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The Big Picture: Is The Hobbit Too Long?
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For all the extra plots that were hinted but got expanded here, they still haven't explained the deux ex machina that are the hawks (they save Gandalf in Two towers as well), in the books it's somewhat explained, but still if you haven't read the books it's a pretty weird occurrence.
It's not that it's too long, but, as mentioned, the episodic sequence of events didn't give me any sense of adventure or epicness, the world feels limited with characters just popping in and out with not much emotional influence on the characters.
Of course you could've made it shorter, please don't bs it can't be done, the whole brown wizard/necromancer plot line could have been removed, as well as the mountain/rock giants fighting (the scene really comes out of nowhere and ends without any influence on the characters, if it was gone you wouldn't notice a thing).
All the extra filling amounts to having people waiting 2 more years for the story to finish and, unlike the LoTR trilogy which really had more definitive endings in each part, this story (in a book that's thinner than any of the LoTR books btw) is stretched out so thinly that it has a story progression of Lost or any other modern series which is extremely annoying if your expectations are different (and bets are they were).
I didn't actually mind the length of the movie, but the movie lacked emotion and atmosphere.
this episode could've been a lot shorter on itself.
After I saw this movie I remembered a Joke about the last Star Trek movie: They said JJ was going to release a 5 hour version of the movie with all the discussions of the romulan senate for the "true" star trek fans.
I like Lord of The Rings, I thought the 3 movies were incredible, but for me, it is not so engaging to entertain me for 3 hours straight in a plot that is indeed a series of captures and escapes.
The question of "Is it too long" depends on how much you like to be emersed in Tolkien's universe, even when there isn't much happening. In my humble opinion, it is a resounding YES.
For the most part though the 90s had much fewer big release a year, unlike today where there are more movies released a month than for all summer 1992
Nope... plain and simple. The film didn't bore me, I was entertained throughout. And that's all I really need to question if a film is too long.
It felt a bit like the extended LotR films true...but they're the only LotR films I watch now days.
Although the films would probably be the exact same length and even more rushed/packed if they were still doing it as two films. There's so much you need to show.
While I did enjoy the movie, I have to admit that it did feel like it dragged on at points. The riddles in the dark scene felt like it could have ended two riddles sooner with no ill-effect. The beginning scene with older Bilbo and Frodo seemed pretty pointless for how long it lasted (though I suppose we'll see if they tie it in more with the next movies). The beginning of the troll scene was just stupidly padded in my opinion and would be the main area I'd say could have been cut down. Even the final battle felt like sections of it were unnecessary. All and all there were multiple points I felt the movie could have used some trimming to keep pace. But at the same time there weren't many points where I became bored.
Overall it'll be hard to tell what was and was not important until we see the final product (all three movies).
I found it waay too long, especially due to poor action sequences that doesn´t really accomplish anything. I really miss somekind of narrative structure in the action, most of the time it´s just stuff happening for a loooong time. Fellowship of the ring was just as long, but a lot more exciting because every moment has a clear stated purpose.
I really wish they hadn´t added Azog, he was imo the worst part of the movie, and he´s the catalysator of a lot of the worst scenes in the movie. Remove Azog and add more clever suspense scenes like the Riddle scene, and it would be a lot more exciting to watch, as far as i´m concerned.
I would probably also have ditched everything related to the Goblin king and focused on Bilbo instead, that´s also a lot stronger as the movies climax than whatever the dwarves are doing. They didn´t really accomplish much, we didn´t learn anything, so really there wasn´t much reason to show it, or to even have anything happen to them. Don´t they just travel alone without Bilbo in the book, in that segment? I don´t really remember the book focussing on anything outside of Bilbos meeting with Gollum (I realize i was wrong, the it just needed to be better, a lot better.), and then later he teams up and they get attacked by wolves. Oh and by removing Azog you also fix one of my other main issues with the film, the entire chase scene with Radagast and the orcs sucked and seemed rather pointless and illogical (he keeps returning to the people who he is trying to protect by leading the orcs away from them). Probably the worst action scene i´ve seen all year alongside the stuff with the Goblin King. Which is a shame, because there are soo many great things in the Hobbit.
Meh, I've seen it two times now, not once was I bored or fidgety during the run time of the movie. Great movie, looking forward to the next instalments :D
That wouldn't really have made the movie feel any shorter, though, because as you said and as Bob argued in this video, the film just doesn't have a lot of extra "film fluff" to it. It's got a lot of filler, sure, the book did too, but that's the entire point. The filler doesn't feel excessive or overdone, because it was mostly the entire point to begin with.
I'm actually glad it's being stretched out to three films. People say that less happens in The Hobbit comparatively to The Lord of the Rings, and yes, that's true, but a lot more happens in The Hobbit than happened in, say, The Fellowship of the Ring. I can't see how they would have shortened the narrative structure of The Hobbit in to one three-hour film and still maintained the charm and wonder that the book captured, and I appreciate seeing how much they've actually managed to adapt from the book simply because it's being stretched out over so many films.
That would have been pretty cool, that way they could also maintain the mystery a bit longer, instead of spilling the beans right away. When we watch the movie, we know why the dwarves are there, because we basically just saw why they came.
First time I've watched a full one of these, but I don't think I will again. I don't get all these black-and-white faces MovieBob uses. Totally random and embarrassing, to be frank. What is he expecting us to do or think while watching these stupid faces flash up? Shows contempt for his audience.
Bravo, Bob. I completely agree. It's comforting to know at least somebody in the critic field understands.
Add to what you said the fact that huge chunks of the audience are Tolkien fans who are less concerned with the film's runtime, pacing, or structure than with the experience of being immersed in that world. Many of us wouldn't mind if the film were 30 hours longer, conventional cinema be damned, especially when you take into account the laborious and beautiful locations, cinematography, acting, sets, costumes, props, and score that accompany the journey.
It's apparent that Jackson is walking a tightrope trying to please Tolkien fans, critics, and general movie-goers alike, and he knows that the better product (for most) is the one with all the fat cut out, which makes it all the more important that he's released the Special Extended Editions for the rest of us who don't really care about that stuff (when it comes to Middle Earth, anyway; I could bitch about pacing all day if it were any other film).
I saw this pointless article feature on Rotten Tomatoes a couple of months ago where some film critics reviewed the LOTR Special Editions to see how they held up as actual films, which was hilarious and stupid because they weren't meant to (Jackson's stated that he thinks the theatrical cuts work better as films and that's why they were released that way). They kept complaining about scenes that should have been left on the cutting room floor which originally were left on the cutting room floor. Geniuses.
So if there are people out there who feel The Hobbit ran too long, maybe Jackson failed a little bit at trimming the fat. Though as you said, it's hard to imagine what would have been cut other than action scenes that ran a bit long (never been a fan of wargs). It doesn't bother me in the slightest, since I still anxiously await The Super Special Extended Radically Embiggened Longitudinally Enhanced Double-Double Panoramic 50-Hour Complete Completionist Collector's Set of the entire series...
...even if it means a stupid CGI musical number at Jabba's Palace in Return Of The King that nobody asked for.
I completely agree. A lot of the Rivendell stuff is nothing more than a tie-in to the Lord of the Rings movies. While it's well-shot, interesting fan-wank, it is still pure fan-wank; it does nothing to service the plot of The Hobbit. That Morgul blade that they made such a big deal about will likely never be seen or talked about in the remaining two movies, and yet Gandalf can't seem to STFU about it. Whatever happened to Chekhov's gun? Christopher Lee and Cate Blanchett could have been cut from the movie entirely without any impact at all. I suppose Bob's defense would be "hey, people are paying to see shameless fan-wank! Gotta give people what they want!"
I freakin love the start of the movie which is odd as thats the part everyone seems to call out. Granted I didn't really feel the Ian Holms/Elijah Woods cameo's were really necessary but I sure as hell wasn't complaining.
I don't know why it doubled posted there, my bad.
The scene with Gollum could have be nicer without him mugging to the camera most of the time.
I don't agree they could have cut some stuff like the saruman scene or the radagast stuff and saved that for the extended edition I don't mind it myself but I can see how some people would find it irritating.
You are right. Length of a movie is subjective. When I watched Titanic, Avatar and Abyss, I was not bored with them even though they are marathon sits and I have to get up and walk around a few time. I was thoroughly engaged in the movies. However, Eight Crazy Nights is barely 60 minutes long and I was checking my watch every 5 minutes to see if it's over yet.
I could not get through Lord of the Rings trilogy because of the length. I thought if the party scene at the beginning of the movie was 20 minutes shorter, and they cut 25 minutes out of the rest of the movie, I could enjoy this. I feel the same thing about Hobbit. If it were an hour shorter, it would be better. We did not need all that time negotiating a contract. You could have cut some of the travel log aspect. You could have cut some of the Shire stuff, you could have removed some of the stuff Jackson added to this one.
With something like this, the simplest solution is to cut the characters. The more characters you have, the more time you need to devote to them. Sorry, but the movie did not need as many characters as it did. It is very possible to combine characters and still have a good movie. Do you need 12 dwarves, or can you get away with 6 or 8 and still do a capable job? I think yes.
Yeah, except I'm NOT intending to pay to watch action scenes. The Hobbit was not about action scenes and fighting. Frankly, you're not helping me want to see this movie. It sounds like I'm going to have the same complaint about this as I had with the Narnia movies - namely, the director is trying to turn the film into something the story was never meant to be.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Hobbit 1 beats LotR 1 (my favorite of the bunch), 2 and 3 as a Tolkien film adaptation. 10 years ago I really disliked Peter Jackson's take on Middle-Earth, as it lacked that personal touch of the book. The world seemed fake and the people seemed fake too. All those extra scenes were boringly Hollywood-ish and too much emphasis was laid on battle scenes which in the book where chaotic and blurry, the focus in the book being the journey and the terror of the situation.
The Hobbit however, hits the spot better than I could've hoped for, especially since the book lacks the magnitude of the later trilogy. The extra scenes are superbly done and feature the gloomy secrets of the book. The characters are splendid, the actors perfectly cast, the action scenes (as few as they were) are a wonder to behold. Middle Earth seems more real than before. 3 hours passed by me without noticing (and I'm a heavy smoker so you can imagine what an achievement that was) and I left the cinema hall with a huge smile on my face and the regret that I have to wait for one year to see the rest. When one of my friends later told me that he didn't like the movie because he found it boring, I almost punched him in the face. Granted, he has never read a book in his entire life (not joking here) so...
Thus, when I saw Bob's title, I almost felt rage. How could anyone (not Bob) think that the Hobbit is "too long"? Guys, the Hobbit is a geek movie. LotR was not. As a geek, I say screw the rest. If they feel that the movie is too long, boo hoo to them. I only hope that Jackson continues in this line. My only regret is that I won't see Gollum again. And yeah, this Gollum freakin rocked! :D
I have seen this movie four times already, because all my friends asked me to go see it, but they all went on different days. First two times was amazing, third time was good, fourth time I was getting a bit bored. Of course, this is because I saw the movie four times in a span of a week, so I was just burned out.
However, seeing this four times has allowed me to memorize pretty much every scene, and I noticed something in this video Bob. There were a LOT of scenes in this video that were not in the movie. Mainly involving the ones with Gandalf. So, I have some questions for you:
How did you get your hands on the Extended Edition already, and can I borrow it or can you at least tell me where to pick it up? Please? :-)
Personally i would compare the movie to King Kong or Tintin. It´s defineately an action movie at heart, an extreme action movie where shit happens constantly, extreme shit! You can´t just have a sword fight, it´s a supercharged sword fight with ladders and moving platforms and whatever else you can think of. I guess there´s also a bit of Pirate of The Carribean thrown in there for good meassure.
But yeah, it´s also a geek movie, and when you make geek movies (or should we say, an immersive experience), quality doesn´t matter. It just needs to match your average video game cutscene, to be satisfyingly awesome. :D
Well the obvious answer is to cut out the framing various other items that were added to build the overall franchise rather the movie. The morgul knife, Radagast the brown, Gandalf's meeting with the big wigs of Middle Earth in Rivendale, etc. They all build the world but don't advance the story and its likely they never will since they pertain to events in the Lord of the Rings and not the Hobbit. They could easily be cut, though its obvious the film makers wanted to include that world building. It's really more relevant to people who have already seen the Lord of Rings though as to someone who knows nothing, these scenes would be pointless and confusing.
But the real question is: Is Bob going to title every video from now on with a question?
Funny you should mention run time, I watched Fellowship of the Ring the other day, for almost the first time since the cinema, and the whole story (particularly with Gandalf and Saruman) feels really badly paced and rushed. I know the pace of Return of the King is somewhat of an ongoing joke (haven't seen that one since cinema either), so it made me wonder if a better policy with these epic trilogy type things to film the whole damn thing, then edit it to where it feels comfortable? I know LOTR was supposedly filmed almost simultaneously... but I don't know toss about film making, so it's probably not as easy as all that
The Hobbit was neither too long nor too short. It was precisely the length it should be. ... Yeah that was pretty bad.
I think it was a good length. It was well paced, it held my attention the whole time. I loved it and I would love to go and see it again.
being a guy who has never read any of the LOTR books or the hobbit, I say the film was just right in length. I found Fellowship to be a bit long because of the lack of action in it (I'm a action junkie) but I still liked the film.
I actually think the helicopter shots and the travel time are some of the most important things about LOTR and The Hobbit series as well.
I was thinking to myself what exactly it is about these series that make them so appealing. What i concluded was that what Tolkien did so incredibly well was to create an amazing world people would want to see more of. He laid out the landscape and then wrote a story of people travelling through it, stopping to show the different people and sights along the way. It really does allow for some much needed escapism, and Middle-Earth is by now a place a lot of people feel familiar with (at least the ideas of the races in them).
Personally i love LOTR and The Hobbit and so long as i'm not bored during a movie i'm not going to complain about length.
What the HELL, Bob?!
Not everyone lives in the US where this might have been out for a long time, you know?
I thought it was too long, and though I wasn't bored, I was fucking frustrated. "Bilbo, stop fucking around and let the story start!"
I think there are parts that are easy to cut without destroying the important mood, or story points, or vital character rapport. For instance, did we really need to see a ten minute scene involving the old Bilbo and Frodo? All that needed to be established was that this was Bilbo's story, and it starts at Bag End, long before the Lord of the Rings. That only needs to take a minute at the most.
Though the Bag End scene needed to be long enough to contain all that characterisation and place a sense of value on the Shire, I think we got the point that Bilbo wanted to stay at home far quicker than the movie assumes. You see, most movies have reluctant heroes: Indiana Jones and Blade Runner, for instance, make it clear that Dr Jones isn't all that interested in getting bogged down in chasing the Holy Grail or shooting robots. It makes that clear within just a few lines of dialogue and a minute of screen time. Bilbo takes forever, and time is devoted to restating his reluctance over and over. First you have him reading of some contract, and then he has to listen to some dwarves, and then he has to listen to two lectures from Gandalf, and then finally having a change of heart after everyone left.
Then there is all that business beefing up the knife the Nazgul will eventually use to stab Frodo in that one scene. It was quite the anti-climax when it was revealed, because whilst it is important to have some potent of Sauron's return, we already got that long ago with Radaghast's recount of the creepy crypt.
Actually, they did go off and kick the Necromancer out of Dol Guldor, it happens when Gandalf leaves them. He doesn't specifically tell you, nor does Gandalf specifically tell the Dwarves, but that's what him and the others are going to go do. I'm not sure if Elrond and Galadriel had anything to do with it, but why not add them in for the movie?
I think they needed the meeting, if in a somewhat truncated form, just so that the movie can actually have a female character appear at some point. It's a serious sausagefest, which is something you don't get in big budget movies these days. It's that sort of thing that makes my girlfriend dismiss this (and Star Wars) as some boy story...it totally is, but normally these movies make some kind of effort to appeal to the average woman in the audience, even if it means sticking in as much female empowerment as possible into a franchise which barely even has women.
I thought the length of the movie was just right if anything. It help my interest up until the very end.
My only problem was with the Rock giants fighting scene. It just felt unnecessary and if it were taken out, nothing would've changed.
It is interesting that the first feature length film (Birth of a Nation aka Clansman 1915) clocks in at 190 Minutes (3 1/6 hours). Napoléon (April 1927) is 4 hours 10 minutes but there is an even longer 9 hour 22 minute version from May of that year. The Ten Commandments (1956) clocks in at 4 hours, Gone with the Wind (1939) is 3 Hours 46 Minutes long, and so on. If you have enough there your movie is not too long or too short.
While the pictures of it were used I am surprised that the comparison to Rankin/Bass 1977 made for TV version (77 minutes long) wasn't made.
Was I bored? No. Was it too long? YES. Even though I was enjoying myself, I started anticipating the end and got anxious when it wasn't happening. I kind of would preferred it if they broke it into 4, shorter movies instead of 3 looong ones (assuming the others are as long as this one). I knew my thinking the movie was too long coloured my opinion of the movie negatively.
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In November last year a meeting took place in a range of rocky hills in the Sahara Desert in the far north of Mali. A delegation from Mali's parliament had come to meet a group of Tuareg who had a month earlier formed a new alliance. The group called itself National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad.
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Worley says although the Libyan returnees were a major boost for the NMLA these aren't the only people part of the movement.
"The vast majority of the people involved in these rebellions are just young people," Worely says.
"They are young men with not much military experience, but a lot of passion."
For the moment it seems that the fighting in Mali is set to continue. After having been put on the back foot in the first days of the rebel, the Malian Army is now fighting back, reclaiming towns it abandoned to the rebels.
The Malian foreign Minister, Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga, said on Tuesday that the government was open to negotiations, but that any power sharing agreement would have to be a system that could also work for the other regions of Mali too.
And with the rebels saying the government must at least accept the principle of self determination for the north of Mali before any talks take place, Mali's latest Tuareg rebellion could go on for some time yet.


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Some cruise vacations are made for people who love nature: for example, cruises to Alaska, Antarctica and the Galapagos Islands are all about great scenery, natural beauty and the opportunity to view wildlife in their native habitats. Shore excursions in these destinations enhance the experience – imagine the thrill of actually stepping on the Antarctic ice, watched by seals and penguins, or seeing giant Galapagos tortoises up close. Still, cruises to other destinations – Europe, the Caribbean, South America and more – offer shore excursions that appeal to nature lovers, too.
In Alaska, nature abounds. On shore, you can hike or take a ride on a 4x4 vehicle, watching for wildflowers, waterfalls, deer, eagles and bears. Or, you can ride the waves to watch for beavers along the shore, terns in the air and mighty whales in the ocean.
If whale-watching appeals to you but you would like to do it in warmer waters, cruise to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, sometime between mid-December and mid-March. Excursion boats can take you out among the gray and humpback whales. If you'd rather stay on land, you can ride a beautiful horse along a cactus-lined beach and see migrating whales off shore.
The Caribbean is full of places where you can snorkel through an underwater world of brightly colored fish, coral and other sea life. One of the best ports for snorkeling is Roatan, Honduras, where you can also view the underwater world through a clear-bottomed kayak.
If you love gardens, cruise the British Isles and take an excursion to County Wicklow, Ireland. Powerscourt Estate has some of the country's finest formal gardens. You can also walk a nature trail along the Dargle River and see the 400-foot-high Powerscourt Waterfall.
South America has many spectacular natural features, including the amazing forests and wildlife of the Amazon basin. From Punta Arenas, Chile, you can travel through the Patagonian countryside to the Lake District and its breathtaking lakes, snow-capped peaks and lush forests.
If nature and the outdoors is where you want to be on your next cruise vacation, you can find a great, nature-oriented shore excursion in nearly any port of call. Ask your personal cruise expert to help you select shore excursions that will get you out in the open and bring you close to the natural wonders of your chosen destination.


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Located in the Historical centre of Rome, Meraviglia is a new hotel which accommodates you in a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere. Ideally located you will be able to visit the monuments such as the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore (3 min walk), the Colosseum and the Forums (15 min walk) or to take the underground with 100 meters from the hotel to join in a few minutes the Termini station, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps as well as the Vatican and its museums. Meraviglia is surrounded by stores, bars, pizzeria and other restaurants. There is also a local market behind the building of the hotel. Please Note: Cancellation Policy: 3 days prior arrival day - no charge. In case of late cancellations or 'no shows' the amount of the first night will be charged. Payments Types accepted upon arrival: credit card (American Express, Eurocard /Mastercard Visa etc) and Paypal Check in: 14.00 pm Check out: 10.30 am Tax not included in rates shown: Rome city tax (imposed by the city of Rome): EUR 3,50 per person, per night, up to 10 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 10 years of age.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – After learning of its selection three years ago to serve as host for the 2013 NCAA Division III Softball Championship, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is now ready to welcome eight teams from around the nation to compete for the national title, May 17-21 at Gelein Field in Carson Park.
This year will be the sixth time UW-Eau Claire has hosted the national championship. Eau Claire also hosted in 2010, 2002, 2001, 1999 and 1997. Only the City of Salem, Virginia has hosted the softball championship more times than Eau Claire. The tournament has only been in the Midwest 12 times in the 32-year history of the Division III softball championships. In 2014, the championship will head south to be hosted by the University of Texas at Tyler, one of this year's participants.
This Year's Participants
Anderson University (Anderson, Indiana)
Central College (Pella, Iowa)
Cortland (Cortland, New York)
Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)
Montclair State University (Montclair, New Jersey)
Salisbury University (Salisbury, Maryland)
Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts)
University of Texas at Tyler (Tyler, Texas)
Three teams in this year's field also competed at nationals a year ago in Salem (Luther, Montclair State and Tufts). Luther is the only team that also competed when UW-Eau Claire previously hosted in 2010.
View Live Stream of Banquet (May 16 - Beginning about 6:50 p.m.)
Thursday during the day, the teams will practice, attend a barbecue and also participate in various community service activities in the area, focused on Special Olympics and special needs children.
Thursday night, the teams will attend a banquet at The Florian Gardens while competition will get underway at 11 a.m. Friday. Salisbury will face Cortland to open the double-elimination tournament. A complete bracket and schedule can be found at http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/softball/d3 (Note: times listed on bracket are Eastern).
Tickets can be purchased at the venue on game days, at the UW-Eau Claire Service Center or online at NCAA.com/tickets.


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We are TheServerSide, so we naturally love getting the inside scoop on the various integrated development environments that are used to hack out code, not to mention the server software to which we deploy. How can you optimize your JVM? How can you simplify the process of building and deploying your applications? What are the top Java professionals doing to get the most out of their development tools and production environments? This track will deliver on these questions and more.
Tools & Techniques sessions confirmed:
- Anti-Patterns and Best Practices for Hibernate
- Do You Really Get Class Loaders?
- How jQuery Made Bob a Happy Man
- Mylyn 3.4 and the New Face of the Java IDE
- Tools & Techniques Keynote: The (Not So) Dark Art of Performance Tuning
- Static Analysis in Search for Performance Anti-Patterns
- Testing Java EE 6 Applications: Tools and Techniques
Other sessions you might like:
Anti-Patterns and Best Practices for Hibernate
Patrycja Wegrzynowicz, Founder and CTO at Yon Labs and Yon Consulting
Hibernate is the most popular object-relational mapping library for Java, providing a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. An application of hibernate to simple models is straightforward and almost effortless. However, in cases of more complex models we usually run into some issues relating to performance or correctness.
Patrycja shows several flaws in the demo from 'Java Persistence with Hibernate' - CaveatEmptor (yes, it has several bugs including a serious locking-related issue!) and other open-source projects, which illustrate transactional and performance anti-patterns in hibernate.
The hibernate-related flaws are accompanied by alternative solutions and best practices, which help to improve performance and quality of both, database and object-oriented, models. Patrycja explores patterns and practices mainly in the context of object-oriented model, specifically how to meet object-oriented principles, yet to ensure correctness and efficiency of hibernate mappings.
Additionally, she presents an online tool that helps in automated discovery of concurrency-related issues with hibernate and database transactions. The tool uses static analysis to analyze sources of an application and to find bugs related to hibernate.
Upon completion of this presentation, attendees should better understand the potential hibernate transactional and performance issues along with patterns to use hibernate in a correct and elegant way. Moreover, attendees will learn how to automatically discover a certain class of hibernate-related bugs.
Do You Really Get Class Loaders?
Jevgeni Kabanov, Founder and CTO of ZeroTurnround
Class loaders are at the core of the Java language. Java EE containers, OSGi, NetBeans modules, Tapestry 5, Grails and many others use class loaders heavily. Yet when something goes wrong, would you know how to solve it?
In this session, Jevgeni tours the Java class loading mechanism, both from JVM and developer point of view. He'll show:
- How different delegation systems are built,
- How synchronization works,
- The difference between finding classes and resources,
- Which Incorrect assumptions have been made and are now supported
Next we will look at typical problems that you get with class loading and how to solve them. ClassNoDefError, IncompatibleClassChangeError, LinkageError and many others are symptoms of specific things going wrong that you can usually find and fix. For each problem we'll go through a hands on demo with a corresponding solution.
How jQuery Made Bob a Happy Man
Bear Bibeault, Author of jQuery in Action
Attend this session with jQuery in Action author and learn:
- How a server side developer can quickly get up to speed on delivering rich client side content with jQuery
- The simplified jQuery approach to application design
- How key jQuery plugins can simplify the task of rich Web development
- To write less and do more with this powerful JavaScript library
This introductory session is not just for developers, but for managers and decision makers as well. Significant portions of budgets are wasted investing in frameworks that promise a rich end user experience but do not deliver. Decision makers and managers attending this session will see how inexpensive (as in free) and easy it is to immediately start integrating rich content into their enterprise applications today using jQuery.
Mylyn 3.4 and the New Face of the Java IDE
Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and Creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project
Mylyn has become the tool of choice for connecting team collaboration with coding. In 2010, Mylyn grew to support the entire Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) stack. This talk overviews how Mylyn can double your Java output by bringing the entire workday into the place where you are most productive—your IDE. Demos showcase how Mylyn's task-focused interface integrates all leading task and Agile tools, SCM tools such as SVN and Git, and build/CI tools including Hudson, then show how Mylyn's frameworks can run outside of Eclipse on the server side. The talk concludes with a vision of how realigning collaboration around a unified notion of tasks yields a measurable productivity benefit across the organization.
Attend and learn:
- How a development environment can compliment your agile methodology
- How to support collaboration right from your workspace, and more importantly, not impede it
- Simplify how you work with Agile, enterprise scale, and open source ALM systems
- How to double your coding productivity using Mylyns task-oriented approach to problem solving and development
Tools & Techniques Keynote
The (Not So) Dark Art of Performance Tuning
Kirk Pepperdine,
Java Performance Tuning Expert
Dan Hardiker,
Chief Technical Architect and Founding Member, Adaptavist.com Ltd.
Just imagine hiring one of the industry's leading performance experts to come in and fix your bottlenecks and snags, welcoming him into your office and handing over the keys to your source code repository only to have the expert tell you that he probably won't get a chance to look at any of your source code. Well, it's not an unusual occurrence at all, not for Kirk Pepperdine, one of the industry's leading performance experts. So, what types of insight and optimizations can be leveraged that don't even require touching your code? Well, there are plenty; and of course, when you actually have the time to get an expert like Kirk to fix a consortium of issues that don't require touching your code, what types of insights can be garnered when someone like Kirk actually does start providing coding advice.
Performance tuning is often considered to be a dark art, the mystery of the act being largely attributable to the lack of understanding of performance tuning best practices. But that doesn't have to be the case. In this entertaining and interactive session, we'll be picking on 'Dan,' our typical developer, as he goes bumbling off in an attempt to tune a poorly performing application. During the process, Kirk Pepperdine will introduce a number of best practices that could have helped Dan reach his performance goals.
There's no magic to the art of performance tuning, so let Kirk Pepperdine, one of the most popular speakers and presenters in the industry, demystify the art, while teaching you a few great lessons that you can begin putting to work immediately.
Performance Tuning with Cheap Drink and Poor Tools (Part Deux)
Kirk Pepperdine,
Java Performance Tuning Expert
After a brief introduction to a methodology to performance tune Java applications, the audience will guide Kirk through the steps needed to tune an application. The application models a number of performance problems that are common in real world applications. During the session, Kirk introduces a number of tools designed to expose causal code paths to each specific problem.
Static Analysis in Search for Performance Anti-Patterns
Patrycja Wegrzynowicz, Founder and CTO at Yon Labs and Yon Consulting
People often blame the programming language for the performance or scalability issues of a certain piece of software. However, these problems are often caused by the design of an application, and not the language used to implement it.
Join Patrycja as she presents several performance anti-patterns along with a static analysis tool to discover them. The identified anti-patterns relate to inefficient call and data flows in the context of Web-programming, communication, and data manipulation. To automatically discover these issues, Patrycja uses Yonita, a semantic code query system focused on capturing the behavior of a program.
Testing Java EE 6 Applications: Tools and Techniques
Reza Rahman, Author, EJB 3 in Action; Member, Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups
This session outlines tools and techniques for effectively testing Java EE APIs like JSF 2, Servlet 3, CDI, EJB 3.1, JPA 2, JAX-WS and JAX-RS. Java EE 6 includes a number of new features that enhance testability like generic dependency injection, CDI @Alternative, portable extensions, embedded containers and JSF project stages.
Using these features and tools like JUnit, JSFUnit, HttpUnit, DbUnit, Selenium, soapUI, Arquillian and HSQLDB it is possible to perform unit, integration, system and functional testing for Java EE 6 APIs at all layers of the application. In addition to discussing tools and features, the session will also demonstrate testing techniques like designing for testability, mock objects, isolation, test configuration and test data.
Join Reza as he explains how:
- The latest edition of Java EE fixes the lagging J2EE testing model
- CDI can improve the testability of all of your middle tier components
- To test your online components by embedding your Web container into a unit test
- Arquillian and Junit are making it easier to test JAX-WS/JAX-RS client APIs
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Three years after an Inner Harbor statue of William Donald Schaefer was unveiled, admirers of the city's first African-American mayor want to erect a statue of him nearby.
A nonprofit foundation created to honor the late Clarence "Du" Burns, who succeeded Schaefer, is asking the city for permission to place an 8-foot-tall statue on the Inner Harbor's west shore, 800 feet south of the Schaefer statue.
"What we want to do is tell Du's story, not just that he was the first African-American mayor of Baltimore but the role he played in the creation of the Inner Harbor" and other economic development initiatives, said Sean D. Burns, a local attorney who heads the Clarence "Du" Burns Memorial Fund Inc. "It's been a long time coming."
Burns, a great-nephew of the former mayor, said the bronze statue already has been fabricated and his group intends to donate it to the city.
Created by Maryland artist Simmie Knox, the statue depicts the former mayor in a short-sleeved shirt, holding a jacket over his left shoulder and walking with a young boy holding a book bearing the title "Science."
Baltimore's Public Art Commission, which reviews plans for statues and other works of art on city-owned property, is scheduled to consider plans for the Burns statue and landscaping at a meeting Nov. 21. If the panel gives its approval, the statue could be in place within the next year.
Although no other mayoral statues have been proposed in recent years, commission members have expressed concerns at past meetings about such statues being concentrated at the Inner Harbor. They suggested that other locations be considered.
Baltimore already has several other statues of former mayors, including Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. at Charles Center and Samuel Smith on Federal Hill.
Burns said he believes the Inner Harbor is the most appropriate setting because his great-uncle was chairman of the City Council's urban affairs committee when it considered plans for key Inner Harbor redevelopment projects such as Harborplace, the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the Maryland Science Center. He added that Burns was the first urban affairs committee chairman to hold public meetings out in the community rather than at City Hall.
The preferred site for the statue is just off the Inner Harbor promenade, in West Shore Park near the Maryland Science Center. Burns said it would anchor the south end of the park, just as the Schaefer statue anchors the north end.
According to Carol Macht of Hord Coplan Macht, the landscape architect for the project, plantings around the Burns statue would be similar to those in West Shore Park and around the Schaefer statue.
"We're trying to make it feel as if it's integrated" with the surrounding area, she said. "We want to use the same palette" of materials.
Burns said the project is expected to cost $400,000 to $500,000 and the foundation already has raised $300,000 in public funds — $100,000 from a state allocation and $200,000 from the city. Burns said the rest will be raised from private sources, and the foundation needs to have an approved location to show potential donors as part of its fundraising efforts.
Tracy Baskerville, a spokesperson for Baltimore's Office of Promotion and the Arts, which provides staff to support the public art commission, said the foundation will be seeking final approval of the preferred site at the Nov. 21 meeting.
The statue of Schaefer, who was elected to four terms as mayor, was dedicated on Nov. 2, 2009, his 88th birthday. Burns said his organization is aiming to have the new statue in place sometime in 2013. His great-uncle's birthday was Sept. 13 and he would like to have the statue installed in time for a dedication then.
He said the former mayor is depicted holding the hand of a boy with a book because "he knew education was a key to success" and "he loved kids."
Van Reiner, president and chief executive officer of the Maryland Science Center, said he supports plans to place the statue nearby because Burns had a key role in the center's development and was a champion of education.
"I am in favor of it," Reiner said. "I think it's appropriate that someone who emphasized education would have a statue in front of an educational institution."
Born in 1918, "Du" Burns was president of the Baltimore City Council in January 1987 when Schaefer left the mayor's office to become governor. Burns automatically succeeded Schaefer as mayor and held the city's top office for less than a year.
Burns ran for a four-year term but was defeated in the September 1987 primary by Kurt L. Schmoke, who won the general election. Burns died in 2003 at age 84.
Sean Burns said the statue is just one of several projects of the memorial fund. It also sponsors internship programs for young people. So far, he said, the fund has placed six "fellows" in internships with elected officials and others, including U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings.


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When a sleek, contemporary solution is in order, the Lufe Round cylindrical linear vanity bath light by LBL Lighting is the answer. Its soft, energy efficient integrated LED light delivers 2700K or 3000K at 90 CRI. The lighting fixture's rounded backplate cleanly cradles the Frosted Acrylic lens and complements the circular end caps along with cleverly hidden hardware to finish the look. The Lufe Round bath light comes in a choice of either a Polished Chrome or a Satin Nickel finish. Lufe Round is 5" high with a 3.2" extension, making it ADA compliant, and it's available in three lengths: 24", 36" and 48". All are damp-rated and dimmable.
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Household Battery Recycling
RECYCLE: All single use and rechargeable household batteries may be recycled through the one-sort recycling program. Tape the positive (+) terminal of lithium and lithium-ion batteries to prevent fire. Place all household batteries in a plastic bag and set the bag on top of your one-sort cart for pick up. Do NOT place batteries inside the one-sort cart.
The following are acceptable battery types: alkaline or pile alkaline, button batteries, carbon zinc (CZn), lithium (Li), lithium-ion (Li-ion), mercuric oxide, nickel cadmium (Ni-Cd), nickel metal hydride (NiMH), nickel zinc (NiZn), and zinc air.
DO NOT RECYCLE: Lead-acid batteries, gel cell batteries or wet cell batteries through the one-sort recycling program.
These batteries, from automobiles, recreational crafts, power tools, and large children's toys should be brought to one of Hennepin County's HHW & Recycling Drop-Off Facilities or a retail location that sells lead-acid batteries for proper recycling. Per Minnesota Statute § 115A.915, it is illegal to place lead-acid batteries in the garbage, and per Minnesota Statute § 325E.115, all retail locations that sell lead-acid batteries are required to accept used lead-acid batteries from the customer.
For more information on battery recycling, visit Hennepin County's Green Disposal Guide or call Minneapolis Solid Waste & Recycling at 612-673-2917.
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Ken Cribb observed a wealth of emotions in his Bluffton High football team this week.
The Bobcats had to quickly get over Friday's loss to Summerville in the region title game and prepare for the state playoffs. They visit South Florence on Thursday in the SCHSL Class AAAA Division II first round.
"They're disappointed, a little angry, but kind of excited about knowing what they can do," Cribb said of the players' collective mind-set.
Bluffton (10-1) fought hard to erase a 21-0 halftime deficit against Summerville, but couldn't get closer than seven points in the 31-22 defeat. The outcome cost the ninth-seeded Bobcats the chance to host a playoff game or two.
"It was the region championship, so it's kind of hard to put it behind us," defensive tackle K.J. Ford said. "After taking a loss, we all feel like we need to get better."
South Florence (7-4) finished third in Region 6, but earned enough points to be seeded eighth and welcome Bluffton on Thursday. The winner advances to play defending champion Goose Creek, ranked 11th in the nation by USA Today, or Conway in the quarterfinals.
Cribb is no stranger to South Florence - or the Thursday home games that the Bruins often play. He was the school's head coach from 2001 to 2006.
South Florence shares a stadium with West Florence, which hosts a playoff game Friday, and Cribb said his teams there often played two or three Thursday games per year.
The short week gives the Bobcats one fewer day to recover physically from their rough-and-tumble game with Summerville.
Running back Tykeem Major suffered hip flexor injury and Cribb hopes to have him back this week. Linebacker Rogan Ferguson could miss the game with a possible concussion.
Quarterback C.J. Frazier will be ready to go, Cribb said, after spending much of the last game on the run and getting sacked eight times.
"I had to struggle through it enough the six years I was there," said of the three-day practice week. "The thing that hurts us the most is the recovery time."
South Florence coach Dave Prince was Cribb's defensive coordinator at the school and several of his former assistants are still on the Bruins' staff.
Cribb said he has some familiarity with what South Florence will run Thursday, but he and Prince have altered their systems in the six years since they last worked together.
South Florence will try to run out of the spread and field a 4-2-5 on defense.
Though they are confident the momentum from last week's second half will carry into the playoffs, the Bobcats are guarding against another slow start.
"Our spirits are good," Cribb said. "I think there's a lot of pride in how we battled the second half, to play like they played and coming away knowing that they should have won."
What: Bluffton at South Florence
When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday
Where: Florence Memorial Stadium
Follow Bluffton Today sports reporter Lawrence Conneff on Twitter at @BlufftonSports for live updates during the game.
Check blufftontoday.com for results after the game, then pick up Sunday's edition for more coverage.
C.J. Frazier: 153-248, 2,437 yards, 33 touchdowns, 4 interceptions, 222 yards per game
Tykeem Major: 92 carries, 729 yards, 10 touchdowns, 8.0 yards per carry
Marquis Webber: 27 carries, 326 yards, 3 touchdowns, 12.1 yards per carry
Gerald Roberson: 31 carries, 242 yards, 4 touchdowns, 7.8 yards per carry
Marquis Webber: 50 catches, 853 yards, 13 touchdowns, 17.1 yards per catch
Demetrius Smalls: 47 catches, 780 yards, 9 touchdowns, 16.6 yards per catch
Gerald Roberson: 28 catches, 464 yards, 5 touchdowns, 16.6 yards per catch


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A 17-year-old has now been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting at a Rocky Mount church's basketball court on Monday night.
Rocky Mount Police said they arrested Shyheim Collins, of Rocky Mount, Thursday night and charged him with four counts of attempted murder.
Officers said they expected his bond to be set at $4 million.
Collins is accused of shooting three teenagers and one 12-year-old who were at the basketball court behind Word Tabernacle Church on Monday.
Police said 17-year-old Michael Lyons, 19-year-old Jakavis Whaley, 12-year-old Nyreek Horne and 13-year-old Antwon Jefferson were all wounded.
We know Horne was taken to Vidant Medical Center and investigators said he was in critical condition. A hospital official tells WITN Horne is no longer on their patient list.
The other three victims, who have been identified as Michael Lyons, 17, Jakavis Whaley, 19 and Antwon Jefferson, 13, were treated and released.
Police said they anticipated making more arrests in this case.
A 12-year-old North Carolina boy remains in critical condition after being shot in the head while playing on a church playground.
Rocky Mount Police spokesman Cpl. Michael Lewis said Wednesday that the condition of Nyreek Horne remains unchanged a day after a gunman sprayed more than 15 bullets toward a crowd playing basketball behind the Word Tabernacle Church. Three other males, ages 13, 17 and 19 - were all treated and released.
Witnesses could provide only a vague description of the shooter, who ran away and was seen getting into a small, light-colored SUV. Rocky Mount police are offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads them to a suspect.
The shooting came days after 15-year-old Brian Freeman was shot and killed nearby. No arrests have yet been made.
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Rocky Mount police indicated Tuesday morning they would soon be releasing more information about a shooting on a basketball court at a church that injured four people.
Meanwhile, the pastor at the church where the four were shot says the shooting has shocked the community. Pastor James Gailliard of Word Tabernacle Church says young people were among those shot and that they have no membership or affiliation with the church. "The basketball courts are provided as a mechanism for community children to have a safe place to play and exercise," Gailliard said. "It is regrettable to us as a faith community that this trust has been violated."
Gailliard went on to say the church is ministering to the families of the shooting victims. They are also planning a community debriefing and prayer vigil at noon Tuesday.
Word Tabernacle Church is located at 820 Nashville Road.
We'll update the story with more information from police as soon as the information is released.
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Rocky Mount Police say they're investigating a shooting at a basketball court on church property that left four people injured.
It happened just before 6:00 p.m. Monday night at 820 Nashville Road At Word Tabernacle Church.
Police say there are juveniles involved, but can't say how many at this point.
Police also say they're looking for one person in connection to the shooting, but have not released a description.
The victims were all initially taken to Nash General Hospital. There's no word on their names or conditions at this time.


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It's official: an eye-watering 500 million people are now using Facebook. But as the social networking site celebrates this latest milestone, another one is in the making: almost half a million of its users have joined one of our groups calling for the company to ditch dirty coal – and go 100 percent renewable instead.
"This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world," Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, said in a blog post to celebrate his company's latest figures this week. The data also shows that of its half a billion users, 250 million use Facebook every single day.
Impressive? For sure. But how much more impressive would it be if all that social networking going on via Facebook across this planet was powered by renewable energy – and not by the dirtiest source of energy and the largest single source of global warming pollution in the world: coal.
Yet, that's exactly what Facebook is planning to use for a massive new data centre in Prineville, Oregon. Facebook says that the US$ 180 million project will be extremely energy efficient – and that's laudable. Saving energy makes good business sense, and it's good for the environment too.
But it's not nearly enough.
Tell Facebook now that you want them to show true climate leadership by setting a strong policy in this area. Join one of our groups that send a clear message to those in charge at Facebook HQ: "We want Facebook to use 100 percent renewable energy."
There's one in English, in Spanish, in French and in Dutch.
What better time to send this message to your social networking site than now, as the company is riding high on its worldwide success? We're saying: Congratulations, Facebook, on making it to half a billion! We're saying: Now is the time to go 100 percent renewable! This is your chance to make a real difference.
This is a great initiative!
The IT industry is putting out 2% of the global greenhouse gas emissions according to Gartner but many suspec...
This is a great initiative!
The IT industry is putting out 2% of the global greenhouse gas emissions according to Gartner but many suspect this is their lowest estimate. 2% equals all of the emissions of the world's airline industry. By 2020 the IT industry could be one of the biggest "polluters" according to McKinsey. Cloud computing and run-away successes such as Facebook could expedite this trend. Big cloud providers need to take action based on environmental and economical reasons. Saving the environment and making your operational costs stable go in hand when you choose 100% green energy sources because you cut out the price instability and pollution of fossil fuels.
* That being said, here is my blatant sales pitch! (at least I'm honest about it ;) *
This is our strategy at Greenqloud the world's first truly green public compute cloud:
We are an infrastructure as a service provider that anybody can use to host their software as a service like Facebook apps or what ever. We are located in Iceland that has a 100% renewable and clean powergrid of hydro- and geothermal power and with multi terabit low latency connections to Europe and N-America you don't need to distribute you virtual infrastructure to reach those markets. We are even compatible with Amazons AWS cloud API's so you can easily switch or scale out to the first carbon neutral cloud. We will NOT have a price premium.
Even though we are a cloud provider we like other companies need (for now!) to have a presence on Facebook to get the good word out so we take part in petitioning Facebook to go truly green. We offset our usage and we will offer a solid and proven offsetting option for sale through Greenqloud...
We plan to open in Q4 and are accepting beta registrations for forward thinking early adopters at:
I hope we start a green wave in cloud computing.
Eirikur Hrafnsson, CEO and Co-Founder
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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/greenqloud
Tel.: +354-415-0200 (Iceland)
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Okay I just signed up to support this. I use facebook to advertise my place of work. We supply grid-connect solar to homes in Perth Western Australia ...
Okay I just signed up to support this. I use facebook to advertise my place of work. We supply grid-connect solar to homes in Perth Western Australia and was surprised that facebook was not embracing renewable energy further than what they are.
What I would not like to see is facebook clear beautiful Oregon country to install renewable energy equipment. There are countries that would be able to offer facebook financial assistance in establishing "SOLAR/WIND farms".
In Australia we have plenty of land that is gagging for solar and wind installations. Not only that the recently elected Government will help fund such a set-up. Once set-up, the power fed to the grid will be bought by the power companies at a premium rate.
I am sure this will offset the coal usage of the Oregon power plant by eliminating the burning of the coal elsewhere. Dont get me wrong i want all coal burning to STOP, but for corporate America (and Australia) to take it up you need to explain it in dollars and cents. i.e. what will it cost to set up and how long until they get paid back for such an investment.
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Perths first data centre to embrace renewable energy and install solar power! This place recognises the amount of carbon produced by their equipment a...
Perths first data centre to embrace renewable energy and install solar power! This place recognises the amount of carbon produced by their equipment and is a tiny fraction of the size of facebook.
If they can do it why cant facebook????
Check it out here http://www.hostaway.net.au/ and here http://www.awomansspark.com.au/?page_id=187
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Today was a long day, even though it's not THAT late right now.
I worked hard to understand the differences between types of sources, types of information and types of evidence. And just as I thought I understood one part I was confused again. But it wasn't just me. So I felt a little better about that.
Tonight, after dinner, Angela Packer McGhie gave two presentations: a short one on preparing for a research trip in Washington, D.C. What great suggestions she gave; and a wonderful handout. Her second one was just as good but this was on researching in newspapers. Again we received a great handout including a checklist that I'm sure we're all going to find invaluable. Find Angela's blog at this address:
The last part of the meeting was a group watch of Who Do You Think You Are? Kelly Clarkson was the subject. Josh Taylor, one of the GRIP instructors, was on the show as was his voice. What fun to watch with a 100+ "fans".
Something we don't think about when planning on attending institutes is the opportunity to be with others who love to hear about our family stories. And we get to talk about them, and listen to them, at breakfast, lunch, dinner, breaks, and after dinner. What fun. No wonder many of us have our minds racing and have trouble getting to sleep.
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TMS Depression Therapy
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a safe, non-invasive treatment that is effective in treating depression.
TMS treatment has proven to be successful in changing the lives of those suffering with depression throughout the country and is available at CHI Health, in Omaha, Nebraska, the region's leader in behavioral health.
What is TMS Therapy?
- TMS is an FDA-cleared non-invasive medical treatment for patients with depression who have not benefited from initial antidepressant medication.
- TMS uses highly focused magnetic pulses to stimulate the areas of the brain thought to control mood. This specific area of the brain has been identified as underactive in people who suffer from depression. TMS Therapy causes neurons to become active, leading to the release of neurotransmitters to relieve the symptoms of depression.
- Each treatment involves the gentle placement of the magnetic coil against the patient's head. Treatment takes less than an hour and is conducted in the clinic, five days a week, for approximately four to six weeks. Patients are awake and alert during the procedure and are able to resume normal activities upon leaving the treatment session.
What are the benefits of TMS Therapy?
- TMS Therapy is free of side effects typically experiences with antidepressant medications. The most common side effect associated with TMS Therapy is minor discomfort at or near the treatment area.
- In clinical trials, after 4 to 6 weeks of treatment, one in two patients improved significantly, one in three were free of symptoms without medications.
Is TMS Therapy right for you?
- Are you taking medications to treat your depression?
- Are you still depressed despite your medication?
- Are you experiencing side effects from your medication?
- Have you switched medications more than once due to side effects?
- Are depression symptoms interfering with your leisure activities or relationships with your family and friends?
- Are depression symptoms having an effect on your ability to earn a living?
If you answered YES to two or more of these questions, please talk to your provider about if TMS Therapy may be an option to treating your depression.
Physicians Who Use TMS Depression Therapy
Arun Sharma, MD
Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry
CHI Health Psychiatric Associates
7101 Newport Avenue
Immanuel THREE Professional Center, Suite 203
Omaha, NE 68152
Phone: (402) 572-3472


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Being a pro golfer is a uniquely tense profession. Unlike most sports, where the team concept and lack of individuality keep pressure situations diffuse, golf is a lonely game with no place to hide. Miss a shot? On you. Cost yourself a tournament? You have nobody to blame but ... well, you get the idea. Throw in the quiet tension of the golf course -- people aren't screaming and cheering during your play, instead silently waiting for you to finish with your failure -- and you've got a unenviable situation all around. We're kind of glad we're not a pro golfer.
That tension leads to some strange decisions. Chief among them, according to a new study: Golfers are so afraid of bogeys, they leave strokes on the golf course. This is counterproductive.
How does it work? Well, golfers are so afraid of making a bogey they'll oftentimes sacrifice opportunities to make birdie -- to improve their scores -- in order to prevent the chance of giving themselves a bad second putt. The study found that players make considerably fewer putts for birdie than identical putts for par, meaning that putts that should be no problem are often played too conservatively. On a downhill putt, say, a golfer will play against the risk of hitting the ball too hard, instead laying up and making a similar putt to the one he could have made just one short before.
The study, the abstract for which you can read here, claims thanks to this sort of loss aversion (the preference for avoiding a negative instead of maximizing an equal positive) players end up costing themselves about one stroke per tournament. For the top players, it's worse than that: The study says top PGA tour pros cost themselves about $1.2 million in prize money every year.
In just a few days, the 2009 U.S. Open will begin. See if you can count the loss averse shots. That is, if you think it's worth your time.
Eamonn Brennan is a Chicago-based writer, editor and blogger. You can also read him at Yahoo! Sports, Mouthpiece Sports Blog, and Inside The Hall, or at his personal site, eamonnbrennan.com. Follow him on Twitter.


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Face book isn't exactly the be-all, end-all for small business internet marketing, but it sure doesn't hurt to start using it. Why? Because social networking sites like mySpace and Facebook are the models for the internet marketing of the future. Once consumers get used to using social networking sites, they will be prepared for personalized business networking. Imagine that you are handling internet marketing for a small business. You're not, of course, going to take over the world by creating communities on existing social networking sites, but what if you could build your own social business network targeting your own community or niche? By that time most people will be old pros at building profiles, finding communities of common interest, and sharing pertinent videos and articles. So get started now so you're not left behind. Here are Some ways to do that:Join Facebook: The only way you're going to learn how to replicate a social networking site is to familiarize yourself with how they work.
Use the Friend Finder feature to find people you already know with Facebook accounts. for more details visit to www.sell-using-the-web.com Join some groups to learn how people interact on social networking sites. Post some video clips and articles that interest you to see how others respond. You might even find that Facebook allows you to make business contacts you would never met in real life.Join mySpace: mySpace users tend to be musicians and teenagers, but it will help you learn how to market yourself beyond your own website Subscribe to 10 Blogs: Open an account using an RSS reader and subscribe to 10 blogs about social networking and blogs that relate to your industry. Check your account every day to read the new contentComment on Those Blogs: This is as simple as social networking gets. People get to know you and what you do, and you get more traffic to your own site!Open a LinkedIn Account: LinkedIn has been dubbed "Facebook for Businesses" because it allows you to connect with businesspeople in your niche.Open a Twitter Account: Twitter is a scaled down version of blogging.
Essentially, it allows you to type 160 characters about what you're doing at the moment. It seems a little silly, but many folks are using it, for more details visit to www.mrx-interview.com and opening your own account will allow you to gain some insight about how it might be helpful for you as you market your own business.Use Workbench: Workbench is an example of personalized business networking. Since we've already said that such sites will be common in the future, why not spend some time now seeing just how they might work?Open a StumbleUpon Profile: This social networking site allows you to build communities based on the websites that you like. If yours happens to be one that many users like, you can get a lot of traffic to your site.
Check Out Ning: This is a social networking site that lets you create a community that you can brand to match your own business.Digg It: Digg users vote on website content that they think is most important, and it allows you to stay current with what 's happening in the business world.Visit Squidoo, Flickr, and Mixx: See if any of those sites would be appropriate for building niche communities related to your business or product.No one can predict with personalized business networks will become the norm for internet marketing, but it 's worth your time and effort now to learn how to use the social networking sites upon which the personalized business networks will be based. And don't forget that an SEO expert can help you make a plan Operating Room Stainless Steel Products Wholesalers for getting your business involved in personalized


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Jump In Together: An Invitation to No Impact Week
There was a period, right around the time we discovered that American soldiers had been torturing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib, when I felt paralyzed with fear and anger.
If you're concerned about the world, there's nothing worse than that feeling of powerlessness: the idea that we are all victims of outside circumstances; that catastrophe might occur at any moment; that the world is capricious. I don't want to live in that world.
I want to live in world that I can do something about. And here's what I think: If I believe I can help, then I can. If I believe that I can't help, then I can't. Because if I don't think there's anything I can do to change things, I won't even try. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But I choose to believe that I—and you—can and do make a difference, then we will.
Kathy Blogs on No Impact Week
See what it taught her about treasuring the planet
her daughter will inherit.
The hard thing is, some of us don't know where to start. That's where No Impact Week—a one-week carbon cleanse to help you unplug, reconnect, and do your part to save the planet—comes in. By participating, you will join together with thousands of others who are looking for ways to clean up the earth, and make it a happier, healthier, and more nourishing place to be.
Each day, you will be challenged with lowering your environmental impact in new ways, like finding creative means of getting around, trying new, local foods, and questioning frivolous consumption. At the end, you'll be asked to volunteer for a day, working to improve the environment and your community.
Some will ask, how does my participating in something so individual really make a difference? Can individuals acting in this way really cause change?
I think so. Because all societal change is just the aggregate of lots of individual changes. And if you manage to draft a few friends to do No Impact Week with you, you expand your sphere of influence.
The Tom Sawyer Effect
We all like to be part of things. Remember how Tom Sawyer got his friends to take over painting Aunt Polly's fence, just by making it look fascinating?
Laura, a friend who is an activist in the anti-fracking movement told me, "I got involved just because I liked the people I met."
Others might join you in your activist endeavors—including No Impact Week—whether they care about the issues you care about or not. It's you who makes it enticing, interesting, and fun, through your enthusiasm, determination, and simple willingness to try something new. Your adventuresome spirit becomes infectious—and once they join in, they'll start to care.
Offering People a Way to Help
It's a fact of human psychology that we deny or at least don't think about problems we believe we can't do anything about. Think old age, death, and climate change.
But once you show people they can make a difference, they'll look at the problem in whole different way.
"I was so tired of seeing nothing get done at the regulatory level, that seeing some friends composting for the first time just gave me hope," said one past No Impact Week participant.
Change Radiates Out From You
When you really take responsibility for the things within your sphere of influence, it starts to grow. Look at the stories we've just discussed: In each one, we see that when someone does their own small part, people notice and join in.
Then, all of a sudden, your small part involves a whole group of people. If you can get your group to do its small part, then other small groups will join in. Magic.
Register today—on your own or
as a team—to participate in No Impact Week, September 18-25.
The world needs us to be self-reliant so we can heal it, to look inward and find our own wisdom—not to walk in lock-step with all the stories about what we're supposed to do and how we're supposed to act. The future is calling upon us to see problems in front of us, and decide for ourselves to fix them.
But there's more to it.
It's not enough to think that we use less electricity, that we don't drive too much, and so we've done enough. We must come together in community, doing together what none of us can accomplish alone.
So get your friends, your kids, your church, your neighbors, your coworkers, your yoga class, your fantasy baseball league, your book club—and join us for No Impact Week. In just eight days, we'll all learn something new about how we relate to our families or tread on the earth or spend money we don't need to—and we'll do it together.
How a regular guy found some super power.
Taking what he learned from his experiment, No Impact Man Colin Beavan offers 42 tips to move toward a zero-waste lifestyle.
A video tribute to those who have sacrificed their lives to protect the environment.


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Systolic blood pressure refers to the pressure of blood in the
artery when the heart contracts. It is the top (and higher) number in a blood
pressure reading.
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Rated PG-13. 103 minutes. At the Chez Artiste
French writer Louis Pergaud's 1912 novel "The War of the Buttons" — an allegory of combat featuring rival "armies" of button-pilfering children — has been adapted for the screen twice before. A 1962 version set in rural France was followed by a 1994 adaptation set in Ireland. Although neither of those films took place during wartime, it was clear that their real message didn't have to do with buttons at all, but with the absurdity of our world's more grown-up battles.
(As in the book, the children in the movies cut the buttons off their enemies' clothing to humiliate them and to send them home with their pants around their ankles.)
As if to make sure everyone gets the point, the latest version, also French, is set during World War II in Nazi-occupied France, where two warring groups of children from adjacent towns externalize the simmering background conflict between neighbors, some of whom are collaborators with the Germans and some of whom are resisters.
To up the ante, this "War of the Buttons" also includes a Jewish child who is being sheltered from the Nazis.
It probably doesn't need these additions, but for the most part they work beautifully, adding poignancy and punch to a metaphor that's durable enough to withstand the extra weight. Most surprisingly, the mix of comedy, represented by the children, and drama, represented by the adults, feels unforced and in harmony with the film's expansive view of life.
Mainly, it's the kids who do the heavy lifting. As Lebrac, the teenage leader of one town's underage gang, Jean Texier delivers a fine, nuanced performance. So does Ilona Bachelier as the new girl in town, Violette, who's carrying a secret.
She's not the only one with something to hide. The question of who's a member of the resistance and who's a collaborator adds even more suspense to the increasingly complicated story, directed with confidence by Christophe Barratier from a script co-written by Thomas Langmann.
The tension starts thick and stays thick, between Lebrac and his disciplinarian father (Kad Merad); between the town's principled teacher (Guillaume Canet) and his mysterious, sultry ex (Laetitia Casta); and between the black-beret-wearing French militiaman Brochard (Gregory Gatignol) and pretty much everyone else. A popinjay who's only too happy to be doing the Nazis' dirty work, Brochard is a realistic villain, weak and afraid.
"War of the Buttons" is a story of honor, courage, betrayal and love. Those are big, abstract themes, to be sure. But they're not the exclusive province of the mature. These notions are given flesh by a cast of juvenile actors that includes, along with Texier and Bachelier, Thomas Goldberg as Lebrac's rival, L'Aztec; Clement Godefroy as Lebrac's youngest (and most adorable) warrior; and Louis Dussol as Bacaille, the son of the morally dubious mayor (Francois Morel). Bacaille is a boy whose allegiance will be tested as his injured pride precipitates a confrontation that leads to the film's crackling climax. Real wars have been waged with less provocation.
Moving without being melodramatic, "War of the Buttons" is a tale of the worst — and the best — that people of all ages are capable of.


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Here ye, o pledges of the cartographer guild! Any who put pen to paper and produce a map according to the specification of the one who goes by the name Mythirion shall receive the following reward: the ability to choose to forgo any requirement of any pledge at any time. This applies to any one sub, and can be saved for future use. Also, one can use this to shrink the length of any two subs to doing a 100 word challenge, oekaki, pr other short writing challenge, so something not generally allowed.
This sounds up my alley. I'll PM you shortly, lets see what we can get on paper for you. I can even send you an example of one of my recent works. With all I'm working on for the guild; getting back to my cartography skills is an awesome opportunity.
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During the course of IMTS 2016 we visited and talked with several CAM vendors on what they specifically were showing at the event, as well as their take on the CAM industry in general.
In Part 2 of a series started last week, what follows are the results of some of the conversations we had while looking for the newest and most innovative in CAM software at IMTS 2016.
MachineWorks functionality offers real-time simulation and verification for virtually any type of CNC machining, including kinematics, multi-axis, mill-turn, robotics, Swiss-type turning, Wire EDM, hybrid machining (subtractive + additive manufacturing) with features such as on-the-fly crash and gouge check, target part comparison, material removal and infinite zooming.
The forthcoming MachineWorks release contains many developments, one of the most significant being the support of cloud-based applications for CNC simulation and verification. This new feature allows networked devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops and desktops to visualize MachineWorks simulations running in the cloud.
MachineWorks Verification Software Showing Clash Detection
A new geometry query API makes rendering integration much easier for applications. It has been designed to be future-proof and flexible.


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Oh Installer, Installer, we had so much fun together, you and I. When Apple didn't have any iPhone app store, and whenever Apple blocked some essential iPhone apps, you were always there. And now... now you are dead.
The short story is that Cydia—the other non-official iPhone app installer—won the battle against Installer. Installer was the first pretty application installer to appear for the iPhone, but Cydia became more popular over the last few months. Ripdev—which was involved in the project since version 3—says that the Installer repositories will be available until July 1st, 2009.
But fear not, my young apprentices, because we still have Cydia and Icy, which is an iPhone app installer that plugs into Cydia directories—incidentally, made by the same guys who did Installer. [Ripdev]