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Friday, 26 July 2013
To mark the end of their 50th anniversary year, the Hampshire County Youth Bands impressed an audience in Waterlooville with a concert of classical, modern and jazz music.
The concert programme included a wide range of musical styles for brass bands from Edvard Greig to Havah Nagilah, and a specially commissioned piece, premiered this year at their 50th anniversary concert, entitled Zest! by Kenneth Downie. It also featured solo pieces and performances by the Hampshire County Youth Band, Training Band and Junior Band.
The Band was formed in 1963 by local musician, John Knight, now 92, who conducted part of their anniversary concert in April this year.
The Band begins a tour of Italy and Croatia on 20 July, which includes a concert at the Villa Ducale in Venice. For many of the older students in the Band this will be their farewell tour as they are leaving to start careers, or go on to study a range of courses, including music, medicine and history at university in the autumn.
Councillor Peter Edgar was in the audience and commented;"A fantastic standard of playing by all three groups. I encourage all those about to go on to higher education or careers to keep playing. You have set a marvellous example to the younger players and demonstrated that hard work and dedication really does pay off."
The Hampshire County Youth Orchestra also begins its tour at the end of July to Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. The group of over 120 students are undertaking an extensive performance schedule during their nine day tour. A highlight will be their performance at St Catherine's Church, Krakow, where many famous composers have premiered their compositions.
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What some officials consider "standing up" for Putnam residents is a move that violates the law—and could lead to a court battle—according to Robert Freeman, executive director for the state Committee on Open Government.
The Journal News, a Gannett newspaper, had filed a request for the information.
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Sun Bear: Vision of the Medicine Wheel DVD
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The wisdom and vision of one of Native America's leading luminaries
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Sun Bear was a Native American visionary who led many rituals. People from every walk of life have shared his vision. Experience the power of a Medicine Wheel Gathering. Learn from the wisdom of Sun Bear as he shares the powerful meaning of the 4 directions and their impact on our lives, combined with the belief that the practice of ritual enhances our respect for Mother Earth. 60 minutes.


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I love Katarina's description of her LP, she's so brutally honest! IMO, Liz should have won the ladies' free (which she did), Midori 2nd, Katarina 3rd, Jill 4th. I'm not even sure Debi deserved as high as 5th in the free. I would have been fine with (overall), Gold: Liz; Silver: Katarina; Bronze: Midori.
Brians: IMO, Boitano absolutely deserved the win. I also felt he had the superior artistry in his Oly programs.
I wasn't really into Pairs and Ice Dance at the time, although I could see that G/G were heads above everyone else.


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Oracle Database 11g – Underground Advice for Database Administrators
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- A comprehensive handbook aimed at reducing the day-to-day struggle of Oracle 11g Database newcomers
- Real-world reflections from an experienced DBA—what novice DBAs should really know
- Implement Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture with expert guidance
- Extensive information on providing high availability for Grid Control
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 348 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : April 2010
Author(s) : April C. Sims
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Enterprise Products and Platforms, Oracle Database, Enterprise, Oracle
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: When to Step Away from the Keyboard
Chapter 2: Maintaining Oracle Standards
Chapter 3: Tracking the Bits and Bytes
Chapter 4: Achieving Maximum Uptime
Chapter 5: Data Guard and Flashback
Chapter 6: Extended RMAN
Chapter 7: Migrating to 11g: A Step-Ordered Approach
Chapter 8: 11g Tuning Tools
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Sample chapters
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What you will learn from this book
- The mechanics and essentials of the database at the block level and tracking the System Change Number
- Reducing or eliminating downtime for the primary database using DATA GUARD and FLASHBACK in tandem
- Enterprise implementations of RMAN with DATA GUARD, Transportable Tablespaces, and the new Data Recovery Advisor
- Using both GUI tools and command-line utilities
- Migrating to the latest release of 11g using the Step-Ordered Approach
- A solid foundation designed to reduce future maintenance
- Implementing Maximum Availability Architecture with commodity hardware
- Many of the common mistakes and failures of common implementations
- Solving forecasting, performance, and tuning issues with the low cost tools available
In Detail
Today DBAs are expected to deploy and manage large databases with quality service and little to no downtime. The DBA's main focus is on increasing productivity and eliminating idle redundancy throughout the enterprise. However, there is no magic set of best practices or hard and fast rules that DBAs need to follow, and this can make life difficult. But if DBAs follow some basic approaches and best practices, tasks can be performed more efficiently and effectively.
This survival guide offers previously unwritten underground advice for DBAs. The author provides extensive information to illuminate where you fit in, and runs through many of the tasks that you need to be watchful of, extensively covering solutions to the most common problems encountered by newcomers to the world of Oracle databases.
The book will quickly introduce you to your job responsibilities, as well as the skills, and abilities needed to be successful as a DBA. It will show you how to overcome common problems and proactively prevent disasters by implementing distributed grid computing—scalable and robust—with the ability to redeploy or rearchitect when business needs change. Reduce downtime across your enterprise by standardizing hardware, software, tools, utilities, commands, and architectural components.
This book will also help you in situations where you need to install Oracle Database 11g or migrate to new hardware making it compliant with a Maximum Availability Architecture. By the end of this book you will have learned a lot and gained confidence in your abilities. You will be armed with knowledge as to which tools are best used to accomplish tasks while proactively moving towards an automated environment.
An example-oriented guide to optimize a DBA's performance on 11g databases
This book is designed to cover the problems that novice DBAs particularly struggle with. This handbook covers a minimal amount of theoretical information before showing you how to overcome common problems through the use of real-life examples. It covers both Oracle 11g R1 and 11g R2 in examples, with material applicable to all versions of Oracle.
Who this book is for
This book is for you if you find yourself in charge of an Oracle database. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed. Whether you are a single employee or the DBA manager of several employees, whether you are taking over an existing position or taking up a newly created one – this book is designed to be a sanity check. If you need guidance for migrating to 11g or implementing Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture, you will find this book very helpful.


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With the holiday shopping season officially on, that put me in good mind to speak about a new online shopping treasure that's started to pick up major speed this past year – TheRealReal.com.
There's another collaboration that's happening for sure. Rei Kawakubo and Hermes. Have four sweeter words ever been spoken?
It hasn't been that long since we last featured Neringa Rekasiut, that was during an interview our Arts & Culture Editor Julija Kaselyte had hosted back in June of 2012 which now seems forever ago.
From February 16 through June 2, 2013, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will present Lebbeus Woods, Architect, bringing together 75 works from the past 35 years by one of the most influential architects working in the field.
A major new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Valentino will open at Somerset House this November. "Valentino: Master of Couture" will be a glamorous exhibition focusing exclusively on haute couture created by the legendary Italian designer.
Conceived by Creative Director Peter Dundas, a powerfully reinvented palazzo inspires the brand's new flagship in Madison Avenue in New York, creating the world's largest Pucci store and igniting an ambitious global retail rollout.
Dozens upon dozens of girls have walked the Balenciaga runway in Nicolas Ghesquiere's 15 illustrious years as creative director of the celebrated house, but very few have been lucky enough to be considered true 'Balenciaga Girls'.
From Rihanna's Caribbean roots to the top of the charts, the runways of Paris and Milan and some of the biggest stages in the world, the 24-year-old, Barbados-born beauty has already won six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards and 18 Billboard Music Awards, among many others.
We all have our addictions. Kids have candy stores, men have sports and booze. But it's the ladies who have picked out the best poison for themselves – jewelry.
The Balenciaga fashion house and Nicolas Ghesquière have announced their joint decision to end their working relationship as of 30 November 2012. Nicolas Ghesquière has been the Creative Director of Balenciaga since 1997.
When H&M announced that Maison Martin Margiela would be its next collaborative brand, well, we here at Bloginity were more than just a little dubious, to say the least.
The collaboration between H&M and Maison Martin Margiela presents a re-edition of iconic Maison Martin Margiela garments and accessories for men and women. Each piece is specifically labelled with a unique tag indicating the season from which it originated, spanning 23 years since the Maison's founding.
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli have really locked in on the princess dream dress at Valentino. There's something regal about their clothes. Their diffusion line Red Valentino still fits into the princess motif, but this girl is all good times and frivolity.
The hair and makeup was something resembling inspiration from his own collection in New York; a fresh twist on 60's mod revealed ladylike beehive updos topped with delicate satin ribbon wrapped around the hair.
Long, electric white hair flowed down to bare knees, parted harshly down the middle with one cropped layer to frame cheekbones on both sides.
CHANEL present a retrospective of the most important events in the history of the legendary fragrance, N°5.
In a rural area in the center of Israel, Auerbach-Halevy has designed a unique house: at first glance it is not recognized as residential, and even at a second one it is difficult to distinguish what is it used for.
This editorial was originally published in February 2012, photographed by Yves Borgwardt for High Snobiety this photo shoot captures our good friend Rick Genest.
Eyes were focused and girlishly intense on the Miu Miu runway; a sense of a "girl about town" sauntered provocatively in dark denims and tie-dyed furs with an ease only Miuccia Prada can create.
To say that this was a collection of exquisite elegance and an almost quiet refinement would be an understatement.
Edvard Munch's iconic The Scream (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will go on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24.
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli are something like conjurers. Their Valentino woman is a perfect mix of modern and mythic femininity. Their clothes have always been blessed by a finely tuned temporal amalgamation of good taste – a little bit of the old, a little bit of the new.
Vincent Castiglia opens his retrospective show at the Sacred Gallery in SoHo, NY tonight. The media are all over him – from the BBC to Reuters, there are a line of TV crews and journalists fascinated by his huge paintings of " the universal themes of death, sex, birth and decay" as he succinctly puts it each time.
The Resort and Pre-Fall collections are always very telling of what Balenciaga's Nicolas Ghesquiere has in store for his big ready-to-wear collections.
Not to insinuate that Massimiliano Giornetti has struggled to find his footing at Salvatore Ferragamo, but his Spring collection was so overwhelmingly pleasing, so supremely luxurious and so accessible, that it may just be the apotheosis of everything that Salvatore Ferragamo stands for historically in palpable actuality today.


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Steinbeis Transfer Center
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- Management:
- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Petra Ohlhauser
- TQI consulting and projects
- Setting up and development of company-specific lean management systems under DIN EN ISO 9000, under DIN EN 13485 in medical technology, under DIN EN ISO 14000 in the environmental field, under VDA automotives standards, as well as QS 9000, TS 16949
- Setting up and development of key indicator systems and process measurements
- Expansion of EFQM self assessment techniques and implementation of EFQM assessor training
- Application of methods such as QFD, FMEA, SPC, TRIZ, used in product and process optimization
- Strategy planning of moderator techniques in cooperation with our customers
- TQI Akademie
- One-day seminars, seminar lasting several days, intensive courses providing qualifications as required, with university certification, internationally recognized certificates, or both
- Company-specific seminars and trainings on site
- Topics: business excellence, EFQM license courses, management systems, methods and tools, project and process management, Six Sigma, QM manager, auditor training, Basel II Rating, DGQ license course
- TQI calibration laboratory services
- Calibration of length measurement instruments, shape and surface technology
- Maintenance and calibration of length measurement instruments and measurement microscopes
- Calibration services for measurement equipment on site
- Practical course on measurement technology leading to a variety of qualifications
- Management of test tools (software)
- Consulting on organization and measurement technology issues
- IQU University Institute
- Studies in parallel to fulltime work for managers, leading to an internationally recognized academic degree, even without prior high school qualifications
- Targeted, practice-based preparation for management as part of the 3-year BBA degree
Key Areas
- The European Model for Excellence. Assessor training under license from EFQM Power for Excellence aimed at developing organizations
- Quality and environmental management systems, VDA, QS 9000, ISO/TS 16949
- Setting up, project planning and launch of integrated management systems
- Writing of management handbooks and process outlines
- Implementation of stocktaking analyses and target concepts
- Implementation of system and process audits
- Support with the implementation of projects
- TQM qualification training, officers, managers, auditors
- Product and process optimization
- Risk analysis of new products using FMEA
- Product and process optimization using DoE, TRIZ, SPC, ...
- Efficient design of business processes
- Six Sigma projects
- Executive program, green belt, black belt, master black belt, including university certificate
- Public and company-specific continuing professional development at our academy in Gosheim
- TQM qualification training: officers, managers, auditors
- DGQ courses and examination
- EFQM assessor training
- Methods and tools
- Shape and positional tolerance
- Test equipment management and measuring equipment suitability
- Company seminars
- Workshops and work groups
- Running meetings/managing conflict/outdoor training
- Staff motivation
- IQU University Certification adheres to the examination requirements of Steinbeis University Berlin for qualification courses
- Measurement technology
- Testing equipment calibration and monitoring
- Length measurement technology
- Final dimension testing
- Spectral analysis
- Materials testing and analysis
- Torque testing
Project Examples
- Consulting on the launch of a management system
- Drafting of management manuals under DIN EN ISO 9001 QS 9000, VDA 6.1, TS 16949
- Assessments according to the EFQM model
- Setting up of a management system as part of the development of a group concept in small and medium-sized companies
- Introduction of an environmental management system and implementation of environmental audits
- Fast track company seminars for FMEA, SPC, quality auditing, QS 9000, EFQM
- Six Sigma product and process improvements
- Moderation of risk analysis, value analysis and optimization of new products and processes
- Logging, administration, monitoring and calibration of test equipment
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