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Welcome to Local 6 Theme World
July18, 2013
Theme World: Horror & Holidays Preview
Welcome back to Theme World.
Sorry for my absence -- but, as with many of us here at Local 6, the Zimmerman trial took up all of my time for the past few weeks. But that's past now. And as life starts getting back to normal in the newsroom - the parks are gearing up for two of their biggest moneymaking seasons of all.
First up -- Halloween -- and while Disney & Sea World offer worthwhile events in "Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party" and "Halloween Spooktacular" -- let's face it - the big gorilla will once again be Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios.
Despite losing the sound stage ripped down for Transformers: The Ride-3D -- I understand the event will be back up to 8 houses/mazes this year. The park has already revealed two of them.
Mazes based on the films "Evil Dead" & "The Cabin in the Woods" debut on September 20th. Universal is slowly unveiling the rest of the event on its blog "Evil Takes Root" -- which seems like this year's marketing catch phrase.
And on its Facebook Page -- Universal has revealed its tribute show to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" will return for the first time since 2009.
And this week we learned Universal & Coca Cola have extended their sponsorship contract, so you can once again to expect to find discounts for HHN on Coke cans at a store near you very soon.
Moving beyond Fright -- Epcot is already gearing up for the Christmas season with Holidays Around the World. Forget rumors that Disney is trying to save money by launching it later than normal this year. Yes, it will arrive on November 29. But that is one day after Thanksgiving, same as always.
Yes storytellers from around the world will be back, as will the popular, and religious, Candlelight Processional.
Already some of the Celebrity Candlelight narrators have been announced:
November 29 to December 1 - TBD
December 2-3 - TBD
December 4-5 - Ashley Judd
December 6-7 - Whoopi Goldberg
December 8-10 - Sigourney Weaver
December 11-13 - Dennis Haysbert
December 14-16 - James Denton
December 17-19 - Edward James Olmos
December 20-22 - Trace Adkins
December 23-25 - TBD
December 26-28 - Blair Underwood
December 29-30 - Amy Grant
This will be the first time Ashley Judd and Dennis Haysbert have narrated Candlelight at Walt Disney World.
It will be presented at 5:00, 6:45, and 8:15 p.m. nightly at Epcot's America Gardens Theater.
You can also celebrate Halloween & the Holidays on the high seas. Disney Cruise Line is launching Halloween for the first time on the Disney Dream.
Disney promises mask-making, pumpkin-carving and a Disney villain takeover of the ship's announcements plus a Monsters Mouse-Querade Deck Party, haunted stories and showings of "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
For the Christmas season -- Very Merrytime Cruises kick off in early November on all four ships.
According to Disney's press release: "You can build gingerbread houses, meet Santa Claus, and listen as holiday storytellers share tales of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa … or just relax on deck instead of shoveling snow!"
You can also expect "King Triton's Tree Lighting Ceremony," dancing and decorations, plus Santa and caroling crew members. Not to mention "snow flurries" on DCL's Castaway Cay island.
Here's more on the Cruise line's holiday plans.
And expect a lot more Theme World news here tomorrow and (hopefully) from here on out. I'm working on a rumor roundup on plans for a major makeover for Hollywood Studios, what's really going on with Animal Kingdom's Avatarland -- and Universal's next big building boom. Look for that soon.
Until then, keep your emails, questions, and comments coming! I always appreciate the feedback.
Here's a link to my most recent Theme World Blog entries.
See you in the parks!
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10 Easy Labor Day Recipesby Sarah De Heer in Holidays, Recipes, September 3rd, 2011
Let's face it: The last thing you should be doing this Labor Day weekend is cooking up a storm in your kitchen. You should utilize recipes that produce a lot of flavor in a small amount of time. These 10 recipes are quick and easy and include options for appetizers, sides, mains and sweet desserts.
The Perfect Lemonade
Food Network Magazine's Pineapple Salsa
Rachael's Macho Gazpacho
Poppy-Seed Potato Salad
Pasta Caprese
Grilled Turkey Sliders With Tomato Jam
Paula's Southern Fried Chicken
Portobello Burgers
Paula's Strawberry Shortcake
Red, White and Blue Fruit Cups
There may be several more weekends of beautiful weather, but we'll take any excuse to throw a small party with friends and family.


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The winner of last week's giveaway was:
Dave from Charleston, SC. Dave chose the Wolverine Horace shoes that I was liking a ton myself. He'll surely enjoy wearing them around town with style.
My Picks This Week
The offerings in the main store don't knock my socks off like last week, but there are some great military-inspired clothes from Field Scout (really like that Mariner Cardigan pictured above), and an intriguing candle from Arlo Jack that features a scent modeled on the founder's grandpa's 75-year old tobacco recipe. If nothing in the main store suits your fancy, be sure to check out the General Store (scroll to the bottom of the page). Unlike the offerings in the main store which change from week to week, the General Store keeps its offerings fairly consistent (new items are added from time to time), and features everything from redwood-scented cologne to a MWC field watch to an EDC key chain (shown above).
The Prize
Any item currently available in the Huckberry Store. Be sure to check out the current line-up of items as it changes every week.
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Leave a comment sharing what you'd like to win.
- Sign up for Huckberry to gain access to their store. You have to sign up because the store and the discounted prices are not available to the public. Just so we're clear, if you sign up for Huckberry, you're opting into receiving weekly emails from Huckberry on their exclusive deals. You can unsubscribe anytime you want.
- Take a look around, pick one item you'd like, and leave a comment on this post sharing your selection.
- Do not make multiple comments. All comments are moderated, so your comment will not show up instantly, but will show up later once it's approved.
- If you are an email subscriber, do not reply to this email to make your entry. You must click on the title of this post, which will take you to the post on our web page. You must make your comment on the post on our web page to be entered.
Deadline to enter is Feb. 28, 2013 at 5PM CDT.
We'll then draw one random comment to select the winner. This lucky gent will get the item they selected and shared in the comments. Good luck!
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How to Choose Great Kid Birthday Gifts for Every Age
If you have kids, grandchildren, nieces, nephews or friends with kids, chances are you've shopped for a birthday gift or two. Depending on how well you know the child, choosing a gift he or she will love isn't always easy. And it's also important to keep the parents and their living situation in mind, too.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
In tough economic times, some companies weather the storm others capitalize on the economic downturn to realign, streamline, and prepare for the rebound. Part of a successful transformation should be crafting a winning sales enablement strategy, which will position sellers to take the lead and out-sell their competition.

 A winning sales enablement framework will support sellers in their ever changing and complex selling environment. It is comprised of tools, processes, people, and content that, when managed in unison, will deliver value added information when they need it. Benefits to the organization include:
 •Decreasing seller preparation time.

 •Improving marketing and seller productivity.

 •Leveraging knowledge experts and sales leaders to help all sellers become better informed.

 •Providing training, mentoring, coaching and contacts every step of the way.

 What is a Winning Sales Enablement Strategy?

 Sales enablement comprises a set of cross-functional activities specifically targeted at preparing members of a sales team for a successful customer engagement. It establishes the tools and formal processes needed to increase sales team performance, and aligns the people and content to ensure the right messages are being delivered at the right time. Think of this as the same concept as "just-in-time" delivery, but instead of delivering goods, it delivers the right message into the hands of sales at the right time. It is similar in concept to sales readiness sales effectiveness, but tends to focus more on improving the synergies with marketing and pre-sales content.

 Still not sure what this means to your organization? Look at it this way: It's your corporate messages that will differentiate you from your competitors and tell customers why they should purchase your product or service over someone else's. If applied correctly, it will help your sellers articulate your 30,000 foot corporate messages at eye level, and ensure they are correctly conveyed to a customer from the first handshake through the closing of the deal.

 But it's not easy. Change from multiple facets within an organization is required. It requires agreement to align the tools, messages, processes, and methodologies across product, marketing, sales engineers, and sales business groups. It takes a whole new thought process and commitment to move the organization from document management to content management. And it takes the desire to have everyone within the organization help sales make a sale.

 The Four-Legged Chair Analogy

 Most organizations start out by implementing a new technology portal (the easiest tactic) and calling it a day. Afterward, they are surprised when the tool isn't adopted and seller frustrations are not alleviated. But the old adage of "garbage in, garbage out" applies perfectly here. Just introducing a new portal won't improve the quality of a poorly written value proposition or update an outdated presentation. And just filtering the massive amount of information through a new portal won't make templates consistent or add a missing brief. Instilling content discipline within the marketing organization, repositioning long established mindsets of content delivery, and timing are paramount to any success. In fact, without this, the tool won't be used and time and money will be wasted.

 Another way to think about this is to use a chair as an analogy—The main purpose of a chair is to be a seat. It's most stable and provides the most value with four legs; while it can work with three legs it begins to get a little wobbly. If you try to use it as a seat with anything less than three legs, it's not very effective and becomes too much of a balancing act. Many organizations have one or two legs that work adequately, but not many can claim they have four stable legs.

 A comprehensive implementation of the four legs will alleviate some common pitfalls most enterprises encounter:
 •Corporate messages go unread and unused.

 •People never really adopt the new changes and continue to bypass them.

 •Content is not presented to sales in a way that they prefer to learn—they need it now, presented for a specific purpose. They won't attend something they get today intended for next week, next month, or next year.

 •Tools don't match collateral delivery or the sales cycle.

 •Tools that should build momentum and simplify the buying cycle too often impede it.

  The Four Legs of Sales Enablement

 All four legs need to be present to move an organization to the next level successfully.

 People. Content contributors and sellers will need to change the way they think about content and the way it's delivered. Marketing teams need to understand sales strategies that will drive revenue, identify the critical buying conversations, connect the insights and expertise of knowledge experts to sales reps, and deliver it all when and where sellers need it. Sellers need to break their preferred habit when it comes to content. They have to go and get it as opposed to e-mailing or calling someone else for it. It is also incumbent on the organization to provide constant reinforcement and training to audiences to ensure adoption and understanding.

 Technology. Most companies have separate content portals for sellers, sales engineers, and partners, which means a seller needs to learn and navigate through three or more portals to hunt for information. A single, agile portal can serve all three internal audiences seamlessly. A good portal can also help "slice and dice" content so it is presented to users when and how they are using it—by the steps of the sales cycle and in context to region and offering taxonomy.

 Another thing to consider is integrating different communication vehicles in this single experience. This is more important now than before, especially as content contributors and knowledge experts are being downsized. Sellers can be one click away from accessing the knowledge experts within an organization by instilling a quick means for sellers to talk to sellers, such as social networking blogs, wikis, presence awareness, and VoIP clients.

 Processes.  Most companies with multiple portals don't have a unified submission process for posting content. This means duplicate files, redundant roles, and multiple processes. By implementing one submission form and letting the technology post the content, contributors can focus on the experience as opposed to managing portals.

 Another option is direct content publishing. With a traditional Web publishing model many folks own documents, who send to gatekeepers of the content, who forward to gatekeepers of the portals, who then cut and paste into various forms for publication. Compare this to a non-traditional publishing model where each content owner has the ability to publish directly to the internal portals, with authorizing agents to serve as gate keepers if the need exists. Fewer hands touch the content, which frees up resources and accelerates the time to publish.

 Content. There is so much content being produced many companies don't bother to try and expire or update it. But what does that do to the sales force? IDC reports that as much of 60 percent of sales facing content is never used. This is caused by distrust and is compounded by the fact there is so much clutter sales can't find anything they deem as useful. Companies can use technology to instill life cycle management into their existing document repositories. These systems make it more palatable for the owners, since they can proactively manage their content via e-mail.

 Instilling document management principles and best practices throughout an organization will not only save sellers time in data collection, but reduce duplication, eliminate outdated content, simplify information overload, and alleviate archiving nightmares. In turn, any redundant marketing resources can be freed up and realigned to more strategic and productive endeavors.

 Everyone Wins

 Every piece of content marketing creates or facilitates should enable a sale. If that doesn't happen, than noone gets a paycheck. Sales enablement will provide the ability to connect the dots between marketing and sales, thus enabling a company to work smarter, reduce the risk of misinformation, and achieve a sales knowledge advantage by adding more value and quality to customer interactions.

 As an unanticipated benefit, a winning sales enablement strategy can reduce the learning curve of new sales hires by helping build their networks at an accelerated pace. CSO Insights indicates the time it now takes to get a newly hired sales rep up to full productivity has increased 32 percent during the past four years. It can also move less effective tenured sellers to the right of the bell curve by strengthening their networks and skills. IDC reports sales turnover averages 10-50 percent, and companies spend an average of $20,000 to $30,000 per rep each year on training and asset creation, anticipating success in two to three years. With this type of integrated sales support, any sales person can handle any sales task, event, or obstacle quickly and efficiently.

 Industry Expert Opinion

 According to IDC, the average company is spending $12,500 per rep per year on sales enablement. They also state through better teamwork and a cohesive focus by sales and marketing, sales productivity will improve by $260,000 per rep per year. It's no leap to agree increased productivity, effectiveness, and performance in your sales organization will result in higher close rates and reduced operational costs.

 The benefits to any organization willing to embark on such a venture are tremendous, and at minimum should yield:
 •A reduction in unused documents (estimated that companies spend an average of $20,000 to $30,000 per rep each year on training and sales assets, yet over 60 percent sales documents are

 •A reduction in reformatting time (estimated impact of $5,600 annually per seller).

 •An improved success rate of sales finding their elusive content (estimated that over $5,000 per seller per year wasted in unfruitful searches by sellers).

 •The elimination of duplicated content and a reduction in sales facing portals (estimated to cost organizations over $4 million per year).

 Can't Rest on Your Laurels

 A winning sales enablement strategy is more than implementing a new tool and filtering existing data. In today's economy, customers are willing to sacrifice a "perfect fit" for products that are "good enough" to meet their needs. Joe Galvin, vice president and research director from SiriusDecisions stated that the effectiveness of preset collateral (that is produced by marketing teams) diminishes in value after the first or second sales call. After that, the knowledge of the sales team will be needed to close the deal.

 Your corporate messages are important to help differentiate you from your competitors. It also means you must rely on your sellers to deliver those messages in a way that resonates with your customer. You need to empower your sellers by providing them access to this knowledge to be successful. A winning sales enablement strategy will help your sellers get there faster and more efficiently.


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What Healthcare Analytics Can Teach The Rest of Us Analytics are taking on a lead role in all phases of the healthcare system. Those personal fitness devices? Their value is in what they say about us, not the data itself.
Will Most Healthcare Apps Escape FDA Scrutiny? PROTECT Act of 2014 proposes that Food and Drug Administration doesn't need to oversee "low risk" health IT products such as electronic health records and fitness apps.
Better Balance Needed Between Patient Privacy, Data Sharing The need for more open sharing of medical data is particularly acute in times of crisis.
Feds Praise Open Data Health Cloud Launch Taking advantage of more-open data standards in other countries, MedRed BT Health Cloud will provide public access to aggregated population health data.
Health IT Could Reduce Demand For Physicians Comprehensive use of IT in 30% of physician offices would have major impact, but that is not expected to occur for 5 to 15 years, says study.
Barriers To Health Information Exchange In order to achieve true interoperability, patients' need for better data sharing must come before the interests of providers, vendors and regulators.
Health Information Exchange Needs A Simpler Model The CEOs of four cloud-based healthcare IT firms express skepticism about HIEs, seeing them as a bureaucracy rather than a workable architecture.
Michigan Health Networks Joins eHealth Exchange Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) Shared Services becomes first state-designated entity to join the national network after meeting new set of testing criteria for "plug and play" interoperability.
One-Third Of Doctors Exchange Clinical Summaries Doctors who use an electronic health record system are much better equipped to exchange data than those who don't have EHRs, says Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT study.
Lawmakers Try To Sharpen FDA Focus On Healthcare Apps Congress attempts to clarify which health software should be regulated like a medical device with the Sensible Oversight for Technology which Advances Regulatory Efficiency Act.
HealthCare.Gov Woes: Lack Of Testing Tech contractors are confident they can fix the problems over time, but pass the buck to CMS.
Dictation Software Adoption On Rise Speech recognition and dictation software could be poised to make big inroads in healthcare, says Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society report.
Surescripts Aims To Expand Hospital Network Surescripts partners with Meditech, Vitera in effort to enable Direct messages among more than 60% of U.S. hospitals.
A Painless Path To CPOE? Despite evidence that computerized provider order entry systems can improve patient care, many providers have resisted due to cost and tech concerns. New KLAS report suggests an easier route.
Non-Profit Sets New Standards For Modular EHRs Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative redefines Meaningful Use definitions for EHR modules.
Why Doctors Hate EHR Software Have meaningful use incentives merely propelled sales for a lot of lousy software?
Dignity Health, Optum Launch Revenue Management Firm Large West Coast healthcare system joins with healthcare IT firm to form Optum360, which aims to help hospitals prepare for new payment methods and optimize revenues.
IBM's Watson Makes Some New Rounds IBM Research unveiled cognitive computing technologies to help doctors make more informed, accurate diagnostic decisions.
Patient Engagement: How To Do It Right Some healthcare providers have figured out the best set of IT tools to get patients more involved in their own care.
Health Insurance Exchanges Plagued By Data Errors Health insurance exchanges, especially the one run by Uncle Sam, are having problems sending files that can be opened and that have complete information.
Practice Fusion Guarantees Meaningful Use Stage 2 Free cloud-based EHR, sold primarily to individual doctors and small practices, says it will be certified in time for 2014 incentives.
Athenahealth Tracks Flu Outbreaks During Government Shutdown Health IT vendor uses cloud-based EHR database to show outbreaks in absence of information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In One ER, EHR Takes 44% Of Doctors' Time Small-scale study in Pennsylvania ER found physicians spend more time inputting data in their EHR than taking care of patients.
Health Information Exchanges Lack Standards HIE adoption rates are rising, but the lack of data standardization limits ability to share data.
Obamacare Health Exchanges: How Oregon Got It Done Oregon's experience building a health insurance exchange shows what's involved for IT operations.
What's Holding Back The Mobile Health Revolution? Many believe clinicians reject patient-oriented health apps because they threaten doctors' power. But that's a gross overgeneralization.
Healthcare Apps Could Be Doctor's Best Friend Consumer health apps and gadgets could help improve patient care and reduce physicians' workloads. It's time for the healthcare industry to change a system that rewards disease.
Will EHRs Ever Help Small Practices? So far, evidence suggests that health IT benefits mostly hospitals and practices with deep pockets. That could change if small practices get more EHR training.
State Insurance Exchanges: Hospital IT's Next Challenge As state insurance exchanges take hold, hospital IT departments must figure out how to keep up with patients' insurance eligibility, health status and benefits in fluid environment.
Fed Health IT Chief And Deputy Departing Office of the National Coordinator deputy David S. Muntz will join chief Farzad Mostashari in Oct. 4 departure.
Stanford Hospital Offers Doctor Visits Via Video Patients who don't need in-person care can schedule video visits through the hospital website and "meet" with the doctor using a computer equipped with a webcam.
Allscripts Enables EHR Customers To Send Data To Payers Deal with analytics firm Inovalon designed to relieve burden on providers while enabling online feedback from health plans.
EHRs Are Not A 'Digital Menace' Healthcare IT can compromise patient safety, but studies show that lack of it may present an even greater risk.
CMS Floats Flexibility In Meaningful Use Stage 2 As some unprepared EHR vendors opt to abandon Meaningful Use, agency considers options to ease transition requirements.
Patients Seek More Online Access To Medical Records 41% of those who don't have online access to records would consider switching physicians to obtain it, Accenture survey finds.
ACOs Need Claims Data For Analytics, Expert Says Accountable care organizations will use data from payers to manage population health for next 10 to 15 years, predicts Jonathan Weiner, professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Doctors Propose 5 Changes To Meaningful Use Guidelines American College of Physicians urges HHS to provide more flexibility and an extended timeline.
ONC Partners Tackle Patient-Data Matching Problem ONC leads public-private coalition working on a key interoperability challenge: how to match unique patients to their personal data as it moves across the healthcare system.
How Patient Generated Data Changes Healthcare Patient-generated data, or PGD, could lower costs and improve care, but only if patients participate and healthcare providers can make sense of the data.
HIPAA Changes Driving Customers To Cloud, Verizon Says HIPAA update clarifies that service providers share accountability in protecting patient data, encouraging more healthcare providers to consider the cloud.
Penn Medicine Streamlines Data Sharing With Startups Penn partners with startups to help test new healthcare technology against real-world data.
Microsoft Health App Prize Goes To Nova Southeastern Contest for Windows 8 apps that link to Microsoft HealthVault was won by a pharmacy college team investigating consumer health apps.
Medical Practices Move Health IT To Cloud Lower upfront costs, outsourcing options among factors driving physicians toward cloud-based EHRs and practice management software.
Nationwide Children's Hospital Taps Tech To Expand Care Nationwide Children's Hospital used virtual desktops and live streaming video to streamline EHR systems and make neonatal care available at nearby hospitals. One of seven profiles of IW 500 Business Innovation Award winners.
How UPMC Plays To Win In Healthcare IT UPMC, the No. 1 company in the IW 500 ranking, expects tech to improve patient heath, cut operating costs and also be a revenue source.
Miami Children's Hospital Prepares For Telemedicine Growth Miami Children's, the No. 5 company in the IW 500 ranking, thinks telemedicine will open up a new revenue source.
Michigan Health Information Network Harnesses Salesforce.com Health information exchange builds network faster by developing software in the cloud, tapping Salesforce.com's APIs and relationship management components.
Why Hospitals Still Build Their Own Health IT There's a lot of pressure to use off-the-shelf technology such as Epic and Cerner for electronic health records. Here's why some providers still build their own software.
Telemedicine Improves Patient Outcomes: Study Researchers at UC Davis Children's Hospital find that telemedicine consults improved pediatric patient outcomes in rural areas.
Should Sexual Orientation Be Included In EHRs? Proponents say it could close gaps in LGBT healthcare, but it raises the question of how much data is too much.


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Join us on July 12, 2012 for a discussion between Clyfford Still Museum Director Dean Sobel and Gil Boggs, Artistic Director at Colorado Ballet. The Directors will be making connections between contemporary art and modern dance.
Click here for more information about this event.
The discussion will touch on Boggs' personal stories from his years in the studio with ground-breaking choreographers as a Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre in New York, and the history of modern dance legends, such as Martha Graham and her protégés Lester Horton, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Agnes de Mille, Twyla Tharp, and Paul Taylor.
Martha Graham's "Night Journey"
Merce Cunningham's "Variations V"
Similar to the Abstract Expressionists, Graham's work often focused on human behavior and intense grief. She used emotional expression and sharp, contracted technique to create an avant garde form of dance based on real life and the events that shaped her world, a revolutionary departure from the perfect lines and traditional themes of classical story ballets.
Martha Graham on NPR's "This I Believe"
Colorado Ballet is proud to feature great works by contemporary choreographers, as well as new dance works, each season. Spring 2013's Masterworks bill will include Rite of Spring, George Balanchine's Theme and Variations, and a world premiere work by Val Caniparoli.


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Mariners roll past O's behind double Saunders act
Lefty pitches four-hitter for win; center fielder homers in return
SEATTLE -- It was a Saunders kind of night at Safeco Field on Monday as the Mariners opened a three-game set against the Orioles with a 6-2 victory.
Center fielder Michael Saunders returned to the Mariners lineup with a bang, lacing a leadoff home run on the second pitch of the game from Zach Britton. Saunders, back from a disabled-list stint with a sprained shoulder, went 1-for-4 with a walk, two RBIs and two runs scored.
Meanwhile, left-hander Joe Saunders pitched a four-hitter to pick up his second victory of the season and continue his Safeco Field supremacy.
Saunders saw his scoreless streak at Safeco end at 17 innings when Matt Wieters clubbed a two-run homer in the fourth, but that was the only damage done by his former Orioles teammates.
"After I gave up the home run I was dog-cussing myself in the dugout because I didn't want to make a mistake," Saunders said. "But for the guys to come back like they did and keep going off a pretty good sinkerball pitcher in Britton, it was impressive to watch."
Saunders is now 8-0 with a 1.74 ERA in 12 career starts in Seattle, including 2-0 with a 0.80 ERA in three outings this season. That stands in sharp contrast to his road woes this year, where he's posted a 12.51 ERA in three games.
"A little better, yeah," Saunders said after getting tagged for eight runs in five frames in his last start at Houston. "This outing I had my command. I had a little problem with my backside last start, a slight little quad issue that was kind of preventing me from pushing off. Not to make excuses because I was [really] poor last game and I needed to make up for it tonight."
Saunders pitched for the Orioles at the end of last season, including two big playoff performances, and is now 6-0 with a 4.22 ERA in eight career starts against Baltimore.
"We knew what Joe was going to do," Wieters said. "Everyone sort of knows what Joe is going to do. That's why he's good and that's why he's pitched for so long. He's able to make the ball move late and get ground balls and get weak contact."
Saunders needed just 105 pitches to notch Seattle's first complete game of the season and seventh of his career.
"That's always significant because every pitcher says that's their job and that's what we try to do, but it's fricking hard to do," Saunders said. "You need to have some breaks, get some quick outs, because nowadays once you hit 100 pitches, it's bullpen ready, here we go. You've got to be efficient and get quick outs. The defense was amazing behind me and we got some clutch hits. It was awesome."
The win was the third straight for the Mariners, who improved to 12-16. Baltimore lost its second straight and fell to 15-11.
"The feel is a lot different than when we left Houston, when it was very blah road trip," left fielder Jason Bay said after his three-hit outing. "To come here and beat Anaheim, and win this first game, the feel is definitely different."
Michael Saunders' quick bolt set the tone for Seattle's awakening offense. It was his first career leadoff homer but the fourth of the year for the Mariners, with Franklin Gutierrez hitting three before landing on the disabled list. The four leadoff blasts are already tied for the fourth most in a Mariners season, with the record at five.
Britton, making his first start for the Orioles since being recalled from Triple-A last week, wound up allowing 10 hits and six runs in six innings.
"We didn't have a lot on him," Bay said. "A Minor League start with really bad video, just trying to go off that. But sometimes that's better because it just makes everybody see the ball and hit it. 'Saundo' started it off with a 'welcome back' right there, and that instantly woke the dugout up and we just kind of rolled from there."
Britton gave up two runs in the fourth as Bay hugged an RBI double down the third-base line and former Oriole Robert Andino followed with a run-scoring single. Britton finally wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam with a Kyle Seager popout, but Seattle had a 3-2 lead.
The Mariners tacked on three more in the sixth on an RBI single by Brendan Ryan, a grounder by Michael Saunders that pushed across another run and then a triple by Seager that scored Saunders.
Bay's 3-for-4 night raised his average to .269, while Justin Smoak and Seager each added two of Seattle's 11 hits. The Mariners are batting .295 as a team over the past eight games, raising their collective average from .218 to .240.
"They've been moving in the right direction for about a week now," said manager Eric Wedge. "You slowly move forward and have those little victories and keep building off that. With that comes the confidence and performance and outcome. It's nice to see."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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If you are trying to reference an OSGi service or component using the SCR annotations, like the SlingRepository in the code below, then you may encounter a NullPointerException when you try to use these objects.
/** * @scr.component immediate="true" * @scr.service interface="SampleService" */ public class SampleServiceImpl implements SampleService { /** * @scr.reference */ private SlingRepository repository; ...
Another symptom of this problem is that your SampleService component may not show up or register correctly in the CQ5 Web Console "components" tab (http://<server>:<port>/system/console/components).
The SCR annotations are deprecated in the latest builds of Apache Felix.
You should note that CRXDE and CRXDE Lite are both configured to automatically resolve these annotations and build the relevant XML files for you. In other IDE environments you will have to include the maven-scr-plugin to resolve these annotations and build the XML files yourself.
To correctly reference these objects in the latest versions you should use the following syntax (note: you will have to explicitly import the Felix scr classes):
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component; import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Service; import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Reference; @Component(immediate="true") @Service(interface="SampleService") public class SampleServiceImpl implements SampleService { @Reference private SlingRepository repository; ...


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Topic: Sorry I've been missing
We all know what a drain this can be mentally as well as physically. I've been dealing with the mentally part. Added to that I've had a summer cold that won't quit, and I disappeared from most everything, not just here.
But I read Lainys post and it's time to stop feeling depressed and get back to doing what needs to get done.
So "I'm baacckkk!!"
"Don't just have minutes in the day; have moments in time."
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SCHOOLS in Worcestershire are performing above regional and national averages despite the county being among the worst funded in the country.
Ofsted's annual report has revealed 68 per cent of primary schools were rated good and above as of August 31 this year, compared with the West Midlands average of 61 per cent and the national figure of 60 per cent.
At secondary school level, 68 per cent of schools in the county achieved good and above compared with an average 66 per cent in the West Midlands and 66 per cent nationally.
However, learning and skills providers, such as colleges and sixth forms, are well below the regional and national averages of 57 per cent and 64 per cent respectively, with 33 per cent in Worcestershire achieving good ratings.
The figures are available from Ofsted's new Data View service which allows parents to compare the performance of educational establishments at national, regional, local authority and constituency level. The schools watchdog also launched a recruitment drive for its new regional director posts.
From January, the directors will be in charge of driving up standards and tackling underperformance at a regional level. John Edwards, Worcestershire County Council's head of learning and achievement, said: "Improving educational outcomes for all pupils is central to the support and challenge we provide for schools in Worcestershire.
"We look forward to taking time over the next few days to read the Ofsted national report in detail.
"We are aware the new Ofsted regional directors, including director for the Midlands region Martin Coffey, will be taking up responsibility shortly, and await details concerning how they will work with schools and authorities."
With the figures broken down into parliamentary constituencies, 95 per cent of primary schools in Worc-ester achieved good and above Ofsted reports, as did 60 per cent of secondary schools and 50 per cent of learning and skills providers.
In Mid-Worcestershire, which includes Evesham and Droitwich, 71 per cent of primary schools were graded good and above, 84 per cent of secondary schools and all learning and skills providers were rated satisfactory.
Nearly three-quarters, or 74 per cent, of primary schools in West Worcestershire, which includes Mal-vern, received good or above at the time the figures were compiled, while 71 per cent of secondary schools achi-eved the standard. There was no data for learning and skills providers in this area.


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Clubbed Into SubmissionMystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
Nora sat on the clubhouse verandah ("Aspirate the final 'h', deah; it shows you pay attention") of the Uppity Pines Golf Club, nursing an honest-to-goodness mint julep. If she'd known how potent the things were, she never would have ordered a second one. She blamed it on the cute little mint leaves. Still, she had only a light "buzz" as the final group came to the 18th green, greeted by a round of applause from some 200 spectators, all of whom appeared to shop at the same sporting goods store.
As Nora felt she was recovering full use of her faculties, a roar went up from the green. She saw a shiny putter raised high into the air. It had a funny shape, but she remembered that there were some unusual styles of clubs available these days. Looking at those around her, Nora concluded that the golfers could afford just about anything their whims suggested. She imagined the crowd as flows of money and influence; the concept meshed well with mint julep.
"It appeahs to be ovah, deah." Ellie Law's large, blue eyes gently called Nora back to the mundane world. "Ah did not not recognahz that putter in the ai-uh as Hiram's, so ah surmahz that Mistuh Greens has carried the day." Nora was finally interpreting the accent of northern South Carolina as easily as she had learned the clipped English of her cousins in the UK. Hi handled the publication contracts for Nora's adventures; she had been their house guest for a week of genteel vacation. She was also beginning to feel accepted by their acquaintances, rather than merely tolerated. Ellie normally would have been at the 18th green for moral support, but her arches were giving out again.
Sure enough, careful inspection revealed that the congratulatory mayhem's epicenter was Rex Greens, the oft-abrasive auto magnate. A smaller knot of support surrounded Mr. Law. The two had started the day tied for the lead, and played even through 17 holes while gaining a second stroke on the competition.
"It appears that you're correct, Ellie, bless his heart." Nora had learned that social signal on the second day, a softer version of the "smiley face" used in email. "How are your feet?"
" Ah can sustain ten minutes, Ah am suah. It's the leahst a wife can do." She rose gracefully, noted Nora doing likewise. This once, Ellie walked ahead of her guest, providing her husband a hero's welcome.
"Well played, deah! I'm so proud of you!"
"Thank you, Ellie. It's so kind of you to meet me out heah. How ah youh ahches?"
"Bettah, deah, thank you foah asking. How ah youhs? You've walked seven thousahnd yahds foah days in a roah."
"Well enough, thahnk you. Let's go to the ball room. You must see Rex's winning putt!"
The recap was Nora's favorite part. Although Ellie described it much more tactfully, it seemed that two geeky college-age scions of club staff had spent the entire day editing digital video clips as they became available. They started with the final putt, a beautifully-read stroke that travelled no less than thirty-eight feet from putter head to the cup. The look on Rex's face was the exuberance of success and pride in domination.
Nora sat through the entire show, twenty-five minutes of good golf, recovery, excuses for the muffed shots and missed chances, and the occasional friendly dig at Hi, which he took with smiling aplomb. Rex proudly gave his caddy credit for excellent club selection: the driver and 4-wood to the first green for a birdie, the 3-wood off the 7th tee, and a tricky 5-wood shot from the edge of the creek on 13. He rambled across the fairways, pulling a nice 2-iron recovery from beside a tree root on 6, a cut-and-run 3-iron on 8, a 9-iron from the fringe of the 10th green that nearly dropped for an eagle, and various uses of irons 4 through 8 on other holes. Nice recoveries with his sand wedge saved par on 7 and scrambled for only a single bogey on 12.
"I think he used everything in that bag at least three times today," Hi remarked. "You doahn't often meet a golfah that selective, and so cahrrect."
"Why two putters?" Nora queried, "The winning one is an unusual shape."
"One foah short putts, one foah long. The bent-shaft club gives Rex moah accurahcy, even though it weighs enough to roast a small hog." Nora smiled at the image.
"Now, Rex will have to mention this incident ..." On the screen, Rex's image stood on the fairway, contemplating the freshening cross-wind for his approach shot. In the background, you could see a small cluster of leaves blow behind Rex and into the sand trap, where they nestled snugly against Hi's ball.
"I lost two strokes on that hoahl. Can't move the impediment in a trap; we use full PGA rules heah."
"You do?" Nora's eyebrows went up.
"Of coahse. Nothing but the most propah cahnduct and regulation foah our club championship."
"Really? How interesting." Nora's voice had suddenly reverted to her Yankee twang. "Hi, how promptly could you introduce me to the TD? Before Rex drops that 38-footer again? I think it's important."
Hi looked at her, recognizing his client rather than his house guest. "Whatever it is, I rahthah believe I should trust you -- without asking why."
Nora smiled. "If it's not too much trouble."
Fifteen minutes later, a shocked audience watched as Rex, red-faced, presented the large championship trophy to a stunned Hiram Law, accepting a share of 4th prize for himself.
What had Nora noticed that gave Hi Law the victory?
HintRex drew a penalty under PGA rules.
AnswerThe video, plus Rex's own testimony, showed him using four woods, eight irons, a sand wedge, and both putters -- a total of 15 clubs. PGA rules allow only 14 clubs in the bag. The penalty for extra clubs is two strokes per hole, but no more than four strokes in a round.
Rex quickly reviewed the clubs he'd used, and immediately ceded the issue. In the spirit of golfing sportsmanship, he imposed upon the director to let Rex, himself, present the first-place trophy to the rightful winner.
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This weeks round-up of landscape news and views from around the web
Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House | Nona Willis Aronowitz | GOOD
The symbol of American success often involves having the biggest house possible, but our outsized fantasies seem to be shifting.
Reclaimed bus yard begins life as urban wetland | Kate Linthicum | LA Times
A nine-acre park at Avalon Boulevard and 54th Street offers walking paths, native plants and pools with bacteria that clean polluted storm water
Phoenix architect uses desert landscape as inspiration, focuses on simplicity, sustainability | Josselyn Berry | Downtown Devil
Attributes of the desert landscape are re-imagined in the work of Phoenix architect Will Bruder.
Frederick Law Olmsted Is Holding Us Back (There. I Said It.) | ASLA DIRT Blog
A blog post that has caused a stir in the profession in the USA. Is Frederick Law Olmsted holding landscape architects in the USA back?
Landscape Architecture Students Work with Frogtown to Create Pop-Up Tree Nursery | Jolene Brink | University of Minnesota College of Design News
University of Minnesota landscape architecture students are collaborating with Saint Paul Parks and Recreation Department, Frogtown residents, and the Frogtown Neighborhood Association to create a temporary nursery for 4-6 months during 2012.
Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy | Zak Stone | GOOD
Cities around the world may all be struggling with the same problems, from building affordable housing to boosting internet access, but a lack of dialogue means that local governments rarely copy each other's successful ideas….
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Book a flight to Seoul with Qatar Airways and visit South Korea's capital city, home to over 11.8 million people. This cultural epicentre of East Asia is constantly evolving, and is becoming an urban oasis of design, culture and history. Seoul is a 24-hour metropolis, from its temples and night markets to museums, galleries and teahouses.
An addictive blend of technology and ancient tradition, scrape the surface and you'll discover there's far more to Seoul than first meets the eye. Fly to Seoul with Qatar Airways and discover for yourself what makes South Korea's capital so fascinating.
The city is divided into 25 sub-districts and there's no true 'centre' – Gangnam and Jongno/Jung-gu are probably where you'll spend most of your time on any trip to Seoul. Seoul is home to five major palaces. Gyeongbok-gung is the grandest Josean Dynasty-era palace in the city, home to the Korean Folk Museum and the Josean Palace Museum. UNESCO World Heritage Site Changdeok-gung, built in 1405 can be accessed via guided tour.
Head for N. Seoul Tower at sunset for stunning views of the city skyline, or stroll around Bongeunsa Buddhist Temple. Founded in AD 794, it offers an escape from the chaotic city centre. It's also well worth visiting Bukchon (North Village), where you can see traditional Korean 'hanok' houses.
Pack a picnic and explore the city's parks. Seoul Forest covers 1.15 million square metres and is the metropolitan government's answer to Central Park in New York City. Or you could just hire a bike and take in the pretty scenery near Han River Park. If you fancy immersing yourself in Korean culture then there's no better way of doing it than taking a cooking course at Hansik Experience Centre. Here you can learn how to make the hugely popular dish of Kimchi for yourself.
A day spent exploring the city's temples is a day well spent, particularly if you head for Mount Inwang, where you'll find a temple and the city's most famous shrine set in the hills, with plenty of trails to explore. Arrive in the early morning if you want to soak up the peaceful atmosphere. Hiking is also a popular pastime here, with most trails accessible by public transport. Mount Bukhan is the most popular trail, and can be reached from Dobongsan Station.
When you visit Seoul, you'll see Korean social life often revolves around food. This is evident in the range of restaurants on offer in the city. It's possible to eat very well for an affordable price and as well as Korean food, Japanese sushi and sashimi restaurants in Seoul are usually excellent.
Street food stalls and 24-hour Korean fast-food restaurants offer a great opportunity to sample a wide variety of local cuisine, including ramyeon (Korean instant noodles) and Kimchi (fermented pickled vegetables, hot, spicy and the country's national dish – you'll find Kimchi sold everywhere). Korean BBQ restaurants are a popular choice and a great place to mingle with locals. Hanjeongsik, a multicourse Korean banquet, is an all-time favourite, it is a feast for the eyes as much as it is for the appetite.
You'll find plenty of international cuisine on offer too, from Asian and Western to Italian, French and American.
Shopping in Seoul is more than just a pastime, it's an art form! The city's markets sell everything from electronics (try Yongsan Electronics Market and Techno Mart) to women's fashion. Namdaemun is the largest traditional street market in Korea and a popular tourist spot. As well as local food and textile goods, you'll find utensils, electronics, local produce and traditional crafts sold at majorly discounted prices here, and it's a popular spot for experiencing the feel of a Korean traditional marketplace.
Also worth exploring is Dongdaemun market, home to the largest clothing supplier, where aspiring young Korean fashion designers make their debut and test their skills. You can find the newest fashion trends, along with the latest fabrics, accessories and clothes at attractive and affordable prices. Most shops here are open all night and crowded by wholesalers and tourists year around.
For cultural souvenirs and art, Insadong market is filled with shops and art galleries. Major Korean brands and international brands can be found at Apgujeong (known as the 'Beverly Hills of Seoul') or Myeongdong. Korean fashion can sometimes be a little 'out-there', especially in areas such as Hongdae, close to the art school, where you'll often find customised and vintage outfits.
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Mean Betty: Robert Pattinson + Kristen Stewart Have Forsaken the Twihards (Boo!)
Are Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart + Taylor Lautner doing their fans a disservice by not showing up at the final 'Twilight' convention? Meanie thinks so.
-Mean Betty
There can be no denying, kittens, that one of the great joys of fandom is the glory of the fan convention. What greater fun is there to be had than joining up with thousands of other Potterheads, or Trekkies, or Hunger Games lovers, or obsessees of any number of other pop cultural phenomena to revel in your love of them? Panels, gear, friends, and costumes always make for an entertaining time. And let's not forget the stars, of course! Conventions offer the chance to rub elbows with and pick the brains of the most important people involved in those very phenomena, from their creators to their stars.
But what's this? The hopes and dreams of Twilight fans all over the country have been dashed to pieces? Gasp! Horrors! Surely it can't be true!
But alas, kittens, it is. Meanie brings you heavy news today: According to E! Online, Robert Pattinson, Kirsten Stewart, AND Taylor Lautner have all pulled out of the final four official Twilight fan conventions planned for the weekends of August 25 (San Antonio), September 29 (Detroit), October 5 (Parsippany, NJ), and November 3 (Los Angeles).
Although Meanie isn't exactly surprised by this turn of events—at least as far as Rob and Kristen are concerned—she still can't help but feel that these three stars are going their amazingly loyal fans a disservice by not appearing at these conventions. Indeed, it seems even that they might be metaphorically displaying a certain rude hand gesture to their fans, which Meanie shall not describe here out of courtesy for her gentle readers. Meanie is by no means a Twilight fan; but is that any way to send out the enormously successful franchise that has both made your careers and brightened the lives of countless people the world over? Even the pool boy agrees with Meanie on this one.
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Yes, Rob and Kristen's relationship troubles might have muddied the waters a bit (a word to the wise, kittens: Never date your coworkers). But this is why one must learn to separate one's work life and personal life. Should the two intersect—and in a work-related arena at that—it is of the utmost importance that one know how to set aside one's personal issues and maintain a professional appearance. Rob and Kristen should still be able to talk about their work and connect with their fans, even if their personal romantic relationship is no longer in play.
Rob, at least, has been keeping to most of his other, non-Twilight work commitments; he's been busily promoting his new film, Cosmopolis, which opened this past weekend. Kristen, however, has hidden herself away, refusing to show up at the premiere of her latest flick, On the Road—to which Meanie says once again: Kristen, put down the ice cream, get off the couch, start showering again, and get yourself back in gear!
And as for Taylor? Is the budding action star opting out because he now has bigger fish to fry? Or is he simply playing Follow the Leader with regards to his costars?
At least Creation Entertainment, the company which organizes the Twilight conventions, has made the effort to assure fans that a fun time will still be had by all, even in Rob, Kristen, and Taylor's absence. In a statement, they announced the following: "The passion and dedication of Twilight fandom has been amazing and we're out to throw one last giant convention, a final gathering to see old friends that have made up the Twilight family Although Rob, Kristen, and Taylor will not be with us this time out we will have a super lineup of other Twilight stars and the weekend will be filled with special events, movie prop and costume displays, contests, panels, auctions, parties, exclusive merchandise, music, and much more, including some surprises!"
"Surprises?" Kittens! What if this whole to-do is just one big charade? What if Robert, Kristen, and Taylor are actually planning on surprising the fans by showing up at the conventions anyway? What a wonderful surprise that would be!
Alas, Meanie realizes that this outcome is unlikely. But still, the Twihards can dream, can they not?
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Homecoming arrives -- it's bigtime
Published: Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 11:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 11:13 p.m.
Homecoming in Gainesville is a big deal -- and has been for decades.
Road closures for Gator Gallop and UF Homecoming Parade
Beginning at 11 a.m. Friday, the following roads will be closed for the Gator Gallop and University of Florida Homecoming Parade:
- Main Street between North Second Avenue and South Fourth Avenue.
- University Avenue between West 22nd Street and East Third Street.
- 13th Street between North Third Avenue and South Fourth Avenue.
- Southwest Second Avenue at 23rd Street.
Source: GPD
Public school children and University of Florida students and staff get Friday off.
Hundreds young and not-so-young take part in the popular Gator Gallop, which kicks things off Friday morning at 11:30.
Tens of thousands from across North Central Florida line West University Avenue to enjoy all things orange and blue as the Homecoming Parade meanders through the heart of the city for two hours starting at noon.
Then the world famous Gator Growl takes center stage Friday night at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, featuring two musical acts, The Fray and Sister Hazel. Growl has drawn crowds as large as 70,000 for headliners as big as Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, Robin Williams and Jerry Seinfeld. Friday night's Growl kicks off at 7.
It's UF's 90th annual homecoming celebration, with the theme "Footprints of the Swamp." It all culminates in Saturday's football game against the Vanderbilt Commodores, which begins at noon at The Swamp.
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Answered by the Experts: Heterogeneous and GPU Compute with AMD's Manju Hegdeby Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/21/2012 12:58 PM EST
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ltcommanderdata - Monday, May 21, 2012 - linkI just wanted to thank Manju Hegde for taking the time to respond to all those questions. Thank you Anand as well for organizing this. I'm definitely looking forward to the role-out and adoption of HSA. Reply
Lucian Armasu - Monday, May 21, 2012 - linkThat sounds kind of like what ARM wants to do with big.Little and Mali GPU's:
http://www.cnx-software.com/2011/11/22/midgard-arc... Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - linkThe first page sounds to me like AMD is going for Homeland Security dollars.
" We have done extensive analysis on several workloads and have obtained significant performance per joule savings for workloads such as face detection, image stabilization, gesture recognition etc"
I see.
Don't be evil amd. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - linkThen I thought maybe they are going for gaming console capabilities - but it appears on page2 they are going for logging on to Windows:
" OSes are moving towards providing some base functionality in terms of security, voice recognition, face detection, biometrics, gesture recognition, authentication, some core database functionality. All these benefit significantly from the optimizations in HSA described above. With the industry support we are building this should happen in the next few years."
So, it's probably all three. Reply
Loki726 - Monday, May 21, 2012 - linkI'll need some time to read over all of the responses, but I want to thank Manju Hegde for taking the time to respond in such detail. Reply
SanLouBlues - Monday, May 21, 2012 - linkI'm not sure he understood the question of the guy with the Intel CPU and AMD GPU who wanted GPU accelerated winzip. Reply
c0d1f1ed - Monday, May 21, 2012 - linkNone of the tough questions were answered, like how they're hoping to compete against AVX2 and AVX-1024.
I'm sure HSA is an improvement, but it's not developed in a vacuum. AMD has to be willing to compare it against homogeneous high throughput computing. They won't gain the respect of developers if they dodge questions. It doesn't show much confidence in their own technology. Reply
texasti89 - Monday, May 21, 2012 - link+1 Reply
B3an - Monday, May 21, 2012 - linkThank you Manju for answering my questions! :) And a interesting article, still reading it... Reply
oldguybt - Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - linkSounds like for AMD it was surprise...?Just like they find out just now, that they have usualy x2 x3 or x4 more steam processors than Nvidia cuda cores.
Probably local "hacker" told them that than u trying to decrypt in Backtrack WPA/WPA2 internet password AMD GPU do that 4 or 5 times faster.
Well i think i find out that faster than AMD :D
ok sorry for stupidity....
Anyway AMD saying that their GPU`s made for gaming is actualy is like TESLA or i`m wrong?? :)
Just buy Nvidia, Reply
spaceyyeti - Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - linkYou, sir, make no sense to me. But that just as well could be me.
Anyways; this article was a very interesting read.
Loved it. Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - linkKepler has more stream processors but at half the clock speed of Fermi (hot clocks), they aren't directly comparable. Reply
oldguybt - Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - linkOk, its not just steam processors but what i`m saying sounds like AMD findout that their cards is working much better in programing, counting and so on.
I`m noob here but with linux i could do that before and they saying i could do that in future..
Ok. Good job AMD anyway. First + in your side in 10 years. Reply
ullix - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - linkWhat remains unclear to me: in order to take advantage of e.g. OpenCL must I use an APU with CPU and GPU on the same die, or can I also use a discrete CPU and a GPU on a plugin card? Apparently the latter would always offer more power to begin with, which then could (or could not?) be enhanced with OpenCL and the like?
Or is it that an APU has the advantage, as it is already designed to use memory common to its CPU/GPU?
I am thinking primarily of x264 encoding - will I be better off with a "slow" A10-xxxx then with a FX8150+Radeon card 7xxx? Reply
TC2 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - linkbig words, big plans aaand big red\green power point presentations, but 1 or 2 generations behind Intel & Nvidia :)))
about sw support, they just haven't idea what is the meaning of this!!! Reply


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Loudly Masturbating Neighbor Responds To Noise Complaint With Amazing Burn
One of the hazards of apartment living are thin walls and floors that share your every "Oh, baby!" and bed creak with your neighbors. It's part of life. You get used to it. All of us have sex (I hope) and no one's sex should be ruined by whiny neighbors.
The polite thing to do when neighbors are having noisy sex is just ignore those amorous rumbles and smile awkwardly at each other in the hallways, pretending you don't know they just got banged last night. Only in the most extreme of circumstances — I'm talking you've got the flu and a newborn baby — can you bang on the walls. Two or three good thumps should do.
But it's a violation of alllll kinds of rules of decorum and not-being-an-asshole-hood to post a sign on your neighbor's front door bitching about their noisy sex. And adding a dis about their stamina?! Oh no, you didn't! Allow me to introduce you to the lady from Apartment 517 and her crappy sign-writing neighbor.
The lady in Apartment 517 opened her door one day to see her someone had posted a sign on her door complaining about sex noises coming from inside her apartment:
"Can you please put a record on super loud or something when you are fucking?? I'd really appreciate not having to hear ever single TRUST [sic] and MOAN right through the fucking wall. And I'm SURE you'd rather not share that INFO with complete strangers. Luckily for me… it never lasts very long. "
Most of us would just annoy such a rude note, or maybe steal this woman's J.Crew catalogs forevermore in retaliation. But the woman in Apartment 517 — who is real and residing in Chicago, a friend of mine knows her — responded with a note of herself.
And it's brilliant:
"Dear Neighbor.
My, my how lovely to meet you in this incredibly tactful, kind, and civilized manner. Do your really need to post your hissyfit on my door like a whiney scarlet letter? Your obvious frustration with my pleasure saddens and confuses me. I'm not yelling or anything terribly disrespectful. Apparently we have the thinnest walls on Earth, because I assure you, the moans you're so upset by are masturbation induced. That's why it doesn't last very long. I know what I'm doing, porn is free, and I have the best vibrator! I got it at Taboo Taboo down the street. You should really invest in one- you sound a but uh, tense…. SEX IS NATURAL & HEALTHY I am proud of my sexuality, so your attempted SLUT SHAMING is useless here. Had you approached me in a respectful manner, I would've been happy to oblige. But we all know our rest is exorbitant. I pay enough to do whatever I please in the privacy of my own home. AND PLEASE I SHALL! I suggest you whip out your big girl panties and deal with it.
Much Love – The Girl in 517″
Go get it, girl! Sadly, Rude Neighbor is probably not going to get herself a vibrator from Taboo Taboo until she pulls that stick out of her ass.
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In my non-baseball life, I am fairly obsessed with soccer. But I couldn't help thinking of the Mets while reading an article, Just The Ticket, in the August 2011 issue of the English import soccer magazine When Saturday Comes.
Hartlepool United, a League One club (third tier in the English pyramid), found itself struggling to sell tickets after four poor seasons in a row. Ticket sales fell by a third. The club also suffered due to the more-successful clubs Newcastle and Sunderland right nearby. (Sound familiar yet, Mets fans?)
Their solution was to introduce tiered pricing for tickets based on number of season tickets sold. Writes Adam Williams:
"Season-ticket prices would be based on the number sold…seeing ticket prices reduced as sales targets were hit. Selling 3,000 tickets would mean prices set at 200 pounds (less than half the cost of the previous season) with the ultimate aim of selling over 4,000 tickets at just 100 pounds each."
In Hartlepool United's case, the success was overwhelming. Fans from all over the world actually chipped in, even if they couldn't attend more than a couple of matches, to both bring down the price of tickets for a struggling community and provide more revenue to their favorite team. Similar successes were had by other teams such as Huddersfield Town and Bradford City.
The idea, in short, trades on the extent to which a fan base considers itself a community within itself.
To me, this idea has never made more sense for the Mets than it does now. There's obviously something that the entire fanbase wants, and that is to re-sign Jose Reyes. We've seen popular movements begin about this independent of the ballclub.
And Fred Wilpon is no longer claiming that the team is just fine financially, instead telling Sports Illustrated this year that the Mets are "bleeding money". Fans are less interested in spending money on tickets for a lesser product, especially when prices are still relatively high for most seats.
What I'd propose: have Dave Howard run the numbers, and determine exactly how much extra revenue it would take to retain Jose Reyes (building in a buffer for a team coming along and offering him more money than Carl Crawford- say, 10 years, 200 million, just to be extra safe. Compare that with what is reasonable to expect next season. Ticket prices are going to come down, anyway, so bringing them down while amortizing it over the entire stadium wouldn't necessarily change much of the plan going forward.
But here's the tricky part: Fred Wilpon needs to come forward and say something along these lines.
"I have watched Jose Reyes blossom into the player we hoped he would be from the moment we signed him over a decade ago. I said he wouldn't get Carl Crawford money. And I was wrong.
"But he has become a free agent at the most perilous time in this team's financial history. We need your help. We have lowered our ticket prices to X. If we sell out our entire stadium at these new, reduced prices, we can enter negotiations with Jose Reyes confident that we will not be outbid.
"If you come together to help us in our time of need, we can see to it that the most exciting player in New York Mets history finishes his career as a New York Met."
Think of it: if the fans come together to save Jose Reyes, they can feel uniformly a part of something. The Mets can even send out a bumper sticker reading "I Saved Jose", or a certificate like a War Bond from World War II. The Mets would have a full house, or close to it, every night. If you don't think fans would respond to this kind of transparency, you haven't been paying attention to the approval ratings Sandy Alderson enjoys with a .500 team.
A full stadium wouldn't just mean extra ticket revenue; it would mean extra concessions, more sponsors excited to be part of giveaways- it redounds to the team's benefit in a thousand ways. The press for such an outpouring would be unbelievably positive. And this would be predicated on extra, currently unanticipated revenue, so it wouldn't change anything else Sandy Alderson had planned. It would just add a beloved, star in-prime shortstop to those plans.
And if the fans couldn't come up with the extra revenue, the Wilpons could simply explain that the real reason Jose Reyes wasn't a Met anymore wasn't a failure of ownership to appreciate him. It was Bernie Madoff.
In a perfect world, the team would continuously update the number of tickets sold, and perhaps even the size of the contract it could therefore offer Reyes. That could backfire if the Yankees decide to just wait out the Mets and then add a dollar to their offer. But they can do that anyway, and if the (to use eBay terms) reserve price climbs higher and higher, it could actually scare away a ton of teams.
Lets's face it: no one is going to buy the idea that the Mets were just being prudent if/when they finish second in the Jose Reyes Sweepstakes this winter. How'd that work out, PR-wise, when they tried it with Vladimir Guerrero back in 2003? And Vlad wasn't the most exciting player in team history.
So that is my modest proposal. Start the 2012 ticket sales drive now, and make it the bake sale that will inspire a fan base to bring back Jose Reyes.
It worked for Hartlepool United, and they didn't even have a free agent shortstop.


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Regional Team to Return
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Sept. 28, 2005
Northern Virginia Regional Team Members Return Tonight
The initial team from five Northern Virginia jurisdictions deployed to New Orleans Sept. 13-15, is expected to return home today. The team, who responded to a request from the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, is part of the Northern Virginia region's continued coordinated response to the area ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Drawing from all levels of government, the team has been assisting city officials in New Orleans in staffing their emergency operations center, which was established in the Hyatt Regency Hotel located near the Superdome. The team has been assisting with a variety of emergency management functions, including command and control, planning, logistics, finance and operations.
A 19-member team, representing Northern Virginia jurisdictions, was deployed on Monday, Sept. 26, to replace the initial team led by Prince William County Executive Craig Gerhart. The replacement team, led by Fairfax County Deputy County Executive Rob Stalzer, is composed of staff from Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties and the City of Alexandria. This team has been working with the initial team to transition into the emergency operations center.
Note to Media: The Northern Virginia Regional team is scheduled to arrive at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at 10:24 p.m. on Northwest Airlines Flight 1828.
Northern Virginia is among the most diverse, highly educated and fiscally sound regions in the nation, representing 1.8 million people in 1,300 square miles. The Northern Virginia economy is
outpacing the nation and the region is home to a myriad of successful corporations and non-profits organizations. The deployed team represents the five major local jurisdictions in Northern
Virginia: City of Alexandria, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudoun County and Prince William County.


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I walked into an AT&T store in Philadelphia on September 21 and picked myself up a beautiful black iPhone 5 64GB. Over the next day of using and I kept the back factory plastic on it until it annoyed me enough to take it off. When I finally took it off I noticed I had scratches on to sections of the annodized aluminum. I called AT&T and they said I would have to go return it for another one, but I told I said that was not an option since then I would be without a phone for who knows how long. They then transfers me to AppleCare and with no problems at all, setup a time for me to go into a local store swap out what was supposed to be a brand new iPhone 5. I went to Apple the next day and without a problem, they switched out my iPhone 5 with actual brand new one that had no scratches.
It seems like all of the scratches I've seen in PIC's are on the edge as pictured above. Mine has a tiny one on the top edge, but it's too late to do anything about it now. I figure I'm going to scratch it anyway, at least this way I can be mad at Apple instead of myself! Lol
I can't believe nobody is complaining about the rattle near the rear camera that you hear when you lightly tap the device. I'm beginning to think it may be a CDMA version problem since every Verizon iPhone 5 I've had in my hands (5 different units) all had this rattle and were all VZ (including a display model in the VZ store); I haven't gotten my hands on an AT&T iPhone 5 yet. I feel like more people having iPhones on AT&T, and them possibly not experiencing this rattle could be the reason more hasn't been made of it. I just would find it hard to believe that only the 5 I've touched rattle. It just makes it sound a little cheap, or not solid like my iPhone 4 sounds/feels, even though its prob just a ribbon or something rattling against the back case. I'd really like to at least know what's causing it, but everything works beautifully and I still love it (ESP with unlimited VZ LTE!)
If you want to see if yours does it, hold your new iPhone 5 face-up with one hand and lightly tap on the back, right near the camera. I can almost guarantee it will rattle if it's CDMA (particularly Verizon), and I'd love some feedback as to whether AT&T iPhone 5's are doing this or not. Before anyone says it, yes, I held the buttons solid to be sure it wasn't the them!
**Anthony**, you should maybe do an article on this and see just how many new iPhones are doing this because I have a feeling it's a lot (or all) of them, and I'd like to see if the issue crosses carriers...
Apple Support Forums.
I had picked mine up at the local att store and no scratches or chips at all for me.
This is the first iPhone that I didn't run out and get on the first day. I am really kinda glad at this point. Between the scratches and reported light showing through the edges and the little issues here and there with 6.0 and such.. I am waiting for 6.1 and the small quality control issues to be worked out.
Apple bring the phones to the USA to be made... the problems that you see with these over worked chinese workers won't be there.
PRODUCTION HAS SLOWED BECAUSE DEMAND HAS SLOWED. more and more problems surface each week with this phone and as word get out, more and more people are wising up and getting better phones like the Galaxy S III.
- screen flicker
- data leak
- maps not working
- wifi not working
- purple lense flare on camera
- siri not working on day one
- scratches and scuffs on the phones
- passbook app cannot sync to iTunes
- yellowish tint on display
- light bleed
- incompatibility with O2s or Vodafone's 4G network
- still cannot do simultaneous voice and data on Verizon and Sprint
- incompatible with Sprints' HD voice
- incompatible with ALL of your accessories
and if that wasnt enough you also get;
iPhone 5 incompatible with Sprint's HD Voice
iPhone 5 incompatible with Sprint and Verizon's simultaneous voice & web
iPhone 5 incompatible with all of your iOS accessories
iPhone 5 incompatible with.... ????


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I want Michel Therrien to start picking my lottery numbers.
And while he's at it, the man who coaches your Montreal Canadiens can make my annoying neighbours disappear.
On the evidence of the season so far, Therrien is a magician with a golden touch.
His sorcery was in evidence even before the puck dropped Saturday night at the Bell Centre.
And after the final siren sounded, Therrien's trickery had produced the Three Stars of the Canadiens' 3-0 win.
Therrien had to do some personnel juggling. Brendan Gallagher was ready to return to the lineup, and the coach decided to play the rookie with David Desharnais and Max Pacioretty. Erik Cole was dropped down to the third line, with Lars Eller and Alex Galchenyuk.
Brandon Prust was banged up during the loss to the Islanders and missed practice on Friday and the optional morning skate on Saturday. Prust was doubtful for the visit of his former team.
But when Rene Bourque was felled by the flu, Prust was pressed into service. He took Bourque's spot on a line with Tomas Plekanec and Brian Gionta.
So what did the juggling produce?
Prust played a valiant 18:23 – more ice time than any Canadiens forward except Gionta, who played 18:32.
Cole opened the scoring with his first goal since Feb. 3 – a drought of nine games. Cole added an assist and blocked three shots, part of a defensive effort that saw Canadiens not named Carey Price block more shot than the goaltender stopped in recording his shutout.
Eller's power-play goal, late in the second period, pretty much quashed all chances of a Rangers rally. Eller who hadn't scored since Feb. 2, had three hits, was part of a perfect 2-for-2 penalty-killing unit and played, in all three zones, like his hair was on fire – as has been the case for weeks.
Galchenyuk had a goal, an assist and was voted the game's First Star despite playing only a shade over 13 minutes. This was reminiscent of the Canadiens' second game of the season, a 4-1 drubbing of the Florida Panthers in which Galchenyuk's 11 minutes of action won him First Star honours.
That was when the extravagantly talented rookie, who hadn't turned 19 yet, was still playing his natural position.
Noting Galchenyuk's difficulties in the faceoff circle (49-63 to date) and trying to reduce the his defensive responsibilities, which is wise in developing a kid (see SEGUIN, Tyler), Therrien has moved Galchenyuk to the wing, with Eller (who was 6-8 on draws against the Rangers) at centre. Like almost everything else the coach has tried, it seems to be working.
Their eighth win on home ice – best in the league, along with Ottawa – kept the Canadiens atop the Eastern Conference standings. And it came two weeks to the day after the team's worst loss of the season.
Since being embarrassed 6-0 by Toronto in front of Bell Centre fans, a national television audience and the giddy Leaf-blowers employed by Hockey Night in Canada, the Canadiens have beaten Tampa Bay, Florida, Philadelphia, Carolina and, twice this week, the Rangers. And up 3-1, they should have beaten the Islanders.
In three of their last five games, the Canadiens have held opponents to fewer than 20 shots on goal.
The lineup includes seven players with at least 10 points. Eller has nine; Gallagher, Gionta and P.K. Subban have eight.
Every player in the lineup played double-digit minutes against the Rangers. As a reward for their hard work, Therrien had Ryan White, Colby Armstrong and Travis Moen out on a late-game 5-on-3 PP. That kind of thing is appreciated in the room.
There are still concerns.
Brian Gionta's scoring slump continues. But the recent revival of Cole, the captain's fellow upstate New York native, offers hope.
Andrei Markov played 23:27 against the Rangers, and that's probably too much. But his defence partner, Alexei Emelin, blocked three shots and looked more confident than he has in a while.
Leading the blocked shot parade was Raphael Diaz with four. P.K. Subban was up to 21:40 of ice time and offered the Rangers and adoring Bell Centre fans a few flashes of his surreal talent.
Can we acknowledge the obvious: No disrespect to Markov, but P.K. Subban is the best defenceman on the Montreal Canadiens. And Diaz may be number 2.
The number 1 goaltender racked up his league-leading tenth win and lowered his GAA to 1.97. Price actually looked a bit shaky in the first period, but it might have been boredom. For the first 20 minutes, the Canadiens played a cautious road game in their own building, managing a measly three shots on Martin Biron.
It was good practice for the upcoming schedule: the Canadiens play seven of their next eight on the road, starting Monday night in Ottawa and continuing Wednesday with a very rare weeknight visit to Toronto – where Therrien will try to conjure up a lineup that can finally beat the Leafs.


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Booby Traps Series: Obstetrical practices are making late milk-coming-in the new normal.
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Booby Trap Series: Planning for a breastfeeding-friendly birth
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(ARA) - It's a surprising statistic, but data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows that indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than outdoor air, including the air in your home. With the average American spending as much as 90 percent of their lives indoors, taking relatively easy steps to improve air quality should be a priority.
"Using a well-engineered vacuum, which precludes harmful particles from launching into the air, is a matter of health and hygiene," explains Susan Goldsmith, managing director at IBR (Interbasic Resources), a nationally recognized independent testing laboratory which conducts emissions tests on various brands of vacuum cleaners.
Even more surprising is what actually causes the deterioration of a home's air quality. Common pollutants include furnaces, fireplaces, gas stoves and even your vacuum cleaner. Unless you take the proper precautions, dangerous pollutants like carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and particles are left accumulating in your home. According to the EPA and the Sierra Club, exposure to these pollutants and numerous others is a major source of health problems. The good news is you can dramatically improve indoor air quality with simple actions. By making the effort to improve your home's air quality, you can protect your health.
To get started, implement these tips in your own home.
* Do a full clean sweep. Dust hard surfaces regularly, launder bedding and towels frequently and go beyond the carpet when vacuuming. Drapes and other window treatments, as well as your furniture, also need habitual cleaning to prevent the collection of polluting particles.
* Make sure your cleaning tools are helping, not hurting. It might not seem to make sense that a vacuum could worsen your home's air quality, but in many cases, that's the truth. The structural design and filtration of the vacuum are essential to ensuring cleaner air. Without proper filtration or a "sealed system" design, the vacuum can emit dangerous carbon particles into the air. Even HEPA-filtered bagless vacuums can emit over 175,900 lung-damaging particles per minute. Vacuum models offered by Miele are among the best options for ultra-clean in-home air because they feature AirClean FilterBags and the AirClean Sealed System, which together will capture and retain harmful particulates and eliminate the possibility of virtually anything escaping from the machine.
* Keep pets and their toys and accessories clean. If you have a four-legged friend sharing your space, it's important for your comfort and health to keep its spaces and belongings clean and hygienic. Bathe your pet as necessary, but keep in mind that over-bathing or using human shampoo can dry out a dog or cat's skin, causing excess dander. You should also vacuum and launder pet beds and toys regularly to keep them fresh and safe. Also look for vacuums that have been specially designed to reduce pet odors and effectively clean pet hair.
Keeping your home clean and free of air pollutants will provide you with a comfortable environment and peace of mind. For more information, visit www.mieleusa.com.


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A five-day spring literary festival, featuring bestselling South West authors, is taking place at Dyrham Park to raise money for major work to the National Trust property, near Bath.
The evening events take place between April 7-11, from 7pm, showcasing a different author discussing their work each night.
Giving their support are David Lassman, co-author of the Regency Detective series set in Bath, Deborah Kay Davies, now long-listed for the prestigious Baileys Prize for Reasons She Goes To The Woods, Sarah Hilary, author of hotly-tipped thriller Someone Else's Skin, Jem Roberts, the comedy historian and biographer of Douglas Adams, and Ivor Crewe, author of explosive current affairs expose The Blunders of Our Governments.
Dyrham Park is running a fundraising campaign to pay for a new roof and boiler, and fix the crumbling stonework on the 400-year-old mansion.
The talks will take place in the historical Tenants' Hall, and Dyrham Park perry and canapés will be served to accompany the sessions.
The National Trust is fundraising for £500,000 towards a £3.5 million project to repair the roof at Dyrham Park which will safeguard the future of the historic house.
The trust has already been able to find £3m for the project and is spending this year raising the rest of the remaining £500,000.
With over 160,000 visitors to Dyrham Park each year, the trust has pledged to keep the house open, even during the building work, which is scheduled to start in 2015.
To find out more and buy tickets, priced at £10 each, go to nationaltrust.org.uk/events or call 0844 249 1895. All ticket proceeds go towards the Dyrham appeal.
The Corsham Bookshop is supporting the events, and will be selling the authors' signed books at each evening session.


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WISTA Provides Opportunities for Young Artists with LEGALLY BLONDE, Feb 1-9
The West Island Student Theatre Association (WISTA) is a fairly young educational organization and theatre company. Founded in 2006, WISTA members learn and improve amidst a large group of volunteers, whether it be behind the scenes or on stage. One thing members share is a huge passion for musical theatre.
WISTA was founded six years ago and began with small cabaret performances. They graduated in 2011 to producing two popular Broadway musicals each year as well as dinner theatre and cabaret.
WISTA'S first production of 2013 is the Montreal premiere of LEGALLY BLONDE. With music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach, LEGALLY BLONDE is based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend. Along the way, Elle discovers how her knowledge of the law can help others and that being true to yourself never goes out of style. LEGALLY BLONDE features energetic dance numbers and catchy songs. It is sure to be a hit with WISTA'S fast growing, dedicated audience.
Along with their education aspect, WISTA also believes in giving back to the community. For their upcoming production, WISTA will be donating a portion of the proceeds to breast cancer research. WISTA is proud to help and support strong women in any capacity they can.
With their hearts and minds in the right place, WISTA is sure to go far in the rapidly evolving English language musical theatre scene in Montreal.
LEGALLY BLONDE runs February 1, 2, 8 & 9
Théâtre Lindsay Place Theatre
Lindsay Place High School
111 Broadview
Pointe Claire, QC, H9R 3Z3
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.wista.ca or call (514) 998-7229


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