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- Vol. 13
- No. 15
With Drug Charges Dropped, Michael Tilson Thomas Rebounds to Become a Model Maestro
Thomas says he is lost at such moments. "I have given everything to the piece," he explains, "and then there is this moment of confusion. Who is this person bowing to you? Only a few moments ago I was Beethoven, or Mozart, or Stravinsky."
He was Ravel three weeks ago in Milwaukee. Two weeks ago he was Rachmaninoff in Pittsburgh. With the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam this week he will be Charles Ives. Next week he is between jobs.
Of the 10 top symphony orchestras in the U.S., only the Cleveland has a native U.S. citizen as its full-time music director, and he will be gone soon. When Lorin Maazel takes over the Vienna State Opera the year after next, the usual lineup of Europeans will be the front-runners to replace him. Almost every top conductor would like to work with the orchestra, reports one agent whose firm does most of the major conductor placing, but then adds that not one of them will want to live in Cleveland. The Chicago's Sir Georg Solti says he has already declined the job, but the orchestra's management says it was not offered to him. And while other managers press their clients at the Cleveland's search committee, a lot of podium watchers will be raising the question—what about Michael Tilson Thomas?
He made his entrance at the top more than 10 years ago. He had been the assistant conductor for the august Boston Symphony Orchestra just two weeks when William Steinberg, its German-born music director, fell ill during a concert at Lincoln Center. "Steinberg came backstage after the Brahms," Thomas has said, "and told me, 'Put on your suit. I think you're going to conduct.' " Five minutes later the older conductor was on his way to the hospital, suffering from fatigue, and Thomas was onstage to make his New York debut. For the skinny 6'1" kid fresh out of the University of Southern California, it was uncannily like the launching of another understudy, Leonard Bernstein. Not long out of Harvard, he had taken the baton of the ailing Bruno Walter to lead the New York Philharmonic. That was in 1943, a year, month and week before Mike Thomas was born in Los Angeles. But as soon as he got to know him, Lennie pronounced Mike a genius too. "He's like me at that age," the grayed wunderkind said. "Except that he knows more than I did."
But he did not know about getting on as a new boy in the big-conductors' club. While Bernstein was on his way up, he rarely withheld any zesty revelations about himself and kissed everyone in sight, both verbally and literally. Maybe it was to outdo his role model that young Thomas took instead to cutting up his co-workers. "The thing that depresses me the most about my colleagues is their intense involvement with the rich," he told the New York Times in 1976. Then he lashed out at the musicians who were performing for him. He declared he was "tired of looking at people whose eyes were totally dead telling me, 'Oh no, this is not the nobility of Beethoven.' "
There was a lot of whining of that sort and tantrums at rehearsals whenever he turned up to conduct. When concertmasters and section leaders who had liked making the beginner look good began letting his inexperience show, the going got tough in important places for Maestro Mike. In Boston he had moved up as rapidly as a corporate board chairman's son-in-law: from assistant to associate to principal guest conductor in three years. But in 1973 when the top baton became available, he didn't get it (Seiji Ozawa did).
Thomas had settled earlier for a less glittering prize: music director of the second-rank Buffalo Philharmonic. Soon there were grumblings in that city too. Those putting up the money to get their orchestra back to work after a strike were not amused by the young maestro's conduct offstage. He had a rope swing rigged in his living room and padded around the downtown streets in his tennis whites. Neither his players nor his patrons ever knew for sure what music really struck the young man's fancy. He said he sang snatches of Monteverdi motets on peaks of Utah's Monument Valley, where he liked to walk alone. He played back-up piano for Sarah Vaughan, wrote songs with Art Garfunkel, savored the Rolling Stones and danced until dawn on visits to Manhattan's Studio 54. All of which kept that clergyman-sized moniker of his appearing in places where the Buffalo board of directors wished it would not.
Two years ago Thomas was arrested in New York after airport customs inspectors reportedly found a small amount of cocaine, three marijuana cigarettes and three and a half Dexedrine capsules in his luggage. The charge was plea-bargained down to disorderly conduct. It cost him a $150 fine and a temporary loss of his exuberance. "I was in a certain state of lamentation after that," he admits.
The incident has not had any effect on his career, Mike claims, but he admits that he is now out to remodel his reputation. "Some of the statements that I made years back about symphony orchestras being old fossils and about certain social scenes that were intolerable—those were in some ways accurate observations of what was going on. But they were also manifestations of my frustration at the time," he continues. "My God, I was so booked up then, giving eight million concerts all over the world, that there was no time left for me to remember what it was like to be young and crazy and on the scene. There was no place for any personal existence. I had to resolve that so I wouldn't resent what I do, which I don't. So what I'm trying to say," he sums up, "is that I am now a very serious and committed musician."
But he finds recognition of that recommitment growing faster in Europe than the U.S. He has been asked back for repeated, and longer, guest appearances. He has impressed the critics—and, as importantly, the musicians—by playing very unhackneyed programs and a lot of new music with the principal orchestras in Berlin, Paris and Rome. He also made a recording of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony with the elegant English Chamber Orchestra in London. "If you told me 10 years ago that I was ever going to do that," he exclaims, "I'd have said, 'No way. It's such an old chestnut. So corny. With that ridiculous storm. A Walt Disney piece. I'd never do it.' So why have I done it? Because I've discovered tonal music."
With atonal music, his credentials have long been in good order. "From the earliest times in Los Angeles I can remember liking sour foods, abstract art and dissonant music." When he was 2, Thomas was dancing around the house to Stravinsky's Petrouchka, or so he has been told by his grandmother Bessie Thomashefsky, a celebrated siren of lower Manhattan's Yiddish theater in the early 1900s. Boris, her husband, was an Orson Welles prototype who acted in scores of shows he wrote, produced and directed, one being the first known version of Parsifal in Yiddish.
The conductor's mother is a Los Angeles public school teacher. His father, who shortened the family name, is a movie and TV producer who himself wrote scripts for his cousin Paul Muni. Mike was playing piano by ear when he was 5, and knew all nine Mahler symphonies at 15. Back then he was an oboe player in the North Hollywood High band. At USC, once he opted for music instead of crystallography and Asian studies, which were early enthusiasms, he became the conductor of the best youth orchestra in Los Angeles. As an undergraduate, he showed enough skill to be named Pierre Boulez's assistant both at new music concerts in Ojai, Calif. and at the tradition-bound performances of Parsifal at Germany's Bayreuth Festival (this time not in Yiddish).
Back on campus he accompanied violinist Jascha Heifetz, and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky picked Thomas as his pianist for master classes. In 1968 at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., where the Boston orchestra summers, Thomas won the Koussevitsky Prize for conducting the student orchestra, and that gave him the chance to help Erich Leinsdorf prepare the local production of Alban Berg's horror opera Wozzeck. The older conductor was astonished by the newcomer's familiarity with the enormously complex score. Thomas didn't tell him that between the halves of a USC football game a few years before, the marching band went through its formations while lining out music from Wozzeck adapted for al fresco performance by M.T. Thomas. Later he was conducting an assemblage of Boston-area amateurs when William Steinberg hired him to be his assistant. That city's symphony orchestra will never forget him—although he has not appeared with them in more than four years.
"I didn't fit into any of the easily defined categories," Thomas says now of the troubling talent he was then. "I am a new breed of character in this country." Dancing to Petrouchka and playing Wozzeck on football fields has, he thinks, given him a perspective on music that most of his elders cannot have. "What others call dissonances," he says, "seem to me beautifully muted and ambiguously woven tapestries with all sorts of wonderful browns and purples that I find very hard to separate. All you have to do is look around in the world now to see that dissonant, complicated, ambiguous music is a very true statement about the way things really are."
This century's most dissonant, complicated and ambiguous opera, Alban Berg's three-act Lulu, had its American premiere last summer in Santa Fe with Michael Tilson Thomas leading the orchestra. It was the very strong shocker it was meant to be onstage, but what rose from the pit, though rarely ambiguous, was an evenly woven tapestry of anguished sound.
It did more than touch off an explosion of great notices for the conductor, who said that preparing it was one of his happiest jobs. It led to some reputation-rehabilitating dates for him. Impresario Beverly Sills signed Thomas to conduct a new opera in the spring of 1981 for her New York City company.
With his eight-year stint in Buffalo at an end, Mike has shifted his base of operations to Manhattan and a fancy floor-through loft in the East Village which he shares with Josh Robison, his manager. Thomas can afford an expansive lifestyle. Though he has no podium to call his own—and may still lack the patron-placating, fund-dunning social skills that are a job prerequisite—his guest appearances give him an annual income in the $200,000 range. Last week he held a house-warming at a gala Passover seder. Mike, an excellent cook, who specializes in French, Italian and Chinese dishes, prepared the gefilte fish himself.
With his new, mature image, Thomas has put the drug and disco scenes behind him. "You won't see him in his manager's office in midtown in tennis clothes anymore," says an associate. "He's an adult now. I think of him as a maestro." But Mike Thomas does not regret his lost years. "I like a certain element of danger around me," he explained recently. "I like to walk to the farthest edge of the ice and then turn around and make it all the way back. That's what I think is really the essence for a performer."
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ASI, govt lock horns over shifting Bali blames BJP for financial mess Services of four scientists terminated Varsity teachers submit demand Court allows students to take exam |
Civic body approves budget Flesh trade racket comes to light A flesh trade racket in the region has come to light. The racket was unearthed while the police was trying to solve a murder case of a local eye surgeon, Dr Sudha Sood, and enquiries from a local hotel were being made in this regard.
ASI, govt lock horns over shifting of school Kangra, February 28 Encouraged by the evacuation of the Army from the Red Fort, the ASI has directed the Himachal Government to shift the school from the national monument. The government has, however, refused to shift the school citing the non-availability of a new building as reason. The school has a strength of 1,400 students. The Superintendent Archaeologist at Chandigarh, in a letter to the Director of Education, has asked him to shift the school. Mr Kishore Chand, Principal of the school, said the land for the school had been donated by the then king of Nurpur, Raja Jagat Singh, and the school had the same status as Swami Brij Raj Temple in the fort. The temple is run by a private management and the land had been donated by Raja Jagat Singh. The classes are held in the open even as pilgrims and tourists visit the fort, affecting the studies. State Education Minister Asha Kumari said the letter received by the government was not based on facts. She said the ASI had asked the government to shift the school to the newly constructed building of the Education Department outside the fort. However, the department had not constructed any new building. She said the Deputy Commissioner of Kangra had been directed to see if the school land had been transferred to the ASI. ASI sources under the condition of anonymity said as the monument was under threat by the presence of a large number of students, the shifting of the school was necessary. Chandigarh-based Superintendent Archaeologist Ram Sharan, whose office issued the letter, refused to give the details but said his office had no information about the letter. He said he was unaware that a school was running in the fort. |
Bali blames BJP for financial mess Shimla, February 28 Addressing a press conference here he said the report had exposed how the BJP messed up the finances of the state. He said the BJP government took much credit for carrying out reforms but what it actually did had been revealed now. The government did not sign the MoU regarding reforms as a result of which the state was denied funds. Mr Bali claimed that the previous government started work on projects without proper planning and even without sanction. Referring to the overloading in buses he said a special drive would be launched to check it and those violating the conditions of route permit would be penalised. He said the government would come out with a transport policy which would take care of all aspects, including passenger transport services. He said the steps taken by the government had improved the functioning of the state road transport corporation and its income had increased by Rs 17.55 crore up to February 2004. |
Services of four scientists terminated Solan, February 28 They were appointed in March 2002 during the BJP governments tenure. It was alleged that the four had not only lacked the requisite three-year experience in drug-testing, but had managed appointments on political considerations. The matter was first highlighted by The Tribune in April last year. While scientists Arvind Sharma, Munish Kumar and Ripudaman were handed over termination letters by a specially sent messenger from the Director, Health Services, Shallu Sharma was away on maternity leave. The matter had generated hype in the course of investigation. While a criminal case had been registered by the Enforcement Department after experience certificates procured by Munish were found to be fake, the administrative inquiry had established irregularities in the appointments. The department had handed over its report to the government some time ago. The move comes at a time when Mr Dev Raj Sharma is being pressured to quit. |
Varsity teachers submit demand charter to VC Shimla, February 28 The main demands include enhancement of the superannuation age of university teachers from 60 to 62 years as recommended by the University Grants Commission and lifting of the ban on filling of teaching posts. The association also demanded parity in interest rate on the general provident fund (GPF) with state government employees. It said employees of the university were incurring financial loss due to linking of interest
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Court allows students to take exam Shimla, February 28 Petitioners who were admitted in the school to the medical stream
were denied roll numbers as they had not qualified their matriculation
with Hindi as subject. The petitioners had passed their examination
from a CBSE school in New Delhi where Hindi was not a compulsory
subject. It is compulsory to pass Hindi as a subject under the
Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education rules. They said no
objection was raised by the school at the time of admission or filling
the examination form therefore this action of suddenly denying them
the roll numbers was illegal. |
Devotees throng Rewalsar Mandi, February 28 Dalai Lama will inaugurate the Tsechu Fair at 1.15 p.m. by lighting a lamp and cutting the ribbon at the entrance gate of the Rewalsar lake. Himachal Pradesh Governor V.S. Kokje will accompany the Dalai Lama. The fair is being celebrated for centuries by Buddhist devotees to commemorate the birthday of their guru, Padama Sambhava, on the 10th of the first month of every new year, according to the Tibetan Calendar (10th of Dawa Thangpo). Padama Sambhava came to Tibet from Nepal and preached Buddhism there in 747 AD. He meditated for many years on the banks of the sacred lake. According to Nagar Panchayat Rewalsar, about 5000 devotees have arrived there and more than 50,000 are expected to join the celebrations. All hotels in Mandi and Rewalsar are occupied. Mr A.R. Rizvi, District Commissioner, says a temporary colony equipped with basic amenities has been set up and security has been beefed up. On his arrival here tomorrow, Dalai Lama will garland the statute of Mahatama Gandhi around 10 a.m. |
Civic body approves budget Hamirpur, February 28 The civic body has allotted Rs 94.80 lakh for development activities, Rs 40.65 lakh for the salary and other perks to the staff and Rs 25 lakh for streetlights and allied activities. Mr Ajmer Singh Thakur, Executive Officer of the civic body said no new taxes had been proposed in the budget. At the meeting, some members raised the issue of shifting of the civic body office to the Town Hall-cum-library complex without their consent. Mr Ajmer Singh justified its shifting, saying that it was done as per orders of the state government. |
Flesh trade racket comes to light Solan, February 28 A scrutiny of phone calls received and made to the hotel revealed that a few numbers were frequently dialled from the hotel. This led the police to a woman in her late 20s who hails from the Habban area of Rajgarh and runs a dhaba at Nagali on the Kalka-Shimla Highway near Solan. The woman was detained for interrogation. Details of her cellphone bill, procured by the police from the telephone exchange, which ran into 51 pages for a single month, revealed that she had a widespread network. Numbers of surrounding areas, including Parwanoo, Shimla, Kalka, Baddi and Nalagarh were traced. As many as 80 to 100 calls were received each day. A majority of the calls were made from land lines, including PCOs and residential areas. The Superintendent of Police, Mr Abhishek Trivedi, said since their investigation was centered around the murder case of Dr Sudha, they were yet to get to the bottom of this case. He said investigations were on and the police was trying to ascertain whether Dr Sudhas murder had anything to do with the fact that this trade was being carried out from a hotel where her husband worked. |
Security to be stepped up in Chamba Chamba, February 28 The District Magistrate of Chamba, Mr Rahul Anand said yesterday that the security forces were prepared to foil infiltration from across the border. |
Soni made Youth Cong gen secy Bilaspur, February 28 A party notification said Mr Sukhu had also appointed Mr Habib Khan (Nikku) of Bilaspur as chairman of the state Youth Congress minorities cell with immediate effect. OC |
Case against Punjab CM adjourned Shimla, February 28 Mr Dhumal, who was present in the court, had filed two complaints against the Congress leaders alleging that their statements during the last Assembly elections were defamatory. |
Major Khanuria
back in BJP Shimla, February 28 Mr Suresh Bhardwaj, state BJP chief, said Major Khanuria had made a request to seek entry into the party and it was accepted. Mr Khanuria has twice represented the Kangra parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha as a BJP nominee. |
Joshi appointed
DGP, Vigilance Shimla, February 28 Mr Joshi is returning from a Central deputation after four
years. |
3 killed in mishap Mandi, February 28 Those killed have been identified as Labh Singh, owner of the truck, Baldev Singh and Bhim Singh, residents of nearby villages. |
Theft case
solved Nahan, February 28 Superintendent of Police, Sirmaur S.R. Sharma said here on Friday the theft took place a few days ago in the house of Amar Singh. |
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Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that researchers have identified clusters of genes that appear to be involved in the development of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The findings, from the largest and most comprehensive clinical study to date, could lead to a better understanding of CFS. Specifically, these findings may help with diagnosis, help with the development of treatment drugs, help understand who is at risk for CFS, and help identify preventive measures. This research underscores both the promise of genomic research and the complexity of it. Genes are rarely a black-and-white issue, and genes rarely work alone. Identifying genes is just the beginning. Understanding how they are expressed, and the factors that affect their expression, is the next step. Dr. Suzanne Vernon of the CDC has been quoted in the recent flurry of news coverage. She mentions a prior study that distinguished different gene activity patterns between healthy people and people with CFS, and explains: "What we have shown now is that in addition to the differences in gene activity that we know occur, there are actual differences in the genetic makeup — the DNA code — that probably results in the differences in the gene activity and also results in the manifestations of the illness itself."
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by Gerard J. van den Berg, Dorly J. H. Deeg, Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait
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Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such as job loss or the reduction of pension benefits. It is conceivable that the impact of such events is stronger if conditions early in life were adverse. In this paper we address this using a Dutch longitudinal database that follows elderly individuals for more than 15 years and contains information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous variation in early-life conditions as generated by the business cycle. We also examine to what extent the cumulative effect of consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life reinforce each other in their effect on cognitive functioning.
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Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide Release 3.0.1 Part Number A90151-01 |
Once you have completed capacity planning as described in Chapter 17, "Capacity Planning Considerations", and you have acquired the necessary hardware, then you must ensure that the combined hardware and software are yielding the desired levels of performance. This chapter gives guidelines for tuning an Oracle Internet Directory installation. It contains these topics:
The two main performance metrics for any installation of Oracle Internet Directory are:
This is the time for each operation to complete.
This is the rate at which an instance of Oracle Internet Directory is capable of completing client operations
If the performance tests yield poor results, the performance problems may be identified and fixed using the information provided in the following sections.
Knowledge of the following tools is recommended for Solaris and most other UNIX operating systems:
Knowledge of the following tools is recommended for Windows NT:
Knowledge of the following tools is recommended for Oracle9i:
and utlestat.sql
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In addition to the operating system tools, the LDAP applications being used in a customer environment must be able to provide latency and throughput measurement.
In addition, the Database Statistics Collection Tool (oidstats.sh), located at $ORACLE_HOME/ldap/admin
, is provided to analyze the various database 'ods' schema objects to estimate the statistics.
The CPU is perhaps the most important resource available for any software. While Chapter 17 gives a rough estimate of the required CPU horsepower for a given application load, sometimes insufficient tuning can cause inefficient use of the CPU resources. Consider tuning CPU resources if either of the following cases is true:
Internal benchmarks show that Oracle Internet Directory performs best when approximately 70 to 75 percent of the CPU resources are consumed by Oracle Internet Directory processes, and the remaining (about 25 to 30 percent) are consumed by the Oracle foreground processes corresponding to the database connections. While monitoring CPU usage, it is also important to monitor the percentage of time spent in the system space compared to user space. Internal benchmarks show best throughput numbers at about 85 percent user and 15 percent system time.
This section contains these topics:
The demands placed by Oracle Internet Directory processes on the CPU can be controlled by the ORCLSERVERPROCS and ORCLMAXCC parameters. This table lists suggested values for these parameters for various client loads:
If we take the example of 500 concurrent clients, a value of 10 for ORCLSERVERPROCS with a value of 15 for ORCLMAXCC will result in the following configuration:
If the CPU usage of the system is at 100 percent, further tuning of the Oracle Internet Directory processes should be considered if both of the following conditions are met:
This condition indicates that the system has too manyOracle Internet Directory server processes and database connections configured. This results in several processes or threads contending for the same CPU resources. As a result, the computer wastes a great deal of time context-switching among runnable tasks. To avoid this, one must systematically decrease the values of ORCLSERVERPROCS and ORCLMAXCC until the best performance for the peak load is achieved and the system and user time are split up as follows:
If the CPU usage at peak loads is not at 100 percent and the system is idle for a large percentage of the time (that is, more than 5 percent), this indicates that Oracle Internet Directory processes are under-configured and are not making the best utilization of the CPU resources. To solve this problem, one must systematically increase the values of ORCLSERVERPROCS and ORCLMAXCC until the CPU utilization reaches 100 percent and the system and user time are split up as follows:
Tuning of CPU resources for Oracle Foreground processes should be considered only if both of the following conditions are met:
If Oracle foreground processes are consuming excessive CPU, it implies that the queries that Oracle Internet Directory is making against the database are using too many CPU cycles. Although there is very little control available to the users on the types of underlying operations performed by the database, the following should be attempted:
Several Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) systems offer the capability to bind a particular process to a particular CPU. While it is generally a good idea not to bind any process to any processor, it may improve performance if the following conditions are met:
Under the conditions noted above, allowing the database foreground process to run on any CPU can potentially cause many hardware cache misses for other tasks. This is because the database processes need to reference a large amount of data as part of their regular execution, and this often exceeds the limits of L2 caches available on most systems. As a result, when the database process executes on a CPU, most of L2 cache contains pages from the System Global Area (SGA). If a task switch occurs and an Oracle Internet Directory process is activated, all of its fetches from memory will be much slower because the task preceding it on the processor dirtied the L2 cache.
Restricting all of the Oracle foreground processes to execute on only one processor avoids many of the cache misses for Oracle Internet Directory processes. This, in turn, improves the overall performance.
If none of the tips stated in the preceding sections solve CPU related performance problems, the following options are available:
After the CPU, memory is the next most important thing to tune. The primary consumer of memory in an Oracle Internet Directory installation is the Oracle9i database. Make the SGA of the back-end database large enough while leaving room for Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle processes to operate their private stacks and heaps. This section provides some details on determining various components of the SGA.
This section contains these topics:
The SGA should be sized based on the available physical memory on the system running Oracle9i.
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Once the available size of the SGA is determined, two primary tuning items need to be considered:
An initial estimate for the shared pool size is .5 MB per concurrent database connection determined above.
If this estimate consumes more than 30 percent of the total SGA, use 30 percent of the total SGA instead.
Divide 60 percent of the remaining available SGA size by the block size for the database and use this value for the number of DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS. Both of these values should be initial estimates and can be refined using BSTAT/ESTAT and other RDBMS monitoring tools to determine more accurate sizes for best performance.
If there is insufficient memory to run both the database and the Oracle directory server on the same computer, then one can put the database on a different computer.
Balancing Disk I/O is an important consideration in overall RDBMS, and hence Oracle Internet Directory performance. Typically, one can maximize the I/O throughput by using one or more of the following techniques:
Oracle9i Database Performance Guide and Reference for general information about balancing and tuning disk I/O
See Also:
This section contains these topics:
The Oracle Internet Directory schema is distributed among several tablespaces at installation time for ease of maintenance and performance. Each tablespace contains a grouping of Oracle Internet Directory schema objects appropriate for co-location on disk storage. As available, it is also beneficial to distribute the following objects onto separate logical disks.
Separate the following:
Separating the attribute store table from its index
Separating the DN catalog from its index
(Empirically, separate the storage tablespace from the associated index)
Alternating the attribute store and DN catalog indexes. This helps even if there are only two logical disks available (one containing OLTS_CT_DN and OLTS_IND_ATTRSTORE and the other containing OLTS_IND_CT_DN and OLTS_ATTRSTORE)
The information on balancing tablespaces is given in terms of separating Oracle Internet Directory tablespaces onto different logical drives. This assumes that a 'logical drive' is manifested on a separate disk or set of disks from other 'logical drives', and thus represents a division among disks for I/O. (Two logical drives on the same physical disk media do not really provide the same combined I/O throughput of two logical drives located on different physical media.) If a logical drive can be manifest on a striped or RAID disk subsystem, then this may increase the I/O capacity of that logical drive. However, the tablespace locations considered earlier remain applicable when considering, for instance, different logical drives of a volume manager.
This section describes the other tunable parameters available to an Oracle Internet Directory installation.
The following table gives a quick overview of the recommended values of RDBMS parameters for various client loads. These parameters are configurable in the initialization parameter file.
This section describes each of the RDBMS tunable parameters in more detail. It contains these topics:
Configure the OPEN_CURSORS parameter as follows:
The Oracle9i default of 50 or so is too small to accommodate Oracle Internet Directory server cursor cache. Note that this value is not dependent on other Oracle Internet Directory server parameters, such as # SERVERS and # WORKERS. The value of 100 is sufficient for any size DIT.
Configure the SESSIONS parameter as follows:
PROCESSES = (# OID server processes per instance) x(# DB Connections per server + 1) x (# of OID instances) + 20SESSIONS = 1.1 * PROCESSES + 5
Each Oracle Internet Directory server process requires a number of concurrent database connections equal to the number of worker threads configured for that server plus one. The total number of concurrent database connections allowed must therefore include this number per server, per instance. The additional 20 connections added to the parameter value accounts for the Oracle background processes plus other Oracle Internet Directory processes such as OID Monitor, OID Control, Oracle directory replication server, and bulk tools.
Depending on the total number of concurrent database connections required, and as determined by the setting for the SESSIONS parameter, enabling shared server process may help balance overall system load better. If the total number of concurrent database connections required is over 300, then configure the shared server. One shared server should be configured for every 10 database connections required.
Note: The number of required concurrent database connections depends on the hardware selected. See Oracle9i Net Services Administrator's Guide and Oracle9i Database Administrator's Guide for further information about the shared server configuration. |
The main parameters that contribute to the SGA are discussed in "Memory Tuning". The following are a few more parameters that may be tuned:
Set to 262144 (256k) to ensure sufficient sort area available to prevent on-disk sorts.
Set to 32768 (32k) as an initial estimate. If log write performance becomes a performance problem, use a large enough value to make sure (redo log space requests / redo entries) > 1/5000 to prevent the LGWR process from falling behind. This overall has little size effect on the variable SGA size, so making this a little bit too large should not be a problem.
This section gives some quick pointers for common performance related problems.
If LDAP search performance is poor, make sure that:
user is ANALYZED
For searches involving multiple filter operands, make sure that the order in which they are given goes from the `most specific' to the `least specific'. For example, &(l=Chicago)(state=Illinois)(c=US)
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If LDAP add/modify performance is poor, make sure that:
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When you are talking about modern boats, they are typically fractionally rigged and designed with very large SA/D's with the intent that they will not be sailed with overlapping headsails. The thinking is that this sail plan is more efficient that way and much easier to handle. These rigs are much easier to power up and down (not the same as reefing) and compared with older designs these new boats have a huge amount of stability as relative to thier drag and so can carry this large SA/D in a very wide wind range.
If there is a short coming to this rig proportion, it is at very deep reaching angles and dead runs in light to moderate wind, where nothing beats raw sail area. In racing, this is completely offset by the use of assymetric deep reaching spinnakers and to a lesser extent, code zeros. Cruising with these boats, you almost never head dead downwind in light to moderate conditions and so can usually get by with reaching at hotter reaching angles and building your own apparent wind when it does not make sense to fly a chute.
The problem with the Hanses is that they are surprisingly high drag for a modern design, and do not have all that much standing sail area. They are also limited by their next to useless self-tacking set up which means that the normal jib is very small (90% or so), and does not set as well as might be ideal. It sounds like you have a custom set up which may let you use a 105-109% headsail.
The hot ticket if you are having a custom 'all-purpose' made is to have it made from lighter weight, high modulus- low stretch material, cut slightly full for slightly higher headstay sag, and with a lot of roach and furlable battens. The key is to have the sail maker take physical measurements on ypur boat to maximize the luff, roach and foot length. The design should assume that the jib car is placed as far aft as possible but not so far aft that sheet hits the shroud when power reaching.
If done properly this results in a sail with excellent performance across an extremely wide wind range. The light fabric, larger area of the roach, and fuller shape works well at the light end of the range. As the breeze picks up, the backtstay adjuster can be used to remove headstay sag and flatten the sail. The low stretch fabric allows the sail to be carried well into heavier conditions, increasing backstay tension to further flatten the sails and then reefing at the top of the wind range.
I had Quantum build a sail like that for my boat and it has a range from 3 knots well up into the mid to high 20 knot range. Its 3 years old and basically looks like new.
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BROOKS, JAMES ABIJAH (1855–1944). James Abijah Brooks, Texas Ranger captain, state legislator, and county judge of Brooks County, son of Dr. John Strode Brooks and Mary Jane (Kerr) Brooks, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on November 20, 1855. He is known in the annals of the Texas Rangersqv as one of the "Four Great Captains," the others being John R. Hughes, William J. McDonald, and John H. Rogers.qqv Brooks had a lean frame, angular features, a mustache, a soft voice, and kindly yet determined manners. He worked as a cowboy and miner after he moved to Collin County, Texas, about 1876. He joined the service as a private at the beginning of 1883 and rose through the ranks–corporal, sergeant, and lieutenant–to become captain in 1889 of Company F in the Frontier Battalion. Of the "Four Great Captains" Brooks and Rogers received the least publicity, but they were said to be "dependable, intelligent, and wise in the ways of criminals." As the head of a ranger company in the field, Brooks had to recruit and fire personnel, order supplies, assign men to cases, and report to his superiors in Austin. From East Texas to the Rio Grande, Brooks and the rangers under his command, including Anderson Yancey Baker and Winfred Bates, tried to combat violent crime and disorder, such as the Catarino Garza troubles and the Reese-Townsend feud at Columbus. One incident, the killing of ranch owner Ramón de la Cerda by Baker in 1902, led to hostilities between political factions and ranger supporters and opponents. Brooks was commended for keeping the various factions under control. In addition, he and his rangers took part in policing oil-boom towns and stopping prizefights in El Paso in 1896 and Galveston in 1901. In his early ranger career, Brooks became involved in shootouts with fence cutters (see FENCE-CUTTING) in Brown County and with the Conner gang in the piney woods of East Texas. In the latter gunbattle one ranger was killed and three wounded, including Brooks, who lost several fingers on his left hand. He resigned his commission as head of Company A in the ranger force on November 15, 1906. After leaving the rangers and moving to Falfurrias, Brooks remained a faithful public servant. He was a Democrat. He served District 95—comprised of Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Zapata counties—in the House of Representatives in the Thirty-first and Thirty-second legislatures and chaired the Counties Committee during his terms. He was instrumental in establishing the new county named in his honor. He then became engrossed in his duties as county judge of Brooks County, being first elected on September 2, 1911, and serving until February 1939. He was preceded in death by his wife, Virginia (Wilburn or Wilborn), whom he married on September 16, 1890. They had two children. Brooks died on January 15, 1944, and was buried in Falfurrias Burial Park.
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I observed MPI_ISEND & IRECV performing little better than persistenent communication; although I was hoping/desiring the opposite case??
What is the be the best way of using MPI persistent communication in an iterative/repetative kind of code about calling MPI_Free(); Should we call MPI_Free() in every iteration or only once when all the iterations/repetitions are performed? Means which one is the best out of following two:
(1) Call this subroutines 1000 times ============================= call MPI_RECV_Init() call MPI_Send_Init() call MPI_Startall() call MPI_Free() =============================
(2) Call this subroutines 1000 times =========================== call MPI_RECV_Init() call MPI_Send_Init() call MPI_Startall() ========================== call MPI_Free() --------- call it only once at the end.
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My friend wanted a video to supplement a manifesto she had to supply for her fashion course so she came over and in about an hour we brainstormed this idea and shot it. I then spent about an hour editing it as her deadline was today and here is the final product. Not perfect and far from some of the shots I wanted but for a short amount of time to complete the work I thought it was better than nothing! Would appreciate any feedback, good or bad, as long as it's constructive! Just to point out I didn't have any influence on the make up and clothing but just the way the video came together! |
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Can you tell me why do we always got to have bang out music?. No person bothers with the correct music.
It says what you see. Girl running around with clothes. One cant really say much. As long as she is happy???????? and you are happy with your work. |
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Does is share a feeling an emotion? What do you take from the video? I you just see it as a girl running around in clothes then it has missed the brief that we were going for. |
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The music does not match the style. All we have a montage of video images with the girl changing into Flower Power cloths of the days of Woodstock in the 60s.
I get the feeling it is a exercise video for the girl. My question is......Is she happy with the end result????? You have done your job. |
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This to me is a story about this girl and has nothing to do with fashion other than she keeps changing her clothes. |
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I did have closeups of getting changed and putting the face paint on but my friend didn't want to focus on those aspects. She also choose the music. |
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I develop tons of content for trade show setups, corporate events, presentations and other live events. Its a different vision than creating a stand alone video since you need to keep in mind who the audience is and how it is presented (is someone introducing this video...will they repeat whats in the video....etc) since that will determine how things get interpreted. Something like you video could be very impactful with the additional information you mentioned but as a standalone video doesnt tell the story you want, IMO. |
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I think it's great. I think the music fits very well, and, assuming it was you, fits the editing very well. As far as an abstract fashion video, I think you nailed it. The only shot i didn't care for was at the beginning where the girl walks away from the wall past the camera. I don't know why, but something about it felt off. Maybe it was how hard she was trying to NOT look at the camera
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I think in future I will however, not entirely sure how to sync it in with this one and how to place it with the supplementary information.
For all the running from the wall shots I am a little annoyed I didn't get lower and more at her height as it feels like she is too small in the frame. It is also quite obvious in that particular take that she is looking far too hard behind the camera. |
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Still, good job though |
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-- The Predators ranked 21st in the NHL in scoring, had a power play that was fifth-worst in the league and fielded a roster that had no player scoring more than 50 points. And yet they have become an offensive juggernaut in the series by scoring 18 goals in the five games.
It says that Nashville has more skill than perceived but it is also an indictment of the Ducks' defensive game, which has made costly errors throughout the series. The breakdown that led to Jerred Smithson's one-timer for the Game 5 winner is a clear example.
"The issue for us is we've scored enough goals to win most of the games," Carlyle said. "We haven't prevented as much as we need to. I think we've given up 18 goals in the five games. So that's over 3 ½ goals a game. And that's not good enough."
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