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Bile is a digestive fluid secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder which normally is released into the duodenum portion of the small intestine through the sphincter of Oddi. Bile, released after a meal containing fats, aids in absorption and digestion of the fat.
Biliary obstruction occurs when the duct which transports bile from the liver to the small intestine (duodenum) is blocked by a stone, a tumor, an injury or inflammation of any of the ducts. A tumor in the pancreas may press in on the ducts, causing a backup of bile in the gallbladder. Blood tests may indicate a high level of bilirubin, a waste product of the liver, or diagnosis may come from an endoscopic examination. Untreated biliary obstruction may cause life-threatening infection or chronic liver disease.
One method of relieving a blockage of the bile duct due to pancreatic tumors is the placement of a stent, a device designed to hold tube-shaped structures open. An endoscope (an instrument placed down the throat into the esophagus, through the stomach to the duodenum of the small intestine) helps the surgeon to see the blockage and to place the stent in the correct position. Dye may be injected and X-ray images taken to insure the stent is correctly placed and the flow of bile is restored.
Once the flow of bile is restored, the threat of infection and inflammation is decreased. However, the prognosis may not be significantly altered if the pancreatic carcinoma is otherwise untreatable. Reoccurrence of the blockage (restenosis) may also occur, requiring further surgery or replacement of the stent.


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A Pearl From Heaven
Nhung Do
A long time ago, a small family lived happily in the shadow of a great king's palace. The mother and father had one little girl who always obeyed and listened to her parents. As she aged, she grew more and more beautiful by the day. Her fellow villagers called her Ngoc, which means "pearl", in compliment of her stunning beauty. She was very hard working, always helping out her mom at home and cooking for her dad before he went off to work every morning. The family was not rich, but they earned enough to sustain a peaceful lifestyle. One day, Ngoc's mom got very sick. The family was forced to use all the money they had saved for quite some time to hire a reputable doctor. The doctor did what he could, but finally shook his head in submission. He was sorry to admit that there was no way to cure the poor lady. After her mother passed away, Ngoc was not as happy of a person as she was before, and the relationship between her and her father started to fall apart. Seeing the great sorrow within his daughter, he wanted to bring back the happiness in the family and have someone to take care of his little girl. He remarried with a local widow, whose husband had died a few years past. Ngoc saw her dad regain happiness and seeing someone taking care of and loving him once again made her happier every day. Her stepmother appeared to be a very nice woman and her stepsister soon enough became her close friend. Unfortunately, her dad worked much too hard to recover the money the family had spent on the doctor and he too fell ill. Very soon after that, he died of an unknown cause. Ngoc was mourning for days, but held onto the thought that she had her stepmother's and stepsister's support. However, Ngoc was betrayed. As soon as she recovered from the death of her father, they made her go work in the field from early morning until very late night.
She came home very tired every day, but she still worked just as hard the next morning. Even though she doesn't pay much attention to her appearance, her heavenly beauty refused to fade. This made her stepmother and stepsister very angry and jealous. As she grew older, Ngoc became more beautiful than any girl in the kingdom, with her smooth, white skin rivaling the surface of an unblemished pearl. Her full lips gleamed with a natural red color alongside her dark, silky hair. Her eyes always shone like diamond, full of hope and life. The rumor of her beauty was soon enough spread all around the country and countless nobles and wealthy families came asking for permission for their son to marry Ngoc. However, her stepmother always bade her to hide in a barrel behind their house whenever people paid a visit:
"You, my beautiful daughter, murders and thieves are coming!
You'd better hide,
Hide well, hide well!
I will find you in the barrel once they are gone!"
Then, she introduced to the nobles her own daughter as Ngoc instead. They all shook their heads at the stepsister because she was untalented and very lazy, and her beauty was no match for what stories they had heard. One day, when Ngoc was hidden in the barrel in the back of the house, she wondered why thieves so often came to their place. Worried for her family, she tried to escape the barrel, but her stepmother had locked the lid. She was crying inside when suddenly an arrow hit the locked lid and popped it open. Ngoc saw that the arrow flew from the longbow of a very handsome young man, whose smile was as bright as the sun and whose intelligence showed in his eyes. Behind him stood many soldiers, all of whom were stunned by Ngoc's beauty.
"Who are you and what were you doing in that barrel?"
Ngoc was very shy as they approached closer to her. The young man's smile was all she could see. She saw now that it was brighter than the sun, and her heart began to race.
"I was locked in this barrel. May I ask who are you?"
The whole army laughed at her innocent question. However, the handsome man signaled them to stop, for fear they would scare the young beauty away. He knew at the moment that he was falling in love with this gorgeous girl, a kind of feeling known to some as "love at first sight." He was not a believer of such emotion. But as soon as he looked upon her, he saw past even Ngoc's beauty, and into a beautiful heart, a person who could not have done anything wrong to the world, who could do everything but harm anyone.
"Beautiful girl, please let me take care of you, for I am the king of this land. Please come with me to my palace and we will have a beautiful wedding."
As soon as she heard that the man in front of her was the king, she blushed and bowed down seeking pardon. He took her hand and they departed for the palace, not stopping to say goodbye to her stepmother before she left.
A month later, good news was delivered to the village: the new queen would pay her first visit to the village right after the big wedding. All the villagers were excited and decorated the village to celebrate her visit. As the army marched closer and closer to the village, the stepmother began to have bad feelings, but she ignored it since she too was excited to see the queen. Ngoc was carried among the whole army, in her red velvet gown studded with gold and pearls, looking as colorful as a diamond in sunlight. She stepped into her old house and gladly greeted her surprised stepmother and stepsister after a whole month apart. It also happened to be Ngoc's dad's death anniversary. She couldn't help but mourn for her dad, wishing he was still here to see her living happily with her new husband. The stepmother saw this and, knowing that Ngoc was a very filial daughter, came up with a sinister plan. She asked Ngoc:
"Oh lovely daughter, I loved and missed you so much. It is your dad's death anniversary today. A wonderful daughter like you would love to clean your father's altar."
Ngoc agreed to the idea and remembered her responsibility to clean her dad's altar in remembrance of his dedication to raising her to be such a wonderful person. She took an empty bucket and brought it down to the river to get some water. Many soldiers wanted to help her but she refused the aid, telling them to rest instead. As she was trying to get some clean water out of the river, her stepmother pushed her into the water and drowned her, running into the house afterwards pretending she had nothing to do with Ngoc's death.
As the king heard the news of his queen's drowning, he was very upset and sorrowful for many days. The stepmother used this chance to send her own daughter into the palace to serve the king, hoping to win the king's heart.
Days passed, but nothing that the stepsister did could make the king happy. He was very careless of her appearance in the palace no matter how hard she tried in front of him. All day long, he sat in the courtyard, reading books and listening to the red bird's sad song. He had no idea why the red bird always followed him and sang so sweetly, but it quickly became his favorite. He feed it himself, and slept best while listening to it sing while wrapped under his sleeve.
Eventually the stepsister learned of this, and she became very mad. She washed the king's gown very carelessly, with frustration and anger. The red bird flew to her and said:
"Wash my husband's clothes, wash my husband's clothes
Wash it careful, wash it clean
Or else I will report it to him!"
The stepsister was frightened and rushed right back into the palace. She ordered her maid to catch the bird as the king slept in the courtyard and to burn it until its bones became ashes and its feathers dirt. The king woke up without seeing the bird under his sleeve and went into depression. He sang out his emotions:
"Ngoc, Ngoc, you are the pearl in my eyes
Now you have left, my mind has gone
Red bird, red bird, all I have left was you
Now you have left, I am dying too"
The stepsister overheard the king singing, she got very jealous because in his eyes he was only Ngoc and the bird, but not her. She decided she would do anything to get her image into the king's head. She ordered all the chefs and maids to leave the palace so she can be around the king as much as possible. Day after day of being by the king's side, however, she still never got any closer to his heart, for it was bleeding from missing his love. One day, she decided to mix into the king's soup an herb called "love-charm." This charm was a magic practice that was supposed to get anyone to fall in love with the person they first saw. Thinking the king will fall for her trick, the stepsister became excited. After tasting the first spoon, though, the king spit it out and became furious with her. He asked her where all his chefs and maids who cooked and served him well every day were. She couldn't say anything but to tell him the truth about firing them.
"How dare you fire all my maids and chefs, and how dare you cook for me
I won't eat any woman's soup, except the one my wife made
Leave and don't ever dare to come back
Now that you are dead in my eyes"
The stepsister ran away crying. Unfortunately, the magic charm didn't work for her this time, but only brought her trouble. She went back to the village to stay with her mother. In the meantime, after all of the stress, the king decided to go hunting again. It was very hard for him to hunt again because every arrow he shot reminded him of his dearest wife. He broke down crying in front of the whole army because he could no longer take the pain of losing his wife. Every teardrop that fell from his eyes swelled the river beneath his feet. Eventually, the whole army yelled out when they spotted a body floating on the other side of the river. The body was dressed in a red velvet gown, the beautiful gown that the king last saw his wife wear. He immediately stopped crying and ordered the entire army to carefully carry the body to the shore. He looked at his dearest and cried out her name, holding her body very tightly until long after the sun sank behind the palace. One of his soldiers suggested that the king bring Ngoc's body back to the palace because the cold of night began to fall upon them. The king refused to move and collapsed on the ground next to the body of the woman he loved. As he slept that night, he still held onto her hand tightly, never letting go. Not knowing what to do, the army brought him back into the palace alongside Ngoc's body, and had the courtiers plan a grand funeral ceremony for the following day in memory of the dead queen. In the morning, a monk doctor walked out of the king's room after seeing to his health. On the way out of the palace, he walked past the garden where Ngoc's dead body lie. He felt the tension of a spirit that was trapped wandering around in the palace. Immediately, he sat down next to the body, and said:
"Beautiful, innocent lady
Please come back if you can
Our king is in misery
What is love that caused such trouble?"
Quickly the sky turned dark and sudden rain was fell hard upon the palace grounds. Above in the sky, a soft voice spoke to the monk saying:
"What is the purpose of coming back?"
If I was killed by my own family
What is the purpose of coming back?
If my murderers are still free"
The monk realized the queen did not die of an accident. After some inquiry, the monk discovered who the queen's family was and where they lived. He immediately talked to the courtier, who provided him with the army to go capture the stepmother and stepsister. However, this was kept secret from the king, whose health had not yet recovered. The monk travelled to the village and said to the stepmother and stepsister that the king the latter and wanted them to come to the palace as soon as they could. Those two were very happy and forgot about all of the terrible sins they committed against Ngoc. They immediately packed their bags and went to the palace.
In the meantime, the king recovered from his sickness and rushed straight to the garden where Ngoc's body rested. He asked all the maids to leave so he could weep for her in solitude. Knowing that he could not live without her, the king wished to pass beyond the world into the realm where he and Ngoc could be together once again. He cried out tearfully:
"Please, my beautiful
Let me come to you
Let me take care of you for eternity
For you are the only one I love"
His other hand was holding a knife, placed gently on his wrist. When he made the first cut, one drop of blood fell down onto Ngoc's palm. The second cut dripped blood straight through every layer of her clothes, down to her very heart. As the king prepared for a finally cut, the silence was broken by the patter of a running horse's hooves. Soon, the whole army with the monk in the lead yelled their king's name. Afraid that they might stop him, the king made the last cut into his wrist, deep enough that his blood poured out like a waterfall. He sank down onto the brick, lying beside his beloved one, and whispered:
"Here I am, I am coming to you"
The monk's voice was the loudest of all, screaming out from the bottom of his lungs:
"Please King, please don't die
We found who took away your lover's life!
Please come back
For the whole country depends upon you!"
As these words echoed against the palace walls, the sky turned very bright once again. The sun shone as a candle does in the darkest cavern. A sudden clap of thunder roared loudly from above and lightning struck the two lovers, lying dead on the ground. A second later, the two once dead opened their eyes. The moment they looked upon each other, the sky returned to its normal summer blue. They whispered each other's names and stared at each other for a very long time. Ngoc and her love had finally been reunited.
The stepmother and stepsister were to spend their lives in the cold, damp prison. Ngoc did not want to take away their lives, for she desired them to have one last chance to think of their mistakes and perhaps become better people in the end. As for the king and queen, they lived very happily together. People said that this was the greatest love story of all time. Nothing could separate their love for one another, not even the elusive barriers between life and death. Sometimes in life, all we need is the person we love most and the world will be much brighter. Even though being with the one you love may mean death, it would be far less painful than to live a life without them.

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EMILY pushes women candidates; sets sights on 2016 electionsBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 28. 2013 9:59PM
MANCHESTER - Putting pro-choice Democratic women in the White House in 2016, in Congress, in state houses and in local offices was the topic of discussion Friday at a standing-room only "Madam President" Town Hall sponsored by EMILY's List at the Puritan Conference Center.
Stephanie Schriock, president of the Washington, D.C., PAC that advocates for abortion rights and has raised more than $350 million for women candidates, said the group hopes to make history in 2016, with a woman President.
New Hampshire was the second stop on a road trip for EMILY's List that began in Ohio and now heads to Nevada, much like a Presidential primary campaign trail.
EMILY's List is an acronym for, "Early Money Is Like Yeast," meaning early donations will bring more campaign contributions later on.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the group's clear (presidential) frontrunner, but Schriock said if Clinton chooses not to run, there are other qualified candidates, such as U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Kamala Harris, attorney general of California, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.
Tiffany Eddy, a former Channel 9 news anchor, moderated the panel. She asked whether EMILY's list would ever back a candidate who was male and Republican.
Panelist Jennifer M. Granholm, a former governor of Michigan and now a Politico columnist, said the best person should always be elected, "but it just happens that the Democrats have them."
N.H. Gov. Maggie Hassan, introduced as the only Democratic women governor in the country, spoke briefly.
She said it was because of the state's volunteerism and citizens' engagement that New Hampshire was the first state to back a woman as a presidential nominee in the primary - Hillary Clinton, in 2008; the first state with an all-female Congressional delegation; where the second woman governor, herself, was sworn in by the first woman chief justice of the state Supreme Court, Linda Stewart Dalianis; and where a woman, Terie Norelli, is the speaker of the state House of Representatives.
Panelists spoke about the difficulties of raising a family and being in politics. Granholm said when she ran for attorney general, she had three children - ages 10 months, 7 and 8 - and a husband who backed her all the way.
He went to Yale, where he studied theology and dreamed of becoming the Pope or President, she said. Instead, she added, he became a "saint" and Michigan's First Gentleman.
"We have to raise strong women, strong girls and good men today," she said.
Society has to change so that it is OK for men to be the primary caregivers, she continued.
When Eddy asked panelists if the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate helped or hurt women, Jamal Simmons, a Democratic political analyst based in Washington, D.C., said it was a good thing. Schriock said the problem was not Palin but the Republican Party's policies.
"I think they want to send us back to the 1950s. I think they want to send me back to the kitchen," she said.
The GOP is a party that says we have a women's problem, but then attacks health-care coverage and won't consider equal pay for women, she said.
Granholm said the problem with Palin was that she wasn't prepared to be Vice President.
Schriock said it is important for women to get a seat at the table, not just in politics but also in business, where only 21 women are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. She said Title IX, which led to greater equality in sports for girls and boys, was an afterthought added to legislation by U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink.
"Look what it has done for our society. (Mink) was at that table at the right time," she said.
As for reproductive rights, she said it was an economic issue, not a social issue, along with minimum wage, equal pay and child care.
"We are 51 percent of the population . We are the majority," Schriock said.
U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was supposed to participate in the panel discussion, but remained in Washington to vote on a temporary spending bill to prevent the U.S. government from shutting down.


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In this letter, John Worthington asks John Williams to assist him in removing his name from a petition which he finds contains sentiments he does not agree with. The petition to which John Worthington's name was attached was a result of Shays' Rebellion and seems to contain the sentiments of the followers of Shays.
John Worthington was a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1786 and served as a colonel in the French wars. John Williams held many offices in the town of Deerfield, among them Justice of the Peace, Register of Deeds, as well as acting as town storekeeper.
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Working for strong international laws and agreements
- provide advice and technical information on relevant issues
- demonstrate concrete actions governments can take
- advocate for stronger international laws and regulations
- help governments to implement their commitments under the convention/commission.
Major conventions, commissions, and other fora that we work with include:
- Species & biodiversity
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- International Whaling Commission (IWC)
- Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
- Climate
- Kyoto Climate Treaty (Kyoto Protocol)
- Copenhangen Climate Treaty
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Fisheries
- Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs)
- UN Fish Stocks Agreement
- UN Informal Consultative Process on the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS)
- FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI)
- Freshwater
- Ramsar Convention
- UN Watercourses Convention
- UNECE Water Convention
- World Commission on Dams
- Shipping
- Convention on Ballast Water Management
- Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships
- Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
- International Maritime Organization (IMO)
The objectives of these instruments, and their implementation by national governments, are highly relevant to WWF's goals.
At the moment, many conventions and commissions have serious gaps and failings. For example, some conventions are not yet ratified by the required number of countries, and so have not entered into force. Several conventions and commissions do not include all states to which the resource belongs. And many lack appropriate enforcement mechanisms and monitoring provisions for their implementation. This hinders our efforts to conserve biodiversity and reduce humanity's ecological footprint.


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This is the first in a series of posts based on the content of the Query Optimizer Deep Dive presentations I have given over the last month or so at the Auckland SQL Users' Group and the SQL Saturday events in Wellington, New Zealand and Adelaide, Australia.
Links to other parts of this series: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
The motivation behind writing these sessions is that I have found that relatively few people have a good intuition for the way the optimizer works, partly because the official documentation is rather sparse, and partly because what information is available is dispersed across many books and blog posts. The content presented here is very much geared to my preferred way of learning – it shows the concepts in what seems to me to be a reasonably logical sequence, and provides tools to enable the interested reader to explore further, if desired.
When we write a query, we are not writing a computer program that can be directly executed. SQL is a declarative language used to logically describe the results we want to see. SQL Server goes through a process of compilation and optimization to create a physically executable implementation of the stated logical requirement. To put it another way, a SQL query is the specification for an executable program that SQL Server writes for us. The SQL Server component responsible for finding an efficient physical execution plan for a given logical query requirement is the Query Optimizer.
The diagram below shows conceptually where the Query Optimizer sits in the core SQL Server engine:
Language Processing is concerned with things like parsing the text of the query to make sure it is syntactically valid, binding table references to real database objects, deriving types for expressions, semantic analysis (for example checking that the query is not trying to execute a table), and binding GROUP BY references to the appropriate logical scope. The Query Optimizer aims to find a good physical execution plan that matches the logical semantic of the query, and the Query Executor is responsible for running that plan to completion. Below that, the Storage Engine provides access to physical storage, together with locking and transaction services. Finally, SQL-OS is the layer that provides threading, memory management, and scheduling services.
Using the same colours for the components shown above, a very high-level overview of query processing looks like this:
This series of blog posts is mostly concerned with the "Optimize" step above. It takes as its input a tree of logical operations produced by the previous stages.
The diagram below shows the principal stages within query optimization, starting with the bound tree produced by the parser and algebrizer. The coloured steps are the ones we will explore in depth – the right hand side of the diagram lists a bit more detail that I talk through when presenting this material live:
We start by looking at the bound logical tree (input tree). To make the discussion a little less abstract, we will use a test query issued against the AdventureWorks sample database. This simple query shows products and the quantity in stock, limited to products with names that start with a letter between A and G:
-- Test query
Total = SUM(inv.Quantity)
Production.Product AS p,
Production.ProductInventory AS inv
inv.ProductID = p.ProductID
AND p.Name LIKE N'[A-G]%'
The input tree generated by this query is shown below, slightly simplified:
The operations in this tree are all purely logical, and have their roots in Relational Theory. The GET operation logically reads an entire table, though you should not yet be thinking in terms of physical operations such as a scan or a seek. The JOIN is a cartesian product, logically joining every row in one table with every row in the other. The SELECT is not a SQL statement, it is a relational operation: filtering rows based on some condition (known as a predicate). Here, we are applying two SELECT operations to filter on matching product IDs and rows where the product name starts with a letter between A and G. The next logical operation is a Group-By Aggregate, an extension to the basic relational algebra that logically groups rows by some common attribute, and optionally computes an aggregate expression for each group. Finally, we have a relational Project operation, which filters columns – here we only need the Name and Total columns, and those are the only two returned in the logical result set.
To see this tree directly, we can use undocumented trace flag 8605. This flag also requires the common trace flag 3604 to produce output to the SSMS messages window. We can use another undocumented syntax, the QUERYTRACEON hint, to set the trace flag just for this query:
-- Input tree (ISO-92)
FROM Production.Product AS p
JOIN Production.ProductInventory AS inv ON
p.Name LIKE N'[A-G]%'
Now, in the SSMS messages tab, we see a textual representation of the tree of logical operators I drew with coloured boxes before:
There are a few minor differences between this and the previous diagram. In particular, the expression computed by the aggregate is added by a separate projection (omitted for clarity before), and the SQL-92 join syntax means the join predicate is more tightly bound to the logical join. Rewriting the query using SQL-89 syntax highlights the second difference, producing a tree closer to the cartesian product followed by a relational SELECT:
-- Input tree (ISO-89)
The first step of the optimization pipeline we will look at is simplification, where the optimizer looks to rewrite parts of the logical tree to remove redundancies and move logical operations around a bit to help later stages. Major activities that occur around the time simplification occurs (I have taken a little artistic licence here to group a few separate stages together) include:
Constant folding is the process of evaluating an expression during optimization, rather than repeatedly at execution time. In the following example, the complex expression in the WHERE clause can safely be evaluated early, resulting in "WHERE p.Name LIKE 'D%':
SELECT p.Name
WHERE p.Name LIKE SUBSTRING(LEFT(CHAR(ASCII(CHAR(68))), 1) + '%', 1, 2);
Domain simplification enables the optimizer to reason about the range of valid values a column or expression can take. In the next query, the only value for Product ID that logically matches all the predicates in the extended WHERE clause is the single value '400'. The query plan shows that simplification has reduced the three predicates to a single equality predicate, "WHERE p.ProductID = 400":
WHERE p.ProductID BETWEEN 300 AND 400
AND p.ProductID BETWEEN 200 AND 500
AND p.ProductID BETWEEN 400 AND 600;
Predicate push-down involves pushing relational SELECTs (logically filtering rows based on a predicate) down the logical tree toward the leaves. The heuristic here is that this is always a good thing to do (at least as far as expressions that reference a column are concerned) because it eliminates rows early, reducing the number for later logical operations. Moving SELECTs closer to the logical GETs (reading tables) also helps index and computed-column matching.
Join simplification allows the optimizer to remove unnecessary joins, convert logical outer joins to simpler inner joins where the NULLs introduces by the outer join are later rejected by another feature in the query, and remove provably empty subexpressions. This is an incredibly powerful optimizer facility, with its roots again in relational theory. Rob Farley has written (SQL Server MVP Deep Dives) and presented (http://bit.ly/SimpleRob) about ways to use this feature effectively. In particular, he talks about how to write views to benefit from compile-time simplification, and avoid the views-on-views-on-views problem. The following queries illustrate some of the join simplifications:
-- Remove unnecessary joins
FROM Production.TransactionHistory AS th
JOIN Production.Product AS p ON
p.ProductID = th.ProductID
-- Outer join to join (null rejection)
LEFT JOIN Production.TransactionHistory AS th ON
th.ProductID = p.ProductID
WHERE th.ProductID < 10;
-- Complex example combining multiple simplifications
WITH Complex AS
pc.ProductCategoryID, pc.Name AS CatName,
ps.ProductSubcategoryID, ps.Name AS SubCatName,
p.ProductID, p.Name AS ProductName,
p.Color, p.ListPrice, p.ReorderPoint,
pm.Name AS ModelName, pm.ModifiedDate
FROM Production.ProductCategory AS pc
FULL JOIN Production.ProductSubcategory AS ps ON
ps.ProductCategoryID = pc.ProductCategoryID
FULL JOIN Production.Product AS p ON
p.ProductSubcategoryID = ps.ProductSubcategoryID
FULL JOIN Production.ProductModel AS pm ON
pm.ProductModelID = p.ProductModelID
SELECT c.ProductID, c.ProductName
FROM Complex AS c
WHERE c.ProductName LIKE N'G%';
That last example, with three full outer joins in a CTE (in-line view), simplifies down to a simple index seek on one table.
The optimizer only has direct information about table cardinality (total number of rows) for base tables. Statistics can provide additional histograms and frequency statistics, but again these are only maintained for base tables. To help the optimizer choose between competing strategies later on, it is essential to know how many rows are expected at each node in the logical tree, not just at the GET leaf nodes. In addition, cardinality estimates above the leaves can be used to choose an initial join order (assuming the query contains several joins).
Cardinality estimation computes expected cardinality and distribution statistics for each node, working up from the leaves one node at a time. The logic used to create these derived estimates and statistics uses a model that makes certain assumptions about your data. For example, where the distribution of values is unknown, it is assumed to be uniform across the whole range of potential values.
You will generally get more accurate cardinality estimates if your queries fit the model used, and, as with many things in the wider optimizer, simple and relational is best. Complex expressions, unusual or novel techniques, and using non-relational features often means cardinality estimation has to resort to guessing.
Most of the choices made by the optimizer are driven by cardinality estimation, so if these are wrong, any good execution plans you might see are highly likely to be down to pure luck.
The next stage of the optimizer pipeline is Trivial Plan, which is a fast path to avoid the time and effort involved in full cost-based optimization, and only applies to logical query trees that have a clear and obvious 'best' execution plan. The details of which types of query can benefit from Trivial Plan change frequently, but things like joins, subqueries, and inequality predicates generally prevent this optimization. The queries below show some examples where Trivial Plan can, and cannot be applied:
-- Trivial plan
SELECT p.ProductID
WHERE p.Name = N'Blade';
-- Still trivial
RowNumber =
ORDER BY p.Name)
WHERE p.Name LIKE N'[A-G]%';
-- 'Subquery' prevents a trivial plan
SELECT (SELECT p.ProductID)
-- Inequality
WHERE p.Name <> N'Blade';
One interesting case where a Trivial Plan is not applied is where the estimated cost of the Trivial Plan query exceeds the configured 'cost threshold for parallelism'. The reasoning here is that any trivial plan that would qualify for a parallel plan suddenly presents a choice, and a choice means the query is no longer 'trivial', and we have to go through full cost-based optimization. Taking this to the extreme, a SQL Server instance with the parallelism cost threshold set to zero will never produce a trivial plan (since all queries have a cost greater than zero). At the risk of stating the slightly obvious, note that a plan produced at this stage will always be serial. For experimentation only, the trivial plan stage can also be disabled using trace flag 8757.
You can check whether a query used a trivial plan or not by inspecting the Properties window in SSMS, and clicking on the root node of the graphical query plan. The 'optimization level' property will show 'Trivial' or 'Full' – the latter shows that a trip through full cost-based optimization was required. If a query results in a trivial plan, a physical execution plan is produced and the optimization process ends here.
The original slides and demo code are contained in the zip file attached below. Links to other parts of this series: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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Hi Paul
Great post!
One small quibble is that this line:
"Most of the choices made by the optimizer are driven by cardinality estimation, so if these are wrong, and good execution plans you might see are highly likely to be down to pure luck."
Looks like it should read:
"Most of the choices made by the optimizer are driven by cardinality estimation, so if these are wrong, any good execution plans you might see are highly likely to be down to pure luck."
But that may just be me :o)
Looking forward to reading part 2 next week
Hi quan23,
Thanks for reporting that unfortunate typo, I have fixed it now.
With luck, part 2 will be up tomorrow :)
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Great stuff, Paul. I have been wondering for some time how to get better visibility into the plan decision process, and recently discovered your blog. These TFs are new to me, and I like working through your examples. On that note, are you aware of other blogs with a focus on "advanced" query tuning/plan exploration in this vein? I am aware of Conor's, and the Query Opt and Programmability team blogs, but other than that it seems that Query Opt internals have always taken a back seat to the storage engine (and to a lesser extent, Sqlos).
Thanks again!
Hi Aaron,
There's quite a lot of good stuff out there; some I regularly read include:
By the way, for your DBCC reference (thanks for the links back here!) take a look at this paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.2115 (click on the PDF download icon). It gives a lot of information on DBCC USEPLAN.
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Awesome, Paul, thanks for the links. I'll dive right in. :-)
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The French countryside is encrusted with castles, historic chateaux, palaces and of course Versailles, which is at the top of most tourists' must-see lists.
But the real jewel in the crown for those who prefer a less touristy but equally breathtaking experience is a more intimate, much smaller chateau called Vaux-le-Vicomte, 55 kilometres southeast of Paris, which is not only extraordinarily beautiful but has been called the birthplace of jardin à la française.
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Fouquet purchased the property in 1641 at age 26. When he became finance minister for King Louis XIV in 1657, he commissioned Vaux to be built and razed several villages and an old chateau to do so.
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Fouquet had hoped to impress King Louis with his small masterpiece - instead it proved to be a little too gorgeous. An enraged and envious Sun King responded by throwing Fouquet in prison for the rest of his life, and then snatched up Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre and ordered the trio to build him a palace.
The result was Versailles. Soon after, the writer and philosopher Voltaire famously summed up the situation: "On 17 August, at six in the evening Fouquet was the King of France: at two in the morning he was nobody."
After Fouquet's arrest the estate fell into decline, but it has since been completely restored, with historians using old engravings and drawings for accuracy.
It is once again filled with magnificent art, tapestries, sculpture, chandeliers, furnishing - and still dripping with history.
Today it stands as a supreme example of 17th-century French architecture, nestled between two rivers that feed its reflecting ponds, moat, canals and grotto.
Best of all, the crowds have not discovered Vaux-le-Vicomte. On a recent visit, there were perhaps three dozen people wandering through the magnificent chateau, enjoying a delicious meal in what used to be the stables and touring the gardens which are not just beautiful, but fascinating.
Among other devices, Le Nôtre employed an optical illusion called anamorphosis abscondita (hidden distortion) that can be seen in the pools which are narrower nearest to the chateau, reducing the effect of perspective.
The chateau has been seen in many movies, as the home of Hugo Drax in Moonraker, in Marie Antoinette, Valmont, Vatel and many more, but no story could be more dramatic than the real one that unfolded there more than four centuries ago.
The bold but reckless Fouquet, who had shown such sophisticated vision, daring esthetic sense and brilliance, and whose family motto was Quo non ascendet - "What heights might he not reach?" - died in prison in 1680.
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- How to get there: The chateau is accessible by train and taxi, by rental car or small minivan tour. The first two options are best. The train to Melun leaves from Gare de Lyon in Paris and from there it is a short taxi ride to the chateau. On a tour you won't be able to spend as much time as you like, or linger over lunch and some fine wine.
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The world today is awash with information. But being unable to integrate and access the many mutually incompatible forms of information seriously impairs its value. This is especially true in the plant industry, where different applications are used to create different types of information—schematic diagrams, 3D CAD models, tabular data, maintenance manuals, and so on.
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Even doing so would not enable the different types of information to be cross-referenced. It is common for owner-operators to mandate digital handover of information from their contractors, but if they then cannot effectively use the information, how do they benefit? How can we overcome this problem?
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- A web-based visualization application which enables a user to navigate intuitively through the entire information asset and configure task-related views and reports.
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Looking first at the project handover process, a typical case would be one in which the owner-operator has deployed this type of information management system but the EPC has not. The handover pack may be a purely digital collection of various types of engineering and design data, which the gateway interfaces can easily handle. The import process is substantially automatic, with the software validating the compliance of each data item and cross-referencing it to all its associated data. User intervention will normally only be required to resolve missing, noncompliant, or inconsistent data.
In many cases, a small proportion of the information may still be in printed format. This also is easily handled by interfaces that "scrape" scanned documents to extract their information.
Even greater benefits are achievable when both EPC and owner-operators use the same system. In this situation, information handover can cease to be a discrete milestone event but instead be a progressive, collaborative process. As validated information is published to the Digital Information Hub during project execution, it can be used by the owner-operator's operations specialists to prepare their own processes and procedures—such as maintenance and spares management—well in advance of commissioning. Not only does this save valuable time and enable quicker ramp-up to full plant output, it also encourages closer collaboration between designers and operators to make the new plant design as operations-friendly as possible.
This level of integration can almost abolish the concept of handover as we currently understand it. Information no longer has to be passed from here to there; it is available from the outset to support every stage and process in the asset lifecycle, from FEED to final end of life. Of course, it requires a change in the nature of the relationship between owner-operator and EPC from the traditional buyer/seller to a more collaborative one. EPCs may understandably be hesitant about allowing their clients apparently unfettered access to their trade secrets, but there have been very successful precedents that have benefitted both parties.
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The Brandeis fencing and track and field teams head into the final stages of the winter season hoping to make some noise at their respective NCAA championships.
In track and field, senior Alex Kramer will represent the Judges at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships at North Central College in Napierville, Ill., this weekend. Meanwhile, the fencers hope to qualify for the NCAA National Collegiate championships at the end of the month in San Antonio at this weekend's Northeast Regional qualifier at St. John's University.
Kramer turned in the 14th-fastest time in Division III in the mile run at Tufts University's Last Chance Meet on March 3. His season- and lifetime-best time of 4:12.66 earned him the ninth seed at NCAAs after several other qualifiers chose to focus on other events. He will be one of five runners from New England entered in the mile.
Kramer is looking to become Brandeis's second-straight All-American in the mile run; Chris Brown '12 placed third at the NCAAs mile last year. Kramer will run in the preliminaries at 4:55 p.m. Eastern Time/3:55 Central on Friday, March 8. The finals will be held at 2:30 p.m. Eastern/1:30 Central on Saturday, March 9. You can follow the meet on-line.
For the fencers, three Judges have an outstanding chance of making it to the national championships, where they will compete against the top collegiate fencers from Division I, II and III. Freshman Caroline Mattos, a women's foil fencer, has compiled the team's best record this season at 72 wins against just 13 losses.
Junior Julian Cardillo, is looking for a third-straight NCAA berth in men's foil after getting off to a slow start to a season in which he spent the fall semester abroad in Italy. Sophomore Adam Mandel, a five-time University Athletic Association Fencer of the Week, has an excellent shot in the men's sabre as well. The NCAA Northeast Regional will be covered on ESPN3.com thanks to St. John's University.
Earlier this season, both programs captured championships at major meets.
Hosting the 2013 New England Intercollegiate Fencing Championships in the Gosman Athletic Center on Feb. 23, the Judges took home the overall team title, three weapons titles and two individual championships.
The track and field squads traveled to Cleveland on Feb. 23 and 24 for the University Athletic Association indoor championships, where they ran away with two individual and one relay title and three other All-UAA performances.
The fencing team put on a terrific overall showing, finishing with 196 points, well ahead of Boston College's 177. The Brandeis men outpaced second-place Sacred Heart University, 89-79, while the women edged Boston College, 107-105.
"This was a tremendous all-around performance," said head coach Bill Shipman. "The rest of the coaching staff and I could not have hoped for a better performance. It was a fitting way to send off a group of seniors -- Mike Zook, Harry Kaufer, Zoe Messinger, Emmily Smith – who have been four of the most devoted, selfless and enthusiastic fencers I have ever had."
In the weapons rankings, Brandeis won the three different events in which they have been strong all season, but it was strong showings in the other three weapons that allowed the Judges to take home the team title. Leading the way was the men's saber squad, which posted a 33-1 mark. The men's foil squad was 31-3 and edged Sacred Heart on tiebreakers. The Judges also got a 40-3 record from the women's foil squad to take that weapon as well. Women's epee finished second (35-8) to BC (39-4), while women's saber (32-10) and men's epee (25-10) both were in third place.
Brandeis had two individual champions and three runners-up on the day. Junior Julian Cardillo, a two-time NCAA qualifier, won the men's foil; sophomore Noah Berman was second in the event. In the saber, Brandeis had three of the top six finishers, with sophomores Adam Mandel and Jess Ochs-Willard taking the top spots and classmate Ben Loft placing sixth. Brandeis's other runner-up was Caroline Mattos whose only loss of the day – and just her 13th loss of the season – came in the finals of the single-elimination bracket. Senior captain Zoe Messinger was sixth in the women's saber.
The track and field squads headed to Case Western Reserve University for the UAA championships. While they weren't as successful from a team standpoint – the women finished sixth out of seven teams, the men were seventh – the Judges came away with three titles and two second-place finishes.
Perhaps the most surprising outcome of the meet came when the Brandeis women won the distance medley relay. Unseeded headed into the meet, the Judges took home the UAA title by just over three seconds ahead second-place Chicago with a time of 12:12.91. Junior Amelia Lundkvist ran the lead 1,200-meter leg, followed by senior Casey McGown in the 400. Rookie Kelsey Whitaker ran the 800-meter leg and junior Victoria Sanford anchored with the mile run. Each of Brandeis's first three runners stayed near the front of the pack. Whitaker handed off to Sanford in second place, and the junior put on a kick in the final 300 meters to take the victory. It was the first All-UAA honor for any of the four runners.
"They ran a terrific tactical race," said head coach John Evans. "For their first time running the distance medley relay this season, it was an exciting finish."
The men's distance medley relay also took home All-UAA honors with a third-place finish. Senior Mik Kern led off the distance relay, with rookie soccer standout Josh Hacunda running the second leg. Sophomore Taylor Dundas ran the third leg and senior Alex Kramer anchored.
Kramer and Kern continued their success on the second day of the meet. The top two seeds headed into the championship in the mile run, Kramer and Kern did not disappoint, as they finished first and second, respectively, in the individual event. Kramer edged his classmate by 34-hundredths of a second (4:20:23 to 4:20.57), keeping the mile title with the Judges after Chris Brown '12 had won the event the year before. It was Kramer's third individual All-UAA performance in his career, having placed third in the 3,000 as a freshman and second in that event as a junior, and the first for Kern.
Brandeis's other champion was no stranger to the podium. Junior Vincent Asante, who was the 2011 UAA Rookie of the Year both indoors and outdoors, claimed his second career title in the 55-meter dash and third overall. Asante won one of the closest races of the meet in dramatic fashion. Seeded second, he ran the second-fastest time in preliminaries, 6.55 seconds, two-hundredths of a second behind Noel Titus of Carnegie Mellon. In the finals, the margin was even slimmer, as Asante edged Demetrious Brizzolara of Chicago by a mere one-hundredth of a second, 6.55 to 6.56, unfortunately pulling his hamstring in the process. In an excellent display of sportsmanship, Brizzolara helped escort Asante to the podium to receive his medal. Asante went on to help the Judges earn an extra point at the championship in the 200-meter dash. Having qualified as the fifth seed in the prelims of the 200, with a time of 22.90 seconds, a season-best, Asante walked the single-lap race in more than a minute with a severely taped up leg.Rounding out the All-UAA performances for the Judges at the meet was senior Kim Farrington in the women's triple jump. Farrington, who had scored points in five previous UAA championship meets, earned her second career All-Association honor by placing second in the event, up one spot from her previous best, which came indoors in 2011. Farrington set a lifetime best on her final jump of the meet, reaching 11.07 meters (36 feet, four inches), overtaking the third-place finisher on that leap.
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Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto
Gene J. Puskar, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reds still undecided on Cueto if there's Game 4
- Article by: JOE KAY
- Associated Press
- October 9, 2012 - 2:43 PM
CINCINNATI - Johnny Cueto's bad back left the Cincinnati Reds unsure who would start Game 4 if their playoff against the San Francisco Giants goes that far.
The Reds' 19-game winner had to leave the first inning of the divisional series opener Saturday because of back spasms. Mat Latos and the bullpen took over and pulled off a 5-2 win.
The Reds took the first two games in San Francisco, leaving them one win from advancing to the NL championship series. They got their first chance to do it Tuesday night at Great American Ball Park, with Homer Bailey going against Ryan Vogelsong.
If San Francisco wins, manager Dusty Baker will have another difficult choice. He said Tuesday it was unclear whether Cueto would be able to throw.
If Cueto is hurt, the Reds have a few options. They could replace him on the division series roster with right-hander Mike Leake, who was left off. That would leave Cueto unavailable to pitch during the league championship series if the Reds make it that far.
"We're seeing if we can avoid it because he wouldn't be available the next series," Baker said. "But if it's unavoidable, that's something different. We're weighing our options right now."
The other option is to lean on the bullpen again. They could bring Latos back on short rest again, though that's not an appealing alternative.
Baker planned to meet with Cueto, team trainers, general manager Walt Jocketty and pitching coach Bryan Price to make a decision later in the day.
"We've got to talk about it, see how Johnny is," Baker said. "A lot of guys would be on less than full rest (if they use the bullpen for Game 4). We hope we don't have to talk about it at all. But you know it's going to be a tough game today. You're taking the last breath out of somebody."
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Multiple reasons. Letting my imagination loose, mostly. You can write a fanfiction or story for almost anything. Like . . . coffee and cola. You can give them personalities. :3
Dead. I love my homo, my KPOP, and my homo KPOP. fml.
Let's see. . .for me.,to create a new story other than what's reaLLy happening.,
i contLor everything so. . .it means i wont be disappointed in anyway^^
Accounting.?deadLy. . .but when you finaLLy understood it.,its gonna be fine(,~)
I used to write only original fiction, but after I got hooked on watching Beelzebub I decided to write some Fanfic for it.
My first attempt was behind the scenes stuff and on the mature Lemony side. I was amazed at how well received it was and I get hundreds of readers a day.
Sure I can never publish it as a book for profit, but as a writer it is just extremely enjoyable to see people wanting to read more of what you wrote on a real time basis.
I like doing it. I hate bad fanfic. Ones that seem to keep dragging or those that try to make an entire story out of it. I like simple scenes, like i found one in fanfiction.net about HP's Hermione coming to Japan to see some of her relatives, and Kazu from Air Gear's her cousin! Loved it, even if it was simple and going nowhere, it was nicely written.
what's a girl gotta do to watch some yaoi in peace!
Sometimes in a manga or anime or whatever things just don't end the way you want it so some people just write fan fiction to rewrite or explain something.
I only write fiction fiction, i suck at fan fiction
I asked myself that question before when I first discovered fanfictions but never knew the answer until i started writing fanfictions myself. Personally I think people write fanfictions to express what they feel towards a cartain character/s. The beauty of fanfictions is that nobody would tell you something is wrong in what you write. You can make a character in an anime do whatever you want him/her to do without being told it's wrong. Another reason is that people write to hone their writing skill-- like me. It's good to be a fanfic writer because it always challenges you to be more creative, make your imagination go wilder.
Well, that's just me.
Hmmm.....I've actually never thought about it before. When I write fanfic, I love how I can make the characters' personalities whatever way I like, and how I can pretend some thing's in the actual anime/manga never happened. Creativity EXPLODES. When I first started writing, I really didn't except so much support from readers. Reviews kept me going, and I got ADDICTED. And it's so, so much fun!
OMGOMGOMG AILEE, her new song~~
to escape the boring monochromatic waste bin that earth has become, to fly away into other worlds and explore their immense beauty and wonder. to really live
that is my reason for writing, and i hope others will someday find solace in my writing as i do.
oh how embarrasing heh heh i thought you meant fiction stories...not fan fiction lol
Also, if you're like vintagenotebook and you do any harsh criticism to my stories and back me up against a "wall". I'll be like Kevin Levin (Ben 10), Chef Gordon Ramsay, Lelouch, Kyoya Hibari, Destiny's Barbatos. And I'll be all over you like a bad virus. Yes, the gloves comes off. So you better check your ego at the door, as I ain't gonna tolerate any less than par critism.
2nd of all, I only do it to the viewers of that particular series. It's not for everyone.
I think it helps people get a moer vivid imagination of the character. As long as they don't butcher the original character and stuff.
Plus, It helps some let out emotions through writing, I guess.
Is there two characters you are dying to see as a couple?
Ever wonder what characters do behind the scenes?
Alternate ending?
Entertainment? (As well as self entertainment)
Maybe the manga-story-tv show- or whatever u are watching doesn't give u enough info? Or just isnt long enough?
Or maybe u just feel like writing a story and are too lazy to think of characters?
............Yay fanfiction! =3
(yes I know this is FAN ART, but i though it was funny and fit the whole theme XDD)
Personally I write a lot of fanfiction. For me its just really fun
For one to answer this question, one must answer the question:
What is fanfiction?
Then you carefully scan your answer and thoughts:
Is this definition of fanfiction for me? Does it reflect myself? Has fanfiction done any good for you?
Those were a series of questions that let you undergo MEDITATION or REFLECTION.
For me...
Fan fiction is re-creating what you love and cherish in your own way reflecting your understanding and love for what you are re creating.
So one writes fan fiction for leisure and enjoyment or one writes this to show there way of the story.
I can be imperfect. Imperfect I'll stay
Well, purely for enjoyment, but I do have other reasons.
It's good practice, both for writing, and for plot development, first off. You can focus more on this, since it's a fanfic, everyone who reads it SHOULD know the characters.
Also, it's a good way for me to train myself in keeping characters IN character. Yeah, they might become OOC a bit, but keeping them true to how you think that type of person would react in a given situation? That's tough to do sometimes, and fanfic is a good way to work on it, and get feedback.
I also write so I can see the cast in different situations. I tend to ovoid writing OC's because of this. Recently I've really gotten into crossovers, and stories that would possibly work withing the cannon because I just want to see what would happen, or maybe get an insight into what they'd be thinking. I guess I think about it way too much....
Because one enjoys the perversiveness of people in their likings to go together and create more bacterium.
Goodbye, mofos! XP


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ACCT2010 - Intermed Financial Acct I
Fall 2011
This course is the first in a two-course sequence designed to give students instruction in higher-level accounting theory and its application in practice. This course covers the preparation, communication, interpretation and analysis of financial data with an emphasis on the information needs of users of financial information prepared under US GAAP. Topics covered in this course include the accounting cycle, the balance sheet and income statement, cash, accounts receivable, inventory, long term assets, depreciation, and impairment. The conceptual framework and financial statement presentation and disclosure will be discussed with each topic. The course will present applicable GAAP in these areas, detail uses and limitations of the resulting accounting information, and highlight issues in financial reporting. Ethical issues will be integrated at appropriate points in the course.
Prerequisite -- ACCT1010
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Stella Pruitt Ross, 60, of Jefferson, died Tuesday, October 14, 2008, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, following, an extended illness.
She was the daughter of Louise Beck Landers of Braselton and the late Troy Landers. She had resided in Jackson County for most of her life and was a manager with Burger King of Gainesville. Mrs. Ross was preceded in death by her first husband, James Pruitt; and a daughter, Tina Pruitt.
Survivors in addition to her mother include her husband, Barry Ross, Jefferson; sisters, Carolyn Gaines, Hoschton, and Debbie Murphy, Pendergrass; step-children, Tim Ross, Brandi Ross, David Dyer and Alan Dyer; and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Saturday, October 18, in the chapel of Carter Funeral Home. Burial was in Walnut Fork Baptist Church cemetery.
Carter Funeral Home, Winder, was in charge of arrangements.
Stella Ross
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