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Vener related the story of how the eponymous character in the tale keeps the king's death sentence at bay night after night with her thousand stories, until he finally falls in love with her and makes her his queen.

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Vener had punctuated each of his musical selections with cheerful introductions aimed at the musically uninitiated.

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He connected with the audience, and Vener and his orchestra wisely got out of his way, letting him take the lead and do his own flying.

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Vener attempted a half-hearted explanation of how the eclectic program fit together, but just as soon gave up trying, deciding to let it all hang out.

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Vener introduced his concertmaster, Pavel Farkas, whose violin would depict the voice of Princess Scheherazade.

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Vener reminded the audience before and after the performance of the violinist's advanced age, garnering further applause from the already enthusiastic crowd.

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"After seeing the similarities between these two men, I'm confident that Candidate Insight helped to avoid a very bad situation," Vener added.

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At the time of the last great subsidence, in glacial times, an arm of the sea extended across Sweden, submerging a great part of the littoral up to the Gulf of Bothnia, and including the present lakes Vener, Hjelmar and

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The case has been the talk of Vener's former classmates around the country.

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Vener recalled that the defendant, who was known to some classmates at Foothill as "Creepy Carlson," went through dramatic changes between junior high and high school.

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