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SQL Server 2005 is bringing many enhancements our way, but from an application developer's perspective, .NET integration is the most anticipated new feature. SQL Server 2005 can execute user-defined functions (UDFs), stored procedures, user-defined aggregates (UDAs), user-defined types (UDTs), and triggers written in common language runtime (CLR) languages such as Visual Basic .NET and C#. The scope of this remarkable shift in database programming could fill a book, and much of the functionality that the CLR offers isn't possible in T-SQL today. Let's look at how the CLR works in SQL Server 2005 and how to start writing and deploying CLR code in SQL Server 2005. We'll work through three examples that show you how to use the CLR to replace extended stored procedures, work with CLR triggers, and use CLR UDAs. These simple examples will help you see how you can start taking advantage of SQL Server 2005's enhancements.
CLR Integration: A Closer Look
The greatest advantage of CLR integration is that CLR languages such as Visual Basic and C# provide ways to interact with APIs such as the .NET Framework Base Class Libraries—BCLs—for string manipulation, use the cryptography API, create and work with regular expressions, and call external resources such as the Windows file system, Web services, and the Windows Event Viewer.
Another benefit is that the SQL Server database environment hosts the CLR, so loading and unloading assemblies happens in the Appdomain that SQL Server hosts. Appdomains are basically security boundaries that facilitate isolating, loading, and unloading managed code (i.e., code that runs inside a runtime environment). Using Appdomains is cleaner in implementation than using sp_OA× extended stored procedures. For example, because sp_OA× procedures can instantiate COM objects, a component could access SQL Server's internal memory structures and cause the SQL Server service to shut down. Introduction of Appdomains has eliminated such risks because managed code is isolated inside the Appdomain boundary, which prevents code from accessing SQL Server memory structures. With the CLR's compiled code, you can access system resources outside the SQL Server boundary and perform complex mathematical calculations that aren't possible with T-SQL. And with the option of using both T-SQL and CLR languages in SQL Server 2005, you can now meet any business requirement.
The first time you execute a call to managed code in SQL Server 2005, the call prompts SQL Server to load the CLR. After that, any managed code invocation runs in the CLR. The managed environment performs tasks such as memory allocation, exception handling, and enforcing SQL Server and CLR security policies. As I mentioned, through the CLR, managed code can access the BCLs that provide complete access to string manipulation, regular expressions, Web services infrastructure, file I/O, and the cryptography API. The BCLs bring the power, scalability, and security of the .NET Framework to database applications.
Figure 1 shows the SQL Server 2005 CLR architecture. The SQL OS (the SQL Server abstraction layer over the underlying OS resources) is primarily responsible for handling key processes such as transactions; enforcement of atomic, consistent, isolated, durable (ACID) rules; lock management; memory management; and hosting of the SQL Server Engine. The CLR resides inside the SQL Server Engine environment. A hosting layer facilitates interaction between the SQL OS and the CLR and is primarily responsible for assembly loading and unloading, memory management, enforcing the security model, determining the number of allocated threads and fibers, lock detection, and detecting execution contexts. The introduction of CLR languages in SQL Server wouldn't be possible without the changes Microsoft made to the SQL Server Engine to accommodate the CLR runtime.
Using Visual Studio 2005
Although you don't have to use Visual Studio 2005 to develop CLR-based objects, Visual Studio makes developing and deploying CLR objects easier, so I use it for the examples in this article. To work with the CLR in Visual Studio 2005, open the New Project window and select Database from the Project Types list. Then, select SQL Server Project from the Visual Studio installed templates list, as Figure 2 shows. Right-click the project you want, and select a new item. You'll see a list of templates for CLR objects you can create in SQL Server 2005. The Visual Studio code templates greatly simplify writing code for CLR-based database routines. For example, to deploy any function or sub as a SQL Server 2005 CLR object, you must declare it as Public Shared within the .NET class that encapsulates the implementation. The templates automatically add the class attributes that are required to deploy CLR objects.
Once you've built a project, Visual Studio compiles it into an assembly that encapsulates all the referenced assemblies. Deploying the assembly uploads its binary code into the SQL Server database that's associated with the project. SQL Server 2005 also contains new DDL statements for deployment; I discuss deployment later in this article.
Replacing Extended Stored Procedures
Creating extended stored procedures—traditionally the domain of C++ gurus—can be difficult, and using them can be risky. As I mentioned earlier, extended stored procedures run under the same security context as SQL Server and run inside the SQL Server process space, so a badly written, unmanaged extended stored procedure could bring down the SQL Server service. (For information about the complexity of extended stored procedures, see the Microsoft article "Creating Extended Stored Procedures" in Related Reading.) However, .NET code is type safe (i.e., it accesses types only in well-defined ways to allow consistent data-type definitions and increase code interoperability). It also runs within the Appdomain boundary, so it can't access random SQL Server memory locations and other .NET code. .NET code is also safer to deploy and use than extended stored procedures. To better understand this difference and see the power of BCLs, consider the following extended stored procedure:
exec xp_fixeddrives
This undocumented extended stored procedure returns the partitioned hard disk drives (HDDs) and the amount of free space available in each drive. If you were to rewrite this stored procedure in a CLR language such as Visual Basic .NET or C#, you would need to use the System.IO namespace, which contains the DriveInfo class that houses the information you're looking for about the each drive's free space. The DriveInfo class also exposes other properties, such as AvailableFreeSpace, DriveFormat, TotalSize, and VolumeLabel. So, when you replace the xp_fixeddrives extended stored procedure, you also get extended functionality: the ability to access additional drive information. This capability isn't possible with the extended stored procedures in SQL Server 2000 and earlier releases—unless you write your own extended stored procedures, which could be difficult.
Let's look more closely at how to create the CLR stored procedure that Listing 1 shows. You must prefix all stored procedure classes in Visual Studio 2005 with SQLProcedure as the method attribute. The Visual Studio templates automatically create this attribute. Next, you need to get an instance of the SQLPipe class, which will let the managed stored procedure return result sets to the caller that instantiated the stored procedure. An instance of the SQLPipe class is available to managed stored procedures through the SqlContext class. The SqlContext class gives an instance of the current running context of the code to maintain the current connection properties and transaction context under which the CLR objects were invoked. Both the SQLPipe class and the SqlContext class are defined in the System.Data.SqlServer namespace, which the Visual Studio templates automatically reference. Next, you form the metadata collection that defines the column data types that you'll send to the SqlDataRecord method and later query using SQLPipe. You use the SendResultsStart, SendResultsRow, and SendResultsEnd methods to start, send, and terminate the data transmission, respectively.
Using CLR Triggers
Another useful feature of the CLR is the ability to create CLR-based triggers. Let's say you need to validate a piece of data at the point of insertion—for example, an email address that a user enters. Currently, applications rely heavily on front-end validation for such requirements and give you multiple ways to validate data from the front end or the application layer. But a SQL Server 2005 T-SQL enhancement lets you invoke stored procedures as a Web service, so SQL Server 2005 application developers must build validation into the back-end layers. The CLR can help you build robust back-end systems. In this example, I show you how to create the CLR ValidateEmail trigger, which Listing 2 shows.
To accomplish this task, you need to use the regular expressions that the code at callout A in Listing 2 shows, which are available in the .NET Framework. A regular expression (regex or regexp for short) is a special text string for describing a search pattern; you find regular expressions in the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace. In addition, as with stored procedures, you must prefix the trigger classes with the <SQLTrigger(Event, Name, Target)> method attribute, which you can see in the code at callout B. In this attribute, Event describes the operation that will invoke the trigger. Name is the name of the trigger during deployment. And Target is the name of the table you'll attach the trigger to for the specified event. The Visual Studio templates add sample attributes to the class and we need to change the parameter appropriately; the attributes are important during the deployment phase when Visual Studio 2005 is used.
To validate the email address, you'll search for a pattern that looks like [email protected] For stored procedures, you used SQLPipe to send data back to SQL Server. But to get a trigger context, you use the GetTriggerContext method that the code at callout C shows. Once you get this context, you have access to the INSERTED and DELETED tables in SQL Server's trigger-execution space. These pseudo tables are automatically populated as soon as a DML operation such as INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE occurs on the base table. To access the pseudo tables, you need to create a SQLCommand object, as the code at callout D shows, and get the email address from the Email ID column in the INSERTED pseudo table.
Once you get the address from the EmailID column, you can use the Regex.IsMatch method that the code at callout E shows to validate all email addresses that have the string pattern you specified. No validation happens against any online mail server service; you don't need to use any connected system for validations, which is one of the advantages of using regular expressions.
Depending on the return value (a Boolean value of True or False), the trigger either raises an error, as the code at callout F shows, or lets the process insert the email address into the table. If the address is invalid, you'll get the error message that Figure 3 shows. (Web Listing 1, which you can download at InstantDoc 45673, shows the script to create this error message.) Notice that the error message includes the trigger name so that you can use the error message for corrective action. To add a bit more functionality to Listing 2's trigger code, if the email is valid, you can send an email message to notify the user that the address is accepted. The code in Web Listing 2 creates the acceptance message.
This email message code will run synchronously while the trigger code executes. With this extension to the trigger's functionality, you not only validate the email address but also add more value by using the CLR BCLs. More important, this back-end email address validation would have been next to impossible in previous SQL Server versions.
Using CLR UDAs
Another important SQL Server 2005 CLR innovation is the introduction of UDA functions. In addition to the standard SQL Server aggregate functions such as SUM, COUNT, MIN, and MAX, UDAs let you create your own aggregate functions for purposes such as consolidating values in a column, as well as other complex mathematical operations. For example, say you have a Department table that contains a product_key column and you need to find the product of all the values for a given department. This aggregate function isn't available in SQL Server 2000; you can write your own code to get the product, but most homegrown solutions are roundabout and inelegant, and can be achieved only by using temp-table explicit looping techniques or by using complex formulae with logarithmic expressions.
Listing 3 shows the Visual Basic .NET code to create a UDA that finds the product of the values in a column. Open Visual Studio 2005, and add User Defined Aggregate to the project. The template will list the framework methods for creating a UDA. The standard methods you need for this UDA are Init, Accumulate, Merge, and Terminate. These methods, which you see highlighted in Listing 3, are the invocation, the aggregate process, the merger (in case of parallelism), and the termination positions for the aggregate function. As with the other CLR objects we've created, the class needs to be prefixed with the SqlUserDefinedAggregate attribute, and in Visual Studio, the template automatically generates this attribute. You also need to mark the class as Serializable. A typical call to the new UDA would look like:
SELECT Dept_ID, dbo.clr_product(product_key) FROM #temp_dept GROUP BY Dept_ID
Figure 4 shows the output this query generates.
Let's look at another way you can unleash the power of UDAs. Say the Department table you're working with includes employee data, and you want a comma-separated list of all the employees for each department. If you had to write the T-SQL code for this request in SQL Server 2000, you'd have to create a temporary table and use all sorts of looping techniques to form the comma-separated values, as the script in Web Listing 3 shows. But with the CLR, you can use the concatenation UDA that Listing 4 shows and call it with the following simple statement:
SELECT Dept_ID, dbo.clr_concat(name) FROM #temp_dept GROUP BY Dept_ID
Figure 5 shows the output from this query. When you compare the code in Web Listing 3 and Listing 4, you might think that you had to write more code for the UDA. However, the UDA is a reusable code block that you can use across the database for multiple queries. Moreover, the UDA code is more elegant and has fewer string manipulations, which incur CPU overhead in SQL Server and don't perform as well as the .NET stringbuilder class. Using the stringbuilder class lets you utilize the existing .NET Framework's capability to optimize string manipulations.
Deploying CLR Objects
You can deploy CLR objects manually, or you can deploy objects automatically in Visual Studio 2005 by simply right-clicking the project and selecting Deploy from the resulting popup menu. The deployment operation in Visual Studio 2005 uses the custom attributes SqlProcedure, SqlFunction, SqlTrigger, and SqlUserDefinedAggregate to automatically create the routines in the database. To see a list of assemblies for a given database, go to Visual Studio's Object Explorer and select the database name, then select Programmability, Assemblies. For manual deployment, you can use DDL statements, as the code in Web Listing 4 shows. (For a brief explanation of the .NET security settings you use for assemblies, see the Web sidebar "Security Settings for CLR Assemblies in SQL Server" at InstantDoc ID 45948.) You can also optionally upload the assemblies' source code into SQL Server to use for debugging CLR objects.
You can also get information about CLR deployed assemblies from SQL Server's system tables. The sys.assemblies table provides information about the assembly; the sys.assembly_references table provides dependency references to other cataloged assemblies; and the sys.assembly_files table provides assembly CLR code (if you've uploaded the code).
A typical way to use system tables is to get information about the assembly attributes. For example, the statement that Web Listing 5 shows returns such assembly-related information as version information and the permission set under which this assembly is deployed. (For information about the security settings you can use for .NET assemblies, see the Web sidebar "Security for CLR Assemblies in SQL Server.") If you right-click the assembly and select View Dependencies in SQL Server Management Studio, you can view the list of CLR objects that you deployed with the code in Web Listing 4.
T-SQL Is Not Dead
Although CLR integration is generating a lot of excitement among SQL Server developers, the introduction of .NET languages into SQL Server doesn't mean you're going to have to replace all your T-SQL code. The CLR can boost productivity in some ways that are impossible in earlier SQL Server editions, so exploiting the advantages of the CLR is worth the challenge. But SQL Server 2005 also includes rich T-SQL enhancements that make T-SQL more robust, such as common table expressions (CTEs) that provide support for recursive queries; PIVOT and UnPivot, which provide the ability to transpose rows to columns and vice versa; ranking capabilities; and the addition of the XML data type and XQuery. These features take the implementation of set-based solutions to the next level.
To make a judicious choice about when to use T-SQL and when to use the CLR, remember that CLR extensions perform better when you need a high level of computation or text manipulation. For data-intensive tasks, T-SQL's set-based solutions perform better than CLR-based solutions because T-SQL works more closely with the data and doesn't require multiple transitions between the CLR and the SQL OS. In processes such as cryptography, text manipulation, I/O operations, and invoking Web services, the CLR offers rich APIs that open capabilities that aren't possible in SQL Server 2000 and earlier versions. Finally, test every piece of code for security, reliability, and performance. Any given task can have multiple implementations when you're using the .NET BCLs.
This article has only touched the surface of what is possible when you use the .NET 2.0 CLR objects in SQL Server 2005. Use the examples I've given you to imagine what you can do in your application's database tier, for example, now that you can access Web services from within the database logic. And explore the database objects that you can create to utilize the feature-rich .NET 2.0 Framework and programming languages.
|Related Reading
"Creating Extended Stored Procedures," http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
"Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005," November 2004, http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
Preparing for SQL Server 2005, "Seeing the CLR's Potential," May 2005, InstantDoc ID 45753
Developer .NET Perspectives, "The CLR's Inclusion in SQL Server 2005," February 17, 2005, InstantDoc ID 45445 Developer .NET Perspectives, "Leveraging the CLR's Power," March 4, 2005, InstantDoc ID 45575


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OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Stephen Curry brought Golden State back from a big deficit Thursday and the Warriors held on late to defeat Chicago 102-87.
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An open letter from the Steel Manufacturers Association's board of directors to members of the 112th U.S. Congress and steel policymakers
America's steel industry is facing the most serious economic challenge it has encountered since the Great Depression. In the last decade, the United States has lost 20 percent of its manufacturing jobs. Other nations have strategies that support exporting goods, while U.S. policies are resulting in importing debt and exporting jobs. However well intentioned, incremental legislative measures are insufficient. The damage has gone far beyond the use of inadequate traditional fixes.
Unless the main core issues are addressed, there will be little improvement within the manufacturing sector. As for steel, our nation needs an adequate domestic supply to maintain our national economic security, to contribute to our national defense, to provide a sufficient domestic source of steel for infrastructure rebuilding and rehabilitation and to help ensure the recovery of U.S. manufacturing.
Policymakers need to address structural policy deficiencies in order to ensure the United States is a competitive place for manufacturing investment by
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•?Engaging in a concerted drive for greater energy independence.
•?Avoiding unnecessary regulatory burdens that place domestic manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage.
•?Creating new oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions policy and other over-reaching regulations are established through approved legislative initiatives rather than questionable regulatory actions.
•?Initiating a significant U.S. infrastructure rebuilding program to replace our crumbling infrastructure.
•?Revising the U.S. business tax code and adopting a lower, internationally competitive corporate tax level, which in part should consist of a value-added tax to be imposed on imports and rebated on exports.
We cannot alter global economic integration. It is a fact of life. However, we must be able to demonstrate that America is still a great place for manufacturing investment. As the world becomes "flat," the United States must ensure that its domestic companies aren't placed at a disadvantage in the global marketplace. To accomplish this, the United States must adopt a business tax policy that can compete with foreign tax policies and entice U.S. businesses to remain and expand in the United States.
Further, to be competitive as a nation we must reduce the existing trade, current account and budget deficits, all of which are hollowing out U.S. manufacturing industries.
Current fiscal and regulatory policies have created an investment climate that not only impels but actively incents U.S. companies to invest much of their manufacturing capital offshore. American companies need more effective and more certain government policies on taxes, environmental regulations, labor and energy to stimulate domestic investment.
SMA members expect to be a key component of the U.S. economic rebound. We very much appreciate support from members of the 112th Congress for the steel industry and manufacturing workers across the country.
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In one story from "Bat-Manga!" — the comics compendium lovingly edited by graphic-design rock star Chip Kidd — an already mutating scientist offers himself up for further research, imploring the Dark Knight to kill him should the experiment go awry. When the conflicted Caped Crusader fails to put the kibosh on the doc's catastrophic transformation, his cowardice throws the fate of the world into peril. Ultimately, "The Man Who Quit Being Human" is a moral tale of suicide as sacrifice, a metaphor for science as caution and an allegory for Nippon's shell-shocked lessons of WWII.
And yet "Bat-Manga!" is not the weighty, thinky "Secret History of Batman in Japan" that its subtitle suggests. Instead, it's an exhilarating pop-cultural artifact: This here is an alternate Batman, as interpreted in the '60s through an Asian filter. Kidd & Co. — photographer Geoff Spear, co-researcher Saul Ferris and translator Anne Ishii — have essentially renovated illustrator Jiro Kuwata's short-lived, long-forgotten Japanese take on the title, which hit the East in the wake of the campy TV series' international popularity. (Kidd and his publisher, Pantheon, have recently been criticized for the absence of Kuwata's name on the cover and spine. Though this oversight is indeed debatable, it should also be noted that "Bat-Manga!" feels like a radical packaging of Kuwata's work and that the creator is interviewed and given multiple credits within its pages.)
The fact that their collection, chiefly assembled from Kidd and Ferris' EBay vigilance, is admittedly spotty, merely lends more exoticism to the collection. Take our hero's dalliance with the dastardly, if fabulously named, Go Go Magician. Trapped in a block of ice, Batman fires up his "safe-cracking hand torch" to melt his way out of the chamber. One glitch: The torch's flame sucks up all the oxygen before he can burn his way out. With the next issue nowhere to be found, it simply ends there with Batman like we've never seen him — foolish, collapsed, facing certain death.
What emerges is a childlike discovery of the material enabled by Spear's interstitial snapshots of vintage imported Bat-toys, as well as Kidd's wondrous knack for playing with size, texture and color — techniques that elicit lingering gazes at the images at hand. Here, he zooms into every weathered pore of Kuwata's propulsive, now sepia-toned artwork as Batman throws down with sideshow villains like the hideous Dr. Faceless, the skeletal Lord Death Man — not to mention Professor Gorilla, the cerebrally advanced primate who unleashes a can of whoop-ass on humanity in retaliation for crimes against the animal kingdom! Never mind the absurdist set-ups or ridiculously frill-less dialogue (such as the preponderance of the parting shot, "Mwa ha ha ha!"), these are pulp-fiction foes who maim and dismember and kill. And when push comes to shove, so will this cool and unusual Batman.
— Nisha Gopalan
The Hero Complex interview with Chip Kidd
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The Sunday Review: The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics
The Sunday Review: Ex Machina-The Deluxe Edition
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When I heard about the new book Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, I did a very American thing: I didn't read it. I'm hoping they make it into a film so I can skip all those long, sentence-y pages. Someone cast that girl from Full House in this Lifetime original movie and let's get on with it.
Then I did another very American thing: I read a review of the book so I can act like I read it. In this particular review, I learned that author Pamela Druckerman raised her two young daughters in Paris. The byproduct is Bringing Up Bébé, which details how French moms and dads are savvier, more effective parents than we are. Their children are better behaved. The babies sleep through the night. The foods their children eat don't all rhyme with ficken fuggets and trench tries. (Or is it treedom tries?)
I started work on my uninformed criticism of Druckerman's book yesterday. (Making decisions based on limited information is very American. See: weddings, Kardashian; Awards, Academy; elections, presidential). My plan was to fillet Druckerman like a mignon. (Errant use of French words and phrases: le American.) I was going to defend American parents, and tell Druckerman that just because we don't wear berets and eat stinky cheeses doesn't make us any less capable of raising great children. (Gratuitous stereotyping: majorly American.)
There was only one problem: I started work on this blog yesterday at JFK International Airport in New York City. I couldn't focus on writing because, sadly, the American parents and children nearby were so terrible.
Between getting through security at JFK and landing in Orlando, the following things happened to me:
- My suitcase was knocked over by a young girl playing tag in the terminal's dining area.
- A brother and sister got into a relentless "no you shut up" battle that resembled a Federer-Nadal rally.
- A toddler sitting behind me on the plane spit water on the back of my head.
- A child in the row across from me asked his father "When do we get to Dizaneywhirl" an estimated 12 to 14 times in a row. And he did so loud enough to drown out a f$#%ing jumbo jet turbine engine.
Wow. We are terrible parents. We have terrible children. There goes my uninformed critique. But perhaps there's something unique to the American experience that's distracting us from raising good kids. The French aren't losing their homes. They don't have to worry about finding health care. They get paid maternity leave and subsidies for hiring nannies. They don't have to pay for preschool. Americans don't have these luxuries. If we didn't have to worry about paying for that broken arm, or making ends meet while out on maternity leave, could we focus more on being better parents?
But then something hit me like a two-ton truck (made in Detroit, of course): What am I apologizing for? Actually, if you look at my experience traveling yesterday, you'll see that those incidents demonstrate exactly why American kids are so special.
- My suitcase getting knocked over: Americans are energetic, athletic and chronically competitive.
- The "no you shut up" battle: Americans are relentless. The pursuit of happiness is no leisurely stroll. It's a climb up a steep hill. It requires an uncompromising, unbending spirit.
- Toddler spitting water: Americans know what we don't like. We aren't scared to speak our minds, for better or worse.
- The boy asking about Dizaneywhirl: Americans are negotiators. We are businesspeople who created an economy that's the engine of the world. We didn't get there by taking no for an answer. We don't accept "soon" or "in a little while." America is a nation of now.
We are not polished. We are not politically correct. We are not always reasonable. But we create leaders, thinkers, competitors, winners, in our own messy way. That persistent boy inquiring about Disneyworld will one day run PepsiCo. When that girl who knocked over my suitcase wins the 400-meter at the 2032 Olympics, the mom will say she was always running when she was little.
Our parenting style isn't pretty, but it works. (Patriotism: like totally American.)


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HAMPTON — Police are looking for a man who robbed the TD Bank Saturday afternoon.
Police say the man entered the bank at 40 High St., around 2:50 p.m. and passed a note to a teller, demanding money. No weapon was shown.
The man then fled through a municipal parking lot across the street from the bank and into an alleyway leading to Route 1, discarding items of clothing as he ran.
The robber is described as a white man in his 20s with a thin build, approximately 5-foot-5-inches to 5-foot-6-inches tall. He was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, baseball hat and sunglasses.
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Speed and bald tires were contributing factors in a crash in late August that claimed the life of a high school student and injured several other people, according to a report released by the investigating agency.
Speed and bald tires were contributing factors in a crash in late August that claimed the life of a high school student and injured several other people, according to a report released by the investigating agency.
The conclusion came from Officer Leonard E. Griggs, a veteran OPD traffic homicide investigator, in a 15-page report.
At the time of the Aug. 22 accident that involved three cars, Griggs noted, it was raining and the roads were wet. The car driven by Angel David Guevara Arenas, 20, a West Port High School student, was traveling over the posted speed limit just prior to the crash. The officer's report states that the two rear tires of Arenas' 2001 BMW were bald, which caused the vehicle to "hydroplane and lose traction of the road under the weather conditions."
Griggs calculated that the BMW was traveling about 55 mph, 10 miles over the posted speed limit, just prior to impact with one of the other vehicles.
The Medical Examiner's Office determined Arenas' cause of death to be multiple blunt force injuries.
According to Ocala Police Department reports, Arenas lost control of the car near the intersection of Southwest 20th Street and Southwest 47th Avenue. It crossed the median, went into oncoming traffic and hit an Oldsmobile, then struck a Honda Accord traveling in the same direction as the Oldsmobile. Arenas was pronounced dead at the scene.
Emanuel Casillas-Green, 17, and Daniel Espinoza, 18, also students at West Port, were passengers in the BMW. Both were hospitalized and have since been released.
Michael Haley Hyde, 19, a former West Port High student and the driver of the Oldsmobile, also was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released.
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Arenas and Hyde were wearing their seat belts. The passengers in the BMW were not, officials said.
More than a half a dozen witnesses told Griggs that Arenas' car was speeding and weaving through traffic before it began to spin, crossed the median and struck the Oldsmobile.
One witness, who said she knew the occupants in the BMW, said the vehicle had been following her and that at one point pulled up next to her and Arenas attempted to get her to race. She said she declined and his car accelerated and was weaving between other cars.
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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-124 ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. Please send any amateur satellite news or reports to: email@example.com In this edition: * Seven! Count 'Em Seven! CubeSats Delivered to Orbit * AO-16 Down and Recovered * AMSAT Awards * Satellite Shorts From All Over * NA1SS Contacts The National Air and Space Museum * ARISS Status Report For The Week of April 28, 2008 SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-124.01 Seven! Count 'Em Seven! CubeSats Delivered to Orbit AMSAT News Service Bulletin 124.01 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. May 4, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-124.01 The April 28, 2008 launch of 10 satellites aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-9 (PSLV-9) rocket included 7 amateur radio cubesat, and 3 commercial/ scientific satellites. Watch for late breaking operational messages via the amsat-bb and detailed information on each of the satellite's respective web pages. The payload included: Cute-1.7 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan SEEDS Nihon University, Japan Delfi-C3 Technical University of Delft, Netherlands AAUSat-II Aalborg University Cubesat, Denmark COMPASS-1 Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany CanX-2 University of Toronto, Canada CanX-6 University of Toronto, Canada Cartosat 2A Indian Space Research Organization (non-amateur radio) IMS 1 Indian Space Research Organization (non-amateur radio) Rubin 8-AIS OHB-System, Germany (non-amateur radio) An excellent source of information for each of these satellites can be found at: http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm (scroll down to the April 28 data). Also see Ralph W0RPK Cubesat Webpage at: http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/CubeSat.htm. Wouter, PE4WJ provided the following status of Delfi-C3: + Telemetry indicates that all solar panels and antennas have deployed properly and indicates nominal values for all housekeeping values. + Payload data has started to stream in, enabling the team to generate IV curves of the Thin Film Solar Cell experiment. (RASCAL users can view the IV curves by clicking Options-->show IV curves.) + The spacecraft is operating in science mode, we have had one orbit in emergency mode, which was most probably due to a databus issue. + Amateur radio operators have sent over 40000 frames of data using RASCAL, the Delfi-C3 telemetry capture software. + The spacecraft has decided to consistently use the backup radio on 145.930 MHz for its telemetry downlink. The primary radio on 145.870 MHz may be switched on by the groundstation so monitor both frequencies. + We have successfully switched the spacecraft to its primary radio on 145.870MHz temporarily, after this switch, the satellite came back on the 145.930MHz downlink. Telemetry indicated that the primary radio on 145.870MHz is healthy and working fine so that is good news. Note that the satellite will normally transmit on 145.930MHz for the time being, unless we command her to go to 145.870MHz. + The team is working on the issue with the downlink TX switching off later into the sunlit side of the orbit, which is the reason why Delfi-C3 has not been heard on some passes. It may switch off when the computer does not receive data but the transmitter itself is OK. Hiroki Ashida at the Tokyo Institute of Technology reported on the status of their Cute-1.7 + APD II satellite. The team is monitoring an anomaly where the telemetry received via FM packet shows very low battery voltage while the CW telemetry reports a nominal reading. If this low voltage condition exists the satellite may be in danger. Further testing in the lab has duplicated this anomaly and the team has confirmed that the batteries are in good shape at this time. The Cute-1.7 team requests telemetry information from radio amateurs around the world. The satellite transmits its beacon at 437.275 MHz using CW Morse Code. The telemetry data in the beacon includes the battery voltage. Details are explained on their web-page: http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/cwtelemetry_e.html. The packet telemetry is only enabled when the satellite is over Japan. Masahiko Yamazaki,JQ1YGV at Nihon University reported that the SEEDS satellite is currently overcharging so the team has enabled the FM mode to transmit the DigiTalker and SSTV pictures on 437.485 MHz. See: http://cubesat.aero.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp/index.html The CanX team reported their spacecraft were doing well, "So far healthy telemetry from both. At some point CanX-2 was generating some 1.8 A and CanX-6 was at 1.4 A. Good temperature on both. CanX-2 propulsion system is holding pressure. We are continuing with commissioning. Both satellites are currently transmitting on the Space Research 2.2 GHz downlink. The UHF transmitter on CanX-2 would only be active over the ground station in Toronto, Canada. Signal reports of the cubesats have been received from around the world. Here is a brief example captured from the amsat-bb ... Just heard great signals of Delfic3 on 145.930. - Rob PE1ITR Received good signals from DelfiC3 tonight in IO91TK 15km west of London. Nice to hear another satellite on 2m. Just love that low path loss! Well done Delft University of Technology. - David G0MRF Very strong signal from Delfi telemetry transmitter. Good work and congratulations to the Delfi team! - Jean-Pierre VE2AHD Delfi-C3 received in Belgium during the third pass. 194 packets received, decoded with RASCAL and sent to the command station. Signals were loud and decodable during 90 % of the pass. Congratulations to the team. Long life to Delfi-C3. - Claude ON5QI Just had my one shot for the morning and got an excellent signal, with AOS and LOS within seconds of predicted. The RASCAL program is slick, and nicely accessed the servers to upload the data. - Alan WA4SCA Both the CUTE1.7 (437.275) and the SEEDS (437.485) CW signals were monitored in Brno JN85HF. - Mirek OK2AQK Using the latest kepler sets, automatic doppler correction, TS2000X, 2x8 elements beam with no pre-amp picked up the CUTE-1.7 signal beautifully all the way from AOS to LOS ... less than one degree elevation from a 100mW transmitter in space. Fantastic satellite! - Henk, PA3GUO I copied SEEDS this evening at 44 degrees el. in Honolulu. 73 to all and congratulations to the Nihon University Cubesat Team! - Robert NH7WN I have updated my web site to include SEEDS SSTV. See http://www.turlington.supanet.com - Robert G8ATE Heard SEEDS digi-talker and SSTV on 2008-05-03. - Edward BX1AD I have just copied Cute-1.7 over here in the UK (Wales - IO81EM) using a Kenwood THD-7 and just its helical antenna. - Ken GW1FKY The members of AMSAT-India and the Indian Ham fraternity congratulate ISRO for the successful 10 pack satellite launch via the PSLV C9 his morning. We would also congratulate the DELFI team, CUTE team and the SEEDS team for their amateur radio satellites which are now placed in orbit. VU2POP Secy AMSAT-India [ANS thanks all of the Cubesat Teams for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-124.02 AO-16 Down and Recovered AMSAT News Service Bulletin 124.02 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. May 4, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-124.02 The AO-16 Command Team investigated reports this week that the satellite had gone silent. The team is aware of the anomaly and there is no cause for alarm. Control Operator, Mark, N8MH said, "Over the last month AO-16 has gone from full illumination (0 minutes of eclipse) to over 250 minutes of eclipse. Since the bird has no fancy housekeeping code running, a reasonable explan- ation is that the battery voltage dropped low enough to put the bird into a protected (and silent) mode." Mark was able to command AO-16 ON during a pass over the USA. The satellite resumed operating in its 1200 BPSK digital MBL telemetry mode on the 437.026 MHz transmitter. After further testing, Mark reported, "A quick look at the telemetry suggests that AO-16 is doing fine. The current transmitter output power is about 1.5 Watts. AO-16 is again configured for voice mode and is open for normal operation." AO-16 has occasionally turned off on subsequent long eclipse periods. Mark explained, "At about 2043 utc on 2 May 2008 I commanded AO-16 back ON again. Apparently the increasing eclipse periods require another reduction in the transmitter output power. AO-16 is now back and operational in voice repeater mode, with a slightly reduced output. It is reporting around 1.2 watts output, so it was still quite loud." The increasing eclipse periods are too long to sustain operations at the previous transmitter output setting. The sustainable power budget is being managed empirically by Mark, with "best guess" settings using the satellite's telemetry for feedback on its performance. When AO-16 is silent the batteries continue to charge with minimal current being drawn to sustain the vital functions of the satellite (CPU). Thus, it is in a safe resting state at the moment, and the batteries continue to charge when in sunlight. Thanks to a brilliance in design, construction, and coding, the bird is hardy and excellent at self-preservation. AO-16 Uplink: 145.920 MHz FM AO-16 Downlink: 437.0260 MHz DSB (LSB and USB). After recovery of AO-16 on May 3, the current plans are to leave the satellite in the digital MBL mode for a few days so as to collect telemetry for review. You can hear the satellite "humming" in its 1200 BPSK mode. Interested listeners of AO-16 can help by copying any telemetry captured via the Warbler sound card demodulator. This software is from the same folks that brought you the RASCAL software for Delfi-C3. A file called "warbler.kss" is produced when packets are decoded. These "warbler.kss" files can be sent to N8MH for analysis. Please include your QTH (gridsquare) and the time the telemetry was captured. Telemetry from AO-16 in the MBL mode is random and infrequent. It's possible to hear no telemetry during an entire pass. Please do not transmit to AO-16 until further notice. Users of AO-16 are encouraged to report any aberrant operations by either posting to the AMSAT-BB or by emailing the command team at n8mh AT amsat.org "Aberrant operations" might include the following: complete loss of signal from the spacecraft or significant change in the transmitter frequency. [ANS thanks Mark, N8MH for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-124.03 AMSAT Awards AMSAT News Service Bulletin 124.03 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. May 4, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-124.03 Bruce, KK5DO, AMSAT Director Contests and Awards wrote this week, "We would like to welcome the following to the satellite community. They have made their first satellite contact and are now members of the AMSAT Satellite Communicators Club:" University of Florida, Gator Amateur Radio Club, W4DFU The following have earned the AMSAT Sattelite Communications Achievement Award: Clyde de Rossett, KI4CKT #462 University of Florida, Gator Amateur Radio Club, W4DFU #463 The following have earned the AMSAT South Africa Satellite Communications Achievement Award Dimitrios Pallis, SW1JGW #US120 University of Florida, Gator Amateur Radio Club, W4DFU #US121 To see all the awards visit http://www.amsat.org. [ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-124.04 Satellite Shorts From All Over AMSAT News Service Bulletin 124.04 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. May 4, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-124.04 + Martha at AMSAT HQ reminds you that you MUST pay for your banquet ticket before May 12th. Giving her your name only will not hold a ticket. You need to call the AMSAT office at 301-589-6062. + Allen, N5AFV operated two passes of AO-51 and one pass of SO-50 from the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas on Tuesday and Wednesday (April 22 & 23). Allen says he has a special QSL card made up for the operation. QSL via home address. + EW/G0SFJ successfully contacted G7HIA on 20th April via AO-51, but under difficult conditions when operating from Minsk. Any SWL cards or reports gratefully received by email or QTHR, and will be acknowledged! + The AO-27 Satellite Scheduler program which has been available from http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cjh9783/programs/satsched.php is now also available from http://home.earthlink.net/~ka3hsw/ao27/ as well. + The W3HZU Beacons located on Grid FM19qv on 2.4GHZ and 1.2GHZ have been temporarily taken off the air in preparation to add a third beacon on 5.76GHZ. A message on the amsat-bb will advise when the beacons are back on the air. (via Charlie, K3VDB) + The Houston AMSAT Net Podcast has now been picked up by iTunes. You can do a search on iTunes for "Houston AMSAT Net", "KK5DO", or "Bruce Paige" and will be offered the opportunity to subscribe to the Podcast. + Google Earth now offers tools to Visualize the Ionosphere in 4D. See: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30apr_4dionosphere.htm?list958901 http://terra1.spacenvironment.net/%7eionops/es4dintro.html You will be able to use Google Earth © applications such as: o Radio Availability o Total Electron Content o Maximum Useable Frequency o foF2 o Past 24 hours TEC movie o Past 24 hours MUF movie + This past weekend, K3IO, W2GPS, WA4SXM attended the premier of AMSAT.ORG in Grand-Am Racing at the Virginia International Raceway. Jim Jaeger (K8RQ) arranged for the AMSAT logo to appear prominently on the yellow Doran Racing Kodak #77 Dallara/Ford car driven by Brad Jaeger (Jim's son) and Memo Gidley. The Doran Racing web site has a gallery of photos featuring their #77 Kodak & #47 BSi cars available for viewing at http://www.doranracing.com/08_vir/photo.htm. Look for the AMSAT.ORG logo on the yellow car! + Satellite DX opportunity ... Hans, VA7HAS plans to attempt operating via AO-51 from Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, FQ12AQ, between May 12-16. The radio will be an TH-F6A with a whip antenna. [ANS thanks everyone for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-124.05 NA1SS Contacts The National Air and Space Museum AMSAT News Service Bulletin 124.05 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. May 4, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-124.05 An International Space Station Expedition 17 ARISS school contact was held with participants at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC, USA on 03 May. NN1SS in Maryland performed earth station duties and provided the telebridge between NA1SS and the National Air and Space Museum. The contact was audible over most of the Eastern USA on the 145.80 MHz downlink. This ARISS contact is part of the space day events celebrating NASA's 50th anniversary. This event is made possible by the generous support of Lockheed Martin. The ARISS/AMSAT exhibit wass in the new "America by Air" gallery, Gallery 102 on the first floor, just past the Museum Store before you reach the Flight Simulators. The display featured ARISS and AMSAT hardware. Mr. Kemp and students from his Systems Engineering Class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology explained their progress on their Cubesat project. [ANS thanks Kenneth, N5VHO and Perry, W3PK for the above information] /EX SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-124.06 ARISS Status Report For The Week of April 28, 2008 AMSAT News Service Bulletin 124.06 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. May 4, 2008 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-124.06 1. Upcoming School Contacts An ARISS contact has been scheduled for Armada Area Schools in Armada, Michigan on Friday, May 9 at 13:38 UTC. Students will research space exploration, the effects of space on the human body, and technology used for space travel. Middle school students will write essays and high school students will create Power Point pre- sentations. The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Armada Times and Macomb Daily newspapers will provide newspaper coverage. The local cable channel will tape and place the contact on the local channels and Channels 2, 4, 7 will also be contacted to provide local Metro- politan Detroit News coverage. 2. Arnold Palmer Hospital Contact Successful On Monday, April 21, patients at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida participated in an ARISS contact with Garrett Reisman, KE5HAE, via the telebridge station W6SRJ in Cali- fornia. Reisman answered the 20 questions which had been planned for him and continued answering another three posed by the seven children. Approximately 30 people were in attendance. Orlando tele- vision stations Central Florida News 13 and WESH Channel 2 both reported on the event. 3. ARISS - Russian School Contact The Peter Klimuk School ARISS contact planned for Wednesday, April 23 was unsuccessful due to technical difficulties. The ARISS team is looking into the problem. 4. ESA Astronaut Visits ARISS Schools ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, IZØJPA, gave two presentations to Italian schools which had participated in ARISS contacts in October 2007. On Wednesday, April 23, Nespoli spoke to 565 students from Galileo Galilei High School of Civitavecchia, Guglielmo Marconi High School of Civitavecchia and Giosuè Carducci Secondary School in Santa Marinella. On April 24, he spoke with 400 students from Aula Magna of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of L'Aquila. ARISS member Francesco De Paolis, IKØWGF, gave a talk on the ARISS program and Nespoli gave a presentation on the Esperia mission which also highlighted the ARISS contacts. Television stations and news- papers covered the events and photographs have been posted to the ARISS-Europe Web site. See: http://www.ariss-eu.org/2008_04_27.htm 5. Astronaut Training Status An ARISS training session is planned for astronaut Bob Thirsk, VA3CSA, with Cedarview Middle School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The training session, which is a terrestrial-based amateur radio contact using ARISS-equivalent equipment, is planned for Thursday, May 1 at approximately 19:30 UTC. Expedition 19 back-up crew member Chris Hadfield, KC5RNJ/VA3OOG, will attend an ARISS operations training session on Friday, May 2. [ANS thanks Carol, KB3LKI for the above information] /EX In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office. 73, This week's ANS Editor, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM K9JKM at amsat dot org _______________________________________________ Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Owner surrenders 60 lovebirds to Stratham SPCABy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
July 24. 2013 9:29PM
STRATHAM — Love is in the air at the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals after a flock of 60 lovebirds was surrendered by their owner.
Some 52 lovebirds arrived at the Stratham shelter last Friday, but another eight were since found at the woman's house and have been added to the flock.
The parrots known for their affection appear to be healthy, but must still be checked out by a veterinarian before they're able to be adopted out to new homes, said Sheila Ryan, director of development and marketing for the SPCA in Stratham.
Before arriving at the shelter, the lovebirds were living with a woman on the Seacoast who had become overwhelmed.
"She had some health issues of her own, and I think that contributed to her inability to stop the breeding, and so there just got to be too many of them. She did the right thing and called for help," Ryan said.
While the owner had fed and cared for them, the lovebirds aren't used to being held and some are young and have never been handled, Ryan said.
The surrendered flock is the largest the SPCA has seen in recent memory and has posed some challenges.
"We have these 60 birds that we have to figure out how to take care of and get vetted and checked out," Ryan said.
The SPCA will have enough cages after a group known as the Parrot Posse agreed to donate cages for each pair of lovebirds.
Ryan said the shelter could always use more bird toys
"They chew through them pretty quickly," she said.
At the moment, the lovebirds have been scattered around the shelter. Ryan has four in her office while some have been placed in other offices. One holding station has as many as 42, but they will be split up once the donated cages arrive.
The shelter workers are doing their best to keep the lovebirds happy.
"The birds bond with one another, and we're trying to figure out if any of them had bonded with other ones, and we're trying to find their friends," Ryan said.
The lovebirds must still be checked out by a veterinarian, which will be costly given the number in the flock, Ryan said.
Ryan said the shelter is accepting donations to help provide medical care.
Anyone interested can donate by visiting the shelter's website, www.nhspca.org, and making a contribution with a notation indicating that the money is to be used for the lovebirds.
Monetary donations, also containing a notation about the lovebirds, can be mailed to the New Hampshire SPCA, P.O. Box 196, Stratham, 03885.
Anyone interested in adopting lovebirds should download an adoption application from the shelter's website.


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Alert 2008-40
Subject: Counterfeit Cashier's Checks
Date: September 16, 2008
Description: The Edgartown National Bank
Counterfeit Cashier's Checks of The Edgartown National Bank, Edgartown, MA
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Director, Office of Thrift Supervision; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel; and All Examining Personnel
The above-named bank has reported that counterfeit cashier's checks issued in the bank's name and using a correct routing number of 011305684 are being presented for payment nationwide in connection with a mystery shopping scam.
The counterfeit checks do not resemble the authentic items and may be identified by the following traits: the instruments are of unknown color with a dark logo in the upper-left corner. The words "CASHIER'S CHECK" are printed in the top-center portion of the check and are followed by an indemnity bond statement. The following security statement is located within the top border of the instrument: "FOR SECURITY PURPOSES THE FACE OF THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS A COLORED BACKGROUND AND MICROPRINTING IN THE BORDER." The following security statement is located within the bottom border surrounded by padlock icons: "SECURITY FEATURES INCLUDED. DETAILS ON BACK." The check includes one signature line in the bottom-right section followed by the statement: "Countersigned if Amount over $5,000.00." The bottom-left portion of the item contains the following information: "Issued by The Edgartown National Bank, Edgartown, MA. For Inquiries, call: 1-866-504-3141." Please note that this telephone number is not associated with The Edgartown National Bank.
Items presented to date have been made payable in the amount of $4,998, may include a remitter name of "S.I. Inc," and include a 9-digit check serial number.
Due to possible variations in the appearance of the bank's official items and differing scams associated with the counterfeit items, officials of The Edgartown National Bank suggest they be contacted to verify authenticity of the bank's cashier's checks if received from an unknown or questionable source.
Correspondence accompanying the counterfeit checks may contain the letterhead of "Shoppers Impressions, Inc., Suite #213-120 N. Main Avenue, Wentworth, SD 57075, Tel/Fax #1-289-218-6111 or 1-905-617-5155." The letter may be signed by Susan Hutchins, although the name appearing under the signature is that of Daniel Haskins, Chief Assignment Co-ordinator. The correspondence informs the recipient that he or she has been selected to represent the company as a mystery shopper. It is explained that the enclosed cashier's check is to be used during the assignment to make purchases at various merchants and to transfer money using a nationally known wire service. Recipients are instructed to contact 1-289-218-6111 Ext 102 or 1-905-617-5155 Ext 102 and then press 1 to connect to a coordinator for details. Note that these telephone numbers originate from Ontario, Canada. Participants are required to keep the assignment confidential in accordance with the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, which is enclosed with the check.
For additional information and guidance and to verify the authenticity of The Edgartown National Bank cashier's checks, please contact Gregory Berks, Vice President/Chief Operations Officer, The Edgartown National Bank P.O. Box 96, 2 South Water Street, Edgartown, MA 02539, by telephone at (508) 627-1126, by fax at (508) 627-1155 or via e-mail [firstname.lastname@example.com].
Consumers who receive a counterfeit or fictitious item and associated material should file complaints with the following agencies, as appropriate:
Additional information concerning this matter that you believe should be brought to the attention of the OCC may be forwarded to:
For additional information regarding other types of financial fraud, please visit the OCC's anti-fraud resource at: https://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/fraud-resources/index-fraud-resources.html.
Richard C. Stearns


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NEW ORLEANS (WBRC) - Alabama outgoing offensive coordinator Jim McElwain says, in the four years working for head coach Nick Saban, there has never been any friction over the game plan.
"No, there's never been. I couldn't have asked for a better experience. Coach Saban is all about helping. He's all about the whole team. All three phases of the game."
McElwain talked Thursday to reporters in New Orleans as the Crimson Tide prepares to play the LSU Tigers in Monday's BCS National Championship game. McElwain last month announced he would leave Alabama to become the new head coach at Colorado State.
McElwain on Thursday admitted the transition has been a challenge.
"I think, as these guys can attest, our focus since I left there has been for this ballgame. And what I try to do is late at night make the calls and catch up."
McElwain said Saban has been very helpful.
"Coach Saban has been unbelievable, a help, because he went through kind of the same thing when he took the Michigan State job when he was with the Browns, so leaning on that experience. And he's been really good about helping with some of the office staff and that kind of thing. "
The players said they will miss him, too... at least parts of him.
"Man, he's fiery," wide receiver Marquis Maze said. "Fiery guy. I love him. I think we all love him. Great coach. Going to be a great coach at Colorado State. And I wouldn't want to go in this game with him -- I mean without him. My bad. And I love him. And I feel like he loves us. And he tells us what we're doing wrong. He will get on us no matter from Trent, myself, Barrett, anybody on offense. He really get on them, even the scout team guys he get on them. So he's always hollering."
Offensive lineman Barrett Jones said McElwain is best described as a teacher.
"He's a great teacher of the game," Jones said. "I think you can tell he really has a passion for that. That's what he really loves to do is teach kids like us the game. And he's extremely gifted at that, and just the way he breaks down offenses and helps us understand it."
McElwain is tasked this week with figuring out how to score more than field goals against the undefeated Tigers. Alabama lost 9-6 to LSU during the regular season. McElwain knows it won't be easy.
"They are a very, very good defense, and there's no doubt about it, and this will be a great challenge for us," McElwain said.
McElwain said his receivers will have their hands full with the LSU corners and secondary.
"I really believe we have a great receiving corps, guys that compete hard, guys that want to go out and win, and yet they'll have their hands full because that back end is solid. Even when they bring guys in, you know, in their different packages, they're all really good cover guys."
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TableCheck is Japan's leading online restaurant reservation system.
- TableCheck provides a system used in restaurants which helps to easily accept your reservation.
- TableCheck is used by Japan's top restaurants and hotels.
Table of Contents
|How to Make a Reservation
|Pending Reservations
|Customer Information
|How to Check Your Reservation
|Cancelling a Reservation
Email and SMS Notifications
|Reservation Notification Delivery
|SMS Messaging
|Merchant Mailing Lists
|TableCheck Membership Signup and Login
|About TableCheck Membership
|Browser Support
|Our Company
1. How to Make a Reservation
TableCheck connects directly to the restaurant's reservation management system and allows you to book reservations in real-time.
Booking Workflow
- Step 1: In the Reservation form, please enter your desired date, time, number of guests, and your name and contact information. In addition, some merchants may require you to select a course plan. When you have entered the required information, click "Next Step" at the bottom of the form.
- Step 2: On the next page, please review your information. If it is correct, please click "Confirm" to place your reservation with the merchant. Otherwise, there is an option to "Go Back" and repeat Step 1.
- Step 3: After pressing "Confirm", you will be directed to a page showing the details of your completed reservation.
※ Certain restaurants may not display course plan selection in Step 1.
※ Certain restaurants may display a timetable of table availability after you input your desired number of guests.
2. Pending Reservations
Most merchants will automatically accept your reservation after completing the above steps. However, certain merchants may first place your reservation into "Pending" status which will require their staff to manually confirm your booking.
Pending Reservations
- Step 1: When you reach the completed reservation page in Step 3 above, you will see an amber message indicating that your reservation is in "Pending" status and you must wait for the restaurant to confirm your reservation.
- Step 2: When the merchant confirms your booking you will receive an email and/or SMS. Upon confirmation from merchant, your reservation is finalized and you may visit the shop at your scheduled time. The your reservation page will now display a green "Accepted" message.
※ If your reservation is "Pending" and you did not receive an email or SMS contact in Step 1, please contact the restaurant directly as you may not not receive the follow-up mail.
3. Customer Information
In order to processed your reservation, the merchant requires your name, phone number (mobile or landline), and your email address. There are 3 ways in which you may input this information.
- You may enter your information in the fields provided upon each booking.
- You may click "Facebook" or "Google" links to import your information from your social media account.
- You may register a new TableCheck account while creating your reservation, which enables you to make repeat bookings without having to enter your information each time. For further information, please see the "Memberships" section below.
- If you have previously created a TableCheck account, you may login by clicking the "TableCheck" button.
Please note that you not register an account with an email already in use by an existing account.
4. How to Check Your Reservation
You may access the details of your reservation in the following ways:
- By clicking "My Reservations" and entering your reservation confirmation code.
- Via the link in your reservation in your email.
- Via the link in your reservation confirmation SMS.
In order to receive an SMS, you must enter a mobile phone number then check the "SMS" option at time of booking.
5. Cancelling a Reservation
How to Cancel
Cancellations may be made from the reservation details page. You may access this page in the following ways:
- By clicking "My Reservations" and entering your reservation confirmation code.
- Via the link in your reservation in your email.
- Via the link in your reservation confirmation SMS.
※ In order to cancel, if you did not create a TableCheck account you will be prompted to enter the email or phone number which you used to make the booking.
6. Reservation Notification Delivery
TableCheck will deliver email and SMS notifications to you in the following cases. In order to receive SMS notifications, you must enter a mobile phone number then check the "SMS" option at time of booking.
- When you make a new reservation
- When you cancel a reservation
- A reminder around noon on the day before your reservation
In addition, you will receive a notification in the following cases:
- If the merchant cancels or otherwise cannot accept your reservation, e.g. due to weather.
- If the merchant sends an urgent notice concerning your reservation.
7. SMS Messaging
SMS messages sent from TableCheck will be sent by sender name "TableCheck". In cases where the SMS network carrier or country telecom restrictions do not allow "TableCheck" to be used as a sender name, a different name such as "Info" or a numeric code may be substituted.
TableCheck cannot guarantee that other senders will not use the same SMS sender name that we do. To avoid confusion, phishing scams, etc. please note that TableCheck will only send SMS messages related to your reservations. Links contained within SMS messages from TableCheck will use a short URL service (e.g. https://goo.gl) which redirects to a URL within the https://www.tablecheck.com domain.
8. Merchant Mailing Lists
If you opted-in to receive offers from the merchant at the time you made your reservation, the merchant may send email communications to you. To unsubscribe, you may click the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the emails. Alternatively, TableCheck members may unsubscribe via their account settings page.
9. TableCheck Membership Signup and Login
How to Signup
- When booking a reservation, you may check the "Create a TableCheck account" checkbox in the "Guest Details" area. This will prompt you to enter a password.
- Alternatively, you may click the "My Reservations" button in the top-right corner of the page and choose "Create New Account."
How to Login
- When booking a reservation, you may click the "TableCheck" button in the "Guest Details" area.
- Alternatively, you may click the "My Reservations" button in the top-right corner of the page.
10. About TableCheck Membership
Creating a TableCheck membership account enables you to access the following features:
- View your reservation history.
- Manage your subscriptions to merchant mailing lists.
11. Browser Support
We recommend the following browsers:
- Google Chrome (Desktop/Mobile) - Latest version
- Safari (Desktop/Mobile) - Latest version
- Firefox (Desktop) - Latest version
- Microsoft Edge (Desktop/Mobile) - Latest version
- IE 11 (Desktop)
We do not guarantee support for older browsers. If you are using an older browser, please upgrade now.
12. Security
TableCheck takes your privacy seriously. We employ the following security measures to guard your privacy:
- Connection uses HTTPS/SSL encryption.
- Personal data is stored in an encrypted database.
- Privacy Mark (JIS Q 15001:2006) certification.
- Datacenter certified with the highest standards, including SOC 1/2/3, ISO 9001 / ISO 27001, and PCI DSS Level 1.
For further information, please read our Privacy Policy.
13. Our Company
TableCheck is provided by TableCheck Inc.
Please visit the TableCheck Inc. Corporate Site (https://corp.tablecheck.com) to learn more about our company.


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Frank Pastore
UPLAND, Calif. (AP) - Frank Pastore, the former major league baseball pitcher who became a popular Christian radio show host, has died. He was 55.
Southern California radio station KKLA, which aired Pastore's show, said on its website that he died Monday, nearly a month after he was critically injured in a motorcycle accident.
Pastore had been in a coma since a car collided with his motorcycle Nov. 19. The accident came hours after he pondered the risk of motorcycle riding on his daily radio show, in which he discussed the possibility of life after death.
Pastore pitched for the Cincinnati Reds from 1979 until 1985 and for the Minnesota Twins in 1986. After playing ball, he obtained a master's degree in philosophy at Biola University and became a radio host.
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