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Bryan-

I think I'll wait for Alex to weigh in and decide how best to proceed on where to check this stuff in to. Everything I've done up to now is from scratch, so licensing is not restricted.

The use (or non-use) of dbCache should be completely orthoganol to the transaction management in this design. When I talk about "writing to the store", I mean writing to any type of persistent storage. From the perspective of the proof of concept, whether the data winds up on the safe or in the actual db doesn't matter at all. For simplicity, I'm currently using a non page-based storage layer (basically, an array of typed variable length byte arrays).

Basically, dbCache (or the existing jdbm logging system) is used to ensure atomicity of groups of pages only. As long a you can guarantee that a given set of pages will either commit in their entirety or not at all, the multi-version algorithm takes care of transaction level isolation, atomicity and consistency. This does *not* require that all pages involved in a given transaction be written at the same time, though. There are certain groups of pages that do have to be written at the same time, so the smallest atomic write operation may involve 3 or 4 pages (a data page, a version page, a couple of translation pages). That same transaction may wind up making thousands of page writes over it's entire life, but they don't all have to be written at the same time.

Once that guarantee is in place, the version control system takes care of ensuring isolation, atomicity and consistency at the transaction level.

Durability is achieved by ensuring that all data involved in a given transaction has been written to the safe at the time of commit - but it's perfectly acceptable to have some of the data structures that are involved in multiple transactions. It's even possible for two active transactions to maintain changes to the same record at the same time - the concurrency management layer comes in at this point to determine whether a commit is allowed or not.

I have *not* written any thread synchronization or locking into the system at this point, so I'm relying on serial sequences of transaction operations for my unit testing. My goal here was more to prove that the concept would work, and provide a test bed so we could come up with transaction sequences that we thought might give us problems.

I'm pretty sure that we can implement 2PL on the logical records of the versioning system (it seems to me that concurrency control is really involved in the logical state of the database, not the physical state). I'm not sure where the appropriate place to actually look for deadlocks is, but I'm sure that will fall out as we start looking at the overall architecture. Does the 2PL system require that a transaction identifier (or transaction object itself) be passed in to the lock request?

Dring the development of the 2PL system, did you come across any ways of abstracting the design to easily support both 2PL and optimistic locking?

Cheers,

- K

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Kevin,

Sounds interesting. I just fixed the deadlock detection code and integrated it into the 2PL locking support[1]. This does not support intention locks (you can not describe a hierarchy of resources), but it should support basic 2PL. I am working on an optimization to the deadlock detection code and I hope to release a beta by Monday.

I take it that you mean that the notion of consistency for the design that you have does not use any notion of transactions within a page manager layer such as DBCache. Is that of necessity or just how you developed it? The DBCache [2]implementation will let you force a page to the db at any time, but that is probably not what you are looking for. In any case, I am sure that we will get a chance to discuss the relationship between the version/transaction manager and page caching :-)

I am not sure how best to proceed with respect to a jdbm2.x code base. Anything that is derived from jdbm1.x is of course under the existing license terms, but new modules can be under a different license as long as they do not share code or have explicit copyright grants from all authors.

-bryan

[1] http://proto.cognitiveweb.org/projects/cweb/multiproject/cweb-concurrent/index.html
[2] http://proto.cognitiveweb.org/projects/cweb/multiproject/cweb-dbcache /index.html

From: jdbm-developer-admin@... [mailto:jdbm-developer-admin@...] On Behalf Of Kevin Day
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:16 AM
To: JDBM Developer listserv
Subject: [Jdbm-developer] Preliminary work on version manager is ready to commit...

Gents-

OK - finally had time to finish up work on the proof of concept for the version and transaction manager for jdbm2. This is just proof of concept, but I'd like to ask you guys to take a look at the unit test and let me know if you see anything that you think should be tested for that isn't, etc...

The current implementation has been tested for transaction isolation for overlapping transactions, properly purging of unneeded data, etc...

The algorithm has been designed with aborts and roll-back in mind, but I have not put unit tests in place for that yet (tomorrow maybe), and the code for properly purging aborted tx from the transaction manager still needs to be put in place (Basically, aborted tx can't be removed from the master transaction list until the garbage collector has run one full iteration).

The algorithms are designed to allow writing to the data store at any point - regardless of whether a transaction is comitted or not. A warning: this is *very* different from the dbCache design, which relies on only writing comitted data to the data store (or jumping through hoops to allow for roll-back if uncomitted data is written to the store).

The current proof of concept system has no caching - all changes to the data are written directly to the store (which is in-memory right now - nothing to disk, etc...). This means that there is absolutely no distinction between regular transactions and very long transactions - the algorithm treats them all the same (and works :-) ). This means that handling of VLR will become a caching policy implementation detail - not something that requires special handling in the transaction or version managers (this is a good thing, I think).

So - where should I commit the code to? Alex - should I create a separate folder for jdbm2 exploratory stuff in the jdbm SF project? Should we create a new SF project (for licensing reasons)?

Thanks,

- K

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End users are finding that NGFWs are no longer as limiting in their performance or capability trade-offs as they once were. NSS Labs discovered that many enterprises are choosing NGFW over traditional firewalls for a variety of reasons without feeling that they are compromising on features or performance. Some NGFW solutions scale to tens of gigabits which satisfies the needs of all but the most demanding enterprise WAN connections.
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It was the inability to meet those lofty expectations over the last four years that pushed Brown to resign after 16 years, ending an era that included the national championship following the 2005 season.
"The standard is really high here," Brown said Sunday at a campus news conference to explain his decision. "We set a standard at this place. You'd better win all of them. I understand that. ... The standard is really high here and I'm proud of being part of setting that standard."
From 2000-09, Brown's teams averaged more than 10 wins a season, captured two Big 12 titles, won a national title and played for another. But the program dipped sharply to 5-7 in 2010, Brown's only losing season, and the Longhorns have lost at least four games for four consecutive years.
Brown said he knew that wasn't good enough. It was time to find a new coach to guide the Longhorns back among the national elite and heal a fractured fan base that had grown impatient. His final game will be the Dec. 30 Alamo Bowl against Oregon.
Brown was under contract until 2020 with a salary at more than $5 million per year. He will stay on as a special consultant to President Bill Powers, a role that his current contract stipulates would pay him up to $500,000. Details of any further compensation for Brown were not immediately available.
Texas had expected a return to championship form this season, but a 1-2 start ignited months of speculation that Brown would retire or be forced out. Texas rallied with six straight wins, then dropped two of its last three games. A chance to win the Big 12 title was lost to Baylor in the finale.
Brown met with Powers and athletic director Steve Patterson on Friday to discuss his future. Brown said both told him he could stay, but after sleeping on it Friday night and talking it over with his wife, he decided it was the right time to resign.
"I felt like I could stay," Brown said. "I really felt like it wasn't best for the university to stay."
Powers said he was not pressured by the school's board of regents to help push Brown out of the job.
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According to the PRC Labour Contract Law which was amended and came into effect on 1 July 2013, an employer can only use seconded employees for work positions which are temporary, auxiliary or substituting in nature. To implement the above new policies, the PRC government gave enterprises some time to adjust their employment arrangements. According to the Interim Regulations on Labour Dispatch which came into effect on 1 March 2014 ("Interim Regulations"), enterprises must meet the statutory requirements on the use of seconded employees within two years after the Interim Regulations have become effective, i.e. at the latest by 29 February 2016 (" Deadline").
1. What are the statutory requirements after the Deadline?
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As defined by the Interim Regulations, a "temporary" position refers to a position that exists for less than six months. An "auxiliary" position refers to a work position providing services to core business positions. A "substituting" position refers to a position that may be held by another employee on a substituting basis for a certain period of time when the employee originally working on such position is unable to work due to full-time training, vacation or for any other reason. It is easy to define the work positions which are temporary or substituting. But when defining the scope of "auxiliary" work positions, as required by law, the enterprises must first consult and negotiate with the employees and then announce the result to the employees.
- Enterprises must keep the number of seconded employees lower than 10%.
According to the Interim Regulations, the number of seconded employees used by enterprises shall not exceed 10% of the total number of employees. Such seconded employees refer to all employees who are on the work positions which are temporary, auxiliary or substituting. Such total number of employees includes both the seconded employees and the employees directly hired by the enterprise.
However, as an exception, employment contracts and secondment agreements that have been signed by seconded employees before the issuance of the amended PRC Labour Contract Law, i.e. before 28 December 2012, are allowed to be performed until expiration. Therefore, employees holding such contracts do not need to be considered when calculating the percentage of seconded employees.
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If an enterprise fails to define "auxiliary" work positions in accordance with the law, the enterprise may be deemed as having established a de facto employment relationship with the seconded employee whom it uses for that work position. In case such seconded employee suffers damages due to the enterprise's breach of the law, the enterprise will be liable for compensating the damages.
Different local governments currently show different attitudes towards claims of seconded employee in connection with the confirmation of a de facto employment relationship in case an enterprise uses seconded employees in breach of the law. For example in Shanghai, the labour arbitration commission or the People's Court will not accept a dispute raised by a seconded employee claiming for a de facto employment relationship with an enterprise which did not comply with the requirement of the law. However, in e.g. Shantou Special Economic Zone of Guangdong Province, according to the Employee Rights Protection Regulations taking effect on 1 October 2015, an enterprise shall be deemed as having established an employment relationship with a seconded employee if the enterprise uses the seconded employee not in compliance with the law. Therefore, the above mentioned legal risks very at different locations.
3. What are the challenges after the Deadline?
In the past two years, in order to meet the statutory requirements on the use of seconded employees, some enterprises changed their way of use of the seconded employees to "outsourcing business". I.e. instead of hiring seconded employees from HR agencies, the enterprises outsource the business originally conducted by the seconded employees to a service company who assigns its employees to handle such business for the enterprise. For such enterprises, the challenge is whether such business mode is actually outsourcing business or just circumventing the use of seconded employees by signing outsourcing service contracts, i.e. so-called "de facto labour dispatch", which is expressly prohibited by the Internal Regulations. After the Deadline, if the business mode of "outsourcing business" is regarded as a "de facto labour dispatch" by the labour administrative authorities, the enterprise may still have to bear legal liabilities as mentioned in the above Item 2.
After the Deadline, the labour administrative authorities are expected to organise intensified inspection on enterprises with regard to the fulfillment of the statutory requirements on labour dispatch. Enterprises which still have 10% or more seconded employees or use seconded employees not in full compliance with the law are well advised to make an adjustment as soon as possible. Enterprises which have changed their business mode to outsourcing business may wish to double check to ensure that it does not fulfill the criteria of "de facto labour dispatch".


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New Delhi, July 20: An alleged serial killer in Delhi's Begumpur was arrested for killing over a dozen children and having sex with their bodies in the past seven years. A chilling reminder to the Nithari case, the incident can be rooted back to a psychological disorder called necrophilia.
23-year old Ravinder Kumar, who is a bus cleaner, had been arrested on Thursday when police was looking for a missing six-year old girl.
[UPDATES: Gruesome details by Delhi serial killer; even police got scared]
In his blatant confession to the police, Kumar said that he lured the children with candies, killed them if they resisted and had sex with their bodies. The sexual abuse count accounted for 15 such cases between 2008 and 2015 in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
A police officer said,"One of his victims, a six-year-old boy survived despite being drugged, sodomised, bludgeoned on the head and his throat slit. He was dumped for dead near a gutter in Begumpur last year."
[Nithari rerun: Man sexually assaulted, killed at least 15 children]
Citing alcohol and porn shown by friends as the reason behind the murders, the suspect showed signs of mental disorder while speaking to the media on the way to the court.
He said,"I would have continued targeting children had I not been caught. I felt bad but did it again the next time I drank. I would have asked for stringent punishment had a similar crime been committed with my child."
He is said to have committed the first crime in 2008, which went unreported. He was very categorical in choosing his victims and ensured that they belonged to the age group of 3-8 years, boy or girl.
He also ensured that they belonged to illiterate families so that they did not file a complaint. "Moreover, he couldn't seek sexual gratification from sex workers because he didn't have any money."
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Jax Build
Purchase Order
Ability Sequence
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Introduction / Laning
Jax with an insane dps build you will have almost 4k hp lategame, lots of lifesteal, damage and ability power. Jax was my first champion when i started playing League of Legends and i've played him for 6 months now and i want to share how i play jax with others. I've seen lots of jaxes online that builds horrible and i've helped many. I've never lost aginst a jax when i've played Jax myself.
I usually play jax on a lane not jungle but if you really want to jungle i got a small guide for that too. on 5v5 i go top/bot on 3v3 i go top. I don't really want to go mid with jax on a 5v5. I'd rather lane with a support or somone that can CC. I was laning with lux yesterday and that was a great combo. Karma is also great. And i love to lane with pantheon buy thats my personal opinions. Let me know what champion you think is best to lane with when playing jax in the comments
And i love Jax's untimate. Everytime you hit something with auto attacks you will get 1 stack of relentless ***ult. (max 10 stacks) which increases your attack speed and every 3rd attack will deal bonus damage
In early game just use Empower and Leap to harass and when you have gotten them to 30-50% hp wait for your Counter stirke to Proc then Empower + Leap + Counter strike then exhaust after the stun is finished this will get you a kill eventually
Jax is the solo king he can solo any champion in Late game when he got all of his items.
So hopefully my Jax experience is good enough to help many others.
Skill Sequence
The spell combos i use is Empower then i Leap strike my target and if my Counter stripe is up i use that and stuns them. Auto attack and short cooldowns will do the rest. I use my ulti when fighting aginst mages or champions that uses magic damage. (pretty obvious but i write it anyway)
Pros / Cons
- Very pro in early game due to his damage.
- AoE stun for team fights .
- He can get quite tanky, even though he buys damage items, due to his passive.
- If he gets fed early game, he can be unstoppable in mid-late game.
- Easy to escape with (stun and leap a friendly target) + flash
- His ulti is awesome for creep farming especially with a rageblade.
- Life steal from 10% - 100% hp in 10 sec in late game.
- Pretty useless in teamfights but his AoE stun is great.
- Mostly 1v1 champ
- No hp regen early game
- Easy killable by a mage/caster in early - mid game.
The reason i choose 21/9/0 is because i want so much damage as possible with some survivabilty.
And i dont need Crit/More crit damage. It's also great magic and armor penetration + the extra you get from runes. I choose 9 in the defense tree for More dodge, Survivability aginst mages (magic resist) and 10% movement speed when i dodge (You will dodge alot as jax) So in late game with with all his health and lifesteal he will become unkillable. (unless 5v1 :p)
Summoner Spells
Flash and Exhaust. Exhaust for slow/less damage on auto attack champions. You can also change Exhaust for ghost if you can handle the damage. You will have a slow from Hextech gunblade anyway.
Flash is the perfect Chase/Escape spell. Flash thorugh walls for escape and if you are a little behind a low champion use flash then leap for a kill.
Team Work
For teamfights Jax is kinda useless but his AoE stun is awesome. In teamfights, you should just focus one at a time. Try to not start the fight then you will get focused and die fast.
Try to kite one of them a little away from others so you can 1v1 him easy. and help your team with stuns. Leap away (if possible) when low health and(or) use flash. Use Exhaust on people trying to escape or Ranged/melees that hits alot with Auto attack.
Creeping / Jungling
You can also jungle with jax if you really want it but i don't reccomend it at all. Start with Counter strike (E Ability) Buy cloth armor and 5 health pots and go for wolfs first. when you reach level two pick empower and continue the regular jungling route. Then when i reach 3 and my smite is ready i go for blue buff. Max E ability first. Recall and buy the item that sometimes deals 500 damage to a minion on hit. And ninja tabi if you can afford it. But as i said i dont reccomend jungling on Jax, but you might like it. When you get your ulti you can kill all almost all creeps in the jungle. (i usually kill dragon in lvl 6-7) i use heal and smite for jungle summoner spells and 9/21/0 for masteries.
GL and HF to all Jax junglers :)
The build i use for jungling is Ninja tabi, Madreds blood razor, Guinos rageblade, Hectech gunblade and Rylais crystal scepter
Items / Alternative items
The reason i pick my items is as follows:
Ninja tabi: For the dodge. 12% dodge is awesome and you will dodge alot with this.
Guinos's Rageblade: This item is so great with his Ultimate it stacks every time you use an Ability or auto attack and it gives you Ability power and damage each stack. And because of his passive his Maximum HP will increase for each stack (max 8 stacks)
Hextech Gunblade: This is one of the items i love most in the game. Its Life steal, Spell vamp, Lots of AD , lots of AP and A use effect that slows the target and deals 300 magic damage!
Rylais Crystal scepter: More slow + HP for survivabilty. Each ability you use on a target will slow them.
The Bloodthirster: More lifesteal and Damage. Try to stack it up fast and dont die for max Damage.
Lich bane: Perfect item. You get the extra movement speed you need for chasing and you hit alot with Leap + Empower because of the passive of lich bane its insane. You also get some magic resist and because of talents you get alot together with ultimate.
Alternative items:
Rabadons deathcap instead of lichbane. More AP nothing more.
Sword of the divine instead of Lichbane. (Sword of the devine is awesome with his utli ever 3 attack hits extra but with this every 3 and 4 attack deals more damage. Pretty good for AD jax.
Atmas Impalier: This is very good to buy in late game because of you passive.
Atmas makes 2% of health into attack damage and because of his passive he makes the damage into health which makes the health into damage. so it goes like Health->Damage->Health->Damage->health-> damage. Pretty OP item in late game. I only but this when im playing aginst hardcore nukers and i die alot.
Some people have asked me about Phantom dancer on jax and Trifoce. well i think Phantom dancer is useless on jax because you dont need crit and attack speed. you got alot of attack speed already from your Ulitmatimates passive. I don't like triforce because it give little of everything but not enough so i'd rather buy other items.
So as jax try to lane with a support / CC champion use Empower + Leap to harass, Last hit minions for extra gold. Follow the build i made and have fun pwning noobs! :) Thanks alot for reading my guide and Please comment and rate the build! i'd like to hear feedback since i made this build from my own experience and all i have written came from my brain :p. Negative feedback is just as good as Positive feedback. I know i might be wrong some places but that wil be edited if its true. :)
Very sorry if i spelled something wrong let me know if you find anything wrong you want me to change.
Good luck to all jaxes out there:)
-FuzzyBuzzyzz level 30 EU servers
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Small Business Success is the Key to Economic Prosperity by Congressman Kenny Hulshof, Columbia Business Times, August 7, 2004
I believe the #1 thing we must do to encourage job creation is to make it easier for small businesses to expand and hire more employees.
As the 2004 election season officially gets underway, we're hearing many politicians talk about jobs. I believe the #1 thing we must do to encourage job creation is to make it easier for small businesses to expand and hire more employees.
One way to accomplish this is to make capital available to entrepreneurs, especially those who are just starting out. These risk-takers are the backbone of our economy. They must succeed if our economy is to continue its recovery.
However, finding the necessary startup money can sometimes prove challenging. Small businesses usually have fewer assets to commit as collateral. Uncertain earnings forecasts and a high failure rate work against would-be entrepreneurs when they're applying for the necessary funding at the local bank.
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It's better for everyone involved if the entrepreneur is able to invest what capital is available on equipment or employees. The 7(a) loan program is one of the governments' best economic development instruments.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. According to the National Federation of Independent Business, small business accounts for half of private, non-farm gross domestic product, employs half of the private work force and generates 60 to 80 percent of new jobs each year.
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Repurposing the Resource-Event-Agent Enterprise Ontology Through Formalization
Applications such as business modelling, model-driven software development, active use of knowledge specifications and enterprise application integration benefit from formal ontology specifications. In this paper we create two formal representations of an enterprise ontology, the Resource-Event-Agent Enterprise Ontology (REA-EO), aiming at repurposing its use to such more advanced applications. The first formal specification is graphical in nature and has as objective to more precisely capture REA-EO's semantics as well as an integrated definition of an extended set of structuring rules. The second formal specification is a machine-readable version of the REA-EO defined with the OWL knowledge representation language. We use a case study to demonstrate how business modelling and enterprise application integration benefit from these formal specifications.
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Minnesota Wild at Chicago Blackhawks Pick-Odds-Prediction - 5/11/14
Minnesota Wild (43-27-12) at Chicago Blackhawks (46-21-15)
NHL Hockey: Sunday, May 11, 2014 at 9:00 pm (United Center)
The Line: Chicago Blackhawks -195 / Minnesota Wild +177 --- Over/Under: 5 See the Latest Odds
The Minnesota Wild look to keep their run going when they visit the United Center for game five.
Minnesota looked dead in the water after Chicago stormed to 2-0 series lead after opening the series with back to back home games. However the Wild but the clamps on the Blackhawks high flying offense in sweeping their two at home. The talk of Ilya Bryzgalov being an easier target in goal then Darcy Kuemper was dispelled with Bryzgalov one of the reasons the series is now even.
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This one was a little wide open with the teams combining for five goals through two periods with the home team leading 3-2. Overall four players lit the lamp for Minnesota with Nino Niederreiter, Jason Pominville, Justin Fontaine and Jared Spurgeon doing the duties while Bryzgalov picked up the win with an 18 stop effort. The Blackhawks received goals from Michal Handzus and Patrick Kane with Corey Crawford recording 27 saves.
I think many people had written off Minnesota after falling behind in the series 2-0. However the Wild are very good on their home ice and are now 6-0 in this postseason. As the series shifts to game five at the United Center the Blackhawks have to get back to what they do best and that's spreading the ice at the offensive end and putting the rubber in the net. On paper and in the first two games we saw the many scoring options the Hawks have at their disposal and I think a few of them light the lamp. I'm looking at the home team or over while waiting for a line...


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A Man's Word
the August school board ballot set, I find myself in a bit of an awkward
if not a little bit of a sad situation.
My opponent for the election is a young man I've known most of his life. He's name is Jeremy Buckles. He is twenty-one years old and as I understand, is still in college.
As I said, I've known Jeremy since he was a little boy playing ball at the Ruritan Park. Jeremy has always had an interest in politics and I suspected someday we would see his name on an election ballot. Just didn't think it would be against me.
Jeremy and his family are great people and have always been strong supporters for me in all the campaigns I've run. He and one of his friends even came out for me on one election day and provided musical entertainment.
A couple months ago, Jeremy contacted me to ask if I was planning to run for re-election. He was planning to run for my seat if I wasn't going to. I responded that I was going to run again. He replied that he would not be running if I was and would be supporting me. See email below.
In our communications I reminded Jeremy that there were two school board seats (A) & (B) in our district (5th) and if he still wanted to run he could run for the other seat currently held by Gary Ubben who has turned out to be a big spender of our tax dollars. I knew from past communications with Jeremy that he wasn't a supporter of Mr. Ubben. See email below.
Apparently, Mr. Buckles has had a change of heart about about Mr. Ubben's "conservative values" given his decision to run against me.
Please don't misunderstand, I'm a strong supporter of folks getting involved in local government and under different circumstances I could have been one of Jeremy's biggest supporters. But as bad as I hate to say it and for lack of a better word, Jeremy flat lied to me and I would never have expected that of him. Very disappointing.
You can see why I was a bit surprised if not disappointed by Mr. Buckles decision to run against me. I guess I'm just too quick to take a man at his word. But I come from a generation were a man's word matters whether you're 21 or 51. If you can't trust one thing a man tells you, how can you trust anything a man tells you.
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You saw it just like I did. In their first game since the NFL mandated the 35-yard line for kickoffs, the Chicago Bears twice kicked off from their 30-yard line in Saturday's preseason opener. Referee Jeff Triplette allowed it twice until Carl Johnson, the NFL's vice president of officiating, put a stop to it via a phone call to the Soldier Field press box.
So what gives? Why did the Bears add 5 yards to their kickoff coverage territory? And why were they initially allowed to do it? Was it a matter of strategy or confusion?
The answer appears to be both.
At the start of the Bears' locally-produced broadcast, announcers Sam Rosen and Erik Kramer -- presumably reflecting the team's position -- said the rule gives each NFL team an option to mark the ball as high as the 35-yard line. The Bears, Rosen said, had chosen not to take that option. In fact, coach Lovie Smith later told reporters that he wanted to see his coverage teams cover a kick that was more likely to be returned.
Smith: "We know [place-kicker] Robbie Gould. We can put it on the 35, and he can kick it out each time."
One problem: The rule was not intended to provide a choice. Its intent was not to limit kickoff returns but to improve safety on kickoffs. Only a deeply interpretative analysis of the rule's wording would suggest otherwise. Here is how Rule 6, Section 1, Article 2(a) is written in the 2011 NFL rule book: "The restraining line for the kicking team shall be its 35-yard line for a kickoff and its 20-yard line for a safety kick."
I guess you could define "restraining line" as the furthest possible point a team can kick off, and infer that a team could line up further back even though it would seem to create a better chance for a return. Otherwise, I'm not sure why Triplette allowed it, and Johnson's call made clear he shouldn't have.
To be fair, I can see where the Bears were coming from. Generally speaking, kickoffs at the 35-yard line should increase the likelihood of touchbacks and/or short returns. But based on what Gould told the Chicago Tribune, the Bears aren't convinced that touchbacks will rule the day when the weather turns colder.
"By moving it to the 35," Gould told the Tribune, "they think there are going to be more touchbacks and there may be in warm-weather places but not in Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh. There are going to be plenty of places where you're not going to get touchbacks."
On a warm night like Saturday, Gould's kickoffs were likely to carry deep into the end zone. But if touchbacks do indeed diminish later in the season, the Bears ostensibly wanted to practice their coverage schemes in the preseason.
Let's not be completely naive here. The Bears opposed the rule change in March because it will diminish the annual field-position advantage they get from their strong return game. So let's not completely rule out the possibility of gamesmanship and/or that the Bears were making a one-time passive protest to the rule change.
Two people could reasonably argue whether a kickoff from the 35-yard line, combined with a 5-yard limit on head starts for cover men, will actually improve safety. But when a rule is changed for safety reasons, there is no leeway.
It's worth noting that Bears defensive end Corey Wootton was lost for four weeks because of a knee injury on the opening kickoff. I doubt whether the extra 5 yards contributed to the injury. But unless I'm missing something here, the Bears won't get another opportunity to "test" their coverage teams unless they take a delay of game penalty and Triplette shouldn't have allowed this one.