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The Java Message Service (JMS) API uses two kinds of administered objects:
Connection factories, objects that allow an application to create other JMS objects programmatically
Destinations, which serve as the repositories for messages
These objects are created administratively, and how they are created is specific to each implementation of JMS. In the Application Server, perform the following tasks:
Create a connection factory by creating a connection factory resource
Create a destination by creating two objects:
A physical destination
A destination resource that refers to the physical destination
JMS applications use the JNDI API to access the connection factory and destination resources. A JMS application normally uses at least one connection factory and at least one destination. To learn what resources to create, study the application or consult with the application developer.
There are three types of connection factories:
QueueConnectionFactory objects, used for point-to-point communication
TopicConnectionFactory objects, used for publish-subscribe communication
ConnectionFactory objects, which can be used for both point-to-point and publish-subscribe communications; these are recommended for new applications
There are two kinds of destinations:
Queue objects, used for point-to-point communication
Topic objects, used for publish-subscribe communication
The chapters on JMS in the J2EE 1.4 Tutorial provide details on these two types of communication and other aspects of JMS (see http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/index.html).
The order in which the resources are created does not matter.
For a J2EE application, specify connection factory and destination resources in the Application Server deployment descriptors as follows:
Specify a connection factory JNDI name in a resource-ref or an mdb-connection-factory element.
Specify a destination resource JNDI name in the ejb element for a message-driven bean and in the message-destination element.
Specify a physical destination name in a message-destination-link element, within either a message-driven element of an enterprise bean deployment descriptor or a message-destination-ref element. In addition, specify it in the message-destination element. (The message-destination-ref element replaces the resource-env-ref element, which is deprecated in new applications.) In the message-destination element of an Application Server deployment descriptor, link the physical destination name with the destination resource name.

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African and Near East/South Asia Leaders 1961-1963
Airport, New York City: The law changing the name of Idlewild International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport was signed by New York Mayor Robert Wagner on Wednesday, December 18, 1961. A rededication ceremony was held on Tuesday, December 24, 1963 at 11 AM. See the New York Times article of 12/19/1963, p. 25. On December 31, 1963, the Federal Aviation Agency officially designated "JFK" as the call letters for the renamed airport. See the New York Times article of 1/1/1964, p. 40.
Appointees to the Kennedy Administration: African Americans
Appointment Books, General Information: The White House appointment books were kept by Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, the President's secretary, and recorded his workday appointments and activities. The Kennedy administration White House appointment books are by no means the complete record of the President's activities that such books tend to be for modern presidents. The Kennedy appointment books generally reflect those appointments arranged through Kenneth O'Donnell's office. Staff and others privy to the President could and did bypass O'Donnell and see the President without an appointment being made or recorded. Page images of the appointment books are linked from the "White House Diary" exhibit presented on this site.
Arbour Hill, Dublin: A few months before his death, President Kennedy laid a wreath on the graves of the executed leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Arbour Hill. When asked what was the highlight of the visit, he replied, "That was the memorial service at Arbour Hill!" He requested that a film of the guard of honor's drill movements be sent to him. It was his suggestion that some similar ceremonial drill should be introduced at the Arlington National Cemetery. On the morrow of his assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy recalled his enthusiasm for the Irish Army Cadets and at her special request a detachment of Cadets flew to Washington and again performed their ceremonial drill at the President's gravesite during his burial at Arlington.
Arlington National Cemetery: 1961 visit schedule.
Armorial Bearings of President John F. Kennedy
Back Brace: Markings on the brace that President Kennedy wore indicate that it came from the Washington, D.C. firm of Nelson Kloman Surgical Supply Company.
Baseball: During his school years, John F. Kennedy played baseball as a pitcher (right-handed) and third baseman. His comment concerning participation in the sport: "I didn't play as well as I would have liked." John F. Kennedy threw out the opening day pitch for the Washington Senators, who were playing the Baltimore Orioles, on April 8, 1963.
Birth: May 29, 1917. John F. Kennedy was born at home in the master bedroom on the second floor of 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Blood Type: O RH positive
Bookplates of John F. Kennedy: Youth; Presidential
Books, 122 Bowdoin Street
Books, Favorites as Child
Books, Favorites as President
Books, Personal Collection
Books Published on John F. Kennedy: In the book catalog of the Kennedy Library, a "Kennedy" subject or author heading has been assigned to around 5800 titles. This includes all Kennedys, not just the President. Just around 5000 books include "Kennedy, John Fitzgerald" as a subject or author heading. In addition, there are about 500-700 titles in this figure that are duplicates but must receive separate catalog entries because they are part of a special donation of a single, large book collection. The library has assigned some 200+ headings in addition to those of the Library of Congress under John F. Kennedy's name. Thus, books that may contain a chapter on John F. Kennedy or perhaps 10% or more of which contains information on John F. Kennedy have been assigned a John F. Kennedy heading. The estimated core literature on John F. Kennedy is somewhere around 600 books.
Boy Scouts: The President was a Boy Scout in Troop 2 for two years in Bronxville, New York. He was also active in the Boston Council from 1946 to 1955: as District Vice Chairman, Member of the Executive Board for more than four years, Vice President for one year, and National Council Representative for two years. He was Honorary President of the National organization of the Boy Scouts of America in 1961.
Bridge: John F. Kennedy played especially frequently during his tour of duty in the Navy.
Briefcase: While president, John F. Kennedy had a black alligator briefcase that he always carried around even while at Camp David or Cape Cod.
Camp David: Originally named Camp Hi-Catoctin, the camp was constructed by the federal government between 1936 and 1939 "as part of an experiment to establish public recreation facilities out of industrially depleted and worn-out lands". President Franklin Roosevelt selected it as his Presidential retreat and re-named it Shangri-La in April 1942. President Eisenhower eventually changed the name to Camp David, after his grandson. (See: National Park Service website.)
Campaign 1946: On April 25, 1946, John F. Kennedy entered the race for the 11th Congressional District seat, which was being given up by James Michael Curley. The District comprised Boston wards 1, 2, 3, and 22; Cambridge; and Somerville wards 1, 2, and 3.
Campaign 1952: Announcement of candidacy, 4/6/52.
Campaign 1960: Bumper stickers; sample ballot (Indiana); announcement of candidacy.
Car: 1959 Pontiac Convertible Coupe. Vehicle Identification/Engine #859F-1111.
Cards: Anniversary; at home; birthday; dinner; evening; lunch; reception.
Casals, Pablo: Performed in the East Room of the White House on November 13, 1961 at a dinner in honor of Governor Munoz Marin (Puerto Rico) and his wife. The President's remarks are available on p. 716 of the Public Papers of the President 1961; the speech is also available through the online version of the Public Papers. Also see Ann Lincoln's book, The Kennedy White House Parties. Viking Press, 1967. Pages 48-61 include a guest list and photographs.
Christmas Cards (White House)
Christmas Tree: 1961; 1962. Decorated in the manner of the tree in the Nutcracker Suite. Decorations included little straw baskets of candies, miniature boxes wrapped as gifts, small wooden soldiers and rocking horses, and trumpets and other musical instruments, topped off with candy canes.
Churches Attended
Churchill, Sir Winston: Honorary Citizenship: With the approval of Congress President Kennedy signed a Proclamation granting Sir Winston Churchill honorary U.S. citizenship on April 9, 1963. The former Prime Minister was unable to attend, but watched the Rose Garden ceremony on television in his home in London.
Cigars: John F. Kennedy smoked 4-5 a day. His preference was for Upmanns or Monticellos.
Civil Rights Accomplishments
Clothing, Taste in
Code Names
Cologne: John F. Kennedy did not use cologne.
Condolence Card
Confirmation Name: Francis
Cuban Missile Crisis: List of letters exchanged by Kennedy and Khrushchev. Also a chronology of events.
deKooning, Elaine: Portrait of John F. Kennedy: Given to the Truman Library because of President Truman's desire to have a portrait of the incumbent President in a prominent place in the Library.
Desk, President's: History of desk, and items it contained.
Dogs: See "Pets"
Doodles: President Kennedy was an inveterate doodler, covering sheets of paper with jotted notes, repeated words, geometric figures, even small drawings, usually of sailboats. From 1952 until the President's death, Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, his personal secretary, accumulated and catalogued these materials. Most of the doodles are part of the Personal Papers of John F. Kennedy and further information can be found in the finding aid of that collection. The significance of the doodles can be seen from these examples (from the President's Office Files), created during meetings of the EXCOMM at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962).
Election 1946: Results
Election 1952: Results
Election 1958: Results
Election 1960: Announced his candidacy January 2, 1960 in Washington, D.C.:
Schedule of debates:
First Debate, 9/26/60: Originated from CBS in Chicago and was carried by all networks. Watched by an estimated 70,000,000 people. Transcript available in Freedom of Communications: Final Report of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate..., Part III: The Joint Appearances of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Other 1960 Campaign Presentations (87th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Report No. 994, Part 3. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961: p. 73).
Second Debate, 10/7/60: Originated from NBC in Washington, D.C. carried by all networks. Transcript, Freedom of Communications p. 146.
Third Debate, 10/13/60: Entitled "Face-to-Face, Nixon-Kennedy" originated ABC Hollywood (Nixon) and New York (John F. Kennedy) carried by all networks. Transcript, Freedom of Communications, p. 204.
Fourth Debate, 10/21/60: Originated from ABC New York carried by all networks. Transcript, Freedom of Communications, p. 260.
Eulogies to President Kennedy Delivered in the United States Capitol, 11/24/63
Events, Kennedy Administration: Excerpts from White House Parties and Entertaining in the White House.
Executive Order 11110: On June 4, 1963 President Kennedy signed this virtually unknown Presidential decree, which, as an amendment to Executive Order 10289, delegated the authority to issue silver certificates (notes convertible to silver on demand) to the Secretary of the Treasury. Some conspiracy theorists believe this executive order was the cause of President Kennedy's assassination.
Eye Color: greenish gray
Fallout Shelter in Home
First Baby Kissed: 7-month-old Annette Luci in western Pennsylvania on October 15, 1960.
Foods, Favorites: See "Favorites"
Ford, Gerald R., Letters to President Kennedy: Before becoming U.S. President, Gerald R. Ford had a long and honorable career in the House of Representatives. Below are selected letters written by then-Representative Ford to President Kennedy concerning matters of importance to him and his electorate.
Former Presidents, Correspondence with: Page count of material
Gifts to John F. Kennedy as President: During his administration, President Kennedy accepted numerous gifts from foreign heads of states. While Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution prohibits the President from personally accepting gifts, the gifts presented to the President were for the people of the United States, and he accepted them on their behalf.
Godfather: Thomas A. Fitzgerald (maternal uncle)
Godmother: Loretta Connelly (aunt)
Guernsey's Auction
Hair Color: Reddish brown
Handkerchiefs: Did not use.
Harvard Years:
Hats: John F. Kennedy famously did not like to wear hats, although the story that his dislike caused the decline of the hat industry in the 1960s is merely legend. When he did have to wear one, his hat size was 7 3/8.
Height: 6' 1"
"High Hopes" Lyrics
Honorary Degrees Received (partial listing)
Hot Line: Installed on August 30, 1963 in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis. It was apparently a White House response to a 1960 suggestion to President John F. Kennedy made by Jess Gorkin, editor of Parade, the Sunday supplement magazine. Gorkin felt that if the US Air Force Strategic Air Command could link itself instantly with 70 bases in 10 countries on four continents via an emergency "red telephone" system, the White House could do the same with the heads of foreign governments. The first use of the hot line was made in 1967 during the Arab-Israeli War when Soviet leader Alexei Kosygin queried President Lyndon Johnson about a foray of US planes. Johnson explained that they were planes from the US Sixth Fleet helping an American ship that had been attacked in the Mediterranean. Regular communication between the two leaders on the hot line helped shorten the war to six days.
Hyannis Memorial: Engraved around the reflecting pool of this memorial are the words, "I believe it is important that this country sail and not lie still in the harbor." (From Radio and Television address to the American People on the State of the National Economy, August 13, 1962.)
"I Have a Rendezvous with Death": See also "Favorites--Poems"
Immigration, Family: Pat Kennedy (great grandfather), age 29, arrived from Ireland aboard the Washington Irving on April 22, 1849 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Inaugural Address: Less than 1900 words (the shortest since 1905), between 16-17 minutes long.
Inaugural Poem (Robert Frost): "The Gift Outright." Frost had composed a longer poem, "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration," but was apparently unable to see his text in the mid-day glare and recited the older poem instead.
Irish Mafia: According to Dave Powers, the title was given in jest early in the 1960 Presidential Campaign to all the men of Irish descent who worked closely with President Kennedy.
James Bond: According to Allen Dulles, Jacqueline Kennedy gave her husband his first James Bond book (probably From Russia, with Love). Dulles then began to buy other books, and sent them to John F. Kennedy. The two often talked about James Bond. Novels and mysteries were relatively rare in Kennedy's reading, except for his interest in Bond.
"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"
Kerry, John: Letter to the Kennedy Administration; Ralph Dungan reply; letter to President Kennedy.
Key Ring: Did not have one.
Length of Jacket: 32
License: #53332D
License Plate: As Senator: MA-1995
Limousine, Presidential: 1961 Lincoln Continental Presidential Limousine "X-100" in "metalic navy blue." Forty-three inches longer and nearly three and-one-half inches higher than the present production model. Equipped with two jump seats, the car could seat six adults. The blue interior had mouton carpeting on the floor, a wool broadcloth roof interior and all leather seats. Storage space for machine guns under the front seat and in the trunk compartment. Rear seat power operated and rose approximately ten and one half inches, putting the President in full view. Contained foot stands for the President's feet. Accessories: two flagstaffs (one on each front fender), two flashing type red lights located just above the front bumper, a siren, two spotlights for the flags on the fender, a two way radio telephone, an A-M radio and speaker in the rear compartment, a floodlight to illuminate the rear seat, lap robes incorporating the Presidential Seal, grab handles, a first aid kit, emergency light fire extinguisher. A continental rear tire arrangement at the rear held the spare tire. On either side of the tire was a stand for secret service men, as well as toward the front and rear on each side. The assassination reversed the trend toward visibility that had guided presidential car designs since World War II. The X-100 was rebuilt in 1964 as an armored car with a permanent top. It was used in that configuration until 1977. Parade cars designed since have been bullet-resistant vehicles as well.
Loewy, Raymond: See "Stamp, John F. Kennedy Memorial".
Movies: The following are some of the movies that John F. Kennedy saw during his presidency:
Navy, Seal of: General information and quotation: The first navy seal, the Board of Admiralty Seal, was adopted by the Continental Congress on May 4, 1780. On the outer circle is written "USA Sigil Naval" (USA Navy Seal). On the inner circle is written "Sustentans et Sustentatum," which can be translated as "Those defending and who will never surrender," "They are defending and will never surrender," or "We are defending and will hold forever." The new Navy Seal was adopted in 1957 and reads simply "Department of the Navy United States of America."
Navy SEALS: A small, special-section unit that could be launched from any of the three elements to perform missions on, under, or around the water (the abbreviation SEAL stands for Sea, Air, Land).
Navy Years:
Neck: 15 1/2
Newspapers: Those read on a daily basis included the Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Herald Tribune, New York News, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Washington Star.
"Notes on a Social Gathering with the President" (Arthur Schlesinger)
Off-the-Record Press Briefing: Department of State Foreign Policy Briefing Conference, 3/27/62.
Officials of the Kennedy Administration: January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963.
Oval Office: Listing of items in the office and on the desk.
Pens: President Kennedy had a Shaeffer pen on his desk that he never used and that did not work. When he signed items at his desk he liked to use pens dipped in ink. If he was signing something with pens that he gave away to visiting dignitaries and other individuals, he liked to use Parker ball point pens that were engraved with his signature. He used an Esterbrook ink pen to sign items from the oval office.
Pets in the White House: Two parakeets: Bluebell and Maybell; three dogs: Charlie, Pushinka and Clipper; and two ponies: Macaroni and Tex. Complete list of pets.
Poems, Favorites: See "Favorites"
Police Logs, White House
Ponies: See "Pets"
Portraits: The portraits of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline B. Kennedy hanging in the White House were painted by Aaron Shikler.
Posthumous Awards received: Four Freedoms Award, see "Kennedy is Given Freedoms Award," The New York Times, May 26, 1965.
Preferences: See "Favorites"
Presidential Medal of Freedom
President's Intelligence Check List
Quotations, Favorites: See "Favorites"
Reading Speed: John F. Kennedy could read 1,200 words a minute. In 1954-1955 he attended meetings at the Foundation for Better Reading in Baltimore.
Rocking chair: John F. Kennedy originally saw this chair in 1955 at the office of Dr. Janet Travell, who suggested that he use it to alleviate his back pain. The original chair, made by the P&P Chair Company (model 800), was given to then Senator Kennedy by his father. Kennedy brought the chair to the Oval Office, where it stood near the fire place. The design was modified by Lawrence J. Arata, former White House upholsterer (deceased September 1979). A stripped down version is available from: P&P Chair Co., 532 W. Salisbury Street, Ashboro, NC, 27203. With cushions: Larry Arata, Inc., 1702 Forest Lane, McClean, VA 22101. The plaque on the back of the chair is inscribed: "Presented to President John F. Kennedy by Commander Carrier Division One and USS Kitty Hawk CVA-63, June 6, 1963" and refers to the embroidered chair cushions presented to the President by the crew of the USS Kitty Hawk.
Roosevelt Day Message, January 1961
Seat: 41
Senate Office: Room #362 Senate Office Building
Shoe: 10C
Sleeve: 34, Undersleeve: 17 1/2
Song, "Abraham, Martin and John" (Dion)
Social Security Number: 026-22-3747
Space: President Kennedy's memo to Vice President Johnson, April 20, 1961; Vice President's response to President, April 28, 1961.
Stamp, John F. Kennedy Memorial: The stamp issued by the United States Postal Service was designed by Raymond Loewy, a friend of President Kennedy's, in collaboration with Jacqueline Kennedy. It was issued on the President's birthday the year after his death, 29 May 1964. Loewy also worked with the President to redesign the exterior of Air Force One in 1963. Since his work on the stamp was not a commission, Loewy received dedicated first-day-of-issue canceled letters from members of the Kennedy family. Hundreds of stamps honoring President Kennedy have been issued by numerous countries throughout the world. The USPS has issued two further stamps with President Kennedy on them. A 13 cent stamp was released on May 29, 1967 to mark the President's 50th birthday anniversary, and a 22 cent stamp was issued on May 22, 1986.
Statue, Massachusetts State House: Dedicated 29 May, 1990. In a brief note to the Library, sculptor Isabel McIlvaine explained the maple leaf symbolism used in the piece: "The leaves symbolize death - they have fallen and are curled up. The 'noses' (I have called them wings) are the seeds - they symbolize the obvious - the aspects, ideas, good qualities left as a legacy, left to live and grow by the object now dead."
Sunglasses: Two pairs of glasses with tortoise shell frame, one with inscriptions "American Optical" and "True color Polaroid tc74-51" and the other with "Cabana TS 2505."
Television Appearances (Before September 26, 1960)
Treaty between Earl of Ormonde and O'Kennedy, 1336 AD: Original was presented to John F. Kennedy by Sean Lemass in June, 1963.
Trip, 1951:
October 3 – Paris (from Frankfurt – train)
October 7 – Tel Aviv (via Rome)
October 8 – Teheran
October 12 – Karachi
October 13 – New Delhi
October 16 – Bangkok, then Saigon, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo
"Ulysses" : See also "Favorites--Poems"
U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Model in the White House: Given to the President by the officers and men of the Kennedy. Constructed by PM2 Richard G. McClure of the USS Yosemite.
Vandiver, Governor: Letter regarding Martin Luther King, Jr.'s prison sentence, 10/26/60.
Voting Record and Stands on Issues, Pre-Presidential
Waist: 32 inches
Wallet: Folding pocket billfold
Wedding Details
Weight: 172 1/2 pounds
Will: Published in Collins, Herbert R and Weaver, David B. Wills of the U.S. Presidents. New York: Communication Channels; 1976.
Wristwatch: Lord Elgin. Given to him on his birthday, 1952. The square face of the watch is a light brown/gold color and it has a dark brown leather (alligator?) band. Only the numbers 2, 4, 8, 10, and 12 appear on the dial. In place of the number 6 is a small square second hand. On the back is: 4 karat gold, but no other identifying numbers or letters.
Zapruder, Abraham: Inquirers have often asked about contacts between the President and Mr. Zapruder, who took the famous footage of the assassination. Although we have not found any correspondence between Abraham Zapruder and John F. Kennedy, there is in our files a single letter from Mr. Zapruder's son, Henry Zapruder.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio (Oct. 22, 2009) - Led by sophomores Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) and Karina Kedzo (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela), the ETSU women's tennis team picked up two doubles wins during first day action of the Wilson ITA Regional Championships in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jaime and Kedzo earned the Lady Bucs first victory with a strong triumph over No. 4 seeded - No. 1 Indiana's doubles team - Leslie Hureau and Myriam Soepel 8-3.
"I'm so proud of Paula and Karina," said head coach Steve Brooks. "This is one of their best wins since they've been at ETSU. Both girls came out strong, which gave them some early momentum after the first four games. Once Paula and Karina got on a roll, there's really nothing Indiana could do to stop them."
Also in pairs competetion on Thursday was the ETSU team of senior Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) and junior Kelly Holtzhausen (Johannesburg, South Africa). The fifth-seeded Lady Buc duo cruised in their opening match with a strong 8-1 win over Eastern Kentucky's Anouk Faure and Myriem Mhirit.
The Lady Bucs return to action as the Main Draw singles and doubles competetion gets underway Friday, from the Western Tennis and Fitness Club in Cincinnati.
For more information on the ETSU championship women's tennis program please, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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In this post, I show you how to determine exactly which statistics objects were used by the query optimizer to produce an execution plan.
We will need three undocumented trace flags. The first one (3604) is well-known – it redirects trace output to the client so it appears in the SSMS messages tab.
The second trace flag is 9292. With this enabled, we get a report of statistics objects which are considered 'interesting' by the query optimizer when compiling, or recompiling the query in question. For potentially useful statistics, just the header is loaded.
The third trace flag is 9204. With this enabled, we see the 'interesting' statistics which end up being fully loaded and used to produce cardinality and distribution estimates for some plan alternative or other. Again, this only happens when a plan is compiled or recompiled – not when a plan is retrieved from cache.
You can enable and disable these flags with the usual DBCC TRACEON and TRACEOFF commands, but it is also possible to enable them just for a particular statement using the undocumented QUERYTRACEON query hint (demonstrated below).
total_quantity = SUM(th.Quantity)
FROM AdventureWorks.Production.Product AS p
JOIN AdventureWorks.Production.TransactionHistory AS th ON
th.ProductID = p.ProductID
th.ActualCost >= $5.00
AND p.Color = N'Red'
The DBCC FREEPROCCACHE is just there to empty the plan cache so we get a compilation. You can also evict the current plan from cache if you know its handle (SQL Server 2008) or use a RECOMPILE query hint. Using RECOMPILE is often convenient, but you may get a different plan compared to that obtained without the hint. Note that compiling the query is enough – we do not need to execute the query; simply requesting an 'estimated plan' will do. It doesn't hurt to run it either though, just to be clear.
Stats header loaded:
DbName: AdventureWorks,
ObjName: AdventureWorks.Production.Product,
IndexId: 1,
ColumnName: ProductID,
EmptyTable: FALSE
Stats loaded:
IndexId: 3,
ColumnName: Name,
IndexId: 11,
ColumnName: Color,
ObjName: AdventureWorks.Production.TransactionHistory,
IndexId: 2,
IndexId: 5,
ColumnName: ActualCost,
There's no sign of an official way to get this very useful information in Denali, despite it being requested many times over the years. Trace flag 9204 works at least as far back as SQL Server 2005. Both 92xx flags work in 2008, R2, and Denali CTP 3.
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How #@~€&^ do you know this kind of things? :-)
Hilarious! I just posted one talking about the fact that this information wasn't stored in the plan itself. Maybe we need to coordinate so I can send people over to you more directly. Ha!
Nice work.
Hey Grant,
Yes I saw it and went to leave the TF details in a comment there, but it didn't stick for some reason. When I tried resubmitting, it said I had already left that comment. So, I gave up and jotted the details down here instead.
I go looking for them :)
Thanks for posting the link on Grant's blog. I must confess I'm not sure how being able to extract the stats_ids from the plan would help Grant or Gail - they'd still need to connect to the database to check the metadata for those ids. Might as well extract the query text from the plan and use the techniques shown here...?
You know what, I have no comment.
Outstanding post!!!
Paul White,
Your posts is always a great opportunity to descover new things. I'm big fan.
Tks Internal Man.....
@AMB, ha! I have no reply to that!
@Luan, thanks so much. Internal Man << that's great :)
hmmm . I echo the others - awesome! and how do you get to learn this type of stuff? If your posts were a book I'm sure it would be a top seller, I constantly learn new stuff from your posts and I'm very grateful, thank you.
Maybe you should consider renaming the blog from PFS to 'Page 1, 9'
It is becoming mandatory reading!
For some reason you were caught by the spam filter. I fixed it. Thanks again for posting this and at the blog.
Great post. Just what I was looking for . Thanks!
@Colin: Thank you. Sometimes I just get lucky messing about with SQL Server and find something I think worth sharing on the blog! I would love to find the time and freedom to put something longer together one day - whether that's a book or a downloadable PDF I'm not sure yet.
@John: That's an excellent suggestion, I will consider it :c)
@Grant: How odd. Thanks for fixing it up!
@Ellon: Cheers - I really appreciate your feedback.
Great post, Paul.
That querytraceon hint is what I've been looking for for a long time.
I know ... undocumented = handle with caution ... but will come in handy on test instances.
Hi Paul, I've just blogged about that... there is another way... take a look here...
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Very cool Fabiano! Thanks for sharing!
Ask anyone what the primary advantage of temporary tables over table variables is, and the chances are
Hi Paul,
Just used this technique to try and understand why statistics are applied differently for IsNull and Coalesce (which I could not find any info on). IsNull returns suboptimal estimates, whereas coalesce seems to be much more accurate.
3000 for isnull
11500 for coalesce
13000 real matches
The stats details returned by the trace flags were identical...
select count(*) from jobvoydestination
coalesce(JB_A_ARV, JB_E_ARV)>='1900-01-01 00:00:00.000'
AND coalesce(JB_A_ARV, JB_E_ARV)<'2012-11-16 00:00:00.000'
option (recompile, QUERYTRACEON 3604,QUERYTRACEON 9292,QUERYTRACEON 9204)
isnull(JB_A_ARV, JB_E_ARV)>='1900-01-01 00:00:00.000'
AND isnull(JB_A_ARV, JB_E_ARV)<'2012-11-16 00:00:00.000'
Stats header loaded: DbName: OdysseyAPOTRN, ObjName: jobvoydestination, IndexId: 7, ColumnName: JB_E_ARV, EmptyTable: FALSE
Stats loaded: DbName: OdysseyAPOTRN, ObjName: jobvoydestination, IndexId: 7, ColumnName: JB_E_ARV, EmptyTable: FALSE
Stats header loaded: DbName: OdysseyAPOTRN, ObjName: jobvoydestination, IndexId: 8, ColumnName: JB_A_ARV, EmptyTable: FALSE
Stats loaded: DbName: OdysseyAPOTRN, ObjName: jobvoydestination, IndexId: 8, ColumnName: JB_A_ARV, EmptyTable: FALSE
Stats header loaded: DbName: OdysseyAPOTRN, ObjName: jobvoydestination, IndexId: 15, ColumnName: JB_E_ARV, EmptyTable: FALSE
One thing is odd though - there appears to be two statistics stored on JB_E_ARV (7 and 15)?.
Hi there, it might be worth noting that (as you probably know by now, Paul, but readers may not) that TF 9204 and 9292 work in SQL Server 2012 now. I just tested with 11.0.3381. However, they did not work for me in SQL 2014 CTP2.
Sorry, feel free to disregard my last comment. I see what you mean about an official vs undocumented way of getting this information now. : )
Hi James,
2014 uses a new cardinality estimator; new trace flag 2363 shows a lot of information, including statistics being loaded.


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Hachette also publishes Stephenie Meyer, Stephen Colbert and other authors. It released a statement Thursday saying staff reductions were necessary for it to improve "resilience" in difficult times.
Hachette says the layoffs were planned before its recent standoff with Amazon.com. The Seattle-based online retailer has been restricting the availability of many Hachette books, reportedly because of a disagreement with the New York-based publisher over terms for e-books.
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London Trainer Usman Raja Reforms Former Terrorists Through MMA
Despite numerous public relations successes, mixed martial arts is still perceived by many people as an overtly brutal practice, and its participants as barbaric Neanderthals. In one particularly memorable instance, Gus Johnson made a most unfortunate observation during the Strikeforce: Nashville brawl when he claimed that "sometimes these things happen in MMA," which certainly didn't help the image of the sport. (Neither did the brawl itself, of course, but at least Johnson could have acknowledged it was an anomaly akin to a baseball brawl.)
But what ex-MMA fighter Usman Raja is doing in London right now not only subverts the stereotypes people hold towards the sport; it is literally changing people's lives. Raja is currently being profiled by CNN in a series of videos and articles (all of which you should read) focusing on his work to reform former Islamic terrorists through training them in MMA. Suck on that, Bob "I think it's going to be harmful to people. I think it's going to be harmful to our society" Reilly.
See, in the UK they actually don't detain their prisoners indefinitely. As a result, a number of Al Qaeda operatives have been released over the past few months and currently reside in London, the site of the 2012 Olympic Games. Whether you agree with that policy or not, this has created a legitimate safety concern for the host city. You have a bunch of paroled terrorists living in the same neighborhood without jobs or money, surrounded by people they've been brought up their entire lives to despise. And some of those people happen to despise their religion as well.
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ROCHESTER — Hunting was never anything Teagan House really considered. The 12� year old Rochester resident has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. His muscles are progressively weakening and he is wheelchair-bound.
But his life changed after meeting Strafford County Sheriff Wayne Estes at a muscular dystrophy event earlier this year.
"Sheriff Estes asked if Teagan would be interested in hunting," Teagan's mother Jessica Tufts said. "His eyes lit up."
Estes told Teagan and his mother about "Hunt of a Lifetime," a nonprofit organization whose mission is to grant hunting and fishing dreams for children aged 21 and under, who have been diagnosed with life threatening illnesses.
The spark was lit and the volunteers started lining up.
Teagan's application was accepted at Hunt of a Lifetime. Sheriff Estes and New Durham Police Chief Shawn Bernier began the process of training Teagan on gun operation and safety. Farmington Fish and Game Club, of New Durham, provided Teagan an honorary membership for target practice and Thompson Center Arms gave him a modified .308 rifle with his name engraved on it.
And that was just the beginning.
Chappell Tractor, of Milford, donated an Action Trackchair, an off-road wheelchair that more resembles a tank. Since Teagan has trouble controlling his muscles, Hunt of a Lifetime provided an aiming device for the rifle, which allowed him to move the rifle up and down and side to side. He was able to fire the rifle with a blow tube.
"Teagan did very well, especially with the devices they had for him to help," said Chief Bernier.
The state provided one of two special moose hunting licenses allowing Teagan to hunt weeks before hunting season actually opened. Additionally, Teagan underwent back surgery several weeks before the big hunt so the state supplied a special permit so he could shoot from the back of a truck.
At the beginning of Columbus Day Weekend, Teagan, his mother, sister Alexandra, father Steven Sprague, and stepfather Oliver Tufts headed to Errol, about three hours north of Rochester. They stayed in a handicapped accessible cabin provided by Denise Roberge. The hunting spot was an hour north of the cabin, in Pittsburgh, near the Canadian border.
The days began at 4 a.m., so Teagan could leave the cabin by 5 a.m. Hunting lasted until 6:30 p.m. when darkness fell. Though radios are typically not allowed for moose hunters, they were specially permitted for Teagan's trip and starting Friday afternoon, about 20 volunteers, armed with radios, hit the woods in search of moose.
"Saturday was very cold and rainy," Jessica said. "They had to fight with Teagan to get him into the front of the truck to warm up."
Saturday came and went and there were no moose.
As they were about to admit defeat on Sunday, driver and guide, Keith Joyce, of Crystal Ridge Guide Service, spotted a moose 152 yards away.
"It was awesome," Teagan said. "We were leaving for the night and we saw it 20 minutes before last light."
Teagan's father Steven was slated to stay with him to help him steady his gun, while stepfather Oliver was a backup shooter. Teagan shot twice and the 800 pound moose went down, but the light had faded, so they had to leave it for the following morning.
"(Teagan) was so excited after he shot," Sheriff Estes, said. "He was excited through the whole thing and when he did get it, he was real excited and that's what I like to see is for these kids to be happy."
Keith Roberge is a sergeant in the Coos County Sheriff's Department and a Hunt of a Lifetime co-ambassador.
"Everybody wants to help with these hunts. There are no issues with finding volunteers," Roberge said. "It's getting these kids out to do something that they'll never be able to do. These kids are definitely special and have gone through a lot in their lives."
"He was a trooper," Chief Bernier added."He wanted to get that moose. Just watching his determination was an inspiration to me."
Volunteers helped to pull the moose — whose antler spread measured 52� inches — out of the woods Monday morning.
Paul Folger, of South Berwick, Maine butchered the animal and provided five boxes of meat to Teagan and his family. New tenants in a Habitat for Humanity home in Rochester, the family gave away most of the meat to friends in low-income housing.
Mike Stevens, of Sunrise Taxidermy in East Wakefield, volunteered his services as well and the family is slated to have a moose head for their wall soon enough.
Jessica was especially touched by gifts given to Teagan by guide Keith Joyce and his wife Kim, including a cake with a pewter moose ornament, a metal moose figurine, a T-shirt and hat from Crystal Ridge Guide Service and a stuffed moose toy.
"He's just a great kid with a great attitude and the disability he has didn't bring him down," said Chief Bernier. "I think it's an important program for kids with disabilities to show that there's nothing they cannot do even with the disabilities they have."
Hunt of a Lifetime is a nationwide, nonprofit organization, started by a woman whose child's wish to go deer hunting was declined by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. There is no public funding, according to Sheriff Estes. Donations make it all happen.
Only two moose hunts are available in New Hampshire per year, Roberge noted, but the group is willing to help with any kind of hunt wanted.
Teagan has been showing pictures of the hunt to his friends at Rochester Middle School. He has become a hunter and is planning on returning for bird hunting next year.
"The only thing it cost us was the weekend," Jessica said. "Just to see his expression, we would have done it a dozen more times."
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By ROBIN ERB | Detroit Free Press | Published: August 5, 2012
A small number of studies have suggested military veterans may be at a higher risk for developing ALS.
It's enough evidence that, in 2008, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs began setting aside benefits specifically for anyone who had been in the service and developed the disease.
Although benefits vary depending on service time and other factors, ALS was categorized as a "presumptively compensable illness." In other words, veterans diagnosed with ALS are eligible for monthly disability pay and funds to modify their homes, vehicles to transport them, insurance for dependents and survivors' benefits.
From January 2003 to September 2011, Veterans Affairs -- prompted by anecdotal reports of young veterans returning from the Persian Gulf War and developing ALS -- collected information and even blood samples from willing veterans with ALS, said Dr. Eugene Oddone, who ran the registry and is now director of the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
The goal was to determine whether ALS really was more prevalent among veterans and, if so, among which veterans and why. The results were mixed.
Several studies suggested an increased incidence among veterans whose service dated as far back as 1910. One study concluded that veterans were 50% more likely to develop ALS than the general population.
Still, "at the end of the day, we were talking about small numbers," Oddone said.
Researchers also were unable to determine a single common denominator among those with ALS.
One study concluded they had slightly elevated lead levels in their blood, though it was unclear whether that was significant, Oddone said.
Other researchers over time have suggested, but never found conclusive evidence, that ALS is linked to head trauma, pesticides or burning oil fields.
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In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM) reviewed the studies, concluding the data were "limited and suggestive" of a link between military service and ALS.
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Exeter responds well, blasts LancersBy ROGER BROWN
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April 23. 2018 10:52PM
LONDONDERRY — We won't know for sure until the season is complete, but last week's loss to Concord may have benefited the Exeter High School baseball team.
The Blue Hawks have a roster loaded with future college players, many of whom played for the Exeter team that went unbeaten en route to the Division I championship last season. Exeter was the consensus pick to win this year's title as well.
Exeter has responded well to the Concord loss. The Blue Hawks have played two games since then: They hammered Londonderry 14-0 in five innings Monday, two days after Bobby Cliche threw a no-hitter in a 5-0 victory over Haverhill, Mass.
"In terms of the loss, yeah, it's probably the best thing that happened to them," Londonderry coach Brent Demas said. "Ending that (22-game) winning streak? It took off a lot of pressure, It had to. They're good players, sure, but they're high school kids. I think in the long run that's probably going to be very beneficial for them."
Exeter coach Kevin McQueen said he wasn't sure a loss was needed for his team to sharpen its focus.
"I don't think we would have prepared any differently Saturday or today had we won Wednesday (against Concord)," McQueen said. "Might we look back on it in two months and say it kind of sent us on our way a little bit? You can always say that, but that's to be determined.
"Like we said last year, and it's our same approach now, you don't try to win them all, you try to win each one. And there's a significant difference in doing that. It's a different mindset."
Exeter (3-1) pounced on Londonderry early. It was 6-0 after one inning and 9-0 after two. Exeter collected 10 hits and drew 12 walks against four Londonderry pitchers.
"It's hard to be positive about this one," Demas said. "We're putting guys on, and putting guys on. That wears on the defense. I think that's one of our biggest issues. We have to shore up some things position-wise, but we'll be all right."
Exeter received a three-run double from Rob Wirtanen, who made his first varsity start behind the plate. Cliche, who started at second base, had three singles, and first baseman Tom Polhemus collected two hits.
The Blue Hawks added a run in the third and finished the scoring with four runs in the fourth, when McQueen sent seven pinch-hitters to the plate.
Ethan Imbimbo limited the Lancers (2-5) to two hits in four innings before Harrison Lendrum struck out the side in the fifth. It was Lendrum's first varsity inning on the mound.
Nate Sullivan had both Londonderry hits. Jake Bolduc walked twice and stole a base for the Lancers, who have scored eight runs in their five losses.
Exeter hasn't allowed a run in its three victories, and has outscored its opponents 33-0 in those three games.
"We like this group and we think we have a chance to do some good things, but it's a work in progress," McQueen said. "We have to keep getting better every day."


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Where I grew up, we had ice cream bicycles. Eager teens would ride their ice cream bikes around town, with the ice cream cooler attached to the front of the bike, and a tiny bell announcing that they were in the area. I always wished that bell was a little louder so we would have time to run home and get money before it passed us by! When I was lucky enough to catch the ice cream bicycle I would have the hardest time deciding which delicious treat to get. To this day I love classic ice cream truck treats and now with the help of Smucker's® I can make them at home!
Smucker's® has some delicious ice cream toppings available to help families create ice cream truck inspired frozen treats right in their own kitchens. Their Sundae Syrup lineup includes Chocolate, Caramel and Strawberry, and my favourite, Smucker's® Magic Shell® Chocolate Flavoured Topping. There's something truly magical about chocolate that hardens when put on ice cream!
Smucker's has put together some amazing recipes using their sundae syrups to recreate classic ice cream truck treats at home. You can find them all on Smuckers.ca, but here is a quick sample:
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- Place 1 tbsp (15 mL) Smucker's® Magic Shell® on the bottom of 4 oz disposable cup.
- Top with ½ of ice cream, insert wooden stick and then top with 1 tbsp (15 mL) of Smucker's® Magic Shell®, remaining ice cream and remaining Smucker's® Magic Shell®.
- Freeze until firm, about 2 hours.
- Cut cup away from ice cream and roll in sprinkles to garnish.
Another fantastic ice cream treat is the Sweet & Salty Caramel Crunch Sundae.
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Makes: 1 sundae
- 3 tbsp (45 mL) Smucker's® Sundae SyrupTM Caramel Flavoured Syrup, divided
- Sea salt or kosher salt to taste
- ½ cup (125 mL) vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt
- ⅓ cup (75 mL) caramel popcorn
- Alternate layers of caramel flavoured syrup, salt and ice cream in parfait dish.
- Top with popcorn and end with syrup.
Doesn't that look divine? Now my husband's favourite ice cream truck treat is an ice cream cookie sandwich, and I knew I could easily recreate that. I added a little extra sweetness by putting a swirl of Smucker's® Chocolate Flavoured Syrup on one side of the ice cream and Smucker's® Caramel Sundae Syrup on the other side and simply put the sandwich together.
These turned out even better than the kind we used to buy off the ice cream truck!
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It's midday in Sydney and this blog has already received 16 spam comments today. Fortunately I don't have to deal with them as I use a WordPress plugin called Akismet to weed them out for me. They end up in a special folder where I can check them if I have the patience.
In the last 6 months there have been 29,783 spam comments on this blog.
Can you believe it? 29,783!!! I can't.
This blog is not especially popular. I don't post as often as I'd like, and some of what I post is not relevant to many people. And yet in the last year there has been 36,359 comments classified as spam.
As you can see, the number of comments rose to a peak in September. I'm not sure what the story was or what causes the rise and fall in spam. Has anyone else seen similar figures?
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As you see, they all want to sell me something, or sell you something. Or worse.
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After many years of abstinence from Vienna, he has now chosen the Theseus Temple as the place in which to realise one of his spatial installations famous throughout Europe.
Pinter, one of the co-founders of the legendary Hausrucker & Co, a 1970`s city design group, aims to intervene with his art, and to irritate the traditional view of classical antiquity with colours, ornaments and writing.
In 1997, a similar project at the Akademisches Kunstmuseum of the University of Bonn in Germany by the artist, whose international exhibitions from Vienna to Paris, from Cairo to St. Petersburg have made him famous, attracted a great deal of attention.
Where Canovas Theseus used to stand, Pinter has placed the statue of Isis-Demeter a Roman copy of a Hellenistic Isis-Demeter type by its monumentality, but also its fragmentary state, mother and goddess of vegetation the same time, she is brought to life in a new and unexpected way. Function and original aim of the goddess are of no interest here. In this context, Isis is an icon making the antique world more apparent; in Pinters veiled rather than pointed staging she attracts all the attention, and calms it.
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Justin Timberlake Snubs 'The Hills'
Justin Timberlake's hatred for reality TV became very apparent during Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards when he repeatedly asked MTV to ditch reality TV and play more music videos.
The girls from The Hills — Lauren Conrad, Audrina Patridge, Whitney Port — were supposed to present Timberlake with Male Artist of the Year but after Lauren announced Justin as the winner, things got a little strange.
A fourth female mysteriously showed up on stage to join The Hills girls to hand the moon man to Timbaland, who in turn gave it to Justin. Justin did not give eye contact or thank any of the presenters, as most winners do.
"Play more dayum videos. We don't want to see the Simpsons on reality television," said Justin, referring to sisters Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. "Play more videos."
And then when accepting the award for the Quadruple Threat Award, Justin reiterated, "I want to challenge MTV to play more videos."
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'Red' and 'RIPD' end up in a game of chicken
NEW YORK (AP) — Scheduling the release of a summer movie isn't exactly a science. It clearly isn't an art, either. It's more akin to a contact sport:
Seize the advantageous position, sustain as little damage as possible, and score.
All of which makes this weekend's opening of both "Red 2" and "R.I.P.D." a little like sacking your own quarterback. Both films are action-thrillers. Both are about over-age law enforcers (in "R.I.P.D.," some are so old, they're dead). And both make a virtue of their, shall we say, mature stars.
Those stars include Bruce Willis (58), Anthony Hopkins (75), John Malkovich (59) and Helen Mirren (67) in "Red 2" and Jeff Bridges (63) and Kevin Bacon (55) in "R.I.P.D.," which, by the way, stands for "Rest in Peace Department."
It may not make a huge difference at the box office, but both films also feature the less-than-prolific Mary-Louise Parker, who has a solid base among discriminating male viewers but is better known for her work in cable TV's "Weeds."
Add to all this the fact that Robert Schwentke, the director of Universal's "R.I.P.D.," had directed the original "Red" of 2010 from Summit Entertainment and for whatever reason (Schwentke didn't want to talk about it) lost the sequel to director Dean Parisot.
True, "R.I.P.D." pairs Bridges with 36-year-old former Sexiest Man Alive Ryan Reynolds, but as summer films go, the movies share notable audience overlap — and on two fronts, says box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
"These films skew older due to the presence of Jeff Bridges in "R.I.P.D." and the older cast of "Red 2," he said. "And the bigger similarity is that they are both action crime comedies."
Assuming there's no ill will involved, a lot of coincidences are in play here, said distribution consultant Richard Abramowitz, who teaches film production at New York University and runs the film company Abramorama. "It seems like too big a mistake to be a mistake."
But the "Red 2″/″R.I.P.D." collision may simply be a symptom of the state of Hollywood. There have been very few weekends since May that haven't been dominated by a big-budget, major-studio release — a so-called "tent-pole" picture. There was "Iron Man 3″ on May 2, "The Great Gatsby" on May 10, "Star Trek Into Darkness" on May 15, "Fast & Furious 6" on May 24, "After Earth" on May 31 and so on.
Tellingly, when studios chose to expand a debut weekend with a weekday opening — "Iron Man 3" was on a Thursday; "Star Trek" was on a Wednesday — a rash of movies seemed to rush in to fill the Friday void. In fact, the Fridays following "IM3" and "STID" were among the more crowded of the summer, with 15 and 11 openings, respectively.
But the idea that studios have that kind of flexibility in picking a release date is really a fallacy: Releases are set as early as possible, sometimes even during pre-production, and when a film of a certain stature grabs a date, everyone else starts jockeying for position.
And there are only so many positions.
"Where were they going to go?" asked Greg Laemmle, of the eponymous Los Angeles-based theater chain, referring to "Red 2″ and "R.I.P.D."
"You've got 'Pacific Rim' on July 11, 'Wolverine' in July 26. It may well be there was no place else to go, and there's so much in the pipeline that they'd be pushed right out of the summer," Laemmle said.
So if the studios behind "Reds 2" and "R.I.P.D." were trying to put their movies into the summer season, this was probably the first weekend they could find without a gigantic, globally recognized title in place.
"R.I.P.D." had already announced a July 19th release when Summit parent Lionsgate decided to move "Red 2″ onto that same date, said Universal spokeswoman Kori Bernards. "You'll have to ask them what that was about."
Lionsgate had no comment for this story, but insiders say both Lionsgate and Universal seem to have realized their movies had a better chance against each other, despite having to share the same older audience, than against a summer blockbuster like next weekend's "Wolverine," for instance. And neither one of the films was big enough to scare the other off the date.
The result is a faceoff between two pictures going for the same demographic, and in a way, that's too bad, especially for audiences looking for a break from robots, spacemen and Johnny Depp wearing a dead crow on his head.
"Any studio that targets the under-served adult audience is smart," said Anne Thompson, who writes Thompson on Hollywood for Indiewire.
So we have two studios well aware of that and their two movies playing chicken in a game where it's very expensive to blink.
"It's very, very rare that a release date gets postponed," said Robert Bella, who has supervised post-production on such films as "Lincoln," ″War Horse" and "The Help." ″Anything can be done if you have enough time and money, of course, but those release dates get set as far in advance as possible and it's always a mad dash the closer you get to the target date," he said.
"Some movies can tell you a year from now, or two years, when they're going to open, and then everyone else starts reacting," Bella continued. "I bet it won't be long before the next 'Star Wars' announces its date."
At which point producers of other films eyeing that same date will no doubt scurry to their calendars and start looking for alternatives.
John Anderson is a freelance film writer based in New York.


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This wasn't exactly what Brandon Bass had in mind when he signed a three-year, $20-million contract extension with the Celtics last summer.
As Celtics coach Doc Rivers continues to blend Jeff Green, Chris Wilcox and rookie Jared Sullinger into the rotation up front, Bass is playing and producing less than last season.
"He's been up and down, but mostly up," Rivers said. "I think his effort's been great, his rebounding has really improved this year. He still has to get better with the defensive rotation, but he plays hard and that's all we can ask of him and he's doing that."
Bass' first season in Boston last year was the best of his eight in the NBA. The 6-foot-8 power forward averaged 12.5 points and 6.2 rebounds in 31.7 minutes, all career highs. This year, entering last night, he had dropped to 9.3 points, 5.6 rebounds and 27.6 minutes. Last year, he shot 47.9 percent, but this year he's shooting only 45.3 percent, his lowest since his second year in the league, when he played only 21 games for New Orleans. He played only three of the final 21 minutes in an overtime loss at Philadelphia Friday, with Green playing well.
Bass wouldn't admit at the time that he was upset, but his confidence must have been shaken when Rivers started Sullinger ahead of him early in the season. Sullinger didn't score enough to stay in the starting lineup so Bass regained his old job. Bass has not complained about not playing as much this season and he's done his best to stay positive.
"When adversity hits, you just keep going," Bass said. "You're right, things haven't been perfect for me, things haven't been like they were last year, but I'll just keep going and hopefully it will turn out to be better than it was last year for me and for the team."
Bass is undersized for a power forward, but Nets coach Avery Johnson said he considers Bass to be the Celtics center even though Kevin Garnett is officially listed at that position. So Bass gives up even more size in the pivot.
Bass believes he has the ability to take the ball to the hoop, but Rivers would rather he stick to being a mid-range shooter. What the Celtics really need up front, however, is a proficient rebounder because they rank last in the league in rebounding. Despite taking a lot of jump shots, Bass leads the team with 1.8 offensive rebounds a game, but he's not a big bruiser underneath.
Sullinger has great hands, but getting to the ball can be a problem because he looks shorter than his listed height of 6-9 and he's not a great leaper. He's second on the team in offensive rebounds (1.5), but averages only 4.7 rebounds overall. Rajon Rondo, who is only 6-1, averages 4.9.
Green, also listed at 6-9, has never been a good rebounder, averaging only 5.4 in his five NBA seasons with a career-high 6.7 in 36.8 minutes a game with Oklahoma City in 2008-09. This year, coming off heart surgery, he's averaging a career-low 3.1.
The 6-10 Wilcox, also coming off heart surgery, is averaging only 2.2 rebounds, the fewest in his 11 NBA seasons, but averages less than 13 minutes.
Bass's dip in minutes and production wouldn't matter if others produced in his place and the Celtics were winning more games, but no one has excelled off the bench and the team has hovered around .500.
Boston fans still feel indebted to former Celtics star Kevin McHale for trading Kevin Garnett here, but not every deal McHale made backfired.
One of his last moves as general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves was acquiring Kevin Love on draft night in 2008 from Memphis for O.J. Mayo. Other players were involved in the deal, including current Celtic Jason Collins going to Minnesota and former Celtic Antoine Walker going to Memphis, but Love and Mayo were the key players.
After signing as a free agent with Dallas last summer, Mayo is averaging 19.8 points, 4.3 above his career average, and shooting a career-high 51 percent, but he's still not the same caliber of player that Love is.
Two years ago, Love led the league with a franchise-record 15.2 rebounds a game and was voted the NBA's Most Improved Player. Last season, he averaged 26 points a game to set another franchise record and rank fourth in the league and was voted second-team All-NBA. Both times Love eclipsed franchise records that Garnett set when he averaged 24.2 points and 13.9 rebounds during his NBA MVP season of 2003-04.
This year, the 6-foot-10 forward hasn't maintained his lofty standards. Love missed the first nine games after breaking his right hand, doing knuckle pushups believe it or not, and while he's still rebounding at a high rate, 14.2 a game to rank second in the league to Cleveland's Anderson Varejao, his scoring average has dropped to 21.2 points. He's also shooting only 38.2 percent overall and 21.6 percent from threeland, far below his percentages of 44.8 and 37.2 last season. After making only 6 of 15 shots and 6 of 12 free throws in a 104-94 loss at Boston Wednesday, Love admitted his hand is still bothering him.
"I think that a lot of it is me getting my legs back," Love said, "but when I shoot it feels like the ball is coming off the outside of my hand rather than these two fingers, where I like it."
Love has been through this before. He broke his other hand during preseason in 2009 and missed the first 18 regular-season games. On Friday, he scored a season-high 36 points in a win over Cleveland.
"I think it's touch," he said. "You know I've been shooting the ball for what, 18 years of my life now? It's just the hand being so idle and having to strengthen and getting the ball to feel right in my hand has been such a struggle."
Love didn't lose his rebounding touch.
Rivers compared Love to his former teammate with the Spurs, Dennis Rodman, who led the NBA in rebounding for seven consecutive years in the 1990s.
"They study the game," Rivers said, "they have great instincts, they have great body position. He does it completely different than Dennis did it. Dennis, especially late in his career, didn't jump as much, so you just watched how they got their body position all the time. I watched Kevin this summer and I said it during the Olympic coverage that he reminds me a lot of that because they make breaks before the ball hits the rim. It's like they know where the ball is going. It's instinct, it's probably a lot of film watching.
"The great rebounders were great rebounders in college, great rebounders in high school. They just have a great nose for the ball."
Love's father, Stan, was a 6-9 forward who played four years in the 1970s in the NBA with the Baltimore Bullets and Los Angeles Lakers, but he didn't play much and he never averaged more than 4.6 rebounds a game.
More than five years after the Celtics acquired him from Minnesota, Garnett is still a productive player in Boston, averaging 15.8 points and 7.6 rebounds despite averaging only 29 minutes a game.
On the other hand, all the Timberwolves have left from the July 31, 2007 deal are reserve forwards Chase Budinger and Dante Cunningham. Both were acquired for players involved in the original deal. Budinger, 24, averaged 11.8 points and 3.5 rebounds before suffering a knee injury on Nov. 10 and is expected to be sidelined for three to four months. Cunningham, 25, averages 7.9 points and 5.1 rebounds.
The Celtics acquired Garnett for Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff, cash, the Celtics' first-round pick in 2009 and another first-round pick in 2009 that Minnesota had sent to Boston in the 2006 Ricky Davis-Wally Szczerbiak deal.
Minnesota waived Ratliff and he's no longer in the league. Green was dealt to Houston the following February for Kirk Snyder and Snyder is no longer in the league.
Telfair was traded to the Clippers in July of 2009 for Quentin Richardson, who was sent a month later to Miami for ex-Celtic Mark Blount. The Timberwolves waived Blount the following March.
Gomes was traded to Portland in June of 2010 for Martell Webster, who was waived last July. Webster is with the Wizards now. Gomes is playing in Germany.
Minnesota drafted Wayne Ellington with one of those two first-round picks and traded him last July for Cunningham. Jonny Flynn was taken with the other pick, but he was traded to Houston on draft night in 2011 for Brad Miller and Nikola Mirotic, neither of whom is in the league any more.
Jefferson was the key to the deal for Minnesota, but he tore the ACL in his right knee in his second season with the Timberwolves and they dealt him to Utah in June of 2010 for Kosta Koufos and two first-round picks. Koufos was dealt the following February to Denver for Eddy Curry, who was waived soon afterward, and Anthony Randolph, who returned to Denver as a free agent last summer.
Minnesota dealt one of the first-round picks to Houston for Budinger and Lior Eliyahu, who is playing in Israel.
If all that was too difficult to follow, here's a way to simplify things: It continues to be a great trade for Boston and a lousy one for Minnesota. The Celtics won an NBA championship in their first year with Garnett, reached the NBA Finals in 2010 and were one victory away from returning to the NBA Finals last season. On the other hand, Minnesota hasn't made the playoffs since 2004.
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I can't handle a sequel
In hindsight, Clinton wasn�t so bad.
A few nights ago I saw part of Hillary Clinton�s interview on Fox News. It would appear we�re in for a �they�re baaaack!� ride to the 2016 election.
Actually my opinion of the Clintons in general and Bill in particular has softened over the years. When he was president I couldn�t imagine how we could allow a cheater and liar to hold that office for eight years.
Now cast in the light of the presidential swill flowing out of Washington, William Jefferson looks pretty darn good. In spite of the fact I can�t imagine myself voting for a Democrat for anything, I find comfort that any 2016 election result will be a massive improvement over what we now have.
I can�t think of anybody who won�t be well-served by Obama�s departure. But notwithstanding, every result will be cause for some celebration; I�m not looking forward to Clinton redux in any gender.
And to be fair, I harbor similar feelings about Jeb Bush. Over the years I heard many times that Jeb was the best and brightest bud on that family�s tree, but Bush redux isn�t much more palatable than the Hillary thing.
Surely there�re viable alternatives from both parties. However, I can�t pretend to know anything about rising-star Democrats as I consider that party in its present incarnation to be an enemy of the country.
As to Republican offerings, they�re running a risk trying to reconstitute past candidates who somewhat tarnished their luster in the last cycle. I�m a Texan but would prefer Rick Perry to sit this one out.
I try hard not to like Rand Paul but have not been entirely successful. I like my conservative stance spiced with some Libertarian views but don�t think I can swallow the whole pill. We�ll see in the debates.
Again, this 2016 contest offers a lot of wiggle-room because whatever happens, America wins since Obama will be gone. I�m still in shock we renewed this guy�s license to kill the country for another four years.
In retrospect, 2012 reminded me of an abused spouse letting her husband stay in the house because he promised he would be good. It seemed one of those �fool me once, fool me twice� moments. Well, the years are passing and we can only hope there�s enough left to start reassembling Humpty Dumpty in 2017, whomever inherits the task.
As I said somewhere above, my Clinton opinion has softened by being marinated in this administration�s acidic drivel. I disliked Bill Clinton because of his personal behaviors, especially for what he did in �my� oval office. I would�ve felt better about it had he carried Monica upstairs.
But I now see I was overly cynical and self-righteous, and the health of the country was much more important than a stained dress and stupid lies about personal behaviors. Back then I couldn�t imagine what was in our political future.
Bill Clinton had a �Debbie Does Dallas� administration. In the vernacular of porn, Obama�s offering logically would be �Barry Does America.�
Come on 2016! Cut, print, that�s a wrap!
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How to find the right dog for you and your family
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The American Eskimo is bright, eager to please, lively and fun-loving, in short, an enjoyable and generally obedient companion. True to the Spitz heritage, he is independent and tenacious and loves to run, especially in cold weather. But he is among the most biddable of Spitz breeds, and is calm and well-mannered inside. He is good with children, other dogs, and pets and is generally outgoing to everyone.
The Eskie is energetic and needs a good workout every day. The extent of the workout depends on the size of the dog, with the larger Eskies needing a good jog or long walk and the smaller ones needing only a vigorous game in the yard or short walk. This breed is so attuned to his family that does better indoors. The double coat needs brushing and combing twice weekly, more often when shedding.
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As the prototypical Spitz, the Eskie (as he is often called) is just as often simply called Spitz by pet parents. In fact, the American Eskimo dog descended from one of the varieties of Spitz developed in Germany, with influences from other Spitz breeds such as the Keeshond, Pomeranian, and Volpino Italiano. Ironically, it was the success of these other breeds that held the Eskie back. Although the keeshond originally came in several colors, when it was decided to accept only gray specimens, the white Keeshonden were suddenly excluded. When the Pomeranian standard was drawn up to exclude dogs over 8 pounds, larger dogs were excluded as Pomeranians. Thus, by the early 1900s, there was two groups of medium-sized white dogs that, although purebreds, were excluded from their breeds. Their fate is unknown, but it is likely that they became pets of the working people. When European workers came to America, they brought these dogs with them. The turning point came in the 1920s, when the American Spitz (as he had come to be called) became a favorite of circus performers. Spectators often left the circus with a new family member, an offspring of one of the dazzling performers. Many present-day Eskies can be traced back to their circus ancestors. After World War I, the breed's name was changed to American Eskimo, to remove any Germanic sound from it. Most Eskies were kept as pets and farm dogs. A few families registered their dogs with the United Kennel Club, but it wasn't until 1994 that the AKC recognized the breed. Despite his acceptance into the AKC world of show dogs, the Eskie remains a dog of the people, far more popular as a pet than as a competitor.Copyright © 1998, 2005 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. based on
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Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum take center stage in the new trailer for Andy and Lana Wachowski's latest sci-fi venture, "Jupiter Ascending," and the clip offers some of the same mix of futuristic spectacle and existential exploration that catapulted the duo to international acclaim with "The Matrix" nearly 15 years ago.
"Jupiter Ascending" stars Kunis as Jupiter Jones, a young woman born on Earth whose "genetic signature" marks her as a target for the Queen of the Universe. Tatum, sporting guyliner, plays Caine, identified early in the trailer as a "perfect hunting machine," who becomes Jupiter's protector.
Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne also have featured roles.
The film is the first from the Wachowskis after their audacious literary adaptation with Tom Tykwer, "Cloud Atlas," which was based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell and starred Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent playing multiple interconnected roles across the centuries.
Like their "Matrix" films, "Cloud Atlas" distinguished the Wachowskis as superlative visual storytellers, and "Jupiter Ascending" appears to continue that tradition, with eye-popping space imagery rendered on a grand scale.
"Jupiter Ascending" is set to arrive in theaters July 25.
What do you think of the latest "Jupiter Ascending" trailer? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
– Gina McIntyre | @LATHeroComplex
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Mark Falcoff is resident scholar emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. Mark last reported for us on Code Pink's helping hand to Hugo Chavez. Today he writes:
The long term prospects of Chavez's "revolutionary" state in Venezuela are not good. A long report in the Spanish edition of today's Miami Herald lays it out. Since the same story does not appear in the English edition I thought I'd offer at least a summary of this important article.
Everyone knows that Chavez's "revolution"–his popularity with the poor of Venezuela and his influence in the region–is entirely mortgaged to the price of oil. But few realize that it is even more dependent on the efficiency (or lack of it) of his state oil company, which goes by the acronymn PDVSA.
Since Chavez took office in 1999 Venezuela's oil production has dropped by 28 percent and PDVSA's debt has risen significantly. Meanwhile, some major foreign oil producers have left the country and taken their cutting edge technology with them.
The Venezuelan government claims that between 2006 and 2012 it will reinvest $76 billion of its earnings to increase production, but analysts canvassed by the three reporters who wrote the story think that the figure comes closer to between $2 and $5 billion a year–a drastic short-fall. Moreover, many of PDVSA's activities are now unrelated to oil–it has hatched subsidiaries to distribute powdered milk, or to mill corn, or even to build boats. (Anyone who knows Venezuela can imagine the lush opportunities this offers for illicit enrichment by the agency officials or the military who work with them.) Meanwhile, as oil production falters, the state company has decided to take on more employees. When Chavez took office PDVSA had 48,000 workers. It now has nearly 75,000, and the president-dictator has announced plans to hire an additional 30,000 by the end of next year. (One cannot help recalling the case of the Argentine YPF, which was the only oil company in the world that lost money in the go-go 1970s!)
This kind of crony capitalism is pushing Venezuela to the edge. Under these circumstances it won't take much of a decline in oil prices to destabilize Chavez's regime. Contrary to what the bloated dictator says on his radio programs every Sunday, the "empire" (that's the US) doesn't need to do anything at all to get rid of him. Fortunately he's doing our work for us.
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John (O'Korn) thought he had a man open in the seam. They made a big play, game over. —Houston coach Tony Levine, on Alani Fua's game-clinching interception
HOUSTON — Color Alani Fua good.
BYU linebacker Fua reacted to a juke move by Houston's hottest receiver, Daniel Spencer, then looked up just in time to see a fat football floating in the air toward him. Fua's eyes got wide and he just grabbed it.
Thus ended one of the more bizarre football games in BYU memory, a scintillating 47-46 Cougar win over previously undefeated Houston in Reliant Stadium before a crowd of 33,115.
The win lifted BYU to 5-2 and dropped Houston to 5-1.
For the second straight game, Fua, deployed as a nickel back instead of his position as an outside linebacker, intercepted a desperation pass by a quarterback to preserve a BYU victory. Fua did the same thing last week against Georgia Tech.
One could see relief on the faces of every BYU player and coach.
"John (O'Korn) thought he had a man open in the seam," said Houston coach Tony Levine. "They made a big play, game over." To that point, Spencer had seven catches for 186 yards including a 76-yarder, the longest pass play on BYU's defense this year.
In the longest non-overtime game in BYU history that saw the Cougars run a record 115 plays, the play by Fua ended Houston's fleet-footed show, an explosive display of speed that the Cougars struggled to contain all day.
"We were dazed by the wildness of the game," said BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall.
"I had a flashback to the last game," said Fua of his game-saving interception.
The Cougars tied an FBS record with their 115 plays and set a school record with 41 first downs. The combined 93 points is the most since BYU got clipped at Tulsa in 2007. It was a game that saw 1,164 total yards, 681 of it by BYU.
Taysom Hill's 11-yard touchdown pass to Skyler Ridley with just over a minute to play lifted BYU to the winning margin. Fua's play sealed it on Houston's next possession.
How crazy was it? BYU dominated Houston on the field in the first quarter, scoring on four of its first five possessions. But Houston answered with three huge scoring plays of its own.
BYU led 24-21, but Houston scored its 21 points on highlight-reel plays — Demarcus Ayers 95-yard kickoff return, a 69-yard TD bomb from Greg Ward to Xavier Maxwell and a 29-yard Derrick Mathews pick-six.
While BYU looked unstoppable on offense early with Ross Apo's touchdown catches of 11 and 18 yards, Houston's big plays balanced out the ledger. BYU led 17-7 but it was short-lived. Houston tied the game at 24 with Richie Leone's field goal of 29 yards with 11:11 to play before half.
Houston's firepower put the home team up 38-34 at the half and a pair of touchdown passes by John O'Korn. BYU managed a one-yard plunge by Jamaal Williams in that span. Then it turned into a defensive battle and field position chess game the second half with Houston winning that battle until the final two minutes of the game.
"I felt good and then wondered, 'where did all the points come from,' " Mendenhall said.
"There were some giant throws (by Houston). They changed the field so fast with a freshman quarterback. You take away three plays, which we can't, and it's not close. Then there were these clutch plays we made mixed into the whole thing, which really made me proud."
Hill's performance lifted BYU's offense, especially in the waning minutes of the game when he hit Ridley twice on the game-winning drive. Hill finished with 29 completions in 44 attempts for a career high 417 yards with touchdown passes to Cody Hoffman, a pair to Apo and the game winner to Ridley.
With Houston pressuring Hill and stuffing BYU's run game, Hill's legs bought the Cougars some key first downs. He rushed 34 times for 128 yards and was sacked eight times.
"He was amazing," said Mendenhall.
"Coming out at halftime, I knew it would come down to who had the ball last," said Hill. "Luckily it was us. Fortunate for us, Alani made a big play once again. He's a great football player, and our defense made great plays all night."
Spencer Hadley opened the game by intercepting O'Korn on the first play of the game. Daniel Sorensen also had an interception.
Hill said it was a unique game and it felt like the Cougars had played an entire game by halftime.
"Credit Houston for making big plays and taking us out of some things," said Hill.
The Cougars now host Boise State on Friday night in LaVell Edwards Stadium.
Dick Harmon, Deseret News sports columnist, can be found on Twitter as Harmonwrites and can be contacted at [email protected].