fingers against his temple, his other hand reaching out in front of him. Green eyes narrowed in concentration behind the red lenses as he summoned forth some of his annoyance over suddenly being abandoned and... "Hey guys! Hate to burst your bubble, but tye-dye went out of style a long time ago!" He called out with a grin, sending forth a psyblast in the form of blinding crimson. Sure, his job could be very, very weird. But he'd be lying if he said he didn't love every minute of it. Now if he could just work on his snapper one-liners...9/14/2006 #5
Lovova has already permitted (?) my use of this OC of mine. Just for everyone who doesn't know her, here is Cerice Burganda's oficial bio! Name: Cerice Marie Burganda Age: 12, turning 13 in a month or so. Looks like: The same color skin as Benny, with black, bug-like eyes. She has long, loose ginger hair that is permanently frizzy. She's rather tall, and borderline anorexic, because she NEVER eats... Well, almost never. Wears: A black velvet vest with small fiddly buttons, an aubergine fluted-sleeved top with a v-neck, dark blue mini-skirt and black fishnets. Black ugg boots and fingerless black gloves complete the outfit. Not to mention the mascara she piles on... Personality: Cynical, slightly demented and emotionless. Not the kind of person you want to be around... Likes: Fire, black, darkness, blood, horror movies, murder, purple, goths and punks. Dislikes: Hippies, flowers, peace, love, quiet, light, asparagus, starberries and people. History: Until the age of nine, Cerice lead a normal life, sans Psychic powers. However, on her ninth birthday, Cerice and her sister, Jasmine, went down to the park to play soccer. Cerice, having bad leg joints, lost the game fairly quickly, inspiring a fit of rage in the young girl. She soon shot a psy-blast at the goal, flipping it over and onto her sister, whose lower legs were caught underneath as she jumped away. After many hours of painful operations, Jasmine was able to live, but never walk again. Cerice was distraught, cutting off all contact with the world, except for the internet, where she sought salvation and a place without judgement of her. Soon, Cerice had a new persona online, and was able to regain her confidence. Untrusting of most of her psychic abilities, Cerice took up reading true psychic tales, to learn how to harness her powers. Soon, she was able to confidently psy-blast, use pyrokinesis and much, much more. Soon, however, disaster struck. Cerice's father went off with his secretary, and left the three females on their own. Cerice's mother got over it quickly, but her and her sister were instilled with shock. Cerice went into a kind of depression, and began to find comfort in watching others suffer. She became a pyromaniac, and a string of local disasters sent police into shock. But no-one would ever find out, because there was never any evidence, other than the dead bodies. Quirks: Cerice hates talking about her sister and father, and has bad joints in her legs. So, there she is.9/14/2006 #6
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Um, yesh. After a while of lurking around here, I sent my application and got it approved. So, here Digi, I joined. This be my character: ~~~ Name: Randol Lekosky Age: 12 Appearance: Slightly tall and lanky for his age, he has jet-black hair that reaches a bit past his ears and bright black eyes. Very long arms and very flexible. He has a very goofy looking grin. Clothes: He usually wears his favorite black jacket with a skull on the back over a plain white shirt. Along with the occasional pair of ripped jeans. Wears thick army boots. If he's not in this attire, he's wearing something more casual like a t-shirt and jeans. He's also got his special shark tooth necklace, made completely with bull shark teeth stringed together. Personality: He's a pretty goofy kid, very kind-hearted. He loves to eat, but moves around so much that the fat just can't stay on him. He feels that he should protect people smaller than him and respect ones taller. He loves a good joke, even if he can't manage to ever make one. Loves danger and adventures. Skilled at: Invisibility Unskilled at: Clairvoyance Bio: When Randol was young, he was already talented in using his psychic powers. This was demonstrated when he set his father on fire when he was only seven. His parents told him to never use his powers because they were evil. But, being the adventurous rascal he was, he would often sneak out to go practice with his powers. Eventually though, his parents found him doing this and sent him away. Writing Sample: Randol looked at the note in his hand. Then he looked around the hallway he was in. Then back at the note. He was lost. Truly and utterly lost. He reached up with one bony hand to run his long fingers through his black hair. He blew out his cheeks and continued walking down the white hallway. His boots making heavy thumps as they hit the ground in a rhythmic pattern. He looked in front of him and behind him. It seemed the same both ways. He didn't know if maybe he got turned around or took a wrong turn or what, but he knew he was lost. "Well, I'll surely find some sign of life at some point…" He mumbled and continued walking. ~~~ So...there he is.10/1/2006 #7
Can I pretty please with babies and madolins on top be Dogen. He's my hero.
SAMPLE: Dogen looked deep into the campfire of Whispering Rock. He imagined what his life would be like if he was not such a coward. He saw himself battle a mighty serpent. Going only by the name of.....Kevin.
Dogen leaped from his mighty steed and drew his mighty Psi-Sword. He swung it and pierced the flesh of Kevin. With a mighty screech Kevin bit into Dogen. But thankfully Dogen had a vial of Kevin Posion Antidote and Window Cleaner on him. He drank it, "Mmmm. Strawberries," he said and used a mighty blast to destroy Kevin.
Dogen sighed, "If only."6/25/2010 #8
I call Boyd.
Cause, You know, Boyd. Everyone loves The Milkman.
Heh, thats my nickname off site anyways....9/23/2010 #9
Umm, hate to spam or whatever, but is this place still up and running? I wanna join if it still is.4/16/2011 #10
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Name: Ann
Age: 10
Gender: Female
Appearance: Small and lean with long brown hair and hazel eyes.
Best skill/Worst skill: She seems like Raz as she's well rounded in her abilities. Although her shield and marksmanship may need a bit of work.
Bio: Her parents were both people that genuinely hated psychics. When their daughter began developing powers, they tried everything but couldn't remove their daughters 'horrible curse' as Anns power continued to strengthen. They finally locked her away in which she escaped just before RP.
RP Sample: Ann ran, she didn't know for how long. Tears streamed down her pale and slightly freckled face.
They locked me away! Like some kind of animal! She thought as anger and tragedy ran wild though her terrified mind.
"What am I?" SHe growled and a large crate went flying near her as another burst into flames all on it's own. She fled into an alley way and curled up. Shaking her head.
"I'm no one."1/24/2014 . Edited 1/24/2014 #11
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One of the problems with Postgres-XL 9.2 is that it assigns a global transaction identifier (GXID) for every transaction that is started in the cluster. Since its hard for the system to know if a transaction is read-only or not (remember, even SELECT queries can do write activities), Postgres-XL would always assign a GXID and send that to the datanodes. This is quite bad for system performance because every read-only transaction now must go to the GTM, start a new transaction, grab an GXID and also finish the transaction on the GTM when its committed or aborted. For short transactions, like read-only pgbench workload, this adds a lot of overhead and latency. The overhead is even more noticeable when the actual work done by the transaction is very fast, say because the data is fully cached in shared buffers.
This is now set to change in the upcoming Postgres-XL 9.5 release. We have implemented the same lazy GXID assignment technique similar to PostgreSQL. This required us to enhance the concept of global session. A transaction which involves more than one node runs a global session and gets a unique global session identifier. If a node while executing the query decides to assign GXID to the transaction, it sends the global session identifier to the GTM. If the global transaction, identified by the global session, had already been assigned a GXID, the GTM sends back the same GXID to the node or a new GXID is assigned to the transaction. Further, the node sends back the assigned GXID to the coordinator so that it can decide whether to run a single phase or two-phase commit for the transaction.
While the lazy GXID assignment resulted in significant reduction in the GXID consumption rate, its still not enough because of yet another problem that we must solve. As you're aware, Postgres-XL uses Multi-version Concurrency Control or MVCC for providing various transaction guarantees. But to reclaim the dead row versions, every node must check row versions against something called as RecentGlobalXmin which, in simple terms, is the oldest transaction that might be visible to the oldest transaction running in the system. To correctly compute this value, the GTM must be aware of the snapshot used by every running transaction in the cluster, even read-only transactions. That implies that every transaction must still report its start and end to the GTM, along with the oldest transaction its still interested in (known as snapshot xmin). If we wanted to do any significant improvement for read-only, short transaction workload, we must address this problem too.
So what we now have is a new cluster-monitor process that every datanode and coordinator runs as a postmaster child process. This process is responsible for periodically reporting node-local state to the GTM, which then computes the global state and sends back to all the nodes. To address the RecentGlobalXmin described above, the cluster-monitor sends the RecentGlobalXmin computed using node-local information. The GTM then computes a cluster-wide RecentGlobalXmin which node must use. The entire algorithm is much more complex than it sounds because we must account for node failures, node disconnections and ensure that the RecenGlobalXmin computation does not unnecessarily stalled because that will prevent any dead row versions getting removed from the system.
To summarise, the old way of executing a read-only transaction suffered from the following problems that the new Postgres-XL 9.5 will solve:
These features together give us an edge over other MPP databases as far as short, read-only transactions are concerned. Stay tuned for my next blog on OLTP performance benchmark results using these new enhancements.
Great work Pavan and team.
Something that would be very useful in environments that have a handful of heavy update small tables (ie: queue tables) is the ability to block a backend from accessing those tables for the duration of the current transaction. That would allow publishing that info along with the snapshot, allowing vacuuming to be more granular than recent xmin.
This case probably isn't compelling enough to add to core Postgres, but maybe it would be more useful in XL.
Grea work pavan. I was struggling decipher the detail from the commit logs. But now its clear. BTB we had come issues with DBT3 benchmark Where GTM gets shut down randomly ever since I have have taken some commits which where done for GTM optimisations. I md aiding another round of testing to confirm this. But curious to know if the current changes make the GTM more heavy in memory ?


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Love Lies
It's been years since I saw you last
All that time, it seems so long
And yet those days flew by so fast
Like the verses of a song.
Those happy days of love and light
When our hearts beat together.
Yet now my life's an endless night
And sorrow lasts forever.
You lead me on a real ride
Took me to worlds I'd never seen
But, in your heart, deep inside
You were just a cold-hearted fiend.
You took what you could get from me
And left what you could not
Abandoned me on a stormy sea
And left my broken heart to rot.
I thought you loved me, I believed
But you played me, just for heck
And now of love I am agreived
My life a broken wreck.


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Geopolitics: President Obama dismisses Russia as a "regional power" while Secretary of State Kerry pronounces the Monroe Doctrine dead. Meanwhile, the world watches, stupefied, as Russian ships move to our doorstep.
Trash-talking a nation that just swallowed up a chunk of its neighbor and upended the global order doesn't seem like a very thoughtful strategy, given the weakness of U.S. sanctions following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea.
But that was what President Obama seemed to be doing Tuesday in claiming Russia was nothing but small fry in world affairs.
"Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength, but out of weakness," Obama sniffed. By invading Ukraine, "the fact that Russia felt compelled to go in militarily and lay bare these violations of international law indicates less influence, not more."
A regional power? According to Obama's own Department of Defense, the Russian empire — which now encompasses nine time zones — has never been more expansive. And now it's getting involved in our hemisphere.
Russia once tried to set up military bases in Cuba (in 1959), Chile (1970) and Nicaragua (1980) — and now it's talking about doing the same in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. It's also getting more venturesome in its submarine excursions around U.S. Gulf ports, laying groundwork for something, but what?
Regional powers don't act this way. But nuclear powers with revanchist aims do — and it doesn't pay to dismiss them.
These moves didn't happen yesterday or in any tit-for-tat response to the sanctions the West hastily cobbled together against Russia for its takeover of Crimea. They are the result of methodical planning that Russia's leaders have been doing for years in projecting power.
Apparently lost on the Obama administration is the fact that Russia is now Latin America's top arms supplier, a role with which it is not unfamiliar. Nearly 100 years ago, Russia began its ascent to global influence by selling arms to Spain's leftist Republicans to fuel the Spanish Civil War of 1936. They fomented hellish violence and won a propaganda war even without winning the territory.
That was the beginning of Soviet power projection in the 20th century. In the post-Soviet era, Russia seems to be using that roadmap to influence Spain's old colonies in the New World.
Russia signed agreements for $7.8 billion in arms sales from 2008-11, according to the arms website Just the Facts (justf.org). By contrast, the U.S. inked deals for just $2.59 billion in the same period — a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. In terms of deliveries, the Russian thrust is even stronger, leading every other country with $3.1 billion from 2004-11 vs. $1.4 billion by the U.S.
Russia is also securing energy lines in Venezuela while carrying out a disinformation campaign against U.S. oil companies over the advanced fracking technology they possess.
Given the relative absence of conflicts, other than civil wars, in Latin America's post-independence period, these moves are strange — unless viewed as chess-like planning and preparation such as we have witnessed with Vladimir Putin's takeover in Crimea.
America used to have ways of preventing such gradual encroachment by foreign powers. It was called the Monroe Doctrine, a policy that, contrary to Soviet-inspired propaganda, was much beloved by Latin America's independence leaders because it aimed to protect nations to our south from the kind of aggression that Putin is demonstrating now.
Less than six months ago, however, Secretary of State John Kerry wrote off 190 years of consistent U.S. foreign policy by declaring "the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over."
In such an atmosphere, is it any wonder Putin & Co. have taken American weakness, ignorance and arrogance as a cue to carry on with their empire-building? Far from being a mere regional power, Russia is quite literally on the march.


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Veto session ends
The State of Missouri`s mandatory veto session ended on September 12th. Governor Nixon had vetoed 17 bills. There were two bills that were of great concern to the legislature.
One vetoed bill dealt with county sales/use tax on vehicles and boats purchased out of state. The Supreme Court ruled on March 21st that counties could no longer collect sales tax on this purchase if it was purchased out of state.
Counties such as Barry have been doing this for almost 70 years. This has two major consequences. The first is a loss of revenue for our county. Over half of this tax is used to fund the Sheriff`s Department and the Prosecuting Attorney`s Office. The decrease in funds will inevitably mean a reduction in personnel for both departments which will be seen in a decrease in officers and a backlog of cases in the Prosecutors Office.
The second is an unequal playing field for car and boat dealers in southwest Missouri. A person can save hundreds of dollars by driving to Arkansas and purchasing their auto or boat in Arkansas. The Missouri House did not have enough votes to bring this up for debate and a vote.
The House would have needed 10 to 15 Democrats to vote against the Governor which was not going to happen. We will work on this issue next session unless the Governor calls us to Special Session to work on this legislation, which I do not foresee happening.
The other vetoed bill was successful. SB749 was overwhelmingly passed in the spring session. It provides conscience protections for any person with religious or moral convictions relating to surgical and medical abortion, contraception, or sterilization.
By passing this bill, individuals, employees and employers in the state of Missouri will not be required to participate in, provide or pay for, or provide referrals for any health plans or services that cover those services. Nor will it be lawful for such persons to be discriminated against or penalized by any government agency.
The bill was vetoed by Governor Nixon on July 12. This surprised some in light of the Governor's record of allowing previous pro-life bills to pass without his signature. In the September 12th veto session, the Senate voted 26-6 and the House 109-45 in defense of the bill. With the override of the veto, the bill will become law.
My surroundings will change in early January as I move to the Senate. I have been traveling to all parts of the Senate district to become more familiar with organizations and individuals. It is my desire to continue to emphasize constituent service as I have tried to do in the House.
I must admit that I will always be prejudiced for the people in Barry County but will work hard for all concerned. Thank you for letting me serve you these past eight years in the Missouri House of Representatives.


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From ENG to SNG
First it was ENG -- Electronic News Gathering.
But for the looming war with Iraq it's SNG -- Satellite News Gathering.
The technology that will bring this war to our living rooms is the most advanced the industry has ever seen.
More than 1,000 television reporters, photographers, producers and technicians are already in place in various places in the Middle East and at sea, many "embedded" with troops and equipped with laptops, video editing software and miniaturized communications gear that can deliver live images from anywhere at any time.
They'll bounce over the Iraqi dessert in souped-up Hummers and SUVs with satellite dishes strapped to the luggage racks; one correspondent jokes that they look a lot like the Ghostbuster-mobile that Bill Murray used in the movie.
"There has been an amazing, quantum leap in broadcast technology," says veteran NBC correspondent Kerry Sanders, who is covering the war buildup in Kuwait. "A year ago in Afghanistan, the gear we needed to go live filled 75 to 100 cases. With the technology improvements we've seen since then, we can now fit everything we need in five or six. It is simply amazing."
Sanders says desktop video is everywhere, with reporters, producers and photojournalists editing their own pieces on laptops in the field and desktops back at the hotel rooms turned newsrooms in Kuwait City.
Everything is smaller and digital. Video is being shot on new lightweight DV and MiniDV camcorders equipped with extra-long zoom lens and night vision capabilities. Instead of huge editing consoles with separate monitors, reporters are editing their own pieces on laptop computers and then sending them like e-mail back to the network through a satellite Internet connection.
Sanders edits on an Apple G4 using Final Cut pro software. Once he's finished laying off the shots, he compresses it all with a program called Discreet Cleaner 6 and then, using a satellite connection, sends it back to an NBC receive site in New Jersey through a regular file transfer program.
Some of the very same advanced satellite gear used by military planners to coordinate the U.S. attack on Iraq will be used by broadcasters to beam signals back to their control rooms.
"It's all about weight," says Byron Pitts, a CBS News correspondent in Kuwait who will be embedded with a Marine airborne unit. "Our flak vests weigh about 10 pounds. Our helmets about five. Then we have to take all the water we can carry. Those are the necessities. So our gear really has to be small."
Still, Pitts and his photojournalist partner have figured out how to squeeze five cameras in their packs. The photojournalist will bring two: his regular broadcast betacam and a smaller DV camera about the size of a forearm. Pitts is carrying a small MiniDV as a third backup.
They also have two super-miniature "lipstick" cameras, one for the pilot of the Cobra attack helicopter to wear, the other for the gunner. "Basically, they just hit 'on' and it can record for an hour or so. They're so small they won't even know they're wearing them, but they should provide a whole new perspective."
Just as the military keeps some of its high-tech weapons under wraps, so are the TV techs. Fox and CNN flat out refuse to discuss the technology they have in place.
"There's a lot of competition out there," explains Frank Governale, the CBS vice president of operations in charge of the network's war coverage technology. "We all have our digital aces in the hole, little gizmos we've developed or packed along that we don't want the competition to know about but may help us get through when they can't."
CBS crews have satellite phones that work on three different systems, for example. That means journalists will have other ways to reach control rooms in New York or London if, as suspected, the military claims exclusive use of one or jams another to keep Iraq from using it.
Governale says CBS has loaded every laptop with the same programs. "This will be known as the digital war," he said. "Our people will be able to tap into the newsroom e-mail system at any time from right on the battlefield."
CBS is using all Windows PCs with three different editing programs –- Avid for the more experienced editors who will be in regional centers like Kuwait City or more permanent base camps, Adobe Premiere for producers and photojournalists closer to the action, and the basic free MovieMaker 2 program that Microsoft includes with its Windows XP operating system. "That's a very simple program, but it allows one of the embedded correspondents to do some basic cuts right in the field."
The last Gulf war in 1991 introduced the satellite phone for live audio reports. In Afghanistan, the networks scrambled to equip their war correspondents with satellite video phones that transmitted shaky, often fuzzy and herky-jerky video images along with the voice reports.
But with a war in Iraq seemingly about to launch, the networks are using new tools like the IPT Suitcase, a Swedish made SNG unit that folds up and fits in a case the size of an airline carry-on bag. It weighs around 70 pounds and can be unpacked and set up in three and a half minutes.
A collapsible dish antenna expands to about 35 inches in size and automatically, almost instantly, zeros in and establishes a solid two-way, real-time link with a communications satellite some 22,300 miles above the earth.
The camera and microphone plug into the suitcase SNG unit and can immediately be transmitting live broadcast quality sound and images up to the satellite, which relays them back to the network's control room on the other side of the world.
But that's not all. In addition to the high quality broadcast capabilities, the unit also provides a high-speed Internet connection, allowing scripts to be e-mailed back and forth, and an Internet-enabled telephone to be simultaneously used so the journalists can talk to the control room off-air or track down other sources just as if they were back in the office.
That's why it's called the IPT Suitcase -- for Internet Protocol Terminal.
The whole unit disassembles just as quickly, enabling journalists to leapfrog across the dessert, following the action or quickly getting out of dangerous situations. Most of the SNG systems are mounted on luggage racks on rented SUVs or military-style Hummers, just waiting for the action to begin.
"I'm looking out the window of my hotel here in Kuwait City," says Sanders "and there must be six or seven of them parked out front right now. And that's just here. They're all over the region. I've never seen so much technology in 20 years of chasing big stories all over the world."
CBS's Pitts says the front of the Sheraton Hotel in Kuwait City looks like "an auto repair shop" with broadcast engineers crawling under and around the four wheel drive Hummers. "They look like souped-up dune buggies with satellite dishes," says Pitts.
Already, there are some glitches. Satellite traffic jams have been a frequent frustration. The other day it took Sanders almost two hours to get a high-speed connection to send his report. "Every crew from every network is often trying to get on the same bird at the same time," he said.
Hampus Delin, Marketing Director of Stockholm-based SWE-DISH Satellite Systems, says several of its SNG systems are being used by the various networks for covering the war with Iraq, at prices ranging from $200,000 to $1.4 million. The U.S. military is also a customer, he noted, and will use the same units to send live satellite images of the war to the U.S. Central Command control center in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.
Sanders: "If this works like we think it will, this means the world has shrunk so much that there is no place too remote to be seen."A competing 75-pound SNG system, developed by Raytheon Corp. and Norway's Tandberg Television for NBC News, costs about $130,000. Eric Cooney, chief operating officer of Tandberg Television, said NBC has several of the units ready for use in covering the war with Iraq, allowing TV crews to "document news from across the globe with a speed-to-air and transportability that we've never seen before."
In all, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC combined will probably spend close to $100 million to cover the war, say broadcast industry analysts.
The question is, will all this technology work?
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Counting the final two weeks of spring training, the Cardinals are 16-2 with the right-hander on the roster after Lohse allowed four hits in seven innings of a 3-0 victory over the Washington Nationals on Sunday.
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Rick Ankiel hit his third home run for St. Louis, which has won five straight since losing on opening day and is off to its best start since winning seven of eight to start 2000. Despite beginning the season with Joel Pineiro, Mark Mulder, Matt Clement and Chris Carpenter on the DL, the Cardinals' rotation has allowed four runs in 37 2/3 innings, an 0.96 ERA.
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Lohse (1-0) has thrown 12 scoreless innings in two starts. The Nationals had runners in scoring position in the second and third, and Lohse finished strong, retiring his last nine hitters. He helped himself by throwing first-pitch strikes to 13 of the first 19 hitters, and although he had 10 three-ball counts he walked only one to go with two strikeouts.
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Randy Flores and Ryan Franklin split the eighth, and Jason Isringhausen finished for his third save in three chances. Isringhausen was helped by a leaping catch by Ankiel in center field on a Lastings Milledge drive.
Fourteen Nationals went down in order before Ryan Zimmerman's two-out single in the ninth.
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Rookie John Lannan (0-1) allowed two runs in 6 2/3 innings for the Nationals, who have lost four in a row after a 3-0 start. Washington lost a pair of one-run contests in the first two games of the series and were 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position in the finale.
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NATO coalition troops, including U.S. soldiers, officially left Afghanistan in December 2014. But the hand-off to Afghan security forces has been fraught with problems, and there are major concerns about whether they can maintain control.
Now, the country may be on the brink of another turning point: The Taliban is gaining ground in Helmand Province, and its reemergence has turned deadly—the terror group killed six U.S. soldiers this week.
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Helmand produces 47 percent of the opium grown in Afghanistan, but the current fighting is not over controlling the fields where opium is cultivated. Rather, the fight is over the roads leading in and out of the province.
And now it also appears that The Taliban is poised to overtake the Afghan city of Sangin. In the past decade, coalition forces fought some of their deadliest battles in this area, a place where dozens of Marines and hundreds of British soldiers have died.
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Shooting sticks are designed to provide added stability on every shot while increasing your firearm's effective range. Typically, the more legs the shooting stick has, the more stable it will be. However, extra legs mean extra weight—something to keep in mind before you make your purchase. If you tend to cover a lot of ground when hunting, you might be better served by a monopod shooting stick.


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Is it possible to limit the network health scan to use only ICMP?
I would like to limit the resources used in the scan, and only wish to see if devices are up on a regular bases.
I am currently running Nagios for my network monitoring, and wish to phase it out if possible, and just use one solution instead of getting Nagios to report to Spiceworks.
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Nov 15, 2010 at 4:28 UTC
I don't think there is any way to limit what is used to check for network health, there are occasionally additional unsupported settings that you can change by hand in the data\settings.yaml file.
Do note that there is a big difference between SW and Nagios, SW is not a realtime monitoring program so it can take a while for it to realise and alert you that a device is unavailable.