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Getting your band off the ground is full of "chicken or the egg?" situations. One of the things I commonly hear bands say that if they just had a booking agent, they could really get things moving. But booking agents only want to work with bands that already have things moving.
Just because you have to book your own shows doesn't mean you can't go on tour. Even if you don't have much experience booking gigs, a little organization, creativity, persistance and flexibility will make booking your first tour a simple enough task. After you get the first tour under your belt, going on the road in the future will not be as daunting.
Don't Over Think It
The easiest thing to do is come up with all the reasons you can't go on tour. This is often referred to as paralysis by analysis. If you or your band can put on a solid performance, the only thing keeping you from going on tour are your excuses! Going on the road is a lot of fun, and nothing will make your band sound better then a string of 5 or 10 shows in front of unsuspecting audiences.
Write it down.
Just getting something on paper will help you get started. Write down cities and venues where you'd like to play. Write down bands you'd like to share a bill with. Find email address, phone numbers, or contact forms online. Start building a list.
I'm a big fan of Google Docs, especially when it comes to planning something with somebody else, like your bandmates. By creating a spreadsheet of venues, contacts, and dates, you'll not only be able to see the tour start to take shape, you'll have a great list started for future tours. More on how I've used Google Docs for tour planning later in the article.
Choosing Your Tour Stops
Many people will tell you to book your tour in the markets where you have the most fans, sold the most CDs, had the most spins on local radio, etc. This is great advice, but not always practical for your first tour.
Rely on friends and family.
Other than booking the actual gigs, nothing stands in the way of planning your tour like finding some place to sleep. For a first tour, you'll want to avoid the cost of hotels whenever possible. And sleeping in a van sounds like a romantic story of touring bands following their dreams, until you have to do it.
Thanks to Facebook, it's easier than ever to stay in touch with your friends all over the country. And where you don't have friends, you might have family. These people probably want to help you and would love to offer their sofa or spare bedroom if you ask.
Friends and family will also (probably) come to your show, bring their friends, and buy your CD. Sometimes a couple gigs with a lot of friends and family in attendance can bring in enough money to get you through the club gigs in towns where you know nobody and play for an empty house. The bad gigs are inevitable, so try to buffer them with a few shows in front of a loving audience.
Rely on your fans.
Nobody wants to see you play more than your fans, and given the opportunity, they'll help you set up a show in their town. All you have to do is ask for their help.
Make an announcement on your website, blog, Twitter, email list, and anywhere else you can think of, that you'll be in or around certain cities during a window of dates and you're trying to book a show. Your fans might have connections with local bands or venues, or they could host a house concert.
In my experience, having a few house concerts on a tour is refreshing. They pay better than most clubs, there's usually food, and sometimes even a place to stay for the night. Not to mention, your fans will be thrilled to say you came and played in their house.
Tip: Create a page on your website that explains how house concerts work. Make it easy for them to prepare for the show, and save yourself the stress of answering the same questions over and over again.
Contact other bands in target markets.
I see this suggestion everywhere, and frankly, it's a great idea. Local bands will already have relationships with venues in their area, and can probably get you a gig if you'll return the favor when they come to your town. They'll also be your ally when promoting the show and can tell their fans about you.
Planning Your Routing
You should try to book your tour stops somewhat close to each other to avoid using too much gas or running the risk of being late for your next show. In my experience 5 hours of driving the day of a show is about the most you should try to do. Construction, weather, accidents, and just plain traffic can easily add an hour or two to your trip. Not to mention, driving can be tiring, so go easy on yourself. You don't want to be in one of those traffic-causing accidents.
When Lauren Zettler and I booked our first tour, we started with a single show in the Midwest. Every other show needed to be within a few hours of that show, along our route to the Midwest, or in a town with friends or family. Even though we both live in New York City now, we both grew up in the Midwest, so we had plenty of friends and family to rely on.
To help book the other shows, I made a spreadsheet in Google Docs (I realize I'm excessively organized for most musicians). We made a list of every possible venue in each of our target cities. Then we made a separate list of all the dates we'd be on the road and filled in which city we'd like to be in on which date. That gave us an outline of our most ideal routing.
Next we contacted every venue on our list, specifying which date we'd like to play, but also giving them a 5 day window, just to see where things would land. We ended up with more zig-zagging than we'd hoped, but the 5 day window allowed us to book more gigs than being rigid with our dates. Despite our best efforts, we were still left with holes in our routing. That's when we turned to the fans and started booking house shows.
By relying on friends and family for places to stay (and all the unexpected food) our tour had a very low budget and actually made a decent amount of money. We documented the whole thing on a blog, which you can still see here: http://midwestorbusttour.tumblr.com/
Contacting Bookers and Talent Buyers
When you start contacting the people that will actually book your shows, you must make a good first impression. There are several schools of thought about what you should say, but to be honest, everybody prefers to see something different and there's no template to making everybody happy.
Start building your contact list by visiting the venue websites. Many venues will explain how they like to be contacted, or what they look for in a band. Some even have online forms to fill out. Always start by following their rules, and then send more information when you follow up.
What to include in your email.
Actually, let's start with what not to include. NEVER include MP3s unless asked. That's plain and simple email etiquette.
Keep your email to the point and give them the useful information. More facts, less opinion:
- What kind of music do you play? Name a couple artists other people compare you to.
- Where you are from? Let them know you are on tour.
- What's the line up of your band? They don't need everyone's bio, but clue them in on whether you are a solo act or 12 piece band with a breakdance crew. They might have the perfect slot for you on a night with similar bands.
- Have you ever played in their town before? If so do you have a draw? If not, maybe you have a significant number of people on your email list in that town and you think they will come out to your show. Don't lie.
- Links! Send them the best links where they can hear your music, see a video of your live performance, or read more about you. Don't send too many, just keep it simple.
- Your contact information. Email and phone number. Don't expect them to look for anything. They won't.
My approach is to anticipate the questions they're going to ask, and answer them before they have a chance to ask. You get the hang of it after a few exchanges.
Follow up.
If you haven't heard back two weeks after your initial email, follow up by forwarding your first email with a polite note asking if they've had time to listen to your music. Chances are this person does more than just book bands, and they probably have a lot of bands emailing them. Persistence is polite. In fact, some clubs don't book bands that only email once. They might get so many inquiries that their first filter is to see who gives up easily!
It's entirely possible that they'll write back and say they're booked up and can't help you, but that's fine. It's simply one more place to cross off your list so you can focus on the others. Make sure you write back and thank them for their response and you will be in touch on your next tour. If you're polite, I bet they'll remember you.
A few more tips
Once you've confirmed the gig, ask about the club's backline. If every club you're playing is going to have a drumset, that might save you a lot of space in the car.
Tune up your tour vehicle. Oil changes and properly inflated tires save gas money, and help prevent breakdowns that could make you miss a gig (and cost you a lot of dough).
Never leave anything in your car. Yes, I am a paranoid New Yorker, but I've never had any gear stolen from my car. No matter how tired I am, I unload the car every night. It's definitely worth the cost of my equipment.
Finally, bring plenty of merch to sell! You'll make most of your money from selling CDs, shirts, or whatever else you can think of. Make sure you have plenty before you hit the road!


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The bride-to be is the daughter of Larry and Dawn Uecker, Sturgeon Bay. She is a graduate of Sevastopol High School and attends the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, majoring in early childhood and special education. She works at Lots of Tots Family Day Care in Whitewater.
The future groom is the son of Jay and Sara Hubner, Sturgeon Bay. He is a graduate of Sevastopol High School and attends the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater majoring in business, and will graduate in May. He works for State Farm Insurance agent Chuck Palma.
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Existing tablets to get updated, Christmas sales figures bode well for its future
Published: 31 January, 2013
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Though the PlayBook may have been a lacklustre tablet compared to its rivals when it was first released time has been surprisingly kind to the device. This has become apparent in the last week as Thorsten Heins has confirmed that they'll all be getting the update to BB10 and recent sales figures suggest the future is brighter for the devices than might have been expected.
There was some uncertainty before the big launch of the new OS whether the tablet would make the jump although it had already been said it would, but those fears have now been laid to rest.
A few months ago the news might not have meant that much but if a recent report of the PlayBook's Christmas sales in the UK are to be believed then it could be a sign of a successful future for the tablet and OS. According to IT distribution tracker Context the PlayBook outsold the iPad when looking at the UK's distribution channels in the last two months of 2012.
While the figures don't take into account sales from Apple's stores the fact that the PlayBook sold 160,000 devices in November and December is significant. Despite having some obvious downsides compared to its rivals the PlayBook appears to have won people over with its low £129 price tag.
With the promise of BlackBerry 10 in the future and a growing number of apps in the BlackBerry World store it seems like the PlayBook could become an even more popular alternative to the likes of the Nexus 7. BlackBerry has yet to announce any plans for a new tablet running BB10 but for now the combination of a low price and new OS may be enough to keep the brand in the minds of tablet buyers.
Unfortunately Heins gave no idea of when to expect the update but until then users can still enjoy the benefits of BlackBerry's 70,000 strong app store.
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If absolutely nothing else, he could play better 4th line minutes than Barch, Sestito, or Pesonen and DEFINITELY help us with the shootout. Unless we have an internal salary cap there is no reason the Devils shouldn't claim him.
Does anyone know if buyout rules stayed the same? Can they buyout his contract next year if they decide this experiment didn't work and save a little cash?


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Reply to: Graveslawncare You guys do really nice work. You would never guess that you have a relatively small setup just judging from the quality of the work. I am looking into irrigation as well so I love seeing all the 'in-the-process' irrigation pics. Keep 'em coming!
What was crushing your irrigation pipe in the pic above?
In the first picture it was a good size root that was pushing the irrigation pipe. The pipe was actually almost pinched shut. There are a total of 6 sprinkler zones with that one we repaired being zone 5. Since we got this account we always wondered and attempted to see what was causing the low water pressure on zone 5. Well we found out Saturday what is was. After we repaired that line we we tested it and the repair was a success. But then we came across another problem. From us repairing that line it must of added water pressure and some where else a another part of that same line broke due to some more roots. In the second picture a root was pushing the pipe upwards causing it to break it. An expected job that we thought was going to take us about an hour and half ended up taking us 5 hours.
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SCENE: Int. Fade into a house with a woman with blonde hair and red streaks of hair talking quietly to her phone. The camera is slowly turning around to face her. She is CHARLETTE. It is early morning, the year is 2003. There is 9 children sitting around the TV.
ACKTELLA (On phone)
Welcome to being a spy Mrs. A.
Thank you.
Your first mission is to gather information on Mr. Nielsen or AKA Spokey. He is suspected of dealing drugs to teenagers. Get to know him. Any information you gather report back to us ASAP. Use a fake identity. Just do whatever it takes.
Got it.
You can find him near the south side in an alley or the sewer drains near the high schools. The quicker you attend to this mission your next one will be waiting and you will receive an item for future messages. Good luck Mrs. A.
Thank you.
She hangs phone up. She looks at the man behind the newspaper and talks normal.
Eli, I'm going to go out with a...
Talks dully and is reading a newspaper. His face is hidden.
That's nice. Take the kids with you on your grocery shopping.
I'm not going to the grocery store. The kids stay with you.
They're your kids.
Yours too!
Can't you see that I'm busy, woman! Take them with you!
Kids come on. Your dad doesn't want us here.
The kids around the TV stand up. They all have black hair and brown eyes. There are five boys and four girls.
Okay, mommy.
She opens door and everyone exits.
Good bye.
Yeah. Yeah.
She slams the door. She looks like she is about to cry. She wipes her eye.
I'm going to drop you guys off at Nana's house.
Papa is not a very good listener.
I know.
Yeah, like one time I was telling him about my science fair project and he just said "That's great you joined baseball" I don't even like baseball.
I hope Nana gives us cookies.
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SCENE: Int. Fade into CHARLETTE in her minivan. It is around noon. CHARLETTE is parked in a parking lot. She is rubbing her head and talking to herself.
Where are you? I've been looking all day and I looked where Acktella suggested you would be.
CHARLETTE's phone rings and she looks at it. The caller ID says VALERIE.
Not now Valerie.
Tosses phone
I need to find you! Or else I lose all that I got.
CHARLETTE's phone rings again. CHARLETTE scrambles for her phone and answers it.
Hello, this is Charlette Anderson. How may I assist you today?
VALERIE (on phone)
I'm not a client.
CHARLETTE sits up straight and lets out a long discouraged gasp.
Valerie, what do you want?
Uh yeah Hi mom. Can you meet me at the pizzeria?
Why? Do you need money?
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Yes but like you said you always want to meet my boyfriends I have. So I want you to meet my new boyfriend, Spokey. He is adorable and he's a great cook.
She freezes and drops phone
I knew there was something wrong with you, Val.
VALERIE (On phone)
Mom? Hello? Are you still there? I'm going to hang up if you don't answer me.
She picks phone up her phone and stammers out the words.
Yes, I'm still here, Val. I'll see you there.
She hangs the phone up then calls ACKTELLA
What information do you need to know?
Any info possible.
I found him.
I know.
ACKTELLA hangs up
Wait! How do you know?
She looks at phone
She hung up. Val, you're going to be in so much trouble.
CHARLETTE turns the key for the minivan but the car doesn't start.
CHARLETTE cont.
No! No! No! Not now!
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The Carlsbad Current-Argus has generously agreed to give me a little more space this month to provide you some updates on Carlsbad's roads. Road repair is obviously one of the most important roles a local government plays, and I appreciate City Public Works Director Tom Carlson for helping put this together.
First, let's talk about some of the most recent updates.
What's the latest? Here is what is going on right now:
* Callaway Low Water Crossing: Now open for traffic.
* Callaway I Pierce Traffic Signal: Complete and open for traffic. Project completed well ahead of schedule.
* Callaway Corridor: Study Underway. An engineering firm will develop a Preliminary Engineering Study (PER) that will assemble all the information needed to make the best roadway improvements. The PER is due in July of 2014.
* Spring Hollow: Two new roads are now complete and open for home construction.
* Farm View: One new road is complete and ready for final approval.
* Elgin Road: Complete and open for traffic. Project included new sewer main, new water main, new services for residents, and new asphalt roadway.
* Canyon: Paving is complete and re-striping of parking stalls is underway. Sidewalk and ADA ramp improvements are almost complete.
* Halagueno: Funding for similar improvements has been received and work is being scheduled for this fiscal year.
* Signal at Mermod/Halagueno: This aging traffic signal will be replaced and pedestrian signals added. Project includes ADA improvements.
*Signal at Canyon/Lea: Study underway to see if a signal is warranted.
*Signal at Canal/Fiesta: Study requested from NMDOT. This is a state highway and will be studied for possible new traffic signal.
* San Jose: Phase 2 from Juarez to Fiesta is currently under construction. The flood washed out the culverts. It is being rebuilt with concrete box culverts. Expected to open June 2014 but could be sooner. San Jose Phase 3 Engineering underway for similar cross section improvements from Harper to National Parks Highway. The construction will be broken into portions that can be funded independently.
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The City's Five Year Street Plan is ready to present to next year's budget committee and will include repairs to streets that are in poor condition and may not last another year.
One major priority for this year is a big project on North Canal Street between Pierce Street and Orchard Lane. That area has not been worked on since 1986. Legislative funds have been requested and are expected.
Several streets in Ward 1 are currently on our top priority list. The list includes plans to make repairs to Boyd Drive between Alvarado and Ortega Streets. Industrial (Buena Vista to Lomas) and Martin Lane are also due for a chip seal.
Ward 2 priorities for 2014 include Palomas, Alamosa, Manzana, Carter Court, Utah, Sandia and Sixth Street.
In Ward 3, we want to tackle Chestnut and Hickory between Bonbright and Church Streets. We also have 2014 plans for Allan, Williams, Howard West, Halagueno and Mesa.
Finally, our list this year for Ward 4 includes Violet, Doepp Loop, Stagner Loop and Desert Willow. How do we form our priority list? We rank each portion of street based on vehicle use and physical
condition. Then we multiply those two numbers together to get a score. The highest scores move to the top of the list. We currently have a priority list up through 2017.
I appreciate the hard work our public works department puts in toward road improvement. Of course, we always welcome feedback and suggestions. Finally, one way you can help is to help us reduce Carlsbad's problem with vandalism. Replacing vandalized property takes time and resources that could better be spent fixing city roads. We appreciate your assistance.


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Indeed. I think the typeface on the new Summarits is a DIN variant (a realist sans-serif typeface) that has been used in German engineering since the thirties. It's timeless and quintessentially German (very Bauhaus), whereas I feel that the square typeface used on the other Leica lenses, while not overtly fashionable, is still not as timeless as the DIN typeface. Of course this doesn't matter much, but if you're coming up with a new lens range you might as well change these things.Originally Posted by Roger Hicks
I'm praising the introduction of a new lens line, not their optical quality. Having said that, can you think of a Leica lens released in the last decade that hasn't been optically superb? There is some reason to expect the new lenses to be optically excellent.Originally Posted by copake_ham
Why is this obvious? It's not to me. Below are UK price comparisons, with Robert White prices for the existing lenses and official Leica prices for new Summarits. The lenses of each focal length are listed from fastest to slowest:Originally Posted by copake_ham
35 mm:
Summilux ASPH - £1958
Summicron ASPH - £1358
Summarit - £890
50 mm:
Noctilux - £3413
Summilux ASPH - £1645
Summicron - £920
Summarit - £690
Elmar - £572
75 mm:
Summilux - not available from Robert White, but around £2000
Apo-Summicron ASPH - £1519
Summarit - £890
90 mm:
Apo-Summicron ASPH - £1645
Summarit - £890
Elmarit - £1073
Macro-Elmar - £921
To me these prices do not suggest a lack of quality in the new lenses. Several of the expensive Summicron and Summilux lenses use aspherical elements and/or complicated floating element mechanisms, which obviously drive up the price. And in general, as the maximum aperture decreases the ease of design and production rapidly increases. This is why a 50 mm f/1.8 from Nikon or Canon costs a small fraction of the same company's 50 mm f/1.4.
Digital sensors are a bit more reflective than film, but film does reflect light too. If a lens flares with digital then it will also cause flare on film to a lesser degree, and vice-versa. In other words, a good lens is a good lens and "designed for digital" is more of a marketing slogan than an engineering approach. A true "designed for digital" lens design would allow rampant geometric distortion (correctable in software) to gain an edge in sharpness, but no such lens has been marketed. Another digital approach would be to design near-telecentric lenses, which would incidentally work fine with film, but Leica's offset microlenses make that unnecessary and perhaps even undesirable, and such a lens would be much larger and more expensive than these Summarits.Originally Posted by elekm


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It's no wonder that sewing is becoming a lost art. I have been sewing for 45 years and my latest Simplicity project is a huge bust! I bought Simplicity 1919 because of the jacket with cap sleeves. I thought it would be perfect in the sweltering summer days in Florida, as we are not allowed to wear sleeveless clothing where I work. Let me give you a play by play description of everything that went wrong (or where Simplicity went wrong).
1. No finished bust measurement on the back of the envelope. There is a hip measurement and length measurement for the skirt and pants, but nothing for the jacket.
2. No printed measurements on the jacket pattern! There printed measurements for the skirt and pants.
3. The jacket size is just wrong. I cut it out and pin fit a size 16, figuring I could side down in the neck and shoulders and add for the bust as needed, which is normal for me and a size 16 (39 inch bust, 35 inch high bust) I needed a 2 inch fba, and the shoulders fit perfectly and the armseye was in the right place...odd...the pieces also looked small and it just didn't look right...so I unpinned it, did my fba and got a perfect fit. Normally I would need a 2 inch FBA if I started with a much smaller sized pattern.
It's a good thing I didn't just go running off cutting out all my Simplicity patterns in a 16..or cutting out the fabric with just a bit more in the bust, like I usually do. I would have never been able to squeeze my arms into the sleeves and there would have been no way I could have buttoned the jacket! There was just something nagging at me.
4. I compare the jacket pattern pieces to a smaller size set (8,10,12) and sure enough, my jacket pattern was a perfect size 12! It was marked a 16, but it was actually a size 12.
Luckily I have enough sewing to realize right from the start that something was not right. Imagine if I had been a beginner! I would have thrown everything away right then and there when I ended up with a jacket I could not squeeze myself into.
I know there is an open comment right now to the Big 4 pattern makers, and I will surely join in. This is just unacceptable. If I was just starting out in my sewing journey this would be enough to put me off sewing.
(oh, and I guess I'll start using a size 12 with a 2 inch FBA!)
------Deb: www.thinkingcouture.blogspot.com
Definitely contact Simplicity and tells them. Otherwise, they don't know someone messed up and thus can't fix it.
Yesterday at ASG, we were all looking at Vogue 8815 during the program presentation and we noticed the bust apex was 2" from Center Front. Really Vogue? A four inch bust spread?
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I have had an awful problem too with Simplicity vest project for DH... it was suppose to be 2XL but way way small .... I have tried to adjust but I am afraid it is pretty much a bust! So frustrating ... pkg measures were good ... but after sewing cut out of the right size... geez!
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We have to use Simplicity patterns in the classroom at Joann's. Just about everyone I've made for the display, has either had flat out wrong instructions, or a bad fit.
You are right, it would make a beginner quit on the spot. As a matter of fact, when I point out the problems with the pattern/instructions, they will usually ask, "how would I know this if I were doing it at home on my own"? Simplicity seems to be the worst of the big 4. Yes, contact them and let them know about the problem you had with the pattern. Hopefully, you will contact someone who even cares.
I once contacted Simplicity's customer service when a pattern I purchased was not the size range printed on the envelope. I was in a hurry and they were awesome...over-nighted the correct size pattern to me. It was a situation that could have turned me off Simplicity but instead, here I am defending them in this thread. So there you have it.
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It's nice to hear the "good" stuff. It gives the rest of us hope, that if we do take these issues to the source, they will make it right
I just got an email from Simplicity this morning apologizing for the error. They said there was indeed a sizing error for all the pieces in this pattern. I would say so...The pieces were all over, size wise. CF and Sf were a 10, CB and SB were a 12 and the sleeve was a 16.
They were sending out a new pattern with the correct sizing. -- Edited on 6/10/13 11:06 AM --
I'm glad they fessed up about the mistakes and are sending a corrected pattern.
I wonder....Why don't they start a listing on their websites of the mistakes on patterns. Maybe most of their patterns sold are never made? I'd think it would do more good to their image to be upfront about mistakes, than be trashed about bad patterns by frustrated sewers. I wonder how many beginners would have run into your problems and threw the pattern in the trash and thought "never again". Either about buying Simplicity or sewing clothing at all.
I know Threads and Interweave Knits & Crochet run corrections about patterns and instructions in their magazines, and have them on their websites. I haven't heard any badmouthing of them for owning up to those mistakes. Something to think about, pattern companies!!
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- Angels of Evil
- Production year: 2010
- Countries: France, Italy, Rest of the world
- Cert (UK): 15
- Runtime: 125 mins
- Directors: Michele Placido
- Cast: Filippo Timi, Kim Rossi Stuart, Kim Rossi Stuart, Moritz Bleibtreu, Paz Vega, Valeria Solarino
Michele Placido's ambitious epic crime film Romanzo Criminale covered 30 turbulent years in the lives of a group of working-class Roman kids from the 1960s to the 90s in the manner of Rosi, Coppola, Scorsese and Leone. His new film, a biography of the reckless Milanese Dillinger-type bankrobber Renato Vallanzasca (played by Kim Rossi Stuart), is much less good, and surprisingly poor on the larger social context. Vallanzasca, a hardman who never made any excuses for his conduct, exposed the incompetence and corruption of the Italian criminal justice system and has been behind bars for 15 years or more now.


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Don't Participate in the Death of the Subjunctive
The English language has but three moods, and one of them—the subjunctive—is dying. Unlike their abused and misunderstood sister, the indicative and the imperative live lives of luxury, basking in the certainty that they will never be without work, as humans will always need either to be doing something or to be ordering someone else to do it for them.
But not so for the lowly subjunctive, that Cinderella of moods: trampled, despised, ignored, and yet imbued with such fragile beauty that even the most unregenerate misogrammatist would pause if he knew how near his carelessness was bringing her to the brink of oblivion.
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They died the same day, and they both sang heartfelt renditions of old-fashioned country music. That's about all the two men had in common.
George Jones, everyone knew about. He was one of those artists that even young people liked, those who turn up their noses at country music. "Contrarian hip," the Los Angeles Times called Jones.
He struggled with drink and drugs and women, most famously his former wife, Tammy Wynette. When Tammy took away his car keys, George drove the riding lawnmower to the liquor store. They nicknamed him "No Show Jones" because of the concerts he missed. ...


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Here's my "Falling down the stairs story" (apologies to all that have heard this before):
We had just moved into our new house about 7 years ago, in the summer. I had applied for a job (the one I have now) but hadn't heard back and had a few weeks with little to do. I decided I would go out and pound the pavement, visit a few local shops and see if I could get a job. So, to do that, I need to have a nice outfit, so laundry had to be done.
I was carrying a basket of clothes down to the laundry room when some underwear fell out. I picked them up and put them back in. Just as I approached the stairs, some fell out again. Frustrated, I thought "I'll just kick it down the stairs and pick it up when I get there." So I attempted to do this, but managed to put my foot through the strap of a bra, so when I went to kick the clothes as I stepped forward, the hooks in the bra caught in the thick carpet. The momentum sent me flying down the seven or eight stairs, making a perfect arc, all while still holding on to the plastic laundry basket. Just before I hit the landing, I thought, "If I don't let go, I'll break my wrists." So, I let go and landed on the rectangle, Rubbermaid laundry basket. It was already torn on one side, so under my considerable weight, it smashed out flat like a daisy.
Shaken, I tried to stand up, but it felt like there was a nail going through the top of my foot. I scooted on my butt down the other 7 or 8 stairs and grab a phone to call hubby. He took me to the hospital, where it turns out I broke my ankle and my foot.
While at the hospital, they had to try to push my foot back into place, so they could wrap it in a soft splint. I'm yelling "Ow, ow, ow" and hubby's calling me a big wuss and telling me to suck it up. The doctor looks at us and says, "You must be married."
"How can you tell?"
"Boyfriends will pretend to care."
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Business Class To Germany
Cities In Germany
Germany has one of the highest level of education, technological development and economic productivity. The population of Germany is very diverse. Along with Germans there are a lot of Turkish descendent people, the so-called "guest workers" generation. The country has a very long, controversal and very interesting history and very rich heritage. Germans love to have fun, that is why one can find an explonation to their love to various street fairs, parades and parties. During these fests one can try their national cuisine and drinks. The distinctive trait of German character is punctuality, keep that in mind if you fly business class to Geramny for a conference or a meeting.
Best Time To Fly Business Class
June to August (summer) for beer gardens at their best; March to May (spring) and September to November (autumn) for fewer crowds and mostly mild weather
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If you fly business class to Germany for an extended time period you should take the time to see the country. The German People have a rich Bavarian heritage. The primary exports in Germany are Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, pharmaceutical research, and Beer. Germany is know around the world for it's great assortment of beers. It is no surprise that the countries most known celebration is Oktoberfest, which is a beer drinking holiday. Germany today is also well know for having the wildest clubs and night life in the world. Germans were also the inventers of the highway system. The Autobahn surprisingly has no speed limits. The best time of the year to visit Germany is between June and August.
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Branderburger Tor in Berlin, the symbol of peace built by Carl Gotthans Langhang in 1788
Cologne - the forth biggest city of Germany with more than 30 museums and hundreds of galleries.
Burgkloster in Lubeck, the medivial monastary that was turned into the poorhouse, court and Nazi prison.
A bronze statue by Gerhard Marcks depicting the Bremen townmusicians( Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) that were immortalized by the Brothers Grimm
Munchen that hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1972
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Explore the peaks and forests of the Alps
BMW museum is a must-see place in Munchen
During the summer time going to the beer gardens is a great way to relax.
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Hike the beautiful Bavarian Alps
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Books: Goethe's Faust,the classic masterpiece by one of German talents
Music: classics by Bach or Beethoven, and something more contemporary like Ramstein or die Prinzen; it will help you to understand the modern autmosphere of contemporary Germany
Movies Run, Lola, run is one of the best German movies ever
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Taste: any type of sausage
Drink any type of beer
Words To Learn
Wie gehts? (How's it going?)
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Puctuality;MP3; Telephone; Oktoberfest; the Berlin Wall; BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Audi and Porsche
The German language was once lingua france in central, northern and eastern Europe and remailns the language with the most native speakers in Europe.
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The Kuzari Proof is a famous proof of the validity of Judaism and is commonly used in outreach programs to convince estranged Jews to return to the fold of observance. (1) It was developed originally by the 11th century poet Yehuda Halevi as a response to the loss of Judaism's monopoly on monotheism. It was designed specifically to prove that the Jews had a unique theological gift: the direct and public revelation of God to all the ancient Israelites at Mt. Sinai. (2) In recent years, the 'proof' has been offered as a proof of many things. Most commonly it attempts to prove: the existence of God, His revelation to the ancient Israelites at Sinai, His authorship of the Torah, and the resulting inerrancy of the Torah. My purpose is not to argue for or against the veracity of any of the above claims, but instead to show why the Kuzari proof is not a proof of any of them. Part of the search for truth entails the culling out of implausible options. It is my hope that the de-legitimization of the Kuzari proof will lead the observant and the secular alike to come closer to the truth.
The Kuzari 'proof' has been proffered in several forms and incarnations but the gist is as follows:
1) 3 million Jews witnessed the revelation of God at Sinai. (3)
2) Starting with the witnessing generation, one generation has told the story to the next, leading us, in the current generation, to be inductive witnesses to this event.
3) It is impossible to fake a large public event and its subsequent intergenerational transmission (with inferred acceptance) as described in steps 1 and 2, thus the original event must have happened.
It would seem to be common sense that events with many witnesses cannot be faked. However, history has taught us that many who have invoked 'common sense' have been frustrated by how rare indeed a sense it is. Needless to say, I find many problems with this 'proof'. I will take each in sequential order.
First, I address the '3 million Jews witnessed the revelation' claim. In logical discourse, one cannot assume what one is trying to prove. You cannot assume that the Torah is inerrant in order to prove that it is inerrant. The 3 million figure (or 600,000 adult males to be more precise) comes from the Torah. (4) One cannot use this figure then, to prove that there were 3 million witnesses to an event which then makes the Torah inerrant. To do so is to construct a tautological proof, or in lay terms… a self-validating statement. The statement "if it rains, it will be raining" is syntactically valid, but is semantically meaningless, in that it is tautological. The proof of the inerrancy of the Torah cannot be made by using statements that require the Torah to be inerrant. In short, we do not know, independent of the Torah claim, that there were 3 million witnesses at Sinai, hence the proof falls apart right there.
Next we look at the 'witnessed the revelation of God at Sinai' part of the first statement. As I can recall from my Hebrew school days, the voice of God at Sinai was so powerful it could 'tear the soul from your body'. I also remember descriptions of smoke and fire similar to the poor Technicolor animations of the DeMille classic depicting the same. (5) Now Joan Rivers has a voice that in my mind can tear the soul out of my body as she as she squawks and screeches about the stars' fashions at the Oscars. I am in no particular hurry to worship Joan Rivers nor Cecil B. DeMille. What I mean to get across comedically is that special effects capable of being produced cheaply these days by Industrial Light and Magic and the good folks over at Lucasfilm hardly proves God for me. A simple retort might be "but no one believes the fantastic stories and special effects of today to be true". Tell that to the people who suffered mass panic and hysteria at the radio transmission of Welles' "The War of The Worlds" in the 1938. (6) In summation, as we build here, for statement 1, we have 3 million unproved witnesses witnessing something they say was fiery, scary and spoke with a loud voice. If one were to tell a Kuzari adherent of UFO sightings, they would likely start to ask questions as to what other explanations could explain this phenomenon: why not here too? (7)
Now we look at statement 2, specifically at the part which says: starting with the witnessing generation, we have an unbroken chain of transmission. The 'starting with the witnessing generation' part is key. It says that it is impossible to get a generation (a large group of people) to accept anything as an accurate account of history which was not known to be an accurate account history. Yet when you poke a Kuzari adherent for proof of the Israelites' slavery in Egypt you quickly get this response: "The Egyptians did not record their defeats." (8) Well hang on a second here, does not that suggest that the Egyptians published a history and the greater than 3 million Egyptians that read it accepted it as true even though they knew it was untrue? (9) So can you cause multitudes to accept a false history or not? Which is it? The answer cannot be, if we are to have a sensible conversation, yes in the case of the Egyptians and no in the case of the Israelites. It also cannot be the answer that the Egyptians were embarrassed by defeat and thus motivated to accept the faked history because we cannot know if the Israelites also were not embarrassed by some historical event and thus were motivated to accept a revised history of unique divine revelation. Recall, we cannot assume the Torah as an accurate account of history to prove that the Torah is an accurate account of history. Keeping our eye on the ball, it is NOT the issue here whether or not there were slaves in Egypt, nor is it the issue as to what the actual history of the region was. The issue is that you cannot, at once, claim that you both can and cannot cause a large number of people to accept a false history. The Kuzari proof and discussions of the Kuzari proof are fraught with these sorts of asymmetric applications of explanatory logic. You cannot suck and blow from the same explanatory pipe at the same time.
Next we address statement 3, the inerrancy and incorruptibility of generational transmission of this revelation. Note: this statement is really just a summation of points 1 and 2 where the true Kuzari argument rests. Many people have accused the Torah of suffering from 'broken telephone' transmission. The orthodox authorities have correctly retorted that they have proof, archaeological no less, that the Torah has shifted perhaps 2 or 3 letters at most during all of its transmission. Parenthetically, for those keeping score and who just noted an asymmetrical application of explanatory logic, a gold star to you. You correctly noted that all of the sudden archaeology IS an acceptable proof that the Torah has not changed through the generations, yet archaeology IS NOT acceptable as proof that there were not Israelites in Egypt.
If the Torah did not significantly change over they centuries, which is a statement I will accept due to archaeological supporting evidence, the question becomes: why would any people accept the Torah as history, as the ancient Israelites seemed to, if its contents (the description of the revelation at Sinai) were not known to be true? In typical rabbinic style, let me answer a question with a question: Why would the multitudes that accepted the Gospels as gospel, accept them unless they knew somehow that Jesus had indeed miraculously fed the multitudes fish and loaves of bread as the gospels describe? (10) "After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, 'Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.' " (John 6:14) (11) The problem here exists in yet another asymmetrical application of explanatory logic. If you cannot pervert a generational transmission of a miraculous event, then adherents to the Kuzari proof must by definition, accept that Jesus fed the multitudes by miracle. To be clear, I am not saying whether Jesus fed the multitudes or not, nor am I proving or disproving a revelation at Sinai, I am simply saying that the evidence of cultural widespread acceptance of an event as a miracle cannot be the proof of Judaism because it proves antithetical Jewish and Christian miracles at the same time.
In summation we see that the Kuzari proof is a failed proof because of fundamental flaws in logic. The two main fundamental flaws are assuming that which is trying to be proved and asymmetrical uses of explanatory logic at the convenience of the argument. The Kuzari proof is an attempt to prove the divine revelation at Sinai which, in turn, is a cornerstone of Jewish faith. (12) For the orthodox that appear vexed at the decline of Judaism, the message is clear: The rest of us will accept what you have to say when you provide cogent proof. The Kuzari proof is not cogent and the burden of proof is on you.
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuzari
1 http://ohr.edu/special/books/truth-6.htm
2 http://www.talkreason.com/articles/kuzari.cfm
3 Numbers (1:46) There were 600,000 adult males generally leading us to conclude a total population of 3 million.
4 ibid
5 http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=2047
6 http://radio.about.com/library/weekly/aa102302a.htm
7 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9923316/
8 http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/2053
9 The number of Egyptians must have been greater than 3 million if the biblical account is true because it would be impossible to subdue and enslave a population of 3 million Israelites with an equal or smaller number of Egyptians.
10 http://www.gardenofpraise.com/bibl43s.htm
11 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%206:1-15
12 Aish.Com – Rediscovering The Revelation


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Woody Benson, a partner in Prism Venture Capital explained, "The problem with VC is you have to wear two very different hats: the first is the nurturing and enthusiast hat, the other the cold financial one. If one gets too close, too emotionally involved in a start up, you can lose your shirt; keep your distance and the firm dies like a flower in the desert."
Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps, had other worries. "How can I get fast and actionable market research when we don't have the budget or expertise? This information is critical to the strategic direction of my company."
Finally, Perry Lowe of Bentley University lamented, "I run a MBA Corporate Immersion class. I need firms that can both help students learn about business and provide them with real world problems to solve - too often you get one without the other."


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Archive for Thursday, July 6, 2000
Troubled waters
New maps show more homes in flood danger
Joe and Debbie Stober started building their home on Bluestem Drive in 1998, with the hope of getting out of Overland Park and starting a new life in a small town. Away from the sea of carbon-copy, single-family developments, they hoped to build a home to their specifications. Now, their home built, the Stobers are finding out their home may be in danger from an enemy of devastating potential floods.
In fact, all of Bluestem Drive is considered threatened, according to new, preliminary flood plain maps drawn up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Flood plain maps, administered by FEMA, show which areas are prone to flooding. When the Stobers built their home in 1998, maps adopted in 1981 were still in effect and signaled no threats to developers or builders that their home would be in the plain. According to the 1981 maps, it was far from it.
But things are about to change.
New preliminary maps now indicate the flood plain has risen and include Bluestem Drive, as well as other parts of Eudora. The Stobers have had problems concerning drainage issues before, but this, said Debbie Stober, tops the list.
"This just caps it off here that our house is going to be sitting in a flood plain," she said.
An opposite and equal reaction
A flood plain is considered any area designated by FEMA as prone to flooding. Roger Benson, FEMA national hazards program specialist, said many homeowners are misled by the term 100-year or 500-year flood plain. A 100-year flood plain actually means a designated area has a 1-percent chance annually of being flooded. A 500-year flood plain has a .02 percent chance of flooding annually.
"Today, FEMA is very much trying to promote the 1 percent annual chance and the flood plain," Benson said. "Realistically, the 1 percent chance flood plain is the area that can be considered flood prone."
Benson said upstream developments from cities near rivers and continual housing and business developments cause land changes which lead to revisions of flood plain maps. With Eudora, the spur of business and residential growth over the last 10 years has caused a change in the landscape.
"The map revision process is driven by changes in the localities themselves," Benson said. "You may have areas that are still working on maps from 1981 and they may still be accurate. Decisions are made annually by the state and federal officials to remap certain areas. It's a demand-based process. The old squeaky wheel gets the grease."
The preliminary maps on the table aren't exactly brand new. Al Schulz, FEMA regional hydrologist, said revisions to flood plain maps in Eudora and surrounding areas came as part of a maintenance study beginning in September 1993. "This study took a lot more time than most studies do because there's so much going on in and around Lawrence," Schulz said.
In 1997, a public meeting was held by FEMA at the Douglas County City Hall to discuss the study and revisions to the maps. Eudora was invited, Schulz said, but did not attend for reasons unknown.
"We had a meeting in 1997, which Eudora did not attend," Schulz said. "It had to do with the change in political leadership. They really didn't understand what was going on and they didn't think it was important for Eudora to go. I think the current political leadership understands."
City engineer Matt Taylor said current city leaders were not in office when the studies and revisions began.
"Nobody here was in office when this started," Taylor said.
Former Eudora Mayor Jim Hoover said he doesn't recall being contacted about FEMA's revisions.
"I have no idea," Hoover said. "I don't know anything about the FEMA maps."
Despite the three-year communication delay between FEMA and Eudora, the revisions were made. The time is near for adoption of new flood plain maps by Eudora so the city can remain eligible for Federally funded flood plain insurance. Though dated May 31, 2000, the new maps do not properly represent community streets due to the age of FEMA's study. Joe Stober said this is another cause for concern.
"For one thing, they've got this new map and the streets aren't even completed," Stober said.
Schulz said this is part of the process due to the inability to keep up with a community with growth like Eudora's.
"We're charged with mapping the flood plain as they existed at the time of the study," Schulz said. "There are a lot of changes through the study. We cannot keep up with the day to day changes. What we did six months ago may not be reflected on those maps today."
Though the new map may detail how the city stands at present, Benson said it is still better than the alternative.
"It may not be in effect, but it's technically better data than 1981," Benson said. "We want the map to be as accurate as possible. In developing communities, additions are added almost monthly. You'll never get them all on there."
A cause for concern
Kelly Noble also built her home from scratch, moving to Eudora from Tonganoxie in December of 1998. Though she knows little about new maps, she said she has concerns of her property now being in the plain.
"I knew that most of my yard was in a flood plain, but if they're raising the flood plain, I have concerns about how far up it will go," said Noble, a Bluestem Drive resident. "I would think that would make a difference because then a homeowner would have to buy flood insurance."
Noble has good reason to be concerned. If a homeowner has an outstanding loan on a residence within a flood plain, flood insurance is mandatory. Flood insurance is available through most homeowners insurance providers, made available through the Federal government as part of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Flood insurance is not standard in basic homeowners insurance. Benson said many homes damaged in the 1993 flood were not covered, prompting a requirement by the government for the NFIP.
"It's been mandatory to purchase flood plain insurance if you have a loan," Benson said. "Many people in 1993 had loans but didn't have flood insurance. Property owners that are inside the flood plain will be required to buy flood insurance."
Eudora's main flooding sources stem from the Wakarusa River, and two tributaries coming off the river into the city near 10th street.
Anyone building within a flood plain must meet certain requirements. A house's lowest floor, including a basement, must be one foot above the level of the Base Flood Elevation (BFE). The BFE is considered the level which water will rise to in the event of flooding.
"We're not trying to stifle development in flood plains, we're trying to have responsible development," Benson said. "The key issue in flood plains is, if you build to meet the local flood plain ordinance you will be building higher than the 1 percent annual chance. They can used this guidance to build wisely."
To homeowners now in flood plain areas but were not previously, this adds a new requirement the purchase of insurance. David Miller, Miller Insurance Agency, Eudora, said flood insurance isn't part of a homeowner's policy with many homeowners realizing this from flood coverage within recent years.
"We have very little interest in flood insurance," Miller said. "It's usually something we deal with when the lender demands it. I think people in the last few years have learned because of the news coverage in the Midwest that it is not a covered peril."
As an example, one home through his agency has a home not in a flood plain with $150,000 coverage for $276 a year and a $500 deductible. If the same house were in a high-risk flood plain area, the insurance could run $700 annually. Flood insurance, Miller said, could be even more.
"In a few instances that come to mind, it's not that unusual for a high-risk location for the flood premium to be about the same as the regular homeowner premium. Sometimes even more than the homeowners premium."
Though it will become mandatory for homeowners, Benson insists the insurance will be in the best interest of the homeowner.
"The other way to look at it is 'I'm sorry to tell you to be careful,'" Benson said. "To be warned is to be forewarned. On loans, we stop saying please, we now say you must."
In addition to the need for flood insurance, property values can also be affected. Douglas County Appraiser Marion Johnson said home and property values are contingent on the market at the time a house is sold.
"There's no way to tell from the market until the property starts to change hands," Johnson said. "People think it has an effect on value, but there's no way to tell until it changes hands on what the market is going to do."
Johnson said if the current maps were revised, it would take time before any change in values, if any, would be noticeable in the market.
Karen Rowland, Caldwell Banker McGrew Real Estate, said flood plains could have an impact on land values in the market place, as well as the homes they rest on.
"It has an effect on the value of the home," Rowland said. "It's not going to have the same value of a comparable home as compared to an area that's not in the flood plain."
Benson agrees.
"There's no way that we can know (property values)," he said. "If areas are shown in flood plains, it's entirely possible the buying public may consider those areas as flood hazards. It's a questions of the market place dictates what values are."
Options for homeowners
The maps now available are considered preliminary until adopted by the city and FEMA. Effective June 29, the legal notice of FEMA's map revisions was published twice in a local publication as required by the Federal government. The notice states homeowners will have a 90-day comment period from June 29 to contest the FEMA map's finding with their own.
"The appeal period is to allow people to say 'What a minute; this isn't right,'" Benson said. "Only scientific or engineering data can effectively appeal what is shown on the map."
If a home or landowner finds the elevations differ from the maps available at city hall, the findings should be sent to the city, which will then be given to FEMA for dispute. After the 90-day period, a hearing will be held by FEMA in Eudora to discuss the disputes and revisions.
"We'll come to Eudora and we'll want to meet with the mayor and the council and whoever in the public," Schulz said. "Under current Kan. state law, they'll have to update their ordinance to adopt their new maps."
Benson said though there will be 90 days to dispute the maps, there has been no official date set for the hearing.
"Now that the map's out, the meeting should be held," Benson said. "To be honest with you I just haven't scheduled it yet."
Benson said he understands the frustration felt by many homeowners, but the revisions are necessary for a community changing as rapidly as Eudora.
"We want to get the word out that these areas are going to be flood prone," he said. This is one of the very rare situations where a risk can be identified. A lot of people don't like when those changes occur, but they occur."
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Now that Linux is comfortably entrenched in clustered high-performance computing environments and along the periphery of enterprise systems, running Web as well as file and print servers, the world's leading Linux distributor wants to take the operating system to the next level. Red Hat Inc. took another step into the data center Wednesday with the release of its Enterprise Linux 3 open-source operating system.
Red Hat's stated goals through next year are to continue improving its enterprise operating system to run on high-end servers and to consolidate its operating systems onto a consistent architecture. Enterprise Linux 3 includes Native Posix Threading Library, which improves the operating system's performance when running applications with multiple threads operating at once. It also features scalability improvements, including support for larger symmetric multiprocessing memory and input/output configurations. These improvements take into account the fact that many Linux systems are run as part of clusters, says Brian Stevens, Red Hat's VP of operating system development. "This requires improved management, since you may have more systems once you move to a Linux cluster."
Enterprise Linux 3 is also written to a single code base, which improves code stability, maintainability, and security, Stevens says. The new version also supports a wider variety of hardware platforms, including those running Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s 64-bit-compatible Opteron processor and IBM's iSeries, pSeries, zSeries, and S/390 servers. Enterprise Linux continues to support Intel x86 and Itanium platforms as well.
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Red Hat is doing a lot to remove things that have been an impediment to Linux in the past, IDC research director Al Gillen says. "Customers are going to want off-the-shelf applications that are commercially supported," he says. "And it's really nice to get these from the same company that you get the operating-system software."


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I need to process request data on the FIFO (first in first out) basis. The only way to be sure that the requests are handled in order of arrival, is to process the requests sequentially.
A pre-instantiated
has a global action object that handles the request. The service method call a perform() method of that action, giving the request and response contexts as arguments. This way each request is handled sequentially. The action object stores the handled request as a bean in a queue. Another concurrent process dequeues for further processing. This concurrent process needs the queue elements in order of arrival.
I want to know whether this is acceptable or not. I don't see any other solution.
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Sounds to me like a reasonable approach but I'm not clear on your use of "another concurrent process". Why start another Thread?
I first thought "why not make your service method synchronized, that way only one request could be processed at one time" but then I realized that you can't control the order in which waiting Threads get access.
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You really didn't day enough about the source(s) of the requests. Network latency and other such things make it pretty much impossible to guess what order requests will arrive relative to the times they were sent out, so you'd definitely need additional support if you're getting requests from multiple sources.
If all the requests came from a single source, there's no problem. HTTP is request/response, so before you send the next request, you have to have received the precceding response.
In the case of heavy back-end processing, I prefer to allow for the possibility of running multiple concurrent backend processes. Request ordering can't meaningfully apply in cases like that.
In some cases, the original timing of the requests doesn't actually matter, but an ordering has to be imposed. For example, when handing out ticket numbers for jobs. This is something that can be handled by an
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Well, it's not that I need to know the exact time of arrival. The time of arrival at the Servlet is important.
The situation is as follows: the HTTP requests comes in. The Servlet handles the requests sequential and puts some information retrieved from the request in a bean and enqueues the bean in a queue. Another process running besides the Servlet dequeues the queue and handles the beans: storing the information in the database. This way requests can be handled quickly, without having to wait for storage with its business logic.
Well, the points is that the other process' business logic retrieves the last request of a certain group from the database to check some things with its current handled request. If the request handles was to be concurrent, then I could never be sure, that there wouldn't be a older request still coming. I need to be sure requests of a certain group follow eachother in order of arrival.
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Development and testing of culturally sensitive patient information material for Turkish, Polish, Russian and Italian migrants with depression or chronic low back pain (KULTINFO): study protocol for a double-blind randomized controlled trial
1 Research Group on Psychotherapy and Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
2 Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
3 Celenus Kliniken GmbH, Offenburg, Germany
Trials 2014, 15:265 doi:10.1186/1745-6215-15-265Published: 4 July 2014
Many of the approximately 15 million people with a migration background living in Germany (19% of the population) are inadequately reached by existing healthcare provision. In the literature, the necessity for cultural adaptation of information material for patients with a migration background is often cited as a measure for improving healthcare.
In this study, culturally sensitive information material will be developed and evaluated for patients with a migration background and depression or chronic low back pain. In this respect, it will be examined whether culturally sensitive information material is judged as more useful by the patients than standard translated patient information without cultural adaptation.
The implementation and evaluation of culturally sensitive patient information material will occur in the framework of a double-blind randomized controlled parallel-group study in four study centres in Germany. Primary care patients with a Turkish, Polish, Russian or Italian migration background with a diagnosis of depressive disorder or chronic low back pain will be included and randomly allocated to the intervention group or the control group. In the intervention group, culturally sensitive patient information will be handed to the patient at the end of the physician consultation, while in the control group, standard translated patient information material will be provided. The patients will be surveyed by means of questionnaires following the consultation as well as after 8 weeks and 6 months. In addition to the primary outcome (subjective usefulness), several patient- and physician-rated secondary outcomes will be considered.
The study will provide an empirical answer to the question of whether persons with a migration background perceive culturally sensitive patient information material as more useful than translated information material without cultural adaptation.
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Sujay rolled the windows down by a few inches on the passenger's side of his Toyota sedan; winter air now could circulate through the car, from one window to the other. Snowflakes got in and disappeared into the air. He kept driving through Penn Avenue past the newly built shopping center at Bakery Square beyond the Children's hospital towards the tall buildings of downtown Pittsburgh. One stern face of an incoming driver was being replaced by the next on his left. Sujay just decided that he wouldn't be able to go to work that morning. His head was throbbing in pain again. In that mechanical morning Sujay longed for a snowflake's life. He wanted to disappear the way they did.
He pulled over by the side of the road, released the lock of the seat belt, and waited. Resting his head on the steering wheel he pressed the sides of his forehead with his thumb. Generally that relieved the intensity of the pain for a bit. The view of those crowded skyscrapers made him claustrophobic. Before moving to Pittsburgh he had lived in Cleveland for five years and prior to that he lived in Kolkata, a northeastern city in India.
Before Sujay could look away from the downtown skyline, he heard a familiar sound almost like someone released a handful of glass marbles on a hardwood floor. In front of him the sixty-four-story steel tower of Pittsburgh was slowly disappearing and the fifty-seven-story high key tower of downtown Cleveland was taking its place. He could even see the big red key resting on top of it.
"It is happening again," he said in disgust.
Penn Avenue began to look almost like West 25th Street. Sujay quickly turned around and kept his eyes on the pavement.
Years ago one evening Emilia left America permanently. She had returned to Milan where her boyfriend was waiting for a long time. The sky was flooded with colors in celebration of her departure that autumn evening.
Restless Sujay had rambled around the tall buildings of downtown Cleveland for a long time in that Emilia-less city and "I miss you Emilia," he had repeated a thousand times.
Today one of these side streets could take him to the house where she used to live. He tried to read the names of the streets but the letters didn't make sense. He could hear the wind chime ringing that used to be on her porch. Pentatonic melodies have haunted him ever since.
The night before she had left, they were on a large chair on that porch together. She didn't say much. Neither did He.
"Will you be ok?" she had asked after a long time.
He had pulled her close.
"I will think of it as a dream; an imagination that was too real," Sujay had said after a pause. He wanted to believe.
"Not again!" Sujay shook his head and walked faster. He tried to focus on something else. How about that old man leaning against the dirty plexi-glass wall of the bus stop? Oily gray hair was visible under a baseball cap, pale jeans, torn in multiple places, oversized jacket that originally had a bright cream color, faded. His Eyes were buried in deep dark circles. In his eyes Sujay saw flickering of two distant candles.
"Wake up! It is time for your study," he had felt the cold palm of his grandfather's trembling hand.
"Can I sleep a little more Dada? Let me? Please?" He had said turning to his left with his eyes closed.
"If you don't study, you won't be able to get in the school your brothers are in. Your mother will be upset if you don't do well," he opened his eyes and he had seen his grandfather's eyes. In them glowing were two far-away stars. They reminded him of his quiet mother and his angry father. Grandmother had come to his rescue and held him in her arms. Under the blanket he had began to weep. Didi, they used to call her.
"We love you. We will always be there for you Sujay! Please don't cry," she said.
They kept their promises. Sujay didn't. He had left India for a better life. Better life sounded odd those days. Both of his grandparents had died a year apart of each other. He wished he could see them. He wanted to tell them how much he loved them. Instead, he worked harder, that was the rule. Sujay wipeed his eyes with the back of his hand and started to walk back to his car.
"Today is not a good day," he mumbled. He was not able to stay in the present time. Did that make him someone who once lived but not any more?
A section of Penn Avenue was one-way. One could come all the way to downtown but couldn't drive back. He made a quick left turn to get to a parallel street.
"Why did you turn on this street? It takes longer," Amanda yelled from the passenger seat. "You should have taken Liberty instead, not Butler.
"It's alright. It will be few minutes more. Please don't get mad," Sujay begged.
"You never listen to me. You have to know the roads
Sujay, it is so frustrating. I cannot believe this. How many times do I have to tell you?" Amanda was audibly upset.
"You are not driving, are you? Please let me drive the way I am comfortable with. It is not a big deal!" Sujay defended being helpless.
He couldn't find his way back even in his own city Kolkata. He had changed, forced himself to learn a lot of things since then. He didn't tell Amanda, she wouldn't understand.
He looked at the empty passenger seat on his right and felt like a hypochondriac. It's been three whole years after the break up. Sujay couldn't understand how she still had that much influence on him.
After returning home he dropped his backpack on the floor, ran to the bathroom rinsed his face with cold water vehemently.
"What is happening to me?" he screamed at the mirror, "There must be an end to this. I have to endure just a little longer, is that's about it?" Sujay made an effort to calm himself.
There was a Belgian mirror on the wall of their living room in Kolkata. The frame was varnished dark brown almost like his dad's violin. On Sundays his grandfather used to shave his white beard standing in front of that mirror. With the water running, the bathroom mirror became foggy and a reflection of their living room appeared on the mirror. A cold sensation moved down his spine as his elder brother walked by behind him.
"Dinner is ready! Come to eat everybody!" his mother
yelled from one corner. She was standing at the kitchen door. He could now smell the bread, freshly made by hand from wheat flour. He knew what they are going to have at dinner. It was always the same, four breads, a curry and a giant glass of milk with sugar. He saw everyone paced towards the kitchen. Almost Everyone. He didn't see himself. After coming back to reality, he wondered about that.
Why did he not find himself in that mirror? Why did no one ask where Sujay went? That was bizarre. How can Sujay be erased from the past? Was he not there from the very beginning then? He felt lonely.
He didn't know how long he could keep his job this way. How could he pay attention when everything he saw transported him to his past? Everything he saw reminded him of multiple incidents that already had happened before. Sometimes they were more vivid than the real world. The Department Chair gave him one warning already. He had to. Sujay got that.
It happened only last week, he was supposed to bring medicine from the pharmacy downstairs for a patient. After a couple of hours, someone found Sujay outside the pharmacy, sitting on the chair waiting quietly. Would he be better off without a job? He could have all the time in the world to sort things out whatever the hell was going on with him?
"Are you sure?" Department chair asked him, "You could tell me if there is anything I can do."
"I am sure, sir. Thank you for your kind offer. I just want to take care of some unresolved things," Sujay said. He could survive few months from his savings account.
It was many years ago, he was then a little boy. People had enough time to think. Computer, cable TV or social networking didn't exist. Every night in that brief time between getting into the bed and falling asleep he had meticulously carried out a simple routine. With his eyes closed he decided to re-experience any special incident that had taken place on that day.
It was an addictive game. Sujay did that over and over until it was perfect. Until he could see every wrinkle of someone's face, feel the texture of every surface on the street, inhale the smell of the wind carrying the moisture after a brief rain, listen to the melodic voice of the girls he admired or heard the sound of waves of the river gently touching the shore.
Soon this innocent game turned into an obsession, a private ritual. Sujay looked forward to that time of the night everyday, all day.
Although he was in his bed with his eyes closed, Sujay didn't realize that he slept very little. Over time his invisible and imaginary pastime had spilled into his dreams. It was like having a personal library of short films of experiences. He could access any film he wished anytime.
"It was a long time ago! I have not done that since then," he says.
"Yes, but you could have internalized the habit," Sujay explained to himself, "You might be doing it all the time now not knowing. Do you remember you were on sleeping pills for some time when you were in the dorm in Kolkata?"
" Of course I remember. They were Lorazepam and nitrazepam derivatives, one was anxiolytic and the other was for insomnia. I was worried about my future. Even Amanda didn't know all these," He said.
"Why didn't you tell her?" Sujay asked.
"I was too embarrassed," he said.
"Embarrassed to show her that you had to struggle in life? Are embarrassed about your past? Are you? No wonder she had left you. You cannot fool someone you care about. In love one must be honest. She was a special person and you lost her. You need to stop blaming her," Sujay completed his own thought and felt good.
From the morning he was glued to the couch, holding his head between his knees. After losing his job he didn't have rush to do anything that morning. His head was hurting from the same pain.
Sujay forced himself to get up and stand at the window. He noticed that he could see neighbor's living room from there. A toddler was taking his first steps. The mother was encouraging the boy standing a few feet away. She surely would catch him if he falls.
The way the little boy was walking reminded Sujay of drunken adults, heading home from local bars past midnight. There, the boy caught himself again. And behind the window for the first time Sujay too caught himself from a different kind fall.
The neighborhood was peaceful at dawn. The sun was coming out from the other side of the railway track. He opened the blinds, placed the little plant on the window pane. The original plant had long died, but two green leaves were shooting out of an unknown seed. Sujay didn't know the name of that little plant.
He didn't want to.
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You might want to rethink your Facebook privacy settings because according to a Kaplan survey of college admissions officers, more than 80 percent of college admissions officers consider social media presence when recruiting students.
What does your Facebook profile, or MySpace, or your social media footprint in general, say about you?
More often than not, student Facebook pages are meant to be social, not academic. But, according a recent Huffington Post article, sharing your Facebook information could both be potential harmful to your application or helpful:
StudentAdvisor.com editor Dean Tsouvalas wrote in a blog post that "in at least one case an admissions counselor told us they rejected a potential student based on their social networking profile."
But applicants can turn their social media presence into an advantage. Tsouvalas says that by following a school on Twitter or "liking" it on Facebook, using a personal blog as a space to demonstrate talent or making a video application for your school of choice, students can stand out in an increasingly competitive candidate pool.
Would you want admissions officers checking out your Facebook profile?
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- found: NUCMC data from Harry S. Truman Library for Foreign Service officers and Dept. of State officials; oral history interviews, 1971-1984 (H. Freeman Matthews; with St. Dept. during Truman admin.)
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