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Two outstanding main concerts remain in the second week of the Carmel Bach Festival: "Stephen Prutsman Plays Bach ... and More" and Paul Goodwin's grand finale "Concert Fantastique."
I'll tell you about these programs in a moment. But first here is a summary of what remains for the next four days of the festival.
Tickets are available for both of these splendid programs as well as chamber concerts, the Virginia Best Adams showcase and the concluding "Best of the Fest" concert.
Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at All Saints Church in Carmel, "Mélodies Franaises" features pianist Holly Chatham and five vocal soloists from the festival chorale singing French songs.
Thursday's twilight concert at San Carlos Cathedral in Monterey showcases soprano Domanique Labelle in Bach's Cantata 61 and members of the festival orchestra in works of Bach and Arcangelo Corelli.
Here's an offer you can't refuse: For the "Parisian Matinee Concertante" at Sunset Center at 11 a.m. Saturday morning, the festival invites you take a seat and "Pay What You Can!" This is a fun concert with members of the orchestra in a primarily French program at Sunset Center.
Tickets will be available starting at 10 a.m. outside Sunset Center. Bring cash, checks and credit cards and any amount will be a donation to Carmel Bach Festival. There is a two-ticket limitation. Bring your friends.
On Saturday at 1:30 at Sunset Center the four Virginia Best Adams fellows are showcased in a program of Baroque vocal music as the final public event of their intensive training.
You can attend their last free master class this noon at the Church of the Wayfarer with David Gordon, director of the master class. Gordon will also be giving free lectures before the final set of repeating concerts.
You can purchase tickets online at www.bachfestival.org or by calling 624-1521 or at the Sunset Center box office or Carmel Bach Festival offices in Cottage 16.
Carmel Bach finale
Innovative piano adept Stephen Prutsman has been described as a musical wild man. He embodies the meaning of the term "crossover" in his ability to range between classical, jazz and world music styles seemingly as easily as most of us can turn our heads right or left.
As a pianist, composer and conductor, Prutsman thrives in discovering connections and commonalities in a wide diversity of music.
At the Carmel Bach Festival this year, his jazz-classical mix was imbued with a French flair in honor of this core theme for the music this summer.
Two years ago Prutsman, in collaboration with members of the festival orchestra, inaugurated the Thursday night crossover concert with a highly successful program of Bach, jazz and world music.
This year Prutsman and his Bach Festival band opened with a lyrical concerto by Johann Christian Bach, Bach's youngest son, also known as "the London Bach."
Two jazz etude dazzlers for solo piano followed this appealing opening gambit. "Dog" and "Shadow" displayed Prutsman's fecund originality as a composer, his mastery of jazz style and keyboard technique along with his smart performer's instincts.
Perfect as a choice for this French crossover program, the inclusion of Frenchman Darius Milhaud's "La création du monde" for piano and string quartet, brought American jazz, classical technique and European style together in a single vibrant score, brilliantly executed by Prutsman and the players.
Musically complex and unusual, it stretched ears of audience members used to the more melodic and predictable sound of the festival. But this, after all, is the purpose of the crossover evening. For many the Milhaud inclusion was a highlight of the program.
After intermission Prutsman delivered another winning performance of a crossover creation, playing Bach's beloved French Suite No. 5 in G Major alternating its movements with short works by French composers.
Interestingly, the result of this engaging and imaginative effort was to remind listeners that Bach is a timeless genius.
The French composers didn't quite hold their own with the juxtapositions. However, it was a fun ride and Prutsman's showmanship made it a fascinating journey.
Crossover evening concluded with a keyboard concerto by the festival's namesake. Tickets are available for the final performance of this concert. Enjoy!
Friday night's "Concert Fantastique" led by Goodwin ended with a stunning performance of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique."
Also on the program before intermission you will hear Jean-Philippe Rameau's dance suite "Les Boréades," which includes a delightful moment with percussionist Kevin Neuhoff playing a Baroque wind machine to simulate strong breezes. Maurice Ravel's lovely "Le Tombeau de Couperin" ended the first half of this concert.
According to Goodwin, this Bach Festival presentation of "Symphonie Fantastique" marks the first time on American soil it has been heard in an original-score format complete with Berlioz' unique Paris Conservatory arrangement of the instruments on stage.
First performed in 1830, the symphony is scored for a large orchestra, obviously made up of instruments of the period. As much as possible Goodwin has replicated the original sound of this iconic work for a spectacular result.
Europeans have heard the work presented with original instruments but American orchestras haven't attempted the early music styling until now.
I urge you to attend this performance if you can. Not only is it astounding musically for all the above reasons and more, but it is a history-making performance so powerful and impeccably played that some of us were literally disoriented as we left the theater.
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Students and faculty commemorated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington by participating in a nationwide celebration of the event and Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28.
To mark the historic day – which brought the fight for racial equality to televisions and homes across the nation in 1963 – students and faculty gathered on campus to commemorate the efforts of those who planned the original march, and the progress that stemmed from their actions.
"It's easy for people to forget an issue like this because it occurred a long time ago," said Alex Yamada, senior psychology major.
In an effort to remind younger generations of what some had to endure to gain civil rights, The King Center created a template for schools across the country to use to commemorate the moment in history.
The celebration included ringing bells in unison, creating a mock march and watching broadcasts of speeches given by former and current presidents and civil rights activists.
One of the many people behind the planning of the event was Lili Gradilla, the intercultural program coordinator for the University.
"There are so many issues at stake that the work still continues," Gradilla said.
Senior anthropology major Bryan Torres said that the march was a pivotal change in the way people looked at the plight for civil rights, and even argued it was the most important moment in American history.
Though some of today's hot-button issues differ from those 50 years ago, the signs used in the mock march – promoting immigration reform and ending homelessness – reflect concerns similar to those of King's day.
Though some participating in the event noted that we've made strides recently in the area of gay rights.
"I can't believe I'll tell my kids, 'I remember when gays couldn't marry,'" Gradilla said.
Some agreed the civil rights battles the gay community has had to fight are similar to what African Americans had to endure to gain civil liberties.
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 last June came as a shock to many.
Senior anthropology major Bryan Torres disagreed with the ruling.
"Look at why we fought against it in the first place," he said.
While the March on Washington happened 50 years ago, students still find it an important moment in American history that should be remembered not only for the change it brought, but also for those who lost their lives.
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The son of nightclub owner John Ibrahim has been charged with bashing a man in a Sydney car park.
Daniel Taylor, 20, from North Bondi, was questioned by police in Kings Cross on Thursday before being charged in connection with the alleged assault in a car park at Woolloomooloo on March 12.
A 24-year-old man from Merrylands has also been charged, police said.
A father of two was allegedly assaulted after a fight broke out over a car parking space, the Nine Network reported.
Police raided a house owned by Mr Ibrahim at Dover Heights and another house at Merrylands on Thursday, Fairfax reported.
Taylor was charged with causing reckless grievous bodily harm, damaging property and entering a car without the owner's consent.
He was granted bail to appear before Downing Centre Local Court on April 20.
The other man was charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
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ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf ( @zbyronwolf ) reports:
After Sen. John McCain of Arizona lambasted newly elected fellow Republican senators for insisting that a debt-ceiling deal include a vote on a balanced budget amendment, we asked one of those recently elected Republican senators to weigh in.
"I wouldn't call any plan 'bizarro' that 75 percent of the American people support. That's how Americans feel about the need for a balanced budget amendment," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said, pointing to the passage of the "Cut, Cap and Balance Act" in the House and its support among Republicans in the Senate before Democrats voted to table it.
Lee said it's unfortunate that Democrats used the procedural motion to kill his bill, adding, "I think it's unfortunate that they killed it that way. I think it's even more unfortunate that some people have chosen to criticize this process, rather than seeing it for what it is, which is a sincere desire to address a long-term problem with a permanent solution."
Don't look for Lee to sign on to any ultimate debt-ceiling compromise between House and Senate leaders.
"What I am willing to vote for is anything that doesn't increase tax rates and anything that contains a balanced budget amendment as part of a solution, passing out of Congress. We don't have to wait for state ratification, but there's an enormous amount of flexibility built into this, in terms of the cuts that would be required right now, in terms of the precise composition of the Balanced Budget Amendment proposal and so forth. I don't care who it's submitted by, whether it has a D or an R after the name of the sponsor," he said.
He might get his wish as far as tax increases, but Lee admitted he'll probably be disappointed on the balanced budget amendment requirement.
"I've raised concerns about the fact that I think any deal we put together should contain a balanced budget amendment, but at this point it doesn't appear likely that I'm going to prevail in that regard," he said.
But he does think a bill will pass before the Aug. 2 default deadline.
"From everything I'm hearing, I do think a deal will get done between now and Aug. 2. It remains to be seen exactly what the timing will be, who the author will be or what the contents of the deal will be. I am nevertheless sensing a lot of motivation on the part of my colleagues in the Senate and our counterparts in the House to get something done," Lee said.
But he added that rumors on Capitol Hill have been changing at an alarming rate.
"I have to be clear here in the interest of full disclosure. The rumors change on about a 90-minute basis; that's how quick the cycle is here. So Democrats I'm told have now signed a letter, all 53 Democrats in the Senate have signed a letter that they will not pass the Boehner plan, that it's dead on arrival. And so that would appear to be the case at this point. That could change in the next 90 minutes."
House Republicans, meanwhile, are expected to vote on the Boehner plan a little later today.
Lee was elected in 2010 as a Republican in Utah. He defeated incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett in the primary with help from the Tea Party. But Lee would not take sides today in another potential Republican incumbent challenge in Utah.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, with the urging of some conservative groups, is said to be mulling a run against longtime Sen. Orrin Hatch.
"Look," Lee said. "Jason Chaffetz and Orrin Hatch are both very good friends of mine, and I'm sure they will both make decisions about how, when, whether, to what extent to run campaigns in which races according to their best judgment at the time, and I wish them both well."
Asked who, between Chaffetz and Hatch, would win the primary, Lee punted.
"You know, that's difficult to predict at this point," he said. "We'll have to wait until next year to find that out."


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One-Two Finish Tops Off A Great Season
Peugeot finished 2011 in style with a sixth race win from seven races and a fourth one-two. Anthony Davidson and Sébastien Bourdais claimed victory at Zhuhai ahead of Franck Montagny and Stéphane Sarrazin, after a close race in which the Peugeot 908s once again combined performance, reliability and endurance. This one-two finish in China rounds off a successful year for Peugeot, which has seen them secure a second ILMC title.
Strategy proves key to victory
This one-two finish tops off a great season.
The final race of the 2011 season in Zhuhai was decided by strategy. "Given the heat and the track conditions, we chose to alter our strategy during the race", explained Sébastien Bourdais. "So, I did a triple stint, two of which were on the same tyres. This enabled us to pull away from the Audis, who were very quick." This bold choice paid dividends, as Sébastien Bourdais and Anthony Davidson secured their second win of the season together by adopting a good pace from start to finish. The number 7 car drivers held a narrow lead over Stéphane Sarrazin and Franck Montagny right to the very end of this exciting race. Lapping at the same pace, the two Peugeots controlled proceedings at the end of the race, gradually extending their lead over their rivals.
Traffic and tyres – the season's key factors
Like the intense battle that has raged throughout 2011, traffic management was once again one of the key factors in this race, as was tyre use. The expertise of the Team Peugeot Total drivers has often proved decisive in this key area of endurance racing. Yet again, on the winding Zhuhai racetrack, they produced a faultless performance.
A clean sweep for the Peugeot 908s
After making its competitive debut this season, the Peugeot 908 is today able to celebrate its fifth win in seven races. Exemplary reliability, with only one DNF this year, low fuel consumption and low tyre wear are just some of its strong points. "Today, the win took shape after a third of the race", summarised Bruno Famin, Peugeot Sport's Technical Director. "Our rival started very quickly, so we adapted our strategy, especially as regards the choice of tyres. Winning here was the second of Peugeot's objectives for the season, since the economic stakes are high in China for the brand. We did it in style here, with a one-two finish, an all-Peugeot front row in qualifying and the fastest race lap. This year we have won six of the seven races on the calendar. Every battle with our main rival has been exciting and very intensely fought. Technically, we only had a problem at Petit Le Mans, but we analysed it quickly and responded accordingly. Today's race completes what has been a great season."
The Race:
The race starts off at a sprint
At 11.00am local time, under a blazing sun, the race began at an incredibly fast pace. Starting from pole position, Sébastien Bourdais turned into the first corner ahead of Franck Montagny. The no.8 driver found himself overtaken by both Audis before the end of the first lap. The top four, with Sébastien Bourdais ahead of Allan McNisch, Timo Bernhard and Franck Montagny, were lapping at a similar pace. With ten minutes gone, the first backmarkers were overtaken by the leading cars. Hampered by the traffic, Sébastien Bourdais lost three places, falling back to fourth. The first round of pit stops changed the leaderboard. The Audi no.1 opted for a double stint with the same set of tyres, whereas the Peugeot team decided to change the tyres on both cars. The German car therefore returned to the track in front with a twenty-second lead over Franck Montagny and Sébastien Bourdais. Meanwhile, Allan McNish lost a lap due to repairs being carried out on his car after a clash.
Each to their own strategy
Gradually, the pattern of the race was formed, with three cars lapping together at the front, the Audi no.1 ahead of the two Peugeots. Noticing that Sébastien Bourdais was pushing the pace, Franck Montagny let his team-mate past shortly before the second round of pit stops. This was the point at which different strategies were adopted. In the Peugeot no.8, Stéphane Sarrazin took over from Franck Montagny at 12.28pm, whereas Sébastien Bourdais refuelled and completed a triple stint, two of which he did on the same set of tyres. He therefore grabbed the lead, moving around fifteen seconds ahead of the Audi no.1, driven by that point by Marcel Fässler.
The race positions changed with each round of pit stops. At the start of his second stint, Marcel Fässler found himself at the front, ahead of Stéphane Sarrazin, whilst Anthony Davidson got into the Peugeot no.7. At the half-way stage of the race, both Peugeots, which were completing longer stints than their rivals, picked up the pace. Negotiating the traffic with ease, Stéphane Sarrazin moved past the Swiss driver on lap 113. Two laps later, Anthony Davidson produced a great overtaking move to take second place. The British driver only took a few laps to close the gap to Stéphane Sarrazin. He moved ahead at 1.56pm, just before Stéphane Sarrazin came into the pits to hand over to Franck Montagny.
A clear-cut race to the chequered flag
In his second stint, Anthony Davidson managed to build enough of a lead for Sébastien Bourdais to come back out onto the track in the lead after the Peugeot no.7's fifth pit stop. With only a few seconds between them, it was only through being held up by slower cars that the Peugeot no.8 lost touch with the race leader. After successfully completing 249 laps, Sébastien Bourdais and Anthony Davidson were the first to take the chequered flag, followed by Franck Montagny and Stéphane Sarrazin, thus securing a fine one-two finish for Peugeot.
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Sébastien Bourdais, Peugeot 908 no.7: "I made a good start, but got caught in the traffic and the other cars took advantage. It often works out like that when you're the first to come up on slower cars. We then decided, successfully, to change tactics. This race is very much like the rest of the season: very closely contested at the start, and then gradually our rivals lost touch as the race went on. In terms of performance, it was much closer than the result would suggest. This one-two finish tops off a great season. For me, this is my third win. The team has been very strong this season and all the drivers have been consistent."
Anthony Davidson, Peugeot 908 no.7: "It was an interesting race; very close and all about strategy. The car's handling was perfect. The tyres weren't working particularly well at the start of the race. We didn't panic and changed the tyres at the first driver handover. The car worked very well from that point onwards. The hotter it became, the more rubber there was on the track, the better it was for us. We're all very happy with the way the season has gone. We have shown the Peugeot 908 and Team Peugeot Total to have very good performance levels at all the tracks."
It has been a good season for Peugeot, with a second consecutive ILMC title.
Stéphane Sarrazin, Peugeot 908 no.8: "This weekend, my three team-mates were very quick and nobody made even the slightest mistake. We gave everything and everyone did a great job. It has been a good season for Peugeot, with a second consecutive ILMC title and a win here in China for the second year running."
Franck Montagny, Peugeot 908 no.8: "We were expecting a very close race. It was always going to be the way on this track. The top four cars all started the race with different tyre configurations. Our tyre set-up didn't really suit me at the start. We were in with a shout of victory until my second stint in the car when I was held up badly by the traffic and lost about fifteen second due to a false safety car warning. I am pleased with the result and overall, am very happy with this season. We have proved that we can win with different ideas and technologies to those of our main rival."


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The union representing the 450 striking dockers says it will come up with a new bottom line in the next couple of days in a bid for a "breakthrough" in the workers' weeks-long walkout.
Speaking after a three-hour meeting with half of the striking dockers on the 27th day of the industrial action yesterday, Union of Hong Kong Dockers spokesman Stanley Ho Wai-hong said the union had yet to come to a decision on the new bottom line, but it would definitely be a "two-digit number".
"It could be 11 per cent or 19 per cent," Ho said. But the contractors had to offer much better benefits, he added.
"The dockers want to show a sign of sincerity and hope there will be a breakthrough. They want the public to know they want the strike to end, too."
The strikers had been demanding HK$100 more for each shift they worked, meaning a rise of about 20 per cent.
Ho said they also had plans for further action that would take the form of sit-ins and protests in places other than their current strike base at the Cheung Kong Center in Central.
The Center is the office of tycoon Li Ka-shing, whose Hutchison Whampoa is parent company of the strike-hit port operator Hongkong International Terminals (HIT).
Asked whether the strikers would stage a sit-in outside Li's Deep Water Bay house, Ho said: "This is something we can consider. It would be better if we can do it inside his house."
Separately, HIT placed its third advertisement in several newspapers yesterday, saying it had to deliver "the truth behind distorted remarks" made by the strike organiser earlier.
HIT said the advertisement placed by the strike organiser on Monday was "misleading" and was in need of clarification.
It criticised the union's advertisement for misleading the public by saying that Hutchison Port Holdings - which HIT is under - made HK$780 million in profits last year.
HIT clarified that the amount of profit was from all the 52 ports in 26 countries under Hutchison Port. HIT's profits were less than a tenth of that amount, it said.


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-- C. Virginia (Wenger) Royer, 82, of Okeechobee, Fla., formerly of Orrville, died Thursday, May 20, 1999, at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., of complications from open-heart surgery.
Memorial services have been held in Florida. Burial will be in Ontario, Canada. There will be no local services.
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She was born in 1917 in Orrville to John M. and Lena (Hahn) Wenger and married William Royer. He died previously and was also formerly of Orrville.
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What started as a college hobby for Daniel Kurzrock and Jordan Schwartz turned into a business.
During their time studying Economics at UCLA, the two started brewing beer from home. Soon enough, the 20 pounds of grain used in each 5 gallon batch quickly piled up.
"We wanted to find something creative to do instead of throwing it in the dumpster," Kurzrock says.
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The two then came up with ReGrained, a granola bar company that partners with local breweries who would have otherwise thrown out the spent grain. In beer-making, malt, barley that has been soaked in water and dried with hot air, is the backbone of any brew and is the source of ReGrained's primary ingredient. Malting germinates the barley which creates the enzymes that enable the starch from the grain to be broken down into fermentable sugars. That barley is usually thrown out. That's where ReGrained comes in.
"Grain that's left behind has a lot of fiber, and it tastes good," Kurzrock says.
According to their website, approximately 200 million barrels of beer are consumed each year, with an average of 6 billion pounds of grain used by the brewing industry in the United States.
The two developed a bread recipe that they gave to friends for feedback. The outdoorsy types that frequent bike pathways and mountain trails, the two eventually created recipes for granola bars to take along with them.
"The problem with bread is that it's only good the day you bake it," Kurzrock says.
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After the installation (ofcourse as instructed) I did a reboot and then I got the main screen right after, no setup wizard etc etc nothing at all.
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A MAN has been charged following an attempted robbery at a Widnes jewellery shop.
Jack McKeown, aged 19, of no fixed abode, has been charged with one count of burglary. He has been remanded into custody and is due to appear before North Cheshire Magistrates′ Court today.
The charge follows an incident at Neil and Barker jewellers in Green Oaks shopping centre on Thursday, May 8 in which two men, armed with a sledgehammer, attempted to rob the premises.
One man was arrested at the scene, the other, dressed in dark clothing and wearing a balaclava, made off from the scene on a motorbike.
Police have thanked the public for their assistance following the incident, which took place shortly before 3.30pm.
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My thoughts on tonight's debate: (1) There was a clear loser: Jim Lehrer. That was the worst debate format I've probably ever seen. As a result we got nothing but repetitive answer that went on for over five minutes. (2) Romney did well. Tomorrow the fact checkers will tear him apart for all his lies. (3) President Obama (and democrats in general a lot of times) has to stop believing that being on the right side of the issue is enough. It's not enough.


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Anybody live here or ever lived here? I do and I hate it. I hate it so much.
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Anybody live here or ever lived here? I do and I hate it. I hate it so much.
I've never been to TH, but I've never heard anything good about it either.
It smells really bad i forget why. I think they have a company there that makes it stink and puts fumes in the air.
There's a big paper plant in Terre Haute. I think that might be it. They also make railroad ties there and I believe they soak them in poison/preservative which smells horrible.
I've been to Terre Haute many times and it isn't much to look at. It's not the worst place to live in Indiana though...and there are some things to do, particularly if you like fishing and camping. Rose Hulman is an excellent engineering school just east of town. ISU's campus is basically downtown and while not as nice as IU or Purdue, it isn't bad.
Terre Haute just south of downtown and especially the stench after it rains is the bad part.
Nothing wrong with the haute, the stench is gone for the most part unless you go down to the mall because the sewage plant has a stench of death...
Moved away from TH at the start of the 5th grade (mid 1950's) and went back to attend ISU. I still consider her my hometown.
Commercial Solvents is gone (they were really stinkie) as is Champaigne Velvet brewry. I know that during the 60's they made things like Goofey Grape there and I'm certain Clabber GIrl is still there.
As I said....even tho I only get back rarely, I still consider her my hometown.
(1622 5th Avenue...I can still remember the address).
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
Indiana state alum 2010 here.
Class of 1969 attendee here. Ended up married before I graduated so I took a job in Indy and graduated from Uni of Indy
Greyhounds and Sycamores.....hmm...dogs and trees, somehow they seem to go together.
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
Yep, I guess I'm a half full kind of person as THaute get's a bad rap sometimes.
Sewage plant is getting better and apparently they're working on it in phases to elimante the smell completely.
If you're young, no cash, no car, then yes T.Haute could be miserable. You have a nice facility in Hulman Center that could host some decent rock concerts (they do have country often, Miranda Lambert in about a week or so) but that hasn't taken place in years. But.... if you have a vehicle, let's face it, an hour and a half you're at Verizon. Or an hour the other direction you're at the Effingham Performance Center for old geezer rockers (who I like).
Some decent bars with decent entertainment in town and pretty good comedy at Mulligan's down on the south end. Carlos Mencia for $25 bucks this past May was hard to beat. Seen alot of the comedians from the Bob and Tom show there for the cover price of $10 bucks.
Really only a few dicey areas to avoid and I believe they pretty much show the same movies in Terre Haute they do in Indy.
Can't wait for the 9th of September for the Blues at the Crossroads downtown. Good music and a good party to be had downtown.
http://www.bluesatthecrossroads.com/performers.php Kelly Richey on stage that Friday.
Audio is terrible but this is one person I look forward to seeing at the Crossroads. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9wrL...eature=related
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You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
Proud to be a tree. Indiana state athletics is back on the rise and that's probably the best ticket in town.
I'm tired of the bad rap Terre Haute gets. I'd go back in a second if it were at all practical for my job. The area I grew up in, the people were so nice and there were not as many problems in the schools and certainly not the same type of problems. And as someone said the smell is gone. The paper mill and railroad tie factories have scaled back or closed altogether. Buying a house in Indy is the worst decision I've ever made. The thugs roam loose in my neighborhood. No parents around to put a foot in their *** when they're messing up. A month ago some punks did a drive by on my neighbors house. And I'm supposed to send my kids to school here? I don't think so. Yessir, I'd go back to TH in a second.
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Ha, you would be from the class of '69
Always been a point of pride.
Hey I still have my Property of Indiana State PE t-shirt if anyone knows how I can get Bird to autograph it for me........
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
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Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
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Lived there for about 3 years, 03-mid 06ish. Haven't been back since other than the random drive through, but I do think it gets a bum rap. No it's not some destination spot, clearly, but it's condensed and has everything you'd (at least I'd) want. Of course I was young(er) then so can't speak for the school systems and things like that. Wouldn't live there again if it were up to me, but hey, it ain't Gary.
It doesnt have enough recreation centers for kids. over 75% of Terre Haute is places to eat. Has a horrible drug problem. the rich kids get everything. 25 kids got busted for weed at Terre Haute south the other day. I'd do anything to move back to the suburbs of indy.


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Rifle for Daughter
Hello, I am considering buying a BAR in 308 or 243 for my daughter. It will be used mainly for hill country deer and possibly some hog hunting here in Texas. I have settled on the Semi Auto for the lower recoil to help insure that she enjoys shooting as much as possible. I would prefer the 308 as it would make shot placement a bit less critical but would consider the 243 as well. My question is would there be a substantial difference in recoil between the 2. I have never shot either one although I did have a 308 Savage when I was a youngster and it kicked pretty hard, did not have a recoil pad.
If anyone can give me some advice I would appreciate it.
Is your daughter an experienced shooter? If she is, the recoil shouldn't be a big deal if she knows what to expect. If she is not experienced, these are some hefty calibers to use as an introduction. I suggest you get her started with something with little or no recoil to get her hooked, then work up to the bigger stuff. :)
As for the difference in recoil...I don't know. Personally, I don't find the .308 to be all that bad even in a bolt action, but I'm probably somewhat larger than your daughter. I haven't fired a .243 before.
Bones, welcome to the forum. a little more detail about your daughter would help in making suggestions of caliber. age? size? shooting experiance? one of the first centerfire rifles i ever shot was a bolt action 243 of my dads, when i was about 9 or 10. the 308 would be better if she has some experiance with hunting and shooting, especially in the semi auto type rifle, the recoil shouldn't be too bad. if her skill level is just starting out, the the 243 would, IMO be a better caliber. the 243 would still be an excellent caliber for deer hunting, hog hunting, i have no input as to if it would be satisfactory for that or not. need more dtail to help you make a better decision.
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She is 27 but lightly built. We have done some shooting over the years together but never with any purpose other than to have fun. I have no doubt that she will be able to hit what she needs to I am just trying to make sure that it is enjoyable and she will continue her new interest. I was out at the range the other day with my Remington 7 mag and I realized that old gun of mine that I got for my 12th birthday in 1968 was still trying to beat me to death. I remember vividly all the trips to the range with my dad (big in to reloading) and not exactly enjoing the experience. I will probably use the gun as well as I am seriously considering putting the Remington up for sale.
Thanks for your input.
I would say she is semi experienced, had her out at the range a couple days ago to warm her up a bit . Started with the old 22 to get her used to squeezing the trigger and take her time, then she emptied a few clips out my Marlin Camp 9. Of course the 22 has no recoil and the 9mm has very little as well. She was still making nice little groups at 100 yards. Those 9mm get kind of side ways at that distance. My biggest problem with this kid of mine is she is very goal orriented, she does not like to do anything she can't conquer almost immediatley so I need to give her the best opportunity I can. Probably the 243 would be better for her but the 308 would be better for the deer.
Bones, given the info, i would suggest the 308 if you are leaning towards a semi auto rifle like the BAR. beings she has done some shooting and your plans, i think IMO, the 308 would better suited as far as caliber for the type of hunting. i have a heavy barreled 308 in bolt action, and it's not bad at all on recoil. so a BAR in 308, should be even less in felt recoil than mine. i think she would be fine with the 308. good luck.
Thats the info I was hoping to hear. Thanks again
My wife is small and she had a 243. Recoil was easy for her to handle and was very accurate. Especially after I got her to keep her eyes open. I cut the stock down for her which helps as a properly fitting gun will dampen the felt recoil. Hers was a bolt action. You might consider a 7mm 08 as a compromise. The Weatherby Vanguard is available as a 2 stock set. Standard and youth. She will shoot a lot better with a stock that fits her.
Thank you, I will look in to your suggestions.
243 or 308
I have both in bolt action. If she is recoil shy the 243 has a lot less recoil and is a more than adaquate deer rifle with proper bullet selection but I wouldn't use it on anything larger. You could save yourself some $$ buying the bolt action over the SA but the 308 would be somewhat buffered in SA. My 308 is a 6.5 lb rifle and actually is the hardest kicking rifle I own for that reason. The 243 is a M700 Rem and has very little recoil but is the most accurate rifle I own and shoots .38 MOA. We can't hunt with semi autos in Pa so if you plan on hunting out of state you may want to check their laws. By the way, I bought my 243 from my 80 year old aunt who took a few deer with it. She probably weighed 130 lbs at the most. She never had a problem with knock down power, she also hunted in Texas and Az.
dteed, very good advice. bolt actions will have a little more recoil, and more the lighter the rifle. but a bolt action is going to be a little more accurate than most semi auto rifles, so there is a trade off here. suggestion, a new Marlin XS7 in 243, and see if you can find a decent used BAR in 308. just an idea to kick around.
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The number of cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in Colorado feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 head or larger was estimated at 980,000 head as of April 1, 2013.
The latest inventory was 1 percent below last month's inventory and 8 percent below April 1, 2012 inventory. The inventory included 610,000 steers and steer calves, down 16 percent from the previous year.
The number of heifers and heifer calves, at 365,000 head, are up 9 percent from a year ago. The number of cows and bulls totaled 5,000 head, no change from last year's number. Cattle feeders with 1,000 head or larger capacity marketed an estimated 165,000 head of fed cattle during March 2013. This was 3 percent below the previous month's marketings and 6 percent below a year ago.
An estimated 165,000 cattle and calves were placed on feed during March, up 3 percent from February 2013 placements and up 3 percent from a year ago.
Of the number placed in March, 15 percent weighed less than 600 pounds, 18 percent weighed from 600 to 699 pounds, 33 percent weighed from 700 to 799 pounds, and 33 percent weighed 800 pounds and greater.
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That's a Hot One!: 'Highly Intoxicated' Suspected Illegal Immigrant Employs Gutsy Camouflage in U.S. Entry Attempt
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COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say an immigrant suspected of entering the country illegally attempted to make his journey in an unusual but hot place — a shipment of red chile.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at a New Mexico border checkpoint said the man was discovered Thursday face down among a commercial load of the spicy stuff.
Columbus Port Director Robert Reza says next to the "highly intoxicated" 35-year-old was a bottle of tequila.
The man, who authorities described as a Mexican national, told agents that he climbed into the commercial hopper while it was being staged in Mexico with hopes of catching a ride to Chicago. But agents said he got less than 100 yards into New Mexico before he was discovered.
The red chile shipment was later released.
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I'm not sure..but my understanding is that the jalopeno has to be cut before it burns you..it's the seeds. But I"m not sure about dried peppers.. Just googled it..learn something new every day.
How to Get Rid of Chili Burn
If you've ever handled fresh or dried chillies, you've probably experienced that burning sensation on your fingers and hands at one time or another. That painful, burning feeling comes from the capsaicin in chilies and chili peppers like jalapeños.
You've also probably found out that washing your hands in soap and water – however long you do it – didn't relieve the burn. Here are some tips on how to get rid of chili burn.
How to get rid of chili burn
1) Try dabbing some lemon or lime juice (vinegar will work too) on the affected areas.
Why this works: The acid in lemon/lime juice or vinegar counteracts the alkaline in the chili's capsaicin. This also explains why you only get chili burn from handling fresh or dried chilies and not chili sauces (because most chili sauces already has some acidic content in it, like lemon juice or vinegar).
2) Rub some oil (e.g. olive oil, coconut oil, etc) over your hands after cutting the chilies. Then wash off with soap and water.
Why this works: Capsaicin is oil-soluble, so rubbing oil over it loosens the compound.
3) Run your hands through your hair. A commenter (AL) shared that running your hands through your hair can work to soothe the burning sensation. Another commenter (Rivrey) has confirmed that this works!
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text: Had a really fun time! Unfortunately, the weather was a bit chilly 'til the day before we left, but we spent the day on the beach under one of those canopy lounge chairs for 2. We stayed in the Inn portion of the place overlooking the parking lot (the beach view was a few points more - next time I will do that). My DD has been complaining about the uncomfortable sofa beds from past vacations. Well, these beds were VERY comfy. The only prob, was the lack of privacy! There is a micro, fridge, coffee maker and toaster in the room. No laundry facilities. And, there is A VERY BIG PROB - they don't give you towels again until the 4th night. I was on a constant search for more towels (since we couldn't wash them ourselves). I took some off the maid's cart and brought some back from the beach. This is totally ridiculous! If we had a washer and dryer, we would wash them, but WE DIDN'T! I am going to tell Disney that something needs to be done when you stay in the inn. We ate at Shutters three times - once for breakfast (wanted those Mickey waffles) and 2 dinners. Food was good, service was fine. The gradefruit chicken was great. The prime rib just fair. Thank goodness we had the DDE card - 20% off (because it wasn't worth it otherwise)... Ate brunch at Sonya's. The food was certainly not extraordinary (the staff kept saying it would be). It was standard brunch fare. The service that day was ok, not great. (Hubby had to ask for coffee 3 times!) There was a nice selection of food, but again, no better than any other buffet. DDE was accepted here too. We went 'off campus' to Squid Lips in Sebastin (about 10 miles away on the water). The place was great! There were Early Bird specials for appetizers, drinks and dinners. We had the chicken wings and calamari (hubby loved that). For dinner, he had the scallops wrapped in bacon and DD and I had cocunut shrimp. We ended with a terrific chocolate cake ($3 here as opposed to about $7-8 - I forgot -- at Shutters). Would definitely go here again. Locals and visitors come and everyone leaves full and happy. Hope this helps some who plan to visit Vero.


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As a hockey mom, do you ever wish you could understand what your pee-wees are doing out there?
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Chase from White House to Capitol ends in gunfire
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Police and witnesses say gunfire outside the U.S. Capitol today began when a woman tried to ram through a White House barricade with her car.
They say the woman then led police on a chase that ended outside the Capitol.
Police say the woman was taken into custody, and a young child who was with her was taken to a hospital.
A police officer was injured when the car crashed outside the Capitol, but the injuries weren't life-threatening.
Police say no officers were wounded by gunfire.
The entire Capitol complex was locked down for about an hour.
Both houses of Congress went into recess.
Witnesses say at least 20 police cars were involved in the car chase toward Capitol Hill. One tourist says he walked toward the scene, curious about what was going on but then he "heard the gunfire" and hit the ground.
Police believe the shooting is an isolated incedent, not an act of terrorism.
The House had just approved legislation aimed at partly lifting the government shutdown by paying National Guard and Reserve members when the warning sounded.


text: > Hi > Can anyone think of a clever (non-lopping) solution to the following? > > A have a list of latitudes, a list of longitudes, and list of data > values. All lists are the same length. > > I want to compute an average of data values for each lat/lon pair. > e.g. if lat[1001] lon[1001] = lat[2001] [lon [2001] then > data[1001] = (data[1001] + data[2001])/2 > > Looping is going to take wayyyy to long. As a start, are the "equal" lat/lon pairs exactly equal (i.e. either not floating-point, or floats that will always compare equal, that is, the floating-point bit-patterns will be guaranteed to be identical) or approximately equal to float tolerance? If you're in the approx-equal case, then look at the KD-tree in scipy for doing near-neighbors queries. If you're in the exact-equal case, you could consider hashing the lat/ lon pairs or something. At least then the looping is O(N) and not O(N^2): import collections grouped = collections.defaultdict(list) for lt, ln, da in zip(lat, lon, data): grouped[(lt, ln)].append(da) averaged = dict((ltln, numpy.mean(da)) for ltln, da in grouped.items()) Is that fast enough? Zach


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Women and child development Minister Maneka Gandhi has tied rakhis to SSB jawans at the Indo-Nepal border by visiting Champawat in Uttarakhand on Sunday. The jawans have expressed happiness seeing the gesture of the minister. The minister said ,'we wanted to honour the people who serve us, they stop all the illegal activities at the border'. 'This was long overdue. So I came here and made them my brothers', the minister added.


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This 1956 Lincoln MKII (chassis C5601419) is said to be all original, matching numbers, and mostly complete. It currently runs, drives and stops but will need a complete restoration. There's some compelling but circumstantial evidence that the car may have been modified by George Barris, and though a neat possibility the car is easily strong enough on its own merits that we'd feature it either way. Find it here on eBay in Seminole, Florida with a $12,500 BIN.
The interior of this car will likely be where most of any potential restoration dollars will be spent. It looks mostly complete but thoroughly shot by an apparent combination of long term storage, sun, and fluctuating humidity. The dash is heavily damaged and will likely need to be replaced, seats are cracked and ripped and in need of new upholstery, but door cards appear to have been stored separately and have survived the years pretty well. The driver's floor pan will need replacing, but otherwise the car is said to be largely solid.
Recent work includes rebuilt heads, carb, power booster, master and wheel cylinders, a re-cored radiator, new water pump, exhaust, thermostat, tires, brakes and lines, shocks front and rear, and more. Additionally the fuel tank has been cleaned, the fuel system rebuilt, and all lights and gauges are said to be functional. All new glass rubber is included but not yet installed. It's said to run great, and overall seems like a pretty straightforward restoration project. Whether verifiable or not we'd definitely try to recreate the Barris look seen in period photos as it's likely this is the same car.
Sourcing interior pieces that are beyond repair will be the hardest part of refurbishing this old Lincoln, and the mechanical work already done constitutes a large chunk of the stuff we'd tackle first if the car where ours. Fix the relatively modest rust issues and it seems as if there'd be little else to do beyond cosmetics–regardless if the Barris connections can ever be 100% confirmed we're still big fans.
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Buzz Aldrin's importance in the history of the world cannot be overstated, and yet I get the impression when reading Matt Thurber's interview (and others)–in the April/ May 2012 edition of Business Jet Traveler that Aldrin views 32 years of sobriety as his greatest achievement. I find it fascinating that the second man to walk on the Moon is also someone who, minute by minute, bravely faced down his own demons here on Earth until he conquered them–to the point where he has been able to help others who are experiencing similar struggles.
In his latest book, William Shatner emphasizes how important it is to say Yes to opportunity and to life in general. Shatner is no stranger to personal struggles and there have been several moments in his career where it must have felt to him as if the whole world was saying No. But he has triumphed time and again and now, at age 81, has just finished an acclaimed one-man show on Broadway–not to mention helicopter-flying lessons.
It is easy to forget that all major feats start out as tiny ideas that must be nurtured through, among other things, sheer hard work and discipline. Putting one foot in front of the other towards a goal is maybe the most important discipline of all. I have never forgotten a comment BJT cover subject Bobbi Brown (August/September 2011) made to editor Jeff Burger after he asked about her vision of the future when her company was just starting out. She replied that if she'd known then how successful she'd become, the prospect would have been so overwhelming that she wouldn't have built her business. But of course, she didn't have to deal with the success–and the work that led to it–all at once. Bobbi Brown Cosmetics became a global enterprise because day by day and project by project, she moved steadily in the right direction.
A few weeks ago we published our first ever BJT Buyers' Guide in Chinese, distributed at the ABACE show in Shanghai at the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE) in Shanghai. Not long ago, the idea of translating our publication into Chinese and circulating it across Asia would have seemed preposterous and even impossible. Yet here we are on the verge of a new frontier for BJT. The issue came together piece by piece and was not without its trials and setbacks, but the final product is something we are immensely proud of.
It's an important lesson to remember when the end result seems unattainable: keep putting one foot in front of the other and one day you may look up and find yourself standing on the moon–or at least publishing in Shanghai.
P.S. Speaking of saying Yes, we hope you will respond positively to our invitation to take a few minutes to complete the second annual BJT Readers' Choice Survey. The results, which we'll report in our October/November issue, will reveal our subscribers' positive and negative experiences with business jet companies, travel and aircraft. Our findings are sure to impact the business aviation community and to help make you a more-informed consumer.


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text: Thwarted By A Surge Of Democracy By Serge Halimi June 4, 2005 [ A+ ] / [ A- ] Email this page Posted in: Europe, North America | No comments By Serge Halimi There is one tiny problem with most of the analysis of last Sunday's vote in France. Those who probe the motivations of the large majority who voted no (54.87%) forget to remind us that they, overwhelmingly, voted yes. For more than six months, all the leading commentators in the media heaped praise on the constitutional project. France's two biggest media owners (and weapons manufacturers) endorsed the yes side: Serge Dassault, a conservative senator, did so in an editorial in one of his many magazines; Arnaud Lagardere spoke to a pro-yes rally, cheered by Nicolas Sarkozy and most of the cabinet. Most commentators have observed that Jacques Chirac has been stung by this defeat, but the rout of France's mainstream media is even more impressive. From the rightwing television channel TF1 to the "leftwing" weekly le Nouvel Observateur, and including le Monde, Liberation, the business press, the major radio stations, even women's and sports publications – they all warned and railed, they all censored and twisted. Yet, their propaganda was blunted by an unexpected surge of democracy. Thousands of well-attended meetings discussed the constitutional treaty. And, bit by bit, the sense of inevitability that it would be easily ratified by a mildly interested electorate was torn apart. Indeed the outrage about media bias became a leading issue of the campaign – not least because it encapsulated so many of the things that this referendum came to be about: representation, the elite and class. The problem is obvious on the political side. Last February more than 90% of French deputies had backed the constitution; it garnered the support of only 45% of the voters. The gap is no less obvious when it comes to informing the people: the leading journalists, who often live in Paris, an increasingly bourgeois city, seem to write and speak for the affluent. And the rich did vote yes by a healthy margin, just like 66% of the Parisians. But elsewhere it was quite another story: whereas 74% of the voters earning more than E4,500 a month backed the constitutional project, 66% of the voters earning less than E1,500 a month voted against. In ultra-wealthy Neuilly (a Paris suburb where many industrial and media tycoons reside, and whose mayor is the presidential hopeful Sarkozy) 82.5% voted yes. Mining cities of northern France and the poorest districts of Marseille were equally lopsided: 84% of Avion (Nord-Pas-de Calais) and 78% of Marseille's 15th district voted no. Granted, Chirac has lost. Yet it should not take long for the Socialists to wonder how well a party of the left is doing when 80% of the workers and the unemployed, 60% of the young and a large proportion of its own voters desert its official position on such an important issue. Four years ago Pierre Moscovici, then the French minister for European affairs, wrote in the Financial Times that Tony Blair's triumph was "excellent news for the left and for Europe. For the left, it shows that a good leader, good results and a good programme can win elections. From that point of view, Mr Blair is an admirable example to other social democrats." Yet a few months after Lionel Jospin had been inspired by this "admirable example" he was humiliated in France's presidential election and sidelined by Jean-Marie Le Pen. The cause? A gulf between the Socialist party and its working-class constituency, who rarely read the English business press. The party did not learn its lesson. By backing a constitution enshrining free-market liberalism, it again made the wrong choice and lost. Business leaders and the wealthy journalists who write for them may bewail this: the French regularly reject Anglo-Saxon-style capitalism, and the left electorate does not want the "third way". Every new election makes this clear. Yet nothing seems to change. Chirac was first elected president 10 years ago because he had denounced a "social divide". Today it is greater than ever. In the meantime, a series of free-market reforms has hit pensions, education and industry. Unemployment has kept on rising and poverty has spread. Some politicians – and the employers' federation – had hoped to use the constitution's obsession with markets (the word appears 88 times) and competition (29 times) as a legal wedge against France's "social model". "Why am I pro-European?" said Sarkozy a few weeks ago. "Because I think it is a powerful lever to force France to modernise and reform. If France has twice as much unemployment as other countries it is not because we are too liberal, it is because we have the 35-hour week." But France is not yet safe for liberalism. Sarkozy's line of argument triggered such a backlash that the Socialists – but also Chirac – swore that he had misunderstood it all. "The constitution is a child of 1789," Chirac argued. But by voting no, many French people have understood that their choice was the truly European one – that, contrary to what they were told, the constitutional treaty was not the tool that could end Europe's free-market drift. In the last 20 years, the project dreamed up by the European commission and most governing coalitions of the member states has appeared obsessed only with economic reform, an ever-expanding free-market zone, the dismantling of the welfare state, lower corporate taxes and business-friendly legislation – such as a proposal to liberalise Europe's market for service industries. France's landslide rejection of the treaty is likely to embolden many of the progressive forces of the EU, bringing about the rethinking of a once-worthy ideal that gradually became distorted into a single market and a military junior partner for the US. Such a reappraisal bears no resemblance to the "federation of fear" that European commission president José Manuel Barroso saw unfolding after Sunday's vote. All along, "Europe" has been an elite process with shallow roots. In France, a large turnout (70%) has tackled the constitutional project with seriousness and passion. Many politicians in Paris and Brussels probably regret this surge of democracy and will look for ways to pressure the French to hold another vote. But it is unlikely that an informed electorate will change its mind now that it has understood the links between the social devastation at home and the neoliberal policies that spread under the cover of European unification. 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I need your help. I know how I create databases, and I've watched a lot of other data professionals follow their own processes for that, but I want to know how YOU do it.
I've written about the process I follow for a complete database design on InformIT (use the "Next" button at the bottom of these to see them all). Beyond starting with the business requirements and REALLY hammering that out, here is the general outline I use:
1. Pull out the nouns from the business requirements ("Client", "FirstName", "LastName", "Business Name", "Business Street" )
2. Group the nouns into "parent | child" sets ("Client: First Name, Last Name", "Business: Business Street")
3. Continue Steps 1 and 2 until you can't do it any further. These are your tables and columns.
4. Set a value that uniquely identifies every record (line). This becomes the Primary Key. I normally use a "surrogate" key, but a natural key also works if you need it. I don't like compound keys, but I'll use them where they make sense. But the overall goal is that every key should be able to identify one "Buck Woody" from another "Buck Woody" record. If it doesn't, I haven't done steps 1-2 enough, or perhaps I've done it too much.
5. Examine each and every column and ensure that they are in the proper type. Check the business requirements to make sure. (dates are always dates, money is money, numbers are always numbers and so on) Repeat until everyone agrees.
6. Examine the relationships between the tables. Can there be many clients in a company? Can there be many companies for each client? This sets up Foreign Keys, and potentially other tables to solve many-to-many relationships.
There's a bit more to it than that, and the business requirements side of things are where I actually spend the most time. If you get that wrong, the most beautiful design in the world won't work over time.
I currently use DBDesignerFork for my design documents to coordinate with my business and development teams, which is not a perfect tool. But Microsoft doesn't have a good one (we did in Visio, but we messed that up) and so this is what I have to work with. I don't keep up with this diagram after I create it; it's just a tool to help me communicate from business to dev to DBA's.
So now here is where I need your help. Will you post a response here (if you design databases very often) that tells me:
1. What process do you follow?
2. How important are the business requirements?
3. What tool do you use to create the design, do you need it to diagram, do you even care about diagrams?
4. What's your biggest pain-point about designing? Not with SQL Server, mind you, just the designing part.
Once I have the base entities straight, I design the schema using CREATE TABLE statements. I like to see tables and columns representing the "nouns" just because that's the way I think. I am not a huge fan of ER tools or SQL Server's diagrams, as I find they are just an extra step on the way to building the database, though I do resort to them sometimes when I need to communicate the schema to others.
My main problem is that I have yet to be involved in a project where the business requirements (which are crucial!) are completely known up front, or at least remained stable throughout the design process.
Sometimes building out the schema has led to questions that challenge the business requirements, often leading to re-hashing the requirements or at least trying to make more sense of them. Other times the requirements change during the design phase for other reasons - more client feedback, allowing "nice-to-haves" into the hard requirement bullet list, scope creep, etc.
Unfortunately these are the realities of most software projects that I don't think I'll have many opportunities to escape.
My thoughts:
1. I haven't done from-scratch "formal" datamodeling in years. These days when I do it, it's for my own pet projects, sites or tools that I'm building mostly just for myself. As such, I have to pull steps 1 & 2 & 3 out of thin air, but I like doing it on paper first before I approach a datamodeling tool. I do step 6 after step 3 though. Seems like when I skip that, I find that I didn't catch a normalization mistake, and I find that an attribute is really many-to-many, and then I have to redo my datamodel. That's why I really like doing v1 on paper. After I've done several iterations on paper, then I hit Toad Data Modeler.
2. Important, and question everything. Never take just one person's answer. Just because the project manager doesn't think a person can have two companies doesn't mean it's true. Ask the people who are currently using the system you're about to replace, whether it's a paper system or a computerized one. Ask them, and they'll know the exceptions to the rule.
3. Quest Toad Data Modeler. I work for Quest, but I can give this answer with a straight face because I used the original tool (Case Studio) before it was bought by Quest, and long before I came to work for Quest. That tool is awesome for the price. I like diagrams because it helps me communicate ETL issues to people who manage other databases.
4. Right now, visualizing partitions. If I want to shard or partition, it's painful to show different ways of doing that.
I was going to do a blog post on something new I've been trying but I've been too lazy to do it.
I do everything on paper before I go near a computer. High level boxes and arrows stuff. Then I start decomposing the top level nouns that I came up with into their component parts. Sometimes, I'll actually write it all out long hand. If I can't figure out how something works and explain it clearly via prose, how can I hope to effectively model it and write code to deal with it?
Only after I really understand things do I get to the point of modeling nouns and verbs and then writing SQL.
Hi Buck,
1) I'm pretty much a traditionalist when it comes to DB Modelling. I'm sure these approaches will be pretty familiar to you.
My DB Design work routinely starts with a big (A3 or bigger) piece of paper or a whiteboard and a domain map - for example, in a traditional order processing system I'd have a big box for Sales, another box for Products, another for Order Fulfilment, one for Employees, one for Suppliers, etc.
I then put boxes inside (or spanning) those regions, starting at the intersects with bridging entities e.g. Orders bridges Order Fulfilment and Sales, Products connects to Orders, Suppliers connects to Products, Employee Sales, etc. I'll then work back towards the centre of each domain box with more specific entities (e.g. Order Details, Product Options, Employee Type, Sales Channel Type, etc.
Once I've sketched out the top level entities (Len Silverston's reference models are really handy for this) I then sit down with the clients/end-users and attack the model. What bits have I missed? What bits don't you need? What are the business processes that are supported by each of these subject areas? That usually leads to more entities, types, sub-types, etc.. and tends to surface parent-child hierarchies.
With the extra detail about the entities, I'll then start adding some meat to the bones. What do you need to know about an order? What information about an order do you need to fulfill it correctly? What are the decision points around order processing? Likewise for the other core entities identified.
By the time I'm done with this, my model will typically be in ERwin or Visio. I usually have a pretty good handle on cardinality, required business information fields (e.g. Names, phone numbers, order quantities, etc), business metadata fields required to support business automation (e.g. order IDs, invoice numbers, payment IDs). At this point I'll do a normalization and refactoring sweep to do things like convert subtypes to type detail tables with a type-parent intersect table.
Next step is adding unique keys. I'll probably already have an Int/Decimal(N, 0) of some description doing duty as a surrogate key which also has a physical PK constraint defined on it. I'll define unique constraints against natural keys. I'll also start thinking about data domains (check constraints, defaults, rules, etc) and start adding additional "state" metadata - e.g. IsCourierDeliveryOnly on Product, Is401KEligible on Employee, etc. I'll also have data-types on pretty much all of the fields in the model.
At this point, I'll put the model back in front of the stakeholders and do a walkthrough. I'll correct clarified requirements, add new columns/constraints, refactor where necessary and make sure that all auditing requirements are clearly captured. This usually gives me enough to freeze the model at a point where I can hand it to a dev team to start coding against it.
This is where I'll do a cut to SQL Files, import it into VSTS Dev/DB edition and start working on code-gen for standard CRUD procs, triggers and functions. I'll keep tinkering with the model - adding metadata to support the generation of CRUD procs/functions/triggers (e.g. extended properties, etc), and move from managing the model as a single artefact to managing individual physical objects, synching the changes through source control on a per-item basis.
2) Business requirements are critical, but you can't do it all at once. In my experience, end-users and stakeholders typically don't understand enough about their processes to come up with all of the required information at once. I'm convinced you need at least 2, and up to as many as 5 detailed passes (if it's a big app) on the model to get to a point where the model stands up to whatever the devs and users throw at it.
3) Not only will I put the model into a diagram, but I'll try to make the diagram as readable as possible by eliminating crossing relationship lines where possible. Readability is really important, because when a business user comes to me and says "Did we capture XYZ" I can find the entities concerned and trace their relationships quickly without having to navigate a huge snarl of overlapping relationship lines. As discussed, ERwin and Visio are tools of choice - but if you have ANY pull with the Visio people, can you please get them to unseal the DB modelling classes so we can do automation against them in the same way as we can do in ERwin.
4. Biggest pain points?
A) The lack of policy based design in most modelling tools - e.g. It would be fantastic to have Visio not only telling me that I have a subtype relationship that needs refactoring, but automatically refactoring it for me when I move to physical model mode using a configurable refactoring policy for which I can control the templates.
B) The lack of XMI formatted export capabilities in most modelling tools. From memory, it was possible to export SQL Server 2000 Metadata Services models to XMI, but since that product has been deprecated, we're stuck with forward engineering to SQL and having to export XSD's via "SELECT ... FOR XML SCHEMA".
If the "M" language in Oslo fixes these issues, then I'll be thrilled. As a data architect, I'm excited by what SQL Server Metadata Services offers, not only for SQL Server data design, but for pushing data designs deeper into the solution stack - e.g. generating biztalk schemas and XSL transformation defintions for common transactions based on updateable views, generating WSDL method signatures for those XSDs, generating data-grid controls from those views, generating data access layers from SQL (or model) metadata, etc.
Jeremy Huppatz
The following is a great write up from Martin Fowler:
"Evolutionary Database Design"
"Is Design Dead?"
Nice and simple process. Even a newbie can understand it :-)
I personally go (more or less) through the normalization process, steps 1 to 3.
Not sure, but now it's kind of a second nature. Database design just happens :-)
Fully Communication Oriented Modeling
I use MS VEA (Viso for Enterprise Architects) to create and evolving diagram. I defne Keys, Relations, Indexes, Constraints, and all the comments there and it can generate script for me (comments will be generated as extended properties).
One problem in Viso is that it has limited flexibility in name convention for Keys and constraints etc.
1. What process do you follow? - I start with a pen and paper. I sketch out the entities and their properties (tables and columns). Then I think about the relationships between them. Immediately after that I start thinking about the performance of my database and I adjust the database model to my query design; I make sure that my database design is completely agreeing with the performance requirements for my queries. In other words, I make sure that the database design serves the query performance. Additionally I design the indexes and the statistics with conjunction with the query performance and space used.
2. How important are the business requirements? - The business requirement is key, however performance has priority.
3. What tool do you use to create the design, do you need it to diagram, do you even care about diagrams? - I actually always use the SSMS tool for Database Diagramming. It works great for me. Furthermore, I always enforce colleagues and even business decision makers to look at the database diagrams.
4. What's your biggest pain-point about designing? Not with SQL Server, mind you, just the designing part. - Sometimes the deadlines. :)
Some time back I posted a blog entry (mirrored here and here ) asking you how you design databases. Out


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Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka
withdrew after a bout of dizziness in her third-round match on
Wednesday, advancing Angelique Kerber of Germany to the semis.
Petrova of Russia, down 6-3, 4-1, overcame sixth-seeded Sara Errani of
Italy 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, and will play Stosur on Friday.
Former No 1 Caroline Wozniacki faced third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the late quarter-final.
broke Sharapova to go up 5-3 in the second set but then lost nine
straight points as Sharapova sent the match to a tiebreaker, which
Stosur won on her fifth match point when Sharapova returned long.
knew that I had lost nine points and was just trying to stop the
momentum swing," Stosur said. "I wasn't thinking about the points I lost
but was focusing on how I was going to make the next points."
It was only Sharapova's second loss in 11 matches to the Australian, who has reached her first semi-finals since the French Open.
Sharapova, who won this tournament in 2005 and 2009, struggled with her serve and had five double faults.
played a very steady game and I had a few more unforced errors than I
would have liked," she said. "It's disappointing to lose but you have to
take every disappointment and turn it into a positive. It's really
about thinking what I can do to improve for the next tournament."
withdrew after a bout of dizziness in her third-round match on
Wednesday, advancing Angelique Kerber of Germany to the semis.
the tournament on Sunday I was starting to feel not really good,"
Azarenka said. "I haven't really been doing better since then. Just low
energy, you could tell by the matches I wasn't my usual self. But it
took too much energy over the last two matches to really push and today
it's just not really possible for me."
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The Isabella County Sheriff is warning residents of a new phone scam in the area.
Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said his office has received complaints of a scam targeting computer owners. The caller claims they're with Microsoft and calling to let the person know that the security features on their computer were recently compromised. As a result, passwords and other personal information stored on the computer would be accessible to others.
The caller offers to fix your computer free of charge, but in order to do that; they will need to gain remote access to your computer. Do not allow them to gain remote access to your computer. If you allow them to do that, they will have access to everything on your computer, including personal information, passwords and bank records.
Telephone scammers are good at what they do. They say anything and target everyone to try to cheat people out of money. They may call you and imply that they work for a company you trust, or they may send direct mail or place ads to convince you to call them.
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Possible Lieber inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers.
Uncredited Giacoia inks per Nick Caputo, Nov 2011. Interior credits list Larry Lieber as sole artist, but occasionally inker credits were missing because books were lettered before they were inked and a last minute change did not always make it into print. Lieber inks on splash page also per Nick.
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Via Sergey Belyakov, another Chernobyl site: 26-04-1986 - some really eerie, gloomy stuff...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
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I was surprised that many of the comments for the 26-04-86 project were negative, but I see their point. it seems that more and more more journalists, artists and even tourists are entering the forbidden zone.ReplyDelete
I often wonder at whose benefit? for a quick buck, for great photographs?
meanwhile the suffering continues.
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