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There are tons more to UK music festivals this summer that Dance to the Radio with Friends. From rock by the seaside at Leeds to folk and acoustic sounds at Cambridge, Great Britain’s festivals market place is in super health. Tickets for old favourites like Love Music Hate Racism and Festival without Fields still continue to go like hot cakes, and with Estelle on Dot to Dot Festival Iggy Pop at Hide and Seek Festival and Jay-Z at Glastonbury the British festivals are appealing to a larger demographic range than ever before. Have a great night out with a summer festival and buy UK Festival Tickets online from Time Out.

What do festival goers wish from a music festival? Is it terrific dance music so festival lovers can rave all evening, ear bleeding rock music for serious moshing or some spectacular soft folk music while you tan in the sunshine? What’s even more essential really is the sort of ambiance that folk are seeking for, the line ups & the facilities, all of which at different festivals vary a lot. The vital festivals gets into swing usually at the end of March beginning of August they happen up and down the country so there is always going to be a good festival that are close by to festival goers. There are not really ever any complaints as you yourself of course are going to select a fabulous festival that suites people and what folk are looking for.

The 1 st time folk attend a breathtaking festival from the very second you yourself walk in the grounds to pitch your tent you might feel this marvellous buzz. Summer Festivals regularly seem to get funnier year after year. The only down fall that seems to get discussed year after year are the very high price of pizza and beer then again this can not be helped. You are no allowed to take any of your own burgers or booze onto the festival grounds but people are allowed to bring it into your camping ground so it makes sense to eat and drink all you yourself can before stepping into the ground this way people should be able to refrain from spending loads of money What makes a sensational festival great is for obvious reasons the the warm weather, the major atmosphere the bands and the pleasant memories that folk are bound to make along the way.

An audition is the time that you want to shine and be your best. You want to make this audition seem like it’s the most important thing, and, actually for the moment, it is!

The first thing you need to do is what any other athlete does - look after and nurture your own body. You don’t want to spend the night before an audition out drinking with your friends. You want to relax and get a good nights sleep. You may want to consider a relaxing massage the day before.

On a daily basis eat a healthy diet, get proper rest and make time to relax. If you learn meditation and practice it, it will help reduce the stress of every day too. Keep your body in tip top physical shape by continuing with your regular exercise routine. You may want to pay more attention to your physical appearance right before an audition - refresh that hair cut or color.

A lot of choreographers have started out right where you are today, in the chorus line. As dance is such a creative endeavor most choreographers depend on their gut instincts when they pick music, and dancers. They’re looking at you from the minute you talk in the door. They want to see how you are interacting with others. How confident do you appear? Have you smiled? How relaxed do you look?

Remember that attending any audition is a good learning experience, they give you the opportunity to learn a lot about yourself. Remember that not being chosen is a part of the audition process and don’t take it personally. Take any criticism you receive and turn it into a positive. Instead of resenting the criticism you might receive take it upon yourself to improve yourself. Work on your moves if you need to. You’ll want to be ready for your next audition.
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By Stephen Bucaro

If you publish an e-newsletter or e-zine, you know that administering your subscriber list is a big chore. To maintain the list, you may be using an email program on your computer or a CGI program on your server. One advantage to maintaining the list yourself is that you know it is not being shared by anyone else.

However, there are four good reasons why you should host your list on a list-server.

1. People can subscribe or unsubscribe from your list automatically with absolutely no work by you.

2. People often subscribe with an email alias or forwarded email account. You send your newsletter to one address, then receive a delivery failure or unsubscribe from an address not on your list. You can’t delete it from your list.

3. People subscribe to the list and then forget that they subscribed. They accuse you of spamming. This can’t be avoided entirely, but if your list is hosted on a list-server, you can respond by saying “all subscribes and unsubscribes are handled automatically by the list server, you have no control of it.”

4. If you plan to sell advertising in your newsletter, most advertisers and advertisement networks will require you to verify your subscriber count. If you maintain the list yourself, the only way you can do that is to share your list with them. You don’t want to do that.

If your list is hosted on a list-server, the number of subscribers is there for all to see, provided by an independent third party.

Choosing a List-server

Many list-servers disappeared in the “.com” bust. The best one, listbot, was bought by Microsoft. It is now called bCentral and costs $30.00 per month. Being a list owner, it is your responsibility to keep your list private. With the well publicized ethical problems at Microsoft, I would not put my subscriber list in their hands.

Most of the lists ended up on Yahoo. They are in the domain http://groups.yahoo.com. I find yahoo groups very complicated to configure. I also worry about Yahoo’s privacy policy. Yahoo Group Help states, “If you use Groups, it is very likely that other users will be able to see your email address.”

http://www.topica.com has the easiest to setup list-server. However, it is primarily a group mailing list application that must be configured correctly to perform the newsletter list function. Topica’s privacy policy states, “The email addresses of participants are partially obscured so they are not obtainable by unauthorized visitors.”

Configuring the List-server

To make a list server function as a newsletter list requires that you modify its default configuration. The following configurations should be set.

1. List Type: Read-only Announcement list. Only the owner of the list can post messages to the list.

2. Subscription: Does not require owner approval for people to join the list.

3. Archive: Readable by subscribers only. If non-subscribers can read the newsletter, why should anyone subscribe?

Using the List Server

Now all you have to do is post your newsletter to the list and it will be delivered to all the subscribers. You will still be required to deal with delivery failures. If the reason for the delivery failure is because the email box no-longer exists, then you should delete that address from your list immediately.

A delivery failure can also occur because the email box is too full, or because the mail server is down. You should establish a policy for dealing with delivery failures. You have three choices.

1. Ignore them and let the number of messages returned because of delivery failure grow to enormous size. Advertisers will not use newsletters if they find out they are paying for a large number of non-deliverable addresses.

2. Delete them immediately. If you do that, you may be removing many subscribers who only have the temporary problems mentioned above.

3. Keep a delivery failure address on your list until it fails three times. After three consecutive delivery failures, it is unlikely that the situation will clear up, so you may as well delete the member.

If you want to publish a quality e-newsletter or e-zine, you need to spend more time working on content and less time administering the subscriber list. For this reason, you should use a list-server application. But make sure that you are comfortable with the operation of the list-server before you commit your valuable subscriber list.
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