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Example 1:
Use virtual servers
If one server crashes, the rest are (often) not affected.
Stability Patterns
David Almroth,
February 2013
Example 2:
Java thread pools
Do not only use the
default single thread pool. Make more thread pools.
Example 4:
Erlang processes are
by definition bulkheads.
Erlang supervisor hierarchies are bigger bulkheads
Example 3:
Database connection
Use a separate pool for
"extra important" connections
Curcuit Breaker
Bulkheads protects your software from outside threats by limiting the damage.
A ship should not sink if it gets one single hole i the hull.
Your website should not go down when one of the site's many backend systems stop responding.
Java DevOps: Your website should not halt just because one single Java thread pool gets exhausted or one single database connection pool gets exhausted.
Erlang has superior support for bulkheads. For example: No shared data between processes. If one process crashes, a supervisor can handle it and limit the damage.
Use supervisor hierarchies to make larger bulkheads in your system.
Circuit breakers protect your software from "internal heat".
The same way a fuse breaks and saves a House from burning down completely, a circuit breaker in software shuts down one small malfunctioning part of the system instead of snowballing and crashing the complete system.
If your system can't connect to a database and has done X retries the circuit breaker will "break" and your system will stop calling the database. The operator should be informed of course.
In a Java shop I would use Hystrix.
In Erlang I would use supervisors and child definitions. It is easy to set max restarts per time interval in a child definition.
Do not let one malfunctioning
electrical equipment burn down the house.
Cascading failure
Integration points
Sockets have so many risks!
Libraries using sockets often add even more risks.
Limit return data
Socket risk examples:
What if I can't make the initial handshake?
What if it takes ten minutes to do the handshake?
What if I always get a disconnect after the initial handshake was OK?
What if I can make the connection, but I never get any response after the initial handshake?
What if it takes X minutes to respond to my request?
What happens if 10 000 request comes in with a burst?
How long can the TCP connection be quiet before one of the firewalls in between drops it?
Library can add risks like these:
No timeout can be set in the client.
No data volume max can be set.
The socket is not closed properly, only closed later by garbage collection.
Throws the same exception for connectivity problems and bad input problems and bad response data problems.
Resource leaks
Hides exceptions from lower (socket) layers
Attack of self denial
Use timeouts
Connection timeout
Read timeout
Not Stable
How to make it stable
Default values are usually to high.
A high timeout is also dangerous
Sometimes the 3rd party client lib you are using supports this, and then it is a good library.
This is one of the first things to check when evaluating a new client side lib.
Configure connection timeouts and read timeouts.
Always configure this on database connection pools (in the app server / web server)
A really nice lib is "lhttpc"
Case 3:
Clients reconnect without a delay between attempts.
Case 1: Rendering an unlimited data set on a web page. For example a big report.
Small cracks lead to big failures
The system behaves well,
even when abused
Case 2:
Endless loop
Reason for one cascading failure last year in the RTT:
Biggest customer launched mobile site
Traffic increased with 30%. We did not add more web servers.
We did a deployment. When we stopped on server
the other server in the same availability zone was
overload. It crashed with out of memory.
The load on the last 4 servers got to high and they crashed too.
Unknown bugs & risks
Is there a way to limit the impact?
For example:
slow memory leaks
race conditions
bursty traffic
hardware failures
packet loss on network
bugs after the next deployment
In this talk I will focus on stability for distributed
Who is David?
I have been working with Java
since 1999, mostly banks and finance.
Erlang since 2009.
I love operations because I get to see my code run
in the real world.
There is a reason why Google limit your
search result. Use this pattern to make clients and servers in your distributed system more stable (under massive load).
At Campanja we store massive amounts of data in HBase. When we query the database, we always limit the number of lines returned.
Implement and use
"Hood openers"
If you can't open your systems hood, it is hard to track down a problem
Besides the classic Linux toolset we are using the Erlang console and Erlang tools like:
dtop (cpu + memory + inbox per process)
redbug (trace input and output to any function)
folsom (metrics)
riemann (monitoring based on metrics)
graphite (graphs based on metrics)
Sometimes we need more detailed metrics, then we code it and deploy it within a few hours just to get more knowledge about our system.
We use folsom to make sure the added metrics do not crash our system.
Stability Patterns
Use timeouts
Limit return data
Circuit breakers
Hood openers
Decoupling middleware
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I have been hesitant to put wedding photos on the blog, but I have decided that there are only certain photos I don't want public. There are others that I would like to share, so here goes.
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My brothers, not paying attention to the ceremony. Classic. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Getting married can make you very thirsty.
So we didn't get married in Cheers, just upstairs from Cheers in the Hampshire House. But I like to think of it as Melville's. I spent the day before my wedding on a tour of Fenway, got married upstairs from Cheers, took pictures across the street in the Boston Public Garden, and watched the Sox beat the Yanks the day after. Yes people, I love Boston.
My brother Tim is silly.
The bridesmaids and groomsmen looking fabulous.
Sheri, trying to escape.
We were getting our picture taken on the bridge in the Boston Public Garden (while Sheri was stopping people from getting near us, but that is another story) and I kept hearing people talk about a banana man. I turned around and there was a woman in a full banana costume. Realizing that not every couple is lucky enough to have walking human banana in their wedding album, I turned around and asked the banana to be in our photos. Really, does it get better than this?
My sisters and my best friend, I mean numbero uno, numbah two, and pop princess. They were doing a dance all day that ended with the Charlie's Angels pose. There was even a chant. They rock.
My husband is very funny.
My beautiful sisters.
Instead of a guestbook, we asked people to sign baseballs.
My Dad is also very funny.
Ladies and gentleman, if you can think of any reason why this man should be dancing with one leg lifted off the ground, I ask you to speak now.
The flip flops that match our dresses.
Yes, that is my brother. Yes, he is spinning on the floor. It was awesome. So, so, so, very awesome. Just look at the reaction from the crowd!
If you can't tell, our wedding was pretty fun. Well, it was fun for me, but I don't think everyone else was faking.


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Opera and Ballet
Teatro Regio, from the 19th - 28th February, 2012
During the months of February and March, the Teatro Regio strikes gold: The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini from the 19th to the 26th February, followed by Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini from the 21st to the 28th February, then La bohème by Giacomo Puccini the 6th to 17th March and Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi from 14th to the 20th of March.
Four tried and well applauded productions by the Teatro Regio are back on the stage, four different productions are now going to be replicated with new directors and performers, expressing, as the project has developed and grown in recent years by the Teatro Regio, an "Italian way", a way that allows the Teatro Regio to meet the public's demands. The public is then benefited by being able to watch a growing number of Italian masterpieces whereby the Regio intersects the dates between several titles. In total there will be eighteen performances in thirty-one days in the same season. «The frequent staging of popular operas is a guaranteed success and making them spectacular every time is our aim. We try to put in place a system that combines an intelligent theatre repertoire and the desire to experiment» explains General Manager Walter Vergnano. The Music Director Gianandrea Noseda added: «The idea of a sequence of productions which are both bold and popular, stems from the desire to keep the theatre open as long as possible. In the design of a large theatre, the repertoire has to live constructively with the most sought after proposal».
Teatro Regio, Wednesday 1st February 2012 at 20:00
The Fiery Angel by Sergei Prokofiev, returns to Teatro Regio from 1st to 11th February 2012 after nearly fifty years and this time under the conduction of Valerij Gergiev, great artistic director from the Mariinskij Theatre of St. Petersburg, who has conducted this opera around the world. The theatre soloists performers and the scenery are from Russia (a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London). The Orchestra and Chorus will be those of the Teatro Regio.
The director is David Freeman. Freeman has the capability of bringing to life the true spirit of this opera. The scenery and the costumes, depicting metaphysical loneliness as well as inhabited by pale ghosts, are by David Roger. The lights are by Steve Whitson and Vladimir Lukasevič.
Teatro Regio, Tuesday, 10th January 2012 at 20:00
After the great performance in Fidelio, Gianandrea Noseda is back on the podium of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio to direct Puccini's Tosca, staged as from Tuesday, 10th January, 2012 at 20:00 for a total of eleven performances, until Sunday 22nd of January.
Noseda, the orchestra director, will also conduct the future performance which will take place in Paris on the 24th January at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, continuing like this, the collaboration with the prestigious theatre where, every year, the Regio is asked to present a concert version of an opera.
The staging of the new production – created as a co-production with the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Puccini Festival Foundation – is the work of director Jean-Louis Grinda, a production which has greatly impressed the public of the Valencia Festival of Mediterranean this summer. To complete the production, the set scenes were created by Isabelle Partiot-Pieri; the neoclassical-inspired costumes were created by Christian Gasc and the lighting designer is Robert Venturi. For the triangle of the main characters The Regio puts together an outstanding cast with Svetla Vassileva (Tosca), Marcelo Álvarez (Cavaradossi) and Lado Ataneli (Scarpia).
Teatro Regio, Friday, 9th December, 2011 at 20:00
The new production of Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven will open the opera season at the Teatro Regio on Friday, 9th December at 20:00.
Gianandrea Noseda, who conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio, is the one continuing the journey of Beethoven's compositional universe which began with the resounding success of the nine symphonies performed between September and October. The new layout has been written by the director Mario Martone, author of films such as Morte di un matematico napoletano, L'amore Molesto and his latest Noi credevamo. Martone will make his debut at the Teatro Regio with Fidelio. The Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège co-produced the scenes by Sergio Tramonti; the costumes are by Ursula Patzak and the lighting by Nicolas Bovey.
Loyalty, courage, honour and hope. A personal tragedy – an unjust imprisonment that, miraculously, finds a solution which turns out to be a passionate exaltation of freedom against all the "chains" imposed on mankind. Art lives, as it has never done before Beethoven, in the essence of the passions, of enthusiasm itself, of the ideals of its own time, and is directly involved, - as pointed out by Massimo Mila – as the movement of ideas, of spiritual work and simultaneously becomes a leader of its own age. Hence, 'Il Regio', chooses this purposefully, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
Teatro Regio, from 14 October to 6 November 2011
For the first time in the recent history of the Theatre, on 14 October, dance will be inaugurating the Regio Season. The Ballet of the Teatro Mariinsky of St Petersburg will present all of six titles of great classical dance for a total of 22 performances which are expected to sell out. It all begins with an Homage to Fokin – from 14 to 18 October – that includes the best of the Russian choreographer's production: the Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Le Spectre de la rose by Carl Maria von Weber, The Dying Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns and Shéhérazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This is followed by two ballets created by Marius Petipa: from 21 to 25 October La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus, never before performed at the Teatro Regio, and, finally, the most classical of all classical ballets, Swan Lake, on stage from 28 October to 6 November. Among the stars of the Mariinsky on stage in Torino there will be: Ekaterina Kondaurova, Uljana Lopatkina, Alina Somova, Viktorija Tereškina, Evgenij Ivančenko, Igor Kolb, Danila Korsuncev and Vladimir Škljarov. The music will be performed live by the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio; in the Polovetsian Dances, the Chorus of the Regio will also participate.
Teatro Carignano, Tuesday 20 September 2011 at 8 pm
Teatro Regio, Tuesday 21 June 2011 at 8 pm
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Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti will be on stage at the Teatro Regio from 21 June to 3 July with the beautiful staging created by Graham Vick. On the podium of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio will be maestro Bruno Campanella, one of the most important interpreters of pre-Romantic Italian opera.


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JL makes policy to revive Chubu-LAX after 2008 (Link in Japanese)
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On the 24th, Nishimatsu Haruka, president of the Japan Air Lines Co., Ltd., - made the policy of reviving the Nagoya (Chubu)- Los Angeles line after 2008 which was suspended from fall 2001 due the 9/11 terrorism. The next generation medium-sized airliner "787" of the American Boeing corporation which improves fuel economy substantially is supposed in the use airplane.
?As for the Los Angeles airport hub which becomes the American west coastal entryway (base). When it is superior in making connection function, it can anticipate fixed business demand from the Chubu international airport including the Toyota Motor Corporation which has the factory in North America and every place in Central and South America, Japan Airlines has judged.
?Japan Airlines operated 3 flights a week on the Los Angeles line from spring 1998 at the old Nagoya airport, but demand fell with American terrorism of September of 01, the flight was driven to suspension in the following October. Long haul routes to Europe and American were cut to just the Paris line which started in February last year with the move to Chubu international airport.
?As for 787 08 year commission schedule. The lightweight carbon fiber compound material was used for the fuselage, fuel economy approximately 20% improved in comparison with 767 of the same class. Japan Airlines has ordered 50 from Boeing, conversion from the large-sized machine such as 747 and 777 on the long distance route is advanced.
?As for president Nishimatsu "fuel cost has soared, but if 787 you take profit. Also the European 2nd route from Nagoya which follows to Paris is thought sufficiently," you say.
Is this the first hint of a 787 route?
What could this mean for UA's contract?
Aaron747...your wish might just come true.
if someone would be willing to correct any of my mistakes or googles mistakes, thank you. I did my best to correct googles strange translations...President West Pine Far


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This year's expiration of federal agriculture policies gives Congress an important opportunity to take a fresh look at the $25 billion spent annually on farm subsidies. Current farm policies are so poorly designed that they actually worsen the conditions they claim to solve. For example:
Farm subsidies are intended to alleviate farmer poverty, but the majority of subsidies go to commercial farms with average incomes of $200,000 and net worths of nearly $2 million.
- Farm subsidies are intended to raise farmer incomes by remedying low crop prices. Instead, they promote overproduction and therefore lower prices further.
- Farm subsidies are intended to help struggling family farmers. Instead, they harm them by excluding them from most subsidies, financing the consolidation of family farms, and raising land values to levels that prevent young people from entering farming.
- Farm subsidies are intended to be consumer-friendly and taxpayer-friendly, but they cost Americans billions of dollars each year in higher taxes and higher food costs.
Counterproductive Agricultural Policies. As the following problems illustrate, farm subsidies are both economically counterproductive and ill-advised.
Corporate Welfare. It is a myth that farmers' incomes are low and that they therefore need federal subsidies. The average farm household earns $81,420 annually (29 percent above the national average); has a net worth of $838,875 (more than eight times the national average); and is located in a rural area with a low cost of living. The farm industry's current 11.4 percent debt-to-asset ratio is the lowest ever measured and helps to explain why farms fail at only one-sixth the rate of non-farm businesses. Overall, net farm income totaled $279 billion between 2003 and 2006-the highest four-year total ever. The farm economy is thriving, and farmer incomes are soaring.
Furthermore, farm subsidy formulas are designed to benefit large agribusinesses rather than family farmers. Most farm subsidies are distributed to commercial farmers, who have an average income of $199,975 and an average net worth of just under $2 million. If farm subsidies were really about alleviating farmer poverty, then lawmakers could guarantee every full-time farmer an income of 185 percent of the federal level ($38,203 for a family of four) for just over $4 billion annually-one-sixth the current cost of farm subsidies.
Eligibility Restricted to a Few Crops. Only one-third of the $240 billion in annual farm production is eligible for farm subsidies. Five crops- wheat, cotton, corn, soybeans, and rice-receive more than 90 percent of all farm subsidies. Fruits, vegetables, livestock, and poultry, which comprise two-thirds of all farm production, are generally not subsidized at all. Those who assert that farm subsidies prevent massive poverty, rapid price fluctuations, and the eventual demise of the agricultural industry have not been able to explain why the two-thirds of the industry that operates without subsidies has experienced none of these problems.
Remedying Low Prices with Lower Prices. Farm policy is supposed to help farmers recover lost income from low crop prices. However, farmers can increase their subsidies by planting additional acres, which increases production and drives prices down further, thereby spurring demands for even greater subsidies. In other words, subsidies merely lower prices further. This is the policy equivalent of trying to use gasoline to extinguish a fire.
After handing out commodity subsidies that pay farmers to plant more crops, Washington then turns around and pays other farmers not to farm 40 million acres of cropland each year-the equivalent of idling every farm in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Paying some farmers to plant more crops and others to plant fewer crops exemplifies the economic incoherence of U.S. farm policy.
Driving Small Farmers out of Business. Small family farmers are generally not eligible for significant levels of farm subsidies. Furthermore, subsidies to large commercial farms actually harm small farmers by:
- Reducing crop prices and, therefore, farmer incomes;
- Raising the prices of farm land, thereby preventing family farmers from expanding; and
- Subsidizing agribusiness buyouts of family farms.
Small farmers receive virtually none of the subsidies but endure the market distortions and financial pain caused by these policies.
Subsidizing Both Crop Insurance and Disaster Aid. In 2000, Washington tripled crop insurance subsidies in an effort to eliminate the need for farm disaster payments. The budget-busting 2002 farm bill was also promoted as large enough to reduce the need for disaster payments.
Even with generous farm programs and subsidized crop insurance, Congress has passed a disaster aid bill every year since 2000 at a total cost of $40 billion. Congress has even drafted legislation offering disaster aid to farmers who refuse to purchase crop insurance at taxpayer-financed discounts. With Congress continuing to pass large disaster aid packages each year, what crop insurance subsidies are really funding is unclear.
Conclusion. Lawmakers would be hard-pressed to enact a set of policies more destructive to farmers, taxpayers, and consumers than the current farm policies. For these and other reasons, organizations representing taxpayers, consumers, environmentalists, international trade, Third World countries, and even farmers themselves have united around the shared conclusion that the current farm subsidy system is failing and in dire need of reform during this year's reauthorization.
Brian M. Riedl is Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Ian Hinsdale, a former Heritage Foundation intern, contributed to this paper.


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Ive got a school project in and im designing a site. Im having a few problems with it at the moment and im just wondering if you can help me out at all.
1. Is there any kind of code to place on an image to make it a forward button.
2. Once youve started baseing your pages off a template, can you still alter those individual pages (ie the head> part not just an editable region). I have various popup windows and I cant get the code to make them come in different sizes because I cant change the code in the different pages as it is protected by the template.
3. What image file format would IE support for using an image with a clear background. For example, I use mozilla and it supports .png's but IE doesnt so it looks stupid when I run the site on IE.
Thanks for any help you can give me at all.
1) Yes, in a way. Just place a link on it to the page that you want your visitors forwarded to. (Helps at this point if you tell us what web authoring software you use).
2) Yes, usually, but see my previous comment applies here as well.
3) Only gif and png can provide clear backgrounds, so IE is stuck with gifs. Unfortunately, gifs are quite restrictive in colour depth, so can often be unsuitable depending on the nature of the image.
I've had a look at your site, and would be happy to offer some constructive criticisms, but will only do so if you would like some feedback.
Yeh sure, it doesnt need to be fully working or anything, ive just got to sort out a lot of problems :(
Here are some points that may help you. I appreciate that some of these issues are solely a result of work in progress and will (I hope) be fixed in due course.
Be careful with your page titles and page names. Your homepage should really be called index.html and the title should be meaningful, such as Seventh Avenue T-shirt Design.
The text on the homepage needs a rework for readability, and also for spelling and grammar. eg: "...bring you..." should be "...bringing you..."
T-shirt has a capital T.
Your navbar links should be further apart; it looks like a single sentence at first glance.
Your pictures go nowhere (work in progress, I assume, judging by your initial question).
The splash page is probably acceptable for the particular style and tone of your site, but is usually a bad technique. It also severly damages your early chances with search engine bots.
The "home", "forward" and "back" icons have only one link between them, and that's the homepage.
There is a lack of info about the stores, but again, I'll assume that you intend to work on that.
Hope that helps you to take the development a bit further. Some of our other members will probably have more to add.
yeh thanks, ill take a look at a few of those things, some of them I just havent finished yet. Also the site doesnt need to be anywhere near fully functioning ie.search bots and such just needs to show a general understanding of the program.
Tbh its a bit of a mish mash of me trying to solve problems and makign new ones etc. Ive got a weird mixture of CSS and tables and I think I need to sort that out if I want it to work properly in IE.
Im so confused...
is to rethink your project.
In web design there's a golden rule for success:- 'Keep it simple'.
Lots of people make the mistake of thinking that a site which is bursting with clever technique, and has loads of bells and whistles will automatically have impact. Often the complete opposite is true, and in your case I think you're in danger of falling into the latter category. Your site is difficult to navigate, and isn't working properly, and why on earth do you have all those pop-up pages loading? You would lose your visitors within seconds if you launched the site as it is.
Please don't see my comments as a condemnation of your design skills, because that's not the intention. I like your graphics, and the overall style of the site is fine, but you need to radically rethink your presentation.
Keep it very simple, and ditch that 'Enter' page, it's totally unnecessary.
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4 months after initiating treatment with sorafenib plus fulvestrant.
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Generic delimitation of Sopubia Buch.-Ham. (Scrophulariaceae), revision of Petitmenginia Bonati and description of the new Asian genus Parasopubia
Hofmann, Hans-Peter Fischer
Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie Band 125 Heft 3 (2004), p. 341 - 375
published: Jun 17, 2004
The morphological characters on which the concept of the genus Sopubia is based are evaluated. The main element of this concept anther morphology is retained and refined, with two new distinguishing characters supporting it. Four species are excluded from the genus and placed in either Petitmenginia Bonati or the new genus, Parasopubia. The delimitations within the tribes Gerardieae and Buchnereae are briefly discussed.


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The Philadelphia Eagles hope a healthy Todd Herremans–who only played in eight games last season due to a foot injury–can help the offensive line bounce back from what turned out to be a very disappointing season in which the team finished with a 4-12 record. From the coaching staff to the newest members of the team, there were numerous changes made by the Eagles this offseason, but it's safe to say one of the biggest changes may be the new hairstyle Herremans is rocking now that training camp is underway.
As you can see in the photo, Herremans is rocking some sort of mohawk with a little tiny ponytail in the back–although it appears to be shorter than most ponytails. Herremans has always been known to have a sense of humor, but this new hair due may be one of the funniest acts he's ever pulled off during his career in Philadelphia.
To make things even more hilarious, Herremans explained to reporters this week how the new look was inspired by the hit show "Vikings"–which airs on the History Channel. It will certainly be interesting to see how many Eagles fans follow the football steps of Herremans by growing out a haircut of their own to look just like the offensive tackle.
Professional sports has seen plenty of athletes pull off interesting hair dues, but it's safe to say taking after the "Vikings" show from the History Channel is a first–so nicely done Todd. Let's hope the new look can help Philadelphia turn things around and be contenders in 2013.
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Bethlehem: The 'Last Action Heroes'
A commentary by Israel Shamir The East celebrated Easter in May, a long time after the West this year. There was little festive spirit, as the Nativity Church of Bethlehem had been besieged for a month. Starved priests and laity lay in the grotto where the Virgin gave birth to Christ; bodies of policemen slain by Israeli sharpshooters were piled under the golden Tree of Jesse mosaic. From time to time, the attackers propelled flares to the wooden roof of the basilica and watched the defenders, weakened by a long fast putting the fires off. But Easter brought its miracle, and it was called ISM. What is ISM? For the reply, go a few hundred yards away from the church, on the broad terrace overlooking the gentle descent of the hills towards the Dead Sea, above the road's double bend; there is a small Byzantine sanctuary adjacent to a water cistern. It has an aquatic character like many shrines of the Holy Land and it is called Bir Daoud (David's Well), in memory of a legendary exploit. Once, the conquering army from the cities of the plain declared War on Terror and sealed this hilly village in an effort to catch a local man, a Palestinian terrorist leader by the name of Daoud, who had attacked the conquerors' settlements. But his companions, a motley band of men, challenged the invaders' order. They dared the road checks, defied security measures, sneaked into the village and, against enormous odds, brought a draught of water from the Bethlehem village well to Daoud, or King David as we call him now. Millennia have passed and this exploit is now repeated by the new version of King David's companions, the International Solidarity Movement, or ISM. As the land of Palestine has become the scene of the most dramatic confrontation and international involvement for decades, if not centuries, young European and American men and women have joined the ISM and come to the green hills of Bethlehem and Hebron. They have come in troublesome times: Israeli leaders carefully laid a plan to expel and exterminate Palestinians and create a country as Jewish as Germany was to be Aryan. The ISM volunteers by their very presence derail this plan and save local peasants from destruction and expulsion. They live dangerously: play the cat-and-mouse game with the Israeli army, dodge snipers' bullets, stay in defenceless villages with the peasants. Think of them as the Last Action Heroes, of Schwarzenegger's fame. Some of them have Jewish parents, but they have rejected separatist frameworks "for Jews only". They stand for equality, for the 'International of Good People', as Isaac Babel would say. They come from the land of Folke Bernadotte, and the land of Abe Lincoln, and the land of T E Lawrence. Some of the ISM volunteers saw action in non-violent anti-Globalisation protests in Seattle, Gothenburg and Genoa. Others came to the Holy Land in April 2002, just in time for Israel's Easter Offensive, as Sharon's willing executioners demolished houses, uprooted olive trees, deported thousands of Palestinians into concentration camps, and slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children in Jenin refugee camp and Nablus. The oldest church in Christendom When Israel's Juggernaut rolled into Bethlehem in early April, over two hundred local people sought refuge in the church of the Nativity. The tradition of refuge precedes Christianity and is known to mankind from the dawn of civilisation. In Latin America persecuted people, illegal immigrants and labour leaders were often saved by hiding in churches, while during WWII many thousands of Jews found refuge in Christian churches and monasteries. That is why people believed they would be safe beyond the thick walls of the oldest church in Christendom. Forty monks and priests remained on duty in the church, together with 200 refugees. For a month, the Israelis did not allow food or water to be brought to the besieged. People starved and died, trying to survive on rainwater boiled with lemon leaves and grass. The stench of corpses and of infected wounds filled the old church. State-of-the-art cameras assisted sharpshooters who hung outside and shot at every moving figure. They killed monks and priests as well as refugees. And they did it with impunity. The Danish fairy tale writer, Hans Christian Andersen, wrote of the SnowQueen's magic mirror that distorts reality and changes beautiful things into ugly ones, and vice versa. In the magic mirror of CNN, this oldest church has become 'a place where some Christians believe Jesus was born'. The refugees are described as 'terrorists'. The monks and priests have become 'hostages' in the magic mirror of the Snow Queen. Cries of the besieged would not come through the Israeli-managed western media. In this dark hour, ISM rode in. As the Holy Land had prepared for Good Friday (majority of Palestinian Christians belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem), two dozen volunteers divided into two groups: one of them staged a diversion in the best tradition of Alistair McLean's 'Guns of Navarone'. While Israeli soldiers were taken aback by their foolhardy bravery and proceeded to capture them, the second group rushed forward, and entered the gates of the church. They brought with them food and water, something for the beleaguered refugees to look forward to on Easter Sunday. In the history books, their breakthrough will be called the Easter Rescue. The names of these daring men and women will be carved on the walls of the church. In the sacristy, next to the sword of Godfrey de Bouillon, the Defender of the Holy Sepulchre there will be the baseball hats and sneakers of the Defenders of Nativity, those who got into the church, to share hunger and danger of the siege: Alistair Hillman (UK), Allan Lindgaard (Denmark), Erik Algers (Sweden), Jacqueline Soohen (Canada) Kristen Schurr (USA), Larry Hales (USA), Mary Kelly (Ireland), Nauman Zaidi (USA), Stefan Coster (Sweden), and Robert O'Neill (USA), and those who sacrificed their freedom, created diversion and were jailed: Jeff Kingham (USA), Jo Harrison (UK), Johannes Wahlstrom (Sweden), James Hanna (USA), Kate Thomas (UK), Marcia Tubbs (UK), John Caruso (USA), Nathan Musselman (USA), Nathan Mauger (USA), Trevor Baumgartner (USA), Thomas Kootsoukos (USA), Ida Fasten (Sweden), Huwaida Arraf (USA). Civil disobedience The diversionary group was arrested for the dreadful crime of bringing food to the starving refugees in the church at Easter: At first, men were separated from women and taken to jail in an illegal Jewish settlement of Etzion. Women were sent to Jerusalem, and brought to court, where they were sentenced to be deported. While on the way to the jail transport, the English girls jumped off and escaped their guards. One of them was caught by an Israeli civilian, who did not hesitate to pull a knife on a girl. Another two are on the run, together with a Swedish girl named Ida. They showed what real civil disobedience is, how a non-violent and humanitarian action could make a difference even in the brutal circumstances of the Israeli occupation. Though they have committed no offence in the territory of Israel, these volunteers have been sentenced to be deported and forbidden to enter Israel for ten years. One hopes the apartheid 'state of Israel' will not last that long. As a professional journalist, I regret that this tense drama of siege, breakthrough, diversion, relief, salvation, arrest, escape and confrontation in the shadow of the great church, did not reach the mass audience of Europe and America, that it was not broadcast by all TV stations and reprinted by all newspapers. But the regret does not diminish my joy, as one of the kids who broke the siege was my own son. Israel Shamir is an Israeli journalist based in Jaffa.


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I contacted a company named XLIBRIS in Philidelphia. they have multiple publishing services. Having lost my job, I was eager to have my story put out in the market ASAp, and self publsihing seamed to be the easiest way at the timeI read thier broucher, and discussed over the phone with a representative what was best. I price was agreed, i paid the first half, finished my story, sent it, and paid the rest. then we agreed changes of spelling, the front cover, author portait, and synopsys. They said where they would advertise and sell, and off we went. it took 4 months to complete the deal!
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Counterpoint Technology Market Research's latest survey shows that 30 million smartphones were sold in China during August. China's smartphone market has now blown past the U.S. since it is almost three times larger after just matching it last year.
Smartphones represented 91% of all phones sold, an all-time high. Additionally Counterpoint estimates that China's 91% penetration rate is higher than the 87% that the U.S. reached during the same month.
Led by Others at 45% (a lot of low-cost vendors such as Xiaomi), Samsung at 15%, Huawei at 11% and other Chinese vendors Android had a 96% share of the smartphone market in August. The domestic vendors had over 75% share due to sub-$200 smartphones being the product of choice and being reinforced by operator subsidies shifting to low and mid-priced handsets. Nokia accounted for about 3% of the market with the Lumia 520 helping and Apple was almost non-existent at 1%.
Counterpoint has Apple barely showing up at 1% share due to people waiting for the new iPhones to be announced. IDC has Apple's share at about 6%-7% and Kantar which has measured market share in "Urban China" had Apple's share at 20.8% in August on a three month rolling average. Apple's share will increase with the 5c and 5s now being available, and months earlier than previous new iPhone launches. However with the 5c not priced anywhere close to the sweet spot of the Chinese market its market share will rebound but probably not become one of the top 3 vendors.
The continuous boom in Chinese smartphone sales shows the potential for app developers such as G5 Entertainment in that region. For G5, it does not matter which OS gains most as the company develops and publishes its games for all platforms.
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'No Child' Loopholes Decried
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Should suburban schools that barely miss federal learning targets be allowed to escape penalties, while inner-city schools that never even hit the dart board are required to give free tutoring and let students transfer to better schools?
That question is at the heart of an emerging argument in Washington over how to improve the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Influential House Democrats and Republicans have circulated a draft proposal that would take many schools off the hook if they raise achievement for most students but miss the mark for a few.
Yesterday, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings pushed back hard against that approach. "To move from reasonable accommodations to big loopholes would be a huge mistake," she said.
In a speech to the Business Coalition for Student Achievement, which supports the federal law, Spellings said she is willing to consider proposals to allow states to use more than just annual tests in reading and math to rate schools and to treat differently schools that fall only slightly short of targets. But she said she is not willing to bend if the changes mean struggling students won't get the extra help they need.
Under current law, which requires reading and math tests in grades three through eight and once in high school, schools must show annual progress for all groups of students toward a goal of 100 percent proficiency by 2014. This year, 68 Fairfax County schools missed at least some target scores, falling short of adequate progress, more than double the county's previous total.
The law also has shined a spotlight on schools that have missed targets in other jurisdictions, including the District and Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Schools that miss targets year after year and receive certain federal education funds face progressively steeper sanctions.
Spellings' speech was the Bush administration's sharpest response to efforts in Congress to placate many schools, often those in nice neighborhoods with powerful parents who think the federal targets are too hard on their children.
"I'm counting on you to stand up against policies that say some kids just can't learn or that some kids count more than others or that if some kids are improving, its okay to let others fall behind," Spellings told members of the coalition of business, education, community and civil rights groups.
The targets of her remarks were sitting placidly 10 feet to her left: Reps. George Miller (D-Calif.) and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-Calif.), who had circulated the proposals. The Democratic chairman and senior Republican on the House education committee indicated afterward that her remarks were part of a long conversation. They had earlier thanked Spellings for her helping seek improvements, and she called them "mighty warriors" in the fight for better schools.
At the moment, the debate seems to be about exactly how many children would be affected by the suggested changes. Spellings said her staff had calculated that sparing more schools the tutoring and transfer requirements would mean "roughly 250,000 fewer children will get tutoring." She said the change would result in a 75 percent reduction in the number of Utah schools and a one-third reduction of Texas schools subject to the tutoring and transfer requirements.
Miller said that he did not accept those numbers and that he would have to investigate the matter further. He has scheduled hearings on changes in the law this month and called for a final version to be passed by the House before October.


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ANAHEIM– During my quarter-century of invading smelly locker rooms in Southern California under the auspices of The Orange County Register, I have covered a lot more NBA playoff series than NHL Stanley Cup playoff series.
The "Showtime" Lakers of the 1980s were a must-see dynasty, with Kareem and Magic and Big Game James and Byron the stars in a decade of dominance that netted five NBA championships. The Shaq-and-Kobe Lakers that three-peated in 2000, 2001 and 2002 also were memorable title teams.
But the NBA playoffs usually are a showcase for individual stars: Magic, Bird, Michael, Shaq, Kobe and, perhaps someday soon, LeBron.
The NBA postseason is entertaining, but the NHL postseason is absolutely riveting. It's my favorite playoff sport, a feeling driven home again in the span of three days this week after covering Game 1 of the Lakers-Jazz series at Staples Center and Game 3 of the Ducks-Sharks series at Honda Center.
The NFL playoffs are overshadowed by one game. The World Series succeeds only if the matchup captivates the nation. (Philadelphia-Tampa Bay last year did not.) March Madness often is more exciting in the earlier rounds of the NCAA Tournament if there are compelling upsets and Cinderella stories. The system that determines a BCS national champion in college football is a joke.
All of which brings me back to the Stanley Cup playoffs, which became my favorite postseason sport in the late 1980s when I had the privilege of watching Wayne Gretzky and the Kings up close.
Gretzky was the most dominant superstar in the history of pro team sports, racking up nine MVP awards, 10 scoring titles, 11 consecutive seasons with at least 100 assists and 60 NHL records that still stand. Think anyone will ever score 92 goals in a season, or record 163 assists, or finish with 215 points? No chance.
It was fun chronicling the Kings' surge to the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Montreal Canadiens in five games, and it whet my appetite for more playoff hockey when the expansion Mighty Ducks of Anaheim – a team that would not have been born in 1993 were it not for The Great One's impact in Southern California – finally made it to the postseason in 1997.
I have now covered every Ducks playoff series in history – this is No. 16 – including their maiden run to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2003 and their championship run in 2007.
Like I said, I've covered a lot more memorable NBA playoff games than NHL playoff games, but here are a few reasons I prefer the latter:
•Re-seeding: In the NHL, the top teams continually are rewarded for their regular-season success by being matched up in successive rounds against the highest remaining seed, rather than straight eight-team brackets used by the NBA.
For example, the eighth-seeded Ducks will be required to beat No. 1 seed San Jose and No. 2 seed Detroit to reach the conference finals. That only seems fair considering that the Sharks and Red Wings were the runaway leaders in the Western Conference all season.
In contrast, the Lakers know which team they'll play next if they keep advancing: the winner of the Portland-Houston series and then the team that comes out of the lower half of the bracket, etc.
•Overtime: In the NBA, overtime periods last five minutes. In the NHL, overtime is sudden death, with the built-in drama of each rush down the ice, each shift, each shot having the potential to end the game.
And sometimes there are multiple 20-minute overtime periods in the NHL that turn into classics, such as the Ducks' triple-overtime and quintuple-overtime thrillers during the 2003 playoffs.
•Fighting: I'm not a proponent of fighting, but it's an integral part of the game, builds the intensity on the ice and energy in the stands, creates rivalries and bitter rivals. And the sellout at Honda Center went absolutely bonkers Tuesday night when George Parros of the Ducks squared off with Douglas Murray of the Sharks near the end of the first period.
•Penalty box: In the NHL, if you break the rules, you have to leave the ice as punishment, giving your opponent a manpower advantage for the length of your penalty. It's a brilliant concept.
Can you imagine the NBA if a player had to leave the court for two minutes every time he committed a foul? I'd like to see it, actually.
•Timeouts: In the NHL, each team is allowed one timeout. In the NBA, each team is allowed six full timeouts and two 20-second timeouts, plus another three timeouts if the game goes overtime. Ugh.
Sometimes the final minute of an NBA game can take 10 minutes to play, with all of the timeouts allowed. Sometimes, teams even take back-to-back timeouts without play resuming. Absolutely infuriating.
•Toughness: There are no tougher athletes than hockey players. They have their teeth knocked out, and they might not miss a shift. They play with undisclosed injuries such as broken bones and never say a word. Toronto defenseman Bobby Baun once scored an overtime goal in the 1964 Stanley Cup Finals while playing on a broken ankle. Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin returned from ACL surgery in five months this season – the same injury that kept Tiger Woods, a golfer, out for eight months.
•Traditions: In the NHL, players grow playoff beards, they shake hands at center ice when a playoff series is over, get all of their names engraved on the Stanley Cup after they win a championship. Each member of the winning team also gets to party with the coveted silver chalice for one day during the offseason.
I'm not saying I dislike the NBA playoffs or the World Series or the Super Bowl. But there's nothing better than watching the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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