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Kiwi prop Nathan Cayless believes emotion and adrenalin will overcome any lack of match fitness when he resumes his international career against Australia in Auckland on Saturday.
The Parramatta skipper is the only member of the 17-strong New Zealand squad not to have taken part in the NRL playoffs.
Earlier in the season, he had been sidelined for four months with a broken arm, returning to play with only four rounds of the regular season left.
"I feel pretty good; I feel fresher after not having played much footy," he said.
"I did a lot of hard work over the last five weeks with our trainer.
I was very keen to get back into the New Zealand team.
Now that I'm in, I can't wait to get out there."
Cayless admitted that match fitness was different from general fitness.
"However, it's going to be a big occasion, and adrenaline and stuff should see me through."
Cayless, 25, made his debut for the Kiwis back in 1998, but the upcoming trans-Tasman clash at North Harbour Stadium will be a new experience for him ? and for brother Jason, 23.
The pair are coach Daniel Anderson's starting props. The brothers were together at the Eels before Jason moved to the Sydney Roosters two seasons ago and on to two grand final appearances.
Jason made his only test appearance against France during last year's Northern Hemisphere tour, which Nathan withdrew from so he could have surgery for a knee injury.
Both missed the 48-6 drubbing handed out by the Kangaroos when the teams met in Sydney three months ago.
"It's the first time ever," Nathan Cayless said.
"We didn't get a chance to do it at Parramatta.
"It's going to be a really special night.
"Mum and Dad are coming over, so it should be good."
Cayless was disappointed that two of the Kiwis' most experienced players ? halfback Stacey Jones and second rower Stephen Kearney ? would miss the match because of injury.
But it meant some the younger brigade ? like teenage halfback and test debutant Thomas Leuluai, fullback Motu Tony and second rower Joe Galuvao ? had been given chances.
Both sides feature a number of changes, with the Australians also being without two key names.
Halfback Andrew Johns is injured, while second rower Gorden Tallis has retired from representative football.
"It's probably a bit of a sign of the future for the Kangaroos," Cayless said.
"But they still have a lot of experience with guys like Shane Webcke and Darren Lockyer."
He reported confidence amongst the Kiwis that they could reverse the result of the July test, held shortly after the State of Origin series.
"The big difference is that the Aussies were coming off a tough Origin series and they were match hardened," he said.
"Most of the Aussie team had come from the New South Wales side and they (had) been in camp for six weeks, whereas the Kiwis boys got together for a week. You can't compete with that."


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For thirty years Burton has hosted the US Open in Vermont. There's a beauty to having this event set on the East coast. It adds a sense of unpredictability. It's unpredictable in the sense of the weather. Take this year for instance. At one point it was a white out blizzard, and at the very next second it was blue skies and sunny. The Open is also unpredictable because it's just that, an open event. There are riders who were in the mix today who you normally wouldn't see in the finals of a major event. An example of this is Christian Haller. When you hear his name you normally think of him as a halfpipe rider, but since it was an open event, he was able to get 9th place, and that's pretty damn impressive if you ask me.
The day started bright and early with the women's finals. 8 women were in the field battling against one of the iciest courses of the season. To preface how icy the course was let just me tell you that yesterday it was sixty degrees out, and then it snowed, then rained, and then dropped thirty degrees. So it was bullet proof. But nonetheless the girls rode well. Enni Rukajarvi has a clean switch backside 540, and we got to see it today. She's the Bjork of snowboarding, she rips and ended up in third. Kjersti Ostgaard Buaas has had a pretty sick season. She got 2nd at the X games in January, and today she got 2nd at the US Open. Not too bad. But at the end of the day it was yet again Jamie Anderson sitting at the top of the leader board. She is getting to be almost in a league of her own when it comes to women's slopestyle. Her run of cab 720 to switch backside 540 is pretty untouchable.
After the women it was onto the men. Seventeen men each took three runs through the course, and those guys should be glad they had three runs because no one was landing a damn thing. If you made it to the end of the course and didn't fall you were stoked.
Ulrik Badertscher was in the lead for most of the day with crazy double corks and a sick 50-50 to double frontflip off on the up box. It was awesome. It reminded me of watching the circus, and you could tell Ulrik thought the same thing because of the smirk on his face. But that trick could not bring him the W today, because Sebastien Toutant was on a mission. He knows exactly what he has to do to win, and today he did just that. He took serious control of the course and brought the US Open to Canada. In the end it was Seppe Smits in 3rd, Ulrik in 2nd, and Seb Toots in 1st.
Tomorrow it's the pipe finals, and heavy hitters like Kazu, Danny Davis, and Shaun White are here so make sure to check back and get the full recap from us at the 30th annual Burton US Open.
2012 US Open WOMEN'S SLOPESTYLE FINALS
1 Jamie Anderson USA
2 Kjersti ?stgaard Buaas NOR
3 Enni Rukaj?rvi FIN
4 Sina Candrian SUI
5 Shelly Gotlieb NZL
6 Joanna Dzierzawski USA
7 Jordie Karlinski USA
8 Spencer O?Brien CAN
1 Sebastien Toutant CAN
2 Ulrik Badertscher NOR
3 Seppe Smits BEL
4 Hans Mindnich USA
5 Emil Ulsletten NOR
6 Eric Willett USA
7 Eric Beauchemin USA
8 Janne Korpi FIN
9 Christian Haller SUI
10 Maxence Parrot CAN
11 Sage Kotsenburg USA
12 Robby Balharry CAN
13 Chas Guldemond USA
14 Scotty Lago USA
15 Antoine Truchon CAN
16 Ian Thorley USA
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I picked up a Martin Logan Helos 20 speaker on Amazon. Can I use this as the rear speakers in a 5.1 system and use Polks for the front L/C/R?
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Martin Logan was featuring its flagship electrostatic speakers, but also in attendance was this small, stand/bookshelf design that incorporates An AMT (Air Motion Transformer) tweeter--a technology developed by Oscar Heil in the 1970s and made popular, briefly, in a series of speakers from ESS. The demo was brief, but the sound very promising. The speakers will be available in February 2010, with models at $400 and $600 and a pair of floorstanders also are in the works. Here they were used with a pair of the currently available Dynamo 700 subwoofers (wireless, $695 each--there's also a larger $995 Dynamo 1000))
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I hope these tweeters are made better today. I state this because these tweeters seemed to malfunction in two different speaker units that I had my hands on. I do not know whether the tweeters or crossover components were at fault. When they did work I felt thay delivered a very nice high end. In the 80s, my brother had a 3 way Ess Heil air motion tower system connected to a Dynaco Pat 4 pre-amp and their St-120 power amp. Those speakers "sizzled" with the Dyanco components.


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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
And I'm Audie Cornish.
One of the most remarkable courts-martial in U.S. history begins tomorrow. Nidal Hasan goes on trial at Fort Hood in Texas. Back in 2009, Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, walked into the health clinic at that base and started shooting indiscriminately. He's charged with murdering 13 people and wounding more than 30 others.
BLOCK: The court-martial will also be remarkable because Hasan is planning to represent himself.
NPR's Daniel Zwerdling has covered the story since the shootings and he joins us now. And, Danny, why don't you set the scene, what will this court-martial be like?
DANIEL ZWERDLING, BYLINE: Nidal Hasan will be wheeled into the courtroom in a wheelchair, because during the shooting rampage a military policeman shot him and he's paralyzed from the waist down. He'll have a big bushy beard. There was a huge controversy over whether he could wear one at the trial. And he will be the man acting as his own lawyer, asking questions of the victims who he shot. And I say who he shot because he has taken credit for the shooting.
He tried to plead guilty and the military tribunal would not allow him; because under military statute, if you can potentially be executed for a crime, you can't plead guilty. So this is not going to be a court-martial about did Nidal Hasan shoot those people or not. This is really a court-martial about will he be sentenced to death or not.
BLOCK: And, Danny, listeners may remember that soon after the shooting, you - along with other reporters - revealed that officials in both the Army and the FBI had been worrying about Nidal Hasan in the months and years leading up to this shooting. Those worries were not acted on.
ZWERDLING: For years - Hasan trained and worked as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed here in Washington, D.C. for six years. And from the beginning, his supervisors said he was a bad psychiatrist, he was unprofessional. One of them tried to get rid of him. In the year leading up to Fort Hood, some of his supervisors actually sat around in meetings and discussed: Could Nidal Hasan be psychotic? And one even wondered aloud to colleagues, according to the sources I've talked to, do you think Nidal Hasan could commit fratricide? And, of course, that's when a soldier shoots a fellow soldier.
But they decided in the end, you know, it would be really valuable to have a Muslim psychiatrist in the Army, if we could just set him on the right path. And number two, some of the supervisors were worried, if we try to get rid of him, it could be a long, messy legal battle.
Meanwhile, at the FBI in the year leading up to Fort Hood, they were spying on the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. And lo and behold, this Army psychiatrist, Nidal Hasan is starting this email exchange with al-Awlaki. And some of the FBI agents thought, you know, this guy is potentially dangerous. But there was a big debate about the emails and what they meant. And the FBI eventually ruled, no, he's just doing research for a graduate degree at the military's university.
BLOCK: Well, Nidal Hasan is facing the prospect potentially of being sentenced to death. What kind of precedent is there for this kind of case?
ZWERDLING: In 2003, you might remember a soldier - a Muslim American soldier - in Kuwait threw hand grenades into tents as soldiers were sleeping and then opened fire with his rifle on them. He killed two, injured more than a dozen. He was sentenced to death in a court-martial. But for Nidal Hasan, having killed so many, wounded so many and representing himself, the experts I've talked to say they can't think of anything else like it in military judicial history.
BLOCK: And how long is the court-martial of Nidal Hasan expected to last?
ZWERDLING: There's a lot of witnesses. They expect it to take six to 12 weeks.
BLOCK: That's NPR's Daniel Zwerdling. Danny, thanks.
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Valparaiso University director of athletics Mark LaBarbera has announced that Mike Higdon has submitted his resignation as the head men's and women's golf coach at Valparaiso University effective immediately.
"We very much appreciate the effort that Mike put into building our program," LaBarbera said. "The significant improvements the teams have had over the past two years are directly attributed to his efforts. We are sad to see him leave but wish him well in his future endeavors."
Higdon was instrumental in starting the Crusader women's golf program while also reinstating the men's program for the first time since 1992. This past fall Valpo produced its first individual tournament champion on the women's side, and in just two seasons has had the men's team regularly competing in the middle of the standings at nearly every tournament in which they have competed.
"It was an honor for me to start the program and to see where it has come in just two years," Higdon said. "The program has a solid foundation and I am looking forward to following the kids as they progress and have no doubt that the teams will compete for the Horizon League title in the years to come."
Higdon has accepted the Director of Golf of the Center of Excellence at Shattuck-St. Mary's School in Faribault, Minn.
"This is a great opportunity for my career," Higdon added. "I will still be working with the same caliber of golfer, just with younger kids than on the collegiate level."
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U.S. Indicts Three Alleged Leaders Of Peruvian Terrorist Group 'Shining Path'
NEW YORK (AP) – Authorities say three leaders of the Peruvian rebel movement Shining Path have been indicted in New York on terrorism, narcotics and weapons charges.
The indictments were announced in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday.
Prosecutors say Florindo Eleuterio Flores-Hala, Victor Quispe-Palomino and Jorge Quispe-Palomino helped facilitate international narcotics trafficking to provide support for the rebels. Charges include conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Flores-Hala is in the custody of Peruvian law enforcement. The other two remain at large. It's unclear if they have lawyers.
The Shining Path movement was one of Latin America's most violent insurgencies. It was largely defeated in 1992 with the capture of its leader, Abimael Guzman.
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LITTLE ROCK A bill introduced by Republican Sen. Johnny Key would change the formula for lottery-funded scholarships.
Key's bill filed Monday would start scholarship recipients at $2,000 for their freshman year. Scholarship amounts would grow by $1,000 per year, topping out at $5,000 in a student's senior year.
Key says community college students would be eligible for the same amounts as university students.
Legislators have to rework the scholarship formula because funding levels can't sustain the current payout of $4,500 per year for university students and $2,250 for community college students.
A number of legislators have complained about the high number of students who don't sustain enough credit hours to keep their scholarships. Factoring the rate at which students lose their awards, the program can afford Key's formula.


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Both Mozilla and Google have expressed concern over Windows 8. Microsoft's next big operating system release restricts access to certain APIs and technologies browsers need - only making them available to Internet Explorer. Looking at the facts, it would seem Mozilla and Google have a solid case - coincidentally, the responses on the web are proof of the slippery slope we're on regarding ownership over our own machines.
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Disturbance of the majority's unanimity had a striking effect. In this experiment the subject was given the support of a truthful partner - either another individual who did not know of the pre-arranged agreement among the rest of the group, or a person who was instructed to give correct answers throughout. The presence of a supporting partner depleted the majority of much of its power. Its pressure on the dissenting individual was reduced to one fourth: that is, subjects answered incorrectly only one fourth as often as under the pressure of a unanimous majority. The weakest persons did not yield as readily. Most interesting were the reactions to the partner. Generally the feeling toward him was one of warmth and closeness; he was credited with inspiring confidence. However, the subjects repudiated the suggestion that the partner decided them to be independent.Was the partner's effect a consequence of his dissent, or was it related to his accuracy? We now introduced into the experimental group a person who was instructed to dissent from the majority but also to disagree with the subject. In some experiments the majority was always to choose the worst of the comparison lines and the instructed dissenter to pick the line that was closer to the length of the standard one; in others the majority was consistently intermediate and the dissenter most in error. In this manner we were able to study the relative influence of "compromising" and "extremist" dissenters.Again the results are clear. When a moderate dissenter is present, the effect of the majority on the subject decreases by approximately one third, and extremes of yielding disappear. Moreover, most of the errors the subjects do make are moderate, rather than flagrant. In short, the dissenter largely controls the choice of errors. To this extent the subjects broke away from the majority even while bending to it.On the other hand, when the dissenter always chose the line that was more flagrantly different from the standard, the results were of quite a different kind. The extremist dissenter produced a remarkable freeing of the subjects; their errors dropped to only 9 per cent. Furthermore, all the errors were of the moderate variety. We were able to conclude that dissent per se increased independence and moderated the errors that occurred, and that the direction of dissent exerted consistent effects.
screwtape highlights the relevant issues, in my mind, namely how to use this to our advantage without being hindered by the same effect.
Unfortunately, given the "independent" nature of most atheists, I'm concerned that the effect working against us is much more likely to occur.
Not sure what you mean by this, Red. There are a number of "effects" teased out by this set of experiments. Naturally, of course, I think we ARE being hindered by the "peer pressure" effect of the main experiment.
The effect I think we need to examine for potential usage ourselves is the assymmetry between the number it takes to create the peer pressure and the number it takes to break it. If the concern is about our own unity being broken by dissenters, though I think that is a valid concern, that's not really anything this set of experiments deals with, because the key point is that the answer given by the group is clearly wrong. Not arguable. Wrong. So while the effect of dissenters among us may be one that is a potentially serious one, since I don't think that anything that any atheists are proposed is out and out easily observable as blatantly incorrect, it's wrong to characterize such a situation as being the "same" effect.
Red, keeping in mind my caveats above, I think this actually suggests a new viewpoint. Yes, atheists are often, by nature, independent. However, if we put rationality first and unity first, simply as an intentional effort to overcome our nature which inhibits us from achieving greater success, we may be able to purvey this type of coldly rational perspective. I think the atheist community could be driven in that direction. Yes, my nature may be to be independent, but it is also in my nature to be rational. Rational, given a common framework, ought to lead all in the same direction. If it doesn't, then it's not really rational, is it? We could decide to make independence our "streak" and rationality our "nature", instead of the other way around. If we can observe from these experiments the value of unity, and we embrace rationality as our framework, we can intentionally overcome our irrational and self-destructive attachment to "independence" in favor of rationality.
Like I said, rationality isn't really independence at all.
What might we be able to do to foster a greater emphasis on unity over independence, given the value of rationality?
I'd like to think that we could and would, but while there are a good number of atheists in the US, I'm beginning to question how many of them are actually rational. If we weed out the irrational atheists, I'm afraid we may not have many people left.
Many theists would not be swayed by an atheist "partner". However, the opinion of moderates, deconvertees and agnostic theists might have more value to them. If those groups are influenced by "partner", then perhaps they can then influence some of those in the group above them (in terms of faithfulness or certainty) - at least to sympathising or moderating their own views, tempering it with a dash of rationality. In other words, it might bring more and more people to the fence.
Many theists would not be swayed by an atheist "partner".


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Just a couple of days to Lakme Fashion week and the entire fashion industry is celebrating diversity in beauty, talent and artistes. Without pausing the beat, BlabberCat chats up with Petr Nitka from Czech Republic, the first gender neutral model walking the much sacred runway.
Petr Nitka, for Lakmé Fashion Week S/R'17
First, congratulations to you for making it this far. But why India and what brought you all the way here?
Thank you so much. You know, modeling in Europe, Australia or in the US is good. But I don't feel only like a model. I need to change things in a positive way and do something for people. I am coming to India as a first gender neutral model ever and I wish that can change the way how people in India see people with different sexuality.
You're well-travelled and have had some very interesting experiences; which city do you think has the most exciting fashion scene?
Every place is different. But I need to say that South Africa really surprised me. Fashion there is amazing because of designers who are trying to make their fashion unique. I was making a fashion video for designer Roman Handt in Johannesburg and his clothes are really amazing and unisexual.
What are the pros and cons of being a gender-neutral model?
I see only advantages. I don't want to see anything else. I am so happy I can be gender neutral model. I am really positive person and don't want to change anything in my life.
How are you preparing for the big runway which is almost a week from now?
I am learning about Indian fashion and designers which are my favourite. I think this is going to be the biggest event I have ever attended. I am thrilled about it.
Who is your favourite model and why?
Wang Deshun and Carmen Dell'Orefice. And why? It's simple. Because they are breaking stereotypes as well. He is 84 and Carmen 80. But they are better than young models. They are so inspiring for us.
We earlier interview Anjali Lama, the first transgender model walking for LFW and this time we are interacting with you; do you think this is the future of fashion and beauty? And even the mass will start identifying beauty in diversified ways?
I don't know but I think this only shows that in fashion everything is possible. In fashion, you can be who you want and who you really are. I am so happy that India is starting to be so tolerant now. And I can say that India is now the great example for the rest of the world.
Do you have anything planned right after LFW?
I want to do the same. Breaking stereotypes in countries where being different is illegal. Where you can be arrested for being gay or transsexual. Countries where a woman are nothing. It's time to destroy all hate in the world.
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"Metaphors 2011/2014" Prashant Verma Spring Summer 2016 To allow yourself to be vulnerable and open to everything that comes your way in life. To allow the changes, to accept the winding road, to not think but be and to let our guardsdown, live, and breathe freely. To allow yourself to be vulnerable and to live without shunning out the unprecedented in life are the highest forms of courage.
The diffusion range of traditional embroidery and fabrics for today's multi-faceted woman has been broken into five categories: Vintage, Glam, Traditional, Bohemian and Sculpt. The clothes have zardozi details, floral embellishments and embroidery. The designer also uses Indian temple motifs. BlabberCat unveils, for the first time, Mesmerise who marked their foothold in the ethnic wear boutiques being the most hot-selling during festive season.
enSoie, a premium international fashion label, marks its entry in India through Kolkata. Started in Zurich, enSoie became an iconic brand across the world and succeeded at the global market through their signature scarves, foulards, ceramics and jewellery. enSoie's philosophy of fashion is reflected through decades of textile art that remains one-of-its-kind till today.
The phrase 'A good match' has changed drastically from old romance novels to new age business magazines. While economists are happy with more women entering the work force, and even though our society is evolving in stereotyped gender roles, it's too unfair and relatively new to generalise such data. To start the New Year on a a strong and powerful note, we select four power couples in Kolkata, each pair has a different power-packed story that unfolds their tale of love, connection and balance . BlabberCat and Pomegranate present to you 2015's top four 'Power Pair' of the year.
While every industry has its ups and downs, fashion is the only industry that is up even when it's down. Designers don't stop designing, people won't stop wearing clothes, the idea of looking new will not stop reocurring our minds. Even if an individual is not directly related to this industry, the curiosity of the vast glamourous art world bedazzles everyone. Reading real life stories of how certain labels became a global superpower or what a designer's journey has been like or how your dream bag is made, is the most satisfying dream come true. For those who live for fashion probably do understand the rewarding feeling one experiences when hearing it from the horse's mouth. It's emotional and magical at the same time.
Inbox (57), Instagram DM (31), Snapchat (20) – just helpless queries on how to become a fashionista. The primary reason that drove me to write this article was how impressive it was that they just didn't want to look pretty; they wanted to enrich and practice their fashion knowledge. Gone are the days when a girl would put together leggings and a long top for a movie and dinner. They all have stars raining from their eyes with so many fashion blogs floating our news feed and magazine covers just keep getting quirkier – Astha Modi
Leading and trending fashion designer Abhishek Gupta unveiled his flagship store in the capital. The launch was celebrated with guests enjoying cocktails and canapés. Abhishek's flagship store embodies his approach in creating signature styles that are contemporary yet deeply rooted in Indian craft. Painted in a deep charcoal tone with an overlay of gold foil detailing, geometric patterns in varying scale across mediums gives a modern and edgy vibe to the store.
Many well known Chinese celebrities from Fan Bingbing who wore a tea-length Georges Chakral Fall 2015 Couture gown in a private dinner to Nicholas Tse wore blue/grey jacquard camouflage print suit and navy knitwear at the Paris Fashion Week. Tortoiseshell shades, gorgeous deep red brogues and slick side swept hair was the most talked about statement.
The stage is set for H&M's sixth store opening in India! The international retailer, known for fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way, opened today at North Country Mall on Saturday, 28 May 2016, at 11 AM.
"Let the world be fascinated you" is the message Coral has for all style addicts in town and Vibha Kejriwal's message to her potential shopaholics is "It's a new era in fashion, there are no rules".
Designers Kanav Sood & Ashima Kumar curate a customised shopping experience for the fashion lovers who like their picks exquisite and definite. Show Shaa is a premium design house that caters to the demand of distinguish aesthetics of a design centric shopper. They design and curate lifestyle products that are timeless and hand-crafted jewellery besides their popular chic and glamorous apparel range. BlabberCat spoke to Kanav Sood and got an insight into their shining ba– Show Shaa.
Its day 8 of #21daysofstyle – Sunny Sunday and our style pick has to be dedicated to Shivan & Narresh for the irresistible swim and resort wear.
BlabberCat reviews the 'Tropical' edition of Sugar Box
The story of Bodh reminds us of the 7 fundamentals of design taught by the Zen philosophy of Buddhism. We style 7 looks representing each Zen teaching.
Breaking #BeautyBarriers by BlabberCat, in association with Ommyra, is a social media campaign to break the stereotype of beauty.
I want to ask my male readers a question today… have you ever, as a kid, been told "don't cry like a girl, you're a brave boy"? As a father, how many times have you told your daughter to wear something more conservative but never told your son to not take any girl's clothing as provocative?
Shoppers can now do a little jump because this news is going to make your day!
The world of Titan, Helios and BlabberCat invited city influencers to remember the most loved instrument of time. Celebrating the Park Street stories legacy of almost three decades, we render a heart-touching story of how priceless time and memories are.
Gucci 2018 - What they plan, what they've announced and their new look book.
Coloroso is a visionary in terms of spinning the weave and churning out new looks in traditional craft. The scintillatingly iconic brand is reputed for consistency in quality, aesthetics and now we are re-telling their story.
The mega launch of Avama Jeweller's latest collection retains the integrity and soul of Indian traditions and art forms while making it as versatile as possible so it can be appreciated even in global platforms. Contemporary in approach and classic at its core, every collection is intricate, versatile and wearable.
One of the highlights of December, other than preparing for the holidays and drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows, is the arrival of the Pantone colour of the year. 'Ultra Violet' is the colour of 2018.
The Open envelope is all about dropping your guards and living like a free soul.
With great love comes great power and with great power comes greater love. In collaboration with Rohita Jewellers, we invited strong beautiful women who appreciate and support each other. This Valentines' Day #BlingismyKing !
BlabberCat pays tribute to the Queen on her 92nd Birthday.
Fast fashion companies like Zara and H&M have built multi-billion-dollar businesses reproducing the latest fashion week creations for a fraction of their original price. And copying exists among luxury brands too. In the past few years, companies including Saint Laurent have faced lawsuits. BlabberCat compiled a list of some of the most infamous fashion brand's legal fights.
Have you ever picked up a perfect white shirt you want to wear for your meeting coming week at a luxe fashion store but then spotted a little grey stain at the back sleeve? Imagine you might be doing the same without realising it! Many times when you see a salesgirl giving you a dirty look its probably because you're doing something unethical and not because she rather be texting than helping you. Team BlabberCat spoke to various boutiques, designers and lifestyle stores to list 10 shopping etiquettes we all must follow.
In the ancient city of Arles, is the Promenade Des Alyscamps— a resting place for notable citizens sent to be buried in the prestigious Roman cemetery. This was the setting for the #GucciCruise19 Fashion Show by Alessandro Michele, which took place on May 30th 2018. Flames and fire divided the runway which featured candles burning on iron candelabras.
BlabberCat's purrrrfect way to wear sarees like any other outfit for work and for fun. Ritu Kumar's new summer saree story talks traditions and narrates new twists and turns. We chose the same saree in two different colours and wore it in two completely different styles.
BlabberCat is giving a makeover to the city's fashion.
It has started already. After a low shopping month, people have started shopping finally. It's less warmer and people have now realised more than half a month has gone by. We are strategising the big fat fashion exhibition Nouveaau and telling the story of two other luxury brands. After receiving the list of designers participating people really don't have an excuse to be badly dressed in this city. It's not a festive collection, so one can expect pret and summer wear.
LABEL Ritu Kumar's 'vintage sportswear', at Lakme Fashion Week Mumbai, garnered a long lasting admiration and created quite a stellar impact on wish lists for wardrobe fundamentals
Let the summer bridal dream come true as the star of stars brings the tropical country alive with his 'Elements'. Couturier to camera, Manish Malhotra opened Lakmé Fashion WeekSummer/Resort 2016with 'ELEMENTS' – his Spring/Summer 2016 Haute Couture collection, presented LYF Smartphones, at Mehboob Studio in Mumbai.
With these on-trend items, your home can be as stylish as the Fashion Week runway. Floral abounded or paintings come alive, animals being more human or a circus going on in our lives.
MADHUMALATI – the word itself inspires so many stories, characters that paints a scenic picture of sufi literature. Written in the 16th century, Madhumalati Mir Sayyid Manjhan Shatter Rajgir, is still the highlight of sufism. It is also the name of a flower, commonly found in Bengal and that's why, maybe, this collection Anupama Dayal has stunned everyone, especially those who's lives have been coloured and fragranced these delicate summer blossoms. Dainty pink flowers on surprisingly sturdy vines…all over the Northern plains. The fragrance. Pure seduction.
Nouveaau 2018 July edition showcases a contemporary and smart formal collection of national level designers under one roof. A biannual fashion popup, comes with a whole new energy and style inspiration this time and we partner with them for online media marketing.
Nouveaau is one of Kolkata's oldest fashion exhibition that celebrates national and international designers under one roof. We had created a lookbook with our top picks and out of popular demand we are showcasing more looks from the hot-seller labels.


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New Gallery Exhibit Features Augustana Alumnus
Drawings, graphic design and installation come alive in "A Kiel Mutschelknaus Retrospective: The Early Years," a new exhibit featuring works by Kiel Mutschelknaus, a 2007 alumnus, at Augustana's Eide/Dalrymple Gallery.
'Awake in Me' to Premiere at Augustana Jan. 13
The newest play by Augustana's Dr. Ivan Fuller follows a less-than-objective newsman, a passionate (and dead) poet and a sister who wants to bury the past. This haunting romantic tragedy, inspired by the life and work of Soviet Poet Olga Berggolts, runs January 13-16.
Augustana Currently Sixth in Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings
Behind a record-setting men's cross country season, historic football run and strong finishes in other fall sports, Augustana is the only school in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) to be ranked in the top 25.
Sesquicentennial Tour to Norway Planned for June 2011
In honor of its 150th anniversary, Augustana is organizing a trip to Norway for alumni and friends. The trip is planned for June 2-12, 2011. Reservations must be made by Jan. 28, 2011.
Vikings Finish 2010 Ranked No. 6, Tied for Highest in School History
Augustana's No. 6 slot in the final American Football Coaches Association poll ties the Vikings for their highest ranking in school history. Augustana finished the 2010 season 11-2 and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals
New Report Names Augustana Among '25 That Stand Out'
In a new report by the Sioux Falls Business Journal, Augustana College is listed among 25 local businesses that stand out. The report outlines how the College's efforts to develop relationships with area businesses translates to internship and career opportunities for students.
Augustana Choir to Perform Five Concerts on Midwest Tour
The Augustana Choir, whose 'Song of Luke' performance will be featured on South Dakota Public Television on Dec. 24 and 25, will perform concerts in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota during its 2011 Interim Tour.
Farewell Concert to Precede Band's Egyptian Tour
Before they depart on a five-concert, 20-day tour of Egypt, members of the internationally-renowned Augustana Band will perform a special farewell concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 7, at the Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center.
Aldrich Named Finalist for Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year
Following Augustana's best football season in school history, Vikings head coach Mike Aldrich has been named one of five Division II finalists for the 2010 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award.
Wright Discusses Economic Challenges
America is "Dying by Degrees" thanks to economic FUBARs in healthcare, Social Security and construction, according to Dr. Robert Wright, Nef Family chair of Political Economy at Augustana and director of the new Thomas Willing Institute for the Study of Financial Markets, Institutions, and Regulations.


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Country-songwriter Jo Dee Messina will bring her new album, "Me," to the Rollins Center at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino on Sept. 5.
Country-songwriter Jo Dee Messina will bring her new album, "Me," to the Rollins Center at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino on Sept. 5.
The multi-platinum performer raised more than $100,000 to record the album, which was crowd-funded via Kickstarter.com.
The new album, released in March, is Messina's fifth LP. "Me" includes the singles "Peace Sign" and "A Women's Rant." The latter is a comical tune in which Messina's sings the blues about juggling her duties as a mother and entertainer.
"Me" is the first LP Messina has dropped since her 2005 project "Delicious Surprise." Messina's new album is also her first record to be released on her newly formed Dreambound Records. Prior to "Me," Messina was signed to Curb Records, the only label she had worked on.
Messina recently spoke with The Dover Post about a song on her album that's receiving more support than she expected, why her relationship with Curb Records went awry, and more.
Q How does it feel to have a new LP out, after nearly a decade-long drought?
A It's exciting for me. I recorded songs for years and years, and they're sitting on the shelf at some record label here in [Tennessee] that was too afraid to make a decision and say "We like this or we don't like this." They were just like "Uh, we don't know." It's almost like they were scared and they didn't make any decision at all. They just have piles of my music in the closet somewhere. So to actually be able to write something, record something that you're passionate about and have it released is awesome.
Q The label you're referring to is Curb, correct?
A Yes. That's the only label I had been signed to.
Q On your new label, you managed to raise more than $100,000 for new album. How exciting was that?
A It was a stressful time going to the Kickstarter thing. I think the hardest thing about that was people didn't know what it was … The average country fan didn't understand what it was at the beginning. So they were like, "What's she doing asking for money?" What they didn't understand was for every pledge level when you became a backer, you'd get rewards and prizes sent to you.
Q One of the most unique reward incentives you offered through Kickstarter was the opportunity for fans to enjoy a dinner cooked by you and your husband. What was that experience like?
A We didn't do it. It was either that or perform in someone's backyard. Most people wanted us to come and perform. So we didn't have to cook for anybody [laughs].
Q That was still a unique incentive. How did that idea to cook for a fan come about?
A My husband is a crazy-good cook, so it was just something I posted about online a lot. On my Facebook, you'll see my husband grows a garden. My hardcore fans knew that he was a good cook, so I was like, "Let's do that."
Q Is there a song on "Me" that's getting a stronger response than what you originally expected?
A I know the album cut of "Love On a Maybe" gets more response than I thought it would. As far as live, I can't really tell. We have so much fun on stage. That energy usually spills off the stage and into the audience, and we've just had a great response for the album all across the board. Fans have been awesome.
Q Why has the response for "Love On a Maybe" caught you off guard?
A When people hear the album, and mostly men, they lean toward that sound melodically, I guess, because it catches their ear. It's a little bit of a surprise because I thought [each song] was equal. They all have their own niche to them, so it was interesting to see that they were all learning toward that one.
Q After you made "A Woman's Rant," did your husband make you breakfast in bed the next day?
A No. As a matter of fact today, specifically, I got up early. I went for a run. I got the kids out of bed and he was still sleeping.
Q Dis the song have any impact on him?
A No. My husband is really pretty mellow. I could light a firecracker under his pillow and he probably wouldn't be phased by it.
Q So it's inevitable we're going to hear "A Women's Rant Part 2" at some point?
A Maybe [laughs].
WHAT Jo Dee Messina in concert
WHEN 9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 5
WHERE Dover Downs Hotel & Casino, 1131 North DuPont Highway, Dover
INFO Visit doverdowns.com or call (800) 711-5882


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Promotional photo of Barbra Streisand for "My Name Is Barbra" in 1964
Photo: CBS Photo Archive
Barbra Streisand: The Way She Is, Part One
Barbra Streisand will be honored as the 2011 MusiCares Person of the Year on Feb. 11 at a special tribute performance and dinner in Los Angeles, recognizing her accomplishments as an artist and humanitarian. MusiCares' mission is to ensure that music people have a compassionate place to turn in times of need while focusing the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community. Watch Person of the Year arrivals and other highlights Friday, Feb. 11 at GRAMMY Live.
Barbra Streisand has a history of making a big splash her first time out.
She received a Tony nomination for her first Broadway show, "I Can Get It For You Wholesale." She won two GRAMMYs, including Album Of The Year for her first LP, The Barbra Streisand Album. She won an Emmy for her first TV special, "My Name Is Barbra." She won an Academy Award for her first movie, Funny Girl.
And she did all that before her 27th birthday.
Fortunately for all of us, Streisand didn't rest on her laurels. She kept going, and kept adding to her list of firsts. She won another Oscar for the first song she composed for a movie, "Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)." She won two Golden Globes for the first film she directed, Yentl.
At last count, Streisand has won eight GRAMMYs, four Emmys, two Oscars, and a special Tony. She has received (to name a few) the GRAMMY Legend Award, the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, and France's Legion d'honneur.
Streisand has made a big impact on both movies and music. She's one of only two artists to have received both a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute and a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. The other? Fred Astaire.
In both of these fields, Streisand has shown exceptional versatility. She has starred in musicals, comedies and dramas. Her hit songs range from the timeless "People" (one of the classiest signature songs associated with any performer) to the trendy disco romp "The Main Event/Fight." She has received GRAMMY nominations in the Pop, Traditional Pop and Classical Fields (the latter for her 1976 album Classical Barbra).
Streisand has been the first female to achieve many feats. With "Evergreen" in 1976, she became the first female composer to win an Academy Award for best song. With Yentl in 1983, she became the first woman to produce, direct, write, and star in a major motion picture.
Streisand has long been a GRAMMY record setter. She was just 22 when The Barbra Streisand Album was named Album Of The Year, which made her the youngest winner in that category (a distinction she held for more than three decades). Streisand has amassed six nominations for Album Of The Year and five for Record Of The Year. In both cases, that's more than any other female artist in history.
Streisand's philanthropic activities are just as impressive. She founded the Streisand Foundation in 1986 and has since gifted it with nearly $25 million. The foundation has made nearly 1,000 grants to nonprofit organizations that focus on protecting the environment, advocating for civil rights, promoting democratic values, advancing world peace, educating at-risk children, and providing funds for research and education in the field of women's health.
Recent gifts include $5 million to endow the Barbra Streisand Women's Cardiovascular Research and Education Program at Cedars-Sinai's Women's Heart Center, and the lead gift of $1 million to establish the William J. Clinton Foundation's Clinton Climate Initiative.
Streisand and actor James Brolin were married in July 1998. Streisand also has a son, Jason Gould, from her first marriage to Elliott Gould.
Streisand has been especially busy in the last couple of years. Her book, My Passion For Design, combining reflections on her life with her love of design and architecture, was published by Viking on Nov. 16, 2010. Her 18th movie as an actress, Little Fockers, was released on Dec. 22.
And this year, her latest studio album, Love Is The Answer, is nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. It's her eighth nomination in that category, and her 41st overall.
I did a little research, and you and Fred Astaire are the only two artists to receive both the Life Achievement Award from the AFI and The Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
You're kidding. I love that. I admired him so. I didn't know that.
Did you ever meet him?
I did. I actually have a picture with him somewhere. It was taken at some awards ceremony that we were both at.
You have a track record of making a big impact your first time out. Is the initial challenge what drives you? To prove to yourself that you can do something, more than to do it over and over?
That becomes boring to me, like singing the same songs over and over. It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified. What's that famous saying about how one's reach should exceed one's grasp?
From the start, you had a defiant streak. You didn't want to sing standards in your early nightclub appearances or have guest stars on your TV specials.
People would say, "Well, she should shorten her nose" or "Change her name to something simpler." I didn't know the rules, so I just did what I thought was right.
Is a certain amount of defiance part of being a great artist?
I would think so. I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way. It would be defying who you are in a sense. So I always questioned everything that I saw. I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things. Once, I wanted to play Juliet and I had a total concept for her that was what I thought would be right for a 14-year-old girl, but I was so embarrassed that it wouldn't be good. You see, it's the combination of the doubt and the confidence.
How do you mean?
You can't have one without the other. It's not just confidence. It's enormous insecurity as well. It's the combination of the insecurity and the confidence that I think maybe makes someone special.
In the '60s, you stood apart from the contemporary pop/rock scene. Did you want to be on pop radio and be part of the contemporary scene? I know the record company wanted it, but did you want it too?
Well, I didn't care about it. I did my thing and the Beatles did their thing. I was listening to Johnny Mathis when rock and roll started. I thought he was the bee's knees. That's what I love about the GRAMMYs and the music industry. People can respect other performers. There's not as much jealousy, put it that way, as in the movie business. In the movie business they say, "Oh, I could have played that role." In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive. Anyway, it wasn't like I needed to be in rock and roll. I was pushed into doing certain songs like "Stoney End." Or remember that song "Woman In Love" [from Guilty]? I think it was my biggest single and I never performed it live.
I never agreed with the philosophy — that "I am a woman in love and I'll do anything for my man" kind of thing. I felt funny. It was fine on a record, but I didn't want to perform this song [in concert].
How do you feel about your hits from the '70s and '80s now? Are you glad you recorded them or do you wish you'd said no a little more often and stayed with the music you know best, and I think like best?
It was interesting to try. That's why I wanted to do the classical album, because I love classical music. So I thought, "Let me try this." As a matter of fact, I had written on the album cover, "It's a work in progress," but the record company didn't want me to say that. They said, "Don't apologize for it." I always felt that I could have made it better, but I had to release it at the time. But I don't regret things I did. No.
It sounds like you're glad you made those records when you made them and you're glad you came back to traditional pop when you did.
When Just For The Record… came out in 1991, it looked like kind of a career capstone. Since then, you've recorded six more studio albums. Did you expect to stay this active after the box set?
Oh yeah, sure. I love recording. I love anything private. I love the privacy of just me and the music. Not performing, not in front of anybody. Not waiting for applause. I don't like performing very much.
That's surprising because you've toured so much in the last 17 years.
I didn't sing and charge for more than 20 years until I went back in 1993. And even then, I wouldn't commit to a tour until I saw how I liked it.
How did you like it?
Um, I liked it, sort of. Not enough to do what my friend Diana Krall does and play 300 days out of the year. I don't enjoy it like that. The most I could do was 24 shows [per tour]. The last tour was great, the European tour, because I was buying things for my house. I sang every five or six days so I could shop. It was a flea market tour.
I had assumed that you had come to enjoy performing live, but I'm starting to think that a key reason for all the touring you've done since 1993 is to fund your charity work.
That's the key reason. In order to do really good things in the world and give away money that will support organizations that I believe in, you have to raise a lot of money. [Because of taxes,] in order for me to be able to give $5 million to start the Women's Cardiovascular Research and Education Program at Cedars-Sinai, I have to earn $10 million.
Some people reading this may wonder why you specified women's cardiovascular research and education. Do you want to explain that?
Yeah. We're 50 years behind in research because there was no research done on women. The research was done on men. Men and women are very different in terms of their hearts. They have different symptoms, even. Where you may think of heart disease as a man's disease, now more women than men die of heart disease. More women die of heart disease than all cancers combined. Isn't that amazing? So we want to educate women in terms of talking to their doctors; understanding the warning signs. I'm going to make a PSA about this.
What led you to set up your foundation in 1986?
That was about Chernobyl and the fire they couldn't put out. It really scared me as to how fragile the planet is, and the radioactivity going in the air and getting into the soil. Climate change started to interest me. I was for nuclear disarmament. That's when I decided to start my foundation and give away the proceeds from that concert [One Voice].
In a 1995 speech at Harvard, you explained your feelings about the rights and obligations of artists to participate in the political process. I understand how it's an artist's right, but what did you mean when you said "obligation"?
It's just that we have a big responsibility because people look to celebrities and sort of take to heart what they say. So they have to be informed. They have to read. They have to do research.
Have you ever worried about a backlash if you were too outspoken?
No, I never did, obviously. Because if I did, I wouldn't say so many things. I don't think that way. I don't care. If some people don't buy my records because they don't like my politics, so be it.
After Sept. 11, you had a post on your website that you were going to refrain from criticizing President Bush.
That wasn't the time. It's like going and meeting George [W.] Bush at the Kennedy Center Honors [in December 2008]. People were waiting to see us come together, and I said, "This night, art transcends politics." So you have to approach it differently. That wouldn't have been the proper or appropriate time to blast him for going into the Iraq war. There's a time and a place for things.
In the '90s, there was talk in the media about Sen. Streisand….
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(Paul Grein is a veteran music journalist who writes the weekly Chart Watch blog for Yahoo.com. He has written extensively about music for Billboard and the Los Angeles Times. He has covered the GRAMMYs since the late '70s. He attended the show for the first time in 1977 and still remembers the sense of excitement in the Hollywood Palladium when Barbra Streisand stepped onstage to present the award for Record Of The Year.)


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Manchester settles with federal civil rights agency over minority students in advanced coursesBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 15. 2014 11:45PM
MANCHESTER — The school board has largely welcomed a settlement with a federal civil rights agency aimed at increasing the number of minority students in advanced high school courses, while minority groups applauded the district for acknowledging what they say is a persistent problem.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced the agreement last week, the culmination of a review that began three years ago. A report released by the agency found that black, Latino and English-learning students were disproportionately under-enrolled in the district's Advanced Placement (AP) courses.
"I'm happy to finally see that you are taking steps to solve this," Eva Castillo, the organizer for the New Hampshire Immigrant Project, told the school board during the public comment period at Monday's meeting.
"I'm happy to help, and the Granite State Organizing Project is also happy to help," Castillo added, referring to the group that has advocated for minority youth in the city. Castillo is the group's president.
Castillo was among several representatives of minority groups, including the head of the local NAACP, who spoke about the issue during the public comment period.
Superintendent Debra Livingston told the board that under the agreement with the OCR, the district would be collecting data and taking specific steps to reach out to minority students.
"They consider the case closed, but it really is only the beginning," she said, referring to the OCR. "I'm so pleased to see so many people coming forward and saying they want to be part of fixing the problem, so all students in the community can have opportunities."
The DOE report found that during the 2010-2011 school year, 26 out of the 434 seats in AP courses were held by black or Latino students. Their enrollment in city high schools was 381 and 596, respectively.
Minority leaders in recent years have raised other issues besides under-representation in AP classes. In 2010, a press conference was held to call attention to practices in the district that its organizers said led to minority students being steered away from the college track. In 2012, local members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights accused the district of tolerating the segregation of English-learning students.
A comprehensive audit of the district last year also highlighted racial disparities, in particular the lack of nonwhite teachers and administrators.
Alim Yai, a student at Manchester High School West, said families, particularly refugees and other immigrants, often don't know how to navigate high school and what comes after graduation.
"We're looking at how we can help students to graduate. Many are not graduating because they're not getting the information," she said, alluding to programs that would allow students to make up credits.
Ward 1 board member Sarah Ambrogi said the issue of staff diversity was important. "It's important that all students have mentors they can look to. One administrator is not enough for our most diverse high school," she said, referring to Central High. "We may have to look across our borders" (to find staff).
However, Ward 7 school board member Ross Terrio rejected the suggestion that racism was at work in the district.
"I feel pretty strongly about this," he said.
"My wife is Latino. She's originally from South America. She's never felt discriminated against by the Manchester School District, just the opposite. My children are of Latino descent. In fact, my daughter is in level 4 classes. She's going to be taking AP classes next year."
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles is continuing its battle over specialty auto license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian youth.
The BMV has asked an administrative law judge to review her order allowing the Indiana Youth Group to continue selling specialty license plates.
The agency suspended sale of the group's plates last year at the request of Republican state senators. Lawmakers charged the group was violating a contract provision barring the auctioning of low-number plates.
An administrative judge ruled in May that the BMV erred in immediately suspending the plate program last year without giving the group 30 days' notice.
BMV Commissioner Scott Waddell directed the administrative judge to assess the difference between "selling" and "auctioning" low-number license plates.
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CloudBerry Drive mounts your Microsoft Azure account as a network or external drive to your Windows computer. With CloudBerry Drive you can work with files in Azure storage directly from the Windows Explorer interface, the same way as if they were on your local drive.
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We have an MS Azure Storage account and we need to place a huge amount of big files. Before acquiring CloudBerry Drive it was a very painful task. Now it is as easy and fast as moving them across local drives.
CloudBerry Drive Desktop is a great product, and I ordered 50 licenses. It allowed me to quickly provision a drive on each computer for employees to access shared files stored in our Amazon S3 bucket. The software was easy enough to use that I did not have to consult any documentation to get started.
I am enjoying the product and it does what I need.
I really like the Cloudberry Drive and have found it very easy to use and access my Rackspace cloud files. It was very easy to create the required drives, upload files to them and access them when required. Highly recommended.
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My primary use case for Cludberry Drive is connecting to Amazon S3, but it has been by far the best virtual drive product for doing so both in terms of built-in functionality and it's ability to play well with other third party products.
So far the caching that the software does is less buggy than TntDrive.
We used Cloudberry Drive with Eucalyptus Walrus to emulate a web shared folder, something like Dropbox, and it worked really great. Easy to use and has a lot of storage providers.
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A disordered world devoid of U.S. leadership is not going to produce peace and prosperity.
The upwelling of support for the new pope, Francis, was about more than the Catholic Church. It reflected a felt need that what the secular world could use now, but does not have, is leadership. It is a yearning born of experience: When poorly led, the world tends toward disorder.
The one we've got just now looks to be coming under an unhealthy amount of negative pressure all at once—from the Middle East to the South China Sea to the Korean peninsula, atop a never-ending European financial crisis and a building fiscal crisis...


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Ok guys, as you all know we have a poker room here on SA that we use for tournaments. It's a very nice setup and works great; however it does costs us monthly to have it. The table we currently have is a tournament table which requires a manual setup for each time we want to play. Basically right now it's setup that a minimum of 4 people are needed to play. Again we can manually adjust that but if no one is online with that access then you either need 4 people or the table can't be used.
Now, we used to have 2 tables; one for tourneys and one for regular play. the regular play table can be used anytime with a minimum of 2 players or as many as 10 and it doesn't require any manual adjustment. You just sit down with your friends and play anytime you want. We were thinking of bringing that setup back because everyone enjoys playing poker so much but right now the table we have only gets used once a month so it's not very cost effective however I don't mind paying that monthly fee because it's not too much and because so many of you all enjoy playing. The reason we got rid of the 2nd table was because it was getting to be costly and it wasn't being used as much to make it worth our while. So we got rid of the tourney table and kept the regular table but then it wasn't working properly for tourney's so we were out of luck, between a rock and hard place if you will.
We would like to bring back that 2 table setup again (one for tourneys like we have now, and one for regular play) but we need to know what the interest is and make sure everyone is still up for playing. The only problem is that 2 tables is more money each month. Our donations to the site obviously slow down during the offseason and that's understandable; it's always been that way. If we are going to bring back the 2nd table and increase our monthly operating costs then we'd like to get a feel for the interest in the regular table and how much you think you'd play. Please use the poll above to let us know and of course you can post up here with any questions as well.
Thanks!!! oh and please don't misinterpret this thread as SA begging for money; we aren't like "other" sites but we do appreciate when donations are made to help us with the costs. This thread is mainly to make sure the interest is there for the 2nd table to make sure it will used on a regular basis. We're also not trying to make you feel you have to play all the time; again just checking the interest is all. We want you to have the best place on the net to hang out and do the stuff you like to do as much as possible.


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August 2014 Clinicians associated with the Veterans Administration looked more favorably upon contingency management after attending training workshops on the use of the intervention. Despite being highly effective at decreasing drug use, contingency management is one of the least used among proven substance abuse treatments.
July 2012 Ninety percent of privately funded substance abuse treatment programs in the United States offer cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)...
July 2011 Describes results from a nationwide survey among correctional facilities on the use of opioid replacement therapy for people who are addicted to heroin.
July 2011
Highlights a free service that provides primary care clinicians with advice from experts in addiction medicine on addressing substance abuse with patients in the primary care setting.
December 2010 Reports on an evaluation of the Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) program to assess its effectiveness in improving knowledge, confidence, and preparedness to diagnose, manage, and teach about substance abuse.
October 2010 Describes an eight-module web-based curricula that introduces addition research to graduate students of nursing, dentistry, and medicine.
April 2010 Describes a book and online tutorial for young investigators of addiction science that provides tips for publishing their studies in scholarly journals.
April 2010 Describes a toolkit that guides doctors in assessing a patient's risk of developing an addiction problem, advising patients on the effects of substance abuse, and arranging for referrals.
December 2009 Describes the American Board of Addiction Medicine's new program offering certification to physicians in addiction medicine.
April 2009 Describes a consortium of three universities that launched a 12-month intensive online program last August that leads to a master's degree in addiction studies.


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The former Manchester United keeper was the visitors' star player, keeping a clean sheet and saving a Steven Gerrard penalty before Gareth McAuley and Romelu Lukaku hit late goals.
Albion had not won a game in 2013, despite putting in some good performances, and the 29-year-old shot-stopper believes that the result was a great way to end their poor run of form and could prove to be a turning point in their season.
|West Bromwich Albion are 4/7 with BetVictor to finish as the Premier League's top Midlands club
"We're just taking it one game at a time but we're obviously pleased with tonight at Anfield. It's great to be back up above Liverpool; we're not really looking at other teams but, after the run we've been on, it's a great feeling.
"We needed that [win], we have been on a poor run, performances have been decent. We knew if we kept our performances up we'd always have a chance. Set-pieces we're really strong on and we knew if we could keep it tight we'd have a chance late on through them.
"I did know a little bit where Gerrard was going to go [when he took the penalty]. I had a look before the game and knew to go the left-hand side but I also went with my instincts on it. It was an important save at an important time."
Goalscorer McAuley was also delighted with the team's display but feels that the Reds' penalty given against defensive partner Jonas Olsson, should not have been awarded.
"I thought the pen was a bit harsh but he gave it but Ben saved it so that's great," the defender opined, adding: "I'm always delighted to score and it was an important goal at an important time."


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Adam Rupert and David Kadera are two handsome muscle studs who came in for a duo. In just their underwear they are laying on the bed and begin exploring each others' bodies with their tongues. They kiss and lick and then as Adam lays on his back David pulls on the waistband of Adam's undies and sticks his mouth inside to suck on his cock. Releasing the cock from the underwear we see David's mouth wrapped tight around that big cock. David loves to suck cock and he really works on Adam's, it is thick and hard as the hot lips suck on it. Adam thrusts his cock into that eager mouth, going as deep as he can. Then he loses his underwear and scoots around, with David on his knees, and starts sucking his friend stiff dick. With his own cock throbbing and bouncing up and down Adam really sucks David hard. David stands and drops the undies so Adam can suck him even better. Then David turns around and shoves his massive ass back for rimming. Adam's tongue goes right into that ass crack, lapping at the hot hole. His finger slides into that ass as well before rimming some more. David wants more though, so as Adam lays down, he sits his hot ass right down on that big, hard cock. With his hole stretched to the max by Adam's big dick David slides up and down on that pole. He takes it well and then gets onto his knees with Adam behind him. Adam's cock slides into that ass again and he starts to fuck it hard and fast. He really works that hole as David looks back at him. Moving to a spoon position the fucking continues, with David's ass spread well. He starts to wank his hard cock, as he is fucked, and soon shoots his cum. Adam continues fucking until he is ready to shoot as well. David positions his face to catch the creamy load as it squirts out of Adam's dick. Then David sucks on that big cock, to drain it completely, ending a lovely scene.
After a very good wrestling match Mattias Solich has more planned for his handsome opponent Vasek Konik. As they stand at the end of the match Mattias leans forward and begins to kiss on Vasek's hot body. He drops to his knees and takes Vasek's cock in his mouth. Sucking on that big cock Mattias works it well and soon it gets rock hard under his expert attentions. Mattias really knows how to suck and continues to pleasure Vasek. Mattias lays on the floor with Vasek astride him, his cock poking down for more sucking. As Mattias sucks on that dick Vasek's hot, tight hole is fully exposed. Mattias is expert at sucking and changes position again, with Vasek on his back, so he can really work that cock. As he feels that cock throbbing in his mouth Mattias knows that Vasek is close, so he starts to wank him. Vasek's quickly dumps a big creamy load all over himself. Mattias then kneels and shoots his cum over his partner to finish off a great scene.
Roman Tygr lives in Cesky Krumlov. He is aged 21 and is currently unemployed. Roman enjoys arts, ice-hockey and kick-boxing. What a very handsome guy Roman is. He does his interview, sitting on a swivel chair, and then begins to run his hands over his body. Lifting his tee-shirt we see a nice, muscled torso. With one hand feeling the body and the other groping his crotch Roman looks wonderful. He removes his tee-shirt and shows off a great chest as he continues working on his crotch. Then Roman stands and drops his jeans releasing a huge, erect cock. As he sits back down on the chair Roman wanks on that gorgeous cock, keeping it nice and hard. He removes his shoes and jeans and then leans back as he wanks himself and feels his hot body. With a smile Roman scoots down in the seat and lifts his legs to show off his hot, tight ass. That hole looks very inviting as he spreads his cheeks. Then he turns around in the chair and pushes that ass back, exposing the hole again. His big cock is pushed back as well, pointing downwards as we inspect that ass. He takes his time with showing that ass, his hands pulling the cheeks wide apart so the hole is fully exposed. Then Roman turns around again and wanks that big dick until it explodes with a fountain of cum. After such a great show he goes off to clean up in the shower.
Josef Rasara is aged 20 and lives in Petrvald. He works as an operator and in his spare time Josef enjoys sports, fitness and bodybuilding. What a very handsome guy Josef is and with a lovely smile too. That smile comes naturally throughout this shoot. As he poses for the camera, fully dressed he looks great. Things get even better as Roman removes his tee-shirt to show off that awesome chest. The time in the gym has certainly worked for Josef. Opening his jeans he turns and shows off a nice, rounded ass. Then as he turns back we see his cock, flaccid and hooded. With his jeans shucked halfway down those thick thighs Josef flexes his muscles and poses with the biceps bulging. He removes the jeans and poses some more, showing off his great body. Next Josef kneels to show us his hot ass with a nice hairy crack. Sitting, Josef gets his cock rock hard for us and what a beauty it is. After a series of poses to fully show it off Josef leans back to expose his hot, tight ass hole, with the cheeks fully spread. Another great view. What a hot guy Josef is, I am sure his erotic video will be worth waiting for.


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A Mexican toddler has undergone surgery to remove a tumor that outweighed his entire body.
Jesus Rodriguez, a 26-pound 2-year-old, had a 33-pound tumor surgically removed on June 14, The Associated Press reported.
The 10-hour procedure marked the first time in Mexican history in which a tumor larger than the patient was successfully removed, according to the AP.
The toddler was born with a lump that eventually grew to cover the entire right side of his abdomen, from the armpit to the hip, according to his doctor.
Dr. Gustavo Hernandez, director of pediatrics at La Raza Medical Center in Mexico City, told the AP that Rodriguez is in recovery and doing well.


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The Barrow County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night approved a major settlement of a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a former supervisor. Following a closed session at the end of its regular meeting, the BOC voted 6-0 to approve a settlement in excess of $110,000 with Sophia "Tonie" Russell, the former manager of the county's Geographic Information Services Department.
For the full story, see the Nov. 14 issue of the Barrow Journal.
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DeKALB – Jennifer Groce was raised believing in the ideals of her great-uncle, who taught her that government is not a "them," it's an "us."
When she left Decatur for college, she wanted to study the federal government, but it wasn't until she saw the DeKalb League of Women Voters in action that she began to appreciate local government.
"They put the 'good' in good governance. They walked it," Groce said. "Getting to come in and see that, the change they had been a part of, was so inspiring."
Twenty-five years after she arrived in DeKalb, Groce is one of four candidates vying for the mayor's office in the Tuesday's election.
When Groce took the stage at a closed-door candidates' forum hosted by the DeKalb Area Renters Association in January, she described herself as the "ice rink lady."
Groce is a research associate at Northern Illinois University's Center for Governmental Studies. Before that, she was director of Re:New DeKalb when the city bought and later dismantled a synthetic ice rink that sat at the corner of First and Locust streets.
Groce said she initially thought it wouldn't work, but popular demand and the fact it was synthetic pushed her into supporting it.
"It just seemed like, boy, this is really aligning well," Groce said. "But the lesson learned is, if you don't execute something with excellence, don't do it. ... We should have looked harder at the conversations we had with the other units of government."
Groce joined Re:New DeKalb in 2003, when it was known as Main Street DeKalb. Groce says the community has benefitted from the organization's work.
In particular, she reflected on the praise the group received from members of the Illinois General Assembly for its use of tax increment financing, a special tax mechanism that local governments use to spur redevelopment in blighted areas.
In 2011, she left Re:New DeKalb for her NIU position, which she described as a tough decision, but necessary one.
"I thought they needed a different level of expertise to really guide them in that [next phase of Re:New DeKalb]," Groce said.
Collaboration was a hallmark of her work with Re:New DeKalb, and it's been a hallmark of her campaign. She has frequently called for more cooperation between the city and other agencies, such as NIU, Sycamore, the NIU police and local businesses.
Groce said cooperation would help lower some costs if they all worked toward common goals.
"It's powerful when municipalities go in together and say, 'Look, it's not just DeKalb residents going into Olive Garden. It's going to be all of us,' " Groce said. "That's a new way of thinking here."
But she said it will be hard to stop cities from competing for businesses, particularly those that generate high sales-tax revenue, such as auto dealers.
Groce said DeKalb should develop plans for sharing sales-tax revenue with competing municipalities, or rely on a regional plan for economic development, instead of trying to compete with lucrative incentive packages.
"We need to play the game smarter," Groce said.
In order to better attract businesses to DeKalb, the city should work with existing companies and governments to make sure the needs of the new company are taken care of, she said.
"Could they be a supply chain for the existing firms that are here?" Groce said. "Could they do contract development together? ... The key to business recruitment, I think, is to make sure we have an infrastructure in place."
Groce added that the inconsistency between the City Council, its staff, and its economic development commission can create an unfriendly business environment.
Collaboration can also help in the city's issues with housing, she said. In 2012, the City Council passed new housing rules meant to improve its stock of rental and owner-occupied housing.
Groce felt the DeKalb County Housing Authority and NIU could help the city's new housing bureau maximize its resources and enhance its mission to improve the housing stock.
One housing rule that has been criticized is the annual registration fee landlords must pay. Groce said she saw this as a necessary evil that will have to be reviewed, but the issue of housing will be one DeKalb will be facing for a long time.
"I am adamant that this will probably be one of those fundamental, long-term issues in DeKalb," Groce said. "Not necessarily rental. It's both rental and owner-occupied."
Despite her background and expertise in economic development and government, it was the city's public safety issues that drove her into the race. Groce said she is worried that DeKalb's crime issues are beginning to overshadow everything else.
"If we have a real or perceived crime problem, it's all for naught," Groce said. "And when you look at communities in the area, we have a growing reputation for our crime problem."
Groce wants a proactive police department, but because of a lack of resources, it has been reactive. She described the department as doing more with less.
And because of this lack of resources, the police department has not been able to enforce the law and protect residents as well as it should, she said.
"That's a testament to how thrifty we are and how dedicated our staff is," Groce said. "But as a community, we deserve and we need to expect that as a community, we aren't just getting by."
Groce said the city needs to prioritize what it wants and what it needs to provide residents. In Groce's view, some equipment upgrades in other city departments are optional. She also pointed to the DeKalb's desire for a K-9 unit, which she said can be provided by other agencies.
But she also felt the city could do some better belt-tightening with regard to the economic incentives it is offers to national chains.
"We need that revenue to provide the resources our police department needs," Groce said.


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Local and the Massachusetts Environmental Police are investigating a canoe accident on Paradise Pond this afternoon.
The accident occurred just after 3:45 p.m., in which Princeton Police received a report of a capsized canoe. Two people were in the canoe; one occupant reportedly swam to shore and the other could not be found.
The missing canoeist was later pulled from the water, CPR was performed, and he was taken to the hospital.
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Ansel A. Boland
February 21, 1927 - March 2, 2013
Ansel Boland went to glory on March 2, 2013. He is survived by Hetty, his wife of 51 years. Ansel was a husband, uncle, and friend. He was a plumber and member of the Plumbers and Pipe Fitters
Union for 39 years.
Viewing will be held at DeYoung Memorial Chapel, 601 N. California St., Stkn., Thursday, March 7th from 2-5 p.m. Services will be at West Coast World Outreach Church, 4111 West Lane,
Stockton, 95204 on Friday, 8th 2013 at 12 noon. For more info call (209) 951-1901.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed President Barack Obama's two nominees to serve on the Federal Election Commission.
By voice vote, the Senate approved Democrat Ann Ravel and Republican Lee Goodman on Monday. Goodman and Ravel will fill two vacancies at the FEC left by former Democratic commissioner Cynthia Bauerly and Republican Donald McGahn. Goodman works at a Washington law firm and Ravel chairs the California Fair Political Practices Commission.
Ellen Weintraub, the current chairwoman of the commission, congratulated their unanimous Senate confirmation on Monday.
FEC commissioners are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Goodman and Ravel are the first new FEC commissioners since Obama took office and they complete the six-member panel.
Goodman's term as commissioner runs through April 30, 2015. Ravel's term lasts through April 30, 2017.


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Chris Hemsworth will be in the new Ghostbusters movie & you'll get a kick out of his role.
The new all-female casted "Ghostbuster" movie just cast 1 of its first male characters, Thor. Chris Hemsworth will play the role of the receptionist for the ghostbuster team in the movie. The original movie's receptionist was played by Annie Potts.
Just like the rest of the cast, Feig has swapped the gender of the role, so it will be interesting to see Hemsworth, an action star, play off the female comedic talent. The scripted joked could have potential for great humor. The current cast also includes: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, & Leslie Jones.
The new Ghostbusters movie is scheduled to release on July 22, 2016.
Take a look at the movie Blackhat or another called Spy to see Chris Hemsworth in a more comedic role.
Movie production is about to start, so stay tuned for more great info about his role. Hopefully there will be some new photos of him in the new role. Are you excited to see Hemsworth in a comedic role? What do you think he will look like?
Don't forget to share this post with your friends and let them know that Thor has ditched The Avengers and is now with the Ghostbusters!
Thor is going to be in new Ghostbusters movie !
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this movie is going to tank so badly it will most likely bankrupt the studio.
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