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5 Questions is back with an amazingly sweet person I've met through blogging! Her name is Elann and she not only has an amazing blog, but she's just started her own clothing line. Oh and she's beautiful too. Read all about her below.
Name: Elann Zelie
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Occupation: Freelance Designer / Fashion Blogger
Website:www.elannzelie.com / www.zelieforshe.com
1. Tell us about your blog and your new business.
I started my blog to encourage girls with curves that they can have fun with fashion! I've always been a queen of fashion. Since I was young, I would cut up my clothes and make them, into what I desired it to be! My blog was the best place for me to showcase my loves and passions. Well encouraging other women with curves to do the same! Express the true you and don't let anything or anybody hold you back because of what they say is the norm!
My clothing line Zelie for She was always in the works! When I graduated from college with my degree in Fashion design it motivated me to dream big! I then worked with many other fashion houses and started to realize that no one is thinking of the girls with the curves. I decided I would start my own online boutique dedicated to plus size women. My boutique includes clothing I have personally designed as well as other manufactures. I hope for it to only grow into what I for see it to be! And trust me its Large and Curvy!
2. What inspires you in your daily life?
I am inspired by the world! I get inspiration from everything around me! The weather, architecture, fashion, music, my followers! But I will say my mother inspires me the most! Every day she gives me the motivation to keeping believing in all my dreams! To never give up!
3. Where are your favorite places to shop?
Zelie for She! Of course! But if I had to choose other companies I would say ASOS. They have found the nitch that was missing in the world of plus size fashion. Their designs and quality is on point!
4. What is your fashion weakness?
Oh dear! I would say online shopping! I don't have to get in my car and drive a far distance and deal with the crazy malls! I am online everyday looking for the newest tops, dress, shoes and accessories! But if I had to pick one piece of fashion it would be my Accessories! I can't live without my jewelry!
5. What is one fashion tip you live by?
If you put it on and you love it then that's all the matters in the end! Be you, dress for you!


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10 Ways to Love Peanut Butterby Dana Angelo White in Healthy Recipes, March 1, 2011
Calling all peanut butter lovers! We're celebrating Peanut Butter Lovers' Day and kicking off National Peanut Month by giving you 10 tummy-pleasing ways to sop up some peanutty decadence. We recommend choosing natural or homemade varieties for the truest flavor and best nutrition.
1: Solo
Peanut butter is just so good on it's own. A light smear on celery sticks, apple slices, or whole grain crackers and you have a heart-healthy and satisfying snack. Sprinkle on some sunflower seeds for crunch or a few raisins for natural sweetness. Each tablespoon has about 110 calories so portion out to keep the calories reasonable. Ever tried making your own nut butters?
RECIPE: Make Your Own Nut Butters
2: Energy Bars
Make your own simple and delicious version of an energy bar. Peanut butter acts as the healthy glue to hold them together.
RECIPE: Oatmeal Peanut Butter Energy Bars
3: Smoothies
Who needs ice cream when you have the creamy goodness of peanut butter?! Perfect for a post-workout protein boost or breakfast on the go.
RECIPE: Peanut Butter Split Smoothie
4: Stir Fry
Melt a spoonful of PB into stir fried noodles for a silky and flavorful sauce.
RECIPE: Stir Fry Basics
5: Salad Dressing
Make a thick and creamy dressing without the unhealthy fats. Toss it up with fresh veggies, cooked chicken and a citrus punch.
RECIPE: Chicken Salad with Peanut-Lime Vinaigrette
6: Satay
Grilled chicken, steak, and shrimp love peanut butter too. Combine with soy sauce, brown sugar, lime and chili paste for a sweet, sour and creamy dipping sauce.
RECIPE: Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce
7: Yogurt Dip
For another take on dips, mix creamy peanut butter with nonfat Greek yogurt for a light and tangy dipping sauce for strawberries, apple slices, carrot sticks or whole grain pretzels.
8: Sweet Treat
If you love peanut butter and chocolate, this is the munchie for you! Try to find banana chips that aren't fried in oil to save a few calories.
RECIPE: Memphis Banana Bites
9: Quick Breakfast
A healthy and satisfying breakfast doesn't have to be complicated or time consuming – it's as easy as 3 ingredients.
RECIPE: Peanut Butter & Green Apple Toast
10: Soup
Whisk in some peanut butter to soups and stews for a nutty flavor and unbeatable texture. Earthy vegetables like butternut squash and sweet potatoes make the best flavor combos.
RECIPE: Nutty Sweet Potato Soup
More Ways to Celebrate Peanut Butter Day
TELL US: How do you do PB?
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana's full bio »

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text: Phew!! I've finally uploaded all of my Full Figured Fashion Week photos to the Curves and Chaos Facebook page! View them here. It felt like it took forever, but it was sooooo worth it! I rediscovered my love for photography and can't wait to start taking a few classes and investing in equipment. Watching these models walk down the runway, I was so inspired to capture every moment. I've gathered a few of my favorite runway images below.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo centerfielder Tiffinee Harvey was named Sunshine State Conference Offensive Player of the Week, It was announced Monday by SSC Commissioner Jay Jones.
Individually, Harvey had an outstanding beginning to the 2010 season, while helping lead her team to a 3-3 record.
In six games, Harvey batted .529 and slugged at a 1.118 clip. She also possessed a .619 batting average and did not register a single error in 10 chances. In total, she collected nine hits in 17 at-bats and drove in a team-high six runs. The senior posted six extra-base hits, including four doubles and her first two runs of the year. She tied for the team lead in walks with four and went 1-for-1 in the stolen base department.
By the end of the week, Harvey had registered a hit in each of the six games.
In the season opening series against Webber, Harvey went a combined 2-for-5 with two doubles and two runs scored. She stole one base and walked in a pair of at-bats as the Lions and Warriors split the season-opening series.
At the SSC/GSC Crossover Tournament in Pensacola, Fla., the centerfielder went 2-for-3 with one run scored and registered an RBI in the first of two games against North Alabama. She also blasted her first home run of the season. In game two, Harvey exploded for three hits in three at-bats, knocking in three runs and scoring twice. On top of her two doubles, the senior connected on her second home run in as many games. Her go-ahead home run in the sixth inning, propelled the Lions to the 6-4 win.
She rounded out the week with a pair of 1-for-3 efforts against West Florida and Palm Beach Atlantic. Against the Sailfish, Harvey delivered the game-winning hit in the bottom of the seventh inning against the Sailfish to push the Lions to a 3-2 win.
Harvey is the first spring sport student-athlete to earn a Player of the Week nod, and the first Lion to earn the honor since Danielle Bletso was named Player of the Week on November 25, 2009. She is the 12th Saint Leo student-athlete to earn the honor this season.
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Be CreativeLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
Using one sheet of paper (8&1/2 by 11 inches), support a heavy hardcover book 1 inch above a tabletop. You may use this one sheet of paper, scissors, a pencil and tape only. Once you are done, only the paper may hold up the book.
HintI did not use a full sheet of paper. Try it first.
AnswerCut the paper into six strips, 1 inch wide by 11 inches long. Wind each strip around a pencil to make a tight cylinder. Slide the cylinder off the pencil and fasten with a small piece of tape. Finally, stand all 6 cylinders on their ends in a cross arrangement, with 4 at the corners of the intended book and two in the center of book, side by side, along the long axis of the book. Lay the book on its side on top of this arrangement. It will hold the book one inch off the tabletop.
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So since we can't do the second annual Paul Mara Memorial Boneheads/Festivus Playoff Beard Extravaganza Contest and Picnic … how about we have a little game to see who can best predict the first round of the playoffs?
Anybody got a catchy name for that?
I have a copy of "100 Ranger Greats" sent to me by co-author John Halligan just before he passed away. It will go to whomever picks best. I'll ask youse guys for suggestions for the best possible tiebreaker in case more than one 'Head goes 8 for 8, or whatever the winning number is.
And we're not having a shootout, so just forget about that right now.
The rules: Pick all eight first-round series and the number of games, right in the comments section. Do it by 7 p.m. tonight. Whoever picks the most series correctly wins the book. OK?
Here are the Official Blogfather picks:
Caps over Canadiens in 5.
Devils over Flyers in 6.
Bruins over Sabres in 7.
Penguins over Senators in 5.
Sharks over Avalanche in 6.
Blackhawks over Predators in 6.
Canucks over Kings in 5.
Red Wings over Coyotes in 6.
One of the good things about the Rangers' elimination is that the great pro Sam Rosen will be doing some the Versus games instead of Cliche Machine Beninati.


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Bexar bans burning but fireworks are OK — for now, at least
Updated 11:02 pm, Thursday, December 27, 2012
Alarmed by wind-driven fire danger, Bexar County commissioners Thursday issued an emergency 90-day ban on most outdoor burning in unincorporated areas.
Restrictions on open fires outside city limits include trash fires, but barbecues still are allowed.
Residents can incinerate household trash in barrels with metal wire-mesh screens to control sparks.
No last-minute restrictions were ordered for New Year's fireworks, which are on sale through Tuesday. However, County Judge Nelson Wolff will consider Sunday whether to issue a 60-hour emergency declaration.
On Thursday, a major fireworks vendor announced it is voluntarily pulling missiles with fins and rockets with sticks from its shelves.
News Channel
Officials are asking the county's other four major vendors to follow Alamo Fireworks' lead, which would make an emergency declaration unnecessary.
"That would be a major relief, because what goes up and gets caught by wind, you can't control," Fire Marshal Craig Roberts said. "That's where the problem is."
He emphasized that discharging fireworks in San Antonio or other cities is illegal. Deputy fire marshals and sheriff's deputies will be watching for infractions Sunday and especially Monday, he said.
The scale used to assess fireworks danger still is in the safe zone, but officials urged residents to use caution and common sense.
"Everybody needs to be careful," Wolff said.
Roberts said illegal private fireworks shows in San Antonio have become notorious. Displays that have been held in the Marbach Road-Loop 1604 area "rival" the city's official show at HemisFair, he said.
"Some of us have a hard time even breathing out there," Roberts said.
The burn ban was approved after Roberts recounted several recent brush fires, including a 350-acre Christmas Day blaze in Converse that closed parts of Loop 1604.
The fires, one of which was caused by a resident burning trash, were fueled by brisk winds and dry vegetation. No structures were lost, but crops were damaged.
"These conditions aren't going to change until we get some significant rain," Roberts said.


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God's Love We Deliver Celebrates Thanksgiving with Joan Rivers and More, 11/22
Thanksgiving is a very special time at God's Love, especially this year. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy's destruction, God's Love delivered 8,000 meals to people displaced by Sandy and 2,300 emergency meal kits called "Sandy Bags" to our clients. Last week we cooked 200 meals which our friends at Douglas Elliman brought to a group of people they've "adopted" in the Far Rockaways.
More than 900 generous volunteers will join God's Love We Deliver staff, celebrities, local politicians, and board members in preparing and delivering a record 3,400 meals for people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life altering illnesses in New York City, and nearby Hudson County, New Jersey. We also offer each of our clients a guest meal so that they can invite a friend or family member to spend the holiday with them. These meals are delivered in a cheerful, hand-decorated bag designed by local school children.
Each household will also receive a holiday gift basket, containing crackers, oatmeal, nuts, raisins, teas, and other treats to help make the day special.
Because of Sandy and our recovery from it, God's Love had a compressed time period in which to get everything prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday, while simultaneously continuing to cook and deliver meals to our clients in the NYC metropolitan area. Everything from kitchen prep, volunteer coordination, client RSVPs and more had to be done in a few short days. Despite all the obstacles that Hurricane Sandy presented, there was never any question that we would be there for our clients and families. This is our biggest Thanksgiving feast ever and we are thankful to celebrate with our community.
Celebrities, Notables and Politicians volunteering at God's Love on Thanksgiving Day are:
Joan Rivers (10:00 a.m.) - Star entertainer and Board member
Melissa Rivers (10:00 a.m.) - Actor, television host, producer
Bill Thompson (7:30 a.m.)
Maria Del Carmen Arroyo (10:00 a.m.) - NYC Council Member, District 17 (Bronx)
Rosie Mendez (TBD) - NYC Council Member, District 2 (Manhattan)
§ Ray Kelly (TBD) - NYC Police Commissioner
Daniel Squadron (TBD) - NYS Senator (Manhattan and Brooklyn)
Yvette Clarke (10:00 a.m.) - United States Congress, District 11 (Brooklyn)
§ Leila Lopes (9:00 a.m.) - Miss Universe
Anne Keating (7:00 a.m.) - Senior VP of Public Relations, Bloomingdale's
The Imperial Court (8:30 a.m.) - A not-for-profit organization that raises funds for LGBT causes
This year's delicious home-made menu includes:
· Pumpkin Bisque Soup
· Roast Turkey with Gravy
· Cornbread Stuffing
· Carrots, Brussels Sprouts & Pearl Onions
· Sweet Potatoes
· Cranberry Relish
· Apple Raisin Cinnamon Crumble
It all takes place on Thanksgiving Day, tomorrow, Thursday, November 22, 2012, beginning at 7:00 a.m. at God's Love We Deliver, 166 Avenue of the Americas @ Spring Street in SoHo.
God's Love is the New York metropolitan area's leading provider of life-sustaining meals and nutrition counseling for people living with severe illnesses. Begun as an HIV/AIDS service organization, today God's Love provides for people living with more than 200 individual diagnoses. God's Love cooks and home delivers the specific, nutritious meals a client's severe illness and treatment so urgently require. Meals are individually tailored for each client by one of our Registered Dietitians, and all clients have access to unlimited nutrition counseling. God's Love supports families by providing meals for the children and senior caregivers of its clients. All of the agency's services are provided free of charge, and in its history of more than 25 years, God's Love We Deliver has never had a waiting list. For more information, visit www.godslovewedeliver.org. Follow God's Love on Facebook and follow them on Twitter, @godslovenyc. God's Love is a non-sectarian organization.


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Selena Gomez Style: How to Get Her Look
Selena Gomez Has Youth and Sophistication: How She Does It
Happy 19th birthday, Selena Gomez! It's kind of amazing that the young celeb has had so many impressive red carpet moments, and she's still in her teens. It's not easily that a child star makes that transition from family movies into young Hollywood, but Selena Gomez is already beating the odds. With the recent release of Monte Carlo and a music career that may well just be heating up, too, Selena's got no shortage of red carpet appearances and stage performances. We're most impressed by her effortless transition from teen — slouchy tees and skinny jeans — to sophisticated star donning Dolce and Gabbana, Burberry, and J. Mendel with an ease that belies her 19 years. What seem to be Summer baby Selena's style staples? Think evening shorts, flowy tops, and statement heels to make up a playful, yet poised, wardrobe. On her birthday, we're celebrating some of Selena's chicest Summer-style moments.


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Assistance dogs meet their new owners
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Special assistance dogs trained by Canine Companions for Independence are paired up with people needing help with everyday tasks, from getting milk from the refrigerator or retrieving household items. Videojournalist: Ed Betz (Aug. 7, 2013)
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The foreclosure auction of the mixed-use Perkins Rowe development is scheduled at 10 a.m. March 20 at the U.S. District Courthouse, 777 Florida St., U.S. Marshal Kevin Harrison said in court filings Monday.
The minimum bid must be at least $63.5 million, Harrison's filings show.
Perkins Rowe is near Bluebonnet Boulevard and Perkins Road.
KeyBank National Association, an Ohio lender based in Cleveland, filed its foreclosure action in July 2009. Bank officials said at that time that the lender had not received any payments on $170 million in construction loans from either developer J.T. "Tommy" Spinosa or his three Perkins Rowe firms since October 2008.
U.S. District Judge James J. Brady ruled in September 2012 that Spinosa, who personally guaranteed his firms' Perkins Rowe debts, owed the bank $201.9 million in unpaid principal and interest on the debt.
The judge added that interest would continue to build at a rate of $32,510 for each day after Aug. 15, meaning the additional interest totaled more than $5.6 million as of Tuesday.
KeyBank hired the New York firm of Cushman & Wakefield Inc. to appraise the market value of Perkins Rowe. Cushman & Wakefield reported in November that the development was worth $95 million at that time.
Perkins Rowe has 87 condominiums, 226 apartments, more than 60 shops and restaurants, a bookstore, grocery store, fitness center, a movie complex and a pharmacy.
A sale of Perkins Rowe for $63.5 million would shrink KeyBank's loss to approximately $131 million, considering more than $13 million in profits Brady's court-appointed manager — Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Inc. — has earned for the lender since late 2009.
Because Spinosa personally guaranteed repayment of his Perkins Rowe companies' debts to KeyBank, the lender could attempt to recover any losses from Spinosa's personal assets.
Spinosa and his companies could block the foreclosure sale by filing for bankruptcy court protection from creditors. As of 6 p.m. Monday, no such filings appeared in public records.


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Get your child boots they can be excited about! These Butterfly Western Boots by Roper have a light module embedded within them that makes the butterflies light up with every step! With the classic western cowgirl design and floral stitching detail, your little cowgirl will be fascinated and in love with their boots! They can wear these to school, around the ranch, or traveling around town with their mom and pops.
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Battle at Luzon; Philipine Islands
The 1st Battalion, 188th Glider Infantry Regiment is cited for outstanding heroism, and conspicuous performance of duty in action against the enemy on Luzon, Philippine Islands from 31 January to 5 February 1945.
During this period, this airborne battalion by its aggressiveness and courage contributed immeasurably to the rapid advance of an airborne division to Manila. Despite the disadvantages imposed by lack of transportation and small-sized companies, the battalion landed at Nasugbu, 31 January 1945, against the fire of enemy automatic weapons and artillery.
The battallion proceeded rapidly inland by a forced march of twenty miles in twenty-four hours. En route, they reduced the Japanese beach defenses, captured the towns of Wawa and Nasugbu, Nasugbu Airport, the strategic Palico Bridge, and were attacking the main Japanese line of resistance in the Cariliao Defile.
Without halting and in the face of heavy machine-gun fire, mortar and 105mm and 155mm artillery fire, the battalion attacked and seized Mount Aiming, the dominant terrain of the Japanese position. The battalion defended this position and held it through numerous enemy counterattacks. When one Japanese attack thrust through the lines and cut the battalion off from the remainder of the regiment, the exhausted men attacked and anniliated the Japanese force.
In conjunction with two other battalions, the 1st Battalion overran the enemy position and proceeded on foot toward Manila, reaching Siland before being picked up in trucks.
At the end of the fifth day, the battalion, en route to Manila, had marched on foot a distance of forty-five miles, had fought three minor and one major engagement, and with tireless determination was preparing itself for Nichols Field.
The unhesitating subordination of personal safety to the task in hand, and the magnificent courage, fortitude and personal stamina displayed by the soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 188th Glider Infantry Regiment are in accordance with the highest traditions of the military service.
(General Orders No. 69, Headquarters Eighth Army,, 25 June 1945, as approved by the commander in Chief , Pacific.) [ General Order No. 68, War Department, Washington, 14 August 1945]


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Intro to Essential Oils
Kim Bryant ~ Armed With Health
Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
doTERRA Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade essential oils represent the safest and purest essential oils available today. Join us for this free introductory class where you will learn:
• What are essential oils?
• Which oils should I use?
• How do I use them?
• What can I use them for?
• Where do I learn more?
• Which oils can I use to help with weightloss?
doTERRA diamond, Hayley Hobson, will flying in from Colorado to teach the class!
The first 10 people who RSVP AND ATTEND each class will receive a free bottle of Wild Orange essential oil and a doTERRA Living Magazine! (limited to one per person per day, sorry, if you attend all 3 events I might come up with a special bonus but I only have a limited number of Wild Orange to give away!)
Bring a friend and come to this FREE educational class to learn more.
When & Where
St Paul Lutheran Church (Bulverde)
Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)
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A WINCHESTER charity is urgently calling for volunteers to help the city's homeless.
Winchester Churches Nightshelter needs more helping hands in order to keep its doors open on Sundays.
The charity opens every night of the year, offering food and accommodation, to local homeless people but said that feedback from residents indicated Sundays were in more demand than first thought.
Michele Price, Nightshelter manager, said: "When we heard that some of the residents had started to call this particular day of the week 'suicide Sunday' we really felt that something needed to be done. Boredom, lack of social engagement and also lack of access to shelter and support services are all of course huge problems for our guests to deal with on any day of the week, but we felt that opening on Sundays would go some way to alleviate these issues on what is seen by many as a particularly tough and lonely day."
She added: "We rely heavily on the help of volunteers to offer this service however, and without volunteer help we will struggle to continue our Sunday daytime opening, so we are asking anyone who is able to spare just a couple of hours of their time to please get in touch. They'll be working alongside our staff team helping to make the tea, doing a spot of cleaning, folding some linen or simply chatting to our guests – the really important thing is that we have enough people on site to open up!"
Anyone interested is urged to contact the shelter directly by email firstname.lastname@example.com or calling 01962 862050.


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Heat the oil in a medium skillet and sauté garlic until golden brown. Add pepper flakes, sea salt, black pepper, beans, bean cooking liquid and tomatoes. Simmer for 4 to 5 minutes. Add the basil and cook 1 to 2 minutes until wilted. Turn off the flame and mix in the lemon juice. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 350°. Place the baguette slices on a baking sheet, and bake about 5 minutes, be careful not to burn. Remove and top slices with the bean and tomato mixture.
Per serving - 105 calories, 3 gram fat (23% calories from fat), 3 gram protein, 17 gram carbohydrate, 2 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 190 milligram sodium


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The NHS has announced a new five-year strategy for healthcare in southwest London following the scrapping of the Better Services Better Value (BSBV) review.
A draft of the new programme, called South West London Collaborative Commissioning (SWLCC), was published this morning by Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
The strategy, which aims to limit the spiralling costs of healthcare while improving the quality of care, will be discussed for approval at public meetings held by each of the CCG's governing bodies over the next few weeks.
If approved, the details of its implementation will be debated by the CCGs with healthcare trusts and health and wellbeing boards, including the role of each local trust in delivering the strategy.
SWLCC replaces BSBV, a review aiming to reconfigure services across St Helier, Kingston, Croydon and St George's hospitals, which was scrapped in February.
Epsom Hospital, which had been part of the review since late 2012, left BSBV in November last year after the area's GPs, sitting on Surrey Downs CCG, voted to reject its proposals.
Under BSBV's plans, both Epsom and St Helier hospitals would have lost their A&E, and maternity departments as well as their children's departments, which Croydon hospital would also have lost.
A SWLCC spokesman said the new strategy has been designed to meet a number of clinical and financial challenges facing the NHS nationally - including a rising demand for healthcare; a shortage of specialist staff; and a predicted shortfall of £210m in the six CCGs' budgets over the next five years.
In addition to this shortfall, a spokesman said that Epsom and St Helier, Croydon, Kingston and St George's NHS trusts have to identify an additional £360m worth of savings over the same period.
The spokesman said that SWLCC aims to meet 100 per cent of the London Quality Standards by 2018-19 - standards setting out what good care should look like, developed by clinicians and patients.
He said the strategy aims to ensure that seven-day services are delivered by 2015-16, that networks of GPs are developed, that standards of community-based services are raised, and that most planned operations in South West London requiring an overnight stay will take place in a planned care centre within five years.
In contrast to BSBV, SWLCC also aims to reshape mental health services because "mental health services often fail to provide support at an early enough stage, leading to service users becoming more seriously unwell and having to be admitted to a mental health hospital".
Dr Howard Freeman, chairman of Merton CCG and the SWLCC strategic commissioning board, said: "The CCGs have been working together and talking to local clinicians during our first year, to work out the best ways of tackling the clinical and financial problems that we have inherited.
"Everyone working in the NHS knows that things need to change and the challenge will only get tougher in the years ahead.
"The reality is that we face a stark choice between change planned and agreed by local clinicians or some services becoming clinically and financially unsustainable - which will ultimately lead to changes over which we have no control.
"We can only address this by working together - the good news is that if we address it in the right way, we can significantly improve services and outcomes for our patients.
"This is a high level strategy, which sets out the standards that we as commissioners expect for our patients.
"Central to the strategy is the need to change the way we deliver health services to meet the changing needs of our population.
"This means we need to spend more money on services based in the community, keeping people out of hospital unless they really need to be there.
"The NHS has been talking to local people about the challenges we face for the last three years and recently held further meetings as part of the national Call to Action initiative.
"All of the concerns and points that people have raised with us have been taken into consideration and that will continue during the implementation phase.
"The one thing we really cannot do is to opt out of the challenges we face.
"Things do need to change if we are to provide safe, high quality and sustainable services across south west London."
To read the strategy in full, click here.
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Luke Aaron Coleman - October 19, 2011
To Aaron and Sara Coleman of Gothenburg on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital, a son, Luke Aaron, weighing seven pounds, one ounce. He was welcomed home by a brother, Caleb.
Paternal grandparents are Dean and Melody Coleman of Arnold. Maternal grandparents are Dale and Joan Stewart of McCook.
Great-grandparents include Harold and Mildred Coleman of Merna, Richard and Rita Polak of David City, Melva Warren of Dunning and Norine Stewart of North Platte.


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Press Release: BettyConfidential EIC Myrna Blyth Named One of Min's Social Media Superstars
Contact: Jen Shelby
BettyConfidential EIC Myrna Blyth Named One of Min's Social Media Superstars
NEW YORK, December 9, 2009. BettyConfidential.com (the fastest–growing women's Web site with original content) is pleased to announce that Editor-in-Chief Myrna Blyth is among Min's "Top 21 Social Media Superstars."
Media veteran, acclaimed author and BettyConfidential.com Editor-in-Chief Myrna Blyth has been named one of Min's "Top 21 Social Media Superstars" and will be honored today at the Min Top 21 Event in New York City.
Min, a media-based consumer and B2B magazine, will also honor the Top 21 Most Intriguing People in Media at the event. Blyth and the other "superstars" were chosen by the Min team and its outside advisors and are described as "those executives who have leveraged the power and influence of social media platforms for their brands or partner brands and stand as the first generation of superstars."
"I am very pleased to be honored by Min and take it as a tribute to BettyConfidential, which is a very exciting and increasingly popular website that really talks to women about what they want to know when they want to know it," Blyth said.
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Computex 2006: 300W GPUs, Conroe, HDMI Video Cards and Lots of Motherboardsby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/5/2006 10:24 PM EST
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mindless1 - Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - linkNice coverage. These new toys leave me drooling. Now off I go to find a smallish nuclear reactor to power everything. LOL. Reply
sri2000 - Friday, June 09, 2006 - linkYou just need to get yourself a "Mr. Fusion" and you'll be all set.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Fusion">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Fusion Reply
bespoke - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkToo bad the new DFI boards still have that hideous fan on the NF chipset - that little bugger runs at 4,000 to 5,000 and is terribly loud.
I can't wait to upgrade to Conroe, ditch NF4 and get back to a quiet (yet nicely performing) PC. Reply
Griswold - Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - linkDuh.. newsflash, there are also NF4 boards without fans - just not from DFI. What really sucks about the fan on the DFI board is, that it breaks after 3 months and you end up replacing it with a better fan. Reply
Stele - Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - link
there are also NF4 boards without fans - just not from DFI
Although that's not much of a use if you're aiming to get a DFI board - which I think is where he was coming from. :)
For one reason or another DFI does not seem to be interested, or at least eager, to implement more/more effective passive cooling solutions on their products. Besides the lack of noise, passive cooling's greatest advantage is the fact that it doesn't have moving parts that are prone to failure like fans... as you found out.
At least they did take a unique step in implementing a digital integrated VR design on their board... its remarkable compactness and 'clean' layout without large electrolytic capacitors makes it really worth looking at for motherboard power circuits. Can't wait till more details of their implementation and tests thereof surface. Reply
R3MF - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkwas the ECS miniITX A64 motherboard with an nForce chipset.
i would love to see a AM2 MCP61-S variant with two dimm slots and PCI-E 16x card! Reply
bldckstark - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkDual redundant power supplies in the Asus 1U server would seem to indicate that there are three or four power supplies housed within, but I believe the actuality is that there are only two right? Redundant means secondary as I understand it. Dual redundant means two secondaries. Therefore dual redundant PS's include a backup power supply and then a backup of the backup power supply. Which is it? Are there 2 or 3 power supplies in that thing? Reply
hoppa - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkGod I am so sick of hearing about x new card that is "even better than" the already $500 dual x1950.9 XFIRE XLI+ v2.0 Z
I miss the days when those cards, the best cards, maxed at $300, the awesome stuff was at $200, and you could do quite well for $150. Now $150 is a joke. Reply
One43637 - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkis it just me or does the GB motherboard offerings remind you of the Asus motherboards (A8N32 & P5N32) that were released last year... Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkHigh time the dorks at Nvidia and ATI start working on the power saving front. At least they seemm to have that in mind for the follow-up generations... This only means that R600 and G80 wont make it into my computer until the following cards reduce the power envelope by quite a bit.
*shakes fist* Reply
ceefka - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkJust when Intel has attractive numbers on power consumption and also AMD aims again for lower numbers these GPUs negate all their effort and have you on the look out for an even bigger PSU or an additional PSU. How can ATI or NVIDIA justify this? I'd like a good reason. Reply
phusg - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkI think you've already given the only reason (CPU's using less). I won't call it a 'good' reason, but all the same. Reply
sri2000 - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkWhen I read that line about 1000-1200 watt PSU's, all I could think of was Doc Brown in Back to the Future yelling "1.21 Gigawatts!?!"... (yeah I know - kilowatt != gigawatt... but still).
Griswold - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkWho knows, maybe ATI/Nvidia bundle plutonium batteries (as seen in deep space probes) with their cards in the future? Not only to feed the cards but mainly to power your cooling equipment... Reply
segagenesis - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkExactly my first thought. The concept of a seperate external supply for a graphics card is already ludicrous to me, if this becomes standard then I would hate to see future progression from there. Does anyone remember the Taco Town SNL skit? I desire better video as much as anyone else, but I draw the line when I need a nuclear power station to run it. ATI/nVidia must have forgotten that electricity DOES cost money.
Needless to say... impressive Conroe boards, for a premium. Reply
Stele - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkAll in all an excellent article, good coverage and of course lovely photos :P
The Asus Pluto board is interesting indeed, especially the audio riser card. By the way, anyone noticed that the riser card is nicknamed Charon? For the uninitiated, Pluto was the Greek god of the Underworld, separated from the living world by the river Styx. Charon was the boatman who ferried the dead across that river to Pluto's domain. The two have hence been generally closely associated with one another. In astronomy, Pluto's moon is also named Charon, for the same reason. Nice bit of humour on Asus' side :P Reply
punko - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkActually, Pluto is the Roman name for the Greek God Hades. Charon was indeed the ferryman of the Underworld, but the river wasn't Styx, but Acheron. I believe that there were four famous rivers in the Underworld, Lethe was another, but I can't remember the fourth.
Stele - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - link
Actually, Pluto is the Roman name for the Greek God Hades.
It is another Greek name for Hades (from Greek ????t??, Plouton), but it was adopted by and hence much more commonly associated with Roman mythology.
Charon was indeed the ferryman of the Underworld, but the river wasn't Styx, but Acheron
Oh heh! Styx was the popular misconception... forgot about it. Thanks for correcting me! There were five rivers of Hades: Acheron (the river of sorrow), Cocytus (lamentation), Phlegethon (fire), Styx (hate) and... Lethe (forgetfulness). I guess that explains why you remember Lethe but forgot the others! ;) Reply
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkDidn't really see anything new here.
Audio on a riser card - DFI has been doing it for awhile now.
Lighting around the I/O shield - Been done before.
Debug code readout - Been on numerous boards for quite some time. Asus just made it viewable from outside the case. Reply
Stele - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkNo, I wasn't saying that anything was new in the industry, but new at least to Asus. IMHO the concept motherboard was an interesting exhibit, even if it isn't the only one of its kind.
More to the point, what's noteworthy is that Asus - along with other manufacturers as well, hopefully - is considering following DFI's Karajan module concept. That can only be a good thing, as long as the manufacturers sincerely mean to improve noise immunity and not just throw it in as a gimmick to charge a premium for.
As for the other ideas... interesting but not terribly unique, as you've already pointed out. Reply
phusg - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - link
Debug code readout - Been on numerous boards for quite some time. Asus just made it viewable from outside the case.
No, transparent side windows already did that ;-) Reply
OCedHrt - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkSo what happened to ASRock boards (supposedly page 18)? Reply
bongobear - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkI'd like to see what ASRock have lined up as well, however the mini-ITX Albatron boards that were shown in their place were a nice surprise. If they can tweak those a little and get them out at a nice price, very tempting.... Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkAnand has a ton of pictures and information from his trip, so he'll probably provide a second update later. However, I've updated the page links to correctly reflect the Albatron content on page 17. Reply
Stele - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - link
...in that they are not standard electrolytic capacitors filled with liquid. All of the capacitors [...] use a solid chemical compound designed to better withstand higher temperatures, thus preventing leaking or other capacitor related failures.
There are actually two major types, one (the more common) being filled with solid compound as noted, and are simply called solid electrolytic, or solid aluminium electrolytic capacitors. The other type uses non-solid electrolyte. Both types are better than the usual electrolytic capacitors of course in terms of resistance to high temperatures - generally around 1,500-3,000 hours at 105°C-125°C. Another useful characteristic is that they perform well in high-frequency, high-capacitance applications, which is one reason they've often been used on graphics cards, for example.
They are however not immune from leaking and other capacitor related failures... it's just that they can survive prolonged exposure to higher temperatures for longer periods of time than the regular electrolytic capacitors before they too fail.
Gigabyte still only offers a 3-year warranty on this board, despite the technically more reliable capacitors.
This, unfortunately, is non sequitur i.e. it does not follow. Component choice is but one of so many factors in determining the stability, performance and reliability of a product. A cheapo backyard manufacturer could boast 16-phase power, all-Nichicon/Rubycon solid electrolytic caps, Philips MOSFETs and AMP connectors all around but would still fail if the circuits were designed by a half-baked engineer fresh out of college and poorly manufactured. Of course, it could be used by the said cheapo manufacturer as a gimmick to fleece the gullible consumers (of which unfortunately there are very many) who rocket to seventh heaven on seeing such big names. Or a not-so-cheapo manufacturer could make their product more attractive by using such flash while cutting corners on areas where consumers probably won't notice in perhaps the first 6 months of use.
Speaking of gimmick, as mentioned above these capacitors are more useful in high-frequency, high-temperature applications. Naturally not every single circuit nor square inch of a motherboard would call for them and hence the extra cost of 100% solid electrolytic capacitors is unnecessary - they cost in the order of 3-5 times that of regular electrolytic caps, and when added up the savings could certainly be better used elsewhere on the board. For now, at least, other than the circuitries that really could benefit from the solid electrolytic capacitors, I would agree with the other manufacturers that indiscriminate plastering of the board with them is rather more marketing gimmick than engineering. Reply
Viditor - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkAnand/Jarred...I have a few questions if you get time.
1. How is the RAS functionality for Woodcrest with the Asus server board?
2. Do the FBDIMMs require active cooling, and if so how much?
3. When Asus released the A8N32-SLI, they hinted at releasing more boards with the 8 phase power...have/will they?
4. Any chance on finding out what the functionality is for the 1207 pins on Socket F?
Cheers! And thanks for the article...! Reply
bob4432 - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkafter all this time and the floppy still lives on ...... ;) Reply
Calin - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkFloppy is still the only way to load certain drivers for hard drive controllers in Windows (during installation). And as long as this will be the case, the floppy will live on Reply
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkFortunately, this problem goes away with Vista. I'm hoping that in a couple of motherboard revs, those damn things will go away. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkI linked in higher res images for some of the more interesting photos Anand took. If you would like to see any others in more detail, let me know (via email) and I will see about adding those. Note that some images are left in "lo-def" because it reduces blurriness. :)
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lopri - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - link
Unfortunately due to changes in the VRM requirements for Conroe, no current LGA-775 motherboards will work with the new processor.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I thought the next gen Intel chips are supposed to consume less power? I admit that I'm ignorant when it comes to such things, but the common sense tells me that VRM which supports TDP 130 should have no problem handling TDP 80? Could anyone elaborate?
DigitalFreak - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkIt happens every time Intel releases a new CPU. The then current chipset will support the CPU, but then the "VRM issue" pops up. It's a scam by Intel to force you to buy a new motherboard (preferrably with their chipset, of course). AMD doesn't seem to have this problem. Reply
ShapeGSX - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkYeah, slam that AM2 CPU into your old Socket 939 board. It will work! AMD doesn't require you to buy a new motherboard to buy their latest and greatest!
Conroe is a huge departure from the P4. The fact that it works at all in LGA775 and with old chipsets is impressive. Reply
phusg - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkBol(*#*&s, digitalfreak is right, of course this is a scam. Just because AMD is now using the same scam doesn't mean this is the way it has to be. I'm sure it wouldn't cost too many transistors to build in a legacy mode on the CPU die. Reply
Spoelie - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkU guys are missing the point, the X2 dual core socket 939 cpu with TDP 89w works on the socket 939 motherboards that were available at launch 2 years ago, when .13µ newcastle cpus were the only game in town, barring any bios updates of course.
Same thing for socket A, altho not at the right FSB speed depending on chipset.
AMD only forces you to update if there is a significant feature difference that can't be worked out in the current socket. It seems that intel engineers its cpus without 'socket environment' consideration and then engineers a specific chipset for it, while amd engineers its cpus to fit in a specific socket environment that they defined a standard for long ago. Reply
ShapeGSX - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkSo you don't think that lower power consumption due to the new VRM is a significant feature difference? It is all the technical press is talking about these days.
The LGA775 socket was launched in June of 2004. So, here we are 2 years later with the same socket for Intel, but a change to the voltage regulator. And you can run dual core processors on what was originally a socket meant just for one core, just like AMD.
Socket 939 was also launched 2 years ago, and it is already obsolete.
Sounds like both companies have similar track records, as of late. Perhaps the march of technology these days simply will not allow for using the same motherboard for more than two years. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkIt could be that the VRM requirements are for lower voltages or cleaner power or something along those lines. Also, just because Conroe runs cooler than Presler doesn't mean it can't have more stringent voltage requirements. I wouldn't be surprised if this is less of a case of *can't* run Conroe but more can't run 100% *stably*. The newer 975X chipsets/motherboards will probably have a few slight tweaks to fix some erratta encountered with current 975X designs. Reply
giantpandaman2 - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkConroe has new power states that aren't supported by older motherboards. For example, a Conroe would try to go to "sleep" and the motherboard wouldn't supply the right level of power to it. Reply
soydios - Monday, June 05, 2006 - link1 kilowatt power supply? bloody hell
I like all the pictures. But I'm still waiting for Asus AM2 RD580. Reply
highlandsun - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkAny news on iRAM2 or anything similar? Reply
Missing Ghost - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkwow, all I can say is wow. I am quite impressed with Gigabyte desktop motherboards. From the pictures it looks like a better design than even what DFI would do. Also the ASUS socket F board looks excellent. Quite impressive since I am used to think that ASUS' server boards are inferior to like supermicro/iwill/tyan. Reply
krwilsonn - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkPage 18 of the article seems to be mixed up since the Albatron boards are showing up instead of the Asrock. Reply
Regs - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkActually consider what AMD is doing at all. Boy times have changed! ;)
I'm a life long AMD fan too. Short life, but life long. Reply
bob661 - Monday, June 05, 2006 - link
quote:Where have you been? It's been like that for quite a few years now. Remember when DDR2 was actually on the market? Who wasn't using DDR2 then? Reply
Actually consider what AMD is doing at all. Boy times have changed! ;)
bob661 - Monday, June 05, 2006 - link
quote:Figures. Reply
Unfortunately due to changes in the VRM requirements for Conroe, no current LGA-775 motherboards will work with the new processor.
bob661 - Monday, June 05, 2006 - link
quote:Interesting. Looks like Conroe's may come at a premium until Intel can increase production. Reply
There is a lot of concern about the availability of Conroe, as Intel has only committed to around 25% of its mainstream and high end desktop processor shipments being Conroe by the end of this year. After Dell and HP buy up all the Conroes they will want for their systems, there simply may not be any left for the end user to buy in the channel market. Alternatively, there may end up being some supply in the channel market but at significant markups due to a shortage.
shabby - Monday, June 05, 2006 - link
Remember that the HDMI connector can carry both audio and video data, and by outfitting cards with a header for internal audio passthrough (from your soundcard/motherboard to the graphics card) you take advantage of that feature of the HDMI specification
I dont get it, what is the point of sending audio to the monitor? Reply
Furen - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkIt's meant to be sent to an HD TV. Monitors can just use DVI for digital signaling. Reply
shabby - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkAnd whats the point of that too? Its supposed to go to the reciever not the tv. Reply
OrSin - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkDo you even know why hdmi exist. Most HDTV that have HDMI connects also has audio out.
YOu connect everything to your tv and send out only singles you need. My guess is you don't have a HDTV. Reply
shabby - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkYes i have one, i just dont see the point of sending audio to the tv, and then back out to the reciever when you can do just send it directly from the hddvd/bluray to the reciever instead of from the hddvd to tv then back to reciever.
Sending audio to one more spot might degrade quality, i said might, so why not send it directly to the reciever?
ShapeGSX - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkI have an HDTV, and I never use the TV's speakers. Why have HDTV but crap 2 channel audio? Instead, I connect the digital audio to my receiver for 5.1 surround. Reply
epsilonparadox - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkIf you have an HDTV with more than one HDMI port and a SPDIF out, you can connect multiple HDMI sources to the TV and you can take an optical cable from the TV to your receiver since HDMI carries 5.1 channel audio. Reply
TauRusIL - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkGuys, the HDMI cable will go to your receiver carrying both video and audio, then the receiver will send the video out to your HDTV. That's the setup that makes sense to me. No point in sending audio to the HDTV directly. Most newer generation receivers include HDMI switching already. Reply
namechamps - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkLots of people will want to run the HDMI to their HDTV. Just because you dont understand it doesn't mean there isn't a very good reason.
Here is my setup. I have a cable connection connected directly to the HDTV (cable card slot), and my xbox360 hooked to HDMI. My next project is too add a HD-DVD player and when HDMI video cards become common I will have an HTPC hooked by HDMI also. So I got 4 inputs (cable internal and xbox360, HD-DVD players, HTPC on HDMI) hooked to HDTV. With me so far. Now my TV can play the audio directly (yeah it's 2.1) but there are times when I dont want/need the loudness of my receiver. Late at night or when listening to the news dolby digital 5.1 is just overkill.
NOW here is the part you dont understand (and therefore quick to bash others). Most HDTV (mine inclded) have SPDIF OUTPUT. If I hit monitor mute on my remote then the TV speakers shutoff and any digital audio goes directly to the SPDIF. So regardless if I am watching terresterial HDTV, HDTV cable, regular cables, HD-DVD, xbox360 or eventially anything from my HTPC the TV bypasses it directly to the SPDIF output.
So with 1 HDMI cable per source plus only 1 toslink optical cable to my receiver I have hooked up ALL my audio & video gear.
If I listened to "experts" like yourself then I would have three limitations
1) much more cables
2) can't use TV speakers when I just want quiet simple 2.1
3) no high quality way to handle digital cable, and OTA HDTV without 2 more set top boxes.
Now the largest advantage to a setup like this is simplicity. Remember you may be an audio/video expert but 90% of consumers are not. With HDMI they can connect EVERYTHING to their TV. If they dont have a home theater system no problem, if they do then they connect 1 cable from TV to receiver and they are done. Compare that to the rats nest of cables behind most entertainment centers and you can see why the industry is pushing HDMI. Reply
CKDragon - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - linkOK, legitimate questions here; please don't feel the urge to own me. :P
1) Let me make sure I understand you, first: With the setup that you describe, it seems that you would have one less HDMI cable and only 1 total SPDIF cable, correct?
2) Are HDTVs with 4+ HDMI ports common/reasonably priced? I haven't made the HD plunge, but it seems as though most of the ones I browse at have 2.
3) The method you describe sounds very efficient and I believe I understand the benefits for HDMI components. How do older components that only have analog cables fit into the equation? I'm certain that you could route those through your receiver, but I'd imagine that takes away from the fluidity of your setup. Will the HDTV pass even analog audio signals out to the receiver? In your post, you mentioned digital audio specifically being passed, so I was hoping you could clarify.
4) The digital audio being passed through the HDTV, does it degrade sound quality at all? I remember years ago when I bought my receiver I had to look for a certain quality specification regarding component video cable switching to make sure that the receiver wouldn't degrade the video signal upon pass through. I was wondering if this was a similar situation.
Sorry for the length, but if you or anyone else could answer this I'd be appreciative.
CK Reply
namechamps - Thursday, June 08, 2006 - linkWill try not to own anyone...
1) Not sure if I understand the question but the total # of HDMI cables = # of HDMI sources. They all connect to the HDTV. There is only 1 SPDIF (optical/toslink) and it runs from HDTV to receiver.
2) No very expensive. However there are some with 2-3 HDMI that are more reasonably priced. Expect this to change. All future models of HDTV seems to be including more & more HDMI while eliminating DVI, and other ports. I would expect soon most HDTV made will be 3-4 HDMI plus 1 or 2 of each "legacy" port (composite, s-video, component).
3) My TV will digitize analog audio and route is over the spdif out however I havent ever used that feature. The digital cable from cablecard slot does need to be converted and passed to spdif I assume however I havent experienced any audio issues. Best way to find this out is stay away from Bestbuy and goto a real home theater store. Those AV experts can help you sort through all the options.
One side not HDMI 1.2 (current version) only supports "single link" and up to 5.1 audio. The newer HDMI 1.3 (being developed) will support "dual link" and more advanced audio like DolbyDigital TrueHD, and a couple others. I dont find this to be a limitation but some users may.
4) There is no degrading because the signal is digital and the HDTV simply allows it to pass through unchanged. Now if you have analog audio sources there may be more of an issues but I dont know about that. Reply
ChronoReverse - Monday, June 05, 2006 - linkIf it turns out the low-end Conroes will overclock very well (I suspect they might), an Intel purchase might in the horizon for me (my last Intel chip was a Tualatin).
I've just sold my Athlon64 mobo and CPU while I can still get a reasonable price for them. If I can't get Conroe for a good price, then I'll pick up the used X2's that should be flooding the For Sale forums =) Reply


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Julian and I were interviewed for The Sunday Times Magazine's regular slot, 'Relative Values'. I was really thrilled to be asked to do it, as I've long enjoyed reading it. It's interesting to see what two people say about each other, and whether they choose the same things to talk about. Julian and I didn't discuss the interviews at all, which were conducted separately. So it was rather nice to see that we reflected each other quite closely, both in terms of our language and the points we raised.
(Only one small point too add – I told the interviewer I was brought up in Deptford, not New Cross, but some fact-checking sub-editor clearly saw fit to change that. If you come from Sarf East London, you'll know these tribal zones matter!)
Anyway, for those that would like to read it – here it is…
PS My hair for this shoot was by the Paul Edmonds salon, to whom I'd like to say, thanks!


text: I believe this is his obituary. Source unknown. Wendland, Vernon "Vernie" January 23, 1926 - July 13, 2004 Lamberton, MN Memorial Service: 11:30 AM, Monday, July 19, 2004 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Lamberton Visitation: 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Monday, July 19, 2004 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Lamberton Vernon Victor Wendland was born January 23, 1926 in Cottonwood County, MN, the son of Richard and Ida (Matzke) Wendland. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in March of 1944 and served in the European Theater during World War II. Vernon was honorably discharged in May of 1946 and returned to the Lamberton area where he began work as a carpenter. He was united in marriage to Arlene Erickson on August 20, 1952 in Redwood Falls. After working with a couple of construction firms, Vernon began his own carpentry business and continued until his health forced him into retirement. He was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Andrew Peterson American Legion Post #41, and a lifetime member of the VFW. Vernon enjoyed fishing, hunting, watching westerns on TV, gardening, and especially enjoyed his family and grandchildren. Vernon Victor Wendland died Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at his home in Lamberton at the age of 78 years. He is survived by wife- Arlene of Lamberton; children- Cheryl and husband Donald Johnson of Florida, Elona and husband Bruce Graff of Minneapolis, Paulette and husband Barry Pietz of Arizona, Dan and wife Nona Wendland of Arizona, and Vickie Anderson of Arizona; 13 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; brother and friend- Maynard (Mick) and wife Marge Wendland of Lamberton; sisters- Iona Knoll of Aitkin, MN and Lydia Abbot of California; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers- Elmer, Reuben, Leonard, Ervie and Eddie; and sisters- Elde Wendland, Emma Wolf and Edna Culbert.


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Andrew Levin, a Fed staffer who worked extensively on Janet Yellen's communication reforms when she was vice-chair, sets out a set of principles for central bank communications in a paper at today's Hoover central banking conference.
He calls for press conferences after every Fed meeting and a quarterly, Bank of England-style monetary policy report. Mr Levin is currently at the IMF but this a direction many Fed officials want to go.
Here are Mr Levin's principles, with my highlights in bold, and comments in italic: Read more


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
I finally got to watch the video and see the demo which a have not done before and loved it! Put that together with the barium sulfate, and you have a powerful illustration. The nuts and bolts analogy was great for dissociation and something I will definitely use this year.
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Hello from Brownstown,
I too find the lightbulb demonstration a very effective way to let students 'see' what is in the beaker and put a picture in their mind about what is happening. I carry this demo one step further:
Dissolve barium hydroxide in distilled water and test it. Put sulfuric acid in a beaker and test it. You can put the sulfuric acid in a titration buret if you wish before adding it slowly to the barium hydroxide beaker. Now put the barium hydroxide on a magnetic stirrer and slowly add the sulfuric acid. I of course ask the students what do they think will happen when we mix these two just proven electrolytes together. What happens is the very bright light bulb gets dimmer and dimmer as you reach the neutralization point with the acid titration. Then the light bulb goes out. Ask them why they think this happened? What must be present in the beaker for the light bulb to stay on? Then go past the equivalence point by adding more sulfuric acid and the light bulb lights back up. Ask them why they think this happened. The sulfuric acid is .1 to .5 molar and you put 5 g of barium hydroxide crystals in about 100 ml of water.
Sometimes I add a little phenolphthalein so they can see the solution go from pink to white. It is white not clear due to the formation of baium sulfate. Take it off the magnetic stirrer and the barium sulfate quickly precipitates to the bottom of the beaker so they can 'see' how the ions made an insoluble compound.
I will definitely use the string marked off in powers of 10. Quite impressive.
Nina Vehslage
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10 years of blogging Rochester
On March 4, 2005, I wrote my first blog post.
It was my sixth year at the Post-Bulletin. I created the "Heard on the Street" column about three years before the blog began.
More than 6,200 posts, stacks of columns, mountains of tweets and many gray hairs later, I'm still here writing about business and things vaguely related to business in southeastern Minnesota.
It'syou, the readers, who make this career such a fulfilling and entertaining one. Thank you everyone for your feedback, criticism and support over these past 10 years.


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Vladimir Putin's visit to London on Thursday is probably the most remarkable diplomatic moment of this Olympic fortnight. Mr Putin is not coming to the UK on an official visit – he's here in a private capacity to watch Olympics judo. But this is the first time he has been in London for a bilateral visit since 2003, when he was still viewed positively by some in the west and was accorded a state visit by Tony Blair's government. An awful lot has changed since then and hence it is a moment to watch.
Ever since the 2006 murder in London of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent, relations between London and Moscow have been very frosty. Britain's security services have long taken the view that the murder was carried out at the behest of the Russian state, and the brutality of the killing – by means of polonium poisoning – has never been completely eradicated from British minds. As a result, there has been only one visit by a British prime minister to Russia in the six years since then (by David Cameron in 2011). All other meetings with Russian leaders have been at international summits.


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Atomization of the Product Ecosystem
With the advent of mobile, pad devices and the app store phenomenon there has been a trend that has effectively atomized product offerings that range from the sublime to the ridiculous (the latter seem to be doing a brisk business). This move away from "fat boy" apps that do everything under the sun to a widget with a streamlined and focused set of functions results in a daunting universe of choice akin to walking in to a candy store whose shelves are brimming to overflowing.
With so much up for grabs it begs the question: "Where do I begin?"
Adobe's Periodic Table of Applications is no exception. While the products on the Adobe shelves are substantial they ,too, are by necessity, ever-expanding. Even for a seasoned user, the choice of which products will get the job done, is a difficult question that requires considerable research.
I am attempting to lead a transformation of our design department that will deeply integrate digital workflows—particularly those in the mobile space—and have been stymied by the task of trying to make sense of which workflows and toolsets make the most sense for particular contexts. The fact that many of the product offerings have significant overlaps in function make this task all the more intractable.
I made this known to some of the Adobe team while attending the San Jose educational summit this summer. I had bemoaned the fact that there was a palpable need for a killer infographic that detailed all of the production pathways and tools that one should use for particular tasks.
It suspect that I came off as being rather naive to some of my technologically erudite colleagues. They informed me that there was no "right" way of doing things and that the nuances of each project required the aplomb of a Pebble Beach caddy in order to select the "right club" for the task at hand. While this may make sense for the seasoned professional, the fact remains that the sort of deep and latent process knowledge that many experts take for granted is inaccessible to the neophyte. I mused: "If only there were some sort of pre-application interface that could, through prompts, could ascertain the "WHAT" of your project and then present you with a number of scenarios for the "HOW" that would include workflows and tools."
Imagine then, from a User Experience perspective, if all of our various expertise were to be explicitly rendered in a database that linked to a rich graphical front end, say, the very colourful Adobe Table of Elements. Imagine after answering a few prompts that branched down didactic rabbit holes of possibilities, the table of contents "LIT UP" like the letter board on Jeopardy! Imagine the pathways to production glowing in front of you, lighting your way from beginning to end!
I hope that Michael Gough, Adobe's UX design head, has the opportunity to ruminate on this possibility!


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Most international students will need an F-1 (student) visa to study at The Master's University. Once an international student receives his or her acceptance letter and financial aid award package, an I-20 Certificate of Eligibility may be obtained with the assistance of our Designated School Official (DSO). The I-20 can in turn be used to apply for an F-1 visa as a U.S. embassy or consulate. Of course, you as an individual are responsible for obtaining and maintaining a valid passport from your home country.
Before an I-20 Certificate of Eligibility can be issued, the United States Department of State government requires that each international student be able to document his or her ability to afford an education at The Master's University. Once you have received your financial aid package, you will be asked to submit documentation regarding the remainder of needed funds. This documentation can come from you the student, your family, or any number of sponsors. Each person must fill out, sign, and return the appropriate affidavit of support (see below) with a bank statement or letter from a bank official verifying the availability of funds. Again, we require these documents before we can begin to prepare your I-20, the document that will allow you to apply for an F-1 visa at an American consulate or embassy.
Please do not submit these forms until you have been notified to do so by the Office of International Student Advancement:
Additional information about obtaining and maintaining your visa and/or F-1 student status will be provided once you have been accepted to The Master's University and have received your financial aid package. In the meantime, general information about applying for a student visa can be found on the U.S. Government's "Study in the States" website here.


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Reality TV Beauty Queen Arrested For Prostitution
Alicia Guastaferro is notorious for being one of the least likable reality TV stars of all time (which is saying something considering the competition). In a 2008 appearance on 'Wife Swap' she was spoiled by her parents who leave their Christmas tree up all year and shower her daily with gifts (during the show she received a Chevy Tahoe as one present). Later, the local beauty queen would tell the cameras, "I do feel sorry for people that are not gorgeous people."
If you're up for a little schadenfreude, Guastaferro was arrested this week and charged with prostitution, possession of a controlled dangerous substance (i.e., drugs) and criminal impersonation.


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Capt. Thomas Griffin, Navigator, 319th BG, 440th BS, /POW
4 July, 1943 — North Africa
Thomas Carson Griffin; The 319th Bomb Group; 319th in Mediterranean ( http://319thbombgroup.com// )
Activated in June, 1942 as the 319th Bombardment Group
Assigned to the 12th Air Force
Trained in Martin B-26 Maurders and moved via England to N. Africa, participated in landing at Arzeu beach
Became known as the "Big Tail Birds"
Briefly assigned to the 15th AF, Nov.43 -Jan.44
Action in Tunisia: attacking airdromes, harbors and rail facilities
Action in Sicily: the reduction of Pantelleria
Action in support of ground forces at Solarno and Anzio
The reduction of Monte Cassino
Awarded Distinguished Unit Citation for a mission on March 3, 1944 bombing rail facilities in Rome
Awarded second DUC for striking marshalling yards in Florence on March 11, 1944 (TRANSITION to B-25)
Awarded French Croix de Guerre with Palm for action in preparation for and support of Allied offensive in Italy
Bombed targets in the Po Valley, in Yugoslavia July-Dec.44 Converted to B-25s and later A-26s w/o interrupting combat.
*****The 319th did not serve in the ETO. They flew the B-26 in the MTO until November 1944 when they converted to the B-25, until December 31,1944; were withdrawn from combat, and returned to the US, to convert to the A-26 for service in the 7th AAF in the Pacific, where they flew missions until the end of the war. They have the distinction of being the only Medium Bomb Group to fly all three Medium bombers in combat.


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I'm in the process of documenting my code. Here are a few questions I have. Tell me if I'm doing it right or wrong:
1.A param can be either a string, an integer or a boolean:@param{(String|Integer|Boolean)} myParam
2.A method returns "this" (the "MyObject" itself)@return {MyObject.Instance}
3.A boolean param is optional@param {Boolean} (optional)
4.A param is either the window object, window.document or an HTMLDocument@param {Object|HTMLElement} myParam
5.A param is a function@param {Function} myParam
6.If a param is optional, how to specifiy its default value?@param {Boolean} (optional) Default is true
If I make a reference to another method of an object, how to do it properly?@see otherMethod(should there be brackets? Should the method be prefixed by the Object name?)
If an integer is returned, should I rather say it's a number?@return {Number}vs.@return {Integer}
All the best.
I prefer to document functions, etc with a "blackbox" approach so there is no need to delve into the function to see what it is doing.
# MyModel Class function list
# public function get_customer($iStart=0, iEnd=10, & aByRef=array())
# public function set_customer($idCust=0, $aValues=array())
/* #########################################
# usage:
# $this->MyModel->get_customers()
# $this->MyModel->get_customers(22,15)
# $this->MyModel->get_customers(5,10, $aByRef)
# result:
# number of customer found
# returnByRef:
# aByRef=array() # if and only if parameter passed
########################################### */
public function get_customers($iStart=0, iEnd=10, & $aByRef=array())
$result=0; # default
# reams of optimised code goes here
return $result;
Whether you're going it right or wrong very much depends on what generator you're coding against. When we use these doc comments, we usually intend for some program to read those comments and automatically generate documentation for us. Today, I believe the most popular tool for PHP is [phpDocumentor, and you can look up their documentation for the [URL="http://www.phpdoc.org/docs/latest/for-users/phpdoc/tags/param.html"]param tag](http://phpdoc.org/).
EDIT: Oops, I'm not in the PHP forum, so phpDocumentor is probably not what you want. Though, the same principle holds, that whether you're doing it right or wrong depends on which generator you're coding for. Perhaps you're coding for the Closure Compiler?
Thanks for your input.
Yep, coding for Closure. And back to my original question
Awesome!!!! +1
Thank you so much.
For #4, how would I describe a type of window and document? {Window}? and {Document} for document? and {HTMLElement} for, well, an HtmlElement?
WHat type would be the event object? {Object}?
A big +1 ot you, Jeff.
One more question: what if I pass the window object (or the event object) to a function, would it be better to write:
@param {function({Window})} / @param {function({Event})}
@param {function(window)} / @param {function(event)}
With the capital letters. Because you're not defining the concrete object that ultimately gets passed. Rather, you're defining the param's type. The type means the param may be any object that implements the Window interface or the Event interface.
Capital letter and brackets?
Based on the example in the closure docs, it would seem to be without brackets.


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This solicitation seeks proposals to conduct research that enhances knowledge of the process of desistance from crime. NIJ encourages applicants to submit proposals for bold, innovative approaches to enhancing understanding of the processes underlying desistance from crime. Several areas in need of research have been identified (see "Program-Specific Information" below). However, applications are not limited to the specified topics.
Learn more [1].
Links:[1] https://ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl001036.pdf


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Sure the baseball season may nearly be over, but that doesn't mean you still can't indulge in the true American pastime: eating hot dogs. Biting into a delicious dog without the accompanying layer of sauerkraut is like laying in a bed without a pillow or petting a dog without fur (apologizes to Xoloitzcuintli fans.)
The Brinery, a Michigan-based pickling company, is attempting to buy over 12,000 pounds of locally-sourced cabbage to turn it into delicious and probiotic sauerkraut. They have taken to everyone's favorite crowdsourcing site, Kickstarter, to ask for your help in finishing this fermented fiesta. A donation of $20 will ensure you a jar of the kraut once it is finished. A donation of $1,000 will net you and your friends the ultimate pickle party of your dreams.


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Jessica Simpson's Weight Gain
Jessica Simpson has been getting a lot of press and TV time related to the amount of weight she gained during her recent pregnancy and the difficulty she is having shedding the pounds. I just thought I needed to WEIGH IN on this subject as I don't think the real issue is being discussed.
As a pediatrician, I am not as concerned about when or how she loses the excessive weight that she packed on during her pregnancy. I am more worried about the message that she is sending to other pregnant women. Excessive weight gain during pregnancy may cause complications that could jeopardize an unborn baby's health. It is not safe to gain all of that weight during a pregnancy.
Jessica Simpson is quoted saying that she is a southern girl and enjoys fried foods, macaroni and cheese and cream gravy. Most obstetricians recommend that a woman of average weight gain between 25-35 lbs during a pregnancy. If a woman is overweight prior to becoming pregnant she may only need to gain 15-20 lbs during the 9 months. Being pregnant does not mean that you can forget all about nutrition, eat excessively and gain 100 lbs. (educated guess on my part).
A woman who gains excessive weight during a pregnancy may have complications and is more likely to develop high blood pressure as well as gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes is typically controlled with dietary changes alone, but in some cases a pregnant woman may even require insulin. Gestational diabetes puts the baby at risk for having blood sugar problems at birth. At the same time, blood pressure problems may be dangerous for the mother and put the baby at risk for premature birth and all of the problems that are related to prematurity.
At the same time, excessive weight gain during pregnancy typically causes the newborn to be what is termed, large for gestational age. These big babies are often delivered by C-section either electively or emergently and again there are more complications seen after a C-section than a vaginal delivery.
So.....I wish that the media would not put the focus on how Jessica Simpson is going to lose the weight or how much she is going to be paid to lose all of those pounds, but rather on the fact that she jeopardized the health of her newborn. She was fortunate that she had a beautiful and healthy newborn daughter.
We all have had cravings while pregnant, but healthy eating and regular exercise are still recommended to ensure the health of the unborn baby. Jessica Simpson's weight gain and diet is not the role model we pediatricians want for pregnant moms to follow!
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Laurier Professor Ginette Lafrenière wins Leading Women, Building Communities Award
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Jun 11/13| For Immediate Release
Ginette Lafrenière, Director
Kevin Crowley, Director, Communications & Public Affairs
WATERLOO Laurier Associate Professor Ginette Lafrenière, who was recently appointed to the role of director of the Manulife Centre for Healthy Living, was recognized by the Ontario Womens Directorate with an award titled Leading Women, Building Communities.
Lafrenière was recognized for her contributions to social initiatives across Waterloo Region, including being an active volunteer with the Violence Against Women Forum of the Central West Region of Ontario. She also founded the Social Innovation Research Group at Laurier.
The awards ceremony took place recently at Knox Presbyterian Church in Waterloo. Three other women, Shannon Dea, Jessica del Rosso and Diane Freeman, were recognized that day as well. Catherine Fife, MPP for Kitchener-Waterloo, nominated all the recipients.
Usually Lauriers Faculty of Social Work is giving awards to people in the community for their service, so being recognized was both humbling and fun, said Lafrenière.
As the new director of the Manulife Centre for Healthy Living, Lafrenière will focus the work of the centre on community-university connections. She hopes to set up a number of research clusters that focus on different social determinants of health, such as Global Health and Development, Women and Gender, University-Community Collaboration, Indigenous Healing, Masters and Doctoral Students Research, Social Entrepreneurship, and Poverty and Social Justice. She plans to create a research-training hub that connects local and international academics with community partners.
In October 2013, the centre will fund a talk from Professor David Caron from the University of Michigan. He will speak about healthy living in relation to men living with HIV/AIDS.
The Manulife Centre for Healthy Living was created in 2006 with an $800,000 endowment. While housed in the Faculty of Social Work, the centre strives to be community-based by reaching beyond the faculty and the discipline of social work to community partner organizations and individual community stakeholders as well as other faculties and disciplines.
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A LEADING Dorset ensemble will be giving a delightful summer concert in Weymouth next week.
The Dorset Sinfonia was formed last year out of the ashes of Weymouth Arts Centre Orchestra which itself evolved from the arts centre Music Group that was founded in 1958.
In 1962 the name was changed to the Weymouth Arts Centre Orchestra and played under the musical direction of Harvey Easton for eight years and then the late Angela Nankivell stepped up and conducted her first concert with the orchestra in May 1980.
Under her direction the orchestra prospered and concerts were given twice a year in many and various locations.
In January 2010 David Ansell took over the baton as conductor and musical director and because the orchestra expanded its catchment area, it changed its name to The Dorset Sinfonia.
For the concert on July 13, the programme will include Vaughan Williams' Concerto for Bass Tuba with soloist Matthew Blunt, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Beethoven's Fidelio overture and other items.
Matthew Blunt grew up in Weymouth, and attended All Saints School.
He started his musical education at the age of six and took up the tuba when he was ten.
At the age of 11 he started tuition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where he won a place in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, later becoming principal tuba.
After All Saints School, Matthew moved to Manchester to continue his studies at Chetham's School of Music and he won a full scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 2008, and started his degree in 2009.
Now a second year student, Matthew has had a wide experience of brass playing, playing for such conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Vassily Petrenko, Antonio Pappano and Semyon Bychkov.
He has performed in many ensembles, including the Gabrielli Consort, the Royal Academy Concert Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet, at prestigious venues like The Sage-Gateshead, Symphony Hall-Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall-Manchester, The Royal Albert Hall, St Paul's Cathedral, and closer to home, The Lighthouse-Poole and Bournemouth International Centre.
Matthew has won many awards since he started playing tuba, winning local music competitions when young, becoming the Bournemouth Young Musician of the Year in 2007.
His recording career is quite full, as he has recorded music for BBC documentaries, played on Huw Stephen's latest CD release and recorded with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.
You can see Dorset Sinfonia at All saints School, Wyke regis near Weymouth on July 13 at 7.30pm. Tickets £8 on door, £6 in advance from 01305 775642.


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2013 WBC Champion Dominican Republic team to be celebrated with parade
The 2013 World Baseball Classic Champion Dominican Republic team will be honored for winning the World Baseball Classic in March with a parade in the Dominican Republic on Thursday, November 28th. World Baseball Classic MVP Robinson Cano, Jose Reyes, Hanley Ramirez, Fernando Rodney and most of the Championship team will be on hand for the celebration.
The parade will begin at Estadio Quisqueya at 4:00 p.m. (AT)/3:00 p.m. (ET) and continue through Villa Maria and Don Bosco before returning to Estadio Quisqueya for the conclusion. Following the parade, there will be a fireworks show to cap off the festivities. Prior to the parade, the players will be presented with their Championship rings at the Presidential Palace by President Danilo Medina.
The Dominican Republic won the third edition of the World Baseball Classic in March with a 3-0 win over Puerto Rico. The Dominican Republic went 8-0 in the tournament, becoming the only team in the history of the event to go undefeated en route to their Championship.


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Scorching temperatures can threaten to dry out your lush green plants and colorful blooms, but that's only if you haven't planted wisely. We've rounded up the some of our summer plants that can take the heat and look gorgeous while doing it. These drought-tolerant plants can keep every outdoor container and flower bed prospering even when rain fall is scarce and the heat is relentless. Try cheerful Black-Eyed Susans to brighten up a window box or Zinnias of all colors—red, orange, yellow, pink and purple—to add life to a back porch container garden. Use vibrant purple verbena to make a big statement along the top of a retaining wall, or employ heat-tolerant latana to attract our favorite of all garden features—butterflies.
10 Plants That Beat the Summer Heat
Plant these heat-loving, hardy plants that thrive in hot weather. Simply water them once a week to enjoy their blooms all summer long.


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British Male/Female Voice over artist
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I need British male/female voice over artist for my upcoming explainer video projects. Best artists will lead to collaborate with us for long term business relationship.
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