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Part 3: Engine Swapping 101Written by on August 1, 2002 Sometimes an engine that's longer isn't quite as good as one that's wider
It was a simple idea. The '67 Valiant we introduced last month ran fine, but the reliable 170-inch Slant Six that was given residence between the front tires just wasn't what I had in mind. Sure, these engines can be built to produce some respectable numbers on the dyno, but not without some serious mods, and let's not even mention the difference in the sound. So, in this next installment of Project Valiant Effort, we investigated some things you may want to consider if giving your six-powered ride two more cylinders. There are different ways to accomplish this--the way the engine gets mounted, the suspension, and even cooling needs can be covered in a variety of ways. Hopefully, we can give beginners some information and perhaps add to the knowledge of the more experienced. In the end, we want to make this thing run well and keep it together long enough to make a pass or two at the track.
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(A) A friend told us he had a '71 360 he would sell. When we got to hishouse, he also had another 360 and an 83/4 rear from an A-Body he threwin with the deal. Not bad for 250 bucks, eh? A nice thing about buying acomplete motor is that usually all the bracketry and pulleys you needare already on the motor. This saves expense and the time spent tryingto find the miscellaneous items.(B) Ron thought the engine had fairlylow mileage, so a quick inspection of the plugs and bearing surfacesshowed good indications. With high hopes, we cleaned and painted theengine and brackets and installed a spare Edelbrock Performer intakethat came with it. We topped all this off with a Holley HP 650 carb andCrane 25 ohm wires. The HP series carb may cost a little more than astandard 650 but will stay with the engine longer during our upgrades.To physically mount the V8 where the six was, either change the K-frameto a V8 unit or do what we did and get Schumacher Creative Services'swap kit. The kit came with the motor mounts, tranny mount, and allnecessary hardware. We also got their new torque strap kit, which goesfrom a motor-mount bolt to a bracket that mounts to the K-frame.The exhaust can be tackled by buying those quiet A-Body V8 manifolds orgoing the easy route like we did we did--headers. We chose Hedman Hedderswith a 15/8-inch tube into a 3-inch collector. The Hedmans are coatedinside and out, and for performance you can't beat a good set ofheaders: Hedman also sent us a crossover tube, which helps performancethrough a scavenging effect. Regardless, the six's skimpy exhaust wasn'tgoing to cut it.To mount the tranny to the motor, the bellhousings are different. In thecase of our Valiant, we didn't want a three-speed tranny for obviousreasons. So we bought a 23-spline 833 tranny from a friend for $200.Since we needed a bellhousing, another friend sold us a Lakewood safetybell for $40. It may be heavier than the factory unit, but keeping theflywheel from coming up through the floor like a buzz saw seemed kind ofimportant. It pays to ask what your buddies have sitting in theirgarages while doing this type of stuff.The six-cylinder engine uses a longer throttle cable than the V8 unitand will need to be changed accordingly. You can find one at a swapmeet, salvage yard, or through the street-rod aftermarket.A lot of guys who drag race use the six-cylinder torsion bars because they react faster with the added weight of a V8.However, they don't corner at any real speed. If you plan to drive your car a lot, upgrade to a V8 bar to support the added weight under driving conditions such as potholes, roadwork, and the occasional Dukes of Hazzard imitation.Swapping to a V8 also means you need to address the cooling system. Thestandard six-cylinder radiator (right) was in rough shape, but the V8requires more cooling anyhow. We contacted U.S. Radiator and got one oftheir V8 replacement units with the special "optima core" (left). Sincethe Valiant will serve double-duty and eventually receive even moreperformance,we needed a radiator to handle the task both now and downthe road. In essence, buying it once is better that having to buyanother one later.
Another often-overlooked area is the wiring. The Slant Six starter is onthe drivers' side near the top of the motor. On a V8, it's underneath.Tip: Some wiring modifications, like lengthening and rerouting, will berequired; have the tools or a harness to do this.Our car had the small 71/4 rear, by no means able to handle what we wereabout to throw at it. Like I said before, we got lucky with an 83/4spanner along with our engine, and after we install our built-742 casedifferential, it will be fine. The price of upgrading to an 83/4(especially in an A-Body) is climbing, especially if you want the larger41/2-inch bolt pattern axles, so plan accordingly. While you cancompromise with the 81/4 under some circumstances, the 83/4 remains therear of choice for most non-Hemi street cars.When going to a V8, there will be more stress on the driveshaft. If youplan to really launch your car hard, especially with a four-speed, westrongly recommend getting the sturdier V8 driveshaft; you can eitherhave one made or locate one from a V8 car. Under normaltransportation-only type driving, the smaller one would probably workfine, but who of us does that? Also keep in mind that Mopar offered twodifferent size universal joints: the 7260 is the smaller unit, while the7290 is larger and more durable; these need to be strong. Finally, ifyou are using an automatic with a fairly stock converter; this will be alittle more forgiving since it's a "fluid coupling system" instead of adirect gear. The verdict: Better safe then sorry; upgrade to thestronger styles as soon as you can.


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GoJane is on a "MISSION" in Southern Cali!
The weather here in SoCal is as finicky as vegans are with…everything they eat. In a single month the climate can move it's way up and down the thermometer like a stripper working a pole on a Friday night. But we're not complaining about the influx in temperature. It gives us the opportunity to take advantage of our versatile Californian style. It's jumpsuits & varsity jackets one day and mini skirts & bandeaus the next. There's never a dull moment when it comes to our LA weather or wardrobe.
On the day of this particular photoshoot, the sun was knocking at our door like a hyper-active neighbor kid begging for us to come out and play. The sunlight gleamed beautifully through our sheer gear and as an added bonus to the millions of dollars we paid our model, she also went home with a sun-kissed glow.
Does any of the colorful art sprayed on the concrete wall and metal scaffolding look familiar? Were you the urban artist who beautified this once very drab scene? That just may be the only way you'll guess the location of this week's editorial photoshoot. We went off the beaten path and may have even done a little trespassing. Oooooh, we're bad…
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Steve Miller, MathWorks
In this webinar we demonstrate how to model and simulate hydraulic systems using SimHydraulics. We show you how to define your hydraulic network within the Simulink environment using physical connections, tune and refine your design, connect to realistic 3-D mechanical systems, and test using hardware-in-the-loop simulation. A backhoe arm with three hydraulic actuators is used to show some of the modeling, simulation, and deployment capabilities of SimHydraulics.
This webinar includes demonstrations and explanations to show you how to:
Hydraulic systems vary widely in size and complexity. Simulating hydraulic networks together with mechanical and control systems is critical to optimizing system performance. To ensure that testing is efficient, SimHydraulics offers a number of ways to easily balance the tradeoff of model fidelity and simulation speed. Each of these concepts is covered in this presentation.
About the presenter: Steve Miller is responsible for the technical marketing of the physical modeling products at MathWorks. Steve joined MathWorks as an Application Engineer in 2005 and moved to the Design Automation Marketing group in 2006. Prior to that, Steve worked at Delphi Automotive in Braking Control Systems and at MSC.Software as an Adams specialist, consulting in various capacities at Ford, GM, Hyundai, BMW, and Audi. Steve has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Smith Street Dining
by Julie Besonen, 10/22/2013
(from left) Bien Cuit photo by Jorge Garcia • Bar Tabac photo by Phil Kline
The fortunes of Brooklyn's Smith Street have ebbed and flowed over the years, but right now the area is at an all-time high with a wave of worthy eateries. There's barbecue and bourbon specialist Char No. 4 and newcomer Nightingale 9 where Southeast Asia meets the American South over catfish and rice noodles. Versatile chef Robert Newton helms the latter as well as the Arkansas-inspired Seersucker and the Counter Culture coffee and baked goods hub Smith Canteen. Francophiles are fulfilled at patisserie Bien Cuit and the hopping Bar Tabac, whose sidewalk tables afford great views for people-watching. Patrick Watson and Michele Pravda further help anchor the thoroughfare with Stinky Bklyn, selling the best cheese on the planet, Smith & Vine for eclectic wines and spirits and The JakeWalk for craft cocktails and savory bar snacks. The umbrella name for the area is BoCoCa, an acronym for the fluid borders of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. Boundary disputes aside, we trust you won't have any beef with the places we're highlighting in our slideshow.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The White House and Congress move one day closer to those massive forced budget cuts that start going into effect at the end of next week.
Most recently, the President reached out to congressional Republican leaders to try and kick start negotiations on the sequester.
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Global Trade: Fedex issues positive perspective
June 23, 2011
In its fourth quarter earnings report, Fedex explained its 6 percent y-t-d improvement on strong yield improvement in all transportation segments, as well as volume growth of ground and international express shipments.
This is good news indeed, and mirrors observations made by industry analysts who maintain that "innovation" is the key to strengthening our nation's logistics sector.
FedEx has attributed the increase in its fourth quarter revenue and earnings to continued strong yield improvement in all transportation segments, as well as volume growth of ground and international express shipments.
"FedEx Ground maintained its exceptional performance this quarter, increasing volume, yields and margins, while FedEx Freight returned to profitability, said FedEx executive vice president & CFO Alan Graf Jr. "Even with higher planned capital spending in fiscal 2012, margins, cash flows and returns are expected to improve year over year."
The fortunes of Fedex may not represent a tide lifting all boats, however. According to Rosalyn Wilson, author of the esteemed "State of Logistics" report, the economy has been in a fragile state for close to four years now.
"The highly touted recovery in some sectors has not generated enough momentum to cascade into other less robust sectors," she said.
After the most recent round of data releases, especially the disheartening rise in unemployment and drop off in freight volumes, Wilson and other analysts are revising their growth expectations downward.
"I too have watched this situation developing over the last two months and have concluded that we may have hit a wall," she said. "It has been close to two years since the recession was pronounced over and for many Americans things have not improved."
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The date of 24th February 2013 marks exactly 20 years since former Fulham, West Ham United and England legend Bobby Moore died at the age of 51 from bowel cancer.
A host of Moore's old teammates were in attendance at Fulham's home game with the Hammers last month, as well as his daughter Roberta.
And they spoke to the official website to pay tribute to the man.
Les Strong said: "For me, he was the best. I was 21 when he joined Fulham, and the relative success I had was all down to Bobby.
"Just to see him at the Club was fantastic. Technically as a full-back you shouldn't be too far in front of a centre-half, but with Bob I'd be on the halfway line and he'd find me with one ball. People thought I was an attacking full-back but it was all down to him. When he left I don't think I went past the halfway line.
"He was well known to be immaculate. Everything in his wardrobe was pristine. I used to get his shirts and tie them in knots. It drove him mad. Myself and John Mitchell would sit behind him on the coach and put bits of paper in his hair. When he got off the coach, you had a World Cup winner waving at everyone not knowing he had pile of paper on his head. Childish I know.
"He was too young when he died but it was an honour and a pleasure to know him."
Alan Mullery stated: "How long have you got? I played against him when he was a schoolboy, I played against him for Fulham youth against West Ham youth, I played against him in the (old) First Division and I played with him for England and Fulham. He was two years older than me but the path of our careers was quite similar.
"Playing with him for England was an absolute joy, as was the two years I had with him here at Fulham. He was a gentleman on and off the pitch. You couldn't meet a nicer man.
"I signed him for Fulham! I went over to West Ham and said 'why don't you come over here for the last two or three years of your career? We've got some good players and they'll love you.' He came and George Best and Rodney Marsh also arrived so for a short time we had the three geniuses on the pitch.
"In Bob's first game, we played Middlesbrough and were losing 4-0 after 20 minutes. He picked the ball out of the net and put his arm around me and said 'does the goalkeeper ever use his hands?'
"You've got to put him up there with the greats – the Franz Beckenbauers, the Pelés, the Bests. He was a genius but you wouldn't always know it. He was slow, he didn't head the ball particularly well, but his reading of the game was three seconds quicker than anyone else. That's how he always got himself out of trouble as he'd see situations develop before they happened.
"The finest example was the World Cup Final in 1966. With a minute to go, Bobby had the ball and Jack Charlton told him to put it in Row Z. But he ignored him and clipped it forward for Geoff Hurst to score the fourth goal. He didn't want to waste a ball - every pass had to be perfect. He was a classy player and a classy man."
Roberta Moore added: "He spoke very fondly and very warmly of his time here at Fulham. It was a really lovely Club for him to come to after West Ham. All the guys here had a lot of fun. They gelled well together and of course they got to the FA Cup Final against West Ham. I remember going to that game and it was a really happy time.
"I remember vividly coming to Craven Cottage and being here again brings back a lot of memories.
"I can and I can't believe it's been 20 years. I've got married and had kids and Dad never met my children. That's when it feels like such a long time. But at the same time, I still remember him so clearly. I feel like he's around a lot.
"He was a great Dad. He was very supportive, very fair and had a great sense of humour. He was just my Dad. I was a real Daddy's girl and he was wonderful.
"We often had famous faces round ours. Our favourite was Rodney Marsh. He used to hide £1 notes around the house and we'd try and find them. He'd hide lots of them so we liked it when he came round!"


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A.If the XP series receives an invalid Bank Select from a song file during playback, the part will not sound. It happens whenever the XV series receives invalid Bank Select numbers.
It is of no use to send just a Program Change without also sending a valid Bank Select message. The XV series will search for the patch in the invalid bank, which results in no sound. Therefore, send the valid Bank Select message again, or select the desired Patch from the front panel of the unit.
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After completion of a season, fans often speculate what personnel changes are in store as their team prepares for next year. Offseason personnel moves often impact a club as much or more than decisions made during the season. Because of deals struck after the last season Reds fans have reason to think that another blockbuster looms within the realm of possibility. They're not likely to see anything of the same magnitude this time around because most of the talent from a 97-win campaign is still under contract. Still, there were some holes, most notably the leadoff spot, and GM Walt Jocketty has shown that he will pull the trigger if he feels the deal is right.
Actually, the Reds may have already determined they have their leadoff hitter in Brandon Phillips. The NL's top second baseman hit .375 with 7 RBI during the five-game divisional series against the Giants. The big question with Phillips is if the rest of the lineup will allow him to stay at the top or pull his bat into the middle to drive in more runs. A lot of that has to do with the ability to re-sign Ryan Ludwick. His 2012 season raised his market value above the second year option of his contract so it was no surprise that he declined it. No doubt the Reds would desire to have his name penciled in the cleanup spot come opening day 2013. The 34 year-old revived his career in Cincinnati after lackluster stints in San Diego and Pittsburgh and his relationship with Jocketty goes back to their days in St. Louis so there's reason to believe that he would like that scenario too.
Often a team's fans want to see some action. Pressure is on the front office of small market teams to use limited payrolls more precisely to put needed talent on the field. The Reds were successful at doing that in 2012 so now the task is maintaining and improving if possible. Being satisfied with status quo may turn out to be the best option but then again it may give opportunity to the competition to pull off a deal that could give an edge. Perhaps a strong consideration a fan should keep is how successful their front office has been in recent deals. Here's a recap of Jocketty's track record over the past year:
Juan Francisco for J.J. Hoover
This deal for prospects was motivated by pre-season injury. The Reds needed bullpen depth after losing Ryan Madson and Nick Masset. Francisco had reported to spring training out of shape and the Braves wanted him when they started the season without Chipper Jones. He finished the year at Atlanta by striking out in over one third of his 205 plate attempts and had an on-base pct below .300. There were some questions regarding his glove at the hot corner and he did not leave them behind in Cincinnati as he finished with a .935 fielding pct. and six errors in 42 starts. Meanwhile Hoover added the depth the Reds sought while splitting time between Louisville and Cincinnati. His 2.05 ERA across 28 MLB appearances likely has his name mentioned somewhere in the conversation on next season's pen as they decide on whether or not to move Aroldis Chapman into the rotation. Given the opportunity the Reds would not take this one back.
Jeremy Horst for Wilson Valdez
After Paul Janish was unable to take ownership of regular shortstop duty in 2011 the job went to Zach Cozart. With a rookie in the starting lineup management likely preferred having more veteran infield depth which made them willing to part with LH reliever Horst. Valdez was successful at winning the utility infielder spot on The Opening day roster and kept it all season. He was helped when Janish suffered a broken wrist after a strong start at Louisville. Eventually Cozart nailed down regular duty and Janish was traded. Meanwhile Horst pitched well at Lehigh Valley and made a couple of appearances with the Phillies. Valez's .206 average was nothing to write home about, but given the depth of the Cincinnati bullpen, 27 year-old Horst didn't figure to get much action. Perhaps the Reds might have been more interested in keeping him if they'd known that injury would derail Bill Bray's season but they have no complaints on their 2012 pen. Losing their 2007 21st round selection did not compromise their overall effort and they did get a year of service from Valdez who is now a free agent and likely a stop-gap while Didi Gregorius was developing. Not knowing the availability and prices of other options, this trade looks good.
Paul Janish for Todd Redmond
Injuries in the Atlanta infield created an opportunity for Janish to return to the big leagues where he failed to hit .200 in 186 plate appearances with the Braves. Cincinnati was seeking depth to their rotation and found Redmond blocked in the Atlanta pipeline behind more highly regarded prospects. Had the Reds known that their opening day rotation would incredibly not miss a start all season they might not have felt a need to add depth. But then again, who could have predicted that? Redmond made his MLB debut with a rough outing in a doubleheader against the Cubs and had a mid-three ERA in 26 International League starts. The 27 year-old is a good man to have on the farm in case he's needed. Meanwhile Janish was replaced on the Bats by the promotion of Gregorius. This deal did nothing to damage future projections for the Reds infield and returned a good minor league pitcher. Pitching depth beyond the rotation is kind of like a spare tire, one hopes they never have to use it, but are grateful it's available when the need arises.
Donnie Joseph and J.C. Sulburan for Jonathan Broxton
This was a trade deadline deal to add bullpen depth and like most trades with prospects it's still too early to tell if it was a good one or not. The Reds did get good service from Broxton in 26 appearances and he filled in at closer while Chapman was put on the shelf to shake fatigue problems. That is no surprise to either of the teams that made the deal and it will be interesting to see if the Reds retain his services now that he's completed a one-year contract. Chapman's future as a starter will have a big impact on that. The big wild card is Joseph, in whom the Reds invested a third-round draft selection which is quite high for a reliever. The southpaw was considered one of the top arms in the system until he got hammered by AA hitters in 2011. This season he returned as a dominant closer for Pensacola and earned a midseason promotion. His 1.4 WHIP suggested he was lucky to keep a sub-three ERA in 18 games at Louisville and he was over four in 11 appearances at Omaha. Sulburan entered 2012 as one of the Reds top rotation prospects. He'd come off a season with a 4.60 ERA in the hitter-friendly California League and had a decent 4.04 with Pensacola to start the year. He's only 22 years old, so there's still time for development, but right now he projects as a back-end rotation guy at best. The jury is still out, but Joseph is now 25 years old so he should have a MLB debut sometime next season.
Travis Wood, Dave Sappelt, and Ronald Torreyes for Sean Marshall
To get a proven major league pitcher a team has to give up something and the Reds parted with Travis Wood after he followed up a solid rookie season with a sophomore jinx in 2011. He eventually secured a spot in the Cubs rotation with a low-four ERA in over 150 innings. Teams improve their success through trade by dealing from areas of depth and as it turned out the Reds had pitching depth. The 25 year-old southpaw's performance this season would have gotten him a lot of innings in Reds rotations of years past but he would not have cracked it in 2012. He may yet return to the form he showed two years ago but if still in the organization he would not figure prominently in their immediate plans. On the other hand Marshall provided the bullpen with the same solid performance that the Cubs enjoyed after he was moved from closing to his familiar role as a lefty set-up man. After the trade the Reds removed contract concerns by signing him to an extension. Sappelt spent most of the season in AAA and had a .275 AVG/.351 OB% in less than 100 AB with the Cubs. Before leaving the Reds some may have considered him an answer for their leadoff spot enigma but the team must have felt Phillips a better option and remained committed to Drew Stubbs in center field. Another area of depth in the Cincinnati organization was middle infield prospects which made Torreyes expendable after he torched Midwest League pitching for a .356 average at Dayton in 2011. He came back down to earth for Chicago's high-A affiliate this season and finished at .256. A huge contributor to the Reds success in 2012 was their bullpen and Marshall was a big part of that.
The Big One
Not much needs to be said of Mat Latos's performance other than he came into form and provided the Reds with a second ace behind Johnny Cueto by the time they entered the pennant stretch. Some are now projecting Yonder Alonso as more of a line drive hitter and scrapping an experiment to convert him into a left fielder locked him into first base. Teams playing in hitter-friendly confines like Great American Ball Park typically need a long ball threat at that spot which the Reds were fortunate enough to already have. Alonso manned the position all season long with the Padres and finished a respectable rookie campaign at .273/.348 OB while slugging slightly below .400 with nine homers. It may turn out that the spacious PetCo Park is a better fit for his stroke. The Reds had two former first round selections for candidates to take over the catching spot that the departed Ramon Hernandez split with Ryan Hanigan. They opted for the more experienced Devin Mesoraco and included Yasmani Grandal in the trade package. The switch hitter eventually took over as the Padres' regular in the second half of the season and hit around .300 in almost 200 AB. It has since been announced that his career will be interrupted by a 50 game suspension from testing positive for the use of a testosterone. Edinson Volquez also served a suspension for PED use concurrent with his time on the DL following Tommy John surgery. He was included in the deal after a season that saw him begin as the team's opening day starter before being demoted to Louisville due to ineffectiveness. Volquez put together a decent stat line for the Padres in 2012 with 11 wins and a low-four ERA. However, much of that was a creation of his home venue as his road ERA was more than 2.5 runs higher than what he allowed at PetCo and he surely was not going to have that advantage had he remained in Cincinnati. Rumors at the time suggested that the final hurdle in the deal was cleared when the Reds agreed to let go of former supplemental first-rounder Brad Boxberger. If that was the case he rewarded the Padre persistence with a 2.60 ERA in 24 appearances out of their bullpen. His 1.45 WHIP was a higher than what would be expected with such a low ernie.
With three top prospects changing uniforms still more time is needed to fairly evaluate who got the better deal. Right now it appears both sides were winners. The Reds had to like what they saw of Latos and proven young pitchers of that caliber come only at a premium. Meanwhile the Padres were in the process of following up a 91-loss season with a 76-86 record in 2012 so they needed multiple prospects more than an individual. It will be interesting to see how removing the performance enhancer affects Grandal's game but if the 24 year-old Mesoraco gets back on the path that's projected there won't be much concern over losing the other catcher. His disappointing rookie season was offset by underrated veteran Hanigan who continued to show solid on-base skills and provide stellar defense behind the plate. When it comes down to it, the prospects received by the Padres might turn out to be blocks in their rebuilding effort down the road. Latos on the other hand has already put a solid season in the bank for the Reds and is not eligible for free agency until 2016.
Prior History
Previous to last season Jocketty's big deal as Reds GM was in the 2009 season when he brought in Scott Rolen. There were many skeptics at the time wondering why a rebuilding team would sacrifice two young arms for a 34 year-old third baseman. Roenicke was on his way to earning a spot in their bullpen and Stewart was causing even more excitement as he shot up their system by dominating hitters at lower levels. Eventually Roenicke was unable to establish himself as a reliable reliever and was waived in 2011. Last year at the age of 29 he landed in Colorado and kept an ERA under four in 63 appearances. Much of the luster is gone from Stewart after the Jays tried unsuccessfully to convert him into a starter in 2011 and included him in a trade package the next season. He's still only 25 and continued to have trade value when the White Sox sent him to Boston in the Kevin Youklis deal.
Meanwhile Rolen turned in a strong 2010 and was selected to the All Star team while manning the cleanup spot during the Reds first successful postseason run in fifteen years. His glove was recognized with his eighth gold glove at a position that had previously been defensively deficient in Cincinnati. Oddly enough, of all players involved the forgotten one at the time is now the one making the most impact. Edwin Encarnacion pounded 42 HR/110 RBI for the Jays in 2012. In 09 he was hitting .209 with the Reds and it was obvious his glove was always going to be a handicap. He'd worn out his welcome and has since been moved to first base in Toronto where he also often occupies his more natural position of DH. Many forget that the A's picked him up off of waivers after an unimpressive 2010 and then granted him free agency that allowed him to return to the Jays. As Rolen now ponders retirement while Encarnacion was in the top eleven vote recipients for AL MVP, a strong case can still be made that the Reds have been more successful since that trade than they would have been without it.
Final Assessment
There is no shortage of attention given to the disadvantages of fielding a baseball team with the payroll limitations of a smaller market. GM's have to take risks to get production from players obtained without getting into bidding wars against wealthier teams. On the other hand, one bad decision could haunt them for years. Jocketty is no stranger to the challenge after experiencing a successful tenure in St. Louis. It is unreasonable to expect any GM to obtain players that provide major impact without giving up anything in return. Even if someone were shrewd enough to do that, eventually everyone else would stop trading with him. Given the results of the immediate impact on the major league team of talent going in and out of the Reds fans have good reason to agree on one thing: Keep 'em coming Walt.
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A man has been charged in the death of a mayoral candidate in the Mississippi Delta.
The Coahoma County Sheriff's Department says 22-year-old Lawrence Reed of Shelby was charged with murder in the death of Marco McMillian.
The 34-year-old McMillian was a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale and was well-known in the community.
An investigation began Tuesday when a man crashed McMillian's SUV into another car on U.S. Highway 49 near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines. The candidate wasn't in the car.
His body was found near a Mississippi River levee the following morning.
Campaign spokesman Jarod Keith says McMillian's campaign was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi.
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I love the style of this and mechanol so much. Can't wait for you to finish it up! REP.
Hey there,
This thread is for one of the city maps that I am creating for Empyrean Games to go with their Mechanol world. For anyone who has looked at that map, they may have noticed the seven icons that each denote one of the clockwork collossi - sentient beings that each have/are a city in constant motion around the world.
This map will show one of those cities. It is called Bellows, its emblem is the crab, which should become apparent why.
Anyway, here is where I roughly am now with it...
Nothing is complete here, so positioning and whatnot - still not decided even on landscape or portrait - will change. I've nearly completed the fourth section of the Ring plan view at the top, which will be the trade section. I also have to add more buildings, refineries, atop the foil casements between the sectors.
I've also got some rough versions of leg cutaways that I've removed for the purpose of this image.
This is my first city map and I have to admit to being torn between taking pleasure at watching it come together, boredom at drawing iddy-biddy-shiddy buildings and bemusement at the fact that I couldn't just pop my city cherry with a nice, straightforward, static city. :s
Royal: I'm very sorry for your loss, your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
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I love the style of this and mechanol so much. Can't wait for you to finish it up! REP.
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It just keeps getting better. Cool idea and it already looks really great Ramah!
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Crab City !
This is quite interesting.
Yesterday today was tomorrow.
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Looks great even as unfinished piece.
nice mapping, and nice drawing, this has got to be tough to make look right. Nice job.
This is REALLY cool! (rep)
How did you make the borders? Did you draw them??
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oh god.. that's awesome. very professional !
Very pretty but the top part is kinda hard to see the buildings. I'm not sure if this image is half size or not but you might want to make that top part a lil simpler to make it more legible...maybe make the buildings more linear and less 3d. Just a thought, shrug. Pretty, though.
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Thanks all.
Ascension: Yeah, this image is at 50% size of the original so things are more visible at full size.
Sigurdbjohansson: The border is just my usual type border with some very slight bevels on the colouring and a round brush to make the rivets which are also slightly bevelled. Then it's all finished with my rough shading pattern to give it a little more illusion of height.
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Hello All:
We been testing Zimbra for almost 1 week now and it looks good.
I have read in few post that network version / commercial will have mailbox backup and restore but we are strictly interested to know how Open Source Version will be Backed up/Restored. I will try to clearly state scenarios
1) Move Zimbra install from 1 production server to another. Apart form installing Zimbra on new server what we need to do to Backup/copy existing one and Restore on New Target Server
2) What we need to Backup under ZIMBRA only (ie. What folders/files) on regular basis to so we can provide Disaster recovery if production server fails
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Melbourne, Australia (Sports Network) - Former champion Maria Sharapova and
former runner-up Li Na were a pair of quarterfinal winners Tuesday at the
Australian Open.
The second-seeded former world No. 1 Sharapova eased past 19th-seeded fellow
Russian Ekaterina Makarova 6-2, 6-2 to set up a semifinal match with the 2011
Aussie finalist Li.
With the first set tied at 2-2, Sharapova earned her second break of the match
following a Makarova double fault and powered her way through the next three
games to take the set with a second-serve ace.
Sharapova then dominated the second set with 10 winners before finishing off
Makarova with another emphatic ace.
The 25-year-old Sharapova, who has been dominant through her first five
matches of this fortnight, is the reigning Roland Garros champion who lost to
Victoria Azarenka in last year's Aussie finale. The Russian superstar
titled here in 2008, and was also a Melbourne runner-up in 2007.
The sixth-seeded Li lost to Agnieszka Radwanska in a semifinal in Sydney two
weeks ago, but the former French Open champion from China avenged that defeat
on Tuesday by ousting the fourth-seeded Radwanska, who had not lost a set in
2013 until succumbing to Li 7-5, 6-3 at Rod Laver Arena.
Li broke Radwanska's serve four times in the opening set. Radwanska, who
earned three breaks herself, saved one set point at 5-6, but misfired wide
left on the next point and hit the final ball of the 66-minute first set into
the net.
The 30-year-old Li, who has not lost a set this tournament, broke at love to
take a 4-2 lead in the second set, and saved two break points leading 5-3 in
the second before Radwanska was long on a match point.
Radwanska was seeking her third title in three events this season.
Wednesday's quarterfinals will pit the world No. 1 and defending champion
Azarenka against two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and
third-seeded former No. 1 and five-time Aussie titlist Serena Williams
versus 29th-seeded fellow American Sloane Stephens.
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ROLLA, Mo. (AP) - Police in Rolla are investigating the death of a student at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
The university has released the name of the young woman who died in Farrar Hall -- Kaitlin Brown, a 19 year old studying business and information technology from Mission, Kansas.
Campus police were notified that Brown had died in her room around 2:30, early Saturday morning. How she died, who found her or if anyone was with her when she died police aren't saying.
But the campus police have called in Rolla Police for help.
"It's a way to draw on the resources from both departments. The Rolla PD can provide a breadth of expertise that we don't have on the campus," said Missouri S&T spokesman Andrew Careaga.
"We want to do the due diligence to thoroughly investigate this situation," said Careaga.
The Rolla Police Chief says an autopsy is planned for Tuesday.
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ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Two American aid workers who just weeks ago were gravely ill with Ebola they contracted in Liberia now pose no health risk to the public after being cleared of the virus and released from an Atlanta hospital, one of their doctors said on Thursday.
Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who both contracted the deadly virus while working for Christian organizations, were discharged after blood tests showed no evidence of the virus and eased symptoms, said Dr. Bruce Ribner, medical director of the infectious disease unit at Emory University Hospital.
They are likely to make a complete recovery from the disease that has killed 1,350 people in West Africa, Ribner said.
"I am forever thankful to God for sparing my life," Brantly, who was working for the Christian relief group Samaritan's Purse, said during a news conference that marked his first public appearance since walking into the hospital wearing a bio-hazard suit on Aug. 2.
In a separate statement, Christian mission group SIM USA said Writebol was released from the hospital on Tuesday and was resting in an undisclosed location with her husband.
"Nancy is free of the virus, but the lingering effects of the battle have left her in a significantly weakened condition," her husband, David Writebol, said in a statement. "We decided it would be best to leave the hospital privately to be able to give her the rest and recuperation she needs at this time."
Ribner, who cared for the patients, said they were released in consultation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"To the extent that we've tested, there is no evidence of Ebola virus in their bodies," Ribner said.
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said what did know going into the treatment, however, was that the "key to surviving Ebola is aggressive supportive care," which is something Emory medical workers knew they could deliver to the patients more effectively Africa.
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that 2,473 people have been infected and 1,350 have died since the Ebola outbreak was identified in remote southeastern Guinea in March.
It said that no cases of the disease had been confirmed outside of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, despite cases having been suspected elsewhere.
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text: By Joan CraigElsie Correspondent As you enter Elsie on main street, your eyes will probably catch the berm on the corner of Perkins Avenue and Railway Street. Although the berm has been on the corner for several years, it is currently getting an update. Jordan Giesbrecht, Elsie resident, noticed the area, originally called "Gloria's Garden," was becoming overgrown and shapeless. Giesbrecht mentioned to Michele Cutler, also of Elsie, that he would like to do a makeover on the corner. She agreed and the work began. The duo removed some out of control weeds and flowers. They also took out a few railroad ties. They then reshaped the area slightly and surrounded it with landscaping stones. Cutler Grain financed the stones for the project. The original berm was put in when Gloria Schultz was postmaster at Elsie. She put in many hours working and cultivating the area over her lunch hour and after work. Hence the name, "Gloria's Garden." When Billie Shaw took over as postmaster, she too, put in timeless amounts of work on the flower garden. Cutler continued watering the flowers after Shaw left. Since the work has begun, Giesbrecht and Cutler have coined a nickname for the project. They call it "Coyote Corner" because of the coyote whirly-gig placed there by Ron Cutler a few years ago. The hard work of Geisbrecht and Cutler is much appreciated by the residents of Elsie who have the privilege of passing by the floral attraction each day.


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CHICAGO -- The calendar may read March, but a snowstorm has much of the Upper Midwest looking like December.
A snowstorm that moved through parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota Monday is zeroing in on Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, with the brunt of the storm expected to hit early Tuesday.
Up to 10 inches of snow could fall in the Chicago area, which would easily make this storm the area's largest of the season.
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PALMETTO, Florida -- Vandals targeted a Bay area school's agriculture program not once, but twice in just 12 days. School officials say the damage is significant.
The vandalism at Lincoln Middle School comes at the worst time possible, when the Manatee School District is going through a severe economic crisis. Finding the money to replace and rebuild what vandals destroyed will be tough, but the staff is determined to find a way.
"Started with two chickens, now have this world class system," says Ronnie King, principal at Lincoln Middle School.
It's an agricultural program, King says, that has taken eleven years to build at Lincoln Middle School. Now, it's been crippled by vandals.
"They've broken different pieces, [they're] no longer usable," says King, referring to 15 broken hydroponic planters. Students recently grew strawberries in them. King says the cost to replace all 15 is about $3,500.
King says the most heartbreaking destruction is to the Tilapia fish farm. School staff found more than 100 fish dead, killed when vandals dumped the air pump into the water.
"It's also the time and the labor our families and students put into building this program. They're here before school, after school, throughout the summer time, and some weekends," says King.
Vandals tried finishing over the weekend what they started on June 5, when they first targeted the school's agricultural program.
"Twice in two weeks," says King. The first time hurt, but the second time, King says, is more painful. He says, "It's like adding insult to injury that's already there."
Palmetto police are investigating. Deputy Chief Scott Tyler says, "We think it's kids, [who] for whatever reason want to vandalize. Why? Not sure."
If vandals strike a third time, Tyler says it will be one too many.
"Hopefully, the vandals will come back. If they do, we'll have a surprise for them," says Tyler.
For now, King and his staff will re-grow the program. King says, "Rebuilding the program, fixing what's broken, for us it's not an option. We have no choice. We will and improve upon what was already here."
Palmetto police say this prank carries serious penalties because the damage is in the thousands of dollars. It's a felony charge and a cruelty to animals charge for killing the fish.
Officers were able to lift a fingerprint that may give them a break in the case.
If anyone has information on this crime, they can call Palmetto police or Crime Stoppers at 1-866-634-8477. One can remain anonymous and receive a reward. The school will need help. Anyone interested can give Principal King a call at 941-721-6840.


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Gaughan drives the No. 62 South Point Hotel & Casino Tundra
He is an 8-time winner in the Truck Series
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Gaughan won in the GT class in the Rolex 24 at Daytona this year
Gaughan has 6 NCWTS races at Kentucky and 2 NNS races with laps led in both series
Mooresville, N.C. (July 4, 2011) - Brendan Gaughan has a great winning memory of Kentucky Speedway. Unfortunately, the memory is of someone else's trip to the winner's circle instead of his own. Gaughan has led laps before the Kentucky Speedway fans, he's dominated races, and he's been a top-contender in both NASCAR Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series. This weekend, he hopes he and his Germain Racing crew can put the No. 62 South Point Hotel & Casino Tundra in contention for his ninth Truck Series win—his first at Kentucky.
"Kentucky, even in the Nationwide Series, has always been a good track for me. This race is one of the races that my team has really looked forward to on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule," explained Gaughan, who will race Tundra chassis TRD-026 at Kentucky. "With the way we were able to get our South Point Hotel & Casino Toyota running at Kansas, Charlotte and even Texas, I know what we are capable of as a team and I'm anxious to see what we can do at Kentucky Speedway."
Gaughan finished fourth in both of his NNS races at Kentucky, but what he remembers most about the track will always be Carl Edwards first NASCAR career win.
"A Kentucky Speedway memory I'll never forget was 2003. I led 66 laps, we had the race won. We were coming to the checkered flag but we blew a motor going down the back straightaway. It put me into a 360-degree spin, and Carl Edwards just missed us when we blew up. I managed to coast all the way into the garage while Carl took the win for his first Truck Series win," said Gaughan. "Kentucky has always been a great track for me. Our No. 62 Toyota should be strong. I'm confident our Germain Racing team will be tough to beat on Thursday night."
Watch Gaughan in the No. 62 South Point Hotel & Casino Tundra on Thursday, July 7th, at Kentucky Speedway on SPEED. Qualifying airs at 6:00 PM Eastern on Thursday, with racing action at 8:00 PM ET, preceded by the NCWTS Setup at 7:30 PM. Not in front of a TV? Tune your radio to your local MRN affiliate.
Germain Racing has earned two championship titles in the Truck Series. The Toyota team owns 22 victories and 9 pole awards in the series that continues to grow ratings on SPEED. For more information on Germain Racing, visit www.GermainRacing.com or follow the team on Twitter @GermainRacing.
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Meridian police have made two arrests in the shooting of a woman and child at Eastern Gardens.
The suspects are identified as Marvin "Flatnose" Horn and Montrell "G Money" Croft.
The two are charged with two counts of aggravated assault and drive-by shooting in the case. Horn was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Bond for each suspect was set at $1.1 million.
Meridian police say the mother and the baby who were injured are both out of the hospital and at home recovering from their wounds.
The MPD said more arrests could be made in this case.
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WHEELING - Linsly wrapped a pretty victory ribbon around its 2012 season by hanging on to defeat private school rival Kiski School, 27-20, on a blustery November Saturday afternoon at Lockhart Alumni Field.
''There are always a lot of 'what ifs' around any season but we're going to enjoy this one," Linsly Coach B.J. Depew said after his team finished 4-6 record after going 10-0 in 2011.
Having to replace 12 quality seniors from that perfect record squad, the Cadets got off to a 1-4 start before turning things around late this season.
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''I give our kids so much credit," Depew continued. ''We were in every game for a while and had two games that got away from us. But, basically our kids played 40 quarters of good, hard football and a lot of teams don't do that in our situation."
Finishing off his sparkling career at Linsly was senior running back Chinelo Oparanozie, who battled for nearly every inch of his 124 yards on 26 carries running against an aggressive Kiski defense. It gave him 1,577 yards for the season and, although Oparanozie didn't find the end zone rushing the football yesterday, he turned a short pass in the flat from quarterback Jameson Murray into a 3-yard touchdown during the opening quarter.
''Kiski is a big and physical team. We had a hard time making holes for him. It was nice to see all of our six seniors go out with a victory," Depew added.
Murray, whose playing time was limited this fall because of injuries, also had a good day playing his final prep football game. The senior QB was 10 of 18 through the air for 118 yards and did not turn the ball over. In addition to the short toss to Oparanozie for one score, he connected with sophomore Zak Kriechbaum for a 27-yard TD late midway through the third quarter on what proved to be the game-winner.
Linsly's other touchdowns came on sophomore Chimechie Oparanozie's 1-yard blast and senior Brooks Simmons' 16-yard run.
While the Cadets' defense limited the Cougars to 51 yards rushing, the visitors rallied from a 27-7 deficit to make it close behind the strong throwing arm of senior quarterback Darrik Martin.
The 6-foot2, 210-pound Martin threw for 297 yards and three touchdowns, on just 11 completions in 20 attempts. He was picked off once by freshman Tyler Ashbrook in the third quarter.
Martin connected twice for touchdowns to speedy junior wideout Dan Swank on well-thrown deep balls that covered 57 and 37 yards. He also hit another speedster Tristan Colaire for a 60-yard touchdown. Colaire, unfortunately for the Cougars, had a 95-yard kickoff return to paydirt erased by a holding penalty.
Good field position helped Linsly open its 14-0 lead in the first half. Kiski failed to cover a bouncing ball on the opening kickoff when the ball was finally corralled Linsly sophomore Dillon Curtin at the Cougars. 24. Although that drive ended without points when Rainer Whiteside missed a 39-yard field goal attempt, Kiski had a three-and-out on the next series and the Cadets got the ball back at their own 47.
Murray's 10-yard completion to Simmons sparked the drive to the Cougars' 1 and sophomore Chmechi Oparanozie took it across for the TD, followed by Whiteside's successful conversion kick.
Early in the second quarter, Chinelo Oparanozie's 30-yard punt return to the Kiski 24 set up his scoring reception for the 14-0 lead.
Held without a first down to this point, the Cougars got back rebounded with a four-play,drive that ended on Martin's deep sideline pass that Swank caught and ran into the end zone to complete the 57-yard hookup with 3:36 left in the half.
The Cadets found the end zone twice within 2:07 seconds in the third quarter to open their 20-point lead. Simmons' 16-yard TD run came just 1:55 into the second half. An 18-yard punt gave Linsly the ball again at the Cougars' 26 and one play later, a beautifully-executed double-reverse pass enabled Murray to find Kriechbaum wide open in the the end zone for the TD. Whiteside's PAT attempt was blocked this time but Linsly led 27-7 with 7:58 left in quarter No. 3.
Martin's TD strikes to Colairo and Swank in the fourth quarter cut the deficit to seven points with just 31 seconds remaining. The Cougars attempt at an onside kick was recovered by Kriechbaum, enabling Linsly to run out the clock and seal the victory.
''What finish," Depew said. ''That was a great football game and we knew it was going to come down to the end.
''They have some big, strong boys and good weapons everywhere. Both teams played their hearts out and thankfully we came out on top."


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How a Gibson Guitar Helped Create Spinal Tap
Monday, May 25th, 2009
This story does not go to eleven (mandatory opening line for a story related to Spinal Tap). The New York Times had a great story yesterday about how the original three members of Spinal Tap – Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer – are going out on a tour billed as "Unwigged and Unplugged." Of course the original drummer can't join them since he died after choking on vomit – oddly, not his own vomit. The article describes how founding members Christopher Guest and Michael McKean first bonded in the late 1960′s over a certain model of Gibson guitar they both owned. Care to find out which one? Read the whole story.


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Disadvantaged students in western Garfield County will soon have a place to go for help to finish high school, explore career options, apply to colleges and secure financial aid.
Colorado Mountain College received a $1.25 million grant to extend Upward Bound services to students at three area high schools over the next five years.
Upward Bound is a federally funded TRIO program through the U.S. Department of Education. Programs include Student Support Services, Upward Bound, Math-Science Upward Bound and Veterans Upward Bound.
While more than 170 Upward Bound programs were not funded during the most recent round of grant applications, Colorado Mountain College also received $1.31 million to continue its services in Lake and Eagle counties for the next five years.
Rifle program plans to build on successes in Lake, Eagle counties
According to Mark McCabe, assistant vice president of student affairs for the college, CMC's funding for Upward Bound was extended because the existing program has clearly demonstrated "measurable and significant gains" in student achievement during its first five years.
Debi Martinez-Brun, the college's Upward Bound director for Lake and Eagle counties, said that 85 percent of those counties' program participants in the first five-year grant period graduated from high school, surpassing the statewide on-time graduation rate of 75 percent.
Under the direction of Krisan Crow, recently appointed Upward Bound director for western Garfield County, the program will now reach an additional 60 students through the college's campus in Rifle.
Crow has worked with TRIO programs for eight years at Colorado State University, the University of Wyoming and seven Wyoming community colleges.
"These programs change not only the students' lives," she said, "but change their families' lives by showing them that college is possible."
Program helps students stay in school, continue to college
During the 2010-11 school year, 12,744 high school youth in Colorado dropped out, according to the Colorado Department of Education. The dropout rate was highest among students with disadvantaged backgrounds. Upward Bound seeks out these students when they're entering ninth or 10th grade and works with them to stay in school and continue on to a higher education institution.
The new Upward Bound program for western Garfield County will target under-served students at Rifle, Coal Ridge and Grand Valley high schools, where rates of college attendance hover around 34 to 37 percent, significantly lower than the Colorado average of 46 percent.
Through the program at CMC in Rifle, qualifying students receive free tutoring, ACT preparation, personal and academic counseling, access to special workshops and high school credit for attending a summer academy.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
A local bar turns little black dress night, pink.
Every Wednesday night from 9 p.m. until Midnight, Level 8, located at Hotel Duval in Tallahassee, will be raising money for breast cancer awareness.
The bar wanted to make sure it did its part in raising awareness during the month of October.
"If you come in anytime to Level 8 and order a glass of Little Black Dress Wine, a dollar from that glass of wine will go to [charity]," said Level 8 manager Randy Esponda.
Also to entice the women to join, all ladies will be given free champagne until midnight on Wednesdays.
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Country stars George Strait and Miranda Lambert are among those who have signed on for the sold-out tribute show to the late George Jones, who died earlier this year.
Billboard.com is reporting that Strait and Lambert will join other country crooners including Alan Jackson, Charlie Daniels and the Oakridge Boys for the tribute.
Jones, who had No. 1 hits in four decades, died at the age of 81 on April 26.
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Anyone heard of a bunch of road closures in this unit?
Anyone heard of a bunch of road closures in this unit?
I will most likely be hunting it or fossil this year. On forest circus website, they have a map of all ohv roads that might answer your question though.
Hunted that unit for elk the last 2 years and my hunting partners wife has a LOP bull tag this year. Haven't seen or heard of any road closures
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In the Happy Database movies, SQL Server is benign and friendly, with no scary surprises lurking around the next corner. In these movies:
- People work together
- No-one but the DBA can make changes to production
- People tell us in advance when they want to change something
- When query performance degrades, we're notified about it
- Third Party vendors only deploy good changes
- Deployment scripts always work perfectly
Back in the real world of SQL Server, not all of these are true all of the time and the result is that we spend long weekends slaving over fixes for things that should never have been broken in the first place, or that we should have known about before they became a big problem.
In this article, plus the associated whitepaper (PDF), I uncover six common but scary surprises that often lurk behind the innocent-looking green "Play" signal in SQL Server Management Studio's Object Explorer. I'll also discuss how, with the right tools, you can uncover some of these potential threats, and make sure that the second another rears its head, you know about it. At the end of the PDF download, I provide a Further Reading list, where you can find deeper details on each of the specific "monsters", should you suspect that one of them has infested your SQL Servers.
This article, Lesson 3 of the Top 5 Hard-earned Lessons of a DBA, features just one my scary surprises, "When a TempDB Starts Dragging a Leg". To read the full Six Scary SQL Surprises, download the associated free whitepaper featured on this page and learn the lessons the easy way.
When a TempDB Starts Dragging a Leg
TempDB database is available to all users of a SQL Server instance to house temporary objects such as cursors and tables, and it is where SQL Server creates various internal objects for sorting and spooling operations, as well as index modifications. It can get busy in there, especially if there are unruly processes. Of course, as developers and DBAs we must do all we can to mitigate potential problems by shying away from complex and unwieldy routines that overuse
. However, we must also look out for configuration problems that can cause
to start "dragging a leg".
Common causes of
problems, in terms of configuration, include:
- Only one
TempDBdata file
- Too many
TempDBdata files (like one per core on an 80-core system)
- Multiple
TempDBdata files, but with uneven sizes or uneven auto-growths
In order to understand why
TempDB contention issues might arise, if we have too few
TempDB files, let's go back to storage basics for a minute. SQL Server stores data, in disk or in memory, in 8KB pages, usually stored in groups of 8 KB pages (an extent).
Usually, SQL Server stores one object per extent but not always. If we're creating and dropping many small
TempDB objects (for example, temporary tables, table variables, cursors), we will end up with mixed extents, where data for several objects is stored in the same extent.
There is only one page, the Shared Global Allocation Map (SGAM), which tracks space usage in extents for each 4GB of space. The following figure represents a single
TempDB data file, with the black shaded blocks representing the mixed extents.
Every time we drop, create or expand an object in
TempDB, SQL Server first has to access this single SGAM page. It then scans the Page Free Space (PFS) page to find out which mixed page it can allocate. After allocation, SQL Server must update the PFS and SGAM pages appropriately. If we have many mixed extent allocations, it can cause massive contention on the initial, single SGAM page.
As you can imagine, this is the reason why we might need to add more
TempDB files. If we have four files for
TempDB, then we have 4 SGAMs tracking extent usage and, assuming each file is evenly used, we spread the load and ease contention.
However, this only really works if we make sure to keep the
TempDB files all the same size, meaning setting the same initial size for each file, and the same auto-growth increment. If we don't, and we end up with one
TempDB file that is bigger than all the others, then we'll return to a situation of SGAM contention, as most of the action will hit the largest file.
Too many
TempDB files
You may read advice online stating that there should be one
TempDB file per processor core. Be very careful with this advice. If you have a lot of large temporary tables, or perform a lot of operations that spill to
TempDB (for example, big sort operations) then it's possible that the overhead of SQL Server allocating pages among all the
TempDB files, in a round-robin fashion, will slow down these operations. See Paul Randal's blog post for a few more details.
The key to taming
TempDB contention is to use the right number of data files and keep them equally sized. Start with four
TempDB data files, all equally sized and with the same auto-grow increment, and then constantly monitor
TempDB activity levels, and look out for contention.
Trace Flag 1118
This trace flag "forces uniform extent allocations instead of mixed page allocations" and most people advise to enable it, in order to combat
TempDB contention. As always, however, this advice can and likely will change with successive SQL Server version and editions.
After that, we need to monitor for contention issues, for example by tracking PAGELATCH waits on
TempDB (see the Further Reading section in the download). If you're using a tool such as SQL Monitor then you can deploy the
TempDB allocation contention custom metric which will alert you if you're running into SGAM contention.
"...monitor for contention issues, for example by tracking PAGELATCH waits on
TempDB allocation contention in real time, with the SQL DBA Bundle.
We have to keep watching
TempDB constantly. Applications change, and may suddenly start putting more pressure on
TempDB. SQL Server changes; many of its new features tend to use
TempDB (for example, AlwaysOn Availability Groups store statistics and versions in
TempDB), so we constantly need more throughput.
TempDB dragging a leg is just one of many scary surprises that may lurk behind the innocent facade of SSMS…in the whitepaper (PDF) I cover five more:
- The monster that messes with your indexes
- The cannibal that eats all your memory
- The Solid State Drive that turns into a Zombie
- The case of the horribly bloated tables
- The call that's coming from inside the house…
Get the free whitepaper to find out more about these SQL spine-tinglers.
Take care of any scary SQL surprise with the SQL DBA Bundle
The best defense against scary SQL surprises is a full set of reliable SQL Server tools. The SQL DBA Bundle offers seven tools to help you handle any database administration problem, no matter how unexpected:
- Monitor SQL Server performance in real-time and receive alerts within seconds of problems occurring.
- Get embedded advice on the likely cause of server problems, so you can diagnose and fix them fast.
- Keep your data safe with compressed, encrypted, and fully-verified backups.
- Review the full details of your schema and data changes, including SQL CREATE scripts with highlighted differences, so you can deploy updates with zero errors.
- Track data growth so you can plan ahead, and make the most of your current storage space with four levels of backup compression.
- Save time writing SQL in SQL Server Management Studio or Visual Studio, with unparalleled code-completion and customizable SQL snippets.
- Automatically generate database documentation in SSMS, to save time and keep your team up to date.
Whatever database administration job you need to get done, the SQL DBA Bundle's got something to keep your data safe and your servers running properly.
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by Brent Ozar
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