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Busch shakes off speeding penalty for big finish
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kurt Busch's seventh speeding penalty of the season could have sunk his title hopes in the first Chase for the Sprint Cup championship race.
He clearly had a top-10 car when he headed to pit road early in Sunday's race at Chicago, and that speeding penalty assessed on Lap 80 dropped him to 35th in the field.
It also made him pretty angry, since Busch was convinced he was not speeding.
"Chicago was a bogus thing in my mind," Busch said.
"My tach was green all the way down pit road," he added. "There's times when it might flicker red and then you hold your breath to see if you're going to get by the police, in a sense. Chicago was all green, never expected to be called in, and we were."
It was still bugging him when the race stopped for rain 30 laps later and Busch grumbled about it as he drove his Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet down pit road. But he had a five-plus hour rain delay to get over it, and did, rallying to an astonishing fourth-place finish.
Busch heads into Sunday's race at New Hampshire tied for fifth in the Chase standings, 23 points behind leader Matt Kenseth. The speeding penalties are a concern, and Busch conceded his team needs to be careful the remaining nine races.
"We're setting our pit road tachometer too aggressively and too close to the margin, so we just have to be more conservative," he said. "The thing that has to be clear internally with Furniture Row Racing is that the guy setting the tach isn't going conservative on his own, and then I'm going doubly conservative to make sure we're not too conservative once we're out performing, because we have to perform in this Chase.
"We can't lose spots on pit road with slow pit stops and we can't lose spots on pit road driving too slow in a speed zone."
ENGINE WOES?: Matt Kenseth goes into Round 2 of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship with an eight point lead over Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch.
With five-time champion Jimmie Johnson lurking right behind them — he's just 11 points out of the lead — neither can breathe easy.
Their own equipment may be cause for some sleepless nights. JGR teammate Denny Hamlin suffered an engine failure late in Sunday night's race at Chicago, and Brian Vickers also had an issue, giving manufacturer Toyota two engine failures in the same race.
"It's always a concern breaking any kind of parts, having any kind of failure, anything that's going to take you out of a good finish when you're trying to race for a championship and stay in contention," said Kenseth, who will make his 500th career Sprint Cup start on Sunday. "There's not a lot we can do about it. You try to get all the information you can, try to control all the things you can, try to be easy on any parts or pieces that could possibly break.
"Certainly engines are one of the most critical pieces, and they take a lot of abuse. I guess you maybe always worry about that a little bit."
Toyota also had issues three races ago at Atlanta, where four engines had problems. Hamlin suffered two engine failures that weekend — one in Saturday practice, one in the race, Vickers lost an engine on Friday, and Clint Bowyer's failed while leading in the race.
"I'm not sure about Atlanta. I know we were trying some new stuff there, something for next season, something to use later in the Chase. I know there was a little bit of experimenting in Atlanta," Kenseth said.
"When you get to the race track, you can't do a lot about it so you concentrate on the things you can control and try to help that as much as you can and go from there."
RIDE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: IndyCar Series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay will participate in the annual Dolphins Cycling Challenge as part of Team AutoNation to support cancer research.
The two-day cycling ride Nov. 2-3 is a collaborative effort between the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, with 100 percent of rider-raised funds going directly to cancer research at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Hunter-Reay lost his mother to colon cancer in 2010 and has been committed to raising funds for cancer research through Racing for Cancer, which he co-founded. AutoNation is a presenting sponsor of Racing for Cancer.
"Nearly one-third of cancer is said to be preventable and with early detection, many more cancers can be caught in their early stages saving lives," said Hunter-Reay. "Our goal is to create an awareness of the importance of getting tested."
BILL FRANCE CHAMPIONSHIP: Frank Kimmel is the winner of the Bill France 4 Crown Championship following his third-place finish in the ARCA Racing Series' event at Salem Speedway.
The Bill France 4 Crown is a miniseries within the ARCA season that challenges drivers on four different types of courses. This season's 4-Crown schedule included a superspeedway event at Michigan International Speedway, a road course at New Jersey Motorsports Park, a mile dirt oval at Springfield and a short track at Salem.
Kimmel's showing Saturday at Salem gave him his sixth Bill France championship.
"I've always put that pretty high on the list," he said. "First of all the namesake of the thing, Bill France, that's a big deal and pretty awesome he's part of that thing. It's such a diverse set of tracks."


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HealthCare.gov Explorer: Decode the Health Law's Subsidies
HealthCare.gov Explorer can now calculate premium subsidies and cost-sharing reductions. Explore how they stack up in 36 states using the federal marketplace.
With just over three weeks left to choose new coverage in the health law marketplaces, deciphering the complex system of subsidies remains a key challenge for many would-be insurance customers.
To help users decode the law's new system of tax credits, The Wall Street Journal has added a calculator to its HealthCare.gov Explorer. Use the new tool here to see premiums before and after subsidies in the 36 states that rely on the federal marketplace website.
Health insurers and the Obama administration are pushing to enroll millions of uninsured Americans through the new marketplaces ahead of the March 31 deadline. After a troubled launch last fall, the administration has largely repaired the flawed HealthCare.gov website and enrollment has picked up. Congressional budget forecasters said last month that about six million people would join the exchange through the end of March, though that's a step back from the original target of seven million.
New survey data released last week by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. suggested one big reason people are shying from the new marketplaces is that they don't think they can afford coverage and are unaware that federal subsidies may help. About 80% of people who told McKinsey they couldn't afford coverage are eligible for subsidies. About 65% of those people didn't know the subsidies were available, or didn't know how much they could get, the survey found.
Tooling around the map shows the potential impact of the subsidies on premiums for insurance shoppers earning below 400% of the federal poverty level, or $45,960 for a single person.
A 55-year-old in Worth County, Ga., the most expensive county for insurance, would have to pay $804 a month for the cheapest mid-level, or silver, plan available there before subsidies. For higher-earning customers not eligible for subsidies, that price may be steeper than their coverage before the health law.
But, a person of that age earning $45,960 would get a $478-per-month subsidy, bringing the price down to $326 a month. At $20,000 a year, that person could get a $755-per-month subsidy, bringing the direct price to about $60 a month. The law uses a formula that calculates subsidies based on the difference between a set percentage of a consumer's income and the cost of the second-cheapest silver plan available.
Additional subsidies are available on silver plans to help reign in deductibles and copays for people earning between the poverty level and 2.5 times that amount.
As of late last month, about four million people had chosen private plans in the marketplaces, according to a Department of Health and Human Services blog post. New enrollment figures are expected in the coming days—the administration has provided mid-month updates since November.

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Washington Post: Roy Moore accuser shares card as evidence of relationship when she was 17
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. —
The Washington Post released a story Monday, in which a Roy Moore accuser shared a graduation card as evidence of a relationship between the two when she was 17.
Debbie Wesson Gibson says she was combing through Christmas decorations in her attic when she discovered a graduation card written to her by Roy Moore inside a scrapbook from her senior year of high school.
A photo of the graduation card includes the inscription:
Happy graduation Debbie, I wanted to give you this card myself. I know that you'll be a success in anything you do. Roy.
Mark Songer, a former FBI forensic examiner looked at the graduation card at the Post's request, and deemed it to be "naturally prepared."
Wesson says due to hate mail and threats, she was unsure if she would come forward with the alleged evidence, until Moore denied knowing her in a speech at a Theodore church rally on November 29th.
At the Theodore rally, Moore said:
Let me state once again: I do not know any of these women.
During a radio interview with Sean Hannity, Moore had previously admitted knowing Gibson as well as Gloria Thacker Deason, who claims a relationship with Moore when she was 18.
Wesson is one of four women who came forward to the Washington Post with allegations of sexual misconduct against the U.S. Senate candidate.
According to the story, Gibson, now 54, is a registered Republican residing in Delray Beach. Gibson owns a sign language interpreting business whose clients have reportedly included Democrats Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Republicans, such as the mayor of Miami.
Republican Roy Moore will face off December 12th against Democrat Doug Jones for the Alabama U.S. Senate seat vacated by current Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
President Trump officially endorsed Roy Moore in a tweet Monday.


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Playing the Cash 4 Life lottery can be very exciting especially if from time to time you are a winner. Winning can be accomplished quit often if the correct system is used. There are many so called experts in the market offering winning number secrets and scratch off ticket recommendations that promise to help you win. Most are not legit. However, there are a few systems on the market that has produced some promising results.
When you consider that that there are many different lottery systems available and lots of past winners you remain anonymous or don't talk about their winning strategies how many more winners might there be who have used such systems?
Think about it: is it possible that a huge percentage of lottery winners are actually using mathematical or statistical formulas to help them win? If that is the case then anyone who is not using a system is merely feeding the prize fund and has an almost zero chance of winning.
Would You Like to Win The Cash 4 Life lottery?
Lottery predictions is quite popular these days. People used to be skeptical with the predictions as they thought that the winning numbers are a matter of luck and fortunes. Not many people believe that lottery can be won by using some kind of a sophisticated science based predictions. It was not until the late 90s when lottery players began using lottery predictions to help them to win lottery or at least get closer to the winning numbers. When Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo, a Spanish man who managed to study and analyze many games in two different countries, Spain and the US and win a lot of money by using different strategies. After him people started to believe that lottery results can be predicted.Lottery players start thinking about how to win the lotteries using predictions. They use many kinds of predictions: from mechanical predictions on mechanical lotteries to technological predictions using computer software. A lot of people use algorithm to analyze and predict lottery results.Analysis of GroupsThere are many kinds of group analysis that lottery predictors use to get into the winning numbers. Lottery players can group the months having the best winning numbers of a certain period or they can group the numbers winning in certain period of time.Analysis of Hot-Cold TrendThis algorithm analysis is one of the most favourite so far as it can record the frequency ranks and use the variations to predict the tendencies of hot and cold numbers in the next drawings.Analysis of Repetition PatternA lot of lottery players share the same opinion that repetition is quite important to predict the winning numbers as most of jackpots will appear again in the future.The analysis mentioned above represents only a part of the strategies that lottery players can use. There are still many other algorithm analysis that can be done by predictors to help them win.
5 Tips How To Win The Lottery
I'm going to guess that you want to win the lottery, right? Sure you do, that's why you're reading this article. You probably also want to know which state lotteries have the best odds of winning. If that is so, then you've come to the right place. This article will point you in the right direction when choosing which state lottery to play.
Before I get into the state lotteries, we need to look at lotteries and odds, in general. Generally, lotteries that have high jackpot payouts tend to be harder to win - The odds are worse.
With that being said, you first need to ask yourself how much money you want to win. Most people play lotteries to win a life-changing amount of money. By life-changing, I mean that it could literally change your life for the better, be it living debt-free, being able to quit your job, having the ability to buy things like new cars and nice a house, or being able to travel whenever you want.
Pennsylvania Match 6: The Pennsylvania Match 6 jackpot often goes above the $2 million mark. The odds of winning are approximately 1-in-4.7-million. Match 6 is about 20 times easier to win than Powerball.
So, there you have it - The three state lotteries that have the best odds of winning. If you live in these states, you're lucky because they offer the best lotto games in the country. If you don't live in any of these three states, take a look at your states games and lottery odds before playing. You could often find the odds on their websites. Choose a game that has decent odds when compared to other games that are offered.
Winning the Cash 4 Life lottery is very rewarding. Give this system a spin and watch your winnings grow.


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The PGA Golf Club features three championship courses, a world-class PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance, the PGA Museum of Golf, and on-property accommodations at the Hilton Garden Inn and Perfect Drive Villas (Castle Pines and Pine Valley communities). The PGA Golf Club is 45 miles north of Palm Beach International Airport at Exit 121 on I-95 and is clearly visible from the interstate. For a virtual tour and more information, please see www.pgavillage.com.
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Please be sure to make your room reservation with the Hilton Garden Inn or Perfect Drive Villas and return the Package Reservation Form to the appropriate provider by no later than May 9th. Although we can accommodate a large number of golfers for play, we cannot guarantee the availability of rooms at either venue after the above date. The basic package is for three nights accommodation, three rounds of golf, and three breakfasts. No formal activities will take place before Thursday, June 2nd, but anyone wishing to arrive early is likely to enjoy the company of many other participants who also desire to extend their stay. Just make sure that you check off the appropriate extra-night housing arrangement on the form and indicate the number of nights. Breakfast and golf are not included in the extra-night plans. Please note that the registration/check-in site for those choosing Perfect Drive Golf Villas is the PGA Golf Club. For those choosing the Hilton Garden Inn, please register/check-in at the Hilton Garden Inn.
We will stage the individual competition on Friday, June 3rd and the scramble/captain's choice on Saturday, June 4th. There are separate divisions for men, women, and "super seniors" (males 65 and over). Friday's pairings, with the exception of the women's division and the championship men's flight, are based on your choice of partners, without regard to flights.* Tourney rounds on Friday are: Championship Men (Wanamaker Course); Men and Super Seniors (Ryder Course) and Women (TBD). The PGA Golf Club professionals will determine Saturday's scramble pairings. Players must report to the designated course at least 15 minutes before the scheduled tee time.
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A practice or optional round is traditionally available on Thursday or Sunday. We recommend that you schedule the optional round for the course to be played in individual competition on Friday. Tee times should be reserved at the time packages are booked. The voucher included in your reservation packet must be presented at the course upon check-in. Call 1-800-800-GOLF to make a tee time for your practice round. Before leaving the registration desk, please check that extra round voucher(s) and breakfast coupons are in the packet.
A full buffet breakfast will be served from 6:00 am. to 8:30 am on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the Wanamaker Room of the Clubhouse or the Education Center Ballroom. (This includes those staying at the Hilton.) After 8:30 am, breakfast is available in the Champions Grill at the Clubhouse. You must present breakfast coupons to avoid charge. For those arriving before Thursday, breakfast is available from 6:30 am to 10:30 am in the Champions Grill or at the venue of your choice. Breakfast is not included in the extra night plans.
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Please report to the PGA Museum of Golf at 8:00 pm on Thursday, June 2nd for our opening hospitality and informational event, featuring an open bar and hors d'oeuvres. Tee times, flights, and pairings will be posted in the PGA Golf Club and the Hilton Garden Inn on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.
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At 7:30 pm on Friday evening, please report to the PGA Museum of Golf for the Individual Awards Ceremony, raffle and auction. We will also post pairings for Saturday's team competition.
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Lunch following round in Wanamaker Room, 1:00 - 2:30 PM.
At 7:00 pm the Awards Dinner will take place at the Education Center Ballroom.
For the ninth year in a row, Gailon McGowen, Dealer/Principal of Hunterdon BMW will sponsor a Special Hole-in-One Prize of a brand new BMW. Paula Tucker, a Duramed Futures Tour player from Miami, will rejoin us as a special guest. The tourney will also feature a putting tournament, virtual skills competition and long-drive contest at the PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance. Other activities are under consideration, including a golf clinic for novices. We urge you to take advantage of the PGA Center for Golf Learning and Performance for swing analysis, club fitting, lessons and bio-mechanic assessment and development. Please contact Holly Taylor at 772-468-7686, Ext. 202 for information and appointments.
*The women's division pairings are prepared by Toni Randolph, Women's Coordinator. The Championship Men's Flight will be paired by Jeffrey Sammons, Tournament Director.


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Despite that I was "compelled to upgrade to Office 2013 this year.
I find the various functions of the Straighten tool do get it right most of the time.
A wee bit pee-ed off by the Jpeg export limitations bug
but there could have been more:
Have there been any improvements in book module? Or is it still easier to use indesign? I'd like to make a book from Mag Cloud.
Have there been any improvements in book module?
Or is it still easier to use indesign?
I find the performance increase in the final release fairly noticeable, most likely due to 5's ability to utilize more system RAM, and I've got lots of RAM in my machine. Also, the healing brush in the final works more subtly than the beta. The radial gradient also had a 100% increase in the ability to feather, in the final, which makes it of great value to me. And, once I heard Eric Chan's explanation of what each of Upright's buttons are attempting to accomplish, I've used it to go back and reprocess some problematic images I shot at the Capistrano Mission with vastly superior results from previous iterations of the files worked on in CS6's perspective tools. These and some of the other JDIs make it quite nice, IMO.I think it's well worth the upgrade price. The 3 to 4 upgrade was so huge in terms of process version change, soft proofing, etc. that I think it set the version upgrade expectation bar higher than might be reasonable.
Was this in the new LuLa video part #9 or elsewhere
Perhaps the recent revelations that Photoshop is going into the clouds - a move likely to make it even less attractive to amateurs who may only use it for an hour or two a month - will remove us from that customer base anyway and, when that happens, maybe Adobe will start to regard Lightroom as its No.1 programme for photographic hobbyists and develop it more enthusiastically.
Now that would be nice.<Looks at the latest developments in LR5 >....... maybe not then :-(
I think that what this thread is conforming is that many of us really want to ditch CS6 (or whatever version we still use) and be able to do most of our photo-processing in Lightroom.


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Adrian Faulkner and his publisher, Anarchy Books want to share an excerpt from The Four Realms with you. After the excerpt, enter to win the entire Anarchy Books catalog – digital books and albums – on a CD! What an awesome giveaway! That will keep you busy for quite a while!
Excerpt: The Four Realms by Adrian Faulkner
It was snowing in New York. The thick storm clouds overhead had turned afternoon into evening and filled the streets and avenues with their cargo. On news of the storm's approach, most of the city had emptied, workers leaving their offices before the journey home became impassable.
Broadway was practically empty. The clothing sellers who normally crowded the sidewalk were gone, having shut up and left hours ago, leaving a solitary figure making his way south through the shin deep snow. He seemed unprepared for the weather. His trousers were a size too big for him and his shirt was partly untucked.
Winds whipped around the city blocks like a serpent, striking from every direction with icy blasts, causing Mr West to draw his jacket ever tighter and vow to couple his plans with the weather forecast next time.
There were much easier ways to get from New Jersey to the meeting place in the heart of New York City. However, Mr West had 'chosen' to take the Transit in, and walk, rather than take a cab, down from Penn Station. It had seemed like a good idea at the time. "Know your enemy," the training programs had told him, and he felt that by experiencing choice, he better understood the inhabitants of this world.
Choice was abhorrent to him. Yes, he told himself, decisions often needed to be made, but that should only be done by those whose job function it was to make them for individuals, and then only after careful analysis and consultation. Otherwise, you had what you had here… a chaotic system.
Of course the humans and dwarves, and even the elves would argue that without choice there was no freedom, but what use was freedom when all that was stopping people killing you or stealing from you was a thinly guised code of moral conduct. With choice, it gave people the right to do bad things to others. Where was the freedom from crime, the freedom of job security, the freedom of not having to worry about the course of your life?
No, Mr West told himself, the amount of choice here was bad. Even worse it was so unproductive. It made their enemies unpredictable and irrational, something that the data models still needed to take into account.
He stepped off the sidewalk to cross 27th street and jarred himself as the drop, hidden in snow, was more than he expected. The snow soaked his trouser leg up to above the knee. He hated New York, even their sidewalks weren't uniform. No wonder they needed so many lawyers.
He was surprised to see that the Pizza restaurant was still open, and despite feeling slightly uncomfortable about it, 'chose' to stop and buy a slice. If there was one redeeming feature of New York, and indeed, the whole of this realm, it was Pizza. Since the start of the operation here, he had tried just about every variety. He ignored his logic which told him he did not need to eat and ordered a slice of pepperoni. Pizza heated and bagged to go, Mr West left the relative warmth of the parlour and stepped out into the snow once again.
He didn't have far to go. The awning of the next building marked his destination. The shivering doorman saw him, swung into action, opening the door, and upon noticing the pizza, asked Mr West: "You get that from next door?"
Mr West nodded.
"Best Pizza in the city," the doorman exclaimed as Mr West shook himself off and stamped the snow from his feet. He walked up the narrow passageway toward the lobby and elevator. A member of cleaning staff was busy fighting a losing battle trying to mop the floor of melted snow the guests had brought in.
Mr West took the elevator to the twelfth floor, and knocked on door 1203. He was expected and the door opened almost instantaneously. Three men dressed immaculately in black suits and white shirts stood on the other side; so alike in every such way that it would be easy to confuse them for identical triplets. They looked slightly nervous as Mr West entered. The one who had answered the door closed it quickly behind West, whilst the other two stood up from the twin beds they had been sitting on. Mr West grabbed the chair from the writing desk and sat down to face the huge window that looked out over the city. Standing in front of it was a fourth man, much older than the other three but similarly dressed. His cropped hair and beard were as white as the snow outside and his face was etched with a scowl as deep as his wrinkles.
"You're late, Mr West," the older man growled.
"Sorry," West replied nonchalantly, beginning to eat his pizza slice. "Traffic was terrible."
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Hi all, been awhile since I played but in the progress of finding an updates lists of wargames, thanks
Here ya go. http://www.happyhacker.org/wargame/index.shtml
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thanks dude, but tryed that, it seem that all the links have went bad any suggestions?thnks
and there was list made by NOodle, cant find it now !
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thanks dude, but tryed that, it seem that all the links have went bad any suggestions?thnks
Huh? No. I just tested it myself and every link I tried worked. Might wanna try again...
wargames.unix.se is something I just started... Are you intent only on wargames or anything goes? If the latter holds true there's also www.hackthissite.org and www.hackquest.de, really nice sites IMO.
Do a search here on AO on wargames and you'll find lots of links to wargame sites.
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The Ministry of Justice has announced that the current 30-year rule for historic official documents is to be reduced to 20 years.
Currently, official Government documents handed to the National Archives are closed for 30 years after they were produced. This means, for example, that documents relating to the Falklands War in 1982 are expected to become available in 2012. The exception, of course, is material that is judged to be too sensitive on national security grounds.
This is welcome news for historians, as it means that more historic records will be available for research much more quickly. According to the announcement on the ministry's website, however, the process may take a while:
"To amend the Public Records Act to reduce the 30-year rule so that historical records are generally made available at The National Archives and other places of deposit after 20 years; this will be transitioned over a 10 year period at a rate of two years' worth of records being transferred per year, with a view to commencing the process in 2013″
This still means however that documents relating to a whole host of events in the 1980's will become available up to 10 years earlier than anticipated – the Falklands War, Thatcher's disputes with the Unions, Northern Ireland and the IRA, and possibly even documents relating to football hooliganism, Thatcher's downfall and the first Gulf War. It has also been argued that the move will enhance transparency in Government, as ministers will only have to wait 20 years for their actions to come under scrutiny, rather than the present cushion of three decades.
Oliver Morley, Acting Chief Executive of The National Archives, said: 'We look forward to working with government to implement these changes and will play a pivotal role in smoothing the transition for the records bodies involved.'
The move comes following a review of the 30 year rule in 2008. The 30 year rule has been increasingly redundant, as the Freedom of Information Act has made it possible for members of the public to request the opening up of material well before its 30 year closure has elapsed. This is particularly relevant with harmless and non-sensitive material that will help historians and family history enthusiasts alike.
I have also often thought that the 100 year limit on the national census returns is also excessive – might 50 years not be more sensible? I long for the day we can all access the little-known 'wartime census'.
Related Articles
- Information laws to be extended (bbc.co.uk)
- Revealed: plans for extending FOI (nsrtk.blogspot.com)
- Secrets of Thatcher's downfall will be public in just five years (telegraph.co.uk)
- Search & Display Over 10 Million Historical Government Records, Thanks to the National Archives (readwriteweb.com)
- Margaret Thatcher's notes from 1979 reveal how she reprimanded ministers (dailymail.co.uk)
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
SQL Server 2005 onward caches temporary tables and table variables referenced in stored procedures for reuse, reducing contention on tempdb allocation structures and catalogue tables. A number of things can prevent this caching (none of which are allowed when working with table variables):
Temporary objects are often created and destroyed at a high rate in production systems, so caching temporary objects can be an important optimization. The temporary object cache is just another SQL Server cache (using the general framework) though it's entries are a bit more visible than most. The sys.dm_os_performance_counters DMV exposes a number of counters under the 'Temporary Tables & Table Variables' instance of the Plan Cache object. The cache is also visible through the usual cache DMVs, for example as CACHESTORE_TEMPTABLES in sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters.
The cached objects themselves are visible in tempdb.sys.tables, named with a single # character followed by the 8-character hexadecimal representation of the object id. This is different from the names of ordinary temporary tables, which have the user-supplied name followed by a bunch of underscores and an id.
The following procedure shows a total of nine cache objects created using CREATE TABLE #xyz syntax, table variables, and SELECT…INTO:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.Demo
CREATE TABLE #T1 (dummy int NULL);
CREATE TABLE #T2 (dummy int NULL);
CREATE TABLE #T3 (dummy int NULL);
DECLARE @T1 AS TABLE (dummy int NULL);
DECLARE @T2 AS TABLE (dummy int NULL);
DECLARE @T3 AS TABLE (dummy int NULL);
EXECUTE dbo.Demo;
FROM tempdb.sys.tables AS t
t.name LIKE N'#[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]';
The results show nine separate cached objects:
Notice the relationship between object id and the name e.g. –1383692523 = hex AD868715.
If any of the temporary objects in a procedure are not cacheable for any reason, the others may still be cached. So, for example, if we modify the test above to create an index on table #T5, that particular table will not be cached, but the other temporary objects will be:
-- Prevents caching of #T5
CREATE INDEX nc1 ON #T5 (dummy);
There are now only eight cached objects:
Dropping a temporary table in a procedure does not count as DDL, and neither does TRUNCATE TABLE, nor UPDATE STATISTICS. None of these things prevent temporary table caching (so it does not matter whether you explicitly drop a temporary table at the end of a procedure or not).
-- Does not prevent caching
There are nine cached objects again:
If a stored procedure is executed concurrently, multiple separate cached objects may be created in tempdb. There is one cached plan for the procedure but one cached temporary object per execution context derived from that cached plan. Recall that execution contexts are relatively lightweight instances of a cached plan, populated with execution-specific data such as temporary object ids and parameter values (image reproduced from the plan caching white paper):
The runtime contents of a temporary object (table or variable) are obviously specific to a particular execution, so it makes sense for the cached object to be associated with execution contexts rather than the parent plan. There may also be more than one cached plan for a procedure in cache (for example due to compilations with different SET options) and each parent plan will have its own collection of execution contexts, so there can be one cached tempdb object per execution context per plan.
There does not appear to be a fixed limit on the number of these cached objects; I was able to quickly create 2,000 of them using the test procedures above and Adam Machanic's SQL Query Stress tool running 200 threads. This is the reason for the 1 second delay in the procedure – to make sure the procedure runs for a little while so new execution contexts are generated for each execution rather than reused. The contents of tempdb after that test were as follows:
Any auto-stats created are linked to the cached temporary table:
DECLARE @dummy int;
-- Trigger auto-stats
SELECT @dummy = dummy
WHERE dummy > 0;
FROM tempdb.sys.tables AS t
JOIN tempdb.sys.stats AS s ON
s.[object_id] = t.[object_id];
In the case of multiple execution contexts, you might be wondering if each of the tempdb objects can have auto-created statistics associated with them. The answer is no: auto-stats are used to compile the parent plan, and execution contexts are derived from that same plan as needed. The metadata looks a little odd though; the statistics are explicitly linked to the object id of the cached temporary object that caused the auto-stats to be created. Other cached tables for the same plan have different ids, and so do not link to the sys.stats entry.
Statistics created using an explicit CREATE STATISTICS statement are not linked to a cached temporary object, for the simple reason that CREATE STATISTICS is considered DDL, and prevents caching from occurring in the first place.
The first time a procedure containing a cacheable temporary object is executed, the temporary object is created as normal, then renamed to the hexadecimal internal form described previously when the object is dropped (explicitly or implicitly at the end of the procedure). On subsequent executions, the cached object is renamed to the normal user-visible name when 'created' in the procedure, and renamed back to the internal form when it is 'dropped'. The following script demonstrates the creation and renaming of cached temporary objects:
USE tempdb;
CREATE TABLE #Demo (i int);
FROM sys.tables AS t
t.name LIKE N'#Demo%';
DROP TABLE #Demo;
FROM sys.tables AS t
t.name LIKE N'#________';
fd.[Current LSN],
fd.[Transaction Name],
fd.[Transaction ID],
CONVERT(sysname, SUBSTRING(fd.[RowLog Contents 0], 3, 256)),
CONVERT(sysname, SUBSTRING(fd.[RowLog Contents 1], 3, 256))
FROM sys.fn_dblog(NULL, NULL) AS fd;
The first time it is run the first part of the output is:
Notice that the object ids are the same, and the object has familiar external name while in scope, but is renamed after the DROP TABLE statement. The transaction log entries displayed are (click to enlarge):
The highlighted section shows the table being renamed in the internal catalogue tables from the user-visible name to the internal name. On the second run, there is an extra renaming log entry in the CREATE TABLE system transaction, as the object is renamed from the internal form to the user-visible name:
The demonstration shows that CREATE TABLE and DROP TABLE for a cached temporary object are replaced by renaming operations.
The cached object is scoped to the query plan that references it. If the plan is evicted from cache for any reason (perhaps by ALTER or DROP PROCEDURE or an explicit DBCC FREEPROCCACHE command) a background thread removes the tempdb object. This is not synchronous to the command that causes the eviction; the delay seems to be 5 seconds or less on current SQL Server versions, and is performed by a system process id. The following code shows the link between the cached temporary table and the cached plans for the stored procedure:
IF OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.Demo', N'P') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROCEDURE dbo.Demo;
t.name LIKE N'#________';
FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans AS decp
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_plan_attributes(decp.plan_handle) AS depa
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(decp.plan_handle) AS dest
decp.cacheobjtype = N'Compiled Plan'
AND decp.objtype = N'Proc'
AND depa.attribute = N'objectid'
AND CONVERT(integer, depa.value) = OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.Demo', N'P');
Example output:
Aside from checking for suitably-named objects in tempdb, there are a number of ways to see how many cached temporary objects (tables and variables) exist, and how many are in use by executing code. One way is to query the sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters DMV:
FROM sys.dm_os_memory_cache_counters AS domcc
WHERE domcc.[type] = N'CACHESTORE_TEMPTABLES';
Another way is to check the performance counters (also accessible via DMV):
FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters AS dopc
dopc.[object_name] LIKE N'MSSQL%Plan Cache%'
AND dopc.instance_name = N'Temporary Tables & Table Variables'
AND dopc.counter_name IN (N'Cache Object Counts', N'Cache Objects in use');
This second example shows 200 cached objects on a different run:
On SQL Server 2008 and later, we can evict a particular plan handle from cache to show that this removes the cached temporary table:
DBCC FREEPROCCACHE(0x05000200CC7BDE0940E16D8C000000000000000000000000);
As mentioned, there can be a delay of up to 5 seconds before the cached object is removed after the DBCC statement completes (though the DMVs reflect the cache changes immediately). The more comprehensive test below shows all these things combined:
-- Cache a temporary object
-- Show the cached table
DECLARE @plan_handle varbinary(64);
-- Find the plan handle
@plan_handle = decp.plan_handle
-- Truncate the log
-- Evict the plan
DBCC FREEPROCCACHE(@plan_handle);
-- Show log entries
fd.[Begin Time],
fd.[End Time]
FROM sys.fn_dblog(NULL,NULL) AS fd;
-- Cached object not dropped yet
-- Show cleanup
-- Gone!
The first result set shows the cached temporary object:
The transaction log entries immediately after evicting the plan from cache show no activity aside from the CHECKPOINT we issued to truncate the log:
Then we see that the cached object still exists at this point (though the DMVs now show zero cached temporary objects):
After an up-to-five-second delay, the transaction log contains:
Notice the system transaction named 'droptemp' is performed by system SPID 14, and instead of the renaming we saw earlier, all references to the cached object are deleted from the system tables.
You might recognise the internal hexadecimal name for cached temporary objects; the same is used for table variables outside a stored procedure:
DECLARE @T AS TABLE (dummy int NULL);
The batch runs five times and produces output like this:
Notice that the object id is different each time (and so, therefore, is the name). As already mentioned, table variables in a stored procedure can be cached just like temporary tables:
DECLARE @T AS TABLE (dummy int NULL);
FROM tempdb.sys.tables AS t
Now, though, we see the same object id and create date each time:
Once a table variable is cached, the transaction log records for a simple procedure are quite interesting:
-- Cache the table variable
fd.[Transaction ID]
Notice the reference to the internal name #628FA481 and the clean up activity. The same procedure with a temporary table instead of a table variable generates a bit more work for the server:
Many of the entries are similar to the table variable case, with extra steps to rename the cached object when CREATE TABLE and the implicit DROP TABLE at the end of the procedure are executed. Clearly, some efforts have been made to make table variables more efficient than temporary tables, while sharing many features in common at quite a low level.
Another interesting thing, as I mentioned right at the start of this post, is that table variables disallow just about all of the actions that prevent caching of a temporary table. Table variables do not allow named constraints or DDL that affects caching (e.g. CREATE INDEX, CREATE STATISTICS). Table variables are also scoped more tightly than temporary tables. While we can create a temporary table in one procedure, and refer to it in another, the same thing cannot be done with table variables. For the same scoping reasons, table variables cannot be defined using dynamic SQL and referenced outside that context. One oddity is TRUNCATE TABLE; disallowed by table variables, but which does not affect caching.
Anyway, the restrictions mean that table variables can always be cached, and don't allow some of the crazy things that are possible with temporary tables (particularly as regards scoping, but also the cached statistics issue I described in my last post). They also have the potential to perform better (no hidden renaming) at least in some high-volume circumstances. If only we were able to create statistics (with intuitive behaviour!) and indexes after creation, table variables might well make the old Sybase 'non-shareable temporary tables' finally redundant. Until then, we are left having to choose one or the other as best we can.
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Thanks Paul. Excellent as usual.
This is such a thorough treatment of the subject, just like the last post. It's the final word.
More good stuff - better go update my post... :-)
Thanks Paul. Great stuff. I've learned a lot from these two posts about which I never thought this deep before.
I was reading "The runtime contents of a temporary object (table or variable) are obviously specific to a particular execution, so it makes sense for the cached object to be associated with execution contexts rather than the parent plan" and trying to simulate this by simply making a little change to your script. Below is the updated script. When I ran it in one query window and ran "EXECUTE dbo.Demo;" in another query window simultaneously. The result is perfect. Different exectutions don't interfere with each other's data in the temporary table and there is just one #demo table. However, after I put the insert statement into a transaction and let it wait for 5 seconds and did the same test again. I have two temporary tables. I can't think of any reason why another #Demo is created. It's like the 2nd query window created a new #Demo rather than using the exsiting cached one from 1st query window. Am I missing any points here?
I am just trying to get my head more confused ^_^. My apology if my question doesn't make sense or demonstrate I've completedly understood your posts.
[code moved to http://pastebin.com/5jpYWLDM]
Hi Patrick,
I'm not sure I follow exactly what you did, but I'm going to take a crack at it anyway. I uncommented the delay in your procedure and ran it in two sessions, ensuring the executions overlapped. In that case, as expected, two execution contexts were required (derived from the one cached plan) so two cached tables are seen. If I have misunderstood your test, please feel free to correct me!
Hi, Paul! Thanks for the post.
I saw no words about parameters issue, have you done any inverstigations of that, was it approved or disproved?
Hi Dima,
Sorry I forgot all about that. I'll take a look at the thread and get back to you.
Thanks, appreciated. As I understood cached object is "linked" to the plan of proc, to have multiple cached tables we should have multiple plans for one proc, and it is possible for example if there are different set options. But due to different params... I took a short look at our dbs to find out, if there are any plans, with the same cache keys, but multiple for one proc - and found nothing. But I didn't do deep investigations, so have no confirmation or disproof. If you find something, you are welcome to share it.
Thanks Paul, great article...I'm overwhelmed!!
I would love to be able to match a query plan to a tempdb table.
It might be possible given that when a query plan is removed from cache, those tempdb tables are cleaned up.
So SQL Server knows how to map a table to a query plan, is that possible for us end users? It would help me go beyond number of temp tables and help me identify which queries are creating temp tables most often.
select * from sys.dm_os_performance_counters
where instance_name like '%Temporary Tables & Table Variables%'
or counter_name like '%temp table%'
Hi Paul, thank you for the great article.
Have you ever come across an issue (which might be temp table caching related), when SQL Server issues "Invalid column name" exception in case two stored procs are involved in a query, each of which creates a temp table with the same name but different columns?
The repro script is below:
USE tempdb
IF EXISTS( SELECT * FROM sys.procedures WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID( N'dbo.p_inner'))
DROP PROCEDURE dbo.p_inner
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.p_inner
SELECT the_string = '' INTO #temp
SELECT the_string FROM #temp
IF EXISTS( SELECT * FROM sys.procedures WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID( N'dbo.p_outer'))
DROP PROCEDURE dbo.p_outer
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.p_outer
SELECT the_date = GETDATE() INTO #temp
EXEC p_inner
EXEC dbo.p_outer -- ***** this statement raises the "Invalid column name 'the_string'." exception
Hi Eugene,
Yes, I am familiar with that behaviour, which is weird but apparently "by design". Books Online CREATE TABLE (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174979.aspx) contains this statement:
"A local temporary table created within a stored procedure or trigger can have the same name as a temporary table that was created before the stored procedure or trigger is called. However, if a query references a temporary table and two temporary tables with the same name exist at that time, it is not defined which table the query is resolved against."
The scoping rules for #tables are a bit of a mess, frankly.
Thank you for the information, Paul. Apparently, I have missed that piece of the documentation. However, this is weird behavior I agree.
I'm seeing a lot of buffer pool space being used by TempDB that is linked to unallocated pages. This space takes up to 1/3 of the buffer pool, and the only way I've found to get most of the space back is to "right-size" the TempDB data files instead of having them presized to fill the LUN.
A reader on my blog mentioned that what you're discussing here appears to be the root cause, but I have my doubts. Specifically, I'd expect that if this was the cause then freeing the proc cache would cause the memory to be reclaimed.
Do you know if these two things are related?
My post, if you're interested, is at http://simplesqlserver.com/2016/01/05/tempdb-memory-leak/
Hi Steve,
Temporary table caching might well be a factor, but I have no specific knowledge to address the question your blog post raises definitively.
If you want my opinion though, I would only regard it as a bug or cause for concern if the buffer pool space used in this way were not quickly available for other uses.
SQL Server often keeps stuff in memory (e.g. plans that have been invalidated) simply because it is not worth the effort needed to locate such entries and remove them in advance of the space actually being required for something.
So, when memory pressure is detected, I would expect memory use like this to be freed up for reuse in pretty short order, by design. If it is not, and bad things happen because memory for unallocated tempdb is not released/reused, that would be a bug.
Thanks. What I'm seeing is this memory building up over time to be somewhere around 1/4 the size of TempDB's data files, and it's not released at all when the instance is under pressure.
I've decided to open a connect item on this: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/2215297
Steve, have an up vote :)
Great article Paul.Thanks
I have a query here i am getting error DBCC SHRINKFILE:6:9719968 Page could not be moved because it is a work table page. I don't want to clear my cache just want to drop cache plan located on the page.using above queries unable to find any temp cache plans. CACHESTORE_TEMPTABLES showing 0 entry in use Can anyone guide here Please ?


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President's Day for the Amityville Woman's Club was April 24 at the Unqua Corinthian Yacht Club. President Barbara Lozier introduced numerous family members. Lozier then introduced all the guests, as well as all the past presidents of the Woman's Club and members from the Federation of Women's Club. Attendance was almost 50 people.
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When Apple launched Maps as part of iOS 6 recently, users were largely pleased with the look but disappointed with its usability – which is kind of important when it comes to finding your way somewhere. Stories surfaced of absurd inaccuracies, you know, cities in the sea, farms labeled as airports, that sort of thing.
Apple has said the more that people use its Maps app, the better it will get. Meanwhile, Google is reportedly working on a new Maps app for iOS, but it could be a couple of months before it sees the light of day. This has left many iPhone users who've upgraded to iOS 6 and who used Google's Maps app on a regular basis scratching around for a solution.
Of course, alternatives are available, but the whole Maps mess may have left a few iOS 6 users wishing they'd held off upgrading until either Apple sorts Maps or Google releases its own Maps app.
However, there's some good news for those who've switched to using Google's Maps mobile Web app – Street View functionality, which gives users a ground-level view of the immediate area, should be on its way in a couple of weeks. Apple's Maps app offers no such feature.
The information comes courtesy of New York Times' columnist David Pogue who, in a piece about Apple's Maps misstep, tells how he used the Cupertino company's new app to guide him to a speaking engagement, explaining that while both the GPS navigation screen and spoken directions were clear, they took him to the wrong location. He was late for his talk.
Apple's Maps "may be the most embarrassing, least usable piece of software Apple has ever unleashed," Pogue wrote.
He laments the loss of Street View on his handset, but says that "in two weeks" Google will be including it as part of its Maps mobile Web app. His information comes directly from the Mountain View company, he said.
It was reported on Wednesday that in its forthcoming iOS Maps app, Google intends to combine Google Earth with Maps, though there's no clear indication as to when it might be ready.


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CagePotato Roundtable #16: What Was Your Most Memorable Run-In With an MMA Fighter?
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Thanks to everyone who submitted stories for today's crowd-sourced edition of the CagePotato Roundtable. We've selected 12 tales from the pile — ranging from drama to comedy to horror — and we'll begin with a story that comes to us from an actual pro fighter, involving one of MMA's greatest out-of-the-cage rivalries…
Sal Woods
A few years ago I fought on the Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields card. While at weigh-ins I was obviously star-struck from being at Al Hrabosky's with a room full of legends and badasses. The only guy I had the balls to say what's up to was Nick Diaz. He was completely cool and super polite, he said hi and introduced himself to the entire table (my cornermen, shaking each one's hand). We were just shooting the shit about how it was my first time on a big card and that I was fighting T-Wood. I was thinking this dude is nothing like the interviews I have watched.
All of a sudden he looks over and sees Joe Riggs and almost flips shit, starts telling his corner guys "there's that little bitch right there!" Looks over a crowd of people and called Riggs a punk bitch. Then Gil and someone else walked him away/cooled him down. Proved that if Nick doesn't like you and fights you he may fight you again in the hospital and almost again at completely different fight's weigh-in!
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Unique to the Milford's underwater world are sheer cliff faces, which provide for the most spectacular Fiord wall diving and a totally unique eco system of black coral trees. The coral trees have a stunning white appearance over a jet black skeleton and are normally only found in deep water trenches. Thanks to Milford's heavy rainfall making for a mix of fresh and salt water on the surface with huge mountains casting their shadows over the waters, enough light is blocked to allow these beautiful coral trees to call Milford's Piopiotahi marine reserve home.
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BA Picks Dylan Cease and Ian Happ to Take Big Steps Forward in 2016
Five days ago, Baseball America released its Top 100 Prospect Rankings, with just three Cubs on the list. If you recall, several other publications – MLB Pipeline, Baseball Prospectus and Keith Law – had at least six Cubs prospects falling into the top 100, so this revelation was quite the disappointment.
However, the number of players that failed to make BA's list wasn't the only letdown. Of the four publications listed above, Baseball America was by far the lowest on the Cubs' top trio of Gleyber Torres (41), Wilson Contreras (67) and Ian Happ (87).
While John Manuel insists he is plenty intrigued by the Cubs' system in the lower minors, he believes that those players are too far away from MLB to be ranked any higher than they have been. On Thursday, however, Baseball America's Josh Norris gives Cubs fans a glimmer of hope by identifying pitching prospect Dylan Cease, as well as Happ, as players he expects to make big leaps up the prospect rankings in the coming year.
Cease was selected by the Cubs out of high school in the sixth round of the 2014 MLB Draft, but, before that, he was a projected first round talent. If you're wondering how the Cubs managed to snag him much later in the game, it's because of an elbow injury (which ultimately resulted in Tommy John surgery shortly after the draft), greatly reducing his attractiveness relative to the rest of the high-end of the draft pool, increasing his risk, and slowing down his path to the majors. Because of the upside, though, the Cubs were happy to bet $1.5 million on the recovery of his arm.
Cease began his comeback in 2015, throwing 24 innings across 11 appearances in the Rookie-Level Arizona League. Here's what Norris had to say about the yet untapped potential lurking in Cease's arm: "Despite his modest frame, Cease uses a whip-quick arm to produce upper-90s heat and a low-80s curveball with the shape and bite to project as better than average." There's a bit more in there on Cease, including his ability to make it onto the 2017 BA Top 100, so I encourage you to give it a read.
Among the five minor leaguers already included in the Top 100 who might jump further up the list is switch-hitting second baseman/outfielder Ian Happ.
Happ, 21, split time between the short season Eugene Emeralds and the Low-A South Bend Cubs in 2015. Although he played exclusively in the outfield in 2015, Happ is expected to play primarily from second base at the beginning of next season. As a college bat entering his first full year, he is a candidate to rise quickly through the lower minors, especially if the glove takes to second base. Norris especially likes Happ's potential and believes he displays a "polished and explosive swing from both sides of the plate."
Like Cease, there is plenty more on Happ and his ability to rise quickly in 2016 in the article, so give it a read. The Cubs have a lot of interesting minor league story lines heading into next season, but the rise of these two prospects could top the list.


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For NHIAA spring athletes, it's snow big dealBy JOHN HABIB
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 26. 2013 7:46PM
The snow is slowly melting and that's a good sign for NHIAA Executive Director Patrick Corbin, who is optimistic the spring sports season will start on time.
"I'm far from panic mode right now," said Corbin. "If we get another snowstorm between now and the start of our spring season, it will be a different story."
Girls' and boys' tennis is scheduled to start next Monday, April 1. Baseball. softball, boys' and girls' lacrosse and boys' spring volleyball will begin April 8. The co-ed unified volleyball league will start April 18.
"Last year was way different than this year," said Hopkinton baseball coach Dave Chase, who led the Hawks to the Division III state title last season. "Last year, we had no snow on the ground and temperatures were well above normal. We were outside practicing on the first day. This year, I'm trying to replace six starters and now we're mostly in the gym. I did get my team outdoors for a two-hour session at New England College. But it's pretty tough to see what people can do in the gym. You obviously can't hit fly balls."
First-year Manchester Memorial softball coach Erin Reilly said her team has also been practicing in the school's gym, but may get to use the McDonough-Chabot football turf field later this week or next week.
"If the snow melts off the turf, we'll be able to use it,' Reilly said. "We obviously want to use our field (St. Anthony Field) but I rode by it and there's still snow on it. But that's New England. One day it could be snowing and the next day the temperature could be in the 70's. You prepare for it."
Bedford boys' tennis coach Shawna Morley said her three-time defending state championship team was able to practice outdoors Tuesday for the first time this season.
"We've had limited indoor court time at the YMCA Allard Center in Goffstown," said Morley. "We've spent more time in a classroom at our high school going over rules and strategy. But's it's been a very challenging time especially this season when we're moving up and preparing to play in Division I." Bedford won the Class I title in 2010 and the last two Division II state titles.
In boys' lacrosse, Pinkerton Academy of Derry head coach Brian O'Reilly said his team has been confined to indoors.
"Absolutely, indoors every day since practice started," said O'Reilly. "We don't have a turf field or access to one. It's not ideal, but you've got to do what you have to do."?O'Reilly said his team is able to do passing and catching and walk through plays in the gym.
"But you can't play the game indoors the way it needs to be played," said O'Reilly. "Assuming we don't get another snowstorm, I anticipate we will be outdoors next Monday or Tuesday. I don't like being in the gym. It's a tough situation."


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All they had to do was grab him and it would have been over.
DemoDick wrote:What I saw:
Multiple officers groundcuffing a suspect in the middle of the street with lots of people around. The suspect appeared to be resisting. Dog is running around, comes up behind more than one officer. Dog gets Tasered. I did not see a "happy" Pit Bull. I saw a dog. Dogs are very unpredictable animals, extremely so under stress. When you're fighting someone to get them into custody, you don't take chances with a loose dog (of ANY breed) running around int he thick of things.
The dog is lucky to be alive.
I've fought suspects hell bent on beating me to a pulp and getting away. I've also shot a dog (yes, sadly, a Pit Bull) that bit me in the pants on an aggressive, loose dog call. The only reaon I didn't end up in the hospital was my experience as a decoy and my ability to read the dog. I waited FAR longer than I would have to shoot the dog had I no experience catching dogs in protection work. My partners on the other hand would have shot it the second it charged, and they would have been correct to do so.
Deadly physical force was not a good option in the video scenario, considering the number of people around. The Taser offered them a way to avoid someone getting bit.All they had to do was grab him and it would have been over.
Or the person grabbing the dog could have been seriously injured.
If I were in that situation I probably would have done the exact same thing. I have my own dog to come home to at the end of my shift. Not to mention my girlfriend, who would be pretty upset if I got bit for real.
It's easy to Monday morning quarterback when you've never been a Police Officer, never dealt with a potentially violent crowd, never fought a suspect who is bigger and stronger than you and never had a dog go from tail wagging happy to aggressive and dangerous before you realize it. My guess is that the Taser operator did exactly what he was trained to do.
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Kathleen Marshall to Helm Broadway-Bound EVER AFTER Musical; Music by Heisler/Goldrich
Producers Scott Landis and Philip Morgaman have announced that EVER AFTER, a new musical based on the 20th Century Fox Film, will open on Broadway in the 2013-2014 season following a pre-Broadway engagement to be announced. The production will be directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall. EVER AFTER features music by Zina Goldrich and book & lyrics by Marcy Heisler, who recently won the 2012 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre for most promising musical theatre lyricist. The music director is Mary-Mitchell Campbell.
EVER AFTER tells the story of Danielle de Barbarac, the daughter of a Nobleman in 16th Century France, who embarks on a series of adventures, standing up to her scheming stepmother, befriending Leonardo DaVinci and winning the love of the crown prince of France. This new musical sets the record straight on the fable of Cinderella, showing how a strong-willed, independent girl can make her dreams come true without the help of fairy godmothers, talking mice, or magic pumpkins.
Casting, dates and other creative team will be announced at a later date.
KATHLEEN MARSHALL (Director & Choreographer) is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony-nominated Best Musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, for which she is nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for direction and choreography, and the Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony-winning Best Musical Revival Anything Goes, for which she received 2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for choreography and Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations for direction. Also for Roundabout, Kathleen directed and choreographed The Pajama Game and choreographed Follies and 1776. Other Broadway credits include Wonderful Town; Grease; Boeing-Boeing; Little Shop of Horrors; Seussical; Kiss Me, Kate; and Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway: Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival), Saturday Night (Second Stage), Violet (Playwrights Horizons) and As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept). City Center Encores!: Bells Are Ringing, Applause, Carnival, Hair and Babes in Arms; Artistic Director for four seasons. For ABC/Disney: "Once Upon a Mattress" and Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" (Emmy nomination). She has received two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Astaire Award, the George Abbott Award, the Richard Rodgers Award and the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for the Arts. Ms. Marshall is the Vice President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company.
ZINA GOLDRICH (Composer), along with lyricist Marcy Heisler, is the 2009 winner of the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. Currently, Ms. Goldrich is composing the score for The Great American Mousical with Heisler and bookwriter Hunter Bell. Julie Andrews will direct the production at Goodspeed Opera House this fall. She has earned a Drama Desk Nomination for Best Music for her score for the DR2 Theatre production of Dear Edwina. She also composed the score for Junie B. Jones, which was twice nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award. Other scores include Allison Under the Stars, Adventures in Love and Snow White, Rose Red (and Fred), which premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2010 and was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. In addition to being a staff songwriter for Walt Disney Feature Animation, she has composed for various television shows including Wonderpets, Third and Bird, Johnny and the Sprites and Pooh's Learning Adventures. Ms. Goldrich studied under Jerry Goldsmith in the USC Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program. She is the recipient of ASCAP's Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the Seldes-Kanin Fellowship, a Jonathan Larson grant and numerous scholarships. On Broadway she played keyboards for Avenue Q, Bombay Dreams, Oklahoma and Titanic, where she also conducted.
MARCY HEISLER (Book and Lyrics) is co-recipient, with composer Zina Goldrich, of the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre for most promising musical theatre lyricist. She earned a 2009 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Lyrics for Dear Edwina and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Junie B. Jones, Other collaborations with Zina Goldrich include The Great American Mousical, written with bookwriter Hunter Bell, directed by Julie Andrews, choreographed by Christopher Gattelli and designed by Tony Walton, premiering in November at Goodspeed Opera House. As a lyricist, Ms. Heisler has contributed songs for many Disney projects, including "Johnny and The Sprites," "Pooh's Learning Adventures," and "The D Show." She adapted new versions of 101 Dalmatians, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and The Jungle Book for Disney Theatricals/MTI's Disney Kids series, and collaborated with composer Michael Picton on songs for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus 137th Edition. Marcy Heisler has collaborated with composer Zina Goldrich since 1993, and they are past recipients of ASCAP's Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award and the Seldes-Kanin Fellowship.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Ben Affleck has won the Golden Globe for best director for his film "Argo."
The other nominees Sunday night were Quentin Tarantino ("Django Unchained"); Ang Lee ("Life of Pi"); Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln"); and Kathryn Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty").
Affleck wasn't nominated for the best director Oscar.
The 70th annual Golden Globes are airing live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.


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Monday, January 5, 2009
My Top Five Linux Predictions for 2009!
So, my chances are as good as anyone else's of getting one or more right.
Without further ado, I present my top five Linux predictions for 2009!
5.) A high profile school system somewhere in the United States will completely switch to Linux. Having had their fill of Windows viruses and needing to trim expenses, this school system will put Linux in all their classrooms. And they'll be extremely happy with the results!
4.) Linux netbooks will outsell Windows netbooks. Netbooks are ultra portable laptops with 6-8 hour battery time. Folks are going to discover that Linux netbook versions consume less power, come with more software and won't get Windows viruses or malware.
3.) Everything old is new again (as in PCs). The demand for used PCs is going to soar this year. Families being squeezed by the ongoing economic crisis will be grabbing used PCS in record numbers and installing Linux rather than handing hundreds of dollars over to Microsoft for a new PC (and getting the same old virus/malware/spy ware headaches).
2.) Linux will dominate home entertainment. We'll find out that Linux will be powering most HD T.V.s, Blu-Ray players, recorders, etc.
And my number one Linux prediction for 2009...
YOU will try Linux this year...simply by starting here.
Get Linux.
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Don't forget Linux predominance in portable read&write devices market.
V.g. Iliad, Amazon's Kindle, etc.
- January 5, 2009 at 6:53 PM
- colonelcrayon said...
5. Maybe so, but probably not. Schools are going to be strapped for cash, so they won't be buying new computers. Their current machines already include Windows or OS X, which aren't costing them anything since they've already paid. OpenOffice? A bit more likely, since newer formats could demand expensive Microsoft Office upgrades.
4. Probably not. People want a familiar OS that will run their favorite software.
3. I'm not sure if I buy this. I think most households in the US already have the computers they need. Will they stop buying new machines? I think so, but they'll stick with what they have rather than buying used PCs. And what they have already runs Windows - no extra charge.
2. I think this is quite likely. Embedded Linux is very powerful.
1. You're a bit late ;). I've been on Linux for 2+ years, and I'm currently loving Slackware, SliTaz, and CRUX.
- January 5, 2009 at 9:31 PM
- MSzorady said...
I've head so many great things about Slackware.:) gotta try it myself!
- January 5, 2009 at 10:16 PM
- colonelcrayon said...
Slack is a lot of fun. I also use SliTaz and CRUX and can recommend both of them to you :)
- January 5, 2009 at 10:35 PM
- David Tavarez said...
Very ambitious! ;)
5=> Agree
4=> Disagree
3=> Agree
2=> Disagree
1=> Disagree, because I'm powered by Fedora :P
- January 5, 2009 at 10:53 PM
- twitter said...
Number five is already happening in Indiana. Happy New Year.
- January 7, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- MSzorady said...
Thanks! You made my day!:)
- January 7, 2009 at 10:10 PM


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April 24, 2013 — I graduated from college in 2004 and soon after landed an internship that I fantasized would launch my career. The internship was unpaid, but it came with a guarantee that I would gain valuable experience as a fact-checker for a respected national magazine. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I imagined it would be in the realm of writing and editing, and fact-checking seemed like a useful skill to acquire.
Of course my ability to accept an unpaid internship was a sign of my privilege—I'm the lucky product of generous, financially stable parents and a first-rate education—but I was eager to prove myself to my new employer and get off the parental dole. I took that internship seriously. I showed up on time and never missed a deadline. As soon as I finished one task, I asked for another. And I wrote a few short pieces and asked my supervisor, an enthusiastic young man whom I liked enormously, to help me get them published in the magazine.
My supervisor was supportive and encouraging and told me often that I was a talented writer. But he wasn't the champion I needed—not because he didn't want me to succeed, but because he was too busy launching his own career to take an active interest in developing mine. He rarely read anything I wrote right away, and by the time he got around to reading it, it was no longer relevant or timely enough to publish. After a few instances of this, I became discouraged and stopped trying.
Our intern class of six contained only one other woman, and I soon noticed that the male interns were publishing short pieces left and right, both on the magazine's website and in the print edition. Their ideas weren't any better than mine (although they frequently generated more of them). They weren't better writers. One thing they were definitely better at was self-promotion. They didn't wilt and give up in the face of rejection, and they didn't take "no" for an answer. They kept pitching ideas, writing articles, and submitting them, whether or not they received encouragement along the way. One man in particular made a pointed effort to ingratiate himself with the magazine's editor-in-chief. And she rewarded him handsomely: his writing appeared in the magazine several times throughout our internship, and, afterward, he landed a coveted full-time writing job and began freelancing for the magazine on a regular basis.
What conclusions did I draw from this experience? I'd be lying if I said I never felt bitter or resentful. But at some point—usually once you've escaped your early twenties—you begin to realize that bitterness doesn't propel you to the top; it drags you down. And resenting others for having what you want doesn't get you any closer to having it yourself.
I remember my fellow interns fondly and have followed their personal and professional progress over the years. What I regret most about that internship is not that I wasn't taken as seriously or mentored as assiduously as my male peers, but why: because I lacked the aggressive self-confidence most men are encouraged to display, and, instead of trying harder, I began to doubt myself. It's frustrating to feel as if you're banging your head against a brick wall (or a glass ceiling), but it's crucial to keep pushing back. I work for Catalyst because I want to help create environments in which talent and hard work are recognized, and women and people of color do not feel as powerless or invisible as I felt back then.


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Is p16INK4A overexpression a reliable biomarker for oncogenic human papillomavirus infection in normal tonsils?
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Recent analyses have provided evidence that human papillomavirus (HPV) is an etiological risk factor for head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC). Oncogenic HPV, mainly type 16, has been strongly associated with tonsillar carcinomas [Ref. 1], [Ref. 2] and appears to be of prognostic significance. Because HPV-positive tonsillar carcinomas also accumulate p16INK4A this inhibitor of cell proliferation might be a candidate biomarker for clinical diagnosis. Data on the value of p16INK4A overexpression to predict HPV infection in normal and dysplastic tonsil tissue, however, are scarce. Here we studied the prevalence of p16INK4A overexpression by using immunohisto-chemistry on 4 micrometer thick formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections from normal tonsil samples of 263 patients (mean age: 29.2; range 12-70 years). These patients were treated in 1997-1998 for non-oncologic reasons, which mostly included tonsillectomy. Strong p16INK4A-positive and a number of weakly positive and negative samples were subsequently screened by PCR for the presence of oncogenic HPV subtypes, adenovirus and cytomegalo-virus DNA. All 263 samples contained squamous cell epithelium and 187/263 harbored lymphoid tissue, 177 of which contained tonsil crypt epithelium. Diffuse cytoplasmic and nuclear p16INK4A staining was only identified in crypt epithelium (49/177; 27.7%) and germinal centers (52/187; 27.8%), which was strongly associated with each other (p=0.001). PCR analysis of 28 p16INK4A-stained tonsil samples (17 strongly positive, 5 weakly positive and 6 negative) revealed 2 cases harboring HPV DNA, i.e. one with HPV 16 and 18 (associated with p16INK4A overexpression), and the other with HPV 16, 18 and 68 (p16INK4A negative). Our results show a rather high percentage of normal tonsillar crypt epithelia with increased p16INK4A expression, which only in 1 case appears to be associated with HPV. Thus p16INK4A should be used with caution as biomarker for HPV on normal tonsil tissue. Other mechanisms of p16INK4A activation are therefore implicated, which do not point to adenovirus or CMV infection.
This study was supported in part by the Medical Research Foundation ("Profileringsfonds") of the University Hospital Maastricht, grant no. PF126.


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Back yet again, this time for a vert frame. Great product as to be expected. Thanks again!
Back yet again, this time for a vert frame. Great product as to be expected. Thanks again!
Sent a rail to be milled ule and set up for an emag manifold to run a sleeper project I am working on. Also, needed a lpr turned down a little to fit inside the battery pack.
What can I say...I'm extremely pleased with the work he did. It's very clean...no marring from setup.
Luke was very patient with me while I tried to explain over email what I wanted done and what he could/couldn't do.
Also, he forgot to ship the rail back with everything else. As soon as I told him he was on his way to ship it out that minute. Speaks volumes to his customer service and dedication.
Thanks Luke, I'll post some pics in a month or so when I finally get it set up.
Bought one of Luke's mini vert frames, and couldn't be happier. He shipped fast, it showed up fast, the build quality is excellent; I'm very pleased. A+ sir, I'll certainly deal with you again.
He done some milling on a angel space frame for me to fit am rails.A+++ work ,shipping,communication and just a good all around experience. thanks:-)
Luke did a couple pump milled/ule'd AM/MM rails for some friends of mine and a ULE'd and profiled rt/pro rail for me for a build I am planning.
His work is excellent and worth every penny. I used to send stuff to Danny Love back in the day and I personally think his is much better and much cleaner.
I'll post some pics when I get a chance but if you're considering sending him stuff to mill he does great work and for me at least, it is worth every penny.
I ordered an Armada-L rail in the pre order list. As soon as they were done Luke shipped and that was two days after he posted that they were done. Rail is beautiful and I'm 1000% happy with the product and the deal.
I took the road least traveled...now where the hell am I ?
Just got my armada rt pro rail from him and totally impressed with it. :-) :-) A++++ all the way around.
Luke is great! I asked if he would mill a rail to fit my custom trigger frame length he did it and it looks great
Very satisfied!!
got the flat black panels for the z-grip. Work is immaculate and shipped very quickly. A+ seller.
bought the short, straight grip extension. After seeing his other work, I knew this would be great and it doesn't disappoint. A+
Sent 3 warp bodies to get extra detents added. Shipped to him Saturday I had them back in my hands the following Friday. A+ in my book
sent ule body to get milled and drilled! did an awesome job as always, dont know why people leave feedback for him we all know he does great work haha!
Helped me as a third party on some Automag stuff on Ebay, I also bought some stuff from him. Exceptional communications and a really easy guy to deal with. Do not hesitate to do business with him. Thanks for a smooth and trouble free transaction.youtheman
Thanks/ Tack!
I bought an armada rail, it was shipped out fast and looks awesome.
Bought a few items and have also had some work done by luke and I have always been completely satisfied! Thx again.
Echo echo echo. Had a few jobs done, and I am very pleased with all of it.
Any-day again!
Purchased a grip from him---- A+++
Not the first time I bought stuff from Luke. I always get the same great service. This time he even helped with getting a Micromag to Sweden. Can it get any better than that?
Thanks once again
Been onto the website for the third time as am looking for more mods and parts. Only just seen the link to feedback. I used Luke to do all the work on my Mag in the UK, twice now he has helped to mill parts and make grip plates and everything came as expected. Excellent service and support, Full confidence in Lukes skills and knowledge as well as products.
Quick and easy transaction as always and great quality products.
By far the best craftsmanship on aftermarket automag upgrades and parts. Also super responsive and excellent customer service, even post-purchase, to answer questions and ensure high satisfaction/best performance.
Once again awesome stuff from Luke's Custom.
Superb products, communication, packaging and reasonable prices to boot. Can't ask for much more. I look forward to doing business with him again in his next product.
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Picked up an Armada rail from Luke recently on a Friday and it was in my mailbox on Monday. I've ordered from his website many times also and must say his communication, speed of turnaround, and workmanship has always been top notch.
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Just picked up his new Wave rail milled for a pump, his last set of AO Hex Emag grip panels and a couple 12v Warp harnesses. It's awesome when you pay and have the products in your hands two days later. Thanks Luke and keep up the good work! A truly significant asset to our 'Mag community.
WANTED: Model 98s, 'Mags + More
Just picked up some Pneumag lowers when luke ran his recent discount. I sent in some parts to get machined also and the work was performed and sent back the same day he received them!!
Communication�s always fast and detailed as well.
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Purchased his pneumag lowers a couple weeks ago and couldn't be happier. Thank you for the sweet automag stuff you do and I will be sending you some milling work that I need done in the near future.


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A Land More Kind Than Home
Place:Conference Room - Administration Wing
Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Jess Hall is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he is not supposed to see, which has catastrophic repercussions.
About the Adult Book Club
This book discussion group meets once a month and is facilitated by Bud Werner Library's Circulation Services Manager, Michelle Dover. The group is open to anyone interested in participating, but is limited to 12 participants per meeting. Register online or call the front desk at 879-0240 x307.