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SS Rajamouli has roped in 33 major studios across the world to work on the post-production works of his upcoming movie Baahubali: The Conclusion on time.
The movie's chief VFX supervisor RC Kamalakannan took to social media to say this, he wrote, 'Friends, it is 15 months since taking over the reins of Baahubali - The Conclusion Visual Effects.
It's Amazing that almost all major VFX studios in our country following one pipeline, working towards one common goal. Racing towards the release, with Post production happening at more than 33 studios across the world. Opportunity to share and learn simultaneously.
Life can't be more satisfying. Thank you. 'The first part of this flick, Baahubali: The Beginning released in 2015 and went on to become a mega blockbuster at the box office.
The sequel stars Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah, Rana Daggubati and Sathyaraj among others reprising their roles once again. Baahubali: The Conclusion is expected to hit the screens on 28 April 2017.


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In Proc. 23th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, volume 7676 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 527-536. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2012.
We address the problem of creating a dictionary with the finger search property in the strict implicit model, where no information is stored between operations, except the array of elements. We show that for any implicit dictionary supporting finger searches in q(t)=Ω(log t) time, the time to move the finger to another element is Ω(q-1(log n)), where t is the rank distance between the query element and the finger. We present an optimal implicit static structure matching this lower bound. We furthermore present a near optimal implicit dynamic structure supporting search, change-finger, insert, and delete in times O(q(t)), O(q-1(log n)log n), O(log n), and O(log n), respectively, for any q(t) = Ω(log t). Finally we show that the search operation must take Ω(log n) time for the special case where the finger is always changed to the element returned by the last query.Copyright notice
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@incollection{isaac12, author = "Gerth St{\o}lting Brodal and Jesper Sindahl Nielsen and Jakob Truelsen", booktitle = "Proc. 23th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation", doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-35261-4_55", isbn = "978-3-642-35260-7", pages = "527-536", publisher = "Springer {V}erlag, Berlin", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", title = "Finger Search in the Implicit Model", volume = "7676", year = "2012" }

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Honey-Fruit Pizza
Pretty as a picture, this fresh-tasting dessert features a cookie crust, fresh fruits, and a honey glaze.
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- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. For crust, in a medium mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds. Beat in powdered sugar. Gradually add flour, beating until well mixed. Pat dough evenly into a greased 11- or 12-inch pizza pan. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
- For glaze, in a small saucepan stir together honey and cornstarch. Stir in juice and jelly. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture is thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Cool 5 minutes (do not stir).
- Spread half of the glaze onto the cooled crust. Arrange fruit over the crust. Spoon remaining glaze over fruit. Chill at least 30 minutes before serving. Makes 12 servings.
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Des Plaines Garden Club Meeting
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The business meeting starts at noon, followed by our 1pm program "Preserving the Harvest" – a presentation by Emily Paster from "West of the Loop" and founder of "Chicago Food Swap" on 5 ways to preserve the bounty of our garden harvest. This includes canning, freezing, drying and root collecting. She will have copies of her cookbooks for sale that have wonderful recipes.


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Living in Northern California has one advantage; when the weather is nice, it's really nice.
Yesterday the 15th day of January we were experiencing unusual high temperatures so Frank and I decided to go up the hill for a short ride and test our conditions and some stealth parts.
I decided to ask Frank a few questions before our climb to the top:
Needless to say that nothing beats having Mt. Diablo in our backyard since riding has become mandatory part of our work responsibilities. Having the ability to stress prototypes and production parts going up hill in big chainrings is definitely a plus. Modeling and lab experiments are never able to reproduce what happens on the road.
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In 2006, WIEGO instituted a global project on law and the informal economy with pilot programs in India and Columbia. The project's objectives were to deepen our understanding of how law – or the absence of legislation – affects informal workers, and to build the capacity of women informal worker leaders to engage in advocacy and negotiation for legal change. After pilots in India and Colombia, we worked with membership-based organizations of informal women workers in Ghana, Peru and Thailand between 2010 and 2013, and in India and South Africa in 2014. In October 2015, WIEGO established a dedicated Law Programme, which builds on the work completed under the law project. Access the wealth of resources – including country reports and legal instruments – that were accumulated by the law project here.
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The Aroma Wrap is a luxury hot/cold neck wrap is the very finest neck wrap ever created! From the moment you take it out of the box, prepare to fall in love with this baby blanket soft, fashionable and luxurious
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Did anyone see it? I love that movie! What movies can you watch over and over?
I didn't see it but I love that film! Haven't seen it in awhile.
I've not seen Amelie,but I could watch 'How To Marry A Millionare' with Bacall,Grable,and Monroe over and over and over. I adore that movie.
Oh! Me too! That movie is so funny! Have you seen Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell? If not, you should check it out, it is hilarious!
If I have it has been years. I'll have to add that to my Netflix!
Really really don't like Amelie. The movie was just so underwhelming and over-hyped.
I can see Sliding Doors over and over. John Hannah is just so great. Oh and Star Wars, lol but it isn't really a chick flick
i watched "pride and prejudice" so many times, twice this week. the bbc version though, not the one with keira knightley in it. that one was ok too, but nobody beats colin firth as mr. darcy!
Nobody beats Colin Firth at much, I think! :shame: I liked him in Love Actually.
I've never seen Amelie before but I just read a summary of it and it sounds amazing. . .I must see it! lol. I guess I will never get tired of The Notebook
I adore Amelie. I love Audrey Tautou.
I can watch "Pirates of the Caribbean" for Johnny Depp over and over again!
loooove amelie, really!!i have the dvd and i use too see it very often....it's just kinda strange, i feel like amelie........!!!
I really appreciate Amelie Poulain now but at first, it was so big when it came out in France that we were eating, drinking, thinking amelie , a little too much, I think I don't know one French person who hasn't seen it!!!
I didn't really get it the first time I saw Amelie, but the second time I absolutely loved it
I really like Amelie. I love Paris and I think that is one of the reasons I like to watch the movie. Plus it is really sweet. I think Audrey Tautou is adorable. I loved her in Happenstance as well.


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Yes non Sydney folks.....it has been raining and raining and raining all week!! We were very fortunate in this house - high and dry with annoying little Internet black outs ad my car sprung a leak and I have about for inches of water on the floor (passengers side) oh yes and a flat tyre.
Being stuck indoors for three days did have some positive outcomes. I have designed and made not one but two new card kits. Just getting remainder of photography done but posting a quick peeks or two.
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If you're located in a part of the country where the winters are harsh, more than likely you're not going to do any pressure washing during the cold months. That's why it's important to winterize your pressure washer, since the cold weather, combined with non-use, can make a pressure washer inoperable. To save money on repair or possibly even having to replace the unit, follow a few easy steps to winterize your pressure washer.
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Winterize Pressure Washer Engine
Keep water condensation from building up in the gas tank or the gas lines by nearly completely filling the gas tank and its gas lines with gas. Also add any common fuel stabilizer to the gas tank, following the manufacturer's directions.
Run the engine for a few minutes to circulate the fuel stabilizer through the gas tank, gas lines and carburetor. Run the engine while the pressure washer is hooked up and you're pressing the trigger of the gun so that water is circulating through the pump.
Remove all gasoline from the gas tank, fuel lines and carburetor as another option for winterizing your pressure washer engine. Follow the engine manufacturer's instructions for removing all fuel from the fuel system.
Winterize Pressure Washer Water Pump
Remove residual cleaning solution or detergent by placing the injector line in a bucket of water and holding the gun trigger open until all of the water has been used up from the bucket, if the pressure washer setup is one that uses a pre-pump detergent injector. Turn off the engine and water to the pressure washer.
Press the gun trigger once again to remove some of the trapped water in the system, if the unloader on the pressure washer isn't a flow actuated unloader but a pressure actuated unloader.
Disconnect water hose and pressure washer hoses to the pressure washer. Remove water still remaining in the water pump by pulling the engine starter pull cord until no more water burps from the water pump.
Preserve water pump seals, pistons and manifold--preventing them from sticking and/or cracking from long-time storage or excessively cold weather--by adding a common pump saver to the water pump. Screw the pump saver into the pressure washer water inlet, or where you connect the garden hose to the machine.
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Mark Stielow's 1967 Chevy Camaro "Mayhem" that competed and won the 2012 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. It produces nearly 900 HP from an enlarged LS9 engine, displacing 7.0L / 427 cubic inches. The Camaro has a Tremec Magnum six-speed transmission, Currie 9" reared, and numerous other suspension modifications.
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We are delighted to be appointed to the Reactive and Planned Maintenance Framework providing services across three major University's; University Of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian University.
The Framework will run for 2 years 2016-2018, and covers a diverse range of building types across all 3 estates. Works and job orders ranging from emergency call outs to planned works (up to a value of £25,000), are managed by our 24/7 in-house Customer Service Hub. This includes the following trades:
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By Alexander Bueso
Date: Tuesday 14 Nov 2017
(ShareCast News) - Dearer services prices pushed factory gate inflation past economists' forecasts last month.
Total producer prices rose by 0.4% month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, pushing the year-on-year rate of gains from 2.6% to 2.8%.
Economists had expected headline producer prices to go the other way and to show a 2.5% rate of gains.
Goods prices advanced by 0.3% on the month following a jump of 0.7% in September while those for services were up by 0.5% after rising 0.4% during the prior month.
October's rise in goods prices came as a 0.5% jump in the cost of food in comparison to September more than offset flat energy prices.
At the 'core' level, final demand prices excluding food, energy and trade picked-up from a 2.1% rate of gains in the month before to 2.3%.
Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: "[...] Core services PPI is trending up even when the trade services component is stripped out, with the y/y rate nudging up to a six-year high of 2.3% in October; at the turn of the year, the rate was just 1.5%.
"Nearly half the rise in core goods prices was due to a 2.1% jump in the pharma component, but even allowing for this, the trend in core PPI goods inflation is rising. The PPI does not drive the Fed, but policymakers will note the threat to consumer price inflation if PPI inflation continues to rise, as we think likely."
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OzWater '18
Annually, the Australian Water Association (AWA) hosts OzWater – Australia's highly regarded international water conference and trade exhibition. This year's expo is being held May 8th – 10th, 2018 at Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Center in Australia. The event has built a strong reputation for being a "must attend" event for many professionals in the Continue reading


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Author – Ellis Shuman
Genre – Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Terrorism
328 Amazon Pages
Rating 3 stars out of 5 Posted 2/23/2018
No. 08 - 2018
My Impressions: Betrayal, he's hard headed, she's weak and wimpy.
Main Characters:
Det. Boyko Stanchev – Bulgaria State Agency for National Security. A chain smoking drunk.
Ayala Navon – Israeli analyst with Mossad.
Commander Ivan Zhekov – Burgas District Police
Det. Kamen Petrov – Burgas police department.
The story is built around an actual terrorist attack at the Burgas, Bulgaria, airport. A bomb exploded killing six people.
Hard-headed Detective Boyko Stanchev was assigned to partner with a Mossad analyst to investigate the attack on a bus hired to transport a group of Israeli citizens.
A portion of Boyko's past baggage caught up with him and exposed him and Ayala to attacks by Bulgarian criminals.
During their time spent together, Boyko and Ayala developed romantic feeling for each other, but she controlled her emotions and wouldn't have sex with him. They were in love, but in the end they simply parted with no mention of seeing each other again.
I found it hard to accept Mossad would send a desk-bound analyst on a field assignment to gather important clues about the perpetrators of the crime. Why would someone untrained and inept be utilized? She wasn't even allowed to carry a handgun. Her character was so weak she merely followed Boyko's lead and wouldn't stand up to him and make him listen to her ideas.
Passages in the final action scene were contradictory as to who shot first to instigate the fight that wasn't supposed to happen. The contrived fire was too conveniently in Boyko's favor.
When Boyko was severely beaten and lay in the middle of a burning inferno, Ayala ran to him and asked, "Are you all right?" Duh!
The editing is good, but proofreading needs professional attention. Several sentences are out of place and make no sense. In one section lines are repeated almost verbatim.
Sentence structure is good, and character development for the two main characters is good to overdone.
Details of the plot are weak.
The writing style is wordy with some dialog and internal thoughts overly melodramatic and cartoonish.
Character's internal thoughts are given as narrative.
The story is interesting, but I can't recommend it strongly.
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Great security blanket!
My 19 months old had trouble sleeping but after introducing him to his first of many Jellycat stuffies (we started with the bunny and now we have the moose, the monkey and the dog), he now can't sleep without it. Transition to day care was also made easy because of his jelly cat. He would carry it everywhere with him. The only problem I have is after washing the stuffed animals, they lose their fluffiness and softness.
These are some of the cutest stuffed animals I have ever laid eyes on.
There are so many different ones too. Which is always great, because it gives you a chance to have more and more of a collection.
They are so soft, and stay that way too.
These are so great for babies or younger kids. I love them.
The JellyCat brand makes the softest and more adorable stuffed animals that I have seen.
They do cost a little more but they are totally worth the splurge. I have seen them at a variety
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I picked two up for some babies in my life and they absolutely love them!
I wouldn't hesitate to purchase this brand again.
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The resources have been great tools to help design and finish a polished piece. A great course for all kinds of creative writers!
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It was challenging and inspiring, one of the best courses I have taken. I took my writing to new places and learned quite a lot : ) Thank you so much for the opportunity and platform for learning.
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Overall, I found this course to be VERY ENJOYABLE. My ONLY concern was that the PDF requirement was not stressed at the very beginning of the course. Because I have only an old refurbished computer that does not have top of the line features, making PDF files did not always work as planned. OpenOffice and Adobe Acrobat sometimes easily converted to PDF for submissions, but sometimes did NOT. That made it difficult for some reviewers to open. Had I known earlier, I would have bought a new computer and avoided some frustrating submission difficulties. I really appreciate the effort some people had to go through to open my odd submissions. They gave me some valuable tips in their critiques that I might have missed out on had they not persisted. SO: Suggest at the outset that writers using paleolithic equipment like mine, check to see if their computers can generate PDF files. It will eliminate a lot of cussing later on.
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Fantastic experience. I found myself reviewing a story by a well-regarded author. I learned a lot from reviewing the writing of others. That alone is worth the five stars. The commentary I got back was not that thorough, but when people took it seriously it was quite helpful and encouraging.
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Between the cracks: Pacific Symphony's 13th American Composers festival explores two modern masters of music who defy definition - Duke Ellington and Daniel Schnyder
April 23, 2013
Led by Music Director Carl St.Clair, the festival spotlights the legendary Duke Ellington Orchestra for a concert featuring music by hybrid composers— May 16-18, 8 p.m., in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Classical Connections: "Duke Ellington Revealed" further examines the legend and his music with Pacific Symphony and the Duke Ellington Orchestra—May 19 at 3 p.m. in the concert hall
Film event: "Faust," with soundtrack composed by Schnyder performed live on Sunday, May 19, 7 p.m., in the Samueli Theater
In an ongoing quest to make new musical discoveries through its acclaimed American Composers Festival (ACF), Pacific Symphony, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair, this year celebrates the music of two seemingly disparate figures—representing past and present: the iconic Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) and living saxophonist-composer Daniel Schnyder, neither of whom fit neatly into a single musical category. ACF, an annual celebration of American composers, seems somehow incomplete without the inclusion of Ellington, whose works have inspired countless composers and musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries—including Schnyder. This year, the Symphony doesn't just refer to Ellington, but presents the ensemble that carries his name and has been playing together in one form or another for more than eight decades; the other half of the equation is this year's ACF composer-in-residence Schnyder—both of whom defy definition.
For tickets or more information on ACF 2013, call (714) 755-5799 or www.PacificSymphony.org/ACF.
"A couple of summers ago when I performed with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, I fell in love with it—the musicians, their love and enthusiasm for music," says Maestro St.Clair, giving light to the festival. "I immediately began searching for an opportunity to work with them again. Our American Composers Festival is the perfect opportunity. .
"And I worked with Daniel on tour in Germany. It was my first meeting with him and I felt an immediate closeness to him and his musical spirit," he continues. "His presence is inspiring and will complement the Duke Ellington Orchestra's wonderful world of jazz. Both Duke Ellington and Daniel Schnyder are what I would term as 'eclectic borrowers.' They each take musical ideas, themes and various multicultural musical idioms, and through their individual genius, create their own unique musical identity."
"Today's musical landscape, which some have called 'post-classical,' is wide, varied and level," says the Symphony's ACF advisor, Joseph Horowitz. "It does not rank one form of musical experience over another. In the concert hall, a lot of the most significant activity now occurs when different types of music interact. Our American Composers Festival has celebrated hybrids of this kind through such master composers as Lou Harrison (who absorbed Javanese gamelan), Zhou Long (who combines Western and Chinese musical practices) and John Adams (on whom the swing era exerted a lasting influence)."
Both Ellington and Schnyder are prime examples of post-classical. Ellington, throughout his career, was commonly described as "beyond category" and Swiss-American Schnyder—primarily a composer of jazz/classical crossover works, with related music styles that include Africa, Cuba and the Middle East—is a hybrid of his own making. Perhaps because of his European upbringing, Schnyder (born in Switzerland in 1961 but now a resident of Harlem, New York) approached Ellington's music without the preconceived notions often afflicting American classical musicians. While Schnyder's formal training in flute and composition in Zurich were rigorously "classical," he was equally influenced by jazz.
"I live around the corner from where Duke used to live in Harlem," says Schnyder, pointing out the more obvious connection first. "I 'Take the A Train' to get home from mid-Manhattan. Ellington's greatness is of course multi-dimensional. He worked with great individual players and formed his sound from their individual voices—rather than getting performers to give up a part of their individuality in order to form the sound of a great orchestra." .
"Between-the-cracks" composers like Ellington and Schnyder—or say, George Gershwin and Kurt Weill, both of whom composed for the concert hall and the opera house, Broadway and Hollywood—used to be viewed skeptically in American classical music circles. Even Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" was initially not taken seriously. Similarly, Ellington was denied the Pulitzer Prize because his music lacked a "classical" pedigree, but it's important to note that he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer in 1999.
"Daniel Schnyder is a composer who, though steeped in classical traditions, has created musical language that crosses many musical boundaries and genres," says St.Clair. "This is also evident in the repertoire selected for the first half [all composed or arranged by Schnyder], which encompasses reflections of the great Duke Ellington, tributes to the immortal Jimi Hendrix and to the instrument, the bass trombone. And all of this really only covers a portion of the breadth of Schnyder's musical language—all of which he feels at home within… Like Duke Ellington, Daniel is a virtuoso performer—and as performers both composers gained distinct insight into writing for ensembles.
"Ellington resisted the stigmatization of his music as jazz, or more correctly, as merely jazz," wrote composer-conductor-scholar Gunther Schuller, who in 1957 invented the term "Third Stream" to promote a new terrain joining classical music and jazz. "Similarly, he resisted…the constant pressures to commercialize his art, to level off to some pre-ordained mold of easy marketability, to identify himself with the expected stereotypes."
"The understanding of 'classical music' is impossibly snobbish today," says Horowitz. "It penalizes non-Western music. And it penalizes the signature creative achievement of American music of the mid-20th century: jazz."
American Composers Festival 2013 Programming
ACF gets underway on Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18, at 8 p.m., in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, when Pacific Symphony is joined by the legendary Duke Ellington Orchestra playing Ellington jazz standards. The program also features Schnyder and music he has adapted from the compositions of Ellington and others. The concert includes image magnification of the musicians projected on the big screen to enhance the concert experience and allow for up-close and personal observation. While the first half of the concert focuses on Schnyder, saxophone, Dave Taylor, bass trombone, and Kenny Drew, Jr., piano, (from the trio "Words within Music)," the second half of the concert is devoted to the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
The iconic Ellington orchestra first tackles "Take the 'A' Train," a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn that became the signature tune of the ensemble. The title refers to the then relatively new A subway service that ran through New York City, using an express track section that opened in 1932 in Manhattan. It is the most famous of the many compositions to emerge from the collaboration between Ellington and Strayhorn. Most bandleaders would not put a song that is not their own composition at the forefront this way, but the relationship between Strayhorn and Ellington was not typical.
Ellington wrote in his autobiography: "Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, and the eyes in the back of my head."
The orchestra then plays "Caravan," another jazz standard, composed by Juan Tizol, and first performed by Ellington in 1936. Schnyder observes that Ellington "was one of the first jazz composers to use Arab scales and rhythms for 'Caravan,'" which paints an intriguing picture of a distant and exotic place. Its serpentine melody conjures images of Middle Eastern snake-charmers or a camel caravan crossing sand dunes. Yet at the same time, the piece's rhythms reflect Tizol's Latin American roots. The piece is one of the Ellington orchestra's first conscious efforts to incorporate influences from other cultures into its music. There are more than 350 recordings of this piece by Ellington's orchestra. One of the most familiar pieces in Ellington's legacy, "Satin Doll" was first recorded in 1953, well into Ellington's career, yet just as he was beginning to gain widespread public acclaim as a national cultural asset. The tune—an exercise in implicity—was written in collaboration with saxophonist, arranger and composer Strayhorn to words by lyricist Johnny Mercer. Despite its eventual popularity and virtual canonization, "Satin Doll" was not initially a staple of Ellington's orchestra. After hearing a performance of it by pianist Billy Taylor, Ellington decided to include it in his ensemble's regular repertoire. With the widespread fame that Ellington and his group enjoyed during the subsequent years, "Satin Doll" became another jazz standard.
"Creole Love Call" is most associated with the Ellington band and Adelaide Hall. Ellington first recorded it in 1927 and was issued a copyright for it as composer the following year. However, the main melody appears earlier in the Joe "King" Oliver composition "Camp Meeting Blues," which Oliver recorded with his Creole Jazz Band in 1923. Apparently Ellington reedman Rudy Jackson had presented the melody to Ellington claiming it was his own composition. After Ellington's recording came out, Oliver attempted to sue for payment of royalties and composer credit. The lawsuit failed due to problems with Oliver's original paperwork resulting in an invalid copyright. Ellington fired Jackson over the incident. .
Also on the program is "Martin Luther King" from "Three Black Kings," which was Ellington's last composition, one left unfinished at the time of his death in 1974. For the posthumous Lincoln Center premiere in 1976, Ellington's son, Mercer Ellington, completed the score and Alvin Ailey created the choreography. The title refers to three important African American historical figures: King Balthazar, King Solomon and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, introduced Ailey's "Three Black Kings" when it premiered at the Lincoln Center festival celebrating Ellington.
The program concludes with "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" —a song that became famous, Ellington said, "as the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz musicians at the time." Probably the first song to use the phrase "swing" in the title, it introduced the term into everyday language and presaged the swing era by three years. It's a tune familiar to the vast majority—even all these years later.
The concert opens with the spotlight on Schnyder. "No less than Ellington, Schnyder is a gifted performer and improviser (on the saxophone)," says Horowitz. "Like Ellington, he espouses multiple musical worlds. He is an omnivorous creator, drawing on Renaissance polyphony, Schubert and Mahler, Ellington and Gershwin, Arabia and Africa."
"A lot of the music I compose adapts the compositions of great artists of the past, trying to find ways to express myself through their music," says Schnyder. "This is nothing new. Schoenberg did it, Busoni did it, lots of important composers did it. But for many decades, this practice of adaptation and transcription was put down. When Stokowski transcribed Bach, it was denounced almost as a crime. Now, however, transcriptions are coming back."
The first piece on the program is Schnyder's "Shourouk (the Arabic word for "sunrise"): Arabian Overture" —a piece that marries Middle Eastern melodies and rhythms to Western orchestral sonorities—and is followed by an arrangement by Schnyder of the Ellington jazz composition that enjoyed a wave of popularity in the 1930s: "In a Sentimental Mood." Both pieces incorporate improvisation by Schnyder, Taylor and Drew.
"For my Shourouk, I was taught Arabian rhythms by Arabian musicians in New York," says Schynder. "The piece is composed for Western instruments in combination with oud, the ney and the rik—a kind of tambourine, the main percussion instrument of Arabian music. It also uses scales that are different from our scales, and the malfuf rhythm, which is also found in Latin jazz and Western African music—all these worlds connected through history."
"In a Sentimental Mood," in contrast, has a lot of long notes—which facilitates adding counterpoint and orchestral lines, so that the orchestra can be fully utilized. "In adapting a jazz staple for symphony orchestra, you don't want to simply give the musicians whole notes with the soloists on top," says Schnyder. "That's boring for the players and also for the listeners. It's a Ferrari driving at 20 miles an hour."
The Symphony then performs an arrangement by Schnyder of Jimi Hendrix' (1942-1970) Variations on "Purple Haze"—a piece that has, frankly, become known as one of the archetypical psychedelic drug songs of the '60s. Hendrix claimed the piece was inspired by a dream where he was walking under the sea where a purple haze surrounded him, engulfed him and made him feel lost and traumatized. Hendrix claimed it had nothing to do with drugs, but of course few deny that Hendrix was indeed using plenty of drugs at the time.
While "In a Sentimental Mood" has sophisticated chord changes, in Schnyder's hands "'Purple Haze' doesn't really have any chord changes. "It's just a rhythm and the idea of blues…" he says. "And with the brutality of this music—(it's about) how to write for orchestra and retain raw expression. My arrangement has fugues and canons. You can do all these things because the piece is so raw, so bare, that it's an open playing field."
Next, Schnyder's subZERO, Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra, is a piece that was commissioned by and composed for Taylor. The three-movement work is a dramatically virtuosic piece that pushes the envelope of what is traditionally considered to be within the bass trombonist's capabilities. The first movement, subZERO, is a tour-de-force for the soloist, with huge leaps dropping down the deepest regions of the instrument's range. The next movement, entitled Sama'i Thaqil, is based on an ancient Turkish drum pattern and features a haunting violin solo over the top of the bass trombone. The final movement, ZOOM OUT, goes from musical idea to musical idea, displaying a vast array of textures from the bass trombone and the piano. .
Taylor says: "Schnyder's concerto is the best vehicle I've ever had with orchestra. I reference all kinds of jazz and popular styles; Schnyder has a gift for picking up the essence of a style. At the same time, he's a deeply schooled composer; everything he composes is organic; he never panders."
Media sponsors for this concert include KUSC, KPCC and PBS SoCal with additional support provided by: (Thursday) Susie and Don Hecht; (Friday) Jane and Richard Taylor; and (Saturday) The Westin South Coast Plaza.
Classical Connections: "Duke Ellington Revealed"
ACF 2013 continues on Sunday, May 19, at 3 p.m., with a jazzy Classical Connections. The ensemble founded by the Duke himself shines for this matinee performance, as it joins St.Clair and the Symphony to further explore why Ellington proved to be so inspirational, influencing so many other composers over the course of the century or more. St.Clair serves as host, for this journey beneath the surface of the composer and his irreplaceable music to uncover a whole world of fascinating history, intrigue and discovery. This concert also includes image magnification of the musicians projected on the big screen, enhancing the concert experience and allowing for up-close and personal observation.
Interplay: Faust
On Sunday, May 19, at 7 p.m., the festival continues in the Samueli Theater with a screening of Friedrich Murnau's silent movie classic (1926) "Faust," featuring a soundtrack written and performed by Schnyder (soprano and tenor saxophone), accompanied by Taylor, bass trombone, and Drew, piano. Faust is the protagonist of a German legend; a highly successful scholar but one dissatisfied with his life who makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
In many ways, this is not a film score in a traditional sense. Fascinated by the classic tale, Schnyder decided to create music linking this saga about seduction and destruction of the human soul to its traces in European musical history. Inspired by the audacity in Murnau's dramatic language, and by Faust's legacy to classical music of three centuries, the trio accompanies certain key scenes of the film with fully composed pieces and adaptions, while the protagonists' actions and streams of consciousness are being interpreted by improvisations in the connecting film sequences.
"I wrote this score on commission for a Goethe birthday celebration," explains Schnyder. "I had actually never before seen the film. What I attempt here is an interplay—between the Faust story, German music history, and the three of us as improvising performers. Even though a lot of the music I cite incorporates texts, I'm counting on its visceral effects—people don't need to know the words."
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Ellington was an American composer, pianist and big-band leader who wrote more than 1,000 compositions. Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe said: "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington." A major figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading the Duke Ellington Orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. Ellington led his band from 1923 until his death in 1974. His reputation only increased after he was gone—and his orchestra is still playing today.
Composer-in-Residence Daniel Schynder
Schnyder's vast catalogue of compositions includes commissions from New York's Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna's Tonkünster Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlin (for which he was composer-in-residence), Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra (a Fourth Symphony, for David Zinman) and the Bern Opera ("The Tempest," after Shakespeare). A saxophonist, he tours with a trio that includes trombonist Taylor and the pianist Drew; their repertoire includes Bach, Wagner, Gershwin and Ellington. Both Schndyer and his trio are better-known in Europe than in America.
David Taylor and Kenny Drew, Jr.
Taylor is himself edgy, flamboyant, reckless, experimental. Among his colleagues, he is both famous and notorious. While studying at Juilliard, he was a member of Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony, and occasionally played with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez. Shortly after, he jointed the Thad Jones Jazz band. He recorded with Duke Ellington and with the Rolling Stones. He has since been closely associated with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Gil Evans Big Band, and the Charles Mingus Big Band. He has performed chamber music with Winton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, and Itzhak Perlman. Alan Hohvanness, Charles Wuorinen, George Perle and Frederic Rzewski—important composers from all points of the compass—have all composed for him.
Winner of the 1990 Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville, Drew has performed with a gamut of musicians, including Smokey Robinson, the Mingus Big Band, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Faddis/Hampton/Heath Sextet and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. In the realm of classical music, his repertoire includes Bach concertos, Haydn, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, and works by African-American composers. He has performed and recorded extensively with Daniel Schnyder and David Taylor. He played a solo piano tribute to Duke Ellington on Ellington's 100th birthday the Tonhalle in Zurich. His "classical" performances include appearances with the Milwaukee Symphony and the Winterthur Orchestra in Switzerland.
American Composers Festival History
Each year, the Symphony explores a different facet of American music through the ACF. Since 2000, the festival has featured composers from Aaron Copland to Ana Lara to Michael Daugherty and artists from Yo-Yo Ma to Stephen Scott's Bowed Piano Ensemble. By examining this diverse musical heritage, the Symphony points a microscope at who we are as a culture, where we've been, and where we are going—some of the most important questions that music can raise.
Pacific Symphony's 2012 ACF celebrated the Iranian New Year festival of "Nowruz," marking the arrival of spring and celebrated since ancient times. The festival explored the music of Persian-Americans through programs featuring authentic Persian music. Guest artists include the acclaimed Shams Ensemble, Grammy Award-winning soprano Hila Plitmann; Iran's best-known conductor Farhad Mechkat and Pacific Chorale. Among the highlights was a world premiere by composer Richard Danielpour, whose own Persian ancestry served as inspiration for his oratorio, "Toward a Season of Peace," commissioned by the Symphony.
The Symphony's 2011 ACF focused on one of America's most fascinating and pre-eminent living composers, Philip Glass, who went under the spotlight when Pacific Symphony partnered with Long Beach Opera (LBO) to present the first-ever Southern California Philip Glass Festival. ACF's "The Passion of Philip Glass" and LBO's production of the Glass opera "Akhnaten," plus accompanying events ("Glass Plays Glass" piano recital, films, lectures, discussions) all probed deeply into the man and his music to gain new understanding and a deeper appreciation for one of today's leading American composers.
The 2010 ACF explored "The Greatest Generation" with a look back at a time largely defined by The Great Depression. The term "The Greatest Generation," coined Tom Brokaw, refers to those who grew up in the United States during a time of extreme deprivation but went on to fight in World War II or contribute to the effort on the home front, eventually rebuilding America. The festival delved into this turbulent period and the music that could not have been composed without the somber impetus of The Great Depression. Highlights included a world premiere by composer Michael Daugherty: "Mount Rushmore"; and West Coast premieres of Weill's "Song of the Inventory" and Walt Whitman Songs (orchestrated version). .
In 2009, "Hollywood's Golden Age," celebrated the art of film music, past and present by exploring the differences between composing for concerts and composing for film—and how the two styles have evolved into what we hear today. This festival revisited a unique period in our country when a number of refugee composers fled to the United States from a turbulent Europe and found Hollywood hungry for their work. The period was explored by focusing on a handful of composers, including Miklós Rozsa, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, who were contrasted against modern-day masters James Newton Howard and Paul Chihara.
In 2008, "The West: Music Inspired by the American Frontier," examined "the idea of the West" in American music, sketched by Dvorak and clinched by Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and Roy Harris. In a later stage, the idea migrated to the West Coast in the music of such Californians as Lou Harrison, whose "Four Strict Songs" were a revelation—as was the Bowed Piano Ensemble of Stephen Scott. The festival's commissioned composers were Scott and Curt Cacioppo; festival partners included Chapman University, which hosted a multi-media event.
In 2007, Los Sonidos de México journeyed south of the border to celebrate the remarkable range and variety of Mexico's musical odyssey, much of which is rarely performed in Mexico or elsewhere. The festival included some two dozen compositions over the course of six concerts and included a commissioned new work by Daniel Catán—one of three participating Mexican composers (also Ana Lara and Enrique Diemecke). A three-hour multi-media Interplay tracked music and visual art from pre-Hispanic times to the present.
In 2006, "Uncharted Beauty: The Music of Lou Harrison" honored one of the great American composers of the 20th century, as well as a pioneer in the use of alternate tunings, world music influences and new instruments. It was the last in a three-year sequence exploring the influence of non-Western music on American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The festival included a variety of intimate chamber programs plus a large-scale concert celebrating the music of Harrison. It also featured film footage from Eva Soltes' documentary "Lou Harrison: A World of Music," courtesy of the Lou Harrison Documentary Project. .
ACF 2005, "Illuminations in Sound," featuring Colin McPhee, George Crumb and John Adams, was the second of the three-year festival sequence (ending with Lou Harrison) devoted to the influence of non-Western music on American composers. Richard Stoltzman played works by Adams and Steve Reich. Concentrating on the rapturous, the Symphony explored the influence of Indonesian gamelan, featuring little-known works by McPhee and Jose Evangelista. Two rarely heard transcriptions by Percy Grainger of piano works by Debussy and Ravel were performed alongside the original pieces.
"Tradewinds from China," the first festival of the trilogy, premiered works in 2004 by Chen Yi, Zhou Long and Joan Huang in the course of sampling the historic contribution of present-day Chinese-American composers. Yo-Yo Ma performed a new cello concerto and Min Xiao-Fen played Theonious Monk on her pipa. A children's chorus sang Chinese folk songs; the Orange County High School for the Arts Chorus performed Chinese revolutionary songs.
In 2003, prior to the trilogy, was "An American Odyssey" featuring the West Coast premiere of William Bolcom's monumental setting of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" in the course of exploring the interface between concert and popular styles. Additional festival events included a recreation of Paul Whiteman's 1924 "Experiment in Modern Music," with its premiere of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," a newly scored set of Leonard Bernstein songs, and an evening of Blake settings by Virgil Thomson, Arthur Farwell, Henry Cowell, Alan Ginsberg and other Americans.
ACF's "Dvorák in America," in 2002, applied a visual presentation of the "New World" Symphony, a Hiawatha Melodrama, and costumed Native American dancers to an examination of Dvorák's American style in relation to such diverse turn-of-the-century Americans as Scott Joplin, Harry Burleigh, Victor Herbert, George Chadwick and Arthur Farwell. Mstislav Rostopovich performed the Dvorák Cello Concerto.
The first ACF took place in 2000 with Aaron Copland and the "Sound of the Americas," featuring a unique screening of the classic 1939 documentary "The City" with live symphonic accompaniment—the first in a series of Copland film scores that supported his creation of a 20th-century American concert voice. Additional festival events included three films, chamber and keyboard music and special guest William Warfield.
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Did you know that when you drive through a rainbow, everything changes colour to the hues within that rainbow....I didn't know that, until it happened to us....
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Rainbow in our path
Did you know that when you drive through a rainbow, everything changes colour to the hues within that rainbow....I didn't know that, until it happened to us....
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I love the serenity of these photos, like your work at the top.ReplyDeleteReplies
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How do you drive through a rainbow? To me they always seem to move further away as I get nearer to them. That must be quite an experience!ReplyDeleteReplies
When it stayed static as we drove slowly through, amazing - everything changed colour with each part - and then whoosh it was gone!Delete
I didn't know you could drive through a rainbow. Cool!ReplyDeleteReplies
Neither did I until it happened, lol :-)Delete
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That is an amazing rainbow that seems almost to be coming out of the sea. Beautiful.
I`ve just discovered your Useful Painting Tips blog and I`m looking forward to going through your old posts. Our village Art Club begins again next week.Replies
It was a great angle to find this rainbow.Delete
Glad you found my Useful Painting Tips blog, I hope some of the things I add will be of help. It's nice when Art Clubs get together, very supportive.
What perfect photos! I had no idea about the rainbow -- It just *has* to be good luck too!ReplyDeleteReplies
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I never knew you could go through a rainbow! Did you find the pot of gold???? ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
We're still looking ;)Delete
I love to see rainbows but ours always seem to end somewhere far out at sea. That must be awesome to drive through one!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Chemical Structure-Related Drug-Like Criteria of Global Approved Drugs
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Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Mei Long Road, 200237 Shanghai, China
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Abstract The chemical structure of a drug determines its physicochemical properties, further determines its ADME-Tox properties, and ultimately affects its pharmacological activity. Medicinal chemists can regulate the pharmacological activity of drug molecules by modifying their structure. Ring systems and functional groups are important components of a drug. The proportion of non-hydrocarbon atoms among non-hydrogen atoms reflects the heavy atoms proportion of a drug. The three factors have considerable potential for the assessment of the drug-like properties of organic molecules. However, to the best of our knowledge, there have been no studies to systematically analyze the simultaneous effects of the number of aromatic and non-aromatic rings, the number of some special functional groups and the proportion of heavy atoms on the drug-like properties of an organic molecule. To this end, the numbers of aromatic and non-aromatic rings, the numbers of some special functional groups and the heavy atoms proportion of 6891 global approved small drugs have been comprehensively analyzed. We first uncovered three important structure-related criteria closely related to drug-likeness, namely: 1 the best numbers of aromatic and non-aromatic rings are 2 and 1, respectively; 2 the best functional groups of candidate drugs are usually -OH -COOR and -COOH in turn, but not -CONHOH -SH -CHO and -SO3H. In addition, the -F functional group is beneficial to CNS drugs, and -NH2 functional group is beneficial to anti-infective drugs and anti-cancer drugs; 3 the best R value intervals of candidate drugs are in the range of 0.05–0.50 preferably 0.10–0.35, and R value of the candidate CNS drugs should be as small as possible in this interval. We envision that the three chemical structure-related criteria may be applicable in a prospective manner for the identification of novel candidate drugs and will provide a theoretical foundation for designing new chemical entities with good drug-like properties. View Full-Text
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TKMaxx Titans Return and Combiner Wars on discount
UK citizens – check your local TK Maxx store toy section* as they currently have a few units of Titans
New Alternators spotted in London!
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Collaborative work with David Buckley Borden and Ryan Habbyshaw for the Wild West exhibit at Bodega, Summer 2014. Shield map takes primary and tertiary ESRI highway data and nests it within the iconography of road signs and the US Forest Service emblem. Infrastructure and road construction play major roles in the displacement of ecological systems; using salvaged pine and an inverted map we attempt to call attention to these historical conflicts. Learn more about the other talents involved here, and an interview with DBB here.


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Speculation is the fuel for many 1000%+ runs in the pinky market. The most lucrative being the Reverse Merger play. Most R/M plays are discovered via Secretary of State changes, or 8k filings...ect. Great post by Rainmaker on WHY R/M plays run so much on speculation: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=57896386&txt2find=box
I have rarely come across a Shell that pretty much spells out something is coming, like we have here with BGTH. I had this stock on radar in Sept, and noticed it's 10Q filing, where it showed 3 candidates it was in merger discussions with. Its latest 10Q out a week ago, shows only 2 candidates. Hmmmm.
I have spent a few hours diggin on this one and will have a DD post out sometime today. Based on everything i have found, i think BGTH can go .20 to.75 going forward IMO.
Here is the wording from the filing:
Our management is currently in discussions with three potential merger candidates with companies in the following categories:
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Electro coagulation has a long history as a water treatment technology having been employed to remove a wide range of pollutants. However electro coagulation has never become accepted as a mainstream water treatment technology.
The lack of a systematic approach to electro coagulation reactor design/operation and the issue of electrode reliability (particularly passivation of the electrodes over time) have limited its implementation. However recent technical improvements combined with a growing need for small-scale decentralized water treatment facilities have led to a reevaluation of electro coagulation.
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An online media and marketing company engaged in the promotion of alternative health remedies and other health living solutions. Their marketing activities primarily target the demographic segment comprising persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 50 although they also reach consumers outside of this group.
The business model for this entity entails its primary revenue through the sales of products through our opt-in email offers, various websites, affiliate marketing, and advertising. Their management contends that the quality of their products and effectiveness of our marketing network will be the primary reasons for the success of their entity.
Their company's principal core philosophy is to create, or partner with, products backed by science and catering to market segments that provide a net positive benefit with a long-term customer lifecycle.
Now the bigger piece to this puzzle is our CEO Scott Landow. He was Founder/CEO/President of BNLB, a company on pace for $12 million in revenues this year. He founded the company! Not only that, he stepped into a director role. Is he now trying to do something with BGTH???
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Authorized shares is 100 million , 70,852,030 outstanding, and CEO Scott Landow owns 54% of the OS. Tight Share structure!
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic made a courageous statement about Albanians and Serbs in an interview with TV Pink. Among other things Vucic said that within 70 years the Albanians will be the largest nation in the region.
"In 70 years, Albanians will be the largest nation in the region, because they are growing up and have no problems with their politicians, who must say to them to give births, to not think about the future, but only for comfort," - said Vucic.
According to local media, Vucic has tried to hit that elite of Serb politician who does not encourage fertility, because according to him, regarding Albanians' problems with their politicians, they are as big as in many Balkan countries.
According to Vucic, should be promoted policies to increase fertility in Serbia..
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This, my friends, is a story about running but it's so much more. It's an allegory for the ages. Book mark this for your young children.
I've been running since December 1994 and through the years I've maintained a respectable, if not blazing, 10-minute per mile pace. Not bad for a somewhat top heavy, non-natural athlete with a super long second toe and miniscule threshold for physical pain.
This past summer, for the first time ever, all of my runs felt awful. I slogged 4.5 miles a few times a week, each time convinced that there had to be a good reason– El Nino, reality TV, lack of women in CEO positions– why it was so NOT FUN. I upgraded my music and that helped a little bit. By August, I still hated almost every step, but kept with it because running is a cheaper stress reliever than felony murder and also, I like ice cream.
In September, I started running on the lake front path where there are mile markers. Fiddling with my stop watch and timing my laps seemed like a good distraction from the agonizing feeling in my body while I was running. The first run I timed showed me running an 8-minute mile. I assumed that I didn't know how to work my stop watch. The next time: same thing. I passed each half mile marker at four minutes. This time, I figured that the mile markers were spaced incorrectly.
I embarked on a research project to determine whether the official half-mile markers on the Chicago lakefront are accurate. Turns out, they are, and just like that I am now an 8-minute miler, which is all good and badass, except, the runs were still sucking. Hard. And it wasn't because of the dearth of women in positions of power in corporate American or because I was peri-menopausal.
It's because I was running too fast.
Whew. That's a good problem. That's an easy-to-fix problem. I mean, how hard is it to just run slower? There would be more air for my deprived lungs, more joy in my lumbering legs, more mental space to dream up my next invention instead of cursing the pavement like a drunk pirate.
I set my stop watch and prepared for my first "slow" run. As I approached the first mile marker, I was sure I had mastered the art of slowing down. I was the picture of Zen running. I was shocked to see that I'd actually picked up the pace, clocking that first half mile at 3:56.
Slowing down was harder than I thought. For the second half mile, I played a slow Willie Nelson song (Always On My Mind) and ruminated about lost loves and missed opportunities. I shed a tear and clocked in at 4:01.
All that effort to slow down and I added 1 measly second to my time.
Thing is, I want the joy and the ease of running a pace that makes my body happy. The other thing is, I'm quite possibly am incapable of slowing down. My mind and body conspire to keep me moving at a pace I can't sustain, the cost of which is to rob me of the sublime high that comes from an enjoyable run.
I've been at it for several months now. I've managed to add almost 22 seconds onto each half mile. By spring, I'll be up to a 9-minute mile.
Not many people I know are trying to add time to their pace. But I am, and it's one of the hardest things I've tried to do in a long time.


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When TVA was founded in 1933, flooding was a serious problem in the Tennessee Valley. Untamed rivers washed away the topsoil, causing severe erosion and limiting farmers' ability to grow crops; poor farming practices compounded the problem. The potential for flood damage increased as cities and towns grew up alongside the rivers. Property was regularly devastated. In many cases, lives were lost.
From the beginning, TVA was charged with coming up with solutions for these problems, and taming the wild waters that were regularly taking such a heavy toll on land and lives.
Today, TVA has a sophisticated system of dams to control flooding along the Tennessee River watershed, and each year it prevents about $260 million in flood damage in the TVA region and along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. To date, the operation of this system has prevented over $5.4 billion in flood losses across the Tennessee Valley, including about $4.9 billion in damage averted at Chattanooga—the Valley's most flood-prone city. (The system has also prevented about $470 million in flood losses in the lower Ohio and Mississippi River drainage basins.)
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November 2017
President's Report
Happy November everyone –
And Happy Birthday SMPS-CT!!! We are days away from celebrating our chapters' 35th birthday!
Every year I take the day off to celebrate my birthday. Yes, every year - not just the ones with a big fat '0' or '5' at the end. Gone are the birthdays with pin the tail on the donkey, candy-filled pinatas and balloons. Instead, it's now a day for me to revel in one of my favorite pastimes and reflect on changes and achievements. In honor of our chapters' birthday, let's take it back 35 years.
In 1982 "ET" was one of the top movies. Michael Jackson released his album, "Thriller." The Commodore 64 8-bit home computer was launched. And Strawberry Shortcake, Smurfs and BMX bicycles were "in." (I hope you all know what I'm talking about!) Our country was just coming out of a recession. And the marketing and business development profession in our industry was not valued as it is today.
I wonder if the founding steering committee thought it possible that our chapter would be here 35 years later, fulfilling our mission. It has been quite a journey for A/E/C marketers. At long last there's a feeling that marketing efforts are paying dividends. Despite the many forks in the road, we've made much progress. There are countless stories about where we've been. And much conversation about where we're heading.
If you were at our September program you heard me speak about the importance of "watering the bamboo," a metaphor about nurturing the seeds we've planted so they'll thrive and grow. This chapter has strong roots that allowed us to flourish. As individuals and as an organization, there is still untapped potential for growth. I invite all of you to participate, contribute (water that bamboo!) and be part of the next successful 35 years.
To celebrate a milestone worth applauding, we're having an amazing Event Management Program and 35th Birthday Bash on November 15th. I encourage you to RSVP so you can learn best practices for successful gatherings and toast to our prosperity.
Sharon Pomeroy, CPSM
President, SMPS Connecticut 2017/2018
Member Milestones
Welcoming our new and reinstated (encore) members, and celebrating member anniversaries.
Welcome New Members!
Amy Graver
Owner / Creative Director
Elements LLC
Dhara Kanakia
Marketing Coordinator
Pavarini North East Construction Company
Mike Solenzio
Business Development Representative
ARC Document Solutions / CT
Leon F. Istambouli
Group Manager for Strategic Planning
The Morganti Group
Jacqueline Rowe
Marketing Specialist
Murtha Cullina LLP
Welcome Back, Encore Members!
Luke Glendening
Marketing Manager
Turner Construction Company
David C. Brownell
Northeast Director
Marketing and Business Development
PES Structural Engineers
Gain extra brand exposure at one of our upcoming programs by becoming the door prize sponsor! November – April door prizes are currently available. Have questions, or want to discuss a customized opportunity? Contact the sponsorship committee today!
Thank you Sponsors
Calendar of Events
SMPS CT'S 35th Birthday Bash & Event Management Program - 11/15
You're invited: SMPS CT turns 35! Join us Novemer 15th as we celebrate this milestone with an educational event management panel to be followed by a birthday bash. Bonus: SMPS CT will be raffling a FREE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP or renewal to one lucky attendee in honor of our 35th birthday - you do not want to miss this event!
Fireside Chat with Carolyn Bligh - 12/13
Join in the conversation as we engage in a Fireside Chat with Carolyn Bligh! Carolyn Bligh, Director of Facilities Design, ESPN, will speak about her experiences, career path, and the opportunities that have helped her achieve success during her career in the A/E/C industry.
Photography Social - 1/17
Come enjoy a fun night of professional photo editing with our partnering sponsor TimeFrozen Photography. In this hands-on training you'll hear from industry photography expert, Keith Claytor, and learn why you don't need Photoshop.
You can register for these events on our website.
Merge 2018 - 3/21 to 3/23
MERGE is the theme for the SMPS Northeast Regional Conference, a conference that brings together innovative thinkers from across multiple industries, geographies, and SMPS chapters to discuss the ongoing transformation of A/E/C marketing. Early bird pricing has been extended to November 15. Register today.
Past Program Recap
SMPS CT and SMPS Boston teamed up to host a a night of networking! Pictured above are the group's most recent former past-presidents, Sarah Hotchkiss (Boston) and Kathy Nanowski (CT).
Networking Skills Workshop
Attendees gathered at the Courtyard by Marriott in Cromwell for a new spin on sharpening our networking skills. Gilda Bonanno of Gilda Bonanno LLC shared her secrets, tips, and tricks for becoming a master networker including dealing with those difficult personalities and developing your own personal brand.
Graceworks Presents: The Human Connection
Last year's Graceworks program was so popular, we knew we had to invite them back! Kurt Robbins, Freedom Finder, led a lively and engaging discussion about making the human connection with our clients and audience to bring our presentations to life. Kurt's most powerful tip? Be Yourself!
Mentorship Program
Calling Mentors and Protégés!
One of the foundations of SMPS Connecticut is our commitment to our member's personal growth and professional development. This members only benefit will connect experienced professionals with aspiring talent of any age or at any stage of their career development in a supportive, one-on-one environment. Your experience will be unique, based on your needs and availability. This is not a no one size fits all program. If you are looking to build a strong personal and professional relationship with someone in our industry, please contact Leadership Committee Chairperson, Kathy Nanowski, with questions and more information.
In Other News...
Congratulations to Barbara Klimaszewski of BVH who recently passed the CPSM exam and now carries that designation! Best of luck to those who are scheduled to take the exam in the upcoming months and a thank you to all the study session champions who helped along the way.
Mary MacIlvain joined Hoffman Architects's Marketing and Business Department in Hamden, CT as a marketing coordinator. Congratulations, Mary!
Allison Puzycki started as Director of Marketing at Consulting Engineering Services (CES), an engineering design firm located in Middletown, CT. Congratulations Allison!
C.E. Floyd Company, Inc. was recognized for its work on Ethel Walker School's Centennial Center at the ABC Connecticut Chapter's Excellence in Construction Awards Dinner on October 26th. C.E. Floyd Co. received first place in the Large Institutional category for the new, 60,000 sf wellness and athletic center. The firm also received the Spirit Award for using the greatest percentage of ABC member subcontractors on the project.
Petra Construction Corporation is excited to announce the launch of the company's new website! Same brand, same quality, new look. It speaks for itself, take a look… http://www.petraconstruction.com/
Gilbane Building Company celebrated a number of recent awards including ENR-New England's Best Project in Healthcare for Hartford Hospital Bone & Joint Institute, as well as individual awards from AGC CT presented to: John Hawley, Vice President and CT Business Unit Leader, for Connecticut Project Construction Manager/General Contractor of the Year; Dennis Mullen, New England Division Safety Director, named Construction Professional of the Year; and Glenn Nielson, Senior General Superintendent, received "Best of the Best" recognition in the Construction Supervisor category. Way to go!
Fuss& O'Neill acquires CLD Consulting Engineers, Inc., producing a company of nearly 350 engineers, scientists and planners, in 10 offices throughout the Northeast.
Are you a member with news to share? Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com! Communications Committee reserves the right to edit member news submissions for length and clarity.
An important part of the SMPS CT's mission is to support our members' career development and advancement. In addition to educational events, seminars, networking and mentorship opportunities that help contribute to our members' career success; we also provide a forum for locating career opportunities and for companies to seek skilled marketers in the A/E/C industry. The SMPS CT Job Data Bank is a data resource only, and is not a referral or job placement service.


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This is the Mercedes Benz SL500 coupe. This model is a 2003 hardtop. The Mercedes SL class has always been known to be their top of the line performance and speed car. This car has a 5 litre 8 cylinder engine under its hood, its drive type is rear wheel. It produces 302hp, which may not seem like a lot for such a highly ranked car but is plenty for its light weight of 4,045lbs. It gets a somewhat impressive gas mileage of 15 city/22 highway, and its torque is 339 Lb-ft. All of these stats may seem like they would produce a racing machine, but the times don't show it. Its 0-60 is 6.0 seconds, which may not seem terrible for the era, and its not. But several other cars in this price range during this era could easily beat that, even a 4-door big and burly Maserati made a quicker time than that. Now lets look at how this roadster compares to other cars with its style.
The SL500 is very elegant and classy. It is the type of car you would look at and want to cruise down a highway in. This particular model of the SL500 has a silver body, silver rims, and a light gray leather interior. 2003 marked a major body and style change with the SL500, prior to the 2003 was the 2002 and it had a completely different body look. The change was praised by car reviewers and enthusiasts everywhere, as it pushed the auto worlds styling in a different direction. Kelly Blue Book rated this car as 8.9/10 stars and Cars.com rated the car as 4/5 stars with "exterior styling" as its highest rated part at 5/5 stars.
Most of the complaints that come when talking of the 2003 SL500 is maintenance costs. With many people reporting engine problems that are very expensive to fix. Along with being unimpressed in its handling and braking performance. Overall this car's key component is its style. Especially at the time, for 2003 this car pushed boundaries on styling and stood out on the road. Even much later today, the car can still hold its own and be viewed as a luxury sports car.
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If we don't appreciate that which is lost, we don't appreciate that which is coming.
Changes are fast but only if we can observe beyond the surface of the mind. The waves rise and fall, perhaps not as evident on the outside; to others. Linear reality doesn't work that way. It works in a straight line, reaches a peak and then falls.
It's an outward and an inward expression. It's a reaching out and a withdrawing. It's a pulse of the heart.
Some ideas are non-negotiable but why not? What can harm the Essence if a question is formed? What can the raptures cause except more possibilities that she wants to consider?
When waking up in the morning, you begin walking in illusion/holograms/created realities. Believing that and knowing that, are two very different states of being. Believing might lead to knowing but it more often doesn't for it seems as Truth.
You can walk in and out of holograms that look profoundly like "reality" but seeing them, you automatically contribute to them.
The holograms are not made by "you". You don't possess that much power. They are made by your higher mind, of which you receive glimpses, provided you remain open enough.
Living out illusions is Your Will and your purpose. Through them, You become enlightened as you sacrifice your vision for the purpose of seeing through your higher mind's eye. All the teachings are misinterpreted and used by (and for) the ego, for you don't understand capitalization and the different context of words that seem the same.
Endless beliefs, states and insights give you the impression that you "have arrived". Each self-destruction is monumental, as you find yourself in between worlds, time; in no space.
And yet, you are more stable, certain and grounded, as you are no one, than ever before.
The journey to freedom is a continuous journey of movement. As you withdraw and expand, so must you insert and contract.
The dance of opposites, as you continue, changes texture. With less movement you create more raptures. With each willful concentration, you change the course of reality. That which seems, is not. That which is unknown, becomes known.
The mind is immensely more powerful than you can humbly imagine. The more you willingly let go of your assumptions, the more you gain access to the eternal, connecting the traveler with the womb. But it's not a purpose, which you have to chase.
Nothing matters, as everything does. Every second, every thought, every reaction, every emotion creates worlds, both within and without your control. Drops in the ocean, grains of sand, rays of light, as you realize that You are the ocean, You are the sand, You are the light of your eternal life.
You are the dreamer and the dream. You are the culprit and the savior. You are the darkness and the light. But when you choose, you enter the illusion, you play out the part.
You learn when you can be all. You become wise when you surrender. You become strong when you lightly serve Your Vision.
You are but unmolded clay , in the arms of your Spirit!
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) last month announced an expansion of its Reclaiming Futures initiative, which helps teens in the juvenile justice system who are struggling with drug and alcohol abuse.
The initiative, initially funded at $21 million over five years, strives to improve and expand drug and alcohol treatments as well as support services, and to find job and volunteer opportunities for youth in trouble with the law.
The expansion is based on improvements in the quality of juvenile justice and substance abuse treatments in the 10 pilot programs that were launched in 2002, RWJF says. The foundation will provide $6.5 million to support the original 10 sites for another two years, and to help new sites implement the model over the next four years.
The expansion includes the creation of a national resource center to provide data, case studies and other information to communities trying to improve drug and alcohol services for youth in the justice system.
Applications will be posted in the late spring at www.reclaimingfutures.org. Contact: Mac Prichard, email@example.com, (503) 725-8921.


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I don't normally use body butters and I don't normally splurge on body care as I find my skin quite undemanding, but when I found in my Glossybox a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for The Body Shop butters I took advantage of the promotion and two body butters arrived under my roof.
I'm currently using the Shea Body Butter, the other one is awaiting its turn.
The butter comes in the typical TBS jar with screw-on top, which I find quite inconvenient in days of time pressure, however, while I'm on holiday and in no hurry I don't mind the fuss of unscrewing the lid and digging for product in the jar.
The Shea Body Butter is meant for very dry skin, that's why, I suppose, the consistency of the product is very thick and it doesn't melt upon touch with the skin. It's quite hard to apply, but sinks in pretty fast and doesn't make my skin feel greasy. It moisturises my skin really well, I use it not only as my body butter but also as a hand and foot cream.
The product has the most peculiar smell. I have no idea what pure shea butter smells like, every single shea-based product I've ever used had a different fragrance. To me TBS Shea Body butter has a kind of unisex smell, which brings to my mind my Jo Malone cologne. I don't sense this that much in the pan, but it becomes so prominent on my body that it once made me wonder whether my Jo Malone lasted through the bath. It's not something I don't like, I just associate The Body Shop with somewhat different fragrances.
Will I repurchase? Probably not. With the product being so thick in consistency I tend to use a lot, which makes it disappear pretty quickly. I generally prefer lotions sold in bottles with a pump. And the price tag is way too high for my liking.
Disclaimer: I bought the product myself for my personal use and I am not affiliated with any company. I am not paid to do this review and everything I said here is my genuine opinion.


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Red Wings welcome Blue Jackets
(SportsNetwork.com) - The Detroit Red Wings hope to at least keep pace in the Atlantic Division on Thursday night when they play host to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Red Wings sit third in the division with 85 points, seven up on the fourth-place Boston Bruins but also five back of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The second-place Bolts are a point behind the Montreal Canadiens and all four playoff-hopeful clubs are in action tonight.
Detroit snapped a two-game slide on Monday with a 5-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers. Jimmy Howard made 36 saves, while Teemu Pulkkinen, Riley Sheahan and Pavel Datsyuk had a goal and an assist each.
Niklas Kronwall and Justin Abdelkader also scored in the Red Wings' fourth victory in six games. Henrik Zetterberg added three assists.
"It took us a while to get going. We had our goaltender give up the first one and I thought he played real well after that," said Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock. "Anytime you start and give up an ugly goal and you're on your heels, it takes you while to get going."
Howard is expected to start tonight and is 11-4-3 with a 1.83 goals against average and .932 save percentage in 20 games (19 starts) versus the Blue Jackets. He has shut them out three times in his career, including in each of the previous two meetings to give him an active shutout streak of 138 minutes and two seconds.
Howard posted 28 saves in a 5-0 victory at Columbus on Nov. 18, then took a tough-luck 1-0 shootout loss on Dec. 16 at home despite another 29 saves.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 saves for Columbus and Ryan Johansen and Boone Jenner had shootout tallies.
The Blue Jackets have won three of four and seven of their last nine versus the Red Wings.
Bobrovsky is in line to start both tonight and on Friday against the Edmonton Oilers. He is 5-3-1 versus the Red Wings with a 2.10 GAA, .934 save percentage and two shutouts.
Johansen and Bobrovsky both keyed Tuesday's 4-3 shootout win over the Carolina Hurricanes. Johansen had the lone tally of the tiebreaker and Bobrovsky followed with a stop on Jeff Skinner to seal the win.
Though Columbus gave up a pair of power-play goals, it got all three of its regulation tallies on the man advantage. Scott Hartnell scored twice and Rene Bourque also tallied.
"Our power play was big," Columbus head coach Todd Richards said. "We found a way to win this hockey game.
Bobrovsky, meanwhile, ended with 29 saves as Columbus improved to just 2-7-1 over its past 10 games.
Blue Jackets forward Nick Foligno was a late scratch due to illness, but could return tonight. However, both Brandon Dubinsky and Artem Anisimov are now questionable due to illness.


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The Cranke Hobart Fun Run and Walk is a charity event that runs along the picturesque Hobart Waterfront in August. The run raises funds for the Royal Hobart Hospital Paediatric Unit. There is a 5km and 2.5km event, which is capped at 1000 entrants.
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NEVADA TEST SITE, August 7, 1957: The tail or "after" section of a US Navy blimp is shown with the Stokes cloud in background. The unmanned, experimental blimp was in free flight more than five miles from ground zero when it was collapsed by the shock wave from the blast. On the ground to the left are the remains of the forward section.
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Near Huntersville in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
Abraham Alexander, Chairman • John McKnitt Alexander, Secretary • Ephraim Brevard, Clerk
Hezekiah Alexander • Ezra Alexander • Adam Alexander • Charles Alexander • Waightstill Avery • Hezekiah J. Balch • Richard Barry • Henry Downs • John Flennegin • John Foard • William Graham • James Harris
Richard Harris • Robert Irwin • William Kennon • Matthew McClure • Neil Morrison • Benjiman Patton • John Phifer • Thomas Polk • John Queary • David Reese • Zaccheus Wilson • John Davidson
Erected 1967 by Alexandriana Daughters of hte American Revolution Chapter.
Location. 35° 21.433′ N, 80° 49.36′ W. Marker is near Huntersville, North Carolina, in Mecklenburg County. Marker is on Old Statesville Road (State Highway 115) north of State Highway 24. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 9921 Old Statesville Rd, Charlotte NC 28269, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. The Oldest Cemetery and the Walls (approx. 4.3 miles away); The Servant Entrance (approx. 4.3 miles away); Hopewell Presbyterian Church "Upping Block" (approx. 4.3 miles away); General William Lee Davidson (approx. 4.3 miles away); The Church Building (approx. 4.3 miles away); Historic Latta Plantation (approx. 4.3 miles away); William Lee Davidson (approx. 4.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Huntersville.
Regarding Signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. This document was a prelude to our National Declaration of Independence. It has been stated that Thomas Jefferson took pieces of the "Meck Dec" to write the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was signed at "Alexandriana," J. M. Alexander's estate.
Also see . . .
1. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Excerpt from They Came from Ireland by F.W. Thorlton. (Submitted on July 15, 2007, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.)
2. Recreation of the Original Document. (Submitted on July 15, 2007.)
3. The MecDec Historical Timeline. (Submitted on July 15, 2007.)
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A friend of mine told me she had been to an exhibition in London called 'Go Figure New Fashion Illustration' and seen works by a Swedish female illustrator called Hanna Müller. My friend said she was very impressed and told me to check out her work. I did and became as impressed as my friend. I love the pale and sharp shapes and forms of her illustrations. I really find her work intriguing and interesting!
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