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Saturday night, Mashantucket, Connecticut, about 8 pm. I'm standing next to the Quesada Cigars booth at the Big Smoke at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods, puffing on a Coronado by La Flor Double Corona and talking to Hostos Fernandez Quesada. A guy walks up to me and says hello. We chat for a bit, and I ask him where he's from.
"Canada," he says. "Cornwall, Ontario. All four of us."
His name is Paul Desnoyers Jr., and he and three friends drove 400 miles, or more than seven hours without traffic, to make it to Cigar Aficionado's Big Smoke at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods. That's dedication to the craft. Paul wrote me last night on Twitter and attached a copy of the photo (see below) we took together with buddies Matthew Clarke, Scott Lafave and Bernie Bougie. "The trip from Canada was worth every penny!" Paul wrote. "What a great night!"
I felt the same way. It was a great night, with a beautiful room filled with cigar lovers—most of them from places a little closer than Canada. There were plenty of people from around Boston and Providence, lots of aficionados from Connecticut and plenty from New York and New Jersey who made their way to our first Big Smoke of the year.
I smoked more than my share of great cigars, starting off with a corona-sized Room 101 (the 213) made by Camacho before lighting up the Coronado, which lasted quite awhile. My final cigar of the night was a Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial by My Father Cigars.
The cigar stars were impressive: Carlos Fuente Jr. of Arturo Fuente cigars, Rocky and Nish Patel, Orlando Padrón, Tim Ozgener and Jon Huber from C.A.O., the Newman brothers (Eric and Bobby) from J.C. Newman, Te-Amo's Alejandro Turrent, Alan Rubin of Alec Bradley, Sam Leccia of NUb, Joe Chiusano of Cusano, Mike Giannini of La Gloria Cubana, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje; Hostos Fernandez-Quesada of Matasa; Eric Hanson of Hammer + Sickle, Matt Booth and Dylan Austin from Camacho; Andrew Brennan of La Flor Dominicana cigars; Frank Santos for Reyes Family Cigars; Carlos Llaca of Toraño Cigars and Roberto Pelayo of Dunhill; Dave Wagner of Oliva; Andrew Brennan of La Flor Dominicana cigars; Michael Walter and Andy Green of Ashton; Les Mann of Colibri and Sean Knutsen of Humidipak. I know I'm forgetting somebody.
The drink selection was as impressive as the cigar choices. I was working, so I took it easy, refreshing my palate with Pilsner Urquell beer, then a small taste of a Woodford Reserve Manhattan, then a little Talisker Scotch for my final quaff. There was also Dewars, Glenmorangie, Remy, Macallan, Sheep Dip Scotch, Wild Geese Irish, Hammer & Sickle Vodka, Ron Matusalem, Classic Malt Collection, Oban, Singleton, Zacapa, Appleton Estate Rum, Don Q, Woodford Reserve, Tullamore Dew on hand, plus a buffet dinner.
The smoke was all about camaraderie and great cigars. So here's a special thanks to Paul and the Canada crew for making the long trip, and to everyone who participated in the Big Smoke. Great seeing you there.
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A man called Bob came back from work one day. He went into his house and when he went into the kitchen, the kitchen door suddenly closed and locked itself . There was no way out as there were no windows in the kitchen. He turned a light on and saw a bit of paper on the table. He read the instructions (rearrange these groups of creatures correctly) and got to work. Bob got stuck with 10 of the groups. This was what was left to do:
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Five Target Range Projects Receive Funding Support
AUSTIN, Texas — Five target shooting facility projects, including a new indoor range and hunter education classroom on the Brenham High School campus, will be sharing $420,000 in matching grants for construction and renovation, pending availability of federal assistance funds earmarked for the state's hunter education program.
During its Aug. 24 public meeting, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved an action item to allow the department's executive director to execute contracts with the grant applicants.
More than 19 million Americans safely participate in target shooting, according to National Shooting Sports Foundation statistics, and some states, including Texas, are seeing resurgence in competitive and recreational shooting sports among youth.
"Texas has the largest 4-H shooting sports program in the nation," said Steve Hall, education director with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. "Shooting clay targets with a shotgun is a growing sport at high schools and elementary schools across the country. More than 7,000 students from fifth through 12th grade now take part in trap, skeet and sporting clay activities and competitions in 35 states."
The Brenham High School facility exemplifies the kind of resources in high demand and short supply, said Hall.
"In many urban areas, there aren't places nearby where hunter education students can go to take the live fire component of the course," he noted. "There's also a need for target shooting facilities for law enforcement training and use by the general public."
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"A project such as this is a major undertaking by the school district and we applaud their commitment," said Hall. "An indoor range facility has stringent requirements for air quality and safety."
In addition, the commission approved funding $30,000 for a new archery range facility on Lake Ray Roberts near Denton. The Lone Star 3-D Archery Range is the first of its kind in Texas and will provide Denton ISD students participating in the National Archery in Schools Program with a nearby place to shoot after school.
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Elm Fork Shooting Park — This Dallas County facility will receive $60,000 in grant funding for range safety evaluation and enhancements to its rifle ranges. The facility is adjacent and named similarly to the Elm Fork Clay Sports facility that has received several prior grants from the department. Together, both ranges reach the greatest volume of shooters in North Texas.
American Shooting Centers, Inc. — A sporting clays range improvement project will be getting $30,000 in funding. American Shooting Centers, the largest public range facility in Texas and past recipient of target range grant funds, will be improving its world-class sporting clays facilities in West Houston.
Central Texas Rifle and Pistol Club — This facility near Waco will be receiving $60,000 toward range improvements and a classroom to better serve youth and hunter education instructors in the area.
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Heidi & Spencer ruin baseball for all future generations
Jesus! I thought these two only came out on holidays. Great, now it looks like Heidi and Spencer will mug like retarded sea-monkeys at any event. Even more disturbing is that it appears to be Bat Day and yet somehow they walked out with all their hair, teeth and limbs attached. I gotta ask: Dodger fans, why do you hate America so much?
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ORLANDO, Fla. - One person was killed and another was critically injured Monday morning in a crash in Orlando.
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An 18-year-old woman was treated for minor injuries after two off-duty police officers alerted the emergency services to the scene of the collision.
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Quit Victoria has called on workplaces to go smokefree and help employees returning to work keep new year's resolutions to quit smoking
According to Quit Victoria's Executive Director, Mr Todd Harper, the New Year period presents employers with an opportunity to help employees and customers stick to their quitting plans and stay healthy.
""With so many smokers making quitting their New Year's resolution it is a perfect time for workplaces to implement a smokefree policy,"" says Mr Harper.
Mr Harper says quitting in the week you return to work can actually be a better option for smokers than trying to quit on New Year's Eve.
"Trying to quit when you're in the holiday season can be very difficult, and it's important to set realistic goals. Smokers who plan their quit date to coincide with when they return to work will probably find it easier than during the festive season when socialising can make quitting very difficult."
The Quitline has been working hard throughout the holiday season to ensure help is on hand to provide support and guidance to all those smokers who want to go smokefree in 2005.
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Backing away from the cumshot. Not cool. No wonder she's an EX-girlfriend.
ruined by the ending. a very very sad ending indeed. if my gf did thati would run over to her and grab her and cum all over her. such a shame she was really hot and it was a great job
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A WOMAN who was found dead in the bath at her Minehead home had previously tried to take her life amid fears she would have to live in a care home or face disability, an inquest heard.
Shirley Turner was found by police who were called by neighbours concerned for her well-being after having not seen her leave her home at The Cedars for a number of days.
The inquest heard how the 63-year-old appeared to live a life of solitude, distancing herself from neighbours and family.
She had a happy childhood but the inquest was told that an unhappy marriage which lasted no more than a couple of years may have caused the retired nurse to distance herself from society.
Ms Turner had tried to take her own life in March 2012.
On that occasion she was taken to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton where she explained she had been experiencing increasing pain in her neck and feared she would be left disabled.
She told doctors she had grown increasingly anxious of this and could not contemplate life with a disability or in a home at her age.
She said she regretted her actions and was adamant she wouldn't try to do it again.
On the morning of October 12 last year, neighbour John Baker was walking past her home when he noticed an A4 piece of paper addressed to his partner Kate.
Mr Baker said: "I thought it unusual but I couldn't read what was underneath it. "I called Kate and in the afternoon she saw it but also couldn't read what was underneath."
The couple ignored it as they thought it was part of her 'unusual' behaviour.
But a couple of days later when they and another neighbour had noticed no movement or lights being switched on, Mr Baker gained access to her back garden.
He read the note which said: "Kate, please cancel all of my doctor's appointments, the back door is open." PCSO Mark Cannell explained how, on October 14, they found Ms Turner's clothed body in the bath with her nose and mouth beneath the water.
Notes, an annotated will and packed items were found around the house.
West Somerset coroner Michael Rose concluded an unascertained death.
He said: "This is a tragic case. She had been suffering from long-term pain and had been seeing a private orthopaedic surgeon in Gloucestershire.
"She was not a drinker but alcohol was found in her body along with diazepam."
"I cannot say that she definitely had taken her own life, the conclusion is an open one and the medical cause of death is unascertained."
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A visually impaired monk is assisted as he participates in a walk to mark White Cane Day in Yangon. About 1,000 blind and visually impaired people from around Myanmar took part in the event.
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The Coveteur: Julianne Hough
When we popped by her Venice, California, pad, the first thing we noticed was Wasson's fresh, shorter haircut—yet another style statement sure to launch a wave of copycats. We've been keeping tabs on Wasson for years, as she's flourished from Texas girl to Testino muse to today's designer-model-actress hybrid. True to her southwestern roots, Wasson's home is filled with cowboyesque booties plus stacks of vinyl and a vintage record player that would look at home in a saloon. And her jewels (many from her own Low Luv line) aren't just stashed in a jewelry box—they're sprinkled throughout. Talk about work-life balance.
Wasson's obsession: chunky-heeled cowboy booties—she has countless pairs, mostly well-used and not designer. For a supermodel with access to the best of everything, she's more impressed by patina than pedigree.
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CHARITY Age UK is on the lookout for new volunteers to help at its shop in Market Street, Darwen.
The charity is seeking people to assist with sales, sorting donations, steam cleaning them, labelling, sizing and pricing them up.
There are a number of roles available on a variety of days, including Saturdays.
Volunteers would be placed in a small specialist team and given training on retail and how to operate an electronic till.
People who are available on Saturdays are especially needed as that is one of the shop's busiest days.
A charity spokesman said: "It is a great team spirit and you would be making a real difference to older people's lives in Darwen.
"So if you have a few hours to spare during the week between 9am and 5pm or on Saturdays and are familiar with the retail business or want to get some good quality retail experience on your CV, then get in touch.
"This isn't just any charity shop, this is your shop where money raised helps your older people."
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Raphael lives in Kenya, Africa, and the story below is what he shared with us. This is the first of what we hope will be many more profiles of Adventists around the world.
"I would like to tell you how God took me from an unwanted child to the most respectable member of the family, which is my testimony to how good God is."
As I was raised by my grandparents I used to see Kijabe (see Wikipedia) at distance which is on a Rift Valley escarpment. We were living at Rale while at this time my parents were living at Kingeero where I was born, but they relocated to Maai-mahiu not long after they took me to Rale from nursery to Standard 6 in school.
While I was staying with my grandparents I repeated Standard 6. I think it was because my grandfather who was a farmer had passed away the previous year (1988). The next two years, I was with my parents at Maai-mahiu.
Let me explain the feeling I had for my parents then. What would you feel if I tell you I take one glass of water every day. Does it mean anything? No I am not the only one taking a glass of water a day. What about if I tell you I know how to write letter Q? Others can too. In the same way, my parents were no different to me than any other person. I didn't have feeling for them. I learned the word mother and father from my science teacher as the head of the "nuclear family." I never thought I had nuclear a family. I thought I belonged to an extended family.
At this point we were eight – seven brothers and one sister. Today we are four brothers and one sister who is older than me. The other three joined our Maker, as we say.
Education was not free when I was in school in Kenya. (Free education was introduced by the current government which came into power in 2002 and is on its final term.) When I went to school, parents had to pay for every pupil they brought to school — activity fee, watchman money (for school security), building fee, examination mock, continuous assessment test, tuition etc. If it was free like today, I could have walked in and pursued what I wanted most – to become a lawyer. But I am happy now; I am Jesus' lawyer on earth.
My grandfather used to pay my education but after he passed away, Grandmother could not manage it. So two years later I was introduced to my nuclear family. To me they were just like neighbors — no feeling of parental connection. But now I love them very much, especially my mother. To me she is now the best mother in the world.
Our system is like this: 8-4-4, eight years in primary, four years in secondary, and four years in university. You don't require college (adult education) if you can make it through to university. College is for primary school dropouts and those who do not go on to university after passing KCSE, Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination.
At my father's house we started repairing bicycle punctures, since Asians were the only ones doing so and were not doing it quickly. We didn't have anywhere to put customers' bikes so we had to repair them on the spot. Customers liked our service because it was instant and it didn't interfere with their freedom. Later, I used this experience to start my own business.
After my primary education, my younger brother came home one afternoon with a brown envelope with my name on it. The letter was to inform me that I had secured a vacancy at one of the local secondary schools. I happily informed my father, but he did not want to hear it.
My elder brother went on to secondary school but dropped out in Form 1. My brother thinks it was because Father did not return him to school after he was sent home to fetch school fees. My sister dropped out in Class 6 after I caught up with her and left her one class behind. My younger brother Douglas, who brought the invitation letter home, was sponsored by our primary school which had started noticing our not continuing with school after KCPE (Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination).
You see, twenty years ago I sat for my KCPE (1992) and 3 months later I was on my own. On my 16th birthday I was chased away from home because, according to my father, I was only thinking about school.
After taking some rags and putting them in a paper bag, I started walking towards nowhere. Luckily as I was about to enter Kijabe Forest, a young man introduced himself to me and asked whether I could be a shamba boy, and I found myself saying, "Yes, yes." (A shamba boy will do anything difficult as a hired hand, from milking, taking milk to the dairy, working in the garden, resting only on holiday for a few hours before resuming work.) The young man took me to his aging parent and I spent few days there before his uncle showed some interest in me.
The uncle then took me in for two years before his nephew took me away to Kinangop where I worked as a shamba boy for another two years before deciding to go to Nairobi for a better future.
During those four years I was away, I happened to visit home and reluctantly told them where to find me. One day my elder brother came looking for me and we arranged how I can go to Nairobi since he was working there. One Saturday he came for me and took me to the city. But after a few months , one day I found my clothes outside and no one was there. I waited outside, and after a lot of cold, I decided to take a walk at about 9 pm. I came to this bridge at a place called Rungiri where I took refuge during rainy seasons. And that's where I stayed nights. I can't forget that season because it was April 1998 and rainy, and I had to wake up early so that no one would notice where I slept and then I would come back to the bridge very late.
After two weeks I saw my brother. He didn't even want to know what happened to me. Sometimes I was walking from Westland to Rungiri since I didn't have 5 ksh (Kenya shilling) for bus fare (See Yahoo for conversion to local currency).
One day as I was repairing a customer 's children's bicycle puncture, the boy commented how dirty I was, and it's like I am not a street boy. His farther gave me 300 ksh instead of 5 ksh and told me, "Next time I don't want find you like this." With 300 ksh I went to the Gitaru market and rented a one-room house for 250 ksh and no longer had to live under the bridge.
I relocated from Gitaru to Uthiru in 2008 not many years after I got the 300 ksh, because it is 4 to 5 kilometers from there to Westlands where I work. Westlands is a Nairobi constituency and is the most expensive shopping center in Kenya and East Africa. This gives me an opportunity to survive here on earth. Although I am not rich, I live with over one dollar a day.
Five years ago I met this beautiful girl, Ruth, and I feel in love with her. She was well behaved, and she was not like city girls, even though she was not born again. We didn't know much about marriage in church, so we had what they call "come we stay" for a few months. After we got married, she became pregnant, and the next thing she started going to church on Saturday.
I didn't bother her a lot since at this time I had started developing a soft spot for church people although I was not born again. She told me one day she was going to be baptized at Uhuru Park, and she needed me to help her with taking care of her belongings. I refused because I could not afford to lose a day's income.
Before our first child was born, she converted to being a Seventh-day Adventist. After she gave birth to our daughter Rahab (now three years old who is in baby class at the church we attend, Tommie Fulp Adventist) she and my sister in-law requested me to escort her to church so I can carry the baby to church before going to work. After the song service I could walk out and go to my place of work, but within a few months I began to wait until divine service was over, and I could go and open shop after lunch break.
After I admitted that I liked their teaching in church, Ruth told me I need to give my life to Christ and join the baptismal class. I didn't know what that was, and the following Sabbath after song service she and her sister took me to a small gathering of about 20 people. They told the elder in charge their mission there. So after the elder finished his teaching, he requested us to come earlier the next Sabbath. After studying for some time, I was one of 12 people who were baptized in the main church. I am the only member of the SDA Church in my family. My mother was and is still a Roman Catholic believer.
I am now a plumber. I learned this trade from plumbers who used to take me as a helping hand whenever they got a contract. Apart from being a plumber, I also own a small hardware store called Longonot Hardware Store in a five by eight-foot stall called a "hawker stall." (The sign for my stall is shown here.)
That's where I pass my time when I have not secured any contract (You can find my business on the internet at mocality.co.ke, then enter the name of my business which Is LONGONOT HARDWARE STORE). This is also where plumbers used to take me as their helping hand not long before Nairobi city council awarded what they call a "hawker stall," which is 5×8 feet. This is the place where my business is set up. However, my father came to that base first, and he owns it under my mother's name. This made it difficult for him to dispose of it without our full knowledge. I had to make up with him so he would know that no matter what happened before, I love him. I asked him to go back to the village and I would meet his needs there. At first he resisted, but later he agreed under one condition, I send him 800 to 1000 ksh every Thursday, which is market day, and I agreed. He was used to daily city life, where he got 500 ksh per day and spent 300 ksh on transport, and after daily shopping he ended up saving nothing. (Here In Kenya if you are in town and you earn 1000 ksh per day and someone in village earns 200 ksh per day, the one in the village is better off than the one in the city, because in the village 80 per cent of daily needs are free and direct from the garden. In the city everything you do costs money, including drinking water.) I told God He will have to supply the money, which He is doing for me.
That extra money was and is a special gift from my Creator in answer to my request – a gift from the One who created heaven and earth, sea and all those who live, the One who did all those things recorded in Genesis chapter 1&2. This God answers my request whenever I seriously request.
Whatever I have ever requested seriously, He always gave it to me. I don't have what I don't have because I have never asked Him for what I don't have. I only need those things which will glorify his Name and those things which will make the world know He exists. And through Jesus Christ all things are possible. (For example. I wanted the world to know what He did for me and in Jesus name it's happening through this article.)
We all have the same trade, plumbing, but apart from that, my younger brother Douglas can speak better English than me, and he had lots of opportunity to be employed which he doesn't use. I think our living standard is alike. Most of my customers are foreigners, and most of them don't know how to speak English.
Now 14 years since Rungiri and a horrible life, I am a self-employed born-again Christian, married and a farther of one. I am also a deacon in my church, the Kabete Seventh-day Adventist Church. God knows why, maybe I could have got lost in the world. Maybe I could not have known Christ as my personal Saviour and God as owner of everything. I need just to beg him to give me some of his property so that I can take the Gospels out of Jerusalem to the farthest corner of the world.
I think I became the most respectable member of my family because they didn't expect me to forget and forgive. I think everyone expected me to have revenge as I grew up, but that was not what I did. Instead I learned to love them. As I grew up, I realized that I can't have other parents apart from them. They are my biological parents and nothing can change that.
I hope you see in all of this the hand of God taking me from an unwanted child to the most respectable member of my family. May God be with you as we join hands in taking the Gospel to the end of the world beginning from our door mats.
Raphael first commented on our blog on April 21, 2012. Tyler Cluthe noted that Raphael had a story to tell and followed up with him. Many emails passed back and forth, and much time passed. But we are happy to publish the story now. It is edited for readability, as are all our articles.
Do you have a story to tell about what God has done in your life in your part of the world? We would love to hear from you. Please contact us and let us know.


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CarMax considering site for used car superstore
Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 4:38 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 4:38 p.m.
CarMax is looking at land on North Main Street to build a used car superstore.
The company has a contract on the land pending the site plan and permitting process, said spokeswoman Bridget Szuminsky.
"That doesn't necessarily mean we're going to build there," she said. "Even if we do, it could take one to three years to open the store."
The land is north of 39th Avenue on the east side of Main Street between Subaru of Gainesville and the Gainesville Regional Utilities Eastside Operations Center.
Lawrence Calderon, chief of current planning for the city of Gainesville, said they are working through wetlands issues on the property.
CarMax, based in Richmond, Va., is a Fortune 500 company with 117 locations in 58 cities. The company sold 408,080 used vehicles and another 316,649 at wholesale auctions in the stores in the fiscal year ending in February 2012. It is known for its "no-haggle" prices.
-- Anthony Clark
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Ur visit and photos - Page 3
Tell el-Muqayyar (Ur)
Visited 13.40-17.00, 5 June 2008; 14.00-15.30, 6 June 2008
Download full Iraq report (pdf 71Kb)
Tell el-Muqayyar (Ur)
Visited 13.40-17.00, 5 June 2008; 14.00-15.30, 6 June 2008
J. E. Taylor investigated the ziggurat in 1854; H. R. Hall undertook some excavations in 1918-19; and C. L. Woolley directed the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University Museum of Pennsylvania from 1922 to 1934.
C. L. Woolley et al., Ur Excavations I-X (London & Philadelphia, PA 1927-76); Ur Excavations Texts I-IX (London and Philadelphia, PA 1928-1976); J. Oates, "Ur and Eridu: The Prehistory", Iraq 22 (1960), pp. 32-50; C. L. Woolley and P. R .S. Moorey, Ur of the Chaldees (London 1982).
Ur was occupied from the Ubaid period (c. 4500 BC) to the end of the fourth century BC. A large cemetery dating from the Uruk to Early Dynastic periods was partly excavated and included the famous "Royal Graves" (c. 2500 BC) and the Third Dynasty of Ur royal tombs (c. 2100 BC). Many of the excavated public buildings date to the period of the Third Dynasty of Ur when the city was the centre of a major kingdom dominating southern Mesopotamia. Private housing of the Old Babylonian period (c. 2000-1600 BC) was revealed, as were monumental buildings of the Kassite period (c. 1500-1200 BC). The city was the focus of construction and restoration by Nebuchadnezzar II and Nabonidus during the sixth century BC.
The inspection began at the ziggurat, which is marked on the south-eastern façade with bullet, shell and shrapnel holes; this damage appears to have occurred in 1991.1 From the ziggurat the inspection moved to the following areas of the site.
Temple of E-Dublal-mah
This building has suffered considerably from erosion of the brickwork, especially at the corners of the building. A protective layer of concrete placed over the top of the walls may have exacerbated problems because of its weight and by directing rainwater against the brickwork beneath, leading to undercutting. The result is the collapse of certain sections of brickwork which has left a gaping hole in the northwest corner. Four large bomb craters close to the temple, which were observed in 1992, have since been filled in.2
Palace of E-Hursag
The walls were restored in 1961 using ancient and modern bricks. There have been some areas of collapse, especially in the north-west area of the building.
Third Dynasty of Ur Mausolea
A line of concertina razor wire limits access to the area of the tombs, although this has been breached in places. There is some collapse and erosion of walls, including damage caused by bird droppings. The wooden props supporting the arches in the tomb of Shulgi appeared to be in a good condition with no evidence of termite activity. Access to this tomb is blocked by razor wire laid on the modern steps leading down to the ancient stairs. Part of the roof of the Amar-Suen tomb had collapsed approximately thirty years ago. The roof of another tomb has also collapsed in places, resulting in two significant holes which are in urgent need of specialist conservation/restoration work.
Southern end of the site
Beside an area of houses reconstructed in 1999 in preparation for a planned visit by Pope John Paul II, who wished to worship in the supposed birthplace of Abraham,3 are the remains of brick houses of the Isin-Larsa period which have suffered heavily from erosion. The relationship of the reconstructed houses to the original plan of the excavated buildings should be a subject for study. A crater north-east of the Old Babylonian houses was noted – this was caused by a rocket in February 2008. It was reported by the site guard that three rockets landed at Ur in April 2008; of these, one fell near the guard's house and another some 23 m south-east of the ziggurat.
"Flood Pit"
Some natural collapse and erosion.
A small section of the building has been reconstructed using ancient bricks to form the skin of casemate walls filled with ancient and modern bricks and concrete. Several holes were noted in the brick skin.
North-east of the main site
The Visitor Control Centre to Tallil Airbase remains in position on the area known as Diqdiqqa (an ancient suburb of Ur).4 A modern gateway (large arch) has been constructed at the site entrance; it lies approximately 100 m from the intersection with the main road towards Tallil Airbase.
Until recently there was unrestricted access to the archaeological site of Ur for coalition troops based at Tallil, and it is suspected that large numbers of troops wandering around the site at will did some damage. Now, however, the site is out of bounds and special permission is needed to visit it.


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ASPIRING young gardeners have enjoyed a professional horticultural masterclass led by a Blue Peter gardener.
Young people from Castlemorton CofE Primary School and The Elms, Colwall, descended on the Three Counties Showground, in Malvern, for a series of workshops by gardener Chris Collins aimed at helping them put together the competitive show gardens they are building for the RHS Malvern Spring Festival.
This year children from pre-school age to teenagers in year 13 from a record 21 schools will create gardens on the theme 'a great moment in history' for the festival.
It is the only RHS show in the UK that has a collection of show gardens designed and built entirely by school children.
Among those also taking part in the show are pupils from Nunnery Wood High School, Stanley Road Primary School and Tudor Grange Academy, all in Worcester, Abberley Parochial VC Primary School, Abberley and St Egwin's Middle School, Evesham.
Students from Pershore College, Pershore and Queen Elizabeth Humanities College, Bromyard will also create gardens.
It will take approximately three weeks to build the gardens, starting in April, for the four-day show which runs from Thursday, May 8 until Sunday, May 11 and should attract around 90,000 visitors.
Sue Verdeyen, education officer for the Three Counties Showground, said: "At RHS Malvern, we are passionate about inspiring young people to fall in love with gardening and design.
"We are very proud to be the only RHS show that has a project specifically for schools.
"It's a great opportunity for the children to get some hands on experience into the design, horticultural and construction industries.
"These youngsters are involved in every aspect of creating their gardens; the design, the sowing, the growing of their own plants and the hard landscaping.
"They have some great ideas and we can't wait to see how the gardens are going to take shape."


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Prize Recipient
Gabriela Gonzalez
Louisiana State University
"For her significant impact on the field of gravitation wave physics through her many important technical and scientific contributions to the Laser Interferometric Gravitation Wave Observatory (LIGO) and for communicating the excitement of this field to the scientific community and the public."Background:
Gabriela González was born in 1965 in
Her research interest is in the detection of gravitational waves with interferometric detectors, such as the one in the LIGO Livingston Observatory, in Livingston, LA. She has published several papers on the specific predictions of Brownian motion as a limiting sources to the detectors' sensitivity. She was a founding member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and has participated intensely in the commissioning of the detector at the Livingston Observatory. She and her group is now very involved in the instrumental characterization and calibration of the data collected in the data-taking Science Runs performed by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, as well as in the analysis of the data being taken with the LIGO detectors. She co-leads one of the four data analysis groups in the Collaboration, dedicated to the search of gravitational waves generated by binary systems of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes) in the final inspiraling stage before coalescence.
Selection Committee:
William Barletta (Chair), Carlos J. Gutierrez, Angel Garcia (06 recipient), Elvira Williams (V. Chair), Oscar Vilches


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Just did my hair . These pics were taken within the last hour so you won't see a styled look till tomorrow. I needed to do my hair because the roots were black and my hair faded to orange I decided to use @lorealparisusa Hi Color in Ash Blonde with a 30 developer. Left that on for about 45 minutes. Then to fix my brassiness I used Wella Toner in lightest ash blonde 18 with a 10 developer. Left that on for 15 minutes and now my hair is pretty again . I'm not a hair stylist I just did what the nice lady at Sally's told me. Good thing I like experimenting with my hair. Hope this helped fellow dark haired gals to achieve light sunny hair
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Topic: Have I completely lost my mind!?
Just in the last few days, it seems that Lee has either "come back" or completely lost his mind. He says he cannot really account for much that has happened since February. He cannot remember ANYTHING whether it happened two months ago, a week ago, yesterday or this morning! It's crazy! He literally forgets where he leaves things...or what we just got done talking about. He says that he has "chemo brain"....we all laugh because sometimes it's so scary! Has anyone experienced anything like this!? I feel like I'm going insane just trying to keep him "up to date" with things. I know he has been on lots of meds that might have an effect on his mind...but he is just now realizing how sick he has been within, the last six months, and cant seem to understand or believe that such an awful disease has changed our lives so dramatically...he apologizes constantly to Emilee and I for turning our world upsidedown and breaks down. I was just wanderin' for any insight.
Also, anyone know anything about hands breaking out in big, red, splotches and nails falling off....just some insight before going to the dermatologist


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Family House, beautiful room,2 attached bathroom with wifi
Size25 m²
Floor No.
- Kitchen
- Family/child friendly
- Washer/dryer
- Hot tub
- Lockable room
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
|Valladolid, 08014 Barcelona, Spain
|Property type
|Private room
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
Shared equipped kitchen with Frig, oven, microwave, washing machine, free WIFI and etc.,
Rooms including superior quality mattres has just been place to provide extra comfort plus clean bed sheets, pillow covers and blancket, comfortable acomodation for couples, tourists, students.
Ideally situated, just 5 minutes walk to main train station (Sants) direct train connection every 30 minutes to Airport BCN and just 3 minutes walk to two (2) metro lines Plaza De Sants Red line-1 and Blue line -5, the both lines connect city center hardly 15 minutes from metro and also 24h bus service available just 3 minutes walk from house and direct connection to Beach,, Las Ramblas, and center downtown.
Also convenient to get by walk to Placa España and the famous football stadium (Camp Nou).
If you coming from Barcelona airport then nearest Train Station is Sants and if you take taxi from airport so its charge normally 35€,
The area is rich and commercial with Internationally known brands, designer labels, restaurants from different part of the World, cafes, bars and famous night clubs close by.
check out is at 10am to 11am
check in is at 1 pm till 9 pm if u have other timing u have to pay 5 euro more
The check in time will be discuss prior to your arrival making sure you are received, before all necessary keys are handed over.
The keys to access the Home, the room will be provided on arrival. There will be 24 hour access and exit allowed so no time restriction available as a condition.
The prices are kept affordable but the standard of living has been kept well!
Do not hesitate to negotiate on the cost for a group over 8 staying for longer than a week, for example!
Feel free to inquiry for further information.
KK Khan
Discount are avilable for group reservation. For further information and possible discounts for longer stays please contact me
House rulesSmoking and Alcohol is strictly prohibited in House.
The Houseis in residencial area so plz after 22hrs must be calm. in case of complaints from neighbours ( i.e. streaming, parties in the night time) may the cause of cancelation of reservation.
At the check out time please return the keys by hand.
Deposit at the time of check in: 30€ cash if you have another check in or cheout timing than mentioned you have to paymore
No lights are to be left switched on when not n
You will be responsible to maintain the standard of cleanliness and tidiness in the apartment especially in the Kitchen and the Bathroom.
The main door is to be closed at all times when one leaves and enters the Home..
The room has to be left in the same condition as it was initially found.
(Check out 10 pm)
No lights are to be left switched on when not needed.
No one is allowed an access to the apartment unless one is expecting someone.you may come any time but you have to inform us exact arrivel time,after informing us time if you have any change hour plz give us a call to avoid any inconvinience of wait for you or for us ,
check in 1pm
check out 10am
check in after 10pm is 10 euro
check in after 12.00 15 euro
check out before 10 am cost 10 euro
refundable deposit 50 euro
but room access will be given at 1pm but you will have access to locker room bathroom kitchen ,i hope you will feel like home with all the fecilities
|Check-in after
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
La casa está muy céntrica, la habitación estaba bien en relación calidad precio y los dueños eran muy simpáticos. Muy bien en general !!
The place is centrally located and convenient in many aspects. But the hygiene is not satisfactory. The floor of the room was not washed and vacuum cleaned for weeks. We were shocked to notice that there was no door to the attached bath room and toilet. The kitchen needs more utensils. The price is cheap. If properly attended, the price could go up a bit and the place would be very popular. Kind and good people. Good Luck!
Place that is a bit strange but after arriving there you feel good, is simple, clean and has what it takes, for that price you can not ask more. The welcome is warm.
Lugar que resulta un tanto extraño al llegar pero despues te sientes bien allí, es sencillo, limpio y tiene lo necesario, por ese precio no se puede pedir mas. El trato es cordial.
When one comes here should not be picky. There was in the room, although a bathroom, but there was neither a door between bedroom and bathroom, nor was there a window in the room. The bedding was not clean and there was also no bed furniture. For the jacuzzi worked and the owners were quite friendly. In the kitchen, however, one should not count because it was barely usable because it was consistently dirty and broken kitchen appliances and encrusted with old food scraps were to use them. The whole house is reminiscent of the equipment to a brothel. If you ignore these facts but you can still have a nice stay there.
Wenn man hier unterkommt, darf man nicht pingelig sein. Es gab in dem Zimmer zwar ein Bad, jedoch gab es weder eine Tür zwischen Schlafraum und Bad, noch gab es ein Fenster in dem Zimmer. Die Bettwäsche war nicht sauber und außerdem Bett gab es keine Möbel. Dafür hat der Whirlpool funktioniert und die Besitzer waren relativ freundlich. Auf die Küche sollte man jedoch nicht zählen, da sie kaum nutzbar war, weil sie durchgängig verschmutzt war und die Küchengeräte zu kaputt und verkrustet mit alten Essensresten waren um sie zu benutzen. Das ganze Haus erinnert von der Ausstattung an ein Bordell. Wenn man diese Fakten ignoriert kann man aber trotzdem einen schönen Aufenthalt dort haben.
Very small room or a closet he will chair a bedside ... But only a little stool to support phone and keys ... Without a window it without an air conditioning system for both hot or cold ... All in all we slept warm ... but just had to get out to go to the kitchen to make breakfast was the surprise them ... in fact the kitchen is located outside the house and you have to go outside to say nothing of the smell of fried onion you wake up in the morning ..... and do it early in the morning certainly is not the top ... Forbidden even to speak after 22 ... Sound insulation .... 0 Positive notes cleaning abienti common room and the bathroom is shared ... get yourself something to disinfect WELL
Stanza davvero molto piccola né un armadio ne una sedia ne un comodino... Ma solo uno sgabellino per appoggiare cellulare e chiavi... Senza una finestra ne senza un impianto di condizionamento sia per caldo o per freddo... Tutto sommato si dormiva caldi...ma appena dovevi uscire per andare in cucina a far la colazione era li la sorpresa...infatti la cucina é situata fuori la casa e bisogna uscire fuori per non parlare poi dell odore di fritto di cipolla che ti svegliava al mattino....., e farlo di primo mattino certamente non é il top... Vietato anche parlare dopo le 22... Isolamento acustico 0 .... Note positive la pulizia degli abienti comuni e della stanza...il bagno é in comune procuratevi qualcosa per disinfettare BENE
Very good stay whole family was very nice, very attentive, thank you for everything.
Très bon séjour toute la famille été très gentille ,très attentioné ,merci pour tout.
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Based on the latest opinion polls, the Greek election could result in a highly confused outcome, with the new government being unable or unwilling to meet any budgetary terms acceptable to the Troika, but also unwilling to leave the euro voluntarily. What would happen then?
Economists like Thomas Mayer (Deutsche Bank) and Huw Pill (Goldman Sachs) have recently argued that, in these circumstances, Greece might resort to a "parallel" currency which would be used for some domestic transactions, while keeping the euro in place for existing bank deposits and for foreign transactions. Thomas is favourably disposed to the idea, while Huw foresees many problems with it.
Although I am not at all convinced that this would be a stable solution, since it might just be a prelude to much higher inflation in Greece, it is the kind of fudged development which can appeal to politicians. It could therefore have a part to play in the future of the eurozone. Anyway, it is destined to be widely discussed in coming weeks. Read more


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While political pendulums are expected to swing, the rapid shift in the zeitgeist since 2008 is enough to give even the most sanguine of observers a bad case of whiplash.
And for those of us who are less-than-sanguine at the prospect of a Republican takeover of Congress--not to mention New Mexico's executive branch--abject fear might more accurately describe our attitude going into the Nov. 2 election.
Yes, if you haven't heard, SFR mostly supports the so-called "liberal agenda," under which everyone has health care, public education isn't turned over to private companies and "drill, baby, drill" stopped being amusing five minutes after what's-her-face echoed the sentiment.
So if you're looking for an endorsement of Susana Martinez, you've got the wrong paper. Go pick up a copy of the Albuquerque Journal.
With that said, state Democratic leaders should feel rightfully mortified regarding the siege of embarrassing headlines related to criminal investigations, pay-to-play connections and back-room deals. Voters' current sense of outrage with incumbents is easily sourced and, given the economic climate, more than understandable.
To quote a fake Democrat, President Andrew Shepherd in The American President, "We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them."
SFR's Nov. 2 endorsements range from enthusiastic to cautious, but we do believe all represent the best choices for the next four years of leadership. Our decisions were primarily made as a result of our interviews and reporting during both the primary and general elections, but also were influenced by a variety of outside material, such as the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission's retention report and the Legislative Council Service's analysis of this year's constitutional amendment questions.
And if you've already voted, well, then all that's left to do is keep your fingers crossed.
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SFR Pick: Ben Ray Luján, Democrat
The seat: New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District includes the bulk of northern New Mexico, but also stretches into portions of Rio Rancho and Farmington.
The candidate: Luján is finishing his first term representing the seat held previously by now US Sen. Tom Udall. Luján is the son of State House Speaker Ben Luján Sr. and a former state Public Regulation commissioner. As a freshman, he has so far sponsored approximately 20 bills, including the Aamodt Litigation Settlement, a bill to create alternative energy training programs at community colleges and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
What other people think: According to votesmart.org, Luján has received high ratings for his voting record from: the National Education Association, the League of Conservation Voters, NARAL Pro-Choice America, as well as immigration, health care and labor groups. Luján received poor ratings from a variety of conservative interest groups.
The opponent: Tom Mullins of Farmington is an oil man (Mullins Energy Inc.) and self-proclaimed Christian conservative. He's promoting basically the same talking points this election as most tea-
party-minded Republicans: Diminish the federal government's role in education, regulation and taxation.
The bottom line: It's challenging to imagine a district in which Democrats compose 49 percent of registered voters swinging to a first-time Republican candidate whose views are as conservative as they come. On the other hand, anger at incumbents combined with anger at entrenched power may already be fueling this race--one poll puts Mullins within six points of Luján.
Our pick: Luján represents the values of this district significantly more than Mullins ever could. Democrats in District 3 should work hard to ensure northern New Mexico is represented by someone who supports health-insurance reform, campaign-finance reform and environmental protection laws.


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For 2011–2013, Dr. Bruce is a McGee Chair of Biblical Studies, given to support his research on the relationship between God and morality, especially in the work of Francis Turretin. His book, Rights in the Law: The Importance of God's Free Choices in the Thought of Francis Turretin, is forthcoming from Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this year.
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It's very easy to get in the habit of imagining the way that a query should work based on the Logical Order of query processing – the idea that the FROM clause gets evaluated first, followed by the WHERE clause, GROUP BY, and so on – finally ending with whatever is in the SELECT clause. We even get in the habit of creating indexes that focus on the WHERE clause, and this is mostly right.
But it's only mostly right, and it will often depend on statistics.
There are other situations where statistics have to play a major part in choosing the right plan, of course. In fact, almost every query you ever run will use statistics to work out the best plan. What I'm going to show you in this post is an example of how the statistics end up being incredibly vital in choosing the right plan. It also helps demonstrate an important feature of the way that Scans work, and how to read execution plans.
I'm going to use AdventureWorks2012 for this example. I'm going to ask for the cheapest product according to the first letter of the product name. This kind of query:
SELECT MIN(ListPrice) FROM Production.Product WHERE Name LIKE 'H%';
SELECT MIN(ListPrice) FROM Production.Product WHERE Name LIKE 'H%';
Don't run it yet. I want to ask you how you'd solve it on paper.
Would you prefer I give you a list of the products sorted by name, or would you prefer I give you that list sorted by price?
If you want the 'sorted by name' option, then you'll have to look through all the products that start with H, and work out which is the cheapest (notice that my predicate is not an equality predicate – if I knew what the name had to be exactly, then I could have an index which ordered by name and then price, and very quickly find the cheapest with that name). This approach could be good if you don't have many products starting with that particular letter. But if you have lots, then finding them all and then looking for the cheapest of them could feel like too much work. Funnily enough, this is the way that most people would imagine this query being run – applying the WHERE clause first, and applying the aggregate function after that.
On the other hand, if you have lots of products with that particular letter, you might be better off with your list sorted by price, looking through for the first product that starts with the right letter.
Let me explain this algorithm a little more.
If you're at a restaurant and are strapped for cash, you might want to see what the cheapest thing is. You'd pick the "sorted by price" menu, and go to the first item. But then if you saw it had peanut in, and you have an allergy, then you'd skip it and go to the next one. You wouldn't expect to have to look far to find one that doesn't have peanut, and because you've got the "sorted by price" menu, you have the cheapest one that satisfies your condition after looking through just a few records.
It's clearly not the same algorithm as finding all the things that satisfy the condition first, but it's just as valid. If you're only going to have to look through a handful of products before you find one that starts with the right letter, then great! But what if there are none? You'd end up having to look through the whole list before you realised.
The Query Optimizer faces the same dilemma, but luckily it might have statistics, so it should be able to know which will suit better.
Let's create the two indexes – one sorted by Name, one sorted by Price. Both will include the other column, so that the query will only need one of them.
CREATE INDEX ixNamePrice ON Production.Product (Name) INCLUDE (ListPrice); CREATE INDEX ixPriceName ON Production.Product (ListPrice) INCLUDE (Name);
CREATE INDEX ixNamePrice ON Production.Product (Name) INCLUDE (ListPrice); CREATE INDEX ixPriceName ON Production.Product (ListPrice) INCLUDE (Name);
Now let's consider two queries. Both queries give the same result – $0.00. But that's not important, I'm only interested in how they run.
SELECT MIN(ListPrice) FROM Production.Product WHERE Name LIKE 'I%'; SELECT MIN(ListPrice) FROM Production.Product WHERE Name LIKE 'H%';
SELECT MIN(ListPrice) FROM Production.Product WHERE Name LIKE 'I%';
SELECT MIN(ListPrice) FROM Production.Product WHERE Name LIKE 'H%';
The two queries are almost identical, but they run quite differently.
Ok, they're fairly similar – they both use a Stream Aggregate operator, for example. And they have similar cost. But significantly, one is performing a Seek, while the other is doing a Scan. Different indexes, but nevertheless a Scan and a Seek.
People will tell you that Scans are bad and Seeks are good, but it's not necessarily the case. Here, we see that the Scan plan is no more expensive than the Seek plan – it's just different. We should consider why.
Those two indexes are the two different stories that I described earlier. There are very few products that start with the letter 'I', and quite a number than start with 'H', and so the Query Optimizer has chosen differently.
There are exactly 10 products that start with I. From a total of 504. That's less than 2% of the products.
There are 91 products that start with H. That's 18%. You might not have expected it to be that high, but that's okay – if SQL has been maintaining statistics for you on this, it hopefully won't be as surprised as you.
18% – nearly 1 in 5. So by the time you've looked at, oh, a dozen records, you will have almost certainly found one that starts with an H. (Actually, the chance of NOT finding one in the first 12 would be power(.82, 12), which is 0.09. That's just 9%.) If I do a bit of digging into the internals, I can discover that the pages in my index typically have over a hundred records on them each. The chance of not finding a product that starts with an H on that first page – you'd need lottery-scale luck (1 in 444 million).
On the other hand, the cost of finding the cheapest value from 91 records is a lot more expensive than finding the cheapest from just 10. And getting all 10 records should be a small number of reads too.
But a Scan! Really? It has to look through the whole table, right?
No. That's not how it works.
You see, execution plans go from left to right. If you start reading these plans from the right, you'll start thinking that the whole index has been scanned, when it's simply not the case. That Top operator asks for a single row from the index, and that's all it provides. Once that row has been found, the Scan operation stops.
For this information, I don't even need to pull up the Properties window for the Scan (but I would recommend you get in the habit of doing that). No – this is all available in the Tool Tip. Look at the number of "Actual number of rows" – it's just one.
A predicate is applied – it looks through the index for rows that start with H – but it's doing this in Order (see Ordered = True), and it's stopping after the first row is found. Remember I mentioned that there are actually 91 rows that satisfy the predicate? The Scan doesn't care – it only needs one and it stops right then.
You might figure this is because we are using MIN. What if we needed the MAX though? Well, that's just the same, except that the Direction of the Scan is BACKWARD (you'll need F4 for that one).
MIN goes forward, because it's most interested in the 'smallest' ones, MAX will go backward because it wants the 'largest'. (And as you'd probably expect, if you'd created your index to be descending, then it would be reversed.)
But again – being able to tell which is the better algorithm depends entirely on your statistics being known.
I see so many systems have bad statistics for one reason or another, and typically because the data most frequently queried is the newest data, and that makes up such a small percentage of the table. The statistics will think that there is almost no data for 'today', as they probably haven't been updated since at least some number of hours ago.
When you look at how a query is running, always have a think about you'd solve it on paper, and remember that you might actually have a better (or worse) picture of the statistics than what the Query Optimizer has.
And remember that a Scan is not necessarily bad. I might do another post on that soon as well.
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In the seek version performance is much more predictable. It always has to perform the same work.
With the scan version the worst case scenario can be much more expensive than estimated even with perfect statistics due to the modelling assumption that the matching rows will be evenly distributed with respect to the other column. If in fact there is some correlation such that the matching rows for one column value all happen to be at one end of the range of values for the other column then a full scan is needed which can be much worse.
Example of that here
Hi Martin,
There are also plenty of times when predicates with low selectivity cause a large number of rows to be returned by a Seek, so I would suggest your argument could work on both sides.
I would suggest it's an example which suits making index choices based on business knowledge of the data model, if you are worried about the statistics being insufficient for good choices to be made.
Hi Rob,
I'm not saying that the scan plan is definitely worse (at least assuming perfect statistics) just that it can have more variable performance when the rows are not in fact exactly evenly distributed.
Say there are 1,000,000 rows. 1,000 match the seek predicate. Under the even distribution assumption SQL Server will assume that 1,000 (1 million / 1 thousand) rows need to be scanned.
For the seek plan the best, worst, and estimated case are all 1,000 rows
For the scan plan the best, worst, and estimated case are (1, 999,000, 1,000) and if the statistics are not perfect and in fact no rows match at all then the real worst case would be 1 million rows.
If the predicate is made less selective so 10,000 rows now match
For the seek plan the best, worst, and estimated case are all 10,000 rows
For the scan plan the best, worst, and estimated case are (1, 990,000, 100)
Just pointing it out as a potential issue to be considered.
In the real world there may be all sorts of correlations that don't necessarily occur to one when writing queries.
SELECT MIN(OrderDate), MAX(OrderDate)
FROM Orders
WHERE ProductId = @ProductId
It is highly unlikely that productIds will be evenly distributed throughout the Orders table as new products get launched and old ones get discontinued for example.
Your points are all valid, and again I'll say that designing indexes around business knowledge is important. Many business scenarios would consistently be much closer to the best case, and it would be foolish to settle for the "least bad worst case" alternative.
Obviously the queries can be forced into either plan, once the developers have considered their options.
And your query example doesn't work. If you need both MIN and MAX you'd need to approach from both ends, and your equality predicate causes a simple composite index most effective.
Actually the link in my first post does show sometimes SQL Server will generate such a plan calculating the MIN and MAX separately (in that case it also has added lookups which make things worse.)
Great post! I really liked the clear explanations 😊 I think I shall use them in real life when trying to explain some of this behaviour to others (or just point them to this blog)
Martin: Yes - if it thinks the range is wide enough and low enough selectivity it can decide to go from both sides. But in that scenario you can solve it easily with a composite index, because the predicate is an equality.
Ian: Thanks
Having so few rows in the table make this a little contrite. The indexes only have 4 leaf pages to read. All data is found on one page and so its a question in both of scanning a single page for a value.
It would be helpful to show this with more data where the impact is significant.
Ok Simon... how about in AdventureWorksDW, which has 60K records in dbo.FactInternetSales? I get it's still not huge, but it shows that it's easy to have a bad plan come out.
CREATE INDEX ix1 ON dbo.FactInternetSales(OrderDateKey) INCLUDE (UnitPrice);
CREATE INDEX ix2 ON dbo.FactInternetSales(UnitPrice) INCLUDE (OrderDateKey);
SELECT MIN(OrderDateKey)
FROM dbo.FactInternetSales
WHERE UnitPrice between 0 and 100;
--Prefers ix1. 20 reads
SELECT MIN(OrderDateKey)
FROM dbo.FactInternetSales
WHERE UnitPrice between 600 and 700;
--Prefers ix2. 2 reads.
SELECT MIN(OrderDateKey)
FROM dbo.FactInternetSales WITH (INDEX(ix2))
WHERE UnitPrice between 0 and 100;
--Forced ix2. 150 reads.
Of course, with a correlation between the two fields, it could be possible to show an example of ix1 being particularly nasty as well.
You may be alluding to what the optimizer team refer to as the ascending key problem, whereby data gets added to a table in ascending key order, for large tables ( opposite of the 'Small' table you mentioned - I know ), this can be mitigated against via trace flag 2371. You may also want to look at connect item 676224, another popular database engine includes the ability for hints to be used on statements that specify:
1. That data in the relevant table(s) should be sampled in order to produce better plans.
2. How aggresively the sampling should be
Refer to connect item 676224