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Real Estate Agent in Fox Lake, IL
Whether you're looking to buy or sell a property in Fox Lake, IL, we want to help. As an established firm, The Michael Lescher Team wants to earn your business by providing skilled real estate agents to guide you through the process. You can turn to our seasoned staff to give you straight-forward answers to any questions or concerns you may have.
When you trust us with your real estate needs, we work hard to provide honest and reliable service from start to finish. Some of the services we offer include:
- Home buying
- Home selling
- Working with income properties
- Selling waterfront property
The Michael Lescher Team wants to be your go-to resource for a highly experienced real estate agent in Greater Fox Lake and the surrounding area. Not only are we dedicated to helping you through the process, but we also work hard to make ourselves available when we're needed most. Call us to schedule your consultation today.
Seeking your first home, moving up or downsizing? Let us be your dedicated real estate agent. The Michael Lescher Team is here to unlock new doors to your real estate buying goals. We'll close the deal for you with a personal touch throughout your home-buying experience.
Want to be your own boss? We'll help you turn real estate into revenue. Investing in income property within Lake or McHenry counties can generate profitable cash flow.
Are you ready to purchase your dream home—equipped with the luxuries you've always wanted? No matter your style, taste or extravagance, the Michael Lescher Team will help you find the jewel you're looking for.
When buying a multi-family residence, you'll be putting a secure roof over your head with the opportunity to generate monthly income.
I had a difficult situation in selling a house. I am the Power Of Attorney for a 83 year old relative and I live in another state which is an approx.. 6 hour drive from the house. My relative lived alone, was hospitalized and the moved to a nursing facility and finally to an assisted living facility. The house needed some repairs before it could be put on the market. Michael found contractors to do the work and supervised them to make sure everything was done correctly. When the work was completed, Michael listed the house and we had a firm offer within a week. We closed 4 weeks later. This was done without my having to travel to the house to handle things myself. I totally relied on the advice and guidance of Michael. Without his help it would have taken many months to complete the sale. Michael knows the business, the market, and most of all, how to sell. Thanks Michael for all your help and direction.
Love them amazing people with amazing qualities and extremely honest and professional
The best agent in the area. Michael sold two homes for me in the last two months. One house in Fox Lake and the other a Townhouse in Round Lake. The first sold within two weeks. Really good. The Townhouse was listed on a Friday and by the next day we had showing appointment and three buyers bidding more than the asking price. That was incredible and it was not by chance. Michael knows the business well. I'm getting another property ready soon for Michael to list for me.
I've known Michael for a long time, but never had a chance to use his services. I must tell you top notch, on top of things and I must say I'm amazed at how tech savvy he is. I had a selling price in mind and Michael exceeded it. Thank you very much Michael Lescher Team
Just got this VERY NICE review from Eileen E. on our website. Thought I'd share it here: Simply the Best ! Michael Lescher knows the market and gives Five Star personal service to get the best deal and close it. Michael Lescher priced our home to sell, made excellent recommendations to get it ready for sale, negotiated in our favor in every way. It is our pleasure to recommend Michael Lescher as "simply the Best!" He made selling our home a pleasure.
Michael is very knowledgeable and professional. He answered his phone even when away on vacation and always returns calls promptly. Michael is great!
They sell the good nice homes, noce listings and they make you feel at h9me when shopping.
The best realtor
Michael Lescher has been an intelligent and informative realtor. I would recommend Michael to anyone looking to buy a home. He helped me find the right home. He was very patient and flexible due to my crazy schedule. I just to say thank you Michael for taking the time and succeeding in finding the right house for me and my family!!!
A very qualified professional.
I had a difficult situation in selling a house. I am the Power Of Attorney for a 83 year old relative and I live in another state which is an approx.. 6 hour drive from the house. My relative lived alone, was hospitalized and the moved to a nursing facility and finally to an assisted living facility. The house needed some repairs before it could be put on the market. Michael found contractors to do the work and supervised them to make sure everything was done correctly. When the work was completed, Michael listed the house and we had a firm offer within a week. We closed 4 weeks later. This was done without my having to travel to the house to handle things myself. I totally relied on the advice and guidance of Michael. Without his help it would have taken many months to complete the sale. Michael knows the business, the market, and most of all, how to sell. Thanks Michael for all your help and direction.
Extremely Efficient Knowledgeable and Aware
Michael came in and turned a deal that had gone south due to another realtors incompetence, into a closed deal with extremely happy buyers! Buying a home can be stressful and it's a very delicate dance that requires all parties acting in harmony and doing things in a timely manner and once Michael agreed to take me on as client, things honestly became very easy and our deal closed without an issue. Michael knew everything I asked him and if he didn't know, he found out. He made sure everything was in place at all times and stayed on top of everything we needed to get the deal done before the closing. He made this process look easy, and that's the truth! The truth is, it's not and I know this because the previous realtor assigned to me had no idea what she was doing but Michael was a true professional. He even gave my wife and I an unexpected Closing Gift. He is the only Realtor I will use of if I am in need and he will be the first name that comes out of my mouth when someone in our area is in the market.
Highly likely to recommend
Michael was most knowledgeable about the area and available homes. He was easy to work with and follow-thru was excellent. I was most apprehensive about buying (I just moved from California) and a recent widow with no knowledge of the process, and he was most patient with me. You just can't go wrong calling on Michael Lescher.
Great Job!
Michael is friendly and easy to work with. He knew the right price to get the house sold in just 21/2 months. The pictures really helped sell it. He negotiated the best deal. Don't look for any other realtor.
Another Homerun
Michael and his team did it again!! Our first house (10 weeks back) was sold (listing to closing) in 24 days. Our rental townhouse just sold (listing to closing) in 23 days for full price!! Pictures and description from the listing sheet were great and helped immensely with sale. This was our third transaction done by the Michael Lescher Team this year and we highly recommend them.
Proficient, Polite, and Productive
My wife and I had put off any real estate decisions for a quite a while as we were very articular to what we were looking for in a realtor. Michael Lescher and subsequently his team exceeded our combined expectations for both sides (buying and selling). Michael intently listened to what we were looking for and only showed us the properties that met our needs and wants. No unnecessary time was spent looking at trade-ups or fixer-ups. We settled for a very nice house in a great neighborhood that we could afford. On the sales side, Michael gave excellent staging advice which helped us get an offer in one day, a contract in two, and closing in three weeks for just 2% under asking price. We are currently using the "team" again to market and sell our rental townhouse.
Great Job selling the Fox Lake property
Michael is a great realtor as he sold my Dad's house in a 1-1/2 months. He's knowledgeable of the Fox Lake real-estate area and He's willing to go over and beyond to pursue the right sale price. I would recommend Michael to anyone interested in selling their real-estate property.
Great Job
I've known Michael for a long time, but never had a chance to use his services. I must tell you top notch, on top of things and I must say I'm amazed at how tech savvy he is. I had a selling price in mind and Michael exceeded it. Thank you very much Michael Lescher Team
Simply the Best ! Michael Lescher knows the market and gives Five Star personal service to get the best deal and close it.
Michael Lescher priced our home to sell, made excellent recommendations to get it ready for sale, negotiated in our favor in every way. It is our pleasure to recommend Michael Lescher as "simply the Best!" He made selling our home a pleasure.
Easy to work With
Michael is easy to work with and is very timely in his communications.
Michael Lescher Team
I gave Michael and his team a very difficult assignment and I believe they did the best they could with it. The results were not as I had hoped but I don't view that as Michael's fault or problem. Michael, thanks for trying.
He is very knowledgeable as well as professional. I would recommend Michael and team to family and friends
Efficient, Effective, and Excellent Service
Michael is very friendly and is always willing to answer questions. He works with you to find what will work best with your lifestyle and standard of living. His response rate is excellent. He usually answers his phone within the first couple rings, and, if not, he gets back to you a short while later. Any problems or concerns that came up during the time working together were immediately and efficiently resolved. Definitely one of the best experiences I've had.
As I live 900 miles away from the rental property I needed to sell, I knew I needed someone I could trust and was knowledgeable in all aspects of marketing a home. I needed someone who would be willing to go beyond their normal responsibilities, take that extra step. I needed someone who had the experience to present my home in the most attractive light. I found all that in Michael. I felt assured & confident that whatever obstacles were presented , with Michael at my side, they would be resolved in a professional manner. Thank you Michael
Would recommend to any one. His help and knowledge is excellent. He sold the house extremely fast and helped us through the legalities .
Exceptional Professional
We have been both a buyer and a seller with Michael and have found him to be exemplary. His attention to detail and ability to bring the best to each transaction made both a worry free experience. I highly recommend him!!
Very Professional and knowlegeable
We have been using Michael as a realtor since 2014. He is very knowledgeable, responsive and professional. We would recommend him to others. He has made himself available to show us house that fit our schedule.
Best in the business
"Very professional, quick responses, helpful and always available. MIchael has been my realtor for many years. He has shown me properties to purchase and just recently sold a property in a week. I would definitely recommend Michael ! !"
Highly Recommend!!!!
Michael was recommended to us by a realtor in AZ, where we were living at the time when we needed to sell our rental in Fox Lake. Michael kept us in the loop the entire process! It started with Michael telling us we should list the property $10K higher than we had expected. Within less than two months, we had a full cash offer! Michael was instrumental in connecting us to vendors to help on a few minor repairs from the inspection. There were several items on the inspection list that the buyer wanted money for. Michael brought in an expert to look at the items and determined that the buyers request was not founded, saving us several hundred dollars! Its hard enough selling a property when you live in the same state and we were worried about selling our rental while living out of state,but Michael and his team made it effortless! We cannot thank Michael and his team enough!!! We so appreciate all you did for us!
Beyond all expections
I purchased a home from Michael Lescher in 1999. The purchase was uneventful, I liked it, wanted it, bought it. Years later I was transferred to Houston and the beautiful house I purchased in "99" degraded significantly as did the real estate market. I desperately wanted to get rid of this house. I reengaged Michael who advised me on the repair of the house, helped me secure the contractors to make the repairs and patiently navigated the sale through a difficult market. Michael was professional, patient, respectful and real pleasure to work with. In the end I recovered more money than I ever would have expected and only because of Michael's learned advice and available network of people to get the house back in sell able shape at a very reasonable cost. I would without reservation highly recommend Michael Lescher!
If you want the job done correctly the first time and have fast, great, dependable service go with Michael Lescher. He will tell you like it is. I had Michael sell two of our properties with super fast results. Give this team a try if you want fast results. Debbie
Always professional and very prepared
The first time I met with Michael I thought to my self wow this is the realitor for me. I has a couple of bad experences with realitors in the past taking days even weeks to get back to me. Michael is always professonal and well prepared to answer any questions I had. My wife and I appreciate his honesty and quick to response to any questions we had for the purchase and sell of our house. I would highly recomend him to anyone looking to buy or sell a property. Not only did he help us with our house. He was able to sell my grandmothers house that my parents had been trying to sell for over a year. Michael was able to get her house under contract in less than 2 months!!!!!
Extremely high quality, very easy to work with
Michael Lescher and his team have been so great to our family and finding that perfect hidden cove for our kids to play in. I honestly had my doubts but we found a true gem thanks to them! My family and I can live in our new home with tons more space for the perfect price! I would definitely recommend to anyone to give this man a call especially if you're serious about finding a good home for even just yourself. Good luck! ~Ashley
Delivered a lot of high quality service.
I was out of town with my house on the market and Michael did an excellent job of coordinating vendors and helping get the house ready for sale. He had my house listed on all of the relevant web sites. I would recommend him highly.
Worked tirelessly!
Michael Lescher provided my wife and I top notch service in selling 7 homes in the last year. He worked tirelessly in doing what ever it took to sell these properties. He is honest and forthright in his approach. He is very knowledgable about local building codes and uses his imagination in giving prospective buyers a different look at properties and what this property could look like. He has a great personalty and has keen sense of knowing what the buyer is looking for. We certainly recommend Mr. Michael Lescher as your next real estate agent. He understands the business and is very ethical in his approach making sure that the transaction is very clear and honest. We are extremely confident in him.
knowledgeable, dependable & professional!
Michael is a knowledgeable, dependable professional that is a joy to work with. I highly recommend him. He was extremely familiar with the area and has many years of success in his field. Michael consistantly communicates the process and assists in a seamless buying effort.
Great Job!
He was very helpful and sold the home in a month with a good price. He was very quick in dealing with the house. I was a distance from the home that was sold and he handled everything very efficiently.
Forever thankful!
We were so fortunate to have used Michael as our broker. He was very patient as he drove us around for months helping us to find the perfect home for our family. He knows the ins and outs of the real estate business and is very knowledgeable as he was able to answer all of our questions(we were first time home buyers and had alot)! He was always prompt in calling or emailing us back no matter what time or day it was and took us to see homes even if it was a last minute request. His professionalism, mentorship, knowledge, honesty and hard work ethic are much respected and appreciated! We are forever grateful we chose Michael Lescher as our realtor and know if we had to do it all over, we would choose him again as well as recommend him to friends and family! Thank you for everything!
A great resource
Michael understands the real estate business from the inside out and has a network of people and references to help all aspects of the process. He is a great resource and helped me so much to find a home I love.
Thank You Michael for helping us live our dream
Michael is a long time family friend so when it was time for us to sell our house and start our retirment in S Carolina he was who we called. Michael knows all the ins and out of real-estate. The lady who bought our house used michael as well. Even though our closing was the same day as our closing on our new house in SC. Michael made it posiable for us to be in SC to sign on our new house as Vickie was signing on our Fox Lake house. What a wonderful experience Thank You Michael for helping us live our dream .
Helped me sell a home
top notch job from the start to the finish, his team is number one in my books, they had an offer on the house within 2 days of listing it (very pleased with the offer) and finalized the deal 30 days after it was listed...amazing job
Highly Recommend
Mike Lescher, is the most knowledgable Broker I've worked with. Mike is very honest and when I am involved in a deal with Mike representing me, I know the deal is going to work. Mike has extensive experience. I have bought and sold many properties and worked with many agents, so I have a good working knowledge of what it takes to make things happen. I would highly recommend Mike
Knows what they are doing!
Knowledge. He carefully walked me through everything - Held my hand through all of the paperwork and was always in contact. Dan M.
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The groups reflect the level of congestion at the airport, ranging from no congestion at all, congestion during certain periods of the day, or congested throughout the day. This congestion can be caused by a number of factors, with these factors impacting each airport differently. For instance runway or apron availability can affect some airports, airspace above or around the airport at others, whilst lack of check-in counters or security checkpoints can affect others.
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Pontrello Scores OT Winner, Men's Lacrosse Tops No. 9 Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Nikko Pontrello scored the game-winning goal 19 seconds into overtime, and No. 12 Loyola University Maryland edged No. 9 Penn State University, 12-11, on the road in Holuba Hall on Saturday.
Penn State (1-1 overall) tallied the final four goals of regulation to for an 11-11 tie and send the game to overtime, but Graham Savio won the faceoff for the Greyhounds (1-1) to start the extra frame, and Pontrello ended it 19 seconds in.
Pontrello, Tyler Albrecht and Jeff Chase all had three goals for Loyola, and Justin Ward dished out four assists.
Jack Runkel outdueled preseason All-American Austin Kaut in goal, finishing with 12 saves for the Greyhounds. Five of Runkel's saves came in the fourth quarter, while Kaut finished with six total.
Pontrello's second goal of the game came with 12:10 to go in regulation. Kaut saved Pontrello's intitial offering, but Pontrello was there to pick up the ground ball and score, giving Loyola an 11-7 advantage.
The Nittany Lions got a pair of goals back off extra-man opportunities, as T.J. Sanders scored one at 9:48, and Erik Myers added another with 3:55 to play, closing the gap to 11-9.
Shane Sturgis, who assisted on both of the man-up goals, then tallied a transition goal off a Steven Bogert assist at 1:42, and Loyola's lead was down to one.
Myers tied the game at 11-11, marking the fourth time the game had been knotted, as he cut to the crease and took a Kyle VanThof pass to score with 63 ticks left on the fourth-quarter clock.
Brendan Donovan came up with a faceoff win, picking up the ground ball himself, for Loyola after Myers' goal, and the Greyhounds called timeout with 27 seconds remaining to set up a final sequence in regulation.
Ward had a shot attempt from the crease off a Pontrello pass with less than four seconds left, but it went wide, and the teams headed for extra time.
Loyola's four-goal lead early in the fourth quarter was not indicative of the way the game's closeness throughout, as it was tied four times. Runkel and the Greyhounds' defense, however, did not allow the Nittany Lions to lead at any point in the game's 61-plus minutes.
The Greyhounds went up 3-1 on a Chase extra-man goal with 17 seconds left in the first quarter, thanks to a Matt Sawyer assist, but Sturgis scored the first two goals of the second, tying the game at 3-3 with 10:51 to go before halftime.
Brian Schultz, however, put Loyola back in front with a goal at 7:41, and Albrecht followed with his second of the game at 2:56, making the halftime lead 5-3 for Loyola.
Pontrello used a Schultz feed 50 seconds into the second half, but Penn State had a three-goal run of its own to tie the game at 6-6 with goals by Sanders, Gavin Ahern and Kyle Baier. The Nittany Lion goals came in a flurry of scoring that covered just one-minute, 45 seconds with Baier's knotting the game at 11:03 in the third.
Albrecht was on both the defensive and offensive ends of Loyola's next goal. He doubled Penn State's Pat Manley and caused a turnover with just over eight minutes left in the quarter. After a Loyola clear – the Greyhounds were successful on all 16 of their clear attempts Saturday – Albrecht scored his first career hat trick with a goal at 8:03 to push Loyola back up one, 7-6.
The lead would not hold for long, however, as VanThof scored for Penn State 56 seconds later.
Donovan got the faceoff out to Brian Sherlock who picked up the ground ball, and Kevin Ryan fed Chase for a goal at 6:25, just 42 seconds after VanThof tied the score.
Both teams killed off extra-man opportunities in the next few minutes of action before Chase recorded his first career hat trick with a goal at 1:43, staking the Greyhounds to a 9-7 advantage.
Loyola got the ball back on a Penn State faceoff violation, and Sherlock took a Ward pass to score with 44 seconds left in the fourth, putting the Greyhounds on top, 10-7, heading to the fourth quarter.
In addition to the three goals apiece for Pontrello, Chase and Albrecht, Shultz and Ryan each had one goal and one assist, and Matt Sawyer added an assist.
Joe Fletcher had a team-high two caused turnovers defensively, and the preseason All-American picked up three ground balls to match Savio for team-high honors in that category.
Sturgis led all players with five points, scoring three goals and assisting on two, while VanThof added two goals and two assists for the Nittany Lions.
Loyola makes its home debut at Ridley Athletic Complex on Wednesday, February 19, at 3 p.m. when it hosts Towson University. The game against the Tigers can be seen live on the Patriot League Network at PatriotLeague.tv.


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Afghan relations with Pakistan at new low
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan accused Pakistan on Thursday of placing unacceptable conditions on efforts to bring peace to the country after nearly 12 years of war, the latest in a series of barbed exchanges that has sunk relations between the two neighbors to a new low.
A breakdown in ties threatens to hinder — or even paralyze — attempts to lure the Taliban to the negotiating table. That's a key goal of the United States and its allies as they work for a peaceful solution in Afghanistan ahead of the final pullout of foreign combat forces in 20 months.
Afghanistan and its international backers consider Pakistan a critical player in bringing the Taliban and other militant groups into peace talks. Pakistan holds dozens of Taliban prisoners and has been accused of backing the insurgents in an effort to be able to exert influence in Afghanistan after foreign troops leave.
A senior Pakistan official said, however, that Islamabad remained committed to reconciliation.
That's why Pakistan recently released 26 Afghan Taliban prisoners from its jails, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. Pakistan remains in contact with members of the Taliban who have been empowered to talk about reconciliation, he said.
A failure to bring peace could endanger the stability of Afghanistan and much of the region, including Pakistan, which is fighting its own domestic Taliban insurgency.
"We have told the Pakistanis that they should support peace in Afghanistan not only for the sake of the Afghan people, but for their own sake," Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai told The Associated Press in an interview on Thursday.
He said Afghanistan wants a close, broad, strategic relationship with Pakistan, "but one between two equal independent sovereign states, nothing less."
Pakistan, Mosazai said, is constantly shifting its position. Islamabad should be "supporting the Afghan peace process in a more meaningful way and having an independent bilateral relationship that is not based on a delusional desire to control Afghanistan."
So far, Afghanistan has been unsuccessful in getting militants to negotiate peace and needs Pakistan's help. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged the Taliban to work out a political resolution to the war and has backed a plan for the Taliban to open an office in the Gulf state of Qatar.
Publicly, the Taliban have long refused to speak directly with Karzai or his government, which they view as a puppet of foreign powers. Afghanistan thinks Pakistan has the influence to get them to talk so it's not helpful when the two capitals are feuding.
Relations between the two countries have been hot and cold in recent years.
Afghanistan often blames Pakistan for supporting insurgents who are fighting both NATO troops and government forces. Afghan officials also claim Pakistan has had a role in major attacks and suicide bombings. They said a suicide bombing that killed a former Afghan president and leader of the government-appointed peace council in September 2011 was planned in Quetta, Pakistan.
"It is not a tempest in a teapot," said Michael O'Hanlon, a fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. "An increasing number of Afghans have figured out how much of a hand Islamabad has had in all the violence over the years.
"If there is a silver lining, it's that Islamabad needs to know that the world has figured them out and that they can't continue their double game indefinitely and get away with it. Some Pakistanis know that already. Many still need to understand it."
Relations between Islamabad and Kabul had been improving in recent months.
Karzai had lauded Pakistan's decision to work for peace and help Afghanistan reach out to the Taliban, whose leaders are thought to be based in Pakistan.
In July, when British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Kabul and met with Karzai and the Pakistani prime minister, they pledged to work together to eliminate terrorism and agreed that peace in Afghanistan would help improve security in Pakistan.
In October, Salahuddin Rabbani, the current head of the peace council and the son of the ex-Afghan president who was slain, visited Islamabad and presented Pakistan with a plan to bring peace to his country by 2015. That plan included the active participation of Pakistan.
A month later, Pakistan's foreign minister gave the Afghans a draft agreement for a strategic partnership and Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani made a visit to Kabul. That visit further bolstered Afghan hopes that Islamabad was committed to peace and good relations.
NATO, Afghanistan and Pakistan signed a deal for better military coordination on the border, and equally important, Afghan officials said Kayani not only indicated support for the Afghan peace plan, but said that it should be accelerated from 2015 to 2013.
At a February meeting in London, the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan further cemented their relationship. At the meeting, it was announced that Afghanistan and Pakistan had committed themselves to trying to achieve peace within six months.
But Afghan officials said the meeting was not as rosy at it seemed.
They said Islamabad demanded three preconditions: That Afghanistan limit its relations with India — Pakistan's archenemy; reach a domestic consensus on peace; and immediately sign a strategic partnership with Pakistan.
Instead of the preconditions, the Afghans said they were expecting Pakistan to take its own steps toward fostering peace talks, including the release of the former No. 2 Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Afghan officials hoped that Baradar and other imprisoned members of the Taliban can help bring the Taliban to the peace talks. In January, Pakistan's foreign secretary had said Islamabad would eventually release all Taliban prisoners.
"Pakistan is continuing with delaying tactics in their support of the peace process by demanding a supposed intra-Afghan consensus on the peace process at a time that a national consensus to end the violence is the strongest it has ever been for the past decade," Mosazai told the AP.
Western officials have said that the Afghan government was too optimistic about what Pakistan was ready to give, especially on the release of Baradar, and that they should show patience.
Pakistan has denied issuing preconditions, but Afghan officials say recent comments show otherwise — including some made by unnamed Pakistani foreign ministry officials that Karzai was an impediment to peace.
"We believe that relations between the two countries are deteriorating," Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi said recently. "Enough is enough."
In Islamabad, the senior Pakistani official stressed that Pakistan was supporting reconciliation. As a way to kick start the peace process, the official said Pakistan has suggested a meeting attended by the Taliban and representatives from Afghanistan's multiple ethnic groups. He insisted that the meeting was not aimed at excluding Karzai from the process, but rather to make sure that the Afghan president didn't cut out his own political opposition.
Further complicating efforts to gain traction on a peace process is internal fighting among members of the Taliban, the official said. He said there was an ongoing debate between two factions of the Taliban: Those who reject talks when they are close to seeing international forces leave and a weaker Afghan force take charge and others who see reconciliation as a way to regain political power in Afghanistan.
AP Intelligence writer Kimberly Dozier contributed from Islamabad.
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The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines burglary as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. To classify an offense as a burglary, the use of force to gain entry need not have occurred. The Program has three subclassifications for burglary: forcible entry, unlawful entry where no force is used, and attempted forcible entry. The UCR definition of "structure" includes, for example, apartment, barn, house trailer or houseboat when used as a permanent dwelling, office, railroad car (but not automobile), stable, and vessel (i.e., ship).
Expanded burglary data
Expanded offense data are the details of the various offenses that the Program collects beyond the count of how many crimes law enforcement agencies report. These details may include the type of weapons used in a crime, type or value of items stolen, and so forth. In addition, expanded data include trends (for example, 2-year comparisons) and rates per 100,000 inhabitants.
Expanded information regarding burglary is available in the following tables:
Trends (2-year): Tables 12, 13, 14, and 15
Rates (per 100,000 inhabitants): Tables 16, 17, 18, and 19
Offense Analysis: Table 23
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At AAU Nationals, 10U Green Takes Home
3rd Place in D-II Classic Bracket
A defining moment…..
I stood with my co-coach, Stuart Van Houten on Wednesday afternoon, our Matrix 10U Green team just having lost in the first round of the Championship Bracket, and in front of us were 10 tired and dejected young ladies, distraught over our tournament results to that point (1-2 in the pool round of tournament in addition to the defeat that day). Stuart and I were truly scratching our heads at the results so far, the girls having fought hard and having played admirably (though certainly not without our issues), and yet coming up on the short end so often.
In my post game "speech", I told the girls that our success will not be defined by whether we win or lose, but rather if the people from around the country at this tournament look at us and see what good sportsmanship we demonstrate, how talented we each are, how hard we fight, and most importantly what a tremendous TEAM we can be. I said that we didn't need a medal to reward our efforts, but instead to just know that we have played the way we are capable, and represented ourselves, our families and the Matrix organization the best way possible.
What happened from that moment forward was truly amazing.
The Matrix Green team went on to defeat a solid Wilmington Tigers team fairly soundly 28-18 to advance to the Final Four of the Classic Bracket, and then play about the best game I have ever seen against an extremely tall and talented Louisiana Wildcats team (the eventual Classic Bracket champions), only to fall 4 points short in the last minutes 34-30. Our final game included significant contributions from every player including stifling team defense to shut down an excellent center who had about 3 inches on our tallest player, court awareness and passing that lead to easy baskets time and time again, and heart and determination that provided us a large advantage in rebounding and loose balls. Most significant was the way that the team pulled together against great adversity, supported and picked each other up, and relied and trusted in their teammates the way that championship teams do. The girls had shown the country what they were truly capable of! We also found out that 2 of the teams we had battled with in pool play were in the Final Four of the Championship bracket, which made our prior results feel a bit better.
But perhaps as enjoyable as that final game's effort, was watching the girls spend the week together. Whether it was locking arms to help each other over their fear of roller coasters, sharing tastes of sushi in front of the "flaming volcano", curling up on the sofas with comfort food and episode after episode of SpongeBob Squarepants, playing games in the pool and hide-and-seek in the hallways at the hotel, or singing at the top of their lungs on the team bus going to games, the girls really had a terrific time together, as a team.
There are only a few things that I can remember from when I was 10 or 11 years old, and I think we may have created one of those things for each of the girls on this Matrix Green team. This is what I strive for every day as a parent, and why I coach. So, thanks to Jim and Liz and the Matrix organization for providing us these opportunities to play together. Thanks to the parents for supporting your kids with the team, and especially the for the crew in Orlando for cheering the team on and making the experience truly incredible --- you guys really got to witness something special. And most of all, thanks to Seema, Simran, Kelsey, Hope, Sarah, Melissa, Kimberly, Kat, Shae and of course my daughter Ellie, for the effort and the memories --- as Tao Cruz would say, you guys were truly Dy-na-mite!!!!
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As a kid I my family took a trip from my home in Beavercreek, Ohio, to Boulder, Colorado, for a visit with my mom's relatives. On the way we stopped in St. Louis, Missouri, for a day to take in a Cardinals baseball game and journey to the top of the St. Louis Arch. I was a huge baseball fan and any chance to catch a game outside my "home" Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati seemed as cosmopolitan an experience as a 10-year-old could imagine. Couple that with a story I had read about a guy who tried to catch a baseball dropped from the top of the arch, only to end up with a broken jaw, heightened the anticipation. It was a surreal ride, though, clumbering up the arch's 630 feet of curvature via an enclosed tram. The little cars moved so slowly that it seemed forever to reach the top, but reach we did and were greeted to an astonishing view of the city.
When I came across Davone Audio's RITHM speakers and their arching cabinets, that St. Louis experience of many summers past flooded my mind. Here was a loudspeaker like no other I had seen – as if IKEA had hooked up with Boeing to produce a forward-weighted boomerang that you'd want in the living room. The design is definitely Scandinavian – Davone is headquartered in Hillerød, Denmark. Call it furniture, call it art, all brought together in a loudspeaker. Thus, it didn't surprise me that an aeronautical engineer – Davone's Paul Schenkel – was responsible for the RITHM's graceful, bird-like lines. Schenkel's talents also extend to the fields of physics and acoustics, essential to getting an unconventional speaker design l like his off the ground.
Schenkel takes further inspiration from designers such as Oscar Niemeyer, Arne Jacobsen and Jørn Utzon, and writes, "I have been building speakers all my life, just like many people in the audio industry. With my interest in classic design I have never understood (and I still don't) that there are no loudspeaker manufacturers that try something new with the cabinet shape and yet keep it stylish, non-technical, like the famous furniture design classics. Often in furniture design magazines I can see that in the background of a very stylish house there are speakers that clearly do not match the rest of the house." To Schenkel, all objects are potential loudspeakers, but, obviously, not all objects are potentially "good" loudspeakers. The RITHMs go beyond potential thanks to some clever engineering:
1. The RITHM's cabinet consists of 16 separate layers of wood. Its curved shape makes the cabinet very stiff and helps reduce vibrations.
2. Wood layers are held together by glue, which help further reduce vibrations by absorbing and transforming them into heat.
3. The tweeter is placed directly into the center of the woofer, creating a coherent, single-point, yet wide sound source – the highs and lows emerge from the same space, compensating for time-phase errors.
4. Because the front of the speaker holds the driver, the back can be tapered to take up less space and create some drama with the asymmetrical bow.
Send Me A Pair!
My RITHM hook-up was high-end audio distributor The Signal Collection, based in Cummings, Georgia, and headed by Chris Sommovigo. If that name rings a bell, it's because Sommovigo has been in the business for many years as a designer and manufacturer of audio cables. Sommovigo was extremely helpful and thoughtful, marking up a placement map according to the dimensions of my listening space. The RITHMs are designed for medium-sized rooms, and mine fits that bill. "WAF" is an acronym that runs through the audiophile community. It stands for "wife-acceptance factor," a light stab for those who need some extra ammunition before given the go-ahead to bust open the wallet. To me, the RITHMs have "LRAF" (living room acceptance factor) and could perk up any such space. As Sommovigo told me, "We're not growing any new audiophiles. These speakers are intended for people who love fine things. Many folks think of a stereo as an appliance, but with the Davone we took a huge step out of the appliance category and into the fine furniture industry." Sure, but how do they sound?
The day the RITHMs arrived, my FedEx driver looked a bit wild-eyed. I watched him disappear into his truck's cargo and emerge with a titan of a box (two boxes, actually) wrapped in plastic. As he carted it down my sidewalk, I was wondering how to even get this package in the house. Thankfully, the contents weighed less than expected and I brought the speakers in for a reveal. Of the three finishes available (black oak, walnut and oak) I received the RITHMs in walnut, with sides painted in a black matte finish. If you like the idea of floor-stander but don't want it to dominate a room, you'll like the RITHM's low profile: They stand 27.5 inches high and span approximately 23 inches from front to back foot. A single grill covers the coaxial driver – a 1-inch tweeter tucked into a 7-inch woofer – located about 2/3rds up the front of the speaker. Unlike most square cabinet speakers, the RITHMs are ported on the bottom of the front foot where the angled taper keeps the port off the floor. Binding posts are located on the lower back and they are very solid – two, gold-plated WBT plugs that accept bare wire, bananas (4mm) and spades – and form a tight connection to speaker cable. If you want to add spikes, there are two mounts on the bottom of the cabinet's front and back.
Denmark meet Norway
Call it serendipity, but I had matching components on hand from Davone's Scandinavian neighboor Norway – Electrocompaniet's PI-2 Prelude amplifier and PC-1 Prelude CD player. With these I built a Nordic system, including isolation feet from Denmark's Valhalla Technology. The only non-Scandinavian concerns were cables (RS Audio Cables) and turntable (Marantz).
Most speaker manufacturers recommend a certain amount of break-in before settling in for critical listening. The RITHMs arrived already well broken-in, however, so there was no lag from connection to audition. I'll admit openly to loving the speaker's looks without any consideration for the speaker itself. I was keen to treat the RITHMs as "lifestyle" speakers rather than just loudspeakers, but that changed the first time I listened. Sommovigo said he's a big fan of the Norwegian-made driver, and that the coaxial design allows Schenkel to simplify the cross-over and not worry about driver off-set. I liked how the tweeter and woofer work in concert to create a large stereo image. The RITHMs have superb mid-range and bass that seems to dip lower than the speaker's 50Hz limit. They are fleet – not super fast – but offer plenty of clarity, decay and sustain. These speakers can yield big sound, but need some power to perform. At 85dB sensitivity, the RITHMs behave like mini-monitors, so don't be shy with wattage.
Steve Morse is one of my favorite guitarists, and his latest recording with the Steve Morse Band, Out Standing In Their Field, is a hearty smorgasbord of gritty rock, Dixie-Dregs-style fusion and delicate classical guitar stylings. It's an energetic affair that blooms with Morse's immaculately picked lines and bassist Dave LaRue's liquid licks. Every song entrances, but while listening to "Relentless Encroachment," drummer Van Romaine's toms sounded so immediate that I thought someone was knocking on my front door.
A bit bored with my standard handful of reference recordings, I asked my wife to pick five CDs at random from our collection to test with the RITHMs. They follow and include my partial notes:
1. Jeff Buckley, Grace: Swell of guitars and vocals on the title track; vocals intimate and breathy.
2. Dave Swarbrick, It Suits Me Well – The TransAtlantic Anthology: British pub energy presented with a real, live feel. The master fiddler makes toes tap on jigs, reels and shuffles. Muscular mid-range.
3. Marillion, Brave: Lush and emotional presentation. Steve Hogarth's vocal sounds in-the-room on "The Great Escape."
4. The Beach Boys, Good Vibrations EP: Crisp tambourines and rounded bass on "Good Vibrations." Loads of bass on "Let's Go Away For Awhile." The RITHM's 7-inch woofer goes a long way to bring out the bass, even with its somewhat limited range. When paired with a sub, such as Velodyne's Optimum 10 subwoofer, the soundstage broadened and deepened, leaving me wanting for nothing.
5. Queen, A Kind Of Magic: If the RITHMs sound dreamy, they never sound sleepy. On albums such as Queen's A Kind Of Magic, where Roger Taylor's drums are recorded very dry, the RITHMs will give you dry – but not brittle to the point of breaking.
A late-night listening session included Patrick Moraz's ESP and The Moody Blues' On The Threshold Of A Dream. The former is an album of solo piano compositions by the former Yes and Moody Blues keyboardist. I've heard plenty of piano recordings that were shrill and painful to hear, but Moraz brings out the harmonic richness of his instrument and the RITHMs serve to highlight his warm tone. Threshold's dreamy music seemed to melt into the RITHMs. And if there's a rub, it's that the RITHMs may be too laid-back for some. They are smooth, and with the Electrocompaniet gear – also suave performers – the sound is warm, mellow and lustrous.
I hosted Thanksgiving this year, with most of my wife's immediate family attending. After dinner, a group of us went upstairs to my listening room for a quick survey of some gear I had on hand to review, but none of the other equipment garnered such attention as the RITHMs. I explained the origin and design but folks really just wanted to listen. At the request of my wife's uncle, I played Earmark's 180-gram virgin vinyl reissue of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's debut album. This has long been one of my favorite records and recordings – the brute force of songs such as "Knife-Edge" are stunning when played back on good equipment. But "Lucky Man" got the nod on this eve, and we listened, nodding and smiling at the sustain and clarity heard throughout, especially during Keith Emerson's famous Moog solo.
One guest worked for Crane Song, a Superior, Wisconsin, manufacturer of studio electronics whose building also houses a recording studio (Inland Sea). He brought over a CD recorded recently at Inland Sea and we listened through the RITHMs. The disc not only contained intriguing music but a beguiling analog-like sound that had more than one of us requesting a second play. That listening session was an important reminder that many non-audiophiles have very perceptive ears and can recognize the nuances of sound given the chance.
Final Thoughts
At their current price (MSRP $5,595), the RITHMs are not entry-level, and cost twice what I paid for my couch, but I can't imagine another piece of "furniture" I'd rather have in my house. And last I checked, the couch had pretty poor sound. Easy on the eyes, lovely on the ears, the RITHMs are a triumph of design and execution. I await eagerly Schenkel's next loudspeaker.


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The jurors at the retrial of Chris Huhne's ex-wife have been urged to ignore anything they knew about the case and to "wipe the slate clean".
Vicky Pryce, 60, denies perverting the course of justice by taking speeding points for former cabinet minister Huhne in 2003.
Using the defence of marital coercion she claims her former husband forced her to take the points.
He previously pleaded guilty to the offence and has been warned he could face jail.
Last week a jury failed to reach a verdict in Pryce's trial and on Monday a new jury of seven men and five women were told by Mr Justice Sweeney: "Both sides, prosecution and defence, have asked me to deal with the continuing publicity as to the first trial in this case which ended last week in which the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
"That happens, sometimes. It is of no relevance whatsoever in this trial at all.
"In this trial the slate, as it were, is wiped clean, and you judge the case afresh based only on the evidence which unfolds before you during the course of the trial.
"The other jury's disagreement is entirely irrelevant in this case."
Prosecutor Andrew Edis told them: "It would be foolish for anyone to pretend that you are all entirely ignorant about the circumstances of this case. There is no such pretence.
"What his Lord has directed you and what we also urge you to do is to pay no heed at all to anything that you know about it up until now. It starts now, and what matters is what happens from now on."


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Doing his part, a firefighter falls
When Hurricane Sandy sounded the bell, Easton Volunteer Firefighter Russell F. Neary, just like thousands of his brothers and sisters in uniform, instinctively responded.
Not to board their windows, not to hunker down with their families, not to enjoy the novelty of a night by candlelight, but to go out into the maelstrom and do whatever necessary -- whatever -- to help their neighbors.
They are under appreciated. After all, when things are good, they are just part of the background. It's only when things are bad that they are vivid, silhouetted in the smoke and orange glow of a house fire, or in the flashing blue and red lights that tell us danger is in the night air.
They take their work as routine, as what they do.
Firefighters respond to fires, of course, and to countless other cries for help. The circumstances as are varied as the requests.
Monday night, in the thick of the storm, firefighters in Old Greenwich struggled to contain what was later described as a "fire storm," a house blaze on Binney Lane whipped into a frenzy by 80-mile-an-hour gusts.
The "fire storm" ravaged three homes but the efforts of the firefighters prevented it from consuming the neighborhood.
"I told them motivationally at the beginning they were heroes, not supeheroes," Greenwich Fire Chief Peter Siecienski said. "I didn't want them to feel they could defy all odds. They performed like superheroes."
On Monday night, in the midst of the storm, Neary, 55 and a 13-year member of the force, headed out with his colleagues in Easton's Volunteer Fire Company #1 on the report of a house fire. It was a false report. On the way back to the station, Neary and other firefighters stopped to clear debris from the road, a mundane task in the best of circumstances, but not in those of a storm.
A tree fell and hit Neary.
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New England Code Camp 16 – Registration and More
New England Code Camp 16, a major community event for developers, is coming to Waltham, MA on October 29th!
Registration (free!) is now open, as are the Calls for Speakers, Volunteers, and Contributors (details below).
New England Code Camp 16
Saturday, October 29, 2011
8:30 AM – 6 PM + post-event Geek Gathering
Microsoft, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA
Code Camps are free events, held outside of regular work hours, organized by and for the developer community, and offer a chance to learn, share, and network. What kind of stuff might you see? It varies significantly camp to camp, but take a look at the previous camp's schedule to get an idea.
Register today and join hundreds of your fellow developers!
Call for Speakers
From first-time presenters to veterans of national conferences, Code Camps are made great because we hear from many perspectives – including yours. Have something to share, the community wants to hear from you.
How? Just see the registration page for details (speakers only need to register as a speaker, not as an attendee.) Proposals can be for any technology topic and sessions will be 75 minutes long.
The Call for Speakers will close at the end of Friday, October 21st.
Have a question about speaking? Send a note to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Call for Contributors
Contributors are a critical part of each Code Camp, relied upon to provide the essentials for the Code Camp experience, like:
- Morning coffee (& doughnuts when possible)
- Lunch
- Giveaways – items to be given out by speakers in sessions
- SWAG - items like pens, pads, and bags – branded or unbranded – it's all welcome!
You'll have a highly-targeted audience thanking your company for its support of the developer community, so please send a note to email@example.com your company can help make Code Camp 16 a success!
Call for Volunteers
Want to help before or at the event? Great, and thank you! Just drop a line to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Call for Thanks!
Special thanks to Patrick Hynds, Chris Pels, and Robert Goodearl for the care and feeding of this event, to the contributing companies, and of course to the many speakers who volunteer their time and expertise!
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Insurance companies main beneficiaries of scheme to protect obstetricians from malpractice suits
In late May, 1,041 former obstetrics patients of 28 medical facilities submitted a plea to the National Consumer Affairs Center (NCAC) to arbitrate a settlement with the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (JCQHC) that would partially refund money they had paid during their pregnancies for insurance purposes. The JCQHC is a foundation that carries out third-party evaluations of hospitals and clinics, but it also oversees a special compensation system enacted by the government in 2009 to protect obstetricians from career-threatening malpractice suits.
The system allows for a form of insurance that all obstetrics patients, meaning pregnant women, pay into. If a fetus or baby suffers brain damage before or during delivery, the insurance pays up to ¥30 million in damages over the next 20 years to the child and his or her parents. This no-fault insurance system was put in place because fewer medical students were opting to become obstetricians, partially because the dwindling birthrate has made obstetrics less profitable, but mainly because malpractice awards in the cases of babies born with disabilities have been extremely high. It was just too financially risky to go into the field.
Unless a pregnancy threatens the well-being of the mother, childbirth is not covered by national health insurance. Though in theory the obstetrics insurance is optional, if a pregnant woman patronizes a medical facility that pays into the insurance system (meaning 99.8 percent of them) they automatically charge her the ¥30,000 premium and incorporate it into her bill. What complicates the matter is the so-called "public aspect" of the system, according to a recent article in Aera magazine.
To encourage women to have babies, local governments compensate them for the money they spent on childbirth after the fact with something called shussan ikuji ichijikin (one-time payment for childbirth), a handout administered by the National Health Insurance Union (NHIU) of up to ¥420,000 per birth, regardless of how much money the patient spent.
This amount includes the ¥30,000 premium that the woman paid for the obstetrics insurance, so in effect the public is paying for the insurance since the NHIU uses taxpayer money as well as national health insurance funds for payments. In that regard, Aera has characterized the JCQHC as an amakudari institution; in other words, a bureaucratic entity whose main purpose is to justify its own existence.
Since the insurance system was launched in 2009, it has paid out about ¥4.1 billion in compensation for damages suffered during childbirth. At the end of the last fiscal year there was still about ¥80 billion in the reserve pool of funds and it is estimated the pool, which is controlled by the five insurance companies, will increase to ¥100 billion by the end of the present fiscal year.
According to Aera, the JCQHC originally estimated that between 500 and 800 babies would suffer brain damage every year out of the country's 1.2 million births, but real statistics for fiscal 2012 show that only about 200 babies suffered such damage. The mothers who requested arbitration from the NCAC are claiming they overpaid for the insurance and are demanding ¥20,000 each in refunds from the JCQHC. If they win, the organization will have to pay a total of ¥20.8 million. As Aera notes, more than 50 million women have paid this premium since 2009, though, strictly speaking, it is the public who has paid the premiums.
One obstetrician interviewed by Aera says that the reason all medical institutions sign up for the insurance is that part of the law mandates that any medical facility which applies for "high-priced medical care" compensation to the NHIU cannot be approved if it doesn't pay into the obstetrics compensation insurance plan. Otherwise, the facility can only receive maximum compensation of ¥400,000 for each delivery, regardless of what it cost the facility. That's too risky for smaller clinics.
The main beneficiaries of the system are the private insurance companies that participate. The premiums are practically free money since the companies are allowed to collect and administer the funds. Also, brain damage resulting in cerebral palsy is difficult to diagnose in an infant, and there is a five-year time limit for insurance claims.
In many cases, developmental disorders arising from brain damage don't manifest themselves until the child is older and the time limit has passed. However, the insurance companies are also using this aspect to explain why they need such a huge pool of money.
Of children born in 2009 who were eventually found to suffer from cerebral palsy due to brain damage, 12 were discovered in 2009, 100 in 2010 and 158 in 2011. Diagnoses are thus progressive, so the insurance companies say they need this huge surplus to meet future claims. But there has already been discussion in the Diet that the funds should be administered by a government body so as to relieve some of the public burden associated with medical care.
In any event, as some pediatricians have noted, ¥30 million over 20 years is insufficient to take care of most people who suffer from cerebral palsy. They tend to require 24-hour care the older they get. As one mother who is part of the arbitration claim told Aera, a system for compensating brain damage victims directly would be cheaper, more efficient and more humane than the obstetrics compensation insurance, which benefits administrators more than doctors or patients.
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Some distributions of Linux (for example, Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu) have an advanced memory management scheme called Transparent Huge Pages (THP). THP acts as an abstraction layer that lets the memory management units (MMUs) in a Linux host work with huge memory pages. With THP, this work occurs without specific action on the behalf of the administrator or the software that runs on the host.
Every CPU in a modern host has an MMU. The MMU manages memory in pages, and huge pages are structures that let MMUs manage multiple gigabytes and terabytes of memory more efficiently.
THP has been associated with degradation of Splunk Enterprise performance in at least some Linux kernel versions (for example, the 2.6.32 kernel used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6). When enabled, THP can significantly degrade overall system performance on systems that run Splunk Enterprise because of several issues:
- The implementation is too aggressive at coalescing memory pages for short-lived processes (such as many Splunk searches)
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- For some workloads, it can cause I/O regressions surrounding swapping of huge pages.
On systems with THP enabled, Splunk has observed a minimum of a 30% degradation in indexing and search performance, with a similar percentage increase in latency. For this reason, Splunk recommends that you disable THP in your Linux system configuration unless that system runs an application that requires THP.
In future versions of Linux, kernel engineers might find ways to improve the behavior of THP for the Splunk workload.
See the following pages for additional information about THP and how to disable it. Specific steps on disabling the feature are not shown here because the procedure differs on each distribution.
- "How do I disable Transparent Huge Pages (THP) and confirm that it is disabled?" (http://answers.splunk.com/answers/188875/how-do-i-disable-transparent-huge-pages-thp-and-co.html) on Splunk Answers.
- "Performance Issues with Transparent Huge Pages" (https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/performance_issues_with_transparent_huge)
- ""Update on Hugepages" (https://dbakerber.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/update-on-hugepages-rewrite-to-fix-formatting-issues/) on Andrew Kerber's Oracle DBA Weblog.
- Your Linux distribution documentation on memory management.
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Respectfully, "As we still support Linux kernel version 2.6, this notice still applies." really does not answer the previous question, "Is this still required when using RHEL/CentOS 7.6 with kernel 3.10+ and RHEL 8"
Seems like the answer is no, someone from Splunk engineering please confirm.
Hi Intermediate,
As we still support Linux kernel version 2.6, this notice still applies.
Can Splunk Engineering please confirm that this is still required in 2019 with RHEL/CentOS 7.6 with kernel 3.10+ and RHEL 8 which has a newer kernel?
Quoting from Ckurtz back in January 2017:
AFAIK, the severe performance bug was fixed in later Linux kernels (circa kernel 4.x+, but not back-ported to rhel/centos 7.2) so that madvise is the default, and is reasonably safe to use. However, if the box is performing double duty, cycles will be spent to manage and defrag any use of THP outside of the Splunk process. Since we require dedicated ownership/use of the system, enabling THP for "alien" processes is not recommended.
What about a bug (SPL-133708) is that not yet fixed?
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Here's another way to disable THP with tuned: https://kb.informatica.com/solution/23/Documents/Disable%20Transparent%20Huehpages%20on%20Linux%207.pdf
Splunk Engineering (via a Support Case) just confirmed that disabled THP is still required in RHEL7. Engineering's comment was:
"AFAIK, the severe performance bug was fixed in later Linux kernels (circa kernel 4.x+, but not back-ported to rhel/centos 7.2) so that madvise is the default, and is reasonably safe to use. However, if the box is performing double duty, cycles will be spent to manage and defrag any use of THP outside of the Splunk process. Since we require dedicated ownership/use of the system, enabling THP for "alien" processes is not recommended."
I've given the Docs Team more details so they can update the page.
Thanks for reporting, Lewis! I filed a bug (SPL-133708).
I believe there is a problem with the script that checks to see if THP is disabled:
From https://access.redhat.com/solutions/46111
NOTE: Some third party application install scripts check value of above files and complain even if THP is disabled at boot time using transparent_hugepage=never, this is due to the fact when THP is disabled at boot time, the value of /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/defrag will not be changed, however this is expected and system will never go in THP defragmentation code path when it is disabled at boot and THP defrag need not to be disabled separately.
A warning should not be raised in the Health Check if THP is disabled at boot time even if the defrag file is set to "always". Currently the Health Check is raising false warnings...
Question: This article seems to apply to Linux Kernel versions 2.6.32 Which is RHEL 6.
Does this THP issue also applies with to RHEL 7.2 Kernel 3.10.0-327.36.1.el7.x86_64 ?
This is a recommendation for all servers that run Splunk Enterprise.

We specifically did not include detailed instructions because we want customers to proactively ensure that they have the most up-to-date information on disabling the setting, depending on the distribution they have.
Is this recommendation directed at only at hosts performing indexing? Or is this best practice on search heads too?

To disable for RHEL/CentOS: echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/enabled
or try with grub but maybe broken: see https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/422283


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