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Jazz at Carnegie Recital Hall? In the past, there's been plenty of jazz in the main hall. But when the Hamiet Bluiett Quartet kicked off an eight-concert series here in this newly refurbished Recital Hall, it was a first.
The importance of this event hasn't yet hit the jazz community, but it's bound to before long. After years of playing in lofts, trying to break into the major jazz clubs, or not playing much of anywhere, the cream of the experimental jazz crop has finally found a venue. True, it is at this point a limited venue, but it's a prestigious one, and it's a start - a very promising start.
Commenting on the new series, Seymour Rosen, the Carnegie Hall artistic director, says that ''with a seating capacity of 283, Carnegie Recital Hall is a perfect forum for music that is interesting to a smaller or more specialized audience, and deserves to be heard.'' Until now, that music has fallen mostly into the classical category.
The complete series includes 48 concerts, a number of which will focus on contemporary classical music, ethnic music, and the avant-garde. In addition to the concerts themselves, a series of lecture-demonstrations entitled ''Highlights of Jazz'' and ''Inside Classical Music'' are being given. The jazz lecture series began the night of the Bluiett concert with a talk on jazz history by pianist-jazz educator Billy Taylor. Future lecturers include jazz historian Martin Williams, composer-conductor Gunther Schuller, and tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp.
The Bluiett performance was a kind of revelation. The hall was filled, and it didn't seem to be a jazz audience. Even that was encouraging in a way, since one of the goals of the series is to find new audiences for the music. And if the opening concert was any indication, the Carnegie Hall jazz series is already a great success: Bluiett was very well received, and his cheering admirers demanded two encores.
Baritone saxophonist Bluiett played with a quartet consisting of Don Pullen on piano, Fred Hopkins on bass, and ''Smitty'' Smith on drums. The program announced, in typical classical fashion, ''Works by Hamiet Bluiett'' entitled ''To the Future'' (Score I) and ''To the Future'' (Score II). It all sounded very lofty indeed. What Bluiett and his men actually played was a series of improvised vignettes (with a couple of written pieces thrown in), ranging from down-home gospel blues to cacophonic train-wreck free-bag, with everything imaginable in between.
The slightly stiff atmosphere of the hall seemed to set the tone of the first part of the program, but it wasn't long before Bluiett, with great wit and a good deal of dramatic flair, had everybody completely relaxed. At one point, during a ballad, he stopped playing in the middle of a phrase and said, ''Wait a minute, wait a minute,'' while he changed the reed on his horn and chatted casually to his incredulous audience.
The music itself sometimes had a broad and sweeping feel, and other times was furiously intense. Yet it all sounded smooth and connected, despite the many tempo and mood changes. The four musicians were tuned in to one another, and it was clear they were enjoying themselves. Pianist Pullen played clusters as if they were single notes, using a kind of wrist-rolling technique. His solos built to shattering climaxes. Hopkins was economical, sensitive. And Smith, the newest and youngest member of the group, showed himself to be a natural for this music. In the second half of the concert he took a very funny solo, using a kazoo to give the effect of a pesky buzzing fly and his drumsticks as flyswatters - proving that even the avant-garde can benefit from a little comic relief!
Future concerts in the jazz series are:
John Carter, clarinet, with string bass and four winds, Oct. 10.
Henry Threadgill, bass flute, with a string quartet, Nov. 12.
James Newton, solo flute, Dec. 3.
Dewey Redman, saxophones, clarinet, with piano, bass, drums, Jan. 21.
David Murray, saxophones, bass clarinet, with string section, Feb. 4.
Cecil McBee, string bass, March 10.
Chico Freeman, saxophones and other reeds, May 5.


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We're back on track! I just got home from shopping MTG cards! Haha. I'm so excited to play again! I wasn't able to complete everything in our buying list because some cards are not yet available. But I'm sure we'll be able to complete our decks in no time! Might meet up with some people to get few needed cards such as 1 Huntmaster of the Fells, 2 Dungeon Geist and 2 Zealous Conscripts.
I've got all of these from a single MTG seller (hence, the FREEBIE):
That's around $100 total (based on Paypal to EON exchange rate: 1 USD = 41.2980 PHP).
I also bought two Avacyn Restored booster backs and got Bruna, Light of Alabaster from the first pack. Yay! My first angel from AVR and it's mythic! My bf opened the second pack and got Desolate Lighthouse and a foil Dread Slaver.
I'll be collecting angels from now on and I would like to start with AVR's angels. Crossing out what I already have:
Seraph of Dawn
Voice of the Provinces
Angel of Glory's Rise
Goldnight Redeemer
Herald of War
Emancipation Angel
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Angel of Jubilation
Restoration Angel
Sigarda, Host of Herons
Avacyn, Angel of Hope
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This has got to be the BEST cookie recipe… ever. Funnily enough, I've never blogged about it before because lets face it everyone else has! But then I thought, if for every 100 people who skip over this recipe, I manage to introduce it to one new person, it will be worth the effort. Still reading? So you're that 1% and let me tell you people (person), seriously, this recipe, originally from the New York Times, is going to change your life.
5 years ago, I would have said I wasn't a cookie person. (British) biscuits? Possibly, but not a cookie. One of my besties, DiviaH however over at the D'vine, convinced me … or was it possibly harassed me into trying these. When enthusiastically describing the characteristics of what sounded to me like a run-of-the-mill cookie didn't impress me, she wooed me with experiments and science. Suddenly I was interested.
This article, again from the New York Times, explains why these cookies are unique and in my opinion, better than the rest, along with other useful tidbits and facts from prominent bakers and chefs. But if you want the abridged version specific to these cookies, put simply it is; leave the cookie dough to mature. Optimum maturation time – I'd say 72 hours or 3 days, in the fridge. Still want to know more, or curious to investigate yourself? Serious eats has this awesome step-by-step guide explaining the results of their vigorous cookie trials!
These cookies have never failed me and one of the many things I love about them is you really can customise them anyway you like. The stunningly simple classic chocolate chip NYT recipe was adapted from Jacques Torres, 'Mr. Chocolate' to you or I. But I'm really more of a chocolate AND nut kind of person, very non-purist of me for once! Here I'll show you probably my favourite combination of white choc chip with macadamia nuts but I've tried every which combination. Dark, milk or white chocolate chips, chunks, discs, pearls or fèves paired with walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, peanuts or almonds! You can make giant 6 inch monster cookies, or little minis for the kids! My latest incarnation of these cookies was last Christmas when I was more than pleased with my red, white and green merry medley of cranberry, pistachio and white chocolate. As you can see, the combinations are endless! One last thing I'll add, and insist on in fact is the sprinkling of fleur de sel prior to baking. It really is the pièce de résistance; it's what catapults these cookies from everyday good to special occasion sublime.
Non-cookie lovers – you have been warned.
Quick Top tips
- Make sure the total amount of extras – ie. chocolate, nuts etc. add up to 1 ¼ pounds (560g) – I usually use half and half nuts and chocolate.
- Don't chop the nuts or chocolate too fine – chunks rock people.
- Use decent chocolate – my chocolate of choice is a bar (or 3) of 70% Lindt chopped into chucks
- Always leave to mature – 48hours min
- Always use an ice cream scoop to portion out dough while its still soft. THEN put in fridge or freezer. Saves your hands!
- Bake fresh as and when needed. A freshly baked cookie always tastes better.
White chocolate & Macadamia nut cookies
Adapted very slightly from Jacques Torres
- 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons (250g) cake flour
- 1 2/3 cups (250g) strong white flour (although I have used plain with equal success)
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/4 cups (290g) unsalted butter
- 1 1/4 cups (290g) brown sugar
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (225g) white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¾ pounds white chocolate discs
- ¾ pounds macadamia nuts – slightly chopped
- Fleur de sel for sprinkling
- Sift flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
- Using a mixer fitted with paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy (about 5 minutes)
- Whisk eggs in a jug and add little by little to the mixer until fully incorporated. Stir in the vanilla.
- Stir in dry ingredients and mix until just combined, 5 to 10 seconds.
- Pour white chocolate and macadamias into mixer taking care not to crush or break them too much
- Use ice-cream scoop to portion out dough.
- Line a large plastic airtight container with greaseproof paper and store your 'scoops' in there in the fridge while they 'mature' (1 to 3 days)
- Preheat oven 180°C/350°F – Prepare 2 large lined baking trays
- Arrange the chilled dough on your lined baking trays. Don't crowd – they spread
- Sprinkle with Fleur de sel (don't forget!!)
- Bake for 18 minutes until the centres are golden and the edges browned.
- Cool on baking tray at least 10 minutes before carefully transferring to a cooling rack. These cookies are quite fragile until completely cooled. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Eat fresh that day. If you store them in an airtight container they will soften overnight and lose their chew. I prefer storing them in the fridge.


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Finnish World Championship team nominated
12 February 2013 09:28
Finland is the next nation to nominate their squad for the World Championships in Val di Fiemme which will start next week!
Ilkka Herola, Jim Härtull, Janne Ryynänen, Mikke Leinonen and Eetu Vähäsöyrinki will represent the Northern nation in Italy. "In the World Championship-team, each athlete must have a realistic chance to rank in the Top 30. Two or three athletes can even go as high as a Top 20 rank" , Head coach Petter Kukkonen commented his choice.


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Service of Thanksgiving and Supporters, and Volunteers' Reunion 2017
Canon Irving who will lead this year's service
This year again, by supporter's request, the Annual Service will be help in beautiful Ely Cathedral.As ever all are welcome to come along give thanks for the work of the volunteers and staff and children given the chance of new life and to remember those to have been gathered home. Cannon Chris Samuels Chair of Trustees has been hard at work seeking a prestigious and interesting preacher to lead our service of thanksgiving. He is pleased to report the Rev. Canon Michael Irving K.C. V. O. Canon of Gloucester Cathedral has accepted an invitation to preach at the Annual Service.
Our Service of Thanksgiving on the 16th September, will begin at 2.00 PM and a warm welcome is extended to all those in the Charity's local 'extended family of care' to attend. A particular invitation goes out to many volunteers and supporters in recent touch or not, who over the last twenty-six years have done so much to ensure that we can deliver our mission of care to children in distress. The local Fund-a-Physio team who have done so much in the last decade to focus and provide physiotherapy support to the children in our care, have kindly agreed to assist with the catering for the post service reunion. If you are intent on joining our thanksgiving and wish to be part of our reunion please contact the admin team on 0141 559 5690 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to confirm you will be there and would like to join our tea, scones and after chat. Please make this a date in your diary and join us if you can!
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Northwest Missouri State University will come together for a bell ringing in remembrance of a student who died in September.
The bell ringing at Northwest's Bell of '48 is scheduled at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Dec. 14, in honor of Tomarken Smith, who died Sept. 14. Smith's family will be in attendance, and the ceremony is open to the public.
Smith, 21, of St. Louis, was a senior corporate recreation/wellness major with a minor in coaching. He was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, a former resident assistant and a student employee at the University fitness center.
The University also will award a posthumous degree to Smith's family at its winter commencement ceremony Dec. 14. The commencement ceremony begins at 1 p.m. in Bearcat Arena.
"The Northwest community has been greatly impacted by Tomarken's passing this fall," Northwest President Dr. John Jasinski said. "He was deeply engaged in the University culture through his coursework, membership in his fraternity and as a student employee. Like his interactions with his peers, so many faculty members have indicated how much they enjoyed having him in class and have recommended a posthumous degree. Therefore, it is appropriate that we honor his memory with next week's bell ringing and recognize his academic accomplishments by awarding him a posthumous degree."
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DALLAS — Organizers of Compliance Summit have announced the next event will be held Sept. 11, 2017, at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, near Dallas.
Held alongside Industry Summit for the second consecutive year, Compliance Summit will include one full day of compliance education for dealers, managers, and sales and F&I professionals. An onsite certification courtesy of Automotive Compliance Education (ACE) will be available to all attendees the following day.
Show chair David Gesualdo said the September event and ACE certification will be open to all registered attendees of Industry Summit for no additional charge.
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What makes effective CPD?
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : Every year since 1856, Oxford and Cambridge University rowing crews have competed in the Boat Race on the Thames. Today, millions of people globally watch the race. As my housemate competed in Great Britain rowing trials, I've seen how the... Read More


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Active: Cyclone
A target unit is swept up in a cyclone and made invulnerable for 2.5 seconds. Cyclone can be cast on self. Enemy units take 50 damage upon landing.
Cast Range: 575
Damage: 50
Duration: 2.5
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Can target self while spell immune. Can not target spell immune enemies.
A mysterious scepter passed down through the ages, its disruptive winds can be used for good or evil.
The movement speed bonus stacks with other Scepters of Divinity.
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I was going to set up a clone of the xserver git repo in my people.freedesktop.org home directory and I figured I'd document the steps. If you want the cheat sheet just skip to the last couple of paragraphs. First of all, to set up a repo I need ssh access to people.freedesktop.org, but since I was going to put the repo in my home directory there, I already have that. Now, the official git repos are read only mounted on /git, so the obvious thing to do is to say
krh@annarchy:~$ git clone --bare /git/xorg/xserver.git xserver.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/krh/xserver.git/ ... krh@annarchy:~$ du -sh xserver.git/ 24M xserver.git/
Most of this space is in the objects representing the files, directories and commits of the project history. Compared to the repo we cloned from, it's pretty efficient, as git compresses all those object into a pack as part of the cloning process:
krh@annarchy:~$ du -sh /git/xorg/xserver.git/ 135M /git/xorg/xserver.git/
But given that both repos are on the same filesystem, we can ask git clone to share the underlying objects. This is a pretty clever trick that uses the fact that git objects are immutable. Once you've stored a file or an entire revision of you project as part of a git commit, that object never changes. It would be nice if git could just detect this and do the right thing, but you have to pass a couple of options:
krh@annarchy:~$ git clone -s -l --bare /git/xorg/xserver.git xserver.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/krh/xserver.git/ krh@annarchy:~$ du -sh xserver.git/ 1.3M xserver.git/
That's a lot better though, we're down to 1.3M for my own little copy of the xserver repo. However, when you think about it, it's just a glorified symlink to /git/xserver.git and 1.3M is a pretty heavy symlink. It's pretty easy to spot the problem
krh@annarchy:~$ du -h xserver.git/ 252K xserver.git/refs/heads 932K xserver.git/refs/tags 1.2M xserver.git/refs ...
When we converted the xserver repo over, we of course imported all branches and tags, most of which now are just in the way—when was the last time anybody looked at xprint_packagertest_20041125? One solution is to just nuke the branches and tags you don't care about. But if you need to preserve this important historical information in your repo or are just to lazy to weed it out, you can say
krh@annarchy:~$ GIT_DIR=xserver.git git-pack-refs --all krh@annarchy:~$ du -sh xserver.git/ 124K xserver.git/
Again, git should just do this by default in the same way it compresses the objects when cloning. As a final step, I want the gitweb script and the git daemon to pick up my new repo so I can browse it on gitweb.freedesktop.org (or cgit) and clone it using the git protocol. To do that I need to touch a special file in the repo:
krh@annarchy:~$ touch xserver.git/git-daemon-export-ok
which is just a way to say that it's ok to export this repository to the world. It typically takes a little while before the gitweb script finds your repo.
I'm sure there's somebody shaking their head now thinking, "gah, git is useless, look at all those commands", so to address that let me first sum up what you have to do to create your own repo and make it visible to the world:>
krh@annarchy:~$ git clone -s -l --bare /git/xorg/xserver.git xserver.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/krh/xserver.git/ krh@annarchy:~$ touch xserver.git/git-daemon-export-ok
Second, this is my own repo, I can create all the branches I want and commit crazy stuff, without affecting the upstream repo. I set it up without bugging any of the freedesktop.org admins and I didn't even need xserver commit access. Third, if it turns out that I do useful work there, we can merge it back into the main repo, without loosing any history, and without polluting the upstream branch name space with branch names suchs as gah, doh and gahgah, which are among my favorite choices. Allthough, they'd fit right in with the rest of the xserver branches.


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I finally got accepted for publication!
After going through the voting process for the school's lit journal, I received a preliminary list of those submissions that were voted on; mine was not. However, the editor in chief said that we could suggest two more that weren't on the list and, of course, I voted for myself again. (I'm starting to feel like a band geek who wants to be prom queen.) What got me the most was not only did no one, out of the eight on the editors panel, aside from myself even cared about the five stories that I wrote, but they chose the hackneyed potty humor or the overly sympathetic memoirs over my work that I've always tried to have as actual literature. (I never even wanted to go the chick lit route.)
But the editor in chief, today, said that one of my stories that I had suggested, was on the borderline (whatever that means) so she would put it in this coming edition. I had chosen two stories, on my last vote, that were the ones I was most satisfied and proud of myself after finishing. The one they picked was the one that was a "risk" (as my professor would say) so maybe he had a hand in that selection. Whatever the reason, I'm glad I got my work put to some public use, just as I always wanted it to.
It's a small victory, but a victory nonetheless. I'm not going to let the fact that it's a small college's literary journal that I "work" for, stamp out my enthusiasm from finally having what I want of my future, to come a little closer to my present.
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Hurricanes Football Club announces fall schedule
June 19, 2013
Charlottetown, PE – The Holland College Hurricanes Football Club recently announced its 2013 schedule, including details of the game against the University of Vermont Catamounts as the team makes its debut in the U.S.-based National Club Football Association (NCFA).
The Hurricanes open the Atlantic Football League regular season with an away game against the UNB Saint John Seawolves on Saturday, September 14. The club's home opener will take place at UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place on Sunday, September 22, at 1 p.m., when the Canes host the defending Atlantic Football League champions UNB Fredericton Red Bombers. The team remains at home the following weekend for a game against the Dalhousie University Tigers on Saturday, September 28, at 1 p.m. The Hurricanes are on the road on October 5 and 19 for matchups against UNB Fredericton and Dalhousie. Between those two away games is the final home date of the regular season, on Sunday, October 13, at 1 p.m., versus UNB Saint John.
AFL semi-final playoff games will be played on October 26, with the two winners advancing to the championship game on November 2. Hosting rights for playoff games are determined by final regular season standings.
The game against the University of Vermont club will take place at the South Burlington (VT) High School Stadium on Sunday, November 10, at 1 p.m. The Catamounts have been one of the top-ranked NCFA programs in the nation for the past two seasons; they ended last season ranked fourth in the coaches' poll. The NCFA includes collegiate club teams from across the United States organized into five conferences, plus independents. Holland College will compete as an independent. NCFA club teams include such familiar names as the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and The Ohio State University Buckeyes.
University of Vermont Club Football president Jack Leclerc said the team is looking forward to playing the Hurricanes.
"We are excited to host Holland College in their first NCFA game. It is going to be interesting to see how things will be different between our two teams. It will be a unique scene as teams from two different parts of the world compete in the universal sport of football," he said.
The Hurricanes' AFL games will count toward the team's NCFA season record, and the team will be eligible for national rankings, which will determine bids to the national championship game in Salem, Virginia. For NCFA-sanctioned games played in the U.S., the 'Canes will adapt to American football rules.
Mike O'Grady, president of the Hurricanes Football Club, said he anticipates even greater crowds at home games this year. "As followers of all Holland College teams now realize, we take an 'all-in' approach here. This is our fourth season in the AFL, and every year we are determined to build on the resurgence of football on P.E.I.," he said. "We'll have a great group of recruits to join our returning players, and we have our sights set on regaining the championship title and then then taking a shot at the Catamounts in Vermont.
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Best Master's Degree Programs in Mining Engineering
Master's in Mining Engineering
A Master's in Mining Engineering can help students learn more about mine design, mine safety, rock mechanics, computer applications and much more. The programs are available at schools all over the world; in the US alone, schools include the University of Nevada, Reno, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and Michigan Tech. In the UK, they include the University of Exeter, and in Australia, you can get a Master's in Mining Engineering from the University of Adelaide. The programs help mining engineers or aspiring engineers develop more efficient operations for transport, extraction, pollution and sustainability, among others.
What Is a Master's in Mining Engineering?
A Master's in Mining Engineering can be completed in as little as one year for full-time students. Part-time students may need three years. Reputable programs are accredited; for example, the University of Exeter program is accredited by the Engineering Council in the UK. No matter which program you enrol in, expect features such as:
- Opportunities for specialisation (for example, Curtin University in Australia offers mine geotechnical, and mine planning and management)
- Field visits and field-based assignments
- A research project or dissertation, or a non-thesis option
- Discussion of the latest ideas and trends in mining engineering
- A focus on sustainable and environmentally friendly practises
Class topics frequently cover areas including:
- Mine economics
- Mineral processing
- Robotics
- World mineral economics
- Environmental control
- Slope stability
- Heat mass transfer
Students should have undergraduate education in mining engineering or in related areas; some schools let work experience substitute for a Bachelor's degree in a non-mining field.
What Are the Benefits of Earning a Master's in Mining Engineering?
The numerous advantages of earning a Master's in Mining Engineering include the expanded career and salary prospects that tend to come with a higher-level degree compared with something such as a Bachelor's degree. Some other advantages include:
- The opportunity to choose from varied schools and programs worldwide.
- The chance to specialise in an area of interest in mining engineering.
- The development of soft skills such as research, writing, critical thinking and collaboration.
- The ability to gain practical, hands-on experience.
- Program flexibility, with some classes offered online.
Moreover, you get to learn from faculty members who have extensive experience in the many aspects that go into mining engineering. They can be a valuable source for job networking.
What Kind of Career Can You Expect with a Master's in Mining Engineering?
There are many possible careers with a Master's in Mining Engineering. First, though, it is good to know that mining engineers tend to focus on an area such as coal mines or finding ore deposits. Mining engineers may work in fields such as:
- Academia
- Mine safety
- Mine design
- Coal extraction
- Mine management
A mining safety engineer, for example, inspects mines to ensure they comply with required standards and that the workers are safe. Among their tasks are to analyse mining equipment and mine walls. Speaking of mine safety, a mine designer plans the best way to build a mine as far as safe, efficient and low-cost extraction goes. The designers must factor in considerations such as underground rocks and water, and ventilation, and works as part of a team with geologists, hydrologists, project managers and many others.
Quite a few colleges and universities worldwide offer a Master's degree program in Mining Engineering. Start looking into your options today.
McGill University
Montréal, Canada
McGill University, located in Quebec, Canada, is one of the country's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. The University has two campuses, 11 faculties and over 300 programs of study for graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students. Additionally the University partners with four affiliated teaching hospitals.... learn more
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The University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
UNSW Australia was founded after World War II and was originally called the New South Wales University of Technology. The name was changed to UNSW Australia in 1958. The university has faculties for art and design, arts and social sciences, built environment, business, engineering, law, medicine, and science. UNSW Australia has multiple music and theatre venues on campus.... learn more
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University of Exeter
Exeter, United Kingdom
University of Exeter is located in the mild and beautiful South West of England; it has three campuses: two in Exeter and one in Cornwall. Exeter offers a wide range of research-led academic programs and is also a member of the prestigious Russell Group which represents 24 leading UK universities committed to maintaining the very best research.... learn more
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Adelaide, Australia
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Blacksburg, United States
Virginia Tech, located in the town of Blacksburg in Montgomery County, Virginia, has nine colleges and a graduate school offering 240 undergraduate and graduate degree programs – 90 bachelor's and 150 master's and doctoral programs.... learn more
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Why Take the PAIRS class?
Lenny and Sarah share their story.
The PAIRS Class consists of easy-to-use, yet powerful communication and relationship tools that deepen understanding, turn conflict into connection, and enhance intimacy.
PAIRS Class on Maui
November 23rd & 24th, 2013
Space is Limited
*Includes Course Manuals. In Kihei (Maui Meadows).
Directions sent upon receipt of deposit.
PAIRS teaches what you need to succeed in relationship!
Recent research shows you can cut your chance of divorce in half just by taking a relationship skills class like this one. Most marriages suffer only because couples never learned the skills necessary to sustain a loving relationship. PAIRS is a dynamic "hands-on" educational program proven to enhance your relationship. Through instruction, demonstration and practice in a relaxed and safe way, significant progress is easy. Learn the skills necessary to maintain a healthy, fulfilling relationship. PAIRS is a unique combination of theory and practice delivered in a highly effective format. PAIRS teaches what you need to succeed in relationship.
Who would benefit from this class?
What is the class going to teach us?
How will this class improve my marriage?
Will my relationship experience immediate results?
What do other couples say about this class?
Why is Debra the best facilitator for this class?
How do I register for the PAIRS class?
LOVE is the best medicine! As Dr. Dean Ornish says, "I am not aware of any other factor in medicine that has a greater impact on our survival than the healing power of love and intimacy. Not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery."
Who would benefit from this class?
Anyone who wants the most out of their relationship. We spend time working on our careers, on our hobbies, on our kids, on our bodies with exercise, and we need alone time–which doesn't leave much time for the relationship. We sometimes assume that living together and hanging out is enough to sustain an abundant relationship. But without the "tools" all you might really end up with is co-existence rather than a cohesive partnership. This class is not just for couples with issues or problems, it is more of a course to strengthen the reason you came together in the first place: to connect in love. By the time you're done you will have a renewed appreciation for the amazing bond you and your partner have always had.
If you want to attend but your partner won't, go ahead and take the class yourself. You will learn so much! Your relationship will benefit from you having the skills and tools that help relationships succeed.
If you are single and want a healthy, happy relationship, this class is for you too! Many singles take the class because they know it helps them break old patterns and prepares them, heart and mind, for a relationship that works.
PAIRS is for men or women of any age, race, ethnicity, spiritual, or sexual orientation who are single or at any stage of relationship.
PAIRS is training in interpersonal skills that sustain healthy relationships. The program can help you to develop the necessary skills to:
- Sustain a loving and healthy relationship
- Improve an unsatisfying relationship
- Discover the causes of disappointment
- Avoid the mistakes made in previous relationships
- Enhance your ability to create a joyful, fulfilling future with a partner
- Assist others in strengthening their relationships
PAIRS is for you if you are:
- Single
- Married
- Living Together
- Entering a New Relationship
- Engaged
- Dating
- Newlywed
- Remarrying
- Separated
- Divorced
- In the Helping Professions
PAIRS is also beneficial for practitioners and counselors who wish to expand their toolboxes.
What is the class going to teach us?
Couples are held together because of energetic bonds. The energies of attraction and beliefs, of love, commitment, and sexual pleasure are powerful unifying forces. Emotions are energies too and nowhere are they more intense than in intimate relationship. Yet sometimes these same energies break couples apart. I will teach you how to work with them in a way that sustains and enhances your relationship.
Communication is the "glue" that determines the longevity of these energetic bonds, and couples communication is a unique and beautiful thing. I love working with couples (and singles) to help you navigate the intricacies of intimate relationship. This program focuses primarily on Communication Skills, Emotional Literacy, Conflict Resolution, Self-Awareness and Relationship Skills.
The Two-Day Passage to Intimacy course teaches what you need to succeed in relationship. It addresses arenas such as what to do when your partner withdraws, how to deal with anger in a healthy way, how to maintain closeness, how to communicate about stressful topics, tools for confiding, how to check out assumptions, how to resolve ongoing issues, and more.
The weekend workshop consists of learning and practicing 10 different communication and relationship tools. Each tool addresses a different need. By the end of the workshop, you have developed an entire communication skill set or "tool box" and experienced their transformative effects. It will not be a weekend of boring lectures that's for sure! I definitely make it fun and engaging.
Relationship Education is Not Therapy
As a psychologist, Dr. Wade Horn, assistant secretary of Health and Human Services for children and families, emphasizes that marriage ed is not marriage therapy, which often lasts longer and costs more. "Marriage education is very skills-focused, with problem solving, negotiation, communication. Somebody who goes into marriage education is unlikely to talk about childhood traumas." He or she is more likely to have a workbook, homework and a series of sessions with instruction and practice, Horn says. "There's a lot of research that shows what separates healthy marriages from unhealthy ones is not the frequency of conflict but the way the couple manages conflict," Dr. Horn says. "The good news is we can teach conflict resolution skills." (USA Today, Feb. 5, 2004)
Lately, a new breed of therapist and "marriage educator" is shaking up the profession. These educators reject the passive, old-style therapies that emphasize personal growth over shared commitment and take a more aggressive, hands-around-the-neck approach to saving marriages. "They feel therapists have been too quick in calling an end to relationships and having people move on," says University of Chicago sociology professor Linda Waite. The new breed also advocates premarital skill training and early intervention in problems–learning the ropes before tying the knot. "It's like a vaccination," says Waite, "instead of having to do surgery when something goes wrong."
What if you could go to school instead of to a shrink? That's the idea behind Marriage Education. "It's less expensive and more effective than therapy,"The therapy model is 'I'll treat you, and, voila, your marriage will work.' The education model is much more respectful. It assumes there's nothing wrong with you–you're not sick. You just need better information, and it assumes you can apply it to your situation. It's also not a long-term process." (Time Magazine, Jan. 19, 2004) says Diane Sollee, 59, who gave up her marriage-therapy career to create the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education. "
On Day One we will learn about:
- The logic of love
- The logic of emotions
- Emotional intelligence
- The role of bonding
- Identifying relationship patterns
- What happens when stress hits
- Demonstrations of communication stress styles
- Congruent communication
- Tools and practices for staying current in relationship
- The role of constructive listening
- Tools and practices for constructive listening
- What constitutes healthy expression
- Tools and practices for healthy expression
- How to know and ask for what you need
On Day Two we will learn about:
- The role of emotion in intimate relationship
- The role of anger in intimate relationship
- Suppression vs. aggression
- Dirty fighting tactics
- Tools and practices for healthy anger expression
- Tools and practices for the healthy expression of emotions
- How to resolve conflict
- Tools and practices for negotiating significant change
- Your brain and how it processes emotion
- The limbic hijack
- Emotional allergies
- Tools and practices for breaking patterns
- Healing the present through the past
- Your PAIRS Tool Kit
2 Days – 9:00 a.m. – approx. 6:00 p.m. (with breaks and an hour for lunch, on your own)
- PAIRS courses are instructional, skill-based private practice sessions that encourage accelerated and practical learning
- Each class consists of instruction, demonstration, and practice in private break-out sessions
- No one is required to participate in any activity in which they are not comfortable
- Coaching is always available and participation in exercises is voluntary
- There is no mandatory sharing of personal information with the group and no last names are requested – your privacy is yours
- Participants are not allowed to "take the floor" discussing personal issues. If necessary, an issue is discussed in private during a break-out practice session
- If coupled, you must have your partner's permission to share specific information when coaching or interaction with other participants is involved
How will this class improve my relationship?
PAIRS teaches you how to sustain a happy relationship. The program consists of easy-to-use, yet powerful tools that deepen understanding, turn conflict into connection, which will lead to enhanced intimacy.
By renewing your connection through communication, your intimacy will regenerate – preventing infidelity. "The worst enemies in a relationship are the two people in it," says Howard Markman, also a co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver and a professor in the psychology department. "We destroy our own love."
The biggest culprit is lack of communication. Everyone hears that, but what do you do about it? Expressing your wants and needs and, more important, listening to your partner, are learned skills. "You have to stay attached (through communication) through all the crud that goes on in life," says Gregg Gorman, a Centennial, Colo., psychotherapist who specializes in relationship building and rescue. "Most affairs are because people have detached," he says, not because of sex. (The Denver Post, April, 2004)
It's never too late to learn! PAIRS is a nationally acclaimed program with proven results.
Will my relationship experience immediate results?
You bet! We are going to fill your toolbox with the power of resolution and ways for the most connective communication. You will pair up with your partner (or with the instructor if you are single) and practice these tools in the class so you are comfortable using them. You will have worksheets and a course manual for reminders. The fun part about the PAIRS course is, you get to learn about how to correct what wasn't working before. Plus, even though you'll in honeymoon mode when you leave the class, life will still bring you opportunities to grow. The beauty is now you will have the most highly effective tools to apply to any situation to enhance your communication and support both you and your partner, rather than what you've been doing most of your relationship life.
"I got more out of the two days of PAIRS than a year of couples therapy as far as learning how to resolve conflict and how my relationship can continue to grow into intimacy. WELL worth the time and money!"
What do other couples say about this course?
Debra consistently receives superior evaluations (90+) by her workshop participants.
Below are testimonials from her PAIRS course participants:
"Debra is animated, energetic, informed and highly able to facilitate. She is extremely well prepared and knowledgeable and yet is playful and open."
"We're about to celebrate our one-year wedding anniversary, after taking your workshop while engaged, and have used the tools we learned with you many times. I just wanted to say thank you for helping us establish our absolutely incredible marriage so firmly. The world needs more people doing the sort of work you do."
"Debra is totally knowledgeable, giving and sharing from the heart, from her own "live" in-the-moment experience. She is empathetic, encouraging, real, and includes humor to lighten things up–good pace."
"I got
more out of the two days of PAIRS than a year of couples therapy
as far as learning how to resolve conflict and how my relationship
can continue to grow into intimacy. WELL worth the time and money!"
"Debra is very professional, knowledgeable, fun, light hearted and sincerely caring."
"PAIRS brings a sense of peace and harmony to the partners and the family. By using the tools, each family member feels heard, respected, and loved. Conflicts are resolved."
"Debra is a warm, funny, clear, sensitive, knowledgeable living example of PAIRS"
"This is relationships 101. Wouldn't it have been great to have taken it in high school? It's not too late."
"Debra is outstanding, warm, caring, direct, competent, and focused."
"This is what we've been looking for for 15 years."
"I appreciated Debra's openness in sharing her own experiences."
"The PAIRS program is a highly comprehensive, powerful system of resolution and maintenance in relationships. Even in emotionally charged situations there are effective tools for swift solution."
Why is Debra the best facilitator for this class?
Debra has been studying and teaching communication all of her adult life. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in communication. This includes teaching in conventional institutions such as the University of Kansas, the University of Hawaii, and Ohio State University, as well as more alternative schools such as Esalen Institute and the Graduate School for Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University.
In addition to teaching in academic institutions, Debra has presented her work at national conferences and has facilitated hundreds of workshops for various organizations. These include the National Communication Association (NCA), the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), and the American Institute of Stress (AIS), among others.
Debra is a licensed, certified PAIRS facilitator dedicated to living what she teaches. She first learned of the PAIRS program by completing the four month semester course. She was so inspired by the curriculum, tools and skills that she traveled to the PAIRS Foundation on the east coast and upon completing the training courses she became a certified PAIRS facilitator in 2000.
Debra has an undergraduate degree in Communication, a Master's in Intercultural Communication (University of Kansas) and a dual PhD (Ohio State University) in Communication and Somatic Studies (Body-Mind Integration). As you can tell, Debra is passionate about communication! Still, despite all of her formal studies and teaching, it wasn't until discovering the PAIRS program that she felt like she had finally arrived. This really is a tribute to PAIRS.
Debra is a dynamic and engaging instructor who brings humor and heart to what she teaches. She is the author of the acclaimed book, Endless Energy: The Essential Guide to Energy Health, and founder of Inner Clarity (IC), a holistic energy balancing method. She teaches seminars, trainings, workshops, and offers private sessions at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui, where she lives. Phone sessions are available worldwide.
Debra is available to teach seminars in your area. Click here to contact her.
How do I register for the PAIRS Class?
You can register for the upcoming class by clicking the link below to make a
deposit. Your deposit is part of the tuition and is
not an additional fee. Your balance is due at the start of the class on
Saturday morning.
Space is limited! The class is held at a private residence. Directions are sent upon receipt of deposit. This is a small class for quality
learning. So sign-up now.
It's completely risk free. If you are not 100% satisfied
by the end of the class, your entire tuition will be refunded. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain!
PAIRS Passage to Intimacy (2-day)
Tuition: $395/couple or $200/individual (Includes course manuals)
Deposit: $200/couple or $100/individual
Or you can pay by PayPal (debra at debra greene dot com) or send a check to Debra Greene, PhD, 1215 S. Kihei Rd. #907, Kihei, HI, 96753. A confirmation letter and directions to the class are sent upon receipt of deposit. Please be sure to include your phone number and email address.
Here is the fine print:
If I cancel the class (I have never done this, but just in case) you will receive a full refund. If you cancel 7 days or more prior to the start of the class you will receive a refund minus a $25 processing fee. If you cancel less than 7 days prior to class, sorry, no refunds.
If you are not completely satisfied at the end of the class, your full tuition will be refunded.
Couples Private Tutorials
Although enrolling in a class is the most economical way to learn the PAIRS relationship skills, if the class schedule does not meet your needs, Debra is available for private tutorials. You can learn and practice healthy, constructive communication skills through a personalized, professionally guided program designed to meet your specific needs. Set your own pace and schedule. Click here to contact her.
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Farm Credit Services of America salespeople spend much of their time in the field, visiting the companyâs more than 55,000 customers, businesses that own farms and ranches. Most customers are located in rural regions of the Midwest, primarily in Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
While the locations are idyllic, communication on the road isnât. Before the company implemented a CRM system, it was nearly impossible for a salesperson in the field to contact FCSAâs Omaha headquarters. This lack of connection meant salespeople often walked into client locations without the latest customer data.
Jim Greufe, FCSAâs director of CRM, said the companyâs customers often like to do business in places where remote Internet connectivity isnât an option. "When we started looking for a CRM package, we knew right away it had to be mobile," he said. "We wanted our 350 people who are on the road to be untethered to our environment but still [able to] take all of their customersâ information with them."
Greufe had another directive: Find a CRM package that every one of the companyâs 850 employees could use on a daily basis. Greufe wanted every piece of information about the customerâwhether itâs a small ranch or a large multinational bankâlogged and analyzed.
The reason was simple: FCSA builds long-term customer relationships that often last up to 30 years. The best way for the company to make more money is to mine its existing customer list and sell deeper into it.
This plan is so important that employees get bonuses for what FCSA calls relationship depth.
In his quest for a CRM program, Greufe contacted more than 100 vendors, eventually selecting Pivotal Corp., Vancouver, B.C. FCSA installed the Pivotal program in November 2001, spending $900,000 on the software and an additional $600,000 to $700,000 on integration.
Now, FCSA employees have hundreds of pieces of information about every customer, and they can access the data even when theyâre on the road. Everything can be stored on a laptop and consulted offline. Salespeople can call up information such as interest rates, product data, premiums and customer-specific details.
The results have been impressive. For example, in 2001, the company saw a 5% increase in relationship depth. Last year, after the introduction of CRM data analysis tools, that number increased to 10%.
Customers are getting better service no matter whom they speak with, and the company is seeing less churn, although Greufe said he couldnât provide specific statistics.
Part of the success came from FCSAâs work prior to the installation. For instance, company executives chose 80 local "CRM champions" who helped build anticipation for the project and explain its benefits.
Greufe said Pivotalâs CRM program has changed the way the entire company looks at customer data. "One sales leader just told me how critical he feels the CRM program is to our business. He said, âI canât imagine how we ever got along without it,â and that feeling is pervasive throughout the company," Greufe said. "Weâre finally providing as much information as our employees need."


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There was a chance, however small, the that Select Committee on Benghazi might actually yield some interesting answers about the invasion of Libya, which was conducted without congressional approval and created some pretty disastrous outcomes in subsequent years. Any hope officially evaporated Thursday, if it hadn't already.
For nearly 11 hours, committee Republicans harassed and cajoled former secretary of state Hillary Clinton about everything from her relationship with Sidney Blumenthal to her private e-mail server to the Clinton Foundation, but never really focusing in on anything of import. This was to be expected from a committee that has sent out 30 press releases about Clinton since March, and five about any other topic.
Obviously a transparent, taxpayer-funded opposition research project launched by Republicans against a likely foe in the upcoming presidential election, the select committee was a joke. And Republicans aren't done making a mockery of congressional inquiries: Next up is a select committee to investigate Planned Parenthood.
But it doesn't have to be this way. Select committees and other broad congressional inquiries have historically been critical tools in getting answers and creating change when other avenues are impassable. Here's a quick sketch of some past select committees and commissions that should be the actual model for how Congress uses its investigatory power.
Pecora Committee (1932–24): Officially called the Subcommittee on Senate Resolutions 84 and 234, this effort came to be known for its chief counsel, Ferdinand Pecora. After the great market crash of 1929, Americans had lost any faith in the financial system and weren't buying back in. To restore some confidence, President Herbert Hoover asked Congress to investigate the stock market.
Pecora used the committee's subpoena power to haul the country's leading bankers in front of Congress, as millions of Americans who lost money in the crash followed the proceedings. A former district attorney, Pecora skillfully cross-examined the bankers and exposed their misconduct. (It was during these hearings that the term "bankster" was coined.) As the committee did its work, Congress passed serious financial reforms based in part on what Pecora was exposing, including the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This is an idea that should have been reprised following the 2008 financial collapse.


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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, SC (WIS) - The man accused of abducting two of his children was taken into custody near the South Carolina/North Carolina state line after a police pursuit around noon.
Authorities say 37-year-old Dennis Matthew Penny, II was arrested in a field off of Tirzah Church Road in Union County, NC after the chase.
His children, Dennis Matthew Penny, III and Grace Elizabeth Penny, are safe and in the custody of authorities.
A withdrawal from a Lancaster bank tipped investigators off to Penny's location Thursday morning. A patrol officer investigating the transaction spotted Penny's pick-up truck and attempted to stop him.
According to Sheriff Barry S. Faile, Penny eventually stopped the vehicle on US 521 near Hubbard Road, but refused to exit the vehicle. After a few minutes of negotiation, officers unsuccessfully attempted to pull Penny out of the vehicle.
Penny reacted by driving off with the children in the vehicle, the sheriff said. The pursuit eventually went off road with the vehicle eventually being stopped by a fence, Faile said.
Officers quickly approached the vehicle securing the two children and taking Penny into custody. The children, while somewhat shaken by the incident were unharmed physically, Faile said.
Authorities issued an AMBER Alert for the two children Thursday morning.
According to SLED, Penny took the kids from the Mount Croghan area of Chesterfield County Thursday around 7:30 a.m.
Penny will be held in Union County pending extradition to Chesterfield County on charges of burglary and kidnapping. He will also face additional charges in Lancaster County, the sheriff said.
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High Pressure Geochemistry & Mineral Physics, Volume 9
1st Edition
Basics for Planetology and Geo-Material Science
Table of Contents
Preface. Acknowledgements.
Section A: Preamble and Preview.
Section B: The Earth and Planetary Systems.
- (A) Cosmochemistry and properties of light element compounds.
- Petrotectonic features of terrestrial planets.
- Structural types of major phases AB, AB2, A2B3, ABX3, ABX4, AB2X4 and A2B2X7.Section C: Basics for Pressures Studies.
- Principles and techniques.
- (Crystalline) materials under high pressure.Section D: Mineral Systems.
- MgO - FeO - SiO2 (MFS) system: Olivines and pyroxenes.
- K2O, Na2O, CaO - Al2O3 - SiO2 system.
- Al2O3 - SiO2 and (CaO - MgO) - Al2O3 - SiO2 systems.
- AB2X4 structure.
- ABX3 perovskite - ilmenite structure.
- Silicate melts and rocks.
- Oxides and carbonates.
- Hydrous minerals.
- Iron and siderophile elements: The earth's core. Section E: Transport Properties at Deep Depths & Related Condensed Matter Phenomena.
- Transport properties in deep depths and related condensed-matter phenomena. References. Glossary.
Significant achievements have been made at the cross-roads of physics and planetary science. In the second half of the twentieth century, the discipline of planetary sciences has witnessed three major episodes which have revolutionized its approach and content: (i) the plate-tectonic theory, (ii) human landing and discoveries in planetary astronomy and (iii) the extraordinary technical advancement in high P-T studies, which have been abetted by a vast improvement in computational methods. Using these new computational methods, such as first principles including ab initio models, calculations have been made for the electronic structure, bonding, thermal EOS, elasticity, melting, thermal conductivity and diffusivity.
In this monograph, the boundaries of the definitions of a petrologist, geochemist, geophysicist or a mineralogist have been willfully eliminated to bring them all under the spectrum of "high-pressure geochemistry" when they deal with any material (quintessentially a chemical assemblage) - terrestrial or extraterrestrial - under the conditions of high-pressure and temperature. Thus, a petrologist using a spectrometer or any instrument for high-pressure studies of a rock or a mineral, or a geochemist using them for chemical synthesis and characterization, is better categorized as a "high-pressure geochemist" rather than any other kind of disciplinarian.
The contents of this monograph bring together, under one cover, apparently disparate disciplines like solid-earth geophysics and geochemistry as well as material science and condensed-matter physics to present a thorough overview of high pressure geochemistry. Indeed, such interdisciplinary activities led to the discovery of new phenomena such as high P-T behaviour in metal oxides (e.g. Mott transition), novel transitions such as amorphization, changes in order-disorder in crystals and the anomalous properties of oxide melts.
- No. of pages:
- 1272
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Elsevier Science 2004
- Published:
- 11th December 2004
- Imprint:
- Elsevier Science
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080458229
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780444512666
Ratings and Reviews
About the Authors
S. Mitra Author
Affiliations and Expertise
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Government Publication 'A Roadmap for Pension Reform'. We will also look the Government's publication 'A Roadmap for Pension Reform' which was published on February 28th last. This sets out plans for a significant overhaul of all parts of the Irish Pensions System. Jerry Moriarty, CEO of the IAPF will give an overview of the Roadmap, initial IAPF observations and outline the next steps.
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Forward Phillip Danault and defenseman Viktor Svedberg dropped the gloves near the end of Friday's scrimmage. Danault was clearly trying to mix things up during the day because he exchange a few shoves earlier in the scrimmage. This was the third straight day with a scrimmage at the Blackhawks annual prospect camp.
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requires. The storage for an installation does not have to be on the host. For multiple-host systems, a shared
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Posani's film titled Rajavari Chepala Cheruvu
Posani Krishna Murali is making a film titled Rajavari Chepala Cheruvu which has the backdrop of contemporary politics. The shooting of this film starts from February 20. Posani plays the role of a police officer in this film.
Written and directed by Posani, this film is planned to be completed and released just before the general elections. Recently, Posani has joined Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam Party.
Posani's last film, Mental Krishna, received mixed reactions from the audience and the trade circles. There are reports that this film did reasonably well at B centers.


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Tony Vaccaro had been part of Lili Szabo's life since she was a lovesick teenager with a major-league crush. Now the high school athlete was a widowed single dad with a trio of energetic little girls relying on him—and no time for romance.
Little Lili had grown up! Fourteen years ago, she was like a cute kid sister. Now she had the potential to be so much more. But a shocking secret was about to split Tony's world apart. The question was, could he count on Lili to pick up the pieces?
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Perched on a stool in a stifling New England kitchen that was not hers, chopping potatoes into a plastic bowl that was not hers, either, Lili Szabo thought, Not exactly how I envisioned my life at this point, orphaned and alone and vulnerable to things like spontaneous invitations to visit American relatives who, with few exceptions, she either didn't know or barely remembered
"Are you done yet, sveetheart?" Aunt Magda yelled from across the room, and Lili glared at Self-Pity and said, You. Out. NOW. Finally it shuffled off, grumbling, and Lili smiled for her mother's older sister.
"Go. Enjoy your party, everything's under control." "In zis house? Nefer!" Magda Vaccaro said, her heavy accent as proudly worn as her sculpted blond hair and theatrical makeup, even though she'd left both Hungary and the circus life behind more than forty years before. Her normal attire ran to tight pants and even tighter tops, but today she dazzled in a mirror-and-sequin-encrusted East Indian dress of tentlike proportions, worn with high-heeled mules and much tinkly jewelry. Next to her flamboyant aunt, Lili felt practically invisible in her white eyelet sundress. But then, most people disappeared next to Magda, who didn't need a spotlight, she made her own.
Then her Uncle Benny came in, Robert De Niro playing Santa Claus, to filch a sample of whatever Magda was setting out on a platter, stealing a kiss at the same time, and Self-Pity whispered, I'm ba-ack, and Lili sighed, suddenly weary of being the good one. The dependable one.
The cautious one.
"Any sign of Tony yet?" Uncle Benny asked, and Lili's head snapped up. Of course, in an Italian family, Tony was a common name. He wasn't necessarily talking about that Tony
"Not yet," her aunt said with a sympathetic sigh. "But zen, he hesn't been on time to anysing since Marissa died. Such a shame."
Okay, so they were talking about that Tony. Except after all this time it was highly unlikely that Tony still existed, anyway, even if he hadn't been a recent widowerless than a year, wasn't it?or the father of three little girls. What on earth could she possibly have in common with him now?
What did you have common with him then?
There was that, Lili thought, pretending not to watch as Benny swooped down on a laughing Magda to give her another kiss, sending a wink in Lili's direction as he strode from the room, a man happy in his world. And anywayLili slammed the next potato chunk into the bowlif Tony was this late, maybe he wouldn't show at all.
Marginally cheered, she stood to upend the potatoes into a pot of boiling water, watching them succumb to their fate, ignoring Self-Pity's snickering in her ear.
* * *
"Do we have to go?"
His hands full of wriggling, giggling two-year-oldjeez, it was like dressing an eelTony Vaccaro could feel his oldest girl's frown from ten feet away.
"Yeah, baby, we gotta," he said, even though putting on the everything's-fine face wasn't exactly at the top of his list, either. But nobody turned down an invite to his Aunt Magda's annual birthday bash. And lived to tell about it. "Besides, it'll do us good to get out of this house. Interact with other human beings." Dress yanked over a little blond head, Tony shoved a hunk of his own damp, too long, not blond hair off his forehead. Josie seized the moment to bounce off the bed. "Besides" he grabbed the squealing toddler, bouncing her right back "you got something more pressing on your social schedule? JoJo! Sit still, for cryin' out loud, lemme get your shoes on"
"Ohmigod. You can't let her wear that!"
Tony shut his eyes. Exhaled. Twisted to face the scowl barely masking the still raw pain in Claire's nearsighted eyes, the same pain that periodically throbbed in his own chest, that her mother had died and there hadn't been a damn thing he could do about it, that his little girl was still hurting and he couldn't do a damn thing about that, either.
That there'd been problems between him and Marissa, before she'd gotten sick, that had just laid there like a bleeping grenade between them, ignored until it was too late.
Then he noticed, framed by far too much light brown hair on either side of Claire's shoulders, the beginnings of a pair of somethings that had not been there yesterday, and his lungs seized.
Put those back, we can't afford them, hammered inside his head as a tiny person strangled his neck, peppering his cheek with noisy kisses. Got him every damn time, those kisses. Tony looked at his youngest daughter, wrinkling her nose at him.
"What's wrong with what she's wearing?" he said.
Grinning, Josephine patted the ivory lace bibbing the red satin dress she'd somehow not only found in her crammed closet, but had demanded to wear as only a two-year-old named after an empress could. "I'm pretty, huh, Care?"
Claire shoved her blue-steel-rimmed glasses farther up on her nose. "Uh, Dad that's a Christmas dress?"
"And your point would be?"
"It's July? She'll roast. Not to mention she's gonna get mustard and ketchup and crap all over it."
"Don't say c-r-a-p," Tony said, wearily, finally getting the baby's butt planted long enough to close the Velcro tabs on her glittery little sneakerswhich even he knew didn't go with the dressbefore setting the baby on the bare wood floor. Like a wind-up toy, she chugged over to the toy chest Tony had just filled to gleefully empty it again. "Especially in front of your baby sister," he said, dodging Super Grover. "And the dress is gonna be too small by next Christmas, anyway, so what's the big deal?"
Claire's hands landed on her hips, chewed fingernails dotted with her mother's purple nail polish. "Who the heck wears a Christmas dress to a backyard barbecue? Like, ohmigod?"
And who the heck was this kid? Swear to God, Tony never knew from one day to the next who was gonna come out of her bedroom door, like she was trying on different personalities to see which fit the best. The grief counselor said the Jekyll and Hyde thing was a coping mechanism. Tony's money was on early-onset puberty.
"Don't say ohmigod, you know your mother hated it. But hey, you wanna try getting the baby into something else, go for it. Call Daph, wouldja? We're late."
Claire stomped back to the door, bellowed, "Daphne! We're leaving!" then stomped back to Josie's white dresser with a decided sway to her not-so-little butt that leached the blood from Tony's face. If she was anything like her cousins, one day the baby fat would reorganize itself into curves and Tony was gonna be a dead man. As was any boy dumb enough to get within fifty feet. "Mama said she bought that dress for me," she said quietly. "So maybe I'd like to save it for my little girl. Or something."
Ah, hell.
This had nothing to do with the baby wearing the dress. What this was, was Claire's wanting to stop her world from spinning out of control. Kid always had freaked out if God forbid they drove a different way to school, or changed a room color, or had spaghetti on Tuesday night instead of the usual Monday. Her mother dying?
Damn miracle she was functioning at all.
Wasn't like he couldn't relate, Tony thought as, baby shorts and T-shirt in hand, Claire hooked a zooming Josie around the waist and flung her back on the twin bed she didn't even sleep in yet. He'd kill for "normal" again. For what he'd hadthey'd hadeven a few years ago.
"Hey, JoJo, let's wear these instead"
"No!" the baby said, arms crossed, matching her sister scowl-for-scowl as she pointed imperiously to the dresser. "Put back! Right now! I wanna wear this!" Then she scrambled off the bedagainhowling in protest as Claire grabbed for her. Again.
Tony's cell rang. With a grimace at the read-out, he answered it.
"Tony?" his mother-in-law said. "Is that the baby? Is everything all right?"
"Yeah, Susan, everything's fine. Minor fashion crisis, that's all. What's up?"
"Just making sure we're still taking the girls tomorrow. Although we certainly don't mind coming for them tonight"
Josie's caterwauling ratcheted up another decibel or two. "Are you sure everything's okay?"
"Positive. And forget it, you don't need to be drivin' down from Boston that late. I wouldn't dream of puttin' you two out like that."
"You wouldn't be putting us out, honey, you know that." When Tony didn't answer, Marissa's mother switched tactics. Slightly. "Then you don't mind if we keep them Sunday night, too?"
"Nah, of course not. The girls love it there, with the pool and everything. Not to mention you guys spoilin' them rotten," he added with a slight smile.
"Just doing our jobs," Susan said, her faux cheer wilted a bit at the edges. "You know, if we got them tonight, they could attend church with us in the morning, then go someplace nice for lunch"
"Got it covered," he said softly.
"We're only trying to help, Tony," Susan said, just as softly, and Tony sighed, because they really were. And the kids were crazy about them. Not to mention their two-story colonial in Brookline with the cook and the housekeeper and that pool. And besides him they were the closest family the girls had, Tony's folks having both died within the past five years and his brothers and sister scattered all over the freaking country
"Daph!" Claire shrieked as the seven-year-old came pounding into the room. "What on earth were you doing?"
"Gotta go," Tony mumbled, cutting off Susan's "Tony ?" His phone clapped shut, he slowly faced the child who looked most like him, with her dark jumble of curls and deep brown eyes.
Deep brown don't look at the mess, look at the cute eyes.
"Daph, for God's sake"
"I was watering the 'matoes an' Ed got in the way of the hose, an' then he ran through the mud where I'd just watered, an' then he rolled in it " Her eyes lowered to the mud-splattered devastation from the chin down, then lifted again. "An' then he shook."
Ed, their affable, terminally clueless boxer/shepherd mixtheir weirdly clean boxer/shepherd mix, having efficiently transferred ninety percent of the mud to the child grinned up at him, panting.
"So I see."
Her contrite smile punching dimples in round cheeks, Daphne held out grubby hands bearing a stack of smudged envelopes and catalogs. "Mail came."
"Thanks," Tony muttered as he took it, refusing to dwell on the muddy footprints Daph would have left in her trek to get the mail. Halfheartedly, he riffled through the usual assortment of bills, credit card offers and Don't Let This Be Your Last Catalog! warnings from Marissa's favorite mailorder companies, frowning when he came to the slightly damp, oversize envelope from their lawyer
"You want me to change?"
"What?" Tony glanced at the walking, cute-as-all-hell mudslide in front of him. "Uh, yeah, sweetie. But hurry, we're sposedta be there by five."
"Won't take but a sec," Daphne said, bounding down the hall to her room, as Tony clamped the rest of the mail under his arm to tear open the envelope from the lawyer. Inside was a short note on Phil's letterhead, wrapped around another sealed envelope addressed to him in Rissa's handwriting.
"Tony," he silently read over the loud rushing in his ears, "I have no idea what this is about, but Rissa asked me to send it to you when she'd been gone at least six months. I know it's been more like nine, but frankly, I forgot about it until now. If you need me for anything, let me know. Phil."
What I need is a new lawyer, Tony thought, turning to Claire, who'd apparentlysince the baby was still a vision in satin and lacegiven up the good fight. "Let me dump this stuff on my desk, then we can get outta here, okay?"
Except he'd barely reached the small bedroom office at the end of the hall before he ripped open the second envelope and skimmed the letter.
" I'm so sorry, and I know this is taking the chicken's way out, but I just couldn't figure out a good time to tell you "
"Dad? You okay?"
The letter clutched in his hand, Tony wheeled on a frowning Claire, standing in the hall with the baby perched on her hip.
"Sure. Fine." Swallowing back the howl lodged at the base of his throat, he crossed to the battle-scarred Melamine desk to stash the letter in the top drawer, then fumbled for the Super Dad switch in his brain before turning back, game face firmly in place. "You guys all ready to go?"
"You sound funny"
"Somethin' caught in my throat," Tony pushed out, thinking nine months ago? He thought he'd been through hell.
Turns out he'd barely gotten through the front door.
Fine. If Dad wanted to pretend everything was cool, Claire could, too. Except she knew when he was faking being okay and when he was really okay. Not that he'd been really okay since Mom died, but she knew he was trying his best. For their sakes. Because kids weren't supposed to be sad, or something lame like that. Whatever.
Then he said they were gonna walk the six blocks to Aunt Magda's and Uncle Benny's, and she heard herself say, "Are you kidding me? You want us to die of sunstroke or what?"
"You've all got hats," Dad said, sounding mostly normal again as he struggled to get the Empressthat's what they sometimes called JoJo, on account of her being named after some dude's wife two centuries agointo her stroller. "I think you'll survive six blocks. Think of it as being ecologically responsible."
"Or cheap," Claire grumbled with a longing look over her shoulder at their old Volvo wagon, sitting in the driveway. One fist wrapped around the stroller handle, Dad tugged a receipt out of his jeans pocket and handed it over.
"What's this?"
"That's how much it cost me to gas up the car yesterday."
"Holy crap."
"Don't" He sighed. "Yeah."
Then it occurred to Claire that maybe she should cut Dad some slack, since this obviously wasn't one of his better days. "C'n I push?" she asked, reaching for the stroller. Yeah, Josie could be a pain in the butt, but she could be really cute and lovey and stuff, too. And Claire tried to help out with her little sisters as much as possible, so Dad wouldn't feel like he had to do everything. Especially since she'd overheard Nana and Gramps talking about how it would be so much easier on Dad if Claire and her sisters came to live with them. She loved her grandparents and all, but no.
"Go for it," Dad said, moving over so Claire could take the stroller.
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When California Chrome pulled away for a one-and-three-quarter-lengths victory in the Kentucky Derby on May 3, Art Sherman, 77, became the oldest trainer to saddle a winner in the United States' most famous horse race.
On Saturday in the Preakness Stakes, the trainer Manny Azpurua, 85, will look to build upon Sherman's achievement and show that Triple Crown success can come at any age. Azpurua will saddle Social Inclusion, a horse he said he had waited a lifetime for.
"I was waiting for a big horse," Azpurua said. "I've been lucky because I had a lot of good horses. But I really believe this is a special one."
Social Inclusion was unraced as a 2-year-old because he was a May foal and needed time to develop, but his relatively small body of work suggests that he can be the big horse his trainer has always dreamed about.
He romped by seven-and-a-half lengths when he debuted Feb. 22 at Gulfstream Park in Florida. He then burst onto the national scene March 12, when he smashed the track record there with a time of 1 minute 40.97 second for a mile-and-a-sixteenth in a 10-length rout of Honor Code, a graded stakes winner. (The previous mark of 1:41 was set by Devil's Cave less than a month earlier.)
Also working in Social Inclusion's favor is that he earned a 110 Beyer Speed Figure during that record-setting performance; California Chrome, whose top Beyer is 108, posted a winning time of 2:03.66 in the Derby, the slowest winning mark on a Derby track labeled fast since 1974.
The owner Ron Sanchez, who purchased Social Inclusion for $60,000 as a yearling, said he received a number of lucrative offers for a majority interest in the blossoming 3-year-old. But he said he rejected them, including one for $8 million, because all involved moving the colt to another trainer.
"He treats these horses like they were his sons," Sanchez, a financial adviser, said of Azpurua.
After a distinguished training career in Venezuela, Azpurua moved to Calder Race Course near Miami in 1979. He sent off Set n' Go to a dismal 16th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby in 1974. Nightmare Affair ran third for him in the Breeders' Cup Sprint in 2006. Otherwise, he has done what he can to make the most of horses that lacked the pedigree and quality to compete at the highest levels. Although his operation is modest, his longevity in the sport has commanded respect.
"He's an institution here in South Florida," said Jose Garoffalo, a fellow trainer from Venezuela who operates at Gulfstream Park. "He's a well-respected horseman and a great gentleman."
Sanchez referred to Azpurua as a "wise guy," a term he used to reflect his admiration.
"He can find a lot of stuff that other trainers can't," Sanchez said, noting that Azpurua often relied on old-fashioned remedies when issues arise and avoided medication whenever possible.
Even with all of Social Inclusion's vast potential, he has tested Azpurua's skill and knowledge. He needed a top-two finish in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct to qualify for the Kentucky Derby. He was nosed out of second by Samraat, who went on to finish fifth in the opening leg of the Triple Crown.
When Azpurua resorted to his backup plan, that, too, did not come to fruition. Social Inclusion was scratched from a minor stakes race at Gulfstream Park with a bruised right front foot on the day the Derby was run.
Social Inclusion, a son of Pioneerof the Nile, the runner-up in the 2009 Kentucky Derby, showed no signs of a lingering foot problem when he went four furlongs in 47 seconds on Monday at Pimlico Race Course. It was the fastest of five workouts at that distance Monday by two seconds. That lifted the confidence of Luis Contreras, who was aboard for the workout and will ride the colt as part of an expected field of 10 for the mile-and-three-sixteenths Preakness.
"He's such a good horse," Contreras said. "When you watch him, he looks like he's running on air."
Sanchez said he envisioned a repeat of last year's race, when Oxbow sprinted to an early lead and was never threatened.
"He's got speed," he said. "We're going to try to get the lead and wire to wire."
Jerry Bailey, a retired Hall of Fame jockey and now a racing analyst, said he was not sure of Social Inclusion's readiness for the Preakness, given his lack of seasoning, compared with the rest of the field, and the recent foot injury.
"It's hard for me to believe that physically, he's going to be at his peak," he said.
Bailey added that it was highly unlikely that Social Inclusion could shake loose from the field because several other probable starters possess early speed. That group includes California Chrome, a winner of his last five starts by a combined 26 lengths.
Yet Azpurua knows he has a special horse and that his time for another one to come along is growing short.
"I don't have it in my mind retirement, but I know it's coming because I'm 85, and every day I lose some mobility," he said.
Azpurua can surpass James Fitzsimmons, who was known as Sunny Jim, as the oldest trainer to reach the Preakness winner's circle. Fitzsimmons was 82 years 10 months when Bold Ruler prevailed in 1957. Still, Azpurua is more focused on the prospect of his first Grade I triumph.
"It's something you were looking for for many years, and now you have the chance to get it," he said. "I am so pleased and so grateful."


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Remember when Darth Maul, in "Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace," said of the Sith's Jedi enemies, "At last we shall have revenge?"
Didn't happen. But the mechanical-legged Sith Lord gets a second chance in "Revenge," the Season 4 finale of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" premiereing at 7 p.m. March 16 on Cartoon Network.
In last week's episode, when learned that the tattooed one survived being cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi, but he was more than a little batty, moving like a spider with multiple mechanical legs on the planet Lotho Minor.
Thankfully, his brother Savage Opress found him. And in "Revenge," Darth has not only regained his wits but also his vengeful spirit. He's setting up a rematch with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Will you be rooting for Darth, or Obi-Wan?
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July 28, 2014
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Management Board of Symrise AG today resolved to increase the company's
share capital of EUR 129,323,300.00 to EUR 129,812,574.00 by issuing
489,274 new no par value bearer shares carrying dividend rights from 1
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